RTFA: You must have missed the part about GPS being installed fuel efficient cars, electric vehicles, and all other machines of equivalent horsepower - which means your lawnmower has a GPS on it too.
There is a saying for this, it's called, 'Eating your own dog food'.
My company is trying to get everyone to switch from saying 'Eating your own dog food.' to 'Drinking your own champange.'
Those yellow bellies in marketing probably spent sleepless nights thinking about how customers would find out we internally compare our software to dog food. Pussies.
I also had the same idea about the same site. I thought it would be funny to see what was there. Now I am emotionally scarred and, since I'm a Californian, I'm thinking about suing.
I love firefox and evangalize it to my friends and co-workers but while the "...not a crash sinced I switched" line from the ad may be true in Justin Henderson's experience, it certainly isn't true in my own. I am a heavy user of firefox (part of my work involves developing a web pages) and I have it crash on me at least a couple of times a week. This happens on both Windows XP and Fedora Core 3. It usually happens when I am switching between multiple tabs while loading pages in each tab but I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly what I'm doing when the crash occurs so I cannot report the bug effectively on bugzilla.
Even so, IE also crashes like a mofo and it lacks built-in popup blocking, tabbed browsing, and cool plug-ins like the web developer plug-in and forcastfox. And I love being able to directly report bugs to bugzilla and track. It is great to see people take interest in fixing bugs I report.
I've worried about that myself. I had two items sell this week and the payments from the buyers are marked as pending but will not sent. I think keeping the buyer informed is the best way to avoid negative feedback.
A couple days ago I was talking to a co-worker who said that he loved to try out new operating systems. He will be one of the people to try Syllable. In addition, people who like to be different will like to use Syllable.
I agree with you that it won't be making any real waves, but I'm still going to try it.
I agree that stable is ambiguous. Perhaps he meant the length of time the U.S. constitution has survived or the length of time the the U.S. has been a democracy compared to other democracies (disclaimer: I'm not even sure if the U.S. is the leader in these two categories).
My boss got one of these about 3 months ago as a preview release from a friend who is a distributor. Some of the pre-programmed motions were quite funny (like the Neandertal roar for scaring small children). The robot also has good walking ability and dexterity in general.
Though be warned, it isn't made out of the highest quality components. Much to the embaressment of my boss, the robot broke in his care. The head got stuck to one side. My boss and I considered opening it up and hacking it ourselves, but all we both had visions of giving the robot back to the distributor in many pieces.
The Slashdot post didn't communicate this point clearly. Here is the text from the Wired article they are referring to:
"There was no performance hit," he said. "I was expecting a lag, some symptom that things were not as they should be, but that was not the case. There was no hand-eye delay. It seemed completely normal. It responded really quickly."
The performance hit seems to be the perceived performance hit, and not a measured one. Also, Transitive's site doesn't claim there is no performance hit.
Dynamite
allows software that has been compiled for one processor/operating system
to be run on another processor/operating system without any source code
or binary changes. To do this, Dynamite provides a hardware virtualization
technology that consists of four key components. First, an integration
FUSE allows Dynamite to be easily integrated into the
target system. Second, a dynamic binary translator tackles the challenge
of moving from one instruction set architecture to another. Third, an
operating system mapper translates operating system calls from the source
system to the target system in situations where the source and target
operating systems are different. Finally, a graphics subsystem mapper
translates graphics system calls from the source to the target system
in situations where the source and target graphics systems are different.
Integration
FUSE. Dynamite is integrated with the operating system
of the target system and runs like any other application. Unlike static
translators that translate an applications binary once before
run time, Dynamite translates instructions and operating system calls
while an application is running. When a foreign application is started,
the operating system recognizes that the application needs translation
and automatically starts Dynamite. Depending on the requirements for
the integration, Dynamite can be configured with a wide range of options,
including the ability to build bridges between translated
code and code running native on the target platform. This feature has
been used, for example, to allow translated applications to call a native
accelerated graphics library for the graphics chipset in the target
platform, delivering higher quality and speed than other solutions.
