Or to allow them to not pay for features which are not important to them.
Sure, we'll see. If the "Ultimate Edition" is more than $230 (WinXP Pro retail), we can safely say that they are in fact jacking up the price of their complete package.
This is one good reason why filesystems should be implementable in userspace.
Linus remains staunchly pro-monolithic, so it's unlikely to happen in Linux any time soon. We need another Linus Torvalds type to rejuvenate interest in a microkernel OS.
Oh for fuck's sake. Whine whine fucking whine. Try Googling "The Bell Curve" to find more analysis of the authors (known racists) and their work (obvious pseudoscience) than I would care to read.
I was using it as an example that most people would be familiar with. You can't talk about racial issues and science without knowing about its history, from eugenics to Nazism to modern racism.
Go inform yourself. I'm not about to spoonfeed you.
But the way you're attacking it is a good example of blind intolerance.
That's just because you're blathering on in total ignorance of the actual work. Try reading this part of the sentence again: You twist facts and "science", and you get junk research. The Bell Curve is a horrendous work of pseudoscience.
How about this: applying a term uniformly across a mixed [ethnic/religious/whatever] group is [rac]ist.
In the language of people who study such things, this is called essentialism. It is very important to understand that the model minority myth about Asians can be just as pernicious as saying "All Negroes are savages."
Not racist. Try "Blacks are murderers."
It really depends. At its face, it's a misleading statement, and his "qualification" is too vague. Control for economic status and other factors, and race doesn't play much of a role in crime rates. You twist facts and "science", and you get junk research like The Bell Curve, which is clearly racist crap.
Maybe I'm crazy, but wouldn't it be far more likely for a hurricane to approach from the Atlantic to the sotuh, rather than squeezing itself down the Sound?
hey will use whatever funding they can get in order to do this, but this does not result in them producing false results - what would be the point?
I can't tell if this is simply naivete, or what. Read up on Freon and ozone damage, tobacco companies and lung cancer, etc. There's a long history of fradulent science.
In general computation terms, it really does not make that much of a difference which one of these operations are picked. A tighter loop might run slightly faster but the effect will be neglegable.
You're usually right, unless you happen to be performing that operation a hojillion times, in which case your constant really does matter.
However if you change the bubble sort to a quicksort, you change the order of magnitude from O(n^2) to O(N * LOG(N)) and suddenly the code will run a ton faster.
Maybe, maybe not. Bubble sort can work better than quicksort when you have a large dataset that's mostly sorted already. In the end, knowing how to use a profiler is invaluable. Optimize your bottlenecks, not the trivial stuff. Of course, if you've never studied data structures and algorithms, you won't have a clue how to optimize your code.
Most colleges and universities don't offer a degree in Programming.
No, but the CS curriculum varies quite a bit from university to university. Many recognize that most CS undergrads will be going directly into industry, so they'll put some emphasis on software engineering. A required course at my university ensures that no one graduates without experience in a real project. But there's also a ton of theory; somecourses are almost purely math.
It's a good balance, and I think a lot of people who bash CS degrees don't realize that many universities are teaching the practical aspects of software development, even though they don't hold your hand through learning new languages and XML and all that crap.
As I imply, I've done Prolog and ML. Sure, they took longer than two days to learn well, but they're not that difficult either. I'm certainly not fluent with functional idioms, but I know enough about the concepts to pick up the rest of it if I ever have to.
I'm a young guy (22) and I've been programing professionally for nearly four years and I can tell you that this is simply false. Make no mistake about it, I'm still no coding grand-master and probably wont be for another ten years. When somebody says that they can learn a language in an afternoon it doesn't make me think they're lying, it just makes it blatantly obvious how ignorant they are of intricacies of writing code.
I don't know about C#, but I learned Tcl and Python in about two days each. I do the following:
Learn the language philosophy. Just get a very basic feel for what its creators intended, dynamic/static weak/strong typing, how it handles polymorphism and inheritance, etc.
Learn the syntax.
Read the style guide. Most mature languages have a semi-official style guide. It will usually save you a whole lot of time and frustration
That takes maybe 3-5 hours. The rest of the time is spent coding with the API reference at your side. I'm only just started my third year of a CS degree (along with Chemistry).
