The downside: M$ starts making cell phone programs and your phone crashes in the middle of a conversation (it doesn't disconnect, it doesn't drop the signal, it gives you the LCD screen of death).
No problem: Just buy a phone without C# support.
This is all because these gready people have to have 1-4 of their own numbers. Cities should create subnets so that each city has one number, and then runs NAT to contact the individual person... duh!
Service and Support. Us tech geeks don't use it personally, but from a business standpoint it makes sense. Many mid-large companys and even some small companys are afraid of Linux - but knowing that their friendly RH support rep is only a phone call away eases their pain. Although we experimented with Mandrake and others in-house, all production machines had to be RH.
Many businesses either over-expand or have to re-strategize their spending. Unfortunatly, investors and the like tend to react and think that the company is going down when it does something like this. I think RH is stepping up to the plate by aggressively consilidating their resources. This is not a bad thing IMHO.
On another note, I'm sure many of the employees that where part of the "review" in SF where quoting Office Space frequently:).
I agree, except that english needs to be modified before this happens. We need to move towards a language that has strict rules (their would then be spelled thier... I before E... PERIOD!) and/or more a more phonetic language.
I can back this up. MSIE 5.5 = 0 problems. Since this last summer when I upgraded to win2k and msie5.5. Ran crappy java... even flash 3... couldn't crash it. NS 4.7 crashes all the time on my Linux box (don't even ask about Mozilla or 6.0)... then I switch to Galeon, which will eventually crash. THen I switch back to NS, which won't let me start because NS has locked a PID. So, now I have a script that finds and kills all NS processes so that I can use it. Since mose users are fluent in BASH, this shouldn't be a problem.
Everyone I know who has ATT wireless sounds like they are going through a broken vocoder. Seriously, all of them (I can name at least 3 off the top of my head) hate the quality of their service - they'd switch if their number followed them elsewhere.
We all know GSM rocks and the US is idiotic for not adopting it. I'm not a socialist but this is a prime example of how a public wireless network would have been better than a capitolistic privatized network. Capitolism does not always = innovation. America = way behind Japan and Europe.
Maybe ATT is just stepping up to the plate and going from one of the worst services to the best, by adopting this technology. Let's just hope they keep the rates low and upgrade their network quickly!
You hit the nail on the head. Java is not for everything, but I bet most of the folks who don't like java haven't done any major server side work esp. with J2EE. I agree with many RE: Python and other languages - they all have thier place, and I don't think java will "take over" - it doesn't have to. It's not the best thing since sliced bread but J2EE really does work for server side apps.
There are many that are for a "flat" tax and our current "flat" fine system. Unfortunatly, flat mean regressive. What a progressive tax and fine system does is make the actual cost incurred by the person equal across economic classes.
A fine is designed to cost someone a certain amount in an effort to deter them from a violation. If I make $25K/year (net), and get a $250 speeding ticket, that just cost me 1% of my annual income. Better yet, subtract a reasonable cost of living for my region and marital/child status, and you've just fined me a large chunk of my available cash. If I make $250K/year (net) and that just cost me 1/10th of a percent of my income. The individual making the lower amount actually pays a higher fine - as a person it bears more of a financial burden. Therefore the richer are pretty much unaffected and the fine is simply a "flesh wound" where the lower classes get thier arms chopped off (oh, wait, that's also simply a flesh wound).
I would have to say that this is an unfair comparison. Transmeta's problem was a manufacturing problem in which they are stepping up to the plate and fixing. Everyone makes mistakes. Intel's problem was an architectural problem, showing the weakness in the PIII design. It was also a bad move (I'm sure not condoned by many of Intel's engineers, but as all bad companys Intel is driven by Marketing as opposed to smart people) to release a chip that obviously was not designed to go that fast, nor was it properly tested.
In short, there is nothing wrong with the Crusoe, just a small manufacturing problem. There is most definatly something wrong with the PIII 1.13ghz to the point that it had to be discontinued. The number of units recalled is irrelevant - the chip just failed.
Although I mainly develop in Cold Fusion (mock me now, but my project will be done in 1/2 the time), the reality is that Perl (esp with mod_perl) is still one of the most robust scripting languages around. There are situations where scripts that incur heavy load the only good solution for me is Perl as it will run better than ASP,CF,JSP etc. I highly recommend not only this book, but also Programming Perl from Orielly (now in it's third edition). The combination of these two books will enable anyone with web development knowledge to kick out good Perl in a matter of days.
Of course, to be a REAL master, don't forget to purchase "Mastering Regular Expressions" from Orielly as well!
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I know, what idiots! They look and they see: windows = gaming platform. Linux = server platform. A few geeks are trying to run Linux as a gaming machine... crap we'll go outta business unless we open the drivers! Please.
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Just like movies - they look so real. The bottom line is, if you're not old enough to know the difference, you shouldn't play the game, watch the movies, or listen to ghetto violent rap sh!t.
