It's perfectly possible to write deadlocking code in occam. It's just much easier to write concurrent processing code that *won't* deadlock.
Don't ask me for examples, it's something I purged from my brain as soon as possible after being forced to learn it. *shudders*
Oh and for general information, there's an occam compiler/interpreter available for solaris too. Kinda defies the point of a parallel processing language to run on a non-parallel architecture, but worth a look to see how it's done, though.
Amazing. When it's Microsoft abusing a monopoly I'm willing to bet you'd be right up there with those people calling for the curbing of their powers and stopping their anti-competitive practises. When it's your own government pulling the same stunts it's 'Oh you're all just jealous'.
Yes, the US is the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. No, the rest of us put together can do nothing to stop that. Your president consults his bible and randomly makes policy affecting the rest of the world whether we like it or not and we can do nothing to stop it. Of *course* we're gonna beg the American populace to put someone else in power.
To go back to my original analogy, if your government indluges in this bullshit as and when they please, what on earth makes you think they're going to do anything about the surfeit of global megacorps you seem to have doing the same thing?
Absolutely. If someone hires a hitman to kill for them, both of them get arrested/locked up/executed. YFLGMV (your fundamentalist local governor may vary).
So why can this not be the case with spam? You solicit a spammer to market for you, you get fined, as does he. If you didn't know he was a spammer, you have your contract with him that says he won't spam, so you can sue him, can't you?
If my theory holds good, this news item will not prevent them from using legal strong-arm tactics - they will fight to retain their market share.
Oh come on. That's like saying "I believe we are a giant marble sat in God's pocket and daylight happens when he has a game of marbles. If my theory holds good, the sun will rise tomorrow morning"
Apologies, I got lost in my own waffle there a little.
Take the previous post and substitute 'Pioneer made replacement radios' with 'BMW's never came with radios installed. Pioneer were one of the more successful companies making radios for them'
The focus is getting Microsoft to unbundle because of the manner in which they're doing it, making it excessively difficult to replace their bundled applications with competitors products (which, by the way, existed prior to the bundling. Microsoft has essentially shut them out)
Remember, people didn't buy the OS when all this stuff was bundled. They bought it when any number of applications could be used to do these jobs. Once Microsoft had achieved a monopoly on the market, *then* they started the whole bundle-applications -> hide the interface -> force consumer upgrade cycle. That's what is causing the trouble.
People have previously used the analogy of BMW putting their own radios in cars. It's wrong. A more accurate version would be this:
BMW, through a series of back-door trade deals and fleet discounts, gain a monopoly in the worldwide car market. Now consider Pioneer. For years, they've made replacement radios for BMWs. They make a healthy living out of it. Suddenly, BMW changes all the connectors to the radios and require a coded signal to be sent between the radio and car electronics for it to work. Add to that they won't tell anyone else how the signal is coded and have the radios welded into the car.
Now you're getting near where Microsoft is at. Forcing the unbundling is the first step. Forcing the release of the interface spec would be the next step. That, unfortunately, looks unlikely to happen.
Once again, we're not just talking about 'a large corporation', we're talking about a *monopoly*, ie. a coporation who controls the market. What the bundling is doing is leveraging MS's monopoly in the OS market to gain a monopoly in the browser and media player market. That needs to be stopped.
Jeez, how many more people are gonna miss the point of this?
The problem is not with bundling per se, it's because MICROSOFT IS A MONOPOLY WHICH IS ABUSING IT'S MARKET POSITION TO ALL BUT ENFORCE THE USE OF IT'S ACCESSORY PRODUCTS AND DISADVANTAGE COMPETITORS TO THOSE PRODUCTS. Does this need to be stamped into people's heads before they understand?
In the end, it's largely irrelevant anyway. Microsoft has commited far too many abuses of it's power. While this particular instance may not be the most heinous, if it's the one that they can be prosecuted for, then that'll do. It's like Capone being done for tax evasion.
Then again, all you need to make your own Beowulf cluster is an elastic band.
I can just see it now. An office stationary cupboard becomes self-aware and takes over the world with the aid of the geometry section of the local office suppliers and a couple of sets of Hot-Wheels...
