just imagine, a normal windows user has some opengl apps, be it celestia or blender or some id game (a lot of joe sixpacks still do quake1/2/3), maybe their favourite screensaver. so, the user updates her operating system, and the apps/ games suddenly doen't work as fast as before.
and it's not that joe sixpack has to switch to the mysterious "linux", he just pulls out his old xp cd and that's it.
but as we all know, ms may be evil, but they're not stupid. their tactics will work, because vista will be shipped by default on many mainstream pcs. the only hope i have is that the software market changes a lot until vista is available, and switching the os will be a common thing like downloading new drivers.
sorry, but evolution itself is more a principle than a theory, even in scientific terms. why?
it just takes a single assumtion: there must be a thing that a) is able to copy itself and b) the copies aren't 100% copies.
THAT'S evolution. everything else, like selection, is just pure aftermath. if you doubt it, just imagine: there is a molecule with the described properties. it copies itself. the copy copies itself. there are resources needed for copying. no divine intervention needed, things that are not able to copy themselves, uhm, they don't copy themselves. that's why the proverb goes "survival of the fittest", and not "strongest".
and, also important, most people underestimate the pure power of TIME. if you think about the evolving of life on earth, you can't do it with your "everyday life point of view", like: uhm, this and that being is so specific, it's so unlikely it just "evolves". yeah, unlikely if you give it 1000 years to evolve. but we're speaking about 3.5 billion years. oh yeah, you can question that ("the age of the earth is 6000"), but if you do, answer me two questions: what is the difference between a planet and a star? and: why do our atomic power plants work? (*1)
(*1) the first question is a standard question, nothing to do with the topic.
Plus with the improvements in the ZEND engine and it's object oriented programming, PHP is now comparable and even sometimes faster than Java.
php comparable with java? you wish. does php offer things like jndi, jta and jca? before you answer, the java solutions are stable and have production quality.
for real applications which are more than a database backed dynamic website.
when it comes to critical features like 2face commits when speaking whith cics and ims at the same time, nothing beats j2ee. perl is unmaintainable at a large scale, php is to much front-end-oriented, and.net has no feature that j2ee couldn't provide and it has nothing like jca).
i think the real power of firefox is the whole mozilla (software) design. the browser i use is firefow with a theme i like and the extensions i need.
for example, some forums do permit direct links, you only have them in plain text. the linkification extension makes clickable links from these texts. just one example. i'm used to this comfort, and whenever i'm forced to use ie, i feel the lack of comfort.
sorry, but not beeing able to lift off a shuttle properly in 2005... nasa is just a bloated beurocracy. open the space for private investors, and all will be fine
when i had my first computer (kc 85/ 3), it was common to buy software on vinyl, there was also a regular radio programme that did broadcast software, mostly games for one hour/ week.
let's take wow as an example of an mmorpg. at a first glance, it has nothing in common with these pen&paper rpg. but it has. you just develop your character in a more subtle way. you play 50h or 100h , and your character evolves. you don't influence this directly as you would do in an old school rpg, you influence it in the way you play. that's a progression.
Terminals in mainframe culture (CMS, TSO, CICS...)
if we speak about the same CICS (and i think we do), then CICS is after all a transaction monitor, like IMS, hosting programms that manipulate data. with these applications you interact when using a 3270.
i'm working with both of them (CICS, IMS) via JCA in a J2EE env. It's a very interesting field of work.
that would be cool. i get sued, cause on my website i have a link to the Good Dude who has a link on his site to the Common Dude and this one has a link to the Bad Dude who actually has a link to an evil cd ripper.
there is nothing evil about this new bill, it's just an excusion for the office dudes to surf the whole day on pr0n ("errh, i was just hunting copyright infri..uhm, you know, this bad copyright thingy. now piss of chief, there're a lots of cubicles for you to check")
/. is a fairly good example that free speech is a Good Thing, even in such hughe discussions with thousands of participants. yes, there is for example our beloved gnaa and others, but because they can write what they want, i can also write what i want and i can read things people wrote with a free mind.
the other thing is: the web (the thing you surf on) is all in all a request-response thing. notice? the request is first. by banning 'hate' messages from the web you would achieve nothing. i'm pretty sure they have banning sites in mind (because other things like banning single forum messages is almost impossible). but you have at least to click on 'racistweb.com' to get their rant.
