For me, the tiny number of Ada libraries that I can use is a big problem. I don't have time to rewrite everything and I'm not working on a defence or aerospace contract. Is there *any* open source Ada code somewhere ? apart from GNAT ?
1- The Japanese society is getting older: fewer kids, fewer graduates, fewer engineers.
2- Regarding the similar situation in America (or Europe) : in constant dollars, average hourly revenue has barely risen since the early 80s. Consequently people have chosen careers that pay better than engineering.
The problem is that without engineers the future of our technically-dependent society is at stake. The solution is simple in theory but hard to implement in practice, and not instant: Japan should open their borders to immigrants, start making more babies, and everywhere in the developed world Engineering should be a prestigious career path again.
This is not quite correct. With SELinux, the vendor can define precise roles for all the system daemons for instance. This definitely improves security because even if a buffer overflow is discovered in one of them, if they are barred from interacting with the filesystem for instance, the security breach cannot be exploited so easily.
This should not forbid users to interact with the daemon in the way it was designed to work, in fact this should be totally transparent.
Agreed, I have SELinux fully on with F8, I do notice a few messages from time to time, which I usually correct following the instruction given by SETroubleshoot, and all is well so far.
I'm not positive my system is any more secure than if it were off, but at least I don't get angry and dismissive about it.
I, like many, have a problem if cameras are used as surveillance tools, i.e. watching in real time what people are doing, either automatically or in a supervised fashion.
However I have fewer problems with cameras being used in a forensic context, i.e their data is analysed if a crime was committed and we want to catch the culprits, given the existence of a criminal investigation and strict guidelines being followed.
Now I absolutely hate people who illegally let their dog poop in the middle of the street, but I don't think these cameras who were installed for a loftier purpose should be used to catch them.
Yup - Iâ(TM)m now done porting Quake III Arena to managed C++ with Visual Studio 2008/v9.0 and.NET v3.5. My apologies to the guys on my private email list for getting this post out a week late. I ran into massive problems getting the Release build to work, even though there was no difference between its configuration and the Debug build (the latter of which has been working perfectly for two weeks now). Turned out to be one of those, âoeâ¦damn it! How could I have been so stupid?!â problems/solutions. The Release build doesnâ(TM)t look in the same directory for DLLâ(TM)s as the Debug build.
Before I begin explaining the port, Iâ(TM)d like to clarify one thing. Someone emailed me last week regarding this port and judging from his/her message it led me to believe that some people donâ(TM)t understand the difference between a.NET port versus simply compiling a C++ application with MSVC++ 2008. Hereâ(TM)s the difference: taking the Quake III codebase and making the changes necessary so that it will compile with Visual Studio 2008 is not a.NET MC++ port. That is a C port to a different compiler. Yes, C not C++; the project files included in Id Softwareâ(TM)s codebase are all set to compile as native C. Furthermore, changing the settings to compile everything as C++, then fixing 3,000 compile errors, is also not, I repeat not, a.NET port. That is a native C++ port of Quake III to a different compiler. Lastly, taking the former C++ build I just mentioned, turning on the âoe/clrâ Visual Studio option, fixing 28,000 compile errors with 4,000 warnings, patching all managed to native calls such that the first run doesnâ(TM)t âoeblue-screenâ your machine, and finally doing everything else necessary to be able to view the EXE with its supporting DLLâ(TM)s under ILDASM (the.NET CLR disassembler), now THAT is a.NET port!;-)
Anyway, 99% percent of this port gets compiled into IL / CLR bytecode. The exception is a few small functions which contain inline x86 assembly. Obviously I canâ(TM)t do anything about those. Now letâ(TM)s get into the detailsâ¦
Yes Brussels can and does control several aspects of EU countries. For one there is the monetary policy, the EU borders controls policy, vast funding issues and much more which are all out of EU member's control.
Moreover Brussels votes on directive which must, by treaty, be implemented in individual members' law.
Brussels has a lot of power, but Europe is still not a single country, it is still a supra-national entity, with as yet no constitution.
Traditionnally year 2000 is counted as being the last year of the 20th century. The first year of the 21st century is year 2001. This is due to the fact that there were no year zero, and so the first century went from year one to year 100, and so forth.
Re: between fink and macport, the choice is easy: neither.
Fink is essentially not being maintained actively. I'm on the developer mailing list, I receive maybe 10 mails a day. The software in the repository is very much out of date. I also have terrible experience with missing packages.
