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Re:Not very portable
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Let me know when it compiles out of the box on OpenBSD then I'll believe that it isn't a horrible product.
Not very portable? Consider the large numbers of basic architectural differences among Unix/X, Windows, MacOS, MacOS X, BeOS, and OS/2, and the fact that it compiles out of the box for all of them.
0.9.4 had released versions for Win32, Mac Classic, MacOS X, Linux, AIX, BeOS, Irix, OpenVMS, OS/2, HPUX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, and Tru64 Unix. That's fifteen operating systems, including multiple BSD variants.
The reason it isn't around for OpenBSD is that no OpenBSD person or group has bothered to get involved with Mozilla. That's fine, but it isn't a defect of Mozilla.
That statement in and of itself is an argument that "there's nothing intrinsically bad about people committing crimes or living in poverty" unless "the people" say there is. In which case, you are simply declaring majority rule/conformity the sole rule of an otherwise entirely relativistic morality.
Probably very few people using AOL would consider playing with *nix
Except, of course, for people who live where AOL is the only ISP within a local-call distance. For example, I have a cousin in rural Mississippi. His cable company doesn't offer access, the community has no local-call ISP, and DSL is unavailable (heck, the phone line was a party line as recently as 1989). His choices are AOL or paying for bidirectional satellite. So, when he wants to do something as simple as check his email, he has to shut down Linux and boot into Windows.
Didn't anyone notice that Open Source and Free software will be inherently incompatible with any RAND-covered standard, and thus will inevitably force a schism?
BTW, GTK is platform independant, in case you didn't know
Really? So there are now versions of GTK for the MacOS GUI, OS/2 WPS, NanoGUI, and Photon?
Or did "platform independent" recently get redefined to "Basically for one GUI platform, with ports to two others"? Because then MFCs are platform-independent, too.
We have 3,000 TW-years of known fossil fuel reserves. Assuming that we will never discover another ounce of fossil fuels form this date forward and a continuous increase in energy use at roughly the modern 2.6% per annum rate, that'll last us through ~2070.
Oh, and BTW, even the most extreme climate models don't predict global catastrophe if we begin a reduction of carbon emissions at the current increase rate beginning in, say, 2030. (Essentially all models assume a continuous rate of increase in carbon emissions in the 2030-2100 timeframe.)
So, yeah, we will have to make a leap to something else -- but in even the worst-case scenario, we've got thirty years to keep developing tech.
Real vodka *is* grain derived. Vodka was being made in Europe long before the potato was imported from Peru during the Columbian Exchange. Potato vodka is the abberation, and shouldn't really be called vodka at all.
Re:And the key to cutting the cost would be ..
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Actually, when it was first invented, it was called duck tape -- because it was water resistant ("water rolls off it just like off a duck's back"). The name later metamorphosed into duct tape -- but now there's Duck Tape brand duct tape...
Panama was invaded nine years before the lease expired. The U.S. troops were openly welcomed by the Panamanian people, the U.S. troops left after a democratic governement was established, and the canal was turned over to Panama on schedule. There are no U.S. troops today in a democratic Panama that has soverign control over the Canal.
The U.S. has done a lot of objectionable things in Latin America. The Panama coup de main in 1990 was not one of them.
Actually, there's a whole school of laissez-faire economists that assume that people are not completely rational and are not completely informed. They then demonstrate how the same conditions apply to anyone trying to intervene in the economy, and how the ill-informed and irrational acts of intervention by government do more and longer-lasting damage than the collective irrational and ill-informed acts of economics by private interests.
BTW, anybody remember why IBM could not by exclusive rights to PC DOS from Microsoft in the first place? A government-imposed consent decree during the long DoJ prosecution of IBM.
The "labor theory of value", held by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx, is generally discredited among modern economic schools of thought, because it doesn't reflect the real world accurately.
The U.S. is not, has never been, and was never designed to be even a representative democracy. It is, always has been, and was designed to be a constitutional republic with institutions ranging from appointive to fully democratic, and has increased its democratic content over the years through amendment.
For example, state-set property qualifications to vote are still constitutional; the State of Washington could legally limit the right to vote for members of the more numerous branch of its state legislature to persons with assets of at least $1,000,000,000. If it did so, the same property qualifications would also apply to all Congressional elections held in the state. The state can also set whatever method it likes for choosing electors for the Electoral College; it could limit their election to the same persons.
But let's get even more narrow. Can a government be called democratic if the people of Wyoming have votes that count 60 times more than those of Californians and infinitely more times than those of the people of Washington D.C.? Because that's what the Senate does...
The invasion was a gambit. After Palpatine/Sidious gained his political objectives in the Senate, Sidious/Palpatine would have had to order a retreat anyway, to consolidate his political position. Nobody was really in danger from the Trade Federation; it was merely a "phantom menace" used to pave Palpatine/Sidious's path to power.
A new desktop version just shipped July 30th. Serenity Systems licensed the version 5 code, and has released it as eComStation. $140 to upgrade from Warp 4.
