How important do you think Windows compatibility is to the future of Linux on the Desktop? Do you think that Linux can be a viable alternative running only Linux apps, or do you think that Windows compatibility projects like WINE will be necessary to advance Linux?
(Note to Americans and other aliens: British schools are under-funded. BADLY under-funded. A typical school has a leaking roof, a single reel-to-reel for language teaching in a class of 30 to 40, textbooks that haven't been replaced since the 60's, and food that tastes like it was originally prepared in the 60's.)
Oh yeah, that is just so much different from the US...
That's part of the whole joke, though. The writers play with this all the time. Remember the episode where Bart and Lisa spend an entire year at a military academy. (And Lisa gets a ribbon that says "completed the 2nd grade.)
And then appears in the same class as always the next week.
Wait makes that episode even better is that Homer is sitting at what looks to be a TRS-80, and the interface to the nuclear reactor safety system is identical (as much as I can remember) to an old TRS-80 game in which you had to run a nuclear reactor.
How much choice do the people in charge get when their company is broken up? Anyone know? Is the CEO forced to sell stock in the other company? Can they choose what company to run?
He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before).
I've also had troubles with Halflife, Quake, and other assorted games, though I've found that they'll run without interruption on Monday nights between 9 and 10 pm.
Teddy Roosevelt was probably the healthiest person ever to hold office. He was famous for pushing himself (and everyone around him) to the physical limit.
(Likely a reaction to childhood asthma. Offtopic, sorry, but perhaps in considering how illness perhaps changes how people turn out.)
Remember, Forth is barely above assembly. The whole point is to have a (relatively) high-level operations in a language that really is at the bare metal. As such, there isn't much room for error checking. (Or wasn't. I haven't done anything with Forth in over a decade, so things may have changed.)
Basically, the print command had a generic routine that took the base as input. You could set the base to any integer. There was no error checking. (As is the case in general for Forth). The routine divides by the base to extract the digits. Infinite loop time if the base is one.
To those used to modern languages, this probably sounds hideous. But the beauty of Forth was that it fit in only a few k and performed pretty much as well as assembler.
I seem to recall that Bohr also had something to do with the failure of the German atomic bomb project. (Beyond just the fact that he fled Germany while being one of the top scientists working on the project.)
But yet, Einstein was a big dichotomy of sorts. He was a major pacifist, but yet was one of the signees on the letter that led to the creation of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. One wonders what kind of regrets he had late in his life for being a signee on that letter.
Well, you're in luck. I got "The Quotable Einstein" for christmas.
From a letter to Linus Pauling:
I made one mistake in my life--when I signed that letter to President Roosevelt advocating that the atomic bomb should be built. But perhaps I can be forgiven for that because we all felt that there was a high probability that the Germans were working on this problem and they might succeed and use the atomic bomb to become the master race.
I've never tried this myself, other than in some debugging tasks. I'm intrigued. However, one question: doesn't this gain you a lot more in "difficult" tasks?
Some of the coding I do is tricky stuff. New technologies. Unusual tasks. Code that needs to be very robust. I can see where this would work wonders. However, some of the coding I do is nothing like that. It is dull stuff, iteration number 5 of stuff I've already done elsewhere. (Code reuse is hard when you change companies!) Basic debugging. Stuff that is really pretty trivial. It seems to me that pair programming would only slow things down in this case.
I suppose it is like everything. You need to learn when to apply it and when it is a waste of time.
I've always thought that Star Trek had a broader appeal, at least before it sunk into the mire after Roddenberry's death. Hell, my wife used to watch it, and it is near impossible to get her to read an SF book. I've always thought that Star Trek appealed to a lot of non-fans. Could be wrong about that, though.
The trouble with this argument is that there is really no way RedHat can be the "next Microsoft" with its current business model. Because they sell a shared resource, they will never gain the sort of market-share Microsoft has with the kind of margin Microsoft has. In addition, since they don't control the source, they can't use undocumented APIs and the like to promote the developer or application wings of their business.
They are not a bad company. But they will never be the "next Microsoft" as long as they are a Linux company. To be the "next Microsoft", not only would Linux have to shut out Windows on the desktop, but RedHat would have to drive all other Linux distributions and app-makers into a small minority market-share. That's just not going to happen.
Perhaps not serious, but I just wanted to point out that since the website itself does not generate any revenue, the boycott should be in purchases, not of the site.
I've done some of that already. I use amazon's site to decide what to buy (mostly through reader reviews, etc.) Then I buy it elsewhere.
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How important do you think Windows compatibility is to the future of Linux on the Desktop? Do you think that Linux can be a viable alternative running only Linux apps, or do you think that Windows compatibility projects like WINE will be necessary to advance Linux?
(Note to Americans and other aliens: British schools are under-funded. BADLY under-funded. A typical school has a leaking roof, a single reel-to-reel for language teaching in a class of 30 to 40, textbooks that haven't been replaced since the 60's, and food that tastes like it was originally prepared in the 60's.)
Oh yeah, that is just so much different from the US...
That's part of the whole joke, though. The writers play with this all the time. Remember the episode where Bart and Lisa spend an entire year at a military academy. (And Lisa gets a ribbon that says "completed the 2nd grade.)
And then appears in the same class as always the next week.
But the writers love to see what they can get away with.
