I was thinking the same thing. Yes, 2.6 has a bigger codebase, but if you compile only the modules you need, instead of everything plus the kitchen sink, it's really no bigger in binary form (maybe +5%). In return, I find it to be noticeably more responsive given the same hardware.
Good post, but it is impossible to build an unbreakable device simply by definition. If code runs on it, it's breakable, even if it means a brute force code signing "attack". It might take 10,000 years to get the correct key to use in signing, but it's possible. What impresses me is how quickly these guys find a way in. I've done some playing around cracking hardware, for educational purposes of course, and it's nowhere near as easy as they make it seem.
Well, I can only speak for North America, but here virtually everybody I know is either planning to or already has a Mac. I think the 10% of web share is seriously skewed by office place browsing.
I take it you think apps support themselves. If software was about writing, selling the app and then telling people they're on their own for anything after the sale, I might agree with you. However, in real life, people expect continuing support, upgrade paths and bug fixes. Writing and selling the software is the easy part since it scales to infinity with no added costs. Support is the part that doesn't scale.
You're stoking one hell of a flame war here but here's my $0.02...
C vs C++... there used to be (ie. mid-90s) a very slight advantage for using C in terms of speed, but it's probably narrowed to the femtosecond range on todays CPUs. I like C++ but I stay away from a lot of the stream methodology. I use C++ as an OO C.
PHP vs Python... same thing as C vs C++. PHP used to be faster, however Python under mod_python is slightly faster than PHP under mod_php. I've used both, and once you get over the wanna-be-COBOL indent thing, Python is more programmer friendly than PHP and Ruby IMHO.
All that aside, I've done some Objective-C work lately and I think I might like Obj-C over C++, due solely to the really nice init/release/autorelease mech for memory allocation. However, for server side, rock solid 5 9s uptime, I'm still a believer in Java.
I totally agree. I use my XM radio for Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, traffic, and sports... not music. You can stream some audio streams to an iPhone, but that's not going to make for great battery life.
Ummm, defense spending is 54% of the federal budget when you exclude Social Security which is not funded by income taxes. You don't cut in the tiniest slices of the pie first, you cut in the big slices. We spend 1.45 trillion on defense each year, cutting 10% there saves 145 billion, more than enough to pay for his plans and still leaves a massive 1.3 trillion budget for defense. This could probably be done by closing 1/4 of the 200 military bases we have in the continental US. Do we really need 4 AFBs in Colorado and 8 AFBs in Texas?
A couple of corrections, the population of Alert is closer to 200, and the nearest city (Iqaluit) is about 1300 miles away. That said, Iqaluit has a pop of about 7000, so town might be a better term. However, that land does fall under the Nunavut territory, so the riches really are theirs to control.
I'd say a hybrid might offer more redundancy. Machine A is a touch screen which prints a completed ballot. Voter visually confirms the completed ballot. Completed ballot is taken to machine B to be optically scanned. Paper ballot is saved to a vault and the voter gets a printed receipt with choices printed on it. Ideally, the receipt provided to the voter would be imprinted with an anonymous unique number to verify their vote online, a bit like lottery tickets are verified. The unique ID might even be a checksum of the voter's choices and their SSN, which should, in theory at least, be unique and non-reversible.
Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to emigrate from the US to another country? It's practically impossible for a US citizen to emigrate to Europe or Australia. Canada is possible, but that's taken a turn to the right as of late also. Feel free to disprove my assertion by posting back to a link to any western european country where a US citizen can EASILY emigrate to.
"We already know the CO2 hypothesis for the so-called "climate change" was wrong"
Really? Do you have a reputable source to back that up? There are many reputable sources that completely contradict your statement, so I'm understandably curious about your sources.
Yeah but Fly By Wire doesn't involve unreliable wireless transmission of anything. There's a minute chance of interference in the wiring but even then, the stuff used in aircraft construction is shielded as mandated by the FAA so it would have to be one hell of a powerful cell phone to generate any kind of interference.
Ahhh, the dreaded safety belt extender requiring passenger! Many times have I recited the "Oh please God not beside me! Oh please God not beside me!..." mantra.
It's pretty easy, when they hand you the ballot, at the bottom of the list of Pres/VP Candidates there's always a white box where you can write in whomever you want. You can write in your own name or Cookie Monster if you want to. Obviously, the odds of a write in winning are about infinity:1, but if you're sticking to your guns, go for it. For the record, I disagree with Obama on his FISA stance, but it at least takes power away from the White House, so it's better than McCain's stance on the subject which is supreme White House authority.
