Sounds a lot like Juice. http://www.modulaware.com/mwolink.htm It was a plugin that took an intermediate code and then compiled it to run at native speed. Of course this worked over the internet.
No. A condition of the cease fire was that Iraq would allow complete access to UN inspection teams. The goal was to find out if they had any secret missile or WMD programs. They where to have total and free access. That is "spying" except that it isn't any type of secert. Iraq had no right to privacy or any right to secrecy after the war. In other words they where not cooperating.
Of course they where spying. That is exactly what inspection teams do. So well after the war Hans Blix says that he now thinks that Iraq had decided in principle to provide cooperation??? If that isn't the most definite maybe I have ever heard in my life. Iraq didn't have the right to refuse the inspections ever after the war. It really didn't matter if they wore CIA overcoats. Think about it. The inspection teams where supposed to find out if Iraq had an secret programs developing Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, or missile technology. If that isn't a great definition of spying I don't know what is.
I do see a shift. I see a shift away from Windows as the center of the Microsoft universe. Office is Microsoft's real cash cow. Office,.NET and good old Visual Basic provides the lock in that Windows needs to keep it in the Enterprise. DirectX provides the lock in that they need to keep the games on it. With games and the Enterprise locked in WindowsXP could have kept selling for the next twenty years. A major break with current Windows code base is more trouble than it is wroth. The first problem is Drivers. Look at the the problems that Vista had with the change to Video and Printer Drivers. Multiply that by all the funky hardware that is being used on PC and you will see why massive code base change may not be a good plan.
Where Microsoft has blown it is in the none PC market. They never could knock out Palm even when Palm was making error after error. They don't seem to have a chance to kill the Blackberry or the iPhone. The Zune? What a waste. Microsoft could have really integrated the Zune with the 360 to make good media system. Instead it is a bad joke. The fact that Microsoft's iSync talks about how well it works with the iPod should say it all. I see Microsoft pushing for more and more developer lock in and more on the applications and less on the OS. They still have a massive market share and that isn't likely to go away soon. The key is that people use applications the OS is just their to run them.
Maybe and I am not making any comment on if it was or was not a good idea. What I am making a comment on was the false statment that Iraq was cooperating with the UN.
"Had concern about WMD been the real motivation, then Hans Blix of the UN would have been allowed to finish his inspection. The Iraqis were co-operating after all." Funny I remember Iraq not co-operating a lot...
Well let me explain something to you. 1 Curing Malaria would not be on small deed. Also do you know just how small a percentage Windows is in the average small countries IT budget? You do know that they use Windows for the desktop because for many tasks it is still the cheapest and best solution? How is Microsoft FORCING governments to use Windows? What exactly is stopping them from Using Macs, Linux, or BSD? I really don't Microsoft and I do like, use, and support FOSS but you are foaming at the mouth. If the Gates Foundation finds a cure for Malaria, helps control TB, or finds a cure for AIDS then yes NOBODY will remember anything Microsoft did wrong. What is probably more to the point in 100 years William Gates will be remembered as a great man that made his money running some software company.
As I have said many times. If the Gates foundation does cure Malaria then all the dirty tricks that Microsoft will be forgotten. Truth is they will be forgotten in a few years anyway. I love FOSS software and I really am not a fan of Microsoft but RMS is an out of touch and needs to get a clue.
Nope I worked on a System38 the system that became the AS400. On the System38 the byte code was translated during the IPL. There is no need to do the translation at runtime. You can do it during install.
Open office is actually very good. It is good enough for the vast majority of Office users. Is it as good as Office? I don't think so. But do I use even 10% of what Office does? No I don't so it really is good enough for me and most people. Now my wife who is actually really good at spreadsheets and such actually likes OpenOffice better than Office. GIMP is very good and is really good enough for most people. It isn't as good as PhotoShopCS but it is good enough for a lot of users and the price is right. The thing is that both GIMP and OO.org are getting better and better.
"It requires extensive and expensive hardware support to do this well. It works for a minicomputer like the AS/400 but it's just not practical for a toy like a PC." It worked for the System38 which is probably around 30 years old. I would be willing to bet that you could handle it just fine with an AthlonX2 or Core2Duo. One person posted that.net does it now. I have never seen myself but it makes perfect sense. One way you could do it is just comile the program up to the actual code generation. During install then you could just finish the actual code generation. Wirth did that with a Java competitor he was working on way back when. A modern PC is more powerful than a 20 year old mini in every way except probably IO so I think it could handle it just fine and dandy.