Integration options also provide for different optimization schedules
and the ability to reconfigure the use of the translation code cache
to better match performance to customer needs.
Dynamic
Binary Translation. The dynamic binary translator in Dynamite
is a breakthrough technology that uses a modular architecture consisting
of three key components. The front-end decoder reads blocks of instructions
from the foreign applications binary and decodes them into an
intermediate representation. The intermediate representation allows
Dynamite to understand the higher-level semantics and intent of the
code.
The
optimizing kernel reads the intermediate representation
and optimizes the code. At first, simple optimizations are performed.
In most applications, however, a 90/10 rules holds where 10% of the
code is executed 90% of the time. The optimizing kernel looks for blocks
of code that are executed often, spends increasing amounts of time improving
the optimization of this code, and then stores this optimized code in
memory. Each time a frequently used block of code needs to be executed,
the highly optimized code stored in memory is used instead of optimizing
that block of code again. Because the blocks of code that are executed
change frequently, the optimizing kernel flushes old optimized blocks
and generates new ones. The optimizing kernel produces superior code
optimization compared to static binary translators or compilers. It
optimizes code based on how an individual user is using that application
and does not need to optimize code for the general case.
The
back-end code generator outputs code for the
target processor
Transitive explains the architechure of their system here. Basically, to support APIs on different operating systems they have what is called an Operating System Mapper. They don't claim that it maps Mac to Windows or Linux to Windows. Basically, it maps two like systems together (like Solaris to AIX or HPUX to Linux). If there is no straightforward mapping then the customer defines the map.
After reading this, the term Universal Emulator doesn't seem to apply. Here is the text from Transitive's Website:
Operating System Mapper. Dynamite supports operating system mapping between any two Unix/Linux-like operating systems, as well as mapping between mainframe and any Unix/Linux-like operating systems. Where similar operating system calls exist between the source and destination operating system, Dynamite maps calls between the two. Where an equivalent operating system call doesn't exist in the target environment, Dynamite maps to similar calls per the customer's guidance. Dynamite also monitors certain system calls, for example thread scheduling and memory mapping calls, to ensure that it can reproduce the complete behaviour of the program it is executing.
Lufthansa also offers wireless access on some of their flights. I flew from Munich to Los Angeles two weeks ago and used it. They have a free portal you can use or complete Internet access for $30 (which was too much for me to pay).
He slashed defense and ran away from every armed conflict around the world. He gave no response to bombings of the USS Cole, the World Trade Center (yes it was previously bombed in an attempt to take it down), Somalia, the US Barracks in Kenya etc, which taught the terrorists they could kill us without response, which of course landed us with September 11.
USS Cole - The attack was Oct. 12, 2000. This bombing was staged by suicide bombers, so it is a tad bit difficult to find them after they blow themselves into fish bait. There has been an investigation and arrest of someone who may have been involved in planning of the attack. Also, George W. could have done something about this in Jan 2001 when he took over.
World Trade Center Bombing - there was something called a TRIAL and conviction that took place. They are meant to determine innocence or guilt. It is part of what makes America a great place to live. Ask Bush about Guantanamo. BTW, the trial was only on the news about every day for a year, so I don't blame you for not knowing this.
Somalia - Dude, didn't you watch Blackhawk Down?
US Barracks in Kenya (I'm assuming you meant US embassies) - Again, there was a trial and conviction.
which taught the terrorists they could kill us without response, which of course landed us with September 11 - Since there WAS a response to every single action you listed, I'll simply address your "of course landed us with Sep 11" as more stupidity. How can you singly blame a single individual who wasn't even in office for 9 months when the act occurred? The acts of Sep 11 were committed by TERRORISTS and we (America) didn't stop it.
He took a great economy handed to him and tanked it in his final 2 years. Pahleease. Don't you remember the recession were we in when George Bush Sr. was in office? Presidents don't affect the economy as much as people give them credit for.
