While the article draws no conclusions, the slashdot headline implies that amd is guilty of faulty quality assurance testing, thus saying that the problem is with the cpu.
I think its rather unfair to be overly judgemental of people who worry about who they will be working with in a chosen field. I'm not saying its right that they want to avoid geeks, basically saying they dislike intelligent men, but that's another topic. The type of people in a field you make a career in are the type of people you will have to deal with on a daily basis for the rest of your career. If most people in a given field tend toward a personality type that you don't get along with or care for, then that is a good reason to consider other options for what you want to do with the rest of your life.
Okay, I can't spell, I am fully willing to admit that. Thank you for pointing that out, I think I'll be running my posts through ispell before they go up...
I wasn't attacking the midwest or its occupants. I was simply saying that most computer businesses and, therefore, their employees, are on one of the costs. This is not a value judgement, it is a simple statement of fact.
As to why it got moderated to +4? Well its down to +3, but still, I think its maybe a +2. I've written much better posts, but they all got 1's. The ways of Slashdot are mysterious, or possibly just inane. Oh well...
There really is an argument to be made that the location had some effect. It definately could have been a better attended show, but nowhere near a really big one. For a show to be big it needs to either be close to the people it is trying to attract, like the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose every year, or be someplace the attendees really want to go, like all the shows (Comdex comes to mind) in Las Vegas. I'm sure I'm excluding some east coast shows as examples, but you get the idea. Still, I never saw an add for it and I frequent a lot of the linux websites, so it appears to have been a victim both of its location and very poor advertising.
I will admit that would be nice. The stranglehold won't last however, if Microsoft is broken up. Since their whole business strategy is get to get everyone to use Windows (in some form) and then leverage that in the applications and networking arena, having the OS dept. as a seperate business would tank this. It would also make it more likely that the Office suite might get ported to linux, or at least become more interoperable with it.
Your point is well taken that it is war only if the goal is victory. I was only pointing out that coexistence is rare, so victory or relegation to obscurity might be the only options. Then again, as I said above, if MS is broken up, it could well be a whole different ball game.
On a more off topic note, I'd like to thank you for the only reasonable reply made to my comment, its nice to see someone out there is still thinking.
True, true. There are always games like Ultima Ascension, Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, etc. There are always quality games out there, they just don't sell that well. The one bonus of that is that all the deep, enthralling, quality games usually end up in the bargain bin. Curse of Monkey Island anyone?
You are right, it will be the Celts that contradict you. While the Greek and Roman armies preffered the smaller swords that you describe, that could be held in one hand while the other operated a shield, the Celtic swords were around fourty pounds, and were as often nearly as tall as the men wielding them. Since they were only used by the backwater tribes on some remote islands in the Atlantic, they were far from the prevelant weapon of the day. I would supect that with the subjegation of the Celts by the Romans (well, most of the Celts, the highlands were such a pit the Romans didn't even bother invading it), the medieval swords of mainland Europe were of a more temperate size. However, based on an exhibit of old English arms (circa 1500 AD) it would appear they kept much of the same dimensions as their predeccesors. If the Scottish games are near you I would advise anyone to go. You won't see the real thing, but the replicas will give you an idea of what the real thing was like.
Actually, the war analogy is very accurate. This may be a market space, but as the past generations have shown, there is only room for one big player. In most wars, the losing country does not cease to exist, it just diminishes significantly in precedence. That is the goal here. Second and third place means 10-20% MAX. Microsoft could not have come to power without IBM becoming significantly smaller in the arena of the desktop. So it is with Linux. Linux cannot become dominant, or even prominent on the desktop without microsoft suffering some major defeats, and losing around 50% of the market share they currently possess. The desktop is an area of standards. Anyone remember all the operating systems that co-existed with DOS? There can only be one true standard operationg system, hence only one victor, hence, this is a war.
But then, if you think about it, isn't that what the space program has been from the get-go? Strap a guy into a metal box, strap box to high explosive, cross fingers. Of course there was a lot more to it than that, as there is with this guys rocket. I seem to recall a line from Armagedon...something to the effect of "Do you realize we're sitting on a thing with two million moving parts, ten thousand pounds of explosives and one nuclear warhead?"
As in C with object oriented programming? Does this sound a little like C++? Or maybe they mean just the applet side, which is Java's smallest use. Or maybe they mean like Javascript, in which case they're treading on their own VBscript. I think MS is just trying to wrest control of the internet from anyone or anything not owned and/or run by them.
The above comment makes some very good points. In that definition of entrapment, you can see the one other element missing from this for it to be entrapment: these are not law enforcement agents. They are private companies attempting to capture people violating their copyrights, and then, I assume, turning the evidence over to the appropriate law enforcement agency. Nothing they could do would be entrapment. Slimy and amoral? Yes. Illegal? No
If you proceed from the assumption that the best first programming language is that which is easiest to learn, then Pascal and Python and Java are wonderful ideas. If your goal is to understand programming and its relation to the inner workings of the computer, then C, no matter how long it takes, is going to be far superior in that aspect.
