My (normally clocked) Ryzen 1800X processor runs cool on my AMD machine. Each time I check the heat pipes on the processor heat sink they're cold. Never fails to surprise me. Unlike my Intel i7 based machine where I can hardly keep my fingers touching the heat pipes due to the hot temperature. And yes, my heat sink is working fine on the Ryzen.
I want the US market players (mobile, computing and others) to tie themselves in patent knots. Maybe then people will have the courage to attempt to reform such a broken patent system. It's almost a joke. Instead of encouraging innovation It's having the opposite effect. It completely stifles innovation relegating it to an ammunition stockpile just in case someone else takes a patent potshot at you. Only companies (and not individuals) have the financial clout to even do this. It also steers foreign companies away from the US for fear of treading on someones patent toes. I wouldn't try publishing any programs in the USA - it just means that I would probably get spanked by someones lawyer sooner or later for the method I used for string concatenation or adding two numbers together or something else simple and obvious like that... And I'm not the only one to think this way either. There are other people that I know in the computing industry that give the USA a wide berth for this very reason.
I had been pressing that we go the VMWare route for our virtualisation. Looks like I'll have to look at the alternatives as the extra unexpected cost will not go down very well with the management.
I had to hack together a computational module using C# that did some pretty intensive maths calculations and was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that the actual performance wasn't that bad at all. It was so good, in fact, that it stayed in C#.
Ooooh - I almost forgot to mention Linq and all it's flavours (Linq to objects, Linq to SQL, Linq to entities, PLinq... lambda expressions too... In fact, with the latest entity framework I can get a fairly complicated system up and running within a day along with MVC, dbContexting and an Entity model. Even better is that if the design changes I can leverage the stuff I have already and basically refactor the whole lot with extra fields, business logic and whatnots in a VERY quick turnaround time with the additional knowledge that I have not forgotten any part of the system that needed the change. That sort of thing used to take me days - now it take me tens of minutes. Beat that! (Disclaimer - this is within a business environment and is not on systems intended to be sold externally to the business).
I strongly disagree that.NET in general and C# in particular has all the drawbacks of an interpreted system with none of the benefits. I don't care whether it runs everywhere or not (although that would be nice). What I do care is the intelligent garbage collection that is only possible with this type of architecture. What I do care about is the enormous library available to me for offloading common programming tasks. What I do care about are generics, strong typing and collections. What I do care about is the easy database accessing. What I do care about is the intelligence available in Visual Studio that can work out refactoring for me. What I do care about is getting complex business apps out the door and being able to support the business with ever more complicated requirements. Sure I could do that with C++ but never in the same time frame. C# and the.NET Framework are my big programming lever.
-- but then again this is a world where Budweiser is the King of Beers.
LOL - how modest of them... The original Budweiser brewed in the Czeck Republic is a lot better. Pity they are forced to call themselves Budvar in some areas due to the American Budweiser and they are the original company!
Personally, my favourite lager beer is Pilsner Urquell - now THAT is a decent lager beer not like that American ricey/maizey adulterated rubbish.
For stouts I DO like a glass or two of Guinness but I liked that Scottish stout that you could get about 15 years ago. Such a wonderful smokey, peaty flavour that I kept on going back for more. I just wish I could remember what it was called...
Holy cow, I never thought surveillance would get this far in the UK. Once CCTV monitoring inside problem families homes is accepted (sounds reasonable doesn't it) then it will be inside convicted criminals houses (still sounds reasonable), then suspected criminals homes (hmm), then inside the homes of people who drop litter, then the homes of those who drove past a protest, then the homes of YOU. WAKE UP!
Knowing my luck I've now been put on a list somewhere for potential anti-government terrorist speak - just for this posting.
Well, I was going to buy Mass Effect this weekend but it looks like I won't bother. The same goes for Spore when it comes out. I've had enough problems with games protection in the past and this sort of protection sounds worse. I'd much rather play the game than worry about whether it will suddenly stop working for some trivial reason like I changed the hardware in my games machine. Windows is bad enough for that sort of thing thank you very much.
