It's just the inscription on the One Ring, in the Black Tongue.
One OS to rule them all. One OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of MS (Microsoft) where the Shadows lie.
It's cool because it/sounds/ evil when you read it aloud:) I just googled extensively until I found all the snippets and put them together.
I have installed Panther on upgrade three times now. Once with the GM against Jaguar, once with the WWDC build against Jaguar, and once with the GM against the WWDC build.
Radiation is all around us. You can feel it when you go to school. When you pay your taxes. When you... go to church.
Unfortunately nobody can be told what radiation is. You have to experience it yourself.
You drop your class action lawsuit and wake up believing whatever you want to believe.
You keep your class action lawsuit and step inside my microwave oven, and I show you just how tasty your litigious brains can be, with a side of steamed broccoli and some fresh green peas.
These are a stunning laptop. I love mine. Only criticism is that it gets hot. They're small, light, firewire, 2x USB, DVD burner, good battery life, monitor spanning support, built in ethernet and modem... the list goes on.
The catch is always software. With Mac OS X, you get great software. Better by far than any Linux configuration on the desktop. Want to burn a CD? Insert the bank CD, drag the files onto it, and then eject it ("do you wish to burn this CD?")
How easy is that? I don't have time to fsck around with cdrecord and mkisofs anymore. I just want to burn a goddamned CD. I just want to connect to a wireless network. I just want to watch a DVD. I just want to fire up emacs and write some code. I don't want to tinker and stuff around all day making things work.
So remember, hardware is half the story. Software is the other. If you can take the mac premium price, you get the best of both worlds.
Not just a landmark in the gaming community, but in my life. It sculpted me into what I am today.
Suddenly, fast hardware was important. Getting friends around to deathmatch was important. Writing my own levels and sound effects files was important. I was shelling open the machine, squeezing out as much performance as possible. I was learning about graphics, about 3D design.
My reflexes became honed. I surprised people with my ability to notice pencils rolling off the table and catch them before they even had time to register something was happening.
Out of sheer time at a keyboard, both in and out of the game, I started typing at over 100 words per minute. I could mouse around a GUI quicker than people thought reasonable.
I discovered the internet. I payed $9 per hour to access it in Australian dollars, and that didn't include the timed STD calls I had to make to get to the ISP. I consumed every map file I could lay my hands on. I discovered porn, e-mail, gopher, the web, FTP, IRC in that order. I started making friends with people I had never seen in real life. I used Kali because Doom lacked TCP/IP support.
Now I am an I.T. professional, still as passionate as I was the first time I layed hands on the Doom I shareware installation floppies (that a thoughtful person in a Canberra computer games store copied for me). I still get shivers when I hear the Doom I map 1 music (it's my polyphonic mobile phone ring).
Without Doom, my passion for computers would not have developed, and I would probably not be posting to slashdot today.
"So every time we post there seems to be a flurry of people saying Mac OS X is slow. So let's get to the bottom of this - by posting about Mac OS X and provoking another flurry!"
That's pretty good scientific method guys. Thank god we've settled the question once and for all.
"Whereas it is true we are moving towards enterprise approaches to desktops and operating systems"
The phrasing of this is indicitive of the DOI falling prey to marketing pamphlets. Normal human beings do not use phrases like 'enterprise approaches'.
It's like MS locked someone up in their Ministry of Truth, then they came out praising Big Bill and using the words 'standard' and 'microsoft' in the same sentence.
Mate, in 20 seconds I was addicted to this. It's just great. I can already do some basic navigation without needing to look at and read any menus - just move the mouse in the right pattern and away we go.
Future suggestions would be some sort of customisation, so you can choose what you want on your pie menu. And of course support for mail / news context menus too.
It looks really polished too. That's something a lot of open source hacks lack - polish. But IMHO it's the most crucial component to ensuring mass appeal. It's polished enough to give an immediate "oooh look at that" reaction. Brilliant, good work.
... just walking to "Wawa" (which I've never heard of) for milk?
Holy shit that's a bit radical... how about riding your bicycle then?
Quite seriously - I do find it disturbing that so much technological nous might be, by some people, used only a few times a week to do the grocery shopping. An almost inconceivable waste of resources!
