The reason for it is because most anyone who has ever successfuly written a program in any assembly-level language, will understand vaguely how the machine works.
So? Most software development is about expressing a solution to a business problem, where the concerns are non-machine concepts. You don't write software for the benefit of the computer, but for the benefit of the customer. If you write a store application, it's more important to think about stuff like "prices" and "products" than "CPU registers".
But then, most people that respond with comments like this typically fall into the Java programmer category...
It seems you have an irrational hate of people who write in Java - are you perhaps one of those antisocial C programmers who worship execution speed over usability and reliability?
I couldn't agree more, except for the fact that in america, the masses are in power. You may disagree, and you would be right - but it's only because they have waived their power. No one votes, no one gives a shit.
Voter: I give you my vote if you will serve my consumer interests.
Politican: O-kay.
*sound of politican voted into office*
Lobbyist: I will give you all this money as "campaign contribution" if you will serve my industry interests.
As a web developer, I will never develop pages for Opera. Just MSIE, Mozilla/Phoenix and Netscape 4.x.
Why on earth do you feel you need to develop for specific browsers? That's just so n00b.
Other than the totally borked horror that is Netscape 4.x, modern web clients - including Opera - generally do things right as long as you do it right.
Or like valuable screen real estate occupied by a banner image (and using bandwidth to download the banners)?
Most already use bandwidth to download the crappy images and plugin data you web DUH-signers throw in the pages themselves. Also, the banner ad is only present if you don't pay - so which are you criticizing, the ad-ware version or the paid version?
(I am sure your web-pages are designed to work with a browser's bandwidth-saving "no images"-mode though - unless you're pushing double standard here.)
I thought that the internet is about freedom and free access to information.
There is no such thing as a free (gratis) lunch. The "free" in "freedom" isn't the "free as in beer" but "free as in speach". Don't mix the two.
The idea of paying for a web browser seems ludicrous to me
Why is it wrong for a company to charge for the only product they make? But hey, if you think software should be subsidized, you're free to use other programs that have a different financing model that lets you use it at someone else's expense.
Why pay for something that is clearly sub-standard?
It's not sub-standard to those of us that use it.
And why do you write web pages for Netscape 4.x (which you mentioned at the start of your trolling) which is clearly sub-standard in every possible way?
Or bombard those who wont pay with flashing advertisments (that probably track usage and habbits anyway).
Lovely unfounded "probably" there. I guess you also turn off cookies in your browser and demand that web sites you visit turn off IP logging...
I know why it is only a 3.2 MB download, portions of the code are missing!
Such as? Is it really that hard to realize that someone actually can write a smaller program that does the same as a bigger one?
Um, you do know you can turn off most of those features via the "view" menu? View, Skin, uncheck Special effects for instance to turn off the button "animation". There are also lots of light-weight skins to choose from.
Why did they choose to use java and not the faster and more modern C# ?
Because IBM are heavily into Java (and have VMs for all their platforms)? Because C# and the related.Net runtime is a Microsoft product that only runs on Microsoft Windows and not on any of IBM's systems?
(Microsoft was a victim of sun's harh contracts)
I am sure IBM aren't so stupid they think it's OK to violate a contract, or to sign one they don't intend to honour.
as well as it's lackluster performance
Newsflash: the.Net runtime is slower than current Java runtimes. In fact, on non-Windows platforms the.Net runtime doesn't even exist!
It does under the hood whenever you use + for concatenation; this is why using String + String in a loop is ineffective: You create a new StringBuffer object per iteration. The solution in this case is to declare the StringBuffer outside the loop and use append() explicitly within.
For concatenating two strings, the concat() method can be faster than using StringBuffer, since it only needs to create a new char[] and do a (fast) arraycopy from the two internal arrays.
Also, everyone should be aware of the 1.4.1 memory leak associated with using StringBuffer's toString() and setLength() methods.
Try "a funeral" too: During the funeral of one of the best-known lawyers in Norway, there were TEN mobile-phone calls made to IDIOTS who didn't turn their off.
Instead of punishing other countries that are less wealthy, why not establish a international minimum wage.
Because wages and prices are interlocked. If you measure wages in terms of "necessities" purchasing power, someone earning $1/hour in a low-cost country can purchase the same amount of food that someone earning $5 in a higher-cost country (like the U.S.A.).
