That's mostly it. She hasn't even messed with a lot of that as a result - give her an API with clearly defined functions and everything is ok, but the details of memory allocation and cross-language linking (say, x86 assembly) are way out of her league. They shouldn't be though - if they had grounded her in C this would be a piece of cake.
Maybe it's a generational thing too - I was hacking on DOS machines when I got home from school at night and had a lot of access to hardware. Bit fields and playing with registers were a necessary part of what I was doing. I was writing blocks of assembly code regularly just to get things done. She works on systems that are so heavily abstracted you never have to get that close to the hardware, in fact you can't.
When I was going to school (late 80s) Pascal was the language of choice.
Please don't assume academics know jack shit about reality. Despite the fact that Pascal was a not-bad way to learn procedural programming, it was an error - we should have learned C. Ditto for the people learning Java today, including my girlfriend who learnt Java on her way to her BACS and has a mean ass hard time with certain portions of C as a result.
It's really just a manifestation of the 'quarterly results' obsession in supposed US corporations. As surely as SCO's management team is allowing their stockholders to cash out before the whole company tanks. (including themselves)
Veering completely off-topic, I thought Bush's dividend tax cut was a masterstroke in this regard, trying to get business focused on the long term running of their businesses rather than mergers and acquisitions. Of course, the shortsighted CEOs haven't gotten it yet, and are sending the money out of the country rather than trying to make the business run well domestically.
Very strange times are ahead and i'm not all too sure how it will all pan out. Geopolitical instability will probably be a large factor in the futures of most large technology companies. Where it goes, no one knows.
Provoke an Indo-Pakistani war. The problem will be solved instantly - US companies will get a huge scare when communications are cut off and the nukes start flying. Outsourcing isn't so appealing at that point.
Seriously, it's going to happen - we all know it, the peace there is not going to last forever. It would be better for it to happen now before the economic dislocation in the US is too great.
Explain to me why I should have to hear crap about Iraq. Really, is it because you happen to agree with him? What the hell does that have to do with the RIAA?
If you are saying it's some huge government conspiracy to screw us all over, you've really lost me.
Alienating potential allies is a really bad idea, and that was my point.
Did it ever occur to you that I don't want to hear about your leftist politics, but that I might actually agree on the anti-RIAA thing?
It's amazing how self-indulgent you libs can be. Like i'm going to share your whole fucking worldview because our paths happen to cross on a single issue.
Hint: if you want support, stick to the topic at hand.
Actually, it's more like "We won't buy it, so we'll steal it and drink it anyway." Not quite the same selfless act, now is it?
No, not really, but I don't think anyone today feels obligated towards large corporate interests, really. Moral ascendancy over corporations is a waste of time. Steal, steal, steal seems to be the order of the day.
Ultimately the underlying lack of concern for the corporation is going to be what causes their doom. Society is already disintegrating at a rapid pace - the failure of large-scale private enterprise is going to be close to the last straw.
The United States does not need your horseshit declarations of rights. One of the features of this nation is that we give rights to our government. Our government does not grant rights to us. Those not specifically granted to the government are reserved to the people and the States themselves.
Take your placards of servitude and head home please.
RAID can improve latency on real-world fragmented disks. In fact, it almost surely will, depending on how many drives are involved. If you think about it for a moment the conclusion is logical based on the fact that you have multiple drive mechanisms involved.
I think RAID is going to come into its own in this environment of the future. Everyone will have an array. The obvious speed benefits of having drives doing tasks in parallel will be hard to ignore with these kind of storage densities.
Perhaps the next big leap will be creating an 'array in a box' which is sold as a single unit. Imagine how many 2.5" HD mechanisms you can fit in a 5.25" disk drive bay, or even 2 3.5" bays. Then imagine them all operating in parallel.
That might solve the problem, or at least make things feasible for a while yet.
This same discussion went on between assembler and C programmers. Look at it now. I think the progress of object oriented, garbage collecting, more secure platforms are as important as that paradigm shift.
If we are ever going to arrive there, we haven't gotten there yet. Java applications feel slow. I have not seen a single Java-based application where this was not the case. I have seen server-side implementations that aren't godawful slow, but they are not much different than ASP in terms of response- ie, not that great.
