Microsoft does excel at documentation and ease of use for programmers.
For a perfect example see the MFC.
Google doesn't use windows servers. That would certainly limit their ability to compete in the.net arena. I'm not sure what the current status is of the open.net compilers but Windows has the head start.
Windows has the only start, which is a good reason it won't be used. Not that I see any microsoft actually making use of.net as anything except an authentication method.
Re:this could become a huge failure for MS...
on
Google v. Microsoft
·
· Score: 1
On the other hand I've gotten an error from google exactly once.
Ever.
It went away when I refreshed the page.
Re:What I think will be interesting is...
on
Google v. Microsoft
·
· Score: 1
Excel... and um..
That's it.
Re:It's like Netscape v. Microsoft in that...
on
Google v. Microsoft
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
And then they will stagnate the instant google is killed.
I know we aren't discussing my politics, I have just found in this sort of discussion with most people I have to go to great lengths to avoid looking like a liberal or they decay really quickly:).
Are you going to take a guy who "bashed radio stations for playing patriotic music as the United States went to war and even for playing the national anthem" as someone who is going to present a balanced approach?
Nope, if he actually said that then I'll grant he is way too extreme. On the other hand if he was bashing "clearchannel worldwide news" (aka blatant propaganda on the clearchannel networks) then I won't fault him at all because I found it severly disturbing that clear channel was playing obvious propaganda under the guise of a news organization. Do you happen to have a link for a story on that, I would be interested in reading it.
As for Terry Gross's interview, that was definitely in poor taste. I hope it was addressed internally by the network, but I also hope Terry Gross doesn't get the can because I have enjoyed a lot of his more... acceptable programming.
Even more shocking to me from the linked article are the quotes from Nina Totenberg. I hope she was fired for a statement like that, it's horribly inapropriate.
I guess I just don't tune in at the right times because the stuff I hear from the station is generally fairly balanced.
As a Jew who doesn't tow the party line on Zionism I should probably keep my mouth shut on that issue.
I suppose I should specify what I meant, that was a little light on details and I don't know what your knowledge base is.
I should preface this with it's been a while since I studied this, so if any numbers are wrong please correct me. I shall attempt to be as accurate as possible.
A proper implementation of qsort that chooses a bad pivot value will achieve O(n^2) performance. It is effectively a bubble sort (I believe, it might be an insertion sort... can't remember). If you have flaws in your pivot value selection this is the fastest way to guarntee a bad qsort implementation.
A programmer who doesn't get recursion well can easily make far too many function calls. This is a flaw with all "unoptimized" recursive functions unless the programmer knows what he is doing. Qsort can be turned into a loop trivially, and most people opt to do this (it's generally faster on modern cpu's anyway), but a programmer working without documentation who doesn't do any optimization could easily choose a bad loop exit condition (though it's not as likely as messing up a recursive implementation) leading to wasted recursions.
To wrap up: the biggest problem with an unoptimized qsort implementation is going to be bad piviot value selection; however, due to the complexity of the algorithm a bad programmer can easily make it even worse than a bad piviot selection by itself.
And I'm too lazy to go back and edit my grammer/spelling mistakes.
Well, I certainly am not very left of center (I tend to favor what Americans call "right wing" economic policies) but I don't see that as all that horribly right wing.
Questioning the president and the media is not inherently left wing. The state department played the American public in the Iraq war, and the media played right along with it. I was just as disturbed by the way the propaganda campaign was playing out as he was at that time.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I hope Bush is remembered in an ill light because of this war.
Disliking the president is not left wing. I would classify most of my problems with the presidents actions from the following categories: unconstitutional, unethical, unamerican, and just plain old stupidity. None of those are particularly leftist, they are only leftist if you define "anything in disagreement with the current head of state is left wing and wrong."
I think people call FoxNews right-wing when really they just happen to actually report right-wing things along with left-wing, unlike CNN and the other channels that ONLY do left-wing
You have to be so right wing that you think the earth is flat to call any of our current popular media sources left wing.
Please provide examples, I'm very interested in hearing them.
Well I have developed large programs in Excel before, porting these to an alternative would be nontrivial. I develop all VBA code using dll's made with an eye on cross platform support, but I am not the average VBA coder.
You must remember, VBA is as powerful as VB. That doesn't make it not suck, but it does mean there are several applications in VBA that are more than 'word macros'.
Slashdot Mirror
How was this insightful?
Microsoft does excel at documentation and ease of use for programmers.
.net arena. I'm not sure what the current status is of the open .net compilers but Windows has the head start.
.net as anything except an authentication method.
For a perfect example see the MFC.
Google doesn't use windows servers. That would certainly limit their ability to compete in the
Windows has the only start, which is a good reason it won't be used. Not that I see any microsoft actually making use of
On the other hand I've gotten an error from google exactly once.
Ever.
It went away when I refreshed the page.
Excel... and um..
That's it.
And then they will stagnate the instant google is killed.
See: IE.
Well, I for one in such a situation would use /dev/random while playing mp3's and typing a document.
Pretty damn hard to 'find the algorithm' to that.
