Most BSD programs seem to compile OK, the biggest problem I've had is compiling anything that needs access to device drivers, in which case you need to rewrite the code for the IOKit. What I would do for a DEC network driver right now (tulip in Linux)...
The KKK, for example, is an extremist Christian group.
People who firebomb Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics are extremists, and most are also Christian.
Then there's Waco and other armed cults (peace through heavy artillery?).
I just talked to two Muslims (one from Pakistan and one from Bangladesh) today, and both think the US should attack Afghanistan, primarily to upend the Taliban. The picture they wanted me to see was the Taliban ruling Afghanistan is like if the an extreme KKK ran America. Women would not work, stay at home all the time, and not be entitled to an education, men would have to obey the KKK at all times or be beaten, imprisoned, or killed, and all non white people be killed or enslaved. All in the name of God.
Personally, I don't know what we should do, but the example my coworkers gave me is scary. I just hope the facts are enough to validate an attack, as if they aren't, we will be seen as attacking an innocent. In the Muslim world, that could have dire concequences.
I'd take it even one step further -
not only have they declared war on the USA, they've declared war on the people of the USA. These terrorists have attacked an ideology, a people, and not just a country itself. Their goals were not to aquire land or freedom, which is the cause for most wars, their goals were only to kill, and that's the greatest horror of all. I can think of nothing that has ever happened that has truely united the people of the United States, and to value all that they have, and that is merely from observations of the people around my office and the general outrage I've seen online.
amusingly enough, this will probably be what our first replicators are like - you make a cup with a 3D printer, then make the liquid by mixing atoms or molecules into what appears to be tea. What you really get is something without all the impurities you get with grown tea, so it won't taste the same... maybe not even close to the same.
um, NASA uses metric. The mars probe that crashed was developed by lockheed (I think) and they still use the Imperial system and forgot to convert to metric.
for that matter, most US science classes teach in metric (except for a few conversions, all of my Physics classes were in metric). Many US machined items are now metric, as well. Yesterday I was digging through a hardware store trying to find a screw that didn't use metric threads and of the dozen or so types that still exist, none fit. Had the faucet handle used metric threads, I had about 400 different types to choose from.
US measurements that haven't switched to metric are mostly the everyday ones - Height and Weight of people and grocery items, distances on highways, and temperatures. If I remember, the excuse in the 80s was that the switch was too hard for the everyday American, resulting in the stoppage of the conversion from the mandate by congress (ah, the Reagan years...). To me, that means that most Americans are idiots because they can't pick up a much easier system. Now if I can just separate myself from the rest of my countrymen:)
I wonder the same. I do know the browser sets the default homepage to an Excite@Home one, and I've found that some information is only available through that link from the Cable line where it is connected (ie, I can see it from home, but not from work, even though I have a username and password to log in).
I also wonder if they would declare Chapter 11 or something else. Chapter 11 is what Covad is doing, which basically erases their 1.3 billion debt and lets them keep running. I believe they have to prove they can make a profit without the debt to file chapter 11, and also that making a profit is unfeasable with the debt, which I don't believe Northpoint could do before they went under (but IANAL, so this is speculative). I'm not sure of where Rhythms is at, except that they're also in bankruptcy, and I've heard the situation is dire for them.
I think you're confused - OpenGL is controlled by a Standards Committee, which is why changes are so slow to come by. Tim Sweeney (of Unreal Tournament fame) cited this as the reason for switching entirely to Direct X and not supporting OpenGL. It's not that OpenGL is a worse API, it just was taking the Committee too long to get new features added to the API, where Microsoft was tacking new features on constantly (albeit haphazardly in some cases).
SGI does own and control the GL language, which maybe is what you're thinking (I did GL programming 8-10 years ago as well as some work with the fledgling OpenGL at that time). They do not control the OpenGL language, which is why Mesa exists. If someone made a Mesa for DirectX, Microsoft could sue them out of existence, where that is not the case with OpenGL (unless they call it OpenGL - the name is Trademarked, so they can only say they're OpenGL compatible). The spec is open to the public and the functions well defined. Microsoft has a closed spec, so they are free to change any part of it at any time, as well as are free to hide aspects of the API. The only way to make a compatible program to work with it is to reverse engineer the program, which is in violation of Microsoft's license (although many variables pop up at this point as to whether you can be held to that agreement - Fair Use, DMCA, Microsoft's Nigh-Invulernable Lawyers, etc).
