Now you're just being silly. For $2000, you can get a Dual G4 1.25 GHz system (per www.apple.com) with 256 MB of RAM. The same $2000 will buy you a Dell Precision Workstation 450 with dual 2.4 GHz Xeons and 1 GB of RAM (per www.dell.com). Care to speculate on what your 4, 8, etc processor system would cost?
Yes, but to be fair, you would have to compare it against a similarly equipped dual-x86 system. Do the math on that, and I think you would be disappointed again.
13. Can the 64-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from GPT disks? Yes.
14. Can the 64-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from MBR disks? The 64-bit version of Windows Whistler can read and write MBR disks, but cannot boot from MBR disks.
15. Can the 32-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from GPT disks? No. The 32-bit version will see only the Protective MBR. The EE partition will not be mounted or otherwise exposed to application software.
16. Can the 32-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from MBR disks? Yes.
Note that this only applies to the 64-bit (Itanium) version of XP, not the 32-bit. Frankly, I wished it worked with the 32 bit version too, since the current MBR-based scheme sucks. Try having FAT + NTFS + Linux + FreeBSD + Plan 9, etc on one disk and you'll wish for something better too.
Also gzip, IIRC, as in what the tar (TApe Archive for the REALLY un-clued) is passed through to compress it, has a higher compression ratio than Zip compression.
This is a common misconception. Zip and GZIP use the exact same compression algorithm, and get the same compression ratio. The reason that.tar.gz files are usually smaller than.zip files is that the compression portion (GZIP) treats the tar file as one large file, and is able to analyze the whole thing before compressing it. Therefore, if two or more separate files inside the tar file share the same data, it can be compressed together. ZIP, on the other hand, compresses each file in the archive individually, so it can't take advantage of cross-file redundancy when compressing. It's a tradeoff that allows ZIP to add or remove single files from an archive without recompressing the whole thing. To do the same in.TAR.GZ would require that the whole tar file be decompressed, modified, and recompressed.
If you don't believe this, you can create a tar file, and then compress it with zip. The resulting.tar.zip file will be almost the same size as a.tar.gz file.
If, on the other hand, Amazon had to fight this by attempting to invalidate the patent, they would risk damaging their own claims if they won. In that case Amazon could not win on both fronts, it would fall to one or the other.
How so? Amazon would be fighting the claims of the InTouch patent, not the whole software/business method patent concept. It is conceiveable that they could have InTouch's patent invalidated through prior art and not affect their own claims at all.
Did it occur to you that the Mac release of Canvas 7 is already running on PowerPC hardware?
That's true, but doesn't invalidate any of the previous points. As long as the software is written in a high-level language (e.g. not ASM) the CPU architecture makes little difference.
Porting from Mac and Windows will be the far more difficult task -- replacing all Mac/Win OS calls with Linux/X calls, etc. How the software is designed also makes a difference here, but it is more how the software is structured (are all of the OS-specific poritons well isolated) than the language it is written in.
Once that is done, the software can easily be made to work on multiple Linux/Unix CPU architectures by recompiling. If the source is not available, it is basically an issue of whether there is enough demand for a PPCLinux version for Deneba to compile and maintain it.
a few wrist-watches miss-reporting the date makes today more scary that the 1st of January.
Don't get too worried about this... Many watches don't keep track of the year at all, so they assume EVERY February has 28 days. Nothing to do with Y2K. At least they're right 3/4 of the time.
Compiler support isn't the issue with these features
Did you actually read the rationale at the link posted above before you offered your opinion?
Don't use the C++ template feature. This feature is still not implemented by all compilers, and even when it is implemented... It is very likely that other "simple" template code will break some poor compilers which we need to support.
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Exceptions are another C++ feature which is not very widely implemented, and as such, their use is not portable C++ code. Don't use them. Unfortunately, there is no good workaround that produces similar functionality.
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Run-time type information (RTTI) is a relatively new C++ feature, and not supported in many compilers. Don't use it.
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Support of namespaces (through the namespace and using keywords) is a relatively new C++ feature, and not supported in many compilers. Don't use it.
You should not have to upgrade your box just to type letters...
Upgrade what? A 486DX2/66 8MB with Windows 3.1 and WinWord 2.0 works great for typing letters. Why do you assume that you should be able to continue to upgrade the software but not the hardware.
Most software adds new features so that it can take advantage of new hardware, so it seems foolish to complain about the difficulty of upgrading one or the other independantly.
