Because we don't want to pay for it if we won't use it... is that not a good enough reason? Or should we just tax the entire population of Earth for the cost of one license each since we are all "potential users."
Flight was mastered by looking at how birds fly and experimenting. So was medicine, math and every other complex system.
Oh baloney. There's no way you can convince me that medicine, math, and every other complex system was mastered "by looking at how birds fly and experimenting."
Oh wait... I forgot. Though shalt have one processor, x86.
Couldn't resist a little dig there. I'm still pissed that there are no strong-arm laptops because Microsoft can't get their shit together and write portable code:P After-all, "It doesn't run Windows so why build one?"
"No judge, we do not have an adverse effect on the industry. Just look at McAffee... they get to charge $16K a pop to plug up our Outlook holes. That's industry growth, by golly!"
Ummm, you do have to fight for your freedoms sometimes. To suppose otherwise is to ignore history. How do you think we got rid you bastards?
I don't even own a gun, I don't really like to have them around. But I think taking away citizens rights is never an answer to problems.
As far as the English being commies, I was just exaggerating the general trend of socialist "less freedom = more security" bullshit that has been on the lips of every Politically-Correct indoctrinated university student from here to Perth since Mao wrote his little red book.
I'm not ignorant of politics, history, or geography. I just happen to disagree with you. My use of the terms "Commies" and "Colonial shitheads" was tongue-in-cheek, but I guess it didn't come off that way.
America won't be truly free until the last gun nut is forced to give up their toys.
LOL. "free". Nice double-speak there... apparently your idea of freedom is similiar to Stalin's?
Too bad England is turning into a bunch of commies like the rest of Europe. And you guys used to be such bastards... whatever happened to the colonial shitheads we once loved
I am impressed with the amoun to f improvement since PR2. The UI is lightning fast even with the new "modern" skin in Win98 on a PII233 with 64MB. The menus all pop up instantly, and the HTML canvas scrolls smoothly.
This is just sweet! I'm one happy camper. Now, hopefully the linux version is just as good...
But he didn't do any of that stuff... he was just the boss. That's like saying the CEO of 3M is a great contributer to chemical engineering. Gates is merely a competent business man...
The problem with that is people like me who panic in situations like that.
I had been told I would have to solve some problems like that so I looked over my algorithms book to refresh my memory, got really into B*trees because a project I was working on could have really used a better tree algorithm, and forgot to look over anything else.
So I got asked to write a bubble sort, I started getting really nervous but I thought, "Well it's really easy you just go through and swap the out of order ones." SO I wrote it and turned it in.
It wasn't till I was driving home that I realized I had forgotten the outer loop... DOH!
The problem is, I know that I am a better programmer than most of the people that worked there who had probably just memorized those basic algorithms the night before.
I don't know... this may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it's natural, especially for males, to be somewhat fascinated by violence.
If you look at any group of little boys, it doesn't matter from what culture, I think you will find that most of them are prone to play at violence, the same as kittens or puppies who wrestle and play-bite each other.
This is probably just the result of "evolution". Fighting is a very important skill for a wild species and humans are hardly domesticated;) As a matter of fact, civilization only seems to make it worse, institutionalizing violence on a much grander scale and making it more impersonal .
Playing at violence is not a cause for worry IMHO. I'm not saying that kids should watch slasher movies, but as long as video games are relatively abstract I think they are OK for anyone tall enough to play them... perhaps some of them are too bloody and should be toned down a bit, I agree that it should be up to the parent(s) to make sure that their kids don't have access to games they find offensive.
I'll never forget the first time my son picked up a long straight stick, just after learning to walk. Instantly, with no example or encouragement from others, it was a spear to poke kittens with. It was not awkward for him at all, the proper balance and motion came more naturally than walking. (Of course, we pointed out that he might hurt the kittens and that he should poke leaves instead.) I remember thinking about the timescale of human existance and how we were simple hunters and gatherers for 99% of that time, and coming to the conclusion that "Underneath it all we're all just a bunch of spear-chucking barbarians".:)
What scares me is that some hardware is now shipping with a disclaimer stating that if you use your hardare on an OS other than Windows or MacOS, you could void your warranty.
