XML "co-invention fame"? XML isn't exactly something that um... original. For crying out loud it's just angle brackets and a small grammar!
That's like saying
Tom St Denis [of key=value pair co-invention fame]
I think we need to stop deifying every nutjob with a RFC.
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Um the one I replied to stated NTSC is 60Hz. It's not. First off it's [closer to] 59.97Hz, second that's interlaced. NTSC != PAL
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NTSC is 59.97 fps but interlaced. The entire screen only updates at 29.97fps.
But thanks for playing.
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I fucking hate this bullshit. First off NTSC is 30fps. Certainly high enough for humans to perceive motion. Second, Anything over 50fps or so is a write off because it really doesn't matter. I mean at 50fps yer talking 20ms delay which is more than enough to perceive fluid motion.
Third, maybe your eyes are sore for other reasons? Like the fact that you're bombing your eyes [presumably you have a CRT tv/monitor] with huge gobs of radiation?
Fourth, asshats like you and audio/video philes give science a bad name. Sure there are limits [like anything below 24fps is non-ideal] but you don't need 450fps to get "top notch quality".
Fifth, you said 76Hz [presumably you meant 75Hz] does your "game" keep up with that rate? Do you get 75fps at all times?
Um dude, I haven't used a floppy disk in like 5 years. Primarly because bandwidth is cheap [e.g. I can scp a file elsewhere instead of copying to a floppy disk] and USB/CDR media are cheap too.
I remember when CDRs were >1$ each. Drives were like 300$ etc.... now a CD-RW is 30$ and a disk is 0.34$.
No reason to use a slow, error prone, clunky 1.44M media when I can use a 64M usb disk or a 700M CDR just as easily.
As for PBXs depends really. A "new" company building a new office may just go voip. If PBX is already in place it may be harder to get rid of it. But really that's apples and oranges.
Isn't apathy the publics way of saying "we're tired of your bullshit"?
I mean honestly vote for Bush or Kerry the net result will be the same. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class remain terrified about what tommorow will bring.
I don't think people "forget" to vote or just don't care to. I think they honestly don't think that it matters one way or the other. So long as the sheep [re: public] watch TV and believe what they see the actual vote doesn't matter.
This vote has long since been decided. So long as Bush and his fellow cronies can push that big bright red terrorist button the masses will fall in line.
See what I don't get is people go on about how "we are safer with Bushes leadership". Well you know what? Life isn't safe. You could be flying on a terrorist free plane and shit could hit the fan [literally] and boom you're dead.
You could be waiting in a doctors office when an earthquake hits and you get smushed by a ton of cement, etc, etc, etc.
It's what you do with your time that makes your life. If people accept "Big Brother" on their street corners with machine guns [like in New York] how free are you to live what precious life you have left?
Now I won't presume to tell people how to vote. Personally if I lived in the USA I would vote for a non-major party like the Libertarians. Fuck I would vote for Arnold any day. At least he got rich making movies and not foreign policy.
My dear brotheren Americans cherish what precious commodities of freedom you have left. Another decade of "fighting terrorism" and you guys won't know which way is up. You'll have to turn to polly shore movies to see how "good" life used to be. And that my friends is truly sad.
Why not just rotate baby sitters? That way if any one of them is abusive you won't have them for long. I'm sure there are plenty of 16-18 yr olds who wouldn't mind making 50$ or so for watching your brat for a night.
Shh. How dare you speak out against such a crafty commercial...er...informational article about ipods and synaptics. Hell, if they had to actually research to write a real story... well that would be like work for a living!
Just another selfish excuse to see ads on a webpage. Like that recent scam by the Financial Post [the one where the article was all of two paragraphs and half of the web page was ads for other shit].
Exactly. First off, no network security is worth 100k/yr. For that much you might as well higher two college grads and keep them on staff.
Second, there isn't much you can do when 10,000 computers all do a "GET / HTTP/1.1" on your server. The best you can do 24hr ban the offending IPs and hope to track down the extortionist.
Why that's worth 100k/yr is beyond me. A simple firewall + script can do this for you.
Actually there are. LCC and TinyC come to mind. They're not used much in production [well LCC was reborn as LCC-Win32 for a while] but really GCC is the better choice.
The problem with the "good old days" was that as my friend Dave Dunfield said once "C compilers are a dime a dozen".
