POSIX is the Portable Operating System Interface. AFAIK, Windows supports POSIX...and the *NIXs are POSIX compliant, there is a reason we have a './configure; make;' run -- each UNIX has it's uniqueness - from filesystem heirarchy layout or POSIX implementation semantics. Hell, not all UNIXes support multithreading and the reason why samba is not multithreaded.
So why isn't POSIX working out? Maybe it's not enough to be POSIX compliant or is not as good.
IM is also good in certain cases. If a developer and customer need to communicate command-line input/output when remote logins are not available(i.e. SSH), then IM is much better than saying this over the phone:
me: "Can you type in/usr/xxxx/comctrl -x -f -b -ssdf" customer: "is that space -b or -v?" me: "b as in bob" customer: ok I got a strange output. I get a bunch of 000s and 111s followed by some hexadecimal junk me: giveme the output of the 3rd paragraph, 2nd column. I need that return code.
etc.
While you could have an 'incident tool' to collect reports and what not. They tools generate pretty big reports, and usually they don't capture the problem customer is experiencing.
With IM all you have to do is cut 'n paste: me: paste "comtrl -x -f -xfsfs" customer: paste output of command
Essentially customer becomes my 'command proxy' and fills a role the neither SSH nor other tools can fill. It takes a while to get everything, but it's much better than trying to send custom scripts(that must be correct with no typos) with long-follow-ups using email.
You are trying to work around bad sectors causing total disk failures. MD should create a 'bad sector table' for each drive, and when block 0 is referenced, it will write to block 9999999 instead.
And vice versa for reading. Then you don't need to do the hack you are describing.
It's because there is no advantage to use a CDRW -- many read-only PC-CD players I've used can't read a CDRW disk. Also many people have now moved to web-based storage i.e. email attachments.
Also CDRW only recently got cheap -- it was still expensive($100+ CDN a couple of years ago)
Kashif
So run the program under WINE and change WINEs behavior to allow increased CPU usage stats for a process.
Or if they "trust" the operating system/environment, then they can only get screwed. BTW, If the call to get process stats is within some DLL, they you can replace the DLL with your nefarious version. I'm not too familiar with Windows, but you could do this under linux because glibc's symbols are "weak" and can be overridden by another library.
A panel at the bottom of screen Various panel applets One of those being a menu of applications located at the far left A few shortcuts for commonyl used apps beside that A taskbar besides that, including pop up listy boxes for duplicate apps Some panel apps beside that, for the weather or whatever else A clock over on the right Icons on the desktop A file manager A web browser An email app
Yes, but there is no integration between any of 'em. On KDE you can vividly see component re-use and integration between apps(i.e. kdevelop using kate or kvim, konqueror viewing pdfs, web content, filesystem, etc). And the problem is there is hardly any integration between KDE and Gnome apps as they use different methodologies(i.e. gconf v.s. kde rc files).
"The fact that they filled up the flash memory with too many files that were accumulated during the cruise phase of the mission between earth and mars was something that they should have known would happen."
How easy it is to describe a test after a problem appears. Not so easy when there are a million different things you want to test and some untested script statement(i.e. cp $EARTH_FILES/tmp/blah) failed _silently_.
even worse to test and detect are periodic restarts due to some constant input
I don't use MS Office a whole lot(I develop software), but my brother does(being in a business position). He requires a lot of advance features in Excel(and it's tie in with Word) that can't be found in OpenOffice.
- 3D0 system - ATARI Jaguar!!!! - SNK NeoGeo - Sega Saturn 32X add-on hardware - Turbo Grafix 16 hand-held - Sega GameGear hand-held
There are a lot of software flops, but the most hyped and failed game I can remember was Jurassic Park. Why did it flop? - realistic physics ate frame-rate like mad even with top-of-the-line P2-400 CPU(at the time) - too graphic intensive: current hardware was not ready to draw realistic trees or huge expansive areas - bad gameplay
The only good thing about it was that your character had big boobs showing cleavage. In a nutshell an ambitious game released...
"3. The US will start another war on $random_country for support of $random_terrorist_group."
$random_country appears as random, but really is an item from the @countries_of_interest list. But you are right about $random_terrorist_group, except that "Islam" is concatenated to each of these groups.
