Regardless of how small your echo is on disk, it's going to take at least 8196 bytes in RAM. By all means, keep thinking efficiency, but how about applying it to targets that really need it, like, oh, GNOME?
Yes, it is an object lesson in what you get with unpaid community support: people with more good intentions than problem-solving skill, and too much forbearance to someone who they should have banned from their community message boards a long time ago.
So yeah, demand everything for free and occasionally you get what you pay for. And they even take your unending abuse for months at a time before writing you off. How about that.
Ubuntu didn't work out for you, and the support let you down. Sorry to hear it. Now stop grinding the fucking axe already and move the fuck on. If I had less respect for the community, I'd probably have given you deliberately wrong answers just to see you flip your lid one more time.
This is sometimes known as a Heisenbug (ah yes the Jargon File did have some nice entries back in the old days). Multithreaded or just plain time-sensitive code (like that found in device drivers) is notorious for this sort of thing.
I think I replied to the wrong message (I can't claim it was a typo since I quoted it after all). But anyway, Fortress does all loops in parallel by default, you have to explicitly tell it when you want serial execution.
Python cares so little about parallelism that it still uses a single monolithic lock around the interpreter, so you can't even make reasonable use of threads except for I/O waits. But no imperative language can just throw in something as drastic as auto-parallelism without rewriting basic assumptions about flow control -- you can't simply handwave it in.
> Go ask a member of the Armed Forces if they'd be willing to shoot their fellow countrymen.
Now go ask one if they're willing to shoot terrorists. That's what they'll be labeled. It's so incredibly easy to strip The Enemy of anything resembling humanity, and the fact that they're fellow Americans would present the smallest of speed bumps.
they definitely committed grievous harm to sales of the Dreamcast by making an early announcement of bogus PS2 specs which they had to know were fraudulent
Not to leap to Sony's defense or anything, but if all it took to destroy an existing console was a vaporware strike, Sega's marketers are some truly fragile wilting violets.
I've never heard of this. Granted, DOS existed largely to call BIOS routines, and much of BIOS existed largely to serve DOS, but I've never seen a PC that had DOS completely in the BIOS. Maybe you're thinking of cartridge BASIC, which was burned in on some machines.
> Over a million and a half articles in six years, in English alone.
How many of them are even worth reading? There are at least one hundred pages on Final Fantasy, a dozen on Sailor Moon, and there seems to be a page for every town, highway, and dirt path in the entire world.
Egads, for a moment I thought you said it was the new Scientology Tech. I can see it now, the DC-10 lookalike spacecraft that the Thetans travelled in ran on Linux. Source to the XenuOS distro is only an "internal distribution" for OC-III or higher.
> guy, you need to defend your opinion with facts and reasonings, not questioning on author's credit or shut up the one who picked the author's opinion:)
Enderle styles himself as an authority, I think it's perfectly reasonable to question his credibility. God knows he sinks his own credibility enough with his own writings -- our contribution is limited to quoting him, verbatim. You don't even need to take any context out, he has made entire speeches and written entire papers of disjointed ranting about "Linux Terrorists". It's kind of sad.
Linux certainly isn't alone in having weak areas that its supporters generally aren't willing to discuss. And considering how far Enderle's miserable reputation precedes him, neither I nor anyone else are willing to discuss it with him. It's not even worth giving him the page hits to read, let alone respond.
It chaps my hide though that the major media keeps trotting out this pathetic little troll whenever he has a talking point, and they lap it right up without any fact-checking whatsoever. He's not even particularly slick either, though he seems to be smart enough to avoid saying or doing anything truly career-ending like Maureen O'Gara's stalking episode.
I believe many US jurisdictions will hold non-competes unenforceable if it prevents you from being able to effectively work at all.
In California, it's more clear cut than that -- pretty much any noncompete outside of a limited liability partnership that isn't to protect trade secrets is invalid. In fact, terminating based on refusal to sign a noncompete is itself unlawful.
I know that AI is a moving target and all, but precisely what was advanced about the AI of The Sims? Or even intelligent for that matter?
You could perhaps have made a case for the creature in Black and White. Far more complex emergent behavior came out of that than the Sims, who were generally unable to even use the toilet without being directed to.
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Regardless of how small your echo is on disk, it's going to take at least 8196 bytes in RAM. By all means, keep thinking efficiency, but how about applying it to targets that really need it, like, oh, GNOME?
Yes, it is an object lesson in what you get with unpaid community support: people with more good intentions than problem-solving skill, and too much forbearance to someone who they should have banned from their community message boards a long time ago.
So yeah, demand everything for free and occasionally you get what you pay for. And they even take your unending abuse for months at a time before writing you off. How about that.
Ubuntu didn't work out for you, and the support let you down. Sorry to hear it. Now stop grinding the fucking axe already and move the fuck on. If I had less respect for the community, I'd probably have given you deliberately wrong answers just to see you flip your lid one more time.
This is sometimes known as a Heisenbug (ah yes the Jargon File did have some nice entries back in the old days). Multithreaded or just plain time-sensitive code (like that found in device drivers) is notorious for this sort of thing.