Developers thinking that 'Java is good enough' is not enough. I see the phrase 'implemented in Java' and I find an alternative immediately. Too many sludgy, anemic Java applications have scarred me.
If Freenet wants to catch on faster then a C implementation would be wise. If they don't care, it'll continue to stumble along with little acceptance until the day your dream comes true and system throughput and responsiveness no longer matter because of the relative speed of our platforms.
Mainly that while Flash is great for the developer, it sucks for the end user. It results in slow page display and is actually used as a tool of annoyance by certain web sites - consider Yahoo for instance. They pop up Flash ads on top of the text on the web page frequently. Your choices for stopping this are:
Deleting Flash (which is not easy for the average end user to do, given how it installs itself)
Disabling Flash (I haven't figured out a way yet, even with Moz)
Mind you, Flash even takes over the client area (just try right-clicking on a Flash popup and trying to 'reject popups'...right). In short, Flash is about the most end-user unfriendly implementation that can be imagined.
You wonder why developers like it but the end-user hates it? It has nothing to do with OSS/proprietary. Flash can and will die for these reasons.
You'd be less afraid of this if you knew the horrid state most government computer systems are in.
I imagine this theoretical database would be the most horrible conglomeration of utter shit you'd ever have seen. The chances of any useful searches being done on it would be nearly nil, considering what the average government dweeb is like.
This doesn't scare me much actually, nor do I care if a store wants to film me while I buy things. I got accused of theft by some rent-a-cop back when I was about 18 - this would have assured that experience would have never happened. I still hope that guy develops a nasty case of genital warts nonetheless.
Most modern car stereos have RCA-style line level inputs in the rear of the unit. You know, the red and white cables that plug the DVD/CD/whatever player to your home stereo?
Putting in an amplified signal to these inputs would cause some serious distortion. It's really only suitable for something that offers a line-level out, which is what XM does, i'm sure.
That only works until every vendor does the same thing, which they are well on the way to doing.
That free market stuff is only good in a carefully regulated environment. Laissez faire capitalism was successfully debunked in 1929, and many times since then - think Microsoft.
Why do all civil rights type organizations have to be run by far leftists and cavort with same? Serious question.
I find that type to be despicable. Yet, i'll support the obvious goals of say, the EFF. It's not an incongruent position - perhaps I am a libertarian at heart. I simply can't stomach appearing to support the hackneyed likes of Howard Dean.
Actually, consider this program as a lightning rod. With all the vitriol spewed in Poindexter's direction, wonder what else slipped in under the radar.
It's a move worthy of say, a Karl Rove, don't you think?
Maybe we can agree that the NYT is a well-written, serious and interesting newspaper.
I won't agree with that statement. I will agree it's a well-written, serious, interesting work of fiction.
To back that up, we can point at this, illustrating a bit how a reporter that falsified stories en masse (Jayson Blair) and a managing editor who tolerated same (Harold Raines) were kept on board because of a weird form of affirmative action (in the former case) and a personal friendship with the publisher (Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.) in the latter.
If you want more information on the Jayson Blair-authored stream of fictional articles appearing in the NYT's pages, just Google to your heart's content.
You can trust it as a newspaper again if you like, but i'm certainly not going to.
The sense of adversity is often generated by unsuccessful attempts at relationships. I think I produced more useful coding during my divorce than at any time before or after. Yet, every failed relationship since then has resulted in a brief peak of creativity.
Fucking then dumping women would almost seem to be a motivational tactic on my part. It's an interesting thought in any event.
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I used to use BASIC back in my CP/M days. Writing a 'Hammurabi' clone in MBASIC on a Kaypro 2+ never hurt me that much.
The lack of namespaces was the main hindrance - then again the programs could never get _that_ big on a 64k machine...
Most of the bad habits have gone away.
That's mostly it. She hasn't even messed with a lot of that as a result - give her an API with clearly defined functions and everything is ok, but the details of memory allocation and cross-language linking (say, x86 assembly) are way out of her league. They shouldn't be though - if they had grounded her in C this would be a piece of cake.
