No problems about wandering with your ideas. With the hundreds of pounds of gear you want attached to their shoes, they won't be able to move their feet and will be trapped.
Well put. I find that I can find far better quality reporting from bloggers than I can ever get from the "professionals." About 4 months before the shit hit the fan, the financial blogs I was looking at were predicting a banking crisis. And it wasn't just guys making a lucky guess. They had charts of Fed lending that made a very convincing case, and everything was well-researched.
It might be mean to say, but sadly, it is the truth that the dumbest people in college go into journalism. They tend to be the idiots that think they are smart, so they are always mouthing off their dumb ideas.
Exactly. Doctor Diarrea is an idiot. I'm going to have to buy Windows 7 to fix bugs in Vista that make it almost worthless (i.e. constantly having to unplug my router and reboot the machine because windows is screwing around (my Linux machine has no such problems.)
I bought a pc about 2 years ago and it had Vista on it. I mostly use Linux but keep the Vista partition around so I could easily use Windows-only apps. It pisses me off that I won't get the Vista Service Pack (Windows 7) for free.
Mod me a troll for saying this, but it's the truth so I don't care.
I went to college with one of the current Solaris kernel developers. This was one of the dirtiest people I've ever met. This guy washed himself at most once a week. There was one summer day when I left my dorm room and a I saw some people pissed off down the hall. I started walking towards them when this crippling stench hit me in the face. It was coming from that guy's room. He smelled so awful that everyone in the same alley as that guy's room was enraged by the stench!
One time I went to take a shower but that guy was in the adjoining shower. His underwear was on a bench. It was the most repulsive thing I had ever seen. The thing had a brown crust on the back and a yellow crust on the front. I'm surprised anyone could walk around in those things without them making a crackling noise.
With the people that Sun hires it is not at all surprising the company is going tits up.
I really hope that soon he starts doing the things he said he would do and get moving on the major spending problem this country has had with Clinton and Bush.
He said he would never allow earmarks: broken campaign promise. He said he wouldn't appoint any lobbyists: broken campaign promise. He said he would fight against NAFTA: broken campaign promise. He said he would fight against wiretapping: broken campaign promise.
But you are still convinced he isn't another corporate shill like Clinton or Bush. I'm sure he attends Bilderberg because he is looking out for the little guy.
There is a theorem in computability theory that anything that can be computed in software can be implemented as a digital circuit. Also anything that can be computed in a digital circuit can be computed in software.
So by arguing against software patents, you are also stating that there should be no hardware patents.
I just wanted to make this point since I don't understand why people are against software patents but not hardware patents. Mathematically speaking the two are identical.
1. Algorithmic improvements will always trump optimizing execution speed.
And what are these magical algorithms that only work in Java and C# but don't work in C/C++?
2. Unless there is a hard requirement, development time is more important than raw performance.
I fail to see how Java and C# reduce development time.
3. Hardware is cheaper than developers.
You have clearly never done any embedded work. You think a customer is going to want to pay the extra money for a device that runs Java instead of one that does the same thing and runs on a $1 micro running C/C++? Furthermore if you seel 100,000 pieces, every $1 of hardware is $100,000.
4. A rich and flexible library is more useful and stable than custom coding for performance.
Depends on the application. Write a CAD tool in Java and see if customers don't mind it when their compilations take an extra hour to finish
It doesn't matter. I bought a vista machine and the thing took me over an hour to get it set up even though the OS was "preinstalled." I was only halfway through filling out software registration forms and removing crapware (ie. Yahoo music player, 2 different trial editions of antivirus, etc) before I started tearing out hair in frustration. HP straps on so much adware on the machine that the system tray stretches across half the screen.
Perhaps the product is not classified but falls under some sort of export control. Forking over the key is a requirement prior to selling the product outside the USA.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I worked for a major semiconductor company. The stuff was always on bleeding edge foundry processes so it was probably under export controls.
You are only looking at things in terms of engineering costs. The manufacturing costs is where the savings come in.
There are a lot of significant costs with making different boards. For example, you often have to reconfigure the reels with different parts (while this is happening your line is down for a good 15 - 30 minutes.) You also have to worry about stocking more parts. You are buying several different parts instead of one part at a larger quantity so you get less of a price discount. You have to maintain the databases and Bill of materials for each of the boards. Basically, it is a giant PITA and it is more expensive. You are better off paying a little extra for an all-in-one chip than dealing with all those issues.
You need to go back to school since most of what you say makes no sense or is contradicted by facts.
They have gotten fired, seen their firms go down in flames, or seen their pay reduced SIGNFIGANTLY.
