This is the most interesting project IMO, but will probably never see the light of day. From the Wikipedia article
Singularity is a Microsoft Research project started in 2003 to build a highly-dependable operating system in which the kernel, device driver, and applications are all written in managed code.
The lowest-level x86 interrupt dispatch code is written in assembly language and C. Once this code has done its job, it calls the kernel, whose runtime and garbage collector are written in C# and run in unsafe mode. The hardware abstraction layer is written in C++ and runs in safe mode. There is also some C code to handle debugging. The computer's BIOS is only called during the 16-bit real-mode bootstrap stage; once in 32-bit mode, Singularity never calls the BIOS again, but rather calls device drivers written in C#. During installation, CIL opcodes of the C# kernel are compiled into x86 opcodes using the Bartok research project. Bartok is an optimizing compiler written in C# for translating CIL into x86.
If Python is superior to Java, then why is the leading Bittorrent client, Azureus, written in Java if the original Bittorrent client was written in Python?
Simply because the Azureus has far more features and is easier to use than the original client (this could have changed since I haven't used the original one in a while).
I love firefox, but after using it extensively for a couple of hours it occupies about a third of my available memory and a lot of VM. I know that there are a lot of complains about this but I have found no solution. This should definitely be the top priority for firefox developers.
As I presume that you are aware that someone has to pay for all the content that is being consumed, what other business model would you offer ?
"Using nice ads" is not an answer. When everyone will have learned that they can block all ads, that is the end. No one will remove ad blocking just to check if the ads got nicer. all the excuses that I hear are the sort of "They started it !" Which as truth as it may be , won't solve the problem. With no ads there will be no content. Which brings me back to the question above. Does anyone have a solution ?
Wikipedia is self moderating. The end users restore defaced pages. There was even an article in Wired a couple of months ago about it. On average, defacements are cleaned within a few minutes by other users, and the repairs are so fast that vandals quickly get discouraged.
That only applies to "stupid vadalism" as in something like changing the George Bush article to read only "Bush is the smartest person alive". This kind of vandalism is very easy to notice and is the reason why it gets reverted so fast. The smart vandalist will make small changes in specific parts of the article. Changes that might not be so clear on a brief reading, like changing the birth place of a person or a adding a small fictionalized event to an article about a lesser known subject (History of Togo for example).
Some might not regard this as vandalism per se, but it is a form of vandalism even if not a "loud" one.
Actually, I think it is worse than "loud" vandalism because here the vandalist has much better chances to succeed, and on the way adding some gas to the anti-wikipedia fire.
Generally, we like wikipedia and google. We don't like Microsoft, NY Times (reg req'd) etc.
Exactly. And as result the/. universe went and destroyed a new feature by a NY Times competitor (sort of) using a the same tool that sets wikipedia apart from everything else.
I wonder what is says about the/. crowd overall inteligence... It also gives me some clues about who made the alleged bittorent spyware and who is putting all that spam on google.
So would you prefer them to put a price on it for the sake of being competitive ?
Sometimes it seems to me that even if M$ will go out tomorrow and open up windows as OSS, people here will come and complain how this is some way bad and evil.
I am not saying that M$ is jesus reborn but come on, put some sense into it.
Fascinating. This is the first time I've pulled out my Fujitsu P-1120 in two months Heck, I'm thinking about buying another one to have in case my current one ever breaks!
With you using it only once every couple of months, I believe it is highly unlikely that it will break soon.
The only justifications for using ad-block that I found where stupid and childish "they started it first" type of excuses.
The cold hard facts are that if everyone will block commercials for free content, there will be no free content.
I don't object to blocking intrusive ads, but ad-block means total annihilation of all kinds of advertisements. And someone, believe it or not, has to pay for that content that you consume.
If you have a better business model, please en light me.
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Looks like submitters are using digg to filter stories for /. (Hint: "YouTube" video link actually links to digg...)
The fourth edition (which covers java 5) is only available in book form, not as a downloadable ebook.
So, what really goes on with unsigned arithmetic in C?
