The thing holding the compiler back isn't the price, it's the lack of Solaris support.
No, the thing holding the compiler back is the lack of freedom. Here's what I would tell my boss:
"Yes, that could make our site run faster. However, realistically speaking, this compiler will probably never catch on in a big way. This means that we'll be tuning our code against the inevitable compiler bugs instead of more standard coding practices. When this compiler disappears from the market and we are no longer able to renew our compiler license, what do we do then? Pray that someone's written a competing and feature-complete Open Source compiler that we can port our code to in a reasonable amount of time, or go back to using non-compiled code with the same performance bottlenecks that we've been compiling away for the last two years?"
You're binding "is" to "too good to be true". I've also heard "isn't" bound to "true".
In other words, you're saying "if it sounds too be true, it probably is (too good to be true)". Other people have said "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't (true)".
The statements mean the same thing and neither needs corrected.
That was not the question. That's an entirely different product line that OS X. To my knowledge, they no longer support 10.1 and I'm reasonably certain that they don't support older versions.
What they don't do is stop you from getting your repaired by them or anyone else.
In what way does Microsoft stop you have having third parties provides patches to you Windows system? They may not help those groups but I can't imagine that they could stop them.
Why don't they do this? after all it works for Microsoft.
Now you're just being silly.
Look, I don't approve of Microsoft's business practices either, but screaming about every little move they make doesn't exactly lend credibility to our position. As much as I don't like them, I don't believe that they consult an "evil calculus" before each and every business decision.
Here we see one of the major disadvantages of monopolies,
Because we all know that non-monopoly vendors provide lots of updates for four-year-old packages. Does Apple still support Mac OS 10.1? Does RedHat still support 6.x? What you've described is applicable to pretty much every single industry and every company whether a monopoly or not. Unless you really think that Toyota keeps adding cool new stuff to their cars because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling and not because they have to have some way to convince people to upgrade their perfectly good five-year-old cars, this shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
Microsoft does plenty of crummy things on its own. There is no need to invent new ones.
Two of the books I've read in the last few years were Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" and James Joyce's "Ulysses". The former took months because I only get a chance to read after the kids go to bed at night, and I wanted to savor it rather than rush forward blindly without understanding each and every word.
The latter took freakin' ages because I cannot imagine a more boring, overhyped stack of drudgery and I eventually got through it by only setting a goal of reading at least five pages (yes, pages!) per night. I've heard a theory that every who's ready "Ulysses" loved it because those who didn't think it was wonderful put it down after two chapters, and I'm bullheaded enough to be the exception who actually read it through and still hated it.
Anyway, both of those really decreased my throughput during the years I read them, but the NEA would only get the fact that I read fewer books at that time and not that the books were more challenging. I don't suspect everyone was running out to get "Six Easy Pieces" during the study's time frame, but darn it, some of us were!
i'm interested in what just happens with the "gambling bill for prop tax relief" that just passed in PA.... it promises to even out funding, and reduce local prop taxes. i'm sure that it wont....
That is almost always a lie. In Missouri, gambling was supposed to help fund education. We all want more money for education, right? Think of the children! What happened was that the education budget was, say $1B. Gambling raised, say, $500M for the schools. $1B + $500M = $1.5B of highly-funded learning, right? Wrong! The school budgets didn't increase at all. The money coming in from gambling replaced taxpayer funds - it wasn't added to them.
So Missouri taxpayers got a lower tax bill that year, right? Wrong! The first rule of governmental spending is that it almost never goes down. The state found some other project that coincidentally needed $500M (probably For The Children). The gambling proponents sort of told the truth: the money did go toward education. What they left out is that an equal amount of money from other sources came out of that budget item.
Good luck in PA. I hope it works out better than it has for any other non-gambling-centric state (ie, excluding NV) that I've ever heard of.
As another poster pointed out, JPEG is a fine "final format" for when you want to distribute the end product. You do not want to use it as your main format while still processing the image, though:
Open the JPEG.
Tweak it.
Save back as a JPEG, discarding a little bit of the image data.
Repeat.
The end result isn't pretty. PNG, on the other hand, can be loaded and saved infinitely without losing a single bit. PNG and JPEG are both useful, but for different things.
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It's the #1 fax server in the country and quite probably the world. Modesty forbids telling you which one, but it starts with an 'R'.
Nope. Pneumatic tubes suck at delivering cargo larger than, say, a small coffee can.
On the other hand, labelling a cracked, leaking test tube filled with water, corn syrup, and red food coloring with a lab request sheet for Ebola and sticking it on a robot delivery unit for a random part of the hospital just isn't the same as delivering 10cc of terror-fueled hilarity to a friend's vacuum tube receiver.
