How does an IDE slow you down? I've never understood that. What is it that is taking you so long to do? If you want to use the IDE the same way you use vi, make, and printf you can. The only difference is you press F6 instead of typing:make. And you press F7 instead of typing "ctrl-z; cd../../../object/directory;./a.out" or moving the mouse to a free xterm and typing "./a.out" there.
I fail to see how your way is faster.
In my experience, people who are slower with IDEs just haven't bothered to learn how to use them. They are the people who spend a few days playing around with VisualStudio and then give up saying "it is too complicated, it slows me down" all the while forgetting that it took them WEEKS or MONTHS to get to the level of profiency they currently have with vi and make.
You're right, it's not perfectly clear which kind of memory he's talking about and I assumed he meant runtime. In retrospect it seems more likely he meant disk space. However, other than in the N64 area, I don't see how the Amiga DE's small size is much of a win. Most of the PS games I have have enough free space on the CD to put a decent install of Windows 95 on them.
Amiga's operating system is real-time and thus quite fast
Real-time only means it meets timing guarantees. Not that it is fast. Real-time only means when I say it'll take 100 days to add two numbers, it absolutely won't take 101 days.
Sure, real time operating systems commonly are relatively quick but one does not automatically imply the other.
Armed with a legacy of being the most capable gaming platform on the market, the new Amiga DE
It is either new or it has a legacy. I don't understand how it can have both. In any case I seriously doubt this statement is anything other than marketing vapor.
For game developers, Amiga's powerful multiplatform, multimedia-centric Amiga DE is a dream come true.
Multiplatform and multimedia-centric are relatively useless buzzwords for game developers. Until Amiga's SDK becomes as powerful as DirectX (not that I'm saying DirectX is perfect, just that it's nice not to have to reinvent the wheel all the time) the Amiga will never be a dream come true for developers.
At under 5MB total, the Amiga DE can even run piggy-back on game discs for Nintendo's Game Cube
and Sony's Playstation
That's a lot. The original Playstation only has 2 MB of system memory. The N64 has 4 MB. The Dreamcast has 16 MB. I'm not sure I want the OS eating up over 1/4 of the available memory on my console. Since it doesn't sound like they're talking about consoles, what do they mean when they say "multiplatform"?
Ports of StarOffice and Mozilla (and thereby Netscape 6 and beyond) are already planned
Lots of things are planned. Some of them actually end up happening.
What would an OS data structure be, if not a file? How about simple things like the floppy drive? That's a file under linux, and thus can be controlled by file permissions, as can ports, peripherals, etc.
I dunno. How about sockets? Can I do chmod +rw/dev/port/80 so that you don't have to be root to open ports 1024? No.
Can I put access protections on the access protections so that someone can read a file but not see what the protections on the file are? No.
Can I put protections on only parts of a file? Say I want the introduction of my paper to be public but the financial data to be private? No.
Can I put access protections so that other people can't see what processes I'm running? Or so that they can only see how long it has been running but not how much memory it takes up? No.
I don't see how it means any such thing. I mean, I'm all for alternative power sources, but why do you take this incident to mean "research alternative power sources"? Why not "build more traditional power plants"?
Besides, "excessive" is hardly an objective word. Maybe he'll find France's tax rate just fine. Or maybe he has other concerns in life than maximizing take home pay...especially if he's only planning on working abroad for a few years.
You mean like the N64, PSX, and Dreamcast? Yeah, there's an absolute dearth of other consoles out there. Given the relative game line ups at the moment, I don't know why anyone would be buying a PS2 over a Dreamcast today. Maybe in 6 or 12 months when the PS2 has some true killer games out...but not today and not for Christmas.
You aren't paying for some global.biz...you are paying for a.biz served up by root-servers.net or whatever. That other guy charges you money to get served by a.biz that his servers push out. I could create my own.com hierarchy internally on my network but no one is going to be ludicrous enough to write a news story suggesting there is some kind of monumental conflict.
