Code in any language can be optimized. Case in point: I once wrote a trivial little systray app in MSVC++ using MFC. The thing was 7MB at runtime. Rewrote the same thing going straight to the Win32 API, and it was 16KB - and easier to understand, at that.
Unless you can clearly demonstrate to me that your Constitutional rights have actually been revoked, perhaps you should reconsider your statements that we are becoming like China.
Or perhaps you should re-read my statement and show me where I said we were becoming like China?
Don't mistake a philosophical argument for a political one.
I'd be more impressed if they had you writing long mode X86 assembler. PIC is incredibly trivial by comparison. It's like tic-tac-toe vs. Unreal Tournament, here.
How many graduates do you know who learned a modern assembly in school?
Commercial connections (/real/ ones, anyway) are still orders of magnitude faster than consumer ones. The only reason that so few people use them is because most websites simply don't need that kind of bandwidth.
Don't confuse need with availability. Client/server still works just fine.
First of all, from my understanding (IANAL) of the law, assault would require that the comments be directed at a particular person. The person in question was eavesdropping on the conversation, and therefore could in no way be construed as a potential target of the comment -- and that's forgetting the context of the conversation, which was obviously "I don't want a weapon, I want to shoot targets, so I bought a weapon that's harder to screw up and kill someone with."
Sorry, you've got to have a screw loose to construe that conversation as threatening, assuming that the quotes are accurate.
Secondly, I've heard worse in the workplace on many occasions, and we all laugh and move on. If you're so scared of your own shadow that you can't stop and think about it for a minute before running to mommy, then you're part of the problem, not the solution. You are what the real terrorists are trying to create.
Do you think Joe Sixpack knows (or cares) what any of that meant? They could have shipped the same product by adding Aero look and feel to XP, more or less, and people would probably have raved about it.
Face it, Vista sucks. Hell, I work in the middle of a shop full of die-hard career Microsoft kool-aid drinkers, and almost all of them have gone back to XP.
Think about it. You don't get rampant speculation in phone numbers. You don't find it impossible to get a new phone number because none are available. You don't have to pay $5k to a speculator to get a phone number in your desired area code. You've obviously never tried to get an 800 or 888 number. This is, in fact, quite a common practice in that arena.
I would recommend checking into purchasing a machine with OS X Server installed.
It has built-in facilities for booting and imaging systems over a network, in addition to facilities for distributing updates. The documentation doesn't look like it supports Windows partitions, but you could (at least in theory -- check with Apple;-) add a startup script to your image that uses command-line tools to set up a new partition and dd a Windows image to it, then have it delete itself.
I haven't personally done this, but from what I've seen in the docs, it looks looks like a good approach. You might also be able to do the Windows side with an AppleScript or something, but I'm not that deep into the Mac world.
Even today, if you want a FAST computer or a FAST laptop, Apple is NOT the brand to buy. The hardware is middle of the road, and OSX is not well known for performance in any areas. However for people that know little about technology, they will continue to pick up users, just as they did with the iPod. Interesting that you should say this.
My Mac Pro has two dual-core 2.66GHz Woodcrests in it, along with three PCI Express nVidia 7300GT's (and one open slot!). Price starts around $2,500.
This is to say nothing of the phenomenal industrial design on the case. I've never seen any other mass-market Intel-based machine that has this level of quality.
If you think Apple has middle-of-the-road hardware, then you haven't been paying attention lately.
Ah, we run our roots read-only, which is a bit more of a challenge.:-) It works better than anything else I've yet found, but it could still be cleaner.
Having seen one of these signs up close and in person, I can honestly say that the city of Boston MASSIVELY overreacted, and Turner shouldn't have had to pay a cent.
The sign in question looked NOTHING like a bomb. Any idiot with two brain cells could have easily discerned that by examining one for five seconds.
It's not Turner's fault that the Bush administration has people looking under their beds for terrorists every night before they can get to sleep...
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That's called the MacBook Pro.
You forgot the ~.
Who said anything about hand-optimized assembler?
