Most people are going to be stupid and point at a star that is really far away. When they "claim" it as theirs, they'll have to understand the fact that their star may have burned itself out already.
Asteroids and those smaller things are fairly difficult to see with the naked eye.
And those processors will be integrated onto the CPU itself to prevent the bandwidth bottleneck of a bus.
It makes sense though, in a way. You've got the all-in-one philosophy and the many-part philosophy in software, and society oscillates between them over time (think Mozilla). I imagine that it's the same with hardware, you have the all-separate parts being merged into a whole part, and then something will come along that will bust it apart again.
Except that when you do manual changes, and something gets screwed up. Gentoo doesn't check the changes that you've made, it only checks the changes that occur from emerge update to emerge update. If you're not paying attention, you could replace your make.conf or modules.autoload file with etc-update. If that happened, you'd have to go in and change things again.
So, explain why Gorby did what he did. If he was like the other hard-line commies, he wouldn't have instituted policies that "broke a hole in the dam." I say that the reasoning behind his actions were that he saw a failing economy trying to compete militarily on a global scale with a burgeoning economy.
Reagan outspent the Soviets, and in so doing caused the collapse of the Union. It was Reagan who said that the cold war was like two scorpions in a bottle, only one will live. When he came into office, the Soviets were still extremely paranoid. They exerted political pressure all over the place, and pushed for increased military power.
The spending of the 80's was a good thing anyway. Not only could the USSR not keep up with the US, the US was building an economy that was a mess due to the Carter administration. Reagan levelled off inflation at the same time as putting money into the economy. He created jobs, and really did set the stage for economic growth in the 90's.
Not only did he miss the Verte, there were a lot of things that he skipped between the introduction of the GeForce and present day history. He pretty much went over the forces that brought 3DFX down, but not what brought the gfx industry to where it is.
He missed the initial release of the Radeon, the quality of the drivers, the fast paced competition between ATI and Nvidia at the time (Radeon 8700 vs. GeForce 2/3). He missed the little companies like the one that produced the Kyro and Kyro II, which had better framerates than any other card in Serious Sam. I wanted to buy one, just because I thought the implementation was the coolest thing since sliced cheese, and the blue orb fan on top didn't hurt.
He failed to mention the graphical libraries that stimulated the archetecture, about how MS's DirectX/Direct3D slowly took over, and how OpenGL got stuck in the quagmire of beauracracy. The TNT2 card was great for OpenGL, as are newer generations, BUT they're design are almost all MS-centric. You see the cards lined up against DX versions, TXT2 = DX6, GeForce 1&2, Radeon = DX7, GeForce 3 & 4 = DX8, Radeon 8900 = DX8.1, GeForce FX / Radeon 9700-9800 = DX9.
If you claim to do a history, I expect to see more than just a summary of events. I expect to see the politics, the intrigue, the setting, the plots, the espionage, the murder, the killings, the agreements, the treaties, etc. Why is RDRAM used in Saturn and N64, but doesn't show up on Gfx cards? Why are computer graphics so much different from the consoles? What happened within 3DFX that caused them to fall? The decisions made within that particular company have to come down to a precious few... what were they're names?
The guy I work with absolutely loves PASCAL. I'm not so big on it, but it's not because of the readability or speed of the compilers. PASCAL has a syntax that lends itself to a completely different rythm in typing. Getting your "Begin" and "End" in there really make a C style programmer stumble.
I agree that there is very little that you can do in C that you can't in PASCAL. I'd say it's mostly the things that can get you in trouble too, if you aren't paying attention (like crazy pointer arithmetic).
One thing that I do like about O-Pascal is that the had the idea of "delegates" long before C# was a glimmer in Billie's eye.
1. I've never developed in such unstable environment as kylix was, crashing all over the place in such manner that even my room was a mess. Reason for this is probably mostly IDE itself which is writen in some obscure way with using wine as main element for maintaining compatibility
Kylix was written for Qt, which is why Borland owns such a massive share of Trolltech now. The cross compatibility comes from Qt, as well as the fact that most everything written in the Delphi language is compiled against the VCL, and not the libraries of the specific OS.
3. Kylix was slow as hell, delphi fast
Is this comparison coming from the 266Mhz machine that you decided to stick Linux on vs. the 2.66 Ghz machine that you run windows on?
