It looks to me like somebody did a s/BSD/KDE on the "BSD is dying" manuscript and submitted it to the list. Finally the BSD troll has made it to the front page on Slashdot, by proxy anyway. Huzzah!
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When an activity constitutes such a tiny fraction of my day I don't worry too much about optimizing it. I would still suggest that your frustration is due to OS X behaving differently than you're used to. Who cares about configuring something like this? As long as the default method works fine, which it does, what's the point of providing fifty-eight variations on it? Of course, if the default method sucks and you can't change it then you have a problem.:-) So far I haven't noticed too many of those in OS X, once I got accustomed to the way it works.
Take a look at GNU TeXmacs, maybe you will like it. I've never used it myself, but if it works half as good as it looks it would be pretty damned nifty.
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Your points are pretty much boil down to "it doesn't work the way I'm used to". That's a fine reason not to use OS X if you already have something else that suits your needs, but that doesn't mean that it sucks for everyone. I like it just fine on my laptop, I don't really care that I can't add users remotely since I'm the only user and I always have access to the machine. I also haven't experienced any of your frustration with the window management, I just click the window I want and it pops to the front. If it's behind another one I click the app icon in the dock, then click the window. Maybe it takes a little longer, but we're talking about a few seconds over the course of a day here.
If you bought a Mac, the OS would come with it, so you wouldn't have to pay any extra for it. I don't know if that would make you feel any better or not.
Cartoon Network has Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings from 8:00 to 12:00 eastern. I watch it just about every week while having my morning coffee. They don't appear to be editing anything out, either, unlike when ABC used to show them.
Do you really think those guys just started working on this a few weeks ago? Surely they must have been funded and working during the Clinton administration as well. With so many good, established reasons to dislike Clinton I can never understand why people feel compelled to fabricate such ridiculous, farfetched ones.
The problem is almost certainly compiler optimization. When you ask for roll()+roll(), the compiler notices that you are calling the same function with identical arguments twice, so it only generates one call and puts the result in both places. This is why random number functions often take a dummy argument, so that you can do something like rand(dum)+rand(2*dum) to keep the compiler from outsmarting itself. Rewrite your roll() function to take a dummy argument like this and I bet it will start working correctly.
In Athens, the poor people were not citizens, they were slaves. I would guess that their "income" was pretty much zero, so it'd be pretty tough to compute your ratio if they were included.
I don't see how any of this applies to computer source code. If the source was never released to the public then I see no obvious reason why it should ever lapse into the public domain. The binaries which were released should have limited copyright protection, but it's not evident to me why something which was kept private should be required to be made publicly available. Do people's diaries and journals don't become public domain after their deaths? This is the closest analogy I can think of.
The advantage of the GUI is that all of the options are right there in front of you, so that you can see what is available. To get the same knowledge about XFree you would have to plow through lots of documentation. From a regular user's perspective the GUI wins hands down.
It runs at a low priority, so it's pretty much the same thing. I've been running it for a few days now and haven't really noticed any impact on my normal use of the computer.
PS: If a P-II 400 really can process a frame in one day as they say, then either the Mac client is badly coded or my iBook is a total wuss.:-)
It's not RedHat's fault that g++ breaks backward compatibility. Debian will eventually switch to the new libstdc++ as well, probably in 2005 when they finally make the leap to kernel 2.4. I guess you'll have to switch to SLS or Yggdrasil then...
If she did nothing illegal then she should have stuck to her guns. There are various free legal services she has access to, all she had to do was call her local public defenders office.
That, and travel to another state for the trial, and pay for lodging there, and take all that time off from work, etc. Plus she has three kids at home to take care of. It's easy to talk about what other people should have done, but your accusation that she just caved in is pretty unfair. Put yourself in her shoes for a minute.
I keep seeing this $18 figure for CDs, but where does it come from? I bought six CDs today and they ranged in price from $11 to $15. I don't think I've ever seen an $18 CD, unless it was a special import or something.
The Aqua-fied version probably wouldn't be much use to non-OS X users, so I don't see how that's much of a loss to GNU. Apple will probably want to keep the underlying stuff in sync between Darwin and OS X, though, just for their own convenience. If they make any changes to the unix-level parts that get distributed with Darwin they'll have to make the source available. I guess we'll see how it turns out, but for the moment I don't see how more widespread adoption of an improved open printing protocol could be thought to be bad.
The version of IE that ships with Mac OS X is actually terrible at rendering large tables. Loading a page of Slashdot comments in nested mode can easily freeze IE for upwards of thirty seconds if the comments are deeply nested. Mozilla blows IE away in this regard (on OS X), with the prereleases of OmniWeb not much behind. I use OmniWeb because it's so damn pretty, and as a Mac user I'm obviously easily amused by shiny things.:-)
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It looks to me like somebody did a s/BSD/KDE on the "BSD is dying" manuscript and submitted it to the list. Finally the BSD troll has made it to the front page on Slashdot, by proxy anyway. Huzzah!
