oh come on! That's a fire hazard, this is going to be one hell of an easy game. How to defeat Diablo? Just wait outside with a pint and let his poor health and safety practices destroy his empire.
those surveillance cameras are entirely there solely to provide the next generation with episodes of Police Camera Action to keep them docile. Nothing to do with checking up on us or keeping us safe.
Except of course, the ones on the roads, they're just there to raise revenue.
You don't need a new OS, you need a new motherboard.
Asus has "Express Gate" on their newer mobos that allow you to boot into a web-surfing, email only mini OS in "less than 5 seconds" without having to worry about whether you slept, suspended or hibernated the previous tme you shut down your PC.
Ok, its basically an on-board Linix distro, so you do need a better OS after all.
I think the issue there is that companies have to rewrite their legacy COBOL in new languages becuase they cannot find anyone who knows COBOL (or charges too much).
COBOL is perfect for its specific domain - batch processing business stuff. I think you'll find that some things (like payroll merges) can be done in 4 lines of COBOL that the equivalent Python or Java would take 1000 lines.
With the emergence of service-oriented architectures, companies are able to more easily reuse their Cobol code, notes Nate Murphy, president of Nate Murphy International, an IT professional services firm.
The 66-year-old Murphy, who has decades of mainframe and Cobol experience, sees a resurgence in the value of Cobol because of the emergence of SOA and IBM's Language Environment, which provides a common runtime environment for combining many different languages, including Cobol.
"Now you can extend and add subroutines for other Web-based features that you need," he says. "All of a sudden you've got a valuable asset in these old Cobol programs, and you can extend them and expand their capability without writing new code."
Hmm, seems we'd be free of COBOL if it wasn't for those pesky IBM kids.
there are a lot more copmpanies out there that barely know what a PC is. Software houses are a tiny minority compared to retailers, to name one. Think how many back office staff exist to serve them compare to the number of programmers. Then go to the next class of business, repeat a thousand times.
I'd say 0.0000001% is a bit of an exaggeration, 0.1% is more like it.
I don't think its that anyone takes it seriously, but no-one knows it exists.
The features hacked on to C++ are good, its the design of the language - keep it small and simple, and surprisingly well-designed enough for everything to be added later. Nowadays you have to think of C++ as te core + libraries anyway, C++ would be nothing without the SRL, Boost and others.
(its the same with other languages, C# would be nothing without the.NET class library)
then you want OpenMP bindings. Its simple (though, obviously, not as flexible and all-encompassing as writing everything yourself). eg, if you want to run a for loop using multiple threads you do:
#pragma omp parallel for for (i=0;i < 10;i++) { //do something } return 0;
pretty easy. There are limitations - no sleep constructs for example, but that's because its designed to process stuff in parallel, not be a theading library.
Its even available by default in MS VC2005 (you do need to enable it with the/omp compiler flag) even if MS doesn't bother advertising it.
Some FUD on/., who'd have thought:-) (not you though, some other posters say different things in reply to you).
So, I thought I'd dl 7zipo and give it a whirl, then used the context menus to compress a few directories in the utility's native format (ie rar v 7z, 'cos I only care about the end-result not the format)
1 wmv file: rar took 35sec, 7zip 20 sec. Neither compressed very well, rar was.1mb smaller, 7zip.1mb larger (on a 80Mb file so no difference to compression)
a dir full of jpgs from my camera (23mb): rar took 13 sec, 7zip took 12. Neither did well with compression again.
a dir full of pdf files (89mb): rar took 54 seconds, 7zip 42. Here rar archive was 71mb, 7zip 69mb.
a dir of work stuff (cpp files mostly, few documents)(59mb): rar took 21 seconds, 7zip 16. Rar archive compressed to 8.16mb, 7zip down to 5.65mb
So: 7zip seems to be better or the same as WinRAR in all cases... for compression.
For Uncompression its a different story, WinRAR is faster in all cases, except for the work archive of lots of cpp files. That took 4 seconds to decompress v 3 in 7zip (not exactly much difference, or scientific testing of the timings). The slowest was decompressing the pdfs, 4 seconds for winrar v 10 for 7zip.
