That's called a nanokernel. And you don't even need the scheduler in kernel space either -- the whole notion of "processes" is not something the OS necessarily has to concern itself with. All a nanokernel has to do is make hardware available on demand.
You can more or less engineer the kernel concept out of existence until it's nothing but an interrupt handler and a call gate. However, since the reality of commodity CPUs is that they're designed with hardware contexts and even C stacks (or perhaps I should say Pascal) built-in, there's really not much reason to keep it completely out of kernel space on such hardware. This doesn't argue for Linux's extremely monolithic nature (it doesn't even have a proper VFS layer) but it does mean that at some point, further reductionism is just absurd.
Making the scheduler pluggable would just make sense though.
> Are you saying all of "Snow White" was drawn by one person? All 24 fps, 83 minutes worth?
Bad example. The team of animators on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was managed to an unprecedented degree, with an obsession for consistency and quality control. This is not the sort of thing you get from hobbyist contributions.
Coders are a dime a dozen, minus the dime. Modelers, sketch artists, musicians, and actors are the fellas you're just not going to easily get on a FOSS project.
> Truly epic to watch 150 bombers or fighters swarm on a base.
Even more spectacular when a dozen flak guns turns 'em all into confetti. Mmm that was a damn fun game. Didn't need any of these namby pamby ghosts to launch nukes either. Point and click parking lots.
> emoticons didn't come into *popular* usage until sometime around 1992
Being online didn't come into popularity until around 1992. Smilies were part of BBS culture long before then.
And yes, I rememember *grin* or/g/ or.g. and so on. Smilies were at least as common. The term "emoticon" came around a lot later, and I suppose it's more descriptive, but honestly I thought at the time it was a clumsy coinage that wouldn't stick.
Try Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. It's like a faster-paced Homeworld (it starts off very slow-paced but as the firepower increases, things get more frantic), you can issue orders while paused, and there's no resource management, just pure combat. It's really quite pretty too.
Really though, I would like an RTS with better friendly AI and scenarios that used it, so that I can issue general orders to competent commanders instead of having to move my units around like they were plastic army men.
> But understand he has been sued and he does likely have some legal expenses
I bet he incurs even more liability by having an apparent financial interest. By the way, has anyone ever told you that overuse of boldface is really annoying?
Of fer crying out loud... Alyx? She's young, wears tight jeans, and appears to have a bit of an unspoken crush on Gordon. This is hardly bimbo material here. What got me was her particular backward walk, because Leanna in Dark Messiah (which is based on Source) does the *exact* same thing when you first meet her. It must be a routine in the engine.
Besides, the male characters in JRPG's are generally so bishy and androgynous, that the swords look just out of place with them too.
Sony is just refusing to lease their production lines to stamp porn discs. They've had this policy for DVDs as well. Now it's a bit of a bigger deal in the case of blu-ray, since apparently they require new pressing equipment and HD-DVD doesn't, but it's hardly a deal-breaker. If blu-ray takes a commanding lead, new production lines will come on line that will stamp anyone's discs.
I wonder how much of the 'energy saved' will be consumed by all those machines they use in the hospital for people who get eye problems from staring at white/grey on black text.
None. Focal problems with the eyes are genetic. Reading in dim light will give you eyestrain and make you vision blurry that way, especially if your vision isn't perfect in the first place, but won't cause permanent damage.
Anyway, LCD monitors have a backlight. All a black page is doing is blocking the backlight.
> when you consider that its not Stallman who named it after his first name.
Nor did Linus, if you'd even bothered to read the summary.
Despite RMS's handwavings about Linux merely dropping some trivial kernel piece into the otherwise completed GNU system, the reality is that the Linux people did a lot of work in getting the glibc and binutils toolchain working for it. RMS has to this day not acknowledged any of their work in doing so. I think it's more RMS's failure to reciprocate that has more to do with it. He who demands respect the loudest is usually afforded the least.
> There is one hope though. And its name is Google
Google's proposed free ad-supported wi-fi for SF is like 300 kilobits. Better than nothing, I'll grant, but the phone companies are pitching a screaming hissy fit over even that. Why on earth do you think Google can implement or is even interested in universal high-speed access?
Multibillion? Please. It was hugely unprofitable then, and it's not as if it's gotten any cheaper now. Delivery in general is a low-margin business, unless you're a courier. Webvan couldn't fill in the '???' in their business plan.
