You're obviously talking about perception of time. A computer measures no difference in time updating a database, or playing quake (a computer can play quake, we call the computers "bots") (unless of course, he has so much fun playing quake, he has no time left to handle the timer interrupt, which is probably what changes perception of time in humans too)
Capitalism makes sure there is a small percentage of people (5%) who own most stuff (95% of total capital)... (this IS a property of capitalism, don't even dare to contest this one, or at least read up on your economics first)
Then, it puts all means of production, of information, all media, in control of capital (so into the hands of the 5% rich, who share most of their intrests)...
It's election time
Then, they're in control
America is WAY beyond this last step, so move, or shut up. You won't get the country back.
A VERY small number of oss contributers have access to windows source (I'd hope none at all, but hey, there might be someone)
EVERY windows contributor has full and easy access to all open source projects.
Who copied the most code ? If you were on a deadline for a hard feature due tomorrow, and your approach turned out to be utter bullshit (this, unfortunately happens sometimes to developers), you're telling me you wouldn't look at a competing implementation if it were only a mouse click away ?
Microsoft Windows Microsoft Internet Microsoft Office Microsoft Server Editions (or enterprise etc) Microsoft Hardware (mouse etc)
Microsoft Games Microsoft Console Microsoft XBox
Microsoft Windows Media Microsoft Cinema Microsoft TV Microsoft Media PC (ms tivo might be better)
No, mr judge we're defineately not using our influence in some market to expand in other markets, as that would be against the law. (v0.9b had a problem but they patched it)
Voting for wing X of the big money party is NOT going to change things.
Make a protest, vote extreme, vote ultra-right, or communist (the only way they'll become more right or left is if they truly need to get constituents back from extreme-right or extreme-left parties (or green, or a party for old people, or or or...) That is if they don't just kill or otherwise dispose of the candidates for being "terrorists"). Get someone who will make a big fuss into parliament.
1 megabyte of data transfer, in 90 ms, that would be 0.09 seconds, right ? That would be a sustained transfer rate of 88 meg/sec.
A machine receiving 88 megabit from the network, that's 11 megabytes, parsing it, and resending it somewhere else (that is, without counting the actual application doing something useful with the data). That means a grand total of 176 mbit of (sustained) bandwidth.
This is about 1/3 of the maximum pci bandwidth (maximum would mean a continuous DMA transfer from a single device without any interrupt, without any looking at the memory being transferred, without a single waitstate). A real-time application has serious problems reaching this. You're not going to get anywhere near that in an application.
I read my previous post and decided it may need some clarification.
The common language runtime manages memory, thread execution, code execution, code safety verification, compilation, and other system services. These features are intrinsic to the managed code that runs on the common language runtime.
Which of these is missing from C itself ? Okay maybe code safety is not "intrinsic" to the code itself (ie, you'll need a debugging tool like valgrind).
For the other points... what exactly is the difference between "Excption : Null pointer dereference" and "Null pointer dereference".
Furthermore, the quake code is not well behaved Managed C++ code, and it never will be (it, for instance, doesn't ever throw any exception), so all of the extras aren't used (not that they're many).
The runtime also enforces code robustness by implementing a strict type-and-code-verification infrastructure called the common type system (CTS). The CTS ensures that all managed code is self-describing. The various Microsoft and third-party language compilers generate managed code that conforms to the CTS. This means that managed code can consume other managed types and instances, while strictly enforcing type fidelity and type safety....
Again... which of these is missing from native C++. Native C++ will even warn you of type problems before the program is ever executed.
In addition, the managed environment of the runtime eliminates many common software issues. For example, the runtime automatically handles object layout and manages references to objects, releasing them when they are no longer being used. This automatic memory management resolves the two most common application errors, memory leaks and invalid memory references.
Reference counting ? That is in C++ since... well, the beginning. Btw I'm still waiting for the first memory leak C# reports to me...
That last one means your program no longer crashes or takes over all memory resources because of bad resource management.
