Seriously, there needs to be some sort of exam, like a driver's license, before people can get net access...
Thats a mighty smug attitude to take. This elitist attitude is bullshit in general, and is the biggest thing that pisses me off about Linux. Assholes like yourself who think that only they have the proper knowledge to use something are the biggest obstacle to Linux ever gaining common acceptance. Microsoft, for all its flaws, doesn't have this attitude and this is why its steamrolling Open Source.
Your comment is pretty much true. I've been feeling the urge to create a new troll, but I have been terribly uninspired lately. I've gotten several that are halfwritten, but nothing I'm satisfied with. My most recent one "Women - Myth of the Internet" felt very forced. But never fear! I feel the Muse is coming nearer.
Gentlemen, the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects. As I will explain, I feel that C needs to be retired, much the same way that Fortran, Cobol and Perl have been. Furthermore, allow me to be so bold as to suggest a superior replacement to this outdated language.
To give you a little background on this subject, I was recently asked to develop a client/server project on a Unix platform for a Fortune 500 company. While I've never coded in C before I have coded in VB for fifteen years, and in Java for over ten, I was stunned to see how poorly C fared compared to these two, more low-level languages.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java or, even better, Visual Basic, that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
So what does this mean for the programming community? I think clearly that C needs to be abandonded. There are two candidates that would be a suitable replacement for it. Those are Java and Visual Basic.
Having programmed in both for many years, I believe that VB has the edge. Not only is it slightly faster than Java its also much easier to code in. I found C to be confusing, frightening and intimidating with its non-GUI-based coding style. Furthermore, I like to see the source code of the projects I work with. Java's source seems to be under the monopolistic thumb of Sun much the way that GCC is obscured from us by the marketing people at the FSF. Microsoft's "shared source" under which Visual Basic is released definately seems to be the most fair and reasonable of all the licenses in existance, with none of the harsh restrictions of the BSD license. It also lacks the GPLs requirement that anything coded with its tools becomes property of the FSF.
I hope to see a switch to VB very soon. I've already spoken with various luminaries in the *nix coding world and most are eager to begin to transition. Having just gotten off the phone with Mr. Alan Cox, I can say that he is quite thrilled with the speed increases that will occur when the Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Visual Basic. Richard Stallman plans to support this, and hopes that the great Swede himself, Linus Torvaldis, won't object to renaming Linux to VB/Linux. Although not a C coder himself, I'm told that Slashdot's very own Admiral Taco will support this on his web site.
Being that Slashdot is a worldwide site, I'm glad to see that you're reaching out to speakers of other languages (or as I call them: Godless heathens.)
BTW, are you familiar with the vile practice of being a "turd burglar"? Robble, robble.
Sadly the Palestinians are the true superior race on this planet. Someday we shall all be their slaves, so I advise you to cease your slanderous remarks before they dominate the world. They know who you are, and they're keeping a list. Beware.
Jon is not a real person. He's a character invented by the Slahdot editors to troll their own users. He makes obvious mistakes like this just to piss off people.
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Public enemy number one
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Big mistake, we gotta lotta gun
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Come, Afghan Taliban, gather up bin Laden
Or daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Come, Afghan Taliban, gather up bin Laden
Or daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Grow six inch, seven inch, eight inch beard
Daylight come and we bomb your home
Grow six inch, seven inch, eight inch beard
Daylight come and we bomb your home
You say you do it cause it in Koran-a
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Destroy the symbols of Americana
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Crash the plane and here come Nirvana
Daylight come and you bomb our home
End up in hell because you are insana
Daylight come and we bomb your home
Drop six foot, seven foot, eight foot bomb
Daylight come and you have no home
Drop six foot, seven foot, eight foot bomb
Daylight come and you have no home
Day, it sad day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day, me sad day, me sad day, me sad day,
Daylight come and we bomb your home
CmdrTaco: What happen ?
CowboyKneel: Somebody set up us the economy
CowboyKneel: We get financial report
CmdrTaco: What !
CowboyKneel: Main screen turn on
CmdrTaco: It's You !!
Creditor: How are you gentlemen !!
Creditor: All your linux server are belong to us
Creditor: You are on the way to chapter 11
CmdrTaco: What you say !!
