"Wathcdog publications"... "but many do not have fond meories of it"... While I could flog you for your poor grammar and spelling, I am not one to go throwing stones.
Yeah, your glass house is thanking you right now.
On-topic, I'll personally wait to see the NDA; for all we know it only forbids redistribution of their bundled proprietary programs. And maybe not even that.
did anybody else get the feeling..
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.. while they were looking at the second set of
pics, that..
maybe it's not such a hot idea to chase a cargo plane from below and behind, while a car is falling out of its ass?
"Look bubba, *click* that car *click* just keeps getting bigger and bigSMASH
Hello crazy.. the grammatically incorrect "its the rule" was only meant to be a subtle, yet incredibly stupid, cornball joke. I appreciate your help anyway.
In my state (Kansas) you CANNOT vote in the primary unless you are registered with that party - thus I cannot pick a Democrat and a Republican that I like.
I thought this was so a mess of democrats couldn't all vote for, say, Pat Buchanan (or Pat Robertson -- remember that?) for the republican nomination with the intention of completely f*cking up the republican primary. And vice versa. How would you prevent this scenario?
Copyright? This was already tried by MS, arguing that they owned the header files, and duplicating the information in them was infringing. It didn't work
More info or reference? I'm interested in this because it doesn't just affect MS.
Also, in your argument on patents, look at it this way: there is nothing preventing MS from coming up with a patented method of doing something and then building an API that invokes that method. They can't patent the API, but they could sue anybody who duplicates its functionality.
1) You're confusing immersion with story. Quake1's single-player story, aka "plot", was utter, utter bunk.
2) I agree that immersion is very important. I would posit that it is very subjective. Shareware (original) descent did it for me.. learning how to yaw roll, the first time I got buzzed by a vulcan mech or ate a homing missle, etc. Q1 let me down simply because (and I know this is unfair) it wasn't as creepy as Doom, and I'd already seen 3D done "better" with Descent. (I used a slow computer at the time and Q1 was just too pixelated and vomit-colored.)
Not that this solves all your problems, just thought I'd point these out:
1) have you ever tried linux-mandrake's supermount? Works like a charm for me. It works for cdroms too. It's actually the biggest reason I use mandrake.
3) ctrl-alt-(+, -) should switch resolutions painlessly in Xfree86; perhaps you're annoyed with the screen scrolling that can happen as a result?
I'm also working at the EPO, as an external contractor (...) After all the EPO takes pride in saying it's an organization of scientists, fundamentally differently organized than the american patent office, and atleast some people in high places do identify with our kind.
Whoah there buddy... hope you didn't just get in hot water for saying that on a public forum..
Because for most people, brevity > loquaciousness and interview != soapbox.
Personal eval: there are several obvious bad things about this interview. I still tried to mine the nuggets, enjoyed his take on Cyc since I'm interested in it, and think some people are reacting way too harshly to him being in a serious "glass half-empty" mood. At least on the wetware answer everybody is harping on.
The interview is interesting in that it contains some well-spoken insights on various topics and
(at a meta-level) provides insight into the mind of one who describes himself as mentally ill.
Intentionally ignoring your "shareware" reference; the GPL forbids that arrangement.
If you *really* want to give ca$h to linus, there's nothing and nobody stopping you from ponying up right now. Unless you wanted to wait until he was a destitute gutter rat. If you're in the U.S. it's easy to snailmail him a check (/usr/src/linux/CREDITS has the addr). I wonder if he would bother to deposit it..
I thought linus said he never wanted to work full time on Linux anyway. As if it would become Real Work then, or he would be accountable to somebody else for linux, or something.
The poster neglected to mention it, but.NET also appears to lose on the maturity, platform portability, and "required support tools" fronts. Particularly at the time the poster appears to have done the evaluation (GTK 1.2 era). Thus, there are plenty of technical reasons it might be considered lacking.
is Slashdot the place for alpha announcements? (...) if Slashdot announced every alpha release of every decent-sized Open Source project.. Oh wait they do.
Not to be glib, but I believe you just answered your own question.
If one go movie after movie just having fun, well, one ends just a simplet uninteresting moron, or one was one in the first place.
It looks like you tried to paint "moron" with too wide a brush and ended up spilling it all over yourself. I hope english isn't your first language.
On topic, I saw the movie and it was watchable, but the old greatness was too spotty. It tried to be funnier than it was. My favorite scene was TLJ's opening post office speech.
Do you code in FORTRAN IV? Do you send lots of spam about a kid named Craig who wants cards? Why do you need a shift lock?)
Fair enough question. Usually I use it when typing in C #define constants, when there's not enough to bother remembering what emacs' capitalize-region command is.
