I can't afford tickets yet and now this gets announced on Slashdot? Crap.
Um...this concert is going to suck. You shouldn't go. Rosemont is a bad place. If you go there, you'll die. Um...I heard the theater has this really big bear that eats anyone who walks in.
When you have a TV show that's going downhill, you kill somebody off, or make somebody pregnant, or something similar. I think SCO is realizing their ratings are dropping again and this is another attempt to recapture viewers.
This show is soon going to be cancelled because nobody is going to care anymore. And once SCO loses their headlines, this is all for naught. After all, this certainly isn't about any legal justice.
This guy is being a knob. I like Dragon's Lair. Sure, it wasn't an execptionally good game, but it was fun in it's simplicity and I don't blame him for singing it's praises. But does he have to shamelessly knock modern games, sometimes games that have little or nothing to do with DL to do so?
Dragon's Lair is little more than Simon with a Don Bluth cartoon. Some people will like this, some people won't.
There's a detail that some of you are missing, and, as a former operator, I feel I ought to clear it up:
What's being discussed in these articles is NOT TTY relay. IP relay is a website that theoretically works just as if it were a TTY from the point of view of the consumer.
This is good for the deaf people because they don't need a TTY every time they need to make a phone call. All they need is web access. This is bad, on the other hand, because Nigerians can use it, as well as 13 year olds who like to hear adults say 'penis'.
Yes, but Inform and TADS already have excellent text parsers written for you, making life much simpler once you know the language. So you have to ask yourself which is more convenient - learning a new language to get a free parser or writing the parser yourself in a language you already know.
You also don't have to worry about cross-compatibility with the IF languages. Both of these languages create pseudo-code that runs under a virtual machine. Sort of the way Java works. If you code in C++, even if you write it to be truly portable it will still need to be compiled on each machine people want it run on.
To each his own, but you should at least take a good look at Inform/TAGS/Hugo.
Sigh. This probably isn't even worth replying to, but:
By 'they' I meant the DOD, not Green Hills. I understand this speel is from a rep of Green Hills, but the government haves the same problem with Green Hills as they do any other closed-source OS - the mere fact that it's closed source. How does one know one of the programmers there isn't a terrorist? Or, more likely, an idiot?
The only way to really know is to hire your own programmers and do a background check so as to know what they eat for breakfast...
I half expected to see a big "Sponsored by Microsoft" sticker on the bottom of the page.
Basically this guy is recommending we entrust the security of our defense systems to the code review teams of the closed-source OS, rather than taking the time and money to do have the DOD do it themselves. Sounds like a money saver until a missile goes blue-screen and blows up a school...
If these people are so concerned about code review(which, admittedly, they ought to be), then perhaps they should be writing their own OSes, especially for imbedded systems.
"Apparently someone used his imagination -- with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline, combining these four elements he created a fascinating - "
And I can only thank God the sentence ended with "Tron Costume".
People have a tendency to forget that the evil-nasty viruses come out BEFORE the virus-scan developers have a chance to add it to their software.
It is very possible to have the newest AV updates and get hit by a virus.
People who hide behind virus scanners as if they solve all of the world's problems are part of the problem themselves.
99.2GB of MP3s as of tonight.
Yes, I have a lot of full albums(I prefer them). Yes, I have some music that is SO bad I scare my friends with it. And yes it is sorted(Immaculately. It has to be, but I don't even know what some of it actually is, much less love.
I might be wrong on this, but wasn't SimCity originally a Mac game? It certainly wasn't a C-64 original.
So did this guy just find advertisements for 10 old computers and decide to write an article about them?
...but I don't feel this is one of them. Two points.
1) No OS is perfect, and anyone who uses Windows has to admit that XP is a lot more reliable in general than 98 or earlier. So, in that respect, Microsoft has 'made a lot of progress' in reliability.
2) I run XP. I used to run 98. I've never had a virus. Never had a trojan. Ad-aware scanned my computer and all it could come up with is a few cookies. Why? I'm not an idiot. I don't run attachments from strange people. I stay away from things named "Gator" and "Xupiter". I firewall. Yes, blame needs to be placed with Microsoft for leaving these holes gaping open, but Joe Q Moron also needs to be held responsible for being uneducated enough to let his computer get infected.
Kids these days are awfully lucky. When I was a kid, we actually got blamed for what we did. If I'd had excuses like this childhood would have been a hell of a lot more fun.
When I first got this motherboard a year or so ago, I knew it had AC '97 on it and I was leery of that, so as soon as I had Windows installed, I had to run it through its paces. Just playing MP3s was fine and sounded perfectly adequate for my needs. Then I tested MIDI. It had wavetable. Not very good wavetable, but I wasn't expecting any at all, so hey.
Then I went to play a game. Sound went insane. It turns out that their DirectSound support, at least for me, was complete crap. And at the time I still had the onboard video. The only card in my computer was my NIC, so I doubt it was a conflict. Tried updating and switching drivers, no go.
I eventually had to break down and buy an SB Live. And I felt that was a waste because it seemed as if I'd just paid for working DirectX drivers.
I currently have a 66GB FAT32 partition. I use it to pass data around between XP, Win98 and Linux. Of course, I had to format the thing using Linux, but once I did all was well.
The 32GB limit in XP is done on purpose by MS to 'encourage people to use NTFS'
So does that mean Longhorn will only let you format NTFS partitions to 32GB to 'encourage people to use WinFS'? I shudder at the thought.
So here's my question: Since when do politicians have any word in who gets arrested? I thought cops did that. People need to be quiet and do their jobs.
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I can't afford tickets yet and now this gets announced on Slashdot? Crap.
Um...this concert is going to suck. You shouldn't go. Rosemont is a bad place. If you go there, you'll die. Um...I heard the theater has this really big bear that eats anyone who walks in.
