I only have one copy of Windows that came bundled with a computer, and that's Windows 3.1. Are you suggesting that Windows 3.1 will run these games better than Wine?
I'm hoping they fix 130614 soon.
I've got a Win98SE box which I cleaned up using Revenge of Mozilla (thus making it much like win95),
and this is keeping me from using recent versions of Mozilla on that box. Fortunately I don't use that box very often.
Saying that Linux needs to run Windows apps to succeed on the desktop is a claim of a necessary condition.
Saying that the success of Linux on the desktop is guaranteed by running Windows apps is a claim of a sufficient condition.
Therefore your "counterexample" (OS/2) does not refute the apparent assertion by Spolsky (Linux won't be a player in the desktop market until it can run Windows applications).
Check out this page for more information about necessary and sufficient conditions.
For the record, I take no position about whether running Windows apps is either a necessary or a sufficient condition for the success of Linux on the desktop.
I agree with the two other people who (as of this time) have replied to you saying that a course in teaching science to elementary school kids is nothing like a real science course.
Well, I suppose it could be, but in most cases I would guess that it's not.
I once taught a class called "Math for Elementary School Teachers" or something like that.
The actual mathematical content was a joke. The class was essentially an extended propaganda session
in which the students read the latest curriculum standards from some group of "math education reformers".
I had to read it as well, and it was extremely painful.
I'm sure that your lovely and talented fiance has an excellent grasp of scientific principles, but I wouldn't be so quick to credit it to that class that she took.
However if you do good research you will get better offers from 4 year schools than a weak researcher with a great teaching credentials, so research appears to have more snob appeal than teaching skills.
That probably depends on the field. When I finished my Ph.D. in mathematics, I found that the academic job market in that field seemed to be shifting towards a teaching emphasis rather than research.
Many positions were looking for so-called "Math Education" people, and cared more about your "Teaching Philosophy" than your "Research Summary".
In any case, most of the jobs one can get during the early part of one's career involve teaching a lot of lower-level classes (remedial algebra, early calculus, calculus for business/sociology/basket-weaving majors, etc) and leave little time for research.
Because of this, and the fact that I was a somewhat mediocre teacher, my job hunt was rather disappointing.
I ended up going into industry, which I think is what I should have done in the first place.
Those Hippies that survived are the gerks responsible for the power outages in California today.
So what you're saying is that it was the surviving hippies who decided that it was a good idea for the distributors to get out of the production game and buy electricity from the spot market? Pete Wilson and the California legislature are surviving hippies? How come I was never informed of this?
I bought the win32 version a couple weeks ago (I didn't know there was a Linux version on the way, else I might have waited).
Like you, I found that it was difficult to see things.
Then I found some alternative graphics on the CD that were designed for red-green colorblind people.
I suffer some sort of colorblindness (not sure if it's the red-green type though),
and installing the alternative graphics helped a lot in terms of playability.
Given that the Vulcans made first contact as a result of the invention of the warp drive (did you see that movie?),
and that there are supposed to be Vulcans serving on the ship,
I'd have to say that the warp drive will have already been invented.
Happy Days was originally one or more stories
on that terrible show Love: American Style.
I guess The Simpsons could be considered a spin-off of the Tracy Ullman Show as well.
I don't know if you watch pro wrestling, but the WWF has excellent production values.
Their nearest competitor, WCW, looks bush-league in comparison.
Give them some time to work out the kinks. It was, after all, the first weekend of action.
While I may be a rabid anti-Microsoft zealot,
the reason hotmail doesn't work for me is that
it requires Javascript, which I don't use.
Most of my browsing is done with Lynx,
which can do https with the right patch, but not Javascript.
Otherwise I use Mozilla and IE, in which I keep that nonsense disabled.
I had a strange reaction when I read the title of the article, then the header text.
My favorite radio station, KFJC, has a show by anti-fascist researcher Dave Emory.
Now, I don't buy everything that Dave says, but he sure is interesting to listen to (I like conspiracy theories).
One of the topics he covers very frequently is the "Bormann flight capital organization", which involves "Nazi in exile" Martin Bormann evacuating a lot of wealth from Germany,
starting in 1944 -- apparently because the Nazis were anticipating a loss in the war and wanted to start up operations elsewhere. This ties in with the "South American Nazis" you may have heard about (or whose card you may have played in Illuminati! by Steve Jackson Games).
One thing that Dave Emory keeps talking about is the fact that Bertelsmann has been acquiring a great deal of the publishing industry.
He seems to think that this is part of the Bormann organization's plans for worldwide fascism or something.
Frankly, this is one area where Dave starts losing me -- I think he's too quick to connect things that are German with attempts to found the Fourth Reich (using economic conquest rather than military conquest).