That's what happens when you have a global market -- something that you could grow in your backyard and buy with your current paycheck -- is not possible when the 'global modifier' is added and the good is sold across the globe. Plus if goods are imported, tariffs are added, increasing the cost of goods consumed.
Many third-world countries got fucked when domestic-made products(i.e. agriculture) went from local market to global markets. For example, gasoline in Pakistan is not a magnitude cheaper than gasoline in North America. Why? Because if that was possible all the "Big Guys" would buy gasoline from Pakistan.
Tieing this to the main topic, when a video is pirated in China it's 'good enough' for the right price. When ppl don't give a rats ass about DVD quality, and price is the main factor, then MPAA will have lots to worry about.
"Fourth, there's the issue of control. What insurance do you have against Qt jacking up the price of a developer license?"
What assurance do you have that GTK2.4 is going to be compatible with GTK2.8?? As an end-user who doesn't contribute code but uses the library - you want a library that has a firm API. Case in point: GTK1.x apps had to be re-written to take advantage of GTK2.x. Because it happened in the past, it can happen in the future. You should also look at what redhat did - people didn't care much about open-source, but the fact they eliminated RHN for RH9 etc.
Besides, the developer license is only a measly $1500 per developer(one platform). This isn't a royalty, but a one-time fee(they're charing people who use the developer-tool not end-users). Compared to the annual salaries of programmers(i.e. 50K+), it would only cost the company 1/50th of a persons salary. This cost is re-couped with ROI on the good, stable API with good documentation resulting in more productivity. Plus if you find a bug, Trolltech will fix it for you. Not too bad for $1500 bucks.
"But text-based interfaces are always fragile. Just look at any of the millions of cdrecord frontends out there. They never quite work properly, because cdrecord-of-the-week always has some new diagnostic message, or error, and the program gets confused."
This is why I've always hated text-based interfaces - since the first time I had to write a shell based program to do SQL queries on IBM DB2 for my university assignment. The glue between the caller and the program is loosely coupled and not tightly integrated. The input/output is not specific and the front-ends aren't tested to work with all comibinations of stdout output.
Sure, a text-based interface can have a well-defined interfaced using keyvals for in/out, but most CLI writers don't keep strict output formats. These interfaces are flexible and desirable because it allows them to be used in any program(C,C++, Java, Perl, Python, etc) without special bindings.
This is why I like C/C++ APIs - they export a well-defined interface. Only if Perl and Python can call C/C++ APIs without writing Perl XS Modules, Python C API modules, or swig glue, it would be perfect. CORBA solves some of these problems but its too complex. Anyone know of a common-interchangeable communication format? (Don't say XML or I'll shoot you).
"Switching tabs is instantaneous. Switching tabs sometimes results in tearing (flicker) which has nothing to do with speed, it's a visual artifact. Rapidly switching tabs is accomplished by whatever you use for keybindings; the default is ctrl-pageup/pagedown."
No, it is NOT instantaneous. The fact the screen is drawing twice(try gnome terminal with a dark background -- it will first draw the screen white, then draw the selected color). This tearing is not good -- especially if you're like me who constantly switches between multiple tabs instead of opening 20 xterms.
P.S. I don't have to list features I don't use -- I simply stated why Konsole kicks GT's ass three times over.
I wasn't awake when Tribes1 came around("sleeper hit"), but Tribes2 was awesome and even more fun when I joined a clan + we made it to #1 on a twl ladder. Plus it had a lot of integrated features, like irc, news posts, emails, etc. -- that all made it easy to find clans(FPS devs are you listening??)
Tribes2 died in 8 months though - too many bugs, required good hardware to compete fairly(i.e. distance/far plane), and those fucks at Sierra fired the tribe developers and forcing them to release the game 6-8 months early.
There is NO multiplayer game that had the same depth and strategy of Tribes2 - not even Battlefield with its multitude of vehicles.
I use Konsole exclusively for programming with vi even though I use Ximian Desktop 2/w Gnome. I would like to use Gnome terminal, but don't for the following reasons:
- You can create tabbed child windows, with gnome terminal, but switching between them is dog-slow(flickers). It seems to be painting the same screen twice, making it very irritating over long editing sessions. Konsole doesn't have this problem and allows rapid switching with "shift" + "left" or "right" arrow keys.
