Take for example waiters, they're paid much less than minumum wage. I worked as a waiter and made about $2.10/hr in regular wages. Management knows that you'll get tips and that's why they can get away paying so little. Waiters pay income tax on tips even when they don't actually get them, the government assumes you get a certain amount from tips for every hour you work and they tax you on that. This is why tipping is necessary (with an exception for very bad service, in which case I don't tip much either) and why if you don't tip you won't get good service next time.
You can build a firewall using an old PC and Linux or *BSD or you can shell out about $120 for a NetGear/Zyxel/Linksys router/firewall/NAT/hub. I'd sure do one or the other unless you enjoy being hacked.
There are plenty of Linux firewall howtos if you're going that route.
Actually, it depends. If you're talking about raw speed then it's often hard to beat MySQL since it lacks most of the features that slow down databases. MySQL has a reputation for being fast, but it doesn't have a reputation for being a replacement for a true DBMS.
You can get diesel cars here too. The new VW bug is available in diesel, that's got to have great mileage.
Anyway, we tax gas here too, don't forget, but I think (though I'm not sure) that the base price not including taxes is lower here. And if you're thinking that living in the UK is cheap, London is one of the most expensive places in the world to live.
I like watching gas guzzilers pay through the noze too, but the US has *deflated* gas prices compared to the rest of the world. We pay significantly less per galon than everybody else due to the political pressure the US exerts on oil producing countries.
If you think about it (or even if you don't) the price for gas is about the same or less than the price for coca-cola and nobody complains about the extremely inflated price of sugar water.
I don't understand all the fuss about gas prices in the US. It's so much cheaper here than almost anywhere else in the world. Go to the UK and fill 'er up and you'll see what I mean. Last time I did it cost me $58 USD for a small car.
jikes -depend compiles each file referenced by the file it's compiling no matter weather that file needs compiliation or not. I'm not sure why it thinks it needs to do that, but you're right, when you use that option it's slow. It's not really a fair comparison with javac since javac does not do this.
My company contributed what used to be the +CSO option (now a default) to jikes, the ability to compile files without compiling all other imported files. It will compile imported and other dependent files that don't have associated.class files however. It's not perfect, but I can compile my 3000 files in about 10 minutes, something that would take javac over an hour.
The product I work on has over 3000.java source files and various other non-java compilation related activities interspersed in the build process. We did have solution similiar to what I imagine your "ant" is like, but for us jikes is still faster.
What I meant was that the VM does not garbage collect immediately when you free something. "No Java VM" as in, "There is no Java VM that garbage collects every time you free something".
even C is much faster in terms of compile-run-test cycles. However, no doubt that will change in time.
I don't agree. The reason Java compilation is slow is that the standard java compiler, javac, is written in java so you have the overhead of loading the VM, often for each file. Try a recent verion of jikes, an Open Source java compiler written in C++ from IBM. It's at least an order of magnatude faster than javac.
The result that really surprised me, though, was Cygwin32 beating MS VC almost across the board - running on Windows! WTF?!
Yeah, this is really hard to believe. Last time I did anything with Cygwin on Windows (compile Jikes!) the Cygwin binary was much slower than the MSVC one.
No Java VM garbage collects every time you free something. Where'd you get that idea? GC happens on a thread a regular intervals or when it's out of memory.
Just because whatever it is that he has works does not mean it's a good solution. There are endless reasons why just because something works dosn't mean it's a good way to get something done. It may not be reliable, it may force one to write code that isn't maintainable, he may be more comfortable working with a Unix based OS, it may not be scaleable, et cetera.. I hope you'll agree that these are valid considerations.
In addition to the above, one may develop a distrust of a manufacturer because of bad experiences in the past, even when the product is indeed viable in its current state. My father stopped buying Pontiac cars when his third Pontiac developed the same premature problems that the first two had. Can you blame him? I've spent the better half of my professional life learning the bitter lesson that you can't depend on Microsoft products for one reason or another, after starting out as a Microsoft supporter. I'd consider myself a fool to continue to give Microsoft a chance, when in every single experience with them in the past they've severely disappointed me. Can you blame me?
If you think the only reason people stay away from Microsoft is that they're just Microsoft haters and for no more specific reason than jealousy or mistrust of big companies, then you've been living with your head in the sand (or you don't have enough general computing experience to know better.)
One more point, what's wrong with hating Microsoft anyway? Why should you even care if someone does? It's just a software company! Do you have Microsoft stock perhaps? If you want to rail against bigotry, fight racal or sexual bigotry and do some good instead.
It seems pretty obvious to my why it's flame bait. If he were to give some reasons why it sucks, then that'd be different, but just to say it sucks is baiting flames, intentionally or not.
