I've used 5.0 and am currently using 5.1, and have never had any problems remotely approaching his. I can only assume he didn't even read the documentation, and proceeded to fiddle with the configuration without knowing what he was doing.
One example. He went on and on about Linux compatibility not working. For the life of my I can't even imagine how you could break that. Every Linux binary I've ever tried has worked like a charm.
I'm still waiting for Administratium. No electrons or protons, but many vice-neutrons, director neutrons and assistant neutrons. It is the only know element whose atomic weight increases after fission.
Just about everyone in Europe seems to speak multiple languages.
And the second language is invariably English. No, I'm serious. English is the defacto universal language. Sorry France, but the Lingua Franca now comes from the other side of the channel. When I visited Europe I tried speaking German in France. Very few Frenchmen knew German. But everyone knew English.
Since the lingua franca is English, there's little incentive for native English speakers to learn another language. Plus, at least in the US, foreign language education is abysmal.
They sold gas at a relatively low price, customers were pleased, and for a long time, nobody foresee how harmful to the community whole situation would become in the long run.
Indeed, one of the hallmarks of a "natural" monopoly like Standard Oil, is that it CANNOT gouge the customers. Charge too much and you create your own competition. If it's too difficult to create competition, then the customer will simply do without.
Microsoft is also a natural monopoly. It puts itself at great risk if it behaves recklessly. There are more competing browsers available now then there were when it gained the IE monopoly. The competition is there and most of it is free-beer. IMHO, the only thing keeping the IE monopoly alive is the "hassle" of switching browsers. As soon as IE becomes more of a hassle to use than the hassle to switch, say goodbye to the IE monopoly.
I'm definitely a geek, but I'm not going. I might see the individual showing of the extended editions earlier, but the ten hour marathon? No way!
After seven hours I'll doze off and completely miss the ROTK. No way am I going to miss the first day of ROTK. I would have to turn in my geek card.
Next year though when ROTK:Extended comes out on DVD, we are planning a big-screen TV and comfortable-sofa party. Plenty of time for bathroom breaks, stretching your legs, calling out for pizza, etc.
I'm using FreeBSD. KDE gives me most of what I need. OpenOffice, MPlayer and GIMP give me everything else.
I am dual booting Windows, but it's only there for a couple of oddball programs that are definitely not "typical home PC needs". Frankly, I haven't booted into it for weeks. If you have Windows I would suggest AVG for antivirus. Everything else is available for Linux and BSD.
p.s. I tried installing Linux on a spare partition, but the various distros didn't support my SATA-only box in the installer. Keep that in mind if your new box doesn't have IDE or SCSI.
It's a variation on the "reverse Labouchere". The problem with most progressive betting schemes is that they have goofy progressions. But you can get some decent progressions with a computer that you simply can't compute in your head or on paper in the heat of roulette action.
Las Vegas roulette, with two zeroes, is almost impossible to beat, but European roulette can be done...on a computer. You're going to need a very long time to see the results, and a pool disproportionate to your winnings, to make it worthwhile in real life, but I managed to get a simulation to do it. No, I don't have the source code anymore.
Yes, but B.C. is different from the rest of Canada
And Vancouver is different from the rest of B.C., sort of like how San Fransisco is different from the rest of California.
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There was a case regarding this (can't remember the name) almost 75 years ago. The outcome was that this was illegal. The only reason some book publishers are doing this is because they see software distributors doing it. But while software distributors claim that they aren't really selling the software, only "the opportunity to enter into an agreement to use the software under limited circumstances", a book publisher would have to be nuts to claim the book wasn't actually being sold.
Your bill of sale takes precedence over the shrink wrap.
I think XP is effectively showing me a 'screenshot' of my desktop, to give the impression that it's booting faster.
Hmmm, not really. I do notice that everything seems to be redrawn after "loading", but it's not showing a screenshot. I can click on the start button and have it show as depressed, but I usually don't get the start menu popping up until after the initial loading is complete. Sometimes it will even pop up before, only to be taken down immediately. It's really strange behavior.