I know we aren't discussing my politics, I have just found in this sort of discussion with most people I have to go to great lengths to avoid looking like a liberal or they decay really quickly :).
Are you going to take a guy who "bashed radio stations for playing patriotic music as the United States went to war and even for playing the national anthem" as someone who is going to present a balanced approach?
Nope, if he actually said that then I'll grant he is way too extreme. On the other hand if he was bashing "clearchannel worldwide news" (aka blatant propaganda on the clearchannel networks) then I won't fault him at all because I found it severly disturbing that clear channel was playing obvious propaganda under the guise of a news organization. Do you happen to have a link for a story on that, I would be interested in reading it.
As for Terry Gross's interview, that was definitely in poor taste. I hope it was addressed internally by the network, but I also hope Terry Gross doesn't get the can because I have enjoyed a lot of his more... acceptable programming.
Even more shocking to me from the linked article are the quotes from Nina Totenberg. I hope she was fired for a statement like that, it's horribly inapropriate.
I guess I just don't tune in at the right times because the stuff I hear from the station is generally fairly balanced.
As a Jew who doesn't tow the party line on Zionism I should probably keep my mouth shut on that issue.
That's why you log in as >console. No Quartz is fun.
I suppose I should specify what I meant, that was a little light on details and I don't know what your knowledge base is.
I should preface this with it's been a while since I studied this, so if any numbers are wrong please correct me. I shall attempt to be as accurate as possible.
A proper implementation of qsort that chooses a bad pivot value will achieve O(n^2) performance. It is effectively a bubble sort (I believe, it might be an insertion sort... can't remember). If you have flaws in your pivot value selection this is the fastest way to guarntee a bad qsort implementation.
A programmer who doesn't get recursion well can easily make far too many function calls. This is a flaw with all "unoptimized" recursive functions unless the programmer knows what he is doing. Qsort can be turned into a loop trivially, and most people opt to do this (it's generally faster on modern cpu's anyway), but a programmer working without documentation who doesn't do any optimization could easily choose a bad loop exit condition (though it's not as likely as messing up a recursive implementation) leading to wasted recursions.
To wrap up: the biggest problem with an unoptimized qsort implementation is going to be bad piviot value selection; however, due to the complexity of the algorithm a bad programmer can easily make it even worse than a bad piviot selection by itself.
And I'm too lazy to go back and edit my grammer/spelling mistakes.
Well, I certainly am not very left of center (I tend to favor what Americans call "right wing" economic policies) but I don't see that as all that horribly right wing.
Questioning the president and the media is not inherently left wing. The state department played the American public in the Iraq war, and the media played right along with it. I was just as disturbed by the way the propaganda campaign was playing out as he was at that time.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I hope Bush is remembered in an ill light because of this war.
Disliking the president is not left wing. I would classify most of my problems with the presidents actions from the following categories: unconstitutional, unethical, unamerican, and just plain old stupidity. None of those are particularly leftist, they are only leftist if you define "anything in disagreement with the current head of state is left wing and wrong."
No, I relate right wing to being conservative. Do you relate it to something different?
If so I'd love to hear it.
I can also toss them into our laptops (again without drivers) using PCMCIA adaptors. Name another format that offers all of those advantages.
A usb cable that mounts as a usb hard drive.
I think people call FoxNews right-wing when really they just happen to actually report right-wing things along with left-wing, unlike CNN and the other channels that ONLY do left-wing
You have to be so right wing that you think the earth is flat to call any of our current popular media sources left wing.
Please provide examples, I'm very interested in hearing them.
Yes, they brought it into the court of public opinion to pump their stock price.
It is crucial that they follow through with something that isn't a lie after doing that.
This is why the Library has a reference copy.
They also have this nifty thing called a copy machine.
Problem sets normally require copying 1-2 pages tops per assignment. No one will look at you funny if you copy a problem set.
I don't buy a book until either a: the syllabus lists required reading or b: it is referenced in class.
I buy about half of the books recommended each term.
I dropped my TiBook on it's corner once (don't ask). It caused a small crack near the power suply port.
A bit of that metal tape stuff and superglue fixed it right up.
A fall like that would have destroyed my HP.
Everyone models their speach on what they read and hear.
To think otherwise is just silly.
It seems to me the simpler solution is to not use the crap that gets infected to start with?
I have a working example I made for my boss here
It doesn't work in Firebird, I didn't test in Mozilla.
Can you recommend any good cyberpunk. I've read neuromancer, but I can't seem to find any other stuff I like.
Reply to this one please. The other one won't message me.
See: OSX
Thanks for playing!
I seriously doubt that, but I would love to see a post with substance to negate your troll status.
The phamacy doesn't make money from perscription drugs. They generally can cover the cost of running the shop off that.
Profit comes from the stuff in front of the counter.
Well I have developed large programs in Excel before, porting these to an alternative would be nontrivial. I develop all VBA code using dll's made with an eye on cross platform support, but I am not the average VBA coder.
You must remember, VBA is as powerful as VB. That doesn't make it not suck, but it does mean there are several applications in VBA that are more than 'word macros'.