So much for "military medicine seems to be quite a few years ahead of times."
AFAIK, all major military hospitals are teaching facilities, ala your local university medical center. You get some of the best and brightest, and you also get some that haven't figured out how to tie their own shoes but haven't been weeded from the system yet. I observed that the technology was pretty advanced, not that the occupants were any more intelligent.
What? I had an extended stay in the hospital when I was at that age and I would've absolutely spazzed with joy at the idea of robots running around doing robotty things.
In reality, the robots are pretty dull. Imagine a featureless 2.5ft wide x 3.5ft long x 3ft tall box on wheels. If a kid's terrified of that, then you need to slap the Teletubbies out of 'em.
You can certify that an exact model of robot has particular RF-generating characteristics. Maintaining a list of cell phone + 3rd-party antenna combinations and only allowing visitors to use approved ones just isn't feasible.
There are lots of interesting places on the compound! Those tunnels are kinda creepy when no one else is around and the robots are just moving around by themselves in the dark.
I'm glad I read this after losing the option of giving in to temptation!
The new PACS system there by the way (was well as on the USNS Mercy) is sweet.
I bet. My friend (Tom Sweet - do you read Slashdot?) showed me the old system with features like "Wanna see the EKG for room 563 at 1:14PM on the 23rd of February?" and I was pretty blown away by the scope of it. The only other network I'd ever seen was an old Xerox Star system and I still thought my little Amiga 2000 was pretty powerful.
When I was transferred to Naval Hospital San Diego (now NavMedCenSD, I think), they'd had pretty much that exact system in use for several years. You'd occasional have to get out of the way of one of the little automatic carts as they followed their trails throughout the hospital. The freaky part was when you'd be walking down a long hallway, two little doors would slide open on opposite walls in front of you, a cart would come out from one wall and scoot into the other, and the doors would close behind it. I always wanted to duck in behind one but military chain-of-command is notoriously unsympathetic to tunnel hacking.
Then again, military medicine seems to be quite a few years ahead of times. By the time I'd graduated from Operating Room Tech school in San Diego in 1993, I'd scrubbed in on many arthroscopic gall bladder removals and pretty much took them for granted. I was pretty surprised a couple of years ago to see a local newspaper bragging about how our hospital had recently acquired the equipment for "state-of-the-art arthroscopic gall bladder removal". One of my friends supervised the NHSD's digital imaging system in '94 or so, and the local civilian facility is just now completing a switchover to the same idea.
I wouldn't do it again if I had the choice, but we definitely had the coolest toys to play with.
Sometimes the law and what's right aren't the same. Sometime it takes a group like Greenpeace to give voice to the global commons and protect the endgangered species which aren't able to hire lawyers to protect them.
"Sometimes the law and what's right aren't the same. Sometime it takes a man like James Kopp to give voice to the global commons and protect the unborn children which aren't able to hire lawyers to protect them."
Is your statement still acceptable when coming from someone with a different point of view? If not, you may wish to reconsider.
Note: I don't support either statement. Both are indefensible.
My sister bought a $1500 surround sound system with tower speakers and got them home to find that they were scratched, the wires had been used, and the system was completely unmistakably used and abused.
Because of stories and personal experiences like these, I have no moral qualms whatsoever about the "Best Try Warranty Plan": buying gear that's as similar as possible to your own broken equipment, putting the broken stuff in the new box, and returning it for a refund. It's what they cheerfully do to their own customers, so I can't see why their customers shouldn't do it in return.
I would never do things like that at another store, ever, under any circumstances. However, I do not believe it is possible to treat Best Buy unethically. Bluntly, at that store, anything goes (from either direction).
telnet is sniffable. Big deal, so is imap, pop3, smtp, http, you name it.
Which is why I use IMAPS, POP3S, SMTP w/ TLS, and HTTPS when connecting to my home network from remote locations. If you don't want people to sniff your information, then it's naive and ignorant to use any unencrypted protocol. It's not 1998, people - most server apps give you the option to use SSL or TLS if you tell them to.
I had never toasted a piece of hardware. Ever. Literally, not one. I like and respect equipment and it generally reciprocates.
So why was it that I had been at my new job for a grand total of two days before I dropped a screwdriver onto the exposed electronics of a 15K-rpm SCSI-320 drive, promptly arcing the components into a blackened magic-smokey mess?
I immediately told my new coworked what happened (I didn't want to be branded "stupid" and "liar") and he got permission to order a replacement. God bless my boss and second chances.
and only after verifying that you really mean it, hit ^A (or home), delete the comment character, and then hit enter. If you screw up in the meantime, you've only managed to process a comment.
