If their claims hold water, that is...
1. Centrino wireless support integrated, Wi-Fi roaming.
2. ACPI support - finally! I'm sick with rebooting the laptop.
But, good as it sounds, I'm still waiting for the Official.
Let's put it that way. It *WAS INDEED* no joy getting on with something like a dot matrix printer for anything except program listings... That's one of the reasons more advanced printers (jet, laser) got invented.
Well, there is a use for this - shared memory.
What's the bandwidth of the memory subsystem of your computer? Chances are, well over 10 Gbps (giga-bits).
Actually, it's very simple. Notice that you can easily turn right in this system. Then, by doing three right turns at correct junctions, you actually are turning left.
While this may sound like an annoyance to the human driver, it's nothing to the computer (well, it does involve some complication of the algorithms, but I believe that can be overcome). And the time you waste on performing these complex turns should be more than reclaimed by reduced waiting in the junctions.
I tried news.google.com and what do I find in the headline:
SCO satisfied with DaimlerChrysler case outcome
The SCO Group says it is satisfied with the outcome of its litigation against DaimlerChrysler, as the latter had now certified its compliance with its UNIX software agreement.
A court in Michigan dismissed most of SCO's suit on Wednesday. SCO had accused the German car company in March this year of breaking the terms of its UNIX licensing contract.
SCO said in a statement that the purpose of the litigation was "was to force them (DaimlerChrysler) to certify their compliance to their UNIX software agreement that they entered into."
SCO said it had sent DaimlerChrysler and more than 1000 other UNIX licensees a letter in December 2003 asking all of them to certify their compliance with their UNIX software agreement.
... continued
Well, what of today's songs will survive for 70 years after the artist's death?
Beatles maybe, guys like Sting and Madonna - barely, and there is NO WAY that B.Spears or Eminem will sell a single track then...
Is there music being written today that you think will make it for that long? I personally doubt that.
The browser isn't perfect, however. Firefox does not render nonstandard DHTML properly
Isn't it kinda ironic, declaring that it is "not perfect" because it doesn't render "nonstandard pages".
OK, granted, the OSS movement cannot afford to hold research divisions as is (universities are, to some extent, research divisions for OSS, but they are not focused on these things).
Most UI ideas evolve only as they are implemented, based on feedback from actual experience. There is a place for discussion of far-ahead ideas, if only to prevent Microsoft from patenting these ideas and stalling OSS development.
So, to prevent more patents like this one, I think we should create a GUI (or UI, or even more general) repository of ideas, probably based on a Wiki.
Aside from being prior art for many future patents to come, this may even help bring new GUI ideas.
So, yes, OK, default object creation in C++ may be kinda slow. But the power of it is that you can define (and quite easily at that) your own memory allocator, the C++ version will fly, leaving the Java far behind.
And you can write a fairly generic and fast memory allocator for C++. One was published in DDJ, January 1999 (disclaimer: I wrote this).
Are you blind guys?
strdup() performs memory allocation. WITHOUT FREEING!!! It's just a memory leak, no wonder that performance sucks.
If he managed to run the benchmark long enough to hit swapping, then the performance would sink so low that C would be slower than that of an abacus!
BS!
Imagine a mechanic that has no idea on how an engine works, or a painter who has no idea in color theory, or a musician that only knows the note and never played anything by himself... you get the idea.
Well, that mechanic will probably know how to change oil, the painter will be able to produce some abstract art, and the musician will do some trance compositions by C&P. But nothing genuinely novel and good will come out of it.
But really, are there any significant innovations possible in media players except for infinitesimal interface polishing? (DRM doesn't count as a feature;)
I get a feeling they're almost there.
Let's see. I think I can iron a standard cotton shirt in les than their 7-8 minutes, not counting the time they need to put the shirt on the robot and take it back off. And I can iron T-shirts significantly faster.
Now this means that ironing with this thing will be slower than with my regular iron (not to mention that if I get a steam iron for fraction of a cost, I'd do it faster still), and 7-8 minute breaks won't allow me to do anything useful because of context switches.
It is another story if I had a roomful of these ironing dummies, both of them working at the same time, and me continuously putting shirts on and off them. But $1700 apiece, I seriously doubt that.
The robot may be worth for some specialty cases for extremely expensive shirts which will live longer if ironed this way... but again, $1700 buys many of such shirts.
Hey, this is slate.MSN.com!!!
Now think, who will benefit most from executing script kiddies? (Hint hint: which OS is most often targeted by viruses...).
Migrating development from Solaris to Linux is not that hard - they're both Unices, and in my experience, Solaris as a dev platform... to put it politely... not the best out there. For a long time there's been no decent C++ compiler, their IDE is so-so, and for compilation speeds, a Linux workstation is beating Solaris unless you are prepared to pay some serious $$$ for a large server.
Now migrating development from Windows is another story - there's MS Visual suite of tools, which are generally very good (and requires a different mindset at that). Getting people of that camp to work on Linux would be much harder.
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If their claims hold water, that is...
1. Centrino wireless support integrated, Wi-Fi roaming.
2. ACPI support - finally! I'm sick with rebooting the laptop.
But, good as it sounds, I'm still waiting for the Official.
Reading books in the toilet... Or Slashdot anyway.
Granted, the price is a bit steep for that, but hey! It's still so sexy.
Oh so wrong!
