Basically he has been around for a long time, seen a lot, and done a lot. That makes his opinions and commentary not to be discarded lightly, whether or not you agree with where he is coming from. I don't mean to take anything away from Unix or C, but seriously, if after 30 years, castrated multics is the acme of the state of systems research, it has to be incredibly embarrasing.
The best analysis I've seen yet, and the scariest. How many centuries until the new Rennaisance(sp)? How much does modern civilization owe to the monks in their cells dutifully hand copying the wisdom of the ages. One bright note. The horse collar was invented in the "dark ages".
Simple. Just move the occupant of room 1 into 2, the former occupant of room 2 into room 4, the former occupant of room 3 into room 6, and so forth. You can now fit the new arrivals into the odd numbered rooms. It's worse, actually. There are exactly as many fractions as there are prime integers. Count off fractions as 1/1, 1/2, 2/1, 1/3, 2/3, 3/2, 3,... (or some such).
errrr, 1 - 0.9999... = 0.0000... There is no...001 at the end. There is no end to put the 1 in. It is just 0.0000... 000... 000... with no end.
The set of integers is infinite, but there is no infinity in the set. If you add infinity to the set of numbers, you break things like a+b=a+c implying b=c.
>How would it make any money? That is Microsoft's problem. It will be very interesting to see how it gets solved under the full glare of public scrutiny. It's a bit too proactive, but I would like to see CraptiveX and Viral Basic also split out.
Interesting summary. Slashdot may have started out as summaries and links to stories of interest, but what Slashdot _is_ good at is provoking commentary. On dull days, they may have to stretch things a bit, but they do seem to pick up, with some sort of introduction, on anything that is actually significant. I'm not at all sure what the significance of Judge Jackson's pronouncement is, but I'm rather sure that it is significant. Things should get real interesting if IE is forces to survive on its own merits. For myself, I use Slashdot as an indicator of "What's Happening", with the content in the comments. The summary is more along the lines of "Would I be interested in this (or the commentary provoked)". The deluge of comments is what makes Slashdot a "news site". Somehow I'm reminded of feeding time in the shark pool. Parasitic, maybe, but realize that symbiosis is actually mutual parasitism. We are also parasitic in using Slashdot at the cost of one easily ignored ad.
Good question. Very good question. In the absence of an answer, I will throw my 2 cents in. Historically, France and Germany have been natural adversaries. After two World Wars, there was enough of a "never again" that the economies were artificially interlinked rather than have either of them self-sufficient. Rather than just one major obstacle to war, there are lots and lots of minor obstacles. In this case, anything that can be interpreted as glorifying the Third Reich (sp?) is viewed with extreme disfavor. In short, by itself this accomplishes very little, but the large mass that this is part of, probably accomplishes a great deal. Any historians out there can probably explain this a lot better.
From what I've seen, it is entirely plausible that it would sometimes decide to run attatchments and sometimes not. I think there are several race conditions going on.
Thank you. This is why the hacker community must insist on the correct definition of hacker. If hackers invent a new term for themselves, it comes off like a euphemism, and eventually erodes into something derogatory. Polical correctness has an inherent problem in that it tacitly acknowledges that there is something that one should be politically correct about -- as in what is the proper current terminology for "them" these days. The general public will never comprehend hackers, or mathematicians, or scientists.
Sounds plausible, might even be correct if taken exactly the right way, and the opposition is struck dumb by the audacity of it. ... claims that subsequent to a breakup new, more virus-proof versions of Office and Windows would be "much harder for comuter users to obtain." The above is actually true, but fails to mention that without a breakup more virus-proof versions of Office and Windows would be even harder to obtain. Without the breakup, Microsoft has the ability to innovate an even richer ground for viruses. Even Eudora gets confused enough to not want to run the virus automatically. The prompts are wrong. Do not run emailed executables, especially from people you know and trust.
Sorry, but having transaction support must slow down select performance and update performance outside a transaction. Here's why. Assume several other users have started transactions, have updated various records, but have not yet committed or rolled back. Concurrently, you have read the "before" version of some of the records that have been changed and possible committed. Until you have completed, the database must keep old versions of anything you might read until you have finished, and you must read old versions of anything in an uncommitted transaction. Even if nobody does use transactions, the fact that somebody might causes considerable complications and the code must be slower. If you can trust your UPS, power supply, and disk cache, writes are much faster than if you must commit everything to disk (must also disable write cache on the disk itself) before returning success. It gets considerably slower if you do the write sequence so that the disk is in a consistent state no matter when you pull the plug.
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Ducks, runs, hides.
Untrained baboon fails to see the humor. :(
It has been done before.
It is redundant.
After many thousands of real and attempted first posts it is very redundant.
Basically he has been around for a long time, seen a lot, and done a lot. That makes his opinions and commentary not to be discarded lightly, whether or not you agree with where he is coming from.
I don't mean to take anything away from Unix or C, but seriously, if after 30 years, castrated multics is the acme of the state of systems research, it has to be incredibly embarrasing.
The best analysis I've seen yet, and the scariest.
