Yep, just add a browser, email, media player... make sure that browser can do flash so the kids can play their games. And a JVM for puzzle pirates addicts. Oh, can't forget Quicken for balancing the home checkbook, whole potential market of folks there who don't want to buy a laptop for that. All those folks with cameras, well they'll want an image editor, and of course they want to print those pictures, so we'll need to support all kinds of printers...
> I would like to see that 9600 Pro run Doom 3 at 60 fps.
I'd like for the game to actually be worth it. Remember Descent? The game where there were enemies that used actual strategy? Well, the market punishes innovation. Won't happen again.
... since my in-depth reasoned analysis was downmodded "redundant":
If console gaming isn't killed off within 3 years, could all you pundits kindly shut the god damn hell up forever this time with respect to this prediction?
> I hate to nitpick, but it's not rinse, lather, repeat. First you lather, THEN you rinse.
Well damn, that sure saves me some shampoo. Because I figured I could just skip the "repeat" step sometimes, but when I got to lathering, the only way I could get that damn shampoo out was to rinse it, and then I was back in the middle of the instructions, and the next step was lather and then I just ran out of shampoo when I got to the lather and then I had to stop but wow now I can skip just the repeat part and save some shampoo!
How much different is that from knowing that your army shells civilians, strafes them on the road, kills them in summary executions, loots their homes and burns their libraries and even sends some part of them to concentration camps
The fact that it doesn't seem as "icky". Strafing, shelling, bombing, all those seem "natural" somehow, but poison gas just touches some kind of primal fear and revulsion.
Go fig, but it explains a lot about wars even now. I wish it were otherwise as well.
Wow, a google search. What a scientific survey. The articles I pulled up point to NYC's Bloomberg wanting to stop recycling programs, because it costs more. Well duh, to anyone who believed it was cheaper, I got a recycled bridge to sell you. The article goes on to merely assert that it would be better if it went to a nice cheap cost-effective landfill, and simply ignores the whole issue of capacity, as if they had infinite space that will never become more expensive... or even stay available. Landfills do close, but of course the article never explores the cost of opening a new landfill or maintaining the old one forever and ever.
I bet if I checked the article history of most of these authors, I'd find them shilling for other anti-environmental positions with no supporting evidence. Probably a good half of them probably deny the existence of global warming. 'round these parts we call that trolling.
I know San Francisco actually just processes solid waste like other cities process water: almost all of it gets run through waste processing. The garbage trucks simply don't go to the dump, they go to waste processing, where sorters pick through and sort it. What a shitty job (literally, think of all the diapers and cat litter).
Food waste from restaurants goes straight to a composting company that sells it to the Napa valley vineyards.
Perhaps you mean Feynmann. He was miles away, as was everyone else, at which point the radiation exposure is about what an hour of sunlight will get you. This was a small bomb, remember.
He also saw the fireball without any glasses on at all. Not the initial flash of course, but the fireball right afterward. Read his autobiography, Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr Feynmann where he covers it. Real interesting character. Got called at 2 in the morning when he won the Nobel Prize -- told them to call him back in the morning if they had something important to tell him.
The memory of WWI was still fresh in the mind of Germans. There were still disfigured vets dying painfully of exposure to chemical weapons. None of them wanted a repeat of that particular atrocity. The death camps were more of an "out of sight, out of mind" thing to most Germans, but chemical weapons would have been a repeat of the horrors of the last war. You don't feel like you're fighting for the good guys when your side uses the weapons that horrified the world in the last war.
A Bayesian inference model would not only take a while to train, it's only good for small populations of users. As soon as you have conflicting expectations, bayes goes out the window. It would be really prohibitive in CPU for yahoo to run such an inference on every query... though for a browser extension, that would be quite doable and nifty.
ESR/RMS? That's like Torvalds/Yarro or Bush/Chomsky... They're not exactly a pair, and ESR has nothing to do with the drafting of the GPL. Your sources are trolls.
Who gives a shit about prior art? What if the concept really is original? Do they deserve to sit on it and squeeze everyone else for 20 fucking years for it?
This sort of thing needs to stop NOW. Game companies that take out patents need to be boycotted when the word gets out to gaming fan sites, existing disks need to be returned to them in pieces.
But it won't happen. I guarantee it will never happen. We will bend over and ask for it harder and deeper once they dangle a few more shiny objects in front of us. And it'll be our fault. Fuck it, I think I'll still be allowed to go outside and have fun. But that will probably all be fenced off too.
