Did Intel actually learn the mistakes from the i820 debacle too? Will they become the "release and recall" company? I think it's a better marketing jingle than the "Intel Inside" was *grin*
A school worth its salt should not forget to teach the useful skill of writing portable programs.
At the introductory level? Mind you, teaching non-conformant C++ at the introductory level is as bad of a crime as not teaching them C++, but portability, IMO, shouldn't be the objective of a 100-level class.
Mind you, my views are clouded because it seemed that almost all the departments in my school held their introductory-level courses as a "service" to the other departments. If you really wanted to learn, you continued on to the 200 and 400 level courses (for some reason, the faculty at my uni were too snobby to have 300-level courses). Portability was a requirement when I took the higher-level classes (such as network programming), but at the lower-level, they just told us what environments were available to the TA's (which included AIX, SunOS4, Solaris 2.5, IRIX, and Linux), and told us to develop for those environments.
Mind you, I ended up developing in multitude of environments, and I credit that with my current success in my career.
The two sciences help one another. Killing one in favor of the other isn't helping either of them.
I can't agree more. From what little physics and astronomy I've had (undergraduate-level survey courses only), the correlations between them were remarkable. My professor at the time was doing research, afair, on "seeing" what the conditions were like just moments after the Big Bang. He did his research primarily with radio telescopes, but a lot of theoretical collaboration came from the boffins down the hall, in the quantum physics portion of the department.
Of course, it's been more than a few years since then, so my memory's a bit fuzzy as well.
To(sic) many people seem totally opposed to commercialisation on the internet and expect companies to provide for free
Indeed. It must take them a huge amount of cash to run their 4000-node Linux cluster, and the bandwith of their connection must cost a bit of money as well. I'd rather see them put banner ads up and survive than to not do so and die. However, their business model must've changed; ISTR that they used to target themselves as a B2B solution, and not a B2C w/advertisements.
Look at ARM, years of deployment from StrongARM 64 bit in servers down to hand-helds.
But the StrongARM fails in one of the most critical positions: compatibility with just about any processor. Granted, x86 is the only place they have their software solutions placed in, but it shouldn't be too difficult to translate the likes of SPARC and Power architecture into their VLIW instruction set either (and in some cases, easier than x86).
Granted, 64bit processing may still be a problem for the Transmeta processors still. Anyone know the answer to this question, and not under a Transmeta NDA?
So Palm is going to pull an Apple and make the rest of the "legacy" application space play the emulation game? Of course, emulating a 16MHz 68000ish processor with a 200MHz StrongARM is going to probably increase performance, whereas emulating a 40MHz 68040 with a 60MHz PPC would've decreased performance, but still:-)
In all seriousness, though I would like to see a faster palm, I don't want to watch the prices of these buggers go up. Then again, as they supposedly use less power, it would actually mean more usable battery life, and so on.... I guess it's a toss-up.
being much closer to the sun, Mars would have more energy available for things like growing plants and generating power from wind and sun
But if Europa was not getting any energy, its oceans would long be iced over. Europa may not get much energy from the sun, but it does get substantial amounts of energy from the complex tidal forces between it, Jupiter, and the Sun. In addition, like Io, it may have substantial volcanic activity beneath the surface, giving more energy that "wells up" from beneath rather than "raining down" from the surface.
Given these conditions, and the possible existance of water, Europa may be more hospitabe than Mars.
Of course, I think it's just plain AWESOME that A. C. Clarke incorporated this data into his [23]0[60]1 series of novels. Does anyone know how old the "water on Europa" theory is?
And ricochet has the advantage of being flat-fee. The reason I don't have a mobile for anything but emergencies is because of the fee structure; I'm not going to use a wireless phone for my primary phone when I can, for relatively low cost, have a flat-fee landline to my house. Couple that with ricochet not being available in my area, and affordable (ie --
Even as an OpenBSD zealot, I really find the "security" issue a bit moot. Yes, OpenBSD is more secure out of the box, but Linux would do just as well, if properly audited for security. Kernel-level security is not as much of a concern, and if these systems are going to become custom-embedded systems, then Linux will be just as good as any of the BSD's.
As for deployment as a server, an admin who takes any distro, drops it on a system that's wide-open to the world, and expects it to stand up to the rigors, deserves to be shot:-).
As my understanding goes, the spirit of the GPL is that the modifications you make to the software will remain yours, unless you decide to distribute that modified software. In other words, if you take Linux, hack it up to bits for internal use only, you won't have to release the source to the outside world. The source will need to be released iff the modified binaries are to be released as well; the GPL protects against a pure-binary-only release.
What sort of disconnect are you talking about? Are you talking about the protocol-level disconnect, which when the device does so, it lets the other devices in the system use the bus as well, or do you mean the "hot-swap" disconnect, which requires special enclosures?
