How many people are runing CPU load monitors? And if anybody questioned it, the company could spout of some BS about offsetting development costs of free (as in beer) software/services.
Seeing that the FSF is all wrapped up in the GNU project, and therefore the Hurd, I would be rather suprised if they were to shell out money for any documentation of the Linux kernel...
Five years ago, I bought a PentiumPro system, partially because Intel said that they were dropping the p5's and that the PPro was going to be the line recieving development. Then they released MMX. The only real advancement the PPro line saw was a 200 with a full 1MB of cache...
The good doctor has had her graphical front end for/. attacked by vicious copyright lawyers.
if we can invalidate this patten, you will no longer have to hit the refresh button in netscape every 2.5min... you'll have all the headlines updated in realtime!!!.
hopefully, it won't have a built in scripting feature that allows for autoposting of portman/grits haiku, rushing for first posts...
Bah, I think all moderators should be forced to read at 1, with most recent first.
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Nobdody seems to remember this, but Unix was a widely used operating system, not just some CS guys abstract concept of what an OS could do. AT&T released quite a few versions of the Unix operating system. All these other guys just got themselves a licence to make their own version of the system.
Interesting how when we're talking about unix, people say that the GUI should NOT be part of the OS, yet when talking about windows, one of the big complaints is about the way the GUI is just tacked on top of DOS. I'm not sure if people don't know what want, or are just hypocritical.
'It's core is Unix BSD' OS X's core is Mach. The BSD protion sits on top of that. NT's design is largely the same where the Win32 subsystem sits on top of the NT kernel. A lot was borrowed from the Mach system.
Not quite... NT3.51 had a clean, microkernel based design. For marketing based performance reasons, 4.0 and up have a bastardized design where a lot of higher level functions bypass the microkernel and operate straight on hardware.
I'm reading up at +3 and the posts I see are, at best stupid and offtopic. I can only hope that meta-mod cleans up some of this kind of crap:
1.5 article bitching about how bad the front page was today
2 articles bitching about how anime doesn't belong on slashdot.
1.5 articles telling them how to not read a topic
2 OTHER stuff
5 actually even remotely about lain
So, over 50% OT posts moderated at +3.
To avoid being OT, myself; I rented lain about a week ago, and watched the first two episodes... It looked like it could be really cool, but it was in Japanese, so I couldn't really tell. My local video store had one of the recalled copies, the ones that Pioneer accidentally forgot to include the English dub on.
What really frightens me is that when they pulled up the movie's file and it showed 20-30 people had rented the movie, and not said anything about it not being in English...
Unfortunately for your idealism, there are certain times when closed source is a good thing. I will provide two certified Karma Whoring examples:
1)distributed.net/SETI@Home These systems would be of any use (in the real world) if any schmuck could come along and start sending in fraudulent/random data, just to get a higher score.
2)Windows 2000 Just imagine the results if Microsoft were to opensource windows, we'd have an epidemic of programmer suicides...
Perhaps that's why the Japanese didn't invent the computer. It's one thing to design a language from the ground up as object oriented, programing on a UNIVAC, or even a PDP-8 in an OO language would be a nightmare.
How about trying to make hardware with an object oriented paradigm? CPU design might possibly be debated, but memory is always going to be just a string of bits. I won't say the way it's been done is the only way, but for early computers, there weren't a lot of option to chose from.
Another thing to look at is that if some non-English language provided a particularly useful insight into programming, everyone would know it by know, since computer's are pretty much everywhere.
Granted, there are probably a few indiginous languages out there whose native speakers haven't had much access to computers, but I will assume that if they aren't using computers, they aren't a technological society.
If Sapir-Whorf is significant, and speakers of this language could provide insight into programming, it could be reasonably extrapolated that they'd have developed enough technology to be using computers. Since they're not using computers yet, they're not going to tell us anything we don't know.
Something about this argument reminds me of a popular argument for the impossibility of time travel (if it will exist, we'd know about it by now...)
A few of the recent developments at Big Blue are now starting to make sense to me. The Linux Watch, for example. They've just produced the small, low power processor required.
