Send transgaming some dough for the new year- not only are they improving DirectX under Linux, but other useful Win32 APIs. In time, Wine may be a fully-featured Windows emulator!
Since MSFT is no longer one of the more important stocks in the NASDAQ index (I think the index has finally shaken loose:)), is it more likely that they would try to enforce the restrictions?
That's true. It's good to see Java entering the mass market. Sure it was in browsers, but noone really interacted with it full-time.:) I'd like to see more devices optimized for Java use though. Having a cell-phone as an easily reachable application target is a Good Thing.
What a great idea- unfortunately it shows how far behind cellphone display tech really is. At least playing pitfall is better than the nibbles ripoff.;)
I'd say that with these discoveries, the chance of us finding life (even primordial life) is getting higher. I remember seeing an experiment where they dumped a bunch of elementary gasses and compounds into a tube, heated it up, electrified it on occasion and ended up with a number of important amino acids. Not life, but at least a hint that DNA (or some other way of reproduction) might be a state that matter can fall into fairly easily, given good initial conditions.
I work for a company called Javien that works on a suite of products, one of which is a mail filter that does exactly this. You can set up a toll to send to unknown mail recipients that will let the message through *only* if they have paid it.
It works in combination with our Micropay server (connected with Paypal and eventually a number of other money transfer systems) so that the spammers can essentially pay you postage for sending you mail. We're about to release a Windows client (only days away), but a Linux one is in the works...
DVD lasers can't pick up CD-R data. You need a dual-laser pickup for that. Not many have this feature (my Pioneer and my Sampo can, however). A lot of newer drives using DVD-ROM internally will be able to, but don't expect this to be a feature of the player unless specifically stated. As for CD-RW and regular CDs, they respond to the DVD light much better so some single-laser pickups can read it.
Read the box before buying the player. If it doesn't explicitly support CD-R, don't trust it.
I've been using nightlies since day one. On a whim I decided to install PR3 yesterday and I wasn't impressed. The main Mozilla tree is *far* more stable and usable!
I do remember the days of IE4.0, however. It's pretty much at the same level 4.0 was when it came out. I'll be waiting for 6.1, hopefully when the PDT gets their act together and ships all the pending bugfixes.
Don't ask me why they've branched the tree so early - Mozilla has gone into a climb to 1.0 and the tree has been keeping stable as they do it. If we're lucky, they'll just merge the NS6.0 changes onto the Moz1.0 codebase and they'll have a decent little 6.1 release.
*sigh*
And now hopefully we can have them dedicate much more time to performance and memory footprint. I know it's been getting better but between it and chrome rendering speed, they are definately the biggest barriers to acceptance.
Microsoft wants to lengthen the appeals process as long as it can. It worked for IBM, no? If it lengthens the trial, it can continue screwing the populous. The long it screws the populous, the more money is made for the shareholders.
Who knows - maybe in 10 years, when the Justice department finally gives up, MS will be a huge supported of OSS, just like Big Blue.;)
I think this battle took place in the early 80's over the VCR with regular analog signals, didn't it? And they determined that we, as consumers, have the right to time-shift shows off TV.
I hope that ends up being a precident in this case.
Will we be able to finally get SMP with these AMD chips? Right now we have these amazing Athlons capable of symmetric multi-processing, but no mobo hardware support for them.
IMHO, AMD has gone the right way with x86-64, rather than a whole new instruction set. At this point in the game, I don't think they have enough market pull to convince people of once standard vs. another. It's a bit of a shame Intel and AMD couldn't have cooperated on a comment 64-bit spec, but I know exactly what sort of chance that would have (it involves a snowball and a very warm place...).
The Lambda operator and the executable blocks are what you're thinking. It allows you to put a normally executable operator on the stack instead:
(lambda) ls (lambda) > (lambda) | |
Anders really twisted James Gosling's words here. He says, quoting James Gosling:
... There's a great interview with James Gosling on IBM's developer works site in which he directly addresses this issue. He said, yeah, the whole right-once-run-anywhere, 100%-pure-thing was a really goofy idea, and was more of a marketing thing. He says, in effect, "We didn't think we'd ever be able to deliver all that, and basically we haven't." Here's the inventor of the language saying that neither purity nor portability exists.
