Hey cool, I'm glad you're here. Allow me to introduce my concept of the new Open CD Database. Three letters for you: RDF. I'd really love to see you try to sue me for all the zero money it makes and the couple grand that is my entire net worth. Hope your lawyers work for cheap.
I will not "pop up" any damn window in a background job from a command-line utility. they don't provide the service, they require going through them exclusively. No compromise.
But what I do know, is, it's pretty slow. As it's a chemical process, there's some decay time, called a refractory interval, where a nerve loses enough charge so it will respond to another signal. This is usually 2-3 milliseconds. So you're talking about a signal speed of less than half of 1 kiloherz. To say nothing of the propogation delay of relaying it to the adjacent nerve cells, and their cycle time, so you'd have a long period to wait to back off on collisions.
Clue-guid's go with EXECUTABLES(SAME 4 ALL USERS)
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Program... Data... You say these are different, bwana? How is this? In this land of ours, program is data, document object is data, data use methods to manipulate. data must attach handlers or have name that lists handlers in big hut we call registry.
Tell me of this strange world where all your data has no name?
> At the moment, we're under an acceptable government.
When you have your car and your house siezed and your children taken away from you because you've been ACCUSED (not convicted) of a crime, you come tell me we have an acceptable government. How about police choppers with infrared units looking for growrooms in attics? How's it feel to live in the land of the free now?
Hurd 0.2 since June 1997???
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I remember (stories) when/bin was on a disk, them newfangled dishwasher-sized things that sure was fast, and/usr/bin was on a tape, and you moved things you wanted to be fast off/usr/bin and into/bin
Sure seems an antiquated notion these days. Why keep it now?
to GNU or not to GNU that is the question
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Actually, he'd get a more powerful message that GNU doesn't just make Linux possible, GNU makes real work possible. cygwin32 is a lifesaver for NT admins who don't even have the bluntest of tools with their OS.
God I hope RMS gets over this
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Yes, he got burned with the GNU/Linux thing, but one very popular distro has made that concession. Maybe he got a raw deal. But if he continues to go ballistic every time someone doesn't credit him in the name Linux itself, he's really going to lose it. More than now, I mean. I mean become obsessed with a name and start forgetting about everything else, including free software.
I didn't know about that til I came to work for Sun. Enjoy.:) I agree NFS sucks though. So does CIFS. Just in different ways.
For me, there's one major reason Unix FS's just blows the doors off of NT's: symbolic links. I hear NT5 will have those. I hear NT5 might even exist. I hear voices too.
>>IN NT YOU HAVE TO BUY(!) SOFTWARE TO HAVE >>TELENT.. >Wrong. MS has a free UNIX connectivity pack with a telnet daemon.
The one that crashes every time someone disconnects? The one that has dire warnings of unstable beta software written all over it? The one that is unsupported and doesn't come with NT, meaning I can't telnet into a newly installed box?
What a joke. This is TELNET. God forbid MS should try something like ssh.
It's not SGI that controls whether your TNT will do OpenGL well, it's nVidia. Thus far there are no specs available for the 3d portion of the TNT. OpenGL on Linux is doing quite nicely on its own.
Quake SERVERS are undeniably faster in linux than Win95 and probably 98. About even with NT, though the NT servers supposedly go south when the system receives any other load. The game itself is faster in Linux than in NT, roughly equal with 95/98 on same hardware assuming both are supported (meaning voodoo)
Although, I am eager to hear one of these newfangled 3D sound cards that actually has seperate rear channels. Are they any good? Any games supporting this yet?
There's EAX, which is pretty impressive, and A3D 2.0, which is stunning, but only for two speakers afaik. Many games support both, though the quality varies somewhat. Unreal's EAX support is pretty weak, HalfLife's is amazing -- that chopper is scarier than hell when you hear it circling all around. I'd say most games coming out now support either A3D or EAX now.
But I have a nice Cambridge Microworks system, which is two speakers. I'd have to toss that to get a surround setup...
VB does have error handling you dork
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Yeah. ON ERROR GOTO
GOTO. my sides are splitting. Even MOO is more advanced than VB.
