Why do I recall that in Empire Strikes Back, on Dagobah, Yoda says something about "i cannot train this one, he has no patience" immediately before/after (I don't remember) referring to how he trained Anakin? Or am I crazy?
Umm... seems that you don't know much about Free software. You're arguing about "free" software.
Nobody (even RMS) is saying that software should be free an in beer (except some of the slashdot crowd who doesn't want to pay for anything).
What the argument is about is whether software should be "Free" as in liberty. Read the GPL sometime... it never says you can't charge money for software.
Mostly it just says that you have to distribute source with any binaries... meaning, you can charge money for said binaries, but you have to distribute source along with them.
No, i'm sorry, but you're mistaken. VMWare is not an OS emulator, but an x86 machine emulator. It will run any operating system that you throw at it (within reason, of course), but tends to come bundled/pre-set for Windows. It will run (out of the box) Linux, FreeBSD, and others, and that's just the ones I know offhand. Personally I've used it to run Linux, and attempted to run BeOS R5 (although with no success).
I'd REALLY like to know who moderated this as "insightful"... it's obviously a tongue-in-cheek joke. NPR stands for National Public Radio, and the parent of this post was correct in most of its assertions.
Any existence of or relation to National Petroleum Radio is coincidental, seeing as that's decidedly not the radio station to which we are referring.
Actually, i think we're overanalysing it... i believe he meant only to point out, in the form of sarcasm, the absurd obsession that we slashdotters have with the MPAA and its evildoings. But that's just my opinion.
Huh? From as much as I've used it, GCC works extremely well in Windows! It's part of the Cygwin distribution, provided by RedHat. Here's a link: Cygwin.
Perl has claimed to be platform agnostic, but has been heavily unix (and x86) centric. It's good to see opportunities to use Perl on other platforms, as it is a very useful language.
By that logic... about half of the programs that compile on Linux would use the gnome icon. It's first and foremost the "GIMP ToolKit". The fact that it -happens- to be included in GNOME (and that GNOME is based upon it) is irrelevant.
It appears that the 2.4 kernel series supports ACPI (with some tools, see link) but has to be compiled with the acpi option (marked as experimental). Do some research, you may be pleasantly surprised.:)
It's very depreciated now. There's a much better way to make executables out of Perl...
it's called "perlcc". Run that command, your perl distribution probably comes with it. It simply compiles perl into an executable by first translating it to C (with the help of libperl) and the compiling.
I don't know how well that approach works for more complicated Perl apps w/ modules, though...
I find it hard to believe you notice compression errors on an MPEG-2 stream upwards of 8 megabits per second (DVD quality). There really shouldn't be any at all.
It is much more likely that the "compression errors" are actually the LCD's poor ability to represent motion. They are notoriously bad at this.
Wow... thanks, that's a lot more information than I've ever had on the subject. Someone on here just told me once that it was Tallentyre (because I credited Voltaire with the quote in my sig) and I assumed they were right. I guess the lesson here is that I shouldn't argue someone else's point without researching it first.:)
That's because the "Desktop" in Windows is merely a folder on the hard drive, while the hard drive is simultaneously an icon on the Desktop... and "My Computer" is a completely artificial layer of abstraction between the two.
That is what confuses people, IMNSHO.
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I suspect his Vaio is a laptop... used as a desktop computer. In which case a CD-ROM drive really would be $300 (and also that's why he wouldn't already have one)
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Why do I recall that in Empire Strikes Back, on Dagobah, Yoda says something about "i cannot train this one, he has no patience" immediately before/after (I don't remember) referring to how he trained Anakin? Or am I crazy?
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Umm... seems that you don't know much about Free software. You're arguing about "free" software.
Nobody (even RMS) is saying that software should be free an in beer (except some of the slashdot crowd who doesn't want to pay for anything).
What the argument is about is whether software should be "Free" as in liberty. Read the GPL sometime... it never says you can't charge money for software.
Mostly it just says that you have to distribute source with any binaries... meaning, you can charge money for said binaries, but you have to distribute source along with them.
I don't know why this is so often misunderstood.
