In 1992 I had an account on a Sun cluster, with e-mail and USENET. The PCs were still running DOS. The Suns were running some *NIX variant (Solaris, I assume, although at the time I just assumed it was Unix). The Suns were all slick and graphical. I could read USENET in one Window while waiting for a simulation to finish, and if I needed to find stuff there was this really cool thing called Gopher.
The PCs were the first thing to get this thing called the World Wide Web, but the only way to access it was with a terminal based browser. This sucked, I thought. Gopher is so much better; but my opinion was colored by the fact that the OS on the machines where Gopher was installed was better.
Across the grounds there was a lab that had one of these machines that ran a windowed OS for PCs. It was written by the same people who wrote the DOS for the PCs. DOS worked fine, so I thought I'd check out this new MS Windows and see how it stacked up to X. Boy, I never really tried it, because the machine spent at least 5 minutes booting. I lost patience and walked away before it finished. Apparently, they had installed it on an underpowered machine, to say the least.
I briefly owned a DOS PC, and then, believe it or not, dropped out of tech for a while. When I decided to get back into programming, the beige box I got came with Windows95. I was impressed at what they had done; IMHO, they surpassed X in terms of useability as a desktop with that version of Windows. I warmed up to the WWW, thanks to the free beta of Netscape v0.96 that came from the ISP I signed up with.
In just a few short years, my favored desktop went from X on a Sun to Windows95 on a PC, and I haven't seen anything yet that would really make me want to run *NIX on a desktop.
"If you're not a Liberal when you're 18 you have no heart. If you're not a Conservative by the time you're 40, you have no brain." --Winston Churchill (at least according to the first Google hit I found).
You'll also have an easier time recruiting good people. The top-flight engineers might not be so happy about working at some little dot on the map in Nevada. Even if you pay them more, quality of life issues could give them the "get in, get rich, get out" mentality. That would result in higher turnover, depriving the plant of experienced technicians and engineers.
...a network of networks. If every company I've ever worked for set up a private network, and decided to provide a restricted gateway, so can China. And, guess what? None of those companies created an international incident to do it. They just did it. And don't say that doesn't scale, either. It does.
If your total budget is in the billions, and you spend just one percent on entertainment, your entertainment budget is in the tens-of-millions.
People are people, for cryin' out loud. At companies I've been that don't have an entertainment budget, executives understand that and pay out of their own pockets for parties. It boosts morale. It also switches people into a different mode of thought where little nuggets of ideas come from. You might spend 95% of your time there just BS'ing, but then somebody comes up with an idea that they wouldn't have come up with if they had just been sitting in a cube or a regular meeting.
Nevermind that though. Even if you never discuss a single aspect of the business at a party, you are a human being. As such, you have certain needs, like eating and seeing other human beings. It has to be paid for, one way or another.
Yeah, but that's probably just a... I dunno. But it's not common. Definitely not. It's probably just a... Dammit. I know I'm reaching for something here.
IANAL, but I play one on Slashdot. A trademark registered with the USPTO is a trademark in the US. For outside the US, I haven't the foggiest. Do a search on USPTO. It's real easy to see what's available, and even the status of dead marks that are no longer being maintained. If your mark is free, it might not be too hard to DIY with the USPTO's forms; but I'd just chuck it over the fence to a lawyer if I was really serious about the business.
Copyrights ARE automatic by merely publishing, which might be where some of the confusion came from. However, registering with USPTO makes it easier to collect "statutory damages", or so I've been told. I've written some obscure freeware and Open Source on my own dime, and never bothered to register a copyright for that kind of stuff. Once again, if I had been in a situation where the software had a strong following and was turning into a serious business, I'd register a copyright. That's one of the benefits of working for somebody else. They retain counsel and handle all that stuff.
I admit targeting Slashdot for targeting Greenpeace for targeting Apple grabs karma; but only if you do it early on. It's probably too late for me to get anything out of this, so what good are you?
As a matter of fact, just this evening some idiot came into my lane. I didn't have time to honk at him. I hit the brakes and avoided what would most likely have been mere embarassment, as we were going 25-30mph.
Remember kids, "always yield the right-of-way to idiots".
Yeah, I tend to be non-precise with language sometimes. "Always" is one of those things that people love to nail me for, because all you need is one counter-example and you get egg on your face. I've gone back and forth with people on this kind of stuff before: if I took the time to phrase everything that carefully, my posts wouldn't be ready until after the article expires. If I qualified every word and turn of phrase with possible exceptions, my posts would read like House Resolutions. Nobody, not even Congress, reads those.:).