Maybe it's a generational thing too - I was hacking on DOS machines when I got home from school at night and had a lot of access to hardware. Bit fields and playing with registers were a necessary part of what I was doing. I was writing blocks of assembly code regularly just to get things done. She works on systems that are so heavily abstracted you never have to get that close to the hardware, in fact you can't.
When I was going to school (late 80s) Pascal was the language of choice.
Please don't assume academics know jack shit about reality. Despite the fact that Pascal was a not-bad way to learn procedural programming, it was an error - we should have learned C. Ditto for the people learning Java today, including my girlfriend who learnt Java on her way to her BACS and has a mean ass hard time with certain portions of C as a result.
...moreover we care more about the other drivers than we care about the RIAA members, bloodsucking monopolist purveyors of overpriced crap.
Who cares about them? I sure as hell don't.
I'll just copy CDs relentlessly for people if online file trading is made unusable. There is always an analog hole...
I just don't see where they are going with this.
All good points...as usual.
It's really just a manifestation of the 'quarterly results' obsession in supposed US corporations. As surely as SCO's management team is allowing their stockholders to cash out before the whole company tanks. (including themselves)
Veering completely off-topic, I thought Bush's dividend tax cut was a masterstroke in this regard, trying to get business focused on the long term running of their businesses rather than mergers and acquisitions. Of course, the shortsighted CEOs haven't gotten it yet, and are sending the money out of the country rather than trying to make the business run well domestically.
Very strange times are ahead and i'm not all too sure how it will all pan out. Geopolitical instability will probably be a large factor in the futures of most large technology companies. Where it goes, no one knows.
You have to admit it's a great way to get a no-strings-attached blow job though.
The small (or not so small) pleasures of modern (im)morality.
Listen dude, you can ignore reality as much as you want - the above is the truth.
Shove your 'troll' shit up your ass.
What a dick. Unable to face reality, you're just a perfect leftist aren't you?
Provoke an Indo-Pakistani war. The problem will be solved instantly - US companies will get a huge scare when communications are cut off and the nukes start flying. Outsourcing isn't so appealing at that point.
Seriously, it's going to happen - we all know it, the peace there is not going to last forever. It would be better for it to happen now before the economic dislocation in the US is too great.
Explain to me why I should have to hear crap about Iraq. Really, is it because you happen to agree with him? What the hell does that have to do with the RIAA?
If you are saying it's some huge government conspiracy to screw us all over, you've really lost me.
Alienating potential allies is a really bad idea, and that was my point.
You've taken 'not reading the articles' to a new level by not reading the post you were replying to.
/. what it is.
Congratulations, people like you make
Did it ever occur to you that I don't want to hear about your leftist politics, but that I might actually agree on the anti-RIAA thing?
It's amazing how self-indulgent you libs can be. Like i'm going to share your whole fucking worldview because our paths happen to cross on a single issue.
Hint: if you want support, stick to the topic at hand.
Actually, it's more like "We won't buy it, so we'll steal it and drink it anyway." Not quite the same selfless act, now is it?
No, not really, but I don't think anyone today feels obligated towards large corporate interests, really. Moral ascendancy over corporations is a waste of time. Steal, steal, steal seems to be the order of the day.
Ultimately the underlying lack of concern for the corporation is going to be what causes their doom. Society is already disintegrating at a rapid pace - the failure of large-scale private enterprise is going to be close to the last straw.
Hopefully i'm dead by then.
Ignoring the law just because it is inconvenient is wrong.
Recent music piracy has a Boston Tea Party flavor to it. We won't buy it, so we'll steal it and dump it overboard.
The United States does not need your horseshit declarations of rights. One of the features of this nation is that we give rights to our government. Our government does not grant rights to us. Those not specifically granted to the government are reserved to the people and the States themselves.
Take your placards of servitude and head home please.
RAID can improve latency on real-world fragmented disks. In fact, it almost surely will, depending on how many drives are involved. If you think about it for a moment the conclusion is logical based on the fact that you have multiple drive mechanisms involved.
I think RAID is going to come into its own in this environment of the future. Everyone will have an array. The obvious speed benefits of having drives doing tasks in parallel will be hard to ignore with these kind of storage densities.