Just because you had a dozen C compilers for your 8086 doesn't mean you were better off. In fact most compilers for the 86 were crap [e.g. smallC, byteC, Zortech, paradise, etc...]. In fact the only half-way decent 86 compilers I recall are Turbo C [v3.01 was ok] and Micro-C [by Dave Dunfield so maybe I'm a bit biased there...].
Note I'm not saying more compilers is bad. The problem is like any field "new" doesn't imply better. You have to tackle problems and answer them.
For instance, GCC is rather large and can be slow/memhog on some files [C++ in particular]. A viable competitor for Linux would be one which optimizes decently while not being such a hog. It could pitch in when you can't build a file [say from VisualBoyAdvance which requires ~1GB of ram to build with GCC 3.4.2]...
For the most part though, contributing to GCC makes more sense than writing your own compiler. First off, GCC is a "standard". So you're likely to get a huge audience that way. Second, GCC is already well established. It's a very good suite of tools and frankly hard to compete with. Third, you'll save a lot of time.
For all intents and purposes you could change your argument to why do "linux" boxes only run the Linux kernel? I mean for all intents and purposes you could write your own kernel that was interoperable and use instead. For the same reason why contributing to GCC is a good idea so is contributing to the kernel [instead of writing your own] is a good idea.
One last caveat before I send this post. I do agree though that writing such said tools [kernels or compilers in this case] are a good idea for educational purposes. It means a lot to know how to write a functional [and ideally half-way decent] compiler even if it only targets one platform and covers only part of a language.:-)
Let's see, for Java to be secure the VM has to have no exploits. My first point.
The Java VM *does* occupy memory. It does take time to run [as it's not what your program does]. My second point.
Java is very "type safe" which means many innocent operations make it fail to build [e.g. assigning small ints to byte types...]. Also all of your functions must be stored in a class. Let's not forget that the API is very very large. My third point.
Are you mistakenly thinking because you disagree with me that I'm trolling? If that's the case you obviously are not a pleasant person to deal with and I don't care what you have to say.
- You need a VM, the VM has to be PERFECT - Java despite all other claims requires more cpu power and memory. Sure JIT may mitigate the speed but it takes time to setup and requires memory to store. - Java is for all intents and purposes more complicated to write software for.
Sure C isn't perfect but blind faith [in either direction] is just plain stupid.
1. If the trip is too long, plan to leave the day before, fly or take a train. Why is it up to you what speed you want?
2. I've seen my share of parking lot accidents and I can attest that people don't drive anybetter at low speeds. Just the accidents are funnier to watch.
3. People don't pay attention at any speeds. There are basically two types of drivers in the world. The ones who pay attention to others, do the limits [within margins] and never get into accidents. Then there are the others who drive too slow or too fast, cut people off, etc.
It isn't malice it's just they are in their own little world where they are ruler and rulers don't have to abide by normal people laws.
Why do you think the average joe thinks it's the worlds biggest injustice when a cop finally pulls them over?
e.g. shit like
"Other people were speeding why did you pull me over?"
Unfortunately the groups are like 20%/80% at best. I think if the penalties for bad driving were more severe [e.g. license suspension instead of ticket] you'd see the groups even out more.
Frankly driving isn't a right. So I say make it law that you lose your license for speeding, for cutting people off, etc....
1. "speeding" rarely amounts to more than a few mins difference in arrival time. Specially for people who drive locally to work. So just leave 10 mins earlier.
2. Drivers suck. Speeding makes this worse.
3. Drivers ought to pay attention more. The reason why they "weave" and miss stop lines and such is because they're not constantly reminding themselves that they are driving a car and they're responsible for their actions.
Yeah cuz heaven forbid you drive the speedlimit while not randomly swapping lanes, cutting people off and seemingly misunderstanding the point of a turning lane.
Frankly the VAST MAJORITY of drivers out there really sucks. That's why accidents happen. I'd bet dollars to donuts that it's very rare [by comparison] that accidents occur because of mechanical failure [and even in those cases that the malfunction wasn't brought on through abusing the device].
I'd say any non-absolute method of catching bad drivers [where you can defend yourself against] is a good idea.
You don't have the right to drive, yada yada yada.
Ok free-adverts for MSFT have got to stop. First off the only reason they talk about WinFS is to catch stoopid "leading tech" people into sticking with windows for years to come [cuz they want to be bleeding edge y0!].
I'm sure winfs will suck ass when it comes out. Not only that but Windows is not that exciting. It's big, doesn't come with anything and is awkward to use [after using gentoo for a while it hurts to use windows].
I've said this before but it's worth repeating...
