Typically, when one points out the irony, in the sense in which you did, it is an attempt to encapsulate another motive, e.g. telling me to "Watch it, bud. You're being offensive."
Don't pretend to be so innocent, because it really doesn't bother me;)
Hey, I'm using the Lord's name in a sentence telling people not to be lazy. I think the Good News, the Man Upstairs, and JC himself would approve.
Had I said, "Jesus Fucking Christ people, don't be so God damned lazy!" I would gladly agree with your point.
Also note, my respect for anything "religious" is on par with my respect for the man/woman who walks their dog, leaving its' shit lying around for me to step in. So capping the J and the C is pretty good for me, especially on a bad day.
All of the projects I have done in my courses and at my job have compiled without warning on gcc, cl.exe, pgcc, icc, whatever borlands.exe is, etc. If you write to the standard, it will compile. Following these simple rules will usually ensure that your code works:
1. Always put variable declarations within functions first: e.g, no
for (int i = 0;...;i++){... }
or
int a = some_function(...);
When I first learned C, this was probably one of the ONLY syntax problems I ran into.
2. Pointers will work the same! They are a standard and have not been messed with. If you do it right, every credible compiler will compile it without warnings or complaints.
3. If you see warnings on one compiler and not another, fix the warnings! It means you did something not quite right, like you didn't cast your malloc() call. I can't count the number of developers that do stupid, lazy shit like that. Jesus Christ people, don't be lazy. Sidenote: It's nice to see that the kernel dev's have gotten rid of a lot of the warnings that I used to see in 2.4. There are only like 1 or 2 now.
Well, if you are concerned with precision math in your programs (i mean, really concerned, not just having fun), you will hopefully be using either the Intel compilers (their fortran compiler is also killer) as you stated, or the Portland Group's PGI compilers. They seem to do a lot better when it comes to floating point accuracy and trigonometric funtions.
The MS compilers are *decent* when it comes to this, but I would never seriously consider using them for anything beyond a simple physics engine for a video game.
From the benchmarks i've done on the four compilers, gcc, MS's, pgcc, icc, intel absolutely stomped on everything in terms of precision and speed. PGI was on par with intel, in terms of accuracy, but their price is a little unreasonable.
For those of you that aren't aware, Fedora Core 2 will include X.org's implementation of X11. I found the packages while browsing the development directory on one of my mirrors. Also of note, were the nice gnome-2.6.0 packages all laid out for my downloading pleasure. Ahem, offtopic, but does anyone know why the release of gnome 2.6 has not been mentioned, despite the fact that it occured almost a week ago?
Its about time. I wonder if they fixed that annoying ass bug where reads to ACPI cause the audio to skip. That would be nice since I will once again, be able to use my battery monitor on my laptop while listening to music. I never had this problem with OSS, but had to switch since every peice of serious music software for linux demands ALSA.
What would be nice is if these developers used their skill to write actual games for linux instead of game-like sys-admin stuff. Although it sounds really neat and all, I believe they should use this to put out linux games since the rm command does exactly what this 'game' does in a lot less time.
FYI: Most "tangible" programming has no interface. Libraries are where the most important code in your programs lie. Don't believe that because you aren't programming fancy gui's or graphics in your CS classes that you aren't doing anything tangible. The most effective code (kernel, libs, etc.) usually has no interface. I only say this because I too, once felt the way you do.
Yes, I know, YHBT something HAND, whatever, but he said he upgraded his kernel. If you had to do that in windows, you would need a reboot too, dumbshit.
Michael Dell is probably the least shady character on Dell's board of directors.
Have a look at their BOD page. You will see that a lot of the people on the board are affiliated with large banks (chase/manhattan), oil companies, defense contractors, government agencies, etc. However, this is typical of many large US companies.
M. Dell however, was a true business man. Started Dell from the ground up and had no other motives.
You'd think that a bunch of grown men, capable of even writing software licenses, would be able to avoid throwing childish pissy fits about such trivial issues.
The point is: XFree86 is free (speech) and will continue to be so. They only "reinforced" the clause that says "Give credit to us for writing it" or so the mailing list post says.
I'f someone could give me a good reason why anyone should be rejecting the license, not more of this "Wah! Their license in incompatible with my license! Boohoo" nonsense, I'd likely shut up and live with it. I have heard no good reasons so far, why no one can use the new X11 license.