Perhaps the next big leap will be creating an 'array in a box' which is sold as a single unit. Imagine how many 2.5" HD mechanisms you can fit in a 5.25" disk drive bay, or even 2 3.5" bays. Then imagine them all operating in parallel.
That might solve the problem, or at least make things feasible for a while yet.
This same discussion went on between assembler and C programmers. Look at it now. I think the progress of object oriented, garbage collecting, more secure platforms are as important as that paradigm shift.
If we are ever going to arrive there, we haven't gotten there yet. Java applications feel slow. I have not seen a single Java-based application where this was not the case. I have seen server-side implementations that aren't godawful slow, but they are not much different than ASP in terms of response- ie, not that great.
Developers thinking that 'Java is good enough' is not enough. I see the phrase 'implemented in Java' and I find an alternative immediately. Too many sludgy, anemic Java applications have scarred me.
If Freenet wants to catch on faster then a C implementation would be wise. If they don't care, it'll continue to stumble along with little acceptance until the day your dream comes true and system throughput and responsiveness no longer matter because of the relative speed of our platforms.
Mainly that while Flash is great for the developer, it sucks for the end user. It results in slow page display and is actually used as a tool of annoyance by certain web sites - consider Yahoo for instance. They pop up Flash ads on top of the text on the web page frequently. Your choices for stopping this are:
Mind you, Flash even takes over the client area (just try right-clicking on a Flash popup and trying to 'reject popups'...right). In short, Flash is about the most end-user unfriendly implementation that can be imagined.
You wonder why developers like it but the end-user hates it? It has nothing to do with OSS/proprietary. Flash can and will die for these reasons.
You'd be less afraid of this if you knew the horrid state most government computer systems are in.
I imagine this theoretical database would be the most horrible conglomeration of utter shit you'd ever have seen. The chances of any useful searches being done on it would be nearly nil, considering what the average government dweeb is like.
This doesn't scare me much actually, nor do I care if a store wants to film me while I buy things. I got accused of theft by some rent-a-cop back when I was about 18 - this would have assured that experience would have never happened. I still hope that guy develops a nasty case of genital warts nonetheless.
Most modern car stereos have RCA-style line level inputs in the rear of the unit. You know, the red and white cables that plug the DVD/CD/whatever player to your home stereo?
Putting in an amplified signal to these inputs would cause some serious distortion. It's really only suitable for something that offers a line-level out, which is what XM does, i'm sure.
That only works until every vendor does the same thing, which they are well on the way to doing.
That free market stuff is only good in a carefully regulated environment. Laissez faire capitalism was successfully debunked in 1929, and many times since then - think Microsoft.
Why do all civil rights type organizations have to be run by far leftists and cavort with same? Serious question.
I find that type to be despicable. Yet, i'll support the obvious goals of say, the EFF. It's not an incongruent position - perhaps I am a libertarian at heart. I simply can't stomach appearing to support the hackneyed likes of Howard Dean.
Sorry folks, no money from me.
Actually, consider this program as a lightning rod. With all the vitriol spewed in Poindexter's direction, wonder what else slipped in under the radar.
It's a move worthy of say, a Karl Rove, don't you think?
Maybe we can agree that the NYT is a well-written, serious and interesting newspaper.
I won't agree with that statement. I will agree it's a well-written, serious, interesting work of fiction.
To back that up, we can point at this, illustrating a bit how a reporter that falsified stories en masse (Jayson Blair) and a managing editor who tolerated same (Harold Raines) were kept on board because of a weird form of affirmative action (in the former case) and a personal friendship with the publisher (Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.) in the latter.
If you want more information on the Jayson Blair-authored stream of fictional articles appearing in the NYT's pages, just Google to your heart's content.
You can trust it as a newspaper again if you like, but i'm certainly not going to.
The sense of adversity is often generated by unsuccessful attempts at relationships. I think I produced more useful coding during my divorce than at any time before or after. Yet, every failed relationship since then has resulted in a brief peak of creativity.
Fucking then dumping women would almost seem to be a motivational tactic on my part. It's an interesting thought in any event.