I agree one hundred percent. Indeed, using *nix because you don't want to
pay for the OS is a moral choice (for me this is not the best reason for
using *nix but I know that this is the main reason argued).
Otherwise, you will copy Windows as so many, many, many people do.
I see it this way, the
On 9-apr-08, at 13:11, David Fotland wrote:
Does Linux have a decent development environment yet?
It probably depends on the language. Java has several excellent
development environments that are superior to Visual Studio IMO. And
they're portable. I believe Eclipse can be made to work
Yesterday I noticed an odd phenomena in Valkyria wich was caused by
high selectivity and AMAF.
In this position
(;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[9]AP[SmartGo:1.4]
KM[7.5]
;B[ee];W[de];B[ed];W[df];B[ef];W[dd];B[dg];W[ge];B[dc];W[cc];B[cd];W[bd]
Rémi Coulom wrote:
Don Dailey wrote:
Hi Rémi,
For a while I have considered overhauling the rating system for
CGOS. My system is ad-hoc and based on gradually increasing K
factor based on
your opponents K in the standard ELO formula.
I don't know if your idea here is feasible for a
2008/4/9, David Fotland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since I sell software, building Linux apps is out of the question, since
Linux users will insist that I give them my work for free.
MS Windows users also insist that you give your work for free,
look at emule. Maybe you are wrong and loosing sales.
Of course there is no perfect rating system.I'm probably obsessing
over nothing, there is no overwhelming deficiency of CGOS over other
rating systems, but all of them suffer from the transitivity problem, I
don't think any of them address that.
Most weirdness that you see with CGOS is
Petri Pitkanen wrote:
2008/4/9, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since I sell software, building Linux apps is out of the question, since
Linux users will insist that I give them my work for free.
I don't have any issue whatsoever with making money by selling software
either.
Daniel Burgos wrote:
I agree one hundred percent. Indeed, using *nix because you don't want to
pay for the OS is a moral choice (for me this is not the best reason for
using *nix but I know that this is the main reason argued).
My reason for using Unix, is that it's just far easier to
Ok, I'm going to speak up in defence of Microsoft. (I'm not really that
fond of them, and I am thinking of moving to Linux, particularly if
Vista is as bad as I have heard.)
I became anti-Mac when trying to buy one for my then employer. It
seemed like a reasonable deal, until the salesman
The difference (and I'm not defending HP here) is that a print scheduler
for your OS shouldn't even be *writable* by the install wizard for your
printer.
Imagine an OS environment where a printer is a completely passive
device that accepts requests to print onto paper. Imagine that it doesn't
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