HP made its infamous decision to ditch the Alpha line of processors in favor of the upcoming Intanic line.
Ummm...no. Compaq had scheduled dropping Alpha before the merger with HP (and flip-flopped a couple of times, but that's irrelevant). And it doesn't exactly rank as "infamous" that HP didn't reverse that decision, since HP was Intels development partner on Itanic (aiming for a replacement for Precision Architecture) and had spent a lot of money and other resources on it.
The i860 showed up in a lot of very high end graphics and computational adjunct processors (Mercury had a scaldingly fast math processor line, for example). As the parent said, for such "dedicated" applications, the i860 was very, very fast. Unfortunately, it was marketed as a general purpose processor, something for which it was uniquely unsuited.
People smarter than most of us need to design a language/compiler that doesn't burden the programmer with the responsibility of 'keeping track' of when to use threads and when not to.
You mean languages where threads are a first-order language construct? Modula-3 certainly expresses the concept of light weight threads as a language construct. By inference, you might look at Mesa, Cedar & Modula-2+ as well. Ada and Modula-2 (among many others) have a more heavyweight concept of a task as well.
Or do you mean languages for which threading can be implicitly derrived from the program code? Look at the many members of the Functional Language group (FP, Hope, Haskell, Caml/OCaml, etc).
There is no such thing as a "picocell". There is, however, a microcell. They are used all the time to fill in the gaps in cell coverage. There is one in every cellular retail shop.
Because the accelleration effect of the solar wind falls off over distance, and the effect becomes effectively zero looooooong before a space craft comes under the influence of another star (assuming you aren't in an area of space where the stars are really close together (galactic core, stellar nursery)). Of course, in such areas, you have bigger problems that getting blown around by stellar wind.
For-profit-companies offer "free services" in order that people purchase "paid services", which pay for the free services. If a certain class of douchebag (apparently, people like our AC here) show up and only use the free service and never "pay" for anything (cause, phuque, a cuppa coffee, how dare they expect me to pay for that), the free service goes away. Real simple. So maybe that means they aren't really "free services". But since people like our little AC aren't willing to pay for them anyway, it's not a particularly apropos distiction.
Put another way: It's not an entitlement, asshole, to get free internet on the back of some mom and pop coffee store. Being a freeloader might seem kewl to you and the rest of your underemployed friends, but that doesn't mean said mom-and-pops should be vilified because they don't want to loose money. Go back to stealing bandwidth from unsecured APs in your flophouse, and quit trying to make the small business owner the bad buy.
I'm familiar with a SunOne install with somewhat more than 32 million users on a Sun cluster about to go into production for a major cellular provider (in pilot for something short of a year). My impression is that you're comments are spot on correct.
This isn't particularly big news for the SMB market, but for the enterprise market, this is a huge open source win. Quality, scalable, enterprise capable LDAP solutions are a hot topic in all of the Fortune 500 sized companies that I deal with, and ND has a track record of being able to play ball there.
Now if they would only open source Netscape calendaring...
While I wouldn't argue that building codes have been used to unjectly keep "undesirables" out, I just can't let this pack of rubbish go by unchallenged.
For example, here in Toronto there is a group that wants to "protect" certain "lovely Victorian neighborhoods". Now, who feels nostalgic about the Victorian era? An era of racist imperialist conquering, an era of horrible sexual repression?
Oh, yes, of course...because, after all, nothing good was done by whites between 1837 and 1901. No architecture, no literature, no science. Every thought, expression and breath was intended to oppress someone. We should blot out everything from that era, no?
Let's not beat around the bush: we are talking about racism. Just between you and me, RexRhino, I thought "racism" had something to do with the blanket generalization of unpleasant stereotypes across an entire ethic group. But looking at your writing, I guess when you do that to white Europeans and their American decedents, it's a different set of rules.
Funny...this other word I know just came to mind. "hypocrisy".
Clearly this is the values of white upper class people feeling nostalgic about an era when they ruled the world.
Oh, yes...clearly. As in, there could be no other possible rationale. It could not possibly be that they like the architecture. Because it's a good neighborhood. Because they are lovely homes in historically meaningful neighborhoods.
Nope. All racists, a klan robe in every closet, every one.
I don't hear immigrants from China or India saying how much they would like to live in lovely Victorian neighborhoods.
Because you haven't heard immigrants express an interest in a specific architectural style, that style...must....be.....racist......? You couldn't possibly be trying to make such a transparently idiotic point.
The fact is that most immigrants couldn't care less about the fact that it's a lovely Victorian neighborhood.
