Someone is confusing useful data and garbage. Either its the freenet programmers, or the GC implementors, or the slashdot java complainers. I lack the data to make the determination.
If I'd been able to moderate you "-1 Wrong", I would have, but I can't, so I'll just respond instead:
It sounds to me like the grandparent is complaining that the garbage collector doesn't collect garbage. C's garbage collector is the app programmer, and if its not getting taken out that's the fault of the app programmer. C's GC is built in the language, and if the garbage isn't getting taken out, that's the fault of the language implementation. So, I blame the Java runtime, just like the grandparent.
We play them as rats, then you can make fun squeaking noises as they carry off your precious goods to the supply. We like it so much, that the squeaking noises are a mandatory house rule here.
We're walking down the street one day, and it comes to our attention that our French colleague is wearing some revealingly short shorts. The American says something to the effect of "my, those are short shorts you're wearing today". Then the Brazilian chimes in with "those aren't shorts...they're chars". Ugh.
And if my company wants to actually recognise my project, and productize it, well, thanks for the help! I can't make a product by myself. I can make a project by myself. Maybe I'm a show-off, but I'd rather produce things that people can use, and if my employer wants to bridge me between project and product, then thank you very much!
No, there isn't. At least not on the the version of OS X I was using. I pressed every button, plumbed every menu. Obviously they've improved the UI since then. But nevertheless sometime since Y2K, apple shipped an interface where it was 'okay' for people to have to psychically guess that they have to prefix hex keys with $, and that, to me, is as bad a ui gaffe as any Linux boner.
There's a difference between "dumbing down" an OS, and giving an OS and applications consistent and easy-to-use interfaces. Apple makes things easy by giving programs similar interfaces and similar menu structures.
In truth, Apple has a long way to go too.
Why just the other day, I was trying to set up wireless on our houseguest's ibook. I had to type in the essid and the WEP password. "password?" I thought... what password? There's just a hex key. Well, I'll type in the hex key, see if that works. No. Well I'll press the help button, and see what it tells me. Roughly paraphrasing, here was the help of the "user friendly" Apple OS X:
Put the name of the wireless network in the "name" field, and your password in the "password" field.
Okay, screw this, I'm going to Google. After some futzing around, it turns out that to enter a hex key one has to put a '$' before the key. That's completely unintuitive, and not documented. What a load of overhyped bantha poodoo is this OS X...
Seriously. Work for IBM, or maybe Microsoft. Those companies reputations are a boon to your resume for the rest of your life. It says "this person coded for a quality company, they must know how to code". Avoid small shops, then you'll have to actually/prove/ you're compotent on future jobs. People just hire IBM guys reflexively, in my experience.
(Yeah, we may have our doubts about those companies here in the hacker world, but personell departments have no doubts.:)
My wife was telecommuting to work the other day, and a drunk surfer got on the information superhighway doing 95kB/s THE WRONG WAY! My wife got into a head-on, and now I'll have to raise our children alone.:(
Its time the government stepped in and made the internet safer, so that other people don't suffer my wife's fate.
Big deal. I've been using a Logitech cordless mouse with my notebook since 1999. Its USB, but I stuck the reciever on the back of the monitor. The only problem I've had are baggage security screeners eyeing the blue bulge on the side of my laptop suspiciously.
Apollo 1 weren't casulties caused by a failure-prone overall design, they were caused by shitty hatch design, and the dumb idea of having the astronots breathe 100% oxygen. Those decisions would have killed people on any vehicle.
I hate the god-damned Space Shuttle. Its been around now for 25 years. It was a bad idea 25 years ago. Its an even worse idea today.
Most orginizations at some point realize when they've built a white elephant and move forward. NASA just can't grasp that SS was a crap idea as concieved.
I think it has undue mindshare because it looks kind of like what a spaceship should look like. Not like those ghay capsules, that, oh, managed to get us to the moon and never killed anyone in flight.
We should throw the SS away. If that means ISS crashes into the ocean, well, that's fine. Its back to basics time for manned spaceflight. And by that I mean - less press releases, more actual *flight*.
I have debian computers on a narrow-band connection to the Internet. They all will apt-get pretty much the same packages. Is there some way I can set a caching apt-get proxy on one machine, so not every machine has to re-download the latest version of each package?
There were no driver issues. Everything was configured properly. Dual screen is just a dumb idea.
The point is, there's a big pesky line through the screen. By putting the same money into a single monitor, yes, you get fewer total pixels, but the pixels you have can be used in two different configurations.
1) Two windows side-by-side. 2) One stupendously large window, with no seam down the middle.
Dual head can only do (1) of these.
Don't tell me I'll like it if I try it - I have, I didn't.
Slashdot Mirror
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Someone is confusing useful data and garbage. Either its the freenet programmers, or the GC implementors, or the slashdot java complainers. I lack the data to make the determination.
If I'd been able to moderate you "-1 Wrong", I would have, but I can't, so I'll just respond instead:
It sounds to me like the grandparent is complaining that the garbage collector doesn't collect garbage. C's garbage collector is the app programmer, and if its not getting taken out that's the fault of the app programmer. C's GC is built in the language, and if the garbage isn't getting taken out, that's the fault of the language implementation. So, I blame the Java runtime, just like the grandparent.
