I would assume they don't use boolean because it is not part of C which is where they are coming from. The worst thing you can do in C is declare a boolean type, or possibly worse: #define TRUE 1
Ugh, that is such a bad idea. When I write C++ I prefer to see: if (strcmp(x,y) == 0)...
But when I write C, I prefer: if (!strcmp(x,y))...
Different idioms for different languages. (Of course, in C++ I would use a string class, but that was tangential to my point.)
IIRC, the internal L1 or external L2 cache design (I forget which) could only handle 64M on the P1. Installing more ram would slow the chip down because it could no longer use the cache.
I might be wrong. But your supposition that the CPU cannot limit the amount of RAM is wrong. 8088s and 8086s can only address 1M of RAM. That's it, nothing more.
Why hasn't Sun done this?
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Because Sun knows that the best part about Java is that you can load classes into a running program. That cannot be done with a compiled version of Java.
As I started reading the comments in this post I came to the conclusion I came to during the last discussion. I unchecked the "can be moderator" button in my prefs last time. I read the posts high to low with a threshold of -1. If something intelligent was said, I'll eventually see it. I may have to go back to flat.
Rob, this system is completely whacked. You want to encourage good writing. Thus, all posts should start out at 0. Like the stock market, past behavior in not an indication of future performance. The system you have proposed is designed for creating elites. (I'M A THREE!!!)
Don't worry about the judge and jury problem. Someone else will come along and raise that opposing viewpoint back up. Why? Because there will be another moderator who agrees with the other guy. Allow moderators to post.
How you pick the moderator is probably a better use for the delta system you just came up with. Just as long as it isn't me. I waste enough of my time here as it is.
Where is the science in Star Wars? Star Wars is space opera, not sci fi. It's bad enough we have to here people rave that Star Wars is a good movie, but please don't call it sci fi.
And for the record, I enjoyed Star Wars. I've even read some of the recent books. But I don't consider them sci fi beyond the fact that there are space ships in it.
With moderation clued people will want to post. Other clued people will reply. And as a moderator, you are more important because your responsible for higlighting the best
This only makes sense if moderating skills and writing skills were opposit skills. They aren't. In fact, they are probably complimentary skills. How can you trust the judgement of a moderator and not respect his opinion.
Wouldn't the "post or moderate" concept work better if moderators were simply restricted from moderating replies to their comments, rather than all comments?
This makes far more sense than Rob's initial idea. You should not discourage people who are good enough to be moderators from providing posts worth moderating (up).
RMS needs to stop using the word free in his interviews. The word free hangs over every one of his interviews. They should be the Liberty Software Foundation. He should say that the GNU System, his new way to railroad Linux's name, is a libery OS. It guarentees your freedom. I usually don't like his interviews. He tends to focus on the name. Now he is attacking the freedom/free beer problem. I think he is doomed until he changes the word.
(Of course, when I first saw the story, I wanted to know what the joke was.)
I'd like to believe it's a joke but how is this a good strategy for getting people to go to your site? Why am I going to look for User Friendly tomorrow if it has been closed down? Suppose yesterday I was telling someone to go check out one of these sites and they go there and find it gone? What is going to make them try again?
As a joke it is ill considered. The last thing people want in a website is for it to be down.
Actually, I just hate to be interrupted. I go out several nights a week and if someone needs to get a hold of me, I'll get back to them when I get home. Maybe it's selfish but I would not want to be interrupted by friend B when I'm visiting friend A.
Maybe it's just the interruption problem. The phone in my bedroom does not have a ringer. I don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night either. Someday that may be important, but in my current family situation, it is not.
Call me a Luddite if you must but I don't even wear a watch. My computer clock is good enough. And if I'm at the mail and need to know what time it is, I ask someone who's foolish enough to wear a watch.
I own no cell phone. The only reason to have one that I applies to me is for calls to AAA. If I were to buy one I would leave it in the car and forget the phone number so that I could not give it out. Or if I had kids, then it might be necessary to be "available".
I quit a job that tried to give me a pager. There is no way I want to think about work when I am not there. My time is too precious to be wasted with work when I'm not there.
When I'm at work, there is a phone on my desk. If I'm not at my desk, there's an intercomm which can be used to get my attention.
I tell people to contact me by email whenever possible but I'm not one of those people who HAS to answer an email as soon as it arrives. Unless it's something trivial, I prefer to mull it over in my head and think before I respond.
At home, my phones do not have call waiting. I do have an answering machine and I do remember to check it occasionally.
I don't get it. Why do people insist on being reachable at all hours of the day? I prefer my privacy. When I'm in the car, I want to sing along with the radio.
Oh, and I am certainly not a Luddite. I've been using the Internet since 1987. I own 2 VCRs and more electronic musical equipment than I use. Someday I get around good digital recordings of my band and put them up on the web.
No, there is noise in the cheaper system. That noise muffles what your ear translates into your brain. Artifacts in the source material which are softer than the noise are not noticed. Not noticed unless you are using a good system which has a better s/n ratio.
