I develop for Windows for my living. Have done so for years. We use VS2003 and it is hugely inferior compared e.g. to Netbeans. We cannot use VS2008 as we have performance issues with it.
Sure, I've done my piece of sysadmin in my youth, so I probably in your opinion "am not real" or "have no experience".
C# I have not used, but the difference in the language, compared to Java is minimal. I do not believe it is hugely better. Well, I do not believe *ANY* language can be "hugely better".
A 40G player can hold my entire music collection in mp3s with good-enough quality.
How on earth the sync can automatically know what songs to keep on the player unless they all fit there? How any kind of playlist can know in advance what I will want to listen in the future?
There are limits to fanboyism and that one is far far far over it.
Jesus fucking christ, this is about OOo ported to Aqua as the X11 version was not good enough for Mac users.
The implication by GP ("can't name a single significant open source project that originated as an OS X-only application but now runs on Linux") still stands.
Actually sockpuppets are not the only problem, in this regard.
I just found out that I have been metamodded up 93% (or like). I think it's too high. I do not want to be that much in the/. community-mind.
You see, the usually highly modded posts are pro-linux or perhaps pro-mac. Everything else must be negative. New product? "It lacks foo (dealbreaker for me)", "Not better than bar (for my use)" or "Waporware". New SW? If it is not GPL-2, well, it must be crap, and the company/person producing it must full-of-shit as it cannot be put into Linux.
Funniest mods are those who acclaim Linux for doing something, e.g. "fast development" and denounce others, especially Microsoft, for doing the same ("not backward compatible").
Moderation and metamoderation cannot solve all these problems. Brains could, but they are heavily misused...
why do I have to carry my entire music collection around just for a couple of hours of commuting? 1. Because I do not know what you want to listen after a few songs. 2. Because syncing is a PITA, especially if I had to select what to listen "today".
The tip speed ratio is somewhere around three to five depending on the design, but not so much on the size. The ratio is the speed of the blade tip versus wind speed. Yes, the tip of the blade does move (several times) faster than the wind.
I am quite confident were the screen 1680x1050 you'd still find something to complain (no bluetooth, too pricy,...). Or maybe not _you_, but someone here...
I use my EeePC mainly for NetBeans. It and Firefox for Java API documents. Firefox has "fuller screen" extension and NetBeans is run full screen - on a different work space. That makes a big difference (v.s. maximised).
Sure, 800x480 is a bit limiting but it does not stop from me from coding "on the run". I will not buy this new one as it is too expensive. Let's see 2010.
If the MP3 players were solid-state, the rules of RAM apply. No, they do not. There is no "raw" device in a MP3 player. Just for an example even my USB memory stick has "only" 4073432 usable 1024 byte blocks.
I would assume that the manufacturers cannot state the actual usable capacity as it vary between devices ("bad" blocks).
The lawsuit is completely idiotic. Well, it would have been anywhere except in the USA.
There is no reason to believe tapes last longer than disks. Disks really are not more fragile than CD-Rs, if properly stored. My experience is quite the opposite. In any case you need more than one backup (fire and theft prevention).
Backupping a few hundred gigs to DVDs is a huge PITA, to CDs it is practically impossible. With an external hard disk it is trivial.
I have always, every single time, been told that open source is marvellous because "somebody will pick up".
If this popular a system is not picked by anybody I think it does prove that FOSS can die as quickly and unseremoniously(sp?) as closed source (e.g. a company is purchased).
Does this make FOSS worse? Of course not, but it does not make it magically better, as claimed by fanboys.
Sun-provided JRE broke some subtle assumptions about how code worked at the implementation level. Funnily this has happened to me more often with C/C++ code than with Java.
Just a bit faster machine -> bing! Just two cores -> bing! And with source you get the added benefit of new compilers! Bing bing bing!
Most of the problems I have encountered with Java are exactly same: badly written un-tested programs which cannot handle slightly changed, sometimes concurrent, execution paths.
There are valid, pro-consumer reasons to give some packets different treatment than others. How true. Unfortunately(?) this can be interpreted so that AnInternetVideoRental is given priority over everybody else as the ISP has made a good deal with them: customers of said ISP get faster and cheaper video rentals.
Good for the ISP and the video rental? Yes. Good for vast majority of customers? Yes. But bad for net neutrality and a very small (but loud) minority of the customers. And bad for other video rentals.
Perhaps better example is state IPTV (think BBC). Giving it guaranteed bandwidth would be beneficial to practically everybody. But it would not be "net neutral".
[C] is the best one so far, in popular usage, for writing kernels. I do not believe even that. I'd believe "in popular usage".
I cannot see why Java is not good at writing kernels. You can map (memory mapped) HW registers to Java byte arrays and after that the register manipulation about as cumbersome as in C. Besides, direct access to HW is minor role of a modern kernel and quite often requires assembly anyway.
True, Java is not the best language for writing kernels. But I'd argue that even Java is better than C.
C is a powerful tool that has proven its worth for decades now. This is exactly why I personally refuse to accept there cannot be a better language/environment to code in. Or maybe it is just me, maybe I have been given too much shitty code.
Besides, "assembly [...] why bother writing any of the OS in anything else?" is clearly not true.
Now Americans are shitty shitty capitalists, we protest the sweatshops but we still buy the shoes. But the basic idea still stands, Isn't this exactly how (liberal) capitalism should work? According to many liberal economists sweat shops are good for the people working there.
Or is this exactly what you mean (too liberal is as bad as too un-liberal)?
