time.h from Windows SDK #ifndef _TIME_T_DEFINED #ifdef _WIN64 typedef __int64 time_t;/* time value */ #else typedef _W64 long time_t;/* time value */ #endif #define _TIME_T_DEFINED/* avoid multiple def's of time_t */ #endif
64bit isn't just about greater than 2gigs memory either. The availability of 64bit machines, for instance, will permanently solve a lot of nigly little programming problems such as the reams of software that use time_t for time definitions. Also, good filesystems already use 64bit addressing.
64bit will matter for graphics and video too in a big way: all your doubles will now nicely fit in a register which will make for much nicer machine code.
The ability, on the otherhand, to acquire a monopoly on an algorithm is demonstratedly detremental to innovation. There is a large body of software out there, for instance, that cannot implement functionality because of patent encumberance and the cost penalty incurred thereof.
Monopoly grants, because this is what patents are, are dangerous for many reasons. Prior to when they were opened up to a "free for all" the purpose of patents was to provide a means for bringing into the public domain -- real inventions -- whose creators otherwise would want to keep secret and never reveal.
What programmers need and already have is control over who can copy their code/product. Preventing the rest of the world from re-implementing any process or idea of something based on the debatable notion of who registered it first is a farce in any analysis. Monopolies are bad for business, bad for the consumer, and bad for capitalism. The government has no business authorising them except in extreme/public-interest cases wherein they should also be closely regulated.
The Dell XPS (their new sexy alienware rip-off case maxed out machine) duked out with a gig of ram and 200gig ata drive comes in at ~600 hundred cheaper (canuck dollars in my test) than the apple-- and the Dell has a monitor. However, this is compared to the DUAL G5 64bit with a GIG of RAM. Plus, I don't really need another monitor from Dell (already have a nice one). Dell would probably be cheaper if they didn't force me to buy Windows--have licence already/officeware(dido)/roxio and overpriced RAM).
This is good mojo all around.. I hope Apple sells them fast and well.... and gains some market share.
What you describe is not limited to the GPL by any means. A BSD license would make no difference whatsoever. It all depends on whether a person/company contributing code to a project has properly evaluated the rights they possess to do so.
In fact, if you actually bothered to look, you'd realize that most patent/copyright violation lawsuits of the past have involved commercial software mainly.
This is why a firm would use software from a mainstream provider (IBM, Suse, Redhat) with a proper contract that contained provisions for such eventualities instead of just farming stuff themselves of the net.
The day just isn't the same without a UNIX related lawsuit.... lately I've been thinking the medieval witch test (the water drowning one) could easily find itself a new vocation in detecting corrupt lawyers.
so I can suitably reprogram my deviant brain. Nobody should be thinking for themselves and making informed consumer purchases, corporations should do this for us. Choice is for pinko commie capitalism terrorists who want to corrupt our holy-culture with reprobent and criminal infidel thoughts.... oh wait... I bought my copies of the matrix and die-hard from Walmart, false alert.
Assuming there actually is a violation, if they didn't think that the microsecond they identified 'real SCO code' in the kernel that it would immeadiately get yanked without affecting one iota the functionality of the kernel they'd have already publically fessed up already what they consider to be a violation.
Linux is an open OS; Microsoft will never open its operating that way for scrutiny. And so, people here rightly feel that SCO is trying to 'piss' in our backyard with some help from Microsoft.
I think future stories on Slashdot need to start calling patents by what they really are in practice. I'd lean towards something that better conveys to the public at large just what rights and privileges a patent confers to its owner.
I thought something like 'monopoly grant' would have a good ring.
I wish I could mod you up. Because the parent poster is basically saying: "what's the point of being honest?", with the obvious implication that only heavily intrusive technologies will force people to be honest in their purchases.
We've gone over add-nauseaum for years now all the reasons why many people might use P2P. It always boils down to the fact that the RIAA is an old dinausor that is incapable of adapting to consumer wishes.
Apple has an interesting service that makes a very decent step towards giving consumers what they want. Want an analysis? Answer this question then: What's more expensive? Something you'll pay for the privilege of using for the rest of your life, or something you'll buy once for a dollar.
In the end, these people just want gravy trains: products they can charge the consumer for over and over again without adding any new value. Hey, that sounds like taxes.
The point of private declarations was never to provide security. It was to get users of said code to access an object through a defined interface.
A program, as far as the OS is concerned, has legal access to its entire process address space. So, whilst it's true that the virtual machine might be able to control access to private members by code written to run on top the vm, that data is still in memory and can be accessed by anything that can bypass the memory manager in the virtual machine. A linked library written in your favorite natively-compiled language of choice fills this bill nicely.
