I really wouldn't bet my life on any OS. I would be happier if they ran on at the very least Trusted Debian. OpenBSD would be better, but I'd only trust my life to a machine that runs a completely custom OS built for one purpose that does one thing, and does it well. Thats why I'd trust the computers in a car before I trust any other sort of OS.
I really don't have a choice, though, so here's to hoping that people have enough sense to at least stop using Windows on mission critical systems.
You can use any of the Z-Machines available for Unix and Windows to play the Infocom gmaes. Infocom used a sort of interpreter, so you can play them on any computer that has a Z-Machine available for it.
Umm...he created one of the largest open source projects in existence, with hundreds of developers and packagers working to create a complete distribution...
Most French people think I'm German. Therefore, I get responses in really broken German. To which I respond with pretty fluent German (no, not fluent). If they think I'm American, that shuts them up quickly.
I seriously believe they are not trying to mess with you, but that they only speak French. We were in a restaurant, and we Americans were speaking American to each other. They started by asking us a question in German. Well, it wasn't really a question, but a SINGLE WORD. This guy knew a few words and the numbers. Thats it. He seriously thought we were speaking German to each other. This was on the German border. Now THAT is sad.
This technology seems pretty cool, but it is definitely not a good tool for verbal communication.
FYI: I've never looked at a French rail schedule, but I'm guessing its like a German one. Look at the time you wish to leave, then look for a train that takes you to the proper town. Look for the word "Track" in French at the top, then look down to your train. Run to that track. Of course, it could be really complex, knowing the French.
At the beginning, they promised to have Windows, Mac, Linux, AND BeOS support. Be died, so they dropped that, which is logical. I don't know if they ever finished the Mac port...
Bah! I use correct English when typing online, and most people I know do, too. Granted, the group of teenagers (most of us are between 16-19) I am with is pretty computer savvy and hackerish (not script-kiddie hackerish), so we do have a different set of rules than other groups.
I've seen Germans typing English the way AOLers type English. I've also seen them typing German that way...The keyboard is your friend, use it wisely, for it shall SAVE your damned soul!
The main solution to all of this crap: Teach people how to type without hunt and peck. I type fast, and its a major reason I don't speak AOL's "dialect."
I'm also a Grammar Nazi...so, thats also a good explanation...
Just get out and do something. You don't need to constantly exercise, just work out a bit every day. You should cut back on the uber-junk-food, and maybe less beer (mmm...bier...), and just run for a bit, even if its just out to lunch. I personally have a bit of a belly, but there isn't much I can do about it. Lets check the local weather...Today its 99F and 27% humidity...Hey, its not as hot as it was over the weekend (108 and equal humidity)!
So I just wait for it to cool down so I can at least swim comfortably, sometimes doing a bit of exercise inside the house.
WMA is superior to MP3. The only problem with WMA is that its a format pushed by a sole provider of WMA technology, unlike MP3.
WMP is actually a nice player. Not bloated and works. I use it to mainly listen to WMA streams in Windows, since I won't install the RealPlayer, but if I didn't have Winamp, I'd used WMP for my player, in an instant.
Your third point shows that you are a true troll. 128kb MP3 is much better than radio quality, though not the best. WMA and Ogg are both higher quality formats, and both sound even better than a 128kb MP3 at the same bitrate.
I normally don't respond to trolls, but your troll needed to be cleared up.
A lot of people seem to think of the possible abuses for this technology. I can see the abuses, but I like people knowing where I am. Why? Because I like knowing exactly where I am, and if others know exactly where I am, big deal. Its not like I'm a target for crime, and the chances of the gov't wanting to know where I am is probably less than my chance of being eaten by a shark while being struck by lightning. As long as it has an off switch for when I DON'T want people to know where I am.
I am all for the widespread use of such technology, as long as its not abused. I can think of thousands of good uses for this, RFIDs, and similar things.
Qt Designer is a very nice GUI designer, and I prefer it to MS' Visual Studio, which is really good for GUI design. Granted, I haven't used VS in a long long time, but the Qt Designer approach is probably also more flexible.