I am not an audiophile but I know my cheap stereo only sounds good enough. The problem with expensive equipment is that it also points out the flaws. I record my own music and on the CDRs I've made from WAV files, they sound good enough on my stereo and only so-so on a friends great stereo. Whenever I use bladeenc to create MP3s of my music it just sounds like crap at any sample rate below 256kbps.
MP3s are only good for the unattentive listener. If you are trying to really listen to a song, you don't want MP3s.
Couldn't Theo argue that since they peacefully coexisted for three years that The OS Software diluted their own trademark? His site says that they registered theos-software.com 9 months after his domain was registered. Didn't they tacitly give up the trademark by not persuing his domain then?
IANAL but, I assume legal action would be between ESR/OSI and SPI over the Open Source(tm) trademark. SPI could sue Apple for using the term and Apple could use ESR as a witness. The whole thing is, of course, just silly.
Joe Open Source is registered trademark of god-knows-whom.
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Here's the real question -- could Linux have reached critical mass without the GNU utilities?
That is still the wrong question. Could Linux have reached critical mass without Intel CPUs? Since Linus wrote the first version on an Intel chip should we call it Intel/Linux?
How about ING/Linux (ING = ING's not GNU)?
The real question is -- why change the name when it already had a name?
...to be honest, since redhat is already holding the marbles, it seems more sincere when THEY talk about standards.
Really? Most people fear when Microsoft talks standards. Always fear when a market leader what to talk standards. Redhat whats to make money just as badly as Caldera.
I always want to read the posts flat. I don't want to have to hit the server a hundred times to read the comments. I prefer to just get one big file and read it at my leisure all day.
The people who have Car X also cannot unlock the door to the car. They have to break the window to get out. The thing is, they don't want to get out. To get out would deprive them of the gloves (data) they have stuck in the glovebox. Until the Car Y people come up with keys to the Car X car and a way to convert the gloves in the Car X glovebox, to a Car Y glovebox, Car X will always dominate.
(Anyway, data is the key. Until, MS Office 97/2000 documents can be handled easily in Linux/BSD/whatever, there will always be Car X.)
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I would assume they don't use boolean because it is not part of C which is where they are coming from. The worst thing you can do in C is declare a boolean type, or possibly worse:
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#define TRUE 1
Ugh, that is such a bad idea. When I write C++ I prefer to see:
if (strcmp(x,y) == 0)
But when I write C, I prefer:
if (!strcmp(x,y))
Different idioms for different languages. (Of course, in C++ I would use a string class, but that was tangential to my point.)
RMS should demand a retraction.
This is an excellent point. This is Microsoft at its "innovative" best.
IIRC, the internal L1 or external L2 cache design (I forget which) could only handle 64M on the P1. Installing more ram would slow the chip down because it could no longer use the cache.
I might be wrong. But your supposition that the CPU cannot limit the amount of RAM is wrong. 8088s and 8086s can only address 1M of RAM. That's it, nothing more.
Because Sun knows that the best part about Java is that you can load classes into a running program. That cannot be done with a compiled version of Java.
I hate to me too, but I agree with this completely.
(And if you moderate me down, please mod the parent article up.)
As I started reading the comments in this post I came to the conclusion I came to during the last discussion. I unchecked the "can be moderator" button in my prefs last time. I read the posts high to low with a threshold of -1. If something intelligent was said, I'll eventually see it. I may have to go back to flat.
Rob, this system is completely whacked. You want to encourage good writing. Thus, all posts should start out at 0. Like the stock market, past behavior in not an indication of future performance. The system you have proposed is designed for creating elites. (I'M A THREE!!!)
Don't worry about the judge and jury problem. Someone else will come along and raise that opposing viewpoint back up. Why? Because there will be another moderator who agrees with the other guy. Allow moderators to post.
How you pick the moderator is probably a better use for the delta system you just came up with. Just as long as it isn't me. I waste enough of my time here as it is.
Check the department.
Where is the science in Star Wars? Star Wars is space opera, not sci fi. It's bad enough we have to here people rave that Star Wars is a good movie, but please don't call it sci fi.
And for the record, I enjoyed Star Wars. I've even read some of the recent books. But I don't consider them sci fi beyond the fact that there are space ships in it.
With moderation clued people will want to post. Other clued people will reply. And as a moderator, you are more important because your responsible for higlighting the best
This only makes sense if moderating skills and writing skills were opposit skills. They aren't. In fact, they are probably complimentary skills. How can you trust the judgement of a moderator and not respect his opinion.
Wouldn't the "post or moderate" concept work better if moderators were simply restricted from moderating replies to their comments, rather than all comments?
This makes far more sense than Rob's initial idea. You should not discourage people who are good enough to be moderators from providing posts worth moderating (up).