Of course, they could have saved themselves a lot time and effort by just runing NetBSD/Cessium.
Maybe Debian GNU/Linux won't be relevant in two years, but now that people are actually working on it Debian GNU/Hurd might be usuable in two years time.
If Sun has their way, now that they're releasing Solaris for 'free', in two years no Linux distros will matter.
If the games aren't there, the kid next door is not going to even start using linux. Linux may be great fun to use, but until you have realtime 3D sysadmin tools, you're going to need some good (in the modern quake/FF/Starcraft sense) games to bring the kids in.
So, after we have a linux that I'll let my mother use, will our next goal be to have a linux my 13-year-old brother will want to use?
Granted, having AOL for linux is going a long way in that direction.
Now, since I'm still running on my t(-t,+k??)rusty old 386sx, I'm kinda fuzzy on the idea but...
I heard some nasty rumors about some of these new fangled Pentoom Mommy boards having thermometers on them. From my experience writing programs in QBasic, I know that if numbers get too small, they can suddenly get big again.
It would be a real shame if these machines that are at -65 start thinking their temperature is close to that of the Sun (which, not to be confused w/ my Sun 3/60, which has no problems with heat whatsoever)
I was under the impression that Daikatana was a miserable failure...
So, in this world, some talented guys, who were writing the good game, went bankrupt 'cuz the publisher was throwing all their money at some schmucks who ended up writing a flop. The publisher, as part of the bankruptcy setlement gets the rights to the game the talented crew was working on, and sends the project to the schmucks for completion.
Eidos wouldn't happen to be a subsidiary of Microsoft, would they?
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Bah! You want power? Toss out your quad-Xeon system, I've got a Turing Machine here with your name on it.
(just email me w/ the location of the dumpster)
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ index.html
I'm a little karma-whore, short and stout...
Wolfram? That must be the secret to the still functional 1910 bulbs. As far as I know, modern lightbulbs use tungsten filaments.
Don't forget NetZero, ICQ, AIM, Netscape, etc...
How many people are runing CPU load monitors? And if anybody questioned it, the company could spout of some BS about offsetting development costs of free (as in beer) software/services.
Hrmm, is there a functional Linux port to the system, or would I have to run NetBSD?
Seeing that the FSF is all wrapped up in the GNU project, and therefore the Hurd, I would be rather suprised if they were to shell out money for any documentation of the Linux kernel...
Yes... you've finally caught on. The FSF is really a front for aliens who want to destroy humanity.
You think Intel screwed you over?
Five years ago, I bought a PentiumPro system, partially because Intel said that they were dropping the p5's and that the PPro was going to be the line recieving development. Then they released MMX. The only real advancement the PPro line saw was a 200 with a full 1MB of cache...
The good doctor has had her graphical front end for /. attacked by vicious copyright lawyers.
if we can invalidate this patten, you will no longer have to hit the refresh button in netscape every 2.5min... you'll have all the headlines updated in realtime!!!.
hopefully, it won't have a built in scripting feature that allows for autoposting of portman/grits haiku, rushing for first posts...
Bah, I think all moderators should be forced to read at 1, with most recent first.
Nobdody seems to remember this, but Unix was a widely used operating system, not just some CS guys abstract concept of what an OS could do. AT&T released quite a few versions of the Unix operating system. All these other guys just got themselves a licence to make their own version of the system.
Interesting how when we're talking about unix, people say that the GUI should NOT be part of the OS, yet when talking about windows, one of the big complaints is about the way the GUI is just tacked on top of DOS. I'm not sure if people don't know what want, or are just hypocritical.
Would the author be able to call himself a Linux Zealot if he didn't read /.?
Not quite... NT3.51 had a clean, microkernel based design. For marketing based performance reasons, 4.0 and up have a bastardized design where a lot of higher level functions bypass the microkernel and operate straight on hardware.
Unfortunately, more often than not, Compaq is associated with mass-produced consumer PC's a'la the Presario.
