BeOS was only free to developers prior to release 4 (the first x86 version). If you wanted to actually develop anything you needed to buy a copy of codewarrier since the linker would only link 64k worth of code. I think with R4 they stopped giving it away free but they started including the uncrippled linker.
Meta data is stuff that is adjunct to the file. Stuff like file name, file type, file size, etc.
Normal file systems have fixed fields for the meta data. BeOS, however, had very flexible meta data. You could define extra meta data which could be indexed (in the file system database) for fast searches. So an mp3 might have "artist", "bpm", "album", "genre" etc. meta data. Emails might have "sender", "subject", "recipient", meta data. This flexibility made searching fast and easy.
Anyhow, In windows/dos/unix, the extension (.txt) is generally used to determine the file type. BeOS had a "mimestring" metadata ("text/html"), so the name and filetype were totally independant (as it should be). Pre OS-X, MacOS/HFS files had creator type/file type codes to identify the filetype and keep it distinct from the name. In OS X, Apple has started distancing themselves from using the creator type/filetype code and instead uses the extension to guess the filetype.
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Lawsuits (and lawyers) are very expensive. Even if you're confident in your case, the judge or jury can do unpredictible things.
Who exactly do you think MS is buying off?
Scenario 1: Sun or intertrust files a lawsuit against Microsoft. Microsoft looks at the facts and decides to just pay them them $100 million.
Scenario 2: Sun or intertrust files a lawsuit against Microsoft. Microsoft defends against it and goes to court and loses. The judge orders Microsft to pay $100 million.
sure.
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No offense to the OSDN/Slashdot guys, but sourceforge has started to suck dick lately. Constant downtime, searches that don't work, CVS running a week late, and now PBS-style appeals for money on the front page.
If you just need a good (and free) public CVS server, what other options are there besides sf and gforge?
Assume you're a gay linux user (that shouldn't be too hard to imagine). Now imagine you're interested in pussy, but you know most girls are repelled by the foul stench emenating from your body. So you and your lug biddies have sex with each other every other night. But on Friday nights you go out crusing and maybe you'll pick up a prostitute, or Courtney Love will be in town, and you can fuck a woman.
2/3rd of donated money doesn't fund you or BSD development, it funds the Danish gov't. While it may be nice that they provide all those nice social services, the thought leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
Back in the 1980s, IIRC, there were some tax credits to encourage solar panels, but they were eventually killed. Al Gore also suggested it as a tax credit during the 2000 election.
Where I live, there are people trying to build wind farms. No grants, gov't subsidies, etc, they did the math and think they can make a profit in the free market.
However, a vocal minority of people complain that they look too ugly, are too big, ruin the view, etc, and have been able to use lawsuits and regulatory processes to prevent them from being built. As you might expect, they're also trying to convince the state legislature to pass strict regulations governing where and how they can be built.
I know this isn't an isolated incident. There was a plan to build a windfarm in the atlantic ocean outside of massachussettes. "Not in my backyard."
I predict environmentalists will shit a brick because it might disrupt a few sea animals. Just like environmentalists hate wind power since some bird aren't intelligent enough to fly around the windmills.
Considering the cost of the alternatives (coal, natural gas, oil, etc) isn't even on their radar.
I had one pre-interview where they asked half a dozen C-programming related questions. Simple stuff (write a recursive factorial subroutine, what is the assert macro and when should it be used, stuff like that). I guess it weeded out people that read the first 2 chapters of C for dummies or something, but most of the people the company hired had masters degrees or better.
recursion? in lambda calculus yes, but early computers sucked for recursion. With a modern ISA, you usually have a nice stack with push and pop instructions. when you call a subroutine, the current instruction pointer is stored on the stack and automatically popped back when you exit the subroutine.
Compare that to an early instruction set (like MIX in TAOCP 1-3). Subroutines are faked with self-modifying code (which makes recursion impossible):
If subroutine recurses on itself, you lose the return address. I'm not an export on early ISAs, but many of the ones I've seen had to do stuff like that.
Call me a racist if you want, but Canada has a black population of 2%. And a hispanic population that's even less than that. The US has a black population of 13% and 20% or so hispanic. If you compare the Canadian violent crime/drug crime rate to "whiter" states (utah, minnesota, wyoming, vermont, new hampshire, montana, etc) , you'll find them comparable.
Crime, drugs, and poor minorities go hand in hand like CmdrTaco and a 12 year old boy at a NAMBLA convention.
More importantly, abolishing the IRS takes away one of congresses most influential tools. Think of the campaign contributions from people and corporations that would prefer a deduction for this or a credit for that.
If not, then I can easily hide lots of income by borrowing against a marketable asset. Oh, and how do you determine if that is happening anyway?
So? You borrow money, you pay it back with interest. Why does it matter if someone does that? Millions of people borrow money to buy cars, houses, even TVs from Best Buy. It doesn't gain you anything as far as tax purposes are concerned.
Very Unlikely. They're a component of the DOW industrial average. 55% of their stock is owned by institutional investors. 1% by insiders. The other 44% by individuals.
They have a market cap of 158 billion. That's how much it would cost to buy back all of their shares and go privat -- and they would probably need a premium of at least 10% over market price.
