This must be the millionth time a Slashdot reader has stumbled upon some ancient topic, and reported it as News. Reagan was still president when research on this got started.
This is almost as bad as when AP and Reuters covered that idiot undergraduate who 'discovered' that TCP/IP could not work for interplanetary communications.
Maybe when you learn something for the first time, you should research its background to find out that your ignorance is not shared by others.
Obviously written by a distaff marketeer
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It is amazing what prose the academically challenged can accomplish.
I would assume that the purpose of moving their
compiler to Linux is to allow the Visual Component
Library's (VCL) C++ binding to work on Linux. It's by far the nicest GUI toolkit in existence, IMHO. Borland uses it for C++/Delphi/Kylix, etc.
I seriously doubt that Borland wants to compete
with gcc. (gcc is of course my favorite, as it should be for any true geek, especially you Linux/BSD guys:-)
However, it might help gcc improve itself. Gcc is
far too forgiving in allowing non-ANSI constructs,
and also allows mixing of C and C++ code. (Like
virtual members of a C structure.) Running some typical Gnuish code such as Glib and Gtk through the Borland compiler
is a good method of evaluating code quality.
If anyone recalls, AOL needed Netscape
so that they would have a cross-platform
player for their content, especially on their
planned Internet devices. Wouldn't they also
need an OS on which Mozilla-based products
could run?
Yes, this could be a corporate dilution of
a community-supported company. But it might
also be an awesome opportunity to expand Linux's
presence infinitely.
Certainly a corporate giant such as AOLTW is not
a philanthropic patron, but maybe they will
support Linux the way they have supported a
profitless project like Mozilla for years.
Not for charity, but enlightened self-interest.
This seems to be the GPS equivalent of the web page PostIt note,
such as iMarkup or other things like that. The only difference is that the key into the database of messages is a geographical coordinate, instead of a URL.
2.4 is so much better than 2.2. Sure, it has warts, but the benefits far outweigh the problems. Its ability to boot so well on unknown hardware is enough of a feature for me. Everything else is icing on the cake.
I don't think the authors have any knowledge of physics at all. Electrons are in everything we do, are the arbiters of every chemical process, and are the binders of every molecule.
An electron beam is no different from a cathode ray, where electrons are freed from an ionizing or very hot negative source, are are then attracted toward a highly charged positive destination.
The common CRT (cathode RAY tube) that most you people are using to read this right now has an e-beam aimed directly at your head. It just happens that the vast majority of it is intercepted by the phosphor screen.
Judging from the link to the activist site, it's not 100% in all cases.
I used to work at a place that had a tape robot. The machine would get a request for some data item; the robot would go pick it up, load it, and run it. Those things look really damn cool.
For half of each month, the darkness of
the nights on Earth is moderated by the
sun-illuminated moon hanging overhead.
For the moon, it's the same thing, except that it does not rotate with respect
to the earth, other than the single rotation
that matches its revolution.
So the side of the moon on the Earth's side
is illuminated every fortnightly lunar night by earthlight, so it is never
truly dark, and the occulted side is
never illuminated by earthlight at night, so it is much darker.
And earthlight is, as one would expect, significantly brighter than any full
moon would appear here.
Imagine orbiting over the far side during
a lunar night, with only stars and planets
lighting up the soil. Any man-made light
would probably be easily visible.
This would be good material for a
sci-fi/horror flick!
A lot of things with solid state power amplifiers
have had water or ammonia convection coolers in them
for a very long time... I can't remember ever
hearing of one leaking.
Not to worry.
Nothing new has been invented for years
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These things are so weak. Cargo pockets?
Great inventions are ones like the airplane,
penicillin, superheterodyning, the transistor, and the LASER.
Stupid new products sold by corporate whores are not news at all. We live in a world of lamers.
We should tell them that we had the courage to stand up to aggresion, did not cower in fear, nor did we ransom away the rights and freedoms that our fathers died for. We must give them pride, and leave behind a legacy at least as good as our generation found it, if not better.
I don't know how to describe a lot of "safety" advocates in the media this week, except, maybe -- Cowards.
The children's choir at the Vatican sang this song
during the weekly services on Sunday. I guess they
were not aware of Clear Channel's higher moral
authority.
Compiling statically, I have gotten programs down to around 50k, even with the Borland suite. The.exe is larger, but you don't need to add the runtime DLL.
Netscape has been developing their newer, more capable XPCOM interface for Mozilla/NS6, and is moving toward the use of the tag. Why? To comply with the DOM model. And they are encouraging developers to use it instead of the old plugin API.
The plugin developers need only rewrite their API code for XPCOM and (yes, unfortunately) COM. Competent programmers will not find that an unreasonable burden.
I don't know all of the people who might be George Tirebiter, but the one I know is the recurring character from Firesign Theatre, whose compatriots include Nick Danger and Rocky Rococo.
