If the spammers are now sending round Gutenberg texts, this is entirely appropriate. Project Gutenberg caused probably the first ever spam, when Michael Hart launched the project by trying to mail everyone on ARPANET with the U.S. Declaration of Independence. (source)
I've tried Freeciv a few times but never really got into it. It didn't have the same polish as the original; you have to mess around with starting servers and you can't just fire it up and start playing. I understand you can change the isometric display to a more straightforward 2-dimensional one, though I didn't realize this at first and it put me off. But what I really missed was the cheesy graphics and music of the original; Julius Caesar pulling his pixellated angry face when I 'reject our generous offer? Your insolence must be punished', or Abe Lincoln with his minor-key version of 'John Brown's Body'. Microprose's Civ 2 also neglected this, and that's why I never got into it.
In the old days there was certainly a distinction between highbrow games and others; simple platformers, shoot-em-ups and beat-em-ups compared with flight sims, puzzle games (real-time like Tetris, or more turn-based like chess programs), and history/strategy games like Civilization. (Ahh, Civ - it took me a long time to kick that habit and I still get the urge to fire up DOS and conquer the world one more time. Luckily I always give up trying to get dosemu / DOSBox / Bochs / FreeDOS / whatever working properly.)
The culture of the elite naturally incorporates the belief that a man can better himself,
I used to work at ArsDigita and programmed using the ACS. In my opinion the lack of a database abstraction layer is its best feature. It is not often hard to write scalable and simple database code when you have a layer that hides the true queries being sent to the database.
However, OpenACS does take care to keep the SQL code cleanly separated from the program code (in Tcl) or the HTML templates. If you want to make your app support both Postgres and Oracle, you can have two files giving the SQL to use for each database system. Nowadays when standard ANSI SQL 92 is fairly well supported by almost all databases, this is less necessary.
Banks in London used to have such a system - you swipe your ATM card to gain access. But then criminals started fitting their own card reader devices on the outside of the door and cloning cards (demonstrating yet again why it's a bad idea to have a card where mere knowledge of the card number is enough to authorize payment). So now they just have push-button entry systems.
Windows 3.0 and earlier can run in real mode (olde 8086 stuff). 3.1 does only enhanced mode (286) and protected mode (386). 3.11 is for 386es only.
Not a lot runs under real-mode Windows 3.0. MS Word for Windows 1.1, but not even 2.0, as far as I recall. Things that do run in real mode would probably work a lot better under Wine.
Windows 3.1 won't work in dosemu (which uses the old V86 virtualization that's been in the Intel 80386 onwards), nor will it run in OS/2's V86 environment. But you can patch it with some DLL you used to be able to download from IBM that makes it use DPMI for protected mode, and then it runs in both.
The new virtualization stuff is much more capable than V86 mode so I'd be surprised if it couldn't cope with Windows 3.1.
I thought a 'release candidate' was normally more suitable for end users than a 'beta'. Release candidate means just that: if no important bugs are found, then this exact version will become the next release. A beta release is normally intended for testing and might have known bugs, and certainly isn't a candidate for shipping unchanged as the final release.
It's more likely that English and German will converge into some kind of übersprache by the steady infusion of Anglicisms into German. For example
Autos / Möbel / usw. clever kaufen - 'clever' apparently being the new German word for wise or canny, but applied only to shopping.
It's your Heimspiel. - McDonald's promotional slogan for the World Cup.
Handy - a 'handy' is a mobile phone. Of course.
A Beamer is a projector. I suppose it's equally strange that a Beemer is a BWM in some places.
According to Wikipedia a Smoking is a dinner suit or tuxedo. They have a list of other Scheinanglizismen, or words which supposedly come from English but in fact are German inventions.
I have a poky script nsra to automatically rename spaces to underscores in every filename under the current directory. The companion script lcra renames README.TXT to readme.txt, etc, but leaves mixed-case filenames alone.
color, honor, and so on date to long before the 19th century; in England you often see these spellings on gravestones up until about 1850. Unfortunately they didn't finally catch on (I think because Dr Johnson preferred the -our variants). Still at least it avoids the phonetic confusion with coloring, honored vs storing, snored - a rough rule of thumb is that if it's a verb it gets -our instead of -or.
