Took me a while to get used to, but that is the standard now according to w3, see this link. The upshot is that XHTML should all be in lowercase because it is based on XML (which is case-sensitive), and the DTD for XHTML is in lower case. I remember the days when most standards people wanted it in uppercase to look like SGML...
When I interned at MSFT in 1998, NT5 had ~52 million lines of code. It was probably more by the time it shipped as Win2K, thus a few million lines is less than 6%. Although the raw number is big, it is by no means a rewrite.
And in addition, its hard to use and generally annoying. They do win for having a website that looks more or less identical to some P2P sharing programs (notice there's even an order/download monitor window pane). I'd rather have a normal one that uses my screen size and scrollbar though.
Bleep claims to be the first to "provide high quality MP3s", which may be correct but is misleading. magnatude sells you FLAC files, which is CD quality and lets you make anything.
And how many Unix systems have ACLs with [b]dynamic[/b] inheritance?
Any *nix that supports AFS, which is pretty much all of them, including Linux. NT's entire security model is basically a copy of VMS, which many users didn't like due to its complexity (features & complexity tend to yield errors in applying it properly). That said, I like ACLs, but they're only really sorely needed on networked file systems, such as AFS.
Actually spirit is named as in "wines and spirits", for highly alcoholic beverages such as moonshine that helped make America great. Opportunity is named for what NASA scientists never had with girls while they were in school. But by naming the rover that it helps to make up for it.
The next two rovers we're planning on sending are "player" and "bacardi 151".
The problem is, this isn't really any better than filtering based on your address book (i.e. anyone in my address book is not a spammer). All the spam would be newly created identities and end up in the temp folder. It's better than nothing, but I don't want to wade through all the crap in temp to find new people that may have mailed me legitimately.
Go find out for yourself at The Great Computer Language Shootout. Although now a bit dated, it covers *way* more than this OSNews aritcle. They even have a page where you can wieght the various benchmarks here.
It's a real eye opener about supposedly "research" languages, and a great source of examples of how simple things are done in various languages. For me, in my work on Robotics/Vision/Graphics/Games, it told me what I already knew: C/C++ are the bomb (for what I do). If I ever start using a more featureful language, it will be OCaml (typcially, the feature sets of functional languages make the C/C++/Java and similar languages look like a joke. Only numerical speed saves C/C++, and only the vast libraries save Java.) The adjustable benchmark weights are great though, because they let you look at what *you* care about.
Realtime includes nearly all games, audio processing, video processing, operating systems, robotics. I think very few high-level language programs really replace something written in C/C++, but instead are just new applications that wouldn't have been written before. The percentage of C/C++ will go down, but I doubt the amount will.
BTW if you want real language features *and* speed I suggest OCaml. Functional languages make almost everything else look like a toy, and really demonstrate the way generics, higher order functions, etc should be done. I'm not a big MS fan, but their forthcoming F# has promise.
Is that perhaps the difference between version 1 and 2 of the GPL? Was version 2 a rewrite by Moglen, of a version 1 written by Stallman? Or were they both Moglen? Hopefully someone who knows the history can answer this...
Ok now we're getting somewhere. I agree its better, which is why I too use it on computers for things like directories. However I don't care at all if someone else uses a colloquial form. So we agree on the result, but disagree on whether its meaningful enough to warrant a campaign to change people. Have a nice day.
How is it "destructive provincialism" when a site hosted in North America with an article writen by a North American uses a date format common in North America? If this were a site in Europe I would expect it to be written in a European language, use a European date format, and use "," as the decimal separator, not "." like in the US. Are you going to attack Asia now for not using a Western alphabet? It has been shown that small alphabets are superior in terms of how long it takes to learn the written language, yet somehow I think its best to leave it up to them to decide rather than deriding them for it. Did you know that most Asian cultures break numbers into groups of 4, instead of groups of 3. 4 digits makes a hell of a lot more sense to me, not being a strange number occuring almost nowhere in nature. I think they can coexist, maybe the better one will win in the long run. But I don't see Japan demanding that Europe start grouping numbers in 4's. Why do you make similar demands?
There are a huge number of things across cultures that are just plain arbitrary, or nearly so. Measurement systems, formats, languages, customs, etc. Attacking and riddiculing someone for not being "like you" (using your favorite date format, running your favorite operating system) is really quite a bit more arrogant than someone using their own culture. Apparently the best way to get modded up around here however.
