Airplane control systems need not concern themselves with discerning between a ball bouncing across the road (probably to be followed by a child) and a bouncing discarded Big Gulp (to be followed only by a raccoon)... nor are they concerned with whether it is better to brake, or accelerate, or where to pilot the vehicle in the case of the aforementioned ball. Nor are they concerned with attempting to guess which, if any, of the pedestrians on a crowded sidewalk might suddenly jaywalk, or drop a bag of groceries into the street. Show me, please, a computer that could even begin to do any of that, and then we can talk about self-driving cars.
The whole idea of "The UNIX Way" is that files are just files... and that you accomplish tasks by running files as streams through various pipes and filters. This is utterly at odds with requiring file associations to any particular program. You can use vi or Emacs or pico or whatever you like to edit a.c file. You can use Emacs to edit a PostScript file... you can use any of half a dozen common programs to edit a.docx file... It's the "Apple way" of forbidding anything but the Anointed Holy Programs from operating on my files, that is broken.
Windows (and MS-DOS before it) was not originally designed to be network-aware, much less network-safe. MS-DOS was a thinly disguised clone of Digital Research's CP/M, circa 1974. CP/M, as a personal computer operating system, was specifically designed not to have any sort of security, versus what was seen as the draconian measures taken by "mainframe mentality" operating systems like UNIX (from Bell Labs, 1969).
It was no surprise to anyone that an operating system that treats all programs and operations as fully privileged, when connected to a global network, treats everyone in the world as a sysadmin. Microsoft's campaign, then, was to somehow graft basic security features into an o/s that never had them, without horribly breaking every existing application.
That they succeeded even a little is a triumph of engineering.
But they would have saved everyone, including themselves, a huge amount of time and money by using something more UNIX-like as the design basis of Windows NT in the early 1990s. Apple learned that lesson with OS/X. Microsoft had Xenix years before, but threw it away. We, and Microsoft, are still suffering the consequences.
As so-called "smart" phonecomputers and tablets further fragment the marketplace, it won't be the PC that "goes away" but, at long, last, Windows and the CP/M heritage. The UNIX way wins at last... Huzzah!
You do realize, it takes non-zero time for a car to pass you, right? Even if you are driving 15 mph slower than the other traffic, it still takes 2-3 seconds or more for a car to pass you... which is why you can easily sustain a proper spacing at 60 mph in a 65 zone, no matter how fast the surrounding traffic "wants" to go.
Phoenix, Arizona... I do 60 in the HOV lane (speed limit 65, so 60 is the proper speed) on my motorcycle even though most folks seem to want to do 85... and leave 4 to 6 seconds in front is easy. How anyone can live with themselves when breaking the speed limit, I do not know.
You need to leave even more space. Two seconds behind the car in front of you. And if he is tail-gating, his two seconds; and if the car in front of him is tail-gating, another two seconds again. Once you leave that six seconds in front of you, not enough cars can pass you to fill the space, so you can easily keep a five or six second gap. Try it. Works for me, has for decades.
The U.S.A. is a free country, we do not require Identity Papers. I did not have a drivers license until age 33 and lived my whole life just fine. For you to say that I would be required to carry identity papers, would be to say that I live as a slave in a totalitarian government. I only carry my drivers license when driving, and only show it to a police officer in regards to a driving offense. That is all it is to be used for.
That would be, "firmware sets" or "firmware packages." Like "software" or "clothing," "firmware" is already a collective plural -- you do not have "two softwares" or "two clothings" but rather "two pieces of software, two pieces of clothing, and two pieces of firmware."
Gotta love projects whose homepage (judging on Google's cache) have not a word of explanation of what they are. For that matter, what is XBMC? If your website does not explain, in 25 words or fewer, what it's talking about, that's a good sign that you haven't a clue what you are doing.
Perhaps we could run an experiment simultaneously on the Moon, on Mars, and a few other places throughout the Solar System, and compare the effects of their positions to the Earth-bound ones. If indeed radioactive decay can be externally sped or slowed, we might be able to invent power plants or nuclear-waste disposers far beyond our current imagination.
D. The industry is turned into a Public Utility, which is moderately regulated and expected to return a handsome if conservative long-term dividend. see also, Electric Company.
