Linux person: "Hmm... this technology is from Microsoft. I think I'll complain a bit, and then forget about it."
Real UNIX Hacker: "Why isn't this in C? Object orientated languages are inefficient and hateful. What the hell is a 'unicode'? What's a 'component' -- why doesn't it just use pipes? Programs that don't work in a pipe are broken. I will fight against this thing til all around me weep with sheer boredom."
1) Stdin and stdout are, as ever, streams. 2) The Console.In and Console.Out methods get you TextWriters wrapped around those streams 3) If you just want byte streams, you can use OpenStandardInput etc
So easy. Not even a stream issue. Just a matter of whether you want the TextWriter or not.
On the other hand, the problems associated with the blank-eyed belief, still common among those "thinking UNIX" as you put it, in 1 byte equalling 1 character, can be serious. These problems do not often occur in Windows, which has traditionally understood that characters are not bytes, although like everything else they are encoded as some sequence of bytes.
I am ashamed to hear such an intense mixture of ignorance and prejudice from a vim user:( I may have to abandon my general 'the vim user is always right' rule of thumb:(
Sorry, I've been told that everything will be great in the next version of Java since 1995 now and ignoring it has become automatic.
But don't let that stop you from telling me all about how Swing will be realllll fast and responsive in 1.5. While you're doing that, I'll catch up on some TV.
In the UK for example, our government offers "Legal Aid" - a scheme by which people can get free or reduced cost legal help for fighting cases. This greatly reduces the disincentive to fight that an ordinary (non supported) court battle would have, which in turn reduces the incentive for companies to sue individuals with cases that are not strong.
Yes, legal aid can be a powerful force if one or both parties happen to qualify for it (and that's not simple to work out) and if the case itself qualifies, and if the LSC, the body in charge of legal aid, happens to care about the particular case. Not surprisingly, the LSC likes political cases that get its members in the newspapers...
Once legal aid is involved, whether it's a _positive_ force is something that varies randomly. For instance the legally aided party can receive damages whereas the other can *not*, which makes legal aid cases unique and often very dangerous for one side. Then again, the legally aided party's counsel has a fairly strong incentive to give _bad_ advice and force a reselection -- if only to avoid the hours of unpaid auditing work that come with a legal aid case. And then, of course, the party recieving legal aid is under no financial pressure and can often win just by dragging the case out until the other side is bled dry -- and, of course, as with so many things in life sometimes it seems as if the more money you have, the easier it is to persuade that legal aid to come your way:)
But, overall, I'd say it's certainly no more corrupt than other comparable British welfare institutions (housing!), and getting rid of it probably wouldn't help all that much.
The end result is that in the UK there are very very few frivolous or weak lawsuits brought about against individuals, lower costs for everyone, and a fairer system for society.
I use a Sony C1 mini-notebook with a Crusoe and it's excellent... fast enough to run whatever I'd normally run on a notebook but lots of battery life. And of course a pleasant warm 'non intel' feeling:>
The article's right -- we'd be better off depending on a proprietary standard which you can be sued for extending. Pass the java!
No, seriously, if Mono were successful MS couldn't shut it down and *I* could have.NET apps -- which I like -- running on Linux. It'd be great. Unfortunately, there's enough anti-.NET FUD in circulation to ensure that anyone who wants to take advantage of.NET will be on windows forever.
For anyone that has used sun hardware, we know. It really can't be beat. The stuff is fast, scalable, and bulletproof. Sun OS is about as stable as they come.
That must be why the entire Euronext.Liffe exchange was suspended recently due to a Sun hardware fault, eh? One processor happened to die and bamf, entire exchange gone.
In terms of OS reliability, I've certainly been at Sun-oriented places where servers going offline because of the disk filling up, because of the swapfile getting too big, or on some memorable occasions because 'the display ran out of colors' was commonplace. Admittedly, these might be Unix or X issues rather than Solaris ones (it's not my area of expertise) but these companies had paid a lot to be using Sun rather than Windows and it sure didn't look as if they were getting anything in return.
Why, yes, a speech translator such as you describe *would* be useful. If I had one, I would be sure to avoid inextricably attaching it to an item of apparel.
