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  1. Re:GCC white tower. on Interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer · · Score: 1

    Everyone should read the front page of http://gcc.gnu.org and will see that the DFA branch has been merged into the mainline (aka the future gcc 3.2). A couple of people are working on the DFA based processor descriptions for the x86: Athlon and Pentium I,II,III, and IV, and also 486.

  2. Sim and gdb on Where are the PPC Emulators? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is an emulator that is a GNU Project part of the gdb source. Located under the directory sim.

    So there are some PPC Emulators even some under the GNU license.

  3. Re:Stuart Cheshire on Apple Drops Mac OS 9 · · Score: 1

    He also did PPCToolbox over TCP, AppleEvents over TCP/IP.

    read about it on his web site: http://www.stuartcheshire.org/quicktime/ppctb.html

  4. Re:Corporations are not People on Nike Denied First Amendment Defense · · Score: 1

    Under the law Corporations are People.

    Read any Corporate law to see that.

  5. Re:don't be too polemic on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    The workstation code and the server code is the same for WinNT and Win200.

  6. Re:Unbelievable on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    Hurd includes an Âkernel and another kernels(file system included).
    This is the whole idea about Âkernels.

  7. Re:Huh?? on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did X Window System start at MIT?
    Did GNU start at MIT?

  8. Re:If this was a couple years ago... on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    But Any one could replace the HTML OpenDoc component unlike Microsoft.
    Netscape had a component for OpenDoc.
    Microsoft also had some components for OpenDoc for Word and stuff.

  9. Re:My experiences with gcc3 on April 2002 Mac OS X Dev Tools Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    send a bug report to apple or gcc, depending on what version you are using, apple's or fsf's.
    Better yet test fsf's for Darwin, and then send a bug report into apple and gcc.

  10. US vs Socialism on Are American Vacation Policies Outdated? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    USA is Socialistic Country, it is more of a capilistic country. In Europe the countries set the rules for vacations while in the US, the companies set the polices. Also in Europe, there is a max number of hours you can work per week.

  11. Re:BSD + Apple + M$ on Jordan Hubbard Resigns from FreeBSD Core · · Score: 1

    MS has non voting stocks.

  12. Re:hey! lay off Java on Downsides to the C++ STL? · · Score: 1

    The "eight repetitions of former snipped due to lameness" is not java's fault but Linux Threads fault.

    Get a real kernel.

  13. Re:To make it truly realistic... on Virtual-U (SimUniversity) Now Available · · Score: 1

    What about students that "cheat"?
    And teachers wrongly accusing students of cheating?

  14. Re:iMac -- Firewire on Buying an IDE burner- for the iMac? · · Score: 1

    revision A does not have Firewire, they only have USB.

  15. *BSD Trolls on Wine BSD Fork 'Rewind' Emerges · · Score: 1

    Why in this article are there *BSD Trolls when this article is about a fork of WINE which still uses Berkeley license instead of LGPL. WINE would in a good thing to have a BSD like license on because corporations can use it for their apps and change it according to their needs and their code and not release that info. Code which is not in GPL is still can be Free Software, http://www.gnu.org/.

  16. Re:Tivo Is The Way! on How to Hack an iPod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apple only cares if you are going to take money away from them not for them.

  17. OmniWeb and WebEmail on Apple Betas Web-based Email Service for iTools · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you try to use WebEmail for iTools in OmniWeb be sure you change the identity of OmniWeb so it identifies itself as IE or Netscape, otherwise you get a message saying your browser is not supported.

  18. Re:no IE icon... on Apple's Response to Microsoft: Unix Ads? · · Score: 1

    no I cannot read Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, Japanese, or Chinese.

  19. Re:This is *probably* cheating on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    If the 30 lines are all over the hundreds line code, then it is coincidence, but the article does not say this it just said 30 lines out of hundreds were similar. If that 30 lines did not count for the majority of the algorithm but was support code I would not call that cheating but rather than sharing support code (aka stl/java.*/NS*/ANSI C functions, qsort and others). If it was the algorithm then that is cheating because you need to convert the algorithm into code for the program.

    How many different ways of programming "hello, world" in C99?
    let see:
    int main(){printf("hello, world\n");}
    int main(){puts("hello, world");}
    int main(){fputs("hello, world\n", stdio);}
    int main(){fprintf(stdio, "hello, world\n");}
    int main(){char *hello="hello, world\n";for(int i=0;hello[i]!=0;i++)putc(hello[i]);}
    int main(){char *hello="hello, world\n";for(int i=0;hello[i]!=0;i++)fputc(hello[i], stdio);}
    there are others but most CS students would use the first one, why?
    Because they learned about printf only and have not read any documents about the C standard or the standard in/out routines.
    (It is actually the case that printf gets turned into fputs by gcc with the option -O3).

  20. Re:Performance gains on eWeek: Apache 2.0 Trumps IIS · · Score: 1

    That is the current problem with the Linux threads and some BSD's, they are just another process with shared memory.

    With Mac OS X aka Darwin, the threads are just mach threads and processes them selves are just mach threads, the opposite as most OS's.

  21. Re:As a high school computer science student... on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    Well as a college comp sci student I help every one who needs help even, except when it comes through to me they just want me to do it for them.
    I work for another science department and some grad students some times come to me for help. There is one grad student I will not help anymore because he got some code from somewhere and it is a mess and it does not work and he wants me to fix it but I do not know even what it does and what it is for.
    Another grad student I would not help any more is because he does not understand Power Series (Calculus).

  22. Re:Typical academic ivory tower crap on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    Knuth's books, The Art of Computer Programming, has come in really handing every time I got stuck, there was no code in there only algorithms.
    If you understand what is going on in the section and understand the algorithm and how it works, I would say you need not cite it. But in this case even this would be a violation of the honor code.
    Most of the CS books are based around this set of books.

  23. Re:Old story, new "victim" on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    Does "nor is it acceptable to compare your solutions with other students" mean you cannot compare notes on your solution to see if you missed any thing?

    This is a "way" to learn, from your mistakes, both parities gain in most cases when you compare your solutions (except on a test where you know it or you don't). You learn what you can improve and what you weaknesses are. The other person learns the same thing about you and themselves.

  24. Re:Notice the most indefensible part on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    Do you cite something where you just use a sample way of doing it?

  25. Re:Seems like an interesting solution on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    I agree with this post, I see it at the University of Cincinnati a lot of CS students are there only after the money the ideas of CS.

    I am currently a sophomore/pre-junior/junior (don't ask), the classes where we have to work in groups, I did 90% of the work, except maybe documenting it (which I hate but that is another story). These classes were not the CS 1/2 course either. The students did not want to do any thing or learn how to do it; I would give them a specific thing to do but they would come to me for help to do it. The next thing I gave them to do was just have a function that was done and change it into a different function where the algorithm was about the same.