They could just ship the xbox 360 with the recompiled binaries for the top x games, and just detect when one of those CD's is inserted and run the embedded version instead. There's no added piracy risk, because they're useless without the data from the CD anyway, so it's just a matter of them asking the game publisher "hey, do you want it to work or not?" and then getting it to work.
All worked. Only a small minority of my more complex commands, like "hold up 2 fingers left, 3 fingers right", led to incorrect actions with similar spelling or wording. That must of been a lot of pre-recording.
In any comparison of multiple factors, there is no absolute winner unless it wins in every single test. Otherwise, it's always easy to force a win for one side or the other by choosing the right weights. That's why people can truthfully say that Linux is better than Windows and MacOS, Windows is better than Linux and MacOS, and MacOS is better than Windows and Linux. If the article announced a winner, it'd be meaningless anyway.
Lunatics are always among the first adopters of any emerging technology. The same kind of people buy so called "environmentally friendly" electric cars, so that the instead of converting fuel directly to mechanical energy, it's converted to mechanical energy, then electicity, then chemical energy, then electricity again, and back into mechanical energy to move their car.
You don't have to be a lunatic to hate Ms. O'Gara though.
It can get pretty hard installing Debian debs on Ubuntu. You get vague errors like "X depends on Y which will not be installed". If it has all the right versions of all the packages it needs, then why not? And why did I have to study the apt source to find out? I've installed RPM's on on a DEB based system with less trouble. The main reason packages don't work across distributions often has little to do with the package format. Often their dependencies demand higher version numbers than are really needed, or they make distribution specific assumptions.
With both DEB and RPM based distros, I've often found it easier to just install things from the source, if the package management utilities are going to bitch about problems that don't really matter and disobey me even when I tell them to force. As technically superior as DEB's may be to RPM's, they both suck ass in an imperfect world with imperfect packages.
Caos is made by the folks who maintain the CentOS rebuild of RHEL. If it was anyone else, I'd have to agree with you, but I think their main concern is having a Red Hat-like distro that's both fresh and supported while being a little less dependent on Red Hat than CentOS is.
You can install apt and synaptic on RPM based distributions, and use them safely so long as the packages are built for that distribution. A lot of Red Hat users go here at some time or another. You can also install RPM's on a DEB based distribution, or use a utility called "alien" to more or less convert most RPM packages into DEB packages.
RPM's are supposedly more flexible than they used to be. I'm sure they're still inferior to DEB's, but it doesn't matter if they work. Probably their biggest reason for choosing RPM is that they already have a ton of experience working with them.
The Dev-C++ IDE is written in Pascal (Delphi), as unusual as that sounds. A whole lot of Windows software is written using Delphi, especially shareware, it's just not obvious to the user. Trying to do GUI development using Visual C++ was a nightmare, leaving Delphi as the only choice if you wanted easy RAD development and natively compiled code in the years before VB5 and VS.Net.
For the moment I've given up trying to get it to install correctly.
I got it installed, and there were no errors, but lazarus wouldn't compile, and neither would freepascal itself, which is supposed to be self hosting. Different errors in each case, a missing unit for lazarus, Cntnrs or something, and the freepascal makefile seemed to work for 5 minutes, then failed at the linking step with no errors other than being given nothing to link in the command line.
Tomorrow I plan to read the instructions for the first time and then try again.
I remember learning Turbo Pascal on an XT during my freshman year of highschool, in 1996. Despite having to use hardware that was as old as I was, it was probably the best programming class I ever had.
"Correct" typing style will give you carpal tunnel and slow you down if you try to do any coding. I have absolutely no evidence or sources to back this up though. Typing speed is such a small part of the software development process.
I love when spammers use Word. It reveals their real name and the name of their business, unless they lied when they installed MS Office, or used someone else's PC. I may even get information from the images they tried to include with the URL's still pointing to their C: drive.
