I was in a Future Shop here in North Vancouver the other day and there were a bunch just sitting there. I played with the demo for a bit, but I just can't get past the blocky graphics. No, this is not a troll; I guess I'm just not the target market, which is fine.
I assume that you have some expertise on the subject then - so as a climate scientist yourself, please explain how your findings and interpretation of the raw data demonstrate the implausibility of the IPCC findings. Cite references please, preferably your published papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Haha, I take it you are an old C64 user as well - I remember that sys call you gave! Amazing how these numbers stick in one's mind - there's also 53280, 53281, etc.
Well, you're right, if you're going to use Gnome, then KOffice won't be any better than OpenOffice. If you use KDE, it is (going to be) awesome. So: OpenOffice = slow to start on all platforms, KOffice = slow to start on one (very poor) desktop.
Not really sure, as I don't know the names of any of their system tools;) I guess cat any Freespire specific scripts and see if they are Haskell? On the other hand, if you aren't into programming or whatever, don't worry about it - I was just idly wondering.
I think one of the more interesting things about Linspire is that they apparently use Haskell for their system tools. Can anyone confirm this? If it's true, they clearly employ some interesting people.
Yes, I've run early alpha versions of KDE 4 apps on OS X. You can google for build instructions, but a word of warning - they are still in heavy development, so there will be problems. Simple apps like KEdit work fine though. After KDE 4 is released, there will be dedicated OS X builds for these apps and KOffice that will be simple to download and install.
Wait until the New Year, and give them a try;)
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I too wonder about this. I miss the old articles about how to hack this device or how these proposed changes to language X work. All of these RIAA articles, for instance, seem to pander to teenagers, while there are very few articles for technical people anymore.
Even though OSX will still be Unix, will they'll move away from BSD and toward Solaris?
I'm hoping not, since many things behave very oddly on Solaris. Non standard tools and such, but it would be one way to keep it from running on cracked PC's.
Hmm, my old W2K laptop still gets patches downloaded from MS via Windows Update every now and again. Does this count as support? Or were you referring to some kind of phone support?
You're right, but you have to understand how people get into the country. To make a long story short, the skilled-worker class lets in a bunch of people with certain approved skills. They cover the map from medicine to construction and beyond. But fully 50% of Canada's immigrants come in under the family class, which is a family reunification scheme that is severely broken. Finally, a huge number (particularly Chinese) come in as "refugees", using bogus claims filed by crooked consultants. See the latest issue of The Economist for more on the terrible Canadian refugee system.
The skilled-worker class, where we should be taking most of our immigrants, is therefore logjammed up and doesn't account for the majority of immigrants, who are most often unskilled people coming in under family class or bogus refugee claims.
Everyone knows the solution: fix family class so huge extended families, so common in Asia, cannot bring over everyone, and fix the refugee system to stop economic migrants from gaming it. But it is a huge political liability to piss off the immigrant vote, so nothing gets done, and Canada's skilled worker shortage continues.
The population of Canada is around 35 million, about the same as the state of California. I know it's too much to ask an American to have some sort of international awareness, even for their closest neighbour, trading partner, and largest oil source, so I'm not holding your doltish comment against you.
Or this quote: "America is like Canada. If you can't speak English, get the f**k out!" Makes perfect rational sense -- sorry, you're batting 0 so far. Expecting immigrants to learn the language is rational, even if it's not palatable.. In Canada, "the" language is English AND French. Lots of people can't speak English here. Your statement shows you have the same sort of international awareness as Nugent - that is, zero. And Canada shares a border with you! Okay, here's another question: is the border to the north, or to the south? It's okay, take your time.
You're right, you'd have to enforce this with some sort of process. But for systems that absolutely must not go down, it seems like a small price to pay.
I think it's worthwhile to point out you also say things like this:
"Kurt Gödel (how could I forget him?) is one of the gods of the voodoo science pantheon. Gödel is certainly the most often quoted yet inconsequential mathematician of the world. He is known for his incompleteness theorem, the most non-scientific, chicken-feather-voodoo nonsense ever penned by a member of the human species. In 1949, Gödel announced to the world that Einstein's general theory of relativity allows time travel to the past via "closed time-like curves." The only thing Gödel proved, in my opinion, was the incompleteness of his frontal lobe."
So your opinions are just so much loudmouthed nonsense.
I am in exactly the same boat as you. I want to buy a decent hdtv soon, mainly for watching movies, and it would be nice to be able to do some gaming as well. Exclusives and so forth mean nothing to me - I just want some fun games with detailed and absorbing graphics. And the price isn't super relevant either; as it stands, the PS3 is just over a day's work, not bad for something that will presumably give me years of enjoyment.
Haha, I suppose you are right about the 17 different ways. And don't forget about CreateThread, _beginthread, and _beginthreadex! I remember these giving me fits.
But as another poster pointed out, exec() isn't any better;) No interface is without cruft, I suppose, though the Win32 api is cruftier than most.
An interface is slow when it commonly requires chains of arcane data structures as parameters, and many Win32 API calls do just that. An interface is buggy when there are 17 ways to do something, each producing a slightly different result. Windows API developed both of these traits over the years, and I only pity Microsoft for that, not blame them. But here they are, with a junk Win32 API and with a newer.NET layer built on top of that. I'm aware of the shortcomings of the Win32 api, as I used to code with it extensively in the '90s when I actually programmed for the Windows platform, but I don't really understand your point. Passing in pointers to parameters, no matter how "arcane", isn't slow, nor is dereferencing them to get the values you need. Pretty much anything passed by value are just integers, like window handles and stuff. Or maybe you mean "slow" as in time-consuming to code, in which case I suppose I agree. As for the second complaint, do you have an example of this 17 different ways to do something, all with slightly different results? That would be cool to see.
