No way. Develope velocity goes way up when you have the program automatically restart tests whenever you press save. I run development with Livereload. When I change one singe thing in CSS or html the webpage updates in an adjacent window. Instantly. It is like you are chaning thing interactively on the fly. Nothing makes me more productive than that.
You know that there are cyrillic characters that look exactly like the roman ones we use except they have another unicode code point? So www.microsoft.com (to use a REAL example) could have a cyrillic o in there and you can't actually see the difference because the two characters are renderered identically?
I was working on a embedded controller for solar light simulator which outputs a hell of a lot of light with plasma arc lamps 2 years ago. The control system was written in DOS. As in MS DOS. It was really nostalgic to remember all the keyboard shortcuts to boot into command.com to edit something.init to... you get the message
Problem is that DOS does not have a network stack and trumpet sockets do work, but can only hold one connection on a port. It can also not time out as dos does not have background tasks. So if you pull the wire, you have to reboot the machine. Which, due to a safety system will refuse to restart for 10 minutes in case the plasma arcs were on, to force them to cool down. Otherwise they ight explode (one did, actually). So DOS is still in use. In mission critical systems that can actually kill people. Today.
Also a legal problem. What do you tax? An SMTP transaction? If i send you an message over Facebook does it count? Twitter? Whatsapp? An SMS?
What happens if I slightly modify the protocol? Is that still a taxable Email? Run SMTP over NetBIOS? Add some extension? Use another port? Where is the line?
It is impossible to precisely define the thing you intend to tax here.
I have a AdaFruit Bluefruit which is a small embedded board with a Bluetooth chipset on it. I use it to build a wireless Midi controller for a synthesizer.
The Bluetooth, including Keyboard and Midi commands is programmed with AT commands. Takes me right back to the 80s.
Agree. I have a 14 core machine with 128GB RAM. When I quickly fire up a Debian VM to test some Ansible script or something I simply give the entire VM 64GB RAM. Huge Huge Difference. Thing boots in less than a second from a Cold start. Very useful test Rig.
The conferences also give you a heads-up in the direction and new features products go. I have attended talks about things that makes me understand better WHY a product was designed the way it was, the sort of thing you would not get from a manual
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You just made my day. And my sysdamin's too.
"we can convince more companies to provide"
"We" in this case happens to be 1% of the PC market. Good luck with that convincing part.
Please tell me you're not trying to run Blender when you got Maya? :(
Blender vs Maya = Etch-a-Sketch vs Picasso
No way. Develope velocity goes way up when you have the program automatically restart tests whenever you press save. I run development with Livereload. When I change one singe thing in CSS or html the webpage updates in an adjacent window. Instantly. It is like you are chaning thing interactively on the fly. Nothing makes me more productive than that.
Yes. I agree. Our local admin (who is a paranoiac) thinks autofill is the evilz. Autofill increases security for exactly that reason.
Bonus # 2: Autofill makes you much more immune to viruses that capture keystrokes, of which there are plenty.
You know that there are cyrillic characters that look exactly like the roman ones we use except they have another unicode code point? So www.microsoft.com (to use a REAL example) could have a cyrillic o in there and you can't actually see the difference because the two characters are renderered identically?
Besides, I noticed that ld ' uo p uplo ,no
I was working on a embedded controller for solar light simulator which outputs a hell of a lot of light with plasma arc lamps 2 years ago. The control system was written in DOS. As in MS DOS. It was really nostalgic to remember all the keyboard shortcuts to boot into command.com to edit something.init to... you get the message
Problem is that DOS does not have a network stack and trumpet sockets do work, but can only hold one connection on a port. It can also not time out as dos does not have background tasks. So if you pull the wire, you have to reboot the machine. Which, due to a safety system will refuse to restart for 10 minutes in case the plasma arcs were on, to force them to cool down. Otherwise they ight explode (one did, actually). So DOS is still in use. In mission critical systems that can actually kill people. Today.
Also a legal problem. What do you tax? An SMTP transaction? If i send you an message over Facebook does it count? Twitter? Whatsapp? An SMS?
What happens if I slightly modify the protocol? Is that still a taxable Email? Run SMTP over NetBIOS? Add some extension? Use another port? Where is the line?
It is impossible to precisely define the thing you intend to tax here.
Considering how the CPU market has stagnated the last 10 years I can believe that, yes.
Maybe this monster CPU could finally handle 640x480?
Let me correct that for you: "I dont need faster processors, I need a faster network"
The rest of us have our own hopes and dreams
Still rare, still expensive, still fragile, still hard to service and upgrade, still not worth it except for some edge cases.
Quad (and octa) core servers are the moon rockets of IT. Yes, they do exist. No they are not common. Only for very, very special missions.
He said 'rare' not 'nonexistent'
Anyone?
So, in short, if you can pay, you can have?
Same thing I said wh n the 486 came out.
32 bits!!!! 1mb of ram!!!
Yes! Pistols at dawn! The last scene in once upon a time in the West was always one of my favourites of all time.
Shhh. Just remember to tell The Donald he can use this rocket to be the first president on the moon.
..set the damn laser to stun!! Not kill dammit!!
Leasure Suit Larry had a predecessor text adventure called Softporn Adventure. The game with the highest market, em, penetration of all time, in fact.
I have a AdaFruit Bluefruit which is a small embedded board with a Bluetooth chipset on it. I use it to build a wireless Midi controller for a synthesizer.
The Bluetooth, including Keyboard and Midi commands is programmed with AT commands. Takes me right back to the 80s.
Hole punch? Why? I used a pair of scissors. Or a kitchen knife.
I still have a sheet of those little stickers you used to close the hole to write protect the disk lying around.
Except for the Docker bit that is pretty mich what I do and, yes, it does make it better. In fact I have another layer in there involving Jade
If you communicate with the people sitting next to yiu over Slack or Gihub only then, yes, you have a communications problem. A bad one
Agree. I have a 14 core machine with 128GB RAM. When I quickly fire up a Debian VM to test some Ansible script or something I simply give the entire VM 64GB RAM. Huge Huge Difference. Thing boots in less than a second from a Cold start. Very useful test Rig.
The conferences also give you a heads-up in the direction and new features products go. I have attended talks about things that makes me understand better WHY a product was designed the way it was, the sort of thing you would not get from a manual