If you were really snazzy you had a DECwriter II (LA-36)... zzzt! zzdedezzzt! zzzzzt! (....[pause].....hummmmmm as the head vibrates in the 'view' position)...
A now-common one-terabyte disk drive, represented on punched cards, would occupy a cube approximately 15.3 metres (50 feet) on a side... similar to a decently sized five-story building, and would have a mass of over 34,000,000 kilograms.
If loaded into standard U.S. railroad boxcars, that one terabyte would physically fit inside 17 boxcars but because of weight would have to be divided amongst 631 boxcars (each boxcar being rated at 60 tons, or about 1.5 terabytes' worth of punched cards). That works out to a freight train over seven miles long.
Having used a touchscreen computer (the DTI TouchCom II) as early as 1984, the chief problem with touch screens has always been that your finger gets in the way, and leaves smudges. A tablet or mouse pointer can be small, can even be a hollow "target" pointer, and does not leave greasy prints all over your display. Not to mention, the tactile feedback of an actual keyboard, and a mouse with real buttons, is a huge part of the user experience.
With UASP sufficient to provide a good disk interface, will new motherboards keep it simple and eliminate the SATA controller and ports? Will new internal hard drives simply have USB connectors?
Using a common command set reduces support and compatibility issues. SATA flash and hard drives support a subset of SCSI, which is why SAS controllers can easily handle SATA and SAS drives. This also makes support of these drives via UASP significantly easier. Likewise, it means standard device drivers for operating systems like Windows and Linux work with all devices.
So, a kernel could have a single SAS driver that supports all SAS, SATA, and USB block devices. This could be a marvelous convergence.
Right up there with "PIN number" or "on the I-10 freeway" (freeway meaning "limited access highway" so that's "the Interstate Highway 10 limited access highway" -- ugh. No, it's just "on I-10", people....)
If anything, the term "Indian" is a big laugh at Columbus's expense. He was the most lost person ever -- as in, having made the largest navigational error in history. Even "Wrong-Way" Corrigan wasn't that far off.
Slashdot Mirror
How long would you continue manufacturing a product, if there were no profit in it?
If you are willing to work for free, of course, I would be happy to employ you for long hours.
Airplane control systems need not concern themselves with discerning between a ball bouncing across the road (probably to be followed by a child) and a bouncing discarded Big Gulp (to be followed only by a raccoon)... nor are they concerned with whether it is better to brake, or accelerate, or where to pilot the vehicle in the case of the aforementioned ball. Nor are they concerned with attempting to guess which, if any, of the pedestrians on a crowded sidewalk might suddenly jaywalk, or drop a bag of groceries into the street. Show me, please, a computer that could even begin to do any of that, and then we can talk about self-driving cars.
The whole idea of "The UNIX Way" is that files are just files ... and that you accomplish tasks by running files as streams through various pipes and filters. This is utterly at odds with requiring file associations to any particular program. You can use vi or Emacs or pico or whatever you like to edit a .c file. You can use Emacs to edit a PostScript file... you can use any of half a dozen common programs to edit a .docx file... It's the "Apple way" of forbidding anything but the Anointed Holy Programs from operating on my files, that is broken.
Windows (and MS-DOS before it) was not originally designed to be network-aware, much less network-safe. MS-DOS was a thinly disguised clone of Digital Research's CP/M, circa 1974. CP/M, as a personal computer operating system, was specifically designed not to have any sort of security, versus what was seen as the draconian measures taken by "mainframe mentality" operating systems like UNIX (from Bell Labs, 1969).
It was no surprise to anyone that an operating system that treats all programs and operations as fully privileged, when connected to a global network, treats everyone in the world as a sysadmin. Microsoft's campaign, then, was to somehow graft basic security features into an o/s that never had them, without horribly breaking every existing application.
That they succeeded even a little is a triumph of engineering.
But they would have saved everyone, including themselves, a huge amount of time and money by using something more UNIX-like as the design basis of Windows NT in the early 1990s. Apple learned that lesson with OS/X. Microsoft had Xenix years before, but threw it away. We, and Microsoft, are still suffering the consequences.
As so-called "smart" phonecomputers and tablets further fragment the marketplace, it won't be the PC that "goes away" but, at long, last, Windows and the CP/M heritage. The UNIX way wins at last... Huzzah!
