Or, that there are absolutely no new desktop applications for VMS since 15 years. VMS comes with Motif, CDE, you name it. Digital started to drop the idea of VMS desktop systems when they found themselves in bed with Microsoft. Compaq later bought Digital and things got worse. Then HP bought Compaq. On some of HP's web pages featuring VMS products you can find the headline "HP recommends Microsoft Windows". Just think about this for a moment. - VMS has a pretty good security record, like it or not. Maybe corporations can only think in terms of expanding monopolies and that is why manufacturers, big resellers and even large security companies do not care too much about security.
Sony BMG is 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America and 50% owned by Bertelsmann AG. Sony is still a Japanese company, although Sony Corp. of America is US-based. Bertelsmann is a German company. The UK market and the German market are not that different. You see, even small countries may be major players in certain markets. Say "Supashi bo", "Thank you" and "Danke schön" to Sony worldwide.
Anyway, I think your point is well taken. Who are the other companies using XCP? I do not understand why such a good question is being rated "overrated". Maybe because this is/.
Don't worry, Microsoft Windows does this for you automatically.
Seriously, one could also argue that your are violating the DMCA if you press the Shift button when you insert a CD or turn off the autoplay feature. It just shows how lopsided the DMCA is.
Why is Microsoft Windows automatically executing software from any CD/DVD? Of course, we can turn off this feature, but shouldn't if be off by default.
Things are actually much worse than the whole Sony Rootkit Malware story shows. There is an operating system called Microsoft Windows which blindly trusts software from unknown sources. Its password protection scheme is, for all practical matters, gone, security companies report about 20 new keyloggers and network loggers per day (!), numerous security holes in Microsoft Windows are unearthed per week with weeks and months of delays until patches are available, giving system manager zero chance to maintain a secure system, and almost the whole computer industry is pushing Microsoft Windows as state-of-the-art. The fact that security companies were quiet about Sony's Malware is just the tip of the iceberg.
Articles like this one, where someone starts an argument by bashing a third party, only proof the obvious: the person who is bashing others has no clue. Just look at projects like the Ariane 5-ECA, ITER etc.. France is a major player in these 21st century high-tech projects.
Because of all the "copy-protection" schemes, DMCA, DRM and the outrageous fees I decided a while ago to ditch COX cable and not to sign up for an other similar service anymore. Instead I am reading books in the evening. It really makes a difference. Most of the books I get from half.com for a few bucks. Now I safe a lot of money, I am no longer annoyed about paying for religious propaganda shows, I care no longer about bogus "news", I can sleep much earlier because I am no longer exposed to the soundscape from stupid TV shows, and the best thing: I enjoy the books with someone else. So, I think I should be thankful to Cox, Microsoft, Sony, MPAA etc.. Thanks!
The good old caddy like the one used when CD's or DVD-RAM's came out would take care of that problem. Anyway, when I talk about 100 TB capacity, I am not thinking about backup (as someone else mentioned) or copying DVD's. I want to store data for my research on the media. The whole point is that the "copyright owners" have taken over the discussion about how much capacity will be granted to the end user, what kind of copy-protection is needed, and how much we have to pay (in the EU many countries still put an extra fee on all media although copying protected movies was outlawed - crazy). Are people who just want to store data completely gone from this planet?
For me what matters is disk capacity. The more the better. I do not want all the DRM balast. What I need is an alternative to tapes for mass data storage. Harddisks are fine, but not when you have to deal with hundreds of Terabytes or more, because then just the heat from harddisks is literally killing everything. The folks in Hollywood and at Sony may think that their interests are the only things that matter. Quite frankly, they can put their stupid movies where no sun shines. The industry has promissed us large permanent media for so many years and all they could produce is HD-DVD and Blue Ray. A factor of 5 per layer capacity increase with currently no more than 2 layers as a result shows that the storage market gets screwed by bullies of the media industry. There are more important things in the world than movies.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra truly understood the virtue of the Lambda Calculus. IBM software developers who advocate aspect-oriented Java code obviously still do not understand the concept, as the examples on the cited IBM Java web page show (see use of private variables).
