I reboot a lot (testing sw on different OS versions), so it would save me about an hour a week.
An hour? Just how did you measure that?
What percentage of the boot process is the RAM test? I have no idea, but let's pretend it's 5%. And let's say they could cut down the RAM test by, say, 80%. That means the boot time would be 96% of what it was. If that saves you an hour a week, that means you currently spend 25 hours a week just booting up.
I guess some of us prefer to conserve and help save the environment by turning off our computers when they're not being used.
If you turn off your computer when you're not using it, thus saving the environment, then by reading slashdot you are harming the environment. Is it really worth it to you to damage the planet over just slashdot?! How can you be so selfish?
And oh yeah, my computer does a lot of stuff, even when I'm not in front of it.
Tiger Direct contends that Apple's use of the name has adversely affected its ranking amongst the Internet's largest search engines, Google and Yahoo, bumping the company from its usual spot in the first three results.
Why would anybody looking to buy computer stuff search on the word Tiger? Unless they already knew about Tigerdirect, it just wouldn't happen.
Until now, of course. So now people who haven't heard of them might stumble on to them, where they would never have stumbled before. Seems to me like this should help their business, not hurt it.
If I had a computer business named, say, LonghornDirect, I sure wouldn't mind somebody coming out with an OS named Longhorn. Say, maybe I should register that.
For me to code well I have to hold in my brain a complex picture of what I'm doing. If I stop along the way to "explain" and translate into English what I'm doing then the picture begins to degrade, and I lose my momentum.
It's not out of laziness, I just don't have the mental capacity to be able to stop and thoroughly comment and also maintain that mental picture. Ideally I would go back later and comment what I've done, but of course what happens in practice is that I continue on with the project. Yes this causes me to have poorly commented code. And as usually I'm the only audience for my code, I'm the one who suffers for it later. But I don't have a good answer. I'm not making excuses for not commenting well, I'm trying to explain why, for me at least, code tends to be poorly commented.
Well, not too hard if you're well connected enough.
Yes it is. It's really, really difficult.
Quite a few Venture Funds do that well or much better.
Only if you ignore the word "steady." If you have enough funds in operation, just by chance some will do very well for a while. And if you really have enough, just by chance one or two will do very well for a long time. But you can't predict which ones. If you can reliably produce 20%+ returns year after year, you will soon have more money than you can ever possibly spend.
Surprise, surprise--it works very well in halting the spread of AIDS.
Well of course removing infected people from the population would do that. But in a larger, less controlled populous the actual result would be nobody seeking treatment at all, as it effectively ends their active life to do so.
And I'm not tying to be funny. This obviously could never be a viable, long-term venture, as sooner or later they would either get shut down or lose their advantages. And yet it has a large startup cost. In my experience, ideas like this are much more likely to be investment scams rather than serious business attempts. I don't know Roger Green or David Cook, and I'm not saying I know anything specific about this particular business. I'm just saying that to me it doesn't add up.
On a side note, the web site says there will be 600 "world-class" software engineers. Just how big *is* this World Class? Seems like everybody's got some.
Well you sent me off to gather data to demonstrate how wrong you were. Of course it turns out you're right, so any belittling will have to wait for some other time. What's really amazing is that IBM earned nearly as much as MSFT's gross revenue. (And they both make absurd amounts of money.)
One-line descriptions are often inadequate to explain the value of something. What do you think, it's going to be list of things you've never seen or heard of anywhere else before? It the whole experience, and being able to do useful things with less effort.
In my experience, XCode is incredibly slow for building a smaller ( 20 files) application.
I have a small project I'm working on. It currently has 16 files. If I change a single file and click "build," its finished about as soon as I release the mouse button. If I "clean" first, which forces it to recompile everything, the build is finished in six seconds.
Nonsense. Arizona doesn't change and they aren't having kids run over because it is dark.
Arizona is further south, so the difference is less dramatic. Arizona is on the eastern edge of its time zone, so it's lighter earlier. Arizona also makes people drive 0.1 miles per hour* in a school zone.
Parent post is not off topic. He's pointing out that the article is devoid of information, so essentially all the article does say is "...it's called Spiral." His four word post contains as much information as the entire article.
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Considering how many people have now read this, she's going to have to get around like Santa Claus if she's going to make it to everyone's ceilings.
