I have an intensive classic liberal arts education. Calculus directly from Newton and Leibniz, for example.
Whoah, dude! You must be a pretty old codger. Did you ever tell Newton "hey teach, could ya kinda lighten up on my other mentor? That dy/dx shit he teaches is cool."
"We've dropped off the passengers in France, now to drop off our 'packages' in northern Afganistan."
From the article: "The accommodation section would be wide, rather than long, with passengers sitting in a series of side-by-side rooms largely sealed off from the outside."
As opposed to *entirely* sealed off! Must be the open bombay doors. Those crazy frenchmen are going to be taking the quick trip down.
David decided that he had "too much radioactive stuff in one place" and began to disassemble the reactor. He placed the thorium pellets in a shoebox that he hid in his mother's house, left the radium and americium in the shed, and packed most of the rest of his equipment into the trunk of the Pontiac 6000.
I'd be sure to re-enact various scenes from
Repo Man.
I sold a few, have a lot more sitting around my apartment, and every now and then I'll come across a copy in a used CD store. I can't even begin to tell how thrilling it is to see this.
Yeah, well hopefully not *all* the CDs you sold are in used cd stores.. that might tell a different story:)
Mandrake is the most innovative Linux distribution for a long time: they have introduced many new great tools such as remote updates, the best Linux installer available, security levels
I would just like to point out that Caldera (!) was actually the first linux company to come out with the clicky-touchy GUI installer (Lizard?). Actually that's the last innovative thing I can remember them doing. Redhat soon copied them, and Mandrake after that. I've used both the RH and Mandrake installers and I couldn't say that one is really better than the other.
Two people can't read a book or newspaper at the same time.
Untrue. A book is essentially a sequential-access device, but a newspaper supports multiple viewers, you just have to lock the pages. "Hey bubba gimme section A" "OK"
the first inidication that the poster is responding to very little of the actual review, and not cybrpnk2's whole essay.
First things first - have I read this review? Hell, no, and if anybody else says THEY have in the next year, they're lying thru their teeth.
But I saw it today and I've been skimming it like mad since. In the final analysis is cyberpnk2's review truly insightful or a worthless heap of verbage? Who knows, but it's going to be a new nerd pastime for the next day to argue that point.
VPC on x86 seems kind of pointless... why dink around with software emulation to run multiple OSes when you can just get one of those removable HD bays and swap actual hard drives in and out with different OSes on them?
Because you can run multiple OSes at the same time. Not that I'm against removable HDs, I thought they were pretty nifty when I had access to some of them.
Trying to listen to the radio or use wireless networking in the presence of RF lighting would be like trying to watch TV with a spotlight in your face.
It may not be MSFT but it must have OS. Which in reality means MSFT
That's a fair comment; but honestly I wonder, if wal-mart already has the balls to ship 'no OS' I wonder how much harder it would be to put an unsupported linux distribution on the hard drive.
I could see them going with debian (disclaimer: I use mandrake), just so there was less "confusion" about support. Heck they could put something more useless than NT's posix layer on the hard disk as long as they did *something*. I didn't think disk replicating machines were that hard to find.
But they're doing it with a hand up from M$... that doesn't bode well for the future, I think.
If you visit www.x86-64.org, you'll see AMD's efforts to garner open-source support. AMD is relying on MS for an x86-64 port of windows. It's a make-or-break deal for AMD, it helps them tremendously for MS to "validate" their version of 64-bit x86. Whether this relationship continues in the future remains to be seen, especially if Linux ever fulfills its destiny and makes MS irrelevant. Intel and MS were once favorite bed partners.
I'm thinking too that Quake 3 would be damn hard to play with paper and pencil.
Meh.. it's called paintball. This real-life version lacks some of physics, gibs (hopefully) and purty graphics of the original. But the frame rate and ping is awesome!
Do you really have to nitpick? Does it make you feel smart to nitpick?
Look, the "nitpicker" spent much of his post reasoning (correctly) that you can't put off paying the US government by informing them that they owe you money. Negating pretty much the whole thrust of your post, btw. If he's gonna take the time to do that, I can't blame him for correcting/clarifying the rest of your post as well.
Alternatively, it could be written into the OS itself.
This is actually what happens with Linux; it's called the buffer cache and page cache. One's (disk-)block oriented and the other's (memory-)page oriented. They work (well) with other media, too. I'll stay scarce on the details since a) I don't know them and b) it's probably changing in 2.5
Lots of SCSI disks, controllers, and (yes) cdroms have their own ram cache. Just not 640MB worth.
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Windows (NT, 2000 and XP) DON'T have filedescriptor-limits, limits on open sockets, limits on message-queues etc etc etc. Unix has LOTS of limitations, Linux included.
OK.. then according to
this page, why does it say "Windows 2000/XP: There is a limit of 10000 messages per message queue"?
Uh, more generally, *any* OS (yes, including linux.. especially the crappy sysv message queue interface it inherited) has limits *somewhere*. They just tend to be in different places. In windows (for example) the number of sockets you can select() on is limited at compile time to FD_SETSIZE. The number of objects you can wait on with the (otherwise nice) func WaitForMultipleObjects() is MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS. And typically, the number of logged-in users is limited to 1:-)
OTOH, the BSD people must compile lots of GPL programs and link to, at least, the BSD C library. Has this ever been an issue?
