By dictator standards it was.. Compare with Stalin, Hitler and Sadam, just to pick a few at random.
When comparing dictators you cant look at the amóunt of violence, since it is needed to protect the regime. You can only look at what state they left the country in.
But you are right: If this man loves order so much, he would have loved facisime.
Not any longer, with icc 6 the margin is now the same on x86 as on most platforms. Ofcouse the largest margin is on the alpha platform where cxx outperforms gcc by 4x til 5x on floatingpoint and 2x-3x on integer. Ouch!
It is common rules of leadership. Only other potential leaders will distrust your guidance, and if you can shout louder than they can, no one will hear them object.
All in all most people do what they are told, and Microsoft tells them to pay
I believe icc are closer the C++ ABI, or maybe gcc-3.1 are just more open about their non-complience.
Also there is C++ ABI for sparc/solaris. Atleast Sun's CC compiler supports it. Since their compiler also works x86, they might even generate x86 C++ ABI stuff. (this created a incompatiblity between version 4 and version 5)
Next experiment: try to link solaris-x86 and intel-icc code.
That sounds like a rather uninformed argument, or maybe the american states have too many bad excuses?
In Denmark the phone system was sold to a private company some years ago, and they are still locked into the government rule that a connection cost the same no matter where your live. This means if you live on an almost desert island, you can have a boat pull a cable to your island all the way to your wall plug for the same 200$ cost as everyone else.
Remember the value of a phone system increase with availability, the same would be true for internet. Therefore it should be available to everyone at the same cost, but that requires government intervention.
It is same arguments that go for power-nets, bus-net and road-nets. They are only truly usefull when they go everywhere and only the government can make them so.
I am getting 1000Base-LX soon (or is it SX?) It can be run over 2km, and the "college compus"(student homes) is only 1x0.5km. The network-card only cost 200$:), but the expensive part are the goddamn switches (they cost 500$ per port).
No ofcouse we have censors. Anything else would be absurd, and the censors always agree with me.
I think you underestimate the time wasted with typesetting in word, and underestimate the professional results you get from LaTex.
I have just recieved my first 10 reports this year from a "write your kernel" project. Only one of these looks like is written in word. And I am failing it, not because it is ugly, but because the group has no real design discusions nor a working kernel.
But remember students who use Word scores lower grades. 1. They spend more time page-setting. 2. It looks like crap anyway, and crap looks unprofesional;-) 3. They show a completely lack of time-priority, this is usually evident everywhere as well in their report.
I work as teacher assistend and I usually dump reports written in Word. Although never because they are written in Word, but because they suck!
The turing machine has an infinite number of states. But you are right in limited state machine(n) it IS possible to solve the halting problem. It just cant be done with machine itself, it only requires another machine with the factorial(n!) number of states;-)
Gcc 3.1 is already way more stable than gcc 3.0.4, and the gcc 3.0 series has been promised never to work, since the bug fix is to large for a stable release and is basically called 3.1:-)
Btw. gcc-3.1 has already branched in the gcc cvs. So check-out gcc-3_1-branch
The problem with the "halting problem" is there for turing machines in case there exists are halting function can be written functions that are self-contradictions. Example:
if I dont return => return if I return => goto infinite loop
Thus the halting function with a boolean return-value, is not just impossible to compute, it also has an incomplete definition. The solution is ofcouse to extend it and allow additional return values. One extention could be to have an extra "I have self-contradiction" value, but that leads to new problems.
More interesting for quantum computers is the possibility for bools to have the value true AND false, and neither true nor false. That would solve the above problem, but would like the Schrödinger cat, be a little too wierd for most people to swallow.
It is calles subpixel rendering, I have tried it on an CRT screen as well. It looks like you said amazing, but I turned it off once I got tired of the red/green edges. (yes, they are there as well in windows. How do I know? thats how it works!)
The really funny thing is that Microsoft had to promise the german parliament Windows NE.. That gotta be Windows Next-Edition. OTOH if they meant Windows Me, I am scared. Really scared.
