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$0.17 Musicians' unions *Typical
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.82 Publishing royalties *e.g The rights to the song itself
$0.80 Retail profit *Poor bastards. No wonder they're going out of business.
$0.90 Distribution
$1.60 Artists' royalties
$1.70 Label profit *Hmmmmmm.
$2.40 Marketing/promotion *So why don't 20 year old albums cost any less?
$2.91 Label overhead *Upgrade your equipment, jesus.
$3.89 Retail overhead *Because if it weren't for music, they'd be selling crack in that space.

4 dollars retail overhead? Maybe I'm simplifying the distribution issues inherent in specialized retail, but how could they afford to restock and oversee 50c pencils if they're getting 4 dollar overheads on CD's?

Alternative breakdowns:

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/entertainment/0101/cd.price/frameset.exclude.html

http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cd-costs-breakdown.html

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

This article http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-has-google-done-in-search-lately.html disagrees with you. It may be from last year, but I've seen other search related features show up on that blog.

In fact, that blog is on my list and it seems like they are always coming up with extras to add into their search. Little extra things you can click on when the search results in a stock symbol or dated item.

Also, have you taken a look at Google labs experimental search?

I'm not saying some competition would be good, but it isn't as stagnant as I think you would make it out to be. This link http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/faster-google-search-on-your-mobile.html shows another more recent search improvement they've done recently

This article http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-has-google-done-in-search-lately.html disagrees with you. It may be from last year, but I've seen other search related features show up on that blog.

In fact, that blog is on my list and it seems like they are always coming up with extras to add into their search. Little extra things you can click on when the search results in a stock symbol or dated item.

Also, have you taken a look at Google labs experimental search?

I'm not saying some competition would be good, but it isn't as stagnant as I think you would make it out to be. This link http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/faster-google-search-on-your-mobile.html shows another more recent search improvement they've done recently

I don't mean *you* specifically, of course, that's just how the quote is phrased. Still, I agree that most popular games are about conveying "pretty flashing lights and electronic beeps," and if people wanted "themes, genres, plot," et. al, they'd read a fucking book.

Vista is simply better however.

Simply better? By what standards?

Even with 2GBs of RAM Vista sp1 gets trounced in Office benchmarks by a 1GB XPsp3 system. Aero is OK and all, but is it really worth a 1.8-2x performance hit?
http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/update-re-testing-vista-w2gb-ram-office.html

Aero also reduces battery life in laptops by about 10% (depending on who you ask). MS had originally said that Vista would offer improved battery performance.

There are some nice things about Vista like their new image based install, improved kernel security, etc. but in the end it isn't nearly enough to make me switch. I've tried Vista a couple of times for a few weeks on each stint, and my machine just feels sluggish and bogged down (a dual core Intel laptop w/3 GBs of RAM) compared to XP.

So you get a slower OS that uses more power (which costs more money) and / or reduces battery life on laptops. Tell me again how Vista is simply better? I care a lot more about productivity than the newest shiny. I can accept slowdowns, as long as there are perceived benefits, but there just aren't enough in my book to justify Vista.

One day soon, the computer industry will realize that, 150 years after Charles Babbage came up with his idea of a general purpose sequential computer, it is time to move on and change to a new computing model. The industry will be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. For over 20 years, researchers in parallel and high-performance computing have tried to come up with an easy way to use threads for parallel programming. They have failed and they have failed miserably. Amazingly, they are still continuing to pursue the multithreading approach. None other than Dan Reed, Director of scalable and multicore computing at Microsoft Research, believes that multithreading over time will become part of the skill set of every professional software developer (source: cio.com). What is wrong with this picture? Threads are a major disaster: They are coarse-grained, they are a pain in the ass to write and hard to debug and maintain. Reinders knows this. He's pushing threads, not because he wants your code to run faster but because Intel's multicore CPUs are useless for non-threaded apps.

Reinders is not an evangelist for nothing. He's more concerned about future-proofing Intel's processors than anything else. You listen to him at your own risk because the industry's current multicore strategy will fail and it will fail miserably.