Actually, Benchmarks of OpenGL versus DirectX are meaningful, because they both run on the same hardware. If your program runs faster in OpenGL, it has better OpenGL drivers for whatever functions that program is using and vice versa. Usually this boils down to whatever the card manufacturer spent the most time on.
Us MacLoonies are right, sometimes. My mac outperforms my PC on some tasks, whereas my PC decimates my mac at others. Speaking of useless benchmarks - the same program running on different hardware is a good place to find them. Optimizations and compilers mean everything in cross platform benchmarking, as well as pipeline depths, branch prediction, cache memory, whether hardware is accessed via hardware drivers or software (IDE that uses the processor to do drive access vs SCSI that handles that in hardware), etcetera.
Some of those seem pretty silly - Mac 7.5 - 7.6 really didn't add much, and neither did 9-9.1. Then again, who am I to talk, as I've only purchased two mac OS's ever - 8.6 when it came bundled with a new modem (upgrade from 7.5.5 and time to ditch my geoport softmodem) and X since it is a real OS and included 9.1 and can sorta run my network (if only there were a tulip driver...). To let my PCs talk on my network I need to reboot the mac into SuSe Linux due to lack of such a driver in X.
Hmm - I did purchase a copy of Win95 once - when I bought VirtualPC 1.0. Aside from that, I've never purchased a Windoze OS, they've always come bundled with my machines.
I take that back - VirtualPC's copy is an OEM hardware release, so technically, I've only gotten copies of Windoze with new machines:)
But macs are so easy to hack... for a long time I used the programmers key and 'es' to shut down Easy-something (Open? - the program the preceded Launcher, whose name I've forgotten). Later on in college I brought a jaz drive with a boot OS on it and rebooted the machines using Cont-Opt-Shift-Delete. I then systematically removed all the boot security on the Macs (Foolproof and sometimes the file replacer RevRDIST). College PCs were even easier when running Win 3.1 since they had DOS boot security, easily replacable from a clean version of DOS on a diskette. Win95 meant using a CD, diskette, and some generic CD drivers, but worked fine. Usually removing the security was trivial after getting open access. SGI was my UNIX of choice for a while due to ease of getting root, but I didn't have anywhere near as much luck on most flavors of UNIX (I discovered packet sniffers a few weeks before graduation, but really didn't do much hacking anymore).
but at least Tron and War Games had an excuse - in the early 80s -I- could hack into most systems, given some effort. Nowadays I'm lucky if I can hack into my desk drawer.
No, but it can restrict what it can be used WITH and its distrobution methods
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This doesn't restrict who uses it or even how they use it (note I didn't say Windows above), it just restricts the tools that can be used with it (which is what M$ is attacking anyway).
When I think back to Junior high, circa 1985, I remember hacking school computers like this kid did. I wasn't very successful, but a couple of friends of mine managed to crack into their Junior High's (different school) grade computer. One of them got caught, but I think he managed to not get suspended by explaining how he got in and had to give up all his computer priveledges at the school. The other one just laid low to avoid a similar fate. Both those guys cracked software and hacked for fun as well, but we did much less of it in High School because the one that got caught moved away and the other two of us got heavily into music and less into computers.
What would have destroyed me is the 10 day suspension - several of my classes had required attendance and you would lose a grade for every 3 days of unexcused absence (suspension counted as unexcused absence). That would mean the best possible grade I could achive would be a D - I can't even imagine what I would have done, but at that age I'm sure I would have "broke" mentally as grades meant everything to me back then.
bullets aren't steerable and they're still the most commonly used munition:)
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gamecenter disappeared because of the zdnet - cnet merger, not because of the banner ad fallout. The combined company decided not to run 2 websites on gaming, so dumped the gamecenter site.
That was, of course, according to the message posted at gamecenter on closing day, and could have been outright lies for all I know.
I can get quest and covad, but both are expensive for residential service, and offer lame packages. Gotta love Quest - they send fliers out saying Basic DSL $17.95/month (? not positive on that #), then on their web site say that package isn't available as it is being phased out (I have yet to find an area code where it IS available) and I need to get Deluxe service for $29.95/month not including ISP fees.
If I'm paying $30/month + $20-30 ISP for 640/128, then I damn well better be able to run servers and with Quest I can't. I'll bet Cable is smothering them in my area (digital 3Mb+) and yet they still don't change their rates. Quest actually claims they're being competitive with the industry! What a laugh!
