In the 1950s and 1960s the automobile manufacturers in USA (and to some degree in western europe) built bigger and bigger cars. Then in the 1970s the oil crisis struck, making these big and gasoline-hungry cars way too expensive to the avarage joe.
Now lets look at the software industry. Microsoft are making their systems bigger and bigger, each version being bigger and more bug-ridden. Then suddeenly comes Open Source seemingly from nowhere! While Microsoft isn't down yet (they do have bigger market penetration than the big cars had), they are now struggling if not for their life, at least to keep a good market share.
Oh, and while talking about SUVs, who the heel need a jeep with four wheel drive to go from a house in the suburb to the mall (probably in the same suburb)?
Re:Is this a C# or a .NET problem?
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Hijacking .NET
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What about if you do not know about the layout of the private data in class hidden? For example, if I use a library (stripped of all debugging info), and the only interface I have is a header file which only shows the public members (and protected if the class is intended to be inherited), it will take a lot of work to find out what private data there is.
I remember in the "good old days" (tm) on the Amiga, when some (well, quite a lot actually:) people managed to make small intros with sine-scrolling multi-colored text in less than 512 bytes, all done in the bootblock which also had a loader for whatever game/demo was on the disk.
I ask the same question as I did when the latest Creative Soundblaster card came: How can they differentiate one bitstream from another? What is the difference between sending one sequence of bits to the soundcard and another (trusted?) program doing the same? Unless these new processors have special instructions that can decode an mp3 (or whatever) bittream in an optimal way, I doubt programms like XMMS (or Winamp) would care about these special CPU's and their special instructions.
Ok, I just have to say this (before I get sober enough to get to bed...;):
Airport planning and air traffic control isn't something you can just fetch some program and hope it will do whatever you want it to. This is an area that involves thousands of human lives! If there is an accident with one aircraft and it is the softwares fault, you can bet that there will be a lot of people suing you!
A project like an ATC/AODB (Air Traffic Control/Airport Operations DataBase) takes many man-years to make from the ground up. Trust me, I have worked five years in that specific niche.
Agreed. Software that runs air traffic control, and airplanes themselves, not to mention other saftey-critical roles, needs a lot of careful coding. A lot of money is spent on software like this.
And what use would open sourcing it be? Granted, there may be the opportunity to look through the code, but how many home hackers have a spare 747 sitting in the backyward to test their changes on?
Software for air traffic controls (or airport control) is very expensive, and it is because it is handling hundreds (if not thoushands) of human lives! "Normal" programs (like MS office and such) can have fatal errors, the worst thing that happen is that one or two documents are lost. But if a program at an airport malfunctions it may cause the death of several hundreds of human beings!
Just having some "minor" problems in the air traffic controll might not mean much, unless two or more aircraft are on collision course. As soon as the aircraft landed, the amount of variables is increased quite a lot! (Trust me, I've been working on such systems for the last five years!)
Me and a another guy went home just a few days before new years eve 1999 from Torino airport after installing our system there. The system have been running from then with no major (or minor) updates in two and a half year! And they still want more from us!:)
See http://www.fmt.se/ for the company I work for (and the other guy did work for).
Well... I have thought about a free airport operations database (AODB) for some time, but then I'm allready in the buissiness and don't know if it will violate my employer IP... (See http://www.fmt.se/airport/atlantis/index.htm for more details abut the compan/product in question I'm working for now.)
For now, I have the beginning of a pretty strightforward and simple design, but since I'm pretty much alone in the project (at work and at private) I don't have much time to implement much of it.
I thought that IDE was "legacy" by now? It's a shame SCSI disks still are so expensive. And what about the floppy controller? Can't be more legacy than that! It probably still can't handle anything else than PC-formated disks.
Well, all this sounds fine (and I have already downloaded the whole thing;), but what about double-click?
I want single-click to select things (files/directories/etc.) and double-click to open them. So far I haven't seen anything that turns this feature on.
Changing the icon is way harder and is a way more annoying thing in windows.
