Microsoft's the one that's lost a major anti-trust action...
True - and I was quite aware of that when I posted. Although regular/. readers are, not everyone is aware of Microsoftâ(TM)s modus operandi.
On another note, I have a good friend who works for Symbian, and he tells me that it only took Sendo a couple of months to get Symbian working fully on their hardware.
Everyone in the mobile phone arena is prepared for the ongoing commoditisation of hardware. The difference between Microsoft and Symbian is that MS is trying to repeat its PC strategy while Symbian is going for a cooperative approach with the majority of hardware manufacturers buying into the company.
Unlike Orange, the manufacturers are well aware of the threat that Microsoft poses.
Yes, but we're not talking about buying a TV from a dodgy bloke in a pub, we're talking about the worlds leading software producer. While the Slashdot crowd (myself included) despise MS, your average business man might be forgiven for assuming that they can partner with them without being exposed to dodgy IP practices.
Re:Why the emphasis on a polished desktop?
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What's wrong with the X protocol? XLib isn't ideal as an API, but that's why we have things like XCB.
"The first American dictionary was written by Noah Webster in 1828. At the time America was a relatively new country and Webster's particular contribution was to show that the region spoke a different dialect from Britain, and so he wrote a dictionary with many spellings differing from the standard. Many of these changes were initiated unilaterally by Webster.
Webster also argued for many "simplifications" to the idiomatic spelling of the period. Somewhat ironically, many, although not all, of his simplifications fell into common usage alongside the original versions, resulting in a situation even more confused than before.
Many words are shortened and differ from other versions of English. Words such as center are used instead of centre in other versions of English. And there are many, many other variations."
My prefernce would be to have the exit condition specified by a while statement. If there were many exit conditions I might set a flag, but I would strongly consider refactoring around it if pos. In certain situations I would even use a break, but I would consider the alternatives first.
I mentioned Dijkstras famous paper because a break can be thought of as being like a goto because it interrupts the flow of control inside loops. See: here
Hmm. You're quite correct. That is a standard way of implementing an infinite loop. That is not to say that breaking out of infinite loops is good practice however.
You may want to read up on a paradigm that's sweeping the software industry;) It's called structured programming: see Dijkstras Go To Statement Considered Harmful
That's silly. ARM's a clean and classic RISC architecture, and used extensively by embedded systems. Alpha is another good clean design, that was blazingly fast until Compaq killed it.
How on earth are they going to prove this. I can't imagine a judge going through the source code line by line: "What about this for loop on line 10285 of the Linux kernel - it uses an integer called 'i' just like UNIX does on line 7652. And look - there's a variable called 'temp'"
Check this out. The small Danish company that's designed it needs your input on which product to make next, so if you like the look of it, make sure you vote for it on the site.
Perhaps someone should tell Bush and the other neo-conservative crazies. It seems that the EU and the Euro may be more relevant than many people realise at the moment.
Scandinavian states have a history of social control, significant right-wing politics, and social repression of dissident groups. Just like us, in fact.
WTF are you talking about? Scandinavia's socialist if anything, and I've never heard of any "social repression of dissident groups". Get your facts straight before insulting other countries.
Re:Donald Knuth Has The Answer
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From Recreations in Mathematics, by H. E. Licks (Van Nostrand, 1917):
John W. Nystrom of Philadelphia devised about fifty years ago the
tonal system" of numeration
in which 16 is the base instead of 10 as in the decimal system.
The numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., were called An, De, Ti, Go, etc.,
and new characters were devised for 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
This system embraced also a new division of the year
into 16 months, these having the names Anuary, Debrian, Timander,
Gostus, Suvenary, Bylian, Ratamber, Mesidius, Nictorary, Kolumbian,
Husander, Victorius, Lamboary, Polian, Fylander, Tonborious,
the first two letters of each month being the names of the sixteen
numerals.
This is slightly inaccurate.
The figure 9 was used for 10, on the principle of making the digits
for 8 or greater look like those of their 16's complements written
upside down; and a new figure was devised for 9.
