You don't suppose he was sitting there for four hours and watched the progress bar advancing? I had a terrible time (a complete day, about 20 hours) when getting my shiny new ISDN card and Windows to cooperate. (That's what you get for using proprietary software which requires ISDN card X manufactured by Y which makes sloppy drivers...) And I'll tell you, I wasnt just watching progress bars there.
Criticize whatever you want, but the fact that GNOME has a C API actually is an advantage. C is the lowest common denominator. C is easy to wrap around (and thus to have C++, Python, whatever $LANGUAGE APIs). What inefficiency are you brabbling about? Numbers? Oh, you have none? Then shut up.
PressPlay didn't offer you 99 cent downloads of individual tracks of $10 for an album. It's a seperate model.
Erm... will anyone with the slightest clue even consider to fork $10 for an album which (s)he receives no physical medium (backup!) and no booklet for and which comes in funny little DRM containers which happen to be incompatible to Windoze 2005? I'm amazed, the RIAA obviously believes that. What's worse, the average man-on-the-street might actually fall into that trap, being indoctrinated by the marketing droids. Homo sapiens?!
... or they suddenly don't receive any more preview versions of the next Windows release... Yes, we all know and appreciate Microsoft's business methods.
MS Employee: IBM says they won't display our XP advertising on their homepage!
BillG: No trouble. I'll make them an offer they can't refuse...
I'm not too sure about that. Linux distros aren't nearly as flexible as they need to be. When you take a Linux harddrive from one system to another, you almost always need to manually work-out one problem or another.
Erm... maybe. But Windows wouldn't even boot when you take the HDD to a different computer. Ever tried to change chipset (motherboard) drivers on a Windows installation? Forget it.
And let us not forget that WinXP has arrived. That makes a call to M$ because all of the hardware has changed. Stupid activation mechanisms...
Both, to a certain degree. Linus created the Linux kernel, which is a project of its own. But a mere kernel doesn't make an operating system.
You need a whole lot of utility programs which provide a friendly interface to the users. For example, the shell and fileutils falls in that category. Most of these tools have GNU versions nowadays, that's why the GNU people call the whole operating system GNU/Linux.
But wait -- not everything you install with a common Linux distro is GPL-licensed. There's also BSD software, Perl and so on... it's a really complicated mix. We should really call this distribution a GNU/BSD/Perl/.../.../Linux one. Which if of course a very inconvenient handle. The community has mostly agreed on using "Linux" as a term which also describes the whole system, not just the kernel.
What's the point of this post? Linux gamers are complaining that Valve focuses on DX9 and you're explaining to us why DX9 won't work properly on Linux. So what? We knew that already.
UT2003 proves that a modern game using OpenGL and running on Linux is totally feasable. HL2 has a few new effects, but the principle is the same...
Next point: What are you talking about when you mention licensing agreements with InstallShield? Heck, common Linux distros don't even HAVE a registry. The Loki installer seems to do the job just fine for other game developers. Why is that beyond Valve?
I'm even more clueless what iTunes or DRM should have to do with HL2. I mean REALLY clueless.
BTW: Both are equally possible on Linux. It's just that nobody cares, because Linux users are thought to be too clever (or evil) to be stopped by boobytraps like DRM. Well, the community is changing... More and more Linux users don't know C, can't fix a makefile and won't break DRM mechanisms in their free time.
What's your problem? Does she expect to learn much from the professor on day one? It's more important that the professor is available to the end of a class, when the really difficult questions arise (that some assistants may be unable to answer).
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You don't suppose he was sitting there for four hours and watched the progress bar advancing? I had a terrible time (a complete day, about 20 hours) when getting my shiny new ISDN card and Windows to cooperate. (That's what you get for using proprietary software which requires ISDN card X manufactured by Y which makes sloppy drivers...) And I'll tell you, I wasnt just watching progress bars there.
IIRC, xforms finally went GPL. Too late though -- GTK+ and Qt were superior even in their 1.x releases, and the world has changed a lot since then...
Also, LyX now has a Qt port AFAIK.
That's surely right, but if you're honest, the situation isn't any better with the Word document. Any digital communication can be faked.
