Would it not be easier to rewrite core apps from scratch?
I'd like to test the windows version of this new program I'm developing without rebooting. I also would like to not run the full overhead of a virtual machine at all times, and I want to test it *fast* (so starting one up also isn't allowed). I'd also prefer not keeping my spare crappy windows box turned on at all times.
Also, the set of windows applications is always growing. If we implement Wine perfectly, we can run all of them with no per-application extra work. Without a good Wine, we will always keep rewriting.
that would require 100% compatibility, which is impossible to achieve.
How's that? Microsoft can. Wine can approach 100% compatibility in a way that "hits" the most important applications first.
The utterance of words didn't kill him directly, but they did cause his death.
See also false advertisement, breach of orally formed contract and one of {libel, slander}.
True, words by themselves don't do any harm. But we live in a world where things that aren't words exist too. Guns by themselves don't kill people, but please don't point any in my direction, thank you.
I would think that the cult of free software would have as its sacred document the definition of free software, not its implementation.
Similarly, its antistallman (right?) would be non-free software, not non-gpl software.
The antiperens of Debian would be the iPhone: functional and with lots of bling, but it locks you down and restricts your freedom to control your device(s). (Other Apple products may be a good antiperens candidate.)
You're explicitly stating that receiving [telephone thing] is free.
You're from the US, right?
I think it'd be really great to give people an infinite Denial Of Money attack against me through my telephone subscription---no wait, I don't! Are US telephone companies coming to their senses about this?
It has the same root as "gymnasium" ("sports hall", we'd call it). It comes from the Greek "gymnos", naked, and the designation for the kind of places where the ancient greeks
were naked
learned about the world
did sports
Danish kept the learning part, English kept the sports part.
In High School ("gymnasiet"), we were allowed to user computers for all written exams (that I attended; IIRC; maybe except math).
The protocol was this: you would get your problem set (i.e. five texts and two pictures, "write an essay about [...]"). You wrote some words, either on paper or on your computer. If you wrote on your computer, you'd print the document and put it in your handed-out blank A3 sheets (folded to four A4 pages, put prints in the middle). It was your own responsibility to have a working computer and printer.
Note that this was in 2002; most people brought desktop boxes. I don't recall wireless networking being the hip shit back then.
In math we were allowed to use calculators that couldn't perform "abstract symbol manipulation". Our (turing-complete...) TI-83 was allowed. [a part of the exam was "no-aids"; no calculator there, only pen(cil) and paper].
In music (given a melody, make an arrangement), we were allowed to use software from a whitelist; the whitelist was based on the capabilities of the software (it wasn't allowed to do our jobs for us).
In general, I didn't notice any problems regarding the use of computers.
Fast forward to university (I'm doing CS and math). The Introduction to Programming exam was done on the university's computers, with electronic hand-in. You'd get a problem set instructing you to write a simple class or two and a for/while loop iterating over some collection. When you'd hand in, you'd copy the files somewhere on the network. ISTR that you were allowed to bring your own computer if you wanted, but being connected to the network was your own responsibility then.
There were generally no problems there.
For all other exams, either you weren't allowed to bring your computers, or you weren't allowed to bring a printer (so there'd be no point). One exception was the statistics course. the kind of problems we'd face was easy to predict, so one of my fellow students wrote a program which would solve 90% of the problem set for him, generating some nice LaTeX. He'd then copy this to paper by hand, and work on the remaining 10%.
My experience: using computers as a "smart typewriter" works great. Using computers as a "smart typewriter" for music notation works fine as well (and hey, midi keyboards are easier to lug around than pianos).
Using them as "smart typewriters" with a Java development environment and a "smart mailman" (network handin) works fine too. Were the possibilities for cheating there? Sure, draw a map of the computers and their names; ssh into the host of your friend; start talk(1)ing. So what? If you need to cheat on your first quarter course, chances are you'll EPIC FAIL some other course heading your way. And there were TAs walking around, glancing at your screen every now and then.
Using them to solve the exam problems, when you write the solving software yourself, works great too; if it was someone else's software, it'd be a little is-it-cheating iffy.
You may already be set up the way you like, but I'm not and others might also not be, so here goes:
Use it as a media center. That is, connect it to your TV and sound system, and have it play video and music from wherever you got it (sshfs/NAS, w/e).
