Hate to be a realist but prior art does require that you were using this process in a productive manner, or otherwise had product in the market place (ie making $$ of your invention) 1 entire year before somebody helpfully applied for your patent, for you, in their name (of course).
I just wan't to go down on record as explaining what prior-art really means and why that isn't IMHO at all a saving grace of the patent system in any way what so ever.
Transmeta doens't need to do an IPO. What makes you think they would? They have no need for a capital influx. Is there some rumour that I'm totally missing here?
... The United States is a democracy, has been a democracy since 1917, and was never intended to be a democracy.
The only Republic like facility we still share is the famed electoral college which also does not operate as intended. US Constitution
To explain further: Since 1917 Income Taxes Authorized. and United States Senators to Be Elected by Direct Popular Vote. Now you have to understand how things worked before to appreciate how they work now.
Before 1917, the census roles were used by the federal government to determine the tax burder of each of the *STATES* so it was the states which held the power of the country. The federal governement could not dictate to the states any laws by using monetary incentives. Along with the money that was collected the States (ie. the State Governments) sent Sentors, essentially their limited grip on the -- not infinite supply -- of money. This is why budgets go from house to senate. BTW: If a Senator shirked his responsibility he could be recalled and replaced... usually the Senator was a very known quantity however, having been a respected member of the State's own house.
Since 1917 we have seen many ways that the federal government as forced states to act according to it's wishes. 55 mph speed, 21 drinking age, sane lanes. These were all accomplished through hold back of payments collected directly from the citizens of the states. Direct taxation is one which cannot be avoided. If you tax land, I can choose not to own land, but I have no choice on whether I choose to have an income. It is therefore unavoidable and before 1917 unconstitutional. Because now the money supply is essentially infinate. We are a democracy because we can, and have, act like one. The processes that have kept us from being a democracy have been derailed.
Who has the gold makes the rules. Who makes the rules and how the rules are made are exactly what is central to a republic.
A rough parallel would be if the UN could tax the citizens of all the world directly and then hold back payment(s) to the countries that the UN wanted to force policy changes within.
My Dad had this until a week ago when DSL expaned to cover his home. The coax isn't 10 base anything, it's the rf-coax from the dish/tv. It's over-priced and requires and ISP. Although when he canceled it he said, DirecPC does 2-way now? Dunno if that's true, or widely available.
As far as performace goes I ususally got a sustained rate of 20-25Kb.
The card he had was coax pci card.
BTW if some really brave person would like the card to write a driver... needs a spare... I don't think my dad will need it again.
$100,000 budget for international intergovernmental agencies for (programs/studies) concerning international cooperataion concerning patents, trademarks, etc. --Smallish I suppose.
Compensation -- Directorys pay (elsewhere), bonus not to exceed 50% of (annual) pay by Sec. of Commerce based on (previous) performace agreenment between Director and Sec... bonus cannot cause total year's compensation to exceed that of the President's [...? funny stuff, can't make more than your boss even if you did a really good job.].
A Senior Manager's bonus is not to exceed 125% of their annual salary (Similar performace arrangement, except arbiter is Director).
Employee: Cash awards program, value may exceed 10,000 but may *not* exceed 25,000. In applying sections.... to employees '30 days' my be deemed to be '15 days'
BTW: Here 'ESTABLISHMENT OF BROAD-BANDED SYSTEMS' has todo with pay bands, NOT HIGH SPEAD ACCESS. Usually this means a move toward merit based pay and away from seniority based pay. As usual the devil is in the details.
Steve McConnell is president and chief software engineer at Construx Software, where he divides his time between leading custom software projects, teaching classes, and writing books and articles. He is the author of the Microsoft Press books Code Complete (1993), Rapid Development (1996), and Software Project Survival Guide (1998). His books have twice won Software Development magazine's Jolt Excellence Award for outstanding software development book of the year. In 1998, readers of Software Development named Steve one of the three most influential people in the software industry along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. In his spare time, Steve serves as editor in chief of IEEE Software magazine. He is on the panel of experts that provides advice to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) project, and is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Steve earned a bachelor's degree from Whitman College and a master's degree in software engineering from Seattle University. He lives in Bellevue, Washington with his wife, Tammy; daughter, Haley; and dog, Daisy. If you have any comments or questions about this book, please contact Steve via e-mail at stevemcc@construx.com or via his web site at http://www.construx.com/stevemcc/.
