The problem is maybe people don't know why they would want to use Metro. We just want to get to the desktop, run the "real" browser and whatever else. And I suspect most lay people, of them 80% don't use or have never used Metro yet, have no clear idea of what it is for. Myself, I see it as lacking a notepad by default, and it seems it wants me to try an account, a mail inbox, use my debit card to get software etc. whereas in regular Windows you can open the start menu and run notepad from there without doing any of these things.
Even if they get it "right" I guess those issues would still be there.
Unless you had a GUS or something, SB/SB Pro/SB 16 emulation effectively meant no driver is needed. Joysticks had either two or four buttons. Of course with PCI sound card the sound support was ruined, because of Creative Labs's monopolistic practices - they kept SB emulation (which required a driver, yes) for themselves, patented, after buying it (buying a whole fledging sound card company in the process).
If there was a way to get sound on modern PC I'd still boot into DOS to play games every now and then. Even modern network cards are supported under DOS - a universal driver exists if you boot from network too, USB drives are supported if they were plugged in at boot, or if there are the boot device. If someone came up with a way to use USB audio under DOS and write a SB emulation, DOS gaming would be usable again. (USB audio is universal, just one driver needs be written for an OS to support all of them in basic single channel stereo output/input)
I'll try to find an old KVM switch, probably I just should build or use a Windows 98 PC again and use it strictly for games. Runs about every PC game from 1987 to 2002, whether DOS or Windows. Here was my rosy past!
I've never heard or read of a repo man, though I do know what's a DMV or an interstate. I only know of software repos in linux distributions. Is that about the place that your car is towed to upon request by the cops, and then you get to there and pay through the nose to get your car back?
With old Windows games you can run in warts such as how to fit a 1024x768 game on your monitor, DirectX 5 games that barely worked in their day already, and I guess that elaborate CD-checks which install a *driver* will eventually bite us in the ass - that's before server side DRM. Or your modern computer has no CD-ROM drive (if you use some laptop, or haven't bothered to buy a SATA one for your desktop)
Now that's not too bad usually.. if you try to game with Wine it's more like Russian roulette (with five pieces of ammo in the barrel)
Funny, in DOS it can be very simple. You set up your config.sys and autoexec once so you have ~600K conventional with mouse, and then the generic ISA sound card emulates SB/Adlib on a register level, graphics card does CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA, joystick doesn't even needs a driver and you never have to download runtimes, update your OS, authenticate against servers etc. Almost everything works, except Ultima VII.
Did you try it in Windows 7 32bit?, that version has more compatibility. It runs Windows 3.1, probably even unmodified Windows 2.0 apps. If that greetings card software came from the mid-90s it might well be a 16bit program, depending on your definition of "mid".
.. so I can obtain a public domain ROM and use UAE legally. Or maybe I have to wait for 70 years after the last author of the ROM is dead, I dont know much how copyright on software expires.
Sorry, I have trouble with these big letters, a handful short lines shown at a time, and huge images that take up a lot of the screen. Feels like an oversized mobile site or a powerpoint with vertical scrolling. I'm reading this at a low res desktop not on a 2048x1536 tablet. Thanks.
BASIC is just imperative programming, and I find it similar to simple assembly programs by the way. It gives you understanding of both and doesn't teach much. C is just BASIC with pointers and functions. Today that "seminal article" would be called a rant:) and why just stop at defaming BASIC. All imperative programming is like BASIC, some will argue functional programming should be taught instead.
I have trouble believing artificial meat would be remotely competitive in terms of nutrients use and various supporting chemical agents, energy inputs, costs of installation, maintenance and even the need for an artificial immunological system.
Chicken are incredibly efficient, and their eggs are even more efficient, this is reflected in the low price of the meat and eggs. Yeah I've had a philosophy that when fossil fuels aren't directly involved, cheaper is mostly synonymous with ecological. It's possible that successful artificial meat on a massive scale would lead to more resource depletion and more global warming, in my mind. It would perhaps create incredibly resistant, "superbug" viruses or bacteria. I'm not terribly concerned with killing chicken in that scheme.