In this case, the.NET manager does not completely protect private members. This is, at most, only ugly from a language purity sense. Probably it's a function of running natively through a jit compiler instead of on-top a VM.
Summary: these new virtual machines do a decent job of protecting private members, but nobody in their right mind should rely on the mechanism for security.
I've never had good experience with ATI. My last card from them was the horrendous 3d rage pro-- their drivers were hit and miss all the time and you had to wait what seemed eons for support of a new version of Windows.
Nvidia has always had rock solid drivers in my experience; and, for a while now, they've supported Linux with kick butt 3d drivers-- something ATI still can't to do.
I don't care what new shiny wonder ATI can render faster; their Windows drivers always disapointed me and they still don't support 3d on Linux. End of story. I'm sticking with nvidia when I upgrade-- it will be my fourth nvidia purchase. Treat your customers well(good drivers) and they come back for more.
Wha?!!! The cold war spawned at least two large scale wars and a plethora of endless small scale ones in which scores of humanity suffered immensely.
Your statement about Carter is absolutely absurd. First, the helicopters crashed because of a sandstorm. Second, in case you didn't notice, that happened during this last conflict too. The U.S. lost a number of helicopters directly or indirectly to the sands of the desert-- and in one case, the pilots were captured as well.
But I see from the rest of your comments that you're really just putting down spin.... My recommendation: stop basing your perspective of the world on what CNN tells you and open your eyes.
The best nuclear weapon shield will be hard put at defending itself against an attack that uses brute force to overcome it.
I couldn't believe my ears a few weeks ago when I heard Richard Perle making the amazing claim that the U.S. would always be safe having a shield because no other country in the world would ever have the technology/money to build one themselves.
It is an act of stupid arrogance to believe that the U.S. will always have superior technology compared to the other powers in the word-- I'm sure the Romans thought their military engines would protect them forever too.
Further, one only needs see how just how sensitive and volatile high tech has been in the last few years during times of economic difficulty. Our innovation is tightly tied to economic growth. In three years we've seen massive reversals in the tech industry. Is it not incomprehensibly foolish to fail to consider the possiblity that one day the U.S. won't be the world's bastion of growth or technological progress?
Indeed, the pillars of today's technology: IBM, Microsoft, Sun etc... already farm out technological work to 3rd world countries around the world-- ideed, the U.S. doesn't even manufacturer a large part of the electronic components it uses.
I despair that, even though the U.S. absolutely crushed an army once ranked 5th in the world, we're still getting told we need more military protection, more spending in weapons research, and a big shield to protect us from their nasty missles--- this when arms races have universally shown themselves to be precursors to major warfare throughout the history of mankind.
We don't need more military. We need competent politicians of principle and vision who can think beyond warfare to solve the problems of the world.
Overclocking is a decent measure of hardware stability. I know I regularly look at that data when comparing hardware in reviews.
It does say something about the potential reliability of a system if you can increase its clock by a good factor and not start to have system failures.
Console doom players are just gonna get so owned on public internet servers.. muahahaha...
Any experienced doomster playing behind a keyboard and mouse is going to just massively _destroy_ the kids playing with one of those piddly little joystick gamepad thingies..
We'll have to invent a whole new term for the cannon fodder they'll be to those playing behind a PC...... hrmmm... lessee.. how bout:
xbox krispies, nice and chewey and so easy to make...
RMFA: problems get fixed faster in open source. Don't like it? Not my problem. It's obvious you don't write software, otherwise you'd know that when it's debugged, you don't just read the code to solve the problem... but having the code to begin with is bloody indispensable.
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A software problem whose solution comes for free on a 64bit problem. Ergo my original post.
um... it's called recompiling.
/* time value */ /* time value */ /* avoid multiple def's of time_t */
time.h from Windows SDK
#ifndef _TIME_T_DEFINED
#ifdef _WIN64
typedef __int64 time_t;
#else
typedef _W64 long time_t;
#endif
#define _TIME_T_DEFINED
#endif
So where do you get your information?
64bit isn't just about greater than 2gigs memory either. The availability of 64bit machines, for instance, will permanently solve a lot of nigly little programming problems such as the reams of software that use time_t for time definitions.
Also, good filesystems already use 64bit addressing.
64bit will matter for graphics and video too in a big way: all your doubles will now nicely fit in a register which will make for much nicer machine code.
