Solaris and BSD are both descended from the "real" unix, and have had many, many years and lots of money thrown behind them to get the level of performance, stability, and acceptance they have now.
At least in terms of BSD, this is not true - in fact, the licsensing debacles of past years means the *BSD had to fight from behind.
The fact that *BSD's excel at their given tasks has little to do with money or time, but simply hard work.
It uses binary code translation techniques to achieve full binary portability whilst retaining both the performance of hand coded native assembler and exceptional memory efficiency.
This sounds slightly dubious. Can someone give an unclouded appraisal of this technology? The Tao-group website discussions aren't that forthcoming.
Quit wasting you time building yet another window manager - start doing the nasty work of supporting arcane devices.
Individual developers can't approach the device driver problem the way a company can - largely because individuals cannot afford the test hardware. I'm quite disappointed at how little device infrastructure has been added to linux from the companies sporting huge market caps off of its backs.
With Putin's election in Russia, there is a definite emphasis on activities that enhance Russian pride - be it through the continued pursuit of rebels in Chechnya, or through new efforts in space.
One thing is obvious - Putin will not be engaging in activities in which Russia plays only a bit part. The moment Putin won the election, I wrote off any future cooperation in ISS-related activities. Putin is looking to bolster Russian pride, and ISS certainly isn't enhancing anyone's prestige in the US or Russia.
That said, I am completely demoralized by the entire ISS experience. The cost overruns have been intolerable, and the level of achievement is dismal, even for a government project. Many ISS parts will need to be replaced before habitation can be initiated, simply due to the scheduling snafus thats have made ISS so late.
Personally, I would like to see a new president lay down the law to NASA - get ISS working (fast), or it will suffer the fate or Iridium - brought back down.
This approach might be healthier for NASA in the long-term anyway - since ISS was conceptualized, most of its intended purposes have been rendered unnecessary by improvements in terrestrial scientific testing and development. Also, ISS has not brought Russia and the US closer together, in fact, it has strained relations. Finally, ISS has not provided any return-on-investment to taxpayers - where I see return-on-investment being excitement, anticipation and wonderment (the moon missions provided this in spades).
Unfortunately, ISS has turned out to be a failure.
noncorporeal things such as man's need for love, and hope, charity, compassion, etc., how can we ever expect a CPU, or software, to experience those those things in the same way that we as meat machines can't yet adequately explain?
You're presuming that it needs to be codified in order to manifest itself. This is a reasonable constraint due to the fact that none of our computers has independence to articulate their own code (nor could we imbue them with this independence right now even if we wished it).
There is a significant chance that these "feelings" you describe have no quantifiable analogue - they simply manifest themselves in any suitable intelligent, independent neural system.
Your dog loves you, and you don't know why...and you didn't expressely teach your dog to love you, but nonetheless the behavior manifests itself.
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"Your watch says Timex, mine says Rolex. Thats the difference between you and me buddy."
I don't know whats with that guy these days - I quit paying attention when he quit wearing his Superman (or alternately, Black Panther) t-shirt.
I personally would be in favor of draconian disclosure. When a security bug is discovered, pop up a dialog box, forcing me to read about the advisory and 'continue at own risk'
That would require them to release a new version with the warning pop-up included...why not just release a version with the bug fixed?
Z allows you to write programs which are guaranteed bug free.
Z is a specification syntax - nothing more, nothing less.
It does not prescribe a moethodology for writing programs, nor will it allow you to avoid any common coding errors.
Specifying anything non-trivial is nearly impossible, and Z/VDM won't help you a lick when it comes to the really nasty issues of programming, like pointer manipulation.
Z and VDM give you little more than yet-another-syntax to describe your program. They don't prevent errors and won't reduce bugs - thats why Z and VDM aren't used in industry, and rarely even taught anymore.
San Francisco is a constantly evolving city, dropping and adopting cultural motifs as fast as they emerge.
While people may regard SF as a home for hippies, flakes and freaks, it wasn't always this way. This radical transformation in the 50's was as hard fought as the hippie/dotcom struggle is today.
Those fighting progress in SF now are cut from the same cloth as those at the heart of the tumult forty years ago.
You should read up on Quantum Cryptography - there are numerous theoretical discussions of crypto models based on quantum computing technology that would be much more advanced than the standard crypto models we currently use.
Once again, slashdot feeds into the misplaced arrogance of undergraduate geeks everywhere by convincing them that they and they alone will be the only ones who will ever "get it".
Don't knock "PHB's" too hard - if you're ever worth your weight in salt, one day you'll be one.
