Yes it's a spelling mistake, but it's a spelling mistake of a slur.
It was meant to be Windoze, but I'd guess that the submitter was from a non US country, and being stupid enough to think that Windoze is funny, was also stupid enough to not realise that it's only the -ise words in which we use 's' not 'z'.
The thing that bugs me the most about a lot of the people that complain about a Free Software alternatve to a commerical program not being an effective replacement, is that often those people have not actually _paid_ for the commerical software that they say is so much better.
Those that have forked over $1000+ for specialised proprietry software (Photoshop, Cubase etc) are the ones that have the right to say the features of the Free Software replacements are not up to scratch. Those who are using warezed versions and have no intention of ever purchasing the software, but say that the Gimp is no Photoshop aren't helping the cause, and show that they have no real interest in advancing the state of Free Software - they just want to get everything for nothing.
Bluetooth is _way_ too slow, and GPRS/WAP too slow and too expensive...(it's in the cents per KILObyte range here). I don't have any experience with 3G, but that might be a little more useful...
> But Wifi is useless because I need to be within a few dozen feet of an open access point, which is only a few dozen feet from a USB port.
that's a pretty valid point, but as wireless networks become more common, and once they get WEP or WPA on the camera it may be more useful.
The X selection buffer will work in _every_ X application, and always has.
The other type of clipboard is supported in all the major applications.
Whilst it's true that *nix (why do people always single out Linux?) desktops can be inconsistent, they are generally far more consistent than windows already, and with continuing cooperation between the major desktops and major standalone apps like Openoffice.org, the situation will improve all the time.
Also cringing at the output from free is silly. The fact that a lot of memory is being "sucked up" is a feature, not a bug. On my laptop free tells me that 500 meg of memory is used (after subtracting buffers and cache). Now I could rant about how ridiculous it was that KDE was using 500meg of memory, and how therefore bloated it was, or I could stop and think for a second, and realise that there's no way it could possibly _require_ that much memory, especially since I know it runs fine on my PII with only 128meg. Instead, I'd say that applications are oportunistically grabbing as much memory as they can, and are _using_ it to improve performance.
Afterall, what good are "lean" applications, that use only a couple of meg of memory, but have to keep moving stuff to and from disk to keep the footprint down, whilst the whole time you have a gig or two of memory sitting there, doing nothing?
It's like people complaining about the only program that's running using 100% of the cpu - it's SUPPOSED to, anything less would be inefficient.
And yes, I'm sure TVTWM was very fast, but it doesn't really do the same things that KDE does, does it? Whether or not the speed / footprint / functionality tradeoff is worth it is another matter, and difficult or impossible to measure objectively - but for me, it's fine.
There is more than enough food in the world to stamp out hunger already. The problem is not an economic one.
Space exploration _does_ better education and society, through a better understanding of the universe. Better education and understanding of the universe then has a flow on effect towards better health and stamping out hunger.
Secondly, "Linux" doesn't want to do anything, it's just an operating system, not an organisation. Maybe some people want it to do things, but that's not the same thing at all.
Also, nVidia seem to have had no problem consistently supporting Linux for quite a few years now - every year comes a bunch of video cards, and Linux drivers are right there on the web site.
just LOOK at the bloody product page - it's a tool for companies to use to communicate with their customers. It has no functions for aquiring email addresses from anyone except people that have sent emails to them already, and for importing existing lists.
Other than that it has standard mailing list features, automated subscription management, confirmed opt in, and yes, optionally confirmed opt out - which I see as a bonus, If I'm on a mailing list I wanted to be on, I'd like to think that I'd get a confirmation email when I unsubscribed.
Sure, a spammer could use this software - but they could also use majordommo, mailman, and all the other Free Software mailing list management programmes out there. Give the guy a break.
It is not spam friendly software in any way shape or form.
It would be easier to start spamming with a hand written bash script than to pay money for this...
You want spamming software - here's spamming software!
#!/bin/sh for addr in `cat mailinglist` do
sendmail $addr < spam.txt done
It's a mailing list management software - exactly like the sort of thing that manages mailing lists for free software projects all over the world, except that it's windows based.
There are no spam friendly features at all that I can see, unless you happen to think that communications from web sites you've registered with are spam, in which case, you've got bigger problems.
It really isn't any more of a spamming tool than mailman or majordomo is. Take a look at the features - double opt in, subscription management, discussion groups....
From the second sentence - that's right, that's the one straight after the first full stop -
"Speakeasy even has a plan to allow this."