So anyway, given the recent BMG partnership with Napster, I initially thought that the "Nazis on Napster" article might parallel some things I've heard on various Dave Emory programs. Life got just a little bit more surreal for a few seconds, until I started reading further.
I use Lynx for most of my web browsing. In most cases, if a site isn't usable under Lynx, then it's not worth using.
When I do use a graphical browser, I keep Javascript/ActiveX/etc disabled. Again, if I need it, then it's not worth it.
I also reject most cookies.
As for radio, I don't listen to commercial radio anymore.
There are plenty of non-commercial radio where I live (San Francisco Bay Area),
and my radio experience has improved 10-fold since I ditched the commercial pablum.
And yes, I do make donations to non-commercial media.
at some point it would be nice to have keywords (something like what
"apropos/man -k" is to man pages) for packaging systems. I don't like
having to go on the net to find commands/packages to get when I need a
program to do "whatever".
This may not be a cure-all, but I've gotten some joy out of the following:
grep (keyword)/cdrom/slakware/*/disk*
The answer to the original question is "NO" for various reasons which others have already stated.
What I would like to see is support for TeX's math expressions in web browsers.
I've tried to create math-oriented web pages before, and it's a big pain in the ass.
I'd love to be able to do something like:
<texmath> {\rm Ext}_n^R(M^\alpha, R) = 0 for n \ge 5 </texmath>
and have the browser react appropriately (graphical browsers render an image, text browsers output the TeX code).
I remember that. It was run by Brian W. Feedback, who also ran a comment line called "Feedback".
I used to call comment lines a lot back then. You'd call up one line an listen to a looped tape of the comments of a bunch of other callers.
Then you could call up an answering machine and leave your own comment.
Then your comment might make it into the following week's tape.
Comment lines were awesome. They were like BBS's for people without computers.
Hell, I even used them when I did have a computer (and one of those fancy 300 baud modems).
There were a bunch of them in Southern California -- Feedback, Observatory, Phun Phone, etc.
I don't know if they caught on in other parts of the country/world.
A lot of the article focused on bad management. While we have that at my company, my biggest problem is the area that I'm in.
Quite frankly the Silicon Valley sucks. Housing is too expensive, traffic is bad, there's too little fun stuff to do, and there aren't enough females.
I can get around much of the traffic problem by commuting during off hours,
but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot I can do about housing, for example.
I'm thinking of moving back to Southern California, but I'm worried about being able to get an interesting R&D job there.
Provide a card to adults which will allow unfettered access.
All non-carded use should be assumed to be by a child, and will allow access to
a limited, pre-defined set of domains like yahoo.com, cnn.com, slashdot.org, disney.com, olsentwins.com, etc...
There are only so many short but pronouncable words that you can construct.
There are billions of people on this planet, many of whome are naming things.
Conflicts are inevitable. As a species we need to become mature enough to deal with this,
or else we'll destroy our fragile world with rampant lawsuits.
The believer-vs-skeptic dynamic will be gone. It can be said that this is the heart of the show. I'm looking forward to episodes in which the actors and script writers go through the motions, possibly including tie-ins with other shows (like the Millennium tie-in a while back).
I'll probably end up getting bored and playing Diablo II instead, or whatever game is occupying my attention at the time.
I hope for the sake of the uninformed consumers that the new Packard Bell systems are better than the old ones. Back in 1992 my mother bought me a Packard Bell. Here are my complaints: (I may have forgotten some)
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I only have one copy of Windows that came bundled with a computer, and that's Windows 3.1. Are you suggesting that Windows 3.1 will run these games better than Wine?
I'm hoping they fix 130614 soon. I've got a Win98SE box which I cleaned up using Revenge of Mozilla (thus making it much like win95), and this is keeping me from using recent versions of Mozilla on that box. Fortunately I don't use that box very often.
Check out this page for more information about necessary and sufficient conditions.
For the record, I take no position about whether running Windows apps is either a necessary or a sufficient condition for the success of Linux on the desktop.
I agree with the two other people who (as of this time) have replied to you saying that a course in teaching science to elementary school kids is nothing like a real science course. Well, I suppose it could be, but in most cases I would guess that it's not. I once taught a class called "Math for Elementary School Teachers" or something like that. The actual mathematical content was a joke. The class was essentially an extended propaganda session in which the students read the latest curriculum standards from some group of "math education reformers". I had to read it as well, and it was extremely painful. I'm sure that your lovely and talented fiance has an excellent grasp of scientific principles, but I wouldn't be so quick to credit it to that class that she took.
