"There are dozens of simple rules you can follow when you write C code, any one of which would have prevented that problem." That doesn't matter if you aren't the one who wrote the original code. The fact is it simply can't happen in a language like Java.
"That might be acceptable, but the worst part is random application pauses of arbitrary duration for garbage collection. Unless that problem can be resolved, garbage collected languages will be always be a poor match for latency sensitive applications, even where the net throughput is otherwise adequate."
How about when "Amazon" sends you a $25 coupon--just click here! It takes a bit more to realize you are on www.amazon.com.bleh.meh/coupon instead of amazon.com when you enter your login information. And Amazon does send those kinds of emails.
Nintendo hasn't promised that you can keep playing "your" games. They have promised that you can repurchase "your" games and then play them. Big difference.
Then I guess every console Nintendo has released since the NES has been a failure. Or you could be realistic and take new competition into account rather than labeling anything that doesn't sell as well as the past a failure.
"Next time you write a Slashdot post, you might want to consider putting some facts in it. Or at least labelling your suppositions as such."
I'm sorry but I didn't see you label "If the average Joe is staying away for any reason, it's that you literally cannot buy one for less than $1200 right now" a supposition. Just because some have gone for that much doesn't mean you can't get it for less, particularly when the average isn't near that. Looks like a case of a Doctor who won't take his own medicine.
Speaking of xbox 360.. how is the HD? Looking at this picture, it appears not so hot. I can see aliasing on that box even though the pixels in the portion of the image file that the screen makes up alone don't even come close to 720p(this should lend a natural anti-aliasing effect but in this case it must be a low resolution being displayed on the screen).
You need to learn to read. Your point was my point--it was the entire point of my comment! Please, learn to read a thread in context, look at the parent of my post's parent: it was me! If you aren't going to use nested comments to your advantage perhaps you should stick to sites like digg.com, with their plethora of one-off comments.
My only evidence is that I knew a guy who worked for them installing the hardware. Don't be alarmed, my widgets are fine. I won't file a complaint until I know for sure that they are doing it. My real gripe with them is that they have horrible service and smooth talk their way into very large contracts with local apartment complexes--a part of this contract supposedly bars the apartment's tenants from using wireless equipment.
I knew a guy who worked for them, and he told me about it. I don't want to say what city because I don't want to make any potentially libelous claims that I can't back up.
Bah, it is just cache. If I have the memory available why not use it? Unfortunately Firefox isn't at a Kernel level and can't know if perhaps some portion of the memory would be better spent overall if it were used on caching the local I/O for example.
You didn't read him correctly. He said, "The implicit claim, that free journals deliver a lower quality of review, does not stand up to even cursory examination"(emphasis added). You conviently left the part that agreed with you out (and additionally got modded up by someone who similarly can't read)!
Does anyone know how to go about fighting a regional WISP for illegally boosting their signals? The one in my town is doing this, and I'm interesting in what actions to persue.
Having publicly available phone books with millions of numbers doesn't help you identify say an Alzheimer's patient. Let's say grandma is on Google searching for information on Alzheimer's treatments for grandpa and a google ad pops up for a new treatment. In-fact it is just some scam company selling time shares or some such that is trying to identify sufferers of Alzheimer's. They call back until they get grandpa alone and convince him that yes, he and his wife (who is conveniently not present) did indeed purchase a timeshare yesterday and his checking account information is needed to finalize the transaction.
The purpose of not listing the number is so that google can charge the advertiser for this service. Also it acts as a protection against scammers who use your phone number as a way to ID you for nefarious purposes. If all you want to ask is "can your product do X?" you perhaps don't want them to know all of your identification.
Ever think perhaps your workplace isn't attractive to talented developers? I can say from personal experience that both Clemson and (particularly) Ga. Tech both have excellent undergraduate CS programs. Clemson's grad CS program isn't nearly as strong as GA Tech's, but in undergrad the difference isn't so pronounced. It depends on the position but for finding a good coder who understands what he is doing I would definitely focus on people with a B.S. over a B.A. and CS majors, not CIS. I think you definitely aren't offering what the market demands for these employees and you probably scrounged up people who graduated near the bottom of their class. It doesn't sound like you are in Atlanta so you most likely are trying to attract people out to Boomfuck, Nowhere and then offering to pay them salaries which compete with other esteemed jobs in Boomfuck, like "mopper at pop's general shop."
Since posting a reply without reading the post (it takes 3 factors, not 2) is prettty aggressive, I guess you do meet the requirements and you are indeed a psycho
Now that they support HD more fully, it really could be used as a PC. The thing holding back all the crappy WebTV type systems has always been resolution. Now, find me one person in America that has an HDTV and no computer and I'll be shocked.
Ahaha so you are including portable systems. You just made the biggest mistake you could make. Gameboy was huge for 10 years. Since your whole point was no new games come out after two years you are sunk. Sorry. You lose.
PS2 came out about 5 years ago. In this last year plenty of new games have come out for it. You are completely wrong. NES lasted many many years. SNES and Genesis lasted many many years. You don't know shit about this market.
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"There are dozens of simple rules you can follow when you write C code, any one of which would have prevented that problem." That doesn't matter if you aren't the one who wrote the original code. The fact is it simply can't happen in a language like Java.