I known I've seen his books on the shelf, but only laugh we I see such titles by MS Press. Fun to read I suppose, but nothing exactly insightful, or even surprising.
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Just so you the right information once: time_t on *MOST* machines is a unsigned long value. Some vendors have recently fsck everybody and started to change time_t to a double. This, IMHO is very very bad.
If the system call to time() returns -1 (exactly -1) then the time() system call failed. The clocks which break, or routines that use time() and break on 2038 are in IMO programmer/complier errors. Most programmers and compilers fall victim to EOL [EndOfLife] 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
---- Diagnose ---- /* * Try to diagnose 2038 time issues. */ #include <time.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h>
int bits_per_byte( void );
int main ( int argc, char * argv[] ) { struct tm * gmt; time_t a, b, c, val; int clock_bits; char * time_string;
tzset();/* Get/Set timezone from TZ */
clock_bits = bits_per_byte() * sizeof(time_t); fprintf( stdout, "You have a %d bit clock\n", clock_bits );
/* If the compiler says something about not being an*/ /*integral type, then you're vendor made time_t a double.*/ /*This is a Very Bad Thing(tm). */
val = 0x01 << (clock_bits - 1);/* 0x8000 */ val = ~val;/* 0x7fff */
#if NOTFSCKED /* For whatever reason 2 out of 3 compliers gets this wrong? */ val = (~0x00 << 1);/* 0xffffe */ val >>= 1;/* zero out the MSB *//* 0x7ffff */ #endif
gmt = gmtime( &val ); if ( (time_string = asctime(gmt)) != NULL ) { fprintf( stdout, "EOL 0x%x for buggy programs: %s", val, time_string ); } else { fprintf( stdout, "asctime broke on: 0x%x\n", val ); }
val = (time_t)(~0x00 >> 1); val <<= 1;/* zero out the LSB */
gmt = gmtime( &val );
if ( (time_string = asctime(gmt)) != NULL ) { fprintf( stdout, "Real EOL 0x%x for UNIX/C time: %s", val, time_string ); } else { fprintf( stdout, "asctime broke on: 0x%x\n", val ); }
return 0; }
int bits_per_byte( void ) { unsigned char c = 0x01; int nbits;
for (nbits = 0; c != 0x00; nbits++ ) { c <<= 1; }
return nbits; }
/* ----OS/2----- IBM Visual Age C/C++ Version 3.6 (IBM redefied time_t to be a double!) time-howto.c(26:10) : error EDC0012: Operand of bitwise complement must be an integral type. time-howto.c(42:7) : error EDC0068: Operation between types "double" and "int" is not allowed.
----OS/2----- gcc/emx on OS/2
You have a 32 bit clock EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 Real EOL 0xfffffffe for UNIX/C time: Sun Feb7 06:28:14 2106
----OS/2----- IBM Visual Age C/C++ version 3
You have a 32 bit clock EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 asctime broke on: 0xfffffffe
----Solaris-- Reading specs from/scr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.7.2.3/spec s gcc version 2.7.2.3
You have a 32 bit clock EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 Real EOL 0xfffffffe for UNIX/C time: Wed Dec 31 23:59:58 1969
----Linux---- Reading specs from/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991109 (Debian GNU/Linux)
You have a 32 bit clock EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 Real EOL 0xfffffffe for UNIX/C time: Wed Dec 31 23:59:58 1969
----Windows-- MSVC
You have a 32 bit clock EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 (error) */
Actually this is the basis for the electoral college and fundamental to the founding of USA.
Why should a farmer be as informed about any specific topic as a pundit? As generally knowledge in general as say a librarian or a college professor? The answer is that they are not and shouldn't be. So the question is, do they have a learned person who they respect and trust to make those decisions for them? Should I not be able to trust my MD to help me make medical decisions? Of course.