Singularity is a Microsoft Research project started in 2003 to build a highly-dependable operating system in which the kernel, device driver, and applications are all written in managed code. The lowest-level x86 interrupt dispatch code is written in assembly language and C. Once this code has done its job, it calls the kernel, whose runtime and garbage collector are written in C# and run in unsafe mode. The hardware abstraction layer is written in C++ and runs in safe mode. There is also some C code to handle debugging. The computer's BIOS is only called during the 16-bit real-mode bootstrap stage; once in 32-bit mode, Singularity never calls the BIOS again, but rather calls device drivers written in C#. During installation, CIL opcodes of the C# kernel are compiled into x86 opcodes using the Bartok research project. Bartok is an optimizing compiler written in C# for translating CIL into x86.
The Microsoft Singularity pageWill someone please explain why Oreilly books are so heralded in the industry compared to say.. Wrox or Sams?
If Python is superior to Java, then why is the leading Bittorrent client, Azureus, written in Java if the original Bittorrent client was written in Python?
Simply because the Azureus has far more features and is easier to use than the original client (this could have changed since I haven't used the original one in a while).
I liked the fact that the writer avoided linking to the site so they won't get any boost on google from being mentioned on the Washington Post.
You think there will ever be a new edition of this great book?
Isn't Mark the guy who wrote "Windows Internals"?
I was sure he already worked for MS, otherwise how can he have all that knowledge about the inner workings of the kernel?
I love firefox, but after using it extensively for a couple of hours it occupies about a third of my available memory and a lot of VM. I know that there are a lot of complains about this but I have found no solution. This should definitely be the top priority for firefox developers.
Check out their new U10 model for some sweet design. It is expensive though.
Are you serious ?!
Should be "Video Gamers Need A Woman's Touch".
Let's have a bet on which story will be repeated the most in this thread. My money is on the Chevy Nova.
In hebrew Kia sounds like the word for "puke" so the company branded itself as Kaia.
Torrents are already used massively to distribute anime.
As I presume that you are aware that someone has to pay for all the content that is being consumed, what other business model would you offer ?
"Using nice ads" is not an answer. When everyone will have learned that they can block all ads, that is the end. No one will remove ad blocking just to check if the ads got nicer.
all the excuses that I hear are the sort of "They started it !" Which as truth as it may be , won't solve the problem. With no ads there will be no content. Which brings me back to the question above. Does anyone have a solution ?
That only applies to "stupid vadalism" as in something like changing the George Bush article to read only "Bush is the smartest person alive". This kind of vandalism is very easy to notice and is the reason why it gets reverted so fast. The smart vandalist will make small changes in specific parts of the article. Changes that might not be so clear on a brief reading, like changing the birth place of a person or a adding a small fictionalized event to an article about a lesser known subject (History of Togo for example).
Some might not regard this as vandalism per se, but it is a form of vandalism even if not a "loud" one.
Actually, I think it is worse than "loud" vandalism because here the vandalist has much better chances to succeed, and on the way adding some gas to the anti-wikipedia fire.
Exactly. And as result the /. universe went and destroyed a new feature by a NY Times competitor (sort of) using a the same tool that sets wikipedia apart from everything else . /. crowd overall inteligence...
I wonder what is says about the
It also gives me some clues about who made the alleged bittorent spyware and who is putting all that spam on google.
Most americans are stupid.
It's suberb ! Everything works jus
So would you prefer them to put a price on it
for the sake of being competitive ?
Sometimes it seems to me that even if M$ will go out tomorrow and open up windows as OSS, people here will come and complain how this is some way bad and evil.
I am not saying that M$ is jesus reborn but come on,
put some sense into it.
Heck, I'm thinking about buying another one to have in case my current one ever breaks!
With you using it only once every couple of months, I believe it is highly unlikely that it will break soon.
Yet.
The only justifications for using ad-block that I found where stupid and childish "they started it first" type of excuses.
The cold hard facts are that if everyone will block commercials for free content, there will be no free content.
I don't object to blocking intrusive ads, but ad-block means total annihilation of all kinds of advertisements. And someone, believe it or not, has to pay for that content that you consume.
If you have a better business model, please en light me.