Farsite is just one of several projects at Microsoft Research and other labs around the world that will render operating systems all but unrecognizable in 10 years. Farsite embodies several characteristics--such as fault tolerance, self-tuning and robust security--that will distinguish operating systems of the future.
So, Bill is finally going to release a version of windows that will automatically simulate pressing ctrl-alt-delete when it blue screens.
Many people would say it's MS's customers that have been fault tolerant.
<rimshot!>
I guess to me, the 'technical' part seems simple. different encoding requires different codec. No big story there. Just trying to help anyhoo, and sorry if you felt 'talked down to' or something. 8)
Imagine if your car would only accept gasoline from your homestate (let's say California).
When you take a vacation to Arizona, the gas is much, much cheaper, but alas won't run in your car because the signature chemical is missing. You have to buy special "California" gas at a premimum.
Techincally, there's no difference between an AZ car and a CA car, except that artificial price controlling mechanisms have been put in both cars making the fuel from one state non-interchangable with the other. It's a way to create an artificial market and shut out competition.
I would assume that you do your own benchmarking against various jvms, but had I known this information was useful, I certainly would have emailed you.
I have been a java developer for about 5 years. When I first heard of GCJ, I decided to try some informal benchmarking. One area which has sucked with java is IO performance. Sun is addressing this with jdk 1.4, but in a real world business environment, jdk 1.5 will probably been in production before anyone is switching. Anyway... My benchmark consisted of creating a text file of arbitrary length (1024 bytes was the default I think), and I found that IO performance with GCJ was even slower than java IO with the sun jdk. This was about 6-12 months ago, so GCJ may be better now, but at the time, all I could do was laugh. Take something which sucks, and make it suckier is not a way to gain market acceptance.;)
I believe that you can get an ID card from the DMV that's not a drivers license. In fact, I imagine that for the reasons mentioned in the article (like using a credit card, writing a check, etc), that whether or not you drive, a state issued id card is pretty much a necessity.
I live in CA, so I can't vouch that this is true everywhere in the US, but I'm 98% sure.
So, if they're going to go this far, they could incorporate this into all the updates (that will probably never happen) to the voting/polling system. We can finally swipe a card and vote without the arcane system of manual voter registration we have today.
But wait... Then lots more people would probably vote. And all addresses/info could be automatically verified eliminating doubt and manual recounts. And 'elections' like Florida will never happen again!
$100 bucks says they don't incorporate the 1 thing into this system that could empower citizens.
If he does, his daughters fake ids won't work anymore.
:)
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I remember seeing this when I was a kid! I thought maybe mom had just put "special" mushrooms on the pizza again and the whole thing was a halucination!
Didn't they also do a chanuka special with "Jewbacca"...
That sounds real spiffy. "Finding a way to reconcile Israel with her Arab neighbors would be a good start in reducing radicalism in the Islamic world."
Golda Meir: "How can you make peace with a people that hate you more than they love their own children?"
Religious fundamentalists of _ALL_ religions mess up the world for all of us. They spread hate in the name of God instead of love. That's equally true for christians, muslims, jews, hindus, you name it.
Maybe you don't have enough experience coding html then. I know most/.ers are c gurus, so I'm guessing that's you... 8)
I have seen PLENTY of pages TOO MANY pages that NS won't render properly. And yes, SOME that it won't render AT ALL. It's a documented fact that it's css support sucks. Yes, CSS may be broken in the latest IE, but at least it worked properly before, and it's still less broken than NS.
In case you don't know the history, NS invented the font tag, and all the formating tags. Initially html was supposed to use a style language like css, but NS jumped the gun on the _emerging_ standard and created _their_ own standard (ie: ecma script, javascript, potato potahhto, right guys?). They resisted css once it was adopted as a standard and included only 1/2 hearted support for it. I'm sorry, but IE is a great browser. I hate Bill too, but IE just works better. I know it's not a popular opinion here because it's MS and _everything_ they do _must_ be evil and suck, but it's true. You want to know what will work and won't in each browser and SEE how broken NS 4 is?
In the olden days, IE 3 sucked, NS 3 ruled. But that was the OLDEN days. Even NS 6 has some broken stuff in it that the released despite developers PLEAING for them not to since fixes had been sent to them MONTHS before (that article was posted here, so search for it yourself.):)
Just Because Bill is evil doesn't mean his browser sucks.
I frankly LIKe to just declare variables whilly nilly... lets writing code me a bit more spontainous =]
Aside from the fact that I don't know exactly what 'writing code me a bit more spontainous' means, I think there are a number of advantages to strongly typed languages. If you're argument is that you like to declare variables whilly nilly, then surely you don't do any real design or specing out. That in and of itself is probably enough of a counter argument to your argument.
They spent a lot of time dealing with j2ee, making sure the application server environment was swappable.
I'm sorry, but I guess in whatever alternate universe you've had to implement j2ee in, there's only one app server. My experience with j2ee has been REALLY bad. I spent a couple weeks getting a.ear file from borland app server ported to a weblogic friendly version. Nightmare. I actually think j2ee has made deploying to different app servers more difficult.
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Doesn't the gvmt have enough lines? Everytime I go to city hall, the dmv, etc, I think, "wow, how many more useless lines can they get"....
Looks like they want a few million more....
;)
I think I speak for most here when I say:
Keep the details of your chord yanking to yourself...
;)
No.
Bashing microsoft doesn't make me cool. Being man enough to post with my 'real' nick does.
:)
So, Bill is finally going to release a version of windows that will automatically simulate pressing ctrl-alt-delete when it blue screens.
