I've cross-compiled huge amounts of stuff using autoconf, and I think you're quite wrong. There are a few (and they are very few) autoconf tests that don't deal well when cross-compiling, but it's easy for the maintainer to provide a default for those cases (of course, most maintainers never cross-compile, so they don't even bother to do that). Most autoconf tests explicitly avoid running test programs precisely so they work well in a cross-compilation environment.
Morever, you have to ask yourself -- what's the alternative? Most other configuration frameworks I've seen simply fold up and die when presented with a cross compilation environment (especially wierd non-standard ones). Autoconf, with just a smidgen of forethought, works like a champ.
Personally, as a businessman, I would never, ever have RMS on a board. He is quite good at pontificating his views, but he is absolutely horrible at seeing other sides of arguments. It's his way or the highway.
It seems pretty clear that you've never worked with RMS. He will state his views very strongly, but if you think he's wrong, and you can show he's wrong, he'll switch, just like that. He's a real sucker for a logical argument.
[Of course, many people disagree with him on what are basically matters of opinion -- but you can hardly fault him for having his own!]
Maybe it's because I'm older than 12. But do gorwn adults actually enjoy playing all of the damned Mario/Luigi, and Pokemon games that are produced for Nintendo? It seems like all of the games are designed for little kids. On the other hand, PS2 has some incredible graphic, violent, adult games
(quick - who is the house member from your district?)
I've often wondered, and even checked out a lot of these `find your representative' web pages, &c. They always start out with the same question: `where do you live?'
The problem is that although I am a U.S. citizen, I live outside the U.S.
So my question is: do I have a representative? If so, where? I suppose possible answers might be the last place I lived in the U.S., or where I last voted, or where my parents live, but I can't seem to find any reference that gives this information.
Actually, I suspect a `newbie' will write code based on other languages that he is familiar with. Quite often this results in very bad code, even when compared with that written by a merely average programmer.
So this `benchmark' is basically good only for showing how a raw beginner (and more specifically, one who shares the particular programming background of the author) would fare using each language.
This may be a great metric for quick-'n'-dirty scripting languages, but not much else...
Re:bah -- qt the "de facto" standard?
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Er, having the `potential' to be the de-facto standard doesn't actually make it the de-facto-standard, however worthy it may seem.
In fact, as far as I can see, there simply isn't any `de-facto cross-platform standard' right now.
they fashion their own "source" of news that is itself simply a filtered bias towards other news, administered dutifully every day by human decision-makers who understand the values / interests / worldviews of the demographic they are serving.
If done well, this is a very valuable service, and in fact is a large part of what traditional media does. No one has the time to sift through all the raw material out there, and verify its truth, so we generally delegate this task to newspapers/magazines.
Of course, I'm not saying that slashdot does it well -- but I think it's more useful to complain about how slashdot does what it does, rather than what they do...
... and GNU utilities are generally POSIX conformant (or whatever the magic word is) as well, so they will act as you expect when you need them too; at the least, GNU maintainers usually track POSIX closely. The problem is that traditional vendors like sun seem to regard POSIX as the end goal, however minimal and least-common-denominator it manages to be. GNU maintainers pay more attention to what users actually want, even if it's not mandated by a large committee.
Decry such extra functionality as `bells and whistles' if you wish, but I regularly uses both solaris and GNU systems, and I assure you, for me, it is not.
Even if station operations were `shut down' while Tito was there, was it really necessary to do so, or was NASA just acting like a petulant child that hasn't gotten its way? Based on the evidence I've seen to date, I rather suspect the latter...
Perhaps Solaris has a bunch of stuff that sysadmins love, great, but let's face it -- for a user, it sucks rocks, and has sucked rocks for as long as I can remember (and I've been using suns for something like 15 years).
Sun userland utilities may conform to some buzzword standard (I don't really know), but in my experience, they're typically bug-ridden and feature-free; I guess sun doesn't have the money to maintain every little tool on the system to the same standard that free software manages (this is obviously a case where the highly distributed nature of free software maintainence wins big).
