I've coded some fairly complicated high performance multi-threaded applications in C. It's not easy, but it's not easy in C# or Java either. There have been many minor improvements to the required syntax, but that has never been the hard part of multi-threaded development. Parallelizing (sp, I know) the problem is a conceptual problem unrelated to language.
While shopping for my car I don't really recall thinking about my penis. Of course, if it needed an adjustment I probably won't recall at this point anyway.
Just out of curiousity what do you drive and how does it relate to your penis? Assuming of course you're male and have a penis.
All the hard numbers refute the assertion that Apple hardware is even as unreliable as the average PC.
Luckily, Apple does not listen to people who have no idea what they're talking about.
And as far as any of us can tell, you just lie when you talk. If you were to post verifable numbers your post might rank above anecdotal, but you didn't and it doesn't. So, your post is no more factual than the GP, but has a load more arrogance. Thanks.
But still, my point above stands, it's not for anyone on Slashdot (unless they hold a Ph.D and a university position in the subject) to say anything negative about a field.
Your point is just an inversion of the burden of proof fallacy. If I have a phd in the field of "teapots orbitting the sun", every one is more than welcome to question the value of my field. If your point was valid, any quack could create all sorts of completely pointless fields of study and no one would be able to say they were pointless.
The fact is if you are making a positive statement the burden of proof is on you. Almost by definition skepticism doesn't need proof, just reason.
Please get some training in the field before you try to dispute its work. K thx bye.
You haven't, so why should anyone care what you say? You're just one of a billion christian tools. You might have an edge in arrogance, but that doesn't really buy much credibility.
Just because I bought a cheap ticket it doesn't mean I want to be a sardine.
Of course not, but if you didn't check in advance what you were buying, you deserve it; if you weren't able to check in advance, ditto.
This is the essense of capitalism: Do not buy meat labeled "Rotten". Never buy 20 pounds of mystery meat at the grocery store, no matter how cheap it is. Only buy what you must or what you want; no corporation cares how happy you are after they have your money. Yes they wan't more of your money, but there are pretty bell charts showing how much it costs to make you spend more, they balance the two.
That was overly verbose, the real essense of capitalism is expecting the consumers to be informed.
Not saying you're wrong. Just saying you're probably not going to convince anyone to give up their guzzler. I made fun of SUV drivers for years, then I fell in love with a BMW 540. It gets 15mpg, which is in the same ballpark as most full size SUVs.
And just FYI, a lot of people who are really into the competition would accuse you of being jealous. Stupid, but most people are really self-absorbed and have a hard time understanding people with different priorities.
It makes me laugh when I see people diving around here in big American SUVs, you know they're paying for the priviledge, especially as road tax^W^WVehicle Excise Duty is being increased to £400 for gas-guzzlers.
Duh... You noticed, that's the point. They spend a lot of money because they must have a lot. They're probably laughing at the weirdo who can't afford a real car.
Don't just blame the American SUVs, my German sedan gets mileage as bad as most American SUVs.
Well I would certainly hope so; a G3 Mac is, let's see, 4 hardware generations old now?
Yes, it will be slow on a G3, no doubt about that. Hardly a fair evaluation.
Funny I knew someone would do that. You either 1) read my post poorly 2) don't know pc hardware 3) are intentionally being an ass. In the hopes that either 1 or 2 is correct, let me point out and clarify:
I switched from a Mac to a PC 3 years older partially because of speed. But if you read my post you would have seen my main complaints with OS X were that it was awkward and unintuitive, and I wasn't clear, but the speed I complained of was primarily the inability to fluidly execute a task... ie with windows it's trivial to practice a task learn the key shortcuts and repeat the task very quickly, with OS X even routine tasks are awkward everytime.
I realize I won't change your opinion, and don't really care to. However that attitude that OS X is clearly better and only ignorance could blind a person, is offensive and stupid. I've never heard someone with OS X and PC experience argue persuasively why/how a Mac is better.
I've yet to see someone who has used a Mac for a year straight give a compelling argument for Windows's superiority.
Well can't say we've actually met, but I have a G3 iBook and a G4 Tower that have had every OS X upgrade applied within weeks of being released. The iBook was my only laptop for about 2 years.
