The American Catholic Bishops have copyrighted the American standard bible. The reason simply being not the issue of illegal copies, but of authenticity of the source.
Programmer time is *much* more valuable than machine cycle time or memory. The fact that you haven't grasped this tells me that you're just a student or a wannabe, not a pro developer.
I would argue that large system design can have LARGE cost savings with good design. Bad design can lead to multimillion dollar mistakes (I have witnessed numerous mistakes like this).
Think SAP. Without good design up front, you looking to huge up-front deployment costs due to bad design decisions. Developer costs become miniscule compared to a room full of Sun boxes.
I think someone did try this... it was called Pr1me and it was quite an interesting system... to say the least. Full hardware protection, with ACLs and very restricted socket system.
I know that the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) used it. I worked on one at college.
The "unix" compatibility mode was anything but though.. and the C compiler was written by a chimp.
Call anything liberty, choice, or freedom and people tend to side with believe you. Look to the hundreds of (good and bad) past movements that hinged on free choice.
Same thing with surveys.. people like to say no alot.. especially on grey issues.
X windows may possibly suffer from the same problem, though. Motif and AWT both use the Xt (X Intrinsics) code which does in fact use callbacks (simular to the WM_TIMER). Also, Xt allows applications to "talk" to one another through the X protocol and can understand paste from clipboards.
For an example, try running xedit and using editres to see this mechanism in action.
Though certainly, most people arn't running Xt based applications at root privelage levels... unless they're running SMIT or some other system management console.
Also, I believe it would be quite a bit more complicated to develop as Motif and AWT are complicated enough as it is.
I found that Ulrich is pretty easy to work with... if you have a clue. glibc is NO easy task (99.99 % of all programs depend on this library.. now make it feature rich and compatible).
I tracked down a bug in __fsetlocking and he was most helpful in fixing glibc.
I guess you buy your food from farmers, import your oil directly from saudi princes, and have your floss imported from an old lady in mexico?
You built your own house from wood that grew on your mountain! You mined your own iron ore and smelted it in the back yard to make your dishwasher? You hand-masked your own chips onto silicon you collected in australia and built your own computer.
In your inane attempt to prove the obvious, you have ignored the crux of my argument.
Alot of video rental stores pay $75+ for a video which includes the royalties. Blockbuster only pays cost (for arguments sake, let us say $2.50) and then shares a percentage of the profits of the rentals. If the video only rents once, then they pay an overall lower cost. Which is possibly more the rule than the exception.
Obviously these arrangements are quite different I chose the phrase "profit sharing" to emphasize the difference, that being plainly obvious to people, who do, in fact, ipse segundo, THINK.
Maybe I've got a case of "coersivity"? Maybe you have attempted the following:
It was this: he made a tube of reed sharp at one end, and catching a dog in the street, or wherever it might be, he with his foot held one of its legs fast, and with his hand lifted up the other, and as best he could fixed the tube where, by blowing, he made the dog as round as a ball; then holding it in this position, he gave it a couple of slaps on the belly, and let it go, saying to the bystanders (and there were always plenty of them): "Do your worships think, now, that it is an easy thing to blow up a dog?"
I worked in the industry for a couple of years in processing and archival. Basically what your seeing is better technology pointing to larger than expected exploitable resevoirs.
The basic idea when searching for oil is to find feeder rocks which can be tapped. These are typically pourous regions which may contain hydrocarbons. 4d maps (3d maps generated over various time periods) are used in conjuntion will well logging to predict sizes. There's basic formulas which combine pressure, yield, temperature, cost and volumetric measurements which combine to produce yields.
As with any scientific scientific observation, your data is only as good as your instrumentation. In other words, we can only estimate what we see.
Other factors that have affected resovoir under-estimation is the costing factor. The cost to retrieve oil has actually come down over the years. Innovations such as horizontal drilling (see Arco and the north slope), and deep sea drilling (see Gulf of Mexico) have decreased cost which means more oil is available.
It's been 10 years since I was there, so things have probably changed.
What's really going to be funny is when these ADC's find their way into their own production equipment and they find they can't control their own equipment.
There's NOTHING like a PO'd director on a Movie Set..
(Sidenote: much of the production equipment is very specialized, and mostly hand-built & repaired by tinkerers. Bound to get in there sometime.)
It's pretty sad that not a single C++ compiler supports STL 100%. I believe that if there isn't code on the shelf (or ftp server, take your pick) that no standard should be based on this.
The equiviliant is the EPA saying that all cars should get 150 mpg. Few if none will. It only makes the EPA look bad. (Look, we've got the best standards in the world!!)
Pan Forget all you've heard about extreme programming... I'm writting a book called The Art of WarProgramming.
Slashdot Mirror
PC Load Letter
Wow.. I really didn't expect that!! I guess nobody does..
Pan
Just a side note..
The American Catholic Bishops have copyrighted the American standard bible. The reason simply being not the issue of illegal copies, but of authenticity of the source.
Pan
Hasn't happened yet as far as I know...
Most of the external stuff runs on Alpha hardware (May explain the HP connection there).
Funny aside: It's rumored that the Pope is an avid surfer.
Pan
I think this statement is very questionable..
Programmer time is *much* more valuable than machine cycle time or memory. The fact that you haven't grasped this tells me that you're just a student or a wannabe, not a pro developer.
I would argue that large system design can have LARGE cost savings with good design. Bad design can lead to multimillion dollar mistakes (I have witnessed numerous mistakes like this).