Homer to Marge:
Ixnay on the ash-holetray
Wait makes that episode even better is that Homer is sitting at what looks to be a TRS-80, and the interface to the nuclear reactor safety system is identical (as much as I can remember) to an old TRS-80 game in which you had to run a nuclear reactor.
Details like that just make it funnier.
How much choice do the people in charge get when their company is broken up? Anyone know? Is the CEO forced to sell stock in the other company? Can they choose what company to run?
Someday perhaps Salon will learn that there is more to life then sex.
One of the benefits of learning this is that while you might not get laid as often, when you do, it is much, much better.
That is two out of the three things that must appear in every Salon article. The third is that every article must be about sex.
He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before).
I've also had troubles with Halflife, Quake, and other assorted games, though I've found that they'll run without interruption on Monday nights between 9 and 10 pm.
Thank you!
Teddy Roosevelt was probably the healthiest person ever to hold office. He was famous for pushing himself (and everyone around him) to the physical limit.
(Likely a reaction to childhood asthma. Offtopic, sorry, but perhaps in considering how illness perhaps changes how people turn out.)
Remember, Forth is barely above assembly. The whole point is to have a (relatively) high-level operations in a language that really is at the bare metal. As such, there isn't much room for error checking. (Or wasn't. I haven't done anything with Forth in over a decade, so things may have changed.)
Basically, the print command had a generic routine that took the base as input. You could set the base to any integer. There was no error checking. (As is the case in general for Forth). The routine divides by the base to extract the digits. Infinite loop time if the base is one.
To those used to modern languages, this probably sounds hideous. But the beauty of Forth was that it fit in only a few k and performed pretty much as well as assembler.
(Forth, you mean)
You can also set your output to base 3, or 9, or 37!
(You can even set it to base 1, but don't expect to get an answer real soon...)
I seem to recall that Bohr also had something to do with the failure of the German atomic bomb project. (Beyond just the fact that he fled Germany while being one of the top scientists working on the project.)
Anybody know more?
But yet, Einstein was a big dichotomy of sorts. He was a major pacifist, but yet was one of the signees on the letter that led to the creation of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. One wonders what kind of regrets he had late in his life for being a signee on that letter.
Well, you're in luck. I got "The Quotable Einstein" for christmas.
From a letter to Linus Pauling:
I made one mistake in my life--when I signed that letter to President Roosevelt advocating that the atomic bomb should be built. But perhaps I can be forgiven for that because we all felt that there was a high probability that the Germans were working on this problem and they might succeed and use the atomic bomb to become the master race.
I've got both browsers on the same box. Opera is significantly faster.
Enough faster that my non-techie wife noticed it without me pointing it out.
Why do people buy Porsches when your average Honda Accord seats more people, gets better mileage and has more trunk space?
One word: Speed.
I use Opera under Windows for that one simple reason. Unfortunately, I am forced sit and twiddle my thumbs while navigator loads the damn page. feh!
I'll be installing Opera as soon as it is stable. I don't need a lot of useless features. What I need is something that works well and fast.
I really wish there were an open-source browser that was as quick.
I've never tried this myself, other than in some debugging tasks. I'm intrigued. However, one question: doesn't this gain you a lot more in "difficult" tasks?
Some of the coding I do is tricky stuff. New technologies. Unusual tasks. Code that needs to be very robust. I can see where this would work wonders. However, some of the coding I do is nothing like that. It is dull stuff, iteration number 5 of stuff I've already done elsewhere. (Code reuse is hard when you change companies!) Basic debugging. Stuff that is really pretty trivial. It seems to me that pair programming would only slow things down in this case.
I suppose it is like everything. You need to learn when to apply it and when it is a waste of time.
I've always thought that Star Trek had a broader appeal, at least before it sunk into the mire after Roddenberry's death. Hell, my wife used to watch it, and it is near impossible to get her to read an SF book. I've always thought that Star Trek appealed to a lot of non-fans. Could be wrong about that, though.
No, I fully recognize that Asimov came before Star Trek. I'm just objecting to the way Katz pretends that this idea is something "new".
Uhhh....what banner ads?
I don't see any banner ads on their site...
Bicentennial Man :)
Hardly anyone wants to talk about!?
Sounds to me like the exact same questions that "Star Trek:The Next Generation" drove into the ground over and over and over.
I just love it when the mainstream finally notices questions that SF-readers have been tossing around for fifty years.
The trouble with this argument is that there is really no way RedHat can be the "next Microsoft" with its current business model. Because they sell a shared resource, they will never gain the sort of market-share Microsoft has with the kind of margin Microsoft has. In addition, since they don't control the source, they can't use undocumented APIs and the like to promote the developer or application wings of their business.
They are not a bad company. But they will never be the "next Microsoft" as long as they are a Linux company. To be the "next Microsoft", not only would Linux have to shut out Windows on the desktop, but RedHat would have to drive all other Linux distributions and app-makers into a small minority market-share. That's just not going to happen.
(Thank God for that, BTW.)
Perhaps not serious, but I just wanted to point out that since the website itself does not generate any revenue, the boycott should be in purchases, not of the site.
I've done some of that already. I use amazon's site to decide what to buy (mostly through reader reviews, etc.) Then I buy it elsewhere.
I happen to like Oregon's approach, myself: no sales tax, higher state income tax brackets and a stiff gasoline tax, the latter paying for roads.
High property tax, as well.