and I won't consider it "childish" just because it has some obvious "abstractions" like the good old turtle.
On the other hand, logo is not really up-to-date compared to what's really going on (objects and all this nifty stuff)...
if I interpret my 80386/80486 "handbook for programmers" - Microsoft Press *eg* - correctly, the x386 family already had a stosd to store dwords. And that mighty processor introduced eax/ebx/ecx/edx, so why should the C compiler use 16 bit registers?
Then, the 4 statements would be running in pipes on anything >x486. Of course you'll get a block because ax is used in both statements, but it should be possible to run the second pop while the stosw is executed. Don't remember the names for the pipe states right now, so I can't explain better.
Additionally, if one distributes source code, the compiler could produce highly optimized code that would outrun java on *any* machine, but I think someone else mentioned this.
I have been hardcore-coding assembler back in 1995 for about 6 month (more than 10.000 lines. well I think the code was not *good* or anything, but I did...:) and if I know one thing for sure it is: respect the way the hardware works, and you'll get the fastest program that's possible. In this case, it was a multitasking OS kernel that booted from BIOS to command line in less than 2 secons on a 133MHz P1 - pretty much the same as BeOS...:)
Anything that moves you away from hardware access makes it slower, because it's adding overhead that could have been avoided using the mighty brain of (wo)men.
Right now, the compiler optimisations are so good that it's nearly no need anymore to write assembler code to get speed improvements. But the Java VM is still not the same as native compiled C. I like Java for some things, but number crunching is not one of them.
I think he should have thought about the likelyhood of the outcome he outlines - that SCO might own everything that is "derived work" since the first Unix System has been build.
I think that is what he suggests; any other outcome of the process, even bad for IBM, would simply lead to a code replacement of the infriged code parts of the linux kernel.
I don't see any (read, "any") chance for SCO to totally destroy the GPL. At least, I'd take a plane from germany to SCO headquaters and throw some stones by my own hands. If nothing else can be done.
BTW, I don't like viruses and DDOS attacks - they achieve nothing. but some stones might as well...;)
I (as a Palm Software Developer - OSS, BTW;) must state that the PalmOS documentation is very open even with internal standards. You can easily see most of the system struct's in the documentation, most are noted to "may change uncommented in the future" - but they have always been there, and it seems to me that they ever will be.
Of course, open source systems are always the "better" choice, but I'm pretty happy with PalmOS on my devices...:)
you know, it might look great, but what if I don't like how it feels when worn?
So, you'd have to try it out, anyway. Japanese people... you all are so inscrutable;)
well, I really liked the real life Great Teacher Onizuka...:);)
Anyway, this is concept art. If you have a look at other concept art images from other movies, you'll find that the faces almost never match the actors. This is about the Mechs and the Biosuits of the actors, and they match mostly.
And yes, as I german an can state, Asuka is from Germany. She also speaks german in the original series... but not the "german" I know... *bg*
The things that worrie me mostly are: a) the kids should be 14. Looks like they changed that b) Tokyo-3 seems to be something like New-Ark 3 or so...
OK, thanks guys. This is the first time I'm really PISSED with/.
how could you dare to put such an information about an upcoming movie into a HEADLINE, impossible to overread, and thus, revealing such a big plot thing?
Well OK it's just a speculation, so maybe it turns out to be wrong.
But why not put a f*cking spoiler warning into the headline and the rest into the message body?
Thanks, a lot. Again. Well, and sorry for my emotional outbreak, but this simply sucks.
Anyway, keep up the other good work;)
now this is, in my opinion, bullshit. We are not occupied in any way, and we have an army. But, whom should we attack? And, why?
Germany was the center of the world's biggest military conflict, involving much presence from Russia and the USA, tanks in the city of berlin (1960s) and stuff, for 50 years. We came over our own conflict (I think you might notice that the Mauer has fallen 1989), and we are the center and one of the driving forces of the European Union.Hell yes, I'm proud of that. The European states have been involved in conflicts like the balkan is now for thousands of years, and we finally do not want to conquer other lands. Of course, the USA don't want to conquer anyone, don't misunderstand me here. We don't intend to attack France (which has been an historical enemy for thousand years), England or any other country. And this is not about politics or weaponary forces, it is about the people. Europeans don't WANT to attack anyone. Anymore. That assmunch Hitler gave us a lesson; that killing people sucks more than any other thing. In the fight for Stalingrad alone, 300.000 people died on the german side, and I don't know how many russians, but the numbers must be close. We hate war more than any other thing. I live in an old house, and you can still see the signs of bombs on it. We live in a country that reminds us allways: war sucks.