When an activity constitutes such a tiny fraction of my day I don't worry too much about optimizing it. I would still suggest that your frustration is due to OS X behaving differently than you're used to. Who cares about configuring something like this? As long as the default method works fine, which it does, what's the point of providing fifty-eight variations on it? Of course, if the default method sucks and you can't change it then you have a problem. :-) So far I haven't noticed too many of those in OS X, once I got accustomed to the way it works.
Check out New Deal Office. It runs on just about any PC and looks pretty cool.
Take a look at GNU TeXmacs, maybe you will like it. I've never used it myself, but if it works half as good as it looks it would be pretty damned nifty.
Where can you get an Intel PC for free over FTP?
Your points are pretty much boil down to "it doesn't work the way I'm used to". That's a fine reason not to use OS X if you already have something else that suits your needs, but that doesn't mean that it sucks for everyone. I like it just fine on my laptop, I don't really care that I can't add users remotely since I'm the only user and I always have access to the machine. I also haven't experienced any of your frustration with the window management, I just click the window I want and it pops to the front. If it's behind another one I click the app icon in the dock, then click the window. Maybe it takes a little longer, but we're talking about a few seconds over the course of a day here.
If you bought a Mac, the OS would come with it, so you wouldn't have to pay any extra for it. I don't know if that would make you feel any better or not.
Cartoon Network has Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings from 8:00 to 12:00 eastern. I watch it just about every week while having my morning coffee. They don't appear to be editing anything out, either, unlike when ABC used to show them.
But when was Bush's first budget approved? And no, starting from scratch there is no way that anyone could do this project in a year.
Do you really think those guys just started working on this a few weeks ago? Surely they must have been funded and working during the Clinton administration as well. With so many good, established reasons to dislike Clinton I can never understand why people feel compelled to fabricate such ridiculous, farfetched ones.
Well, sure, I suppose if you want to split hairs like that I guess I might have been wrong... :-)
The problem is almost certainly compiler optimization. When you ask for roll()+roll(), the compiler notices that you are calling the same function with identical arguments twice, so it only generates one call and puts the result in both places. This is why random number functions often take a dummy argument, so that you can do something like rand(dum)+rand(2*dum) to keep the compiler from outsmarting itself. Rewrite your roll() function to take a dummy argument like this and I bet it will start working correctly.
In Athens, the poor people were not citizens, they were slaves. I would guess that their "income" was pretty much zero, so it'd be pretty tough to compute your ratio if they were included.
I don't see how any of this applies to computer source code. If the source was never released to the public then I see no obvious reason why it should ever lapse into the public domain. The binaries which were released should have limited copyright protection, but it's not evident to me why something which was kept private should be required to be made publicly available. Do people's diaries and journals don't become public domain after their deaths? This is the closest analogy I can think of.
The advantage of the GUI is that all of the options are right there in front of you, so that you can see what is available. To get the same knowledge about XFree you would have to plow through lots of documentation. From a regular user's perspective the GUI wins hands down.
It runs at a low priority, so it's pretty much the same thing. I've been running it for a few days now and haven't really noticed any impact on my normal use of the computer.
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PS: If a P-II 400 really can process a frame in one day as they say, then either the Mac client is badly coded or my iBook is a total wuss.
It's not RedHat's fault that g++ breaks backward compatibility. Debian will eventually switch to the new libstdc++ as well, probably in 2005 when they finally make the leap to kernel 2.4. I guess you'll have to switch to SLS or Yggdrasil then...
BSD is about to die...
Sorry, couldn't resist.
By claiming that Glitter is a "coolflick", are you preparing for a mental incompetency defense? Is that the loophole? :-)
Can it format two floppies at once? Everyone knows that's the true test of OS studliness.
That, and travel to another state for the trial, and pay for lodging there, and take all that time off from work, etc. Plus she has three kids at home to take care of. It's easy to talk about what other people should have done, but your accusation that she just caved in is pretty unfair. Put yourself in her shoes for a minute.
I keep seeing this $18 figure for CDs, but where does it come from? I bought six CDs today and they ranged in price from $11 to $15. I don't think I've ever seen an $18 CD, unless it was a special import or something.
The Aqua-fied version probably wouldn't be much use to non-OS X users, so I don't see how that's much of a loss to GNU. Apple will probably want to keep the underlying stuff in sync between Darwin and OS X, though, just for their own convenience. If they make any changes to the unix-level parts that get distributed with Darwin they'll have to make the source available. I guess we'll see how it turns out, but for the moment I don't see how more widespread adoption of an improved open printing protocol could be thought to be bad.
The version of IE that ships with Mac OS X is actually terrible at rendering large tables. Loading a page of Slashdot comments in nested mode can easily freeze IE for upwards of thirty seconds if the comments are deeply nested. Mozilla blows IE away in this regard (on OS X), with the prereleases of OmniWeb not much behind. I use OmniWeb because it's so damn pretty, and as a Mac user I'm obviously easily amused by shiny things. :-)