In England, we have these gutless pedestrian crossings which are too scared to stop traffic if they detect cars approaching, so they wait until there's no traffic around and only then activate the pedestrian sequence.
MLdonkey! Wow - I really tried with that program which is a hackers wet dream in a lot of ways. I totally loved the idea of it ( I actually got it working but just couldn't cope with exactly what you describe) I use Limewire now because it IS documented and works like a charm (mostly) CUPS? The sonofabitch wont even start on my slackware 9.1 and I'm not going to even try sorting it. And I'm a programmer since 1982 and not completely clueless but life is too fucking short.
We still have crap like Kroupware, Kallery, Xouvert, and a GUI system that still requires you to configure mouse buttons and specs through an awful text file (as someone else succinctly put it, it's like answering essay questions).
I have to agree with most of that, unfortunately. We HAVE to sort the simple things out soon or we will be laughed out of town. Try getting my gnome to recognise a UK keyboard and then tell me linux is ready for the bigtime. Christ!
I do run linux exclusively but I'm starting to think seriously about freeBSD or something - is there anything? -else (home directory load = 6 seconds on my 1 meg duron - I've heard that on a cray, it's been done in 1.4 seconds, but I think maybe thats a myth)
No you are wrong. If anyone says "this UI is crap" then you had better listen (at least). I always assume nothing and let my family,friends, colleagues play around with any software I'm developing, and try to take on board as much as I can of their (often brutal assessments). Exactly right when you say the programmer knows how the thing works (hope so too) - the differance is between designing for others and hacking something for yourself.
Look I don't use windows and I have a fucking diploma in Java based apps for the net. Lots of it was good - a really revolutionary idea (re cross platform) and I thought it was just ahead of its time and that the hardware would catch up. Well the hardware HAS caught up and Java has become ever more bloated, sclerotic, almost. I'm running java apps right now (linux) and they are all noticably slower than any other apps I run. Just my experience.
No way. I can believe that - given certain conditions - a good compiler can optimise code better than an assembler (I believe it, but i've never seen it; I'm told that this is the case), but I cannot believe that an interpreter can. Maybe I'm living in the past. Please correct me.
Yes. I'm looking at python right now and it seems to offer at least as much as java with the speed bonus thrown in. Certainly it must be as portable as java and its a hell of lot easier to learn.
No it isn't. It sucks, big time. It is still to damn slow - ask anyone who runs a java app, christ, even the developers appologise for it ( see ed2k gui ).
I'm not sure it is totally ready - It compiles and boots first-off, sure, but there are some upgrades involved - some weird problems arise after it appears to run nice for a while (sound and cdr just pissed me off)
I tried 6.1 a month ago. It compiled fine. But I need a driver for my winmodem (no point in a netless machine is there?) which just isn't there yet. So I had to revert to 2.4. Dammit - I'm going to have to buy a real modem, aren't I?
Dead right.
I recently fixed a friends XP box. It was crwling with, literally, hundreds of viruses and worms - his email "victims" were getting seriously pissed-off with him constantly sending them the same crap. Of course, he didn't have a clue what was going on. Yahoo would tell him that this attachment may be dangerous and he would go ahead download it and click it anyway. He just didn't understand. His business associates were phoning hom daily to tell him to stop emailing them but he simply ignored them all. Until his machine just packed-up and died. Took me 2 days to revive it. (I took him off the net and he doesn't touch the computer anymore. Best thing all round, I think)
I seem to recall that the Observer suffered badly for its anti-Suez stance back in the 50s - in terms of circulation, at least. It was perceived as being unpatriotic by the braindead "my country, right or wrong" folk. (The majority, as I believe they're known.)
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In England, we have these gutless pedestrian crossings which are too scared to stop traffic if they detect cars approaching, so they wait until there's no traffic around and only then activate the pedestrian sequence.
And yet people are killed on them every week....
MLdonkey! Wow - I really tried with that program which is a hackers wet dream in a lot of ways. I totally loved the idea of it ( I actually got it working but just couldn't cope with exactly what you describe)
I use Limewire now because it IS documented and works like a charm (mostly)
CUPS? The sonofabitch wont even start on my slackware 9.1 and I'm not going to even try sorting it.
