Software is a huge drain on India's forex gains ,
If India does not buy cart loads of MS licenses
from the US (paying out hard earned $$$) , that
money can be utilized for better things than buying
a new learjet for you know who.
Slowly Free Software is bringing economic equilibrium in the world of software... and
it is not negligible . PERIOD.
That said , India's defence system is starting to use Free Software for the pure safety of not depending on Microsoft (or any other closed source vendor). They are shifting from Solaris to Free Software slowly..
Independence and Freedom , be they economical or technological is important for any country , be it India , Brazil or China. This is the promise I see in Free Software
Of course, if you say that offshore outsourcing is unfair to American IT workers I won't debate you on that. But please try to get it into your head that there are no IT sweatshops in India. IT has in fact made millions of workers filthy rich.
Maybe you should come and work where I do... It has made a few tens of thousand workers filthy rich...
The "millenium" generation of graduates are seeing the effect of undercut prices and salaries by outsourcing companies. IF you're in a service company in India as a programmer,you're screwed... unless you decide to screw the company.
I get paid around ~200$ per month and I've churned out about 7000 lines of embedded C code in the past month.... but salary hikes are still based on how old you are rather than how good...
It's a capitalist economy and there are winners and losers... Looks like the managers win and the programmers lose here in India. It's not any different for the little guys..
Ha, you forget that both NDA and Congress alliances are both Right Front parties...
Though CPM did wipe out Cong in places like Kerala (which is ruled by Congress , but which failed to get even a single seat)...
Coming from Kerala, I think it's a BAD THING (TM) for a state gov to be not represented in the centre.
It didn't stop alcohol , but started off the highly profitable boot-legging which gave birth to protectionist mafias... and in short america's criminal class..
Considering that example , maybe education should be prohibited:)
Looks like the old saying's true..... if guns were outlawed... only outlaws would have guns...
That makes it 240000 computer hours... too cheap..
Think about this :
"Toy Story 2" had about 800,000 computer hours worth of rendering.
"The Hulk" had 2.5 Million computer hours
My office has nearly 400 fast machines , imagine this running them makes it 25 days . Running that every weekend makes it 12 weeks or 3 months...
It's a weekend job if I can sneak this in as along with the next upgrade.
DDoS time is over with all networks being careful about... the next big windows worm will be a distributed processing program:)
C# is not that slow for crypto stuff. I've been working on the DotGNU Portable.net VM for some time .
The Crypto api is implemented in C (for obvious reasons) and plugged into the engine. It should only have a slight degradation in performance due to the dynamic lookup of these methods. MD5's just about the same speed as one written in C (ok, maybe 97% is not 100... but it's damn near enough for me).
Looking over the DeDRM code , there doesn't seem to be any places where a performance hit due to array bounds checks are there . (that's coz he's using BlockCopy).
I'd have run this on DotGNU by now (ie it builds and runs, and no todo's around the things it uses) , but I don't have something to deDRM:)
bash$ yum install pnet-compiler pnet-interpreter
You'll find it in linuks.org:)
And enjoy the really fast encyrption routines from DotGNU (they are written in C and built into the engine)
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Ok , if they are not targetting GPL'd code here , what are they targetting... ?.
GPL says... provide source, license covers derivative works and should be redistributable under same license by others... damn !
I would personally like Eben Moglen's comments on the license... but there seems to be no way this affects FSF directly.. so unlikely
Does this include *all* of C? How do they compile the following C features into VM bytecode?
- Pointer arithmetic A: YES
- Hardcoded type sizes instead of using sizeof() (i.e. assuming sizeof(int) == 4) A: WTF ?.. C never had that... C never had a fixed size for integers... anyway malloc(20) will work
- Lax rules for casting A: YES.. had to work a lot to get those function pointers castable !!
- And so on A: Hey, porting glibc... remember
Think about it... a single C binary which will run on various platforms by adapting to the structure layout , pointer/int sizes , endianess and syscalls.
I'm not talking about switching everything to.NET , I'm just saying "C# sucks for performance"... if you want.NET don't do MS's Managed C++ (which is not x86 +.NET hacks) , use pnet's Managed C++
I'm a GUI geek most of the time... but actually, you should find how effective command line is when you actually put that with crontab...
like....open the firewall for browsing during lunchtime... send a password reminder mail every month or something...
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Software is a huge drain on India's forex gains , If India does not buy cart loads of MS licenses from the US (paying out hard earned $$$) , that money can be utilized for better things than buying a new learjet for you know who.
Slowly Free Software is bringing economic equilibrium in the world of software ... and
it is not negligible . PERIOD.
That said , India's defence system is starting to use Free Software for the pure safety of not depending on Microsoft (or any other closed source vendor). They are shifting from Solaris to Free Software slowly ..
Independence and Freedom , be they economical or technological is important for any country , be it India , Brazil or China.
This is the promise I see in Free Software
Maybe you should come and work where I do ... It has made a few tens of thousand workers filthy rich ...
The "millenium" generation of graduates are seeing the effect of undercut prices and salaries by outsourcing companies. IF you're in a service company in India as a programmer ,you're screwed ... unless you decide to screw the company.