You install WinXP and what do you get? Um, media player, internet explorer and a few card games. This of course takes a couple GB of space [if not more]. Then you have to install gaim, gimp, cygwin and mozilla [at least] to have a usable computer.
I just reinstalled gentoo on my laptop [x86]. With X, xmms, mplayer, gaim, tetex, openoffice, icewm, wireless tools, ethereal, cdrtools and a shitload of other tools I used 2.1GB.
When is the last time you could install windows, have a browser, competent media player, typesetting, cdr burning software, office suite, networking tools and a plethora of IMs installed for less than 4GB? 8GB?
People, wake the fuck up. There are alternatives to this crap they peddle on you.
The actual format of the data on the CD or DVD is an ISO format [often with extensions like UDF and Joilet]. What the companies like roxio and sonic [etc] do is basically convert their format to ISO on the fly [which isn't a far stretch] while burning.
You are right though. It is just a vendor lock in issue. Which is why you don't use windows. Simple enough;-)
Um did you read it? They put a patent on the PS2. Whoopy-doo. that's just so others can't clone the PS2 *exactly* and sell a diet PS2 for half the price.
In my opinion this is just a defense patent. I'm sure if you changed the cpus/ram/etc configuration you'd be clear and free as far as this patent goes.
You're bright idea is to firewall out incomming ssh connections? Mind if I ask how you plan on ssh'ing in?
I truly don't know why servers [http,ftp,ssh,etc] don't just 24hr ban people.
Like take yahoo mail for instance. People say "you can't scan mail as it's read for spam cuz that would slow it down too much". I say it wouldn't because this is what you do.
Scan the mail, if it's spam [e.g. obvious stuff] 24hr ban the ip instantly don't store the email just drop the entire session.
So now when this "smart" fellow decides to email 100,000 of his closest buddies at yahoo none of the connections are allowed.
So you pay the price of more work on all email but you win because you have fewer sessions, writes to disk and eventual deletions when a pissed off yahoo user who gets 1000 spams a day has to deal with it.
You could escalate the situtation and 72hr ban people who get multiple 24hr bans, etc, etc, etc.
You could also just make the rules for instant 24hr ban simpler [e.g. not 100%]. Even if they caught say 40% or so that would make a difference.
The obvious catches would be
1. Attachments [I'd say all of them... but] with executable types or their reported mime-type doesn't match the file extension
2. Faked out EHLO's cuz really... either use your ip or make sure your name goes to the ip you're sending from.
HELO watson.ibm.com (24.162...)
3. invalid return addresses and other information.
4. All 118 variations of viagra, xanax and vicodin.
5. 20 of the case insensitive key phrases of the day [e.g. by having sysops look through reported spam and rank them, perhaps automatically]
These scans are relatively cheap and would help keep spammers off your server [provided you have a lot of users, but if you don't have a lot of users then the extra time won't matter!]
Nothing in moderation. Yes, Allow the females into comp sci without undue burden. But don't hand it to them on a silver platter.
I mean it's not my fault the average punkager idea of a good time is "like getting drunk and stuff". You know what I did when I was in high school? I learned how to develop software by writing stuff I gave away.
Sure I went out and did the other teen things [movies, parties, etc]. But I didn't obsesss over being the most coolest person ever in school. Mostly I didn't give a shit what others thought so I didn't waste time trying to impress people. Sure that made be "uncool" in most circles but then again I don't care.
There is nothing stopping a 15 yr old male or female from picking up cygwin on their computer [which must be windows cuz linux is uncool] and learning how to write hello world.
They CHOOSE not to. Now they can LIVE with the consequences of being "popular".
The 486 was the first x86 to have a full pipeline which is why most instructions were 1 cycle. The 386 and 486 [even the 486 SL/SX] at the same clock rate had different MIPS.
More so the 486 hit much higher clock rates than the 386 [which topped out at what 33/40Mhz?]. I remember seeing 133Mhz 486DX4 processors in local stores back in the day.
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XML "co-invention fame"? XML isn't exactly something that um... original. For crying out loud it's just angle brackets and a small grammar!
That's like saying
Tom St Denis [of key=value pair co-invention fame]
I think we need to stop deifying every nutjob with a RFC.
Um the one I replied to stated NTSC is 60Hz. It's not. First off it's [closer to] 59.97Hz, second that's interlaced. NTSC != PAL
Tom
NTSC is 59.97 fps but interlaced. The entire screen only updates at 29.97fps.
But thanks for playing.
