If Knuth had believed that the way you're making it look, he'd never have written The Art of Programming. What's the point of a better sort if you shouldn't optimize until you profile? "Oh, my profiler says this bubble-sort sucks. I guess I'll just recode it in assembly."?!?!? I don't think so.
Premature optimization is a great evil, true. But it's just as bad to optimize too late. Before you even start programming, you need a language that will deliver the performance you need.
As you're programming, design your program to be efficient. Don't write everything in assembly from the start, but avoid useage patterns that you know will be slow.
Then, once it's written, you can profile. But you'll likely find it's easier to change the design than to speed up the existing design.
I sometimes do tech support, and I often find it much easier to arrive at the right answer over the phone than via email. The immediate feedback, the ability to get clarification, to discuss alternatives all make it my preferred method.
Though your theory may be correct in this case. Who can say?
You lose. They specifically mentioned.elvis in that story. The root servers would be queried about.elvis, since those servers must be queried to determine who's the authoritative.elvis server.
All that's true, but when you have a multithreaded process, there's an efficiency loss if two threads from the same process are running on different CPUs. Since threads from the same process tend to access the same memory addresses, you don't get the normal advantages of CPU memory caching.
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Linux isn't an OS. That's the point. If you say Yoper is just Linux, then it's way too incomplete to be used, because Linux is just a kernel. Everything else in a Linux distribution is a separate piece, even the libc libraries.
Could be your manager is making the right call? Obviously, the roles in your group aren't clear to me. In my team, I'm the lead programmer, and I'm pretty conservative about adopting tech.
I don't just need to understand a technology, I need a deep undertanding of its strengths and weaknesses before I can start including it in our programs in intelligent ways. In practice, it means that I experiment with new things before I'll let the team use them.
Let's see-- I've got 5 drive bays and 6 PCI slots. With PCI blade computers and these new puppies, I could theoretically have 12 (counting the normal one) computers in one case. Does this seem like overkill to anyone? Sure they're fun, but what are they for?
Considering that the Unix versions produce PostScript output when printing, it's surprising that Open Office doesn't support PostScript directly. Still, you can always do it the normal way-- print to file using a PostScript printer.
BTW, StarOffice is only Open Source in the sense that Mac OS X or Netscape Navigator 7 is Open Source. In other words, it's not.
Umm, it might be optimistic to assume that large media companies are going to come to an equitable arrangement with consumers. Look at the RIAA and MPAA's antics.
As for cancellation-threat-as-metric, the metric would indicate how fanatical fans were, not how many there were. Shows that go for the lowest-common-denominator aren't likely to receive the Farscape treatment, no matter how big the audience is.
On the other hand, "My so-called life" was dearly loved by the few who watched it.
I haven't played with this, but I understand that NS4 does not support @import, which makes for a useful loophole-- put NS4 styling in a "link rel" stylesheet, and put styling for compliant browsers in an @import stylesheet.
it is better i think to have a single file format for any given file "type"
Ahh, but what's the same "type?" JPEGs are better than PNGs for some things, and vice versa. At least in the early going, new file formats for the same content type are a good thing. They add capabilities. I'm absolutely shocked by some of the things that EPS doesn't support. Did they really think they'd get away without alpha transparency?
Sigh.
It's only once features have stabilized that it makes sense to standardize a format. And even then, there aren't many One True File Formats around.
Just because it's acknowleged to exist doesn't make it canon. Even Star Trek V isn't considered canon. Try looking here for example. Exclusion of ST:TAS from the canon is conventional.
IIRC, OS/2 suffered because IBM didn't do enough for 3rd party developers. Opening the Gnutella2 spec sounds like a step in the direction of supporting 3rd-party developers.
Yeah, but look at Star Trek: The Animated Series-- it's not considered canon. I dunno about "droids", and since they haven't make a movie set after rotj, no one cares whether "ewoks" is canon.
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C'mon, if there's a geek credo, it must be "Because we can". When has it ever been about "should"?
You know, in my experience an "inaccurate" SVG screenshot would would actually be better than the real thing.
Maybe this AMP stuff could make spinach and liver not taste absolutely horrid to me. It could actually improve *my* nutrition.
That is a bad example. A large group of people never claps in unison. Some people are half a beat off or worse.
If Knuth had believed that the way you're making it look, he'd never have written The Art of Programming. What's the point of a better sort if you shouldn't optimize until you profile? "Oh, my profiler says this bubble-sort sucks. I guess I'll just recode it in assembly."?!?!? I don't think so.
