If you'd like to run a real government, I'm sure you'd be able to find some land on an island in international waters or Antarctica. Followers, however, take a bit more work.
I was looking forward to the next iteration of the true SimCity series, too. When I first heard about Societies, it was a horrible disappointment.
Community add-ons will still be developed for SC4, but I've already reached the point where it will crash if I add anymore add-ons. I lost some great cities finding that out, too: it crashes when loading them after it crashed while running them.
Aside from the Intel chipset and CPU, I went with parts other than what's in Centrino (GeForce 7300 Go, Atheros wireless) for my laptop, and have had no trouble whatsoever, though it boots Linux mainly.
Interestingly, (as I've said before) I've had more than my share of trouble with the nVidia GPU's drivers in my desktop during the times I boot Windows. Have they fixed the page-fault issue in the nVidia driver when using more than the 32-bit addressing space's worth of RAM? I've had 4 GB, then 6 for quite a long while, and would like to use a Windows-only application for a certain CSE course on my desktop instead of on the laptop.
Although it's unrelated, what's the status of PAE in Vista?
Compare the installation time of a Linux distro with a full set of applications at once to installing Windows, antivirus, anti-spyware/adware, an office suite, a web browser, an e-mail program, and an image editor one at a time.
I'm not trying to flame here, but I've found myself spending a lot more time finding websites to download packages, buying/finding install CDs, and trying to make applications from different third parties interoperate well than fixing problems under Linux. Distributing an OS with useful software seems to work better for me, especially since getting certain Linux utilities to work on Windows (such as ZSH) can be a real pain.
Noting the 2 GB per-application limit: we need more x86_64-native applications. On Windows, it's an issue because nothing can be recompiled to fix that, especially third-party drivers. They're often restricted to PAE (or not even), which allows the more than 4 GB of RAM, but still gives only that amount to each application.
On 64-bit Linux, it's usually a matter of recompiling the software packages and improving coding semantics. Most of the drivers are in the kernel, and nVidia's kind enough to provide us with a DRI/XV/composite driver for 64-bit kernels (unlike fglrx from ATi/AMD), and the common Intel cards are supported by an open source driver anyway. Heck, I even have 32-bit Flash working in 64-bit Firefox, though not Opera and Konqueror. Hopefully Gnash will continue improving to where I can switch to it soon, or Adobe will finally get their 64-bit implementation out.
If you think you have it bad, you haven't been bitten by the bug in nVidia's drivers under 32-bit Vista with more than 4 GB of system RAM installed.
I needed to use a Windows application for a class one time, so I booted into the Vista installed on a secondary partition (which I hadn't used since I put in 2 more GB of RAM). Well, it crashed five minutes after starting up with a pagefault, and when I realized the problem, the driver wouldn't download in time before the spontaneous reboot.
I ended up using my mother's PC, which has XP installed. Since then, I've used my laptop (which also has Vista on a secondary partition) since it only has 2 GB of RAM and an nVidia card.
There are already otherlanguages doing this. If you think naming closely-related languages the same thing is a kludge, what do you think of naming mostly-unrelated languages the same thing?
I was considering posting that, but couldn't think of anything witty enough. Apparently I wasn't the only one who couldn't.
Let's try this: with this process, we could make precision butterflies that could eddy the air currents in such a way that amazing data densities could be achieved on the hard disks. The hard part is getting the butterflies to sit still without damaging them, but considering what we've done with silicon, I doubt it'd be that hard once there's interest.
I was considering buying a PowerMac until they switched to Intel, too. Because of that, I ended up with a PowerMac G3 B&W running OS X 10.4.11. That thing takes five minutes to boot up, despite having 512 MB of RAM.
Those G5s were really cool.
Why don't you try checking your Linux sources as far as time_t is concerned:
% grep time_t asm-x86_64/posix_types.h typedef long __kernel_time_t;
The AMD64 Linux kernel uses long integers to store time. This type is given more names as the code gets further away from the kernel, and is eventually typedef'd as time_t.
I do realize I'm in the minority, but there's a lot of software on Linux that I can't get at Windows, especially what comes with the OS. That's why my main machines run Linux and the gaming machine I rarely boot up runs Windows.