Tom
I fucking hate this bullshit. First off NTSC is 30fps. Certainly high enough for humans to perceive motion. Second, Anything over 50fps or so is a write off because it really doesn't matter. I mean at 50fps yer talking 20ms delay which is more than enough to perceive fluid motion.
Third, maybe your eyes are sore for other reasons? Like the fact that you're bombing your eyes [presumably you have a CRT tv/monitor] with huge gobs of radiation?
Fourth, asshats like you and audio/video philes give science a bad name. Sure there are limits [like anything below 24fps is non-ideal] but you don't need 450fps to get "top notch quality".
Fifth, you said 76Hz [presumably you meant 75Hz] does your "game" keep up with that rate? Do you get 75fps at all times?
Tom
Just FYI it's 4/3 not 3/2. That is, base-64 encoding puts out 4 bytes for every 3 bytes it reads in.
So 10MB * 3/4 => 7.5MB
Tom
Um dude, I haven't used a floppy disk in like 5 years. Primarly because bandwidth is cheap [e.g. I can scp a file elsewhere instead of copying to a floppy disk] and USB/CDR media are cheap too.
I remember when CDRs were >1$ each. Drives were like 300$ etc.... now a CD-RW is 30$ and a disk is 0.34$.
No reason to use a slow, error prone, clunky 1.44M media when I can use a 64M usb disk or a 700M CDR just as easily.
As for PBXs depends really. A "new" company building a new office may just go voip. If PBX is already in place it may be harder to get rid of it. But really that's apples and oranges.
Tom
Isn't apathy the publics way of saying "we're tired of your bullshit"?
I mean honestly vote for Bush or Kerry the net result will be the same. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class remain terrified about what tommorow will bring.
I don't think people "forget" to vote or just don't care to. I think they honestly don't think that it matters one way or the other. So long as the sheep [re: public] watch TV and believe what they see the actual vote doesn't matter.
This vote has long since been decided. So long as Bush and his fellow cronies can push that big bright red terrorist button the masses will fall in line.
See what I don't get is people go on about how "we are safer with Bushes leadership". Well you know what? Life isn't safe. You could be flying on a terrorist free plane and shit could hit the fan [literally] and boom you're dead.
You could be waiting in a doctors office when an earthquake hits and you get smushed by a ton of cement, etc, etc, etc.
It's what you do with your time that makes your life. If people accept "Big Brother" on their street corners with machine guns [like in New York] how free are you to live what precious life you have left?
Now I won't presume to tell people how to vote. Personally if I lived in the USA I would vote for a non-major party like the Libertarians. Fuck I would vote for Arnold any day. At least he got rich making movies and not foreign policy.
My dear brotheren Americans cherish what precious commodities of freedom you have left. Another decade of "fighting terrorism" and you guys won't know which way is up. You'll have to turn to polly shore movies to see how "good" life used to be. And that my friends is truly sad.
Tom
God Bless Amerika.
Why not just rotate baby sitters? That way if any one of them is abusive you won't have them for long. I'm sure there are plenty of 16-18 yr olds who wouldn't mind making 50$ or so for watching your brat for a night.
Tom
Shh. How dare you speak out against such a crafty commercial...er...informational article about ipods and synaptics. Hell, if they had to actually research to write a real story... well that would be like work for a living!
Just another selfish excuse to see ads on a webpage. Like that recent scam by the Financial Post [the one where the article was all of two paragraphs and half of the web page was ads for other shit].
Tom
Exactly. First off, no network security is worth 100k/yr. For that much you might as well higher two college grads and keep them on staff.
Second, there isn't much you can do when 10,000 computers all do a "GET / HTTP/1.1" on your server. The best you can do 24hr ban the offending IPs and hope to track down the extortionist.
Why that's worth 100k/yr is beyond me. A simple firewall + script can do this for you.
Tom
Actually there are. LCC and TinyC come to mind. They're not used much in production [well LCC was reborn as LCC-Win32 for a while] but really GCC is the better choice.
:-)
The problem with the "good old days" was that as my friend Dave Dunfield said once "C compilers are a dime a dozen".
Just because you had a dozen C compilers for your 8086 doesn't mean you were better off. In fact most compilers for the 86 were crap [e.g. smallC, byteC, Zortech, paradise, etc...]. In fact the only half-way decent 86 compilers I recall are Turbo C [v3.01 was ok] and Micro-C [by Dave Dunfield so maybe I'm a bit biased there...].
