Who cares? As far as I can tell, this isn't hurting anyone. Perhaps you can't ftp or telnet to these sites with certain clients, but that's their problem. I'm sure if they want to get refunds on their domains because of this, they can.
Right on man! I had just about given up on the "Slashdot Community" when I saw this message. So many people don't recognize the things that really make people happy. It's very sad to see people wasting their lives on relatively unimportant things, while missing some of the most important and joyful.
You don't need a Python Netscape plugin! Any browser that supports Java can run JPython -- the Python interpreter for Java. With this you get full access to the Java API, from the comfort of the excellent Python language. JPython applets look just like Java applets from the user's perspective only they're written in Java. With the advent of JPython, Grail is not really necessary.
The Pentium Pro was out when this was filed, and it operates very similarly. It translates x86 instructions into micro-ops which are executed out of order and retired in order. Memory writes go into the retirement buffer, and if they are the result of a mispredicted branch, they are expunged from that buffer. This is pretty much exactly the same as what Transmeta is claiming in this patent.
Yeah, why do you think the Shah was overthrown? Maybe because he was a brutal oppressive dictator who only survived as long as he did because of US backing. When you support regimes like this, and revolution happens, it's not likely that the formerly opressed people will look kindly on their opressors.
From the recent breaking of 512 bit RSA keys by a bunch of workstations, I think it's pretty clear that with an organization of the scale and determination of the NSA, it's likely that they can break significantly larger keys. Methods used to do this are a combination of: better factoring algorithims, better/faster special-purpose chips, and lots of them, due to the availability of dedicated fab facilities. If you want to stay safe from the NSA, set your crypto program at the highest strength possible, and then don't count on absolute security.
It depends on your application. I'm writing some scientific applications which like many other scientific applications, are constrained by memory bandwidth. With careful programming, high latency isn't a problem, but high bandwidth is necessary. Rambus RAM will provide 2x the bandwidth as DDR SDRAM, so I'm all for Rambus.
Linux uses a paged memory model, hence, RAM doesn't fragment. More precisely, RAM is massively fragmented, but the processor's paging unit hides this from applications. Thus, if you want to make sure that something is in RAM that would usually be on disk, a RAMdisk is a good idea.
I agree with the fact that parents should be spending more time with their kids, but the problem is that due to many social factors, the greatest of which being that many more women are working, parents don't spend enough time with their kids. Kids therefore watch lots of TV, and if what's on TV is overly violent, the kids are going to end up desensitized to violence and predisposed to commit it. People cite the fact that violence is very low now, but I'm not sure that's going to continue when the Columbine generation hits their mid twenties. It would be great if the government could do something to encourage parents to spend more time with their kids. Barring that though, if television is going to be a surrogate parent for too many kids, we need to make sure that it's not going to warp their minds after watching it for 30+ hours per week.
Censorship of art is one thing, but I don't think that's the situation we're faced with. Billions of dollars are going towards making violent movies and violent television shows which by and large aren't artistic or educational. I have no doubt that seeing a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" would have a strong effect on a child's psyche, and very young children probably shouldn't see it. A twelve year old would probably find a lot of worthwhile material in it. The type of content which this bill is intended to address is thinks I'm sure you're all familiar with if you watched TV growing up. The Transformers, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc. All glorified violence. If you're seven years old and you see this stuff for hours every day, and grow up a little and see lots of movies like Die Hard, how can you help but integrate some of the messages in the movie into your psyche? Some violence in media is fine, but the problem is that media companies have realized that violence is extremely profitable and turn out huge ammounts of it without regard to the effect it is having on society. Corporations don't care what societal effects they cause -- only the bottom line. If we are going to have a free market, we need to make sure that the laws of capitalism don't trample over the health of our citizens.
Labor Unions don't make any sense unless they are compulsory. Corporations hate unions and they will always create advantages for the workers not in the union, such as firing all of the union workers. Unless everyone is in the Union it is trivial to bust it. Corporations which have unionized labor forces in general deserve it. It's pretty tough to start a Union, and no one would do it unless conditions were bad. I have no sympathy for companies who whine about how much money the Unions are demanding, because if the Union weren't there, the workers would be abused.
