Dude you're nuts. Have you even *looked* at gcc's objective C support and the runtime or are you just pulling this out of your ass? Obj-C messages are highly optimized and incur about 2x-3x the overhead of C function calls.
Objective-C / Cocoa has it's warts, speed is not one of them.
As slow as javascript my ass. I doubt you've ever coded in obj-c. Please study a bit before you spread this kind of FUD.
You've obviously never worked as an analyist or for a large bank. What you've described is what an analyist _should_ do. Analyists work for banks. A given bank is often long on some set of stocks (abc) and short on others. Bank analyists often provide 'analysis' that lines attempts to move the market in such a way to help thier banks long positions go up and thier short positions go down and find numbers to support thier analysis. How many times have you sean an analyist trash a stop thier bank is underwriting?
The analyists were screaming buy, buy, buy! untill the dot-com bubble burst - and I'm pretty sure we all know that wasn't goverened by supply and demand; it was simply a tulip craze. Analyist predictions are a useful tool to see which way banks are trying to move the market, and where they are placing thier bets - nothing more.
I wouldn't call you a radical leftist. I'd call you naive.
There are certainly cases where the torture of others has saved countless lives. The US and every other country in the world have tortured to gain intellegence and will continue to do so - forever. This is not my opinion, this is history.
The 'torture' at Abu Grab is completely insignificant compared to the greater horrors in the world right now. What about the full scale genocide occuring *right now* in the Sudan? Where is the outcry from the 'progressives' of the world on this issue?
Who wrote the article is pretty irrevelant - facts are facts, even if the person stating them has an agenda. Adolf Hitler could come back from the dead and state that 2 + 2 = 4; you couldn't say he was wrong just because he's evil.
C# Development support in Eclipse (via plugins) is still pretty weak. If you take a java IDE, and make it run under a different VM, it is still a java IDE.
I see this more as a watermark for the increasing maturity of the mono project than anything else.
I'm about to set up a source repository at my place of employment for a new project that we are working on. I was set to use CVS, as we have in the past, until I read this article. Arch seems pretty spiffy, and would be fun to try out. My only concern is that some of our developers use non-posix (ie windowsXP) systems for development. CVS is great because there are clients available for all oses, and integrated into many IDEs. Are there any cross-platform Arch clients?
If not, one must think that perhaps this design be better implemented in Python || Perl || Ruby || Java instead of awk/sed/sh.
The odds of your 'friend' being fired from 3 different jobs at 'MAJOR international and national banks.' simply on the basis of race/age/sex are low enough to make one laugh. Odds are your friend is either a) a creation of your imagination, which you are attempting to use to further you political agenda or b) was actually doing something wrong at all three of the mentioned jobs.
'Capitalism says that merit is the only way to hire and promote.' Not really. The notions of capitalism simply state that if the state leaves the economic sector alone, it will sort out such issues (over the long-term) via the laws of supply and demand. If your friend (exists and) really is as good as you say he is, he'd be snapped up by somebody who was glad to hire him. Not everyone in the world is a racist. Government intervention into issues such as these is simply unconstitutional. Please save your breath and drop this tired political cause.
Cordially,
Andrew Murray
Interesting read, but you're forgetting one thing.
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RMS,
Please review Locke. People have property rights. If I put my efforts into thing X I have property rights to thing X and thus it is morally permissible for me, not you to decide how to distribute X, if at all.
I, and many others here in the/. community agree with you, people/corporations ought to open up certain projects, as open source is good for the customer - but the notion that somehow software developers are somehow morally obligated to GPL their work is completely nuts.
The ideals behind socialisms, either those of government or those of software, do not work. Without the ability to distribute property (of which software is a type) as one sees fit, one loses much economic incentive to develop in the first place.
Please RMS, check your ego just a little bit and town down the sensationalism, its starting to get rather tired.
Besides, some of my code is far to ugly to ever be open-sourced:)
I haven't been to one of the 'cube clubs' but I've had my cube (import) for over a month now, and I can assure everyone that it is a great (little) system.
The visuals in all three of the japanese launch games (Luigi's Mansion, Waverace - bluestorm and Super Monkey Ball) are fantastic, Luigi's and Waverace are particularily impressive.
From a hardware standpoint I'm pretty impressed, Nintendo, ATI and IBM have done a great job designing this system, the footprint is small, the graphics look sharp, from what I hear it is a dream to write for and the controllers are out of this world.
As far as the funfactor of the Games:
Luigi's:
Great fun, great visuals but kinda short, I beat it (without knowing any japanese) in a bit over 7 hours.
Waverace:
Really intense. Spectacular graphics, awesome wave physics and good difficulty.
Split screened with friends on a bigscreen is really wild.
Monkey Ball:
This game alone justifies the purchase of the system. I don't think I've ever had as much fun playing a game (on a console) with friends as I have with this one. The premise is wierd, (you manuver a monkey trapped inside a plastic ball through courses) but insanely addicive. Buy the system and buy this game.
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Dude you're nuts. Have you even *looked* at gcc's objective C support and the runtime or are you just pulling this out of your ass? Obj-C messages are highly optimized and incur about 2x-3x the overhead of C function calls.
Objective-C / Cocoa has it's warts, speed is not one of them.
As slow as javascript my ass. I doubt you've ever coded in obj-c. Please study a bit before you spread this kind of FUD.
Uh-huh. Back to the real world kiddo.
