In java if I have an array "arr" and
for (int i = 0; i arr.length; i++)
then the arr.length will be evaluated once for each loop because of the _possible_ concurrent access. The compiler cannot be sure nobody else is modifying your array so it cannot optimize it by taking it out of the loop.
Contrast this with C/C++/whatever when you know what is shared and guard it and the compiler is free to optimize the rest.
The airline business is a VERY low margin and low cashflow business. That means that, though they make billions in revenues, the airlines don't clear that much actual profit
The computer manufacturers have very low margins , the grocery stores have very low margin.
WTF: a business is profitable or not.
The problem is not the most businesses are not profitable: the problem is that people are greedy - the only thing that satisfies them is the.com era day-to-day valuations.
Profitable is not enough. Businesses have to be VERY profitable.
The author of this article is at least misinformed:
1. Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Have you heard of Airbus?
2. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age
I know at least France and Germany were broking down because of the Allied bombs... They were rebuilt after the war.
One important thing this Canadian idiot fails to mention is that American business benefited immensely by the WWII. The homeland was not touched, and British and French money paid for a lot of war material produced in the US. Then, when the British emptied their coffers, the good Americans gave them loans, getting them deeper into debt...
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the oil sheiks have been filling our cars with cheap gas for decades
And this is a service to you, how?
The car manufacturers and the oil corp keep singing you "Buy these BIG cars" and you sheepishly keep buying them and feel happy with you big new penis extension... and they are happy with your money
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The people who did this are barbaric animals with no regard for life.
The people who did this are dead. They did not died when the plane hit the building though...
They died when they were born in the West Ghaza bank, in an encampament where they were herded after the Israeli took their land.
The Palestinians are dying as a _group_. They are fighing a lost war: light guns against tanks, gunships, jet fighters... Israel and US together against those people.
That's why the Israel it buying time with negotiations: in 20 years there will be no more Palestinians to ask for their land back.
And American civilians are not completely _innocent_. It's your tax money that pays for Israel's weapons.
If not for Israel, America would have to field a big military force to keep control of the oil fields...
I was wondering why Sistina haven't raised they voice when all those articles compared "The four (ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs) journalized file systems for Linux" to say "There is another one"... Now I understand.
And I still wonder if Jes Sorensen, Andreas Dilger et al. whould not have started this thread http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001- April/006686.html if lvm would not be under SPL as well now.
I don't know what to say. A lot of people contributed feedback and patches to those projects. They have developed inside the community, under the assumption that they will be GPL.
Oh well, I guess the community will stick with the four jurnalized filesystems and leave Sistina carry it's cross...
The problem is, most games appeared on Linux after I have bought them for Windows.
If the game will appear simultaneously on Windows and Linux or at least at Windows version launch the Linux version would be announced, I will definitely get the Linux version.
I will go and purchase one-two games to show my support for the efforts they made: persuading comercial companies to release games for Linux and developing and contributing the SDL.
Loki might go under, or somebody will buy it but Linux is a viable desktop and gaming platform. We have to show this to the game companies.
I do not care about their business model. For me it sucks.
I don't want to pay for something I don't want to see.
I do not want to have to look for another ISP when my current one finds another way to add value to the customer
I do not want to pay the clearinghouse 15% of what I pay for content.
If I wanted any of these, I would be an AOL member...
Why do you people are so excited about business models for making money on the Internet.
I can give you a business model: a painter makes paintings but nobody buys them. He then gets a gun, goes out on the street and shouts: whomever passes by my house has to buy a painting...
I have Perl CD Bookshelf (without a version, so it's 1.0). I would like to upgrade it to Perl CD Bookshelf 2.0, but I don't need YA Perl in a Nutshell book. Also the only change I can see it "Programming Perl" updated from 2nd to the 3rd edition.
I can buy the paper version of that book ($29.50 at bookpool.com) for 2/3 the price of the Perl CD Bookshelf ($45.50)...
There are far more jobs for high school students and college students that require people who know Word and Excel than there are jobs that require people to know StartOffice or Gnumeric.