Maybe you have local (regional) DSL providers, but I don't. My choices are Rhythms SDSL (starting at $110 for a 128/128 connection), or Quest and Covad at 640/128 but neither lets me run servers for less than $75/mo (that's the best I can find - with $500 for setup as well - most are $99 or more). I am 1 1/2 mile from one of the largest COs in my state, and that's what I can get. Northpoint gave me 784/384 SDSL and ADSL, so it's difficult to step down to slower speeds. Anyhow, if I can't run servers for a reasonable rate ($60/mo or less - I'm doing all the hosting work myself for cripes sake - they need to do NOTHING), I'd just as well get a digital cable connection at 3.5Mbits/sec peak.
The only consolation I have is that there is a rumor that another provider will be offering service in my area starting next month. The bad news is the DSL provider didn't want to mention their name, so I can't start researching them in advance.
I did get a semi-confirmation that MediaOne Cable will "Never ever offer a static IP or hosting." I can sort of understand, as they don't want to deal with all the kids running porn servers, but I think they underestimate the value of people just wanting to have their name in lights - ie, www.myname.com.
Having written some X-platform code, I'd be more than happy to see EITHER a library extension or additions to the main language, especially functionality many programmers now use - threads, for instance. I'd be even more happy if someone shoves it down Microsoft's throat. Microsoft is big on C++, but I doubt they'd take new extensions that only make it easier to make cross-platform coding since they lean heavily towards the proprietary side.
For that matter, the Windows Native Thread library was the only library that wasn't easy to implement - even old macOS with coop multitasking was easier to write (the function pointer actually molds well to pthreads, which I used for UNIX, but I needed to toss in a timer to give up the thread). MacOS X has pthreads (yah!) and Windows NT sort of supports them, but NT seems to work better with it's own different model of Windows threads.
That's just to implement a thread... and it sucked up about 4 days of time to get working at a very base level (creation, destruction, scheduling priority) on UNIX (Solaris and Linux), MacOS (pre X), Windows 98 and Win NT. Most of that time was learning the different thread models, not actually coding, but I had used pthreads before starting the project, so understood how they worked and what they did already. Had this been standardized, I could be done in 1 day, netting me 3 extra days for other work. Heck, just getting a few of the "semi-official libraries" standardized would help tremendously - so keep at it!
Traditional rockets are inefficient fuel wise as compared to space planes. Space planes create lower G forces in getting to and leaving orbit, which will allow more rich old men to go up. Most designs for space planes also don't require booster rockets to get them into orbit, so they are reusable almost immediately, unlike rockets or the space shuttle. Space planes can carry more payload for their size. What more can you ask?
In essence, any step towards space planes will be a step towards space colonization which (I feel) is a step in the right direction. What else do planets exist for if not for our amusement (look ma - I'm walking on Mars!:)
Record companies only exist to SCREW ARTISTS and make money off of them. They claim to be taking all the risk, but the only risk they take is if they forward money to the artist, which they can write off if they fail to make a profit. Artists, on the other hand, are expected to pay for the recording and distrobution, and get as little as a PENNY per record to pay back their debt. A few exceptions exist, but these are usually artists that have been around for a long time and reworked their contracts numerous times (read - sure things like Metallica)
Most artists make money with LIVE SHOWS, not records, so the RIAA is full of shit when they tell you they're protecting artists rights - they're just protecting big business and the record companies monopoly on music.
Ask yourself why huge recording artists like Limp Bizkit, Madonna, and Alanis Morissette support mp3s. It's an alternate, cheap distro method and it boosts support for their live shows where they make money.
Enough said.
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Most BSD programs seem to compile OK, the biggest problem I've had is compiling anything that needs access to device drivers, in which case you need to rewrite the code for the IOKit. What I would do for a DEC network driver right now (tulip in Linux)...
America has its extremists as well.
The KKK, for example, is an extremist Christian group.
People who firebomb Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics are extremists, and most are also Christian.
Then there's Waco and other armed cults (peace through heavy artillery?).
I just talked to two Muslims (one from Pakistan and one from Bangladesh) today, and both think the US should attack Afghanistan, primarily to upend the Taliban. The picture they wanted me to see was the Taliban ruling Afghanistan is like if the an extreme KKK ran America. Women would not work, stay at home all the time, and not be entitled to an education, men would have to obey the KKK at all times or be beaten, imprisoned, or killed, and all non white people be killed or enslaved. All in the name of God.
Personally, I don't know what we should do, but the example my coworkers gave me is scary. I just hope the facts are enough to validate an attack, as if they aren't, we will be seen as attacking an innocent. In the Muslim world, that could have dire concequences.