4. They didn't provide not even a simple Reporting component, where the hell is printing, delphi on the other hand has TQuickReport
A lot of the third party components (including QuickReports) were probably written outside of the VCL. You'll notice that QuickReports is absent from later versions of Delphi, which may be a result of this. Don't fault Kylix for not shipping with third party components, because you really can't expect as much. Kylix did was it was said to do. Something that was written in Kylix would work in Windows, that was the "cross-platform" that Borland was talking about. Delphi != Kylix, because Delphi's VCL is based on the MFC.
5. I wrote a few questions on Borland and hoped that I will at least get answer about plans, (fact is that I don't like Qt) and didn't get answer on any of my question exceeeept that this person is not available and it will answer me when it returns, I guess he's still on that bussines trip, by the way I was a constant Borland customer, having valid C++ Builder and all Delphi versions. It's sad if they treated me like that, I just wonder how they treated non-buying customers
Yes, Customer support from Borland sucks. I don't see why you don't like Qt though, it's the only windowing toolkit that is acually stable in both Windows and X. It's not like Borland had much of an option there. GTK/GTK+ were not an option either, because the licensing wouldn't allow for them to ship a binary product with their own license.
5. Basis of my linux software is not some obscure gui, but mostly cli deamons. Kylix was suitable for that job just like someone said that Windows98 command prompt equals bash
Qt is not some obscure gui. Get your facts straight. I also recommend learning how to count.
6. There's far better product for writing in pascal, not finished though, but I find my self enjoy working with it. Freepascal and Lazarus. GUI mode is still lacking, components are lacking, but both projects show far better perspective than kylix ever has (and fast as hell). As for me, it rocks, because all the lacking parts are not a need, they would eventualy maybe become a feature.
So, this beta product lacks components, a forms designer, and I'm assuming a reporting engine? It's a beta, so it can't be assumed to be stable, I bet it's as crashy as Kylix ever was. You've chucked out all compatibility with Delphi compenents, even though there was some likeness in Kylix... Something just isn't making rational sense here.
I'm not really a big fan of Kylix, or PASCAL in general, but this ranting about how Kylix sucks because it isn't Delphi really chafes me. You'd figure that if Borland wanted a version of Delphi for Linux, they'd brand it... Delphi! Once again, Kylix is not Delphi, and was never advertised as such. What was advertised was the Delphi language, the same RAD experience, and a familiarity between libraries.
I think that the biggest problem with Kylix was that it only installed properly for one particular version of one particular distribution. They didn't quite know how to base everything off of standard runtime variables (as far as where the runtime libraries and crap are residing), so usage of Kylix in distros like Suse, Mandrake, or Gentoo was crashy at best.
Both catholics and protestants call themselves "christians" but there are certainly a lot of problems in Ireland, where they seem to have noticed their theological differences.
I think that the catholic vs. protestant issue in Ireland is just a figurehead and excuse for them to keep fighting. The real problem with Ireland is that it's full of Irish, who'll fight for anything as long as the fighting's good.
I think that it's just that the machines realized that one matrix wasn't enough, so they nested it. The humans found that they had a choice to accept the inner matrix, and some rejected and got spit out to the outer matrix. That's why Neo was able to stop the Sentinels; he was still in the Matrix.
I would have expected something more interesting, like Neo and his kin peeling the layers off of an onion, trying to get to the one true reality that all other realities are subjected to.
I just love military people. You get the most flavorful language out of them, as well as amusement:
So, for now, Clarke is sticking with cultured. But in the end, he insists, it won't really matter. "If you give a woman a choice between a 2-carat stone and a 1-carat stone and everything else is the same, including the price, what's she gonna choose?" he demands. "Does she care if it's synthetic or not? Is anybody at a party going to walk up to her and ask, 'Is that synthetic?' There's no way in hell. So I'll bite your ass if she chooses the smaller one."
Such bluntness and resistance to limp-wristed caution is an attribute to be emulated and admired.
Just to make you feel bad, I have a Pentium II core hanging by a paperclip in my office as a reminder of "the old days.":-P Then again, I'm 23, so the earliest thing I can remember is hacking onto my dad's 8086 with an 8088 over a custom built network. My dad is a genius.
It goes much further than that. The whole freaking Internet is the domain of hackers. It was created by hackers, for hackers... (heh that's probably why there's so much debate about going to IPv6)
I wonder if he understands that the majority of the software he uses has at least a little part that has been borrowed from the realm of hackers. Look at Kerberos, GZip, TCP/IP, the list goes on and on.
