of course XP should be an improvement and consequently might take a performance hit with new features. But it's surprising that it's _so_ much slower than its predecessor, not vice-versa.
I would just like to point out a little portion from a cnn article (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/10/31/new.n imda.idg/index.html) about anti-terrorism legislation being temporarily enacted in France:
...The plan also allows investigative judges to demand that phone or Internet companies save wiretapped conversations and Internet data for up to a year.
Green Party polticians, who voted against the moves, and Communists, who abstained, condemned the measures as an attack on civil liberties.
"The Greens are worried that the law is useless, ineffective and an attack on individual liberties," said Green Party lawmaker Noel Mamere, the movement's candidate for presidential elections in 2002....
I know it's easy and (at least on Slashdot) fashionable to target liberals as being against free speech. And some liberals are.
But there are certainly short-sighted or ignorant conservatives and libertarians who support legislation that would hurt personal freedom.
Remember, nobody ever complained about the ACLU being too conservative, but they've protected our civil liberties more effectively than any other group in the past 100 years.
There are libertarians and conservative that I disagree with ideologically, but I respect their dedication to personal freedoms.
Intercal is a language designed in jest. He was making an obscure humor reference. But I guess that went right over your head.
Maybe you'll get the tit references and find them funny instead.
i bet making fun of my ignorance of obscure humor really helped out your self-esteem. i hope, someday, that you can reply to my posts with a real user account instead as an AC. that would be a very positive step. best of luck in your continuing efforts to interact with other people normally.
Nope, it's XPants and it's been registered with the w3c, patented 5 times, and back with 30 million on venture capital.. i understand it will revolutionize how the e-world sees pants.
real db tables aren't so different from csv files... it's the way that they are accessed by the db app. i think that really good dbms's are tuned so that they take advantage of page sizes in primary storage devices, while spreadsheets will not do that.
logging and being able to roll back changes are other huge plusses to a real dbms.
my point is that, when paid to do something, do the best you can with the tools you are given. or don't accept the job.
i'm not saying one would be as effective in a locked down environment. in fact, i'm sure they'd be less productive. but it's up to them to try to be productive, and programming being 'creative' shouldn't enter into the equation in that respect.
come on. i don't like MS either for their business practices... but i'm not sure if you ever tried to look up..um... 'off-color' word in dictionaries while you were really young, but many of them declined to list these words (in spite of the fact that they often defined archaic slang terms with 0-relevance).
really, it's a writers responsibility to have a working knowledge of the english language. if someone cannot think of at least 10 words synonomous with 'idiot', then i think that is a very good indicator that they are not qualified to be writing.
should microsoft offer a fully-functional (10 dirty words be damned) thesaurus? maybe. maybe there are some people who would object to little kids being able to look up 'naughty words'. not my opinion, but maybe...
does it mean that this is a hideous Fahrenheit 451/Orwellian plot to produce hordes of docile and obedient microsoft drones? i don't think so.. unless i start seeing thesaurus searches yielding 'anti-trust'/'misguided', 'Gates'/'beneficent', or 'Linux'/'Thorn-in-our-damn-sides-for-total-dominat ion' pairings, i'll give MS the benefit of the doubt on this one.
nobody should be hampered to the point that it is difficult to do their job.
however, saying that programming is is a highly creative process, and human creative processes are very easily hampered by frustration, irritation, and disillusionment is just bull. It may be irritating, but it's your job and you have to do it well or you should leave.
there are commercial artists. they don't love creating mcdonald's billboards. they might go home and paint frescos to satiate their creative urges. but they do their damn work because they are paid to, and programmer shouldn't be held to different standards.
sorry, but the groupthink that i see on slashdot rivals any thoughtcrime legislation i've seen proposed by the US government.
try http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/nationalism.h tml for a political essay by George Orwell that is more relevant (particularly to his political beliefs) than 1984.
I have heard talk that suggests we may all be seeing Feingold in a bid for the Presidency sometime in the next decade. If those are indeed his plans, anticipate how great it will look in 2007 and 2008 when the public has recovered from the shock of the attack and Our Savior Russ Feingold was the one who tried to protect us from it in the first place.
are you nuts? they will spin this so hard that he won't even make it out of the primaries! Gary Condit would stand a better chance running with Hillary Clinton on the Republican ticket...
can't you see the negative ads? 'in september, the world was united in shock. congress sought to take action to protect the nation, and only one man stood against it....'
Slashdot Mirror
Help me out, folks, am I wrong here?
/. posters on their side, though.
nope, you're right.
microsoft lost a case to Sun, and were poor losers. i have to give credit to their spin teams for being able to get
my favorite line:
We must now make their choices for them so that they can be free.
that's beautiful. hilarious post.
while you're doing that though, you might ask the same people how they think their field compares with software development...
not really...
of course XP should be an improvement and consequently might take a performance hit with new features. But it's surprising that it's _so_ much slower than its predecessor, not vice-versa.
if Clinton sneezed in a crowded place, the new republic would claim he was hogging the spotlight :)
that said, i can think of a couple of dozen things that would be more out of character for him...
