If you think forged headers give you anonymity, you deserve the Feds that are gonna be bashing down your door at 3am. Seriously, do yourself a favour, and search for "mixmaster".
It's the wrong size. The rest of the world has standardised on A4 (and A3, and B5, etc.). This becomes a problem whenever the three elements of computers, bits of paper, and people on opposite sides of the US border, come together.
America is one of the few places in the world with a culture that absolutely, positively encourages people to be greedy. They never really develop control over those impulses. And though that overwhelming urge to have "more" is supposed to be directed towards money, property, etc., it inevitably extends to things like hamburgers, chocolate bars, etc. The brain doesn't make the distinction.
If you're talking about the Java version (and I assumes your comment "using Navigator" means you are), the reason is simple. Windows Navigator Java has a JIT compiler, whereas the Linux version is plain-old interpreted (and horribly slowed by being hooked into Navigator's event loop, besides).
I assume the benchmark would run on Kaffe and the new IBM Java, if someone wanted to see what difference a JIT compiler makes under Linux.
Probably not, in my opinion. They don't do things without reason, and Perl simply isn't a threat to them. Their nearest competing product is Visual Basic, but that is really targetting a completely different audience. I think that just this once, Microsoft is just doing what it's saying it's doing. Perl doesn't work as well on Win32 as it does on Unix. This makes them look bad. So it is in their interest to do something about it. It is a win/win situation.
Well, apart from ActiveState. They're gonna get screwed, obviously. Why companies still enter into "partnerships" with Microsoft is a mystery to me. The best they can hope for is to get assimilated.
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Hey, it's a detailed manual on how to use an open-standards technology, what could be more Slashdotty than that? Anyway, camera people seem super-nerdy to me. And I've been wondering for a while where I could get a book that could teach me how not to take crap photos.
If a mug suddenly floated off your desk in apparent contradiction to the law of gravity, the correct scientific response would not be to deny it because it is impossible, but rather to explain it.
No, the correct scientific response would be to try to reproduce it under laboratory conditions. You can't do science on things you can't reproduce. Anything else would just be speculation.
My kingdom for a -PRE- tag. I previewed it three times and it still managed to screw up. Slashdot's comment code is so mind-bogglingly broken it's a wonder anything ever gets posted successfully. I'm sick of trying to workaround the bugs, so you'll just have to go to/usr/src/linux/init/main.c yourself and search for the calibrate_delay(void) function.
/* finally, adjust loops per second in terms of seconds instead of clocks */ loops_per_sec *= HZ; /* Round the value and print it */ printk("%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS\n", (loops_per_sec+2500)/500000, ((loops_per_sec+2500)/5000) % 100); }
At first it's surprising (that it didn't work how you expected), then mystifying, and then finally, as realisation dawns, a joyous glow spreads throughout your body. What is that if not art? Of course, no non-programmer will ever appreciate it, but elitism and art seem to go hand in hand anyway.
Yes, I have no evidence that Linus wrote this bit of code, but it seems reasonable for him to collect an award for it anyway. Sorry about the loss of indentation, Slashdot seems determined to make life difficult for anyone wanting to cut n' paste code. Look at the actual source if you have it handy.
I have long been under the impression that IE was already running on Linux inside Microsoft. Releasing it is a strategic decision. My theory is they'll put it out to muddy the waters when Netscape 5.0 is released (to minimise the inevitable boost to the Mozilla project). Presuming they can get it to perform acceptably on machines with less than 128Mb of RAM.
In a shock move today, AMIGA INTERNATIONAL released a press release detailing plans for their new AMIGA platform. The computer, to be released Q4 1998^H9, is under intensive development. While no firm technical details are yet available, sources close to the company are quoted as saying the system will be "very cool". Expected to be fully trademark-compatible with the original COMMODORE AMIGA, the new version will be upgraded to full Y2K buzzword-compliance.
i disagree-- i think the previous AC was saying that putting stuff like that up here will only disgust the minor 4% of women who/do/ read Slashdot, and discourage others from starting to do so.
What my post was trying to say was, it's reasonable to say that links to porn should have warnings attached, because it is offensive to some people. But to say it's offensive to women specifically is not only factually inaccurate, but the sort of dangerous generalisation that leads to oppressive behaviour.
A) one might assume that women who/are/ into porn, (on the majority, just so i don't alienate some people) aren't into Playboy or the like, for example, and...
Actually, bizarrely, I've known more women who like Playboy than men. But that's probably just a statistical blip, I think Playboy would be a rather different magazine if most of its readership were female:-) Personally, I can't stand that airbrushed crap. Anyway, if you look closely at the Lara Croft pic, the pictures clearly aren't the sort that appear in Playboy.
B) yes, sex sells, and women's bodies tend to be the ones selling it, but finally,
Supposing for a moment this is still true in an age where every second TV ad has a "hunk" taking his shirt off, how is it relevant to this discussion?
