Yeah, like lawyers even know what source code is. They probably have technical advisors that told them to go get the source code. I'm assuming those people are going to know what to do with it.
They didn't only blow up half the death star. There were two death stars... they blow up the first one... then then started to build another one. It wasn't completed by the time frame of Return of the Jedi, that's why it looked like only half a death star. Supposedly, the second one was bigger than the first. Then of course, they blew up that incomplete death star at the end of the movie.
Yeah sure, force a company to lower it's prices so that it continues to lose money and then you get no cable access at all. Umm... you are forgetting one thing about companies... they exist for the sole purpose of making money.
Well, the general moronic public thinks that AOL is the internet. And since AOL provides all kinds of things like email, IM, messages boards, and a shit-load of other content, ISPs need to do the same to compete with those CD mailing bastards.
For us that don't go to the store to "buy the internet" we can just ignore all of that fluff and be happy that we don't have to pay $1,000/month for a T1 to get decent bandwidth.
No no no... all states (except Delaware) already collect sales tax... have the states collect the tax on behalf of the federal government and give them a piece of what they collect (to cover costs, etc). Then get rid of the IRS all together. Why not leverage systems already in place?
I don't know about anyone else here... but recently, I've become a big fan of having the bare minimum number of icons on my desktop. I would prefer to have none but there are three that you just can't get rid of on Windows ("My Computer", "My Network Places" (stupid Win2k), and "Recycle Bin").
I cringe at most other people's computers because they have no sense of organization. They have all kinds of crap on their desktop, word documents, program icons, etc.
And don't get me started on program menus. Jeeze... anyone that has a program menu that is so big you need to scroll up and down really needs to think about organizing that better.
I think the problem is that people don't want to learn at least the bare minimum skills... such as how to manage files in directories... to me that's an easy thing... and once they learn that, they would be much better off considering that pretty much everything with computers deals with directories and files.
A lot of people are complaining that they only reboot their machines to "clear" the RAM. And they seem to think that if Windows crashed, this new MRAM stuff will cause their computer to be in a permanent crashed state.
Well, obviously, computers making use of MRAM will have some way to purge the memory. And maybe the OS would set a flag on a normal shutdown that would tell the BIOS (or whatever it would be when this stuff comes out) that it can go ahead and just jump right to the OS (and the OS would clear that flag as it's first order of business). If the flag didn't exist, it would go through a boot sequence which involved loading the OS off a hard drive or whatever.
But let's look at the advantages of having persistent RAM. If you have a journaling file system, the journal could be kept in memory without fear that it would be lost on a crash. When the system comes back up that data would be in memory and could then be used to repair the file system. Also, disk writes would be extremely fast because they could be cached and when the system is idle or when the disk is not busy, they could be written at that time instead of having to be written to a log that is physically on disk.
Maybe, programs that are running could survive an OS crash because their state would be perfectly perserved in persistent memory.
And if CPUs had persistent registers... recovering from a power failure would be seamless.
Bullshit. They could have just thrown away their superior design and created a shitty CPU like the P4 and made it run at 2+Ghz so that they could compete in the moron space that Intel has a hold on.
Instead, they decided to change the model number and explain to people (an prove it with benchmarks) that their CPUs have model numbers that match the performance of an Intel CPU running at that clock speed.
If that helps AMD market their product and pull in more money that could be used in their R&D department to create an even better product next time. Well, then that would be great. At the end of the day, AMD is a company like Intel, that has to make money. Luckly, the AMD people want to do this by putting out a quality product. Intel is content with winning the marketing war.
This is bullshit... markets always will expand as long as the population of the earth expands. A market is a group of potential buyers, not a geographical entity.
It's all relative. As hardware gets faster (10 Gigabit Ethernet, 2Ghz CPUs, etc, etc) we need to take advantage of it somehow. Will there be speed sacrfice, sure. Will applications become less buggy due to code reuse... I hope so. Will apps become smaller due to code reuse... yep. Will software be written/debugged/released quicker... I'm sure it will.
And I'm not sure about your comment about adding a layer that nobdy can understand. What's not to understand about getting a reference to a graphic object and then telling it to render itself by simply passing it to a window object?
Everyone needs to get out of this "I have to move every single bit myself" attitude. Let's start thinking a little differently for a change. Why not? It would at least be fun.
I agree. An object oriented OS would be a really good thing. Maybe there would be code reuse if the whole system was built around that concept.
I really like the idea that application programmers won't have to worry about file structure and mundane things like that anymore. They would just create persistant objects on the "file system," across the network, where ever.
A remote object system built into the OS (like CORBA and RMI) would make network programming trivial.
Well, if there are others that are truly interested, I'd be willing to maintain such a project.
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Yeah, like lawyers even know what source code is. They probably have technical advisors that told them to go get the source code. I'm assuming those people are going to know what to do with it.
Apparently a lot of people still don't know that A LOT is two words.
I'm guessing Native American due to his comment about booze.
They didn't only blow up half the death star. There were two death stars... they blow up the first one... then then started to build another one. It wasn't completed by the time frame of Return of the Jedi, that's why it looked like only half a death star. Supposedly, the second one was bigger than the first. Then of course, they blew up that incomplete death star at the end of the movie.
