The only reason the USB mouse is less expensive is because of mass production. USB was initially expensive because few USB controllers were being produced. When fiber goes into huge commercial production, tranceivers will become cheap too. Economies of scale my friend...;-)
The second in from the legistative body, and they should ideally be influenced by public opinion.
So Congress should legalize Napster since obviously the majority of people want it and love it. Sorry your argument is totally off. Some legislation may be passed on behalf of the public on certain issues, but for the most part, legislation is there to protect people, not satisfy their whims.
I read an article about Freenet(print mag.), and the MPAA representative was quite sure that they could still track down infringers by IP address like they did with Gnutella. I immediately smiled knowing he was completely clueless about Freenet's architecture. That's gonna be an interesting battle when it comes.:-)
it's going to cost us well over a thousand dollars
Now print 1000 copies of that CD you just recorded, and lo and behold! the price per CD went from $1001 to $2 ($1 for the CD, and $1 by splitting the recording costs over the number of recordings produced). The more prints you make, the closer the costs approach $1 per CD. See? The recording companies make hundreds of thousands of prints for a popular album; for all intents and purposes, each CD costs them $1.
How would you feel if something you'd spent 6-months of your life creating was being given away free?
See Linux. Ten years free, and still going strong.
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Re:Take your foot out of your mouth.
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why you'd want to give that level of power and responsibility up to a corrupt, aeon-old second-hand deity is beyond me.
Why would you say something like that? I see a few problems with it: a) giving up what power? b) nowhere AFAIK, does it say you give up responsibility for your actions, c) corrupt deity? what are you talking about? where is this corruption? d) second-hand diety? The god of christianity is one of the oldest since it derives directly from Judaism, far predating Constantine.
I think you need a serious prejudice and fact review.
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The Great Computer Language Shootout!!!
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I highly recommend this page. The results aren't conclusive, but it's interesting nonetheless The Great Computer Language Shootout. They have ALOT of languages benchmarked.
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Re:Too similar to everything else?
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Too similar to everything else?
Just taking the header of your comment is enough explain why Ruby is good. It's supposed to be similar to other languages. It borrows from Perl, Python, C, Smalltalk, Sather, Java, you name it, and integrates it all into a clean package. It's supposed to be that way so you can just start working, and not have to fiddle with it to figure it out. It's simple enough that if you've programmed in ANY of those languages, you can pretty much sit down and read and code a ruby program without too much difficulty. The biggest deal are iterators(at least for me since I had never seen them before). Besides those, I understood everything right from the get go, and I'm no exceptional programmer.
IMO multiple inheritance is a terrible thing. In complicated projects it can lead to unpredictable, unforseeable behaviour.
Have you used Ruby? I'd wager that you haven't. Don't knock something till you try it, as they say. Saying you won't use Ruby because it doesn't have multiple inheritance is like saying you won't use Linux cause it doesn't have the same looking menu bars as Windows. It has a perfectly useable alternative, but you're just stuck in a certain mindset. Rubys' mix-ins are supposed to be exceptionally flexible.
By the way, multiple inheritance is not a requirement for a full Object Oriented programming language. Objective-C doesn't support it, are you gonna argue that it's not OO?
I've used it. Ruby is very good and very flexible. I picked up the language in no time. Very refreshing coming from a C and other supposed "OO languages" background.
Event the huge ones used for solar powered cars can barely power a blow drier.
Surprisingly, blow driers suck alot of power; 1500W in a pretty standard one. That's ALOT, more than some TV's, so powering a blow drier is no small feat. And I'm sure you know that TV's can most certainly electrocute you.;-)
But, why in God's name would you EVER want to run a webserver on MacOS? It's a single user, single address space, non-protected operating system. Only 50% of it is even native PPC code! The rest is emulated 68k. The only thing it has going for it is the fact that it's very secure(basically because it has no concept of ports, services or anything... everything has to be implemented manually). I've heard of WebTen but I'd be skeptical of any claims to that kind of speed.
No, no, no. You're not understanding the issue here. There are people contributing PPC patches and Linus is rejecting them. IIRC, he was saying the patches were too big. He wanted a number of smaller patches instead of one big patch. It's not a matter of developers not having PPC boxes because they do. Right now, there are a set of PPC developers maintaining their own tree.
Windows appears so much faster because it's had nearly 10 years of driver development/tweaking behind it. When was the first official NVidia driver released for Linux? Oh wait! It hasn't! The drivers are still beta! And even beta quality drivers come pretty damn close to Windows' performance.
Regardless if the software running the enbedded system is open or not, what's really important is how well it works and how likely it is to crash.
