What the fuck are you talking about? US destroyed its industry and "outsourced" it to China. Raw materials are worthless if you can't make anything out of them.
"Energy" (oil) is only a noticeable part of the picture because you can do minimal processing of it, then pump the result into your car, so you can drive 100 miles every day to your office job that manages reselling Chinese imports. This is what US economy got reduced to, and messing with green paper can't change it.
I use short variable names so I can fit meaningful code into 80 columns.
What means, I can use screen layout with two editor windows side by side, plus (on a regular screen that would be overlapping) two terminals where I run that code, all without switching to another desktop or turning toward another monitor.
How all those "convenient" (read: full of eye candy and crutches for retards) IDEs were developed into being completely unusable in this manner, is beyond me.
Using a debugger on a complex distributed system is rarely quicker than adding traces to the code, narrowing in on the problem then exposing it through new tests, which also tell you when you've fixed it.
Debuggers are not for debugging -- they are for reverse engineering.
Refactoring (moving or extracting) class/method, generating classes/constructors/getters/setters/...
Something must be fundamentally wrong if you need all those things autogenerated.
THE WHOLE POINT OF GETTER/SETTER METHOD IS THAT IT IS NOT TRIVIAL AND ENFORCES CONSISTENCY -- otherwise it's a fancy way of having a public member. Generated code does jack shit for it.
No, it popped up MAGICALLY in us apes at some point; someone throw on a switch and BAM, consciousness overnight. MAGIC, I tell you.
There is freaking huge gap between human mind and anything modern apes have. Sure, there was a long process between those levels, but all intermediate steps are long extinct, and have no chance to show up to make question about their level of consciousness relevant.
Consciousness is by-product of cellular organization, chatter between cells, and that any multicellular organism has some level of consciousness.
At very least it requires brain, and sufficiently sophisticated brain ti perform abstract thought.
But since we can only experience ourself, it can never be proved.
There is nothing really to prove -- animals do not perform anything that requires abstract thought. All this stupid stuff about "self" is utterly irrelevant -- an object in any object-oriented language is more "self-aware" than any human can hope to be (as it knows absolutely everything about itself), and yet is not in any way "conscious".
And until you can prove our own, you cannot disprove their. Stop downplaying non-humans creatures.
Only when they will come to argue about that by themselves. Until then, into the soup they go. Mmmm, beef!
The less you know, the less you know how little do you know. And even less you know how little your kids know, so you won't send them to the school where they will learn anything.
Oh, for fuck sake, even watching a single episode of that show with Asgard in it, it's painfully clear that Asgard are supposed to have no understanding of human culture. Not that anything about them makes any sense in the first place, as the only purpose they have is a metaphor for "ivory tower intellectuals", yet another anti-intellectualist nonsense in American culture.
Wrong. MS had (has ?) a program granting access to Windows NT source code for university researchers. MS had to like the research topic and be granted the right to use anything that comes from this research (keep in mind universities like to patent things, MS would automatically get a license) and the professor and students had to sign NDAs and keep the source "locked up" so those outside the project would not have access. A friend was on such a project while in grad school, I believe they had Windows NT 4.
And no one is allowed to publish any of that, so they are just as good as Microsoft employees.
Regarding architecture specific branches, that is pretty much only done for portions of the hardware abstraction layer of NT, just as it is done for portions of Linux and BSD kernels.
You wouldn't have proof of that even if it was true.
A terribly bad guess. Windows NT started on MIPS (i860 when it was OS/2 NT?),
And Java was started as a language/platform combination for embedded systems utilizing special Java-optimized hardware. By the time anything usable was released, it was something completely different.
Their failure in the Windows market was not necessarily MS' fault.
They could "fail" and would be still supported if code was truly portable, because portable code means ZERO effort necessary for keeping a hardware platform supported. Ex: NetBSD and Linux supporting architectures that have a tiny handful of users.
Apple never delivered the Mac OS component of CHRP that would let people have native Mac OS and native Windows NT running on the same machine.
This is completely irrelevant, as PPC is a quite popular architecture among things other than desktop computers bought specifically to not run Windows.
On the low end server side Linux thwarted MS expansion into that realm.
Entirely within x86 architecture, so it's irrelevant.
The non-x86 retail products were dropped due to a lack of consumer interest.
If the code was truly portable, it would not be possible to drop an architecture, code would compile on it anyway, and it would cost nothing to list it as supported. It's not like HP is going to issue a new bootloader for Alpha any soon.
Note that x86 includes two hardware platforms, IA32 and AMD64.
AMD64/x86-64 was specifically developed to be similar to IA32/i386. Beyond supporting architecture in compiler and memory management, all Microsoft had to do was to not mess up pointers width, use long integers in a sane manner, and possibly be aware of compiler's idea of alignment. I am also absolutely sure that they still messed that up, and ended up writing "special" code for that, too.
Microsoft is one of the companies that ONLY make crap. Anything that relies on Microsoft software ends up being crappy.
