It has combined software innovation with a brand-new Internet business model--and it wounds Gates' pride that he didn't get there first
Seriously, what did MS do first? The association 'MS = cool new technology' makes not sense to me. They almost missed the Internet by their own admission. I think BillG isn't pissed that didn't come up with a cool search engine but because he can't kill Google like he did with numerous others.
It seems they liked Kerry in the last election. A couple of quotes from the article:
... Mr. Kerry has put himself firmly in the camp of presidents from Reagan to Roosevelt, from Kennedy to Truman. These men insisted -- to a chorus of elite skepticism from both the left and right -- that, yes, democracy could triumph."
When President Bush first mused, just before his party's convention, that the war on terror might be unwinnable...
Seriously, how are republicans any different from democrats?
Good googling skillz! That is slow. But it's only pre-release software and those are synthetic benchmarks. Let's see what happens. In any case, if you think C is bad, nobody (me especially) is stopping you from using whatever language you want...
More hot air! You sir are full of sh*t. Do you have any links at all to contribute? To any your papers? Or any of these attempts to fix C semantics? I just googled for mudflap performance hit and got nothing. How does the C sematnics make it hard for the complier to iperform checks on buffers? It's not a language for idiots, I'll give you that. There are plenty ways to prevent buffer over-runs these days.
C doesn't have a screwed up pointer semantics. It is perfect for what it does. You probably just don't understand it. Where are you getting the 3 to 5 factor? Anything to back that up? And the few percent is from what language?
I am getting sick when C-hating posts like this one get modded up. Seems to be happening all the time lately. I'm starting to meta-mod again.
The grandparent is correct. What they did is copyright infringement, and is every bit as much a theft, nor more and no less, than music piracy.
BS. It's not the same thing. If I were to start printing and selling the latest Britney album and pocketing the money for myself, then it would be the same thing. I gain nothing materially by downloading a tune and listening to it. That CherryOS clown breached the license of PearPC and is making money off other people's hard work. NOT THE SAME THING.
The gain of using SSE on Athlons is smaller because they have decent ALUs and FPUs to begin with. They are tough to beat. Switching code to SSE on P4 gives much more dramatic results because it's a POS CPU. He could just be meaning that...
No, I'm not kidding. I am surprised nobody brought this up but I'm tired of recompiling and trying to make all the odd things work (binary drivers from ATI/NVidia as well). Why can't I compile a driver once and just use it after that with each successive kernel? It works for Mac OS X. Drivers compiled for 10.1 work fine with 10.3, don't they? Before I get flamed to death I'll say that Linux needs more modularity and flexibility with drivers. Why is it that all the drivers for every odd piece of hardware are bundled with each kernel ?
sshd if off by default and there is no working root account on default install OS X (or any standard account that you can log in with - the only account that has a proper shell is the user account). I'd like to see that trivial dictionary attack of yours on OS X...
Seriously, how do you imagine that the garbage collection will ever be faster than the native??? I compiled Java to native with gcj and it was actually slightly slower than running inside the VM (IBM's which was quickest at the time). Either was an order of magnitude slower than C++ at the same task. I'm sick of hearing about how unsafe C/C++ is. If Java was so good, we'd be seeing all sorts of stuff popping up written in Java and I'm not talking about dinky servlets and server/browser side stuff only. Everything larger written in Java has failed miserably so far (HotJava, Corel WordPerfect,...). Java is slower, memory intensive and not very flexible. Get over yourself and learn C++...
Not so in my opinion. I have a TiBook and use by buddy's 12 AlBook frequently. The AlBook is a superior machine. I had a bunch of trouble with my hinges (too tight, I broke them once), the bezel (hairline cracks and paint chipping), the keyboard (acting weird - it was dying) and the LCD (keymarks on the LCD) with the TiBook. It was in the Apple repair centre twice already. The AlBook is *much* better built. He had no problems with it at all. I also like the styling of the AlBooks better. The keyboard is also better IMHO. Can you guess I'm looking to upgrade?
If you don't mind submitting some links that would be great. Read this article. It clearly states that Rambus was convicted by a jury of submarining patents into memory standards. It was overturned by a superior court because JEDEC doesn't explicitly require disclosing patents which is a technicality in my vocabulary. They definitely didn't come forth with those patents and tried to enslave the whole industry into paying them royalties. They are the bad guys in my book and I will not touch their crap with a ten foot pole.
Learn from mistakes? What are you talking about? Three sets of theaving management in Nortel so far. So when is John Roth (ex Nortel CEO) going to start repaying the $150 mil he stole. I haven't heard of any of them paying back anything. It's a shame that a public prosecutor from *Texas* launched a criminal investigation into Nortel's practices. As far as I know, nobody is investigating those thugs here in Canada.
XVid is open source and patent unencumbered I believe. I have used it on Mac/Linux/Windows. It also happens to be one of the best ones around. Here is the sub $100 dollar box that will support it.
Won't compile unless you're admin. I haven't even tried running 7.0 (2003) under normal user privileges - don't have the time to waste. MS is *hardly* spotless.
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It has combined software innovation with a brand-new Internet business model--and it wounds Gates' pride that he didn't get there first
Seriously, what did MS do first? The association 'MS = cool new technology' makes not sense to me. They almost missed the Internet by their own admission. I think BillG isn't pissed that didn't come up with a cool search engine but because he can't kill Google like he did with numerous others.
