There were tonnes of expansion sets for MindStorms. Ultimate Accessory Set, Ultimate Builders Set, RoboSports, Droid Developer Kit, Dark Side Development Kit, Exploration Mars, Robotics Discovery Set, Vision Command, Extreme Creatures, the Lego Education only sensors and other equipment (e.g. solar cells, capacitors, sound sensors), any homebrew sensors you would care to make (there are instructions on how to build many different types of sensors for very little money: certainly less than Lego would charge for them) as well as any other technic set around.
I think that you are wrong about that. I know many people who would like to start programming yet have no idea how to get started. Most people could handle RCX code, it is just a flowchart-based language and we used to do more complicated things than that in school!
They can't get a trademark on 'Windows' because it is a generic term (or something like that), thus they lied to him when they told him that they did own a trademark on the name.
If it allows greater hardware support then yes. Maybe more manufacturers would be interested in developing Linux drivers if they didn't have to release new ones for every kernel version, regardless of whether or not the actual driver does anything new.
To combat drivers causing the entire system to become unstable, the kernel could have a built in mechanism to unload these binary drivers if they start misbehaving and replace them with a safe, generic driver included in the kernel.
Would this stable API need to actually be in the kernel itself if the kernel developers are against it? Couldn't these companies start a separate project which can maintain it is they really think that it is needed? Then the main kernel developers wouldn't need to worry about breaking compatibility as this separate project would fix it at their end.
I don't think that binary compatibility between kernel versions would be needed (though no doubt hardware manufacturers would appreciate it) so as long as the source compatibility is maintained, it will be easy for manufacturers to support new kernels: all that will be required is a recompile (their installer could determine the correct version to download).
The OpenOffice file format consists of a zip file with the XML file inside it and some other files, including the embedded image files. So although the images aren't embedded into the XML, they *are* embedded into the document.
When the XML file links to these images (or whatever they are), they link to these oens stored in the zip file so it isn't really inferior. If anything, it is better because you can extract the images from the document more easily.
Don't they cost the same as.net anyway? Surely it is better to use.com for any site if you can as it is most commonly used so people are more likely to remember it!
It is a pain to keep switching between OSs. Regardless of how bad Windows may be, it is still an inconvenience to reboot just to play a game. And anyway, Windows isn't so bad (read the whole thing before you moan) if you use it correctly. In fact, Windows XP is so modular that you can rip out all of the rubbish (from IE to explorer) and replace it with whatever you choose - as I have done.
The result is that Windows is fairly safe from all kinds of attacks, doesn't crash so often and is very quick to boot up (24 seconds for me on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 512bm RAM - 20 seconds of which is the POST screen, 5 seconds of that is the stupid nVidia thing as the beginning).
With any luck, those people who have got some games won't be disappointed - now Apple is on x86, what is stopping them creating a WINE-like program (or better still, just helping WINE)?
Why not release MacOS X for standard PCs but state that it will never work as well as it would on Apple hardware - thus giving people a (very complete) taster and if they want it even better (and I doubt it would be much better), but Apple hardware too?
Why? Because he never would've tried/used it without there being more games for it. You can't really recommend something that you have never actually used.
In other words, you are paying more for a brand, not a superior product (though actually, I think that Macs are nicer to use but certainly not superior with regards to performance). You also pay a lot because it looks nice and Apple knows that you can't get nice-looking computers anywhere else.
Maybe the reason that they don't work with the open source community more often is that nobody ever tells them what it wrong. He did say that if anybdy found problems with Microsoft products working with other ones then he would like to know about it so he can try and fix the problem - maybe he actually would try and fix it, I doubt many people actually go to Microsoft for help when they discover such issues, they just seem to slag them off, saying that Microsoft wouldn't care (when they don't really know that for certain).
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On BBC News 24, it said that she wasn't in "excellent general health" but that she couldn't eat or chew properly. The article istelf says this too.
The parent can't help it. It's in his DNA after all!