Granted, both are very nice; my all-scsi box at home outperforms (in IO) the all-IDE box at werk; similar configurations on both boxen.
Option "Buttons" "integer"
Specifies the number of mouse buttons. In cases where the number of buttons cannot be auto-detected, the default value is 3.
Kind of reminds me of my human factors professor's research. He, like all good human factors geeks who had funding from NASA, decided to build a flight stick that will give feedback when the pilot is in landing mode. There will be a little moving "pin" in the joystick that will be felt by the palm and the fingertip, telling the pilot where the plane was in relationship to wherever the ILS (or MLS, whichever you prefer) said was the landing strip.
Mind you, this has nothing to do with the plastic rodents, but it was still cool playing with it.
What 2600 did was to stand as an acid-test to the First Amendment rights and the "fair-use" clause of the current copyright law. By fighting to keep the MPAA from getting what they want, they strove to set a legal precedent.
If company X has a product that is in large demand, but company X is the only company authorised to sell it (patents, whatnot), then company X can sign an exclusive distribution contract with company Y, fixing the price of the product and such. Happens all the time in pharmaceudicals.
Nice try. What you state is an ideal situation. Companies still set the prices, but through factoring in the market demand/supply, and exclusionary contracts. Mind you, only a small number of companies would be silly enough to set prices without doing some sort of market research, but silliness of companies never fail to am[ua]se me.
Of course, I'm referring to the BMW and Mercedes plants that were built in the US to avoid confiscatory German/Socialist policies. When manufacturing jobs are migrating
to the US you know something is wrong.
of course, this could also be a result of exclusionary and protective tarrifs that the US enacts to all automotive imports. Due to these tarrifs that are imposed on Asian and European imports, many such automotive companies are setting up shop in Mexico (where labour costs are cheaper than the US), or in the US itself, to avoid protectionist tarrifs.
If BMW and Daimler-Chrysler were to avoid "German Taxes", then they would move their entire operations elsewhere, not just their manufacturing plants.
But what vision! As Novell couldn't've been around for more than a few decades, the founders of the project knew, over 1400 years ago, that an NOS will once flourish, then need an OSS replacement!
Of course, if I were the bastards who knew this, I would've picked up M$ stock in the '70's and forgot about building the OS;p
I agree. After a first-order analysis, it seems that building a new OS, GPLed or not, that is netware-compatible is a horrible waste of time, and that just building the user-land and kernel-space components for some *NIX, possibly Linux or *BSD, to accomplish this would be a better use of their time, especially considering the time-to-market issues.
HOWEVER, if everybody thought like this, then we wouldn't have Linux or any of the *BSD's. Perhaps they'd build an OS that's better than Linux or the current crop of the *BSD's. Perhaps they'll build another HURD-a system that looks really fscking neat, but fails to deliver due to lack of {mindshare|interest|common knowledge|overambitious project}. Who knows until they try?
You forgot to mention that they are more expensive, and don't exactly have the combined marketing channel of Dell, Compaq, IBM, Intel, and every single Linux distributer.
Expensive, yes, but if I need that kind of scalability and performance now, then I probably won't be able to afford to wait until 2001 or thereabouts until the buggers are out. Then again, unfortunately for SGI, we're an all-Sun shop (for better or for worse), so we'll be dealing with the E10k's for quite a while yet.
I helped set up multiple locations for friends when I was at school in upstate NY as well. RR there has dropped that asinine login system, and furthermore, provide up to 3 free IP addresses per modem. All you need to do to activate them is to call, and tell them that you have multiple machines. the buggers are active within a minute, and it was great.
However, the story changes dramatically in Saint Louis area. DSL Reports has information on DSL in the area, and reports that DSL may be available in my area. The reality, however, is that coverage is spotty at best, and DSL is not truly available in my area. Instead, companies such as Primary Networks and other CLECs rely upon SBC to determine whether they should even send a technician out to the customer sites. It seems that these companies are spending more money on advertising DSL than implementing DSL. The site is full of horror stories regarding the slow speed in which the installation takes place, and spotty at best service record of the various ISP's and SBC.
My coworker, who lives in Maryland Heights, MO, states that CableAmerica's cable modem service installed quickly, and he is now enjoying 500kbps downstream/128kbps upstream bandwith. This service was installed within a few days of ordering, and it went without a hitch.
Of course, AT&T Cable does not offer a Cable Modem service where I live, so I'm pretty much SOL for broadband. Get me back to NY. PLEASE.
Ouch. But unfortunately, that situation is not as infrequent as we'd like it to be. My esteemed colleague and friend had to deal with the same with his management at his company. His customers demanded that they change the managers, of his team, and not the team itself, repeatedly. Unfortunately, that method of project management seemed to be an entrenched part of the corporate culture there. He is now much saner, at another job, working 9-5, and is actually rather productive now.