How many centuries until the new Rennaisance(sp)?
How much does modern civilization owe to the monks in their cells dutifully hand copying the wisdom of the ages.
One bright note. The horse collar was invented in the "dark ages".
This is why it is important.
to read? By reading. Slowly you get better at it.
I like yours better. If there were a finite number of primes, then p1*p2*...*pn+1 could not exist.
Simple. Just move the occupant of room 1 into 2, the former occupant of room 2 into room 4, the former occupant of room 3 into room 6, and so forth. You can now fit the new arrivals into the odd numbered rooms. ... (or some such).
It's worse, actually. There are exactly as many fractions as there are prime integers. Count off fractions as 1/1, 1/2, 2/1, 1/3, 2/3, 3/2, 3,
errrr, ...001 at the end.
1 - 0.9999... = 0.0000...
There is no
There is no end to put the 1 in.
It is just 0.0000... 000... 000... with no end.
The set of integers is infinite, but there is no infinity in the set. If you add infinity to the set of numbers, you break things like a+b=a+c implying b=c.
or a composite number with prime factors not in the list of primes.
>How would it make any money?
That is Microsoft's problem. It will be very interesting to see how it gets solved under the full glare of public scrutiny. It's a bit too proactive, but I would like to see CraptiveX and Viral Basic also split out.
Interesting summary. Slashdot may have started out as summaries and links to stories of interest, but what Slashdot _is_ good at is provoking commentary. On dull days, they may have to stretch things a bit, but they do seem to pick up, with some sort of introduction, on anything that is actually significant. I'm not at all sure what the significance of Judge Jackson's pronouncement is, but I'm rather sure that it is significant. Things should get real interesting if IE is forces to survive on its own merits.
For myself, I use Slashdot as an indicator of "What's Happening", with the content in the comments. The summary is more along the lines of "Would I be interested in this (or the commentary provoked)". The deluge of comments is what makes Slashdot a "news site". Somehow I'm reminded of feeding time in the shark pool.
Parasitic, maybe, but realize that symbiosis is actually mutual parasitism. We are also parasitic in using Slashdot at the cost of one easily ignored ad.
Good question. Very good question. In the absence of an answer, I will throw my 2 cents in.
Historically, France and Germany have been natural adversaries. After two World Wars, there was enough of a "never again" that the economies were artificially interlinked rather than have either of them self-sufficient. Rather than just one major obstacle to war, there are lots and lots of minor obstacles. In this case, anything that can be interpreted as glorifying the Third Reich (sp?) is viewed with extreme disfavor. In short, by itself this accomplishes very little, but the large mass that this is part of, probably accomplishes a great deal.
Any historians out there can probably explain this a lot better.
Poor, poor Microsoft. Being picked on by open-source bullies. Poor, poor Microsoft.
From what I've seen, it is entirely plausible that it would sometimes decide to run attatchments and sometimes not. I think there are several race conditions going on.
Thank you. This is why the hacker community must insist on the correct definition of hacker. If hackers invent a new term for themselves, it comes off like a euphemism, and eventually erodes into something derogatory.
Polical correctness has an inherent problem in that it tacitly acknowledges that there is something that one should be politically correct about -- as in what is the proper current terminology for "them" these days.
The general public will never comprehend hackers, or mathematicians, or scientists.
Hacks listen to hacks. (Journalists and other paid writers)
Hackers listen to hackers. (Computer and other enthusiasts)
They are.
From my trusty Webster's New (1958) Collegiate Dictionary:
hack, n. 3. One who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; a drudge.
Agreed. No other word captures the essence.
"I'll keep hacking at a problem until I find a solution." Beautiful.
Not new. Old. ....
And they ran it and they ran it and they ran it
They bought Microsoft.
They ran virus.
Sounds plausible, might even be correct if taken exactly the right way, and the opposition is struck dumb by the audacity of it.
... claims that subsequent to a breakup new, more virus-proof versions of Office and Windows would be "much harder for comuter users to obtain."
The above is actually true, but fails to mention that without a breakup more virus-proof versions of Office and Windows would be even harder to obtain. Without the breakup, Microsoft has the ability to innovate an even richer ground for viruses.
Even Eudora gets confused enough to not want to run the virus automatically.
The prompts are wrong. Do not run emailed executables, especially from people you know and trust.
>"Microsoft provides a level of acceptable mediocrity."
More like an aspiration, actually.
Sorry, but having transaction support must slow down select performance and update performance outside a transaction. Here's why.
Assume several other users have started transactions, have updated various records, but have not yet committed or rolled back.
Concurrently, you have read the "before" version of some of the records that have been changed and possible committed. Until you have completed, the database must keep old versions of anything you might read until you have finished, and you must read old versions of anything in an uncommitted transaction. Even if nobody does use transactions, the fact that somebody might causes considerable complications and the code must be slower.
If you can trust your UPS, power supply, and disk cache, writes are much faster than if you must commit everything to disk (must also disable write cache on the disk itself) before returning success. It gets considerably slower if you do the write sequence so that the disk is in a consistent state no matter when you pull the plug.