You are not testing the languages, you are testing the compilers. If you test a language with a crummy compiler (gcc sucks compared to commercial optimized C++ compilers) you will think the language is slow, when in fact, the compiler just sucks. The only valid comparisons that can be made are same language, different compilers.
Big surprise that one of the IDC "analysts" that authroed this report is Al Gillen, the former Editor-in-Chief of ENT magazine, a (formerly print, now web) publication that exclusively covers the NT market. I know him and he's a good guy, but I doubt that he is all that impartial.
You hard core slashdoters kill me. You talk about how software patents are evil out of one side of your mouth and then out of the other, you suggest that someone should patent technology that Microsoft is going to use to make our browsing life better. Get over yourself. If MS is going to do something to get rid of pop up ads, let them do it and be quiet.
"It's a variant on the so-called Dutch auction. In traditional auctions, the price rises until one bidder is left. In a Dutch auction, the auctioneer sets an extraordinarily high price and lowers it until someone bids on the item."
Actually, in Massachusetts, they might come knocking on your door.
Starting in the 2003 tax year you will have to answer a question on your state tax form that asks if you have purchased any goods from outside the state and if so, how much?
Theorhetically, you are supposed to pay sales tax on goods purchased out-of-state, but there has never been a yes/no question on the form addressing this point. Previously you just didn't put anything down on the form, and they would never know.
Now if you answer No to the question, they can hold it against you later if they subpoena an out-of-state catalog or web site for sales records of customers from Massachusetts, and you are on that list but answered No.
This law just says that you can handle Internet taxing through other tax laws, not that you can't tax the Internet.
Or if you are in Burlington, MA, Marlborough, MA or Boulder, CO, you could visit Softpro Books. Not very big, but it has a great selection of technical books and a knowledgeable staff. Ask them for a good book about any subject. They'll take you right to it without using the computer.
I think the mere fact that this post generated a staggering 800 replies proves that.NET is not.DONE yet. Many of the posts were actually coherent comparisons of.NET and other technologies and not just typical/. M$ bashing. There's hope for you Linux people yet.
I am not one to take sides with the spammers, but I have one question? How is e-mail different then snail mail?
Recently I moved to a town where there is no home mail delivery. I had to get a PO box. After a few weeks, I found that I was getting more direct mail then mail addressed to me. I asked the post office not to deliver this mail, but they refused saying that those companies paid to have mail delivered to me and therefore they couldn't stop delivery of junk mail. The only way I could get them to stop was to write each junk mailer and request them to stop sending me unsolicited mail.
Well, I don't think I am going to send each one a letter so I just put up with it. How is this any different than spam?
I am working on a software project right now and it's not done because I keep on trying to improve it, to make it perfect. It will never be perfect and if I don't want to lose my job, I should finish it, test it, and release it to the users. There will always be bugs, and they can be fixed later.
This is exactly what MS does. They pick a point in development and release the software. Then they fix the bugs later.
I'll bet Linus wouldn't disagree with me on this one. He might question whether MS rushes products into release, but not that you eventually reach a point of diminishing return in software development.
This clearly a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Actually, in addition to being Chairman, Bill is Chief Software Architect (or something like that) so he has everything to do with the technical aspects of MS software.
Actually, you're both right. The F-117 works both ways. It both reflects radar at odd angles and attenuates the signal by absorbing (hence a weaker return signal) radar.
F-117's are not invisible to radar, they just appear very small, approximately the size of a sparrow, and are usually over-looked by the radar technician as being natural phenomenom.
Also, they have IR emission reducing capabilities too.
The first comment was right. Defeating laser and radar are contradictory goals.
-- Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter-accusations.
Naval Intelligence Motto
The whole point of the matter is that no one deserves death, even those who take up arms against you.
You may not want to mourn the deaths of those who make war, but you should mourn there decision to make war in the first place.
It is the idea that people deserve death for there actions, no matter what those actions are, that has gotten us into this whole mess.