I would never think that a poster who uses this name would be a real person. How naive can some people be? Very much, apparently.;-)
It looks like they merely packaged a normal computer in a small space, with an HD and no keyboard. I bet it has a regular OS bootup procedure.
A webpad should have no moving parts, an always-loaded(prom?) OS, and be instant-on. Cheap and easy to manufacture.
MS's VM was frozen at the beginning of the Sun
lawsuit, so it is not really that relevant anymore.
We haven't used it for a very long time.
We always bundle a JRE with our apps anyway,
in order to be independent of anything the user might already have
installed. So, if they download our stuff, then they have a VM. No problem!
I usually side with the OS guys whenever something like this happens, but not this time. "KIllustrator" is so obviously stepping on Adobe's toes. They were there first.
Adobe has traditionally been one of the "good guys." They have always been on the side of the developers, and have a developer culture themselves. And Illustrator is their flagship product, not some obscure thing they are toying with for market research. They have used this name since the 80's, for god's sake. Give them a break, be mature for once, use another name.
When their little Cat device started turning up as the hardware front end for a lot of different practical applications, Digital Convergence should have embraced the opportunity, not threaten its unforseen fans.
Even those that despised the ad-oriented application loved the neato device. Taken in vacuo, the device has a lot of utility, and, well, "coolness quotient." Digital Convergence had a wonderful opportunity to access a large pool of interest, programmer support, and continued (free) innovation. For example, if they merely supported, packaged and sold an open-source do-it-yourself inventory system, they could make a mint. Maybe not something as huge as their dreams, but steady income.
It seems obvious once again that people are making snap judgements with insufficient information. The Pentagon's Public Affairs Offices are not exactly the prime repositories of technical ability. God forbid.
dd would only perform a single write, which is in no way enough to delete all traces. That would be like erasing an audio tape; tiny vestiges of the original recording would still be present.
The military has always known how to properly purge disks, for example with software such as Fortress, which has been around forever. It performs multiple passes of the disk, writing on the disk with different data, and in different scan patterns, with various read tests in between. It is very thorough.
And let us not forget to mention large-scale disk degaussing.
This "news" is much like the press "discovering" TEMPEST (the ability to sense radiations from a computer and monitor from a distance)last year, even though that technology has been publicly known for many years now.
When AOL took over NS, it was made clear then that the focus of Netscape would change to being the access point for AOL content. AOL would continue supporting Mozilla development for its own purposes.
This is like Columbus "discovering" the new world; forget those pesky inhabitants who have been there for millenia.
It has been obvious for a while now that browser technology has become "jellybeaned" (so common it is like a factory cranking out jellybeans), and is insufficient to be the sole support for a company. Of course what AOL wants is software that can be embedded in any box imaginable, delivering AOL/Time Warner content, where the real money lies.
Some Mozilla spawn on a wireless Linux webpad would be just perfect. Jellybean that, please!
There have always been HyperCard lookalikes, such as
SuperCard , and
MetaCard.
Maybe one of those companies could breathe some life into it.
Maybe, also, it would generate more interest if it were a browser plugin.
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Wouldn't you rather see the thing actually improve, than just see it get a release label?
This is almost as bad as when AP and Reuters covered that idiot undergraduate who 'discovered' that TCP/IP could not work for interplanetary communications.
Maybe when you learn something for the first time, you should research its background to find out that your ignorance is not shared by others.
It is amazing what prose the academically challenged can accomplish.
I seriously doubt that Borland wants to compete with gcc. (gcc is of course my favorite, as it should be for any true geek, especially you Linux/BSD guys :-)
However, it might help gcc improve itself. Gcc is far too forgiving in allowing non-ANSI constructs, and also allows mixing of C and C++ code. (Like virtual members of a C structure.) Running some typical Gnuish code such as Glib and Gtk through the Borland compiler is a good method of evaluating code quality.
Yes, this could be a corporate dilution of a community-supported company. But it might also be an awesome opportunity to expand Linux's presence infinitely.
Certainly a corporate giant such as AOLTW is not a philanthropic patron, but maybe they will support Linux the way they have supported a profitless project like Mozilla for years. Not for charity, but enlightened self-interest.
So I sure hope they don't try to patent this!
2.4 is so much better than 2.2. Sure, it has warts, but the benefits far outweigh the problems. Its ability to boot so well on unknown hardware is enough of a feature for me. Everything else is icing on the cake.
I don't think the authors have any knowledge of physics at all. Electrons are in everything we do, are the arbiters of every chemical process, and are the binders of every molecule.
An electron beam is no different from a cathode ray, where electrons are freed from an ionizing or very hot negative source, are are then attracted toward a highly charged positive destination.
The common CRT (cathode RAY tube) that most you people are using to read this right now has an e-beam aimed directly at your head. It just happens that the vast majority of it is intercepted by the phosphor screen.
Judging from the link to the activist site, it's not 100% in all cases.
