They mean the same thing, 'while' is the original, 'whiles' is a reasonable but now-dead adverbial form, and 'whilst' arose from 'whiles' by some sort of confusion or other.
'While' is probably the better form since it's common and 'whiles' is both spurious (originally) and kind of stupid-sounding, but I think they can be considered interchangeable.
NT4 was widely used outside of a server role. I've seen many large (10,000+) sites that used NT4 workstations, and many that still do, and I've also seen large amounts of number crunching and general purpose software still running on NT4. I'd say NT4 penetrated well in both the file/print server role and the workstation role, and pretty well in the application server role. Maybe the story is different at little companies, but it also seemed to take on the role of standard Excel platform in most places, and that alone is a big role.
The importance of NT4 really shouldn't be underestimated; it's one of those things people are going to be supporting forever, because the upgrade path since then has been less than clear. I wish we could all just use.NET and forget about the whole Windows history.
What shall I play now... galactic civilizations? day of defeat? railroad tycoon (not as dull as it sounds)? strange adventures in infinite space? Or maybe I'll play some GTA 3 after all.
The point is, *expensive* games are costing more and more to produce while the market for *cheap* games remains the same. There isn't just one monolithic games market; there are many niches and levels and most of them are doing okay.
Day of Defeat (and other games that use an older game as an engine) are an interesting case -- could it be that as more and more powerful toolkits and engines become available, it will cost less and less to create new games? Of course, large companies that can make their own engines will have an advantage, but that seems fair enough to me.
I agree that those capable of doing the work and understanding the systems involve are the best qualified to use (or decide not to use) a new technology.
The trouble is that it's not them making the decision; once the technology's become available it's up to the upper management of Del Monte and Exxon to decide how it's used. And they are neither well qualified nor disinterested.
P.S. I, for one, welcome our new nanoparticle overlo -- oh, whatever.
"Hm - let's see what the license is before I make my Ultimate Dance Track for the Anime Pool Party this Saturday.".
Hm -- if it discourages the creating of anything called 'Ultimate Dance Track for the Anime Pool Party', I like it!
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So, there's this cranky company president whose employees call him 'the General' and who thinks 'Nam experience is just what the semiconductor industry needs. And this makes you go all patriotic:)
I agree; when I want to look up some method of some strange shell interface or whatever, I type in the method and, sometimes, the string 'msdn' or 'microsoft' into google. The correct msdn page then appears among the first 3 hits.
The alternative is to wait while the MSDN page loads, wait while it searches, wait while that damn tree thing on the left unfolds, then watch as it tells me the page was not found and offers me the windows CE page instead.
At least the french take a shot at preserving their linguistic identity, even though it makes them look pathetic. I swear the next time a Japanese person mentiones 'erekutoronikku meeru' or 'monorisikku puroguramu dezain' I'm going to fucking strangle him.
In terms of constructs like 'if' and 'elst', I'm not convinced that wrapping the SVG object model in a layer of xml tags will do any more good than wrapping stuff in a layer of xml tags usually does.
However, it's good to see a widget set being produced for SVG. If a powerful, standard widget set evolves that'll be immeasurably useful in promoting SVG and taking advantage of SVGs natural strengths.
It can be scripted and can contain scripts and fire events, it forms part of the page's object model, it's *not* like implementing 'just another image format'.
currently there isn't a mature messaging server and MSMQ is not appropriate for high load messaging platform.
Better use MQseries or some other messaging server. How is this a.net issue?
SOAP is too damn heavy weight to scale well beyond 60 concurrent requests for a single CPU 3ghz system.
Well, don't use soap if you don't like it. That doesn't just go for.net, you know.
SQL Server doesn't support C# triggers or a way to embed C# applications within the database
Better use regular triggers etc. then, no?
The through put of SQL Server is still around 200 concurrent requests for a single or dual CPU box. I've read the posts about Transaction Processing Council, but get real, who can afford to spend 6 million on a 64 CPU box?
It seems comparable to sybase and postgresql to me.
I've been been running benchmarks with dynamic code that does quite a bit of reflection and the performance doesn't impress me.
No, reflection isn't good in performance critical areas -- I thought everyone already knew that from Java.
I've also compared the performance of a static ASP/HTML page to webservice page and the throughput goes from 150-200 to about 10-20 on a 2.4-2.6Ghz system
This remark seems to be garbled. A *static* ASP page? A 'webservice page'? In any case, if one's faster then I suggest you use that one if possible:)
I asked a MS SQL Server DBA about real-time replication across multiple servers and his remark was "it doesn't work, don't use it."
