First car analogy post : Shuttle Atlantis is NASA's old beaten 1985 Ford F-350. They should have a space demolition derby with their rockets once they're done with em. Invite the Russians! Fun for all!
Why do I have the feeling this is overblown? I'm running W2K8R2 x64 as a Workstation OS, it is rock stable, possibly the best OS MS ever produced. Yet I'm sure there are _plenty_ of bugs like this one. Doesn't Microsoft issue bug reports like this every month? Doesn't _any_ OS company produce bug reports like this every month? Why is this one so special? Cause, I'd like to know.
I'm not saying it's should'nt be fixed, reported, or taken care of. I'm not saying Windows is the best OS. OS X can be pwned through the WiFi drivers. I'm sure can Unbuntu can be hacked in many ways too. When OpenBSD gets cracked, then it'll be frontpage material. Until then, keep the real news rolling.
Well, by definition, every corporate entity is lawful then. But it makes the game funnier if you imagine Darl McBride screaming like a loon while casting random fireballs at penguins.
Considering that new Macintoshes are still sold after 25 years, and still commend a quite hefty price premium (for the same PC hardware!), while IBM has entirely quit the PC business, I wouldn't say Apple got bent over, really. Actually, it makes a lot of sense for them to try and reproduce that pattern. Except now, the walled garden isn't limited to the Mac's ROM, but the whole app distribution mechanism.
I might be mistaken, but I think MSSQL 2000 and later versions share very little to no code with Sybase. Microsoft bought the code to Sybase back then to get a leg up in the fast growing SQL DB market, but made sure to replace most of it with their own stuff as soon as they could.
I've almost put a case USB port on fire because I'd wrongly connected the header on the motherboard and short-circuited it. After a few minutes of my external HDD plugged in but not showing up on the desktop, the computer started to smell bad, but it took another 3 minutes for me to find out what was wrong. When I did, the cable had fused to the USB jack. The motherboard mysteriously died a year later, and then I saw the PSU header having overheat marks, too. Can they make a USB plug that will protect againt one's own stupidity?
I'm in mid thirties, and just learned more in one post about the generation following mine than in a full year of TV watching, net reading and discussing with other people. Thank you for making this thread relevant. I'd mod you up if I wasn't such a karma whore by having posted before in the thread.
thread scheduling by generating a custom assembly snippet to jump to the correct point
Wow, this thing must have been fun to debug and maintain. And also, must be a challenge to optimize current generation CPUs for, with separate data and instruction caches... No wonder it never gained traction.
If you program alone, then you are free to use the tools you want, and assembly is as good as anything else. The advantage high-level abstraction gives you is the scalabilty required to tackle large projects where multiple programmers need to coordinate their efforts.
It's a bit like the difference between living in your mom's basement and having her come and clean up you room randomly when you're not at home (or when she thinks you are not, but are in fact, having a good time with your girlfri... I mean, inflatable doll)
Call me perverted, but as a Java programmer, I AM THE MOM, and the program is the permanent teenager. And I don't want that teen to fuck $whoever in the basement, without me knowing - no, without me _asking for it_. Garbage collection is just an automated facility (think of a roomba) to help me control the mess the goddamn kid creates (used condoms and smelly sneakers).
Phew, at last I can turn my cell phone back on, cause it's not the RF interference that kills the bees. I feel like I've been on a 2 year long plane takeoff.
No, they don't. Which is why we are all looking for something to convince them to stay home and watch TV or play soccer rather than boarding cargos 300 miles offshore. Maybe unfucking-up their homeland of Somalia would be a better solution. But we can't do that, can we? 'cause there's not enough money to be made from it. There _was_ money to be made from fucking it up, though.
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Speaking of G-spot, I'd rather have Fergie than Fourgee.
First car analogy post : Shuttle Atlantis is NASA's old beaten 1985 Ford F-350. They should have a space demolition derby with their rockets once they're done with em. Invite the Russians! Fun for all!
WOOOOSSSHH
Why do I have the feeling this is overblown? I'm running W2K8R2 x64 as a Workstation OS, it is rock stable, possibly the best OS MS ever produced. Yet I'm sure there are _plenty_ of bugs like this one. Doesn't Microsoft issue bug reports like this every month? Doesn't _any_ OS company produce bug reports like this every month? Why is this one so special? Cause, I'd like to know.
