OK, technically Journaled File Systems technically aren't one particular module, and we'll be lucky if we even see a journaled ReiserFS make it into the early 2.4 tree, but...
1) Those of us (probably the majority) who shut down our Linux boxes daily, suffer an occasional power failure, or even reboot to Windows sometimes, sit through countless centuries of fscking delays. A JFS eliminates this, with untold possiblities for the world, since that much mroe time will be available for productive work.
2) SuSE includes ReiserFS in its kernels, no? Linux is GPL'd after all; the rules don't say that the module has to be in a Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox maintained tree!
3) On the server front, the more Linux has to offer for high availability, and protection from data loss, the better. Being able to claim 3 journaled file systems (XFS, ext3, and ReiserFS), Linux advocates have that much more firepower.
Funny... I've never, ever, ever, ever gotten global warming, or suffered the consequences of somebody else's pollution, in SMAC.
Maybe that's because the two factions I play most often are Morgan and Deirdre... but no, not even when I played as Hive or anyone else.
The huge swarms of mindworms :
"Do you togetherthink?... because I'm going to have to prune some of your branches"
only occurs when you have bases with large pollution problems... just make sure to build Tree Farms, Centauri preserves, get the right Secret Projects.. and all of that goes away.
Clintion, in 1992 and 1996, did mucho fundraising among technical businesses. If he told them something, that would give them a way to sell a whole bunch of new TVs, it may have opened up their wallets some more.
Oh yeah, and Clinton DOES make the appointments to the FCC, so I peg him. Not that I'm excusing certain members of Congress; part of the CDA was the V-Chip, after all.
B&W televisions can successfully decode the color signals, and produce perfectly good sight and sound.. it's just that the color is missing.
Existing televisions have no use for the new digital signals... upgrades will be *required*, costing money...
Of course, the FCC, unlike Congress, has no voters to answer to, so the FCC cares not a whit what people think. How's this for a scenario:
Clinton gets votes and endorsements, for promising to appoint people who will ban NTSC broadcasts. Clinton appoints people, who promise to do so. Digital broadcasts suddenly get mandated. Everyone runs out and buys new TVs, making big bucks for the endorsees in step A.
This is what people get for letting the government abuse (and violate) the interstate commerce clause. I say interstate commerce doesn't apply unless a broadcast station is really strong, strong enough to cross state lines. Let alone CABLE TV, where it's not broadcast at all!
Now, I know that John Carmack is 'Da Man (tm) when it comes to 3D game graphics... and he is obviously knowledgable about writing certain kinds of network games..
Does all of that skill necessarily imply that Carmack can necessarily write a stack for Linux, that is truly better for games? I mean, it'd have to be able to handle all sorts of hardware, all sorts of circumstances, SMP, etc. etc. And, we must remember that kernel development is pretty different from app development in many other ways, too..
The article, after all, phrases it as "take a stab at" the project. Maybe he'll just flick a few bills off his megawad of cash, and fund some development, should he not eke out enough milliseconds to bug MS. heh heh
Might it be more likely for a virus to grow if it focused not on making copies within a system, but if it focused on spreading itself?
Perhaps scan the filesystem for email addresses frequently sent to, and send melissa-style mailings to them? Maybe search for common email programs, and infect them?
Dilbert was once creative... but then he started getting dumptrucks full of money for making tired PHB jokes... so he just makes tired PHB jokes now.
The dinosaurs used to be multidimensional (for a comic, anyway) characters.. now the one dinosaur is just used for wedgies.
The garbage man used to be a semi-regular... bye bye.
The boss originally was fairly intelligent... just abusive. This was before he had pointed hair, of course.
Dilbert used to be a brilliant MIT-educated inventor, being more productive in his lab than Woz himself... now he spends all day writing memos and eating donuts at meetings.
And, of course.. Dilbert used to have glorious puns. nope... have to make room for yet another moronic decision made...
Centrists are those who just vote for whatever their first instinct is, for what sounds "fair" or "compassionate", rather than a thought-out scheme of designated and denied powers and duties of government.
Bill Bradley and Al Gore's beliefs say that being racially discriminatory is immoral, therefore it should be illegal. (I'm referring to the hiring and behavior of the private sector, as well as the government) Does this mean you won't vote for them, too?
Clinton thought that the actions of Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic were immoral, therefore he sent the army after them, arguably a far stronger act than merely passing a law. He called Saddam Hussein immoral, and sent troops after his actions. Does this mean that you didn't vote for Clinton?
