does not want to be bothered with taking the time to learn something new.
Am I alone in wondering whether this truth extends to running Windows Limited Accounts, instead of Administrator logins?
Running XP in a safe manner is as challenging as my Gentoo boot, without the benefit of reasonable documentation, unless you want to count these <adjective> bubbles popping up over the system tray.
Having had some Linux experience, I am guessing my way to understanding _some_ of what to do, but a nice walkthrough about how to make a legacy executable run as admin without requiring an explicit right-click and "Run As" every time would help. Anyone? Bueller?
overcome the switching costs of giving up Perl5, for that community
draw fresh mindshare towards TMTOWTDI, and way from the Pythonic TIORWTDI
convince people that a language whose operator chart could be confused with the periodic table of elements is a Good Thing.
A development effort led by anyone less than Larry would surely be a trip to the Wailing Wall.:)
One wonders if someone clever will fuse Mono, making it another front end for gcc.
Think about C# that executes faster on Linux than it does under.Net.
Think about mixing the resulting.so files.
Urrrk, I really should switch to decaf...
Is there any research showing whether this "generally accepted" performance hit is intrinsic to languages with fat run-time environments, or does it have more to do with the nature of functional languages?
Dude, gmane.emacs.devel had a lengthy discussion (well short of a flame war) about whether or not emacs should automatically put a new line character at the end of a file.
We're talking text-editor passion here, baby.
I get BBC America via Cox.
While Dr. Who is nice and all, the real value kicks in when you watch BBC News, and realize what a necropolis US cable news has become.
The one big OS in the sky isn't going to factor out the desktop any more than multi-cellular life snuffed the amoeba.
Networks are too inherently fragile, and, even when they work, there are still security requirements demanding isolation. Can't do it all with the thin client.
If Google wants to out-MS Redmond, they'd need a downloadable image that installs smoothly (OK, Knoppix et al.) but that can spoof 'Doze well enough to re-use all of the installed hardware drivers.
At which point and army of sharks in pinstripes arrives, subpoenas in hand, and the urinary struggle commences. Oh, what a pissing contest that would be!
I think that this concern is real, but I question its magnitude over time.
In another decade or so, when the idea of FOSS is more firmly rooted, I hope that this (legitimate) paranoia can be deprecated, and removed.
The Emacs Great Schizm both
shows the amount of mindshare that can be wasted trying to manage two separate, but nearly equal, codebases
shows the non-threat of supporting better integration
shows the threat of avoiding better integration, as other tools spring up to support pragmatic requirements that fall short of a subjective, ethical line.
Props to RMS, but we gotta move on.
The US military is getting into smart cards for members.
Thinking out loud, I wonder if a surrender of anonymity, and members-only networks, is going to be the way to limit (but, clearly, not eliminate) this arms race.
Then, in cynical moments, I wonder if the hardware people aren't laughing the whole time, as managing the decreasing signal/noise ratio drives up sales...
I'm not sure where you get the idea that encryption is bandwidth-heavy. It is CPU heavy.
I think you have a point, and I abused the term 'bandwidth'. Nevertheless, the visible effect for the user is a slow system, whether due to restricted pipe or CPU chuggin'.
Only the first death counts.
And you overlooked the words 'disapassionate' and 'unambiguous' in my statement.
Giving it another go, I have a hard time feeling anything for the criminal who, feeling nothing, sits in a room with a computer and wrecks the lives of others on a large scale, as if life were just an immitation of some first-person shooter game. This sentiment is directed from society towards the individual.
Interpersonally, Bill C., God bless the man, is no more or less baked than I. Can't really ask for compassion towards myself and deny him his.
I, for one, have a hard time feeling any mercy for the perpetrators of such crime.
Tie the (unambiguously) guilty to a post, give each victim one rock.
Not exactly a modern, liberal answer, but the question remains: does disapassionate, white-collar crime deserve mercy?
Hang 'em high, say I.
Conversely, the requirements for bootstrapping to the level of the Almighty are laid out in Job 40:7-14
This is a good tidbit for those moments when we, regrettably, take ourselves too seriously.
See also Ecclesiates.
HTH,
Chris
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Running XP in a safe manner is as challenging as my Gentoo boot, without the benefit of reasonable documentation, unless you want to count these <adjective> bubbles popping up over the system tray.
