I would love to see C++ Builder for Linux. I would buy it. When forced to do win32 development, it beats the hell out of visual c++. It would be great to have a similar gui app builder environment under X11.
egcs has FAR/ better cross platform support than gcc. It can target all sorts of interesting procs like coldfire and several ppc variants that gcc can't. It is also a lot easier to build as a cross or canadian cross.
As a consumer why do I care about any proposed "standard" ??
I have mp3. Right now.
I have aac. right now.
They work. right now.
Disk is cheap. right now.
Do you see a theme here?:-) My point is that I don't really care what the music industry and microsoft do, and I don't think that many other average digital music consumers will either. The MS format is a little smaller. Whoopee. Small price to pay for a lot more freedom. Like I said, disk is cheap.
I've used SDL, and just wanted to tack on a note here saying it is really really nice. Sam is very very active in supporting it. I haven't gotten the level of support that I got when I had some brief problems (due to a bug in metrox, not SDL!!) with any other chunk of commercial software. Ever.
BTW, you woudln't notice a resource difference if you're using the same mp3's. Decoding != resources. Decoding = cpu cycles. And there is a difference, just you don't know how to see it.
I wish you would convince my sysadmin at work that CPU cycles aren't a company wide resource so I could run rc5des clients on our SGI/Crays, and Ultra Enterprise servers.
The home audio industry has been going to all digital of late. I could snarf the digital fiber optice output right off of my DVD and mp3 it if I really wanted to.
It's only dead when people stop using it. I don't see that happening for a while. (And with the price of disk going through the floor, who cares if there is a more efficient, but closed, format out there.)
There are a couple of nice (but quite young) gnu CAD apps developing out there, but the addition of a good working CAD system under the GPL is gonna make my life a lot nicer. (and maybe even cause VariCAD to make litte less money off of me...:-)
From what I understand (from people I have talked to who worked on it) all of the critical stuff on the station runs on dedicated real time controllers over MIL-STD-1553 buses. This is hardly a mistake. Maybe they are running NT and ethernet on the user end for non-critical functionality, but no one is dumb enough to try anything like that for safety critical functions.
Besides, trying to use NT for any real time control would never pass any formal qual tests. /dev
... Please excuse the stupid question here, BUT: How does a filesystem of this type allow for a 3x sequential write speed improvement?
I understand what the journaling part is describing, but don't understand how this would be that much faster. Especially under a really heavily loaded server.
and was quite boring. When you get to grad school though, things change. like your company could be footing the bill:-) and you get to take courses that are much more interesting and more usefull. A lot of the stupid people that were present and dragging down classes are gone. For me, grad school has been like taking all electives, all the time.
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there is already some builder-like app for qt. Or so I have been told. Now that I'm thinking about it, I may have to go hunting ...
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I would love to see C++ Builder for Linux. I would buy it. When forced to do win32 development, it beats the hell out of visual c++. It would be great to have a similar gui app builder environment under X11.
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egcs has FAR/ better cross platform support than gcc. It can target all sorts of interesting procs like coldfire and several ppc variants that gcc can't. It is also a lot easier to build as a cross or canadian cross.
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:-)
I have mp3. Right now.
I have aac. right now.
They work. right now.
Disk is cheap. right now.
Do you see a theme here? :-) My point is that I don't really care what the music industry and microsoft do, and I don't think that many other average digital music consumers will either. The MS format is a little smaller. Whoopee. Small price to pay for a lot more freedom. Like I said, disk is cheap.
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I've used SDL, and just wanted to tack on a note here saying it is really really nice. Sam is very very active in supporting it. I haven't gotten the level of support that I got when I had some brief problems (due to a bug in metrox, not SDL!!) with any other chunk of commercial software. Ever.
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BTW, you woudln't notice a resource difference if you're using the same mp3's. Decoding != resources. Decoding = cpu cycles. And there is a difference, just you don't know how to see it.
I wish you would convince my sysadmin at work that CPU cycles aren't a company wide resource so I could run rc5des clients on our SGI/Crays, and Ultra Enterprise servers.
:-)
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The home audio industry has been going to all digital of late. I could snarf the digital fiber optice output right off of my DVD and mp3 it if I really wanted to.
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It's only dead when people stop using it. I don't see that happening for a while. (And with the price of disk going through the floor, who cares if there is a more efficient, but closed, format out there.)
:-)
or something.
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You have my respect forever man!
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There are a couple of nice (but quite young) gnu CAD apps developing out there, but the addition of a good working CAD system under the GPL is gonna make my life a lot nicer. (and maybe even cause VariCAD to make litte less money off of me ... :-)
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What the hell is so great about BE??
I don't get it. Yeah, it's an alternative to MS, apple, etc. but I don't see any features that make me want to "trade up" to it or anything.
would some kind soul please clue me in here!
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Stop the madness!!!
Keep PC OSes out of rt apps!!!
blatant RTEMS plug.
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From what I understand (from people I have talked to who worked on it) all of the critical stuff on the station runs on dedicated real time controllers over MIL-STD-1553 buses. This is hardly a mistake. Maybe they are running NT and ethernet on the user end for non-critical functionality, but no one is dumb enough to try anything like that for safety critical functions.
Besides, trying to use NT for any real time control would never pass any formal qual tests.
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Age. I have a feeling that the average age for many /. posters is fairly low.
:-)
Personally I have only one major anti-european bias: Our F-22 is gonna kick euro-fighter ass all over the place. But then again, I am quite biased.
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... Please excuse the stupid question here, BUT:
How does a filesystem of this type allow for a 3x sequential write speed improvement?
I understand what the journaling part is describing, but don't understand how this would be that much faster. Especially under a really heavily loaded server.
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Honest Question here:
What the hell does the UN think it has to do with DNS anyway??
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and was quite boring. When you get to grad school though, things change. like your company could be footing the bill :-) and you get to take courses that are much more interesting and more usefull. A lot of the stupid people that were present and dragging down classes are gone. For me, grad school has been like taking all electives, all the time.
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