Did you know for example that it now appears that early Christians, far from being blamed for Rome burning, weren't even considered relevant, and many 'confessed' and were punished simply in order to obtain their martyrdom? Can you please post a source on this assertion? Tacitus thought that Nero was the one responsible for blaming the Christians:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_15#44 although I'm not clear what he means by 'all who pleaded guilty', whether that refers to pleading guilty to setting to the fires or just pleading guilty to being a Christian.
VMWare had some limited support for this:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_ d3d.html
The last time I tried it, it was probably not up to the standards of Wine/Cedega, but it had potential for running games that require Windows' quirks. It was only Directx 8 though (or DirectX 9 that only actually uses DirectX 8 features).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHm02FeCH8 has to be one of the more hilarious old IT advertisements. I'm still not entirely sure what the heck it's selling but it involves Commander Riker using the Enterprise-D to reroute traffic through Cleveland because of a break in a token ring network, apparently.
Wasn't the Trojan War started because she wasn't invited to a party? And now, not only is she not invited to join the planets...but we're calling her FAT?
Did anyone here actually read the AP summary?
Linspire went out and licensed actual code from MS for Windows Live Voice stuff, Windows Media files, and Truetype Fonts (it doesn't say anything at all about patents for fonts, they probably just mean providing the fonts). They're also working on translating between OpenXML and ODF. These are all pretty important to people who want commercial Linuxes to "just work" in a Windows-centric world, and can't settle for partially working reverse-engineered implementations. And oh yeah, they also agreed to protect Linspire users against legal action by Microsoft in regards to any patents. It sounds more like Linspire went out to license these technologies from MS, then MS wanted to add in the patent protection stuff to make it sound like another Linux vendor is paying protection money to them (even though MS seems to be paying most of the money so far).
Yes, I hate MS, and yes I think the patent deals spread a lot of FUD, but I think Linspire has managed to get some good things out of this deal, depending on how much they paid. Or maybe MS paid them again?
UUIDs are less likely to get changed than the/dev/hd* or/dev/sd* letters. These are sometimes assigned randomly, depending on how your system is set up, or get shuffled in interesting and non-intuitive ways when partitions are changed. My real-life example: I had an IDE controller PCI card in my system. What would happen is that it would sometimes take hda->hdd, leaving my real boot drive as hde, and other times it would take hde->hdh. If I had known about UUIDs, I could have just accepted the changing device names and not worried what they were.
Yes but the Monkees didn't write their own songs, or play their own instruments...wouldn't that imply a more powerful being running the show behind the scenes?
I have two friends, both of whom have recently switched to Linux for everything except a few games that can't be handled with Cedega. I didn't push them into it, they just grew frustrated with Windows and knew that there were alternatives. One installed Debian (AMD64 + ia32 chroot even!) and I elected to install Kubuntu (Edgy 32-bit) on the other's as I figured it would be more noob-friendly.
The guy who uses Debian said "It starts off broken and you fix it, but then it stays fixed, while Windows starts off fixed but then breaks itself." He also liked that it would warn him about doing something stupid, but would trust him enough to let him do it anyway. He's now perfectly happy with it, rapidly flipping a Beryl/Compiz cube around to IM people while playing WoW. He uses Unstable, he runs beta software, he fiddles with things.
Don't get me wrong, the Ubuntu friend definitely preferred it over his struggles with Windows. He told me, when he found himself booting into Windows to play WoW that he would ask himself "Why can't Windows be Linux?" The problems come because Ubuntu is just less flexible than Debian. First, it supports a much more limited set of packages officially than Debian. This requires adding the universe and multiverse repositories, because he didn't want only the most useful packages, he wanted to try anything that sounds interesting. Cedega wasn't working well with WoW and the three of us thought it might be because of the 8xxx series drivers being installed instead of the 9xxx series. Now the Debian versions of these were only available in Experimental, but with some help from me, the Debian guy was able to install them easily enough, and nothing broke. In Ubuntu however, only Feisty had the 9xxx series. From experience, I've learned that you can't just upgrade one or two packages to a newer version in Ubuntu like you can in Debian. Things like libc6 change versions from release to release, and the whole system has to be upgraded. I figured that Feisty should be near enough stable that upgrading to it wholesale should go pretty well. We even used the update manager provided with Ubuntu. Incompatible packages ended up installed, as versions were moved into and out of Feisty (I think), and right now his system is usable, but will require some extensive fixing by me to get apt working again. The lesson? Ubuntu is great if you do what they expect you to as a normal desktop user. If you want to do something less common, it's not as flexible as Debian and can get in your way.
Don't patents only last about 20 years? So any patents attached to the 286 should already have run out and the original 386 (which was released in 1986) should be just about free, if its not already. Unless of course, patents for it were filed/granted exceedingly late. Besides, other non-Intel processors implement most of the x86 instructions already, don't they? As far as I know, they're not licensed from Intel. Intel would have to justify to a court why they let them do it for so long and were only bothering enforcing the patents now. Maybe if people re-implemented the Core 2 Duo on a Java emulator they would bother....but by the time THAT emulator could produce anything usable...
don't think you Europians will get a "walk" on this How did he find out the guys in the ocean under the ice there are using Linux? Did the Monolith tell him?
But not the one the poster thinks it is
From dictionary.com:
Hinder:
2. Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S.. the buttocks.