But its not for Java, a language which I have no experience in. I'll probably be taking a Java course this year, so that'll be interesting.
Maybe they have tons of legacy applications running and are simply going to migrate those apps over slowly?
I've been to Munich, and compared to the rest of the cities I saw (Heidelberg, Cologne, Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Saarbrucken), it seemed pretty behind the times (regarding subways, trams, and buses). No doubt that their apps are old, too. You can't expect them to abandon their programs yet. I doubt they have Linux equivalents yet, since they were probably custom-developed for either the City of Munich or the Free State of Bavaria.
Yeah..A while back, I tried to build a simple packaging system for use with LFS, and I didn't have enough understanding of Linux and such to be able to make it work, so it died on SF.
A few months later I built one out of neccessity, and it took me a few hours to make it work with dependency checking (because I could). I never released it, because I didn't consider it release quality software. It fit my needs, and in hindsight, it was release quality software, but its gone and I have no need for it anymore.
English grammar is very similar to German. Its different enough to be a totally different language with its own grammar rules, but its pretty easy to see how English is derived from German (if you speak both; note I do not speak fluent German (getting close!)). Both languages share thousands of words and a fairly similar technical vocabulary. Most languages borrow some words, some languages more than others. In the American southwest, you can see English acquiring terms and words from Mexican Spanish, and most people here think nothing of using a Spanish word or two in their daily speech. All languages borrow words, but the reason English and Japanese borrow so much is because of their environment. Think: The English fought many wars with the French, and dealt with them more than the German states. The French had an emperor before the English really had a need for a term for "emperor." The Latin word for emperor "Caesar," the German "Kaiser," and the Russian "Tsar." The French word was Emperur (or something similar, I speak no French). Since we were dealing with the French more than the Germans or Russians, we acquired their word for emperor. I'm not a linguist, this is just how I see the word being acquired.
Its simply an evolution of language. I bet that a vast majority of other languages in the world will begin taking more English words (the Germans have no problems with using English words...). Once English and the English-speaking nations begin to decline (Don't laugh. Even the Roman empire fell after the Pax Romana ended.), another country will attain power and their language will become the lingua franca of the world. Other languages will adopt words from that language, and the cycle continues.
THe French just don't realize that eliminating English words from your language really stagnates growth of theirlanguage.
This isn't meant for you running Mac OS X on it. Its meant for you to run Linux on. Besides, I'd guess Mac On Linux will probably run fine. With a bit of hacking, you could probably run OS X, if you really felt like it.
I really doubt that people wanting to run Mac OS X are the targeted group here. It is, as IBM says it is, for servers and Linux desktops.
My ATM/debit card works as a VISA. Its a debit card. It works in every German ATM (Deutsche Bank, Sparkasse, etc) I ever used it in. You're behind the times. Get a debit card, they exist AND work in virtually every country/location that accepts VISA.
I go to LAN parties, and play violent games, like UT2K3 and Day of Defeat. UT2K3 is a fun game. We were playing it as if it were a game or a sport. And you know what? It IS a game. DoD was more concentrated and strategic, sure, but still the same attitude towards it: Its a GAME. We realize that, and we have a blast playing it. I'm certain that none of us would ever go and do stuff like what these kids did or the Columbine kids did. Those kids had murderous tendencies and so forth, and its their fault for not controlling themselves. Blaming something millions of people their age play and don't get ideas to kill people is pretty dumb, as we've all seen. But I can see what could happen if a kid couldn't discern between fantasy and reality, but thats the responsiblity of the parent, not the government. I do think that stores should enforce the rating system (wouldn't affect me), but that, ultimately, its the responsibility of the parent and the player.
Nobody should use RAR. WinZip opens tarballs properly. Every OS on earth has the ability to open tarballs, and they are better. gzip has better compression, you never get the weird problems you get with unzip, etc. So be intelligent and think before you call something like RAR a standard. Zip works fine, but if you're aiming for 100% cross-platform, tarballs are king.
PS: Tarballs are used on every Unix and Unix clone OS in existence, not just Linux.