What a wonderfully deep story... wouldn't it be nice if it had a similar quality of acting to go with it? It's SO bad, it makes Hayden Christiansen look like James Earl Jones. Seriously, I wish I could get these games in Japanese with English subtitles just so that the horrid voice acting would at least not be so damned obvious and grating.
Of course I'd probably get subtitles on the order of the previous FF games, which didn't exactly contend for nobel prizes in literature either.
Funny thing that -- I actually use passwords that are embarrassing to say, which has the side effect of not revealing them to anyone. Stuff like "sm00chyk1ns" and "grumpygu5" (like that, those aren't actual passwords).
Those are the sorts of passwords I assign to people as well when they forget passwords (I'm not normally in a role of resetting passwords, but I have a few apps where I'm the gatekeeper). Gives people an incentive to change them.
That links shows FF isn't even in stable at all. This sort of makes my point.
Anyway, you need to re-read my statement: six months of feature freeze from Debian's repository -- this implies a snapshot, and ff was at 1.02 when the freeze started. Ubuntu has a different release model than Debian, so a release like Breezy is more like Debian experimental, and slowly becomes stable, while the stable release (Hoary) really is like Debian stable "and then some"... in quotes, because I'm not sure the philosophy is entirely sound.
I'm told Ubuntu is moving to more like a Debian-like structure, with a permanently unstable branch (Grumpy Groundhog) to continuously update the next release (currently Breezy Badger) from. Or possibly grumpy will just be a permanent name for current unstable, like sid is for Debian.
> ubuntu is focused on desktops, for which bleeding edge is OK
Only Debian could call six months of feature freeze from Debian's unstable repository to be "bleeding edge". It's the same release cycle as fedora, except nothing ever gets upgraded but for security patches. Firefox is still at 1.02 even though every security patch has been backported (which makes it exactly 1.04) because of the phobia of changing version numbers lest something break.
Now on the pro- side: I was going to switch to Fedora myself, but these folks can't even be bothered to support my very common network hardware in their installer or port the ATI drivers to the current and only kernel version they support. Debian might move as slow as the tides, but they do lift all ships.
Sounds to me like you were provided a pretty reasonable level of technical support, and it was the product support that let you down. You can't blame the support engineers for this.
It sometimes works that way in open source too, though there's a decent chance support can come back. Case in point, fortran support in gcc: it looked like it was going to languish as a cheap F77 implementation forever, but only recently came back in force (still don't know how well it optimizes tho).
> if I click on column 50 after the end of a 30-character-long line, the cursor sticks there and I can start typing
It goes without saying that emacs is quite capable of this feature too. I thought it was built-in, but apparently not... There's picture-mode, but that behaves differently than you expect (it's made for ascii line drawings). Rectangle copy and paste is also supported in emacs by holding down the alt key. It does appear to have the broken behavior of not extending the rectangle into anywhere there isn't already text, however. That would be far more difficult to fix, I'd say. I guess you could call that "coming up short".
If you're really particular about editors, really feel you need exotic behaviors, and don't hate emacs already (I love it, but I can certainly see the opposing points of view) then it's really worth your time to get to know emacs. Plus, you get a fairly gentle introduction to a classical lisp without the enormous crufty baggage that a COMMON-LISP-IMPLEMENTATION saddles you with.
Emacs also supports your mousewheel. I would never pay for an editor that lacked something so basic.
I have looked all over that control panel. It has tabs for "Power Schemes", "Advanced", "Hibernate", and "UPS"
Under Power Schemes: a dropdown for presets that changes the dropdowns for the times after which various things will shut off.
Under Advanced: "Always show icon on the taskbar" and "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby". For power button, a dropdown for "when I press the power button on my computer", which is set to "shut down", but there's nothing indicating unconditional shut down. Another dropdown for the sleep button (which my computer doesn't even have)
For hibernate, there's a single "enable hibernation" checkbox, and an information box about how much space it takes
For UPS, well, that's for the UPS control. Gotta turn that UPS service back on one of these days, though the device itself is too flakey to be worth it.
Last I remember, it took a registry tweak or something with TweakUI or XSetup. Dialogs still block shutdowns indefinitely, since I haven't yet rediscovered the setting for forced shutdowns.
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Yep, just add a browser, email, media player ... make sure that browser can do flash so the kids can play their games. And a JVM for puzzle pirates addicts. Oh, can't forget Quicken for balancing the home checkbook, whole potential market of folks there who don't want to buy a laptop for that. All those folks with cameras, well they'll want an image editor, and of course they want to print those pictures, so we'll need to support all kinds of printers ...
What's this device called again?
> I would like to see that 9600 Pro run Doom 3 at 60 fps.