I'd take it even one step further -
not only have they declared war on the USA, they've declared war on the people of the USA. These terrorists have attacked an ideology, a people, and not just a country itself. Their goals were not to aquire land or freedom, which is the cause for most wars, their goals were only to kill, and that's the greatest horror of all. I can think of nothing that has ever happened that has truely united the people of the United States, and to value all that they have, and that is merely from observations of the people around my office and the general outrage I've seen online.
amusingly enough, this will probably be what our first replicators are like - you make a cup with a 3D printer, then make the liquid by mixing atoms or molecules into what appears to be tea. What you really get is something without all the impurities you get with grown tea, so it won't taste the same... maybe not even close to the same.
Mr Adams was psychic!
um, NASA uses metric. The mars probe that crashed was developed by lockheed (I think) and they still use the Imperial system and forgot to convert to metric.
:)
for that matter, most US science classes teach in metric (except for a few conversions, all of my Physics classes were in metric). Many US machined items are now metric, as well. Yesterday I was digging through a hardware store trying to find a screw that didn't use metric threads and of the dozen or so types that still exist, none fit. Had the faucet handle used metric threads, I had about 400 different types to choose from.
US measurements that haven't switched to metric are mostly the everyday ones - Height and Weight of people and grocery items, distances on highways, and temperatures. If I remember, the excuse in the 80s was that the switch was too hard for the everyday American, resulting in the stoppage of the conversion from the mandate by congress (ah, the Reagan years...). To me, that means that most Americans are idiots because they can't pick up a much easier system. Now if I can just separate myself from the rest of my countrymen
I also wonder if they would declare Chapter 11 or something else. Chapter 11 is what Covad is doing, which basically erases their 1.3 billion debt and lets them keep running. I believe they have to prove they can make a profit without the debt to file chapter 11, and also that making a profit is unfeasable with the debt, which I don't believe Northpoint could do before they went under (but IANAL, so this is speculative). I'm not sure of where Rhythms is at, except that they're also in bankruptcy, and I've heard the situation is dire for them.
SGI does own and control the GL language, which maybe is what you're thinking (I did GL programming 8-10 years ago as well as some work with the fledgling OpenGL at that time). They do not control the OpenGL language, which is why Mesa exists. If someone made a Mesa for DirectX, Microsoft could sue them out of existence, where that is not the case with OpenGL (unless they call it OpenGL - the name is Trademarked, so they can only say they're OpenGL compatible). The spec is open to the public and the functions well defined. Microsoft has a closed spec, so they are free to change any part of it at any time, as well as are free to hide aspects of the API. The only way to make a compatible program to work with it is to reverse engineer the program, which is in violation of Microsoft's license (although many variables pop up at this point as to whether you can be held to that agreement - Fair Use, DMCA, Microsoft's Nigh-Invulernable Lawyers, etc).
Actually, Benchmarks of OpenGL versus DirectX are meaningful, because they both run on the same hardware. If your program runs faster in OpenGL, it has better OpenGL drivers for whatever functions that program is using and vice versa. Usually this boils down to whatever the card manufacturer spent the most time on.
Us MacLoonies are right, sometimes. My mac outperforms my PC on some tasks, whereas my PC decimates my mac at others. Speaking of useless benchmarks - the same program running on different hardware is a good place to find them. Optimizations and compilers mean everything in cross platform benchmarking, as well as pipeline depths, branch prediction, cache memory, whether hardware is accessed via hardware drivers or software (IDE that uses the processor to do drive access vs SCSI that handles that in hardware), etcetera.
Jeez - my pentium always gave me the heat, but I forgot to beat on it! Thanks for the tip!
Hmm - I did purchase a copy of Win95 once - when I bought VirtualPC 1.0. Aside from that, I've never purchased a Windoze OS, they've always come bundled with my machines.
I take that back - VirtualPC's copy is an OEM hardware release, so technically, I've only gotten copies of Windoze with new machines :)
While they're at it, show some serious cylon poontang. Not so rough - I'm denting!