Honor those who fell on 9/11/2001 by striving for peace and harmony. Don't wish death even on your enemies. Pity them for their mis-guided rage, but don't wish death on them.
Whether you are christian, muslim, jew or otherwise, the common thread is that man does not determine who lives and dies, god does. Think about that.
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Sorry, you said "computer" magazine, not "microcomputer" magazine.
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Sorry, bub, but Creative Computing was not the original very first computer magazine. Datamation pre-dated it by at least 10 years. There were others, too, like Mini/Micro Systems.
Sometimes Hardware (or Software) manufacturers include features that are either experimental or transient and they don't mention them because they don't want to provide support for those features. If it something that the system uses, but application software shouldn't, then they probably won't mention it in the specs.
As a person who has run news-oriented web sites with original content, I feel that linking to stories is good, as long as you link in a manner that gives credit to the owner of the material. To me, framing someone elses content with your ads (or whatever) is bad, if not illegal.
This is exactly the problem with Open Source. People think that Linux is better, more secure, less bug prone, than MS products because there are allegedly hundreds of developers, all over the world, catching bugs and uncovering security holes, when in fact, there are probably only a dozen that do the lion's share of the work. Linus tightly controls the whole process and things get done in a quality manner.
In contrast, MS has literally hundreds of developers working on an OS at one time. This actually might be counter-productive. You know, too many cooks spoil the brouhaha...
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You are not testing the languages, you are testing the compilers. If you test a language with a crummy compiler (gcc sucks compared to commercial optimized C++ compilers) you will think the language is slow, when in fact, the compiler just sucks. The only valid comparisons that can be made are same language, different compilers.
Big surprise that one of the IDC "analysts" that authroed this report is Al Gillen, the former Editor-in-Chief of ENT magazine, a (formerly print, now web) publication that exclusively covers the NT market. I know him and he's a good guy, but I doubt that he is all that impartial.
And how can someone lecture someone about professionalism when they can't even spell the word?
Can you really expect anyone to take YOU seriously when you can't even spell the word 'skeptic' correctly?
Their ASP/SQL code could be failing for any number of reasons and I agree that it has nothing to do with their sampling method.
You hard core slashdoters kill me. You talk about how software patents are evil out of one side of your mouth and then out of the other, you suggest that someone should patent technology that Microsoft is going to use to make our browsing life better. Get over yourself. If MS is going to do something to get rid of pop up ads, let them do it and be quiet.
The first step on the way to the world of William Gibson/Neal Stephenson. I'll buy one of these when I can Jack in.
Maybe this will shed some light on the subject...
"It's a variant on the so-called Dutch auction. In traditional auctions, the price rises until one bidder is left. In a Dutch auction, the auctioneer sets an extraordinarily high price and lowers it until someone bids on the item."
Dutch Auction IPO
Actually, in Massachusetts, they might come knocking on your door.
Starting in the 2003 tax year you will have to answer a question on your state tax form that asks if you have purchased any goods from outside the state and if so, how much?
Theorhetically, you are supposed to pay sales tax on goods purchased out-of-state, but there has never been a yes/no question on the form addressing this point. Previously you just didn't put anything down on the form, and they would never know.
Now if you answer No to the question, they can hold it against you later if they subpoena an out-of-state catalog or web site for sales records of customers from Massachusetts, and you are on that list but answered No.
This law just says that you can handle Internet taxing through other tax laws, not that you can't tax the Internet.
Or if you are in Burlington, MA, Marlborough, MA or Boulder, CO, you could visit Softpro Books. Not very big, but it has a great selection of technical books and a knowledgeable staff. Ask them for a good book about any subject. They'll take you right to it without using the computer.
I think the mere fact that this post generated a staggering 800 replies proves that .NET is not .DONE yet. Many of the posts were actually coherent comparisons of .NET and other technologies and not just typical /. M$ bashing. There's hope for you Linux people yet.
I guess we now have to ask, "What would Jesus download?"
I think we all know the answer to that question...