I used to work at a place that had a tape robot. The machine would get a request for some data item; the robot would go pick it up, load it, and run it. Those things look really damn cool.
For half of each month, the darkness of
the nights on Earth is moderated by the
sun-illuminated moon hanging overhead.
For the moon, it's the same thing, except
that it does not rotate with respect
to the earth, other than the single rotation
that matches its revolution.
So the side of the moon on the Earth's side
is illuminated every fortnightly lunar night by earthlight, so it is never
truly dark, and the occulted side is
never illuminated by earthlight at night, so it is much darker.
And earthlight is, as one would expect, significantly brighter than any full
moon would appear here.
Imagine orbiting over the far side during
a lunar night, with only stars and planets
lighting up the soil. Any man-made light
would probably be easily visible.
This would be good material for a
sci-fi/horror flick!
A lot of things with solid state power amplifiers
have had water or ammonia convection coolers in them
for a very long time... I can't remember ever
hearing of one leaking.
Not to worry.
These things are so weak. Cargo pockets?
Great inventions are ones like the airplane,
penicillin, superheterodyning, the transistor, and the LASER.
Stupid new products sold by corporate whores are not news at all. We live in a world of lamers.
Hee. ;-)
There's no 'i' in it at all!
It's a subtle ploy from the minions of Injustice!
I don't know how to describe a lot of "safety" advocates in the media this week, except, maybe -- Cowards.
The children's choir at the Vatican sang this song
during the weekly services on Sunday. I guess they
were not aware of Clear Channel's higher moral
authority.
Compiling statically, I have gotten programs down to around 50k, even with the Borland suite. The .exe is larger, but you don't need to add the runtime DLL.
The plugin developers need only rewrite their API code for XPCOM and (yes, unfortunately) COM. Competent programmers will not find that an unreasonable burden.
I don't think Cringely is aware of this.
Don't get me wrong, I love NS/Mozilla, hate IE.
I would never think that a poster who uses this name would be a real person. How naive can some people be? Very much, apparently. ;-)
It looks like they merely packaged a normal computer in a small space, with an HD and no keyboard. I bet it has a regular OS bootup procedure.
A webpad should have no moving parts, an always-loaded(prom?) OS, and be instant-on. Cheap and easy to manufacture.
MS's VM was frozen at the beginning of the Sun lawsuit, so it is not really that relevant anymore. We haven't used it for a very long time.
We always bundle a JRE with our apps anyway, in order to be independent of anything the user might already have installed. So, if they download our stuff, then they have a VM. No problem!
I usually side with the OS guys whenever something like this happens, but not this time. "KIllustrator" is so obviously stepping on Adobe's toes. They were there first.
Adobe has traditionally been one of the "good guys." They have always been on the side of the developers, and have a developer culture themselves. And Illustrator is their flagship product, not some obscure thing they are toying with for market research. They have used this name since the 80's, for god's sake. Give them a break, be mature for once, use another name.
When their little Cat device started turning up as the hardware front end for a lot of different practical applications, Digital Convergence should have embraced the opportunity, not threaten its unforseen fans.
Even those that despised the ad-oriented application loved the neato device. Taken in vacuo, the device has a lot of utility, and, well, "coolness quotient." Digital Convergence had a wonderful opportunity to access a large pool of interest, programmer support, and continued (free) innovation. For example, if they merely supported, packaged and sold an open-source do-it-yourself inventory system, they could make a mint. Maybe not something as huge as their dreams, but steady income.
It seems obvious once again that people are making snap judgements with insufficient information. The Pentagon's Public Affairs Offices are not exactly the prime repositories of technical ability. God forbid.
dd would only perform a single write, which is in no way enough to delete all traces. That would be like erasing an audio tape; tiny vestiges of the original recording would still be present.
The military has always known how to properly purge disks, for example with software such as Fortress, which has been around forever. It performs multiple passes of the disk, writing on the disk with different data, and in different scan patterns, with various read tests in between. It is very thorough. And let us not forget to mention large-scale disk degaussing.
This "news" is much like the press "discovering" TEMPEST (the ability to sense radiations from a computer and monitor from a distance)last year, even though that technology has been publicly known for many years now.
When AOL took over NS, it was made clear then that the focus of Netscape would change to being the access point for AOL content. AOL would continue supporting Mozilla development for its own purposes.
This is like Columbus "discovering" the new world; forget those pesky inhabitants who have been there for millenia.
It has been obvious for a while now that browser technology has become "jellybeaned" (so common it is like a factory cranking out jellybeans), and is insufficient to be the sole support for a company. Of course what AOL wants is software that can be embedded in any box imaginable, delivering AOL/Time Warner content, where the real money lies.
Some Mozilla spawn on a wireless Linux webpad would be just perfect. Jellybean that , please!
There have always been HyperCard lookalikes, such as SuperCard , and MetaCard. Maybe one of those companies could breathe some life into it.
Maybe, also, it would generate more interest if it were a browser plugin.