theres no loser in drinking games. one in particular involves pointing at each other, yelling a word at them, and possibly drinking (if you pointed the wrong way) i can't remember the rules because i got really drunk when i played it but the name involves the word perfiglione.
well it would be a good way to build word processors. and toasters. maybe he's saying embedded devices don't need an os. of course then it takes forever for them to get to market and updates to software are slower. you're right its just a dumb article.
i guess if the piece of hardware ran only one app the code(app) and hardware could be designed with the sole purpose of doing one thing. you wouldn't need the extra layer of the os. of course then it wouldn't really be a pc, it would a more of an embedded device. also is there a good reason for the ui to be part of the os?
rms has repeatedly stated he's not against people making money off software. he just doesn't want ms to take some gpl code he wrote, hide the source, and make money off of it. wouldn't you want the same?
something like 50% more generators are offline now than at the same time last year. i'll have to look it up, i think its being investigated anyway. also i bet when other states deregulate (maine?) we see an increase in the number of generators offline compared to the number offline at the same time last year. and has it really been colder this year in california? i think they thought it was going to be but it ended up not being.
i would like to think that society is generally becoming more tolerant and thoughtful. unfortunately the evidence to support this is anecdotal at best.
a few months ago this would have been a great troll but its tired now and has been done better. on another topic how about this from the summary "a processor for executing the computer program product, and controls for operating the wireless communication device, the computer program product" computer program product? wtf is that? computer program makes sense, a processor for exectuting a computer program makes sense...whats the product part mean?
slow ass slashdot. this story is obsolete by the time it got posted. check out this eet story about continued dreamcast availability(sort of): http://eet.com/story/OEG20010130S0076
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actually i don't have clearance so i can't see it either. and i don't know why its free, i think its stupid and they should be making money selling licences. but apparently thats not how it works. anyway when you sell to the government you don't say here you go, we're selling these for $1 million each, how many would you like? instead they come to you and say heres $5 million, make us 100 of these things for 10 years and if it costs you more money than that, tough shit. but that doesn't really affect hardware designers like me anyway. as far as the distribution of the code. i don't know how they do it. there's no way anybody without clearance is seeing it. its not Free like open source. its Free like people in the government with clearance can see the source if they want. not the people driving the tank or shooting the missle. i am pretty sure all changes are incorporated solely by the builder of the hardware. bug fixes don't go through government red tape, they go through corporate red tape. which means really anal retentive testing, which is probably good. again users don't see the code. but the people who pay for it could.
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http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~craft/bar/section9.htm l a page of non zero sum games.
theres no loser in drinking games. one in particular involves pointing at each other, yelling a word at them, and possibly drinking (if you pointed the wrong way) i can't remember the rules because i got really drunk when i played it but the name involves the word perfiglione.
only one? hrmm nope. sorry but europe!=world.
damn hp, making all that money of closed source software.
who needs a 'right' to lie. lie if it serves your purpose. don't if it doesn't. there is no such thing as 'rights' other than a legal defintion.
well it would be a good way to build word processors. and toasters. maybe he's saying embedded devices don't need an os. of course then it takes forever for them to get to market and updates to software are slower. you're right its just a dumb article.
i guess if the piece of hardware ran only one app the code(app) and hardware could be designed with the sole purpose of doing one thing. you wouldn't need the extra layer of the os. of course then it wouldn't really be a pc, it would a more of an embedded device. also is there a good reason for the ui to be part of the os?
when he worked on e. you know, its the one wm that actually allows a decent looking desktop. which is nice somtimes.
its trendy to complain about being trendy.
rms has repeatedly stated he's not against people making money off software. he just doesn't want ms to take some gpl code he wrote, hide the source, and make money off of it. wouldn't you want the same?
something like 50% more generators are offline now than at the same time last year. i'll have to look it up, i think its being investigated anyway. also i bet when other states deregulate (maine?) we see an increase in the number of generators offline compared to the number offline at the same time last year. and has it really been colder this year in california? i think they thought it was going to be but it ended up not being.
i would like to think that society is generally becoming more tolerant and thoughtful. unfortunately the evidence to support this is anecdotal at best.
a few months ago this would have been a great troll but its tired now and has been done better. on another topic how about this from the summary "a processor for executing the computer program product, and controls for operating the wireless communication device, the computer program product" computer program product? wtf is that? computer program makes sense, a processor for exectuting a computer program makes sense...whats the product part mean?
if you gave it web access you probably could
wasn't there a movie with a running joke about 'i don't know what to think, please tell me'?
too bad youre an ac. not true? mentor graphics?
word messes up your whitespace and notepad appends a .txt extension to files all the time. dos edit is much better than either
also, it wasn't free (when my parents purchased it) anyway.
alt tabbing is not fast if you have 40 windows open. don't use it if you don't want it.
much less than free? they will pay me to install it?
$6 license is hard to believe.
not that 'commercial' (proprietary) software is better tested or documented. they don't pay people very much to do it, apparently.
if you can be creative lithovore?
slow ass slashdot. this story is obsolete by the time it got posted. check out this eet story about continued dreamcast availability(sort of): http://eet.com/story/OEG20010130S0076
actually i don't have clearance so i can't see it either. and i don't know why its free, i think its stupid and they should be making money selling licences. but apparently thats not how it works. anyway when you sell to the government you don't say here you go, we're selling these for $1 million each, how many would you like? instead they come to you and say heres $5 million, make us 100 of these things for 10 years and if it costs you more money than that, tough shit. but that doesn't really affect hardware designers like me anyway. as far as the distribution of the code. i don't know how they do it. there's no way anybody without clearance is seeing it. its not Free like open source. its Free like people in the government with clearance can see the source if they want. not the people driving the tank or shooting the missle. i am pretty sure all changes are incorporated solely by the builder of the hardware. bug fixes don't go through government red tape, they go through corporate red tape. which means really anal retentive testing, which is probably good. again users don't see the code. but the people who pay for it could.