printf() is a huge function; did you link statically? Did you strip debugging info from your executable? I get it down to 2900 bytes (dynamically linked PowerPC ELF bin) with GCC 2.95.1. sterwill@zappa [~] cat foo.c int main(int c, char ** v) { printf("Hello World!\n"); } sterwill@zappa [~] gcc -o foo foo.c sterwill@zappa [~] strip foo sterwill@zappa [~] ls -l foo -rwxrwx--- 1 sterwill sterwill 2900 Oct 27 10:33 foo* sterwill@zappa [~]
BogoMIPS are bogus, hence the name. They don't scale across architectures and aren't a reliable indication of a processor's speed. The reason that your readings differ by 200 is completely unrelated to how well your favorite application will run or how fast a kernel will compile.
Why would anyone need a floppy drive these days? I'm typing this on a 333 MHz PowerBook running Debian Potato. I haven't used floppies since the early 90's except on the occasional crufty old ia-32 architecture machine I need to use. I can't think of a real architecture that requires a slow and unreliable 1.44 MB drive these days.
Well, my comment was intended to emphasize how I feel about the ability of older people to buy government representation. It's not just a large population of voters, but their large lobbyist gangs, something young non-voters simply can't afford. My second point was that young people don't stay young for more than a few years, hence their inclination to to empower through legislation other youngsters is small. A person at 65 will stay "old" for the rest of his or her life, and has the knowledge of what runs politicians (money) to get things done.
The reason there are anti-geezer laws in effect in the United States is that old people are disproportionately represented in government. They have lots of money, and their representative agencies (AARP, etc.) buy congressional representatives and senators whenever they need something special done. I believe AARP is the largest buyer of politicians today.
How many children could afford a politician? How many 16-year-olds? How many years until they're no longer young? How many years until a senior is no longer old?
I think you're confusing talent with appeal. I do not doubt that Yngwie has talent; he's very good with a guitar. I just do not enjoy his music or his playing nearly as much as others (for instance, David Gilmour's). Gilmour doesn't run down the neck at the speed of light, nor does he know every medieval Moon Harvest zyther scale in B minor, but his style of playing appeals to me. I'm also a big Frank Zappa fan, mainly for his skills as an outstanding composer, but to say Vai is "Zappa recincarnated" means (to me, anyway) that Vai is a composer of a similar level. I don't see that in him.
I play guitar, but I don't claim to be great. I can understand some music without liking it, but it doesn't mean you can't.
Musicians wont be very happy about being replaced with synthesisers.
It will be many, many decades (or centuries) before a synthesizer replaces a true jazz musician. Your friend has nothing to fear. The current MTV crop, on the other hand, might want to start filling out the backs of those McDonald's tray liners.
who the heck wants to pack a coluseum 30,000 deep to watch the head banging action of a metal box?
Monsanto sells seeds to farmers every year; farmers buy seeds to replant. They do not commonly use last year's seeds to plant this year's crops because the seeds they buy from Monsanto will provide better a better return. This is common where I live (Illinois, large farms), and it's why hybrid crops are so popular. It's why the local television stations air seed-corn commercials in the spring-time.
That Monsanto argues that farmers must start buying self-terminating crops to cover their research and development costs is ludicrous. Monsanto already makes money selling the results of their research and development, and makes a hefty profit doing so. Perhaps Monsanto should have determined whether self-terminating seeds would sell at all before they incurred research costs in developing them!
They make it sound as if they're developing new agricultural technologies exclusively for the good of all mankind, and are just now needing some income to balance expenses. They've been raking in the money all along, and this product was a flop.
I'm not sure what else there is left to observe. Darwin's finches evolved into thirteen distinct species of bird not found anywhere but the islands. They evolved because they needed to adapt (some birds got larger, some birds got smaller, some grew smaller beaks in proportion to their bodies, etc.). The genetic composition of these birds is now different, after centuries of change. They are different species in the way humans are different from chimpanzees.
There is nothing "intellectual" about creationism; the entire concept is faith-driven. You can't know, you didn't see it, you can't even ask your all-powerful God who must have initiated it (he doesn't take questions from mortals).
If you've got any intellectual arguments for creation, let's hear them. Maybe you have a certified letter from your deity that you'd like to scan?
The Galapagos islands, home to Darwin's first theories on what was later called evolution, are also home to the masked booby (1,2), a species of bird that will kill the weaker of its own offspring to arrange better chances of survival for the stronger. Natural selection in action, but it doesn't stop there.
Other species of birds found on the islands exhibit great changes among their populations over periods as short as a few years. I wish I could find a reference to research done on this (I first heard of it from this month's Scientific American Frontiers). The short of it that variances in food supplies (seeds) over just a few years directly affects the overall appearance (physical size) of future generations of the birds. Smaller birds have less body to fuel, require fewer seeds to feed themselves, and possess beaks more adapted to cracking open their small food. Larger birds, when all available food is small seeds, can't eat enough to stay alive. The larger of the species die out, the smaller reproduce, and the physical properties of the smaller population are passed on to the following generation. Over periods of just 3 or 4 years, the populations of this island physically change to adapt to changes in their environment. The average bird becomes smaller. In food surplus (when larger, more varied foods are available), the opposite happens.
