I think you might find that Linus always said that he based Linux on Andrew Tanenbaum's 8-bit Minix OS which itself was designed as Comp Sci project material to teach students about OSes -- like UNIX.
There is one key rule: one good or great programmer is worth 100 of the other kind. Length of experience is less key than ability, provided that ability is molded by working within a great programming environment with highly experienced people to mentor the less experienced.
Manny Lehman is credited with coining the expression "Software Engineering". About 1968, I think. See also the website of the company he founded Imperial Software Technology .
Well, we're building a "for real" financial application on a Java-enabled phone, the Nokia 9210 (European version). We could use some more processor power, but it's perfectly usable. The screen is beautiful (640x200, color TFT), the Symbian OS is rock solid, and the Java is . . Java.
Somebody has to pay for the time and effort. RMS is a fraud -- we all know it. He left MIT to do GNU but was fortunate that the director of the AI lab allowed him to comtinue to use its facilities (publicly-funded - so you and I paid for it). He needed money: so sold GNU EMACS at $150 a pop and funded himself from "a software distribution business" (his words). Sounds like Bill et al to me.
And why is is all Microsoft versus Linux? What about the rest of us trying to earn an honest living out of selling our software? Are we all pariahs to you lot? Won't you buy a copy of my software on Linux? Why should I expose all my genius to have every half-wit so the he/she can copy it, corrupt it, and persuade his boss to give him a raise for it? DOn't I deserve more than a mindless "credit" in the source code -- (and half of you take those out as well, in my experience).
No, no, no and no again. You're wrong-headed, misguided, foolish and economically illiterate.
Go back to school, learn the lessons of history, or be condemned to relive them.
There is no such thing as a free lunch -- or software -- or computers -- or cars -- or houses -- or airplanes.
"So obviously you dont know anything about the topic you are talking about. But nevertheless you are convinced, your misinformed opinion is a valuable contribution."
The comma after "convinced" is ungrammatical. But, nevertheless, you are convinced that your ungrammatical opinion is a valuable contribution.
So a compiler has compiled itself. Big deal. This sort of process has been going on for 40 years and is the normal bootstrap process. It's only surprising that (a) it's taken so long and (b) that the perpetrators think anyone's interested.
A proposal to use power lines in the UK for data transmission was dropped because of a number of difficulties, most notably the fact that HF radio (about 2MHz to 30MHz) would have been rendered unusable in urban areas. Street lamps made great quarter-wave antennas.
Don't fixate on ARPANet and TCP/IP as if they are the only form of packet switching -- it may not have worked well in the early 80s, but I can rememeber using BT's Packet SwitchStream X.25 network in 1983 -- and it worked just fine. That was certainly Mr Davies' doing.
Point Reyes is still an active navigation transmitter -- for aircraft at least. It is the site of a VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Radio) beacon. Most aircraft approaching SFO will lock onto a radial of PYR (as it's known) to join Bay Approach from as far out as Tahoe.
You supercilious sod: how would you like to be Angela, attempting to field a self-righteous know-all like yourself while having to stick to the script to avoid legal issues with idiots who just want to sue the 'telephone company'. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Very sad -- I treasure my HP16C "Computer Scientist" calculator, vintage 1982 and still in daily use. Made in Corvallis, Oregon. Works as well today as the day it came out of the box -- and it was a gift from a friend in Portland.
No family member would steal it because of the reverse Polish logic. Perfect.
I have a long-held suspicion that RMS and Osama Bin Laden are actually one and the same person. The Al Qu'aeda movement and the FSF exhibit similar properties -- revolutionary destructive conspiratorial cells in most major western democracies, leader seems to live in a distant cave, isolated from normal society, leader exhibits paranoid and psychotic tendencies, group members infiltrate and subvert, occasionally exploding and endangering the general populace, with much raging against American capitalist culture etc, etc.
Are they, in fact, the same person? I think we should be told.
For a product that does the visual building really well, especially the Swing GUI, look at Visaj (http://www.visaj.com). The Personal Edition is free for non-commercial use.
Steganography was in use in WWII and probably before. The BBC in London would broadcast messages to agents in occupied Europe in plain text, before the news bulletins. The hypothetical comic example is "The blue cow has crossed the road". Which could, of course, mean "blow up the main Paris-Lyon railway on Friday".
The most obvious deficiency of this article is that it completely omits PSION, the UK company that invented the PDA in the 1980s. I've owned every one they made.
Even more staggering is the subsequent failure to observe that it's PSION offspring Symbian, that's putting all the PSION PDA software into the next generation of cellphones. Checkout the new Nokias and Ericssons.
The PSION/Symbian EPOC system is rock solid and light years ahead of Microlimp -- but data compatible with Redmond.
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I have no problem SMSing between PacBell in CA and UK cellnet, Vodaphone, Orange etc. I take my UK GSM phone (dual-band GSM900 for UK, GSM1900 for USA Ericsson i888) from London, switch on at SFO, and it all just works. PacBell Wireless is a GSM1900 service.
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I think you might find that Linus always said that he based Linux on Andrew Tanenbaum's 8-bit Minix OS which itself was designed as Comp Sci project material to teach students about OSes -- like UNIX.
There is one key rule: one good or great programmer is worth 100 of the other kind. Length of experience is less key than ability, provided that ability is molded by working within a great programming environment with highly experienced people to mentor the less experienced.
Pac Bell is GSM too.
Manny Lehman is credited with coining the expression "Software Engineering". About 1968, I think. See also the website of the company he founded Imperial Software Technology .