That's one event assuming the button is one window. It could entail a lot of information being passed if the toolkit is naive, but still only one event.
That's the lure of slots (and lotteries). You lose a quarter ninety nine times in a row then win 90 quarters on the next pull. Which throw are you going to remember out of those one hundred?
Actually, some of the systems that work to make money are simple.
Correct. I know of one roulette system that works like a charm. I've simulated it in software and it works reliably. But the casinos know the system and will throw you out if they think you're using it.
Card counting works in blackjack and poker, and is completely ethical, but you will still get thrown out for it. Any system that works will get you thrown out.
Not necessarily. Microsoft's capitulation doesn't mean that the patent is valid, only that Microsoft thought it cheaper to tweak IE than to run the matter through the courts.
Think about it. A team of lawyers closeting in court for three years is much more expensive than a team of developers closeted for three months rewriting a plugin mechanism.
A lot of people are talking about speed and responsiveness issues with regards to XFree86, Win32 and the various X replacment projects. So I'll interject with a real-world example.
At my work we design and build medical imaging systems that aquire their imaging data in realtime. Our current shipping system has been around for five years. It uses a i486 processor, 16MB to 256MB RAM (depending on configuration), a realtime UNIX OS, and a really old Xfree86. It's currently the number one premium system of its type.
But new management has come in, and they're Windows people. So the new system to replace it is to be Windows based. The new system has a P4 1GHz, 1Gig RAM, Windows XP Embedded, and of course, Win32.
The imaging data is aquired and displayed in a separate GUI layer at the rate of about about 16 FPS. Surprise! Win32 isn't fast enough for this. No, Win32 isn't drawing to that special layer, that's done in hardware, it's only drawing the labels and data fields on top. But it's too slow! In order to get any usefull performance out of the new system, they had to abandon Win32 for drawing and use DirectX.
But the old system could handle it just fine. In other words, a XFree86/Motif system running on a 100MHz 486 could redraw GUI text faster than a XP/Win32 system running on a 1GHz P4. That's right. Win32 is significantly slower than XFree86 when it comes to your normal everyday widgets.
I have some Qt programs that I've built natively for XFree86 and for Win32 (not cygwin). I see no speed or responsiveness difference between them. None. Of course, this is subjective, because I've never sat down and benchmarked them.
I seriously suggest that if you think X is slow you check out a more lightweight window manager and apps. GNOME and KDE have a LOT of overhead because they run on top of an extra layer of abstraction
Yes and no. Yes, Windowmaker uses X11 more or less directly. No, because all Windowmaker is drawing when you're doing full-window dragging and resizing are the window frames. The application being dragged could still be a Qt and GTK+ application, and the dragging/resizing will not slow down.
The main problem with X is (still) video card support and configuration
Bingo! Windows comes with optimized drivers for nearly every video card, with the remainder shipped by the manufacturers with the cards themselves. Just this level of support alone for XFree86 would strike the death-knell for Windows.
But I would add one other thing to the mix: memory versus speed. Most (not all) open source software is not optimized for drawing, while most commercial Windows software, particularly games, is. Having written a few widget themes for Qt, I know that most are themes, and thus KDE itself, are not optimized for rapid drawing. There's a trade off between memory usage and speed, and the current complaint for KDE and GNOME is bloat and not sluggishness. But Windows users typically don't give a rat's ass about bloat, and will purchase an additional 512M RAM every time Bill Gates says "boo".
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I've used 5.0 and am currently using 5.1, and have never had any problems remotely approaching his. I can only assume he didn't even read the documentation, and proceeded to fiddle with the configuration without knowing what he was doing.
One example. He went on and on about Linux compatibility not working. For the life of my I can't even imagine how you could break that. Every Linux binary I've ever tried has worked like a charm.