I think 7zip could appear to be faster if it's gui showed the progress of each individual file as Winrar does. I suppose it depends if you prefer the better compression of 7zip or the faster uncompression speed of Winrar. There's not much in it either way to be honest. 7zip, of course, is free.
Don't forget no-one needed to go to Vista, but some did. Only a few people needed 64-bit, but a lot went for it (including those with 64-bit CPUs running a 32-bit OS).
If home routers could handle it transparently, I reckon we'd be running it without anyone hardly knowing (and home users would probably be running IPv6 by default, "I just plugged it in and it worked, what's an IP address?"), but until they do (we should lobby Netgear, D-Link etc) we're stuck with IPv4.
that's all I can think of that isn't catered for by IPv4. I agree the only way to get IPv6 adoption is to shut off IPv4, and that's hardly going to happen until the day a registrar says "no, you can only have 1 IP for your server, sorry but we've run out"
Its an interesting read: Change MySQL development model to attract outside developers -Give outside developers commit and decision rights to the MySQL server code base (similar constraints as for internal developers) -Do this by aiming at a high target: "MySQL should within 2 years have as many outside core contributors as PostgreSQL". Yes, we have a lot to learn from how PostgreSQL is developed!
Administration is only part of the reason shops switched the SQL Server, the other was cost - MS was giving it away for free sometimes, our company switched to SQL Server when we found MS gave us a redistribution licence, I remember the management wetting themselves in a company update meeting telling us how we were moving to use it and not Oracle because it was a licence to print money.
Our users have been suffering ever since:)
(not that I have that much against SQL Server, but you do need to write a lot of SPs to make it work in a medium/large system without its locking system getting overexcited)
If Oracle could drop that useless Java management toolset and make it easier to administer/setup, and also make patching it a lot easier then I reckon it could start to make inroads again. Unfortunately they wouldn't even setup a yum repository for patches on their 'Unbreakable Linux' system:(
And we know that while MySQL replication has many wonderful features like simple set-up, it also has many deficiencies that have persisted for a long time. Monty Widenius, a widely respected MySQL engineer, summarized some of the key problems last April:
- replication is not fail safe - no synchronous options - no checking consistency option - setup and resync of slave is complicated - single thread on the slave - no multi-master - only InnodDB synchronizes with the replication (binary) log
Hopefully this will lead to a better (ie fixed) eplication system for MySql.
Those US companies in the Cayman islands don't pay tax, but their CEOs are pals with the movers and shakers in the government... you can work out the rest yourself, hint: it involves lots of money.
Ships flying US flags pay taxes for the port they're registered in, which is why you see a lot of shipping operating out of dodgy 3rd world ports under flags of convenience.
So Google may well just find that being in international waters is a convenience to move about if they like, they'll still register and report to the authorities as normal. Probably their HQ will remain in Santa Clara. Of course, if the regulations become too onerous then they'll be able to threaten to move to a different country, unless the regulations become relaxed in their favour.
3 years experience at 3 different companies using a "wide range of technologies" suggests to me that you didn't get on well with any of them. I'd expect you to prove otherwise, maybe not with a formal test, but with some serious questioning during the interview.
unfortunately the community doesn't seem to be in touch with the distros, the RedHat security thing seems to be more about shouting "OMG! security" than reality.
Too many people say RedHat 'sold out', but I think its ore a case of geek-religion getting the better of them, the RedHat users say its all ok, the non-RedHat users scream thsi issue up.
Generally, the same applies to the Debian security issue, but with the different groups on ther opposite side that time.
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and they were once so good
I prefer to think they were so good at it, even they were ashamed by themselves and turned it round.
Some court case and anti-trust breakup thing might have had a hand in it too.
If you would "shut down and give the money to the shareholders"
oops.
Well, they've got to prop the share price up somehow.
Hey I just thought I'd drop you a follow-up post to say, yeah thanks, for your post. cheers now, have a nice day.
and the ragged drapes lightened by candles
oh come on! That's a fire hazard, this is going to be one hell of an easy game. How to defeat Diablo? Just wait outside with a pint and let his poor health and safety practices destroy his empire.
those surveillance cameras are entirely there solely to provide the next generation with episodes of Police Camera Action to keep them docile. Nothing to do with checking up on us or keeping us safe.