If that $1 wage was increased to $5, prices would necessarily follow. The only net effect would be that the company's costs would increase, and also the tax income to the state.
This is also a reason why people demanding that e.g. Nike pay higher wages to their Asian workers are evil: If Nike's workers got richer, prices would increase and thus harm lower-wage non-Nike workers in the same economic region.
Another vote to Hudson Hawk here. It's my #1 action comedy with undying lines like the deus-ex-machina spoof at the end. "Airbags! Can you believe it?"
No, we can't but we don't care because it fit so well with the rest.
It seems GameSpy thinks that a genre is dead just because it isn't flooded with copycat crap anymore. I prefer that "dead" genres produce artworks like Ikaruga and Viruta Fighter 4 than the sewage drenching "alive" genres like RTS and FPS.
There was a "strong anti-AI" camp which believed that Artificial Intelligence couldn't happen - even if you created a perfect simulation of a brain, you'd just be "simulating" intelligence, whatever that means.
Just like there probably was a strong "anti-flight" campt that didn't think it would be flight unless planes flapped their wings...
Perhaps the term "AI" is too tied to "natural intelligence" in people's minds; AI researchers should be allowed to make stuff that only is superficialy like NI just like airplanes exploit features of natural flight but in a different way.
No, that's the Nokia 5100: It has every phone feature you can think of save Bluetooth, but in addition it's a flashlight, thermometer, stopwatch and calorie counter!
Those guys are insane. Well, at least it's tons more useful than the slightly older and weirder 5510.
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but please keep the ozone OUT of my environment.
It's your choice whether you want to enter the silos in question.
Also, remember to stay away from power lines and electrical equipment like computers.
And it's definitely a better alternative to (non-dissipating) solutions based on Chlorine, which is another chemical which also is a good bacteria killer.
Come on, it's the next logical step. After all, not a week goes by without reading about some musican or other doing drugs - it's clear they're just the top of the drug orgy iceberg that is the music "industry".
But I guess the RIAA wouldn't want to lobby for that...
Java bytecodes are just a numeric version of the Java language.
You haven't actually read about bytecode mnemonics have you? It's an instruction set for a stack-based machine with heap. A compiled class doesn't look any more like the Java language than a '386 executable looks like the C it came from.
The bytecodes cannot be efficiently interpreted.
Sure they can. I mean there's the evidence of JIT, Hotspot and so on that means a Java class only exists as bytecodes for fractions of a second before the native code takes over.
Unless you run with the -Xint option just to support your ignorance.
Recording is still an art requiring skilled audio engineers to pull it off properly
Counterpoint: Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" is considered one of the most important and influential records of the 1980s, and was recorded by himself on a portable 4-track in his basement.
only a tiny drop of China's history could be called "traditionally" communist.
That's because what Mao effectively did was scratching over the existing system of "feudalism" and writing "communism" instead, while replacing "artistocracy" with "partystocracy".
Russia at the time of their revolution was somewhat into industrialism, but still far from Marx' requirements.
(Which was a transition from feudalism to industrialism, then to capitalism, socialist revolution then communist "paradise".)
Marx' "reviolution" fails in the modern society because the workers aren't politically motivated to revolt, they just watch TV...
Ugh - we only touched that lightly in school, but I seem to remember it's the same effect that causes water to twirl in different directions north and south of the Equator when you empty a sink for instance.
What is the difference between a 'real' and an 'apparent' force?
Simple: A real force is something that actually causes a change in an object's speed vector (that is, causes acceleration/deceleration in a direction).
Centrifugal "force" is just Newtonian resistance to this change.
Think of when you're in a car and turn left: Both you and most of the car would like to go straight ahead (Newton), but the wheels' friction toward the ground wants to excert a force (vector) directed inward in the turn, taking attached and semi-attached objects with them.
And centripetal is the only "real" of those two (obviously, since it changes the speed vector of the object).
What people call "centrifugal force" is just an object's inherent resistance when a reference system (e.g. container, like a car) it's in is affected by a centripetal force.
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The reason for it is because most anyone who has ever successfuly written a program in any assembly-level language, will understand vaguely how the machine works.
So? Most software development is about expressing a solution to a business problem, where the concerns are non-machine concepts. You don't write software for the benefit of the computer, but for the benefit of the customer. If you write a store application, it's more important to think about stuff like "prices" and "products" than "CPU registers".
But then, most people that respond with comments like this typically fall into the Java programmer category...
