Have a couple of beers in the sun, go for a walk, read a book. This is the same thing as we see in school rooms, workplace coffee rooms, irc channels and web forums like this one.
When you have a load of people in close proximity sooner or later someone's going to get pissed off with someone else. The group will probably polarise into two fractions and things will just go down hill.
* Yarn goes to loaf around in the sun with a drink.
It varies from place to place. Titan computers in Exeter suprised me when I walked past once. In their shop window they had BeOS, Linux and Windows running on their top of the range machines, so I popped in to have a chat and the showed off QNX as well.
Better than another shop wher I asked for a 3dfx card and they got some lame 3d animation software out... I left hurriedly.
I admit there is some coolness factor in having a dvd play while you're on irc or something, but having seen pc based decoding and a standalone machine, you get a more immersive feeling when you dont have to be distracted by the occasional mouse pointer, or the chuntering of hard drives. Not to mention the eternal humming noise of your average PC's overloaded fans.
Even worse, when the damn screensaver kicks in just as the hero is about to do something dangerous/sensuous.
So, what are people's preferences, and reasons for them?
I tried to read the patent, and I just couldnt. If someone has to read stuff like this for their job I can imagine it causes great mental damage, possibly enough for them to allow these things to be patented. God, its awful, I've seen random number generators output stuff that makes more sense.
My impression of what happens with a Mozilla milestone is that they start working on the next milestone even before the last is finalised. So although these nightly builds are aimed towards M16, it doesnt mean they are the actual milestone.
If it doesnt say on the Mozilla release page, its probably not released.
to link that webserver on a chip with this potato power concept. A whole computer isnt going to last too long just of tatties, whereas one of those process controllers takes basically ziltch power. Relatively.
I've wanted a unified configuration system for a long time, the trouble is, anything sufficently flexable to deal with every app out there, is also going to be complete overkill for most other apps.
XML may be a reasonable compromise, but its very verbose. I'm sure WindowMaker used some preference storage system, but I cant find any info on it at the moment. I know some people who'd like to use LDAP to store config stuff, I'm not sure if they're joking or not, I've not used ldap.
As for the migration nightmare, I dont think it'd be that bad. I didnt find the glibc transition any problem (thanks debian) except for some motif libs.
I can also think back the the a.out -> elf transition, which wasnt so fun.
Maybe a library based off libxml, if its good, people will use it.
I'm not sure whats funnier, the post or the mis-moderation:)
Wonder what'll happen in meta-mod. It deserved to be moderated up, but it got the wrong tag applied. I think we should just have +1, or -1 moderation, otherwise its just confusing these poor people.
You could look at it that way, or you could realise that oxford students got into oxford because of their upbringing, and cambridge got in because they're actually intelligent.
This is hilarious. I'm an op on #quake. If you ask for help there is a/small/ chance that someone will help. There is a large chance that you'll be riduculed and/or tricked.
Asking for illegal copies of quake etc will get you hounded mercylessly, tricked then banned.
Its not quite as true with computing problems. You can generally continue them on faster hardware, and with ones that hard you'd often find a way of parallelising them. So you'd start today, eta 2006, then add on your superathlon3 or whatever and have an eta 2004. etc.
Of course, you could just use the superathlon3 to play quake/n/ on while you wait:)
I dont see any mention of data aquistition. Is it just going to be carrying the standard picture of people with no clothes, or will it actually have some active components to phone home? I wonder if they could use the sail as a large antenna...
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you give us a bad reputation. bah on you.
Adding GNU to the beginning doesnt mean its made by the FSF. eg: gnuplot.
I could make a program to manage gnu breeding, and call it gnusex, doesnt mean it runs on linux, has open source, or was made by RMS.
TrollMark: 1/10
and is not open source. There are some open source clones, and I suspect these will not be affected.
so nyah!
TrollMark: 3/10
Have a couple of beers in the sun, go for a walk, read a book. This is the same thing as we see in school rooms, workplace coffee rooms, irc channels and web forums like this one.
When you have a load of people in close proximity sooner or later someone's going to get pissed off with someone else. The group will probably polarise into two fractions and things will just go down hill.
* Yarn goes to loaf around in the sun with a drink.
It varies from place to place. Titan computers in Exeter suprised me when I walked past once. In their shop window they had BeOS, Linux and Windows running on their top of the range machines, so I popped in to have a chat and the showed off QNX as well.
