Good point. That was about 10 years ago, though. So, I'm sure the engineers doing it didn't think it was trivial, but they did have a good(?) starting point.
If MS wanted to harness the power of their geek zealots, they should release the source code to that and soon, you'd have people running 2k/NT on their apple hardware.
True. The ice ages are a natural part of the global cycle. But it sure would be nice if we didn't make it so that our grandchildren would endure it rather than our great great great great grandchildren.
Given that his argument against the Kyoto Accord is that it will cost jobs, he definitely wants us buying American SUV's to keep the economy from 'dying'.
Yeah. I have one. If they made net $105 million last year and will net about $300 million, doesn't that cover quite a bit of research? $3.3 billion would add to their $2.2 billion in cash, but hardly worth what you're saying.
But, to get it straight, it's $36 billion they're raising.
Agreed. It doesn't seem to have a call give the VM a hint to do garbage collection. Shouldn't that be what it's doing by itself? I would assume that System.gc() means, "Hey VM, I know you're supposed to do this when you have some free time, that ain't happening anytime soon, so drop what you're doing and do it now."
or people that need that performance boost. If I have a website that serves dozens of millions of page views a day, each little bit counts. And you most definitely notice it.
Some days, yahoo groups mail gets marked as bulk. But usually when it gets marked, it's because I have mail that I forward to my yahoo.com account, probably because it's no longer coming from yahoo groups, but from an unknown IP.
Certainly search works fast. They've scaled up over the last 7(?) years. But that doesn't have as many issues compared to a data store user information, mail (receiving and sending), and scanning for spam. Orkut certainly does not inspire any confidence about scaling. That's probably a few million users, while yahoo mail is supporting upwards of 100 million.
Not saying they can't do it. But they haven't yet. Not saying yahoo does it well, but they're doing it.
walmart offers lower prices because their suppliers give them lower prices. Joes Battery Shop then goes out of business because he can't compete.
None of this is necessarily bad, but when you look at the factorization of America, you can see that the corporations cutting costs where you can't see them, but where it causes you harm in some cases, then it gets to be bad.
Another reason not mentioned might be acquisitions. The piles of cash they're sitting on is nothing compared to the piles of company equity they could be sitting on.
So, it would be helpful if you said what it was that every OS doesn't do (and that Linux only comes close to doing). It sounds like you don't like operating systems. The point of the OS is to keep you from getting your hands dirty.
I want an OS that makes things easy for me to do the things that I want (which, aside from you, is what most people *do* want). And the things that I want to do is watch DVD's, run a bunch of applications that I'm used to using (galeon, evolution, mutt,...), write own applications, and use a few commercial applications every now and then, and hack on my OS. All that without crashing. And OS X allows me to do that better than anything I've used before. Now, if it could do that without costing me an arm & and leg to do it fast, I'd have absolutely no complaints whatsoever.
So, Scott Meyers has 3 volumes of books advocating you not to use C++? Or 3 volumes that advocate using C++ *correctly*? Maybe He's just a money grubber, publishing books on how to use a language that sucks, or maybe he's telling you how to use a good, powerful language correctly without abusing it.
obviously, that's the safest path, but not always practical. Buy cheap x86's for your developers, but test on the final platform, so you don't *assume* that it will work on a DIFFERENT ARCHITECHTURE (sic).
Because the other services don't actively block "unauthorized" clients. AOL consistently goes out of their way to make sure only users of AIM can access their network.
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Not really. IBM's run power PC chips that aren't really Apple G5's. And, in any case, you need an apple logic board to run OS X.
Good point. That was about 10 years ago, though. So, I'm sure the engineers doing it didn't think it was trivial, but they did have a good(?) starting point.
If MS wanted to harness the power of their geek zealots, they should release the source code to that and soon, you'd have people running 2k/NT on their apple hardware.
You have it backwards. If I want to make money off stock options, I want to join when it's at a low point, not a high point.
If it's going downhill, then you have a point, otherwise, you have it backwards.