This is why the founders of this country desired a REPUBLIC and not a DEMOCRACY. A democracy is the unfit to rule, ruling themselves. A Republic and the unfit to rule pick people to do for them what they cannot do for themselves.
-- So hotmail.com -> hotmail.passport.com, somebody did a change all and everything didn't timeout yet? The reverse? Why not just alias (CNAME) all the machines for a smooth transition?
(Please note that I'm well aware that the US is a republic, not a democracy. I'm using the term 'democratic' in a more generic sense, to mean a government in which the common man has some say, even if not direct.)
Actually that's technically backwards, we *were* a repulic upto 1913 when we *became* a democracy. I discount any possibility of the electoral collage being slaved to other that their declared vote. We function as a democracy therefore we are a democracy. US Constitution esp:
ARTICLE XVI: Income Taxes Authorized.
ARTICLE XVII: United States Senators to Be Elected by Direct Popular Vote.
This is commonly considered the removal of states rights. Remember that the Federal government never had a method to collect *any* sort of income except through the states. The Senators were pick by the state and were there to seek the states interested *MINIMIZE* spending.
Remember it's the people (house) which must originate the budget. The people ask, the senate prunes, the people ask again...
NOW the people ask, the senate adds pork, the people add more pork and try again. Gee, why are we going backrupt? For exactly the same reason *every* democracy goes backrupt. The people think they've found the golden calf and keep voting themselves money.
Gee I didn't know how abhorent you find python. BTW I followed you link and had no problems running either version of formatter, and yes perl was almost exactly 10 times faster.
Since I know about as much perl as I do python, I feel qualified to say that I find python easier to read. I'm sorry but I don't find that regexp are really that quick and easy to read.
Traditionally Open Source writers have written what they needed, and released it to the world. If many other people needed the same thing, its usage became widespread, and it was successful. The change that Roblimo notes, before he burys it in a discussion of fame and fortune, is that Open source writers are now deliberately looking at what users want and providing it, while still working on things that interest them and releasing it to the world. While this is something that people like Linus have been calling for for several years, it's really just starting to show results.
*I* think it's because with GNOME and KDE there is enough growth and transition in the platform that *I* can prefer it to what else I can use at work, all day, 24x7.
Now that I can use what I want (and be productive). There is a lot more incentive to add new programs that make *my* life better. I'm not really seeking out an Open Source project so much as I have a whole lot more itches that need scratching. In essence: the itch domain is much greater than it was last year. Last year I didn't do Linux on every machine I own. I'm not the only one either, and that's important too.
So I keep Hyping and Hoping because soon there will be a critical mass too.
I know these FPS games use code and models and a lot of the technical is in the code and model (the model is also a lot of art, but much of that is the texture map that goes on it... ) If the basic models (of objects, characters) and the code were available, adding and changing models, maps, and trying out new textures would be a feasable 'spare time' occupation?
I usually don't mind a different view point, but the technophobe drivel w/Duh for an answer? This is a very long winded strawman argument, and obvious to the tech literate and/or Sci-Fi reader (two very large contingents of/.) Perhaps there is a better audience for this? Guess I'm just a bit disappointed -- I actually like most of Kats stuff, even if I don't like what he has to say... HAND
As far as been able to tell (I've been programming professionally since 1991). Neither means a damn alone. I've worked with people who have advanced degrees and college dropouts. The best people to work with are the ones that 'breathe' technology.
There are a few things that I think gave me an advantage starting out: A solid math/physics background of proofs and derivations. This is essentially all programming is, though very simplified for the majority of it. The other is a bit of advice from the best prof I had... EVERYTHING is data driven.
That said the program snippets that you write in college are usually too trivial to give you even a sense of what a robust application is -- so the programming exp isn't.
Most college CS can give you some background on the (non-obvious) paths to disaster in software projects. Listening to the old guys that have BTDT can do the same... the problem with the these generalizations is that neither means that you learned (internalized) anything. I've seen CS grads that didn't understand databases, understand structured code, etc. On the college drop out side I've never found one that didn't understand databases, but they may have misused them and/or wrote disasterously unmanagable code (it made perfect sense to them).
