God, memories dialing into the NIM, getting the 'Call cleared...' message every night when it kicked everyone off, spamming 'acm acm acm acm' at the prompt so you could get back on before anyone else... the good old days.
well, assuming that Java _does_ run everywhere, which of course, we know it doesn't. Or doesn't run _well_... like on HP-UX. But anyway... What better language should they pick? VB? csh? Perl? Python? Mono? Java has relatively point-n-click installers for many popular OSes, has a remarkable amount of functionality, and will smooth their development wrinkles because of its universality. Remember, this is a desktop app, it needs to largely 'just work' from an installation perspective, you don't want Joe Windows User going to ActiveState and getting some Perl package, or needing some cygwin-esque environment to run Python or something else.
C'mon editors, when someone drops a hyperlink to the story of Chicken Little on Amazon in an article submission, use a little editorial license and snip it. Its just silly.
If it wasn't MSFT, it would be IBM. Or Novell. Or Lotus. Or... Google. Any company whose business model is like MS', whose products are like MS', is going to come under "attack" from the market. For "attack", read: "Educated consumers switching to a better product". This is not zealotry, this is years of MS growing crusty, expensive and bloated. Sound like IBM In the 80s? MS is going to have to adapt, like any other organism, or it will be replaced by faster and more efficient organisms (companies).
I can see it now, you run this application in the background, possibly with a little icon in your system tray. It monitors all your activity, and every time it thinks that you need to be notified of something related to spyware, it phones home to Symantec, opens up a window, steals focus, and you get to read about how something you just did can increase your penis size^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H likelihood of having spyware. Since most users tolerate this type of behavior already, especially after installing that helpful little Bonzi Buddy program, Symantec should be laughing all the way to the bank. 3. Profit?!
A long time ago (can't find it on Google) I read an article about someone compiling some Memory Devices drivers into a linux kernel, and using GPU memory as a RAMdisk. I guess you could use one of these cards for that.
It doesn't matter what I write, since I'm bitchslapped down to -1 and nobody will read it. But I have a Slashdot account, so I'll post. The crucial question that I see is: why are students NOT attracted to the sciences more? I look around and see moral and scientific relativism, where something is right if you need it enough, or want it to be true. If this is the world children find themselves in, why WOULD they study a field which claims that the world is deterministic (down to the resolution of our ability to measure), that things ARE true or false, good or bad?
On Sept. 11 2001 about 3500 people died in New York. On that same day 44000 children died in Africa of hunger. Is there a war on hunger? NO. I can fix your "hunger" problem in 2 words: Stop Fucking. What do you tell some poor bastard in one of the Trade Center buildings whose sin was merely going to work that day?
Since nobody else knows _exactly_ what you mean by the "10 domains", only a vague sense of something, then I'd say that knowledge of said "domains" is worth... about as much as a hole in the ground. The moral is the practical, and vice versa. As a side note, conversely, the impractical is the immoral, which means illogical, which means harmful to Man's existence.
The law of common sense, or the law of City-Hall-needs-your-$$$-for-a-permit ? Geesh, for all the anti-BigBrother and anti-??AA that goes on around here, you are a bunch of government bootlickers.
If the woman in the pictures is representative of the "beautiful" women from the UK mentioned by the poster of the "TV download" article, then I think its proof that the Brits are a bunch of drunks.
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
They don't have these things now, but instead rely on a combination of 3rd party stuff, homebrew scripts, and not-quite-there-but-PHB-friendly vendor FUD. Those sysadmins who claim it doesn't work are quickly ousted as nonbelievers, and the employees quickly learn to give up on the outsourced, non-english speaking helpdesk, and just bootleg their own software instead. Broken NDS-NT/AD gateways, stupidly nested GPOs, invasive and pervasive, reboot-in-the-middle-of-the-day Zen pushes that break the computer are the norm. The Emperor has no clothes.
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Are you talking about Connect?
God, memories dialing into the NIM, getting the 'Call cleared...' message every night when it kicked everyone off, spamming 'acm acm acm acm' at the prompt so you could get back on before anyone else... the good old days.
Dude, the Athlon has been out for what, 10 years now? Time to spell it right.
Dude... the Athlon chip has been out for what, 10 years now? Time to spell it right.
