However, when I said "focus on improving memory access and AGP speed", I meant that they should keep the expandability option open. Not forgetting that things do break and not work as expected. Maybe something like a GPU socket? where you have a CPU socket and a GPU socket - I think that could satisfy my "expandability" criteria.
Not that I really disagree with your post, but how often again do the CPU sockets change?.. about once per generation?.. yup. Can you plug an Athlon into a pii slot?.. nope. CPU sockets is a really weak example for 'expandability'.
(Even within a generation, my supermicro mobo won't take piis (it's smp) above 5(6?)00 mhz.. they didn't exist at the time. I'm currently at 350, a bargain even when I bought them.. how much exactly am I gaining there?)
Not counting that, provided everything works, all-in-one chipsets are cheaper.
It's not like nvidia is preventing you from sticking a matrox card in your box.. yet:)
Because the benchmark was very specific-- cross compiling for MIPs machines-- (wtf?),
Heh, this actually makes sense.. native compilers would use different code generators; someone would inevitably cite this as a source of benchmark uncertainty ("yeah, well it takes longer to generate ppc code!" or somesuch)
Silly. It is in the RIAA's interests that the public in general is listening to the Artiste of the Week rather than the old stuff. Harder to get used stuff for new bands (..unless they *really* suck..) which would cut into the RIAA's profits. Also it justifies their marketing investment for new talent. And that's not counting the whole copyright expiration thing.
their life's work will be merely "product," to be disposed of immediately upon consumption.
Which means we're ready to buy more!.. (in all honestly, most works really don't deserve to be remembered. I think my granddaughter digging out a scratchy MC^H^H Hammer tape might be a scarring experience. For me anyway. Be careful what you wish for.)
Secondly, the existence of the LGPL implies that dynamic linking is a violation of the GPL, otherwise why would the LGPL exist. Dastardly
1) I'm not totally sure but I'm pretty sure that the LGPL and GPL licenses predate widely-used dynamically-linking technology. Which would explain why the GPL leaves it so open to 'interpretation'. This is exactly the same damn reason (well, one of) trolltech wouldn't release under the GPL at first.
2) the LGPL's existance (or lack thereof) has no effect on whether dynamic linking is a violation of the GPL. (..and I'm suprised a post ranked as a 3 would miss this..) What would have an effect would be a judge's interpretation of the GPL.
A friend of mine suggested to me that whatever you look for on the Internet, it will seemingly spring into being simply by the fact of you looking for it.
Excellent! Then world peace, practical fusion, true love, and non-troll/mispelt slashdot articles must exist out there somewhere.
Parens is correct. However he mispelled ISR's, Linux's, and PMS's names (respectively). I was in taco's spelling class, where they teach you those finer points of distinction.
I'm curious why you *don't* use your own chips. Is it because you all got burned from the apple clone business? Or is it more the whole "how many executives would fly an airplane their company wrote the control software for" deal?
And if you'd been really ballsy, you could have written galvin back about the pcs after he made that phone crack. (cc'ing everybody, of course..)
Linux does everything in kernelspace (networking!), except the GUI. AtheOS is much closer to a microkernel system
Networking is a particularly poor example to cite here because afaict atheos's network stack is in-kernel, and Your Favorite OS's is also on the way there.
Why the hell did this get moderated up as "funny"?
Because some people prefer to laugh at death. Yes it was crass. As you grow up, you will learn that many (most) jokes are at somebody's expense. Go rent yourself a Sam Kinison tape; you need to train yourself to recognize this kind of humor, even if you can't appreciate it. Life's too short to be so easily offended.
I would even say win32 threads contain most of the *important* functionality of pthreads (which itself is a least-common-denominator deal) except cleanup handlers.
I think I can break that whole damn article down as follows:
1) Companies whose bottom line is positively affected by wine are pro-wine
2) Companies whose bottom line is negatively affected by wine are not pro-wine
3) Slow day at/.
The only nugget I saw was from the dude at tribesoft:
In our experience of porting games to Linux, we found that much of the time is spent on having C++ or assembly to compile with the gnu tools. Implementing X API calls instead doesn't represent a lot of time in a port for us.
