IE is hellishly stable and fast, and has been since 5.0. So wtf are you talking about? If you're going to point out its weaknesses, point out real ones (like, I don't know, security issues?).
I've used Opera, and Opera is neither faster nor more stable than IE. That is an urband legend the MS haters like to tell each other without showing any facts to back it up, and flies in the face of the common sense of non-MS bashers who have run both browsers.
egcs and gcc are the same damn compiler. egcs is a fork of gcc.
It is common for different compilers to have their own header files. This isn't a Windows specific thing. Have you ever used a commercial compiler under UNIX? They generally have a different ABI and header files from gcc. There are a couple of minor exceptions, like Intel's C++ for Linux which tries to be gcc compatible..But they are the exception.
Who cares if 'IBM made it work'? IBM is in a fundamentally different market than Microsoft. IBM may as well be in the fish packaging market for all the differences there are between service & support of large iron and end-user software for the home and office.
The sad truth is Microsoft has nothing to gain monetarily from moving to Open Source, and since they are a corporation, money is all that really matters. I don't mean this in a bad way, its just the way it is. There's so many hurdles that Microsoft would have to overcome to make things OSS.
Consider how much their legal dept would get the sweats over a shareholder law suit if they OSS everything and the stock drops because nobody buys software anymore -- they just download the OSS Microsoft code and compile it!
And that's only ONE of thousands of problems. They also have the standard problem of using a lot of code licensed from other people, how do they deal with that? Even if they wanted to OSS their software because there was a good reason, it would cost the millions if not billions in legal fees and programmer time just to get rid of all the licensed code depedencies in their software!
In short, forget about it. Use your energy on something else.
Well the translations will probably work out about as well as the Japanese->English (Engrish) translations we've been seeing in videogames for the past 20 years... You know, the "All your base.." phenomenon.
XBOXs are a bit big for rack mounting, and they also aren't engineered to be turned on 24/7. You'd spend so much on cooling and space that its not worth the savings on the hardware..Moron!
As long as George Clinton walks the earth, the word funky is SOLID!
Prepare to get funkified!
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D-Dial didn't use multiple Apple systems, it used just a single system with a Galaticomm Extender board for all the modems.
And most people I knew used BBSes and chat systems (like D-Dial), I don't remember much anomosity between these groups.
And while I do feel a bit nostalgic for some aspects of the 'old days' of BBSing, the Internet as it stands now is much much better. If you look around, you can still find small web communities to join. They aren't all crammed with 100,000k or more members like Slashdot.
Yes, the GF4Go (which is really a GeForce 2 in disguise) is a good chip for current generation games, but RTCW isn't using things like pixelshaders..And there's the rub. All of the fancy lighting on Doom III uses pixelshaders, GF3 and above (as far as NVidia chip goes)...
So in reality, while your laptop WILL run Doom3, its going to use the GeForce 2 code-path, so you're not going to get the pretty realtime lighting and the bumpmap on every surface, and you're going to get about 15 FPS if you're lucky even on very low detail (read: ugly ugly graphics).
I'm about the same (I don't touch type but I dont need to look either) but I can go about 90 WPM with very few errors if I actually go for speed. But as you said, other than writing first posts and other trolls on Slashdot, there's not much point, the thinking part of coding (should, if you aren't a jackass kludge master) is much more time consuming than the actual typing involved...And I don't do any dictation or anything like that, so...
I've been using keyboards daily since my C64 back in 1983. I'm 28, have been a professional programmer for 7 1/2 years (so average of about 7 hours of day typing), never had an RSI issue -- don't know if its just luck or due to having an 'odd' typing style. The only downside is when I use someone else's system or get a new keyboard if the keys are of even a moderate (but noticable) difference in size it takes me a bit to adjust and type well.
By dual licencing under the LGPL and GPL (not to mention MPL) those who develop derivitive works can decide whether to use the LGPL, GPL or MPL for their project.
So say I create an offshoot of Mozilla called Boozila, I can pick the LGPL license for this project, which means anyone who derives from my work must abide by the LGPL (or they can go use the original Mozilla source minus my changes and use GPL, or MPL..up to them!).
In essence, it gives developers a bit of a choice over which licenses they want to support while using the codebase...They are free to choose GPL, LGPL or MPL.
