Not me. Open standards are what is needed. That way anyone can write software that interacts with other peoples protocols or file formats.
With open standards, governments (and individuals) are truely free to do whatever they like. They can throw their (our?) money away overseas to multi-nationals, purchase from local closed source developers, use free software or develop in house.
Personally I find the fact that democratic governments are letting private enterprise (rather then their electorates) dictate policy to them, well,... typical, but disappointing
Of course Intel's compilers are better than GCC--they've got top-notch professionals working on them full time, and their corporate image is on the line because their name is on the product.
There are plenty of software companies with the professionals and their name on the line producing absolute garbage.
But anyone who really cares about performance will seek out the better alternatives, like Intel's compilers.
There is too little information in the original article to regard their benchmarks as meaningful. If the compiler is so well tuned to the PIII, why does my Duron underclocked to 700 get exactly the same results?
So I download the binaries, and the Intel version gets it's own dynamic libary...is that the part Intel hand crafted for speed, or did the compiler decide to create that all by itself?
In the one million and one decimal numbers mentioned there are only 10 digits to be found;
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9
I sincerely hope the University of Lethbridge(?) regarded the sum of the above as a valid answer. Whilst I think 27,000,001 is also a valid answer, from the wording of the question it isn't the only answer.
English is a much more ambiguous language then mathematics...
It's been a while since I've read the series, and I just noticed I'm missing the first book from my bookshelves, so I might be a little off target.
1) I thought Tom truely introduced the wonder of Middle-Earth to the reader.
2) Wasn't he a pacifistic vegetarian? Hmm what a subversive element to put in any film, better cut him out so we have more time to show people sticking bits of metal into each other.
I prefer this article to show how important this particular "terrorist's" words are to Australia.
Anyone who requires their Jewish landlady to get them out of bed and drive them to pilot school, so they can then nick off to the knocking shop might be regarding as a wannabe, like the reporters and editors who actually started reporting this crap in Australia.
I hesitate to call myself a developer, but I have written and released (and abandoned) a number of open source programs. None of them have every been part of any distribution. My latest suite may require a kernel recompile, sorry but I can't avoid that (well maybe I can, I'm still working on it), should I not release my code til the support I want is in the kernel?
Barely finding enough time when I'm fresh and alert to actually sit down and code, document, update the webpage (Thankfully? I recieve hardly any email about my programs so I save time there), you expect people to install and check their software works under Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSe?, Peanut, blah?
Sorry, I'm not going to do this. If someone makes the effort to email me with a problem regarding my software, I'll make the effort to help them. None of my projects are usless though, as I wrote them to do something for me, and spent the extra effort to "pretty them up" in case someone else found them useful.
Videoconferencing under Linux is not well established and routine, just perhaps the GnomeMeeting developers require something not found in GNOME 1.4, the same way it probably requires something not found in the 2.0 kernel.
If the developer doesn't make it clear what is required to install/run their software before you download it, that is certainly a bad thing, but isn't that something this new rpm-apt program will fix?
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Not me. Open standards are what is needed. That way anyone can write software that interacts with other peoples protocols or file formats.
With open standards, governments (and individuals) are truely free to do whatever they like. They can throw their (our?) money away overseas to multi-nationals, purchase from local closed source developers, use free software or develop in house.
Personally I find the fact that democratic governments are letting private enterprise (rather then their electorates) dictate policy to them, well, ... typical, but disappointing
There are plenty of software companies with the professionals and their name on the line producing absolute garbage.
There is too little information in the original article to regard their benchmarks as meaningful. If the compiler is so well tuned to the PIII, why does my Duron underclocked to 700 get exactly the same results?
This might be informative if the benchmarking was done on a P4 rather then the P3 they used...
So I download the binaries, and the Intel version gets it's own dynamic libary...is that the part Intel hand crafted for speed, or did the compiler decide to create that all by itself?
In the one million and one decimal numbers mentioned there are only 10 digits to be found;
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9
I sincerely hope the University of Lethbridge(?) regarded the sum of the above as a valid answer. Whilst I think 27,000,001 is also a valid answer, from the wording of the question it isn't the only answer.
English is a much more ambiguous language then mathematics...
The hardest part is either translating all the letters by hand, or typing it into a program to translate it for you. ps2ascii saved me the trouble.
It's been a while since I've read the series, and I just noticed I'm missing the first book from my bookshelves, so I might be a little off target. 1) I thought Tom truely introduced the wonder of Middle-Earth to the reader. 2) Wasn't he a pacifistic vegetarian? Hmm what a subversive element to put in any film, better cut him out so we have more time to show people sticking bits of metal into each other.
I prefer this article to show how important this particular "terrorist's" words are to Australia.
Anyone who requires their Jewish landlady to get them out of bed and drive them to pilot school, so they can then nick off to the knocking shop might be regarding as a wannabe, like the reporters and editors who actually started reporting this crap in Australia.
OT!? but AC started it.
I hesitate to call myself a developer, but I have written and released (and abandoned) a number of open source programs. None of them have every been part of any distribution. My latest suite may require a kernel recompile, sorry but I can't avoid that (well maybe I can, I'm still working on it), should I not release my code til the support I want is in the kernel?
Barely finding enough time when I'm fresh and alert to actually sit down and code, document, update the webpage (Thankfully? I recieve hardly any email about my programs so I save time there), you expect people to install and check their software works under Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSe?, Peanut, blah?
Sorry, I'm not going to do this. If someone makes the effort to email me with a problem regarding my software, I'll make the effort to help them. None of my projects are usless though, as I wrote them to do something for me, and spent the extra effort to "pretty them up" in case someone else found them useful.
Videoconferencing under Linux is not well established and routine, just perhaps the GnomeMeeting developers require something not found in GNOME 1.4, the same way it probably requires something not found in the 2.0 kernel.
If the developer doesn't make it clear what is required to install/run their software before you download it, that is certainly a bad thing, but isn't that something this new rpm-apt program will fix?