No matter whose ploy it is, until I can see a system that isn't an x86 box with QNX and an "Amiga" sticker on it, it remains a rather pathetic attempt at one for me.
According to a Q & A list at the site of the OS folks, a processor hasn't been decided upon yet.
But why the fuss? It's perfectly normal for development systems to
come out long before the actual system, so that the system will/might have software on release, and
run on a different architecture than the deployment platform. Ever hear of cross-compiling?
Heck, if they have finalized the Amiga OS 5 Java APIs people can start writing apps for it using their favourite Java 2 development tool...:-)
So any newer tech will not work on their just-previous release of the OS.
That's less than accurate, and Micros~1 know it. FTP Software announced IPv6 support in their Winsock 2.0 stack for Win95 in 1996 - though I don't remember if they ever delivered one with the promised support.
(1996 - that's three bleeping years ago. I thought progress was fast in this industry.):-P
If memory serves, Microsoft were members of the Open Software Foundation, and contributed to Motif's design - that's why they are so alike. But whether the Windows 3.0 look came before Motif 1.0, I cannot remember.
May I just add that I find most GUI-software really too restricting.
They invariably will be, unless there is an easy way of extending them. Windows does let the poweruser extend quite a lot of the GUI (using COM etc.), but that's not really its target group, now is it...
And I still haven't found a way to install windows so that "Program Files" lies on different disk than windows.
Go on a quest to find out where %Progdir% and %Windir% are set...:-) What does suck are install programs which don't use %Progdir% but assume it's "C:\Program Files" even on non-English-language versions.
UI-tools are just as flexible as the programmer made them, comparing them against little CLI-utilities and good scripting language I would choose CLI-tools any time.
Wasn't Sun's rather failing Tcl/TK an attempt to make just as configurable GUI tools as the CLI tools using shell scripts were?
Minimums of 575 years are just ridiculous. What are they going to do when he dies, keep the body locked up for 500 yeaars?
For comparison: In Norway, the maximum total prison term "awarded" in a single trial is 21 years (plus 10 years of "securing", normally a mental hospital). Add to that that a prison year is only 8 months, then a 21-year conviction with parole after two thirds of served time means about nine and a half years total.
- Hello, this is the War on Drugs. We have broken down your door and are unconstitutionally harassing you because we got an anonymous call that you have drugs.
- But I have a gun, and hence rights!
- You have a gun, hence we shoot you just to be on the safe side. *Blam*
Meanwhile, I sit here in "gun-free" Europe and can write whatever I want, vote for whoever I want, etc. with practically no danger of getting shot at in the streets. Because I know that those that _do_ have guns also have responsibility.
Opening brackets go on the same line as their related statement, as the example shows. Anything else is heresy. You will burn in/dev/hell, SIN-Ne-R. The Computer is your friend.
Well, the Jack Tramiel story could be a whole movie on its own...:-)
(Atari -> Commodore, all the stupid marketing blunders in both companies, and the plethora of different machines that failed - the +/4, the A600, the CD-32, the 64C,...)
Instead of releasing docs, they actually went to the effort of writing a driver.
What good is that? "We release this driver, but since noone but us get at the docs, fat chance any of you guys can patch the code anyways."
And don't forget that Matrox doesn't give a damn about OpenGL gamers under Windows either.
Well, they have a beta driver, though it doesn't work very well. Their Direct3D support, though, is way up there, and more WinDOS games use D3D than use OpenGL.
Yeah, like the maths needed to implement or even _discover_ encryption is restricted to - or originated from - the USA.
Case in point can be the Unix crypt library, where the rest of the world were quite happy to download Ultra Fast Crypt from Finland instead.
Boo to export restrictions which only hurts companies wanting to sell their products abroad, to people who most likely already can get equivalent encryption anyway.
Though with the Wassenaar agreement, it seems the stupidity is not limited to USA anymore.
