You, sir, deserve the Nobel prize for outstanding citizenship and generally being a cool dude. Every log on to/. you make is a blessing to it and it's inhabitants. Thank you for existing. I thought people like you existed only in my imagination.
BTW, as someone who recently turned 15, I believe I can remember my childhood quite well. What you say is entirely correct. An 8 y.o.'s self-censorship is the most impeccable filter in existence. Cheers!
What's so wrong with taking candy from strangers? It's very unlikely to be poisoned, and is a shitty drug distribution vector, not to mention the kids will be spooked when they feel the high. I don't get it.
Drugs, are not, and will never be a problem. Gangs are, illicit guns and gangs are. Drugs never shot at anybody. The people dealing them are. And because they are shot at,by police and rivals. Legalize them, giving gangs one less reason to exist.
Get rid of public schools. Get rid of the government education system and budget. Cut taxes accordingly. Increase social security payouts, or whatever you use to help the poor and jobless. Problem solved. That will be $500 million. Thank you.
Hmm... Could you build a dual-ISA chip if it's like that? x86/PPC for instance? Most consoles are PPC, so that would be very handy. Not to mention freshening up the CPU market, new ISA available and all.
Whoa! I just got a flashback about CPU cards back in the Amiga days, and I'm 15! No, seriously why is everyone, (with the possible exception of AMD) going bass-acwards with the computer's internal arch? A PCIe/Hypertransport backplane standard, possibly Wishbone interconnect compliant, to tie every thing up, and you treat everything else equaly, seen as it's on the same type of slot/socket. Heck, you could build a PC straght from a GPU that way, though you'd need a driver in the bootloader, but who cares.
OTOH, IIRC SPARC CPUs are M68k based. And way more fun to write compilers and OSes for, not to mention all the cool shit with virtualization. </Unpaid Sun Microsystems shill>
No, seriously, SPARC looks like the only non-kludgy ISA around. Everyone else is either obsessed with meaningless features (looking at you, PPC), backward compatibility (is there any point mentioning who?). I know, I know - ARM and MIPS are still around, but ARM isn't really cut out for anything but embedded devices, and MIPS is a pain to optimize for... Just my $0.02.
Actually, DEC programmers were/are on the NT team, You can even see it in some file system quirks. But I don't recall any earlier transfers. *shrug* Guess M$ isn't just crappyly reimplementing UNIX. They are also crappyly reimplementing OpenVMS.
It's most important bits, the non-Unix specific graphical and media stack are proprietary. GNU + X.org + Qt + Compiz ain't, and they run on both Solaris and Linux. And the *BSDs. Heck, even Plan 9 has X.org hacks for it. =P
That's source and not binary compatible, and not formally aiming at any sort of usable compatibility, just imitating the ideas (good ones, too). Also, there are a myriad of other APIs GNUStep does not cover - the whole damn Quartz stack, for instance. For the uninitiated - it's sorta like DirectX + X.org + Compiz Fusion, from a functionality standpoint.
And they know even better that each Photoshoper going on linux with no photoshop is one more likely ex-future user. The GIMP isn't perfect, but people jump ship to it, so there is something. Just sayin'.
How about separating the hardware interpreter from the actual core? A SPARC/ARM/MIPS with an x86 emulation accelerator chip. Oh, and since compiled is faster than interpreted, why not set it up to compile x86 opcodes to native binary, Amiga/Transmeta style?
Seconded. Also, why doesn't Sun take a page out of Transmeta's book? I'd love SPARC lappy like the one described, with a x86-to-SPARC cross-sompiler running on the GPU when firing up apps, Java-style.
Hmmm, anybody at LLVM reading this? Care to make a OpenCL port? Maybe a x86 decompiler togo with it? *begs*
That would open the door to other countries doing the same. If I were Google, I'd cut all service for Italy 'till they get their act together. I will lose revenue in the short term, but the sudden death of Google services would nearly guarantee restoration of net neutrality. Either that, or they'd kick me out anyway.
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Only to you, bub. Then again, it's late, and I'm drunk. So never mind.
from the command line:
rpm -i /path/to/source/directory/rpmfilename.rpm
You, sir, deserve the Nobel prize for outstanding citizenship and generally being a cool dude. Every log on to /. you make is a blessing to it and it's inhabitants. Thank you for existing. I thought people like you existed only in my imagination.
