As natural persons, corporations are being denied their inalienable right to vote in US elections. Those that came before us silenced the voices of women and non-european races. How much longer can we continue to deny our fellow corporate citizens their voice? Today, these corporations must spend millions and millions of dollars on inefficient lobbying, contributions, and bribes. This inefficient, indirect "voting" wastes money that rightly belongs in the pockets of CEOs and their politicians. Demand corporate suffrage now!
If you wanted to play Rouge Squadron 2, you'd be out of luck, people were at least 6 deep around the two demo boxes, and the suround sound booth was too packed to get into.
I guess Nintendo is finally trying to make video games that appeal to girls..;-)
How does he know who is behind anonymous emails?
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Environmentalists using privacy sites to recruit children? Yeah, wouldn't want out kids to be politically active, they need to be consuming/producing machines that only vote for the Parties, not some fringe group. Won't someone please think of the children? This is America after all, can't have anything other than Mom, the Flag, and Apple Pie in kids' minds. Thought is corruption. Ignorance is strength.
If these "privacy sites" do actually allow anonymous users, how does Rep Felix Grucci Jr. know environmental groups are using them to contact children? If these services are anonymous, then how would the children know this anonymous email is from an environmental group with the email (contents) break anonyminity?
He probably means children are using anonymous email to get information from environmental groups. If this is his beef, then how does he know these anonymous emails from children? It would also seem these children are the ones initiatating/sending these emails TO environmental groups.
... Basmati rice, sought-after for its fragrant taste, was developed by Indian farmers over hundreds of years, but the Texan company RiceTec obtained a patent for a cross-breed with American long-grain rice. RiceTec was granted the patent on the basis of aroma, elongation of the grain on cooking and chalkiness. However, the Indian government last week filed 50,000 pages of scientific evidence to the US Patents and Trademarks Office, insisting that most high quality basmati varieties already possess these characteristics.
... There are currently more than 200 patents granted on rice, almost exclusively to US and Japanese companies. It is currently not possible to patent staple foods and crops in Europe or developing countries but a European directive is about to change that in the EU.
Eric Engstrom and Chris Phillips, the "inventors" of DirectX, have left Microsoft to start a Linux company called Chromium. Their first product is ChromeLinux/WebServer, a high-performance fork of the Apache web server. One of their developers has recently surfaced on the linux-kernel list with a web server called X15, which matches Tux's kernel-space performance in user-space!
How much does DB2 for Linux cost? I've seen "free beer" DB2 CDs, but what if you want to use it for a business? Have you had an stability problems with DB2 on Linux? I've heard that Oracle on Linux can be moody.
I'll definitely keep sending in those bug reports now.:-)
btw, I usually copy and paste Windows' Dr. Watson stack traces into the Talkback comment box. Is this of any use to the Mozilla developers? Or can they find the same stack trace by analyzing the Talkback data?
What happens to Talkback bug reports?
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Since you are apparently on the inside of Mozilla, maybe you can share the bug reporting process?
I download a new Mozilla build each week. I often get duplicate crashes (according the Windows' Dr. Watson stack traces). After for first two or three crashes, I stop sending them because I fear my duplicate Talkback bug reports are causing some Netscape employee to curse my name.. "damn! it's that same guy sending in a dozen bug reports for the same silly crash!":-)
I also get frustrated when I hit the same crash three times a day, but the bug doesn't seem to get fixed after weeks of downloading new Mozila builds..:-(
My friend Mudpuppy was going to port/rewrite WWIV with a web-front end. His web BBS software would be called WWWWWIV: "double-uh double-uh double-uh double-uh double-uh eye vee". He had to abort the project because the name was just too difficult to pronounce.;-)
Then again, how many apps never check the return value of malloc and just expect the OS to go down if the system runs out of memory anyway?
As an anal-retentive programmer, I do always check my mallocs for NULL and my news for std::bad_alloc. Whether this is actually valuable is debatable, however. On Linux, malloc() does NOT fail under memory pressure because Linux does not commit the malloc'd page until it is actually faulted in. So your malloc() will return a non-NULL pointer as a weak promise to find an available page later. When you actually touch the page and Linux can't find a free page, it will simply kill your process.:-( There has been some debate on the linux-kernel mailing list about the value of such behaviour.
This is a similar problem to Linux's fsync() which can be tricked by some hard disk caches claiming to have written the data safely to disk.. and then crashing with the data still in cache.:-(
btw, this is the same problem that early RPC systems faced. Programmers don't typically expect a procedure call to fail mysteriously, but this is exactly what can happen when your blocking RPC call can't reach the other server.
SMP and NUMA are different problems because they have different failure characteristics. In distributed programming, you often must expect network failure to be a common occurence and handle those errors gracefully. As far as I know, an SMP operating system assumes that, if CPU #2 was there just a moment ago, it will still be there.
What happens when your operating system needs to fault in a page, but your distributed VM manager lost network contact with your other server(s)? How can the operating system handle this error gracefully? Or politely warn the userspace application?:-(
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As natural persons, corporations are being denied their inalienable right to vote in US elections. Those that came before us silenced the voices of women and non-european races. How much longer can we continue to deny our fellow corporate citizens their voice? Today, these corporations must spend millions and millions of dollars on inefficient lobbying, contributions, and bribes. This inefficient, indirect "voting" wastes money that rightly belongs in the pockets of CEOs and their politicians. Demand corporate suffrage now!
If you wanted to play Rouge Squadron 2 , you'd be out of luck, people were at least 6 deep around the two demo boxes, and the suround sound booth was too packed to get into.
I guess Nintendo is finally trying to make video games that appeal to girls..
good point.
