It does, but it's starting to show its age. There's a new GCC Fortran 95 compiler under development ("gfortran") that will be officially released with GCC 4.
3. Thanks to the increasing proliferation of broadband here in the USA, there are enough customers to justify such a service even though videos downloaded through the "iVideo" store would require about 100-200 MB of disk space per hour for good quality video.
Is 100-200 MB a reasonable figure? I've heard estimates of 4-7 GB per hour of "good quality" video, although of course what constitutes "good quality" is a matter of opinion.
If the mini can give "VGA video output (using included adapter) to support analog resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 pixels" isn't that the same as 1080i?
It's a processor issue, not a resolution issue. The previous poster speculates (reasonably, I think) that the processor in the Mac mini will have difficulty pushing that much video.
If you are a professional engineer then you will always use the right tool for the job. This is why a professional knows numerous languages, and only some of those are OO.
In addition to his object-oriented tools, he'll also know his way around procedural, purely functional, dataflow and logic-oriented languages as well, to cover the major paradigms in computing. And orthogonal to that, he'll also know some languages at each of the various levels of abstraction, from low-level assemblers through generic scripting languages to the highest-level business or AI domain-oriented languages.
That sounds more like an ideal than a reality. In my experience, many professional engineers are just as susceptible to the "if your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" syndrome as the hacks.
The ideal is certainly more, well, ideal, so I encourage anybody reading this to branch out whenever possible. Playing with a new language every couple months can certainly be fun, in addition to broadening your horizons.
The ideal seems to be realized more in geeks who program on their own time for fun, in addition to whatever they do at work. When it's on work time, I write what they pay me to write, which is often not flexible in terms of language or development environment; when it's after hours and I'm writing something for myself, I have the freedom to use whatever language I feel like.
Here's the problem. Not many people care about controlling their computer in the sense that he's blabbing on about. They want to use it. Stallman and others find it more fun to ignore that fact.
Perhaps they ignore it because it isn't really a problem. There's nothing wrong with some people not caring, or with Stallman and others not caring that those people don't care.
Until you can stick 128 of those suckers in a box, and have them all run in a full SMP environment, * EFFICIENTLY *, then they're useless in the enterprise world.
"Useless" is an overstatement. "Not sufficient for every task" would be more accurate.
Some tasks in the "enterprise world" don't require 128 processors. In fact, that kind of scaling is probably more necessary in the "scientific world" than the "enterprise world".
One of the main reasons java's not true open source is because Gosling was the person who made the first closed-source fork of emacs, which along with the printer driver thing, pissed RMS off enough to cause him to write the GPL....
Sounds like Gosling definitely belongs on the list.
In many ways the subculture of Open Source software has some catching up to do: it's amateur userbase tolerates the neolithic attitudes towards women and gays...
There's a famous quote that gets thrown around quite a bit:
"Linux is free only if your time has no value" - Jamie Zawinski
The liberty that Linux gives me is not affected by the value of my time.
It's possible that Mr. Zawinsky was referring to cost, not freedom, but if so, it's a meaningless statement, since nothing that takes any amount of time is ever cost-free, for those whose time has value. Using software or using the bathroom - it all has cost.
If you develop the solution to a specific problem, you should be protected from someone stealing it and profiting off of it.
Why is that so?
Note that laws regarding theft already prohibit somebody from stealing from me.
Note too that a method for doing something that I've patented doesn't belong to me; I have simply been given an exclusive right by the government to use that method for a certain number of years in exchange for my willingness to tell other people how to do it, so that they can eventually do it too. In other words, the method belongs to society; the patent simply rewards me for being the first to discover it. How can I "own" a method of doing something?
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Not all of those are forks, but all of those competitive efforts are good. In what way do they contrast with the gcc and emacs examples?
Or was it the Nazis who were Stallman-esque in their outlook?
It's worse than that. They're like a tsunami!
It does, but it's starting to show its age. There's a new GCC Fortran 95 compiler under development ("gfortran") that will be officially released with GCC 4.
Networks were slow then. Only now is the internet fast enough for it to be loosed upon us.
It's slashdot.org.us. In American English, though, the ".us" is silent.
Is 100-200 MB a reasonable figure? I've heard estimates of 4-7 GB per hour of "good quality" video, although of course what constitutes "good quality" is a matter of opinion.
It's a processor issue, not a resolution issue. The previous poster speculates (reasonably, I think) that the processor in the Mac mini will have difficulty pushing that much video.
That's not the story at all. You're confusing this story with a common Hollywood tactic, but this lawsuit was with Marvel Comics, not Hollywood.
Yes: the "Do What I Mean" button.
That sounds more like an ideal than a reality. In my experience, many professional engineers are just as susceptible to the "if your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" syndrome as the hacks.
The ideal is certainly more, well, ideal, so I encourage anybody reading this to branch out whenever possible. Playing with a new language every couple months can certainly be fun, in addition to broadening your horizons.
The ideal seems to be realized more in geeks who program on their own time for fun, in addition to whatever they do at work. When it's on work time, I write what they pay me to write, which is often not flexible in terms of language or development environment; when it's after hours and I'm writing something for myself, I have the freedom to use whatever language I feel like.
Time to start moving our planet (and farming worlds) to another galaxy. Oh, wait...
Perhaps they ignore it because it isn't really a problem. There's nothing wrong with some people not caring, or with Stallman and others not caring that those people don't care.
Because they desire to achieve the goals of the Free software movement.
"Useless" is an overstatement. "Not sufficient for every task" would be more accurate.
Some tasks in the "enterprise world" don't require 128 processors. In fact, that kind of scaling is probably more necessary in the "scientific world" than the "enterprise world".
Are they making programmers yet who are better than compilers at this?
Sounds like Gosling definitely belongs on the list.
Part of tolerance is tolerating the intolerant.
I've heard that the "strobe light effect" that wind turbines can have on neighboring areas during sunrise and sunset is pretty annoying.
Locale?
Ask the user?
This is a problem that has been solved.
The liberty that Linux gives me is not affected by the value of my time.
It's possible that Mr. Zawinsky was referring to cost, not freedom, but if so, it's a meaningless statement, since nothing that takes any amount of time is ever cost-free, for those whose time has value. Using software or using the bathroom - it all has cost.
What social stigma?
The problem of resource scarcity has been with us for a long time, and it will be with us for a long time to come.
A three hour course in Australia only requires three hours of work by the instructor?!?!
Why is that so?
Note that laws regarding theft already prohibit somebody from stealing from me.
Note too that a method for doing something that I've patented doesn't belong to me; I have simply been given an exclusive right by the government to use that method for a certain number of years in exchange for my willingness to tell other people how to do it, so that they can eventually do it too. In other words, the method belongs to society; the patent simply rewards me for being the first to discover it. How can I "own" a method of doing something?