MacPort is for those who have a spare Mac to do their compiling on. I don't have that. Ever tried compiling the Gnome or KDE libraries? I've done my share of 24h compiling stretches when X11 was young, I thought we had moved beyond that, but no, apparently.
So when I need something non trivial like a new version of emacs or TeX, this is scouring the net time and searching for a precompiled version somewhere. Thanks to everyone who provide them!
This is why I have a spare Linux machine, which costs less than a mac, for these times when I need new software not yet available.
For F/OSS, Apple Macs are a second class citizen, simple as that.
Oh yes, recompiling non-trivial packages like Inkscape, with the *whole* of the Gnome libraries, boost and so forth is so like my idea of fun.
Macports may be good, but if you know a binary repository that would be useful, thanks. When I need a new piece of software I usually need it right now, not in 3 days time when the compilation is all finished. I also need the rest of my computer in the mean time, not some kind of thrashing piece of hardware in the midst of a pointless recompilation frenzy.
Macport is a huge PITA. what's the point of making *everyone* recompile the exact same piece of software?
Really some of the rest of the world is fairly civilized, you know. The US is the only western country with capital punishment, so your argument doesn't stand.
The newsletter of the EMS the Find announcement talks about is dated June 2007, so this no recent debate:-)
Besides, I believe a lot of maths is invented, but simultaneously the vast majority of it is discovered : Invention first (maybe), then lots of discoveries pertaining to this invention. Sometime the invention is simply an idealisation of the known world.
For instance, in the same issue of the EMS is the announcement that Stephen Smale was a co-recipient of the 2007 Wolf Prize (major prize in math). He is famous for many things, one of which was a proof that the standard sphere can be pulled inside out while remaining in standard space, without tearing or creasing.
There are many illustrations of the phenomenon, one of which is called "outside in" found on google video.
Inasmuch as a sphere is an abstract, "invented objet", the process of eversion, as it is called, a feature of 3-space topology, is definitely a discovered phenomenon.
In another instance, if one will, one could call natural numbers an invention, however a pretty natural one (eh). All the number theory results are however discoveries of properties of the natural numbers.
Is it gas or Diesel fuel? With Diesel you can simply use things like used cooking oil directly (after simple filtering). With gas, it's more refined (pun intended).
It also took me ages to become proficient and productive under OS/X after Linux.
- On the same or hardware Linux is much more efficient, memory-wise and HDD-wise - Most of the stuff I run is F/OSS. It runs better with Linux, particularly resource=intensive software like OpenOffice. - All the F/OSS software on OS/X is a couple of versions behind. - Apple' X11 implementation is not good. - The NVIDIA drivers are much much better under Linux. Actually there are no independent NVIDIA drivers under OS/X. Apple does it all, not so well. - Non-standard tools (Netinfo, WTF?). I could go on.
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For me, the tiny number of Ada libraries that I can use is a big problem. I don't have time to rewrite everything and I'm not working on a defence or aerospace contract. Is there *any* open source Ada code somewhere ? apart from GNAT ?
1- The Japanese society is getting older: fewer kids, fewer graduates, fewer engineers.
2- Regarding the similar situation in America (or Europe) : in constant dollars, average hourly revenue has barely risen since the early 80s. Consequently people have chosen careers that pay better than engineering.
The problem is that without engineers the future of our technically-dependent society is at stake. The solution is simple in theory but hard to implement in practice, and not instant: Japan should open their borders to immigrants, start making more babies, and everywhere in the developed world Engineering should be a prestigious career path again.
This is not quite correct. With SELinux, the vendor can define precise roles for all the system daemons for instance. This definitely improves security because even if a buffer overflow is discovered in one of them, if they are barred from interacting with the filesystem for instance, the security breach cannot be exploited so easily.
This should not forbid users to interact with the daemon in the way it was designed to work, in fact this should be totally transparent.
Yes, correct, but they are not being used by default, in particular in the common configuration where the default user is also the administrator :-(
Agreed, I have SELinux fully on with F8, I do notice a few messages from time to time, which I usually correct following the instruction given by SETroubleshoot, and all is well so far.
I'm not positive my system is any more secure than if it were off, but at least I don't get angry and dismissive about it.
Hello,
I, like many, have a problem if cameras are used as surveillance tools, i.e. watching in real time what people are doing, either automatically or in a supervised fashion.
However I have fewer problems with cameras being used in a forensic context, i.e their data is analysed if a crime was committed and we want to catch the culprits, given the existence of a criminal investigation and strict guidelines being followed.
Now I absolutely hate people who illegally let their dog poop in the middle of the street, but I don't think these cameras who were installed for a loftier purpose should be used to catch them.