Lobby your local government to provide alternatives which don't require you to fire up the automotive equivalent of the hubble space telescope to do simple tasks.
Who needs it? What does it gain you? Why can't the little things that we enjoy, like anime, be kept amongst the people who love and care for it? Why would we be eager to submit it to the scrutiny of the mainstream, where it will be homogenised and shrink-wrapped into a format palatable for network executives?
Hey I just drove past the CIA headquarters and now I have the following valuable facts:
They exist.
They work in buildings.
They have barbed wire around their compound.
Humans go in and out at various times during the day.
Using this valuable information and the logic of this silly article, I *could* mount a tactical strike against CIA headquarters!
Maybe I could run into a CIA employee at the butcher's and make friends and learn his home phone number. Shit! I've just *hacked in* to the CIA. Ph34r my skillz.
"bom" is not onomatopoeic enough for me. More clues required!
But who can kill in three hits? Zangief's 360 piledriver? I'd like to see someone rip that off three times in a row. a) it's technically difficult to execute, b) what kind of chimp would let it happen three times in a row?
I think the original post more accurately reflects the weird contradiction in the editorial content of slashdot.
Whether you like it or not, the image slashdot projects through the content of its stories is that of "news for flag waving hippie commie hypocrites". Just take a step back and look at it someday.
I'll mitigate my statement somewhat, since it was made pre-coffee:)
Java is an easier language to program in, but personally I have a performance daemon that sits on my shoulder and says "it's damn slow". So it's a tradeoff - you write code that is perhaps better structured and less prone to memory management issues, but at a considerable performance penalty.
But the author of the original article would have you believe that it will be one of two platforms left at the end of this year. Clearly when peformance is at stake, Java and other virtual machine based languages will suffer. Hence his original statement is jibberish.
I love Java as a language, but I do think that universities do use it as a safe hiding place to make their courses more palatable, both from a buzzword and difficulty perspective. Gone are the days were 101 Compsci required you to write a parser with yacc.
Yes it does have its place in enterprise applications (which I find mysterious, personally because my experiences have seen it run so ponderously slow), but there is no way it will supplant everything else. Same goes for C#
By the end of the year, two platforms--J2EE and.Net--will essentially control the programming languages market.
Oh my god. Moses handing down tablets from on high? A sweeping statement supported by no figures, no examples. Why will they be dominant? Why will they supplant C/C++?
I would assume that basically all of the Unix market will remain on C/C++/fortran/cobol. Why? Because J2EE and.Net are buzzwords and Unix people have an uncanny nose for sniffing out this kind of crap. And the Unix market is big enough to ensure that your virtual-machine-of-the-month based language "controlling the programming languages market" is always going to be a dream.
So today's developers will use one of three languages: Java, C# or VB.Net.
And everyone will shop online, and bookstores will go out of business. I'm sorry Matt, haven't you heard of MY object orientated virtual machine based runtime enterprise kidney beans based language? It's called Bollocks# and I think you will be finding it dominating the programming language market this year.
Developers switching from C++ to Java concluded that Java was the natural evolution of C++.
Java is the natural place that people flee to when they can't cope with memory management and pointers. Java is a beautiful language, and the class library is exceptional. But the layers of indirection added through the JVM will always make it slower, and never a language that will replace C++. Just as C++ will never replace C (in the forseeable future), because C++ has its own levels of indirection and safety which slow it down (RTTI, virtual tables, etc). Different tools for different jobs matey, not "one language to rule them all".
if one were to look at computer science departments across the country, you'd see that Java has replaced C++.
Java is easier to learn. Hence you can push out more graduates from Compsci courses with it. Unfortunately, you can't apply those guys to say, kernel programming or embedded systems work because they are clueless w.r.t memory management and the guts of the machine. And when speed is paramount, what is a Java programmer going to do? Turn the hotspot flag on and hope for the best? What if it needs to be *reallly* fast, like "we want operation X under Y instructions on the CPU". You're out of luck. Wrong tool for the wrong job.
Fuck I'm sick of reading this. Another pundit just jabbering off his ideas with only a market analysis background (a poor one at that), not a technical one. I'm sure heaps of IT managers will be reading his column around the world, nodding their heads sagely.
Slashdot Mirror
It's just the inscription on the One Ring, in the Black Tongue.