I used K9 a lot too, back when I was using OE on Windows (now I'm on Linux). Though it's closed source, I felt inclined to donate $20 to him a couple years ago when it was getting updates every few weeks. It's unfortunate to see that now that it hasn't been updated in over a year it's still closed source. It was one of the best spam filters out there, when properly trained.
Now I have Thunderbird pretty well trained, but doing so was a pain. It involved about 20 cycles of doing "apply junk mail filters" to reclassify a large set of old emails and then correcting its mistakes, until it eventually got it all right.
My home network consists of 3 systems, the one I use the most running Ubuntu Hoary, and the other two running XP Pro and Home. They're on a 100mbit network (D-Link router). The XP home system has a printer attached and shared which I can access from Linux. The desk in front of me has two monitors, keyboards, and mice so I can use my new Linux PC and old Windows PC at the same time.
I have a wireless Linksys router on the network, which my mom connects to through her laptop and PDA. The security is pretty minimal I guess, just MAC address filtering.
The network is connected to the internet through a cable modem. The max download rate is 3mbit, but max upload is only 128kbit, which is very pathetic. It'll probably never come close to its max download rate because the upload cap will start dropping ack packets first. If I actually upload something, acks get dropped and download bandwidth goes through the floor, which I suppose works pretty well in limiting p2p file sharing. I hate to leech, but capping my BitTorrent uploads gives a tremendous, lasting boost in download speed. I get my cable from Charter Communications.
If an html email has images, I won't see them. Spammers use images and such to verify that you've read their spam, resulting in an increase in spam to your address, either from them or people they sell their "verified" lists to.
If you send html email, it should at least have no images. Most of the personal and mailing list emails I get are plain text. Most of the spam I get is html with images. Most (maybe 2/3) of the newsletters I get are also html with images, but they also look like crap with those images blocked. Overall, the most important emails I've received have never been in html.
Professionals use plain text. Advertisers and newsletters containing advertisements use html. And Outlook newbies send rich text documents encapsulated a Microsoft TNEF encoded file called winmail.dat, only viewable by other users of Outlook.
Ever since 1.0, FireFox has felt sluggish running on Linux. Its cpu usage is much higher than before, and goes to 100% when it's waiting for a server response. I've noticed this on both Ubuntu and CentOS, so it's not likely a distro-specific issue (unless they're shipping debug builds or something). I might end up switching to other Gecko based browsers like Galeon, Epiphany, or just the plain old Mozilla as none of them seem to be afflicted by this problem.
Also, I bet their counts don't include all the Linux distributions that now come with FireFox in their repositories. You used to need to download and install it yourself, which could explain at least a bit of the slowdown. That and the fact that even the tiniest FireFox vulnerabilities seem to make headlines.
It might appear that way, but most recent points where a product line appears to end actually just have no newer version to connect them to yet. The addition of new products and versions in the future and new information about products already under development might have the effect of filling in the past and present.
A small company can decide not to give a damn as well. Making a single piece of business software fit everyone's varying needs is no doubt a nightmare.
We spent a bundle of money on an MRP, probably $20k or so but I didn't ask, and the company just sort of flaked out on us after the initial installation. After about several months of no answers to our calls and emails, we got a reply just after our initial support contract ran out asking us to renew our support contract before they'll help us. Our time spent trying to make the software work for us probably far exceeded the price.
Now when we evaluate an expensive piece of software, we ask if we could get the source code in case they flake out on us. You just can't trust a software company. Just last week I emailed a company to say that their software (inexpensive this time) refused to install on what they claimed were the minimal hardware requirements, giving an error that it was very slightly below the 512mb requirement, so instead of fixing the installer bug they bumped up the requirements to 1gb on their web site, and told me to upgrade the system.
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They could just ship the xbox 360 with the recompiled binaries for the top x games, and just detect when one of those CD's is inserted and run the embedded version instead. There's no added piracy risk, because they're useless without the data from the CD anyway, so it's just a matter of them asking the game publisher "hey, do you want it to work or not?" and then getting it to work.
That's awesome. I tried a lot of commands.