- you can witness the dog-slow tabbed window switching even more in Gnome Terminal if you enable transparent terminal windows. Here the transparency is calculated on each window switch. Konsole calculates the transparency once(at startup or window move) and window switching happens at full-speed(though refresh rate does drop down).
- Konsole allows you to easily set font sizes(like xterm's "small, medium, huge, etc" using bitmap fonts by default. Gnome Terminal is fucked since it by default is configured with true-type anti-aliased fonts. This alone makes it slow. It shouldn't allow AA fonts *at all*. Who the fuck uses AA fonts on a terminal?
- Finally, konsole is very customizable with it's colours, fonts, schemas, bookmarks(!), programs to run in shell, etc. The bonus is that its integrated into Konqueror, KDevelop, etc.
True. But according to my espionage course I took in my undergrad years(taught by an ex-Canadian "secret-agent"), a country needs three thinks to achieve superiority:
- money - military - media
The "3 M's" as I like to call it, which America had. As espionage methods were being sophisticated, so were techniques of using the media to stage fake events(I'm sorry I don't have a reference for one...I know there was one with Cuba...just have to dig my history books)
P.S. If you the media is not controlled my the gov't your really wrong. Because the american media only tries to show one side of a story -- and if your point was true -- they would show other sides of the story in Iraq and etc. Also, here is canada, all the major news agency are owned by Jews(you make the corellation - we muslims already have).
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POSIX is the Portable Operating System Interface. AFAIK, Windows supports POSIX. ..and the *NIXs are POSIX compliant, there is a reason we have a './configure; make;' run -- each UNIX has it's uniqueness - from filesystem heirarchy layout or POSIX implementation semantics. Hell, not all UNIXes support multithreading and the reason why samba is not multithreaded.
So why isn't POSIX working out? Maybe it's not enough to be POSIX compliant or is not as good.
IM is also good in certain cases. If a developer and customer need to communicate command-line input/output when remote logins are not available(i.e. SSH), then IM is much better than saying this over the phone:
/usr/xxxx/comctrl -x -f -b -ssdf"
me: "Can you type in
customer: "is that space -b or -v?"
me: "b as in bob"
customer: ok I got a strange output. I get a bunch of 000s and 111s followed by some hexadecimal junk
me: giveme the output of the 3rd paragraph, 2nd column. I need that return code.
etc.
While you could have an 'incident tool' to collect reports and what not. They tools generate pretty big reports, and usually they don't capture the problem customer is experiencing.
With IM all you have to do is cut 'n paste:
me: paste "comtrl -x -f -xfsfs"
customer: paste output of command
Essentially customer becomes my 'command proxy' and fills a role the neither SSH nor other tools can fill. It takes a while to get everything, but it's much better than trying to send custom scripts(that must be correct with no typos) with long-follow-ups using email.
kashif
You are trying to work around bad sectors causing total disk failures. MD should create a 'bad sector table' for each drive, and when block 0 is referenced, it will write to block 9999999 instead.
And vice versa for reading. Then you don't need to do the hack you are describing.
Kashif
It's because there is no advantage to use a CDRW -- many read-only PC-CD players I've used can't read a CDRW disk. Also many people have now moved to web-based storage i.e. email attachments. Also CDRW only recently got cheap -- it was still expensive($100+ CDN a couple of years ago) Kashif
So run the program under WINE and change WINEs behavior to allow increased CPU usage stats for a process.
Or if they "trust" the operating system/environment, then they can only get screwed. BTW, If the call to get process stats is within some DLL, they you can replace the DLL with your nefarious version. I'm not too familiar with Windows, but you could do this under linux because glibc's symbols are "weak" and can be overridden by another library.
Well, if GigE is effectively twice the bandwidth of 100Mbs, then why not just slap two ethernet controllers together for channel bonding?
If you have intel nics, you can use their bonding linux drivers(which may give you double the bandwidth).
They won't consider the case unless it involves atleast $10000US(that is their federal "should I, or should I not" threshold for persuing cases).
So unless you just lost $10K, don't think the FABEE will be setting a up a "special task force for Gnome".
