See its a Super OS, not a regular one! With a Super GUI as well. Obviously their GUI must be great since they didn't have any artistic cabablity left to do their website (do check out the site).
Wow, that website was good for a laugh, the text looks like it was writen by people who don't use english very often, and are stupid as well.
It dosn't look like these people have a dollar to their name, they can't hire a decent web designer, or even a good copywriter!
As far as their patents go, yeh right. IBM has been doing this for decades, at least, and MS even does it with DOS applications in win9x, not to mention those DOS emulators for Mac0S and VM ware on linux.
Now that I think about it, this might not be a bad idea, I mean, if the people are getting things, they are not volunteers, are they? They're workers. And, in this country, workers are supposed to get at least minimum wage. If someone is working on an open source project for hardware, they are essentially working for that company, producing code that the company needs coded. Why shouldn't they be paid at least minimum wage?
As far as 'real' open source projects, where the coders code simply because they want to code or are interested in the project, I don't see how this could be a problem, the people are doing it simply because they want to, not because they are being offered rewards.
I really don't think this is a good thing right now, unless you did something like map a unicode domain to a standard, limited characterset domain name.
Thats what I'd do anyway, but as the poster sugessted, the people who decided to do this probably don't know anything, since they decided to go by spesific languages, rather then unicode all at once.
But anyway, in my oppinion, this could really negatively impact the global nature of the internet, at least right now. I've got my computer rigged up to let me enter chinese characters, both simplified and traditional, but although I know how to read a little traditional chinese, I can't figure out how to type it in, this system would make it imposible for me to visit internet sites with those characters in the domain name, or it would at least make it difficult for me to type those URLS in. I, and many other people, could be cut off from parts of the internet that use character sets we don't know how to enter.
Domain names were designed the way they were for a reason, and I don't think its a good idea to go back on that....
Actually, there's a pretty easy way to test that theory. Measure something (speed of light, decay, whatever) and then measure it again in a few weeks or so. If there's no difference, you're set. We have very accurate machines now a days.
(Very precise actually, I read about an experiment where two clocks were used, one was on a jet plain (or something) and the other sat on the ground. The clocks were accurate enough to notice the change in time itself on the airplane because it was moving slightly closer to the speed of light (or maybe something about the gravity of earth, I can't remember, exactly)
But then, one might say that the machines themselves are being slowed down as well, in essence, time itself is slowing. But if that were the case, then it wouldn't matter everything would still be going at the same speed.
Or you might say that the things stopped slowing down, in this case, but that would be no different then saying the world popped into reality a second ago, with everything set into motion, there is no way to prove that it didn't happen...
In other words, science is only interested in stuff that you can theoretically prove didn't happen, if you can't, then it simply doesn't matter. The only information worth having is the stuff that has some effect on reality, and the world around us.
Yes, but you have been able to put two or even four intel chips in one case since, like, 1992. The guy next door to me is running dual p3's right now. and unlike Mac Users, us wintel people actualy have a non-beta OS that can use them, actualy a choice of several.
Yeh, they badmouthed Intel with the slots, I read the same thing, and he explained why they used slots as well. The guy said that it was so that motherboard makers could save money by using the same mechanical mechanism in both AMD and intel designs.
Well, I don't know what the hell your talking about, possibly comparing the most packed Alta-vec instruction to regular instructions on a pIII, mac-heads (and other types of zelots) seem to do that a lot, and its always just as annoying.
Asside from your fucked up, bassless 'math' the benchmarks show a very diffrent story, the G4 is faster then a pIII at the same speed, but no where near twice the speed. like 1.2 or 1.3 times as fast. This intel chip is running at nearly 3 times the clock speed, there is no way a g4 could keep up with that, ever.
this guy didn't have the forsight to put adds up in his site before being/.'d, he probably feels bad for loosing all that money. Visiting his site might actualy make him feel worse...
Well, websites that run slashdot's code tend t look like slashdot, only they usualy have a cleaner, more atheticaly pleasing layout (usualy):P
This hobbes.resnet.tamu.edu guy ripped off everything, just just the placement of graphics, but the grapics themselves. When I first read the story, I figured 'what the hell, who cares'. but the two sites are mirror images.
I doubt linux.com really cares, anyway. But this does kind of bother me, not beacuse the guy stole ideas, but beacuse he couldn't think up any his own damn self.
Not to nit pick, well, actualy this post is all nit-pick, but don't those programs use idle-time processing? I know that the d.net client for windows does, and I'm pretty sure the other ones do as well. Unless the compiles take a long time, the screen saver probably wouldn't come on. Maybe you just have a crappy computer:P
why the hell would you want to take a COBOL class? Do you enjoy the rigors of spending hours trying to figure out how to exspress negative numbers? Sheesh. y2k is no longer an issue, the world needs not anymore cobol programs.
1) You need to learn how to LEARN TO USE new tools. If you think what you have is bad, I took a course that required all programs to be written using MFC and Visual C++.
Don't give me nightmares, again. I tried to write a program once that integrated MFC code with pure win32... If I had to do it over again... I probably would just have used the MFC socket stuff. MFC is most insainly laid out API I've ever seen.
