Actually Meego is ARM ready so I don't think this is a case of x86 doing catch up, More like joining forces in order to make a viable competition. JMHO
I've got a largish app written in c++ that runs on windows/mobile/and as a cgi under linux. The mobile stuff was the biggest difference, with byte offset problems with some of the data files. I do have a file class, but that is more for ease of use then OS differences. There are some, like windows uses chsize and Linux uses ftruncate, but for the most part the same code runs on each.
I don't think it would be a big problem to move windows and linux closer together. Maybe an include to cover the differences.
Output is the largest difference since windows doesn't use X. But if you can use printf as your output standard I would estimate it closer to 5% difference.
At what point is a work a new derived work. If I were to alter every single frame with my own signature, does that mean it is a new work? It's like dealing with fractals. How long is a coastline/how much is original work. You could say that since every single frame has changed it is new. Or you could say that since only 1 percent of each frame has changed it is original.
I think this is one of the best questions asked on slashdot.
The answer I've always used for myself and family, is that in any job you do, your primary goal is to make your bosses job easier. If you can make your bosses job easier, then doors will open for you, that may have nothing to do with your immediate talents or job.
The second answer is do the job you want (and that needs doing) as well as the job you were hired for. You will eventually be moved to the job you want.
At first I thought you were being sarcastic, and it was modded insightful as further sillyness.
Then I realized you were serious.
You sound just like a PHB who has no understanding of the beauty of code.
A programmer taking pride in his work can create much better code then an "unhappy programmer working 9 to 5 and constantly afraid of losing his job".
I've worked in unhappy environments, and also happy ones. Guess which one I was more productive in.
I don't know what type of sweat shop you are running but I don't think I would last there 5 minutes. I'd be gone as soon as you said assembly line. And for your information, a workhorse can't read specs, and a programmer without passion for his job will not follow them.
BUZZZ wrong. I bought the ps3 because they allowed the other OS, and even supported it from their website. Playing games was not important to me, although it is to my kids. The PS3 that I own is mine and I'm very pissed that sony decided to remove options from it.
The ruckus is because sony sold me item ps3 which could do A,B,C now they upgrade and my ps3 can only do A,B now they upgrade and change eula so that they can upgrade anytime they want. Steam never did anything like this. They said from the start what they were about.
I sell you a car, and then after a free service, you can only use my gas.
Wait until your kids come some weekend and want to connect to the PS3 network to show you their singing thing. They will happily update for you without realizing the implications and then you are done. All it takes is a minute of being unguarded to brick your other OS.
I'm now wishing I had boycotted Sony, but with them providing a linux starter kit for use with the PS3 when the PS3 was announced I thought they had turned a corner. Looks like I was wrong, and I will make a conscientious decision to not buy Sony in the future. BAD COMPANY!
This is similar to a glad garbage bag promotion, where there is a code inside the box which allows you to download the movie.
So I took a chance, and went to the site. You have to enter your name and email as well as the code. (Huh? I thought it was a free promotion?).
So I took a chance, and entered my email etc. You can download for windows or Mac. Tried downloading with Linux, but the file was corrupted or something...
So I took a chance and got out the old computer. Redownloaded it, and tried to copy it to the usb drive, so I could watch it on the ps3. It was corrupted or something, the ps3 couldn't understand it.
So I tried watching it on the windows box. It needed to download an active-x component. So I took a chance and downloaded the active-x componenet. Suddenly the movie worked.
So I now had a movie that I could watch on my dusty old computer, that is deeply buried in my office, instead of on the large tv screen, using the PS3 (which does everything except run Linux, and play movies from the glad garbage company, and plenty of other things).
Too bad the movie I had downloaded was for my wife and daughter, a real chickflick tear jerk love romance boring movie that would really fit the ambiance of my tiny office. (NOT)
To say it bluntly, I'm tired of being ripped off by companies that for some reason figure that I owe them my private information as well as restricting what hardware and software I can use.
Isn't this the episode where Gilligan finds a mysterious robot in the water and the professor tries to use it to communicate to the outside world, and the skipper hits Gilligan in the head with his hat?
You are so busy being sarcastic you don't examine what I'm saying.
Suppose you are dealing with code that is greater then 4 years old that has had several hands involved in it. You are asked to add some functionality to the program. You need to find out where in the code that functionality should go, and add it in an appropriate place.
So are you going to understand what the program is doing by reading the comments or the code? If you've had any experience you will of course read the code. The code has been tested and works, while the comments are only what some programmer thought he was doing.
What I'm saying is you should write your code so that comments are superfluous, and if the comments are superfluous then why are you writing them. The reason you would write them is when the code doesn't explain what you are trying to do.
Or you could just rant and rave that the comments don't make sense and therefore you can't change the program.
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Actually Meego is ARM ready so I don't think this is a case of x86 doing catch up, More like joining forces in order to make a viable competition. JMHO
No flames, here. Gentoo rocks.
Just as soon as Linux first gets proper *cross-distro* package management and standards, THEN I will agree with you
Oh you mean source code.
I've got a largish app written in c++ that runs on windows/mobile/and as a cgi under linux. The mobile stuff was the biggest difference, with byte offset problems with some of the data files. I do have a file class, but that is more for ease of use then OS differences. There are some, like windows uses chsize and Linux uses ftruncate, but for the most part the same code runs on each.
