I'm not saying it's bad... I'm saying it's juvenile. If our society had a mature attitude toward sex, we wouldn't ban booth babes, and yes they might still be employed, but we wouldn't make such a big honking deal out of them.
I'm offended at the objectification aspect. Not objectification in general, I don't have a problem with objectification among the willing, good looks is good looks, and if you want to flaunt it, great.. but the really juvenile point-and-giggle-and-ogle objectification. Systematic objectification so undersocialized males can get their jollies or be drawn like moths to a booth at a goddam tech convention.
I don't think I'm a goddam prude to be offended at the degree of cynical manipulation going on.
Of all things to show off... Killzone. Perhaps they can add a tagline to Killzone 2 of something like "Now with actual gameplay!".
I played Killzone in the playstation store at the Metreon. Basically, you have a lane like a trench or a path that you're forced to go down, while enemies parade in front of you or come at you and you shoot them down. It's like one of those arcade shooters with the lightgun.. basically you sit there and shoot targets, and occasionally a scene plays where you're told to move to the next area or defend the next objective.
It's actually fairly realistic... for WWI-style trench warfare.
I don't trust Sony's claims either, but I do trust them to deliver a good-enough gaming system with truckloads of games, about half of which will be shovelware, but the remaining half will still swamp competing systems in terms of variety. So yes, I'll probably take the PS3 over the XBox360 unless the 360 can really dazzle me with its lineup.
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> What you are supposed to do is do a quick Google search on "Solaris Zones"
That might have been what I would do if the article posting actually contained the word "Solaris" anywhere in it. Which one doesn't usually expect for articles posted in the Linux section of Slashdot.
I don't know why I get so personally offended by the shoddy quality of slashdot journalism. I think it's because I feel insulted, or perhaps it's shadenfreude, based on the fact that I personally could do better if I were editing the articles on the fourth night of a week-long bender, yet Taco and Hemos and company are the ones who made out like bandits. I just have to remember that life's not fair, and to take my joys where they are, I guess...
Hormel doesn't even mind if you use the word "Spam" in your trademark, as long as:
1) It's not all caps. The anti-spam groups like nanae and SPAM-L will dogpile all over you as a n00b or marketroid if you use all caps (presumably LISTSERV is exempt from this derision, given the list name)
2) It doesn't comprise the majority of the trademark name. Brightmail Anti-Spam, Baraccuda Spam Firewall, SpamAssassin, etc. Sticking just one letter in front of "spam" makes it sound like a variety of the canned stuff. Not everyone is clued into english idiom to make the distinction.
What mom and pop want is Quickbooks. Try and sell them on GNUCash, and they'll respond "That's nice, where's Quickbooks"? And they'll have a reason for that question, believe me.
Mom and pop pay some nice people $20 a month for their business's webserver and email, and they're more than willing to eat that cost if it means someone else looks after the computer (which includes the hardware and the net connectivity as well).
Linux is a fine desktop, and does great on the server. Web surfing, check, email, check, web serving check, databases, check. It does lousy on the mid-end. Appointments? Billing? Bookkeeping? Where do you start? Freshmeat?
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Bah. The whitespace thing is not all that bad unless you have funky editor requirements. Editing python in a textarea is hell. Do not attempt. Otherwise, it simply doesn't even bite me, and is only occasionally annoying.
I think python's weird "half-closed" ranges, the fact that "print" is a hardwired built-in and not a first class function, its lack of real closures (they're still read-only), crippled lambda compared to sub and anonymous blocks (I'll give ruby the win there), surprising behavior like list and hash default function args always aliasing the same value... those are all real and technical reasons to hate python.
Of course I have a laundry list of hates for perl too, but anyone who uses a language long enough will garner such a list. Familiarity breeds contempt. And to be fair, python has lots of nice things. I thought list comprehensions were nice, but generator comprehensions are the bees knees.
The whitespace thing just isn't an issue. You just can't do one-liners effectively, that's all.
Why does everyone link CGI and perl like they were the same.
I write my CGI apps in bash. Yes, bash. Pipelines are fun and nearly unparalleled in any language for their power and flexibility, and I have a vast function library in the filesystem. Obviously this is neither secure nor performant, but that's the quick and dirty start.
When it needs to get more complex, I'll put it in perl either as mason components or a FastCGI. More FastCGI, less mason these days. Some of my stuff works better in python because it gets a boost from psyco, but from that point I start looking at a CGI app in good ol C++ (with a CGI library of course).
