Re:Zzzzzz. Wake me up
on
Open source Java?
·
· Score: 1, Informative
Java is the number one development environment for business applications. Bar none.
Bahahaha. Number one in what? Being slow? Being broken? Being inconsistent? Being verbose? Being a nightmare for sysadmins to manage?
No doubt Java fanboys will mod me down for trolling but I don't really care - the above has been my real world experience of it. Any Lisp or Python programmer worth his salt can code circles around anything written in Java, and it will be written in a quarter of the time and run twice as fast. But of course PHBs have a far better grasp of what language to use than programmers do for some reason.
Can't remember Arnie using a photo like that in Total Recall but in Blade Runner, Deckard "3D analyses" a photo he confiscated from Leon's apartment to see around a corner and get a pic of Zhora, thanks to a reflection in a mirror.
This is not to underplay the Russian fighting ability (a mere 40 of them in a grain silo held an entire German battalion at bay for 3 months at Stalingrad for instance), but in Stalin's words: "My two best generals are January and February."
Hitler wasted time putting down a silly uprising in the Balkans when he should have been invading, thereby delaying operations for a crucial six weeks and ensuring the Russian winter played a decisive role.
Ablish copyright, and there's no need for the GPL.
All software would be free (both as in beer and as in speech) to copy, modify, and distribute. And it would be proprietary vendors who would disappear first.
No score, it's not that kind of survey. I'm trying to determine if there's any correlation between the optimising-obsessed (especially using compiler switches) and whether they've done any assembly before.
To declare my position: I am optimising obsessed (since it's fun and makes me money in some situtations) but not via -O switches. I was _very_ surprised to find -O3 and -fomit-frame-pointer sped up the CVS version of FlightGear by somewhere around 40% last night, since I am in the better algorithm and pure assembly for tight loops camp.
Today at the airport I saw a $100 bill, but left it lying there. It's just not worth it.
Bzzt. Bill is the kind of guy who would pick it up and put it in his pocket. In Bob Cringeley's Accidental Empires there's a good example of this sort of thing where he waits in line at a 7-11 to get his discount stamps and gets ribbed by the cashier to the tune of "come back when you make your first million." Bill was already a billionaire by then.
A question here: I'm not being rude or anything but have you ever done any assembly programming? It's just for an informal survey I'm doing.
Attention mods. This is a genuine question directed at user 701203 - mattgreen. No sarcasm or trollishness or any kind of flamebait is implied or should be inferred.
Thanks for the timeline and the correction to the GP. But Old SCO weren't really Linux fans either - remember the punk kids episode? Highlights from that interview with Doug Michels include:
Linus referred to as "some kid from Norway"
Alleged "misappropriation of intellectual property" in Linux. Hmmm, that sounds familiar:)
Some laughable predictions about the future
He knew very well what he was saying at the time, his subsequent (and rather panicked) denials notwithstanding.
This page is very helpful - how to install a binary version of mplayer in 32-bit mode that will use the 32-bit codecs. I've been running 32-bit mplayer on AMD64 for quite some time now and it plays.wmv files fine.
Being not a Catholic, but rather a former classics major, perhaps it is not for me to say, but the standard interpretation I'm familiar with is: "You are Peter, and on this bedrock(foundation) I will build my church", wherein the pun is that Peter is both Petros and the rock.
Right. The Catholic view is that one, hence Peter was the first Pope and so on.
Now, I want to say I am not arguing the veracity of Peter's account, just the interpretation. It may be accurate, or it may be just another case like the Donation of Constantine
Interesting link - thanks!
Perhaps if I had chosen Classical Greek over Latin as my core language I would now be in possesion of a highly lucrative Bachelor of Classics degree.;)
Si hoc postum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes:]
Dead right, except when it comes to games - amusingly so given your.sig:) - it's more like 20% is the fun stuff and the other 120% is grind: resource management, user interfaces, reusable frameworks, in-house replacements for standard library functions that don't quite cut it, gameplay polish and so on.
Having looked at a couple of commercial game engines in detail, I reckon maybe only 10% is the fun stuff - the rest is the necessary admin.
OK, but see, the rhetorical power of the line hinges on a pun. Would the pun still hold if the gender of the nouns were made to agree? I don't know Koine Greek, myself.
Possibly, but it seems to me that if the meaning "you are Petros and on this Petros I will build my church" was meant, it would have been recorded as such. Petra does mean rock in the sense of bedrock (I've just discovered) so a more literal translation could be "You are Stone and on this bedrock I will build my church." Your average Greek reader would have paused for a bit there - the words are not the same so what did Jesus mean?
Context is helpful here; the passage is all about Jesus - not Peter. Jesus has just asked the question: who do you say that I am? And Peter then makes his great confession. For "bedrock" to mean Jesus himself is entirely plausible - he's explicitly referred to as a "petra" in the sense of foundation in other places in the NT.
