At one point Palmsource had the Future, and all us Palm developers were excited over Palm OS 6. I even went out to California to a conference where they were telling us all the new toys we'd get to play with. Multitasking, real memory management, TrueType fonts, a BSD networking library, and hell, even backwards compatibility to boot. It was going to be awesome. And then they couldn't get a single damn licensee to actually use the damn thing. I don't know if it turned out to be unstable or overpriced or what, but it just never materialized.
Aah, Palmsource 2004. The free jackets they handed out were nice and warm..
The conclusion should be the same as for people installing Windows - even if you've got a 64-bit capable processor, unless you have a compelling reason, stick with the 32-bit OS.
Even on 64-bit Windows, don't you still need to run a 32-bit browser to use the Flash plugin?
- Then there is the vim yank buffer. Yes, you can have multiple yank buffers and probably program them and whatever. But it is totally separate from the other clipboards.
Vim's yank buffer has nothing to do with the desktop clipboard on Mac OS X or Windows either.
Meanwhile, if 64G support is activated in Linux, any APP can take advantage of it.
Not naively. Just like on Windows, you'll have to basically use a windowing scheme via something like mmap. Pointers are 32 bit and you can't have more than 4 gigabytes simultaneously accessible within the address space.
This is Adobe. They'll write it in Flash. Expect an application that'll run locally in the Flash runtime (which will happily have optimised image composition routines to do stuff like a Gaussian blur), but with the web used to deliver the application inside a browser, and possibly with online storage and/or public sharing of your work tied in.
No the first use power for macs came with the first PPC systems. I still have my lowly Power mac 7100/66 with a killer 2meg video card and hold on, 32megs or ram.
PowerBook 100.
Released October 1991 with a 68HC000 processor.
But Mozilla as a whole (the organisation and the products) are already getting bad press for this.
People have complained in the past about the Mozilla organisation being heavy handed about trademarks, and trademarks (eg the Linux one) have been getting a bad rap in general. But here's the other side of the coin - the actions of an organisation that identify themselves as "Mozilla", even though they're _not_ the Mozilla foundation, are tarnishing the reputation of the genuine article.
They're a nice company and have a nice product, but Qt4 isn't quite ready for prime-time yet, and (despite claims to the contrary) they've discontinued support for Qt3 (if your bug doesn't cause a SEGV, it doesn't get fixed).
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That's a bit different. I don't think that's Intel being stupid. I think that's Intel being perceptive enough to recognise the stupidity of others:)
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Is no one else surprised that they are possibly launching this mission on a 13th? I know that there is no real reason to the bad luck that NASA has had with that number, but I wonder about the possible affects of people on the project worrying about bad luck, and that causing a problem?
If someone at NASA is seriously stupid enough to worry about launching on the 13th then NASA does indeed have a problem - hiring stupid people.
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The conclusion should be the same as for people installing Windows - even if you've got a 64-bit capable processor, unless you have a compelling reason, stick with the 32-bit OS.
Even on 64-bit Windows, don't you still need to run a 32-bit browser to use the Flash plugin?
The OO concept of "derivation" is not the same as the legal concept of a derived work, even though they use the same English word.
Furthermore, the GPL covers distribution, not use.
Perhaps if people had paid more attention to the politics back then, things wouldn't have become as bad as they are now.
Not naively. Just like on Windows, you'll have to basically use a windowing scheme via something like mmap. Pointers are 32 bit and you can't have more than 4 gigabytes simultaneously accessible within the address space.
Palm OS Cobalt was stillborn and buried quite a while ago now. Unless you're talking about whatever Access' forthcoming offering is called?
This is Adobe. They'll write it in Flash. Expect an application that'll run locally in the Flash runtime (which will happily have optimised image composition routines to do stuff like a Gaussian blur), but with the web used to deliver the application inside a browser, and possibly with online storage and/or public sharing of your work tied in.
What makes you think that won't be the case eventually?
Apple made a big deal out of "Display PDF" in Mac OS X. However, Display PDF's really just:
Well, the BSD license is best for mulching babies.
.. it was stolen!
Did the candidates get to nominate scrutineers to monitor the election process, and what methods were those scrutineers able to employ?
But Mozilla as a whole (the organisation and the products) are already getting bad press for this.
People have complained in the past about the Mozilla organisation being heavy handed about trademarks, and trademarks (eg the Linux one) have been getting a bad rap in general. But here's the other side of the coin - the actions of an organisation that identify themselves as "Mozilla", even though they're _not_ the Mozilla foundation, are tarnishing the reputation of the genuine article.
Eh? They released Qt 3.3.5 yesterday.
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/changes/changes -3.3.5.html
Looks like they've fixed more than SEGVs.
I'm not going to argue with you on Qt4, though.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
That's a bit different. I don't think that's Intel being stupid. I think that's Intel being perceptive enough to recognise the stupidity of others :)
If someone at NASA is seriously stupid enough to worry about launching on the 13th then NASA does indeed have a problem - hiring stupid people.
Is it just me, or is that receipt for a 16 patty burger with a small coke?
Not that Darwin on x86 is a speed demon, but I think you'll find the slow 'ls /' is actually just the framebuffer driver.
My favourite complaint letter is this one.