There is a Free Pascal compiler that compiles various dialects of Pascal and Delphi and runs on and targets more than just Windows (and x86 processors). It Supports Linux.
If students learned a variety of office productivity applications (word processors, spreadsheets, email clients, presentation graphics etc.) they might not all go on to chose one set of products from a single vendor when they enter the workplace and start to make the decisions, unlike their blinkered and indoctrinated parents.
I've been running accelerated 3D graphics on Linux thanks to nVidia since 2000. And thanks to Linus' pragmatism
In an ideal world, nVidia would provide their drivers as Open Source for the FOSS crowd, and one day they might if they can get the IP issues sorted out.
I am a supporter of Linux and the FSF and I admire and support the efforts and ideals of both. However, these are ideals not physical reality. I choose FOSS wherever possible. I don't run Windows and abandoned MS when Win95 came out. I've done just fine without them (thanks for Slackware, Pat).
I dare say that there are millions of (not very clever) people in the world who would have dismissed Linux and Free Software in general as "rubbish" had they not been able to see it do fast, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics like the commercial OSs. You know what people are like...
Then we had the support for Linux from ATi, not to be left out, and later intel who have very generously provided much data and open source code.
Without nVidia's contribution and pioneering support of Linux, we'd be in a much darker place today and Linux would be not nearly as popular with the average user.
I've been using nVidia graphics cards on my own PCs (all Linux) since 1999 and I've never been disappointed. I'm on my 5th or 6th card now (lost count). And I've never had trouble integrating their driver with Slackware or anything else...
Just a happy customer here, not an employee or shareholder.
Metal is doing great, with almost no radio play at all. You don't see them anywhere and Music awards are given to shit bands like Metallica every year while the real interesting stuff is being recorded in sophisticated home studios and released on Japanese, eastern Europe or even self owned labels. They're touring, making money, doing well... but you'll never hear a damned thing about it because the labels don't want them to steal market share.
Well said.
Planet Rock, allegedly not having a playlist and playing anything they wanted, didn't play any Slayer when Jeff Hanneman died. People complained. "Slayer is not on our playlist," came the reply.
And that's just Slayer. They're pretty mainstream in the metal world by my standards.
No Voivod on the radio, and they've been on the go 30 years.
If I had time, I'm sure I could find a treasure trove of wonderful new stuff if I knew where to look.
...on an obscure binary architecture. Might I suggest eZ80. But it's only 24-bit so you'll need at least two wired up in parallel to run 32-bit code. Add one more and you can probably run a 64-bit OS. It has built-in TCP/IP so the slow clockspeed shouldn't be a problem.
Nah, it's just disinformation to keep the paranoid using certain versions of certain software so that they feel secure... and the spooks can concentrate on cracking them (and know who the really paranoid people are) if they haven't already.
Now, if you'll excuse me, Phil and Liz are about to revert to 12-foot blood-drinking lizard form (it's that time of night) and I'm scheduled to pilot their saucer craft to zeta Reticuli for the conference with the Masters this evening. I need to look out my spare element 115. The anti-gravity drive has nearly run out.
A classic design, still highly sought-after the world over. I believe Larry Ellison has half a dozen in bright red with the Confederate naval jack painted on the roof.
If it weren't for Bill's crummy software that's held human progress back 25 years and sucked trillions of dollars out of the world economy, that malaria might have been cured by other people a decade ago. We might have tourist hotels on Mars by now too.
I remember reading about power plants having this issue back in the '90s.
I worked at a nuclear power plant back in the 90s and we did indeed have trouble with jellyfish in the cooling water (also old tyres, shopping trolleys, plastic bags, nudey books, the bodies of foreign migrant workers...). It's not unique to nuclear power plants and it's been an issue since the first power station to use see water for cooling.
The other thing was prawns growing inside the condensers under the steam turbines. Every few months each turbine would have to be shut down, the condenser opened up and power washed and dosed with bleach to get rid of the prawns. Used to be good for a few extra megawatts of output.
With my Slashdot ubiquitous Microsoft Shill hat on consider the following.
If you don't like/trust/use Microsoft, you are immature and stupid and a stinking long-haired communist FOSS hippy.
Someone from the company you HATE leaves the company and announces that they don't trust their former employer which also happens to be the company you HATE, and that they have converted to the FOSS way.
That means what you suspected all along is true! Right?
Ah but, it's a trap! You see, the FOSS is back-doored to high heaven as well and all this is a psychological trick to make you feel secure and validated in your own mind.
Muhahahhahahhahah! Elop will soon rule the galaxy.