What I really like are the Java class libs, those things make so much sense an they are the same on every machine that, in and of itself, kicks ass...
Well, speaking as someone who's prefered language is java, I can say that java code compiled on linux will be exactly the same as Java code compiled on any other platform. There may be some irregularities from platform to platform depending on what you test on, and you may want to test on the target machine at least once to make sure you don't get any surprizes.
If you just doing pure console mode stuff, you don't have to worry at all, I've had almost no issues writing C++ in windows and running them with gcc on the Linux and HP/UX boxies my school uses, when doing pure text based stuff. (There was one thing that gcc could do that VisualC++ couldn't, so porting in the other direction might have taken some work)
Basicaly, the 'write once, run anywhere" Mantra is true, and there will be absolutly no diffrence in the bytecode produced in linux vs the stuff in windows.
I don't see the problem of having a standardized environment, and they should probably standardize on something everyone can get. If the book comes with codewarior, then everyone has it, and most everyone will probably have access to a windows machine to run it.
And no sane people really want to code with in vi anymore...
delete lilo, and linux won't boot either, does that mean that linux is just an operating environment (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean). Windows has a lot of stuff added to it to make it work with old programs, and old hardware drivers (calling int21, etc). Uninformed people use this to say that it isn't an OS. These people don't know what an OS is. Windows code loads programs (windows even has its own program file format), Windows code does memory management, windows code task switches, windows code does TCP/IP, and windows code does the filesystem (try loading a large file in edit.com in dos mode and then in windows-dosbox mode, windows mode is way faster). Windows is an OS. What matters is what the program does, not how it gets loaded....
Dos couldn't handle anything more then 640k, actualy. Anything more, and you had to write you own memory manager (or used a prefab one like EMM386 or whatever), anyway.
Anyway, since you had to use your own memory manager, you could make it work however you wanted to. Asking if DOS was 16-bit or 32-bit would be like asking if Linux uses MySQL or PosgreSQL.:P
That was stupid... "The santa cruz opperation" was a damn cool name. But I guess they all got old, and boring, and decided they coudln't have a cool name anymore...
Slashdot Mirror
See its a Super OS, not a regular one! With a Super GUI as well. Obviously their GUI must be great since they didn't have any artistic cabablity left to do their website (do check out the site).
The super OS can do anything!
Wow, that website was good for a laugh, the text looks like it was writen by people who don't use english very often, and are stupid as well.
It dosn't look like these people have a dollar to their name, they can't hire a decent web designer, or even a good copywriter!
As far as their patents go, yeh right. IBM has been doing this for decades, at least, and MS even does it with DOS applications in win9x, not to mention those DOS emulators for Mac0S and VM ware on linux.
hrm, what is the cash value of Karma?
Now that I think about it, this might not be a bad idea, I mean, if the people are getting things, they are not volunteers, are they? They're workers. And, in this country, workers are supposed to get at least minimum wage. If someone is working on an open source project for hardware, they are essentially working for that company, producing code that the company needs coded. Why shouldn't they be paid at least minimum wage?
As far as 'real' open source projects, where the coders code simply because they want to code or are interested in the project, I don't see how this could be a problem, the people are doing it simply because they want to, not because they are being offered rewards.
I really don't think this is a good thing right now, unless you did something like map a unicode domain to a standard, limited characterset domain name.
Thats what I'd do anyway, but as the poster sugessted, the people who decided to do this probably don't know anything, since they decided to go by spesific languages, rather then unicode all at once.
But anyway, in my oppinion, this could really negatively impact the global nature of the internet, at least right now. I've got my computer rigged up to let me enter chinese characters, both simplified and traditional, but although I know how to read a little traditional chinese, I can't figure out how to type it in, this system would make it imposible for me to visit internet sites with those characters in the domain name, or it would at least make it difficult for me to type those URLS in. I, and many other people, could be cut off from parts of the internet that use character sets we don't know how to enter.
Domain names were designed the way they were for a reason, and I don't think its a good idea to go back on that....
Yes well...
Actually, there's a pretty easy way to test that theory. Measure something (speed of light, decay, whatever) and then measure it again in a few weeks or so. If there's no difference, you're set. We have very accurate machines now a days. (Very precise actually, I read about an experiment where two clocks were used, one was on a jet plain (or something) and the other sat on the ground. The clocks were accurate enough to notice the change in time itself on the airplane because it was moving slightly closer to the speed of light (or maybe something about the gravity of earth, I can't remember, exactly)
But then, one might say that the machines themselves are being slowed down as well, in essence, time itself is slowing. But if that were the case, then it wouldn't matter everything would still be going at the same speed.
Or you might say that the things stopped slowing down, in this case, but that would be no different then saying the world popped into reality a second ago, with everything set into motion, there is no way to prove that it didn't happen...
In other words, science is only interested in stuff that you can theoretically prove didn't happen, if you can't, then it simply doesn't matter. The only information worth having is the stuff that has some effect on reality, and the world around us.
