Yeah, but even in JIT, is it reducing the memory foot print? Recompiling code ala hotspot did in the JVM at some point? Optimized is still a throw-around word.
Optimized means that it's doing something better. Smaller binaries? Less memory when running? Faster execution? Faster to compile? In the context of the article, you can assume it's about speed. But out of context, you cannot.
Physical property has a real limit on the supply, thus value is determined by supply and demand.
Yes, but that's the problem. The perceived value, much like the value of many things on this earth, differs from person to person. My textbooks are worth unspecified amounts to me, because they contain content I have yet to memorize and prolly never will. To someone else, they are worth the cost of the paper.
What makes this so news-worthy is it involved a video game and silly to a lot of people who don't appreciate the time taken to play these games. If it was "fine art," people would be more upset per capita since the perceived value is high enough to more people. It's more socially acceptable to see fine art as high in value.
If one were to attain a physical object of some want but no need, like a TV, it becomes a reward. You do some amount of work, you get the money, you buy it for yourself.
Some people equate this in vidoe games. Hell, I'm guilty when some consequence outside of my control gets in my way. This could be in my model making, video game playing or athletic life. Yes, I do have one. Unfortunately, this guy took a route that didn't involve a legal system.
It happens in US life as well. Try something that's not illegal like hitting on a guy's wife. See how fast someone goes above the law and knocks you out. It's not a perfect example, as divorce could be a route. But people will readily go around the law.
Lesson to be learned? Careful who you annoy. They may break the law. They may not. But they may get back at you.
There are three ways I can think of computers get bought/sold. And it trickles down to grandma because that's what people like to use, thus they suggest it.
1. Management listens to companies/brands and choose the best contract.
2. Hackers recomment top of the line stuff.
3. Commercials by the brands.
If enough hackers push a certain platform, that's a significant amount of the populous getting that brand for things like accounting, word processing, programming, web browsing and stuff. Grandted, macs aren't best for gaming, for non-compy computer gamers, that's fine. 'cept for WoW. That's on the mac anyway.
But isn't paying for a slashdot account supposed to give you the ability to do the jobs of the editors and stop dupes before they get up on the site?
Oh wait, that was just a money making ploy to drum up cash w/o doing the work of reading their email. Sorry Mr. Malda, but you aren't running a good site anymore. Someday a new site that has quality will come by and squash slashdot.
As an anecdote, I had a 300 meg maxtor a looong time ago, back in the days of DOS. I had a large tower under my desk, as I had a stack of drives. If I turned around the wrong way, I'd give the machine a good knock. The maxtor drives would panic and they would shut down. Makes sense, but was amusing to be at a DOS prompt and then finding my discs have "failed."
For bookmarks, just create.rss feeds. Put them on a webserver. Use firefox's livebookmarks to track them. For passwords and such, I can't help you there:) But it's a quick, easy solution to make life easy.
The problem really is the borders of the "virtual world" and the real world. It's not an easy problem, but people will keep stepping on each others toes until some agreement or equilibrium is reached. Look at China. Firewalls a lot of stuff off. France, just said it's ok to cpoy. The US.. don't get me started about the haphazardness of the US in this. Unless countries start disconnecting from each other, this isn't a presedent towards much . The problem existed in the days of BBSs, but it was easier to deal with legally as we were bound my area codes. Made it a lot easier. Now, we are more unbound than ever. It's an all new ballcourt.
What do these lines of questions against the comic artists hope to accomplish? I met scott once. Nice kid (not literally;P). But I don't think he has done any study of video games in the realm of psychology. Some psych is fairly intuitive, but unless an independent group studies video games outside, correlates and reports their findings, these interviews seem.. out of place.
Maybe it's all an elaborate ploy. Get people all hyped up for longhorn, and start eeking features back so more people buy it that way and the upgrades that get backported?
I think the only reason other companies don't do as well as google is due to either laziness or ignorance to some basic things and some advanced things. An index is not the most ground breaking thing in the world. Job delegation and breaking up work is not that ground breaking either. Clustering has been around in concept since forever. Now I ask you, the public, not just you iibbmm, how many applications have you done that use these concepts? Most biz concepts are very simple. They don't try to implement vertex cover or try and do the 3CSAT NP-Complete problems.
Not to downplay google. Google did a great job of implementing a lot of these things: indexing, job delegation and maybe a good beaucracy. Larger companies either are lazy, ignorant or simply don't have to. I've worked for a few companies that "don't have to", but lord, if the places that weren't so ignorant or lazy, they could be powerhouses just by what they could do...