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Take for example waiters, they're paid much less than minumum wage. I worked as a waiter and made about $2.10/hr in regular wages. Management knows that you'll get tips and that's why they can get away paying so little. Waiters pay income tax on tips even when they don't actually get them, the government assumes you get a certain amount from tips for every hour you work and they tax you on that. This is why tipping is necessary (with an exception for very bad service, in which case I don't tip much either) and why if you don't tip you won't get good service next time.
Comments like this are what makes /. for me, a lucid technical description followed by a bout of babbling insanity. Can life get any more perfect?
However Apple doesn't claim that their platform is a replacement for Solaris/AIX.
There are plenty of Linux firewall howtos if you're going that route.
Actually, it depends. If you're talking about raw speed then it's often hard to beat MySQL since it lacks most of the features that slow down databases. MySQL has a reputation for being fast, but it doesn't have a reputation for being a replacement for a true DBMS.
Not all Americans like StarWars, at least one doesn't :/
Perl more human? So that's why I've had trouble fitting in with humanity!
Sure information, but don't anthropomorphize computers, they don't like it :)
Anyway, we tax gas here too, don't forget, but I think (though I'm not sure) that the base price not including taxes is lower here. And if you're thinking that living in the UK is cheap, London is one of the most expensive places in the world to live.
If you think about it (or even if you don't) the price for gas is about the same or less than the price for coca-cola and nobody complains about the extremely inflated price of sugar water.
I don't understand all the fuss about gas prices in the US. It's so much cheaper here than almost anywhere else in the world. Go to the UK and fill 'er up and you'll see what I mean. Last time I did it cost me $58 USD for a small car.
We don't get around much in the US. I agree, I find it hard to understand why we're complaining so loudly about our extremely cheap fuel prices.
How did you know it was me?
That scares me. Does electricity actually work that way?
My company contributed what used to be the +CSO option (now a default) to jikes, the ability to compile files without compiling all other imported files. It will compile imported and other dependent files that don't have associated .class files however. It's not perfect, but I can compile my 3000 files in about 10 minutes, something that would take javac over an hour.
The product I work on has over 3000 .java source files and various other non-java compilation related activities interspersed in the build process. We did have solution similiar to what I imagine your "ant" is like, but for us jikes is still faster.
What I meant was that the VM does not garbage collect immediately when you free something. "No Java VM" as in, "There is no Java VM that garbage collects every time you free something".
Let's get a full qunatification of the speed differences between C and assembly, then we'll talk. Meanwhile, asm rules.
I don't agree. The reason Java compilation is slow is that the standard java compiler, javac, is written in java so you have the overhead of loading the VM, often for each file. Try a recent verion of jikes, an Open Source java compiler written in C++ from IBM. It's at least an order of magnatude faster than javac.
The result that really surprised me, though, was Cygwin32 beating MS VC almost across the board - running on Windows! WTF?!
Yeah, this is really hard to believe. Last time I did anything with Cygwin on Windows (compile Jikes!) the Cygwin binary was much slower than the MSVC one.
No Java VM garbage collects every time you free something. Where'd you get that idea? GC happens on a thread a regular intervals or when it's out of memory.
In addition to the above, one may develop a distrust of a manufacturer because of bad experiences in the past, even when the product is indeed viable in its current state. My father stopped buying Pontiac cars when his third Pontiac developed the same premature problems that the first two had. Can you blame him? I've spent the better half of my professional life learning the bitter lesson that you can't depend on Microsoft products for one reason or another, after starting out as a Microsoft supporter. I'd consider myself a fool to continue to give Microsoft a chance, when in every single experience with them in the past they've severely disappointed me. Can you blame me?
If you think the only reason people stay away from Microsoft is that they're just Microsoft haters and for no more specific reason than jealousy or mistrust of big companies, then you've been living with your head in the sand (or you don't have enough general computing experience to know better.)
One more point, what's wrong with hating Microsoft anyway? Why should you even care if someone does? It's just a software company! Do you have Microsoft stock perhaps? If you want to rail against bigotry, fight racal or sexual bigotry and do some good instead.
It seems pretty obvious to my why it's flame bait. If he were to give some reasons why it sucks, then that'd be different, but just to say it sucks is baiting flames, intentionally or not.
If you're referring to bug fixes, RedHat publish their bug fix RPMs on updates.redhat.com where you need no special code to gain access.
If I recall, Mandrake is based on RedHat. So if you have a bug in RedHat you're likely to have it in Mandrake too.
Knee-jerk reactions are the only reasonable reactions to jerks like yourself.
Sounds like he's just adding the antena that the card was designed to accept. He just had to get around the AirPort's housing.