If you see 2,000,000,000 ($ or EUR, it does not really matter) on your bank account, I guess you would even kill innocent people. It is simply to much money to still have any sense of reason.
I am running -CURRENT on my router. It has been running 50 days without any problems. I also run -CURRENT on my laptop and desktop systems, without problems... The only panic I had was when I forgot to recompile my nvidia kernel module after doing installworld/installkernel.
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From a Windoze perspective it is annoying like hell. But as you are forced to install this... thing... to play RealStreams, you have to live with it as Windows user. But wait... Linux and *BSD users are damned as well... at least it does not autostart there...
University.;-) But how is this related? You can write a quick and dirty message-passing OO system in about 30 minutes in ANSI Common Lisp... I learned nothing about Lisp sofar in my lectures, but did find a job where I can code Common Lisp for money.
The Hotspot Java VM can optimize based on how the code is currently being used, undo an optimization if it starts slowing things down, and use processor specific instructions!
That would be a nice feature for CMU CL (look here for info). Common Lisp has a far more powerful OO system than Java anyway. And if you don't like it, write your own OO system in Lisp... you can! Can you do this in Java?!
This requires processing e-mail headers and saving who is in communication with whom. I can only speak for Germany, but I think this violates existing law (Datenschutzgesetz). Anyone familiar with law who is able to clear this up?
Come on! Give it sufficient time and copies of Windows source code will fly around everywhere. Even if Microsoft tried, they could not persue one percent of the people... No one cared if you had MS-DOS 6.22 source code either.
They have all the complexity and failings of UNIX with no software and limited compatibility.
I would love to get a Handheld or (way more important) mobile phone which I can adapt to my needs. And most free UNIX-like operating systems are very flexible in contrast to Windows CE etc.
Just because a Linux-based PDA is not as "friendly" to newbies as PalmOS or Windows CE means nothing. "No software" is just a plain lie, btw. Look here for evidence.
I guess some emulators could use 64-bit registers to speed up things. Just think of still crawling N64 emulators. But also Lisp compilers could benefit from this. Then again I still want to get Transmeta Crusoe codemorphing specs...
Stealing technology is still common place even after the Cold War. I remember some articles about US companies acquiring the specs for German Leopard II tank by buying a Spanish supplier. We obviously do not need spies anymore.
At least they could dump 16-bit Real Mode all together, but imagine all the problems this would create. Most noticeable: BIOS (which is itself mostly written for Real Mode, except some half harted attempts to introduce Protected Mode interfaces, which proved to be too buggy to use anyway) as we know it may a) cease to exist b) grow into something that has at least some importance to the OS.
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I live in Germany. I cannot remember any such thing.
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There are enough games during the week. I can tell. I live next to a soccer stadium.
1. The mythical man-month: Plan to build one to throw away. You will anyhow.
2. Hack something together. Extend it. It will work fine. (This approach really works excellent in Common Lisp and proves deadly for Perl programs)
It is true that Intel's base instruction set survived the last 18 years quite unchanged. And if you consider the pre-80386-era even longer. It is also true that it is proven and works. But if you ever tried to write an assembler or disassembler for that instruction set, you know that it is a amazingly huge heap of crap.
Intel's IA64 is a nice try, I personally like the approach of trying something new and clean, even though I dislike Intel's business strategies.
Back to the point: It is sometimes really neccessary to reinvent and not to place more and more stones onto an unstable foundation.
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Not that I like either sport, but replace football with soccer and American with European and tell me if anything changes.
I have never seen a bank or a shop or anything similar closed because of an important soccer game. Never.
Free/Open/NetBSD are certainly not "distributions of BSD". It is true that the Free-, Net- and OpenBSD kernels have much in common, but that is only because they inherit from a common code base. It's not like my linux distro is based on 2.4.x and mine on 2.6.x.
Consider using Common Lisp as extension language. (For a more controversial aspect: Consider to write your program in Common Lisp) It has a ANSI standard, some very good compilers and all the things you want of a scripting language if you want to use it as such.
As others already pointed out, clock frequency does say _nothing_ about actual performance. I also think Transmeta's most remarkable achievement is the programmable instruction set. Imagine all the cool stuff you could do with this chip if given all the specifications.
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If you see 2,000,000,000 ($ or EUR, it does not really matter) on your bank account, I guess you would even kill innocent people. It is simply to much money to still have any sense of reason.
I am running -CURRENT on my router. It has been running 50 days without any problems. I also run -CURRENT on my laptop and desktop systems, without problems... The only panic I had was when I forgot to recompile my nvidia kernel module after doing installworld/installkernel.
From a Windoze perspective it is annoying like hell. But as you are forced to install this ... thing ... to play RealStreams, you have to live with it as Windows user. But wait... Linux and *BSD users are damned as well... at least it does not autostart there...
This requires processing e-mail headers and saving who is in communication with whom. I can only speak for Germany, but I think this violates existing law (Datenschutzgesetz). Anyone familiar with law who is able to clear this up?
I think these dampening materials are used in certain lecture halls at universities. At least at mine. ;)
Come on! Give it sufficient time and copies of Windows source code will fly around everywhere. Even if Microsoft tried, they could not persue one percent of the people... No one cared if you had MS-DOS 6.22 source code either.
Just because a Linux-based PDA is not as "friendly" to newbies as PalmOS or Windows CE means nothing. "No software" is just a plain lie, btw. Look here for evidence.
I guess some emulators could use 64-bit registers to speed up things. Just think of still crawling N64 emulators. But also Lisp compilers could benefit from this.
Then again I still want to get Transmeta Crusoe codemorphing specs...
Stealing technology is still common place even after the Cold War. I remember some articles about US companies acquiring the specs for German Leopard II tank by buying a Spanish supplier. We obviously do not need spies anymore.
At least they could dump 16-bit Real Mode all together, but imagine all the problems this would create. Most noticeable: BIOS (which is itself mostly written for Real Mode, except some half harted attempts to introduce Protected Mode interfaces, which proved to be too buggy to use anyway) as we know it may a) cease to exist b) grow into something that has at least some importance to the OS.
I live in Germany. I cannot remember any such thing.
There are enough games during the week. I can tell. I live next to a soccer stadium.
There are too opposing opinions in this matter:
1. The mythical man-month: Plan to build one to throw away. You will anyhow.
2. Hack something together. Extend it. It will work fine. (This approach really works excellent in Common Lisp and proves deadly for Perl programs)
It is true that Intel's base instruction set survived the last 18 years quite unchanged. And if you consider the pre-80386-era even longer. It is also true that it is proven and works. But if you ever tried to write an assembler or disassembler for that instruction set, you know that it is a amazingly huge heap of crap.
Intel's IA64 is a nice try, I personally like the approach of trying something new and clean, even though I dislike Intel's business strategies.
Back to the point: It is sometimes really neccessary to reinvent and not to place more and more stones onto an unstable foundation.
NetBSD, for sure.
Free/Open/NetBSD are certainly not "distributions of BSD". It is true that the Free-, Net- and OpenBSD kernels have much in common, but that is only because they inherit from a common code base. It's not like my linux distro is based on 2.4.x and mine on 2.6.x.
Consider using Common Lisp as extension language. (For a more controversial aspect: Consider to write your program in Common Lisp) It has a ANSI standard, some very good compilers and all the things you want of a scripting language if you want to use it as such.
I have personally used ECL (Embeddable Common Lisp) to write a Common Lisp plugin for X-Chat which works very well.
As others already pointed out, clock frequency does say _nothing_ about actual performance. I also think Transmeta's most remarkable achievement is the programmable instruction set. Imagine all the cool stuff you could do with this chip if given all the specifications.