Theoretically you could use energy states of electrons surrounding the atoms to store bits or you could use other features of the atoms themselves. Storing one bit per atom I suspect will one day seem as quaint as punched cards do today. It works , but its not very efficient compared to whats ultimately possible.
I think you mean like a few programmers , not "most". I wouldn't touch this ugly kludge of a language with a bargepole even though I'm a full time unix developer.
Well thats a weight off my mind. Now I know a bunch of geeks in a gun platform armed with a few rifles have offered up their support against Al Quaeda I'm sure we can all sleep easier...
I'd just love to see someone try and write a virus for Pine. It *may* be possible if there are hidden buffer overflow bugs in it but other than that I don't see how they do it. You see Pine doesn't run crap like vbscript and javascript in a friggin email , it just displays it.
Rose produce software thats even more bloated and slow than M$. Anyone who's used their middleware C++ database libraries will know how they can reduce even a top end server to a crawl , their license fees are extortionate and their user training and support is a joke. I wouldn't touch their stuff with a 10 foot pole these days.
I got fed up with it too mainly because the "we're always right" attitude and irritated indignation editorial style gets a bit wearing after a while. I can't stand zealots of whatever belief and 2600 and its readers are exactly that. PLus the maturity level seems to be dropping through the floor these days.
Whilst I agree with the ruling that ford or any company has no right to deby people pointing addresses at their site you really have to wonder at the maturity of the people at 2600 for creating such a name in the first place. I mean come on, its the sort of name a 14 year old would dream up. For all their hacker rights and watch-out-we're-the-hi-tech-generation-and-we-know -our-rights posturing ultimately they're a bunch of immature teenagers and early 20 somethings playing in an adult arena , and boy does it show.
Whatever you want to call a VM , ultimately it is an assembler interpreter. And hence slower than running a native binary. A badly written C program will probably still be faster (all other things being equal) than a badly written Java program for this reason.
Sun tried it with the java chip, it was a market flop. Besides , the whole point of VMs is to allow cross platform programs. Having to buy specific hardware to run these programs turns the whole idea on its head and makes it utterly pointless.
An emulator simulates an entire machine in that it displays the virtual screen in a window, does the I/O etc. A VM merely simulates a ficticious architecture just enough to be able to get a program running on the host system.
BSD won't die but it will remain as a hobbyists OS unless they (Open, Free & NET BSD) start adding features that *businesses* are interested in, not just stuff for geeks and paranoid security consultants.
Any browser that can't work properly on a 450Mhz system is very very badly written. Sorry but I used to be able to run netscape 3 (which had java, javascript etc) on a 486/66. HTML , Java etc has not go so much more complex in the last 5 years that a browser requires a 100 fold increase in performance for it to run ok.
I live in europe and travel by train all the time but even I get a little bit nervous on the 180mph TGVs. There is NO WAY I'd ride on a train going almost twice that speed even if it is a maglev and supposedly can't derail. Thats fine in theory but what happens if (as is common) some idiot kid chucks a brink at a train travelling at that speed or something falls (or is put) on the track? Disaster, thats what. And what happens if theres a power failure at top speed? Would the wheels and mechanical breaks be able to handle it when the train drops back onto the the physical track at that velocity? Aircraft can do 300mph and much more because normally they're flying through miles of clear air with little to crash in to. The same cannot be said of a train travelling through populated countryside.
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Try Slackware Linux for bugs. I think you'll find it has sustantially less than Windows. Just because some linux dists throw in the kitchen sink along with all its leaky plugholes doesn't mean all dists are that bad.
SpecInt blah 10,000 MIPS waffle immense performance pissing contest witter Gigaplods of on-die something-with-a-flash-name frequencies amazing blah oooh look how fast mine is blah 20 gazillian megaflops and so on and so forth
*YAWN*
For gods sake , who really gives a flying fuck about this tedious shit? Its like a bunch of car bores sitting in a bar bullshitting for hours about webber carbs vs bosch jetronic. Christ...
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The parent was spot on WRT digital watches AND pong. Can't you moderators use Google or what?
This is not flamebait , some of us have the same opinion. Please mod up!
Theoretically you could use energy states of
electrons surrounding the atoms to store bits
or you could use other features of the atoms
themselves. Storing one bit per atom I suspect
will one day seem as quaint as punched cards do
today. It works , but its not very efficient
compared to whats ultimately possible.