I'm actually running Word under Crossover Office, and it still start very fast, compared to OOo (which is native!!!)
Let's put it that way. It *WAS INDEED* no joy getting on with something like a dot matrix printer for anything except program listings... That's one of the reasons more advanced printers (jet, laser) got invented.
You have been able to manufacture a microchip to control the recorder, and you can't find how to write a simple program like this? Suspicious.
Well, there is a use for this - shared memory.
What's the bandwidth of the memory subsystem of your computer? Chances are, well over 10 Gbps (giga-bits).
Actually, it's very simple. Notice that you can easily turn right in this system. Then, by doing three right turns at correct junctions, you actually are turning left.
While this may sound like an annoyance to the human driver, it's nothing to the computer (well, it does involve some complication of the algorithms, but I believe that can be overcome). And the time you waste on performing these complex turns should be more than reclaimed by reduced waiting in the junctions.
I tried news.google.com and what do I find in the headline:
... continued
SCO satisfied with DaimlerChrysler case outcome
The SCO Group says it is satisfied with the outcome of its litigation against DaimlerChrysler, as the latter had now certified its compliance with its UNIX software agreement.
A court in Michigan dismissed most of SCO's suit on Wednesday. SCO had accused the German car company in March this year of breaking the terms of its UNIX licensing contract.
SCO said in a statement that the purpose of the litigation was "was to force them (DaimlerChrysler) to certify their compliance to their UNIX software agreement that they entered into."
SCO said it had sent DaimlerChrysler and more than 1000 other UNIX licensees a letter in December 2003 asking all of them to certify their compliance with their UNIX software agreement.
Wohoo! They managed to get the account suspended. Now we won't see this mod for a long time...
... And to add to the list of goodies, a natural place for penguins to dwell!
Well, unless you account for the global warming. Servers don't work well in a puddle of water.
I wish I had that much disk space...
Doubtless you can find out there some music you like. But ask yourself, will your grandchildren like it? I'd be surprised if so.
Well, what of today's songs will survive for 70 years after the artist's death?
Beatles maybe, guys like Sting and Madonna - barely, and there is NO WAY that B.Spears or Eminem will sell a single track then...
Is there music being written today that you think will make it for that long? I personally doubt that.
The browser isn't perfect, however. Firefox does not render nonstandard DHTML properly
Isn't it kinda ironic, declaring that it is "not perfect" because it doesn't render "nonstandard pages".
OK, granted, the OSS movement cannot afford to hold research divisions as is (universities are, to some extent, research divisions for OSS, but they are not focused on these things).
Most UI ideas evolve only as they are implemented, based on feedback from actual experience. There is a place for discussion of far-ahead ideas, if only to prevent Microsoft from patenting these ideas and stalling OSS development.
So, to prevent more patents like this one, I think we should create a GUI (or UI, or even more general) repository of ideas, probably based on a Wiki.
Aside from being prior art for many future patents to come, this may even help bring new GUI ideas.
Well, at least on AMD64 you should be able to run normal x86 code.
So, yes, OK, default object creation in C++ may be kinda slow. But the power of it is that you can define (and quite easily at that) your own memory allocator, the C++ version will fly, leaving the Java far behind.
And you can write a fairly generic and fast memory allocator for C++. One was published in DDJ, January 1999 (disclaimer: I wrote this).
Are you blind guys?
strdup() performs memory allocation. WITHOUT FREEING!!! It's just a memory leak, no wonder that performance sucks.
If he managed to run the benchmark long enough to hit swapping, then the performance would sink so low that C would be slower than that of an abacus!
BS!
Imagine a mechanic that has no idea on how an engine works, or a painter who has no idea in color theory, or a musician that only knows the note and never played anything by himself... you get the idea.
Well, that mechanic will probably know how to change oil, the painter will be able to produce some abstract art, and the musician will do some trance compositions by C&P. But nothing genuinely novel and good will come out of it.
But really, are there any significant innovations possible in media players except for infinitesimal interface polishing? (DRM doesn't count as a feature ;)
I get a feeling they're almost there.
Let's see. I think I can iron a standard cotton shirt in les than their 7-8 minutes, not counting the time they need to put the shirt on the robot and take it back off. And I can iron T-shirts significantly faster.
Now this means that ironing with this thing will be slower than with my regular iron (not to mention that if I get a steam iron for fraction of a cost, I'd do it faster still), and 7-8 minute breaks won't allow me to do anything useful because of context switches.
It is another story if I had a roomful of these ironing dummies, both of them working at the same time, and me continuously putting shirts on and off them. But $1700 apiece, I seriously doubt that.
The robot may be worth for some specialty cases for extremely expensive shirts which will live longer if ironed this way... but again, $1700 buys many of such shirts.
Well, imagine running Doom on one of these!
Hey, this is slate.MSN.com!!!
Now think, who will benefit most from executing script kiddies? (Hint hint: which OS is most often targeted by viruses...).
Migrating development from Solaris to Linux is not that hard - they're both Unices, and in my experience, Solaris as a dev platform... to put it politely... not the best out there. For a long time there's been no decent C++ compiler, their IDE is so-so, and for compilation speeds, a Linux workstation is beating Solaris unless you are prepared to pay some serious $$$ for a large server. Now migrating development from Windows is another story - there's MS Visual suite of tools, which are generally very good (and requires a different mindset at that). Getting people of that camp to work on Linux would be much harder.