My company is using it a fair bit without any problems, but it's not me personally doing it.
Anyway, I think a book about.NET, a book about web applications in general, and a large spoonful of openmindedness would do more for you than any amount of FUD. I hate to write posts with a critical tone, but seriously, Slashdot editors have to start actually reading and evaluating articles again.
Yeah, what bothers me here is not that there's a vulnerability -- in 30 million lines of code I'd expect a good few thousand vulnerabilities. What bothers me is that it's the same damn buffer overrun problem again.
Thank You For Not Using Fixed Length Buffers Like You're Programming C On System V in About 1978.
Suggests that THEY found the vulnerability a year ago, made a patch, and then waited to see if anyone ELSE found it before releasing the patch.
That'd be standard practise in the commercial IT world. Of course, in open source there's always someone who wants to look real important and expose vulnerabilities as soon as possible, so you don't get the same pattern developing.
Not that I give a shit about the whole open source / microsoft thing.
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You didn't read it properly. But even if he gets to pick the task, I can think of a very easy proof that the challenger can (theoretically) always win...
Sadly, I still don't think money will change hands here:)
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Well, it wouldn't be very difficult to win, but I do have a few doubts as to whether you've really got the money:)
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They mean the same thing, 'while' is the original, 'whiles' is a reasonable but now-dead adverbial form, and 'whilst' arose from 'whiles' by some sort of confusion or other.
'While' is probably the better form since it's common and 'whiles' is both spurious (originally) and kind of stupid-sounding, but I think they can be considered interchangeable.
NB: I am a pretentious jackass.
What NT needs from Posix is the uniform filename space.
... wide-character interfaces
:)
Got one.
This would get rid of drive letters
They're only there for backwards compatibility.
eliminate
Who could *possibly* think of that as a *good* thing to do??
A real fork would be nice too.
Ahhh, someone who grew up with Unix could
NT4 was widely used outside of a server role. I've seen many large (10,000+) sites that used NT4 workstations, and many that still do, and I've also seen large amounts of number crunching and general purpose software still running on NT4. I'd say NT4 penetrated well in both the file/print server role and the workstation role, and pretty well in the application server role. Maybe the story is different at little companies, but it also seemed to take on the role of standard Excel platform in most places, and that alone is a big role.
.NET and forget about the whole Windows history.
The importance of NT4 really shouldn't be underestimated; it's one of those things people are going to be supporting forever, because the upgrade path since then has been less than clear. I wish we could all just use
What shall I play now... galactic civilizations? day of defeat? railroad tycoon (not as dull as it sounds)? strange adventures in infinite space? Or maybe I'll play some GTA 3 after all.
The point is, *expensive* games are costing more and more to produce while the market for *cheap* games remains the same. There isn't just one monolithic games market; there are many niches and levels and most of them are doing okay.
Day of Defeat (and other games that use an older game as an engine) are an interesting case -- could it be that as more and more powerful toolkits and engines become available, it will cost less and less to create new games? Of course, large companies that can make their own engines will have an advantage, but that seems fair enough to me.
Yeah, dangerous as nanotechnology may be, remember that just *one* gigatechnology device could squash the entire planet!
I agree that those capable of doing the work and understanding the systems involve are the best qualified to use (or decide not to use) a new technology.
The trouble is that it's not them making the decision; once the technology's become available it's up to the upper management of Del Monte and Exxon to decide how it's used. And they are neither well qualified nor disinterested.
P.S. I, for one, welcome our new nanoparticle overlo -- oh, whatever.
But, we have had some problems with it. One day, it kept popping up a stupid dialog saying that the computer is too hot
Ha! No *real* OS would ever warn about overheating! Real OSes just die!
Later that same day, it popped up with a stupid message saying that had automatically downloaded and installed updates and patches for us.
Ha ha! How pathetic, it automatically downloads patches when configured to do so! A REAL OS would rely on the Patch Fairy!
See, this is a problem with putting gas station attendants in charge of computers.
"Hm - let's see what the license is before I make my Ultimate Dance Track for the Anime Pool Party this Saturday.".
Hm -- if it discourages the creating of anything called 'Ultimate Dance Track for the Anime Pool Party', I like it!
So, there's this cranky company president whose employees call him 'the General' and who thinks 'Nam experience is just what the semiconductor industry needs. And this makes you go all patriotic
Cute -- but *scary* cute! Like plush Cthulhu!