I bought the win32 version a couple weeks ago (I didn't know there was a Linux version on the way, else I might have waited). Like you, I found that it was difficult to see things. Then I found some alternative graphics on the CD that were designed for red-green colorblind people. I suffer some sort of colorblindness (not sure if it's the red-green type though), and installing the alternative graphics helped a lot in terms of playability.
Given that the Vulcans made first contact as a result of the invention of the warp drive (did you see that movie?), and that there are supposed to be Vulcans serving on the ship, I'd have to say that the warp drive will have already been invented.
Happy Days was originally one or more stories on that terrible show Love: American Style. I guess The Simpsons could be considered a spin-off of the Tracy Ullman Show as well.
I don't know if you watch pro wrestling, but the WWF has excellent production values. Their nearest competitor, WCW, looks bush-league in comparison. Give them some time to work out the kinks. It was, after all, the first weekend of action.
Millions of people voted for Ralph Nader. From this we can conclude that the American people wanted Nader to be president.
While I may be a rabid anti-Microsoft zealot, the reason hotmail doesn't work for me is that it requires Javascript, which I don't use. Most of my browsing is done with Lynx, which can do https with the right patch, but not Javascript. Otherwise I use Mozilla and IE, in which I keep that nonsense disabled.
My favorite radio station, KFJC, has a show by anti-fascist researcher Dave Emory. Now, I don't buy everything that Dave says, but he sure is interesting to listen to (I like conspiracy theories). One of the topics he covers very frequently is the "Bormann flight capital organization", which involves "Nazi in exile" Martin Bormann evacuating a lot of wealth from Germany, starting in 1944 -- apparently because the Nazis were anticipating a loss in the war and wanted to start up operations elsewhere. This ties in with the "South American Nazis" you may have heard about (or whose card you may have played in Illuminati! by Steve Jackson Games).
One thing that Dave Emory keeps talking about is the fact that Bertelsmann has been acquiring a great deal of the publishing industry. He seems to think that this is part of the Bormann organization's plans for worldwide fascism or something. Frankly, this is one area where Dave starts losing me -- I think he's too quick to connect things that are German with attempts to found the Fourth Reich (using economic conquest rather than military conquest).
So anyway, given the recent BMG partnership with Napster, I initially thought that the "Nazis on Napster" article might parallel some things I've heard on various Dave Emory programs. Life got just a little bit more surreal for a few seconds, until I started reading further.
As for radio, I don't listen to commercial radio anymore. There are plenty of non-commercial radio where I live (San Francisco Bay Area), and my radio experience has improved 10-fold since I ditched the commercial pablum. And yes, I do make donations to non-commercial media.
grep (keyword)
What I would like to see is support for TeX's math expressions in web browsers. I've tried to create math-oriented web pages before, and it's a big pain in the ass. I'd love to be able to do something like:
and have the browser react appropriately (graphical browsers render an image, text browsers output the TeX code).Comment lines were awesome. They were like BBS's for people without computers. Hell, I even used them when I did have a computer (and one of those fancy 300 baud modems). There were a bunch of them in Southern California -- Feedback, Observatory, Phun Phone, etc. I don't know if they caught on in other parts of the country/world.
A lot of the article focused on bad management. While we have that at my company, my biggest problem is the area that I'm in. Quite frankly the Silicon Valley sucks. Housing is too expensive, traffic is bad, there's too little fun stuff to do, and there aren't enough females. I can get around much of the traffic problem by commuting during off hours, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot I can do about housing, for example. I'm thinking of moving back to Southern California, but I'm worried about being able to get an interesting R&D job there.
When I saw the movie (which was excellent, by the way), I was never under the impression that the math was anything other than gobbledygook.
It will be a cold day in hell before I play Starcraft on a console.
No cookie.
To access this site your browser must be accepting cookies.
This even after I specifically told Lynx to accept their cookie. Looks like someone needs to learn how to properly construct a web site.
Provide a card to adults which will allow unfettered access. All non-carded use should be assumed to be by a child, and will allow access to a limited, pre-defined set of domains like yahoo.com, cnn.com, slashdot.org, disney.com, olsentwins.com, etc...
There are only so many short but pronouncable words that you can construct. There are billions of people on this planet, many of whome are naming things. Conflicts are inevitable. As a species we need to become mature enough to deal with this, or else we'll destroy our fragile world with rampant lawsuits.
I'll probably end up getting bored and playing Diablo II instead, or whatever game is occupying my attention at the time.
- Stupid motherboard/case shapes prevented meaningful upgrades.
- Monitor lost sync at anything better than 640x480x256.
- Hard drive had an ever-increasing number of bad sectors.
- Single IDE port couldn't handle slave devices for some reason.
Nowadays I put together my own systems, but still... I don't like to see other people get burned.