However, I don't understand why you think that religious parties don't belong in a democracy.
beacause, at least in germany, the constitution demands the seperation of the powers of the country and religion. if you don't seperate, sooner or later you'll find yourself living in a theocracy because religion is much more attractive to a lot of people than reason.
CSU, which has just won the European elections[...]
sorry, but that's wrong. the party-system in germany is transparent and clear, except for the cdu (christian democratic union) / csu issue. the cdu is a big german party and the csu is a pure bavarian party. and in bavaria there is no cdu. but when it comes to nationwide elections these two parties run as one. they have different programms and different campaigns, but you can only vote for cdu/csu.
it is a major flaw in germany's democratic system bacause one can't elect one party without electing the other. the reason for this (there maybe are historical reasons, but that's no excuse): both parties are very conservative, but bavaria is an ultraconservative state (the csu gets always around 50-60% in bavaria) and so there is an ultraconservative christian union especially for them and no one else.
btw, i don't even understand why there are religious parties in a democracy.
hm, i'd rather stick with yafray, it's open source, has a nicer language (ok, depends on taste) and is (somewhat) integrated into blender. and the results are simply amazing.
Its always been interesting that when somebody (or a group of people) don't want to hear a certain answer, it often goes in one ear and out the other just in time for another "listener" to ask the same basic question phrased slightly differently in hopes of obtaining a reply closer to the desired view.
while this is true, for me it's always been interesting that such an obvious fact still generates interest;) this is one of the most popular patterns in human communication and maybe the cause of a lot of trouble.
"Another problem with Tanenbaum's logic is that he only presents examples of people that were Unix licensees, had Unix source code, or who were exceptionally familiar with software development. He cannot provide one example reasonably comparable to the Torvalds case."
obviously, this is not from at, but from brown. but if brown does not understand how a cs student is able to write funky software without beeing a unix licensee, i think he does neither understand why it's cold inside the fridge but warm at it's backside.
one good thing this soap opera has: it reveals some "history" that some people did not know, like how linux came to life and that.
At this point you could probably combine random words from a dictionary and call it poetry
nay, you couldn't. that's the crazy thing about art: it needs that little something. the same argument i hear often when it comes to modern or surrealistic paintings: every child could have made such a picture! but that's not the case. my art teacher in school (long ago) tried to explain it that way: real art always tries to transmit some more information to your brain than you actually see or hear/read. it's not that easy explainable, because if it was, it wouldn't be art, just information.
if an artist tries to say something with her/his work, it's not art, just a cumbersomely way to say something.
The idea is to let consumers 'make a limited number of copies of their music -- enough for a car, a vacation home and a friend, for example -- without allowing for uncontrolled duplication.'
i mean, yeah, the buzzwords have changed, but it sounds exactly the same as all this revolution rubbish some years ago.
but what these morons don't get: as long as a cd player actually plays a cd, it can be copied. every soundcard is able to record it's own output stream. the only way this would work is via new devices. oh wait, it won't. i forgot, every stereo has analog output. and every soundcard is also a D/A.
nay, morons everywhere. they're way of thinking reminds me of something...ah yes, they think like machines.
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just imagine, a normal windows user has some opengl apps, be it celestia or blender or some id game (a lot of joe sixpacks still do quake1/2/3), maybe their favourite screensaver. so, the user updates her operating system, and the apps/ games suddenly doen't work as fast as before.
and it's not that joe sixpack has to switch to the mysterious "linux", he just pulls out his old xp cd and that's it.
but as we all know, ms may be evil, but they're not stupid. their tactics will work, because vista will be shipped by default on many mainstream pcs. the only hope i have is that the software market changes a lot until vista is available, and switching the os will be a common thing like downloading new drivers.
sorry, but evolution itself is more a principle than a theory, even in scientific terms. why?
it just takes a single assumtion: there must be a thing that a) is able to copy itself and b) the copies aren't 100% copies.
