The advantage there is the compiler can hold the interface of every applicable class in memory at the same time instead of having to potentially re-parse the source file every time it's used by another class.
This is trivial to reproduce in Make, as the other reply has already stated, removing that percieved advantage to ant. Ant really is the fashion of the day in the software development world, and it is obviously being relegated to its niche as other development tools in the past have been stuck in their niches (Lisp, X11 source, GNU, etc.).
If ant really is to the point of splash screens and sound files, then I'm really glad I skipped that bandwagon and stayed with posix make. Make is still, despite its flaws, the only widely-known and used cross-platform and cross-language build tool.
So far, among Linux distributions, I've found Debian to have a lot of the flexibility and sensibility of Slackware and the breadth of Red Hat, without being as spartan as Slackware and not as retarded as Red Hat. I used to use Red Hat a lot for home/school, but it just didn't scale with me as I grew older (their installer and RPM-basis got more and more rigid and inflexible relative to my needs until I just got fed up with it). At this point in time, I'd have to say that Debian is the best all-around distribution.
What can realistically be done to ensure that parents take the responsibility for exposure of unsuitable material to minors?
Not too much, because for as long as there has been violence, there have been people who are simply trash. They reproduce for sake of fashion, entertainment, or forgotten drunkenness rather than any form of responsible child bearing. Often, they care so little, that the dillema to them is whether having a kid gets them a better break on the Earned Income Credit. Otherwise, they would rather have their kid eaten by a dog just to relieve the burden. Yes, these are the people you need to reach. Good luck.
This is why a new home-built computer should use a middle-of-the-road CPU and have exactly half of its RAM slots filled. Then, that computer is not only cost-effective at the time of purchase, but it has a single guaranteed RAM and CPU upgrade down the line.
Remember that CPU pricing is non-linear, where the current top-of-the-line generally has a very stiff price premium. One thing I did a while ago was to chart the price/MHz of a particular line of CPUs, then I bought the CPU right at the top of the linear range before the curve upward began.
Because it is an easy thing for the interviewer to ask. It shows no ingenuity nor does it reflect highly on the interviewer's intelligence. It is the kind of question a retarded person would ask thinking it makes them look smart.
Not only that, it can be considered an inappropriate invasion of privacy. "...so, what's your greatest weakness..." "I have a vodka and squirrel fetish that I simply cannot shake!" Even then, both the question and answer is completely irrelevant to the job; as long as the guy doesn't show up drunk with squirrels in his pockets, you shouldn't care what his greatest weakness is (given he is a reliable and competent employee).
Seriously, besides GNU, who else favors info over man?
Leave it to GNU to create something clumsier than a man page for quick reference and less useful than HTML or PDF for large documents. Man pages are one area that OpenBSD, for example, got it right.
Challenging games are fun, but sometimes they are downright stupid. After having enjoyed a couple Alone in the Dark and Silent Hill games, I decided to try Resident Evil. All I have to say is the first thing I did was to enable the cheat for double saves. As an adult, I simply don't have the time or patience to go through artificially great swaths of a game over and over just to feel like I won't run short, especially given the poor weapon control in that game! I just don't remember any of the other games being so troublesome.
I did not get the impression that Sun support knew what the hell they were doing.
Did they hook up a serial console and enable boot-time hardware diagnostics? The diagnostics output of Sun workstations is very thorough. A system that won't even boot the OS can generally be diagnosed down to one or two components to actually try swapping out, even if the CPU itself is fried.
I'm still using my Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17. It is seven years old this month (Happy Birthday!). I knew then that putting $700 into a monitor was a good investment, and never regretted it. Ever since, whenever I work on or see a cheapo monitor, the fuzzy characters and lines are really distracting. The only problem this monitor has developed is an intermittent color problem at the highest color temperature (fixed by using a lower color temperature). Now, if only I could find a BNC monitor cable to use the second input!
