What's the unemployment rate in Germany? The GDP growth of France? If Europe keeps going the way it is going, then, the US will surpass the EU in absolute GDP within 5 years.
Besides, Kyoto is fatally flawed because it seeks to manage the atmosphere by controlling emissions, rather than by mandating or establishing a carbon sink. And its a consumer pays treaty, not a producer pays treaty, so the USA would have to foot the bill, when OPEC should be.
1) Social promotion must go. 2) Kids need to learn basics of math and not bring calculators to class. 3) Smart kids should not be in the same building as dumb kids. 4) Dumb kids need to be steered towards vocational stuff and not college prep. 5) Children should be tested for hard science skills, at every level. 6) Parents should have vouchers to pick schools for smart kids. 7) Elitism is ok. 8) Social studies and world culture appreciation are not substitutes for math, physics and chemistry.
All of these policies are opposed to by the left wing and so they contribute just as much to the decline of American scientists as anyone else has.
You know for an administration that claims itself to be Republican, this is shockingly statist rhetoric. Even worse, for an administration that is trying to eliminate frivolous lawsuits, this would open the pandora's box.
The right solution is to give people what they pay for and to make it easier to shop for the right solution.
This means an end to EULAs that forbid discussion about a product, including, but not limited to:
benchmarks, security advisories, interface design
Also means that there should be limits placed on NDAs and non-competes so that a software product can be discussed.
If someone makes a shoddy security product, then don't buy it.
There's a part of me that is as usual disappointed in the usual extension of big money into politics, but, in 2004, I and thousands of others ran very partisan blogs. It would be nice if those of us on the far left and far right that are nuts enough to pretend that our respective polical parties care about anything to at least reach a compromise and cash in on the political advertising cow on both sides of the aisle!
Big rich donors giving unlimited donations to political blogs such as mine? Who could possibly turn down a free meal!
Really. If the Europeans want to build their own DNS system and start issuing their own IPs, they can go right ahead. Same with China. That's the only option that they have. In the meantime, the USA should tell them to pound sand and we are under no obligation to fork over control of it to anyone.
I primarly meant process isolation for mainstream computer users. People buying a computer at the local store were not going to get it preloaded with OS/2 or WNT. Windows 95 was the first consumer MS product that offered both a 32 bit OS, and, had some degree of process isolation.
Right off the wheel, we notice that the 68000 did not support 32 bit multiplecation at all. Doesn't sound too much like a 32 bit chip to me. Compare that to Intels quirky IMUL, which I believe puts the result into EAX, EDX to get a real 64 bit result.
Integer math was faster clock for clock on the 386. Compare things like 68K register addition to Intel register addition. There's no comparison.
Whenever you did any 32 bit pointer math on a 68k, you paid a huge, huge performance penalty. It was always more efficient to do things in 16 bit PC relative addressing.
The 68K had no concept of isolated memory or tasks. So systems like the Amiga and the Macintosh would run without any isolation between processes. I was an Amiga fan boy and I used to get that GURU meditation error so much that it was not even comical.
The tragedy of the 386 architecture was actually Microsoft and not Intel. DOS and Windows did not use even the 386 chip to its fullest capability for memory management. MS users would have to wait until Sept 1995, almost 10 years after the 386, for a true 32 bit operating system.
There were significant changes in how ATL and MFC were used in VC 2002, so, you are going to have touch a fairly big portion of your code. I've found that for 64 bit targets, Visual Studio 2005 is not at all ready for prime time.
Capturing nearly 10% of an entrenched rival's market share is a considerable success. How many of us would like to have 10% of Microsoft's market share for even Paint Brush.
10% of a billion users is a pretty big number in its own right. Toyota did not come to rival GM overnite. They have enough of a critical mass to hang in there, a business model that will allow them to do so, and, most importantly, they have a significant investment advantage as anyone investing in open source systems have a huge commercial upside in terms of the amount of growth that is possible, where as MS can't really grow because it has everything already. MS is a flat and dying company, but all of its rivals have room to grow wildly.
It's time to call a spade a spade. Microsoft keeps painting this picture as OSS or even Open standards people a bunch of communists, but, the truth is, it's Microsoft that relies on government intervention to subsidize.
I think open source people need to rally around the concept that opposing DMCA and other excessive copyright controls are in fact a form of subsidy. You need to state, over and over again, that it is Microsoft that is receiving government subsidies at the consumer expense.
If Microsoft wants to compete for real, then certainly, it should not need the government to protect it. What OSS people are asking for is DE-REGULATION of the electronic world, not, additional regulation like Microsoft is.
Microsoft is the one that is advocating a form of socialism, not the OSS community.
