A 1GHz PIII with 512MB of RAM takes nearly 3 minutes to boot and load to the point of being able to browse with Firefox with Ubuntu or Windows XP. Without hardware acceleration, the box is incapable of displaying video any faster than 4-5 frames per second when full-screened.
It takes a minute or two to load an office suite to edit a document.
Just because it used to be my primary work machine when I bought it does not mean that software bloat has made it useless in modern times.
A machine with half the memory but the same CPU and video card (my folk's) took almost TEN minutes to load and boot due to the bloating of the anti-virus software alone over those years.
Just because a machine doesn't actually crash doesn't mean it's USABLE.
All the idea needs to feed it's database is spam. Consumers and users sending pictures of products to all their friends and relatives on Facebook so they can decide if they "like" a product.
It's as slimy as those Australian scum with their astroturf "marketing".
Oracle? When did Microsoft steal Oracle technology?
SQL Server is the evolution of the Sybase ASE 10 code base.
And I think it's MicroSoft that got taken to the cleaners in that one. Sybase netted a pretty penny for the sale, and mere months later released ASE 11 which was a dramatic change to how the whole thing worked, adding record-level instead of page locking, more robust Transact-SQL facilities, and huge changes to the programming API used by non-Java languages.
Sybase pretty much sold MicroSoft their old used car, then opened the garage door on their new fleet of vehicles.
You must be laughing your arse off at the other end of the interwebs.
No sane person could keep a straight face while comparing lying about spending four years of their life to earn a degree with lying about their personal opinion on crossword puzzles.
What's common is the accusations of astroturfing by fans of competing products, theories, or systems. It's become the "in thing" to claim that any dissenting opinion is astroturfing.
Unfortunately for those who like to use terms without understanding their meaning, it's only "astroturfing" if you're compensated for broadcasting a statement. People are entitled to share their opinions as they see fit provided they're not paid to take a side.
When I build a system for Linux distribution, I use scripts to configure the options on the build server. I don't use manually specified configurations from developer workstations.
Doesn't Apple grasp this concept of source code versioning and build management? Or was the debug flag in question hard-coded in the source rather than specified as a build option? If so, Apple needs to revisit it's coding structure and figure out how to set BUILD TIME options instead of hard coding them.
Sadly this kind of thing is all too common in India. A friend of mine was fool enough to believe it when he was promised all kinds of percentages and payments "in the future" if he'd help arrange investors for a project in India. He did his work, he made the contacts, and now most of the participants have signed on to side deals that don't pay him anything.
We warned him it was too good to be true. I'm sure people warned those who got into this $45 tablet debacle, too. But some people won't listen to warnings once they get the dollar signs in their eyes...
Silly me. Here I thought the Volt only ran on electrics up to around 80kph, beyond which it switches to gasoline power for long-haul trips.
Contrary to popular misconception, it does not run on batteries during full-speed highway drives. It runs on gas.
So both you AND the GP are way off base with your blather about how much power it consumes at 80 MPH. It doesn't run on batteries in the first place at that speed.
Not everyone is dishonest. Far from it. I know very few people who lie other than the ever popular white-lie answers to loaded questions like "does this outfit make me look fat?"
I agree that the fellow making the issue over the lie on the resume has a motivation for doing so. It's good to know that his motivation is control of the company rather than vengeful destruction of someone's career just for the sake of making their lives miserable.
Yahoo has been struggling. Everyone knows that. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that investors would want to seize control of a company in trouble and change it's course to something more profitable.
As the current leadership is unlikely to quit without a fight, weapons are needed -- like proof that the CEO isn't just incompetently leading the company, but lied on his resume.
Or are you suggesting it's ok to get caught in a lie as long as the accuser has a motivation other than pure honesty for calling you on it?
Any other employee would be fired for lying on a resume. It's not about the fraudulent answer -- it's about the fact of the lie. It's about them being untrustworthy. It's about you having to question everything they say. It's about the deeper question of whether you can count on them at all.