BTW, I, too, have a Sun Sony GDM monitor, but I haven't developed the courage, yet, to haul it upstairs... It still works great as a second monitor when I need it, though.
According to her, they interviewed 200 graduates and hired well over 50 of them.
You might not quite understand how defense contracting works. That company either recently got a new contract or think they will get a new contract, so they are hiring bodies to fill up the job descriptions. That contract might last six months or five years (only god and the program managers know), but I'm generally suspicious of any contractor doing a 50-out-of-200 hiring frenzy like that.
Of course, I've become quite jaded about defense contracting, so my point of view is probably no longer objective.
Laptops are the same, your best bet with a laptop is to take a good extended warranty and pray you don't need to use it..
Extended warranties are a waste of money. They cost a non-trivial fraction of the original purchase price of whatever they cover, and manufacturers and retailers love them because they are 99.99999% pure profit.
It is wiser to never buy an extended warranty and take all the money saved to be self-insured for the occasional breakage, which will be rare. Of course, people buying electronics do live within their means, right? If not, then they have deeper problems to attend to than anything electronic in nature.
Companies still using Windows 98 have been shown that if they're stubborn enough, they'll get their way.
This is because they are customers. In a free market, this is exactly how it should work.
Why is it that computers seem to defy the way other markets work? I think this is partly due to just how immature our computers and software are and how rapidly they have been evolving. To be totally honest, every operating system and software package out there really does suck--the arguments about them are really about the degree to which they are absolutely terrible. In the last couple years, perhaps, we are finally seeing some stabilization, where there is an even divide between Windows 98 and XP, for example, and things like Mac OS X and even things like the Java Desktop System are reaching new thresholds of usefulness in mass markets. However, it is somewhat disturbing that people are choosing to make Windows 98 a benchmark of usefulness, but, at least, it is informative about where computers and software are doing a few things right.
That is why I am against the steel tariffs - if American steel is that good, prove it!
Even a Libertarian would eventually concede that some amount of domestic steel production is essential for national defense. In WWII, how long would we have lasted building American tanks from Japanese and European steel?
"What is the biggest technology related mistake you have ever made?"
Statement by Slashdotters after the supoenas start rolling in: "Posting an admission of wrongdoing on a semi-anonymous public forum, whose owners will most likely cooperate with law enforcement when asked about an admission of wrong doing in a semi-anonymous public forum."
However, I'd argue that if an 8 year old demanded and won the right to own a gun for all children under the age of 8, I'm moving to Canada.
Would you be okay if a competency test was required, such that an unusually skilled 8-year-old could own and operate a gun after having showed the ability to do so responsibly?
When a person invents only to get money, s/he will only works as far as to get that money and work no further. A person who is committed to actually serving the community will work as hard as s/he can.
Most people are motivated by money. Few people are motivated out of love for community. One of the exceptions to this is doing things out of love for family, but families typically have only a few people in them. Most people would rather not take on the burdens and responsibilities that others can't outside of the family unit...unless, of course, there's money in it for them.
Selfishness is a fact of life, and, as long as our economic and legal systems take this fully into account, we'll be just fine. Communistic and socialistic idealism is founded on an impractical and naive hope (i.e., easier said than done).
The less selfish and more intelligent Americans see the basic need for National Healthcare for every citizen...
No, they see a need for philanthropy, whether for selfish (tax break) or selfless (common good) reasons. They give to their churches or to something like United Way, where they choose the bureaucracy to divy up the funds, or they give directly to the local soup kitchen. Why give to the federal government where it is a guaranteed ten cents on the dollar in delivered goods and services?
Also, corporate philanthropy is huge. Whole soup kitchen networks in cities are run off of grocery store and food manufacturing rejects. Buildings and libraries are built in towns and universities everywhere with corporate and personal donations. Other companies support public television and other academic programs (often with fewer strings attached than a Microsoft deal!).
There are definitely bad eggs among companies, but if they were in the majority, I think things would be much worse off than they really are.
