For more information on the Chinese government's record on human rights, visit Harry Wu's site. He also has a book Bitter Winds : A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag - Harry Wu which talks about his experiences as a political prisoner.
I'm not particularly familiar with Cuba, but this site seems a reasonable place to start research.
Adobe is a hawk when it comes to what they consider their intellectual property, and they are just throwing their weight around. They need to complain a lot so that politicians believe that there is a problem. The nerve, they want to get reimbursed for translating their software into Mandarin.
If Adobe were to pull out, some Asian competitor (or, gasp, free software) would fill their market niche, at a lower cost and probably higher quality. And those Asian competitors would have a much easier time delivering English-language versions than the other way around. If someone else can make money selling products in China, good for them. Adobe is considering withdrawing from the market. Higher quality from free software? A real graphics designer laughs at the GIMP.
Adobe won't pull out. They are just saber rattling. Pulling out would be foolish. They'd rather give their software away than let some other company take over their market niche. If you read the article, it's clear that they've run the numbers and it's not worth it. Run a google search for cost benefit analysis.
I have no idea why we have a normalized trade relationship with this country and yet Cuba is still under an embargo China is a huge market for cheap products and (close to) slave labor. It serves American corporate interests to ignore human rights issues in China. As for Cuba, Cuban-American voters - same reason we support Israel.
Heh, I remember that 386 to 486 app, it added/checked for a 0 byte file in your C:\DOS directory. The CPU detection routine didn't work if you ran it on an actual Pentium.
Nope, there are two companies: Anderson Consulting (technology) and Arther Anderson (accounting). Anderson Consulting changed their name to Accenture for various reasons, but Arthur Andersen is still around.
There's nothing wrong with vigilante justice. Try comparing the crime rates in the Wild West with any modern American city. When you compensate for population growth, the Wild West was a much safer place to be - most of the murders were drunken men fighting duels, rape and murder were unheard of.
You might consider reading the archives of the LispOS mailing list - it's always easier to learn from the mistakes of others.
From what I've heard, the Lisp machines were awesome for Lisp hackers because the entire OS was written in Lisp. Easy to modify, and possible to understand.
Um, no. There are three major Romanization standards for Chinese, and pinyin is the standard for the PRC. It's possible to use accent marks and such to indicate pronounciation. Changing keyboards isn't really necessary - there are several input methods. Programming languages don't necessarily have to change, but it's not impossible to do so - Algol68 supported several non-English languages.
Microsoft OS/2 began as a joint project w/IBM. In 1988, Microsoft recruited Dave Cutler and his VMS programming team from Digital. The internals of Windows NT are quite similar to VMS as a result, Cutler used what he knew. OS/2 1.x was a 16bit OS, and that's when the split occurred.
Points 1-4 are a result of that, NTFS is a descendant of HPFS with variable clusters size, Unicode support, and other improvements.
Point 5, of course not, the system design is similar, but not identical. There is also a question of architecture dependence.
Point 6, it was Microsoft OS/2, the name change came later.
Point 7. yes os2ss.exe in \winnt\system32, it supports 16-bit OS/2 1.x programs, only a fool (e.g. Netscape) abandons working code. The PM libraries were dropped after 4.0. On the other hand, there is relatively little going for the arguement that it is based on VMS, apart from some wishful thinking, or because OS/2 might also be so based.
You mean aside from the fact that the same man designed both systems, the kernel structure and APIs are similar, and VMS + 1 = WNT?
So now they're gonna start using non-ascii characters in the code? Oh that's a joy, like i really wanna have to look up how to make greek characters in text editors.
More and more, Perl seems to resemble APL. The emphasis on one-liners, TMTOWTDI, VHL monadic or dyadic operators, and reputation as a write-only language. Larry Wall seems to have the goal of evolving Perl into a natural language or something equally complex. Non-ASCII characters seem like a mistake to me as well, Unicode support is far from universal and it introduces unnecessary complications, especially for parsing Perl programs. At the very least, there should be some alternate form of ASCII representation, possibly similar to Morgan Stanley's A+. Most modern APL style languages use ASCII characters for precisely this reason. If using a tool is too complex, people will look elsewhere.
