Speaking of Davids, SCO has hired David Boies to prosecute their case. Nice choice. Lost the DOJ case against Microsoft. Lost the Gore case for the White House. At this rate, he is going to be the Dan Marino of law - a great, but never could win the big one.
What!? I can scarcely believe that subscribers weren't waiting with bated breath for each new issue in this continuing saga of Silicon Valley VC quick-buck artists, their saucer-eyed groupies, and their knuckle-licking lapdogs. I for one read it cover-to-cover each month to glean bleeding-edge investment ideas. Now help me get this refrigerator crate out of the dumpster. The old TV box I'm living in now is getting a little flimsy from the rain.
If I am correct in my understanding of most VMs (including Java), they are not language specific. They provide a low-level assembly language which various high-level language compilers can target.
The trouble seems to be that the high-level language builders always implement their own VM. And so most VMs only support one language very well. Independent VM development could help with this. Would any language builder like to throw away their custom VM and use a VM built by someone else for their language? Can you imagine building a corporate rapid prototyping language, basing it on.Net, and then trying to position it against Visual Basic? I can't. Can you imagine trying to implement Lisp on.Net?
There are other issues: performance problems, high level instead of low-level library implementations, scope of VM operator set, concurrency, and on and on. But "only one language" really isn't a big problem. If VMs were obviously such a good idea, the world would have already flocked to Lisp machines, or Smalltalk systems, or 200-Proof Java. Since it hasn't, I have to believe that the compromise we are using today has good reasons to exist.
In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Lucas Star Wars plan 1. Natalie Portman 2. ? 3. Profit! -- sed 's/commun/terror/g' mccarthy > bush
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$4M is the price for spy drones. The freight route from Memphis to Denver has fewer hostile SAM sites to avoid. And the folks in St. Louis are less likely to execute a downed Fedex pilot. The drone makers might lower the price to accomodate the softer market in the less complex and less risky freight hauling market.
We all know scripts are a great way to deal w/ command line complexity. But it takes a lot of background knowledge (editor, obscure scripting language, filesystem & permissions, jobs, piping, etc.) to start writing and using scripts. Debugging scripts isn't for the beginner. Running scripts isn't as easy as it could be. Sharing scripts requires yet another set of skills. I've often wondered if and easier scripting system couldn't be created. One of the most profound inventions of this sort was the macro system in Lotus 123. It took some learning, but it was learning that newbies could accomplish because Lotus made it very accessible. The knowledge leap from spreadsheet building to macro writing wasn't very far. I know people who otherwise knew nothing about computers who wrote some truly astounding macros (for their skill level). They weren't fast, elegant or even stable, but they scratched the itch. The shell script concept seem to offer the same possibility for this kind of mass creative expression, if only the environment for doing it was more obvious and available to the inexperienced.
Consider that the most profitable business strategy in the current business environment is 1. monopolize market for a given product or service, 2. screw customers who now cannot turn to competitor, 3. profit (no joke). Now apply that strategy to the "pay-me-to-spam-me" service and what emerges IMHO is an opportunity for someone to make money on a service that is currently free. I, for one, will not be paying a monthly fee to the token seller for "service", nor will I be arguing with their nearly nonexistant customer support when someone either circumvents them, hacks them, corrupts^Wpartners with them, or buys them out. Besides, I've already set my asking price for "spam time" - effectively infinity. If I had ever received a spam that wasn't an obvious ripoff then I might feel differently. I'll keep filtering spam myself for *free*, thank you.
Consider that many cities in the U.S. have also put more police on their streets in recent years - mostly notably New York City. This puts more guns out there, but not in the hands of private citizens. The U.S. has also increased prison terms for firearm-enabled crimes. In short your simple logic is a little too simple.
This might be a troll post but it's how I feel y'all. If you're still paying a cable or satellite bill, then you're a sucker. If you're posting here complaining about how cable companies are "taking your rights away" or whatever, then it goes double for you. Stop sucking the big media tit! Give up arguing with them - they majority shareholders in the govt now - and walk away. My cable bill is quite low - $0, none of my "rights are being infringed", my mind isn't cluttered w/ advertising jingles or insecurity because I don't own an SUV, and trust me there is no shortage of better things thaning fork over your precious time and money to these greedy bastards. You have the right and the ability (I hope) to turn off the TV, cancel your subscription, and do something else.