The only one with visibility I know of is the HandBrake GUI named RippedWire (http://rippedwire.sourceforge.net/about.html). So it's out there, but to call it popular would be an infinity-1 sized exaggeration.
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Gotta love W2's, none of the tax advantages of being an independent, with none of the pesky benefits of being an employee. It's a perfect lose-lose situation. At least Chicago is an inexpensive town to live, in a state with no income taxes and no sales tax (HA)!
Been there, apparently "prototype" means "all done and just needs to pass QA" in C-Level speak. Presenting prototypes can set some really bad expectations!
The funny thing is that MS is the one who's undergoing "poofing" right now. Did you ever consider that maybe MS has had it's day in the sun? That they've pissed off developers, like, let's say, myself? MS is running out of momentum, Apple is gaining momentum. Apple's platform is very different to develop for than MS's, but it's also exponentially more stable and coherent. That stability and coherence makes for a better end user experience and lower support costs. As a developer, I only care what my end users think, and right now they're telling me that stability and look-and-feel is what they care about.
... and therein lies the problem with the H1B, it's held by the company. If H1Bs were held by the petitioned, then they'd be free to move to the company willing to pay the highest wage. As it stands, the avenue to higher wages is closed under an H1B. I don't have a problem with people coming here to work. I *DO* have a problem with a system that effectively *FORCES* a people to accept below market wages for 6 years, knowing that they can petition for permanent residence once their "debt" to the company is paid. To fix the system, make it such that H1Bs, once the visa is assigned to an immigrant, that visa cannot subsequently be revoked from said immigrant and is valid for working at any company within the US. The company then has an incentive to retain the immigrant employee, and that immigrant employee has an avenue to seek more equitable wages at other employers.
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Here's a MUCH better ranking: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Basically Java > C, but C | C++ > Java. However C# PHP, so not all is lost. There's no mention of ObjC on there at all ... which may or may not be odd.
I smell free lifeclocks and carousel for all!!!
I was thinking the same thing. Yes, 2.6 has a bigger codebase, but if you compile only the modules you need, instead of everything plus the kitchen sink, it's really no bigger in binary form (maybe +5%). In return, I find it to be noticeably more responsive given the same hardware.
Good post, but it is impossible to build an unbreakable device simply by definition. If code runs on it, it's breakable, even if it means a brute force code signing "attack". It might take 10,000 years to get the correct key to use in signing, but it's possible. What impresses me is how quickly these guys find a way in. I've done some playing around cracking hardware, for educational purposes of course, and it's nowhere near as easy as they make it seem.
Well, I can only speak for North America, but here virtually everybody I know is either planning to or already has a Mac. I think the 10% of web share is seriously skewed by office place browsing.
I take it you think apps support themselves. If software was about writing, selling the app and then telling people they're on their own for anything after the sale, I might agree with you. However, in real life, people expect continuing support, upgrade paths and bug fixes. Writing and selling the software is the easy part since it scales to infinity with no added costs. Support is the part that doesn't scale.
You're stoking one hell of a flame war here but here's my $0.02 ...
... there used to be (ie. mid-90s) a very slight advantage for using C in terms of speed, but it's probably narrowed to the femtosecond range on todays CPUs. I like C++ but I stay away from a lot of the stream methodology. I use C++ as an OO C.
... same thing as C vs C++. PHP used to be faster, however Python under mod_python is slightly faster than PHP under mod_php. I've used both, and once you get over the wanna-be-COBOL indent thing, Python is more programmer friendly than PHP and Ruby IMHO.
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All that aside, I've done some Objective-C work lately and I think I might like Obj-C over C++, due solely to the really nice init/release/autorelease mech for memory allocation. However, for server side, rock solid 5 9s uptime, I'm still a believer in Java.
I totally agree. I use my XM radio for Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, traffic, and sports ... not music. You can stream some audio streams to an iPhone, but that's not going to make for great battery life.
Ummm, defense spending is 54% of the federal budget when you exclude Social Security which is not funded by income taxes. You don't cut in the tiniest slices of the pie first, you cut in the big slices. We spend 1.45 trillion on defense each year, cutting 10% there saves 145 billion, more than enough to pay for his plans and still leaves a massive 1.3 trillion budget for defense. This could probably be done by closing 1/4 of the 200 military bases we have in the continental US. Do we really need 4 AFBs in Colorado and 8 AFBs in Texas?