The name of 12 was Vy, not Vi; and I believe that the meth, nith, vyth, and
tonth months were named Mesudius, Nictoary, Vyctorius, and Tonborius.
The year began at the winter solstice, that being the Anth of Anuary.
Every month had tonra days except for Debrian, Gostus, and Lamboary,
which had only tonby, but Debrian had an extra day in leap years.
The powers of ton were: ton, san, mill, bong.
These could be used as prefixes to indicate multiplication
or as suffixes to indicate division.
For instance, the day was divided into ton (sixteen) tims,
a tim into ton timtons, and a timton into ton timsans.
Re:I've thought about this
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(I don't know why that got modded funny, but nevermind.)
"When you say A in hex it is not the alphabet A", this is a perfectly good point, but you don't go far enough. To do this properly, we really need new symbols for the hex numbers A to F too.
But then, we probably have too many characters for all sorts of things as it is, and hex is not in common enough usage for much effort to be invested in this.
I'm curious as to how the tiled interface in Windows 1.0 works. We've had discussions on/. before about tiling GUIs (talking mostly about window managers like Ion/larswm), but here's a commercial GUI that offered one as standard.
I want to know how it worked - how were windows moved/resized and where did new windows appear etc.
I never understood why Bush didn't call for a new general election after winning in such dubious circumstances. It would have been the only way to restore some sort of legitimacy to American politics.
So when can we expect the finished Linux port of Laser Squad Nemesis? I used to love the original Amiga version on my old A500, and am dying to get this on my Linux box.
...was actually the Scandinavian, Leif Ericsson, and he wasn't trying to get to India, but to lands reported to be to the west of Greenland. A viking colony called Vinland (due to the new lands wine-growing potential) was established, and lasted for some time before being wiped out by hostile natives.
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I've never met a Chinese man that said, "Hullo chap".
I've never head a Chinese man say "Yee Ha".
Funnily enough, living in England, I've never heard a real person say "Hullo chap". Perhaps 50 years ago I might have.
Microsoft's the one that's lost a major anti-trust action...
/. readers are, not everyone is aware of Microsoftâ(TM)s modus operandi.
True - and I was quite aware of that when I posted. Although regular
On another note, I have a good friend who works for Symbian, and he tells me that it only took Sendo a couple of months to get Symbian working fully on their hardware.
Everyone in the mobile phone arena is prepared for the ongoing commoditisation of hardware. The difference between Microsoft and Symbian is that MS is trying to repeat its PC strategy while Symbian is going for a cooperative approach with the majority of hardware manufacturers buying into the company.
Unlike Orange, the manufacturers are well aware of the threat that Microsoft poses.
No, it's a respectability thing.
Dodgy bloke in pub is not respectable, and most people would suspect that the TV was nicked or similar.
Worlds leading software producer SHOULD be respectable. A businessman would not expect to be buying "stolen goods" from them.
It was Microsoft XENIX originally wasn't it?
Yes, but we're not talking about buying a TV from a dodgy bloke in a pub, we're talking about the worlds leading software producer. While the Slashdot crowd (myself included) despise MS, your average business man might be forgiven for assuming that they can partner with them without being exposed to dodgy IP practices.
What's wrong with the X protocol? XLib isn't ideal as an API, but that's why we have things like XCB.
Old != Bad
Qvwm looks like Windows 95, while MLVWM looks like classic MacOS. There are lots of other nice window managers here
Just like the Amiga was. The demo scene's gonna love it.
Looked it up. (sigh)
"The first American dictionary was written by Noah Webster in 1828. At the time America was a relatively new country and Webster's particular contribution was to show that the region spoke a different dialect from Britain, and so he wrote a dictionary with many spellings differing from the standard. Many of these changes were initiated unilaterally by Webster.
Webster also argued for many "simplifications" to the idiomatic spelling of the period. Somewhat ironically, many, although not all, of his simplifications fell into common usage alongside the original versions, resulting in a situation even more confused than before.