Why do you assume that taxes on imports are worse than other taxes?
I think the assumption is that taxes are bad in general, and they should be the minimum necessary to let the government do its essential duties.
Why shouldn't trade be taxes instead of general income to pay for services only some of the population use?
Open trade routes benefit everyone.
the disposable income of families with children have dropped markedly since trade has loosened.
This is temporary. People are way to impatient. Business cycles last three or four presidencies. Global economic progress is measured in decades.
today's dual-income families have less discretionary--and less money to put away for a rainy day--than the single-income family of a generation ago.
Yesterday's families didn't have four-bedroom homes, two cars, three cell phones, a playstation, two computers, three TVs, central HVAC, broadband internet, digital cable, caller ID, one hour commutes, etc. etc. etc. Of coures modern famililes have less "disposible" income. They spend like it's going out of style.
Also, the fact that property values increase faster than inflation can't be part of the cause. Naw, that couldn't be the case, so let's blame it on free trade!
HMOs are an abomination of regulation and do not represent privatized health care one bit.
with 10 times the administrative cost of a single-payer system
No way. Nothing, absolutlely nothing, is more expensive than the federal government.
$400/month insurance premiums
The only reason premiums are so high is that there aren't effective market controls allowed in health care. Everything from snooty doctors to the FDA put in barriers that keep prices artificially high.
That girl in the school girl uniform is pretty scarey!
They simply chose someone at random from the local American school. There was a 50/50 chance of either getting the model they got or an anorexic stick-human. Now, which culturally-induced eating disorder to you prefer?
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Okay, who among the spanish-speakers out there can tell us how well the Chevy Nova went over in Spain?
The advantage there is the compiler can hold the interface of every applicable class in memory at the same time instead of having to potentially re-parse the source file every time it's used by another class.
This is trivial to reproduce in Make, as the other reply has already stated, removing that percieved advantage to ant. Ant really is the fashion of the day in the software development world, and it is obviously being relegated to its niche as other development tools in the past have been stuck in their niches (Lisp, X11 source, GNU, etc.).
'm a long-time Redhat (and FreeBSD before that) user...
Why would someone move from a BSD to Red Hat? Almost always, it seems people move the other way when they get older and smarter.
If ant really is to the point of splash screens and sound files, then I'm really glad I skipped that bandwagon and stayed with posix make. Make is still, despite its flaws, the only widely-known and used cross-platform and cross-language build tool.
Debian would be the one.
So far, among Linux distributions, I've found Debian to have a lot of the flexibility and sensibility of Slackware and the breadth of Red Hat, without being as spartan as Slackware and not as retarded as Red Hat. I used to use Red Hat a lot for home/school, but it just didn't scale with me as I grew older (their installer and RPM-basis got more and more rigid and inflexible relative to my needs until I just got fed up with it). At this point in time, I'd have to say that Debian is the best all-around distribution.
What can realistically be done to ensure that parents take the responsibility for exposure of unsuitable material to minors?
Not too much, because for as long as there has been violence, there have been people who are simply trash. They reproduce for sake of fashion, entertainment, or forgotten drunkenness rather than any form of responsible child bearing. Often, they care so little, that the dillema to them is whether having a kid gets them a better break on the Earned Income Credit. Otherwise, they would rather have their kid eaten by a dog just to relieve the burden. Yes, these are the people you need to reach. Good luck.
This is why a new home-built computer should use a middle-of-the-road CPU and have exactly half of its RAM slots filled. Then, that computer is not only cost-effective at the time of purchase, but it has a single guaranteed RAM and CPU upgrade down the line.
Remember that CPU pricing is non-linear, where the current top-of-the-line generally has a very stiff price premium. One thing I did a while ago was to chart the price/MHz of a particular line of CPUs, then I bought the CPU right at the top of the linear range before the curve upward began.
Why do you call it a "bullshit question"?