Thus I'll give it a try: I use Kelvin for all temperatures, anyone who uses Celsius (or god forbit, Farenheit) is an idiot, because their temperature system is not based on a universal zero, but random chemical or human constants. All temperature systems besides Kelvin belong in the past as they are demonstably inferior.
Finally, don't forget that Windows is the world standard, and everything else is minority crap.
It doesn't matter much, but it does matter. If you have a monitor w/ a higher than 60fps refresh, having a higner framerate decreases latency and creates better looking motion because our eyes can create the motion blur so animation looks smoother. If games calculated motion blur (they don't) then it would be moot.
The latency still makes a small difference in multiplayer however. Average human response time is 100ms, and if we change the video delay of 16ms (60FPS) down to 8ms (120FPS), that's like having a 7% better reaction time. Of course D3 is mostly aiming to be a single player game, so that won't matter too much.
You want us to die because we use a different date format? Isn't that a bit absurd?
Seriously YYYY-MM-DD is the only really agreed on format, and MM/DD/YYYY only gets the year out of place (its usually left off because it is normally obvious). DD/MM/YYYY, is just backwards; Nothing wrong with using it but I don't see the point in advocating it.
Ok, Quake was the first full 3D FPS that had lighting and physics that didn't suck. (Quake used lightmaps, Descent used Gouraud shading; Quake did contact physics, Descent didn't really handle that well).
Why do we even need the next one? By 2010 shouldn't we already have a base on Mars and be working on cybernetic warriors and opening actual portals to hell? (Or at the very least we should be witnessing a supernova on Jupiter caused by aliens that look like magnets)
It's been hard keeping it online because the government now has beams weapons that can penetrate not just aluminum foil hats, but aluminum server cases as well.
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Took me a while to get used to, but that is the standard now according to w3, see this link. The upshot is that XHTML should all be in lowercase because it is based on XML (which is case-sensitive), and the DTD for XHTML is in lower case. I remember the days when most standards people wanted it in uppercase to look like SGML...
When I interned at MSFT in 1998, NT5 had ~52 million lines of code. It was probably more by the time it shipped as Win2K, thus a few million lines is less than 6%. Although the raw number is big, it is by no means a rewrite.
And in addition, its hard to use and generally annoying. They do win for having a website that looks more or less identical to some P2P sharing programs (notice there's even an order/download monitor window pane). I'd rather have a normal one that uses my screen size and scrollbar though.
Bleep claims to be the first to "provide high quality MP3s", which may be correct but is misleading. magnatude sells you FLAC files, which is CD quality and lets you make anything.
It does match lunix though, which should keep Michael Robertson happy.
unix-based...
Shut up Darl! It's not a derivative work.
And how many Unix systems have ACLs with [b]dynamic[/b] inheritance?
Any *nix that supports AFS, which is pretty much all of them, including Linux. NT's entire security model is basically a copy of VMS, which many users didn't like due to its complexity (features & complexity tend to yield errors in applying it properly). That said, I like ACLs, but they're only really sorely needed on networked file systems, such as AFS.
Here's another good picture of some disturbed ground. I'm not sure if NASA has named it yet.
Actually spirit is named as in "wines and spirits", for highly alcoholic beverages such as moonshine that helped make America great. Opportunity is named for what NASA scientists never had with girls while they were in school. But by naming the rover that it helps to make up for it.
The next two rovers we're planning on sending are "player" and "bacardi 151".
The problem is, this isn't really any better than filtering based on your address book (i.e. anyone in my address book is not a spammer). All the spam would be newly created identities and end up in the temp folder. It's better than nothing, but I don't want to wade through all the crap in temp to find new people that may have mailed me legitimately.
Go find out for yourself at The Great Computer Language Shootout. Although now a bit dated, it covers *way* more than this OSNews aritcle. They even have a page where you can wieght the various benchmarks here.
It's a real eye opener about supposedly "research" languages, and a great source of examples of how simple things are done in various languages. For me, in my work on Robotics/Vision/Graphics/Games, it told me what I already knew: C/C++ are the bomb (for what I do). If I ever start using a more featureful language, it will be OCaml (typcially, the feature sets of functional languages make the C/C++/Java and similar languages look like a joke. Only numerical speed saves C/C++, and only the vast libraries save Java.) The adjustable benchmark weights are great though, because they let you look at what *you* care about.
