There are long-standing rumors that Palm wants to ditch the Dragonball for ARM. They demoed PalmOS running on ARM earlier this year, but it had a long way to go. Maybe this gets them out of porting.
An interesting thing about Kubrick is that he almost always adapted books. IIRC, "Paths of Glory" was his last work not based on a book. And it was based on a historical incident.
Kubrick was good at getting his usual themes out of whatever books he chose to adapt. That is part of why his "Lolita" and "Shining" are so different from the books.
I'm too lazy to find links, but I believe that TrustedBSD is adding ACLs to FreeBSD for general use. The news today is that Samba can now manipulate those ACLs. So they are not "Samba-based ACLs", but general purpose ACLs that can be used by Samba.
I'm told that ACLs are a Good Thing (TM), though I have no personal experience to back this up.
I've been running mozilla on a Pentium Pro 200 at work for a few months. It was just barely usable. I few days ago I installed Galeon, which uses gecko for rendering, but has its own UI. It is very much faster and nearly as stable. (Though it seems to loose/.'s cookie sometimes:-( )
Later in the article, the author writes: I predict that the Oracle database server itself will be open source within ten years. (If it isn't, it will no longer exist!)
Which shows that Hemos probably did read the article and that the author is smoking the cheap crack. Please read the whole article before complaining that others didn't read it.
The Belgariad was written by Eddings. Feist wrote the Riftware Saga. I loved both series, though IMHO everything Eddings wrote after the Belgariad was junk.
The Death Gate Cycle was amazing. I've been thinking about reading it again.
IIRC from Tannenbaum's OS book, the Mach kernel was created using 4.4BSD. The researchers creating the Mach kernel replaced parts of the BSD kernel with services using the Mach kernel, while Mach was still being developed. In the end, the BSD kernel was entirely gone. This allowed them to have a working operating system to test throughout the development of the Mach kernel.
Of course, they could have used some other kernel for this, but BSD is what they used. Or I could be completely wrong and badly in need of caffine. ; )
1. Windows is free with PCs.
You have Windows.
I built mine from parts. I don't have Windows.
2. Windows has a GUI that is easy to use because it has been developed in conjunction with literally millions of beta testers and focus groups.
I'll grant this one. Though I'm partial to CLI's myself. Except for games:D
3. Windows runs these games faster, and necessarily always will - emulation has to be slower, because there's two layers.
WINE Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternate implementation of Win32. There is not an extra layer, and if it were written well, it could be faster (not likely, though).
4. Windows runs the games easier than WINE - you don't have to compile Windows for your PC like you do with Wine (you can get pre-built builds, but they don't work as well).
Granted.:)
5. For WINE to work usably, you are required to have Windows on your PC (true: all those shots of Word running on Linux only happen because Linux is using the dlls and vxds)
I'm not as sure about that. I installed and ran Starcraft under WINE about a year ago, and it was playable. IIRC, I didn't have Windows on the machine at all.
It is a good start. If I could play games without having to buy a copy of Windows or waste hard drive space and my precious sanity on it, I would be quite happy. If that is what you want, cool, but I want it.
I really don't know why open source developers get caught in this trap. For corporations, the reason seems clear to me. Most major software houses seem to have long term plan of making a profit by conquering the world;), but I don't know why open source developers do it.
I'm happy that the company I work for is only trying to take over managing your geographic data, and not your whole desktop.
That is so true. I email my immediate teammates all the time (though we talk a lot too). But if I need to work with someone off my team, I almost always go see them. I might email to let them know I'm coming, but no more.
Of course, I work at the most undermanaged company in the world. Our engineering managers are engineers too. (Though my boss jokes that he's mostly just a PowerPoint engineer these days.)
1) A business model in which A) a target marketspace is selected, B) a future product is announced that is far better than anything presently available, C) other products currently available are criticized for not being as good as the product in (B), D) a product resembling the product in (B) but far worse is released, E) fixes to the product in (D) are sold as new products.
Two quarters ago, I was paid by the University of California to take notes for another student, who had a disability. It seems to me that this would violate that new law. So maybe UC would be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities act?
The P4 is a 32-bit processor. It has the same instruction set as the PIII, just a different data path internally. The Itanium is the 64 bit processor. It can run x86 code natively, but the extra transistors to do that just kill performance.
In addition, computers require absolute parameters. Not only can you not model what you don't know, but you can't do worthwhile simulations (ie. those used for human life or death decisions) based on educated guesses.
What you can do with simulations based on educated guesses is compare the results of your simulations with results of real-world tests. This can be a good way of evaluating the quality of my guess.
Weather simulation has advanced a good bit by this sort of experimentation. But it doesn't replace checking the sky.
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There are long-standing rumors that Palm wants to ditch the Dragonball for ARM. They demoed PalmOS running on ARM earlier this year, but it had a long way to go. Maybe this gets them out of porting.