"That might be acceptable, but the worst part is random application pauses of arbitrary duration for garbage collection. Unless that problem can be resolved, garbage collected languages will be always be a poor match for latency sensitive applications, even where the net throughput is otherwise adequate."
Malloc and free are also non-deterministic.
How about when "Amazon" sends you a $25 coupon--just click here! It takes a bit more to realize you are on www.amazon.com.bleh.meh/coupon instead of amazon.com when you enter your login information. And Amazon does send those kinds of emails.
Nintendo hasn't promised that you can keep playing "your" games. They have promised that you can repurchase "your" games and then play them. Big difference.
Then I guess every console Nintendo has released since the NES has been a failure. Or you could be realistic and take new competition into account rather than labeling anything that doesn't sell as well as the past a failure.
"Next time you write a Slashdot post, you might want to consider putting some facts in it. Or at least labelling your suppositions as such."
I'm sorry but I didn't see you label "If the average Joe is staying away for any reason, it's that you literally cannot buy one for less than $1200 right now" a supposition. Just because some have gone for that much doesn't mean you can't get it for less, particularly when the average isn't near that. Looks like a case of a Doctor who won't take his own medicine.
Speaking of xbox 360.. how is the HD? Looking at this picture, it appears not so hot. I can see aliasing on that box even though the pixels in the portion of the image file that the screen makes up alone don't even come close to 720p(this should lend a natural anti-aliasing effect but in this case it must be a low resolution being displayed on the screen).
Nintendo hasn't been publicly traded for 50 years. Snap.
You need to learn to read. Your point was my point--it was the entire point of my comment! Please, learn to read a thread in context, look at the parent of my post's parent: it was me! If you aren't going to use nested comments to your advantage perhaps you should stick to sites like digg.com, with their plethora of one-off comments.
My only evidence is that I knew a guy who worked for them installing the hardware. Don't be alarmed, my widgets are fine. I won't file a complaint until I know for sure that they are doing it. My real gripe with them is that they have horrible service and smooth talk their way into very large contracts with local apartment complexes--a part of this contract supposedly bars the apartment's tenants from using wireless equipment.
I knew a guy who worked for them, and he told me about it. I don't want to say what city because I don't want to make any potentially libelous claims that I can't back up.
Very true. On windows '95. Problems with system resources like this haven't been there since '98.
When you say 3Ghz just be aware that that is the "Pentium 4" Ghz, which isn't the same as "Pentium III" Ghz. We really haven't come as far as you say.
Bah, it is just cache. If I have the memory available why not use it? Unfortunately Firefox isn't at a Kernel level and can't know if perhaps some portion of the memory would be better spent overall if it were used on caching the local I/O for example.
You didn't read him correctly. He said, "The implicit claim, that free journals deliver a lower quality of review, does not stand up to even cursory examination"(emphasis added). You conviently left the part that agreed with you out (and additionally got modded up by someone who similarly can't read)!
Does anyone know how to go about fighting a regional WISP for illegally boosting their signals? The one in my town is doing this, and I'm interesting in what actions to persue.
Having publicly available phone books with millions of numbers doesn't help you identify say an Alzheimer's patient.
Let's say grandma is on Google searching for information on Alzheimer's treatments for grandpa and a google ad pops up for a new treatment. In-fact it is just some scam company selling time shares or some such that is trying to identify sufferers of Alzheimer's. They call back until they get grandpa alone and convince him that yes, he and his wife (who is conveniently not present) did indeed purchase a timeshare yesterday and his checking account information is needed to finalize the transaction.
Because dark synergy has been affecting scientific circles and this might get to the bottom of it.
The purpose of not listing the number is so that google can charge the advertiser for this service. Also it acts as a protection against scammers who use your phone number as a way to ID you for nefarious purposes. If all you want to ask is "can your product do X?" you perhaps don't want them to know all of your identification.
If you didn't get it I was making fun of you acting like you were a professor. Tool.
Ever think perhaps your workplace isn't attractive to talented developers? I can say from personal experience that both Clemson and (particularly) Ga. Tech both have excellent undergraduate CS programs. Clemson's grad CS program isn't nearly as strong as GA Tech's, but in undergrad the difference isn't so pronounced. It depends on the position but for finding a good coder who understands what he is doing I would definitely focus on people with a B.S. over a B.A. and CS majors, not CIS. I think you definitely aren't offering what the market demands for these employees and you probably scrounged up people who graduated near the bottom of their class. It doesn't sound like you are in Atlanta so you most likely are trying to attract people out to Boomfuck, Nowhere and then offering to pay them salaries which compete with other esteemed jobs in Boomfuck, like "mopper at pop's general shop."
Since posting a reply without reading the post (it takes 3 factors, not 2) is prettty aggressive, I guess you do meet the requirements and you are indeed a psycho
Now that they support HD more fully, it really could be used as a PC. The thing holding back all the crappy WebTV type systems has always been resolution. Now, find me one person in America that has an HDTV and no computer and I'll be shocked.
Ahaha so you are including portable systems. You just made the biggest mistake you could make. Gameboy was huge for 10 years. Since your whole point was no new games come out after two years you are sunk. Sorry. You lose.
PS2 came out about 5 years ago. In this last year plenty of new games have come out for it. You are completely wrong. NES lasted many many years. SNES and Genesis lasted many many years. You don't know shit about this market.