It seems you have an irrational hate of people who write in Java - are you perhaps one of those antisocial C programmers who worship execution speed over usability and reliability?
I couldn't agree more, except for the fact that in america, the masses are in power. You may disagree, and you would be right - but it's only because they have waived their power. No one votes, no one gives a shit.
Voter: I give you my vote if you will serve my consumer interests.
Politican: O-kay.
*sound of politican voted into office*
Lobbyist: I will give you all this money as "campaign contribution" if you will serve my industry interests.
Politican: O-kay!
*Sound of voter crying*
As a web developer, I will never develop pages for Opera. Just MSIE, Mozilla/Phoenix and Netscape 4.x.
Why on earth do you feel you need to develop for specific browsers? That's just so n00b.
Other than the totally borked horror that is Netscape 4.x, modern web clients - including Opera - generally do things right as long as you do it right.
Or like valuable screen real estate occupied by a banner image (and using bandwidth to download the banners)?
Most already use bandwidth to download the crappy images and plugin data you web DUH-signers throw in the pages themselves. Also, the banner ad is only present if you don't pay - so which are you criticizing, the ad-ware version or the paid version?
(I am sure your web-pages are designed to work with a browser's bandwidth-saving "no images"-mode though - unless you're pushing double standard here.)
I thought that the internet is about freedom and free access to information.
There is no such thing as a free (gratis) lunch. The "free" in "freedom" isn't the "free as in beer" but "free as in speach". Don't mix the two.
The idea of paying for a web browser seems ludicrous to me
Why is it wrong for a company to charge for the only product they make? But hey, if you think software should be subsidized, you're free to use other programs that have a different financing model that lets you use it at someone else's expense.
Why pay for something that is clearly sub-standard?
It's not sub-standard to those of us that use it.
And why do you write web pages for Netscape 4.x (which you mentioned at the start of your trolling) which is clearly sub-standard in every possible way?
Or bombard those who wont pay with flashing advertisments (that probably track usage and habbits anyway).
Lovely unfounded "probably" there. I guess you also turn off cookies in your browser and demand that web sites you visit turn off IP logging...
I know why it is only a 3.2 MB download, portions of the code are missing!
Such as? Is it really that hard to realize that someone actually can write a smaller program that does the same as a bigger one?
WAY TOO MUCH graphics for old, slow machines.
Um, you do know you can turn off most of those features via the "view" menu? View, Skin, uncheck Special effects for instance to turn off the button "animation". There are also lots of light-weight skins to choose from.
The main reason that EVERYONE should switch to Opera is Mouse Gestures.
On the contrary, the main reason is the powerful keyboard navigation which means you never need to move your hand over to that horrible RSI-device.
I am sure you're trolling, but anyway.
.Net runtime is a Microsoft product that only runs on Microsoft Windows and not on any of IBM's systems?
.Net runtime is slower than current Java runtimes. In fact, on non-Windows platforms the .Net runtime doesn't even exist!
Why did they choose to use java and not the faster and more modern C# ?
Because IBM are heavily into Java (and have VMs for all their platforms)? Because C# and the related
(Microsoft was a victim of sun's harh contracts)
I am sure IBM aren't so stupid they think it's OK to violate a contract, or to sign one they don't intend to honour.
as well as it's lackluster performance
Newsflash: the
It does under the hood whenever you use + for concatenation; this is why using String + String in a loop is ineffective: You create a new StringBuffer object per iteration. The solution in this case is to declare the StringBuffer outside the loop and use append() explicitly within.
For concatenating two strings, the concat() method can be faster than using StringBuffer, since it only needs to create a new char[] and do a (fast) arraycopy from the two internal arrays.
Also, everyone should be aware of the 1.4.1 memory leak associated with using StringBuffer's toString() and setLength() methods.
First person to make a phoner call during a film.
Try "a funeral" too: During the funeral of one of the best-known lawyers in Norway, there were TEN mobile-phone calls made to IDIOTS who didn't turn their off.
Repeating it too many times makes it trite as well.
Instead of punishing other countries that are less wealthy, why not establish a international minimum wage.
Because wages and prices are interlocked. If you measure wages in terms of "necessities" purchasing power, someone earning $1/hour in a low-cost country can purchase the same amount of food that someone earning $5 in a higher-cost country (like the U.S.A.).
