I also did a lot of work on the TRS-80 when I was in junior high
I actually had a TRS-80 Model I in my room all through high school. My father had foresight enough to see the home computer revolution before it happened. I believe that he wanted to be part of it, but the Model I was so "user friendly" that he could never figure out how to use it and asked me to write the programs to do the things that he wanted done.
I ran it in Wine on Linux, and got the same framerate as Windows users, and I didn't even have to pay for Cedega! Progress Quest rocks, because it gets rids of that unnecessary tedium when playing a low (or even high) level character in an MMORPG (the single-player mode is equally exciting, as well). I am addicted and have this game running for days on end!
You can say that (and I use OO.o a lot, too), but I really think that Gnome and KDE's office products would be a lot further along if OO.o weren't in the picture. Much of the rapid development that was happening to bring KOffice along went quiet when OO.o was released, if I remember correctly. I love OO.o, but I sometimes wonder if we would now have a significantly lighter, "cleaner" office suite had OO.o not dropped into the picture when it had.
For Sun, the company, it probably is about whether it's a good financial move for them or not, wouldn't you agree. Since they're the ones making the decision, and not the developers, about whether to move OO.o or not, I expect that marketing will weigh in heavily.
It's kind of my point that they really can't keep the current license and still sell StarOffice, because they wouldn't be able to take code which isn't theirs and relicense it. They would have to move OO.o to a BSD-style license to still sell StarOffice, right? And that would alienate a large number of developers who prefer the (L)GPL. Sun would also be seeing numerous, virtually identical competing offerings from other companies (e.g. IBM). I just don't see the motivation for Sun to do this. When Mozilla was cut loose, it looked to me to be a way to cut developer salaries, and since the Netscape brand was pretty much defunct (and free!) anyway, there was nofinancial disincentive to move Mozilla into its own org. StarOffice is, as far as I can tell, making "some" money for Sun, still, and is an up-and-comer, not a has-been. My two won (SKW).
How could Sun then relicense the program for sale as StarOffice? In my understanding, the Mozilla foundation can continue to operate on its own while Netscape Navigator is released because of the MPL license, but OO.o is under the LGPL, and Sun requires all submissions to be signed over to the company so that the program can be dual-licensed. How would this work if OO.o became its own Org, like Mozilla. I don't see it happening unless Sun gives up the StarOffice brand.
Thanks for clearing that up. After I realized that freedesktop.org was heavily involved, I figured that Jim McQuillan wouldn't stand for a setup that wasn't thin-client friendly. Good to hear, though.
What it means is that neither of my laptops (running the SIS 513 video chip series) will be able to deal with anything. Heck, glxgears gets a whopping 2-3 frames per second on this chip.
On another note, I wonder what impact this will have on remote X use: Will old clients still be able to connect and Xgl go ununsed if 3d acceleration is not available?
For what its worth, my copy of SAMS Gimp in 24 hours, which is based on Gimp1.0 and published in 1999, mentions on page 23 (in "A Word about Unix and File Format Extensions") says "So if... you have a GIF file named picture.jpg, you can still easily open it in GIMP.... It does this more or less by looking at the file data itself, not at the filename." I think that you were just jacked up somewhere in the past, because GIMP has been that way for as long as I've been using Linux (c.1997?).
I'm confused. Is it your assertion that Amazon is doing this now with another service, or that Google is doing this and Amazon will "set $100 thresholds and then claim click fraud and shut your account when you're near that threshold too"? My gut says the second, based on what you've said, but something about the tone tells me that you're already angry at Amazon.
That's interesting to know, and I had to look up what CDMA meant. I'm surprised to find out that it's the foundation for 3G, since I didn't think Koreans needed high speed networks if the only thing they did with their phones was text messaging.;)
Just travel to Thailand -- they'll reprogram your IMEI ("Imi" to them). It's a huge business because people there buy cheap phones in return for a 1-2 year contract, don't pay the contract and want to use the phone with a pre-paid SIM. The phone is locked out of the network, though, so these people go to have the IMEI changed through software. You would think that the PM would crack down on this, being the billionaire head of Shin Corp.
