Agreed - they probably are unlikely to bother with many hardware platforms. I'm just pointing out that this is no different from native Linux closed-source apps, such as Skype (the Linux version is a QT application, distributed only as an x86 binary).
Basically if you can run Wine on your computer then you can run Winelib. But the converse is not true. You can also build Winelib and Winelib applications on platforms not supported by Wine, typically platforms with a non i386 processor. But this is still pretty much uncharted territory. It would be more reasonable to target one of the more mundane i386-based platforms first.
This is not the WINE you have used, which allows run-time compatibility for Windows binaries (which are of course only available for x86, because Windows is only available for x86). They are not about to distribute Windows exe executables with a WINE wrapper script.
They will probably use winelib or similar. They will have source code, compilable under Linux, which links to the winelib library (a library for Unix which provides the WINE API, a clone of the Win32 API). When they compile this code using GCC or whatever they like, they will get a normal Linux binary. There will be no Microsoft code for x86 only used or depended upon.
They should be able to compile this source code on any hardware architecture they choose (assuming they haven't assumed size of variables, etc.: the same stuff that trips up native ports).
And Google doesn't even use the native Windows GUI look in Windows, so it's not going to look like some Windows 98 rubbish.
There are many parasites/diseases which cause interesting self-destructive tendencies in the host which take the parasite to the next stage in it's life-cycle.
Rabies causes extreme aggression in most mammals, causing them to infect another host by biting. There is a parasitic worm which causes grasshoppers to jump into water, where the worm's larvae have to live.
This is exceptional because the wasp's stinger is actually inserted into a precise area of the brain of the victim, and because the wasp can actually steer the victim by stimulating it's antennae (I believe the same system has been tested on cockroaches by humans; they move away from the stimulated side by a protective reflex). Your ant parasite almost certainly doesn't have a sufficiently advance neural system to actually guide the ant upwards, rather it probably induces this behaviour by chemically triggering some signal the ant would use for more useful behaviour, the same way rabies causes dogs to pass on saliva by becoming aggressive.
It makes me wonder... Why are IPv4 addresses expressed in decimal? If they were written in hexadecimal, no random aa.bb.cc.dd string would be invalid, i.e. the address space would fit neatly into the available numbers.
That's a good idea. Slashdot is full of techy people with nothing to do, and dupes mean we have nothing to talk about. If everyone decides that dupes are for computer help, we could make Slashdot useful!
Whatever happened to the obvious compromise between power and ease of use? I refer of course to the practise of having a button somewhere around the bottom right of the dialogue with "Advanced >>" written on it.
You can have all the common options for dummies in the standard view, and all the geeky stuff for Slashdot readers and Linus available at the press of a button. Gnome really is being silly on this issue. KDE and Windows both do this a lot, so it's not like they can have not though of it.
Watch I, Robot. It's got to be worse. The hero talks at length about how nice his shoes are (I forget the brand). He shows another character how his JVC stereo works. Again this takes a couple of minutes. The car could have been done subtly, but it wasn't. They kept showing it at angles where the Audi logo on the front was prominent, and showed off it's fictional performance in a long, bad CG chase. For each of these I could see it had to be product placement before I read anywhere about how infamous the film was for it.
Added to the fact that it's an idiotic action movie that's hardly based on the though-provoking book that the producers bought the rights to, and you have a really bad film.
DNA is pretty fragile. Think about what comparatively low-level ionising radiation will do over a few years, for example. The background radiation alone would probably have totally wiped out the information in the first few million years. And that's without taking into account the extreme heat and pressure, which would probably destroy the genetic information from a freshly dead animal in hours. Consider that even the toughest molecules in the animals' bodies have been reduced to a mess of carbon and hydrogen and then reassembled into hydrocarbons.
If the KT event shows up in the fossil record after 65M years, our mass extinctions will too. If anything, ours will look more sudden and extreme.
