If Apple had benchmarked against a Motorola compiler-- slashdotters would be bitching and moaning because Apple didn't use a commonly available compiler. They could have chosen to use Metrowerk's compiler, though.
Nah, A lot of stuff in MacOSX isn't common sense. Here's two questions I've had in the past week. 1. My modem is stuck permanently in "Disconnecting mode" and fails to respond to reset attempts. How do I abort the soft modem program and restart it? 2. Is there a way to switch between user modes, ala (init [1-6] on linux?
With all due respect to your conspiracy mentality, the decison was "bipartisan." Bush I appointed Souter (although, among right wing fanatics, Souter is regarded as a "mistake". Clinton appointed Breyer. Ford appointed Stevens. It is likely that Bush II will, if given the chance, appoint someone in the mold of Judges Hathorne and Corwin, but mistakes might just be made.
It's never too late to repeal a bill. However, the political will to do so is not present in the Congress. The Supreme court probably won't revisit this issue for a long time, either.
Concept albums were killed off by the "shuffle tracks" function on a CD player. Some artists (Prince, perhaps) have responded by making one track albums.
It would be nice if a intelligent shuffle routine could be devised-- so , for instance, the 5 parts of a violin concerto could be heard, as a unit-- without disrupting the listener's ability to hear just one movement, if he so chooses.
Aren't you supposed to line up the tweeters more of less with the ears of the listener?
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It's not a moral problem, in ESR's mind. ESR believes that a piece of open-source software has fewer bugs and is often more innovative than its closed source counterparts. Thus, open source should be evangelized. At the same time, he recognizes that in choosing a license, a programmer or individual is making a conscious choice about how the software program will be developed, and how that program will be percieved by others. To choose a open source license is to make a gift. If an individual writes an original program (not derived from prelicenced material) and is forced to give it away-- that is no longer gift giving, but expropriation. Yes, the GPL insists that derived sources must also use the GPL, but on the other hand, if the programmer doesn't want to likewise release his program, he can choose not to use GPL sources. Likewise, if the programmer wishes to reveal his lack of generosity, he can choose to release his program under a closed source, restrictive license. Programmers must be free to make bad choices, just as long as they do not interfere with the rights (remember, there is no inherent right to use a Microsoft product) of other persons.
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Eric S. Raymond has long believed in property rights, including "Intellectual Property" rights.
As a libertarian, I favor strong property rights -- but as a student of the economics of software, I observe that developers often best serve their ends by voluntarily relinguishing those rights. Emphasis on the "voluntarily"; I would oppose any law that forbade closed-source licenses.
Thus, I'm tactically with the FSF in their goal of promoting open software. But I'm philosophically opposed to RMS's aim of abolishing intellectual-property rights in software. Open source should be pursued because it works, not for quasi-religious reasons. For me, talking the "you win if you do this" economics rather than the "thou shalt" language of morality and ethics is a tactical choice. You win more hearts and minds with the former, at least among audiences with the power to change business practices.
See, apple was ripping you off even then. The Centris 650 was a slower version of the Quadra 650 (25 MHz vs. 33 MHz 680LC040) The Centris 650 was introduced in Feb 1993. The Quadra 650 appeared 8 months later. Both models supported 68040 chips, not the FPU-less 68LC040.
Incidentally, the Centris 650 featured the same CPU as the Quadra 700, introduced in October 1991.
It's not as if Umpires are starving and "need" the bribe money. Now the techies who calibrate the machines might be so underpaid as to consider a field adjustment...
Nah, if there's waste in baseball, it's in player's salaries. I'm all in favour of keeping the umps around, but won't somebody please develop a robot to replace the batter?
Besides, all this machine does is call strikes-- and not appreciably more accurately than the umpires. It can't judge whether someone is out, or properly judge the laws of baseball.
Not exactly. The 4 dollars per CD is a little off. It's actually 0.007 SEK/MB for rewritable media, and.0025 SK/MB for write once media.
So figure 1.625 SK (US$ 0.20) for a standard 650 MB CDR, 4.55 (US$ 0.59) for a CDRW of them same size. The 31 SKR ($US 4) is really only appropriate for a 4.7 GB DVD-RW. And your 4TB database would cost $USD 3816 in added levies, assuming you were using 870 DVD-RWs per backup.
Objective C introduces the type "id" which allows you to send messages between objects without the sender object much caring about the type of recipient object.
Of course, you do realize that any language that uses "slot:" and "signal:" directives isn't C++.
The C++ standard is big. Really big. I'm sure that had Qt's engineers thought about the problem, they would have been able to use templates in new and interesting ways to get the same effect.