Interestingly, I have a cell phone from Thailand which I can't use in Korea, because the Korean phones don't use SIMs. If you want to buy a new pphone here, you have to get a new number, because it's hardcoded in the phone or something. I find it very strange.
3. Can we please slurp the functionality from the file command to identify files by content as well as by extension? Making assumptions about file contents by extension was never universally popular, even in the Windows 3.x days.
3a. Seriously, not depending on file extensions will make handling image files with multiple data streams easier in the near future. Real digital cameras can output single files with JPEG, TIFF and RAW data.
I totally don't understand this statement. You can mis-name the extension of a file in Gimp (or even not give it one at all) and it will automatically sort out what the file is by type, just as most unixy programs do. It works no matter what. In Windows, however, file extensions are and were the main way to determine file type. AFAIK, it continues the tradition to this day.
That near every subset of commands can be 'torn off' as a floating toolbar?
What the hell does this have to do with anything? Actually, now that I think of it, it does have something to do with the problem since these floating toolbars don't - they sink right to bloody bottom of the window stack and you have to go hunting for the bastards (this doesn't happen in an MDI interface by the way).
I guess that This means that you're using Windows? It's window manager is exactly the reason why MDIs caught on there in the first place.
Sounds like a personal anecdote to me. Hmmmm. A cat, you say?
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But why have monsters respawn? Why would you create a world where things keep getting killed and reappear in the same place, then expect some kind of realism to spring out of that initial, insane decision?
I posted recently about something like this, and would love to see it. Try to model weather as accurately as possible, then the system will change when some mage calls down a hail storm. The amount of the gold is relatively fixed in the game, yes, but so are many other things. Someone can choose to become a baker, but he'll never own his own land or make enough to travel anywhere that way. Someone can decide to adventure for a living, but the odds of survival are dismal. Even if you become successful, suddenly people are after you for your money, for prestige, for revenge, or whatever. I would love it.
Famines throughout the world, terrible storms, and evil barbarian hordes destroying entire cities for no apparent reason. If the world gets out of balance for some reason, there is a rectifying event -- a Pompei or Sodom -- to get the game back into line. Sure, some innocent people will die, but innocent people die by the thousands in every good fantasy book. Players will just need to get used to starting characters over and over again.
I would just like to see some consitency on the part of the U.S. gov't. If you allow late-term abortions, then you can't prosecute a drunk driver for manslaughter of a third-trimester fetus. Choose one and stick with it.
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I also did a lot of work on the TRS-80 when I was in junior high
I actually had a TRS-80 Model I in my room all through high school. My father had foresight enough to see the home computer revolution before it happened. I believe that he wanted to be part of it, but the Model I was so "user friendly" that he could never figure out how to use it and asked me to write the programs to do the things that he wanted done.
That, of course requires the obligatory link.
OneCare makes the baby Care Bears cry.
I ran it in Wine on Linux, and got the same framerate as Windows users, and I didn't even have to pay for Cedega! Progress Quest rocks, because it gets rids of that unnecessary tedium when playing a low (or even high) level character in an MMORPG (the single-player mode is equally exciting, as well). I am addicted and have this game running for days on end!
The Earth doesn't really go around the Sun, it's just that the math is easier if you use that point of reference. Free your mind, dude.
You can say that (and I use OO.o a lot, too), but I really think that Gnome and KDE's office products would be a lot further along if OO.o weren't in the picture. Much of the rapid development that was happening to bring KOffice along went quiet when OO.o was released, if I remember correctly. I love OO.o, but I sometimes wonder if we would now have a significantly lighter, "cleaner" office suite had OO.o not dropped into the picture when it had.
For Sun, the company, it probably is about whether it's a good financial move for them or not, wouldn't you agree. Since they're the ones making the decision, and not the developers, about whether to move OO.o or not, I expect that marketing will weigh in heavily.
It's kind of my point that they really can't keep the current license and still sell StarOffice, because they wouldn't be able to take code which isn't theirs and relicense it. They would have to move OO.o to a BSD-style license to still sell StarOffice, right? And that would alienate a large number of developers who prefer the (L)GPL. Sun would also be seeing numerous, virtually identical competing offerings from other companies (e.g. IBM). I just don't see the motivation for Sun to do this. When Mozilla was cut loose, it looked to me to be a way to cut developer salaries, and since the Netscape brand was pretty much defunct (and free!) anyway, there was nofinancial disincentive to move Mozilla into its own org. StarOffice is, as far as I can tell, making "some" money for Sun, still, and is an up-and-comer, not a has-been. My two won (SKW).