The assembly doesn't suprise me (intel vs at&t syntax.. tho you'd think the company would have written a translator by now) but I didn't know that vc++ and g++ had diverged so wildly in their interpretation of a supposedly-standard language. I'm genuinely curious as to how they differ (no experience with vc++).. Anyone have any guesses/examples?
That was almost a really interesting, informed comment but unfortunately it was only about 75% coherent. Your english is killing you. Or else you're wasted right now. Sorry. (not that mine's much better...)
It is no more viral than the commercial license which seeks to 'infect' your pocketbook. Over, and over, and over again.
That's a knee-jerk response, the two aren't really related. Also, you are justifying the kettle by criticizing the pot. Lastly, it's more strong-arming than viral.
Noone holds a gun to your head and tells you to use GPL code. If you don't like the terms of the license, don't take the code. Just as some say about commercial licenses. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it.
People usually make this point when they have a license that does not play nicely with others. Most people resent that. That said, I completely agree with you. I would still discourage its use in core, intended to be reusable, code. The GPL really promotes the GPL as much as it promotes freedom; as it is practically incompatible with many other (orig. BSD, orig. mozilla, QPL) free software licenses. If, for example, glibc went GPL (note the c++ headers are GPL + exception for 'GNU compilers') I couldn't distribute bsd-licensed binaries for linux. That would suck. When RMS encourages you to release libraries (readline) under the GPL, he's not shutting out proprietary apps. He's just shutting out everybody else. That sucks.
MS is bashing a license that is * totally in keeping* with its own from a legal standpoint
True enough. It is ironic that they don't enjoy their own medicine.
All this aside, I have my own free projects I'm working on (gotta give back and all that), and I hope I'll have the chance to share them with you someday.
Easiest would be if they didn't strip their binary. gdb oughta give you some nice tracebacks complete with function names (and even args if they left debugging symbols in). On a storage-constrained device you'd have to be double the fool to do that tho.
Failing that, you could run strings(1) or nm(1) on the binary and scan for telltale things that match your code. For example if they forgot to take out that
static char *boilerplate = "Copyright 2001 under the GPL";
So as I'm sitting here working and playing with my Palm, people tend to whip theirs out and play with it, as if to say "Hey, I'm one of you, look, I have a palm too..!"
... in my native tongue we don't call it a "palm", but you're very warm...
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Not that I really disagree with your post, but how often again do the CPU sockets change? .. about once per generation? .. yup. Can you plug an Athlon into a pii slot? .. nope. CPU sockets is a really weak example for 'expandability'.
(Even within a generation, my supermicro mobo won't take piis (it's smp) above 5(6?)00 mhz.. they didn't exist at the time. I'm currently at 350, a bargain even when I bought them .. how much exactly am I gaining there?)
Not counting that, provided everything works, all-in-one chipsets are cheaper.
It's not like nvidia is preventing you from sticking a matrox card in your box.. yet :)
END OF LINE.
Heh, this actually makes sense.. native compilers would use different code generators; someone would inevitably cite this as a source of benchmark uncertainty ("yeah, well it takes longer to generate ppc code!" or somesuch)
maybe my brain is turned off this friday and I just didn't get the joke, but what's the story behind this one?
their life's work will be merely "product," to be disposed of immediately upon consumption.
Which means we're ready to buy more! .. (in all honestly, most works really don't deserve to be remembered. I think my granddaughter digging out a scratchy MC^H^H Hammer tape might be a scarring experience. For me anyway. Be careful what you wish for.)
1) I'm not totally sure but I'm pretty sure that the LGPL and GPL licenses predate widely-used dynamically-linking technology. Which would explain why the GPL leaves it so open to 'interpretation'. This is exactly the same damn reason (well, one of) trolltech wouldn't release under the GPL at first.
2) the LGPL's existance (or lack thereof) has no effect on whether dynamic linking is a violation of the GPL. (..and I'm suprised a post ranked as a 3 would miss this..) What would have an effect would be a judge's interpretation of the GPL.
If this is the good slashdot, I'd hate to see the evil one.
Finding humor in the most tragic of circumstances is a gift many people underappreciate.