Yeah, that's why the execs at the banks being bailed out got $20 billion in bonuses this year.
now, because of BASELESS fears, no one wants to buy the instruments at their FAIR market price, so now they're insolvent
Then why don't YOU buy as many of them as you can since they are selling at an "unfair" price? Don't you want free money? They are selling cheap because noone wants to lend in an environment of high foreclosures, bankruptcies, and falling home values.
And as Paulson explained, it worked.
That's not what I saw in the testimony. I saw Paulson getting grilled about why 1) the credit market was STILL frozen 2) the bailed out banks were using money for acquisitions.
So please, shut your damn mouth and stick to a topic you actually understand -- like computers. And please leave the finance system to the professionals.
There are 2 reasons I won't shut up. 1) Considering "the professionals" got us into this mess, their opinions are clearly of little value. 2) when it's my tax money being used, I have a right to say what I want it to be used for.
At least spending a billion for this will produce something useful and will provide some jobs. It sounds like a bargain compared to $700+ billion to keep the bankers from having to move to smaller mansions.
I worked with a guy that was in the disk drive business. He told me that turning your computer on/off was bad because it reduced the life cycle of the hard drive.
Lazy evaluation means that a value won't be calculated until it is absolutely necessary. So in the example in the above discussion, you can make things like an array of all the Fibonacci numbers. This works because the environment won't actually calculate anything until it is necessary.
Lisp doesn't support this behavior by default. In LISP all function arguments are evaluated left to right. Although using macros, you could probably write your own lazy evaluation mechanism.
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Knowing the communist Chinese, they are probably human kidneys.
Well you have to ask yourself what they are going to do with the hydrogen. They are going to burn it to make water. So basically it is storing the sunlight as chemical energy in the hydrogen. And then turning it back into water to get the energy back out. So there is no need to worry.
Why would the oil/auto companies be opposed to taxes that improve the roads? Compare it to a 10% reduction in corporate tax rate among the other numerous breaks they get and I think they are doing quite well for themselves. And paying far less in taxes (proportionately) than most other industries.
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Glad to see that the US has a big surplus in the budget that we can afford to fund this stuff.
No problems about wandering with your ideas. With the hundreds of pounds of gear you want attached to their shoes, they won't be able to move their feet and will be trapped.
Well put. I find that I can find far better quality reporting from bloggers than I can ever get from the "professionals." About 4 months before the shit hit the fan, the financial blogs I was looking at were predicting a banking crisis. And it wasn't just guys making a lucky guess. They had charts of Fed lending that made a very convincing case, and everything was well-researched.
It might be mean to say, but sadly, it is the truth that the dumbest people in college go into journalism. They tend to be the idiots that think they are smart, so they are always mouthing off their dumb ideas.
Exactly. Doctor Diarrea is an idiot. I'm going to have to buy Windows 7 to fix bugs in Vista that make it almost worthless (i.e. constantly having to unplug my router and reboot the machine because windows is screwing around (my Linux machine has no such problems.)
I bought a pc about 2 years ago and it had Vista on it. I mostly use Linux but keep the Vista partition around so I could easily use Windows-only apps. It pisses me off that I won't get the Vista Service Pack (Windows 7) for free.
Mod me a troll for saying this, but it's the truth so I don't care.
I went to college with one of the current Solaris kernel developers. This was one of the dirtiest people I've ever met. This guy washed himself at most once a week. There was one summer day when I left my dorm room and a I saw some people pissed off down the hall. I started walking towards them when this crippling stench hit me in the face. It was coming from that guy's room. He smelled so awful that everyone in the same alley as that guy's room was enraged by the stench!
One time I went to take a shower but that guy was in the adjoining shower. His underwear was on a bench. It was the most repulsive thing I had ever seen. The thing had a brown crust on the back and a yellow crust on the front. I'm surprised anyone could walk around in those things without them making a crackling noise.
With the people that Sun hires it is not at all surprising the company is going tits up.
:-() (==========B And let that be a lesson to you
Yeah, sure. Maybe YOU would like to go and organize a union in China.
Have fun when the commies start tearing your fingernails out and sell your kidneys.
I really hope that soon he starts doing the things he said he would do and get moving on the major spending problem this country has had with Clinton and Bush.
He said he would never allow earmarks: broken campaign promise. He said he wouldn't appoint any lobbyists: broken campaign promise. He said he would fight against NAFTA: broken campaign promise. He said he would fight against wiretapping: broken campaign promise.
But you are still convinced he isn't another corporate shill like Clinton or Bush. I'm sure he attends Bilderberg because he is looking out for the little guy.
True. Every couple of years there is another DRAM pricing conviction. This is all a waste of time until they hand out some severe penalties.
