How do you use all this power with bus speeds only up to 200MHz (or even less in Intel's case)? I am pretty sure that processor speeds above 400MHz don't make that drastic difference.. in most 'processing intensive' applications, like gaming and image processing, performance increase is reached with more ram or a graphic card with, again, more memory.
besides, with little memory, when system starts to swap, all the MHz don't matter all of the sudden because hard drive is *slow*. So, all the speed is reduced to the hd's speed.
with these two constraints, bus speed and hard drive's speed, processor speed doesn't play that big role anymore, unless there are newer (faster) system bus / hd technologies or different architechture comes about.
Something programmers should study is Human Interface Design Guidelines. A lot of general principles are discussed. Why, for instance, sacrificing one pixel border of GNOME's start button would speed up the things drastically. Or binding the main menu to a mouse click on a desktop (alá AfterStep).
UNIX interface is notorious for user un-friendliness. AfterStep appears to be the fastest (in human terms) but still the default button positions are not perfect (close and minimize/maximize are too close together). Looks / feels save the situation somewhat.
What I would look for would be a correct (in a sense the above guidelines imply) user interface as a *default*.
This story was on Ars for ages or so; and for those who have a slashdot-box with Ars it's long read and forgotten. I thought it made a lot of sense not to post stories from the boxes you know.
To confirm, a friend of mine (a Norwegian) claims to have sense of (geographical) direction - very useful in norwegian fjords you understand:-). i was sorta wondering how that was possible - so these cells have something to do with that..
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I find UN*X actually easier to use. Command line is unmatched in flexibility, as we know. A thing you can do with a keyboard shortcut (takes a fraction of a second) takes few seconds with a mouse. Shellscripts? NT is pitiful at scripts. How about changing registry (on NT) - do you call that 'easy'? Piping? There's no piping in NT (ok ok, the call it COM/DCOM and sell it).
Easy things are extremely easy in GUI and difficult things are impossible. If there's no OK button for that, you can't do that in NT.
When babies start to explore the world, it's big and bright picture books we supply them with. When they need to express more complicated concepts, they use LANGUAGE. NOT pictures. Pictures are not meant for that. (Can you see the analogy?)
I should presume it is *your* opnion which matters at the assignment, so just do your homework!
I agree with previous poster that the one who actually commits anything should be held responsible; however, how about drug dealers or tobacco companies (still remember those suits?). If a program is designed to be malicious (like a virus) then the author is ultimately responsible. People who run it (like users on infected PCs) are actually victims then.
I recall CYGNUS was going for a name change, with a Linux box as a prize for the lucky one who would think up a compelling name (uh, and the stock symbol - so much for 'privately owned company'). Most wanted it to stay just as it was - Cygnus.
Apparently, the name change came from where it wasn't expected. So, who gets the Linux box?!?
If the matter is not settled, I could readily help in the adoption of the mentioned system. Ahem.
'Linus' is pronounced as [li:nus], with long 'i' - the name is of swedish origin and the short 'i' would result only if there was double consonant after it (like in Linnus). So then, in accordance with the pronouncation of the name, it is [li:nuks].
Well for 'the best of us' who are lucky enough to have a real account, HotMail seems to always have been a spam trapper - a way to indentify yourself on newsgroups, registering on a free account (NYT comes to mind) or registering on nearly anything else: you would surely get something of the sort:
In order to do that / download that / go there please fill in this simple 35 step form, required fields are marked with * (e-mail is marked with an * of course)
"Thank you for you registration, here is your password" + spam spam spam (buy that buy this). The last line says "This is not spam because we include unsubscribe information" (Their concious is not clear already I see;-)
"Half an hour ago you displayed an enormous interest in our product so here are some news for you" + spam spam spam
You be polite you unsubscribe
"We are awfully sorry that you would have to leave us" + spam spam spam (this is already interesting - they spam you while you try to unsubscribe!). In order to unsubscribe, go to URL:blah.blah.com
Being the patient soul you are, you go to the URL
Unsubscribing, you get the (hopefully final) e-mail stating "You've been unsubscribed, we don't know how we can go on living without you" + spam spam spam.
So, just trying to make it as painless as possible yields you at least 5 spam emails, all trying to unsubscribe. They sure don't waste their tim with that.