Do you really want to lug a computer with you everywhere? Is it really that important to get your bosses email while you are at a party with 8 drinks in you? Or do you just not drink in case your boss sends you an email. Don't be a surf, throw all those shackles away and buy guns and booze instead.
It was bad enough that Apple fans who used to tout the advantages of PowerPC will now fall in lock step with the merits of Intel technology, crazy that Republicans in America now defend deficits and Democrats now demand cuts in government spending. Even me, a lifelong Windows Troll, am now running Linux at home.
But this is the last straw!
MySQL turned a simple, lightweight and fast database into a gigantic, feature rich behemoth. Now all the MySQL fans that used to defend its lack of features on the basis of its performance and executable size will now defends its executable size on the basis of features.
A means for independent software developers to feed his or her family. I would like to be able to write software and sell it over the internet rather than through a consulting gig at a client, so I can spend more time with my 4 month old son.
I have a client that does a lot of work with power plants, and, all that organizational knowledge is going away because of attrition and retirements, some, admittedly forced. Now they realize that they have a huge problem with green employees.
Sure, you can document everything, but, if a guy leaves with a 10,000 page document, as can happen in the power industry, what happens, if you have a question. A lot of things written down are written with a particular context in mind, and, if you don't have that context, then, you really won't understand what the document really means even if you do understand just that document's sentences.
If you can admit that there is a place for shareware on Linux, as opposed to freeware, then, having a mechanism such as this is a godsend for independent authors.
With my shareware registration service now, regnow, I have the ability to not only get paid myself, but, also, to share the wealth with web sites that host my product and drive sales to it. So for example, I might wind up paying a particular site a 40% commission on sales if they sold a copy of Commodity Server.
Dude, if there was no slavery in the south, there would be no secession. The southern states seceded because they did not have equal power in the House and Senate and so it became increasingly likely that the Federal Government would outright ban slavery and they would no power to prevent it.
That quote ranks right up there with Weapons of Mass Destruction as one of the great all time invented reasons for a war. Everyone in the civil war knew it was about slavery. Hell, the Republican Party had at its core a bunch of bible thumping abolishinists that wanted to ban slavery. Slavery dominated the Constitutional Convention with the slave is a fraction of a man compromise, through the various compromises of the 1800s to the 1850s, through the Bleeding Kansas battles, all the juggling over admitting a state slave or free. Then Lincoln comes out and says that he's in it to "preserve the Union", and escalated a secession into an all out war by refusing to leave Fort Sumter and then, after shots were fired, invading Virginia, blowing British and French proposals to mediate the conflict, in short, the war always was about Slavery.
Lincoln rolled the dice big and won, and that's why he's great. But the irony of the situation is that the most recent President like him is actually George Bush. Both had a reputation for being stupid hicks but were politically shrewd. Both blew off their own party dogmas and cooked up reasons to fight expand an attack against them into an all out ideological war, both were famous for ignoring their generals, and if anything, both won re-elections against decorated veterans that were considered to be much more intelligent than they were, and both were generally despised by much of the country.
The Civil War was -not- popular in the North. I mean, you think people are pissed off about the war in Iraq, try selling the civil war to the public just after Antienam, when nearly 12,000 Union soldiers were killed in a single a few day's fighting.
The article is so short on detail that it invites suspicion. I'd like to know what actually was the architectural problem behind Windows...and what was actually spaghetti code, and above all, what was there Windows 3.1 code still doing inside of Windows XP when we were told that all went away with Windows NT.Yes there is a need to rearchitect from time to time but this sounds to me like MS discovered that middevelopment through insufficient planning. Now they are going to rewrite everything from scratch? And what exactly are they automatically testing anyway?
Something doesn't add up. I seem to remember that with Windows XP, they rewrote Windows from the ground up. And with Windows 2000, they rewrote Windows from the ground up, and Windows NT, they rewrote Windows from the ground up...
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What's the unemployment rate in Germany? The GDP growth of France? If Europe keeps going the way it is going, then, the US will surpass the EU in absolute GDP within 5 years.
Besides, Kyoto is fatally flawed because it seeks to manage the atmosphere by controlling emissions, rather than by mandating or establishing a carbon sink. And its a consumer pays treaty, not a producer pays treaty, so the USA would have to foot the bill, when OPEC should be.
1) Social promotion must go.
2) Kids need to learn basics of math and not bring calculators to class.
3) Smart kids should not be in the same building as dumb kids.
4) Dumb kids need to be steered towards vocational stuff and not college prep.
5) Children should be tested for hard science skills, at every level.
6) Parents should have vouchers to pick schools for smart kids.
7) Elitism is ok.
8) Social studies and world culture appreciation are not substitutes for math, physics and chemistry.