It's funny that you mention that most hackers are professionals in their 40's. Back when hacking was born (right about the time when computers came about), yes, they all worked at the companies that could afford computational equipment. After that, the hackers started coming from places other than Xerox, mainly UC-Berkley and MIT. I would say that even the phD's there are still students, they still attack research and problem-solving like a student would. It's a funny thing, but I'd say that as long as you are paying or paid by a University, you should be considered a "student."
If my last conjecture is true, then this article is a severe case of the pot calling the kettle black.
I really can't believe the arrogance of this dude. Does he think that because he's at Princeton, that means that everything he says is verbatim truth? Princeton isn't even on the map of top CS/Engineering schools, rather it's a stuffy law/liberal arts school. It's no wonder why you don't see people from Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, Caltech, University of Illinois, RHIT, etc. blasting open source software.
The guy isn't credible, even if he is the head of the "Technology business stick it up your ass" department. If I want to hear bad things of open source, I'll wait until the real doctors wiegh in. They won't, probably because a lot of them participate in the production of said software.
Heh... With the open source community, Moore's law seems to be timid. In a couple of years, the kernel has gone from 2.2 to 2.6, KDE has gone from 2.0 to 3.1, and Gnome has hit 2.4. As time has gone on, everything has become more user friendly.
I'm pretty sure that if you install Mandrake now, you'll find that you can do most everything right out of the box. It's been a long time since I've had to edit config files for everything... just the vital ones like/etc/hosts,/etc/resolv.conf, and/etc/passwd.
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Most people are going to be stupid and point at a star that is really far away. When they "claim" it as theirs, they'll have to understand the fact that their star may have burned itself out already.
Asteroids and those smaller things are fairly difficult to see with the naked eye.
I'd go and participate in E17. Enlightenment as a wm rocks, but E17 looks like it's got all of the desktop goodies + the fine wm.
Judging by the amount of time they're spending, they could probably use the help.
And those processors will be integrated onto the CPU itself to prevent the bandwidth bottleneck of a bus.
It makes sense though, in a way. You've got the all-in-one philosophy and the many-part philosophy in software, and society oscillates between them over time (think Mozilla). I imagine that it's the same with hardware, you have the all-separate parts being merged into a whole part, and then something will come along that will bust it apart again.
You read the article? You must be new here.
Bows before a clapping audience. Such karma-whoring is to be admired.
Except that when you do manual changes, and something gets screwed up. Gentoo doesn't check the changes that you've made, it only checks the changes that occur from emerge update to emerge update. If you're not paying attention, you could replace your make.conf or modules.autoload file with etc-update. If that happened, you'd have to go in and change things again.
ding ding. Mod parent up.
What's with all of the usage of this word "neocon?" It makes me think of He-man and the Masters of the Universe...
"We must never let the cobra-con get near the castle of King Hiss"
I'm gonna start thinking that Puff Daschle is Skeletor himself.
So, explain why Gorby did what he did. If he was like the other hard-line commies, he wouldn't have instituted policies that "broke a hole in the dam." I say that the reasoning behind his actions were that he saw a failing economy trying to compete militarily on a global scale with a burgeoning economy.
Reagan outspent the Soviets, and in so doing caused the collapse of the Union. It was Reagan who said that the cold war was like two scorpions in a bottle, only one will live. When he came into office, the Soviets were still extremely paranoid. They exerted political pressure all over the place, and pushed for increased military power.
The spending of the 80's was a good thing anyway. Not only could the USSR not keep up with the US, the US was building an economy that was a mess due to the Carter administration. Reagan levelled off inflation at the same time as putting money into the economy. He created jobs, and really did set the stage for economic growth in the 90's.
More like:
I know which one I prefer, especially having a job in the tech industry.
Not only did he miss the Verte, there were a lot of things that he skipped between the introduction of the GeForce and present day history. He pretty much went over the forces that brought 3DFX down, but not what brought the gfx industry to where it is.
He missed the initial release of the Radeon, the quality of the drivers, the fast paced competition between ATI and Nvidia at the time (Radeon 8700 vs. GeForce 2/3). He missed the little companies like the one that produced the Kyro and Kyro II, which had better framerates than any other card in Serious Sam. I wanted to buy one, just because I thought the implementation was the coolest thing since sliced cheese, and the blue orb fan on top didn't hurt.
