AmigaDOS was the shell / file system component of the whole AmigaOS, not the core of the OS. Not sure what fraction I'd call that (maybe 10%?). And yes, that part was based on TRIPOS. The core was Exec (message passing, threading, scheduling, memory allocation, etc), which is the bit written by Carl Sassenrath.
David Gay, who spent a lot of time programming his Amiga 1000/2500...
Universities and academics who value their reputation for open, unbiased research do not accept grants that allow the funder to control publication of the results.
Fallacy of composition, people. Its like making the argument "This chair is of wood, which came from trees, and you can't patent a tree, therefore you can't patent this chair!". Just because all software is reducible to math doesn't mean you can't patent some of it.
This is as likely to open the door to patenting mathematics as making chairs will open the door to patenting trees.
Actually this just shows you don't understand programming. The inherent nature of a chair is not a tree. The inherent nature of a program/programming language IS its semantics, which is defined mathematically if you have any desire to be rigorous (and aren't patents supposed to be precise?). The only rigorous definition of a program is a mathematical equation.
David Gay
PS: Lookup axiomatic, denotational or operational semantics for details.
You only see the differences with California or Ohio because you don't have an external reference point to see the similarities (similarly, most English people don't see the similarities with the US as well as, e.g., French people who know both the US and England).
You may have long argued that, but if you actually looked at its history (how the architecture was defined, etc), you would actually understand that Itanium(ic) is a not-very-successful(*) joint HP-Intel project.
David Gay
*: For ambitious definitions of success.
Spoken like somebody who has never paid any attention to the difficulty of transliterating (not translating) Cyrillic.
As an example, from wikipedia (and note that the first letter of Tchaikovsky is the same as the first letter of Chernobyl...):
His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij" and "Chaikovsky" (and other versions; the transliteration varies among languages).
There are valid reasons not to want to get vaccinated, and people have the right to decide for themselves and their children. Am I saying it's the right decision not to vaccinate yourself or kids? No, not generally - but there are times where it may be, and people need to make that decision for themselves.
I'm sorry, but no. Vaccination is not effective if it's not sufficiently widely used. So arguing for arbitrary opt-out is arguing to be allowed to let other people die. You may think that that makes you a worthy person, but the rest of us will disrespectfully disagree.
I've had professors in school that were effectively forced to buy new computers for their grant work because they were told that the money HAD to be spent.
If you haven't heard similar stories about industry, generally revolving either around the end of a quarter or the end of the year, I can only assume you've never had a job...
100k / 300M = nothing. I'm really tired of these stupid "politicians salaries are ruining us" stories/comments. How much do you think a highly-placed manager in a large company makes?
Amazon has no obligation to advertise (or even sell) books that the company considers detrimental to their business. It may be that they will eventually limit themselves to politically correct generic choices that offend no one - but again it's up to them to decide.
I just hate this mindset, which is rather common here: "Why are you complaining? They're perfectly within their rights to do that!" The rebuttal is trivial: We're perfectly within our rights to rebuke them/boycott them/etc if we don't like their actions. If we're lucky they'll be shamed into acting better and/or decide that what they did was detrimental to their business...
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Well, you might notice something similar with pork vs pig, and beef vs cow... (there's also pullet vs chickhen, but not in widespread use)
http://www.amazon.com/47452-equivalent-Energy-Smart-Spiral/dp/B000S5OK12/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325377514&sr=8-1
At the same time, at every major lawfirm: Quick, call Competitor and ask them if they would like our services for 5% of the award!
At the same time, at Apple and consumer rights societies: Quick, issue a press release!
David Gay, who spent a lot of time programming his Amiga 1000/2500...
Universities and academics who value their reputation for open, unbiased research do not accept grants that allow the funder to control publication of the results.
Indeed! The result is you won't evolve, as a result of spending the next 30 years in a dark room!
David Gay, scarred by Pascal "strings"
PS: I've often wondered the same about that other decried C feature, the preprocessor.
David Gay
Fallacy of composition, people. Its like making the argument "This chair is of wood, which came from trees, and you can't patent a tree, therefore you can't patent this chair!". Just because all software is reducible to math doesn't mean you can't patent some of it. This is as likely to open the door to patenting mathematics as making chairs will open the door to patenting trees.
Actually this just shows you don't understand programming. The inherent nature of a chair is not a tree. The inherent nature of a program/programming language IS its semantics, which is defined mathematically if you have any desire to be rigorous (and aren't patents supposed to be precise?). The only rigorous definition of a program is a mathematical equation.
David Gay
PS: Lookup axiomatic, denotational or operational semantics for details.
David Gay
David Gay
*: For ambitious definitions of success.
[...] so that we can check for proper spelling?
Spoken like somebody who has never paid any attention to the difficulty of transliterating (not translating) Cyrillic.
As an example, from wikipedia (and note that the first letter of Tchaikovsky is the same as the first letter of Chernobyl...):
His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij" and "Chaikovsky" (and other versions; the transliteration varies among languages).
There are valid reasons not to want to get vaccinated, and people have the right to decide for themselves and their children. Am I saying it's the right decision not to vaccinate yourself or kids? No, not generally - but there are times where it may be, and people need to make that decision for themselves.
I'm sorry, but no. Vaccination is not effective if it's not sufficiently widely used. So arguing for arbitrary opt-out is arguing to be allowed to let other people die. You may think that that makes you a worthy person, but the rest of us will disrespectfully disagree.
David Gay
They tried (*). It didn't stick. You're welcome to try again, though (but less blood, please).
David Gay
*: not SI, the people who gave you the meter and the kilogram well before SI came along.
One of the sillier comments I've seen on slashdot... (weird yes, but bodybags is ridiculous)
David Gay, who did use the internet in 1993, and met people IRL in 1994...
Steak Tartare
Time for another overrated comment.
David Gay
David Gay
Hint: it's hosted on its author's web page (surprise!), and the next-to-last link should make it clear where it was developed...
David Gay
If you haven't heard similar stories about industry, generally revolving either around the end of a quarter or the end of the year, I can only assume you've never had a job...
David Gay
No border checks in Switzerland anymore - they just joined Schengen...
100k / 300M = nothing. I'm really tired of these stupid "politicians salaries are ruining us" stories/comments. How much do you think a highly-placed manager in a large company makes?
David Gay
David Gay
I just hate this mindset, which is rather common here: "Why are you complaining? They're perfectly within their rights to do that!" The rebuttal is trivial: We're perfectly within our rights to rebuke them/boycott them/etc if we don't like their actions. If we're lucky they'll be shamed into acting better and/or decide that what they did was detrimental to their business...
David Gay
Somebody's been missing out on the last century's worth of physics...