All of these policies are opposed to by the left wing and so they contribute just as much to the decline of American scientists as anyone else has.
Dude, that should be modded up to +5 Insightful.
You know for an administration that claims itself to be Republican, this is shockingly statist rhetoric. Even worse, for an administration that is trying to eliminate frivolous lawsuits, this would open the pandora's box.
The right solution is to give people what they pay for and to make it easier to shop for the right solution.
This means an end to EULAs that forbid discussion about a product, including, but not limited to:
benchmarks,
security advisories,
interface design
Also means that there should be limits placed on NDAs and non-competes so that a software product can be discussed.
If someone makes a shoddy security product, then don't buy it.
There's a part of me that is as usual disappointed in the usual extension of big money into politics, but, in 2004, I and thousands of others ran very partisan blogs. It would be nice if those of us on the far left and far right that are nuts enough to pretend that our respective polical parties care about anything to at least reach a compromise and cash in on the political advertising cow on both sides of the aisle!
Big rich donors giving unlimited donations to political blogs such as mine? Who could possibly turn down a free meal!
Really. If the Europeans want to build their own DNS system and start issuing their own IPs, they can go right ahead. Same with China. That's the only option that they have. In the meantime, the USA should tell them to pound sand and we are under no obligation to fork over control of it to anyone.
But what if you are statistically likely to be not as good as a job, if you have certain genes?
"already adds to their long workdays..."
Geez, I feel real sorry for someone making 1,000 times as much as I do.
It's an academic point. The mainsteam computers that used these parts were only a two years apart, and that's a lot different.
Apple Macintosh was introduced in 1984
Commodore Amiga was introduced in 1985
Compaq 386 introduced in 1986
I primarly meant process isolation for mainstream computer users. People buying a computer at the local store were not going to get it preloaded with OS/2 or WNT. Windows 95 was the first consumer MS product that offered both a 32 bit OS, and, had some degree of process isolation.
Time to bust out the holy wars.
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I like the 68000 because it has so many registers but I think all in all in the 80386 is the better CPU.
For reference, consider:
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/reports_
http://www.df.lth.se/~john_e/gems/gem0028.html
http://linux.cis.monroeccc.edu/~paulrsm/doc/trick
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~muchandr/m68k
Right off the wheel, we notice that the 68000 did not support 32 bit multiplecation at all. Doesn't sound too much like a 32 bit chip to me. Compare that to Intels quirky IMUL, which I believe puts the result into EAX, EDX to get a real 64 bit result.
Integer math was faster clock for clock on the 386. Compare things like 68K register addition to Intel register addition. There's no comparison.
Compare
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article
to
http://www.df.lth.se/~john_e/gems/gem0028.html
Whenever you did any 32 bit pointer math on a 68k, you paid a huge, huge performance penalty. It was always more efficient to do things in 16 bit PC relative addressing.
The 68K had no concept of isolated memory or tasks. So systems like the Amiga and the Macintosh would run without any isolation between processes. I was an Amiga fan boy and I used to get that GURU meditation error so much that it was not even comical.
The tragedy of the 386 architecture was actually Microsoft and not Intel. DOS and Windows did not use even the 386 chip to its fullest capability for memory management. MS users would have to wait until Sept 1995, almost 10 years after the 386, for a true 32 bit operating system.
It's kinda hard to trust a tool for 64 bit development when it itself is not 64 bit.
There were significant changes in how ATL and MFC were used in VC 2002, so, you are going to have touch a fairly big portion of your code. I've found that for 64 bit targets, Visual Studio 2005 is not at all ready for prime time.
Capturing nearly 10% of an entrenched rival's market share is a considerable success. How many of us would like to have 10% of Microsoft's market share for even Paint Brush.
10% of a billion users is a pretty big number in its own right. Toyota did not come to rival GM overnite. They have enough of a critical mass to hang in there, a business model that will allow them to do so, and, most importantly, they have a significant investment advantage as anyone investing in open source systems have a huge commercial upside in terms of the amount of growth that is possible, where as MS can't really grow because it has everything already. MS is a flat and dying company, but all of its rivals have room to grow wildly.
It's time to call a spade a spade. Microsoft keeps painting this picture as OSS or even Open standards people a bunch of communists, but, the truth is, it's Microsoft that relies on government intervention to subsidize.
I think open source people need to rally around the concept that opposing DMCA and other excessive copyright controls are in fact a form of subsidy. You need to state, over and over again, that it is Microsoft that is receiving government subsidies at the consumer expense.
If Microsoft wants to compete for real, then certainly, it should not need the government to protect it. What OSS people are asking for is DE-REGULATION of the electronic world, not, additional regulation like Microsoft is.