Also, we have nearly drained many large oilfields. Most of the oil came from the Carboniferous, which ended 299M years ago. It's not going to replenish quickly
If there is an intelligence on this planet to equal ours in the next 500M years, their geologists and paleontologists will notice something odd happened around now. I wonder what theories they'll think of to account for oil existing in only the most inaccessible places on the planet (e.g. deep sea)?
1) Mozilla staff don't have the specific expertise about each distro.
2) Firefox is bigger than these distros now anyway. It's up to them to support Firefox, not the other way around. Is anyone going to be unable to run it because their distro doesn't have it?
3) Almost all big projects and many smaller projects expect the distributors to package it. This is normal.
Try kuake (http://www.nemohackers.org/kuake.php) if you use KDE (there are similar apps out there for other desktops). It's a terminal emulator which lowers on a keyboard shortcut like the console in Quake. It saves me a lot of time which I used to spend opening and closing xterms. I keep a screen session in it normally.
Automation: it will save you time if you add a directory owned by you to the path so you don't have to keep typing your root password to add scripts. 'export PATH="${PATH}:/home//bin"` in your.bashrc works well.
Well, you could always put it at the end as a sort of manual sig. Only people like me with the -- separator turned on will notice (no I didn't register my account since that came in as default - I turned it on.
Is your sig intended as part of a Google bomb? If so, it won't work. Google doesn't index Slashdot sigs, because non-logged in visitors don't see them. You might want to paste the sig in every time or something like that.
Quake 2 is indeed still pretty good. Have you tried Qmax by Icculus? I don't know if it runs on windows, but it's basically the original Quake II with some graphics improved, most noticeably things like the pistol's shot, bullet hit's wall effects and blood, which look like they're made of little dots in the original. Also, explosions look much better (they looked like little pre-animated mushroom clouds before), and leave black marks on walls and floors (there are also red blood marks on walls). They made some levels too dark though.
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Agreed - they probably are unlikely to bother with many hardware platforms. I'm just pointing out that this is no different from native Linux closed-source apps, such as Skype (the Linux version is a QT application, distributed only as an x86 binary).
They will probably use winelib or similar. They will have source code, compilable under Linux, which links to the winelib library (a library for Unix which provides the WINE API, a clone of the Win32 API). When they compile this code using GCC or whatever they like, they will get a normal Linux binary. There will be no Microsoft code for x86 only used or depended upon.
They should be able to compile this source code on any hardware architecture they choose (assuming they haven't assumed size of variables, etc.: the same stuff that trips up native ports).
And Google doesn't even use the native Windows GUI look in Windows, so it's not going to look like some Windows 98 rubbish.
There are many parasites/diseases which cause interesting self-destructive tendencies in the host which take the parasite to the next stage in it's life-cycle.
Rabies causes extreme aggression in most mammals, causing them to infect another host by biting. There is a parasitic worm which causes grasshoppers to jump into water, where the worm's larvae have to live.
This is exceptional because the wasp's stinger is actually inserted into a precise area of the brain of the victim, and because the wasp can actually steer the victim by stimulating it's antennae (I believe the same system has been tested on cockroaches by humans; they move away from the stimulated side by a protective reflex). Your ant parasite almost certainly doesn't have a sufficiently advance neural system to actually guide the ant upwards, rather it probably induces this behaviour by chemically triggering some signal the ant would use for more useful behaviour, the same way rabies causes dogs to pass on saliva by becoming aggressive.
Pretty sure there is no such weapon. There are only the BFG9000, in Doom, and the BFG1000, in Quake II and III.
It makes me wonder... Why are IPv4 addresses expressed in decimal? If they were written in hexadecimal, no random aa.bb.cc.dd string would be invalid, i.e. the address space would fit neatly into the available numbers.
Well, this depends whether the bug is in the main application-level code of Konqueror, or in the kernel components they use to execute Javascript.
Sorry for the sarcasm, but seriously, WTF are you on? Konqueror is a web browser. Now sit in a corner and think about what you've done.
Wow. Just... wow...