I order from Safeway, and get free delivery coupons so often it hardly ever costs me. I still get produce from Whole Foods or pretty much anywhere but Safeway, but they're still very handy for delivering 30-lb boxes of kitty litter and a dozen five-gallon water jugs to car-free me.
The ads appear to be missing now, but others report that they were themselves just hand-created links to images off the same server. No advertiser works like that.
And the laptop pictured is a slightly photoshopped Vaio.
> we're all equally bound by the constitution whether janitor or senator.
Well actually, the Senator has sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. But it's really just for show, it's not like violating it has any real consequences.
I'll grant that the characters in the Iliad were archetypes, but I still don't concede for the Odyssey, which really does delve into Odysseus's motivations and flaws throughout. He may not be Just Plain Folks, but he's very much a fleshed-out character.
Anyway, I'm still not buying the notion that we're into characters over plots. Most hit movies are driven by (usually inane) plots with characters that exist to further its tension and resolution. Character stories like Magnolia and Garden State are the minority.
> Americans believe in character-driven stories (as oppose to plot-driven stories like the Illiad or the Odyssey)
Uh, the Iliad wasn't character-driven? The whole epic was driven by larger-than-life characters, and padded out by grandiloquent speeches by the same. And its sequel, the Odyssey, is freaking named after its central character.
> In my opinion, Creative is the only competitor Apple has for the iPod.
SanDisk. Take a look at the Connect. It runs on Linux too.
I'm a fan of my little Sansa, myself. Priced less than a Nano, has a (not too impressive) screen, microphone, and FM tuner, and the battery seems to last nigh on forever.
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> That's called a nanokernel.
:P
Eh-heh... I suppose since the subject of the post contained the word "nanokernel", that that was kind of redundant.
That's called a nanokernel. And you don't even need the scheduler in kernel space either -- the whole notion of "processes" is not something the OS necessarily has to concern itself with. All a nanokernel has to do is make hardware available on demand.
You can more or less engineer the kernel concept out of existence until it's nothing but an interrupt handler and a call gate. However, since the reality of commodity CPUs is that they're designed with hardware contexts and even C stacks (or perhaps I should say Pascal) built-in, there's really not much reason to keep it completely out of kernel space on such hardware. This doesn't argue for Linux's extremely monolithic nature (it doesn't even have a proper VFS layer) but it does mean that at some point, further reductionism is just absurd.
Making the scheduler pluggable would just make sense though.
> Are you saying all of "Snow White" was drawn by one person? All 24 fps, 83 minutes worth?
Bad example. The team of animators on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was managed to an unprecedented degree, with an obsession for consistency and quality control. This is not the sort of thing you get from hobbyist contributions.
Coders are a dime a dozen, minus the dime. Modelers, sketch artists, musicians, and actors are the fellas you're just not going to easily get on a FOSS project.
> Truly epic to watch 150 bombers or fighters swarm on a base.
Even more spectacular when a dozen flak guns turns 'em all into confetti. Mmm that was a damn fun game. Didn't need any of these namby pamby ghosts to launch nukes either. Point and click parking lots.
> People in Europe and Asia find the very idea of a locked phone rather fruity
Expect anything different from a cellphone by Apple?
couldn't resist.
> emoticons didn't come into *popular* usage until sometime around 1992
/g/ or .g. and so on. Smilies were at least as common. The term "emoticon" came around a lot later, and I suppose it's more descriptive, but honestly I thought at the time it was a clumsy coinage that wouldn't stick.
Being online didn't come into popularity until around 1992. Smilies were part of BBS culture long before then.
And yes, I rememember *grin* or
Try Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. It's like a faster-paced Homeworld (it starts off very slow-paced but as the firepower increases, things get more frantic), you can issue orders while paused, and there's no resource management, just pure combat. It's really quite pretty too.
Really though, I would like an RTS with better friendly AI and scenarios that used it, so that I can issue general orders to competent commanders instead of having to move my units around like they were plastic army men.
> But understand he has been sued and he does likely have some legal expenses
I bet he incurs even more liability by having an apparent financial interest. By the way, has anyone ever told you that overuse of boldface is really annoying?
Of fer crying out loud ... Alyx? She's young, wears tight jeans, and appears to have a bit of an unspoken crush on Gordon. This is hardly bimbo material here. What got me was her particular backward walk, because Leanna in Dark Messiah (which is based on Source) does the *exact* same thing when you first meet her. It must be a routine in the engine.