Environmentalists using privacy sites to recruit children? Yeah, wouldn't want out kids to be politically active, they need to be consuming/producing machines that only vote for the Parties, not some fringe group. Won't someone please think of the children? This is America after all, can't have anything other than Mom, the Flag, and Apple Pie in kids' minds. Thought is corruption. Ignorance is strength.
If these "privacy sites" do actually allow anonymous users, how does Rep Felix Grucci Jr. know environmental groups are using them to contact children? If these services are anonymous, then how would the children know this anonymous email is from an environmental group with the email (contents) break anonyminity?
He probably means children are using anonymous email to get information from environmental groups. If this is his beef, then how does he know these anonymous emails from children? It would also seem these children are the ones initiatating/sending these emails TO environmental groups.
In the United States, politics are lies. "We have always been at war with Oceania."
India Fights U.S. Basmati Rice Patent
... Basmati rice, sought-after for its fragrant taste, was developed by Indian farmers over hundreds of years, but the Texan company RiceTec obtained a patent for a cross-breed with American long-grain rice. RiceTec was granted the patent on the basis of aroma, elongation of the grain on cooking and chalkiness. However, the Indian government last week filed 50,000 pages of scientific evidence to the US Patents and Trademarks Office, insisting that most high quality basmati varieties already possess these characteristics.
... There are currently more than 200 patents granted on rice, almost exclusively to US and Japanese companies. It is currently not possible to patent staple foods and crops in Europe or developing countries but a European directive is about to change that in the EU.
Eric Engstrom and Chris Phillips, the "inventors" of DirectX, have left Microsoft to start a Linux company called Chromium. Their first product is ChromeLinux/WebServer, a high-performance fork of the Apache web server. One of their developers has recently surfaced on the linux-kernel list with a web server called X15, which matches Tux's kernel-space performance in user-space!
Being a C++ coder, the more I learn C++, the more I like C.
There's similar VC funded ventures now being operated from a Mexican beach.
Where should I send my resume?
How much does DB2 for Linux cost? I've seen "free beer" DB2 CDs, but what if you want to use it for a business? Have you had an stability problems with DB2 on Linux? I've heard that Oracle on Linux can be moody.
I have a menu option "Netscape Killer".
I'm curious. What does your Netscape Killer do?
I'm especially interested in FreeBSD.
thanks,
chris
I guess I've answered my own question. Here are Larry McVoy's lmbench results for AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, IRIX, and SunOS.
If lmbench is a standard benchmark, I wonder what the same tests runs across FreeBSD 2/3/4 and Windows NT 3.51/4/2000 would show.
For those who are interested, here is the LMbench home page.
and also bumped into RMS in the .org pavillion. Doesn't that qualify?
When you and RMS were "bumping", where you fulling clothed and/or horizontal? Then it might count as better than sex.
pur-ty picturez.
I'll definitely keep sending in those bug reports now.
btw, I usually copy and paste Windows' Dr. Watson stack traces into the Talkback comment box. Is this of any use to the Mozilla developers? Or can they find the same stack trace by analyzing the Talkback data?
If eComStation is such a great OS, then why is www.ecomstation.nl using Tru64?
= www.ecomstation.nl&find_site=Scan
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?display=&site
Since you are apparently on the inside of Mozilla, maybe you can share the bug reporting process?
:-)
:-(
I download a new Mozilla build each week. I often get duplicate crashes (according the Windows' Dr. Watson stack traces). After for first two or three crashes, I stop sending them because I fear my duplicate Talkback bug reports are causing some Netscape employee to curse my name.. "damn! it's that same guy sending in a dozen bug reports for the same silly crash!"
I also get frustrated when I hit the same crash three times a day, but the bug doesn't seem to get fixed after weeks of downloading new Mozila builds..
Keep up the good work!
My friend Mudpuppy was going to port/rewrite WWIV with a web-front end. His web BBS software would be called WWWWWIV: "double-uh double-uh double-uh double-uh double-uh eye vee". He had to abort the project because the name was just too difficult to pronounce.
Then again, how many apps never check the return value of malloc and just expect the OS to go down if the system runs out of memory anyway?
:-( There has been some debate on the linux-kernel mailing list about the value of such behaviour.
:-(
As an anal-retentive programmer, I do always check my mallocs for NULL and my news for std::bad_alloc. Whether this is actually valuable is debatable, however. On Linux, malloc() does NOT fail under memory pressure because Linux does not commit the malloc'd page until it is actually faulted in. So your malloc() will return a non-NULL pointer as a weak promise to find an available page later. When you actually touch the page and Linux can't find a free page, it will simply kill your process.
This is a similar problem to Linux's fsync() which can be tricked by some hard disk caches claiming to have written the data safely to disk.. and then crashing with the data still in cache.
btw, this is the same problem that early RPC systems faced. Programmers don't typically expect a procedure call to fail mysteriously, but this is exactly what can happen when your blocking RPC call can't reach the other server.
SMP and NUMA are different problems because they have different failure characteristics. In distributed programming, you often must expect network failure to be a common occurence and handle those errors gracefully. As far as I know, an SMP operating system assumes that, if CPU #2 was there just a moment ago, it will still be there.
What happens when your operating system needs to fault in a page, but your distributed VM manager lost network contact with your other server(s)? How can the operating system handle this error gracefully? Or politely warn the userspace application?
Who are Alvy Ray Smith, Jim Blinn, and Turner Whitted? What did they create?
just curious..
they can't stay in business running their own software on their own hardware
So now SGI's plan is to sell Linus's Linux on Intel processors. SGI is screwed.