Because it is an easy thing for the interviewer to ask. It shows no ingenuity nor does it reflect highly on the interviewer's intelligence. It is the kind of question a retarded person would ask thinking it makes them look smart.
Not only that, it can be considered an inappropriate invasion of privacy. "...so, what's your greatest weakness..." "I have a vodka and squirrel fetish that I simply cannot shake!" Even then, both the question and answer is completely irrelevant to the job; as long as the guy doesn't show up drunk with squirrels in his pockets, you shouldn't care what his greatest weakness is (given he is a reliable and competent employee).
Unix is archaic. Linux is not.
I'll take my vi text editor that doesn't render HTML instead of displaying the text, thank you very much!
Also, saying "Linux" is too general. For example, it would be better to say, "Red Hat is archaic. Debian is not."
Seriously, besides GNU, who else favors info over man?
Leave it to GNU to create something clumsier than a man page for quick reference and less useful than HTML or PDF for large documents. Man pages are one area that OpenBSD, for example, got it right.
Challenging games are fun, but sometimes they are downright stupid. After having enjoyed a couple Alone in the Dark and Silent Hill games, I decided to try Resident Evil. All I have to say is the first thing I did was to enable the cheat for double saves. As an adult, I simply don't have the time or patience to go through artificially great swaths of a game over and over just to feel like I won't run short, especially given the poor weapon control in that game! I just don't remember any of the other games being so troublesome.
I did not get the impression that Sun support knew what the hell they were doing.
Did they hook up a serial console and enable boot-time hardware diagnostics? The diagnostics output of Sun workstations is very thorough. A system that won't even boot the OS can generally be diagnosed down to one or two components to actually try swapping out, even if the CPU itself is fried.
I'm still using my Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17. It is seven years old this month (Happy Birthday!). I knew then that putting $700 into a monitor was a good investment, and never regretted it. Ever since, whenever I work on or see a cheapo monitor, the fuzzy characters and lines are really distracting. The only problem this monitor has developed is an intermittent color problem at the highest color temperature (fixed by using a lower color temperature). Now, if only I could find a BNC monitor cable to use the second input!
BTW, I, too, have a Sun Sony GDM monitor, but I haven't developed the courage, yet, to haul it upstairs... It still works great as a second monitor when I need it, though.
According to her, they interviewed 200 graduates and hired well over 50 of them.
You might not quite understand how defense contracting works. That company either recently got a new contract or think they will get a new contract, so they are hiring bodies to fill up the job descriptions. That contract might last six months or five years (only god and the program managers know), but I'm generally suspicious of any contractor doing a 50-out-of-200 hiring frenzy like that.
Of course, I've become quite jaded about defense contracting, so my point of view is probably no longer objective.
Laptops are the same, your best bet with a laptop is to take a good extended warranty and pray you don't need to use it..
Extended warranties are a waste of money. They cost a non-trivial fraction of the original purchase price of whatever they cover, and manufacturers and retailers love them because they are 99.99999% pure profit.
It is wiser to never buy an extended warranty and take all the money saved to be self-insured for the occasional breakage, which will be rare. Of course, people buying electronics do live within their means, right? If not, then they have deeper problems to attend to than anything electronic in nature.
Companies still using Windows 98 have been shown that if they're stubborn enough, they'll get their way.
This is because they are customers. In a free market, this is exactly how it should work.
Why is it that computers seem to defy the way other markets work? I think this is partly due to just how immature our computers and software are and how rapidly they have been evolving. To be totally honest, every operating system and software package out there really does suck--the arguments about them are really about the degree to which they are absolutely terrible. In the last couple years, perhaps, we are finally seeing some stabilization, where there is an even divide between Windows 98 and XP, for example, and things like Mac OS X and even things like the Java Desktop System are reaching new thresholds of usefulness in mass markets. However, it is somewhat disturbing that people are choosing to make Windows 98 a benchmark of usefulness, but, at least, it is informative about where computers and software are doing a few things right.
