Wow... you really think you understand what everyone in the world is thinking, don't you? I think your lack of faith in other people's intellect or their earnestness is either pure bullocks, plain elitism, or just a mere relfection of your utter misanthropy. It is a very sick assumption to make that other people delight in death because it supports their opposition to a political figure. Perhaps this is the way you think... and you don't even realize you're writing your own unhealthy thoughts.
However, you and your faux transparent terminal on Linux will have to steal cycles away from your ray-tracing program in order to do the same.
Well, a ray-tracing program will most likely be offloading work to the GPU anyway, so even on OSX, your terminal will be eating way cycles. Your first example (DVD encoding) is valid.
It's important to remember that Linux does not have as much 'marketing' designed into it like OSX or Windows. This is really the better was to design from a technical standpoint: stability and security first, prettiness second.
Well it's about damn time. I'm pretty excited about the prospect of walking up to any random windows box and having a usable shell. I just hope they get it right.
Unfortunately, they won't get it right... The reason being, even if the shell does appear more attractive than the current, having that as your only option can never be good (unless you do something like install cygwin - which is ridiculous if all you want is a decent shell well integrated with the base OS). Hell, look at UNIX, would everyone be happy if we just had bash and got rid of ksh, zsh, tcsh, and others! Having options is always best.
Microsoft will never be a sound OS from a technically-minded (and finecky) customer's POV, until they entirely change their philosophy on system design and deployment. Ex. If I don't like internet explorer, why can't I not install it?? - how many choices do you have with doze?
If you think that's sweet, wait till you see when Mead's Project Looking Paper gets unveiled.
Yes, the renowed stationary maker MeadWestwaco Coorporation currently is in the skunk work phases of development of a new line of 3-dimesional paper products, including note books and memo pads.
Utlizing advanced nanotechnology (mostly bucky-tube fibers), they are able to make paper expand in width so the paper user can rotate a sheet of paper on its side, expand it and write an extra memo on its side! Yes we've all be annoyed by the limitations of two dimensional paper where we're given only a front and back to scribble on - but be annoyed no more - in the future, thanks to research at Mead, we'll be able to write on an additional four sides - top, bottom, left, and right!!!
I work for a paper mill in N.C. and was fortunate enough to get an advanced peek at this amazing new technology MeadWestwaco Coorp. dmonstratied in a select-suppliers meeting last month. This demonstration blew me away - absolutely mind boggling. Other stationary makers have tried to harness the new technology, but so far haven't gotten past experimental prototypes - wooden blocks that require felt tip pens to write on.
Geez, and people are so worked up about Sun's 3D desktop... I'm telling you, if you buy stocks, don't count out Mead folks.
Actually, the Janet Jackson thing is not a problem. The problem is that Americans are so prudent as to be offended by one freaking nipple on TV! We might as well have billboards on the side of the road with big letters: "SHAME ON YOU NAUGHTY MASTERBATERS!"
The DMCA makes absolutely-no-fucking-sense. Period. Modifying a work and then making copies and selling or distributing in another manner is one thing... But making it illegal to look under the hood, re-engineer for own's curiosity???
Not a rant, but just my personal opinion on the future of google. I really think google is a great search engine but there are too many vital flaws that prevent it from being the one true search engine (not that there exists a stand-in yet).
First of all, google's algorithm is one-tracked - it simply ranks by number of occurences. Sure this makes sense from a pure data perspective - but what about relevance and what a searcher might want to find, surely, if we type 'apple' we might expect to find a great page noting all the scientific fact and other trivia associated with the fruit - of course, not so.
Next, the ability to filter out information spammers or rings of websites with dummy pages filled with keywords to gain a search hit monopoly.
also: Distinction between types of searches - are we looking for something commercial? (if so, then apple should yeild a link to mac's site) are we looking for science related material? (maybe we need only urls with universities or research institutions)
Finally, a unified search engine is an infrastructural piece of software and might be better in the public domain rather than remain proprietary. I think there is some potential for an open source s.e. to become a google-killer.
just a comment: i think this is what makes google so successful is that theey keep their interface as minimalistic as possible (and browser independent as possible). First of all, a serach engine that is going to be 'the' search engine needs to be just that - a utility, not some flashy commercial trap with other adversions. Second of all, without using flash and all that other fancy crap, they minimalize any potential of bugs or browser-dependent issues - etc., so it makes perfect sense from a maintenance.
also, pdf's and ps's are like binaries. LaTeX source code helps as a learning tool for people interested in mathematical typesetting. Not making this avaible would indeed be a gross violation of the GPL.
