By doing this they have enabled corporations to get something for free which could cause a company (and a lot of potential Linux users) to go out of business.
Yes, that's what typically happens when someone releases an equivalent product for a lower price than what was previously available. It's called capitalism. Some countries have tried to get away from that, but they typically don't do too well.
And then there was also the fact that Doom's enemies were actually able to navigate around corners, while Quake's monsters would just keep walking directly toward you, regardless of what was in the way.
Quake 1 really had some of the worst AI ever. Good thing they fixed that for Quake 2 (the best game in the series, imho.)
We'll have a contest to see how many _single_ developers can design, code and finish an operating system similar to Minix(conceptually) with some standards compliance(i.e.POSIX.)
Isn't that a bit redundant? I mean, how many developers with girlfriends do you expect to find?
And the Vogons never really cared about the bypass. That was just an excuse. They'd been hired by an organization of psychologists in order to ensure that the Question to the Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything was never discovered.
Actually, it was the Grebulons that destroyed Earth, the Vogons (with the aid of the Guide mk. 2) just manipulated events in such a way as to make it happen.
And Zaphod was not on Earth when it was destroyed. In fact, he doesn't even make an appearance in the last two books.
The BSD's also benefit from being a complete system, not a kernel with various userland stuff slapped together into 1001 distributions. This means that users running the development versions are using the same userland as the developers, and bugs can be shaken out far quicker.
Plus it makes for much better documentation.
Actually, I'm not sure if FreeBSD's complete-OS-ness has anything to do with the quality of its documentation, but I do know that the FreeBSD Handbook is damn good. The Gentoo docs are really the only things that come close in Linux-land, and they mainly just cover Gentoo-specific stuff, while the FreeBSD documentation covers pretty much every facet of the OS.
Because IE was never about making money directly. It was about perpetuating a broken standard and thereby increasing lock-in. Pretty standard MO for a monopolistic corporation.
But by "Terraforming" the Brazillian rain forrest we'd have to be careful not to have our changes screw up the surrounding ecologies. With Mars, we have a clean slate to work with.
It may be alright when compared to other MS applications, but compared to other similar apps (such as NEdit, the editors included with KDE or Gnome, hell, even the old DOS EDIT.COM program) it's crap. It's completely bare-bones, no syntax highlighting or any of the other neat features that the other editors have, no way of saving anything with an extension other than.txt, cannot load large files, etc. I'd much rather edit my files with the DOS text editor than use Notepad.
They'd either annihlate each other in a particle/antiparticle reaction, causing a huge explosion killing everyone present, or their combined mass would cause them to merge into a black hole, also killing everyone present. Somehow, it doesn't sound like a good idea to put these two in the same room togeather.
In Gnome, I can chose between using a spatial or browser-style file manager. In Windows, KDE and Mac OSX, I'm stuck with browser-mode. How is this a case of the Gnome people trying to decide how you use your computer for you?
No. That would be impossible anyway unless you were somehow able to shut down the original author's webserver. The GPL restricts you in that someone can't take the work that they did themselves and keep others from it.
If a program is released under a BSD-style license and someone else takes it, modifies it, and decides to release it as a commercial application without sources, then it's only their modifications that they're denying to the public. The original version would still be just as available as it always was.
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Jeep is a Chrysler brand, formerly owned by AMC. It was never owned by GM.
By doing this they have enabled corporations to get something for free which could cause a company (and a lot of potential Linux users) to go out of business.
Yes, that's what typically happens when someone releases an equivalent product for a lower price than what was previously available. It's called capitalism. Some countries have tried to get away from that, but they typically don't do too well.
That, my friend, is why they invented electrical tape.
You can play movies in console mode with mplayer, too, if you output to aalib.
And then there was also the fact that Doom's enemies were actually able to navigate around corners, while Quake's monsters would just keep walking directly toward you, regardless of what was in the way.
Quake 1 really had some of the worst AI ever. Good thing they fixed that for Quake 2 (the best game in the series, imho.)
I thought they had LARD written on their uniforms. Or maybe that was one of the Playstation pseudo-sequels.
You can only do an unprovoked regime-change on a soverign country if that country has significant oil deposits.
We'll have a contest to see how many _single_ developers can design, code and finish
an operating system similar to Minix(conceptually) with some standards compliance(i.e.POSIX.)
Isn't that a bit redundant? I mean, how many developers with girlfriends do you expect to find?
* ducks *
And the Vogons never really cared about the bypass. That was just an excuse. They'd been hired by an organization of psychologists in order to ensure that the Question to the Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything was never discovered.
Actually, it was the Grebulons that destroyed Earth, the Vogons (with the aid of the Guide mk. 2) just manipulated events in such a way as to make it happen.
And Zaphod was not on Earth when it was destroyed. In fact, he doesn't even make an appearance in the last two books.
Yep. They'd need an LCARS-based interface to be ready for the Enterprise.
The BSD's also benefit from being a complete system, not a kernel with various userland stuff slapped together into 1001 distributions. This means that users running the development versions are using the same userland as the developers, and bugs can be shaken out far quicker.
Plus it makes for much better documentation.
Actually, I'm not sure if FreeBSD's complete-OS-ness has anything to do with the quality of its documentation, but I do know that the FreeBSD Handbook is damn good. The Gentoo docs are really the only things that come close in Linux-land, and they mainly just cover Gentoo-specific stuff, while the FreeBSD documentation covers pretty much every facet of the OS.
Because IE was never about making money directly. It was about perpetuating a broken standard and thereby increasing lock-in. Pretty standard MO for a monopolistic corporation.
Not if you're a profit-seeking corporation, you don't.
All the more reason not to depend on products produced by profit-seeking corporations in a competition-free environment.
Except for Europa. Land no ships there.
But by "Terraforming" the Brazillian rain forrest we'd have to be careful not to have our changes screw up the surrounding ecologies. With Mars, we have a clean slate to work with.
AFAIK, gnumeric is only for Linux (and other UNIX-like, X-Windows-running OSs,) which the OP didn't say that he was using.
It may be alright when compared to other MS applications, but compared to other similar apps (such as NEdit, the editors included with KDE or Gnome, hell, even the old DOS EDIT.COM program) it's crap. It's completely bare-bones, no syntax highlighting or any of the other neat features that the other editors have, no way of saving anything with an extension other than .txt, cannot load large files, etc. I'd much rather edit my files with the DOS text editor than use Notepad.
They'd either annihlate each other in a particle/antiparticle reaction, causing a huge explosion killing everyone present, or their combined mass would cause them to merge into a black hole, also killing everyone present. Somehow, it doesn't sound like a good idea to put these two in the same room togeather.
Try Gnome. Does it all automatically.
In Gnome, I can chose between using a spatial or browser-style file manager. In Windows, KDE and Mac OSX, I'm stuck with browser-mode. How is this a case of the Gnome people trying to decide how you use your computer for you?
No. That would be impossible anyway unless you were somehow able to shut down the original author's webserver. The GPL restricts you in that someone can't take the work that they did themselves and keep others from it.
If a program is released under a BSD-style license and someone else takes it, modifies it, and decides to release it as a commercial application without sources, then it's only their modifications that they're denying to the public. The original version would still be just as available as it always was.
Which forces the companies to lower prices in order to remain affordable to their target market, thereby reducing profits.
Or, at least, that's how it works in markets with succifient competition. It kinda breaks down in monopoly situations.
Canada uses MM/DD/YYYY, too, but I agree that DD/MM/YYYY makes more sense.
A Beowulf cluster of mass murderers?