How very right you are. Going from coding C/C++ to COBOL is like having your schwantz cut in two and then told to sleep with as many women as possible. I think Grace Hopper even apologised for the atrocity that COBOL is. It makes no damn sense after writing code in most procedural languages. Don't get me started on PIC(9) X or whatever. I don't even know how COBOL does all that internally, but to the programmer, it is presented as BCD, but base 10 instead of base 16. What the hell is that?!?
How unfortunate. Borland had a badass compiler with the old venerable Turbo C 3.0. Then they dropped the soap like a skinny guy in prison and it was all over. Why? Does anyone know what happened? Did they get taken over by bad management?
On a similar note, I remember a really neat contest in DDJ a LONG time ago. Al Stevens had a game of life contest and whoever could accurately generate N generations the quickest without modifying the VGA code, won. There were two winners, although that can be disputed. One was a guy from Germany who managed to wrap his code IN the VGA code (which was actually cheating, but Al gave him a mention because it was very innovative). The other winner was a compiler guy from Borland named DAve Something. He managed to write a program that generated a new assembler program based on the initial data and number of generations requested. I call that talent (this was i386 era chips, IIRC, so things like cache misses and instruction parallelization weren't on the table yet), where did it go?
LS1's are pretty damn efficient and Corvettes are pretty damn light. With a bit of modification you can hit 28+ crusing. Not too shabby for a sports car.
While this may not scale all the way to N-way systems, the Opteron and Hypertransport bus allow greater throughput per processor to memory and I believe the Northbridge.
From my experiences at my work (High School) the HP 4100's are actually OK. The damn 4200's are shit. Pure shit. I seriously have told the LRC ladies that they should power cycle them every day to keep me from having to do it myself when the fuckers hard lock.
I'm surprised no one has shot Ken Lay in the face yet. His actions seriously ruined many 401K's. He's cost the country more money than any crack head or dope dealer ever could dream.
Heh, you're a feisty one. I think you don't understand the posts you're replying to. And, in regards to your sig, if "they" truly do come for you, your ball kicking ability will be quickly overcome by "their" shooting ability, I think.
Well, looks like I'm none too smart, just looked it up. I wonder where I read that thing about the baseball though, I don't think that shit just appeared in my head. Son of a bitch.
That was me before (the AC, different machine). From what I remember, if you were on a "vehicle" travelling c, and you threw a baseball from the rear of the vehicle (exactly opposite the direction of travel), the EM waves emitting from the baseball will not change speed, defying any type of doppler effect. Perhaps I read that wrong all those years ago, but that's what I remember.
Not that your post is without merit, but when you say 693,000 were subscribed to broadband, I am almost positive that doesn't include multiple people sharing one line (like a family or roommates). I am sure the total number of people with access to broadband in their residence in NJ is greater than 8%.
Well, I suppose if your adversary has virtually infinite resources, nothing is secure. However, I think that saying UTP is totally insecure in a situtaion where a (relatively small) home is the deployment area is an overstatement. No war driver is going to carry sensitive enough equipment to scan your home network from the street, that's the biggest security risk at the home. To go one step further, if someone gains access to your house to sniff your cabling, you're fucked anyway. On a larger scale, if the NSA or the FBI or whomever wants your shit, there ain't much you can do about it either way, fiber or not: they'll just take your machines.
I guess you could say it thusly: if you are concerned enough about your private UTP being sniffed to make you pull fiber instead, you have bigger problems than your choice of data cabling.
I'm sorry, but the signal on those lines is really very weak. I honestly doubt you can pick up a detectable signal without being inside the building using an inductive pickup. Show me a product or device that can pick up the EM radiation from a length of UTP without being clamped on it, and I'll believe you.
Hey man, about your sig. I worked in the old TSR building for a time in 2002. The death star tunnel was still there, but the call center was a mess. Looked like someone threw up in the corner of one of the upstairs offices:)
... and almost *too* closely with the SPED department, I've noticed we use the programs Microtype 3.0 and Write Out Loud! (I think they are part of a single package) for kids who have developmental problems. Now, I believe this program is a bit pricey, because nothing in that department is cheap, but it seems to work. It says the words out loud with the kids while they type, and suggests spelling for words that they are having trouble completing, building vocabulary, spelling, and typing skills. I don't know how "fun" it is, because the most I've had to do with it is make it work in a multiuser environment (no fun), but the teachers seem to like it.
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How very right you are. Going from coding C/C++ to COBOL is like having your schwantz cut in two and then told to sleep with as many women as possible. I think Grace Hopper even apologised for the atrocity that COBOL is. It makes no damn sense after writing code in most procedural languages. Don't get me started on PIC(9) X or whatever. I don't even know how COBOL does all that internally, but to the programmer, it is presented as BCD, but base 10 instead of base 16. What the hell is that?!?
