They probabl;y should have been used. But this sounds like a problem of manpower. Bikes are stolen every day in London. You can bet though, that if your friend was beaten up and hospitalised (as one of my sisters friends recently was) that they'd look at them.
Geez, how many times have I seen that argument. It doesn't even begin to compare. My house is my private residence. It's nothing like public space. If they wanted to put a camera in my house and film me then hell yes I'd object. What you are suggesting above is a reduction in the citezens basic rights. My argument is that placing cameras in public areas in no way reduces your rights. It does however give the police a better chance of catching criminals on tape.
I *really* fail to see why it's a reduction in freedom. What can you not do in front of a camera, that you couldn't do before? Apart from commit a crime and get away with it? If you really object to being filmed, then don't live in the city. I live in Cambridge (UK) and I'm probably filmed several times a day. Does it bother me? Not in the least. Why should it?
Yeah, right! So now all the muggers will know exactly where to lay in wait while you happily stroll along without being filmed. Yeah, thats really going to help improve your life isn't it. As dumb ideas go, this is on my top 10.
The other gripe I have is about packages failing to recognize libraries that are installed just because they weren't installed by a package manager.
If you use a decent system (read Debian;) then the package wouldn't be available to install if all its dependencies weren't available either. So you wouldn't have this problem. I have very few files in/usr/local as Debian testing is pretty much up to date.
I'm doing the same. Mines in C++ though, so probably not much use to you;-)
I would think carefully about imap though. If you are going to include support for it, it might affect the way your app works. Imap is pretty different to anything else, you have to be prepared to accept information from the server at any time, so it may affect the way you choose to code something. I've got imap support in mine now, and it did force me to rethink my approach. Just something for you to consider anyway. Hope it goes well.
I'm writing my own mail application (for various reasons, none of which I'll go into here) and I am aware of the complications of imap et al. Just interpreting the imap rfc is a challenge in itself. Parsing the message structure correctly took me about two weeks. Still, the challenge is one of the reasons for doing it.
Anyway, hope those last few bugs get squashed. Last time I tried it btw, it crashed and burned quite spectacularly. Mines pretty solid, but then it doesn't do anything yet *grin*
Does Parrot have JIT compilation? Does it have 4+ years of optimisation? The JVM's have a come a long way in the last few years. I'd be suprised if Parrot could match it for a long while.
Out of interest, could Perl's internals be replaced by a JVM, instead of Parrot? Then you'd benefit from the large amount of tweaking and tuning that has gone into todays JVM's. Would this speed up Perl at all? Just an idea...
Has anyone told them that the Net is an international affair? It could be argued that the States dictating all and sundry to the rest of the world is what got them into this mess in the first place.
Funny, reminds me of when I was at uni. I used to code a lot of stuf with a mate. We were so in tune with each others coding and ideas that on one of our assignments the first 4 or so lines of our programs were identical. To the byte. We had to purposely check to make sure we weren't writing code to similar.
We are talking high end. What you have there isn't high end. And I'll agree that Sun equipment isn't cheap. But its generally of higher quality than anything Intel produce for this level, and you also pay for the ability to do things like hot swapping boards etc. Also Suns tech support is very good in my experience.
There's a long way to go before you can remove system boards/CPU's from live systems with an Intel/AMD and Linux combination as you can with Solaris/SPARC. Until then I don't think Sun needs to be overly worried.
The market you're talking about is expensive. These machines aren't your average 2K PC with Linux/Windows. And lets face it, if you can afford a 500K machine, I don't think a copy of Solaris will break the bank.
Yes they are. And this anoys me greatly. Is it really that SCSI parts are twice as expensive to manufacture? I doubt it. Its more likely that they want to keep a large prices difference between them so they can justify SCSI=better. Which it is.
I couldn't get on with Tolkien for just this reason. Well, that and the fact that I found the whole thing very boring (I'm more of a sci-fi fan than fantasy). In my opinion if you need additional visual material in order to make sense of the story then it doesn't work as a book. I never have any problem visualizing the worlds that Clarke, Bear et al create though.
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I could never get it to work with libc6. Not tried it for a long while though.
If you want to do professional business or academic work, there are only two options. TeX or Microsoft Office.
Well thats funny, cos here I am writing some very complex documentation with tables, figures and the like, and I'm not using either of those.
StarOffice (what will become OpenOffice) is very usable, if you're prepared to put up with the size of the thing. I've been using it regularly since 5.2 and its imported any.doc I've thrown at it, and crashed maybe 3 times in all that time.
If you just want to be productive under Linux, then StarOffice is the only choice at the moment. Supporting the open source programs is a noble cause, but nobility doesn't get work done. Give it time though, give it time...
In order for the scramjet to work though you have to be moving fast enough to collect enough oxygen from the air. So you'd need yet another system to start you off, be it rockets, jets or a being shot out of a big bloody gun;-)
This sort of staement really amazes me. Are you so righteous that you think Java and C++ are the answer to all programming problems? Get real. They both have their place, and there's nothing to say that D might not have its place too.
This guy's trying something new. If you see a particular problem with his approach, by all means let him know. We all value constructive criticism and suggestions. But don't just say it's no good before its even been given a chance. I for one think he has some good ideas in there, and I look forward to being able to try it out some time.
Was KDESUPPORT not upgraded? It wasn't in the Mandrake binary section or the source section. They should either include it or put a link so people who AREN'T UPGRADING can download it (if it is still necessary).
I believe it's no longer supplied, since the general consensus is that most modern Linux distributions contain all the programs/libraries that kdesupport did anyway.
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They probabl;y should have been used. But this sounds like a problem of manpower. Bikes are stolen every day in London. You can bet though, that if your friend was beaten up and hospitalised (as one of my sisters friends recently was) that they'd look at them.
