Hmm? I run emacs fine on Windows, natively too. Everything works as expected, I can byte-compile and add new packages to emacs almost as easily as on a *nix, except I have to edit makefiles a little.
What are you talking about? TFS states that there are strict limits on what Starter edition will be allowed to be sold with, so your concern about it being on a ton of computers is completely unfounded. This has also been known for a while. I'm not sure why you've been modded +4, when your post is factually incorrect.
Meh, the G1 doesn't let you flash your own OS onto it by default, unless you hack it. And Android doesn't let you run native programs by default either, only ones running on the Dalvik VM. I hardly consider that open. Just because it runs Linux as its kernel doesn't make it inherently open. At the same time, it's light-years ahead of the iPhone OS, but I would still consider it behind WinMo. But I think I'll skip the whole smartphone problem and just get a Pandora, and do whatever the hell I want with it.
I think some other people posted links to prebuilt builds for Ubuntu on launchpad or something. I think the real problem is that Chrome was designed a bit too Windows specific from the start so the Linux versions are a bit buggy. But uh, here's a link to something that might be helpful, although less so if you're on a different distro. https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
I'm pretty sure there are Chromium builds for Linux. Chromium is the open source version of Chrome basically, without the Google branding and such. See here for Linux build instructions.
The EECS servers here are mostly Solaris, but I imagine the people adminning in UHS are completely different, so it very well could be Windows. I would hope that whoever set up the UHS servers consulted with the EECS department, specifically the network security researchers, before deploying their servers, but I'm guessing that didn't happen. And now my SSN is floating around somewhere...
Yay, Berkeley EECS gathering on slashdot! Incidentally, Solaris is kind of annoying in random little ways compared to Linux, but I find it awesome how well the SunRays actually hold up under moderate load.
Uh, one of the nice things about the Ribbon for me is that it autohides, so I just have the document most of the time. I guess you have to double click it to make it do that, but afterward it usually autohides and then you have all the space for your document.
I also agree, it's pretty nice. Occasionally I can't find things though, but usually they are things that I only used rarely before to begin with. It would have been nice if they redid the dialogs too, so that the options inside the dialogs were more logically laid out like the Ribbon, but overall it's a nice idea. I can see how Word power users would be annoyed though.
My most recent GUI programming experience is with Swing, and I have to chime in that a GUI toolkit written by a braindead monkey would be better than Swing. Actually, it's not always so bad, but the results always look horrible by default (yes, I know you can use a native look and feel, but it should be the default) and I often get weird glitches in Swing programs (I use several on a regular basis) where suddenly the entire screen becomes a bunch of duplicated versions of the top left corner of the screen.
Wireless drivers are a pain sometimes even when the drivers are included. I was running ndiswrapper before and it was working fine, and then somewhere along the lines broadcom-wl got thrown on my machine and despite being an actual, native driver from broadcom, it doesn't work as well as the ndiswrapper version. Meh. Also, you severely overestimate the capabilities of the average Joe. The Ubuntu installer is much easier than that of most Windows versions, although at least with Vista and 7 it's full graphical, but still not a live CD which is IMO the most awesome thing about the Ubuntu installer. Even so, 95% of average Joes will never install any OS, so expecting them to know about and install Ubuntu is a bit much.
Which is why the west coast is better!:P. I'm just kidding though, talking about socialism should be a new corollary to Godwin's law, or something. Socialism does not really apply here at all, I was really trying to point out that the OP is an idiot. I may have been unwittingly feeding the troll though, but at least I got to boost my ego or something.
Well, California is a bit of an exception in that regard, since the tech industry is right here. But really, I wouldn't read too much into my post, it was mostly just a thought I wanted to throw out there to maybe spur some discussion. Thanks for bringing up something actually interesting. I was also sort of implying that the OP is stupid for bashing CA and MA when they are probably doing better than whatever state he is from.
It's not relevant, but neither is the OP. I actually had no good reason to post what I did, I just felt like throwing it out there/bragging/trying to stir up discussion. I guess maybe what I might have been trying to imply is that #1, CA and MA are better than other states so maybe what we're doing is better, and #2 the OP is an idiot and without those two states the US would be much worse of. I would also bring up those recent statistics about how "socialist" states like CA and MA get less benefit from taxes than "conservative" states, although it's really more of a dichotomy between large and small states and it just happens that most of the larger states lean left. I don't really take much meaning out of the things I just said in this post, but they were some of the things I was thinking about when I posted. But basically, the OP is an idiot.
