To be pedantic, that is supposed to be an upgrade disc.
To be pedantic, you're just plain wrong. I want you to show me where it says "Upgrade" when describing the disk anywhere on the packaging or license. "Must be installed on Apple hardware" doesn't translate to "upgrade" (no matter how much you torture the phrase) since it doesn't state I need to have a previous copy of a license.
No disagreement about a VCS, although I doubt a DVCS is necessary. Google Docs includes a micro VCS in its revision system. There should be something besides e-mailing around documents, though, no matter whether it's checking out or on-line collab. E-mail's just a sucky way to handle it.
I'm really pretty tired of the "Beta" card sysadmins keep pulling out WRT Google. I demand a link that proves that the corporate version (i.e. the paid-for version) of Google Docs is a beta. I have looked. I haven't found it. You apparently know something that I don't. Pony up the proof.
Strangely, my paid-for Google Docs account doesn't say "Beta" anywhere. I guess it must be only the free version that's beta. Shock! No other company does that.::rollseyes::
While the Google Docs suite is pretty limited, I managed to stay on it and a few other odd web services exclusively for thirty days without many problems. It just takes some (pretty serious) change in your work-flow. There are also some real advantages over local work. The OS is Dead.
Firefox was originally a private project called Phoenix which wasn't sanctioned by Mozilla. Mozilla didn't decide to rewrite anything.
Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.
The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server's development community forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simply Firefox. Mozilla prefers Firefox to be abbreviated as Fx or fx, though it is often abbreviated as FF.[1]
Just because you use the "beta" version of their software doesn't mean that there's not a release available -- it just doesn't have the same features. Google does have paid for services in addition to the free ones, or didn't you know that?
I enjoyed the first few episodes before the studio tried to mainstream it too much. Those episodes were too geeky to be popular. In fact, the pilot opens with a joke about wave / particle duality. There are also several jokes early on about string theory that run like:
What's new in physics?
Nothing new has really happened in the last fifty years, unless you count string theory, and just about all you can say about that is "Oooh! Look! My math is internally consistent."
There's also an entire episode devoted to Schroedinger's cat.That kind of material is far enough into science that the listener probably needed to at least pay attention in freshman physics to get the joke. No prime-time show at that level can survive. As proof, my extremely bright friend who is a comm. arts major didn't get the pilot's jokes at all. He didn't understand the material and he didn't have any experience with geeks outside of me.
The blonde was originally just a device so that the nerds have to talk in a language comprehensible by normal folk.
If there were a "What Bing Bang character are you?" quiz, I'd be Howard.
So many projects would be so much better if your legacy dated language wasn't chosen. Yeah, I'm looking at you Linux and GTK. Writing a successful GUI program in C is just as ridiculous and time consuming as it gets.
This is probably why Gnome recommends writing new apps in Vala, which are later translated into... ahem... C before being compiled.
I really enjoyed the first few episodes of "The Big Bang Theory" (until they went more mainstream) for the same reason I love Slashdot humor. I tried to show the series to a Comm. Arts major / friend of mine, and he just stared at me while I rolled on the floor laughing.
You can drag an icon to AWN to add it. If you want an app from the menu, you'll have to "add to desktop" then drag and drop or find it in the filesystem.
You hit the nail on the head. Thailand made almost the same decree some six years ago for its government computers. They needed to appear tough on piracy for some reason.
MS didn't want that, so came in, offered to "legitimize" all the government's MS operating systems (by giving them free Win98), then signed a huge contract with Thailand over it. The FOSS movement went away.
Whatever motivated the first declaration (to move to FOSS) also went away, because Thailand immediately went back to being a hotbed of piracy.
It's a headline. It has its own particular grammar. There are no articles in headlines so the "a" is dropped. Other peculiarities of headline grammar include using the infinitive to indicate future, the general lack of a be verb, simple present to indicate past, past to indicate passive voice, and present progressive to indicate change.
In short, no headline would be written the way you want it to, and no one who regularly reads headlines would interpret the way you did. The four people who modded you up were wrong.
I could have modded you back down, but I chose to correct you, instead.
Not trying to argue a point. I'm not a programmer and can't make any valid comments. I just thought you might be interested in the Braid programmer's problems WRT programming on Linux since you seemed knowledgeable on the subject.
What I find unbelievable and amazing is that Linux wrote the first version of Git in about a week as just a qick fix to the BitKeeper problem, then Git went on to be a major player in the VSC world. Heck, it may be the leader in DVCSes.
The guy appears to be primarily a Mac developer. His older games include ones for Mac Classic and his minimum specs list "G3" and "G4." I'm guessing that he does OGL.
I was looking for a coding rant I read in the summer about SDL and audio insufficiencies so that I could point you to it, but you'll have to settle for what I found instead. Take a look at this... and I found what I was looking for. Make sure to read the comments on Braid for the real info. A Loki programmer even says SDL isinadequate for audio.
Getting a supported version of the game with a Wine wrapper would be a step in the right direction. Anything is better than "If you can make it work, then I won't or might not sue you or break it with a patch," which is what we've got now.
Really, his point was that targeting platforms with small market share give you a lot more exposure and increases sales in other, more popular platforms due to that exposure.
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To be pedantic, that is supposed to be an upgrade disc.
To be pedantic, you're just plain wrong. I want you to show me where it says "Upgrade" when describing the disk anywhere on the packaging or license. "Must be installed on Apple hardware" doesn't translate to "upgrade" (no matter how much you torture the phrase) since it doesn't state I need to have a previous copy of a license.