Geez, how many times have I seen that argument. It doesn't even begin to compare. My house is my private residence. It's nothing like public space. If they wanted to put a camera in my house and film me then hell yes I'd object. What you are suggesting above is a reduction in the citezens basic rights. My argument is that placing cameras in public areas in no way reduces your rights. It does however give the police a better chance of catching criminals on tape.
I *really* fail to see why it's a reduction in freedom. What can you not do in front of a camera, that you couldn't do before? Apart from commit a crime and get away with it? If you really object to being filmed, then don't live in the city. I live in Cambridge (UK) and I'm probably filmed several times a day. Does it bother me? Not in the least. Why should it?
Thank you. I was being serious. It wasn't intended as a troll.
Yeah, right! So now all the muggers will know exactly where to lay in wait while you happily stroll along without being filmed. Yeah, thats really going to help improve your life isn't it. As dumb ideas go, this is on my top 10.
Can you use this to run the demo, or is that single player only? If so, is there any way to demo it under Linux yet?
The other gripe I have is about packages failing to recognize libraries that are installed just because they weren't installed by a package manager.
;) then the package wouldn't be available to install if all its dependencies weren't available either. So you wouldn't have this problem. I have very few files in /usr/local as Debian testing is pretty much up to date.
If you use a decent system (read Debian
So, I'm writting my own.
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I'm doing the same. Mines in C++ though, so probably not much use to you
I would think carefully about imap though. If you are going to include support for it, it might affect the way your app works. Imap is pretty different to anything else, you have to be prepared to accept information from the server at any time, so it may affect the way you choose to code something. I've got imap support in mine now, and it did force me to rethink my approach. Just something for you to consider anyway. Hope it goes well.
I'm writing my own mail application (for various reasons, none of which I'll go into here) and I am aware of the complications of imap et al. Just interpreting the imap rfc is a challenge in itself. Parsing the message structure correctly took me about two weeks. Still, the challenge is one of the reasons for doing it.
Anyway, hope those last few bugs get squashed. Last time I tried it btw, it crashed and burned quite spectacularly. Mines pretty solid, but then it doesn't do anything yet *grin*
Does Parrot have JIT compilation? Does it have 4+ years of optimisation? The JVM's have a come a long way in the last few years. I'd be suprised if Parrot could match it for a long while.
Out of interest, could Perl's internals be replaced by a JVM, instead of Parrot? Then you'd benefit from the large amount of tweaking and tuning that has gone into todays JVM's. Would this speed up Perl at all? Just an idea...
Has anyone told them that the Net is an international affair? It could be argued that the States dictating all and sundry to the rest of the world is what got them into this mess in the first place.
Heh, does he sleep 4 feet above his covers and bark, drool and snarl? ;-)
I'm aware of that. Duh.
Transparent as in transparent aluminium, ala Trek? Can I build my whale tank now? ;)
Funny, reminds me of when I was at uni. I used to code a lot of stuf with a mate. We were so in tune with each others coding and ideas that on one of our assignments the first 4 or so lines of our programs were identical. To the byte. We had to purposely check to make sure we weren't writing code to similar.
We are talking high end. What you have there isn't high end. And I'll agree that Sun equipment isn't cheap. But its generally of higher quality than anything Intel produce for this level, and you also pay for the ability to do things like hot swapping boards etc. Also Suns tech support is very good in my experience.
There's a long way to go before you can remove system boards/CPU's from live systems with an Intel/AMD and Linux combination as you can with Solaris/SPARC. Until then I don't think Sun needs to be overly worried.
The market you're talking about is expensive. These machines aren't your average 2K PC with Linux/Windows. And lets face it, if you can afford a 500K machine, I don't think a copy of Solaris will break the bank.
Yes they are. And this anoys me greatly. Is it really that SCSI parts are twice as expensive to manufacture? I doubt it. Its more likely that they want to keep a large prices difference between them so they can justify SCSI=better. Which it is.
I couldn't get on with Tolkien for just this reason. Well, that and the fact that I found the whole thing very boring (I'm more of a sci-fi fan than fantasy). In my opinion if you need additional visual material in order to make sense of the story then it doesn't work as a book. I never have any problem visualizing the worlds that Clarke, Bear et al create though.
I could never get it to work with libc6. Not tried it for a long while though.
If you want to do professional business or academic work, there are only two options. TeX or Microsoft Office.
.doc I've thrown at it, and crashed maybe 3 times in all that time.
Well thats funny, cos here I am writing some very complex documentation with tables, figures and the like, and I'm not using either of those.
StarOffice (what will become OpenOffice) is very usable, if you're prepared to put up with the size of the thing. I've been using it regularly since 5.2 and its imported any
If you just want to be productive under Linux, then StarOffice is the only choice at the moment. Supporting the open source programs is a noble cause, but nobility doesn't get work done. Give it time though, give it time...
In order for the scramjet to work though you have to be moving fast enough to collect enough oxygen from the air. So you'd need yet another system to start you off, be it rockets, jets or a being shot out of a big bloody gun ;-)
No need to invent a new language.
This sort of staement really amazes me. Are you so righteous that you think Java and C++ are the answer to all programming problems? Get real. They both have their place, and there's nothing to say that D might not have its place too.
This guy's trying something new. If you see a particular problem with his approach, by all means let him know. We all value constructive criticism and suggestions. But don't just say it's no good before its even been given a chance. I for one think he has some good ideas in there, and I look forward to being able to try it out some time.
Was KDESUPPORT not upgraded? It wasn't in the Mandrake binary section or the source section. They should either include it or put a link so people who AREN'T UPGRADING can download it (if it is still necessary).
I believe it's no longer supplied, since the general consensus is that most modern Linux distributions contain all the programs/libraries that kdesupport did anyway.