painting is useless not so. Great paintings cause you to do a double take and reconsider yourself and your place in the universe, hardly a useless activity.
Programming is functional Perl Camel. malbolge need I say more
Have you never looked at a piece of code and marveled at it's beauty. Beauty to some can bee seen in a simple algorithm to acheve a complex task. Many a mathemetian find beauty in a nice clean proof. Don't know bout you but I can tell who wrote a given peice of code jsut by the style and personal touches. surely this is proof that there is art in the code
You are clearly not a programmer. While there are mechanicle parts to programming these are equivelent to painting the background of the mona lisa. You can teach anyone the theory of programming just as I can learn the basic elements of painting. However I cannot paint (well) and If you don't think like a programmer you will never be able to program well.
I think the big point is that programming is an art. Every programmer I know knows this on som elevel but lay people generally do not. I'm lucky in that my boss is a programmer
As I read that: Playing to the public would be public performance. Don't think that really applies to playing music within a Private place such as an office
Have you seen all those "... For Dummies" books. Assuming the supplied manuals were at a similar level then yes novice users would buy a product for the manuals.
However. The money is really in the corprate market who I doubt would buy for mnuals. On the other hand companies buy support contracts. That is how MS would make money out of Open Source.
Deleted files can be recovered with an Electron microscope even if the blocks have been overwritten multiple times. The question you have to ask is weather your data is valuable enough for a compditor/govenment to do this. For most people the answer is no.
Either that or look at the previous reply... OS's crash!
Not that simple in practice. I'm not sure why but some OSes (Windows and MaxOS at least not sure about *nix) don't perform well without swap space even if you are not using all your physical memory.
The source of the Java Libraries are released. The Java Language specification is open.. ie. it can be viewed and implemented by anyone.
Sun has a proprietary java compiler / JVM but there is nothing to stop someone from implementing there own (jikes for example). Same situation as gcc vs. Borland C compiler (for example)
True but doing OO in a language that supports OO. (eg. Java or even Perl) is easier and makes for more readable code. Also when you do OO in a non OO language you are enforcing the OO only through convention. If someone else works on your code they can make a real mess by breaking encapsulation and other such non-OO practises
While computer science focuses on the software you esentialy have to use a computer (otherwise your PHD is in maths of some desctiption). I find it hard to believe anyone who has used a CD-rom drive before cannot distinguish between a CD and a 5.25 floppy. if only from the fact that you would have to force a CD into a 5.25" drive.
Funny I have seen most of those things cited as examples of bad UI in UI/HCI courses...
Just because Windows Users are used to it does not make it right. As the previous reply states macs have far fewer inconsistancies. Most people follow Apples UI guidlines. Why, because Mac users get pissed off and son't use programs that dont if it can be avoided.
In my opinion, this is a terrible way to build the system, and "debugging" methods like this are the reason so much code sucks
I have had situations where code runs fine on the development box but when it is copied to the (supposedly) identically configured production box things fall over. I don't have login access to the production box so I have a backdoor that allows me terminal access for debuggin purposes. Without this bugs that currently take me 5 minutes to find would take someone else sever hours of sorthing through httpd.config files and trying to see what diference is breaking my code.
I understand methanole is quite corrosive.. ie. youre not alowed it in plane cabins, has to be transported specially like other corrosive materials. Think this would add considerablbly to the cost of methanole. though prob not 80%
Supposedly ours was configured specifically for the University... however I suspect the customization was adding the uni logo and such. Perhaps unstable is the wrong word, the system stays up it just doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
I believe a lot of the problem is that the system is designed for HR more that student enrolments and so is a bad solution to the problem. However basic things like meaningful error messages are missing (eg Error 512564, instead of "You haven't sat a pre-requisite paper")
Personally I'd avoid using people-soft in the first place... My university recently began using people soft.. the student front end is virtuall unusable and according to staff the staff interface is worse. The system also seems to be pretty unstable. Wile these can be delt with they don't fill me with confidence in people soft's ablility to produce a quality system.
From your link: SGI Origin 3900 will enable customers to "do more" with its unique SGI® NUMAflexTM shared-memory architecture and optimized operating and development environment
Last time I checked shared memeory was only an issue for multi processor computers.... still got to handle the paralisation.
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painting is useless
not so. Great paintings cause you to do a double take and reconsider yourself and your place in the universe, hardly a useless activity.
Programming is functional
Perl Camel.
malbolge
need I say more
Have you never looked at a piece of code and marveled at it's beauty.
Beauty to some can bee seen in a simple algorithm to acheve a complex task.
Many a mathemetian find beauty in a nice clean proof.
