Most userland apps in Solaris are usually used in their 32bit variants, for good reasons. You don't really need most things to be 64bit (although 64bit versions are available, like/bin/sparcv9/ls).
I have to disagree. The most beautiful text interface I have ever seen is the one of my RS/6000 7012, with a really pretty green-on-black font. The console interfaces of my Suns are better than the ugly PC crap, but don't come close.
I have to admit that not much else about it would qualify as "pretty", though.
No, the spirit of free software is that we don't have to use it if it sucks, because we can just build something similar, but better. (Or something completely different, of course)
Right, nobody could have expected there to be holidays in december. This is obviously an evil plan of IBM/Novell/GNU/Eric Raymond to make SCO look back. Or rather - I'd recommend they sue Bun Bun, but that may be tricky given recent events and the fact that he cannot be found right now.
If you can build a scanner that is able to distinguish between legitimate use and stupid teenagers, I guess you can expect at least a turing award, maybe a nobel price in whatever category. Building an AI that reliably decides in real time what takes months to decide in courts would be most impressive.
If you cannot build such a thing, and Adobe/HP can't either, I say lets keep with the old "in dubio pro reo" thing.
his is the tradeoff between interpretation languages (python) and compiled languages (c, java). you get flexiablity in your code but you lose some speed in runtime.
No, it is the tradeoff between efficient and less efficient implementations of a language. There are languages that usually come with rather fast implementations while being very dynamic and flexible, like Common Lisp, which is usually compiled to native code. (Of course, there are also completely crappy and inflexible languages that are slow and/or interpreted, but they shall remain unnamed)
Not to mention that there are no "compiled languages" or "interpreted languages". This is a property of a single implementation, not a programming language. A python compiler would of course be possible, just as there are already C interpreters.
Python is strongly, dynamically typed
Ugh? Bruce Eckel says in his book (Thinking in Python) that Python is weakly typed:
This has a simple explanation: Bruce Eckel uses the terms incorrectly, even if he may otherwise be smart. So do many others, hence the amount of confusion over these issues.
How about simple, innocent uses like illustrations in a magazine? I'm pretty sure I have made layouts that used images of money, and I wouldn't have liked being preemtively treated as a criminal for it. How about using such images in a travellers guide, to tell people how money is supposed to look like in that country so they cannot be as easily tricked into accepting counterfeits?
There are probably thousands of legitimate reasons to scan and/or print images of money. Working around such technical measures will, however, not be something that stops any serious criminal.
BTW, if the USAsians are really that bothered about counterfeiters using scanners and printers, it would probably be a good idea to finally get real money that isn't that damn easy to reproduce.
Huh? Linux is released under a license which is nearly identical to the GPL, with slight modifications to allow binary drivers to be linked with it. Those haven't much to do with this issue. However, nice troll otherwise.
No, they would only cease and desist shipping the forbidden code to people who have the insurance, and not replace it for all others. Why would anybody pay for it otherwise?
Nah, you can download a prerelease. A demo level of Duke Nukem Forever would not have made much of a difference either, would it?
Granted, the GNU Operating System has seen quite some development, the betas are promising, and parts of it can be reused very well in other contexts, but given that it should have been released 18 years ago (according to the original estimate when it was first announced 20 years ago), what else do you expect?;-)
I guess you mean Cyc, also available as OpenCyc, a massive knowledge base/ inference engine that has been in development literally for decades. Quite an impressive thing.
Emacs is as much about text editing as C is about printing "Hello, World!", probably less. It is not a text editor, it is a runtime system for an outdated dialect of Lisp, comparable to a Java VM, a.NET CLI or a Python interpreter, or a Unix-like OS (a runtime system for an broken, outdated dialect of Algol called "C"), only more powerfull, since even outdated Lisp dialects make contemporary languages look bad.
If you use Emacs only for text editing, you didn't understand the power and beauty of Emacs Lisp. If you do use Emacs for more than text editing, you didn't understand the limitations and ugliness of Emacs Lisp compared to real Lisp implementations.