THAT'S evolution. everything else, like selection, is just pure aftermath. if you doubt it, just imagine: there is a molecule with the described properties. it copies itself. the copy copies itself. there are resources needed for copying. no divine intervention needed, things that are not able to copy themselves, uhm, they don't copy themselves. that's why the proverb goes "survival of the fittest", and not "strongest".
and, also important, most people underestimate the pure power of TIME. if you think about the evolving of life on earth, you can't do it with your "everyday life point of view", like: uhm, this and that being is so specific, it's so unlikely it just "evolves". yeah, unlikely if you give it 1000 years to evolve. but we're speaking about 3.5 billion years. oh yeah, you can question that ("the age of the earth is 6000"), but if you do, answer me two questions: what is the difference between a planet and a star? and: why do our atomic power plants work? (*1)
(*1) the first question is a standard question, nothing to do with the topic.
The TV
...you're french.
you're german? ahh, can't be...
Your freedom
Anti biotics
or what do you mean by "we"?
Plus with the improvements in the ZEND engine and it's object oriented programming, PHP is now comparable and even sometimes faster than Java.
php comparable with java? you wish. does php offer things like jndi, jta and jca? before you answer, the java solutions are stable and have production quality.
Easier to use and deploy than J2EE :-P
that, my friend, is a lie.
for real applications which are more than a database backed dynamic website.
.net has no feature that j2ee couldn't provide and it has nothing like jca).
when it comes to critical features like 2face commits when speaking whith cics and ims at the same time, nothing beats j2ee. perl is unmaintainable at a large scale, php is to much front-end-oriented, and
i think the real power of firefox is the whole mozilla (software) design. the browser i use is firefow with a theme i like and the extensions i need.
for example, some forums do permit direct links, you only have them in plain text. the linkification extension makes clickable links from these texts. just one example. i'm used to this comfort, and whenever i'm forced to use ie, i feel the lack of comfort.
sorry, but not beeing able to lift off a shuttle properly in 2005... nasa is just a bloated beurocracy. open the space for private investors, and all will be fine
when i had my first computer (kc 85/ 3), it was common to buy software on vinyl, there was also a regular radio programme that did broadcast software, mostly games for one hour/ week.
let's take wow as an example of an mmorpg. at a first glance, it has nothing in common with these pen&paper rpg. but it has. you just develop your character in a more subtle way. you play 50h or 100h , and your character evolves. you don't influence this directly as you would do in an old school rpg, you influence it in the way you play. that's a progression.
Terminals in mainframe culture (CMS, TSO, CICS...)
if we speak about the same CICS (and i think we do), then CICS is after all a transaction monitor, like IMS, hosting programms that manipulate data. with these applications you interact when using a 3270.
i'm working with both of them (CICS, IMS) via JCA in a J2EE env. It's a very interesting field of work.
but that's a fake. sure.
mod me redundant, i have some glue.
So it's not about educating the user, or switching software all the time or even turning everything off, where's the fun in that?
this is all well and good mr. hand, but what should one do? all you say is "that's not the answer". what is your answer then?
that would be cool. i get sued, cause on my website i have a link to the Good Dude who has a link on his site to the Common Dude and this one has a link to the Bad Dude who actually has a link to an evil cd ripper.
there is nothing evil about this new bill, it's just an excusion for the office dudes to surf the whole day on pr0n ("errh, i was just hunting copyright infri..uhm, you know, this bad copyright thingy. now piss of chief, there're a lots of cubicles for you to check")
/. is a fairly good example that free speech is a Good Thing, even in such hughe discussions with thousands of participants. yes, there is for example our beloved gnaa and others, but because they can write what they want, i can also write what i want and i can read things people wrote with a free mind.
the other thing is: the web (the thing you surf on) is all in all a request-response thing. notice? the request is first. by banning 'hate' messages from the web you would achieve nothing. i'm pretty sure they have banning sites in mind (because other things like banning single forum messages is almost impossible). but you have at least to click on 'racistweb.com' to get their rant.