Thank you. I was mostly just joking/trolling for responses or whatever, playing devil's advocate etc. I just felt like tossing it out there since the OP threw in a complete non-sequitur (IMO, a no-compete clause is corporatist, and far from socialist).
Hehe, you keep on whining about socialism, we'll keep on educating the best minds in the world at the best universities in the world. Between California and Massachusetts, I think we've got the top engineering universities in MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, and Caltech, not to mention some school called Harvard in Mass which I hear is pretty good. Unless this was some sort of crazy sarcasm, but if it is it sucks.
Interesting point. I think if they really cared you would not be able to buy Vista OEM from newegg, but you still can and I have. Also, your post motivated me to do a little googling and I found this, which really WTF'ed me. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248704,00.html An almost informative article on Fox News? Never thought I'd see the day. I guess it's actually written by extremetech, although even then there are a few weird mistakes (eg, if it's really a hash even changing one item would change the hash, or it's some sort of strange hash that I've never heard about). But uh, in the article the MS rep basically says that technically it is for small PC stores or whatever, but technically as long as you provide support for yourself or something, it's fine. Convoluted legalese, to be sure, but I don't think that I would say that this assumption is false completely.
If you look at the downloader, there's also an HTTP source in case torrents are blocked. At least that is the case for the SC2 battle report video downloaders and WC3 downloaders that I've used.
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Hmm? I run emacs fine on Windows, natively too. Everything works as expected, I can byte-compile and add new packages to emacs almost as easily as on a *nix, except I have to edit makefiles a little.
Also, they DID remove the 3 application limit. Your post is completely and totally wrong. http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/05/22/exclusive-microsoft-to-remove-3-app-limit-from-windows-7-starter.aspx
What are you talking about? TFS states that there are strict limits on what Starter edition will be allowed to be sold with, so your concern about it being on a ton of computers is completely unfounded. This has also been known for a while. I'm not sure why you've been modded +4, when your post is factually incorrect.
Meh, the G1 doesn't let you flash your own OS onto it by default, unless you hack it. And Android doesn't let you run native programs by default either, only ones running on the Dalvik VM. I hardly consider that open. Just because it runs Linux as its kernel doesn't make it inherently open. At the same time, it's light-years ahead of the iPhone OS, but I would still consider it behind WinMo. But I think I'll skip the whole smartphone problem and just get a Pandora, and do whatever the hell I want with it.
I think some other people posted links to prebuilt builds for Ubuntu on launchpad or something. I think the real problem is that Chrome was designed a bit too Windows specific from the start so the Linux versions are a bit buggy. But uh, here's a link to something that might be helpful, although less so if you're on a different distro. https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
I'm pretty sure there are Chromium builds for Linux. Chromium is the open source version of Chrome basically, without the Google branding and such. See here for Linux build instructions.
Well, at least with Tab Mix Plus you can have it switch to the last tab you were on when you close a tab, which is handy.
I have a friend whose last name starts with P. His parents gave him and his brother the initials TCP and IP.
Root Mean Square Googles? Does it vary like a sine wave?
The EECS servers here are mostly Solaris, but I imagine the people adminning in UHS are completely different, so it very well could be Windows. I would hope that whoever set up the UHS servers consulted with the EECS department, specifically the network security researchers, before deploying their servers, but I'm guessing that didn't happen. And now my SSN is floating around somewhere...
Yay, Berkeley EECS gathering on slashdot! Incidentally, Solaris is kind of annoying in random little ways compared to Linux, but I find it awesome how well the SunRays actually hold up under moderate load.
I'm seriously confused, was the OP AC aiming for someone to post that or were they just ignorant? Parent is right either way.
Uh, one of the nice things about the Ribbon for me is that it autohides, so I just have the document most of the time. I guess you have to double click it to make it do that, but afterward it usually autohides and then you have all the space for your document.
I also agree, it's pretty nice. Occasionally I can't find things though, but usually they are things that I only used rarely before to begin with. It would have been nice if they redid the dialogs too, so that the options inside the dialogs were more logically laid out like the Ribbon, but overall it's a nice idea. I can see how Word power users would be annoyed though.
My most recent GUI programming experience is with Swing, and I have to chime in that a GUI toolkit written by a braindead monkey would be better than Swing. Actually, it's not always so bad, but the results always look horrible by default (yes, I know you can use a native look and feel, but it should be the default) and I often get weird glitches in Swing programs (I use several on a regular basis) where suddenly the entire screen becomes a bunch of duplicated versions of the top left corner of the screen.