Except of course, the ones on the roads, they're just there to raise revenue.
You don't need a new OS, you need a new motherboard.
Asus has "Express Gate" on their newer mobos that allow you to boot into a web-surfing, email only mini OS in "less than 5 seconds" without having to worry about whether you slept, suspended or hibernated the previous tme you shut down your PC.
Ok, its basically an on-board Linix distro, so you do need a better OS after all.
After all, in the typical Cobol program, most of the variable names are so long that you can't fit two of them onto a line
I think you're confusing it with Java/C# :)
Not that much, but this is a UK-specific survey. Still, seems there's a steady progress upwards.
I think the issue there is that companies have to rewrite their legacy COBOL in new languages becuase they cannot find anyone who knows COBOL (or charges too much).
COBOL is perfect for its specific domain - batch processing business stuff. I think you'll find that some things (like payroll merges) can be done in 4 lines of COBOL that the equivalent Python or Java would take 1000 lines.
Here's an interesting take on the subject.
With the emergence of service-oriented architectures, companies are able to more easily reuse their Cobol code, notes Nate Murphy, president of Nate Murphy International, an IT professional services firm.
The 66-year-old Murphy, who has decades of mainframe and Cobol experience, sees a resurgence in the value of Cobol because of the emergence of SOA and IBM's Language Environment, which provides a common runtime environment for combining many different languages, including Cobol.
"Now you can extend and add subroutines for other Web-based features that you need," he says. "All of a sudden you've got a valuable asset in these old Cobol programs, and you can extend them and expand their capability without writing new code."
Hmm, seems we'd be free of COBOL if it wasn't for those pesky IBM kids.
there are a lot more copmpanies out there that barely know what a PC is. Software houses are a tiny minority compared to retailers, to name one. Think how many back office staff exist to serve them compare to the number of programmers. Then go to the next class of business, repeat a thousand times.
I'd say 0.0000001% is a bit of an exaggeration, 0.1% is more like it.
I don't think its that anyone takes it seriously, but no-one knows it exists.
The features hacked on to C++ are good, its the design of the language - keep it small and simple, and surprisingly well-designed enough for everything to be added later. Nowadays you have to think of C++ as te core + libraries anyway, C++ would be nothing without the SRL, Boost and others.
(its the same with other languages, C# would be nothing without the .NET class library)
do they have a guy running round a street with a shotgun shooting people shouting "It crashed and lost my f***** work, I'm a b****** PC you c**** !"
No? Perhaps its modelled after Vista... a huge fat guy stuffing his face full of burgers, "I'm a PC, now give me more resources".
No? Pity, they'd be more in-tune with reality :-)
I'm glad. Now, can we get it implemented in the browser? Then we'd have a first-class GUI for thin clients that'd really make the web better. maybe.
then you want OpenMP bindings. Its simple (though, obviously, not as flexible and all-encompassing as writing everything yourself). eg, if you want to run a for loop using multiple threads you do:
pretty easy. There are limitations - no sleep constructs for example, but that's because its designed to process stuff in parallel, not be a theading library.
Its even available by default in MS VC2005 (you do need to enable it with the /omp compiler flag) even if MS doesn't bother advertising it.
Some FUD on /., who'd have thought :-) (not you though, some other posters say different things in reply to you).
So, I thought I'd dl 7zipo and give it a whirl, then used the context menus to compress a few directories in the utility's native format (ie rar v 7z, 'cos I only care about the end-result not the format)
1 wmv file: rar took 35sec, 7zip 20 sec. Neither compressed very well, rar was
a dir full of jpgs from my camera (23mb): rar took 13 sec, 7zip took 12. Neither did well with compression again.
a dir full of pdf files (89mb): rar took 54 seconds, 7zip 42. Here rar archive was 71mb, 7zip 69mb.
a dir of work stuff (cpp files mostly, few documents)(59mb): rar took 21 seconds, 7zip 16. Rar archive compressed to 8.16mb, 7zip down to 5.65mb
So: 7zip seems to be better or the same as WinRAR in all cases... for compression.
