As far as I can see, this is a Very Good Thing for Apple. Port your operating system to a chip that has the opposite endianness as PPC, then you've got both big- and little-endian systems covered. So, if you need to change hardware, for whatever reason, that will make it much, much easier to port to that new architecture. Whether they actually release it for x86 or not isn't the point. They get much more leverage over their hardware providers this way.
Sure it's still alive and kicking. A Committee Draft of the Fortran 200x standard is coming "real soon now" (i.e. should be within a month or two), and it adds asynchronous I/O and object-oriented razzle-dazzle, among many other things. It's all at http://www.j3-fortran.org, so go and take a look.
And, as a Fortran compiler writer, I say "Use it! Oh God, please keep using it, or I'm out of a job!"
Where I live, Bell Sympatico started doing this sometime in June. They offer regular service (960 down/128 up, 5GB/month each way) at CDN$45/month, "ultra" service (same bandwidth as AT&T is offering, 10GB/month each way) at CDN$80/month, and basic service (128 each way, 1GB/month each way) for (if I remember correctly) CDN$20/month. So once again, not only do we lucky Ontarians get it first, we also get it cheaper.
Could someone please explain to me why the parent comment was moderated (-1, Troll)? I didn't mean to breach some sort of etiquette by explaining my understanding of things.
I doubt this could be used to "restore" old film or videos to a higher resolution. From my understanding, that would require many different angles and positions. You can't just take a single camera position and improve the picture based just on that picture itself.
Wait a minute. Doesn't a fair amount of light reflect off of whatever object you're shining it on, thereby bouncing the light up to the sky anyway? Or is the reflected light minimal, even in a large city? Not being a physicist or anything remotely like that, I admittedly don't have a full understanding of the properties of reflected vs. direct light. Maybe someone can help me out here?
You know, I didn't think of this as a troll when I wrote it. It's true. The ego that CmdrTaco displayed there was horrendous. I think the problems that TurboLinux is experiencing may have more to do with a faulty business model than upper management not knowing CmdrTaco.
Actually, this type of thing also happened a few years ago in Canada, with the $2 coin. It had an inner, gold coloured part and an outer, silver coloured part. Coins from the first press could have the middle part punched out fairly easily (without needing to put them in the freezer). You can (and I know someone who does) wear the outer part on a chain around your neck, as a souvenir of the Canadian Mint's ineptitude.
As far as I know, it only handles Fortran 77, not 90 or 95. This makes it less than desirable, as it can't compile about 90% of the Fortran code I personally see. (Please correct me if I'm wrong. I hope I am.)
Was anyone else thinking "Why would anyone need to port Fortran to the Common Language Infrastructure?" I was, before I read beyond the headline. Actually,
after having read the CLI proposed standard, I had
come to the conclusion that some Fortran 90 language features could not be supported by it in a portable fashion (F90 pointers, allocatables), so the initial shock of the headline was considerable. Could they not have come up with a better name for this?
Let me guess: if you sneeze your computer reboots. Seriously though, I'd hate to use this thing with a cold. Although, it would simulate the experience of using Windows 98 quite nicely.
I'll admit, it seems kind of weird to me at first glance. On the other hand...if people buy something frivolous in "real life" that enhances their enjoyment, we don't question that. It's really the same thing. They're just enhancing their enjoyment of a particular product by buying these items. Their priorities might be questionable, but that's another matter entirely...
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Wuss. Real men use 360KB floppies for backup. And when you don't need the data backed up anymore, grind those floppies up for home insulation.
As far as I can see, this is a Very Good Thing for Apple. Port your operating system to a chip that has the opposite endianness as PPC, then you've got both big- and little-endian systems covered. So, if you need to change hardware, for whatever reason, that will make it much, much easier to port to that new architecture. Whether they actually release it for x86 or not isn't the point. They get much more leverage over their hardware providers this way.
And, as a Fortran compiler writer, I say "Use it! Oh God, please keep using it, or I'm out of a job!"
My god, what have I unleashed upon this unsuspecting world?
Well, this movie did rival Red Zone Cuba in plot complexity and coherence...
See, that's what happens when I end up doing single precision floating point arithmetic.
Where I live, Bell Sympatico started doing this sometime in June. They offer regular service (960 down/128 up, 5GB/month each way) at CDN$45/month, "ultra" service (same bandwidth as AT&T is offering, 10GB/month each way) at CDN$80/month, and basic service (128 each way, 1GB/month each way) for (if I remember correctly) CDN$20/month. So once again, not only do we lucky Ontarians get it first, we also get it cheaper.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have inflicted my strange sense of humour on the world.
Ooh, the dogs aren't going to like this one bit.
Could someone please explain to me why the parent comment was moderated (-1, Troll)? I didn't mean to breach some sort of etiquette by explaining my understanding of things.
I doubt this could be used to "restore" old film or videos to a higher resolution. From my understanding, that would require many different angles and positions. You can't just take a single camera position and improve the picture based just on that picture itself.
Wait a minute. Doesn't a fair amount of light reflect off of whatever object you're shining it on, thereby bouncing the light up to the sky anyway? Or is the reflected light minimal, even in a large city? Not being a physicist or anything remotely like that, I admittedly don't have a full understanding of the properties of reflected vs. direct light. Maybe someone can help me out here?
You know, I didn't think of this as a troll when I wrote it. It's true. The ego that CmdrTaco displayed there was horrendous. I think the problems that TurboLinux is experiencing may have more to do with a faulty business model than upper management not knowing CmdrTaco.
No, I think it just has something to do with your ego, CmdrTaco. Not everyone in the world really needs to know you in order to succeed.
Actually, this type of thing also happened a few years ago in Canada, with the $2 coin. It had an inner, gold coloured part and an outer, silver coloured part. Coins from the first press could have the middle part punched out fairly easily (without needing to put them in the freezer). You can (and I know someone who does) wear the outer part on a chain around your neck, as a souvenir of the Canadian Mint's ineptitude.
As far as I know, it only handles Fortran 77, not 90 or 95. This makes it less than desirable, as it can't compile about 90% of the Fortran code I personally see. (Please correct me if I'm wrong. I hope I am.)
Was anyone else thinking "Why would anyone need to port Fortran to the Common Language Infrastructure?" I was, before I read beyond the headline. Actually, after having read the CLI proposed standard, I had come to the conclusion that some Fortran 90 language features could not be supported by it in a portable fashion (F90 pointers, allocatables), so the initial shock of the headline was considerable. Could they not have come up with a better name for this?
Let me guess: if you sneeze your computer reboots. Seriously though, I'd hate to use this thing with a cold. Although, it would simulate the experience of using Windows 98 quite nicely.
Chewbacca is a wookie. See the silly monkey? This gives more weight to the creationist theories.
Somewhere, a juror's head has just exploded. This gives more weight to the creationist theories.
I as well was also an English major too in university additionally.
Hey, why not try an Athlon? Low power, no AGP bugs, no chipset issues...God bless AMD!
OK, until my computer is made by Ron Popeil, I don't think I'll ever "set it and forget it".
Am I the only one here who loves the irony in censoring Fahrenheit 451?
I'll admit, it seems kind of weird to me at first glance. On the other hand...if people buy something frivolous in "real life" that enhances their enjoyment, we don't question that. It's really the same thing. They're just enhancing their enjoyment of a particular product by buying these items. Their priorities might be questionable, but that's another matter entirely...
Of course it's the biased view of a resident. That's the whole point: no matter who you are, from your point of view, you are one of the Good Guys.