Dashboard aye? Oh you mean the thing that was a takeoff of [Super]Karamba? And before anyone makes a smart reply, I am actually interested in knowing what [Super]Karamba was a takeoff of, so a polite reply would be much better.
Have you ever been writing a document then suddenly thought "Gee I'd love to play chess at the moment"? With another editor you'd be stuffed - you'd probably have to open another program or something, but not with Emacs.
With Emacs you could be editing your document while chatting on IRC and checking your email, and you wouldn't even need another program. I heard with the new version it will make you tea and give you a massage. I know it already comes with a kitchen sink: apt says so.
I know someone who stayed for an extra year and an arts degree doing languages... Just because he's a comp sci student doesn't mean that he can't get another degree.
I don't mind Microsoft bundling stuff with their operating system, but is it really too much to ask that they allow users to be able to not install the things they bundle with their operating system?
The difference is apparently quite striking with the average IQ difference between those that had the gene and those that didn't being marked at 20 approximately 20 points.
I think that is actually gramatically correct, but missing a couple of commas or brackets to make things more readable:
The difference is apparently quite striking with the average IQ difference between those that had the gene and those that didn't being, marked at 20, approximately 20 points.
Market deregulation is good and all until someone wins outright and gains the monopoly then you'll be complaining about the skyrocketing prices and bad service, because, after all, it doesn't take very much when you own a monopoly to change the way you do things to ensure that other people can't compete with you. This happens in every single field, be it manufacturing, phone systems, electricity systems, or (I have to bring this up because after all this is Slashdot) Operating Systems.
Besides this for true market deregulations you cannot regulate safety. In your system aeroplane manufacturers would be continually cutting costs including safety and when a plane carrying a few hundred people falls out of the sky they will just say "whoops, hopefully that won't happen again" and begin cutting safety costs again.
Regulation is around because it is good and protects the consumer. Free market only works to a certain extent because after a certain point instead of improving their product the corperations creating the product start trying to figure out how much money they can grab.
There's a difference between balanced reporting and posting a huge flaming pile of crap to "get it all to balance out in the end", the difference being why I stopped reading the Register a while ago. I didn't mind their neutral articles one bit but when they drag out their flaming pile of crap it sets my teeth on edge. Ever since their flame-fest on the Wikipedia that lasted for weeks I just stopped reading because it was just too stupid. I don't care for such a holier than thou attitude even if they only bring it out every once in a while.
The main (and obviously original) place that it comes from is that the original Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie textbook for C used the bracket on the same line compressed style. This is still used as a standard reference so new students learn bad outdated styles.
How the hell does this make economical sense. Apart from the fact that you're driving away the teenagers who might actually spend money at the store, along with any adults (like me) who can hear these sorts of high frequency noises, which pretty much eliminates most people under 25, but you're driving away any parents (and believe it or not a lot of people have children now-a-days!) whose children can't stand to go inside, which cuts down most of the 25-50 year old bracket. Are they only going to sell to people over 50 or something? Why don't they just require that a pensioners card be shown before allowing entry on the premesis?
I can vote, drive a car, drink alcohol, look at porn and buy cigarettes. (I can't buy a handgun but alas I live in Australia where handguns are illegal without a license) I make my own money. I can still hear these noises and I'll be damned if I'm going to shop at a store that treats me like shit.
Not long ago I spent days, perhaps a week, writing a nice interface in Java for an assignment. When the time came to package everything up I decided to remove the extra bloat by removing the class files. I brought up my trusty command line and ran
rm *.java
No backup for those files. Thank god I still had the class files and I could decompile them!
No actually that's wrong, if only slightly. GCC 3.3.* and below use a different C++ ABI to GCC 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1. Even Debian has upgraded from GCC 3.3 to GCC 4.0 so an incremental version upgrade shouldn't be too much of a deal.
You're making too much of this. Between 4.0 and 4.1 isn't that big-a change. The only reason why it took so long for many distros to move between 3.3 and 3.4/4.0 was the change in the binary interface between the compilers. In other words a program compiled with 4.0 couldn't link to a library compiled with 3.3. There isn't this restriction between 4.0 and 4.1 so there's no reason why it can't go into the repositories straight after testing.
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Looking through Wikipedia the trail traced back to DesktopX in 2000, beating Dashboard by almost 5 years.
Dashboard aye? Oh you mean the thing that was a takeoff of [Super]Karamba? And before anyone makes a smart reply, I am actually interested in knowing what [Super]Karamba was a takeoff of, so a polite reply would be much better.