I'm not saying it's should'nt be fixed, reported, or taken care of. I'm not saying Windows is the best OS. OS X can be pwned through the WiFi drivers. I'm sure can Unbuntu can be hacked in many ways too. When OpenBSD gets cracked, then it'll be frontpage material. Until then, keep the real news rolling.
If you're gonna go with 6 bit bytes, might as well invent new words to go with it.
Well, by definition, every corporate entity is lawful then. But it makes the game funnier if you imagine Darl McBride screaming like a loon while casting random fireballs at penguins.
Considering that new Macintoshes are still sold after 25 years, and still commend a quite hefty price premium (for the same PC hardware!), while IBM has entirely quit the PC business, I wouldn't say Apple got bent over, really. Actually, it makes a lot of sense for them to try and reproduce that pattern. Except now, the walled garden isn't limited to the Mac's ROM, but the whole app distribution mechanism.
So this is what it comes down to?
Apple : Lawful Good (self-righteous)
Google : Chaotic Good (for now)
Taiwan Mfg : Chaotic Neutral
Microsoft : Neutral Evil (of course!)
SCO : Chaotic Evil
I might be mistaken, but I think MSSQL 2000 and later versions share very little to no code with Sybase. Microsoft bought the code to Sybase back then to get a leg up in the fast growing SQL DB market, but made sure to replace most of it with their own stuff as soon as they could.
And of all these Linux tablets, more than half will run an Android based distro of some form.
Which is why I've stopped learning Objective-C to concentrate on my embedded Java skills.
I heard that FreeBSD was volunteering for the show!
I've almost put a case USB port on fire because I'd wrongly connected the header on the motherboard and short-circuited it. After a few minutes of my external HDD plugged in but not showing up on the desktop, the computer started to smell bad, but it took another 3 minutes for me to find out what was wrong. When I did, the cable had fused to the USB jack. The motherboard mysteriously died a year later, and then I saw the PSU header having overheat marks, too. Can they make a USB plug that will protect againt one's own stupidity?
took a shot as it jumped jumped 3 feet towards some shelves. I managed to hit it center of mass from about 10 feet.
HEADSHOT!
I'm in mid thirties, and just learned more in one post about the generation following mine than in a full year of TV watching, net reading and discussing with other people. Thank you for making this thread relevant. I'd mod you up if I wasn't such a karma whore by having posted before in the thread.
I'm still locked up in my locker, you insensitive clod!
thread scheduling by generating a custom assembly snippet to jump to the correct point
Wow, this thing must have been fun to debug and maintain. And also, must be a challenge to optimize current generation CPUs for, with separate data and instruction caches... No wonder it never gained traction.
If you program alone, then you are free to use the tools you want, and assembly is as good as anything else. The advantage high-level abstraction gives you is the scalabilty required to tackle large projects where multiple programmers need to coordinate their efforts.
It's a bit like the difference between living in your mom's basement and having her come and clean up you room randomly when you're not at home (or when she thinks you are not, but are in fact, having a good time with your girlfri... I mean, inflatable doll)
Call me perverted, but as a Java programmer, I AM THE MOM, and the program is the permanent teenager. And I don't want that teen to fuck $whoever in the basement, without me knowing - no, without me _asking for it_. Garbage collection is just an automated facility (think of a roomba) to help me control the mess the goddamn kid creates (used condoms and smelly sneakers).
Bill Gates != Microsoft
In VB6, it it might well be!
Wow. Thank you.
Funny, and sad at the same time. Cause we aren't gonna see those 300k machines anymore. Man, how I loved my Indy.
Phew, at last I can turn my cell phone back on, cause it's not the RF interference that kills the bees. I feel like I've been on a 2 year long plane takeoff.
I think the "hard work" IS the final polish! Unless you're simply copying someone else's interface...
No, they don't. Which is why we are all looking for something to convince them to stay home and watch TV or play soccer rather than boarding cargos 300 miles offshore. Maybe unfucking-up their homeland of Somalia would be a better solution. But we can't do that, can we? 'cause there's not enough money to be made from it. There _was_ money to be made from fucking it up, though.
Let's start with this : How many cars taken off the road can you fit in the library of congress?