Now let me address the last point, about the prisoner abuse and beheading of Nick Berg. I watched the video of Nick Berg being beheaded. It was slow and brutal. It was an innocent man being beheaded by other selfish men who used him as a pawn in their game. The beheading was meant to be horrible and cause terror. It was much worse than the prisoner abuse we have seen. HOWEVER, the people who beheaded Nick Berg were terrorists and we are a country that advocates life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have a constitution that forbids cruel and unusual punishment. We cannot use the actions of terrorists as justification for our mistakes. The terrorists do not set our moral standards. We do not live by their moral standards. The Iraqi prisoners were not even convicted yet. And, if they had been, they should still have not been treated like they were. Even if you don't agree the treatment was cruel it was certainly unusual. US Soldiers vow to uphold the constitution. The soldiers, commanders, and govt. officials who let this happen on their watch are just as bad as the terrorists who beheaded Nick Berg, because their job is to protect others. Terrorists kill others, so for them to behead someone is in their character.
Again, the beheading of Nick Berg was much more horrible than any prisoner abuse we have seen, but it is no excuse for our treatment of Iraqi prisoners.
I graduated in June 2001 and got 70k in Southern California at a company I had interned at for over a year and a half. The October after 9/11 my company laid off 1/3 of the employees and reduced wages by 10%. I finally got my 10% reinstated but I'm still waiting for my first raise (the process has been going on for 5 months now... obviously they don't want to pay me more). One of my co-workers who works on a subset of what I do makes 25k more than me. He has more years of experience than I do but it is still frustrating since I know I am just as qualified and just as valuable to the company.
I'm currently working on a business plan. You should consider starting your own business. Perhaps you can talk to a smart business major at your school, one with entreprenerial drive.
My way around this is to put everything I build in a special directory, like/opt/tools, for instance, so that my uninstall is to simply remove the directory. Everything in/usr and/usr/local are packages only (since they can uninstall).
In addition,/opt/tools is also owned by a non-root user, so I can build and install without having to su to root. Each package I build gets it own subdirectory under/opt/tools (for instance/opt/tools/gcc-3.3.3,/opt/tools/binutils-2.14, etc). This allows me to have multiple versions of the same software running side by side. I then have convience scripts in/opt/tools that setup PATH for you.
This method allows me to keep very strict control over my build processes (I'm a programmer) so that I can always build the exact same code that a customer has.
I signed the petition. But if Lucas does not release the "real" originals on DVD perhaps someone will recreate the "real" originals from the DVDs. I know that some scenes were updated and some added, but were any deleted?
I propose that wind turbines are introduced into the city in order to combat pigeon overpopulation.
Pigeons, scientifically classified as disgusting, have overrun many cities: Venice, Los Angeles, and Paris (of course, the Parisians quickly surrendered). Chopping pigeons up into small pieces would create but a temporary mess, for the cockroaches would clean up pieces.
The city of Long Beach, CA had a pigeon problem at the city hall. The Long Beach city hall is in the downtown district and is about 15 stories. To combat the problem they got a hawk installed on top of the city hall. Soon, those pesky pigeons were gone, although pigeon heads were littered everywhere.
BTW, i'm not sure if that last story is urban legend or not.
I downloaded bonic in January 2003 after reading Prey by Michael Crichton. You have to read a lot of documentation to get going because you must work within their framework. After fiddling for several hours I gave up, because I didn't think many people would bother to run my distributed "Hello, World" application. You see, each client computes the ASCII value for a character in the string, the server then reasembles them and prints it on the server. It greatly reduces the work required to display output on the console.
Slashdot Mirror
Pilot of X-37: Software (not remote controlled)
Customer of SS1: Nobody
Customer of X-37: NASA, Air Force, and DARPA
Yes, but they call them "port holes".
__|__
RTFA: You must have missed the part about GPS being installed fuel efficient cars, electric vehicles, and all other machines of equivalent horsepower - which means your lawnmower has a GPS on it too.