Hoax or not, it does bring up a good issue. I used to be a Chrisitian but I never thought that God would care what I did on my computer. I think it seems plausable that God would overlook the creations of His creations.
It's not that God is 'watching you'. It's just like a physical laws, you believe them or not, but you can't break them. Take the law of gravity - if you jump off a building, you'll freefall until you meet the ground (or, well, anything). Sin if you like, with a computer or without, it is you who'll bear the consequences.
The commandments say "Thou shall not kill" but does that include inanimate processes? What if we develop artificial intelligence? Would it be immoral to kill such a process?
'Life' is largely defined by the 'breath of life' which God has put into the humans (while not into animals, btw). That also means that 'life' cannot be created artificially (yeah yeah, genom mechanics and all, but go ahead and 'create life' from the basic elements as the evolutionists teach). The processes don't posess this property, you know better than me that this all is silicon, whatever sentimental qualities you may want to attribute to it.
And is it sin to view porn on the internet? Is that akin to adultery for those who are married?
...or unmarried. Adultery is sexual relationship outside of marriage, and if you are not married it obviously applies. And as previously mentioned, being aroused by desire is also sin. All sins are pretty much equal before God.
And is saying His name in vain into xterm wrong? what if you said it in a shell script with an infinite loop?
Yes and Yes. You seem to see it yourself, ah?:-)
Is worshipping RMS^H^H^HUnix against the First Commandment?
Yes.
I am mostly serious about this. I have never thought that religion and computers have anything to do with each other. But you never know. Anyone know of a way to sin using a computer?
Wrong. Does breathing has to do with blood circulation? Well, here you talking about separation 'religion' and 'computers'. Sounds like one life for first and another for second. That's called hypocrisy, right? That's something you really don't like, right?
Whatever the answer, the Ten Commandments are long overdue for a revision.
Oh yeah? Is killing someone more moral as time passes by? If some of your relatives gets killed or abused, you'll cry for justice right? You'll appeal to 'Judeo-Christian' moral in the court? Well, that's fair. However, if you want those who broke 5th or 6th commandment to be judged, why shouldn't you be judged for breaking 1st to 10th as well? Does it seem fair?
Note: I am not trying to be sacro-religious either. I don't mean to offend anyone, it is just my curiousity gets the best of me.
Delphi and Object Pascal seem to be most widely used by those who responded.. even taking into account the unscientific nature of such a survey, I am surprised that Delphi dominates without all the hype. And again, C++ can be more powerful but OP seems to be just enough for most.
Development time vs. compiled code speed seems to be interesting. I tend to believe that time spent programming is more expensive than computing time nowadays. Delphi generates fast code, however!
Hmm, why there was so little about Visual Basic? Oh yes, that was Inprise's survey. Or perhaps VB is in fact a non-hyped dominant language?:-]
Media changes, but there's something in us which remains the same. The violence, as any kind of trespassing, comes from the heart, not from outside.
If we didn't have internet, we can always blame tv, not tv - magazines and books, and so on, moving backwards. But there is no inherent evil in the media as internet or tv or paper is, it is what you put in there and it is what you choose to put into your brain.
As there can be 'good' and 'bad' books or tv programs, the content of internet can be more (or less) acceptable. Those without inner urge to trespass won't actually feed on something they consider not healthy for themselves. If it's an accident they probably won't want to come to that site again or play that wicked game again.
If we are talking about free will so much, let's use it, right? If we have the brain to use, then maybe we shouldn't portray someone as a victim of a media (which is powerless in itself) but rather as an individual who made a concious choice.
The Computerra story is indeed what it says (i read russian folks). It is interesting though that neither transmeta nor Elbrus Int. have a note on the subject. Latest news on Elbrus site dates back to 25th of February (this year).
I haven't found any confirmation on other news sources (in Russia). On the other hand, hey, it's 1st of April!
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I feel it's good. With my high treshhold, lets me know there actually is something:-)
Yes you are right. But nevertheless, the tactic of 'common enemy' is used by the media to lure the attention from our own immediate problems.
Characteristically, Russia's unability to influence anything in Yugoslavian war proves your point of 'new world's order'.