The ability, on the otherhand, to acquire a monopoly on an algorithm is demonstratedly detremental to innovation. There is a large body of software out there, for instance, that cannot implement functionality because of patent encumberance and the cost penalty incurred thereof.
Monopoly grants, because this is what patents are, are dangerous for many reasons. Prior to when they were opened up to a "free for all" the purpose of patents was to provide a means for bringing into the public domain -- real inventions -- whose creators otherwise would want to keep secret and never reveal.
What programmers need and already have is control over who can copy their code/product. Preventing the rest of the world from re-implementing any process or idea of something based on the debatable notion of who registered it first is a farce in any analysis.
Monopolies are bad for business, bad for the consumer, and bad for capitalism. The government has no business authorising them except in extreme/public-interest cases wherein they should also be closely regulated.
The Dell XPS (their new sexy alienware rip-off case maxed out machine) duked out with a gig of ram and 200gig ata drive comes in at ~600 hundred cheaper (canuck dollars in my test) than the apple-- and the Dell has a monitor.
However, this is compared to the DUAL G5 64bit with a GIG of RAM. Plus, I don't really need another monitor from Dell (already have a nice one). Dell would probably be cheaper if they didn't force me to buy Windows--have licence already/officeware(dido)/roxio and overpriced RAM).
This is good mojo all around.. I hope Apple sells them fast and well.... and gains some market share.
For those of us who play NWN on a practical daily basis and have enjoyed a ton of custom modules, we say a BIG THANKS...
I am exceptionally happy with the way the Linux client has evolved. Anybody bitching is either a Troll or clueless.
Signed: One happy Bioware customer and Linux user who is looking forward to getting his hands on Shadows of Undrentide.
You are a troll but I feel like biting.
What you describe is not limited to the GPL by any means. A BSD license would make no difference whatsoever. It all depends on whether a person/company contributing code to a project has properly evaluated the rights they possess to do so.
In fact, if you actually bothered to look, you'd realize that most patent/copyright violation lawsuits of the past have involved commercial software mainly.
This is why a firm would use software from a mainstream provider (IBM, Suse, Redhat) with a proper contract that contained provisions for such eventualities instead of just farming stuff themselves of the net.
The day just isn't the same without a UNIX related lawsuit.... lately I've been thinking the medieval witch test (the water drowning one) could easily find itself a new vocation in detecting corrupt lawyers.
so I can suitably reprogram my deviant brain. ... oh wait... I bought my copies of the matrix and die-hard from Walmart, false alert.
Nobody should be thinking for themselves and making informed consumer purchases, corporations should do this for us. Choice is for pinko commie capitalism terrorists who want to corrupt our holy-culture with reprobent and criminal infidel thoughts.
I use it to keep KDE up to date all the time. Freshrpms also keeps a lot of libs up to date for me too.
RH users should checkout http://freshrpms.net/
Assuming there actually is a violation, if they didn't think that the microsecond they identified 'real SCO code' in the kernel that it would immeadiately get yanked without affecting one iota the functionality of the kernel they'd have already publically fessed up already what they consider to be a violation.
Linux is an open OS; Microsoft will never open its operating that way for scrutiny. And so, people here rightly feel that SCO is trying to 'piss' in our backyard with some help from Microsoft.
I think future stories on Slashdot need to start calling patents by what they really are in practice. I'd lean towards something that better conveys to the public at large just what rights and privileges a patent confers to its owner.
I thought something like 'monopoly grant' would have a good ring.
This is the last release of the current browser. After this, they're doing moving to the new email and browser clients.
I wish I could mod you up. Because the parent poster is basically saying: "what's the point of being honest?", with the obvious implication that only heavily intrusive technologies will force people to be honest in their purchases.
We've gone over add-nauseaum for years now all the reasons why many people might use P2P. It always boils down to the fact that the RIAA is an old dinausor that is incapable of adapting to consumer wishes.
Apple has an interesting service that makes a very decent step towards giving consumers what they want. Want an analysis? Answer this question then: What's more expensive? Something you'll pay for the privilege of using for the rest of your life, or something you'll buy once for a dollar.
In the end, these people just want gravy trains: products they can charge the consumer for over and over again without adding any new value. Hey, that sounds like taxes.
The point of private declarations was never to provide security. It was to get users of said code to access an object through a defined interface.
.NET manager does not completely protect private members. This is, at most, only ugly from a language purity sense. Probably it's a function of running natively through a jit compiler instead of on-top a VM.
