Worthless trivia factoid: From what I've read, HPFS was based on HPFS386, not the other way around. HPFS386 was written in assembler and optimized for the 386. HPFS was the "lite" version, written in C, and ran on either the 286 or 386. As you would expect, HPFS was quite a bit slower than HPFS386.
Unless they can keep the overhead to a minimum, I can't see it being as efficient as a file system should be.
They may have goals other than efficiency. Security, probably. But probably also security's perverted uncle, DRM. As DRM becomes more common, and we "pirates" look for more innovative ways to get around it, locking us out of our hard drives would seem to be a logical if not downright necessary step. It's pretty obvious that a lot of entities out there would benefit greatly from a model where we don't really OWN our computers, we just lease the right to use them. I mean, look, they're already floating the notion out there, at least for software and entertainment media, that we don't really OWN ANYTHING, and it's not that much of a stretch for that to become literal truth, aside from the hardware, which will be as impervious to meddling as they can possibly make it. (You decide who "THEY" might be, but I have a long list with a lot of familiar names on it.)
How technically difficult would it be for, say Microsoft, to "rent" out portions of your hard drive to various media and software providers, using a combination of hardware and software controls to assure those companies that you and I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT meddle with "their" product while we (temporarily) posess it? A database-driven file system provides exactly the access control and accountability that would be required to successfully implement something like that.
Ritalin is the chemical equivalent to speed in the same way that heroin is the chemical equivalent of "smack".
Speaking from personal experience
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I was better when I could get Ritalin, but I can't find a doctor who will prescribe it any more. They're all afraid of lawsuits. (In Florida, anyway.)
Performance-wise, I'm sure I don't get nearly as much done on any single aspect of any one particular project, but the style I've adapted works for me: keep several projects going simultaneously and switch between them when you get bored or start to find your mind wandering.
I'm sure I'd make my employers happier if I could get the project-de-jour finished faster, but since what's important on any given day seems to be totally random anyway, in the long run, it hasn't seemed to cause any real problems. Meanwhile, I"ve learned to knit, ride a unicycle, and play the ukelele.
According to Woz, who was there for many if not most of the scenes portraying Jobs, "Pirates" was dead-on accurate, and he vouched for the authenticity of that scene explicitly. It sure kept the riff-raff out of apple.
but the man needs some serious lessons in humility and respect for others
Think he might have ended up making something of himself if he had? I wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of his contempt, but I can't imagine that Apple would be the company it is today if Jobs wasn't Jobs.
"you must have a car in case granny needs to go to the doctor, therefor you have the right to own a car".
This doesn't mean that you can't own a car unless granny is sick; it means that you have the right (some granny-lovers out there might even say OBLIGATION) to own a car, just in case granny gets sick on day and needs to go to the doctor.
Common sense, in your case, obviously ain't common. Get back on the short yellow bus to canada, and stay there.
You must realize that this only applies to a few roads. Most of the state has posted speed limits just like everywhere else. But more importantly, it doesn't mean that there are NO speed limits, it means that it's up to the discretion of the cops themselves, and not the highway department (which normally just applies a formula from a table to determine the posted limits.) Don't be surprised if you get a ticket for going 55 in a "no posted limit" zone, if the cop who observes you thinks it's too fast on that part of the road under those particular conditions. Car and Driver Magazine (and probably a bunch of others) will run an article about this every once in a while.
Doh! Now I wish I had bought all my music instead of debo-ing it from napster. Just think what I could do with $13.
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Sure, an older person can pick up the ability and wield a certain prowess and even artistry. But no one, to my knowledge, would argue the fact that a person who learns to play the piano in childhood has a certain "feel" for it that people who pick up this ability later in life can never attain.
Your analogy is incredibly off the mark. The question is not "does a child learn faster than an adult", but "is a person who learned as a child, and is still a child, better than a person who learned as a child, but is now an adult with decades of experience?"
I took my first programming class when I was in the 6th grade (about 1968) and haven't stopped since (picking up a computer science degree along the way). I'm 47 now, which is about 300 in programmer-years, and I'm pretty much unhirable, in spite of the fact that I have spent something averaging 2 hours a day for the last 20 years on nothing but learning new stuff (that's in addition to putting food on the table USING the old stuff.) RIght now I'm making enough to get by doing contract work, but my chances of ever getting on with any large company (let's say any company that actually has an HR dept) are ZERO. And that sucks.
Really? Don't you know how to block messages from people who aren't on your list of users then?
Don't you know the difference between blocking spam and blocking everybody not on your "short list"? I can also block spam by turning the goddam computer off. What's the point of that?
