Oddly enough, I have had more success - the few times I tried - getting such things to run under WINE than under XP.
If it were important enough (say, the sale of 200+ desktops and maintenance for same) it woulf be financially viable to iteratively run WINE in debug mode alongside a copy of the app running under '98 with a debugger (where the app allows it!) and simply write enough to the incomplete bits of WINE to make the app work. Do that enough times, and you'll start finding that some of your new candidates Just Work.
One of the things I learned when dealing with wind turbines is that double the wind-speed roughly equals eight times the power. Order n cubed. This doesn't work at very high or very low wind speeds because of turbulence and cavitation and similar effects, and goes completely wonky again near the speed of sound in the medium, but for highway-type speeds it's bang on. It may also be different for (mostly) non-rotating cars, but it is indeed worse than n squared once you get above about 50km/h.
So much crap runs with effectively superuser privs on Windows that once a virus gets loose, no amount of code-signing wizardry is goign to help you. Microsoft dan't have an equivalent to SELinux either, so not even the paranoid can do much about that. Well... as long as they insist on using MS Virus Flypaper, anyway.
...the original quote came from some famous lesbian leader. Can't remember her name of the exact quote, something about a huge sum of money and wanting to strip and either roll or bathe naked in it.
Somewhere along the chain there has to be a vegetarian. No serious food chain goes rocks -> critter -> large predator and of course a food chain consisting of only predators (Barsoom?) isn't going to lat too long.
What did the vegetarians feed on before flowing plants, if not other plants? Connecting a switch away from carnivory with a rise in flowering plants is just insane.
Most other religions and most forms of Christianity (including mine, Catholicism) accept evolution as a simple scientific principle.
The only real reason that a religion would do this is because it doesn't take God at his word. Sorting this out is fairly straightforward for non-Old-Testament-based faiths (Shinto, Atheism, Bhuddism, most Native American and Australian etc), not so easy for Christianity, Judaism or Islam. Getting it wrong requires a form of intellectual suicide.
In the case of the RCC, God is actually a problem for the church in that he represents competition for Pope and Magisterium alike.
Despite this, Joseph Ratzinger AKA Pope Benedict XVI has already clarified the RCC position on evolution, and not in a direction you'd like.
By making a few clever guesses based on minimal knowledge of the ongoing power struggles within the RCC, I predicted Ratzinger's papacy at least three years ago. Those guesses include Ratzinger not taking God at his word, either, so his decision actually surprises me, and I look forward to the unfolding of the reasons behind it.
Either way, evolution is not a simple scientific principle. It is an hypothesis which rides over the top of contradicting evidence with an awesome indifference.
Wait, who was left scratching their heads because this scientific observation goes against their theory of origins?
Um, this is how evolution works, moron.
So... are you saying the evolution works by leaving you scratching your head? Or that evolution works by people blipping over inconsistencies as demonstrated by you? (-:
The "real" problem is that the evolutionary community in general regards predators as somehow higher up the tree (or is it trees?) and can't figure out why a species would evolve from there back to a process more typical of "lower" forms of life. It's not a heresy thing, and it's not a big issue, but it is an example of science initially barking up the wrong tree because of a whole pile of untested assumptions (like "predators are more evolved") made in support of evolution and having to retrace its steps. Unfortunately, only one assumption will be overturned by this find. Sigh. Only a few thousand more to go.
I cut my teeth on a Wang 2200B. Load from cassette, text-mode only, no attributes, nobbled Wang BASIC the only language available. Lucky to get keyboard time, too, they wanted us to all use MiniWaft cards.
That describes MS-Word's autosave quite well. "I'll just vanish from your screen without warning, but don't worry, I'll completely rape your document during autosave recovery - but only the bits you didn't think to check carefully when you hastily scrolled through all 400-odd pages, what with the deadline and all.
OOo's autosave works perfectly (once you've named your document, that is) every time. Across a power outage, you might lose a few hundred keystrokes (on Linux, this is, Win32 is likely to cost you more), but across a crash (rare) you lose none. And this is OOo 1.1.4, not the shiny-new we-also-walk-dogs version.
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...then how does knowing PowerPoint help you to get employment there? Surely something like DeScribe would be more appropriate?
...then maybe you can retire that Apple //e.
The usual response is raucous laughter.
Oddly enough, I have had more success - the few times I tried - getting such things to run under WINE than under XP.