I'd like for the game to actually be worth it. Remember Descent? The game where there were enemies that used actual strategy? Well, the market punishes innovation. Won't happen again.
s/console/PC/
I need more meds. Or maybe less. Maybe some different colors.
... since my in-depth reasoned analysis was downmodded "redundant":
If console gaming isn't killed off within 3 years, could all you pundits kindly shut the god damn hell up forever this time with respect to this prediction?
Thank you in advance.
> I hate to nitpick, but it's not rinse, lather, repeat. First you lather, THEN you rinse.
Well damn, that sure saves me some shampoo. Because I figured I could just skip the "repeat" step sometimes, but when I got to lathering, the only way I could get that damn shampoo out was to rinse it, and then I was back in the middle of the instructions, and the next step was lather and then I just ran out of shampoo when I got to the lather and then I had to stop but wow now I can skip just the repeat part and save some shampoo!
Thanks for setting me straight mister!
Swiss banks are so 20th century. They're expensive to open, and they actually cooperate with Interpol on money laundering.
Caymans are where it's at.
No.
How much different is that from knowing that your army shells civilians, strafes them on the road, kills them in summary executions, loots their homes and burns their libraries and even sends some part of them to concentration camps
The fact that it doesn't seem as "icky". Strafing, shelling, bombing, all those seem "natural" somehow, but poison gas just touches some kind of primal fear and revulsion.
Go fig, but it explains a lot about wars even now. I wish it were otherwise as well.
Wow, a google search. What a scientific survey. The articles I pulled up point to NYC's Bloomberg wanting to stop recycling programs, because it costs more. Well duh, to anyone who believed it was cheaper, I got a recycled bridge to sell you. The article goes on to merely assert that it would be better if it went to a nice cheap cost-effective landfill, and simply ignores the whole issue of capacity, as if they had infinite space that will never become more expensive ... or even stay available. Landfills do close, but of course the article never explores the cost of opening a new landfill or maintaining the old one forever and ever.
I bet if I checked the article history of most of these authors, I'd find them shilling for other anti-environmental positions with no supporting evidence. Probably a good half of them probably deny the existence of global warming. 'round these parts we call that trolling.
I know San Francisco actually just processes solid waste like other cities process water: almost all of it gets run through waste processing. The garbage trucks simply don't go to the dump, they go to waste processing, where sorters pick through and sort it. What a shitty job (literally, think of all the diapers and cat litter).
Food waste from restaurants goes straight to a composting company that sells it to the Napa valley vineyards.
Feynbaum?
Perhaps you mean Feynmann. He was miles away, as was everyone else, at which point the radiation exposure is about what an hour of sunlight will get you. This was a small bomb, remember.
He also saw the fireball without any glasses on at all. Not the initial flash of course, but the fireball right afterward. Read his autobiography, Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr Feynmann where he covers it. Real interesting character. Got called at 2 in the morning when he won the Nobel Prize -- told them to call him back in the morning if they had something important to tell him.
The memory of WWI was still fresh in the mind of Germans. There were still disfigured vets dying painfully of exposure to chemical weapons. None of them wanted a repeat of that particular atrocity. The death camps were more of an "out of sight, out of mind" thing to most Germans, but chemical weapons would have been a repeat of the horrors of the last war. You don't feel like you're fighting for the good guys when your side uses the weapons that horrified the world in the last war.
A Bayesian inference model would not only take a while to train, it's only good for small populations of users. As soon as you have conflicting expectations, bayes goes out the window. It would be really prohibitive in CPU for yahoo to run such an inference on every query ... though for a browser extension, that would be quite doable and nifty.
We bumped off SCO and Maureen O'Gara is off the map.
You're next.
Sleep tight.
> From what I have heard ESR/RMS
... They're not exactly a pair, and ESR has nothing to do with the drafting of the GPL. Your sources are trolls.
ESR/RMS? That's like Torvalds/Yarro or Bush/Chomsky
Who gives a shit about prior art? What if the concept really is original? Do they deserve to sit on it and squeeze everyone else for 20 fucking years for it?
This sort of thing needs to stop NOW. Game companies that take out patents need to be boycotted when the word gets out to gaming fan sites, existing disks need to be returned to them in pieces.
But it won't happen. I guarantee it will never happen. We will bend over and ask for it harder and deeper once they dangle a few more shiny objects in front of us. And it'll be our fault. Fuck it, I think I'll still be allowed to go outside and have fun. But that will probably all be fenced off too.
What a wonderfully deep story ... wouldn't it be nice if it had a similar quality of acting to go with it? It's SO bad, it makes Hayden Christiansen look like James Earl Jones. Seriously, I wish I could get these games in Japanese with English subtitles just so that the horrid voice acting would at least not be so damned obvious and grating.