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Absolutely, one can write reliable code in Fortran, too. Excellent supporting tools like SCA (Source Code Analyzer) and DTM (DEC Test Manager) have been around since a long time, not to mention the superb VAX/VMS Fortran compiler.
I just would not agree with you on the global variables and initialization. Complexity of data exchange via global variables beats every attempt to debug such code. Your initialization helps to avoid some mistakes, but the basic problem remains. Exchange of information through side-effects (global, private, doesn't matter) is always more complicated to understand than exchange of information through a list of input and output arguments at every function call.
People also tend to think that bad things happen because variables were not initialized. I have heard more than once from OOP advocates that constructors are important, because they allow the software developer to implement an automatic initialization of variables. The truth often is that worse things happen if they are initialized, typically with something like zero, than having a random value. Because, if they are initialized with zero, then chances are that your code runs through without any obvious problem, although the result may be worthless. And you may not notice it. I completely avoid global variables (or private variables in classes). For testing purposes I initialize local variables with NaN's instead (for floating point variables), which happen to be huge integer numbers, too. Of course I also rely on the compiler's ability to detect the use of variables which have not been assigned a value before, something that cannot work with global/private variables. But the compilers have their limitations. However, a dummy intialization, like the method you mentioned or a typical C++ constructor implementation, would completely defy the compiler's test for uninitialized variables (that is initialized with a correct value, not with something like a zero). In any case, my favorite ultimate test utility is a debugger. From my own past experience (almost 3 decades, more than a dozen languages) I find any whateveryounameit-oriented black box concept less useful for debugging (say "testing step-by-step").
One can make the same mistakes in Fortran, Java, C++ etc.. The more things change, the more they stay the same; as the mentioned example on IBM's "aspect-oriented code" Java web page shows.
It takes about 1 million years for the photons to travel from the sun's center to the outer shell due to multiple scattering (sun radius=695Mm), before they eventually reach earth after another 8.3 minutes. Why not appreciate the light in 3D!
Are these individual supercomputers? BlueGene comes with 131072 processors. Is this one (1) computer? Or 131072? If this is not one computer, then what does list tell us? That 131072 processors are faster than 1 processor?
(The top 6 are all from the US - followed by Japan and Europe.)
The examples shown on the mentioned web site illustrate very nicely what is wrong with software development. First, iReallyHaveAHARDtimeToRead->thisStuff. Second, when will people give up Fortran programming, such as private variables, global variables or COMMON blocks? Testing is good, but it becomes a Sisyphus task with side-effects based concepts.
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I wish we would focus more on fighting Malaria (mosquito hatchery, medication, vaccination), TB (medication, curable), Cholera (clean water), AIDS (condoms) and other common illnesses. Not that there is a potential of a disaster coming with the bird flu, but the numbers are telling us that world-wide we have a much bigger problem at hand than just bird flu. I think Bill Gates does the right thing with his contribution to combat Malaria.
Big money always seems to be a problem. Smallpox and Measles have shown that we can fight diseases. But are companies willing to look at the whole world or are they only interested in a local market. Money talks, indeed. And those who have no money have no saying.
The Discovery Channel is part of the Disney network, and so is the History channel. The same people bring you lots of spiritual "research" and even do not mind to ask children to check their "psychic skills".
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic occurred during World War I. WWI produced perfect conditions for a flu. Large camps, bad food, bad water, lots of other illnesses and of course plenty of dead and wounded victims. Most people fighting during this time were young men, not older men nor female. Read more at http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ They give some interesting numbers.
I like Sauerkraut, but I rarely use it to combat a viral infection. You may want to check your source of information.