Don't forget MPE/ix. Maybe the new company should consider moving all their "big iron" to linux. One platform with the benefits of open source and free software.
Let me know when Linux gets clustering support, security, or uptime comparable to OpenVMS or Tru64.
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Correction noted, I'm not sure where I picked up the idea that he wrote it in 24 hours.
One of these days, I'd like to write an editor with A+ or J as a macro language.
It kind of reminds me of APL zealots (yes, there used to be those, and there probably still around in hiding). They claimed much of the same things... that APL should be the language that everyone uses (I remember someone trying to convince me that APL would be a great language for an accounting system). They would NEVER admit that APL was hard to maintain.
Nowadays most of us APL zealots have moved onto J, K, or A+ all of which have most of the traditional procedural primitives, for, while, do, if, etc. There are many programming tasks where maintenance is not an issue but speed of development is, for example, rapid prototyping. Structured and Commented APL is not hard to maintain if written by a competant programmer.
From one of the few remaining countries with a death penalty.
There are many countries that still have a death penalty: any country with an Islamic legal code, Singapore, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc.
From a country that still taxes it's people even if they reside in a foreign country (Only a few countries still do this; one being Libya)
The U.S. has double taxation treaties with many countries, it's a question of how much time you spend in the other country.
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Unlikely. Read up on the Transputer or Thinking Machines inc. Massively parallel systems are a bitch to program, particularly with C.
Good point. A google search on comp.lang.c would probably find a good example.
Some code will compile under C and C++, but produce different results.
//* foo */ 2;
For example,
#include
int main()
{
int x = 4
printf("\n%d", x);
return 0;
}
// style comments were added to C99, but you get the idea.
It's not routing, just switching IP packets in hardware. Run a google search for a layer 3 switch sometime.
Well, there's always the Camel and Llama books.
For more information on the Chinese government's record on human rights, visit Harry Wu's site. He also has a book Bitter Winds : A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag - Harry Wu which talks about his experiences as a political prisoner.
I'm not particularly familiar with Cuba, but this site seems a reasonable place to start research.
Here's a ref from google, make of it what you will.
Adobe is a hawk when it comes to what they consider their intellectual property, and they are just throwing their weight around. They need to complain a lot so that politicians believe that there is a problem. The nerve, they want to get reimbursed for translating their software into Mandarin.
If Adobe were to pull out, some Asian competitor (or, gasp, free software) would fill their market niche, at a lower cost and probably higher quality. And those Asian competitors would have a much easier time delivering English-language versions than the other way around.
If someone else can make money selling products in China, good for them. Adobe is considering withdrawing from the market. Higher quality from free software? A real graphics designer laughs at the GIMP.
Adobe won't pull out. They are just saber rattling. Pulling out would be foolish. They'd rather give their software away than let some other company take over their market niche.
If you read the article, it's clear that they've run the numbers and it's not worth it. Run a google search for cost benefit analysis.
I have no idea why we have a normalized trade relationship with this country and yet Cuba is still under an embargo
China is a huge market for cheap products and (close to) slave labor. It serves American corporate interests to ignore human rights issues in China. As for Cuba, Cuban-American voters - same reason we support Israel.
IIRC, some guy wrote an mp3 player for a NEXTSTATION in 68k assembly. So it's possible, if painful.
Heh, I remember that 386 to 486 app, it added/checked for a 0 byte file in your C:\DOS directory. The CPU detection routine didn't work if you ran it on an actual Pentium.
Nope, there are two companies: Anderson Consulting (technology) and Arther Anderson (accounting). Anderson Consulting changed their name to Accenture for various reasons, but Arthur Andersen is still around.
