Actually, the day after tommorow was based on Art Bell and Whitley Strieber's book The Coming Global Superstorm....and goodness knows we can trust Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.
I'd think OSS developers don't have the time to waste on that. [tinfoil_hat=ON]MS, OTOH, has money to burn, and could afford to hire people to find vulnerabilities in Linux and pass them on to virus writers.[tinfoil_hat=OFF]
Amen. When Firefox used its own file browsing dialog, it was kind of slow the first time I saved in a directory with lots of files, but on the second and following times came up immediately.
On my system at least (Ubuntu; maybe I should uninstall firefox-gnome-support...), Firefox now uses the GNOME file browsing dialog for saving files, and it takes forever for directories with many files, and doesn't seem to cache much, because the second through nth times around are just about as slow as the first.
Yow. The pics that show the display show a dreadfully low-contrast display of an FM frequency--I hope it's easier to read when looking straight at it. I shudder to contemplate reading "Several Species of Small Furry Animals...and Grooving with a Pict" on it:)
I'm looking at buying Opterons, and I never considered using the Intel compiler on those machines. Why? There are no flags or optimized code generation for the Opteron or their specific way that they do 64bit instructions.
Agreed...but there are features common to Intel and AMD x86-family processors that are identifiable in a non-manufacturer-specific way. Apparently the code Intel's compiler generates, or a library function they wrote, detects said features in a way that works only for Intel processors. Since there is a non-manufacturer-specific method, it's arguable that they went out of their way to gratuitously make AMD processors that have the very same features (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, etc.) look bad. That is what people find objectionable.
Hmmm. How would you react to an auto mechanic who said the same thing to you when, despite your taking your car to his or her establishment, it is still broken? When things fail sufficiently spectacularly, even a layperson can tell that something's very wrong.
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First of all, it's not a monopoly. Private schools aren't illegal -- you can certainly choose to send your kids to a private school, and many parents do.
It's ironic that on/., where people complain, and rightly so, about the "Microsoft tax," one should find a proponent of the exactly analogous situation in education.
Second, not all parents can afford private schools. Are you going to deny education to those kids whose parents work for minimum wage and can't afford the tuition payments?
Products are denied to people who can't afford them every day. I take it you believe in the bogus concept of a "positive right," i.e. something that people supposedly can get by coercing others to give it to them.
Finally, bear in mind that being private is no guarantee of quality.
Agreed, but at least in a free market one has a chance. Monopolies have zero motivation to improve--videthis article in Reason about the massive deception public schools are perpetrating to avoid giving accurate information about how well they're doing.
Proprietary software developers differ only in what makes them decide to stop, and when that happens, those who'd like to buy but don't constitute a large enough market to keep the developer from being "tired" are out of luck. (Just ask all those who'd have liked Stardock to continue developing the OS/2 version of Object Desktop, among many others.) As you point out, OSS doesn't have that problem.
The american public refuses to accept any danger/risk at all from there medications - and because of this it takes a HELL of a lot longer to develop anything then it did before.
Yup. Ironically, the litigious public provides an environment favoring quackery: for example, homeopathic "medicines," since they're all inert ingredients, are sure not to cause side-effects that would induce a lawsuit. (Never mind that they don't do any good...)
If there were actual cures, governments and companies facing insane medical expenses would pay a lot for them; it would be a bargain compared with the current ongoing perpetual money drain.
The only thing that came along that was better was OS/2, and IBM made the fatal mistake of making it incompatible with Win32 and Windows drivers (which meant no software).
BS. MS made a point of breaking compatibility with OS/2 with successive releases of WIN32S.DLL, until they finally added a new call to allocate memory...that always allocated memory outside the 512 megabyte range that OS/2 DOS sessions permitted. The 512 megabyte limit was a sufficiently basic design decision that IBM gave up (though the limitation was gotten rid of late in Warp 4, long after it mattered). If you want RAM, does it matter to an application where it is? No. The sole purpose of the call was to make it extremely difficult to maintain compatibility.
What MS is thinking... I'd like to think they're thinking of that Ringo Starr hit:
"She said she loved me but I knew she was lyin', ah hah hah
Felt like an Arab who was dancin' through Zion, ah hah hah
Don't call the doctor if you just feel like cryin', ah hah hah
It's all da-da-da-down to 'Goodnight, Vienna'..."
She was in the passenger seat. The car wasn't moving.
She held the cup of coffee between her legs and removed the lid, about the only thing resisting the inward pressure, so she could add cream and sugar. Should companies be held responsible for what happens when utter dolts use their products?
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Actually, the day after tommorow was based on Art Bell and Whitley Strieber's book The Coming Global Superstorm. ...and goodness knows we can trust Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.
I guess he doesn't.
I'd think OSS developers don't have the time to waste on that. [tinfoil_hat=ON]MS, OTOH, has money to burn, and could afford to hire people to find vulnerabilities in Linux and pass them on to virus writers.[tinfoil_hat=OFF]
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Seems to be SOP for Dvorak, Coursey, and now this guy.
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Amen. When Firefox used its own file browsing dialog, it was kind of slow the first time I saved in a directory with lots of files, but on the second and following times came up immediately.
