Re:What's with all of the bellyaching about speed?
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Does C# Measure Up?
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"For something that will do big work, require lots of memory and run for long periods, Java will come to bite you in the ass."
Like, say, large scale enterprise/website computing? Oh, wait, that is exactly the area Java excels at. Swing is a notorious hog, and I'm not familiar with your exact circumstance, so I can't really comment on it. But Java is pretty damn rock solid for long, throughput intensive tasks. I say throughput as opposed to latency because low-latency gui stuff is exactly where a VM (and garbage collection) will bite you in the ass. If performance is unbearable there is the native SWT library (like AWT redone from the ground up, but right). Java is not known for its good GUI/client side performance.
On the other hand, on the server side, latency is usually not the issue - most time will be spent on the network and database, NOT in your code. On the server side, VMs are here to stay. Python, PHP, Perl, Java, C#/Mono, all use VMs. The only real issue with VMs is latency, and with garbage collection its memory usage. I would strongly suggest though, that the vast vast vast majority of user-level/space applications in which C/C++ is being [ab]used, would be better written in a "safe", simpler, language like Java, precisely because in the vast majority of cases, CPU performance does not need to be optimized, and security, reliability, maintainability, and let's not forget, new features, take higher importance.
NO NO NO Those are just "go pills" entirely different. I mean, it would be dangerous to drive a car on methamphetamines, but flying multimillion dollar warplanes loaded with bombs and missiles - no, that is entirely safe to do with "go pills".
"Economically, I don't believe there is going to be much of a market for resold music...We just don't see it as that much of an issue," he said.
This is the most important thing that has every been said by a company on this issue. It basically admits that the way to fight piracy is to create a market environment where there is little incentive for piracy. And how do we do that kids? By lowering the freaking prices and making the product more accessible to the consumer. Thank you Apple.
Did anybody understand the trailer? I for one was not left with any idea of what the movie was about. Some guys in a car screaming. Some people get thrown into a barn. Somebody shoots a shotgun. Somebody pushes a boulder. Techno music throughout. What the hell is this about, why would I want to watch it, and what does it have to do (or not to do) with a love song?? I'm not really impressed by the i'm-more-clever-and-hip-than-you trailers that don't give any indication of wtf a movie is about. Especially if they are trying to gain a following in an alternative distribution channel.
Instead of this adhoc-ish system, wouldn't a better solution be to have a "correct" sandbox in which a policy can be attached to ANY process, which determined what kernel calls can be made, and potentially with what parameters? Then there is no need for wacky interface aliasing and stuff like that.
Yeah, WTF is up with that. "HEY COMPLETE STRANGER DO YOU WANT TO LOOK AT MY BABY?!" No you fucktard, so you managed to reproduce, what do you want, a congressional medal of honor? Sheesh. Baby pictures and embarrassing habits should be kept to yourself.
The problem is, once the wire is in the ground, WHERE is the competition actually occurring? We KNOW that they are reticent to either put more in, light more up, or share with each other. So where exactly are the benefits of the free market? Is one ISP making the electrons go faster than another? Smells very much like a commodity to me. There is little "production" going on (and this is not a substance that is really consumed and then it is gone), and the amount at this point is fairly fixed unless they really start putting new capacity in the ground.
When you poll your IMAP or POP server, you poll YOUR server, not everybody else's. That's why it scales well. That said, RSS docs are typically very small, and HTTP already has built-in cache support through the HEAD action, so all indications point to it not being a problem.
The pampered fuckers don't get subsidized education. Only the poor fuckers. But how is the government using our tax dollars to pay for overpriced books different from the government using our tax dollars to pay for overpriced education? The rich can afford to buy your scandalously overpriced books and wipe their ass with them when their done, the poor can't (or if they can, it's only because of the government taking your money to subsidize it).
The problem I have with writing high level documentation is where to start. Do I start off with describing a short history of distributed computing? Do I go over the meta frameworks involved, such as security? Do I start discussing prerequisites? I can whiteboard to the grittiest detail, the problem is where to start and how to lay it out to someone who hasn't had their head in the code. In these cases I would LOVE to have a competent technical writer and lock them in a room with me for an hour or so to explain some of our infrastructure.
They aren't *forcing* you to use QT4 though, right? That is the great thing about open source...you don't HAVE to be forced to upgrade...so all this hand wringing over adding features/changing things is sort of pointless. If you don't like it, don't use it.
Biological immune systems are so effective because they automatically stochastically learn how to detect and neutralize antigens. By and large there is no such thing for computers (except for large expensive "enterprise nervous systems", but the majority (in quantity) of victims are end users, not the enterprise), so it is a bit disengenous to imply that viruses confer some sort of innoculation. Not to say that having holes brought into daylight won't in turn force increased security, but that can be done through traditional bugtraq/exploit channels without introducing an epidemic in the wild.
You're right. Everybody (i.e., large agribusiness) should be able to compete to exploit poor workers in countries with no human rights enforcement...
"Fair" trade would only not be fair market if it were somehow subsidized to be as cheap as non-fair trade. If you look at its price it is obviously more expensive, and hence a direct relationship with its share of the market (although even more publicity is fine by me).
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"For something that will do big work, require lots of memory and run for long periods, Java will come to bite you in the ass."
Like, say, large scale enterprise/website computing? Oh, wait, that is exactly the area Java excels at. Swing is a notorious hog, and I'm not familiar with your exact circumstance, so I can't really comment on it. But Java is pretty damn rock solid for long, throughput intensive tasks. I say throughput as opposed to latency because low-latency gui stuff is exactly where a VM (and garbage collection) will bite you in the ass. If performance is unbearable there is the native SWT library (like AWT redone from the ground up, but right). Java is not known for its good GUI/client side performance.