True. The ice ages are a natural part of the global cycle. But it sure would be nice if we didn't make it so that our grandchildren would endure it rather than our great great great great grandchildren.
Given that his argument against the Kyoto Accord is that it will cost jobs, he definitely wants us buying American SUV's to keep the economy from 'dying'.
What are 'record numbers'? I think the people killed in the changing weather patterns (hurricanes, etc.) can be counted in that.
But, sure, I do agree it's hard make it concrete.
I think the dinosaurs said that too.
Agreed. Maybe the poster meant graffiti2?
Yeah. I have one. If they made net $105 million last year and will net about $300 million, doesn't that cover quite a bit of research? $3.3 billion would add to their $2.2 billion in cash, but hardly worth what you're saying.
But, to get it straight, it's $36 billion they're raising.
Agreed. It doesn't seem to have a call give the VM a hint to do garbage collection. Shouldn't that be what it's doing by itself? I would assume that System.gc() means, "Hey VM, I know you're supposed to do this when you have some free time, that ain't happening anytime soon, so drop what you're doing and do it now."
or people that need that performance boost. If I have a website that serves dozens of millions of page views a day, each little bit counts. And you most definitely notice it.
Performance is real world, not theoretical.
Some days, yahoo groups mail gets marked as bulk. But usually when it gets marked, it's because I have mail that I forward to my yahoo.com account, probably because it's no longer coming from yahoo groups, but from an unknown IP.
exactly.
Your paydirect email went to your bulk. Let me guess: you have a qmail/postfix account somewhere forwarding to your yahoo.com account, yeah?
Certainly search works fast. They've scaled up over the last 7(?) years. But that doesn't have as many issues compared to a data store user information, mail (receiving and sending), and scanning for spam. Orkut certainly does not inspire any confidence about scaling. That's probably a few million users, while yahoo mail is supporting upwards of 100 million.
Not saying they can't do it. But they haven't yet. Not saying yahoo does it well, but they're doing it.
I think it has (almost) everything to do with their impending IPO.
What happened to do "one thing really, really well"?
walmart offers lower prices because their suppliers give them lower prices. Joes Battery Shop then goes out of business because he can't compete.
None of this is necessarily bad, but when you look at the factorization of America, you can see that the corporations cutting costs where you can't see them, but where it causes you harm in some cases, then it gets to be bad.
Why stop there - they could save even more money by not paying their employees.
Another reason not mentioned might be acquisitions. The piles of cash they're sitting on is nothing compared to the piles of company equity they could be sitting on.
So, it would be helpful if you said what it was that every OS doesn't do (and that Linux only comes close to doing). It sounds like you don't like operating systems. The point of the OS is to keep you from getting your hands dirty.
...), write own applications, and use a few commercial applications every now and then, and hack on my OS. All that without crashing. And OS X allows me to do that better than anything I've used before. Now, if it could do that without costing me an arm & and leg to do it fast, I'd have absolutely no complaints whatsoever.
I want an OS that makes things easy for me to do the things that I want (which, aside from you, is what most people *do* want). And the things that I want to do is watch DVD's, run a bunch of applications that I'm used to using (galeon, evolution, mutt,
So, Scott Meyers has 3 volumes of books advocating you not to use C++? Or 3 volumes that advocate using C++ *correctly*? Maybe He's just a money grubber, publishing books on how to use a language that sucks, or maybe he's telling you how to use a good, powerful language correctly without abusing it.
I forget what I did, but I downloaded a quicktime plugin to play oggs. Won't copy over to the ipod, though.
Why is ignorance funny? Just look at the quote - it has 2.3 billion in cash (minus the 270 million it just paid for overture).
obviously, that's the safest path, but not always practical. Buy cheap x86's for your developers, but test on the final platform, so you don't *assume* that it will work on a DIFFERENT ARCHITECHTURE (sic).
Because the other services don't actively block "unauthorized" clients. AOL consistently goes out of their way to make sure only users of AIM can access their network.