x86 makes for losy controller cause Intel and AMD microprocessors don't handle low-latency I/O very well. If you are building something that really needs to crank, you need a real I/O controller. Something like Sibytes mercurian probably will do the trick. You can run a MIPS linux on it and its low power (approximately 10 Watts). Its a MIPS64 instruction set. The thing has an interprocessor bus that can crank out like 128Gb/s.
I agree with your statement, but I stand on my firm belief that MS execs are idiots.
If I ran the zoo...
The "Enterprize" market could fricking care less about some BS slander campaign. F500 companies are *not* run by idiots. There is a reason that the average F500 CIO makes 10 million a year. Those guys go on results. The only market that can be suckered in this fashion frankly is the grassroots crowd. Look at all of the FUD on this site for instance. But, the grassroots crowd doesn't take well to perceived bullying.
Microsoft is responding to the "Dune-Mwadeeb" effect of GNU/Linux/BSD. When facing the jahad, don't fuel the flames by executing the faithful. What Microsoft needs to accomplish, is a truce. They need to court the energy of the open source movement in their favor. How? Port Office to linux. Through a few billion into Gnome or KDE or Wine, or their own fricking desktop, but have it run on Linux. Port Office to Linux and they could help control it. Open Source Internet Explorer for Linux. MS needs to get their hooks into the Linux development like IBM, Oracle and HP are.
Geeks definetly don't have the purse strings. However, management is more informed than/. gives credit. It is hard to associate open source with some kind of granola crap when IBM is dumping a billion into linux development, HP is jumping on the bandwagon, and some of the guys in your IT department are telling you that windows sucks. And, when you have to tell the CFO that the IT budget is up because of MS's new licensing scam, people look twice.
/.'ers most common folly is to assume that Linux is for hobbiests and geeks. Look who is contributing to the 2.5 kernel. Oracle, IBM and HP aren't some hobbiest commies. They are big buck drive the dollar home capitalists. Their goal is to make money.
I feel for the engineers at Microsoft. This ludicrious anti open source campaign is completely ficticious and doesn't represent anyones real opinion within Microsoft. You know that all of those guys in the applications division run linux and bsd at home. They are all ex-Mac developers for god sakes.
What I don't understand, is why Microsoft's PR department insists on causing so much controversy. This anti open source movement only reinforces their draconian reputation. Sun is no better than Microsoft (if they only had Microsoft's monopoly we would be living in the 3rd Reich). But at least Sun's PR actually attempts to soften their image.
Coming out against Open Source is like attacking charitable causes. It is horrible PR.
Microsoft has increased its licencing fees by estimates of 100%. It has dropped negotiations with AOL over issues of content controlling (its browser wars II, Return of the Media). To cover up these clear demonstrations of monopoly abuse, the company has assulted open source???
I agree that as a desktop OS win2k prof is easier to admin and use than the typical linux distro. However, I've spent all day yesterday setting up win2k advanced server for some testing purposes. The thing is more complicated that linux. No two ways about it. I can set up a basic/utility linux server in less than 20 minutes. That win2k box is still in lalaland.
Email Freedom Support and let them know that there are also preferences for other operating systems, too!
They don't want your email, idiot. They want you to buy their stupid software. I never heard of Zero*, and from what it sounds like, Linux users think that their software is crap.
...new patches will not be accepted without thorough review...
Right, because it's his project. What is your point? Anybody can fork off GCC if they wish. So what?
...isn't 3.0 a really low numbered release? Inprise's compiler is versioned fairly high. So is Microsoft's.
Since its inception in 1987 there have been 101 released versions of GCC. Microsoft since Quick C has released 11 versions counting all Visual (Quick) C and Visual C++. Counting all of Borland/Inprise's various C and C++ compilers (Turbo, Borland, Builder, OS/2, and Vision) there are 21 versions. Of course those are complete IDE's so you can't really compare them to gcc which is only a compiler. However, I think you get the point. Neither MSVC nor C++ Builder are platform indepenedent so you can throw them in the trash (what is the point of C/C++ if you can't port to a different platform).
I will send your DNA into outerspace too. Just send me a check signed to "Cash" (name of spacecraft) for $50 and a vial containing the DNA. We'll put it on our giant solar sail powered rocketotron, and hurl it into outspace.
Also, did you know that there are cute, young college aged girls that live near you who are lonely and want to meet men. Please help these girls out, by giving them a call at 1-900-ALL-BASE. (1.59/minute).
The theory is mine. I came up with the theory in its entirely, and only I should take credit for its creation. The theory is not GPL'd so don't fuck with my theory.