Premature optimization is a great evil, true. But it's just as bad to optimize too late. Before you even start programming, you need a language that will deliver the performance you need.
As you're programming, design your program to be efficient. Don't write everything in assembly from the start, but avoid useage patterns that you know will be slow.
Then, once it's written, you can profile. But you'll likely find it's easier to change the design than to speed up the existing design.
I sometimes do tech support, and I often find it much easier to arrive at the right answer over the phone than via email. The immediate feedback, the ability to get clarification, to discuss alternatives all make it my preferred method.
Though your theory may be correct in this case. Who can say?
You lose. They specifically mentioned .elvis in that story. The root servers would be queried about .elvis, since those servers must be queried to determine who's the authoritative .elvis server.
What about people who have life-preserving electronics implanted in them, like pacemakers? Or people like Steve Mann?
That's right; there's adequate quantities of food, it's just not being distributed. So some of it gets wasted. Feeding the world reduces the waste.
Why do you call that science fiction? Or has "modern" come to mean "not"? As in "Modern art", "Modern Jazz" etc?
All that's true, but when you have a multithreaded process, there's an efficiency loss if two threads from the same process are running on different CPUs. Since threads from the same process tend to access the same memory addresses, you don't get the normal advantages of CPU memory caching.
Linux isn't an OS. That's the point. If you say Yoper is just Linux, then it's way too incomplete to be used, because Linux is just a kernel. Everything else in a Linux distribution is a separate piece, even the libc libraries.
Better thought question: what's the volume that you get if you melt the snowflake and freeze it into a cube?
Not. Netscape had to spend a bunch of time preparing their code for outside eyes when they open-sourced Mozilla.
Could be your manager is making the right call? Obviously, the roles in your group aren't clear to me. In my team, I'm the lead programmer, and I'm pretty conservative about adopting tech.
I don't just need to understand a technology, I need a deep undertanding of its strengths and weaknesses before I can start including it in our programs in intelligent ways. In practice, it means that I experiment with new things before I'll let the team use them.
Let's see-- I've got 5 drive bays and 6 PCI slots. With PCI blade computers and these new puppies, I could theoretically have 12 (counting the normal one) computers in one case. Does this seem like overkill to anyone? Sure they're fun, but what are they for?
Considering that the Unix versions produce PostScript output when printing, it's surprising that Open Office doesn't support PostScript directly. Still, you can always do it the normal way-- print to file using a PostScript printer.
BTW, StarOffice is only Open Source in the sense that Mac OS X or Netscape Navigator 7 is Open Source. In other words, it's not.
Umm, it might be optimistic to assume that large media companies are going to come to an equitable arrangement with consumers. Look at the RIAA and MPAA's antics.
As for cancellation-threat-as-metric, the metric would indicate how fanatical fans were, not how many there were. Shows that go for the lowest-common-denominator aren't likely to receive the Farscape treatment, no matter how big the audience is.
On the other hand, "My so-called life" was dearly loved by the few who watched it.
Shakedown. All kernels take a while to mature. 2.4 took longer than most.
I haven't played with this, but I understand that NS4 does not support @import, which makes for a useful loophole-- put NS4 styling in a "link rel" stylesheet, and put styling for compliant browsers in an @import stylesheet.
it is better i think to have a single file format for any given file "type"
Ahh, but what's the same "type?" JPEGs are better than PNGs for some things, and vice versa. At least in the early going, new file formats for the same content type are a good thing. They add capabilities. I'm absolutely shocked by some of the things that EPS doesn't support. Did they really think they'd get away without alpha transparency?
Sigh.
It's only once features have stabilized that it makes sense to standardize a format. And even then, there aren't many One True File Formats around.
Just because it's acknowleged to exist doesn't make it canon. Even Star Trek V isn't considered canon. Try looking here for example. Exclusion of ST:TAS from the canon is conventional.
IIRC, OS/2 suffered because IBM didn't do enough for 3rd party developers. Opening the Gnutella2 spec sounds like a step in the direction of supporting 3rd-party developers.
Yeah, but look at Star Trek: The Animated Series-- it's not considered canon. I dunno about "droids", and since they haven't make a movie set after rotj, no one cares whether "ewoks" is canon.
I mean OUTGOING Hotmail messages. They already put ads at the bottom of outgoing messages-- I bet they'd consider putting web bugs in too.
I don't use Hotmail, but I get messages from friends who do, and if they had web bugs, Microsoft could deduce part of my non-spam criteria.