Brazil's new 20 Reais note has a plastic insert. Very hard to counterfit. This would defeat the "too dark to see decent though not perfect copies" copies.
A lot of people don't like it though, feels different, doesn't fold the same.
Gasp, what a shock. Everyone seems to be guilty of having cheated on synthetic benchmarks at some time. This has happened before, it will happen again.
Which was the compiler vendor that put in special code to detect if the compiler was compiling a specific benchmark, and if it thought it was, it would basically code a big NOOP loop. Oddly wnough, it had great benchmarks on that code. Anyone remember the company?
Actually, probably never. The work now isn't so much with HTTP, but either: Protocols that use HTTP as a transport (SOAP and rpc-http) Replacement protocols that natively map object semantics better.
Even with a replacement protocol, HTTP is not likely to go away. It's just that all the new stuff will go in the replacement protocol and unlikely to need a radically new HTTP.
The clones weren't all bad. PowerComputing had the first multiple CPU MacOS capable machine. Originally the only thing that took advantage of it was some specially compiled Photoshop plugins. Eventually Apple introduced some multi-CPU boxes and the Thread Manager to help get apps for it.
The other the clones did was to help start the big rift between Motorola and Apple. Motorola introduced the StarMax line. Then Apple killed the clones, causing Motorola to take a bit of a financial hit. That was one of the first blows in a now less than amicable relationship. Soon Motorola said they were going to concentrate on embedded chips, not desktop ones. That hasn't helped Apple stand up to Intel-style MHz wars.
They can't sue BSD. The outcome of the Great Evil Unix Lawsuit was that anyone using BSD source or any of its derivatives is immune from lawsuits. The BSDs are good, so is MacOS X. It was an asshole lawsuit anyway - a lot of what UNIX was at the time came from BSD (trivial stuff like virtual memory and vi was invented by BSDers) and then they say you can't use this because we have it now.
It is maintained. gcc 3.2 (maybe it was in 3.1?) started to track the STDC++ ABI. I checked the release notes, I couldn't see any ABI changes in this release. Not only will all versions of g++ be able to interact, but all C++ from all vendors will be able to interact. Intel C++ 7 also is tracking the standard, they think they're close, but at this point they don't recommend mixing objects from g++. The C++ binary compatibility was growing pains until they got this stuff fixed. It's now fixed (or at least well on it's way) and your life will be much easier for it later. Think about being able to get a C++ library from someone and not having to worry what vendor's compiler compiled it. This is the price you pay now. Besides, if you're happy with 3.2.3, don't upgrade.
For those wondering, when the first group of PowerPC Macs came out, one of them (I think it was the 7100) was code named the Carl Sagan. Sagan protested this use of his name. Apple was pissed, it's just a code name. Someone renamed it to BHA, for Butt-Headed Astronomer.
There was a post before, when the CLR first came out, about the CLR essentially introducing the concept of "skinnable" languages. Use the syntax you like, and it will work on the CLR. Cool, though not without its issues. A language is more than syntax, and essentially you're changing C# (C# and CLR development go hand in hand, it's definitely the first among equals as far as language goes) to say, VB.NET, but which object model are you using? A lot of VB users hate the new VB.NET because it's a fairly radical departure from normal VB (whatever normal means for VB users). I'ts almost as if someone made a script that converted Lisp to C++ primitives and it works as long as you forget that pesky list stuff because I'm sorry C++ just doesn't do lists easily. Interesting concept, but has flaws.
And Tobey was a big part of "Ride With The Devil". "The Cider House Rules" seemed too "hey, this is an artsy film, we demand an Oscar nomination for something dammit" for me. "Ride With The Devil" was no less serious, covered a much broader topic that we still deal with today (American imperialism as starting with overrunning Southern Culture) yet a lot more fun, and his character had a better transformation in it, I think.
For all those talking about Jake Gyllenhaal ad how his darker personna would have helped, remember that Peter Parker was a school-newspaper working geek who lived with his grandpa and grandma until somthing accidentally changed him. Didn't really have a dark side. Batman was the freak who went out at night in silly tights and beat people up.
I can think of two reasons just off the top of my head:
1) The Postal system is quasi-government, but they're in the business to make money (well not lose a lot anyway). Bulk mail postage helps keep the wheels moving.
2) A lot of junk mail now is tagged to look important. Makes it harder for a mail carrier to make that judgment call on the letter. Just easier to chuck the whole wad into your box.