I enjoyed his books - there may even be some I have not read yet. Upsetting to realise that there is no chance now of any new books. I met his brother Fred once who delighted in telling me about his elder sibling.
Now that the two main GUI camps have had time to play and find out what works and what does not I think that it is time for KDE and Gnome unification. I know that this would be almost impossible politically but think of the advantages. For one, you would have a unified look and feel for your applications and everyone would target a single environment for development. I want to get around to writing applications for Linux but this front end issue is so pathetic that I am holding off until there is a single target to write for. I know what some of you are going to say - just pick either KDE or Gnome to write for and ignore the other. NO, I refuse to do so on principle - there should be one GUI! I wonder how many people feel the same way?
Both the KDE and Gnome camps should get together and work out what should be specified in the new GUI. After doing this they should then construct the GUI and release it as the new way of doing things. Personally I think that the way to go would be to leverage the CRL (yes I know its a microsoft thing but the Mono project is coming in leaps and bounds in this area). Even if this is impossible to organise at least let them thrash out a common look for their two environments in the interim.
The lack of a uniform look and feel is one of the greatest problems we face in general acceptance of the Linux desktop (along with easy installation of course) and so I think that throwing some money in this direction would help things enormously.
Oh, and don't get me started on the X Windows side of things...
It seems that the more technologically advanced the civilisation - the harder it is to actually access knowledge in said civilisation. Books might be old fashioned but hey, at least you can attempt to read them when the electricity supply fails (at night time you can use candles!!!).
The window of opportunity for getting at knowledge on various media is decreasing exponentionally. For example: books can still be accessed (ever since they were invented essentially). However, nowadays it is getting harder to get at stuff on some forms of magnetic tape. And if you think that knowledge on DVD's is safe then what about when Blueray Discs become popular(if at all) - will you still keep those old DVD players going (and would you be able to keep them going).
It seems that we are forever cursed to keep on copying our knowledge to newer forms of media in ever decreasing timescales - somethings got to give...
They have cool business heads that will wait for someone else to test the market and endure the costs of doing so before they rush in with the hindsight of what works and what doesn't.
At school I was taught to use the metric system of measurements. Now I'm older and doing DIY I tend to use imperial measurements. They seem to be just the right type of units for measuring wood etc. I still use metric for everything else its just that imperial is so darn convenient.
The ISO A4,A3 etc paper sizes have an aesthetically pleasing ratio of width to height. I always thought they based on the golden ratio or something that artists and ancient Greek mathematicians use.
Don't they realise that this is THE THING to hack if you were a car-jacker! Anything that is supposed to be secure and in the public domain WILL be hacked. It will be the innocent public that have to suffer the newer types of criminality that will undoubtably occur with the introduction of this new technology.
The revised list is similar to what I would have come up with (if I ignored any local (read British) computers). All the required computers are in the list with the exception of the Sensation. The choice of including the Tandy Sensation is a bit puzzling to me as I would have thought that the TRS-80 was more deserving. I detect a strong authors bias for this particular machine. It does not deserve to be in the list (meow, meow, claw, scratch).
I always seemed to find myself in a similar situation except that the managers always seem to try to do a database using Excel. They would happily use it until they try to add in just that little bit more functionality/data then the whole thing falls apart and I am called in to pick up the pieces. Usually I have to do a proper job of normalising and adding in the extra tables that they needed. Trying to import the data from the spreadsheets is... tedious.
No...a tool like MS Excel in the hands of managers with just enough knowledge to be dangerous is a BAD thing.
Come to think about it... any program in the hands of a 'clued up' manager is a BAD thing!
:-)
Its a pity the site was slashdotted before I could have a look at it because it sounds just the thing that was missing from open office.