Maybe that was one of the things he read in the books.
An hour? Just how did you measure that?
What percentage of the boot process is the RAM test? I have no idea, but let's pretend it's 5%. And let's say they could cut down the RAM test by, say, 80%. That means the boot time would be 96% of what it was. If that saves you an hour a week, that means you currently spend 25 hours a week just booting up.
I'm taking the unders.
If you turn off your computer when you're not using it, thus saving the environment, then by reading slashdot you are harming the environment. Is it really worth it to you to damage the planet over just slashdot?! How can you be so selfish?
And oh yeah, my computer does a lot of stuff, even when I'm not in front of it.
Yeah, no kidding. I must boot at least once every few months or so, so pretty soon that's going to add up to...uh, a couple of minutes.
Why would anybody looking to buy computer stuff search on the word Tiger? Unless they already knew about Tigerdirect, it just wouldn't happen. Until now, of course. So now people who haven't heard of them might stumble on to them, where they would never have stumbled before. Seems to me like this should help their business, not hurt it.
If I had a computer business named, say, LonghornDirect, I sure wouldn't mind somebody coming out with an OS named Longhorn. Say, maybe I should register that.
The use of "we" speaks as though you're with Apple, but you don't explain why you speak that way.
It's not out of laziness, I just don't have the mental capacity to be able to stop and thoroughly comment and also maintain that mental picture. Ideally I would go back later and comment what I've done, but of course what happens in practice is that I continue on with the project. Yes this causes me to have poorly commented code. And as usually I'm the only audience for my code, I'm the one who suffers for it later. But I don't have a good answer. I'm not making excuses for not commenting well, I'm trying to explain why, for me at least, code tends to be poorly commented.
Yes it is. It's really, really difficult.
Quite a few Venture Funds do that well or much better.
Only if you ignore the word "steady." If you have enough funds in operation, just by chance some will do very well for a while. And if you really have enough, just by chance one or two will do very well for a long time. But you can't predict which ones. If you can reliably produce 20%+ returns year after year, you will soon have more money than you can ever possibly spend.
Not yet, anyway.
Only if you know where you can earn a steady 20% interest (let alone after taxes and adjusting for inflation.)
Well of course removing infected people from the population would do that. But in a larger, less controlled populous the actual result would be nobody seeking treatment at all, as it effectively ends their active life to do so.
That paper is from 1998. Got any follow-ups?
On a side note, the web site says there will be 600 "world-class" software engineers. Just how big *is* this World Class? Seems like everybody's got some.
Well you sent me off to gather data to demonstrate how wrong you were. Of course it turns out you're right, so any belittling will have to wait for some other time. What's really amazing is that IBM earned nearly as much as MSFT's gross revenue. (And they both make absurd amounts of money.)
That probably explains it. It's absurdly fast, at least on my rinky-dink stuff.
One-line descriptions are often inadequate to explain the value of something. What do you think, it's going to be list of things you've never seen or heard of anywhere else before? It the whole experience, and being able to do useful things with less effort.
I have a small project I'm working on. It currently has 16 files. If I change a single file and click "build," its finished about as soon as I release the mouse button. If I "clean" first, which forces it to recompile everything, the build is finished in six seconds.
Nobody seriously considering changing suppliers calls the new supplier's stuff "fairly good." What's their slogan if they make the switch?
Dell Computers - Now with fairly good technology!
You're right. I thought they were in the pacific time zone.
Apparently, most people in Arizona do not want extra daylight. You wouldn't either if it was 106 degrees (the *average* high temperature in July).
I think they get the same amount of daylight whether they change their clocks or not :-)
I never claimed it was rational. I only said that sooner or later it will happen (if only by chance) and then there'd be an uproar.
Arizona is further south, so the difference is less dramatic. Arizona is on the eastern edge of its time zone, so it's lighter earlier. Arizona also makes people drive 0.1 miles per hour* in a school zone.
*approximately.
Because then you'd have kids going to school in the dark. As soon as one is hit by a car that's the end of that.
They are not merely making a copy. They are claiming it as their own creation. Surely you can see the difference.
Parent post is not off topic. He's pointing out that the article is devoid of information, so essentially all the article does say is "...it's called Spiral." His four word post contains as much information as the entire article.