An aside on 2 above: When you get credit cards/ATM cards, they come in nondescript envelopes, to make it less likely to get stolen. I usually check all plain envelopes now, feel them for a plastic card to see if Citibank has sent me a new card, or if some bank sent me a credit card I didn't ask for (has happened). I'm starting to see junk mail taking advantage of that behavior, a plain envelope with a hard card in there someplace, to make me open the thing and look at the contents. The bastards.
Hmm, from what I hear bonobos have a very interesting social hierarchy, female based, and a lot of social norms and actions are sexual. A typical greeting is masturbation. Conflict resolution - an orgy.
They'd be too busy checking out porn on the net to write. "ooog oog ooh, Bubbles, where zoo pr0n site? oog goo goo..."
Also, bad redneck joke: If you took an infinite number of rednecks and an infinite number of STOP signs and had them shoot at them with an infinite number of shotguns, would you eventually get a work of Shakespeare in Braille?
C99 changed a lot of things, and added things that may cause some breakage for old projects. Just like you can tell your compiler to compile pre-C99, you use a different jsdk. C is > 30 years old and still has to evolve. Java is much younger and has more places where it needs to mature.
As far as I know OS X is based on NEXT, and a bit of FreeBSD userland (It depends who you ask).
Darwin (the underpinnings of MacOS X) is based on a Mach MicroKernel kinda semi-bound to a BSD "server" in kernel space. Mach handles the low level hardware, the BSD server handles the other normal interactions you'd expect from a Unix.
The BSD server is actually ahybrid. From what I remember, they started off as more NetBSDish, then got more and more FreeBSDish. They seem to be tracking FreeBSD more and more now. I'm not sure what the userland is.
On top of that, you're allowed to have other "servers" as they're called in MicroKernel land. There's a Classic server which is all MacOS 9 and under. The NeXT part is the Cocoa server. And there's obviously Carbon which is essentially for "native" MacOS X apps.
I always thought that if I was a musician, all my music would be GPL:
Public Enemy has been doing stuff like this. Revolverlution was kind of open source. They released some tracks on the net, with some other hooks that artists could use in remixes. (ftp source repository). People sent them remixes (patches) and they put the best ones on the album.
They're one of the biggest samplers of music, and one of the most sampled. They had a song Caught, Can I Get A Witness where they're in a fake court over a sample (and I wanted to be the first with that link, somebody else beat me to it, I modded him up for it too). They has some issues with a record being released, couldn't get it on disc so they released as MP3s. Label hated that, so they broke with their label and went on to AtomicPop where the album was downloadable for $8 (tho AtomicPop has since died).
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If you read the actual doc, it says Windows is a better CIFS server than RedHat. Very different conclusion than the very broad "Windows is a better server than Red Hat".
So how come this "exploit" wasn't deserving of its own front page story like the IE one was?
Umm, cause it wasn't an exploit. IE exploits gives bad people access to your machines. This just crashes your browser. Does a crash in code that is so obscure that nobody ever triggered it using tags that I've personally never heard of (I'm no HTML expert but I have been a professional webmaster on and off for 10 years) warrant a font page story? My vote is no.
PayPal originated with this concept, kind of a money among friends thing. Say, you were with your friends, no cash, so you "beamed" them some cash. They figured what the problem was, everybody needed $200 Pal devices for this to work. Soon they got the idea of the PayPal service we all know and love/loathe. Just wondering if PayPal has any rights to this concept.
And, you know what? It could happen. MS could develop the MS-2000 CPU that only runs their own code. Just like Apple.
Hmmm? Apple originally ran on the M68000, one of the most prolific chips in history, probably second only to the ia32 architecture. Everything: Lisa, MacOS, NeXT, SunOS, HPUX, Irix (I think) Amiga, AtariST, many real time OSes ran on it. It started running out of gas after the 68040 (though a few 68060s were sold). So they came up with the PowerPC with Motorola and IBM. The intention was for a new RISC architecture to become as ubiquitous as the 68000 series. Even though there were some ports (NT was on PowerPC, oddly enough I seem to remember a Solaris port as well, but I may be smoking too much). The problem was, at that time the market was already in two camps - those tied to the ubiquity of the x86 who didn't want a second platform no matter how much cleaner it was, and those with investments in proprietary systems (Sun pride with SPARC has hurt it other ways as well). If anything, Apple is hurt by the fact others aren't using PowerPC. They don't get the economies of scale Intel (and to a lesser extent AMD) get with ia32 production.
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Brazil's new 20 Reais note has a plastic insert. Very hard to counterfit. This would defeat the "too dark to see decent though not perfect copies" copies.
A lot of people don't like it though, feels different, doesn't fold the same.
If he was a nut case, was this a Nut Cluster? Just wondering...
