The vast majority of people who understands only GB but not Big5 code are either illliterate or don't have computers.
Simplified Chinese was, and still is, a good intent but the wrong thing to do. Often the characters before simplification are easier to learn than their simplified equivalences.
To be fair for everyone, we should all have Unicode everything, including domain names. Hard disk capacities have grown so quickly that a 150-200% of bloat resulting from UTF-8 adaptation is minimal...
And...I can't wait to use an 100%-Unicode Linux distro. Is anything like this going on?
Newer browers are designed with a bad bad goal in mind - rape you of your privacy rights to benefit "partners", "online marketers", "advertisers" (all of them aka "spammers").
IE used to have easy menu access to let you put the current site under "Restricted Zone" or "Trusted Zone", and it disappeared after some version, without explanation, and for questionable reasons.
As a better replacement, whether you are using Mozilla or IE, at least for Windows, immediately download Proxomitron before it becomes illegal. (it's just a matter of time before some phuckdup company uses the DCMA against it)
As for the Unixes, anyone tried NoShit/WebFilter and know if anything new is going on about them? I know they do roughly the same thing as the Proxomitron, but as a modification to the NCSA web server? Gimme a break - I think a single purpose filtering proxy is definitely doable, and can make a nice opensource project. Anyone interested? Please reply here.
Disclaimer: This piece contribute to an OPINION only.
Well, all we have to do is to let this negative sentiments about Rambus persist, for as long as we can.
I'm pretty sure that people who work at Rambus would have a harder time looking for jobs once they're out of Rambus.
And, current Rambus people have to retire sooner or later.
People in HR departments, do your work: create the impression that "working at Rambus ruins your career" by grepping resumes that has Rambus in it, and send them to/dev/null. You don't have to give a reason - there's always someone who's more competitive than you. And there's always Ad Hoc hiring criteria that you can use.
What good is a company, if there aren't people working in it?
So, a free fall from 31 miles without any air friction will crash you into the land in a little less than 2 minutes.
Air friction resulting from her stationary body, any skydiving trick movements and parachute counted in, I'd give an estimate of 15 - 20 minutes at most...while a typical game of mahjong takes quite a bit more time...
I guess a game of Dominoes or Dopewars should be more like it...
>Do we call all applications with
>GCC 'GNU/MyApp'? We're talking about a whole
>operating system with applications and
>documentation, not just a single application.
Of course not. It is common knowledge apps compiled with gcc need not be in GPL in most cases.
Some people call Linux "GNU/Linux" because
1. it is always distributed with GNU tools
2. The kernel itself uses the GPL license
3. So, essentially the kernel and its tools are
GPL'd.
3. Nobody found it offensive calling it this way
>When someone writes an operating system similar
>to Windows in architecture using Visual Basic
>and ports the Microsoft Office suite and all
>the "Visual" tools to it, that system (OS and
>tools) will certainly be called MS/Something (or
>maybe "MS-something").
Again, not.
1. MS won't allow them to be called MS/Something
2. They're just PORTS of MS apps, not the actual
bundling of MS apps, unlike Linux distribs,
almost all of which bundle actual GNU apps.
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For those who likes to believe @Home gives you an "always on" connection, go elsewhere.
I've been using DSL last year and switch to @Home 2 months ago just for the sake of trying. Man did I make the wrong decision. _EVERYDAY_, for a few minutes to several hours, the network is down.
My record is 26 hours 40 minutes. Go figure. 90% of the swearwords I've used in these 2 months are @Home-induced.
I've been using Logitech cordless desktop for quite some time now.
While RF is nice, I do have two issues with them.
1. The mouse (Cordless MouseMan Pro)'s pointer position is paused for a short while when you click a button - i.e., when you click while moving the mouse, the pointer stops moving and suddenly "jumps" to its new location when I release the button.
2. The keyboard sometimes thinks I haven't released a key while I have.
Both are very annoying issues especially for online games.
I don't like C/C++ as a language too, just that, when you have to know these to make a living today (and probably the next 5 years too), you don't have a choice.
I am completely for the idea of writing everything in a nice scripting language (my current favorite: Ruby, previously covered by Slashdot, with the exception for the OS, drivers, and games.
Back to Ruby: it has evolved to version 1.6.2, and has basically ALL characteristics of a nice programming language that I want. Some of them are:
Although everything is an object, you don't have to create a class for a runnable program, unlike Java. (if you don't specify a class, then the code belongs to the object "main"). Everything can look like non-OO if you want it to.
It adheres to the principle of Perl: there is more than 1 way to do things. However, its syntax resembles more like pseudocode of an algorithm. I'd say, power of Perl, readability of Python.
Unlike Python, it actually has a keyword that terminates a scope, "end". So you aren't forced to indent if it is not necessary - sometimes indentation can make code less readable!
Semicolons are optional.
Rich control structures: break, retry, next...