Or better yet, they should have dropped the marketroid "Hi", and simply used "High Speed USB", and "Standard USB". Remember folks, only the French (er, excuse me, "only the Freedom") put their adjectives after their nouns.
Of course, with IEEE 1394b standard (also known as Firewire 2), speeds higher than 800 Mb/s are possible, just not neccesarily with the cabling and cards Apple promotes as Firewire 800.
I heard it on NPR (what, THAT's not a credible source?) Considering that NPR is falsely cited as a source for "Sad News, Stephen King, dead at 60" reports, I'd say that people who cite NPR on/. have very little credibility.
In product liability law, which is the legal theory on which many of these lawsuits are based, prior knowldege of a product defect can increase liability substantially, particlarly if the defect is not corrected in a timely matter. I suppose if the gun manufacturer had no intention of stopping shipments to sloppy dealers, or had determined that such a program would hurt the bottom line--"I don't care if he supplies the Mob, he's our best customer," knowledge of such statistics would be a burden in litigation.
I suppose, however, if Congress decides to write a special exemption from liability for gun manufacturer, the manufacturers will be free to look in the data. (Of course, once relieved from such liabilty, the manufacturers might not have any incentive to act on such information.)
Yes, I would mind. It's a personal point of pride to me that I have not committed any crimes against humanity.
I see you've set the bar pretty high for yourself in the "personal point of pride" department. Must be all that self-esteem training they have in the schools these days.
I just take it one day at a time. Everyday, I'm tempted to cleanse the world, but then, I look at my moral compass, quietly put down my flamethrower, and politely decline.
I hope you aren't an American tax payer. You are directly responsible for the deaths of innocent Iraqi children.
Well, there are some who refuse to pay income taxes for exactly this reason.But I think you are using a definition of "directly" that is entirely too broad.
It's not as if I had much say in the matter. I didn't vote for the current resident. I didn't join the Republican party. I didn't sell materiel to the government.
Internet Explorer had a feature that would allow the user to categorize sites into "trusted", "standard", and "scum". I rather liked this idea. Unfortunately, it wasn't all that flexible. I could set a standard policy of no cookie acceptance, and then trust Rob Malda and Howell Raines not to do anything stupid with my machine, but this still seems insecure. It would have been nice if there was an option to add custom security ratings, so that I could set a level for "It's OK if you bake some cookies for me, but you're not getting a key to my front door."
Sigh-- I have a feeling that flexible cookie management is not high on the priority list of any browser manufacturer.
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If Apple had benchmarked against a Motorola compiler-- slashdotters would be bitching and moaning because Apple didn't use a commonly available compiler. They could have chosen to use Metrowerk's compiler, though.
Nah, A lot of stuff in MacOSX isn't common sense.
Here's two questions I've had in the past week.
1. My modem is stuck permanently in "Disconnecting mode" and fails to respond to reset attempts. How do I abort the soft modem program and restart it?
2. Is there a way to switch between user modes, ala (init [1-6] on linux?
With all due respect to your conspiracy mentality, the decison was "bipartisan." Bush I appointed Souter (although, among right wing fanatics, Souter is regarded as a "mistake". Clinton appointed Breyer. Ford appointed Stevens. It is likely that Bush II will, if given the chance, appoint someone in the mold of Judges Hathorne and Corwin, but mistakes might just be made.
It's never too late to repeal a bill. However, the political will to do so is not present in the Congress. The Supreme court probably won't revisit this issue for a long time, either.
Concept albums were killed off by the "shuffle tracks" function on a CD player. Some artists (Prince, perhaps) have responded by making one track albums.
It would be nice if a intelligent shuffle routine could be devised-- so , for instance, the 5 parts of a violin concerto could be heard, as a unit-- without disrupting the listener's ability to hear just one movement, if he so chooses.
I think I find the non-glass cockpits to be a bit more impressive.
Aren't you supposed to line up the tweeters more of less with the ears of the listener?
It's not a moral problem, in ESR's mind. ESR believes that a piece of open-source software has fewer bugs and is often more innovative than its closed source counterparts. Thus, open source should be evangelized.
At the same time, he recognizes that in choosing a license, a programmer or individual is making a conscious choice about how the software program will be developed, and how that program will be percieved by others. To choose a open source license is to make a gift.
If an individual writes an original program (not derived from prelicenced material) and is forced to give it away-- that is no longer gift giving, but expropriation.
Yes, the GPL insists that derived sources must also use the GPL, but on the other hand, if the programmer doesn't want to likewise release his program, he can choose not to use GPL sources.