And this is what James said:
"The perfect goal of "write once, run anywhere, anything runs on anything" is just goofy. You're never going to run some piece of weather modeling software on a toaster [laughs]. And you wouldn't want to. So there are some scale and capability limits. But within that, you can do an awful lot to make sure that if somebody wants to read a file, it looks the same everywhere reading a file makes sense."
This is clearly a misquote. Gosling is saying that a toaster can't run a weather simulation package (yes, that is goofy). There are physical limits to what you *can* run (ie: you can't run an app with a display requirement of 4000x2000 on a handheld PC with a display of 100x100, or one requiring 128MB on a 64Kb watch). Nothing here is really surprising - Java's strength is trying to hide the minor differences so that you don't need to worry about these while moving between platforms (even some platforms that vary wildly in terms of physical specifications).
X was such a deeply ingrained part of most applications that we just couldn't do it until now! It took the community a number of years to develop a rich, fully featured set of toolkits to sit on top of X that didn't require any sort of programmer knowledge of the X system.
There are still a number of Unix apps we use that are purely X-based. Look at some of the eye-candy apps that come with any default install of Linux.
GTK+ and KDE are becoming the new toolkits of choice for Unix GUI programmers. As we have to rely less and less on X-tied programs, we can get closer and closer to dumping this beast.
Any new system would probably need to be able to run an X emulation layer at some point. The cool thing about keeping X around this long is that we've learned a great deal about how to optimize gfx operations under Unix - we can use all of this information later to build ourselves a top-notch windowing system. Even X is running pretty fast right now. If we trimmed it down and got it running direct to an API on the system, we'd blow Win32 GUI stuff away.
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I would guess that someone would end up hacking the XBox to run arbitrary unsigned code before this is out anyways. Webserver anyone?
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Send transgaming some dough for the new year- not only are they improving DirectX under Linux, but other useful Win32 APIs. In time, Wine may be a fully-featured Windows emulator!
It seems like virtually all of the Gnome news deals with pure GPL software. Is there a problem with non-free (as in speech) software?
Since MSFT is no longer one of the more important stocks in the NASDAQ index (I think the index has finally shaken loose :)), is it more likely that they would try to enforce the restrictions?
This is one of the great things about Moz. irc:// links are superhandy for redirecting someone to a chat room with a single click. :)
Looks good so far. It's a shame we don't have a moderated submission queue, though. :) Has anyone considered this?
Keep up the good work!
Being bought by a German news service, I'm sure the cash will come through. I wonder when Netscape will auction off the fishcam? :)
Anyone remember the secret fishcam url/key combo?
That's true. It's good to see Java entering the mass market. Sure it was in browsers, but noone really interacted with it full-time. :) I'd like to see more devices optimized for Java use though. Having a cell-phone as an easily reachable application target is a Good Thing.
What a great idea- unfortunately it shows how far behind cellphone display tech really is. At least playing pitfall is better than the nibbles ripoff. ;)
I'd say that with these discoveries, the chance of us finding life (even primordial life) is getting higher. I remember seeing an experiment where they dumped a bunch of elementary gasses and compounds into a tube, heated it up, electrified it on occasion and ended up with a number of important amino acids. Not life, but at least a hint that DNA (or some other way of reproduction) might be a state that matter can fall into fairly easily, given good initial conditions.
You wouldn't believe how many times I've heard that. ;)
It great working at a company with a giant banner like that by the front door, though. And it looks ten times more evil in black on a red background.
It works in combination with our Micropay server (connected with Paypal and eventually a number of other money transfer systems) so that the spammers can essentially pay you postage for sending you mail. We're about to release a Windows client (only days away), but a Linux one is in the works...
Take a look at the product sheet here for more info
DVD lasers can't pick up CD-R data. You need a dual-laser pickup for that. Not many have this feature (my Pioneer and my Sampo can, however). A lot of newer drives using DVD-ROM internally will be able to, but don't expect this to be a feature of the player unless specifically stated. As for CD-RW and regular CDs, they respond to the DVD light much better so some single-laser pickups can read it.
Read the box before buying the player. If it doesn't explicitly support CD-R, don't trust it.
Our cars can't crash!
I've been using nightlies since day one. On a whim I decided to install PR3 yesterday and I wasn't impressed. The main Mozilla tree is *far* more stable and usable!