If a parent has a gun in their home, it's expected of them to prevent kids from using it. If a parent does not want a kid from using a cable box, you get the FCC to do it? Where's the consistency in that? Wouldn't it be easier to take the H4/Satellite card out of the box when you aren't using it? Or remove the cable box when no one is using it? That is ignoring the features that prevent kids from seeing certain channels and viewing times!
Common idioms should be compiled away, like !x or x!=0. Uncommon idioms can't and probably shouldn't be attempted, i.e. if(!(x-x)) (which is always false). Ask your compiler maker and see if patches can be made for these types of things. 'cause if you think to do it one way, chances are, many others may try it too. It would be for their benefit to make a better compiler.
As long as someone is publishing the data, they can put any other data in there along with it. Ads, porn (you wish).. anything.
Best you can do is to stop visiting. CSS disabling floaters can cause people to using floaters for content or randomizing the name of the floater. Killing the divs might make people use a finite set of div names used for floaters and randomly using them for different parts of the page including the floaters and content. Blank them out, and you lose your content.
1. Simplicity of language. The constructs are simple and straight forward. I don't know cobol in depth, but i can read it easier than/some/ other lanuages. ruby and python use a lot of dingbats in interesting ways, but i'd have to learn them.
2. They are more business like languages than practical languages for other purposes.. i.e. C for OSs and embeded systems, glue/expressive languages like perl, ruby and what not. This is not to say that languages like ruby and perl can't be used for other reasons, they can work well for other things.
3. OO has its strengths, and its the way the world is headed for business like function. It's not the end all of everything, but people like OO. Java also has a huge backer, Sun. c++ came in between somehow, but people are moving away from c++. due to the pointer stuff you can do? due to writing more hybrid stuff? the lack of standards for c, the underlying language? who knows. But it's great to be able to blame someone when something goes wrong. Sun is a good company to blame and have support contracts with.. at least it used to be...
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After all, we are talking about a DB with lackluster features and poorer performance compared to other databases.
Yeah, but even in JIT, is it reducing the memory foot print? Recompiling code ala hotspot did in the JVM at some point? Optimized is still a throw-around word.
Optimized means that it's doing something better. Smaller binaries? Less memory when running? Faster execution? Faster to compile? In the context of the article, you can assume it's about speed. But out of context, you cannot.
ok.. screw this.. i'm going over to kuro5hin.org for a loooong while. And cnet. And other resources. slashdot jumped the shark.
To quote Dilbert, "Is it ok if we do things really fast and really wrong?" I'll be amused if they reach the same speed at 1.0 release.
Yes, but that's the problem. The perceived value, much like the value of many things on this earth, differs from person to person. My textbooks are worth unspecified amounts to me, because they contain content I have yet to memorize and prolly never will. To someone else, they are worth the cost of the paper.
What makes this so news-worthy is it involved a video game and silly to a lot of people who don't appreciate the time taken to play these games. If it was "fine art," people would be more upset per capita since the perceived value is high enough to more people. It's more socially acceptable to see fine art as high in value.
Before we all claim he's nuts..
If one were to attain a physical object of some want but no need, like a TV, it becomes a reward. You do some amount of work, you get the money, you buy it for yourself.
Some people equate this in vidoe games. Hell, I'm guilty when some consequence outside of my control gets in my way. This could be in my model making, video game playing or athletic life. Yes, I do have one. Unfortunately, this guy took a route that didn't involve a legal system.
It happens in US life as well. Try something that's not illegal like hitting on a guy's wife. See how fast someone goes above the law and knocks you out. It's not a perfect example, as divorce could be a route. But people will readily go around the law.
Lesson to be learned? Careful who you annoy. They may break the law. They may not. But they may get back at you.
There are three ways I can think of computers get bought/sold. And it trickles down to grandma because that's what people like to use, thus they suggest it.
1. Management listens to companies/brands and choose the best contract.
2. Hackers recomment top of the line stuff.
3. Commercials by the brands.
If enough hackers push a certain platform, that's a significant amount of the populous getting that brand for things like accounting, word processing, programming, web browsing and stuff. Grandted, macs aren't best for gaming, for non-compy computer gamers, that's fine. 'cept for WoW. That's on the mac anyway.
But isn't paying for a slashdot account supposed to give you the ability to do the jobs of the editors and stop dupes before they get up on the site?
