There is this technological wonder called Google (I shall keep the exact URL secret, lest the unwashed masses learn about it), which told me that here there be a HowTo...
No, I pointed out that you are either a victim, or, more likely, a perpetrator of FUD regarding the GPL and the Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel is GPL-ed, but it has an exception, which allows the creation, use and distribution of proprietary drivers. NVidia uses this to provide their closed-source Linux drivers. It is very likely that any changes automobile manufacturers need could be limitted to specific drivers for the kernel.
On a more serious note... why Linux won't ever be used in a car or other similar product: Most, if not all, automotive (and other) companies have a little problem with the GPL. As much as they'd like to use it, they'd never agree to releasing the source of their kernel tweaks, changes, etc that would fall under the GPL or its derivatives, fearing competitors' stealing the information and making a competiting product.
Bullsh*t - kernel drivers can be non-GPL (look at NVidia), besides, as long as the automotive companies are not distributing their tweaks, they don't have to provide the source for any changes.
MSXML 2 and 3 were not complete XML validation parsers, while IBM's XML4J was fully implementing the XML specification. XML4J later became the Xerces parser from the Apache project.
MS invented the broken XDR schema, and only after they saw that they won't get to do their "embrace and extend" routine with the W3C XML Schema working group they hired one of the editors of the working group. Their newest BizTalk server still does not suport XML schema, only the broken XDR schema. Only MSXML 4 has any support for XML schema.
I think the fact that there are many tools from different vendors and groups (IBM, Oracle, Apache) which provide XML functionality in Java is a much better foundation for Web services than a MS SDK...
Unlike fluid mechanics, where you can learn, and do research without knowing plumbing, you cannot be a good computer scientist without being very good at programming. Exams, which require you to write correct code, are usually done in introductory classes where the goal is to teach you programming in a specific language.
Learning the exact syntax and idioms of a particular language in an introductory class is necessary, as it teaches you how to learn a new language as much as it teaches you the basics of programming.
Maybe he called you a troll because you said: Although there are other languages that can run on JVM, the ease of getting inheritance and cooperation to this level is only possible in.NET.
And if you had looked at the language description, you would have seen that F# lacks the following:
Substructures/Namespaces/Packages
Functors
Inheritance (authoring)
Structured classes
Variance on type parameters
Labels
Default parameters
"Printf" style formatting
Therefore your claim, that somehow getting parts of a language to run on.NET could be beneficial in some way, rings hollow...
Exactly! And companies like Charter, who have "integrated" their services do put the filters on. The data techs are very much capable of putting the filter avery time they install a cable modem....
Then why don't you explain his insistence on calling Linux GNU/LINUX
RMS has done this many times, and I find his explanations reasonable. In my view, the whole success of Linux is based technologically on the mature GNU tools that already existed in 1991, and, maybe even more importantly, it is based ideologically on the fact that Linux was released under the GPL. Given that I don't see RMS' insistence as fanatical.
However, I don't think anyone can deny that RMS is a zealot when it comes to his campaigns and opinions.
From m-w.com: zealot: 2. a zealous person; especially: a fanatical partisan. zealous: filled with or characterized by zeal zeal: eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something; synonym see PASSION
So if you are saying that RMS is pasionate about Free software, and shows eagerness and ardent interest in pursuing his goals, then I (and I suspect most others) will agree with you. I fail to see though how this is bad for the acceptance of Free software.
If you, however, want to imply that RMS is a fanatical partisan, I'll have to ask you to provide some evidence of this. Fanaticism implies ideas without reason, and everything I've seen and read about RMS shows that his opinions and ideas are well reasoned.
How about Richard Stallman denouncing non-"free software" as the same?
Moderators on crack again - how is the above insightful? RMS has presented a set of principles, in which he strongly believes, and about which he is unwilling to compromise. Why is his strict principled position so threatening to some? You don't have to agree with him, or follow his principles after all...
Exactly - this is a very common mistake. What people also don't realize is that namespaces work very well with XML Schema, and allow for easy ways to compose "modular" XML instances, where the different parts are decribed in different schema. Such use also allows for customizations and overriding of the different "modules" similar to how OO programs can manipulate objects.
IMO, the major contribution of St. Cyrill and Methodius is not the creation of an alphabet, but their disputes with the Western church and the Pope regarding the right for the different peoples to learn and practice Christianity in their own language. Up to that point only Latin, Greek and Hebrew was used in church services...
I said: St. Cyrill developed the Glagolic alphabet
RelliK said: Uhhm, no. Glagolic is the alphabet that was used before Cyrill came along. It looks nothing at all like Cyrillic.
I am sorry, but you are wrong. The Glagolic did not look anything like the Cyrillic, but it was the alphabet created by St. Cyrill and his brother Methodius. The Glagolic looked somewhat like the ancient Armenian, Georgian, and Ethiopian alphabets, also developed by Byzanthine missionaries for the native languages in these areas.