I do remember the days of IE4.0, however. It's pretty much at the same level 4.0 was when it came out. I'll be waiting for 6.1, hopefully when the PDT gets their act together and ships all the pending bugfixes.
Don't ask me why they've branched the tree so early - Mozilla has gone into a climb to 1.0 and the tree has been keeping stable as they do it. If we're lucky, they'll just merge the NS6.0 changes onto the Moz1.0 codebase and they'll have a decent little 6.1 release.
*sigh*
And now hopefully we can have them dedicate much more time to performance and memory footprint. I know it's been getting better but between it and chrome rendering speed, they are definately the biggest barriers to acceptance.
Not true... read the front page. He describes pre-echo and overring, both in audiophile terms.
Look at the bounty for the patent describing the BountyQuest patent for $14,159.
:)
This brings the total from $300,000 to $314,159. Does that number look familiar?
Microsoft wants to lengthen the appeals process as long as it can. It worked for IBM, no? If it lengthens the trial, it can continue screwing the populous. The long it screws the populous, the more money is made for the shareholders.
;)
Who knows - maybe in 10 years, when the Justice department finally gives up, MS will be a huge supported of OSS, just like Big Blue.
Under $300? Probably a DVD drive.
$300-$1000? A new Athlon chip.
For my stealth-bomber present, though, I want one of those massive parallel alpha machines like this one.
I think this battle took place in the early 80's over the VCR with regular analog signals, didn't it? And they determined that we, as consumers, have the right to time-shift shows off TV.
I hope that ends up being a precident in this case.
Remember Peter Gabriel?
:)
o/~~ I wanna be... a sledgehammer... o/~~
I can just picture that as the new AMD themesong in the ads.
Will we be able to finally get SMP with these AMD chips? Right now we have these amazing Athlons capable of symmetric multi-processing, but no mobo hardware support for them.
IMHO, AMD has gone the right way with x86-64, rather than a whole new instruction set. At this point in the game, I don't think they have enough market pull to convince people of once standard vs. another. It's a bit of a shame Intel and AMD couldn't have cooperated on a comment 64-bit spec, but I know exactly what sort of chance that would have (it involves a snowball and a very warm place...).
The Lambda operator and the executable blocks are what you're thinking. It allows you to put a normally executable operator on the stack instead: (lambda) ls (lambda) > (lambda) | |
Anders really twisted James Gosling's words here. He says, quoting James Gosling:
... There's a great interview with James Gosling on IBM's developer works site in which he directly addresses this issue. He said, yeah, the whole right-once-run-anywhere, 100%-pure-thing was a really goofy idea, and was more of a marketing thing. He says, in effect, "We didn't think we'd ever be able to deliver all that, and basically we haven't." Here's the inventor of the language saying that neither purity nor portability exists.
And this is what James said:
"The perfect goal of "write once, run anywhere, anything runs on anything" is just goofy. You're never going to run some piece of weather modeling software on a toaster [laughs]. And you wouldn't want to. So there are some scale and capability limits. But within that, you can do an awful lot to make sure that if somebody wants to read a file, it looks the same everywhere reading a file makes sense."
This is clearly a misquote. Gosling is saying that a toaster can't run a weather simulation package (yes, that is goofy). There are physical limits to what you *can* run (ie: you can't run an app with a display requirement of 4000x2000 on a handheld PC with a display of 100x100, or one requiring 128MB on a 64Kb watch). Nothing here is really surprising - Java's strength is trying to hide the minor differences so that you don't need to worry about these while moving between platforms (even some platforms that vary wildly in terms of physical specifications).
X was such a deeply ingrained part of most applications that we just couldn't do it until now! It took the community a number of years to develop a rich, fully featured set of toolkits to sit on top of X that didn't require any sort of programmer knowledge of the X system.
There are still a number of Unix apps we use that are purely X-based. Look at some of the eye-candy apps that come with any default install of Linux.
GTK+ and KDE are becoming the new toolkits of choice for Unix GUI programmers. As we have to rely less and less on X-tied programs, we can get closer and closer to dumping this beast.
Any new system would probably need to be able to run an X emulation layer at some point. The cool thing about keeping X around this long is that we've learned a great deal about how to optimize gfx operations under Unix - we can use all of this information later to build ourselves a top-notch windowing system. Even X is running pretty fast right now. If we trimmed it down and got it running direct to an API on the system, we'd blow Win32 GUI stuff away.