Thats complete nonsense. Its perfectly legitimate to make improvements and not pass them back. If its only you as the user and developer making improvements then you don't have to give the source to anyone but yourself.
My point is that it is giving IBM hardware independance. They can support their software on cheap intel or on the zSeries. Migrating between the two platforms should be straight-forward.
If you re-read the article you'll see that people are already making a platform change, from HP/SUN and co. to Intel/Linux.
If HP/SUN/etc. surprised us all and released cheap high-performance hardware on a different architecture that runs Linux, there would be nothing to stop people again moving over to that.
Talk to some NetBSD users, you'll get the idea. The hardware doesn't matter.
Wales is eternally overcast, there are few jobs and the economy is poor. If it wasn't attached to England it would be a third world country. Its heavily subsidised by the EU and "England".
In general unemployment in the UK is low and the economy isn't doing too badly. Its comparitively better than most of Europe.
This kit is a tool for people who are considering using this device. As a working demo platform that they can fiddle with while getting their own implementation online.
Please don't go out and buy on of these just for the hell of it. I doubt they are interested in selling this kit to you unless you are intending to take a shit load of quantity.
You put Pascal Files in and get compiled executable code out, therefore it is a Pascal Compiler. You can't debate that fact.
You might be getting confused by an old tool called tptc which converted turbo pascal code into turbo c code. However the release date of Turbo Pascal 1.0 was 1983, Turbo C 1.0 followed in 1987.
Borland write good optimising compilers, they pretty much invented the IDE. They also tend to write their compilers and IDEs in the target language.
eg: Pascal Compiler is written in pascal.
C Compiler is written in C.
C Builder IDE is written in C++
J Builder IDE is written in Java.
I believe that borlands first pascal compiler was compiled by hand and not with the aid of a c compiler. I can't find anything to back this up though.
Nonsense, DCC32 is a command line version of the pascal compiler.
The Delphi 1 compiler wasn't significantly different from Turbo Pascal 7.0. The big change was Delphi 2.0 when they introduced their first 32-Bit pascal compiler.
As both C Builder and Delphi use the same packaging format and can make sense of units compiled from each other, they have taken advantage of this and allowed you to compile pascal files from within C Builder. The reasoning for this was that there where alot of components already written for Delphi.
Whenever I've bought a professional version of Delphi I've always received either a JBuilder, CBuilder or Foxpro disk thrown in with the package.
Most phones sold these days are of the pay-as-you-go variety. These are bought outright.
Even under discount contracted phones the phone is yours, you are just under an obligation to stay connected to their service for 12 months. Either way the phone IS yours once your minimum contract is up.
I get the feeling that the phone companies are not subsidising the true cost of the phones either, instead ridiculous prices are demanded from the manufacturers.
Hence nearly everyone on the planet has a mobile phone, yet the phone manufacturers are struggling, and are always in need of a fad (ie. picture messaging) to get some upgrade sales.
It sucks and the phone companies are the ones in control here.
What will be interesting is that once the smart phone stuff develops it will be cheaper to buy a subsidised PDA with integrated phone, than a stand alone PDA.
The futures bright, the blood red. The spilt blood of dead phone manufacturers.
Personal Editions are still available. You just need to download the trial version and then get yourself a personal key to unlock it. (Delphi, JBuilder, CBuilder), Theres also the Open Edition of Kylix.
You can emulate class fields by sticking Vars in the implementation section of the unit that contains your class. While not perfect it is a perfectly ok work around.
Its far better to teach interested students some programming skills, even if its BASIC or some simple scripting language. They will have a much better _understanding_ when they are through with school and be alot better at self learning.
A granny can be trained to use an office suite in a weekly evening class.
If you just want to teach _applications_ your far better off setting up some sort of "computer camp" in a regional centre, and bus students off for a few days during the final few years of school where they can do some intensive computer training. It'll be cheaper to equip and staff a smaller number of centres, and whatever system they use will be cheaper to upgrade and maintain.
I finished school in 1994, where I was taught on systems that where completely obsoleted by the time I got to college, some god awful ZX80 network, Amstrad PC512 word processors and the like. Windows 95 was released less than 1 year later!
Unless your very lucky with your timing, the technology you use in school will be dated by the time you graduate, and if all you are doing is learning some specific applications then your computer training was a complete waste of time and money.
Teaching programming in schools will give students a real head start should they want to continue with a programming or IT degree. While everyone else is scratching their head, wondering if programming was for them, these students will be flying off into the distance.
[i]Can phone makers, and a little Norwegian company called Opera, stop the onslaught?[/i]
My experience with Scandanavian companies is that they like to stick together. They would much rather deal with someone close by or at least in the European Region.
This gives Opera another leg up, as Nokia and Ericson are in the same region.