Ehrm no.. The US didnt support anyone during the war, even the UK paid for ALL! the hardware they "recieved" from the US. It wasnt until after the war, the americans realised they had bled the europeans so much they were unable to buy americans goods.
SML is also a special case. It is not as good to lex data as perl, but it is the supreme ruler in parsing data. (this is from someone who has writen several compilers in SML)
But you need to get the data to C to do anything usefull with it in most cases anyway.
What is "OS-level" about an ftp daemon? BIND? Mozilla? Gnutella?
The need to parse data. All languages except perhaps perl needs preatty lowlevel stuff to do this right. In C and C++ you both need control of the datastructure representation and control-code. In other words you end up doing bitfiddling and programming with gotos.
Actually the cool thing is that gcc-3.1 already compiles aRts aswell, although it cant handle kdebase. I have compiled arts with the new -mfpmath=sse, this replaces all x87-code with sse AFAIK.
So very true. All except one thing, you say they wouldnt outrigth kill disidents. They actually do this, China is the place in the world that has the second most executions after Texas, one of the way fill the ranks of comdemned is to execute anyone who speaks up against the govenment. It makes you wonder how Texas manages to kill more people than a country almost a 100 times bigger.
Actually the X-protocol is cool in how extensible it is, this has been it's strength and survival, just it has been OpenGLs. They have ended up with the same problem: Too many extensions.
OpenGL is doing the rigth thing with the new OpenGL2. All we need is to define a new basis that incorperates all the standard extensions such shape, render and many others. But who is the company behind to push a X12?
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By dictator standards it was.. Compare with Stalin, Hitler and Sadam, just to pick a few at random.
When comparing dictators you cant look at the amóunt of violence, since it is needed to protect the regime. You can only look at what state they left the country in.
But you are right: If this man loves order so much, he would have loved facisime.
Not any longer, with icc 6 the margin is now the same on x86 as on most platforms.
Ofcouse the largest margin is on the alpha platform where cxx outperforms gcc by 4x til 5x on floatingpoint and 2x-3x on integer. Ouch!
It's a chip. Even the expensive ones doesnt even cost 10$ to produce.
The expensive part is development.
Personally I think Microsoft is earning a little a every box, but not enough to cover the development efford. Only the gamesale might do that.
It is common rules of leadership. Only other potential leaders will distrust your guidance, and if you can shout louder than they can, no one will hear them object.
All in all most people do what they are told, and Microsoft tells them to pay
It links allright, but work is does not!
I believe icc are closer the C++ ABI, or maybe gcc-3.1 are just more open about their non-complience.
Also there is C++ ABI for sparc/solaris. Atleast Sun's CC compiler supports it. Since their compiler also works x86, they might even generate x86 C++ ABI stuff. (this created a incompatiblity between version 4 and version 5)
Next experiment: try to link solaris-x86 and intel-icc code.
It's a hint. Although you should have figured it out when reading the the list of pros.
;-)
He's Karma Whoring Troll, but a good one
These cats are not even dead, they put airholes in the glass-tubes!
Damn, and I though MY apartment was cramed.
Never.. Shrink wrapping has been proven time and again not to stand in court. They mean ABSOLUTELY nothing.
Its just FUD.
That sounds like a rather uninformed argument, or maybe the american states have too many bad excuses?
In Denmark the phone system was sold to a private company some years ago, and they are still locked into the government rule that a connection cost the same no matter where your live. This means if you live on an almost desert island, you can have a boat pull a cable to your island all the way to your wall plug for the same 200$ cost as everyone else.
Remember the value of a phone system increase with availability, the same would be true for internet. Therefore it should be available to everyone at the same cost, but that requires government intervention.
It is same arguments that go for power-nets, bus-net and road-nets. They are only truly usefull when they go everywhere and only the government can make them so.
I am getting 1000Base-LX soon (or is it SX?) It can be run over 2km, and the "college compus"(student homes) is only 1x0.5km. The network-card only cost 200$ :), but the expensive part are the goddamn switches (they cost 500$ per port).
No ofcouse we have censors. Anything else would be absurd, and the censors always agree with me.