Creditor: You have no chance to survive sell your stock
Creditor: HA HA HA HA....
CowboyKneel: Taco!
CmdrTaco: Sell off every 'thing'
CmdrTaco: I know what I doing
CmdrTaco: Sell 'thing'
Hey little girl in U.S. dress
Come and give daddy kiss
To Dead Billy, U.S. soldier in green
Little lady, napalm butt
Come and give head to, to
Dead Billy make you boom boom boom
Dead Billy
Dead Billy make you happy
Dead Billy make you crawl
Dead Billy put your hand in his hole
Dead Billy show you what it's like to die
This is not a love song
And this is not a kiss
For Dead Billy
Dead Billy make you happy
Dead Billy make you crawl
Dead Billy put your hand in his hole
Dead Billy show you what it's like to die
This is not a love song
And this is not a kiss
For Dead Billy
No Viet??
Copper, let us take you to a furnace where we'll break you
Fire's so big and pretty, you could cry
As a buckle, you could ask me what was wrong with me before - did I need the silver to be suitable?
Copper, I have a use for you, it's easy work and it suits you
Dazzled dirty beauty, you must know
Copper is a conductor and makes for decent cooking
Dazzled by your beauty still, you know
Plated or anodized, you even fool a layman's eyes
Presentable though you might be, it's unwise to try to fight me.
Copper - you'll never be gold.
Are you happy with that comeback? I think you should've held out for a better one, but the important thing is if you're happy with it. Me, I'd be posting AC too if thats best I could come up with.
What the hell is wrong with the Japanese? They're almost as fucked up as the Germans. I guarentee you that if you see some woman getting raped with a cactus while her tits are being punched, its gonna be by a Nip or a Kraut.
Slashdot Mirror
Come back when you have the balls not to post AC. Until then kindly go fuck yourself.
Thats a mighty smug attitude to take. This elitist attitude is bullshit in general, and is the biggest thing that pisses me off about Linux. Assholes like yourself who think that only they have the proper knowledge to use something are the biggest obstacle to Linux ever gaining common acceptance. Microsoft, for all its flaws, doesn't have this attitude and this is why its steamrolling Open Source.
Christ almighty you're a dumbfuck.
Your comment is pretty much true. I've been feeling the urge to create a new troll, but I have been terribly uninspired lately. I've gotten several that are halfwritten, but nothing I'm satisfied with. My most recent one "Women - Myth of the Internet" felt very forced. But never fear! I feel the Muse is coming nearer.
Gentlemen, the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects. As I will explain, I feel that C needs to be retired, much the same way that Fortran, Cobol and Perl have been. Furthermore, allow me to be so bold as to suggest a superior replacement to this outdated language.
To give you a little background on this subject, I was recently asked to develop a client/server project on a Unix platform for a Fortune 500 company. While I've never coded in C before I have coded in VB for fifteen years, and in Java for over ten, I was stunned to see how poorly C fared compared to these two, more low-level languages.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java or, even better, Visual Basic, that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
So what does this mean for the programming community? I think clearly that C needs to be abandonded. There are two candidates that would be a suitable replacement for it. Those are Java and Visual Basic.
Having programmed in both for many years, I believe that VB has the edge. Not only is it slightly faster than Java its also much easier to code in. I found C to be confusing, frightening and intimidating with its non-GUI-based coding style. Furthermore, I like to see the source code of the projects I work with. Java's source seems to be under the monopolistic thumb of Sun much the way that GCC is obscured from us by the marketing people at the FSF. Microsoft's "shared source" under which Visual Basic is released definately seems to be the most fair and reasonable of all the licenses in existance, with none of the harsh restrictions of the BSD license. It also lacks the GPLs requirement that anything coded with its tools becomes property of the FSF.
I hope to see a switch to VB very soon. I've already spoken with various luminaries in the *nix coding world and most are eager to begin to transition. Having just gotten off the phone with Mr. Alan Cox, I can say that he is quite thrilled with the speed increases that will occur when the Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Visual Basic. Richard Stallman plans to support this, and hopes that the great Swede himself, Linus Torvaldis, won't object to renaming Linux to VB/Linux. Although not a C coder himself, I'm told that Slashdot's very own Admiral Taco will support this on his web site.
Thank you for your time. Happy coding.
