I've been looking at the Parrot interpreter for Perl 6 and I noticed somewhere that its design is based on lots of registers instead of the usual stack-based designs (like the JVM). This design aspect should make it fairly snappy (better cache utilization, etc..) My question is this: would it be possible or useful to make special hardware that would hyper-accelerate the Parrot VM?
I been thinking lots lately about what it will be like when the computer industry moves to an entirely new platform(!) (My code name for such is OS-Y running on the Z-Box) After doing an extensive search of languages, I'm pretty sure an offshoot of Perl will be the basis for such a platform. I think it will be Perl because it so easily facilitates "Meta-Programming" which I believe will be central to this new platform.
This makes little or no difference at all. Kudos to 2600 for fighting the good fight. But you just can't argue with people who are still in the mindset of the antiquated industrial civilization (ie, these silly judges).
However, it seems like in the long term it is IMPOSSIBLE to prevent the free flow of information. Like the little rock in the big river... People who believe in privatized intellectual property are toast in a world that is packed with Internet connected PCs.
If you think the RIAA, and the people behind CSS are upset now, wait until decentralized P-2-P data warehousing becomes popular, then they'll really be smokin'. That's only if micropayments don't make them wholey obsolete first.
Ya but before the "big bang" even happened the relationship between linear and rotational motion was still bound by the equation e^(i * pi) + 1 = 0. Also, God is NOT OTHER THAN a fastasy created in human minds. Tomorrow there's a universe creating contest between you and God, let's see who wins...
Of course it's the permittivity of space that's not correctly accounted for in this equation. Universal "space" can be infinitely dimensional and can be infinitely divisible along each dimension.
This report says nothing about how Apple products will effect things. Don't forget, way back in 1979 Steve Jobs brought the personal computer to the mass market. Apple is about to release a modern graphical operation system with a true Unix core. My personal prediction is that Apple will steadily gain marketshare in three critical computing markets: small to medium scale data serving (webserving), home clients and business clients. I see Apple's (not Linux's) marketshare equaling Microsoft's by the year 2005, if not sooner.
AH ha ha ha ha!!! You have got to be kidding me if you think that ANY combination of laws and technology can ever prevent me from pirating copyrighted materials. I am sorry, but the nerd proliteriat will never allow it.
Akopia bought the company Internet Robotics which is/was run by the creator of minivend. Now the creator of minivend will be able to spend much more of his time developing minivend (and it WILL stay GPL) and less time working on the mechanics of running a consulting business.
Minivend is very cool. It's a daemon that creates dynamic web pages (especially shopping carts) from databases. It's written completely in perl which allows it to access virtually any popular database thanks to perl/DBI. Also, LDAP support is currently being integrated.
Minivend is also very powerful. You can easily embed perl code direcly into a web page (ya I know you can do that with this-that-and-other.4.2 web package) but minivend also integrates that with a web based database editor and nearly every feature an ecommerce site would use. Things like automatic order routing, user accounts, integration with credit card verification services, support for discounts, coupons and quantity pricing, plus lots more (see the product info page).
Best of all, minivend is open source and will remain open source and will soon be merged with the tallyman site management interface.
This is great news for one of the greatest toys out there. Legos help kids develop basic skills. The idea that you can build _anything_ from small flexible components is an important idea (and one that's very relevent to computers). Lego's set the imagination free. The only problem is that the newer Lego sets have peices that are only usable in one way. This goes against the whole idea. Finally you can buy lots of generic multi-purpose pieces without spending mass dollars on pieces that are rarely able to be used.
I've nominated Mike Heins at an Unsung Hero. His package, Minivend (www.minivend.com), is a powerful and free e-commerce package. Minivend rivals the most expensive e-commerce packages but it totally open-source (GPL). This package is in production use by many businesses. Real companies who's income is dependant directly on open source software. This software is largely behind the scenes so it is a good pick for "unsung".
I've nominated Mike Heins as a unsung hero in open source software. His package, Minivend (www.minivend.com), is important to e-commerce behind the scenes and rivals the most expensive propietary systems. He works very hard on this software and releases it all under the GPL.
Mike Heins is a behind-the-scenes man in the Open Source revolution. His creation, Minivend, is a powerful e-commerce package that's released under the GPL. He's shown many business the power of free software. He allows the improvements his clients hire him to make to Minivend to be incorporated into the free distribution. The clients benefit from the their tailored enhancements and the community benifits from an ever improving product. Mike Heins is living the Open Source business model and quietly spreading the Open Source ideal.
Minivend is a tried and true package that has been serving very popular stores for years. It is EXTREMELY feature rich. Though it can be strange at first, there is no open-source (or closed-source, for that matter) alternative with the same power and flexibility. Minivend is overkill for just a few products but for thousands of products there is no other way to go. Also, there is commercial support available. I work with the original creator of Minivend to provide it. Email me at fragermk@minivend.com for more information.
This new software sounds nice but if you need a true open-source e-commerce solution now then Minivend is what you want to use. There have been some comments about Minivend being slow but I know that Minivend runs some VERY heavily hit sites. If setup properly Minivend is VERY fast, the bottlenecks are usually elsewhere. Also, Minivend is about to get a MAJOR upgrade (version 4) that will make it faster and more straight-forward. Minivend is proven and available now in GPLed perl.
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My favorite book this year was Digital Apollo. It's as much about the human/machine relationship as it is about the computer itself. Great book!
Perl is alive!
Last time I checked Slashdot still runs on perl...
My company does too.
Now that ActiveState is providing Perl for Cloudfoundry, it's going to be good times in Perl land.