DEC is associated with things like the PDPs, VAXen, and VMS (Ok, maybe we wanna forget that one).
Which would you rather associate with your 64bit CPU?
I'm reading up at +3 and the posts I see are, at best stupid and offtopic. I can only hope that meta-mod cleans up some of this kind of crap:
1.5 article bitching about how bad the front page was today
2 articles bitching about how anime doesn't belong on slashdot.
1.5 articles telling them how to not read a topic
2 OTHER stuff
5 actually even remotely about lain
So, over 50% OT posts moderated at +3.
To avoid being OT, myself; I rented lain about a week ago, and watched the first two episodes... It looked like it could be really cool, but it was in Japanese, so I couldn't really tell. My local video store had one of the recalled copies, the ones that Pioneer accidentally forgot to include the English dub on.
What really frightens me is that when they pulled up the movie's file and it showed 20-30 people had rented the movie, and not said anything about it not being in English...
Unfortunately for your idealism, there are certain times when closed source is a good thing. I will provide two certified Karma Whoring examples:
1)distributed.net/SETI@Home These systems would be of any use (in the real world) if any schmuck could come along and start sending in fraudulent/random data, just to get a higher score.
2)Windows 2000 Just imagine the results if Microsoft were to opensource windows, we'd have an epidemic of programmer suicides...
Perhaps that's why the Japanese didn't invent the computer. It's one thing to design a language from the ground up as object oriented, programing on a UNIVAC, or even a PDP-8 in an OO language would be a nightmare.
How about trying to make hardware with an object oriented paradigm? CPU design might possibly be debated, but memory is always going to be just a string of bits. I won't say the way it's been done is the only way, but for early computers, there weren't a lot of option to chose from.
Another thing to look at is that if some non-English language provided a particularly useful insight into programming, everyone would know it by know, since computer's are pretty much everywhere.
Granted, there are probably a few indiginous languages out there whose native speakers haven't had much access to computers, but I will assume that if they aren't using computers, they aren't a technological society.
If Sapir-Whorf is significant, and speakers of this language could provide insight into programming, it could be reasonably extrapolated that they'd have developed enough technology to be using computers. Since they're not using computers yet, they're not going to tell us anything we don't know.
Something about this argument reminds me of a popular argument for the impossibility of time travel (if it will exist, we'd know about it by now...)
Of course, they could have saved themselves a lot time and effort by just runing NetBSD/Cessium.
Maybe Debian GNU/Linux won't be relevant in two years, but now that people are actually working on it Debian GNU/Hurd might be usuable in two years time.
If Sun has their way, now that they're releasing Solaris for 'free', in two years no Linux distros will matter.
If the games aren't there, the kid next door is not going to even start using linux. Linux may be great fun to use, but until you have realtime 3D sysadmin tools, you're going to need some good (in the modern quake/FF/Starcraft sense) games to bring the kids in.
So, after we have a linux that I'll let my mother use, will our next goal be to have a linux my 13-year-old brother will want to use?
Granted, having AOL for linux is going a long way in that direction.
Now, since I'm still running on my t(-t,+k??)rusty old 386sx, I'm kinda fuzzy on the idea but...
I heard some nasty rumors about some of these new fangled Pentoom Mommy boards having thermometers on them. From my experience writing programs in QBasic, I know that if numbers get too small, they can suddenly get big again.
It would be a real shame if these machines that are at -65 start thinking their temperature is close to that of the Sun (which, not to be confused w/ my Sun 3/60, which has no problems with heat whatsoever)
I was under the impression that Daikatana was a miserable failure...
So, in this world, some talented guys, who were writing the good game, went bankrupt 'cuz the publisher was throwing all their money at some schmucks who ended up writing a flop. The publisher, as part of the bankruptcy setlement gets the rights to the game the talented crew was working on, and sends the project to the schmucks for completion.
Eidos wouldn't happen to be a subsidiary of Microsoft, would they?
Umm... try again. 16-year-olds are legal in 34 states of the Union. Not to mention considerably more liberal laws in much of the world.
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