Any investor who buys a stock based solely on the ticker symbol... needs to check out the prospectus for my new company Silicon Emerging X-factor, York.
Seriously, SUNW used to be well known to investors, now it just sounds like NetJ" (a company at the dotcom boom that had a descriptions that said (roughly) "we don't do anything, nor do we have immediate plans to do anything". )
are you *sure* it was the compile flags that did that, and not some disk fragmenting or cache issues, or whatever else might have screwed your 'test'. Loading openoffice isn't exactly CPU intensive is it, and the compiled versions only have the CPU-specific extras enabled, so I can't see that having SSE3 etc enabled in your OO build v the pre-built one will cause that much of a slowdown.
why? Who cares what the colour or shape of the brand is, give me the best chip for the lowest price. You can love AMD all you like, but it won't love you back.
Unfortunately, some sites think the ad has to be shoved down the user's throat I'd rephrase that as "some sites think that they can screw more money out of you by annoying you with such attention-grabbing ads", so I block them too:-)
ok then: Sega had the best selling console and dominated the market, but then they brought out the Saturn whilst upstart newcomer Sony the audacity to build and market something called the "playstation".
not so, think about the web model which can have a slow, inefficient GUI processing XML, but needs a very efficient backend. Of course you can scale out and out and out like we see with poorly written, or resource intensive backends.
The GUI can have a lot of ineffiency in it nowadays as the client will have a lot of ram and CPU dedicated to just it, but the server often isn't much more powerful than the client, and has to service a lot more than just a single user.
Of course, we could just write everything in C, but we don't have that many programmers who are good enough:-)
I use mozy with my own key, but instead of a file I used a passphrase (just type it in when you setup your account instead of specifying a file). I've restored successfully several times, including from my old XP box to my new Vista box.
The restore option isn't particularly bad, you have to decrypt the restore image (obviously as you encrypted it with your own key) but otherwise, its just like downloading a tarball of your backups.
They do have a shell extension now, right-click and browse the files you want restored, but I've never used that. It does appear to be as easy as you could want though.
So I recommend Mozy - its free so there's no problem if you want to try it out, and once you've proved to yourself that restore works its better than not having backups at all. (and, shameless self-promotion, if anyone wants to just try it please use this link as they'll give me a bit more storage space, not that I've used the quote I already have but I like the principle of free stuff:)
"Compactness is the property that a design can fit inside a human being's head. A good practical test for compactness is this: Does an experienced user normally need a manual? Depends what you mean by the language? Do you need a manual for the CRT? or the STL? Are these part of the language? Is Java compact, or does it have such a massive library that you need a giant tome to keep track of the features?
I'd say that C++ is remarkably compact, you can know everything there is about it easily. What you'll then find is that it is flexible and so well designed that you can twist it about in remarkable ways, but if you do, that says more about you as a programmer and not the language itself.
Its not just 7 different versions of windows (remember you get different code generated if you run it on 64-bit v 32-bit, so your app has to handle registry paths being different for example), but also the vast amount of.NET version updates you have to download, and ensure your customers have installed.
True.. to a point. The thing is that no language is perfect for all situations, and instead of having some focus to a language, MS is positioning C# as the be-all for everything. If they had these managed languages for GUI development, and C++ for back-end efficiency then I'd be very happy as you'd get the best of both worlds. (in the past I used to do all my GUI work in VB that used C++ COM objects for the heavy work, not only was this best use of resources at the time, but the code separation made the entire app much more maintainable (ie you simply couldn't write nasty monolithic apps where everything was spaghetti'd together) and scalable (making it 3-tier suddenly became quite easy).
Automatic memory management is all well and good, but don't forget that a GC only collects memory, you still have to handle any object cleanup yourself and if the language doesn't have good support for that (IDisposable is a user-coded design pattern not a language feature) than you're getting a langauge that is more a bodge than something that is elegantly object-orientated).
those are the ones which end up on your CV Lol, like one I had the pleasure of interviewing recently - "an expert in C# involved and using it from its inception in 2001".
me: "so, just describe a few things about the garbage collector to me" expert: "umm. that's dispose isn't it"
In fact, I'd say the programmer who thinks he's the best is most likely to be the worst. The programmer who will say he doesn't know is most likely to be the best. They say ignorance is bliss, the more you know the more you realise there is even more to learn.
Ah, the northern Uk town of Scunthorpe has been affected by this problem for some time now. I think a "Scun" must be a rude word in American English or something.
I think Buckaroo is more akin to Bruce Dickinson (wikipedia) who was a rock star, olympic class fencer (I heard he was in the top ten of UK or world fencers), author (with quite a way with titles: "The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace"), and of course - biggest achievement so far is being a commercial airline pilot.
See, when your mom told you that heavy metal was a bad influence, she was wrong. I'd like to see any of today's pop princesses do somehting similar.
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i rather have the other core free I don't know your setup, but you've made the schoolboy error of assuming that everyone has 2 cores. I suppose in the future, you'll be the guy complaining that your new 64-core CPU only uses 2 of them, "why can't app writers figure out how many cores I have and use them all"
You don't need a core free to run apps, and having functors is a well established C++ paradigm for creating code, they're not any worse than calling a simple C function (even if they look strange sometimes - the compiler does all the work to make them simple).
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Any investor who buys a stock based solely on the ticker symbol ... needs to check out the prospectus for my new company Silicon Emerging X-factor, York.
