"The GNU C library, described in this document, defines all of the library functions that are specified by the ISO C standard, as well as additional features specific to POSIX and other derivatives of the Unix operating system, and extensions specific to the GNU system."
If HP releases the architecture under a nice licence the Alpha architecture could be the first CPU with a open development cycle: the community develops and any company is free to produce the monster.
The US citizens consume by far the most energy in the world since a long time.
If the goverment wants to support youre attitude, the most siple (and least popular) sollutions is taxation. For example gasoline in The Netherlands is taxed for EUR 0.67 / litre + 19% VAT (about USD 3.15 / gallon + 19%). Trust me: our cars use less fuel;)
Plugins and scripting languages are temporarely sollutions for the shortcommings of the Markup Languages and their current implementations. However they also give a realworld insight of the needs and the futures like SVG.
/Now that I think about it, standardizing plugins could be the revamping of the plugin craze (read spyware)./
Becouse the plugin standardization, we can have more controll over the computer resources acces. Spyware needs complete differend resources than visual add-ons.
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from the manual:
"The GNU C library, described in this document, defines all of the library functions that are specified by the ISO C standard, as well as additional features specific to POSIX and other derivatives of the Unix operating system, and extensions specific to the GNU system."
If HP releases the architecture under a nice licence the Alpha architecture could be the first CPU with a open development cycle: the community develops and any company is free to produce the monster.
I don't know if there are any legal obstacles?
The US citizens consume by far the most energy in the world since a long time.
;)
If the goverment wants to support youre attitude, the most siple (and least popular) sollutions is taxation. For example gasoline in The Netherlands is taxed for EUR 0.67 / litre + 19% VAT (about USD 3.15 / gallon + 19%). Trust me: our cars use less fuel
Exactly. Sun called Java 1.2.0 Java 2, so java 1.5.0 is called Java 5 becouse there won't be a Java 2.0.0 anyway.
:S
However the name is "Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0"
Plugins and scripting languages are temporarely sollutions for the shortcommings of the Markup Languages and their current implementations. However they also give a realworld insight of the needs and the futures like SVG.
/Now that I think about it, standardizing plugins could be the revamping of the plugin craze (read spyware)./
Becouse the plugin standardization, we can have more controll over the computer resources acces. Spyware needs complete differend resources than visual add-ons.
What do you think will hapen during a war or some natural disaster? :(
They will die first