It's whining bitches who will ruin linux, the GPL, and free software.
FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x offer both redhat 6.2, 7.1 and 8.0 in the ports collection. Just thought you'd like to know. And for that parent, FreeBSD's linux emulation is absolutely impecable. There is no app I can't run from linux.
Wow, a collection of header files that have similar function declarations!!! Unreal! Those IBM bastards!
Correct me if I am wrong, but POSIX compliance does not require a license from SCO. Defining these functions similarly to the SysV style is not a breach of IP. It's the code that these functions represent that may be in breach, but SCO does not outline any of this.
Also, the JFS file system is IBM's own work. Yes, if IBM makes a change to the actually system v code base by adding jfs, then those changes are only usable by the licensees. But there is no indication that the implementation of JFS made any impact on that SYSV standard. Its a code base that is external to the licensed system v code and is therefore not under any of SCO's jurisdiction.
In conlusion, their case is null and void. I hope their board of directors spend a few years behind bars for this spectacular abuse of the US legal system. Maybe IBM can pay off some inmates to make Darl someones bitch.
Actually, I spent just a half hour yesterday doing just that. Its a fairly new dell with wireless and acpi power management. Every problem that plauged me with linux was gone from FreeBSD. My acpi support worked fresh of the install with Suspend and battery monitoring working without any further configuration. acpi on linux often conflicted with my sound card and caused lots of strange noises. Even with windows, the ACPI implementation did not work. FreeBSD is the first OS that actually works correctly on this machine. It found my wifi card all by its lonesome and configured it correctly as well. Maybe you haven't run it in a while but the 5.2 release is killer.
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We've had joy sticks since the kitty hawk flyer took its first flight. Easy to use 3d pointing device? We've had em for about a century.
With high enough quality, the problems with accuracy can be handled.
Remember one thing when you point out irony:
;)
Typically, when one points out the irony, in the sense in which you did, it is an attempt to encapsulate another motive, e.g. telling me to "Watch it, bud. You're being offensive."
Don't pretend to be so innocent, because it really doesn't bother me
Guilt? What have I to be guilty about?
Hey, I'm using the Lord's name in a sentence telling people not to be lazy. I think the Good News, the Man Upstairs, and JC himself would approve.
Had I said, "Jesus Fucking Christ people, don't be so God damned lazy!" I would gladly agree with your point.
Also note, my respect for anything "religious" is on par with my respect for the man/woman who walks their dog, leaving its' shit lying around for me to step in. So capping the J and the C is pretty good for me, especially on a bad day.
WTF?
.exe is, etc. If you write to the standard, it will compile. Following these simple rules will usually ensure that your code works:
... ;i++){ ... }
All of the projects I have done in my courses and at my job have compiled without warning on gcc, cl.exe, pgcc, icc, whatever borlands
1. Always put variable declarations within functions first: e.g, no
for (int i = 0;
or
int a = some_function(...);
When I first learned C, this was probably one of the ONLY syntax problems I ran into.
2. Pointers will work the same! They are a standard and have not been messed with. If you do it right, every credible compiler will compile it without warnings or complaints.
3. If you see warnings on one compiler and not another, fix the warnings! It means you did something not quite right, like you didn't cast your malloc() call. I can't count the number of developers that do stupid, lazy shit like that. Jesus Christ people, don't be lazy. Sidenote: It's nice to see that the kernel dev's have gotten rid of a lot of the warnings that I used to see in 2.4. There are only like 1 or 2 now.
Well, if you are concerned with precision math in your programs (i mean, really concerned, not just having fun), you will hopefully be using either the Intel compilers (their fortran compiler is also killer) as you stated, or the Portland Group's PGI compilers. They seem to do a lot better when it comes to floating point accuracy and trigonometric funtions.
The MS compilers are *decent* when it comes to this, but I would never seriously consider using them for anything beyond a simple physics engine for a video game.
From the benchmarks i've done on the four compilers, gcc, MS's, pgcc, icc, intel absolutely stomped on everything in terms of precision and speed. PGI was on par with intel, in terms of accuracy, but their price is a little unreasonable.
For those of you that aren't aware, Fedora Core 2 will include X.org's implementation of X11. I found the packages while browsing the development directory on one of my mirrors. Also of note, were the nice gnome-2.6.0 packages all laid out for my downloading pleasure. Ahem, offtopic, but does anyone know why the release of gnome 2.6 has not been mentioned, despite the fact that it occured almost a week ago?