Blink-182, of course!
I am not one to take sides with the spammers, but I have one question? How is e-mail different then snail mail?
Recently I moved to a town where there is no home mail delivery. I had to get a PO box. After a few weeks, I found that I was getting more direct mail then mail addressed to me. I asked the post office not to deliver this mail, but they refused saying that those companies paid to have mail delivered to me and therefore they couldn't stop delivery of junk mail. The only way I could get them to stop was to write each junk mailer and request them to stop sending me unsolicited mail.
Well, I don't think I am going to send each one a letter so I just put up with it. How is this any different than spam?
Forget the PDP-8, give me a PDP-15 any day!
Talk about geek factor. We had a PDP-15 in the sub-basement of our Math building collecting data from a Van der Graf accelerator.
Then I would have a use for my HP-16C Computer Science calculator, you know the one that did conversions to/from Octal/Decimal.
Those were the good old days.
Those were the good old days.
My poor cell phone service is due to too many users on the network?
I always thought it was the fact that there was a cell phone coverage hole located directly over where ever I happen to be at the time.
Whew! What a relief it's just poor service.
This reply is right on point.
I am working on a software project right now and it's not done because I keep on trying to improve it, to make it perfect. It will never be perfect and if I don't want to lose my job, I should finish it, test it, and release it to the users. There will always be bugs, and they can be fixed later.
This is exactly what MS does. They pick a point in development and release the software. Then they fix the bugs later.
I'll bet Linus wouldn't disagree with me on this one. He might question whether MS rushes products into release, but not that you eventually reach a point of diminishing return in software development.
This clearly a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Actually, in addition to being Chairman, Bill is Chief Software Architect (or something like that) so he has everything to do with the technical aspects of MS software.
Good point except the radar is tuned to ignore things that small. Otherwise there would be too much clutter.
Actually, you're both right. The F-117 works both ways. It both reflects radar at odd angles and attenuates the signal by absorbing (hence a weaker return signal) radar.
F-117's are not invisible to radar, they just appear very small, approximately the size of a sparrow, and are usually over-looked by the radar technician as being natural phenomenom.
Also, they have IR emission reducing capabilities too.
The first comment was right. Defeating laser and radar are contradictory goals.
-- Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter-accusations.
Naval Intelligence Motto
The whole point of the matter is that no one deserves death, even those who take up arms against you.
You may not want to mourn the deaths of those who make war, but you should mourn there decision to make war in the first place.
It is the idea that people deserve death for there actions, no matter what those actions are, that has gotten us into this whole mess.
Honor those who fell on 9/11/2001 by striving for peace and harmony. Don't wish death even on your enemies. Pity them for their mis-guided rage, but don't wish death on them.
Whether you are christian, muslim, jew or otherwise, the common thread is that man does not determine who lives and dies, god does. Think about that.
Sorry, you said "computer" magazine, not "microcomputer" magazine.
Sorry, bub, but Creative Computing was not the original very first computer magazine. Datamation pre-dated it by at least 10 years. There were others, too, like Mini/Micro Systems.
Sometimes Hardware (or Software) manufacturers include features that are either experimental or transient and they don't mention them because they don't want to provide support for those features. If it something that the system uses, but application software shouldn't, then they probably won't mention it in the specs.
As a person who has run news-oriented web sites with original content, I feel that linking to stories is good, as long as you link in a manner that gives credit to the owner of the material. To me, framing someone elses content with your ads (or whatever) is bad, if not illegal.
This is exactly the problem with Open Source. People think that Linux is better, more secure, less bug prone, than MS products because there are allegedly hundreds of developers, all over the world, catching bugs and uncovering security holes, when in fact, there are probably only a dozen that do the lion's share of the work. Linus tightly controls the whole process and things get done in a quality manner.
In contrast, MS has literally hundreds of developers working on an OS at one time. This actually might be counter-productive. You know, too many cooks spoil the brouhaha...
I am not surprised by these findings.
Right you are, my friend, right you are.