I spot a troll! I mean...informed reader? I haven't seen anyone else use the terms "bra" or "ket".....so you strangely have some knowledge that doesn't belong on slashdot.;)
Let me Clarify myself. If you read the article, you notice DarWINE combines WINE with a back-end emulator. The package, as it stands, is a syscall wrapper along with a back-end emulator. Hence, DarWINE *is* partially an emulator. [and the fun recursive acronym isnt as appropriate]
WINE is not an emulator....yet....on...a...ppc.....uh...isn't it actually an emulator? The idea behind WINE is that it puts a wrapper on native calls.....x86 instructions are x86 instructions....so DarWINE is more like, DarWISAE, because it is "sort of an emulator...."
/dev is the directory commonly used to represent devices. (e.g./dev/hd0 is hard disk 0)
There is a distinction between virtual and physical devices./dev/null is a "null device" -- a device which accepts tons of input but never produces anything.
so: foomachine# echo "abc" |/dev/null
produces NOTHING, since "abc" is given to/dev/null and/dev/null throws it away. (in lieu of a tty or lpt which would print/output "abc")
/dev/urandom is a source of randomness........
/dev/uspto is...well...obvious.
one poster suggested REPLACING/dev/uspto (the patent office) with randomness (... >/dev/uspto)
Another posted examined how the USPTO and randomness differ (the utility diff):
# diff x y # no response from diff means the two files are identical, so this poster succinctly suggests that the uspto is random bullshit.
Maybe their rage should be at the non-depiction of those events, rather than the ACCURATE (historical) depiction of churches being converted into mosques....
For the sake of this argument, assume a better analogy -- a ladder and a series of pulleys. Every step you climb up the latter costs (something) and use of the pully is free. The government pays to have a pully hung at a certain level, and everyone may use that pully for free. In a BSD style license, a company may use the government pully and then climb the ladder a bit, setting their own pully and charging for use to that higher level. In the GPL style license, pulleys hung after using a free govt-derived pully must also have no cost.
Now, in this scenario, taxpayers fund the hanging of the first pully, for public use. But a company has a profit motive and wants to invest a little to get good results, so they use the first pully, climb a bit, and hang a new one. [Note: This metaphor encapsulates many of the dual-licensing schemes -- gpl & commercial use for proprietary product] They haven't paid back the taxpayers for their use of the pully. If the first govt hung pully had NOT been free, the company would have had to pay -- and taxpayers aren't being passed those savings. In short, the marginal investment of climbing a few steps is nothing without the prior [free] public investment....and as such, they shouldn't be able to charge for them.
[The typical retort is that "thit just shows how the GPL is viral, and that a few lines of GPL code can take over a huge project." If you have a huge project with thousands of lines of code, and you are incapable of writing your own proprietary 3 line solution to do the same thing as some GPL'd code, then you deserve to go bankrupt. ]
Government paves a road. Private firm comes along and paints diamonds on one lane of that road....and tells you that you can no longer use the "SPECIAL LANE" without paying.
GPL > BSD style for govt funded projects.....if the *base* of the code was government funded, derivative projects shouldn't be closed.
Does anyone know why Linus hasn't sued? He'd get ESR, RMS, Tanenbaum and a slew of others that would be ready to testify in a split second. And for the record, the only reason Microsoft still stands is because typically, ESR and RMS are slightly at odds, if not fully orthogonal to one another. When they team up, it is a scary sight indeed.
What the hell is with the Yale bashing?
All the hedge-fundites come from Wharton for christ's sake. Yale is notorious for producing consultants not bankers -- use the right stereotype, damnit.
Yes, but does it run access (.db7) and have access-like switchboards off of which MANY soho businesses live? [Dentists, doctors, small mom & pops..] The JET engine may suck, but its the de-facto standard for mom and pops.
Yes, but do the macros they use at every major investment bank and packages like XLMiner work?
When there is a suitable ACCESS replacement for small business and something that runs crystal reports and data mining packages like XLMiner run, Microsoft is in trouble.
That last 10% of features will keep many major institutions around until near the bitter end.
What is even worse is when you're from a working class family and you manage to get into Yale, and then you realize you can't go directly to law school because you have aforementioned 100k in loans from undergrad....so now you work as a paralegal instead.
Thank you for at least putting a stop to the senseless class-bashing on slashdot.
You're ignoring constants. Constants can sometimes be large. That is why strassen's matrix multiply method takes longer than the naive method on small matricies.
Scarily, you have just enough knowledge to sound like you know what you're talking about. Sometimes it DOES matter how much hardware you throw at the problem, lest you forget the specialized hardware DESIGNED to crack DES.
How about your next computer I replace all the carry-lookahead adders with ripple-carry adders? Please look up those terms if you don't know them. I'm sure you'd be unpleasantly surprised.
"Your honor, we have no idea who these poor schmendriks are. We might have used some of their software in the mid 90's before we got beaten with a clue stick, but that was when we were still using Reynolds & Reynolds green screens and we didn't know what the INTARWEB was. Please make them go away?"
Apparently, Satan, otherwise known as the Prince of Darkness or the Fallen Angel, has taken up residence in nearby sunny Barbados. When questioned about his recent arrival into this mortal plane, he claims to have come to the tropical islands for his retirement. "You see, my home kept freezing over, so I figured why not enter the lucrative ice-cube business." Profits from Hell-on-Ice exceed 10bn quarterly, and after the OpenIPO, HOI stock has split three times and nearly doubled in value.
St. Peter, the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Virgin Mary and Rabbi Lottstein were unavailable for comment.
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Format c: /q
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......watch out. SCO might quote you in their next round of briefs as an "expert witness" backing their claims.
