As long as I can run certain Windows apps (like some multimedia demos) in wine, and can have wine-based things like kylix.
I believe porting delphi to linux/wine is mostly a lot of tweaking and fixing the rough edges in both delphi and wine (plus writing linux-specific things like CLX). If a lot of code need to be written for wine, this won't be economically feasible for borland. Therefore, I don't think borland would care too much about whether or not open-source the small amount of changes in wine, compared to the tons of code in delphi/kylix. They just want to get kylix running and sold.
Quite a few other wine-based commercial apps are in the similar situation.
As for wine as a standalone application, LGPL might be better. How much of wine is currently commercially contributed? Not much, IMHO. Changing to LGPL might not do much benefit, but it surely will not do much harm here.
Netscape 4.7 is fast for some long pages, but WAY to o slow when rendering some complex pages like intel.com. Compatibility is also bad.
Mozilla is not slow on most not-very-long page, however complex, but when visiting the Most popular slashdot page at threshold -1, it just hangs for minutes.
Speed is what IE is good at. If you can't make mozilla faster, at least give a progress bar for rendering. I really want to discard lynx, links, etc.
If it is technically feasible, a good way is (when the ISP using too much bandwidth) to give hogging users' (for example, who have had transferred more than 10Mbyte in the last 10 minutes) packets less priority, so that they can be dropped first in case the ISP's bandwidth consumption goes too high. Just like the newest version of the linux scheduler.
For the developer, it is just as harmful (for him) as spreading rumors (or telling them to use a free replacement, etc.) to one friend so that the developer loses a potential customer. The difference is just that the `lost potential customer' is using the software --- this only makes the producer a very little bit more known.
That piracy isn't legal while the other ways are probably legal, does not mean that the developer is hurt any more by piracy.
You may argue that the developer *deserved* the customer that is lost by piracy --- that's why the Antitrust law exists, wrt real goods.
With this flag GCC code's floating-point performance gains by as much as 80~100% (by replacing divisions with multiplications, for example). Of course it breaks strict IEEE754 standards, but not many real programs. Probably it isn't used in the benchmark --- if it is used, it MUST be mentione
By contrast, the Intel compiler has a -mp switch that is similar to --NO-fast-math in gcc. This is not specified by default, so these standard-breaking optimizations are on by default.
Well, the gcc docs should explain --fast-math more thoroughly and put it in some easy-to-find place, although it should still not be on by default.
I dislike browser plugins for the following reasons:
1. They make the already-memory-hog browser even more bloated.
2. They account for 2/3 of crashes/lockups of the browser. Sometimes I'm visiting a really interesting and hard-to-find site (from result 73 of a google search) in another window, and cannot find the thing again after killing and restarting.
3. Many of them are CPU hogs --- I don't want to waste my Valuable cpu time when I'm not looking at the browser window.
4. Really interesting things that have to be viewed with a plug-in is generally Big, and not saving them would be a bad waste of bandwidth. If I save them, in most cases I can watch them in a stand-alone application, which is cleaner.
5. Compatibility is a Big issue.
Therefore, I think I won't like this plugin, although Blender itself is still quite good.
How to measure the frequency of laser when c is unknown? I think using an 1Ghz oscillator will be better --- although that surely need to be done outside.
I have compressed a simple song to 10.0kbps
by downsampling it to 6khz mono (using ch_wave),
and oggenc -q 0'd it. The result sounds
ok, although a bit noisy, like a tape played 30
times. However, it is mono. I believe stereo
things will be 50% larger, but is it needed when
the quality is just old-tape or 32k MP3 level?
If they think developing Asian versions is costly
and is not making money, of course they can leave
that market as they want. And piracy would be
a perfect excuse.
Which make better technical sketches than anything
that requires you to use the mouse.
Disadvantages:
(1) Requires a clear human brain
(2) As mentioned before, accurate pictures mostly.