No it means it will utterly cripple your system's performance (think a pre-2.4.10 swapstorm, except worse*) for a long time when resources are tight, instead of crashing (which is the preferable course of action I think, when my quake II uses up > 600 megs of ram, kill it, don't start meddling around with other programs in a doomed attempt to fix the running program)
And if it references invalid memory, it will crash with an exception instead of... well... a hardware exception.
* What do you think happens when your system is in a swapstorm because of excessive memory usage, and the program started to resolve this goes around referencing memory all around the place, it will case a page fault (let's say 200 ms of work for the os) every 2-3 assembler instructions. There will be nothing to do except reset the system, unless you have 4 gigs of ram and no swapfile.
Quake is a C project. C, not C++, as many have said. This invalidates all of the points you make. Now try again.
A C framebuffer (that means 2D, and yes quake II is an app that doesn't use any 3D api, it's all in the engine itself the magic happens) app can be ported to everything with minimal effort ( download a few demos and port them to QT, Allegro, SDL, and DirectX), it won't take you very long.
Also, as the fill rate is the limiting factor, there will not be a very big performance difference in any of the versions.
You really ought to question the reactionary approach against viruses etc. (Reactionary : after the harm has been done)
Take the proactive approach. Make sure no such program ever becomes active. Simple way to do that : install linux, where programs do what you want instead of what they want.
Characters and settings are not to be copied ? I'm glad you picked harry potter.
I suggest you search and read a translation of "Griezelstate" by Anthony Horowitz (it's in dutch, but it's been translated).
The character harry potter (evil adopted parents, letters magically appearing to send him to magic school) is sure as hell copied from that book, and the setting too (griezelstate is an island with dangerous woods, there is a version of dyadine alley, the tree on the premises attacks them, the point system, the "mortal enemy" not being the culprit, but one of the teachers that was not suspected at all,...).
Read the book, and you'll conclude that just about every element in the books is in the first or second harry potter book.
So I suppose that "getting inspiration from a book" also goes pretty far.
Elaborate on this... how do you check closed source updates ?
If you dismiss this as being ridiculus, then check back. There were updates that send you dvd viewing habits to ms, that blocked viewing of.asf files with any external app.
You did catch those ? You obviously have a system that never had those problems ? A system without any bad updates.
If not -> shut up
And let's be fair, you never decently checked ANY of those updates. For all you know they could have been irc ddossing programs.
Except of course for the small detail that getting a court to accept your prior art and invalidate a patent costs on average $500.000. (if it is appealed all the way up to the supreme court, which it will be for obvious reasons)
You're points are worthy of consideratioin, however you (conveniently ?) left out who the Israeli's are backed by...
Also, Israeli's don't let anyone else enter their environment. That's why they're hated (all over the world I'm told) and that's probably why their culture stays together. But it's extremely unnerving for everybody else.
I am not an anti-semitist (sorry if that's not correct English) but, having passed through a jewish neigbourhood every day for 1.5 years (I was in school so we made the obligatory visits to one of their churches, their schools (yes they've got seperate schools), even a little bit of their literature), I must say I understand why their culture causes violence.
I'm not advocating violence against them, but that's the major problem with Jews, it's "them" vs the world. They don't spread out, they don't mix with other cultures. That's the problem in Israel, that's the problem over here. It actually seems rather serious, in the centre you can tell where the Jews live, it's those doors with > 4 locks (it is quite uncommon to even find 2 locks on a door anywhere else)
The Israeli's are not trying to defend themselves you know, they are invading palestina. Palestina doesn't have a military, so anyone they kill is a civilian. (and even if there is somewhat of a difference they don't care, for example they shot the guards and office staff and neighbours of arafat's office just the same)
By the way, exactly how do you excuse bulldozing over people to make room for a new settlement ? "business" ?
They do this to make the palestinians flee their country.