If you're up for a good laugh, visit Creation Research Society, a bunch of "scientists" out to prove that Creation is right. They have an scanning electron microscope, so I guess it's just a matter of time before they re-publish the Bible and prove science wrong, right?
Sun is a hardware company. They make money by selling reliable, scalable hardware to people who need it. As I see it, Sun could release Solaris under the GPL (contracts with other source code owners aside) and it would only serve to INCREASE sales of their hardware, and therefore their profits.
Sun has hundreds, maybe thousands, of reasons not to do this right now (mostly, I think, because they're greedy, uneasy with all software projects, and inexperienced in the Free software world), but not a single one of them is "the bits for the source code for Solaris weigh more than the bits for a proprietary binary release, and it would affect our bottom line (through increased shipping costs) to move towards open software."
This isn't true. Open Source software (in a GPL-sense, even) fits perfectly well with many, many existing business models. Open Source software as a product of business does not fit with existing proprietary software business.
Free software (Open Source products) may or may not generate revenue directly (consulting is just one established business model in which Free software can pay the bills), but that doesn't mean that it can't make existing services or products more attractive. Take, for example, a company that sells plumbing supplies wholesale, and provides Free software to its customers to manage specialized plumbing equipment inventory. If you were a plumbing supplies retailer, the availability of this software and its acceptance by said company adds to the value of the proposition of purchasing and managing your supplies from this corporation. The fact that this software is Free allows this company's customers to tailor and customize it for point-of-sale workstations, integration with payroll or other inventory systems, etc.
Red Hat is an example of a company that exists in that orthogonal world, as you mentioned. But to say Free software does not fit anywhere in "traditional business models" is ignoring centuries' traditions of marketing, customer relations, and a services-driven economy.
If Microsoft was giving away ham sandwiches, I might be convinced to start liking them as a company. Of course, my shift in opinion rests on the assumption that the mayonnaise will not be rancid, the ham isn't really from a cow, and I won't be forced to upgrade to larger mustard packets half-way through my meal.
Remember, you is what you am; a cow don't make ham.
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printf() is a huge function; did you link statically? Did you strip debugging info from your executable? I get it down to 2900 bytes (dynamically linked PowerPC ELF bin) with GCC 2.95.1.
sterwill@zappa [~] cat foo.c
int main(int c, char ** v) { printf("Hello World!\n"); }
sterwill@zappa [~] gcc -o foo foo.c
sterwill@zappa [~] strip foo
sterwill@zappa [~] ls -l foo
-rwxrwx--- 1 sterwill sterwill 2900 Oct 27 10:33 foo*
sterwill@zappa [~]
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400 MHz Alpha? They don't make them that slow anymore. :) One of these days I'll break down and buy a 666 MHz 21164, or whichever 21264 I can afford.
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BogoMIPS are bogus, hence the name. They don't scale across architectures and aren't a reliable indication of a processor's speed. The reason that your readings differ by 200 is completely unrelated to how well your favorite application will run or how fast a kernel will compile.
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Why would anyone need a floppy drive these days? I'm typing this on a 333 MHz PowerBook running Debian Potato. I haven't used floppies since the early 90's except on the occasional crufty old ia-32 architecture machine I need to use. I can't think of a real architecture that requires a slow and unreliable 1.44 MB drive these days.
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Well, my comment was intended to emphasize how I feel about the ability of older people to buy government representation. It's not just a large population of voters, but their large lobbyist gangs, something young non-voters simply can't afford. My second point was that young people don't stay young for more than a few years, hence their inclination to to empower through legislation other youngsters is small. A person at 65 will stay "old" for the rest of his or her life, and has the knowledge of what runs politicians (money) to get things done.
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I've placed a state-side copy of Alan's text-only piece up for those who are finding the trans-Atlantic link a little slow. Hope he doesn't mind.
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The reason there are anti-geezer laws in effect in the United States is that old people are disproportionately represented in government. They have lots of money, and their representative agencies (AARP, etc.) buy congressional representatives and senators whenever they need something special done. I believe AARP is the largest buyer of politicians today.
How many children could afford a politician? How many 16-year-olds? How many years until they're no longer young? How many years until a senior is no longer old?
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Except for Creationists! *rimshot*
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There is no Ark. Thus, no one has ever been near it. Everyone dies. How easy an argument you have, thumping your Bible all day long.
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Big, scary, regenerating... doesn't matter. All you'd have to do is throw some Java at it.
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I think you're confusing talent with appeal. I do not doubt that Yngwie has talent; he's very good with a guitar. I just do not enjoy his music or his playing nearly as much as others (for instance, David Gilmour's). Gilmour doesn't run down the neck at the speed of light, nor does he know every medieval Moon Harvest zyther scale in B minor, but his style of playing appeals to me. I'm also a big Frank Zappa fan, mainly for his skills as an outstanding composer, but to say Vai is "Zappa recincarnated" means (to me, anyway) that Vai is a composer of a similar level. I don't see that in him.