Threads were never meant to be the basis of a parallel computing model but as a mechanism to execute sequential code concurrently. To find out why multithreading is not part of the future of parallel programming, read Nightmare on Core Street. There is better way to achieve fine-grain, deterministic parallelism without threads.

And don't forget that Frankenstein was likely due in part to the frigid summer caused by the eruption of Mt. Tambora. That should be good for a bonus point or two.
http://frankensteinia.blogspot.com/2008/01/frankensteins-volcano.html

Hey, this is not a MS product! It must work pretty poorly then! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

It's absolutely inevitable! You will sooner or later get Vista! Let it be sooner people! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Price of gasoline 10 years ago: $1.04.
Price of gasoline now: $3.27

They exclude energy from the inflation calculations for just that reason - it affects the cost of everything, and it's HUGE.

Then there's housing: http://therealreturns.blogspot.com/2007/06/median-and-average-house-prices-in-usa.html

The average house price in January of 2000 was at $200,300 and in April of 2007 the average house price stood at $299,100. The average house prices grew about 50% from January 2000 to April of 2007.

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/2005/0624.html

One way to lower entitlements would be to bring the inflation rates down, which would translate into lower Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA). The way to do this was to bring down the rate of inflation. However, this was not done by natural means, but artificially through statistical manipulation. The supply of money and credit began to go parabolic in the 1990s as shown in the graph of M3. The rise in money and credit would mean higher inflation rates. Higher inflation rates would mean higher COLA adjustments, which would lead to bigger deficits.

As for the "it is assumed that the cost of energy will be picked up by cost increases in all other goods" - when calculating the CPI, they substitute goods preferentially so as to lower the calculation, as well as "adjusting" the price of a good downward!!! if it's better than last year's model...

Hedonics

The manipulation didnt stop there. The bureau also began to adjust prices for quality. This practice became known as hedonics. Hedonics adjusts the prices of goods as a result of the increased pleasure a consumer derives from a product. A few examples will illustrate how removed the index has moved away from reality. Tim LaFleur is a commodity specialist for televisions at the BLS. In December last year he adjusted the price of a 27-inch television set for quality improvements. The 27-inch television set had a retail cost of $329.99. However, he decided the new model, which still sold for $329.99, had a better screen. After putting this improvement through the governments complex hedonic adjustment model he determined the improvement in the picture was worth at least $135! Taking in this improvement he adjusted the price of the TV by $135, concluding that the price of the TV had actually fallen by 29%! [1] The price reflected in the CPI was not the actual retail store cost of $329.99, but $194.99. The only problem for we consumers is that if we went to Best Buy or Circuit City to buy that TV, we would still pay $329.99.

Another example of hedonics at work is the way the BLS treats rising automobile prices. Mr. Reese, a specialist for autos, took a 2005 model car, which went from $17,890 in 2004 to $18,490 in 2005. After adjusting for quality items and making antilock disc brakes standard, the bureau adjusted the actual $600 price increase down by $225. The problem for we consumers is that the price of the car in dealer showrooms was still $18,490.

Instead of using new car prices, which were going up each year, the BLS substituted used car prices, which were falling. In place of exploding real estate prices, the Bureau gave more weight to the price of rents, which were falling as more households bought homes. Rents were given more weight even though 69% of households own a home versus the 31% that rent.

Real inflation has been understated since 1986, when they changed the way it was calculated. Anyone who says they believe the "official" CPI is a fool or a liar.

kde.org/blog/archives/496-iPod-Classic-Will-Be-Supported.html http://abhay-techzone.blogspot.com/2007/11/using-ipod-touch-iphone-with-amarok.html old news, while newer ones might not be able to work, currently they work fine. Stop spreading FUD.

Fair enough. And beyond writers' (or interpreters') assumptions, in the context of a prophetic passage in the Hebrew scriptures the language is very often symbolic (the same is true of prophetic passages in the Christian New Testament). Interpretation of prophecy is tricky business, which is why St. Peter specifically says it should not be left up to individual opinion to do so. Where the authority to do so is located is a much larger question, but not one I would undertake where it is likely to be unappreciated (such as where one would rather expect to find "News for Nerds"). Here is an interesting article on the subject if anyone's interested, though (particularly parts II and III).