The reason you can buy it today is they released it early because they were afraid of the rampant piracy of this CD on the net. Its been available for download for about 2 weeks now. It was supposed to be released in June but they decided to release it on Sunday before everyone and his mother had downloaded it from the net, or at least realized they could...
The New York Times today (read it in paper, dunno if they have posted it online) had a mini-review of the album and they mentioned they had pushed up the CD release by more than a week because of the wide-scale piracy of the CD on the net. They also mentioned how in LA it has been really "hip" to blast the new album out of your car, since it was a pre-release and all.
If the album sales are a disappointment, the shit's gonna hit the fan in one way or another...It will be interesting to see what happens.
There's two versions of the Intellimouse Explorer. I believe the larger one is labelled the "Pro" version. The normal one is pretty much normal mouse size... The "Pro" is without a doubt much larger than both the normal version and most mice in general. Luckily, you have a choice as to which you want to buy.
How can you bring up 9/11 in this discussion with a straight face, Katz?
Both of these movies were long done with principal photography by 9/11/01. Spider-Man is a better movie because it inserted a couple of pro-American "If you're not with us New Yorkers you're against us" scenes?
What should Lucas have done, added a scene where the Sith fly a speeder into the Jedi temple tower?
I'm not taking any sides here in the movie debate.. I liked both of thesem movies, and unlike Jon I don't think box office equates in any way to how good a movie is (yes Jon, this is the argument you are making..try reading your own writing and you'll see it). Is Titanic really that great of a movie? By Jon's logic it is..
Seriously, Katz, doesn't journalistic integrity mean anything to you anymore?
Both of these are highly commercial movies with dubious acting and a ridiculous amount of special effects shots.
Both of these cost a bundle to make. Spider-man cost MORE to make than Attack of the Clones.
Spider-Man spent MORE on marketing than Attack of the Clones.
I see Spider-Man marketing all over the place, including stupid ads for Carls Jr. Is this really any less of a sellout than Lucas/SW?
When Spider-Man #3 comes out (and if the movies keep making anywhere near this much this much money, it will), Katz will be one of the elitests crying about what sellouts Raimi and Maguire are, bet on it.
There's nothing to see here. As usual Katz is reading a lot more into something than actually exists.
I'm personally hoping that someone decides to be really bold and take a lot of the original ideas for Warcraft III that got scrapped and make a game that includes them. RPG and adventure elements in an FPS would be a very good thing, and now some great tools are out there to do it.
Eh? It took them this many years to get the engine up to the Warcraft II stage... Its not like you can go and implement those Warcraft III features in a weekend with this engine...It would require years more effort by multiple coders....I won't even get into the art requirements..this is just on the coding side.
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I've used Opera, and Opera is neither faster nor more stable than IE. That is an urband legend the MS haters like to tell each other without showing any facts to back it up, and flies in the face of the common sense of non-MS bashers who have run both browsers.
I'm glad this investigation was dropped.
Everyone knows hackers are evil law-breakers, no better than a common terrorist.
It is common for different compilers to have their own header files. This isn't a Windows specific thing. Have you ever used a commercial compiler under UNIX? They generally have a different ABI and header files from gcc. There are a couple of minor exceptions, like Intel's C++ for Linux which tries to be gcc compatible..But they are the exception.
The sad truth is Microsoft has nothing to gain monetarily from moving to Open Source, and since they are a corporation, money is all that really matters. I don't mean this in a bad way, its just the way it is. There's so many hurdles that Microsoft would have to overcome to make things OSS.
Consider how much their legal dept would get the sweats over a shareholder law suit if they OSS everything and the stock drops because nobody buys software anymore -- they just download the OSS Microsoft code and compile it!
And that's only ONE of thousands of problems. They also have the standard problem of using a lot of code licensed from other people, how do they deal with that? Even if they wanted to OSS their software because there was a good reason, it would cost the millions if not billions in legal fees and programmer time just to get rid of all the licensed code depedencies in their software!
In short, forget about it. Use your energy on something else.
Well the translations will probably work out about as well as the Japanese->English (Engrish) translations we've been seeing in videogames for the past 20 years... You know, the "All your base.." phenomenon.