C) just because women don't like porn doesn't by *any* means mean we are a-sexual. I find it to be a somewhat ridiculous assumption; perhaps it's only that women exhibiting their libido are subjected to a double-standard of what's permissible to show. Either that, or we try to be more tasteful and keep such things (as feeling 'sexual' or being something other than mere reflections of male fantasies) out of the public eye, and instead letting them be displayed in a the intimate, private sphere.
I agree, I wasn't at all saying that not liking porn made anyone assexual. What I was saying was that the widescale acceptance of the idea of female assexuality was a major cause of the belief (and hence the reality) that women didn't enjoy porn. I considered it too obvious to be worth stating that women are no more assexual than men.
Your argument seems to revolve around a very limited idea of what it means to be a woman. And you seem to be implying that men are all tasteless sex-crazed exhibitionists. Trying to understand your homogenous idea of the world is making me depressed. I refuse to conform to any predefined pattern of behaviour on the basis of on the configuration of my genitalia!
Rubbish, I know several women who are into porn. You're just buying into the whole tradition Western women-are-assexual myth. The more women stop believing what they have been told about their own sexuality, the more they realise that they're not just empty vessels for men to project their fantasies onto.
On the other hand, it is true that most porn these days is targetted at men, and is something of an "acquired taste". I think it's reasonable for Slashdot to give a warning when linking to stuff like that. It's not everyone's cup of tea.
Ah, I didn't think of that. Well said. I fell into the "this shouldn't be on Slashdot!" trap there when what I really wanted to do was inject a note of caution. Proprietary hardware is one of the few things that can kill a free operating system, and a nerd who values her freedom has cause to be wary.
Yay, proprietary hardware that'll probably never work under any OS other than NT! And, wow, look, it's incredibly fast under synthetic benchmarks, so it MUST be good!
Seriously, Linux is quite capable of fully utilising 100 megabit ethernet by itself, combine that with the cheap price of processor power and this sort of gizmo looks kinda redundant. Oh, and I'll give you 2-1 odds that queso et al identify it as a *BSD OS:-)
If your idea of a turn on is reading a story that makes "sense" both forwards and backwards (but isn't very entertaining in either direction), then by all means read this book. Otherwise avoid it like the plague.
I get the feeling this book is designed to give an idea of what thinking is like for people who've never done it. It has to be the most protracted intellectual jerk-off exercise in history. The nicest thing that can be said about it is that "it must have been a lot of work".
Someone needs to write a scripted Auto tuning tool, that can fix up the open file limit, the ulimits and such for big servers (so that catastrophe at MindCraft won't happen again)
I agree. A friend of mine used to say that Linux wasn't as good a server as proprietary UNIXen because there weren't as many tunable parameters. Well, now with 2.2 there are, and we have the same problem that the proprietary UNIX (and NT for that matter) have, that only gurus know how to tune the system. This goes against the free-for-all ethos of Linux, in my opinion. We need a program or script that collects data on system performance, and tunes accordingly. Then, hopefully, by the open-source styleee, it would absorb all the knowledge of all the gurus, and make it available to the whole userbase.
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If you think forged headers give you anonymity, you deserve the Feds that are gonna be bashing down your door at 3am. Seriously, do yourself a favour, and search for "mixmaster".
That game comes as one of the examples with Qt. It's called "tetrix".
It's the wrong size. The rest of the world has standardised on A4 (and A3, and B5, etc.). This becomes a problem whenever the three elements of computers, bits of paper, and people on opposite sides of the US border, come together.
America is one of the few places in the world with a culture that absolutely, positively encourages people to be greedy. They never really develop control over those impulses. And though that overwhelming urge to have "more" is supposed to be directed towards money, property, etc., it inevitably extends to things like hamburgers, chocolate bars, etc. The brain doesn't make the distinction.
I assume the benchmark would run on Kaffe and the new IBM Java, if someone wanted to see what difference a JIT compiler makes under Linux.
Well, apart from ActiveState. They're gonna get screwed, obviously. Why companies still enter into "partnerships" with Microsoft is a mystery to me. The best they can hope for is to get assimilated.
Hey, it's a detailed manual on how to use an open-standards technology, what could be more Slashdotty than that? Anyway, camera people seem super-nerdy to me. And I've been wondering for a while where I could get a book that could teach me how not to take crap photos.
No, the correct scientific response would be to try to reproduce it under laboratory conditions. You can't do science on things you can't reproduce. Anything else would just be speculation.
My kingdom for a -PRE- tag. I previewed it three times and it still managed to screw up. Slashdot's comment code is so mind-bogglingly broken it's a wonder anything ever gets posted successfully. I'm sick of trying to workaround the bugs, so you'll just have to go to /usr/src/linux/init/main.c yourself and search for the calibrate_delay(void) function.