Long as we're plugging toolkits, I'll put in one for Template Toolkit. Probably a better bet than Mason if you're just looking for a template engine (Mason's better for complex components, especially ones that break, since it always gives you backtraces)
When I write Java in Eclipse that isn't a web app (believe it or not that exists), it's like there's no compiler at all. I save, things get compiled. This confused the heck out of me at first (it's apparently on by default), but I came to love it. Also, if I make a typo or braino, eclipse instantly shows it to me without having to wait for a compile cycle. Does NetBeans have this feature, or do I have to explicitly invoke the compiler all the time?
Not to mention toon-ish powerup graphics so hardcore players could spot them across the map. And a dumbed-down lighting model.. Q2 had realtime radiosity lighting, and people bitched about fuzzy shadows. Well look the hell around: if there's more than one light in the room, I guarantee your damn shadow is fuzzy. Running speed in Q2 was more realistic, though I'll grant that needed to be cranked up a bit for gaming effect.
Hell, the assault rifle in Q2 even had muzzle climb that you had to fight. Not that any of the other weapons were terribly realistic, but I thought that was still a nice touch.
Hey mods, this is why downmodding people you disagree with doesn't work.
Not to mention toon-ish powerup graphics so hardcore players could spot them across the map. And a dumbed-down lighting model.. Q2 had realtime radiosity lighting, and people bitched about fuzzy shadows. Well look the hell around: if there's more than one light in the room, I guarantee your damn shadow is fuzzy. Running speed in Q2 was more realistic, though I'll grant that needed to be cranked up a bit for gaming effect.
Hell, the assault rifle in Q2 even had muzzle climb that you had to fight. Not that any of the other weapons were terribly realistic, but I thought that was still a nice touch.
Like the next respondent said, the aerobic zone. It's the ideal range, where they tell you to "get your heart rate up", where it should be.
Basically it's 220 - your age. Pretty easy. The HRM makes it so you don't have to STOP and take your pulse and count and all that rot, you just glance down. Actually my polar beeps, so I don't even have to do that.
Now if I had a "zone" in the sense like the fitness junkies talk about, I'd actually be using the damn thing. So yes, I hear you. Hiking always interested me too, and now I live in a city where things aren't hikeable (and frankly, parks don't excite me). Time to find something else I guess.
It's funny. I fact-checked my story, and I was wrong on a lot of things. They weren't a joint venture, they were a two-person consulting company (Xenix involved Microsoft, but not quite the way I had thought). Tarantella might not have been "happy to be rid of the SCO name"... but that you presume to correct me on what is easily verified by literally thousands of news sites...
Amazing. Yes, the new SCO is The SCO Group. The name change from Caldera to the new name took place the year after the sale. SCO Inc is gone for good. You trying to tell me that there was no trademark transferred, and that the new name is just another legal maneuver?
Geeks in general don't exercise as much as they should. Lack of exercise leads to depression in a big way. Cut 40 minutes off your other hobby projects and get some good hard exercise, exercise as in you're in the zone for a solid 15 minutes at least. Go get a Polar monitor, it's a nifty gadget (mmm gadgets) that will tell you for sure when you're in the zone. For most people, it's less effort than they think -- you don't have to exhaust yourself to get your heart rate up, though it's pretty punishing to keep it up for the first couple weeks.
If you exercise regularly, your mind will be sharper, and you'll write better code. This I guarantee.
My polar HRM is of course gathering dust. I need to take my own advice.
This is the second time I heard them called "Santa Clara Operations". It's "The Santa Cruz Operation". They were a joint venture with Microsoft to write a port of Unix System V to the 8086 and 8088. They called this port Xenix. Microsoft was supposed to pay SCO licensing for Xenix, but since they never used it, they figured they didn't have to pay SCO. SCO demanded rights to Xenix back, and got it.
For a while, SCO Unix sort of held its own on cost. The damn thing didn't even come with TCP/IP (you had to buy it from Excelan or another vendor) but once you got it up, you could run backoffice apps like order printing on the cheap, and it was reliable enough as long as you had a competent admin. They later grew into a bloated corporate entity with an increasingly shoddy product, but they had a moment in the sun. Later, the same company went on to produce products like Reflection (a rather good terminal emulator package, later sold off to WRQ and becoming Reflection X), and Tarantella, which was like VNC well before VNC. Tarantella was the most successful SCO product ever, and eventually SCO changed its name to match the product.