/sounds/ evil when you read it aloud :) I just googled extensively until I found all the snippets and put them together.
One OS to rule them all.
One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of MS (Microsoft) where the Shadows lie.
It's cool because it
I have installed Panther on upgrade three times now. Once with the GM against Jaguar, once with the WWDC build against Jaguar, and once with the GM against the WWDC build.
Absolutely no problems. So, YMMV.
Duh, after submitting this post someone mentioned Dilbert. Never mind ... move along ...
What's a PHB? It's not in FOLDOC. Is it a US term?
Radiation is all around us. You can feel it when you go to school. When you pay your taxes. When you ... go to church.
Unfortunately nobody can be told what radiation is. You have to experience it yourself.
You drop your class action lawsuit and wake up believing whatever you want to believe.
You keep your class action lawsuit and step inside my microwave oven, and I show you just how tasty your litigious brains can be, with a side of steamed broccoli and some fresh green peas.
Google, my friend.
:)
http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/
What's more, it's in a nice packaged installer format. Wonderful. I love having the little Gnu icon on my dock
These are a stunning laptop. I love mine. Only criticism is that it gets hot. They're small, light, firewire, 2x USB, DVD burner, good battery life, monitor spanning support, built in ethernet and modem ... the list goes on.
The catch is always software. With Mac OS X, you get great software. Better by far than any Linux configuration on the desktop. Want to burn a CD? Insert the bank CD, drag the files onto it, and then eject it ("do you wish to burn this CD?")
How easy is that? I don't have time to fsck around with cdrecord and mkisofs anymore. I just want to burn a goddamned CD. I just want to connect to a wireless network. I just want to watch a DVD. I just want to fire up emacs and write some code. I don't want to tinker and stuff around all day making things work.
So remember, hardware is half the story. Software is the other. If you can take the mac premium price, you get the best of both worlds.
Not just a landmark in the gaming community, but in my life. It sculpted me into what I am today.
Suddenly, fast hardware was important. Getting friends around to deathmatch was important. Writing my own levels and sound effects files was important. I was shelling open the machine, squeezing out as much performance as possible. I was learning about graphics, about 3D design.
My reflexes became honed. I surprised people with my ability to notice pencils rolling off the table and catch them before they even had time to register something was happening.
Out of sheer time at a keyboard, both in and out of the game, I started typing at over 100 words per minute. I could mouse around a GUI quicker than people thought reasonable.
I discovered the internet. I payed $9 per hour to access it in Australian dollars, and that didn't include the timed STD calls I had to make to get to the ISP. I consumed every map file I could lay my hands on. I discovered porn, e-mail, gopher, the web, FTP, IRC in that order. I started making friends with people I had never seen in real life. I used Kali because Doom lacked TCP/IP support.
Now I am an I.T. professional, still as passionate as I was the first time I layed hands on the Doom I shareware installation floppies (that a thoughtful person in a Canberra computer games store copied for me). I still get shivers when I hear the Doom I map 1 music (it's my polyphonic mobile phone ring).
Without Doom, my passion for computers would not have developed, and I would probably not be posting to slashdot today.
May Cthulu bless ID and all their works.
That's pretty good scientific method guys. Thank god we've settled the question once and for all.
The phrasing of this is indicitive of the DOI falling prey to marketing pamphlets. Normal human beings do not use phrases like 'enterprise approaches'.
It's like MS locked someone up in their Ministry of Truth, then they came out praising Big Bill and using the words 'standard' and 'microsoft' in the same sentence.
Future suggestions would be some sort of customisation, so you can choose what you want on your pie menu. And of course support for mail / news context menus too.
It looks really polished too. That's something a lot of open source hacks lack - polish. But IMHO it's the most crucial component to ensuring mass appeal. It's polished enough to give an immediate "oooh look at that" reaction. Brilliant, good work.
Holy shit that's a bit radical ... how about riding your bicycle then?
Quite seriously - I do find it disturbing that so much technological nous might be, by some people, used only a few times a week to do the grocery shopping. An almost inconceivable waste of resources!
Lobby your local government to provide alternatives which don't require you to fire up the automotive equivalent of the hubble space telescope to do simple tasks.