[Origin: 12501300; ME; cf. OE hinder (adv.) behind; c. G hinter (prep.) behind]
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_15#44
although I'm not clear what he means by 'all who pleaded guilty', whether that refers to pleading guilty to setting to the fires or just pleading guilty to being a Christian.
VMWare had some limited support for this: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_ d3d.html
The last time I tried it, it was probably not up to the standards of Wine/Cedega, but it had potential for running games that require Windows' quirks. It was only Directx 8 though (or DirectX 9 that only actually uses DirectX 8 features).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHm02FeCH8 has to be one of the more hilarious old IT advertisements. I'm still not entirely sure what the heck it's selling but it involves Commander Riker using the Enterprise-D to reroute traffic through Cleveland because of a break in a token ring network, apparently.
Wasn't the Trojan War started because she wasn't invited to a party? And now, not only is she not invited to join the planets...but we're calling her FAT?
Did anyone here actually read the AP summary? Linspire went out and licensed actual code from MS for Windows Live Voice stuff, Windows Media files, and Truetype Fonts (it doesn't say anything at all about patents for fonts, they probably just mean providing the fonts). They're also working on translating between OpenXML and ODF. These are all pretty important to people who want commercial Linuxes to "just work" in a Windows-centric world, and can't settle for partially working reverse-engineered implementations. And oh yeah, they also agreed to protect Linspire users against legal action by Microsoft in regards to any patents. It sounds more like Linspire went out to license these technologies from MS, then MS wanted to add in the patent protection stuff to make it sound like another Linux vendor is paying protection money to them (even though MS seems to be paying most of the money so far). Yes, I hate MS, and yes I think the patent deals spread a lot of FUD, but I think Linspire has managed to get some good things out of this deal, depending on how much they paid. Or maybe MS paid them again?
UUIDs are less likely to get changed than the /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* letters. These are sometimes assigned randomly, depending on how your system is set up, or get shuffled in interesting and non-intuitive ways when partitions are changed. My real-life example: I had an IDE controller PCI card in my system. What would happen is that it would sometimes take hda->hdd, leaving my real boot drive as hde, and other times it would take hde->hdh. If I had known about UUIDs, I could have just accepted the changing device names and not worried what they were.
Yes but the Monkees didn't write their own songs, or play their own instruments...wouldn't that imply a more powerful being running the show behind the scenes?
Give him some credit though, at least he didn't start whining about how much sand sucks.
I have two friends, both of whom have recently switched to Linux for everything except a few games that can't be handled with Cedega. I didn't push them into it, they just grew frustrated with Windows and knew that there were alternatives. One installed Debian (AMD64 + ia32 chroot even!) and I elected to install Kubuntu (Edgy 32-bit) on the other's as I figured it would be more noob-friendly. The guy who uses Debian said "It starts off broken and you fix it, but then it stays fixed, while Windows starts off fixed but then breaks itself." He also liked that it would warn him about doing something stupid, but would trust him enough to let him do it anyway. He's now perfectly happy with it, rapidly flipping a Beryl/Compiz cube around to IM people while playing WoW. He uses Unstable, he runs beta software, he fiddles with things. Don't get me wrong, the Ubuntu friend definitely preferred it over his struggles with Windows. He told me, when he found himself booting into Windows to play WoW that he would ask himself "Why can't Windows be Linux?" The problems come because Ubuntu is just less flexible than Debian. First, it supports a much more limited set of packages officially than Debian. This requires adding the universe and multiverse repositories, because he didn't want only the most useful packages, he wanted to try anything that sounds interesting. Cedega wasn't working well with WoW and the three of us thought it might be because of the 8xxx series drivers being installed instead of the 9xxx series. Now the Debian versions of these were only available in Experimental, but with some help from me, the Debian guy was able to install them easily enough, and nothing broke. In Ubuntu however, only Feisty had the 9xxx series. From experience, I've learned that you can't just upgrade one or two packages to a newer version in Ubuntu like you can in Debian. Things like libc6 change versions from release to release, and the whole system has to be upgraded. I figured that Feisty should be near enough stable that upgrading to it wholesale should go pretty well. We even used the update manager provided with Ubuntu. Incompatible packages ended up installed, as versions were moved into and out of Feisty (I think), and right now his system is usable, but will require some extensive fixing by me to get apt working again. The lesson? Ubuntu is great if you do what they expect you to as a normal desktop user. If you want to do something less common, it's not as flexible as Debian and can get in your way.
Don't patents only last about 20 years? So any patents attached to the 286 should already have run out and the original 386 (which was released in 1986) should be just about free, if its not already. Unless of course, patents for it were filed/granted exceedingly late. Besides, other non-Intel processors implement most of the x86 instructions already, don't they? As far as I know, they're not licensed from Intel. Intel would have to justify to a court why they let them do it for so long and were only bothering enforcing the patents now. Maybe if people re-implemented the Core 2 Duo on a Java emulator they would bother....but by the time THAT emulator could produce anything usable...
Did it then appear as the ghost of Colonel Klink?
"I have a black hole...in my pants!" Um, nevermind.
Well said, Mr. Fleenblat
Yeah, but has she helped the Doctor prevent the destruction of the Earth, like those guys did? I didn't think so! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shakespeare_Code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unquiet_Dead
What God giveth, Cod taketh away
Je suis Napoleon!
But not the one the poster thinks it is From dictionary.com: Hinder: 2. Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S.. the buttocks. [Origin: 12501300; ME; cf. OE hinder (adv.) behind; c. G hinter (prep.) behind] Insert various Porn, WoW, Myspace, jokes here ->