It's a bit pricier than other providers, but hey, look what happened to all those dumb fuckers who charged $25/mo. for broadband. Oh, there aren't any left? I wonder why? That, and they rock.
The family has decided on ornaments. Basically, each of us buys a Christmas tree ornament and they all go into a pool. Then we each take one. The money we'd otherwise spend is going to charity.
Well, I guess that's cool and all, but it's really not very exciting. So this morning I set my brother up with infinite email addresses. anything@the.virtual.domain.i.created.for.him gets forwarded to his regular address. Merry Christmas, bro!
McDonnell-Douglas and Fokker come to mind. I'm not sure who ownz who anymore, but there are a lot of planes currently in service that were built before the last ten years' worth of aquisitions. Not all airliners are Boeing, but a significantly higher percentage of new airliners are Boeing than are old airliners.
I didn't say that I agreed with the comment, I was merely pointing out to Carnage4Life the fact that he had probably misinterpretted it... I know that you can't do that in straight C.
I believe the gist of his argument is not that the kernel should be tied to some other compiler instead of gcc, but rather to the language spec, so that any standards compliant compiler should be able to compile it.
You might be surprised at how un-common common sense actually is...
...To the extent that I wonder why anyone bothers to call it common. Some people call it "horse sense". I guess horses generally don't die doing stupid shit.
Because a book review is actual content. This article's got nothing. It basically says "Here's an interesting piece, but you'll have to pay to see it." That's very different from a/. book review, which generally consists of a few paragraphs of original writing.
Not only that, but GCC has to dodge patents left and right. There are lots of optimizations that are verboten from the project for that reason, and will probably be included when the patents expire. In the meantime, the GCC crew is left with the incredibly consuming process of developing non-infringing optimizations that simply aren't allowed to be as good as they could be.
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For an application I can see a translator maybe doing half the job, for an OS what you suggest is a joke.
Remember, though, that this "operating system" was pretty much a joke too. Its applications didn't run in an environment any different than the OS's. No virtualization, no interruptions, nothing. I think that a translator that did a halfway decent job with application code would have done just as well with OS code, simply because on that particular platform, at that particular juncture in computing history, there was no difference between the two.
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DR-DOS stands for Digital Research DOS, not Doctor DOS.
HP-UX doesn't stand for "hockey pucks" either, but so what?
I bet it wouldn't be too hard to get that limit relaxed to something like no sonic booms below 15,000 feet (~4500m). A military plane once passed Mach 1 less than 2,000 feet (~600m) above the house of a friend of mine (at the time, he was living about forty miles west of Detroit in a rural area). He said it was really loud and shook the Earth, therein lies the problem. Moving it higher off the ground, is IMHO, a much better solution than an outright ban. In that regulatory environment, I can imagine the major hubs having regular supersonic connecting flights to each other, with conventional flights to all other airports. Think of it as a 'backbone network' for 'people packets'.
Perhaps he is talking about the fact that the HDTV tuner card and the video card work completely independantly of one another?
Right, that's how my (admittedly, non-HDTV) tuner works too, but that's beside the point. When the tuner stuff and the video stuff are on the same PCB in the same slot in your computer, replacing one means replacing both.
What does your video card have to do with the serial number of your tuner card? Really, what ARE you talking about?
Well, considering that at least in my case, the video card and the tuner card are the same card, I think he's probably not talking out his ass. Which leads directly to my question: Really, what ARE you talking about?
Making a wireless LAN with Bluetooth is just a pointless as making an 802.11b enabled phone.
Yes, except that an 802.11b enabled phone would effectively be a VoIP cell phone. If the freenets have their way, you could set up your own VoIP gateway back at home on your broadband connection and have your very own cellular phone, sans air time charges. Naturally, it would be a little flaky and a little limited compared to the commercial cell networks, but you did hear me when I said sans air time charages, right? The same goes for contracts.
Well, it would qualify as a EULA if there were such a thing in the open source community as an "end user". By the very nature of open source, there are no "end users" because anyone is allowed to jump into development. The concept of an "end user" is an artifact of assuming a producer-consumer relationship in which the producers produce things and the consumers exclusively consume things. This is definitely the case in the commercial software world... but not in the Free software world.
Right now the web is unrated, so if nothing gets through a ratings-based filter, then a censorware author would be shooting himself in the foot to write such a filter because it would block everything and no one would use it. Conversely, if no one used ratings-based filters (or more likely, they were used only in markets that most websites don't care about) then websites would have no reason to rate themselves.
That was spot on funny but I don't think people (particularly the moderators) understand that you're talking about advertisements as graffitos and therefore miss the joke.
Around here (Chicago) I've seen actual (as in rouge cans of spray-paint) graffitos that say "AIX" and "FTP".
How will we ever know when bin Laden is really dead? The Taliban would never admit their 'Christ" was killable. This whole thing could go on literally forever and therefor our freedoms and privacies could also be limited 'forever'.
Ah, I see you're trying (or perhaps trying not) to make a 1984 reference here. I believe the name you're looking for is "Emmanuel Goldstein".
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It's a bit pricier than other providers, but hey, look what happened to all those dumb fuckers who charged $25/mo. for broadband. Oh, there aren't any left? I wonder why? That, and they rock.
The family has decided on ornaments. Basically, each of us buys a Christmas tree ornament and they all go into a pool. Then we each take one. The money we'd otherwise spend is going to charity.
Well, I guess that's cool and all, but it's really not very exciting. So this morning I set my brother up with infinite email addresses. anything@the.virtual.domain.i.created.for.him gets forwarded to his regular address. Merry Christmas, bro!