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glucode + ADP -> glucose-6-phosphate + ATP
(obviously, since ATP is what powers your cells)
You're obviously talking about perception of time. A computer measures no difference in time updating a database, or playing quake (a computer can play quake, we call the computers "bots") (unless of course, he has so much fun playing quake, he has no time left to handle the timer interrupt, which is probably what changes perception of time in humans too)
So authors write because of money ? I guess that's why they call it an artform, right ?
Just a thought
Bullshit, this is capitalism.
... (this IS a property of capitalism, don't even dare to contest this one, or at least read up on your economics first)
...
Capitalism makes sure there is a small percentage of people (5%) who own most stuff (95% of total capital)
Then, it puts all means of production, of information, all media, in control of capital (so into the hands of the 5% rich, who share most of their intrests)
It's election time
Then, they're in control
America is WAY beyond this last step, so move, or shut up. You won't get the country back.
A VERY small number of oss contributers have access to windows source (I'd hope none at all, but hey, there might be someone)
EVERY windows contributor has full and easy access to all open source projects.
Who copied the most code ? If you were on a deadline for a hard feature due tomorrow, and your approach turned out to be utter bullshit (this, unfortunately happens sometimes to developers), you're telling me you wouldn't look at a competing implementation if it were only a mouse click away ?
Get real.
Staring for hours on end in front of you without moving a muscle ? Briljant
Where was this research done ? At SCO ?
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Internet
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Server Editions (or enterprise etc)
Microsoft Hardware (mouse etc)
Microsoft Games
Microsoft Console
Microsoft XBox
Microsoft Windows Media
Microsoft Cinema
Microsoft TV
Microsoft Media PC (ms tivo might be better)
No, mr judge we're defineately not using our influence in some market to expand in other markets, as that would be against the law. (v0.9b had a problem but they patched it)
what's up next ?
You really want to try privoxy ( http://www.privoxy.org/ ), not just /etc/hosts which is as effective as a towel under a waterfall.
Voting for wing X of the big money party is NOT going to change things.
...) That is if they don't just kill or otherwise dispose of the candidates for being "terrorists"). Get someone who will make a big fuss into parliament.
Make a protest, vote extreme, vote ultra-right, or communist (the only way they'll become more right or left is if they truly need to get constituents back from extreme-right or extreme-left parties (or green, or a party for old people, or or or
This is very effective in most of Europe.
1 megabyte of data transfer, in 90 ms, that would be 0.09 seconds, right ? That would be a sustained transfer rate of 88 meg/sec.
A machine receiving 88 megabit from the network, that's 11 megabytes, parsing it, and resending it somewhere else (that is, without counting the actual application doing something useful with the data). That means a grand total of 176 mbit of (sustained) bandwidth.
This is about 1/3 of the maximum pci bandwidth (maximum would mean a continuous DMA transfer from a single device without any interrupt, without any looking at the memory being transferred, without a single waitstate). A real-time application has serious problems reaching this. You're not going to get anywhere near that in an application.
Which of these is missing from C itself ? Okay maybe code safety is not "intrinsic" to the code itself (ie, you'll need a debugging tool like valgrind).
For the other points
Furthermore, the quake code is not well behaved Managed C++ code, and it never will be (it, for instance, doesn't ever throw any exception), so all of the extras aren't used (not that they're many).
Again
Reference counting ? That is in C++ since
No it means it will utterly cripple your system's performance (think a pre-2.4.10 swapstorm, except worse*) for a long time when resources are tight, instead of crashing (which is the preferable course of action I think, when my quake II uses up > 600 megs of ram, kill it, don't start meddling around with other programs in a doomed attempt to fix the running program)
And if it references invalid memory, it will crash with an exception instead of
* What do you think happens when your system is in a swapstorm because of excessive memory usage, and the program started to resolve this goes around referencing memory all around the place, it will case a page fault (let's say 200 ms of work for the os) every 2-3 assembler instructions. There will be nothing to do except reset the system, unless you have 4 gigs of ram and no swapfile.
Quake is a C project. C, not C++, as many have said. This invalidates all of the points you make. Now try again.
