Comment Re:Please keep in mind (Score 1) 447
Prior to that the pope was just a man.
Except when she was Pope Joan!
Prior to that the pope was just a man.
Except when she was Pope Joan!
ARM's problem is, quite simply, they don't have Windows
I don't see a problem there....
That run-on sentence from her blog is a fresh fish in a pile of cats.
That's "his" blog.
Totally not seeing any way in which what you said could be read as disagreeing with what I wrote. Distribution is only one way to use software. It happens to be the one that Palm chose for this, so no other terms could apply.
Well, if the GPL wasn't a bullshit license which states that you're subject to the GPL if you even use GPL software in your project, this wouldn't be a problem.
Since it doesn't say that, I'm sure you'll agree that this is a problem.
Like all licences, GPL constrains how you may used the licensed thing. All you have to do is satisfy those terms and conditions and you're fine.
Not sure I'd agree with a cheaper ARM11
Absolutely agreed that A5 targets ARM9 and ARM11 users though. ARM makes that clear. All other things being equal, I'd want a Cortex-A5 instead of any of those. ARM9 is trusty but limited at the high end. ARM11 is kind of awkward; never quite took over from ARM9, and given Cortex I doubt it'll ever catch on all that much more. ThumbEE (on Cortex-A) is way better than Jazelle (on ARM9/ARM11); it works for any JIT-oriented runtime, not just Java. Thumb2 makes me think of pure Thumb2 userspace, for the code (and icache!!) space savings. If I were designing smartphone chips, I'd like that ability to stick in additional A5 cores, without huge changes when customers need more CPU horsepower. Ditto if I were designing any other kind of ARM-based SoC product.
Another point is that Cortex-A5 is I think what Xilinx will use in their new ARM-equipped FPGAs, due next year or so. That's going to take another segment of the market by storm
Didn't the AMD LANCE Ethernet controllers (including Am7990) do per-packet DMA into host memory, and ring buffers? The Linux LANCE driver has a 1993 copyright, and I'm fairly sure the chip was earlier than that. At the time, ISTR it was one of the few nicely designed Ethernet chips in existence.
So if your quick scan is correct, then either AMD should have been sued back then
Get an effing clue. Consent is the line for rape, not violence. If the rapist issues any kind of threat -- social too, not just physical with a "weapon" other than hands -- then it's rape. By your bogus definition, if the victim is in sufficient fear for her (or his) life that they believe fighting back is not an option
Teh stupid
I sort of agree with the sentiment that releasing someone may be the problem
Prisons are not just there as punishments; they are there to keep dangerous people separated from the rest of society.
That's a serious misconception. Today, they're fundamentally about punishment ("sit in this overcrowded and dangerous hellhole for a few years"), and secondarily about segregation
Of course, if prisons had effective rehabiliation efforts then the repeat-offender training would become a non-issue. And there'd be a lot less of this "throw everyone (but mostly minorities) in prison, and never let them out" crap. But the prison-industrial complex wouldn't be so profitable then either.
If you've ever had to find data sheets for chips given schematics (or sometimes just a board) you'll see another version of this. Google returns lots of results
It gets very hard to find, say, a page with the current vendor of those chips (after three or four buyouts).
Maybe this company can make *those* numbers work better....
We're not sure this is the right design to be encouraging given that it wasn't in HTML 4.01.
I'm not sure that is the right thought process to be applying,
given that HTML 5 is supposed to extend HTML 4.01
I could believe many of their comments are appropriate, but it's worrisome to see one like that escaping orbit.
It's not nothing. The TTY module has lost another very talented maintainer.
Fixed that for you.
Previous maintainer was ISTR Russell King, who does enough other stuff that he never had time to overhaul the TTY stack. It's needed such an overhaul pretty much since it was first written. Most developers who've looked at TTY have broken out in hives, either before or while running away. Which has, previously, been the only sane reaction from anyone who didn't fancy cleaning up those Augeaen stables.
At some level, it was clearly just Time For Alan To Move On
Ironically, a couple of decades ago they were sitting there with literally the keys to the realm in their hands, and they threw them away. Back in the late 80's they introduced the Sun386i workstation, featuring (drumroll..) Intel's 386 processor and a 386 port of SunOS. This was a proper preemptive multitasking OS with 32-bit virtual memory and a decent GUI, far ahead of Windows 2.x at the time. Not only that, it also had a functioning DOS emulator, allowing the machine to run MS-DOS programs. By focusing on x86, and selling SunOS/x86 for $50 or so they could have become the Microsoft of today.
The Sun386i product line was what got Sun onto huge quantities of financial market desktops, and got Sun beyond Engineering/Server markets in a major way.
And they were set to be the first to market with (drumroll) the Sun486i workstation, which worked even better. In fact it out-performed the first SPARC generation... can't have that! They invested in SPARC to get founder Andy Bechtolsheim to come back! (He wanted to design CPU chips, and that wasn't really practical at a company making primo commodity-based systems.)
But, they weren't interested in playing the massive volumes with razor thin margins game of the PC world, thinking that the unix workstation market was insulated from the PC market. After all, PC's were for chumps running 1-2-3 and Wordperfect.
But the Sun386i was a workstation, not a PC. The big apps were CAD tools and financial analysis packages. One reason it was popular at customer sites was however that if you had one, you didn't need TWO honking big pieces of computer hardware at your desk. The same one could handle all that PC stuff (which you needed regularly) as well as the hefty stuff (which you needed constantly).
The real issues with x86 were political
So they introduced their own hardware, SPARC, and discontinued SunOS/x86.
They gave the Sun386i product line a nice lingering death, though, then more or less excised it from their corporate histories. That all the wood behind one arrow buzz-phrase, widely used inside Sun for a while, was all about getting rid of non-SPARC product lines. And stifling dissent.
Another factor was that the Sun386i products had a different -- and more Apple-influenced -- design approach. Maybe it was realistic to focus on higher margins for a while. But the level of internal censorchip it took to ignore everything the '386i stood for (and Sun itself once stood for)
I think Schwartz is a closet hippie (witness the pony-tail). He snuck into Sun pretending to be an MBA-bearing preppie...
Actually he came as part of the purchase of "Lighthouse Design" (?) which wrote some GUI tools that Sun liked enough to buy (and then obviously to kill). He was in Engineering
In various places, truth is not an absolute defense against libel.
One of those places, it seems, is Massachussetts. Perhaps there's a common heritage in English law.
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