You do need to know some theory and you need to spend some time applying it to the real world. If you got a CS degree and can't figure out how to apply the theory, maybe you should've paid attention in those physics or chem classes (that's what the real value of them are after all).
If you've just hacked together a game.. maybe you should get you hands on one of those software architecture books and figure out how to apply it to what you wrote, what you think could have been better, more flexable... and for god's sake don't treat the flamin book like it's right and your wrong...for most of 'em 3/4 of it is utter crap and/or too specific to a particular domain to be of much use...
Just 'cause it works that way doens't mean it's the best way.
Actually there is Storm Linux which is also based on Debian.
www.stormix.com
I downloaded there alpha.iso nice GUI install. I think Debian needs a nice GUI replacement for dselect (I'm not sure what the scope of SAS is though.. I may write my own -- I think a tree based/searchable package management would be ideal.
Slashdot Mirror
Hate to be a realist but prior art does require that you were using this process in a productive manner, or otherwise had product in the market place (ie making $$ of your invention) 1 entire year before somebody helpfully applied for your patent, for you, in their name (of course).
I just wan't to go down on record as explaining what prior-art really means and why that isn't IMHO at all a saving grace of the patent system in any way what so ever.
Transmeta doens't need to do an IPO. What makes you think they would? They have no need for a capital influx. Is there some rumour that I'm totally missing here?
The only Republic like facility we still share is the famed electoral college which also does not operate as intended. US Constitution
To explain further:
Since 1917 Income Taxes Authorized. and United States Senators to Be Elected by Direct Popular Vote.
Now you have to understand how things worked before to appreciate how they work now.
Before 1917, the census roles were used by the federal government to determine the tax burder of each of the *STATES* so it was the states which held the power of the country. The federal governement could not dictate to the states any laws by using monetary incentives. Along with the money that was collected the States (ie. the State Governments) sent Sentors, essentially their limited grip on the -- not infinite supply -- of money. This is why budgets go from house to senate. BTW: If a Senator shirked his responsibility he could be recalled and replaced ... usually the Senator was a very known quantity however, having been a respected member of the State's own house.
Since 1917 we have seen many ways that the federal government as forced states to act according to it's wishes. 55 mph speed, 21 drinking age, sane lanes. These were all accomplished through hold back of payments collected directly from the citizens of the states. Direct taxation is one which cannot be avoided. If you tax land, I can choose not to own land, but I have no choice on whether I choose to have an income. It is therefore unavoidable and before 1917 unconstitutional. Because now the money supply is essentially infinate. We are a democracy because we can, and have, act like one. The processes that have kept us from being a democracy have been derailed.
Who has the gold makes the rules. Who makes the rules and how the rules are made are exactly what is central to a republic.
A rough parallel would be if the UN could tax the citizens of all the world directly and then hold back payment(s) to the countries that the UN wanted to force policy changes within.
My Dad had this until a week ago when DSL expaned to cover his home. The coax isn't 10 base anything, it's the rf-coax from the dish/tv. It's over-priced and requires and ISP. Although when he canceled it he said, DirecPC does 2-way now? Dunno if that's true, or widely available.
... needs a spare ... I don't think my dad will need it again.
As far as performace goes I ususally got a sustained rate of 20-25Kb.
The card he had was coax pci card.
BTW if some really brave person would like the card to write a driver
me too :-)
ftp://ftp.tancheff.com/pub
IIRC Est. 50% of the brain is dedicated to image processing. That alone should help ppl understand that there isn't any necessarity 'unused' bits.
$100,000 budget for international intergovernmental agencies for (programs/studies) concerning international cooperataion concerning patents, trademarks, etc. --Smallish I suppose.
... bonus cannot cause total year's compensation to exceed that of the President's [...? funny stuff, can't make more than your boss even if you did a really good job.].
