Time travel by spinning the Earth backwards, I do not think that this will work and should only cause major earthquakes and other problems.
I'm assuming you're talking about the movie. The thing is, this isn't what is happening, although it is still wrong.
He's not spinning the earth backwards, he's flying really fast (theory of relativity). Technically this should have sent him into the future, not the past.
Apple provides a version of XFree86, which is bundled with Panther, or a free download for Jaguar
No, only the fink x11 works on jaguar. Apple's X11 requires Panther. If you know where to get Apple's beta X11 which ran on Jaguar, please post a link, because every place I've found that used to have it only carries the panther version now.
OS X (and OS 9, as well, if that's your cup of tea) wakes from sleep in less than a second (to displaying the desktop), and is usable (as in actually responsive and opening a program) in maybe 3 seconds.
You know, that's one of the wierd things. Does OS X have different sleep modes or something? If I shut the lid on my powerbook, the powerbook will wake up instantly when I open the lid. But if I just let the powerbook sit there, eventually it'll go to sleep as well, only now when I hit shift, it takes a goot 5 seconds to wake up.
hah. Try konqueror 3.2. Blows the pants off nautilus.
No, it really doesn't. The new Nautilus is perfect. It handles files, it's clean and simple. It's the least cluttered file manager I've ever used. Konq on the other hand, is as unweildy as Explorer.
There's even a thread by the konq devs talking about how nice the spatial nautilus is and how they want to do something similar.
I'm using Gnome 2.5 (Subscribed to the 2.5 channel in Red Carpet, automagically upgraded everything for me). I have to say that Nautilus in the 2.5/2.6 branch is amazing.
How amazing, you ask? It's as fast as gmc used to be. Although it is a little strange to switch back to the old OS9 style Spatial Finder style of file management.
Things are a little buggy, Nautilus crashes every once in a while, and Evolution sometimes doesn't quit correctly. But in general, the whole desktop is great. Gimp1.3 is super sweet, and finally supports re-editable Text layers (ala photoshop)
Google's Zeitgeist still has Linux at 1% and Mac at 3%.
Yes, but Google's Zeitgeist isn't an authority on the subject. They only count the unique visitors to the site. Many Linux desktops are being set up in work environments, where people may not even have a browser installed, or where work might not let them visit Google.
At home, most linux users have static IPs, or near-static IPs via broadband. The majority of OSX and Windows users use dialup. This means they get counted multiple times.
Its not based on FreeBSD. It uses parts of FreeBSD, but the bulk of the code is derived from Mach 3.x and 4.4BSD-Lite2.
Thank you for making that point. If OSX were based on FreeBSD, it wouldn't have such miserable UnixBench scores. (My P4 2.3 ghz linux box gets a better unixbench score than a dual G5)
OSX uses a frankenstein of parts from all over the BSD tree.
Saw the notebook today and it was using a higher DPI setting. (not the default 90dpi).
This is one thing that Ximian Gnome does right that no other OS seems to do. It sets your DPI to the correct value. It knows what monitor you have hooked up, it knows what resolution you're at.. therefore it knows what the DPI is.
Thus, fonts never look too small, regardless of the resolution. I work at a newspaper, so there's plenty of pica poles around. You literally can hold a pica pole up to the screen and verify that the 12pt font being drawn really is 12 pts.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Not Enemy Territory)?
RtCW didn't ship with PunkBuster, but it was added a few months later in a patch... compare the number of known cheats in the v1.0 RtCW (grenade spamming, etc) with the number of known cheats in the latest version and I'd say that PB seems to work great.
Damn, I wish patents had 2 sections to them, one for patent lawyers and the other for the rest of us to understand what the hell they are going on about.
They do, it's called the Abstract. It's written in plain english.
Well it would seem that good old Billy got himself a new little crusade: Patent everything. Ever.
Well, he's got plenty of companions on this crusade. IBM holds thousands of patents.
Your darling Apple does too. Apple has been granted hundreds of design patents (on things like the trash icon, the red/yellow/green stoplights, the menubar, and the dock). Apple even has a DRM Patent which deals with watermarking and very restrictive copy controls.
I think it was said best by henning (i think it was henning) "you want to fix buggy software...with more software?"
Well then henning doesn't know what he's talking about. Cheaters are more often than not exploiting client side tweaks rather than game bugs.
Opening the enemy textures in photoshop and painting them bright pink isn't a software bug that needs fixing, it's a cheat.
Punkbuster makes sure that I haven't modified my maps or textures. It makes sure I haven't hacked OpenGL to turn off Fog. It also makes sure I'm not patching the exe to allow for aimbots etc.
