Firefox won't fix bugs that are pretty core to technologies. The big reason they won't fix it seems to be because they'd have to redesign a large chunk of their xslt processing. It's defective by design and they have no intention of fixing it. It's not a Microsoft thing, it's a software in general thing.
You know, you won't segfault if you add i--; after the girl.remove(i);. You should probably also test the length of girl after that statement to see if you should buy more vasaline that night or not.
I'm not entirely sure. I had a freind load it up on his Linux box and it loaded and saved an image. I really didn't put it through it's paces. I'm sure there are more issues under the hood that I didn't see.
I used it last week and it does have layers and png support. I don't know about Multiply and Screen but they probably are. It does run under Mono just fine (you do loose the transparancy effects on some of the tool windows but that may be fixed).
I have a question. So say I whip up some new fangled Linux distro that I sell support contracts to small businesses. Now say I also whip up a packaging system that happens to infringe on a patent of some small company by the name of PackageSoft. So to ensure my customers and I don't get sued, I license that patent from PackageSoft while I whip up a new packaging system. From my understanding, by doing that I'm immediately banned for life from ever distributing any gpl3 code ever again. Am I understanding that correctly?
x86 fanboy? Wow, I've never actually been called that before. Thanks for making me smile:)
I may have been unclear in my witting and for that I apologize to the reader. What I'm asserting is that the MMX extension on the x86 architecture is a sad attempt at a vector unit. There really is nothing like an Altavec unit on the x86. The SPE units on the Cell chip is a lot like an Altavec. Additionally the front end general purpose core is a dramaticly scaled back PowerPC 970. I haven't seen benchmarks but I'd say the performance is probably closer to a PowerPC 603 or a 586 than it is to a PowerPC 970/G5 or a Pentium 3/4.
Except for the whole cell being a horrible chip for non-vectorized generic internet applications to run on. Seriously, if your not running an application that does transformations on large floating point matrices, it's going to be like trying to run everyone on a 586. Plus, who says if it runs Linux you can code whatever you want on it? Sony could use Linux to do the basic os stuff and still have it as closed as they wanted.
Cell's really are only useful if you do lots of vector based calculations. That is, lots of floating calculations at the same time. The front end of the cpu which does the general purpose stuff is an in order ppc chip.
The best way to think of the cell as a Pentium with 8 altavec units. If you've only ever used an x86 chip, think of it as mmx only 200% better.
If your emulator runs fine on a 586, then it'll run fine on a cell. It would be passable to move some of the code in an emulator to the vector units but not all of it. Example: You could do your actual sound generation on the vector units, but not the sound chip isa.
Sophos seems to think there's a few and I'm sure a quick google will find something more;)
Amusingly, there seems to be a few nice worms for linux. There also seems to be a nice one that hits both freebsd and linux. Granted you have to be running a pretty old and crusty versions of the kernel and apache, but Windows people aren't the only ones who don't update;)
Of course nothing is as bad as the numbers for Windows but to say that your completely safe is pure arrogance. We must never forget that FUD is a 2 way street leading to Ignorance Lane and Mindless Zealotry Ave.
This article is total bullshit. I can personally vouch for viruses on the mac. Learned that the hard way back on 7.5. Don't know about the newest OS X but I seem to remember there being one being reported on/. a year or so ago.
I suppose I should also mention this is my codeing style for asp.net only. A lot of the apps I'm working on are in asp 3.0 and are slowly being ported over to asp.net. If I were writting a WinForms app in C# or VB.Net I use the ide. The debugger I rarely use, seeing as how the system I described works well for me and it's almost completely independant of any tools or languages. It works in Python just as well as C#.
I'm not saying that debuggers are completely useless, I'm saying I don't need to use one.
I can see why something blew up by printing out the values and ending prematurely. I can also try/catch blocks with Response.Writes and Response.Ends. Nothing special about that. I still get my Response. Writes as well as they're there giveing me info even if the app looks to be running properly.
