Hmmm... however the prices are rather staggering: $60 at animenation and a bit over $40 at cdjapan.co.jp - I must admit, I am takenaback by such prices.
NetWare Web Access? Is that a large rollout/network you're talking about? I have read extatic testimonials and comments about Web Access, but I still have not heard of a larger pilot. Would you be so kind and shed some more light.. if it's not NDA'd?
Gusy, hmmm.. while you're all tied up in a nice flamewar between the two camps... you know that MySQL is ported to NetWare, too, didn't you? It's officially supported, in fact, done by some Novell engineers as far as I know.
Strange that only PostgreSQL got mentioned in the headline.
What the hell is with you guys? Don't you know how to read the fungick article? Nokia wasn't calling warchalking a theft, the usage of the companie's wireless network for browsing the internet is what Nokia calls theft.
What if anything does "Blade Runner" have to say now that we have cloning?
You know, "Blade runner" was a piece of art. It may not have been art for all people's sensitivities, but for many it had more than just future prediction as a value. The book on which it's based is even more artisticly exciting while at the same time more nutty.
However, I would say that cloning is not directly the subject of the movie. In fact, we don't know the technology behind the creation of "artificial humans", their genetic code might have been cooked up from scratch. The whole point is that they are -artificially- created, not just clones. Human clones would be, in fact, just as human as we are. A fine example is given by twins: a clone is nothing but a twin born later.
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Exactly correct!
The much-maligned (by Slashdot) Sun is in the unique position to actually sell a Linux workstation on a large scale, something NONE of the other vendors could afford without kissing goodbye a good chunk of their revenue.
Said all that, I must add that I really like my Blade 100 running Solaris.
The probelm with Michael Jackson is that he's a hypocrite: he is obviously ashamed of his African American origins, yet, when it suits him, he calls upon the support of his black brethren.
The hypocricy of this act is so blatant that I wonder how could Jackson even look into the mirror afterwards.
How does methane actually cause greenhouse effect? It's not the burning of the methane, which creates only a small quantity of CO2 per KJoule. It's the methane itself, which, during the course of extraction, distribution and usage, will inevitable escape into the atmosphere. And methane is a MUCH more effective greenhouse gas than CO2!
BTW, that's why the cows in US and India do, in fact, contribute to the greenhouse effect quite considerably.
Yes, SGML could be considered a superset of xTML. It's very complex and incredibly comprehensive. I would be very surprised if WordPerfect supported it, though, because the DP tools that support SGML cost US$ 10.000+ at least.
I agree that some sort of integration with NDS would have made Caldera Linux a product with an edge for certain applications.
However, I disagree with you and all others (seems to be 90% of posters here) who claim that SCO is failing in the market. First of all, everybody who has worked with UnixWare described it as one of the best Unix on any platform. I am mostly a HP-UX and Solaris guy myself, so I just report what I heard from dozens of my colleagues. And second thing; The only really profitable products Caldera has had till now were UnixWare and the SCO-related Unices.
Even if you don't accept my arguments, you should see that there are shades of grey, there.
As has been noted, GR time machines can't go back any further than when they were assembled. So you can't goi back any further than the first one.
This means that the second the first working time machine is assembled, we would be flooded by folks from the future, because, most certainly, they will want to get as further back as they can.
I'm sure the scientists who build it will be hesitating before turning the thing on for the first time.
Yeah, that's surely the reason behind DVD region coding. BTW, I have "Nosferatu" (1922) as a Region 2 DVD. Since it's a European movie, I wonder if you guys in US have seen it already.....
R2 movies have been usually more expensive than R1 titles. Does that mean that the citizens of: Albania Bulgaria Chech Republic Croatia Hungary Romania Slovenia Ser bia etc.* have better buying power than the citizens of Canada and USA?
Or do you think that in these countries people earn the same as in UK, France or Belgium? And yet, they are all together in Region 2.
Or, let's see region 3: we have, lumped together, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Do you really think an average Taiwanese or a Honk-Kongian earn the same as an Indonesian or Filipino?
