If they had open specs some WinModems wouldn't be that bad. Some of them implement a lot of useful routines to help off-load a lot of work (like a dial-up accelerator card). On the other hand, some are basically sound cards.
C is evolving (at least up until 1996)... it's C++. You might reject the comparison but you see C with objects, with generics, with exceptions, etc.
I'm guessing in Perl's evolution it has seen similar core additions at one point in time (I don't know since I just started using Perl in the last year).
But your original premise is very true. The languages stabilize... or more likely the people in charge of driving the standard simply lose interest and devote efforts to something else (at this point in time higher level languages are the thing).
Keep in mind it really hasn't been ported to anything other than x86. I hear the ports that are being done are targetted for the 2.4.x series.
I hope so... fsck on my SMP Sparc 10 box can be a slow process. The 2.2.18 patch is forgets to do a #define in errno.h and the utilities that come with it Bus error.
I was thinking... wow the 100MHz FSB made a bigger difference than I suspected. Then I went to the article and actually went through it.
The Duron 850MHz still beats the Celeron 800 (actually the Duron 800MHz does too). Though the margin of difference is so small in most of the tests it probably doesn't matter.
And as the article points out, the Thunderbird at 850MHz is about the same price as the Duron *and* the Celeron competes around/above the Thunderbird price point so this is all pretty moot.
The only advantage of the Celeron is the availability of cheap integrated motherboards so you can save a few bucks. Though some of the earlier Athlon boards are pretty darn cheap and if you care about the few dollars you are going to save then why are you caring about the benchmarks of the top end chips in the category.
Poor driver quality is all I've ever seen from 3dfx.
It has *never* failed that those I dealt with 3dfx cards (back in the Voodoo2 days at least) had constant stability problems. I'm not talking Linux but Win9x. They were a mess... didn't matter if it was games or CAD work.
nVidia had far more stable drivers for everyone I talked to or worked with. Those who decided to replace their 3dfx cards with nVidia cards were without exception much happier.
Big mistakes by 3dfx:
- Not supporting OpenGL well
- Poor driver quality
- Buying STB and deciding to stop providing chips to OEMs (that killed them... lost the industry support)
We can thank them for helping make consumer 3D popular but I for one am glad they are dead.
Turning out a bunch of high level programs that don't know squat about what is under the hood. This of course has it's exceptions (and the type of people I like to hire:).
Even in C/C++ it's been pitiful... ask a potential employee to do a quick implementation of strchr and they obviously know nothing about a char*.
Oh well... it makes my expertise worth more $$$$$$ so I guess on the other hand I can say thank you to all those people in education teaching "programmers" to mindlessly use packages and objects. Having no capability to understand or implement them.
This is probably off topic... anyways, when I do open source coding I look for the ability to control the project in the short term but to put the source into public domain after a period of time. That way when my lazy butt doesn't touch the project for a long time people aren't stiffed.
Couldn't find a stock license like that so I had to write my own.
All 3 of the products they have listed are marketed as an effective breakwater type device. In fact the Osprey description says that it would help make a self-financing solution for harbors.
Software development works well as a Benevolent Monarchy... not a Communist or Democratic situation. Your average and junior developers do not have the experience to make consistently wise decisions most of the time (hey... just like in the US elections:)
Both candidates have extensive experience in politics and elections. They know this stuff happens... it probably happened in lots of areas of the country. If you are going to scrutinize ever single ballot based on all sorts of external crap you end up with a huge mess.
A recount is what is legally required and is standard operating procedure. I would be highly surprised if either Gore or Bush don't abide by the results.
I realize this may surprise everyone... but it really doesn't matter from an election point of view (excluding issues, character, whatever). The people have spoken LOUDLY and said "We don't know"... can't believe that could happen did you?
Whatever happens in the vote in Florida... the difference in votes is all noise. Both candidates are effectively equal in votes. Whoever gets it is just as legit as the other guy.
So please... no more whining about the electoral college, questionably arranged sample ballets, or whatever. This is life.
I was refreshing frequently the national Presidential maps for CNN, MSNBC, and ABC. Noticed a few issues:
- CNN:
* Most up-to-date results
* Had to make many corrections in precincts reporting several times (watched CA go from 22% reporting to 20%... among other things)
* Turned RI Red for a while
* Would revert to old numbers every once in a while in refreshes
* Site never went down and seemed to handle the load well
* Had triggers set to declare victories at poll close before any votes were in... I hate that
* The most trigger happy of the sites... they called several states before ABC and MSNBC
- MSNBC:
* Down frequently
* Eventually became updated hourly
* Took a while for the map to update
- ABC:
* Broken very frequently
* I think the webmaster was modifying the site live
* Finally added coloring of the states after CA closed... made the actual functionality of the site the best of all (fly over popups for election counts and electoral votes was nice)
* Hate that sky blue color
Actually the 200k vote difference should close some more. The precincts at 100% still doesn't mean absentee is counted. Absentee votes are usually from conservatives.
