If you're starting a peroxide business, make sure it's unionized from the beginning. We don't want that bubbly, fizzy mess that comes when peroxide touches scabs.
Time to boot? How about time to wake from "sleep" to a usable state on both machines? Here's my benchmarking: Dell Inspiron 7500: 8 seconds Powerbook G4: less than 1 second
Number of sleep cycles before reboot is necessary: Dell/Windows: about 10 Dell/Linux: about 100 Powerbook: unknown (only had the machine one month)
Amiga (from the beginning) was not really about GUI elegance or prowess. It was about cutting edge hardware. When Amigas hit the market, "IBM clones" as they were called, had EGA graphics, PC speaker sound, and a "boot to BASIC" interface, and Macintoshes had the WIMP desktop in honest to goodness one-bit black and white, and a system beep for sound.
Amiga came out with a machine with "virtually" 4096 colors display due to its custom on-board graphics chips, a servicable but inelegant GUI, and built in digital stereo audio. This enabled it to be the PlayStation2 of its day. It was easy to program and developers jumped on board from the beginning.
It's popularity among gam3rz led to it's software being the most pirated around, and while the gam3rz were trading their Psygnosis games, they also copied all of the office/productivity/graphics software around, to the point where it was easier to get a pirated copy of a $100 word processor or $300 MIDI sequencer from the clerk at the mall software store than to find a store that carried the package for sale, even if you had the money to spend (True story.)
Amiga was loved to death by W4r3ZaX0rz and dead it will stay, because its real advantage as "ultimate gaming hardware" will never be regained.
Well, to my knowledge lisp is not compiled to machine code, and I'm unfamiliar with the results you gave about perfomance speed. Trying to collaborate on a project where others aren't willing to go to lisp is problematic too, as it would be with any "boutique" language.
Perl, while commonly usable by scientific programmers (my area), isn't really compiled either in the traditional sense, but parts of a perl program may be more efficient if they are "compile time" evaluatable. Perl, however, has the feature where you can write a program that produces a text string that is capable of being interpreted and executed as code from within the program that wrote the string (if that make sense). It puts the simple run-time binding of C++ to shame. Flexible as hell, but you pay for that flexibility in speed.
The neat thing about templates is that they let you, the designer, separate features by binding/evaluation time. In a dream world, one could ignore such concerns in one's code and the optimizer would be perfect at factoring out and efficiently compiling all early binding and evaluation, but AFAIK we're not there yet.
Speaking for myself, yes, my code production rate (in lines/hour) goes way down after 8-10 hours. However, I know that if I leave and go to do something else, all the stuff cached in my brain will get flushed. The next time I sit down to work on the project I'll spend the first few hours mentally getting caught up to the point I was at when I quit last time.
And other things that help: Being hungry, or being in a room full of people. It sounds weird, but the more potentially distracting things around that I actively try to ignore or put out of my mind, the more I can concentrate on programming.
These are some of the things that drive me to do long sessions despite the physiological drawbacks.
Bet your ass that there is a signature, made at the time of purchase, in a large corporate licensing contract like this one.
Nah. I'm sure they just bring their million dollar Microsoft enterprise server software purchase home from Best Buy, break the shrink wrap and click through those EULAs.
So you want a true Object Oriented language instead of the the bolt OO concepts onto a procedural language aproach of C++?
No, that's not what I wanted at all. I love the mishmash that is C++. I was talking about templates, which are often referred to as a "generic programming" concept, not OO. I am not a language purist, so C++'s handling of OO is fine by me; I even use (gasp!) public data members sometimes.
I am just really intrigued by the concept of templates as a compile-time bound and evaluated language and how that relates to the layer of the language that is compile-time bound but run-time evaluated, and the layer of the language that is run-time bound and run-time evaluated.