Also, no stockholders. That's one less monkey on their back.
There are rumors that a wing was on fire. Even without an engine, most planes would be hard pressed to survive with a burning wing.
McDonnell-Douglas and Fokker come to mind. I'm not sure who ownz who anymore, but there are a lot of planes currently in service that were built before the last ten years' worth of aquisitions. Not all airliners are Boeing, but a significantly higher percentage of new airliners are Boeing than are old airliners.
I didn't say that I agreed with the comment, I was merely pointing out to Carnage4Life the fact that he had probably misinterpretted it... I know that you can't do that in straight C.
I believe the gist of his argument is not that the kernel should be tied to some other compiler instead of gcc, but rather to the language spec, so that any standards compliant compiler should be able to compile it.
That's exactly what I tell my SUV-driving acquaintances as I find parking spaces in San Francisco in my little Volkswagen GTI.
Likewise as I cruise past a mile of stopped traffic on my bright shiny Schwinn Mesa GS.
You might be surprised at how un-common common sense actually is...
...To the extent that I wonder why anyone bothers to call it common. Some people call it "horse sense". I guess horses generally don't die doing stupid shit.
Why is this any different to reviewing a book?
/. book review, which generally consists of a few paragraphs of original writing.
Because a book review is actual content. This article's got nothing. It basically says "Here's an interesting piece, but you'll have to pay to see it." That's very different from a
Not only that, but GCC has to dodge patents left and right. There are lots of optimizations that are verboten from the project for that reason, and will probably be included when the patents expire. In the meantime, the GCC crew is left with the incredibly consuming process of developing non-infringing optimizations that simply aren't allowed to be as good as they could be.
For an application I can see a translator maybe doing half the job, for an OS what you suggest is a joke.
Remember, though, that this "operating system" was pretty much a joke too. Its applications didn't run in an environment any different than the OS's. No virtualization, no interruptions, nothing. I think that a translator that did a halfway decent job with application code would have done just as well with OS code, simply because on that particular platform, at that particular juncture in computing history, there was no difference between the two.
DR-DOS stands for Digital Research DOS, not Doctor DOS.
HP-UX doesn't stand for "hockey pucks" either, but so what?
I bet it wouldn't be too hard to get that limit relaxed to something like no sonic booms below 15,000 feet (~4500m). A military plane once passed Mach 1 less than 2,000 feet (~600m) above the house of a friend of mine (at the time, he was living about forty miles west of Detroit in a rural area). He said it was really loud and shook the Earth, therein lies the problem. Moving it higher off the ground, is IMHO, a much better solution than an outright ban. In that regulatory environment, I can imagine the major hubs having regular supersonic connecting flights to each other, with conventional flights to all other airports. Think of it as a 'backbone network' for 'people packets'.
Everybody knows by now that it's the Open Source companies that go out of business the soonest.
Name one "Open Source company" that manufactures HDTV tuner cards.
Perhaps he is talking about the fact that the HDTV tuner card and the video card work completely independantly of one another?
Right, that's how my (admittedly, non-HDTV) tuner works too, but that's beside the point. When the tuner stuff and the video stuff are on the same PCB in the same slot in your computer, replacing one means replacing both.
What does your video card have to do with the serial number of your tuner card? Really, what ARE you talking about?
Well, considering that at least in my case, the video card and the tuner card are the same card, I think he's probably not talking out his ass. Which leads directly to my question: Really, what ARE you talking about?
Making a wireless LAN with Bluetooth is just a pointless as making an 802.11b enabled phone.
Yes, except that an 802.11b enabled phone would effectively be a VoIP cell phone. If the freenets have their way, you could set up your own VoIP gateway back at home on your broadband connection and have your very own cellular phone, sans air time charges. Naturally, it would be a little flaky and a little limited compared to the commercial cell networks, but you did hear me when I said sans air time charages, right? The same goes for contracts.
And besides, all those issues will be solved eventually.
The GPL qualifies as an EULA.
Well, it would qualify as a EULA if there were such a thing in the open source community as an "end user". By the very nature of open source, there are no "end users" because anyone is allowed to jump into development. The concept of an "end user" is an artifact of assuming a producer-consumer relationship in which the producers produce things and the consumers exclusively consume things. This is definitely the case in the commercial software world... but not in the Free software world.
Yeah, right. By the way, what is that MSN thing?
MSN stands for Microsoft Network.
There's no need of suspicious theories about MS paying them for it.
Of course not. MSN is Microsoft.
Chicken, meet egg.
Right now the web is unrated, so if nothing gets through a ratings-based filter, then a censorware author would be shooting himself in the foot to write such a filter because it would block everything and no one would use it. Conversely, if no one used ratings-based filters (or more likely, they were used only in markets that most websites don't care about) then websites would have no reason to rate themselves.
That was spot on funny but I don't think people (particularly the moderators) understand that you're talking about advertisements as graffitos and therefore miss the joke.
Around here (Chicago) I've seen actual (as in rouge cans of spray-paint) graffitos that say "AIX" and "FTP".
Does anyone have sources for these quotes? I would actually be amazed and amused if they were verifiably true. As it stands I'm only mildly amused.
How will we ever know when bin Laden is really dead? The Taliban would never admit their 'Christ" was killable. This whole thing could go on literally forever and therefor our freedoms and privacies could also be limited 'forever'.
Ah, I see you're trying (or perhaps trying not) to make a 1984 reference here. I believe the name you're looking for is "Emmanuel Goldstein".
This is called Debtor's prison, and is one reason the original colonists wanted to break away from England.
Debtors are people who borrow money, not people who steal it. We're talking about fraud here.