So much potential (and it still is an absolutely great platform) but it got such a kick in the ribs from MS and this decision is typically late in prescribing a remedy.
Who's behind this book?
The author of this book, Bob Toxen, is one of the 162 recognized developers of Berkeley UNIX. He has more then 28 years of UNIX and 8 years of Linux experience. Trivia from his resume includes that he was one of the four developers who did the initial port of UNIX to Silicon Graphics hardware, that he was an architect of the client/server system used by NASA's Kennedy Space Center and that he wrote the "The Problem Solver" column for popular UNIX Review magazine. Currently he is a president of Fly-By-Day Consulting, Inc. offering Linux security-consulting services.
Police Quest was so cool. Even though the story line was linear, the text command interface and real-life duties and police situations made it feel like you were in a living world.
Also, walking in on someone in the shower in the locker room and listening to them complain was my first experience of virtual sexual harassment.
Thanks, this works perfectly (except I had to change it from "*Mozilla*" to "*Phoenix*" in the block they tell you to copy). I made the change and restarted syntpenh.exe and phoenix worked perfectly (goodbye IE:)
Xenix is a 16-bit unix. It was written for the 286.:-)
Well, I don't mean release the last version they had in the boiler room in Redmond HQ, holding the door closed:)
They already did release Office for BSD i.e. Mac OS X.
Good point:), but its certainly not under open and it's probably under their standard EULA.
Well, if they wanted to release a new *nix variant, all they would have to do is go with a BSD system, like MacOS has done. Maybe even create their own windowing system like Apple. The BSD license will leave them free to do whatever they wish, to make a commercial BSD flavor without any IP/patent problems.
Hmm, interesting. I think they'd more likely release software for *BSD. And probably colsed source at that or open source under a much more restrictive license than a BSD or GPL one.
I haven't tried it with my laptop (just got an inspiron 4150:-), but I'm pretty sure that the last version worked with my intellimouse on my other windows machine.
I naively thought that the synaptics touchpad just emulated the scrollbar directly through the driver software (or wherever).
I'm pretty sure C# does this as well. In Java, if I remember correctly, they're boxed automatically or at least some SDK utility methods do it automatically. But they're immutable, which combined with no convenience in operator overloading becomes clumsy to work with, IMO.
Now that book was terrible. First one that I had read of his that I didn't like. I was so disappointed.
Maybe I'm just looking at it through rose-tinted reading glasses but the Andromeda Strain and Congo, I thought, were two of his absolute best. Sphere was totally engrossing at first then kind of a let down. Terminal Man was certainly interesting, although I can not remember much from it being great. Never read Jurassic Park, though.
I was in high-school when I read all these though. Maybe he has lost it, however.
Didn't take this long; got it the first time. His initial reference still fits into the tired MS-bashing song and dance even though it was obviously illustrating a satiric situation. Said it was unoriginal in first post.
I don't know what is stupider: being unoriginal and spouting such conformist 'humor', or being so thick as to assume everyone else couldn't get the cleverly nested joke in a joke.
Please note that I labeled my previous reply to a "joke." Please note that I got the joke. Please note that it wasn't funny because it is unoriginal, and formulaic. Please note that you misspelled an abbreviation to congratulations.
Snow Crash seemed interesting, it just started boring me with the cliches of VR and bizarro technology without having that much in terms of a plot, IMHO.
Certainly, some in the evolutionist camp can be zealots, just like in any other cause. It's creepy how people always have an us vs. them mentality in everything on every scale.
I certainly agree that Slashdot does have less believers but unfortunately the believers that do exist are either masquarading trolls, or zealots who make a non-sequitir posts like the guy who started this thread, without any real reasoning or argument to back it up.
Personally, I haven't entirely convinced myself that a god (or even gods) doesn't exist, but I am grounded by logic and science first and formost to give me the facts so that I can make my own decisions and shape my own ideology.
That said, when I hear someone ragging on the religious guy who's minding their own business, I try to point out that that guy doesn't have to prove god exists to himself (or anyone else), he has faith and that is the whole point. ie, he is not supposed to have proof. Hell, if god decided tomorrow that he was going to drop down from nowhere and show us he exists *everyone* would follow him/her/it/whatever.
Unfortunatly for me, even if there exists the guy who doesn't bother anyone and who says 'I believe what I wish to believe, and that is my right.' at some point his (let's be fair: irrational) beliefs have to influence his political/social ideology. ie abortion, gays, etc and force him to push his beliefs on a population that is made of many different religions, not to mention agnostics.
Actually you didn't answer his statement about you stating that you were somehow being "forced" to believe in God.
