"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time." Wow, he said that? Didn't MS at that time burn lots and lots of cash to make Windows 95 seem like a viable alternative to OS/2 Warp?
I have a greek (at least I think it's greek..) IBM Model-M keyboard with buckling spring keys, that I use with an US layout.
Extremely loud, boss-safe _and_ Model-M style indestructable.
Too bad it sucks when quick reaction times are asked for..
I don't think general typists are their target market. The concept is a lot more suitable for software that's controlled by keyboard shortcuts - at least until you remember them all. Games and all kinds of graphics applications come to mind.
I'd sure like to use one of those with Blender..
While that feat is impressive and all, it does not repute the GP's point in any way.
Or are you seriously arguing that coming up with a tricky way to store a bootloader is a techskill nobody, at least no Java/C++ coder, can do without?
Oh yes it is.
Just like followers of the Catholic Church ("contraception is evil"), some flavours of Islam ("kill those infidels"), and pretty much all religious fundamentalists (those people calling their offspring "Baby Jesus", for example).
All pretty funny, IMO. If I didn't think it's funny I'd probably be very depressed.
Heh, yeah, let's keep the fire going:
Utilizing OpenGL/DirectX you say? So, the code's 15 or whatever bytes long, but dynamically linked to a huge library. That's not so far removed from interfacing with a raytracer, at least it's a lot closer to it than the demos you originally posted.
I personally never did anything for Povray - honestly I didn't know it could do animation before this story. But given the range of quality of the animations in this contest, getting anything done in a 512 bytes Povray files seems to be a noteworthy achievement.
So, let them cheer:)
In what way did Karl Marx endorse this kind of behaviour on part of the government?
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That says that X is not speedy, compares it to Windows XP and speculates on why that is the case. That speculation may have been written as if it's a proven fact, but that's/. standard.
What part says "behold my great knowledge I have chosen to share, feel honored"?
Besides the point, but why couldn't I have detailled knowledge about some software and its shortcomings without knowing about the people involved?
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Wow. When did I claim to have great knowledge?
All I did was share my (subjective of course) experiences.
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Sure beats pages on pages of link farms and ebay referrers, like it's often the case.
I honestly don't know what made Japan become all megalomanic and try to invade all of Asia.
What I was replying to was the comment about WW I being referred to as "the war to end all wars", and that was a European thing. After this war almost nobody wanted another war, but everyone involved seemed kind of ignorant toward the volatile state Germany was in.
Such things should of course be avoided - making this Iraq reconstruction mission crucial, and of course not giving other countries any incentive to band together in an attempt to claim world domination. And them feeling threatened, for example by a strong military, could be such an incentive.
I may be naive, but mostly because I think that the more people show that kind of naivety, the better off we all are.
Preparing to defend yourself from a threat of course seems like a sensible thing to do, but in doing so you also become a perceived threat to others.
See the Cold War, two parties that perceived each others as a threat, each making it worse by preparing itself for the case the other becomes a real threat.
The outcome of that can not, in any way, be considered positive, neither for the two parties or the world at large. It pretty much lead to 911, among other bad things.
Not to say we should all be becoming defenseless overnight, hoping every one else does the same. But more of the same, ever increasing defense spending, continueing the "who has strongest military"-ratrace, doesn't seem like a very good way to make this world a safe place for everyone.
It's not neccessarily about more modest cars - even though many environmentalists would claim otherwise. It's about fuel-efficiency. Drive your car of choice on less gas.
Government does have a say in the matter, ever since that big oil crisis a few decades back it was generally accepted as a wise move for the gov't to make sure the economy doesn't run out of fuel.
Besides, they're using a lot of that stuff on their own - so of course they're interested in its supply/demand situation.
But is that really worth 100x10^6 USD?
The article claims SCO tried to sell its UNIX business for 36x10^6 USD, and what else would they have that would be of any value?
I find the speculations about it being 'hush money' more plausible...
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That is pretty impressive. Do you remember the name of that CAD program? They must have had really clever ways to cope with that lack of bandwidth.
With relatively recently I meant up to a few years ago, when GHz CPUs became common. I compared it to Window XP's windowing system - others already gave a good explanation of why it was faster.
Kind of. There was a fairly big nation, hit hard by the war and blamed for the whole thing, not exactly happy to have to carry the burden of the financial reparations on its own (or at least that's how it was perceived) and politically and economically very unstable.
Can't say they were really trying to avoid a war.
I don't know of a nation in a similar situation, one that would have a chance to become a "real threat"[tm] anyway.
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If I was still corporate. :-(
I have a greek (at least I think it's greek..) IBM Model-M keyboard with buckling spring keys, that I use with an US layout.
Extremely loud, boss-safe _and_ Model-M style indestructable.
Too bad it sucks when quick reaction times are asked for..