I love having a simple, unified interface shared by almost all the programs I use.
Would that be the 3.x, 9x,.NET, XP, or Office interface? It's pretty darn easy to see each of them on screen at the same time, so my KDE desktop is much more uniform than what I expect you're used to.
I like having my programs and commands have names that actually make sense
Vivio, Roxio, Winamp, and Quicken are solid examples of obviously-named applications - moreso than, say, KDevelop, KMail, Gnucash, or MP3Burn.
Ironically, it doesn't display Slashdot right sometimes, either.
Slashcode spits out incredibly bad HTML. Don't take my word for it - paste the source into a validator sometime to see for yourself. Given that, it's not meaningful to say that any given browser "doesn't display Slashdot right" since there's no clear answer to how it's supposed to appear.
Slashdot's a great site, but noone's ever praised it for the beautiful HTML. It's just kind of one of those things.
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Isn't that enough in itself? It is for me.
The thing holding the compiler back isn't the price, it's the lack of Solaris support.
No, the thing holding the compiler back is the lack of freedom. Here's what I would tell my boss:
"Yes, that could make our site run faster. However, realistically speaking, this compiler will probably never catch on in a big way. This means that we'll be tuning our code against the inevitable compiler bugs instead of more standard coding practices. When this compiler disappears from the market and we are no longer able to renew our compiler license, what do we do then? Pray that someone's written a competing and feature-complete Open Source compiler that we can port our code to in a reasonable amount of time, or go back to using non-compiled code with the same performance bottlenecks that we've been compiling away for the last two years?"
No, I think we'll be taking a pass on this one.
In other words, you're saying "if it sounds too be true, it probably is (too good to be true)". Other people have said "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't (true)".
The statements mean the same thing and neither needs corrected.
No, not like 9. Mac OS 9 is not an older version of Mac OS 10. They are completely separate products.
That was not the question. That's an entirely different product line that OS X. To my knowledge, they no longer support 10.1 and I'm reasonably certain that they don't support older versions.
What they don't do is stop you from getting your repaired by them or anyone else.
In what way does Microsoft stop you have having third parties provides patches to you Windows system? They may not help those groups but I can't imagine that they could stop them.
Why don't they do this? after all it works for Microsoft.
Now you're just being silly.
Look, I don't approve of Microsoft's business practices either, but screaming about every little move they make doesn't exactly lend credibility to our position. As much as I don't like them, I don't believe that they consult an "evil calculus" before each and every business decision.
Because we all know that non-monopoly vendors provide lots of updates for four-year-old packages. Does Apple still support Mac OS 10.1? Does RedHat still support 6.x? What you've described is applicable to pretty much every single industry and every company whether a monopoly or not. Unless you really think that Toyota keeps adding cool new stuff to their cars because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling and not because they have to have some way to convince people to upgrade their perfectly good five-year-old cars, this shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
Microsoft does plenty of crummy things on its own. There is no need to invent new ones.
The latter took freakin' ages because I cannot imagine a more boring, overhyped stack of drudgery and I eventually got through it by only setting a goal of reading at least five pages (yes, pages!) per night. I've heard a theory that every who's ready "Ulysses" loved it because those who didn't think it was wonderful put it down after two chapters, and I'm bullheaded enough to be the exception who actually read it through and still hated it.
Anyway, both of those really decreased my throughput during the years I read them, but the NEA would only get the fact that I read fewer books at that time and not that the books were more challenging. I don't suspect everyone was running out to get "Six Easy Pieces" during the study's time frame, but darn it, some of us were!
Right.
Show me RMS's heavier and less-well-groomed brother in Birkenstocks, a T-shirt, and suspenders and I'd be a little more likely to believe it.
That is almost always a lie. In Missouri, gambling was supposed to help fund education. We all want more money for education, right? Think of the children! What happened was that the education budget was, say $1B. Gambling raised, say, $500M for the schools. $1B + $500M = $1.5B of highly-funded learning, right? Wrong! The school budgets didn't increase at all. The money coming in from gambling replaced taxpayer funds - it wasn't added to them.
So Missouri taxpayers got a lower tax bill that year, right? Wrong! The first rule of governmental spending is that it almost never goes down. The state found some other project that coincidentally needed $500M (probably For The Children). The gambling proponents sort of told the truth: the money did go toward education. What they left out is that an equal amount of money from other sources came out of that budget item.
Good luck in PA. I hope it works out better than it has for any other non-gambling-centric state (ie, excluding NV) that I've ever heard of.
- Open the JPEG.
- Tweak it.
- Save back as a JPEG, discarding a little bit of the image data.
- Repeat.