It seems they liked Kerry in the last election. A couple of quotes from the article:
... Mr. Kerry has put himself firmly in the camp of presidents from Reagan to Roosevelt, from Kennedy to Truman. These men insisted -- to a chorus of elite skepticism from both the left and right -- that, yes, democracy could triumph."
When President Bush first mused, just before his party's convention, that the war on terror might be unwinnable...
Seriously, how are republicans any different from democrats?
I got my mother an iMac last Christmas. End of story. No more worrying about spyware, viruses and id theft.
Good googling skillz! That is slow. But it's only pre-release software and those are synthetic benchmarks. Let's see what happens. In any case, if you think C is bad, nobody (me especially) is stopping you from using whatever language you want...
More hot air! You sir are full of sh*t. Do you have any links at all to contribute? To any your papers? Or any of these attempts to fix C semantics? I just googled for mudflap performance hit and got nothing. How does the C sematnics make it hard for the complier to iperform checks on buffers? It's not a language for idiots, I'll give you that. There are plenty ways to prevent buffer over-runs these days.
Also, stick an @ at the beggining of each make command and it won't echo the command it's running. Like this:
all:
@gcc -Wall -W something.c > something.o
C doesn't have a screwed up pointer semantics. It is perfect for what it does. You probably just don't understand it. Where are you getting the 3 to 5 factor? Anything to back that up? And the few percent is from what language?
I am getting sick when C-hating posts like this one get modded up. Seems to be happening all the time lately. I'm starting to meta-mod again.
The grandparent is correct. What they did is copyright infringement, and is every bit as much a theft, nor more and no less, than music piracy.
BS. It's not the same thing. If I were to start printing and selling the latest Britney album and pocketing the money for myself, then it would be the same thing. I gain nothing materially by downloading a tune and listening to it. That CherryOS clown breached the license of PearPC and is making money off other people's hard work. NOT THE SAME THING.
The gain of using SSE on Athlons is smaller because they have decent ALUs and FPUs to begin with. They are tough to beat. Switching code to SSE on P4 gives much more dramatic results because it's a POS CPU. He could just be meaning that...
Well, it's a micro-kernel whereas Linux is monolithic. That and hope...
No, I'm not kidding. I am surprised nobody brought this up but I'm tired of recompiling and trying to make all the odd things work (binary drivers from ATI/NVidia as well). Why can't I compile a driver once and just use it after that with each successive kernel? It works for Mac OS X. Drivers compiled for 10.1 work fine with 10.3, don't they? Before I get flamed to death I'll say that Linux needs more modularity and flexibility with drivers. Why is it that all the drivers for every odd piece of hardware are bundled with each kernel ?
Holy sh*t. I can't believe I haven't even heard about this show. I gotta start watching this pronto.
in one swift stroke and get on enjoying your life instead of reading boring documents about fixing problems someone else created.
sshd if off by default and there is no working root account on default install OS X (or any standard account that you can log in with - the only account that has a proper shell is the user account). I'd like to see that trivial dictionary attack of yours on OS X...
Seriously, how do you imagine that the garbage collection will ever be faster than the native??? I compiled Java to native with gcj and it was actually slightly slower than running inside the VM (IBM's which was quickest at the time). Either was an order of magnitude slower than C++ at the same task. I'm sick of hearing about how unsafe C/C++ is. If Java was so good, we'd be seeing all sorts of stuff popping up written in Java and I'm not talking about dinky servlets and server/browser side stuff only. Everything larger written in Java has failed miserably so far (HotJava, Corel WordPerfect, ...). Java is slower, memory intensive and not very flexible. Get over yourself and learn C++...
Not so in my opinion. I have a TiBook and use by buddy's 12 AlBook frequently. The AlBook is a superior machine. I had a bunch of trouble with my hinges (too tight, I broke them once), the bezel (hairline cracks and paint chipping), the keyboard (acting weird - it was dying) and the LCD (keymarks on the LCD) with the TiBook. It was in the Apple repair centre twice already. The AlBook is *much* better built. He had no problems with it at all. I also like the styling of the AlBooks better. The keyboard is also better IMHO. Can you guess I'm looking to upgrade?
If you don't mind submitting some links that would be great. Read this article. It clearly states that Rambus was convicted by a jury of submarining patents into memory standards. It was overturned by a superior court because JEDEC doesn't explicitly require disclosing patents which is a technicality in my vocabulary. They definitely didn't come forth with those patents and tried to enslave the whole industry into paying them royalties. They are the bad guys in my book and I will not touch their crap with a ten foot pole.
Learn from mistakes? What are you talking about? Three sets of theaving management in Nortel so far. So when is John Roth (ex Nortel CEO) going to start repaying the $150 mil he stole. I haven't heard of any of them paying back anything. It's a shame that a public prosecutor from *Texas* launched a criminal investigation into Nortel's practices. As far as I know, nobody is investigating those thugs here in Canada.
I like what it does though. It's output is awesome.
XVid is open source and patent unencumbered I believe. I have used it on Mac/Linux/Windows. It also happens to be one of the best ones around. Here is the sub $100 dollar box that will support it.
On the first test. Browser version 1.2.4. Oops. How does Konqueror fare?
Someone has to pay up and they figure it'll be you.
Do you mind if I move in for a year and make myself 24 million bucks peddling fraudulent crap?
Won't compile unless you're admin. I haven't even tried running 7.0 (2003) under normal user privileges - don't have the time to waste. MS is *hardly* spotless.