Some examples are basic shell utilities or their analogues, such as grep, tr, and dozens of others. Although possible to get on Windows, Perl, Python, and other interpreters don't run as smoothly and take more work to do on Windows. For my purposes, it's most efficient to use such tools in a shell prompt, which Windows somewhat lacks (don't get me started on their DOS emulator, which lacks decent tab completion, useful text selection support, and so on). I even have a friend who has SSHd running under Cygwin so he can SSH into his own computer and have a useful terminal emulator and shell (Bash in his case).
The same goes for the graphical applications I use, such as parts of KDE, which haven't run on Windows well yet (KDE4 will fix that). Other examples are good shell replacements. It's like having to use CDE during the days of proprietary Unix, without any good options. Sure, BB4Win derivatives provide options, but they're nowhere nearly as good as XFce, KDE, or even RatPoison for my purposes (I'm not even sure why it's not possible to have two different wallpapers in dual-head mode under Windows).
Sure, for the average consumer, Windows has what they want and the software they'll send their money in for, but for someone raised under GNU/Linux, Windows lacks the important software.
Speaking of that, I searched for my area and got this:
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Verizon High Speed Internet is available.
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However we wanted to let you know that you qualify for Verizon
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I haven't really booted into my 32-bit Vista install after adding two more 1 GB sticks, but it seems silly that 32-bit Vista can't access 4 GB of RAM when 32-bit Linux has the option to access 64 GB.
For the most part, I stay in 64-bit Linux, anyway.
It's the same for me. The album art is somewhat interesting, but I like the lyric sheet given with each of the CDs I buy. Most people would tell me to go look online for them, but they're difficult to find, or don't exist online. I use these for translating the songs to English, too.
Slashdot Mirror
All I get is NoScript showing blocked scripts in its dropdown.
If you'd like to run a real government, I'm sure you'd be able to find some land on an island in international waters or Antarctica. Followers, however, take a bit more work.
Yes, I can vouch that interns at Microsoft do get mentored. My only experience was from their high school internship program, mind you.
I was looking forward to the next iteration of the true SimCity series, too. When I first heard about Societies, it was a horrible disappointment.
Community add-ons will still be developed for SC4, but I've already reached the point where it will crash if I add anymore add-ons. I lost some great cities finding that out, too: it crashes when loading them after it crashed while running them.
Aside from the Intel chipset and CPU, I went with parts other than what's in Centrino (GeForce 7300 Go, Atheros wireless) for my laptop, and have had no trouble whatsoever, though it boots Linux mainly.
Interestingly, (as I've said before) I've had more than my share of trouble with the nVidia GPU's drivers in my desktop during the times I boot Windows. Have they fixed the page-fault issue in the nVidia driver when using more than the 32-bit addressing space's worth of RAM? I've had 4 GB, then 6 for quite a long while, and would like to use a Windows-only application for a certain CSE course on my desktop instead of on the laptop.
Although it's unrelated, what's the status of PAE in Vista?
The PowerPC G3 I keep around takes over five minutes to boot OS X 10.4.11 every time; do they have it that bad?
Well, if you write a Perl script to connect to a *SQL database in some way, chances are you're using the query language within a statement somewhere.
Compare the installation time of a Linux distro with a full set of applications at once to installing Windows, antivirus, anti-spyware/adware, an office suite, a web browser, an e-mail program, and an image editor one at a time.
I'm not trying to flame here, but I've found myself spending a lot more time finding websites to download packages, buying/finding install CDs, and trying to make applications from different third parties interoperate well than fixing problems under Linux. Distributing an OS with useful software seems to work better for me, especially since getting certain Linux utilities to work on Windows (such as ZSH) can be a real pain.
Noting the 2 GB per-application limit: we need more x86_64-native applications. On Windows, it's an issue because nothing can be recompiled to fix that, especially third-party drivers. They're often restricted to PAE (or not even), which allows the more than 4 GB of RAM, but still gives only that amount to each application.