Of course, it is nessesary sometimes. Like in Afghanistan; the USA and all allies (which we have been, and ARE in the fight against terrorism) had the absolut right to go into this country and destroy the structures of terrorism and the political system. But in Iraq? What where the reasons? The story of mass destruction weapons was nonsense, and EVERYBODY knew it. Everybody als knew that this war can't be won by one country only (because the "occupiers" won't be seen as those who bring freedom), only by the whole world together, and that the region will be unstable for years. But war is the most terrible thing on earth, and even if good and brave people (like the americans are, I still think) fight a war, terrible things happen.
All things that happen now have been forseen by many people, and I still don't think it was good to fight this war, or fight it now.
So, why are we against this war, you might ask. Because of innocent people suffering. And hey, what about museums and hospitals? Why have they not been garded, instead of the ministry of oil? And why, if the ministry of oil was garded, there is still no electricity and gasoliny available in large parts of the Iraq? Why do people have to suffer? I don't know, and there are many reasons. But none of them made the war "right".
Hm, go for it. Or, why don't you stay and help repairing things in the US? There seems to be very very much work to do (from the perpective of an "old european person", like, german. Very old Europe, indead. Like, we did not start any Wars for, let me think, 50 years. Look back at the American History of "self defence" of the last 50 years.). Well yes I'm German, I think the War is a mess, Napalm is a mess, and it's still not over. It has only began. Why not stop it instead of leaving?
are similar. I maintain a dictionary program for PalmOS devices (japanese/english, I think you can find it if you search - this is not about advertisments...), and it's mainly the same thing.
When there's a new version release, and I announce it on freshmeat, the site get's many hits, and that holds up for about a week.
I don't get much bug reports, either. By now the program is small, so there aren't many bugs to expect, but I think it depends very very much on the user base. Especially if all people are using similar environments you won't expect many errors you did not encounter. Most "bugs" are generated by different software versions in the environment, I think. Or don't you test it...?;)
Sometimes there are people active on the mailing list, but mostly it's silent. But I don't worry about that, as the site gets about 30-100 hits/day, what means that people are watching the project.
Just don't worry and keep work up. Of course you could try to be more "aggressiv" to get user feedbacks, like putting a bigger "please mail me your experiences" in the INSTALL, but I don't think one can get much out of it.
As long as you get downloads, but don't get tons of bugreports, the people seem to be lucky with your program. And no one could be made to contribute...
in short. It should be a simple, open format (even ogg if you like;), should be about 1$/song (or less, if you like), and it should be possible to copy the file as often as one would want to - for personal use, of course.
looking at my good old HP Deskjet 500C. I still use it, it still works (even if it has hard times... i.e. some cloth fall onto the printer a few month ago, blocking the cartridge carrier so it could not move any more... but it tried so hard to get back into it's standby position... I noticed a typical "electronic overhead smell", but it took me TWO DAYS to find out what it was. The servo was running ALL THE TIME. And what to say, it still works fine!
I don't think one could do that much harm to an actual printer.
Of course it was more expensive, like, 200$, but who cares. I buyed it 10 years ago!
Why should I buy a cheap printer with messy drivers and stuff, and do that every 12 months, if a could get a quality piece of technology.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic because that is (still) my first printing device I owned;)
Farscape really rocked my life, and this last episode is a typical Farscape season final... leaving with all the fear and doubt wether the universe will be OK and stuff;)
I just hope they can make up the movie they are planning, that might clear much things up. On the other hand, how to run a farscape movie without explaining why the frell there are at least two Scorpi's on the screen, and one is talking to John in funny environments? I'm pretty interested in that:D
well... it fall... down the stairs... from second to first floor... the whole way... you can imagine, this comic-style, taking every single step...