There is a difference between a JIT compiler, a tokenized basic program, a byte code interpreter like P-Code and what IBM did. This is from the Wikipedia. "Additionally, the System/38 and its descendants are the only commercial computers ever to use a machine interface architecture to isolate the application software and most of the operating system from hardware dependencies, including such details as address size and register size. Compilers for System/38 and its successors generate code in a high-level instruction set (originally called MI for "Machine Interface", and renamed TIMI for "Technology Independent Machine Interface" for AS/400). MI/TIMI is a virtual instruction set; it is not the instruction set of the underlying CPU. Unlike some other virtual-machine architectures in which the virtual instructions are interpreted at runtime, MI/TIMI instructions are never interpreted. They constitute an intermediate compile time step and are translated into the processor's instruction set as the final compilation step. The MI/TIMI instructions are stored within the final program object, in addition to the executable machine instructions. If a program is moved from a processor with one native instruction set to a processor with another native instruction set, the MI/TIMI instructions will be re-translated into the native instruction set of the new machine before the program is executed for the first time on the new machine." As you can see it is brilliant idea. If Microsoft had used it for Windows Apps way back when then NT on the Alpha, MIPS, and the PPC might have actually been very useful. Oh and Intel would have been a very unhappy camper.
Actually IBM did this a few decades ago. The Model38/AS400/iSeries are all compatible but very different machines internally. IBM came up with an "idea" instruction set that no CPU used. When you do the initial program load "install" on one of those machines it compiles the ideal instruction set into the actual instruction set for that PC. That allowed IBM to move from old bipolar cpus to the Power RISC cpus with 100% compatibility. There isn't any reason why you couldn't do the same with Linux or Windows today.
Carbon fiber can make a good conductor I don't know if it is good enough. Aluminum is used for most transmission lines and it may be possible to come up with a good Aluminum allow for use in home wiring. They tried AL in home wiring in the past and it turned out to be a really bad idea but there maybe ways to improve it. Of course I am not a metallurgist but I am sure that there is a lot of research on it as we speak. Of course as the cost goes up more ore is worth mining, and more effort will be put into recycling.
Yes there is intellectual property. What you find the concept that someone can own an idea, concept, or design as stupid? No more silly than the idea that someone can own land or water. It is a legal concept just as all ownership.
Funny I see very little difference except that Flash is a lot nastier to write code in. Flash and applets are fine for some uses but they both should be banned from menus and buttons!
Exactly. Take patents for example. Software patents are not reasonable or logical but many other types of patents are. Copyrights are another example. I admit that I am in the minority on slashdot because I do feel pirating is wrong, I feel it is immoral and should be illegal. I also feel that the RIAA is trying to take away people rights to protect their IP which I also find intolerable. IP IS valid as a concept and is important. The key is protecting IP without abusing everybody's rights.
True. I happen to like building my own machines. I like picking the parts and putting together just what I want and can afford. People pick and choose how to spend their efforts and it is wrong to dismiss those efforts out of hand.
So when you make an error it is a nit? How very cute. Man I really thought you had learned something. As to you being more informed. The wiping out all life and the storms comment proved that to be simply not true.
Well the first ones in the US where used to calculate ballistics tables. The first ones in the UK where used to break the German code in WWII. The computer that sent men to the moon was probably in the same league as a cell phone. You can do a lot with a little if you don't have to make it idiot proof and don't have to have little pictures for every command.
No not an idiot but also not smarter and better informed than everybody else. I am just trying to bring some reason to Slashdot. Have a good day and no I don't think you are an idiot. At worst a zealot at best someone that is trying to do the right thing the wrong way.
That is at best unfair. Some geeks are just software geeks, some are just hardware geeks, some are just networking geek, and some are just programing geeks. I find setting up a DNS or Sendmail to be rather hard but I find writing code in C++, java, PHP, and or Perl to be not bad at all. Putting in memory, hard drive, new CPU, motherboard, or power supply doesn't bother me at all but I know some very geekly people that will not even try.
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Could it be Juice?
http://web.archive.org/web/20010408174718/caesar.ics.uci.edu/juice/intro.html
Sounds a lot like Juice.
http://www.modulaware.com/mwolink.htm
It was a plugin that took an intermediate code and then compiled it to run at native speed.