Only once did I encounter this situation in my career. Out of fear of a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, the lier was allowed to work the remainder of their contract and terminated at the end of their 3 month term. But the penalty was severe -- they were blacklisted. Every other company in the area that managers or partnering consulting agencies knew about was informed of the contractor's name and warned to check their references THOROUGHLY.
As far as I know, the fellow ended up moving to California from Florida in order to find another sucker to give him a job with his fake resume. (And it was completely fake, fraudulently claimed and non-existent when we contacted Bowling Green University to confirm it.)
In the case I'm thinking of, the fellow lied about many things on their resume -- their experience, their skills, and their education. When this fellow with "two years C programming experience" was given the duty of fleshing out data driver tables, he added "#include " before each and every IO function he called, and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't compile.
Until the alarm clock sewn into your arm won't shut off properly due to a software or hardware problem, and you have to throw your self across the room at the wall in hopes of getting any more sleep...:P
That's my biggest worry. That at the end of it, even with evidence pointing specifically to the Conservatives, that they'll get away with some wrist-slap fine and letting go a couple of people to be sacrificed to the court wolves.
But I can tell you this: The Harper government will not let go of power without fighting through every possible appeal in the courts that they can, even if this investigation doesn't take longer than their term of office. Mindless political party animal that it is, it's equivalent to the survival instinct is the instinct to seek power. Power is the food of the political animal, money is just the handler's proffered carrots.
There have to be more severe penalties for this kind of blatant interference with the government and electoral processes. In light of the Conservatives previous conviction for funding fraud which is what led to an election in the first place, I posit that the Conservatives should be stripped not only of office, but of their federal party status, officially and permanently disbanded.
We neither need nor want the Canadian Reform Alliance Party under any banner or name.
So did they rewrite the "I Love You" virus to broadcast "Jebus Loves You?"
Maybe the viruses are written by the Amish or the Hassidic Jews. Rumour has it they hate technology -- they're just trying to save your soul from devilish computers.:P
This is asinine penny pinching. Windows typically sells for around $200 or more.
Does MicroSoft seriously think people make purchasing decisions based on a 1% price difference? Who the hell are they kidding -- they're not going to discount the price of Windows 8 by that $1-2 in royalty fees that's saved, they're just going to gouge their customers for an extra dollar or two.
He bought off the shelf X-10 controllers. He used off the shelf controller software.
Where's the innovation? The creativity? The uniqueness that makes this an engineering project instead of just an assembly of existing parts?
Back in University, some students in my hardware class wired up a Radio Shack sound generator chipset project. The prof spent 40 minutes tearing them a new arsehole because they did nothing more than wire-wrap a canned project. They didn't design, create, or innovate a single thing, which was the whole point of the semester-long project.
It strikes me that my prof would have given this fellow the same lecture.
The Java library source Google used is not based on the official Java source, but the Apache re-creation of the APIs. The ruling seems to make it clear that such a rewrite is not subject to copyright infringement claims in the EU.
I had commented to that effect afterwards, but even then I didn't explain my thinking.
You are correct -- the ruling doesn't mandate clean room engineering, and specifically says that referencing manuals for the APIs is allowed. What I meant is that in the Google-Oracle case, there is a documented development history showing the source was a rewrite based on specs without copying the original code of Sun/Oracle's implementation.
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A 1GHz PIII with 512MB of RAM takes nearly 3 minutes to boot and load to the point of being able to browse with Firefox with Ubuntu or Windows XP. Without hardware acceleration, the box is incapable of displaying video any faster than 4-5 frames per second when full-screened.
It takes a minute or two to load an office suite to edit a document.
Just because it used to be my primary work machine when I bought it does not mean that software bloat has made it useless in modern times.
A machine with half the memory but the same CPU and video card (my folk's) took almost TEN minutes to load and boot due to the bloating of the anti-virus software alone over those years.
Just because a machine doesn't actually crash doesn't mean it's USABLE.
Some politicians think it applies only to people who agree with them.