Besides, the male characters in JRPG's are generally so bishy and androgynous, that the swords look just out of place with them too.
Sony is just refusing to lease their production lines to stamp porn discs. They've had this policy for DVDs as well. Now it's a bit of a bigger deal in the case of blu-ray, since apparently they require new pressing equipment and HD-DVD doesn't, but it's hardly a deal-breaker. If blu-ray takes a commanding lead, new production lines will come on line that will stamp anyone's discs.
I wonder how much of the 'energy saved' will be consumed by all those machines they use in the hospital for people who get eye problems from staring at white/grey on black text.
None. Focal problems with the eyes are genetic. Reading in dim light will give you eyestrain and make you vision blurry that way, especially if your vision isn't perfect in the first place, but won't cause permanent damage.
Anyway, LCD monitors have a backlight. All a black page is doing is blocking the backlight.
So um, basically you're saying we should all drive Hummers everywhere because Gore's old house runs the meter fast?
I really just don't get how people with a functioning brain cell think this argument is valid. Maybe I have to check my assumptions.
> when you consider that its not Stallman who named it after his first name.
Nor did Linus, if you'd even bothered to read the summary.
Despite RMS's handwavings about Linux merely dropping some trivial kernel piece into the otherwise completed GNU system, the reality is that the Linux people did a lot of work in getting the glibc and binutils toolchain working for it. RMS has to this day not acknowledged any of their work in doing so. I think it's more RMS's failure to reciprocate that has more to do with it. He who demands respect the loudest is usually afforded the least.
> There is one hope though. And its name is Google
Google's proposed free ad-supported wi-fi for SF is like 300 kilobits. Better than nothing, I'll grant, but the phone companies are pitching a screaming hissy fit over even that. Why on earth do you think Google can implement or is even interested in universal high-speed access?
Multibillion? Please. It was hugely unprofitable then, and it's not as if it's gotten any cheaper now. Delivery in general is a low-margin business, unless you're a courier. Webvan couldn't fill in the '???' in their business plan.
I order from Safeway, and get free delivery coupons so often it hardly ever costs me. I still get produce from Whole Foods or pretty much anywhere but Safeway, but they're still very handy for delivering 30-lb boxes of kitty litter and a dozen five-gallon water jugs to car-free me.
The ads appear to be missing now, but others report that they were themselves just hand-created links to images off the same server. No advertiser works like that.
And the laptop pictured is a slightly photoshopped Vaio.
I hope they succeed. I'm tired of reading about your paranoid persecution complex.
Gamefaqs/Gamespot is C|Net, located on Rincon Hill in downtown SF, and their servers are probably in 365main. So yeah.
Anyway, PG&E says it's over now, but they still don't have an explanation as to why. Shyeah (rolls eyes)
> we're all equally bound by the constitution whether janitor or senator.
Well actually, the Senator has sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. But it's really just for show, it's not like violating it has any real consequences.
David Warner could make the ingredients list on a cereal box compelling.
Shame about the voice they got for Imoen though.
I'll grant that the characters in the Iliad were archetypes, but I still don't concede for the Odyssey, which really does delve into Odysseus's motivations and flaws throughout. He may not be Just Plain Folks, but he's very much a fleshed-out character.
Anyway, I'm still not buying the notion that we're into characters over plots. Most hit movies are driven by (usually inane) plots with characters that exist to further its tension and resolution. Character stories like Magnolia and Garden State are the minority.
> Americans believe in character-driven stories (as oppose to plot-driven stories like the Illiad or the Odyssey)
Uh, the Iliad wasn't character-driven? The whole epic was driven by larger-than-life characters, and padded out by grandiloquent speeches by the same. And its sequel, the Odyssey, is freaking named after its central character.
> she'll have to think twice about dumping me!
About the only thing worse than being lonely is living with someone who hates you.
> Breaking the law isn't an injury?
It gives the state standing. Not private parties.
Ohh, you're noticing the conflict of interest? Welcome to government.
> In my opinion, Creative is the only competitor Apple has for the iPod.
SanDisk. Take a look at the Connect. It runs on Linux too.
I'm a fan of my little Sansa, myself. Priced less than a Nano, has a (not too impressive) screen, microphone, and FM tuner, and the battery seems to last nigh on forever.