I know I could install a full set of gnu utilities, but frankly I don't want to bother -- I'd rather use an OS distribution that does it for me and allows painless upgrades (like debian).
[Unfortunately, I'm not usually in control of the suns I use, and as noted, the sysadmins may have other ideas...]
>> Conformism. I don't think it's as bad as people say. Certainly the streets of Tokyo don't look like the humourless regiments people seem to imagine, just people holding hands, laughing and enjoying themselves at the weekend in the glorious weather under the cherry blossom. I went to a Tokyo goth club and it was a fabulous experience <<
A lot of japanese have this misconception too: they say `oh look, lots of people dress very strangely; japan has embraced individuality!'
But in fact, all that's happened is number of models to conform to has increased somewhat; the urge is still there (though probably less so than in the past).
Um, Nintendo isn't denying that Microsoft has a right to try to do this, they're questioning whether it's in the retailers' best interests to let them do it...
Re:Mir and the commecialisation of Space travel
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The BBC reporter did suggest that there might also be a certain amount of clique-ism going on with the professional astronauts there too however, not wanting a civilian to get the chance to get up there.
I recall the previous space-station commander being quoted as saying (roughly) `if he shows up, we'll welcome him with open arms,' and generally got the impression that it's the bureaucrats who are freaking, not the actual astronauts.
>> I just hope Nintendo realizes that a large portion of gamers today are adults, and leaves the Pokemon crap off of this system. <<
I'm confused -- how does the availability of Pokemon on the system affect those who don't want to play it? The gameboy, at least, has a very wide variety of games available, even if Pokemon is among the most popular.
-Starbucks (probably wont happen but I can dream right?)
I've got a better idea: Jam Starbucks!
Whenever they try to open yet another branch or take over a competitor, somehow the necessary documents get misplaced. Bureaucratic incompetency? Nope -- satellite mind-control rays!
I predict one of the earliest practical application will be a real credit-card calculator -- one the same size and thickness as your credit cards.
Er, you do know that these already exist, don't you? I have one I bought back in 1994, and it's the same height, width, and (really) thickness as my credit card; I think it cost me about $20. I kept it in my wallet for a long time, but I guess being sat on on several times a say proved too much, 'cause it don't work no more...
Do not look into laser with REMAINING eye. So beautiful, you only see it once
I was once in a store that had a basket of little metal tubes, each with a lens on one end and a button. I thought they must be some sort of cool electronic kaleidescope or something, so I picked one up, put my eye to the lens, and pressed the button.
It turns out they were laser pointers.
Thankfully, I can still see fine, although I wonder if there's a nice little burn mark on my retina...:-)
According to a recent NY Times op-ed piece, this is so far one of the smoothest presidential transitions on record -- largely because Clinton is being quite gracious. The article writer give evidence too, so do you have any evidence to the contrary?
Or rather, it did three years ago, the last time I used it. I assume this hasn't changed, but you never know (especially since Cygnus dragged their feet quite shamefully when it came to integrating the hurd changes into the mainline gdb).
LaTeX kind of tries to hide TeX, but it doesn't really do a very good job of it. Any non-trivial LaTeX document eventually seems to end up looking like it's written in Teco...
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I've cross-compiled huge amounts of stuff using autoconf, and I think you're quite wrong. There are a few (and they are very few) autoconf tests that don't deal well when cross-compiling, but it's easy for the maintainer to provide a default for those cases (of course, most maintainers never cross-compile, so they don't even bother to do that). Most autoconf tests explicitly avoid running test programs precisely so they work well in a cross-compilation environment.
Morever, you have to ask yourself -- what's the alternative? Most other configuration frameworks I've seen simply fold up and die when presented with a cross compilation environment (especially wierd non-standard ones). Autoconf, with just a smidgen of forethought, works like a champ.
It seems pretty clear that you've never worked with RMS. He will state his views very strongly, but if you think he's wrong, and you can show he's wrong, he'll switch, just like that. He's a real sucker for a logical argument.
[Of course, many people disagree with him on what are basically matters of opinion -- but you can hardly fault him for having his own!]
13, eh?
Almost as annoying are people that start out their reply with `No.' -- and then follow it with complete drivel.