Of course this worked over the internet.
No.
A condition of the cease fire was that Iraq would allow complete access to UN inspection teams.
The goal was to find out if they had any secret missile or WMD programs. They where to have total and free access.
That is "spying" except that it isn't any type of secert. Iraq had no right to privacy or any right to secrecy after the war.
In other words they where not cooperating.
Of course they where spying. That is exactly what inspection teams do.
So well after the war Hans Blix says that he now thinks that Iraq had decided in principle to provide cooperation???
If that isn't the most definite maybe I have ever heard in my life.
Iraq didn't have the right to refuse the inspections ever after the war. It really didn't matter if they wore CIA overcoats.
Think about it. The inspection teams where supposed to find out if Iraq had an secret programs developing Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, or missile technology.
If that isn't a great definition of spying I don't know what is.
I do see a shift. .NET and good old Visual Basic provides the lock in that Windows needs to keep it in the Enterprise. DirectX provides the lock in that they need to keep the games on it. With games and the Enterprise locked in WindowsXP could have kept selling for the next twenty years.
I see a shift away from Windows as the center of the Microsoft universe.
Office is Microsoft's real cash cow.
Office,
A major break with current Windows code base is more trouble than it is wroth.
The first problem is Drivers. Look at the the problems that Vista had with the change to Video and Printer Drivers. Multiply that by all the funky hardware that is being used on PC and you will see why massive code base change may not be a good plan.
Where Microsoft has blown it is in the none PC market. They never could knock out Palm even when Palm was making error after error. They don't seem to have a chance to kill the Blackberry or the iPhone. The Zune? What a waste. Microsoft could have really integrated the Zune with the 360 to make good media system. Instead it is a bad joke. The fact that Microsoft's iSync talks about how well it works with the iPod should say it all.
I see Microsoft pushing for more and more developer lock in and more on the applications and less on the OS. They still have a massive market share and that isn't likely to go away soon.
The key is that people use applications the OS is just their to run them.
Maybe and I am not making any comment on if it was or was not a good idea. What I am making a comment on was the false statment that Iraq was cooperating with the UN.
"Had concern about WMD been the real motivation, then Hans Blix of the UN would have been allowed to finish his inspection. The Iraqis were co-operating after all."
Funny I remember Iraq not co-operating a lot...
Well let me explain something to you.
1 Curing Malaria would not be on small deed.
Also do you know just how small a percentage Windows is in the average small countries IT budget?
You do know that they use Windows for the desktop because for many tasks it is still the cheapest and best solution?
How is Microsoft FORCING governments to use Windows? What exactly is stopping them from Using Macs, Linux, or BSD?
I really don't Microsoft and I do like, use, and support FOSS but you are foaming at the mouth.
If the Gates Foundation finds a cure for Malaria, helps control TB, or finds a cure for AIDS then yes NOBODY will remember anything Microsoft did wrong. What is probably more to the point in 100 years William Gates will be remembered as a great man that made his money running some software company.
As I have said many times. If the Gates foundation does cure Malaria then all the dirty tricks that Microsoft will be forgotten. Truth is they will be forgotten in a few years anyway.
I love FOSS software and I really am not a fan of Microsoft but RMS is an out of touch and needs to get a clue.
Nope I worked on a System38 the system that became the AS400. On the System38 the byte code was translated during the IPL. There is no need to do the translation at runtime. You can do it during install.
I wonder if the BAC groups know that Viacom both the Nickelodeon networks and Logo?
That should ruffle a few feathers.
Open office is actually very good. It is good enough for the vast majority of Office users. Is it as good as Office? I don't think so. But do I use even 10% of what Office does? No I don't so it really is good enough for me and most people. Now my wife who is actually really good at spreadsheets and such actually likes OpenOffice better than Office.
GIMP is very good and is really good enough for most people. It isn't as good as PhotoShopCS but it is good enough for a lot of users and the price is right.
The thing is that both GIMP and OO.org are getting better and better.
I will bet that the default black on white is about the worst you can use. I have heard that too high of a contrast is really bad for your eyes.
"It requires extensive and expensive hardware support to do this well. It works for a minicomputer like the AS/400 but it's just not practical for a toy like a PC." .net does it now. I have never seen myself but it makes perfect sense.
