I think its time to move to a new country now. Anyone else up for buying a island somewhere and declaring it a independant state? At least tehn we could have a actual say in what laws we live under.
God, yes ill testify to that. Ive sorely learnt not to hit print and go to the printer straight away:) That said, its a fine machine and jsut keeps on printing, even after it was thrown off the back of a lorry........
Auuuh come on, they were built as home computers for kids:) If they can survive me and a thousand other kids screaming at it for the 10000th time after it moans about "syntax error", im sure it can survive a slashdotti.... oh there it goes, ignore me.
the publishers in their 'infinite wisdom':P have rearranged the series so "The Magican's Nephew" is the first book in the series.
Erm, i dunno when u mean they did this, but in the collection i have always read, The Magicians Nephew has always been the first book (and this is going back 15 years). So unless it wasnt done recently, ill say the order i read them in made perfect sense, as the nephew turns out to be the old man who owns the wardrobe.
Why oh why do they always do "The lion, witch and wardrobe" first??? Why cant someone do the first one and show that theres more to narnia than that world. The Magicians Nephew adds a whole lot of back story to narnia, and shows just WHY theres a lampost in the middle of a forest:)
As a kid, i really enjoyed the books, and the BBC films, although dreadful now, were jsut right for a 10 yearold. Unfortunatly they seemed to be a bit selective as to which ones they chose, leaving out the first book and the last book. Both of these books are brilliant, SO PLEASE DO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!
A lot of the time its down to the people who use that api as well. API coders change something, add a new api call which supersedes a older api call, and deprecates the older one. people cant be bothered to change their code to use the new call, so generally use the old call untill someone notices its not being used anymore in newer OS versions.
Also, notice this is almost EXACLTY the same information that xp asks you to send to microsoft when a application crashes. chances are it will mean something to them, and they can use it to maybe fix something, so jsut send the report off:)
Everyone bashes MS for the instability of their programs and operating systems, but how many of those same people send a report in when something crashes? not many i bet you.
As you state, this automatic rebooting can be turned off. What u get after is whats called a stop message. Basically you get a bunch of information which probably means little to someone who isnt trained to understand it.
I have forced stop errors a few times to check the stability of win2k, and i can say its a lot better than kernel panics in linux:)
Using proprietary software even if it is free, "Free" or what ever still leaves you dependent.
Oh pllllllluuuueeeessseee. Your killing me. What company really has the required skill set to take a OSS project and alter it to their own needs? id say relativly few. So they are still tied in to that proprietory system. Only now they are at the whim of a few hundred thousand coders who seem to change stuff in OSS projects at a whim (the linux 2.4 VM change...). Something gets changed, and you can do 1 of 2 things:
1. Stick where they are and live with the odler version
2. upgrade to the latest version
Kinda the same situation now isnt it? only now the economy suffers as noone is buying software. I can really think of only one tool that can get into a corporate arena with any force, and thats openoffice. other tools jsut seem kinda amaturish.
Dont get me wrong, i like OSS, jsut dont say "oooh piracy is advocated in the OSS arena" which is essentially waht u are saying.
Id say this is a damn good point of view. And it may jsut go the way of the software vendors as well. Get students to train on your software, and you have them for life. Or untill a fat penguin beats them up on a dark night:)
But then again, i bet the software vendors fight them on this, and i can understand why. If it becomes free for educational purposes, then when will it become free for non profit use? inhouse company training? Home office work? Where does it stop? And please dont say "use linux". People will deem whatever is best for them the stuff to buy.
And XML is as good as a.doc? nice idea, but no potatoes. XML is good for chucking a lot of pure data around between sources, but its shite for actual document usage.
Now, if the company would use profits from XBox sales to subsidize a copylefted, up-to-date port for GNU systems, I'd be all for it.
Auuuh diddums, my heart bleeds. Why the hell should a company, you know, one of those things set up to make money, subsidise anything? I can bet that if they did subsidise a port, they wouldnt make their money back, as the linux market jsut isnt there, and isnt likely to be there for many years to come.