(And by the way, recursive descent compilers are very efficient, and don't use any "goto"s, either. I don't know why they aren't as popular as LALR(1) compilers. The BNF required is, IMHO, easier to understand.)Big-O.
I'm much too drunk to address any of your other shit, but I'll just say "you're wrong, nanny nanny boo boo".
I *did* say "hand-code"... which was the point. I can ASK you to write me a compiler without using saying the word "goto" as well, and this is all beside the point anyway. Sheesh.
(And blah blah blah "BASIC considered harmful"...I think the non-line-numbered versions are fine.)
Dykstra wasn't always right, and I'd like to see him write a decent compiler, or even hand-code an LR1 parser, without any "goto's" in it. It would be unreadable. "goto's" aren't inherently evil, they're just easily abused. Let the newbies make their spaghetti code; there's plenty of time later on for them to approach that 2000 function API for the latest coolest OO nightmare after they've gotten addicted to programming in general. It worked for me.
You always play the odds in medicine... and sometimes you lose. Every surgical procedure has a certain complication rate, no matter what you do. Every disease has a certain mortality rate, no matter what you do. The medical reality is that "sh*t happens," and it inevitably happens to a certain percentage of patients. It sucks to be in that small percentage, but attorneys and "hired gun" expert witnesses attempt to pin it on the doctor. The scariest thing of all is that you can lose everything you've ever worked for, just because "sh*t happens."
I would find it a lot easier to agree with you 100% (instead of 90%) if you had bothered to mention the one little "gotcha"... which is that some doctors suck and shouldn't be practicing medicine and other doctors rarely if ever do anything to police their own ranks. You ALLOW the bad apples to taint you all, and so, I gotta say it, DESERVE some of the suits.
Q:what do you call the guy who graduated from medical school with the lowest GPA?
All these problems could be solved by simply having an "Export" feature
Have you ever used any MS product to export data to anything but other MS formats??? You almost always get some kind of warning saying that "you may lose some data" or something like that. Well, I guess they would know, huh, especially if it's meant to mangle exported data. That's sort of like back in the day, when they made all of their products issue warning messages if you tried to run them on any OS other than MS-DOS or PC-DOS... "WARNING: you are running this software on an UNTESTED OPERATING SYSTEM. You may void your warranty". Pure FUD.
This idea seems too obvious, too clear, too intuitive, and far too easy to implement for any respectable lawmaker to consider it for even a single nanosecond.
Well, as I commented at 9am when I submitted this story myself (which was rejected) the only FAIR way to do this is to take the mileage calculated by GPS, then multiply by a surcharge based on the EPA estimated fuel economy of the vehicle it's registered to, and calculate the gallons of fuel used. Which gets you EXACTLY back to just adding a per-gallon tax in the first place. How farging stupid IS this idea anyway?
Most percieved "racism" isn't about race, it's about culture, and discrimination against other cultures is universal on this planet. Look at the Serbs and Croats. Look at the Kurds. Look at the Jews. (Judaism is a religion and a culture, NOT a race, although a lot of people seem to miss that fact.) When no obvious differences exist between two cultures, this just causes more and more subtle differences to be seized on by one side or the other to "prove" superiority.
You didn't say where you live, but I can state with certainty that there is behavior among your peers, neighbors, and relatives against "competing" cultures that would be called racism but for the mere fact that no differences in skin tone exist.
So you're OK with me putting all your cellphone conversations online?
Online? Well, I don't know if I'd LIKE it, but considering, as you say, that you're ALREADY recieving it, I would have to say that you have the RIGHT to do that. I have the ability to make my conversations as private as I want to, by many means up to and including whispering directly into the ear of the person I am communicating with.
And as someone else pointed out, this isn't really about RECIEVING phone conversations, et al... we're already doing that (without our consent), we're just not demodulating and/or decrypting them. If you want to do that in the privacy of your home, by my guest.
And in ALL SERIOUSNESS, if you decrypt any of my phone calls, it will very likely have something to do with meeting friends for beer, and in that case, you are hereby officially and cordially invited to show up.
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Worthless trivia factoid: From what I've read, HPFS was based on HPFS386, not the other way around. HPFS386 was written in assembler and optimized for the 386. HPFS was the "lite" version, written in C, and ran on either the 286 or 386. As you would expect, HPFS was quite a bit slower than HPFS386.
Unless they can keep the overhead to a minimum, I can't see it being as efficient as a file system should be.
