Actually I'm going to have to disagree here. Learning a nice high-level language probably won't go far to improve your C skills, but learning C (and I don't just mean knowing the language, but actually being able to solve problems with it) will help you use your favorite high-level language effectively. Learn C and optionally assembler to understand things from a bits-and-bytes perspective. Learn an "academic" language to understand things from a mathematical perspective. And learn a modern mainstream language to use every day. (Alternately, go ahead and write kernels and VMs and mars probes in C, or write academic papers about Haskell. I can only provide my own perspective).
I don't have access to the same hardware as Jeff, of course, but I do have both FF2 (2.0.0.8) and Konqueror (3.5.8). Konqueror took more than three times as long to run, on the same hardware. Konqueror 4rc2 was still slower than FF2, but almost exactly twice as fast as Konqueror 3.5.8... which is a pretty significant improvement, at least:)
XP was a serious piece of shit. At the time when XP was new, 2kpro was the best choice for a "usable" windows system. But over time they crushed the bugs, and then, three years after the release, SP2 came out... which was another minor disaster because of applications compatibility, but that cleared up as well. And at that point it finally became evident that there were features involved that made XP a viable choice. Decent wifi support of course was a big one, wifi having become much more popular by 2004 than it was in 2001. UI improvements were all around (even after turning off the oversized titlebars and silly start menu). And SP2's security improvements actually did a reasonably good job.
So what's the moral of the story? I guess it's that maybe by sometime in 2010, Microsoft will unbreak Vista.:)
I've never seen this. On every KDE install I've set up, I've had 32x32 "regular" icons and 24x24 toolbar icons. On my rather ordinary work LCDs, that works out to 1/3" and 1/4" tall, respectively. And at 48px tall and full width, kicker occupies a mere 4.7% of my screen real estate.
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Ah, you've never used ed, have you? Or better yet, Microsoft's retarded ed-alike, EDLIN!
I'm not sure whether the grandparent is a troll or a garden-variety idiot (the only difference being whether it's intentional) but the bit that maybe you missed about it is that it stems from "confusion" of feng shui and Falun Gong. Not that the latter is evil, either, but it certainly qualifies as persecuted.
Add "has fucking lithium in it!" to the disadvantages. and expand the "more mandatory safety" note with "because it will cause really big fires if not handled carefully."
Me? I'll wait a couple of months after Xmas and buy a Wii thats what people said last year too. Heh... I know that's what I said. Came out in November, I figured it was cool, but not worth standing in line for... I'm just not into that sort of thing. So I decided, alright, if the reviews are good after people have had them for a while, I'll get one in February once they're back on shelves. Finally managed to get one in July. The store had gotten two that week, and I got the second.
The XBox 360 was released in November of 2005. In the following 22 months (up to the end of 9/07) Microsoft reported sales of 13.4M units (594K per 30-day month). Wii was released in November of 2006. Also as of the end of 9/07, Nintendo reported total sales of 13.2M units (1.25M per 30-day month). Nearly the same total sales, in less than half the time. Do you really think that Nintendo would be so stupid as to create a shortage of something that sells like that, especially given that (unlike MS or Sony) they're said to be making money on hardware sales? They're making exactly as many as they can, and selling every one.
Is it the time from perihelion to the next perihelion? Is it the time from zenith on the shortest day to zenith on the shortest day next year? Is it the time for when a star within our galaxy is in the same position again? Is it the time for when a star outside our galaxy is in the same position again?
The earth's orbit rotates, and the solar system rotates, in a galaxy that rotates. And speculation is that the universe rotates too. There are obvious advantages to keeping the calendar year aligned with the tropical year.
Maybe if they did it well, it might pay off. Windows XP is ancient. For a release, it is very old. Just to put things in the proper slashdot perspective, since XP was released, Debian has managed to put together a release -- not once, not twice, but three times. Debian. Three releases. XP is like, ancient news, man. Do you even remember potato?
Two spaces after a period is a typewriter convention arising from the fact that typewriters are too stupid to have different widths of spaces. Computers aren't typewriters and they're not that stupid.
Wait... having the power of arithmetic, boolean logic, and more at your command is "limited" compared to having the ability to index on one set of keys, in one specific order, determined in advance?
Who uses Google's SMS-based service somewhat regularly? I don't have a phone that's capable enough to run Google Maps/Local well, but I can text Google with the name of a restaurant and a city, and get back the address and phone number, or get the latest Yankees scores, movie showtimes, flight status, stock quotes, or the value of the Yen.