... windows IE only calls... using the object tag instead of applet tags,
Just a minor nitpick: The applet element has been deprecated by the W3C in favor of "object" since HTML 4.0, which was released in 1997. Using "object" instead of "applet" is hardly "windows-only", or in any way something bad.
Do you learn about implementing an TCP/IP stack? Or filesystems? There are OSes (and kernels - I repeat, they are not the same) which consider either part of themselves, as well as others that consider them userland stuff.
It is still part of the software package known as Mac OS X. What is and is not part of an OS isn't that clearly defined and, just to make flamewars more likely to happen, differs between OSes.
The Linux-view that more or less OS == kernel is not the only valid one, not even the most widely used or most useful one.
And a lot of confused and/or annoyed users after their recent license changes, combined with rumors about their "interesting" interpretation of the GPL, prove that this is not neccessarily always a good thing.
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$ uname -sr
SunOS 5.9
Most userland apps in Solaris are usually used in their 32bit variants, for good reasons. You don't really need most things to be 64bit (although 64bit versions are available, like /bin/sparcv9/ls).
I have to admit that not much else about it would qualify as "pretty", though.
No, the spirit of free software is that we don't have to use it if it sucks, because we can just build something similar, but better. (Or something completely different, of course)
Right, nobody could have expected there to be holidays in december. This is obviously an evil plan of IBM/Novell/GNU/Eric Raymond to make SCO look back. Or rather - I'd recommend they sue Bun Bun, but that may be tricky given recent events and the fact that he cannot be found right now.
Well, is there any case where Microsoft actually did win? All I remember are losses and settlings outside of court.
If you cannot build such a thing, and Adobe/HP can't either, I say lets keep with the old "in dubio pro reo" thing.
Not to mention that there are no "compiled languages" or "interpreted languages". This is a property of a single implementation, not a programming language. A python compiler would of course be possible, just as there are already C interpreters.
There are probably thousands of legitimate reasons to scan and/or print images of money. Working around such technical measures will, however, not be something that stops any serious criminal.
BTW, if the USAsians are really that bothered about counterfeiters using scanners and printers, it would probably be a good idea to finally get real money that isn't that damn easy to reproduce.
Euros too, and many more. I guess at least all that are mentioned at rulesforuse.org
Huh? Linux is released under a license which is nearly identical to the GPL, with slight modifications to allow binary drivers to be linked with it. Those haven't much to do with this issue. However, nice troll otherwise.
No, they would only cease and desist shipping the forbidden code to people who have the insurance, and not replace it for all others. Why would anybody pay for it otherwise?
Granted, the GNU Operating System has seen quite some development, the betas are promising, and parts of it can be reused very well in other contexts, but given that it should have been released 18 years ago (according to the original estimate when it was first announced 20 years ago), what else do you expect? ;-)
Maybe you cannot be nominated more then 10 times in a row or so?
I guess you mean Cyc, also available as OpenCyc, a massive knowledge base/ inference engine that has been in development literally for decades. Quite an impressive thing.
If you use Emacs only for text editing, you didn't understand the power and beauty of Emacs Lisp. If you do use Emacs for more than text editing, you didn't understand the limitations and ugliness of Emacs Lisp compared to real Lisp implementations.
NFS as a solution for security problems - now that's something you don't hear often...
Note that the reviewer didn't say that SunPCI is something new or innovative per se - just that he didn't see anything more innovative before...
#!/bin/sh
echo -n 'But version '
uname -v | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "." } { print $1 "." $2+1 }'
echo ' will fix all that!!!!'
The Linux-view that more or less OS == kernel is not the only valid one, not even the most widely used or most useful one.
And a lot of confused and/or annoyed users after their recent license changes, combined with rumors about their "interesting" interpretation of the GPL, prove that this is not neccessarily always a good thing.
Really? But I heard mauve has the most RAM!
This is slashdot. Pairing with yourself is not something unusual for most people here.