This technology is used in the UK for TV licensing evasion detecting. I don't know if the US cable companies are using a similar system, but the technology is available.
ftp://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snaps ho ts/i386/ISO-IMAGES/
Burn it, and you can install latest FreeBSD by CD-ROM. These images are updated every 06:00 GMT (about an hour to finish). All CD-ROM images are "bootable"; you can install FreeBSD without floppies.
Bootonly" CD-ROM is only 3 megabytes, contains CD-ROM boot image and some installation documents. No ordinary distributions are not in this CD-ROM image. You can fetch whole distribution via network or other media.
"Live" CD-ROM is a bootable (single-user mode) live filesystem. All FreeBSD base distributions are extracted to this. You may want to use this image instead of fixit.flp, since all commands are available. CAUTION:I don't know why, but 5-current kernel can't mount CD-ROM for root filesystem. As a result, live-current.iso boots fine but that's all (if you have any other filesystems for root). Of course you can use live-current.iso as a live filesystem CD-ROM (mount and browse/copy files).
"Duplex" CD-ROM contains both 4-stable and 5-current distribution. No kidding you... when it boots, you can select which version of FreeBSD to install. Maybe suitable your freebsd-users-group event:-) ---- Jason
Slashdot Mirror
Thats complete nonsense. Its perfectly legitimate to make improvements and not pass them back. If its only you as the user and developer making improvements then you don't have to give the source to anyone but yourself.
Jason
That doesn't work. Its looking for clues in the packet, firewalls generally just drop or forward packets, they don't alter anything.
If anything this software detects the number of software TCP/IP stacks rather than the number of IP addresses on the network.
Jason
Ok, I'm with you.
My point is that it is giving IBM hardware independance. They can support their software on cheap intel or on the zSeries. Migrating between the two platforms should be straight-forward.
If you re-read the article you'll see that people are already making a platform change, from HP/SUN and co. to Intel/Linux.
If HP/SUN/etc. surprised us all and released cheap high-performance hardware on a different architecture that runs Linux, there would be nothing to stop people again moving over to that.
Talk to some NetBSD users, you'll get the idea. The hardware doesn't matter.
Jason
Wales is eternally overcast, there are few jobs and the economy is poor. If it wasn't attached to England it would be a third world country. Its heavily subsidised by the EU and "England".
In general unemployment in the UK is low and the economy isn't doing too badly. Its comparitively better than most of Europe.
Jason
I'm sure any sane hardware company would provide drivers for a customer who is going to buy 90K units. Particularly in a specialised area such as POS.
Jason
This kit is a tool for people who are considering using this device. As a working demo platform that they can fiddle with while getting their own implementation online.
Please don't go out and buy on of these just for the hell of it. I doubt they are interested in selling this kit to you unless you are intending to take a shit load of quantity.
Jason
DCC32.EXE Compiles Pascal Files
You put Pascal Files in and get compiled executable code out, therefore it is a Pascal Compiler. You can't debate that fact.
You might be getting confused by an old tool called tptc which converted turbo pascal code into turbo c code. However the release date of Turbo Pascal 1.0 was 1983, Turbo C 1.0 followed in 1987.
Borland write good optimising compilers, they pretty much invented the IDE. They also tend to write their compilers and IDEs in the target language.
eg: Pascal Compiler is written in pascal.
C Compiler is written in C.
C Builder IDE is written in C++
J Builder IDE is written in Java.
I believe that borlands first pascal compiler was compiled by hand and not with the aid of a c compiler. I can't find anything to back this up though.
Jason
I doubt the BBC would ever be slashdotted.
r t.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/support/mrtg/all
Take a look at:
http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/
http://suppo
Jason
Nonsense, DCC32 is a command line version of the pascal compiler.
The Delphi 1 compiler wasn't significantly different from Turbo Pascal 7.0. The big change was Delphi 2.0 when they introduced their first 32-Bit pascal compiler.
As both C Builder and Delphi use the same packaging format and can make sense of units compiled from each other, they have taken advantage of this and allowed you to compile pascal files from within C Builder. The reasoning for this was that there where alot of components already written for Delphi.
Whenever I've bought a professional version of Delphi I've always received either a JBuilder, CBuilder or Foxpro disk thrown in with the package.
Jason
Most phones sold these days are of the pay-as-you-go variety. These are bought outright.
Even under discount contracted phones the phone is yours, you are just under an obligation to stay connected to their service for 12 months. Either way the phone IS yours once your minimum contract is up.
I get the feeling that the phone companies are not subsidising the true cost of the phones either, instead ridiculous prices are demanded from the manufacturers.
Hence nearly everyone on the planet has a mobile phone, yet the phone manufacturers are struggling, and are always in need of a fad (ie. picture messaging) to get some upgrade sales.
It sucks and the phone companies are the ones in control here.