The theory is this:
Monty Python according to my theory, an idea that occured to me, and no one else, can be best understood in the following way:
The theory is as follows:
Taking them as a whole, the perspective of my approach, one can clearly see, although only I have noted this observation, the point of view and prinicples outlined within my theory, a theory belonging to me, and to no one else.
The theory:
Monty Python is not a snake.
This is my theory, my theory along, beloning to me...
Ok, bad joke. I was kidding. RedHat took alot of heat for putting 2.96 into RH7.0. Just a little redhat humor. Obviously, it was not funny.
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This is/.
I couldn't get the propper figures through the lameness filters so I had to FUD them.
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Has anybody given any thought to the safety of these experiments, and the hazardous effects that they might have on our environment?
Yes.
...ends up sucking in the entire planet and replacing our once lush planet with a naked singularity.
Baby black holes (a theory based on the potential revision of the plank length) would not suck up anything except tiny things near by, and would very quickly decay.
Isn't there any accountability anymore? Why has the pursuit of science been pervaded with a reckless desire to perform useless experiments that could obliterate our civilization?
Yes there is still accountability. There is no reckless desire in the persuit of science. Nobody is doing any experiments that could result in the obliteration of our civilization.
Nobody ever unravelled the basic fabric of spacetime by studying Scripture
Nobody ever unravelled the basic fabric of spacetime by doing anything. They should aim those lasers at your head and do society a favor.
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The pressures and densities of the sun are so great, that photons (released as byproducts of fission in the sun's core) takes on average about 10 million years before they reach the surface (10 minutes to get to the earth from there). This is because of the random Brownian motion of the photons route.
I think that assembly should be the first language taught in CS.
I disagree. Knowing how the nuts and bolts work is only part of engineering. Knowing how to organize your work, learning form, structure, design principles, architecture, etc, are almost more important. In otherwords, the discipline is more than just how does a CPU work. That said, the hardware is extremely important. That is why I believe C/C++ is a better candidate. C/C++ reflect the hardware very closely. In addition C/C++ is a structured language, which teaches what I outlined above.
Much of their value is in the fact that they are zoned as gas stations. Converting a gas station to something other than a gas station these days poses some environment expenses. In order to make gas burn cleaner, gasoline has become fairly toxic stuff, so gas tanks must be either maintained or removed (carefully). A single drop of MTBE (a gasoline additive) can render millions of gallons of water undrinkable.
I don't think Intel is backing off the P4, despite its many flaws. Intel will continue expensive development projects around the PIII arch, because the P4 doesn't support SMP, and the next few revs of Xeons will be based on the PIII until they are scrapped for the 64-bit Itanium. The Itanium wont be real and ready for prime time for about 2 years.
I found out, because I went down and looked at the boxes myself. The DSP had been connected to the wrong box. Verizon came out and fixed it. Perhaps Verizon was told to put the DSP in the wrong place, but how is that possible considering that they had my phone number. The mistake was understandable. However, the fact that it took them a month to come back and fix it was unforgivable. I have to give the Covad people credit. They were out here the day after the Verizon people did the fix, as well as the day after the first attempt at putting in the circut. For only two days has the circut gone down in a year and it was Verizon's fault when they did some Central Office equipment upgrade. Maybe Covad was lying about that, but I doubt it.
Versizon is suing Covad over this, so it's no joke. From my own experience, Verizon is just like every other baby bell. They put the dsl circut on the wrong box about 100 yards from my building, instead of the box less than 10' from my office. It took them a month to get back out to fix it. The Covad technicians were 10x as helpful as the Verizon morons.
I agree that I rather see ads that appeal to me as oppose to ads that just waste my time. However, the concern here is not that advertisers will be more effective. The concern surrounds basic privacy. The question has to be asked, what else will the cable companies do with the information. Will I begin to receive phone calls from the Sierra Club just because I watched an episode of Nature? Will my name be submitted to a massive database that could be accessible potentially by the public? "Sorry Pete, but you don't get the job. We're not interested in people who watch Cartoons all day." Worse, how about our kids. I don't want some company building up a profile on my kids. Targeting them with luring adds. Do you want your kid to watch a TV commericial that says, "Hey Danny, you should really buy this RasterBlasterX11. Your buddies Tommy and Rodney got one, so you better if you don't want them to think you are a loser." Will it be OK for the school to request your kid's lifelong TV viewing habits on the college admission application? If that information is public, what possible ethical objection could you have? Should your insurance company or bank have access to these records? Who owns the information? You or the cable company? Should you be allowed free access to it? I'd personally prefer anonimity.