The fact of the matter is that most languages you'll be using are object-oriented imperative languages. Once you've played with languages like ML and Prolog, you'll realize how similar they all are. The "intricacies of writing code" are mostly design and algorithm choices. Figuring out how to execute the design in your language of choice is trivial.
I think the grandparent is talking about this, which doesn't really do much.
Microkernels are an inevitable future. They have so many advantages for developers and users, and their only real downside is speed. Linux is great and all, but there's so many really cool things that can be done with operating systems that just aren't possible with a monolithic kernel. Maybe some kind of Linux compatibility layer (like FreeBSD has) could be used to ease the transition.
AC has it mostly right. Natural selection is the mechanism of evolution. Micro/macroevolution and "speciation" is mostly a red herring promoted by creationists. Evolution is evolution, and it's very difficult to draw discrete lines between species.
Actual thought processing and logical reasoning to better yourself in other fields than just understanding the base components of an operating system is something that.. as I stated before.. is something shunned by the lazy.
Learning configuration file formats is a necessity for sysadmins. But as a desktop user? What the fuck? I have better things to do with my time, thanks.
P.S. The "base components of [the] operating system" ends at around glibc.
If the GUI could match the sheer attractivness of...Vista
You've gotta be kidding. KDE's now-default Plastik theme is clean and attractive, much more so than any default Windows option. Adding semi-transparent bling like Vista does is easy, though IMNSHO it's very annoying.
I haven't used a recent version of GNOME, but KDE already looks very slick. There are a few mind-boggling UI quirks (why can't I keep my desktop icons auto-arranged??), but for the most part it's just as easy or easier to use than Windows. The audiocd:/ kioslave is a thing of beauty.
He said he'd illegally accessed a game (unnamed) using the password of a female user. He transferred goods from her account to his own on 11 occasions adding items to his character at the expense of hers.
Unlike the recent article about someone PKing with a bot, this is obviously a crime.
How is Hot Coffee a bad thing, financially? Ethically, maybe, depends how much you actually think about it, but I'd think the only thing this could do is increase sales, especially among hardcore gamers, or gamers who'd never even heard of the series until now.
Stock price often has little or nothing to do with the real performance of a company. People will dump their shares for all sorts of stupid reasons.
P.S. "Soccer moms" generally don't have lots of money to invest. Think socially conservative businessmen and the like.
Of course, calcing an MD5 would not find duplicates that are actually two differents rips of the same song,
That's why we have TRM fingerprints (ie, the technology that MusicBrainz uses) to identify the same song. However, you do get false collisions on a "remastered" album if you have the original too.
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Sure, we'll see. If the "Ultimate Edition" is more than $230 (WinXP Pro retail), we can safely say that they are in fact jacking up the price of their complete package.
Yes. All seven Vista versions are for the desktop/workstation. Compare with one desktop/workstation version of Win2k.
Linus remains staunchly pro-monolithic, so it's unlikely to happen in Linux any time soon. We need another Linus Torvalds type to rejuvenate interest in a microkernel OS.
He's talking about Deutsche Telekom.
I was using it as an example that most people would be familiar with. You can't talk about racial issues and science without knowing about its history, from eugenics to Nazism to modern racism.
Go inform yourself. I'm not about to spoonfeed you.
That's just because you're blathering on in total ignorance of the actual work. Try reading this part of the sentence again: You twist facts and "science", and you get junk research. The Bell Curve is a horrendous work of pseudoscience.
Of course they didn't. You think these "ExtremeTech" guys have the slightest clue what a register even is?
They tested a whole bunch of 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS. They found that the 64-bit OS was slightly broken in a couple cases. That's about it.
In the language of people who study such things, this is called essentialism. It is very important to understand that the model minority myth about Asians can be just as pernicious as saying "All Negroes are savages."
Not racist. Try "Blacks are murderers."
It really depends. At its face, it's a misleading statement, and his "qualification" is too vague. Control for economic status and other factors, and race doesn't play much of a role in crime rates. You twist facts and "science", and you get junk research like The Bell Curve, which is clearly racist crap.