I'm still waiting for Administratium. No electrons or protons, but many vice-neutrons, director neutrons and assistant neutrons. It is the only know element whose atomic weight increases after fission.
I know some Germans who would argue that Strasbourg is really in Germany.
When I was in Strasbourg, all my German friends kept pronouncing the name in a silly exaggerated French accent. "Stra'boo".
I didn't say I agreed with that sentiment, only that it was there.
Just about everyone in Europe seems to speak multiple languages.
And the second language is invariably English. No, I'm serious. English is the defacto universal language. Sorry France, but the Lingua Franca now comes from the other side of the channel. When I visited Europe I tried speaking German in France. Very few Frenchmen knew German. But everyone knew English.
Since the lingua franca is English, there's little incentive for native English speakers to learn another language. Plus, at least in the US, foreign language education is abysmal.
Really, why should they add more feauters now when they've won.
Because if they don't, they won't stay "won".
They sold gas at a relatively low price, customers were pleased, and for a long time, nobody foresee how harmful to the community whole situation would become in the long run.
Indeed, one of the hallmarks of a "natural" monopoly like Standard Oil, is that it CANNOT gouge the customers. Charge too much and you create your own competition. If it's too difficult to create competition, then the customer will simply do without.
Microsoft is also a natural monopoly. It puts itself at great risk if it behaves recklessly. There are more competing browsers available now then there were when it gained the IE monopoly. The competition is there and most of it is free-beer. IMHO, the only thing keeping the IE monopoly alive is the "hassle" of switching browsers. As soon as IE becomes more of a hassle to use than the hassle to switch, say goodbye to the IE monopoly.
Obviously you've never been charged by a rampaging band of knot-wielding Ukrainian Boy Scouts!
Fred Saberhagen's "Octagon"...
In summary, some kid hacks into a Los Alamos supercomputer to help him figure out moves in a PBM game. The opponents start dying in real life.
I'm definitely a geek, but I'm not going. I might see the individual showing of the extended editions earlier, but the ten hour marathon? No way!
After seven hours I'll doze off and completely miss the ROTK. No way am I going to miss the first day of ROTK. I would have to turn in my geek card.
Next year though when ROTK:Extended comes out on DVD, we are planning a big-screen TV and comfortable-sofa party. Plenty of time for bathroom breaks, stretching your legs, calling out for pizza, etc.
...or trips to the DMV.
Stop it! I'm laughing too hard. I'll pee my pants!
I'm using FreeBSD. KDE gives me most of what I need. OpenOffice, MPlayer and GIMP give me everything else.
I am dual booting Windows, but it's only there for a couple of oddball programs that are definitely not "typical home PC needs". Frankly, I haven't booted into it for weeks. If you have Windows I would suggest AVG for antivirus. Everything else is available for Linux and BSD.
p.s. I tried installing Linux on a spare partition, but the various distros didn't support my SATA-only box in the installer. Keep that in mind if your new box doesn't have IDE or SCSI.
It's a variation on the "reverse Labouchere". The problem with most progressive betting schemes is that they have goofy progressions. But you can get some decent progressions with a computer that you simply can't compute in your head or on paper in the heat of roulette action.
Las Vegas roulette, with two zeroes, is almost impossible to beat, but European roulette can be done...on a computer. You're going to need a very long time to see the results, and a pool disproportionate to your winnings, to make it worthwhile in real life, but I managed to get a simulation to do it. No, I don't have the source code anymore.
Yes, but B.C. is different from the rest of Canada
And Vancouver is different from the rest of B.C., sort of like how San Fransisco is different from the rest of California.
There was a case regarding this (can't remember the name) almost 75 years ago. The outcome was that this was illegal. The only reason some book publishers are doing this is because they see software distributors doing it. But while software distributors claim that they aren't really selling the software, only "the opportunity to enter into an agreement to use the software under limited circumstances", a book publisher would have to be nuts to claim the book wasn't actually being sold.
Your bill of sale takes precedence over the shrink wrap.