If you want to know how Libertarianism really works, go to Indonesia and see the sweatshops. When corporations get free run, people get trampled on. Libertarianism is all about raw use of power for any end.
a) Yes, the ORA Python book is pretty bad. Particularly its organization. If you want to learn Python, I think that the tutorial that is part of the Python documentation is pretty good.
b) Python has performance similar to Perl. If you are having trouble with performance in Python, it is very easy to profile the program and rewrite a couple of functions in C for speed. If Perl is running faster than your C, you must be using bad string libraries or something.
c) Also, I've not seen much Monty Python stuff except for the name of course, but it doesn't really bother me either.
Why is he getting so defensive about Python? Why trot out statistics about how few jobs there are for Python programmers? After all, if Perl is superior technically, and obviously far more in demand, why does Python even warrant a mention in the company of such a language as Perl?
Perhaps it's the clean, logical syntax that lets you learn the language in a day. Maybe it's the strong OO features. It could be the easy C integration. Possibly it's JPython, the Java Python interpreter which lets you execute Python in a browser without plugins, with full access to the Java API. Could it be the easy readability which has led to the nickname "Executable Pseudocode", letting even a non-Python programmer understand a Python program with ease? It is all of these things, and much more. Python is a fantastic language and just because Larry says that you can't get a job programming in Python doesn't mean that you shouldn't check it out. http://www.python.org.
More code is good if it implements useful features. If you didn't believe this deep down then you would be using cp/m and Wordstar, and you would have no way to post on slashdot.
SGI changed how a lot of the Motif widgets look. Sun did too, but I think SGI's take on it is nicer. Unfortunately, if you just get the stock Motif like all linux apps are compilied with, it looks like crap.
Face facts. IE is faster, has more features, and crashes less. Netscape is a piece of crap simply because Microsoft has spent more money on making IE a good product specifically to kill Netscape. Hate to say it folks, but that's what capitalism is all about. Microsoft made a better product and won with it. I don't have much faith in Mozilla ever catching up simply because Microsoft is comitted to having the best browser and AOL doesn't really care about the browser. Furthermore, the commitment to quality is not there at Netscape. They were raised on a culture of fast development without regard to bugs. Now they're developing slowly without regard to bugs. KFM may not have all the features of Netscape but at least it is somewhat stable and is going somewhere.
It is the executive branch of the government that executes laws. Executive = execute. Think about it. Obviously the president should not be able pass laws without congress approving. No, you might not of failed civics class. You simply went through our government paid school system and are the obvious non-thinking outcome. I pitty you
If you had bothered to read the executive order, you would see that the commission's primary task was to determine how laws should best be enforced on the Internet. No laws are being passed, nor can they be by the president. If the task force feels that new laws need to be passed, they can suggest them to Congress. What is the problem with this? This is how government is supposed to work.
Did you fail seventh grade civics class? The primary responsibility of the president is to execute the laws. This means enforcing them. All he is doing is setting up a task force in his cabinet to discuss how law enforcement should deal with the Internet. Do you think that the Internet should be a law-free zone? Do you think that the laws which your elected representatives have enacted should not be enforced just because they are being broken on the Internet instead of in meatspace? If you disagree with laws you should try to get them changed. In the meantime. it's up to the president to enforce our laws. I'm sick of the rabid anti-government/ultra libertarian sentiment of Slashdot. I think all of you guys who think that laws shouldn't be enforced should get on a time machine to the wild west when laws weren't enforced. People got robbed, raped, and shot indiscriminately. That is what the state of nature is all about. I prefer civilization.
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Next, check out http://www.calderasystems.com/ and you will see nothing. Nada. Zip.
I did. Look in the bottom right corner and there is a link. The two companies obviously continue to share close ties.
Who cares? As far as I can tell, this isn't hurting anyone. Perhaps you can't ftp or telnet to these sites with certain clients, but that's their problem. I'm sure if they want to get refunds on their domains because of this, they can.