No that's not what's really important. While having a good product with those qualities is necessary you should remember the potential for embedded systems and what implications it has for every day life.
Embedded systems will (probably) one day be just about everywhere. You'll be carrying a personal digital assistant which will be in continuous communication with a host of services such as traffic control, weather stations etc. across the transparent wireless network that encompasses modern life. I'm sure you've heard of such visions of the future.
That all sounds fantastic and swell doesn't it? (despite the fact that it won't happen for awhile) But it raises a very important issue. Do you want a closed-source operating system to have control of every single facet of your existence? Do you want all of your personal data, all of your diary notes, family pictures, financial data, and location under the control and in the trust of a single company? Do you want to enter a world of transparent, ubiqitous computing not knowing what kind of backdoors or surveillance some corporate or government interest has built into your OS?
There is no other way to guarantee security and peace of mind but to have an open source operating system behind the scenes (by security I mean protection from malicious interests who would seek to pry into your life like the government or the company who would be tempted to sell your data). Sure the law forbids the government from spying on it's people, but we all know that the government will bend the rules for the sake of national security. Any other view is naive.
Your assertions of not caring what runs on your vacuum cleaner and lawn mower worry me for the reasons I've stated. Ya sure, your mower won't have network access(or will it?;-), but the most popular operating system will essentially become standard and will also run on the systems holding your private and personal data. This kind of ubiqitous computing world can be served best by open source software so if Microsoft is making something good, then we have to make something even better. Any other option does not look good for privacy and freedom.
And I had to get up early in the morning to milk the cows and feed the pigs and chickens. That's 4am for you little whipper snappers. None of this 6 or 7 as "getting up early" crap.
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and there isnt even a web server platform that runs on the mac!
Really? Then what's this? Oh, and how about this? And then there's this, and this! Don't forget this. And finally, there's this! Now I figure either you meant to say something else, or you just don't know what you're talking about. If it's the former, perhaps you should clarify. If the latter you just lost alot of credibility in my mind.
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The only reason the USB mouse is less expensive is because of mass production. USB was initially expensive because few USB controllers were being produced. When fiber goes into huge commercial production, tranceivers will become cheap too. Economies of scale my friend... ;-)
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The second in from the legistative body, and they should ideally be influenced by public opinion.
So Congress should legalize Napster since obviously the majority of people want it and love it. Sorry your argument is totally off. Some legislation may be passed on behalf of the public on certain issues, but for the most part, legislation is there to protect people, not satisfy their whims.
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Where do you guys find all this time?
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It wouldn't be violating the GPL unless they refused to give out the changes they made to someone who had purchased it.
;-)
But hell, if they did violate copyright, then I'll just get myself a free copy of Windows and everybody has what they want.
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I believe that's what Freenet does, and then some. Add encryption, untraceability, etc. and you have Freenet. ;-)
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I read an article about Freenet(print mag.), and the MPAA representative was quite sure that they could still track down infringers by IP address like they did with Gnutella. I immediately smiled knowing he was completely clueless about Freenet's architecture. That's gonna be an interesting battle when it comes. :-)
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it's going to cost us well over a thousand dollars
Now print 1000 copies of that CD you just recorded, and lo and behold! the price per CD went from $1001 to $2 ($1 for the CD, and $1 by splitting the recording costs over the number of recordings produced). The more prints you make, the closer the costs approach $1 per CD. See? The recording companies make hundreds of thousands of prints for a popular album; for all intents and purposes, each CD costs them $1.
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How would you feel if something you'd spent 6-months of your life creating was being given away free?
See Linux. Ten years free, and still going strong.
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why you'd want to give that level of power and responsibility up to a corrupt, aeon-old second-hand deity is beyond me.
Why would you say something like that? I see a few problems with it: a) giving up what power? b) nowhere AFAIK, does it say you give up responsibility for your actions, c) corrupt deity? what are you talking about? where is this corruption? d) second-hand diety? The god of christianity is one of the oldest since it derives directly from Judaism, far predating Constantine.
I think you need a serious prejudice and fact review.
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I highly recommend this page. The results aren't conclusive, but it's interesting nonetheless The Great Computer Language Shootout. They have ALOT of languages benchmarked.
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Too similar to everything else?
Just taking the header of your comment is enough explain why Ruby is good. It's supposed to be similar to other languages. It borrows from Perl, Python, C, Smalltalk, Sather, Java, you name it, and integrates it all into a clean package. It's supposed to be that way so you can just start working, and not have to fiddle with it to figure it out. It's simple enough that if you've programmed in ANY of those languages, you can pretty much sit down and read and code a ruby program without too much difficulty. The biggest deal are iterators(at least for me since I had never seen them before). Besides those, I understood everything right from the get go, and I'm no exceptional programmer.
