That's a very good questions (thank for bringing it up). Really, I'd have to say that I would be proud of my decision, and would not have anything against those that don't. Those things I said against Ruby and Java coders were only said in jest (I make fun of them because I love them). After all, my first programming language is BASIC, and though I have outgrown it, I will never make fun of anyone who uses such a language, because each one has it's own distinct niche.
Let's face it: every generation of computer programmers has thier own take on the science, and that's just fine with me. Methodology varies widely, and programming styles vary as much as different styles of art, programming being an art itself (in my humble opinion).
Being quite a youngster, I guess I am a member of the most recent programming generation, and I am an effeciency nut. Any code that is clean, concise, and fast is good code to me. I expect the programmer to do a great deal of work in order to produce an artifact that more than repays the fruits of his labor, and the more efficient your program is (and the harder the work was to make it), the more potential gain there is to make up for the loss of resources you expended to create the program.
I've noticed many new programming philosophies floating about (or not so new), such as the "make it easy" idea (ie Ruby), or "worship objects" (Java). I, for the most part, find these philosphies distasteful (though OOP has many merits) as they go against my fundamental programming beliefs.
You just wait, many years in the future I will be hunched over a keyboard somewhere writing cryptic hardware-specific assembly code (and not being paid enough to do it), all the while Ruby and Java coders, having finished thier projects early, frolic in the green (even though thier clients will probably be cursing at the slow speed and creepy elegence (or was that creeping?) of thier programs).
I never really liked Nautilus, and not in vain! Truth be told, I'm not sure what graphical file manager I had been using with GNOME before on SuSE 7.0 Professional, but I don't believe it was Nautilus. Whatever it was, it was smaller, faster, and more aesthetically pleasing.
Then I installed RedHat 7.something on a spare computer. This one came with a big hulking thing called "Nautilus" that GNOME was using as the file manager. Well, it was big, slow, and it didn't look good. The article mentioned it helping to make the unix desktop "beautiful," but the version packaged with RedHat was a major eyesore.:(
I'm sure it has many virtus that I am not aware of, but being the Spartan I am, I'll take an xterm any day rather than what these graphical guys could cook up. After all, we only use X for the games, right?/:) So much for boosting effeciency, lol
Think about what you are saying: you are trying to cluster minix. Why? You company spends thousands of dolars on a MINIX PROJECT!?!? They should have taken your advice and used linux.
As Andrew Tannenbaum must be tired of telling you guys, minix is an educational operating system. It was never designed for the market (that's linux's job), but rather design to aide students in the learning of the art that is known as the design and implementation of the modern operating system.
Even so, Andrew still uses minix himself, so it can't be dead!:)
Being the security freak that the government is, why are they using wireless networks? That leaves them even more open to data interception and attack. The only way wireless technology could be more secure is if they came up with some cool encryption/modulation to put on the data so that it wouldn't even matter if anyone was listening or not since they wouldn't understand any of it, but you could do that with wires too, utilizing the security benefits of both. Now they get to waste money on a more expensive yet less secure system and then spend even more of it trying to make the system more secure.
I know someone who is going to UCI at the moment, and I'm positive that she would appreciate this. I know I would. The thing is, they're right in reserving the most bandwith for things like normal internet access and Counterstrike.;) Yeah, I use P2P programs myself, but I would definitely not be a happy camper if my/. and e-mail were being delayed by some bastard in the next room trying to download something stupid.
What with the current state of P2P software and the online community in general, music piracy via computers is a trend that started recently, and unbeknownst to the RIAA, it will never stop. I don't know exactly what this means for everyone involved, but national sentiment is quite a match for many possible actions that the government might take (if any are to be taken at all).
Looks like Microsoft has already started to get thier money-grubbing hands on DRM, which I feel may inadvertantly contribute to thier death. In a nation where everyone wants to pirate music, nobody will appreciate an operating system that tries to hinder them, no matter how tight of a grip it currently has on the market (and besides the USA, very few other countries actually PAY for Microsoft products;)
Ah, my prayers have been answered.:) Of course, even though MacOS X for the x86 exists, it does not mean that Apple is going to sell me a copy. ^_^* Even so, this is a new beacon of hope, and it matches my predictions that one day Apple will be selling a "MacOS for the PC."
