...or how I learned to stop worrying and love Linux.
I don't run Windows at home; I run Linux. I own quite a few native Linux game titles (Civ III, Quake III, Railroad Tycoon, among others) but once Loki went out of business, I decided that Linux would not be a target platform for games for a long time -- too long for me to wait it out. All of my Linux-using friends had broken down and bought consoles (most of them PS2s). I realized that they were doing the right thing and I followed suit.
I know about TransGaming, but I think that what they are doing sends the wrong message to the game publishers, so it's a personal choice of mine not to use their product.
I think I prefer games on the PC, and I'll buy more Linux games when game publishers start supporting my platform of choice. But until then, I'm happy with my PS2.
North Korea and Iran don't have delivery systems that can reach the US
I would count passenger airplanes and container ships, among many other forms of commerical transport, as intercontinental nuclear delivery systems. Remember, no one thought that al Queda had cruise missile capability before 9/11.
Who the hell uses proprietary Flash(tm) technology to display simple friggin' graphs! What the heck is the purpose of that? PNG, JPEG or GIF isn't good enough?!? Someone needs to hit these guys with a cluestick.
T-Mobile will allow their phones to be unlocked after about three months of service. Just send email to simunlock@t-mobile.com with your name, phone number and IMEI number and they'll hook you up.
Performance is the least interesting characteristic of running a language like Python on the.NET CLR. The most damning problem in the ActiveState report is that the CLR cannot directly support a number of Python's language features. You will note that IronPython is not yet passing enough of Python's regression tests to work on many interesting language problems. Once it gets to that point, then I'll be interested.
But, I think that if anyone can pull this off, Jim can. The concern I have is whether he can keep the language alive. Development on his Jython project seems to have ground to a halt since the release of Jython-2.2a1 last summer.
.Net is a vehicle for C# and a distorted reflection of all other languages.
A very good illustration of this is in the attempt to create a Python.NET implementation by the folks at ActiveState. The report on the lessons learned is rather enlightening.
Freedom is, among other things, the absence of artificial constraints.
Anarchy is, above all things, the absence of artificial constraints.
I happen to think that, for the time being, the U.S., with it's many artificial constraints as laid out in the constitution, is a bit freer than, inter alia, Haiti is at the moment. There is a distinct lack of artificial constraints there at the moment.
What you will notice about both the U.S. Constitution and the GPL is that they both serve to further a political goal. And both succeeded beyond their creators' wildest dreams.
Those that would link the GPL with socialism are lacking in imagination. The GPL is the ultimate in libertarian, "tax-free" commerce, bartering free/open software for more free/open software.
And there is absolutely no limit on how one used GPL'd software that I know of. The limits come in only when one engages in software commerce (distribution). And only a communist regime would deign to tell anyone how to distribute their resources "for the good of the people."
Come on, man. You responded to a post about seeing through dresses by asking about chemical research. I think I speak for all of Slashdot when I say, "I am so dissapointed in you." You're geek credentials are this close to being revoked, mister!
At least have the decency to start a new thread next time.
Misrepresentation in this context is to parties outside of the transaction, and there are no direct material consequences on the receivers of their misstatements.
Public statements by publicly traded entities may have material consequences to stock holders. With a company as widely held as Microsoft, the probability is rather high that a good number of the "receivers of their misstatements" are materially vested.
In this case, MSFT shareholders may be concerned for at least two reasons that I can think of: 1) this behavior may be overstepping the bounds of a monopoly; and 2) it may show that MSFT is more worried about the competition than they appear to let on.
I know that some will pick up on the apparent dichotomy of the two reasons that I posted in the previous paragraph. However, I think they are self-reinforcing. MSFT has no sizeable competition, and to go to the extremes that MSFT is with regard to Linux, when one considers the disparity in market share, is a bit paranoid.
how are they SUPPOSED to answer this?... How could they possibly know?
The standard, accepted response in such a situation is to state that they have no such information, or that they simply do not know. To withhold comment implies that that there is information there that they do not wish to divulge. Any other interpretation is simply naive.
Now, it may be as simple as they don't want to divulge that they do not know, but I would consider that a rather charitable supposition when dealing with Microsoft.
You want a break? Take a look at this patent and tell me whether you think this story is still BS and what is says about their track. Hint: note the list of inventors; match to email sender.
They've had to invent new General and Special Theories of SCO Financial Statements. We can only hope that Darl needs to spend a year dead for tax reasons.
We should boycott EV1Servers for contributing to the SCO legal fund.
Great idea! But there are myriad ways to boycott a company that does not play nice with others. As I have no need for a hosting service, boycotting their services directly requires no effort on my part. I do, however, have control over a couple of routers. I will be blocking 207.218.192.0 - 207.218.255.255 and have all other EVRY netblock I can find blacklisted on those routers.