-- Reverius
No, i'm sorry, but you're mistaken. VMWare is not an OS emulator, but an x86 machine emulator. It will run any operating system that you throw at it (within reason, of course), but tends to come bundled/pre-set for Windows. It will run (out of the box) Linux, FreeBSD, and others, and that's just the ones I know offhand. Personally I've used it to run Linux, and attempted to run BeOS R5 (although with no success).
Yeah, well, it's 'net speak. You don't see anyone trying to eradicate the usage of "boxen" (even though "boxes" is the proper plural of "box").
I say let it go.
-- The Great and Powerful Reverius has Spoken
I'd REALLY like to know who moderated this as "insightful"... it's obviously a tongue-in-cheek joke. NPR stands for National Public Radio, and the parent of this post was correct in most of its assertions.
Any existence of or relation to National Petroleum Radio is coincidental, seeing as that's decidedly not the radio station to which we are referring.
-- Reverius
If you haven't been following Debian's last few releases, you missed Slink and Potato. Coming up after Woody is Sid.
They seem to have a habit of actually using names from Toy Story...
Watch out for "Son of Rudolph"... I hear he's roaming the streets of Moscow.
Which is necessary of course... how could solar energy heat a swimming pool in its current form?? :)
Actually, i think we're overanalysing it... i believe he meant only to point out, in the form of sarcasm, the absurd obsession that we slashdotters have with the MPAA and its evildoings. But that's just my opinion.
Umm... hate to nitpick, but last time I checked, vinyl -is- "some kind of plastic."
Huh? From as much as I've used it, GCC works extremely well in Windows! It's part of the Cygwin distribution, provided by RedHat. Here's a link: Cygwin.
Perl has claimed to be platform agnostic, but has been heavily unix (and x86) centric. It's good to see opportunities to use Perl on other platforms, as it is a very useful language.
By that logic... about half of the programs that compile on Linux would use the gnome icon. It's first and foremost the "GIMP ToolKit". The fact that it -happens- to be included in GNOME (and that GNOME is based upon it) is irrelevant.
Here's one thing that might brighten your day, if you've never found this before:
:)
Linux ACPI support.
It appears that the 2.4 kernel series supports ACPI (with some tools, see link) but has to be compiled with the acpi option (marked as experimental). Do some research, you may be pleasantly surprised.
-- Reverius
It's very depreciated now. There's a much better way to make executables out of Perl...
it's called "perlcc". Run that command, your perl distribution probably comes with it. It simply compiles perl into an executable by first translating it to C (with the help of libperl) and the compiling.
I don't know how well that approach works for more complicated Perl apps w/ modules, though...
All I can say to that is... the DVD's that I watch are probably strange then. :)
I probably don't notice mastering glitches like that, and wasn't even accounting for them in my explanation. That would make more sense.
I find it hard to believe you notice compression errors on an MPEG-2 stream upwards of 8 megabits per second (DVD quality). There really shouldn't be any at all.
It is much more likely that the "compression errors" are actually the LCD's poor ability to represent motion. They are notoriously bad at this.
Wow... thanks, that's a lot more information than I've ever had on the subject. Someone on here just told me once that it was Tallentyre (because I credited Voltaire with the quote in my sig) and I assumed they were right. I guess the lesson here is that I shouldn't argue someone else's point without researching it first. :)
Actually...
:)
Voltaire was paraphrasing S.G. Tallentyre. Look it up.
Way off -yet-? Do you mean to tell me that Debian will eventually, in the future, have a Fortran 90 compiler, or that it should?
I don't see why anyone would consider using Fortran. But even if you have your reasons (which I'm sure you do)...
I don't see why a Fortran 90 compiler is a "major app". I think that's the sort of thing that an OS does not need to come bundled with.
The reason? Simple. 99.7% of Debian users will never touch a Fortran compiler.
hundreds? try thousands upon thousands. I think MS is bigger than 'hundreds' of people.
Nobody makes fun of perl God Randal Shwartz, and gets away with it!
Your bits are mine.
shouldn't that read 'bought', not 'brought'?
That's because the "Desktop" in Windows is merely a folder on the hard drive, while the hard drive is simultaneously an icon on the Desktop... and "My Computer" is a completely artificial layer of abstraction between the two.
That is what confuses people, IMNSHO.
I suspect his Vaio is a laptop... used as a desktop computer. In which case a CD-ROM drive really would be $300 (and also that's why he wouldn't already have one)