If they don't make O'Reilly gift certificates, they should, because I have about a baker's dozen worth of O'Reilly books on my current wish list. As the premier high-status geek-book publisher, one would think O'Reilly would have 'em by now... are ya listenin', Tim?
Personally, I think it's a crime the way the Wu Tang Clan has been a victim of the US Government's conspiracy to suppress rap music by outlawing the works of RZA and others for export. They are making it illegal to listen to the Wu, and that's against the first amendment guaranteeing freedom of information which needless to say should be free to make it's own (albeit informed) opinions.
Sony's been making some cool (albeit very spendy) wireless products lately, including a base station that seems to attach to a 10 base T network hub for a 300 foot radius of wireless access, and wireless ethernet cards to go along with it. I'm sure their other products are striving for interoperability as well, with the exception of the Memory Stick which should DIE DIE DIE YOU PROPRIETARY BASTARDS.
Macromedia is SOOOOO much better than Adobe it's not even funny. Flash, for instance, is almost 180% better than Livemotion*.
In fact, I think Adobe should go rot in hell with Microsoft for running a monopoly. I hate their tactic of giving away thousands of copies of Photoshop to schools so it becomes the "Industry Standard", and then charging $700 for a fricking drawing program. Screw that, I'm not your bitch anymore, Adobe.
(*this statistic randomly generated for your pleasure.)
Yargh, that's what I thought. Ah well... I was kind of hoping that eventually there would be a BIND re-write, but evidently not. It would probably take less time than an audit, ironically.
Hopefully it has better security than the other BINDs, which, from numerous comments I've overheard, is notoriously prone to exploits. Does anyone know what functionality has been added to this release, or is it mostly bug fixes and stability improvements? Also, any word on the OpenBSD ports of BIND?
By the way, Eric Sun, who submitted this story, runs a great domain registrar called Alphapython. I can't even begin to express how happy I've been with their service, and their pricing is great, too. If you get a chance and need high-quality, affordable domains, check them out.
True enough. Hey, if you're interested in running secure sites, or even just interested in computer security in general, check out OpenBSD. It was designed to be secure from the ground up...
That's weird; according to Epic Games Unreal Techology Faq, they coded the engine entirely in C++, not Java.
As for your lag problems, who knows. I have a P-II 350 with an ancient Voodoo2 card that runs Unreal just fine. I'll grant you that the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is damned slow to start, though.
Java does not "always compile on the user (sic) side." It is much more common for Java applets and servlets to be running as middleware on servers these days, for portability and standardization.
The days of Java applets being downloaded and executed in a JVM in the client's browser are long gone. Microsoft killed them by "extending" the Java Virtual Machine that comes with Internet Explorer (which is bundled with Windows blah blah blah), breaking most "cross-platform" Java code in the process.
If you're talking about the scripts that are embedded in HTML code, that is javascript, a Netscape invention, and has nothing to do with Java(tm) the Sun programming language. Embedded HTML scripts, of course, are always executed client-side, just like VBScript, ActiveX controls, and DHTML.
You are so woefully misinformed on this topic that people are mistaking you for a troll. Why don't you go look up the difference between Java and Javascript sometime, instead of just making stuff up that you overheard somebody talking about once?
If run-time performance is the only thing you care about, perhaps you should take a class in Assembly language. Assembly programs have runtimes on the order of magnitude of 20-100X faster than compiled C code.
I don't usually even bother to respond to people who flame whole languages without even knowing the basics of said languages.
However, your posts are written as if you think you're some sort of programming expert, which you obviously are not, if you can't even tell Java from Javascript.
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If they don't make O'Reilly gift certificates, they should, because I have about a baker's dozen worth of O'Reilly books on my current wish list. As the premier high-status geek-book publisher, one would think O'Reilly would have 'em by now... are ya listenin', Tim?
Hahaha, that's very funny (moderators, look at parent poster's names to "get it").
Do or do not. There is no, "try".
Also, by using short, precise passwords, like I do, you save hard drive space, and your programs run more efficiently.
