The difference is that most of the time Windows executes things without your knowledge, out of your control, beyond reasonable means of disabling such facilities and quite often god-damn automatically.
That's simply not true any more, and hasn't been true for many years.
Developer : Hi, tell me what the advisors want the new release to do.
Advisory Council : It has to have a 45" screen and still fit in a purse or a wallet. It needs to act as a communications satellite as well as a room freshener. It must cure deadly diseases and whiten your teeth while you sleep ! HA HA !! And it has to be capable of time travel !! And have a telepathic user interface !
*** SLAP ***
Developer : I could write a patch that allows you to fart in your opponent's general direction.
Advisory Council : Yeah...a lot of people want that.
According to Mactards and Tuxtards, trojans aren't a proper security threat because they require user interaction. Are they only a threat on Windows systems ?
I run XP SP3 on 512 MB RAM and it's completely fine. Even 384 MB on my old laptop is enough. I have noticed that friends' machines which only have 256 MB really can't cope with SP3, though.
This isn't always a bad thing. The one situation where integer representations really win is in angular calculations. If you represent the angles 0-360 degrees as 0 to 2^n bits, you can forget about overflows and just use the integer operators to perform addition and subtraction and throw away the carry flag. Finding the shortest distance between two angles is also an easy thing to calculate. If you use 32 bits to represent an angle, you can achieve accuracies to around 1/1,000,000th of a degree. Hell, even 16 bits lets you work down to around 1/200th of a degree.
Be wary of 'upgrading' angular-integer code to utilise hardware floating-point units - the extra bounds checking required might negate potential speed increases.
CORAL allows you to declare and use variables with whitespace within them. This arguably makes for more pleasant-looking code than when you use underscores or CamelCase (and is a real help for dyslexic programmers).
What's not so cool is that the compiler ignores whitespace so that
Variable number 1 Variable number1 Variablenumber 1 and Var iablenum ber1
are all equivalent. All it takes is some inconsistent naming and you become unable to use search functions which don't ignore whitespace (I couldn't even tell you if grep has a switch for that - the system I programmed with CORAL didn't run Unix and its search command was brain-dead).
Oh, and bitwise operations were allowed, but bits were numbered from the most significant downwards !
One of the most horrible jobs I ever did was porting a system written in CORAL into C. If it hadn't been for modern IDE's and debuggers, I reckon I'd still be doing it !
I was going to adopt line #419 after they promised it'd make me US$ 4.2 million, but they kept asking for more money for 'lawyers fees' and 'bank charges' and stuff.
Hahaha. I'm completely new to this debate (yeah, I know - what a n00b !). Has Tanenbaum ever withdrawn his arguments in the light of experience ? Has he ever thrown up his hands and said "You know, I was just plain wrong. Mea culpa." ?
Anyone who remembers the climate in microcomputers at that time can kind of appreciate where he was coming from but the landscape has changed so much (if you'll allow me a little metaphor-mixing) since then that most of his points have either been soundly refuted or shown to be overly cautious/conservative.
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That leaves you plenty more time to spend in bed, satisfying her sexually.
Funny you say that, I've always wanted to build (or buy if they made the damn things) a wearable.
Is that you, Techno-Bill ?
Methinks you dont know what a viral marketing campaign is.
A statement like that could break the Internet.
No-one makes jokes in base 13 !
I was born in 1986
Get the hell off my /., kid !
Essentially the goal is to create a win-win situation for everyone.
Plus, you get to use the word "synergy" in its proper context.
win-win-win
The difference is that most of the time Windows executes things without your knowledge, out of your control, beyond reasonable means of disabling such facilities and quite often god-damn automatically.
That's simply not true any more, and hasn't been true for many years.
Developer : Hi, tell me what the advisors want the new release to do.
Advisory Council : It has to have a 45" screen and still fit in a purse or a wallet. It needs to act as a communications satellite as well as a room freshener. It must cure deadly diseases and whiten your teeth while you sleep ! HA HA !! And it has to be capable of time travel !! And have a telepathic user interface !
*** SLAP ***
Developer : I could write a patch that allows you to fart in your opponent's general direction.
Advisory Council : Yeah...a lot of people want that.
It seems the latest version of the Zeus Trojan...
According to Mactards and Tuxtards, trojans aren't a proper security threat because they require user interaction. Are they only a threat on Windows systems ?
I run XP SP3 on 512 MB RAM and it's completely fine. Even 384 MB on my old laptop is enough. I have noticed that friends' machines which only have 256 MB really can't cope with SP3, though.
Why was this mod'ed 'Troll' ? It's one of the most insightful comments I've read on an MS-related topic in quite some time.
"Doonf" ? I don't get it.
The switch to digital would have been the perfect moment to implement such infrastructure.
What does digital penetration have to do with taxing candlesticks as 'erotica' ?
Oh, wait...
DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc. If you (or RMS) wish to call it Digital Vindictive Disk or Draconian Vomit Dispenser, that's your prerogative.
The fact remains that DVD == 'Digital Versatile Disc' and DRM == 'Digital Rights Management'.
Hopefully...someone is giving some TLC to the former
That would get you TiCKLED.
isn't UNIX a standard?
"It's a Unix system ! I know this !"
+4 Funny. Well, I thought it was funny. Certainly a lot funnier than Ballmer/chair comments.
This isn't always a bad thing. The one situation where integer representations really win is in angular calculations. If you represent the angles 0-360 degrees as 0 to 2^n bits, you can forget about overflows and just use the integer operators to perform addition and subtraction and throw away the carry flag. Finding the shortest distance between two angles is also an easy thing to calculate. If you use 32 bits to represent an angle, you can achieve accuracies to around 1/1,000,000th of a degree. Hell, even 16 bits lets you work down to around 1/200th of a degree.
Be wary of 'upgrading' angular-integer code to utilise hardware floating-point units - the extra bounds checking required might negate potential speed increases.
CORAL allows you to declare and use variables with whitespace within them. This arguably makes for more pleasant-looking code than when you use underscores or CamelCase (and is a real help for dyslexic programmers).
What's not so cool is that the compiler ignores whitespace so that
Variable number 1
Variable number1
Variablenumber 1
and
Var iablenum ber1
are all equivalent. All it takes is some inconsistent naming and you become unable to use search functions which don't ignore whitespace (I couldn't even tell you if grep has a switch for that - the system I programmed with CORAL didn't run Unix and its search command was brain-dead).
Oh, and bitwise operations were allowed, but bits were numbered from the most significant downwards !
One of the most horrible jobs I ever did was porting a system written in CORAL into C. If it hadn't been for modern IDE's and debuggers, I reckon I'd still be doing it !
Begone foul beast !
"Prolly" == "Probably"
Move zig...for great justice.
I was going to adopt line #419 after they promised it'd make me US$ 4.2 million, but they kept asking for more money for 'lawyers fees' and 'bank charges' and stuff.
Is that the bottom-up approach they were talking about in TFS ?
Hahaha. I'm completely new to this debate (yeah, I know - what a n00b !). Has Tanenbaum ever withdrawn his arguments in the light of experience ? Has he ever thrown up his hands and said "You know, I was just plain wrong. Mea culpa." ?
Anyone who remembers the climate in microcomputers at that time can kind of appreciate where he was coming from but the landscape has changed so much (if you'll allow me a little metaphor-mixing) since then that most of his points have either been soundly refuted or shown to be overly cautious/conservative.
you're more likely to get beaten to death by an irate parent
I read that as "irate pirate". Aaaaarrrrrr.