Seriously, SUNW used to be well known to investors, now it just sounds like NetJ" (a company at the dotcom boom that had a descriptions that said (roughly) "we don't do anything, nor do we have immediate plans to do anything". )
are you *sure* it was the compile flags that did that, and not some disk fragmenting or cache issues, or whatever else might have screwed your 'test'. Loading openoffice isn't exactly CPU intensive is it, and the compiled versions only have the CPU-specific extras enabled, so I can't see that having SSE3 etc enabled in your OO build v the pre-built one will cause that much of a slowdown.
If everyone *else* would switch to Ubuntu, Linus would continue to compile the kernel on Fedora. That'd be quite ironic wouldn't it?
Everyone knows that its not real, mature, stable software until its been named version 3.0. It worked for Windows didn't it?
why? Who cares what the colour or shape of the brand is, give me the best chip for the lowest price. You can love AMD all you like, but it won't love you back.
ok then: Sega had the best selling console and dominated the market, but then they brought out the Saturn whilst upstart newcomer Sony the audacity to build and market something called the "playstation".
Remember the Saturn... no? Exactly.
not so, think about the web model which can have a slow, inefficient GUI processing XML, but needs a very efficient backend. Of course you can scale out and out and out like we see with poorly written, or resource intensive backends.
:-)
The GUI can have a lot of ineffiency in it nowadays as the client will have a lot of ram and CPU dedicated to just it, but the server often isn't much more powerful than the client, and has to service a lot more than just a single user.
Of course, we could just write everything in C, but we don't have that many programmers who are good enough
I use mozy with my own key, but instead of a file I used a passphrase (just type it in when you setup your account instead of specifying a file). I've restored successfully several times, including from my old XP box to my new Vista box.
:)
The restore option isn't particularly bad, you have to decrypt the restore image (obviously as you encrypted it with your own key) but otherwise, its just like downloading a tarball of your backups.
They do have a shell extension now, right-click and browse the files you want restored, but I've never used that. It does appear to be as easy as you could want though.
So I recommend Mozy - its free so there's no problem if you want to try it out, and once you've proved to yourself that restore works its better than not having backups at all. (and, shameless self-promotion, if anyone wants to just try it please use this link as they'll give me a bit more storage space, not that I've used the quote I already have but I like the principle of free stuff
is it? I read the DB is 2.9Gb which is all he's taken. You don't *need* the images, but I image they'd take a fair amount of space!
I'd say that C++ is remarkably compact, you can know everything there is about it easily. What you'll then find is that it is flexible and so well designed that you can twist it about in remarkable ways, but if you do, that says more about you as a programmer and not the language itself.
Its not just 7 different versions of windows (remember you get different code generated if you run it on 64-bit v 32-bit, so your app has to handle registry paths being different for example), but also the vast amount of .NET version updates you have to download, and ensure your customers have installed.
True.. to a point. The thing is that no language is perfect for all situations, and instead of having some focus to a language, MS is positioning C# as the be-all for everything. If they had these managed languages for GUI development, and C++ for back-end efficiency then I'd be very happy as you'd get the best of both worlds. (in the past I used to do all my GUI work in VB that used C++ COM objects for the heavy work, not only was this best use of resources at the time, but the code separation made the entire app much more maintainable (ie you simply couldn't write nasty monolithic apps where everything was spaghetti'd together) and scalable (making it 3-tier suddenly became quite easy).
Automatic memory management is all well and good, but don't forget that a GC only collects memory, you still have to handle any object cleanup yourself and if the language doesn't have good support for that (IDisposable is a user-coded design pattern not a language feature) than you're getting a langauge that is more a bodge than something that is elegantly object-orientated).
me: "so, just describe a few things about the garbage collector to me"
expert: "umm. that's dispose isn't it"
In fact, I'd say the programmer who thinks he's the best is most likely to be the worst. The programmer who will say he doesn't know is most likely to be the best. They say ignorance is bliss, the more you know the more you realise there is even more to learn.
Ah, the northern Uk town of Scunthorpe has been affected by this problem for some time now. I think a "Scun" must be a rude word in American English or something.
Think you're all set? Now, using ONLY the tools on ONE crash cart, put the rack back together. With the power out. (i.e. no mains)
"ok, we've got every tool known to man, now hit the power - lets run the disaster recovery drill."
"umm... we did buy a torch, didn't we?...."
love it. You forgot that the creature was designed with bits of Natalie Portman however.
Write one, and if its good add it to the marketplace filled with hundreds of existing ones. Sometimes it is better to use someone else's hard work.
I think Buckaroo is more akin to Bruce Dickinson (wikipedia) who was a rock star, olympic class fencer (I heard he was in the top ten of UK or world fencers), author (with quite a way with titles: "The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace"), and of course - biggest achievement so far is being a commercial airline pilot.
See, when your mom told you that heavy metal was a bad influence, she was wrong. I'd like to see any of today's pop princesses do somehting similar.
Toay Wikipedia, tomorrow... the World! Mouhahahahahahahahahahaahahaaa.
:)
I think I'll just nip over to Wikipedia and write this up, self-fulfilling prophecies don't fulfil themselves you know
Yeah, but there is always VTiger
and their licencing is:
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and that's why we have apps that use up so much memory they perform amazingly poorly (.NET included)
You don't need a core free to run apps, and having functors is a well established C++ paradigm for creating code, they're not any worse than calling a simple C function (even if they look strange sometimes - the compiler does all the work to make them simple).