Yes you are right russian young people seem to be quite concerned with the issue. So i got a dozen or so of these chain letters telling me to write to President Clinton or to go to whitehouse.gov page. That can appear to be a more likely reason for the server to have had downtime: storm of email ~plus~ Melissa.
The anti-NATO - anti-US mood is quite common right now in Russia, and it has gone quite far: even to the point that they take volunteers to go to Kosovo. So breaking into US Gov.'s server seems logical expression of the common attitude.
One more tendency in Russia is looking for one 'common enemy' - what US used to be during Cold War period. Having all the problems Russia has now, blaming someone certainly brings some relief, sortof.. Jews used to be main target, but now US can be as good a target to direct the fury and general dissatisfaction. Basically, it could have been anyone else.
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besides, with little memory, when system starts to swap, all the MHz don't matter all of the sudden because hard drive is *slow*. So, all the speed is reduced to the hd's speed.
with these two constraints, bus speed and hard drive's speed, processor speed doesn't play that big role anymore, unless there are newer (faster) system bus / hd technologies or different architechture comes about.
Something programmers should study is Human Interface Design Guidelines. A lot of general principles are discussed. Why, for instance, sacrificing one pixel border of GNOME's start button would speed up the things drastically. Or binding the main menu to a mouse click on a desktop (alá AfterStep).
UNIX interface is notorious for user un-friendliness. AfterStep appears to be the fastest (in human terms) but still the default button positions are not perfect (close and minimize/maximize are too close together). Looks / feels save the situation somewhat.
What I would look for would be a correct (in a sense the above guidelines imply) user interface as a *default*.
Many things in nature make one believe in God! :-)
This story was on Ars for ages or so; and for those who have a slashdot-box with Ars it's long read and forgotten. I thought it made a lot of sense not to post stories from the boxes you know.
To confirm, a friend of mine (a Norwegian) claims to have sense of (geographical) direction - very useful in norwegian fjords you understand :-). i was sorta wondering how that was possible - so these cells have something to do with that..
Amen!!! Preach it, brother!!! Yeah! Yeah!
I find UN*X actually easier to use. Command line is unmatched in flexibility, as we know. A thing you can do with a keyboard shortcut (takes a fraction of a second) takes few seconds with a mouse. Shellscripts? NT is pitiful at scripts. How about changing registry (on NT) - do you call that 'easy'? Piping? There's no piping in NT (ok ok, the call it COM/DCOM and sell it).
Easy things are extremely easy in GUI and difficult things are impossible. If there's no OK button for that, you can't do that in NT.
When babies start to explore the world, it's big and bright picture books we supply them with. When they need to express more complicated concepts, they use LANGUAGE. NOT pictures. Pictures are not meant for that. (Can you see the analogy?)
"Me too" :-)
I should presume it is *your* opnion which matters at the assignment, so just do your homework!
I agree with previous poster that the one who actually commits anything should be held responsible; however, how about drug dealers or tobacco companies (still remember those suits?). If a program is designed to be malicious (like a virus) then the author is ultimately responsible. People who run it (like users on infected PCs) are actually victims then.
And then, I never liked ethics lessons.
How well said.
Slashdot's motto ('News for nerds..'), however, gives me an impression that most people reading News for Nerds are not geeks ;-).
Apparently, the name change came from where it wasn't expected. So, who gets the Linux box?!?
If the matter is not settled, I could readily help in the adoption of the mentioned system. Ahem.
'Linus' is pronounced as [li:nus], with long 'i' - the name is of swedish origin and the short 'i' would result only if there was double consonant after it (like in Linnus). So then, in accordance with the pronouncation of the name, it is [li:nuks].
So, just trying to make it as painless as possible yields you at least 5 spam emails, all trying to unsubscribe. They sure don't waste their tim with that.
All spam starts with the line: "THIS IS NOT SPAM"
Hoax or not, it does bring up a good issue. I used to be a Chrisitian but I never thought that God would care what I did on my computer. I think it seems plausable that God would overlook the creations of His creations.
It's not that God is 'watching you'. It's just like a physical laws, you believe them or not, but you can't break them. Take the law of gravity - if you jump off a building, you'll freefall until you meet the ground (or, well, anything). Sin if you like, with a computer or without, it is you who'll bear the consequences.