Also, why is advocating the production of a game on one platform helping our ruin??? im sorry but i didnt see "Property of a fat penguin" stamped on Slashdot anywhere. Yes, some people might not like Microsoft, but that doesnt mean we should stop reporting on stuff happening.
And, if you didnt notice, id have only donated code in such a way to destroy older engines, so companies only license newer engines from them at probably a much greater price.
Also, is it jsut me noticing stuff that doesnt exist, or are more and more people advocating linux and OSS soley on the basis that its costless (ie, costs no money for licenses)? And these same people are moaning that more companies should "donate" their applications to the movement? Oh and exactly the same people moan that functionality in OSS isnt the same as closed stuff?
If anyone, ANYONE can show me a OSS compliant document format that even approaches the usefull ness of the.doc format, then i swear ill do my best to switch the company i work for over to it. So far i havent. And i doubt i will. Know why? The file format that opensource applications seem to live on is plain txt, which is next to useless for companies. Sure.doc has virus problems, but take certain security precautions and they go away. I havent had a virus attack on any machine i have ever had control over in the past 5 years. Infact ive had more issues with remote holes in linux boxes than viruses.
A Google search of my own for "brvread" reveals no information in the first few pages other than that port 1054 is assigned to brvread for either TCP or UDP.
Your point is? Thats what the "well known port" lsit says usually uses that port, doesnt mean thats whats actually using it. It can be anything, and usually is considering a lot of people run stuff on non standard ports. Get over it, it wasnt long ago that bitchx and irssi was sending stuff home.............:P
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I think its time to move to a new country now. Anyone else up for buying a island somewhere and declaring it a independant state? At least tehn we could have a actual say in what laws we live under.
yep, bier.
God, yes ill testify to that. Ive sorely learnt not to hit print and go to the printer straight away :) That said, its a fine machine and jsut keeps on printing, even after it was thrown off the back of a lorry........
Whoot, all that spam about penis enlargements must have worked!! Oh, wait........
Thats what ive got, white books with simple illustrations on em in a box set. On the spine of each book is a number, and TMN is 1.
Auuuh come on, they were built as home computers for kids :) If they can survive me and a thousand other kids screaming at it for the 10000th time after it moans about "syntax error", im sure it can survive a slashdotti.... oh there it goes, ignore me.
Your point is? They wrote back to the future 2 first as well, i jsut dont think it would make any sense to have it as the first movie :)
the publishers in their 'infinite wisdom' :P have rearranged the series so "The Magican's Nephew" is the first book in the series.
Erm, i dunno when u mean they did this, but in the collection i have always read, The Magicians Nephew has always been the first book (and this is going back 15 years). So unless it wasnt done recently, ill say the order i read them in made perfect sense, as the nephew turns out to be the old man who owns the wardrobe.
Why oh why do they always do "The lion, witch and wardrobe" first??? Why cant someone do the first one and show that theres more to narnia than that world. The Magicians Nephew adds a whole lot of back story to narnia, and shows just WHY theres a lampost in the middle of a forest :)
As a kid, i really enjoyed the books, and the BBC films, although dreadful now, were jsut right for a 10 yearold. Unfortunatly they seemed to be a bit selective as to which ones they chose, leaving out the first book and the last book. Both of these books are brilliant, SO PLEASE DO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!
A lot of the time its down to the people who use that api as well. API coders change something, add a new api call which supersedes a older api call, and deprecates the older one. people cant be bothered to change their code to use the new call, so generally use the old call untill someone notices its not being used anymore in newer OS versions.
its calledc a intranet.....
Also, notice this is almost EXACLTY the same information that xp asks you to send to microsoft when a application crashes. chances are it will mean something to them, and they can use it to maybe fix something, so jsut send the report off :)
Everyone bashes MS for the instability of their programs and operating systems, but how many of those same people send a report in when something crashes? not many i bet you.
As you state, this automatic rebooting can be turned off. What u get after is whats called a stop message. Basically you get a bunch of information which probably means little to someone who isnt trained to understand it.
