Actually, I justed Bing'd it to see what Bing would come up with and it returned nothing about the original Go programming language in the first 20 or 30 results (I didn't look any further). Yahoo search finds google's language immediately (yeah, I know they are tied to MS now) and google of course shows their Go language. But Wikipedia showed the original Go programming language yesterday but shows google's Go today.
Results in Google for go programming language [google.com] are about the existing Go! language and the main developers book about it.
Maybe they Bing'd it. Since Microsoft manipulates their search results, maybe Bing came back with a bunch of links telling them to "Go to Microsoft", "Go Use Windows", "Go Updage to Windows 7" and so on.;-)
being the COO of a multi-billion dollar company is not an easy job
Actually, I beg to differ. Most C*O's delegate all the difficult stuff. The daily routine involves coming in at 10 (actually being chauffeured in), discussions with top Execs over strategic planning, meeting up for golf, planning the next board meeting at whatever companies whose boards they are on and leaving at 4 to avoid traffic. I think there are exceptions to this who work more like the Lee Iaccoca model, but many see it as a privilege rather than a job. IMHO.
Noone says Linux has no bugs. But, actually finding a linux vulnerability is news in the Linux world. And, due to the open nature of Linux, it's immediately known. In the Windows world MS issues major vulnerability patches regularly and nobody blinks an eye because we're just used to it.
The point is that while X is "an afterthought" and "badly designed"
Kinda like multitasking on Windows. Okay, I know the current base is no longer DOS but NT, but the driver model is still single threaded to maintain compatibility. Or has that changed?
(eg, you can't drag a window around like a giant eraser on Mac OS). On X+whatever, it's pathetically easy to do
I just tried it on Ubuntu 9.10. No eraser effect. In fact, I haven't seen that behavior in the last 10 years. Could it be that your information is a little out of date?
I think it is a great design and considering it stems from the 60's if I remember correctly as an MIT project it's pretty amazing.
However, I remember coding my first Xt project in the 90's and I remember two things: it was extremely fast and extremely difficult (as in Low Level) to program. Of course, noone really programs real-world applications with Xt directly anymore.
but on the other hand they don't want to be involved with earning any of the revenue that makes that income possible
The subscription costs for a newspaper basically cover the cost to print and deliver the physical paper. It is the advertising that finances the journalists and the newspaper staff.
In the olden days the subscription costs basically paid for the cost of delivering the paper but most or all of the additional revenue came from advertising. Now that the delivery can be done for free there's no need to pay subsrciptions. I think it's basically just greedy newspaper owners who figured they could pocket some extra money now that they don't have to pay for delivery.
He's raising our national debt from $120,000 to $200,000 per U.S. home, in just eight short years (2016)
I agree with you but I think we shouldn't forget that that process was started by Bush who got us into two wars we can't finance and sent the economy into a tailspin. But, (government) spending our way out isn't the right thing to do. I think we will regret this later when we, and our children, are paying off the Chinese and the Saudis who supplied most of the credit.
Congratulations on getting OSX on Non-apple H/W. I wish I could install it on mine because, from what I hear, it is the best OS around.
What about applications? Have you had any issues running them?
Regarding the license issues. I'm not sure what the EULA says, but it sounds perfectly reasonable to buy a copy and install it on whatever machine you want.
On the one hand this would be the thing that would enable Apple to break Microsoft's stranglehold on the PC market
Apple doesn't want to break MS's stranglehold on the PC market. It works out nicely for Apple and MS. Apple gets a niche market for machines which are significantly more expensive and MS makes sure the MS Office runs on their PC's as long as Apple doesn't tread on their turf.
Apple could have ported OSX to PC architecture long ago (at least since they moved to Intel).
Everyone (or at least most software people) know you can't do exact math in hardware. Usually it's good enough, but mission critical and financial applications have to have their calculations implements in software (eg. BigDecimal in Java).
Being a leader means finding or creating the best option. There's alot of talent in this world. If someone has succeeded in what we are trying to do, why not incorporate that knowledge into our solution?
Where did you get the increased reliability idea? We have about 10 Windows boxes in our shop and about 70 Linux boxes. We have no reliability problems with Linux and virtually no support costs once they are setup. We spend most of our time on the Windows boxes. Anyone who talks about "increased reliablity" on Windows is living on a different planet.
