The problem is, credibility doesn't necessarily equate to profit. Look at the celebrity tabloids. If the goal is to rake in the cash, who cares if you're credible? The only thing that matters is if people like to read what you print.
FORTRAN and C have different semantics. A FORTRAN optimizer knows more about aliasing, function interactions, and I/O. A C optimizer has to infer or compute such information. C bigots typically have neither written such optimizers nor worked with folks who do it for a living, and are prone to dismiss such arguments as being petty and neolithic. FORTRAN programmers are often a bit more in touch with high performance computing, and are unwilling to bet that heavily on compiler wizardry.
There is a vast body of existing FORTRAN code (much of which is publically available and of high quality). Numerical codes are particularly difficult to "vet", scientific establishments usually do not have large otherwise idle programming staffs, etc. so massive recoding into any new language is typically resisted quite strongly.
Fortran tends to meet some of the needs of scientists better. Most notably, it has built in support for: - variable dimension array arguments in subroutines - a compiler-supported infix exponentiation operator which is generic with respect to both precision and type, *and* which is generally handled very efficiently or the commonly occuring special case floating-point**small-integer - complex arithmetic - generic-precision intrinsic functions
I beg to differ: The most popular automobiles are frequently the most stolen. For example, here in the States the Toyota Camry, a best-selling sedan, is one of the most commonly stolen cars. The reason? It's ubiquity provides a market for used parts. Similarly, a 10 meter brick wall is more likely to be vandalized than a 2 cm brick wall. Why? Because the bad guy will gain more attention by hitting the big targets. And after all, crackers are looking for attention.
Record profits probably means a nice high stock price. So, let's all dump our MSFT shares. A flood of MSFT selling, the price will plummet! We can sink microsoft! Together, we can SLASHDOT-EFFECT MICROSOFT'S STOCK!
This list purposely doesn't include technology-du-jour and instead focuses on those whose ideas have had long-standing impact.
http://www.softwarehistory.org/history/important_p eople.html
Reading about all the exciting things these people have accomplished is really motivating.
Today I got an email inviting me to a meeting with the description, "We need to get together and create a plan for the plan..."
YES! Planning for the plan! HOW PRODUCTIVE AND INGENIOUS! I'm pretty sure it was a typo resulting from two sentence fragments jammed together, but it maked my manager look like a fool.
sadly, i get stuff like that all the time. yay for military contracting. big bucks, small brains.
this raises the question, "how many (known) bugs should be allowed to ship in a piece of commercial software?"
obviously its in the developer's best interest to hit production as soon as possible (to enter the market for the xmas feeding frenzy). so, some "minor" bugs are apparently considered acceptable.
i don't think so.
but some customers, in particular the die-hard fans, apparently are willing to accept some problems on day one and will put up with the problem until a patch is released eventually.
i wonder what the turnaround time will be. probably a few days. too bad its not open-source. we'd have a patch in a few hours.
what they mean to say is that the lack of skilled people willing to work 60% below their true market value is "killing their business."
There's no shortage of techies... only cheap ones.
1. 4.5 gigs just isn't enough storage space to be a viable backup medium. plenty of people have posted about this.
2. DVD video just doesn't scale. Sure, dvds look great on your 10 year old 30" behemoth tv set in the den, but try watching them on a new million inch HDTV... you can see with your own eyes that the MPEG2 compression just isn't so great. even with fancy progressive scanning and other image enhancement algorithms, the quality just isn't there especially when compared to higher resolution HDTV. whats needed is less compression and higher resolution video. and that requires more storage space. HD-DVD is one solution and Blue Ray is another. which spec is better is an academic debate for another post.
you want to know where the early adoption will be? home theatre. not computers.
In related news, Mr. Gates was reportedly heard to have exclaimed, "Four million emails ought to be enough for anybody!" Although this quote has not yet been confirmed, the next generation Microsoft operating system, code-named Longhorn, is expected to require a boot disk to access any email after 4,096,000. Stay tuned for more breaking news.
Why in the world would anyone want to download and install some buggy, spyware/adware-ridden P2P app with a cheeseball name like "Kazaa" or "eDonkey" to purchase music?
I want simplicity: a simple website with access to every major label release for the past 50 years, including _all_ the obscure albums that you just can't get via P2P or in WorstBuy because they aren't popular enough to stock. I want to download any album for... I dunno, 7 bucks. I want the ability to download and print cover art so I can stuff it into a jewel case if I feel like it. (probably most people won't bother.) I'd even be willing to put up with some mild-DRM if it meant I could legitimately and cheaply buy albums from my chair. I'll admit I haven't used iTunes because I own neither a Mac nor an iPod. So tell me, why isn't the RIAA working on this? I'm a customer, I'm always right, this is what I'll pay them money for. Not some stupid half-hack junk.