Java has lots of cool libs, but as a language, what does it have? No list literals. No associative array type. No array slicing literals. No multiple inheritance (I like the option to have a dangerous tool). No meta-object protocol. No parametric polymorphism. No method calls on primitives (like say, 4.sqrt()). No tail recursion elimination. No first-class functions (I'm staggered by that). No named arg passing. No lambda forms, no dynamic scope. No generic functions.
Really, the only innovation I've seen is anonymous classes.
Everything may be a file in unix, and unix may have ACL's, but it seems neer the twain shall meet in some cases.
Try this on solaris: setfacl -m dude:rwx/dev/cua/a
You lose. What burns me about NT is that it could expose every internal structure as a file, ala a/proc filesystem. It just refuses to, treating you as an idiot who's just not "ready" for that kind of information.
More likely GDI was moved into kernel space when they realized people were able to hook all GDI calls and translate them to X protocol messages and you could use NT from, *gasp*, a non-windows workstation. Without even paying mucho denero and signing NDA's for source licenses.
Couldn't have that, no sir.
Patches die (why we don't use Minix)
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Read section 4.
Make me shut up by reading it and not posting this correction over and over and over (while 1 "and over")
QPL superior to LGPL, maybe better than GPL
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Well, for one thing, I don't think the QPL is as good as the GPL. The QPL still has that patch clause in it, and I don't like that.
At least this time I don't feel like I'm saying the same thing to the same AC over and over. The patch language is section 3. The modified whole may be distributed per section 4. The patch language is now superfluous at best.
For the same reason that Wine needs to break into the mainstream. The IETF knows this very well, and it is one of their rules that to for an RFC to become a STD, it must have two independent interoperable implementations of the standard. Otherwise you really don't have a standard.
Installing all 31,000 flavors of everything seems to be debian's thing, and it's why so many people hate dpkg. c'mon debian, can we see a "debian-lite"? Even windows has an unattended minimal install now.
Huh... how does this differ from GPL?
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1) QPL allows you to only distribute changes in the form of patches. GPL is somewhat more practical as you can distribute the whole changed enchillada.
Read section 4 and tell me which big words you don't understand.
Am I being annoying yet by pointing this out every time someone posts this inaccuracy? Maybe I won't have to repeat it even ONCE when the next article about Qt comes out.
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Hey cool, I'm glad you're here.
Allow me to introduce my concept of the new Open CD Database. Three letters for you: RDF. I'd really love to see you try to sue me for all the zero money it makes and the couple grand that is my entire net worth. Hope your lawyers work for cheap.
Scum.
I will not "pop up" any damn window in a background job from a command-line utility. they don't provide the service, they require going through them exclusively. No compromise.
byebye cddb, hello cd-ldap
Maybe every news site that refers to slashdot should refer to it parenthetically as "slashdot (a peanut gallery of unmannerly preteens)"
But what I do know, is, it's pretty slow. As it's a chemical process, there's some decay time, called a refractory interval, where a nerve loses enough charge so it will respond to another signal. This is usually 2-3 milliseconds. So you're talking about a signal speed of less than half of 1 kiloherz. To say nothing of the propogation delay of relaying it to the adjacent nerve cells, and their cycle time, so you'd have a long period to wait to back off on collisions.
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BTW, check out: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~atkins/Neuroweb/Neuron
Program ... Data ... You say these are different, bwana? How is this? In this land of ours, program is data, document object is data, data use methods to manipulate. data must attach handlers or have name that lists handlers in big hut we call registry.
Tell me of this strange world where all your data has no name?
> At the moment, we're under an acceptable government.
When you have your car and your house siezed and your children taken away from you because you've been ACCUSED (not convicted) of a crime, you come tell me we have an acceptable government. How about police choppers with infrared units looking for growrooms in attics? How's it feel to live in the land of the free now?
I remember (stories) when /bin was on a disk, them newfangled dishwasher-sized things that sure was fast, and /usr/bin was on a tape, and you moved things you wanted to be fast off /usr/bin and into /bin
Sure seems an antiquated notion these days. Why keep it now?
Actually, he'd get a more powerful message that GNU doesn't just make Linux possible, GNU makes real work possible. cygwin32 is a lifesaver for NT admins who don't even have the bluntest of tools with their OS.