Without trustworthly people in the process you can't have a trustworthy process, agreed. However, since E-Voting is something that many IMO misinformed politicians still want, it's important to have an option which is open and thus verifiable.
I live in Germany where the X in the box on paper marks your vote, I still find it hard to believe that anyone could want electronic voting under the primise (trust me, I'll count your vote). What is it that is so difficult with Paper? Like you said, it is verifiable and very difficult to manipulate.
BTW, I am a programmer and most programmers I know know that electronic vote counting can't be trusted.
I just went to the site. Firefox does warn that it is marked as an attack site, but it appears to be a site for open spark with articles about the sparc architecture. Looks like someone doesn't want open sparc to succeed. Dirty tricks?
BTW, I'm using Linux. Perhaps the site can do damage on a windows box. Proceed at your own risk.
The problem is capitalism encourages the "sheer profit only (and screw everything else)" mindset,
I have to disagree. I think there are those who misunderstand capitalism especially in the mindset of the Bush Jr years. Capitalism requires competition and freedom. The free software model embraces both of those much better than the monopoly model we currently have. If you take Linux as an example, it has essentially created a level playing field for all to compete. Got an improvement? Modify linux/open office/whatever and make it better and sell your services to make money. Got a better idea, create the software and sell it. That's the beauty of the free software movement: it doesn't prevent proprietary software, it creates a level playing field for all to compete in whatever form.
Some airlines officially allow you to carry two pieces, or one piece and a laptop
I always travel with a laptop and a carry on bag. It hasn't been an issue yet. I usually fly Lufthansa and sometimes Swiss. perhaps other airlines are more restrictive.
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Actually, I justed Bing'd it to see what Bing would come up with and it returned nothing about the original Go programming language in the first 20 or 30 results (I didn't look any further). Yahoo search finds google's language immediately (yeah, I know they are tied to MS now) and google of course shows their Go language. But Wikipedia showed the original Go programming language yesterday but shows google's Go today.
Results in Google for go programming language [google.com] are about the existing Go! language and the main developers book about it.
Maybe they Bing'd it. Since Microsoft manipulates their search results, maybe Bing came back with a bunch of links telling them to "Go to Microsoft", "Go Use Windows", "Go Updage to Windows 7" and so on. ;-)
Who is Jack Thompson? I feel so out-of-it. I even looked him up on Wikipedia but found nothing fitting.
being the COO of a multi-billion dollar company is not an easy job
Actually, I beg to differ. Most C*O's delegate all the difficult stuff. The daily routine involves coming in at 10 (actually being chauffeured in), discussions with top Execs over strategic planning, meeting up for golf, planning the next board meeting at whatever companies whose boards they are on and leaving at 4 to avoid traffic. I think there are exceptions to this who work more like the Lee Iaccoca model, but many see it as a privilege rather than a job. IMHO.
Noone says Linux has no bugs. But, actually finding a linux vulnerability is news in the Linux world. And, due to the open nature of Linux, it's immediately known. In the Windows world MS issues major vulnerability patches regularly and nobody blinks an eye because we're just used to it.
So, anti-Windows people? Whatcha say now? ;-)
Well I don't consider myself anti-Windows but rather a realist, by necessity. I did notice that most Linuxes are not vulnerable:
"The... bug is mitigated by default on most Linux distributions, thanks to their correct implementation of the mmap_min_addr feature."
The point is that while X is "an afterthought" and "badly designed"
Kinda like multitasking on Windows. Okay, I know the current base is no longer DOS but NT, but the driver model is still single threaded to maintain compatibility. Or has that changed?
(eg, you can't drag a window around like a giant eraser on Mac OS). On X+whatever, it's pathetically easy to do
I just tried it on Ubuntu 9.10. No eraser effect. In fact, I haven't seen that behavior in the last 10 years. Could it be that your information is a little out of date?
X11 is great
I think it is a great design and considering it stems from the 60's if I remember correctly as an MIT project it's pretty amazing.
However, I remember coding my first Xt project in the 90's and I remember two things: it was extremely fast and extremely difficult (as in Low Level) to program. Of course, noone really programs real-world applications with Xt directly anymore.
but it was started long before him. Nixon, Johnson, FDR of course
How true. Towards the end of the 90's, I was cautiously optimistic that we might someday end the federal govt deficit. Things look alot different now.
but on the other hand they don't want to be involved with earning any of the revenue that makes that income possible
The subscription costs for a newspaper basically cover the cost to print and deliver the physical paper. It is the advertising that finances the journalists and the newspaper staff.