Tarantella sold off the name SCO to Caldera, a company whose history I know less of, except that they appear to be the working retirement package for Novell executives. Since Novell was going nowhere with their shiny new trophy -- the Unix name -- they sold it off to Caldera. Additionally, they bought the SCO name from Tarantella, who appeared more than happy to be rid of it. They started a not-terribly-well-received commercial Linux distribution, but also poured quite a lot of resources into free software development including KDE and various network utilities.
All was pretty happy for a while until a major shareholder, The Canopy Group then led by Ralph Yarro III, decided that this Linux thing wasn't really all that hot after all, and decided to kick Ransom Love out and replace him with Darl McBride -- another former Novell exec. McBride apparently agreed with Yarro that the demise of Project Monterey, a joint venture with IBM that scuttled SCO's prospects (that is, Caldera SCO, not Tarantella SCO) when it went away, meant that IBM had to pay, and pay hard, and that since they went with Linux, Linux had to pay too.
The rest you can read on Groklaw. I have to get back to work:) Just remember, the company bearing the name SCO is Caldera, a former puppet of the Canopy group, now running on McBride's and Yarro's egos alone. The original SCO is now soon to be a division of Sun, though it's not as if anyone even working there is from "the old SCO" either.
The thing that always got me about Civ was the level of absolute control: every building, every unit, every city, every road, every movement was absolutely up to you, and your orders would be followed without delay or question.
Now imagine if corruption in a remote province meant that payment to the garrison was skimmed, and your soldiers there weren't getting payed. What if those disgruntled soldiers decided to back a renegade province that had been looking for a way to secede? In Civ, this sort of thing never happens. Civ3 added cultural influence, but it was laughably predictable. I'm not looking for a super-realistic nation-sim, but golly, how about a little advancement in the state of the art?
Great, it's high-gloss plastic. Does Nintendo make product testers wear cotton gloves? Because this thing is going to be just covered in fingerprints in no time. Wonder how many people are going to end up with lint and windex in the disc port.
Hell, I'm 32, and I just bought my first console (a PS2) only six months ago. I haven't lived under a rock, and I've played console games before, but this was my first buy. I suspect I'm at the tail end of the demographic though; no one with kids is buying these for themselves, that's for sure.
What a load of hooey. Having a stance that can be summed up with "I don't like all that miscellaneous baggage that goes with diamonds -- the marketing pressure, the wars funded by them, the cartel" in no way obligates the utterer of the sentiment to hold other moral stances, nor does it even require them to be so strident that they must be holding a bullhorn and passing out leaflets. I should hope that his love interest respects his views and doesn't place him in the position of violating the principles or having to make it a contest of wills and moral positions just so she can show some bling.
It's another geek thing, that moral decisions must be representable in absolutes, in code, binary, precondition->functional-spec->postcondition, whatever. It's bullshit. He doesn't like diamonds, and that's his prerogative, and it has no bearing whatsoever on sweatshop-produced shoes or dolphin-safe tuna.
And maybe he'll spend the money he saves on a nicer wedding. Golly, there's a thinker.
Geez, the fanboys are just popping out of the woodwork. I said "nearly even". The Xbox is clearly better, yes, and when it comes to HDTV output, the PS2 doesn't even play. However, it manages for the most part to hold its own, sometimes barely, even with the older tech, for games like GT4.
That's pretty nifty... I might even switch back to Hoary and use the backports instead of switching to Fedora. The lack of mixing 32-bit and 64-bit still has me fairly vexed however, and I think bluecurve is purty, but I have always loved using aptitude for packages... if only I could make the 'C' key command to list changes actually work, I'd really love aptitude.
Yes, I know fedora has apt, and I could use aptitude, but apt isn't bi-arch compatible... come to think, that's probably why Debian makes me use a chroot in the first place.
The kernel already supports 32 bit binaries, and in fact supports it by default. Debian however is not designed to maintain installations of 32 bit binaries within the same tree as 64 bit binaries, at least not in terms of managing the entire system this way. This results in a "cleaner" system, but presents difficulties when one simply wants to cherry-pick a few binaries like firefox and ghc.
Plainly you don't even run a 64 bit system, so what possessed you to lecture me about it?
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> Even at Harvard, someone must be at the bottom of the class. In fact, about half are below average.
That only holds for a bell curve. See my sig and think on it.
I'm not saying it's bad ... I'm saying it's juvenile. If our society had a mature attitude toward sex, we wouldn't ban booth babes, and yes they might still be employed, but we wouldn't make such a big honking deal out of them.