Apt is available for.rpm packages, just as it's available for.deb packages on Debian-based distributions. The sizes of the repositories are comparable.
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I was in a Future Shop here in North Vancouver the other day and there were a bunch just sitting there. I played with the demo for a bit, but I just can't get past the blocky graphics. No, this is not a troll; I guess I'm just not the target market, which is fine.
Oh, it's much worse: http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/10/0821224
What a goofball.
I assume that you have some expertise on the subject then - so as a climate scientist yourself, please explain how your findings and interpretation of the raw data demonstrate the implausibility of the IPCC findings. Cite references please, preferably your published papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Well, I googled around and found this: http://urchin.earth.li/pipermail/debian-haskell/2006-May/000169.html So I guess they are using Haskell - what an interesting choice.
Haha, I take it you are an old C64 user as well - I remember that sys call you gave! Amazing how these numbers stick in one's mind - there's also 53280, 53281, etc.
Well, you're right, if you're going to use Gnome, then KOffice won't be any better than OpenOffice. If you use KDE, it is (going to be) awesome. So: OpenOffice = slow to start on all platforms, KOffice = slow to start on one (very poor) desktop.
Not really sure, as I don't know the names of any of their system tools ;) I guess cat any Freespire specific scripts and see if they are Haskell? On the other hand, if you aren't into programming or whatever, don't worry about it - I was just idly wondering.
I think one of the more interesting things about Linspire is that they apparently use Haskell for their system tools. Can anyone confirm this? If it's true, they clearly employ some interesting people.
Yes, I've run early alpha versions of KDE 4 apps on OS X. You can google for build instructions, but a word of warning - they are still in heavy development, so there will be problems. Simple apps like KEdit work fine though. After KDE 4 is released, there will be dedicated OS X builds for these apps and KOffice that will be simple to download and install.
;)
Wait until the New Year, and give them a try
I too wonder about this. I miss the old articles about how to hack this device or how these proposed changes to language X work. All of these RIAA articles, for instance, seem to pander to teenagers, while there are very few articles for technical people anymore.
I'm hoping not, since many things behave very oddly on Solaris. Non standard tools and such, but it would be one way to keep it from running on cracked PC's.
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QueenB. Please go and stare at this page for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
If by "non-standard tools" you mean non-GNU, yes, but they are hardly odd.
I have no idea what your "cracked PCs" comment is all about, and what it has to do with Solaris and ZFS.
Hmm, my old W2K laptop still gets patches downloaded from MS via Windows Update every now and again. Does this count as support? Or were you referring to some kind of phone support?
You're right, but you have to understand how people get into the country. To make a long story short, the skilled-worker class lets in a bunch of people with certain approved skills. They cover the map from medicine to construction and beyond. But fully 50% of Canada's immigrants come in under the family class, which is a family reunification scheme that is severely broken. Finally, a huge number (particularly Chinese) come in as "refugees", using bogus claims filed by crooked consultants. See the latest issue of The Economist for more on the terrible Canadian refugee system.
The skilled-worker class, where we should be taking most of our immigrants, is therefore logjammed up and doesn't account for the majority of immigrants, who are most often unskilled people coming in under family class or bogus refugee claims.
Everyone knows the solution: fix family class so huge extended families, so common in Asia, cannot bring over everyone, and fix the refugee system to stop economic migrants from gaming it. But it is a huge political liability to piss off the immigrant vote, so nothing gets done, and Canada's skilled worker shortage continues.
The population of Canada is around 35 million, about the same as the state of California. I know it's too much to ask an American to have some sort of international awareness, even for their closest neighbour, trading partner, and largest oil source, so I'm not holding your doltish comment against you.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Er...did you respond to the wrong person? I think my one-line post is in total agreement with what you said.
You're right, you'd have to enforce this with some sort of process. But for systems that absolutely must not go down, it seems like a small price to pay.
I think it's worthwhile to point out you also say things like this:
"Kurt Gödel (how could I forget him?) is one of the gods of the voodoo science pantheon. Gödel is certainly the most often quoted yet inconsequential mathematician of the world. He is known for his incompleteness theorem, the most non-scientific, chicken-feather-voodoo nonsense ever penned by a member of the human species. In 1949, Gödel announced to the world that Einstein's general theory of relativity allows time travel to the past via "closed time-like curves." The only thing Gödel proved, in my opinion, was the incompleteness of his frontal lobe."
So your opinions are just so much loudmouthed nonsense.
I am in exactly the same boat as you. I want to buy a decent hdtv soon, mainly for watching movies, and it would be nice to be able to do some gaming as well. Exclusives and so forth mean nothing to me - I just want some fun games with detailed and absorbing graphics. And the price isn't super relevant either; as it stands, the PS3 is just over a day's work, not bad for something that will presumably give me years of enjoyment.
Haha, I suppose you are right about the 17 different ways. And don't forget about CreateThread, _beginthread, and _beginthreadex! I remember these giving me fits.
;) No interface is without cruft, I suppose, though the Win32 api is cruftier than most.
But as another poster pointed out, exec() isn't any better
How can an interface be buggy and slow?
Yes, apparently the diety of a bunch of goat-herding nomads from thousands of years ago doesn't like it, so it's got to be stopped.
Apt is available for .rpm packages, just as it's available for .deb packages on Debian-based distributions. The sizes of the repositories are comparable.
Then you can relax, because it doesn't install a rootkit - the story is false.