I don't know why he was modded down, he makes a lot of valid points. Find some old Byte magazines and take a look. Hell, back then you had to buy your own C compiler; our new gcc world rocks doesn't it!
If you haven't noticed, the dems are already in trouble in '08. That's why they're so paranoid about the potential of this bill hurting them. They must be perfect so they are not put so far out of the races they cannot get back. They have the potential to become completely second-rate.
I am a republican/libertarian, but I would hate to see what happens if the republicans gain complete dominance over the democrats. It is in no one's best interest to have the republicans every whim pleased, God only knows what would happen to our national debt.
I don't think that is the problem. Irix seemed a lot like Solaris/HP-UX/AIX at the time, but they want to spend the money to keep going with Irix. Management made other blunders (Itanium 2?) that caused worse harm then supporting Linux. Not to mention their product line stagnated for about 5 years.
well, although you're pretty much right on, even the 32 bit athlon xp/mp processors were quite warm. my 3200+ and 1900+ both ran about 130 degrees farenheit (with the right fans temps would drop 10-15 degrees), whereas my 3200+ amd 64 runs about 90 degrees with a stock/retail-box fan. if anything, an amd64 is worth buying for the low cost, low temp, low fan noise, high output nature of it.
yea, that's classic: 'if I knew C.' there's more to software development and in this case what could be a major enhancement than knowing a programming language. hell, I know C, but i am not touching a skinned interface on gaim, because for one you may step on the gtk's skin. so what you would in essence be talking about would be a way to dynamically layout interface contents.... (runs away into the forest screaming)
He did basically break the law. But this is a similar situation to a Red Cross volunteer walking up to your door and asking for a donation, which you give out but then want to find out if it is valid. So you go to the local Red Cross and ask if the person you gave money to is legit. But in the online sense there isn't really a physical building you can go to, or people you can talk directly to. The distance that can be felt from websites, and sometimes their shoddiness, can leave a bad feeling that makes you wonder if it is legit or not.
that's about as academic 'a statement as i've ever seen. but generally right on, but you should maybe give solaris/open solaris a try.
think about it, solaris has the potential to be the desktop unix (other than os x) that we want. it can have binary driver support, something linux doesn't want (video, wireless networking, etc), since it has a stable abi. plus it's rock solid.
WTF?
So apparently now spouting out apple.com drivel is good enough to get a person modded up these days? Freaking rediculous! I didn't know it was a +5 Insightful.
If you haven't noticed Mac OS X is bairly a Unix by most peoples consensus. It has a Mach Kernel which had to be cut in half and made non-beautiful because most/all benchmarks indicated that its performance sucked. It only has typical Unix at parts of its userland functionality, and even in this situation it's not a typical Unix because it's filesystem and configuration is not close to standard. If you want Unix then I'll point you to Solaris, AIX, and maybe even FreeBSD and Linux... but not Mac OS X.
yea, you heard him. why don't you europeans realize there is one continent left on earth to rape, so that when you get there you realize that the muslims have taken over what is left of your home countries.
From what I've heard, Sun is an entirely different sort of company, where the people like the Solaris Kernel Engineers are actually very in charge of direction taken. People that create a technology control that technology, it is as if the Market dweebs realize that they are the people that should be running the company, so they let the people in the know keep directional control. So yes, Sun is probably very happy with the FreeBSD port.
The "Adobe PDF Port" is a local port option when creating a printer in Windows XP. So yea, Windows Office does indeed offer printing capabilities to PDF.
LOL, actually performance of typical unix apps suffer on the newer MACH 3 based Kernels. From what I've heard you're right, Apple had to place a lot of the FreeBSD kernel code into the MACH kernel because seperating this to user space wasn't worth the beauty. I believe a lot of this is reflected on the apple web page describing the OS X design. The whole problem boils down to the fact that writing software for a Micro-Kernel demands a different model than writing code for the typical make function call get return value approach. Not many people like to send and get messages, do things asyncronously, it's quite different from old school unix systems programming. Also checkout the wikipedia page on the Mach Kernel.
This is very interesting. The basic premise of your argument is that all people should be free to do what they want to do. And that lawmakers should stop trying to legislate their thoughts on normal useage to people, that lawmakers should allow stupid people to do stupid things. "Rediculous limitations" are quite subjective. The government used to allow coccaine, till it gained the perception that black people used it and were crazed by the drugs affects. But we found out even white people couldn't handle it. (early america was pretty damn racist, if anything it was a class issue, and even the middle class couldn't handle coccaine) Public outcry, typically by the crazy right and left that want to control others is too much weight to bear.
Plus, people do not live their lives in a vacuum, the affects of the drug addict have an effect on the taxes I pay...that is unless we become completely heartless and let these people rot with starvation, but even then they must be disposed of somehow. There are other examples, but allowing free-flow drug use is probably not a good idea.