From /usr/src/linux/init/main.c:
/* longer than 1 tick */
void __init calibrate_delay(void)
{
unsigned long ticks, loopbit;
int lps_precision = LPS_PREC;
loops_per_sec = (1>= 1;
loopbit = loops_per_sec;
while ( lps_precision-- && (loopbit >>= 1) ) {
loops_per_sec |= loopbit;
ticks = jiffies;
while (ticks == jiffies);
ticks = jiffies;
__delay(loops_per_sec);
if (jiffies != ticks)
loops_per_sec &= ~loopbit;
}
/* finally, adjust loops per second in terms of seconds instead of clocks */
loops_per_sec *= HZ;
/* Round the value and print it */
printk("%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS\n",
(loops_per_sec+2500)/500000,
((loops_per_sec+2500)/5000) % 100);
}
At first it's surprising (that it didn't work how you expected), then mystifying, and then finally, as realisation dawns, a joyous glow spreads throughout your body. What is that if not art? Of course, no non-programmer will ever appreciate it, but elitism and art seem to go hand in hand anyway.
Yes, I have no evidence that Linus wrote this bit of code, but it seems reasonable for him to collect an award for it anyway. Sorry about the loss of indentation, Slashdot seems determined to make life difficult for anyone wanting to cut n' paste code. Look at the actual source if you have it handy.
I believe what they actually said was "they must have been artists, 'cause they sure as hell weren't programmers!"
I have long been under the impression that IE was already running on Linux inside Microsoft. Releasing it is a strategic decision. My theory is they'll put it out to muddy the waters when Netscape 5.0 is released (to minimise the inevitable boost to the Mozilla project). Presuming they can get it to perform acceptably on machines with less than 128Mb of RAM.
In a shock move today, AMIGA INTERNATIONAL released a press release detailing plans for their new AMIGA platform. The computer, to be released Q4 1998^H9, is under intensive development. While no firm technical details are yet available, sources close to the company are quoted as saying the system will be "very cool". Expected to be fully trademark-compatible with the original COMMODORE AMIGA, the new version will be upgraded to full Y2K buzzword-compliance.
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I already shouted hooray when I read the blurb. And I'm not going to take it back. I think Linus deserves all the honours he gets.
I hope someone has taken a good look at that code.
What my post was trying to say was, it's reasonable to say that links to porn should have warnings attached, because it is offensive to some people. But to say it's offensive to women specifically is not only factually inaccurate, but the sort of dangerous generalisation that leads to oppressive behaviour.
Actually, bizarrely, I've known more women who like Playboy than men. But that's probably just a statistical blip, I think Playboy would be a rather different magazine if most of its readership were female :-) Personally, I can't stand that airbrushed crap. Anyway, if you look closely at the Lara Croft pic, the pictures clearly aren't the sort that appear in Playboy.
Supposing for a moment this is still true in an age where every second TV ad has a "hunk" taking his shirt off, how is it relevant to this discussion?
I agree, I wasn't at all saying that not liking porn made anyone assexual. What I was saying was that the widescale acceptance of the idea of female assexuality was a major cause of the belief (and hence the reality) that women didn't enjoy porn. I considered it too obvious to be worth stating that women are no more assexual than men.
Your argument seems to revolve around a very limited idea of what it means to be a woman. And you seem to be implying that men are all tasteless sex-crazed exhibitionists. Trying to understand your homogenous idea of the world is making me depressed. I refuse to conform to any predefined pattern of behaviour on the basis of on the configuration of my genitalia!
On the other hand, it is true that most porn these days is targetted at men, and is something of an "acquired taste". I think it's reasonable for Slashdot to give a warning when linking to stuff like that. It's not everyone's cup of tea.
Ah, I didn't think of that. Well said. I fell into the "this shouldn't be on Slashdot!" trap there when what I really wanted to do was inject a note of caution. Proprietary hardware is one of the few things that can kill a free operating system, and a nerd who values her freedom has cause to be wary.
Seriously, Linux is quite capable of fully utilising 100 megabit ethernet by itself, combine that with the cheap price of processor power and this sort of gizmo looks kinda redundant. Oh, and I'll give you 2-1 odds that queso et al identify it as a *BSD OS :-)
But the real question noone is asking is, does Alan Cox have Redhat stock options? And if not, why not? Dude needs a bigger house.
I get the feeling this book is designed to give an idea of what thinking is like for people who've never done it. It has to be the most protracted intellectual jerk-off exercise in history. The nicest thing that can be said about it is that "it must have been a lot of work".
I agree. A friend of mine used to say that Linux wasn't as good a server as proprietary UNIXen because there weren't as many tunable parameters. Well, now with 2.2 there are, and we have the same problem that the proprietary UNIX (and NT for that matter) have, that only gurus know how to tune the system. This goes against the free-for-all ethos of Linux, in my opinion. We need a program or script that collects data on system performance, and tunes accordingly. Then, hopefully, by the open-source styleee, it would absorb all the knowledge of all the gurus, and make it available to the whole userbase.
oh, wait, I see, you mean Command-Line Interface. Nevermind.
Oh yeah, why didn't I think of that? But I don't think my sister, who's doing her dissertation in Word, would appreciate it.
Before anyone flames me, I don't have enough disk space to upgrade to glibc2, or to compile Mozilla from source. So I'm screwed, basically.