Think SAP. Without good design up front, you looking to huge up-front deployment costs due to bad design decisions. Developer costs become miniscule compared to a room full of Sun boxes.
Pan
I think someone did try this... it was called Pr1me and it was quite an interesting system... to say the least. Full hardware protection, with ACLs and very restricted socket system.
I know that the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) used it. I worked on one at college.
The "unix" compatibility mode was anything but though.. and the C compiler was written by a chimp.
Pan
So much for a "Free Market Economy" that all the talking heads say the world needs.
Ohh yeah.. except for movies.
I saw a sony desktop machine last April at a microcenter with a MD drive.
Pan
Call anything liberty, choice, or freedom and people tend to side with believe you. Look to the hundreds of (good and bad) past movements that hinged on free choice.
Same thing with surveys.. people like to say no alot.. especially on grey issues.
Pan
A comment on X:
X windows may possibly suffer from the same problem, though. Motif and AWT both use the Xt (X Intrinsics) code which does in fact use callbacks (simular to the WM_TIMER). Also, Xt allows applications to "talk" to one another through the X protocol and can understand paste from clipboards.
For an example, try running xedit and using editres to see this mechanism in action.
Though certainly, most people arn't running Xt based applications at root privelage levels... unless they're running SMIT or some other system management console.
Also, I believe it would be quite a bit more complicated to develop as Motif and AWT are complicated enough as it is.
Pan
Don't forget Dog and Cat food! Dogs love that special gravy train.
I found that Ulrich is pretty easy to work with... if you have a clue. glibc is NO easy task (99.99 % of all programs depend on this library.. now make it feature rich and compatible).
I tracked down a bug in __fsetlocking and he was most helpful in fixing glibc.
Pan
Actually, the trapezoid renderer is coming along. Soon, we should have a full-blown rendering system.
Yes, alpha blending and all.
Pan
I guess you buy your food from farmers, import your oil directly from saudi princes, and have your floss imported from an old lady in mexico?
You built your own house from wood that grew on your mountain! You mined your own iron ore and smelted it in the back yard to make your dishwasher? You hand-masked your own chips onto silicon you collected in australia and built your own computer.
Bah! Pan
In your inane attempt to prove the obvious, you have ignored the crux of my argument.
Alot of video rental stores pay $75+ for a video which includes the royalties. Blockbuster only pays cost (for arguments sake, let us say $2.50) and then shares a percentage of the profits of the rentals. If the video only rents once, then they pay an overall lower cost. Which is possibly more the rule than the exception.
Obviously these arrangements are quite different I chose the phrase "profit sharing" to emphasize the difference, that being plainly obvious to people, who do, in fact, ipse segundo, THINK.
Maybe I've got a case of "coersivity"? Maybe you have attempted the following:
It was this: he made a tube of reed sharp at one end, and catching a dog in the street, or wherever it might be, he with his foot held one of its legs fast, and with his hand lifted up the other, and as best he could fixed the tube where, by blowing, he made the dog as round as a ball; then holding it in this position, he gave it a couple of slaps on the belly, and let it go, saying to the bystanders (and there were always plenty of them): "Do your worships think, now, that it is an easy thing to blow up a dog?"
Don Quixote Strikes Again!
Actually blockbuster gets alot of it's films at cost, as they now have profit-sharing plans with the Studios.
I worked in the industry for a couple of years in processing and archival. Basically what your seeing is better technology pointing to larger than expected exploitable resevoirs.
The basic idea when searching for oil is to find feeder rocks which can be tapped. These are typically pourous regions which may contain hydrocarbons. 4d maps (3d maps generated over various time periods) are used in conjuntion will well logging to predict sizes. There's basic formulas which combine pressure, yield, temperature, cost and volumetric measurements which combine to produce yields.
As with any scientific scientific observation, your data is only as good as your instrumentation.
In other words, we can only estimate what we see.
Other factors that have affected resovoir under-estimation is the costing factor. The cost to retrieve oil has actually come down over the years. Innovations such as horizontal drilling (see Arco and the north slope), and deep sea drilling (see Gulf of Mexico) have decreased cost which means more oil is available.
It's been 10 years since I was there, so things have probably changed.
Pan
What's really going to be funny is when these ADC's find their way into their own production equipment and they find they can't control their own equipment.
There's NOTHING like a PO'd director on a Movie Set..
(Sidenote: much of the production equipment is very specialized, and mostly hand-built & repaired by tinkerers. Bound to get in there sometime.)
Pan
Hmm.. besides being wrong, another interesting point about the American copyright system is:
Before the 19th century, America was popularly considered a Pirates paradise for copyright infringement by Europeans.
Another interesting item: You'll find that numerous books published before 1930 in the USA contain no copyright at all.
Pan
Maybe he's using difficult hardware, my friend.
He's got 10 digits you silly coward! Hey wait, I only count 9... :)
It's pretty sad that not a single C++ compiler supports STL 100%. I believe that if there isn't code on the shelf (or ftp server, take your pick) that no standard should be based on this.
The equiviliant is the EPA saying that all cars should get 150 mpg. Few if none will. It only makes the EPA look bad. (Look, we've got the best standards in the world!!)
Pan
Forget all you've heard about extreme programming... I'm writting a book called The Art of WarProgramming.
I can...
Is it a 7 track? 9 track? HDDR? Looks like a european tape.
Heck, I've even worked with 21track tapes, and Russian SDS ones as well.
Pan
You sound like someone who knows...
Pan
I know that for impresions, google just adds the imppression.. I tested it with Adwords. Maybe my cookie was messed up?
Pan