In the Windows 31 era you had to manually select the desired pointer size, they had this notion of "far" pointers. (I was about to deride that situation, but in a few years maybe people will think short/int/long/long long is stupid and wonder why we didn't just use 64 bit everything.)
I disagree that Dell is particularly a hardware company in the first place. They don't make hardware any more than they make software, what they do is put together the hardware, software, and support in a convenient package for the end-user. As for the morons, well, they pay the bills. Apparently Dell thinks pleasing the customer plus their cut of the Pest Patrol proceeds will boost their profit, so where is the problem again?
An int *should* be 64 bits with a 64 bit processor. If not, somebody goofed up!
I sure don't feel that way. Having 'long int' and 'int' mean the same thing seems pointles, and should 'short' mean 16 or 32 bits? Why not just do it like Sparc:
char 1
short 2
int 4
long 8
long long 8
void * 8
float 4
double 8
long double 16
I can't imagine there are modern general-purpose 64 bit platforms which don't handle 32 bit values efficiently.
The Internet is essentially anonymous anyways. It doesn't have any strong authentication. Somebody looking for an Internet hookup COULD sit outside this guy's house, then again they could just go to Starbuck's. Or get a legitimate account and do all the dirty work through compromised hosts. And it's not like normal ISP's do a background check anyways.
There's no point to these "Oh my, there are open access points!" stories anywhere. It's about as exciting as counting the unsecured electrical outlets around town.
Fine, next time antarctica researchers need medical equipment and rescue missions from the government, screw 'em. It's not the rest of the world's job to be their backup plan.
I hate to spoil your fun, but the iRiver iHP-120 is smaller than the i-Pod. The ipod is the same depth, 30% wider (21.8mm wider), though slightly thinner - 0.3mm for the 30 gig, and 3.3 mm for the 10 and 15 gigs. (Call it 2 mm since the iRiver is 20 gig). In other words the only substantial difference is that the ipod is wider.
Hey Coward, you can use apt under RedHat and yellowdog too (if not others). Of course the argument applies equally to up2date, emerge, yup, pkg_add, and who knows what else. In this Internet age it almost seems crazy *not* to distribute software over the Internet.
It IS expensive to upgrade. How long does it take to do it? How much time spent is acceptable to the non-Linux fanatic user?
As if Windows didn't take time to upgrade... *plus* the purchase price. Plus a new user interface... gotta make lots of superficial changes so you think you're getting your money's worth.
The main difference is that "apt-get install apache" is so much faster and easier than procuring and installing the latest IIS. In the very best case you can use Windows Update, at which point Windows is still only equally easy.
Now try to get that same agreement with Microsoft or any other sizeable company - "if you stop supporting Office 98 before we stop using it, we get the source."
Valid criticism is one thing, but forking? Not a major problem in my life.
Linus credits the GPL (as opposed to other open-source licenses) for preventing fragmentation:
I personally think that the BSD license is a dead end for serious projects, since it inevitably results in forking with no way to re-join if it becomes commercially viable.
Perhaps he has a point, because none of the GPL OSS I use has been spoiled by forking.
This whole division between outsourcing programmers vs. managers is mostly false. Sure, it's true a lot of people around the world can learn to code. It's equally true that they can learn to manage projects, or do anything else.
Look at what happened in the automotive industry. Maybe at first they just outsourced parts, but soon enough it was assembly, and then (and here is my point) it was Japanese companies (non-American from top to bottom) making the cars. It has nothing to do with the job requirements, just that those with the most authority in a company are the last to go because of good old self-preservation.
How long does it take to build a Lancair airframe?
It takes about: 700-1000 hours to build the Legacy, 500 hours to build the Legacy FG, 1300-1500 hours to build the Lancair ES, 1300-1500 hours to build the Lancair IV and 1500-1700 hours to build the Lancair IV-P/Propjet/Sentry. These hours do not include firewall forward installation, electrical, paint or upholstery.
1500 hours and $300K. After that I'd have live next to the airport in a shack to watch over my life's work!
How do they transition from hover to fixed wing? Those rotors must get a lot of momentum, surely it takes time to slow them down and lock them into place, and then to spin them up for landing. I don't suppose they can just let the thing drop like a stone in the meanwhile?