Its pretty interesting to see all these post-Soviet era countries prospering the way they are, while the established "Western World" is facing economic hardships, socialist government agendas, political bickering, etc. Maybe Thomas Jefferson was right, that the Republican form of government only works with smaller nations. These countries have embraced democracy and freedom, and are growing at a tremendous pace. You are probably right about Estonia becoming an economic powerhouse, but I can also see something else: Eastern Europe becoming the economic and technology center of Europe, surpassing the EU in economic and political strength. Too bad many of these countries probably seek admission to the EU, which would chain them to the rest of Europe, which will probably form the constitution to give them more power over the rest of the countries.
Sigh...Such a sad world we live in.
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Actually, in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books (forget which one), there is a spacecraft that runs off of bad news, since bad news travels faster than light and all. It really didn't work well, since bad news isn't a really good thing, and nobody liked it when they arrived.
In Europe it costs ~1.40 for 1.5 liters of standard American-style water (not carbonated mineral crap). Mineral water is cheaper, but I couldn't stand the stuff, so buying was the only choice while I was there. In hostels its a major bitch to get water from the sink, so I had to buy daily. The only place I could get tap water was when I was staying with a friend, and they frowned upon it, so that sucked. But, their tap water is very drinkable and actually tastes good, unlike ours.
I say try and set up a server for all this. You personally may not have the money, but I'm betting that your local university would be willing to help. Now, if they don't, you could get people to donate money to help you set up a server for all that stuff. I'd love to see some of it, since its got to be an interesting cross-section of post-9/11 America and such. As others have said, the Smithsonian may be interested too, but giving everyone access to your archives would be a great public service. I know I'm definitely interested in what happens to your massive archive.
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I really wouldn't bet my life on any OS. I would be happier if they ran on at the very least Trusted Debian. OpenBSD would be better, but I'd only trust my life to a machine that runs a completely custom OS built for one purpose that does one thing, and does it well. Thats why I'd trust the computers in a car before I trust any other sort of OS.
I really don't have a choice, though, so here's to hoping that people have enough sense to at least stop using Windows on mission critical systems.
You can use any of the Z-Machines available for Unix and Windows to play the Infocom gmaes. Infocom used a sort of interpreter, so you can play them on any computer that has a Z-Machine available for it.
As in Deutschland.
Umm...he created one of the largest open source projects in existence, with hundreds of developers and packagers working to create a complete distribution...
Its called Debian. You may have heard of it.
I think AIX ran on PPC before Apple used it, and thats what SCO is angry about. Of course, the subject of SCO's anger changes daily.
IBM! No, Linux! Wait, Linux SMP! Take that back, Linux! Err, scratch that, AIX! Mistake; it should be the entirety of Linux!
Tomorrow: Linus' brain!
Most French people think I'm German. Therefore, I get responses in really broken German. To which I respond with pretty fluent German (no, not fluent). If they think I'm American, that shuts them up quickly.
I seriously believe they are not trying to mess with you, but that they only speak French. We were in a restaurant, and we Americans were speaking American to each other. They started by asking us a question in German. Well, it wasn't really a question, but a SINGLE WORD. This guy knew a few words and the numbers. Thats it. He seriously thought we were speaking German to each other. This was on the German border. Now THAT is sad.
This technology seems pretty cool, but it is definitely not a good tool for verbal communication.
FYI: I've never looked at a French rail schedule, but I'm guessing its like a German one. Look at the time you wish to leave, then look for a train that takes you to the proper town. Look for the word "Track" in French at the top, then look down to your train. Run to that track. Of course, it could be really complex, knowing the French.
Hey, I didn't write the subject, I just replied, and I never pay attention to the subject. And that was a typo. Trust me :)
Well, they did promise it. Then they didn't.
At the beginning, they promised to have Windows, Mac, Linux, AND BeOS support. Be died, so they dropped that, which is logical. I don't know if they ever finished the Mac port...
Bah! I use correct English when typing online, and most people I know do, too. Granted, the group of teenagers (most of us are between 16-19) I am with is pretty computer savvy and hackerish (not script-kiddie hackerish), so we do have a different set of rules than other groups.
