Are you saying that people who think they are clever and sophisticated and people who really are clever and sophisticated are disjoint sets?
Who would you say is genuinelyclever and sophisticated? -- Yourself? Only those who do not describe things as juvenile trash? Any other key phrases I should look out for if I wish to figure out who is and who isn't? Do such people exist at all? Do any of them masturbate?
first we did the lexer, then the parser, then the code generator. But that was basically it, you got four months, go write the compiler or flunk, chump. (We had to write it in C.)
lots of repititive work assembled pretty much flawlessly
Except for the odd typo (e.g. in junctive elements) - not to disparage a neat, humorously executed piece of work and a clever idea.
Could I be so bold as to hope that Sodipodi or Inkscape are now capable of something like this
Hand-coded PostScript is quite capable of this:-) Certainly the PS greybeards pulled off even fancier things that way - 3D with hidden surface removal, etc.
I'm also a long-time Linux user (mainly Debian and mainly servers), have just introduced myself to Gentoo for a new colocated server build and am loving it. With kernel 2.6 she just screams. (Disclaimer: my cousin is largely responsible for the anticipatory I/O scheduler.)
On more modest hardware, NetBSD is a lot of fun. See - I even swing both ways.:)
But come to think of it, there are commercial alternatives to Winblows as well: e.g. Mac OS X. A lot of people are discovering that OS X is an industrial strength server O/S that shines very brightly on the desktop too. And Apple hardware is very hard to beat reliability-wise (speaking as someone who's been in charge of Mac studios nearly 20 years).
All we need are some facts to shine through the constant smog of FUD from Redmond and their hirelings. Then the war is won. Can't wait.
"Hey this new OS will use half the resources, be 99% secure, and run on a reasonable spec PC, and be simple to use and understand"
Sorry to state the obvious, but - Lucky we've already got half a dozen free O/S that meet or exceed those criteria, isn't it?
I suppose from a business point of view they have to keep swimming, like sharks.
Yes, that's the tragic part. Burning untold oxygen and programmer hours and customers' money. It's probably best if we continue to withholding money and other encouragement, eventually they'll starve to death.
One of the rules that they're required to be very careful about is that they don't give any internal information to anyone that doesn't go to everyone.... it's not entirely correct to say that the lawsuits haven't had at least some effect on many of the procedures followed within Microsoft.
So they're vaguely scared of breaking the law in a literal sense. Great! But not enough. Let's see them obliterated. That's the only thing that will stop them breaking the spirit of the law.
not only do I dislike most americans now, but I think the american ideal has changed drastically. It is not something worth defending. Your legislators have wiped their asses on the constitution so many times you cannot read the print for the shit. And your populance has stood by and let this happen.
Now the american ideal is the american cautionary tale for how not to let your democracy fail.
As an Australian, I say: AMEN to that. Our ties should be with Europe and Asia. We're getting rid of our pathetic Bush-puppet government just as soon as we can.
Test 002 is meaningless: the times are too short to have any statistical significance whatsoever.
Some of the comments are foolish; for example, Test 009: "Surprisingly, ReiserFS wins". Why is that surprising? Perhaps it follows from the design of ReiserFS. It's as if the benchmarker does not realise that different algorithms and design goals are involved in each filesystem.
Finally, I agree completely about the graphs, they're illegible. It's indeed amazing nobody has pointed this out. The guy desperately needs to buy and read a set of Tufte's works.
For this to be a useful benchmark, at least twice as much intelligence and effort would need to be applied...
You could always release it to the company whose product is affected and give them $suitable_time to fix the vulnerability before you post on Bugtraq.... you look like you've tried to be a responsible netizen... That has always been the responsible way of announcing vulnerabilities; I don't see that this changes the situation.
That used to be the procedure. But now that security research is illegal (DMCA), what can (and does) happen is the vendor calls the Feds on your ass instead. Nobody wins and the wrong guy goes to jail. "Brave new world..."
This is just the M$ "Smart Tags" concept recycled, right? - And we all remember how popular that was!
Maybe M$ has a patent on this "patently" idiotic idea and will squash these fools:-)
Adobe had promised before that that ``all major upgrades'' will be Mac OS X native.
Unfortunately, Lighthouse Design, the company which ported FrameMaker 2 and 3 to NeXTstep got bought by Sun, so Adobe didn't even have that option of outsourcing the port.
It's not a major port, since the app was already running on OS 9. From there to Carbon is a relatively small step. This deliberate guillotining is just more evidence Adobe is run by beancounters.
As I wrote to Macintouch, it would seem sensible for Adobe to bring FrameMaker's functionality to a "Super InDesign" release aimed at the user base and document types FM was designed for.
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Who would you say is genuinely clever and sophisticated? -- Yourself? Only those who do not describe things as juvenile trash? Any other key phrases I should look out for if I wish to figure out who is and who isn't? Do such people exist at all? Do any of them masturbate?
On more modest hardware, NetBSD is a lot of fun. See - I even swing both ways. :)
But come to think of it, there are commercial alternatives to Winblows as well: e.g. Mac OS X. A lot of people are discovering that OS X is an industrial strength server O/S that shines very brightly on the desktop too. And Apple hardware is very hard to beat reliability-wise (speaking as someone who's been in charge of Mac studios nearly 20 years).
All we need are some facts to shine through the constant smog of FUD from Redmond and their hirelings. Then the war is won. Can't wait.
So they're vaguely scared of breaking the law in a literal sense. Great! But not enough. Let's see them obliterated. That's the only thing that will stop them breaking the spirit of the law.
As an Australian, I say: AMEN to that. Our ties should be with Europe and Asia. We're getting rid of our pathetic Bush-puppet government just as soon as we can.
And why do you think the EU will let you in, having made yourselves so popular as a nation?
That's rich, since the bad ideas are all coming from your side.
Test 002 is meaningless: the times are too short to have any statistical significance whatsoever.
Some of the comments are foolish; for example, Test 009: "Surprisingly, ReiserFS wins". Why is that surprising? Perhaps it follows from the design of ReiserFS. It's as if the benchmarker does not realise that different algorithms and design goals are involved in each filesystem.
Finally, I agree completely about the graphs, they're illegible. It's indeed amazing nobody has pointed this out. The guy desperately needs to buy and read a set of Tufte's works.
For this to be a useful benchmark, at least twice as much intelligence and effort would need to be applied...
"I Can't Believe it's Not Windows!"
--That should keep them out of trouble.
Hear, hear!
As I wrote to Macintouch, it would seem sensible for Adobe to bring FrameMaker's functionality to a "Super InDesign" release aimed at the user base and document types FM was designed for.
What r u talkin about. You don't have a low /. uid!