I don't think general typists are their target market. The concept is a lot more suitable for software that's controlled by keyboard shortcuts - at least until you remember them all. Games and all kinds of graphics applications come to mind.
I'd sure like to use one of those with Blender..
For you I'd recommend an old IBM Keyboard.
Oops, s/repute/refute/;
While that feat is impressive and all, it does not repute the GP's point in any way.
Or are you seriously arguing that coming up with a tricky way to store a bootloader is a techskill nobody, at least no Java/C++ coder, can do without?
Oh yes it is.
Just like followers of the Catholic Church ("contraception is evil"), some flavours of Islam ("kill those infidels"), and pretty much all religious fundamentalists (those people calling their offspring "Baby Jesus", for example).
All pretty funny, IMO. If I didn't think it's funny I'd probably be very depressed.
Seriously, how could this be modded troll?
Some people...
The GP was referring to the Great Leap Forward:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
No, it didn't work out very well.
Will who?
But seriously, I wouldn't dismiss this kind of analysis based on that fact alone.
Heh, yeah, let's keep the fire going:
:)
Utilizing OpenGL/DirectX you say? So, the code's 15 or whatever bytes long, but dynamically linked to a huge library. That's not so far removed from interfacing with a raytracer, at least it's a lot closer to it than the demos you originally posted.
I personally never did anything for Povray - honestly I didn't know it could do animation before this story. But given the range of quality of the animations in this contest, getting anything done in a 512 bytes Povray files seems to be a noteworthy achievement.
So, let them cheer
While those demos might be more impressive from a technical standpoint, the Povray animations look a lot better.
Anyways, it's not a competition between demos and animation, those two can't compare. Totally different things.
With other words, you have no clue about his writings.
Suspected that much, but thanks for the confirmation.
In what way did Karl Marx endorse this kind of behaviour on part of the government?
That says that X is not speedy, compares it to Windows XP and speculates on why that is the case. That speculation may have been written as if it's a proven fact, but that's /. standard.
What part says "behold my great knowledge I have chosen to share, feel honored"?
Besides the point, but why couldn't I have detailled knowledge about some software and its shortcomings without knowing about the people involved?
Wow. When did I claim to have great knowledge?
All I did was share my (subjective of course) experiences.
Sure beats pages on pages of link farms and ebay referrers, like it's often the case.
Dude, you need to provide an example of where that is the case.
Otherwise you're just trolling.
I honestly don't know what made Japan become all megalomanic and try to invade all of Asia.
What I was replying to was the comment about WW I being referred to as "the war to end all wars", and that was a European thing. After this war almost nobody wanted another war, but everyone involved seemed kind of ignorant toward the volatile state Germany was in.
Such things should of course be avoided - making this Iraq reconstruction mission crucial, and of course not giving other countries any incentive to band together in an attempt to claim world domination. And them feeling threatened, for example by a strong military, could be such an incentive.
I may be naive, but mostly because I think that the more people show that kind of naivety, the better off we all are.
Preparing to defend yourself from a threat of course seems like a sensible thing to do, but in doing so you also become a perceived threat to others.
See the Cold War, two parties that perceived each others as a threat, each making it worse by preparing itself for the case the other becomes a real threat.
The outcome of that can not, in any way, be considered positive, neither for the two parties or the world at large. It pretty much lead to 911, among other bad things.
Not to say we should all be becoming defenseless overnight, hoping every one else does the same. But more of the same, ever increasing defense spending, continueing the "who has strongest military"-ratrace, doesn't seem like a very good way to make this world a safe place for everyone.
Silverlight is malware? Does that accusation come with some kind of proof?
It's not neccessarily about more modest cars - even though many environmentalists would claim otherwise. It's about fuel-efficiency. Drive your car of choice on less gas.
Government does have a say in the matter, ever since that big oil crisis a few decades back it was generally accepted as a wise move for the gov't to make sure the economy doesn't run out of fuel.
Besides, they're using a lot of that stuff on their own - so of course they're interested in its supply/demand situation.
But is that really worth 100x10^6 USD?
The article claims SCO tried to sell its UNIX business for 36x10^6 USD, and what else would they have that would be of any value?
I find the speculations about it being 'hush money' more plausible...
That is pretty impressive. Do you remember the name of that CAD program? They must have had really clever ways to cope with that lack of bandwidth.
With relatively recently I meant up to a few years ago, when GHz CPUs became common. I compared it to Window XP's windowing system - others already gave a good explanation of why it was faster.
Kind of. There was a fairly big nation, hit hard by the war and blamed for the whole thing, not exactly happy to have to carry the burden of the financial reparations on its own (or at least that's how it was perceived) and politically and economically very unstable.
Can't say they were really trying to avoid a war.
I don't know of a nation in a similar situation, one that would have a chance to become a "real threat"[tm] anyway.