First thing I thought of was espionage. These little bastards would be great to just hide behind a panel and steal, steal, steal!
How unfortunate. Borland had a badass compiler with the old venerable Turbo C 3.0. Then they dropped the soap like a skinny guy in prison and it was all over. Why? Does anyone know what happened? Did they get taken over by bad management?
On a similar note, I remember a really neat contest in DDJ a LONG time ago. Al Stevens had a game of life contest and whoever could accurately generate N generations the quickest without modifying the VGA code, won. There were two winners, although that can be disputed. One was a guy from Germany who managed to wrap his code IN the VGA code (which was actually cheating, but Al gave him a mention because it was very innovative). The other winner was a compiler guy from Borland named DAve Something. He managed to write a program that generated a new assembler program based on the initial data and number of generations requested. I call that talent (this was i386 era chips, IIRC, so things like cache misses and instruction parallelization weren't on the table yet), where did it go?
LS1's are pretty damn efficient and Corvettes are pretty damn light. With a bit of modification you can hit 28+ crusing. Not too shabby for a sports car.
I haven't tested it, but this is great if it works. Thanks for sharing.
While this may not scale all the way to N-way systems, the Opteron and Hypertransport bus allow greater throughput per processor to memory and I believe the Northbridge.
"They" are Wil Wheaton
Buddy of mine lives on the border of Lakeview and Lincoln Park. Found one with an SSID of "Peniswrinkle". I had a hearty laugh.
Wow, I fucking failed. < as opposed to >
GODDAMNIT. I meant .
Hanging breaks your neck if you do it right. 100% dead in > 1 second.
From my experiences at my work (High School) the HP 4100's are actually OK. The damn 4200's are shit. Pure shit. I seriously have told the LRC ladies that they should power cycle them every day to keep me from having to do it myself when the fuckers hard lock.
I'm surprised no one has shot Ken Lay in the face yet. His actions seriously ruined many 401K's. He's cost the country more money than any crack head or dope dealer ever could dream.
Heh, you're a feisty one. I think you don't understand the posts you're replying to. And, in regards to your sig, if "they" truly do come for you, your ball kicking ability will be quickly overcome by "their" shooting ability, I think.
Well, looks like I'm none too smart, just looked it up. I wonder where I read that thing about the baseball though, I don't think that shit just appeared in my head. Son of a bitch.
That was me before (the AC, different machine). From what I remember, if you were on a "vehicle" travelling c, and you threw a baseball from the rear of the vehicle (exactly opposite the direction of travel), the EM waves emitting from the baseball will not change speed, defying any type of doppler effect. Perhaps I read that wrong all those years ago, but that's what I remember.
Throw this out next time, will save you trouble: URI from W3C
Not that your post is without merit, but when you say 693,000 were subscribed to broadband, I am almost positive that doesn't include multiple people sharing one line (like a family or roommates). I am sure the total number of people with access to broadband in their residence in NJ is greater than 8%.
Well, I suppose if your adversary has virtually infinite resources, nothing is secure. However, I think that saying UTP is totally insecure in a situtaion where a (relatively small) home is the deployment area is an overstatement. No war driver is going to carry sensitive enough equipment to scan your home network from the street, that's the biggest security risk at the home. To go one step further, if someone gains access to your house to sniff your cabling, you're fucked anyway. On a larger scale, if the NSA or the FBI or whomever wants your shit, there ain't much you can do about it either way, fiber or not: they'll just take your machines.
I guess you could say it thusly: if you are concerned enough about your private UTP being sniffed to make you pull fiber instead, you have bigger problems than your choice of data cabling.
I'm sorry, but the signal on those lines is really very weak. I honestly doubt you can pick up a detectable signal without being inside the building using an inductive pickup. Show me a product or device that can pick up the EM radiation from a length of UTP without being clamped on it, and I'll believe you.
Hey man, about your sig. I worked in the old TSR building for a time in 2002. The death star tunnel was still there, but the call center was a mess. Looked like someone threw up in the corner of one of the upstairs offices :)
It was 1939, I believe, when corporations obtained the same "rights" as citizens.
He probably had the DVD for > 1 year and decided to clean house.
... and almost *too* closely with the SPED department, I've noticed we use the programs Microtype 3.0 and Write Out Loud! (I think they are part of a single package) for kids who have developmental problems. Now, I believe this program is a bit pricey, because nothing in that department is cheap, but it seems to work. It says the words out loud with the kids while they type, and suggests spelling for words that they are having trouble completing, building vocabulary, spelling, and typing skills. I don't know how "fun" it is, because the most I've had to do with it is make it work in a multiuser environment (no fun), but the teachers seem to like it.
Carl Jung wrote about a collective unconscious. Was he a crack pot?