For instance, it is fairly odd that there is a 12% difference in CA... half that makes more sense compared to consistent polling results. If you consider there were 3.2mil absentee ballots requested things make a bit more sense... anyways, I don't know anything for certain.
As I conservative this thing was entirely entertaining no matter how it turns out... Tennessee, Arkansas, and Nader:)
Now that I can agree with... I look at it from the other side of things... I'm conservative, I hope Bush wins. But I do think the best thing for everyone is for gridlock to occur and nothing at all gets done.
Just think how much better our economy would be if we had gotten nationalized health care on a grand scale... whoohooo... just sooo looking forward to that day:)
Less wrist strain with a mouse with no cord. The only other choice for me is a trackball. It's very nice... I got a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and am loving it. I'm just waiting for a wireless optical mouse:)
And there is *no* surplus... if the Feds would stop stealing the interest from *our* social security money (not like we'll ever see it) we'd still have a small shortage. Scarey eh.
You are very much right about parents needing to be more involved. Of course there is the other side of the coin that we then need to make sure parental authority is also not taken away or watered down by the gov't/courts.
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If they had open specs some WinModems wouldn't be that bad. Some of them implement a lot of useful routines to help off-load a lot of work (like a dial-up accelerator card). On the other hand, some are basically sound cards.
Brian Macy
C is evolving (at least up until 1996)... it's C++. You might reject the comparison but you see C with objects, with generics, with exceptions, etc.
I'm guessing in Perl's evolution it has seen similar core additions at one point in time (I don't know since I just started using Perl in the last year).
But your original premise is very true. The languages stabilize... or more likely the people in charge of driving the standard simply lose interest and devote efforts to something else (at this point in time higher level languages are the thing).
Brian Macy
Maybe not my post :)
But the new MS proof of authenticity stuff are stickers. The OEMs are supposed to stick them to the case before selling the machines.
Brian Macy
The SMP issue is not Reiser related. It's SMP Sparc32 in 2.4 right now. As usual these things will get worked out.
Brian Macy
Keep in mind it really hasn't been ported to anything other than x86. I hear the ports that are being done are targetted for the 2.4.x series.
I hope so... fsck on my SMP Sparc 10 box can be a slow process. The 2.2.18 patch is forgets to do a #define in errno.h and the utilities that come with it Bus error.
Brian Macy
I was thinking... wow the 100MHz FSB made a bigger difference than I suspected. Then I went to the article and actually went through it.
The Duron 850MHz still beats the Celeron 800 (actually the Duron 800MHz does too). Though the margin of difference is so small in most of the tests it probably doesn't matter.
And as the article points out, the Thunderbird at 850MHz is about the same price as the Duron *and* the Celeron competes around/above the Thunderbird price point so this is all pretty moot.
The only advantage of the Celeron is the availability of cheap integrated motherboards so you can save a few bucks. Though some of the earlier Athlon boards are pretty darn cheap and if you care about the few dollars you are going to save then why are you caring about the benchmarks of the top end chips in the category.
Hopefully Sparc and some of the other ports will begin to stabilize now.
:)
And maybe I'll have to figure out why the APM in my Compaq Presario 1670 laptop locks 2.4 up solid
Brian Macy
Poor driver quality is all I've ever seen from 3dfx.
It has *never* failed that those I dealt with 3dfx cards (back in the Voodoo2 days at least) had constant stability problems. I'm not talking Linux but Win9x. They were a mess... didn't matter if it was games or CAD work.
nVidia had far more stable drivers for everyone I talked to or worked with. Those who decided to replace their 3dfx cards with nVidia cards were without exception much happier.
If your experience different then that's great.
Big mistakes by 3dfx:
- Not supporting OpenGL well
- Poor driver quality
- Buying STB and deciding to stop providing chips to OEMs (that killed them... lost the industry support)
We can thank them for helping make consumer 3D popular but I for one am glad they are dead.
Brian Macy
Turning out a bunch of high level programs that don't know squat about what is under the hood. This of course has it's exceptions (and the type of people I like to hire:).