If not, then you have to allow for that relatively minor quibble.
It might seem minor but it's one of the foundations of papal lineage and infallibility. Infallibility is quite tricky to defend since Paul writes that "Peter was clearly in the wrong" about an incident quite some time after this event.
Uh-huh. Last time Langa had something to say about FLOSS IIRC it was the fact that he couldn't hear sound in Linux. Probably didn't read the instructions that came with Alsa that specifically say that everything is muted by default once installed.
Anyway, in this case he claimed to have tried about ten different distributions in two days to fix this problem - including Gentoo. Apparently he just quickly compiled and installed everything in less than two days, not counting of course the time it took to get the other distros working.
Yeah right. And people wonder what the real advantage of source-based distros is? Seems clear to me that one of them is pointing out porkys from trolls like Langa:]
Yes - ORIGINAL Greek Mr AC. The New Testament documents are all written in Koine Greek, a lingua franca of the ancient near east, the same way English is used today around the world. And Jesus probably spoke Aramaic in day to day conversation, the other lingua franca of 1st century Palestine.
I'm sure it's no accident that Koine Greek was used either. It is a very precise language with exceptionally fine shades of meaning that can be used to communicate entirely unambigously if required. So the author has already conveyed his original meaning - you are Petros (Peter) and on this petra (Peter's faith) I will build my church.
There are plenty of Christians who don't believe in the papal succession.
There never was any saying like "you're Petrus, the rock I'll found my church on" (or however the English lines are, I'm referring to "Du bist Petrus, der Fels, auf den ich meine Kirche baue").
Sure there was but the original Greek is a lot clearer that it couldn't have been Peter Jesus was referring to. He says "you are Petros (masculine) and on this petra (feminine and obviously _cannot_ refer to Peter the man) I will build my church."
What indeed was the radical new thought in Christianity was that there is no church, that there are no professional priests. Instead, every member of Christianity was able to fulfill tasks which were before attached to a professional priest, such as celebration, absolution, etc. The only restriction was that you can't perform these tasks with respect to yourself but only to others.
Slashdot Mirror
Java is the number one development environment for business applications. Bar none.
Bahahaha. Number one in what? Being slow? Being broken? Being inconsistent? Being verbose? Being a nightmare for sysadmins to manage?
No doubt Java fanboys will mod me down for trolling but I don't really care - the above has been my real world experience of it. Any Lisp or Python programmer worth his salt can code circles around anything written in Java, and it will be written in a quarter of the time and run twice as fast. But of course PHBs have a far better grasp of what language to use than programmers do for some reason.
Note to self: don't drink coffee and browse /. at the same time. You sir, owe me a new keyboard and monitor.
:)
Someone with modpoints and a sense of humour do the necessary to the above post please
Can't remember Arnie using a photo like that in Total Recall but in Blade Runner, Deckard "3D analyses" a photo he confiscated from Leon's apartment to see around a corner and get a pic of Zhora, thanks to a reflection in a mirror.
Doesn't let you even look at the source code.
No, you'll have to download it yourself and fire up your favourite text editor to do that.
This is not to underplay the Russian fighting ability (a mere 40 of them in a grain silo held an entire German battalion at bay for 3 months at Stalingrad for instance), but in Stalin's words: "My two best generals are January and February."
Hitler wasted time putting down a silly uprising in the Balkans when he should have been invading, thereby delaying operations for a crucial six weeks and ensuring the Russian winter played a decisive role.
Ablish copyright, and there's no need for the GPL.
All software would be free (both as in beer and as in speech) to copy, modify, and distribute. And it would be proprietary vendors who would disappear first.
No score, it's not that kind of survey. I'm trying to determine if there's any correlation between the optimising-obsessed (especially using compiler switches) and whether they've done any assembly before.
To declare my position: I am optimising obsessed (since it's fun and makes me money in some situtations) but not via -O switches. I was _very_ surprised to find -O3 and -fomit-frame-pointer sped up the CVS version of FlightGear by somewhere around 40% last night, since I am in the better algorithm and pure assembly for tight loops camp.
Not worth my time [April 20th, 2005]
Today at the airport I saw a $100 bill, but left it lying there. It's just not worth it.
Bzzt. Bill is the kind of guy who would pick it up and put it in his pocket. In Bob Cringeley's Accidental Empires there's a good example of this sort of thing where he waits in line at a 7-11 to get his discount stamps and gets ribbed by the cashier to the tune of "come back when you make your first million."
Bill was already a billionaire by then.
A question here: I'm not being rude or anything but have you ever done any assembly programming? It's just for an informal survey I'm doing.