So, imprecise, un-qualified, non-fact-checked posts win the evolutionary race that is Slashdot posting. For my next feat, I'll post a comment that grows gills.
True, there is no rule that says you must choose the next native integer size. I addressed that in my OP with an example. I think maybe you're just trying to be difficult here. Perhaps I should have said explicitly that it's the next largest native int, and the next largest practical size because you don't have to use a special library to support it on a 64-bit CPU. I expect people to "get it". Maybe that was asking too much; or like I said, maybe you're just trying to be difficult. Meh.
If you think you might ever have more than 2^32 of something, you kind of have to go to 2^64. Yes. It's an obscene ammount of possibilities; but it's the next biggest size. You really don't have much of a choice here. You could implement 5-byte numbers, but it'd be a PiTA. No CPUs have native 5-byte ints. The progression has always been a doubling of int size.
If that doesn't make sense, you shouldn't be on Slashdot. Maybe you should be someplace else... like Facebook maybe?
They also decided to rig a thermal barrier out of a surplus reference book and all-purpose gray tape
Almost certainly, this was the duct tape we all know and love. They probably thought it was better not to actually say that, though. Pretty funny. And as an added side-benefit, they should be safe from terrorists.
Hello, My Name is Bill Gates. Due to a recent administrative difficulty with the government of Nigeria, I himbly beseach your assistance in helping to move my $40,000,000,000 ass there. I will be so kind as to deposit a portion of this money in the account of your specification. Your assistance in this matter great isly apreciated, your servant, Bill Gates.
For richer and for poorer, in functioning and malfunctioning, till unmaintainability do us part.
Of course, given our current divorce rate, the marriage will probably end when one participant or the other is no longer turned on. (groooan, you knew that was coming).
Replace donuts with X (including invisible pink unicorns) and it makes the same ammount of sense. No more. No less. That's the whole point; which is that the creation of an illusion of something neither proves nor disproves the existance of said something.
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The mods were on crack.
In 1992 I had an account on a Sun cluster, with e-mail and USENET. The PCs were still running DOS. The Suns were running some *NIX variant (Solaris, I assume, although at the time I just assumed it was Unix). The Suns were all slick and graphical. I could read USENET in one Window while waiting for a simulation to finish, and if I needed to find stuff there was this really cool thing called Gopher.
The PCs were the first thing to get this thing called the World Wide Web, but the only way to access it was with a terminal based browser. This sucked, I thought. Gopher is so much better; but my opinion was colored by the fact that the OS on the machines where Gopher was installed was better.
Across the grounds there was a lab that had one of these machines that ran a windowed OS for PCs. It was written by the same people who wrote the DOS for the PCs. DOS worked fine, so I thought I'd check out this new MS Windows and see how it stacked up to X. Boy, I never really tried it, because the machine spent at least 5 minutes booting. I lost patience and walked away before it finished. Apparently, they had installed it on an underpowered machine, to say the least.
I briefly owned a DOS PC, and then, believe it or not, dropped out of tech for a while. When I decided to get back into programming, the beige box I got came with Windows95. I was impressed at what they had done; IMHO, they surpassed X in terms of useability as a desktop with that version of Windows. I warmed up to the WWW, thanks to the free beta of Netscape v0.96 that came from the ISP I signed up with.
In just a few short years, my favored desktop went from X on a Sun to Windows95 on a PC, and I haven't seen anything yet that would really make me want to run *NIX on a desktop.
E-mail, OTOH, has endured through all of it.
"If you're not a Liberal when you're 18 you have no heart. If you're not a Conservative by the time you're 40, you have no brain." --Winston Churchill (at least according to the first Google hit I found).
You'll also have an easier time recruiting good people. The top-flight engineers might not be so happy about working at some little dot on the map in Nevada. Even if you pay them more, quality of life issues could give them the "get in, get rich, get out" mentality. That would result in higher turnover, depriving the plant of experienced technicians and engineers.
...a network of networks. If every company I've ever worked for set up a private network, and decided to provide a restricted gateway, so can China. And, guess what? None of those companies created an international incident to do it. They just did it. And don't say that doesn't scale, either. It does.
If your total budget is in the billions, and you spend just one percent on entertainment, your entertainment budget is in the tens-of-millions.
People are people, for cryin' out loud. At companies I've been that don't have an entertainment budget, executives understand that and pay out of their own pockets for parties. It boosts morale. It also switches people into a different mode of thought where little nuggets of ideas come from. You might spend 95% of your time there just BS'ing, but then somebody comes up with an idea that they wouldn't have come up with if they had just been sitting in a cube or a regular meeting.