It was just a minor snark. This is an application where a tiny amount of current, intermittently, is good enough. Which makes it about the perfect solar cell application, dig?:)
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Actually I'm going to have to disagree here. Learning a nice high-level language probably won't go far to improve your C skills, but learning C (and I don't just mean knowing the language, but actually being able to solve problems with it) will help you use your favorite high-level language effectively. Learn C and optionally assembler to understand things from a bits-and-bytes perspective. Learn an "academic" language to understand things from a mathematical perspective. And learn a modern mainstream language to use every day. (Alternately, go ahead and write kernels and VMs and mars probes in C, or write academic papers about Haskell. I can only provide my own perspective).
Heh... do you remember which one it was that "made it"? Was it "weeaboo"?
Agreed.
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I don't have access to the same hardware as Jeff, of course, but I do have both FF2 (2.0.0.8) and Konqueror (3.5.8). Konqueror took more than three times as long to run, on the same hardware. Konqueror 4rc2 was still slower than FF2, but almost exactly twice as fast as Konqueror 3.5.8... which is a pretty significant improvement, at least
That's just the indexer being cranky. Doesn't look that way anymore.
Wow, you must have been a genius to predict that... when the Perl folks were saying the same thing in 2002. :)
So what's the moral of the story? I guess it's that maybe by sometime in 2010, Microsoft will unbreak Vista.
Whoops, correction. Toolbar icons are 22x22 here, not 24x24. But I think they get 1px padding all around, so it works out to the same thing :)
I've never seen this. On every KDE install I've set up, I've had 32x32 "regular" icons and 24x24 toolbar icons. On my rather ordinary work LCDs, that works out to 1/3" and 1/4" tall, respectively. And at 48px tall and full width, kicker occupies a mere 4.7% of my screen real estate.
I'm not sure whether the grandparent is a troll or a garden-variety idiot (the only difference being whether it's intentional) but the bit that maybe you missed about it is that it stems from "confusion" of feng shui and Falun Gong. Not that the latter is evil, either, but it certainly qualifies as persecuted.
Who cares? It's video RAM.
Because the 13-18 crowd is the largest audience by far for "17+" games. People who are actually "mature" tend to find most of them less interesting.
Add "has fucking lithium in it!" to the disadvantages. and expand the "more mandatory safety" note with "because it will cause really big fires if not handled carefully."
The XBox 360 was released in November of 2005. In the following 22 months (up to the end of 9/07) Microsoft reported sales of 13.4M units (594K per 30-day month). Wii was released in November of 2006. Also as of the end of 9/07, Nintendo reported total sales of 13.2M units (1.25M per 30-day month). Nearly the same total sales, in less than half the time. Do you really think that Nintendo would be so stupid as to create a shortage of something that sells like that, especially given that (unlike MS or Sony) they're said to be making money on hardware sales? They're making exactly as many as they can, and selling every one.
that you can't tell a "measure" from a "measurement"?
I want my torrent downloading experience to be as fast as possible.
Hmm... that doesn't really work, does it? Oh well.
What is a year?
Is it the time from perihelion to the next perihelion?
Is it the time from zenith on the shortest day to zenith on the shortest day next year?
Is it the time for when a star within our galaxy is in the same position again?
Is it the time for when a star outside our galaxy is in the same position again?
The earth's orbit rotates, and the solar system rotates, in a galaxy that rotates. And speculation is that the universe rotates too. There are obvious advantages to keeping the calendar year aligned with the tropical year.
It's never Lupus.
Two spaces after a period is a typewriter convention arising from the fact that typewriters are too stupid to have different widths of spaces. Computers aren't typewriters and they're not that stupid.
Wait... having the power of arithmetic, boolean logic, and more at your command is "limited" compared to having the ability to index on one set of keys, in one specific order, determined in advance?
Who uses Google's SMS-based service somewhat regularly? I don't have a phone that's capable enough to run Google Maps/Local well, but I can text Google with the name of a restaurant and a city, and get back the address and phone number, or get the latest Yankees scores, movie showtimes, flight status, stock quotes, or the value of the Yen.
It was just a minor snark. This is an application where a tiny amount of current, intermittently, is good enough. Which makes it about the perfect solar cell application, dig? :)