Microsoft is the one that is advocating a form of socialism, not the OSS community.
And you think programmers don't have beerbellies? Just wait till you hit that big 35 with a wife and kids and see how those calories stack up!
How can you say that this war does not demand R&D when we have 50 soldiers getting killed a month?
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For one, we need to have research in ways of detecting IEDs by other means besides having them blow up on us, and the government is working on this:
http://www.hsarpabaa.com/main/BAA0503_solicitatio
http://www.emclab.umr.edu/research/IED_Detection.
http://www.special-operations-technology.com/prin
And we are building a better armored vehicle to replace the HUMMER.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-23-hu
And we need to have a means of intercepting RPGs in flight.
http://www.deagel.com/pandora/cicm_de00400001.asp
Do you really want to lug a computer with you everywhere? Is it really that important to get your bosses email while you are at a party with 8 drinks in you? Or do you just not drink in case your boss sends you an email. Don't be a surf, throw all those shackles away and buy guns and booze instead.
It was bad enough that Apple fans who used to tout the advantages of PowerPC will now fall in lock step with the merits of Intel technology, crazy that Republicans in America now defend deficits and Democrats now demand cuts in government spending. Even me, a lifelong Windows Troll, am now running Linux at home.
But this is the last straw!
MySQL turned a simple, lightweight and fast database into a gigantic, feature rich behemoth. Now all the MySQL fans that used to defend its lack of features on the basis of its performance and executable size will now defends its executable size on the basis of features.
The world has just gone insane.
A means for independent software developers to feed his or her family. I would like to be able to write software and sell it over the internet rather than through a consulting gig at a client, so I can spend more time with my 4 month old son.
I have a client that does a lot of work with power plants, and, all that organizational knowledge is going away because of attrition and retirements, some, admittedly forced. Now they realize that they have a huge problem with green employees.
Sure, you can document everything, but, if a guy leaves with a 10,000 page document, as can happen in the power industry, what happens, if you have a question. A lot of things written down are written with a particular context in mind, and, if you don't have that context, then, you really won't understand what the document really means even if you do understand just that document's sentences.
If you can admit that there is a place for shareware on Linux, as opposed to freeware, then, having a mechanism such as this is a godsend for independent authors.
With my shareware registration service now, regnow, I have the ability to not only get paid myself, but, also, to share the wealth with web sites that host my product and drive sales to it. So for example, I might wind up paying a particular site a 40% commission on sales if they sold a copy of Commodity Server.
Dude, if there was no slavery in the south, there would be no secession. The southern states seceded because they did not have equal power in the House and Senate and so it became increasingly likely that the Federal Government would outright ban slavery and they would no power to prevent it.
That quote ranks right up there with Weapons of Mass Destruction as one of the great all time invented reasons for a war. Everyone in the civil war knew it was about slavery. Hell, the Republican Party had at its core a bunch of bible thumping abolishinists that wanted to ban slavery. Slavery dominated the Constitutional Convention with the slave is a fraction of a man compromise, through the various compromises of the 1800s to the 1850s, through the Bleeding Kansas battles, all the juggling over admitting a state slave or free. Then Lincoln comes out and says that he's in it to "preserve the Union", and escalated a secession into an all out war by refusing to leave Fort Sumter and then, after shots were fired, invading Virginia, blowing British and French proposals to mediate the conflict, in short, the war always was about Slavery.
Lincoln rolled the dice big and won, and that's why he's great. But the irony of the situation is that the most recent President like him is actually George Bush. Both had a reputation for being stupid hicks but were politically shrewd. Both blew off their own party dogmas and cooked up reasons to fight expand an attack against them into an all out ideological war, both were famous for ignoring their generals, and if anything, both won re-elections against decorated veterans that were considered to be much more intelligent than they were, and both were generally despised by much of the country.
The Civil War was -not- popular in the North. I mean, you think people are pissed off about the war in Iraq, try selling the civil war to the public just after Antienam, when nearly 12,000 Union soldiers were killed in a single a few day's fighting.
The article is so short on detail that it invites suspicion. I'd like to know what actually was the architectural problem behind Windows...and what was actually spaghetti code, and above all, what was there Windows 3.1 code still doing inside of Windows XP when we were told that all went away with Windows NT.Yes there is a need to rearchitect from time to time but this sounds to me like MS discovered that middevelopment through insufficient planning. Now they are going to rewrite everything from scratch? And what exactly are they automatically testing anyway?
Something doesn't add up. I seem to remember that with Windows XP, they rewrote Windows from the ground up. And with Windows 2000, they rewrote Windows from the ground up, and Windows NT, they rewrote Windows from the ground up...
I flat out do not believe them.