No? Damn.
Sure, but who in their right mind is going to buy Mario ME?
When you have a TV show that's going downhill, you kill somebody off, or make somebody pregnant, or something similar. I think SCO is realizing their ratings are dropping again and this is another attempt to recapture viewers.
This show is soon going to be cancelled because nobody is going to care anymore. And once SCO loses their headlines, this is all for naught. After all, this certainly isn't about any legal justice.
This guy is being a knob. I like Dragon's Lair. Sure, it wasn't an execptionally good game, but it was fun in it's simplicity and I don't blame him for singing it's praises. But does he have to shamelessly knock modern games, sometimes games that have little or nothing to do with DL to do so?
Dragon's Lair is little more than Simon with a Don Bluth cartoon. Some people will like this, some people won't.
i will 0wnz0r your...
Sorry. I can't do it. I just can't.
There's a detail that some of you are missing, and, as a former operator, I feel I ought to clear it up:
What's being discussed in these articles is NOT TTY relay. IP relay is a website that theoretically works just as if it were a TTY from the point of view of the consumer.
This is good for the deaf people because they don't need a TTY every time they need to make a phone call. All they need is web access. This is bad, on the other hand, because Nigerians can use it, as well as 13 year olds who like to hear adults say 'penis'.
Yes, but Inform and TADS already have excellent text parsers written for you, making life much simpler once you know the language. So you have to ask yourself which is more convenient - learning a new language to get a free parser or writing the parser yourself in a language you already know.
You also don't have to worry about cross-compatibility with the IF languages. Both of these languages create pseudo-code that runs under a virtual machine. Sort of the way Java works. If you code in C++, even if you write it to be truly portable it will still need to be compiled on each machine people want it run on.
To each his own, but you should at least take a good look at Inform/TAGS/Hugo.
Sigh. This probably isn't even worth replying to, but: By 'they' I meant the DOD, not Green Hills. I understand this speel is from a rep of Green Hills, but the government haves the same problem with Green Hills as they do any other closed-source OS - the mere fact that it's closed source. How does one know one of the programmers there isn't a terrorist? Or, more likely, an idiot?
The only way to really know is to hire your own programmers and do a background check so as to know what they eat for breakfast...
I half expected to see a big "Sponsored by Microsoft" sticker on the bottom of the page.
Basically this guy is recommending we entrust the security of our defense systems to the code review teams of the closed-source OS, rather than taking the time and money to do have the DOD do it themselves. Sounds like a money saver until a missile goes blue-screen and blows up a school...
If these people are so concerned about code review(which, admittedly, they ought to be), then perhaps they should be writing their own OSes, especially for imbedded systems.
MissileOS...
"Apparently someone used his imagination -- with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline, combining these four elements he created a fascinating - "
And I can only thank God the sentence ended with "Tron Costume".
People have a tendency to forget that the evil-nasty viruses come out BEFORE the virus-scan developers have a chance to add it to their software. It is very possible to have the newest AV updates and get hit by a virus.
People who hide behind virus scanners as if they solve all of the world's problems are part of the problem themselves.
99.2GB of MP3s as of tonight. Yes, I have a lot of full albums(I prefer them). Yes, I have some music that is SO bad I scare my friends with it. And yes it is sorted(Immaculately. It has to be, but I don't even know what some of it actually is, much less love.
the mob is exempt from murder charges due to 'market realities'.
I might be wrong on this, but wasn't SimCity originally a Mac game? It certainly wasn't a C-64 original. So did this guy just find advertisements for 10 old computers and decide to write an article about them?
The world's most alkaline lifeforms are living in contaminated water in the U.S.
I think I've been in this guy's apartment...
Uh, I'll install copies of Mandrake for 'em for $25 a seat. I will...really.
...but I don't feel this is one of them. Two points.
1) No OS is perfect, and anyone who uses Windows has to admit that XP is a lot more reliable in general than 98 or earlier. So, in that respect, Microsoft has 'made a lot of progress' in reliability.
2) I run XP. I used to run 98. I've never had a virus. Never had a trojan. Ad-aware scanned my computer and all it could come up with is a few cookies. Why? I'm not an idiot. I don't run attachments from strange people. I stay away from things named "Gator" and "Xupiter". I firewall. Yes, blame needs to be placed with Microsoft for leaving these holes gaping open, but Joe Q Moron also needs to be held responsible for being uneducated enough to let his computer get infected.
Kids these days are awfully lucky. When I was a kid, we actually got blamed for what we did. If I'd had excuses like this childhood would have been a hell of a lot more fun.
When I first got this motherboard a year or so ago, I knew it had AC '97 on it and I was leery of that, so as soon as I had Windows installed, I had to run it through its paces. Just playing MP3s was fine and sounded perfectly adequate for my needs. Then I tested MIDI. It had wavetable. Not very good wavetable, but I wasn't expecting any at all, so hey.
Then I went to play a game. Sound went insane. It turns out that their DirectSound support, at least for me, was complete crap. And at the time I still had the onboard video. The only card in my computer was my NIC, so I doubt it was a conflict. Tried updating and switching drivers, no go.
I eventually had to break down and buy an SB Live. And I felt that was a waste because it seemed as if I'd just paid for working DirectX drivers.
I currently have a 66GB FAT32 partition. I use it to pass data around between XP, Win98 and Linux. Of course, I had to format the thing using Linux, but once I did all was well.
The 32GB limit in XP is done on purpose by MS to 'encourage people to use NTFS'
So does that mean Longhorn will only let you format NTFS partitions to 32GB to 'encourage people to use WinFS'? I shudder at the thought.
So here's my question: Since when do politicians have any word in who gets arrested? I thought cops did that. People need to be quiet and do their jobs.