There is a theorem in computability theory that anything that can be computed in software can be implemented as a digital circuit. Also anything that can be computed in a digital circuit can be computed in software.
So by arguing against software patents, you are also stating that there should be no hardware patents.
I just wanted to make this point since I don't understand why people are against software patents but not hardware patents. Mathematically speaking the two are identical.
1. Algorithmic improvements will always trump optimizing execution speed.
And what are these magical algorithms that only work in Java and C# but don't work in C/C++?
2. Unless there is a hard requirement, development time is more important than raw performance.
I fail to see how Java and C# reduce development time.
3. Hardware is cheaper than developers.
You have clearly never done any embedded work. You think a customer is going to want to pay the extra money for a device that runs Java instead of one that does the same thing and runs on a $1 micro running C/C++? Furthermore if you seel 100,000 pieces, every $1 of hardware is $100,000.
4. A rich and flexible library is more useful and stable than custom coding for performance.
Depends on the application. Write a CAD tool in Java and see if customers don't mind it when their compilations take an extra hour to finish
It doesn't matter. I bought a vista machine and the thing took me over an hour to get it set up even though the OS was "preinstalled." I was only halfway through filling out software registration forms and removing crapware (ie. Yahoo music player, 2 different trial editions of antivirus, etc) before I started tearing out hair in frustration. HP straps on so much adware on the machine that the system tray stretches across half the screen.
Perhaps the product is not classified but falls under some sort of export control. Forking over the key is a requirement prior to selling the product outside the USA.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I worked for a major semiconductor company. The stuff was always on bleeding edge foundry processes so it was probably under export controls.
I worked for a company that shipped encrypted firmware. We were required to send the keys to the NSA.
Well those clowns already granted Apple patents for certain hand gestures. Soon they will start allowing Jobs to patent jacking off techniques too.
You are only looking at things in terms of engineering costs. The manufacturing costs is where the savings come in.
There are a lot of significant costs with making different boards. For example, you often have to reconfigure the reels with different parts (while this is happening your line is down for a good 15 - 30 minutes.) You also have to worry about stocking more parts. You are buying several different parts instead of one part at a larger quantity so you get less of a price discount. You have to maintain the databases and Bill of materials for each of the boards. Basically, it is a giant PITA and it is more expensive. You are better off paying a little extra for an all-in-one chip than dealing with all those issues.
You need to go back to school since most of what you say makes no sense or is contradicted by facts.
They have gotten fired, seen their firms go down in flames, or seen their pay reduced SIGNFIGANTLY.
Yeah, that's why the execs at the banks being bailed out got $20 billion in bonuses this year.
now, because of BASELESS fears, no one wants to buy the instruments at their FAIR market price, so now they're insolvent
Then why don't YOU buy as many of them as you can since they are selling at an "unfair" price? Don't you want free money? They are selling cheap because noone wants to lend in an environment of high foreclosures, bankruptcies, and falling home values.
And as Paulson explained, it worked.
That's not what I saw in the testimony. I saw Paulson getting grilled about why 1) the credit market was STILL frozen 2) the bailed out banks were using money for acquisitions.
So please, shut your damn mouth and stick to a topic you actually understand -- like computers. And please leave the finance system to the professionals.
There are 2 reasons I won't shut up. 1) Considering "the professionals" got us into this mess, their opinions are clearly of little value. 2) when it's my tax money being used, I have a right to say what I want it to be used for.
At least spending a billion for this will produce something useful and will provide some jobs. It sounds like a bargain compared to $700+ billion to keep the bankers from having to move to smaller mansions.
I worked with a guy that was in the disk drive business. He told me that turning your computer on/off was bad because it reduced the life cycle of the hard drive.
Lazy evaluation means that a value won't be calculated until it is absolutely necessary. So in the example in the above discussion, you can make things like an array of all the Fibonacci numbers. This works because the environment won't actually calculate anything until it is necessary.
Lisp doesn't support this behavior by default. In LISP all function arguments are evaluated left to right. Although using macros, you could probably write your own lazy evaluation mechanism.
Knowing the communist Chinese, they are probably human kidneys.
Well you have to ask yourself what they are going to do with the hydrogen. They are going to burn it to make water. So basically it is storing the sunlight as chemical energy in the hydrogen. And then turning it back into water to get the energy back out. So there is no need to worry.
Why would the oil/auto companies be opposed to taxes that improve the roads? Compare it to a 10% reduction in corporate tax rate among the other numerous breaks they get and I think they are doing quite well for themselves. And paying far less in taxes (proportionately) than most other industries.
which enormous tax breaks?
This article list some of them.