.... to employees '30 days' my be deemed to be '15 days'
Compensation -- Directorys pay (elsewhere), bonus not to exceed 50% of (annual) pay by Sec. of Commerce based on (previous) performace agreenment between Director and Sec
A Senior Manager's bonus is not to exceed 125% of their annual salary (Similar performace arrangement, except arbiter is Director).
Employee: Cash awards program, value may exceed 10,000 but may *not* exceed 25,000.
In applying sections
BTW: Here 'ESTABLISHMENT OF BROAD-BANDED SYSTEMS' has todo with pay bands, NOT HIGH SPEAD ACCESS. Usually this means a move toward merit based pay and away from seniority based pay. As usual the devil is in the details.
Works fine in mozilla, yeah!
Steve McConnell is president and chief software engineer at Construx Software, where he divides his time between leading custom software projects, teaching classes, and writing books and articles. He is the author of the Microsoft Press books Code Complete (1993), Rapid Development (1996), and Software Project Survival Guide (1998). His books have twice won Software Development magazine's Jolt Excellence Award for outstanding software development book of the year. In 1998, readers of Software Development named Steve one of the three most influential people in the software industry along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. In his spare time, Steve serves as editor in chief of IEEE Software magazine. He is on the panel of experts that provides advice to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) project, and is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Steve earned a bachelor's degree from Whitman College and a master's degree in software engineering from Seattle University. He lives in Bellevue, Washington with his wife, Tammy; daughter, Haley; and dog, Daisy. If you have any comments or questions about this book, please contact Steve via e-mail at stevemcc@construx.com or via his web site at http://www.construx.com/stevemcc/.
I known I've seen his books on the shelf, but only laugh we I see such titles by MS Press. Fun to read I suppose, but nothing exactly insightful, or even surprising.
Just so you the right information once:
time_t on *MOST* machines is a unsigned long value. Some vendors have recently fsck everybody and started to change time_t to a double. This, IMHO is very very bad.
If the system call to time() returns -1 (exactly -1) then the time() system call failed. The clocks which break, or routines that use time() and break on 2038 are in IMO programmer/complier errors. Most programmers and compilers fall victim to EOL [EndOfLife] 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
---- Diagnose ----
/*
* Try to diagnose 2038 time issues.
*/
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int bits_per_byte( void );
int main ( int argc, char * argv[] )
{
struct tm * gmt;
time_t a, b, c, val;
int clock_bits;
char * time_string;
tzset();/* Get/Set timezone from TZ */
clock_bits = bits_per_byte() * sizeof(time_t);
fprintf( stdout, "You have a %d bit clock\n", clock_bits );
val = 0x01 << (clock_bits - 1); /* 0x8000 */ /* 0x7fff */
val = ~val;
#if NOTFSCKED
/* For whatever reason 2 out of 3 compliers gets this wrong? */ /* 0xffffe */ /* zero out the MSB *//* 0x7ffff */
val = (~0x00 << 1);
val >>= 1;
#endif
gmt = gmtime( &val );
if ( (time_string = asctime(gmt)) != NULL ) {
fprintf( stdout, "EOL 0x%x for buggy programs: %s", val, time_string );
} else {
fprintf( stdout, "asctime broke on: 0x%x\n", val );
}
val = (time_t)(~0x00 >> 1); /* zero out the LSB */
val <<= 1;
gmt = gmtime( &val );
if ( (time_string = asctime(gmt)) != NULL ) {
fprintf( stdout, "Real EOL 0x%x for UNIX/C time: %s", val, time_string );
} else {
fprintf( stdout, "asctime broke on: 0x%x\n", val );
}
return 0;
}
int bits_per_byte( void )
{
unsigned char c = 0x01;
int nbits;
for (nbits = 0; c != 0x00; nbits++ ) {
c <<= 1;
}
return nbits;
}
----OS/2-----
IBM Visual Age C/C++ Version 3.6 (IBM redefied time_t to be a double!)
time-howto.c(26:10) : error EDC0012: Operand of bitwise complement must be an integral type.
time-howto.c(42:7) : error EDC0068: Operation between types "double" and "int" is not allowed.