None of these things are caused by buggy software.
George Harrison (of Beatles fame) was succesfully sued for _subconsciously_ ripping off the song "He's So Fine" (in "My Sweet Lord"). See here for more details.
So, no, I don't think worrying about IP contamination from looking at Windows source code is paranoid at all.
That's because He's So Fine is a catchy tune and it got stuck in George's head. There's nothing catchy sounding in the windows source. Looking at it won't make you subconciously overflow buffers.
And to clarify, this means DO NOT LOOK AT THE CODE. A court can say that anyone who has seen the code has let it influence their future works, even if that influence was unintentional.
What? What court would say that? That's like saying that anyone who has seen Gone with the Wind has let it influence their future works.
Yeah, GNOME 2.5 might have some nice refinements over 2.4, but they're mere incremental improvements that for the most part, I don't even notice.
If you didn't notice, then you must not use Nautilus. It's been completely redone in 2.5. It's lightning fast, and works completely different than earlier versions of nautilus.
It'd make little sense to simply cut off this marketshare, and I doubt Apple would turn their backs on the profits available, even to drive sales of Macs.
Hah! Apple already did this with Logic. The windows version of Logic was selling more copies than the Mac version, that didn't stop Apple from cutting sales in more than HALF by dropping the windows version completely.
I have no doubt that Apple would drop Linux and Windows support for Maya in a heartbeat if they ever bought it.
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Time travel by spinning the Earth backwards, I do not think that this will work and should only cause major earthquakes and other problems.
I'm assuming you're talking about the movie. The thing is, this isn't what is happening, although it is still wrong.
He's not spinning the earth backwards, he's flying really fast (theory of relativity). Technically this should have sent him into the future, not the past.
What I can't accept is, why is there no bullet holes in the shirt? Do superheroes wear some special brand? Study that...
I'm a big fan of Smallville (surely the next show that WB will stupidly cancel), and whenever clark gets shot, there are bullet holes in his clothing.
Apple provides a version of XFree86, which is bundled with Panther, or a free download for Jaguar
No, only the fink x11 works on jaguar. Apple's X11 requires Panther. If you know where to get Apple's beta X11 which ran on Jaguar, please post a link, because every place I've found that used to have it only carries the panther version now.
OS X (and OS 9, as well, if that's your cup of tea) wakes from sleep in less than a second (to displaying the desktop), and is usable (as in actually responsive and opening a program) in maybe 3 seconds.
You know, that's one of the wierd things. Does OS X have different sleep modes or something? If I shut the lid on my powerbook, the powerbook will wake up instantly when I open the lid. But if I just let the powerbook sit there, eventually it'll go to sleep as well, only now when I hit shift, it takes a goot 5 seconds to wake up.
I can't seem to find the link to the thread in google, but here is the blog entry that I think kicked the thread off:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/218
KDE is also more like windows than gnome (which is more like motif).
Gnome is nothing like motif.. ugh motif is horrible. I'd say that KDE is like Windows 2000 (not like XP), and Gnome is like OS X.
hah. Try konqueror 3.2.
Blows the pants off nautilus.
No, it really doesn't. The new Nautilus is perfect. It handles files, it's clean and simple. It's the least cluttered file manager I've ever used. Konq on the other hand, is as unweildy as Explorer.
There's even a thread by the konq devs talking about how nice the spatial nautilus is and how they want to do something similar.
I'm using Gnome 2.5 (Subscribed to the 2.5 channel in Red Carpet, automagically upgraded everything for me). I have to say that Nautilus in the 2.5/2.6 branch is amazing.
How amazing, you ask? It's as fast as gmc used to be. Although it is a little strange to switch back to the old OS9 style Spatial Finder style of file management.
Things are a little buggy, Nautilus crashes every once in a while, and Evolution sometimes doesn't quit correctly. But in general, the whole desktop is great. Gimp1.3 is super sweet, and finally supports re-editable Text layers (ala photoshop)
Google's Zeitgeist still has Linux at 1% and Mac at 3%.
Yes, but Google's Zeitgeist isn't an authority on the subject. They only count the unique visitors to the site. Many Linux desktops are being set up in work environments, where people may not even have a browser installed, or where work might not let them visit Google.
At home, most linux users have static IPs, or near-static IPs via broadband. The majority of OSX and Windows users use dialup. This means they get counted multiple times.
Its not based on FreeBSD. It uses parts of FreeBSD, but the bulk of the code is derived from Mach 3.x and 4.4BSD-Lite2.