In "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson, relative immortality comes from engineering a virus which alters cells so that they don't start deteriorating. Sounds more plausible with current technology.
Common' folks, it's time to move on to a decent language like Dylan. You will be more productive, and your programs may even run faster.
*sigh* At one point, comp.object overflowed with religious Eiffel advocates (still does) which permanently turned me off the language - independent of the language's merits. Now, there seems to be a whole bunch of Dylan advocates coming to the fore who will turn me off that language, too.
By "the security model" I presume you mean the applet "sandbox". Applets aren't what Java is really about anymore - it was nice back when Netscape adapted the technology, though.
Hooks into the OS are provided via JRI (old native API, no longer used), RNI (Micros~1 only), JNI (standard since 1.1.x), J/Direct and COM (Micros~1 VM only).
Native compilers for Java exist, but largely targeting the Windows platform (IBM, Symantec, Metrowerks, Tower/J,...)
It's 16 grayscale "colors" - for those that have sat at grayscale X terminals, that can be very clear to look at - possibly better for the eyes than colour in some lighting conditions.
And it uses EPOC/32, not Windows CE. Once Opera/32 is completed, I know what I'll do if I get some excess money to burn...:-)
If I recall some news reports correctly, there was an armed guard there, but he (reasonably) ran for safety when the shooting started: The heroic "jump out and shoot the baddies without getting hurt" only works in movies.
Another case: Policemen in Sweden are armed. Recently, there was an armed robbery where two policemen at a road block were killed by the robbers - it turned out they had been shot by their own service firearms...
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According to a Q & A list at the site of the OS folks, a processor hasn't been decided upon yet.
But why the fuss? It's perfectly normal for development systems to
Heck, if they have finalized the Amiga OS 5 Java APIs people can start writing apps for it using their favourite Java 2 development tool... :-)
We used some X-terminals (HP 900) that used the '186 as processor.
(These were "XDMed" to particular DECStation 2100 machines, to the irritation of those using the machines directly.)
That's less than accurate, and Micros~1 know it. FTP Software announced IPv6 support in their Winsock 2.0 stack for Win95 in 1996 - though I don't remember if they ever delivered one with the promised support.
(1996 - that's three bleeping years ago. I thought progress was fast in this industry.) :-P
So where are my networked graphics? :-)
If memory serves, Microsoft were members of the Open Software Foundation, and contributed to Motif's design - that's why they are so alike. But whether the Windows 3.0 look came before Motif 1.0, I cannot remember.
May I just add that I find most GUI-software really too restricting.
They invariably will be, unless there is an easy way of extending them. Windows does let the poweruser extend quite a lot of the GUI (using COM etc.), but that's not really its target group, now is it...
And I still haven't found a way to install windows so that "Program Files" lies on different disk than windows.
Go on a quest to find out where %Progdir% and %Windir% are set... :-) What does suck are install programs which don't use %Progdir% but assume it's "C:\Program Files" even on non-English-language versions.
UI-tools are just as flexible as the programmer made them, comparing them against little CLI-utilities and good scripting language I would choose CLI-tools any time.
Wasn't Sun's rather failing Tcl/TK an attempt to make just as configurable GUI tools as the CLI tools using shell scripts were?
Minimums of 575 years are just ridiculous. What are they going to do when he dies, keep the body locked up for 500 yeaars?
For comparison: In Norway, the maximum total prison term "awarded" in a single trial is 21 years (plus 10 years of "securing", normally a mental hospital). Add to that that a prison year is only 8 months, then a 21-year conviction with parole after two thirds of served time means about nine and a half years total.
Oh yeah, lots of freedom a gun brings you...
*Crash*
- Hello, this is the War on Drugs. We have broken down your door and are unconstitutionally harassing you because we got an anonymous call that you have drugs.
- But I have a gun, and hence rights!