I will not be doing business with them or their customers. Their customers are the ones pay for these licenses in the end. And their customers need to know that doing business with EV1Servers is hurting their business.
Perl isn't called a "glue language" for no reason.
He's right. You don't want to get any of that on your fingers.;-)
Perl is perfectly suited for those applications where no one else will ever have to maintain the code. This certainly sounds like one of those cases. If, on the other hand, you expect others will need to maintain it, you might be better off using a more maintainable language, such as Python. Similar features, more legible.
Oh, and if this will require learning a new language for you, you'll be more productive in less time with Python.
Is this funny, insightful or flamebait -- you be the judge.
I have my own home network, and I do block email from a number of regions based on IP blocks, including Brazil. I never do this lightly. I only do it after sending spam complaints and having those complaints ignored. None of the ISPs in Brazil (along with China and South Korea) to whom I sent spam complaints ever responded to emails. Brazilian ISPs are very permissive about spam, and you are paying the price. I am sorry.
I will give you a counter-example. I do not block IP blocks from Argentina because I always received prompt replies from the Argentinian ISPs. And I don't receive spam from Argentina any more. The ISPs in Argentina, as a rule, do not permit spam to originate on their networks. The whole country benefits because of this policy. (Well, if you call being able to sent me email a benefit.;-)
Blocking IPs is not something I did on a whim. But it was and is highly effective in blocking a great deal of all spam delivery attempts. I recently upgraded my email server and my relay rules were not applied -- I didn't really appreciate how well those rules were working until that point. It took me less than a day to realize that something was seriously wrong.
Sorry, but those rules stay until I am convinced they are no longer needed.
Ballantyne and his colleague... observed a "superburst." These are much more rare than ordinary, helium-powered bursts and release 1000 times more energy. Scientists say superbursts are caused by a buildup of nuclear ash in the form of carbon from the helium fusion.
This was a burst from carbon fusion. The ash from the helium fusion process.
Can some astro-phys whiz tell me why there can be a buildup of atomic matter on the nuetron star? How can the baryons remain in atomic nuclei and not get incorporated as nuetrons into the nuetron star directly?
examiners can now search this database of prior art
Most prior art applicable to computer software patent applications is not patented or submitted to the patent office for patent protection. How does the patent office deal with non-patented prior art?
It's CobolScript for Unix!!!
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From the article:
#!/usr/bin/rexx ADDRESS SYSTEM ls WITH OUTPUT FIFO '' ERROR NORMAL DO i=1 WHILE queued() \= 0 PARSE PULL line; SAY i || ") " || line; END
Yeah, I can see right away why I would want to write programs in this language. No object model. No regular expressions. Cobol-like syntax. This is more like BASIC (and not even the Visual variety) than Perl or Awk.
I know it may come off as such, but this really isn't meant as flamebait. I just really don't get why people would want to write new code in such a dreadful language.
(To be fair, I think the same of PL/SQL coders; but at least they have a good reason -- "Larry made me do it.")
You could use konqueror like filemanager and do webdav://server or webdavs://server since it also has ssl webdav support
Yep, and it even supports SSL authentication. No other similar tool that I have looked at supports SSL authentication with DAV. There are DAV-specific tools (cadaver for one) that support it, but having this ability in both Windows Explorer and Gnome's Nautilus would be most welcome.
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How much would you be spending on commercial software support instead? More or less?
I don't run Windows at home; I run Linux. I own quite a few native Linux game titles (Civ III, Quake III, Railroad Tycoon, among others) but once Loki went out of business, I decided that Linux would not be a target platform for games for a long time -- too long for me to wait it out. All of my Linux-using friends had broken down and bought consoles (most of them PS2s). I realized that they were doing the right thing and I followed suit.
I know about TransGaming, but I think that what they are doing sends the wrong message to the game publishers, so it's a personal choice of mine not to use their product.
I think I prefer games on the PC, and I'll buy more Linux games when game publishers start supporting my platform of choice. But until then, I'm happy with my PS2.
I would count passenger airplanes and container ships, among many other forms of commerical transport, as intercontinental nuclear delivery systems. Remember, no one thought that al Queda had cruise missile capability before 9/11.
That's just lame.
T-Mobile will allow their phones to be unlocked after about three months of service. Just send email to simunlock@t-mobile.com with your name, phone number and IMEI number and they'll hook you up.
Mmmmm... yams.
But, I think that if anyone can pull this off, Jim can. The concern I have is whether he can keep the language alive. Development on his Jython project seems to have ground to a halt since the release of Jython-2.2a1 last summer.
A very good illustration of this is in the attempt to create a Python.NET implementation by the folks at ActiveState. The report on the lessons learned is rather enlightening.
Anarchy is, above all things, the absence of artificial constraints.
