Hydrogen is half as dense as helium, but what matters is the difference in density between the lifting gas and air. Hydrogen provides only about 8% extra lift in air compared to hydrogen.
It's funny... Many times I have asked about these APIs and never has anyone actually backed up their claims... And you just added another data point to those stats. I dunno, it's one thing Linus saying that SCO are wrong on more than one level. But in another way they could be right on more than one level. Even if Linux contains no actual copyrighted code, it's still ripping off Unix ideas. Please... I said don't make too much of it... Just leave it!
Well, I just think that there are some interesting parallels there. DR shamelessly ripped off MS's IP (which they bought from someone else), and MS were not happy. Linux ripped off Unix, which SCO bought the IP rights to, and SCO are unhappy about it. But DR is in their lineage. I'm not claiming anything earth-shattering, I was just musing... No need to make a big deal out of it. I note that you have failed to provide a list of your claimed hidden APIs. I do use IE, so I appreciate fixes for it. If it was somehow uninstalled, then the bugs would no longer be system issues. Perhaps I would have to download extra updates but... It's all automatically done in the background... It's not really a hardship. Why are you so obsessed about the past? Do you want me to point to old versions of Linux with all their security holes? Got any proof that they haven't?
I have a Casio GPS watch which I think is dead cool, but my wife hates it. She's an artist. Having said that, if you refer to women as "chicks", your watch is not the problem.
No, because they don't give us complete information about their standards. Talk to the wine guys sometime. I think it's a bit much to expect Microsoft to reveal the inner workings of their proprietary software, especially to "the wine guys" whose sole intention is to rip them off. Having said that, the public APIs are pretty well documented, despite the general/. mumblings to the contrary. Without specific details of the APIs you have a problem with, I can't address your issues. Perhaps you could talk to "the wine guys" for me and tell me what their problems are? By being do-it-yourself computer users. Or by buying a computer with Linux pre-installed. Can you still get those? Or did it turn out to be commercially unviable? Monopoly doesn't mean nothing else exists. It means someone has too much control. The US court system declared Microsoft a monopoly. Personally I think that decision was perverse, but there you go. And as we all know it's not illegal to have a monopoly. But there never was one, really. As for control, no-one ever put a gun to your head and told you to buy Windows, or IE, or any other Microsoft product. That's just wishful thinking from the anti-MS brigade. Linux will keep getting better, and someday we will play well enough. I hope so. I mean, I first installed Slackware in '93. That was a bit poor, to put it mildly. Then I tried SUSE, Corel and Mandrake. Maybe I'll try another one soon. But something always makes me run back to Windows. If it will never suit your tastes, that's fine. I'm not saying "never"! That would be stupid. I have an open mind. At the end of the day though, I just can't seem to warm to the *n*x philosophy. I have absolutely no problem with alternatives to Windows. I think they're real choices right now. What I objected to was your idea of "taking over the world". That just smacks of intellectual imperialism. By the way, I apologise for my strong wording in my first post, I seem to have gotten a flamebait mod for it and I suppose that's fair, although it was more of a rhetorical "fuck yourself";-)
Uh - you don't "have" to do anything. Damn straight. Linux is like a takeover by democratic vote - no one forces you to use it unless you want to. Well that's a strange analogy to use to make that point. I mean, here in the UK I am forced to have a Labour government even though I didn't want one. The challenge is to make Linux good enough that the logical decision is to use it instead of Windows And here you stumble across the whole point. As a programmer I can't help but laugh at many of the supposed advantages of Linux over Windows. Other people might think Linux is powered by magical pixie dust, but obviously that doesn't explain it to me. Another thing is that what makes an operating system "good" is multi-dimensional. For some people it's the apps, others the UI, or the license, or pathetically, simple fanboyism (more respectfully known as "mindshare"). common standards LOL, in other words, "our standards, not their standards, because their standards smell funny, or something" The Linux War is a war to break a monopoly, and restore choice as a default situation. So how do all of these Linux users manage to run their favourite OS? Do they have to temporarily forget that they have no choice? Monopoly my arse. It's funny that you want to "take over the world" and yet it's bad that someone else has a monopoly. Only they haven't. You've been listening to Stallman too much. Thanks, that's the best laugh I've had all day... Open source wants the level playing field back, and that's what the war is about. Dude! The playing field is level. Linux is just not playing well enough.