For that, you want something which can start and stop (suspend/resume) quickly. You'll probably also want to connect a wiimote, so that bluetooth chip on your wifi NIC is going to come in handy. Saving yourself from running more cables (wifi) probably isn't going to hurt either.
Why fix the screen when you can replace it with a bigger and better one?:)
The faster we can get a strong secular leader in power there
I would assume that the words would go together like this: "we ~ here" (if you were in Iran) or "they ~ there" (if you were to leave Iranian matters to the Iranian people).
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Huh? I think you mean the blagotubes!
Oblig. xkcd: http://xkcd.com/181/
And we'll import the smilies from MS - Messenger. And give it a ribbon bar. And embed it in your car mp3 player
Sup dawg; I heard you like twitter, so we put an internet in your car so you can tweet while you drive.
Just once I'd like to see the European Union Parliament issue a joint resolution to the White House:
"Fuck off."
How about
You will tell the president that we're disinclined to acquiesce his request.
As long as there are people in the world who can[']t handle the extra hassle of servicing open source[, ]there will be a market for Windows.
You're making an assumption that servicing open source is an extra hassle.
That isn't necessarily always true. In fact, it might be the case that open source at some point is less hassle.
My experience is that I get a much cooler feature set for an equally tolerable amount of hassle.
Would it not be easier to rewrite core apps from scratch?
I'd like to test the windows version of this new program I'm developing without rebooting. I also would like to not run the full overhead of a virtual machine at all times, and I want to test it *fast* (so starting one up also isn't allowed). I'd also prefer not keeping my spare crappy windows box turned on at all times.
Also, the set of windows applications is always growing. If we implement Wine perfectly, we can run all of them with no per-application extra work. Without a good Wine, we will always keep rewriting.
that would require 100% compatibility, which is impossible to achieve.
How's that? Microsoft can. Wine can approach 100% compatibility in a way that "hits" the most important applications first.
Words are words, by themselves incapable of causing harm
Five words: "driven to suicide by bullying".
For instance, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2133486.stm
The utterance of words didn't kill him directly, but they did cause his death.
See also false advertisement, breach of orally formed contract and one of {libel, slander}.
True, words by themselves don't do any harm. But we live in a world where things that aren't words exist too. Guns by themselves don't kill people, but please don't point any in my direction, thank you.
How much of that is system cache and buffers though?
None of it. Otherwise the figure would be 100% memory utilization.
The number is somewhere between 0 and 100%
Four out of every innumerate internet troll disagree.
The US Army's goal is to discourage violent alternatives to peaceful cohabitation and negotiation. That often requires the civility of a headshot.
What a great way to lead by example!
Instead of the US peacefully cohabiting the earth and negotiating with Iraq, they invade the country and shoot all the violent people.
You owe me a new irony detector.
I don't know if 1GB of RAM should be too little for an OS and MS Word.
I'm on ubuntu, using 871 MB of RAM atm, with firefox using a whopping 16% of my total 2 GB (= 327 MB).
My systems runs ok, but I guess it'll get a lost faster if I kill fi
The Biggest Cults In Tech
I stopped reading after this.
I would think that the cult of free software would have as its sacred document the definition of free software, not its implementation.
Similarly, its antistallman (right?) would be non-free software, not non-gpl software.
The antiperens of Debian would be the iPhone: functional and with lots of bling, but it locks you down and restricts your freedom to control your device(s). (Other Apple products may be a good antiperens candidate.)
Buzzword Bingo: you win it.
Receiving SMS is free and unlimited.
You're explicitly stating that receiving [telephone thing] is free.
You're from the US, right?
I think it'd be really great to give people an infinite Denial Of Money attack against me through my telephone subscription---no wait, I don't! Are US telephone companies coming to their senses about this?
if (p.domain=uk)
Suddenly, with big a whooshing sound, the whole World Wide Web moved to the United Kingdom.
You got to use computers in gym class!?
No :) I said "gymnasiet", it's a danish word.
It has the same root as "gymnasium" ("sports hall", we'd call it). It comes from the Greek "gymnos", naked, and the designation for the kind of places where the ancient greeks
Danish kept the learning part, English kept the sports part.