I think you mean like a few programmers , not "most". I wouldn't touch this ugly
kludge of a language with a bargepole even
though I'm a full time unix developer.
Yet another reason for steering well clear of the abortion known as the 2.4 series and sticking with
2.2 until 2.6 comes out.
Well thats a weight off my mind. Now I know a bunch
of geeks in a gun platform armed with a few rifles
have offered up their support against Al Quaeda
I'm sure we can all sleep easier...
I'd just love to see someone try and write a virus for Pine. It *may* be possible if there
are hidden buffer overflow bugs in it but other than that I don't see how they do it. You see Pine
doesn't run crap like vbscript and javascript in a friggin email , it just displays it.
Rose produce software thats even more bloated and
slow than M$. Anyone who's used their middleware
C++ database libraries will know how they can
reduce even a top end server to a crawl , their
license fees are extortionate and their user training
and support is a joke. I wouldn't touch their
stuff with a 10 foot pole these days.
I got fed up with it too mainly because the "we're always right" attitude and irritated
indignation editorial style gets a bit wearing after a while. I can't stand zealots of whatever
belief and 2600 and its readers are exactly that.
PLus the maturity level seems to be dropping
through the floor these days.
Whilst I agree with the ruling that ford or any company has no right to deby people pointingw -our-rights
addresses at their site you really have to wonder at the maturity of the people at 2600 for creating
such a name in the first place. I mean come on, its the sort of name a 14 year old would dream up.
For all their hacker rights and watch-out-we're-the-hi-tech-generation-and-we-kno
posturing ultimately they're a bunch of immature
teenagers and early 20 somethings playing in an
adult arena , and boy does it show.
Whatever you want to call a VM , ultimately it is an assembler interpreter. And hence slower than
running a native binary. A badly written C program will probably still be faster (all other things
being equal) than a badly written Java program for this reason.
Sun tried it with the java chip, it was a market flop. Besides , the whole point of VMs is to
allow cross platform programs. Having to buy specific hardware to run these programs turns the
whole idea on its head and makes it utterly pointless.
An emulator simulates an entire machine in that it displays the virtual screen in a window, does the I/O etc. A VM merely simulates a ficticious architecture just enough to be able to get a
program running on the host system.
Fascinating, but , uh , whats that got to do with VM implementation?
You or someone else posted this the other week and it wasn't exactly hilarious then.
BSD won't die but it will remain as a hobbyists
OS unless they (Open, Free & NET BSD) start adding
features that *businesses* are interested in, not
just stuff for geeks and paranoid security consultants.
Wow , funny man, such as original insult. Did you
think it up all by yourself or did your sad little
mates (assuming you have any) help you?
Say what you like about IE but 1700 bugs found
in version 1.0 (which has taken years to be
released) is farcical.
Any browser that can't work properly on a 450Mhz
system is very very badly written. Sorry but
I used to be able to run netscape 3 (which had
java, javascript etc) on a 486/66. HTML , Java etc
has not go so much more complex in the last 5 years
that a browser requires a 100 fold increase in performance
for it to run ok.
I live in europe and travel by train all the time but even I get a little bit nervous on the 180mph
TGVs. There is NO WAY I'd ride on a train going almost twice that speed even if it is a maglev
and supposedly can't derail. Thats fine in theory but what happens if (as is common) some idiot kid
chucks a brink at a train travelling at that speed or something falls (or is put) on the track?
Disaster, thats what. And what happens if theres a power failure at top speed? Would the wheels and
mechanical breaks be able to handle it when the
train drops back onto the the physical track at that velocity?
Aircraft can do 300mph and much more because normally they're flying through miles of clear
air with little to crash in to. The same cannot be said of a train travelling through populated
countryside.
Surely just a reset would sort it out though?
Bloody paedophile.
Try Slackware Linux for bugs. I think you'll find it has sustantially less than Windows. Just because some linux dists throw in the kitchen
sink along with all its leaky plugholes doesn't mean all dists are that bad.
Even more so for your monitor if it can display them all. :)
SpecInt blah 10,000 MIPS waffle immense performance pissing contest witter Gigaplods of on-die something-with-a-flash-name
frequencies amazing blah oooh look how fast mine is blah 20 gazillian megaflops and so on and so forth
*YAWN*
For gods sake , who really gives a flying fuck about this tedious shit? Its like a bunch of car bores sitting in a bar bullshitting for hours about
webber carbs vs bosch jetronic. Christ...