Why do you want to take over the world? It never fails to amaze me, that in order for me to have the "freedom" that you feel I need, I have to do what you say (run your choice of OS). Well, sorry mate, but go and fuck yourself. You can pry my copy of Windows from my cold, dead hands. I'll use what I want. That's my idea of freedom.
"Aluminum" is the US spelling. In the UK we write "aluminium". "At this moment in time" is subtly different to "now". It gives the impression that at other moments in time, the asociated observation may not be the same. Perhaps it was not true in the past, it is true now, and one hopes it will continue to be true. English has many ways of saying similar things but in a subtly different way.
Actually they did change the control system in AoD. It went Mario-style, i.e. Lara went in the direction you pointed the stick, relative to the camera. Frankly I think that's worse than the previous system. The problem is that when the camera moves, you have to adjust your stick appropriately. Ugh.
That didn't come out right. Instead of "epe" imagine a 'T' with a comma under it, "epe", then an 's' with a little squiggle under it. "epe", maybe that will work?
It was just because of Bram Stoker's novel. That's the only link between Vlad "The Impaler" epe (pronounced 'tsepesh') and the vampire dude. "Dracula" (well actually "Draculea") means "Son of Dracul" and "dracul" means "dragon" although it could also mean "devil".
0.5mv^2, what more evidence do you need? So what specific speed limits are you going to campaign against? Damn straight I'm entitled to my opinion, and I don't need your patronising suggestions, thankyouverymuch.
Sigh. They're called "limits" because you're not to exceed them. You're allowed to drive slower than the limit, duh. Civil disobedience eh? Enjoy your fines, points and eventual disqualification. It takes a fraction of a second to look at my speedo. Enough of the "safer driver" stuff, you know nothing about my driving ability.
If you have a problem with a specific speed limit, by all means campaign to have it changed. In the meantime, observe the speed limits like the rest of us or expect to be caught. Don't arbitrarily ignore the law and then start crying when you're nicked for it.
"no longer be in control of something that is theirs"
Precisely. If my car was nicked, I wouldn't want the villains to be in control of it, and I'd welcome the chance for the fuzz to bring it to a controlled stop. I'd not give a flying f##k about the bad guys' likes and dislikes.
There are always downsides to this kind of thing, but I don't see why they couldn't be solved in principle.
LOL, do you know how stupid you look right now? You should have stopped digging a few posts back. It doesn't matter if you're using binary or decimal, one is still one, and it doesn't take the plural form. You're thinking "2 types" but writing "1 types". You are possibly the most clueless/. user ever, and believe me mate, that takes some doing.
You're the thicko, bub. (btw I'm not American) I put the leading zeros in to illustrate that you are wrong. To illustrate that the number of representable values given a certain number of digits is different from any particular number formed using those digits (10 is greater than 0 or 1 or 9). I just told you that you don't understand binary, why are you trying to give me a lecture on it? "With your statement"... Well, you need to learn to read as well. I am Ataru and the.sig you failed to rebut is Juglugs'. You, unfortunately, are hiding as AC so we can't revoke your license to ever touch a computer ever again. If you could stop spreading your "ideas" about binary, though, that would be nice.
You don't understand numbers, let alone binary. Ok, let's make this simple for you, and do it in decimal. There are 0002 types [...] Look, I used 4 digits. So you think that means I have 10000 "values to deal with", whatever that means. And yet the value is just 2. The digits go from 0..(base-1) so you have (base) digits in all. The representation of this count of digits is always 10, in any base. Listen to yourself, "1 types", you have used a plural so clearly you can't use 1 there... Perhaps you could come back to us when you get out of kindergarten? (That will not be any time soon, it seems)
Oh I bet they're quaking in their boots. Bad publicity. From the GPL crowd. Oh how awful.
Some points for you:
* Microsoft can, and do, code their own way, and don't need to crib from GPL'd crap. * The "artical" [sic] made some very good points that you would do well to "grok". * Microsoft follows Linux IN YOUR DREAMS.
My memory is no doubt shorter than it should be (probably da weed) but I don't remember Microsoft EVER having a go at someone over a patent issue. As far as I know they use patents only defensively. I would be genuinely interested if anyone could come up with a counterexample. Anyone?
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Yes, at number 29.
Hydrogen is half as dense as helium, but what matters is the difference in density between the lifting gas and air. Hydrogen provides only about 8% extra lift in air compared to hydrogen.
... and these fuckers often remind me of The Horned One, but...