Code in any language can be optimized. Case in point: I once wrote a trivial little systray app in MSVC++ using MFC. The thing was 7MB at runtime. Rewrote the same thing going straight to the Win32 API, and it was 16KB - and easier to understand, at that.
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I believe the law is Quantum Bogodynamics, and you meant 'bogons'.
:-)
HTH.
Google might.
Or perhaps you should re-read my statement and show me where I said we were becoming like China?
Don't mistake a philosophical argument for a political one.
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So I should keep quiet until we look like China? I'd prefer to stop it before it starts, personally.
64-bit mode, part of AMD64/EM64T.
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I'd be more impressed if they had you writing long mode X86 assembler. PIC is incredibly trivial by comparison. It's like tic-tac-toe vs. Unreal Tournament, here.
How many graduates do you know who learned a modern assembly in school?
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Commercial connections (/real/ ones, anyway) are still orders of magnitude faster than consumer ones. The only reason that so few people use them is because most websites simply don't need that kind of bandwidth.
Don't confuse need with availability. Client/server still works just fine.
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Mine do.
*shrug*
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First of all, from my understanding (IANAL) of the law, assault would require that the comments be directed at a particular person. The person in question was eavesdropping on the conversation, and therefore could in no way be construed as a potential target of the comment -- and that's forgetting the context of the conversation, which was obviously "I don't want a weapon, I want to shoot targets, so I bought a weapon that's harder to screw up and kill someone with."
Sorry, you've got to have a screw loose to construe that conversation as threatening, assuming that the quotes are accurate.
Secondly, I've heard worse in the workplace on many occasions, and we all laugh and move on. If you're so scared of your own shadow that you can't stop and think about it for a minute before running to mommy, then you're part of the problem, not the solution. You are what the real terrorists are trying to create.
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To a normal user, they are cosmetic.
Do you think Joe Sixpack knows (or cares) what any of that meant? They could have shipped the same product by adding Aero look and feel to XP, more or less, and people would probably have raved about it.
Face it, Vista sucks. Hell, I work in the middle of a shop full of die-hard career Microsoft kool-aid drinkers, and almost all of them have gone back to XP.
*THAT* is a sign of how bad Vista is.
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I would recommend checking into purchasing a machine with OS X Server installed.
;-) add a startup script to your image that uses command-line tools to set up a new partition and dd a Windows image to it, then have it delete itself.
It has built-in facilities for booting and imaging systems over a network, in addition to facilities for distributing updates. The documentation doesn't look like it supports Windows partitions, but you could (at least in theory -- check with Apple
I haven't personally done this, but from what I've seen in the docs, it looks looks like a good approach. You might also be able to do the Windows side with an AppleScript or something, but I'm not that deep into the Mac world.
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My Mac Pro has two dual-core 2.66GHz Woodcrests in it, along with three PCI Express nVidia 7300GT's (and one open slot!). Price starts around $2,500.
This is to say nothing of the phenomenal industrial design on the case. I've never seen any other mass-market Intel-based machine that has this level of quality.
If you think Apple has middle-of-the-road hardware, then you haven't been paying attention lately.
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Uh, I think it's called "Bonjour" now... :-)
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Lesson: if you don't want to feel like punching someone in the face because of their stance on the PC, then don't read a blog post in a pro-mac rag.
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Ah, we run our roots read-only, which is a bit more of a challenge. :-) It works better than anything else I've yet found, but it could still be cleaner.
If you have a clean NFS root solution, I'd love to know more about it.
;-)
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Yes, because all those rich web applications will run on... rich web applications?
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A jury would laugh Boston right out of the courtroom.... :-)
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Having seen one of these signs up close and in person, I can honestly say that the city of Boston MASSIVELY overreacted, and Turner shouldn't have had to pay a cent.
The sign in question looked NOTHING like a bomb. Any idiot with two brain cells could have easily discerned that by examining one for five seconds.
It's not Turner's fault that the Bush administration has people looking under their beds for terrorists every night before they can get to sleep...
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