Just to comment on the etymology of the word: this comes from a verb which describes the action of sloshing something against or onto another object. For example, taking a bucket of mud and sloshing it against the side of a house. I'm suprised (well not really) that some many people are familiar with this term. Once a friend of mine downloaded a movie from Kazaa with the title (Japanese bukakke) - before he knew what the term meant. He claimed he thought 'bukkake' might be some form of professional wrestling.
You can take any group of software users and poke fun for your own satisfaction, calling them wannabe's, whatever... But mind me asking: "What's the freaking point?" This is like a flash back to my days on the playground. Grow up, please, and quit wasting bandwith with your meaningless bantering. Next time just summarize your thoughts as:
Okay, now that I'm in the right crowd. I've often wondered but been too lazy to open a dictionary to find out for myself: Is the word 'schmegma' of Yiddish derivation?
Java and C# seem more like marketing bloat than anything else. So the language designers decided to make something that looks like C++ since this was the common LOC, and we end up with something that should be high-level , but weirdly looks low-level - or is in some senses, since we have this silly abstraction of the VM. I remember going back to Java briefly after about 5 months and remembering how to set up I/O for reading user input. Ummm, don't quaote me on this:
BufferedReader console = BufferedReader(InputStreamReader(System.in));
What the hell is this crap? IMHO the VM abstraction is like wearing rubber gloves to keep water off your other rubber gloves, if that makes any sense.
People involved in hooking companies into technologies need place more focus on other languages(Python for example) and other technologies (Twisted) that people can can pick up easier and use more effectively to rapidly prototype and deploy applications. Java clearly has some good points (clear OOPS design), but I'm baffled at its widespread adoption success and baffled that M$ would even want to copy many of the ideas into the design of C#. I guess its somewhat similar to the high sales of Twinkies.
Like where? Do you realize that one HALF of the working population is now either: ...
4) Out of the work force completely (gave up trying to find a job)
Wait a second here! That doesn't make any sense at all. Are you talking about the Groucho club or something. Not to argue, though. Times are obviously bad in terms of getting a job. But your statistics sound fuzzy.
--sloppy
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I was wondering if the had fixed the "sucking ass" bug that has been outstanding from the outset of KDE development. Does 3.2 have a fix for this problem?
-sloppy
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Wow ... you really think you understand what everyone in the world is thinking, don't you? I think your lack of faith in other people's intellect or their earnestness is either pure bullocks, plain elitism, or just a mere relfection of your utter misanthropy. It is a very sick assumption to make that other people delight in death because it supports their opposition to a political figure. Perhaps this is the way you think ... and you don't even realize you're writing your own unhealthy thoughts.
Well, a ray-tracing program will most likely be offloading work to the GPU anyway, so even on OSX, your terminal will be eating way cycles. Your first example (DVD encoding) is valid.
It's important to remember that Linux does not have as much 'marketing' designed into it like OSX or Windows. This is really the better was to design from a technical standpoint: stability and security first, prettiness second.
Unfortunately, they won't get it right... The reason being, even if the shell does appear more attractive than the current, having that as your only option can never be good (unless you do something like install cygwin - which is ridiculous if all you want is a decent shell well integrated with the base OS). Hell, look at UNIX, would everyone be happy if we just had bash and got rid of ksh, zsh, tcsh, and others! Having options is always best.
Microsoft will never be a sound OS from a technically-minded (and finecky) customer's POV, until they entirely change their philosophy on system design and deployment. Ex. If I don't like internet explorer, why can't I not install it?? - how many choices do you have with doze?
If you think that's sweet, wait till you see when Mead's Project Looking Paper gets unveiled.
Yes, the renowed stationary maker MeadWestwaco Coorporation currently is in the skunk work phases of development of a new line of 3-dimesional paper products, including note books and memo pads.
Utlizing advanced nanotechnology (mostly bucky-tube fibers), they are able to make paper expand in width so the paper user can rotate a sheet of paper on its side, expand it and write an extra memo on its side! Yes we've all be annoyed by the limitations of two dimensional paper where we're given only a front and back to scribble on - but be annoyed no more - in the future, thanks to research at Mead, we'll be able to write on an additional four sides - top, bottom, left, and right!!!
I work for a paper mill in N.C. and was fortunate enough to get an advanced peek at this amazing new technology MeadWestwaco Coorp. dmonstratied in a select-suppliers meeting last month. This demonstration blew me away - absolutely mind boggling. Other stationary makers have tried to harness the new technology, but so far haven't gotten past experimental prototypes - wooden blocks that require felt tip pens to write on.