ICAAN should feel free to ignore whatever anyone else does. After all, this guy ignored what NSI/ICAAN were doing.
Causing a collision anywhere on the Internet is ethically wrong.
a. He presumes his ethics are the same as everyone else's.
b. The collision only occurs when you use non-standard root nameservers. Which is pretty much what you expect to have happen when you try to have two roots in a hierarchy.
But physical signatures can be forged as well. So those aren't foolproof, either. Both kinds of signatures merely raise the bar. The article in question adds no real useful knowledge to topic under discussion since the only question is whether the bar is raised high enough and whether our society is comfortable with the level of trust digital signatures provide.
I worked for a very small company where we did the same thing. Guess we weren't smart enough to have our massive PR machine brainwash the world that we were doing something revolutionary. Probably because we didn't think we were. I'm sure other companies have done the same thing. They just didn't earn the endorsement of RMS and the FSF...whatever that's supposed to mean.
Your offspring should start out the same way as everybody else.
Which everybody else are you talking about? Are you only going to give your kid one meal a day four times a week so he can be just like the average kid? Are you not going to teach him to read since most everybody else is illiterate, too?
I'd wager not. You'll probably give your kid nice clothes so they don't freeze in the winter and good food so they aren't malnourished and you'll send them to school. So obviously you aren't comparing them to the world population at large, but rather to some smaller, more select group of "peers". But why is are the peer criteria you selected the correct ones?
If I know how to make a certain algorithm, I should be able to use it in my software...
But the only reason you know about this algorithm is because of someone else. How is that different from monetary inheritance? If you figure out the algorithm all on your own then, sure, you can use it. But you haven't. You just "inherited" the knowledge of the algorithm. Why do you make a distinction between monetary inheritance and intellectual inheritance? If I have to start at ground zero to gain my money why don't you have to start at ground zero to gain knowledge?
Slashdot isn't about free software. It's "News For Nerds". The nerds I know use the best tool for the job rather than succumbing to ideological bigotry. On Windows platforms IE is, and will continue to be for the forseeable future, the best tool for the job.
Speak for yourself; I never considered myself part of the free software community. I consider myself a software developer and I refuse to use inferior tools.
And I thought *BSD had something very similar to readline? (At least, the ash Makefile under linux says something to this effect.) I'd hardly say that as of February 1999 (when that page was written) readline provided a "significant unique capability...not generally available elsewhere." It's propaganda like that that hurts the FSF in the eyes of nonpartisan observers.
I'm surprised you read long enough to get past his childish "If you don't call it Free Software instead of Open Source I'm going to pretend I don't know what you're asking about."
In particular Mail 5: Jorrit Tyberghein -> Richard Stallman:
Note that in the first regards I'm asking a question about the LGPL license.
Five emails into this exchange and RMS hasn't bothered to answer this guy's extremely basic and painfully obvious question all because the guy said Open Source.
I also liked the end of Mail 11 when Jorrit Tyberghein begins to wonder what's the difference between writing software that depends on a closed source PS2 bridge and writing software that depends on a closed source libc or closed source X server and RMS lamely comes back with "if I can't write truly free software then I write no software". One wonders how he reconciles this with writing a gcc that supports closed source operating systems.
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How does an IDE slow you down? I've never understood that. What is it that is taking you so long to do? If you want to use the IDE the same way you use vi, make, and printf you can. The only difference is you press F6 instead of typing :make. And you press F7 instead of typing "ctrl-z; cd ../../../object/directory; ./a.out" or moving the mouse to a free xterm and typing "./a.out" there.
I fail to see how your way is faster.
In my experience, people who are slower with IDEs just haven't bothered to learn how to use them. They are the people who spend a few days playing around with VisualStudio and then give up saying "it is too complicated, it slows me down" all the while forgetting that it took them WEEKS or MONTHS to get to the level of profiency they currently have with vi and make.
I didn't realize the competition to Amiga DE was 500 MB.