Disclaimer: I am not a stupid hippy or a fascist, just trying to think this through logically.
If I am not mistaken, 1.9.X would be a beta for version 2. It SUCKS! It crashed 8 times while preparing for my AI class presentation. Luckily it recovered after the first crash, so from that point on I was religiously hitting Ctrl-s, just like in the old days when Windows 9x and MS Office crashed often. So, give friends a stable OO.org not the new crappy one. The last thing we need is regular users getting beta builds.
Works just great on my other machine that's an AMD 1700 with only one HD.
I will concur on that, I had to replace a powersupply in an older machine recently. I put in it a 250watt power supply that I had used to get an AMD K6-II working. So that power supply is old but not ancient, but it worked in an Athlon 1900+ with one hard drive, one optical, and an ATI 9200. I was happy with the fix because otherwise I would've had to shell out some more cash.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't. If I had points I would mod you up; I love that phrase! The sad thing is you're way below my viewing threshold, luckily I try to pick good points in conversations to dig deeper, and usually find jewels like this. I suppose I should 'friend' you.
I'm currently going to school at Brookings (SDSU) but I used to live in Yankton.
I hate to say this, but the local chicken plant's parking lot is a pretty large showroom for such things.
lol.
I also started driving in my dad's 68(ish) gmc pickup. I would take it from my brother except it's the most reliable thing we've ever had to pull a trailer full of cattle. The damn thing still out pulls most ranchers and their newer rigs, primarily cause they fear stressing their pickups. Maybe someday he'll give it up.
I wonder how many of the hopped-up Sentras you see will still be running 5 years from now.:-)
I got a kick out of that.
I'm up in South Dakota, where there are a lot of Buicks,Olds,etc. but I don't usually see these types of cars 'pimped' out. The bright side is it is easy to find these cars that are old, cheap, and in great shape. (A 1991 Oldmobile Eighty-Eight with 90K miles and in great shape is hardly old though.) I have no problem with driving a 'Granny car' and the insurance is really cheap. Though I am about ready to move up to a pickup, I'm getting sick of driving vehicles with no pulling power, no bed, and minimal offroad capabilities.
I think people need to realize that it is ok to drive a car, especially a cheap one that is cheap to maintain, and have an older (carburated) pikcup that they use seldom. This type of combination is great.
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I don't know why he was modded down, he makes a lot of valid points. Find some old Byte magazines and take a look. Hell, back then you had to buy your own C compiler; our new gcc world rocks doesn't it!
hell, if i had mod points, i would mod up your 'mod parent down' post. so there, ha-ha!
I completely agree on all points.
I am a republican/libertarian, but I would hate to see what happens if the republicans gain complete dominance over the democrats. It is in no one's best interest to have the republicans every whim pleased, God only knows what would happen to our national debt.
I don't think that is the problem. Irix seemed a lot like Solaris/HP-UX/AIX at the time, but they want to spend the money to keep going with Irix. Management made other blunders (Itanium 2?) that caused worse harm then supporting Linux. Not to mention their product line stagnated for about 5 years.
amen, mod parent up
well, although you're pretty much right on, even the 32 bit athlon xp/mp processors were quite warm. my 3200+ and 1900+ both ran about 130 degrees farenheit (with the right fans temps would drop 10-15 degrees), whereas my 3200+ amd 64 runs about 90 degrees with a stock/retail-box fan. if anything, an amd64 is worth buying for the low cost, low temp, low fan noise, high output nature of it.
Jihad!
yea, that's classic: 'if I knew C.' there's more to software development and in this case what could be a major enhancement than knowing a programming language. hell, I know C, but i am not touching a skinned interface on gaim, because for one you may step on the gtk's skin. so what you would in essence be talking about would be a way to dynamically layout interface contents. ... (runs away into the forest screaming)
He did basically break the law. But this is a similar situation to a Red Cross volunteer walking up to your door and asking for a donation, which you give out but then want to find out if it is valid. So you go to the local Red Cross and ask if the person you gave money to is legit. But in the online sense there isn't really a physical building you can go to, or people you can talk directly to. The distance that can be felt from websites, and sometimes their shoddiness, can leave a bad feeling that makes you wonder if it is legit or not.
think about it, solaris has the potential to be the desktop unix (other than os x) that we want. it can have binary driver support, something linux doesn't want (video, wireless networking, etc), since it has a stable abi. plus it's rock solid.
WTF? ... but not Mac OS X.
So apparently now spouting out apple.com drivel is good enough to get a person modded up these days? Freaking rediculous! I didn't know it was a +5 Insightful.