Right on man! I had just about given up on the "Slashdot Community" when I saw this message. So many people don't recognize the things that really make people happy. It's very sad to see people wasting their lives on relatively unimportant things, while missing some of the most important and joyful.
Then it's easy to disable someone's account by just writing a program to make bogus password attempts.
You don't need a Python Netscape plugin! Any browser that supports Java can run JPython -- the Python interpreter for Java. With this you get full access to the Java API, from the comfort of the excellent Python language. JPython applets look just like Java applets from the user's perspective only they're written in Java. With the advent of JPython, Grail is not really necessary.
Plutonium dust "burned up in the atmosphere" is still plutonium and will still give you cancer, but it is much better than it exploding in a city.
Actually Pepsico spun off its fast food businesses several years ago. They're called Tricon I believe.
The Pentium Pro was out when this was filed, and it operates very similarly. It translates x86 instructions into micro-ops which are executed out of order and retired in order. Memory writes go into the retirement buffer, and if they are the result of a mispredicted branch, they are expunged from that buffer. This is pretty much exactly the same as what Transmeta is claiming in this patent.
Yeah, why do you think the Shah was overthrown? Maybe because he was a brutal oppressive dictator who only survived as long as he did because of US backing. When you support regimes like this, and revolution happens, it's not likely that the formerly opressed people will look kindly on their opressors.
I would further suggest that it be emphasized that the Linux community members spend a good deal more of their time online than more pedestrian users
If this is true then Qwest would be well served to avoid such customers as they are not profitable.
From the recent breaking of 512 bit RSA keys by a bunch of workstations, I think it's pretty clear that with an organization of the scale and determination of the NSA, it's likely that they can break significantly larger keys. Methods used to do this are a combination of: better factoring algorithims, better/faster special-purpose chips, and lots of them, due to the availability of dedicated fab facilities. If you want to stay safe from the NSA, set your crypto program at the highest strength possible, and then don't count on absolute security.
It depends on your application. I'm writing some scientific applications which like many other scientific applications, are constrained by memory bandwidth. With careful programming, high latency isn't a problem, but high bandwidth is necessary. Rambus RAM will provide 2x the bandwidth as DDR SDRAM, so I'm all for Rambus.
Linux uses a paged memory model, hence, RAM doesn't fragment. More precisely, RAM is massively fragmented, but the processor's paging unit hides this from applications. Thus, if you want to make sure that something is in RAM that would usually be on disk, a RAMdisk is a good idea.
I agree with the fact that parents should be spending more time with their kids, but the problem is that due to many social factors, the greatest of which being that many more women are working, parents don't spend enough time with their kids. Kids therefore watch lots of TV, and if what's on TV is overly violent, the kids are going to end up desensitized to violence and predisposed to commit it. People cite the fact that violence is very low now, but I'm not sure that's going to continue when the Columbine generation hits their mid twenties. It would be great if the government could do something to encourage parents to spend more time with their kids. Barring that though, if television is going to be a surrogate parent for too many kids, we need to make sure that it's not going to warp their minds after watching it for 30+ hours per week.
Censorship of art is one thing, but I don't think that's the situation we're faced with. Billions of dollars are going towards making violent movies and violent television shows which by and large aren't artistic or educational. I have no doubt that seeing a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" would have a strong effect on a child's psyche, and very young children probably shouldn't see it. A twelve year old would probably find a lot of worthwhile material in it. The type of content which this bill is intended to address is thinks I'm sure you're all familiar with if you watched TV growing up. The Transformers, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc. All glorified violence. If you're seven years old and you see this stuff for hours every day, and grow up a little and see lots of movies like Die Hard, how can you help but integrate some of the messages in the movie into your psyche? Some violence in media is fine, but the problem is that media companies have realized that violence is extremely profitable and turn out huge ammounts of it without regard to the effect it is having on society. Corporations don't care what societal effects they cause -- only the bottom line. If we are going to have a free market, we need to make sure that the laws of capitalism don't trample over the health of our citizens.