What will be interesting is that once the smart phone stuff develops it will be cheaper to buy a subsidised PDA with integrated phone, than a stand alone PDA.
The futures bright, the blood red. The spilt blood of dead phone manufacturers.
Jason
Demon offer a 128k business offering, with unlimited usage, works with surftime.
The combined package (£250 Setup, £60 Mo, Surftime £25 Mo)is expensive for a home user, but its very cost effective for a business.
Jason
One factor you missed is the cost of an additional phone line.
If your a heavy net user and you share the house with others, you'll need an extra phone line. That costs something like £9.99 a month.
So your now looking at £22-£24 a month, theres not that much difference between ADSL and Dialup when you factor that in.
Jason
Personal Editions are still available. You just need to download the trial version and then get yourself a personal key to unlock it. (Delphi, JBuilder, CBuilder), Theres also the Open Edition of Kylix.
You can emulate class fields by sticking Vars in the implementation section of the unit that contains your class. While not perfect it is a perfectly ok work around.
Jason
I disagree.
Its far better to teach interested students some programming skills, even if its BASIC or some simple scripting language. They will have a much better _understanding_ when they are through with school and be alot better at self learning.
A granny can be trained to use an office suite in a weekly evening class.
If you just want to teach _applications_ your far better off setting up some sort of "computer camp" in a regional centre, and bus students off for a few days during the final few years of school where they can do some intensive computer training. It'll be cheaper to equip and staff a smaller number of centres, and whatever system they use will be cheaper to upgrade and maintain.
I finished school in 1994, where I was taught on systems that where completely obsoleted by the time I got to college, some god awful ZX80 network, Amstrad PC512 word processors and the like. Windows 95 was released less than 1 year later!
Unless your very lucky with your timing, the technology you use in school will be dated by the time you graduate, and if all you are doing is learning some specific applications then your computer training was a complete waste of time and money.
Teaching programming in schools will give students a real head start should they want to continue with a programming or IT degree. While everyone else is scratching their head, wondering if programming was for them, these students will be flying off into the distance.
Jason
Funny that, the best header spam check I've used is detecting those random chars stuck on the end of the subject :)
Its typically the subject, followed by 6 or more spaces, then some other chars. All you need to check for is those 6 or more spaces and your set.
The only place this tends to catch false positives is with some trouble ticket apps. Most people do not include erroneuos spaces in their subjects.
Jason
[i]Can phone makers, and a little Norwegian company called Opera, stop the onslaught?[/i]
My experience with Scandanavian companies is that they like to stick together. They would much rather deal with someone close by or at least in the European Region.
This gives Opera another leg up, as Nokia and Ericson are in the same region.
Jason
If its P2P thats adding the overhead then ISPs should consider adding some decent traffic shaping, to throttle p2p traffic.
I believe BT Internet (UK) is doing this, but you won't find it mentioned anywhere.
Jason
Its a URL buffer overflow.. No gopher server is required.
Jason
Theres a whole 31 comments in this thread (At 0). Is there really any point in modding things up?
Jason
I think that this sort of talk is exactly the reason he left.
I don't mean this as a flame at you directly, but in this whole article theres lots of "they should do this", "appoint that", "change system".
Somehow I think its those discussions which detract most from real work.
Jason
Checkout the register link, they have alot of evidence that suggests the whole thing is a hoax.
Jason.
Granted, in some office systems outlook/office can be tightly integrated to do some clever things..
But does this functionality need to be in "Outlook Express" the free version?
Jason.
wrong:O riginal/t00033d.html
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Technology/
They can work out what channel your using.
This technology is used in the UK for TV licensing evasion detecting. I don't know if the US cable companies are using a similar system, but the technology is available.
Jason
er,
s ho ts/i386/ISO-IMAGES/
:-)
from: http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/
ftp://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snap
Burn it, and you can install latest FreeBSD by CD-ROM. These images are updated every 06:00 GMT (about an hour to finish). All CD-ROM images are "bootable"; you can install FreeBSD without floppies.
Bootonly" CD-ROM is only 3 megabytes, contains CD-ROM boot image and some installation documents. No ordinary distributions are not in this CD-ROM image. You can fetch whole distribution via network or other media.
"Live" CD-ROM is a bootable (single-user mode) live filesystem. All FreeBSD base distributions are extracted to this. You may want to use this image instead of fixit.flp, since all commands are available. CAUTION:I don't know why, but 5-current kernel can't mount CD-ROM for root filesystem. As a result, live-current.iso boots fine but that's all (if you have any other filesystems for root). Of course you can use live-current.iso as a live filesystem CD-ROM (mount and browse/copy files).
"Duplex" CD-ROM contains both 4-stable and 5-current distribution. No kidding you... when it boots, you can select which version of FreeBSD to install. Maybe suitable your freebsd-users-group event
----
Jason