I've been using them less and less. I find OS X awkward, slow and unintuitive. I now use an old Athlon 1200. I first installed XP at home about a year after owning the iBook. I like it better.
Feel free to deny ever seeing this message and, of course, I didn't argue for Windows superiority either. I just never felt like OS X made sense.
FWIW, I actually like Unix in the Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD and Linux order. I was a System Administrator for 5 years before switching to being a developer for the last 2.
Bullshit. Front wheel drivers cars understeer. Rear wheel drive cars oversteer. If you must turn at a specific speed, you can compensate for oversteer you can not compensate for understeer.
Catch that? The only fix for understeering is to brake. If there's a problem with braking or you are in a skid you will have far more control in a rear wheel drive car.
Now do you understand why performance oriented cars are never front wheel drive?
The thing is, that even with very good specs no one person can understand a complex enough system. I develop for a trillion dollar company (nope not many of them) and the teams that get things done have very little overhead. In fact specs frequently only get created when needed, not before.
Each developer only needs to understand their small part, any attempt to do otherwise is going to be painful.
He could be talking about Rational Application Developer, which is the most god-awful piece of shit IDE ever known to man. It's essentially Windows only though.
Syntactically PHP is a C-like language. Every shortcoming in C syntax is present in php. Frankly, I don't think PHP has anything to offer; and would be perfectly happy if it went away.
Of course, I'm not omniscient and therefore don't know every shortcoming in C syntax, and probably wouldn't agree with someone who did.
I've seen relatively few Solaris 10 systems in production, but most new development work on Solaris is for 10. So far 10 looks like the most actively planned for version of Solaris I can remember.
Develop a thick skin and a willingness to rewrite; your work will suck for a long time, but recoding under expert direction is more educational than coding without.
Of course learning under the direction of a moron might scar your development for life, so don't pick your project randomly.
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You sounds trollish, but I'll bite anyway.
I've coded some fairly complicated high performance multi-threaded applications in C. It's not easy, but it's not easy in C# or Java either. There have been many minor improvements to the required syntax, but that has never been the hard part of multi-threaded development. Parallelizing (sp, I know) the problem is a conceptual problem unrelated to language.
Penis obsession?
While shopping for my car I don't really recall thinking about my penis. Of course, if it needed an adjustment I probably won't recall at this point anyway.
Just out of curiousity what do you drive and how does it relate to your penis? Assuming of course you're male and have a penis.
Or is a desire to write a book really a sign of the end times?
Based on the new publications at Barnes and Nobles I can see why someone might make the inference.
(yes, I'm aware some states allocate electors according to their percentage of votes).
I didn't realize any did. Do you know which?
All the hard numbers refute the assertion that Apple hardware is even as unreliable as the average PC.
Luckily, Apple does not listen to people who have no idea what they're talking about.
And as far as any of us can tell, you just lie when you talk. If you were to post verifable numbers your post might rank above anecdotal, but you didn't and it doesn't. So, your post is no more factual than the GP, but has a load more arrogance. Thanks.
Your point is just an inversion of the burden of proof fallacy. If I have a phd in the field of "teapots orbitting the sun", every one is more than welcome to question the value of my field. If your point was valid, any quack could create all sorts of completely pointless fields of study and no one would be able to say they were pointless.
The fact is if you are making a positive statement the burden of proof is on you. Almost by definition skepticism doesn't need proof, just reason.
Please get some training in the field before you try to dispute its work. K thx bye.
You haven't, so why should anyone care what you say? You're just one of a billion christian tools. You might have an edge in arrogance, but that doesn't really buy much credibility.
Of course not, but if you didn't check in advance what you were buying, you deserve it; if you weren't able to check in advance, ditto.
This is the essense of capitalism: Do not buy meat labeled "Rotten". Never buy 20 pounds of mystery meat at the grocery store, no matter how cheap it is. Only buy what you must or what you want; no corporation cares how happy you are after they have your money. Yes they wan't more of your money, but there are pretty bell charts showing how much it costs to make you spend more, they balance the two.
That was overly verbose, the real essense of capitalism is expecting the consumers to be informed.
Not saying you're wrong. Just saying you're probably not going to convince anyone to give up their guzzler. I made fun of SUV drivers for years, then I fell in love with a BMW 540. It gets 15mpg, which is in the same ballpark as most full size SUVs.
