What does widely used have to do with good teaching C++ is probably the most widely used OO language, but it sucks as a teaching language.
C is the worst teaching language one could think of and not even appropriate in the context of OO programming.
VB is extremely well used but it's debatable if it is an OO language (or even a programming language:-)
Smalltalk enforces the parts of OO that it supports so it is an OK teaching language.
Eiffel supports and enforces all parts of the OO paradigm and is an excellent teaching language despite the fact that it is not videly used.
The language smalltalk enforces most of the OO paradigm. It suffers from the same gross mistake as Java, no multiple inheritance. MI is not needed very often but when you need it you should not have to resort to various clunky workarounds
Try Eiffel it supports and enforces the entire OO paradigm.
I seriously doubt that we will ever see a TV STB from Sun, so in this context relatively irrelevant:-)
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When you go to a store, there are video cameras watching you, and records of your sales, etc...why shouldn't a website know which pages were visited?
Minor detail, the store has a sign, right at the entrance saying something like "We are using video surveillance for your protection". There is no sneaking around and trying to hide that fact. Also I do not care much that Slashdot knows that I visit. However, Webbugs are usually used by others, say doubleclick. It would bother me alot if an ad company collected info of the sort "does not like MS, likes privacy" etc, and then maybe even sold that to the attitude adjustment department at a certain Redmond WA based corporation:-)
Cookies (sometimes) have a valid use, such as the session info in Slash.
Web bugs have only one use, to gather info on your habits, preferences and views without your knowledge. Therefore they all bite and leave infectious wounds.
So true lower voltage in and of itself limits max speed. But, as I said lower voltage is a requirement for higher speed due to heat issues. The speed increase is created through many design elements.
Moderators seem to be erratic at best and maybe you were modded down because you'r AC...
And I wonder which corporations that make laptops (IBM, Dell, etc) will make a product line with the new AMD cpu?
If you bothered reading the article qou woud find this passage.
Compaq has already announced and will be shipping notebooks based on the mobile Athlon 4 processor.
These should already be in stores by publication. While no other manufacturers have announced yet we can expect notebooks from HP and probably Sony as well.
That's what you get for trying to respond in one sentence...aiming at the general populace...
Increase in speed will use up more power unless you do changes to your chip (and other cicuits). This is important since there is a finite amount of heat that can be absorbed and dissipated from a chip. The reason for the power consumption is that there is a certain current needed to carge and discharge the capacitance of a CMOS. The heat comes from the fact that Power = Voltage(drop) * Current, so to increase the frequency you need to do one or more of the following.
Decrease the capacitance of the CMOS (e.g. make the transistor smaller)
Lower the voltage
Reduce other impedance or resistance (e.g. decrease interconnect length and use better conductors copper/gold)
Usually all of this is done to each new CPU. Lowering the voltage does have a negative impact on performance but it is still required to enable higher frequencies due to heat factors. Actually some of the lower voltage performance hit is offset by other improvements (i.e. less power loss in interconnects)
As much as I hate BillCo I must defend them here. If I want to buy n PC's without OS cite'ing a MS site license for OS, then it IS their business. However if you are buying those PC's just naked it is absolutely none of their business. In fact, if Microshaft comes after you then you could probably sue the vendor.
If we are blasting at FUD, at least we should not have it from our own ranks.
The problem is that they enforce non-compete without the agreement/contract. That is screwing your employees. I have signed a non-compete contract (and got paid for it) and have no problem with it. However, if I did not sign it and my employer tried to enforce it anyway I'd be really upset.
GNU/X/BSD/GNOME/KDE/Reiser/IBM/{etc}/Linux since there are so many important contributors to Linux.
I love to use GNU tools and do so on Solaris, HP-UX as well as Linux. I am a strong Emacs advocate (used it since 86-87) and publicly relate RMS's enormous contribution to the world of computing.
However when RMS wants to steal the spotlight by insisting on GNU/Linux he is in fact hurting himself and more importantly open/free software.
Please Richard continue to be a hero of the free software by not always claming/demading the main spotlight.
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Idiot!
I assume that you are referring to the thread "Sigh". I was corrected and stand corrected. Why would I flame somone for correcting me when I was right but missed out on the update about hotmail. (can't say I follow BSD nor hotmail closely)
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What does widely used have to do with good teaching :-)
C++ is probably the most widely used OO language, but it sucks as a teaching language.
C is the worst teaching language one could think of and not even appropriate in the context of OO programming.
VB is extremely well used but it's debatable if it is an OO language (or even a programming language
Smalltalk enforces the parts of OO that it supports so it is an OK teaching language.
Eiffel supports and enforces all parts of the OO paradigm and is an excellent teaching language despite the fact that it is not videly used.
