This is a debated topic. If you don't need SMP and you don't need high-end SCSI performance (from FreeBSD's cam) NetBSD is a choice you should at least consider.
The biggest hamper that keeps most of the "mainstream x86 BSD" users on FreeBSD is ports versus pkgsrc- pkgsrc is engineered well, but has fewer packages. Hopefully openpackages will change this.
Haha. That movie is about the childhood chess career of Joshua Waitzkin, not Bobby Fischer.
IM Waitzkin performed very well in national scholastic tournaments, and is still one of USA's top players.. but he's no Fischer! I'm sure if IM Waitzkin ever read this, he'd be laughing his ass off.
Of course I do. ZZT was the ONLY single player game that I've ever played that kept me that capitvated for years. I'm sure if I loaded it up now, I'd lose countless more hours of productivity..
Tim Sweeney's finest, if you ask me, although I'm sure he'd disagree:)
They're going to say "I'm paying how much for THIS!?"
Having taken 15-100 in the summer session, I got to be among the first set of victims of Karel. The incoming class now will have to suffer with Karel for the first half of their semester.. it's not a bad concept, but it really could be condensed into a couple days. But DJ Slater is a cool guy, they'll have fun (as much as they won't want to admit it).
I couldn't agree more! I recently took 15-100 (introduction to programming with java) at CMU, and we had to use Karel: The Java Edition for the first half of the semester..
Considering most of the people there, such as myself, were already well versed in at least one other programming language, we were needless to say bored out of our minds. By the end of the semester, we spoke our mind at The Fence (you people familiar with CMU will enjoy this..)
I'm primairly looking for a "desktop-replacement" laptop. I want the big 14 or 15" screen, the large harddrive, massive amounts of memory, and the speed. (Note: I like speed, but hey, 400-600 MHz would be plenty)
Why aren't people putting low power processors into these otherwise power-starved machines? I'm obviously expecting limited battery life, but hey, every little bit of power consumption helps.
No, I'm not arguing that McVeigh's actions were anywhere near defendable. But he was still a person first, a bomber second. People like to forget that, and that's why it's easy for people to say we should kill "murderers, rapists, and terrorists" - when we dehumanize people, we make it easier to deprive them of their right to life.
As for the person who modded me down a off-topic, I did mention that he probably legos. I went off on a tangent that was introduced by it's immediate parent, because it needed to be said. When something needs to be said, it will be said. Slashdot karma is replacable (and meaningless, this is the first time I've hit 49 in months)
His name was Timothy McVeigh. The government has tried to paint him solely as "The Oklahoma City Bomber" to try to justify his murder; their reasoning being we're destroying a monster, not a person, but a bomber. Don't forget that he was the
I'm also willing to bet he played with legos; most children do.
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I gathered my friends; all five of the people had no intention on going before I talked them into it. (And there already were signs around the CS classes in Wean)
You really can't expect much more than that out of someone who isn't claiming to be running the protest (nor has the time to organize a successful protest)
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Protests are generally expected to last several hours (save police intervention). If they don't, then the organizers have failed at their jobs.
I was with a group of about 6 people; shame NOBODY was around to provide signs, etc, when we showed up.
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Here's the EFF's release on the indictment, too -- including information about where to go if you'd like to demonstrate your reaction publicly.
Has anyone here ever been to one of these protests? I attended an EFF protest of the DMCA in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. It was scheduled for noon, but I was busy then, so I showed up around 2:30 pm. Nobody was there. No sign of a protest, no signs, nada. Later a friend of mine who was there said they left around 2, because they were tired. That's perhaps the sorriest excuse for a protest I've ever heard. I'm sure they left a lasting impression on society.
The same way they've done it in the past, with companies like DeBeers (the diamond people). They can't go over there and do anything, but if any representative of Elcomsoft (or DeBeers, for that matter) steps foot in America, they can be arrested and charged on behalf of their company.
The option is given to the licensee; RMS could, in theory, release a new version of the GPL that says "Employees of the Free Software Foundation, Incoporated, do not have any redistribution requirements." and then download anything licensed under the GPL and, at his option, use the new license which gives him an "out" for distributing (i.e. selling) closed-source modified versions.
That's why I don't use the GPL, it's way too complicated, and you really don't feel in charge when you use it (because you aren't in charge).
C++ is definetly not a low level language. Where did you get that idea? They're both (C++ and Java) in the same ballpark for abstraction- C is only slightly more low level.
Sure most JVMs suck; cope, that'll get better. Also, has anyone heard of any java compilers that write real assembly for your processor, and not just java bytecode? That'd be a step in the right direction for a lot of things..
Pfft, Barren Realms Elite was much better than Tradewars:) I still terribly miss BRE. I'm talking to a few of my classmates here at CMU this summer, and we may do something about this problem...
I think another title that they're missing is ZZT- the first game with a level editor, and it was so damn engrossing... I truly loved ZZT in every way.