Of course, all of this could open a whole other can of worms, especially among the crazier elements of contemporary American Evangelicals who are convinced that the Book of Revelations is a literal account of what will happen (soon, according to some), or that the world is 6,000 years old. Despite their relative vocality, these are decidedly the minority of those who identify themselves as "Christian."

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/3619543/_Wilders_slaat_aanbod_af__.html?p=14,1 in Dutch
http://canadianinfidel.blogspot.com/2008/03/wilders-declines-offer-from-muslim.html in English

So apperently the Muslims in the Netherlands are willing to show it if they can see it upfront to make sure it contains no legally libel content.

Nice to see that the Muslims are more willing and open then a US based company when it concerns free speech.

Well firefox is better don't matter. My blog http://scenewarez.blogspot.com/

here is the list you requested: http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-many-has-god-killed-complete-list.html Please list a thousand islam has killed for every 1 on that list. I look foward to it.

"I would forget CD Baby"

From their site:

"For a simple $35 setup, CD Baby can get your music selling worldwide on cdbaby.com, Apple iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic and many more."

There are things I don't like about them, but the above is the interesting bit for me so far and why they made the list.

Do you know of any other simple way to get your music placed with those other stores?

Plus:

"We take all credit card orders for your CD, online or through our toll-free phone number, and ship it to them within hours."

Doing business online is not simple for me where I live.

Now, one thing I want to see happen is for people to start dealing with informal groups of individuals such as ourselves:

http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2008/03/online-collaboration-meets-online.html

That would make life a whole lot simpler if it works out how I think it could.

all the best,

drew
http://packet-in.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Packet In - net band - libre music, sometimes gratis

...the rate of increase of power of quantum computers isn't faster than Moore's law. I've written more on this here.

No thanks to the advertising in my books.

The last time I was prompted to write on eReaders and eBooks I put this up:

http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2007/11/ereaders-and-ebooks.html

I sure hope these nasty plans don't end up having a place in my life. I hope others manage to stay away too. We can do better.

all the best,

drew
http://packet-in.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Packet In - net band making libre music. You can get some gratis.

Come off it. The Chinese army certainly raped Tibetan civilians in '59. Just like every other occupying force in the history of warfare. That is what happens when a government dehumanizes the enemy so their soldiers don't realize that they are killing their fellow man and go stark raving mad during combat.

It happened with the U.S. in Viet Nam and in Iraq.

It happened with the British in Dol Dol.

It happened with the Japaneses in China

I could keep going but it's just more of the same. If you still don't believe the Chinese army is capable of blatant human rights violations because these articles are just words, how about a video? WARNING THE PRECEDING LINK IS HARD TO WATCH!

I do not deny that there are plenty of design issues with OOXML. The statement which I have been challenging was that Microsoft "refused to address" them. Quite on the contrary, from first-hand observations I can tell you that Microsoft and Ecma have (since the original vote on OOXML failed) been extraordinarily willing to address concerns, even to the extent of addressing IMO unjustified complaints in ways that actually make the specification worse.

This is a great example of concrete unsolved problems with OOXML both in documentation and design. In an earlier comment in the thread you asked someone to name one unaddressed issue, there are 15 or so there. If you really are involved in the standards body for your country/region, I really hope you know about glaring issues like these and disapprove on grounds more substantial than just the fast track request.

I do not think it is out of scope to take into account the past trustworthiness of Microsoft as an international entity, either. You may disagree with that, but the linked post can't really be argued against.

I am tied of these BS. You'd better read more before "shame on" others. http://thetruthoftibet.blogspot.com/ http://newschecker.blogspot.com/2007/10/dalai-lama-hero-in-western-world.html I am not saying old Tibet was all bad. And myself is a supporter of Buddhism. Personally, I am very respectful to Dalai Lama as a religion leader. But come on, history is history. At that old time it was closer to hell for most of the population then heaven.