Maybe I'm crazy, but wouldn't it be far more likely for a hurricane to approach from the Atlantic to the sotuh, rather than squeezing itself down the Sound?
I can't tell if this is simply naivete, or what. Read up on Freon and ozone damage, tobacco companies and lung cancer, etc. There's a long history of fradulent science.
You're usually right, unless you happen to be performing that operation a hojillion times, in which case your constant really does matter.
However if you change the bubble sort to a quicksort, you change the order of magnitude from O(n^2) to O(N * LOG(N)) and suddenly the code will run a ton faster.
Maybe, maybe not. Bubble sort can work better than quicksort when you have a large dataset that's mostly sorted already. In the end, knowing how to use a profiler is invaluable. Optimize your bottlenecks, not the trivial stuff. Of course, if you've never studied data structures and algorithms, you won't have a clue how to optimize your code.
No, but the CS curriculum varies quite a bit from university to university. Many recognize that most CS undergrads will be going directly into industry, so they'll put some emphasis on software engineering. A required course at my university ensures that no one graduates without experience in a real project. But there's also a ton of theory; some courses are almost purely math.
It's a good balance, and I think a lot of people who bash CS degrees don't realize that many universities are teaching the practical aspects of software development, even though they don't hold your hand through learning new languages and XML and all that crap.
As I imply, I've done Prolog and ML. Sure, they took longer than two days to learn well, but they're not that difficult either. I'm certainly not fluent with functional idioms, but I know enough about the concepts to pick up the rest of it if I ever have to.
I don't know about C#, but I learned Tcl and Python in about two days each. I do the following:
That takes maybe 3-5 hours. The rest of the time is spent coding with the API reference at your side. I'm only just started my third year of a CS degree (along with Chemistry).
The fact of the matter is that most languages you'll be using are object-oriented imperative languages. Once you've played with languages like ML and Prolog, you'll realize how similar they all are. The "intricacies of writing code" are mostly design and algorithm choices. Figuring out how to execute the design in your language of choice is trivial.
Microkernels are an inevitable future. They have so many advantages for developers and users, and their only real downside is speed. Linux is great and all, but there's so many really cool things that can be done with operating systems that just aren't possible with a monolithic kernel. Maybe some kind of Linux compatibility layer (like FreeBSD has) could be used to ease the transition.
AC has it mostly right. Natural selection is the mechanism of evolution. Micro/macroevolution and "speciation" is mostly a red herring promoted by creationists. Evolution is evolution, and it's very difficult to draw discrete lines between species.
Learning configuration file formats is a necessity for sysadmins. But as a desktop user? What the fuck? I have better things to do with my time, thanks.
P.S. The "base components of [the] operating system" ends at around glibc.
Are you serious? I've used many versions of SAV. They all have a very noticeable effect on the speed of the computer. AVG does not.
Are you sure you're not confusing it with the old default, Keramik? That was truly awful. If you really do mean Plastik, what do you prefer?
You've gotta be kidding. KDE's now-default Plastik theme is clean and attractive, much more so than any default Windows option. Adding semi-transparent bling like Vista does is easy, though IMNSHO it's very annoying.
I haven't used a recent version of GNOME, but KDE already looks very slick. There are a few mind-boggling UI quirks (why can't I keep my desktop icons auto-arranged??), but for the most part it's just as easy or easier to use than Windows. The audiocd:/ kioslave is a thing of beauty.
A Red Dwarf fan, probably.
He said he'd illegally accessed a game (unnamed) using the password of a female user. He transferred goods from her account to his own on 11 occasions adding items to his character at the expense of hers.
Unlike the recent article about someone PKing with a bot, this is obviously a crime.
Meanwhile, Guild Wars is about to have a major update, even though I haven't spent a dime on it beyond the initial $30 for a CD key. Suckers ;-)
Stock price often has little or nothing to do with the real performance of a company. People will dump their shares for all sorts of stupid reasons.
P.S. "Soccer moms" generally don't have lots of money to invest. Think socially conservative businessmen and the like.
That's why we have TRM fingerprints (ie, the technology that MusicBrainz uses) to identify the same song. However, you do get false collisions on a "remastered" album if you have the original too.