Another small issue is that the box that I edit on and the box that it all runs on are on other sides of the planet. I'm in Florida and the rest of the devs are in Arizona. Granted this is how we work when everyone's in the same room and it's a good system. It's not for everyone but it works very well for me.
Ummm, what exactly does it do? There were a lot of dos era programs and there are even more problem domains. Got a link to anything concrete? Not looking to gank your program but screens and more solid descriptions would be nice.
If you play video games you are going to want Microsoft Windows and not GNU/Linux.
Maybe if they are wealthy but if they only have a fairly limited budget for software and the GNU/Linux versions of software do what they need then they're unlikely to choose Microsoft alternatives are they ?
There's like 3 games on the open source side that are worth playing, everything else is a bloated hack of 10 year old games.
Everyone who talks about closed source seems to make it out like Microsoft Windows and Word are the only closed source apps out there and that Open Source is saving us from the tyranny of Microsoft. What a load of crap. Blizzard makes tons of cash with very closed source software and no one seems to even try to make any open source software that's better than them. ID just put out a very innovative game engine the game play sucked but the graphics were spectacular. Where's the better open source app? Where are the open source games that aren't clones of 10 to 20 year old games? Maybe McVoy was right in some regards and that makes me sad.
granted most of the centuries of open source was just reimplementing the centuries of closed source science,or "Invention", that came before it.
I would say it was thought out and has been repeatedly proven on this site today. If I see another "KDE and Gnome are proofs of inovation" comment I'm going to stab someone. There are examples of inovative open source software, but it isn't in your oses, web servers or databases. The really cool stuff is always the stuff used in back rooms by interesting people.
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Me too!
We should hang out sometime.
Or maybe, he still does.....
Firefox won't fix bugs that are pretty core to technologies. The big reason they won't fix it seems to be because they'd have to redesign a large chunk of their xslt processing. It's defective by design and they have no intention of fixing it. It's not a Microsoft thing, it's a software in general thing.
You know, you won't segfault if you add i--; after the girl.remove(i);. You should probably also test the length of girl after that statement to see if you should buy more vasaline that night or not.
I'm not entirely sure. I had a freind load it up on his Linux box and it loaded and saved an image. I really didn't put it through it's paces. I'm sure there are more issues under the hood that I didn't see.
I used it last week and it does have layers and png support. I don't know about Multiply and Screen but they probably are. It does run under Mono just fine (you do loose the transparancy effects on some of the tool windows but that may be fixed).
That has to be the dumbest thing I've heard all day.
I have a question. So say I whip up some new fangled Linux distro that I sell support contracts to small businesses. Now say I also whip up a packaging system that happens to infringe on a patent of some small company by the name of PackageSoft. So to ensure my customers and I don't get sued, I license that patent from PackageSoft while I whip up a new packaging system. From my understanding, by doing that I'm immediately banned for life from ever distributing any gpl3 code ever again. Am I understanding that correctly?
Ah O'Dell Lake, that takes me back.
Thou nothing could defeat the might of the majestic offspray....*sigh*
Assumeing the PS3 lets you boot from a flash drive....
x86 fanboy? :)
Wow, I've never actually been called that before. Thanks for making me smile
I may have been unclear in my witting and for that I apologize to the reader. What I'm asserting is that the MMX extension on the x86 architecture is a sad attempt at a vector unit. There really is nothing like an Altavec unit on the x86. The SPE units on the Cell chip is a lot like an Altavec. Additionally the front end general purpose core is a dramaticly scaled back PowerPC 970. I haven't seen benchmarks but I'd say the performance is probably closer to a PowerPC 603 or a 586 than it is to a PowerPC 970/G5 or a Pentium 3/4.