"spin"
"watch tv"
"throw pillows"
"disco"
"reverse disco"
"robot"
"sword fight"
"relax"
"heart attack"
All worked. Only a small minority of my more complex commands, like "hold up 2 fingers left, 3 fingers right", led to incorrect actions with similar spelling or wording. That must of been a lot of pre-recording.
In any comparison of multiple factors, there is no absolute winner unless it wins in every single test. Otherwise, it's always easy to force a win for one side or the other by choosing the right weights. That's why people can truthfully say that Linux is better than Windows and MacOS, Windows is better than Linux and MacOS, and MacOS is better than Windows and Linux. If the article announced a winner, it'd be meaningless anyway.
The past performance of a stock is not a strong indicator of its future performance.
They're cutting it a little close aren't they?
Windows over Linux == trolling.
Linux over Windows == advocacy.
Right?
Exactly. There's no reason to argue Windows over Linux except to troll.
Lunatics are always among the first adopters of any emerging technology. The same kind of people buy so called "environmentally friendly" electric cars, so that the instead of converting fuel directly to mechanical energy, it's converted to mechanical energy, then electicity, then chemical energy, then electricity again, and back into mechanical energy to move their car.
You don't have to be a lunatic to hate Ms. O'Gara though.
It can get pretty hard installing Debian debs on Ubuntu. You get vague errors like "X depends on Y which will not be installed". If it has all the right versions of all the packages it needs, then why not? And why did I have to study the apt source to find out? I've installed RPM's on on a DEB based system with less trouble. The main reason packages don't work across distributions often has little to do with the package format. Often their dependencies demand higher version numbers than are really needed, or they make distribution specific assumptions.
With both DEB and RPM based distros, I've often found it easier to just install things from the source, if the package management utilities are going to bitch about problems that don't really matter and disobey me even when I tell them to force. As technically superior as DEB's may be to RPM's, they both suck ass in an imperfect world with imperfect packages.
Caos is made by the folks who maintain the CentOS rebuild of RHEL. If it was anyone else, I'd have to agree with you, but I think their main concern is having a Red Hat-like distro that's both fresh and supported while being a little less dependent on Red Hat than CentOS is.
You can install apt and synaptic on RPM based distributions, and use them safely so long as the packages are built for that distribution. A lot of Red Hat users go here at some time or another. You can also install RPM's on a DEB based distribution, or use a utility called "alien" to more or less convert most RPM packages into DEB packages.
RPM's are supposedly more flexible than they used to be. I'm sure they're still inferior to DEB's, but it doesn't matter if they work. Probably their biggest reason for choosing RPM is that they already have a ton of experience working with them.
"Blood bath speeds up healing."
The Dev-C++ IDE is written in Pascal (Delphi), as unusual as that sounds. A whole lot of Windows software is written using Delphi, especially shareware, it's just not obvious to the user. Trying to do GUI development using Visual C++ was a nightmare, leaving Delphi as the only choice if you wanted easy RAD development and natively compiled code in the years before VB5 and VS.Net.
For the moment I've given up trying to get it to install correctly.
I got it installed, and there were no errors, but lazarus wouldn't compile, and neither would freepascal itself, which is supposed to be self hosting. Different errors in each case, a missing unit for lazarus, Cntnrs or something, and the freepascal makefile seemed to work for 5 minutes, then failed at the linking step with no errors other than being given nothing to link in the command line.
Tomorrow I plan to read the instructions for the first time and then try again.
I remember learning Turbo Pascal on an XT during my freshman year of highschool, in 1996. Despite having to use hardware that was as old as I was, it was probably the best programming class I ever had.
Strangely, I haven't used Pascal since.
"Correct" typing style will give you carpal tunnel and slow you down if you try to do any coding. I have absolutely no evidence or sources to back this up though. Typing speed is such a small part of the software development process.
Set up a big big squid proxy and let the systems auto-update normally, and be prepared to fix anything the moment it breaks.
I love when spammers use Word. It reveals their real name and the name of their business, unless they lied when they installed MS Office, or used someone else's PC. I may even get information from the images they tried to include with the URL's still pointing to their C: drive.