Attention mods. This is a genuine question directed at user 701203 - mattgreen. No sarcasm or trollishness or any kind of flamebait is implied or should be inferred.
He knew very well what he was saying at the time, his subsequent (and rather panicked) denials notwithstanding.
Well, switching editors certainly put more vim into my love life...
This page is very helpful - how to install a binary version of mplayer in 32-bit mode that will use the 32-bit codecs. I've been running 32-bit mplayer on AMD64 for quite some time now and it plays .wmv files fine.
You're just stalling now...
Wait till I get going!
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
I would have though that in Soviet Russia, the EU buys....aw, never mind.
Maybe because he hasn't looked very hard. Romans 1 describes female-female physical relationships as unnatural.
This outstanding post by rimbo a few weeks back explains why IBM wanted the fight and how it went about it.
Being not a Catholic, but rather a former classics major, perhaps it is not for me to say, but the standard interpretation I'm familiar with is: "You are Peter, and on this bedrock(foundation) I will build my church", wherein the pun is that Peter is both Petros and the rock.
;)
:]
Right. The Catholic view is that one, hence Peter was the first Pope and so on.
Now, I want to say I am not arguing the veracity of Peter's account, just the interpretation. It may be accurate, or it may be just another case like the Donation of Constantine
Interesting link - thanks!
Perhaps if I had chosen Classical Greek over Latin as my core language I would now be in possesion of a highly lucrative Bachelor of Classics degree.
Si hoc postum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes
Dead right, except when it comes to games - amusingly so given your .sig :) - it's more like 20% is the fun stuff and the other 120% is grind: resource management, user interfaces, reusable frameworks, in-house replacements for standard library functions that don't quite cut it, gameplay polish and so on.
Having looked at a couple of commercial game engines in detail, I reckon maybe only 10% is the fun stuff - the rest is the necessary admin.
OK, but see, the rhetorical power of the line hinges on a pun. Would the pun still hold if the gender of the nouns were made to agree? I don't know Koine Greek, myself.
Possibly, but it seems to me that if the meaning "you are Petros and on this Petros I will build my church" was meant, it would have been recorded as such. Petra does mean rock in the sense of bedrock (I've just discovered) so a more literal translation could be "You are Stone and on this bedrock I will build my church." Your average Greek reader would have paused for a bit there - the words are not the same so what did Jesus mean?
Context is helpful here; the passage is all about Jesus - not Peter. Jesus has just asked the question: who do you say that I am? And Peter then makes his great confession. For "bedrock" to mean Jesus himself is entirely plausible - he's explicitly referred to as a "petra" in the sense of foundation in other places in the NT.
If not, then you have to allow for that relatively minor quibble.
It might seem minor but it's one of the foundations of papal lineage and infallibility. Infallibility is quite tricky to defend since Paul writes that "Peter was clearly in the wrong" about an incident quite some time after this event.
Uh-huh. Last time Langa had something to say about FLOSS IIRC it was the fact that he couldn't hear sound in Linux. Probably didn't read the instructions that came with Alsa that specifically say that everything is muted by default once installed.
:]
Anyway, in this case he claimed to have tried about ten different distributions in two days to fix this problem - including Gentoo. Apparently he just quickly compiled and installed everything in less than two days, not counting of course the time it took to get the other distros working.
Yeah right. And people wonder what the real advantage of source-based distros is? Seems clear to me that one of them is pointing out porkys from trolls like Langa
Yes - ORIGINAL Greek Mr AC. The New Testament documents are all written in Koine Greek, a lingua franca of the ancient near east, the same way English is used today around the world. And Jesus probably spoke Aramaic in day to day conversation, the other lingua franca of 1st century Palestine.
I'm sure it's no accident that Koine Greek was used either. It is a very precise language with exceptionally fine shades of meaning that can be used to communicate entirely unambigously if required. So the author has already conveyed his original meaning - you are Petros (Peter) and on this petra (Peter's faith) I will build my church.
The whole Christian church is based on a lie.
s/Christian/Catholic/
There are plenty of Christians who don't believe in the papal succession.
There never was any saying like "you're Petrus, the rock I'll found my church on" (or however the English lines are, I'm referring to "Du bist Petrus, der Fels, auf den ich meine Kirche baue").
Sure there was but the original Greek is a lot clearer that it couldn't have been Peter Jesus was referring to. He says "you are Petros (masculine) and on this petra (feminine and obviously _cannot_ refer to Peter the man) I will build my church."
What indeed was the radical new thought in Christianity was that there is no church, that there are no professional priests. Instead, every member of Christianity was able to fulfill tasks which were before attached to a professional priest, such as celebration, absolution, etc. The only restriction was that you can't perform these tasks with respect to yourself but only to others.
Couldn't agree more.
I'm 1/1 and scared to submit anything else in case I spoil my 100% record...