Why not just plug in the old machine's hard disk to the new machine? Leave the lid off, have an IDE ribbon cable dangling over the side of the case, prop the disk upright with a chipped mug and a spare copy of Tanenbaum's Minix book... this is the correct old-school approach to moving data and many times faster than anything involving slinging a cable between the two boxes.
Yeah... Unix98 I can understand, and BSD 4.x, fair enough; but what about Windows 2? No supercomputer would run that... except maybe the home-made supercomputer described in Byte magazine of April 1986 built by lashing together loads of Intel 80286es.
All that's needed is core C, some good-quality libraries (it's debatable whether the standard C library fits that criterion) and *some extremely good programmers*.
If you have not-quite-so-hot programmers, their C code might turn out to suck. At least in Lisp/Python/ML/whatever they would have a few more safety wheels and less need to reinvent the wheel on data structures (hmm, mixed metaphor, never mind). And your super-cool C programmer would probably also be very productive (perhaps even better) in a high-level language, if you could convince him to learn it.
I like to use Google. When I accidentally trashed most of my bin/ directory, I was able to recover most of the scripts from Google's cache.
Another alternative is to make yourself a Sourceforge/Savannah/whatever project and use their CVS service. You do keep your important stuff in version control, right?
I hope they also get back some of the original writers from seasons one and two; in my opinion the quality of the writing went downhill in seasons three and four, to the point where it was probably just as well to call a halt. (There were some good episodes but the jokes and dialogue just weren't as funny.)
(There were four seasons of Futurama made, though in the USA they were screened in a slightly odd order.)
Lotus Notes? That abomination? Certainly the worst mail client I've had the misfortune to use (hmm... maybe not worse than early Hotmail). It had the Netscape disease of trying to be an operating system and letting you implement applications in Lotus Notes, but that doesn't make up for its inability to do its basic job properly.
I suggest you try Haskell or another language with type deduction. You don't normally have to declare the type for any function you write, but you can add explicit type declarations to help catch errors or as a form of documentation (which is checked by the compiler, of course).
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If the spammers are now sending round Gutenberg texts, this is entirely appropriate. Project Gutenberg caused probably the first ever spam, when Michael Hart launched the project by trying to mail everyone on ARPANET with the U.S. Declaration of Independence. (source)
I've tried Freeciv a few times but never really got into it. It didn't have the same polish as the original; you have to mess around with starting servers and you can't just fire it up and start playing. I understand you can change the isometric display to a more straightforward 2-dimensional one, though I didn't realize this at first and it put me off. But what I really missed was the cheesy graphics and music of the original; Julius Caesar pulling his pixellated angry face when I 'reject our generous offer? Your insolence must be punished', or Abe Lincoln with his minor-key version of 'John Brown's Body'. Microprose's Civ 2 also neglected this, and that's why I never got into it.
I used to work at ArsDigita and programmed using the ACS. In my opinion the lack of a database abstraction layer is its best feature. It is not often hard to write scalable and simple database code when you have a layer that hides the true queries being sent to the database.
However, OpenACS does take care to keep the SQL code cleanly separated from the program code (in Tcl) or the HTML templates. If you want to make your app support both Postgres and Oracle, you can have two files giving the SQL to use for each database system. Nowadays when standard ANSI SQL 92 is fairly well supported by almost all databases, this is less necessary.
I expect both stories come from the same source, that is, a PR campaign / press release by the makers of Monopoly.
Banks in London used to have such a system - you swipe your ATM card to gain access. But then criminals started fitting their own card reader devices on the outside of the door and cloning cards (demonstrating yet again why it's a bad idea to have a card where mere knowledge of the card number is enough to authorize payment). So now they just have push-button entry systems.
Windows 3.0 and earlier can run in real mode (olde 8086 stuff). 3.1 does only enhanced mode (286) and protected mode (386). 3.11 is for 386es only.
Not a lot runs under real-mode Windows 3.0. MS Word for Windows 1.1, but not even 2.0, as far as I recall. Things that do run in real mode would probably work a lot better under Wine.