Heh, On my work computer, Windows does that all by itself from time to time with some of the system icons (like 'My Computer', or 'Network Neighborhoud'). And no, it's not my friends at work doing this!
The problem with changing the default program is not so big, I think. There are however two other things that M$ does:
1. Creating newfiletypes all the time. Just look at the latest media-file-types comming out from Redmond.
2. New file formats for existing file extensions. The best example being Words.doc files. Changes format for every version of Office.
Re:Strange things seem to happen with optimalizati
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I usually compile both XFree 4.0 and the kernel with -O6 (and with -fexpensive-optimizations) using GCC version 2.95.2, and havent had any problems at all so far.
One thing that bothers me about Konqueror is that it doesn't have a setting that allows people to use single or double click when browsing files.
Well, I rather "browse" files using the shell in an xterm/kconsole, but when using a filemanager I rather use double clicks.
Besides being supported by PHP, it also have Java servlets, and it's own language Pike (based on LPC (an object-oriented C dialect)).
Very featurefull, and cross platform, and the source is available.
I have a friend that have an old Pentium 133 and a Voodoo 2, and Q3 runs fine on that machine (at least if you disable all effects, and is satisfied with a resolution of 640x480).
The same friend also has an old PII 333 with a GeForce2, and can run Q3 at a resolution on 1024x768 with all effects enabled without any noticable slowdowns.
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In the 1950s and 1960s the automobile manufacturers in USA (and to some degree in western europe) built bigger and bigger cars. Then in the 1970s the oil crisis struck, making these big and gasoline-hungry cars way too expensive to the avarage joe.
Now lets look at the software industry. Microsoft are making their systems bigger and bigger, each version being bigger and more bug-ridden. Then suddeenly comes Open Source seemingly from nowhere! While Microsoft isn't down yet (they do have bigger market penetration than the big cars had), they are now struggling if not for their life, at least to keep a good market share.
Oh, and while talking about SUVs, who the heel need a jeep with four wheel drive to go from a house in the suburb to the mall (probably in the same suburb)?
What about if you do not know about the layout of the private data in class hidden? For example, if I use a library (stripped of all debugging info), and the only interface I have is a header file which only shows the public members (and protected if the class is intended to be inherited), it will take a lot of work to find out what private data there is.
What about the Deathstar? It sure is big (allthough not 1 AU), it travels around in space, and it blow things up.
TCO = Totally Cool Operation
At least acording to Linus in this article.
I have 1.5 gig of ram (and 2 gigs of swap), and guess what?
:)
Right now 'free' is reporting 30 megs of free ram... Ok, I have KDE, emacs, a couple of xterms, phoenix, and wine running right now, but still...
Ah well, too bad I still have use for my swap partion, think of how much pr0n I could fit in those two gigs...
I remember in the "good old days" (tm) on the Amiga, when some (well, quite a lot actually :) people managed to make small intros with sine-scrolling multi-colored text in less than 512 bytes, all done in the bootblock which also had a loader for whatever game/demo was on the disk.
I just replied to this article, and when I reloaded the page I noticed an ad for MSDEV .Net! ;)
I thought Slashdot was an anti-MS forum!
I ask the same question as I did when the latest Creative Soundblaster card came: How can they differentiate one bitstream from another?
What is the difference between sending one sequence of bits to the soundcard and another (trusted?) program doing the same?
Unless these new processors have special instructions that can decode an mp3 (or whatever) bittream in an optimal way, I doubt programms like XMMS (or Winamp) would care about these special CPU's and their special instructions.
Ok, I just have to say this (before I get sober enough to get to bed... ;):
Airport planning and air traffic control isn't something you can just fetch some program and hope it will do whatever you want it to.
This is an area that involves thousands of human lives! If there is an accident with one aircraft and it is the softwares fault, you can bet that there will be a lot of people suing you!
A project like an ATC/AODB (Air Traffic Control/Airport Operations DataBase) takes many man-years to make from the ground up. Trust me, I have worked five years in that specific niche.