I still have the personal edition BeOS 5 on my machine. It doesn't recognize my sound card, which is on the BeOS-ready list, no matter what I've done to get it working (and I've had lots of advice on the topic from helpful memebers of the Be community).
Remember, Be tried to give BeOS away to OEMs (back in version 4.5), and nobody took them up on the offer. If OEMs aren't willing to load it for free, what good would it do AOLTW to have it?
OS/2 would be a better choice for the high degree of Win32 API support added by Project Odin; selling OEMs on an OS that has a decent productivity suite (SmartSuite), the ability to run at least some Win32 programs as native programs, and is easy for Windows developers to port to/cross-develop for would be easier than selling them on BeOS. You might be able to give away free copies of OS/2 to supercheap-end OEMs.
Please note the version number -- 0.9.3 If this were a problem upgrading from 1.x.y to 1.x.z, that would be a valid criticism. But people who play with beta software should expect to have to deal with some rough edges.
Daimler-Benz and Chrysler were both rather marginal auto companies that got their main revenue from selling adequate-and-cheaper vehicles in one of the three global markets (Europe, North America, and Japan). They merged roughly 55/45 so that their larger adequate-and-cheaper market competitors (GM, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Ford) wouldn't drive them out of buisness. Steven E. Ehrbar
GR is believed to be wrong. That's why we've been trying to discover the Higgs Scalar Boson, among other things, so we can figure out exactly how it is wrong and what should replace it. Steven E. Ehrbar
Yes, odds are it will be an Intel, but AMD is looking like it's going to have 30% marketshare this year.
And the difference in processors doesn't change what you can do with the computer (while things like changing OS does). The better analogy here is Dell beating Compaq which beat IBM.
Even the suits listen when you say "This runs everything the Intel does, as well as the Intel does, for less" enough times Steven E. Ehrbar
However, Protozilla is a powerful, externally-developed add-on that solves the problem and allows you to do lots of other stuff.
It's unlikely (read: not going) to get added before 1.0, but the author of Protozilla has hopes of getting Protozilla added as a standard part of Mozilla at some point (read: when he can convince the guy who'd be in charge of adding it to add it). Steven E. Ehrbar
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PIN number = Personal Identification Number number
ATM machine = Automatic Teller Machine machine.
Let me know when it compiles out of the box on OpenBSD then I'll believe that it isn't a horrible product.
Not very portable? Consider the large numbers of basic architectural differences among Unix/X, Windows, MacOS, MacOS X, BeOS, and OS/2, and the fact that it compiles out of the box for all of them.
0.9.4 had released versions for Win32, Mac Classic, MacOS X, Linux, AIX, BeOS, Irix, OpenVMS, OS/2, HPUX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, and Tru64 Unix. That's fifteen operating systems, including multiple BSD variants.
The reason it isn't around for OpenBSD is that no OpenBSD person or group has bothered to get involved with Mozilla. That's fine, but it isn't a defect of Mozilla.
Who defines what is "good for society"?
The people - that's who.
That statement in and of itself is an argument that "there's nothing intrinsically bad about people committing crimes or living in poverty" unless "the people" say there is. In which case, you are simply declaring majority rule/conformity the sole rule of an otherwise entirely relativistic morality.
Probably very few people using AOL would consider playing with *nix
Except, of course, for people who live where AOL is the only ISP within a local-call distance. For example, I have a cousin in rural Mississippi. His cable company doesn't offer access, the community has no local-call ISP, and DSL is unavailable (heck, the phone line was a party line as recently as 1989). His choices are AOL or paying for bidirectional satellite. So, when he wants to do something as simple as check his email, he has to shut down Linux and boot into Windows.
Didn't anyone notice that Open Source and Free software will be inherently incompatible with any RAND-covered standard, and thus will inevitably force a schism?
BTW, GTK is platform independant, in case you didn't know
Really? So there are now versions of GTK for the MacOS GUI, OS/2 WPS, NanoGUI, and Photon?
Or did "platform independent" recently get redefined to "Basically for one GUI platform, with ports to two others"? Because then MFCs are platform-independent, too.
Fossil fuels simply are not going to last.
We have 3,000 TW-years of known fossil fuel reserves. Assuming that we will never discover another ounce of fossil fuels form this date forward and a continuous increase in energy use at roughly the modern 2.6% per annum rate, that'll last us through ~2070.
Oh, and BTW, even the most extreme climate models don't predict global catastrophe if we begin a reduction of carbon emissions at the current increase rate beginning in, say, 2030. (Essentially all models assume a continuous rate of increase in carbon emissions in the 2030-2100 timeframe.)
So, yeah, we will have to make a leap to something else -- but in even the worst-case scenario, we've got thirty years to keep developing tech.
Real vodka *is* grain derived. Vodka was being made in Europe long before the potato was imported from Peru during the Columbian Exchange. Potato vodka is the abberation, and shouldn't really be called vodka at all.