He failed to mention the graphical libraries that stimulated the archetecture, about how MS's DirectX/Direct3D slowly took over, and how OpenGL got stuck in the quagmire of beauracracy. The TNT2 card was great for OpenGL, as are newer generations, BUT they're design are almost all MS-centric. You see the cards lined up against DX versions, TXT2 = DX6, GeForce 1&2, Radeon = DX7, GeForce 3 & 4 = DX8, Radeon 8900 = DX8.1, GeForce FX / Radeon 9700-9800 = DX9.
If you claim to do a history, I expect to see more than just a summary of events. I expect to see the politics, the intrigue, the setting, the plots, the espionage, the murder, the killings, the agreements, the treaties, etc. Why is RDRAM used in Saturn and N64, but doesn't show up on Gfx cards? Why are computer graphics so much different from the consoles? What happened within 3DFX that caused them to fall? The decisions made within that particular company have to come down to a precious few... what were they're names?
150 = 35 * (1 + x) ^ 47
x = 3.14%
Yes. Everybody will have a peice of the pi.
You do see it in SimCity, but it isn't a "disaster." If a plane from the airport flies over the plant, it will blow up.
The guy I work with absolutely loves PASCAL. I'm not so big on it, but it's not because of the readability or speed of the compilers. PASCAL has a syntax that lends itself to a completely different rythm in typing. Getting your "Begin" and "End" in there really make a C style programmer stumble.
I agree that there is very little that you can do in C that you can't in PASCAL. I'd say it's mostly the things that can get you in trouble too, if you aren't paying attention (like crazy pointer arithmetic).
One thing that I do like about O-Pascal is that the had the idea of "delegates" long before C# was a glimmer in Billie's eye.
1. I've never developed in such unstable environment as kylix was, crashing all over the place in such manner that even my room was a mess. Reason for this is probably mostly IDE itself which is writen in some obscure way with using wine as main element for maintaining compatibility
Kylix was written for Qt, which is why Borland owns such a massive share of Trolltech now. The cross compatibility comes from Qt, as well as the fact that most everything written in the Delphi language is compiled against the VCL, and not the libraries of the specific OS.
3. Kylix was slow as hell, delphi fast
Is this comparison coming from the 266Mhz machine that you decided to stick Linux on vs. the 2.66 Ghz machine that you run windows on?
4. They didn't provide not even a simple Reporting component, where the hell is printing, delphi on the other hand has TQuickReport
A lot of the third party components (including QuickReports) were probably written outside of the VCL. You'll notice that QuickReports is absent from later versions of Delphi, which may be a result of this. Don't fault Kylix for not shipping with third party components, because you really can't expect as much. Kylix did was it was said to do. Something that was written in Kylix would work in Windows, that was the "cross-platform" that Borland was talking about. Delphi != Kylix, because Delphi's VCL is based on the MFC.
5. I wrote a few questions on Borland and hoped that I will at least get answer about plans, (fact is that I don't like Qt) and didn't get answer on any of my question exceeeept that this person is not available and it will answer me when it returns, I guess he's still on that bussines trip, by the way I was a constant Borland customer, having valid C++ Builder and all Delphi versions. It's sad if they treated me like that, I just wonder how they treated non-buying customers
Yes, Customer support from Borland sucks. I don't see why you don't like Qt though, it's the only windowing toolkit that is acually stable in both Windows and X. It's not like Borland had much of an option there. GTK/GTK+ were not an option either, because the licensing wouldn't allow for them to ship a binary product with their own license.
5. Basis of my linux software is not some obscure gui, but mostly cli deamons. Kylix was suitable for that job just like someone said that Windows98 command prompt equals bash
Qt is not some obscure gui. Get your facts straight. I also recommend learning how to count.
6. There's far better product for writing in pascal, not finished though, but I find my self enjoy working with it. Freepascal and Lazarus. GUI mode is still lacking, components are lacking, but both projects show far better perspective than kylix ever has (and fast as hell). As for me, it rocks, because all the lacking parts are not a need, they would eventualy maybe become a feature.
So, this beta product lacks components, a forms designer, and I'm assuming a reporting engine? It's a beta, so it can't be assumed to be stable, I bet it's as crashy as Kylix ever was. You've chucked out all compatibility with Delphi compenents, even though there was some likeness in Kylix... Something just isn't making rational sense here.