These can be thought of as (non-exclusive) members of a hierarchy of dialects of the language, covering many points on the speed-flexibility envelope. I would be very interested in a language designed to look similar at all levels of the hierarchy but able to bind and evaluate as much as possible early, and yet retain the flexibility of creating classes on the fly from a data stream.
C++ templates were known to be Turing-complete when they were introduced into the language, but NOBODY back then would have suspected that something like Andrei Alexandrescu's Modern C++ Design was possible.
Every day, my appreciation for templates grows deeper. I've even thought that there ought to be another language built from the ground up around templates, one that shows more parallelism in the syntax of compile-time templates and "regular" code.
There is no contradiction, and the source of the dual policy is not the multi-headedness of government.
If one understands the concepts of public and private, familial and foreign, sacred and profane; if one acknowledges that these concepts exist concurrently in the world; and if one actually recognizes freedom and repression when presented with them, then one must exercise some subtlety in policy making.
You are right that "groupthink" can be dangerous in extremes, but agreement about where to go on the majority of issues is what drives civilized society. Labeling popular agreement as "groupthink" in order to dismiss it is intellectuially lazy. It is also intellectual laziness to hold the kind of absolutist positions on "privacy," "censorship," "intellectual property," and "Microsoft" that we all see daily on Slashdot. Your judgment is just tying the ship's wheel to the gunwales and going belowdecks for a nap.
I have launched my own shared memory virtual SMP supercomputer, that does not need any PVM or MPI network memory fetches. The "virtual" part is that for an N-processor virtual supercomputer, every Nth clock cycle belongs to a different "virtual" processor, all sharing the same physical processor in one machine.
Ummm... What's stopping you from putting the flag back in yourself? Write a patch. Write a script. Link to that. You and I are free to put it back in.
I do sympathize with you though. It seems pretty spineless, but RH still can't get in anyone's way who wants to implement a retrofit with the Taiwanese flag.
This would actually rock. My movieman pitch sounds like: "JFK" meets "Apollo 13"
They could show the inventive and resourceful engineers coming up with clutch fixes for a trouble-ridden live hoaxed broadcast.... Honestly, I'd love to see a movie like this, for pure fantasy value.
I'd love to see one of Gregory Benford's books adapted. He captures, better than anyone I've seen, the true excitement and drama of unexpected observations, peer review, presenting at conferences, and epiphanic pen-and-paper calculations.
Uh, I support the checks too, but Jose Padilla was followed for days if not months before he entered the U.S.
There were agents who followed him on the plane, and watched him the whole time until it touched down in Chicago. That's when they stood up and arrested him.
A better example of the efficacy of random checks would be the 1500 pound truck bomb that Israelis found in a spot check before the new year last weekend.
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An inadvertent double entendre?
You, sir, are an oxy-moron.
If you're starting a peroxide business, make sure it's unionized from the beginning. We don't want that bubbly, fizzy mess that comes when peroxide touches scabs.
Come on, Slashdot. Matt Dillon has been one of The Outsiders for at least 20 years.
Time to boot? How about time to wake from "sleep" to a usable state on both machines? Here's my benchmarking:
Dell Inspiron 7500: 8 seconds
Powerbook G4: less than 1 second
Number of sleep cycles before reboot is necessary:
Dell/Windows: about 10
Dell/Linux: about 100
Powerbook: unknown (only had the machine one month)
Amiga came out with a machine with "virtually" 4096 colors display due to its custom on-board graphics chips, a servicable but inelegant GUI, and built in digital stereo audio. This enabled it to be the PlayStation2 of its day. It was easy to program and developers jumped on board from the beginning.
It's popularity among gam3rz led to it's software being the most pirated around, and while the gam3rz were trading their Psygnosis games, they also copied all of the office/productivity/graphics software around, to the point where it was easier to get a pirated copy of a $100 word processor or $300 MIDI sequencer from the clerk at the mall software store than to find a store that carried the package for sale, even if you had the money to spend (True story.)
Amiga was loved to death by W4r3ZaX0rz and dead it will stay, because its real advantage as "ultimate gaming hardware" will never be regained.