We don't expect undertakers to work for free. Why shouldn't a charge be made for closing a deceased person's account?
It's funny... Many times I have asked about these APIs and never has anyone actually backed up their claims... And you just added another data point to those stats.
I dunno, it's one thing Linus saying that SCO are wrong on more than one level. But in another way they could be right on more than one level. Even if Linux contains no actual copyrighted code, it's still ripping off Unix ideas.
Please... I said don't make too much of it... Just leave it!
Well, I just think that there are some interesting parallels there. DR shamelessly ripped off MS's IP (which they bought from someone else), and MS were not happy. Linux ripped off Unix, which SCO bought the IP rights to, and SCO are unhappy about it. But DR is in their lineage. I'm not claiming anything earth-shattering, I was just musing... No need to make a big deal out of it.
I note that you have failed to provide a list of your claimed hidden APIs.
I do use IE, so I appreciate fixes for it. If it was somehow uninstalled, then the bugs would no longer be system issues. Perhaps I would have to download extra updates but... It's all automatically done in the background... It's not really a hardship.
Why are you so obsessed about the past? Do you want me to point to old versions of Linux with all their security holes?
Got any proof that they haven't?
Why aye man.
I have a Casio GPS watch which I think is dead cool, but my wife hates it. She's an artist.
Having said that, if you refer to women as "chicks", your watch is not the problem.
No, because they don't give us complete information about their standards. Talk to the wine guys sometime. /. mumblings to the contrary. Without specific details of the APIs you have a problem with, I can't address your issues. Perhaps you could talk to "the wine guys" for me and tell me what their problems are? ;-)
I think it's a bit much to expect Microsoft to reveal the inner workings of their proprietary software, especially to "the wine guys" whose sole intention is to rip them off. Having said that, the public APIs are pretty well documented, despite the general
By being do-it-yourself computer users.
Or by buying a computer with Linux pre-installed. Can you still get those? Or did it turn out to be commercially unviable?
Monopoly doesn't mean nothing else exists. It means someone has too much control. The US court system declared Microsoft a monopoly.
Personally I think that decision was perverse, but there you go. And as we all know it's not illegal to have a monopoly. But there never was one, really. As for control, no-one ever put a gun to your head and told you to buy Windows, or IE, or any other Microsoft product. That's just wishful thinking from the anti-MS brigade.
Linux will keep getting better, and someday we will play well enough.
I hope so. I mean, I first installed Slackware in '93. That was a bit poor, to put it mildly. Then I tried SUSE, Corel and Mandrake. Maybe I'll try another one soon. But something always makes me run back to Windows.
If it will never suit your tastes, that's fine.
I'm not saying "never"! That would be stupid. I have an open mind. At the end of the day though, I just can't seem to warm to the *n*x philosophy.
I have absolutely no problem with alternatives to Windows. I think they're real choices right now. What I objected to was your idea of "taking over the world". That just smacks of intellectual imperialism.
By the way, I apologise for my strong wording in my first post, I seem to have gotten a flamebait mod for it and I suppose that's fair, although it was more of a rhetorical "fuck yourself"
Uh - you don't "have" to do anything.
Damn straight.
Linux is like a takeover by democratic vote - no one forces you to use it unless you want to.
Well that's a strange analogy to use to make that point. I mean, here in the UK I am forced to have a Labour government even though I didn't want one.
The challenge is to make Linux good enough that the logical decision is to use it instead of Windows
And here you stumble across the whole point. As a programmer I can't help but laugh at many of the supposed advantages of Linux over Windows. Other people might think Linux is powered by magical pixie dust, but obviously that doesn't explain it to me.
Another thing is that what makes an operating system "good" is multi-dimensional. For some people it's the apps, others the UI, or the license, or pathetically, simple fanboyism (more respectfully known as "mindshare").
common standards
LOL, in other words, "our standards, not their standards, because their standards smell funny, or something"
The Linux War is a war to break a monopoly, and restore choice as a default situation.
So how do all of these Linux users manage to run their favourite OS? Do they have to temporarily forget that they have no choice? Monopoly my arse. It's funny that you want to "take over the world" and yet it's bad that someone else has a monopoly. Only they haven't.
You've been listening to Stallman too much.
Thanks, that's the best laugh I've had all day...
Open source wants the level playing field back, and that's what the war is about.
Dude! The playing field is level. Linux is just not playing well enough.
Taking over the World - Rule #0
Don't try to take over the world!