Which was the compiler vendor that put in special code to detect if the compiler was compiling a specific benchmark, and if it thought it was, it would basically code a big NOOP loop. Oddly wnough, it had great benchmarks on that code. Anyone remember the company?
Actually, probably never. The work now isn't so much with HTTP, but either:
Protocols that use HTTP as a transport (SOAP and rpc-http)
Replacement protocols that natively map object semantics better.
Even with a replacement protocol, HTTP is not likely to go away. It's just that all the new stuff will go in the replacement protocol and unlikely to need a radically new HTTP.
Funny to see them do a complete 360 only
Would be funnier still if they did a complete 180...
The clones weren't all bad. PowerComputing had the first multiple CPU MacOS capable machine. Originally the only thing that took advantage of it was some specially compiled Photoshop plugins. Eventually Apple introduced some multi-CPU boxes and the Thread Manager to help get apps for it.
The other the clones did was to help start the big rift between Motorola and Apple. Motorola introduced the StarMax line. Then Apple killed the clones, causing Motorola to take a bit of a financial hit. That was one of the first blows in a now less than amicable relationship. Soon Motorola said they were going to concentrate on embedded chips, not desktop ones. That hasn't helped Apple stand up to Intel-style MHz wars.
While they're at it, why doesn't someone put a Z80 and a 6502 in the same box.
Already been done, though technically it was an 8502, not a 6502.
They can't sue BSD. The outcome of the Great Evil Unix Lawsuit was that anyone using BSD source or any of its derivatives is immune from lawsuits. The BSDs are good, so is MacOS X. It was an asshole lawsuit anyway - a lot of what UNIX was at the time came from BSD (trivial stuff like virtual memory and vi was invented by BSDers) and then they say you can't use this because we have it now.
Mozilla has this now, I think it came in 1.2.
Why can't binary compatability be maintained?
It is maintained. gcc 3.2 (maybe it was in 3.1?) started to track the STDC++ ABI. I checked the release notes, I couldn't see any ABI changes in this release. Not only will all versions of g++ be able to interact, but all C++ from all vendors will be able to interact. Intel C++ 7 also is tracking the standard, they think they're close, but at this point they don't recommend mixing objects from g++. The C++ binary compatibility was growing pains until they got this stuff fixed. It's now fixed (or at least well on it's way) and your life will be much easier for it later. Think about being able to get a C++ library from someone and not having to worry what vendor's compiler compiled it. This is the price you pay now. Besides, if you're happy with 3.2.3, don't upgrade.
I laughed when I saw this, great reference.
For those wondering, when the first group of PowerPC Macs came out, one of them (I think it was the 7100) was code named the Carl Sagan. Sagan protested this use of his name. Apple was pissed, it's just a code name. Someone renamed it to BHA, for Butt-Headed Astronomer.
There was a post before, when the CLR first came out, about the CLR essentially introducing the concept of "skinnable" languages. Use the syntax you like, and it will work on the CLR. Cool, though not without its issues. A language is more than syntax, and essentially you're changing C# (C# and CLR development go hand in hand, it's definitely the first among equals as far as language goes) to say, VB.NET, but which object model are you using? A lot of VB users hate the new VB.NET because it's a fairly radical departure from normal VB (whatever normal means for VB users). I'ts almost as if someone made a script that converted Lisp to C++ primitives and it works as long as you forget that pesky list stuff because I'm sorry C++ just doesn't do lists easily. Interesting concept, but has flaws.
And Tobey was a big part of "Ride With The Devil". "The Cider House Rules" seemed too "hey, this is an artsy film, we demand an Oscar nomination for something dammit" for me. "Ride With The Devil" was no less serious, covered a much broader topic that we still deal with today (American imperialism as starting with overrunning Southern Culture) yet a lot more fun, and his character had a better transformation in it, I think.
For all those talking about Jake Gyllenhaal ad how his darker personna would have helped, remember that Peter Parker was a school-newspaper working geek who lived with his grandpa and grandma until somthing accidentally changed him. Didn't really have a dark side. Batman was the freak who went out at night in silly tights and beat people up.
I can think of two reasons just off the top of my head:
1) The Postal system is quasi-government, but they're in the business to make money (well not lose a lot anyway). Bulk mail postage helps keep the wheels moving.
2) A lot of junk mail now is tagged to look important. Makes it harder for a mail carrier to make that judgment call on the letter. Just easier to chuck the whole wad into your box.
An aside on 2 above:
When you get credit cards/ATM cards, they come in nondescript envelopes, to make it less likely to get stolen. I usually check all plain envelopes now, feel them for a plastic card to see if Citibank has sent me a new card, or if some bank sent me a credit card I didn't ask for (has happened). I'm starting to see junk mail taking advantage of that behavior, a plain envelope with a hard card in there someplace, to make me open the thing and look at the contents. The bastards.