However, I don't understand why you think that religious parties don't belong in a democracy.
beacause, at least in germany, the constitution demands the seperation of the powers of the country and religion. if you don't seperate, sooner or later you'll find yourself living in a theocracy because religion is much more attractive to a lot of people than reason.
CSU, which has just won the European elections[...]
sorry, but that's wrong. the party-system in germany is transparent and clear, except for the cdu (christian democratic union) / csu issue. the cdu is a big german party and the csu is a pure bavarian party. and in bavaria there is no cdu. but when it comes to nationwide elections these two parties run as one. they have different programms and different campaigns, but you can only vote for cdu/csu.
it is a major flaw in germany's democratic system bacause one can't elect one party without electing the other. the reason for this (there maybe are historical reasons, but that's no excuse): both parties are very conservative, but bavaria is an ultraconservative state (the csu gets always around 50-60% in bavaria) and so there is an ultraconservative christian union especially for them and no one else.
btw, i don't even understand why there are religious parties in a democracy.
Also, POV-Ray comes with documentation (fancy that!).
;) yafray docs
there is documentation, just not on the yafray pages
hm, i'd rather stick with yafray, it's open source, has a nicer language (ok, depends on taste) and is (somewhat) integrated into blender. and the results are simply amazing.
Its always been interesting that when somebody (or a group of people) don't want to hear a certain answer, it often goes in one ear and out the other just in time for another "listener" to ask the same basic question phrased slightly differently in hopes of obtaining a reply closer to the desired view.
;) this is one of the most popular patterns in human communication and maybe the cause of a lot of trouble.
while this is true, for me it's always been interesting that such an obvious fact still generates interest
"Another problem with Tanenbaum's logic is that he only presents examples of people that were Unix licensees, had Unix source code, or who were exceptionally familiar with software development. He cannot provide one example reasonably comparable to the Torvalds case."
obviously, this is not from at, but from brown. but if brown does not understand how a cs student is able to write funky software without beeing a unix licensee, i think he does neither understand why it's cold inside the fridge but warm at it's backside.
one good thing this soap opera has: it reveals some "history" that some people did not know, like how linux came to life and that.
At this point you could probably combine random words from a dictionary and call it poetry
nay, you couldn't. that's the crazy thing about art: it needs that little something. the same argument i hear often when it comes to modern or surrealistic paintings: every child could have made such a picture! but that's not the case. my art teacher in school (long ago) tried to explain it that way: real art always tries to transmit some more information to your brain than you actually see or hear/read. it's not that easy explainable, because if it was, it wouldn't be art, just information.
if an artist tries to say something with her/his work, it's not art, just a cumbersomely way to say something.
biological engineering plan to end human aging
i hope this will work, cause i want to play "duke nukem forever" in my lifetime.
The idea is to let consumers 'make a limited number of copies of their music -- enough for a car, a vacation home and a friend, for example -- without allowing for uncontrolled duplication.'
i mean, yeah, the buzzwords have changed, but it sounds exactly the same as all this revolution rubbish some years ago.
but what these morons don't get: as long as a cd player actually plays a cd, it can be copied. every soundcard is able to record it's own output stream. the only way this would work is via new devices. oh wait, it won't. i forgot, every stereo has analog output. and every soundcard is also a D/A.
nay, morons everywhere. they're way of thinking reminds me of something...ah yes, they think like machines.
This is why you never be a administrator. In corporate double speak they would say your not a "team player"
nay. c*os that think like that do not lead sucsessfull companies (except ms, but ms's job is to BE the exception, someone's got to prove the rule).