Does rapid improvement in processor technology cancel out the need for developers to learn how to write better code on a particular platform in order to achieve the maximum possible benefit from Information Technology?
Wow, I was thinking the same thing last night sitting through a compilers class going over x86 Assembly language. Even 7 years ago when I took an assembler class it was still much much easier to write the code in C, and today, with 2GHz+ chips easily available and protected mode operating systems Assembly seems to be a dying breed for anything but really small embedded systems. Do device drivers even use assembly anymore?? I could see how it was useful if you're writing under DOS, but Linux and Win2k? Does it REALLY matter that my quicksort algorithm in assembler is faster than the one the C compiler created? Perhaps if I REALLY need a quick sort, but chances are it's going to be more efficient and easy to just use a higher level language to write the sort.
Bah, if you weren't around when they were 4.7Hz (around Konrad Suse's time, probably), you've got nothing to brag about...
Were you? If so, I'm very jealous. You're due up for social security pretty soon aren't you old timer?:-) I am a youngster and only had a C= Vic20 as my first computer. It was a REAL computer not one of those game machine Atari 2600s!:-)
to pronounce GNU -> sounds like "new"
Wrong. Come on, this is on the front page of www.gnu.org:
GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced "guh-NEW".
To boot, once a company exec (owner, partner, CEO, whatever) knows you're good at fixing his screw ups, no matter the size of the company, they'll call you, no matter your job title. I've been there, and I know how he feels.
Don't forget his teenage daughter's screwups, his wife's screwups, his brother-in-law's screwups, and the fact that you're his personal tech support for his home machine and need to spec out any future purchases for him.:-) Yes, this sounds very very familiar to a small shop sysadmin.;-)
How about one of these Via Eden 533MHz chips in a mini-ITX case like this one. For about $200 seems to be a lot cheaper than a lower end 300MHz processor. I can't see the other box since the site is slashdotted but the 2677R case seems small enough to me to be used as a set top box complete with an external power supply brick like a Mac G4 Cube. You could easily build one of these with no moving parts since the Eden needs no fan.
Isn't a public port part and parcel with permission to access said port?
No no no no no no no no no no no no no!!!!!
Just because a port is listening on a machine doesn't mean it's "public" anymore than me bending over in the shower in the locker room is an invitation for you to insert your junk into my anus.
...but that doesn't make it proper English. Save the 'l33t speek for cyberspace, learn how to speak the language properly in the classroom.
It will help you in aspects of life that have nothing to do with computers (yes, they do exist!)
I hate to say this since I'm going to get slammed, but why aren't you guys bitching about all the African American kids who can't speak the language properly? Everytime I hear "popular" African Americans interviewed on TV (you know them, musicians, actors, etc.) I cringe at the thought of these people being the de facto role models of our children because they're popular. If young black men can get away with talking like they're thugs and criminals from Compton when they live in a suburb then why worry about kids writing in l33t speak? I say embrace and extend like they tried to do in California. Offer courses in l33t speak and give credit for it. It's part of our culture and heritage that 3y3 c4n t41k l1k3 4n 31337 d00d!
So walking into other people's houses is fine as long as the door is unlocked right? Might as well make a sandwich and watch some TV while you're there too. Maybe take a shower, use the toilet, etc.
Does it really matter anymore? UO is what, 4 or 5 years old? Who plays it anymore? Isn't there anything new out? Everquest looked REALLY dorky when I saw it and I can't see what people see in it. Why not come out with a nice cool MMORPG with good graphics? If I want to sit around all day building a character up I can just go to work and live a real life. I want to kill shit and fight monsters not sit around a blacksmith shop all day mending weapons!:-)
Its like if they would be selling Masters Diplomas for few bucks and they would be as good as these you earned. Wouldn't you think it devaluates your efforts throughout the school?
Dude, this is an online game character not a master's degree. Get over it. If I could buy a level 50 wizard or something for $100, sure I would. I don't want to spend 6 months building a character in a stupid game up only to take him out in the field and have some fucker PK me. That almost happened with a Diablo II character. I had a nice level 16 character built up over a weekend of playing with tons of nice armor and weapons when a level 30+ fucker came out of nowhere and tried to kill me. Luckily I got a town portal spell off and got the fuck out of there or I'd be dead and lose all my shit. No thanks. Personally I think if you die in these online games you should get to keep whatever you had at the time because you worked for a LONG time to get it. It's unfair to lose it because another player kills you.