They may have goals other than efficiency. Security, probably. But probably also security's perverted uncle, DRM. As DRM becomes more common, and we "pirates" look for more innovative ways to get around it, locking us out of our hard drives would seem to be a logical if not downright necessary step. It's pretty obvious that a lot of entities out there would benefit greatly from a model where we don't really OWN our computers, we just lease the right to use them. I mean, look, they're already floating the notion out there, at least for software and entertainment media, that we don't really OWN ANYTHING, and it's not that much of a stretch for that to become literal truth, aside from the hardware, which will be as impervious to meddling as they can possibly make it. (You decide who "THEY" might be, but I have a long list with a lot of familiar names on it.)
How technically difficult would it be for, say Microsoft, to "rent" out portions of your hard drive to various media and software providers, using a combination of hardware and software controls to assure those companies that you and I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT meddle with "their" product while we (temporarily) posess it? A database-driven file system provides exactly the access control and accountability that would be required to successfully implement something like that.
Ritalin is the chemical equivalent to "speed".
Ritalin is the chemical equivalent to speed in the same way that heroin is the chemical equivalent of "smack".
I was better when I could get Ritalin, but I can't find a doctor who will prescribe it any more. They're all afraid of lawsuits. (In Florida, anyway.)
Performance-wise, I'm sure I don't get nearly as much done on any single aspect of any one particular project, but the style I've adapted works for me: keep several projects going simultaneously and switch between them when you get bored or start to find your mind wandering.
I'm sure I'd make my employers happier if I could get the project-de-jour finished faster, but since what's important on any given day seems to be totally random anyway, in the long run, it hasn't seemed to cause any real problems. Meanwhile, I"ve learned to knit, ride a unicycle, and play the ukelele.
According to Woz, who was there for many if not most of the scenes portraying Jobs, "Pirates" was dead-on accurate, and he vouched for the authenticity of that scene explicitly. It sure kept the riff-raff out of apple.
but the man needs some serious lessons in humility and respect for others
Think he might have ended up making something of himself if he had? I wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of his contempt, but I can't imagine that Apple would be the company it is today if Jobs wasn't Jobs.
"you must have a car in case granny needs to go to the doctor, therefor you have the right to own a car".
This doesn't mean that you can't own a car unless granny is sick; it means that you have the right (some granny-lovers out there might even say OBLIGATION) to own a car, just in case granny gets sick on day and needs to go to the doctor.
Common sense, in your case, obviously ain't common. Get back on the short yellow bus to canada, and stay there.
Actually, Montana does not have a speed limit
You must realize that this only applies to a few roads. Most of the state has posted speed limits just like everywhere else. But more importantly, it doesn't mean that there are NO speed limits, it means that it's up to the discretion of the cops themselves, and not the highway department (which normally just applies a formula from a table to determine the posted limits.) Don't be surprised if you get a ticket for going 55 in a "no posted limit" zone, if the cop who observes you thinks it's too fast on that part of the road under those particular conditions. Car and Driver Magazine (and probably a bunch of others) will run an article about this every once in a while.
Just because it's the government -- it doesn't mean it's out to get you.
And just because you're paranoid, it DOESN'T mean they're not out to get you.
Most conspiracy theories are probably a load of crap. Unquestionably, however, not all are.
Doh! Now I wish I had bought all my music instead of debo-ing it from napster. Just think what I could do with $13.
Sure, an older person can pick up the ability and wield a certain prowess and even artistry. But no one, to my knowledge, would argue the fact that a person who learns to play the piano in childhood has a certain "feel" for it that people who pick up this ability later in life can never attain.
Your analogy is incredibly off the mark. The question is not "does a child learn faster than an adult", but "is a person who learned as a child, and is still a child, better than a person who learned as a child, but is now an adult with decades of experience?"
I took my first programming class when I was in the 6th grade (about 1968) and haven't stopped since (picking up a computer science degree along the way). I'm 47 now, which is about 300 in programmer-years, and I'm pretty much unhirable, in spite of the fact that I have spent something averaging 2 hours a day for the last 20 years on nothing but learning new stuff (that's in addition to putting food on the table USING the old stuff.) RIght now I'm making enough to get by doing contract work, but my chances of ever getting on with any large company (let's say any company that actually has an HR dept) are ZERO. And that sucks.
Really? Don't you know how to block messages from people who aren't on your list of users then?
Don't you know the difference between blocking spam and blocking everybody not on your "short list"? I can also block spam by turning the goddam computer off. What's the point of that?