My company is trying to get everyone to switch from saying 'Eating your own dog food.' to 'Drinking your own champange.'
Those yellow bellies in marketing probably spent sleepless nights thinking about how customers would find out we internally compare our software to dog food. Pussies.
I also had the same idea about the same site. I thought it would be funny to see what was there. Now I am emotionally scarred and, since I'm a Californian, I'm thinking about suing.
And the last rule... don't let your boss find out you are reading Conspiring Against Your Employer on Slashdot. A bad combination, indeed.
Even so, IE also crashes like a mofo and it lacks built-in popup blocking, tabbed browsing, and cool plug-ins like the web developer plug-in and forcastfox. And I love being able to directly report bugs to bugzilla and track. It is great to see people take interest in fixing bugs I report.
I've worried about that myself. I had two items sell this week and the payments from the buyers are marked as pending but will not sent. I think keeping the buyer informed is the best way to avoid negative feedback.
A couple days ago I was talking to a co-worker who said that he loved to try out new operating systems. He will be one of the people to try Syllable. In addition, people who like to be different will like to use Syllable.
I agree with you that it won't be making any real waves, but I'm still going to try it.
I agree that stable is ambiguous. Perhaps he meant the length of time the U.S. constitution has survived or the length of time the the U.S. has been a democracy compared to other democracies (disclaimer: I'm not even sure if the U.S. is the leader in these two categories).
Though be warned, it isn't made out of the highest quality components. Much to the embaressment of my boss, the robot broke in his care. The head got stuck to one side. My boss and I considered opening it up and hacking it ourselves, but all we both had visions of giving the robot back to the distributor in many pieces.
The performance hit seems to be the perceived performance hit, and not a measured one. Also, Transitive's site doesn't claim there is no performance hit.
Dynamite allows software that has been compiled for one processor/operating system to be run on another processor/operating system without any source code or binary changes. To do this, Dynamite provides a hardware virtualization technology that consists of four key components. First, an integration FUSE allows Dynamite to be easily integrated into the target system. Second, a dynamic binary translator tackles the challenge of moving from one instruction set architecture to another. Third, an operating system mapper translates operating system calls from the source system to the target system in situations where the source and target operating systems are different. Finally, a graphics subsystem mapper translates graphics system calls from the source to the target system in situations where the source and target graphics systems are different.
Integration FUSE. Dynamite is integrated with the operating system of the target system and runs like any other application. Unlike static translators that translate an applications binary once before run time, Dynamite translates instructions and operating system calls while an application is running. When a foreign application is started, the operating system recognizes that the application needs translation and automatically starts Dynamite. Depending on the requirements for the integration, Dynamite can be configured with a wide range of options, including the ability to build bridges between translated code and code running native on the target platform. This feature has been used, for example, to allow translated applications to call a native accelerated graphics library for the graphics chipset in the target platform, delivering higher quality and speed than other solutions. Integration options also provide for different optimization schedules and the ability to reconfigure the use of the translation code cache to better match performance to customer needs.
Dynamic Binary Translation. The dynamic binary translator in Dynamite is a breakthrough technology that uses a modular architecture consisting of three key components. The front-end decoder reads blocks of instructions from the foreign applications binary and decodes them into an intermediate representation. The intermediate representation allows Dynamite to understand the higher-level semantics and intent of the code.
The optimizing kernel reads the intermediate representation and optimizes the code. At first, simple optimizations are performed. In most applications, however, a 90/10 rules holds where 10% of the code is executed 90% of the time. The optimizing kernel looks for blocks of code that are executed often, spends increasing amounts of time improving the optimization of this code, and then stores this optimized code in memory. Each time a frequently used block of code needs to be executed, the highly optimized code stored in memory is used instead of optimizing that block of code again. Because the blocks of code that are executed change frequently, the optimizing kernel flushes old optimized blocks and generates new ones. The optimizing kernel produces superior code optimization compared to static binary translators or compilers. It optimizes code based on how an individual user is using that application and does not need to optimize code for the general case.