Except for the whole cell being a horrible chip for non-vectorized generic internet applications to run on. Seriously, if your not running an application that does transformations on large floating point matrices, it's going to be like trying to run everyone on a 586. Plus, who says if it runs Linux you can code whatever you want on it? Sony could use Linux to do the basic os stuff and still have it as closed as they wanted.
passable should be possible
Cell's really are only useful if you do lots of vector based calculations. That is, lots of floating calculations at the same time. The front end of the cpu which does the general purpose stuff is an in order ppc chip.
The best way to think of the cell as a Pentium with 8 altavec units. If you've only ever used an x86 chip, think of it as mmx only 200% better.
If your emulator runs fine on a 586, then it'll run fine on a cell. It would be passable to move some of the code in an emulator to the vector units but not all of it. Example: You could do your actual sound generation on the vector units, but not the sound chip isa.
Yes, and this happened about 10 years ago....
worms are (to a degree)
Plus I only really checked one source briefly, there are other sources. Give me a few and I'm pretty sure I could find others.
Sophos seems to think there's a few and I'm sure a quick google will find something more ;)
;)
Amusingly, there seems to be a few nice worms for linux. There also seems to be a nice one that hits both
freebsd and linux. Granted you have to be running a pretty old and crusty versions of the kernel and apache, but Windows people aren't the only ones who don't update
Of course nothing is as bad as the numbers for Windows but to say that your completely safe is pure arrogance. We must never forget that FUD is a 2 way street leading to Ignorance Lane and Mindless Zealotry Ave.
This article is total bullshit. I can personally vouch for viruses on the mac. Learned that the hard way back on 7.5. Don't know about the newest OS X but I seem to remember there being one being reported on /. a year or so ago.
I suppose I should also mention this is my codeing style for asp.net only. A lot of the apps I'm working on are in asp 3.0 and are slowly being ported over to asp.net. If I were writting a WinForms app in C# or VB.Net I use the ide. The debugger I rarely use, seeing as how the system I described works well for me and it's almost completely independant of any tools or languages. It works in Python just as well as C#.
I'm not saying that debuggers are completely useless, I'm saying I don't need to use one.
You know, you can always go Response.End......
I can see why something blew up by printing out the values and ending prematurely. I can also try/catch blocks with Response.Writes and Response.Ends. Nothing special about that. I still get my Response.
Writes as well as they're there giveing me info even if the app looks to be running properly.
Another small issue is that the box that I edit on and the box that it all runs on are on other sides of the planet. I'm in Florida and the rest of the devs are in Arizona. Granted this is how we work when everyone's in the same room and it's a good system. It's not for everyone but it works very well for me.
nice, where were you 15 years ago when I needed this for dos?
Ummm, what exactly does it do? There were a lot of dos era programs and there are even more problem domains. Got a link to anything concrete? Not looking to gank your program but screens and more solid descriptions would be nice.
If you play video games you are going to want Microsoft Windows and not GNU/Linux.
Maybe if they are wealthy but if they only have a fairly limited budget for software and the GNU/Linux versions of software do what they need then they're unlikely to choose Microsoft alternatives are they ?
There's like 3 games on the open source side that are worth playing, everything else is a bloated hack of 10 year old games.
Everyone who talks about closed source seems to make it out like Microsoft Windows and Word are the only closed source apps out there and that Open Source is saving us from the tyranny of Microsoft. What a load of crap. Blizzard makes tons of cash with very closed source software and no one seems to even try to make any open source software that's better than them. ID just put out a very innovative game engine the game play sucked but the graphics were spectacular. Where's the better open source app? Where are the open source games that aren't clones of 10 to 20 year old games? Maybe McVoy was right in some regards and that makes me sad.
granted most of the centuries of open source was just reimplementing the centuries of closed source science ,or "Invention", that came before it.
I would say it was thought out and has been repeatedly proven on this site today. If I see another "KDE and Gnome are proofs of inovation" comment I'm going to stab someone. There are examples of inovative open source software, but it isn't in your oses, web servers or databases. The really cool stuff is always the stuff used in back rooms by interesting people.
Not to be a jerk, but what do you spend your thousands of hours on?