Then again, you could view it as microsoft giving SCO enough rope to hang themselves with. I'd imagine the sequence of events would go something like:
1. SCO tell Microsoft 'you're violating our IP. Pay up, or we'll sue you.'
2. Microsoft know damn well they're not, but they pay up anyway
3. SCO lose court case to IBM, found to have none of the IP they claimed
4. Microsoft sues SCO into non-existence.
All mobile operators in the UK switched last year from a paper-based porting system to a net-based one. They still tend to quote two weeks for a port if they're feeling like being difficult, but it can be done in a day. If you have grief with your old provider, ring them up yourself and request your PAC code. They're obliged to give it to you. With that code your new provider can port-in the number almost immediately. What usually takes the time is getting a new sim despatched.
Slowing down real fast? Man, I want your brakes (and tyres for that matter) if you can slow down at 10g and not lock-up the front and rear end...
I think the wording here is a little bad. Having worked for a Dainese dealer and having heard about this nearly a year ago, my impression was that the system was a little more complex than this (it was certainly planned that way). The 10g referred to is the impact of hitting a car, so, for example, going over the bonnet would set it off. It's not going to prevent low-side injuries, but even having said that, if the bike hits something after low-siding, it probably will, so you've more chance than currently.
There were other methods of triggering the device IIRC, but I for one wouldn't mind being surrounded by an inflatable cushion if I was heading for someone's windscreen at a rate of knots. A friend recently broke his back after he went over the roof of someone's car and caught his head in the sunroof, so existing technology is certainly not infallible.
Purely out of interest, the headline talks about these statistics being from the states. Is it not still the case that a lot of states do not require the use of a helmet? Having also seen the amount of idiots riding around at 100mph+ with t-shirts and shorts on, I'm not entirely surprised the injuries are so bad. Thankfully, the weather over on this fair isle doesn't really allow for that kind of stupidity...
Remember you're on a website dominated by Americans who truly believed they invented everything worth having. The fact that the Scots invented telephones, tarmac, television and numerous other devices relied on by modern society seems to escape them...
I'm just waiting for they day Babbage and Turing are forgotten about as inventors of the computer.
No they couldn't, because they don't own the files, the user that created them does. If the user encrypted the file and someone got round it then it's a different story.
That's my understanding of it anyway. The person who created the work has the right to decide whether it is freely distributable and readable or not. (Otherwise, microsoft would own the information in every word document ever written - patents, copyrights, the lot...)
Yup, used to use Motif on Ultrix on old Decstations - compared to the ugly unusable rubbish that was coming out of Redmond at the time it was superb.
I love that guy that said that aesthetics has nothing to do with which OS people choose though, It has *everything* to do with it. Remember, geeks choose functionality and power, everyone else chooses something that matches their toaster and has pretty buttons on the screen.
It may have escaped your attention, but we got rid of most of the old imperial measurements. (With the exception of miles and I'm not complaining about that)
As for joining the Euro? No thanks, trying to link several wildly varying economies into one currency has always been sheer lunacy as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, I take it that means when the new global currency comes out that you guys will be binning the dollar? No, didn't think so...
Looking forward to getting this - currently have 7.3 installed and apart from a few minor niggles it's been superb. Only problem I ever had was that it could never install the AC97 on-board sound on my ECS-SIS motherboard. Definitely looking forward to KDE 3 though...
No, because it wasn't the white wolves who planted the bombs (even though they claimed it was) It turned out to the work of one racist homophobic nutcase.
I think the point that everyone is missing here is that this work is already done by humans, there's no new invasion of privacy. You'll find that the network of cameras in London help stop a lot of street crime. (it needs doing, London now has a higher level of street crime than New York). All the system will do is alert security personnel working on the street to keep an eye on one particular person, not to arrest them and lock them up instantly, just keep an eye on them. Considering this is currently done by some guy who has a hunch about the person he's looking at, it'll probably reduce the occasions of people being followed wrongfully.
That's what you get for saying '1 0wnZ J00' under your breath when you're typing...
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Perhaps you forgot to think before you phrased the last question. Computers facilitate the use of pirated software. TV's facilitate the use of stolen video recorders. Roads facilitate the use of stolen cars. Seeing a pattern here?
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It's perfectly possible to write deadlocking code in occam. It's just much easier to write concurrent processing code that *won't* deadlock.
Don't ask me for examples, it's something I purged from my brain as soon as possible after being forced to learn it. *shudders*
Oh and for general information, there's an occam compiler/interpreter available for solaris too. Kinda defies the point of a parallel processing language to run on a non-parallel architecture, but worth a look to see how it's done, though.
