Take your example, the assembly outputs do depend on the license of the raw souce code but NOT depend on what the license the gcc applies. Sometimes gcc even optimises the final output of your code by using some hints which use GPL but i guess gcc wont force you convert your souce code and final compiled assembly to GPL license.
Font file is like hints stored in gcc in the above case. It helps producing the final results but not a part of source.
For my understanding, the final font shape in a document is a result of running render engines with font files. For example, TrueType font file includes many instructions of how to draw those chars, and those instructions are executed by freetype/layout algorithm... etc.
From this point view, a font file is a kind of macro set, or, a program about drawing. The documents it produces should be not related to GPL. Like you dont need to open your data even it produced by a GPL program. Unless someone wants to use font files to their software applications.
Initially, Nokia will target the entry-level mobile phone market in countries such as India and China.
AFAIK, in China, an entry-level mobile phone would have a colour screen, advanced midi rings, and a camera (in 2005 it would be a standard part in chinese market). I cannot see where such a chip mobile phone can stand in the market, although I think it is good as an component embeded in some equipments.
Where is John Carmack and other game programmers (fill your favourite game designer here)???
I couldnt understand why he is not greater and more important than such as Don Ferguson: Inventor of the J2EE application server at IBM, or even Jon Gay: The "Father of Flash". ???
Is flash a ground-breaking application like 3D game/movie engine development? At least, 95% flahes i ve seen is for annoying web adverts...
"self-contained, tamper-resistant nuclear reactor that can be transported and installed anywhere in the world. "
This is not a novel idea. A nuclear-powered air carrier can provide a full electricity support for a middle size town. And it can be ported in most of place in the world.
Most of my remote controllers dont need to change batteries for long time. What's the point to recharging in every few days for such remote controller?
As I remembered, in 1999, when most Chinese email services offered 2M space for free account, Sina, one of the leading.com companies started to provide 50M free space to attactive people applying their account. Then other competitors following up to add their space to 20M, 50M and 100M... and go to our campus and send us free email accounts for all students. Finally, etang.com says they provided unlimited free space to every one and put this to the adverts.
After couples months, most of them declared a free "large space" emails are "unmaintainable". Sina decreased their account from 50M to 5M, and even a company called 263 canceled their free email service, "As a professional ISP, we dont need click rate from the unrelated public" they explained the reason something like that.
Till now etang still provides unlimited space email access if you pay about 40 USD a year(Sorry, it is Chinese). But most people never interest it.
Regarding my previous experiense, a "unlimited" email space is not the key point attacting public to their service. The more important question is : HOW LONG?
Then it is possible to make a uniform portable linux live distro for both PDA or PC. And Internet cafe wouldnt have to offer any software but boardband connection....
Yes, Why? The average income for most chinese people is below than 300 USD per month. But the price of a Chinese windows XP home edition is priced nearly 200USD... Office XP is sold with 450 USD and a single Visio2003 Chinese Edition is marked up to 500 USD... Even MUCH MORE than in Europe and America!
The fact is that they have been selling "Diet Cokes". In fact, you have to choose small burger(XP Home, Windows ME, etc), midium size(2000 Professional, NT workstation...) and finally the No.5 super-size (Servers).
However, to make your Windows OS tastes good, you have to buy french fries(MS office), which offers even high energy than burger and then coke (such as anti-virus etc...)
Picture a person who can't live in the outside world because they have developed a psychological disorder based on the fact that the outside world only gives them pain.
I wonder if I have developed a psychological disorder based on the fact that the most PCs in outside world are ruled by MS Windows, which only gives me pain... sounds scary...
Computer Parts might be very good in somewhere. But be careful, he would forget you completely and start to rebuild the machine if that parts are what he really expect.
So one of the poential possibilites is that he would have a romantic v-day with the new machine rather than you.....
Parallel programming is hard, and not every application supports it. =======
Yes, but most of high-end applications support it since they usually are deveolped from a multi-processing environment. The other single thearding programs usually are not processor intensive.
you're limited by how much of the code is actually parallelizable =======
The acutal performances do not depend how many percentages of the whole code being parallelised but related to how much _core loop code_ is parallelised. Regarding my little experience for a 3D application, 95% processor time was spent on 5% core loop code and the others for 95% code....