Whethor or not you tweak this or that, it is all irrelevant. If a chip costs 3 - 4 times as fast P3 or Athlon can not significantly outperform the current generation of processors REGARDLESS OF OPTIMIZATION, then it is not a worthwhile purchase. We shouldn't be saying, "Well, maybe it is faster in these areas, but we're not sure in these areas". We should be saying, "WOW! I've never seen Unreal at 250fps @1600x1200!" So, trying to figure out why the P4 is good at some things and bad at others is a waste of time. The fact that it doesn't obviously blow everything out of the water shows that Intel probably released the chip 6 months too early.
Do we really _NEED_ videophones? Remember when they tried that videophone standard on landlines? No one cared! To paraphrase a sig I've seen on slashdot regularly, "Software engineers think about what they can, and not about whether they should".
I'm sure AMD has it's share of unethical dehumanizing executives - you can't avoid the bastards - but Intel's ethics are so poor that I would pay double for AMD - regardless of chip surperiority.
And then scratch your head and wonder why you can't maintain session with sites that you login to. Sure, those sites could (should?) use HTTP authentication, but there's a lot of plusses to using cookies to maintain session.
Personally, I use window washer. For you non windows folks, since everything isn't in some crypted registry or "metabase", a simple shell script or even perl script will do. Every night I have a cron job ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Windows schedular that runs window washers "autowash" that removes all cookies, history, and any other means of finding out where I've been - no tracking me now! The nice thing, is that I have a list of specific cookies from specific sites that are allowed to place cookies for session reasons - those don't get cleaned (like my slashdot cookie). You'd also be surprised at how much system performance increases when your FAT is not loaded with so many cache/history/cookie files all over the place!
Yes, yahoo.com get's tons of invalid emails from the spammer because of this. Then, Yahoo sues the spammer for attempting to DOS their mail server. This is a good thing.
Although software patents seem bad at first, they get even worse when you look at them! Seriously, the only way that I could see software patents work is if the patent issuers are required to run all patent requests through a small team of programmers. This would prevent someone from patenting "innovative routines" like:
for (i=0;i>iMax;i++) {... your code here
}
This is our proprietary "loop construct" which allows one to execute code within a repeating sequence while allowing each sequence to be indexed.:)
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the topic, but it's important to note that Canada's government is a lot different in the US. Where here in the US, we (GENERALLY) favor large companys (not too large. See Janet Reno), and the rich. Canada treats everyone the same (GENERALLY), and looks for what's best for the people, not for a couple of suits' profits.
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The downside: M$ starts making cell phone programs and your phone crashes in the middle of a conversation (it doesn't disconnect, it doesn't drop the signal, it gives you the LCD screen of death). No problem: Just buy a phone without C# support.
This is all because these gready people have to have 1-4 of their own numbers. Cities should create subnets so that each city has one number, and then runs NAT to contact the individual person... duh!
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I went from 0-60 lines of Perl in no time with this book. I never have time to read it anymore because everyone at work keeps stealing it!
Service and Support. Us tech geeks don't use it personally, but from a business standpoint it makes sense. Many mid-large companys and even some small companys are afraid of Linux - but knowing that their friendly RH support rep is only a phone call away eases their pain. Although we experimented with Mandrake and others in-house, all production machines had to be RH.
Many businesses either over-expand or have to re-strategize their spending. Unfortunatly, investors and the like tend to react and think that the company is going down when it does something like this. I think RH is stepping up to the plate by aggressively consilidating their resources. This is not a bad thing IMHO.
:).
On another note, I'm sure many of the employees that where part of the "review" in SF where quoting Office Space frequently
I agree, except that english needs to be modified before this happens. We need to move towards a language that has strict rules (their would then be spelled thier... I before E... PERIOD!) and/or more a more phonetic language.
I live in the US and I'm not offended by the truth in which you've bestowed upon us!
I can back this up. MSIE 5.5 = 0 problems. Since this last summer when I upgraded to win2k and msie5.5. Ran crappy java... even flash 3... couldn't crash it. NS 4.7 crashes all the time on my Linux box (don't even ask about Mozilla or 6.0)... then I switch to Galeon, which will eventually crash. THen I switch back to NS, which won't let me start because NS has locked a PID. So, now I have a script that finds and kills all NS processes so that I can use it. Since mose users are fluent in BASH, this shouldn't be a problem.
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People wonder why I favor my M$ box for surfing
Everyone I know who has ATT wireless sounds like they are going through a broken vocoder. Seriously, all of them (I can name at least 3 off the top of my head) hate the quality of their service - they'd switch if their number followed them elsewhere.
We all know GSM rocks and the US is idiotic for not adopting it. I'm not a socialist but this is a prime example of how a public wireless network would have been better than a capitolistic privatized network. Capitolism does not always = innovation. America = way behind Japan and Europe.
Maybe ATT is just stepping up to the plate and going from one of the worst services to the best, by adopting this technology. Let's just hope they keep the rates low and upgrade their network quickly!
You hit the nail on the head. Java is not for everything, but I bet most of the folks who don't like java haven't done any major server side work esp. with J2EE. I agree with many RE: Python and other languages - they all have thier place, and I don't think java will "take over" - it doesn't have to. It's not the best thing since sliced bread but J2EE really does work for server side apps.