Amazing. When it's Microsoft abusing a monopoly I'm willing to bet you'd be right up there with those people calling for the curbing of their powers and stopping their anti-competitive practises. When it's your own government pulling the same stunts it's 'Oh you're all just jealous'.
Yes, the US is the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. No, the rest of us put together can do nothing to stop that. Your president consults his bible and randomly makes policy affecting the rest of the world whether we like it or not and we can do nothing to stop it. Of *course* we're gonna beg the American populace to put someone else in power.
To go back to my original analogy, if your government indluges in this bullshit as and when they please, what on earth makes you think they're going to do anything about the surfeit of global megacorps you seem to have doing the same thing?
Oh go on then, let's feed the troll:
It means 5th November, hence the 170-odd day countdown at the bottom.
I'd let you off with a 'I'm European/British, these dates confuse me' excuse, except even *I* figured that one out...
Re-iterating what I accidentally said as a/c:
Absolutely. If someone hires a hitman to kill for them, both of them get arrested/locked up/executed. YFLGMV (your fundamentalist local governor may vary).
So why can this not be the case with spam? You solicit a spammer to market for you, you get fined, as does he. If you didn't know he was a spammer, you have your contract with him that says he won't spam, so you can sue him, can't you?
Surely this is a no-brainer...
If my theory holds good, this news item will not prevent them from using legal strong-arm tactics - they will fight to retain their market share.
Oh come on. That's like saying "I believe we are a giant marble sat in God's pocket and daylight happens when he has a game of marbles. If my theory holds good, the sun will rise tomorrow morning"
Hate to say it, but I have an SE30 sat at home with two floppy drives in it... (not modded)
Apologies, I got lost in my own waffle there a little.
Take the previous post and substitute 'Pioneer made replacement radios' with 'BMW's never came with radios installed. Pioneer were one of the more successful companies making radios for them'
Which is a little closer...
The focus is getting Microsoft to unbundle because of the manner in which they're doing it, making it excessively difficult to replace their bundled applications with competitors products (which, by the way, existed prior to the bundling. Microsoft has essentially shut them out)
Remember, people didn't buy the OS when all this stuff was bundled. They bought it when any number of applications could be used to do these jobs. Once Microsoft had achieved a monopoly on the market, *then* they started the whole bundle-applications -> hide the interface -> force consumer upgrade cycle. That's what is causing the trouble.
People have previously used the analogy of BMW putting their own radios in cars. It's wrong. A more accurate version would be this:
BMW, through a series of back-door trade deals and fleet discounts, gain a monopoly in the worldwide car market. Now consider Pioneer. For years, they've made replacement radios for BMWs. They make a healthy living out of it. Suddenly, BMW changes all the connectors to the radios and require a coded signal to be sent between the radio and car electronics for it to work. Add to that they won't tell anyone else how the signal is coded and have the radios welded into the car.
Now you're getting near where Microsoft is at. Forcing the unbundling is the first step. Forcing the release of the interface spec would be the next step. That, unfortunately, looks unlikely to happen.
Once again, we're not just talking about 'a large corporation', we're talking about a *monopoly*, ie. a coporation who controls the market. What the bundling is doing is leveraging MS's monopoly in the OS market to gain a monopoly in the browser and media player market. That needs to be stopped.
Jeez, how many more people are gonna miss the point of this?
The problem is not with bundling per se, it's because MICROSOFT IS A MONOPOLY WHICH IS ABUSING IT'S MARKET POSITION TO ALL BUT ENFORCE THE USE OF IT'S ACCESSORY PRODUCTS AND DISADVANTAGE COMPETITORS TO THOSE PRODUCTS. Does this need to be stamped into people's heads before they understand?
In the end, it's largely irrelevant anyway. Microsoft has commited far too many abuses of it's power. While this particular instance may not be the most heinous, if it's the one that they can be prosecuted for, then that'll do. It's like Capone being done for tax evasion.
Then again, all you need to make your own Beowulf cluster is an elastic band.
I can just see it now. An office stationary cupboard becomes self-aware and takes over the world with the aid of the geometry section of the local office suppliers and a couple of sets of Hot-Wheels...
So you're saying you read the mass media for accurate, informative articles on the war in Iraq?
Excuse me a second, I think I just snorted coffee through my nose.
Actually forget I said that, I've got this bridge for sale...