Many words are shortened and differ from other versions of English. Words such as center are used instead of centre in other versions of English. And there are many, many other variations."
Heh, that reminds me - only two countries in the world have refused to sign the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Somalia and the United States.
You gotta love that Bush administration...
1.) People who use "arse" instead of "ass" are idiots.
Or perhaps they're just not American. You may not realise, but English is a common language in England too.
My prefernce would be to have the exit condition specified by a while statement. If there were many exit conditions I might set a flag, but I would strongly consider refactoring around it if pos. In certain situations I would even use a break, but I would consider the alternatives first.
I mentioned Dijkstras famous paper because a break can be thought of as being like a goto because it interrupts the flow of control inside loops. See: here
But really - this is all standard stuff.
Hmm. You're quite correct. That is a standard way of implementing an infinite loop. That is not to say that breaking out of infinite loops is good practice however.
;) It's called structured programming: see Dijkstras Go To Statement Considered Harmful
You may want to read up on a paradigm that's sweeping the software industry
For those of you who have a problem with Xlib, take a look at XCB which is a better API for the X protocol and is is smaller and nicer to code for.
When I get the time, I'm going to port WindowLab to it.
That's silly. ARM's a clean and classic RISC architecture, and used extensively by embedded systems. Alpha is another good clean design, that was blazingly fast until Compaq killed it.
How on earth are they going to prove this. I can't imagine a judge going through the source code line by line:
"What about this for loop on line 10285 of the Linux kernel - it uses an integer called 'i' just like UNIX does on line 7652. And look - there's a variable called 'temp'"
Check this out. The small Danish company that's designed it needs your input on which product to make next, so if you like the look of it, make sure you vote for it on the site.
Perhaps someone should tell Bush and the other neo-conservative crazies. It seems that the EU and the Euro may be more relevant than many people realise at the moment.
Scandinavian states have a history of social control, significant right-wing politics, and social repression of dissident groups. Just like us, in fact.
WTF are you talking about? Scandinavia's socialist if anything, and I've never heard of any "social repression of dissident groups". Get your facts straight before insulting other countries.
From Recreations in Mathematics, by H. E. Licks (Van Nostrand, 1917): This is slightly inaccurate. The figure 9 was used for 10, on the principle of making the digits for 8 or greater look like those of their 16's complements written upside down; and a new figure was devised for 9. The name of 12 was Vy, not Vi; and I believe that the meth, nith, vyth, and tonth months were named Mesudius, Nictoary, Vyctorius, and Tonborius.
The year began at the winter solstice, that being the Anth of Anuary. Every month had tonra days except for Debrian, Gostus, and Lamboary, which had only tonby, but Debrian had an extra day in leap years.
The powers of ton were: ton, san, mill, bong. These could be used as prefixes to indicate multiplication or as suffixes to indicate division. For instance, the day was divided into ton (sixteen) tims, a tim into ton timtons, and a timton into ton timsans.
(I don't know why that got modded funny, but nevermind.)
"When you say A in hex it is not the alphabet A", this is a perfectly good point, but you don't go far enough. To do this properly, we really need new symbols for the hex numbers A to F too.
But then, we probably have too many characters for all sorts of things as it is, and hex is not in common enough usage for much effort to be invested in this.
I'm curious as to how the tiled interface in Windows 1.0 works. We've had discussions on /. before about tiling GUIs (talking mostly about window managers like Ion/larswm), but here's a commercial GUI that offered one as standard.
I want to know how it worked - how were windows moved/resized and where did new windows appear etc.
I never understood why Bush didn't call for a new general election after winning in such dubious circumstances. It would have been the only way to restore some sort of legitimacy to American politics.
So when can we expect the finished Linux port of Laser Squad Nemesis? I used to love the original Amiga version on my old A500, and am dying to get this on my Linux box.
...was actually the Scandinavian, Leif Ericsson, and he wasn't trying to get to India, but to lands reported to be to the west of Greenland. A viking colony called Vinland (due to the new lands wine-growing potential) was established, and lasted for some time before being wiped out by hostile natives.