On the other hand, on the server side, latency is usually not the issue - most time will be spent on the network and database, NOT in your code. On the server side, VMs are here to stay. Python, PHP, Perl, Java, C#/Mono, all use VMs. The only real issue with VMs is latency, and with garbage collection its memory usage. I would strongly suggest though, that the vast vast vast majority of user-level/space applications in which C/C++ is being [ab]used, would be better written in a "safe", simpler, language like Java, precisely because in the vast majority of cases, CPU performance does not need to be optimized, and security, reliability, maintainability, and let's not forget, new features, take higher importance.
NO NO NO Those are just "go pills" entirely different. I mean, it would be dangerous to drive a car on methamphetamines, but flying multimillion dollar warplanes loaded with bombs and missiles - no, that is entirely safe to do with "go pills".
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This is the most important thing that has every been said by a company on this issue. It basically admits that the way to fight piracy is to create a market environment where there is little incentive for piracy. And how do we do that kids? By lowering the freaking prices and making the product more accessible to the consumer. Thank you Apple.
bah, slashdot wins
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Maybe this is why PHP programmers have a bad reputation...
Can swallows really carry coconuts?
I can't wait until those hard-nosed Brits get down to cracking this serious mystery!
That Harlowe Thrombey has it coming to him...
Did anybody understand the trailer? I for one was not left with any idea of what the movie was about. Some guys in a car screaming. Some people get thrown into a barn. Somebody shoots a shotgun. Somebody pushes a boulder. Techno music throughout. What the hell is this about, why would I want to watch it, and what does it have to do (or not to do) with a love song?? I'm not really impressed by the i'm-more-clever-and-hip-than-you trailers that don't give any indication of wtf a movie is about. Especially if they are trying to gain a following in an alternative distribution channel.
Instead of this adhoc-ish system, wouldn't a better solution be to have a "correct" sandbox in which a policy can be attached to ANY process, which determined what kernel calls can be made, and potentially with what parameters? Then there is no need for wacky interface aliasing and stuff like that.
I liked:
"You are in a"
Man, I was on the edge of my seat.
Yeah, WTF is up with that. "HEY COMPLETE STRANGER DO YOU WANT TO LOOK AT MY BABY?!" No you fucktard, so you managed to reproduce, what do you want, a congressional medal of honor? Sheesh. Baby pictures and embarrassing habits should be kept to yourself.
The problem is, once the wire is in the ground, WHERE is the competition actually occurring? We KNOW that they are reticent to either put more in, light more up, or share with each other. So where exactly are the benefits of the free market? Is one ISP making the electrons go faster than another? Smells very much like a commodity to me. There is little "production" going on (and this is not a substance that is really consumed and then it is gone), and the amount at this point is fairly fixed unless they really start putting new capacity in the ground.
Spamming is a disease not a crime you insensitive clod! Until we make it a crime that is :)
When you poll your IMAP or POP server, you poll YOUR server, not everybody else's. That's why it scales well. That said, RSS docs are typically very small, and HTTP already has built-in cache support through the HEAD action, so all indications point to it not being a problem.
The pampered fuckers don't get subsidized education. Only the poor fuckers. But how is the government using our tax dollars to pay for overpriced books different from the government using our tax dollars to pay for overpriced education? The rich can afford to buy your scandalously overpriced books and wipe their ass with them when their done, the poor can't (or if they can, it's only because of the government taking your money to subsidize it).
"Would the governments have to release sources of their modificiations?"
Only if they give a damn about US copyright law. Which is probably not the case for at least one of the aforementioned parties.
"0h nos! China h4s st0le our sourze!"
"To actually arrest someone requires a warrant, but it is possible to hold someone without a warrant for limited time"
Yeah, a "limited time", like say, 3 years... can you say violation of due process...
The problem I have with writing high level documentation is where to start. Do I start off with describing a short history of distributed computing? Do I go over the meta frameworks involved, such as security? Do I start discussing prerequisites? I can whiteboard to the grittiest detail, the problem is where to start and how to lay it out to someone who hasn't had their head in the code. In these cases I would LOVE to have a competent technical writer and lock them in a room with me for an hour or so to explain some of our infrastructure.
How do they know that you do not own the physical movie and that it is an illegal copy? They must be psychic...
They aren't *forcing* you to use QT4 though, right? That is the great thing about open source...you don't HAVE to be forced to upgrade...so all this hand wringing over adding features/changing things is sort of pointless. If you don't like it, don't use it.
Biological immune systems are so effective because they automatically stochastically learn how to detect and neutralize antigens. By and large there is no such thing for computers (except for large expensive "enterprise nervous systems", but the majority (in quantity) of victims are end users, not the enterprise), so it is a bit disengenous to imply that viruses confer some sort of innoculation. Not to say that having holes brought into daylight won't in turn force increased security, but that can be done through traditional bugtraq/exploit channels without introducing an epidemic in the wild.
That's nice, but should be upgraded to describe modifying the grub.conf (which is just as easy if not easier), as grub is now the modern boot loader.
You're right. Everybody (i.e., large agribusiness) should be able to compete to exploit poor workers in countries with no human rights enforcement...
"Fair" trade would only not be fair market if it were somehow subsidized to be as cheap as non-fair trade. If you look at its price it is obviously more expensive, and hence a direct relationship with its share of the market (although even more publicity is fine by me).
I think he meant empathize. This is what editors are good at fixing.