I find all players with memory sticks, memory cards and harddisks way too expensive. The good old portable 12cm CD players are much more affordable. They start at $30 including shipping (see for example pricewatch). CD-R's at a price of $11/100 disks incl. shipping are almost for free. I would also not like to constantly upload music onto the memory or harddisk every time I am in the mood for something else. But, over time I got a bit tired of the bulky disks. So I decided to go for 8cm instead of 12cm. The 8cm disks are handy, the player is not much larger, both fit into a pocket and they occupy almost no space on the desk. There are cute little wallets for the mini CD available, too. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the limited capacity of 8cm CD's. 200+ MB (units) is barely enough for two albums compressed as MP3's with variable bit rate (EAC+Lame). For a long, good concerto the capacity is sometimes only sufficient for one Audio-CD. So, what I really like to see is a tiny MP3-player for 8cm DVD's. Those little 8cm DVD's have a capacity of about 1.5 GB and their price beats any memory stick and harddisk. Unfortunately most regular (12cm) DVD players would not play MP3 files from an ISO 9660/UDF formatted hybrid, thus I expect this could be a problem for the little players, too. But, I think a little bit of good will and better firmware can make all the difference. If someone knows about such a portable 8cm DVD MP3-player, then please let us know. IMHO that would be a great alternative to all those hundred+ dollar gadgets. Anything is fine with me, except SONY. Otherwise I think that would be a great new product for the market and hope someone picks up the idea, wouldn't it?
6 hours past, in the meantime two more BS postings from ScuttleMonkey, but neither an update nor an apology by ScuttleMonkey and the author of the article! Posting false accusations and playing with a researcher's reputation is the only unethical misdeed here.
Heck, the guy lied because he suddenly realized what he did looks like an attempted break-in. Such reaction may be stupid. but people do stupid things when they are surprised. It is a human reaction. Even a later denial is completely understandable. But maybe not for a pissed police officer or a judge. Sorry, but I do not buy your explanations.
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"threatening this international standard" - Is this true? I am curious. Who in the world cares about US software patent problems?
Lie detectors are also used in Kansas. I am surprized they don't use the good old medieval torture techniques to find witches.
Or, that there are absolutely no new desktop applications for VMS since 15 years. VMS comes with Motif, CDE, you name it. Digital started to drop the idea of VMS desktop systems when they found themselves in bed with Microsoft. Compaq later bought Digital and things got worse. Then HP bought Compaq. On some of HP's web pages featuring VMS products you can find the headline "HP recommends Microsoft Windows". Just think about this for a moment. - VMS has a pretty good security record, like it or not. Maybe corporations can only think in terms of expanding monopolies and that is why manufacturers, big resellers and even large security companies do not care too much about security.
Sony BMG is 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America and 50% owned by Bertelsmann AG. Sony is still a Japanese company, although Sony Corp. of America is US-based. Bertelsmann is a German company. The UK market and the German market are not that different. You see, even small countries may be major players in certain markets. Say "Supashi bo", "Thank you" and "Danke schön" to Sony worldwide.
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Anyway, I think your point is well taken. Who are the other companies using XCP? I do not understand why such a good question is being rated "overrated". Maybe because this is
Don't worry, Microsoft Windows does this for you automatically.
Seriously, one could also argue that your are violating the DMCA if you press the Shift button when you insert a CD or turn off the autoplay feature. It just shows how lopsided the DMCA is.
Why is Microsoft Windows automatically executing software from any CD/DVD?
Of course, we can turn off this feature, but shouldn't if be off by default.
Things are actually much worse than the whole Sony Rootkit Malware story shows. There is an operating system called Microsoft Windows which blindly trusts software from unknown sources. Its password protection scheme is, for all practical matters, gone, security companies report about 20 new keyloggers and network loggers per day (!), numerous security holes in Microsoft Windows are unearthed per week with weeks and months of delays until patches are available, giving system manager zero chance to maintain a secure system, and almost the whole computer industry is pushing Microsoft Windows as state-of-the-art. The fact that security companies were quiet about Sony's Malware is just the tip of the iceberg.
Articles like this one, where someone starts an argument by bashing a third party, only proof the obvious: the person who is bashing others has no clue. Just look at projects like the Ariane 5-ECA, ITER etc.. France is a major player in these 21st century high-tech projects.