You've obviously never worked as an analyist or for a large bank. What you've described is what an analyist _should_ do. Analyists work for banks. A given bank is often long on some set of stocks (abc) and short on others. Bank analyists often provide 'analysis' that lines attempts to move the market in such a way to help thier banks long positions go up and thier short positions go down and find numbers to support thier analysis. How many times have you sean an analyist trash a stop thier bank is underwriting?
The analyists were screaming buy, buy, buy! untill the dot-com bubble burst - and I'm pretty sure we all know that wasn't goverened by supply and demand; it was simply a tulip craze. Analyist predictions are a useful tool to see which way banks are trying to move the market, and where they are placing thier bets - nothing more.
I wouldn't call you a radical leftist. I'd call you naive.
There are certainly cases where the torture of others has saved countless lives. The US and every other country in the world have tortured to gain intellegence and will continue to do so - forever. This is not my opinion, this is history.
The 'torture' at Abu Grab is completely insignificant compared to the greater horrors in the world right now. What about the full scale genocide occuring *right now* in the Sudan? Where is the outcry from the 'progressives' of the world on this issue?
Of course Monodevelop resembles Eclipse (a little bit) its an IDE.
.NET IDE for Windows) to GTK# / Mono. Monodevelop resembles sharpdevelop, not Eclipse.
Monodevelop is a port of Sharpdevelop (a free
Not everything in C# land is a clone of something in Javaland...
Seriously, who gives a fuck?
Who wrote the article is pretty irrevelant - facts are facts, even if the person stating them has an agenda. Adolf Hitler could come back from the dead and state that 2 + 2 = 4; you couldn't say he was wrong just because he's evil.
Actually, you didn't get this right.
It is 'Wo is Klippy?!' 'w' not a 'v'. Babelfish ist kein Freund.
C# Development support in Eclipse (via plugins) is still pretty weak. If you take a java IDE, and make it run under a different VM, it is still a java IDE.
I see this more as a watermark for the increasing maturity of the mono project than anything else.
That that icc compile times are way (5x-6x) higher than the MS or GNU compilers... can anybody verify this?
Everyone,
I'm about to set up a source repository at my place of employment for a new project that we are working on. I was set to use CVS, as we have in the past, until I read this article. Arch seems pretty spiffy, and would be fun to try out. My only concern is that some of our developers use non-posix (ie windowsXP) systems for development. CVS is great because there are clients available for all oses, and integrated into many IDEs. Are there any cross-platform Arch clients?
If not, one must think that perhaps this design be better implemented in Python || Perl || Ruby || Java instead of awk/sed/sh.
Thanks,
Andrew Murray
Perdida,
Nice try, but I don't buy it.
The odds of your 'friend' being fired from 3 different jobs at 'MAJOR international and national banks.' simply on the basis of race/age/sex are low enough to make one laugh. Odds are your friend is either a) a creation of your imagination, which you are attempting to use to further you political agenda or b) was actually doing something wrong at all three of the mentioned jobs.
'Capitalism says that merit is the only way to hire and promote.' Not really. The notions of capitalism simply state that if the state leaves the economic sector alone, it will sort out such issues (over the long-term) via the laws of supply and demand. If your friend (exists and) really is as good as you say he is, he'd be snapped up by somebody who was glad to hire him. Not everyone in the world is a racist. Government intervention into issues such as these is simply unconstitutional. Please save your breath and drop this tired political cause.
Cordially,
Andrew Murray
RMS,
/. community agree with you, people/corporations ought to open up certain projects, as open source is good for the customer - but the notion that somehow software developers are somehow morally obligated to GPL their work is completely nuts.
:)
Please review Locke. People have property rights. If I put my efforts into thing X I have property rights to thing X and thus it is morally permissible for me, not you to decide how to distribute X, if at all.
I, and many others here in the
The ideals behind socialisms, either those of government or those of software, do not work. Without the ability to distribute property (of which software is a type) as one sees fit, one loses much economic incentive to develop in the first place.
Please RMS, check your ego just a little bit and town down the sensationalism, its starting to get rather tired.
Besides, some of my code is far to ugly to ever be open-sourced
Cordially,
Andrew Murray University of Washington
Hehe. I just got quoted, wait till I tell my mom.
I haven't been to one of the 'cube clubs' but I've had my cube (import) for over a month now, and I can assure everyone that it is a great (little) system. The visuals in all three of the japanese launch games (Luigi's Mansion, Waverace - bluestorm and Super Monkey Ball) are fantastic, Luigi's and Waverace are particularily impressive. From a hardware standpoint I'm pretty impressed, Nintendo, ATI and IBM have done a great job designing this system, the footprint is small, the graphics look sharp, from what I hear it is a dream to write for and the controllers are out of this world.
As far as the funfactor of the Games:
Luigi's:
Great fun, great visuals but kinda short, I beat it (without knowing any japanese) in a bit over 7 hours.
Waverace:
Really intense. Spectacular graphics, awesome wave physics and good difficulty. Split screened with friends on a bigscreen is really wild.
Monkey Ball:
This game alone justifies the purchase of the system. I don't think I've ever had as much fun playing a game (on a console) with friends as I have with this one. The premise is wierd, (you manuver a monkey trapped inside a plastic ball through courses) but insanely addicive. Buy the system and buy this game.
Anyway, just my two cents.
Andrew Murray