Thank you.
Hell, I'd pay YOU $1000 to NOT use Windows, if I was as rich as Bill Gates.
Personally, I think it's a crime the way the Wu Tang Clan has been a victim of the US Government's conspiracy to suppress rap music by outlawing the works of RZA and others for export. They are making it illegal to listen to the Wu, and that's against the first amendment guaranteeing freedom of information which needless to say should be free to make it's own (albeit informed) opinions.
Sony's been making some cool (albeit very spendy) wireless products lately, including a base station that seems to attach to a 10 base T network hub for a 300 foot radius of wireless access, and wireless ethernet cards to go along with it. I'm sure their other products are striving for interoperability as well, with the exception of the Memory Stick which should DIE DIE DIE YOU PROPRIETARY BASTARDS.
In fact, I think Adobe should go rot in hell with Microsoft for running a monopoly. I hate their tactic of giving away thousands of copies of Photoshop to schools so it becomes the "Industry Standard", and then charging $700 for a fricking drawing program. Screw that, I'm not your bitch anymore, Adobe.
(*this statistic randomly generated for your pleasure.)
Nuff said.
Oops, this comment must have been inserted by l33t haX0rs, please don't moderate me down for it! ;-)
How can I tell? Well, because Dragonfly Blue would never troll, would he?
Just kidding, although sometimes Sony is innovative, mostly they are just corporate. And this comes from a frequent supporter of Sony products...
I of course meant the Kalahari desert. My bad.
How is expressing my opinion on this topic flamebait? Interesting...
I can't think of any tool more subversive to an oppressive dictatorship than a computer hooked into the Internet. If you can, what is it?
OH my god, that was the first thing I thought of when I rea the article.... lol I thought it was just me and my morbid side.
Yeah, all of you JUST SHUT UP; I am trying to listen to my new DVD on my CD-ROM drive and can't hear anything over all this incessant babbling.
The link to Anandtech in the article is broken, Mr. Taco.
...unless you had one of these.
Yargh, that's what I thought. Ah well... I was kind of hoping that eventually there would be a BIND re-write, but evidently not. It would probably take less time than an audit, ironically.
By the way, Eric Sun, who submitted this story, runs a great domain registrar called Alphapython. I can't even begin to express how happy I've been with their service, and their pricing is great, too. If you get a chance and need high-quality, affordable domains, check them out.
True enough. Hey, if you're interested in running secure sites, or even just interested in computer security in general, check out OpenBSD. It was designed to be secure from the ground up...
the same Department of Defense that got rated a D+ in their security audit last week? And we're supposed to look to them for an example?
heh.
As for your lag problems, who knows. I have a P-II 350 with an ancient Voodoo2 card that runs Unreal just fine. I'll grant you that the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is damned slow to start, though.
- Java does not "always compile on the user (sic) side." It is much more common for Java applets and servlets to be running as middleware on servers these days, for portability and standardization.
- If you're talking about the scripts that are embedded in HTML code, that is javascript, a Netscape invention, and has nothing to do with Java(tm) the Sun programming language. Embedded HTML scripts, of course, are always executed client-side, just like VBScript, ActiveX controls, and DHTML.
- You are so woefully misinformed on this topic that people are mistaking you for a troll. Why don't you go look up the difference between Java and Javascript sometime, instead of just making stuff up that you overheard somebody talking about once?
- If run-time performance is the only thing you care about, perhaps you should take a class in Assembly language. Assembly programs have runtimes on the order of magnitude of 20-100X faster than compiled C code.
I don't usually even bother to respond to people who flame whole languages without even knowing the basics of said languages.The days of Java applets being downloaded and executed in a JVM in the client's browser are long gone. Microsoft killed them by "extending" the Java Virtual Machine that comes with Internet Explorer (which is bundled with Windows blah blah blah), breaking most "cross-platform" Java code in the process.
However, your posts are written as if you think you're some sort of programming expert, which you obviously are not, if you can't even tell Java from Javascript.