What certainly could be done is regulation to give way more space for the hen / chicken, small tariff on imports from countries that don't have a strong enough regulation yet. Yes, regulations, I hope that doesn't sound too evil and bureaucratic (weird how digiliently global regulations on IP are made up and applied yet libertarian corporate overlords don't bitch about them).
beware, "apt-get install virtualbox" leaves you without the GUI and without the kernel module these days (on ubuntu 13.10 derivate), so you need "apt-get install virtualbox-qt" instead. Right after I learnt not to want to install "virtualbox-ose".. It is weird. Also audacious is nice but you may want to try deadbeef (distributed as a statically linked tarball. that sucks in some way, but it works.)
Autohotkey is great, and I especially liked the old-style help that covers everything, has examples and is local (not on the web). I used it to control sound volume with hotkeys, even gamma correction (rivatuner allowed to great shortcuts to set gamma at 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 etc. and then I ran that with Autohotkey) and miscellaneous stuff like win+s opened a command prompt in like 0.1 second.
I sort of miss it on linux, where you seemingly have to do window manager specific stuff manually, sometimes with a limited GUI if you happen to have one and it's just harder to do stuff (I could write in detail about what sucks in my current environment but I'll let it at that).
You're correct ; as far as I know you need to pay a license to Apple, to not get sued. You get many Philips, BOSE etc. stuff with a dock connector. Except that is the male dock connector. You won't find ANY mobile music player or cell phone with a female dock connector that can plug into a dock. Maybe there's some rare "pirate" asian stuff and that's all.
Gaston Lagaffe (belgian comics character) had a similar pile sort method, somewhat more elegant. 1) pile stuff next to the table/desk's border 2) wait so much that you have multiple piles, horizontally arranged 2) when you have too many piles, push them so that the first one falls off the table
There is some nice stuff to have, sometimes trivial and sometimes quite useful.
sshfs openssh-server GNU screen (some people will like tmux) irssi (preferably it runs on an always-on box with screen and ssh server)
dtrx : perfect to extract archives from the command line. It solves the problem of tar -xzvf random_shit.tar.gz : the archive's content may or may not be in a directory, such as random_shit/. So if you extract the archive right away, you run the risk of polluting your current directory with loads of crap (like 10 directories + 105 files at the root of the archive). If you do mkdir random_shit, cd random_shit and tar -xzvf../random_shit.tar.gz, you run the risk of having wasted your time : if files were at the archive's root, all is fine. If they were in a random_shit directory, now your data has been extracted to a random_shit/random_shit directory and you have to do mv random_shit/* . then rmdir random_shit. I used to do the mkdir random_shit method, or to open the archive in a graphical archive manager before deciding what to do. But dtrx automates this! and works equally for.zip,.tar.gz,.tar.bz2 and all others.
When I used Windows I liked some command line stuff too : set the DIRCMD environment variable to/O, have the console default to 80x43 and right-click to paste (I think, not sure that worked), and have Windows versions of wget and less.
Tab completion isn't a high end feature, you can even get it under DOS (using the 4DOS shell, which is now freeware). That old system was probably in need of some configuration. Even worse is when you use a prompt where up/down arrows don't work, they show you a few garbage characters instead of acting as a command history feature. e.g. Ocaml interpreter does this, and in some circumstances a *NIX-llike prompt can do this I think.
Apple II was one the the first commercial, everything-included-and-assembled micro-computers. Maybe Commodore PET came before.. no idea, they were probably not far off from each other at all.
RCA connectors have been used for 70 years and jack connectors have been used for about 120 years. That is longer than 8 years.
The 30-pin connector wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't patented, with a lawsuit-happy Apple. I have a device with the 30-pin dock, it is useless because making something compatible with it will get you sued. How rude.
Why should we applaud the good prince's largesses? Yes, this is actually nice, encouraging the use of public buses and giving short change for that. But I find it weird that a giant company wants to substitute itself with what should the town's/muncipality's/local government's duties. And it's a PR move anyway, one that reinforces the notion that a giant private company can appriopriate public space, pay little to no tax and do whatever it wants with no accountability.