I know it's cool to bash Microsoft here, but this is not limited to them. Try running KDE on your old 486 with 8MB of RAM. New hardware makes new applications possible.
That was my first thought. But then I realized, if a kid eats a toy, is it the fault of the toymaker or is it the fault of the parents for raising stupid children?
WHo eats toys?
Apparently somebody does... take a look at this notice I saw on Gateway's website
We want to pass on a safety concern that was recently brought to our attention about the foam-rubber "Stress Cows," which are designed to let you squeeze tension away (pictured left). A few conscientious parents have alerted us that small children can tear or bite off parts of the stress cow, creating a potential choking hazard. In response to that concern, and in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Gateway has voluntarily stopped distributing this product and is recalling all Stress Cows previously given to clients.... Gateway values its clients and believes that their safety is of the utmost importance.
The source for several old Digital Research products, including CP/M and GEM, has been released by Caldera. It's available at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm/.
I remember reading that the max lifespan on a cd was around 9 years, though it may have improved.
I don't know about this... I've got music CDs that I bought over ten years ago that still play fine (if I have a sudden urge to listen to all of that great '80s music!).
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Word MarkLINUX Owner Name (REGISTRANT) Croce, William R. Della, Jr. Owner Address 33 Snow Hill St. Boston MASSACHUSETTS 02113 INDIVIDUAL UNITED STATES Owner Name (LAST LISTED OWNER) TORVALDS, LINUS Owner Address 3665 BENTON STREET APT. 36 SANTA CLARA CALIFORNIA 95051 INDIVIDUAL FINLAND Attorney of Record CATHERINE MCCAULEY-LIBERT Serial Number 74-560867 Registration Number 1916230 Filing Date 08/15/1994 Registration Date 09/05/1995 Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING Register PRINCIPAL Published for pposition 06/13/1995 Type of Mark TRADEMARK International Class 009 Goods and Services computer operating system software to facilitate computer use and operation; DATE OF FIRST USE: 1994.08.02; DATE OF FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 1994.08.02
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Microsoft blatantly and fragrantly violated the patent when they build filesystem compression into thier products
So what exactly does a violated patent smell like?
And OS X 10.2 was the current OS until last week, and they are dropping support for it.
Isn't that what I said?
Now you're just being silly. For $2000, you can get a Dual G4 1.25 GHz system (per www.apple.com) with 256 MB of RAM. The same $2000 will buy you a Dell Precision Workstation 450 with dual 2.4 GHz Xeons and 1 GB of RAM (per www.dell.com). Care to speculate on what your 4, 8, etc processor system would cost?
Yes, but to be fair, you would have to compare it against a similarly equipped dual-x86 system. Do the math on that, and I think you would be disappointed again.
You're thinking of William Shockley, one of the inventors of the transistor, and the man who put the silicon in Silicon Valley.
Yes.
14. Can the 64-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from MBR disks?
The 64-bit version of Windows Whistler can read and write MBR disks, but cannot boot from MBR disks.
15. Can the 32-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from GPT disks?
No. The 32-bit version will see only the Protective MBR. The EE partition will not be mounted or otherwise exposed to application software.
16. Can the 32-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from MBR disks?
Yes.
Note that this only applies to the 64-bit (Itanium) version of XP, not the 32-bit. Frankly, I wished it worked with the 32 bit version too, since the current MBR-based scheme sucks. Try having FAT + NTFS + Linux + FreeBSD + Plan 9, etc on one disk and you'll wish for something better too.
GNU EMACS anyone?
This is a common misconception. Zip and GZIP use the exact same compression algorithm, and get the same compression ratio. The reason that .tar.gz files are usually smaller than .zip files is that the compression portion (GZIP) treats the tar file as one large file, and is able to analyze the whole thing before compressing it. Therefore, if two or more separate files inside the tar file share the same data, it can be compressed together. ZIP, on the other hand, compresses each file in the archive individually, so it can't take advantage of cross-file redundancy when compressing. It's a tradeoff that allows ZIP to add or remove single files from an archive without recompressing the whole thing. To do the same in .TAR.GZ would require that the whole tar file be decompressed, modified, and recompressed.
If you don't believe this, you can create a tar file, and then compress it with zip. The resulting .tar.zip file will be almost the same size as a .tar.gz file.
How so? Amazon would be fighting the claims of the InTouch patent, not the whole software/business method patent concept. It is conceiveable that they could have InTouch's patent invalidated through prior art and not affect their own claims at all.