I would just like to point out a little portion from a cnn article (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/10/31/new.n imda.idg/index.html) about anti-terrorism legislation being temporarily enacted in France:
...The plan also allows investigative judges to demand that phone or Internet companies save wiretapped conversations and Internet data for up to a year.
Green Party polticians, who voted against the moves, and Communists, who abstained, condemned the measures as an attack on civil liberties.
"The Greens are worried that the law is useless, ineffective and an attack on individual liberties," said Green Party lawmaker Noel Mamere, the movement's candidate for presidential elections in 2002....
I know it's easy and (at least on Slashdot) fashionable to target liberals as being against free speech. And some liberals are.
But there are certainly short-sighted or ignorant conservatives and libertarians who support legislation that would hurt personal freedom.
Remember, nobody ever complained about the ACLU being too conservative, but they've protected our civil liberties more effectively than any other group in the past 100 years.
There are libertarians and conservative that I disagree with ideologically, but I respect their dedication to personal freedoms.
Intercal is a language designed in jest. He was making an obscure humor reference. But I guess that went right over your head.
Maybe you'll get the tit references and find them funny instead.
i bet making fun of my ignorance of obscure humor really helped out your self-esteem. i hope, someday, that you can reply to my posts with a real user account instead as an AC. that would be a very positive step. best of luck in your continuing efforts to interact with other people normally.
in theory, you can only have a radix as high as quantum physics allows.
that isn't infinite, but high.
yes, programming in trits on binary hardware. that's not such a great leap forward...
it has nothing to do with the radix...
quantum computing relies on a superposition of states, doing non-deterministic computing...
needs to be integral.
Nope, it's XPants and it's been registered with the w3c, patented 5 times, and back with 30 million on venture capital.. i understand it will revolutionize how the e-world sees pants.
real db tables aren't so different from csv files... it's the way that they are accessed by the db app. i think that really good dbms's are tuned so that they take advantage of page sizes in primary storage devices, while spreadsheets will not do that.
logging and being able to roll back changes are other huge plusses to a real dbms.
Then I completely agree with you :)
of course, but that is management's fubar.
my point is that, when paid to do something, do the best you can with the tools you are given. or don't accept the job.
i'm not saying one would be as effective in a locked down environment. in fact, i'm sure they'd be less productive. but it's up to them to try to be productive, and programming being 'creative' shouldn't enter into the equation in that respect.
sorry, wrong topic.
time for more coffee.
seriously?
..um... 'off-color' word in dictionaries while you were really young, but many of them declined to list these words (in spite of the fact that they often defined archaic slang terms with 0-relevance).
t ion' pairings, i'll give MS the benefit of the doubt on this one.
come on. i don't like MS either for their business practices... but i'm not sure if you ever tried to look up
really, it's a writers responsibility to have a working knowledge of the english language. if someone cannot think of at least 10 words synonomous with 'idiot', then i think that is a very good indicator that they are not qualified to be writing.
should microsoft offer a fully-functional (10 dirty words be damned) thesaurus? maybe. maybe there are some people who would object to little kids being able to look up 'naughty words'. not my opinion, but maybe...
does it mean that this is a hideous Fahrenheit 451/Orwellian plot to produce hordes of docile and obedient microsoft drones? i don't think so.. unless i start seeing thesaurus searches yielding 'anti-trust'/'misguided', 'Gates'/'beneficent', or 'Linux'/'Thorn-in-our-damn-sides-for-total-domina
i agree and disagree with you.
nobody should be hampered to the point that it is difficult to do their job.
however, saying that programming is is a highly creative process, and human creative processes are very easily hampered by frustration, irritation, and disillusionment is just bull. It may be irritating, but it's your job and you have to do it well or you should leave.
there are commercial artists. they don't love creating mcdonald's billboards. they might go home and paint frescos to satiate their creative urges. but they do their damn work because they are paid to, and programmer shouldn't be held to different standards.
according to the above post, it is a nerd.
we're on slashdot...
and thus the circle is complete.
'Safe Operating Envelope'
that's great... i've lost many friends and family to the perils of standard (read: DEADLY) envelopes.
um... Chris Matthews talking about 'obvious bias' ...
every biased conservative pundit thinks that the NYTimes is biased, and that they are the impartial ones, but that is rarely the case...
no, be fair. that's your opinion.
you're entitled to your own, even if it should conflict with mine. that doesn't make my (informed) opinion a 'visceral reaction'.
So 1 million Iraqi civilians killed as a result of US sanctions is what?
wrong, obviously.
sorry, but the groupthink that i see on slashdot rivals any thoughtcrime legislation i've seen proposed by the US government.
h tml for a political essay by George Orwell that is more relevant (particularly to his political beliefs) than 1984.
try http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/nationalism.
I have heard talk that suggests we may all be seeing Feingold in a bid for the Presidency sometime in the next decade. If those are indeed his plans, anticipate how great it will look in 2007 and 2008 when the public has recovered from the shock of the attack and Our Savior Russ Feingold was the one who tried to protect us from it in the first place.
are you nuts? they will spin this so hard that he won't even make it out of the primaries! Gary Condit would stand a better chance running with Hillary Clinton on the Republican ticket...
can't you see the negative ads? 'in september, the world was united in shock. congress sought to take action to protect the nation, and only one man stood against it....'