I would like to propose a hypothesis:
"The usefulness of any already-useful electronic tool N is drastically reduced by sewing N into the lining of your damn jacket."
TRON is a set of standards, SOME of which relate specifically to a realtime OS.
You can buy the standards from the TRON Association and implement them.
There is no source, unless you write some.
Incidentally, how precisely did the parent post get modded *up* rather than *down*? I mean, I don't usually RTFA any more than the next guy, but it's a bit depressing that so many people made their opinions public without stopping to learn what the topic even *is*.
By the way, MS deal with TRON consists of layering.NET on TRON in the same way many other things are already layered on it (or, to put it another way, making CE.NET conform to the TRON standard). This is a sensible and obvious thing to do and is the kind of thing TRON is designed for. Nothing to see here, tinfoil hats back in pockets please, move along.
You may be thinking of a vendor sht. He's probably using GNU sht, which takes caliber etc from a file of tab (NOT space -- think make!) separated records -- exact syntax available in handy 'info' format.
Frankly it's easier to just use windows and call IFirearmsEx::WGunSystemBulletOperationShootEx32(HG UN gun, HAMMO ammo, LPTRAJECTORY trajectory, LPSHOOTPARAMS params, DWORD reserved1, DWORD reserved2, BOOL &bHitYesNo)
Why yes, it *is* illegal to work with no visa
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I have to inject dull ol' reality into another 'The Indians Are Coming!' flap, but why exactly is it surprising that he can go to India on holiday and can't work there? Does he have a work visa for India? Are Indians allowed to work in the US with no visa?
I always figured the general pattern was that to work in country A, you need to be a citizen of country A or have a work permit issued by country A. Did this suddenly stop applying in the case of Americans wanting to work in India?
Other than that, well, it's a competitive marketplace. If other people are selling the same skills -- or what are percieved as the same skills -- cheaper, then he's got to change something.
Incidentally, I've known some terrible experiences with outsourcing to cheap countries and I think it's generally a false economy. But on the other hand, I think I'd rather have a disoriented and inexperienced Indian working for me than listen to this guy's whining.
You're right, he didn't translate the whole bible. But it's still true that before Vatican and Feudal culture extended over all Europe, Christianity had been pretty tolerant. This tolerance vanished as the hierarchy solidified.
On a side note, the opposition between Christianity and science, which people tend to take for granted, is actually a pretty recent thing; Galileo was killed more for personally offending the Pope than for his views, and in fact his research built on work done directly by the Vatican (which still has it's own observatories).
On an even sider note, the slide away from pro-progress and pro-science after a promising start is also visible in Sunni Islam, which parallels the RC Church's development in that way.
The practises he was referring to actually *are* libertarian; it's their phone in their building and they get to do what they want with it, including listen to it. Very libertarian.
I agree, too. They bought the damn phone and you are using it on their behalf, for which they are paying you.
Note that this does not diminish the contempt I feel for actual real-life libertarians.
That the marks^H^H^H^H^Hordinary believers should be allowed to read the secrets and convince themselves was one of the big innovations of the protestant reformers.
Confining myself to factual corrections, I note that in many medieval christian communities everyone could read the bible. For instance, Alfred the Great translated it into English for that very purpose. It was only later when the ecclesiastical hierarchy became more rigid and more focused on Rome that the Bible was restricted to the clergy.
I think it was around the time Java came out. Certainly, 'Java in a nutshell' was a mountain of mediocrity. And that was about the time O'R started mixing in 'friendly' books, like the nutshell ones, with their classic books.
Also, they strayed from their classic subjects -- Perl! Linux! Sockets! to make books about excel and.net and so on. A sound economic decision but it diluted the quality of the books -- I wouldn't even think of turning to O'Reilly first for a.NET book, and I probably wouldn't go to them for a Java book either.
So, they dumbed down, and they broadened out, and the effect was to dilute and obscure their core of great unix-oriented books.
So, are you commenting that/. did NOT state that the Register reported that Forrester predicts the end of physical media, or are you commenting that/. stated that the Register did NOT report that Forrester predicts the end of physical media?