What would *you* have the government do? Too much action offends you, and too little you wouldn't trust.
You're right... I meant to say C keywords, and libraries...
I actually thought this through about a week ago, for some reason, and came to that conclusion: libraries are killer, for programming without knowledge of english. Maybe some future version of ELF might fix that.:-)
Honestly, though, I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 2003 had multinational DLL exports. Microsoft is good about language support.
You don't see all the KDE comments in German, do you?
You don't see all the Linux kernel comments in Swedish, do you? (I sure hope that's the right language for the point I'm making)
Of course, there will be some brilliant coders that can't write functional english in comments, but most will I should think, simply because most of the existing knowledge base of code, documentation, and discussion, is already primarily in english.
Besides, it'd probably be hard to keep straight all the various C keywords without speaking english, I bet. Oh yes, and does anyone know whether gcc is capable of handling chinese variable names and function names, regardless of which encoding scheme used?
Most Favored Nation status was renamed year or two ago, to Normal Trade Relations. Most countries already had MFN, so the name change was appropriate. So, I'm sure Australia has it.
I personally agree that countries which violate basic rights flagrantly, and often, should be reprimanded. Americans, a majority of whom I'm sure, deplore the actions taken by the "Communist" government of the PRC. It's time the US government, on this issue, acted in a way that represents the people, and not the idea of a "free market", as mis-represented by various GM, Microsoft, and other lobbyists.
To those who submit that tariffs are government interference, I reply that tariffs are probably the least intrusive tax, as they tax foreign goods. I don't care if some US-based multinational owns it; a Coppermine processor manufactured in Malaysia is not a domestic product.
To those who submit that tariffs tax domestic companies indirectly, because other countries respond with tariffs of their own, I give the reminder that I'm only suggesting that the PRC not be granted NTR. And, according to 1996 numbers provided by the PRC embassy, the US ran a 33 billion dollar trade deficit (with 16 billion on Chinese imports). Compared with the total production of the US economy, a potential reduction of that 16 billion, due to retaliatory tariffs, is peanuts. The PRC would be hurt by a trade war far more than US would.
To the Chinese trade ministers: The US economy is the largest national economy in the world, whose potential for imports can keep entire regions afloat during a crisis. The libertarian Republican/human rights Democratic coalition in Congress would be more than happy to blow your head clean off. Do you feel lucky, punk?
Informative? I read this as a joke, a funny one at that...
Imagine how much it would cost for a half-billion WinNT CALs (do you really think MS would give them commies more than a 50% discount?), let alone full Win98+Office installations!
Isn't it about time the moderation abuses and "first posters" are addressed?
Funny... "First post"ing can be considered an abuse of the posting system. Moderation is the answer to that. I read at threshold 1, and never see that stuff.
Widespread moderation led to abuses, and thus meta-moderation was born. Enough meta-moderation, and an abusive moderator will lose enough karma to be unable to moderate anymore.
Are you suggesting that these systems (moderation and meta-moderation) are totally ineffective? Or are their specific weaknesses you see in them, for which you want fixes?
1) What is the deal with the slash source code? It would pacify a lot of criticism if the current slash code were released, even if it were broken, ugly, and full of syntax errors. I suggested a public CVS setup in another thread, is this something you're looking at?
2) Has the andover.net acquisiton gone as well as you hoped it would, as far as making the site better?
of course... if a hard disk dies, in a computer less than 1 year old from Gateway 2000... It's good to call for a replacement, without being an idiot.
"No, I told you... the hard disk is NOT recognized by Windows... I can't change to the C: drive and run Scandisk. Alright.. I'll try it. What do you know? It didn't work..."
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OK, technically Journaled File Systems technically aren't one particular module, and we'll be lucky if we even see a journaled ReiserFS make it into the early 2.4 tree, but...
1) Those of us (probably the majority) who shut down our Linux boxes daily, suffer an occasional power failure, or even reboot to Windows sometimes, sit through countless centuries of fscking delays. A JFS eliminates this, with untold possiblities for the world, since that much mroe time will be available for productive work.
2) SuSE includes ReiserFS in its kernels, no? Linux is GPL'd after all; the rules don't say that the module has to be in a Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox maintained tree!
3) On the server front, the more Linux has to offer for high availability, and protection from data loss, the better. Being able to claim 3 journaled file systems (XFS, ext3, and ReiserFS), Linux advocates have that much more firepower.