DUMPDUMPDUMPDUMPDUMPDUMP...
then it slided about 3 meters into the kitchen and stopped under the table.
funny thing: it still works, HD's are fine, everything absolutly normal. Just some... ditches in the casing:D
bravest thing I ever had. Still using it... would be kinda, dirty to get rid of it. won't it?
OK, lets assume this legend has a true story (most lengends do have a true story inside, you knew?;)
1. the media player thing: of course it won't play QT or Real. It HAS to be a DirectShow panel. Anything else, and RIAA&DMCA would... ah you know that stuff.
2. speech synthesis/guidance system: should be possible, there are some projects that could do that, easily. Not in good quality, but it's achievable.
3. speedup: prefetch. The only known way to "speed up" connections. Server-side compression seems to be ruled out. Anyway, the article states so many different numbers, that we can really be sure of nothing here. 100-500%, at least quadruples... what now?
4. 780.000 lines of code... HELL WHAT? Well we all remember those times when we could do about 100 lines of code per hour (rewriting it next day of course, and achieving the same stuff in 10 lines). Keeping this speed up for about 3 weeks without daylight seems to be possible for me. I once wrote something like a window manager+svgalib with two other guys in two weeks. But 18 months? Unnoticed? Still going to school? I mean, thats not even 1500 lines per day, thats 1500 lines a quarter of a day! Minimum... So, this is really impossible. Maybe they meant 7.800 lines of code, or so. Would be enough for speech synthesis implementation, DirectShow and precaching. And it would match a 16y.o. guy, sounds pretty like the stuff we did. Doesnt it?
In any other case he must be even more genius than me, which I, by all means, must doubt.;))
its cancelled, its down, we live in fear and Crichton may never reach home again.
They just paused the remaining 11 episodes til January.:(.............
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and I won't consider it "childish" just because it has some obvious "abstractions" like the good old turtle. On the other hand, logo is not really up-to-date compared to what's really going on (objects and all this nifty stuff)...
if I interpret my 80386/80486 "handbook for programmers" - Microsoft Press *eg* - correctly, the x386 family already had a stosd to store dwords. And that mighty processor introduced eax/ebx/ecx/edx, so why should the C compiler use 16 bit registers?
:) and if I know one thing for sure it is: respect the way the hardware works, and you'll get the fastest program that's possible. In this case, it was a multitasking OS kernel that booted from BIOS to command line in less than 2 secons on a 133MHz P1 - pretty much the same as BeOS... :)
Then, the 4 statements would be running in pipes on anything >x486. Of course you'll get a block because ax is used in both statements, but it should be possible to run the second pop while the stosw is executed. Don't remember the names for the pipe states right now, so I can't explain better.
Additionally, if one distributes source code, the compiler could produce highly optimized code that would outrun java on *any* machine, but I think someone else mentioned this.
I have been hardcore-coding assembler back in 1995 for about 6 month (more than 10.000 lines. well I think the code was not *good* or anything, but I did...
Anything that moves you away from hardware access makes it slower, because it's adding overhead that could have been avoided using the mighty brain of (wo)men.
Right now, the compiler optimisations are so good that it's nearly no need anymore to write assembler code to get speed improvements. But the Java VM is still not the same as native compiled C. I like Java for some things, but number crunching is not one of them.
there's so much free music on the net - why not listen to some new stuff, instead of airplay music ;)
besonic.de
mp3.de
nachwuchsbands.de ......
I think he should have thought about the likelyhood of the outcome he outlines - that SCO might own everything that is "derived work" since the first Unix System has been build.
;)
I think that is what he suggests; any other outcome of the process, even bad for IBM, would simply lead to a code replacement of the infriged code parts of the linux kernel.
I don't see any (read, "any") chance for SCO to totally destroy the GPL. At least, I'd take a plane from germany to SCO headquaters and throw some stones by my own hands. If nothing else can be done.
BTW, I don't like viruses and DDOS attacks - they achieve nothing. but some stones might as well...
I (as a Palm Software Developer - OSS, BTW ;) must state that the PalmOS documentation is very open even with internal standards. You can easily see most of the system struct's in the documentation, most are noted to "may change uncommented in the future" - but they have always been there, and it seems to me that they ever will be.
