Even the DOSBOX and DOSEMU tools which Linux and other POSIX environments have available don't touch the level of flexibility that OS/2 offered 13 years ago, particularly when it comes to DOS programs which use both graphics and sound. I know -- I've been trying to get some of the DOS stuff I have to run under DOSEMU for the better part of seven years now!!!
What exactly are you having problems with? DOSEMU should behave exactly as an OS/2 VDM because the features are nearly identical. It's true that there are bugs, but we can only fix them if users report them on the SF bugtracker.
No, you're wrong. The antitrust case was not about product bundling, it was about product *tying*. Not providing a facility for the end user to remove IE from the system, and in fact making it intentionally difficult, and in addition preventing OEMs by contract from shipping systems without IE constituted product tying. If IE was a component that could be completely removed from the Add/Remove Programs menu and if OEMs were shipping Netscape as a consumer choice, it never would have been an issue.
You can have a theory with weak supporting evidence or a theory with strong supporting evidence. A theory with no supporting evidence at all (yet no contradictory evidence) would be a hypothesis. You are probably correct that gravitational waves are a hypothesis at the moment rather than a theory, but that depends on what constitutes supporting evidence to you.
You're an idiot. Evolution is fact. It happens. We see it every day. Living things adapt to their environments, and eventually speciate when the deviation becomes great.
What is a theory is the mechanism by which evolution occurs. The leading theory is the theory of natural selection (Darwin's theory). It is hard to test this theory because of the timelines involved, but predictions involving the fossil record have validated natural selection to some extent. If you want natural selection to go away, provide a counterexample or a more general scientific theory; it's that easy.
AFS is a distributed filesystem with highly integrated clustering. What catches many people off guard about AFS is the way it does replication. Volume replicas are read-only, and in order to update the replicas, a command must be issued (vos release) - they are not automatically kept up-to-date. As long as your replication needs are read-only and you don't need coherence automatically maintained for you, AFS might be the way to go.
ATI does. No other big player does at the moment. ATI also only provides docs for older chips, nothing they are currently selling. It would be thrilling if more manufacturers would provide a NDA policy (at least one that allows open source code), but it seems not to happen in the current climate.
I would not want the Christian creation myth taught as fact in a science classroom
I think there's another problem here too. 'Technology' and 'science' are so often confused, that science classes are no longer about science anymore. For the most part, what we refer to as 'science' classes are just nature and technology classes - teaching students the answers to the questions that science has asked.
A real science class would present the students with problems and show them how such problems are approached through the scientific method, because this is the essence of science. It would show them how to design scientific tests, which would give them an intimate understanding for what claims are within the scope of science and which are actually questions of philosophy or faith. And it would instill in them a distrust for conclusions which are presented without any empirical evidence.
But it *would* have happened eventually, because in infinity, all possible things happen.
That's a faulty argument in the general case. Take the example of a computer program. If you allow it to run infinitely, does that imply that every instruction contained within it will have executed at least once? Obviously, the answer is no, because it could have entered an infinite loop.
Things moving towards other things is an observed phenomena. "Gravity" is the name we gave to the force that causes this. Thus "gravity" is a theory.
You're splitting hairs, but you're still wrong. The force is not a theory. The existence of the force which we refer to as 'gravity' is trivially provable by observation under a classical system of mechanics - we observe things moving towards other things proportional to their mass, which requires a force of some sort. What causes the force, presumably 'gravitational waves', is a theory because their existence has not been proven yet.
Many Linux distributions nice the X server to -10. Change that to 0 and you will see little if any impact by a console X session on background apps.
Also be careful with your statement. For example, I doubt users running X apps with a remote display have a disproportionate performance impact, but your statement lumps them in with console X users.
That's funny, because NO CARRIER is the string a modem emits to the terminal once it has already given up the connection - it is not a command that the modem would understand much less cause it to hang up. Perhaps the users had some badly written terminal software that automatically exited or redialed when that string appeared.
US Robotics sold a 14.4 Winmodem as far back as 1994. Rockwell RPI modems were also Winmodems for all intents and purposes. MWave 14.4 modems also existed around that time, though they weren't really Winmodems in nature.
Hardware crypto acceleration (a feature that is already available in add-on cards) and mandatory signature checking by the processor are two separate features. Either could exist without the other.
The problem with signature checking is that first of all, it does not prevent signed malware, and second, that the private key is not your private key but some corporation's. I'm certain that there will be features to manage a user keyring (so you can insert your own key, or keys of developers you trust), but it would be hard to believe that there would not be a private keyring of the entertainment industry and Microsoft that is not accessible to the user. A hardware keyring would also be quite limited in size compared to the keyring in a software based signature checking scheme. Mandatory signature checking could be performed by either the processor or OS, and verification of a signature is not a computationally expensive process for something as small as a typical executable. Using hardware accelerated crypto (which is available in other forms already) as an excuse for making your computer subservient to others is simply poor reasoning on their part - but people are buying it in droves.
Every new release of glibc would be binary incompatible with the last version.
In what way? All I can think of is the C++ ABI transition (which can hardly be referred to as a mistake) and the problems that happen when people use internal library symbols that are mistakenly exported and then later not exported anymore.
Actually, here's an idea. Since compiling a Linux driver requires no C library, you could ship the compiler GCC and binutils on the driver CD itself. You would only need the headers for the kernel you are running installed, which are provided by the distribution already, separate from the full kernel source.
A script copies the compiler, driver sources, and kernel headers to a chroot; compiles the driver; exits the chroot; copies the driver to the appropriate location; and loads it. Another script removes the driver if the user changes his mind.
