Why does this post get mod'ed as Funny? And everyone replies to the question with a joke? Apparently, I have been living under a rock because I for one haven't heard of XP and I'm in the 5th year of a comp sci PhD. Have I acquired an immunity to software engineering flavors of the month?
I use evo for IMAP at home and school, and have encountered period instability. I have 1.2 installed and so far no real problems, although the now-famous Emacs bindings don't seem to work. I've heard horror stories from friends, though, claiming it messed up their contacts. I'm afraid to try the sound support.
Btw, anyone know if there will eventually be newsgroup support? That's the one feature that keeps me bouncing back to mozilla.
... Crops will grow longer in much of the US Midwest, Central Russia, Canada, etc. Less people will die from cold weather related trauma.
Are you serious? You may be right about fewer people dying from cold weather exposure, but they would represent a pittance versus the billions of largely impoverished people who live in hot climates that could get even hotter. The hot weather risk far outweighs cold weather as a danger to the populated regions of the planet.
I'm also highly skeptical that it is possible to predict that central north america would have a longer growing season. We may very well have dust bowl conditions that make growing anything impossible. As you say, the atmosphere is incredibly complex, and we probably won't know the outcome until it's too late to do anything about it.
All that being said, I agree with the gist of your post- that there will likely be both positive and negative consequences. The question is at what cost?
.. the majority of comments attached to a non-funny story are moderated as "Funny". sigh.
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Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure the gcc 3 libstdc++ is thread safe, not to mention finally ansi conformant. I have a lot of c++ code I wrote on gcc 2.95 and moving to gcc 3 felt *so* good.
Woah, back up. Writing cross-compatible STL code is hard enough. I've never used boost, but I can only imagine that it would be a nightmare to use across four different compilers.
All the same, I would at least dump VC on the windows platform and tell the client they need to move to a different os. Maintaining cross-compat between gcc, and the irix and solaris compilers shouldn't be too difficult (but to make your life easier, be sure to switch to gnu make on all three.)
Whatever you do, (and you've already said you're not), DON'T use gcc 2.x for C++ development.
I agree completely, not to mention with the reviewer's comments about the UI emphasis. I've written several tens of thousands of lines of C++ code, most of it while DP sat comfortably collecting dust on my bookshelf. When the patterns aren't obvious to the intelligent designer, they deal with gluing objects and GUI's together which, granted, is an important task for many apps, but not for solving basic computational problems.
Insert obvious cliches about square pegs, round holes, big hammers and everything looking like a nail here.
I would be very surprised to learn that a bank had outsourced its web interface design. Banks had huge IT departments long before Al Gore "invented" the internet or Jeff Bezos "invented" one click shopping. Given the security and liability risks involved, I would imagine that 99% of the big banks do their development in-house.
Those of you shrugging your shoulders as if to say 'big deal' should think again, particularly if you're a free-as-in-speech software enthusiast. Freedom of the press is nearly as sacred as free speech, imho, particularly the freedom to report on the activities of your own government.
All that being said, I don't see any reference in this report to self-censorship, which is pervasive in the western world. I really don't believe Canada deserves to land fifth spot in light of the continuing monopolization of the press by CanWest and the recent resignation of the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen because the paper's owners (none other than CanWest) suppressed his editorials. For more info on the Canadian situation, check out Diversity of Voices.
For some insight into the bill and why it's bad, read this slashdot story.
I agree that the Yahoo story is confusing, and it gives one pause to wonder why they're spinning it as bad for webcasters. Is there some hidden agenda?
I still have a sour taste in my mouth from attempting the 6.2 to 6.5 migration several years ago. It was right about that time that our lab pretty much gave up on spending oodles of cash on O2 and Octane workstations and moved to low-cost pc's running linux. We haven't looked back since, and the fundamental differences (apart from price), were the benefits of having an open-source system, the GNU development tools, and the much easier to use package managers like apt and rpm versus the old SGI package manager whose name now escapes me. I must admit, clunky though it was, the Irix package manager did allow for rollbacks, something lacking in rpm or apt.