You can define your own iterators with very little code, since the iterator is cordial to this language.
I have been disgusted by Java and Pascal's
try {...
try {...
}
except {...
}
} finally {...
}
WHY are there 2 block levels when you really need only 1? Ruby is beautiful in this aspect:
begin...
rescue...
ensure...
end
I guess I'm too politically infected. The first thing that came to my mind after reading the story is, "So when will DeCSS arrive for Mobile Devices??"
Commercial or not - piracy IS piracy. There is no difference to the MPAA: They lose money to "commercial pirates" and they also lose money to "casual pirates". It just happens that today, commercial pirates account for the vast majority of thier loss. Who knows when if casual pirates like us will take over in terms of their "loss revenue". Maybe next year. Their fear is justified.
I understand what game they are playing (don't you stop personal attacks on posts please).
I just know that there are 2 definitions of piracy here and both are correct. Whether it's commercial or not does not matter to THE MOVIE MAKERS. Who cares if the pirates make money? All I care is that I'm losing money!!
And, all statements on/. are by default taken to be personal opinions and cannot be used as evidence in this case
(they can on a libel case, for example, but not like what you belive "See even the people on Slashdot know that DeCSS is for piracy")
Funny. By the way, the dicussion is on region coding, not DeCSS. Macrovision is to be implemented no matter what kind of DVD player you'll see - it's I believe against the law not to do it.
What they are afriad of, is a by-default region-free player available for everyone. So if we trip them on this one then they'll be just wasting money on the DeCSS case because winning or not it'd do them no good if they can't keep region coding.
For the same resolution, run the games in a window, instead of going full-screen for Windows.
As far as the display driver is concerned, doing a page flip on a non-fullscreen surface is impossible. That should eliminate the difference produced by the blitting drivers for Linux.
Besides, issues like the efficient use of AGP bus, DMA, eliminating bad polygons when you do clipping and synchronization all can have a great impact for performance - blitting vs flipping is just a minor issue on all but the highest resolutions.
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The vast majority of people who understands only GB but not Big5 code are either illliterate or don't have computers.
Simplified Chinese was, and still is, a good intent but the wrong thing to do. Often the characters before simplification are easier to learn than their simplified equivalences.
They gotta fix the root of the problems first.
To be fair for everyone, we should all have Unicode everything, including domain names. Hard disk capacities have grown so quickly that a 150-200% of bloat resulting from UTF-8 adaptation is minimal...
And...I can't wait to use an 100%-Unicode Linux distro. Is anything like this going on?
No need to remember those numbered IP addresses while surely harder to trackdown by US law enforcements.
just kidding.
IE used to have easy menu access to let you put the current site under "Restricted Zone" or "Trusted Zone", and it disappeared after some version, without explanation, and for questionable reasons.
As a better replacement, whether you are using Mozilla or IE, at least for Windows, immediately download Proxomitron before it becomes illegal.
(it's just a matter of time before some phuckdup company uses the DCMA against it)
As for the Unixes, anyone tried NoShit/WebFilter and know if anything new is going on about them?
I know they do roughly the same thing as the Proxomitron, but as a modification to the NCSA web server?
Gimme a break - I think a single purpose filtering proxy is definitely doable, and can make a nice opensource project. Anyone interested? Please reply here.
Don't go so low to describe yourself like that.
I dare you say that again.
Disclaimer: This piece contribute to an OPINION only.
/dev/null. You don't have to give a reason - there's always someone who's more competitive than you. And there's always Ad Hoc hiring criteria that you can use.
Well, all we have to do is to let this negative sentiments about Rambus persist, for as long as we can.
I'm pretty sure that people who work at Rambus would have a harder time looking for jobs once they're out of Rambus.
And, current Rambus people have to retire sooner or later.
People in HR departments, do your work: create the impression that "working at Rambus ruins your career" by grepping resumes that has Rambus in it, and send them to
What good is a company, if there aren't people working in it?
Too bad. If I had moderator points now I'd have given you a +1 funny. Well guess not.
If all you're doing is "flipping thru", yeah sure I can finish any mahjong game within 1 minute.
All I can say is, the AI of your mahjong program must be very dumb.
Rough calculation is here:
50000(m) = 1/2 * 9.8(m/s^2) * t^2
100000(m) = 9.8(m/s^2) * t^2
10000(s^2) = t^2
t = 100 seconds
So, a free fall from 31 miles without any air friction will crash you into the land in a little less than 2 minutes.
Air friction resulting from her stationary body, any skydiving trick movements and parachute counted in, I'd give an estimate of 15 - 20 minutes at most...while a typical game of mahjong takes quite a bit more time...
I guess a game of Dominoes or Dopewars should be more like it...
>Do we call all applications with
>GCC 'GNU/MyApp'? We're talking about a whole
>operating system with applications and
>documentation, not just a single application.
Of course not. It is common knowledge apps compiled with gcc need not be in GPL in most cases.