The commandments say "Thou shall not kill" but does that include inanimate processes? What if we develop artificial intelligence? Would it be immoral to kill such a process?
'Life' is largely defined by the 'breath of life' which God has put into the humans (while not into animals, btw). That also means that 'life' cannot be created artificially (yeah yeah, genom mechanics and all, but go ahead and 'create life' from the basic elements as the evolutionists teach). The processes don't posess this property, you know better than me that this all is silicon, whatever sentimental qualities you may want to attribute to it.
And is it sin to view porn on the internet? Is that akin to adultery for those who are married?
And is saying His name in vain into xterm wrong? what if you said it in a shell script with an infinite loop?
Yes and Yes. You seem to see it yourself, ah? :-)
Is worshipping RMS^H^H^HUnix against the First Commandment?
Yes.
I am mostly serious about this. I have never thought that religion and computers have anything to do with each other. But you never know. Anyone know of a way to sin using a computer?
Wrong. Does breathing has to do with blood circulation? Well, here you talking about separation 'religion' and 'computers'. Sounds like one life for first and another for second. That's called hypocrisy, right? That's something you really don't like, right?
Whatever the answer, the Ten Commandments are long overdue for a revision.
Oh yeah? Is killing someone more moral as time passes by? If some of your relatives gets killed or abused, you'll cry for justice right? You'll appeal to 'Judeo-Christian' moral in the court? Well, that's fair. However, if you want those who broke 5th or 6th commandment to be judged, why shouldn't you be judged for breaking 1st to 10th as well? Does it seem fair?
Note: I am not trying to be sacro-religious either. I don't mean to offend anyone, it is just my curiousity gets the best of me.
I hope I somehow satisfied your curiousity?
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Development time vs. compiled code speed seems to be interesting. I tend to believe that time spent programming is more expensive than computing time nowadays. Delphi generates fast code, however!
Hmm, why there was so little about Visual Basic? Oh yes, that was Inprise's survey. Or perhaps VB is in fact a non-hyped dominant language?
So if the kernel code is open anyway (BSD), what's all the fuss about opening it?
Seems to me like a good point BB is making that both open and closed source have its place. Security actually DOES work through obscurity.
You should hold down the mouse button, then throw (move pointer forward) and release before the line. I got 150 points..
If we didn't have internet, we can always blame tv, not tv - magazines and books, and so on, moving backwards. But there is no inherent evil in the media as internet or tv or paper is, it is what you put in there and it is what you choose to put into your brain.
As there can be 'good' and 'bad' books or tv programs, the content of internet can be more (or less) acceptable. Those without inner urge to trespass won't actually feed on something they consider not healthy for themselves. If it's an accident they probably won't want to come to that site again or play that wicked game again.
If we are talking about free will so much, let's use it, right? If we have the brain to use, then maybe we shouldn't portray someone as a victim of a media (which is powerless in itself) but rather as an individual who made a concious choice.
I haven't found any confirmation on other news sources (in Russia). On the other hand, hey, it's 1st of April!
I feel it's good. With my high treshhold, lets me know there actually is something :-)
Characteristically, Russia's unability to influence anything in Yugoslavian war proves your point of 'new world's order'.
Yes you are right russian young people seem to be quite concerned with the issue. So i got a dozen or so of these chain letters telling me to write to President Clinton or to go to whitehouse.gov page. That can appear to be a more likely reason for the server to have had downtime: storm of email ~plus~ Melissa.
hence surf with Linux... what .exe viruses can do to us :-) macroviruses likewise.
The anti-NATO - anti-US mood is quite common right now in Russia, and it has gone quite far: even to the point that they take volunteers to go to Kosovo. So breaking into US Gov.'s server seems logical expression of the common attitude.
One more tendency in Russia is looking for one 'common enemy' - what US used to be during Cold War period. Having all the problems Russia has now, blaming someone certainly brings some relief, sortof.. Jews used to be main target, but now US can be as good a target to direct the fury and general dissatisfaction. Basically, it could have been anyone else.
According to Netcraft ,
www.whitehouse.gov is running Netscape-Communications/1.1 on IRIX . Not that bad!