Note I'm not saying more compilers is bad. The problem is like any field "new" doesn't imply better. You have to tackle problems and answer them.
For instance, GCC is rather large and can be slow/memhog on some files [C++ in particular]. A viable competitor for Linux would be one which optimizes decently while not being such a hog. It could pitch in when you can't build a file [say from VisualBoyAdvance which requires ~1GB of ram to build with GCC 3.4.2]...
For the most part though, contributing to GCC makes more sense than writing your own compiler. First off, GCC is a "standard". So you're likely to get a huge audience that way. Second, GCC is already well established. It's a very good suite of tools and frankly hard to compete with. Third, you'll save a lot of time.
For all intents and purposes you could change your argument to why do "linux" boxes only run the Linux kernel? I mean for all intents and purposes you could write your own kernel that was interoperable and use instead. For the same reason why contributing to GCC is a good idea so is contributing to the kernel [instead of writing your own] is a good idea.
One last caveat before I send this post. I do agree though that writing such said tools [kernels or compilers in this case] are a good idea for educational purposes. It means a lot to know how to write a functional [and ideally half-way decent] compiler even if it only targets one platform and covers only part of a language.
phew...
Tom
What part of my reply was a troll?
Let's see, for Java to be secure the VM has to have no exploits. My first point.
The Java VM *does* occupy memory. It does take time to run [as it's not what your program does]. My second point.
Java is very "type safe" which means many innocent operations make it fail to build [e.g. assigning small ints to byte types...]. Also all of your functions must be stored in a class. Let's not forget that the API is very very large. My third point.
Are you mistakenly thinking because you disagree with me that I'm trolling? If that's the case you obviously are not a pleasant person to deal with and I don't care what you have to say.
Tom
Except Java has all sorts of it's own draw backs
- You need a VM, the VM has to be PERFECT
- Java despite all other claims requires more cpu power and memory. Sure JIT may mitigate the speed but it takes time to setup and requires memory to store.
- Java is for all intents and purposes more complicated to write software for.
Sure C isn't perfect but blind faith [in either direction] is just plain stupid.
Tom
Didn't intel just invent a new type of network or something?
Now they're writing that ipv4 networks will die... Hmmm... clever marketing or the truth?
SO HARD TO TELL!
1. If the trip is too long, plan to leave the day before, fly or take a train. Why is it up to you what speed you want?
...
2. I've seen my share of parking lot accidents and I can attest that people don't drive anybetter at low speeds. Just the accidents are funnier to watch.
3. People don't pay attention at any speeds. There are basically two types of drivers in the world. The ones who pay attention to others, do the limits [within margins] and never get into accidents. Then there are the others who drive too slow or too fast, cut people off, etc.
It isn't malice it's just they are in their own little world where they are ruler and rulers don't have to abide by normal people laws.
Why do you think the average joe thinks it's the worlds biggest injustice when a cop finally pulls them over?
e.g. shit like
"Other people were speeding why did you pull me over?"
Unfortunately the groups are like 20%/80% at best.
I think if the penalties for bad driving were more severe [e.g. license suspension instead of ticket] you'd see the groups even out more.
Frankly driving isn't a right. So I say make it law that you lose your license for speeding, for cutting people off, etc.
Plus it would make for good tv...
Tom
The problem I have is this
1. "speeding" rarely amounts to more than a few mins difference in arrival time. Specially for people who drive locally to work. So just leave 10 mins earlier.
2. Drivers suck. Speeding makes this worse.
3. Drivers ought to pay attention more. The reason why they "weave" and miss stop lines and such is because they're not constantly reminding themselves that they are driving a car and they're responsible for their actions.
Tom
Yeah cuz heaven forbid you drive the speedlimit while not randomly swapping lanes, cutting people off and seemingly misunderstanding the point of a turning lane.
Frankly the VAST MAJORITY of drivers out there really sucks. That's why accidents happen. I'd bet dollars to donuts that it's very rare [by comparison] that accidents occur because of mechanical failure [and even in those cases that the malfunction wasn't brought on through abusing the device].
I'd say any non-absolute method of catching bad drivers [where you can defend yourself against] is a good idea.
You don't have the right to drive, yada yada yada.
Tom
That's not how smartcards work. In the smart card system you don't even have to trust the card reader.
Tom
Ok free-adverts for MSFT have got to stop. First off the only reason they talk about WinFS is to catch stoopid "leading tech" people into sticking with windows for years to come [cuz they want to be bleeding edge y0!].