On my system at least (Ubuntu; maybe I should uninstall firefox-gnome-support...), Firefox now uses the GNOME file browsing dialog for saving files, and it takes forever for directories with many files, and doesn't seem to cache much, because the second through nth times around are just about as slow as the first.
Lord John Whorfin: Where are we going?
assembled Red Lectroids: PLANET TEN!
LJW: When?
aRL: REAL SOON!
Yow. The pics that show the display show a dreadfully low-contrast display of an FM frequency--I hope it's easier to read when looking straight at it. I shudder to contemplate reading "Several Species of Small Furry Animals...and Grooving with a Pict" on it :)
Well, not really built, just bought a bare AMD 64 Uniwill laptop from coboc.com...
Just looked over at coboc.com, and didn't find any AMD Uniwill laptops, just Intel ones. Where and which one did you find?
"Don't open the registry...!"
[fx: horrendous clatter of falling objects]
Beem him on up to the big NCC-1701 in the sky.
And no bloody A, B, C, or D, either.
It's like watching a very dependable ship being sent to the bottom of the ocean because it's too expensive to keep it afloat.
Thank you! That's the perfect metaphor. OS/2 is the Mary Ellen Carter of operating systems.
"with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go..."
I suppose one could try to give it the PC "reclaim a derogatory term" spin, but... perhaps I should just suggest viewing Revenge of the Nerds.
No thanks; my troll detector needs repair.
I'm looking at buying Opterons, and I never considered using the Intel compiler on those machines. Why? There are no flags or optimized code generation for the Opteron or their specific way that they do 64bit instructions.
Agreed...but there are features common to Intel and AMD x86-family processors that are identifiable in a non-manufacturer-specific way. Apparently the code Intel's compiler generates, or a library function they wrote, detects said features in a way that works only for Intel processors. Since there is a non-manufacturer-specific method, it's arguable that they went out of their way to gratuitously make AMD processors that have the very same features (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, etc.) look bad. That is what people find objectionable.
Hmmm. How would you react to an auto mechanic who said the same thing to you when, despite your taking your car to his or her establishment, it is still broken? When things fail sufficiently spectacularly, even a layperson can tell that something's very wrong.
First of all, it's not a monopoly. Private schools aren't illegal -- you can certainly choose to send your kids to a private school, and many parents do.
/., where people complain, and rightly so, about the "Microsoft tax," one should find a proponent of the exactly analogous situation in education.
It's ironic that on
Second, not all parents can afford private schools. Are you going to deny education to those kids whose parents work for minimum wage and can't afford the tuition payments?
Products are denied to people who can't afford them every day. I take it you believe in the bogus concept of a "positive right," i.e. something that people supposedly can get by coercing others to give it to them.
Finally, bear in mind that being private is no guarantee of quality.
Agreed, but at least in a free market one has a chance. Monopolies have zero motivation to improve--vide this article in Reason about the massive deception public schools are perpetrating to avoid giving accurate information about how well they're doing.
Take a look at this page for an example. Also, try here.
"...C++ must grow..."
Proprietary software developers differ only in what makes them decide to stop, and when that happens, those who'd like to buy but don't constitute a large enough market to keep the developer from being "tired" are out of luck. (Just ask all those who'd have liked Stardock to continue developing the OS/2 version of Object Desktop, among many others.) As you point out, OSS doesn't have that problem.
Um, I think virtual memory is an English invention: vide the Ferranti Atlas.
The american public refuses to accept any danger/risk at all from there medications - and because of this it takes a HELL of a lot longer to develop anything then it did before.
Yup. Ironically, the litigious public provides an environment favoring quackery: for example, homeopathic "medicines," since they're all inert ingredients, are sure not to cause side-effects that would induce a lawsuit. (Never mind that they don't do any good...)
Been watching those late night infomercials?
If there were actual cures, governments and companies facing insane medical expenses would pay a lot for them; it would be a bargain compared with the current ongoing perpetual money drain.
Hey, that's a couple of hundred pages less than the average C++ book, and there are lots of those on the shelves.
The only thing that came along that was better was OS/2, and IBM made the fatal mistake of making it incompatible with Win32 and Windows drivers (which meant no software).
BS. MS made a point of breaking compatibility with OS/2 with successive releases of WIN32S.DLL, until they finally added a new call to allocate memory...that always allocated memory outside the 512 megabyte range that OS/2 DOS sessions permitted. The 512 megabyte limit was a sufficiently basic design decision that IBM gave up (though the limitation was gotten rid of late in Warp 4, long after it mattered). If you want RAM, does it matter to an application where it is? No. The sole purpose of the call was to make it extremely difficult to maintain compatibility.
What MS is thinking... I'd like to think they're thinking of that Ringo Starr hit:
"She said she loved me but I knew she was lyin', ah hah hah
Felt like an Arab who was dancin' through Zion, ah hah hah
Don't call the doctor if you just feel like cryin', ah hah hah
It's all da-da-da-down to 'Goodnight, Vienna'..."
She was in the passenger seat. The car wasn't moving.
She held the cup of coffee between her legs and removed the lid, about the only thing resisting the inward pressure, so she could add cream and sugar. Should companies be held responsible for what happens when utter dolts use their products?