Likewise, if the programmer wishes to reveal his lack of generosity, he can choose to release his program under a closed source, restrictive license. Programmers must be free to make bad choices, just as long as they do not interfere with the rights (remember, there is no inherent right to use a Microsoft product) of other persons.
Source: frontwheeldrive.com interview, 14 April 2000
See, apple was ripping you off even then. The Centris 650 was a slower version of the Quadra 650 (25 MHz vs. 33 MHz 680LC040)
The Centris 650 was introduced in Feb 1993. The Quadra 650 appeared 8 months later. Both models supported 68040 chips, not the FPU-less 68LC040.
Incidentally, the Centris 650 featured the same CPU as the Quadra 700, introduced in October 1991.
Who needs progress?
It's not as if Umpires are starving and "need" the bribe money. Now the techies who calibrate the machines might be so underpaid as to consider a field adjustment...
Nah, if there's waste in baseball, it's in player's salaries. I'm all in favour of keeping the umps around, but won't somebody please develop a robot to replace the batter?
Besides, all this machine does is call strikes-- and not appreciably more accurately than the umpires. It can't judge whether someone is out, or properly judge the laws of baseball.
crap: should have previewed Ah well.
a more direct link Not exactly last week, though--it's slightly older.
Not exactly. The 4 dollars per CD is a little off. It's actually 0.007 SEK/MB for rewritable media, and .0025 SK/MB for write once media.
So figure 1.625 SK (US$ 0.20) for a standard 650 MB CDR, 4.55 (US$ 0.59) for a CDRW of them same size. The 31 SKR ($US 4) is really only appropriate for a 4.7 GB DVD-RW.
And your 4TB database would cost $USD 3816 in added levies, assuming you were using 870 DVD-RWs per backup.
Objective C introduces the type "id" which allows you to send messages between objects without the sender object much caring about the type of recipient object.
Of course, you do realize that any language that uses "slot:" and "signal:" directives isn't C++.
The C++ standard is big. Really big. I'm sure that had Qt's engineers thought about the problem, they would have been able to use templates in new and interesting ways to get the same effect.
Sounds like SCSI...
Bullcrap. USB2.0 = 480MB/s. I dare you to show me documentation otherwise, dumass.
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High Speed USB is 480Mb/s or 60 MB/s.
Or better yet, they should have dropped the marketroid "Hi", and simply used "High Speed USB", and "Standard USB". Remember folks, only the French (er, excuse me, "only the Freedom") put their adjectives after their nouns.
Of course, with IEEE 1394b standard (also known as Firewire 2), speeds higher than 800 Mb/s are possible, just not neccesarily with the cabling and cards Apple promotes as Firewire 800.
I heard it on NPR (what, THAT's not a credible source?) /. have very little credibility.
Considering that NPR is falsely cited as a source for "Sad News, Stephen King, dead at 60" reports, I'd say that people who cite NPR on
In product liability law, which is the legal theory on which many of these lawsuits are based, prior knowldege of a product defect can increase liability substantially, particlarly if the defect is not corrected in a timely matter. I suppose if the gun manufacturer had no intention of stopping shipments to sloppy dealers, or had determined that such a program would hurt the bottom line--"I don't care if he supplies the Mob, he's our best customer," knowledge of such statistics would be a burden in litigation.
I suppose, however, if Congress decides to write a special exemption from liability for gun manufacturer, the manufacturers will be free to look in the data. (Of course, once relieved from such liabilty, the manufacturers might not have any incentive to act on such information.)
Yes, I would mind. It's a personal point of pride to me that I have not committed any crimes against humanity.
I see you've set the bar pretty high for yourself in the "personal point of pride" department. Must be all that self-esteem training they have in the schools these days.
I just take it one day at a time. Everyday, I'm tempted to cleanse the world, but then, I look at my moral compass, quietly put down my flamethrower, and politely decline.
I hope you aren't an American tax payer. You are directly responsible for the deaths of innocent Iraqi children.
Well, there are some who refuse to pay income taxes for exactly this reason.But I think you are using a definition of "directly" that is entirely too broad.
It's not as if I had much say in the matter. I didn't vote for the current resident. I didn't join the Republican party. I didn't sell materiel to the government.
Internet Explorer had a feature that would allow the user to categorize sites into "trusted", "standard", and "scum". I rather liked this idea. Unfortunately, it wasn't all that flexible. I could set a standard policy of no cookie acceptance, and then trust Rob Malda and Howell Raines not to do anything stupid with my machine, but this still seems insecure. It would have been nice if there was an option to add custom security ratings, so that I could set a level for "It's OK if you bake some cookies for me, but you're not getting a key to my front door."
Sigh-- I have a feeling that flexible cookie management is not high on the priority list of any browser manufacturer.