Thank you for making that point. If OSX were based on FreeBSD, it wouldn't have such miserable UnixBench scores. (My P4 2.3 ghz linux box gets a better unixbench score than a dual G5)
OSX uses a frankenstein of parts from all over the BSD tree.
Saw the notebook today and it was using a higher DPI setting. (not the default 90dpi).
This is one thing that Ximian Gnome does right that no other OS seems to do. It sets your DPI to the correct value. It knows what monitor you have hooked up, it knows what resolution you're at.. therefore it knows what the DPI is.
Thus, fonts never look too small, regardless of the resolution. I work at a newspaper, so there's plenty of pica poles around. You literally can hold a pica pole up to the screen and verify that the 12pt font being drawn really is 12 pts.
We should instead innovate; create our own .NET our own technologies, and make them BETTER then their closed-source counterparts.
We have. Gtk# is much better than Windows.Forms
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Not Enemy Territory)?
RtCW didn't ship with PunkBuster, but it was added a few months later in a patch... compare the number of known cheats in the v1.0 RtCW (grenade spamming, etc) with the number of known cheats in the latest version and I'd say that PB seems to work great.
Damn, I wish patents had 2 sections to them, one for patent lawyers and the other for the rest of us to understand what the hell they are going on about.
They do, it's called the Abstract. It's written in plain english.
Well it would seem that good old Billy got himself a new little crusade: Patent everything. Ever.
Well, he's got plenty of companions on this crusade. IBM holds thousands of patents.
Your darling Apple does too. Apple has been granted hundreds of design patents (on things like the trash icon, the red/yellow/green stoplights, the menubar, and the dock). Apple even has a DRM Patent which deals with watermarking and very restrictive copy controls.
I think it was said best by henning (i think it was henning) "you want to fix buggy software...with more software?"
Well then henning doesn't know what he's talking about. Cheaters are more often than not exploiting client side tweaks rather than game bugs.
Opening the enemy textures in photoshop and painting them bright pink isn't a software bug that needs fixing, it's a cheat.
Punkbuster makes sure that I haven't modified my maps or textures. It makes sure I haven't hacked OpenGL to turn off Fog. It also makes sure I'm not patching the exe to allow for aimbots etc.
None of these things are caused by buggy software.
Just yesterday I was playing AA, and PB kicked someone off the server for cheating. The message was something about a skin hack.
So I know that PB works, because I've seen it in action.
Palm has NEVER shipped Linux syncing software.. that doesn't prevent my Clie from integrating perfectly with Evolution.
Apple will just have to make iSync actually do what it claims to do.
I think from a legal standpoint it might be very important that OSS developers not look at the code
Will people please stop saying this? If you truly believe that just looking at code taints you, then you believe MS when they call the GPL viral.
By all means, don't steal the code, but just looking at the code is harmless... at least no more harmful than MS looking at GPLed code.
George Harrison (of Beatles fame) was succesfully sued for _subconsciously_ ripping off the song "He's So Fine" (in "My Sweet Lord"). See here for more details.
So, no, I don't think worrying about IP contamination from looking at Windows source code is paranoid at all.
That's because He's So Fine is a catchy tune and it got stuck in George's head. There's nothing catchy sounding in the windows source. Looking at it won't make you subconciously overflow buffers.
And to clarify, this means DO NOT LOOK AT THE CODE. A court can say that anyone who has seen the code has let it influence their future works, even if that influence was unintentional.
What? What court would say that? That's like saying that anyone who has seen Gone with the Wind has let it influence their future works.
Yeah, GNOME 2.5 might have some nice refinements over 2.4, but they're mere incremental improvements that for the most part, I don't even notice.
If you didn't notice, then you must not use Nautilus. It's been completely redone in 2.5. It's lightning fast, and works completely different than earlier versions of nautilus.
why is this modded insightful? Connectix is the one who introduced the security vuln, numbnuts. It has affected VPC since *before* MS bought it.
My 1.2 ghz Athlon with a Radeon 7500 runs UT2k4 just peachy. This machine is very old, and could be picked up today for less than $200.
It'd make little sense to simply cut off this marketshare, and I doubt Apple would turn their backs on the profits available, even to drive sales of Macs.
Hah! Apple already did this with Logic. The windows version of Logic was selling more copies than the Mac version, that didn't stop Apple from cutting sales in more than HALF by dropping the windows version completely.
I have no doubt that Apple would drop Linux and Windows support for Maya in a heartbeat if they ever bought it.