Actually, when it was first invented, it was called duck tape -- because it was water resistant ("water rolls off it just like off a duck's back"). The name later metamorphosed into duct tape -- but now there's Duck Tape brand duct tape...
Yes, Slashdot sucks, it's been going downhill for two years.
Oh, puh-leez! Slashdot's not any worse today than it was in 1998, 1999, or 2000.
Panama was invaded nine years before the lease expired. The U.S. troops were openly welcomed by the Panamanian people, the U.S. troops left after a democratic governement was established, and the canal was turned over to Panama on schedule. There are no U.S. troops today in a democratic Panama that has soverign control over the Canal.
The U.S. has done a lot of objectionable things in Latin America. The Panama coup de main in 1990 was not one of them.
Actually, there's a whole school of laissez-faire economists that assume that people are not completely rational and are not completely informed. They then demonstrate how the same conditions apply to anyone trying to intervene in the economy, and how the ill-informed and irrational acts of intervention by government do more and longer-lasting damage than the collective irrational and ill-informed acts of economics by private interests.
BTW, anybody remember why IBM could not by exclusive rights to PC DOS from Microsoft in the first place? A government-imposed consent decree during the long DoJ prosecution of IBM.
The "labor theory of value", held by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx, is generally discredited among modern economic schools of thought, because it doesn't reflect the real world accurately.
The U.S. is not, has never been, and was never designed to be even a representative democracy. It is, always has been, and was designed to be a constitutional republic with institutions ranging from appointive to fully democratic, and has increased its democratic content over the years through amendment.
For example, state-set property qualifications to vote are still constitutional; the State of Washington could legally limit the right to vote for members of the more numerous branch of its state legislature to persons with assets of at least $1,000,000,000. If it did so, the same property qualifications would also apply to all Congressional elections held in the state. The state can also set whatever method it likes for choosing electors for the Electoral College; it could limit their election to the same persons.
But let's get even more narrow. Can a government be called democratic if the people of Wyoming have votes that count 60 times more than those of Californians and infinitely more times than those of the people of Washington D.C.? Because that's what the Senate does...
If you think America is a democracy, think again.
Of course not. We never were supposed to be one and we've never been one, either, despite the brainwashing that you got as a child.
The invasion was a gambit. After Palpatine/Sidious gained his political objectives in the Senate, Sidious/Palpatine would have had to order a retreat anyway, to consolidate his political position. Nobody was really in danger from the Trade Federation; it was merely a "phantom menace" used to pave Palpatine/Sidious's path to power.
I used to love OS/2 also.
A new desktop version just shipped July 30th. Serenity Systems licensed the version 5 code, and has released it as eComStation. $140 to upgrade from Warp 4.
I still have the personal edition BeOS 5 on my machine. It doesn't recognize my sound card, which is on the BeOS-ready list, no matter what I've done to get it working (and I've had lots of advice on the topic from helpful memebers of the Be community).
Guess why I never bothered buying Professional?
Be couldn't get OEMs to preload BeOS r4.5 for free. What good would it do AOL-TW? "We'll give you ten bucks a copy to preload our OS?"
Remember, Be tried to give BeOS away to OEMs (back in version 4.5), and nobody took them up on the offer. If OEMs aren't willing to load it for free, what good would it do AOLTW to have it?
OS/2 would be a better choice for the high degree of Win32 API support added by Project Odin; selling OEMs on an OS that has a decent productivity suite (SmartSuite), the ability to run at least some Win32 programs as native programs, and is easy for Windows developers to port to/cross-develop for would be easier than selling them on BeOS. You might be able to give away free copies of OS/2 to supercheap-end OEMs.
Please note the version number -- 0.9.3 If this were a problem upgrading from 1.x.y to 1.x.z, that would be a valid criticism. But people who play with beta software should expect to have to deal with some rough edges.
Daimler-Benz and Chrysler were both rather marginal auto companies that got their main revenue from selling adequate-and-cheaper vehicles in one of the three global markets (Europe, North America, and Japan). They merged roughly 55/45 so that their larger adequate-and-cheaper market competitors (GM, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Ford) wouldn't drive them out of buisness.
Steven E. Ehrbar
GR is believed to be wrong. That's why we've been trying to discover the Higgs Scalar Boson, among other things, so we can figure out exactly how it is wrong and what should replace it.
Steven E. Ehrbar
Yes, odds are it will be an Intel, but AMD is looking like it's going to have 30% marketshare this year.
And the difference in processors doesn't change what you can do with the computer (while things like changing OS does). The better analogy here is Dell beating Compaq which beat IBM.
Even the suits listen when you say "This runs everything the Intel does, as well as the Intel does, for less" enough times
Steven E. Ehrbar
Probably.
However, Protozilla is a powerful, externally-developed add-on that solves the problem and allows you to do lots of other stuff.
It's unlikely (read: not going) to get added before 1.0, but the author of Protozilla has hopes of getting Protozilla added as a standard part of Mozilla at some point (read: when he can convince the guy who'd be in charge of adding it to add it).
Steven E. Ehrbar