Smalltalk is an excellent social skill ;-)
The language smalltalk enforces most of the OO paradigm. It suffers from the same gross mistake as Java, no multiple inheritance. MI is not needed very often but when you need it you should not have to resort to various clunky workarounds
Try Eiffel it supports and enforces the entire OO paradigm.
I seriously doubt that we will ever see a TV STB from Sun, so in this context relatively irrelevant :-)
When you go to a store, there are video cameras watching you, and records of your sales, etc...why shouldn't a website know which pages were visited?
:-)
Minor detail, the store has a sign, right at the entrance saying something like "We are using video surveillance for your protection". There is no sneaking around and trying to hide that fact. Also I do not care much that Slashdot knows that I visit. However, Webbugs are usually used by others, say doubleclick. It would bother me alot if an ad company collected info of the sort "does not like MS, likes privacy" etc, and then maybe even sold that to the attitude adjustment department at a certain Redmond WA based corporation
Cookies (sometimes) have a valid use, such as the session info in Slash.
Web bugs have only one use, to gather info on your habits, preferences and views without your knowledge. Therefore they all bite and leave infectious wounds.
..you are probably right
And it's available on Linux I presume....
No, MFLOPS means Million FLoating point Operations Per Second
That has very little to do with Hertz.
So true lower voltage in and of itself limits max speed. But, as I said lower voltage is a requirement for higher speed due to heat issues. The speed increase is created through many design elements.
Moderators seem to be erratic at best and maybe you were modded down because you'r AC...
And I wonder which corporations that make laptops (IBM, Dell, etc) will make a product line with the new AMD cpu?
If you bothered reading the article qou woud find this passage.
Compaq has already announced and will be shipping notebooks based on the mobile Athlon 4 processor.
These should already be in stores by publication. While no other manufacturers have announced yet we can expect notebooks from HP and probably Sony as well.
Increase in speed will use up more power unless you do changes to your chip (and other cicuits). This is important since there is a finite amount of heat that can be absorbed and dissipated from a chip. The reason for the power consumption is that there is a certain current needed to carge and discharge the capacitance of a CMOS. The heat comes from the fact that Power = Voltage(drop) * Current, so to increase the frequency you need to do one or more of the following.
Usually all of this is done to each new CPU. Lowering the voltage does have a negative impact on performance but it is still required to enable higher frequencies due to heat factors. Actually some of the lower voltage performance hit is offset by other improvements (i.e. less power loss in interconnects)
...than having my new expensive CPU chip turn into a useless piece of silicon oxides when it burns.
The question is rather when and how often does it happen.
Actually for each new CPU generation the voltage gets lower since that alows the chip run faster.
As much as I hate BillCo I must defend them here. If I want to buy n PC's without OS cite'ing a MS site license for OS, then it IS their business. However if you are buying those PC's just naked it is absolutely none of their business. In fact, if Microshaft comes after you then you could probably sue the vendor.
If we are blasting at FUD, at least we should not have it from our own ranks.
The problem is that they enforce non-compete without the agreement/contract. That is screwing your employees. I have signed a non-compete contract (and got paid for it) and have no problem with it. However, if I did not sign it and my employer tried to enforce it anyway I'd be really upset.
Thanx (yes this is not the official spelling :-)
As one of those non natives I actually welcome
A) being corrected so that my english improves
B) reading and hearing correct english in media.
The proposed law requires that censoware be included even if there is no OS. You'll pay for it even if you don't want it...
Yeah??
Toronto, Sault Ste Marie, London and I belive Windsor are all closer to Sudbury than Kingston is.
Kingston and Sudbury are located pretty much in opposite ends of Ontario, and that's not att all near!
That is 578 km in the internationally used ISO-Metric system.
GNU/X/BSD/GNOME/KDE/Reiser/IBM/{etc}/Linux since there are so many important contributors to Linux.
I love to use GNU tools and do so on Solaris, HP-UX as well as Linux. I am a strong Emacs advocate (used it since 86-87) and publicly relate RMS's enormous contribution to the world of computing.
However when RMS wants to steal the spotlight by insisting on GNU/Linux he is in fact hurting himself and more importantly open/free software.
Please Richard continue to be a hero of the free software by not always claming/demading the main spotlight.
Part of it at least is the fact that it was a four bit processor, if I remember right
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs301/ when_enough.html
Idiot!
I assume that you are referring to the thread "Sigh". I was corrected and stand corrected. Why would I flame somone for correcting me when I was right but missed out on the update about hotmail. (can't say I follow BSD nor hotmail closely)
It generally takes a few versions on the new "production" kernel series before it is considered stable enough to start the new development tree.
My guess is 2.5.x will start around 2.4.4-2.4.6