I used K9 a lot too, back when I was using OE on Windows (now I'm on Linux). Though it's closed source, I felt inclined to donate $20 to him a couple years ago when it was getting updates every few weeks. It's unfortunate to see that now that it hasn't been updated in over a year it's still closed source. It was one of the best spam filters out there, when properly trained.
Now I have Thunderbird pretty well trained, but doing so was a pain. It involved about 20 cycles of doing "apply junk mail filters" to reclassify a large set of old emails and then correcting its mistakes, until it eventually got it all right.
My home network consists of 3 systems, the one I use the most running Ubuntu Hoary, and the other two running XP Pro and Home. They're on a 100mbit network (D-Link router). The XP home system has a printer attached and shared which I can access from Linux. The desk in front of me has two monitors, keyboards, and mice so I can use my new Linux PC and old Windows PC at the same time.
I have a wireless Linksys router on the network, which my mom connects to through her laptop and PDA. The security is pretty minimal I guess, just MAC address filtering.
The network is connected to the internet through a cable modem. The max download rate is 3mbit, but max upload is only 128kbit, which is very pathetic. It'll probably never come close to its max download rate because the upload cap will start dropping ack packets first. If I actually upload something, acks get dropped and download bandwidth goes through the floor, which I suppose works pretty well in limiting p2p file sharing. I hate to leech, but capping my BitTorrent uploads gives a tremendous, lasting boost in download speed. I get my cable from Charter Communications.
If an html email has images, I won't see them. Spammers use images and such to verify that you've read their spam, resulting in an increase in spam to your address, either from them or people they sell their "verified" lists to.
If you send html email, it should at least have no images. Most of the personal and mailing list emails I get are plain text. Most of the spam I get is html with images. Most (maybe 2/3) of the newsletters I get are also html with images, but they also look like crap with those images blocked. Overall, the most important emails I've received have never been in html.
Professionals use plain text. Advertisers and newsletters containing advertisements use html. And Outlook newbies send rich text documents encapsulated a Microsoft TNEF encoded file called winmail.dat, only viewable by other users of Outlook.
Forget most of that 2nd paragraph. I didn't RTFA.
Outside? What's that? Oh, yes, the unhappy place where I can't program. Why would anyone want to go there?
Ever since 1.0, FireFox has felt sluggish running on Linux. Its cpu usage is much higher than before, and goes to 100% when it's waiting for a server response. I've noticed this on both Ubuntu and CentOS, so it's not likely a distro-specific issue (unless they're shipping debug builds or something). I might end up switching to other Gecko based browsers like Galeon, Epiphany, or just the plain old Mozilla as none of them seem to be afflicted by this problem.
Also, I bet their counts don't include all the Linux distributions that now come with FireFox in their repositories. You used to need to download and install it yourself, which could explain at least a bit of the slowdown. That and the fact that even the tiniest FireFox vulnerabilities seem to make headlines.
It might appear that way, but most recent points where a product line appears to end actually just have no newer version to connect them to yet. The addition of new products and versions in the future and new information about products already under development might have the effect of filling in the past and present.
Microsoft wants them to use Linux.
I install them every morning.
A small company can decide not to give a damn as well. Making a single piece of business software fit everyone's varying needs is no doubt a nightmare.
We spent a bundle of money on an MRP, probably $20k or so but I didn't ask, and the company just sort of flaked out on us after the initial installation. After about several months of no answers to our calls and emails, we got a reply just after our initial support contract ran out asking us to renew our support contract before they'll help us. Our time spent trying to make the software work for us probably far exceeded the price.
Now when we evaluate an expensive piece of software, we ask if we could get the source code in case they flake out on us. You just can't trust a software company. Just last week I emailed a company to say that their software (inexpensive this time) refused to install on what they claimed were the minimal hardware requirements, giving an error that it was very slightly below the 512mb requirement, so instead of fixing the installer bug they bumped up the requirements to 1gb on their web site, and told me to upgrade the system.