Don't know bout you but I can tell who wrote a given peice of code jsut by the style and personal touches. surely this is proof that there is art in the code
You are clearly not a programmer. While there are mechanicle parts to programming these are equivelent to painting the background of the mona lisa. You can teach anyone the theory of programming just as I can learn the basic elements of painting. However I cannot paint (well) and If you don't think like a programmer you will never be able to program well.
I think the big point is that programming is an art. Every programmer I know knows this on som elevel but lay people generally do not. I'm lucky in that my boss is a programmer
As I read that:
Playing to the public would be public performance. Don't think that really applies to playing music within a Private place such as an office
Have you seen all those "... For Dummies" books. Assuming the supplied manuals were at a similar level then yes novice users would buy a product for the manuals.
However. The money is really in the corprate market who I doubt would buy for mnuals. On the other hand companies buy support contracts. That is how MS would make money out of Open Source.
cover up the fact that "Made in France" is written over most of Iraq's missles
USA donated most of Sadam's Biological and chemical weapons. So what say we remove this axis of evil
USA,France and Iraq
obviously you haven't seen the latest 007
If you are really worried about security...
Deleted files can be recovered with an Electron microscope even if the blocks have been overwritten multiple times.
The question you have to ask is weather your data is valuable enough for a compditor/govenment to do this. For most people the answer is no.
Either that or look at the previous reply... OS's crash!
Just add the RAM and be done with it.
Not that simple in practice. I'm not sure why but some OSes (Windows and MaxOS at least not sure about *nix) don't perform well without swap space even if you are not using all your physical memory.
A license for the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be shared or used concurrently on different COMPUTERS.
5 licences. at any one time only five people will be using windows. Therefore the licences is not being used concurrently on different computers.
Sounds Legal to me. INAL
The source of the Java Libraries are released. The Java Language specification is open.. ie. it can be viewed and implemented by anyone.
Sun has a proprietary java compiler / JVM but there is nothing to stop someone from implementing there own (jikes for example).
Same situation as gcc vs. Borland C compiler (for example)
Pretty sure it is true for all variables on a computer (ie. binary based).
Thats austrialian's. Get your sterotypes right.
I have but as I put them in myself I don't think it really counts. :)
True but doing OO in a language that supports OO. (eg. Java or even Perl) is easier and makes for more readable code.
Also when you do OO in a non OO language you are enforcing the OO only through convention. If someone else works on your code they can make a real mess by breaking encapsulation and other such non-OO practises
Good thing the DCMA wasn't around in those days... think I only have about 4 origonal programs for my //e
While computer science focuses on the software you esentialy have to use a computer (otherwise your PHD is in maths of some desctiption). I find it hard to believe anyone who has used a CD-rom drive before cannot distinguish between a CD and a 5.25 floppy. if only from the fact that you would have to force a CD into a 5.25" drive.
Funny I have seen most of those things cited as examples of bad UI in UI/HCI courses...
Just because Windows Users are used to it does not make it right. As the previous reply states macs have far fewer inconsistancies. Most people follow Apples UI guidlines.
Why, because Mac users get pissed off and son't use programs that dont if it can be avoided.
In my opinion, this is a terrible way to build the system, and "debugging" methods like this are the reason so much code sucks
I have had situations where code runs fine on the development box but when it is copied to the (supposedly) identically configured production box things fall over. I don't have login access to the production box so I have a backdoor that allows me terminal access for debuggin purposes. Without this bugs that currently take me 5 minutes to find would take someone else sever hours of sorthing through httpd.config files and trying to see what diference is breaking my code.
I understand methanole is quite corrosive.. ie. youre not alowed it in plane cabins, has to be transported specially like other corrosive materials. Think this would add considerablbly to the cost of methanole. though prob not 80%
Without Registers and L2 cache modern Ram wouldn't have a hope... Without a cache you disk access would be unberable.
Supposedly ours was configured specifically for the University... however I suspect the customization was adding the uni logo and such. Perhaps unstable is the wrong word, the system stays up it just doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
I believe a lot of the problem is that the system is designed for HR more that student enrolments and so is a bad solution to the problem. However basic things like meaningful error messages are missing (eg Error 512564, instead of "You haven't sat a pre-requisite paper")
Personally I'd avoid using people-soft in the first place... My university recently began using people soft.. the student front end is virtuall unusable and according to staff the staff interface is worse. The system also seems to be pretty unstable.
Wile these can be delt with they don't fill me with confidence in people soft's ablility to produce a quality system.
From your link:
SGI Origin 3900 will enable customers to "do more" with its unique SGI® NUMAflexTM shared-memory architecture and optimized operating and development environment
Last time I checked shared memeory was only an issue for multi processor computers....
still got to handle the paralisation.