All that being said, we still have a few Indy's kicking around, and some people actually still use them!
I'm not so sure. If you're talking about casual desktop users, I agree that the FSF or GPL matters very little. Joe Blow cares more about functional and free-as-in-beer software than about whether he can change the code or who deserves credit for emacs or apache. On the the other hand, any developer who hasn't heard about the FSF or at least the GPL must be living in a black box, and on this count, I think Linus' decision to GPL the kernel did the FSF a lot of good (not that it was some momentous decision, but how would things be different if he'd used a BSD licence? There's something to chew on..)
Should I call my Sony television a Ford/Sony because Henry Ford pioneered mass production? The FSF has done great things and certainly created some fertile soil for linux to sprout out of, and in return, the success of the kernel has done a lot of good for visibility of the FSF, but I don't think just because the GNU components are useful or that the kernel is GPL'ed, we owe it to RMS to call it GNU.
Fair enough.. I don't mean to say binutils is an exhaustive list. Throw in libc, the network config utilities, etc. Things that enable other apps to do their work. We don't study gcc or emacs or apache in operating systems courses.. and while I can understand that people abuse the term to refer to the whole collection of programs, I find it ironic that the FSF if exploiting the abuse to further their own abuse-prevention agenda.
I have no illusions about the contribution that the FSF has made to free software, and I'm grateful for tools like gcc, make, and even emacs.
However, I find this whole naming fiasco to be far too pedantic and divisive. While the FSF has been around far longer, Linux, and to some extent Apache are what launched GNU into the mainstream spotlight. The best thing that ever happened to GNU has been the success of these apps (I don't see Fortune magazine writing up articles on Emacs, the next generation word processor). Almost everyone who uses Linux knows about GNU and the casual users who don't are of little consequence to the promotion of free-as-in-speech software.
One last thing, the only other party that I've ever seen use the term "operating system" to refer to every package that comes with the distribution was Microsoft in their anti-trust defence. I'm willing to concede that binutils might be an essential part of the Linux OS, but I don't think the entire collection of GNU packages is OS-worthy.
Ok, flame away. I still think the FSF is a great thing, but there are bigger and better battles to fight than promoting linguistic conformance.
Every browser with a mail reader understands IMAP. With a decent IMAP server you can create a folder called SETTINGS, with subfolders containing the data you like, like all your spam FILTERS, web BOOKMARKS, etc. Then a smart browser would detect the special folders and import them as necessary. The important thing is that the IMAP server is already a trusted source, since you keep your mail there. To be honest, I don't understand why people haven't tried this sooner..
I agree, with one burning exception-- development kernels are definitely not for the faint of heart. I'm happy to test drive all kinds of alpha software on my machine, but I won't go near an odd-series kernel.
The last time I checked, there were hundreds of thousands of musicians out there doing commercial work, weddings, bar-mitvahs, etc, etc in order to eke out a living. Maybe Sony Music will go the way of Penguin Books but the reality for most of today's musicians is not unlike that of the rest of the novelists and artists out there.
I've always wondered how hard it would be to resurrect a core file. One would think that there's enough info in a complete core to reopen all the open fd's, and possibly even reinitiate network connects. Everything else is there-- program counter, stack, heap, etc. As such, one could 'kill -ABRT' the process and revive it again later. Has anyone seen this done?
Stereo vision algorithms have been around for years, and I suspect that OpenCV implements some of the more common published methods. We understand the image formation process pretty well now and working with a calibrated stereo head is easy. Taken one step further, improvements in automatic camera calibration and cpu speed have led to nearly real-time 3d reconstruction from a monocular video stream (where the camera is moving through the scene).
Actually, IMHO, pure monocular vision is a more interesting (and challenging) problem-- it's pretty clear that human stereo vision is an exercise in redundancy, since we can do pretty well with one eye closed, not to mention the fact that we perceive all kinds of 3d structure in 2d contexts (like your favourite pr0n- umm, quake screenshot;-). The fundamental question is how do we interpret 2d images into 3d models (or whatever representation we use in our heads)? This a distinctly different (and more difficult) problem from building a 3d model from a motion sequence or stereo pair.