Fuck you very much the FCC,
Fuck you very much for fining me,
Five thousand bucks a fuck,
So I'm really out of luck,
That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me.
So fuck you very much the FCC,
For proving that free speech just isn't free.
Clear channel's a dear channel,
So Howard Stern must go.
Attorney General Ashcroft doesn't like strong words and so,
He's charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh,
So fuck you all so very much.
So fuck you very much dear Mr Bush,
For heroically sitting on your toosh.
For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies who pale,
Let's send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail.
She's an uppity rich bitch,
And at least she isn't male,
So fuck you all so very much.
So fuck you Mr Dickhead Cheney too,
Fuck you and fuck everything you do,
Your pacemaker must be a fake, you haven't got a heart,
As far as I'm concerned you're just a pasty faced old fart.
And as for Condoleeza, she's an intellectual tart,
So fuck you all so very much.
So fuck you very much the EPA,
For giving all Alaska's oil away,
It really is a bummer,
When I can't fill my hummer,
The ozone's a no-go zone now that Arnold's here to say,
"The Nuclear winter games are going to take place in LA,"
So fuck you all so very much.
So what the planet fails,
Let's save the great white males!
And fuck you all so very much
i find it interesting that vacuum tubes are considered _modern_ electronics. wouldn't the transistor be a better first milestone in modern electronics? what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway?? i would suggest that vacuum tubes marked the beginning of electronics in general.
perhaps it would be more insightful to study WHY individuals expend so much time and energy writing viruses, worms, etc. in the first place. in the future, i suspect this sort of malware will only get worse in terms of technical complexity, but the reason for their creation will probably be roughly the same.
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We'll start off your workout with vigorous calisthenics executed in rhythmic time with acetate pressings of the new musical craze called "jazz"
Steak and eggs and eggs and steak...
I'd like to know how they arrived at a 2 billion dollar asking price. That's probably the craziest valuation since google's IPO.
The problem is, credibility doesn't necessarily equate to profit. Look at the celebrity tabloids.
If the goal is to rake in the cash, who cares if you're credible? The only thing that matters is if people like to read what you print.
From the FORTRAN FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fortran-faq/) :
FORTRAN and C have different semantics. A FORTRAN optimizer knows more about aliasing, function interactions, and I/O. A C optimizer has to infer or compute such information. C bigots typically have neither written such optimizers nor worked with folks who do it for a living, and are prone to dismiss such arguments as being petty and neolithic. FORTRAN programmers are often a bit more in touch with high performance computing, and are unwilling to bet that heavily on compiler wizardry.
There is a vast body of existing FORTRAN code (much of which is publically available and of high quality). Numerical codes are particularly difficult to "vet", scientific establishments usually do not have large otherwise idle programming staffs, etc. so massive recoding into any new language is typically resisted quite strongly.
Fortran tends to meet some of the needs of scientists better. Most notably, it has built in support for: - variable dimension array arguments in subroutines - a compiler-supported infix exponentiation operator which is generic with respect to both precision and type, *and* which is generally handled very efficiently or the commonly occuring special case floating-point**small-integer - complex arithmetic - generic-precision intrinsic functions
I beg to differ: The most popular automobiles are frequently the most stolen. For example, here in the States the Toyota Camry, a best-selling sedan, is one of the most commonly stolen cars. The reason? It's ubiquity provides a market for used parts. Similarly, a 10 meter brick wall is more likely to be vandalized than a 2 cm brick wall. Why? Because the bad guy will gain more attention by hitting the big targets.
And after all, crackers are looking for attention.
internet pr0n is a 5-7 billion dollar industry
you kill a lighthouse!
Please, think of the historical beacons of safety.
Record profits probably means a nice high stock price. So, let's all dump our MSFT shares. A flood of MSFT selling, the price will plummet! We can sink microsoft! Together, we can SLASHDOT-EFFECT MICROSOFT'S STOCK!
i, sir, admire your optimism! how may i serve these "overlords" of which you speak? your ideas intrigue me and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter!
This list purposely doesn't include technology-du-jour and instead focuses on those whose ideas have had long-standing impact. http://www.softwarehistory.org/history/important_p eople.html
Reading about all the exciting things these people have accomplished is really motivating.