Egg Troll
Being that Slashdot is a worldwide site, I'm glad to see that you're reaching out to speakers of other languages (or as I call them: Godless heathens.)
BTW, are you familiar with the vile practice of being a "turd burglar"? Robble, robble.
I'd like to know more about these reasonable finance rates.
Hahahaha!!
No, the parent isn't a troll but this post is: Linux is for impotent compufags!!
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
...and use it to troll!
Sadly the Palestinians are the true superior race on this planet. Someday we shall all be their slaves, so I advise you to cease your slanderous remarks before they dominate the world. They know who you are, and they're keeping a list. Beware.
Jon is not a real person. He's a character invented by the Slahdot editors to troll their own users. He makes obvious mistakes like this just to piss off people.
The Talibanana Song
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Public enemy number one
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Big mistake, we gotta lotta gun
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Come, Afghan Taliban, gather up bin Laden
Or daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Come, Afghan Taliban, gather up bin Laden
Or daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come, we gonna bomb your home
Grow six inch, seven inch, eight inch beard
Daylight come and we bomb your home
Grow six inch, seven inch, eight inch beard
Daylight come and we bomb your home
You say you do it cause it in Koran-a
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Destroy the symbols of Americana
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Crash the plane and here come Nirvana
Daylight come and you bomb our home
End up in hell because you are insana
Daylight come and we bomb your home
Drop six foot, seven foot, eight foot bomb
Daylight come and you have no home
Drop six foot, seven foot, eight foot bomb
Daylight come and you have no home
Day, it sad day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and you bomb our home
Day, me sad day, me sad day, me sad day,
Daylight come and we bomb your home
...as stolen from BBSpot.com
Its the semen.
In A.D. 2001
....
Bankruptcy was beginning
CmdrTaco: What happen ?
CowboyKneel: Somebody set up us the economy
CowboyKneel: We get financial report
CmdrTaco: What !
CowboyKneel: Main screen turn on
CmdrTaco: It's You !!
Creditor: How are you gentlemen !!
Creditor: All your linux server are belong to us
Creditor: You are on the way to chapter 11
CmdrTaco: What you say !!
Creditor: You have no chance to survive sell your stock
Creditor: HA HA HA HA
CowboyKneel: Taco!
CmdrTaco: Sell off every 'thing'
CmdrTaco: I know what I doing
CmdrTaco: Sell 'thing'
I buy fireworks from them, near the Indian reservation.
You have to love a country that lets you buy used panties from a vending machine. Here in America we have to get them from ebay and wait a few days :(
Dead Billy by Big Black
Hey little girl in U.S. dress
Come and give daddy kiss
To Dead Billy, U.S. soldier in green
Little lady, napalm butt
Come and give head to, to
Dead Billy make you boom boom boom
Dead Billy
Dead Billy make you happy
Dead Billy make you crawl
Dead Billy put your hand in his hole
Dead Billy show you what it's like to die
This is not a love song
And this is not a kiss
For Dead Billy
Dead Billy make you happy
Dead Billy make you crawl
Dead Billy put your hand in his hole
Dead Billy show you what it's like to die
This is not a love song
And this is not a kiss
For Dead Billy
No Viet??
What do your initials stand for?
COPPER by Shellac
Copper, let us take you to a furnace where we'll break you
Fire's so big and pretty, you could cry
As a buckle, you could ask me what was wrong with me before - did I need the silver to be suitable?
Copper, I have a use for you, it's easy work and it suits you
Dazzled dirty beauty, you must know
Copper is a conductor and makes for decent cooking
Dazzled by your beauty still, you know
Plated or anodized, you even fool a layman's eyes
Presentable though you might be, it's unwise to try to fight me.
Copper - you'll never be gold.
Hey how is Meathead doing these days?
If only we could harness the hot air that billows out of Jon Katz' mouth, we could power the whole Eastern Seaboard!!
...for the Queen of Spain!!
Are you happy with that comeback? I think you should've held out for a better one, but the important thing is if you're happy with it. Me, I'd be posting AC too if thats best I could come up with.
What the hell is wrong with the Japanese? They're almost as fucked up as the Germans. I guarentee you that if you see some woman getting raped with a cactus while her tits are being punched, its gonna be by a Nip or a Kraut.