I assume they mean carbon-14?
that is beacuse you are an idiot.
When are these people going to learn that you cannot find the age of an object using that method?!
probably about the same time you realize there are other radioactive elements, if that ever happens.
There is no such thing as liquid CO2, it sublimates directly
Yes, but you have been able to put two or even four intel chips in one case since, like, 1992. The guy next door to me is running dual p3's right now. and unlike Mac Users, us wintel people actualy have a non-beta OS that can use them, actualy a choice of several.
you are a dick.
Yeh, they badmouthed Intel with the slots, I read the same thing, and he explained why they used slots as well. The guy said that it was so that motherboard makers could save money by using the same mechanical mechanism in both AMD and intel designs.
Well, I don't know what the hell your talking about, possibly comparing the most packed Alta-vec instruction to regular instructions on a pIII, mac-heads (and other types of zelots) seem to do that a lot, and its always just as annoying.
Asside from your fucked up, bassless 'math' the benchmarks show a very diffrent story, the G4 is faster then a pIII at the same speed, but no where near twice the speed. like 1.2 or 1.3 times as fast. This intel chip is running at nearly 3 times the clock speed, there is no way a g4 could keep up with that, ever.
this guy didn't have the forsight to put adds up in his site before being /.'d, he probably feels bad for loosing all that money. Visiting his site might actualy make him feel worse...
Well, websites that run slashdot's code tend t look like slashdot, only they usualy have a cleaner, more atheticaly pleasing layout (usualy) :P
This hobbes.resnet.tamu.edu guy ripped off everything, just just the placement of graphics, but the grapics themselves. When I first read the story, I figured 'what the hell, who cares'. but the two sites are mirror images.
I doubt linux.com really cares, anyway. But this does kind of bother me, not beacuse the guy stole ideas, but beacuse he couldn't think up any his own damn self.
Not to nit pick, well, actualy this post is all nit-pick, but don't those programs use idle-time processing? I know that the d.net client for windows does, and I'm pretty sure the other ones do as well. Unless the compiles take a long time, the screen saver probably wouldn't come on. Maybe you just have a crappy computer :P
Connectix never broke any copyright protection.
Yeh, I can see why you wouldn't that, I mean, Java programmers only make like %40 more then C++ coders on average, who needs that?
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Btw, java code on Windows == Java code on Linux == Java code on Solaris ==
why the hell would you want to take a COBOL class? Do you enjoy the rigors of spending hours trying to figure out how to exspress negative numbers? Sheesh. y2k is no longer an issue, the world needs not anymore cobol programs.
1) You need to learn how to LEARN TO USE new tools. If you think what you have is bad, I took a course that required all programs to be written using MFC and Visual C++.
Don't give me nightmares, again. I tried to write a program once that integrated MFC code with pure win32... If I had to do it over again... I probably would just have used the MFC socket stuff. MFC is most insainly laid out API I've ever seen.
What I really like are the Java class libs, those things make so much sense an they are the same on every machine that, in and of itself, kicks ass...
Well, speaking as someone who's prefered language is java, I can say that java code compiled on linux will be exactly the same as Java code compiled on any other platform. There may be some irregularities from platform to platform depending on what you test on, and you may want to test on the target machine at least once to make sure you don't get any surprizes.
If you just doing pure console mode stuff, you don't have to worry at all, I've had almost no issues writing C++ in windows and running them with gcc on the Linux and HP/UX boxies my school uses, when doing pure text based stuff. (There was one thing that gcc could do that VisualC++ couldn't, so porting in the other direction might have taken some work)
Basicaly, the 'write once, run anywhere" Mantra is true, and there will be absolutly no diffrence in the bytecode produced in linux vs the stuff in windows.
I don't see the problem of having a standardized environment, and they should probably standardize on something everyone can get. If the book comes with codewarior, then everyone has it, and most everyone will probably have access to a windows machine to run it.
And no sane people really want to code with in vi anymore...
you sir, are an idiot.
delete lilo, and linux won't boot either, does that mean that linux is just an operating environment (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean). Windows has a lot of stuff added to it to make it work with old programs, and old hardware drivers (calling int21, etc). Uninformed people use this to say that it isn't an OS. These people don't know what an OS is. Windows code loads programs (windows even has its own program file format), Windows code does memory management, windows code task switches, windows code does TCP/IP, and windows code does the filesystem (try loading a large file in edit.com in dos mode and then in windows-dosbox mode, windows mode is way faster). Windows is an OS. What matters is what the program does, not how it gets loaded....
Dos couldn't handle anything more then 640k, actualy. Anything more, and you had to write you own memory manager (or used a prefab one like EMM386 or whatever), anyway.
:P
Anyway, since you had to use your own memory manager, you could make it work however you wanted to. Asking if DOS was 16-bit or 32-bit would be like asking if Linux uses MySQL or PosgreSQL.
The code that was there was 16bit, though...
I would think anyone who knows the history of UNIX would know about MULTICS.....
That was stupid... "The santa cruz opperation" was a damn cool name. But I guess they all got old, and boring, and decided they coudln't have a cool name anymore...