Having had some Linux experience, I am guessing my way to understanding _some_ of what to do, but a nice walkthrough about how to make a legacy executable run as admin without requiring an explicit right-click and "Run As" every time would help. Anyone? Bueller?
If you use tabs consistently for indentation
Repeat after me:Tabs Are Evil
overcome the switching costs of giving up Perl5, for that community
draw fresh mindshare towards TMTOWTDI, and way from the Pythonic TIORWTDI
convince people that a language whose operator chart could be confused with the periodic table of elements is a Good Thing. :)
A development effort led by anyone less than Larry would surely be a trip to the Wailing Wall.
One wonders if someone clever will fuse Mono, making it another front end for gcc. .Net. .so files.
Think about C# that executes faster on Linux than it does under
Think about mixing the resulting
Urrrk, I really should switch to decaf...
Is there any research showing whether this "generally accepted" performance hit is intrinsic to languages with fat run-time environments, or does it have more to do with the nature of functional languages?
Dude, gmane.emacs.devel had a lengthy discussion (well short of a flame war) about whether or not emacs should automatically put a new line character at the end of a file.
We're talking text-editor passion here, baby.
I get BBC America via Cox.
While Dr. Who is nice and all, the real value kicks in when you watch BBC News, and realize what a necropolis US cable news has become.
At times I wonder if the fragmentation of FOSS isn't deliberately fueled by private vendors in a 'business plan judo' move.
The one big OS in the sky isn't going to factor out the desktop any more than multi-cellular life snuffed the amoeba.
Networks are too inherently fragile, and, even when they work, there are still security requirements demanding isolation. Can't do it all with the thin client.
If Google wants to out-MS Redmond, they'd need a downloadable image that installs smoothly (OK, Knoppix et al.) but that can spoof 'Doze well enough to re-use all of the installed hardware drivers.
At which point and army of sharks in pinstripes arrives, subpoenas in hand, and the urinary struggle commences. Oh, what a pissing contest that would be!
Genetically, Jesus, a Semite himself, would have been indistinguishable from a Muslim.
OK, it's off topic, and I fed a troll. Sorry.
Hoover sucks!
In another decade or so, when the idea of FOSS is more firmly rooted, I hope that this (legitimate) paranoia can be deprecated, and removed.
The Emacs Great Schizm both
shows the amount of mindshare that can be wasted trying to manage two separate, but nearly equal, codebases
shows the non-threat of supporting better integration
shows the threat of avoiding better integration, as other tools spring up to support pragmatic requirements that fall short of a subjective, ethical line.
Props to RMS, but we gotta move on.
The US military is getting into smart cards for members.
Thinking out loud, I wonder if a surrender of anonymity, and members-only networks, is going to be the way to limit (but, clearly, not eliminate) this arms race.
Then, in cynical moments, I wonder if the hardware people aren't laughing the whole time, as managing the decreasing signal/noise ratio drives up sales...
Are you saying the pot is stoned?
Fret not.
HSL is an insufficiently sexy TLA for market traction.
We're safe.
How are you going to bulletproof the 1s and 0s?
A bandwidth-eating encryption scheme that will just be broken?
Only the first death counts.
And you overlooked the words 'disapassionate' and 'unambiguous' in my statement.
Giving it another go, I have a hard time feeling anything for the criminal who, feeling nothing, sits in a room with a computer and wrecks the lives of others on a large scale, as if life were just an immitation of some first-person shooter game. This sentiment is directed from society towards the individual.
Interpersonally, Bill C., God bless the man, is no more or less baked than I. Can't really ask for compassion towards myself and deny him his.
I, for one, have a hard time feeling any mercy for the perpetrators of such crime.
Tie the (unambiguously) guilty to a post, give each victim one rock.
Not exactly a modern, liberal answer, but the question remains: does disapassionate, white-collar crime deserve mercy?
Hang 'em high, say I.
Yeah, but he didn't pay for it. Rather like a racing sponsorship, or something.
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about Mudflaps
Valgrind's got 'em...
</spinal tap moment>
Yeah, but the KJV has more bass in the mix, so there! :)
active-hyper-multi-threading-gold, baby.
Conversely, the requirements for bootstrapping to the level of the Almighty are laid out in Job 40:7-14
This is a good tidbit for those moments when we, regrettably, take ourselves too seriously.
See also Ecclesiates.
HTH,
Chris
The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 4 :)
vs.
Paul Graham's Arc
Stay conscious, audience: great minds think at a 'medium' pace.