I happen to think that, for the time being, the U.S., with it's many artificial constraints as laid out in the constitution, is a bit freer than, inter alia, Haiti is at the moment. There is a distinct lack of artificial constraints there at the moment.
What you will notice about both the U.S. Constitution and the GPL is that they both serve to further a political goal. And both succeeded beyond their creators' wildest dreams.
Those that would link the GPL with socialism are lacking in imagination. The GPL is the ultimate in libertarian, "tax-free" commerce, bartering free/open software for more free/open software.
And there is absolutely no limit on how one used GPL'd software that I know of. The limits come in only when one engages in software commerce (distribution). And only a communist regime would deign to tell anyone how to distribute their resources "for the good of the people."
It's a shotgun.
Both barrels, both feet, every time.
Come on, man. You responded to a post about seeing through dresses by asking about chemical research. I think I speak for all of Slashdot when I say, "I am so dissapointed in you." You're geek credentials are this close to being revoked, mister!
At least have the decency to start a new thread next time.
Public statements by publicly traded entities may have material consequences to stock holders. With a company as widely held as Microsoft, the probability is rather high that a good number of the "receivers of their misstatements" are materially vested.
In this case, MSFT shareholders may be concerned for at least two reasons that I can think of: 1) this behavior may be overstepping the bounds of a monopoly; and 2) it may show that MSFT is more worried about the competition than they appear to let on.
I know that some will pick up on the apparent dichotomy of the two reasons that I posted in the previous paragraph. However, I think they are self-reinforcing. MSFT has no sizeable competition, and to go to the extremes that MSFT is with regard to Linux, when one considers the disparity in market share, is a bit paranoid.
The standard, accepted response in such a situation is to state that they have no such information, or that they simply do not know. To withhold comment implies that that there is information there that they do not wish to divulge. Any other interpretation is simply naive.
Now, it may be as simple as they don't want to divulge that they do not know, but I would consider that a rather charitable supposition when dealing with Microsoft.
They've had to invent new General and Special Theories of SCO Financial Statements. We can only hope that Darl needs to spend a year dead for tax reasons.
Rest assured, they are mine. Thanks for the warm wishes though. Always good to see well-adjusted, positive individuals on /.
Great idea! But there are myriad ways to boycott a company that does not play nice with others. As I have no need for a hosting service, boycotting their services directly requires no effort on my part. I do, however, have control over a couple of routers. I will be blocking 207.218.192.0 - 207.218.255.255 and have all other EVRY netblock I can find blacklisted on those routers.
I will not be doing business with them or their customers. Their customers are the ones pay for these licenses in the end. And their customers need to know that doing business with EV1Servers is hurting their business.
Oh, and those theoretical apparitions called black holes -- the great Insinkerators in the sky.
He's right. You don't want to get any of that on your fingers. ;-)
Perl is perfectly suited for those applications where no one else will ever have to maintain the code. This certainly sounds like one of those cases. If, on the other hand, you expect others will need to maintain it, you might be better off using a more maintainable language, such as Python. Similar features, more legible.
Oh, and if this will require learning a new language for you, you'll be more productive in less time with Python.
Is this funny, insightful or flamebait -- you be the judge.
I will give you a counter-example. I do not block IP blocks from Argentina because I always received prompt replies from the Argentinian ISPs. And I don't receive spam from Argentina any more. The ISPs in Argentina, as a rule, do not permit spam to originate on their networks. The whole country benefits because of this policy. (Well, if you call being able to sent me email a benefit. ;-)
Blocking IPs is not something I did on a whim. But it was and is highly effective in blocking a great deal of all spam delivery attempts. I recently upgraded my email server and my relay rules were not applied -- I didn't really appreciate how well those rules were working until that point. It took me less than a day to realize that something was seriously wrong.
Sorry, but those rules stay until I am convinced they are no longer needed.
This was a burst from carbon fusion. The ash from the helium fusion process.
Can some astro-phys whiz tell me why there can be a buildup of atomic matter on the nuetron star? How can the baryons remain in atomic nuclei and not get incorporated as nuetrons into the nuetron star directly?
Most prior art applicable to computer software patent applications is not patented or submitted to the patent office for patent protection. How does the patent office deal with non-patented prior art?
Yeah, I can see right away why I would want to write programs in this language. No object model. No regular expressions. Cobol-like syntax. This is more like BASIC (and not even the Visual variety) than Perl or Awk.
I know it may come off as such, but this really isn't meant as flamebait. I just really don't get why people would want to write new code in such a dreadful language.
(To be fair, I think the same of PL/SQL coders; but at least they have a good reason -- "Larry made me do it.")
Yep, and it even supports SSL authentication. No other similar tool that I have looked at supports SSL authentication with DAV. There are DAV-specific tools (cadaver for one) that support it, but having this ability in both Windows Explorer and Gnome's Nautilus would be most welcome.