I am tied of these BS. You'd better read more before "shame on" others. http://thetruthoftibet.blogspot.com/ http://newschecker.blogspot.com/2007/10/dalai-lama-hero-in-western-world.html I am not saying old Tibet was all bad. And myself is a supporter of Buddhism. Personally, I am very respectful to Dalai Lama as a religion leader. But come on, history is history. At that old time it was closer to hell for most of the population then heaven.

It doesn't matter whether OOXML is properly documented --- as Stephane Rodriguez explains, even if it were properly documented, it doesn't accomplish what a standard should, which is to enable interoperability (with Office 2007).

I just blogged about my purchase of a QuadCore Gateway with a lot of cruft on it. To bad Decrapifyer doesn't work on all the apps on Gateway's or Sony's. It seems mostly targetted towards Dell cruft.

The funding of New Zealand's elections: Current problems and prospects for change

Alleged Tory Internet scheme sparks call for probe - making political blogging illegal.

"Stephen Harper's Conservatives are currently being investigated "by Elections Canada for allegedly orchestrating an elaborate money-laundering scheme that allowed them to spend more on national advertising than the law permits during the last election while attempting to get rebates for monies the national party hid by funnelling through Conservative candidate campaigns."

And our politicians actually do real work

Some would argue that is not a desirable outcome.

I have written a long long reply to his article at my blog (no ads, etc.)
Short summary:
In my opinion, security in real life is not about "what can go wrong". It is about "how often and how much can it go wrong and am I prepared to handle those cases". In short it is more about how to calculate risks accurately and knowing when to take them.

What if you get a link from spyware or carp like it?

Like how teacher faced jail that happened in class where the school did not keep there systems up to date.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1464355.ece

http://billpstudios.blogspot.com/2007/01/have-spyware-go-to-jail-for-child-porn.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Amero

by Ohio University. Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, was the number one target of the RIAA. Until, that is, it paid $60,000 plus $16,000 a year for the 'filtering' software its expert witness's company was peddling -- then suddenly the subpoenas stopped. Not a single subpoena since Ohio University started paying off the mob.

As we've seen during the framing debates on various blogs, Nisbet & Mooney seem to be incapable of making the distinction between explaining science and what you do with that knowledge. Evolutionists have done a good job of explaining evolution. If Nisbet & Mooney don't think this is true then I challenge them to come up with a better way of describing the science of evolutionary biology.

What they're upset about is the fact that a segment of the population doesn't buy the scientific explanation. That's true, but it doesn't matter how well you explain it to those people, they still won't accept it. They won't accept it even it's economically beneficial and leads to medical advances.

Why won't they accept it? Because it's against their religion. How do we change their minds? Part of the solution is to show them that their religion is false if it conflicts with science. This doesn't have anything to do with explaining the facts of science. It has to do with fighting superstition and anti-science attitudes.

Ubuntu can NOT do it. I can think of a very specific example that affected me recently.

I have an IT8212 RAID card that I use as an additional IDE controller. When I upgraded to 2.6.24 I suddenly lost 1/2 my drives and the ones I did have were running at like 5 MB/s (instead of of 50).

I spent an entire day playing around with variations of enabling and disabling things in the kernel before I found the magic set of keywords that lead me to an Ubuntu thread. It had to do with the switch from 'old' style devices to libata. Apparently Ubuntu just rolled this into one of the last updates and didn't check with IT8212 users because they were all having the same problems.

The fix was easy but it took me about a day and I had slow/missing hard drives until then.

I wrote it all out here on my "random debian notes" blog.

You'll remember Stéphane Rodriguez who gave us Microsoft Office XML formats? Defective by design back in August, 2007?

Since then, in February, 2008 he produced The truth about Microsoft Office compatibility and Typical B.S. in technical articles about OOXML and now Bad surprise in Microsoft Office binary documents : interoperability remains impossible Thursday, March 13, 2008.

These blogs are at the same level of depth as Rob Weir's latest blog, and demonstrate that Microsoft's policies as detailed below continue to this day.

From OOXML is defective by design...

"Mr Bill Gates in person sent in 1998 a memo to the Office product group (led by Steven Sinofsky at the time), memo undisclosed to the public thanks to the IOWA consumer case :"

From: Bill Gates

Sent: Saturday, December 5 1998

To: Bob Muglia, Jon DeVann, Steven Sinofsky

Subject : Office rendering

One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company.

