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Warp <war### [at] tag povrayorg> wrote:
> Sometimes misusing quotes can result in rather hilarious, albeit unintended,
> meanings. http://adamcadre.ac/images/topa4.jpg
haha, Adam Cadre used to be a great interactive fiction writer.
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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any software
> to create mp3 files and you want to get one.
>
With both systems it's equally easy to get freeware on a whim's notice. The
difference is that in windows you get it from a site with flashing porn ads and
malware, and then your brower starts doing something realllly funky the minute
you leave the site.
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>> Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any software
>> to create mp3 files and you want to get one.
>
> With both systems it's equally easy to get freeware on a whim's notice. The
> difference is that in windows you get it from a site with flashing porn ads and
> malware, and then your brower starts doing something realllly funky the minute
> you leave the site.
Hehe. Yeah, well, I guess it depends which sites you try to get the
software from. And whether you use IE or something else...
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Warp wrote:
> The finnish word "kursiivi" means italic or oblique (I'm not exactly sure
> what the difference is between those two, as I'm not a typographist), while
> the English word "cursive" is a completely different word in Finnish
> ("kaunokirjoitus").
Kewl.
"italic" is a different font, while "oblique" just means "slanted."
See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type
for roman, italic, and oblique. :-)
(I learned *that* from TeX and Metafont.
> Sometimes misusing quotes can result in rather hilarious, albeit unintended,
> meanings.
Heh.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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Warp wrote:
> It's one thing that a program collects some data about how it's being used
> and phones home with it (is that even legal?),
They ask you if you want to participate, so yeah, I'd guess so.
> and a completely different
> thing when single person makes one post in a forum, causing a significant
> improvement to be made to the distro. I can see the latter happening quite
> often in the Linux world.
It's definitely easier to make a difference as an individual contributor.
It's also the case that even a small company can make a difference in
Microsoft's stuff. Like the company that did the first defrag program for NT
designed the APIs for that and told MS how to write it.
And I would guess security vulnerabilities found by an individual can get
them fixed.
But yah, definitely not as *rewarding* as doing it in Linux. You'll
certainly not get the sort of recognition for improving MS software, if
nothing else.
> I think some features of Vista are a sign that Microsoft is not always
> so good at implementing what people want. (Yes, people wanted more security,
> but not of the type that MS implemented in Vista.)
Well, as I said, people want it for free, too. :-) Overall, they did a
pretty good job with UAC, but it needed tuning. And people aren't that used
to having to deal with it in Windows. *Some* of what they do users don't
want (like signed drivers) but MS does for their own good.
I was thinking more the DRM stuff, myself.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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Stephen wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, I might just do that when this contract finishes.
It's what Warp recommended to me when I needed to set up several dozen
machines around the country, and it was pretty darn easy to administer.
It made the sysadmin annoyed, because apparently things are in somewhat
weird places or something, so if you want to do something like bind two
ethernet connectors so it uses both but falls over to the working one when
one fails, it takes more work than with (say) red hat. But for a desktop? Go
for it.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Software written against "Windows" expects one set of APIs.
Well, except for cutting-edge stuff. Different wireless connectors, or
different USB connections, can be problematic for the people writing
*drivers*. And if there isn't a standard windows API, there's usually
custom software that comes with the device to do the thing. (Think about the
first scanners before TWAIN and WIA was around.)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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Stephen wrote:
> when I consider a 250 Gig HD limited space)
When Myst first came out on a CD, I remember thinking "so much for pirated
games", since there was no possible way to copy an entire 670M CD.
Does anyone remember thinking "32 bits will soon be rather limiting for a
single file to fit within" before it was obvious?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> (It's also popular for embedded applications, but
> that presumably is due to its extreme portability and configurability
> more than anything else...)
It is only popular for embedded operations as Linux, not Unix. Before Linux,
nobody used Unix for embedded applications. Now it's popular for embedded
applications purely because it's free. It's actually quite a PITA to use on
embedded devices.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:4b22df73@news.povray.org...
> Zeger Knaepen <zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote:
>> For 10 years now, I have a tradition to make a yearly version of Jingle
>> Bells.
>
> That reminds me of a medley song I made a long, long time ago (which I was
> able to salvage from an audio-CD where I had burned it):
>
> http://kapsi.fi/warp/jb2.mp3
>
> And for something completely different:
>
> http://kapsi.fi/warp/test8.mp3
oh, you topic-hijacker :)
I like them, actually! too bad you lost the midi-file (it was a midi-file,
right?)
cu!
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#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*C/50#end#macro _(b,e,k,l)#local C=0;#while(C<50)
sphere{G(b,e)+3*z.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1;
#end#end _(y-x,y,x,x+y)_(y,-x-y,x+y,y)_(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)_(-y,y,y+z,x+y)
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