He wasn't asking about whether or not speakeasy allowed it, he already knew that they did - he was wanting to know if some other company would get pissed off at him, and I echo the sentiments of the original poster - what on earth would lead anyone to even think that sharing a 6Mb/s DSL line over wireless was going to cause any provider to even so much as lift a pen in his direction? If they were to go after anyone, it'd be Speakeasy for offering a plan that allowed it.
From what I understand, the main thing that differentiates RISC from CISC is that CISC code goes through a translation layer in the CPU, wheras with RISC the opcodes you use are exactly what gets executed by the CPU - thus reducing complexity within the processor, and pushing it up to a higher level (the compiler).
The comments of those saying that in x86 the instruction set gets translated to a RISC like one by the CPU are basically proving the point that the x86 archetecture is very definitely CISC.
I have no idea whether or not PPC has a translation layer, but I wouldn't say that the existence of SIMD extensions alone disqualify it from being RISC.....
However, you're right - RISC vs CISC is pretty much irrelevant these days....
you're confusing a side effect of the license with the spirit of the license.
The difference between the GPL and BSD licenses is that the GPL enforces the spirit, that doesn't mean that BSD doesn't have the spirit of freely available and shareable code at its heart.
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Yes it's a spelling mistake, but it's a spelling mistake of a slur.
It was meant to be Windoze, but I'd guess that the submitter was from a non US country, and being stupid enough to think that Windoze is funny, was also stupid enough to not realise that it's only the -ise words in which we use 's' not 'z'.
The thing that bugs me the most about a lot of the people that complain about a Free Software alternatve to a commerical program not being an effective replacement, is that often those people have not actually _paid_ for the commerical software that they say is so much better.
Those that have forked over $1000+ for specialised proprietry software (Photoshop, Cubase etc) are the ones that have the right to say the features of the Free Software replacements are not up to scratch.
Those who are using warezed versions and have no intention of ever purchasing the software, but say that the Gimp is no Photoshop aren't helping the cause, and show that they have no real interest in advancing the state of Free Software - they just want to get everything for nothing.
A protest in PARIS, in 2000?
what exactly would that have to do with _anything_ in San Francisco in 2005?
A track on disc 2 of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma - "Several Species of Small Fury Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"
It also manages to sound exactly like the title says....heh
Aye! A roar he cried frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall but as dead, dead as 'a can be by his feet; de ya ken?
Yup, should definitely be GWAPict
SSOSFAGTIACAGWAPict to be precise...
That's nothing, I can show you a write only device with _infinite_ storage!
/dev/null
hence why I added the word "here" to my post.
GPRS in Australia is charged at about 2c per k, with a 20c flagfall.
And for that, you get less than modem speed (20 - 40kbps).
I would love to get 150k, and whilst flat rate would be great I'd be willing to pay the same as metered broadband - ~10c per meg.
However, the two main telcos here have pretty much killed mobile internet through their pricing.
did you even _read_ that link?
1Ki is 1024
1k is 1000
a standard unit, or multiplier cannot vary "depending on context", or it is worthless.
Hence the creation of Ki, Mi, Gi, etc to avoid confusion.
Now we just need to get people to _use_ them....
I'd say definitely endianness...
./testtime.pl
stuart@sparky:~>
Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
stuart@sparky:~> uname -a
SunOS sparky 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
stuart@sparky:~> perl -v
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris
Bluetooth is _way_ too slow, and GPRS/WAP too slow and too expensive...(it's in the cents per KILObyte range here). I don't have any experience with 3G, but that might be a little more useful...
> But Wifi is useless because I need to be within a few dozen feet of an open access point, which is only a few dozen feet from a USB port.
that's a pretty valid point, but as wireless networks become more common, and once they get WEP or WPA on the camera it may be more useful.
I guess they've got to start somewhere...
> This would be just as news-worthy as hearing about the last vinyl LP plant closing or the last floppy disk going off the assembly line.
Yes, yes it is, what's your point?
The X selection buffer will work in _every_ X application, and always has.
The other type of clipboard is supported in all the major applications.
Whilst it's true that *nix (why do people always single out Linux?) desktops can be inconsistent, they are generally far more consistent than windows already, and with continuing cooperation between the major desktops and major standalone apps like Openoffice.org, the situation will improve all the time.
Also cringing at the output from free is silly.
The fact that a lot of memory is being "sucked up" is a feature, not a bug.
On my laptop free tells me that 500 meg of memory is used (after subtracting buffers and cache).