:)
Of course, open source systems are always the "better" choice, but I'm pretty happy with PalmOS on my devices...
you know, it might look great, but what if I don't like how it feels when worn? So, you'd have to try it out, anyway. Japanese people... you all are so inscrutable ;)
well, I really liked the real life Great Teacher Onizuka... :) ;)
Anyway, this is concept art. If you have a look at other concept art images from other movies, you'll find that the faces almost never match the actors. This is about the Mechs and the Biosuits of the actors, and they match mostly.
And yes, as I german an can state, Asuka is from Germany. She also speaks german in the original series... but not the "german" I know... *bg*
The things that worrie me mostly are:
a) the kids should be 14. Looks like they changed that
b) Tokyo-3 seems to be something like New-Ark 3 or so...
schroeder visits china, and directly after german human rights foundations told him to talk about that topic there.
:(
Seems to be a present to both the U.S.A. and germany to make political visits much more "smooth".
Anyway, not so bad for the good guys...
OK, thanks guys. This is the first time I'm really PISSED with /.
how could you dare to put such an information about an upcoming movie into a HEADLINE, impossible to overread, and thus, revealing such a big plot thing?
Well OK it's just a speculation, so maybe it turns out to be wrong.
But why not put a f*cking spoiler warning into the headline and the rest into the message body?
Thanks, a lot. Again. Well, and sorry for my emotional outbreak, but this simply sucks.
Anyway, keep up the other good work ;)
those kids should look whom they are messing with. In fact, they are messing with the most l33t people available in the world right now.
Let's see what comes next %)
now this is, in my opinion, bullshit. We are not occupied in any way, and we have an army. But, whom should we attack? And, why?
Germany was the center of the world's biggest military conflict, involving much presence from Russia and the USA, tanks in the city of berlin (1960s) and stuff, for 50 years. We came over our own conflict (I think you might notice that the Mauer has fallen 1989), and we are the center and one of the driving forces of the European Union.Hell yes, I'm proud of that. The European states have been involved in conflicts like the balkan is now for thousands of years, and we finally do not want to conquer other lands. Of course, the USA don't want to conquer anyone, don't misunderstand me here. We don't intend to attack France (which has been an historical enemy for thousand years), England or any other country. And this is not about politics or weaponary forces, it is about the people. Europeans don't WANT to attack anyone. Anymore. That assmunch Hitler gave us a lesson; that killing people sucks more than any other thing. In the fight for Stalingrad alone, 300.000 people died on the german side, and I don't know how many russians, but the numbers must be close. We hate war more than any other thing. I live in an old house, and you can still see the signs of bombs on it. We live in a country that reminds us allways: war sucks.
Of course, it is nessesary sometimes. Like in Afghanistan; the USA and all allies (which we have been, and ARE in the fight against terrorism) had the absolut right to go into this country and destroy the structures of terrorism and the political system. But in Iraq? What where the reasons? The story of mass destruction weapons was nonsense, and EVERYBODY knew it. Everybody als knew that this war can't be won by one country only (because the "occupiers" won't be seen as those who bring freedom), only by the whole world together, and that the region will be unstable for years. But war is the most terrible thing on earth, and even if good and brave people (like the americans are, I still think) fight a war, terrible things happen.
All things that happen now have been forseen by many people, and I still don't think it was good to fight this war, or fight it now.
So, why are we against this war, you might ask. Because of innocent people suffering. And hey, what about museums and hospitals? Why have they not been garded, instead of the ministry of oil? And why, if the ministry of oil was garded, there is still no electricity and gasoliny available in large parts of the Iraq? Why do people have to suffer? I don't know, and there are many reasons. But none of them made the war "right".
Hm, go for it. Or, why don't you stay and help repairing things in the US? There seems to be very very much work to do (from the perpective of an "old european person", like, german. Very old Europe, indead. Like, we did not start any Wars for, let me think, 50 years. Look back at the American History of "self defence" of the last 50 years.). Well yes I'm German, I think the War is a mess, Napalm is a mess, and it's still not over. It has only began. Why not stop it instead of leaving?
are similar. I maintain a dictionary program for PalmOS devices (japanese/english, I think you can find it if you search - this is not about advertisments...), and it's mainly the same thing.