If you know StarOffice I bet you can do the job in Word/Excel as well. If you are only able to look into a book with picturea and then click on a similar picture on a toolbar in order to accomplish a task, then you should not use a computer in the first place.
Perhaps this is a good time for those of us who read/. to consider the reality of the US system of government. Senators, congresspersons, and even presidents cannot know absolutely everything about every issue. They simply haven't the time, energy, or desire. And we can't condemn our representatives for this.
Ignorance is not an excuse, not in our courts, anyway.
If our elected officials don't have the energy and desire... Replace them!
It's obviously too expensive to watermark individual dvds. And even if they could, just pay it with cash and don't "register" it.
And if only regional watermarking is feasible, what good does to MPAA to find out that all the pirated DVDs from Malaysia were copied from a New York DVD?
1. From the management perspective: RDBMS people are easier to find and there are more big iron Oracle installations that all OODBMS combined (my guess).
2. From the developer perspective: the overhead between of the OO layer on top of the database is known. What if I get a OODBMS with superb C++/Smalltalk integration but poor Java support?
There are certain design/implementation patterns that deal with OO/RDBMS impedance mismatch and the burden of reimplementing them for every project is accepted as a fact of life...
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You should not envy them.
In java if I have an array "arr" and
for (int i = 0; i arr.length; i++)
then the arr.length will be evaluated once for each loop because of the _possible_ concurrent access. The compiler cannot be sure nobody else is modifying your array so it cannot optimize it by taking it out of the loop.
Contrast this with C/C++/whatever when you know what is shared and guard it and the compiler is free to optimize the rest.
The airline business is a VERY low margin and low cashflow business. That means that, though they make billions in revenues, the airlines don't clear that much actual profit
The computer manufacturers have very low margins , the grocery stores have very low margin.
WTF: a business is profitable or not.
The problem is not the most businesses are not profitable: the problem is that people are greedy - the only thing that satisfies them is the .com era day-to-day valuations.
Profitable is not enough. Businesses have to be VERY profitable.
Why?
The author of this article is at least misinformed:
1. Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Have you heard of Airbus?
2. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age
I know at least France and Germany were broking down because of the Allied bombs... They were rebuilt after the war.
One important thing this Canadian idiot fails to mention is that American business benefited immensely by the WWII. The homeland was not touched, and British and French money paid for a lot of war material produced in the US. Then, when the British emptied their coffers, the good Americans gave them loans, getting them deeper into debt...
the oil sheiks have been filling our cars with cheap gas for decades
And this is a service to you, how?
The car manufacturers and the oil corp keep singing you "Buy these BIG cars" and you sheepishly keep buying them and feel happy with you big new penis extension... and they are happy with your money
The people who did this are barbaric animals with no regard for life.
The people who did this are dead. They did not died when the plane hit the building though...
They died when they were born in the West Ghaza bank, in an encampament where they were herded after the Israeli took their land.
The Palestinians are dying as a _group_. They are fighing a lost war: light guns against tanks, gunships, jet fighters... Israel and US together against those people.
That's why the Israel it buying time with negotiations: in 20 years there will be no more Palestinians to ask for their land back.
And American civilians are not completely _innocent_. It's your tax money that pays for Israel's weapons.
If not for Israel, America would have to field a big military force to keep control of the oil fields...
Just make sure to pad the roof with enough SAMs...
I was wondering why Sistina haven't raised they voice when all those articles compared "The four (ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs) journalized file systems for Linux" to say "There is another one"... Now I understand.
- April/006686.html if lvm would not be under SPL as well now.
And I still wonder if Jes Sorensen, Andreas Dilger et al. whould not have started this thread http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001
I don't know what to say. A lot of people contributed feedback and patches to those projects. They have developed inside the community, under the assumption that they will be GPL.
Oh well, I guess the community will stick with the four jurnalized filesystems and leave Sistina carry it's cross...
The problem is, most games appeared on Linux after I have bought them for Windows.