I can't believe I'm seeing a "Perelandra" reference on slashdot. I was starting to think I was the only person that had read the Space Trilogy.
Thanks -- you made my day.
I spot a troll! I mean...informed reader? I haven't seen anyone else use the terms "bra" or "ket".....so you strangely have some knowledge that doesn't belong on slashdot. ;)
-b
Let me Clarify myself. If you read the article, you notice DarWINE combines WINE with a back-end emulator. The package, as it stands, is a syscall wrapper along with a back-end emulator. Hence, DarWINE *is* partially an emulator. [and the fun recursive acronym isnt as appropriate]
WINE is not an emulator....yet....on...a...ppc.....uh...isn't it actually an emulator? The idea behind WINE is that it puts a wrapper on native calls.....x86 instructions are x86 instructions....so DarWINE is more like, DarWISAE, because it is "sort of an emulator...."
oops.
yes, i guess i did.
Maybe their rage should be at the non-depiction of those events, rather than the ACCURATE (historical) depiction of churches being converted into mosques....
Hagia Sophia......
which part of "this actually happened" was unclear?
Godwin's law.....
20% of 80% is 16% of the original. You now have 36% less bits compared to the original.. ;)
xpdf is free......so is ghostview. gsview32. windows friendly. google for "ghostview"
-br
The logic goes a bit like this:
For the sake of this argument, assume a better analogy -- a ladder and a series of pulleys. Every step you climb up the latter costs (something) and use of the pully is free. The government pays to have a pully hung at a certain level, and everyone may use that pully for free. In a BSD style license, a company may use the government pully and then climb the ladder a bit, setting their own pully and charging for use to that higher level. In the GPL style license, pulleys hung after using a free govt-derived pully must also have no cost.
Now, in this scenario, taxpayers fund the hanging of the first pully, for public use. But a company has a profit motive and wants to invest a little to get good results, so they use the first pully, climb a bit, and hang a new one. [Note: This metaphor encapsulates many of the dual-licensing schemes -- gpl & commercial use for proprietary product] They haven't paid back the taxpayers for their use of the pully. If the first govt hung pully had NOT been free, the company would have had to pay -- and taxpayers aren't being passed those savings. In short, the marginal investment of climbing a few steps is nothing without the prior [free] public investment....and as such, they shouldn't be able to charge for them.
[The typical retort is that "thit just shows how the GPL is viral, and that a few lines of GPL code can take over a huge project." If you have a huge project with thousands of lines of code, and you are incapable of writing your own proprietary 3 line solution to do the same thing as some GPL'd code, then you deserve to go bankrupt. ]
Government paves a road. Private firm comes along and paints diamonds on one lane of that road....and tells you that you can no longer use the "SPECIAL LANE" without paying. GPL > BSD style for govt funded projects.....if the *base* of the code was government funded, derivative projects shouldn't be closed.
how much is pauk hudak paying you ;-)
Does anyone know why Linus hasn't sued? He'd get ESR, RMS, Tanenbaum and a slew of others that would be ready to testify in a split second. And for the record, the only reason Microsoft still stands is because typically, ESR and RMS are slightly at odds, if not fully orthogonal to one another. When they team up, it is a scary sight indeed.
What the hell is with the Yale bashing?
All the hedge-fundites come from Wharton for christ's sake. Yale is notorious for producing consultants not bankers -- use the right stereotype, damnit.
*WORD* is the easy part.
Even powerpoint is almost a non-issue
How about Access/Excel...
So for any clone, ask these questions
Yes, but does it run crystal reports?
Yes, but does it run access (.db7) and have access-like switchboards off of which MANY soho businesses live? [Dentists, doctors, small mom & pops..] The JET engine may suck, but its the de-facto standard for mom and pops.
Yes, but do the macros they use at every major investment bank and packages like XLMiner work?
When there is a suitable ACCESS replacement for small business and something that runs crystal reports and data mining packages like XLMiner run, Microsoft is in trouble.
That last 10% of features will keep many major institutions around until near the bitter end.
What is even worse is when you're from a working class family and you manage to get into Yale, and then you realize you can't go directly to law school because you have aforementioned 100k in loans from undergrad....so now you work as a paralegal instead.
Thank you for at least putting a stop to the senseless class-bashing on slashdot.
You're ignoring constants. Constants can sometimes be large. That is why strassen's matrix multiply method takes longer than the naive method on small matricies.
Scarily, you have just enough knowledge to sound like you know what you're talking about. Sometimes it DOES matter how much hardware you throw at the problem, lest you forget the specialized hardware DESIGNED to crack DES.
How about your next computer I replace all the carry-lookahead adders with ripple-carry adders? Please look up those terms if you don't know them. I'm sure you'd be unpleasantly surprised.
you just described part of the functionality of freenet.....
128.36.x.x REPRESENT! (yale university)
"Your honor, we have no idea who these poor schmendriks are. We might have used some of their software in the mid 90's before we got beaten with a clue stick, but that was when we were still using Reynolds & Reynolds green screens and we didn't know what the INTARWEB was. Please make them go away?"
AP Newswire -- Barbados:
Apparently, Satan, otherwise known as the Prince of Darkness or the Fallen Angel, has taken up residence in nearby sunny Barbados. When questioned about his recent arrival into this mortal plane, he claims to have come to the tropical islands for his retirement. "You see, my home kept freezing over, so I figured why not enter the lucrative ice-cube business." Profits from Hell-on-Ice exceed 10bn quarterly, and after the OpenIPO, HOI stock has split three times and nearly doubled in value.
St. Peter, the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Virgin Mary and Rabbi Lottstein were unavailable for comment.