Now, I haven't tried SDL on GNU/linux or Windows, but I got the SDL copy of The Black Lotus's iXalance demoloader and fired up Jizz - a demo that used to run just great from Windows on my old P133. Using libSDL under BeOS on my brand spankin' new P3/700, Jizz sucks up the whole damn processor and still wants more.
I believe a lot of the point that you are missing is that we shouldn't use the government to subsidize any faith. Right now it's hard as hell for a coven to get zoned for a place of worship in many towns, and when the government considers giving money to religious charities (many of which require you to convert to the religion of the charity to recieve aid), they never consider what you call "fringe" faiths, which most people discount because discounting a religion w/o knowing what it is is a hell of a lot easier than figuring out what it is.
heretic n. In Calcutta, someone who worships one god. In Chicago, someone who worships more than one god.
Buying a computer without an OS is, for many (most?) customers, kinda useless.
Then again, it's probably pretty safe to assume that any customer who would think to say "No OS" when you ask them what version of Windows they want probably doesn't fall into the category of computer users who don't know what to do with a computer w/ no OS.
It's also interesting that you brought up partitioning. Even if the customer wants Win98/NT, they probably don't want one huge massive 16Gig primary partition.
A bit offtopic, but recently Toshiba refused to work on my broken laptop because I had the hard drive split into two partitions. Apparently, one disgustingly large partition covering the whole hard drive is not only the way all users like to have their system; it's also vitally important to the correct functioning of your computer's power supply.
M$ can bitch until they are blue in the face about people transfering non-transferrable copies of Windows, but as far as I'm concerned it will fall on deaf ears. To me the whole idea of a non-transferable copy of Windows is just M$ finding yet another way to rape the pocketbooks of their customers, and I am NOT going to pay for a fourth copy of Windows when I already only use one out of the first three that I was forced to buy.
That certainly has been true in my experience. It was rare to find a good manager, one who made going to work a pleasure. Usually I had to merely take pleasure in doing a good job despite management's efforts or the corporate politics.
I doubt I will ever find a good manager.
From what I have seen thus far in my work experience, the people who get promoted to managerial positions are rarely the team players or the competent workers who know how to get a job done well and keep it fun. The people who get promoted are the people who impress their boss by putting a minimum of time and effort into getting their job done or being a part of the crew and a maximum of time and effort into playing politics.
From what I can tell, the scene has more or less given up on linux. . . secure OS in general aren't that friendly towards the kinds of stuff demo coders like to do, which often require more direct access to the hardware than linux wants to provide.
By encoding in mono - which is the only way I can record stuff, anyway, so it doesn't make sense to double the size of your file by making 2 copies of the same track.
Nobody is upset with MS because everyone blames "the hackers." The media doesn't know enough about this stuff to point out that thanks to MS, what once took lots of careful work by computer wizards now only takes a 9 year old and a few help files. What I can't get over is how MS actually got away with convincing people that Win95 on a 486 will give you better performance than DOS.
Not under the DMCA - under the DMCA if you provide an outlet for people to commit copyright violation, whether you know you are doing so or not, you are in vilation of the law, too. Shouldn't we all know this by now after the big Napster-Metallica dispute?
But didnt you know? Your safety deposit box is a lot more enjoyable and easy to use if it doesn't come with a lock. You don't know what fun you're missing by not using Outlook.
that everyone talked about? The one about minors not being able to enter into legal contracts? Why not just get around this by having a minor somewhere download the PDF file and then post the relevant info in it to the web? Nobody said using info that someone else hacked is illegal. . that's why we have Yellow Dog Linux.
Possibly, but the hardware is still not open, the only people who know everything about the chipsets in G3s and G4's are people who have hacked them (hence why Linux is on the newer PPC's).
However, Be doesn't want to use hacked information to make their OS work right on Macs, and I understand them doing that. It's not a very polictic way to run a business.