And occasionally some really quite decent software on Windows.
By Windows quality standards -- yes.
What is it specifically about Windows that you dislike, because I get the feeling this is colouring your perception of the entire company.
Complete lack of any thought placed into engineering of their products. Everything is a special case. Sine "cool" ideas stuffed into software without any kind of overall design or purpose. "Technologies" that are descendants of DDE (interprocess messaging) and OLE (object management) being rebuilt every 3-5 years into larger and larger monstrosities only to show how Microsoft developers completely miss the point of having clearly defined interfaces. This is how second-year CS students write their projects, and how Microsoft operated since the moment it was founded. It can not be fixed by re-doing everything as more special cases, it can be only avoided by keeping Microsoft cancer away from new technology.
Yes, however each and every American lawmaker and judge believes that Jesus is not only real but also still alive. Some fuckheaded clergyman can file a lawsuit on his behalf, hilariousness ensues.
Yes. I want professional sports to do whatever they do, and stay out of education. They can keep their money just like all other completely unrelated companies do the same.
Methinks this is a case of principles being at odds with reality.
The reality is that quality of education is poor, and it is not accessible to people who can be educated, thanks to various kinds of idiocy, college sports included.
Let me clarify -- why is this allowed? Colleges have shitloads of government funding and regulation behind them, why are they allowed to engage in business that is clearly at odds with their primary purpose? And if sports are OK then why not, say, strip clubs?
This is because you use Windows -- software running on Windows can't possibly be less shit than Windows, as shittiness of the whole system is a product of shittiness of all layers in it.
Why supposedly educational institutions keep teams of what is essentially professional entertainers and let this business overshadow education? At the extent of admitting "special" (as in "short bus") students and pretend to educate them, spending budget on things 99% of students can never use, hiring a coach who is paid more than any other person working for the school, etc.?
They are shit company that produces shit software based on shit ideas, using shit development practices.
The best they could do was to hire a bunch of relatively smart people just to keep those people from working for anyone else -- and having no other use for those people they had to keep them in a glorified zoo that is Microsoft Research.
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What the fuck are you talking about? US destroyed its industry and "outsourced" it to China. Raw materials are worthless if you can't make anything out of them.
"Energy" (oil) is only a noticeable part of the picture because you can do minimal processing of it, then pump the result into your car, so you can drive 100 miles every day to your office job that manages reselling Chinese imports. This is what US economy got reduced to, and messing with green paper can't change it.
And tests would be wrong, too.
I use short variable names so I can fit meaningful code into 80 columns.
What means, I can use screen layout with two editor windows side by side, plus (on a regular screen that would be overlapping) two terminals where I run that code, all without switching to another desktop or turning toward another monitor.
How all those "convenient" (read: full of eye candy and crutches for retards) IDEs were developed into being completely unusable in this manner, is beyond me.
Using a debugger on a complex distributed system is rarely quicker than adding traces to the code, narrowing in on the problem then exposing it through new tests, which also tell you when you've fixed it.
Debuggers are not for debugging -- they are for reverse engineering.
Refactoring (moving or extracting) class/method, generating classes/constructors/getters/setters/...
Something must be fundamentally wrong if you need all those things autogenerated.
THE WHOLE POINT OF GETTER/SETTER METHOD IS THAT IT IS NOT TRIVIAL AND ENFORCES CONSISTENCY -- otherwise it's a fancy way of having a public member. Generated code does jack shit for it.
No, it popped up MAGICALLY in us apes at some point; someone throw on a switch and BAM, consciousness overnight. MAGIC, I tell you.
There is freaking huge gap between human mind and anything modern apes have. Sure, there was a long process between those levels, but all intermediate steps are long extinct, and have no chance to show up to make question about their level of consciousness relevant.
Consciousness is by-product of cellular organization, chatter between cells, and that any multicellular organism has some level of consciousness.
At very least it requires brain, and sufficiently sophisticated brain ti perform abstract thought.
But since we can only experience ourself, it can never be proved.
There is nothing really to prove -- animals do not perform anything that requires abstract thought. All this stupid stuff about "self" is utterly irrelevant -- an object in any object-oriented language is more "self-aware" than any human can hope to be (as it knows absolutely everything about itself), and yet is not in any way "conscious".
And until you can prove our own, you cannot disprove their. Stop downplaying non-humans creatures.
Only when they will come to argue about that by themselves. Until then, into the soup they go. Mmmm, beef!
The less you know, the less you know how little do you know. And even less you know how little your kids know, so you won't send them to the school where they will learn anything.
Oh, for fuck sake, even watching a single episode of that show with Asgard in it, it's painfully clear that Asgard are supposed to have no understanding of human culture. Not that anything about them makes any sense in the first place, as the only purpose they have is a metaphor for "ivory tower intellectuals", yet another anti-intellectualist nonsense in American culture.
Humans ARE mentally superior to all other animals. Even those humans who deny it, as the gap is pretty freaking wide.