If the game will appear simultaneously on Windows and Linux or at least at Windows version launch the Linux version would be announced, I will definitely get the Linux version.
I will go and purchase one-two games to show my support for the efforts they made: persuading comercial companies to release games for Linux and developing and contributing the SDL.
Loki might go under, or somebody will buy it but Linux is a viable desktop and gaming platform. We have to show this to the game companies.
*cough* Emacs? *cough*
I do not care about their business model. For me it sucks.
If I wanted any of these, I would be an AOL member...
Why do you people are so excited about business models for making money on the Internet.
I can give you a business model: a painter makes paintings but nobody buys them. He then gets a gun, goes out on the street and shouts: whomever passes by my house has to buy a painting...
I have Perl CD Bookshelf (without a version, so it's 1.0). I would like to upgrade it to Perl CD Bookshelf 2.0, but I don't need YA Perl in a Nutshell book. Also the only change I can see it "Programming Perl" updated from 2nd to the 3rd edition.
...
I can buy the paper version of that book ($29.50 at bookpool.com) for 2/3 the price of the Perl CD Bookshelf ($45.50)
I would pay $15 to download the update.
Tim O'Reilly are you listening?
There are far more jobs for high school students and college students that require people who know Word and Excel than there are jobs that require people to know StartOffice or Gnumeric.
If you know StarOffice I bet you can do the job in Word/Excel as well. If you are only able to look into a book with picturea and then click on a similar picture on a toolbar in order to accomplish a task, then you should not use a computer in the first place.
You forgot MIPS and PA-RISC.
A brave new world, with only Intel and AMD.
And then... "There can be only one".
:(
Two years ago there was some blurb about 500 MHz Alphas for $250 from Samsung "soon"... I was really hoping....
Perhaps this is a good time for those of us who read /. to consider the reality of the US system of government. Senators, congresspersons, and even presidents cannot know absolutely everything about every issue. They simply haven't the time, energy, or desire. And we can't condemn our representatives for this.
Ignorance is not an excuse, not in our courts, anyway.
If our elected officials don't have the energy and desire... Replace them!
So this is what the Nationad Missile Defence is about? More hamburgers?
So McDonalds is now as important to the military as McConnel-Douglas?
Now I can sleep...
This is such a dumb troll, it's not even funny...
Dunno 'bout Microsoft shared source but Microsoft shared libraries make me barf...
Rule 1: The boss is _ALLWAYS_ Right.
Rule 2: When the boss is Wrong, the first rule takes effect.
This will come bundled with a memory stick :)
I am happily using OpenBSD 2.9 (snapshot) on a Sparc IPX with 64 MB of RAM.
I even have free space on the 500 MB HDD...
De Facto: 4 (RedHat, Suse, Caldera, Turbolinux) out of 6 (+Debian, +Slackware) major Linux distributions use RPM.
It simply states that more Linux boxen have RPM than DEB.
It's obviously too expensive to watermark individual dvds. And even if they could, just pay it with cash and don't "register" it.
And if only regional watermarking is feasible, what good does to MPAA to find out that all the pirated DVDs from Malaysia were copied from a New York DVD?
1. From the management perspective: RDBMS people are easier to find and there are more big iron Oracle installations that all OODBMS combined (my guess).
2. From the developer perspective: the overhead between of the OO layer on top of the database is known. What if I get a OODBMS with superb C++/Smalltalk integration but poor Java support?
There are certain design/implementation patterns that deal with OO/RDBMS impedance mismatch and the burden of reimplementing them for every project is accepted as a fact of life...
I am not sure that ZDNET fully understood that this is not Microsoft software and it will only erode Microsoft's installed base
ZDNET used to be a Microsoft-centric camp... Is this a wind of change or a human error? Time will tell.
Who needs 18Mb to run UNIX?
Ask Dennis Ritchie: his first UNIX ran in like 16K ?
Or how somebody at Bell Labs wrote a spell checker that ran in 32K?
What has UNIX became nowadays...