I'm offended at the objectification aspect. Not objectification in general, I don't have a problem with objectification among the willing, good looks is good looks, and if you want to flaunt it, great.. but the really juvenile point-and-giggle-and-ogle objectification. Systematic objectification so undersocialized males can get their jollies or be drawn like moths to a booth at a goddam tech convention.
I don't think I'm a goddam prude to be offended at the degree of cynical manipulation going on.
Of all things to show off ... Killzone. Perhaps they can add a tagline to Killzone 2 of something like "Now with actual gameplay!".
.. basically you sit there and shoot targets, and occasionally a scene plays where you're told to move to the next area or defend the next objective.
... for WWI-style trench warfare.
I played Killzone in the playstation store at the Metreon. Basically, you have a lane like a trench or a path that you're forced to go down, while enemies parade in front of you or come at you and you shoot them down. It's like one of those arcade shooters with the lightgun
It's actually fairly realistic
I don't trust Sony's claims either, but I do trust them to deliver a good-enough gaming system with truckloads of games, about half of which will be shovelware, but the remaining half will still swamp competing systems in terms of variety. So yes, I'll probably take the PS3 over the XBox360 unless the 360 can really dazzle me with its lineup.
> What you are supposed to do is do a quick Google search on "Solaris Zones"
That might have been what I would do if the article posting actually contained the word "Solaris" anywhere in it. Which one doesn't usually expect for articles posted in the Linux section of Slashdot.
I don't know why I get so personally offended by the shoddy quality of slashdot journalism. I think it's because I feel insulted, or perhaps it's shadenfreude, based on the fact that I personally could do better if I were editing the articles on the fourth night of a week-long bender, yet Taco and Hemos and company are the ones who made out like bandits. I just have to remember that life's not fair, and to take my joys where they are, I guess...
Hormel doesn't even mind if you use the word "Spam" in your trademark, as long as:
1) It's not all caps. The anti-spam groups like nanae and SPAM-L will dogpile all over you as a n00b or marketroid if you use all caps (presumably LISTSERV is exempt from this derision, given the list name)
2) It doesn't comprise the majority of the trademark name. Brightmail Anti-Spam, Baraccuda Spam Firewall, SpamAssassin, etc. Sticking just one letter in front of "spam" makes it sound like a variety of the canned stuff. Not everyone is clued into english idiom to make the distinction.
What mom and pop want is Quickbooks. Try and sell them on GNUCash, and they'll respond "That's nice, where's Quickbooks"? And they'll have a reason for that question, believe me.
Mom and pop pay some nice people $20 a month for their business's webserver and email, and they're more than willing to eat that cost if it means someone else looks after the computer (which includes the hardware and the net connectivity as well).
Linux is a fine desktop, and does great on the server. Web surfing, check, email, check, web serving check, databases, check. It does lousy on the mid-end. Appointments? Billing? Bookkeeping? Where do you start? Freshmeat?
Bah. The whitespace thing is not all that bad unless you have funky editor requirements. Editing python in a textarea is hell. Do not attempt. Otherwise, it simply doesn't even bite me, and is only occasionally annoying.
... those are all real and technical reasons to hate python.
I think python's weird "half-closed" ranges, the fact that "print" is a hardwired built-in and not a first class function, its lack of real closures (they're still read-only), crippled lambda compared to sub and anonymous blocks (I'll give ruby the win there), surprising behavior like list and hash default function args always aliasing the same value
Of course I have a laundry list of hates for perl too, but anyone who uses a language long enough will garner such a list. Familiarity breeds contempt. And to be fair, python has lots of nice things. I thought list comprehensions were nice, but generator comprehensions are the bees knees.
The whitespace thing just isn't an issue. You just can't do one-liners effectively, that's all.
Why does everyone link CGI and perl like they were the same.
I write my CGI apps in bash. Yes, bash. Pipelines are fun and nearly unparalleled in any language for their power and flexibility, and I have a vast function library in the filesystem. Obviously this is neither secure nor performant, but that's the quick and dirty start.
When it needs to get more complex, I'll put it in perl either as mason components or a FastCGI. More FastCGI, less mason these days. Some of my stuff works better in python because it gets a boost from psyco, but from that point I start looking at a CGI app in good ol C++ (with a CGI library of course).
Long as we're plugging toolkits, I'll put in one for Template Toolkit. Probably a better bet than Mason if you're just looking for a template engine (Mason's better for complex components, especially ones that break, since it always gives you backtraces)
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I hope this map helps you and the dozen other respondents.