Java3D, vs something like OpenGL.
...hard real-time/embedded domain...
Realtime includes nearly all games, audio processing, video processing, operating systems, robotics. I think very few high-level language programs really replace something written in C/C++, but instead are just new applications that wouldn't have been written before. The percentage of C/C++ will go down, but I doubt the amount will.
BTW if you want real language features *and* speed I suggest OCaml. Functional languages make almost everything else look like a toy, and really demonstrate the way generics, higher order functions, etc should be done. I'm not a big MS fan, but their forthcoming F# has promise.
But Postscript is Adobe's, and PDF is clearly just a derived work (at least in SCO-reasoning-land).
Is that perhaps the difference between version 1 and 2 of the GPL? Was version 2 a rewrite by Moglen, of a version 1 written by Stallman? Or were they both Moglen? Hopefully someone who knows the history can answer this...
Ok now we're getting somewhere. I agree its better, which is why I too use it on computers for things like directories. However I don't care at all if someone else uses a colloquial form. So we agree on the result, but disagree on whether its meaningful enough to warrant a campaign to change people. Have a nice day.
How is it "destructive provincialism" when a site hosted in North America with an article writen by a North American uses a date format common in North America? If this were a site in Europe I would expect it to be written in a European language, use a European date format, and use "," as the decimal separator, not "." like in the US. Are you going to attack Asia now for not using a Western alphabet? It has been shown that small alphabets are superior in terms of how long it takes to learn the written language, yet somehow I think its best to leave it up to them to decide rather than deriding them for it. Did you know that most Asian cultures break numbers into groups of 4, instead of groups of 3. 4 digits makes a hell of a lot more sense to me, not being a strange number occuring almost nowhere in nature. I think they can coexist, maybe the better one will win in the long run. But I don't see Japan demanding that Europe start grouping numbers in 4's. Why do you make similar demands?
There are a huge number of things across cultures that are just plain arbitrary, or nearly so. Measurement systems, formats, languages, customs, etc. Attacking and riddiculing someone for not being "like you" (using your favorite date format, running your favorite operating system) is really quite a bit more arrogant than someone using their own culture. Apparently the best way to get modded up around here however.
Thus I'll give it a try:
I use Kelvin for all temperatures, anyone who uses Celsius (or god forbit, Farenheit) is an idiot, because their temperature system is not based on a universal zero, but random chemical or human constants. All temperature systems besides Kelvin belong in the past as they are demonstably inferior.
Finally, don't forget that Windows is the world standard, and everything else is minority crap.
It doesn't matter much, but it does matter. If you have a monitor w/ a higher than 60fps refresh, having a higner framerate decreases latency and creates better looking motion because our eyes can create the motion blur so animation looks smoother. If games calculated motion blur (they don't) then it would be moot.
The latency still makes a small difference in multiplayer however. Average human response time is 100ms, and if we change the video delay of 16ms (60FPS) down to 8ms (120FPS), that's like having a 7% better reaction time. Of course D3 is mostly aiming to be a single player game, so that won't matter too much.
You want us to die because we use a different date format? Isn't that a bit absurd?
Seriously YYYY-MM-DD is the only really agreed on format, and MM/DD/YYYY only gets the year out of place (its usually left off because it is normally obvious). DD/MM/YYYY, is just backwards; Nothing wrong with using it but I don't see the point in advocating it.
Ok, Quake was the first full 3D FPS that had lighting and physics that didn't suck. (Quake used lightmaps, Descent used Gouraud shading; Quake did contact physics, Descent didn't really handle that well).
Why do we even need the next one? By 2010 shouldn't we already have a base on Mars and be working on cybernetic warriors and opening actual portals to hell? (Or at the very least we should be witnessing a supernova on Jupiter caused by aliens that look like magnets)
Upper level management is not very IT savvy.
In general, yes. However the Google founders/officers are technologically aware.
Wheres the one that looks like Tux?
right here.
It's been hard keeping it online because the government now has beams weapons that can penetrate not just aluminum foil hats, but aluminum server cases as well.
Does IBM offer a Linux desktop?
They don't offer one now, but I bet they will by 2005. One way to think of what IBM is doing is as an internal beta.
I'm not angry at all, but you seem to be. What part of "free flow of ideas" do you not understand?