Just to be pedantic, causation can almost never be proved. Repetition seems to cause a sorted of expected correspondence that is frequently mistaken to be causation.
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My main monitor is a 21" Sun. Works great with my iBook, but I'm not about to carry it with me (75 lbs.) to the local coffee shop. (Stauf's. Great coffee.)
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Well, the reason I dislike XP is because I don't feel it places enough emphasis on the design stage of a project.
Yes, it's easy and quick to hack together a working prototype using XP. I don't see pure XP projects getting well polished or being easily maintained. Of course, projects heavily into UML and UP are also a maintenance nightmare.
Compared to the population China's economy is far far worse than the US's. Compare GDP: US $10.45 trillion (2002 est.); China $5.989 trillion (2002 est.).
China's apparent success is based on a huge population (1,286,975,468 (July 2003 est.)) which is very poor. Essentially China has unlimited free labor; as the standard of living in China increases any competitive advantage China has in the world economy will decrease.
The only way to guarantee the possibility of future support is to open source it.
That's not true. The API's are fully documented and there is nothing preventing their implementation. Those API's are decided on by the JCP which is a community process.
Open sourcing Java would give people an implementation, it would not significantly affect the characteristics of the language. I don't see the openness of Java being significantly different than that of C/C++/C#/Ada; the languages are tightly controlled by a small group with anyone free to implement the standard to whatever extent.
What is the difference between the relationship of Java to the JCP and C to ANSI? You and I can't directly influence either; but we are free to implement either language.
As others have pointed out ksh is part of Solaris's default install. In fact I can say for sure if a 9 box doesn't have have bash it's because the admin specifically removed it.
Furthermore I hate installing a Linux machine because they never come with a proper ksh. I've never met an admin who prefers bash, and frankly the people who do prefer bash tend to be new to Unix and not familiar with anything other than Linux. Maybe that makes me elitist, but hey this is/.:)
Compare Itanium to like processors, such as they exist.
So Power4 is the only processor you'll admit to being a "like" processor? The biggest RISC processors are Sparc and PowerPC. Each out sells Itanium by a huge margin.
Sun sold more total systems, but they weren't all SunFires, and we weren't talking about them.
Intel sold 100,000 processors, Sun sold close to 300,000 systems. See the significance of the difference? The parent of this thread was talking about RISC processors. Power4 was mentioned specifically, but Sparcs are certainly in the the same class.
Yes it does. It seems most of/. is incapable of evaluating a statement based on the worth of that statement. Oh well, you didn't expect independent thought here did you?
Try logging a failure of a similar magnitude with Red Hat and report your results back for an apples to apples comparison.
My company has a active cluster running RH AS2.1. We pay for their best support contract. Getting RedHat to do anything is difficult and time consuming. I've called for support and been transfered to voice mail with a full mailbox on multiple occasions. I can't call RedHat and get an answer about their offerings.
I can personally call Sun (no business relationship) and get questions answered for any of their products.
the rule is that code isn't finished until there's a test suite for it.
As it should be. Same rule at my company, however when the implementation date has arrived...
Actually the stress on my last post should have been on "exhaustive". It's not possible to test every case and all error handling; there's always something that will be missed. Proper design techniques are seperate from testing techniques, but just as important. Everyone has a favorite, but placing more importance on testing than design (or vice versa) is asking for problems.
Yes, I agree with that statement, but given that it's impractical for real-world programmers to do a formal proof from a specification to code, I'd rather write tests.
Ah, but by the same token it's impractical for real-world programmers to exhaustively unit test, so I'd rather the best possible development methodologies were used. Of course the remainder of the project time frame should be used testing.
I'd rather tell my boss I didn't have time to completely test, than tell my boss the code doesn't exist yet.
On top of that... 3 colors multiplied by 2 megapixels = the equivalent of 6 'consumer' megapixels.
That was his point. The common 4 megapixel cameras are actually only 1.3 per color.
Regardless, megapixel count is hardly the most important aspect of a digital camera. The lens matters far more, as does the spacing and quality of the pixels. Really, NASA has a very interesting article on the topic.
Now imagine you're walking and you get mugged, now you'll be glad about the cameras who can now have an idea of what the mugger looks like and there's a much greater chance of them being caught.
Nope. If the government wants to spend my money, I want them to use it to protect me. The amount of money spent on camera's could have put a lot more police on the streets, and police have a chance of actually stopping crime.
I never see police except on the interstate when they have just pulled someone over for speeding. In the paper I can read about them breaking down the doors of massage parlors suspected of prostitution, but I have never seen (and very rarely heard of) a police officer doing anything to protect (or even help) a person.
I'm an American and cameras sound like a natural extension of lazy police more than anything else.
security lapses are not a result of adoption of a particular standard Depends how you want to define security. Spam is an exploitation of SMTP that relies on consistent behavior across implementations to perform a type of DoS attack.
Telnet is a standard that if universally adopted would clearly be a security problem. I'm sure we can both think of many standards that would have horrible security consequences if allowed to become a monoculture.
Heh... You are insane. There's no way I will ever go back to CRTs after the clarity of LCD displays with subpixel AA. There's just no comparison; even a 21" CRT now makes me think that the world has "gone blurry."
Why are so few people able to admit their personal preference is a personal preference? You like LCDs. Fine. I like CRTs. I hate every AA I've seen, and I have seen quite a lot. Maybe I am insane, but it's not my monitor preference that makes it so.
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I'll pay the $100 for 1.4 if they remove exposé :)
Ack. Everyone one I know puts exposé in the "cool idea but impossible to use" category. Whatever floats your boat.
Just to be pedantic, causation can almost never be proved. Repetition seems to cause a sorted of expected correspondence that is frequently mistaken to be causation.