Today I got an email inviting me to a meeting with the description, "We need to get together and create a plan for the plan..." YES! Planning for the plan! HOW PRODUCTIVE AND INGENIOUS! I'm pretty sure it was a typo resulting from two sentence fragments jammed together, but it maked my manager look like a fool. sadly, i get stuff like that all the time. yay for military contracting. big bucks, small brains.
this raises the question, "how many (known) bugs should be allowed to ship in a piece of commercial software?"
obviously its in the developer's best interest to hit production as soon as possible (to enter the market for the xmas feeding frenzy). so, some "minor" bugs are apparently considered acceptable.
i don't think so.
but some customers, in particular the die-hard fans, apparently are willing to accept some problems on day one and will put up with the problem until a patch is released eventually.
i wonder what the turnaround time will be. probably a few days. too bad its not open-source. we'd have a patch in a few hours.
Bill, you make a good point. I guess there needs to be some sort of magical ratio.
For instance, if you want to back up a 100GB of data, you'd need on the order of 20 DVDs. Clearly, 20 pieces of media is a little unweildy.
What would be better? Ten discs, perhaps? Five?
Removable media needs to keep pace with hard media in some sort of constant ratio if we wish to use it for backup purposes.
Thats the point of these next-gen discs.
what they mean to say is that the lack of skilled people willing to work 60% below their true market value is "killing their business." There's no shortage of techies... only cheap ones.
1. 4.5 gigs just isn't enough storage space to be a viable backup medium. plenty of people have posted about this.
2. DVD video just doesn't scale. Sure, dvds look great on your 10 year old 30" behemoth tv set in the den, but try watching them on a new million inch HDTV... you can see with your own eyes that the MPEG2 compression just isn't so great. even with fancy progressive scanning and other image enhancement algorithms, the quality just isn't there especially when compared to higher resolution HDTV. whats needed is less compression and higher resolution video. and that requires more storage space. HD-DVD is one solution and Blue Ray is another. which spec is better is an academic debate for another post.
you want to know where the early adoption will be? home theatre. not computers.
In related news, Mr. Gates was reportedly heard to have exclaimed, "Four million emails ought to be enough for anybody!"
Although this quote has not yet been confirmed, the next generation Microsoft operating system, code-named Longhorn, is expected to require a boot disk to access any email after 4,096,000.
Stay tuned for more breaking news.
Why in the world would anyone want to download and install some buggy, spyware/adware-ridden P2P app with a cheeseball name like "Kazaa" or "eDonkey" to purchase music?
I want simplicity: a simple website with access to every major label release for the past 50 years, including _all_ the obscure albums that you just can't get via P2P or in WorstBuy because they aren't popular enough to stock. I want to download any album for... I dunno, 7 bucks. I want the ability to download and print cover art so I can stuff it into a jewel case if I feel like it. (probably most people won't bother.) I'd even be willing to put up with some mild-DRM if it meant I could legitimately and cheaply buy albums from my chair.
I'll admit I haven't used iTunes because I own neither a Mac nor an iPod.
So tell me, why isn't the RIAA working on this? I'm a customer, I'm always right, this is what I'll pay them money for. Not some stupid half-hack junk.
zero passwords ought to be enough for anybody!
Fuck you very much the FCC, Fuck you very much for fining me, Five thousand bucks a fuck, So I'm really out of luck, That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me. So fuck you very much the FCC, For proving that free speech just isn't free. Clear channel's a dear channel, So Howard Stern must go. Attorney General Ashcroft doesn't like strong words and so, He's charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh, So fuck you all so very much. So fuck you very much dear Mr Bush, For heroically sitting on your toosh. For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies who pale, Let's send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail. She's an uppity rich bitch, And at least she isn't male, So fuck you all so very much. So fuck you Mr Dickhead Cheney too, Fuck you and fuck everything you do, Your pacemaker must be a fake, you haven't got a heart, As far as I'm concerned you're just a pasty faced old fart. And as for Condoleeza, she's an intellectual tart, So fuck you all so very much. So fuck you very much the EPA, For giving all Alaska's oil away, It really is a bummer, When I can't fill my hummer, The ozone's a no-go zone now that Arnold's here to say, "The Nuclear winter games are going to take place in LA," So fuck you all so very much. So what the planet fails, Let's save the great white males! And fuck you all so very much
i find it interesting that vacuum tubes are considered _modern_ electronics. wouldn't the transistor be a better first milestone in modern electronics? what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway?? i would suggest that vacuum tubes marked the beginning of electronics in general.
perhaps it would be more insightful to study WHY individuals expend so much time and energy writing viruses, worms, etc. in the first place.
in the future, i suspect this sort of malware will only get worse in terms of technical complexity, but the reason for their creation will probably be roughly the same.
my $0.02
http://www.mugshots.com/Criminal/Computer/Jeremy+J aynes.htm
looks like he's been eating too much _spam_ and could use some of those diet pills he keeps trying to get us to buy.
for everything even remotely related to computation is the intellectual property of SC0.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it."
your report card says
YOU FAIL IT.
hahah, you have to mod this up, its funny!!!1