Slashdot Mirror
My (normally clocked) Ryzen 1800X processor runs cool on my AMD machine. Each time I check the heat pipes on the processor heat sink they're cold. Never fails to surprise me. Unlike my Intel i7 based machine where I can hardly keep my fingers touching the heat pipes due to the hot temperature. And yes, my heat sink is working fine on the Ryzen.
Also looks very similar to virtually every flat screen TV out there - perhaps Apple should start seeking damages from that market too...
I want the US market players (mobile, computing and others) to tie themselves in patent knots. Maybe then people will have the courage to attempt to reform such a broken patent system. It's almost a joke. Instead of encouraging innovation It's having the opposite effect. It completely stifles innovation relegating it to an ammunition stockpile just in case someone else takes a patent potshot at you. Only companies (and not individuals) have the financial clout to even do this. It also steers foreign companies away from the US for fear of treading on someones patent toes. I wouldn't try publishing any programs in the USA - it just means that I would probably get spanked by someones lawyer sooner or later for the method I used for string concatenation or adding two numbers together or something else simple and obvious like that... And I'm not the only one to think this way either. There are other people that I know in the computing industry that give the USA a wide berth for this very reason.
I had been pressing that we go the VMWare route for our virtualisation. Looks like I'll have to look at the alternatives as the extra unexpected cost will not go down very well with the management.
.NET hasn't killed Java - Oracle is the one to do that!
I had to hack together a computational module using C# that did some pretty intensive maths calculations and was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that the actual performance wasn't that bad at all. It was so good, in fact, that it stayed in C#.
Ooooh - I almost forgot to mention Linq and all it's flavours (Linq to objects, Linq to SQL, Linq to entities, PLinq... lambda expressions too... In fact, with the latest entity framework I can get a fairly complicated system up and running within a day along with MVC, dbContexting and an Entity model. Even better is that if the design changes I can leverage the stuff I have already and basically refactor the whole lot with extra fields, business logic and whatnots in a VERY quick turnaround time with the additional knowledge that I have not forgotten any part of the system that needed the change. That sort of thing used to take me days - now it take me tens of minutes. Beat that! (Disclaimer - this is within a business environment and is not on systems intended to be sold externally to the business).
I strongly disagree that .NET in general and C# in particular has all the drawbacks of an interpreted system with none of the benefits. I don't care whether it runs everywhere or not (although that would be nice). What I do care is the intelligent garbage collection that is only possible with this type of architecture. What I do care about is the enormous library available to me for offloading common programming tasks. What I do care about are generics, strong typing and collections. What I do care about is the easy database accessing. What I do care about is the intelligence available in Visual Studio that can work out refactoring for me. What I do care about is getting complex business apps out the door and being able to support the business with ever more complicated requirements. Sure I could do that with C++ but never in the same time frame. C# and the .NET Framework are my big programming lever.
-- but then again this is a world where Budweiser is the King of Beers.
LOL - how modest of them... The original Budweiser brewed in the Czeck Republic is a lot better. Pity they are forced to call themselves Budvar in some areas due to the American Budweiser and they are the original company!
Personally, my favourite lager beer is Pilsner Urquell - now THAT is a decent lager beer not like that American ricey/maizey adulterated rubbish.
For stouts I DO like a glass or two of Guinness but I liked that Scottish stout that you could get about 15 years ago. Such a wonderful smokey, peaty flavour that I kept on going back for more. I just wish I could remember what it was called...
Holy cow, I never thought surveillance would get this far in the UK. Once CCTV monitoring inside problem families homes is accepted (sounds reasonable doesn't it) then it will be inside convicted criminals houses (still sounds reasonable), then suspected criminals homes (hmm), then inside the homes of people who drop litter, then the homes of those who drove past a protest, then the homes of YOU. WAKE UP!
Knowing my luck I've now been put on a list somewhere for potential anti-government terrorist speak - just for this posting.
