Not too many conservative lawmakers representing Vermont these days;)
I did, however, write with regularity to my conservative N.C. representatives when I lived there. I figured every minute some monkey spent reading a letter from a flaming liberal commie asshole like me was one less minute they could be holding prayer meetings or what have you.
So by running with your argument, I presume you'd find it acceptable to have the FBI serve as crossing guards for elementary school students? After all, we wouldn't want anyone breaking the law (failing to yield right of way to a pedestrian in crosswalk), would we?
If the FBI is going to be called in to prop up every Representative's pet industry, we may as well just give the next 9/11 hijackers the keys to the jet.
Read the text of the bill (I can't find the link offhand, but it's out there) -- some of the paragraphs are downright laughable, particularly the one directing the FBI to educate citizens about the dangers of connecting to "unauthorized" P2P services.
Maybe one of these days Congress will stop trying to prop up a failing business model by turning the US into a police state. But I'm not holding my breath...
Seems like all that stuff they say is so bad when airborne, is probably not GOOD for you waterborne. I guess it's better contained in water, but it seems like treatment could be a "gotcha" in some cases -- I recall reading one story about old computer parts (PCBs, etc) being recycled by crushing them into tiny fragments, and embedding them into asphalt...
>> Oh and one more thing: C# doesn't check the exceptions. I may be a purist, but I just detest that. You have to document, maintain, and generally keep an eye out for your and the system's exceptions all the time (of course sometimes you have no idea what system exceptions there are..)
I think this gets especially fun when using 3rd party/closed libraries, where you don't necessarily have any idea what exceptions they might throw.
In practice, I have not found it to be a big deal. Then again, i'm pretty anal about exception handling due to experience with Java...seems like it *should* be easy enough for MS to provide this type of checking as a compile-time option....
Please don't lump the many *fantastic* public servers into the steaming heap of dog feces that are the local vault servers.
Local vault == Bad
Server vault == Good
If you really want to waste some time, hop on to Richterm's Retreat sometime. I played the single player NWN campaign for about 7 days, RR for about 7 months...
By asserting that "old" cartridges may not function "to spec", Dell claims to be protecting the very consumers it is in fact gouging by forcing them to buy Official(tm) Dell(R) PrintCartridges(sm) as replacements. It's all about protecting the consumer against sub-standard output (which incidentally is about all you get on low price inkjets in my experience).
Sell me a printer, and let me put whatever the fuck kind of ink I want to in it.
Do you think it would be acceptable for the manufacturer of my car to disable the engine if I didn't put Dell brand oil in it?
(Disclaimer: there may be serious extenuating circumstances I do not know about here, blah blah blah)
That's seriously fucked up. If your boss feels that his job/commute is causing him to miss out on his children growing up, then maybe he should, oh I don't know, get a new job! Priorities suck sometimes, but such is life.
I can't think of a case where I've seen single-drive performance approach 100MB/sec...even the 15k RPM SCSI drives. Perhaps I'm underrating the importance of headroom for higher speed bursts, but it seems that largely the bus has been way ahead of the drive for a long time now.
December 10, 1993 to be exact. I sat in a friend's basement downloading it via zmodem via a "borrowed" mainframe connection via ftp from somewhere. The internet crawled that day. My ass still hurts from the marathon session we put in...
With disk drives steadily increasing in size, and backup options not keeping pace, everyone has a use for RAID 1. Frankly an extra 100 bucks on another drive is well worth it in comparison to the hassle of maintaining an ongoing backup process. I don't really care that I'm "wasting" a whole drive, since it's still going to be a ton cheaper than any RAID 5 solution.
Ever ripped 500 CDs to MP3 format?
Ever done it twice?
I have, and never will again if I can help it...go RAID 1 go!
I can't imagine even one out of 50,000 floppies will make that round trip both with the data and error-free...this method has pretty much ensured that they'll NEVER have to give up the source.
Depends where you're going, of course, but latency on dial up in general is pretty good, all things considered. I knew gamers with 100ms pings from east to west coast, vs. my ~250-300ms typical ping on cable.
Honestly, I don't find it strange at all that he's more concerned what GUI he uses than what language. Given a suitably feature-rich language, almost anything can be accomplished -- the ease by which it is accomplished is often very much tied to the quality of the IDE used...
BTW, with all the flaming going on here about VB, I must say one of the few applications I dislike more is vi:)
Some of the most underqualified, lazy, and just generally dumb people I have worked with in this industry were educated in foreign countries. It's not just the U.S. that turns out people with over inflated senses of self esteem.