No disagreement about a VCS, although I doubt a DVCS is necessary. Google Docs includes a micro VCS in its revision system. There should be something besides e-mailing around documents, though, no matter whether it's checking out or on-line collab. E-mail's just a sucky way to handle it.
I'm really pretty tired of the "Beta" card sysadmins keep pulling out WRT Google. I demand a link that proves that the corporate version (i.e. the paid-for version) of Google Docs is a beta. I have looked. I haven't found it. You apparently know something that I don't. Pony up the proof.
Strangely, my paid-for Google Docs account doesn't say "Beta" anywhere. I guess it must be only the free version that's beta. Shock! No other company does that. ::rollseyes::
Here's a video explanation of why you shouldn't e-mail documents. I completely agree with it. Creating twenty-five copies of the same document at various revisions is an error-prone habit.
While the Google Docs suite is pretty limited, I managed to stay on it and a few other odd web services exclusively for thirty days without many problems. It just takes some (pretty serious) change in your work-flow. There are also some real advantages over local work. The OS is Dead.
Firefox was originally a private project called Phoenix which wasn't sanctioned by Mozilla. Mozilla didn't decide to rewrite anything.
Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.
The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server's development community forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simply Firefox. Mozilla prefers Firefox to be abbreviated as Fx or fx, though it is often abbreviated as FF.[1]
Just because you use the "beta" version of their software doesn't mean that there's not a release available -- it just doesn't have the same features. Google does have paid for services in addition to the free ones, or didn't you know that?
I enjoyed the first few episodes before the studio tried to mainstream it too much. Those episodes were too geeky to be popular. In fact, the pilot opens with a joke about wave / particle duality. There are also several jokes early on about string theory that run like:
What's new in physics?
Nothing new has really happened in the last fifty years, unless you count string theory, and just about all you can say about that is "Oooh! Look! My math is internally consistent."
There's also an entire episode devoted to Schroedinger's cat.That kind of material is far enough into science that the listener probably needed to at least pay attention in freshman physics to get the joke. No prime-time show at that level can survive. As proof, my extremely bright friend who is a comm. arts major didn't get the pilot's jokes at all. He didn't understand the material and he didn't have any experience with geeks outside of me.
The blonde was originally just a device so that the nerds have to talk in a language comprehensible by normal folk.
If there were a "What Bing Bang character are you?" quiz, I'd be Howard.
So many projects would be so much better if your legacy dated language wasn't chosen. Yeah, I'm looking at you Linux and GTK. Writing a successful GUI program in C is just as ridiculous and time consuming as it gets.
This is probably why Gnome recommends writing new apps in Vala, which are later translated into ... ahem ... C before being compiled.
I really enjoyed the first few episodes of "The Big Bang Theory" (until they went more mainstream) for the same reason I love Slashdot humor. I tried to show the series to a Comm. Arts major / friend of mine, and he just stared at me while I rolled on the floor laughing.
You can drag an icon to AWN to add it. If you want an app from the menu, you'll have to "add to desktop" then drag and drop or find it in the filesystem.
Your TV needs to be on and connected without a monitor. I set up MythTV this way a few times.
Oh, and the Eee Keyboard reminds me of my old Tandy Model I, but I remember the Ataris and Commodores, too (though I didn't have them).
Too bad you missed my list of stupidities for 2008. Chin up. Maybe you'll make 2009.
When you go for "standards," though, and let MS dictate, you end up with ODF that doesn't conform to ISO/IEC 26300:2006.
You hit the nail on the head. Thailand made almost the same decree some six years ago for its government computers. They needed to appear tough on piracy for some reason.
MS didn't want that, so came in, offered to "legitimize" all the government's MS operating systems (by giving them free Win98), then signed a huge contract with Thailand over it. The FOSS movement went away.
Whatever motivated the first declaration (to move to FOSS) also went away, because Thailand immediately went back to being a hotbed of piracy.
It's a headline. It has its own particular grammar. There are no articles in headlines so the "a" is dropped. Other peculiarities of headline grammar include using the infinitive to indicate future, the general lack of a be verb, simple present to indicate past, past to indicate passive voice, and present progressive to indicate change.
In short, no headline would be written the way you want it to, and no one who regularly reads headlines would interpret the way you did. The four people who modded you up were wrong.
I could have modded you back down, but I chose to correct you, instead.
Not your fault. I wasn't clear, and everything on Slashdot is an argument unless stated otherwise. ;)
Not trying to argue a point. I'm not a programmer and can't make any valid comments. I just thought you might be interested in the Braid programmer's problems WRT programming on Linux since you seemed knowledgeable on the subject.
What I find unbelievable and amazing is that Linux wrote the first version of Git in about a week as just a qick fix to the BitKeeper problem, then Git went on to be a major player in the VSC world. Heck, it may be the leader in DVCSes.
Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
The guy appears to be primarily a Mac developer. His older games include ones for Mac Classic and his minimum specs list "G3" and "G4." I'm guessing that he does OGL.
I was looking for a coding rant I read in the summer about SDL and audio insufficiencies so that I could point you to it, but you'll have to settle for what I found instead. Take a look at this ... and I found what I was looking for. Make sure to read the comments on Braid for the real info. A Loki programmer even says SDL isinadequate for audio.
Getting a supported version of the game with a Wine wrapper would be a step in the right direction. Anything is better than "If you can make it work, then I won't or might not sue you or break it with a patch," which is what we've got now.
Apparently, Mac-heads are crazy for bunnies.
Really, his point was that targeting platforms with small market share give you a lot more exposure and increases sales in other, more popular platforms due to that exposure.
I don't think you would have guessed that.