In my very large eastern city, our very large immigrant population, of which a thousand or so of Chinese & Indian extraction work in my company, immigrants seem pretty content to move into nice neighborhoods, regardless of style. Oddly, I've never heard one of them say "well, it's a very nice house, in a good area with good schools, but I simply can't get pass the fact that it's Victorian styling reminds me of the oppression visited upon my swarthy ancestors over a century ago". Nope...not even once (and I've helped a number of immigrant families navigate the baroque road to American home ownership).
In other words, your entire premise is abject bullshit, and you are inventing rationales where none exists.
...nearly all community codes are to enforce segregation and the superiority of one culture over another.
Because, you know, wanting a clean, safe neighborhood where you won't get a strip mall or garbage dump summarily built next door is racist. And anyone concerned with property values: racist, and a dirty capitalism . Concerned with aesthetics: whoa boy! Big gaping racist (unless, presumably, you are interested in hypothetical, idealized, non-racist aesthetics).
What is the "Goodwins Law" equivalent where "Nazi" is replaced by "racist"?
Anyone who intends to count on the bounty opportunities as a source of income should make sure that there is a firm understanding as to what is required to earn the bounty (if not requesting a contract of some kind). I can certainly see folks plowing a lot of effort into this only to have the people offering the bounty say "that's not what I want...no bounty for you".
That's a -48V DC power supply, which is a data center power standard that started out in the telco world. Definately not directly applicable to replacing your wall warts (unless you put -48v power supplies in your periperals).
Choicepoint didn't get hacked, except in the social engineering sense. They just didn't follow their own procedures for vetting out their customers and allowed some Bad People (tm) access. Then they didn't detect the unusual activity of a pack of crooks bulk downloading customer data. Shoddy all the way around.
You still have to bear the cost to litigate, which can be very, very expensive (even before you get to court). Even if the court awards you court costs, you can be out that money a long time. The small guys might not be able to shoulder the burden.
"There have been no lawsuits filed against any of the M.A.M.E. authors, and there have been no claims towards the open source engine, nor will there be."
Apparently, Mr. Foley thinks we're idiots. If he gets his application granted, then he could sue (or otherwise cause problems). And he will. He'll do it the minute he sees a business gain for doing so. It is flatly untrue to contend otherwise.
Prove it. Clue: Saying he won't does not constitute proof.
The point is that if his application is granted, he could. And he will, the minute he sees business gain from doing so. Its foolish to think otherwise.
Both OMAP and PXA are ARM architecture. A trivial amount of research on your part would show how well supported ARM is in NetBSD. Just because LinuxDevices.com and Slashdot don't report design wins by NetBSD in the ARM market doesn't mean they don't exist.
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It said he used Windows. It didn't say he bought Windows.
Ummm...no. Compaq had scheduled dropping Alpha before the merger with HP (and flip-flopped a couple of times, but that's irrelevant). And it doesn't exactly rank as "infamous" that HP didn't reverse that decision, since HP was Intels development partner on Itanic (aiming for a replacement for Precision Architecture) and had spent a lot of money and other resources on it.
The i860 showed up in a lot of very high end graphics and computational adjunct processors (Mercury had a scaldingly fast math processor line, for example). As the parent said, for such "dedicated" applications, the i860 was very, very fast. Unfortunately, it was marketed as a general purpose processor, something for which it was uniquely unsuited.
You mean languages where threads are a first-order language construct? Modula-3 certainly expresses the concept of light weight threads as a language construct. By inference, you might look at Mesa, Cedar & Modula-2+ as well. Ada and Modula-2 (among many others) have a more heavyweight concept of a task as well.
Or do you mean languages for which threading can be implicitly derrived from the program code? Look at the many members of the Functional Language group (FP, Hope, Haskell, Caml/OCaml, etc).
There is no such thing as a "picocell". There is, however, a microcell. They are used all the time to fill in the gaps in cell coverage. There is one in every cellular retail shop.
Because the accelleration effect of the solar wind falls off over distance, and the effect becomes effectively zero looooooong before a space craft comes under the influence of another star (assuming you aren't in an area of space where the stars are really close together (galactic core, stellar nursery)). Of course, in such areas, you have bigger problems that getting blown around by stellar wind.
Put another way: It's not an entitlement, asshole, to get free internet on the back of some mom and pop coffee store. Being a freeloader might seem kewl to you and the rest of your underemployed friends, but that doesn't mean said mom-and-pops should be vilified because they don't want to loose money. Go back to stealing bandwidth from unsecured APs in your flophouse, and quit trying to make the small business owner the bad buy.
