No, without applications, an OS is an environment that provides services and hardware abstraction / access for those that want to write their own applications.
Of course, you could always program to the bare metal, or write your own OS, so even that argument doesn't hold a lot of weight;)
You know, one thing that's almost guaranteed to make me not believe something is seeing it printed with "Fact: " in front of it. Even when I know it's true.
However, OS/2 existed for a quite a long time before Warp, and had pretty much already missed its chance by the time Warp and Windows 95 were released.
But you're right, Windows compatibility didn't kill OS/2. OS/2 killed OS/2.
you _never_ use floating point for currency amounts if you can help it. Always use fixed point or integer values for monetary amounts, particularly for calculation.
Whilst the errors introduced by using floats or doubles are very small (extremely small in the case of doubles) they do exist, and they'll add up over time.
would you want a bank storing your account balance in a float?
> Because that's a lot easier to say than "he copied my idea and used it without my permission while passing it off as his idea" takes a lot longer to say? Duh?
yes, and strangely enough, people are able to correctly translate he stole my idea, into he copied my idea and used it without my permission while passing it off as his idea instantaneously, imagine that!
So don't you think that people can do the same sort of translation for the similarly related term "copyright infringement"?
Though personally I prefer "piracy" as the shorthand for copyright infringement, as there's less ambiguation between physical media theft, and unauthorised duplication / distribution (and of course "theft" can only be used for the duplication, not the distribution portion anyway, as distribution really has nothing to do with stealing).
(Yes I _know_ that copyright infringement is not boarding a boat, killing the crew, stealing the cargo and sinking it, but guess what - so does everybody else, and only a moron would think that if you said someone was a pirate, that you meant they had an eyepatch, a parrot and a peg-leg. They'd know that they were someone that made and or sold unauthorised copies of stuff._
Console == The display directly attached to the computer, whether text or graphical.
SSH does not get you control of the console, it gets you a "virtual console". There is no way of controling the real console via standard SSH.
VNC whilst only handling a graphical console, does give you control of the console under Windows. Under Unix systems it acts as an X11 server with a virtual framebuffer and forwards that instead - so it doesn't get you the console in that case.
So for Windows, VNC actually performs a slightly different function. Which one is more useful depends on what you want to achieve. The way it works under Windows is good for helping someone remotely (but XP includes better support for doing that anyway). The way it works under Unix systems is good for giving a user a persistent desktop they can access from anywhere.
Having to frequently work with machines across a fairly slow WAN link, and a VPN via ADSL at home, my preference for working remotely is -
for Windows - SSH (via cygwin - only good if you don't need to access GUI tools, but perfectly fine for deploying applications, copying files around, editing configuration files and looking at logs) RDP, and finally, only if there's no other choice - VNC.
For Unix like systems - SSH, X11 if I'm using fairly simple tools - most modern X11 applications really suck over slow links, or VNC if I _must_ use graphics heavy tools. (But it's very rare that you can't just use SSH anyway)
However, I haven't experimented with NX, it sounds like it's worth checking out.
Generally I find using VNC to be a horrible experience - I hate how (mostly with Windows) certain applications will never update properly, causing you to have to minimize and restore them, or scrub the mouse over them to see what's going on. That sort of thing makes even waiting for X11 worthwhile in a lot of cases.
Over a LAN VNC loses even more advantage, as X11 becomes perfectly useable.
Yes, my writing style is flawed, I'll admit it. But that doesn't change the fact that the arbitrary "at least three sentences in a paragraph" rule is completely bogus and doesn't make sense if you actually think about it.
The trouble with thinking that there is a number of sentences before something is a paragraph, is that it creates "un-paragraphs". My first paragraph would not be a paragraph under the three sentence rule, which is absurd, because it obviously is.
A paragraph always exists - it starts with the first sentence, and ends either with the start of the next paragraph, or the end of the text. In other words, there is no sentence that is not part of a paragraph, regardless of how many other sentences are in the same paragraph.
the media is the least of the problems with respect to backwards compatibility.
It's the entirely different CPU architecture that's the problem. The PPC cores in the XBox 360 will not be able to run games from the x86 based XBox without emulation.
Sony would have had the same problem with the PS2, but they used the PS1 CPU as an IO controller in the PS2, and were able to also use it to provide the backwards compatibility.
So unless Microsoft decides to throw in an x86 CPU, it's probably not going to happen unless they can get emulation to work fast enough and reliably enough - which could happen. 3 x 3.2GHz PPC derived cores might well be enough to emulate a 700Mhz PIII at full speed.