That said, I'm sure the U.S. turns out at least their fair share, if not more. As you alluded to, I think a large part of the problem is all this PC 'Everyone is special' crap. Some people are better at some things than others. Deal with it. If you're not qualified to do your job, you should get canned, whether you're a nice guy/girl or not.
'Even if you make it as unoptimized and cruddy as possible, it still takes negligible processor power. '
I'm afraid I have to take exception to this one -- when you are designing a site to support many thousands of people, all served dynamic pages, CPU time most definitely becomes an issue.
You should get to know your language; which constructs take more time to access, which loops are most efficient, etc.
Also factor in any component/object performance considerations. Even if you are calling compiled code, there will be ways to make it do more work in less time.
In short, don't ignore performance just because 'its the web!'. If your site only has 5 people on at any one time, then yeah, don't worry about it. But standard adages apply to web programming just like any other kind -- know what you are trying to do, know the requirements, and know the tools you are working with.
'can company's patent genes that exist in all of us?'
No, but perhaps *companies* can patent genes that exist in all of us! People, apostrophes are used when the indication of possession is desired, or to indicate a contraction, as in 'This company's main product is Linux'. It may be a relatively small issue (especially when compared to patents on genes), but please, let's (a contraction!) not bastardize the English language unless truly necessary!
The assertion that '50MHz costs $1000' is pretty erroneous. The 450MHz machine also sports an extra 64 megs of RAM, a 20 gig HD (twice the size), a zip drive, and an AGP-based rage128 (as opposed to PCI on the low end), as well as a DVD drive with hardware decoding. Not to mention a new motherboard design that provides smoking fast throughput on the system bus as well as 100 meg ethernet, etc.
This said, though, I won't contest your analysis of the 500 MHz -- Apple (and others too) have always charged a premium for the highest end machine. There will always be macho types with fat pockets who just want the fastest machine money can buy; Apple does well to make good money off them, because they generally won't care what it costs.
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Not too many conservative lawmakers representing Vermont these days ;)
I did, however, write with regularity to my conservative N.C. representatives when I lived there. I figured every minute some monkey spent reading a letter from a flaming liberal commie asshole like me was one less minute they could be holding prayer meetings or what have you.
So by running with your argument, I presume you'd find it acceptable to have the FBI serve as crossing guards for elementary school students? After all, we wouldn't want anyone breaking the law (failing to yield right of way to a pedestrian in crosswalk), would we?
If the FBI is going to be called in to prop up every Representative's pet industry, we may as well just give the next 9/11 hijackers the keys to the jet.
Read the text of the bill (I can't find the link offhand, but it's out there) -- some of the paragraphs are downright laughable, particularly the one directing the FBI to educate citizens about the dangers of connecting to "unauthorized" P2P services.
Maybe one of these days Congress will stop trying to prop up a failing business model by turning the US into a police state. But I'm not holding my breath...
I hope their [former] fans have a long memory. I know I do.
And all of you [insert country where you live] are a bunch of inbred, ass backwards, terrorist sponsoring asshats.
Yeah, that's it.
Dumbass.
Seems like all that stuff they say is so bad when airborne, is probably not GOOD for you waterborne. I guess it's better contained in water, but it seems like treatment could be a "gotcha" in some cases -- I recall reading one story about old computer parts (PCBs, etc) being recycled by crushing them into tiny fragments, and embedding them into asphalt...
>> Oh and one more thing: C# doesn't check the exceptions. I may be a purist, but I just detest that. You have to document, maintain, and generally keep an eye out for your and the system's exceptions all the time (of course sometimes you have no idea what system exceptions there are..)
I think this gets especially fun when using 3rd party/closed libraries, where you don't necessarily have any idea what exceptions they might throw.
In practice, I have not found it to be a big deal. Then again, i'm pretty anal about exception handling due to experience with Java...seems like it *should* be easy enough for MS to provide this type of checking as a compile-time option....
Some of us are *gasp* old enough to have actually attended a drive-in movie! :)
I got that reference, but it is odd to think that there are probably millions of people out there now who never would, and probably never will...
You can easily end up spending more on high quality paper than you do the printer + ink. Something ain't right here...
Please don't lump the many *fantastic* public servers into the steaming heap of dog feces that are the local vault servers.
Local vault == Bad
Server vault == Good
If you really want to waste some time, hop on to Richterm's Retreat sometime. I played the single player NWN campaign for about 7 days, RR for about 7 months...
By asserting that "old" cartridges may not function "to spec", Dell claims to be protecting the very consumers it is in fact gouging by forcing them to buy Official(tm) Dell(R) PrintCartridges(sm) as replacements. It's all about protecting the consumer against sub-standard output (which incidentally is about all you get on low price inkjets in my experience).