Who needs it? What does it gain you? Why can't the little things that we enjoy, like anime, be kept amongst the people who love and care for it? Why would we be eager to submit it to the scrutiny of the mainstream, where it will be homogenised and shrink-wrapped into a format palatable for network executives?
The amount of ease with which slashdot users can be sucked into a flame never ceases to astound me. I think it's compulsive reply post syndrome.
This should be in the I-went-to-uni-so-I-know-what-a-turing-machine-is dept.
What about some stories for us dropouts making 2x the salary of you graduates?
They exist.
They work in buildings.
They have barbed wire around their compound.
Humans go in and out at various times during the day.
Using this valuable information and the logic of this silly article, I *could* mount a tactical strike against CIA headquarters!
Maybe I could run into a CIA employee at the butcher's and make friends and learn his home phone number. Shit! I've just *hacked in* to the CIA. Ph34r my skillz.
"bom" is not onomatopoeic enough for me. More clues required!
But who can kill in three hits? Zangief's 360 piledriver? I'd like to see someone rip that off three times in a row. a) it's technically difficult to execute, b) what kind of chimp would let it happen three times in a row?
tiger.
tiger.
tiger.
tigeupercut!
Round one. Fight!
...
Ush ush ush.
Hadooooooken.
Hadooken.
Shoruken.
Ksh ksh ksh
Arooo, arooo.
Bzzt bzzt bzzt.
Shoruuuuken.
Aroo.
Ka-kumph.
Bzzt bzzt bzzt bzzt bzzt bzzt.
Hadoooken.
Ooooh - ooh - ooh - ooh
You win!
You knob.
Whether you like it or not, the image slashdot projects through the content of its stories is that of "news for flag waving hippie commie hypocrites". Just take a step back and look at it someday.
Java is an easier language to program in, but personally I have a performance daemon that sits on my shoulder and says "it's damn slow". So it's a tradeoff - you write code that is perhaps better structured and less prone to memory management issues, but at a considerable performance penalty.
But the author of the original article would have you believe that it will be one of two platforms left at the end of this year. Clearly when peformance is at stake, Java and other virtual machine based languages will suffer. Hence his original statement is jibberish.
I love Java as a language, but I do think that universities do use it as a safe hiding place to make their courses more palatable, both from a buzzword and difficulty perspective. Gone are the days were 101 Compsci required you to write a parser with yacc.
Yes it does have its place in enterprise applications (which I find mysterious, personally because my experiences have seen it run so ponderously slow), but there is no way it will supplant everything else. Same goes for C#
Oh my god. Moses handing down tablets from on high? A sweeping statement supported by no figures, no examples. Why will they be dominant? Why will they supplant C/C++?
I would assume that basically all of the Unix market will remain on C/C++/fortran/cobol. Why? Because J2EE and .Net are buzzwords and Unix people have an uncanny nose for sniffing out this kind of crap. And the Unix market is big enough to ensure that your virtual-machine-of-the-month based language "controlling the programming languages market" is always going to be a dream.
And everyone will shop online, and bookstores will go out of business. I'm sorry Matt, haven't you heard of MY object orientated virtual machine based runtime enterprise kidney beans based language? It's called Bollocks# and I think you will be finding it dominating the programming language market this year.
Java is the natural place that people flee to when they can't cope with memory management and pointers. Java is a beautiful language, and the class library is exceptional. But the layers of indirection added through the JVM will always make it slower, and never a language that will replace C++. Just as C++ will never replace C (in the forseeable future), because C++ has its own levels of indirection and safety which slow it down (RTTI, virtual tables, etc). Different tools for different jobs matey, not "one language to rule them all".
Java is easier to learn. Hence you can push out more graduates from Compsci courses with it. Unfortunately, you can't apply those guys to say, kernel programming or embedded systems work because they are clueless w.r.t memory management and the guts of the machine. And when speed is paramount, what is a Java programmer going to do? Turn the hotspot flag on and hope for the best? What if it needs to be *reallly* fast, like "we want operation X under Y instructions on the CPU". You're out of luck. Wrong tool for the wrong job.
Fuck I'm sick of reading this. Another pundit just jabbering off his ideas with only a market analysis background (a poor one at that), not a technical one. I'm sure heaps of IT managers will be reading his column around the world, nodding their heads sagely.
I haven't even had a coffee yet.