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Take your example, the assembly outputs do depend on the license of the raw souce code but NOT depend on what the license the gcc applies. Sometimes gcc even optimises the final output of your code by using some hints which use GPL but i guess gcc wont force you convert your souce code and final compiled assembly to GPL license.
Font file is like hints stored in gcc in the above case. It helps producing the final results but not a part of source.
From this point view, a font file is a kind of macro set, or, a program about drawing. The documents it produces should be not related to GPL. Like you dont need to open your data even it produced by a GPL program. Unless someone wants to use font files to their software applications.
How are about this story and this this story?
It would be good if Apple could open the patents for truetype font
AFAIK, in China, an entry-level mobile phone would have a colour screen, advanced midi rings, and a camera (in 2005 it would be a standard part in chinese market). I cannot see where such a chip mobile phone can stand in the market, although I think it is good as an component embeded in some equipments.
I couldnt understand why he is not greater and more important than such as Don Ferguson: Inventor of the J2EE application server at IBM, or even Jon Gay: The "Father of Flash". ???
Is flash a ground-breaking application like 3D game/movie engine development? At least, 95% flahes i ve seen is for annoying web adverts...
Nvidia have handled video chipset and motherboard chipset -- is "nvidia inside" coming?
they are busy on ordering
This is not a novel idea. A nuclear-powered air carrier can provide a full electricity support for a middle size town. And it can be ported in most of place in the world.
Most of my remote controllers dont need to change batteries for long time. What's the point to recharging in every few days for such remote controller?
I wonder if the students will have to pay extra money for their battery changing in their higher years. Has Duke University covered this fees?
Fiat has been well known about its infamous electronic design. so ...
How is about developing & using this kind of device instead of pci/agp cards? That might be able to support more "terminals"...
if there is a linux driver for this
After couples months, most of them declared a free "large space" emails are "unmaintainable". Sina decreased their account from 50M to 5M, and even a company called 263 canceled their free email service, "As a professional ISP, we dont need click rate from the unrelated public" they explained the reason something like that.
Till now etang still provides unlimited space email access if you pay about 40 USD a year(Sorry, it is Chinese). But most people never interest it.
Regarding my previous experiense, a "unlimited" email space is not the key point attacting public to their service. The more important question is : HOW LONG?
MS Windows is cheaper than Linux ...
Then it is possible to make a uniform portable linux live distro for both PDA or PC. And Internet cafe wouldnt have to offer any software but boardband connection....
Yes, Why? The average income for most chinese people is below than 300 USD per month. But the price of a Chinese windows XP home edition is priced nearly 200USD... Office XP is sold with 450 USD and a single Visio2003 Chinese Edition is marked up to 500 USD... Even MUCH MORE than in Europe and America!
5 REM foo 10 PRINT "hello world" 20 END
and also looking forward the regular expression search function.
.... and longhorn might be changed to : the fellowship of the XP.....
The fact is that they have been selling "Diet Cokes". In fact, you have to choose small burger(XP Home, Windows ME, etc), midium size(2000 Professional, NT workstation...) and finally the No.5 super-size (Servers).
However, to make your Windows OS tastes good, you have to buy french fries(MS office), which offers even high energy than burger and then coke (such as anti-virus etc...)
Picture a person who can't live in the outside world because they have developed a psychological disorder based on the fact that the outside world only gives them pain.
I wonder if I have developed a psychological disorder based on the fact that the most PCs in outside world are ruled by MS Windows, which only gives me pain... sounds scary...
Computer Parts might be very good in somewhere. But be careful, he would forget you completely and start to rebuild the machine if that parts are what he really expect.
So one of the poential possibilites is that he would have a romantic v-day with the new machine rather than you.....
Parallel programming is hard, and not every application supports it.
======= Yes, but most of high-end applications support it since they usually are deveolped from a multi-processing environment. The other single thearding programs usually are not processor intensive.
you're limited by how much of the code is actually parallelizable
======= The acutal performances do not depend how many percentages of the whole code being parallelised but related to how much _core loop code_ is parallelised. Regarding my little experience for a 3D application, 95% processor time was spent on 5% core loop code and the others for 95% code....