BTW, as someone who recently turned 15, I believe I can remember my childhood quite well. What you say is entirely correct. An 8 y.o.'s self-censorship is the most impeccable filter in existence. Cheers!
Right now, I wish I was that cute girl from across the street from you. Too bad. Rock on dude!
Quit giving them ideas, nitwit!
What's so wrong with taking candy from strangers? It's very unlikely to be poisoned, and is a shitty drug distribution vector, not to mention the kids will be spooked when they feel the high. I don't get it.
Castro running Slackware? *head explodes*
I though paper ignited at 451 F, not ~1 F. *shrug*
Yes. Novell is a M$ sock puppet. Now, RH and Canonical... *droole* </joke>
Moonlight over Gnash, every time. Sorry, M$ is evil, but Adobe, and Flash specifically, are more so.
Drugs, are not, and will never be a problem. Gangs are, illicit guns and gangs are. Drugs never shot at anybody. The people dealing them are. And because they are shot at,by police and rivals. Legalize them, giving gangs one less reason to exist.
Get rid of public schools. Get rid of the government education system and budget. Cut taxes accordingly. Increase social security payouts, or whatever you use to help the poor and jobless. Problem solved. That will be $500 million. Thank you.
Hmm... Could you build a dual-ISA chip if it's like that? x86/PPC for instance? Most consoles are PPC, so that would be very handy. Not to mention freshening up the CPU market, new ISA available and all.
Whoa! I just got a flashback about CPU cards back in the Amiga days, and I'm 15! No, seriously why is everyone, (with the possible exception of AMD) going bass-acwards with the computer's internal arch? A PCIe/Hypertransport backplane standard, possibly Wishbone interconnect compliant, to tie every thing up, and you treat everything else equaly, seen as it's on the same type of slot/socket. Heck, you could build a PC straght from a GPU that way, though you'd need a driver in the bootloader, but who cares.
OTOH, IIRC SPARC CPUs are M68k based. And way more fun to write compilers and OSes for, not to mention all the cool shit with virtualization. </Unpaid Sun Microsystems shill>
No, seriously, SPARC looks like the only non-kludgy ISA around. Everyone else is either obsessed with meaningless features (looking at you, PPC), backward compatibility (is there any point mentioning who?). I know, I know - ARM and MIPS are still around, but ARM isn't really cut out for anything but embedded devices, and MIPS is a pain to optimize for... Just my $0.02.
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Actually, DEC programmers were/are on the NT team, You can even see it in some file system quirks. But I don't recall any earlier transfers. *shrug* Guess M$ isn't just crappyly reimplementing UNIX. They are also crappyly reimplementing OpenVMS.
My $0.02.
Uhhh, how about CDDL, maybe with a LGPLesque clause?
It's most important bits, the non-Unix specific graphical and media stack are proprietary. GNU + X.org + Qt + Compiz ain't, and they run on both Solaris and Linux. And the *BSDs. Heck, even Plan 9 has X.org hacks for it. =P
That's source and not binary compatible, and not formally aiming at any sort of usable compatibility, just imitating the ideas (good ones, too). Also, there are a myriad of other APIs GNUStep does not cover - the whole damn Quartz stack, for instance. For the uninitiated - it's sorta like DirectX + X.org + Compiz Fusion, from a functionality standpoint.
And they know even better that each Photoshoper going on linux with no photoshop is one more likely ex-future user. The GIMP isn't perfect, but people jump ship to it, so there is something. Just sayin'.
*sigh* Tell me again, why isn't everybody using OpenFirmware?
How about separating the hardware interpreter from the actual core? A SPARC/ARM/MIPS with an x86 emulation accelerator chip. Oh, and since compiled is faster than interpreted, why not set it up to compile x86 opcodes to native binary, Amiga/Transmeta style?
Seconded. Also, why doesn't Sun take a page out of Transmeta's book? I'd love SPARC lappy like the one described, with a x86-to-SPARC cross-sompiler running on the GPU when firing up apps, Java-style.
Hmmm, anybody at LLVM reading this? Care to make a OpenCL port? Maybe a x86 decompiler togo with it? *begs*
That would open the door to other countries doing the same. If I were Google, I'd cut all service for Italy 'till they get their act together. I will lose revenue in the short term, but the sudden death of Google services would nearly guarantee restoration of net neutrality. Either that, or they'd kick me out anyway.