Hello, My Name is Legion, IIRC. Interesting story.
IIRC, VMS has one.
There's nothing wrong with vigilante justice. Try comparing the crime rates in the Wild West with any modern American city. When you compensate for population growth, the Wild West was a much safer place to be - most of the murders were drunken men fighting duels, rape and murder were unheard of.
You might consider reading the archives of the LispOS mailing list - it's always easier to learn from the mistakes of others.
From what I've heard, the Lisp machines were awesome for Lisp hackers because the entire OS was written in Lisp. Easy to modify, and possible to understand.
Um, no. There are three major Romanization standards for Chinese, and pinyin is the standard for the PRC. It's possible to use accent marks and such to indicate pronounciation. Changing keyboards isn't really necessary - there are several input methods. Programming languages don't necessarily have to change, but it's not impossible to do so - Algol68 supported several non-English languages.
In 1988, Microsoft recruited Dave Cutler and his VMS programming team from Digital.
The internals of Windows NT are quite similar to VMS as a result, Cutler used what he knew. OS/2 1.x was a 16bit OS, and that's when the split occurred.
Points 1-4 are a result of that, NTFS is a descendant of HPFS with variable clusters size, Unicode support, and other improvements.
Point 5, of course not, the system design is similar, but not identical. There is also a question of architecture dependence.
Point 6, it was Microsoft OS/2, the name change came later.
Point 7. yes os2ss.exe in \winnt\system32, it supports 16-bit OS/2 1.x programs, only a fool (e.g. Netscape) abandons working code. The PM libraries were dropped after 4.0.
On the other hand, there is relatively little going for the arguement that it is based on VMS, apart from some wishful thinking, or because OS/2 might also be so based.
You mean aside from the fact that the same man designed both systems, the kernel structure and APIs are similar, and VMS + 1 = WNT?
More and more, Perl seems to resemble APL.
The emphasis on one-liners, TMTOWTDI, VHL monadic or dyadic operators, and reputation as a write-only language.
Larry Wall seems to have the goal of evolving Perl into a natural language or something equally complex.
Non-ASCII characters seem like a mistake to me as well, Unicode support is far from universal and it introduces unnecessary complications, especially for parsing Perl programs.
At the very least, there should be some alternate form of ASCII representation, possibly similar to Morgan Stanley's A+.
Most modern APL style languages use ASCII characters for precisely this reason.
If using a tool is too complex, people will look elsewhere.
Don't forget MPE/ix.
Maybe the new company should consider moving all their "big iron" to linux. One platform with the benefits of open source and free software.
Let me know when Linux gets clustering support, security, or uptime comparable to OpenVMS or Tru64.
Correction noted, I'm not sure where I picked up the idea that he wrote it in 24 hours.
One of these days, I'd like to write an editor with A+ or J as a macro language.
I guess Diane Feinstein/Rosie O'Donnell found /.
Visual edItor.
Silly lameness filter. The original version of VI was allegedly written by Bill Joy in a weekend.
It kind of reminds me of APL zealots (yes, there used to be those, and there probably still around in hiding). They claimed much of the same things... that APL should be the language that everyone uses (I remember someone trying to convince me that APL would be a great language for an accounting system). They would NEVER admit that APL was hard to maintain.
Nowadays most of us APL zealots have moved onto J, K, or A+ all of which have most of the traditional procedural primitives, for, while, do, if, etc. There are many programming tasks where maintenance is not an issue but speed of development is, for example, rapid prototyping. Structured and Commented APL is not hard to maintain if written by a competant programmer.
From one of the few remaining countries with a death penalty.
There are many countries that still have a death penalty: any country with an Islamic legal code, Singapore, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc.
From a country that still taxes it's people even if they reside in a foreign country (Only a few countries still do this; one being Libya)
The U.S. has double taxation treaties with many countries, it's a question of how much time you spend in the other country.