Actually, the article said that a standard installation of Windows XP (1.5GB) is an order of magnitude smaller than a standard installation of Vista (15GB). MinWin (.025GB) would be down by a few more orders of magnitude.
According to the NeoOffice/J docs, it doesn't use Cocoa at all. Instead it uses the Java 1.3.1 Carbon interface. According to them the Java 1.4+ Cocoa code is buggy and doesn't support OS X 10.2; Java 1.5 doesn't support 10.3 either.
From the description (and the paper), it seems to be similar to distributing a torrent of PAR2 blocks that are generated automatically from context. I guess they are using redundancy to overcome BitTorrent's statistical distribution problems.
I hope it works, and that they don't patent it, so that the technique will become widespread.
No, I think that the same argument can apply to proprietary software. The quote applies to any software that is intended to implement wanted features, no matter where the idea for the feature came from. By this standard, all software is always late, proprietary or not.
Yeah, I think there are more than a few missing arrows. For instance, C# got it's properties from Delphi, which got them from Objective C (I think), not to mention all of Delphi's C++ influences over the years. Some of JavaScript's influences aren't even listed - where's NewtonScript? Icon is listed near SNOBOL, but not shown to be a derivation as it should be when much of the internal semantics were ported over by their common author. And more...
Some languages have changed drastically in the different versions. In some cases those changes have included concepts adopted from other languages, even ones that did not serve as the initial basis of the language.
I would have liked to see additional diagonal arrows pointing to from the new language influences to the versions of the language where the new semantics were integrated.
While they're at it they can add an arrow to Borland Pascal from whatever language served as the inspiration for the OOP semantic model, as it certainly wasn't Visual Basic.
Well in that case, are you planning to port the Portable.NET runtime to WinCE? I can compile.NET programs 3 different ways on my main system, but none of my WinCE systems are supported by the.NET CF runtime, nor can they be upgraded.
If I had more money I could just replace my own hardware but I know dozens of people with HP820s that they would be unlikely to give up.
Last time I checked, Plex86 is only hosted on Linux, not Windows. Even the new version that only hosts Linux as a client. It's sort of like User-Mode Linux but partitioned differently.
As for admin access, last time I checked anything that does hardware virtualization on Windows needs admin access to install (like VMware) or to run without installing (like CoLinux I think). Lots of programs on Windows need to be installed by an admin even if they can be run by users.
If you want to run Linux on Windows without direct access to the hardware use UmlWin (user-mode) or Bochs (emulation). Be prepared for it to be slow, though.
I once interviewed at Trans-Union (the credit reporting agency) to work on a database that was about 300 terabytes - with 3 terabytes of turnover per day. This was several years ago, so it is probably quite a bit bigger now.
At the time, there was no database server software in existence that could handle that kind of volume, so they wrote their own, in IBM 370 assembler (as far as I remember). Their query language was hand-coded assembler as well.
They wanted me to write macros or some kind of higher-level query language to automate the writing of those queries. It sounded interesting, but I didn't want to work for a credit reporting agency, so I declined.
I think it exceedingly unlikely that they would switch to an RDBMS, so you'll never see that database mentioned in this kind of contest.
The article says that the Yopy uses X-Windows - one would suppose that the web browser is a port of the standard Opera for X-Windows. The Sharp device runs QT Palmtop Environment on QT-Embedded and runs Opera for QPE.
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Actually, the article said that a standard installation of Windows XP (1.5GB) is an order of magnitude smaller than a standard installation of Vista (15GB). MinWin (.025GB) would be down by a few more orders of magnitude.
Java isn't a W3C standard either. Come up with a better complaint.
He was arguing against VB, not VB.Net. They are quite different languages, particularly in implementaion.
According to the NeoOffice/J docs, it doesn't use Cocoa at all. Instead it uses the Java 1.3.1 Carbon interface. According to them the Java 1.4+ Cocoa code is buggy and doesn't support OS X 10.2; Java 1.5 doesn't support 10.3 either.
From the description (and the paper), it seems to be similar to distributing a torrent of PAR2 blocks that are generated automatically from context. I guess they are using redundancy to overcome BitTorrent's statistical distribution problems.
I hope it works, and that they don't patent it, so that the technique will become widespread.
Why would the DoD block Tor when the Navy is the organization funding its development?
No, I think that the same argument can apply to proprietary software. The quote applies to any software that is intended to implement wanted features, no matter where the idea for the feature came from. By this standard, all software is always late, proprietary or not.
Yeah, I think there are more than a few missing arrows. For instance, C# got it's properties from Delphi, which got them from Objective C (I think), not to mention all of Delphi's C++ influences over the years. Some of JavaScript's influences aren't even listed - where's NewtonScript? Icon is listed near SNOBOL, but not shown to be a derivation as it should be when much of the internal semantics were ported over by their common author. And more...
Some languages have changed drastically in the different versions. In some cases those changes have included concepts adopted from other languages, even ones that did not serve as the initial basis of the language.
I would have liked to see additional diagonal arrows pointing to from the new language influences to the versions of the language where the new semantics were integrated.
While they're at it they can add an arrow to Borland Pascal from whatever language served as the inspiration for the OOP semantic model, as it certainly wasn't Visual Basic.
Well in that case, are you planning to port the Portable.NET runtime to WinCE? I can compile .NET programs 3 different ways on my main system, but none of my WinCE systems are supported by the .NET CF runtime, nor can they be upgraded.
If I had more money I could just replace my own hardware but I know dozens of people with HP820s that they would be unlikely to give up.
Last time I checked, Plex86 is only hosted on Linux, not Windows. Even the new version that only hosts Linux as a client. It's sort of like User-Mode Linux but partitioned differently.
As for admin access, last time I checked anything that does hardware virtualization on Windows needs admin access to install (like VMware) or to run without installing (like CoLinux I think). Lots of programs on Windows need to be installed by an admin even if they can be run by users.
If you want to run Linux on Windows without direct access to the hardware use UmlWin (user-mode) or Bochs (emulation). Be prepared for it to be slow, though.
I once interviewed at Trans-Union (the credit reporting agency) to work on a database that was about 300 terabytes - with 3 terabytes of turnover per day. This was several years ago, so it is probably quite a bit bigger now.
At the time, there was no database server software in existence that could handle that kind of volume, so they wrote their own, in IBM 370 assembler (as far as I remember). Their query language was hand-coded assembler as well.
They wanted me to write macros or some kind of higher-level query language to automate the writing of those queries. It sounded interesting, but I didn't want to work for a credit reporting agency, so I declined.
I think it exceedingly unlikely that they would switch to an RDBMS, so you'll never see that database mentioned in this kind of contest.
The article says that the Yopy uses X-Windows - one would suppose that the web browser is a port of the standard Opera for X-Windows. The Sharp device runs QT Palmtop Environment on QT-Embedded and runs Opera for QPE.