Oops - I meant Command Option Shift Delete. Silly me - I was thinking how bad the PC I'm typing on needs a boot and got confused :)
But macs are so easy to hack... for a long time I used the programmers key and 'es' to shut down Easy-something (Open? - the program the preceded Launcher, whose name I've forgotten). Later on in college I brought a jaz drive with a boot OS on it and rebooted the machines using Cont-Opt-Shift-Delete. I then systematically removed all the boot security on the Macs (Foolproof and sometimes the file replacer RevRDIST). College PCs were even easier when running Win 3.1 since they had DOS boot security, easily replacable from a clean version of DOS on a diskette. Win95 meant using a CD, diskette, and some generic CD drivers, but worked fine. Usually removing the security was trivial after getting open access. SGI was my UNIX of choice for a while due to ease of getting root, but I didn't have anywhere near as much luck on most flavors of UNIX (I discovered packet sniffers a few weeks before graduation, but really didn't do much hacking anymore).
but at least Tron and War Games had an excuse - in the early 80s -I- could hack into most systems, given some effort. Nowadays I'm lucky if I can hack into my desk drawer.
Hackers. Sneakers. any other 1 word title.
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This doesn't restrict who uses it or even how they use it (note I didn't say Windows above), it just restricts the tools that can be used with it (which is what M$ is attacking anyway).
What would have destroyed me is the 10 day suspension - several of my classes had required attendance and you would lose a grade for every 3 days of unexcused absence (suspension counted as unexcused absence). That would mean the best possible grade I could achive would be a D - I can't even imagine what I would have done, but at that age I'm sure I would have "broke" mentally as grades meant everything to me back then.
farewell Douglas Adams - hope you find the Universe as humorous as you made it to us!
bullets aren't steerable and they're still the most commonly used munition :)
That was, of course, according to the message posted at gamecenter on closing day, and could have been outright lies for all I know.
I can get quest and covad, but both are expensive for residential service, and offer lame packages. Gotta love Quest - they send fliers out saying Basic DSL $17.95/month (? not positive on that #), then on their web site say that package isn't available as it is being phased out (I have yet to find an area code where it IS available) and I need to get Deluxe service for $29.95/month not including ISP fees.
If I'm paying $30/month + $20-30 ISP for 640/128, then I damn well better be able to run servers and with Quest I can't. I'll bet Cable is smothering them in my area (digital 3Mb+) and yet they still don't change their rates. Quest actually claims they're being competitive with the industry! What a laugh!
The only consolation I have is that there is a rumor that another provider will be offering service in my area starting next month. The bad news is the DSL provider didn't want to mention their name, so I can't start researching them in advance.
I did get a semi-confirmation that MediaOne Cable will "Never ever offer a static IP or hosting." I can sort of understand, as they don't want to deal with all the kids running porn servers, but I think they underestimate the value of people just wanting to have their name in lights - ie, www.myname.com.
For that matter, the Windows Native Thread library was the only library that wasn't easy to implement - even old macOS with coop multitasking was easier to write (the function pointer actually molds well to pthreads, which I used for UNIX, but I needed to toss in a timer to give up the thread). MacOS X has pthreads (yah!) and Windows NT sort of supports them, but NT seems to work better with it's own different model of Windows threads.
That's just to implement a thread... and it sucked up about 4 days of time to get working at a very base level (creation, destruction, scheduling priority) on UNIX (Solaris and Linux), MacOS (pre X), Windows 98 and Win NT. Most of that time was learning the different thread models, not actually coding, but I had used pthreads before starting the project, so understood how they worked and what they did already. Had this been standardized, I could be done in 1 day, netting me 3 extra days for other work. Heck, just getting a few of the "semi-official libraries" standardized would help tremendously - so keep at it!
In essence, any step towards space planes will be a step towards space colonization which (I feel) is a step in the right direction. What else do planets exist for if not for our amusement (look ma - I'm walking on Mars! :)
Sorry guys - just testing structural integrity!
somebody is gonna take me seriously here... sad sick little puppies!
Record companies only exist to SCREW ARTISTS and make money off of them. They claim to be taking all the risk, but the only risk they take is if they forward money to the artist, which they can write off if they fail to make a profit. Artists, on the other hand, are expected to pay for the recording and distrobution, and get as little as a PENNY per record to pay back their debt. A few exceptions exist, but these are usually artists that have been around for a long time and reworked their contracts numerous times (read - sure things like Metallica)
Most artists make money with LIVE SHOWS, not records, so the RIAA is full of shit when they tell you they're protecting artists rights - they're just protecting big business and the record companies monopoly on music.
Ask yourself why huge recording artists like Limp Bizkit, Madonna, and Alanis Morissette support mp3s. It's an alternate, cheap distro method and it boosts support for their live shows where they make money.
Enough said.
Yeah, such as from Mac OS Rumors, Mac rumors, Apple Insider, or others (macsurfer, and macslash had links).