I play guitar, but I don't claim to be great. I can understand some music without liking it, but it doesn't mean you can't.
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Monsanto sells seeds to farmers every year; farmers buy seeds to replant. They do not commonly use last year's seeds to plant this year's crops because the seeds they buy from Monsanto will provide better a better return. This is common where I live (Illinois, large farms), and it's why hybrid crops are so popular. It's why the local television stations air seed-corn commercials in the spring-time.
That Monsanto argues that farmers must start buying self-terminating crops to cover their research and development costs is ludicrous. Monsanto already makes money selling the results of their research and development, and makes a hefty profit doing so. Perhaps Monsanto should have determined whether self-terminating seeds would sell at all before they incurred research costs in developing them!
They make it sound as if they're developing new agricultural technologies exclusively for the good of all mankind, and are just now needing some income to balance expenses. They've been raking in the money all along, and this product was a flop.
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Intel never tried to patent the phrase "x86." You're confusing patents with trademarks.
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I'm not sure what else there is left to observe. Darwin's finches evolved into thirteen distinct species of bird not found anywhere but the islands. They evolved because they needed to adapt (some birds got larger, some birds got smaller, some grew smaller beaks in proportion to their bodies, etc.). The genetic composition of these birds is now different, after centuries of change. They are different species in the way humans are different from chimpanzees.
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There is nothing "intellectual" about creationism; the entire concept is faith-driven. You can't know, you didn't see it, you can't even ask your all-powerful God who must have initiated it (he doesn't take questions from mortals).
If you've got any intellectual arguments for creation, let's hear them. Maybe you have a certified letter from your deity that you'd like to scan?
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Other species of birds found on the islands exhibit great changes among their populations over periods as short as a few years. I wish I could find a reference to research done on this (I first heard of it from this month's Scientific American Frontiers). The short of it that variances in food supplies (seeds) over just a few years directly affects the overall appearance (physical size) of future generations of the birds. Smaller birds have less body to fuel, require fewer seeds to feed themselves, and possess beaks more adapted to cracking open their small food. Larger birds, when all available food is small seeds, can't eat enough to stay alive. The larger of the species die out, the smaller reproduce, and the physical properties of the smaller population are passed on to the following generation. Over periods of just 3 or 4 years, the populations of this island physically change to adapt to changes in their environment. The average bird becomes smaller. In food surplus (when larger, more varied foods are available), the opposite happens.
If you're up for a good laugh, visit Creation Research Society, a bunch of "scientists" out to prove that Creation is right. They have an scanning electron microscope, so I guess it's just a matter of time before they re-publish the Bible and prove science wrong, right?
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...real-world examples.
Sun is a hardware company. They make money by selling reliable, scalable hardware to people who need it. As I see it, Sun could release Solaris under the GPL (contracts with other source code owners aside) and it would only serve to INCREASE sales of their hardware, and therefore their profits.
Sun has hundreds, maybe thousands, of reasons not to do this right now (mostly, I think, because they're greedy, uneasy with all software projects, and inexperienced in the Free software world), but not a single one of them is "the bits for the source code for Solaris weigh more than the bits for a proprietary binary release, and it would affect our bottom line (through increased shipping costs) to move towards open software."
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This isn't true. Open Source software (in a GPL-sense, even) fits perfectly well with many, many existing business models. Open Source software as a product of business does not fit with existing proprietary software business.
Free software (Open Source products) may or may not generate revenue directly (consulting is just one established business model in which Free software can pay the bills), but that doesn't mean that it can't make existing services or products more attractive. Take, for example, a company that sells plumbing supplies wholesale, and provides Free software to its customers to manage specialized plumbing equipment inventory. If you were a plumbing supplies retailer, the availability of this software and its acceptance by said company adds to the value of the proposition of purchasing and managing your supplies from this corporation. The fact that this software is Free allows this company's customers to tailor and customize it for point-of-sale workstations, integration with payroll or other inventory systems, etc.
Red Hat is an example of a company that exists in that orthogonal world, as you mentioned. But to say Free software does not fit anywhere in "traditional business models" is ignoring centuries' traditions of marketing, customer relations, and a services-driven economy.
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"apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade". I've always got the latest security fixes, and they never render my sytem unstable or completely unusable.
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Where do I download the kernel code to compile for my Alpha? How about my PowerPC? My Intel box? So much for "does everything better today."
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Thesaurus.com. Also, see Dictionary.com.
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Linux did not lose. A CGI script lost.
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If Microsoft was giving away ham sandwiches, I might be convinced to start liking them as a company. Of course, my shift in opinion rests on the assumption that the mayonnaise will not be rancid, the ham isn't really from a cow, and I won't be forced to upgrade to larger mustard packets half-way through my meal.
Remember, you is what you am; a cow don't make ham.
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