Score two for this comment? I was commenting on the fact that the instructions are still hiding in there somewhere, not on the implementation. The fact that it is a RISC core doesn't hide the fact that I can still run 8080 code on this beast.
How can you take a guy seriously when he writes a book in which science fiction writers are guys who save earth from an alien invasion.
His knowledge of history is woeful as he does not appear to have heard of the Marshall plan. Without that, we would have had WWIII already, and with one after WWI, maybe no WWII.
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I agree with this post, i'm at 0, and each time i'm tempted to move back, it's not for long. This is an interesting social experiment on why good is better than bad. At present, good wins.
Not at all, constructive criticism about/. is not a problem, which is why I referred to the problem of malicious trolls. I think/. could be a lot better myself, but the amount of time these guys guys must waste on getting around the troll problem must hold up work on making the site as a whole work better.
I once tried to read one of Jerry Pournelles books, and found it to be totally inane, guilleles, pontificating and absurd, and that was just the first three pages. It's basic premise was that earth was in a new ice age and everyone was freezing to death, but the greenies were still banning the use of hydrocarbons to warm the earth up using the greenhouse effect. Talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too! One the one hand he is saying that the greenhouse effect is real because it would solve the problem of the ice age, on the other he is saying the greenies are to blame. Now, at present, we have the real possibility, despite all the debate, of a greenhouse effect induced heating of the earth, and no indication of an ice age. He takes this concept and turns it on its head.
No wonder his computers never work. I read his column every month just to have a good laugh at how his latest freebie has shat itself because he doesn't know how to set it up, and then gets some poor support guy from the company that gave it to him, (in between plugging his wifes reading program and his sons latest business venture), to get out to his place over the weekend to fix it up.
At the same time, he never stops praising the free enterprise shambles that can't give him broadband in the middle of Hollywood.
Then he signs off on his latest friends book about how the white people are better than non-whites, and how America should just nuke the rest of the world, after it has finished up using all the oil that is there.
If only it was so simple. The Enron collapse is the result of an ongoing failure in corporate ethics, that many conveniently ignored, from both sides of politics. The only reason the current Government did not try to save them was because they were beyond help.
When the first PCs came out, people were praising the fact that now the overhead of the mainframes was gone. The developers of Unix sounded like used car salesmen in singing the praises of this small, compact operating system that was designed by geniuses.
What is increasingly apparent, is that any operating system, once it reaches a level of sophistication, is going to get out of control if the proper management systems are not put in place.
MVS did not have have 'kernel panic' and other totally uninformative messages that just left you scratching your head. Every piece of IBM software put out one of the infamous 'IKJEFT01 99965I' type messages. Other people laughed at them, but the fact was, every message with a reference number could be looked up in a manual, and the problem database searched on those messages.
Even more, the patch system became increasingly sophisticated, and was a whole system of it's own, much like a much more powerful 'apt get'. All patches had the prerequisites and corequisites explicitly named. If a patch did not go on, you could find out exactly why. If you wanted to put a patch on, it would tell you what else was needed. If you wanted to create your own patch, subsequent external patches that clashed with yours would be identified for you to resolve. And when you applied the patches, they were automatically applied for you. Just select the patch, and they were all applied with one simple command. Then if you wanted to back out a patch, that could be done too. Then if you wanted to apply a new version to a certain level, that was all automated. The banks use systems such as MVS not just because they are locked in, ( which they are to a certain degree, but because they get certainty and predictability with MVS, Zos now, I believe).
Partly it is the corruption of Government and the loss of respect for Government. JFK might have been flawed, but the truest words he ever said were 'what can I do for my country'. Most Americans can't even be bothered voting for their country now. If you can't even do that, then you don't have an effective Democracy.
The power vacuum left by an absence of voters and active democracy has been taken over by the lobbyists, and special interest groups.
NASA has been suffering massive budget cuts, but the Government actually subsidises massive corporations and individuals that grow sugar etc. that can't be sold anywhere because it is still to expensive. Forget about aid for mom and pop farms, they just get peanuts.
One of the biggest funders of politicians of both sides is the sugar industry.
Sugar Subsidies
Now how about people stop complaining about the Govt, which is their govt, and ask what they can do to start making it work?
Not an anecdote I heard, an article in a reputable, weekly newspaper. And this is not the only case of the court system being abused. I know Films and TV are full of the abuse the criminals make of the legal system, but those loopholes are only there because the rich have made them appear.
And how would you know that? How can a court system where all it takes is more money than the other guy has, to appear things all the way up, be better. I read about an Australian company that tried to sell scalpels in the US and went broke, even thought they were taking on a monopoly. The monopoly sued them for trying to impose their own monopoly, and kept on suing and appealing until the Australian company gave up.
I just love the fact that hiding inside the P4 is a little old 8080, which was an enhancement of the 8008 and 4004. I would like to know how many of those old assembly language instructions are still in use, or if anyone would notice if they were removed. Such as, mov A,H etc. Or DAA, adjust register A for BCD arithmetic operations.