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mmm... cockroaches daubed with yeast...
Linux person: "Hmm... this technology is from Microsoft. I think I'll complain a bit, and then forget about it."
Real UNIX Hacker: "Why isn't this in C? Object orientated languages are inefficient and hateful. What the hell is a 'unicode'? What's a 'component' -- why doesn't it just use pipes? Programs that don't work in a pipe are broken. I will fight against this thing til all around me weep with sheer boredom."
So no, I like the site as it is
*sigh*
:( I may have to abandon my general 'the vim user is always right' rule of thumb :(
1) Stdin and stdout are, as ever, streams.
2) The Console.In and Console.Out methods get you TextWriters wrapped around those streams
3) If you just want byte streams, you can use OpenStandardInput etc
So easy. Not even a stream issue. Just a matter of whether you want the TextWriter or not.
On the other hand, the problems associated with the blank-eyed belief, still common among those "thinking UNIX" as you put it, in 1 byte equalling 1 character, can be serious. These problems do not often occur in Windows, which has traditionally understood that characters are not bytes, although like everything else they are encoded as some sequence of bytes.
I am ashamed to hear such an intense mixture of ignorance and prejudice from a vim user
Sorry, I've been told that everything will be great in the next version of Java since 1995 now and ignoring it has become automatic.
But don't let that stop you from telling me all about how Swing will be realllll fast and responsive in 1.5. While you're doing that, I'll catch up on some TV.
In the UK for example, our government offers "Legal Aid" - a scheme by which people can get free or reduced cost legal help for fighting cases. This greatly reduces the disincentive to fight that an ordinary (non supported) court battle would have, which in turn reduces the incentive for companies to sue individuals with cases that are not strong.
Yes, legal aid can be a powerful force if one or both parties happen to qualify for it (and that's not simple to work out) and if the case itself qualifies, and if the LSC, the body in charge of legal aid, happens to care about the particular case. Not surprisingly, the LSC likes political cases that get its members in the newspapers...
Once legal aid is involved, whether it's a _positive_ force is something that varies randomly. For instance the legally aided party can receive damages whereas the other can *not*, which makes legal aid cases unique and often very dangerous for one side. Then again, the legally aided party's counsel has a fairly strong incentive to give _bad_ advice and force a reselection -- if only to avoid the hours of unpaid auditing work that come with a legal aid case. And then, of course, the party recieving legal aid is under no financial pressure and can often win just by dragging the case out until the other side is bled dry -- and, of course, as with so many things in life sometimes it seems as if the more money you have, the easier it is to persuade that legal aid to come your way
But, overall, I'd say it's certainly no more corrupt than other comparable British welfare institutions (housing!), and getting rid of it probably wouldn't help all that much.
The end result is that in the UK there are very very few frivolous or weak lawsuits brought about against individuals, lower costs for everyone, and a fairer system for society.
Bless!
...not purchaser of the tool.
The product being sold here is a license to use the jig, not the actual jig.
Whatever the heck a jig is.
London's pathetic attempt to build one small Hong Kong style building is amusing in a sad kind of way, but 'brilliant' might be going a bit far.
I use a Sony C1 mini-notebook with a Crusoe and it's excellent... fast enough to run whatever I'd normally run on a notebook but lots of battery life. And of course a pleasant warm 'non intel' feeling
The article's right -- we'd be better off depending on a proprietary standard which you can be sued for extending. Pass the java!
No, seriously, if Mono were successful MS couldn't shut it down and *I* could have
For anyone that has used sun hardware, we know. It really can't be beat. The stuff is fast, scalable, and bulletproof. Sun OS is about as stable as they come.
That must be why the entire Euronext.Liffe exchange was suspended recently due to a Sun hardware fault, eh? One processor happened to die and bamf, entire exchange gone.
In terms of OS reliability, I've certainly been at Sun-oriented places where servers going offline because of the disk filling up, because of the swapfile getting too big, or on some memorable occasions because 'the display ran out of colors' was commonplace. Admittedly, these might be Unix or X issues rather than Solaris ones (it's not my area of expertise) but these companies had paid a lot to be using Sun rather than Windows and it sure didn't look as if they were getting anything in return.