Meanwhile, net income for 2003 was 7.5 billion. It would take 21 years to buy back all their stock if that's all they used their profit for, if the stock price somehow managed to stay at it's current level.
If you wanted to there isn't a single song on iTunes you couldn't get over a p2p network.
Bullshit. iTMS has some exclusive tracks and a large selection of classical music. p2p is great for popular stuff, but once you drop off the top 100 the critical mass isn't there.
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BeOS was only free to developers prior to release 4 (the first x86 version). If you wanted to actually develop anything you needed to buy a copy of codewarrier since the linker would only link 64k worth of code. I think with R4 they stopped giving it away free but they started including the uncrippled linker.
Normal file systems have fixed fields for the meta data. BeOS, however, had very flexible meta data. You could define extra meta data which could be indexed (in the file system database) for fast searches. So an mp3 might have "artist", "bpm", "album", "genre" etc. meta data. Emails might have "sender", "subject", "recipient", meta data. This flexibility made searching fast and easy.
Anyhow, In windows/dos/unix, the extension (.txt) is generally used to determine the file type. BeOS had a "mimestring" metadata ("text/html"), so the name and filetype were totally independant (as it should be). Pre OS-X, MacOS/HFS files had creator type/file type codes to identify the filetype and keep it distinct from the name. In OS X, Apple has started distancing themselves from using the creator type/filetype code and instead uses the extension to guess the filetype.
View the page source sometime. It'll make you think you travelled back to 1998.
Of course, there's also this classic snippet:
Lawsuits (and lawyers) are very expensive. Even if you're confident in your case, the judge or jury can do unpredictible things.
Who exactly do you think MS is buying off?
Scenario 1: Sun or intertrust files a lawsuit against Microsoft. Microsoft looks at the facts and decides to just pay them them $100 million.
Scenario 2: Sun or intertrust files a lawsuit against Microsoft. Microsoft defends against it and goes to court and loses. The judge orders Microsft to pay $100 million.
What's the difference?
I'd just hate to be the chump janitor that has to clean the holodeck!
You can't buy a new Wintel computer that doesn't include open source software.
What sort of new computer are you thinking of?
sure.
>
> help
help: Command not found.
> dir
dir: Command not found.
> win
win: Command not found.
> windows
windows: Command not found.
> help
help: Command not found.
> fuck
fuck: Command not found.
If you just need a good (and free) public CVS server, what other options are there besides sf and gforge?
Assume you're a gay linux user (that shouldn't be too hard to imagine). Now imagine you're interested in pussy, but you know most girls are repelled by the foul stench emenating from your body. So you and your lug biddies have sex with each other every other night. But on Friday nights you go out crusing and maybe you'll pick up a prostitute, or Courtney Love will be in town, and you can fuck a woman.
Hope that helps.
2/3rd of donated money doesn't fund you or BSD development, it funds the Danish gov't. While it may be nice that they provide all those nice social services, the thought leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
Back in the 1980s, IIRC, there were some tax credits to encourage solar panels, but they were eventually killed. Al Gore also suggested it as a tax credit during the 2000 election.
However, a vocal minority of people complain that they look too ugly, are too big, ruin the view, etc, and have been able to use lawsuits and regulatory processes to prevent them from being built. As you might expect, they're also trying to convince the state legislature to pass strict regulations governing where and how they can be built.
I know this isn't an isolated incident. There was a plan to build a windfarm in the atlantic ocean outside of massachussettes. "Not in my backyard."
I predict environmentalists will shit a brick because it might disrupt a few sea animals. Just like environmentalists hate wind power since some bird aren't intelligent enough to fly around the windmills.
Considering the cost of the alternatives (coal, natural gas, oil, etc) isn't even on their radar.
I had one pre-interview where they asked half a dozen C-programming related questions. Simple stuff (write a recursive factorial subroutine, what is the assert macro and when should it be used, stuff like that). I guess it weeded out people that read the first 2 chapters of C for dummies or something, but most of the people the company hired had masters degrees or better.
Yet another reason open source rules.
Compare that to an early instruction set (like MIX in TAOCP 1-3). Subroutines are faked with self-modifying code (which makes recursion impossible):
If subroutine recurses on itself, you lose the return address. I'm not an export on early ISAs, but many of the ones I've seen had to do stuff like that.Crime, drugs, and poor minorities go hand in hand like CmdrTaco and a 12 year old boy at a NAMBLA convention.
See the major obstacle?
More importantly, abolishing the IRS takes away one of congresses most influential tools. Think of the campaign contributions from people and corporations that would prefer a deduction for this or a credit for that.
So? You borrow money, you pay it back with interest. Why does it matter if someone does that? Millions of people borrow money to buy cars, houses, even TVs from Best Buy. It doesn't gain you anything as far as tax purposes are concerned.
They had a superior OS back in 1984, if only by default.
They have a market cap of 158 billion. That's how much it would cost to buy back all of their shares and go privat -- and they would probably need a premium of at least 10% over market price.
Meanwhile, net income for 2003 was 7.5 billion. It would take 21 years to buy back all their stock if that's all they used their profit for, if the stock price somehow managed to stay at it's current level.
Bullshit. iTMS has some exclusive tracks and a large selection of classical music. p2p is great for popular stuff, but once you drop off the top 100 the critical mass isn't there.