And I'm a programmer since 1982 and not completely clueless but life is too fucking short.
LOL. (LSD actually came from switzerland - but post still funny)
We still have crap like Kroupware, Kallery, Xouvert, and a GUI system that still requires you to configure mouse buttons and specs through an awful text file (as someone else succinctly put it, it's like answering essay questions).
I have to agree with most of that, unfortunately.
We HAVE to sort the simple things out soon or we will be laughed out of town. Try getting my gnome to recognise a UK keyboard and then tell me linux is ready for the bigtime. Christ!
I do run linux exclusively but I'm starting to think seriously about freeBSD or something - is there anything? -else
(home directory load = 6 seconds on my 1 meg duron - I've heard that on a cray, it's been done in 1.4 seconds, but I think maybe thats a myth)
No you are wrong. If anyone says "this UI is crap" then you had better listen (at least). I always assume nothing and let my family,friends, colleagues play around with any software I'm developing, and try to take on board as much as I can of their (often brutal assessments).
Exactly right when you say the programmer knows how the thing works (hope so too) - the differance is between designing for others and hacking something for yourself.
On the money (if you'll forgive the expression).
The market does drive out bad - but it also stifles a lot of creative input.
Look I don't use windows and I have a fucking diploma in Java based apps for the net. Lots of it was good - a really revolutionary idea (re cross platform) and I thought it was just ahead of its time and that the hardware would catch up. Well the hardware HAS caught up and Java has become ever more bloated, sclerotic, almost. I'm running java apps right now (linux) and they are all noticably slower than any other apps I run. Just my experience.
No way. I can believe that - given certain conditions - a good compiler can optimise code better than an assembler (I believe it, but i've never seen it; I'm told that this is the case), but I cannot believe that an interpreter can. Maybe I'm living in the past. Please correct me.
Yes. I'm looking at python right now and it seems to offer at least as much as java with the speed bonus thrown in. Certainly it must be as portable as java and its a hell of lot easier to learn.
No they're not. Not on ordinary machines they're not. they're slow as hell.
No it isn't. It sucks, big time. It is still to damn slow - ask anyone who runs a java app, christ, even the developers appologise for it ( see ed2k gui ).
I'm not sure it is totally ready - It compiles and boots first-off, sure, but there are some upgrades involved - some weird problems arise after it appears to run nice for a while (sound and cdr just pissed me off)
I tried 6.1 a month ago. It compiled fine. But I need a driver for my winmodem (no point in a netless machine is there?) which just isn't there yet. So I had to revert to 2.4. Dammit - I'm going to have to buy a real modem, aren't I?
Yeah? Well face it, Linux is the one true OS.
I hacked several functioning consumer electronic devices into fully-working doorstops?
Can't wait to not download it off edonkey.
I think poster was confused about the term "pseudo-random" (as opposed to genuinely random).
And it would be so easy. Imagine, 4 billion people, each issued with 300lb of rocks, all throwing them in the same direction simultaneously...
the Chinese?
Do you yankee devils think for one minute that the Chinese will allow a madmen gap to develop?
welcome our new asteroid overlords.
For fucks sake! ./ next.
This is the thin end of the wedge!
They'll be on
Goddammit!
I'd completely forgotten about Venus.
Dead right.
I recently fixed a friends XP box. It was crwling with, literally, hundreds of viruses and worms - his email "victims" were getting seriously pissed-off with him constantly sending them the same crap. Of course, he didn't have a clue what was going on. Yahoo would tell him that this attachment may be dangerous and he would go ahead download it and click it anyway. He just didn't understand. His business associates were phoning hom daily to tell him to stop emailing them but he simply ignored them all. Until his machine just packed-up and died.
Took me 2 days to revive it. (I took him off the net and he doesn't touch the computer anymore. Best thing all round, I think)
I seem to recall that the Observer suffered badly for its anti-Suez stance back in the 50s - in terms of circulation, at least. It was perceived as being unpatriotic by the braindead "my country, right or wrong" folk. (The majority, as I believe they're known.)
That realization eventually dawns on us all. The mass media is a soul-destroying vampire. Great post.