Hmm, from what I hear bonobos have a very interesting social hierarchy, female based, and a lot of social norms and actions are sexual. A typical greeting is masturbation. Conflict resolution - an orgy.
They'd be too busy checking out porn on the net to write. "ooog oog ooh, Bubbles, where zoo pr0n site? oog goo goo..."
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Also, bad redneck joke:
If you took an infinite number of rednecks and an infinite number of STOP signs and had them shoot at them with an infinite number of shotguns, would you eventually get a work of Shakespeare in Braille?
When will C be frozen?
C99 changed a lot of things, and added things that may cause some breakage for old projects. Just like you can tell your compiler to compile pre-C99, you use a different jsdk. C is > 30 years old and still has to evolve. Java is much younger and has more places where it needs to mature.
As far as I know OS X is based on NEXT, and a bit of FreeBSD userland (It depends who you ask).
Darwin (the underpinnings of MacOS X) is based on a Mach MicroKernel kinda semi-bound to a BSD "server" in kernel space. Mach handles the low level hardware, the BSD server handles the other normal interactions you'd expect from a Unix.
The BSD server is actually ahybrid. From what I remember, they started off as more NetBSDish, then got more and more FreeBSDish. They seem to be tracking FreeBSD more and more now. I'm not sure what the userland is.
On top of that, you're allowed to have other "servers" as they're called in MicroKernel land. There's a Classic server which is all MacOS 9 and under. The NeXT part is the Cocoa server. And there's obviously Carbon which is essentially for "native" MacOS X apps.
I always thought that if I was a musician, all my music would be GPL:
Public Enemy has been doing stuff like this. Revolverlution was kind of open source. They released some tracks on the net, with some other hooks that artists could use in remixes. (ftp source repository). People sent them remixes (patches) and they put the best ones on the album.
They're one of the biggest samplers of music, and one of the most sampled. They had a song Caught, Can I Get A Witness where they're in a fake court over a sample (and I wanted to be the first with that link, somebody else beat me to it, I modded him up for it too). They has some issues with a record being released, couldn't get it on disc so they released as MP3s. Label hated that, so they broke with their label and went on to AtomicPop where the album was downloadable for $8 (tho AtomicPop has since died).
If you read the actual doc, it says Windows is a better CIFS server than RedHat. Very different conclusion than the very broad "Windows is a better server than Red Hat".
So how come this "exploit" wasn't deserving of its own front page story like the IE one was?
Umm, cause it wasn't an exploit.
IE exploits gives bad people access to your machines. This just crashes your browser. Does a crash in code that is so obscure that nobody ever triggered it using tags that I've personally never heard of (I'm no HTML expert but I have been a professional webmaster on and off for 10 years) warrant a font page story? My vote is no.
PayPal originated with this concept, kind of a money among friends thing. Say, you were with your friends, no cash, so you "beamed" them some cash. They figured what the problem was, everybody needed $200 Pal devices for this to work. Soon they got the idea of the PayPal service we all know and love/loathe. Just wondering if PayPal has any rights to this concept.
cause in 1.3, it's better. You can do it per-site. Menu Tools => Popup Manager
I haven't played with 1.4, dunno if it's different.
if we see this in a *absolut* way
Hmm, we all get drunk of vodka? Dunno about you, but after a bottle of Absolut, I'm seeing a lot of things.
I agree with most of your points, but one...
And, you know what? It could happen. MS could develop the MS-2000 CPU that only runs their own code. Just like Apple.
Hmmm? Apple originally ran on the M68000, one of the most prolific chips in history, probably second only to the ia32 architecture. Everything: Lisa, MacOS, NeXT, SunOS, HPUX, Irix (I think) Amiga, AtariST, many real time OSes ran on it. It started running out of gas after the 68040 (though a few 68060s were sold). So they came up with the PowerPC with Motorola and IBM. The intention was for a new RISC architecture to become as ubiquitous as the 68000 series. Even though there were some ports (NT was on PowerPC, oddly enough I seem to remember a Solaris port as well, but I may be smoking too much). The problem was, at that time the market was already in two camps - those tied to the ubiquity of the x86 who didn't want a second platform no matter how much cleaner it was, and those with investments in proprietary systems (Sun pride with SPARC has hurt it other ways as well). If anything, Apple is hurt by the fact others aren't using PowerPC. They don't get the economies of scale Intel (and to a lesser extent AMD) get with ia32 production.