No, it wasn't. They probably just meant that Dartmouth was linking to Windows client software, and they never got around to including others because they want to annoy the rest of us.
I wonder if this could be useful for, say, Armadillo Aerospace. I think that they're using 802.11b at the minimum bandwidth with a 1 watt transmitter for their remote control on flights. Perhaps something like this could increase reliability.
I hear that with certain VMs, with certain applications, Java can sometimes be faster than the equivalent app written in C. I haven't been able to verify this, though, and it always seems to me like Java is dead slow.
In Why Nerds Are Unpopular, Paul Graham pointed out something that doesn't really have to do with nerds or unpopularity, but which is pretty insightful just the same: in "real life", you're part of a community that was typically thrown together by geographical location, and it can be hard to find others who share your interests. With the internet, it's easy to find groups of people who are interested in obscure things. Hey, we've got slashdot....
It's of historical interest because it has something to do with history. Still, I think that if these people really want to have some fun, they should try to outdo the Wright Brothers with a better do-it-yourself airplane.
It's a story if you choose to look at stories in the "It's funny. Laugh" category. Of course, you could have just ignored it, but I suppose you were bored, like I am at the moment.
This is a point where it's important to distinguish between the kernel (Linux) and the rest of the OS. We have some cool things (Jabber, various email stuff), but here's an idea that I think would be neat: a client-server word processor, hopefully based on LaTeX like LyX, that would let multiple people work on the same document. To reduce latency, you would use paragraph level locking and have updates to that paragraph be asynchronous. You could have a chat window for that document, and various other things. It would be cool.
And that, my fellow fellow, is why the ISO is way out of line with this. I hate "pay us money or be incompatible" tactics. I think (although far be it from me to know what I was thinking yesterday) that I was trying to make that point.
"Richard switched long ago to non-carbon amino-like compounds," said one source close to Stallman. "It took some work to come up with a Free organic chemical basis for life, but he thought it was worthwhile. Looks like he was right."
Yes, I figured it has to be something like that. It sounds like RMS, all right. But hey, if he's managed to get something better, I'm game---I'll switch over when I'm old and gray, and then hopefully my new body will expand my lifespan! Until then, I want to have some chance of getting la---um never mind.
Personally, I'm willing to forgive Apple for a lot, just because they did the Right Thing with OS X and made the Safari browser which feels suspiciously like a Mozilla spinoff (I know that it's based on KHTML, but I haven't used KDE for a while).
I think that people should have bayesian spam filters that don't disregard HTML tags. That way various HTML tags will get a very high spam probability and people who like putting gratuitous flashyness in emails will have to worry about it. I'm pessimistic about it happening (darn users), but it sure would be nice. Hell, I'd settle for plain text being the default under most email clients.
I offer, for your royalty-free consideration, the following scheme for avoiding paying royalties to people who apparently never learned how to think. Instead of "en-us", use "english-usa", instead of "de", use "deutch" (sp?), and so on.
Too incompatible for you? If so, we should just use GIFs and cough up to Unisys. Or these ISO yahoos could stop trying to charge for everything. If it's going to be standard, you shouldn't charge money for it.
I'm just hoping that people without the sense to ignore a flood of emails telling you to get the latest patches (or at least just use it as an excuse to apt-get upgrade, or the equivalent) will have enough sense not to run as root all the time. However, this is pretty weak; newbies are, and probably always will be, susceptible to conning.
For me, though, linux can't eliminate the big problem for me: my email inbox reaches its quota pretty fast, and it takes a while for POPfile to junk all the virux emails.
Yes, that way those of us using, say, Firebird can just ignore the whole thing in peace. Of course, it probably won't make much difference. Have you tried visiting mocrosoft.com or microsift.com recently? They're both registered, and niether of them are microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
Great stuff. Go there.
On earth, things are cheap. When you have to get them into space, that makes mass expensive. Light is good.
Well, 50% of the population has a below average amount of common sense and decision making ability. Happy now? ^.^
No, it wasn't. They probably just meant that Dartmouth was linking to Windows client software, and they never got around to including others because they want to annoy the rest of us.
With an OS where you can compile your own apps.
I wonder if this could be useful for, say, Armadillo Aerospace. I think that they're using 802.11b at the minimum bandwidth with a 1 watt transmitter for their remote control on flights. Perhaps something like this could increase reliability.
I hear that with certain VMs, with certain applications, Java can sometimes be faster than the equivalent app written in C. I haven't been able to verify this, though, and it always seems to me like Java is dead slow.
In Why Nerds Are Unpopular, Paul Graham pointed out something that doesn't really have to do with nerds or unpopularity, but which is pretty insightful just the same: in "real life", you're part of a community that was typically thrown together by geographical location, and it can be hard to find others who share your interests. With the internet, it's easy to find groups of people who are interested in obscure things. Hey, we've got slashdot....
It's of historical interest because it has something to do with history. Still, I think that if these people really want to have some fun, they should try to outdo the Wright Brothers with a better do-it-yourself airplane.
It's a story if you choose to look at stories in the "It's funny. Laugh" category. Of course, you could have just ignored it, but I suppose you were bored, like I am at the moment.
This is a point where it's important to distinguish between the kernel (Linux) and the rest of the OS. We have some cool things (Jabber, various email stuff), but here's an idea that I think would be neat: a client-server word processor, hopefully based on LaTeX like LyX, that would let multiple people work on the same document. To reduce latency, you would use paragraph level locking and have updates to that paragraph be asynchronous. You could have a chat window for that document, and various other things. It would be cool.
And that, my fellow fellow, is why the ISO is way out of line with this. I hate "pay us money or be incompatible" tactics. I think (although far be it from me to know what I was thinking yesterday) that I was trying to make that point.
Yes, I figured it has to be something like that. It sounds like RMS, all right. But hey, if he's managed to get something better, I'm game---I'll switch over when I'm old and gray, and then hopefully my new body will expand my lifespan! Until then, I want to have some chance of getting la---um never mind.
I think that people should have bayesian spam filters that don't disregard HTML tags. That way various HTML tags will get a very high spam probability and people who like putting gratuitous flashyness in emails will have to worry about it. I'm pessimistic about it happening (darn users), but it sure would be nice. Hell, I'd settle for plain text being the default under most email clients.
Too incompatible for you? If so, we should just use GIFs and cough up to Unisys. Or these ISO yahoos could stop trying to charge for everything. If it's going to be standard, you shouldn't charge money for it.
For me, though, linux can't eliminate the big problem for me: my email inbox reaches its quota pretty fast, and it takes a while for POPfile to junk all the virux emails.
/me laughs like Kefka! Ueeeheeheehee! ;-)
Yes, that way those of us using, say, Firebird can just ignore the whole thing in peace. Of course, it probably won't make much difference. Have you tried visiting mocrosoft.com or microsift.com recently? They're both registered, and niether of them are microsoft.
For those who have no clue what you're talking about, here are lyrics. Enjoy. :-)
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand base 3, those who don't, and those who are somewhere in the middle.
Get cygwin and just compile the standard C hello world program like you would on Linux. It'll work.
Wait---you're supposed to fill out a state form to buy something from another state? That's messed up.
I'm pretty sure Darl McBride brings the average down a lot. Just throw him and his henchmen out of your data set and Utah gets a lot smarter.
It's almost as if you enjoyed saying that.
Or perhaps a desktop environment in Perl?