Because of all the "copy-protection" schemes, DMCA, DRM and the outrageous fees I decided a while ago to ditch COX cable and not to sign up for an other similar service anymore. Instead I am reading books in the evening. It really makes a difference. Most of the books I get from half.com for a few bucks. Now I safe a lot of money, I am no longer annoyed about paying for religious propaganda shows, I care no longer about bogus "news", I can sleep much earlier because I am no longer exposed to the soundscape from stupid TV shows, and the best thing: I enjoy the books with someone else. So, I think I should be thankful to Cox, Microsoft, Sony, MPAA etc.. Thanks!
But at least Bill Gates does not claim that Windows Clusters are as good as VMS Clusters. That would be another 20 years of software development.
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Computer Center: We just installed Windows 2003 on our supercomputer cluster.
Alt.2600: We just "bought" a supercomputer cluster for $30.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/password_
The good old caddy like the one used when CD's or DVD-RAM's came out would take care of that problem. Anyway, when I talk about 100 TB capacity, I am not thinking about backup (as someone else mentioned) or copying DVD's. I want to store data for my research on the media. The whole point is that the "copyright owners" have taken over the discussion about how much capacity will be granted to the end user, what kind of copy-protection is needed, and how much we have to pay (in the EU many countries still put an extra fee on all media although copying protected movies was outlawed - crazy). Are people who just want to store data completely gone from this planet?
For me what matters is disk capacity. The more the better. I do not want all the DRM balast. What I need is an alternative to tapes for mass data storage. Harddisks are fine, but not when you have to deal with hundreds of Terabytes or more, because then just the heat from harddisks is literally killing everything. The folks in Hollywood and at Sony may think that their interests are the only things that matter. Quite frankly, they can put their stupid movies where no sun shines. The industry has promissed us large permanent media for so many years and all they could produce is HD-DVD and Blue Ray. A factor of 5 per layer capacity increase with currently no more than 2 layers as a result shows that the storage market gets screwed by bullies of the media industry. There are more important things in the world than movies.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra truly understood the virtue of the Lambda Calculus. IBM software developers who advocate aspect-oriented Java code obviously still do not understand the concept, as the examples on the cited IBM Java web page show (see use of private variables).
Absolutely, one can write reliable code in Fortran, too. Excellent supporting tools like SCA (Source Code Analyzer) and DTM ( DEC Test Manager) have been around since a long time, not to mention the superb VAX/VMS Fortran compiler.
I just would not agree with you on the global variables and initialization. Complexity of data exchange via global variables beats every attempt to debug such code. Your initialization helps to avoid some mistakes, but the basic problem remains. Exchange of information through side-effects (global, private, doesn't matter) is always more complicated to understand than exchange of information through a list of input and output arguments at every function call.
People also tend to think that bad things happen because variables were not initialized. I have heard more than once from OOP advocates that constructors are important, because they allow the software developer to implement an automatic initialization of variables. The truth often is that worse things happen if they are initialized, typically with something like zero, than having a random value. Because, if they are initialized with zero, then chances are that your code runs through without any obvious problem, although the result may be worthless. And you may not notice it. I completely avoid global variables (or private variables in classes). For testing purposes I initialize local variables with NaN's instead (for floating point variables), which happen to be huge integer numbers, too. Of course I also rely on the compiler's ability to detect the use of variables which have not been assigned a value before, something that cannot work with global/private variables. But the compilers have their limitations. However, a dummy intialization, like the method you mentioned or a typical C++ constructor implementation, would completely defy the compiler's test for uninitialized variables (that is initialized with a correct value, not with something like a zero). In any case, my favorite ultimate test utility is a debugger. From my own past experience (almost 3 decades, more than a dozen languages) I find any whateveryounameit-oriented black box concept less useful for debugging (say "testing step-by-step").
One can make the same mistakes in Fortran, Java, C++ etc.. The more things change, the more they stay the same; as the mentioned example on IBM's "aspect-oriented code" Java web page shows.