In general, I don't get the cultural fascination that US americans have for charity, while at the same time showing extreme disdain for welfare, public services, public funding of infrastructure (except for roads, military and prisons, go figure) and even decent conditions of employment. E.g. waiters/waitresses are to be paid starvation wages, and rely on tips. Why do they have to beg?, is it so that customers can feel superior or something?, I have trouble understanding this.
Google hides its profits in the Carribean and pays no taxes. What about fixing that. Hire well paid accountant/fiscalist lawyer types to try and close as many of those fucking tax loopholes as they can. Billions upon billions are missing. Google wants to give $6.8 million in charity money over two years, probably getting some more tax deduction in the way. Fuck them.
Remote X is one of the things I find best in Linux. No cludges, no tricks - the UI is simply rendered remotely and one of the windows on my desktop is actually for an app running somewhere else. Nothing in the app to support this. No special tools in the system. Just basic X functionality. Cool! On the other hand 3D applications are mostly eyecandy for this platform. Something to play with while something else is doing the stuff you need.
This is sad. I guess I should back to Windows then? What about us desktop users who don't want a gaming console + TV or whatever. Yes I want to play high fps FPS games and they have to work right, with non buggy drivers. I would even like being able to enable anti-aliasing but that's not a priority for people who develop open source drivers, hell there's not even a GUI.
On the other if I go back to Windows I'll still be able to run an X server and have a remote app show up, nothing special needed.
Car companies are carriers now? I find this stuff unlikely. More likely, you change the car's nav and entertainment system's SIM card if you want to change cellular provider and if you don't want one, don't have any.
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"it seems it wants me to create an account". sorry.
The problem is maybe people don't know why they would want to use Metro. We just want to get to the desktop, run the "real" browser and whatever else. And I suspect most lay people, of them 80% don't use or have never used Metro yet, have no clear idea of what it is for.
Myself, I see it as lacking a notepad by default, and it seems it wants me to try an account, a mail inbox, use my debit card to get software etc. whereas in regular Windows you can open the start menu and run notepad from there without doing any of these things.
Even if they get it "right" I guess those issues would still be there.
Unless you had a GUS or something, SB/SB Pro/SB 16 emulation effectively meant no driver is needed. Joysticks had either two or four buttons.
Of course with PCI sound card the sound support was ruined, because of Creative Labs's monopolistic practices - they kept SB emulation (which required a driver, yes) for themselves, patented, after buying it (buying a whole fledging sound card company in the process).
If there was a way to get sound on modern PC I'd still boot into DOS to play games every now and then.
Even modern network cards are supported under DOS - a universal driver exists if you boot from network too, USB drives are supported if they were plugged in at boot, or if there are the boot device. If someone came up with a way to use USB audio under DOS and write a SB emulation, DOS gaming would be usable again. (USB audio is universal, just one driver needs be written for an OS to support all of them in basic single channel stereo output/input)
I'll try to find an old KVM switch, probably I just should build or use a Windows 98 PC again and use it strictly for games. Runs about every PC game from 1987 to 2002, whether DOS or Windows. Here was my rosy past!
Oh, repossesion. That has made me have a peak at TFA.
I've never heard or read of a repo man, though I do know what's a DMV or an interstate. I only know of software repos in linux distributions.
Is that about the place that your car is towed to upon request by the cops, and then you get to there and pay through the nose to get your car back?
With old Windows games you can run in warts such as how to fit a 1024x768 game on your monitor, DirectX 5 games that barely worked in their day already, and I guess that elaborate CD-checks which install a *driver* will eventually bite us in the ass - that's before server side DRM. Or your modern computer has no CD-ROM drive (if you use some laptop, or haven't bothered to buy a SATA one for your desktop)
Now that's not too bad usually.. if you try to game with Wine it's more like Russian roulette (with five pieces of ammo in the barrel)
Funny, in DOS it can be very simple. You set up your config.sys and autoexec once so you have ~600K conventional with mouse, and then the generic ISA sound card emulates SB/Adlib on a register level, graphics card does CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA, joystick doesn't even needs a driver and you never have to download runtimes, update your OS, authenticate against servers etc.