Ummmm.... Where cash comes from?
Perl, while commonly usable by scientific programmers (my area), isn't really compiled either in the traditional sense, but parts of a perl program may be more efficient if they are "compile time" evaluatable. Perl, however, has the feature where you can write a program that produces a text string that is capable of being interpreted and executed as code from within the program that wrote the string (if that make sense). It puts the simple run-time binding of C++ to shame. Flexible as hell, but you pay for that flexibility in speed.
The neat thing about templates is that they let you, the designer, separate features by binding/evaluation time. In a dream world, one could ignore such concerns in one's code and the optimizer would be perfect at factoring out and efficiently compiling all early binding and evaluation, but AFAIK we're not there yet.
And other things that help: Being hungry, or being in a room full of people. It sounds weird, but the more potentially distracting things around that I actively try to ignore or put out of my mind, the more I can concentrate on programming.
These are some of the things that drive me to do long sessions despite the physiological drawbacks.
Well sir, I didn't like it.
Nah. I'm sure they just bring their million dollar Microsoft enterprise server software purchase home from Best Buy, break the shrink wrap and click through those EULAs.
No, that's not what I wanted at all. I love the mishmash that is C++. I was talking about templates, which are often referred to as a "generic programming" concept, not OO. I am not a language purist, so C++'s handling of OO is fine by me; I even use (gasp!) public data members sometimes.
I am just really intrigued by the concept of templates as a compile-time bound and evaluated language and how that relates to the layer of the language that is compile-time bound but run-time evaluated, and the layer of the language that is run-time bound and run-time evaluated.
These can be thought of as (non-exclusive) members of a hierarchy of dialects of the language, covering many points on the speed-flexibility envelope. I would be very interested in a language designed to look similar at all levels of the hierarchy but able to bind and evaluate as much as possible early, and yet retain the flexibility of creating classes on the fly from a data stream.
Every day, my appreciation for templates grows deeper. I've even thought that there ought to be another language built from the ground up around templates, one that shows more parallelism in the syntax of compile-time templates and "regular" code.
If one understands the concepts of public and private, familial and foreign, sacred and profane; if one acknowledges that these concepts exist concurrently in the world; and if one actually recognizes freedom and repression when presented with them, then one must exercise some subtlety in policy making.
You are right that "groupthink" can be dangerous in extremes, but agreement about where to go on the majority of issues is what drives civilized society. Labeling popular agreement as "groupthink" in order to dismiss it is intellectuially lazy. It is also intellectual laziness to hold the kind of absolutist positions on "privacy," "censorship," "intellectual property," and "Microsoft" that we all see daily on Slashdot. Your judgment is just tying the ship's wheel to the gunwales and going belowdecks for a nap.
Well how about a QBASIC emulator in flash? Then you can run your other emulators....
I played this (and "dam busters") way too much on my C64. "public domain software," as the banner said when started the program:
LOAD "LEMONADE",1
RUN
Yes, that's device "1" not "8" since these were the tape drive days...
</joke>
PhysicsGenius, are you posting anonymously now?
No, actually Belgium always smells that way.
I do sympathize with you though. It seems pretty spineless, but RH still can't get in anyone's way who wants to implement a retrofit with the Taiwanese flag.
Just run Solaris, and you'll already have CDE.
He is me, or rather, I am him.
They could show the inventive and resourceful engineers coming up with clutch fixes for a trouble-ridden live hoaxed broadcast.... Honestly, I'd love to see a movie like this, for pure fantasy value.
No, this isn't meant to be funny.
|-o-| [-o-] |-o-| ... . .. ><
"You're all clear, kid!"
There were agents who followed him on the plane, and watched him the whole time until it touched down in Chicago. That's when they stood up and arrested him.
A better example of the efficacy of random checks would be the 1500 pound truck bomb that Israelis found in a spot check before the new year last weekend.