No stable binary interface is necessary in this way, and no development tools on the user's system so no worries about GCC standards tightening breaking the compile - only worry is source compatibility, so the tested kernels can be stamped on the CD. (e.g., Compatible with Linux up to version 2.6.10)
Oh, it irritates me too. It irritates most reasonable people who do not believe in pink elephants. But it's difficult to claim the moral high ground when our system of reasoning is based on assumptions just like any other. Science is, however, the most consistent system, which should appeal to people trying to make sense out of the seemingly chaotic universe, as a search for purpose or a place in the scheme of things.
About the only reason I can think of for really not allowing someone to vote is true mental incompetence (like for young children)
You still have to be careful though. Some of the most brilliant people were thought insane at one point, because they simply don't work like the rest of us.
Corporate power is in the hands of the people too. Stop buying from abusive corporations, and they disappear. Unfortunately, many people are willing to allow power to concentrate in a corporation as long as it gives them convenience today.
I have a MSI BX-Master which has 6 PCI master slots with a custom PCI arbiter chip. All slots are filled (net, sound, mpeg2 out, scsi, video in/out, modem) and I've never had any problems.
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No, you're wrong. The antitrust case was not about product bundling, it was about product *tying*. Not providing a facility for the end user to remove IE from the system, and in fact making it intentionally difficult, and in addition preventing OEMs by contract from shipping systems without IE constituted product tying. If IE was a component that could be completely removed from the Add/Remove Programs menu and if OEMs were shipping Netscape as a consumer choice, it never would have been an issue.
You can have a theory with weak supporting evidence or a theory with strong supporting evidence. A theory with no supporting evidence at all (yet no contradictory evidence) would be a hypothesis. You are probably correct that gravitational waves are a hypothesis at the moment rather than a theory, but that depends on what constitutes supporting evidence to you.
What is a theory is the mechanism by which evolution occurs. The leading theory is the theory of natural selection (Darwin's theory). It is hard to test this theory because of the timelines involved, but predictions involving the fossil record have validated natural selection to some extent. If you want natural selection to go away, provide a counterexample or a more general scientific theory; it's that easy.
AFS is a distributed filesystem with highly integrated clustering. What catches many people off guard about AFS is the way it does replication. Volume replicas are read-only, and in order to update the replicas, a command must be issued (vos release) - they are not automatically kept up-to-date. As long as your replication needs are read-only and you don't need coherence automatically maintained for you, AFS might be the way to go.
XGI has not open sourced any 3D driver. VIA has not open sourced their MPEG acceleration.
ATI does. No other big player does at the moment. ATI also only provides docs for older chips, nothing they are currently selling. It would be thrilling if more manufacturers would provide a NDA policy (at least one that allows open source code), but it seems not to happen in the current climate.
It's default noatime im Debian sarge.
A real science class would present the students with problems and show them how such problems are approached through the scientific method, because this is the essence of science. It would show them how to design scientific tests, which would give them an intimate understanding for what claims are within the scope of science and which are actually questions of philosophy or faith. And it would instill in them a distrust for conclusions which are presented without any empirical evidence.
Many Linux distributions nice the X server to -10. Change that to 0 and you will see little if any impact by a console X session on background apps.
Also be careful with your statement. For example, I doubt users running X apps with a remote display have a disproportionate performance impact, but your statement lumps them in with console X users.
That could be because i686 won't run on his 386SX-16...
That's funny, because NO CARRIER is the string a modem emits to the terminal once it has already given up the connection - it is not a command that the modem would understand much less cause it to hang up. Perhaps the users had some badly written terminal software that automatically exited or redialed when that string appeared.
+++ by itself doesn't hang up your modem. You could have entered ATO to go right back online.
US Robotics sold a 14.4 Winmodem as far back as 1994. Rockwell RPI modems were also Winmodems for all intents and purposes. MWave 14.4 modems also existed around that time, though they weren't really Winmodems in nature.
The problem with signature checking is that first of all, it does not prevent signed malware, and second, that the private key is not your private key but some corporation's. I'm certain that there will be features to manage a user keyring (so you can insert your own key, or keys of developers you trust), but it would be hard to believe that there would not be a private keyring of the entertainment industry and Microsoft that is not accessible to the user. A hardware keyring would also be quite limited in size compared to the keyring in a software based signature checking scheme. Mandatory signature checking could be performed by either the processor or OS, and verification of a signature is not a computationally expensive process for something as small as a typical executable. Using hardware accelerated crypto (which is available in other forms already) as an excuse for making your computer subservient to others is simply poor reasoning on their part - but people are buying it in droves.
A script copies the compiler, driver sources, and kernel headers to a chroot; compiles the driver; exits the chroot; copies the driver to the appropriate location; and loads it. Another script removes the driver if the user changes his mind.
No stable binary interface is necessary in this way, and no development tools on the user's system so no worries about GCC standards tightening breaking the compile - only worry is source compatibility, so the tested kernels can be stamped on the CD. (e.g., Compatible with Linux up to version 2.6.10)
Oh, it irritates me too. It irritates most reasonable people who do not believe in pink elephants. But it's difficult to claim the moral high ground when our system of reasoning is based on assumptions just like any other. Science is, however, the most consistent system, which should appeal to people trying to make sense out of the seemingly chaotic universe, as a search for purpose or a place in the scheme of things.
If the tape is not grounded, in what way does a metal case beneficially redistribute a static discharge that any other case material would not?
Windows NT until version 4.0 had an OS/2 execution subsystem.
Corporate power is in the hands of the people too. Stop buying from abusive corporations, and they disappear. Unfortunately, many people are willing to allow power to concentrate in a corporation as long as it gives them convenience today.
I have a MSI BX-Master which has 6 PCI master slots with a custom PCI arbiter chip. All slots are filled (net, sound, mpeg2 out, scsi, video in/out, modem) and I've never had any problems.