An interesting thing about Kubrick is that he almost always adapted books. IIRC, "Paths of Glory" was his last work not based on a book. And it was based on a historical incident.
Kubrick was good at getting his usual themes out of whatever books he chose to adapt. That is part of why his "Lolita" and "Shining" are so different from the books.
It's pretty simple: just "car", "cdr" and parenthesis. Heh, heh. You can do amazing stuff if you get used to thinking right.
I'm too lazy to find links, but I believe that TrustedBSD is adding ACLs to FreeBSD for general use. The news today is that Samba can now manipulate those ACLs. So they are not "Samba-based ACLs", but general purpose ACLs that can be used by Samba.
I'm told that ACLs are a Good Thing (TM), though I have no personal experience to back this up.
I've been running mozilla on a Pentium Pro 200 at work for a few months. It was just barely usable. I few days ago I installed Galeon, which uses gecko for rendering, but has its own UI. It is very much faster and nearly as stable. (Though it seems to loose /.'s cookie sometimes :-( )
Which shows that Hemos probably did read the article and that the author is smoking the cheap crack. Please read the whole article before complaining that others didn't read it.
Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Legitimate and MLM would seem to be mutually exclusive.
The Belgariad was written by Eddings. Feist wrote the Riftware Saga. I loved both series, though IMHO everything Eddings wrote after the Belgariad was junk.
The Death Gate Cycle was amazing. I've been thinking about reading it again.
Thats funny!
Can I have a piece of your GNU/sandwitch? I have some GNU/orange juice to share.
IIRC from Tannenbaum's OS book, the Mach kernel was created using 4.4BSD. The researchers creating the Mach kernel replaced parts of the BSD kernel with services using the Mach kernel, while Mach was still being developed. In the end, the BSD kernel was entirely gone. This allowed them to have a working operating system to test throughout the development of the Mach kernel.
Of course, they could have used some other kernel for this, but BSD is what they used. Or I could be completely wrong and badly in need of caffine. ; )
1. Windows is free with PCs.
:D
:)
You have Windows.
I built mine from parts. I don't have Windows.
2. Windows has a GUI that is easy to use because it has been developed in conjunction with literally millions of beta testers and focus groups.
I'll grant this one. Though I'm partial to CLI's myself. Except for games
3. Windows runs these games faster, and necessarily always will - emulation has to be slower, because there's two layers.
WINE Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternate implementation of Win32. There is not an extra layer, and if it were written well, it could be faster (not likely, though).
4. Windows runs the games easier than WINE - you don't have to compile Windows for your PC like you do with Wine (you can get pre-built builds, but they don't work as well).
Granted.
5. For WINE to work usably, you are required to have Windows on your PC (true: all those shots of Word running on Linux only happen because Linux is using the dlls and vxds)
I'm not as sure about that. I installed and ran Starcraft under WINE about a year ago, and it was playable. IIRC, I didn't have Windows on the machine at all.
It is a good start. If I could play games without having to buy a copy of Windows or waste hard drive space and my precious sanity on it, I would be quite happy. If that is what you want, cool, but I want it.
I really don't know why open source developers get caught in this trap. For corporations, the reason seems clear to me. Most major software houses seem to have long term plan of making a profit by conquering the world ;), but I don't know why open source developers do it.
I'm happy that the company I work for is only trying to take over managing your geographic data, and not your whole desktop.
That is so true. I email my immediate teammates all the time (though we talk a lot too). But if I need to work with someone off my team, I almost always go see them. I might email to let them know I'm coming, but no more.
Of course, I work at the most undermanaged company in the world. Our engineering managers are engineers too. (Though my boss jokes that he's mostly just a PowerPoint engineer these days.)
1) A business model in which A) a target marketspace is selected, B) a future product is announced that is far better than anything presently available, C) other products currently available are criticized for not being as good as the product in (B), D) a product resembling the product in (B) but far worse is released, E) fixes to the product in (D) are sold as new products.
Two quarters ago, I was paid by the University of California to take notes for another student, who had a disability. It seems to me that this would violate that new law. So maybe UC would be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities act?
I'm pretty sure I'm being suckered, but... It is them. Even with the tuition hikes of the last decade, the state still pays more than the students.
The funny thing is, in the CS department at UC Irvine, most professors
The P4 is a 32-bit processor. It has the same instruction set as the PIII, just a different data path internally. The Itanium is the 64 bit processor. It can run x86 code natively, but the extra transistors to do that just kill performance.
I wish I hadn't commented in this story already, this is definately +5 Insightful.
What you can do with simulations based on educated guesses is compare the results of your simulations with results of real-world tests. This can be a good way of evaluating the quality of my guess.
Weather simulation has advanced a good bit by this sort of experimentation. But it doesn't replace checking the sky.