> On Linux side I can tell only one thing: if you need a debugger for kernel, then you are better off doing your stuff in user space.
Yeah, it's too bad Linus doesn't believe in microkernels either. This is the same guy who thought the OOM killer was a great idea.
> The Newton syncs to your desktop at home. The Pippin can play content from your Mac at home.
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The "Most Inappropriate Use of the Present Tense" award goes to
> The article seems to fly in the face of the left's beliefs.
Yes, slanted articles are often like that. I wonder if the Space Review is an extension of the National Review.
> I predict many anti U.S./Bush screeds.
Congratulations on being the first to bring up Bush.
All right, just stop and get real, okay?
Real estate is cheap in Lindon. SCO probably owns the building. Hell, it's probably their biggest asset.
I think I replied to the wrong message (I can't claim it was a typo since I quoted it after all). But anyway, Fortress does all loops in parallel by default, you have to explicitly tell it when you want serial execution.
Python cares so little about parallelism that it still uses a single monolithic lock around the interpreter, so you can't even make reasonable use of threads except for I/O waits. But no imperative language can just throw in something as drastic as auto-parallelism without rewriting basic assumptions about flow control -- you can't simply handwave it in.
> Or you could apply data parallelization, like parallel Fortran
Fortress does all loops in parallel by default. You have to explicitly tell it when you want a serial loop.
> Go ask a member of the Armed Forces if they'd be willing to shoot their fellow countrymen.
Now go ask one if they're willing to shoot terrorists. That's what they'll be labeled. It's so incredibly easy to strip The Enemy of anything resembling humanity, and the fact that they're fellow Americans would present the smallest of speed bumps.
they definitely committed grievous harm to sales of the Dreamcast by making an early announcement of bogus PS2 specs which they had to know were fraudulent
Not to leap to Sony's defense or anything, but if all it took to destroy an existing console was a vaporware strike, Sega's marketers are some truly fragile wilting violets.
The way I've heard it: "The day you don't get fucked by Sony is the day they make Sybians."
> so we can stop all this ambiguous bullshit and just use precise, clear terminology.
The hurdle you have yet to clear is to make anyone actually care how accurate and precise you are.
I prefer kibobytes myself, which are exactly 997 bozobytes long.
> PCs used to come with DOS in ROM
I've never heard of this. Granted, DOS existed largely to call BIOS routines, and much of BIOS existed largely to serve DOS, but I've never seen a PC that had DOS completely in the BIOS. Maybe you're thinking of cartridge BASIC, which was burned in on some machines.
> Over a million and a half articles in six years, in English alone.
How many of them are even worth reading? There are at least one hundred pages on Final Fantasy, a dozen on Sailor Moon, and there seems to be a page for every town, highway, and dirt path in the entire world.
> On the subject of corrupt admins, is this visible for the user?
They drive away contributors, often the most dedicated ones, and this impacts everyone.
Egads, for a moment I thought you said it was the new Scientology Tech. I can see it now, the DC-10 lookalike spacecraft that the Thetans travelled in ran on Linux. Source to the XenuOS distro is only an "internal distribution" for OC-III or higher.
Boost for MSVC was about as easy as running the .exe installer for it. It's the very first item on the sourceforge download page.
> guy, you need to defend your opinion with facts and reasonings, not questioning on author's credit or shut up the one who picked the author's opinion :)
Enderle styles himself as an authority, I think it's perfectly reasonable to question his credibility. God knows he sinks his own credibility enough with his own writings -- our contribution is limited to quoting him, verbatim. You don't even need to take any context out, he has made entire speeches and written entire papers of disjointed ranting about "Linux Terrorists". It's kind of sad.
Linux certainly isn't alone in having weak areas that its supporters generally aren't willing to discuss. And considering how far Enderle's miserable reputation precedes him, neither I nor anyone else are willing to discuss it with him. It's not even worth giving him the page hits to read, let alone respond.
It chaps my hide though that the major media keeps trotting out this pathetic little troll whenever he has a talking point, and they lap it right up without any fact-checking whatsoever. He's not even particularly slick either, though he seems to be smart enough to avoid saying or doing anything truly career-ending like Maureen O'Gara's stalking episode.
I believe many US jurisdictions will hold non-competes unenforceable if it prevents you from being able to effectively work at all.
In California, it's more clear cut than that -- pretty much any noncompete outside of a limited liability partnership that isn't to protect trade secrets is invalid. In fact, terminating based on refusal to sign a noncompete is itself unlawful.
See Edwards v. Arthur Andersen for details on both counts.
Why yes, you would be the very first person ever to demand a normative definition of art.
*rolls eyes*
> just look at The Sims.
I know that AI is a moving target and all, but precisely what was advanced about the AI of The Sims? Or even intelligent for that matter?
You could perhaps have made a case for the creature in Black and White. Far more complex emergent behavior came out of that than the Sims, who were generally unable to even use the toilet without being directed to.