LOL, how are they going to tell what OS you are using? "Hmmm, I smell herring on this sound card... it's that damn penguin! No refund for that Linux user."
I remember when I first took a programming class. We started with plain C, and I spent a lot of time cooking up my own projects because the ones we were assigned were too boring.
One morning, after getting about 5 hours of sleep because I coded too late, I had one of those half-asleep dreams where you know you're asleep but you can't wake up.
The alarm clock was blaring, but I couldn't turn it off because I was busy in my dream trying to get a pointer to it so I could access the snooze button...
I think RedHat "normal" is geared toward the casual user who will never compile anything, just install rpm's.
This is nice in theory, but everyone nedds to compile something sooner or later it seems... they should include the bare minimum for compiling a kernel, IMHO.
What makes you think he's a linux / Unix coder? He said he uses notepad and djgpp.
Personally, I've used VisualC++ and managed to make some pretty cool stuff easily, but now using linux I already have just about everything I need, and anything I need to program myself I can do in sh or perl with vim... but I'm not a professional programmer and my requirements are light.
I don't know enough about the "freedom" issues to have an opinion on whether this is a Good Thing yet, but an IDE from Borland sounds very useful for those of you who need to produce full-featured and native code GUI applications and don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of emacs/vim and GTK/Qt/Xlib.
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Because we don't want to pay for it if we won't use it... is that not a good enough reason? Or should we just tax the entire population of Earth for the cost of one license each since we are all "potential users."
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Flight was mastered by looking at how birds fly and experimenting. So was medicine, math and every other complex system.
Oh baloney. There's no way you can convince me that medicine, math, and every other complex system was mastered "by looking at how birds fly and experimenting."
; )
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Oh wait... I forgot. Though shalt have one processor, x86.
Couldn't resist a little dig there. I'm still pissed that there are no strong-arm laptops because Microsoft can't get their shit together and write portable code :P After-all, "It doesn't run Windows so why build one?"
"No judge, we do not have an adverse effect on the industry. Just look at McAffee... they get to charge $16K a pop to plug up our Outlook holes. That's industry growth, by golly!"
OK, I'm ranting... :P
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Ummm, you do have to fight for your freedoms sometimes. To suppose otherwise is to ignore history. How do you think we got rid you bastards?
I don't even own a gun, I don't really like to have them around. But I think taking away citizens rights is never an answer to problems.
As far as the English being commies, I was just exaggerating the general trend of socialist "less freedom = more security" bullshit that has been on the lips of every Politically-Correct indoctrinated university student from here to Perth since Mao wrote his little red book.
I'm not ignorant of politics, history, or geography. I just happen to disagree with you. My use of the terms "Commies" and "Colonial shitheads" was tongue-in-cheek, but I guess it didn't come off that way.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
America won't be truly free until the last gun nut is forced to give up their toys.
LOL. "free". Nice double-speak there... apparently your idea of freedom is similiar to Stalin's?
Too bad England is turning into a bunch of commies like the rest of Europe. And you guys used to be such bastards... whatever happened to the colonial shitheads we once loved
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
PR3 is working really well for me. Try it, you might be pleasantly suprised.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I am impressed with the amoun to f improvement since PR2. The UI is lightning fast even with the new "modern" skin in Win98 on a PII233 with 64MB. The menus all pop up instantly, and the HTML canvas scrolls smoothly.
This is just sweet! I'm one happy camper. Now, hopefully the linux version is just as good...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Oops. I meant to slashdot jwz :)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
worse is better.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
But he didn't do any of that stuff... he was just the boss. That's like saying the CEO of 3M is a great contributer to chemical engineering. Gates is merely a competent business man...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Oh crap! I've got to cut down!