At first I had my doubts; recently I e-mailed Apple corp about an x86 port, and I recieved a reponse letter (which, suriprisingly, seemed to have been writen by a human being:) hotly denying having such a port and said something to the effect of, "and even if we did, we would have told you by now."
Anyway, if I ever get my hands on a copy (who knows when), will it become my primary operating system? If the support for my system is good enough, then you bet. I'll still be running Linux, and probably windows (just for gaming), but MacOS X would most definitely become my primary operating system. Why? It's unix good graphical/video support. It's not that I don't like X windows, but hey, we could do better.
Another bright side to the possible situation is that MacOS X is something that hackers/geeks would like (and definitely want to develop for), and since MacOS has a greater appeal to the general public than linux does, the software we develop will be spread to a wider audience, and this is absolutely crucial if we ever want to have any hope of taking Microsoft down once and for all.
How are the x86 family processors comparing to other chip architectures these days? Are other chips (ie SPARC, PowerPC) still superior, or is the x86 catching up?
"Go intel or go home"? That's catchy, but my quote is far superior: "f*** intel.";)
For someone with a knack for programming (ie genuine talent), three years is more than enough experience to get you going on the right track; if your business requires you to specialize in a particular area of software design then a little bit of study will fix that.::sigh:: Don't we all miss the days of freelance programming and one-man software companies that made it big.
C/C++ is by no means a difficult language all by itself (without any extensions), and I don't see how any programmer who's worth anything can write C code and then spend hours trying to fix syntax errors. That's just stupid! When writing programs the only errors I tend to make are logic errors, and those, unlike syntax errors, are not language specific. If you don't know the right way to write your program you will be making the same bug whether it is C/C++ or FORTRAN.
FORTRAN is a dead language! I discourage anyone in thier right mind from learning when they could better spend thier time learning something more useful like C, Java, Perl, Python, etc etc. Of course, if you get a job having to maintain/port legacy code originally written in FORTRAN then by all means learn it! As long as you have a use for it.:)
Well, in case you haven't noticed, MT is a very accurate embodiment of a generation of nerds/geeks/hackers and is to be taken as very serious news for people part of that generation (such as myself). I'm a big fan of MT and I'm very glad to see it in print.
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That's a very good questions (thank for bringing it up). Really, I'd have to say that I would be proud of my decision, and would not have anything against those that don't. Those things I said against Ruby and Java coders were only said in jest (I make fun of them because I love them). After all, my first programming language is BASIC, and though I have outgrown it, I will never make fun of anyone who uses such a language, because each one has it's own distinct niche.
Being quite a youngster, I guess I am a member of the most recent programming generation, and I am an effeciency nut. Any code that is clean, concise, and fast is good code to me. I expect the programmer to do a great deal of work in order to produce an artifact that more than repays the fruits of his labor, and the more efficient your program is (and the harder the work was to make it), the more potential gain there is to make up for the loss of resources you expended to create the program.
I've noticed many new programming philosophies floating about (or not so new), such as the "make it easy" idea (ie Ruby), or "worship objects" (Java). I, for the most part, find these philosphies distasteful (though OOP has many merits) as they go against my fundamental programming beliefs.
You just wait, many years in the future I will be hunched over a keyboard somewhere writing cryptic hardware-specific assembly code (and not being paid enough to do it), all the while Ruby and Java coders, having finished thier projects early, frolic in the green (even though thier clients will probably be cursing at the slow speed and creepy elegence (or was that creeping?) of thier programs).
Then I installed RedHat 7.something on a spare computer. This one came with a big hulking thing called "Nautilus" that GNOME was using as the file manager. Well, it was big, slow, and it didn't look good. The article mentioned it helping to make the unix desktop "beautiful," but the version packaged with RedHat was a major eyesore. :(
I'm sure it has many virtus that I am not aware of, but being the Spartan I am, I'll take an xterm any day rather than what these graphical guys could cook up. After all, we only use X for the games, right? /:) So much for boosting effeciency, lol
Yeah, I realize that too late...lol
OpenBSD is notorious for being security fanatics (or is that NetBSD???); what's the deal here?
...and isn't being able to run binaries unpriviledged a security hole, or am I just not getting it?
This will make slashdort think twice before posting an article linked to Geocities. ;)
Yes, but who really cares where the source came from as long as we have access to it? :D
Think about what you are saying: you are trying to cluster minix. Why? You company spends thousands of dolars on a MINIX PROJECT!?!? They should have taken your advice and used linux.