You do realize, it takes non-zero time for a car to pass you, right? Even if you are driving 15 mph slower than the other traffic, it still takes 2-3 seconds or more for a car to pass you... which is why you can easily sustain a proper spacing at 60 mph in a 65 zone, no matter how fast the surrounding traffic "wants" to go.
Phoenix, Arizona... I do 60 in the HOV lane (speed limit 65, so 60 is the proper speed) on my motorcycle even though most folks seem to want to do 85... and leave 4 to 6 seconds in front is easy. How anyone can live with themselves when breaking the speed limit, I do not know.
You need to leave even more space. Two seconds behind the car in front of you. And if he is tail-gating, his two seconds; and if the car in front of him is tail-gating, another two seconds again. Once you leave that six seconds in front of you, not enough cars can pass you to fill the space, so you can easily keep a five or six second gap. Try it. Works for me, has for decades.
The U.S.A. is a free country, we do not require Identity Papers. I did not have a drivers license until age 33 and lived my whole life just fine. For you to say that I would be required to carry identity papers, would be to say that I live as a slave in a totalitarian government. I only carry my drivers license when driving, and only show it to a police officer in regards to a driving offense. That is all it is to be used for.
That would be, "firmware sets" or "firmware packages." Like "software" or "clothing," "firmware" is already a collective plural -- you do not have "two softwares" or "two clothings" but rather "two pieces of software, two pieces of clothing, and two pieces of firmware."
Gotta love projects whose homepage (judging on Google's cache) have not a word of explanation of what they are. For that matter, what is XBMC? If your website does not explain, in 25 words or fewer, what it's talking about, that's a good sign that you haven't a clue what you are doing.
Perhaps we could run an experiment simultaneously on the Moon, on Mars, and a few other places throughout the Solar System, and compare the effects of their positions to the Earth-bound ones. If indeed radioactive decay can be externally sped or slowed, we might be able to invent power plants or nuclear-waste disposers far beyond our current imagination.
Clearly, George Bush and SUVs are to blame!
D. The industry is turned into a Public Utility, which is moderately regulated and expected to return a handsome if conservative long-term dividend. see also, Electric Company.
If you were really snazzy you had a DECwriter II (LA-36)... zzzt! zzdedezzzt! zzzzzt! (....[pause].....hummmmmm as the head vibrates in the 'view' position)...
I have never seen "ws-*" before... reference please?
What's WS-* supposed to mean... WordStar? I almost thought, some geek reference to a VMS error message... (%WS-X-XYZZY) but surely not?
A now-common one-terabyte disk drive, represented on punched cards, would occupy a cube approximately 15.3 metres (50 feet) on a side... similar to a decently sized five-story building, and would have a mass of over 34,000,000 kilograms.
If loaded into standard U.S. railroad boxcars, that one terabyte would physically fit inside 17 boxcars but because of weight would have to be divided amongst 631 boxcars (each boxcar being rated at 60 tons, or about 1.5 terabytes' worth of punched cards). That works out to a freight train over seven miles long.
Having used a touchscreen computer (the DTI TouchCom II) as early as 1984, the chief problem with touch screens has always been that your finger gets in the way, and leaves smudges. A tablet or mouse pointer can be small, can even be a hollow "target" pointer, and does not leave greasy prints all over your display. Not to mention, the tactile feedback of an actual keyboard, and a mouse with real buttons, is a huge part of the user experience.
In Washington, the Ministry of Truth says that we just need four more years of Hope and Change...
With UASP sufficient to provide a good disk interface, will new motherboards keep it simple and eliminate the SATA controller and ports? Will new internal hard drives simply have USB connectors?
According to Electronic Design,
So, a kernel could have a single SAS driver that supports all SAS, SATA, and USB block devices. This could be a marvelous convergence.
I love progamming in TECO. Because it feels so good when you stop!
Remember, EMACS was originally written in TECO. Does that tell you something about its author?
Right up there with "PIN number" or "on the I-10 freeway" (freeway meaning "limited access highway" so that's "the Interstate Highway 10 limited access highway" -- ugh. No, it's just "on I-10", people....)
...could create the world's fastest printer, with a shoe!
If anything, the term "Indian" is a big laugh at Columbus's expense. He was the most lost person ever -- as in, having made the largest navigational error in history. Even "Wrong-Way" Corrigan wasn't that far off.
.NET has a command-line interface? Maybe I can program that thing with bash...