Nothing interesting did happen outside the USA during the BBS era that we cared about. All the cool 31337 warez boards were in the USA anyway. You europeans were just crying over per minutes charges. nya nya nya nya nya.
Ah, yes. The good old days when everything was gay, except Vanilla Ice. Someone remind me why I liked him?
Because you are a homosexual wigger wannabe?
Record companies have a right to charge whatever they feel is necessary to cover their costs and give them a fair profit. Nobody is forcing you to buy $20 CDs. Say you're a software programmer and want to make a living and I say I'll only pay $50 for your program you spent a year working on when the average price of similar programs is $200. Are you going to be silly enough to fall for that?
I help the community by writing free software. If this issue is important for you, perhaps you could help the community by providing packages in your favorite format? You pay me nothing, so please don't ask for anything in return.
I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about commercial binary-only software. I could just as easily download your applications and create my own packages and compile from source. I love the hypocritical moderation around here. "Oh no, he said something bad about Red Hat, he MUST be a troll." That's why you guys get the stereotype of a slashbot. Say anything against your precious VA Linux^WSoftware or Red Hat and voila, mod him down!!! He's a troll!
Why don't these companies ever partner with Debian? As much as people try to deny it, Red Hat is the Microsoft of the Linux world. If I see another god damn piece of software only distributed as an RPM I'm going to puke. If you're going to do that at LEAST distribute a tarball or a Debian package as well for those of us who choose NOT to sell our souls to big business yet still like to run packaged software once in awhile.
They can keep their wave table database much smaller if they keep all modern music sounding alike. Clever RIAA, very clever. In fact, the entire database covering the years 1992 to 2002 is comprised of 25 samples.
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yeah, star wars was much less childish and much more realistic and believable. so was star trek, and spiderman, and the x men... etc.
Well, actually it is. Star Wars had an adult theme to it.. war. Harry Potter (which I was begrudgingly dragged to watch by my wife) was a pile of horse shit that seemed aimed at 8 year old kids. I might as well have been watching the next Disney flick. Now, there's NOTHING wrong with that if the audience is 8 year old kids, but I would imagine most Slashdot readers are in their teens or twenties (yes, and many are older) and should really have grown out of this phase. Lord of the Rings is one thing since there's decent swordplay and orcs, but this childish bullshit world of Harry Potter's little wizard school is gay. Whoever wrote this movie had to be smoking crack because it's got to be the worst representation of wizardry I've ever seen.
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Does rapid improvement in processor technology cancel out the need for developers to learn how to write better code on a particular platform in order to achieve the maximum possible benefit from Information Technology? Wow, I was thinking the same thing last night sitting through a compilers class going over x86 Assembly language. Even 7 years ago when I took an assembler class it was still much much easier to write the code in C, and today, with 2GHz+ chips easily available and protected mode operating systems Assembly seems to be a dying breed for anything but really small embedded systems. Do device drivers even use assembly anymore?? I could see how it was useful if you're writing under DOS, but Linux and Win2k? Does it REALLY matter that my quicksort algorithm in assembler is faster than the one the C compiler created? Perhaps if I REALLY need a quick sort, but chances are it's going to be more efficient and easy to just use a higher level language to write the sort.
Bah, if you weren't around when they were 4.7Hz (around Konrad Suse's time, probably), you've got nothing to brag about...
:-) I am a youngster and only had a C= Vic20 as my first computer. It was a REAL computer not one of those game machine Atari 2600s! :-)
Were you? If so, I'm very jealous. You're due up for social security pretty soon aren't you old timer?
to pronounce GNU -> sounds like "new"
Wrong. Come on, this is on the front page of www.gnu.org:
GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced "guh-NEW".
To boot, once a company exec (owner, partner, CEO, whatever) knows you're good at fixing his screw ups, no matter the size of the company, they'll call you, no matter your job title. I've been there, and I know how he feels.
:-) Yes, this sounds very very familiar to a small shop sysadmin. ;-)
Don't forget his teenage daughter's screwups, his wife's screwups, his brother-in-law's screwups, and the fact that you're his personal tech support for his home machine and need to spec out any future purchases for him.
How about one of these Via Eden 533MHz chips in a mini-ITX case like this one. For about $200 seems to be a lot cheaper than a lower end 300MHz processor. I can't see the other box since the site is slashdotted but the 2677R case seems small enough to me to be used as a set top box complete with an external power supply brick like a Mac G4 Cube. You could easily build one of these with no moving parts since the Eden needs no fan.
