The last computer magazines that I've purchased were bought primarily because they had the latest distro or lots of megs of interesting stuff on the cover CD.
It costs under $8au and saves me from having to buy the latest distro or spend a ridiculous amount of time downloading it. The magazine has cheaper & faster bandwidth than the internet. (at least on my connection)
The kernels that come with the OS by default are configured for maximum compatability, which is smart, because they are going to be used on a wide variety of different machines. Often with the broad compatability comes a lack of optimisation, ie the kernel is compiled for 386's, has patches for obscure chipsets you might not have etc.
If you're running a n-86, why not run with n-86 optimisations? Often recompiling can give a substantial boost to some applications, the X screensavers that are heavily FPU intensive, for instance.
Just think of all the trouble we'd have to go to with cloning dinosaurs and burying them so future generations can have the god given right to drive fuel guzzling 4 wheel drives.
...allow researchers from around the world to communicate with each other more easily. Thus the internet allows creative/intelligent people of all fields, not just computer science to interact and share their ideas amongst themselves.
Thus the internet increases combined intellegence, rather than draining it away.
Because I was interested in coding some Xlib as a programming exercise, I wrote my first X app (XTux in raw Xlib (uses libx and libXpm only) and I have to say it is a bitch to do.
Color management is completely horrible, as are fonts. Toolkits and higher level abstractions do not decrease portability, they increase it, because your programs can run on other windowing systems.
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Good idea, I'm sure OS religious nuts make much better time systems than Roman religious nuts.
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...build a temple or a Cathedral.
The last computer magazines that I've purchased were bought primarily because they had the latest distro or lots of megs of interesting stuff on the cover CD.
It costs under $8au and saves me from having to buy the latest distro or spend a ridiculous amount of time downloading it. The magazine has cheaper & faster bandwidth than the internet. (at least on my connection)
The kernels that come with the OS by default are configured for maximum compatability, which is smart, because they are going to be used on a wide variety of different machines. Often with the broad compatability comes a lack of optimisation, ie the kernel is compiled for 386's, has patches for obscure chipsets you might not have etc.
If you're running a n-86, why not run with n-86 optimisations? Often recompiling can give a substantial boost to some applications, the X screensavers that are heavily FPU intensive, for instance.
Just think of all the trouble we'd have to go to with cloning dinosaurs and burying them so future generations can have the god given right to drive fuel guzzling 4 wheel drives.
...allow researchers from around the world to communicate with each other more easily. Thus the internet allows creative/intelligent people of all fields, not just computer science to interact and share their ideas amongst themselves.
Thus the internet increases combined intellegence, rather than draining it away.
Marketing wisdom? That's the second best oxymoron I've heard, after Oversexed of course ;)
(slips him $20)
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Evidence why that's not such a good idea!
They don't taste that bad. But you have to smell them first, and every smell-bud (or whatever they're called) in your nose is saying NO! NO!
You can buy durian flavoured icecream over there, it's not that bad.
Because I was interested in coding some Xlib as a programming exercise, I wrote my first X app (XTux in raw Xlib (uses libx and libXpm only) and I have to say it is a bitch to do.
Color management is completely horrible, as are fonts. Toolkits and higher level abstractions do not decrease portability, they increase it, because your programs can run on other windowing systems.