If that $1 wage was increased to $5, prices would necessarily follow. The only net effect would be that the company's costs would increase, and also the tax income to the state.
This is also a reason why people demanding that e.g. Nike pay higher wages to their Asian workers are evil: If Nike's workers got richer, prices would increase and thus harm lower-wage non-Nike workers in the same economic region.
Another vote to Hudson Hawk here. It's my #1 action comedy with undying lines like the deus-ex-machina spoof at the end. "Airbags! Can you believe it?"
No, we can't but we don't care because it fit so well with the rest.
It seems GameSpy thinks that a genre is dead just because it isn't flooded with copycat crap anymore. I prefer that "dead" genres produce artworks like Ikaruga and Viruta Fighter 4 than the sewage drenching "alive" genres like RTS and FPS.
Next stage will probably be the "Blipverts" from Max Headroom...
There was a "strong anti-AI" camp which believed that Artificial Intelligence couldn't happen - even if you created a perfect simulation of a brain, you'd just be "simulating" intelligence, whatever that means.
Just like there probably was a strong "anti-flight" campt that didn't think it would be flight unless planes flapped their wings...
Perhaps the term "AI" is too tied to "natural intelligence" in people's minds; AI researchers should be allowed to make stuff that only is superficialy like NI just like airplanes exploit features of natural flight but in a different way.
No, that's the Nokia 5100: It has every phone feature you can think of save Bluetooth, but in addition it's a flashlight, thermometer, stopwatch and calorie counter!
Those guys are insane. Well, at least it's tons more useful than the slightly older and weirder 5510.
but please keep the ozone OUT of my environment.
It's your choice whether you want to enter the silos in question.
Also, remember to stay away from power lines and electrical equipment like computers.
And it's definitely a better alternative to (non-dissipating) solutions based on Chlorine, which is another chemical which also is a good bacteria killer.
Come on, it's the next logical step. After all, not a week goes by without reading about some musican or other doing drugs - it's clear they're just the top of the drug orgy iceberg that is the music "industry".
But I guess the RIAA wouldn't want to lobby for that...
Java bytecodes are just a numeric version of the Java language.
You haven't actually read about bytecode mnemonics have you? It's an instruction set for a stack-based machine with heap. A compiled class doesn't look any more like the Java language than a '386 executable looks like the C it came from.
The bytecodes cannot be efficiently interpreted.
Sure they can. I mean there's the evidence of JIT, Hotspot and so on that means a Java class only exists as bytecodes for fractions of a second before the native code takes over.
Unless you run with the -Xint option just to support your ignorance.
Recording is still an art requiring skilled audio engineers to pull it off properly
Counterpoint: Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" is considered one of the most important and influential records of the 1980s, and was recorded by himself on a portable 4-track in his basement.
only a tiny drop of China's history could be called "traditionally" communist.
That's because what Mao effectively did was scratching over the existing system of "feudalism" and writing "communism" instead, while replacing "artistocracy" with "partystocracy".
Russia at the time of their revolution was somewhat into industrialism, but still far from Marx' requirements.
(Which was a transition from feudalism to industrialism, then to capitalism, socialist revolution then communist "paradise".)
Marx' "reviolution" fails in the modern society because the workers aren't politically motivated to revolt, they just watch TV...
damn you macromedia.
"Whew," said Macrovision, "another missed attack."
Ugh - we only touched that lightly in school, but I seem to remember it's the same effect that causes water to twirl in different directions north and south of the Equator when you empty a sink for instance.
What is the difference between a 'real' and an 'apparent' force?
Simple: A real force is something that actually causes a change in an object's speed vector (that is, causes acceleration/deceleration in a direction).
Centrifugal "force" is just Newtonian resistance to this change.
Think of when you're in a car and turn left: Both you and most of the car would like to go straight ahead (Newton), but the wheels' friction toward the ground wants to excert a force (vector) directed inward in the turn, taking attached and semi-attached objects with them.
Come on, haven't people been to high school?
And centripetal is the only "real" of those two (obviously, since it changes the speed vector of the object).
What people call "centrifugal force" is just an object's inherent resistance when a reference system (e.g. container, like a car) it's in is affected by a centripetal force.
ICESP: I can't even spell physicisist.
J# is little more than a tool to convert existing J++ apps (read JDK 1.1 plus Microsoft alterations and libraries) to .NET.
.Net is.
C# is closer to being the language part of the Java clone that