Region 4 is even funnier: together we have the whole of South America, Central America and mexico AND New Zealand and Australia.
www.play.com free shipping in all European countries, and an absolutely fantastic selection of both R1 and R2 titles. And what's more important, since they are in Europe (Jersey Islands), you avoid the customs.
Then there is dvdboxoffice.com which also has free shipping, this one WORLDWIDE, but I suspect that larger shipments (4 or more DVDs in a package) might attract the custom's attention. Expecially since DVDboxoffice.com are based in Canada. I use them if play.com doesn't have the title I am looking for.
These two sites have been tried multiple times, never had one single complaint (and I have bought in excess of 200 titles).
I'll tell you why: because they either don't have the money (like me) or don't consider it worth.
Dear friend, the cycle of upgrades has been way too quick, and even though I am sure Gates would love us all to upgrade everytime Microsoft burps up a new version of Windows, people just got annoyed with cashing out every year. When Win95 came out, everybody thought it would be the greatest OS we'll ever need. As people started using Win95 they realized how f*cked up it really is, but they started getting used to it. Then came Win98, and it didn't make any difference in stability, and really very little in functionality. And then came Win98 SE, and it changed so little that, no doubt, many got burned right there right then.
There is, of course, the corporate market that is more faitful to MS, and mostly they are the buyers of Win2000. But as recession sat in, even corporations started to press on the breaks. Point in case: in my company only about a third of the desktops have been upgraded to Win2000, the restis still happily running WinNT or, on laptops, Win98SE.
Yes, the "Deep Thought" was a 64 node of Ultrasparc 20 workstations, and the program was developed by a guy called Feng-hsiung Hsu. Some of the feats of Deep Thought can be found here and here. Kasparov was the first of the international masters to beat Deep Thought. He was also the first world champion to be defeated by any computer... which at the time happened to be IBM's Deep Blue.
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this was puglished yesterday in haaretzdaily.com. It has some interesting details like, for example, the track record of Junior, to this date, and that the competition will have a peace-builing slant to it, too.
My only concern with digitalbroadcasts is that it gives incredible powers to the content broadcasters and creators over my ability to a) tape/record it b) see it at all!
But what's even worse, it will make almost impossible to have multiregion DVD players.So no more US/Canadian DVDs on my TV, then (I live in Europe). That would -really- suck.
all the window shopping people want isometric graphics This information smells. I guess that's because you pulled it right out of your butt.
And of course, you didn't even check the link to the poll, I presume.
In fact, the poll shows that most freeciv users prefere non-isometric tiles. Shock-horror! Could this really be? Well, if you add those that chose the non-iso tilesets Trident (151) + NeoTrident (46) + Engels (38) + Tinydent (4) + MonoTrident (3), they outnumber those who chose the iso tilesets IsoTrident (95) + c-evo (53) + rHires (36) + Lexxy (32)
Thats 242 to 216, non-iso wins by a margin of 5.7%
Your wish is answered: there is a Colonization clone project going on, the link to it can be actually found on the freeciv.org page itself (in "projets and ports"). But anyway the direct link.
They have done most of the artwork but there is no code release, yet.
Among the new features since 1.12, I see that now Isotrident is the default tileset.
I am very surprised by this decision, since you conducted a poll specifically asking the community which tileset should the new version carry by default, and the community clearly answered Trident, while Isotrident came second with a significant margin.
I happen to know that many Freeciv developers are annoyed by the Isometric view. So what is the deal with this apparent attachment to the iso-view by some of the (more influential) freeciv developers?
I guess that by X11 you mean the Athena widget client.
Disclaimer: I haven't been compiling from source in a long time, because I am focused on testing the Win32 binaries. So I may be misspelling some of the options for configure.
Well, the GTK client is the default, no need to specify it. For the Athena widgets, though, you will have to run configure with the option "--with-xaw" or "--with-xaw3d" (the 3D version of the athena).
I guss configure failed to find the GTK libraries on your Linux workstation. By that I don't mean that you don't have them, just that they were nor detected. Something specific to Mandrake 8.2, perhaps.
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Hmmm... however the prices are rather staggering: $60 at animenation and a bit over $40 at cdjapan.co.jp - I must admit, I am takenaback by such prices.