Agree here as well.
Foodstuff commanders take note!
If you're throwing them away, you're throwing away money. You can sell them on eBay for cold, hard cash.
We play them as rats, then you can make fun squeaking noises as they carry off your precious goods to the supply. We like it so much, that the squeaking noises are a mandatory house rule here.
Any other Puerto Rico players in the house thinking "man, and I thought having my 3 tobacco eaten by rats was bad, but internet, oh yeah".
We're walking down the street one day, and it comes to our attention that our French colleague is wearing some revealingly short shorts. The American says something to the effect of "my, those are short shorts you're wearing today". Then the Brazilian chimes in with "those aren't shorts...they're chars". Ugh.
Exactly.
And if my company wants to actually recognise my project, and productize it, well, thanks for the help! I can't make a product by myself. I can make a project by myself. Maybe I'm a show-off, but I'd rather produce things that people can use, and if my employer wants to bridge me between project and product, then thank you very much!
Today:
Vietnam courts Microsoft
Microsoft courts Vietnam
1990s:
Microsoft "Vietnam"s Courts.
No, there isn't. At least not on the the version of OS X I was using. I pressed every button, plumbed every menu. Obviously they've improved the UI since then. But nevertheless sometime since Y2K, apple shipped an interface where it was 'okay' for people to have to psychically guess that they have to prefix hex keys with $, and that, to me, is as bad a ui gaffe as any Linux boner.
It was not clearly seperated, or indeed even hinted at, in the version I was using.
Beats me. Clearly it was 10.something. It was on a toilet-seat blue ibook, if that tells you anything.
In the version I was using, there was definately no GUI or help system clue whatsoever that there were things called "hex keys".
There's a difference between "dumbing down" an OS, and giving an OS and applications consistent and easy-to-use interfaces. Apple makes things easy by giving programs similar interfaces and similar menu structures.
In truth, Apple has a long way to go too.
Why just the other day, I was trying to set up wireless on our houseguest's ibook. I had to type in the essid and the WEP password. "password?" I thought
Put the name of the wireless network in the "name" field, and your password in the "password" field.
Okay, screw this, I'm going to Google. After some futzing around, it turns out that to enter a hex key one has to put a '$' before the key. That's completely unintuitive, and not documented. What a load of overhyped bantha poodoo is this OS X...
I've been at this for a half hour, and all I get are timeouts before I can download a single byte. I don't use BT much. Am I doing something wrong?
Forget mirrors, we need torrents!
How many people died from Concorde?
That's what I thought.
Seriously. Work for IBM, or maybe Microsoft. Those companies reputations are a boon to your resume for the rest of your life. It says "this person coded for a quality company, they must know how to code". Avoid small shops, then you'll have to actually /prove/ you're compotent on future jobs. People just hire IBM guys reflexively, in my experience.
:)
(Yeah, we may have our doubts about those companies here in the hacker world, but personell departments have no doubts.
My wife was telecommuting to work the other day, and a drunk surfer got on the information superhighway doing 95kB/s THE WRONG WAY! My wife got into a head-on, and now I'll have to raise our children alone. :(
Its time the government stepped in and made the internet safer, so that other people don't suffer my wife's fate.
Big deal. I've been using a Logitech cordless mouse with my notebook since 1999. Its USB, but I stuck the reciever on the back of the monitor. The only problem I've had are baggage security screeners eyeing the blue bulge on the side of my laptop suspiciously.
I'm confused.
I thought Win2k was replacing NT, the business OS.
I thought Win XP was replacing Win98, the home computer OS.
So isn't it logical that XP isn't being used by businesses? I thought they weren't even targeting business users.
Granted, I mostly don't stick my head out of Lin-Lin-Land, so I'm outta the loop.
Uh, I did say "in flight", y'know.
Apollo 1 weren't casulties caused by a failure-prone overall design, they were caused by shitty hatch design, and the dumb idea of having the astronots breathe 100% oxygen. Those decisions would have killed people on any vehicle.
I hate the god-damned Space Shuttle. Its been around now for 25 years. It was a bad idea 25 years ago. Its an even worse idea today.
Most orginizations at some point realize when they've built a white elephant and move forward. NASA just can't grasp that SS was a crap idea as concieved.
I think it has undue mindshare because it looks kind of like what a spaceship should look like. Not like those ghay capsules, that, oh, managed to get us to the moon and never killed anyone in flight.
We should throw the SS away. If that means ISS crashes into the ocean, well, that's fine. Its back to basics time for manned spaceflight. And by that I mean - less press releases, more actual *flight*.
I have debian computers on a narrow-band connection to the Internet. They all will apt-get pretty much the same packages. Is there some way I can set a caching apt-get proxy on one machine, so not every machine has to re-download the latest version of each package?
We're going to run out of people!
There were no driver issues. Everything was configured properly. Dual screen is just a dumb idea.
The point is, there's a big pesky line through the screen. By putting the same money into a single monitor, yes, you get fewer total pixels, but the pixels you have can be used in two different configurations.
1) Two windows side-by-side.
2) One stupendously large window, with no seam down the middle.
Dual head can only do (1) of these.
Don't tell me I'll like it if I try it - I have, I didn't.