There is no question that some applications of the Smart Tag technology will be illegal, and I can't believe Microsoft's legal department is letting this slide. If the meta tag were to turn on the feature (as opposed to disabling it), things would be different. However, the bottom line, is that Microsoft will be walking into serious trademark and copyright infringement. The banner-ad, the portal and the retailer companies will send a law suit so quick up Microsoft's ass that the publicity alone would not be worth it.
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x86 makes for losy controller cause Intel and AMD microprocessors don't handle low-latency I/O very well. If you are building something that really needs to crank, you need a real I/O controller. Something like Sibytes mercurian probably will do the trick. You can run a MIPS linux on it and its low power (approximately 10 Watts). Its a MIPS64 instruction set. The thing has an interprocessor bus that can crank out like 128Gb/s.
C99 standard. Overview.The Honorable Dennis Ritchie (father of C) on C99
If I ran the zoo...
The "Enterprize" market could fricking care less about some BS slander campaign. F500 companies are *not* run by idiots. There is a reason that the average F500 CIO makes 10 million a year. Those guys go on results. The only market that can be suckered in this fashion frankly is the grassroots crowd. Look at all of the FUD on this site for instance. But, the grassroots crowd doesn't take well to perceived bullying.
Microsoft is responding to the "Dune-Mwadeeb" effect of GNU/Linux/BSD. When facing the jahad, don't fuel the flames by executing the faithful. What Microsoft needs to accomplish, is a truce. They need to court the energy of the open source movement in their favor. How? Port Office to linux. Through a few billion into Gnome or KDE or Wine, or their own fricking desktop, but have it run on Linux. Port Office to Linux and they could help control it. Open Source Internet Explorer for Linux. MS needs to get their hooks into the Linux development like IBM, Oracle and HP are.
/.'ers most common folly is to assume that Linux is for hobbiests and geeks. Look who is contributing to the 2.5 kernel. Oracle, IBM and HP aren't some hobbiest commies. They are big buck drive the dollar home capitalists. Their goal is to make money.
What I don't understand, is why Microsoft's PR department insists on causing so much controversy. This anti open source movement only reinforces their draconian reputation. Sun is no better than Microsoft (if they only had Microsoft's monopoly we would be living in the 3rd Reich). But at least Sun's PR actually attempts to soften their image.
Coming out against Open Source is like attacking charitable causes. It is horrible PR.
Microsoft has increased its licencing fees by estimates of 100%. It has dropped negotiations with AOL over issues of content controlling (its browser wars II, Return of the Media). To cover up these clear demonstrations of monopoly abuse, the company has assulted open source???
I agree that as a desktop OS win2k prof is easier to admin and use than the typical linux distro. However, I've spent all day yesterday setting up win2k advanced server for some testing purposes. The thing is more complicated that linux. No two ways about it. I can set up a basic/utility linux server in less than 20 minutes. That win2k box is still in lalaland.
They don't want your email, idiot. They want you to buy their stupid software. I never heard of Zero*, and from what it sounds like, Linux users think that their software is crap.
Right, because it's his project. What is your point? Anybody can fork off GCC if they wish. So what?
Since its inception in 1987 there have been 101 released versions of GCC. Microsoft since Quick C has released 11 versions counting all Visual (Quick) C and Visual C++. Counting all of Borland/Inprise's various C and C++ compilers (Turbo, Borland, Builder, OS/2, and Vision) there are 21 versions. Of course those are complete IDE's so you can't really compare them to gcc which is only a compiler. However, I think you get the point. Neither MSVC nor C++ Builder are platform indepenedent so you can throw them in the trash (what is the point of C/C++ if you can't port to a different platform).
Also, did you know that there are cute, young college aged girls that live near you who are lonely and want to meet men. Please help these girls out, by giving them a call at 1-900-ALL-BASE. (1.59/minute).
Here's the script
The theory is mine. I came up with the theory in its entirely, and only I should take credit for its creation. The theory is not GPL'd so don't fuck with my theory.
The theory is this:
Monty Python according to my theory, an idea that occured to me, and no one else, can be best understood in the following way:
The theory is as follows:
Taking them as a whole, the perspective of my approach, one can clearly see, although only I have noted this observation, the point of view and prinicples outlined within my theory, a theory belonging to me, and to no one else.
The theory:
Monty Python is not a snake.
This is my theory, my theory along, beloning to me...
Ok, bad joke. I was kidding. RedHat took alot of heat for putting 2.96 into RH7.0. Just a little redhat humor. Obviously, it was not funny.