NetWare Web Access? Is that a large rollout/network you're talking about? I have read extatic testimonials and comments about Web Access, but I still have not heard of a larger pilot. Would you be so kind and shed some more light.. if it's not NDA'd?
Gusy, hmmm.. while you're all tied up in a nice flamewar between the two camps... you know that MySQL is ported to NetWare, too, didn't you? It's officially supported, in fact, done by some Novell engineers as far as I know.
Strange that only PostgreSQL got mentioned in the headline.
What the hell is with you guys? Don't you know how to read the fungick article? Nokia wasn't calling warchalking a theft, the usage of the companie's wireless network for browsing the internet is what Nokia calls theft.
What if anything does "Blade Runner" have to say now that we have cloning?
You know, "Blade runner" was a piece of art. It may not have been art for all people's sensitivities, but for many it had more than just future prediction as a value. The book on which it's based is even more artisticly exciting while at the same time more nutty.
However, I would say that cloning is not directly the subject of the movie. In fact, we don't know the technology behind the creation of "artificial humans", their genetic code might have been cooked up from scratch. The whole point is that they are -artificially- created, not just clones. Human clones would be, in fact, just as human as we are. A fine example is given by twins: a clone is nothing but a twin born later.
Exactly correct!
The much-maligned (by Slashdot) Sun is in the unique position to actually sell a Linux workstation on a large scale, something NONE of the other vendors could afford without kissing goodbye a good chunk of their revenue.
Said all that, I must add that I really like my Blade 100 running Solaris.
The probelm with Michael Jackson is that he's a hypocrite: he is obviously ashamed of his African American origins, yet, when it suits him, he calls upon the support of his black brethren.
The hypocricy of this act is so blatant that I wonder how could Jackson even look into the mirror afterwards.
How does methane actually cause greenhouse effect? It's not the burning of the methane, which creates only a small quantity of CO2 per KJoule. It's the methane itself, which, during the course of extraction, distribution and usage, will inevitable escape into the atmosphere. And methane is a MUCH more effective greenhouse gas than CO2!
BTW, that's why the cows in US and India do, in fact, contribute to the greenhouse effect quite considerably.
In that case, I am very surprised :o)
Yes, SGML could be considered a superset of xTML. It's very complex and incredibly comprehensive. I would be very surprised if WordPerfect supported it, though, because the DP tools that support SGML cost US$ 10.000+ at least.
I agree that some sort of integration with NDS would have made Caldera Linux a product with an edge for certain applications.
However, I disagree with you and all others (seems to be 90% of posters here) who claim that SCO is failing in the market. First of all, everybody who has worked with UnixWare described it as one of the best Unix on any platform. I am mostly a HP-UX and Solaris guy myself, so I just report what I heard from dozens of my colleagues. And second thing; The only really profitable products Caldera has had till now were UnixWare and the SCO-related Unices.
Even if you don't accept my arguments, you should see that there are shades of grey, there.
With this trend, I can resume writing applications in Qbasic.
But seriously: with processor speeds like these, efficient programming will be even less appreciated. Sadly.
As has been noted, GR time machines can't go back any further than when they were assembled. So you can't goi back any further than the first one.
This means that the second the first working time machine is assembled, we would be flooded by folks from the future, because, most certainly, they will want to get as further back as they can.
I'm sure the scientists who build it will be hesitating before turning the thing on for the first time.
Yeah, that's surely the reason behind DVD region coding. BTW, I have "Nosferatu" (1922) as a Region 2 DVD. Since it's a European movie, I wonder if you guys in US have seen it already.....
R2 movies have been usually more expensive than R1 titles. Does that mean that the citizens of:r bia
Albania
Bulgaria
Chech Republic
Croatia
Hungary
Romania
Slovenia
Se
etc.*
have better buying power than the citizens of Canada and USA?
Or do you think that in these countries people earn the same as in UK, France or Belgium? And yet, they are all together in Region 2.
Or, let's see region 3: we have, lumped together, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Do you really think an average Taiwanese or a Honk-Kongian earn the same as an Indonesian or Filipino?
Region 4 is even funnier: together we have the whole of South America, Central America and mexico AND New Zealand and Australia.