----OS/2-----
gcc/emx on OS/2
You have a 32 bit clock
EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Real EOL 0xfffffffe for UNIX/C time: Sun Feb7 06:28:14 2106
----OS/2-----
IBM Visual Age C/C++ version 3
You have a 32 bit clock
EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
asctime broke on: 0xfffffffe
----Solaris-- /scr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.7.2.3/spec s
Reading specs from
gcc version 2.7.2.3
You have a 32 bit clock
EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Real EOL 0xfffffffe for UNIX/C time: Wed Dec 31 23:59:58 1969
----Linux---- /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs
Reading specs from
gcc version 2.95.2 19991109 (Debian GNU/Linux)
You have a 32 bit clock
EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Real EOL 0xfffffffe for UNIX/C time: Wed Dec 31 23:59:58 1969
----Windows--
MSVC
You have a 32 bit clock
EOL 0x7fffffff for buggy programs: Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
(error)
*/
Actually this is the basis for the electoral college and fundamental to the founding of USA.
Why should a farmer be as informed about any specific topic as a pundit? As generally knowledge in general as say a librarian or a college professor? The answer is that they are not and shouldn't be. So the question is, do they have a learned person who they respect and trust to make those decisions for them? Should I not be able to trust my MD to help me make medical decisions? Of course.
This is why the founders of this country desired a REPUBLIC and not a DEMOCRACY. A democracy is the unfit to rule, ruling themselves. A Republic and the unfit to rule pick people to do for them what they cannot do for themselves.
I'll just wait for the DVD, thanks.
(FWIW: I'm sure primenet's DNS has been used by ppl w/hotmail accounts and mercenary probably hasn't)
$ nslookup lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com
Server: dns2.primenet.net
Address: 206.165.50.10
Name: lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com
Address: 209.185.243.135
$ nslookup lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com mercenary.vntech.com
Server: mercenary.vntech.com
Address: 206.147.237.3
*** mercenary.vntech.com can't find lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com: Non-existent host/domain
$ nslookup 209.185.243.135
Server: dns2.primenet.net
Address: 206.165.50.10
Name: lc2.law5.hotmail.com
Address: 209.185.243.135
$ nslookup 209.185.243.135 mercenary.vntech.com
Server: mercenary.vntech.com
Address: 206.147.237.3
Name: lc2.law5.hotmail.com
Address: 209.185.243.135
--
So hotmail.com -> hotmail.passport.com, somebody did a change all and everything didn't timeout yet? The reverse? Why not just alias (CNAME) all
the machines for a smooth transition?
(Please note that I'm well aware that the US is a republic, not a democracy. I'm using the term 'democratic' in a more generic sense, to mean a government in which the common man has some say, even if not direct.)
Actually that's technically backwards, we *were* a repulic upto 1913 when we *became* a democracy. I discount any possibility of the electoral collage being slaved to other that their declared vote. We function as a democracy therefore we are a democracy. US Constitution esp:
- ARTICLE XVI: Income Taxes Authorized.
- ARTICLE XVII: United States Senators to Be Elected by Direct Popular Vote.
This is commonly considered the removal of states rights. Remember that the Federal government never had a method to collect *any* sort of income except through the states. The Senators were pick by the state and were there to seek the states interested *MINIMIZE* spending.Remember it's the people (house) which must originate the budget. The people ask, the senate prunes, the people ask again...
NOW the people ask, the senate adds pork, the people add more pork and try again. Gee, why are we going backrupt? For exactly the same reason *every* democracy goes backrupt. The people think they've found the golden calf and keep voting themselves money.
Gee I didn't know how abhorent you find python. BTW I followed you link and had no problems running either version of formatter, and yes perl was almost exactly 10 times faster.
Since I know about as much perl as I do python, I feel qualified to say that I find python easier to read. I'm sorry but I don't find that regexp are really that quick and easy to read.
Traditionally Open Source writers have written what they needed, and released it to the world. If many other people needed the same thing, its usage became widespread, and it was successful. The change that Roblimo notes, before he burys it in a discussion of fame and fortune, is that Open source writers are now deliberately looking at what users want and providing it, while still working on things that interest them and releasing it to the world. While this is something that people like Linus have been calling for for several years, it's really just starting to show results.