If it were important enough (say, the sale of 200+ desktops and maintenance for same) it woulf be financially viable to iteratively run WINE in debug mode alongside a copy of the app running under '98 with a debugger (where the app allows it!) and simply write enough to the incomplete bits of WINE to make the app work. Do that enough times, and you'll start finding that some of your new candidates Just Work.
Lorem ipsum etc but some of the letters replaced with capital W, and dots added.
One of the things I learned when dealing with wind turbines is that double the wind-speed roughly equals eight times the power. Order n cubed. This doesn't work at very high or very low wind speeds because of turbulence and cavitation and similar effects, and goes completely wonky again near the speed of sound in the medium, but for highway-type speeds it's bang on. It may also be different for (mostly) non-rotating cars, but it is indeed worse than n squared once you get above about 50km/h.
So much crap runs with effectively superuser privs on Windows that once a virus gets loose, no amount of code-signing wizardry is goign to help you. Microsoft dan't have an equivalent to SELinux either, so not even the paranoid can do much about that. Well... as long as they insist on using MS Virus Flypaper, anyway.
Perhaps www.ubuntu.org would work better?
"I don't know what scares me more - lost nuclear weapons or that it happens so often you have a name for it."
...anything that causes you to install Linux on the machine.
...that Asian languages and RTL suppoort will work properly for the first time in Shorthorn Office?
We should be criticising the spelling in your post instead. Oh, and if you're a Yank, that's "criticizing".
Since Joe Sixpack can't set it up reliably, XP is not ready for the desktop. Simple! Thanks for that insight!
Even drives laptops quite nicely.
I think what the OP means is that he did that tweak to change the SOD colour, perhaps to a pleasant, relaxing green?
...the original quote came from some famous lesbian leader. Can't remember her name of the exact quote, something about a huge sum of money and wanting to strip and either roll or bathe naked in it.
I'd always wondered what those round, brown things in the box were.
Somewhere along the chain there has to be a vegetarian. No serious food chain goes rocks -> critter -> large predator and of course a food chain consisting of only predators (Barsoom?) isn't going to lat too long.
What did the vegetarians feed on before flowing plants, if not other plants? Connecting a switch away from carnivory with a rise in flowering plants is just insane.
...that is, pretty much the opposite of what you asked for. Before you write the guy off as an idiot, run the calculations. (-:
...that some aquatic sorting occurred. The carnivores, being marginally denser, sank faster and/or further on average than the herbivores.
In the case of the RCC, God is actually a problem for the church in that he represents competition for Pope and Magisterium alike.
Despite this, Joseph Ratzinger AKA Pope Benedict XVI has already clarified the RCC position on evolution, and not in a direction you'd like.
By making a few clever guesses based on minimal knowledge of the ongoing power struggles within the RCC, I predicted Ratzinger's papacy at least three years ago. Those guesses include Ratzinger not taking God at his word, either, so his decision actually surprises me, and I look forward to the unfolding of the reasons behind it.
Either way, evolution is not a simple scientific principle. It is an hypothesis which rides over the top of contradicting evidence with an awesome indifference.
The "real" problem is that the evolutionary community in general regards predators as somehow higher up the tree (or is it trees?) and can't figure out why a species would evolve from there back to a process more typical of "lower" forms of life. It's not a heresy thing, and it's not a big issue, but it is an example of science initially barking up the wrong tree because of a whole pile of untested assumptions (like "predators are more evolved") made in support of evolution and having to retrace its steps. Unfortunately, only one assumption will be overturned by this find. Sigh. Only a few thousand more to go.
Consequence of having a randomly-formed brain, y'see? (-:
I cut my teeth on a Wang 2200B. Load from cassette, text-mode only, no attributes, nobbled Wang BASIC the only language available. Lucky to get keyboard time, too, they wanted us to all use MiniWaft cards.
All it needs is a matching nice text editor. Integrating vim would be a way to solve that. (-:
That describes MS-Word's autosave quite well. "I'll just vanish from your screen without warning, but don't worry, I'll completely rape your document during autosave recovery - but only the bits you didn't think to check carefully when you hastily scrolled through all 400-odd pages, what with the deadline and all.
OOo's autosave works perfectly (once you've named your document, that is) every time. Across a power outage, you might lose a few hundred keystrokes (on Linux, this is, Win32 is likely to cost you more), but across a crash (rare) you lose none. And this is OOo 1.1.4, not the shiny-new we-also-walk-dogs version.
...opens Word files of his flawless ass.
Hey, maybe it's the goatse.cx guy?