The drive interface should last longer than the current technology in storage- should holographic storage hit the market en mass, you can bet there'd be drives that will use this new standard, forinstance.
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There's a simple answer to that- all of us BSD users who just love UNIX don't take the time to write "nice book" or in some cases will just not notice the book was even printed (I never heard of your book before)
Many more BSD users are less vocal about their beliefs; it also seems to me that those who tend to say "linux sucks" have been "on the BSD bandwagon" for a lesser amount of time and want to separate themselves from their Linux past. It's really no different than the Freudian defense mechanism of reaction formation.
To conclude, if you're going to judge BSD users on the vocal ones, you're going to judge them all on Brett Glass et. al. That's not fair. We're all pretty vocal if you ask us about BSD, but most of us don't have a desire to shove BSD down the throats of others. If you want a real impression of BSD users, base it on productive discussion on BSD mailing lists (sure they get out of hand sometimes.. nobody is perfect) and NOT slashdot, linux news sites, or even IRC.
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The biggest hamper that keeps most of the "mainstream x86 BSD" users on FreeBSD is ports versus pkgsrc- pkgsrc is engineered well, but has fewer packages. Hopefully openpackages will change this.
It's a big deal, because there may be survivors in there, and until the fires stop and it becomes safe, more of them might die.
IM Waitzkin performed very well in national scholastic tournaments, and is still one of USA's top players.. but he's no Fischer! I'm sure if IM Waitzkin ever read this, he'd be laughing his ass off.
Tim Sweeney's finest, if you ask me, although I'm sure he'd disagree :)
Having taken 15-100 in the summer session, I got to be among the first set of victims of Karel. The incoming class now will have to suffer with Karel for the first half of their semester.. it's not a bad concept, but it really could be condensed into a couple days. But DJ Slater is a cool guy, they'll have fun (as much as they won't want to admit it).
Considering most of the people there, such as myself, were already well versed in at least one other programming language, we were needless to say bored out of our minds. By the end of the semester, we spoke our mind at The Fence (you people familiar with CMU will enjoy this..)
Why aren't people putting low power processors into these otherwise power-starved machines? I'm obviously expecting limited battery life, but hey, every little bit of power consumption helps.
As for the person who modded me down a off-topic, I did mention that he probably legos. I went off on a tangent that was introduced by it's immediate parent, because it needed to be said. When something needs to be said, it will be said. Slashdot karma is replacable (and meaningless, this is the first time I've hit 49 in months)
I'm also willing to bet he played with legos; most children do.
You really can't expect much more than that out of someone who isn't claiming to be running the protest (nor has the time to organize a successful protest)
I was with a group of about 6 people; shame NOBODY was around to provide signs, etc, when we showed up.
A 3-clause BSD license (aka X11 license).
Has anyone here ever been to one of these protests? I attended an EFF protest of the DMCA in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. It was scheduled for noon, but I was busy then, so I showed up around 2:30 pm. Nobody was there. No sign of a protest, no signs, nada. Later a friend of mine who was there said they left around 2, because they were tired. That's perhaps the sorriest excuse for a protest I've ever heard. I'm sure they left a lasting impression on society.
The same way they've done it in the past, with companies like DeBeers (the diamond people). They can't go over there and do anything, but if any representative of Elcomsoft (or DeBeers, for that matter) steps foot in America, they can be arrested and charged on behalf of their company.
That's why I don't use the GPL, it's way too complicated, and you really don't feel in charge when you use it (because you aren't in charge).
Yes, they would slow down.
Sure most JVMs suck; cope, that'll get better. Also, has anyone heard of any java compilers that write real assembly for your processor, and not just java bytecode? That'd be a step in the right direction for a lot of things..
I think another title that they're missing is ZZT- the first game with a level editor, and it was so damn engrossing... I truly loved ZZT in every way.
Read: you're both pretty much right- it is a ratio of two numbers, and it is irrational (as odd as that sounds)
How about hydrogen fuel cells? (Or for that matter, the other metal fuel cells)
The drive interface should last longer than the current technology in storage- should holographic storage hit the market en mass, you can bet there'd be drives that will use this new standard, forinstance.
Many more BSD users are less vocal about their beliefs; it also seems to me that those who tend to say "linux sucks" have been "on the BSD bandwagon" for a lesser amount of time and want to separate themselves from their Linux past. It's really no different than the Freudian defense mechanism of reaction formation.
To conclude, if you're going to judge BSD users on the vocal ones, you're going to judge them all on Brett Glass et. al. That's not fair. We're all pretty vocal if you ask us about BSD, but most of us don't have a desire to shove BSD down the throats of others. If you want a real impression of BSD users, base it on productive discussion on BSD mailing lists (sure they get out of hand sometimes.. nobody is perfect) and NOT slashdot, linux news sites, or even IRC.
When did he say he was leaving FreeBSD?
His name is Jordan.
It's a versatile UNIX tool that, among other things, can be used to write "zeros and ones" to an entire harddrive (...not just the filesystem)