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Yes it is extremely fast, even on my P166 / 32MB.
Kind of makes fools of people who insist that interpreted languages like lisp are always way too slow...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Yeah, twm is not bad, as long as you change those default colors, blech!
:)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
The problem with that is people like me who panic in situations like that.
I had been told I would have to solve some problems like that so I looked over my algorithms book to refresh my memory, got really into B*trees because a project I was working on could have really used a better tree algorithm, and forgot to look over anything else.
So I got asked to write a bubble sort, I started getting really nervous but I thought, "Well it's really easy you just go through and swap the out of order ones." SO I wrote it and turned it in.
It wasn't till I was driving home that I realized I had forgotten the outer loop... DOH!
The problem is, I know that I am a better programmer than most of the people that worked there who had probably just memorized those basic algorithms the night before.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I don't know... this may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it's natural, especially for males, to be somewhat fascinated by violence.
If you look at any group of little boys, it doesn't matter from what culture, I think you will find that most of them are prone to play at violence, the same as kittens or puppies who wrestle and play-bite each other.
This is probably just the result of "evolution". Fighting is a very important skill for a wild species and humans are hardly domesticated ;) As a matter of fact, civilization only seems to make it worse, institutionalizing violence on a much grander scale and making it more impersonal .
Playing at violence is not a cause for worry IMHO. I'm not saying that kids should watch slasher movies, but as long as video games are relatively abstract I think they are OK for anyone tall enough to play them... perhaps some of them are too bloody and should be toned down a bit, I agree that it should be up to the parent(s) to make sure that their kids don't have access to games they find offensive.
I'll never forget the first time my son picked up a long straight stick, just after learning to walk. Instantly, with no example or encouragement from others, it was a spear to poke kittens with. It was not awkward for him at all, the proper balance and motion came more naturally than walking. (Of course, we pointed out that he might hurt the kittens and that he should poke leaves instead.) I remember thinking about the timescale of human existance and how we were simple hunters and gatherers for 99% of that time, and coming to the conclusion that "Underneath it all we're all just a bunch of spear-chucking barbarians". :)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
What scares me is that some hardware is now shipping with a disclaimer stating that if you use your hardare on an OS other than Windows or MacOS, you could void your warranty.
LOL, how are they going to tell what OS you are using? "Hmmm, I smell herring on this sound card... it's that damn penguin! No refund for that Linux user."
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I remember when I first took a programming class. We started with plain C, and I spent a lot of time cooking up my own projects because the ones we were assigned were too boring.
One morning, after getting about 5 hours of sleep because I coded too late, I had one of those half-asleep dreams where you know you're asleep but you can't wake up.
The alarm clock was blaring, but I couldn't turn it off because I was busy in my dream trying to get a pointer to it so I could access the snooze button...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Yet they tend to over-generalize...
;^)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Jesus Mike, lighten up...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
OK that's it... I'm selling all my stuff and buying a one way ticket to Belize and a sheet of blotter acid.
:^)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
But everybody has MP3s.
I don't. <shrug>
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I think RedHat "normal" is geared toward the casual user who will never compile anything, just install rpm's.
This is nice in theory, but everyone nedds to compile something sooner or later it seems... they should include the bare minimum for compiling a kernel, IMHO.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
What makes you think he's a linux / Unix coder? He said he uses notepad and djgpp.
Personally, I've used VisualC++ and managed to make some pretty cool stuff easily, but now using linux I already have just about everything I need, and anything I need to program myself I can do in sh or perl with vim... but I'm not a professional programmer and my requirements are light.
I don't know enough about the "freedom" issues to have an opinion on whether this is a Good Thing yet, but an IDE from Borland sounds very useful for those of you who need to produce full-featured and native code GUI applications and don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of emacs/vim and GTK/Qt/Xlib.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
No need to be insulting... I did get A's in citizenship. *wink*
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
From dictionary.com
shat
v. Obscene A past tense and a past participle of shit.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"