When I write Java in Eclipse that isn't a web app (believe it or not that exists), it's like there's no compiler at all. I save, things get compiled. This confused the heck out of me at first (it's apparently on by default), but I came to love it. Also, if I make a typo or braino, eclipse instantly shows it to me without having to wait for a compile cycle. Does NetBeans have this feature, or do I have to explicitly invoke the compiler all the time?
Not to mention toon-ish powerup graphics so hardcore players could spot them across the map. And a dumbed-down lighting model .. Q2 had realtime radiosity lighting, and people bitched about fuzzy shadows. Well look the hell around: if there's more than one light in the room, I guarantee your damn shadow is fuzzy. Running speed in Q2 was more realistic, though I'll grant that needed to be cranked up a bit for gaming effect.
Hell, the assault rifle in Q2 even had muzzle climb that you had to fight. Not that any of the other weapons were terribly realistic, but I thought that was still a nice touch.
Hey mods, this is why downmodding people you disagree with doesn't work.
> Uh, no. (- 220 age) is an estimate for your maximum heart rate.
Oops! Yes, you're right. Good thing I have my monitor instead of relying on my memory!
Not to mention toon-ish powerup graphics so hardcore players could spot them across the map. And a dumbed-down lighting model .. Q2 had realtime radiosity lighting, and people bitched about fuzzy shadows. Well look the hell around: if there's more than one light in the room, I guarantee your damn shadow is fuzzy. Running speed in Q2 was more realistic, though I'll grant that needed to be cranked up a bit for gaming effect.
Hell, the assault rifle in Q2 even had muzzle climb that you had to fight. Not that any of the other weapons were terribly realistic, but I thought that was still a nice touch.
Like the next respondent said, the aerobic zone. It's the ideal range, where they tell you to "get your heart rate up", where it should be.
Basically it's 220 - your age. Pretty easy. The HRM makes it so you don't have to STOP and take your pulse and count and all that rot, you just glance down. Actually my polar beeps, so I don't even have to do that.
Now if I had a "zone" in the sense like the fitness junkies talk about, I'd actually be using the damn thing. So yes, I hear you. Hiking always interested me too, and now I live in a city where things aren't hikeable (and frankly, parks don't excite me). Time to find something else I guess.
> There is no evidence of that whatsoever. None.
... but that you presume to correct me on what is easily verified by literally thousands of news sites...
It's funny. I fact-checked my story, and I was wrong on a lot of things. They weren't a joint venture, they were a two-person consulting company (Xenix involved Microsoft, but not quite the way I had thought). Tarantella might not have been "happy to be rid of the SCO name"
Amazing. Yes, the new SCO is The SCO Group. The name change from Caldera to the new name took place the year after the sale. SCO Inc is gone for good. You trying to tell me that there was no trademark transferred, and that the new name is just another legal maneuver?
Amazing.
Geeks in general don't exercise as much as they should. Lack of exercise leads to depression in a big way. Cut 40 minutes off your other hobby projects and get some good hard exercise, exercise as in you're in the zone for a solid 15 minutes at least. Go get a Polar monitor, it's a nifty gadget (mmm gadgets) that will tell you for sure when you're in the zone. For most people, it's less effort than they think -- you don't have to exhaust yourself to get your heart rate up, though it's pretty punishing to keep it up for the first couple weeks.
If you exercise regularly, your mind will be sharper, and you'll write better code. This I guarantee.
My polar HRM is of course gathering dust. I need to take my own advice.
Set anal probes to stun:
:) Just remember, the company bearing the name SCO is Caldera, a former puppet of the Canopy group, now running on McBride's and Yarro's egos alone. The original SCO is now soon to be a division of Sun, though it's not as if anyone even working there is from "the old SCO" either.
This is the second time I heard them called "Santa Clara Operations". It's "The Santa Cruz Operation". They were a joint venture with Microsoft to write a port of Unix System V to the 8086 and 8088. They called this port Xenix. Microsoft was supposed to pay SCO licensing for Xenix, but since they never used it, they figured they didn't have to pay SCO. SCO demanded rights to Xenix back, and got it.
For a while, SCO Unix sort of held its own on cost. The damn thing didn't even come with TCP/IP (you had to buy it from Excelan or another vendor) but once you got it up, you could run backoffice apps like order printing on the cheap, and it was reliable enough as long as you had a competent admin. They later grew into a bloated corporate entity with an increasingly shoddy product, but they had a moment in the sun. Later, the same company went on to produce products like Reflection (a rather good terminal emulator package, later sold off to WRQ and becoming Reflection X), and Tarantella, which was like VNC well before VNC. Tarantella was the most successful SCO product ever, and eventually SCO changed its name to match the product.