How could Sun then relicense the program for sale as StarOffice? In my understanding, the Mozilla foundation can continue to operate on its own while Netscape Navigator is released because of the MPL license, but OO.o is under the LGPL, and Sun requires all submissions to be signed over to the company so that the program can be dual-licensed. How would this work if OO.o became its own Org, like Mozilla. I don't see it happening unless Sun gives up the StarOffice brand.
Thanks for clearing that up. After I realized that freedesktop.org was heavily involved, I figured that Jim McQuillan wouldn't stand for a setup that wasn't thin-client friendly. Good to hear, though.
What it means is that neither of my laptops (running the SIS 513 video chip series) will be able to deal with anything. Heck, glxgears gets a whopping 2-3 frames per second on this chip.
On another note, I wonder what impact this will have on remote X use: Will old clients still be able to connect and Xgl go ununsed if 3d acceleration is not available?
For what its worth, my copy of SAMS Gimp in 24 hours, which is based on Gimp1.0 and published in 1999, mentions on page 23 (in "A Word about Unix and File Format Extensions") says "So if ... you have a GIF file named picture.jpg, you can still easily open it in GIMP. ... It does this more or less by looking at the file data itself, not at the filename." I think that you were just jacked up somewhere in the past, because GIMP has been that way for as long as I've been using Linux (c.1997?).
I'm confused. Is it your assertion that Amazon is doing this now with another service, or that Google is doing this and Amazon will "set $100 thresholds and then claim click fraud and shut your account when you're near that threshold too"? My gut says the second, based on what you've said, but something about the tone tells me that you're already angry at Amazon.
That's interesting to know, and I had to look up what CDMA meant. I'm surprised to find out that it's the foundation for 3G, since I didn't think Koreans needed high speed networks if the only thing they did with their phones was text messaging. ;)
I don't actually believe this story, but if I did, it would be one of the greatest stories I knew, plastered on web page after web page.
Just travel to Thailand -- they'll reprogram your IMEI ("Imi" to them). It's a huge business because people there buy cheap phones in return for a 1-2 year contract, don't pay the contract and want to use the phone with a pre-paid SIM. The phone is locked out of the network, though, so these people go to have the IMEI changed through software. You would think that the PM would crack down on this, being the billionaire head of Shin Corp.
Interestingly, I have a cell phone from Thailand which I can't use in Korea, because the Korean phones don't use SIMs. If you want to buy a new pphone here, you have to get a new number, because it's hardcoded in the phone or something. I find it very strange.
Oh god! I can't believe that I wrote "it's." I'm going to kill myself.
Sounds like a personal anecdote to me. Hmmmm. A cat, you say?
But why have monsters respawn? Why would you create a world where things keep getting killed and reappear in the same place, then expect some kind of realism to spring out of that initial, insane decision?
I posted recently about something like this, and would love to see it. Try to model weather as accurately as possible, then the system will change when some mage calls down a hail storm. The amount of the gold is relatively fixed in the game, yes, but so are many other things. Someone can choose to become a baker, but he'll never own his own land or make enough to travel anywhere that way. Someone can decide to adventure for a living, but the odds of survival are dismal. Even if you become successful, suddenly people are after you for your money, for prestige, for revenge, or whatever. I would love it.
Famines throughout the world, terrible storms, and evil barbarian hordes destroying entire cities for no apparent reason. If the world gets out of balance for some reason, there is a rectifying event -- a Pompei or Sodom -- to get the game back into line. Sure, some innocent people will die, but innocent people die by the thousands in every good fantasy book. Players will just need to get used to starting characters over and over again.
That's why you need a special clan just for these low-rated, socially unacceptable characters. Let's call it Tri-Lam, eh?
So the guys who are already working like 100 hour weeks will have to do 105 now?
I would just like to see some consitency on the part of the U.S. gov't. If you allow late-term abortions, then you can't prosecute a drunk driver for manslaughter of a third-trimester fetus. Choose one and stick with it.