56.0 Pentium 133. It's actually the highest I've ever seen, but I'm figurin' since I am the only open-sourcer who HASN'T made $350 million off an IPO in the past few months, my computing resources is an order of magnitude lower than everyone else's and it's safe for me to go for the highest =)
Sony already tried the direct link thing w/ the Playstation, and people whined and moaned incessantly about it. Nobody wanted to lug around their TV sets and playstations, and the games that supported multiplayer via a link didn't support split-screen multiplayer. Handling things like ethernet (profoundly simple as it is) seems to take more dedication than your average 9-year-old has.
Within the first two months, over 30% of the kids' laptops had to be sent back to the manufacturer to be put back together because kids would drop them, pick them up and carry them across the room by the LCD, etc.
About a month after that, we had to quarantine the 6th graders from the network for a few weeks because in their warez-crazy fervor they had succeeded in turning our school's network into a hotspot for just about every trojan horse and computer virus known to the computer industry.
For the first semester, we learned nothing in class because the teachers didn't know how to use their computers and each period would begin with yet another session of me or one of the other computer geeks searching the teacher's computer's hard drive for the class notes or explaining that Microsoft Internet Explorer is not an operating system and Yahoo is not a web browser.
After they finally got the hang of the power switch, they went nuts trying to do everything in class. Which only wasted more time. Why? Nobody bothered to teach the teachers how to touch type.
In the second semester, the teachers gave up on the computers. Now, all through the day, we would go to class with $60,000 worth of electronics that was better put to use by leaving it all on the floor rather than having it get in the way of school.
So what DID I gain out of all of this? I didn't have to pay attention in my boring biology class because I could spend the time installing Slackware on my laptop and toying with programming plasmas and such. I learned to program and use linux (see above.) I socialized much thanks to the goodness of being in front of a $2,000 dedicated ICQ workstation all day.
It's been shown in studies (which I cannot quote because I can't remember their names - I'm posting this from a computer-assisted class right now so I don't have the time to search for them) that computers generally only help class if that class happens to be a computer science class. My high school's "computers in the classroom" program nearly sabotaged my education; I only saved it by choosing to learn in spite of class. I think that schools need to realize there is a reason why the biggest rhetoric spouters on this laptops in school are Microsoft, Toshiba, and IBM rather than, say, anybody who knows jack about education.
They may have just mentioned they're building a new OS on top of linux in a trade show, but there were articles on them planning on doing this pasted all over the Amiga magazines a few months ago. More correctly, the news in the Amiga magazines was that they chose to use Linux instead of licensing QNX to make the basis of their new OS.
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then where did the glaciers come from?
Why worry about portability to 180+ distros when your product only supports 2 very similar distros?
Now, I haven't tried SDL on GNU/linux or Windows, but I got the SDL copy of The Black Lotus's iXalance demoloader and fired up Jizz - a demo that used to run just great from Windows on my old P133. Using libSDL under BeOS on my brand spankin' new P3/700, Jizz sucks up the whole damn processor and still wants more.
I have a similar problem, but instead of censorware it's my mom, and instead of the Pioneer 10 plaque, it's a Salvador Dali painting.
M$ can bitch until they are blue in the face about people transfering non-transferrable copies of Windows, but as far as I'm concerned it will fall on deaf ears. To me the whole idea of a non-transferable copy of Windows is just M$ finding yet another way to rape the pocketbooks of their customers, and I am NOT going to pay for a fourth copy of Windows when I already only use one out of the first three that I was forced to buy.
From what I have seen thus far in my work experience, the people who get promoted to managerial positions are rarely the team players or the competent workers who know how to get a job done well and keep it fun. The people who get promoted are the people who impress their boss by putting a minimum of time and effort into getting their job done or being a part of the crew and a maximum of time and effort into playing politics.
From what I can tell, the scene has more or less given up on linux. . . secure OS in general aren't that friendly towards the kinds of stuff demo coders like to do, which often require more direct access to the hardware than linux wants to provide.
By encoding in mono - which is the only way I can record stuff, anyway, so it doesn't make sense to double the size of your file by making 2 copies of the same track.
Since the people who should have said this by now seem to be asleep at their keyboards. . .
I have a webserver that gets its power from the thermal energy in the hot grits I poured down my pants.