I think XP is effectively showing me a 'screenshot' of my desktop, to give the impression that it's booting faster.
Hmmm, not really. I do notice that everything seems to be redrawn after "loading", but it's not showing a screenshot. I can click on the start button and have it show as depressed, but I usually don't get the start menu popping up until after the initial loading is complete. Sometimes it will even pop up before, only to be taken down immediately. It's really strange behavior.
That's one event assuming the button is one window. It could entail a lot of information being passed if the toolkit is naive, but still only one event.
That's the lure of slots (and lotteries). You lose a quarter ninety nine times in a row then win 90 quarters on the next pull. Which throw are you going to remember out of those one hundred?
Actually, some of the systems that work to make money are simple.
Correct. I know of one roulette system that works like a charm. I've simulated it in software and it works reliably. But the casinos know the system and will throw you out if they think you're using it.
Card counting works in blackjack and poker, and is completely ethical, but you will still get thrown out for it. Any system that works will get you thrown out.
Not necessarily. Microsoft's capitulation doesn't mean that the patent is valid, only that Microsoft thought it cheaper to tweak IE than to run the matter through the courts.
Think about it. A team of lawyers closeting in court for three years is much more expensive than a team of developers closeted for three months rewriting a plugin mechanism.
A lot of people are talking about speed and responsiveness issues with regards to XFree86, Win32 and the various X replacment projects. So I'll interject with a real-world example.
At my work we design and build medical imaging systems that aquire their imaging data in realtime. Our current shipping system has been around for five years. It uses a i486 processor, 16MB to 256MB RAM (depending on configuration), a realtime UNIX OS, and a really old Xfree86. It's currently the number one premium system of its type.
But new management has come in, and they're Windows people. So the new system to replace it is to be Windows based. The new system has a P4 1GHz, 1Gig RAM, Windows XP Embedded, and of course, Win32.
The imaging data is aquired and displayed in a separate GUI layer at the rate of about about 16 FPS. Surprise! Win32 isn't fast enough for this. No, Win32 isn't drawing to that special layer, that's done in hardware, it's only drawing the labels and data fields on top. But it's too slow! In order to get any usefull performance out of the new system, they had to abandon Win32 for drawing and use DirectX.
But the old system could handle it just fine. In other words, a XFree86/Motif system running on a 100MHz 486 could redraw GUI text faster than a XP/Win32 system running on a 1GHz P4. That's right. Win32 is significantly slower than XFree86 when it comes to your normal everyday widgets.
I have some Qt programs that I've built natively for XFree86 and for Win32 (not cygwin). I see no speed or responsiveness difference between them. None. Of course, this is subjective, because I've never sat down and benchmarked them.
I seriously suggest that if you think X is slow you check out a more lightweight window manager and apps. GNOME and KDE have a LOT of overhead because they run on top of an extra layer of abstraction
Yes and no. Yes, Windowmaker uses X11 more or less directly. No, because all Windowmaker is drawing when you're doing full-window dragging and resizing are the window frames. The application being dragged could still be a Qt and GTK+ application, and the dragging/resizing will not slow down.
look at the Xlib traffic needed to communicate a simple button click using your favorite widget set
I count four events. Though this might seem like a lot, I count six events for the same action under Windows.
The main problem with X is (still) video card support and configuration
Bingo! Windows comes with optimized drivers for nearly every video card, with the remainder shipped by the manufacturers with the cards themselves. Just this level of support alone for XFree86 would strike the death-knell for Windows.
But I would add one other thing to the mix: memory versus speed. Most (not all) open source software is not optimized for drawing, while most commercial Windows software, particularly games, is. Having written a few widget themes for Qt, I know that most are themes, and thus KDE itself, are not optimized for rapid drawing. There's a trade off between memory usage and speed, and the current complaint for KDE and GNOME is bloat and not sluggishness. But Windows users typically don't give a rat's ass about bloat, and will purchase an additional 512M RAM every time Bill Gates says "boo".