Ah...you are of course correct. My bad, Netscape undoubtedly doesn't have rights.
I'm familiar with a SunOne install with somewhat more than 32 million users on a Sun cluster about to go into production for a major cellular provider (in pilot for something short of a year). My impression is that you're comments are spot on correct.
Now if they would only open source Netscape calendaring...
For example, here in Toronto there is a group that wants to "protect" certain "lovely Victorian neighborhoods". Now, who feels nostalgic about the Victorian era? An era of racist imperialist conquering, an era of horrible sexual repression?
Oh, yes, of course...because, after all, nothing good was done by whites between 1837 and 1901. No architecture, no literature, no science. Every thought, expression and breath was intended to oppress someone. We should blot out everything from that era, no?
Let's not beat around the bush: we are talking about racism. Just between you and me, RexRhino, I thought "racism" had something to do with the blanket generalization of unpleasant stereotypes across an entire ethic group. But looking at your writing, I guess when you do that to white Europeans and their American decedents, it's a different set of rules.
Funny...this other word I know just came to mind. "hypocrisy".
Clearly this is the values of white upper class people feeling nostalgic about an era when they ruled the world.
Oh, yes...clearly. As in, there could be no other possible rationale. It could not possibly be that they like the architecture. Because it's a good neighborhood. Because they are lovely homes in historically meaningful neighborhoods.
Nope. All racists, a klan robe in every closet, every one.
I don't hear immigrants from China or India saying how much they would like to live in lovely Victorian neighborhoods.
Because you haven't heard immigrants express an interest in a specific architectural style, that style...must....be.....racist......? You couldn't possibly be trying to make such a transparently idiotic point.
The fact is that most immigrants couldn't care less about the fact that it's a lovely Victorian neighborhood.
In my very large eastern city, our very large immigrant population, of which a thousand or so of Chinese & Indian extraction work in my company, immigrants seem pretty content to move into nice neighborhoods, regardless of style. Oddly, I've never heard one of them say "well, it's a very nice house, in a good area with good schools, but I simply can't get pass the fact that it's Victorian styling reminds me of the oppression visited upon my swarthy ancestors over a century ago". Nope...not even once (and I've helped a number of immigrant families navigate the baroque road to American home ownership).
In other words, your entire premise is abject bullshit, and you are inventing rationales where none exists.
Because, you know, wanting a clean, safe neighborhood where you won't get a strip mall or garbage dump summarily built next door is racist. And anyone concerned with property values: racist, and a dirty capitalism . Concerned with aesthetics: whoa boy! Big gaping racist (unless, presumably, you are interested in hypothetical, idealized, non-racist aesthetics).
What is the "Goodwins Law" equivalent where "Nazi" is replaced by "racist"?
Anyone who intends to count on the bounty opportunities as a source of income should make sure that there is a firm understanding as to what is required to earn the bounty (if not requesting a contract of some kind). I can certainly see folks plowing a lot of effort into this only to have the people offering the bounty say "that's not what I want...no bounty for you".
Ken - who is thankful that he's getting an MBA and understands that there is a bigger world out there.
That's a -48V DC power supply, which is a data center power standard that started out in the telco world. Definately not directly applicable to replacing your wall warts (unless you put -48v power supplies in your periperals).
Choicepoint didn't get hacked, except in the social engineering sense. They just didn't follow their own procedures for vetting out their customers and allowed some Bad People (tm) access. Then they didn't detect the unusual activity of a pack of crooks bulk downloading customer data. Shoddy all the way around.
Thus, it Does Matter.
Am I alone in hating the French?
Apparently, Mr. Foley thinks we're idiots. If he gets his application granted, then he could sue (or otherwise cause problems). And he will. He'll do it the minute he sees a business gain for doing so. It is flatly untrue to contend otherwise.
Prove it. Clue: Saying he won't does not constitute proof.
The point is that if his application is granted, he could. And he will, the minute he sees business gain from doing so. Its foolish to think otherwise.
http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/14238
and
http://www.politechbot.com/pipermail/politech/2003 -September/000038.html
They may have fixed this. I dunno, since the reaction of people on the list to this analysis made me write the whole thing off and unsubscribe.
In other words, nothing. I'll have to check it out.
AC + Troll. Do not feed the trolls...
Both OMAP and PXA are ARM architecture. A trivial amount of research on your part would show how well supported ARM is in NetBSD. Just because LinuxDevices.com and Slashdot don't report design wins by NetBSD in the ARM market doesn't mean they don't exist.
Oh....AC + Troll == Assclown. Sorry, shouldn't have bothered to respond.
Do not feed the troll...