:)
I have forced stop errors a few times to check the stability of win2k, and i can say its a lot better than kernel panics in linux
I guess they`re finally plugging the analogue hole...........
Using proprietary software even if it is free, "Free" or what ever still leaves you dependent.
Oh pllllllluuuueeeessseee. Your killing me. What company really has the required skill set to take a OSS project and alter it to their own needs? id say relativly few. So they are still tied in to that proprietory system. Only now they are at the whim of a few hundred thousand coders who seem to change stuff in OSS projects at a whim (the linux 2.4 VM change...). Something gets changed, and you can do 1 of 2 things:
1. Stick where they are and live with the odler version 2. upgrade to the latest version
Kinda the same situation now isnt it? only now the economy suffers as noone is buying software. I can really think of only one tool that can get into a corporate arena with any force, and thats openoffice. other tools jsut seem kinda amaturish.
Dont get me wrong, i like OSS, jsut dont say "oooh piracy is advocated in the OSS arena" which is essentially waht u are saying.
Id say this is a damn good point of view. And it may jsut go the way of the software vendors as well. Get students to train on your software, and you have them for life. Or untill a fat penguin beats them up on a dark night :)
But then again, i bet the software vendors fight them on this, and i can understand why. If it becomes free for educational purposes, then when will it become free for non profit use? inhouse company training? Home office work? Where does it stop? And please dont say "use linux". People will deem whatever is best for them the stuff to buy.
OK, nice one. Still a few problems. i dont envisage my sales team being easily able to send out tender quotes using tex :) Still, worth a look.
And XML is as good as a .doc? nice idea, but no potatoes. XML is good for chucking a lot of pure data around between sources, but its shite for actual document usage.
Now, if the company would use profits from XBox sales to subsidize a copylefted, up-to-date port for GNU systems, I'd be all for it.
.doc format, then i swear ill do my best to switch the company i work for over to it. So far i havent. And i doubt i will. Know why? The file format that opensource applications seem to live on is plain txt, which is next to useless for companies. Sure .doc has virus problems, but take certain security precautions and they go away. I havent had a virus attack on any machine i have ever had control over in the past 5 years. Infact ive had more issues with remote holes in linux boxes than viruses.
Auuuh diddums, my heart bleeds. Why the hell should a company, you know, one of those things set up to make money, subsidise anything? I can bet that if they did subsidise a port, they wouldnt make their money back, as the linux market jsut isnt there, and isnt likely to be there for many years to come.
Also, why is advocating the production of a game on one platform helping our ruin??? im sorry but i didnt see "Property of a fat penguin" stamped on Slashdot anywhere. Yes, some people might not like Microsoft, but that doesnt mean we should stop reporting on stuff happening.
And, if you didnt notice, id have only donated code in such a way to destroy older engines, so companies only license newer engines from them at probably a much greater price.
Also, is it jsut me noticing stuff that doesnt exist, or are more and more people advocating linux and OSS soley on the basis that its costless (ie, costs no money for licenses)? And these same people are moaning that more companies should "donate" their applications to the movement? Oh and exactly the same people moan that functionality in OSS isnt the same as closed stuff?
If anyone, ANYONE can show me a OSS compliant document format that even approaches the usefull ness of the
Have u not seen amiga os xl then? workbench crosscompiled for the x86 (ok, with a touch of emulation in to boot :))
A Google search of my own for "brvread" reveals no information in the first few pages other than that port 1054 is assigned to brvread for either TCP or UDP.
............. :P
Your point is? Thats what the "well known port" lsit says usually uses that port, doesnt mean thats whats actually using it. It can be anything, and usually is considering a lot of people run stuff on non standard ports.
Get over it, it wasnt long ago that bitchx and irssi was sending stuff home
doesnt linux have the largest chunk of the server market?
depends which server market you are talking about.
I guess thats the problem with using teenagers as subjects, the results become invalid as soon as they pass through puberty :)
i think those are waiting for Duke Nuken Forever to be ported to Linux....
And it takes someone with a slightly different outlook to see Quake and think "build world" instead of "frag llamas".
And that would be your average *bsd-er........