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I develop for Windows for my living. Have done so for years. We use VS2003 and it is hugely inferior compared e.g. to Netbeans. We cannot use VS2008 as we have performance issues with it.
Sure, I've done my piece of sysadmin in my youth, so I probably in your opinion "am not real" or "have no experience".
C# I have not used, but the difference in the language, compared to Java is minimal. I do not believe it is hugely better. Well, I do not believe *ANY* language can be "hugely better".
A 40G player can hold my entire music collection in mp3s with good-enough quality.
How on earth the sync can automatically know what songs to keep on the player unless they all fit there? How any kind of playlist can know in advance what I will want to listen in the future?
Actually no.
... but that would be silly.
The ODF 1.2 is not ISO standard. Yet.
Were I extremely pedantic I could claim OOo3 no longer supports ISO standard ODF
There are limits to fanboyism and that one is far far far over it.
Jesus fucking christ, this is about OOo ported to Aqua as the X11 version was not good enough for Mac users.
The implication by GP ("can't name a single significant open source project that originated as an OS X-only application but now runs on Linux") still stands.
Actually sockpuppets are not the only problem, in this regard.
/. community-mind.
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I just found out that I have been metamodded up 93% (or like). I think it's too high. I do not want to be that much in the
You see, the usually highly modded posts are pro-linux or perhaps pro-mac. Everything else must be negative. New product? "It lacks foo (dealbreaker for me)", "Not better than bar (for my use)" or "Waporware". New SW? If it is not GPL-2, well, it must be crap, and the company/person producing it must full-of-shit as it cannot be put into Linux.
Funniest mods are those who acclaim Linux for doing something, e.g. "fast development" and denounce others, especially Microsoft, for doing the same ("not backward compatible").
Moderation and metamoderation cannot solve all these problems. Brains could, but they are heavily misused
2. Because syncing is a PITA, especially if I had to select what to listen "today".
They are not slower.
The tip speed ratio is somewhere around three to five depending on the design, but not so much on the size. The ratio is the speed of the blade tip versus wind speed. Yes, the tip of the blade does move (several times) faster than the wind.
I don't believe you.
...). Or maybe not _you_, but someone here ...
I am quite confident were the screen 1680x1050 you'd still find something to complain (no bluetooth, too pricy,
I use my EeePC mainly for NetBeans. It and Firefox for Java API documents. Firefox has "fuller screen" extension and NetBeans is run full screen - on a different work space. That makes a big difference (v.s. maximised).
Sure, 800x480 is a bit limiting but it does not stop from me from coding "on the run". I will not buy this new one as it is too expensive. Let's see 2010.
I use Netbeans on my EeePC.
It certainly would be better on a bigger screen but still it is "good enough", considering the price.
Full screen mode and workspaces make a big difference.
I would assume that the manufacturers cannot state the actual usable capacity as it vary between devices ("bad" blocks).
The lawsuit is completely idiotic. Well, it would have been anywhere except in the USA.
Every tape, CD and DVD are going to fail someday.
There is no reason to believe tapes last longer than disks. Disks really are not more fragile than CD-Rs, if properly stored. My experience is quite the opposite. In any case you need more than one backup (fire and theft prevention).
Backupping a few hundred gigs to DVDs is a huge PITA, to CDs it is practically impossible. With an external hard disk it is trivial.
The problem is longevity. If I had huge amount of backups in Reiser, I'd be screwed.
Sure, the problem would be worse with a commercial, most likely undocumented format, but still.
I always thought this does not work with jail() :)
P.S. I really do not know how jail works in this case.
I have always, every single time, been told that open source is marvellous because "somebody will pick up".
If this popular a system is not picked by anybody I think it does prove that FOSS can die as quickly and unseremoniously(sp?) as closed source (e.g. a company is purchased).
Does this make FOSS worse? Of course not, but it does not make it magically better, as claimed by fanboys.
I guess I did :-)
Yeah, I use WPA2 and it seems to refuse to believe the "2" part.
Annoying.
Same with the installation, btw, you cannot (with beta) say "WPA2", only "wpa" (whic did not work in beta, I do not know about final").
All in all, just annoying, not a biggie.
Yes I will :-)
(honestly I think Xubuntu is more interesting - personally)
Just a bit faster machine -> bing!
Just two cores -> bing!
And with source you get the added benefit of new compilers! Bing bing bing!
Most of the problems I have encountered with Java are exactly same: badly written un-tested programs which cannot handle slightly changed, sometimes concurrent, execution paths.
OpenSolaris.
Honestly, it is just some Linux distros which do not have proper 32 compatibility libs.
I would imagine even Windows can run 32 bit applications batter, but do not have first hand experience.
Well, this has to be the best advertisement for Zune ever.
...
Or maybe not
Good for the ISP and the video rental? Yes. Good for vast majority of customers? Yes. But bad for net neutrality and a very small (but loud) minority of the customers. And bad for other video rentals.
Perhaps better example is state IPTV (think BBC). Giving it guaranteed bandwidth would be beneficial to practically everybody. But it would not be "net neutral".
I cannot see why Java is not good at writing kernels. You can map (memory mapped) HW registers to Java byte arrays and after that the register manipulation about as cumbersome as in C. Besides, direct access to HW is minor role of a modern kernel and quite often requires assembly anyway.
True, Java is not the best language for writing kernels. But I'd argue that even Java is better than C.
Besides, "assembly [...] why bother writing any of the OS in anything else?" is clearly not true.
Or is this exactly what you mean (too liberal is as bad as too un-liberal)?