The whole article submission is a troll. Note the misspelling of Linus' name. Note the unnecessary, but flame-fest inducing, mention of BK....
well, assuming that Java _does_ run everywhere, which of course, we know it doesn't. Or doesn't run _well_... like on HP-UX.
But anyway...
What better language should they pick? VB? csh? Perl? Python? Mono? Java has relatively point-n-click installers for many popular OSes, has a remarkable amount of functionality, and will smooth their development wrinkles because of its universality. Remember, this is a desktop app, it needs to largely 'just work' from an installation perspective, you don't want Joe Windows User going to ActiveState and getting some Perl package, or needing some cygwin-esque environment to run Python or something else.
C'mon editors, when someone drops a hyperlink to the story of Chicken Little on Amazon in an article submission, use a little editorial license and snip it. Its just silly.
If it wasn't MSFT, it would be IBM. Or Novell. Or Lotus. Or ... Google. Any company whose business model is like MS', whose products are like MS', is going to come under "attack" from the market. For "attack", read: "Educated consumers switching to a better product". This is not zealotry, this is years of MS growing crusty, expensive and bloated. Sound like IBM In the 80s? MS is going to have to adapt, like any other organism, or it will be replaced by faster and more efficient organisms (companies).
Its obvious - Morse requires fewer bits per character.
I can see it now, you run this application in the background, possibly with a little icon in your system tray. It monitors all your activity, and every time it thinks that you need to be notified of something related to spyware, it phones home to Symantec, opens up a window, steals focus, and you get to read about how something you just did can increase your penis size^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H likelihood of having spyware.
Since most users tolerate this type of behavior already, especially after installing that helpful little Bonzi Buddy program, Symantec should be laughing all the way to the bank.
3. Profit?!
A long time ago (can't find it on Google) I read an article about someone compiling some Memory Devices drivers into a linux kernel, and using GPU memory as a RAMdisk. I guess you could use one of these cards for that.
It doesn't matter what I write, since I'm bitchslapped down to -1 and nobody will read it. But I have a Slashdot account, so I'll post.
The crucial question that I see is: why are students NOT attracted to the sciences more? I look around and see moral and scientific relativism, where something is right if you need it enough, or want it to be true. If this is the world children find themselves in, why WOULD they study a field which claims that the world is deterministic (down to the resolution of our ability to measure), that things ARE true or false, good or bad?
Why the fanboyism?
Just don't ever click on any slashdot links from Anti-Slash, in doing so you will lose metamoderation privileges.
Nice troll, but you gave yourself away when you misspelled "tonnes". Go back to your side of the pond.
On Sept. 11 2001 about 3500 people died in New York. On that same day 44000 children died in Africa of hunger. Is there a war on hunger? NO.
I can fix your "hunger" problem in 2 words: Stop Fucking.
What do you tell some poor bastard in one of the Trade Center buildings whose sin was merely going to work that day?
Since nobody else knows _exactly_ what you mean by the "10 domains", only a vague sense of something, then I'd say that knowledge of said "domains" is worth... about as much as a hole in the ground. The moral is the practical, and vice versa. As a side note, conversely, the impractical is the immoral, which means illogical, which means harmful to Man's existence.
You're also probably one of those assholes who claim that vacuum tubes have a "warmer" sound and that LP sounds better than CD.
Those are white blood cells, not stem cells.
The law of common sense, or the law of City-Hall-needs-your-$$$-for-a-permit ? Geesh, for all the anti-BigBrother and anti-??AA that goes on around here, you are a bunch of government bootlickers.
Nobody asked where you're from, dick.
Where are the moderators?
If the woman in the pictures is representative of the "beautiful" women from the UK mentioned by the poster of the "TV download" article, then I think its proof that the Brits are a bunch of drunks.
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
They don't have these things now, but instead rely on a combination of 3rd party stuff, homebrew scripts, and not-quite-there-but-PHB-friendly vendor FUD. Those sysadmins who claim it doesn't work are quickly ousted as nonbelievers, and the employees quickly learn to give up on the outsourced, non-english speaking helpdesk, and just bootleg their own software instead. Broken NDS-NT/AD gateways, stupidly nested GPOs, invasive and pervasive, reboot-in-the-middle-of-the-day Zen pushes that break the computer are the norm.
The Emperor has no clothes.
The 5MP is 6ppm, and the "MP" designates that it speaks Postscript. The 6MP does 8ppm.