XBOXs are a bit big for rack mounting, and they also aren't engineered to be turned on 24/7. You'd spend so much on cooling and space that its not worth the savings on the hardware..Moron!
As long as George Clinton walks the earth, the word funky is SOLID!
Prepare to get funkified!
And most people I knew used BBSes and chat systems (like D-Dial), I don't remember much anomosity between these groups.
And while I do feel a bit nostalgic for some aspects of the 'old days' of BBSing, the Internet as it stands now is much much better. If you look around, you can still find small web communities to join. They aren't all crammed with 100,000k or more members like Slashdot.
Hello RMS's mom.
Yes, the GF4Go (which is really a GeForce 2 in disguise) is a good chip for current generation games, but RTCW isn't using things like pixelshaders..And there's the rub. All of the fancy lighting on Doom III uses pixelshaders, GF3 and above (as far as NVidia chip goes)...
So in reality, while your laptop WILL run Doom3, its going to use the GeForce 2 code-path, so you're not going to get the pretty realtime lighting and the bumpmap on every surface, and you're going to get about 15 FPS if you're lucky even on very low detail (read: ugly ugly graphics).
Sorry.
Fuck you asshole.
I've been using keyboards daily since my C64 back in 1983. I'm 28, have been a professional programmer for 7 1/2 years (so average of about 7 hours of day typing), never had an RSI issue -- don't know if its just luck or due to having an 'odd' typing style. The only downside is when I use someone else's system or get a new keyboard if the keys are of even a moderate (but noticable) difference in size it takes me a bit to adjust and type well.
This is Slashdot...Just because something is mentioned in the article writeup doesn't mean anyone is sure of it.
So say I create an offshoot of Mozilla called Boozila, I can pick the LGPL license for this project, which means anyone who derives from my work must abide by the LGPL (or they can go use the original Mozilla source minus my changes and use GPL, or MPL..up to them!).
In essence, it gives developers a bit of a choice over which licenses they want to support while using the codebase...They are free to choose GPL, LGPL or MPL.
Heh, Cameroonian.
This is great news because I like computer chips.
The reason you can buy it today is they released it early because they were afraid of the rampant piracy of this CD on the net. Its been available for download for about 2 weeks now. It was supposed to be released in June but they decided to release it on Sunday before everyone and his mother had downloaded it from the net, or at least realized they could...
If the album sales are a disappointment, the shit's gonna hit the fan in one way or another...It will be interesting to see what happens.
There's two versions of the Intellimouse Explorer. I believe the larger one is labelled the "Pro" version. The normal one is pretty much normal mouse size... The "Pro" is without a doubt much larger than both the normal version and most mice in general. Luckily, you have a choice as to which you want to buy.
You cheap bastard.
Get over it...Learn Windows!! Its the FUTURE!!
Both of these movies were long done with principal photography by 9/11/01. Spider-Man is a better movie because it inserted a couple of pro-American "If you're not with us New Yorkers you're against us" scenes?
What should Lucas have done, added a scene where the Sith fly a speeder into the Jedi temple tower?
I'm not taking any sides here in the movie debate.. I liked both of thesem movies, and unlike Jon I don't think box office equates in any way to how good a movie is (yes Jon, this is the argument you are making..try reading your own writing and you'll see it). Is Titanic really that great of a movie? By Jon's logic it is..
Seriously, Katz, doesn't journalistic integrity mean anything to you anymore?
Both of these cost a bundle to make. Spider-man cost MORE to make than Attack of the Clones.
Spider-Man spent MORE on marketing than Attack of the Clones.
I see Spider-Man marketing all over the place, including stupid ads for Carls Jr. Is this really any less of a sellout than Lucas/SW?
When Spider-Man #3 comes out (and if the movies keep making anywhere near this much this much money, it will), Katz will be one of the elitests crying about what sellouts Raimi and Maguire are, bet on it.
There's nothing to see here. As usual Katz is reading a lot more into something than actually exists.
Eh? It took them this many years to get the engine up to the Warcraft II stage... Its not like you can go and implement those Warcraft III features in a weekend with this engine...It would require years more effort by multiple coders....I won't even get into the art requirements..this is just on the coding side.