Pshaw! Lasers will heat the surface of the disk and shorten its life.
That's where having little tiny saws built into the floppy drive comes in handy.
1. When you open e-mails, Outlook automatically executes scripts in them whether you want it to or not.
2. OS/2 doesn't.
Nobody is upset with MS because everyone blames "the hackers." The media doesn't know enough about this stuff to point out that thanks to MS, what once took lots of careful work by computer wizards now only takes a 9 year old and a few help files.
What I can't get over is how MS actually got away with convincing people that Win95 on a 486 will give you better performance than DOS.
Not under the DMCA - under the DMCA if you provide an outlet for people to commit copyright violation, whether you know you are doing so or not, you are in vilation of the law, too. Shouldn't we all know this by now after the big Napster-Metallica dispute?
But didnt you know? Your safety deposit box is a lot more enjoyable and easy to use if it doesn't come with a lock. You don't know what fun you're missing by not using Outlook.
that everyone talked about? The one about minors not being able to enter into legal contracts? Why not just get around this by having a minor somewhere download the PDF file and then post the relevant info in it to the web? Nobody said using info that someone else hacked is illegal. . that's why we have Yellow Dog Linux.
"Never" means "sometimes."
Possibly, but the hardware is still not open, the only people who know everything about the chipsets in G3s and G4's are people who have hacked them (hence why Linux is on the newer PPC's).
However, Be doesn't want to use hacked information to make their OS work right on Macs, and I understand them doing that. It's not a very polictic way to run a business.
56.0 Pentium 133. It's actually the highest I've ever seen, but I'm figurin' since I am the only open-sourcer who HASN'T made $350 million off an IPO in the past few months, my computing resources is an order of magnitude lower than everyone else's and it's safe for me to go for the highest =)
Sony already tried the direct link thing w/ the Playstation, and people whined and moaned incessantly about it. Nobody wanted to lug around their TV sets and playstations, and the games that supported multiplayer via a link didn't support split-screen multiplayer. Handling things like ethernet (profoundly simple as it is) seems to take more dedication than your average 9-year-old has.
And how did it work?
Within the first two months, over 30% of the kids' laptops had to be sent back to the manufacturer to be put back together because kids would drop them, pick them up and carry them across the room by the LCD, etc.
About a month after that, we had to quarantine the 6th graders from the network for a few weeks because in their warez-crazy fervor they had succeeded in turning our school's network into a hotspot for just about every trojan horse and computer virus known to the computer industry.
For the first semester, we learned nothing in class because the teachers didn't know how to use their computers and each period would begin with yet another session of me or one of the other computer geeks searching the teacher's computer's hard drive for the class notes or explaining that Microsoft Internet Explorer is not an operating system and Yahoo is not a web browser.
After they finally got the hang of the power switch, they went nuts trying to do everything in class. Which only wasted more time. Why? Nobody bothered to teach the teachers how to touch type.
In the second semester, the teachers gave up on the computers. Now, all through the day, we would go to class with $60,000 worth of electronics that was better put to use by leaving it all on the floor rather than having it get in the way of school.
So what DID I gain out of all of this? I didn't have to pay attention in my boring biology class because I could spend the time installing Slackware on my laptop and toying with programming plasmas and such. I learned to program and use linux (see above.) I socialized much thanks to the goodness of being in front of a $2,000 dedicated ICQ workstation all day.
It's been shown in studies (which I cannot quote because I can't remember their names - I'm posting this from a computer-assisted class right now so I don't have the time to search for them) that computers generally only help class if that class happens to be a computer science class. My high school's "computers in the classroom" program nearly sabotaged my education; I only saved it by choosing to learn in spite of class. I think that schools need to realize there is a reason why the biggest rhetoric spouters on this laptops in school are Microsoft, Toshiba, and IBM rather than, say, anybody who knows jack about education.
They may have just mentioned they're building a new OS on top of linux in a trade show, but there were articles on them planning on doing this pasted all over the Amiga magazines a few months ago. More correctly, the news in the Amiga magazines was that they chose to use Linux instead of licensing QNX to make the basis of their new OS.