Sell me a printer, and let me put whatever the fuck kind of ink I want to in it.
Do you think it would be acceptable for the manufacturer of my car to disable the engine if I didn't put Dell brand oil in it?
(Disclaimer: there may be serious extenuating circumstances I do not know about here, blah blah blah)
That's seriously fucked up. If your boss feels that his job/commute is causing him to miss out on his children growing up, then maybe he should, oh I don't know, get a new job! Priorities suck sometimes, but such is life.
I can't think of a case where I've seen single-drive performance approach 100MB/sec...even the 15k RPM SCSI drives. Perhaps I'm underrating the importance of headroom for higher speed bursts, but it seems that largely the bus has been way ahead of the drive for a long time now.
AFAIK, you always see your own posts. I typically read at +2 or greater, yet I always see my own posts (which start at 1, and rarely move upward :).
December 10, 1993 to be exact. I sat in a friend's basement downloading it via zmodem via a "borrowed" mainframe connection via ftp from somewhere. The internet crawled that day. My ass still hurts from the marathon session we put in...
With disk drives steadily increasing in size, and backup options not keeping pace, everyone has a use for RAID 1. Frankly an extra 100 bucks on another drive is well worth it in comparison to the hassle of maintaining an ongoing backup process. I don't really care that I'm "wasting" a whole drive, since it's still going to be a ton cheaper than any RAID 5 solution.
Ever ripped 500 CDs to MP3 format?
Ever done it twice?
I have, and never will again if I can help it...go RAID 1 go!
I can't imagine even one out of 50,000 floppies will make that round trip both with the data and error-free...this method has pretty much ensured that they'll NEVER have to give up the source.
If you think VS6 worked, well, umm....you can have it.
Depends where you're going, of course, but latency on dial up in general is pretty good, all things considered. I knew gamers with 100ms pings from east to west coast, vs. my ~250-300ms typical ping on cable.
Honestly, I don't find it strange at all that he's more concerned what GUI he uses than what language. Given a suitably feature-rich language, almost anything can be accomplished -- the ease by which it is accomplished is often very much tied to the quality of the IDE used... BTW, with all the flaming going on here about VB, I must say one of the few applications I dislike more is vi :)
and didn't take the prize money, would I get arrested?
What an utter load of crap. Sounds like he got suspended because he made the school administrators look like the fools they seem to be.
...to get shot down.
Some of the most underqualified, lazy, and just generally dumb people I have worked with in this industry were educated in foreign countries. It's not just the U.S. that turns out people with over inflated senses of self esteem.
That said, I'm sure the U.S. turns out at least their fair share, if not more. As you alluded to, I think a large part of the problem is all this PC 'Everyone is special' crap. Some people are better at some things than others. Deal with it. If you're not qualified to do your job, you should get canned, whether you're a nice guy/girl or not.
'Even if you make it as unoptimized and cruddy as possible, it still takes negligible processor power. '
I'm afraid I have to take exception to this one -- when you are designing a site to support many thousands of people, all served dynamic pages, CPU time most definitely becomes an issue.
You should get to know your language; which constructs take more time to access, which loops are most efficient, etc.
Also factor in any component/object performance considerations. Even if you are calling compiled code, there will be ways to make it do more work in less time.
In short, don't ignore performance just because 'its the web!'. If your site only has 5 people on at any one time, then yeah, don't worry about it. But standard adages apply to web programming just like any other kind -- know what you are trying to do, know the requirements, and know the tools you are working with.
'can company's patent genes that exist in all of us?'
No, but perhaps *companies* can patent genes that exist in all of us! People, apostrophes are used when the indication of possession is desired, or to indicate a contraction, as in 'This company's main product is Linux'. It may be a relatively small issue (especially when compared to patents on genes), but please, let's (a contraction!) not bastardize the English language unless truly necessary!
The assertion that '50MHz costs $1000' is pretty erroneous. The 450MHz machine also sports an extra 64 megs of RAM, a 20 gig HD (twice the size), a zip drive, and an AGP-based rage128 (as opposed to PCI on the low end), as well as a DVD drive with hardware decoding. Not to mention a new motherboard design that provides smoking fast throughput on the system bus as well as 100 meg ethernet, etc.
This said, though, I won't contest your analysis of the 500 MHz -- Apple (and others too) have always charged a premium for the highest end machine. There will always be macho types with fat pockets who just want the fastest machine money can buy; Apple does well to make good money off them, because they generally won't care what it costs.