Yes, he got burned with the GNU/Linux thing, but one very popular distro has made that concession. Maybe he got a raw deal. But if he continues to go ballistic every time someone doesn't credit him in the name Linux itself, he's really going to lose it. More than now, I mean. I mean become obsessed with a name and start forgetting about everything else, including free software.
I'll let you in on a little secret:
:) I agree NFS sucks though. So does CIFS. Just in different ways.
man setfacl
I didn't know about that til I came to work for Sun. Enjoy.
For me, there's one major reason Unix FS's just blows the doors off of NT's: symbolic links. I hear NT5 will have those. I hear NT5 might even exist. I hear voices too.
>>IN NT YOU HAVE TO BUY(!) SOFTWARE TO HAVE >>TELENT..
>Wrong. MS has a free UNIX connectivity pack with a telnet daemon.
The one that crashes every time someone disconnects? The one that has dire warnings of unstable beta software written all over it? The one that is unsupported and doesn't come with NT, meaning I can't telnet into a newly installed box?
What a joke. This is TELNET. God forbid MS should try something like ssh.
It's a new processor from Sunni Microsystems. Everything else is shiite in comparison.
Man, I'm gonna pay for that one in the next life.
It's not SGI that controls whether your TNT will do OpenGL well, it's nVidia. Thus far there are no specs available for the 3d portion of the TNT. OpenGL on Linux is doing quite nicely on its own.
Quake SERVERS are undeniably faster in linux than Win95 and probably 98. About even with NT, though the NT servers supposedly go south when the system receives any other load. The game itself is faster in Linux than in NT, roughly equal with 95/98 on same hardware assuming both are supported (meaning voodoo)
There's EAX, which is pretty impressive, and A3D 2.0, which is stunning, but only for two speakers afaik. Many games support both, though the quality varies somewhat. Unreal's EAX support is pretty weak, HalfLife's is amazing -- that chopper is scarier than hell when you hear it circling all around. I'd say most games coming out now support either A3D or EAX now.
But I have a nice Cambridge Microworks system, which is two speakers. I'd have to toss that to get a surround setup...
Yeah. ON ERROR GOTO
GOTO. my sides are splitting. Even MOO is more advanced than VB.
*Snork*
Java has lots of cool libs, but as a language, what does it have? No list literals. No associative array type. No array slicing literals. No multiple inheritance (I like the option to have a dangerous tool). No meta-object protocol. No parametric polymorphism. No method calls on primitives (like say, 4.sqrt()). No tail recursion elimination. No first-class functions (I'm staggered by that). No named arg passing. No lambda forms, no dynamic scope. No generic functions.
Really, the only innovation I've seen is anonymous classes.
Everything may be a file in unix, and unix may have ACL's, but it seems neer the twain shall meet in some cases.
/dev/cua/a
/proc filesystem. It just refuses to, treating you as an idiot who's just not "ready" for that kind of information.
Try this on solaris:
setfacl -m dude:rwx
You lose. What burns me about NT is that it could expose every internal structure as a file, ala a
More likely GDI was moved into kernel space when they realized people were able to hook all GDI calls and translate them to X protocol messages and you could use NT from, *gasp*, a non-windows workstation. Without even paying mucho denero and signing NDA's for source licenses.
Couldn't have that, no sir.
Read section 4.
Make me shut up by reading it and not posting this correction over and over and over (while 1 "and over")
At least this time I don't feel like I'm saying the same thing to the same AC over and over. The patch language is section 3. The modified whole may be distributed per section 4. The patch language is now superfluous at best.
| This license is governed by the Laws of Norway. Disputes shall be settled by Oslo City Court.
... in Norweigan.
Check if Norway has an official language statute. If it does, the license holds
For the same reason that Wine needs to break into the mainstream. The IETF knows this very well, and it is one of their rules that to for an RFC to become a STD, it must have two independent interoperable implementations of the standard. Otherwise you really don't have a standard.
Installing all 31,000 flavors of everything seems to be debian's thing, and it's why so many people hate dpkg. c'mon debian, can we see a "debian-lite"? Even windows has an unattended minimal install now.
Read section 4 and tell me which big words you don't understand.
Am I being annoying yet by pointing this out every time someone posts this inaccuracy? Maybe I won't have to repeat it even ONCE when the next article about Qt comes out.