Well, we're building a "for real" financial application on a Java-enabled phone, the Nokia 9210 (European version). We could use some more processor power, but it's perfectly usable. The screen is beautiful (640x200, color TFT), the Symbian OS is rock solid, and the Java is . . Java.
Hear, hear. Well said. Most sensble thing I've read on /. in months. Be prepared to be moderated down as flamebait for daring to speak the truth.
Down to Flamebait, up to Insightful, back down to Flamebait, make up your tiny minds.
If I'm flamebait, please flame me. Give me rational arguments of less than a half-hour lecture on why I'm wrong. You don't because you can't.
I see I've been moderated down to flamebait. Well, it's a free country, thank God, so fine. However, read and understand.
There, I've said it (again).
Somebody has to pay for the time and effort. RMS is a fraud -- we all know it. He left MIT to do GNU but was fortunate that the director of the AI lab allowed him to comtinue to use its facilities (publicly-funded - so you and I paid for it). He needed money: so sold GNU EMACS at $150 a pop and funded himself from "a software distribution business" (his words). Sounds like Bill et al to me.
And why is is all Microsoft versus Linux? What about the rest of us trying to earn an honest living out of selling our software? Are we all pariahs to you lot? Won't you buy a copy of my software on Linux? Why should I expose all my genius to have every half-wit so the he/she can copy it, corrupt it, and persuade his boss to give him a raise for it? DOn't I deserve more than a mindless "credit" in the source code -- (and half of you take those out as well, in my experience).
No, no, no and no again. You're wrong-headed, misguided, foolish and economically illiterate.
Go back to school, learn the lessons of history, or be condemned to relive them.
There is no such thing as a free lunch -- or software -- or computers -- or cars -- or houses -- or airplanes.
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"So obviously you dont know anything about the topic you are talking about. But nevertheless you are convinced, your misinformed opinion is a valuable contribution."
The comma after "convinced" is ungrammatical. But, nevertheless, you are convinced that your ungrammatical opinion is a valuable contribution.
So a compiler has compiled itself. Big deal. This sort of process has been going on for 40 years and is the normal bootstrap process. It's only surprising that (a) it's taken so long and (b) that the perpetrators think anyone's interested.
Time to get a life, folks.
. . .is a leprechaun.
"You get what you pay for after all" -- CmdrTaco.
Indeed. Just like free software. I trust the irony is not lost.
A proposal to use power lines in the UK for data transmission was dropped because of a number of difficulties, most notably the fact that HF radio (about 2MHz to 30MHz) would have been rendered unusable in urban areas. Street lamps made great quarter-wave antennas.
Don't fixate on ARPANet and TCP/IP as if they are the only form of packet switching -- it may not have worked well in the early 80s, but I can rememeber using BT's Packet SwitchStream X.25 network in 1983 -- and it worked just fine. That was certainly Mr Davies' doing.
Point Reyes is still an active navigation transmitter -- for aircraft at least. It is the site of a VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Radio) beacon. Most aircraft approaching SFO will lock onto a radial of PYR (as it's known) to join Bay Approach from as far out as Tahoe.
The Xerox people, with one exception, didn't seem to realize that they were giving the crown jewels to Jobs during that tour.
The exception was Adele Goldberg (creator of Smalltalk)who insisted on a written instruction from the management before she would participate.
You supercilious sod: how would you like to be Angela, attempting to field a self-righteous know-all like yourself while having to stick to the script to avoid legal issues with idiots who just want to sue the 'telephone company'. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Very sad -- I treasure my HP16C "Computer Scientist" calculator, vintage 1982 and still in daily use. Made in Corvallis, Oregon. Works as well today as the day it came out of the box -- and it was a gift from a friend in Portland.
No family member would steal it because of the reverse Polish logic. Perfect.
Ah well, the American sense of irony is still weak: I got modded down as a Troll.
I have a long-held suspicion that RMS and Osama Bin Laden are actually one and the same person. The Al Qu'aeda movement and the FSF exhibit similar properties -- revolutionary destructive conspiratorial cells in most major western democracies, leader seems to live in a distant cave, isolated from normal society, leader exhibits paranoid and psychotic tendencies, group members infiltrate and subvert, occasionally exploding and endangering the general populace, with much raging against American capitalist culture etc, etc.
Are they, in fact, the same person? I think we should be told.
For a product that does the visual building really well, especially the Swing GUI, look at Visaj (http://www.visaj.com). The Personal Edition is free for non-commercial use.
Steganography was in use in WWII and probably before. The BBC in London would broadcast messages to agents in occupied Europe in plain text, before the news bulletins. The hypothetical comic example is "The blue cow has crossed the road". Which could, of course, mean "blow up the main Paris-Lyon railway on Friday".
MM
The most obvious deficiency of this article is that it completely omits PSION, the UK company that invented the PDA in the 1980s. I've owned every one they made.
Even more staggering is the subsequent failure to observe that it's PSION offspring Symbian, that's putting all the PSION PDA software into the next generation of cellphones. Checkout the new Nokias and Ericssons.
The PSION/Symbian EPOC system is rock solid and light years ahead of Microlimp -- but data compatible with Redmond.
I have no problem SMSing between PacBell in CA and UK cellnet, Vodaphone, Orange etc. I take my UK GSM phone (dual-band GSM900 for UK, GSM1900 for USA Ericsson i888) from London, switch on at SFO, and it all just works. PacBell Wireless is a GSM1900 service.