Some people call Linux "GNU/Linux" because
1. it is always distributed with GNU tools
2. The kernel itself uses the GPL license
3. So, essentially the kernel and its tools are
GPL'd.
3. Nobody found it offensive calling it this way
>When someone writes an operating system similar
>to Windows in architecture using Visual Basic
>and ports the Microsoft Office suite and all
>the "Visual" tools to it, that system (OS and
>tools) will certainly be called MS/Something (or
>maybe "MS-something").
Again, not.
1. MS won't allow them to be called MS/Something
2. They're just PORTS of MS apps, not the actual
bundling of MS apps, unlike Linux distribs,
almost all of which bundle actual GNU apps.
www.bear-review.com
Which would serve no purpose other than critizing Guiness beer, which sucks (not just my experience. Most of my friends don't like guiness)
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For those who likes to believe @Home gives you an "always on" connection, go elsewhere.
I've been using DSL last year and switch to @Home 2 months ago just for the sake of trying. Man did I make the wrong decision. _EVERYDAY_, for a few minutes to several hours, the network is down.
My record is 26 hours 40 minutes. Go figure. 90% of the swearwords I've used in these 2 months are @Home-induced.
I've been using Logitech cordless desktop for quite some time now.
While RF is nice, I do have two issues with them.
1. The mouse (Cordless MouseMan Pro)'s pointer position is paused for a short while when you click a button - i.e., when you click while moving the mouse, the pointer stops moving and suddenly "jumps" to its new location when I release the button.
2. The keyboard sometimes thinks I haven't released a key while I have.
Both are very annoying issues especially for online games.
Books online also include:
* OpenGL Red Book
* OpenGL SuperBible (1st edition)
* Thinking in C++
* Thinking in Java
All of them are also available on the dead tree format. I'll leave as an exercise for the readers to find out where they are.
You cannot bypass Microsoft Revenue(tm) with VMWare.
Seems they already have copyright protection in mind when they design the console. It is a good thing.
Just that, please don't consider DVD region coding as a copyright protection.
And, I forgot.
While basically everybody else's Exception handling is a last resort. There's something from BASIC a language can learn from:
ON ERROR GOTO Haha... --- trap an exception
Haha:
RESUME NEXT --- GIMME this construct!
With Ruby, you can do that too.
I don't like C/C++ as a language too, just that, when you have to know these to make a living today (and probably the next 5 years too), you don't have a choice.
I am completely for the idea of writing everything in a nice scripting language (my current favorite: Ruby, previously covered by Slashdot, with the exception for the OS, drivers, and games.
Back to Ruby: it has evolved to version 1.6.2, and has basically ALL characteristics of a nice programming language that I want. Some of them are:
try {... try {... } except {... } } finally {... }
WHY are there 2 block levels when you really need only 1? Ruby is beautiful in this aspect: begin
Check it out.
I guess I'm too politically infected. The first thing that came to my mind after reading the story is, "So when will DeCSS arrive for Mobile Devices??"
Now IIS is in the space. When are we launching Apache?
Interesting chart at that page telling us the altitudes of IIS. It seems that it keeps falling despite of sudden upward bounces here and there.
Is it not high enough to keep a constant orbit? Looks like it relies on fuels to keep itself from falling, which sounds bad to me...
How about putting (at least some of) it into good use?
Commercial or not - piracy IS piracy. There is no difference to the MPAA: They lose money to "commercial pirates" and they also lose money to "casual pirates". It just happens that today, commercial pirates account for the vast majority of thier loss. Who knows when if casual pirates like us will take over in terms of their "loss revenue". Maybe next year. Their fear is justified.
/. are by default taken to be personal opinions and cannot be used as evidence in this case
I understand what game they are playing (don't you stop personal attacks on posts please).
I just know that there are 2 definitions of piracy here and both are correct. Whether it's commercial or not does not matter to THE MOVIE MAKERS. Who cares if the pirates make money? All I care is that I'm losing money!!
And, all statements on
(they can on a libel case, for example, but not like what you belive "See even the people on Slashdot know that DeCSS is for piracy")
Funny. By the way, the dicussion is on region coding, not DeCSS. Macrovision is to be implemented no matter what kind of DVD player you'll see - it's I believe against the law not to do it.
What they are afriad of, is a by-default region-free player available for everyone. So if we trip them on this one then they'll be just wasting money on the DeCSS case because winning or not it'd do them no good if they can't keep region coding.
For the same resolution, run the games in a window, instead of going full-screen for Windows.
As far as the display driver is concerned, doing a page flip on a non-fullscreen surface is impossible. That should eliminate the difference produced by the blitting drivers for Linux.
Besides, issues like the efficient use of AGP bus, DMA, eliminating bad polygons when you do clipping and synchronization all can have a great impact for performance - blitting vs flipping is just a minor issue on all but the highest resolutions.