>Thats absorbed glass mat. ...
>An apostrophe is not a warning...
Indeed. An apostrophe indicates that one or more characters have been omitted, for example the 'i' in 'That is'.
Next step: Breed spherical cow.
Why, yes, a speech translator such as you describe *would* be useful. If I had one, I would be sure to avoid inextricably attaching it to an item of apparel.
I would like to propose a hypothesis:
"The usefulness of any already-useful electronic tool N is drastically reduced by sewing N into the lining of your damn jacket."
*sigh*
.NET on TRON in the same way many other things are already layered on it (or, to put it another way, making CE .NET conform to the TRON standard). This is a sensible and obvious thing to do and is the kind of thing TRON is designed for. Nothing to see here, tinfoil hats back in pockets please, move along.
TRON is a set of standards, SOME of which relate specifically to a realtime OS.
You can buy the standards from the TRON Association and implement them.
There is no source, unless you write some.
Incidentally, how precisely did the parent post get modded *up* rather than *down*? I mean, I don't usually RTFA any more than the next guy, but it's a bit depressing that so many people made their opinions public without stopping to learn what the topic even *is*.
By the way, MS deal with TRON consists of layering
You may be thinking of a vendor sht. He's probably using GNU sht, which takes caliber etc from a file of tab (NOT space -- think make!) separated records -- exact syntax available in handy 'info' format.
Frankly it's easier to just use windows and call IFirearmsEx::WGunSystemBulletOperationShootEx32(H
You mean like in the UK?
I have to inject dull ol' reality into another 'The Indians Are Coming!' flap, but why exactly is it surprising that he can go to India on holiday and can't work there? Does he have a work visa for India? Are Indians allowed to work in the US with no visa?
I always figured the general pattern was that to work in country A, you need to be a citizen of country A or have a work permit issued by country A. Did this suddenly stop applying in the case of Americans wanting to work in India?
Other than that, well, it's a competitive marketplace. If other people are selling the same skills -- or what are percieved as the same skills -- cheaper, then he's got to change something.
Incidentally, I've known some terrible experiences with outsourcing to cheap countries and I think it's generally a false economy. But on the other hand, I think I'd rather have a disoriented and inexperienced Indian working for me than listen to this guy's whining.
You're right, he didn't translate the whole bible. But it's still true that before Vatican and Feudal culture extended over all Europe, Christianity had been pretty tolerant. This tolerance vanished as the hierarchy solidified.
On a side note, the opposition between Christianity and science, which people tend to take for granted, is actually a pretty recent thing; Galileo was killed more for personally offending the Pope than for his views, and in fact his research built on work done directly by the Vatican (which still has it's own observatories).
On an even sider note, the slide away from pro-progress and pro-science after a promising start is also visible in Sunni Islam, which parallels the RC Church's development in that way.
Ballmer leaving would be *bad* for Microsoft?
The practises he was referring to actually *are* libertarian; it's their phone in their building and they get to do what they want with it, including listen to it. Very libertarian.
I agree, too. They bought the damn phone and you are using it on their behalf, for which they are paying you.
Note that this does not diminish the contempt I feel for actual real-life libertarians.
That the marks^H^H^H^H^Hordinary believers should be allowed to read the secrets and convince themselves was one of the big innovations of the protestant reformers.
Confining myself to factual corrections, I note that in many medieval christian communities everyone could read the bible. For instance, Alfred the Great translated it into English for that very purpose. It was only later when the ecclesiastical hierarchy became more rigid and more focused on Rome that the Bible was restricted to the clergy.
Machine, what is two plus two?
I think it was around the time Java came out. Certainly, 'Java in a nutshell' was a mountain of mediocrity. And that was about the time O'R started mixing in 'friendly' books, like the nutshell ones, with their classic books.
Also, they strayed from their classic subjects -- Perl! Linux! Sockets! to make books about excel and
So, they dumbed down, and they broadened out, and the effect was to dilute and obscure their core of great unix-oriented books.
Oh well, whatever.
So, are you commenting that