There's also issues with the fact that games were written with very specific knowledge of the nVidia GPU which won't work out of the box with the ATI GPU in the 360 - so that would mean another emulation or translation layer.
Personally I'd rather they didn't bother, and kept the cost down, at the moment the 360 looks pretty good, particularly with the media features (as long as it doesn't sound like a 747 this time) and I already have an XBox to play my old games.
From my personal experience purchasing a PS2 on release and not having had a PS1, backwards compatibility, whilst nice, isn't essential.
The word 'Hack' has long been used to mean either someone who is payed to write other peoples opinions, or alternatively someone who is lacking in skill. This usage long predates computers, and is certainly the correct word in this context.
You mean trial already has (at least)a verb form recorded.
I challenge you to point me to the list of all the words that are allowed to exist in English.
I think you'll find that instead all you find are dictionaries, which contain a list of words that have been observed to be used. There is _no_ definitive list of all valid English words.
English is very capable of having new words created by applying the fairly intuitive rules that all english speakers pick up very quickly. The ability to verb a noun is one of them. or - The ability to turn a noun into a verb.
English is also not well known for having one and only one word for every concept. A few more won't hurt things, especially when they are built on words that people already know and understand. It's not like the headline was "Australia sdfsdfs phone to IP service".
> Why on earth do we even have commenting? Because sometimes it's more important to see what we're thinking, than what we're doing.
Authors make notes, word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc. have annotations - pretty much any situation in which the project you're working on will need to be revisited or looked at by someone else is one in which comments or annotations that do not affect or appear in the final product are useful.
and to make life annoying, on a modern Microsoft Natural keyboard, you have to have f-lock off before you can use pause, otherwise you get scroll lock.
gah!, whoever came up with that idea needs to be shot.
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No, without applications, an OS is an environment that provides services and hardware abstraction / access for those that want to write their own applications.
;)
Of course, you could always program to the bare metal, or write your own OS, so even that argument doesn't hold a lot of weight
You know, one thing that's almost guaranteed to make me not believe something is seeing it printed with "Fact: " in front of it.
Even when I know it's true.
However, OS/2 existed for a quite a long time before Warp, and had pretty much already missed its chance by the time Warp and Windows 95 were released.
But you're right, Windows compatibility didn't kill OS/2. OS/2 killed OS/2.
> So I guess you'd also agree with the statement: 'GOOD government is "the way to go", and democracy is a nice bonus'?
Yes, yes I would.
you _never_ use floating point for currency amounts if you can help it.
Always use fixed point or integer values for monetary amounts, particularly for calculation.
Whilst the errors introduced by using floats or doubles are very small (extremely small in the case of doubles) they do exist, and they'll add up over time.
would you want a bank storing your account balance in a float?
where does Linux come in to it?
I'm guessing it must affect those who don't log in.
So as a result, I'm guessing that you're logged in but clicked the "post anonymously" button.
Note the second meaning -
I think they can be forgiven for using a meaning that has been in use for more than 300 years.
I think he was suggesting it should be modded as "funny", as it was obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
> Because that's a lot easier to say than "he copied my idea and used it without my permission while passing it off as his idea" takes a lot longer to say? Duh?
yes, and strangely enough, people are able to correctly translate he stole my idea, into he copied my idea and used it without my permission while passing it off as his idea instantaneously, imagine that!
So don't you think that people can do the same sort of translation for the similarly related term "copyright infringement"?
Though personally I prefer "piracy" as the shorthand for copyright infringement, as there's less ambiguation between physical media theft, and unauthorised duplication / distribution (and of course "theft" can only be used for the duplication, not the distribution portion anyway, as distribution really has nothing to do with stealing).
(Yes I _know_ that copyright infringement is not boarding a boat, killing the crew, stealing the cargo and sinking it, but guess what - so does everybody else, and only a moron would think that if you said someone was a pirate, that you meant they had an eyepatch, a parrot and a peg-leg. They'd know that they were someone that made and or sold unauthorised copies of stuff._
Console == The display directly attached to the computer, whether text or graphical.
SSH does not get you control of the console, it gets you a "virtual console". There is no way of controling the real console via standard SSH.
VNC whilst only handling a graphical console, does give you control of the console under Windows. Under Unix systems it acts as an X11 server with a virtual framebuffer and forwards that instead - so it doesn't get you the console in that case.
So for Windows, VNC actually performs a slightly different function. Which one is more useful depends on what you want to achieve. The way it works under Windows is good for helping someone remotely (but XP includes better support for doing that anyway). The way it works under Unix systems is good for giving a user a persistent desktop they can access from anywhere.