Nevermind that though. Even if you never discuss a single aspect of the business at a party, you are a human being. As such, you have certain needs, like eating and seeing other human beings. It has to be paid for, one way or another.
But the record plainly shows he spent all day up inside the ceiling tiles. Off to search for the real perpetrator, cheery-o!
Tard.
Yeah, but that's probably just a... I dunno. But it's not common. Definitely not. It's probably just a... Dammit. I know I'm reaching for something here.
Wow. I blew that one. It looks like you do get some protection simply from using the mark, just as with copyrights. Good to know.
IANAL, but I play one on Slashdot. A trademark registered with the USPTO is a trademark in the US. For outside the US, I haven't the foggiest. Do a search on USPTO. It's real easy to see what's available, and even the status of dead marks that are no longer being maintained. If your mark is free, it might not be too hard to DIY with the USPTO's forms; but I'd just chuck it over the fence to a lawyer if I was really serious about the business.
Copyrights ARE automatic by merely publishing, which might be where some of the confusion came from. However, registering with USPTO makes it easier to collect "statutory damages", or so I've been told. I've written some obscure freeware and Open Source on my own dime, and never bothered to register a copyright for that kind of stuff. Once again, if I had been in a situation where the software had a strong following and was turning into a serious business, I'd register a copyright. That's one of the benefits of working for somebody else. They retain counsel and handle all that stuff.
This car will be released to consumers as soon as they work out a licensing deal with the Hello Kitty people.
I admit targeting Slashdot for targeting Greenpeace for targeting Apple grabs karma; but only if you do it early on. It's probably too late for me to get anything out of this, so what good are you?
As a matter of fact, just this evening some idiot came into my lane. I didn't have time to honk at him. I hit the brakes and avoided what would most likely have been mere embarassment, as we were going 25-30mph.
Remember kids, "always yield the right-of-way to idiots".
Yeah, I tend to be non-precise with language sometimes. "Always" is one of those things that people love to nail me for, because all you need is one counter-example and you get egg on your face. I've gone back and forth with people on this kind of stuff before: if I took the time to phrase everything that carefully, my posts wouldn't be ready until after the article expires. If I qualified every word and turn of phrase with possible exceptions, my posts would read like House Resolutions. Nobody, not even Congress, reads those. :).
So, imprecise, un-qualified, non-fact-checked posts win the evolutionary race that is Slashdot posting. For my next feat, I'll post a comment that grows gills.
True, there is no rule that says you must choose the next native integer size. I addressed that in my OP with an example. I think maybe you're just trying to be difficult here. Perhaps I should have said explicitly that it's the next largest native int, and the next largest practical size because you don't have to use a special library to support it on a 64-bit CPU. I expect people to "get it". Maybe that was asking too much; or like I said, maybe you're just trying to be difficult. Meh.
If you think you might ever have more than 2^32 of something, you kind of have to go to 2^64. Yes. It's an obscene ammount of possibilities; but it's the next biggest size. You really don't have much of a choice here. You could implement 5-byte numbers, but it'd be a PiTA. No CPUs have native 5-byte ints. The progression has always been a doubling of int size.
If that doesn't make sense, you shouldn't be on Slashdot. Maybe you should be someplace else... like Facebook maybe?
No thanks, I'll be waiting for Hurd to be production-ready.
For a split second, I thought you said it reeked of condensation towards the Russians.
They also decided to rig a thermal barrier out of a surplus reference book and all-purpose gray tape
Almost certainly, this was the duct tape we all know and love. They probably thought it was better not to actually say that, though. Pretty funny. And as an added side-benefit, they should be safe from terrorists.
Hello, My Name is Bill Gates. Due to a recent administrative difficulty with the government of Nigeria, I himbly beseach your assistance in helping to move my $40,000,000,000 ass there. I will be so kind as to deposit a portion of this money in the account of your specification. Your assistance in this matter great isly apreciated, your servant, Bill Gates.
For richer and for poorer, in functioning and malfunctioning, till unmaintainability do us part.
Of course, given our current divorce rate, the marriage will probably end when one participant or the other is no longer turned on. (groooan, you knew that was coming).
Now, the people who brought you borderless Libertarianism bring you this exciting new product...
Replace donuts with X (including invisible pink unicorns) and it makes the same ammount of sense. No more. No less. That's the whole point; which is that the creation of an illusion of something neither proves nor disproves the existance of said something.
I know you feel pretty smart for having come up with that little bit of unlogic, but let me assure you that you are wrong on both counts.
I know you feel pretty smart for having come up with a mere assertion that I'm wrong. Oh, and quit reading my mind.