It sounds a little like this site I ran across that at first appeared to be a very extreme "right-wing conservative" website, but the more I read, the more I thought that it must be a very [b|s]ad sarcastic humor site or a poor attempt at astro-turf from the "other side." They go as far to say that anyone using Firefox or any open source software is a communist and/or a fascist and "God" hates them for it. Microsoft is the only appropriate software distributor, unless you want "God" to hate you too. They have a list of people "God" dislikes and they strike out the name of the person when they are dead and put "(God won)" after it.
I know it's bad to spread the URL around to give them more attention, but it's one of those things that are "so bad you have to watch"
There are many levels of POSIX compliance ranging from POSIX.0 to POSIX.12. These levels represent an evolving set of proposals, not all of which have been ratified as standards.
The POSIX subsystem in Windows NT is POSIX.1 compliant. POSIX.1 compliance requires a bare minimum of services, which are provided by Windows NT. When a POSIX application runs on Windows NT, the POSIX subsystem is loaded and it translates the C language API calls— for POSIX.1 support— Win32 API calls, which are then serviced by the Win32 subsystem.
Though I'm not sure of the validity of that today considering it's last modification date was: Tuesday, March 24, 1998
But it maybe points to the level at which he wants to build from? (really, I'm just pulling stuff from thin air on this because I never really got around to reading up on Posix compliance. I just kind of knew Windows had minimal support already.)
What if he sees a problem with Wine that he feels can be worked around while still utilizing most of the code from Wine as well as ReactOS?
From reading the PDF it looks like he wants to split Win32 specific libraries out and leave the machine specific stuff as interfaces to the Win32 environment. IE: he wants to cut Wine's arms and legs and deal with the core and make it as cross platform as possible using "interface wrappers" to deal with the individual OS kernels and GUIs... at least that's the quick cursory impression I got.
Are you sure parish is the term you are looking for? Last time I checked, tax money wasn't to be given to the church. If it is, we have a problem. "State" sponsorship of any religion is explicitly forbidden.
Kind of makes you wonder how much of the presentation the lobbyists did included the HFCS and corn production losses to the amount of sugar being imported...
Makes me want to setup shop on an island to buy sugar from Costa Rica solely for the purpose of reselling it to the US so Costa Rica can maintain their dignity.
And any other resource for that matter... maybe some type of ship exchange like you do with Propane. Hell, I could corner the market on all sugar imports so they won't be able to tell how much of it is Costa Rica sugar...
Honestly, I think editors/language should be smart/configurable enough to allow you to open a code file comprised of one line of code and it can indent and format the code to the developer's liking. When they save it, one line it again and remove all their needless formatting so when the next developer opens it they see the code how they prefer.
The problem isn't "0O" differentiation. It's trying to figure out if that one char 'O' is a zero or an "O." Most editors have the ability to colorize numbers differently than variables, but not everyone uses it. You could be checking if a variable == 0 or if that same variable matches constant O.
PvP includes fighting over spawns, gold, and "recognition." You can play an MMO without involving yourself in this fighting and still be considered "good." Most non-competitive people just buy/sell goods for whatever market value is without trying to find the high and low prices and determine "fair market price." You don't have to study the market to enjoy it. In fact, I find it tedious and annoying. Instancing has pretty much eliminated competing for PvE content. I also find that if someone is "camping" a spawn I need, I just do another quest or wait until they are done. I'm in no hurry to beat them to max level so I can complain about missing content. I also don't join guilds to compete with the members on some primitive "social status" or "ranking." If I join a guild it's to have people to play with (if they are available) and to join in on a raid if they are in need of my particular services. You can still be "good" at the game without fighting over gear, player time, money, and spawns.
Learning the mechanics of the game is in no way competitive unless you make it so. Competing with the PvE environment doesn't require fighting with other players for whatever you need. What you explain is PvP, but my point is that you don't have to participate in it to be good at a game or "to win" unless you consider "winning" an MMO beating everyone else.
You obviously haven't used Windows in some time or are ignorant to the operation of MSI installers. MSI installed applications will copy themselves into the WINNT\Installer folder so they can be removed later by running this install file. If you remove these files, setup fails or they are corrupted, you have to run a special tool to remove the registry entries for that application in order to upgrade or remove said application. In essence, you could have to re-install said application in order to uninstall it. It's also a waste of space to retain the install files for your applications within the Windows directory (especially if you partition your drive and maintain a small footprint "OS" partition for easy backup.)
Who says an MMO has to be competitive? I just want a massive game with an economy, trading, questing, character development and the ability for my friends to join in. Where is the written law that says, "We have lots of people, let's make them fight!"
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Dammit! MW2 will always belong to Mechwarrior 2 for me!
I would assume it should be trivial to overload the functions required to initialize this stuff as well.
It's cheaper to develop for only one and it should be the one with the most share. (Just my observation of the mentality.)
It sounds a little like this site I ran across that at first appeared to be a very extreme "right-wing conservative" website, but the more I read, the more I thought that it must be a very [b|s]ad sarcastic humor site or a poor attempt at astro-turf from the "other side." They go as far to say that anyone using Firefox or any open source software is a communist and/or a fascist and "God" hates them for it. Microsoft is the only appropriate software distributor, unless you want "God" to hate you too. They have a list of people "God" dislikes and they strike out the name of the person when they are dead and put "(God won)" after it.