There are many that are for a "flat" tax and our current "flat" fine system. Unfortunatly, flat mean regressive. What a progressive tax and fine system does is make the actual cost incurred by the person equal across economic classes.
A fine is designed to cost someone a certain amount in an effort to deter them from a violation. If I make $25K/year (net), and get a $250 speeding ticket, that just cost me 1% of my annual income. Better yet, subtract a reasonable cost of living for my region and marital/child status, and you've just fined me a large chunk of my available cash. If I make $250K/year (net) and that just cost me 1/10th of a percent of my income. The individual making the lower amount actually pays a higher fine - as a person it bears more of a financial burden. Therefore the richer are pretty much unaffected and the fine is simply a "flesh wound" where the lower classes get thier arms chopped off (oh, wait, that's also simply a flesh wound).
I would have to say that this is an unfair comparison. Transmeta's problem was a manufacturing problem in which they are stepping up to the plate and fixing. Everyone makes mistakes. Intel's problem was an architectural problem, showing the weakness in the PIII design. It was also a bad move (I'm sure not condoned by many of Intel's engineers, but as all bad companys Intel is driven by Marketing as opposed to smart people) to release a chip that obviously was not designed to go that fast, nor was it properly tested.
In short, there is nothing wrong with the Crusoe, just a small manufacturing problem. There is most definatly something wrong with the PIII 1.13ghz to the point that it had to be discontinued. The number of units recalled is irrelevant - the chip just failed.
Although I mainly develop in Cold Fusion (mock me now, but my project will be done in 1/2 the time), the reality is that Perl (esp with mod_perl) is still one of the most robust scripting languages around. There are situations where scripts that incur heavy load the only good solution for me is Perl as it will run better than ASP,CF,JSP etc. I highly recommend not only this book, but also Programming Perl from Orielly (now in it's third edition). The combination of these two books will enable anyone with web development knowledge to kick out good Perl in a matter of days.
Of course, to be a REAL master, don't forget to purchase "Mastering Regular Expressions" from Orielly as well!
I know, what idiots! They look and they see: windows = gaming platform. Linux = server platform. A few geeks are trying to run Linux as a gaming machine... crap we'll go outta business unless we open the drivers! Please.
Just like movies - they look so real. The bottom line is, if you're not old enough to know the difference, you shouldn't play the game, watch the movies, or listen to ghetto violent rap sh!t.
Whethor or not you tweak this or that, it is all irrelevant. If a chip costs 3 - 4 times as fast P3 or Athlon can not significantly outperform the current generation of processors REGARDLESS OF OPTIMIZATION, then it is not a worthwhile purchase. We shouldn't be saying, "Well, maybe it is faster in these areas, but we're not sure in these areas". We should be saying, "WOW! I've never seen Unreal at 250fps @1600x1200!" So, trying to figure out why the P4 is good at some things and bad at others is a waste of time. The fact that it doesn't obviously blow everything out of the water shows that Intel probably released the chip 6 months too early.
You are absolutly right. I've been more forgiving then many RE slashdots "same story" or "lame story" posting, but this one should just be pulled.
Do we really _NEED_ videophones? Remember when they tried that videophone standard on landlines? No one cared! To paraphrase a sig I've seen on slashdot regularly, "Software engineers think about what they can, and not about whether they should".
I'm sure AMD has it's share of unethical dehumanizing executives - you can't avoid the bastards - but Intel's ethics are so poor that I would pay double for AMD - regardless of chip surperiority.
And then scratch your head and wonder why you can't maintain session with sites that you login to. Sure, those sites could (should?) use HTTP authentication, but there's a lot of plusses to using cookies to maintain session.
Personally, I use window washer. For you non windows folks, since everything isn't in some crypted registry or "metabase", a simple shell script or even perl script will do. Every night I have a cron job ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Windows schedular that runs window washers "autowash" that removes all cookies, history, and any other means of finding out where I've been - no tracking me now! The nice thing, is that I have a list of specific cookies from specific sites that are allowed to place cookies for session reasons - those don't get cleaned (like my slashdot cookie). You'd also be surprised at how much system performance increases when your FAT is not loaded with so many cache/history/cookie files all over the place!
Which is why, based on most regex standards, one should use a ".". Oh well, who the f.ck cares?
Yes, yahoo.com get's tons of invalid emails from the spammer because of this. Then, Yahoo sues the spammer for attempting to DOS their mail server. This is a good thing.
AMEN!
Although software patents seem bad at first, they get even worse when you look at them! Seriously, the only way that I could see software patents work is if the patent issuers are required to run all patent requests through a small team of programmers. This would prevent someone from patenting "innovative routines" like: for (i=0;i>iMax;i++) { ... your code here
}
This is our proprietary "loop construct" which allows one to execute code within a repeating sequence while allowing each sequence to be indexed. :)
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the topic, but it's important to note that Canada's government is a lot different in the US. Where here in the US, we (GENERALLY) favor large companys (not too large. See Janet Reno), and the rich. Canada treats everyone the same (GENERALLY), and looks for what's best for the people, not for a couple of suits' profits.