I had a nagging feeling 'force' would be misconstrued and you would jump over my words instead of ideas.
I consider myself being forced if i'm sitting in the subway or walking down the street minding my own business and some fellow decides to start shouting for me to repent to Jusus or Allah. Or when I find myself ripping a 'believe in Jesus before it's too late' flyer off my car. Maybe not 'force' but I am annoyed with the people who believe in some religion or superstition but can't just be content with feeling better about it without having to tell everyone they meet how great it is and how wrong they are and why they themselves are right.
Well keep in mind that at one point the general scientific community thought the earth was flat
This was an assumption, NOT something that was thought fact because the so-called "scientific community" had proven it throught some sort of experiments or research.
You know eveolution in entirely a plausable outcome (except perhaps the 'original spark' (who knows maybe that was God?!)), but what is more plausable: that beings slowly evolved through minor natural selection and genetic mutations and punctuated evolution (due to local/global cataclysms) OR is it more plausable that and invisible, omnipotent, super-intelligent has existed since the beginning of time and created the trillions of galaxies each with hundreds of millions to trillions of stars,planets,etc and only one of those planets he magically created what we call life and intelligent life? (Occams Razor??)
"By the way, where did the material for the Big Bang come from"
I keep asking this, and nobody will answer...
Sir, this question is profound like asking the meaning of life. You cannot expect me or any one person to just have this knowledge. It may surprise you to know that scientists have found but a minor speck of of knowledge in our short time here. Simply pounding your feet when you cannot get an answer to an easily asked question that is difficult for laymen like me to answer is childish.
There are theories that state that this matter/energy has existed and has always existed continually recycling into 'big bangs' and 'big crunches' forever. Of course, this is, at best, a conjecture.
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Does "it" refer to Java or Windows?
...it got a kick in the ribs form MS
Hehe,
So much potential (and it still is an absolutely great platform) but it got such a kick in the ribs from MS and this decision is typically late in prescribing a remedy.
Yeah, right after Enlich class and befour Jim.
;-)
Sorry, had to take a shot at that
<sings pink floyd lyrics>...I don't need no edumacation...</sings>
Who's behind this book?
The author of this book, Bob Toxen, is one of the 162 recognized developers of Berkeley UNIX. He has more then 28 years of UNIX and 8 years of Linux experience. Trivia from his resume includes that he was one of the four developers who did the initial port of UNIX to Silicon Graphics hardware, that he was an architect of the client/server system used by NASA's Kennedy Space Center and that he wrote the "The Problem Solver" column for popular UNIX Review magazine. Currently he is a president of Fly-By-Day Consulting, Inc. offering Linux security-consulting services.
Yes, yes -- but is he qualified?
Police Quest was so cool. Even though the story line was linear, the text command interface and real-life duties and police situations made it feel like you were in a living world.
Also, walking in on someone in the shower in the locker room and listening to them complain was my first experience of virtual sexual harassment.
There are NO universal laws of human nature.
;-)
Except for that one
who says he doesn't do both? jumping to conclusions makes you look silly.
Thanks, this works perfectly (except I had to change it from "*Mozilla*" to "*Phoenix*" in the block they tell you to copy). I made the change and restarted syntpenh.exe and phoenix worked perfectly (goodbye IE :)
Thanks again.
Xenix is a 16-bit unix. It was written for the 286. :-)
:)
:), but its certainly not under open and it's probably under their standard EULA.
Well, I don't mean release the last version they had in the boiler room in Redmond HQ, holding the door closed
They already did release Office for BSD i.e. Mac OS X.
Good point
Well, if they wanted to release a new *nix variant, all they would have to do is go with a BSD system, like MacOS has done. Maybe even create their own windowing system like Apple. The BSD license will leave them free to do whatever they wish, to make a commercial BSD flavor without any IP/patent problems.
On a totally unrelated note: what brand of coffee do you drink in the morning?
...revive Xenix?
Hmm, interesting. I think they'd more likely release software for *BSD. And probably colsed source at that or open source under a much more restrictive license than a BSD or GPL one.
Did previous versions scroll for you?
:-), but I'm pretty sure that the last version worked with my intellimouse on my other windows machine.
:)
I haven't tried it with my laptop (just got an inspiron 4150
I naively thought that the synaptics touchpad just emulated the scrollbar directly through the driver software (or wherever).
I think I will file a bug report as well
Anybody, not have scrolling work with this release (using a laptop touchpad in win32, if that makes a difference)?
I'm pretty sure C# does this as well. In Java, if I remember correctly, they're boxed automatically or at least some SDK utility methods do it automatically. But they're immutable, which combined with no convenience in operator overloading becomes clumsy to work with, IMO.