Oh wait, that was just a money making ploy to drum up cash w/o doing the work of reading their email. Sorry Mr. Malda, but you aren't running a good site anymore. Someday a new site that has quality will come by and squash slashdot.
As an anecdote, I had a 300 meg maxtor a looong time ago, back in the days of DOS. I had a large tower under my desk, as I had a stack of drives. If I turned around the wrong way, I'd give the machine a good knock. The maxtor drives would panic and they would shut down. Makes sense, but was amusing to be at a DOS prompt and then finding my discs have "failed."
For bookmarks, just create .rss feeds. Put them on a webserver. Use firefox's livebookmarks to track them. For passwords and such, I can't help you there :) But it's a quick, easy solution to make life easy.
Be aware: acknowledging the problem and solving the problem are different. I have no answer on how to "fix it".
No it's not. I have a few of those keyboards at home. No need to buy new ones. Don't alienate me, thanks.
The problem really is the borders of the "virtual world" and the real world. It's not an easy problem, but people will keep stepping on each others toes until some agreement or equilibrium is reached. Look at China. Firewalls a lot of stuff off. France, just said it's ok to cpoy. The US.. don't get me started about the haphazardness of the US in this. Unless countries start disconnecting from each other, this isn't a presedent towards much . The problem existed in the days of BBSs, but it was easier to deal with legally as we were bound my area codes. Made it a lot easier. Now, we are more unbound than ever. It's an all new ballcourt.
What do these lines of questions against the comic artists hope to accomplish? I met scott once. Nice kid (not literally ;P). But I don't think he has done any study of video games in the realm of psychology. Some psych is fairly intuitive, but unless an independent group studies video games outside, correlates and reports their findings, these interviews seem.. out of place.
Maybe it's all an elaborate ploy. Get people all hyped up for longhorn, and start eeking features back so more people buy it that way and the upgrades that get backported?
I think the only reason other companies don't do as well as google is due to either laziness or ignorance to some basic things and some advanced things. An index is not the most ground breaking thing in the world. Job delegation and breaking up work is not that ground breaking either. Clustering has been around in concept since forever. Now I ask you, the public, not just you iibbmm, how many applications have you done that use these concepts? Most biz concepts are very simple. They don't try to implement vertex cover or try and do the 3CSAT NP-Complete problems.
Not to downplay google. Google did a great job of implementing a lot of these things: indexing, job delegation and maybe a good beaucracy. Larger companies either are lazy, ignorant or simply don't have to. I've worked for a few companies that "don't have to", but lord, if the places that weren't so ignorant or lazy, they could be powerhouses just by what they could do...
If a parent has a gun in their home, it's expected of them to prevent kids from using it. If a parent does not want a kid from using a cable box, you get the FCC to do it? Where's the consistency in that? Wouldn't it be easier to take the H4/Satellite card out of the box when you aren't using it? Or remove the cable box when no one is using it? That is ignoring the features that prevent kids from seeing certain channels and viewing times!
I made a misteak. I meant to say true ;)
Common idioms should be compiled away, like !x or x!=0. Uncommon idioms can't and probably shouldn't be attempted, i.e. if(!(x-x)) (which is always false). Ask your compiler maker and see if patches can be made for these types of things. 'cause if you think to do it one way, chances are, many others may try it too. It would be for their benefit to make a better compiler.
No it's not. People are more likely to complain about small discomforts than praise small acomplishments. The scales tip to criticizing.
Best you can do is to stop visiting. CSS disabling floaters can cause people to using floaters for content or randomizing the name of the floater. Killing the divs might make people use a finite set of div names used for floaters and randomly using them for different parts of the page including the floaters and content. Blank them out, and you lose your content.
What's the next move then?
Did IBM put this much into OS/2? Man I loved that os...
I don't hate sun, java or oo. m'thinks you are preaching to the choir :)
2. They are more business like languages than practical languages for other purposes.. i.e. C for OSs and embeded systems, glue/expressive languages like perl, ruby and what not. This is not to say that languages like ruby and perl can't be used for other reasons, they can work well for other things.
3. OO has its strengths, and its the way the world is headed for business like function. It's not the end all of everything, but people like OO. Java also has a huge backer, Sun. c++ came in between somehow, but people are moving away from c++. due to the pointer stuff you can do? due to writing more hybrid stuff? the lack of standards for c, the underlying language? who knows. But it's great to be able to blame someone when something goes wrong. Sun is a good company to blame and have support contracts with.. at least it used to be...