You're right, it's not perfectly clear which kind of memory he's talking about and I assumed he meant runtime. In retrospect it seems more likely he meant disk space. However, other than in the N64 area, I don't see how the Amiga DE's small size is much of a win. Most of the PS games I have have enough free space on the CD to put a decent install of Windows 95 on them.
Amiga's operating system is real-time and thus quite fast
Real-time only means it meets timing guarantees. Not that it is fast. Real-time only means when I say it'll take 100 days to add two numbers, it absolutely won't take 101 days.
Sure, real time operating systems commonly are relatively quick but one does not automatically imply the other.
Armed with a legacy of being the most capable gaming platform on the market, the new Amiga DE
It is either new or it has a legacy. I don't understand how it can have both. In any case I seriously doubt this statement is anything other than marketing vapor.
For game developers, Amiga's powerful multiplatform, multimedia-centric Amiga DE is a dream come true.
Multiplatform and multimedia-centric are relatively useless buzzwords for game developers. Until Amiga's SDK becomes as powerful as DirectX (not that I'm saying DirectX is perfect, just that it's nice not to have to reinvent the wheel all the time) the Amiga will never be a dream come true for developers.
At under 5MB total, the Amiga DE can even run piggy-back on game discs for Nintendo's Game Cube
and Sony's Playstation
That's a lot. The original Playstation only has 2 MB of system memory. The N64 has 4 MB. The Dreamcast has 16 MB. I'm not sure I want the OS eating up over 1/4 of the available memory on my console. Since it doesn't sound like they're talking about consoles, what do they mean when they say "multiplatform"?
Ports of StarOffice and Mozilla (and thereby Netscape 6 and beyond) are already planned
Lots of things are planned. Some of them actually end up happening.
What would an OS data structure be, if not a file? How about simple things like the floppy drive? That's a file under linux, and thus can be controlled by file permissions, as can ports, peripherals, etc.
/dev/port/80 so that you don't have to be root to open ports 1024? No.
I dunno. How about sockets? Can I do chmod +rw
Can I put access protections on the access protections so that someone can read a file but not see what the protections on the file are? No.
Can I put protections on only parts of a file? Say I want the introduction of my paper to be public but the financial data to be private? No.
Can I put access protections so that other people can't see what processes I'm running? Or so that they can only see how long it has been running but not how much memory it takes up? No.
Near as I can tell he didn't say anything with the slightest relevance to real time computing. Why was he chosen?
I don't see how it means any such thing. I mean, I'm all for alternative power sources, but why do you take this incident to mean "research alternative power sources"? Why not "build more traditional power plants"?
Actually I find that running it on my 400MHz machine is painful. At best. That's when it's not crashing or getting confused by frames.
Which services wouldn't he be able to use?
Besides, "excessive" is hardly an objective word. Maybe he'll find France's tax rate just fine. Or maybe he has other concerns in life than maximizing take home pay...especially if he's only planning on working abroad for a few years.
the absence of competition in the console market
You mean like the N64, PSX, and Dreamcast? Yeah, there's an absolute dearth of other consoles out there. Given the relative game line ups at the moment, I don't know why anyone would be buying a PS2 over a Dreamcast today. Maybe in 6 or 12 months when the PS2 has some true killer games out...but not today and not for Christmas.
You aren't paying for some global .biz...you are paying for a .biz served up by root-servers.net or whatever. That other guy charges you money to get served by a .biz that his servers push out. I could create my own .com hierarchy internally on my network but no one is going to be ludicrous enough to write a news story suggesting there is some kind of monumental conflict.
ICAAN should feel free to ignore whatever anyone else does. After all, this guy ignored what NSI/ICAAN were doing.
Causing a collision anywhere on the Internet is ethically wrong.
a. He presumes his ethics are the same as everyone else's.
b. The collision only occurs when you use non-standard root nameservers. Which is pretty much what you expect to have happen when you try to have two roots in a hierarchy.