I've seen Germans typing English the way AOLers type English. I've also seen them typing German that way...The keyboard is your friend, use it wisely, for it shall SAVE your damned soul!
The main solution to all of this crap: Teach people how to type without hunt and peck. I type fast, and its a major reason I don't speak AOL's "dialect."
I'm also a Grammar Nazi...so, thats also a good explanation...
Just get out and do something. You don't need to constantly exercise, just work out a bit every day. You should cut back on the uber-junk-food, and maybe less beer (mmm...bier...), and just run for a bit, even if its just out to lunch. I personally have a bit of a belly, but there isn't much I can do about it. Lets check the local weather...Today its 99F and 27% humidity...Hey, its not as hot as it was over the weekend (108 and equal humidity)!
So I just wait for it to cool down so I can at least swim comfortably, sometimes doing a bit of exercise inside the house.
WMA is superior to MP3. The only problem with WMA is that its a format pushed by a sole provider of WMA technology, unlike MP3.
WMP is actually a nice player. Not bloated and works. I use it to mainly listen to WMA streams in Windows, since I won't install the RealPlayer, but if I didn't have Winamp, I'd used WMP for my player, in an instant.
Your third point shows that you are a true troll. 128kb MP3 is much better than radio quality, though not the best. WMA and Ogg are both higher quality formats, and both sound even better than a 128kb MP3 at the same bitrate.
I normally don't respond to trolls, but your troll needed to be cleared up.
A lot of people seem to think of the possible abuses for this technology. I can see the abuses, but I like people knowing where I am. Why? Because I like knowing exactly where I am, and if others know exactly where I am, big deal. Its not like I'm a target for crime, and the chances of the gov't wanting to know where I am is probably less than my chance of being eaten by a shark while being struck by lightning. As long as it has an off switch for when I DON'T want people to know where I am.
I am all for the widespread use of such technology, as long as its not abused. I can think of thousands of good uses for this, RFIDs, and similar things.
Interesting times we live in.
Qt Designer is a very nice GUI designer, and I prefer it to MS' Visual Studio, which is really good for GUI design. Granted, I haven't used VS in a long long time, but the Qt Designer approach is probably also more flexible.
But its not for Java, a language which I have no experience in. I'll probably be taking a Java course this year, so that'll be interesting.
Maybe they have tons of legacy applications running and are simply going to migrate those apps over slowly?
I've been to Munich, and compared to the rest of the cities I saw (Heidelberg, Cologne, Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Saarbrucken), it seemed pretty behind the times (regarding subways, trams, and buses). No doubt that their apps are old, too. You can't expect them to abandon their programs yet. I doubt they have Linux equivalents yet, since they were probably custom-developed for either the City of Munich or the Free State of Bavaria.
Yeah..A while back, I tried to build a simple packaging system for use with LFS, and I didn't have enough understanding of Linux and such to be able to make it work, so it died on SF.
A few months later I built one out of neccessity, and it took me a few hours to make it work with dependency checking (because I could). I never released it, because I didn't consider it release quality software. It fit my needs, and in hindsight, it was release quality software, but its gone and I have no need for it anymore.
English grammar is very similar to German. Its different enough to be a totally different language with its own grammar rules, but its pretty easy to see how English is derived from German (if you speak both; note I do not speak fluent German (getting close!)). Both languages share thousands of words and a fairly similar technical vocabulary. Most languages borrow some words, some languages more than others. In the American southwest, you can see English acquiring terms and words from Mexican Spanish, and most people here think nothing of using a Spanish word or two in their daily speech. All languages borrow words, but the reason English and Japanese borrow so much is because of their environment. Think: The English fought many wars with the French, and dealt with them more than the German states. The French had an emperor before the English really had a need for a term for "emperor." The Latin word for emperor "Caesar," the German "Kaiser," and the Russian "Tsar." The French word was Emperur (or something similar, I speak no French). Since we were dealing with the French more than the Germans or Russians, we acquired their word for emperor. I'm not a linguist, this is just how I see the word being acquired.
