And the "Non-registered Unix-like systems" chapter is just a cheat of desperate system advocates trying the push there non compliant system onto the Wikipage. If they could pass then someone (i.E. Red-Had, SuSE) would pay the fee - at least for there "Enterprise-Server-Edition".
What should happen when A, B and C go out of scope. A CG based purely of reference counting could not delete them as each of the elements still got a reference count of 1.
Advanced GCs of course will detect when a ring structure becomes an island and will deallocate the complete ring. But: finding a ring structure is a complex task which can not be done at every block closure.
What should A be and what should B be? Note the "should" and ":=" - I am not talking about any particular programming language. Say you see this code in an unknown programming language what would be the first expectation for A and B?
Mine certainly would be A is "Hello" and B is "Hello World!".
And String is a complex class and certainly is not used only 0.001% of all cases.
Apple is the grand daddy of "do what we say, and how we say to do it" mentality.
In Germany we say "Wenn zwei das gleiche tuen ist es noch lange nicht das gleiche" - translated: "If two do the same it is still not the same". I use Vista at Work and Mac OS X at home and I have never felt so patronized by an operating system as with Vista.
And the user access control thing is probably the best example: Bot OSs use elevation but on Vista it drives me insane. Probably because I see the elevation Dialog on OS X once of twice a week and on Vista 5 to 10 times a day. And only that few times because I permanently have a file-manager / command-line combo started with admin rights (TakeCommand - http://www.jpsoft.com/ - would not know what to do without).
Reminds me of the good old linux days when I had a root command line open all time.
But back to the point: For me as a customer the question is not how much I am patronized - the question is how much do I feel patronized.
Or: is the TV there system "tivoization"? If so then your head does not need to exoplode. Tivoization is an evil explotation of an loophole in GPL2 licence.
Remember: Exploting loopholes in good things is normal behavior for evil corporations.
1) Rootkits by Sony BMG. 2) Non existent customer service and end of live / support in less the 6 month by Sony Ericsson. 4) Insistence on prohibitory memory stick by all Sony departments. 5) Lying on Energy Star Rating by Sony Electronics.
Well Sony is on my the list of evil corporation for quite a while now and it does not look they are getting of the list any soon.
When you have a new OS most applications will support the new features and only a few ported applications won't.
If you have an old OS with a new lib then most applications have been written before the lib was introduced and therefore just ignore the new functionality.
Need an example? Well extended attributes. How many Linux applications do you know which make good use of then? I know only one SAMBA - but you have to switch support explicitly on as it is off by default. Ahh, and if you are lucky you have an Apache witch supports "user.mime_type".
But how many applications set "user.mime_type" on Linux - as they should do. None, Zero, NIL.
That was different in OS/2 where extended attributes have been build in almost from day 1 and the ".TYPE" and ".ICON" where universally put to good use.
Is it volatile? If it is, then no thanks. If it isn't then it must be written to disk, in which case it's simply a regular file with a spiffy interface.
Actualy No - With a 64bit CPU a hole harddrive could be used as virtual memory. A couple of hints to you:
1) In Linux the swapper is usually not stored in a file but in a raw partition. But you could use a raw harddrive as well.
2) In BeOS the swapper must be at least as large as main memory. A dead give away that BeOS uses a one to one relation ship between main memory and swapper.
So even before I do RTFA I can see how it could be done: Hard-drive and Memory is mapped one to one and before you shut down the system all volatile main memory is written non volatile hard drive memory.
Sure we all have agendas and sometimes hope for a specific outcome in an elections but did our secret services book advertising time in your cinemas to air Barack Obama supportive spots which where made to look like normal news bulletins?
Ok, nowadays one would not air such spots in cinema any more.
If the United States is perceived as relatively inactive in the world, it is because of American Isolationism.
If the United states is seen as relatively active in the world, it is American Imperialism.
Maybe one has to find some balance then. Preferly one which does entail invading other countries and propagandering the "right" head of state into other countries office.
America was never against Russia in order to keep some small Eastern European countries safe. They were fighting against Communism, because they didn't want communism taking over their way of life.
But where they asked if they want protection?
I recently saw a discovery channel report on how the CIA brain washed west germany into beliving that comunism is evil. Maybe it is - but so is brain washing a hole country.
but I think one could certainly argue that the US used military means to interfere with the politics of other countries to the benefit of the US and without concern for the other country's citizens.
There are other means then military which an imperialitic country can apply. Sending off CIA propaganda specialist to make shure the "right" president is elected is sufficent.