Of course I'd probably get subtitles on the order of the previous FF games, which didn't exactly contend for nobel prizes in literature either.
Funny thing that -- I actually use passwords that are embarrassing to say, which has the side effect of not revealing them to anyone. Stuff like "sm00chyk1ns" and "grumpygu5" (like that, those aren't actual passwords).
Those are the sorts of passwords I assign to people as well when they forget passwords (I'm not normally in a role of resetting passwords, but I have a few apps where I'm the gatekeeper). Gives people an incentive to change them.
That links shows FF isn't even in stable at all. This sort of makes my point.
... in quotes, because I'm not sure the philosophy is entirely sound.
Anyway, you need to re-read my statement: six months of feature freeze from Debian's repository -- this implies a snapshot, and ff was at 1.02 when the freeze started. Ubuntu has a different release model than Debian, so a release like Breezy is more like Debian experimental, and slowly becomes stable, while the stable release (Hoary) really is like Debian stable "and then some"
I'm told Ubuntu is moving to more like a Debian-like structure, with a permanently unstable branch (Grumpy Groundhog) to continuously update the next release (currently Breezy Badger) from. Or possibly grumpy will just be a permanent name for current unstable, like sid is for Debian.
> ubuntu is focused on desktops, for which bleeding edge is OK
Only Debian could call six months of feature freeze from Debian's unstable repository to be "bleeding edge". It's the same release cycle as fedora, except nothing ever gets upgraded but for security patches. Firefox is still at 1.02 even though every security patch has been backported (which makes it exactly 1.04) because of the phobia of changing version numbers lest something break.
Now on the pro- side: I was going to switch to Fedora myself, but these folks can't even be bothered to support my very common network hardware in their installer or port the ATI drivers to the current and only kernel version they support. Debian might move as slow as the tides, but they do lift all ships.
Sounds to me like you were provided a pretty reasonable level of technical support, and it was the product support that let you down. You can't blame the support engineers for this.
It sometimes works that way in open source too, though there's a decent chance support can come back. Case in point, fortran support in gcc: it looked like it was going to languish as a cheap F77 implementation forever, but only recently came back in force (still don't know how well it optimizes tho).
One unrelated note, Cowlishaw is also famous as the keeper of the IBM Jargon Dictionary - a tongue firmly in cheek listing of IBMisms.
Is this the same one that lists the FAMD -- "Forced Air Movement Device" -- a four-letter acronym for a three-letter word?
Rexx was pretty neat on the amiga as an IPC mechanism, namely REXX ports. As a language, I always found it pretty mediocre.
> if I click on column 50 after the end of a 30-character-long line, the cursor sticks there and I can start typing
... There's picture-mode, but that behaves differently than you expect (it's made for ascii line drawings). Rectangle copy and paste is also supported in emacs by holding down the alt key. It does appear to have the broken behavior of not extending the rectangle into anywhere there isn't already text, however. That would be far more difficult to fix, I'd say. I guess you could call that "coming up short".
It goes without saying that emacs is quite capable of this feature too. I thought it was built-in, but apparently not
If you're really particular about editors, really feel you need exotic behaviors, and don't hate emacs already (I love it, but I can certainly see the opposing points of view) then it's really worth your time to get to know emacs. Plus, you get a fairly gentle introduction to a classical lisp without the enormous crufty baggage that a COMMON-LISP-IMPLEMENTATION saddles you with.
Emacs also supports your mousewheel. I would never pay for an editor that lacked something so basic.
> My disgust with Perl is leading me to use Python for scripting.
You mean the same language that has no "use strict" at all? That one?
If you can't maintain reasonably written perl code, stay the hell away from my C. You're a code grinder, not a programmer.
I have looked all over that control panel. It has tabs for "Power Schemes", "Advanced", "Hibernate", and "UPS"
Under Power Schemes: a dropdown for presets that changes the dropdowns for the times after which various things will shut off.
Under Advanced: "Always show icon on the taskbar" and "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby". For power button, a dropdown for "when I press the power button on my computer", which is set to "shut down", but there's nothing indicating unconditional shut down. Another dropdown for the sleep button (which my computer doesn't even have)
For hibernate, there's a single "enable hibernation" checkbox, and an information box about how much space it takes
For UPS, well, that's for the UPS control. Gotta turn that UPS service back on one of these days, though the device itself is too flakey to be worth it.
Last I remember, it took a registry tweak or something with TweakUI or XSetup. Dialogs still block shutdowns indefinitely, since I haven't yet rediscovered the setting for forced shutdowns.