This is /.
I couldn't get the propper figures through the lameness filters so I had to FUD them.
Has anybody given any thought to the safety of these experiments, and the hazardous effects that they might have on our environment?
Yes.
Baby black holes (a theory based on the potential revision of the plank length) would not suck up anything except tiny things near by, and would very quickly decay.
Isn't there any accountability anymore? Why has the pursuit of science been pervaded with a reckless desire to perform useless experiments that could obliterate our civilization?
Yes there is still accountability. There is no reckless desire in the persuit of science. Nobody is doing any experiments that could result in the obliteration of our civilization.
Nobody ever unravelled the basic fabric of spacetime by studying Scripture
Nobody ever unravelled the basic fabric of spacetime by doing anything. They should aim those lasers at your head and do society a favor.
The pressures and densities of the sun are so great, that photons (released as byproducts of fission in the sun's core) takes on average about 10 million years before they reach the surface (10 minutes to get to the earth from there). This is because of the random Brownian motion of the photons route.
Rehat has already incorporated gcc 3.0 into a patch for 7.1 and 7.0 that they are posting as a critical update.
10,000 is not worth the 64,000 + 2 years the MBA will cost you.
I disagree. Knowing how the nuts and bolts work is only part of engineering. Knowing how to organize your work, learning form, structure, design principles, architecture, etc, are almost more important. In otherwords, the discipline is more than just how does a CPU work. That said, the hardware is extremely important. That is why I believe C/C++ is a better candidate. C/C++ reflect the hardware very closely. In addition C/C++ is a structured language, which teaches what I outlined above.
Intel spends billions on each new architecture.
Much of their value is in the fact that they are zoned as gas stations. Converting a gas station to something other than a gas station these days poses some environment expenses. In order to make gas burn cleaner, gasoline has become fairly toxic stuff, so gas tanks must be either maintained or removed (carefully). A single drop of MTBE (a gasoline additive) can render millions of gallons of water undrinkable.
I don't think Intel is backing off the P4, despite its many flaws. Intel will continue expensive development projects around the PIII arch, because the P4 doesn't support SMP, and the next few revs of Xeons will be based on the PIII until they are scrapped for the 64-bit Itanium. The Itanium wont be real and ready for prime time for about 2 years.
I found out, because I went down and looked at the boxes myself. The DSP had been connected to the wrong box. Verizon came out and fixed it. Perhaps Verizon was told to put the DSP in the wrong place, but how is that possible considering that they had my phone number. The mistake was understandable. However, the fact that it took them a month to come back and fix it was unforgivable. I have to give the Covad people credit. They were out here the day after the Verizon people did the fix, as well as the day after the first attempt at putting in the circut. For only two days has the circut gone down in a year and it was Verizon's fault when they did some Central Office equipment upgrade. Maybe Covad was lying about that, but I doubt it.
Versizon is suing Covad over this, so it's no joke. From my own experience, Verizon is just like every other baby bell. They put the dsl circut on the wrong box about 100 yards from my building, instead of the box less than 10' from my office. It took them a month to get back out to fix it. The Covad technicians were 10x as helpful as the Verizon morons.
I agree that I rather see ads that appeal to me as oppose to ads that just waste my time. However, the concern here is not that advertisers will be more effective. The concern surrounds basic privacy. The question has to be asked, what else will the cable companies do with the information. Will I begin to receive phone calls from the Sierra Club just because I watched an episode of Nature? Will my name be submitted to a massive database that could be accessible potentially by the public? "Sorry Pete, but you don't get the job. We're not interested in people who watch Cartoons all day." Worse, how about our kids. I don't want some company building up a profile on my kids. Targeting them with luring adds. Do you want your kid to watch a TV commericial that says, "Hey Danny, you should really buy this RasterBlasterX11. Your buddies Tommy and Rodney got one, so you better if you don't want them to think you are a loser." Will it be OK for the school to request your kid's lifelong TV viewing habits on the college admission application? If that information is public, what possible ethical objection could you have? Should your insurance company or bank have access to these records? Who owns the information? You or the cable company? Should you be allowed free access to it? I'd personally prefer anonimity.
There is no question that some applications of the Smart Tag technology will be illegal, and I can't believe Microsoft's legal department is letting this slide. If the meta tag were to turn on the feature (as opposed to disabling it), things would be different. However, the bottom line, is that Microsoft will be walking into serious trademark and copyright infringement. The banner-ad, the portal and the retailer companies will send a law suit so quick up Microsoft's ass that the publicity alone would not be worth it.