No, because the GPL has an exception for linking against "major components" of the OS. (what falls under this exception is a somewhat grey area..) This is why you can have GPL programs that run under win*.
ahhh, foot in mouth. sect 1.4 #defines $(IPR_IMPAIRING_LICENSE)..
Ok, STILL.. it wouldn't be compatable w/the GPL anyway. And since "Company Implementation" refers specifically to "portions of software that implement CIFS.." (section 1.2), and not the software itself, I still don't see why it would be a problem to link against LGPL modules.
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Whoah, dude! You must be a pretty old codger. Did you ever tell Newton "hey teach, could ya kinda lighten up on my other mentor? That dy/dx shit he teaches is cool."
Until now, apparently...
Unless you were flying, say, a deHavilland Comet. It just takes one flaw..
From the article: "The accommodation section would be wide, rather than long, with passengers sitting in a series of side-by-side rooms largely sealed off from the outside."
As opposed to *entirely* sealed off! Must be the open bombay doors. Those crazy frenchmen are going to be taking the quick trip down.
I'd like to point out that while you were fantasizing, you neglected to include Amiga and MacOS.
The other possible response from any Apple die-hard would be "you mean OS X?"
Those look cool! They ought to come with motion-activated sfx units though. And maybe a vibrate function for when your wife needs to "borrow" it.
I'd be sure to re-enact various scenes from Repo Man.
Yeah, well hopefully not *all* the CDs you sold are in used cd stores.. that might tell a different story :)
Sincerely, a probably-inferiorly-talented guy
I would just like to point out that Caldera (!) was actually the first linux company to come out with the clicky-touchy GUI installer (Lizard?). Actually that's the last innovative thing I can remember them doing. Redhat soon copied them, and Mandrake after that. I've used both the RH and Mandrake installers and I couldn't say that one is really better than the other.
Untrue. A book is essentially a sequential-access device, but a newspaper supports multiple viewers, you just have to lock the pages. "Hey bubba gimme section A" "OK"
First things first - have I read this review? Hell, no, and if anybody else says THEY have in the next year, they're lying thru their teeth. But I saw it today and I've been skimming it like mad since. In the final analysis is cyberpnk2's review truly insightful or a worthless heap of verbage? Who knows, but it's going to be a new nerd pastime for the next day to argue that point.
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You have two slashdot accounts then? Or are you just ripping somebody else off?
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Because you can run multiple OSes at the same time. Not that I'm against removable HDs, I thought they were pretty nifty when I had access to some of them.
Hey, as long as I can hear what's going on..
(*impale*)
get out
(*shove*)
That's a fair comment; but honestly I wonder, if wal-mart already has the balls to ship 'no OS' I wonder how much harder it would be to put an unsupported linux distribution on the hard drive.
I could see them going with debian (disclaimer: I use mandrake), just so there was less "confusion" about support. Heck they could put something more useless than NT's posix layer on the hard disk as long as they did *something*. I didn't think disk replicating machines were that hard to find.
If you visit www.x86-64.org, you'll see AMD's efforts to garner open-source support. AMD is relying on MS for an x86-64 port of windows. It's a make-or-break deal for AMD, it helps them tremendously for MS to "validate" their version of 64-bit x86. Whether this relationship continues in the future remains to be seen, especially if Linux ever fulfills its destiny and makes MS irrelevant. Intel and MS were once favorite bed partners.
Meh.. it's called paintball. This real-life version lacks some of physics, gibs (hopefully) and purty graphics of the original. But the frame rate and ping is awesome!
Look, the "nitpicker" spent much of his post reasoning (correctly) that you can't put off paying the US government by informing them that they owe you money. Negating pretty much the whole thrust of your post, btw. If he's gonna take the time to do that, I can't blame him for correcting/clarifying the rest of your post as well.
Dear ${deity}, it looks like the Answertron 2000..
This is actually what happens with Linux; it's called the buffer cache and page cache. One's (disk-)block oriented and the other's (memory-)page oriented. They work (well) with other media, too. I'll stay scarce on the details since a) I don't know them and b) it's probably changing in 2.5
Lots of SCSI disks, controllers, and (yes) cdroms have their own ram cache. Just not 640MB worth.
OK.. then according to this page, why does it say "Windows 2000/XP: There is a limit of 10000 messages per message queue"?
Uh, more generally, *any* OS (yes, including linux.. especially the crappy sysv message queue interface it inherited) has limits *somewhere*. They just tend to be in different places. In windows (for example) the number of sockets you can select() on is limited at compile time to FD_SETSIZE. The number of objects you can wait on with the (otherwise nice) func WaitForMultipleObjects() is MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS. And typically, the number of logged-in users is limited to 1 :-)
No, because the GPL has an exception for linking against "major components" of the OS. (what falls under this exception is a somewhat grey area..) This is why you can have GPL programs that run under win*.
The saddest thing here is the (low) number of people reading your post that could actually claim "prior art" on this one..
Ok, STILL.. it wouldn't be compatable w/the GPL anyway. And since "Company Implementation" refers specifically to "portions of software that implement CIFS.." (section 1.2), and not the software itself, I still don't see why it would be a problem to link against LGPL modules.