...as in kidney stones?
Yeah sure, force a company to lower it's prices so that it continues to lose money and then you get no cable access at all. Umm... you are forgetting one thing about companies... they exist for the sole purpose of making money.
Well, the general moronic public thinks that AOL is the internet. And since AOL provides all kinds of things like email, IM, messages boards, and a shit-load of other content, ISPs need to do the same to compete with those CD mailing bastards.
For us that don't go to the store to "buy the internet" we can just ignore all of that fluff and be happy that we don't have to pay $1,000/month for a T1 to get decent bandwidth.
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Next time you jump down someone's throat about their use of the ENGLISH language, maybe you should break out a dictionary to check your spelling.
That's incorrect. What do you think signing an NDA is? Giving up your first amendment rights.
No no no... all states (except Delaware) already collect sales tax... have the states collect the tax on behalf of the federal government and give them a piece of what they collect (to cover costs, etc). Then get rid of the IRS all together. Why not leverage systems already in place?
wow... excellent use of hacker speak.
exspesialy?
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I don't know about anyone else here... but recently, I've become a big fan of having the bare minimum number of icons on my desktop. I would prefer to have none but there are three that you just can't get rid of on Windows ("My Computer", "My Network Places" (stupid Win2k), and "Recycle Bin").
I cringe at most other people's computers because they have no sense of organization. They have all kinds of crap on their desktop, word documents, program icons, etc.
And don't get me started on program menus. Jeeze... anyone that has a program menu that is so big you need to scroll up and down really needs to think about organizing that better.
I think the problem is that people don't want to learn at least the bare minimum skills... such as how to manage files in directories... to me that's an easy thing... and once they learn that, they would be much better off considering that pretty much everything with computers deals with directories and files.
Oh c'mon River Raid for Atari 2600 was 10x better than Techmo Bowl. :)
VIX - Umm... what roman numeral is that exactly? 10 - 6? or 5 + 9 - 1?
No wonder we switched to arabic decimals....
If you are running a Linux firewall then why don't you run your own DNS server? That way if there's is down, you are still up.
No, the internet is nothing more than a bunch of people communicating with each other.
Taxation is a bad idea.
Dumbass... how could a reply be a first post?
A lot of people are complaining that they only reboot their machines to "clear" the RAM. And they seem to think that if Windows crashed, this new MRAM stuff will cause their computer to be in a permanent crashed state.
Well, obviously, computers making use of MRAM will have some way to purge the memory. And maybe the OS would set a flag on a normal shutdown that would tell the BIOS (or whatever it would be when this stuff comes out) that it can go ahead and just jump right to the OS (and the OS would clear that flag as it's first order of business). If the flag didn't exist, it would go through a boot sequence which involved loading the OS off a hard drive or whatever.
But let's look at the advantages of having persistent RAM. If you have a journaling file system, the journal could be kept in memory without fear that it would be lost on a crash. When the system comes back up that data would be in memory and could then be used to repair the file system. Also, disk writes would be extremely fast because they could be cached and when the system is idle or when the disk is not busy, they could be written at that time instead of having to be written to a log that is physically on disk.
Maybe, programs that are running could survive an OS crash because their state would be perfectly perserved in persistent memory.
And if CPUs had persistent registers... recovering from a power failure would be seamless.
Just some thoughts.
Bullshit. They could have just thrown away their superior design and created a shitty CPU like the P4 and made it run at 2+Ghz so that they could compete in the moron space that Intel has a hold on.
Instead, they decided to change the model number and explain to people (an prove it with benchmarks) that their CPUs have model numbers that match the performance of an Intel CPU running at that clock speed.
If that helps AMD market their product and pull in more money that could be used in their R&D department to create an even better product next time. Well, then that would be great. At the end of the day, AMD is a company like Intel, that has to make money. Luckly, the AMD people want to do this by putting out a quality product. Intel is content with winning the marketing war.
This is bullshit... markets always will expand as long as the population of the earth expands. A market is a group of potential buyers, not a geographical entity.
They sung Ave Maria? What kind of crack-rock shit is that?
It's all relative. As hardware gets faster (10 Gigabit Ethernet, 2Ghz CPUs, etc, etc) we need to take advantage of it somehow. Will there be speed sacrfice, sure. Will applications become less buggy due to code reuse... I hope so. Will apps become smaller due to code reuse... yep. Will software be written/debugged/released quicker... I'm sure it will.
And I'm not sure about your comment about adding a layer that nobdy can understand. What's not to understand about getting a reference to a graphic object and then telling it to render itself by simply passing it to a window object?
Everyone needs to get out of this "I have to move every single bit myself" attitude. Let's start thinking a little differently for a change. Why not? It would at least be fun.
I agree. An object oriented OS would be a really good thing. Maybe there would be code reuse if the whole system was built around that concept.
I really like the idea that application programmers won't have to worry about file structure and mundane things like that anymore. They would just create persistant objects on the "file system," across the network, where ever.
A remote object system built into the OS (like CORBA and RMI) would make network programming trivial.
Well, if there are others that are truly interested, I'd be willing to maintain such a project.