Posts by oldcoder

Re: I don't get it..

no.. it wouldn't.

But you also can't write lowlevel runtime libraries with Ada either.

It is either too slow, or the language itself prevents you from doing the things necessary.

Re: Missing context

To be fair, Kay has a habit of not fixing his own bugs. And this problem WAS his bug.

From what I understand of the bug, the system deadlocked - systemd is the init process, and it is SUPPOSED to record and empty the log buffers... But it was spewing so many messages that it never got around to start the recording before the system deadlocked.

Linus doesn't have problems with programmers doing stupid things once. Even twice.

But that third time, the programmer should have learned - or should get out of the field.

Re: Free?

You know...

It is the exact same way Google makes money from Android.

Re: All software is math

"seen as math" is not the same as "is math"

Abstract ideas are not patentable... and mathematics is nothing but abstract.

Re: My reaction: Finally!!! Wait... god damnit!

Well, "astonishingly good" is relative.

Gnome 3 still sucks wind, though it has been tamed a bit.

Systemd still sucks wind big time. And is a large security "hit me here" target.

Re: Models

Real science ALWAYS validate. Thats how you make sure it is correct. And when incorrect, REVALIDATE.

Without validation it is just... religion.

And thus Nemisis is reborn...

as a dark matter star/planet/... whatever.

Doesn't change the original concept at all.

And possibly, dark matter doesn't even exist - other than normal matter at very low temperatures.

Re: Good, gawd/ess Trevor.

No, Life isn't a game.

But the same mathematics applies...

Naaa....

It was based on tax avoidance.

Re: Amazing what a bit of competition can do

I think the US DoD counts for real work.

As does Spain, Brazil,... And a fair number of cities in the US.

The list of "outliers" is quite long.

Munich was careful. How long do you think it will take for some organization that large to Migrate to Windows 8.x from XP? hmmm?

"a problem that doesn't exist"??? overpriced software.. underperforming software, virus repair, constant outages for the same... Constant money pit...

Besides, they saved a boatload of money.

And will continue saving every year.

Re: Microsoft?

:)... Reminds me of a support call that occurred at a supercomputer center running several Cray YMP/C90 systems.. some nut wanted to run VB on the Cray so he could get his answers fast enough... Staff had a bit of trouble getting him to realize not all systems belong to Microsoft...

Re: IBM is going nowhere with Watson

Microelectronics/nanoelectronics.

solid state physics

Holographic storage.

nanofabrication

Supercomputers

The very disk drives you are using were created by IBM technology.

Re: Now there's a surprise (not)

I think Osbourn was before Apple, 1981 as a matter of fact.

Then there was Compaq, Grid, Epson, Poqet (with a netbook equivalent)

Apple? doesn't show up until 1991 with a Powerbook 100, though there was a Macintosh Portable in 1989.

Quite a while before Apple was "one of the pioneers in portable computing".

Rewriting history?

Re: End software patents, everywhere, immediately.

Yes. It is intangible.

It is no different than directions written on a piece of paper.

And as you can't patent an IDEA in the first place, you can't sell it either.

Now, if you invent a specific piece of hardware then you have something - it is called a "transformation of matter".

Writing is not transformational - it is recorded language. And it doesn't matter what can read that recording, it remains a recording.

Mathematics is an idea.

Is there a significant difference?

Other than the weather, that is.

Re: sadistic

Sadistic when he forces others to do it as well...

Re: @OrsonX "too fast for missile"

NO. The CIA KNEW the U2 wasn't that fast. But it could fly HIGHER than the SAMs could reach up to that time. Its flight ceiling was 70,000 feet.

The U2 was just a glider with a jet engine...

Re: Why??

Except for the fact that it was Microsoft that changed.

Evidenced by the fact that if you disable the "compatibility" it works.

Your description fits Microsoft more than Google.

Not saying goggle hasn't made mistakes; but it really depends on which country you are in as to what is illegal.

Google doesn't have anything in France, so how Google can violate French laws is a bit confusing.

EU laws, on the other hand, maybe - but there are so many different venues it would be easy to violate one.

Re: Always a PC

And yet...

People are changing. City governments, Police departments ...

They are finding the Microsoft is just too expensive - and the updates cause a loss of historical data, and too much makework to translate all the historical data for every update.

Google didn't even make a java VM.

They use a Dalvic VM, which requires any java bytecode for a JVM to first be translated to Dalvic.

Re: Security issue?

Yes, a security issue.

You are assuming that an IOMMU is available for use. Not all systems have those available for all devices...

Re: @JDX

What WP OEMs... Isn't the only one left Nokia?

I think I call shill on this

"supported versions cost far more to license", no they still cost 0. What may cost is the support - and how much support you want.

"it has far more security vulnerabilities", no it has fewer due to the fewer lines of code, and less complex threading. It also supports more than what Windows can do. More CPUs, more memory, more architectures...

"it is much more expensive to integrate", definitely false as it is based on standards which Windows is not. Granted, the kernel/device interface isn't standardized, but if drivers are released and accepted into the kernel they tend to get updated for you.

"more limited security capabilities (e.g. no constrained delegation, or dynamic access control)" also false. It has more security capabilities than Windows starting with the basic UNIX design, adding real POSIX capabilities, and with SELinux on top to organize capabilities.

Uptime obviously.

Most countries are not large enough to support two such server systems.

If a problem with either communications, power, or other occurs in Ireland, it will more likely affect any OTHER servers ALSO maintained in Ireland.

In the US, it is possible to have that backup server in different sections of the country - which have separate power, communications, and other infrastructure needed for operation.

Brazil is large enough (geographically) for two, but not necessarily economically large enough.

The same goes for the EU, but there it is more the varying tax rates that make things uneconomical.

Your example just barely misses the reaon why

"So Americans must go to Chinese of Indonesian courts to complain about products bought in USA but made in those countries?"

Actually, yes they would have to. The company that is in the US that bought them from the Chinese is the only one they can sue.

Had they bought them from the Chinese directly, then they would have to go there to sue.

No...

The mistake made was getting caught at it.

And what patents would that be?

It is even possible that there are no "linux patents" involved at all, but some unidentified hardware patent.