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Why does this post get mod'ed as Funny? And everyone replies to the question with a joke? Apparently, I have been living under a rock because I for one haven't heard of XP and I'm in the 5th year of a comp sci PhD. Have I acquired an immunity to software engineering flavors of the month?
I use evo for IMAP at home and school, and have encountered period instability. I have 1.2 installed and so far no real problems, although the now-famous Emacs bindings don't seem to work. I've heard horror stories from friends, though, claiming it messed up their contacts. I'm afraid to try the sound support.
Btw, anyone know if there will eventually be newsgroup support? That's the one feature that keeps me bouncing back to mozilla.
If you know the CVS tag, what are you waiting for? Does a source release necessarily imply a tarball?
Are you serious? You may be right about fewer people dying from cold weather exposure, but they would represent a pittance versus the billions of largely impoverished people who live in hot climates that could get even hotter. The hot weather risk far outweighs cold weather as a danger to the populated regions of the planet.
I'm also highly skeptical that it is possible to predict that central north america would have a longer growing season. We may very well have dust bowl conditions that make growing anything impossible. As you say, the atmosphere is incredibly complex, and we probably won't know the outcome until it's too late to do anything about it.
All that being said, I agree with the gist of your post- that there will likely be both positive and negative consequences. The question is at what cost?
.. the majority of comments attached to a non-funny story are moderated as "Funny". sigh.
If your DNS admin has some savvy, this link should work for you.
If not, visit
OpenNIC and then ask your DNS admin to support OpenNIC and erode ICANN's dictatorial regime.
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure the gcc 3 libstdc++ is thread safe, not to mention finally ansi conformant. I have a lot of c++ code I wrote on gcc 2.95 and moving to gcc 3 felt *so* good.
Woah, back up. Writing cross-compatible STL code is hard enough. I've never used boost, but I can only imagine that it would be a nightmare to use across four different compilers.
All the same, I would at least dump VC on the windows platform and tell the client they need to move to a different os. Maintaining cross-compat between gcc, and the irix and solaris compilers shouldn't be too difficult (but to make your life easier, be sure to switch to gnu make on all three.)
Whatever you do, (and you've already said you're not), DON'T use gcc 2.x for C++ development.
I agree completely, not to mention with the reviewer's comments about the UI emphasis. I've written several tens of thousands of lines of C++ code, most of it while DP sat comfortably collecting dust on my bookshelf. When the patterns aren't obvious to the intelligent designer, they deal with gluing objects and GUI's together which, granted, is an important task for many apps, but not for solving basic computational problems.
Insert obvious cliches about square pegs, round holes, big hammers and everything looking like a nail here.
I would be very surprised to learn that a bank had outsourced its web interface design. Banks had huge IT departments long before Al Gore "invented" the internet or Jeff Bezos "invented" one click shopping. Given the security and liability risks involved, I would imagine that 99% of the big banks do their development in-house.
Those of you shrugging your shoulders as if to say 'big deal' should think again, particularly if you're a free-as-in-speech software enthusiast. Freedom of the press is nearly as sacred as free speech, imho, particularly the freedom to report on the activities of your own government.
All that being said, I don't see any reference in this report to self-censorship, which is pervasive in the western world. I really don't believe Canada deserves to land fifth spot in light of the continuing monopolization of the press by CanWest and the recent resignation of the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen because the paper's owners (none other than CanWest) suppressed his editorials. For more info on the Canadian situation, check out Diversity of Voices.
For some insight into the bill and why it's bad, read this slashdot story.
I agree that the Yahoo story is confusing, and it gives one pause to wonder why they're spinning it as bad for webcasters. Is there some hidden agenda?
I still have a sour taste in my mouth from attempting the 6.2 to 6.5 migration several years ago. It was right about that time that our lab pretty much gave up on spending oodles of cash on O2 and Octane workstations and moved to low-cost pc's running linux. We haven't looked back since, and the fundamental differences (apart from price), were the benefits of having an open-source system, the GNU development tools, and the much easier to use package managers like apt and rpm versus the old SGI package manager whose name now escapes me. I must admit, clunky though it was, the Irix package manager did allow for rollbacks, something lacking in rpm or apt.