How many buffer overruns does it take until it becomes clear that the QA and testing that Microsoft does on its products is perennially insufficient?
And you think that StarOffice is better in this regard how exactly?
But physical signatures can be forged as well. So those aren't foolproof, either. Both kinds of signatures merely raise the bar. The article in question adds no real useful knowledge to topic under discussion since the only question is whether the bar is raised high enough and whether our society is comfortable with the level of trust digital signatures provide.
Firstly, switching to Exchange means putting a Windows box on *every* desktop.
Why does it mean that? I use mutt to read mail from an Exchange server just fine. Exchange supports pop and imap, if the administrator enables them.
I worked for a very small company where we did the same thing. Guess we weren't smart enough to have our massive PR machine brainwash the world that we were doing something revolutionary. Probably because we didn't think we were. I'm sure other companies have done the same thing. They just didn't earn the endorsement of RMS and the FSF...whatever that's supposed to mean.
Really? It's slow as molasses on my Windows NT box :-(. Guess I'll keep using IE until Mozilla becomes an actual challenger.
Your offspring should start out the same way as everybody else.
Which everybody else are you talking about? Are you only going to give your kid one meal a day four times a week so he can be just like the average kid? Are you not going to teach him to read since most everybody else is illiterate, too?
I'd wager not. You'll probably give your kid nice clothes so they don't freeze in the winter and good food so they aren't malnourished and you'll send them to school. So obviously you aren't comparing them to the world population at large, but rather to some smaller, more select group of "peers". But why is are the peer criteria you selected the correct ones?
If I know how to make a certain algorithm, I should be able to use it in my software...
But the only reason you know about this algorithm is because of someone else. How is that different from monetary inheritance? If you figure out the algorithm all on your own then, sure, you can use it. But you haven't. You just "inherited" the knowledge of the algorithm. Why do you make a distinction between monetary inheritance and intellectual inheritance? If I have to start at ground zero to gain my money why don't you have to start at ground zero to gain knowledge?
With web-browsers this is currently near-irrelevent
Thank you for pointing out that your point is irrelevant.
but compare "Visual Basic" to "GCC"
We're not talking about Visual Basic and GCC.
Slashdot isn't about free software. It's "News For Nerds". The nerds I know use the best tool for the job rather than succumbing to ideological bigotry. On Windows platforms IE is, and will continue to be for the forseeable future, the best tool for the job. Speak for yourself; I never considered myself part of the free software community. I consider myself a software developer and I refuse to use inferior tools.
and the Dreamcast was released in 3Q 1999 but it's current games look as good or better than most PS2 launch titles.
And I never heard of anyone lining up to buy PS2 games because of their playability....
A Press Release about vaporware due out sometime in the next six months submitted anonymously.
I can see why this is news.
And I thought *BSD had something very similar to readline? (At least, the ash Makefile under linux says something to this effect.) I'd hardly say that as of February 1999 (when that page was written) readline provided a "significant unique capability...not generally available elsewhere." It's propaganda like that that hurts the FSF in the eyes of nonpartisan observers.
I'm surprised you read long enough to get past his childish "If you don't call it Free Software instead of Open Source I'm going to pretend I don't know what you're asking about."
In particular Mail 5: Jorrit Tyberghein -> Richard Stallman:
Note that in the first regards I'm asking a question about the LGPL license.
Five emails into this exchange and RMS hasn't bothered to answer this guy's extremely basic and painfully obvious question all because the guy said Open Source.
I also liked the end of Mail 11 when Jorrit Tyberghein begins to wonder what's the difference between writing software that depends on a closed source PS2 bridge and writing software that depends on a closed source libc or closed source X server and RMS lamely comes back with "if I can't write truly free software then I write no software". One wonders how he reconciles this with writing a gcc that supports closed source operating systems.
But why would you give every person on Earth their very own IP address? Give each family their own IP address and then have them run NAT.
Can I use DNSSEC today? Have the registrars announced any kind of plan or timeline for implementing it?