A couple of corrections, the population of Alert is closer to 200, and the nearest city (Iqaluit) is about 1300 miles away. That said, Iqaluit has a pop of about 7000, so town might be a better term. However, that land does fall under the Nunavut territory, so the riches really are theirs to control.
I'd say a hybrid might offer more redundancy. Machine A is a touch screen which prints a completed ballot. Voter visually confirms the completed ballot. Completed ballot is taken to machine B to be optically scanned. Paper ballot is saved to a vault and the voter gets a printed receipt with choices printed on it. Ideally, the receipt provided to the voter would be imprinted with an anonymous unique number to verify their vote online, a bit like lottery tickets are verified. The unique ID might even be a checksum of the voter's choices and their SSN, which should, in theory at least, be unique and non-reversible.
Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to emigrate from the US to another country? It's practically impossible for a US citizen to emigrate to Europe or Australia. Canada is possible, but that's taken a turn to the right as of late also. Feel free to disprove my assertion by posting back to a link to any western european country where a US citizen can EASILY emigrate to.
"We already know the CO2 hypothesis for the so-called "climate change" was wrong"
Really? Do you have a reputable source to back that up? There are many reputable sources that completely contradict your statement, so I'm understandably curious about your sources.
Yeah but Fly By Wire doesn't involve unreliable wireless transmission of anything. There's a minute chance of interference in the wiring but even then, the stuff used in aircraft construction is shielded as mandated by the FAA so it would have to be one hell of a powerful cell phone to generate any kind of interference.
Ahhh, the dreaded safety belt extender requiring passenger! Many times have I recited the "Oh please God not beside me! Oh please God not beside me! ..." mantra.
It's pretty easy, when they hand you the ballot, at the bottom of the list of Pres/VP Candidates there's always a white box where you can write in whomever you want. You can write in your own name or Cookie Monster if you want to. Obviously, the odds of a write in winning are about infinity:1, but if you're sticking to your guns, go for it. For the record, I disagree with Obama on his FISA stance, but it at least takes power away from the White House, so it's better than McCain's stance on the subject which is supreme White House authority.
The only one with visibility I know of is the HandBrake GUI named RippedWire (http://rippedwire.sourceforge.net/about.html). So it's out there, but to call it popular would be an infinity-1 sized exaggeration.
"C# ... is very popular ..."
By "very popular" I take it you mean less popular than Perl or Python, but more popular than Delphi.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
OS X is based on FreeBSD, but that's primarily outside the kernel. However, Darwin is open source, so it's not "anti-open source". :P
Gotta love W2's, none of the tax advantages of being an independent, with none of the pesky benefits of being an employee. It's a perfect lose-lose situation. At least Chicago is an inexpensive town to live, in a state with no income taxes and no sales tax (HA)!
He turned me into a newt!
Been there, apparently "prototype" means "all done and just needs to pass QA" in C-Level speak. Presenting prototypes can set some really bad expectations!
You should have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week folks. Remember to tip your waitress and make sure you try the veal!
The funny thing is that MS is the one who's undergoing "poofing" right now. Did you ever consider that maybe MS has had it's day in the sun? That they've pissed off developers, like, let's say, myself? MS is running out of momentum, Apple is gaining momentum. Apple's platform is very different to develop for than MS's, but it's also exponentially more stable and coherent. That stability and coherence makes for a better end user experience and lower support costs. As a developer, I only care what my end users think, and right now they're telling me that stability and look-and-feel is what they care about.
... and therein lies the problem with the H1B, it's held by the company. If H1Bs were held by the petitioned, then they'd be free to move to the company willing to pay the highest wage. As it stands, the avenue to higher wages is closed under an H1B. I don't have a problem with people coming here to work. I *DO* have a problem with a system that effectively *FORCES* a people to accept below market wages for 6 years, knowing that they can petition for permanent residence once their "debt" to the company is paid. To fix the system, make it such that H1Bs, once the visa is assigned to an immigrant, that visa cannot subsequently be revoked from said immigrant and is valid for working at any company within the US. The company then has an incentive to retain the immigrant employee, and that immigrant employee has an avenue to seek more equitable wages at other employers.