On 64-bit Linux, it's usually a matter of recompiling the software packages and improving coding semantics. Most of the drivers are in the kernel, and nVidia's kind enough to provide us with a DRI/XV/composite driver for 64-bit kernels (unlike fglrx from ATi/AMD), and the common Intel cards are supported by an open source driver anyway. Heck, I even have 32-bit Flash working in 64-bit Firefox, though not Opera and Konqueror. Hopefully Gnash will continue improving to where I can switch to it soon, or Adobe will finally get their 64-bit implementation out.
It even speeds up X where one doesn't use the NX server, making it a good replacement for Xnest and possibly Xephyr.
And tiny fonts on the phones.
If you think you have it bad, you haven't been bitten by the bug in nVidia's drivers under 32-bit Vista with more than 4 GB of system RAM installed.
I needed to use a Windows application for a class one time, so I booted into the Vista installed on a secondary partition (which I hadn't used since I put in 2 more GB of RAM). Well, it crashed five minutes after starting up with a pagefault, and when I realized the problem, the driver wouldn't download in time before the spontaneous reboot.
I ended up using my mother's PC, which has XP installed. Since then, I've used my laptop (which also has Vista on a secondary partition) since it only has 2 GB of RAM and an nVidia card.
There are already other languages doing this. If you think naming closely-related languages the same thing is a kludge, what do you think of naming mostly-unrelated languages the same thing?
I was considering posting that, but couldn't think of anything witty enough. Apparently I wasn't the only one who couldn't.
Let's try this: with this process, we could make precision butterflies that could eddy the air currents in such a way that amazing data densities could be achieved on the hard disks. The hard part is getting the butterflies to sit still without damaging them, but considering what we've done with silicon, I doubt it'd be that hard once there's interest.
Hope that's good enough.
I was considering buying a PowerMac until they switched to Intel, too. Because of that, I ended up with a PowerMac G3 B&W running OS X 10.4.11. That thing takes five minutes to boot up, despite having 512 MB of RAM. Those G5s were really cool.
It's already been done: Singularity
I got a headache watching the third one, and ended up leaving before it ended.
Until someone calls him out on some patent.
Why don't you try checking your Linux sources as far as time_t is concerned:
The AMD64 Linux kernel uses long integers to store time. This type is given more names as the code gets further away from the kernel, and is eventually typedef'd as time_t.Can you guarantee that it'll run on Wine? Do their viewers require WGA?
I do realize I'm in the minority, but there's a lot of software on Linux that I can't get at Windows, especially what comes with the OS. That's why my main machines run Linux and the gaming machine I rarely boot up runs Windows.
Some examples are basic shell utilities or their analogues, such as grep, tr, and dozens of others. Although possible to get on Windows, Perl, Python, and other interpreters don't run as smoothly and take more work to do on Windows. For my purposes, it's most efficient to use such tools in a shell prompt, which Windows somewhat lacks (don't get me started on their DOS emulator, which lacks decent tab completion, useful text selection support, and so on). I even have a friend who has SSHd running under Cygwin so he can SSH into his own computer and have a useful terminal emulator and shell (Bash in his case).
The same goes for the graphical applications I use, such as parts of KDE, which haven't run on Windows well yet (KDE4 will fix that). Other examples are good shell replacements. It's like having to use CDE during the days of proprietary Unix, without any good options. Sure, BB4Win derivatives provide options, but they're nowhere nearly as good as XFce, KDE, or even RatPoison for my purposes (I'm not even sure why it's not possible to have two different wallpapers in dual-head mode under Windows).
Sure, for the average consumer, Windows has what they want and the software they'll send their money in for, but for someone raised under GNU/Linux, Windows lacks the important software.
Speaking of that, I searched for my area and got this:
What do they mean exactly? Is it here or not?
I haven't really booted into my 32-bit Vista install after adding two more 1 GB sticks, but it seems silly that 32-bit Vista can't access 4 GB of RAM when 32-bit Linux has the option to access 64 GB.
For the most part, I stay in 64-bit Linux, anyway.
It's the same for me. The album art is somewhat interesting, but I like the lyric sheet given with each of the CDs I buy. Most people would tell me to go look online for them, but they're difficult to find, or don't exist online. I use these for translating the songs to English, too.
I do the same, except I rip to FLAC. In the event I lose the CD, I can just re-burn it with no quality loss; can your MP3 do that?