Having to frequently work with machines across a fairly slow WAN link, and a VPN via ADSL at home, my preference for working remotely is -
for Windows -
SSH (via cygwin - only good if you don't need to access GUI tools, but perfectly fine for deploying applications, copying files around, editing configuration files and looking at logs)
RDP,
and finally, only if there's no other choice - VNC.
For Unix like systems -
SSH,
X11 if I'm using fairly simple tools - most modern X11 applications really suck over slow links,
or VNC if I _must_ use graphics heavy tools.
(But it's very rare that you can't just use SSH anyway)
However, I haven't experimented with NX, it sounds like it's worth checking out.
Generally I find using VNC to be a horrible experience - I hate how (mostly with Windows) certain applications will never update properly, causing you to have to minimize and restore them, or scrub the mouse over them to see what's going on. That sort of thing makes even waiting for X11 worthwhile in a lot of cases.
Over a LAN VNC loses even more advantage, as X11 becomes perfectly useable.
Yes, my writing style is flawed, I'll admit it. But that doesn't change the fact that the arbitrary "at least three sentences in a paragraph" rule is completely bogus and doesn't make sense if you actually think about it.
The trouble with thinking that there is a number of sentences before something is a paragraph, is that it creates "un-paragraphs". My first paragraph would not be a paragraph under the three sentence rule, which is absurd, because it obviously is.
A paragraph always exists - it starts with the first sentence, and ends either with the start of the next paragraph, or the end of the text. In other words, there is no sentence that is not part of a paragraph, regardless of how many other sentences are in the same paragraph.
wow, do they really teach that anywhere?
I've never been taught anything other than "a single idea".
So do people that believe the 3 sentence rule just concatenate three unrelated sentences just to be able to say they have a paragraph?
That would make for some awkward reading.
> Since this comment exceed three paragraphs I seriously doubt you even read it.
I tried. But I couldn't figure out what language you were using.
the media is the least of the problems with respect to backwards compatibility.
It's the entirely different CPU architecture that's the problem.
The PPC cores in the XBox 360 will not be able to run games from the x86 based XBox without emulation.
Sony would have had the same problem with the PS2, but they used the PS1 CPU as an IO controller in the PS2, and were able to also use it to provide the backwards compatibility.
So unless Microsoft decides to throw in an x86 CPU, it's probably not going to happen unless they can get emulation to work fast enough and reliably enough - which could happen.
3 x 3.2GHz PPC derived cores might well be enough to emulate a 700Mhz PIII at full speed.
There's also issues with the fact that games were written with very specific knowledge of the nVidia GPU which won't work out of the box with the ATI GPU in the 360 - so that would mean another emulation or translation layer.
Personally I'd rather they didn't bother, and kept the cost down, at the moment the 360 looks pretty good, particularly with the media features (as long as it doesn't sound like a 747 this time) and I already have an XBox to play my old games.
From my personal experience purchasing a PS2 on release and not having had a PS1, backwards compatibility, whilst nice, isn't essential.
Irony - just like Goldy and Bronzy, but made of Iron! (sorry Baldrick)
The word 'Hack' has long been used to mean either someone who is payed to write other peoples opinions, or alternatively someone who is lacking in skill.
This usage long predates computers, and is certainly the correct word in this context.
Nooooo, now we have Nazi Nazis!
You mean trial already has (at least)a verb form recorded.
I challenge you to point me to the list of all the words that are allowed to exist in English.
I think you'll find that instead all you find are dictionaries, which contain a list of words that have been observed to be used. There is _no_ definitive list of all valid English words.
English is very capable of having new words created by applying the fairly intuitive rules that all english speakers pick up very quickly.
The ability to verb a noun is one of them.
or - The ability to turn a noun into a verb.
English is also not well known for having one and only one word for every concept. A few more won't hurt things, especially when they are built on words that people already know and understand. It's not like the headline was "Australia sdfsdfs phone to IP service".
hmmm...the errors in the original might not have been fixed, but what about this translation?
why would people that don't want to write OSS contribute?
I'm not sure you understand the system.
> Why on earth do we even have commenting?
Because sometimes it's more important to see what we're thinking, than what we're doing.
Authors make notes, word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc. have annotations - pretty much any situation in which the project you're working on will need to be revisited or looked at by someone else is one in which comments or annotations that do not affect or appear in the final product are useful.
> This is not a hard problem to solve.
No, but it's a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
and to make life annoying, on a modern Microsoft Natural keyboard, you have to have f-lock off before you can use pause, otherwise you get scroll lock.
gah!, whoever came up with that idea needs to be shot.
because there's only one type of cast in C ;)
I assume your experience is with C++ then?