The end result isn't pretty. PNG, on the other hand, can be loaded and saved infinitely without losing a single bit. PNG and JPEG are both useful, but for different things.RHylafax?
D'oh! You're absolutely correct, of course. I was thinking "fooscopic" and filled in the prefix I hear most often, mainly from my wife (who also IAS).
Nope. Pneumatic tubes suck at delivering cargo larger than, say, a small coffee can.
On the other hand, labelling a cracked, leaking test tube filled with water, corn syrup, and red food coloring with a lab request sheet for Ebola and sticking it on a robot delivery unit for a random part of the hospital just isn't the same as delivering 10cc of terror-fueled hilarity to a friend's vacuum tube receiver.
AFAIK, all major military hospitals are teaching facilities, ala your local university medical center. You get some of the best and brightest, and you also get some that haven't figured out how to tie their own shoes but haven't been weeded from the system yet. I observed that the technology was pretty advanced, not that the occupants were any more intelligent.
In reality, the robots are pretty dull. Imagine a featureless 2.5ft wide x 3.5ft long x 3ft tall box on wheels. If a kid's terrified of that, then you need to slap the Teletubbies out of 'em.
You can certify that an exact model of robot has particular RF-generating characteristics. Maintaining a list of cell phone + 3rd-party antenna combinations and only allowing visitors to use approved ones just isn't feasible.
I'm glad I read this after losing the option of giving in to temptation!
The new PACS system there by the way (was well as on the USNS Mercy) is sweet.
I bet. My friend (Tom Sweet - do you read Slashdot?) showed me the old system with features like "Wanna see the EKG for room 563 at 1:14PM on the 23rd of February?" and I was pretty blown away by the scope of it. The only other network I'd ever seen was an old Xerox Star system and I still thought my little Amiga 2000 was pretty powerful.
Then again, military medicine seems to be quite a few years ahead of times. By the time I'd graduated from Operating Room Tech school in San Diego in 1993, I'd scrubbed in on many arthroscopic gall bladder removals and pretty much took them for granted. I was pretty surprised a couple of years ago to see a local newspaper bragging about how our hospital had recently acquired the equipment for "state-of-the-art arthroscopic gall bladder removal". One of my friends supervised the NHSD's digital imaging system in '94 or so, and the local civilian facility is just now completing a switchover to the same idea.
I wouldn't do it again if I had the choice, but we definitely had the coolest toys to play with.
"Sometimes the law and what's right aren't the same. Sometime it takes a man like James Kopp to give voice to the global commons and protect the unborn children which aren't able to hire lawyers to protect them."
Is your statement still acceptable when coming from someone with a different point of view? If not, you may wish to reconsider.
Note: I don't support either statement. Both are indefensible.
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My sister bought a $1500 surround sound system with tower speakers and got them home to find that they were scratched, the wires had been used, and the system was completely unmistakably used and abused.
Because of stories and personal experiences like these, I have no moral qualms whatsoever about the "Best Try Warranty Plan": buying gear that's as similar as possible to your own broken equipment, putting the broken stuff in the new box, and returning it for a refund. It's what they cheerfully do to their own customers, so I can't see why their customers shouldn't do it in return.
I would never do things like that at another store, ever, under any circumstances. However, I do not believe it is possible to treat Best Buy unethically. Bluntly, at that store, anything goes (from either direction).
Which is why I use IMAPS, POP3S, SMTP w/ TLS, and HTTPS when connecting to my home network from remote locations. If you don't want people to sniff your information, then it's naive and ignorant to use any unencrypted protocol. It's not 1998, people - most server apps give you the option to use SSL or TLS if you tell them to.
So why was it that I had been at my new job for a grand total of two days before I dropped a screwdriver onto the exposed electronics of a 15K-rpm SCSI-320 drive, promptly arcing the components into a blackened magic-smokey mess?
I immediately told my new coworked what happened (I didn't want to be branded "stupid" and "liar") and he got permission to order a replacement. God bless my boss and second chances.
Would that be the 3.x, 9x, .NET, XP, or Office interface? It's pretty darn easy to see each of them on screen at the same time, so my KDE desktop is much more uniform than what I expect you're used to.
I like having my programs and commands have names that actually make sense
Vivio, Roxio, Winamp, and Quicken are solid examples of obviously-named applications - moreso than, say, KDevelop, KMail, Gnucash, or MP3Burn.
Slashcode spits out incredibly bad HTML. Don't take my word for it - paste the source into a validator sometime to see for yourself. Given that, it's not meaningful to say that any given browser "doesn't display Slashdot right" since there's no clear answer to how it's supposed to appear.
Slashdot's a great site, but noone's ever praised it for the beautiful HTML. It's just kind of one of those things.