There are a hell of a lot of nonprogrammers out there with good ideas, some of which you wouldn't come across your self unless you had their perspective. Don't knock it, use it - incorporate the good ideas wherever you find them, regardless of the background of the person offering them.
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Yahoo has a quite-unslashable mirror at http://biz.yahoo.com/msft2/
At least in terms of BSD, this is not true - in fact, the licsensing debacles of past years means the *BSD had to fight from behind.
The fact that *BSD's excel at their given tasks has little to do with money or time, but simply hard work.
It uses binary code translation techniques to achieve full binary portability whilst retaining both the performance of hand coded native assembler and exceptional memory efficiency.
This sounds slightly dubious. Can someone give an unclouded appraisal of this technology? The Tao-group website discussions aren't that forthcoming.
Individual developers can't approach the device driver problem the way a company can - largely because individuals cannot afford the test hardware. I'm quite disappointed at how little device infrastructure has been added to linux from the companies sporting huge market caps off of its backs.
One thing is obvious - Putin will not be engaging in activities in which Russia plays only a bit part. The moment Putin won the election, I wrote off any future cooperation in ISS-related activities. Putin is looking to bolster Russian pride, and ISS certainly isn't enhancing anyone's prestige in the US or Russia.
That said, I am completely demoralized by the entire ISS experience. The cost overruns have been intolerable, and the level of achievement is dismal, even for a government project. Many ISS parts will need to be replaced before habitation can be initiated, simply due to the scheduling snafus thats have made ISS so late.
Personally, I would like to see a new president lay down the law to NASA - get ISS working (fast), or it will suffer the fate or Iridium - brought back down.
This approach might be healthier for NASA in the long-term anyway - since ISS was conceptualized, most of its intended purposes have been rendered unnecessary by improvements in terrestrial scientific testing and development. Also, ISS has not brought Russia and the US closer together, in fact, it has strained relations. Finally, ISS has not provided any return-on-investment to taxpayers - where I see return-on-investment being excitement, anticipation and wonderment (the moon missions provided this in spades).
Unfortunately, ISS has turned out to be a failure.
The facts regarding Soviet safety are mostly dubious. You cannot draw a strict conclusion based on Soviet-era records.
You're presuming that it needs to be codified in order to manifest itself. This is a reasonable constraint due to the fact that none of our computers has independence to articulate their own code (nor could we imbue them with this independence right now even if we wished it).
There is a significant chance that these "feelings" you describe have no quantifiable analogue - they simply manifest themselves in any suitable intelligent, independent neural system.
Your dog loves you, and you don't know why...and you didn't expressely teach your dog to love you, but nonetheless the behavior manifests itself.
"Your watch says Timex, mine says Rolex. Thats the difference between you and me buddy."
I don't know whats with that guy these days - I quit paying attention when he quit wearing his Superman (or alternately, Black Panther) t-shirt.
Come on, are you seriously telling us we should use OS/2 instead of windows?
So Yahoo.com is worth $100B, and Slashdot.org worth considerably less.
Once again, if you could detect "security problems" remotely, then you obviously have the smarts to prevent them in the first place.
That would require them to release a new version with the warning pop-up included...why not just release a version with the bug fixed?
Been tried. Resulting code is fat, slow, and often just as full of errors and ommissions.
Z and VDM are not programming languages, they are specification languages.
Z is a specification syntax - nothing more, nothing less.
It does not prescribe a moethodology for writing programs, nor will it allow you to avoid any common coding errors.
Specifying anything non-trivial is nearly impossible, and Z/VDM won't help you a lick when it comes to the really nasty issues of programming, like pointer manipulation.
Z and VDM give you little more than yet-another-syntax to describe your program. They don't prevent errors and won't reduce bugs - thats why Z and VDM aren't used in industry, and rarely even taught anymore.
While people may regard SF as a home for hippies, flakes and freaks, it wasn't always this way. This radical transformation in the 50's was as hard fought as the hippie/dotcom struggle is today.
Those fighting progress in SF now are cut from the same cloth as those at the heart of the tumult forty years ago.
Sorry, you're right- thanks for pointing out my errors. (i am not a scientist, as you say).
I wouldn't get too worried - it doesn't appear that the current research of is any use but for testing theories.
You should read up on Quantum Cryptography - there are numerous theoretical discussions of crypto models based on quantum computing technology that would be much more advanced than the standard crypto models we currently use.
Don't knock "PHB's" too hard - if you're ever worth your weight in salt, one day you'll be one.
There are a hell of a lot of nonprogrammers out there with good ideas, some of which you wouldn't come across your self unless you had their perspective. Don't knock it, use it - incorporate the good ideas wherever you find them, regardless of the background of the person offering them.