mulinux fits all that on 2 floppy disks (the root one and X addon disk)... along with plenty of admin tools, IP-masq, ppp, dialup, a web browser, web server, unix shell tools and some networking tools, nfs root hdcp smb, sound support and a heap more. And you call linux bloated?
(Well, actually, you can get a very bloated linux if you want, but you do have the choice).
I've personally got a win95/linux computer happily running ni a 100Mb hdd... 80mb for windows and 20 for linux.
Isn't perl missing some of the nice higher order functions that functional languages have?
The times I use functional languages, I am trying to spend half the time programming I would in another language to solve a (usually mathematical) problem. For example...
fib = [0,1]++(zipWith (+) fib (tail fib))
is neat, obvious and readable haskell code, and I haven't seen it done so well in non-functional languages (please feel free to reply with neat versions of this in perl).
One thing I have found is that if you port a mathematical program to java from c, it may actually speed up!
I remember writing a small test program in c and identically in Java (a couple of syntax changes only). Using IBM's jdk with -O made it faster than pgcc with all the optimization flags we could think of!
Then I rewrote the program in an OO-way in Java, and of course it was slow:)... but it does show that Java isn't nessecarily slower than C for some tasks.
Another is to ask people whether they will hold a large celebration on their 49th birthday (the beginning of their 50th year) or on their 50th birthday (the end of their 50th year).
The last day of this year may be a lot of things that are well worth celebrating (or being concerned about), but the end of the millenium/centruy is not one of them!
Of Course! We can use y2k to prove it...
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As the year 2000AD has significance only as being 2000 years after [some approximation of (the start of 1bc to be exact)] the birth of Jssus Christ, someone could only be affected by y2k if they believe in Jesus (IE are christian) (on the proviso that they think logically...) so we have the following chain of deduction.
1) If something thinks only logically and is affected by the year 2000, it must be Christian. 2) Computers think only logically. 3) Computers are affected by y2k.
Hence, computers are Christian, and hence pray! (This conclusion follows regardless of whether Christianity is correct or not).
We can also show that (for preventing unwanted pregnancies), abstenence works better when combined with the pill... noone (that I have heard of) has successfully abstained while on the pill and become pregnant. With abstenence alone however...
Disclaimer (1): This post is tongue-in-cheak! So don't flame about Christians not seeing any reason from what you read in this post! Disclaimer (2): I'm not bagging out Christianity in this post... I happen to be one who has [a very strange] sense of humour.
Indeed... It used to be the case around here that the speedos on American-imported cars were modified "conservatively" to metric... it would say 65kph when you are doing 60. Hence people get used to driving at 65 in a 60 zone and be ok... Now with speedos being made for metric system, they are more accurate, and hence there are many people caught for speeding as a result (and having accidents through driving faster)!
So there you go... the speed limits in the States being in miles/hour (indirectly) causing car accidents and deaths in Australia!
When Linus et al... are to agree to this, they should (in order to agree to this trial) force mindcraft to also do the benchmarking on the most common pc used for web servers today.
At a guess, that would be the 486dx2/50 with 8 meg of ram. Good luck to the windows NT team;)
Saw one of these running at AAAI
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They had one of these ``Pets'' operating at AAAI last year. Although there was nothing technically brilliant about them, they stole the show (all the girls thought they were extremely cute). They are very programmable and (by default) include programming that allows the robot to right itself whenever it falls over (through a neat set of leg movements). As for price, I have heard figures of around $600US. Almost everyone who has seen one in action wants one, and most would pay that price.
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This is a very good point...
DeCSS is not quite like a gun, its like the knife and fork you use at dinner.
Sure, you can use the knife to kill someone, but there are much easier ways of killing someone (making a lower-quality bootleg).
25 Meg for a full graphical OS and a text editor?
mulinux fits all that on 2 floppy disks
(the root one and X addon disk)...
along with plenty of admin tools, IP-masq, ppp, dialup, a web browser, web server, unix shell tools and some networking tools, nfs root hdcp smb, sound support and a heap more. And you call linux bloated?
(Well, actually, you can get a very bloated linux if you want, but you do have the choice).
I've personally got a win95/linux computer happily running ni a 100Mb hdd... 80mb for windows and 20 for linux.
Isn't perl missing some of the nice higher order functions that functional languages have?
The times I use functional languages, I am trying to spend half the time programming I would in another language to solve a (usually mathematical) problem. For example...
fib = [0,1]++(zipWith (+) fib (tail fib))
is neat, obvious and readable haskell code, and I haven't seen it done so well in non-functional languages (please feel free to reply with neat versions of this in perl).
One thing I have found is that if you port a mathematical program to java from c, it may actually speed up!
I remember writing a small test program in c and identically in Java (a couple of syntax changes only). Using IBM's jdk with -O made it faster than pgcc with all the optimization flags we could think of!
Then I rewrote the program in an OO-way in Java, and of course it was slow:)... but it does show that Java isn't nessecarily slower than C for some tasks.
These [above] are all good methods...
Another is to ask people whether they will hold a large celebration on their 49th birthday (the beginning of their 50th year) or on their 50th birthday (the end of their 50th year).
The last day of this year may be a lot of things that are well worth celebrating (or being concerned about), but the end of the millenium/centruy is not one of them!
As the year 2000AD has significance only as being 2000 years after [some approximation of (the start of 1bc to be exact)] the birth of Jssus Christ, someone could only be affected by y2k if they believe in Jesus (IE are christian) (on the proviso that they think logically...) so we have the following chain of deduction.
1) If something thinks only logically and is affected by the year 2000, it must be Christian.
2) Computers think only logically.
3) Computers are affected by y2k.
Hence, computers are Christian, and hence pray!
(This conclusion follows regardless of whether Christianity is correct or not).
We can also show that (for preventing unwanted pregnancies), abstenence works better when combined with the pill... noone (that I have heard of) has successfully abstained while on the pill and become pregnant. With abstenence alone however...
Disclaimer (1): This post is tongue-in-cheak! So don't flame about Christians not seeing any reason from what you read in this post!
Disclaimer (2): I'm not bagging out Christianity in this post... I happen to be one who has [a very strange] sense of humour.
Indeed...
It used to be the case around here that the speedos on American-imported cars were modified "conservatively" to metric... it would say 65kph when you are doing 60. Hence people get used to driving at 65 in a 60 zone and be ok...
Now with speedos being made for metric system, they are more accurate, and hence there are many people caught for speeding as a result (and having accidents through driving faster)!
So there you go... the speed limits in the States being in miles/hour (indirectly) causing car accidents and deaths in Australia!
When Linus et al... are to agree to this, they should (in order to agree to this trial) force mindcraft to also do the benchmarking on the most common pc used for web servers today.
;)
At a guess, that would be the 486dx2/50 with 8 meg of ram. Good luck to the windows NT team
They had one of these ``Pets'' operating
at AAAI last year. Although there was nothing
technically brilliant about them, they stole
the show (all the girls thought they were
extremely cute). They are very programmable
and (by default) include programming that
allows the robot to right itself whenever it
falls over (through a neat set of leg movements).
As for price, I have heard figures of around $600US. Almost everyone who has seen one in action
wants one, and most would pay that price.