*I* think it's because with GNOME and KDE there is enough growth and transition in the platform that *I* can prefer it to what else I can use at work, all day, 24x7.
Now that I can use what I want (and be productive). There is a lot more incentive to add new programs that make *my* life better. I'm not really seeking out an Open Source project so much as I have a whole lot more itches that need scratching. In essence: the itch domain is much greater than it was last year. Last year I didn't do Linux on every machine I own. I'm not the only one either, and that's important too.
So I keep Hyping and Hoping because soon there will be a critical mass too.
So is this an argument FOR writing bad (write-only) code? If you can't figure out what it does how do you prove it violates a patent?
Works fine on Debian/Potato,
just run dselect and add everything todo with GNOME libs/GTK libs/
and goto kde.tdyc.com for the latest in KDE stuff.
I know these FPS games use code and models and a lot of the technical is in the code and model (the model is also a lot of art, but much of that is the texture map that goes on it ... ) If the basic models (of objects, characters) and the code were available, adding and changing models, maps, and trying out new textures would be a feasable 'spare time' occupation?
Just a thought.
Sun's JAVA is buggy crap, they're just holding the third party VMs to a higher standard than they hold themselves!
Use 'uniq' to uniq 300K of (sorted) strings, use pipes (not temporary files).
Linux - simple.
OS/2 - blocks at 60K-64K
Soloaris - blocks at 16K!!!
Do I care if it's Solaris or the Sun's VM? No, just seems to me that Sun can't produce a quality product (IBM goes w/o saying).
Yeah, I want the buggy crap sun ships before anyone else...NOT.
I usually don't mind a different view point, but the technophobe drivel w/Duh for an answer? This is a very long winded strawman argument, and obvious to the tech literate and/or Sci-Fi reader (two very large contingents of /.) Perhaps there is a better audience for this? Guess I'm just a bit disappointed -- I actually like most of Kats stuff, even if I don't like what he has to say...
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As far as been able to tell (I've been programming professionally since 1991). Neither means a damn alone. I've worked with people who have advanced degrees and college dropouts. The best people to work with are the ones that 'breathe' technology.
... EVERYTHING is data driven.
... the problem with the these generalizations is that neither means that you learned (internalized) anything. I've seen CS grads that didn't understand databases, understand structured code, etc. On the college drop out side I've never found one that didn't understand databases, but they may have misused them and/or wrote disasterously unmanagable code (it made perfect sense to them).
.. maybe you should get you hands on one of those software architecture books and figure out how to apply it to what you wrote, what you think could have been better, more flexable ... and for god's sake don't treat the flamin book like it's right and your wrong...for most of 'em 3/4 of it is utter crap and/or too specific to a particular domain to be of much use ...
There are a few things that I think gave me an advantage starting out: A solid math/physics background of proofs and derivations. This is essentially all programming is, though very simplified for the majority of it. The other is a bit of advice from the best prof I had
That said the program snippets that you write in college are usually too trivial to give you even a sense of what a robust application is -- so the programming exp isn't.
Most college CS can give you some background on the (non-obvious) paths to disaster in software projects. Listening to the old guys that have BTDT can do the same
You do need to know some theory and you need to spend some time applying it to the real world. If you got a CS degree and can't figure out how to apply the theory, maybe you should've paid attention in those physics or chem classes (that's what the real value of them are after all).
If you've just hacked together a game
Just 'cause it works that way doens't mean it's the best way.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with a company puting restricitons on the use of software they have developed. Nothing at all.
Agreed, but I'd like to distinguish between software written and a patent-license scheme. patented software is very bad, patented MATH is disgusting.
Actually there is Storm Linux which is also based on Debian.
.iso nice GUI install. I think Debian needs a nice GUI replacement for dselect (I'm not sure what the scope of SAS is though .. I may write my own -- I think a tree based/searchable package management would be ideal.
www.stormix.com
I downloaded there alpha
IIRC: 3c905B yes, 3c905 no