I think you underestimate the time wasted with typesetting in word, and underestimate the professional results you get from LaTex.
I have just recieved my first 10 reports this year from a "write your kernel" project. Only one of these looks like is written in word. And I am failing it, not because it is ugly, but because the group has no real design discusions nor a working kernel.
But remember students who use Word scores lower grades. ;-)
1. They spend more time page-setting.
2. It looks like crap anyway, and crap looks unprofesional
3. They show a completely lack of time-priority, this is usually evident everywhere as well in their report.
I work as teacher assistend and I usually dump reports written in Word. Although never because they are written in Word, but because they suck!
The turing machine has an infinite number of states. But you are right in limited state machine(n) it IS possible to solve the halting problem. It just cant be done with machine itself, ;-)
it only requires another machine with the factorial(n!) number of states
Did anyone read the part that started word started in only 3-4 seconds?
:(
If only kword could start in twice that time, but it doesnt.
Why wait?
:-)
Gcc 3.1 is already way more stable than gcc 3.0.4, and the gcc 3.0 series has been promised never to work, since the bug fix is to large for a stable release and is basically called 3.1
Btw. gcc-3.1 has already branched in the gcc cvs. So check-out gcc-3_1-branch
The problem with the "halting problem" is there for turing machines in case there exists are halting function can be written functions that are self-contradictions. Example:
if I dont return => return
if I return => goto infinite loop
Thus the halting function with a boolean return-value, is not just impossible to compute, it also has an incomplete definition.
The solution is ofcouse to extend it and allow additional return values. One extention could be to have an extra "I have self-contradiction" value, but that leads to new problems.
More interesting for quantum computers is the possibility for bools to have the value true AND false, and neither true nor false.
That would solve the above problem, but would like the Schrödinger cat, be a little too wierd for most people to swallow.
It is calles subpixel rendering, I have tried it on an CRT screen as well. It looks like you said amazing, but I turned it off once I got tired of the red/green edges. (yes, they are there as well in windows. How do I know? thats how it works!)
The really funny thing is that Microsoft had to promise the german parliament Windows NE.. That gotta be Windows Next-Edition.
OTOH if they meant Windows Me, I am scared. Really scared.
Ehrm no.. The US didnt support anyone during the war, even the UK paid for ALL! the hardware they "recieved" from the US. It wasnt until after the war, the americans realised they had bled the europeans so much they were unable to buy americans goods.
SML is also a special case. It is not as good to lex data as perl, but it is the supreme ruler in parsing data. (this is from someone who has writen several compilers in SML)
But you need to get the data to C to do anything usefull with it in most cases anyway.
What is "OS-level" about an ftp daemon? BIND? Mozilla? Gnutella?
The need to parse data. All languages except perhaps perl needs preatty lowlevel stuff to do this right. In C and C++ you both need control of the datastructure representation and control-code. In other words you end up doing bitfiddling and programming with gotos.
Actually the cool thing is that gcc-3.1 already compiles aRts aswell, although it cant handle kdebase. I have compiled arts with the new -mfpmath=sse, this replaces all x87-code with sse AFAIK.
That is really something worthwhile to wait for!
Actually there is a whole set of these not only bsd.slashdot.org
l ashdot.org o rg
Try these for interesting colors:
http://ask.slashdot.org
http://apache.s
http://radio.slashdot.org
http://yro.slashdot.
but there is no linux.slashdot.org, but try the main page you might get lucky, then again being a nerd; maybe not.
So very true. All except one thing, you say they wouldnt outrigth kill disidents. They actually do this, China is the place in the world that has the second most executions after Texas, one of the way fill the ranks of comdemned is to execute anyone who speaks up against the govenment. It makes you wonder how Texas manages to kill more people than a country almost a 100 times bigger.
Actually the X-protocol is cool in how extensible it is, this has been it's strength and survival, just it has been OpenGLs. They have ended up with the same problem: Too many extensions.
OpenGL is doing the rigth thing with the new OpenGL2. All we need is to define a new basis that incorperates all the standard extensions such shape, render and many others. But who is the company behind to push a X12?