I don't think it would be a big problem to move windows and linux closer together. Maybe an include to cover the differences.
Output is the largest difference since windows doesn't use X. But if you can use printf as your output standard I would estimate it closer to 5% difference.
Google has just announced it will be giving away a free DROID system to any person who uses google.
Take that MS!
There's nothing about open source that means no cost.
That's excellent!
and a walkthrough!
http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Peasant's_Quest_Walkthrough
Since they've decided not to allow other operating systems I think the PS3 should be closed, like an anchor.
Yes it's true. In win 31 through to XP you could select the midi you wanted to use.
In Windows 7, you get to use Microsoft's default.
AND THAT'S IT DAMMIT!
At what point is a work a new derived work. If I were to alter every single frame with my own signature, does that mean it is a new work?
It's like dealing with fractals. How long is a coastline/how much is original work. You could say that since every single frame has changed it is new. Or you could say that since only 1 percent of each frame has changed it is original.
I think this is one of the best questions asked on slashdot.
The answer I've always used for myself and family, is that in any job you do, your primary goal is to make your bosses job easier. If you can make your bosses job easier, then doors will open for you, that may have nothing to do with your immediate talents or job.
The second answer is do the job you want (and that needs doing) as well as the job you were hired for. You will eventually be moved to the job you want.
These two answers usually go hand in hand.
At first I thought you were being sarcastic, and it was modded insightful as further sillyness.
Then I realized you were serious.
You sound just like a PHB who has no understanding of the beauty of code.
A programmer taking pride in his work can create much better code then an "unhappy programmer working 9 to 5 and constantly afraid of losing his job".
I've worked in unhappy environments, and also happy ones. Guess which one I was more productive in.
I don't know what type of sweat shop you are running but I don't think I would last there 5 minutes. I'd be gone as soon as you said assembly line. And for your information, a workhorse can't read specs, and a programmer without passion for his job will not follow them.
BUZZZ wrong. I bought the ps3 because they allowed the other OS, and even supported it from their website. Playing games was not important to me, although it is to my kids. The PS3 that I own is mine and I'm very pissed that sony decided to remove options from it.
The ruckus is because sony sold me item ps3 which could do A,B,C now they upgrade and my ps3 can only do A,B now they upgrade and change eula so that they can upgrade anytime they want. Steam never did anything like this. They said from the start what they were about.
I sell you a car, and then after a free service, you can only use my gas.
Wait until your kids come some weekend and want to connect to the PS3 network to show you their singing thing. They will happily update for you without realizing the implications and then you are done. All it takes is a minute of being unguarded to brick your other OS.
Isn't it the other way around. I paid for a ps3 with certain abilities, and Sony has stolen them from me.
No, they are forcing you to replace what you had, with something inferior
I'm now wishing I had boycotted Sony, but with them providing a linux starter kit for use with the PS3 when the PS3 was announced I thought they had turned a corner. Looks like I was wrong, and I will make a conscientious decision to not buy Sony in the future. BAD COMPANY!
This is similar to a glad garbage bag promotion, where there is a code inside the box which allows you to download the movie.
So I took a chance, and went to the site. You have to enter your name and email as well as the code. (Huh? I thought it was a free promotion?).
So I took a chance, and entered my email etc. You can download for windows or Mac. Tried downloading with Linux, but the file was corrupted or something...
So I took a chance and got out the old computer. Redownloaded it, and tried to copy it to the usb drive, so I could watch it on the ps3.
It was corrupted or something, the ps3 couldn't understand it.
So I tried watching it on the windows box. It needed to download an active-x component. So I took a chance and downloaded the active-x componenet. Suddenly the movie worked.
So I now had a movie that I could watch on my dusty old computer, that is deeply buried in my office, instead of on the large tv screen, using the PS3 (which does everything except run Linux, and play movies from the glad garbage company, and plenty of other things).
Too bad the movie I had downloaded was for my wife and daughter, a real chickflick tear jerk love romance boring movie that would really fit the ambiance of my tiny office. (NOT)
To say it bluntly, I'm tired of being ripped off by companies that for some reason figure that I owe them my private information as well as restricting what hardware and software I can use.
so I took
For every ease of use that a computer can give a person, the government will increase the complication in order to make up the difference.
This is why taxes need to be done with computers now.
Isn't this the episode where Gilligan finds a mysterious robot in the water and the professor tries to use it to communicate to the outside world, and the skipper hits Gilligan in the head with his hat?
Did you really mean the "fist" step?
Yup. Messed that one up totally. :)
You are so busy being sarcastic you don't examine what I'm saying.
Suppose you are dealing with code that is greater then 4 years old that has had several hands involved in it. You are asked to add some functionality to the program.
You need to find out where in the code that functionality should go, and add it in an appropriate place.
So are you going to understand what the program is doing by reading the comments or the code? If you've had any experience you will of course read the code. The code has been tested and works, while the comments are only what some programmer thought he was doing.
What I'm saying is you should write your code so that comments are superfluous, and if the comments are superfluous then why are you writing them. The reason you would write them is when the code doesn't explain what you are trying to do.
Or you could just rant and rave that the comments don't make sense and therefore you can't change the program.
You've got no idea what you are talking about.