If you haven't noticed Mac OS X is bairly a Unix by most peoples consensus. It has a Mach Kernel which had to be cut in half and made non-beautiful because most/all benchmarks indicated that its performance sucked. It only has typical Unix at parts of its userland functionality, and even in this situation it's not a typical Unix because it's filesystem and configuration is not close to standard. If you want Unix then I'll point you to Solaris, AIX, and maybe even FreeBSD and Linux
yea, you heard him. why don't you europeans realize there is one continent left on earth to rape, so that when you get there you realize that the muslims have taken over what is left of your home countries.
Clinton made me a Republican. Bush made me a Libertarian.I love your sig, you're going from "friend of a friend" status to "friend."
From what I've heard, Sun is an entirely different sort of company, where the people like the Solaris Kernel Engineers are actually very in charge of direction taken. People that create a technology control that technology, it is as if the Market dweebs realize that they are the people that should be running the company, so they let the people in the know keep directional control. So yes, Sun is probably very happy with the FreeBSD port.
Local printer. Next.
Create a new port. Adobe PDF Port.
You are saying you don't have that?
The "Adobe PDF Port" is a local port option when creating a printer in Windows XP. So yea, Windows Office does indeed offer printing capabilities to PDF.
With their (British) reputation for having bad teeth, I kind of knew that wouldn't come from just tea and ale.
LOL, actually performance of typical unix apps suffer on the newer MACH 3 based Kernels. From what I've heard you're right, Apple had to place a lot of the FreeBSD kernel code into the MACH kernel because seperating this to user space wasn't worth the beauty. I believe a lot of this is reflected on the apple web page describing the OS X design. The whole problem boils down to the fact that writing software for a Micro-Kernel demands a different model than writing code for the typical make function call get return value approach. Not many people like to send and get messages, do things asyncronously, it's quite different from old school unix systems programming. Also checkout the wikipedia page on the Mach Kernel.
This is very interesting. The basic premise of your argument is that all people should be free to do what they want to do. And that lawmakers should stop trying to legislate their thoughts on normal useage to people, that lawmakers should allow stupid people to do stupid things. "Rediculous limitations" are quite subjective. The government used to allow coccaine, till it gained the perception that black people used it and were crazed by the drugs affects. But we found out even white people couldn't handle it. (early america was pretty damn racist, if anything it was a class issue, and even the middle class couldn't handle coccaine) Public outcry, typically by the crazy right and left that want to control others is too much weight to bear.
Plus, people do not live their lives in a vacuum, the affects of the drug addict have an effect on the taxes I pay...that is unless we become completely heartless and let these people rot with starvation, but even then they must be disposed of somehow. There are other examples, but allowing free-flow drug use is probably not a good idea.
Disclaimer: I am not a stupid hippy or a fascist, just trying to think this through logically.If I am not mistaken, 1.9.X would be a beta for version 2. It SUCKS! It crashed 8 times while preparing for my AI class presentation. Luckily it recovered after the first crash, so from that point on I was religiously hitting Ctrl-s, just like in the old days when Windows 9x and MS Office crashed often. So, give friends a stable OO.org not the new crappy one. The last thing we need is regular users getting beta builds.
Works just great on my other machine that's an AMD 1700 with only one HD.
I will concur on that, I had to replace a powersupply in an older machine recently. I put in it a 250watt power supply that I had used to get an AMD K6-II working. So that power supply is old but not ancient, but it worked in an Athlon 1900+ with one hard drive, one optical, and an ATI 9200. I was happy with the fix because otherwise I would've had to shell out some more cash.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.
If I had points I would mod you up; I love that phrase! The sad thing is you're way below my viewing threshold, luckily I try to pick good points in conversations to dig deeper, and usually find jewels like this. I suppose I should 'friend' you.
I hate to say this, but the local chicken plant's parking lot is a pretty large showroom for such things.
lol.
I also started driving in my dad's 68(ish) gmc pickup. I would take it from my brother except it's the most reliable thing we've ever had to pull a trailer full of cattle. The damn thing still out pulls most ranchers and their newer rigs, primarily cause they fear stressing their pickups. Maybe someday he'll give it up.
I got a kick out of that.
I'm up in South Dakota, where there are a lot of Buicks,Olds,etc. but I don't usually see these types of cars 'pimped' out. The bright side is it is easy to find these cars that are old, cheap, and in great shape. (A 1991 Oldmobile Eighty-Eight with 90K miles and in great shape is hardly old though.) I have no problem with driving a 'Granny car' and the insurance is really cheap. Though I am about ready to move up to a pickup, I'm getting sick of driving vehicles with no pulling power, no bed, and minimal offroad capabilities.
I think people need to realize that it is ok to drive a car, especially a cheap one that is cheap to maintain, and have an older (carburated) pikcup that they use seldom. This type of combination is great.