A panel at the bottom of screen
Various panel applets
One of those being a menu of applications located at the far left
A few shortcuts for commonyl used apps beside that
A taskbar besides that, including pop up listy boxes for duplicate apps
Some panel apps beside that, for the weather or whatever else
A clock over on the right
Icons on the desktop
A file manager
A web browser
An email app
Yes, but there is no integration between any of 'em. On KDE you can vividly see component re-use and integration between apps(i.e. kdevelop using kate or kvim, konqueror viewing pdfs, web content, filesystem, etc). And the problem is there is hardly any integration between KDE and Gnome apps as they use different methodologies(i.e. gconf v.s. kde rc files).
and note the space between Xfree & 86. This will return xfree86.org link as desired.
Looks more like a (stupid) bug, but then again bugs always cause undesired results.
"The fact that they filled up the flash memory with too many files that were accumulated during the cruise phase of the mission between earth and mars was something that they should have known would happen."
/tmp/blah) failed _silently_.
How easy it is to describe a test after a problem appears. Not so easy when there are a million different things you want to test and some untested script statement(i.e. cp $EARTH_FILES
even worse to test and detect are periodic restarts due to some constant input
I don't use MS Office a whole lot(I develop software), but my brother does(being in a business position). He requires a lot of advance features in Excel(and it's tie in with Word) that can't be found in OpenOffice.
To each his own.
Yes, I said Video Game Market, not the Arcade Market or PC Market
major hardware flops:
- 3D0 system
- ATARI Jaguar!!!!
- SNK NeoGeo
- Sega Saturn 32X add-on hardware
- Turbo Grafix 16 hand-held
- Sega GameGear hand-held
There are a lot of software flops, but the most hyped and failed game I can remember was Jurassic Park. Why did it flop?
- realistic physics ate frame-rate like mad even with top-of-the-line P2-400 CPU(at the time)
- too graphic intensive: current hardware was not ready to draw realistic trees or huge expansive areas
- bad gameplay
The only good thing about it was that your character had big boobs showing cleavage. In a nutshell an ambitious game released...
"3. The US will start another war on $random_country for support of $random_terrorist_group."
$random_country appears as random, but really is an item from the @countries_of_interest list. But you are right about $random_terrorist_group, except that "Islam" is concatenated to each of these groups.
"# Doom 3 still won't be released."
Don't you mean Duke Nukem Forever?
WHich makes it funny and ironic!
"many of the games on PS2 simply do not look as good as those on an Xbox"
You're wrong. Have you seen:
Gran Turismo 3? Early game with very realistic(almost photo-realistic) graphics
WWE: Smackdown Hear Comes The Pain? The successor has AA and good texture/effects(the prior game was really sucky in terms of graphics though)
Grand Theft Auto 3 & Vice City? Grab a helicoptor then fly around -- amazing graphics and how they can draw huge landscapes.
"Those goods were priced for US markets"
That's what happens when you have a global market -- something that you could grow in your backyard and buy with your current paycheck -- is not possible when the 'global modifier' is added and the good is sold across the globe. Plus if goods are imported, tariffs are added, increasing the cost of goods consumed.
Many third-world countries got fucked when domestic-made products(i.e. agriculture) went from local market to global markets. For example, gasoline in Pakistan is not a magnitude cheaper than gasoline in North America. Why? Because if that was possible all the "Big Guys" would buy gasoline from Pakistan.
Tieing this to the main topic, when a video is pirated in China it's 'good enough' for the right price. When ppl don't give a rats ass about DVD quality, and price is the main factor, then MPAA will have lots to worry about.
"Fourth, there's the issue of control. What insurance do you have against Qt jacking up the price of a developer license?"
What assurance do you have that GTK2.4 is going to be compatible with GTK2.8?? As an end-user who doesn't contribute code but uses the library - you want a library that has a firm API. Case in point: GTK1.x apps had to be re-written to take advantage of GTK2.x. Because it happened in the past, it can happen in the future. You should also look at what redhat did - people didn't care much about open-source, but the fact they eliminated RHN for RH9 etc.
Besides, the developer license is only a measly $1500 per developer(one platform). This isn't a royalty, but a one-time fee(they're charing people who use the developer-tool not end-users). Compared to the annual salaries of programmers(i.e. 50K+), it would only cost the company 1/50th of a persons salary. This cost is re-couped with ROI on the good, stable API with good documentation resulting in more productivity. Plus if you find a bug, Trolltech will fix it for you. Not too bad for $1500 bucks.