(Or so I heard)
The latest version of Windows is fully compliant with the ISO's 'Piece of Shit v9'
But... that makes Windows v7 two version ahead of the schedule!
The vapor that I long for most
The duke, the wolf*
And the Starcraft: Ghost
They saw their code build
So they'd boast
The day
Their sche-----dule died.
* http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/best-games-never-made1.htm - ""Werewolf: The Apocalypse" was going to be a PC game based on White Wolf's tabletop RPG [...]"
Give him a CD with XP which includes SP3
I'm curious: how would I go about producing such a CD, without any of my boxes getting "sassered"?
I have: a Linux box. An OS-less laptop. Some XP recovery disks.
Hi all. I thought I'd chip in with my experience.
In High School ("gymnasiet"), we were allowed to user computers for all written exams (that I attended; IIRC; maybe except math).
The protocol was this: you would get your problem set (i.e. five texts and two pictures, "write an essay about [...]"). You wrote some words, either on paper or on your computer. If you wrote on your computer, you'd print the document and put it in your handed-out blank A3 sheets (folded to four A4 pages, put prints in the middle). It was your own responsibility to have a working computer and printer.
Note that this was in 2002; most people brought desktop boxes. I don't recall wireless networking being the hip shit back then.
In math we were allowed to use calculators that couldn't perform "abstract symbol manipulation". Our (turing-complete...) TI-83 was allowed. [a part of the exam was "no-aids"; no calculator there, only pen(cil) and paper].
In music (given a melody, make an arrangement), we were allowed to use software from a whitelist; the whitelist was based on the capabilities of the software (it wasn't allowed to do our jobs for us).
In general, I didn't notice any problems regarding the use of computers.
Fast forward to university (I'm doing CS and math). The Introduction to Programming exam was done on the university's computers, with electronic hand-in. You'd get a problem set instructing you to write a simple class or two and a for/while loop iterating over some collection. When you'd hand in, you'd copy the files somewhere on the network. ISTR that you were allowed to bring your own computer if you wanted, but being connected to the network was your own responsibility then.
There were generally no problems there.
For all other exams, either you weren't allowed to bring your computers, or you weren't allowed to bring a printer (so there'd be no point). One exception was the statistics course. the kind of problems we'd face was easy to predict, so one of my fellow students wrote a program which would solve 90% of the problem set for him, generating some nice LaTeX. He'd then copy this to paper by hand, and work on the remaining 10%.
My experience: using computers as a "smart typewriter" works great. Using computers as a "smart typewriter" for music notation works fine as well (and hey, midi keyboards are easier to lug around than pianos).
Using them as "smart typewriters" with a Java development environment and a "smart mailman" (network handin) works fine too. Were the possibilities for cheating there? Sure, draw a map of the computers and their names; ssh into the host of your friend; start talk(1)ing. So what? If you need to cheat on your first quarter course, chances are you'll EPIC FAIL some other course heading your way. And there were TAs walking around, glancing at your screen every now and then.
Using them to solve the exam problems, when you write the solving software yourself, works great too; if it was someone else's software, it'd be a little is-it-cheating iffy.
How would you feel if you pay per video and [...] accidentally watched a Chris Crocker video?
Why won't you leave Crocker alone??? Don't you people understand? He's a very sensitive woman!!!
Leave Crocker alone!
Wouldn't YOU be pissed if you knew you weren't drunk
If I knew I weren't drunk, how could I be pissed (i.e. drunk)?
I was so looking forward to trying the 'Stalinux' distro, comrade.
I heard they went with 'Lenix'.
You may already be set up the way you like, but I'm not and others might also not be, so here goes:
Use it as a media center. That is, connect it to your TV and sound system, and have it play video and music from wherever you got it (sshfs/NAS, w/e).
For that, you want something which can start and stop (suspend/resume) quickly. You'll probably also want to connect a wiimote, so that bluetooth chip on your wifi NIC is going to come in handy. Saving yourself from running more cables (wifi) probably isn't going to hurt either.
Why fix the screen when you can replace it with a bigger and better one? :)
The faster we can get a strong secular leader in power there
I would assume that the words would go together like this: "we ~ here" (if you were in Iran) or "they ~ there" (if you were to leave Iranian matters to the Iranian people).
Oh well...