Geez, and people are so worked up about Sun's 3D desktop... I'm telling you, if you buy stocks, don't count out Mead folks.
-sloptaco
Actually, the Janet Jackson thing is not a problem. The problem is that Americans are so prudent as to be offended by one freaking nipple on TV! We might as well have billboards on the side of the road with big letters: "SHAME ON YOU NAUGHTY MASTERBATERS!"
The DMCA makes absolutely-no-fucking-sense. Period. Modifying a work and then making copies and selling or distributing in another manner is one thing... But making it illegal to look under the hood, re-engineer for own's curiosity???
hmmm... but I must say, the world would be a safer, brighter place if it were not for all us people devoted to peace.
-sloptaco
Not a rant, but just my personal opinion on the future of google. I really think google is a great search engine but there are too many vital flaws that prevent it from being the one true search engine (not that there exists a stand-in yet).
First of all, google's algorithm is one-tracked - it simply ranks by number of occurences. Sure this makes sense from a pure data perspective - but what about relevance and what a searcher might want to find, surely, if we type 'apple' we might expect to find a great page noting all the scientific fact and other trivia associated with the fruit - of course, not so.
Next, the ability to filter out information spammers or rings of websites with dummy pages filled with keywords to gain a search hit monopoly.
also: Distinction between types of searches - are we looking for something commercial? (if so, then apple should yeild a link to mac's site) are we looking for science related material? (maybe we need only urls with universities or research institutions)
Finally, a unified search engine is an infrastructural piece of software and might be better in the public domain rather than remain proprietary. I think there is some potential for an open source s.e. to become a google-killer.
-sloptaco
-sloptaco
-sloppy
-sloptaco
also, pdf's and ps's are like binaries. LaTeX source code helps as a learning tool for people interested in mathematical typesetting. Not making this avaible would indeed be a gross violation of the GPL.
you're forgetting, japanese don't use particles:
nihonjin teniwoha nante tukawanai zo.
or should I say:
nihonjin ha teniwoha wo tukaimasen.
but 'kiyotukete' should be 'ki wo tukete'
--sloppy
Just to comment on the etymology of the word: this comes from a verb which describes the action of sloshing something against or onto another object. For example, taking a bucket of mud and sloshing it against the side of a house. I'm suprised (well not really) that some many people are familiar with this term. Once a friend of mine downloaded a movie from Kazaa with the title (Japanese bukakke) - before he knew what the term meant. He claimed he thought 'bukkake' might be some form of professional wrestling.
no comment. afraid to post beyond this point.
"Pardon me, where's the restroom."
-->"Kimi, bukkake demo yoroshii desyou ka?"
You can take any group of software users and poke fun for your own satisfaction, calling them wannabe's, whatever ... But mind me asking: "What's the freaking point?" This is like a flash back to my days on the playground. Grow up, please, and quit wasting bandwith with your meaningless bantering. Next time just summarize your thoughts as:
"I think some people are posers!"
The end!
Imagine when they invent those devices where you can exhale your belches into a container and save them to make a tuna melt sandwich!
--sloppy
--sloppy
-sloppy
Funny joke, but a 128 bit processor would be able to address much more than that.
Ok, 2^32 is 4GBytes (or precicely 4,294,967,296 addresses). 2^64 is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses (18 pentabytes?).
2^128 = 3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+38
Umm... 3 yowserbytes? Holy crap!, no wonder there's no rush to go to 128. (I think we run out of latin words at this point.)
-sloppyWhat the hell is this crap? IMHO the VM abstraction is like wearing rubber gloves to keep water off your other rubber gloves, if that makes any sense.
People involved in hooking companies into technologies need place more focus on other languages(Python for example) and other technologies (Twisted) that people can can pick up easier and use more effectively to rapidly prototype and deploy applications. Java clearly has some good points (clear OOPS design), but I'm baffled at its widespread adoption success and baffled that M$ would even want to copy many of the ideas into the design of C#. I guess its somewhat similar to the high sales of Twinkies.
-sloppy8-bit is the future dude!!
-sloppy
4) Out of the work force completely (gave up trying to find a job)
Wait a second here! That doesn't make any sense at all. Are you talking about the Groucho club or something. Not to argue, though. Times are obviously bad in terms of getting a job. But your statistics sound fuzzy.
--sloppyI was wondering if the had fixed the "sucking ass" bug that has been outstanding from the outset of KDE development. Does 3.2 have a fix for this problem?
-sloppy
fluxbox - the only true wm. icons are for teeny bobbers