Well, I was going to buy Mass Effect this weekend but it looks like I won't bother. The same goes for Spore when it comes out. I've had enough problems with games protection in the past and this sort of protection sounds worse. I'd much rather play the game than worry about whether it will suddenly stop working for some trivial reason like I changed the hardware in my games machine. Windows is bad enough for that sort of thing thank you very much.
:-(
I enjoyed his books - there may even be some I have not read yet. Upsetting to realise that there is no chance now of any new books. I met his brother Fred once who delighted in telling me about his elder sibling.
Now that the two main GUI camps have had time to play and find out what works and what does not I think that it is time for KDE and Gnome unification. I know that this would be almost impossible politically but think of the advantages. For one, you would have a unified look and feel for your applications and everyone would target a single environment for development. I want to get around to writing applications for Linux but this front end issue is so pathetic that I am holding off until there is a single target to write for. I know what some of you are going to say - just pick either KDE or Gnome to write for and ignore the other. NO, I refuse to do so on principle - there should be one GUI! I wonder how many people feel the same way?
Both the KDE and Gnome camps should get together and work out what should be specified in the new GUI. After doing this they should then construct the GUI and release it as the new way of doing things. Personally I think that the way to go would be to leverage the CRL (yes I know its a microsoft thing but the Mono project is coming in leaps and bounds in this area). Even if this is impossible to organise at least let them thrash out a common look for their two environments in the interim.
The lack of a uniform look and feel is one of the greatest problems we face in general acceptance of the Linux desktop (along with easy installation of course) and so I think that throwing some money in this direction would help things enormously.
Oh, and don't get me started on the X Windows side of things...
...oh please let this be true. I often thought that kneecapping spammers with a nail spiked baseball bat was too soft a punishment for these guys.
Well... yes.
There is an educational language called 'LEAP' that implements a relational algebra type of language: LEAP Overview
Awww - but I wanted DINOSAURS not freakin' SPIDERS !!!
I've just bought a SLI motherboard and two kick ass graphics cards you insensitive clod!
The window of opportunity for getting at knowledge on various media is decreasing exponentionally. For example: books can still be accessed (ever since they were invented essentially). However, nowadays it is getting harder to get at stuff on some forms of magnetic tape. And if you think that knowledge on DVD's is safe then what about when Blueray Discs become popular(if at all) - will you still keep those old DVD players going (and would you be able to keep them going).
It seems that we are forever cursed to keep on copying our knowledge to newer forms of media in ever decreasing timescales - somethings got to give...
...I just had the spelling wrong - it should be 'CERFING the internet!!!
Java. --> .NET !
At school I was taught to use the metric system of measurements. Now I'm older and doing DIY I tend to use imperial measurements. They seem to be just the right type of units for measuring wood etc. I still use metric for everything else its just that imperial is so darn convenient.
The ISO A4,A3 etc paper sizes have an aesthetically pleasing ratio of width to height. I always thought they based on the golden ratio or something that artists and ancient Greek mathematicians use.
Don't they realise that this is THE THING to hack if you were a car-jacker! Anything that is supposed to be secure and in the public domain WILL be hacked. It will be the innocent public that have to suffer the newer types of criminality that will undoubtably occur with the introduction of this new technology.
More like you cannot be a sendmail guy :-P !
The revised list is similar to what I would have come up with (if I ignored any local (read British) computers). All the required computers are in the list with the exception of the Sensation. The choice of including the Tandy Sensation is a bit puzzling to me as I would have thought that the TRS-80 was more deserving. I detect a strong authors bias for this particular machine. It does not deserve to be in the list (meow, meow, claw, scratch).
No...a tool like MS Excel in the hands of managers with just enough knowledge to be dangerous is a BAD thing.
Come to think about it... any program in the hands of a 'clued up' manager is a BAD thing!
Its a pity the site was slashdotted before I could have a look at it because it sounds just the thing that was missing from open office.