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IMO multiple inheritance is a terrible thing. In complicated projects it can lead to unpredictable, unforseeable behaviour.
Have you used Ruby? I'd wager that you haven't. Don't knock something till you try it, as they say. Saying you won't use Ruby because it doesn't have multiple inheritance is like saying you won't use Linux cause it doesn't have the same looking menu bars as Windows. It has a perfectly useable alternative, but you're just stuck in a certain mindset. Rubys' mix-ins are supposed to be exceptionally flexible.
By the way, multiple inheritance is not a requirement for a full Object Oriented programming language. Objective-C doesn't support it, are you gonna argue that it's not OO?
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I've used it. Ruby is very good and very flexible. I picked up the language in no time. Very refreshing coming from a C and other supposed "OO languages" background.
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Mac OS 9.0 has no more than 60% native code. In any case, a large portion of the OS is still emulated.
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What about solar powered circus tents. Now that is a bright idea.
;-)
Are you trying to be clever? I almost missed that one.
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I believe Vitamin D is manufactured in your cells when exposed to sunlight.
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Event the huge ones used for solar powered cars can barely power a blow drier.
;-)
Surprisingly, blow driers suck alot of power; 1500W in a pretty standard one. That's ALOT, more than some TV's, so powering a blow drier is no small feat. And I'm sure you know that TV's can most certainly electrocute you.
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But, why in God's name would you EVER want to run a webserver on MacOS? It's a single user, single address space, non-protected operating system. Only 50% of it is even native PPC code! The rest is emulated 68k. The only thing it has going for it is the fact that it's very secure(basically because it has no concept of ports, services or anything... everything has to be implemented manually). I've heard of WebTen but I'd be skeptical of any claims to that kind of speed.
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No, no, no. You're not understanding the issue here. There are people contributing PPC patches and Linus is rejecting them. IIRC, he was saying the patches were too big. He wanted a number of smaller patches instead of one big patch. It's not a matter of developers not having PPC boxes because they do. Right now, there are a set of PPC developers maintaining their own tree.
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Windows appears so much faster because it's had nearly 10 years of driver development/tweaking behind it. When was the first official NVidia driver released for Linux? Oh wait! It hasn't! The drivers are still beta! And even beta quality drivers come pretty damn close to Windows' performance.
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Oooo that's cool. :-)
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Regardless if the software running the enbedded system is open or not, what's really important is how well it works and how likely it is to crash.
;-), but the most popular operating system will essentially become standard and will also run on the systems holding your private and personal data. This kind of ubiqitous computing world can be served best by open source software so if Microsoft is making something good, then we have to make something even better. Any other option does not look good for privacy and freedom.
No that's not what's really important. While having a good product with those qualities is necessary you should remember the potential for embedded systems and what implications it has for every day life.
Embedded systems will (probably) one day be just about everywhere. You'll be carrying a personal digital assistant which will be in continuous communication with a host of services such as traffic control, weather stations etc. across the transparent wireless network that encompasses modern life. I'm sure you've heard of such visions of the future.
That all sounds fantastic and swell doesn't it? (despite the fact that it won't happen for awhile) But it raises a very important issue. Do you want a closed-source operating system to have control of every single facet of your existence? Do you want all of your personal data, all of your diary notes, family pictures, financial data, and location under the control and in the trust of a single company? Do you want to enter a world of transparent, ubiqitous computing not knowing what kind of backdoors or surveillance some corporate or government interest has built into your OS?
There is no other way to guarantee security and peace of mind but to have an open source operating system behind the scenes (by security I mean protection from malicious interests who would seek to pry into your life like the government or the company who would be tempted to sell your data). Sure the law forbids the government from spying on it's people, but we all know that the government will bend the rules for the sake of national security. Any other view is naive.
Your assertions of not caring what runs on your vacuum cleaner and lawn mower worry me for the reasons I've stated. Ya sure, your mower won't have network access(or will it?
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And I had to get up early in the morning to milk the cows and feed the pigs and chickens. That's 4am for you little whipper snappers. None of this 6 or 7 as "getting up early" crap.
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and there isnt even a web server platform that runs on the mac!
Really? Then what's this? Oh, and how about this? And then there's this, and this! Don't forget this. And finally, there's this! Now I figure either you meant to say something else, or you just don't know what you're talking about. If it's the former, perhaps you should clarify. If the latter you just lost alot of credibility in my mind.
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On your hands and knees. On sharp icy hills mind you... ;-)
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