I remember the spring semester of my final year at college (1994) when they added the www and mosaic browsers to the existing internet services.
I'm pretty sure the first time I saw yahoo it was a single page -- http://www.yahoo.com/yahoo.html. Originally it was a list of a hundred or so links on a single page.:-)
In the first few months there the "list of links" was a common feature on a lot of sites. It was related to the best feature of gopher -- here's all the places to go from here.
Now that they have the FireFox source to look out to finally figure out how to write code that's standards compliant, about a year later they can ship their "new" browser:-)
Just buy 16 200GB drives ($75 each this week at Frys), put them in a couple of supertower, and you could build the same thing with infinitely more flexibility for maybe $5000. Run GigE through your yacht.
If I had that kind of money I surely wouldn't put up with inferior tech.
The header to one of the DAO files in the Windows source tree said this when I read it (when I worked there). It said (paraphrasing): "Let me tell you a little story about a programmer named Joe. One time Joe tried to read and understand this code. (Bunch of stuff about how ugly the code was.) We don't hear much from Joe anymore. Last I heard, Joe was sorting mail at the post office."
I hate to defend MS on this, but you have to have a certain type of permission to call unsafe code. As soon as you call anything such as that, the whole program becomes immediately unverifiable.
I have to say my interest in the article plunged through the floor when I saw the example using Bush/WMDs as the subject. I immediately realized I'm either reading something written by a college student or someone who has not matured much beyond that. How gauche.
Regardless of how you feel about the politics, it's just not kosher to use examples like that. Clearly this is a person with an axe to grind.
I read the fucking article. I didn't see too much very insightful, or see any specific reference to Fortran at all.
That is not Mac (it's primary Intel), nor Seattle (it's world-wide), nor is it Graphic Designer (it's a bunch of coders), so I have no idea what in the heck you're talking about.
They are typically I/O or memory bound. Unless you're compting science stuff, your CPU usually isn't pegged at 100%. So the processing time of parsing the XML isn't the problem.
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I think it was replaced by Femputer.
All this rig needs is an electric hookah on the table. Those guys are in loser heaven!
I remember the spring semester of my final year at college (1994) when they added the www and mosaic browsers to the existing internet services.
:-)
I'm pretty sure the first time I saw yahoo it was a single page -- http://www.yahoo.com/yahoo.html. Originally it was a list of a hundred or so links on a single page.
In the first few months there the "list of links" was a common feature on a lot of sites. It was related to the best feature of gopher -- here's all the places to go from here.
I think I may have created this guy as well:
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I wish I could get him back.
Yeah, you would. My original UID was in the 9000's but I can't remember the pwd.
Doesn't Microsoft encourage delaying announcing vulnerabilities until a patch is available?
Famous last words...
Now that they have the FireFox source to look out to finally figure out how to write code that's standards compliant, about a year later they can ship their "new" browser :-)
Just buy 16 200GB drives ($75 each this week at Frys), put them in a couple of supertower, and you could build the same thing with infinitely more flexibility for maybe $5000. Run GigE through your yacht.
If I had that kind of money I surely wouldn't put up with inferior tech.
Because it's ivory-white colored :-)
:-)
Macs are for ricers
In 15 years, employers will no longer expect your resume to be in Microsoft Word format.
I think Microsoft will become like J.P. Morgan: still huge, still important, but not what it was.
Why isn't the function performed by the central server simply decentralized as well?
The header to one of the DAO files in the Windows source tree said this when I read it (when I worked there). It said (paraphrasing): "Let me tell you a little story about a programmer named Joe. One time Joe tried to read and understand this code. (Bunch of stuff about how ugly the code was.) We don't hear much from Joe anymore. Last I heard, Joe was sorting mail at the post office."
I hate to defend MS on this, but you have to have a certain type of permission to call unsafe code. As soon as you call anything such as that, the whole program becomes immediately unverifiable.
I have to say my interest in the article plunged through the floor when I saw the example using Bush/WMDs as the subject. I immediately realized I'm either reading something written by a college student or someone who has not matured much beyond that. How gauche.
Regardless of how you feel about the politics, it's just not kosher to use examples like that. Clearly this is a person with an axe to grind.
I read the fucking article. I didn't see too much very insightful, or see any specific reference to Fortran at all.
finf...finf is not foo you forgot: "foo" .... horribly generic OpenStep app package contaminating Debian package namespace, i.e.
"terminal"
I never head of the open format standard named "HTM."
I have heard of Microsoft's three-letter naming system that turned "HTML" files into "HTM" files.
Same with "TXT" files.
It's pretty obvious if you say you want "HTM" and "TXT" files you've already made up your mind about what you want.
Any of the enterprise databases will with gobs of memory end up caching the entire database in memory.
As long as it's read only, the disk won't be touched.
A writeable database that doesn't need to be written to disk is not a database, it's called a nonpersistent cache.
I was going to comment on this "continued to double" . It doesn't "continue to double." That would be 5*2^16, or exponential growth.
This is 5*16. They said it wrong.
That is not Mac (it's primary Intel), nor Seattle (it's world-wide), nor is it Graphic Designer (it's a bunch of coders), so I have no idea what in the heck you're talking about.
Yeah, and I bet you don't know anybody who voted for George Bush either :-)
You think your model scales?
If you do, I got some Flooz to sell you.
Except it's in Seattle and it's for a niche market. I worked for a virtual company. Our "office" was our customer's offices. About ten of us.
Nothing very special about this except it's got insufferably precious Mac-Seattle-GraphicDesginer disease.
No, but my point is Gates wouldn't be any happier living in the world he's constructed than the rest of us. His world isn't like that.
He shouldn't be surprised that the rest of us want what he's got. So we made it ourselfs.
If Microsoft had to buy software and live in the world of their own creation, they'd be singing a different tune.
They are typically I/O or memory bound.
Unless you're compting science stuff, your CPU usually isn't pegged at 100%. So the processing time of parsing the XML isn't the problem.
Most server processes are not CPU bound. That's not the low-hanging fruit.