"But text-based interfaces are always fragile. Just look at any of the millions of cdrecord frontends out there. They never quite work properly, because cdrecord-of-the-week always has some new diagnostic message, or error, and the program gets confused."
This is why I've always hated text-based interfaces - since the first time I had to write a shell based program to do SQL queries on IBM DB2 for my university assignment. The glue between the caller and the program is loosely coupled and not tightly integrated. The input/output is not specific and the front-ends aren't tested to work with all comibinations of stdout output.
Sure, a text-based interface can have a well-defined interfaced using keyvals for in/out, but most CLI writers don't keep strict output formats. These interfaces are flexible and desirable because it allows them to be used in any program(C,C++, Java, Perl, Python, etc) without special bindings.
This is why I like C/C++ APIs - they export a well-defined interface. Only if Perl and Python can call C/C++ APIs without writing Perl XS Modules, Python C API modules, or swig glue, it would be perfect. CORBA solves some of these problems but its too complex. Anyone know of a common-interchangeable communication format? (Don't say XML or I'll shoot you).
Kashif
"Switching tabs is instantaneous. Switching tabs sometimes results in tearing (flicker) which has nothing to do with speed, it's a visual artifact. Rapidly switching tabs is accomplished by whatever you use for keybindings; the default is ctrl-pageup/pagedown."
No, it is NOT instantaneous. The fact the screen is drawing twice(try gnome terminal with a dark background -- it will first draw the screen white, then draw the selected color). This tearing is not good -- especially if you're like me who constantly switches between multiple tabs instead of opening 20 xterms.
P.S. I don't have to list features I don't use -- I simply stated why Konsole kicks GT's ass three times over.
I wasn't awake when Tribes1 came around("sleeper hit"), but Tribes2 was awesome and even more fun when I joined a clan + we made it to #1 on a twl ladder. Plus it had a lot of integrated features, like irc, news posts, emails, etc. -- that all made it easy to find clans(FPS devs are you listening??)
Tribes2 died in 8 months though - too many bugs, required good hardware to compete fairly(i.e. distance/far plane), and those fucks at Sierra fired the tribe developers and forcing them to release the game 6-8 months early.
There is NO multiplayer game that had the same depth and strategy of Tribes2 - not even Battlefield with its multitude of vehicles.
I use Konsole exclusively for programming with vi even though I use Ximian Desktop 2 /w Gnome. I would like to use Gnome terminal, but don't for the following reasons:
- You can create tabbed child windows, with gnome terminal, but switching between them is dog-slow(flickers). It seems to be painting the same screen twice, making it very irritating over long editing sessions. Konsole doesn't have this problem and allows rapid switching with "shift" + "left" or "right" arrow keys.
- you can witness the dog-slow tabbed window switching even more in Gnome Terminal if you enable transparent terminal windows. Here the transparency is calculated on each window switch. Konsole calculates the transparency once(at startup or window move) and window switching happens at full-speed(though refresh rate does drop down).
- Konsole allows you to easily set font sizes(like xterm's "small, medium, huge, etc" using bitmap fonts by default. Gnome Terminal is fucked since it by default is configured with true-type anti-aliased fonts. This alone makes it slow. It shouldn't allow AA fonts *at all*. Who the fuck uses AA fonts on a terminal?
- Finally, konsole is very customizable with it's colours, fonts, schemas, bookmarks(!), programs to run in shell, etc. The bonus is that its integrated into Konqueror, KDevelop, etc.
what he said.
"Remember, they eat anything and everything."
True. But according to my espionage course I took in my undergrad years(taught by an ex-Canadian "secret-agent"), a country needs three thinks to achieve superiority:
- money
- military
- media
The "3 M's" as I like to call it, which America had. As espionage methods were being sophisticated, so were techniques of using the media to stage fake events(I'm sorry I don't have a reference for one...I know there was one with Cuba...just have to dig my history books)
P.S. If you the media is not controlled my the gov't your really wrong. Because the american media only tries to show one side of a story -- and if your point was true -- they would show other sides of the story in Iraq and etc. Also, here is canada, all the major news agency are owned by Jews(you make the corellation - we muslims already have).