Funny... I've never, ever, ever, ever gotten global warming, or suffered the consequences of somebody else's pollution, in SMAC.
... because I'm going to have to prune some of your branches"
Maybe that's because the two factions I play most often are Morgan and Deirdre... but no, not even when I played as Hive or anyone else.
The huge swarms of mindworms :
"Do you togetherthink?
only occurs when you have bases with large pollution problems... just make sure to build Tree Farms, Centauri preserves, get the right Secret Projects.. and all of that goes away.
Clarification:
Clintion, in 1992 and 1996, did mucho fundraising among technical businesses. If he told them something, that would give them a way to sell a whole bunch of new TVs, it may have opened up their wallets some more.
Oh yeah, and Clinton DOES make the appointments to the FCC, so I peg him. Not that I'm excusing certain members of Congress; part of the CDA was the V-Chip, after all.
Blame the radio industry, not the FCC.
It's not the government's place to write and mandate an AM standard, no more than it is the government's place to write and mandate a PC99 standard.
I mean, what if they required all computers to sell Windows 98 as an option?
That's exactly the point...
B&W televisions can successfully decode the color signals, and produce perfectly good sight and sound.. it's just that the color is missing.
Existing televisions have no use for the new digital signals... upgrades will be *required*, costing money...
Of course, the FCC, unlike Congress, has no voters to answer to, so the FCC cares not a whit what people think. How's this for a scenario:
Clinton gets votes and endorsements, for promising to appoint people who will ban NTSC broadcasts. Clinton appoints people, who promise to do so. Digital broadcasts suddenly get mandated. Everyone runs out and buys new TVs, making big bucks for the endorsees in step A.
This is what people get for letting the government abuse (and violate) the interstate commerce clause. I say interstate commerce doesn't apply unless a broadcast station is really strong, strong enough to cross state lines. Let alone CABLE TV, where it's not broadcast at all!
OK, enough ranting...
Now, I know that John Carmack is 'Da Man (tm) when it comes to 3D game graphics... and he is obviously knowledgable about writing certain kinds of network games..
Does all of that skill necessarily imply that Carmack can necessarily write a stack for Linux, that is truly better for games? I mean, it'd have to be able to handle all sorts of hardware, all sorts of circumstances, SMP, etc. etc. And, we must remember that kernel development is pretty different from app development in many other ways, too..
The article, after all, phrases it as "take a stab at" the project. Maybe he'll just flick a few bills off his megawad of cash, and fund some development, should he not eke out enough milliseconds to bug MS. heh heh
Might it be more likely for a virus to grow if it focused not on making copies within a system, but if it focused on spreading itself?
Perhaps scan the filesystem for email addresses frequently sent to, and send melissa-style mailings to them? Maybe search for common email programs, and infect them?
Dilbert was once creative... but then he started getting dumptrucks full of money for making tired PHB jokes... so he just makes tired PHB jokes now.
The dinosaurs used to be multidimensional (for a comic, anyway) characters.. now the one dinosaur is just used for wedgies.
The garbage man used to be a semi-regular... bye bye.
The boss originally was fairly intelligent... just abusive. This was before he had pointed hair, of course.
Dilbert used to be a brilliant MIT-educated inventor, being more productive in his lab than Woz himself... now he spends all day writing memos and eating donuts at meetings.
And, of course.. Dilbert used to have glorious puns. nope... have to make room for yet another moronic decision made...
Centrists are those who just vote for whatever their first instinct is, for what sounds "fair" or "compassionate", rather than a thought-out scheme of designated and denied powers and duties of government.
Bill Bradley and Al Gore's beliefs say that being racially discriminatory is immoral, therefore it should be illegal. (I'm referring to the hiring and behavior of the private sector, as well as the government) Does this mean you won't vote for them, too?
Clinton thought that the actions of Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic were immoral, therefore he sent the army after them, arguably a far stronger act than merely passing a law. He called Saddam Hussein immoral, and sent troops after his actions. Does this mean that you didn't vote for Clinton?
What would *you* have the government do? Too much action offends you, and too little you wouldn't trust.
Maybe Microsoft can talk the judge into ordering it this way...
Gee, you may save MS a million dollars!
This isn't for the current Game Boy, or GBC.. it's for the next portable that Nintendo has in the works, scheduled to be released later this year.
Why would they send tanks after peacefully protesting people?
Why would they arrest people for worshiping in small groups, privately?