On dicovery channel I recently saw a report about one of our heads of state which had his election payed and fixed by the USA. No they did not fix the votes - the USA swamped us with advertising until we elected the Adenauer into office.
Pretty similar to what happened in Ukrania recently.
Or do all you Europeans want to be praising the soviet motherland?
Actualy those who do are better off. All the US did for former soviet countries is instanciating bribed Presidenst and thats all. But that does not feed anybody or gives him a job. A Russia-Bribed-President could at least got his countrymen some cheap deal on Natural gas.
Yeah right....ok, how many new countries have we annexed in the past couple of decades...go ahead...I'm waiting.
Read Imperialism up on Wikipedia. You don't need to invade another country. Bribing Presidends or fixing the election in other countries is enough. And you did that in ukrania and georgia just recently.
I feel pity for both countries as there US-Bribed-Presidents are complete idiots.
Why they'd want to be on the U.S. and Soviet target list is beyond me though. Being a nuclear power today (even a nuclear superpower) is risky business, no matter how you slice it.
Respect. The USA does not treat countries without nukes with the same kind of respect as they do otherwise.
Over the years and especially after two Presidents with the name of "Bush" I have changed my point of view drasticly.
Those who warned about the "American Imperialism" had been right all along and if I became head of state somewhere I would terminate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty right away.
Of you are lager by sqare kilometers, population and power consumtion then is is just easy to have the larger wind farms as well. Comparing absolute figures between countries is just plain unfair.
Divide by any of the three and the US won't be the winner any longer. But then Germany probably won't win either any more...
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Linux is also UNIX on the desktop.
Nope - UNIX is a Trademark. In order to use that Trademark for your Product you have to pass a test. OS X passed that test and Linux did not. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
And the "Non-registered Unix-like systems" chapter is just a cheat of desperate system advocates trying the push there non compliant system onto the Wikipage. If they could pass then someone (i.E. Red-Had, SuSE) would pay the fee - at least for there "Enterprise-Server-Edition".
I have another one for you.
when the GC detects 0 references, b is discarded.
Actually a good GC will discard reference objects. Consider:
Some_Class_1 A;
Some_Class_2 B;
Some_Class_3 C;
A.My_B := B'Access; := C'Access; := A'Access;
B.My_C
C.My_A
What should happen when A, B and C go out of scope. A CG based purely of reference counting could not delete them as each of the elements still got a reference count of 1.
Advanced GCs of course will detect when a ring structure becomes an island and will deallocate the complete ring. But: finding a ring structure is a complex task which can not be done at every block closure.
Consider:
String A := "Hello"; := A;
String B
B.append (" World!");
What should A be and what should B be? Note the "should" and ":=" - I am not talking about any particular programming language. Say you see this code in an unknown programming language what would be the first expectation for A and B?
Mine certainly would be A is "Hello" and B is "Hello World!".
And String is a complex class and certainly is not used only 0.001% of all cases.
Martin
Apple is the grand daddy of "do what we say, and how we say to do it" mentality.
In Germany we say "Wenn zwei das gleiche tuen ist es noch lange nicht das gleiche" - translated: "If two do the same it is still not the same". I use Vista at Work and Mac OS X at home and I have never felt so patronized by an operating system as with Vista.
And the user access control thing is probably the best example: Bot OSs use elevation but on Vista it drives me insane. Probably because I see the elevation Dialog on OS X once of twice a week and on Vista 5 to 10 times a day. And only that few times because I permanently have a file-manager / command-line combo started with admin rights (TakeCommand - http://www.jpsoft.com/ - would not know what to do without).
Reminds me of the good old linux days when I had a root command line open all time.
But back to the point: For me as a customer the question is not how much I am patronized - the question is how much do I feel patronized.
Or: is the TV there system "tivoization"? If so then your head does not need to exoplode. Tivoization is an evil explotation of an loophole in GPL2 licence.
Remember: Exploting loopholes in good things is normal behavior for evil corporations.
What do whe have:
1) Rootkits by Sony BMG.
2) Non existent customer service and end of live / support in less the 6 month by Sony Ericsson.
4) Insistence on prohibitory memory stick by all Sony departments.
5) Lying on Energy Star Rating by Sony Electronics.
Well Sony is on my the list of evil corporation for quite a while now and it does not look they are getting of the list any soon.
Martin
How should I put it? I know: Legacy code.
When you have a new OS most applications will support the new features and only a few ported applications won't.
If you have an old OS with a new lib then most applications have been written before the lib was introduced and therefore just ignore the new functionality.
Need an example? Well extended attributes. How many Linux applications do you know which make good use of then? I know only one SAMBA - but you have to switch support explicitly on as it is off by default. Ahh, and if you are lucky you have an Apache witch supports "user.mime_type".