That is why I am against the steel tariffs - if American steel is that good, prove it!
Even a Libertarian would eventually concede that some amount of domestic steel production is essential for national defense. In WWII, how long would we have lasted building American tanks from Japanese and European steel?
"What is the biggest technology related mistake you have ever made?"
Statement by Slashdotters after the supoenas start rolling in: "Posting an admission of wrongdoing on a semi-anonymous public forum, whose owners will most likely cooperate with law enforcement when asked about an admission of wrong doing in a semi-anonymous public forum."
However, I'd argue that if an 8 year old demanded and won the right to own a gun for all children under the age of 8, I'm moving to Canada.
Would you be okay if a competency test was required, such that an unusually skilled 8-year-old could own and operate a gun after having showed the ability to do so responsibly?
When a person invents only to get money, s/he will only works as far as to get that money and work no further. A person who is committed to actually serving the community will work as hard as s/he can.
Most people are motivated by money. Few people are motivated out of love for community. One of the exceptions to this is doing things out of love for family, but families typically have only a few people in them. Most people would rather not take on the burdens and responsibilities that others can't outside of the family unit...unless, of course, there's money in it for them.
Selfishness is a fact of life, and, as long as our economic and legal systems take this fully into account, we'll be just fine. Communistic and socialistic idealism is founded on an impractical and naive hope (i.e., easier said than done).
The less selfish and more intelligent Americans see the basic need for National Healthcare for every citizen...
No, they see a need for philanthropy, whether for selfish (tax break) or selfless (common good) reasons. They give to their churches or to something like United Way, where they choose the bureaucracy to divy up the funds, or they give directly to the local soup kitchen. Why give to the federal government where it is a guaranteed ten cents on the dollar in delivered goods and services?
Also, corporate philanthropy is huge. Whole soup kitchen networks in cities are run off of grocery store and food manufacturing rejects. Buildings and libraries are built in towns and universities everywhere with corporate and personal donations. Other companies support public television and other academic programs (often with fewer strings attached than a Microsoft deal!).
There are definitely bad eggs among companies, but if they were in the majority, I think things would be much worse off than they really are.
Why do you assume that taxes on imports are worse than other taxes?
I think the assumption is that taxes are bad in general, and they should be the minimum necessary to let the government do its essential duties.
Why shouldn't trade be taxes instead of general income to pay for services only some of the population use?
Open trade routes benefit everyone.
the disposable income of families with children have dropped markedly since trade has loosened.
This is temporary. People are way to impatient. Business cycles last three or four presidencies. Global economic progress is measured in decades.
today's dual-income families have less discretionary--and less money to put away for a rainy day--than the single-income family of a generation ago.
Yesterday's families didn't have four-bedroom homes, two cars, three cell phones, a playstation, two computers, three TVs, central HVAC, broadband internet, digital cable, caller ID, one hour commutes, etc. etc. etc. Of coures modern famililes have less "disposible" income. They spend like it's going out of style.
Also, the fact that property values increase faster than inflation can't be part of the cause. Naw, that couldn't be the case, so let's blame it on free trade!
the fairness of profit-driven HMOs
HMOs are an abomination of regulation and do not represent privatized health care one bit.
with 10 times the administrative cost of a single-payer system
No way. Nothing, absolutlely nothing, is more expensive than the federal government.
$400/month insurance premiums
The only reason premiums are so high is that there aren't effective market controls allowed in health care. Everything from snooty doctors to the FDA put in barriers that keep prices artificially high.
that statement is just false
.NET language is simply syntactic sugar on top of every other .NET language. The CLR is a marketing tool to suck in the naive, nothing more.
Why? Every
That girl in the school girl uniform is pretty scarey!
They simply chose someone at random from the local American school. There was a 50/50 chance of either getting the model they got or an anorexic stick-human. Now, which culturally-induced eating disorder to you prefer?