I know it's bad to spread the URL around to give them more attention, but it's one of those things that are "so bad you have to watch"
shelleytherepublican.com
Thank you for the clarification. ...and you other two below this... I'm not going to reply to you all. ;)
A quick search gives me:
There are many levels of POSIX compliance ranging from POSIX.0 to POSIX.12. These levels represent an evolving set of proposals, not all of which have been ratified as standards.
The POSIX subsystem in Windows NT is POSIX.1 compliant. POSIX.1 compliance requires a bare minimum of services, which are provided by Windows NT. When a POSIX application runs on Windows NT, the POSIX subsystem is loaded and it translates the C language API calls— for POSIX.1 support— Win32 API calls, which are then serviced by the Win32 subsystem.
http://scilnet.fortlewis.edu/tech/NT-Server/architecture.htm
Though I'm not sure of the validity of that today considering it's last modification date was: Tuesday, March 24, 1998
But it maybe points to the level at which he wants to build from? (really, I'm just pulling stuff from thin air on this because I never really got around to reading up on Posix compliance. I just kind of knew Windows had minimal support already.)
What if he sees a problem with Wine that he feels can be worked around while still utilizing most of the code from Wine as well as ReactOS?
From reading the PDF it looks like he wants to split Win32 specific libraries out and leave the machine specific stuff as interfaces to the Win32 environment. IE: he wants to cut Wine's arms and legs and deal with the core and make it as cross platform as possible using "interface wrappers" to deal with the individual OS kernels and GUIs... at least that's the quick cursory impression I got.
I guess I will keep my day job and put the comedy tour on hold.
Are you sure parish is the term you are looking for? Last time I checked, tax money wasn't to be given to the church. If it is, we have a problem. "State" sponsorship of any religion is explicitly forbidden.
High Fructose Corn Chocolate?
Deep fried butter is so yesterday. Fried cornflour covered butter is where it's at. (Some folks call them Corn Butters.)
Kind of makes you wonder how much of the presentation the lobbyists did included the HFCS and corn production losses to the amount of sugar being imported...
It's all because of a nice little corrupt procedure called lobbying. Those with the most money dictating law to the lawmakers over a nice lunch.
Makes me want to setup shop on an island to buy sugar from Costa Rica solely for the purpose of reselling it to the US so Costa Rica can maintain their dignity.
And any other resource for that matter... maybe some type of ship exchange like you do with Propane. Hell, I could corner the market on all sugar imports so they won't be able to tell how much of it is Costa Rica sugar...
Honestly, I think editors/language should be smart/configurable enough to allow you to open a code file comprised of one line of code and it can indent and format the code to the developer's liking. When they save it, one line it again and remove all their needless formatting so when the next developer opens it they see the code how they prefer.
The problem isn't "0O" differentiation. It's trying to figure out if that one char 'O' is a zero or an "O." Most editors have the ability to colorize numbers differently than variables, but not everyone uses it. You could be checking if a variable == 0 or if that same variable matches constant O.
Great... first they put tracking RFIDs in the vaccines, now mercury?
There should be an idiot tax on court filings.
There already are. They call them lawyer fees. ;)
PvP includes fighting over spawns, gold, and "recognition." You can play an MMO without involving yourself in this fighting and still be considered "good." Most non-competitive people just buy/sell goods for whatever market value is without trying to find the high and low prices and determine "fair market price." You don't have to study the market to enjoy it. In fact, I find it tedious and annoying. Instancing has pretty much eliminated competing for PvE content. I also find that if someone is "camping" a spawn I need, I just do another quest or wait until they are done. I'm in no hurry to beat them to max level so I can complain about missing content. I also don't join guilds to compete with the members on some primitive "social status" or "ranking." If I join a guild it's to have people to play with (if they are available) and to join in on a raid if they are in need of my particular services. You can still be "good" at the game without fighting over gear, player time, money, and spawns.
Learning the mechanics of the game is in no way competitive unless you make it so. Competing with the PvE environment doesn't require fighting with other players for whatever you need. What you explain is PvP, but my point is that you don't have to participate in it to be good at a game or "to win" unless you consider "winning" an MMO beating everyone else.
You obviously haven't used Windows in some time or are ignorant to the operation of MSI installers. MSI installed applications will copy themselves into the WINNT\Installer folder so they can be removed later by running this install file. If you remove these files, setup fails or they are corrupted, you have to run a special tool to remove the registry entries for that application in order to upgrade or remove said application. In essence, you could have to re-install said application in order to uninstall it. It's also a waste of space to retain the install files for your applications within the Windows directory (especially if you partition your drive and maintain a small footprint "OS" partition for easy backup.)
My "stupid ass signature" will remain.
Some people will argue that taking share away from Sony was a "win".
I'm glad I'm not the only one that dislikes the Libraries and lack of proper tree-view on my work PC.
Heck, the market didn't really take off until Windows XP ("ultra-low-cost-PC") was introduced and everyone lock-stepped the Microsoft requirements.
Got a cite for that?
Who says an MMO has to be competitive? I just want a massive game with an economy, trading, questing, character development and the ability for my friends to join in. Where is the written law that says, "We have lots of people, let's make them fight!"
- It has been in development for almost 5 years, the team is completely different than Champions
Yet somehow they both came up with the same game! It must be good!