I have a Shuttle SS51G w/ P4-2.533 +1G DDR and I'm very happy with it. Heatpipe keeps inside surprisingly cool and is exceptionally quiet. Some have replaced the fan and fan grill or modified the case itself to lower the noise even further.
Does anyone else agree that asteroids in fact present a threat to our physical or economic safety, and therefore responsibility for defense against these threats should fall into the category of Homeland Security?
There are definitely cases where using multiple threads on a single-processor system can degrade performance (switching, locking, etc.). Now that dual- and quad-proc systems have become common, and hyperthreading right around the corner, multithreading will become a better-performing and therefore more frequently used approach. I, for one, am thrilled to see these improvements arrive.
Don't get too hung up on "OS vs. desktop". Clearly there's a distinction, but he can't make that distinction for NYTimes readers and hope their miniscule attention spans will be able to follow. D.G. has been working on this stream stuff for a long time. Now that Microsoft has a similar product in the pipeline, he only has a couple of years to profit from his work before time passes him. His strategy appears to be 1) sell as many copies of his software ahead of Longhorn as possible, and 2) keep a good relationship w/ Microsoft in case a buyout is an option. Now, open source advocates don't cry when someone gets an interesting idea and tries to sell it commercially (well ok, some do). Instead, they write a free knockoff and often add their own improvements. I wouldn't be surprised if we that happen here, too.
I hate it when my Electronic Thing with the custom battery is dying and I can't just swap in another fully recharged battery, or a plain convenient store AAA if the charger isn't handy. I think I like this design better.
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Perhaps McNealy just realized what Gates has known for 20 years: in the consumer market, the *desktop* is the computer.
Speaking of Davids, SCO has hired David Boies to prosecute their case. Nice choice. Lost the DOJ case against Microsoft. Lost the Gore case for the White House. At this rate, he is going to be the Dan Marino of law - a great, but never could win the big one.
Game scores - heh! Just in time for March Madness.
What!? I can scarcely believe that subscribers weren't waiting with bated breath for each new issue in this continuing saga of Silicon Valley VC quick-buck artists, their saucer-eyed groupies, and their knuckle-licking lapdogs. I for one read it cover-to-cover each month to glean bleeding-edge investment ideas. Now help me get this refrigerator crate out of the dumpster. The old TV box I'm living in now is getting a little flimsy from the rain.
Good riddance.
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100% Funniest post of the year (so far).
And black lung is a more frequent killer of coal miners than accidents. And slower. And more painful.
If I am correct in my understanding of most VMs (including Java), they are not language specific. They provide a low-level assembly language which various high-level language compilers can target.
.Net, and then trying to position it against Visual Basic? I can't. Can you imagine trying to implement Lisp on .Net?
The trouble seems to be that the high-level language builders always implement their own VM. And so most VMs only support one language very well. Independent VM development could help with this. Would any language builder like to throw away their custom VM and use a VM built by someone else for their language? Can you imagine building a corporate rapid prototyping language, basing it on
There are other issues: performance problems, high level instead of low-level library implementations, scope of VM operator set, concurrency, and on and on. But "only one language" really isn't a big problem. If VMs were obviously such a good idea, the world would have already flocked to Lisp machines, or Smalltalk systems, or 200-Proof Java. Since it hasn't, I have to believe that the compromise we are using today has good reasons to exist.
In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
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sed 's/commun/terror/g' mccarthy > bush
$4M is the price for spy drones. The freight route from Memphis to Denver has fewer hostile SAM sites to avoid. And the folks in St. Louis are less likely to execute a downed Fedex pilot. The drone makers might lower the price to accomodate the softer market in the less complex and less risky freight hauling market.
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sed 's/terror/commun/g' mccarthy > bush
...but let me know when they going to start making saber darts and rocket suits.