Heh, like Java. Well, almost. You have to box some primitives.
Now that book was terrible. First one that I had read of his that I didn't like. I was so disappointed.
Maybe I'm just looking at it through rose-tinted reading glasses but the Andromeda Strain and Congo, I thought, were two of his absolute best. Sphere was totally engrossing at first then kind of a let down. Terminal Man was certainly interesting, although I can not remember much from it being great. Never read Jurassic Park, though.
I was in high-school when I read all these though. Maybe he has lost it, however.
Didn't take this long; got it the first time. His initial reference still fits into the tired MS-bashing song and dance even though it was obviously illustrating a satiric situation. Said it was unoriginal in first post.
I don't know what is stupider: being unoriginal and spouting such conformist 'humor', or being so thick as to assume everyone else couldn't get the cleverly nested joke in a joke.
I've become bored entertaining a troll.
You still with me?
Yeah, get it. Not funny. Where am I losing you?
Please note that I labeled my previous reply to a "joke."
Please note that I got the joke.
Please note that it wasn't funny because it is unoriginal, and formulaic.
Please note that you misspelled an abbreviation to congratulations.
[insert tired windows w/ critical mission joke here]
Yeah, that was a truly insightful question.
Pig bones, eh? You should put more effort into your trolls.
Hmm, why do you quote 'they'? Who do you think I meant?
Snow Crash seemed interesting, it just started boring me with the cliches of VR and bizarro technology without having that much in terms of a plot, IMHO.
Certainly, some in the evolutionist camp can be zealots, just like in any other cause. It's creepy how people always have an us vs. them mentality in everything on every scale.
I certainly agree that Slashdot does have less believers but unfortunately the believers that do exist are either masquarading trolls, or zealots who make a non-sequitir posts like the guy who started this thread, without any real reasoning or argument to back it up.
Personally, I haven't entirely convinced myself that a god (or even gods) doesn't exist, but I am grounded by logic and science first and formost to give me the facts so that I can make my own decisions and shape my own ideology.
That said, when I hear someone ragging on the religious guy who's minding their own business, I try to point out that that guy doesn't have to prove god exists to himself (or anyone else), he has faith and that is the whole point. ie, he is not supposed to have proof. Hell, if god decided tomorrow that he was going to drop down from nowhere and show us he exists *everyone* would follow him/her/it/whatever.
Unfortunatly for me, even if there exists the guy who doesn't bother anyone and who says 'I believe what I wish to believe, and that is my right.' at some point his (let's be fair: irrational) beliefs have to influence his political/social ideology. ie abortion, gays, etc and force him to push his beliefs on a population that is made of many different religions, not to mention agnostics.
Actually you didn't answer his statement about you stating that you were somehow being "forced" to believe in God.
I had a nagging feeling 'force' would be misconstrued and you would jump over my words instead of ideas.
I consider myself being forced if i'm sitting in the subway or walking down the street minding my own business and some fellow decides to start shouting for me to repent to Jusus or Allah. Or when I find myself ripping a 'believe in Jesus before it's too late' flyer off my car. Maybe not 'force' but I am annoyed with the people who believe in some religion or superstition but can't just be content with feeling better about it without having to tell everyone they meet how great it is and how wrong they are and why they themselves are right.
Well keep in mind that at one point the general scientific community thought the earth was flat
This was an assumption, NOT something that was thought fact because the so-called "scientific community" had proven it throught some sort of experiments or research.
You know eveolution in entirely a plausable outcome (except perhaps the 'original spark' (who knows maybe that was God?!)), but what is more plausable: that beings slowly evolved through minor natural selection and genetic mutations and punctuated evolution (due to local/global cataclysms) OR is it more plausable that and invisible, omnipotent, super-intelligent has existed since the beginning of time and created the trillions of galaxies each with hundreds of millions to trillions of stars,planets,etc and only one of those planets he magically created what we call life and intelligent life? (Occams Razor??)
Now I ask you, honeslty: Which is more plausable?
"By the way, where did the material for the Big Bang come from"
I keep asking this, and nobody will answer...
Sir, this question is profound like asking the meaning of life. You cannot expect me or any one person to just have this knowledge. It may surprise you to know that scientists have found but a minor speck of of knowledge in our short time here. Simply pounding your feet when you cannot get an answer to an easily asked question that is difficult for laymen like me to answer is childish.
There are theories that state that this matter/energy has existed and has always existed continually recycling into 'big bangs' and 'big crunches' forever. Of course, this is, at best, a conjecture.