;)
When there's a new version release, and I announce it on freshmeat, the site get's many hits, and that holds up for about a week.
I don't get much bug reports, either. By now the program is small, so there aren't many bugs to expect, but I think it depends very very much on the user base. Especially if all people are using similar environments you won't expect many errors you did not encounter. Most "bugs" are generated by different software versions in the environment, I think. Or don't you test it...?
Sometimes there are people active on the mailing list, but mostly it's silent. But I don't worry about that, as the site gets about 30-100 hits/day, what means that people are watching the project.
Just don't worry and keep work up. Of course you could try to be more "aggressiv" to get user feedbacks, like putting a bigger "please mail me your experiences" in the INSTALL, but I don't think one can get much out of it.
As long as you get downloads, but don't get tons of bugreports, the people seem to be lucky with your program. And no one could be made to contribute...
in short. It should be a simple, open format (even ogg if you like ;), should be about 1$/song (or less, if you like), and it should be possible to copy the file as often as one would want to - for personal use, of course.
looking at my good old HP Deskjet 500C. I still use it, it still works (even if it has hard times... i.e. some cloth fall onto the printer a few month ago, blocking the cartridge carrier so it could not move any more... but it tried so hard to get back into it's standby position... I noticed a typical "electronic overhead smell", but it took me TWO DAYS to find out what it was. The servo was running ALL THE TIME. And what to say, it still works fine!
;)
I don't think one could do that much harm to an actual printer.
Of course it was more expensive, like, 200$, but who cares. I buyed it 10 years ago!
Why should I buy a cheap printer with messy drivers and stuff, and do that every 12 months, if a could get a quality piece of technology.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic because that is (still) my first printing device I owned
it was not totally unwanted ;)
anyway, this is one of the best movies ever made, so money should not be a problem... :D
remember the extended versions... I think it will be aroud 11 hours pure F-U-N :D
Farscape really rocked my life, and this last episode is a typical Farscape season final... leaving with all the fear and doubt wether the universe will be OK and stuff ;)
:D
I just hope they can make up the movie they are planning, that might clear much things up. On the other hand, how to run a farscape movie without explaining why the frell there are at least two Scorpi's on the screen, and one is talking to John in funny environments? I'm pretty interested in that
well... it fall... down the stairs... from second to first floor... the whole way... you can imagine, this comic-style, taking every single step... DUMPDUMPDUMPDUMPDUMPDUMP... then it slided about 3 meters into the kitchen and stopped under the table. funny thing: it still works, HD's are fine, everything absolutly normal. Just some... ditches in the casing :D
bravest thing I ever had. Still using it... would be kinda, dirty to get rid of it. won't it?
OK, lets assume this legend has a true story (most lengends do have a true story inside, you knew? ;)
1. the media player thing: of course it won't play QT or Real. It HAS to be a DirectShow panel. Anything else, and RIAA&DMCA would... ah you know that stuff.
2. speech synthesis/guidance system: should be possible, there are some projects that could do that, easily. Not in good quality, but it's achievable.
3. speedup: prefetch. The only known way to "speed up" connections. Server-side compression seems to be ruled out. Anyway, the article states so many different numbers, that we can really be sure of nothing here. 100-500%, at least quadruples... what now?
4. 780.000 lines of code... HELL WHAT? Well we all remember those times when we could do about 100 lines of code per hour (rewriting it next day of course, and achieving the same stuff in 10 lines). Keeping this speed up for about 3 weeks without daylight seems to be possible for me. I once wrote something like a window manager+svgalib with two other guys in two weeks. But 18 months? Unnoticed? Still going to school? I mean, thats not even 1500 lines per day, thats 1500 lines a quarter of a day! Minimum... So, this is really impossible. Maybe they meant 7.800 lines of code, or so. Would be enough for speech synthesis implementation, DirectShow and precaching. And it would match a 16y.o. guy, sounds pretty like the stuff we did. Doesnt it?
In any other case he must be even more genius than me, which I, by all means, must doubt. ;))
its cancelled, its down, we live in fear and Crichton may never reach home again. They just paused the remaining 11 episodes til January. :(.............
on his wireless keyboard, if he has an appropriate receiver? nice to know :)
Hope bluetooth is in stores soon...