The only time a company might really be "forced" to respond is when they stop supporting the OS. When does XP get EOL'd? Again, from a support perspective, not a sales perspective.
Well, the idea was more to take a lot of things that were typically done in hardware (such as trying to exploit parallel execution as much as possible) and push those tasks into the compiler. An interesting idea that never really sat well with me though.
I hate spam as much as the next person but few if any of us can hardly be called "victims" of spam. Using inflammatory language like "identity thieves" is also a bit much -- if this was real identity theft under discussion the spammers would be doing something more insidious instead of just obnoxious.
I could give less than a shit if someone knows where I went to high school. Hell, there is a ton of info out there about all of us that is in public records that we all can do precisely jack about. Even if they know where I do my banking, yeah, that's pretty bothersome, but I can't get too excited until they find a way to pull money out of my accounts. Which, again, they clearly can't do (and won't be able to do, unless someone falls for a phishing scam or something), otherwise they wouldn't have the need to spam me.
Another question you might ask yourself is, are you going to let the CPU designers push you into a programming paradigm you are not effective in?
This to me sounds like laziness. "But parallel programming is HARD!"
But I'd much rather see them speed the cores up than endlessly multiply the number of them. There is a *lot* of room left to do this.
Please elaborate on this further, because what you wrote that follows is all rather vague to me. Making cores faster means higher clock speeds and/or improved architectures. As far as clock speeds go, apparently, chip designers feel like they are running up against physical limitations that are making this difficult. And when it comes to improved architectures, what quite possibly the #1 thing that has been done over the years to improve performance? Increase parallelism. Pipelining, superscalar architectures, multi-threaded single cores, VLIW, etc.
Yet still galeon is my favorite browser. I have like 200 tabs in it, while in opera I have just about 30 tabs...
If you like tabs, you may be interested in another feature a lot of browsers have. Depending on the browser, it goes by various names -- "bookmarks," "favorites," et al. Check it out sometime!
Why don't they take a cheap car and put a sexy face on it? Because then nobody would buy the expensive cars.
Ummm, so couldn't someone who makes a cheaper car put a little bit more effort into how the car looks and make more money off it? Either through higher sticker price or increased sales?
Drive a car like a BMW or Porsche or whatever -- I mean really drive it like it's capable of being driven -- and you'll understand a little better why cars like that cost more. I know what comes next: Overpriced? Depends on who you ask.
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Yeah no kidding. The only relevant bag in this article is "douchebag."
The only time a company might really be "forced" to respond is when they stop supporting the OS. When does XP get EOL'd? Again, from a support perspective, not a sales perspective.
The Mozilla/FF people are all clearly on the same page about that issue. If anyone wants to know how best to exploit this, just ask 'em!
It's like Pol Pot claiming to be a champion of human rights, and starting a 'training program'.
No. Just, no.
Go outside, take a sunbath, twitter your friend about it... err, ha, well...
No, what you need to do in that situation is go and create a Facebook group about it.
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Well, the idea was more to take a lot of things that were typically done in hardware (such as trying to exploit parallel execution as much as possible) and push those tasks into the compiler. An interesting idea that never really sat well with me though.
No, having different OSs isn't about beating Microsoft.
You wouldn't know that from reading Slashdot, though.
You don't need market share to be competitive -- just ask Apple.
(I'm not sure if that's a joke at Apple's expense or a compliment... Fanboys/anti-fanboys, feel free to take it however you like).
Slashdot has apparently learned how to masturbate, because it is now fucking with itself!
Queue douchebag saying its only a beta.
Thanks for getting that out of the way!
Of course not... Choir, meet the preacher.
Well, you are certainly entitled to your believes.
Actually, it comes in a variety of colors!
iStool: Shit different(TM).
Yes, they are helping protect privacy by developing software that can... Help undermine privacy.
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No, the English majors say "Do you want fries with that?"
They may not be going far but at least when they get there they can spell words properly!
Knowing even just a small bit about how people can behave, explain to me how this is "weird".
Something or other went wrong, and they're all defensive about it. Sounds normal to me.
I hate spam as much as the next person but few if any of us can hardly be called "victims" of spam. Using inflammatory language like "identity thieves" is also a bit much -- if this was real identity theft under discussion the spammers would be doing something more insidious instead of just obnoxious.
I could give less than a shit if someone knows where I went to high school. Hell, there is a ton of info out there about all of us that is in public records that we all can do precisely jack about. Even if they know where I do my banking, yeah, that's pretty bothersome, but I can't get too excited until they find a way to pull money out of my accounts. Which, again, they clearly can't do (and won't be able to do, unless someone falls for a phishing scam or something), otherwise they wouldn't have the need to spam me.
Is this what Slashdot has become? So desperate to make fun of Ted Stevens that this shows up on the front page?
I am of course asking all this rhetorically.
Wait, what?
Another question you might ask yourself is, are you going to let the CPU designers push you into a programming paradigm you are not effective in?
This to me sounds like laziness. "But parallel programming is HARD!"
But I'd much rather see them speed the cores up than endlessly multiply the number of them. There is a *lot* of room left to do this.
Please elaborate on this further, because what you wrote that follows is all rather vague to me. Making cores faster means higher clock speeds and/or improved architectures. As far as clock speeds go, apparently, chip designers feel like they are running up against physical limitations that are making this difficult. And when it comes to improved architectures, what quite possibly the #1 thing that has been done over the years to improve performance? Increase parallelism. Pipelining, superscalar architectures, multi-threaded single cores, VLIW, etc.
Yet still galeon is my favorite browser. I have like 200 tabs in it, while in opera I have just about 30 tabs...
If you like tabs, you may be interested in another feature a lot of browsers have. Depending on the browser, it goes by various names -- "bookmarks," "favorites," et al. Check it out sometime!
Why don't they take a cheap car and put a sexy face on it? Because then nobody would buy the expensive cars.
Ummm, so couldn't someone who makes a cheaper car put a little bit more effort into how the car looks and make more money off it? Either through higher sticker price or increased sales?
Drive a car like a BMW or Porsche or whatever -- I mean really drive it like it's capable of being driven -- and you'll understand a little better why cars like that cost more. I know what comes next: Overpriced? Depends on who you ask.
I don't expect for people to RTFA here, but at least RTFS. It's not rocket science, you know.