Wait... Microsoft are in business to make money?? I thought they were trying to make a new and larger type of cauliflower!
I'm glad you have an MBA.
Wow, that's the only time I've seen that happen on slashdot :)
Yes, vi is the best.
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To sort out these and other common misconceptoins about what Unicode is and does, why not refer to my Unicode Tutorial?
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Thanks for the info but, far from popping my bubble, you just gave it a titanium lining.
Sorry, is this still a regular bubble but with a titanium lining, or is it basically a titanium bubble now?
I'm amazed it didn't pop by itself while it was being lined.
I agree; when I want to look up some method of some strange shell interface or whatever, I type in the method and, sometimes, the string 'msdn' or 'microsoft' into google. The correct msdn page then appears among the first 3 hits.
The alternative is to wait while the MSDN page loads, wait while it searches, wait while that damn tree thing on the left unfolds, then watch as it tells me the page was not found and offers me the windows CE page instead.
YMMV.
At least the french take a shot at preserving their linguistic identity, even though it makes them look pathetic. I swear the next time a Japanese person mentiones 'erekutoronikku meeru' or 'monorisikku puroguramu dezain' I'm going to fucking strangle him.
Sounds cool.
Thank you for being the first person to coherently point out some of the benefits of ClearCase to me.
Richard is as smart as a whip.
I agree. He is at least as intelligent as the average whip.
In terms of constructs like 'if' and 'elst', I'm not convinced that wrapping the SVG object model in a layer of xml tags will do any more good than wrapping stuff in a layer of xml tags usually does.
However, it's good to see a widget set being produced for SVG. If a powerful, standard widget set evolves that'll be immeasurably useful in promoting SVG and taking advantage of SVGs natural strengths.
It can be scripted and can contain scripts and fire events, it forms part of the page's object model, it's *not* like implementing 'just another image format'.
Yeesh.
Here, let me make some suggestions:
.net issue?
.net, you know.
:)
.NET, a book about web applications in general, and a large spoonful of openmindedness would do more for you than any amount of FUD. I hate to write posts with a critical tone, but seriously, Slashdot editors have to start actually reading and evaluating articles again.
currently there isn't a mature messaging server and MSMQ is not appropriate for high load messaging platform.
Better use MQseries or some other messaging server. How is this a
SOAP is too damn heavy weight to scale well beyond 60 concurrent requests for a single CPU 3ghz system.
Well, don't use soap if you don't like it. That doesn't just go for
SQL Server doesn't support C# triggers or a way to embed C# applications within the database
Better use regular triggers etc. then, no?
The through put of SQL Server is still around 200 concurrent requests for a single or dual CPU box. I've read the posts about Transaction Processing Council, but get real, who can afford to spend 6 million on a 64 CPU box?
It seems comparable to sybase and postgresql to me.
I've been been running benchmarks with dynamic code that does quite a bit of reflection and the performance doesn't impress me.
No, reflection isn't good in performance critical areas -- I thought everyone already knew that from Java.
I've also compared the performance of a static ASP/HTML page to webservice page and the throughput goes from 150-200 to about 10-20 on a 2.4-2.6Ghz system
This remark seems to be garbled. A *static* ASP page? A 'webservice page'? In any case, if one's faster then I suggest you use that one if possible
I asked a MS SQL Server DBA about real-time replication across multiple servers and his remark was "it doesn't work, don't use it."
My company is using it a fair bit without any problems, but it's not me personally doing it.
Anyway, I think a book about
Yeah, what bothers me here is not that there's a vulnerability -- in 30 million lines of code I'd expect a good few thousand vulnerabilities. What bothers me is that it's the same damn buffer overrun problem again.
Thank You For Not Using Fixed Length Buffers Like You're Programming C On System V in About 1978.
Suggests that THEY found the vulnerability a year ago, made a patch, and then waited to see if anyone ELSE found it before releasing the patch.
That'd be standard practise in the commercial IT world. Of course, in open source there's always someone who wants to look real important and expose vulnerabilities as soon as possible, so you don't get the same pattern developing.
Not that I give a shit about the whole open source / microsoft thing.
You didn't read it properly. But even if he gets to pick the task, I can think of a very easy proof that the challenger can (theoretically) always win...
Sadly, I still don't think money will change hands here
Well, it wouldn't be very difficult to win, but I do have a few doubts as to whether you've really got the money :)