Even in C/C++ it's been pitiful... ask a potential employee to do a quick implementation of strchr and they obviously know nothing about a char*.
Oh well... it makes my expertise worth more $$$$$$ so I guess on the other hand I can say thank you to all those people in education teaching "programmers" to mindlessly use packages and objects. Having no capability to understand or implement them.
Brian Macy
This is probably off topic... anyways, when I do open source coding I look for the ability to control the project in the short term but to put the source into public domain after a period of time. That way when my lazy butt doesn't touch the project for a long time people aren't stiffed.
Couldn't find a stock license like that so I had to write my own.
Don't believe it... the moon moves away every time a car hits a skunk and moves closer each time Victoria Secrets puts out a new catalog.
Brian Macy
All 3 of the products they have listed are marketed as an effective breakwater type device. In fact the Osprey description says that it would help make a self-financing solution for harbors.
Brian Macy
Software development works well as a Benevolent Monarchy... not a Communist or Democratic situation. Your average and junior developers do not have the experience to make consistently wise decisions most of the time (hey... just like in the US elections:)
Brian Macy
Both candidates have extensive experience in politics and elections. They know this stuff happens... it probably happened in lots of areas of the country. If you are going to scrutinize ever single ballot based on all sorts of external crap you end up with a huge mess.
A recount is what is legally required and is standard operating procedure. I would be highly surprised if either Gore or Bush don't abide by the results.
Brian Macy
I realize this may surprise everyone... but it really doesn't matter from an election point of view (excluding issues, character, whatever). The people have spoken LOUDLY and said "We don't know"... can't believe that could happen did you?
Whatever happens in the vote in Florida... the difference in votes is all noise. Both candidates are effectively equal in votes. Whoever gets it is just as legit as the other guy.
So please... no more whining about the electoral college, questionably arranged sample ballets, or whatever. This is life.
Brian Macy
I was refreshing frequently the national Presidential maps for CNN, MSNBC, and ABC. Noticed a few issues:
- CNN:
* Most up-to-date results
* Had to make many corrections in precincts reporting several times (watched CA go from 22% reporting to 20%... among other things)
* Turned RI Red for a while
* Would revert to old numbers every once in a while in refreshes
* Site never went down and seemed to handle the load well
* Had triggers set to declare victories at poll close before any votes were in... I hate that
* The most trigger happy of the sites... they called several states before ABC and MSNBC
- MSNBC:
* Down frequently
* Eventually became updated hourly
* Took a while for the map to update
- ABC:
* Broken very frequently
* I think the webmaster was modifying the site live
* Finally added coloring of the states after CA closed... made the actual functionality of the site the best of all (fly over popups for election counts and electoral votes was nice)
* Hate that sky blue color
Brian Macy
Actually the 200k vote difference should close some more. The precincts at 100% still doesn't mean absentee is counted. Absentee votes are usually from conservatives.
:)
For instance, it is fairly odd that there is a 12% difference in CA... half that makes more sense compared to consistent polling results. If you consider there were 3.2mil absentee ballots requested things make a bit more sense... anyways, I don't know anything for certain.
As I conservative this thing was entirely entertaining no matter how it turns out... Tennessee, Arkansas, and Nader
Brian Macy
Now that I can agree with... I look at it from the other side of things... I'm conservative, I hope Bush wins. But I do think the best thing for everyone is for gridlock to occur and nothing at all gets done.
:)
Just think how much better our economy would be if we had gotten nationalized health care on a grand scale... whoohooo... just sooo looking forward to that day
Brian Macy
Perl man... get them all sick, twisted, and deranged from the start... they'll code better that way ;)
Brian Macy
Here's a carrot... it'll kill you later but you'll support us a long time before you figure out. Sounds like whiskey/tobacco and Indians :)
Brian Macy
Apple's, Sun's... and I remember a shot of OS/2 Warp in GoldenEye right as the control center in Cuba was blowing up.
Brian Macy
Less wrist strain with a mouse with no cord. The only other choice for me is a trackball. It's very nice... I got a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and am loving it. I'm just waiting for a wireless optical mouse :)
Brian Macy
And there is *no* surplus... if the Feds would stop stealing the interest from *our* social security money (not like we'll ever see it) we'd still have a small shortage. Scarey eh.
Brian Macy
You are very much right about parents needing to be more involved. Of course there is the other side of the coin that we then need to make sure parental authority is also not taken away or watered down by the gov't/courts.
Brian Macy