All that being said, we still have a few Indy's kicking around, and some people actually still use them!
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I think I'll register my Wheaties Secret Code ring..
I'm not so sure. If you're talking about casual desktop users, I agree that the FSF or GPL matters very little. Joe Blow cares more about functional and free-as-in-beer software than about whether he can change the code or who deserves credit for emacs or apache. On the the other hand, any developer who hasn't heard about the FSF or at least the GPL must be living in a black box, and on this count, I think Linus' decision to GPL the kernel did the FSF a lot of good (not that it was some momentous decision, but how would things be different if he'd used a BSD licence? There's something to chew on..)
Should I call my Sony television a Ford/Sony because Henry Ford pioneered mass production? The FSF has done great things and certainly created some fertile soil for linux to sprout out of, and in return, the success of the kernel has done a lot of good for visibility of the FSF, but I don't think just because the GNU components are useful or that the kernel is GPL'ed, we owe it to RMS to call it GNU.
Fair enough.. I don't mean to say binutils is an exhaustive list. Throw in libc, the network config utilities, etc. Things that enable other apps to do their work. We don't study gcc or emacs or apache in operating systems courses.. and while I can understand that people abuse the term to refer to the whole collection of programs, I find it ironic that the FSF if exploiting the abuse to further their own abuse-prevention agenda.
I have no illusions about the contribution that the FSF has made to free software, and I'm grateful for tools like gcc, make, and even emacs.
However, I find this whole naming fiasco to be far too pedantic and divisive. While the FSF has been around far longer, Linux, and to some extent Apache are what launched GNU into the mainstream spotlight. The best thing that ever happened to GNU has been the success of these apps (I don't see Fortune magazine writing up articles on Emacs, the next generation word processor). Almost everyone who uses Linux knows about GNU and the casual users who don't are of little consequence to the promotion of free-as-in-speech software.
One last thing, the only other party that I've ever seen use the term "operating system" to refer to every package that comes with the distribution was Microsoft in their anti-trust defence. I'm willing to concede that binutils might be an essential part of the Linux OS, but I don't think the entire collection of GNU packages is OS-worthy.
Ok, flame away. I still think the FSF is a great thing, but there are bigger and better battles to fight than promoting linguistic conformance.
Every browser with a mail reader understands IMAP. With a decent IMAP server you can create a folder called SETTINGS, with subfolders containing the data you like, like all your spam FILTERS, web BOOKMARKS, etc. Then a smart browser would detect the special folders and import them as necessary. The important thing is that the IMAP server is already a trusted source, since you keep your mail there. To be honest, I don't understand why people haven't tried this sooner..
I agree, with one burning exception-- development kernels are definitely not for the faint of heart. I'm happy to test drive all kinds of alpha software on my machine, but I won't go near an odd-series kernel.
The last time I checked, there were hundreds of thousands of musicians out there doing commercial work, weddings, bar-mitvahs, etc, etc in order to eke out a living. Maybe Sony Music will go the way of Penguin Books but the reality for most of today's musicians is not unlike that of the rest of the novelists and artists out there.
Good job, Rob! Are we all invited to the wedding?
I've always wondered how hard it would be to resurrect a core file. One would think that there's enough info in a complete core to reopen all the open fd's, and possibly even reinitiate network connects. Everything else is there-- program counter, stack, heap, etc. As such, one could 'kill -ABRT' the process and revive it again later. Has anyone seen this done?
Actually, IMHO, pure monocular vision is a more interesting (and challenging) problem-- it's pretty clear that human stereo vision is an exercise in redundancy, since we can do pretty well with one eye closed, not to mention the fact that we perceive all kinds of 3d structure in 2d contexts (like your favourite pr0n- umm, quake screenshot ;-). The fundamental question is how do we interpret 2d images into 3d models (or whatever representation we use in our heads)? This a distinctly different (and more difficult) problem from building a 3d model from a motion sequence or stereo pair.