(Insert regular PGP/GPG prayer here.)
Wise bank... why should they install your macro viri?
Criticize whatever you want, but the fact that GNOME has a C API actually is an advantage. C is the lowest common denominator. C is easy to wrap around (and thus to have C++, Python, whatever $LANGUAGE APIs). What inefficiency are you brabbling about? Numbers? Oh, you have none? Then shut up.
Pronounce "nu" in the English way ;-)
There's more than two formulas in physics :-)
The energy of a photon is E = h f (or E = h nu)
The relation between wavelength and frequency is c = lambda f.
The poor guy is actually called Niels Bohr :-)
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I think you're referring to this story:
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.as
Most current BIOSes boot from USB floppy drives; a few can even boot off USB memory sticks. Don't know about Firewire though -- probably not (yet).
... is what project it is talking about.
Time to fill in the facts, it would seem.
Problem?
WMA would be pretty much pointless for Big Bill if even mplayer could play it. After all, mplayer won't care a single bit about DRM.
Nobody has yet tried to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. What's up /.ers?
s/Suttgard/Stuttgart/
... or they suddenly don't receive any more preview versions of the next Windows release... Yes, we all know and appreciate Microsoft's business methods.
MS Employee: IBM says they won't display our XP advertising on their homepage!
BillG: No trouble. I'll make them an offer they can't refuse...
IBM is a b*tch -- after all they recommend Windows XP for their laptops :-)
(I really wonder how much BillG had to pay to get that slogan on every laptop manufacturer's homepage.)
It would be even more embarassing if the three just sat down and the sofa greeted them "Hi Mike."
I'm not too sure about that. Linux distros aren't nearly as flexible as they need to be. When you take a Linux harddrive from one system to another, you almost always need to manually work-out one problem or another.
Erm... maybe. But Windows wouldn't even boot when you take the HDD to a different computer. Ever tried to change chipset (motherboard) drivers on a Windows installation? Forget it.
And let us not forget that WinXP has arrived. That makes a call to M$ because all of the hardware has changed. Stupid activation mechanisms...
Debian just works(TM).
IBM doesn't make harddrives any more. They sold their storage devices dept. to Hitachi.
BTW IBM is not the Linux company... there is no such thing. Linux is not owned by a single company, that's what Open Source is about.
Both, to a certain degree. Linus created the Linux kernel, which is a project of its own. But a mere kernel doesn't make an operating system.
You need a whole lot of utility programs which provide a friendly interface to the users. For example, the shell and fileutils falls in that category. Most of these tools have GNU versions nowadays, that's why the GNU people call the whole operating system GNU/Linux.
But wait -- not everything you install with a common Linux distro is GPL-licensed. There's also BSD software, Perl and so on... it's a really complicated mix. We should really call this distribution a GNU/BSD/Perl/.../.../Linux one. Which if of course a very inconvenient handle. The community has mostly agreed on using "Linux" as a term which also describes the whole system, not just the kernel.
May I suggest to add James Bond tapes and books?
What's the point of this post? Linux gamers are complaining that Valve focuses on DX9 and you're explaining to us why DX9 won't work properly on Linux. So what? We knew that already. UT2003 proves that a modern game using OpenGL and running on Linux is totally feasable. HL2 has a few new effects, but the principle is the same... Next point: What are you talking about when you mention licensing agreements with InstallShield? Heck, common Linux distros don't even HAVE a registry. The Loki installer seems to do the job just fine for other game developers. Why is that beyond Valve? I'm even more clueless what iTunes or DRM should have to do with HL2. I mean REALLY clueless. BTW: Both are equally possible on Linux. It's just that nobody cares, because Linux users are thought to be too clever (or evil) to be stopped by boobytraps like DRM. Well, the community is changing... More and more Linux users don't know C, can't fix a makefile and won't break DRM mechanisms in their free time.
You're missing the point. The VIA CPUs are designed to run e.g. office apps silently. There's no point in having a blazing fast FPU for an office app.
What's your problem? Does she expect to learn much from the professor on day one? It's more important that the professor is available to the end of a class, when the really difficult questions arise (that some assistants may be unable to answer).