...is how bad are large corporations, and how complacent did they get, that something done by a handfull of volunteers outsmarted them. That is what they are admitting.
Is this a sign of the times (please, no cheesey Price references, I already had Bobby Brown [not as in Goes Down] at my fitness class today)?
It looks like ARM has all but sewn up the PDA market, just like x86 became the defacto standard for PC's. Will the market stagnate now? Where is the competition? Everyone has (or plans to have) a 206MHz StrongARM in their PDA. Wouldn't it be nice if someone else came along with something a bit better now and made things interesting?
If it reall was transparency that was patented, just define a new value, opacity (how opaque something is) instead, as 1-transparency, where transparency is a fraction between 0.0 and 1.0
Easy.
Patent nullified.
...but it doesn't matter in this case.
"There are an awful lot of small, dead, open source projects out there. I was looking today on Sourceforge for something and row after row of 0.0% project activity hits came up. "
..or the coder's development box giving up the ghost.:-(
Foo!
Naw, both wrong. Real Men (tm) code using the switches on the front panel of the machine and the load/store button. Then , you run the paper tape punch and dump bytes out to that device (memory location). You can look for errors in the code that way and fix them with sellotape, tipex and a sharp pencil.
The "great mathematician" Roger Penrose already has patented some mathematics, a tesselation he discovered, IIRC. Not that anoyne else might have discovered it before, but when you're a respected public figure and have the wherewithall to get your stuff published, and people (who don't knwo any better) listen to you and accept what you say by default...
"Despite what everybody here wants to say, or how people want to spin it, the common way that software such as morpheus is used is ethically, and legally wrong. It's not fair use to give near-perfect recordings of copyrighted material to everyone on the planet. This is not the same as making a tape for your friend."
It's only wrong if it's commercial stuff and I don't own the copyright. If I want to give my own copyrighted stuff away, that's my perogative. If someone else copyrights stuff and wishes to distribute it free of charge, copyright intact, that's up to them too. What's wrong with that? Why should a whole technology be made illegal simply because some people may use it to rip some people off? I don't see public FTP sites being made illegal because some people put up "warez". If that attitude were applied to this, we could kiss goodbye to GPL'd or BSD-style software.
Although x86 is by far the largest hardware base on which Linux runs, was it short-sighted of Borland to incorporate only their own code generator into Kylix, there by limiting it to that one architecture? Would it not have been an idea to use the back end of GCC (as an option) and get all the other architectures for free?
FWIW (probably not much)
During the War, my father had a Cyrix PR133+ (running at 110MHz) and I had an Intel P100 (running at 100MHz obviously).
The rest of our hardware was almost identical.
I was running Linux and he was running Win95.
I used the old Byte UNIX benchmarks to test my machine. Then I transplanted the hard disk into his machine and ran them again. Overall his machine came out very slightly slower than mine.
Where it really looked slower was Floating Point, but it was faster at integer. My score was (IIR) 12.9 and his was 12.8, or something like that.
Believe it or not, I know of at least one big company that needs this kind of storage for an engineering application. Yes, it does involve video, it involves many video cameras, and it all has to be available "on demand", although not instantaneous like TV.
going by the content of your post, and your sig, I think you need to go to the doctor for some special drungs. You have fallen victim to the mindset that made DOS-based x86-based PC's the defacto standard.
Poor you.
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So they should be if you're making that kind of money. You can spare quite a lot for your less well-heeled fellow citezins.
Indeed it does, and it makes a nice lightweight X terminal.
:->
So it goes...
...is how bad are large corporations, and how complacent did they get, that something done by a handfull of volunteers outsmarted them. That is what they are admitting.
Is this a sign of the times (please, no cheesey Price references, I already had Bobby Brown [not as in Goes Down] at my fitness class today)?
AIX must be really bad if this sort of thing makes Linux and IBM stocks rise.
Linux is good and all, but ?
Please enlighten me as to what is going on.