It takes about 1 million years for the photons to travel from the sun's center to the outer shell due to multiple scattering (sun radius=695Mm), before they eventually reach earth after another 8.3 minutes. Why not appreciate the light in 3D!
So all I have to do is run MPI and Linpack (or better Lapack) on a bunch of computers and that makes them altogether a supercomputer?
Are these individual supercomputers? BlueGene comes with 131072 processors. Is this one (1) computer? Or 131072? If this is not one computer, then what does list tell us? That 131072 processors are faster than 1 processor?
(The top 6 are all from the US - followed by Japan and Europe.)
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Validator.w3.org reports 33 bugs.
The examples shown on the mentioned web site illustrate very nicely what is wrong with software development. First, iReallyHaveAHARDtimeToRead->thisStuff. Second, when will people give up Fortran programming, such as private variables, global variables or COMMON blocks? Testing is good, but it becomes a Sisyphus task with side-effects based concepts.
Natural immunization could be a factor. Have a look at Secret of the Dead....
I wish we would focus more on fighting Malaria (mosquito hatchery, medication, vaccination), TB (medication, curable), Cholera (clean water), AIDS (condoms) and other common illnesses. Not that there is a potential of a disaster coming with the bird flu, but the numbers are telling us that world-wide we have a much bigger problem at hand than just bird flu. I think Bill Gates does the right thing with his contribution to combat Malaria. Big money always seems to be a problem. Smallpox and Measles have shown that we can fight diseases. But are companies willing to look at the whole world or are they only interested in a local market. Money talks, indeed. And those who have no money have no saying.
The Discovery Channel is part of the Disney network, and so is the History channel. The same people bring you lots of spiritual "research" and even do not mind to ask children to check their "psychic skills".
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic occurred during World War I. WWI produced perfect conditions for a flu. Large camps, bad food, bad water, lots of other illnesses and of course plenty of dead and wounded victims. Most people fighting during this time were young men, not older men nor female. Read more at http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ They give some interesting numbers.
I like Sauerkraut, but I rarely use it to combat a viral infection. You may want to check your source of information.
I find all players with memory sticks, memory cards and harddisks way too expensive. The good old portable 12cm CD players are much more affordable. They start at $30 including shipping (see for example pricewatch). CD-R's at a price of $11/100 disks incl. shipping are almost for free. I would also not like to constantly upload music onto the memory or harddisk every time I am in the mood for something else. But, over time I got a bit tired of the bulky disks. So I decided to go for 8cm instead of 12cm. The 8cm disks are handy, the player is not much larger, both fit into a pocket and they occupy almost no space on the desk. There are cute little wallets for the mini CD available, too. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the limited capacity of 8cm CD's. 200+ MB (units) is barely enough for two albums compressed as MP3's with variable bit rate (EAC+Lame). For a long, good concerto the capacity is sometimes only sufficient for one Audio-CD. So, what I really like to see is a tiny MP3-player for 8cm DVD's. Those little 8cm DVD's have a capacity of about 1.5 GB and their price beats any memory stick and harddisk. Unfortunately most regular (12cm) DVD players would not play MP3 files from an ISO 9660/UDF formatted hybrid, thus I expect this could be a problem for the little players, too. But, I think a little bit of good will and better firmware can make all the difference. If someone knows about such a portable 8cm DVD MP3-player, then please let us know. IMHO that would be a great alternative to all those hundred+ dollar gadgets. Anything is fine with me, except SONY. Otherwise I think that would be a great new product for the market and hope someone picks up the idea, wouldn't it?
6 hours past, in the meantime two more BS postings from ScuttleMonkey, but neither an update nor an apology by ScuttleMonkey and the author of the article! Posting false accusations and playing with a researcher's reputation is the only unethical misdeed here.
Nobody pays me for my casting when I sit on the pot, why should I pay for this you know what.
Heck, the guy lied because he suddenly realized what he did looks like an attempted break-in. Such reaction may be stupid. but people do stupid things when they are surprised. It is a human reaction. Even a later denial is completely understandable. But maybe not for a pissed police officer or a judge. Sorry, but I do not buy your explanations.