We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.

I would be glad to explain at a greater length.

Likewise this love of DAV in Office/Exchange is a huge problem. I would also like to make sure people understand this as well.

-----------

Clearly the word is getting out about the problems in OOXML. Stéphane Rodriguez notes at the bottom of OOXML - Defective by design:

Update : this article was Slashdotted on Sunday 26 of August.

Update2 : this article is taking 300,000 hits a day, and is making it all around the world in all kinds of sites. My web host provider was so angry at the peak in traffic that he threatened to cut me off, so I had to redirect to a blog site such as Google's blogger to host the article.

Update3 : wednesday august 29, added a new section on Document security

Update4 : friday august 31, added more content to sections US English and Windows dates

Update5 : sunday september 2, added a quick comparison between ODF and ECMA 376

You'll remember Stéphane Rodriguez who gave us Microsoft Office XML formats? Defective by design back in August, 2007?

Since then, in February, 2008 he produced The truth about Microsoft Office compatibility and Typical B.S. in technical articles about OOXML and now Bad surprise in Microsoft Office binary documents : interoperability remains impossible Thursday, March 13, 2008.

These blogs are at the same level of depth as Rob Weir's latest blog, and demonstrate that Microsoft's policies as detailed below continue to this day.

From OOXML is defective by design...

"Mr Bill Gates in person sent in 1998 a memo to the Office product group (led by Steven Sinofsky at the time), memo undisclosed to the public thanks to the IOWA consumer case :"

From: Bill Gates

Sent: Saturday, December 5 1998

To: Bob Muglia, Jon DeVann, Steven Sinofsky

Subject : Office rendering

One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company.

We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.

I would be glad to explain at a greater length.

Likewise this love of DAV in Office/Exchange is a huge problem. I would also like to make sure people understand this as well.

-----------

Clearly the word is getting out about the problems in OOXML. Stéphane Rodriguez notes at the bottom of OOXML - Defective by design:

Update : this article was Slashdotted on Sunday 26 of August.

Update2 : this article is taking 300,000 hits a day, and is making it all around the world in all kinds of sites. My web host provider was so angry at the peak in traffic that he threatened to cut me off, so I had to redirect to a blog site such as Google's blogger to host the article.

Update3 : wednesday august 29, added a new section on Document security

Update4 : friday august 31, added more content to sections US English and Windows dates

Update5 : sunday september 2, added a quick comparison between ODF and ECMA 376

You'll remember Stéphane Rodriguez who gave us Microsoft Office XML formats? Defective by design back in August, 2007?

Since then, in February, 2008 he produced The truth about Microsoft Office compatibility and Typical B.S. in technical articles about OOXML and now Bad surprise in Microsoft Office binary documents : interoperability remains impossible Thursday, March 13, 2008.

These blogs are at the same level of depth as Rob Weir's latest blog, and demonstrate that Microsoft's policies as detailed below continue to this day.

From OOXML is defective by design...

"Mr Bill Gates in person sent in 1998 a memo to the Office product group (led by Steven Sinofsky at the time), memo undisclosed to the public thanks to the IOWA consumer case :"

From: Bill Gates

Sent: Saturday, December 5 1998

To: Bob Muglia, Jon DeVann, Steven Sinofsky

Subject : Office rendering

One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company.

We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.

I would be glad to explain at a greater length.

Likewise this love of DAV in Office/Exchange is a huge problem. I would also like to make sure people understand this as well.

-----------

Clearly the word is getting out about the problems in OOXML. Stéphane Rodriguez notes at the bottom of OOXML - Defective by design:

Update : this article was Slashdotted on Sunday 26 of August.

Update2 : this article is taking 300,000 hits a day, and is making it all around the world in all kinds of sites. My web host provider was so angry at the peak in traffic that he threatened to cut me off, so I had to redirect to a blog site such as Google's blogger to host the article.