This bug reminds me of some of the bugs I used to read about in the IBM mainframe OS, MVS/XA, (OS/390, OS/Z, etc.) It appears to me that there comes a level of complexity in all hardware/software, using current technology, that becomes unsustainable. The thing that surprises me is that it hangs together as well as it does so far.
The claim used to be made that MVS was going to be overrun by the smaller operating systems because they were smaller, faster, better, (just read some of the sales blurbs the Unix developers used to write for themselves, they were pretty smug and self satisfied, if you read them now.) The fact is, if you want an operating system that does all the wonderful things that technology makes possible, controlling it and hooking it all up becomes in the end very difficult. MVS is still used by banks etc, because it has been adapted to do just that, over time.
Perhaps it is time for Unix and Windows to take a step back and just ask how the complexity is going to be dealt with. The recent Linux paging debacle is not a once off, it is something that is not due to bad programming, it is a systematic problem that has to be addressed.
GNU BSD may have taken a long time to not apparently get very far with it's micro kernel approach, (but this may be because this system was unintentionally or intentionally addressing this very problem), and it will now move on to overtake Linux as a stable path forward.
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I don't think you read the article properly, the work seemed to involve packing printers, not computer contracting. And the point was that people are not allowed to talk about or question what goes on. Not much different to a Communist dictatorship. Are you saying that in this guys spare time at he should have been self educating himself in storage sub-systems? Not when the only priority was that the line had to keep moving. This is George Orwells Big Brother scenario in real life. No in is responsible, the individual counts for nothing, and no one is allowed to say what they think.
Mod this as redundant, if you must but, I agree with what he said. The radio series was brilliant, and Zaphod's second head on the TV series was so bad I could have done better. Still, no one else has made a better version of it yet.
Maybe if the/. crew had time to write code to prevent dupes and improve quality and functionality, we would all be happier. As it is, most of the recent work appears to be getting wasted on dealing with a few idiot trolls.
I for one would like to see 'ongoing' stories, that evolve over time, rather than new topics having to be created to deal with each new development.
Yes, a hemisphere is a COP OUT. I want this to be a pure design, something that people really want to use, that they can identify with, and Steve Jobs has screwed it up badly. I want a globe on my desk. It might not be very stable, like I might have to hold it up with one hand while I type with the other, but thats what I want, and all my friends too.
MOD THIS PARENT UP - this is the only link to the story that actually worked for me, all the others have been killed by Time, proof of a massive stuff up if ever there was one.
Now, I have actually read The Big Sleep, and seen the film. The book was great, the movie less so, especially because they clearly didn't even understand the book enough to explain who was killed in the car that ran off the pier and why. It wasn't that hard, but the director actually admitted he didn't understand it. You'd think they would have asked if someone else could have understand it.
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Score two for this comment? I was commenting on the fact that the instructions are still hiding in there somewhere, not on the implementation. The fact that it is a RISC core doesn't hide the fact that I can still run 8080 code on this beast.
How can you take a guy seriously when he writes a book in which science fiction writers are guys who save earth from an alien invasion.
His knowledge of history is woeful as he does not appear to have heard of the Marshall plan. Without that, we would have had WWIII already, and with one after WWI, maybe no WWII.
I agree with this post, i'm at 0, and each time i'm tempted to move back, it's not for long. This is an interesting social experiment on why good is better than bad. At present, good wins.
Not at all, constructive criticism about /. is not a problem, which is why I referred to the problem of malicious trolls. I think /. could be a lot better myself, but the amount of time these guys guys must waste on getting around the troll problem must hold up work on making the site as a whole work better.
No wonder his computers never work. I read his column every month just to have a good laugh at how his latest freebie has shat itself because he doesn't know how to set it up, and then gets some poor support guy from the company that gave it to him, (in between plugging his wifes reading program and his sons latest business venture), to get out to his place over the weekend to fix it up.
At the same time, he never stops praising the free enterprise shambles that can't give him broadband in the middle of Hollywood.
Then he signs off on his latest friends book about how the white people are better than non-whites, and how America should just nuke the rest of the world, after it has finished up using all the oil that is there.
My workmates once powered off a mainframe when they were playing cricket. The ball was right onto the power switch.
Maybe if they didn't have to spend so much effort fighting off the malicious trolls, they could spend more time on the functionality and quality.
If only it was so simple. The Enron collapse is the result of an ongoing failure in corporate ethics, that many conveniently ignored, from both sides of politics. The only reason the current Government did not try to save them was because they were beyond help.
What is increasingly apparent, is that any operating system, once it reaches a level of sophistication, is going to get out of control if the proper management systems are not put in place.
MVS did not have have 'kernel panic' and other totally uninformative messages that just left you scratching your head. Every piece of IBM software put out one of the infamous 'IKJEFT01 99965I' type messages. Other people laughed at them, but the fact was, every message with a reference number could be looked up in a manual, and the problem database searched on those messages.