My rule of thumb is that cable companies NEVER lower prices, for any reason, ever. They don't know how. The fact that my own cable Internet has already gone up twice in the last year or so just confirms it.
I can't think of any useful sense in which IP addresses have 4 "dimensions." They are 4 bytes long however. You could just as well call them 32 dimensional (bits) or 8 dimensional (nibbles).
Most of the Internet maps you see don't even use their two dimensions to represent space. In order to minimize intersecting lines, they put nodes that are only a few hops from each other close together on the map. In other words the horizontal and vertical axes are meaningless.
What's the point of another network protocol, with more bugs to work out, and more security issues to be concerned with? Wonderful... More duplication of effort.
Incidentally. Does anyone know of a program similar to rsync that is under a less restrictive license than the GPL? It would be very useful.
So you think rsync is redundant and unnecessary, and you want to start a new fork of rsync? That makes a lot of sense.
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In the Windows 31 era you had to manually select the desired pointer size, they had this notion of "far" pointers. (I was about to deride that situation, but in a few years maybe people will think short/int/long/long long is stupid and wonder why we didn't just use 64 bit everything.)
I disagree that Dell is particularly a hardware company in the first place. They don't make hardware any more than they make software, what they do is put together the hardware, software, and support in a convenient package for the end-user. As for the morons, well, they pay the bills. Apparently Dell thinks pleasing the customer plus their cut of the Pest Patrol proceeds will boost their profit, so where is the problem again?
char 1
short 2
int 4
long 8
long long 8
void * 8
float 4
double 8
long double 16
I can't imagine there are modern general-purpose 64 bit platforms which don't handle 32 bit values efficiently.
As a biker, I can tell you motorcycling is the ultimate Darwinian Accelerator... because chicks dig bikers!
I declined the organ donation elective on my license!
Sorry suckers, may as well resuscitate me cause you can't have my guts.
There's no point to these "Oh my, there are open access points!" stories anywhere. It's about as exciting as counting the unsecured electrical outlets around town.
Fine, next time antarctica researchers need medical equipment and rescue missions from the government, screw 'em. It's not the rest of the world's job to be their backup plan.
I hate to spoil your fun, but the iRiver iHP-120 is smaller than the i-Pod. The ipod is the same depth, 30% wider (21.8mm wider), though slightly thinner - 0.3mm for the 30 gig, and 3.3 mm for the 10 and 15 gigs. (Call it 2 mm since the iRiver is 20 gig). In other words the only substantial difference is that the ipod is wider.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the RIAA's legal attacks have been pretty successful? Thre's nothing like Napster used to be.
What's the problem with having an antenna for each user, as opposed to a mile or two of cabling or fiber?
The main difference is that "apt-get install apache" is so much faster and easier than procuring and installing the latest IIS. In the very best case you can use Windows Update, at which point Windows is still only equally easy.
Now try to get that same agreement with Microsoft or any other sizeable company - "if you stop supporting Office 98 before we stop using it, we get the source."
Linus credits the GPL (as opposed to other open-source licenses) for preventing fragmentation:
Perhaps he has a point, because none of the GPL OSS I use has been spoiled by forking.Look at what happened in the automotive industry. Maybe at first they just outsourced parts, but soon enough it was assembly, and then (and here is my point) it was Japanese companies (non-American from top to bottom) making the cars. It has nothing to do with the job requirements, just that those with the most authority in a company are the last to go because of good old self-preservation.
My question is, how many people with $400,000 lying around are do-it-yourselfers?
How do they transition from hover to fixed wing? Those rotors must get a lot of momentum, surely it takes time to slow them down and lock them into place, and then to spin them up for landing. I don't suppose they can just let the thing drop like a stone in the meanwhile?
My rule of thumb is that cable companies NEVER lower prices, for any reason, ever. They don't know how. The fact that my own cable Internet has already gone up twice in the last year or so just confirms it.
It wasn't me who complained about your spelling (honest).
Most of the Internet maps you see don't even use their two dimensions to represent space. In order to minimize intersecting lines, they put nodes that are only a few hops from each other close together on the map. In other words the horizontal and vertical axes are meaningless.
Besides, the CPU load of ssh'ing all that non-sensitive data would be crushing.