Excellent! Then world peace, practical fusion, true love, and non-troll/mispelt slashdot articles must exist out there somewhere.
(Oh.. you didn't say I could *find* it.. damn)
Parens is correct. However he mispelled ISR's, Linux's, and PMS's names (respectively). I was in taco's spelling class, where they teach you those finer points of distinction.
So turn off sound. Sometimes with linux you even get that for free.
(however, I'm quite happy with my old-school Ensoniq 1371)
I'm curious why you *don't* use your own chips. Is it because you all got burned from the apple clone business? Or is it more the whole "how many executives would fly an airplane their company wrote the control software for" deal?
And if you'd been really ballsy, you could have written galvin back about the pcs after he made that phone crack. (cc'ing everybody, of course..)
Linux: abiword, kword, starwriter, maxwell, (k)lyx, ted, Pathetic Writer ("It sucks less!" .. gotta love that motto), (insert editor + latex combo here)..
Windows: msword, maybe a few wordperfect holdouts
I fail to see how this is an argument for Linux :o)
Networking is a particularly poor example to cite here because afaict atheos's network stack is in-kernel, and Your Favorite OS's is also on the way there.
Because some people prefer to laugh at death. Yes it was crass. As you grow up, you will learn that many (most) jokes are at somebody's expense. Go rent yourself a Sam Kinison tape; you need to train yourself to recognize this kind of humor, even if you can't appreciate it. Life's too short to be so easily offended.
I would even say win32 threads contain most of the *important* functionality of pthreads (which itself is a least-common-denominator deal) except cleanup handlers.
1) Companies whose bottom line is positively affected by wine are pro-wine
2) Companies whose bottom line is negatively affected by wine are not pro-wine
3) Slow day at /.
The only nugget I saw was from the dude at tribesoft:
In our experience of porting games to Linux, we found that much of the time is spent on having C++ or assembly to compile with the gnu tools. Implementing X API calls instead doesn't represent a lot of time in a port for us.
The assembly doesn't suprise me (intel vs at&t syntax.. tho you'd think the company would have written a translator by now) but I didn't know that vc++ and g++ had diverged so wildly in their interpretation of a supposedly-standard language. I'm genuinely curious as to how they differ (no experience with vc++) .. Anyone have any guesses/examples?
That was almost a really interesting, informed comment but unfortunately it was only about 75% coherent. Your english is killing you. Or else you're wasted right now. Sorry. (not that mine's much better...)
Yes. Bow before your new masters, the transparently-skinned pancake people!
oh. hmm. sorry for twisting it like that.
It is no more viral than the commercial license which seeks to 'infect' your pocketbook. Over, and over, and over again.
That's a knee-jerk response, the two aren't really related. Also, you are justifying the kettle by criticizing the pot. Lastly, it's more strong-arming than viral.
Noone holds a gun to your head and tells you to use GPL code. If you don't like the terms of the license, don't take the code. Just as some say about commercial licenses. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it.
People usually make this point when they have a license that does not play nicely with others. Most people resent that. That said, I completely agree with you. I would still discourage its use in core, intended to be reusable, code. The GPL really promotes the GPL as much as it promotes freedom; as it is practically incompatible with many other (orig. BSD, orig. mozilla, QPL) free software licenses. If, for example, glibc went GPL (note the c++ headers are GPL + exception for 'GNU compilers') I couldn't distribute bsd-licensed binaries for linux. That would suck. When RMS encourages you to release libraries (readline) under the GPL, he's not shutting out proprietary apps. He's just shutting out everybody else. That sucks.
MS is bashing a license that is * totally in keeping* with its own from a legal standpoint
True enough. It is ironic that they don't enjoy their own medicine.
All this aside, I have my own free projects I'm working on (gotta give back and all that), and I hope I'll have the chance to share them with you someday.
Failing that, you could run strings(1) or nm(1) on the binary and scan for telltale things that match your code. For example if they forgot to take out that
static char *boilerplate = "Copyright 2001 under the GPL";
you'd probably have them right there.
Uhh.. let me get that straight.. 1) Microsoft shuts down mods. 2) You boycott Interplay. That's, like, brilliant man. That'll teach those MS bastards.
Where's mod points when you need 'em..