Why do you want to take over the world? It never fails to amaze me, that in order for me to have the "freedom" that you feel I need, I have to do what you say (run your choice of OS).
Well, sorry mate, but go and fuck yourself. You can pry my copy of Windows from my cold, dead hands. I'll use what I want. That's my idea of freedom.
"Aluminum" is the US spelling. In the UK we write "aluminium".
"At this moment in time" is subtly different to "now". It gives the impression that at other moments in time, the asociated observation may not be the same. Perhaps it was not true in the past, it is true now, and one hopes it will continue to be true. English has many ways of saying similar things but in a subtly different way.
Actually they did change the control system in AoD. It went Mario-style, i.e. Lara went in the direction you pointed the stick, relative to the camera. Frankly I think that's worse than the previous system. The problem is that when the camera moves, you have to adjust your stick appropriately. Ugh.
That didn't come out right. Instead of "epe" imagine a 'T' with a comma under it, "epe", then an 's' with a little squiggle under it. "epe", maybe that will work?
It was just because of Bram Stoker's novel. That's the only link between Vlad "The Impaler" epe (pronounced 'tsepesh') and the vampire dude. "Dracula" (well actually "Draculea") means "Son of Dracul" and "dracul" means "dragon" although it could also mean "devil".
0.5mv^2, what more evidence do you need?
So what specific speed limits are you going to campaign against?
Damn straight I'm entitled to my opinion, and I don't need your patronising suggestions, thankyouverymuch.
Sigh. They're called "limits" because you're not to exceed them. You're allowed to drive slower than the limit, duh.
Civil disobedience eh? Enjoy your fines, points and eventual disqualification.
It takes a fraction of a second to look at my speedo. Enough of the "safer driver" stuff, you know nothing about my driving ability.
So speed limits should be optional?
If you have a problem with a specific speed limit, by all means campaign to have it changed.
In the meantime, observe the speed limits like the rest of us or expect to be caught. Don't arbitrarily ignore the law and then start crying when you're nicked for it.
"no longer be in control of something that is theirs"
Precisely. If my car was nicked, I wouldn't want the villains to be in control of it, and I'd welcome the chance for the fuzz to bring it to a controlled stop. I'd not give a flying f##k about the bad guys' likes and dislikes.
There are always downsides to this kind of thing, but I don't see why they couldn't be solved in principle.
Why don't you just slow down, keep within the speed limit, and save yourself a lot of silly bother?
LOL, do you know how stupid you look right now? /. user ever, and believe me mate, that takes some doing.
You should have stopped digging a few posts back.
It doesn't matter if you're using binary or decimal, one is still one, and it doesn't take the plural form. You're thinking "2 types" but writing "1 types".
You are possibly the most clueless
You're the thicko, bub. (btw I'm not American) .sig you failed to rebut is Juglugs'. You, unfortunately, are hiding as AC so we can't revoke your license to ever touch a computer ever again. If you could stop spreading your "ideas" about binary, though, that would be nice.
I put the leading zeros in to illustrate that you are wrong. To illustrate that the number of representable values given a certain number of digits is different from any particular number formed using those digits (10 is greater than 0 or 1 or 9).
I just told you that you don't understand binary, why are you trying to give me a lecture on it?
"With your statement"... Well, you need to learn to read as well. I am Ataru and the
You don't understand numbers, let alone binary.
Ok, let's make this simple for you, and do it in decimal.
There are 0002 types [...]
Look, I used 4 digits. So you think that means I have 10000 "values to deal with", whatever that means. And yet the value is just 2.
The digits go from 0..(base-1) so you have (base) digits in all. The representation of this count of digits is always 10, in any base.
Listen to yourself, "1 types", you have used a plural so clearly you can't use 1 there...
Perhaps you could come back to us when you get out of kindergarten? (That will not be any time soon, it seems)
"microsoft would have bad publicity"
Oh I bet they're quaking in their boots. Bad publicity. From the GPL crowd. Oh how awful.
Some points for you:
* Microsoft can, and do, code their own way, and don't need to crib from GPL'd crap.
* The "artical" [sic] made some very good points that you would do well to "grok".
* Microsoft follows Linux IN YOUR DREAMS.
My memory is no doubt shorter than it should be (probably da weed) but I don't remember Microsoft EVER having a go at someone over a patent issue. As far as I know they use patents only defensively. I would be genuinely interested if anyone could come up with a counterexample. Anyone?