Their network is 209.204.128.0/19 AS Number 14478 (according to arin, can't find in bgp) Drop 'em at the border folks.
Isn't a public port part and parcel with permission to access said port?
No no no no no no no no no no no no no!!!!!
Just because a port is listening on a machine doesn't mean it's "public" anymore than me bending over in the shower in the locker room is an invitation for you to insert your junk into my anus.
So walking into other people's houses is fine as long as the door is unlocked right? Might as well make a sandwich and watch some TV while you're there too. Maybe take a shower, use the toilet, etc.
Does it really matter anymore? UO is what, 4 or 5 years old? Who plays it anymore? Isn't there anything new out? Everquest looked REALLY dorky when I saw it and I can't see what people see in it. Why not come out with a nice cool MMORPG with good graphics? If I want to sit around all day building a character up I can just go to work and live a real life. I want to kill shit and fight monsters not sit around a blacksmith shop all day mending weapons! :-)
Its like if they would be selling Masters Diplomas for few bucks and they would be as good as these you earned. Wouldn't you think it devaluates your efforts throughout the school? Dude, this is an online game character not a master's degree. Get over it. If I could buy a level 50 wizard or something for $100, sure I would. I don't want to spend 6 months building a character in a stupid game up only to take him out in the field and have some fucker PK me. That almost happened with a Diablo II character. I had a nice level 16 character built up over a weekend of playing with tons of nice armor and weapons when a level 30+ fucker came out of nowhere and tried to kill me. Luckily I got a town portal spell off and got the fuck out of there or I'd be dead and lose all my shit. No thanks. Personally I think if you die in these online games you should get to keep whatever you had at the time because you worked for a LONG time to get it. It's unfair to lose it because another player kills you.
Nothing interesting did happen outside the USA during the BBS era that we cared about. All the cool 31337 warez boards were in the USA anyway. You europeans were just crying over per minutes charges. nya nya nya nya nya.
Ah, yes. The good old days when everything was gay, except Vanilla Ice. Someone remind me why I liked him? Because you are a homosexual wigger wannabe?
Why not just make the cd cost $5 instead!?
Record companies have a right to charge whatever they feel is necessary to cover their costs and give them a fair profit. Nobody is forcing you to buy $20 CDs. Say you're a software programmer and want to make a living and I say I'll only pay $50 for your program you spent a year working on when the average price of similar programs is $200. Are you going to be silly enough to fall for that?
I help the community by writing free software. If this issue is important for you, perhaps you could help the community by providing packages in your favorite format? You pay me nothing, so please don't ask for anything in return. I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about commercial binary-only software. I could just as easily download your applications and create my own packages and compile from source. I love the hypocritical moderation around here. "Oh no, he said something bad about Red Hat, he MUST be a troll." That's why you guys get the stereotype of a slashbot. Say anything against your precious VA Linux^WSoftware or Red Hat and voila, mod him down!!! He's a troll!
Why don't these companies ever partner with Debian? As much as people try to deny it, Red Hat is the Microsoft of the Linux world. If I see another god damn piece of software only distributed as an RPM I'm going to puke. If you're going to do that at LEAST distribute a tarball or a Debian package as well for those of us who choose NOT to sell our souls to big business yet still like to run packaged software once in awhile.
They can keep their wave table database much smaller if they keep all modern music sounding alike. Clever RIAA, very clever. In fact, the entire database covering the years 1992 to 2002 is comprised of 25 samples.
yeah, star wars was much less childish and much more realistic and believable. so was star trek, and spiderman, and the x men... etc.
Well, actually it is. Star Wars had an adult theme to it.. war. Harry Potter (which I was begrudgingly dragged to watch by my wife) was a pile of horse shit that seemed aimed at 8 year old kids. I might as well have been watching the next Disney flick. Now, there's NOTHING wrong with that if the audience is 8 year old kids, but I would imagine most Slashdot readers are in their teens or twenties (yes, and many are older) and should really have grown out of this phase. Lord of the Rings is one thing since there's decent swordplay and orcs, but this childish bullshit world of Harry Potter's little wizard school is gay. Whoever wrote this movie had to be smoking crack because it's got to be the worst representation of wizardry I've ever seen.