For Uncompression its a different story, WinRAR is faster in all cases, except for the work archive of lots of cpp files. That took 4 seconds to decompress v 3 in 7zip (not exactly much difference, or scientific testing of the timings). The slowest was decompressing the pdfs, 4 seconds for winrar v 10 for 7zip.
I think 7zip could appear to be faster if it's gui showed the progress of each individual file as Winrar does. I suppose it depends if you prefer the better compression of 7zip or the faster uncompression speed of Winrar. There's not much in it either way to be honest. 7zip, of course, is free.
lol. like our old coding standards document. Initial page: "this document exists to ensure everything gets done correctly first time", version 7.
Don't forget no-one needed to go to Vista, but some did. Only a few people needed 64-bit, but a lot went for it (including those with 64-bit CPUs running a 32-bit OS).
If home routers could handle it transparently, I reckon we'd be running it without anyone hardly knowing (and home users would probably be running IPv6 by default, "I just plugged it in and it worked, what's an IP address?"), but until they do (we should lobby Netgear, D-Link etc) we're stuck with IPv4.
how about SSL for every website?
that's all I can think of that isn't catered for by IPv4. I agree the only way to get IPv6 adoption is to shut off IPv4, and that's hardly going to happen until the day a registrar says "no, you can only have 1 IP for your server, sorry but we've run out"
Michael Widenius
MySQL Fellow
2008-04-17
From http://www.scribd.com/doc/2575733/The-future-of-MySQL-The-Project
Its an interesting read:
Change MySQL development model to attract outside developers
-Give outside developers commit and decision rights to the MySQL server code base (similar constraints as for internal developers)
-Do this by aiming at a high target: "MySQL should within 2 years have as many outside core contributors as PostgreSQL".
Yes, we have a lot to learn from how PostgreSQL is developed!
Administration is only part of the reason shops switched the SQL Server, the other was cost - MS was giving it away for free sometimes, our company switched to SQL Server when we found MS gave us a redistribution licence, I remember the management wetting themselves in a company update meeting telling us how we were moving to use it and not Oracle because it was a licence to print money.
Our users have been suffering ever since :)
(not that I have that much against SQL Server, but you do need to write a lot of SPs to make it work in a medium/large system without its locking system getting overexcited)
If Oracle could drop that useless Java management toolset and make it easier to administer/setup, and also make patching it a lot easier then I reckon it could start to make inroads again. Unfortunately they wouldn't even setup a yum repository for patches on their 'Unbreakable Linux' system :(
I think , so they released the source for their 'better replication' technology.
And we know that while MySQL replication has many wonderful features like simple set-up, it also has many deficiencies that have persisted for a long time. Monty Widenius, a widely respected MySQL engineer, summarized some of the key problems last April:
- replication is not fail safe
- no synchronous options
- no checking consistency option
- setup and resync of slave is complicated
- single thread on the slave
- no multi-master
- only InnodDB synchronizes with the replication (binary) log
Hopefully this will lead to a better (ie fixed) eplication system for MySql.
Those US companies in the Cayman islands don't pay tax, but their CEOs are pals with the movers and shakers in the government ... you can work out the rest yourself, hint: it involves lots of money.
Ships flying US flags pay taxes for the port they're registered in, which is why you see a lot of shipping operating out of dodgy 3rd world ports under flags of convenience.
So Google may well just find that being in international waters is a convenience to move about if they like, they'll still register and report to the authorities as normal. Probably their HQ will remain in Santa Clara. Of course, if the regulations become too onerous then they'll be able to threaten to move to a different country, unless the regulations become relaxed in their favour.
quite true.
3 years experience at 3 different companies using a "wide range of technologies" suggests to me that you didn't get on well with any of them. I'd expect you to prove otherwise, maybe not with a formal test, but with some serious questioning during the interview.
yeah, all software should do what I want, not what I tell it to do :-)
I reckon its all because the awesome bar is different, geeks are very conservative.
unfortunately the community doesn't seem to be in touch with the distros, the RedHat security thing seems to be more about shouting "OMG! security" than reality.
Too many people say RedHat 'sold out', but I think its ore a case of geek-religion getting the better of them, the RedHat users say its all ok, the non-RedHat users scream thsi issue up.
Generally, the same applies to the Debian security issue, but with the different groups on ther opposite side that time.