I think gambas is as close to the classic C-64 experience as you can get today. Ok they are not even similar, but both feature some kind of basic with graphics. So it should be good enough for learning to put together simple games (and that is what I did with my C-64 as soon as I knew some basic), as well as some more usefull stuff later.
If you want her to be a pro oo-programmer at the age of 6, maybe squeak would be an option.
Well, as far as I know, a beta is just the last step before a release candidate. So it should have all the features (and I consider the final look 'n feel a feature) of the final version. If a beta version crashes, it's not a problem as a beta version is there to find bugs. If you look at beta versions of kde for example, they always contain all the features and the look of the applications is barely distinguishable from the final version. So maybe it would have been better if MS had admitted that IE 7 is, if anything an alpha version, or even a tech demo (they show that they can also do tabbed browsing, wow!). It should be clear that MS have not improved IE over the last few years, and only kludged together IE 7 as an quick and dirty answer to the unexpected success of firefox.
Not sure, but I think I once saw that the box of toshiba laptops had seals that said, you agree with the various EULAs if you opened the box (it said something about some license, don't know which it was).
And what am I supposed to do if I want a notebook? I mean a nice notebook like a thinkpad or a hp. Not some strange chinese do-it-yourself barebone (do they even exist? without os? in Europe?). Well, hp announced that they will make their nc series notebooks 100% linux compatible, maybe they also switch to linux compatible os licensing.
And I guess the rest of them will just stop installing updates, with all the consequences that will arise. In the end I think this will get even more people to use OSS than it might seem first, as there are now 2 migration paths:
1. Don't wanna pay MS -> use linux or whatever
or 2. Don't wanna pay MS -> Keep using winxp without update -> loose all that nice data because of security hole -> use linux or whatever and be glad you do.
These are valid points, and it would be, from a scientific perspective, very interesting to know what did make 'the monkeys type so fast' or let us underestimate the number of monkeys or what ever (Iff sustaining life is really as unlikely as you stated, given the current scientific knowledge).
That is, as I understand science, exactly what science (physics, biology, mathematics...) is about. But in now way should arguments like those be used to explain the need for some higher instance, whose existance can not be explained or doesn't even need further explanation. I don't say that you want to do that, as 'not trusting' based on profound arguments is part of good science.
No there is a difference. Spammers misuse a cheap communication medium for unwanted advertising and nothing can stop them. So massive (mis)use of their own reply mechanism (btw. that was exactly what they wanted me to do by sending the spam in the first place) will drive the cost up for them (bandwidth etc.), so in theory at some point their action will be no longer profitable and they will stop. That's a different story than 'spam them becuse they spammed me'. It's about making spam unprofitable.
Sure, was some kind of 'freudian' typo (maybe I was thinking about quake 3 when I wrote it). I've read about a home-built railgun once ago here. BTW that guy is doing some other crazy stuff with large amounts of energy *g*.
You can see screaming, crying people on tv all the time. And like on the tv there will be, in theory, no visible effect after you release the trigger of you railgun (or switch program). People are used to this, so it will be psychologically much easier for the police to apply violence by a railgun, then to 'actually' hurt people.
Does anyone know, if a Microsoft license includes the same amount of support, you get from SuSE for the same price?
I mean, Microsoft have to put much more resources into os development than Novel/SuSE. Do they make money by selling licenses so cheap and giving support?
What a sick, sick old man. And somebody like him is allowed to write articles in a major newspaper? He does nothing than quoting an equally sick study about the monetary value of killing people and whining about his stupid habit of formating his harddisk every other day. That's just sad.
Will they print my article about how we could get rid of our budget deficit by executing some 10000 (or 100000 depending where you live) people per year.
If the price of crude oil keeps growing at the same rate it did in the last months, short distance flights (few hundred km) will become very, very unpopular very fast.
I can no longer hear all that stupid talk about linux dying because of this or that.
Get it: linux has not died 14 years ago, when exactly one person used it. And it will surely not die today, with millions of people using/developing it. Regardless of what apple, intel, microsoft or the maintainer of xscreensaver are doing (well maybe the uspto or epo matter, but...). As long as _I_ am allowed to use it, I don't give a damn.
Wow, after inventing the operating system, the graphical user interface, 32bit and the Internet, Microsoft finally has brought downloadable music to mankind.
An impressing, innovative company, indeed!
(don't forget the 8.3 filename that's still used for system files on up to 98% of computers in use today)
The fine thing about unix is that everyting is absolutely clear: You want your cd back, tell the computer to unmount it. If it is not ready to give back the cd, it will tell you. When it's ready press a button, take out the cd. Same thing with shutting down, simply type 'halt' the computer will turn off some seconds later. How much simpler can it get?
In the reality of most of the people who have not yet changed to another browser, IE 7 is the first browser that supports tabs. It's just like that blue 'e' that is 'The Internet'. (I'm not talking about people who run IE not only because it was installed when they got their computer)
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Didn't you read the headline? It's powering a tombstone. So there must be some kind of BSD involved.
I think gambas is as close to the classic C-64 experience as you can get today. Ok they are not even similar, but both feature some kind of basic with graphics. So it should be good enough for learning to put together simple games (and that is what I did with my C-64 as soon as I knew some basic), as well as some more usefull stuff later.
If you want her to be a pro oo-programmer at the age of 6, maybe squeak would be an option.
Well, as far as I know, a beta is just the last step before a release candidate. So it should have all the features (and I consider the final look 'n feel a feature) of the final version. If a beta version crashes, it's not a problem as a beta version is there to find bugs.
If you look at beta versions of kde for example, they always contain all the features and the look of the applications is barely distinguishable from the final version.