Almost everything works, except Ultima VII.
Did you try it in Windows 7 32bit?, that version has more compatibility. It runs Windows 3.1, probably even unmodified Windows 2.0 apps. If that greetings card software came from the mid-90s it might well be a 16bit program, depending on your definition of "mid".
Be aware that this goes unsupported too, and will be an infection vector for malware.
.. so I can obtain a public domain ROM and use UAE legally. Or maybe I have to wait for 70 years after the last author of the ROM is dead, I dont know much how copyright on software expires.
Sorry, I have trouble with these big letters, a handful short lines shown at a time, and huge images that take up a lot of the screen. Feels like an oversized mobile site or a powerpoint with vertical scrolling. I'm reading this at a low res desktop not on a 2048x1536 tablet. Thanks.
BASIC is just imperative programming, and I find it similar to simple assembly programs by the way. It gives you understanding of both and doesn't teach much. C is just BASIC with pointers and functions. :) and why just stop at defaming BASIC. All imperative programming is like BASIC, some will argue functional programming should be taught instead.
Today that "seminal article" would be called a rant
In Soviet Russia, this entire thread makes a joke to you!
I have trouble believing artificial meat would be remotely competitive in terms of nutrients use and various supporting chemical agents, energy inputs, costs of installation, maintenance and even the need for an artificial immunological system.
Chicken are incredibly efficient, and their eggs are even more efficient, this is reflected in the low price of the meat and eggs. Yeah I've had a philosophy that when fossil fuels aren't directly involved, cheaper is mostly synonymous with ecological.
It's possible that successful artificial meat on a massive scale would lead to more resource depletion and more global warming, in my mind. It would perhaps create incredibly resistant, "superbug" viruses or bacteria. I'm not terribly concerned with killing chicken in that scheme.
What certainly could be done is regulation to give way more space for the hen / chicken, small tariff on imports from countries that don't have a strong enough regulation yet. Yes, regulations, I hope that doesn't sound too evil and bureaucratic (weird how digiliently global regulations on IP are made up and applied yet libertarian corporate overlords don't bitch about them).
Don't fuck with the discussion, I liked reading the above comment that gave a nicely succinct viewpoint on that cultural issue of charity vs welfare.
Now please kill yourself, that will be a charity to all of us.
beware, "apt-get install virtualbox" leaves you without the GUI and without the kernel module these days (on ubuntu 13.10 derivate), so you need "apt-get install virtualbox-qt" instead. Right after I learnt not to want to install "virtualbox-ose".. It is weird. Also audacious is nice but you may want to try deadbeef (distributed as a statically linked tarball. that sucks in some way, but it works.)
Autohotkey is great, and I especially liked the old-style help that covers everything, has examples and is local (not on the web).
I used it to control sound volume with hotkeys, even gamma correction (rivatuner allowed to great shortcuts to set gamma at 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 etc. and then I ran that with Autohotkey) and miscellaneous stuff like win+s opened a command prompt in like 0.1 second.
I sort of miss it on linux, where you seemingly have to do window manager specific stuff manually, sometimes with a limited GUI if you happen to have one and it's just harder to do stuff (I could write in detail about what sucks in my current environment but I'll let it at that).
You're correct ; as far as I know you need to pay a license to Apple, to not get sued. You get many Philips, BOSE etc. stuff with a dock connector.
Except that is the male dock connector. You won't find ANY mobile music player or cell phone with a female dock connector that can plug into a dock. Maybe there's some rare "pirate" asian stuff and that's all.
Gaston Lagaffe (belgian comics character) had a similar pile sort method, somewhat more elegant.