Only one person is allowed to use `No.', and that's Henry Spencer (since he's always right).
Gnome does this as well (at least the version I'm using does).
It's horribly annoying...
I've often wondered, and even checked out a lot of these `find your representative' web pages, &c. They always start out with the same question: `where do you live?'
The problem is that although I am a U.S. citizen, I live outside the U.S.
So my question is: do I have a representative? If so, where? I suppose possible answers might be the last place I lived in the U.S., or where I last voted, or where my parents live, but I can't seem to find any reference that gives this information.
Anyone out there have any idea?
Actually, I suspect a `newbie' will write code based on other languages that he is familiar with. Quite often this results in very bad code, even when compared with that written by a merely average programmer.
So this `benchmark' is basically good only for showing how a raw beginner (and more specifically, one who shares the particular programming background of the author) would fare using each language.
This may be a great metric for quick-'n'-dirty scripting languages, but not much else...
In fact, as far as I can see, there simply isn't any `de-facto cross-platform standard' right now.
Of course, I'm not saying that slashdot does it well -- but I think it's more useful to complain about how slashdot does what it does, rather than what they do...
Decry such extra functionality as `bells and whistles' if you wish, but I regularly uses both solaris and GNU systems, and I assure you, for me, it is not.
Even if station operations were `shut down' while Tito was there, was it really necessary to do so, or was NASA just acting like a petulant child that hasn't gotten its way? Based on the evidence I've seen to date, I rather suspect the latter...
Sun userland utilities may conform to some buzzword standard (I don't really know), but in my experience, they're typically bug-ridden and feature-free; I guess sun doesn't have the money to maintain every little tool on the system to the same standard that free software manages (this is obviously a case where the highly distributed nature of free software maintainence wins big).
I know I could install a full set of gnu utilities, but frankly I don't want to bother -- I'd rather use an OS distribution that does it for me and allows painless upgrades (like debian).
[Unfortunately, I'm not usually in control of the suns I use, and as noted, the sysadmins may have other ideas...]
But in fact, all that's happened is number of models to conform to has increased somewhat; the urge is still there (though probably less so than in the past).
Um, Nintendo isn't denying that Microsoft has a right to try to do this, they're questioning whether it's in the retailers' best interests to let them do it...
Thank god too, because they're infinitely better than the technology they replace (cassettes).
I'm confused -- how does the availability of Pokemon on the system affect those who don't want to play it? The gameboy, at least, has a very wide variety of games available, even if Pokemon is among the most popular.
Or is this a self-image thing?
Whenever they try to open yet another branch or take over a competitor, somehow the necessary documents get misplaced. Bureaucratic incompetency? Nope -- satellite mind-control rays!
Er, you do know that these already exist, don't you? I have one I bought back in 1994, and it's the same height, width, and (really) thickness as my credit card; I think it cost me about $20. I kept it in my wallet for a long time, but I guess being sat on on several times a say proved too much, 'cause it don't work no more...
I was once in a store that had a basket of little metal tubes, each with a lens on one end and a button. I thought they must be some sort of cool electronic kaleidescope or something, so I picked one up, put my eye to the lens, and pressed the button.
It turns out they were laser pointers.
Thankfully, I can still see fine, although I wonder if there's a nice little burn mark on my retina... :-)
It means that Jesus supports Ogg Vorbis. Duh.
* The snake is Bill Gates; Jesus is hitting him because, well, it's just fun to hit Bill Gates with a stick.
According to a recent NY Times op-ed piece, this is so far one of the smoothest presidential transitions on record -- largely because Clinton is being quite gracious. The article writer give evidence too, so do you have any evidence to the contrary?
-Miles
Or rather, it did three years ago, the last time I used it. I assume this hasn't changed, but you never know (especially since Cygnus dragged their feet quite shamefully when it came to integrating the hurd changes into the mainline gdb).
-Miles
Care to give some examples?
LaTeX kind of tries to hide TeX, but it doesn't really do a very good job of it. Any non-trivial LaTeX document eventually seems to end up looking like it's written in Teco...
-Miles