A C framebuffer (that means 2D, and yes quake II is an app that doesn't use any 3D api, it's all in the engine itself the magic happens) app can be ported to everything with minimal effort ( download a few demos and port them to QT, Allegro, SDL, and DirectX), it won't take you very long.
Also, as the fill rate is the limiting factor, there will not be a very big performance difference in any of the versions.
Course in converting program XXX into a 64 bit capable program : ./configure
make
make install
done. Any questions ?
Ok ... three guesses why they don't do that ...
Ad-Aware ?
You really ought to question the reactionary approach against viruses etc. (Reactionary : after the harm has been done)
Take the proactive approach. Make sure no such program ever becomes active. Simple way to do that : install linux, where programs do what you want instead of what they want.
You do mean the bush thing right ?
...
Because if > 50 % people do something in a democracy it's kinda supposed to be okay
Characters and settings are not to be copied ? I'm glad you picked harry potter.
...).
I suggest you search and read a translation of "Griezelstate" by Anthony Horowitz (it's in dutch, but it's been translated).
The character harry potter (evil adopted parents, letters magically appearing to send him to magic school) is sure as hell copied from that book, and the setting too (griezelstate is an island with dangerous woods, there is a version of dyadine alley, the tree on the premises attacks them, the point system, the "mortal enemy" not being the culprit, but one of the teachers that was not suspected at all,
Read the book, and you'll conclude that just about every element in the books is in the first or second harry potter book.
So I suppose that "getting inspiration from a book" also goes pretty far.
But that's exactly what they are meant to be.
Elaborate on this ... how do you check closed source updates ?
.asf files with any external app.
If you dismiss this as being ridiculus, then check back. There were updates that send you dvd viewing habits to ms, that blocked viewing of
You did catch those ? You obviously have a system that never had those problems ? A system without any bad updates.
If not -> shut up
And let's be fair, you never decently checked ANY of those updates. For all you know they could have been irc ddossing programs.
Except of course for the small detail that getting a court to accept your prior art and invalidate a patent costs on average $500.000. (if it is appealed all the way up to the supreme court, which it will be for obvious reasons)
Have any spare change lying around ?
what else would a non-lawyer sco employee be doing all day ?
You're points are worthy of consideratioin, however you (conveniently ?) left out who the Israeli's are backed by ...
Also, Israeli's don't let anyone else enter their environment. That's why they're hated (all over the world I'm told) and that's probably why their culture stays together. But it's extremely unnerving for everybody else.
I am not an anti-semitist (sorry if that's not correct English) but, having passed through a jewish neigbourhood every day for 1.5 years (I was in school so we made the obligatory visits to one of their churches, their schools (yes they've got seperate schools), even a little bit of their literature), I must say I understand why their culture causes violence.
I'm not advocating violence against them, but that's the major problem with Jews, it's "them" vs the world. They don't spread out, they don't mix with other cultures. That's the problem in Israel, that's the problem over here. It actually seems rather serious, in the centre you can tell where the Jews live, it's those doors with > 4 locks (it is quite uncommon to even find 2 locks on a door anywhere else)
The Israeli's are not trying to defend themselves you know, they are invading palestina. Palestina doesn't have a military, so anyone they kill is a civilian. (and even if there is somewhat of a difference they don't care, for example they shot the guards and office staff and neighbours of arafat's office just the same)
By the way, exactly how do you excuse bulldozing over people to make room for a new settlement ? "business" ?
They do this to make the palestinians flee their country.
Seems like terrorism even by your definition.
You know I always wonder why every american is always on one side of the big money party, and vigorously against the other side...
Let's see, which ones support arbitrary data attached to a file.
(acl.bestbits.at)
ext2 -> yes
ext3 -> yes
xfs -> yes
reiserfs -> yes
jfs -> yes
(in reiserfs you could even encrypt them, use them directly for access control using nothing other than the filesystem)
do your research when you say swooping statements like this.