There were tonnes of expansion sets for MindStorms. Ultimate Accessory Set, Ultimate Builders Set, RoboSports, Droid Developer Kit, Dark Side Development Kit, Exploration Mars, Robotics Discovery Set, Vision Command, Extreme Creatures, the Lego Education only sensors and other equipment (e.g. solar cells, capacitors, sound sensors), any homebrew sensors you would care to make (there are instructions on how to build many different types of sensors for very little money: certainly less than Lego would charge for them) as well as any other technic set around.
I think that you are wrong about that. I know many people who would like to start programming yet have no idea how to get started. Most people could handle RCX code, it is just a flowchart-based language and we used to do more complicated things than that in school!
They can't get a trademark on 'Windows' because it is a generic term (or something like that), thus they lied to him when they told him that they did own a trademark on the name.
If it allows greater hardware support then yes. Maybe more manufacturers would be interested in developing Linux drivers if they didn't have to release new ones for every kernel version, regardless of whether or not the actual driver does anything new.
To combat drivers causing the entire system to become unstable, the kernel could have a built in mechanism to unload these binary drivers if they start misbehaving and replace them with a safe, generic driver included in the kernel.
Would this stable API need to actually be in the kernel itself if the kernel developers are against it? Couldn't these companies start a separate project which can maintain it is they really think that it is needed? Then the main kernel developers wouldn't need to worry about breaking compatibility as this separate project would fix it at their end.
I don't think that binary compatibility between kernel versions would be needed (though no doubt hardware manufacturers would appreciate it) so as long as the source compatibility is maintained, it will be easy for manufacturers to support new kernels: all that will be required is a recompile (their installer could determine the correct version to download).
I have heard nothing about it on the BBC News on TV but the BBC website seems to have some articles about it (nothing on the front page though).
Well, I don't like MS MSQL Server but that is just me (nothing to do with it being Microsoft of non-free, it just doesn't suit me).
The OpenOffice file format consists of a zip file with the XML file inside it and some other files, including the embedded image files. So although the images aren't embedded into the XML, they *are* embedded into the document. When the XML file links to these images (or whatever they are), they link to these oens stored in the zip file so it isn't really inferior. If anything, it is better because you can extract the images from the document more easily.
Does anybody know if there is a feed avalible for it rather than just the audio? It isn't really a podcast without one.
That's because they are only considering it.
No, what she is saying is that by the time the atmosphere goes again, we will likely have the ability to stop it.
"OSX is just a nice gui on a BSD kernel." But it isn't.
Don't they cost the same as .net anyway? Surely it is better to use .com for any site if you can as it is most commonly used so people are more likely to remember it!
It is a pain to keep switching between OSs. Regardless of how bad Windows may be, it is still an inconvenience to reboot just to play a game. And anyway, Windows isn't so bad (read the whole thing before you moan) if you use it correctly. In fact, Windows XP is so modular that you can rip out all of the rubbish (from IE to explorer) and replace it with whatever you choose - as I have done. The result is that Windows is fairly safe from all kinds of attacks, doesn't crash so often and is very quick to boot up (24 seconds for me on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 512bm RAM - 20 seconds of which is the POST screen, 5 seconds of that is the stupid nVidia thing as the beginning).
With any luck, those people who have got some games won't be disappointed - now Apple is on x86, what is stopping them creating a WINE-like program (or better still, just helping WINE)?
That website already has a link to information on having it run natively.
Why not release MacOS X for standard PCs but state that it will never work as well as it would on Apple hardware - thus giving people a (very complete) taster and if they want it even better (and I doubt it would be much better), but Apple hardware too?
Why? Because he never would've tried/used it without there being more games for it. You can't really recommend something that you have never actually used.
In other words, you are paying more for a brand, not a superior product (though actually, I think that Macs are nicer to use but certainly not superior with regards to performance). You also pay a lot because it looks nice and Apple knows that you can't get nice-looking computers anywhere else.
Maybe the reason that they don't work with the open source community more often is that nobody ever tells them what it wrong. He did say that if anybdy found problems with Microsoft products working with other ones then he would like to know about it so he can try and fix the problem - maybe he actually would try and fix it, I doubt many people actually go to Microsoft for help when they discover such issues, they just seem to slag them off, saying that Microsoft wouldn't care (when they don't really know that for certain).
I could see that one coming...
Here here!
He will be gutted.