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As long as I can run certain Windows apps (like some multimedia demos) in wine, and can have wine-based things like kylix.
I believe porting delphi to linux/wine is mostly a lot of tweaking and fixing the rough edges in both delphi and wine (plus writing linux-specific things like CLX). If a lot of code need to be written for wine, this won't be economically feasible for borland. Therefore, I don't think borland would care too much about whether or not open-source the small amount of changes in wine, compared to the tons of code in delphi/kylix. They just want to get kylix running and sold.
Quite a few other wine-based commercial apps are in the similar situation.
As for wine as a standalone application, LGPL might be better. How much of wine is currently commercially contributed? Not much, IMHO. Changing to LGPL might not do much benefit, but it surely will not do much harm here.
I'm on a P2/233.
Netscape 4.7 is fast for some long pages, but WAY to o slow when rendering some complex pages like intel.com. Compatibility is also bad.
Mozilla is not slow on most not-very-long page, however complex, but when visiting the Most popular slashdot page at threshold -1, it just hangs for minutes.
Speed is what IE is good at. If you can't make mozilla faster, at least give a progress bar for rendering. I really want to discard lynx, links, etc.
If it is technically feasible, a good way is (when the ISP using too much bandwidth) to give hogging users' (for example, who have had transferred more than 10Mbyte in the last 10 minutes) packets less priority, so that they can be dropped first in case the ISP's bandwidth consumption goes too high. Just like the newest version of the linux scheduler.
If only it is feasible...
For the developer, it is just as harmful (for him) as spreading rumors (or telling them to use a free replacement, etc.) to one friend so that the developer loses a potential customer. The difference is just that the `lost potential customer' is using the software --- this only makes the producer a very little bit more known.
That piracy isn't legal while the other ways are probably legal, does not mean that the developer is hurt any more by piracy.
You may argue that the developer *deserved* the customer that is lost by piracy --- that's why the Antitrust law exists, wrt real goods.
With this flag GCC code's floating-point performance gains by as much as 80~100% (by replacing divisions with multiplications, for example). Of course it breaks strict IEEE754 standards, but not many real programs. Probably it isn't used in the benchmark --- if it is used, it MUST be mentione
By contrast, the Intel compiler has a -mp switch that is similar to --NO-fast-math in gcc. This is not specified by default, so these standard-breaking optimizations are on by default.
Well, the gcc docs should explain --fast-math more thoroughly and put it in some easy-to-find place, although it should still not be on by default.
As for MSVC, I donno.
I dislike browser plugins for the following reasons:
1. They make the already-memory-hog browser even more bloated.
2. They account for 2/3 of crashes/lockups of the browser. Sometimes I'm visiting a really interesting and hard-to-find site (from result 73 of a google search) in another window, and cannot find the thing again after killing and restarting.
3. Many of them are CPU hogs --- I don't want to waste my Valuable cpu time when I'm not looking at the browser window.
4. Really interesting things that have to be viewed with a plug-in is generally Big, and not saving them would be a bad waste of bandwidth. If I save them, in most cases I can watch them in a stand-alone application, which is cleaner.
5. Compatibility is a Big issue.
Therefore, I think I won't like this plugin, although Blender itself is still quite good.
How to measure the frequency of laser when c is unknown? I think using an 1Ghz oscillator will be better --- although that surely need to be done outside.
I have compressed a simple song to 10.0kbps by downsampling it to 6khz mono (using ch_wave), and oggenc -q 0'd it. The result sounds ok, although a bit noisy, like a tape played 30 times. However, it is mono. I believe stereo things will be 50% larger, but is it needed when the quality is just old-tape or 32k MP3 level?
If they think developing Asian versions is costly and is not making money, of course they can leave that market as they want. And piracy would be a perfect excuse.
Which make better technical sketches than anything that requires you to use the mouse. Disadvantages: (1) Requires a clear human brain (2) As mentioned before, accurate pictures mostly.