Tarantella sold off the name SCO to Caldera, a company whose history I know less of, except that they appear to be the working retirement package for Novell executives. Since Novell was going nowhere with their shiny new trophy -- the Unix name -- they sold it off to Caldera. Additionally, they bought the SCO name from Tarantella, who appeared more than happy to be rid of it. They started a not-terribly-well-received commercial Linux distribution, but also poured quite a lot of resources into free software development including KDE and various network utilities.
All was pretty happy for a while until a major shareholder, The Canopy Group then led by Ralph Yarro III, decided that this Linux thing wasn't really all that hot after all, and decided to kick Ransom Love out and replace him with Darl McBride -- another former Novell exec. McBride apparently agreed with Yarro that the demise of Project Monterey, a joint venture with IBM that scuttled SCO's prospects (that is, Caldera SCO, not Tarantella SCO) when it went away, meant that IBM had to pay, and pay hard, and that since they went with Linux, Linux had to pay too.
The rest you can read on Groklaw. I have to get back to work
The thing that always got me about Civ was the level of absolute control: every building, every unit, every city, every road, every movement was absolutely up to you, and your orders would be followed without delay or question.
Now imagine if corruption in a remote province meant that payment to the garrison was skimmed, and your soldiers there weren't getting payed. What if those disgruntled soldiers decided to back a renegade province that had been looking for a way to secede? In Civ, this sort of thing never happens. Civ3 added cultural influence, but it was laughably predictable. I'm not looking for a super-realistic nation-sim, but golly, how about a little advancement in the state of the art?
Great, it's high-gloss plastic. Does Nintendo make product testers wear cotton gloves? Because this thing is going to be just covered in fingerprints in no time. Wonder how many people are going to end up with lint and windex in the disc port.
Hell, I'm 32, and I just bought my first console (a PS2) only six months ago. I haven't lived under a rock, and I've played console games before, but this was my first buy. I suspect I'm at the tail end of the demographic though; no one with kids is buying these for themselves, that's for sure.
What a load of hooey. Having a stance that can be summed up with "I don't like all that miscellaneous baggage that goes with diamonds -- the marketing pressure, the wars funded by them, the cartel" in no way obligates the utterer of the sentiment to hold other moral stances, nor does it even require them to be so strident that they must be holding a bullhorn and passing out leaflets. I should hope that his love interest respects his views and doesn't place him in the position of violating the principles or having to make it a contest of wills and moral positions just so she can show some bling.
It's another geek thing, that moral decisions must be representable in absolutes, in code, binary, precondition->functional-spec->postcondition, whatever. It's bullshit. He doesn't like diamonds, and that's his prerogative, and it has no bearing whatsoever on sweatshop-produced shoes or dolphin-safe tuna.
And maybe he'll spend the money he saves on a nicer wedding. Golly, there's a thinker.
Geez, the fanboys are just popping out of the woodwork. I said "nearly even". The Xbox is clearly better, yes, and when it comes to HDTV output, the PS2 doesn't even play. However, it manages for the most part to hold its own, sometimes barely, even with the older tech, for games like GT4.
That's pretty nifty ... I might even switch back to Hoary and use the backports instead of switching to Fedora. The lack of mixing 32-bit and 64-bit still has me fairly vexed however, and I think bluecurve is purty, but I have always loved using aptitude for packages ... if only I could make the 'C' key command to list changes actually work, I'd really love aptitude.
Yes, I know fedora has apt, and I could use aptitude, but apt isn't bi-arch compatible... come to think, that's probably why Debian makes me use a chroot in the first place.
The kernel already supports 32 bit binaries, and in fact supports it by default. Debian however is not designed to maintain installations of 32 bit binaries within the same tree as 64 bit binaries, at least not in terms of managing the entire system this way. This results in a "cleaner" system, but presents difficulties when one simply wants to cherry-pick a few binaries like firefox and ghc.
Plainly you don't even run a 64 bit system, so what possessed you to lecture me about it?
> In 2008, Taiwan must release full control to the mainland. In not, China will invade.
What an utter load of shit. Do you have anything to back this up?
> The mindset of China spans thousands of years. The culture of the chinese could give a damn about modern day politics.
If this were true, doesn't this directly contradict the first statement?