(And yes I know I'm a hypocrite)
Have you ever been writing a document then suddenly thought "Gee I'd love to play chess at the moment"? With another editor you'd be stuffed - you'd probably have to open another program or something, but not with Emacs.
With Emacs you could be editing your document while chatting on IRC and checking your email, and you wouldn't even need another program. I heard with the new version it will make you tea and give you a massage. I know it already comes with a kitchen sink: apt says so.
I know someone who stayed for an extra year and an arts degree doing languages... Just because he's a comp sci student doesn't mean that he can't get another degree.
umm sorry mate wrong message to reply to. I totally misread your message, damn me for reading too quickly!
I don't like the Microsoft web browser and the Microsoft media player. Could you please tell me where the uninstall button is?
I don't mind Microsoft bundling stuff with their operating system, but is it really too much to ask that they allow users to be able to not install the things they bundle with their operating system?
"All men are created equal, except for those guys."
The difference is apparently quite striking with the average IQ difference between those that had the gene and those that didn't being marked at 20 approximately 20 points.
I think that is actually gramatically correct, but missing a couple of commas or brackets to make things more readable:
The difference is apparently quite striking with the average IQ difference between those that had the gene and those that didn't being, marked at 20, approximately 20 points.
Don't worry - that guy has no taste. After all, he said Kylie Manogue and Crocodile Dundee 3 are good.
Market deregulation is good and all until someone wins outright and gains the monopoly then you'll be complaining about the skyrocketing prices and bad service, because, after all, it doesn't take very much when you own a monopoly to change the way you do things to ensure that other people can't compete with you. This happens in every single field, be it manufacturing, phone systems, electricity systems, or (I have to bring this up because after all this is Slashdot) Operating Systems.
Besides this for true market deregulations you cannot regulate safety. In your system aeroplane manufacturers would be continually cutting costs including safety and when a plane carrying a few hundred people falls out of the sky they will just say "whoops, hopefully that won't happen again" and begin cutting safety costs again.
Regulation is around because it is good and protects the consumer. Free market only works to a certain extent because after a certain point instead of improving their product the corperations creating the product start trying to figure out how much money they can grab.
Karma Whoring. Ah bugger, my karma's all full anyway.
And a hot girl holding it that's obviously an integral part of their development team.
There's a difference between balanced reporting and posting a huge flaming pile of crap to "get it all to balance out in the end", the difference being why I stopped reading the Register a while ago. I didn't mind their neutral articles one bit but when they drag out their flaming pile of crap it sets my teeth on edge. Ever since their flame-fest on the Wikipedia that lasted for weeks I just stopped reading because it was just too stupid. I don't care for such a holier than thou attitude even if they only bring it out every once in a while.
The main (and obviously original) place that it comes from is that the original Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie textbook for C used the bracket on the same line compressed style. This is still used as a standard reference so new students learn bad outdated styles.
How the hell does this make economical sense. Apart from the fact that you're driving away the teenagers who might actually spend money at the store, along with any adults (like me) who can hear these sorts of high frequency noises, which pretty much eliminates most people under 25, but you're driving away any parents (and believe it or not a lot of people have children now-a-days!) whose children can't stand to go inside, which cuts down most of the 25-50 year old bracket. Are they only going to sell to people over 50 or something? Why don't they just require that a pensioners card be shown before allowing entry on the premesis?
I can vote, drive a car, drink alcohol, look at porn and buy cigarettes. (I can't buy a handgun but alas I live in Australia where handguns are illegal without a license) I make my own money. I can still hear these noises and I'll be damned if I'm going to shop at a store that treats me like shit.
Sorry but it seems Business Week is still caught up on Dos. The correct link without the extra 'l' is http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov 2005/tc20051118_179356.htm
uhuh, and I was downloading it from my debian repository before Digg had it. It's ten hours on a release notice. Who cares?
I'm wondering what will happen when they finally get around to selling 360s here in Australia scheduled for the middle of the Australian summer.
Big tits, nice arse. All else is mandatory.
No actually that's wrong, if only slightly. GCC 3.3.* and below use a different C++ ABI to GCC 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1. Even Debian has upgraded from GCC 3.3 to GCC 4.0 so an incremental version upgrade shouldn't be too much of a deal.
yep sorry I should have mentioned that.
You're making too much of this. Between 4.0 and 4.1 isn't that big-a change. The only reason why it took so long for many distros to move between 3.3 and 3.4/4.0 was the change in the binary interface between the compilers. In other words a program compiled with 4.0 couldn't link to a library compiled with 3.3. There isn't this restriction between 4.0 and 4.1 so there's no reason why it can't go into the repositories straight after testing.