Apparently it's a little more involved than that
Yes you are right. For the longest time Linux missed really important stuff like POSIX IPC, and still does it klunkily.
Actually they offered $33 per share, which amounts to $47.5 billions. Yahoo wanted $53 billions, the greedy bastards.
Yes Brussels can and does control several aspects of EU countries. For one there is the monetary policy, the EU borders controls policy, vast funding issues and much more which are all out of EU member's control.
Moreover Brussels votes on directive which must, by treaty, be implemented in individual members' law.
Brussels has a lot of power, but Europe is still not a single country, it is still a supra-national entity, with as yet no constitution.
Traditionnally year 2000 is counted as being the last year of the 20th century. The first year of the 21st century is year 2001. This is due to the fact that there were no year zero, and so the first century went from year one to year 100, and so forth.
Do you have any reference for that or are you making it up ?
yes they did in this particular instance, but not every piece of software in Macport is available as binary.
should have said : slower than internal disks.
I think you missed the OpenGL benchmark. The macbook got owned by a factor of 7, not 2.
Firewire drives are more expensive and slower, speaking from experience.
Re: between fink and macport, the choice is easy: neither.
Fink is essentially not being maintained actively. I'm on the developer mailing list, I receive maybe 10 mails a day. The software in the repository is very much out of date. I also have terrible experience with missing packages.
MacPort is for those who have a spare Mac to do their compiling on. I don't have that. Ever tried compiling the Gnome or KDE libraries? I've done my share of 24h compiling stretches when X11 was young, I thought we had moved beyond that, but no, apparently.
So when I need something non trivial like a new version of emacs or TeX, this is scouring the net time and searching for a precompiled version somewhere. Thanks to everyone who provide them!
This is why I have a spare Linux machine, which costs less than a mac, for these times when I need new software not yet available.
For F/OSS, Apple Macs are a second class citizen, simple as that.
Oh yes, recompiling non-trivial packages like Inkscape, with the *whole* of the Gnome libraries, boost and so forth is so like my idea of fun.
Macports may be good, but if you know a binary repository that would be useful, thanks. When I need a new piece of software I usually need it right now, not in 3 days time when the compilation is all finished. I also need the rest of my computer in the mean time, not some kind of thrashing piece of hardware in the midst of a pointless recompilation frenzy.
Macport is a huge PITA. what's the point of making *everyone* recompile the exact same piece of software?
Really some of the rest of the world is fairly civilized, you know. The US is the only western country with capital punishment, so your argument doesn't stand.
The newsletter of the EMS the Find announcement talks about is dated June 2007, so this no recent debate :-)
Besides, I believe a lot of maths is invented, but simultaneously the vast majority of it is discovered : Invention first (maybe), then lots of discoveries pertaining to this invention. Sometime the invention is simply an idealisation of the known world.
For instance, in the same issue of the EMS is the announcement that Stephen Smale was a co-recipient of the 2007 Wolf Prize (major prize in math). He is famous for many things, one of which was a proof that the standard sphere can be pulled inside out while remaining in standard space, without tearing or creasing.
There are many illustrations of the phenomenon, one of which is called "outside in" found on google video.
Inasmuch as a sphere is an abstract, "invented objet", the process of eversion, as it is called, a feature of 3-space topology, is definitely a discovered phenomenon.
In another instance, if one will, one could call natural numbers an invention, however a pretty natural one (eh). All the number theory results are however discoveries of properties of the natural numbers.
Is it gas or Diesel fuel? With Diesel you can simply use things like used cooking oil directly (after simple filtering). With gas, it's more refined (pun intended).
It also took me ages to become proficient and productive under OS/X after Linux.
- On the same or hardware Linux is much more efficient, memory-wise and HDD-wise
- Most of the stuff I run is F/OSS. It runs better with Linux, particularly resource=intensive software like OpenOffice.
- All the F/OSS software on OS/X is a couple of versions behind.
- Apple' X11 implementation is not good.
- The NVIDIA drivers are much much better under Linux. Actually there are no independent NVIDIA drivers under OS/X. Apple does it all, not so well.
- Non-standard tools (Netinfo, WTF?). I could go on.
Thanks, this was very enlightening. Hopefully your sight will return shortly. All the best.
Actually lots of Asimov stories revolve around robots weaseling out of one of the three laws.
Out of curiosity, how did you develop that bubble ?
Starship trooper, the movie, was a satire of western society. As such it works extremely well.
:-)
Starship troopers, the book, is a to me a horrible, militaristic piece of drivel.
Each to their own