Its about time. I wonder if they fixed that annoying ass bug where reads to ACPI cause the audio to skip. That would be nice since I will once again, be able to use my battery monitor on my laptop while listening to music. I never had this problem with OSS, but had to switch since every peice of serious music software for linux demands ALSA.
What would be nice is if these developers used their skill to write actual games for linux instead of game-like sys-admin stuff. Although it sounds really neat and all, I believe they should use this to put out linux games since the rm command does exactly what this 'game' does in a lot less time.
For a troll, that shit was fuckin funny... congrats!
Woohoo! Time to go dumpster diving... If anyone takes this article seriously, there should be some sweet hard-wares lying around in the trash!
I read the rest of the article, nevermind.
It's not eugenia though, this guy actually seems to have some competence.
that what happened to Time Warner after their acquisition of AOL will also happen to microsoft. that ought to level the playing field a bit.
FYI: Most "tangible" programming has no interface. Libraries are where the most important code in your programs lie. Don't believe that because you aren't programming fancy gui's or graphics in your CS classes that you aren't doing anything tangible. The most effective code (kernel, libs, etc.) usually has no interface. I only say this because I too, once felt the way you do.
Yes, I know, YHBT something HAND, whatever, but he said he upgraded his kernel. If you had to do that in windows, you would need a reboot too, dumbshit.
Yeah, at least it wasn't another OSNews Review. ;)
Michael Dell is probably the least shady character on Dell's board of directors.
Have a look at their BOD page. You will see that a lot of the people on the board are affiliated with large banks (chase/manhattan), oil companies, defense contractors, government agencies, etc. However, this is typical of many large US companies.
M. Dell however, was a true business man. Started Dell from the ground up and had no other motives.
I had to bite:
.09 since .9 would imply that 90% of your blood is now alcohol and you die somewhere around .4 or .5.
driving at.9, for example
I hope that you mean
FYI
You'd think that a bunch of grown men, capable of even writing software licenses, would be able to avoid throwing childish pissy fits about such trivial issues.
The point is: XFree86 is free (speech) and will continue to be so. They only "reinforced" the clause that says "Give credit to us for writing it" or so the mailing list post says.
I'f someone could give me a good reason why anyone should be rejecting the license, not more of this "Wah! Their license in incompatible with my license! Boohoo" nonsense, I'd likely shut up and live with it. I have heard no good reasons so far, why no one can use the new X11 license.
It's whining bitches who will ruin linux, the GPL, and free software.
FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x offer both redhat 6.2, 7.1 and 8.0 in the ports collection. Just thought you'd like to know. And for that parent, FreeBSD's linux emulation is absolutely impecable. There is no app I can't run from linux.
This does not bode well for those of us that have recently purchased high-end agp cards and are cursed with an in-grown desire to "compensate".
They have surgery for that, you know.
Wow, a collection of header files that have similar function declarations!!! Unreal! Those IBM bastards!
Correct me if I am wrong, but POSIX compliance does not require a license from SCO. Defining these functions similarly to the SysV style is not a breach of IP. It's the code that these functions represent that may be in breach, but SCO does not outline any of this.
Also, the JFS file system is IBM's own work. Yes, if IBM makes a change to the actually system v code base by adding jfs, then those changes are only usable by the licensees. But there is no indication that the implementation of JFS made any impact on that SYSV standard. Its a code base that is external to the licensed system v code and is therefore not under any of SCO's jurisdiction.
In conlusion, their case is null and void. I hope their board of directors spend a few years behind bars for this spectacular abuse of the US legal system. Maybe IBM can pay off some inmates to make Darl someones bitch.
Actually, I spent just a half hour yesterday doing just that. Its a fairly new dell with wireless and acpi power management. Every problem that plauged me with linux was gone from FreeBSD. My acpi support worked fresh of the install with Suspend and battery monitoring working without any further configuration. acpi on linux often conflicted with my sound card and caused lots of strange noises. Even with windows, the ACPI implementation did not work. FreeBSD is the first OS that actually works correctly on this machine. It found my wifi card all by its lonesome and configured it correctly as well. Maybe you haven't run it in a while but the 5.2 release is killer.
... that i switched to FreeBSD because Linux's ACPI support is terrible. If they can get that working, they can have me back.
Seriously, explain to me why this is a troll?