Better than another shop wher I asked for a 3dfx card and they got some lame 3d animation software out... I left hurriedly.
shoulda previewed. bah!
I admit there is some coolness factor in having a dvd play while you're on irc or something, but having seen pc based decoding and a standalone machine, you get a more immersive feeling when you dont have to be distracted by the occasional mouse pointer, or the chuntering of hard drives. Not to mention the eternal humming noise of your average PC's overloaded fans.
Even worse, when the damn screensaver kicks in just as the hero is about to do something dangerous/sensuous.
So, what are people's preferences, and reasons for them?
I dont know where you'd get a liscense for this, but surface waves (across the sea) can carry huge distances.
I tried to read the patent, and I just couldnt. If someone has to read stuff like this for their job I can imagine it causes great mental damage, possibly enough for them to allow these things to be patented. God, its awful, I've seen random number generators output stuff that makes more sense.
if you're lucky, and its 64bit clean, you can just ./configure ; make ; make install
Otherwise you have a few hoops to jump through.
C is famous for its crossplatform abilities.
I wasnt aware the elite *code* was released, I know Ian Bell has all the old versions availible for download, with links to emulators.
:)
I expect the source is ASM anyway, not much use to me
That more than triples the filesize!
/etc/group, but imagine it on things like the termcap/printcap/fontcap databases.
Not a huge effect on
I also would be *strongly* against having it in kernel space. Thats not what the kernel's meant to be handling.
My impression of what happens with a Mozilla milestone is that they start working on the next milestone even before the last is finalised. So although these nightly builds are aimed towards M16, it doesnt mean they are the actual milestone.
If it doesnt say on the Mozilla release page, its probably not released.
to link that webserver on a chip with this potato power concept. A whole computer isnt going to last too long just of tatties, whereas one of those process controllers takes basically ziltch power. Relatively.
I wasnt bragging. I got b/b/b/b for my a-levels, and I'm going for a PhD. Finals await.
I've wanted a unified configuration system for a long time, the trouble is, anything sufficently flexable to deal with every app out there, is also going to be complete overkill for most other apps.
XML may be a reasonable compromise, but its very verbose. I'm sure WindowMaker used some preference storage system, but I cant find any info on it at the moment. I know some people who'd like to use LDAP to store config stuff, I'm not sure if they're joking or not, I've not used ldap.
As for the migration nightmare, I dont think it'd be that bad. I didnt find the glibc transition any problem (thanks debian) except for some motif libs.
I can also think back the the a.out -> elf transition, which wasnt so fun.
Maybe a library based off libxml, if its good, people will use it.
I'm not sure whats funnier, the post or the mis-moderation :)
Wonder what'll happen in meta-mod. It deserved to be moderated up, but it got the wrong tag applied. I think we should just have +1, or -1 moderation, otherwise its just confusing these poor people.
You could look at it that way, or you could realise that oxford students got into oxford because of their upbringing, and cambridge got in because they're actually intelligent.
(I'm at Exeter, heh)
Um, no. The first foundation is on terminus, the second is on trantor.
a modern replacement to Elite!
I've been following it for quite some time, to be honest I dont *care* what it runs under, as long as its fun.
* Goes to check release dates etc *
This is hilarious. I'm an op on #quake. If you ask for help there is a /small/ chance that someone will help. There is a large chance that you'll be riduculed and/or tricked.
Asking for illegal copies of quake etc will get you hounded mercylessly, tricked then banned.
Not soon enough if you ask me. I'm dieing for this game. I've run out of screenshots/movies/etc to look at, I just want to *play* it.
I want black & white too.
(I promise i wont play it too much until after my exams)
If I were them I'd not unfurl the sail until the device was out of the ecliptic or outside jupiter.
You still have to go through the Kuiper belt though.
Its not quite as true with computing problems. You can generally continue them on faster hardware, and with ones that hard you'd often find a way of parallelising them. So you'd start today, eta 2006, then add on your superathlon3 or whatever and have an eta 2004. etc.
:)
Of course, you could just use the superathlon3 to play quake/n/ on while you wait
I dont see any mention of data aquistition. Is it just going to be carrying the standard picture of people with no clothes, or will it actually have some active components to phone home? I wonder if they could use the sail as a large antenna...