Open Letter To Steve Jobs: Please Build The Missing Mac
If they build this product then it is unlikely it would have any structural design flaws.
Open Letter To Steve Jobs: Please Build The Missing Mac
I've been looking at the Parrot interpreter for Perl 6 and I noticed somewhere that its design is based on lots of registers instead of the usual stack-based designs (like the JVM). This design aspect should make it fairly snappy (better cache utilization, etc..) My question is this: would it be possible or useful to make special hardware that would hyper-accelerate the Parrot VM?
I been thinking lots lately about what it will be like when the computer industry moves to an entirely new platform(!) (My code name for such is OS-Y running on the Z-Box) After doing an extensive search of languages, I'm pretty sure an offshoot of Perl will be the basis for such a platform. I think it will be Perl because it so easily facilitates "Meta-Programming" which I believe will be central to this new platform.
What do you think?
This makes little or no difference at all. Kudos to 2600 for fighting the good fight. But you just can't argue with people who are still in the mindset of the antiquated industrial civilization (ie, these silly judges).
However, it seems like in the long term it is IMPOSSIBLE to prevent the free flow of information. Like the little rock in the big river... People who believe in privatized intellectual property are toast in a world that is packed with Internet connected PCs.
If you think the RIAA, and the people behind CSS are upset now, wait until decentralized P-2-P data warehousing becomes popular, then they'll really be smokin'. That's only if micropayments don't make them wholey obsolete first.
Ya but before the "big bang" even happened the relationship between linear and rotational motion was still bound by the equation e^(i * pi) + 1 = 0. Also, God is NOT OTHER THAN a fastasy created in human minds. Tomorrow there's a universe creating contest between you and God, let's see who wins...
Lata,
Oh ya, peace be with you and all that shit!
Duh...
Of course it's the permittivity of space that's not correctly accounted for in this equation. Universal "space" can be infinitely dimensional and can be infinitely divisible along each dimension.
There is one piece of code that accomplishes a _specific task(s)_ faster than all other implementations.
This report says nothing about how Apple products will effect things. Don't forget, way back in 1979 Steve Jobs brought the personal computer to the mass market. Apple is about to release a modern graphical operation system with a true Unix core. My personal prediction is that Apple will steadily gain marketshare in three critical computing markets: small to medium scale data serving (webserving), home clients and business clients. I see Apple's (not Linux's) marketshare equaling Microsoft's by the year 2005, if not sooner.
AH ha ha ha ha!!! You have got to be kidding me if you think that ANY combination of laws and technology can ever prevent me from pirating copyrighted materials. I am sorry, but the nerd proliteriat will never allow it.
Akopia bought the company Internet Robotics which is/was run by the creator of minivend. Now the creator of minivend will be able to spend much more of his time developing minivend (and it WILL stay GPL) and less time working on the mechanics of running a consulting business.
Minivend is very cool. It's a daemon that creates dynamic web pages (especially shopping carts) from databases. It's written completely in perl which allows it to access virtually any popular database thanks to perl/DBI. Also, LDAP support is currently being integrated.
Minivend is also very powerful. You can easily embed perl code direcly into a web page (ya I know you can do that with this-that-and-other.4.2 web package) but minivend also integrates that with a web based database editor and nearly every feature an ecommerce site would use. Things like automatic order routing, user accounts, integration with credit card verification services, support for discounts, coupons and quantity pricing, plus lots more (see the product info page).
Best of all, minivend is open source and will remain open source and will soon be merged with the tallyman site management interface.
This is great news for one of the greatest toys out there. Legos help kids develop basic skills. The idea that you can build _anything_ from small flexible components is an important idea (and one that's very relevent to computers). Lego's set the imagination free. The only problem is that the newer Lego sets have peices that are only usable in one way. This goes against the whole idea. Finally you can buy lots of generic multi-purpose pieces without spending mass dollars on pieces that are rarely able to be used.
I've nominated Mike Heins at an Unsung Hero. His package, Minivend (www.minivend.com), is a powerful and free e-commerce package. Minivend rivals the most expensive e-commerce packages but it totally open-source (GPL). This package is in production use by many businesses. Real companies who's income is dependant directly on open source software. This software is largely behind the scenes so it is a good pick for "unsung".
I've nominated Mike Heins as a unsung hero in open source software. His package, Minivend (www.minivend.com), is important to e-commerce behind the scenes and rivals the most expensive propietary systems. He works very hard on this software and releases it all under the GPL.
Mike Heins is a behind-the-scenes man in the Open Source revolution. His creation, Minivend, is a powerful e-commerce package that's released under the GPL. He's shown many business the power of free software. He allows the improvements his clients hire him to make to Minivend to be incorporated into the free distribution. The clients benefit from the their tailored enhancements and the community benifits from an ever improving product. Mike Heins is living the Open Source business model and quietly spreading the Open Source ideal.
Minivend is a tried and true package that has been serving very popular stores for years. It is EXTREMELY feature rich. Though it can be strange at first, there is no open-source (or closed-source, for that matter) alternative with the same power and flexibility. Minivend is overkill for just a few products but for thousands of products there is no other way to go. Also, there is commercial support available. I work with the original creator of Minivend to provide it. Email me at fragermk@minivend.com for more information.
This new software sounds nice but if you need a true open-source e-commerce solution now then Minivend is what you want to use. There have been some comments about Minivend being slow but I know that Minivend runs some VERY heavily hit sites. If setup properly Minivend is VERY fast, the bottlenecks are usually elsewhere. Also, Minivend is about to get a MAJOR upgrade (version 4) that will make it faster and more straight-forward. Minivend is proven and available now in GPLed perl.