- You have a gun, hence we shoot you just to be on the safe side. *Blam*
Meanwhile, I sit here in "gun-free" Europe and can write whatever I want, vote for whoever I want, etc. with practically no danger of getting shot at in the streets. Because I know that those that _do_ have guns also have responsibility.
Opening brackets go on the same line as their related statement, as the example shows. Anything else is heresy. You will burn in /dev/hell, SIN-Ne-R. The Computer is your friend.
They announced it on their newsgroups, but haven't gotten around to updating their web pages yet. Next in line is probably the EPOC/32 version...
Well, the Jack Tramiel story could be a whole movie on its own... :-)
...)
(Atari -> Commodore, all the stupid marketing blunders in both companies, and the plethora of different machines that failed - the +/4, the A600, the CD-32, the 64C,
Any movie with lines like "back off, man - we're scientists" deserves cult status. And cult is a geek thing. :-)
What good is that? "We release this driver, but since noone but us get at the docs, fat chance any of you guys can patch the code anyways."
And don't forget that Matrox doesn't give a damn about OpenGL gamers under Windows either.
Well, they have a beta driver, though it doesn't work very well. Their Direct3D support, though, is way up there, and more WinDOS games use D3D than use OpenGL.
A good chance for us Scandinavians to corner the market following it: You see, we have three more letters. :-)
"And now, the 2003 release of the Fjord Ø3. All the RAM, twice the CPU."
You mean one should wait until they have been born? Some Xtians don't seem to have too much agaist killing them for obscure reasons then... :-)
Anything that pisses off the RR is a good thing.
Yes it is, but under a different meaning: Open Systems Interconnection - ISO's seven layer model for making telcos richer. :-)
I seem to remember that on NTEmacs (Gnu Emacs 20.3.1 here), the Java mode shows
"matches public void methodA()^J{" in such a case...
Yeah, like the maths needed to implement or even _discover_ encryption is restricted to - or originated from - the USA.
Case in point can be the Unix crypt library, where the rest of the world were quite happy to download Ultra Fast Crypt from Finland instead.
Boo to export restrictions which only hurts companies wanting to sell their products abroad, to people who most likely already can get equivalent encryption anyway.
Though with the Wassenaar agreement, it seems the stupidity is not limited to USA anymore.
In "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson, relative immortality comes from engineering a virus which alters cells so that they don't start deteriorating. Sounds more plausible with current technology.
*sigh* At one point, comp.object overflowed with religious Eiffel advocates (still does) which permanently turned me off the language - independent of the language's merits. Now, there seems to be a whole bunch of Dylan advocates coming to the fore who will turn me off that language, too.
Ah well. I'm glad I have Java and Python.
By "the security model" I presume you mean the applet "sandbox". Applets aren't what Java is really about anymore - it was nice back when Netscape adapted the technology, though.
...)
Hooks into the OS are provided via JRI (old native API, no longer used), RNI (Micros~1 only), JNI (standard since 1.1.x), J/Direct and COM (Micros~1 VM only).
Native compilers for Java exist, but largely targeting the Windows platform (IBM, Symantec, Metrowerks, Tower/J,
It's 16 grayscale "colors" - for those that have sat at grayscale X terminals, that can be very clear to look at - possibly better for the eyes than colour in some lighting conditions.
And it uses EPOC/32, not Windows CE. Once Opera/32 is completed, I know what I'll do if I get some excess money to burn... :-)
Um... why is it useless without RMI? What would you use it for on a Palm?
Until someone pays the Open Group a shitload of money to have Linux tested, it's not. Unix is a trademark.
All dark, caffeinated, sweet carbonated drinks aren't Coca-Cola either.
If I recall some news reports correctly, there was an armed guard there, but he (reasonably) ran for safety when the shooting started: The heroic "jump out and shoot the baddies without getting hurt" only works in movies.
Another case: Policemen in Sweden are armed. Recently, there was an armed robbery where two policemen at a road block were killed by the robbers - it turned out they had been shot by their own service firearms...