1) pile stuff next to the table/desk's border
2) wait so much that you have multiple piles, horizontally arranged
2) when you have too many piles, push them so that the first one falls off the table
I can't google it successfully, so instead here's this one : Gaston sorts an office cupboard's content http://jfmabut.blog.tdg.ch/media/02/01/979637923.jpg
There is some nice stuff to have, sometimes trivial and sometimes quite useful.
sshfs
openssh-server
GNU screen (some people will like tmux)
irssi (preferably it runs on an always-on box with screen and ssh server)
dtrx : perfect to extract archives from the command line. It solves the problem of tar -xzvf random_shit.tar.gz : the archive's content may or may not be in a directory, such as random_shit/. So if you extract the archive right away, you run the risk of polluting your current directory with loads of crap (like 10 directories + 105 files at the root of the archive). If you do mkdir random_shit, cd random_shit and tar -xzvf ../random_shit.tar.gz, you run the risk of having wasted your time : if files were at the archive's root, all is fine. If they were in a random_shit directory, now your data has been extracted to a random_shit/random_shit directory and you have to do mv random_shit/* . then rmdir random_shit. .zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and all others.
I used to do the mkdir random_shit method, or to open the archive in a graphical archive manager before deciding what to do. But dtrx automates this! and works equally for
When I used Windows I liked some command line stuff too : set the DIRCMD environment variable to /O, have the console default to 80x43 and right-click to paste (I think, not sure that worked), and have Windows versions of wget and less.
Tab completion isn't a high end feature, you can even get it under DOS (using the 4DOS shell, which is now freeware).
That old system was probably in need of some configuration. Even worse is when you use a prompt where up/down arrows don't work, they show you a few garbage characters instead of acting as a command history feature. e.g. Ocaml interpreter does this, and in some circumstances a *NIX-llike prompt can do this I think.
Apple II was one the the first commercial, everything-included-and-assembled micro-computers. Maybe Commodore PET came before.. no idea, they were probably not far off from each other at all.
RCA connectors have been used for 70 years and jack connectors have been used for about 120 years. That is longer than 8 years.
The 30-pin connector wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't patented, with a lawsuit-happy Apple. I have a device with the 30-pin dock, it is useless because making something compatible with it will get you sued. How rude.
Why should we applaud the good prince's largesses? Yes, this is actually nice, encouraging the use of public buses and giving short change for that.
But I find it weird that a giant company wants to substitute itself with what should the town's/muncipality's/local government's duties. And it's a PR move anyway, one that reinforces the notion that a giant private company can appriopriate public space, pay little to no tax and do whatever it wants with no accountability.
In general, I don't get the cultural fascination that US americans have for charity, while at the same time showing extreme disdain for welfare, public services, public funding of infrastructure (except for roads, military and prisons, go figure) and even decent conditions of employment.
E.g. waiters/waitresses are to be paid starvation wages, and rely on tips. Why do they have to beg?, is it so that customers can feel superior or something?, I have trouble understanding this.
Google hides its profits in the Carribean and pays no taxes. What about fixing that. Hire well paid accountant/fiscalist lawyer types to try and close as many of those fucking tax loopholes as they can. Billions upon billions are missing.
Google wants to give $6.8 million in charity money over two years, probably getting some more tax deduction in the way. Fuck them.
Remote X is one of the things I find best in Linux. No cludges, no tricks - the UI is simply rendered remotely and one of the windows on my desktop is actually for an app running somewhere else. Nothing in the app to support this. No special tools in the system. Just basic X functionality. Cool! On the other hand 3D applications are mostly eyecandy for this platform. Something to play with while something else is doing the stuff you need.
This is sad. I guess I should back to Windows then? What about us desktop users who don't want a gaming console + TV or whatever. Yes I want to play high fps FPS games and they have to work right, with non buggy drivers. I would even like being able to enable anti-aliasing but that's not a priority for people who develop open source drivers, hell there's not even a GUI.
On the other if I go back to Windows I'll still be able to run an X server and have a remote app show up, nothing special needed.
Car companies are carriers now?
I find this stuff unlikely.
More likely, you change the car's nav and entertainment system's SIM card if you want to change cellular provider and if you don't want one, don't have any.