The Cyrillic was created by St. Clement, a student of St. Cyrill. Thew alphabet was much simpler - for all the common sounds, it used the Greek letters, and only made up new letters for the sounds specific to the Slavs.
St. Cyrill developed the Glagolic alphabet, based on the slavic dialects spoken on the Balkan peninsula, and used it in translating the Christian holly scriptures for the slavic tribes in Moravia (today's Hungary/Slovakia). His student, St. Clement, developed the improved Cyrillic alphabet and spread its use in Bulgaria, from where it was adopted by Russia, Serbia, and others...
Today there are several variants of Cyrillic - Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, and it was used even in some of the former soviet republics and Mongolia, whose languages are very far from Slavic.
Also, KOI8 is not considered the Cyrillic codeset by other cyrillic-using nations, it is rather considered the Russian cyrillic code set. Other codesets are the Windows 1251, and ISO-8859-5. The latter would arguably be the standard Cyrillic code set.
35MB/sec for an ATA/100 disk - this gives us less than 24MB/sec for an ATA/66 disk.
700 / 24 gives about 30 seconds (and that would be read speed). Therefore the original poster was wrong - 700+ MB for 13 seconds is much faster than an ATA/66 disk.
I haven't used NN6, but in Mozilla since M18 or so, the rendering has always been faster than in IE 4.x-5.x (haven't tried IE 6). Are you sure you are not thinking about UI painting and startup speed, when you say rendering speed?
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There is this technological wonder called Google (I shall keep the exact URL secret, lest the unwashed masses learn about it), which told me that here there be a HowTo...
No, I pointed out that you are either a victim, or, more likely, a perpetrator of FUD regarding the GPL and the Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel is GPL-ed, but it has an exception, which allows the creation, use and distribution of proprietary drivers. NVidia uses this to provide their closed-source Linux drivers. It is very likely that any changes automobile manufacturers need could be limitted to specific drivers for the kernel.
Can you hear me now?
On a more serious note... why Linux won't ever be used in a car or other similar product: Most, if not all, automotive (and other) companies have a little problem with the GPL. As much as they'd like to use it, they'd never agree to releasing the source of their kernel tweaks, changes, etc that would fall under the GPL or its derivatives, fearing competitors' stealing the information and making a competiting product.
Bullsh*t - kernel drivers can be non-GPL (look at NVidia), besides, as long as the automotive companies are not distributing their tweaks, they don't have to provide the source for any changes.
You mean something like the Gnome Keyboard Applet?
heh - another astroturfer with .NET FUD:
MSXML 2 and 3 were not complete XML validation parsers, while IBM's XML4J was fully implementing the XML specification. XML4J later became the Xerces parser from the Apache project.
MS invented the broken XDR schema, and only after they saw that they won't get to do their "embrace and extend" routine with the W3C XML Schema working group they hired one of the editors of the working group. Their newest BizTalk server still does not suport XML schema, only the broken XDR schema. Only MSXML 4 has any support for XML schema.
I think the fact that there are many tools from different vendors and groups (IBM, Oracle, Apache) which provide XML functionality in Java is a much better foundation for Web services than a MS SDK...
Unlike fluid mechanics, where you can learn, and do research without knowing plumbing, you cannot be a good computer scientist without being very good at programming. Exams, which require you to write correct code, are usually done in introductory classes where the goal is to teach you programming in a specific language.
Learning the exact syntax and idioms of a particular language in an introductory class is necessary, as it teaches you how to learn a new language as much as it teaches you the basics of programming.
Although there are other languages that can run on JVM, the ease of getting inheritance and cooperation to this level is only possible in
And if you had looked at the language description, you would have seen that F# lacks the following:
Therefore your claim, that somehow getting parts of a language to run on
Don't forget: The US soccer (football) team wins against Portugal (ranked among the top-5 teams in the world)...
Exactly! And companies like Charter, who have "integrated" their services do put the filters on. The data techs are very much capable of putting the filter avery time they install a cable modem....
Then why don't you explain his insistence on calling Linux GNU/LINUX
RMS has done this many times, and I find his explanations reasonable. In my view, the whole success of Linux is based technologically on the mature GNU tools that already existed in 1991, and, maybe even more importantly, it is based ideologically on the fact that Linux was released under the GPL. Given that I don't see RMS' insistence as fanatical.
However, I don't think anyone can deny that RMS is a zealot when it comes to his campaigns and opinions.
From m-w.com:
zealot: 2. a zealous person; especially: a fanatical partisan.
zealous: filled with or characterized by zeal
zeal: eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something; synonym see PASSION
So if you are saying that RMS is pasionate about Free software, and shows eagerness and ardent interest in pursuing his goals, then I (and I suspect most others) will agree with you. I fail to see though how this is bad for the acceptance of Free software.