Update3 : wednesday august 29, added a new section on Document security

Update4 : friday august 31, added more content to sections US English and Windows dates

Update5 : sunday september 2, added a quick comparison between ODF and ECMA 376

You'll remember Stéphane Rodriguez who gave us Microsoft Office XML formats? Defective by design back in August, 2007?

Since then, in February, 2008 he produced The truth about Microsoft Office compatibility and Typical B.S. in technical articles about OOXML and now Bad surprise in Microsoft Office binary documents : interoperability remains impossible Thursday, March 13, 2008.

These blogs are at the same level of depth as Rob Weir's latest blog, and demonstrate that Microsoft's policies as detailed below continue to this day.

From OOXML is defective by design...

"Mr Bill Gates in person sent in 1998 a memo to the Office product group (led by Steven Sinofsky at the time), memo undisclosed to the public thanks to the IOWA consumer case :"

From: Bill Gates

Sent: Saturday, December 5 1998

To: Bob Muglia, Jon DeVann, Steven Sinofsky

Subject : Office rendering

One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company.

We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.

I would be glad to explain at a greater length.

Likewise this love of DAV in Office/Exchange is a huge problem. I would also like to make sure people understand this as well.

-----------

Clearly the word is getting out about the problems in OOXML. Stéphane Rodriguez notes at the bottom of OOXML - Defective by design:

Update : this article was Slashdotted on Sunday 26 of August.

Update2 : this article is taking 300,000 hits a day, and is making it all around the world in all kinds of sites. My web host provider was so angry at the peak in traffic that he threatened to cut me off, so I had to redirect to a blog site such as Google's blogger to host the article.

Update3 : wednesday august 29, added a new section on Document security

Update4 : friday august 31, added more content to sections US English and Windows dates

Update5 : sunday september 2, added a quick comparison between ODF and ECMA 376

http://slark1.blogspot.com/2008/03/by-my-side.html

http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/03/sir-arthur-c-clarke-dead-at-age-90.html

Out of all his predictions, I was really pulling for the monkey servants.

From the wikipedia:

As featured on Sky One's "50 Terrible Predictions" programme, Clarke once predicted that apes would function as household servants by the 1960's; "...with our present knowledge of animal psychology, we can certainly solve the servant problem with the help of the monkey kingdom" he said, but quipped "..of course, eventually, our super chimpanzees would start forming trade unions and we'd be right back where we started."

http://machete-lang.blogspot.com/

"So why is your watch on your right wrist, and yet you throw right handed? I'm thinking the real secret is that you must be a photoshop creation."

Not sure, it feels better there. My dad was the same way iirc.

Supposedly, I was ambi as a kid until pre-school made me go righty.

I water ski like a lefty. I wind a top like a lefty but spin it from my right hand. I have a stronger kick from my left foot but am more accurate with my right... And a number of other oddities...

Unless I am a photoshop creation... wwnnsnmsnm...

all the best,

drew
http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/

It's notable that Scala is expressive enough that you can implement Erlang style concurrency using Actors very easily:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1615
http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2006/11/threadless-concurrency-on-jvm-aka-scala.html
and still be running inside a standard JVM.

-Tupshin

System admins should be ready to prevent their clients from getting exploited and redirected to those malicious domains. check here: http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/03/iframe-attacks-actions-to-be-taken.html

System admins should be ready to prevent their clients from getting exploited and redirected to those malicious domains. check here: http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/03/iframe-attacks-actions-to-be-taken.html

Alternatively, in VHDL:

FPGA /= CPU

It's tends to be harder to get an FPGA to "hello world" but it seems these days that all the cool kids are compiling their dataflow graphs into reconfigurable logic. If you want to be a 1337 fpga programmer, then you should learn Bluespec. Guarded atomic actions for the masses!

Or Excel

let's be clear, for the most part, people who learned and write exclusively in interpreted languages are not programmers.

Spoken like a language bigot. In truth, the distinction between interpreted and scripted is pretty arbitrary. You can write in interpreted C or compiled Ruby.

I've met a lot of people who know a lot about interpreted languages, but they don't know why many of those languages are so bad with handling things like arrays and what their shortcomings are.

Funny, the languages I know that are the most painful to do array manipulation in are the compiled ones like C and Java.