I can't even summon the energy to be abusive about this post.
That's a good idea. Slashdot is full of techy people with nothing to do, and dupes mean we have nothing to talk about. If everyone decides that dupes are for computer help, we could make Slashdot useful!
Whatever happened to the obvious compromise between power and ease of use? I refer of course to the practise of having a button somewhere around the bottom right of the dialogue with "Advanced >>" written on it.
You can have all the common options for dummies in the standard view, and all the geeky stuff for Slashdot readers and Linus available at the press of a button. Gnome really is being silly on this issue. KDE and Windows both do this a lot, so it's not like they can have not though of it.
Watch I, Robot. It's got to be worse. The hero talks at length about how nice his shoes are (I forget the brand). He shows another character how his JVC stereo works. Again this takes a couple of minutes. The car could have been done subtly, but it wasn't. They kept showing it at angles where the Audi logo on the front was prominent, and showed off it's fictional performance in a long, bad CG chase. For each of these I could see it had to be product placement before I read anywhere about how infamous the film was for it.
Added to the fact that it's an idiotic action movie that's hardly based on the though-provoking book that the producers bought the rights to, and you have a really bad film.
We have a new /. meme on our hands people...
DNA is pretty fragile. Think about what comparatively low-level ionising radiation will do over a few years, for example. The background radiation alone would probably have totally wiped out the information in the first few million years. And that's without taking into account the extreme heat and pressure, which would probably destroy the genetic information from a freshly dead animal in hours. Consider that even the toughest molecules in the animals' bodies have been reduced to a mess of carbon and hydrogen and then reassembled into hydrocarbons.
Also, we have nearly drained many large oilfields. Most of the oil came from the Carboniferous, which ended 299M years ago. It's not going to replenish quickly
If there is an intelligence on this planet to equal ours in the next 500M years, their geologists and paleontologists will notice something odd happened around now. I wonder what theories they'll think of to account for oil existing in only the most inaccessible places on the planet (e.g. deep sea)?
Isn't that what WE do?
You are presumably aware that the 2 GB HD is stupidly oversized for those specs?
2 GB was considered large for Windows 98.
Frag out!
*Ducks*
It took that long? Last time the National Science Foundation was mentioned the Deus Ex "NSF" jokes started within the first five posts...
Is Slashdot more interested in games than hacking now? What's the world coming to?
1) Mozilla staff don't have the specific expertise about each distro. 2) Firefox is bigger than these distros now anyway. It's up to them to support Firefox, not the other way around. Is anyone going to be unable to run it because their distro doesn't have it? 3) Almost all big projects and many smaller projects expect the distributors to package it. This is normal.
Yes, but when will they mark it as stable?
Also, what does kdeenablefinal do?
Try kuake (http://www.nemohackers.org/kuake.php) if you use KDE (there are similar apps out there for other desktops). It's a terminal emulator which lowers on a keyboard shortcut like the console in Quake. It saves me a lot of time which I used to spend opening and closing xterms. I keep a screen session in it normally.
Automation: it will save you time if you add a directory owned by you to the path so you don't have to keep typing your root password to add scripts. 'export PATH="${PATH}:/home//bin"` in your .bashrc works well.
Well, you could always put it at the end as a sort of manual sig. Only people like me with the -- separator turned on will notice (no I didn't register my account since that came in as default - I turned it on.
Semi-offtopic:
Is your sig intended as part of a Google bomb? If so, it won't work. Google doesn't index Slashdot sigs, because non-logged in visitors don't see them. You might want to paste the sig in every time or something like that.
Quake 2 is indeed still pretty good. Have you tried Qmax by Icculus? I don't know if it runs on windows, but it's basically the original Quake II with some graphics improved, most noticeably things like the pistol's shot, bullet hit's wall effects and blood, which look like they're made of little dots in the original. Also, explosions look much better (they looked like little pre-animated mushroom clouds before), and leave black marks on walls and floors (there are also red blood marks on walls). They made some levels too dark though.