But how many applications set "user.mime_type" on Linux - as they should do. None, Zero, NIL.
That was different in OS/2 where extended attributes have been build in almost from day 1 and the ".TYPE" and ".ICON" where universally put to good use.
Martin
Yes, yes, very interesting.
Is it volatile? If it is, then no thanks. If it isn't then it must be written to disk, in which case it's simply a regular file with a spiffy interface.
Actualy No - With a 64bit CPU a hole harddrive could be used as virtual memory. A couple of hints to you:
1) In Linux the swapper is usually not stored in a file but in a raw partition. But you could use a raw harddrive as well.
2) In BeOS the swapper must be at least as large as main memory. A dead give away that BeOS uses a one to one relation ship between main memory and swapper.
So even before I do RTFA I can see how it could be done: Hard-drive and Memory is mapped one to one and before you shut down the system all volatile main memory is written non volatile hard drive memory.
So I now go and RTFA to see if I am right ;-) .
Martin
Sure we all have agendas and sometimes hope for a specific outcome in an elections but did our secret services book advertising time in your cinemas to air Barack Obama supportive spots which where made to look like normal news bulletins?
Ok, nowadays one would not air such spots in cinema any more.
Fixed.
Fair enough!
get the same respect that you give a rabid dog.
And there some people wonder why the USA is not flavor of the decade any more?
If the United States is perceived as relatively inactive in the world, it is because of American Isolationism.
If the United states is seen as relatively active in the world, it is American Imperialism.
Maybe one has to find some balance then. Preferly one which does entail invading other countries and propagandering the "right" head of state into other countries office.
America was never against Russia in order to keep some small Eastern European countries safe. They were fighting against Communism, because they didn't want communism taking over their way of life.
But where they asked if they want protection?
I recently saw a discovery channel report on how the CIA brain washed west germany into beliving that comunism is evil. Maybe it is - but so is brain washing a hole country.
Ok in some point you are right - only:
Who says that the President of the USA can't be a "genocidal maniac" as well. After G.W.Bush I think it is not out of the question.
And "liberal democracy" means for me that either everybody has the right to bear arms or no one.
Of course - and this is where you are right - reality is different from theory.
but I think one could certainly argue that the US used military means to interfere with the politics of other countries to the benefit of the US and without concern for the other country's citizens.
There are other means then military which an imperialitic country can apply. Sending off CIA propaganda specialist to make shure the "right" president is elected is sufficent.
On dicovery channel I recently saw a report about one of our heads of state which had his election payed and fixed by the USA. No they did not fix the votes - the USA swamped us with advertising until we elected the Adenauer into office.
Pretty similar to what happened in Ukrania recently.
Ahmm - what about those 5 states you took from Mexico?
Or do all you Europeans want to be praising the soviet motherland?
Actualy those who do are better off. All the US did for former soviet countries is instanciating bribed Presidenst and thats all. But that does not feed anybody or gives him a job. A Russia-Bribed-President could at least got his countrymen some cheap deal on Natural gas.
Yeah right....ok, how many new countries have we annexed in the past couple of decades...go ahead...I'm waiting.
Read Imperialism up on Wikipedia. You don't need to invade another country. Bribing Presidends or fixing the election in other countries is enough. And you did that in ukrania and georgia just recently.
I feel pity for both countries as there US-Bribed-Presidents are complete idiots.
Martin
Why they'd want to be on the U.S. and Soviet target list is beyond me though. Being a nuclear power today (even a nuclear superpower) is risky business, no matter how you slice it.
Respect. The USA does not treat countries without nukes with the same kind of respect as they do otherwise.
Over the years and especially after two Presidents with the name of "Bush" I have changed my point of view drasticly.
Those who warned about the "American Imperialism" had been right all along and if I became head of state somewhere I would terminate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty right away.
Martin
Well aren't all man equal?
If so then all men have the right to defend them self using the same type of weapons.
So unless you are from a country without nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles you have no right to talk.
Of you are lager by sqare kilometers, population and power consumtion then is is just easy to have the larger wind farms as well. Comparing absolute figures between countries is just plain unfair.
Divide by any of the three and the US won't be the winner any longer. But then Germany probably won't win either any more...
Yes, pat your selves on the back. America (9,161,923 SQ KM) has over taken Germany (357,021 SQ KM). Good work.
Right on. And the US has 2.8 times the population as well. And we don't even start speaking of totel power consuption.
The GCC Ada compiler already does it - even used the very same wording ;-)
it is a compiler collection after all.