It looks like ARM has all but sewn up the PDA market, just like x86 became the defacto standard for PC's. Will the market stagnate now? Where is the competition? Everyone has (or plans to have) a 206MHz StrongARM in their PDA. Wouldn't it be nice if someone else came along with something a bit better now and made things interesting?
Not if the interfaces are well designed and it is clear what each piece of code is supposed to do [and you have the source to look at].
If it reall was transparency that was patented, just define a new value, opacity (how opaque something is) instead, as 1-transparency, where transparency is a fraction between 0.0 and 1.0
Easy.
Patent nullified.
...but it doesn't matter in this case.
The question is, does it still have a 16-bit BIOS, AT hardware interrupts and a funky A20 line on the processor?
:-)
"There are an awful lot of small, dead, open source projects out there. I was looking today on Sourceforge for something and row after row of 0.0% project activity hits came up. "
:-(
..or the coder's development box giving up the ghost.
Foo!
Didn't it ultimately become the Office Assistant in Turd^H^H^H^HWord etc.?
Naw, both wrong. Real Men (tm) code using the switches on the front panel of the machine and the load/store button. Then , you run the paper tape punch and dump bytes out to that device (memory location). You can look for errors in the code that way and fix them with sellotape, tipex and a sharp pencil.
Bozos drink and drive.
..and here's some info on it:
here and here
The "great mathematician" Roger Penrose already has patented some mathematics, a tesselation he discovered, IIRC. Not that anoyne else might have discovered it before, but when you're a respected public figure and have the wherewithall to get your stuff published, and people (who don't knwo any better) listen to you and accept what you say by default...
are you drunk?
You poor soul. You don't work for BNFL do you?
:-)
I see.
What sort of things are you calculating?
? You are the retard.
The parent said (or implied) that giving away any copyrighted material is "bad" which is plain false and misleading.
IF I EVER MEET YOU I'LL KICK YOUR ASS
"Despite what everybody here wants to say, or how people want to spin it, the common way that software such as morpheus is used is ethically, and legally wrong. It's not fair use to give near-perfect recordings of copyrighted material to everyone on the planet. This is not the same as making a tape for your friend."
It's only wrong if it's commercial stuff and I don't own the copyright. If I want to give my own copyrighted stuff away, that's my perogative. If someone else copyrights stuff and wishes to distribute it free of charge, copyright intact, that's up to them too. What's wrong with that? Why should a whole technology be made illegal simply because some people may use it to rip some people off? I don't see public FTP sites being made illegal because some people put up "warez". If that attitude were applied to this, we could kiss goodbye to GPL'd or BSD-style software.
Although x86 is by far the largest hardware base on which Linux runs, was it short-sighted of Borland to incorporate only their own code generator into Kylix, there by limiting it to that one architecture? Would it not have been an idea to use the back end of GCC (as an option) and get all the other architectures for free?
Would you please tell me what sort of vector sizes you would find useful? I am interested, and am playing about with SIMD code.
FWIW (probably not much)
During the War, my father had a Cyrix PR133+ (running at 110MHz) and I had an Intel P100 (running at 100MHz obviously).
The rest of our hardware was almost identical.
I was running Linux and he was running Win95.
I used the old Byte UNIX benchmarks to test my machine. Then I transplanted the hard disk into his machine and ran them again. Overall his machine came out very slightly slower than mine.
Where it really looked slower was Floating Point, but it was faster at integer. My score was (IIR) 12.9 and his was 12.8, or something like that.
Believe it or not, I know of at least one big company that needs this kind of storage for an engineering application. Yes, it does involve video, it involves many video cameras, and it all has to be available "on demand", although not instantaneous like TV.
I meant drugs
......if you want to know I cma tell you tehir names...
:-)
Dude,
going by the content of your post, and your sig, I think you need to go to the doctor for some special drungs. You have fallen victim to the mindset that made DOS-based x86-based PC's the defacto standard.
Poor you.