Given the number of online resources, I can't believe you can't find a tutorial or ten. If you want really good information, go to the college sites that have the lecture notes online. These provide all the information presented in a comsci class and, after having sat through many of them, are about as lively. Just look around for the info, its all out there.
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While the article draws no conclusions, the slashdot headline implies that amd is guilty of faulty quality assurance testing, thus saying that the problem is with the cpu.
I think its rather unfair to be overly judgemental of people who worry about who they will be working with in a chosen field. I'm not saying its right that they want to avoid geeks, basically saying they dislike intelligent men, but that's another topic. The type of people in a field you make a career in are the type of people you will have to deal with on a daily basis for the rest of your career. If most people in a given field tend toward a personality type that you don't get along with or care for, then that is a good reason to consider other options for what you want to do with the rest of your life.
Okay, I can't spell, I am fully willing to admit that. Thank you for pointing that out, I think I'll be running my posts through ispell before they go up...
As to why it got moderated to +4? Well its down to +3, but still, I think its maybe a +2. I've written much better posts, but they all got 1's. The ways of Slashdot are mysterious, or possibly just inane. Oh well...
There really is an argument to be made that the location had some effect. It definately could have been a better attended show, but nowhere near a really big one. For a show to be big it needs to either be close to the people it is trying to attract, like the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose every year, or be someplace the attendees really want to go, like all the shows (Comdex comes to mind) in Las Vegas. I'm sure I'm excluding some east coast shows as examples, but you get the idea. Still, I never saw an add for it and I frequent a lot of the linux websites, so it appears to have been a victim both of its location and very poor advertising.
Your point is well taken that it is war only if the goal is victory. I was only pointing out that coexistence is rare, so victory or relegation to obscurity might be the only options. Then again, as I said above, if MS is broken up, it could well be a whole different ball game.
On a more off topic note, I'd like to thank you for the only reasonable reply made to my comment, its nice to see someone out there is still thinking.
True, true. There are always games like Ultima Ascension, Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, etc. There are always quality games out there, they just don't sell that well. The one bonus of that is that all the deep, enthralling, quality games usually end up in the bargain bin. Curse of Monkey Island anyone?
You are right, it will be the Celts that contradict you. While the Greek and Roman armies preffered the smaller swords that you describe, that could be held in one hand while the other operated a shield, the Celtic swords were around fourty pounds, and were as often nearly as tall as the men wielding them. Since they were only used by the backwater tribes on some remote islands in the Atlantic, they were far from the prevelant weapon of the day. I would supect that with the subjegation of the Celts by the Romans (well, most of the Celts, the highlands were such a pit the Romans didn't even bother invading it), the medieval swords of mainland Europe were of a more temperate size. However, based on an exhibit of old English arms (circa 1500 AD) it would appear they kept much of the same dimensions as their predeccesors. If the Scottish games are near you I would advise anyone to go. You won't see the real thing, but the replicas will give you an idea of what the real thing was like.
Actually, the war analogy is very accurate. This may be a market space, but as the past generations have shown, there is only room for one big player. In most wars, the losing country does not cease to exist, it just diminishes significantly in precedence. That is the goal here. Second and third place means 10-20% MAX. Microsoft could not have come to power without IBM becoming significantly smaller in the arena of the desktop. So it is with Linux. Linux cannot become dominant, or even prominent on the desktop without microsoft suffering some major defeats, and losing around 50% of the market share they currently possess. The desktop is an area of standards. Anyone remember all the operating systems that co-existed with DOS? There can only be one true standard operationg system, hence only one victor, hence, this is a war.
I know, I realized that after I hit the submit button. Perhaps that preview thingy is there for a reason...
But then, if you think about it, isn't that what the space program has been from the get-go? Strap a guy into a metal box, strap box to high explosive, cross fingers. Of course there was a lot more to it than that, as there is with this guys rocket. I seem to recall a line from Armagedon...something to the effect of "Do you realize we're sitting on a thing with two million moving parts, ten thousand pounds of explosives and one nuclear warhead?"
As in C with object oriented programming? Does this sound a little like C++? Or maybe they mean just the applet side, which is Java's smallest use. Or maybe they mean like Javascript, in which case they're treading on their own VBscript. I think MS is just trying to wrest control of the internet from anyone or anything not owned and/or run by them.
The above comment makes some very good points. In that definition of entrapment, you can see the one other element missing from this for it to be entrapment: these are not law enforcement agents. They are private companies attempting to capture people violating their copyrights, and then, I assume, turning the evidence over to the appropriate law enforcement agency. Nothing they could do would be entrapment. Slimy and amoral? Yes. Illegal? No
If you proceed from the assumption that the best first programming language is that which is easiest to learn, then Pascal and Python and Java are wonderful ideas. If your goal is to understand programming and its relation to the inner workings of the computer, then C, no matter how long it takes, is going to be far superior in that aspect.
Given the number of online resources, I can't believe you can't find a tutorial or ten. If you want really good information, go to the college sites that have the lecture notes online. These provide all the information presented in a comsci class and, after having sat through many of them, are about as lively. Just look around for the info, its all out there.