Agreed. Software that runs air traffic control, and airplanes themselves, not to mention other saftey-critical roles, needs a lot of careful coding. A lot of money is spent on software like this.
And what use would open sourcing it be? Granted, there may be the opportunity to look through the code, but how many home hackers have a spare 747 sitting in the backyward to test their changes on?
Software for air traffic controls (or airport control) is very expensive, and it is because it is handling hundreds (if not thoushands) of human lives!
"Normal" programs (like MS office and such) can have fatal errors, the worst thing that happen is that one or two documents are lost. But if a program at an airport malfunctions it may cause the death of several hundreds of human beings!
Just having some "minor" problems in the air traffic controll might not mean much, unless two or more aircraft are on collision course. As soon as the aircraft landed, the amount of variables is increased quite a lot!
(Trust me, I've been working on such systems for the last five years!)
Me and a another guy went home just a few days before new years eve 1999 from Torino airport after installing our system there. The system have been running from then with no major (or minor) updates in two and a half year! And they still want more from us! :)
See http://www.fmt.se/ for the company I work for (and the other guy did work for).
Well... I have thought about a free airport operations database (AODB) for some time, but then I'm allready in the buissiness and don't know if it will violate my employer IP...
(See http://www.fmt.se/airport/atlantis/index.htm for more details abut the compan/product in question I'm working for now.)
For now, I have the beginning of a pretty strightforward and simple design, but since I'm pretty much alone in the project (at work and at private) I don't have much time to implement much of it.
Only Peruvian courts have jurisdiction over what happens in Peru.
Yeah, and of course a US court can not force norwegian police to arrest norwegian citizens...
To my knowledge, shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses are illegal in Sweden.
However, I'm not a laywer, and it's only what I heard.
Anyone else noticed that the planned pricedrop is just one week before the GameCube release in Europe?
I thought that IDE was "legacy" by now? It's a shame SCSI disks still are so expensive.
And what about the floppy controller? Can't be more legacy than that! It probably still can't handle anything else than PC-formated disks.
I thought M$ always said that IE wasn't an integral part of Windows, but now they can no longer develop Windows without IE?
At least here in Sweden, it is a known "fact" that the inventor Håkan Lans invented the mouse (and color graphics, and a mini submarine, and...)
See this link for some more info about him.
But this has already been discussed before.
Well, all this sounds fine (and I have already downloaded the whole thing ;), but what about double-click?
I want single-click to select things (files/directories/etc.) and double-click to open them. So far I haven't seen anything that turns this feature on.
Changing the icon is way harder and is a way more annoying thing in windows.
Heh, On my work computer, Windows does that all by itself from time to time with some of the system icons (like 'My Computer', or 'Network Neighborhoud'). And no, it's not my friends at work doing this!
The problem with changing the default program is not so big, I think. There are however two other things that M$ does:
.doc files. Changes format for every version of Office.
1. Creating newfiletypes all the time. Just look at the latest media-file-types comming out from Redmond.
2. New file formats for existing file extensions. The best example being Words
I usually compile both XFree 4.0 and the kernel with -O6 (and with -fexpensive-optimizations) using GCC version 2.95.2, and havent had any problems at all so far.
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One thing that bothers me about Konqueror is that it doesn't have a setting that allows people to use single or double click when browsing files. Well, I rather "browse" files using the shell in an xterm/kconsole, but when using a filemanager I rather use double clicks.
/ The Arrow
Besides being supported by PHP, it also have Java servlets, and it's own language Pike (based on LPC (an object-oriented C dialect)). Very featurefull, and cross platform, and the source is available.
/ The Arrow
I have a friend that have an old Pentium 133 and a Voodoo 2, and Q3 runs fine on that machine (at least if you disable all effects, and is satisfied with a resolution of 640x480).
The same friend also has an old PII 333 with a GeForce2, and can run Q3 at a resolution on 1024x768 with all effects enabled without any noticable slowdowns.
/ The Arrow