Candara looks like a knockoff of Zapf's Optima. It is a humanist sans font, where the expansion of stalks and stems on the end is supposed to add a bit of legibility for continual reading.
Oh yeah, and how about the way they messed up system structure? And how they left their community supporters in the lurch without support after deciding that the RHEL/Fedora split (and, actually, there was about a six month period where there was only RHEL)? No. No reason at all to dislike them.
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...the woman I know that ones one was happy with it.
I believe that you meant to write "the woman I know that has one...", but it doesn't matter. You see, you, as a Slashdot reader are claiming two things: (1) that you know a woman and (2) somebody owns a Zune. Since both of these events have only an infinitesimal chance of occurring individually, it is clear that their confluence is close to impossible. We have found you out, evil Microsoft troll! Begone!
OK, you might have bought your mom one, but it's really sad that she has to take your basement rent money in equipment.
Actually, it would be much more profitable to sell the portion of the company making the recording devices to someone else and then sue that other company. Sheesh, geeks... no business sense at all.
I'd say they had a wee bit of help form various corporate managements and political administrations. China was the recipient of the gift, but the initiation of giving was almost completely home-grown.
To write anything well, the writer must (a) understand the material, (b) write to the level of the user, and (c) tell a coherent, interesting story.
If you can do that, you can also weave in the portions about assumptions, undone studies, and so on, while still being entertaining enough for a "normal person" to read. If you can't, it's better that you write for a specialized audience (if at all) that might be more forgiving of the writing's shortcomings.
Well then, maybe Forbes should hire some actual nerds to write about technology than leaving it to bozos like him that usually "got it wrong". There are journalists out there with a much better track record who probably write just as well. There may even be one or two who will listen to all sides of a technology story and not just go with whatever corporate spin say.
Oh, I forgot. This is Forbes. The business "PRess". They are so objective and truth-seeking. You're still a shill whether or not you got paid by SCOX or MSFT, Lyons.
This goes to show that the Canadian people are overtaxed, and that Canada is doing nothing significant to rectify that.
No, this means that Canada has a graying population (like most of the Western countries) and is taking prudent fiscal steps to ensure that it can meet its obligation to those who helped build the Commonwealth. I suppose you'd like the government to do away with taxes and put the old folks out on an ice flow?
Russia wouldn't be able to afford the fuel necessary to send a rocket over the ocean. Russia is more or less irrelevant in today's global economy.
Russia is the number 3 (or so) oil exporter in the world. As oil reserves go down and the price rises, Russia will have no problem getting what it needs or wants. A very different scenario will play out in the US.
You can have our loonies when you pry them from our cold dead hands!
Oh yeah? Yeah? Well you guys don't even have a decent health care sys... OK, well, but you guys don't have a democr... Well, you don't have real bee... Damn. Just never effin' mind, OK.
If I ask my brother, who is a lawyer, if I can go out and shoot people, and he says, "Yes," (my assumption is that he wouldn't, but consider the hypothetical) and I go out and shoot people and they die, I'm still guilty of premeditated murder, regardless of what the legal advice is. Remember the old saying "Ignorance of the law is no excuse"? It isn't, even if you are mis-advised by a lawyer. The bottom line is that actions have consequences.
ATT probably broke the law. They broke it so much, the WH is pushing legislation to retroactively absolve them of any wrongdoing (and making what they did legal from now on) and hold them unaccountable for civil damages arising from these crimes. If there was anything other than a bunch of D pussies and corporate lapdogs in Congress and I was on ATT's board, I'd be sweating bullets right now. That being said, they probably will never be criminally prosecuted because the DoJ will never want that to happen.
The openness and inclusiveness of America was what made it a shining beacon for the top people in the world to gather, and your little lighthouse has fallen into ill repair thanks to attitudes like yours.
Oddly enough, I tend to think you have it backwards. Because our workers' political and economic lighthouse has gotten into such ill repair (real wage loss, especially when computed with non-core inflation; loss of social safety net; loss of political power for common people; etc.), a backlash against someone should hardly be unexpected. It is a shame that we always find the alien at fault rather than the corporate and political leaders who actually allowed this to happen, but when you see your own potential for economic advancement being washed away, you're not going to feel too happy about sharing what little you have with others.
I thought Lisp machines were originally stack-based, which was hard to extract ILP from
That was true at the time, but not so much today, as dynamic translation and register remapping could effectively hide the stack from the machine while continuing to expose the stack architecture to the programmer. The main bugaboo for a new LM would be the same as it ever was - memory bandwidth. Using a Lisp Machine naturally (i.e., using lists as a major data structure, dynamic function definitions, etc.) increases pressure on memory bandwidth over languages like C. And the memory bottleneck isn't going away very soon. You could start to CDR-code again, to allow cache lines to hold more CONS cells, but ultimately, that never made much difference, anyhow. So, unless there is some architecture that puts the processor much closer to the memory (think of Connection Machine *Lisp in hardware, but with 4MB of static store allocated to each processor, so it could hold reasonable amounts of data), it would be hard to make the LM come back and compete with an implementation of C on standard hardware.
With no GPL fork, you must choose between sharing with the BSD project, or "paying the stupid tax". With a GPL fork, you have a way to avoid the stupid tax and share with others, yet deny the changes to the BSD project.
Sounds good to me, if I were into promoting Free Software. In fact, the more pressure I could put on BSD as a license would be good, because eventually it would go away. It simplifies things by getting rid of the strongest competitor that competes for open license mindshare and that continually attacks the motives of the Free Software movement. So, if I were the Free Software guys, I'd be laughing all the way to the bank about this. As Lenin said, "Capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them."