If you, however, want to imply that RMS is a fanatical partisan, I'll have to ask you to provide some evidence of this. Fanaticism implies ideas without reason, and everything I've seen and read about RMS shows that his opinions and ideas are well reasoned.
How about Richard Stallman denouncing non-"free software" as the same?
Moderators on crack again - how is the above insightful? RMS has presented a set of principles, in which he strongly believes, and about which he is unwilling to compromise. Why is his strict principled position so threatening to some? You don't have to agree with him, or follow his principles after all...
He-he, nice way to bring attention to this news item.
Exactly - this is a very common mistake. What people also don't realize is that namespaces work very well with XML Schema, and allow for easy ways to compose "modular" XML instances, where the different parts are decribed in different schema. Such use also allows for customizations and overriding of the different "modules" similar to how OO programs can manipulate objects.
Can you perhaps explain why KOI8 characters are out of order?
Because they were ordered as a transliteration for the Latin alphabet (sorry, can't put it in Cyrillic): ABCDEF instead of ABVGDE.
My guess is that this was done to easily transform Russian text written using the Latin alphabet into Cyrillic by simply flipping a bit.....
Er, no. Cyril developed the "Cyrillic" alphabet, although your statement of his intentions is correct. (I don't believe he was much of a saint, btw)
A c/cyrillic_alphabet
I am sorry, but you are wrong - please see my other post for some links. Here is another: http://education.yahoo.com/search/be?lb=t&p=url%3
IMO, the major contribution of St. Cyrill and Methodius is not the creation of an alphabet, but their disputes with the Western church and the Pope regarding the right for the different peoples to learn and practice Christianity in their own language. Up to that point only Latin, Greek and Hebrew was used in church services...
I said:
St. Cyrill developed the Glagolic alphabet
RelliK said:
Uhhm, no. Glagolic is the alphabet that was used before Cyrill came along. It looks nothing at all like Cyrillic.
I am sorry, but you are wrong. The Glagolic did not look anything like the Cyrillic, but it was the alphabet created by St. Cyrill and his brother Methodius. The Glagolic looked somewhat like the ancient Armenian, Georgian, and Ethiopian alphabets, also developed by Byzanthine missionaries for the native languages in these areas.
The Cyrillic was created by St. Clement, a student of St. Cyrill. Thew alphabet was much simpler - for all the common sounds, it used the Greek letters, and only made up new letters for the sounds specific to the Slavs.
Here is a link, although not everything there is historically accurate (if there is such a thing):
http://www.volgawriter.com/VW Cyrillic.htm
Another, with a definitive set of Cyrillic encodings is here: http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html.
St. Cyrill developed the Glagolic alphabet, based on the slavic dialects spoken on the Balkan peninsula, and used it in translating the Christian holly scriptures for the slavic tribes in Moravia (today's Hungary/Slovakia). His student, St. Clement, developed the improved Cyrillic alphabet and spread its use in Bulgaria, from where it was adopted by Russia, Serbia, and others...
Today there are several variants of Cyrillic - Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, and it was used even in some of the former soviet republics and Mongolia, whose languages are very far from Slavic.
Also, KOI8 is not considered the Cyrillic codeset by other cyrillic-using nations, it is rather considered the Russian cyrillic code set. Other codesets are the Windows 1251, and ISO-8859-5. The latter would arguably be the standard Cyrillic code set.
35MB/sec for an ATA/100 disk - this gives us less than 24MB/sec for an ATA/66 disk.
700 / 24 gives about 30 seconds (and that would be read speed). Therefore the original poster was wrong - 700+ MB for 13 seconds is much faster than an ATA/66 disk.
My little G4's internal SCSI array reads at sustd/peak 78/286 writes at 76/92.
SCSI arrays are a different beast from a 7200/66 ATA drive...
~700 MBytes of data in 13 seconds? That is much faster than a hard drive's transfer ability (at least a 7200 rpm ATA/66 drive)...
I haven't used NN6, but in Mozilla since M18 or so, the rendering has always been faster than in IE 4.x-5.x (haven't tried IE 6). Are you sure you are not thinking about UI painting and startup speed, when you say rendering speed?
Then run ads before the 60-day deadline, and give enough money to the oponent to run his own ads non-stop during the 60 days before the election...
The deadline is to prevent last moment "non-campaign" ads from special interest groups after the candidate has run out of money...
...jacking up the H1-B visa quota by 1.5 million every year during the tech boom...
After all the raising of the quota, the number is between 180,000 and 200,000 per year, so the above figure has no basis in reality...
I have a crown made of titanium alloy - according to the dentist, metal crowns provide less wear on the remaining tooth than ceramic.