In the olden days the subscription costs basically paid for the cost of delivering the paper but most or all of the additional revenue came from advertising. Now that the delivery can be done for free there's no need to pay subsrciptions. I think it's basically just greedy newspaper owners who figured they could pocket some extra money now that they don't have to pay for delivery.
He's raising our national debt from $120,000 to $200,000 per U.S. home, in just eight short years (2016)
I agree with you but I think we shouldn't forget that that process was started by Bush who got us into two wars we can't finance and sent the economy into a tailspin. But, (government) spending our way out isn't the right thing to do. I think we will regret this later when we, and our children, are paying off the Chinese and the Saudis who supplied most of the credit.
... and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause
I've always wondered (since the Bush admin) what is so difficult to understand about that simple rule.
Congratulations on getting OSX on Non-apple H/W. I wish I could install it on mine because, from what I hear, it is the best OS around.
What about applications? Have you had any issues running them?
Regarding the license issues. I'm not sure what the EULA says, but it sounds perfectly reasonable to buy a copy and install it on whatever machine you want.
On the one hand this would be the thing that would enable Apple to break Microsoft's stranglehold on the PC market
Apple doesn't want to break MS's stranglehold on the PC market. It works out nicely for Apple and MS. Apple gets a niche market for machines which are significantly more expensive and MS makes sure the MS Office runs on their PC's as long as Apple doesn't tread on their turf.
Apple could have ported OSX to PC architecture long ago (at least since they moved to Intel).
Everyone (or at least most software people) know you can't do exact math in hardware. Usually it's good enough, but mission critical and financial applications have to have their calculations implements in software (eg. BigDecimal in Java).
Ooops, sorry, I meant Patriot rockets, not Scuds.
So in a system that should have clocks synchronized to less than a microsecond nobody bothered to run "ntpdate" even once in hundred days ?
Eh, I don't think these Scuds were connected to the internet at the time.
Being a leader means finding or creating the best option. There's alot of talent in this world. If someone has succeeded in what we are trying to do, why not incorporate that knowledge into our solution?
Heh?
Comes with MS support hence increased reliability
Where did you get the increased reliability idea? We have about 10 Windows boxes in our shop and about 70 Linux boxes. We have no reliability problems with Linux and virtually no support costs once they are setup. We spend most of our time on the Windows boxes. Anyone who talks about "increased reliablity" on Windows is living on a different planet.
Without trustworthly people in the process you can't have a trustworthy process, agreed. However, since E-Voting is something that many IMO misinformed politicians still want, it's important to have an option which is open and thus verifiable.
I live in Germany where the X in the box on paper marks your vote, I still find it hard to believe that anyone could want electronic voting under the primise (trust me, I'll count your vote). What is it that is so difficult with Paper? Like you said, it is verifiable and very difficult to manipulate.
BTW, I am a programmer and most programmers I know know that electronic vote counting can't be trusted.
re: www.space.org
I just went to the site. Firefox does warn that it is marked as an attack site, but it appears to be a site for open spark with articles about the sparc architecture. Looks like someone doesn't want open sparc to succeed. Dirty tricks?
BTW, I'm using Linux. Perhaps the site can do damage on a windows box. Proceed at your own risk.
The problem is capitalism encourages the "sheer profit only (and screw everything else)" mindset,
I have to disagree. I think there are those who misunderstand capitalism especially in the mindset of the Bush Jr years. Capitalism requires competition and freedom. The free software model embraces both of those much better than the monopoly model we currently have. If you take Linux as an example, it has essentially created a level playing field for all to compete. Got an improvement? Modify linux/open office/whatever and make it better and sell your services to make money. Got a better idea, create the software and sell it. That's the beauty of the free software movement: it doesn't prevent proprietary software, it creates a level playing field for all to compete in whatever form.
Some airlines officially allow you to carry two pieces, or one piece and a laptop
I always travel with a laptop and a carry on bag. It hasn't been an issue yet. I usually fly Lufthansa and sometimes Swiss. perhaps other airlines are more restrictive.