When I put together my pII-era box, I scavenged the keyboard from the PC XT I inherited (I still have the XT too). Only un-feature (besides lack of ergonomics) is the lack of the *lock LEDs. I s'pose IBM figured that if you could use DOS 3.2, you could figure out if caps was on.
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Yeah, your glass house is thanking you right now.
On-topic, I'll personally wait to see the NDA; for all we know it only forbids redistribution of their bundled proprietary programs. And maybe not even that.
maybe it's not such a hot idea to chase a cargo plane from below and behind, while a car is falling out of its ass?
"Look bubba, *click* that car *click* just keeps getting bigger and bigSMASH
Hello crazy.. the grammatically incorrect "its the rule" was only meant to be a subtle, yet incredibly stupid, cornball joke. I appreciate your help anyway.
That's not a hint. Its the rule.
Around here it's "whoever did the last commit, even though it's been busted for months".
I thought this was so a mess of democrats couldn't all vote for, say, Pat Buchanan (or Pat Robertson -- remember that?) for the republican nomination with the intention of completely f*cking up the republican primary. And vice versa. How would you prevent this scenario?
More info or reference? I'm interested in this because it doesn't just affect MS.
Also, in your argument on patents, look at it this way: there is nothing preventing MS from coming up with a patented method of doing something and then building an API that invokes that method. They can't patent the API, but they could sue anybody who duplicates its functionality.
2) I agree that immersion is very important. I would posit that it is very subjective. Shareware (original) descent did it for me.. learning how to yaw roll, the first time I got buzzed by a vulcan mech or ate a homing missle, etc. Q1 let me down simply because (and I know this is unfair) it wasn't as creepy as Doom, and I'd already seen 3D done "better" with Descent. (I used a slow computer at the time and Q1 was just too pixelated and vomit-colored.)
1) have you ever tried linux-mandrake's supermount? Works like a charm for me. It works for cdroms too. It's actually the biggest reason I use mandrake.
3) ctrl-alt-(+, -) should switch resolutions painlessly in Xfree86; perhaps you're annoyed with the screen scrolling that can happen as a result?
Whoah there buddy... hope you didn't just get in hot water for saying that on a public forum..
Because for most people, brevity > loquaciousness and interview != soapbox.
Personal eval: there are several obvious bad things about this interview. I still tried to mine the nuggets, enjoyed his take on Cyc since I'm interested in it, and think some people are reacting way too harshly to him being in a serious "glass half-empty" mood. At least on the wetware answer everybody is harping on.
The interview is interesting in that it contains some well-spoken insights on various topics and (at a meta-level) provides insight into the mind of one who describes himself as mentally ill.
Bland enough for ya?
yeah yeah, and Kent ended up going blind too, but it wasn't the laser that did it..
That is untrue. Some of the duplicate posts have none of the errors you describe.
(kidding aside, props to the editors)
If you *really* want to give ca$h to linus, there's nothing and nobody stopping you from ponying up right now. Unless you wanted to wait until he was a destitute gutter rat. If you're in the U.S. it's easy to snailmail him a check (/usr/src/linux/CREDITS has the addr). I wonder if he would bother to deposit it..
I thought linus said he never wanted to work full time on Linux anyway. As if it would become Real Work then, or he would be accountable to somebody else for linux, or something.
In other news, Acclaim has begun offering porn producers revenue in exchange for "strategic placement" of their products
Would you buy from a crook?
The poster neglected to mention it, but .NET also appears to lose on the maturity, platform portability, and "required support tools" fronts. Particularly at the time the poster appears to have done the evaluation (GTK 1.2 era). Thus, there are plenty of technical reasons it might be considered lacking.
No, that's MegaMaid sir. She's gone from suck to blow.
Hollyfeld? Lazlo? Is that you?
(dollars to dimes nobody gets this)
Not to be glib, but I believe you just answered your own question.
Gah!! Why did you say that? Now E3 is gonna be as bad as the Star Wars Christmas Special..
Yes, and even selected parts of Saving Private Ryan, mostly the battle scenes.
It looks like you tried to paint "moron" with too wide a brush and ended up spilling it all over yourself. I hope english isn't your first language.
On topic, I saw the movie and it was watchable, but the old greatness was too spotty. It tried to be funnier than it was. My favorite scene was TLJ's opening post office speech.
I dunno, man. I use an ATPS/2 adaptor, apparently it works for XTs too. Never tried to get an original PC keyboard hooked up.
Fair enough question. Usually I use it when typing in C #define constants, when there's not enough to bother remembering what emacs' capitalize-region command is.
When I put together my pII-era box, I scavenged the keyboard from the PC XT I inherited (I still have the XT too). Only un-feature (besides lack of ergonomics) is the lack of the *lock LEDs. I s'pose IBM figured that if you could use DOS 3.2, you could figure out if caps was on.