It worked for the System38 which is probably around 30 years old. I would be willing to bet that you could handle it just fine with an AthlonX2 or Core2Duo. One person posted that
One way you could do it is just comile the program up to the actual code generation. During install then you could just finish the actual code generation. Wirth did that with a Java competitor he was working on way back when.
A modern PC is more powerful than a 20 year old mini in every way except probably IO so I think it could handle it just fine and dandy.
There is a difference between a JIT compiler, a tokenized basic program, a byte code interpreter like P-Code and what IBM did.
This is from the Wikipedia.
"Additionally, the System/38 and its descendants are the only commercial computers ever to use a machine interface architecture to isolate the application software and most of the operating system from hardware dependencies, including such details as address size and register size. Compilers for System/38 and its successors generate code in a high-level instruction set (originally called MI for "Machine Interface", and renamed TIMI for "Technology Independent Machine Interface" for AS/400). MI/TIMI is a virtual instruction set; it is not the instruction set of the underlying CPU. Unlike some other virtual-machine architectures in which the virtual instructions are interpreted at runtime, MI/TIMI instructions are never interpreted. They constitute an intermediate compile time step and are translated into the processor's instruction set as the final compilation step. The MI/TIMI instructions are stored within the final program object, in addition to the executable machine instructions. If a program is moved from a processor with one native instruction set to a processor with another native instruction set, the MI/TIMI instructions will be re-translated into the native instruction set of the new machine before the program is executed for the first time on the new machine."
As you can see it is brilliant idea. If Microsoft had used it for Windows Apps way back when then NT on the Alpha, MIPS, and the PPC might have actually been very useful. Oh and Intel would have been a very unhappy camper.
Actually IBM did this a few decades ago.
The Model38/AS400/iSeries are all compatible but very different machines internally.
IBM came up with an "idea" instruction set that no CPU used. When you do the initial program load "install" on one of those machines it compiles the ideal instruction set into the actual instruction set for that PC.
That allowed IBM to move from old bipolar cpus to the Power RISC cpus with 100% compatibility.
There isn't any reason why you couldn't do the same with Linux or Windows today.
Carbon fiber can make a good conductor I don't know if it is good enough. Aluminum is used for most transmission lines and it may be possible to come up with a good Aluminum allow for use in home wiring. They tried AL in home wiring in the past and it turned out to be a really bad idea but there maybe ways to improve it.
Of course I am not a metallurgist but I am sure that there is a lot of research on it as we speak. Of course as the cost goes up more ore is worth mining, and more effort will be put into recycling.
Yes there is intellectual property. What you find the concept that someone can own an idea, concept, or design as stupid? No more silly than the idea that someone can own land or water.
It is a legal concept just as all ownership.
Funny I see very little difference except that Flash is a lot nastier to write code in.
Flash and applets are fine for some uses but they both should be banned from menus and buttons!
Exactly. Take patents for example. Software patents are not reasonable or logical but many other types of patents are.
Copyrights are another example. I admit that I am in the minority on slashdot because I do feel pirating is wrong, I feel it is immoral and should be illegal. I also feel that the RIAA is trying to take away people rights to protect their IP which I also find intolerable.
IP IS valid as a concept and is important. The key is protecting IP without abusing everybody's rights.
True. I happen to like building my own machines. I like picking the parts and putting together just what I want and can afford.
People pick and choose how to spend their efforts and it is wrong to dismiss those efforts out of hand.
So when you make an error it is a nit? How very cute. Man I really thought you had learned something. As to you being more informed. The wiping out all life and the storms comment proved that to be simply not true.
Well the first ones in the US where used to calculate ballistics tables. The first ones in the UK where used to break the German code in WWII.
The computer that sent men to the moon was probably in the same league as a cell phone.
You can do a lot with a little if you don't have to make it idiot proof and don't have to have little pictures for every command.
No not an idiot but also not smarter and better informed than everybody else. I am just trying to bring some reason to Slashdot. Have a good day and no I don't think you are an idiot. At worst a zealot at best someone that is trying to do the right thing the wrong way.
That is at best unfair. Some geeks are just software geeks, some are just hardware geeks, some are just networking geek, and some are just programing geeks. I find setting up a DNS or Sendmail to be rather hard but I find writing code in C++, java, PHP, and or Perl to be not bad at all.
Putting in memory, hard drive, new CPU, motherboard, or power supply doesn't bother me at all but I know some very geekly people that will not even try.