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And this is different from the rest of the (*) press today how?
* The word business omitted here as redundant.
You know, last Friday, my staff sent me a baggage claim and it took until Monday to get to me!
Candara looks like a knockoff of Zapf's Optima. It is a humanist sans font, where the expansion of stalks and stems on the end is supposed to add a bit of legibility for continual reading.
Three little letters: R... P... M...
Oh yeah, and how about the way they messed up system structure? And how they left their community supporters in the lurch without support after deciding that the RHEL/Fedora split (and, actually, there was about a six month period where there was only RHEL)? No. No reason at all to dislike them.
Give me Canonical and Ubuntu any day.
All I have to do is output "Jeez, that sucks," continuously. Works for porn, too ;-)...
Pfft! Like that would ever happen...
Online poker servers run on Aboriginal territory.
Yeah! And he crashed into the earth last week!
I believe that you meant to write "the woman I know that has one...", but it doesn't matter. You see, you, as a Slashdot reader are claiming two things: (1) that you know a woman and (2) somebody owns a Zune. Since both of these events have only an infinitesimal chance of occurring individually, it is clear that their confluence is close to impossible. We have found you out, evil Microsoft troll! Begone!
OK, you might have bought your mom one, but it's really sad that she has to take your basement rent money in equipment.
Actually, it would be much more profitable to sell the portion of the company making the recording devices to someone else and then sue that other company. Sheesh, geeks... no business sense at all.
Hah yourself baby! Look at my xectors and xappings on my *Lisp-driven CM-2!
A beautiful, but sadly never to be realized, fantasy?
And, by Ockham's Razor, the explanation having no God is better because it has a less complex set of presuppositions.
Microsoft: ?? [Throws chair...]
I'd say they had a wee bit of help form various corporate managements and political administrations. China was the recipient of the gift, but the initiation of giving was almost completely home-grown.
To write anything well, the writer must (a) understand the material, (b) write to the level of the user, and (c) tell a coherent, interesting story.
If you can do that, you can also weave in the portions about assumptions, undone studies, and so on, while still being entertaining enough for a "normal person" to read. If you can't, it's better that you write for a specialized audience (if at all) that might be more forgiving of the writing's shortcomings.
Well then, maybe Forbes should hire some actual nerds to write about technology than leaving it to bozos like him that usually "got it wrong". There are journalists out there with a much better track record who probably write just as well. There may even be one or two who will listen to all sides of a technology story and not just go with whatever corporate spin say.
Oh, I forgot. This is Forbes. The business "PRess". They are so objective and truth-seeking. You're still a shill whether or not you got paid by SCOX or MSFT, Lyons.
No, this means that Canada has a graying population (like most of the Western countries) and is taking prudent fiscal steps to ensure that it can meet its obligation to those who helped build the Commonwealth. I suppose you'd like the government to do away with taxes and put the old folks out on an ice flow?
Russia is the number 3 (or so) oil exporter in the world. As oil reserves go down and the price rises, Russia will have no problem getting what it needs or wants. A very different scenario will play out in the US.
Oh yeah? Yeah? Well you guys don't even have a decent health care sys... OK, well, but you guys don't have a democr... Well, you don't have real bee... Damn. Just never effin' mind, OK.
If I ask my brother, who is a lawyer, if I can go out and shoot people, and he says, "Yes," (my assumption is that he wouldn't, but consider the hypothetical) and I go out and shoot people and they die, I'm still guilty of premeditated murder, regardless of what the legal advice is. Remember the old saying "Ignorance of the law is no excuse"? It isn't, even if you are mis-advised by a lawyer. The bottom line is that actions have consequences.
ATT probably broke the law. They broke it so much, the WH is pushing legislation to retroactively absolve them of any wrongdoing (and making what they did legal from now on) and hold them unaccountable for civil damages arising from these crimes. If there was anything other than a bunch of D pussies and corporate lapdogs in Congress and I was on ATT's board, I'd be sweating bullets right now. That being said, they probably will never be criminally prosecuted because the DoJ will never want that to happen.
Oddly enough, I tend to think you have it backwards. Because our workers' political and economic lighthouse has gotten into such ill repair (real wage loss, especially when computed with non-core inflation; loss of social safety net; loss of political power for common people; etc.), a backlash against someone should hardly be unexpected. It is a shame that we always find the alien at fault rather than the corporate and political leaders who actually allowed this to happen, but when you see your own potential for economic advancement being washed away, you're not going to feel too happy about sharing what little you have with others.
That was true at the time, but not so much today, as dynamic translation and register remapping could effectively hide the stack from the machine while continuing to expose the stack architecture to the programmer. The main bugaboo for a new LM would be the same as it ever was - memory bandwidth. Using a Lisp Machine naturally (i.e., using lists as a major data structure, dynamic function definitions, etc.) increases pressure on memory bandwidth over languages like C. And the memory bottleneck isn't going away very soon. You could start to CDR-code again, to allow cache lines to hold more CONS cells, but ultimately, that never made much difference, anyhow. So, unless there is some architecture that puts the processor much closer to the memory (think of Connection Machine *Lisp in hardware, but with 4MB of static store allocated to each processor, so it could hold reasonable amounts of data), it would be hard to make the LM come back and compete with an implementation of C on standard hardware.
Sounds good to me, if I were into promoting Free Software. In fact, the more pressure I could put on BSD as a license would be good, because eventually it would go away. It simplifies things by getting rid of the strongest competitor that competes for open license mindshare and that continually attacks the motives of the Free Software movement. So, if I were the Free Software guys, I'd be laughing all the way to the bank about this. As Lenin said, "Capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them."
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