And just FYI, a lot of people who are really into the competition would accuse you of being jealous. Stupid, but most people are really self-absorbed and have a hard time understanding people with different priorities.
It makes me laugh when I see people diving around here in big American SUVs, you know they're paying for the priviledge, especially as road tax^W^WVehicle Excise Duty is being increased to £400 for gas-guzzlers.
Duh... You noticed, that's the point. They spend a lot of money because they must have a lot. They're probably laughing at the weirdo who can't afford a real car.
Don't just blame the American SUVs, my German sedan gets mileage as bad as most American SUVs.
Yes, it will be slow on a G3, no doubt about that. Hardly a fair evaluation.
Funny I knew someone would do that. You either 1) read my post poorly 2) don't know pc hardware 3) are intentionally being an ass. In the hopes that either 1 or 2 is correct, let me point out and clarify:
I said my main computer is an Athlon 1200. Those were released in Oct. 2000 http://www.tomshardware.com/2000/10/17/amd_extends _performance_lead_with_new_athlon_and_duron_proces sor/index.html
I didn't say before but my iBook G3 is a 900Mhz which was released Apr. 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook
I switched from a Mac to a PC 3 years older partially because of speed. But if you read my post you would have seen my main complaints with OS X were that it was awkward and unintuitive, and I wasn't clear, but the speed I complained of was primarily the inability to fluidly execute a task... ie with windows it's trivial to practice a task learn the key shortcuts and repeat the task very quickly, with OS X even routine tasks are awkward everytime.
I realize I won't change your opinion, and don't really care to. However that attitude that OS X is clearly better and only ignorance could blind a person, is offensive and stupid. I've never heard someone with OS X and PC experience argue persuasively why/how a Mac is better.
Well can't say we've actually met, but I have a G3 iBook and a G4 Tower that have had every OS X upgrade applied within weeks of being released. The iBook was my only laptop for about 2 years.
I've been using them less and less. I find OS X awkward, slow and unintuitive. I now use an old Athlon 1200. I first installed XP at home about a year after owning the iBook. I like it better.
Feel free to deny ever seeing this message and, of course, I didn't argue for Windows superiority either. I just never felt like OS X made sense.
FWIW, I actually like Unix in the Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD and Linux order. I was a System Administrator for 5 years before switching to being a developer for the last 2.
Bullshit. Front wheel drivers cars understeer. Rear wheel drive cars oversteer. If you must turn at a specific speed, you can compensate for oversteer you can not compensate for understeer.
Catch that? The only fix for understeering is to brake. If there's a problem with braking or you are in a skid you will have far more control in a rear wheel drive car.
Now do you understand why performance oriented cars are never front wheel drive?
Good point, but personally I listen to music constantly while I work. As a developer I stare at the monitor for 10 hours a day, plenty of music time
Mustangs?!
i can honestly say that i get less calls asking for help now that they are using linux than i did with windows.
Maybe that's just because they quit talking to you?
The thing is, that even with very good specs no one person can understand a complex enough system. I develop for a trillion dollar company (nope not many of them) and the teams that get things done have very little overhead. In fact specs frequently only get created when needed, not before.
Each developer only needs to understand their small part, any attempt to do otherwise is going to be painful.
He could be talking about Rational Application Developer, which is the most god-awful piece of shit IDE ever known to man. It's essentially Windows only though.
Syntactically PHP is a C-like language. Every shortcoming in C syntax is present in php. Frankly, I don't think PHP has anything to offer; and would be perfectly happy if it went away.
Of course, I'm not omniscient and therefore don't know every shortcoming in C syntax, and probably wouldn't agree with someone who did.
If you can't carry out your 13 year old, either they need a diet or you need more excercise.
I've seen relatively few Solaris 10 systems in production, but most new development work on Solaris is for 10. So far 10 looks like the most actively planned for version of Solaris I can remember.
I think you could extend that argument to anyone who finds /. exciting.
Who uses Solaris 10?
People trying to do stuff?
Strange. Seems faster than Slashdot.
Develop a thick skin and a willingness to rewrite; your work will suck for a long time, but recoding under expert direction is more educational than coding without.
Of course learning under the direction of a moron might scar your development for life, so don't pick your project randomly.