I get paid around ~200$ per month and I've churned out about 7000 lines of embedded C code in the past month .... but salary hikes are still based on how old you are rather than how good ...
It's a capitalist economy and there are winners and losers ... Looks like the managers win and the programmers lose here in India. It's not any different for the little guys ..
Ha, you forget that both NDA and Congress alliances are both Right Front parties ...
Though CPM did wipe out Cong in places like Kerala (which is ruled by Congress , but which failed to get even a single seat)...
Coming from Kerala, I think it's a BAD THING (TM) for a state gov to be not represented in the centre.
It didn't stop alcohol , but started off the highly profitable boot-legging which gave birth to protectionist mafias ... and in short america's criminal class ..
:)
..... if guns were outlawed ... only outlaws would have guns ...
Considering that example , maybe education should be prohibited
Looks like the old saying's true
That makes it 240000 computer hours ... too cheap ..
Think about this :
...
It's a weekend job if I can sneak this in as along with the next upgrade.
:)
"Toy Story 2" had about 800,000 computer hours worth of rendering.
"The Hulk" had 2.5 Million computer hours
My office has nearly 400 fast machines , imagine this running them makes it 25 days . Running that every weekend makes it 12 weeks or 3 months
DDoS time is over with all networks being careful about... the next big windows worm will be a distributed processing program
Didn't you mean 'holy handgrenade and they somewhat know who would sit on it' ?
The Crypto api is implemented in C (for obvious reasons) and plugged into the engine. It should only have a slight degradation in performance due to the dynamic lookup of these methods. MD5's just about the same speed as one written in C (ok, maybe 97% is not 100 ... but it's damn near enough for me).
For the non believers have a look at MD5 Code Or Ripemd160 Or Sha512
Looking over the DeDRM code , there doesn't seem to be any places where a performance hit due to array bounds checks are there . (that's coz he's using BlockCopy).
I'd have run this on DotGNU by now (ie it builds and runs, and no todo's around the things it uses) , but I don't have something to deDRM :)
bash$ yum install pnet-compiler pnet-interpreter :)
You'll find it in linuks.org
And enjoy the really fast encyrption routines from DotGNU (they are written in C and built into the engine)
Yeah, like ... we're paid 200$ per month (make that 10k Rupees) ... not much , but I get to save about 1/4th of that ....
... say painting those lines on the road gets more per day than I do :)
... (but my salary is not going to go up anytime soon )
Funnily enough , a labourer
My only consolation is that my company has become a billion dollar company
Get rich or die trying
What about reflections off something ?...
And collateral damage due to "radiation" ?.
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Ok , if they are not targetting GPL'd code here , what are they targetting ... ?.
GPL says ... provide source, license covers derivative works and should be redistributable under same license by others... damn !
I would personally like Eben Moglen's comments on the license ... but there seems to be no way this affects FSF directly .. so unlikely
It's rather ironic to call it "FairPlay" and then refuse to "Play Fair" with the licensing.....
... But Jobs is too cocky
But I agree on the decision, Real has nothing to offer here
Go ahead , mark me redundant
Isn't it a bit too soon to give up on *this* planet ? (if you're not already an alien that is).
> You cant write OS/Drivers in bytecodes
.... micro codes ...
Even Intel does that
The GNU CPP has been hacked to add namespace support ... so that the following
DotGNU.SSL.h can be used in C .
... for the info on all the other questions
Read Pnet C ABI
Imagine getting a NullReferenceException instead of a Segmentation Fault ? ... it's as simple as that
Imagine ... compiling C on an 386 (or arm4 or ppc) , copying it over to an IA-64 and getting all the 64 bit arithmetic pipelines running full speed ..
... and portability
This is a good thing for people who want a Sandbox for C
Guess what language Portable.net is written in
Does this include *all* of C? How do they compile the following C features into VM bytecode?
.. C never had that ... C never had a fixed size for integers ... anyway malloc(20) will work
.. had to work a lot to get those function pointers castable !! ... remember
- Pointer arithmetic
A: YES
- Hardcoded type sizes instead of using sizeof() (i.e. assuming sizeof(int) == 4)
A: WTF ?
- Lax rules for casting
A: YES
- And so on
A: Hey, porting glibc
JVM doesn't have any pointer operations ... IL does .
...
Which means you get a set of pointers which play nice
Think about it ... a single C binary which will run on various platforms by adapting to the structure layout , pointer/int sizes , endianess and syscalls.
.NET , I'm just saying "C# sucks for performance" ... if you want .NET don't do MS's Managed C++ (which is not x86 + .NET hacks) , use pnet's Managed C++
I'm not talking about switching everything to
I'm a GUI geek most of the time ... but actually, you should find how effective command line is when you actually put that with crontab ...
....open the firewall for browsing during lunchtime... send a password reminder mail every month or something ...
:)
like
For those watching , it's magic
Faster than a speeding ..... welll .. ... uhjj.. ....
Stronger than a steam
Able to leap tall
hmm.. so what does Mozilla do ?
SCO's hunting easy game here ... that is CEOs who have relatively no idea what their IT department is doing ...
I thought the .so files were not binary compatible on different OSes ? (or is this some ibcs or stuff like that ?)
Wasn't that bottled moonshine ...