Assuming a drive train loss of 25% (not uncommon for a awd drivetrain), the stock version of my car does indeed make the advertised crank horsepower. How do i know? Physics. F=ma. Simply measure rpm vs time using a obd logger and do the math.
Betamax is still used *extensively* in the US for filming TV shows. Its pretty much still the *defacto* standard for production that isn't using film or dv.
It was (and still is) technically superior to VHS in every way, which is why they use it. The difference does matter, and it shows.
Reporters (and I use the term loosely) are CURRENTLY trained by corporations, large media companies, and "journalism programs" and the like to increase circulation and marketshare.
>What I'm told (by people who should know) is that Gates is smart and he's technical.
Useless and purely apocryphal. Furthermore, even if this was verifiable, I know plenty of people who think the dumbest people are "smart and technical".
Unless I see evidence to the contrary, from what I know of the technical merits of DOS and the rest of the circa 1980 software coming out of MS, he was a barely competent programmer.
Unless he didn't actually do any programming by that time, in which case those products don't represent his skill set accurately. In that case, Paul Allen is the one who should be blamed for shoddy software design, and Gates' brilliance lay in convincing people to give him money for horrible software (if only because there was no other practical alternative).
Either way, it doesn't matter; there is absolutely NO objective evidence supporting the assertion that Gates was a "programming whiz."
So he made money? Lots of people make money scamming the stupid and easily impressed. Publishing papers? Since when does that have anything to do with programming skill, especially when only being a co-author? You have NO idea how much Gates himself contributed, if anything.
"Gates promised to deliver a serviceable, low-cost, OS in time for the scheduled launch of the PC"
And it was a total piece of crap. Junk. A low rent ripoff of CP/M. Just because it met IBM's requirements doesn't make it technically worthwhile.
I wasn't talking about his IQ or management skills.
I was talking about his technical abilities. Even if he HAD contributed significantly to MS's software during the time he was "techinical", his abilities *are* certainly under question.
DOS and Windows 3.1 were total garbage. His sample shell (aka. "command.com" and later, "command.exe") was a disaster, a joke.
Their attempts at networking services were laughable; you had to use a 3rd party TCP/IP stack until win98 (since WfW was a total mess)!
Perhaps you aren't a programmer, or, more likely, you are too young to remember the absolute crap that MS churned out in the 80s and 90s.
BTW, this also indicates his IQ isn't as high as you make out. Thats an opinion though, and I concede that its debatable.
And i have a tough time respecting anybody with only "management" skills if they are incompetent at every thing else they try.
No, you are still impeding traffic, causing congestion, and endagering others. The law is there to generate revenue for the local police (since they are woefully underfunded ia conventional taxation), not to keep your sanctimonious ass "safe". The law also says slower traffic should stay left. That means YOU.
Try your idiotic stunt in Germany on the autobahn and you'll probably cause a fatal accident.
No, the most dangerous thing in the road (other than the obvious "wreckless"[sic] driving) is people like you holding up traffic in the fast lane, thereby forcing people to make dangerous passes on the right.
I won't tailgate you, but i will flash my highbeams until you get out of the way and stop causing traffic congestion.
Your entire post is one giant misunderstanding over the theory of evolution. I really do not understand how it got modded up; its four or five (ignorant) strawmen concatenated together.
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You are user # 1,251,600.
You don't think that out of that 1.2 MILLION of mostly geeks many of us don't work in the datacom industry?
And that out of those, many of us see the stupid games the government plays with the second biggest near monopoly/cartel on the planet?
Assuming a drive train loss of 25% (not uncommon for a awd drivetrain), the stock version of my car does indeed make the advertised crank horsepower. How do i know? Physics. F=ma. Simply measure rpm vs time using a obd logger and do the math.
Betamax is still used *extensively* in the US for filming TV shows. Its pretty much still the *defacto* standard for production that isn't using film or dv.
It was (and still is) technically superior to VHS in every way, which is why they use it. The difference does matter, and it shows.
Would mascara.exe have been better?
AND there's no need for this "trial" version bullshit.
What a bunch of noobs.
... would you kindly STFU?
aside from a few VERY minor bugs, the game is rock solid on my machine.
A "working system" is one that works in spite of people of bad character and one that does not depend on people of good character.