Its simply an evolution of language. I bet that a vast majority of other languages in the world will begin taking more English words (the Germans have no problems with using English words...). Once English and the English-speaking nations begin to decline (Don't laugh. Even the Roman empire fell after the Pax Romana ended.), another country will attain power and their language will become the lingua franca of the world. Other languages will adopt words from that language, and the cycle continues.
THe French just don't realize that eliminating English words from your language really stagnates growth of theirlanguage.
This isn't meant for you running Mac OS X on it. Its meant for you to run Linux on. Besides, I'd guess Mac On Linux will probably run fine. With a bit of hacking, you could probably run OS X, if you really felt like it.
I really doubt that people wanting to run Mac OS X are the targeted group here. It is, as IBM says it is, for servers and Linux desktops.
My ATM/debit card works as a VISA. Its a debit card. It works in every German ATM (Deutsche Bank, Sparkasse, etc) I ever used it in. You're behind the times. Get a debit card, they exist AND work in virtually every country/location that accepts VISA.
I go to LAN parties, and play violent games, like UT2K3 and Day of Defeat. UT2K3 is a fun game. We were playing it as if it were a game or a sport. And you know what? It IS a game. DoD was more concentrated and strategic, sure, but still the same attitude towards it: Its a GAME. We realize that, and we have a blast playing it. I'm certain that none of us would ever go and do stuff like what these kids did or the Columbine kids did. Those kids had murderous tendencies and so forth, and its their fault for not controlling themselves. Blaming something millions of people their age play and don't get ideas to kill people is pretty dumb, as we've all seen. But I can see what could happen if a kid couldn't discern between fantasy and reality, but thats the responsiblity of the parent, not the government. I do think that stores should enforce the rating system (wouldn't affect me), but that, ultimately, its the responsibility of the parent and the player.
Nobody should use RAR. WinZip opens tarballs properly. Every OS on earth has the ability to open tarballs, and they are better. gzip has better compression, you never get the weird problems you get with unzip, etc. So be intelligent and think before you call something like RAR a standard. Zip works fine, but if you're aiming for 100% cross-platform, tarballs are king. PS: Tarballs are used on every Unix and Unix clone OS in existence, not just Linux.
Its pretty interesting to see all these post-Soviet era countries prospering the way they are, while the established "Western World" is facing economic hardships, socialist government agendas, political bickering, etc. Maybe Thomas Jefferson was right, that the Republican form of government only works with smaller nations. These countries have embraced democracy and freedom, and are growing at a tremendous pace. You are probably right about Estonia becoming an economic powerhouse, but I can also see something else: Eastern Europe becoming the economic and technology center of Europe, surpassing the EU in economic and political strength. Too bad many of these countries probably seek admission to the EU, which would chain them to the rest of Europe, which will probably form the constitution to give them more power over the rest of the countries.
Sigh...Such a sad world we live in.
Actually, in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books (forget which one), there is a spacecraft that runs off of bad news, since bad news travels faster than light and all. It really didn't work well, since bad news isn't a really good thing, and nobody liked it when they arrived.
In Europe it costs ~1.40 for 1.5 liters of standard American-style water (not carbonated mineral crap). Mineral water is cheaper, but I couldn't stand the stuff, so buying was the only choice while I was there. In hostels its a major bitch to get water from the sink, so I had to buy daily. The only place I could get tap water was when I was staying with a friend, and they frowned upon it, so that sucked. But, their tap water is very drinkable and actually tastes good, unlike ours.
I say try and set up a server for all this. You personally may not have the money, but I'm betting that your local university would be willing to help. Now, if they don't, you could get people to donate money to help you set up a server for all that stuff. I'd love to see some of it, since its got to be an interesting cross-section of post-9/11 America and such. As others have said, the Smithsonian may be interested too, but giving everyone access to your archives would be a great public service. I know I'm definitely interested in what happens to your massive archive.
That depends on the distro. Slackware uses a BSD-style init, Gentoo uses its own system, etc.