Now I could rant about how ridiculous it was that KDE was using 500meg of memory, and how therefore bloated it was, or I could stop and think for a second, and realise that there's no way it could possibly _require_ that much memory, especially since I know it runs fine on my PII with only 128meg.
Instead, I'd say that applications are oportunistically grabbing as much memory as they can, and are _using_ it to improve performance.
Afterall, what good are "lean" applications, that use only a couple of meg of memory, but have to keep moving stuff to and from disk to keep the footprint down, whilst the whole time you have a gig or two of memory sitting there, doing nothing?
It's like people complaining about the only program that's running using 100% of the cpu - it's SUPPOSED to, anything less would be inefficient.
And yes, I'm sure TVTWM was very fast, but it doesn't really do the same things that KDE does, does it? Whether or not the speed / footprint / functionality tradeoff is worth it is another matter, and difficult or impossible to measure objectively - but for me, it's fine.
There is more than enough food in the world to stamp out hunger already. The problem is not an economic one.
Space exploration _does_ better education and society, through a better understanding of the universe.
Better education and understanding of the universe then has a flow on effect towards better health and stamping out hunger.
A couple of things...
Firstly, It's Linux, not LINUX.
Secondly, "Linux" doesn't want to do anything, it's just an operating system, not an organisation.
Maybe some people want it to do things, but that's not the same thing at all.
Also, nVidia seem to have had no problem consistently supporting Linux for quite a few years now - every year comes a bunch of video cards, and Linux drivers are right there on the web site.
I suspect it's an inner part of a loop - something like
for(Iterator iter = p.getMods(); iter.hasNext();) {
mod = iter.next();
if((badTaste(p) && mod.troll)||(illFormedOpinion(p)) && mod.flamebait)) {
markUnfair(mod);
}
}
(excuse the pseudo java)
just LOOK at the bloody product page - it's a tool for companies to use to communicate with their customers. It has no functions for aquiring email addresses from anyone except people that have sent emails to them already, and for importing existing lists.
Other than that it has standard mailing list features, automated subscription management, confirmed opt in, and yes, optionally confirmed opt out - which I see as a bonus, If I'm on a mailing list I wanted to be on, I'd like to think that I'd get a confirmation email when I unsubscribed.
Sure, a spammer could use this software - but they could also use majordommo, mailman, and all the other Free Software mailing list management programmes out there.
Give the guy a break.
It is not spam friendly software in any way shape or form.
It would be easier to start spamming with a hand written bash script than to pay money for this...
You want spamming software - here's spamming software!
#!/bin/sh
for addr in `cat mailinglist`
do
sendmail $addr < spam.txt
done
It's a mailing list management software - exactly like the sort of thing that manages mailing lists for free software projects all over the world, except that it's windows based.
There are no spam friendly features at all that I can see, unless you happen to think that communications from web sites you've registered with are spam, in which case, you've got bigger problems.
It really isn't any more of a spamming tool than mailman or majordomo is. Take a look at the features - double opt in, subscription management, discussion groups....
thanks! (from someone a little bit further away than California)
what the hell is a tater tot anyway?
Celeron is just a disabled version of the Pentium II, III, and 4 - with less cache and slower FSB.
did you even READ the summary?
From the second sentence - that's right, that's the one straight after the first full stop -
"Speakeasy even has a plan to allow this."
He wasn't asking about whether or not speakeasy allowed it, he already knew that they did - he was wanting to know if some other company would get pissed off at him, and I echo the sentiments of the original poster - what on earth would lead anyone to even think that sharing a 6Mb/s DSL line over wireless was going to cause any provider to even so much as lift a pen in his direction?
If they were to go after anyone, it'd be Speakeasy for offering a plan that allowed it.
From what I understand, the main thing that differentiates RISC from CISC is that CISC code goes through a translation layer in the CPU, wheras with RISC the opcodes you use are exactly what gets executed by the CPU - thus reducing complexity within the processor, and pushing it up to a higher level (the compiler).
The comments of those saying that in x86 the instruction set gets translated to a RISC like one by the CPU are basically proving the point that the x86 archetecture is very definitely CISC.
I have no idea whether or not PPC has a translation layer, but I wouldn't say that the existence of SIMD extensions alone disqualify it from being RISC.....
However, you're right - RISC vs CISC is pretty much irrelevant these days....
you're confusing a side effect of the license with the spirit of the license.
The difference between the GPL and BSD licenses is that the GPL enforces the spirit, that doesn't mean that BSD doesn't have the spirit of freely available and shareable code at its heart.
My guess is that someone in the right place at the right time typoed, or didn't read it properly.