Even more, the patch system became increasingly sophisticated, and was a whole system of it's own, much like a much more powerful 'apt get'. All patches had the prerequisites and corequisites explicitly named. If a patch did not go on, you could find out exactly why. If you wanted to put a patch on, it would tell you what else was needed. If you wanted to create your own patch, subsequent external patches that clashed with yours would be identified for you to resolve. And when you applied the patches, they were automatically applied for you. Just select the patch, and they were all applied with one simple command. Then if you wanted to back out a patch, that could be done too. Then if you wanted to apply a new version to a certain level, that was all automated. The banks use systems such as MVS not just because they are locked in, ( which they are to a certain degree, but because they get certainty and predictability with MVS, Zos now, I believe).
Sugar Industry subsidies
The power vacuum left by an absence of voters and active democracy has been taken over by the lobbyists, and special interest groups.
NASA has been suffering massive budget cuts, but the Government actually subsidises massive corporations and individuals that grow sugar etc. that can't be sold anywhere because it is still to expensive. Forget about aid for mom and pop farms, they just get peanuts.
One of the biggest funders of politicians of both sides is the sugar industry.
Sugar Subsidies
Now how about people stop complaining about the Govt, which is their govt, and ask what they can do to start making it work?
Not an anecdote I heard, an article in a reputable, weekly newspaper. And this is not the only case of the court system being abused. I know Films and TV are full of the abuse the criminals make of the legal system, but those loopholes are only there because the rich have made them appear.
And how would you know that? How can a court system where all it takes is more money than the other guy has, to appear things all the way up, be better. I read about an Australian company that tried to sell scalpels in the US and went broke, even thought they were taking on a monopoly. The monopoly sued them for trying to impose their own monopoly, and kept on suing and appealing until the Australian company gave up.
I just love the fact that hiding inside the P4 is a little old 8080, which was an enhancement of the 8008 and 4004. I would like to know how many of those old assembly language instructions are still in use, or if anyone would notice if they were removed. Such as, mov A,H etc. Or DAA, adjust register A for BCD arithmetic operations.
The claim used to be made that MVS was going to be overrun by the smaller operating systems because they were smaller, faster, better, (just read some of the sales blurbs the Unix developers used to write for themselves, they were pretty smug and self satisfied, if you read them now.) The fact is, if you want an operating system that does all the wonderful things that technology makes possible, controlling it and hooking it all up becomes in the end very difficult. MVS is still used by banks etc, because it has been adapted to do just that, over time.
Perhaps it is time for Unix and Windows to take a step back and just ask how the complexity is going to be dealt with. The recent Linux paging debacle is not a once off, it is something that is not due to bad programming, it is a systematic problem that has to be addressed.
GNU BSD may have taken a long time to not apparently get very far with it's micro kernel approach, (but this may be because this system was unintentionally or intentionally addressing this very problem), and it will now move on to overtake Linux as a stable path forward.
I don't think you read the article properly, the work seemed to involve packing printers, not computer contracting. And the point was that people are not allowed to talk about or question what goes on. Not much different to a Communist dictatorship. Are you saying that in this guys spare time at he should have been self educating himself in storage sub-systems? Not when the only priority was that the line had to keep moving. This is George Orwells Big Brother scenario in real life. No in is responsible, the individual counts for nothing, and no one is allowed to say what they think.
Mod this as redundant, if you must but, I agree with what he said. The radio series was brilliant, and Zaphod's second head on the TV series was so bad I could have done better. Still, no one else has made a better version of it yet.
That is how it sounds when we say Australian!
Maybe if the /. crew had time to write code to prevent dupes and improve quality and functionality, we would all be happier. As it is, most of the recent work appears to be getting wasted on dealing with a few idiot trolls.
I for one would like to see 'ongoing' stories, that evolve over time, rather than new topics having to be created to deal with each new development.
For the past hour this site has redirected me. Maybe it works for you, but not for many/most of us.
Yes, a hemisphere is a COP OUT. I want this to be a pure design, something that people really want to use, that they can identify with, and Steve Jobs has screwed it up badly. I want a globe on my desk. It might not be very stable, like I might have to hold it up with one hand while I type with the other, but thats what I want, and all my friends too.
Charles Manson = Steve Jobs, brilliant. I love those films with the bad hippies in them.
You said you were quitting this crap, but here you are again as an AC. Just piss off, like you said you would.
MOD THIS PARENT UP - this is the only link to the story that actually worked for me, all the others have been killed by Time, proof of a massive stuff up if ever there was one.
Now, I have actually read The Big Sleep, and seen the film. The book was great, the movie less so, especially because they clearly didn't even understand the book enough to explain who was killed in the car that ran off the pier and why. It wasn't that hard, but the director actually admitted he didn't understand it. You'd think they would have asked if someone else could have understand it.