Labor Unions don't make any sense unless they are compulsory. Corporations hate unions and they will always create advantages for the workers not in the union, such as firing all of the union workers. Unless everyone is in the Union it is trivial to bust it. Corporations which have unionized labor forces in general deserve it. It's pretty tough to start a Union, and no one would do it unless conditions were bad. I have no sympathy for companies who whine about how much money the Unions are demanding, because if the Union weren't there, the workers would be abused.
If you want to know how Libertarianism really works, go to Indonesia and see the sweatshops. When corporations get free run, people get trampled on. Libertarianism is all about raw use of power for any end.
a) Yes, the ORA Python book is pretty bad. Particularly its organization. If you want to learn Python, I think that the tutorial that is part of the Python documentation is pretty good.
b) Python has performance similar to Perl. If you are having trouble with performance in Python, it is very easy to profile the program and rewrite a couple of functions in C for speed. If Perl is running faster than your C, you must be using bad string libraries or something.
c) Also, I've not seen much Monty Python stuff except for the name of course, but it doesn't really bother me either.
Why is he getting so defensive about Python? Why trot out statistics about how few jobs there are for Python programmers? After all, if Perl is superior technically, and obviously far more in demand, why does Python even warrant a mention in the company of such a language as Perl?
Perhaps it's the clean, logical syntax that lets you learn the language in a day. Maybe it's the strong OO features. It could be the easy C integration. Possibly it's JPython, the Java Python interpreter which lets you execute Python in a browser without plugins, with full access to the Java API. Could it be the easy readability which has led to the nickname "Executable Pseudocode", letting even a non-Python programmer understand a Python program with ease? It is all of these things, and much more. Python is a fantastic language and just because Larry says that you can't get a job programming in Python doesn't mean that you shouldn't check it out. http://www.python.org.
More code is good if it implements useful features. If you didn't believe this deep down then you would be using cp/m and Wordstar, and you would have no way to post on slashdot.
SGI changed how a lot of the Motif widgets look. Sun did too, but I think SGI's take on it is nicer. Unfortunately, if you just get the stock Motif like all linux apps are compilied with, it looks like crap.
Face facts. IE is faster, has more features, and crashes less. Netscape is a piece of crap simply because Microsoft has spent more money on making IE a good product specifically to kill Netscape. Hate to say it folks, but that's what capitalism is all about. Microsoft made a better product and won with it. I don't have much faith in Mozilla ever catching up simply because Microsoft is comitted to having the best browser and AOL doesn't really care about the browser. Furthermore, the commitment to quality is not there at Netscape. They were raised on a culture of fast development without regard to bugs. Now they're developing slowly without regard to bugs. KFM may not have all the features of Netscape but at least it is somewhat stable and is going somewhere.
Maybe they're more concerned with the crypto than the format it's in.
I'm guessing you don't know the majority of the American public.
It is the executive branch of the government that executes laws. Executive = execute. Think about it. Obviously the president should not be able pass laws without congress
approving. No, you might not of failed civics class. You simply went through our government paid school system and are the obvious non-thinking outcome. I pitty you
If you had bothered to read the executive order, you would see that the commission's primary task was to determine how laws should best be enforced on the Internet. No laws are being passed, nor can they be by the president. If the task force feels that new laws need to be passed, they can suggest them to Congress. What is the problem with this? This is how government is supposed to work.
Did you fail seventh grade civics class? The primary responsibility of the president is to execute the laws. This means enforcing them. All he is doing is setting up a task force in his cabinet to discuss how law enforcement should deal with the Internet. Do you think that the Internet should be a law-free zone? Do you think that the laws which your elected representatives have enacted should not be enforced just because they are being broken on the Internet instead of in meatspace? If you disagree with laws you should try to get them changed. In the meantime. it's up to the president to enforce our laws. I'm sick of the rabid anti-government/ultra libertarian sentiment of Slashdot. I think all of you guys who think that laws shouldn't be enforced should get on a time machine to the wild west when laws weren't enforced. People got robbed, raped, and shot indiscriminately. That is what the state of nature is all about. I prefer civilization.