It stands for "Pointy-Haired Boss;" it's an allusion to Dilbert's boss, and is usually used of bosses who don't know technology (or often how to manage people), but try to act as if they did.
For example, there's a column where Dilbert's PHB tells him to build a database. Dilbert wants to know if the boss just read that in a trade magazine some place, so he asks, "What color do you want that database?" The PHB replies, "I think that muave has the most RAM!"
Granted, overcoming the huge momentum for binary units will be difficult, but one could always consider it practice for getting the USA to accept metric.
According to this page HP will be releasing the 49G Real Soon Now(tm).
The 49G has been out for years, not that I can find it on their web site now; I own one. Their processors have the same clock speed as the 48Gs (at least roughly), but they feel faster because the software has been optimized (read: rewritten). HP tried to add a bunch of TIish features (including a non-RPN mode); some of them even worked, but many didn't. They added lots more memory.
The architecture did not lend itself to other kinds of upgrades (say, a faster processor or higher-resolution screen), and a complete redesign was apparently not feasable (or at least worthwhile) for the company. The same page you linked to suggests that the 49G+ may have better hardware that emulates a real 49. Time will tell, I guess.
They make the visual of some pale, skinny nerd with a "Got Root?" shirt on, banging away on a keyboard in a poorly lit dorm room sound exciting.
My room is well lit, you insensitive clod!
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If a Java app uses a LGPL library, there is no way to modify the LGPL library and have the closed app use the new version?
No. According to this interpretation, any app at all that uses any LGPL library must be GPL or LGPL itself. The LGPL has a clause that says that you must provide the code to your app in a form that can be linked with a future version of the LGPLed library; this is apparently difficult with Java.
Perhpas we'll need a "do not mail, and do not e-mail" list now as well.
You do realize, right, that this is a very bad idea? I mean, how many valid e-mail addresses would you get by harvesting this list? When's the last time you saw a spammer who cared about the rules (or the law)?
Okay, I realize it was a joke, but still: We're talking about government-comissioned software, here. Some groups want to require that all government-comissioned software in the UK be open source unless a special agreement is made; even if an agreement is made to keep the software proprietary, they want to require it to become open source after two years.
It's understandable (reasonable, even) that proprietary vendors would not like this, but especially if they do such works for hire.
The "problems" with Soundex stem from the fact that it was meant to be an index for the U.S. Census. Anyone who's searched a census will tell you that census-takers seem to have always had trouble spelling. The goal of soundex was to allow you to find John Doe, even if his name was written down as "John Do" or "Jon To," or whatever. You'll have a lot of false positives looking for John Doe in an index, anyway.
The system was just not designed to do what it's being made to do, and certainly not by a computer.
Well, I could see Apple allowing the use of a "fat" binary that could run on either machine; they did it with 68K/PPC, right?
The catch is that the programmer would still need to port the program; you need machine code for both platforms. There's just no way to get around porting. (I suppose you could ease the process by using a cross-platform toolkit, ala wxWindows, but Apple would probably have you hunted down and shot for violating their interface guidelines. Maybe they would provide such a toolkit?)
Anyway, the whole Apple/AMD thing sounds highly unlikely.
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I know it's hard to understand that the world doesn't turn around America, if you life in America.
No, but the IT industry just might. <grin>
It stands for "Pointy-Haired Boss;" it's an allusion to Dilbert's boss, and is usually used of bosses who don't know technology (or often how to manage people), but try to act as if they did.
For example, there's a column where Dilbert's PHB tells him to build a database. Dilbert wants to know if the boss just read that in a trade magazine some place, so he asks, "What color do you want that database?" The PHB replies, "I think that muave has the most RAM!"
Granted, overcoming the huge momentum for binary units will be difficult, but one could always consider it practice for getting the USA to accept metric.
And we all know that that has gone over so well!
According to this page HP will be releasing the 49G Real Soon Now(tm).
The 49G has been out for years, not that I can find it on their web site now; I own one. Their processors have the same clock speed as the 48Gs (at least roughly), but they feel faster because the software has been optimized (read: rewritten). HP tried to add a bunch of TIish features (including a non-RPN mode); some of them even worked, but many didn't. They added lots more memory.
The architecture did not lend itself to other kinds of upgrades (say, a faster processor or higher-resolution screen), and a complete redesign was apparently not feasable (or at least worthwhile) for the company. The same page you linked to suggests that the 49G+ may have better hardware that emulates a real 49. Time will tell, I guess.
"A lot of patents are like this.... How is this different?"
You patent an idea. You only copyright a work.
SCO also owns copyrights for Bible and soon will begin suing all churches around the world.
No, no, no. It is Microsoft that is working to acquire the Roman Catholic Church.
They make the visual of some pale, skinny nerd with a "Got Root?" shirt on, banging away on a keyboard in a poorly lit dorm room sound exciting.
My room is well lit, you insensitive clod!
If a Java app uses a LGPL library, there is no way to modify the LGPL library and have the closed app use the new version?
No. According to this interpretation, any app at all that uses any LGPL library must be GPL or LGPL itself. The LGPL has a clause that says that you must provide the code to your app in a form that can be linked with a future version of the LGPLed library; this is apparently difficult with Java.
Perhpas we'll need a "do not mail, and do not e-mail" list now as well.
You do realize, right, that this is a very bad idea? I mean, how many valid e-mail addresses would you get by harvesting this list? When's the last time you saw a spammer who cared about the rules (or the law)?
I guess you can't eat open source, if OSS programmers are selling their second eyes.
Okay, I realize it was a joke, but still: We're talking about government-comissioned software, here. Some groups want to require that all government-comissioned software in the UK be open source unless a special agreement is made; even if an agreement is made to keep the software proprietary, they want to require it to become open source after two years.
It's understandable (reasonable, even) that proprietary vendors would not like this, but especially if they do such works for hire.
The "problems" with Soundex stem from the fact that it was meant to be an index for the U.S. Census. Anyone who's searched a census will tell you that census-takers seem to have always had trouble spelling. The goal of soundex was to allow you to find John Doe, even if his name was written down as "John Do" or "Jon To," or whatever. You'll have a lot of false positives looking for John Doe in an index, anyway.
The system was just not designed to do what it's being made to do, and certainly not by a computer.
Well, I could see Apple allowing the use of a "fat" binary that could run on either machine; they did it with 68K/PPC, right?
The catch is that the programmer would still need to port the program; you need machine code for both platforms. There's just no way to get around porting. (I suppose you could ease the process by using a cross-platform toolkit, ala wxWindows, but Apple would probably have you hunted down and shot for violating their interface guidelines. Maybe they would provide such a toolkit?)
Anyway, the whole Apple/AMD thing sounds highly unlikely.