My main monitor is a 21" Sun. Works great with my iBook, but I'm not about to carry it with me (75 lbs.) to the local coffee shop. (Stauf's. Great coffee.)
Well, the reason I dislike XP is because I don't feel it places enough emphasis on the design stage of a project.
Yes, it's easy and quick to hack together a working prototype using XP. I don't see pure XP projects getting well polished or being easily maintained. Of course, projects heavily into UML and UP are also a maintenance nightmare.
Compared to the population China's economy is far far worse than the US's. Compare GDP: US $10.45 trillion (2002 est.); China $5.989 trillion (2002 est.).
China's apparent success is based on a huge population (1,286,975,468 (July 2003 est.)) which is very poor. Essentially China has unlimited free labor; as the standard of living in China increases any competitive advantage China has in the world economy will decrease.
Read the CIA factbook
I've done this. It was nice. Makes cold beer after work taste even better. Of course, I like being a Systems Administrator too...
I'd swear it was Sun doing the "internet dial tone" marketing. Maybe I was just too shocked by the stupidity to remember who was responsible though.
Poor communication skills. Shorter explanations. Programmers tend to learn by example so "teaching" by analogy seems like a logical step.
The only way to guarantee the possibility of future support is to open source it.
That's not true. The API's are fully documented and there is nothing preventing their implementation. Those API's are decided on by the JCP which is a community process.
Open sourcing Java would give people an implementation, it would not significantly affect the characteristics of the language. I don't see the openness of Java being significantly different than that of C/C++/C#/Ada; the languages are tightly controlled by a small group with anyone free to implement the standard to whatever extent.
What is the difference between the relationship of Java to the JCP and C to ANSI? You and I can't directly influence either; but we are free to implement either language.
As others have pointed out ksh is part of Solaris's default install. In fact I can say for sure if a 9 box doesn't have have bash it's because the admin specifically removed it.
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Furthermore I hate installing a Linux machine because they never come with a proper ksh. I've never met an admin who prefers bash, and frankly the people who do prefer bash tend to be new to Unix and not familiar with anything other than Linux. Maybe that makes me elitist, but hey this is
Compare Itanium to like processors, such as they exist.
So Power4 is the only processor you'll admit to being a "like" processor? The biggest RISC processors are Sparc and PowerPC. Each out sells Itanium by a huge margin.
Sun sold more total systems, but they weren't all SunFires, and we weren't talking about them.
Intel sold 100,000 processors, Sun sold close to 300,000 systems. See the significance of the difference? The parent of this thread was talking about RISC processors. Power4 was mentioned specifically, but Sparcs are certainly in the the same class.
Yes it does. It seems most of /. is incapable of evaluating a statement based on the worth of that statement.
Oh well, you didn't expect independent thought here did you?
Try logging a failure of a similar magnitude with Red Hat and report your results back for an apples to apples comparison.
My company has a active cluster running RH AS2.1. We pay for their best support contract. Getting RedHat to do anything is difficult and time consuming. I've called for support and been transfered to voice mail with a full mailbox on multiple occasions. I can't call RedHat and get an answer about their offerings.
I can personally call Sun (no business relationship) and get questions answered for any of their products.
the rule is that code isn't finished until there's a test suite for it.
As it should be. Same rule at my company, however when the implementation date has arrived...
Actually the stress on my last post should have been on "exhaustive". It's not possible to test every case and all error handling; there's always something that will be missed. Proper design techniques are seperate from testing techniques, but just as important. Everyone has a favorite, but placing more importance on testing than design (or vice versa) is asking for problems.
Yes, I agree with that statement, but given that it's impractical for real-world programmers to do a formal proof from a specification to code, I'd rather write tests.
Ah, but by the same token it's impractical for real-world programmers to exhaustively unit test, so I'd rather the best possible development methodologies were used. Of course the remainder of the project time frame should be used testing.
I'd rather tell my boss I didn't have time to completely test, than tell my boss the code doesn't exist yet.
On top of that... 3 colors multiplied by 2 megapixels = the equivalent of 6 'consumer' megapixels.
That was his point. The common 4 megapixel cameras are actually only 1.3 per color.
Regardless, megapixel count is hardly the most important aspect of a digital camera. The lens matters far more, as does the spacing and quality of the pixels. Really, NASA has a very interesting article on the topic.
Hm... maybe we've found the real reason why there is so much more violent crime in the US than Britain:)
Now imagine you're walking and you get mugged, now you'll be glad about the cameras who can now have an idea of what the mugger looks like and there's a much greater chance of them being caught.
Nope. If the government wants to spend my money, I want them to use it to protect me. The amount of money spent on camera's could have put a lot more police on the streets, and police have a chance of actually stopping crime.
I never see police except on the interstate when they have just pulled someone over for speeding. In the paper I can read about them breaking down the doors of massage parlors suspected of prostitution, but I have never seen (and very rarely heard of) a police officer doing anything to protect (or even help) a person.
I'm an American and cameras sound like a natural extension of lazy police more than anything else.
Depends how you want to define security. Spam is an exploitation of SMTP that relies on consistent behavior across implementations to perform a type of DoS attack.
Telnet is a standard that if universally adopted would clearly be a security problem. I'm sure we can both think of many standards that would have horrible security consequences if allowed to become a monoculture.
Heh... You are insane. There's no way I will ever go back to CRTs after the clarity of LCD displays with subpixel AA. There's just no comparison; even a 21" CRT now makes me think that the world has "gone blurry."
Why are so few people able to admit their personal preference is a personal preference? You like LCDs. Fine. I like CRTs. I hate every AA I've seen, and I have seen quite a lot. Maybe I am insane, but it's not my monitor preference that makes it so.