No, the Pentium 4 was most definitely 32-bit. AMD got the first 64-bit x86 CPUs out in 2003 and intel didn't have any for sale until at least 2005 IIRC.
The 1.4GHz 64-bit Opterons spanked the 2.8GHz Pentium 4s...
In your garage, or wherever you park your car, you could have mirrors opposite the "four corners" of your car so that you could easily check your lights directly from the driving seat.
They wouldn't have to be big, expensive mirrors. And if you can't see, it means it's dark and none of your lights are working at all.
How about we outsource all HR jobs and see how many people complain?
Xerox already tried that.
Or better yet outsource the CEO's.
It's only a matter of time before the shareholders get around to realising this. Then the elephant in the room is why anyone in the company at all needs to be employed in any country that's more expensive that rock bottom, as long as the shareholders are getting a return on their "investment."
As more and more jobs go to other countries, there is less money in the economies of the original countries, so people have less money to spend on the things that the companies produce.
In a way, they're killing off their market.
What's going to happen in a few years time when 3D printers are ubiquitous and the plans for things are available for free on the Internet?
As the value of physical goods go the way of the value of Imaginary Property (IP) our lords and masters will try to artificially restrict supply.
There are two things that you can't 3D-print: food and water. Food production can be almost 100% mechanised these days, and with 3D printing, that will become easier.
So the last things of any value will be water, clean water for drinking specifically and energy.
Slashdot Mirror
For the past few months any war-related threads on Slashdot have been consistently moderated in a pro-al-Qaeda manner. AQ propaganda gets modded up.
Thus spoke the crack pipe.
Your kidding right? C++ supports many types of characters, including Unicode and arrays of those characters.
C++ supports bytes and arrays of bytes (statically-allocated ones at that). The rest is in the library.
Sergeant D had it right: Warning, NSFW, loud swear-y and offensive music!
There is a Free Pascal compiler that compiles various dialects of Pascal and Delphi and runs on and targets more than just Windows (and x86 processors). It Supports Linux.
If students learned a variety of office productivity applications (word processors, spreadsheets, email clients, presentation graphics etc.) they might not all go on to chose one set of products from a single vendor when they enter the workplace and start to make the decisions, unlike their blinkered and indoctrinated parents.
...kicking and screaming.
Check it out!
Quite. The basic concept of conservation of energy seems to have passed a lot of people by.
Most basic concepts pass most people by, which is why life is so hard for the rest of us and the world is in the lovely state that it's in.
I reckon some subversive put some red pinko-commie electrons in the power circuits to undermine the NSA.
Very perceptive.
I've been running accelerated 3D graphics on Linux thanks to nVidia since 2000. And thanks to Linus' pragmatism
In an ideal world, nVidia would provide their drivers as Open Source for the FOSS crowd, and one day they might if they can get the IP issues sorted out.
I am a supporter of Linux and the FSF and I admire and support the efforts and ideals of both. However, these are ideals not physical reality. I choose FOSS wherever possible. I don't run Windows and abandoned MS when Win95 came out. I've done just fine without them (thanks for Slackware, Pat).
I dare say that there are millions of (not very clever) people in the world who would have dismissed Linux and Free Software in general as "rubbish" had they not been able to see it do fast, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics like the commercial OSs. You know what people are like...
Then we had the support for Linux from ATi, not to be left out, and later intel who have very generously provided much data and open source code.
Without nVidia's contribution and pioneering support of Linux, we'd be in a much darker place today and Linux would be not nearly as popular with the average user.
I've been using nVidia graphics cards on my own PCs (all Linux) since 1999 and I've never been disappointed. I'm on my 5th or 6th card now (lost count). And I've never had trouble integrating their driver with Slackware or anything else...
Just a happy customer here, not an employee or shareholder.
Metal is doing great, with almost no radio play at all. You don't see them anywhere and Music awards are given to shit bands like Metallica every year while the real interesting stuff is being recorded in sophisticated home studios and released on Japanese, eastern Europe or even self owned labels. They're touring, making money, doing well... but you'll never hear a damned thing about it because the labels don't want them to steal market share.
Well said.
Planet Rock, allegedly not having a playlist and playing anything they wanted, didn't play any Slayer when Jeff Hanneman died. People complained. "Slayer is not on our playlist," came the reply.
And that's just Slayer. They're pretty mainstream in the metal world by my standards.
No Voivod on the radio, and they've been on the go 30 years.
If I had time, I'm sure I could find a treasure trove of wonderful new stuff if I knew where to look.