A program, as far as the OS is concerned, has legal access to its entire process address space. So, whilst it's true that the virtual machine might be able to control access to private members by code written to run on top the vm, that data is still in memory and can be accessed by anything that can bypass the memory manager in the virtual machine. A linked library written in your favorite natively-compiled language of choice fills this bill nicely.
In this case, the
Summary: these new virtual machines do a decent job of protecting private members, but nobody in their right mind should rely on the mechanism for security.
I'm not using them next year... got burned, got mad, walked. Plenty of other tax software thats cheaper and suits my simple needs.
I've never had good experience with ATI. My last card from them was the horrendous 3d rage pro-- their drivers were hit and miss all the time and you had to wait what seemed eons for support of a new version of Windows.
Nvidia has always had rock solid drivers in my experience; and, for a while now, they've supported Linux with kick butt 3d drivers-- something ATI still can't to do.
I don't care what new shiny wonder ATI can render faster; their Windows drivers always disapointed me and they still don't support 3d on Linux. End of story. I'm sticking with nvidia when I upgrade-- it will be my fourth nvidia purchase. Treat your customers well(good drivers) and they come back for more.
This is from the old PD/Sierra days of Middle Earth. When there was endless discussions about the pros/cons of PD.
#1: No more having to see naked people running around yellling "has anyone seen my body?"
Wha?!!! The cold war spawned at least two large scale wars and a plethora of endless small scale ones in which scores of humanity suffered immensely.
Your statement about Carter is absolutely absurd. First, the helicopters crashed because of a sandstorm. Second, in case you didn't notice, that happened during this last conflict too. The U.S. lost a number of helicopters directly or indirectly to the sands of the desert-- and in one case, the pilots were captured as well.
But I see from the rest of your comments that you're really just putting down spin.... My recommendation: stop basing your perspective of the world on what CNN tells you and open your eyes.
The best nuclear weapon shield will be hard put at defending itself against an attack that uses brute force to overcome it.
I couldn't believe my ears a few weeks ago when I heard Richard Perle making the amazing claim that the U.S. would always be safe having a shield because no other country in the world would ever have the technology/money to build one themselves.
It is an act of stupid arrogance to believe that the U.S. will always have superior technology compared to the other powers in the word-- I'm sure the Romans thought their military engines would protect them forever too.
Further, one only needs see how just how sensitive and volatile high tech has been in the last few years during times of economic difficulty. Our innovation is tightly tied to economic growth. In three years we've seen massive reversals in the tech industry. Is it not incomprehensibly foolish to fail to consider the possiblity that one day the U.S. won't be the world's bastion of growth or technological progress?
Indeed, the pillars of today's technology: IBM, Microsoft, Sun etc... already farm out technological work to 3rd world countries around the world-- ideed, the U.S. doesn't even manufacturer a large part of the electronic components it uses.
I despair that, even though the U.S. absolutely crushed an army once ranked 5th in the world, we're still getting told we need more military protection, more spending in weapons research, and a big shield to protect us from their nasty missles--- this when arms races have universally shown themselves to be precursors to major warfare throughout the history of mankind.
We don't need more military. We need competent politicians of principle and vision who can think beyond warfare to solve the problems of the world.
Overclocking is a decent measure of hardware stability. I know I regularly look at that data when comparing hardware in reviews.
It does say something about the potential reliability of a system if you can increase its clock by a good factor and not start to have system failures.
Console doom players are just gonna get so owned on public internet servers.. muahahaha...
Any experienced doomster playing behind a keyboard and mouse is going to just massively _destroy_ the kids playing with one of those piddly little joystick gamepad thingies..
We'll have to invent a whole new term for the cannon fodder they'll be to those playing behind a PC...... hrmmm... lessee.. how bout:
xbox krispies, nice and chewey and so easy to make...
RMFA: problems get fixed faster in open source. Don't like it? Not my problem.
It's obvious you don't write software, otherwise you'd know that when it's debugged, you don't just read the code to solve the problem... but having the code to begin with is bloody indispensable.
Try saying something relevant next time...
cause if it had been a problem with a Microsoft product we'd have to wait until actual exploits were in the wild to get a fix for it...
At least with open source people can't hide their crappy code behind a black box. Thats the point of open source.
Oh wait, you're a troll.. ah well you got modded up so thats that.
Installed flawlessly and took me about 15-20 minutes to copy stuff around. I've already logged countless hours playing my dwarf and monk....
I wonder how hard it would be to re-write their game editor in qt..
Thanks Bioware! My rebooting time has been drastically reduced.