I'm sure winfs will suck ass when it comes out. Not only that but Windows is not that exciting. It's big, doesn't come with anything and is awkward to use [after using gentoo for a while it hurts to use windows].
I've said this before but it's worth repeating...
You install WinXP and what do you get? Um, media player, internet explorer and a few card games. This of course takes a couple GB of space [if not more]. Then you have to install gaim, gimp, cygwin and mozilla [at least] to have a usable computer.
I just reinstalled gentoo on my laptop [x86]. With X, xmms, mplayer, gaim, tetex, openoffice, icewm, wireless tools, ethereal, cdrtools and a shitload of other tools I used 2.1GB.
When is the last time you could install windows, have a browser, competent media player, typesetting, cdr burning software, office suite, networking tools and a plethora of IMs installed for less than 4GB? 8GB?
People, wake the fuck up. There are alternatives to this crap they peddle on you.
Tom
The actual format of the data on the CD or DVD is an ISO format [often with extensions like UDF and Joilet]. What the companies like roxio and sonic [etc] do is basically convert their format to ISO on the fly [which isn't a far stretch] while burning.
;-)
You are right though. It is just a vendor lock in issue. Which is why you don't use windows. Simple enough
Tom
Um did you read it? They put a patent on the PS2. Whoopy-doo. that's just so others can't clone the PS2 *exactly* and sell a diet PS2 for half the price.
In my opinion this is just a defense patent. I'm sure if you changed the cpus/ram/etc configuration you'd be clear and free as far as this patent goes.
Tom
wait wait wait wait wait.
You're bright idea is to firewall out incomming ssh connections? Mind if I ask how you plan on ssh'ing in?
I truly don't know why servers [http,ftp,ssh,etc] don't just 24hr ban people.
Like take yahoo mail for instance. People say "you can't scan mail as it's read for spam cuz that would slow it down too much". I say it wouldn't because this is what you do.
Scan the mail, if it's spam [e.g. obvious stuff] 24hr ban the ip instantly don't store the email just drop the entire session.
So now when this "smart" fellow decides to email 100,000 of his closest buddies at yahoo none of the connections are allowed.
So you pay the price of more work on all email but you win because you have fewer sessions, writes to disk and eventual deletions when a pissed off yahoo user who gets 1000 spams a day has to deal with it.
You could escalate the situtation and 72hr ban people who get multiple 24hr bans, etc, etc, etc.
You could also just make the rules for instant 24hr ban simpler [e.g. not 100%]. Even if they caught say 40% or so that would make a difference.
The obvious catches would be
1. Attachments [I'd say all of them... but] with executable types or their reported mime-type doesn't match the file extension
2. Faked out EHLO's cuz really... either use your ip or make sure your name goes to the ip you're sending from.
HELO watson.ibm.com (24.162...)
3. invalid return addresses and other information.
4. All 118 variations of viagra, xanax and vicodin.
5. 20 of the case insensitive key phrases of the day [e.g. by having sysops look through reported spam and rank them, perhaps automatically]
These scans are relatively cheap and would help keep spammers off your server [provided you have a lot of users, but if you don't have a lot of users then the extra time won't matter!]
Tom
Fucking affirmative action....
Nothing in moderation. Yes, Allow the females into comp sci without undue burden. But don't hand it to them on a silver platter.
I mean it's not my fault the average punkager idea of a good time is "like getting drunk and stuff". You know what I did when I was in high school? I learned how to develop software by writing stuff I gave away.
Sure I went out and did the other teen things [movies, parties, etc]. But I didn't obsesss over being the most coolest person ever in school. Mostly I didn't give a shit what others thought so I didn't waste time trying to impress people. Sure that made be "uncool" in most circles but then again I don't care.
There is nothing stopping a 15 yr old male or female from picking up cygwin on their computer [which must be windows cuz linux is uncool] and learning how to write hello world.
They CHOOSE not to. Now they can LIVE with the consequences of being "popular".
Tom
This is total B.S.
The 486 was the first x86 to have a full pipeline which is why most instructions were 1 cycle. The 386 and 486 [even the 486 SL/SX] at the same clock rate had different MIPS.
More so the 486 hit much higher clock rates than the 386 [which topped out at what 33/40Mhz?]. I remember seeing 133Mhz 486DX4 processors in local stores back in the day.
Tom
50GB disk with 32MB of ram == LOAD TIME LOAD TIME LOAD TIME.
Fuck, 8x the memory already!!!!