The back-end code generator outputs code for the target processor
After reading this, the term Universal Emulator doesn't seem to apply. Here is the text from Transitive's Website:
Lufthansa also offers wireless access on some of their flights. I flew from Munich to Los Angeles two weeks ago and used it. They have a free portal you can use or complete Internet access for $30 (which was too much for me to pay).
He slashed defense and ran away from every armed conflict around the world. He gave no response to bombings of the USS Cole, the World Trade Center (yes it was previously bombed in an attempt to take it down), Somalia, the US Barracks in Kenya etc, which taught the terrorists they could kill us without response, which of course landed us with September 11.
He took a great economy handed to him and tanked it in his final 2 years. Pahleease. Don't you remember the recession were we in when George Bush Sr. was in office? Presidents don't affect the economy as much as people give them credit for.
Now let me address the last point, about the prisoner abuse and beheading of Nick Berg. I watched the video of Nick Berg being beheaded. It was slow and brutal. It was an innocent man being beheaded by other selfish men who used him as a pawn in their game. The beheading was meant to be horrible and cause terror. It was much worse than the prisoner abuse we have seen. HOWEVER, the people who beheaded Nick Berg were terrorists and we are a country that advocates life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have a constitution that forbids cruel and unusual punishment. We cannot use the actions of terrorists as justification for our mistakes. The terrorists do not set our moral standards. We do not live by their moral standards. The Iraqi prisoners were not even convicted yet. And, if they had been, they should still have not been treated like they were. Even if you don't agree the treatment was cruel it was certainly unusual. US Soldiers vow to uphold the constitution. The soldiers, commanders, and govt. officials who let this happen on their watch are just as bad as the terrorists who beheaded Nick Berg, because their job is to protect others. Terrorists kill others, so for them to behead someone is in their character.
Again, the beheading of Nick Berg was much more horrible than any prisoner abuse we have seen, but it is no excuse for our treatment of Iraqi prisoners.
I'm currently working on a business plan. You should consider starting your own business. Perhaps you can talk to a smart business major at your school, one with entreprenerial drive.
In addition, /opt/tools is also owned by a non-root user, so I can build and install without having to su to root. Each package I build gets it own subdirectory under /opt/tools (for instance /opt/tools/gcc-3.3.3, /opt/tools/binutils-2.14, etc). This allows me to have multiple versions of the same software running side by side. I then have convience scripts in /opt/tools that setup PATH for you.
This method allows me to keep very strict control over my build processes (I'm a programmer) so that I can always build the exact same code that a customer has.
I signed the petition. But if Lucas does not release the "real" originals on DVD perhaps someone will recreate the "real" originals from the DVDs. I know that some scenes were updated and some added, but were any deleted?
Except that this article was posted Sunday, when most office workers are not working.
Perhaps Java 1.4.2 is slow in the trig section not because of a bad trig implementation, but because of how it makes function calls.
Pigeons, scientifically classified as disgusting, have overrun many cities: Venice, Los Angeles, and Paris (of course, the Parisians quickly surrendered). Chopping pigeons up into small pieces would create but a temporary mess, for the cockroaches would clean up pieces.
The city of Long Beach, CA had a pigeon problem at the city hall. The Long Beach city hall is in the downtown district and is about 15 stories. To combat the problem they got a hawk installed on top of the city hall. Soon, those pesky pigeons were gone, although pigeon heads were littered everywhere.
BTW, i'm not sure if that last story is urban legend or not.
I downloaded bonic in January 2003 after reading Prey by Michael Crichton. You have to read a lot of documentation to get going because you must work within their framework. After fiddling for several hours I gave up, because I didn't think many people would bother to run my distributed "Hello, World" application. You see, each client computes the ASCII value for a character in the string, the server then reasembles them and prints it on the server. It greatly reduces the work required to display output on the console.
... I switched to Firebird. I'm not joking. I forgot how annoying popup ads can be because I never have to deal with them anymore.