...on an obscure binary architecture. Might I suggest eZ80. But it's only 24-bit so you'll need at least two wired up in parallel to run 32-bit code. Add one more and you can probably run a 64-bit OS. It has built-in TCP/IP so the slow clockspeed shouldn't be a problem.
Nah, it's just disinformation to keep the paranoid using certain versions of certain software so that they feel secure... and the spooks can concentrate on cracking them (and know who the really paranoid people are) if they haven't already.
Now, if you'll excuse me, Phil and Liz are about to revert to 12-foot blood-drinking lizard form (it's that time of night) and I'm scheduled to pilot their saucer craft to zeta Reticuli for the conference with the Masters this evening. I need to look out my spare element 115. The anti-gravity drive has nearly run out.
Unless you have something singularly unique, like a Cray or something, I very much doubt your old computer gear is of value to anybody.
You could donate your Cray to the museum and replace it with a scale model, like this enterprising chap did.
In good old Blighty we used to make a "nice sportscar"
that was prone to spontaneous combustion.
A classic design, still highly sought-after the world over. I believe Larry Ellison has half a dozen in bright red with the Confederate naval jack painted on the roof.
Plays Dixie when you toot the horn too.
If it weren't for Bill's crummy software that's held human progress back 25 years and sucked trillions of dollars out of the world economy, that malaria might have been cured by other people a decade ago. We might have tourist hotels on Mars by now too.
Might indicate more females? Do we have a large number of non-gender or 3rd gender in the workforce taking up programming?
I believe that the vast majority of the deficit is made up of very small shell scripts.
I remember reading about power plants having this issue back in the '90s.
I worked at a nuclear power plant back in the 90s and we did indeed have trouble with jellyfish in the cooling water (also old tyres, shopping trolleys, plastic bags, nudey books, the bodies of foreign migrant workers...). It's not unique to nuclear power plants and it's been an issue since the first power station to use see water for cooling.
The other thing was prawns growing inside the condensers under the steam turbines. Every few months each turbine would have to be shut down, the condenser opened up and power washed and dosed with bleach to get rid of the prawns. Used to be good for a few extra megawatts of output.
And the turbine hall stank of rotting prawns...
I run my own homebrew X server with OpenGL compatible 3D library on a home-made OpenRISC board. And I never ever connect it to the Internet. No siree.
You're not thinking cynically enough.
With my Slashdot ubiquitous Microsoft Shill hat on consider the following.
If you don't like/trust/use Microsoft, you are immature and stupid and a stinking long-haired communist FOSS hippy.
Someone from the company you HATE leaves the company and announces that they don't trust their former employer which also happens to be the company you HATE, and that they have converted to the FOSS way.
That means what you suspected all along is true! Right?
Ah but, it's a trap! You see, the FOSS is back-doored to high heaven as well and all this is a psychological trick to make you feel secure and validated in your own mind.
Muhahahhahahhahah! Elop will soon rule the galaxy.
Then they had 64bit Pentium 4
No, the Pentium 4 was most definitely 32-bit. AMD got the first 64-bit x86 CPUs out in 2003 and intel didn't have any for sale until at least 2005 IIRC.
The 1.4GHz 64-bit Opterons spanked the 2.8GHz Pentium 4s...
In those days, intel was a joke.
..You just reminded me of it.
In your garage, or wherever you park your car, you could have mirrors opposite the "four corners" of your car so that you could easily check your lights directly from the driving seat.
They wouldn't have to be big, expensive mirrors. And if you can't see, it means it's dark and none of your lights are working at all.
(I'm still sad about Oracle swallowing Sun.)
At least IBM didn't get their filthy hands on them.
How about we outsource all HR jobs and see how many people complain?
Xerox already tried that.
Or better yet outsource the CEO's.
It's only a matter of time before the shareholders get around to realising this. Then the elephant in the room is why anyone in the company at all needs to be employed in any country that's more expensive that rock bottom, as long as the shareholders are getting a return on their "investment."
As more and more jobs go to other countries, there is less money in the economies of the original countries, so people have less money to spend on the things that the companies produce.
In a way, they're killing off their market.
What's going to happen in a few years time when 3D printers are ubiquitous and the plans for things are available for free on the Internet?
As the value of physical goods go the way of the value of Imaginary Property (IP) our lords and masters will try to artificially restrict supply.
There are two things that you can't 3D-print: food and water. Food production can be almost 100% mechanised these days, and with 3D printing, that will become easier.
So the last things of any value will be water, clean water for drinking specifically and energy.
But we already figured that out years ago.
Are you suggesting that it wasn't done programmatically?
Have you never been a summer work experience student?