All the idea needs to feed it's database is spam. Consumers and users sending pictures of products to all their friends and relatives on Facebook so they can decide if they "like" a product.
It's as slimy as those Australian scum with their astroturf "marketing".
Oracle? When did Microsoft steal Oracle technology?
SQL Server is the evolution of the Sybase ASE 10 code base.
And I think it's MicroSoft that got taken to the cleaners in that one. Sybase netted a pretty penny for the sale, and mere months later released ASE 11 which was a dramatic change to how the whole thing worked, adding record-level instead of page locking, more robust Transact-SQL facilities, and huge changes to the programming API used by non-Java languages.
Sybase pretty much sold MicroSoft their old used car, then opened the garage door on their new fleet of vehicles.
Google doesn't "force" me to use Google + any more than they "force" me to use the other tools that they make available when I log in to their system.
Are you "forced" to use YouTube? How about Google Docs? Calendar? All the other stuff that shows up in the menu bar when you're logged in?
How then are they "forcing" you to use Google +?
Which would kind of be the point: You can't get anything worth owning at the $50 price point.
You must be laughing your arse off at the other end of the interwebs.
No sane person could keep a straight face while comparing lying about spending four years of their life to earn a degree with lying about their personal opinion on crossword puzzles.
Oh, Wow! What a deal!
A device with half the memory that I needed to run a GUI-based Linux distribution over five years ago, and less storage space than my MP3 player.
This isn't a "product" anyone will find useful. It's a piece of crap that won't actually run anything worth the effort.
What's common is the accusations of astroturfing by fans of competing products, theories, or systems. It's become the "in thing" to claim that any dissenting opinion is astroturfing.
Unfortunately for those who like to use terms without understanding their meaning, it's only "astroturfing" if you're compensated for broadcasting a statement. People are entitled to share their opinions as they see fit provided they're not paid to take a side.
Even if they disagree with you.
When I build a system for Linux distribution, I use scripts to configure the options on the build server. I don't use manually specified configurations from developer workstations.
Doesn't Apple grasp this concept of source code versioning and build management? Or was the debug flag in question hard-coded in the source rather than specified as a build option? If so, Apple needs to revisit it's coding structure and figure out how to set BUILD TIME options instead of hard coding them.
Don't underestimate the profitability of hitting a billion user market in hopes of earning $1 per customer...
Sadly this kind of thing is all too common in India. A friend of mine was fool enough to believe it when he was promised all kinds of percentages and payments "in the future" if he'd help arrange investors for a project in India. He did his work, he made the contacts, and now most of the participants have signed on to side deals that don't pay him anything.
We warned him it was too good to be true. I'm sure people warned those who got into this $45 tablet debacle, too. But some people won't listen to warnings once they get the dollar signs in their eyes...
Silly me. Here I thought the Volt only ran on electrics up to around 80kph, beyond which it switches to gasoline power for long-haul trips.
Contrary to popular misconception, it does not run on batteries during full-speed highway drives. It runs on gas.
So both you AND the GP are way off base with your blather about how much power it consumes at 80 MPH. It doesn't run on batteries in the first place at that speed.
Well it sure as hell isn't the CANADIAN government! The election was invalid due to voter interference.
Not everyone is dishonest. Far from it. I know very few people who lie other than the ever popular white-lie answers to loaded questions like "does this outfit make me look fat?"
I agree that the fellow making the issue over the lie on the resume has a motivation for doing so. It's good to know that his motivation is control of the company rather than vengeful destruction of someone's career just for the sake of making their lives miserable.
Yahoo has been struggling. Everyone knows that. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that investors would want to seize control of a company in trouble and change it's course to something more profitable.
As the current leadership is unlikely to quit without a fight, weapons are needed -- like proof that the CEO isn't just incompetently leading the company, but lied on his resume.
Or are you suggesting it's ok to get caught in a lie as long as the accuser has a motivation other than pure honesty for calling you on it?