That's true, but doesn't invalidate any of the previous points. As long as the software is written in a high-level language (e.g. not ASM) the CPU architecture makes little difference.
Porting from Mac and Windows will be the far more difficult task -- replacing all Mac/Win OS calls with Linux/X calls, etc. How the software is designed also makes a difference here, but it is more how the software is structured (are all of the OS-specific poritons well isolated) than the language it is written in.
Once that is done, the software can easily be made to work on multiple Linux/Unix CPU architectures by recompiling. If the source is not available, it is basically an issue of whether there is enough demand for a PPCLinux version for Deneba to compile and maintain it.
Not yet, anyway...
Don't get too worried about this... Many watches don't keep track of the year at all, so they assume EVERY February has 28 days. Nothing to do with Y2K. At least they're right 3/4 of the time.
Did you actually read the rationale at the link posted above before you offered your opinion?
Don't use the C++ template feature. This feature is still not implemented by all compilers, and even when it is implemented ... It is very likely that other "simple" template code will break some poor compilers which we need to support.
Exceptions are another C++ feature which is not very widely implemented, and as such, their use is not portable C++ code. Don't use them. Unfortunately, there is no good workaround that produces similar functionality.
Run-time type information (RTTI) is a relatively new C++ feature, and not supported in many compilers. Don't use it.
Support of namespaces (through the namespace and using keywords) is a relatively new C++ feature, and not supported in many compilers. Don't use it.
etc, etc, etc.
But Mozilla won't overtake IE, Netscape 6.0 will!
Upgrade what? A 486DX2/66 8MB with Windows 3.1 and WinWord 2.0 works great for typing letters. Why do you assume that you should be able to continue to upgrade the software but not the hardware.
Most software adds new features so that it can take advantage of new hardware, so it seems foolish to complain about the difficulty of upgrading one or the other independantly.
I know it's cool to bash Microsoft here, but this is not limited to them. Try running KDE on your old 486 with 8MB of RAM. New hardware makes new applications possible.
WHo eats toys?
Apparently somebody does... take a look at this notice I saw on Gateway's website
Pentium -- Intel finally feels that a name's better than a number. Many laugh at the name, but soon the term 586 becomes associated only with AMD.
Pentium Pro -- Again, another attempt to use words to describe power
Pentium II -- A legitimate upgrade to the Pentium in chip architecture (586 to 686) and in the name.
The Pentium Pro was the 586->686 transition. The Pentium II was just a Pentium Pro core + MMX and a new package
The source for several old Digital Research products, including CP/M and GEM, has been released by Caldera. It's available at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm/.
I don't know about this... I've got music CDs that I bought over ten years ago that still play fine (if I have a sudden urge to listen to all of that great '80s music!).
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~randy/ CLD/CLD.html
Please note that this upgrade is not designed for the following:
Palm VII(TM) organizer Register for future upgrade notification.
Palm IIIe(TM) organizer Model does not contain flash ROM.
HandSpring(TM) Visors Models do not contain flash ROM.
Pager Cards Click for more information.
Symbol® handhelds
Qualcomm pdQ(TM) smartphone
The Palm Vx(TM) organizer is already running Palm OS® software v3.3 and thus an upgrade is not necessary.
This is just silly... Every Linux distribution already comes with XF86 pre-installed, so there is no need for people to "check it out".
No, this is not what happened. Someone tried to trademark Linux as a "computer operating system software" and then sue for infringement.
Here is the record from the US Patent & Trademark office. For more information on the whole episode, check out this press release from the law firm that handled the case for Linus.
Word Mark LINUX
Owner Name (REGISTRANT) Croce, William R. Della, Jr.
Owner Address 33 Snow Hill St. Boston MASSACHUSETTS 02113 INDIVIDUAL UNITED STATES
Owner Name (LAST LISTED OWNER) TORVALDS, LINUS
Owner Address 3665 BENTON STREET APT. 36 SANTA CLARA CALIFORNIA 95051 INDIVIDUAL FINLAND
Attorney of Record CATHERINE MCCAULEY-LIBERT
Serial Number 74-560867
Registration Number 1916230
Filing Date 08/15/1994
Registration Date 09/05/1995
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Register PRINCIPAL
Published for pposition 06/13/1995
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
International Class 009
Goods and Services computer operating system software to facilitate computer use and operation; DATE OF FIRST USE: 1994.08.02; DATE OF FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 1994.08.02
Antarctica?