Many people would say it's MS's customers that have been fault tolerant.<rimshot!>
I guess to me, the 'technical' part seems simple. different encoding requires different codec. No big story there. Just trying to help anyhoo, and sorry if you felt 'talked down to' or something. 8)
The warranty is void when you open the case.
If the case is considered to be a copyright protection measure, then opening the case puts you in violation of the DMCA.
Imagine if your car would only accept gasoline from your homestate (let's say California).
When you take a vacation to Arizona, the gas is much, much cheaper, but alas won't run in your car because the signature chemical is missing. You have to buy special "California" gas at a premimum.
Techincally, there's no difference between an AZ car and a CA car, except that artificial price controlling mechanisms have been put in both cars making the fuel from one state non-interchangable with the other. It's a way to create an artificial market and shut out competition.
Do you get it now?
I might be wrong, but if you're going to do a 'Dating with SQL book' it's really all about the INSERT statement....
;)
I would assume that you do your own benchmarking against various jvms, but had I known this information was useful, I certainly would have emailed you.
I have been a java developer for about 5 years. When I first heard of GCJ, I decided to try some informal benchmarking. One area which has sucked with java is IO performance. Sun is addressing this with jdk 1.4, but in a real world business environment, jdk 1.5 will probably been in production before anyone is switching. Anyway... My benchmark consisted of creating a text file of arbitrary length (1024 bytes was the default I think), and I found that IO performance with GCJ was even slower than java IO with the sun jdk. This was about 6-12 months ago, so GCJ may be better now, but at the time, all I could do was laugh. Take something which sucks, and make it suckier is not a way to gain market acceptance. ;)
exoskeletons really BUG me.
Yes.
When I see the President on tv, the _only_ term that comes to mind is
"Party Animal"
;)
I believe that you can get an ID card from the DMV that's not a drivers license. In fact, I imagine that for the reasons mentioned in the article (like using a credit card, writing a check, etc), that whether or not you drive, a state issued id card is pretty much a necessity.
I live in CA, so I can't vouch that this is true everywhere in the US, but I'm 98% sure.
if you fold it in 1/2 like a mad magazine back cover, it becomes pornographic.
looks like braille
hehehehe
I heard a report that microsoft is innocent!
Apparently, the same dead guys that sent the DOJ letters have whipped up some jscript and vbscript to throw off the zdnet poll!
This proves 2 things:
1) Microsoft isn't the devil (or presumably they would be controlling the undead).
2) The undead can't resist a good prank!
So, if they're going to go this far, they could incorporate this into all the updates (that will probably never happen) to the voting/polling system. We can finally swipe a card and vote without the arcane system of manual voter registration we have today.
But wait... Then lots more people would probably vote. And all addresses/info could be automatically verified eliminating doubt and manual recounts. And 'elections' like Florida will never happen again!
$100 bucks says they don't incorporate the 1 thing into this system that could empower citizens.
If he does, his daughters fake ids won't work anymore.
:)
I remember seeing this when I was a kid! I thought maybe mom had just put "special" mushrooms on the pizza again and the whole thing was a halucination!
Didn't they also do a chanuka special with "Jewbacca"...
hehe
Bad idea.
Haven't you heard of the anthrax mail virus?
You're just plain silly my friend.
That sounds real spiffy. "Finding a way to reconcile Israel with her Arab neighbors would be a good start in reducing radicalism in the Islamic world."
Golda Meir: "How can you make peace with a people that hate you more than they love their own children?"
Religious fundamentalists of _ALL_ religions mess up the world for all of us. They spread hate in the name of God instead of love. That's equally true for christians, muslims, jews, hindus, you name it.
Maybe you don't have enough experience coding html then. I know most /.ers are c gurus, so I'm guessing that's you... 8)
:)
I have seen PLENTY of pages TOO MANY pages that NS won't render properly. And yes, SOME that it won't render AT ALL. It's a documented fact that it's css support sucks. Yes, CSS may be broken in the latest IE, but at least it worked properly before, and it's still less broken than NS.
In case you don't know the history, NS invented the font tag, and all the formating tags. Initially html was supposed to use a style language like css, but NS jumped the gun on the _emerging_ standard and created _their_ own standard (ie: ecma script, javascript, potato potahhto, right guys?). They resisted css once it was adopted as a standard and included only 1/2 hearted support for it. I'm sorry, but IE is a great browser. I hate Bill too, but IE just works better. I know it's not a popular opinion here because it's MS and _everything_ they do _must_ be evil and suck, but it's true. You want to know what will work and won't in each browser and SEE how broken NS 4 is?
In the olden days, IE 3 sucked, NS 3 ruled. But that was the OLDEN days. Even NS 6 has some broken stuff in it that the released despite developers PLEAING for them not to since fixes had been sent to them MONTHS before (that article was posted here, so search for it yourself.)
Just Because Bill is evil doesn't mean his browser sucks.
Aside from the fact that I don't know exactly what 'writing code me a bit more spontainous' means, I think there are a number of advantages to strongly typed languages. If you're argument is that you like to declare variables whilly nilly, then surely you don't do any real design or specing out. That in and of itself is probably enough of a counter argument to your argument.
I'm sorry, but I guess in whatever alternate universe you've had to implement j2ee in, there's only one app server. My experience with j2ee has been REALLY bad. I spent a couple weeks getting a .ear file from borland app server ported to a weblogic friendly version. Nightmare. I actually think j2ee has made deploying to different app servers more difficult.