Obligitory Mel Brooks reference:
"I have archived these 15 terabytes... uh, these 10 terabytes to stone"
We all know scripts are a great way to deal w/ command line complexity. But it takes a lot of background knowledge (editor, obscure scripting language, filesystem & permissions, jobs, piping, etc.) to start writing and using scripts. Debugging scripts isn't for the beginner. Running scripts isn't as easy as it could be. Sharing scripts requires yet another set of skills. I've often wondered if and easier scripting system couldn't be created. One of the most profound inventions of this sort was the macro system in Lotus 123. It took some learning, but it was learning that newbies could accomplish because Lotus made it very accessible. The knowledge leap from spreadsheet building to macro writing wasn't very far. I know people who otherwise knew nothing about computers who wrote some truly astounding macros (for their skill level). They weren't fast, elegant or even stable, but they scratched the itch. The shell script concept seem to offer the same possibility for this kind of mass creative expression, if only the environment for doing it was more obvious and available to the inexperienced.
Consider that the most profitable business strategy in the current business environment is 1. monopolize market for a given product or service, 2. screw customers who now cannot turn to competitor, 3. profit (no joke). Now apply that strategy to the "pay-me-to-spam-me" service and what emerges IMHO is an opportunity for someone to make money on a service that is currently free. I, for one, will not be paying a monthly fee to the token seller for "service", nor will I be arguing with their nearly nonexistant customer support when someone either circumvents them, hacks them, corrupts^Wpartners with them, or buys them out. Besides, I've already set my asking price for "spam time" - effectively infinity. If I had ever received a spam that wasn't an obvious ripoff then I might feel differently. I'll keep filtering spam myself for *free*, thank you.
Consider that many cities in the U.S. have also put more police on their streets in recent years - mostly notably New York City. This puts more guns out there, but not in the hands of private citizens. The U.S. has also increased prison terms for firearm-enabled crimes. In short your simple logic is a little too simple.
This might be a troll post but it's how I feel y'all. If you're still paying a cable or satellite bill, then you're a sucker. If you're posting here complaining about how cable companies are "taking your rights away" or whatever, then it goes double for you. Stop sucking the big media tit! Give up arguing with them - they majority shareholders in the govt now - and walk away. My cable bill is quite low - $0, none of my "rights are being infringed", my mind isn't cluttered w/ advertising jingles or insecurity because I don't own an SUV, and trust me there is no shortage of better things thaning fork over your precious time and money to these greedy bastards. You have the right and the ability (I hope) to turn off the TV, cancel your subscription, and do something else.
I have a Shuttle SS51G w/ P4-2.533 +1G DDR and I'm very happy with it. Heatpipe keeps inside surprisingly cool and is exceptionally quiet. Some have replaced the fan and fan grill or modified the case itself to lower the noise even further.
Does anyone else agree that asteroids in fact present a threat to our physical or economic safety, and therefore responsibility for defense against these threats should fall into the category of Homeland Security?
It will come with a built-in infrared interface so it can change the channel every 10ms.
The reason I like the telephone is that it lets me be lazy. If I'm feeling energetic, I go and yell at them in person.
How is this *not* off-topic? We're talking about Spiderman here.
There are definitely cases where using multiple threads on a single-processor system can degrade performance (switching, locking, etc.). Now that dual- and quad-proc systems have become common, and hyperthreading right around the corner, multithreading will become a better-performing and therefore more frequently used approach. I, for one, am thrilled to see these improvements arrive.
Don't get too hung up on "OS vs. desktop". Clearly there's a distinction, but he can't make that distinction for NYTimes readers and hope their miniscule attention spans will be able to follow.
D.G. has been working on this stream stuff for a long time. Now that Microsoft has a similar product in the pipeline, he only has a couple of years to profit from his work before time passes him. His strategy appears to be 1) sell as many copies of his software ahead of Longhorn as possible, and 2) keep a good relationship w/ Microsoft in case a buyout is an option.
Now, open source advocates don't cry when someone gets an interesting idea and tries to sell it commercially (well ok, some do). Instead, they write a free knockoff and often add their own improvements. I wouldn't be surprised if we that happen here, too.
I hate it when my Electronic Thing with the custom battery is dying and I can't just swap in another fully recharged battery, or a plain convenient store AAA if the charger isn't handy. I think I like this design better.
You know what YOU doing!