Wireless drivers are a pain sometimes even when the drivers are included. I was running ndiswrapper before and it was working fine, and then somewhere along the lines broadcom-wl got thrown on my machine and despite being an actual, native driver from broadcom, it doesn't work as well as the ndiswrapper version. Meh. Also, you severely overestimate the capabilities of the average Joe. The Ubuntu installer is much easier than that of most Windows versions, although at least with Vista and 7 it's full graphical, but still not a live CD which is IMO the most awesome thing about the Ubuntu installer. Even so, 95% of average Joes will never install any OS, so expecting them to know about and install Ubuntu is a bit much.
It's not swap that's the problem, swap has nothing to do with address space. The problem is that IO is memory mapped, so each IO device has a certain amount of address space it needs to use so that the CPU can access it. Especially with video cards with 512MB or more VRAM, all of which needs to be addressed, this becomes a huge issue. With 64 bits, the address space is so huge it doesn't matter. The GP is still wrong though. Vista 64 bit doesn't run a virtual machine, then it would be dog slow running 32 bit games, which are most of the games out there, yet it runs them fine. Here's something to read if you want to know more about how virtual memory works. At least you can get a brief overview. http://books.google.com/books?id=1lD9LZRcIZ8C&pg=PA511&lpg=PA511&dq=virtual+memory+patterson+and+hennessy+-adobe&source=bl&ots=o5AWvbKkHC&sig=hkvRBWfC57lv6OFf1wbkXfc7FEo&hl=en&ei=miADSrmoBaDmtQPw2sjmAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA512,M1
Which is why the west coast is better! :P. I'm just kidding though, talking about socialism should be a new corollary to Godwin's law, or something. Socialism does not really apply here at all, I was really trying to point out that the OP is an idiot. I may have been unwittingly feeding the troll though, but at least I got to boost my ego or something.
Well, California is a bit of an exception in that regard, since the tech industry is right here. But really, I wouldn't read too much into my post, it was mostly just a thought I wanted to throw out there to maybe spur some discussion. Thanks for bringing up something actually interesting. I was also sort of implying that the OP is stupid for bashing CA and MA when they are probably doing better than whatever state he is from.
It's not relevant, but neither is the OP. I actually had no good reason to post what I did, I just felt like throwing it out there/bragging/trying to stir up discussion. I guess maybe what I might have been trying to imply is that #1, CA and MA are better than other states so maybe what we're doing is better, and #2 the OP is an idiot and without those two states the US would be much worse of. I would also bring up those recent statistics about how "socialist" states like CA and MA get less benefit from taxes than "conservative" states, although it's really more of a dichotomy between large and small states and it just happens that most of the larger states lean left. I don't really take much meaning out of the things I just said in this post, but they were some of the things I was thinking about when I posted. But basically, the OP is an idiot.
Thank you. I was mostly just joking/trolling for responses or whatever, playing devil's advocate etc. I just felt like tossing it out there since the OP threw in a complete non-sequitur (IMO, a no-compete clause is corporatist, and far from socialist).
Hehe, you keep on whining about socialism, we'll keep on educating the best minds in the world at the best universities in the world. Between California and Massachusetts, I think we've got the top engineering universities in MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, and Caltech, not to mention some school called Harvard in Mass which I hear is pretty good. Unless this was some sort of crazy sarcasm, but if it is it sucks.
Interesting point. I think if they really cared you would not be able to buy Vista OEM from newegg, but you still can and I have. Also, your post motivated me to do a little googling and I found this, which really WTF'ed me. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248704,00.html An almost informative article on Fox News? Never thought I'd see the day. I guess it's actually written by extremetech, although even then there are a few weird mistakes (eg, if it's really a hash even changing one item would change the hash, or it's some sort of strange hash that I've never heard about). But uh, in the article the MS rep basically says that technically it is for small PC stores or whatever, but technically as long as you provide support for yourself or something, it's fine. Convoluted legalese, to be sure, but I don't think that I would say that this assumption is false completely.
Microsoft has always used Akamai, if you've ever downloaded anything from them.
If you look at the downloader, there's also an HTTP source in case torrents are blocked. At least that is the case for the SC2 battle report video downloaders and WC3 downloaders that I've used.