Why would they forcibly control places like Tibet?
Why would they hold military exercises to influence ROC elections?
You're right... I meant to say C keywords, and libraries...
:-)
I actually thought this through about a week ago, for some reason, and came to that conclusion: libraries are killer, for programming without knowledge of english. Maybe some future version of ELF might fix that.
Honestly, though, I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 2003 had multinational DLL exports. Microsoft is good about language support.
You don't see all the KDE comments in German, do you?
You don't see all the Linux kernel comments in Swedish, do you? (I sure hope that's the right language for the point I'm making)
Of course, there will be some brilliant coders that can't write functional english in comments, but most will I should think, simply because most of the existing knowledge base of code, documentation, and discussion, is already primarily in english.
Besides, it'd probably be hard to keep straight all the various C keywords without speaking english, I bet. Oh yes, and does anyone know whether gcc is capable of handling chinese variable names and function names, regardless of which encoding scheme used?
Most Favored Nation status was renamed year or two ago, to Normal Trade Relations. Most countries already had MFN, so the name change was appropriate. So, I'm sure Australia has it.
I personally agree that countries which violate basic rights flagrantly, and often, should be reprimanded. Americans, a majority of whom I'm sure, deplore the actions taken by the "Communist" government of the PRC. It's time the US government, on this issue, acted in a way that represents the people, and not the idea of a "free market", as mis-represented by various GM, Microsoft, and other lobbyists.
To those who submit that tariffs are government interference, I reply that tariffs are probably the least intrusive tax, as they tax foreign goods. I don't care if some US-based multinational owns it; a Coppermine processor manufactured in Malaysia is not a domestic product.
To those who submit that tariffs tax domestic companies indirectly, because other countries respond with tariffs of their own, I give the reminder that I'm only suggesting that the PRC not be granted NTR. And, according to 1996 numbers provided by the PRC embassy, the US ran a 33 billion dollar trade deficit (with 16 billion on Chinese imports). Compared with the total production of the US economy, a potential reduction of that 16 billion, due to retaliatory tariffs, is peanuts. The PRC would be hurt by a trade war far more than US would.
To the Chinese trade ministers: The US economy is the largest national economy in the world, whose potential for imports can keep entire regions afloat during a crisis. The libertarian Republican/human rights Democratic coalition in Congress would be more than happy to blow your head clean off. Do you feel lucky, punk?
Informative? I read this as a joke, a funny one at that...
Imagine how much it would cost for a half-billion WinNT CALs (do you really think MS would give them commies more than a 50% discount?), let alone full Win98+Office installations!
Actually, I think the ACs have patented that...
cut'n'paste
paste
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submit!
Sorry if I sounded harsh; I was just asking for clarification on your question, and making sure you were aware of meta-moderation, and such.
It is an important topic; with many possible directions for improvement.
Isn't it about time the moderation abuses and "first posters" are addressed?
Funny... "First post"ing can be considered an abuse of the posting system. Moderation is the answer to that. I read at threshold 1, and never see that stuff.
Widespread moderation led to abuses, and thus meta-moderation was born. Enough meta-moderation, and an abusive moderator will lose enough karma to be unable to moderate anymore.
Are you suggesting that these systems (moderation and meta-moderation) are totally ineffective? Or are their specific weaknesses you see in them, for which you want fixes?
1) What is the deal with the slash source code? It would pacify a lot of criticism if the current slash code were released, even if it were broken, ugly, and full of syntax errors. I suggested a public CVS setup in another thread, is this something you're looking at?
2) Has the andover.net acquisiton gone as well as you hoped it would, as far as making the site better?
The opening of Mozilla.org was a pretty desperate measure, and look at how well that turned out?
Who says Interbase can't see improvements once opened?
What if slashdot, like so many other projects, opened up a CVS server with the source, and opened it up for read-only access?
;-)
I thought that the whole reason the andover.net takeover was a good thing, was that such nifty new things would be possible.
But, no! We get the beanie awards, instead!
of course... if a hard disk dies, in a computer less than 1 year old from Gateway 2000... It's good to call for a replacement, without being an idiot.
"No, I told you... the hard disk is NOT recognized by Windows... I can't change to the C: drive and run Scandisk. Alright.. I'll try it. What do you know? It didn't work..."
Do you ever think that hardware companies will open up their board specs again, in the way you were free with the early Apple computers?
Or, with the increasing silicon integration, is it more important for hardware manufacturers just to write open source drivers?