Then again, you could view it as microsoft giving SCO enough rope to hang themselves with. I'd imagine the sequence of events would go something like:
1. SCO tell Microsoft 'you're violating our IP. Pay up, or we'll sue you.'
2. Microsoft know damn well they're not, but they pay up anyway
3. SCO lose court case to IBM, found to have none of the IP they claimed
4. Microsoft sues SCO into non-existence.
Easy. One less unix vendor on the market.
Yup, *really* easily fooled. It thinks your win2k box is a smouldering pile of wreckage that isn't worki...oh, wait...
All mobile operators in the UK switched last year from a paper-based porting system to a net-based one. They still tend to quote two weeks for a port if they're feeling like being difficult, but it can be done in a day. If you have grief with your old provider, ring them up yourself and request your PAC code. They're obliged to give it to you. With that code your new provider can port-in the number almost immediately. What usually takes the time is getting a new sim despatched.
Slowing down real fast? Man, I want your brakes (and tyres for that matter) if you can slow down at 10g and not lock-up the front and rear end...
I think the wording here is a little bad. Having worked for a Dainese dealer and having heard about this nearly a year ago, my impression was that the system was a little more complex than this (it was certainly planned that way). The 10g referred to is the impact of hitting a car, so, for example, going over the bonnet would set it off. It's not going to prevent low-side injuries, but even having said that, if the bike hits something after low-siding, it probably will, so you've more chance than currently.
There were other methods of triggering the device IIRC, but I for one wouldn't mind being surrounded by an inflatable cushion if I was heading for someone's windscreen at a rate of knots. A friend recently broke his back after he went over the roof of someone's car and caught his head in the sunroof, so existing technology is certainly not infallible.
Purely out of interest, the headline talks about these statistics being from the states. Is it not still the case that a lot of states do not require the use of a helmet? Having also seen the amount of idiots riding around at 100mph+ with t-shirts and shorts on, I'm not entirely surprised the injuries are so bad. Thankfully, the weather over on this fair isle doesn't really allow for that kind of stupidity...
Remember you're on a website dominated by Americans who truly believed they invented everything worth having. The fact that the Scots invented telephones, tarmac, television and numerous other devices relied on by modern society seems to escape them...
I'm just waiting for they day Babbage and Turing are forgotten about as inventors of the computer.
No they couldn't, because they don't own the files, the user that created them does. If the user encrypted the file and someone got round it then it's a different story.
That's my understanding of it anyway. The person who created the work has the right to decide whether it is freely distributable and readable or not. (Otherwise, microsoft would own the information in every word document ever written - patents, copyrights, the lot...)
Yup, used to use Motif on Ultrix on old Decstations - compared to the ugly unusable rubbish that was coming out of Redmond at the time it was superb.
I love that guy that said that aesthetics has nothing to do with which OS people choose though, It has *everything* to do with it. Remember, geeks choose functionality and power, everyone else chooses something that matches their toaster and has pretty buttons on the screen.
It may have escaped your attention, but we got rid of most of the old imperial measurements. (With the exception of miles and I'm not complaining about that)
As for joining the Euro? No thanks, trying to link several wildly varying economies into one currency has always been sheer lunacy as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, I take it that means when the new global currency comes out that you guys will be binning the dollar? No, didn't think so...
Looking forward to getting this - currently have 7.3 installed and apart from a few minor niggles it's been superb. Only problem I ever had was that it could never install the AC97 on-board sound on my ECS-SIS motherboard. Definitely looking forward to KDE 3 though...
I wonder how many CD's this one will arrive on...
Technology Unbound PAC
TUPAC
Superb... 'Sir, TUPAC is here to see you...'
No, because it wasn't the white wolves who planted the bombs (even though they claimed it was) It turned out to the work of one racist homophobic nutcase.
I think the point that everyone is missing here is that this work is already done by humans, there's no new invasion of privacy. You'll find that the network of cameras in London help stop a lot of street crime. (it needs doing, London now has a higher level of street crime than New York). All the system will do is alert security personnel working on the street to keep an eye on one particular person, not to arrest them and lock them up instantly, just keep an eye on them. Considering this is currently done by some guy who has a hunch about the person he's looking at, it'll probably reduce the occasions of people being followed wrongfully.
Ah, but fools rarely differ...
That's what you get for saying '1 0wnZ J00' under your breath when you're typing...
Perhaps you forgot to think before you phrased the last question. Computers facilitate the use of pirated software. TV's facilitate the use of stolen video recorders. Roads facilitate the use of stolen cars. Seeing a pattern here?
Duh...