The oboe, not the worthless violinist. Violins a dime a dozen. You only get two oboists (generally).
Err no.
Reporters (and I use the term loosely) are CURRENTLY trained by corporations, large media companies, and "journalism programs" and the like to increase circulation and marketshare.
It's a *new position*, genius.
>What I'm told (by people who should know) is that Gates is smart and he's technical.
Useless and purely apocryphal. Furthermore, even if this was verifiable, I know plenty of people who think the dumbest people are "smart and technical".
Unless I see evidence to the contrary, from what I know of the technical merits of DOS and the rest of the circa 1980 software coming out of MS, he was a barely competent programmer.
Unless he didn't actually do any programming by that time, in which case those products don't represent his skill set accurately. In that case, Paul Allen is the one who should be blamed for shoddy software design, and Gates' brilliance lay in convincing people to give him money for horrible software (if only because there was no other practical alternative).
Either way, it doesn't matter; there is absolutely NO objective evidence supporting the assertion that Gates was a "programming whiz."
>"he and Allen"
i.e. mostly Allen. As others have already pointed out, Bill was the money grubbing whiner, not the technical whiz.
>Compared to his contemporaries
Don't forget Kerhnigan and Ritchie, without whom the modern C compiler wouldn't exist.
Compared to those two (and Thompson and McIlroy) Gates was a dim bulb.
MS didn't even know what an RFC was until the late 90s.
None of what you say mean anything to me.
So he made money? Lots of people make money scamming the stupid and easily impressed. Publishing papers? Since when does that have anything to do with programming skill, especially when only being a co-author? You have NO idea how much Gates himself contributed, if anything.
"Gates promised to deliver a serviceable, low-cost, OS in time for the scheduled launch of the PC"
And it was a total piece of crap. Junk. A low rent ripoff of CP/M. Just because it met IBM's requirements doesn't make it technically worthwhile.
I wasn't talking about his IQ or management skills.
I was talking about his technical abilities. Even if he HAD contributed significantly to MS's software during the time he was "techinical", his abilities *are* certainly under question.
DOS and Windows 3.1 were total garbage. His sample shell (aka. "command.com" and later, "command.exe") was a disaster, a joke.
Their attempts at networking services were laughable; you had to use a 3rd party TCP/IP stack until win98 (since WfW was a total mess)!
Perhaps you aren't a programmer, or, more likely, you are too young to remember the absolute crap that MS churned out in the 80s and 90s.
BTW, this also indicates his IQ isn't as high as you make out. Thats an opinion though, and I concede that its debatable.
And i have a tough time respecting anybody with only "management" skills if they are incompetent at every thing else they try.
Hardly. He was just the whiny wannabe PHB who wanted to get paid. Allen did all the work originally; the rest was ripped from Gary Kildall (RIP).
>GPL is a socialist economic model
Good job starting a "CIVIL" debate. +1 Unintentional Irony for you.
No, you are still impeding traffic, causing congestion, and endagering others. The law is there to generate revenue for the local police (since they are woefully underfunded ia conventional taxation), not to keep your sanctimonious ass "safe". The law also says slower traffic should stay left. That means YOU.
Try your idiotic stunt in Germany on the autobahn and you'll probably cause a fatal accident.
No, the most dangerous thing in the road (other than the obvious "wreckless"[sic] driving) is people like you holding up traffic in the fast lane, thereby forcing people to make dangerous passes on the right.
I won't tailgate you, but i will flash my highbeams until you get out of the way and stop causing traffic congestion.
The word you are looking for is "speciation."
Your entire post is one giant misunderstanding over the theory of evolution. I really do not understand how it got modded up; its four or five (ignorant) strawmen concatenated together.
Shipping costs money. The shipping dept. does not make money.
Shipping is required for delivery, but so is every other dept, including engineering.
I'm not sure you're getting my point.
Technically, you can't sell ANY product w/o EVERY dept. working.
Fact is, everything COSTS money except for selling things.
>sales, marketing, customer service, manufacturing, shipping
BTW, of those, the only division *really* making money is sales. The rest fall easily into the category you lumped the others into.
Its called a "cache"
Get the "CacheStatus" extension, and you can manage how much cache you want FF to use.
get an axe.