Fortunately, when I open my mouth here at my job about estimates and design, the people take it as the gospel truth. I guess that's the advantage of being the only senior-level architect here *grin*
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Did Intel actually learn the mistakes from the i820 debacle too? Will they become the "release and recall" company? I think it's a better marketing jingle than the "Intel Inside" was *grin*
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At the introductory level? Mind you, teaching non-conformant C++ at the introductory level is as bad of a crime as not teaching them C++, but portability, IMO, shouldn't be the objective of a 100-level class.
Mind you, my views are clouded because it seemed that almost all the departments in my school held their introductory-level courses as a "service" to the other departments. If you really wanted to learn, you continued on to the 200 and 400 level courses (for some reason, the faculty at my uni were too snobby to have 300-level courses). Portability was a requirement when I took the higher-level classes (such as network programming), but at the lower-level, they just told us what environments were available to the TA's (which included AIX, SunOS4, Solaris 2.5, IRIX, and Linux), and told us to develop for those environments.
Mind you, I ended up developing in multitude of environments, and I credit that with my current success in my career.
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I can't agree more. From what little physics and astronomy I've had (undergraduate-level survey courses only), the correlations between them were remarkable. My professor at the time was doing research, afair, on "seeing" what the conditions were like just moments after the Big Bang. He did his research primarily with radio telescopes, but a lot of theoretical collaboration came from the boffins down the hall, in the quantum physics portion of the department.
Of course, it's been more than a few years since then, so my memory's a bit fuzzy as well.
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Indeed. It must take them a huge amount of cash to run their 4000-node Linux cluster, and the bandwith of their connection must cost a bit of money as well. I'd rather see them put banner ads up and survive than to not do so and die. However, their business model must've changed; ISTR that they used to target themselves as a B2B solution, and not a B2C w/advertisements.
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But the StrongARM fails in one of the most critical positions: compatibility with just about any processor. Granted, x86 is the only place they have their software solutions placed in, but it shouldn't be too difficult to translate the likes of SPARC and Power architecture into their VLIW instruction set either (and in some cases, easier than x86).
Granted, 64bit processing may still be a problem for the Transmeta processors still. Anyone know the answer to this question, and not under a Transmeta NDA?
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So Palm is going to pull an Apple and make the rest of the "legacy" application space play the emulation game? Of course, emulating a 16MHz 68000ish processor with a 200MHz StrongARM is going to probably increase performance, whereas emulating a 40MHz 68040 with a 60MHz PPC would've decreased performance, but still :-)
In all seriousness, though I would like to see a faster palm, I don't want to watch the prices of these buggers go up. Then again, as they supposedly use less power, it would actually mean more usable battery life, and so on.... I guess it's a toss-up.
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But if Europa was not getting any energy, its oceans would long be iced over. Europa may not get much energy from the sun, but it does get substantial amounts of energy from the complex tidal forces between it, Jupiter, and the Sun. In addition, like Io, it may have substantial volcanic activity beneath the surface, giving more energy that "wells up" from beneath rather than "raining down" from the surface.
Given these conditions, and the possible existance of water, Europa may be more hospitabe than Mars.
Of course, I think it's just plain AWESOME that A. C. Clarke incorporated this data into his [23]0[60]1 series of novels. Does anyone know how old the "water on Europa" theory is?
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And ricochet has the advantage of being flat-fee. The reason I don't have a mobile for anything but emergencies is because of the fee structure; I'm not going to use a wireless phone for my primary phone when I can, for relatively low cost, have a flat-fee landline to my house. Couple that with ricochet not being available in my area, and affordable (ie
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Even as an OpenBSD zealot, I really find the "security" issue a bit moot. Yes, OpenBSD is more secure out of the box, but Linux would do just as well, if properly audited for security. Kernel-level security is not as much of a concern, and if these systems are going to become custom-embedded systems, then Linux will be just as good as any of the BSD's.
As for deployment as a server, an admin who takes any distro, drops it on a system that's wide-open to the world, and expects it to stand up to the rigors, deserves to be shot :-).
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As my understanding goes, the spirit of the GPL is that the modifications you make to the software will remain yours, unless you decide to distribute that modified software. In other words, if you take Linux, hack it up to bits for internal use only, you won't have to release the source to the outside world. The source will need to be released iff the modified binaries are to be released as well; the GPL protects against a pure-binary-only release.
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What sort of disconnect are you talking about? Are you talking about the protocol-level disconnect, which when the device does so, it lets the other devices in the system use the bus as well, or do you mean the "hot-swap" disconnect, which requires special enclosures?
Granted, both are very nice; my all-scsi box at home outperforms (in IO) the all-IDE box at werk; similar configurations on both boxen.
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Warning: this may or may not work.
Having said that, from http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse.4. html:
Can't you just put the value of "4" in there?