So maybe it would have been better if MS had admitted that IE 7 is, if anything an alpha version, or even a tech demo (they show that they can also do tabbed browsing, wow!).
It should be clear that MS have not improved IE over the last few years, and only kludged together IE 7 as an quick and dirty answer to the unexpected success of firefox.
Not sure, but I think I once saw that the box of toshiba laptops had seals that said, you agree with the various EULAs if you opened the box (it said something about some license, don't know which it was).
And what am I supposed to do if I want a notebook? I mean a nice notebook like a thinkpad or a hp. Not some strange chinese do-it-yourself barebone (do they even exist? without os? in Europe?). Well, hp announced that they will make their nc series notebooks 100% linux compatible, maybe they also switch to linux compatible os licensing.
And I guess the rest of them will just stop installing updates, with all the consequences that will arise.
In the end I think this will get even more people to use OSS than it might seem first, as there are now 2 migration paths:
1. Don't wanna pay MS -> use linux or whatever
or 2. Don't wanna pay MS -> Keep using winxp without update -> loose all that nice data because of security hole -> use linux or whatever and be glad you do.
Let google do the work:
me: '40 years * 16 bits per second in gigabyte'
google: (40 years) * 16 (bits per second) = 2.3511742 gigabyte
These are valid points, and it would be, from a scientific perspective, very interesting to know what did make 'the monkeys type so fast' or let us underestimate the number of monkeys or what ever (Iff sustaining life is really as unlikely as you stated, given the current scientific knowledge).
That is, as I understand science, exactly what science (physics, biology, mathematics...) is about.
But in now way should arguments like those be used to explain the need for some higher instance, whose existance can not be explained or doesn't even need further explanation.
I don't say that you want to do that, as 'not trusting' based on profound arguments is part of good science.
Maybe it's because 'XP'(r) looks like a smiley chocking on something really disgusting.
No there is a difference.
Spammers misuse a cheap communication medium for unwanted advertising and nothing can stop them. So massive (mis)use of their own reply mechanism (btw. that was exactly what they wanted me to do by sending the spam in the first place) will drive the cost up for them (bandwidth etc.), so in theory at some point their action will be no longer profitable and they will stop.
That's a different story than 'spam them becuse they spammed me'. It's about making spam unprofitable.
Sure, was some kind of 'freudian' typo (maybe I was thinking about quake 3 when I wrote it).
I've read about a home-built railgun once ago here. BTW that guy is doing some other crazy stuff with large amounts of energy *g*.
You can see screaming, crying people on tv all the time. And like on the tv there will be, in theory, no visible effect after you release the trigger of you railgun (or switch program).
People are used to this, so it will be psychologically much easier for the police to apply violence by a railgun, then to 'actually' hurt people.
Does anyone know, if a Microsoft license includes the same amount of support, you get from SuSE for the same price?
I mean, Microsoft have to put much more resources into os development than Novel/SuSE. Do they make money by selling licenses so cheap and giving support?
What a sick, sick old man.
And somebody like him is allowed to write articles in a major newspaper?
He does nothing than quoting an equally sick study about the monetary value of killing people and whining about his stupid habit of formating his harddisk every other day.
That's just sad.
Will they print my article about how we could get rid of our budget deficit by executing some 10000 (or 100000 depending where you live) people per year.
Exactly! This is what a journaling FS like ntfs is for!
Could not read the linked article but here is the abstract. Can not be complete bullshit.
If the price of crude oil keeps growing at the same rate it did in the last months, short distance flights (few hundred km) will become very, very unpopular very fast.
Uhm, are you really sure they can render scenes with more than 500M triangles?
Looking at the pictures from my area (Munich, Germany), I would say the pictures are from august or september 2004 (could also be 2003)
6 &spn=0.006480,0.009345&t=k&hl=en you can see the construction site of the new Munich soccer stadium. The transparent roof seems half done, so I would say not earlier than 2004.
1 &spn=0.012960,0.018690&t=k&hl=en are the tents of the Oktoberfest (at least people from Australia/Japan should know it). Looks like the picture was taken a few weeks before the opening end of september.
Here http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.218275,11.62487
Here http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.132391,11.54914
Fairly recent pictures for the money, I would say.
I can no longer hear all that stupid talk about linux dying because of this or that.
...). As long as _I_ am allowed to use it, I don't give a damn.
Get it: linux has not died 14 years ago, when exactly one person used it. And it will surely not die today, with millions of people using/developing it. Regardless of what apple, intel, microsoft or the maintainer of xscreensaver are doing (well maybe the uspto or epo matter, but
Wow, after inventing the operating system, the graphical user interface, 32bit and the Internet, Microsoft finally has brought downloadable music to mankind.
An impressing, innovative company, indeed!
(don't forget the 8.3 filename that's still used for system files on up to 98% of computers in use today)
'pwrgrd' looks like something straight out of my c:/windows/system32 directory, and 325 would be one of that strange 'build' numbers.
/usr/lib/libpowergrid.so.0.3.25 and after you have upgraded from version 0.3.23 you do not have to restart the computer.
On linux that thing is called
The fine thing about unix is that everyting is absolutely clear:
You want your cd back, tell the computer to unmount it. If it is not ready to give back the cd, it will tell you. When it's ready press a button, take out the cd.
Same thing with shutting down, simply type 'halt' the computer will turn off some seconds later. How much simpler can it get?
In the reality of most of the people who have not yet changed to another browser, IE 7 is the first browser that supports tabs. It's just like that blue 'e' that is 'The Internet'. (I'm not talking about people who run IE not only because it was installed when they got their computer)
Just out of interest: last time I checked, macs only had what I would consider a middle mouse button. So how do you open a link not in a new tab?