It's not always a memory error. On fast, multi-threaded apps, it is sometimes timing related. That little bit of time it takes to dump some text out to console is often just enough to mask any synchronization problems.
Hehe, I used to belong to that camp, then I began programming on "real" systems. Needless to say, print statements become less than useful when debugging 40+ threads on 16 CPUs, each receiving 100+ messages per second.
Then again, I never really did find *any* debugging method to keep up with this one application, other than artificially slowing time.:-)
..So where are users and developers going to go? Simple. Apple.
Right. Users and developers are just going to throw away years of investments in hardware, software, and knowledge and run out and buy new Apple hardware. Sure. I'm not anti-Apple by any means. iThink they have some cool and innovative products. But they still serve a niche market, not the mainstream. And what's this talk of Apple going to "gain their market back?" What market? Back from where?
Ok. But what happens when the software tries to make a function call to the dll and can't find the correct method name? Doesn't it crash? Do you know all the dll's internal function names?
Agreed. Most interviews have 9 serious questions and maybe 1 that was modded +5 Funny. This one was 50% inconsequential musings from some./ geeks.
I don't feel as if I understand her positions any more clearly than before the interview. (other than the fact that she is pretty naive and has a hatred for "rich republicans.")
The largest blackout in the last thirty years leave 50 million people in the dark andy you geeks are carping about the latest electronic leash from your masters?!!!
GET SOME PRIORITIES!
Yes, how dare we! We should put this forum to good use and help out those poor pople in the NE. Let's start by.. uh.. Hmmm. Exactly what should we be doing?
I bet you're the same kind of person who believes SETI@Home is wasteful and everyone should be working on curing cancer instead. Any why work for a coorporation when we should all be doing volunteer work for Greenpeace. And why buy that $3.50 cup of expresso when there are starving kids in some foreign land.
Get over yourself.
"The fictitious comparison, with similar business practices could offer to Coca Cola also beverage prescriptions for the free Download and afterwards to everyone sue, which brews its drinks thereafter, leaves the SCO strategists obviously unaffected."
Wow, I don't know if it's the Fish or the SCO legal team that doesn't make sense!
Online documentation is usually of little help if you are setting up a new system from scratch. Also useless if you are trying to figure out how to connect to the 'net. And since you've written half the book already, why not just finish it?
Also, sometimes it's just easier to use off-line references (books, mags, etc) I'm sure just about every bit of information in my collection of OO and C++ books is available in some form online, but does that mean I should get rid off them? Of course not.
I'm sure someone from the Roman Empire would marvel at our technology but the thrill would quickly fade and become disgust at the endless parade of wars, selfishness, and the power hungry.
Yes, if there's anything the Roman Empire found disgusting, it was wars, selfishness, and the power hungry!:)
Well, according to the Emergency SCO telecon earlier this week, Darl McBride read "how the RIAA's initial lawsuits reduced online music downloads by some 30%" and said that maybe suing end users *was* a good idea, after all.
Exactly. I want legitimate usage of the system to be quick and effortless (ex: in responding to a fratic call about a 'dark haired man in a green sedan snatching my daughter off the sidewalk'), yet have enough red-tape following its usage so that the cop-with-a-grudge-against-his-ex-wife can be busted and thrown in jail for misuse.
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It's not always a memory error. On fast, multi-threaded apps, it is sometimes timing related. That little bit of time it takes to dump some text out to console is often just enough to mask any synchronization problems.
Hehe, I used to belong to that camp, then I began programming on "real" systems. Needless to say, print statements become less than useful when debugging 40+ threads on 16 CPUs, each receiving 100+ messages per second.
:-)
Then again, I never really did find *any* debugging method to keep up with this one application, other than artificially slowing time.
Not only that, but "The author encourages the reader to use a computer..."
Man, talk about "Practical Programming!"
Also keep in mind that refilling the washer fluid in your car will not prevent you from getting a flat tire.
Just this morning I changed a flat tire on a car that had a full tank of washer fluid and discovered this.
Ok. But what happens when the software tries to make a function call to the dll and can't find the correct method name? Doesn't it crash? Do you know all the dll's internal function names?
Agreed. ./ geeks.
Most interviews have 9 serious questions and maybe 1 that was modded +5 Funny. This one was 50% inconsequential musings from some
I don't feel as if I understand her positions any more clearly than before the interview. (other than the fact that she is pretty naive and has a hatred for "rich republicans.")
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Only if you use a Windows 9x version. Linux has superior SMP support.
Seriously, I didn't even know he played basketball.
Ok, I thought that each previous version was "set in stone," so to speak, and all new development takes place on the current kernel?
Now I envision that each kernel steps through major revisions (2.2 -> 2.4 -> 2.6), but development continues on each revision. Is this right?
.. when I think of OS X "Maximum Security", I can help but to think of the translucent plastic jail cell they kept Magneto in.
I bet you're the same kind of person who believes SETI@Home is wasteful and everyone should be working on curing cancer instead. Any why work for a coorporation when we should all be doing volunteer work for Greenpeace. And why buy that $3.50 cup of expresso when there are starving kids in some foreign land. Get over yourself.
"The fictitious comparison, with similar business practices could offer to Coca Cola also beverage prescriptions for the free Download and afterwards to everyone sue, which brews its drinks thereafter, leaves the SCO strategists obviously unaffected."
Wow, I don't know if it's the Fish or the SCO legal team that doesn't make sense!
Online documentation is usually of little help if you are setting up a new system from scratch. Also useless if you are trying to figure out how to connect to the 'net. And since you've written half the book already, why not just finish it?
:)
Also, sometimes it's just easier to use off-line references (books, mags, etc) I'm sure just about every bit of information in my collection of OO and C++ books is available in some form online, but does that mean I should get rid off them? Of course not.
Oh, and in case IHBT, oh well
I have always assumed ./ has some deal/arrangement with B&N. Why not?
Yes, if there's anything the Roman Empire found disgusting, it was wars, selfishness, and the power hungry!
perhaps he was just refering to the timeframe when http showed up, not the technology itself.
Perhaps they all watched too many episodes of Tales from the Crypt and Bond flicks.
Well, according to the Emergency SCO telecon earlier this week, Darl McBride read "how the RIAA's initial lawsuits reduced online music downloads by some 30%" and said that maybe suing end users *was* a good idea, after all.
Exactly. I want legitimate usage of the system to be quick and effortless (ex: in responding to a fratic call about a 'dark haired man in a green sedan snatching my daughter off the sidewalk'), yet have enough red-tape following its usage so that the cop-with-a-grudge-against-his-ex-wife can be busted and thrown in jail for misuse.
Just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it. :P
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