RMS needs to stop using the word free in his interviews. The word free hangs over every one of his interviews. They should be the Liberty Software Foundation. He should say that the GNU System, his new way to railroad Linux's name, is a libery OS. It guarentees your freedom. I usually don't like his interviews. He tends to focus on the name. Now he is attacking the freedom/free beer problem. I think he is doomed until he changes the word.
(Of course, when I first saw the story, I wanted to know what the joke was.)
I'd like to believe it's a joke but how is this a good strategy for getting people to go to your site? Why am I going to look for User Friendly tomorrow if it has been closed down? Suppose yesterday I was telling someone to go check out one of these sites and they go there and find it gone? What is going to make them try again?
As a joke it is ill considered. The last thing people want in a website is for it to be down.
He was referring to the openness phenomenom caused by the net.
Daylight savings time doesn't start until April. It should say EST. (Or am I way off?)
Actually, I just hate to be interrupted. I go out several nights a week and if someone needs to get a hold of me, I'll get back to them when I get home. Maybe it's selfish but I would not want to be interrupted by friend B when I'm visiting friend A.
Maybe it's just the interruption problem. The phone in my bedroom does not have a ringer. I don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night either. Someday that may be important, but in my current family situation, it is not.
Agreed. To each his own.
Call me a Luddite if you must but I don't even wear a watch. My computer clock is good enough. And if I'm at the mail and need to know what time it is, I ask someone who's foolish enough to wear a watch.
I own no cell phone. The only reason to have one that I applies to me is for calls to AAA. If I were to buy one I would leave it in the car and forget the phone number so that I could not give it out. Or if I had kids, then it might be necessary to be "available".
I quit a job that tried to give me a pager. There is no way I want to think about work when I am not there. My time is too precious to be wasted with work when I'm not there.
When I'm at work, there is a phone on my desk. If I'm not at my desk, there's an intercomm which can be used to get my attention.
I tell people to contact me by email whenever possible but I'm not one of those people who HAS to answer an email as soon as it arrives. Unless it's something trivial, I prefer to mull it over in my head and think before I respond.
At home, my phones do not have call waiting. I do have an answering machine and I do remember to check it occasionally.
I don't get it. Why do people insist on being reachable at all hours of the day? I prefer my privacy. When I'm in the car, I want to sing along with the radio.
Oh, and I am certainly not a Luddite. I've been using the Internet since 1987. I own 2 VCRs and more electronic musical equipment than I use. Someday I get around good digital recordings of my band and put them up on the web.
Joe
No, there is noise in the cheaper system. That noise muffles what your ear translates into your brain. Artifacts in the source material which are softer than the noise are not noticed. Not noticed unless you are using a good system which has a better s/n ratio.
I am not an audiophile but I know my cheap stereo only sounds good enough. The problem with expensive equipment is that it also points out the flaws. I record my own music and on the CDRs I've made from WAV files, they sound good enough on my stereo and only so-so on a friends great stereo. Whenever I use bladeenc to create MP3s of my music it just sounds like crap at any sample rate below 256kbps.
MP3s are only good for the unattentive listener. If you are trying to really listen to a song, you don't want MP3s.
Couldn't Theo argue that since they peacefully coexisted for three years that The OS Software diluted their own trademark? His site says that they registered theos-software.com 9 months after his domain was registered. Didn't they tacitly give up the trademark by not persuing his domain then?
IANAL but, I assume legal action would be between ESR/OSI and SPI over the Open Source(tm) trademark. SPI could sue Apple for using the term and Apple could use ESR as a witness. The whole thing is, of course, just silly.
Joe
Open Source is registered trademark of god-knows-whom.
Here's the real question -- could Linux have reached critical mass without the GNU utilities?
That is still the wrong question. Could Linux have reached critical mass without Intel CPUs? Since Linus wrote the first version on an Intel chip should we call it Intel/Linux?
How about ING/Linux (ING = ING's not GNU)?
The real question is -- why change the name when it already had a name?
...to be honest, since redhat is already holding the marbles, it seems more sincere when THEY talk about standards.
Really? Most people fear when Microsoft talks standards. Always fear when a market leader what to talk standards. Redhat whats to make money just as badly as Caldera.
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I always want to read the posts flat. I don't want to have to hit the server a hundred times to read the comments. I prefer to just get one big file and read it at my leisure all day.
Bad analogy. (Just like all analogies.)
The people who have Car X also cannot unlock the door to the car. They have to break the window to get out. The thing is, they don't want to get out. To get out would deprive them of the gloves (data) they have stuck in the glovebox. Until the Car Y people come up with keys to the Car X car and a way to convert the gloves in the Car X glovebox, to a Car Y glovebox, Car X will always dominate.
(Anyway, data is the key. Until, MS Office 97/2000 documents can be handled easily in Linux/BSD/whatever, there will always be Car X.)
Hey, it lost the last line of message which said [ampersand]lt;ducking[ampersand]gt;. It showed up correctly in the preview page.
In case you missed it, the reference in WinCE was a joke.