Therefore, your argument seems to be flawed.
There is always a way:
www.play.com free shipping in all European countries, and an absolutely fantastic selection of both R1 and R2 titles. And what's more important, since they are in Europe (Jersey Islands), you avoid the customs.
Then there is dvdboxoffice.com which also has free shipping, this one WORLDWIDE, but I suspect that larger shipments (4 or more DVDs in a package) might attract the custom's attention. Expecially since DVDboxoffice.com are based in Canada. I use them if play.com doesn't have the title I am looking for.
These two sites have been tried multiple times, never had one single complaint (and I have bought in excess of 200 titles).
I'll tell you why: because they either don't have the money (like me) or don't consider it worth.
Dear friend, the cycle of upgrades has been way too quick, and even though I am sure Gates would love us all to upgrade everytime Microsoft burps up a new version of Windows, people just got annoyed with cashing out every year. When Win95 came out, everybody thought it would be the greatest OS we'll ever need. As people started using Win95 they realized how f*cked up it really is, but they started getting used to it. Then came Win98, and it didn't make any difference in stability, and really very little in functionality. And then came Win98 SE, and it changed so little that, no doubt, many got burned right there right then.
There is, of course, the corporate market that is more faitful to MS, and mostly they are the buyers of Win2000. But as recession sat in, even corporations started to press on the breaks. Point in case: in my company only about a third of the desktops have been upgraded to Win2000, the restis still happily running WinNT or, on laptops, Win98SE.
Sparcstations, as far as I remember. Definitely they were not Ultra 10 or Ultra 30.
Yes, the "Deep Thought" was a 64 node of Ultrasparc 20 workstations, and the program was developed by a guy called Feng-hsiung Hsu. Some of the feats of Deep Thought can be found here and here .
Kasparov was the first of the international masters to beat Deep Thought. He was also the first world champion to be defeated by any computer... which at the time happened to be IBM's Deep Blue.
this was puglished yesterday in haaretzdaily.com. It has some interesting details like, for example, the track record of Junior, to this date, and that the competition will have a peace-builing slant to it, too.
My only concern with digitalbroadcasts is that it gives incredible powers to the content broadcasters and creators over my ability to
a) tape/record it
b) see it at all!
But what's even worse, it will make almost impossible to have multiregion DVD players.So no more US/Canadian DVDs on my TV, then (I live in Europe). That would -really- suck.
all the window shopping people want isometric graphics
This information smells. I guess that's because you pulled it right out of your butt.
And of course, you didn't even check the link to the poll, I presume.
In fact, the poll shows that most freeciv users prefere non-isometric tiles. Shock-horror! Could this really be? Well, if you add those that chose the non-iso tilesets Trident (151) + NeoTrident (46) + Engels (38) + Tinydent (4) + MonoTrident (3), they outnumber those who chose the iso tilesets IsoTrident (95) + c-evo (53) + rHires (36) + Lexxy (32)
Thats 242 to 216, non-iso wins by a margin of 5.7%
Your wish is answered: there is a Colonization clone project going on, the link to it can be actually found on the freeciv.org page itself (in "projets and ports"). But anyway the direct link.
They have done most of the artwork but there is no code release, yet.
Among the new features since 1.12, I see that now Isotrident is the default tileset.
I am very surprised by this decision, since you conducted a poll specifically asking the community which tileset should the new version carry by default, and the community clearly answered Trident, while Isotrident came second with a significant margin.
I happen to know that many Freeciv developers are annoyed by the Isometric view. So what is the deal with this apparent attachment to the iso-view by some of the (more influential) freeciv developers?
I guess that by X11 you mean the Athena widget client.
Disclaimer: I haven't been compiling from source in a long time, because I am focused on testing the Win32 binaries. So I may be misspelling some of the options for configure.
Well, the GTK client is the default, no need to specify it. For the Athena widgets, though, you will have to run configure with the option "--with-xaw" or "--with-xaw3d" (the 3D version of the athena).
I guss configure failed to find the GTK libraries on your Linux workstation. By that I don't mean that you don't have them, just that they were nor detected. Something specific to Mandrake 8.2, perhaps.