As Andrew Tannenbaum must be tired of telling you guys, minix is an educational operating system. It was never designed for the market (that's linux's job), but rather design to aide students in the learning of the art that is known as the design and implementation of the modern operating system. Even so, Andrew still uses minix himself, so it can't be dead! :)
Being the security freak that the government is, why are they using wireless networks? That leaves them even more open to data interception and attack. The only way wireless technology could be more secure is if they came up with some cool encryption/modulation to put on the data so that it wouldn't even matter if anyone was listening or not since they wouldn't understand any of it, but you could do that with wires too, utilizing the security benefits of both. Now they get to waste money on a more expensive yet less secure system and then spend even more of it trying to make the system more secure.
I know someone who is going to UCI at the moment, and I'm positive that she would appreciate this. I know I would. The thing is, they're right in reserving the most bandwith for things like normal internet access and Counterstrike. ;) Yeah, I use P2P programs myself, but I would definitely not be a happy camper if my /. and e-mail were being delayed by some bastard in the next room trying to download something stupid.
leave it to some anonymous coward make fun of both linux AND geeks in a place where both are abundant in great quantities. ;)
What with the current state of P2P software and the online community in general, music piracy via computers is a trend that started recently, and unbeknownst to the RIAA, it will never stop. I don't know exactly what this means for everyone involved, but national sentiment is quite a match for many possible actions that the government might take (if any are to be taken at all). Looks like Microsoft has already started to get thier money-grubbing hands on DRM, which I feel may inadvertantly contribute to thier death. In a nation where everyone wants to pirate music, nobody will appreciate an operating system that tries to hinder them, no matter how tight of a grip it currently has on the market (and besides the USA, very few other countries actually PAY for Microsoft products ;)
At first I had my doubts; recently I e-mailed Apple corp about an x86 port, and I recieved a reponse letter (which, suriprisingly, seemed to have been writen by a human being :) hotly denying having such a port and said something to the effect of, "and even if we did, we would have told you by now."
Anyway, if I ever get my hands on a copy (who knows when), will it become my primary operating system? If the support for my system is good enough, then you bet. I'll still be running Linux, and probably windows (just for gaming), but MacOS X would most definitely become my primary operating system. Why? It's unix good graphical/video support. It's not that I don't like X windows, but hey, we could do better.
Another bright side to the possible situation is that MacOS X is something that hackers/geeks would like (and definitely want to develop for), and since MacOS has a greater appeal to the general public than linux does, the software we develop will be spread to a wider audience, and this is absolutely crucial if we ever want to have any hope of taking Microsoft down once and for all.
How are the x86 family processors comparing to other chip architectures these days? Are other chips (ie SPARC, PowerPC) still superior, or is the x86 catching up? "Go intel or go home"? That's catchy, but my quote is far superior: "f*** intel." ;)
Hurray for LisP! :)
Amen to that!
For someone with a knack for programming (ie genuine talent), three years is more than enough experience to get you going on the right track; if your business requires you to specialize in a particular area of software design then a little bit of study will fix that. ::sigh:: Don't we all miss the days of freelance programming and one-man software companies that made it big.
C/C++ is by no means a difficult language all by itself (without any extensions), and I don't see how any programmer who's worth anything can write C code and then spend hours trying to fix syntax errors. That's just stupid! When writing programs the only errors I tend to make are logic errors, and those, unlike syntax errors, are not language specific. If you don't know the right way to write your program you will be making the same bug whether it is C/C++ or FORTRAN. FORTRAN is a dead language! I discourage anyone in thier right mind from learning when they could better spend thier time learning something more useful like C, Java, Perl, Python, etc etc. Of course, if you get a job having to maintain/port legacy code originally written in FORTRAN then by all means learn it! As long as you have a use for it. :)
Well, in case you haven't noticed, MT is a very accurate embodiment of a generation of nerds/geeks/hackers and is to be taken as very serious news for people part of that generation (such as myself). I'm a big fan of MT and I'm very glad to see it in print.
The Wrath of Khan was THE WORST Star Trek movie. -_-'
You're joking, right? ::grumble grumble:: BSD nuts... -_-'
Yes, GNU corn! Let's see Microsoft compete with THAT.
Ah, my mistake.