Windows 3.1 won't work in dosemu (which uses the old V86 virtualization that's been in the Intel 80386 onwards), nor will it run in OS/2's V86 environment. But you can patch it with some DLL you used to be able to download from IBM that makes it use DPMI for protected mode, and then it runs in both.
The new virtualization stuff is much more capable than V86 mode so I'd be surprised if it couldn't cope with Windows 3.1.
I thought a 'release candidate' was normally more suitable for end users than a 'beta'. Release candidate means just that: if no important bugs are found, then this exact version will become the next release. A beta release is normally intended for testing and might have known bugs, and certainly isn't a candidate for shipping unchanged as the final release.
It's more likely that English and German will converge into some kind of übersprache by the steady infusion of Anglicisms into German. For example
Autos / Möbel / usw. clever kaufen - 'clever' apparently being the new German word for wise or canny, but applied only to shopping.
It's your Heimspiel. - McDonald's promotional slogan for the World Cup.
Handy - a 'handy' is a mobile phone. Of course.
A Beamer is a projector. I suppose it's equally strange that a Beemer is a BWM in some places.
According to Wikipedia a Smoking is a dinner suit or tuxedo. They have a list of other Scheinanglizismen, or words which supposedly come from English but in fact are German inventions.
I have a poky script nsra to automatically rename spaces to underscores in every filename under the current directory. The companion script lcra renames README.TXT to readme.txt, etc, but leaves mixed-case filenames alone.
color, honor, and so on date to long before the 19th century; in England you often see these spellings on gravestones up until about 1850. Unfortunately they didn't finally catch on (I think because Dr Johnson preferred the -our variants). Still at least it avoids the phonetic confusion with coloring, honored vs storing, snored - a rough rule of thumb is that if it's a verb it gets -our instead of -or.
Nope, afraid not. vi is a modern-day abomination. Ed is the standard text editor.
Why not just plug in the old machine's hard disk to the new machine? Leave the lid off, have an IDE ribbon cable dangling over the side of the case, prop the disk upright with a chipped mug and a spare copy of Tanenbaum's Minix book... this is the correct old-school approach to moving data and many times faster than anything involving slinging a cable between the two boxes.
Does the NYT Times have a WWW Web page?
Yeah... Unix98 I can understand, and BSD 4.x, fair enough; but what about Windows 2? No supercomputer would run that... except maybe the home-made supercomputer described in Byte magazine of April 1986 built by lashing together loads of Intel 80286es.
No they're just waiting until they launch the low-power, embedded Itanic.
All that's needed is core C, some good-quality libraries (it's debatable whether the standard C library fits that criterion) and *some extremely good programmers*.
If you have not-quite-so-hot programmers, their C code might turn out to suck. At least in Lisp/Python/ML/whatever they would have a few more safety wheels and less need to reinvent the wheel on data structures (hmm, mixed metaphor, never mind). And your super-cool C programmer would probably also be very productive (perhaps even better) in a high-level language, if you could convince him to learn it.
I like to use Google. When I accidentally trashed most of my bin/ directory, I was able to recover most of the scripts from Google's cache.
Another alternative is to make yourself a Sourceforge/Savannah/whatever project and use their CVS service. You do keep your important stuff in version control, right?
I hope they also get back some of the original writers from seasons one and two; in my opinion the quality of the writing went downhill in seasons three and four, to the point where it was probably just as well to call a halt. (There were some good episodes but the jokes and dialogue just weren't as funny.)
(There were four seasons of Futurama made, though in the USA they were screened in a slightly odd order.)
Lotus Notes? That abomination? Certainly the worst mail client I've had the misfortune to use (hmm... maybe not worse than early Hotmail). It had the Netscape disease of trying to be an operating system and letting you implement applications in Lotus Notes, but that doesn't make up for its inability to do its basic job properly.
Men are from Vi, women are from Emacs? What, then, of emacs with vi emulation mode - some kind of transsexual?
I suggest you try Haskell or another language with type deduction. You don't normally have to declare the type for any function you write, but you can add explicit type declarations to help catch errors or as a form of documentation (which is checked by the compiler, of course).