Make that added "#include <stdio.h>" before each and every IO function call, as in:
int im_in_my_function_now() {
...
#include <stdio.h>
printf( "I've entered my function!\n" );
Any other employee would be fired for lying on a resume. It's not about the fraudulent answer -- it's about the fact of the lie. It's about them being untrustworthy. It's about you having to question everything they say. It's about the deeper question of whether you can count on them at all.
Only once did I encounter this situation in my career. Out of fear of a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, the lier was allowed to work the remainder of their contract and terminated at the end of their 3 month term. But the penalty was severe -- they were blacklisted. Every other company in the area that managers or partnering consulting agencies knew about was informed of the contractor's name and warned to check their references THOROUGHLY.
As far as I know, the fellow ended up moving to California from Florida in order to find another sucker to give him a job with his fake resume. (And it was completely fake, fraudulently claimed and non-existent when we contacted Bowling Green University to confirm it.)
In the case I'm thinking of, the fellow lied about many things on their resume -- their experience, their skills, and their education. When this fellow with "two years C programming experience" was given the duty of fleshing out data driver tables, he added "#include " before each and every IO function he called, and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't compile.
Until the alarm clock sewn into your arm won't shut off properly due to a software or hardware problem, and you have to throw your self across the room at the wall in hopes of getting any more sleep... :P
That's my biggest worry. That at the end of it, even with evidence pointing specifically to the Conservatives, that they'll get away with some wrist-slap fine and letting go a couple of people to be sacrificed to the court wolves.
But I can tell you this: The Harper government will not let go of power without fighting through every possible appeal in the courts that they can, even if this investigation doesn't take longer than their term of office. Mindless political party animal that it is, it's equivalent to the survival instinct is the instinct to seek power. Power is the food of the political animal, money is just the handler's proffered carrots.
There have to be more severe penalties for this kind of blatant interference with the government and electoral processes. In light of the Conservatives previous conviction for funding fraud which is what led to an election in the first place, I posit that the Conservatives should be stripped not only of office, but of their federal party status, officially and permanently disbanded.
We neither need nor want the Canadian Reform Alliance Party under any banner or name.
It would seem that Google makes commercial search service APIs available to partners and customers.
After all, I seriously doubt that Apple's Siri is using web-form scraping to query Google for it's results.
Shush!
You're supposed to worry about North Korea and Iran, not people who already have nuclear weapons!
So did they rewrite the "I Love You" virus to broadcast "Jebus Loves You?"
Maybe the viruses are written by the Amish or the Hassidic Jews. Rumour has it they hate technology -- they're just trying to save your soul from devilish computers. :P
This is asinine penny pinching. Windows typically sells for around $200 or more.
Does MicroSoft seriously think people make purchasing decisions based on a 1% price difference? Who the hell are they kidding -- they're not going to discount the price of Windows 8 by that $1-2 in royalty fees that's saved, they're just going to gouge their customers for an extra dollar or two.
He bought off the shelf X-10 controllers. He used off the shelf controller software.
Where's the innovation? The creativity? The uniqueness that makes this an engineering project instead of just an assembly of existing parts?
Back in University, some students in my hardware class wired up a Radio Shack sound generator chipset project. The prof spent 40 minutes tearing them a new arsehole because they did nothing more than wire-wrap a canned project. They didn't design, create, or innovate a single thing, which was the whole point of the semester-long project.
It strikes me that my prof would have given this fellow the same lecture.
I wasn't clear in what I meant.
The Java library source Google used is not based on the official Java source, but the Apache re-creation of the APIs. The ruling seems to make it clear that such a rewrite is not subject to copyright infringement claims in the EU.
I had commented to that effect afterwards, but even then I didn't explain my thinking.
You are correct -- the ruling doesn't mandate clean room engineering, and specifically says that referencing manuals for the APIs is allowed. What I meant is that in the Google-Oracle case, there is a documented development history showing the source was a rewrite based on specs without copying the original code of Sun/Oracle's implementation.