Instincts and emotions are not consciousness, consciousness is by definition a kind of mental activity specific to humans.
Wrong. MS had (has ?) a program granting access to Windows NT source code for university researchers. MS had to like the research topic and be granted the right to use anything that comes from this research (keep in mind universities like to patent things, MS would automatically get a license) and the professor and students had to sign NDAs and keep the source "locked up" so those outside the project would not have access. A friend was on such a project while in grad school, I believe they had Windows NT 4.
And no one is allowed to publish any of that, so they are just as good as Microsoft employees.
Regarding architecture specific branches, that is pretty much only done for portions of the hardware abstraction layer of NT, just as it is done for portions of Linux and BSD kernels.
You wouldn't have proof of that even if it was true.
A terribly bad guess. Windows NT started on MIPS (i860 when it was OS/2 NT?),
And Java was started as a language/platform combination for embedded systems utilizing special Java-optimized hardware. By the time anything usable was released, it was something completely different.
Their failure in the Windows market was not necessarily MS' fault.
They could "fail" and would be still supported if code was truly portable, because portable code means ZERO effort necessary for keeping a hardware platform supported. Ex: NetBSD and Linux supporting architectures that have a tiny handful of users.
Apple never delivered the Mac OS component of CHRP that would let people have native Mac OS and native Windows NT running on the same machine.
This is completely irrelevant, as PPC is a quite popular architecture among things other than desktop computers bought specifically to not run Windows.
On the low end server side Linux thwarted MS expansion into that realm.
Entirely within x86 architecture, so it's irrelevant.
The non-x86 retail products were dropped due to a lack of consumer interest.
If the code was truly portable, it would not be possible to drop an architecture, code would compile on it anyway, and it would cost nothing to list it as supported. It's not like HP is going to issue a new bootloader for Alpha any soon.
Note that x86 includes two hardware platforms, IA32 and AMD64.
AMD64/x86-64 was specifically developed to be similar to IA32/i386. Beyond supporting architecture in compiler and memory management, all Microsoft had to do was to not mess up pointers width, use long integers in a sane manner, and possibly be aware of compiler's idea of alignment. I am also absolutely sure that they still messed that up, and ended up writing "special" code for that, too.
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Microsoft is one of the companies that ONLY make crap. Anything that relies on Microsoft software ends up being crappy.
And occasionally some really quite decent software on Windows.
By Windows quality standards -- yes.
What is it specifically about Windows that you dislike, because I get the feeling this is colouring your perception of the entire company.
Complete lack of any thought placed into engineering of their products. Everything is a special case. Sine "cool" ideas stuffed into software without any kind of overall design or purpose. "Technologies" that are descendants of DDE (interprocess messaging) and OLE (object management) being rebuilt every 3-5 years into larger and larger monstrosities only to show how Microsoft developers completely miss the point of having clearly defined interfaces. This is how second-year CS students write their projects, and how Microsoft operated since the moment it was founded. It can not be fixed by re-doing everything as more special cases, it can be only avoided by keeping Microsoft cancer away from new technology.
Yes, however each and every American lawmaker and judge believes that Jesus is not only real but also still alive. Some fuckheaded clergyman can file a lawsuit on his behalf, hilariousness ensues.
It seems that many of these species have a natural desire to experience altered states of consciousness
States of WHAT? Animals have consciousness now?
Why would I start an educational institution in a country of dumbasses?
Yes. I want professional sports to do whatever they do, and stay out of education. They can keep their money just like all other completely unrelated companies do the same.
Methinks this is a case of principles being at odds with reality.
The reality is that quality of education is poor, and it is not accessible to people who can be educated, thanks to various kinds of idiocy, college sports included.
Because a good number of students like college sports.
Right -- because they were only admitted for this purpose, and otherwise have nothing to do with the school's primary purpose.
Solution: admit ones who like education instead. It's not like there is a noticeable overlap.
All colleges from their beginnings emphasized mental, spiritual, and physical development.
Modern competitive sports are more about damaging your body for money than about any kind of development.
Let me clarify -- why is this allowed? Colleges have shitloads of government funding and regulation behind them, why are they allowed to engage in business that is clearly at odds with their primary purpose? And if sports are OK then why not, say, strip clubs?
This is because you use Windows -- software running on Windows can't possibly be less shit than Windows, as shittiness of the whole system is a product of shittiness of all layers in it.
This is also why I avoid Windows like the plague.
Then those people should organize professional sports teams and stop pretending that it has anything to do with edcational institutions they run.
Why supposedly educational institutions keep teams of what is essentially professional entertainers and let this business overshadow education? At the extent of admitting "special" (as in "short bus") students and pretend to educate them, spending budget on things 99% of students can never use, hiring a coach who is paid more than any other person working for the school, etc.?
They are shit company that produces shit software based on shit ideas, using shit development practices.
The best they could do was to hire a bunch of relatively smart people just to keep those people from working for anyone else -- and having no other use for those people they had to keep them in a glorified zoo that is Microsoft Research.