(And by the way, recursive descent compilers are very efficient, and don't use any "goto"s, either. I don't know why they aren't as popular as LALR(1) compilers. The BNF required is, IMHO, easier to understand.)Big-O.
I'm much too drunk to address any of your other shit, but I'll just say "you're wrong, nanny nanny boo boo".
I wrote most of them in Lex and Yacc/Bison
I *did* say "hand-code"... which was the point. I can ASK you to write me a compiler without using saying the word "goto" as well, and this is all beside the point anyway. Sheesh.
(And blah blah blah "BASIC considered harmful"...I think the non-line-numbered versions are fine.)
Dykstra wasn't always right, and I'd like to see him write a decent compiler, or even hand-code an LR1 parser, without any "goto's" in it. It would be unreadable. "goto's" aren't inherently evil, they're just easily abused. Let the newbies make their spaghetti code; there's plenty of time later on for them to approach that 2000 function API for the latest coolest OO nightmare after they've gotten addicted to programming in general. It worked for me.
What about Illinois? Anyone?
Anyone? Class? Does anyone know about Illinois? Class? Anyone?
You always play the odds in medicine... and sometimes you lose. Every surgical procedure has a certain complication rate, no matter what you do. Every disease has a certain mortality rate, no matter what you do. The medical reality is that "sh*t happens," and it inevitably happens to a certain percentage of patients. It sucks to be in that small percentage, but attorneys and "hired gun" expert witnesses attempt to pin it on the doctor. The scariest thing of all is that you can lose everything you've ever worked for, just because "sh*t happens."
I would find it a lot easier to agree with you 100% (instead of 90%) if you had bothered to mention the one little "gotcha"... which is that some doctors suck and shouldn't be practicing medicine and other doctors rarely if ever do anything to police their own ranks. You ALLOW the bad apples to taint you all, and so, I gotta say it, DESERVE some of the suits.
Q:what do you call the guy who graduated from medical school with the lowest GPA?
A: Doctor
All these problems could be solved by simply having an "Export" feature
Have you ever used any MS product to export data to anything but other MS formats??? You almost always get some kind of warning saying that "you may lose some data" or something like that. Well, I guess they would know, huh, especially if it's meant to mangle exported data. That's sort of like back in the day, when they made all of their products issue warning messages if you tried to run them on any OS other than MS-DOS or PC-DOS... "WARNING: you are running this software on an UNTESTED OPERATING SYSTEM. You may void your warranty". Pure FUD.
This idea seems too obvious, too clear, too intuitive, and far too easy to implement for any respectable lawmaker to consider it for even a single nanosecond.
And don't forget to metamoderate, Folks, and rate the humor-impaired mod-mad-meta-trolls into oblivion.
Really. Do it now, if for no other reason than it adds to your karma.
Reminds me of another old saying: "I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes."
Well, as I commented at 9am when I submitted this story myself (which was rejected) the only FAIR way to do this is to take the mileage calculated by GPS, then multiply by a surcharge based on the EPA estimated fuel economy of the vehicle it's registered to, and calculate the gallons of fuel used. Which gets you EXACTLY back to just adding a per-gallon tax in the first place. How farging stupid IS this idea anyway?
To be honest, I dont get it!
Most percieved "racism" isn't about race, it's about culture, and discrimination against other cultures is universal on this planet. Look at the Serbs and Croats. Look at the Kurds. Look at the Jews. (Judaism is a religion and a culture, NOT a race, although a lot of people seem to miss that fact.) When no obvious differences exist between two cultures, this just causes more and more subtle differences to be seized on by one side or the other to "prove" superiority.
You didn't say where you live, but I can state with certainty that there is behavior among your peers, neighbors, and relatives against "competing" cultures that would be called racism but for the mere fact that no differences in skin tone exist.
honestly, that is the most insightful post I have ever seen anywhere. I REALLY wish I had thought of those arguments. You are 100% correct sir.
So you're OK with me putting all your cellphone conversations online?
Online? Well, I don't know if I'd LIKE it, but considering, as you say, that you're ALREADY recieving it, I would have to say that you have the RIGHT to do that. I have the ability to make my conversations as private as I want to, by many means up to and including whispering directly into the ear of the person I am communicating with.
And as someone else pointed out, this isn't really about RECIEVING phone conversations, et al... we're already doing that (without our consent), we're just not demodulating and/or decrypting them. If you want to do that in the privacy of your home, by my guest.
And in ALL SERIOUSNESS, if you decrypt any of my phone calls, it will very likely have something to do with meeting friends for beer, and in that case, you are hereby officially and cordially invited to show up.