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Slightly OT. Sorry =P
Kind of reminds me of my human factors professor's research. He, like all good human factors geeks who had funding from NASA, decided to build a flight stick that will give feedback when the pilot is in landing mode. There will be a little moving "pin" in the joystick that will be felt by the palm and the fingertip, telling the pilot where the plane was in relationship to wherever the ILS (or MLS, whichever you prefer) said was the landing strip.
Mind you, this has nothing to do with the plastic rodents, but it was still cool playing with it.
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What 2600 did was to stand as an acid-test to the First Amendment rights and the "fair-use" clause of the current copyright law. By fighting to keep the MPAA from getting what they want, they strove to set a legal precedent.
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If company X has a product that is in large demand, but company X is the only company authorised to sell it (patents, whatnot), then company X can sign an exclusive distribution contract with company Y, fixing the price of the product and such. Happens all the time in pharmaceudicals.
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Nice try. What you state is an ideal situation. Companies still set the prices, but through factoring in the market demand/supply, and exclusionary contracts. Mind you, only a small number of companies would be silly enough to set prices without doing some sort of market research, but silliness of companies never fail to am[ua]se me.
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of course, this could also be a result of exclusionary and protective tarrifs that the US enacts to all automotive imports. Due to these tarrifs that are imposed on Asian and European imports, many such automotive companies are setting up shop in Mexico (where labour costs are cheaper than the US), or in the US itself, to avoid protectionist tarrifs.
If BMW and Daimler-Chrysler were to avoid "German Taxes", then they would move their entire operations elsewhere, not just their manufacturing plants.
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OTOH, this may finally cure the pidgeon problem that most major cities seem to have.
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But what vision! As Novell couldn't've been around for more than a few decades, the founders of the project knew, over 1400 years ago, that an NOS will once flourish, then need an OSS replacement!
Of course, if I were the bastards who knew this, I would've picked up M$ stock in the '70's and forgot about building the OS ;p
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Maybe we should have a contest or a /. poll. Here're some of my (not so funny attempt at funny) suggestions:
- Mystery
- Money
- Monkey
- Moot
- Monstrous
Seriously, what *does* it stand for?--
(Caution: extremely flammable. treat with care)
But WHY ?
I agree. After a first-order analysis, it seems that building a new OS, GPLed or not, that is netware-compatible is a horrible waste of time, and that just building the user-land and kernel-space components for some *NIX, possibly Linux or *BSD, to accomplish this would be a better use of their time, especially considering the time-to-market issues.
HOWEVER, if everybody thought like this, then we wouldn't have Linux or any of the *BSD's. Perhaps they'd build an OS that's better than Linux or the current crop of the *BSD's. Perhaps they'll build another HURD-a system that looks really fscking neat, but fails to deliver due to lack of {mindshare|interest|common knowledge|overambitious project}. Who knows until they try?
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Expensive, yes, but if I need that kind of scalability and performance now, then I probably won't be able to afford to wait until 2001 or thereabouts until the buggers are out. Then again, unfortunately for SGI, we're an all-Sun shop (for better or for worse), so we'll be dealing with the E10k's for quite a while yet.
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Check DSL Reports for a much better view of the world.
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I helped set up multiple locations for friends when I was at school in upstate NY as well. RR there has dropped that asinine login system, and furthermore, provide up to 3 free IP addresses per modem. All you need to do to activate them is to call, and tell them that you have multiple machines. the buggers are active within a minute, and it was great.
However, the story changes dramatically in Saint Louis area. DSL Reports has information on DSL in the area, and reports that DSL may be available in my area. The reality, however, is that coverage is spotty at best, and DSL is not truly available in my area. Instead, companies such as Primary Networks and other CLECs rely upon SBC to determine whether they should even send a technician out to the customer sites. It seems that these companies are spending more money on advertising DSL than implementing DSL. The site is full of horror stories regarding the slow speed in which the installation takes place, and spotty at best service record of the various ISP's and SBC.
My coworker, who lives in Maryland Heights, MO, states that CableAmerica's cable modem service installed quickly, and he is now enjoying 500kbps downstream/128kbps upstream bandwith. This service was installed within a few days of ordering, and it went without a hitch.
Of course, AT&T Cable does not offer a Cable Modem service where I live, so I'm pretty much SOL for broadband. Get me back to NY. PLEASE.
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Ouch. But unfortunately, that situation is not as infrequent as we'd like it to be. My esteemed colleague and friend had to deal with the same with his management at his company. His customers demanded that they change the managers, of his team, and not the team itself, repeatedly. Unfortunately, that method of project management seemed to be an entrenched part of the corporate culture there. He is now much saner, at another job, working 9-5, and is actually rather productive now.
Fortunately, when I open my mouth here at my job about estimates and design, the people take it as the gospel truth. I guess that's the advantage of being the only senior-level architect here *grin*
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