I'm not really a big fan of Kylix, or PASCAL in general, but this ranting about how Kylix sucks because it isn't Delphi really chafes me. You'd figure that if Borland wanted a version of Delphi for Linux, they'd brand it... Delphi! Once again, Kylix is not Delphi, and was never advertised as such. What was advertised was the Delphi language, the same RAD experience, and a familiarity between libraries.
I think that the biggest problem with Kylix was that it only installed properly for one particular version of one particular distribution. They didn't quite know how to base everything off of standard runtime variables (as far as where the runtime libraries and crap are residing), so usage of Kylix in distros like Suse, Mandrake, or Gentoo was crashy at best.
Just like Georgy's um... successful use of the internet to win her ... the um... nevermind.
But at least we got to see her on /.!
This election we're talking about is a long time away for us to register to vote for it.
Both catholics and protestants call themselves "christians" but there are certainly a lot of problems in Ireland, where they seem to have noticed their theological differences.
I think that the catholic vs. protestant issue in Ireland is just a figurehead and excuse for them to keep fighting. The real problem with Ireland is that it's full of Irish, who'll fight for anything as long as the fighting's good.
I think that it's just that the machines realized that one matrix wasn't enough, so they nested it. The humans found that they had a choice to accept the inner matrix, and some rejected and got spit out to the outer matrix. That's why Neo was able to stop the Sentinels; he was still in the Matrix.
I would have expected something more interesting, like Neo and his kin peeling the layers off of an onion, trying to get to the one true reality that all other realities are subjected to.
I just love military people. You get the most flavorful language out of them, as well as amusement:
So, for now, Clarke is sticking with cultured. But in the end, he insists, it won't really matter. "If you give a woman a choice between a 2-carat stone and a 1-carat stone and everything else is the same, including the price, what's she gonna choose?" he demands. "Does she care if it's synthetic or not? Is anybody at a party going to walk up to her and ask, 'Is that synthetic?' There's no way in hell. So I'll bite your ass if she chooses the smaller one."
Such bluntness and resistance to limp-wristed caution is an attribute to be emulated and admired.
Just to make you feel bad, I have a Pentium II core hanging by a paperclip in my office as a reminder of "the old days." :-P Then again, I'm 23, so the earliest thing I can remember is hacking onto my dad's 8086 with an 8088 over a custom built network. My dad is a genius.
It goes much further than that. The whole freaking Internet is the domain of hackers. It was created by hackers, for hackers... (heh that's probably why there's so much debate about going to IPv6)
I wonder if he understands that the majority of the software he uses has at least a little part that has been borrowed from the realm of hackers. Look at Kerberos, GZip, TCP/IP, the list goes on and on.
It's funny that you mention that most hackers are professionals in their 40's. Back when hacking was born (right about the time when computers came about), yes, they all worked at the companies that could afford computational equipment. After that, the hackers started coming from places other than Xerox, mainly UC-Berkley and MIT. I would say that even the phD's there are still students, they still attack research and problem-solving like a student would. It's a funny thing, but I'd say that as long as you are paying or paid by a University, you should be considered a "student."
If my last conjecture is true, then this article is a severe case of the pot calling the kettle black.
From one of those links:
Strauss is featured on CREN's Virtual Seminar CD Untangling the Web.
What the hell is CREN?
I really can't believe the arrogance of this dude. Does he think that because he's at Princeton, that means that everything he says is verbatim truth? Princeton isn't even on the map of top CS/Engineering schools, rather it's a stuffy law/liberal arts school. It's no wonder why you don't see people from Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, Caltech, University of Illinois, RHIT, etc. blasting open source software.
The guy isn't credible, even if he is the head of the "Technology business stick it up your ass" department. If I want to hear bad things of open source, I'll wait until the real doctors wiegh in. They won't, probably because a lot of them participate in the production of said software.
If I had the choice between death and a shortened life in a weakened state, I'd surely choose to meet my maker.
Heh... With the open source community, Moore's law seems to be timid. In a couple of years, the kernel has gone from 2.2 to 2.6, KDE has gone from 2.0 to 3.1, and Gnome has hit 2.4. As time has gone on, everything has become more user friendly.
I'm pretty sure that if you install Mandrake now, you'll find that you can do most everything right out of the box. It's been a long time since I've had to edit config files for everything... just the vital ones like /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/passwd.