Yeah, I basically do it the same way, except I usually use logarithms and double precision floating point, then I just round off (ceiling or floor) to the nearest 128-bit integer.
Takes a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it, it's a piece of cake.
I suspect you're right. And I don't think anyone would be complaining if they were satisfied with MS products. What it really boils down to is being confined to third-rate software as Steve Jobs put it. A fine is a fine, and even $1 billion will not make a dent in the MS universe. So there has to be a way to force them to uphold product standards too.
Watching what Phatbot is currently doing, it's pretty obvious to me that they'll never make it.
Moz are not exactly rolling in the millions. If they want/need merchandising to keep on going, I don't see why not. Anyone merchandising off their products (the name certainly means nothing outside their context) is essentially ripping them off. I say they should go for it. The world needs what they are doing as things are right now.
hey really only seem to hurt people who are already pretty ignorant
The word 'only' is misplaced. The Internet is full of idiots. They're in the majority.
They get the shit kicked out of them every time they go online. They take their junky Gateways back to PC shops to 'wipe and reinstall' every six months. They lose files because 'I know I didn't download that file to my hard drive - I downloaded it to my desktop instead' and then they can't find it.
You tell them the simplest things to get them out of the most complex situations and they demand 'user friendly'. They want products that cure only the latest ill and demand at most one mouse click.
Wonder of wonders the world (the Internet) is as it is. And wonder of wonders is that it's taken the sophisticated malware engineers so long to get sophisticated.
There's a slaughter going on, and although MS are responsible with their crappy stuff, the users are also responsible - for using it. And I hope we've heard the last of that classic line 'it only affects Windows users', because it should be evident to even the most brain-dead MS fanatic at this point that the entire Internet is affected.
It's time to put up some housing ordinances so MS users aren't allowed to ruin the neighbourhood. High time and beyond.
I have heard from very reliable sources that there is absolutely no reason to panic. Microsoft are, as per usual, working on a patch for this Phatbot. Microsoft take computer security very seriously, as you all know. There are no flaws in Windows system architecture or any of the programs running under Windows - it's just the prevalence of Windows that does it. Microsoft and Windows are copyright Microsoft Corporation Redmond Washington USA.
The Infoworld article called PJ a 'former' editor.
Yeah right. From today's GL:
I've been getting inundated with email, asking if Groklaw will be shutting down, thanks to an article in InfoWorld that identified me as the "former editor of Groklaw". That is inaccurate. I am still the editor of Groklaw, and my work with OSRM is separate from it. My contract is written so as to ensure my having time to do Groklaw. I have always done paid work in addition to Groklaw, so this isn't anything new.
The article said that SCO didn't sound displeased to hear the news. Not that I wish to throw cold water on anyone's pleasure in Lindon or anything, but Groklaw isn't going anywhere.
I find Windows of absolutely no technical interest. They took systems designed for isolated desktop systems and put them on the net without thinking about evildoers, as our president would say.
- Bill Joy
With DOS it was easy; everything which was embedded in command.com
And that was good? Hello?
The reason the Unix shells are so powerful is that they interpret commands and no more - this is classic Ken Thompson thinking. And you know you can move from one shell to another with ease - just type in their names.
The reason the MS shells are so poor is that they confuse things - as always. There is no good design here. Perhaps 'user-friendly' is a consideration, but where does that get them? Nowhere. MS shells are about the weakest of the lot. They percolate your coffee, mix your Mai-Tais - but can they interpret commands like a Unix shell, with advanced control flow and the like? And you truly do not see the connection?
To call COMMAND.COM a 'command interpreter' or 'shell' is really stretching it - akin to calling MS-DOS an 'operating system'.
And BTW: having things such as 'dir' embedded in COMMAND.COM did not make things any easier; the poor design just made things more difficult.
Yes. Most of us are not legal experts, but as so many have pointed out for so long, ordinary common sense and market logic do not apply in the quantum mechanics sphere of monopolies. What they're probably trying to do is stabilise and equalise the market.
Apple play almost anything right out of the box, and no one objects - it would be silly. But Apple don't strangle the market, and Microsoft do.
And to put an answer to your rhetorical questions, it does matter, because it matters today. People running OS X and Linux are affected by the proliferation of Windows and their accompanying attacks. It brings down connectivity. Even though you can't get infected, you still get the crap hitting your IPs and in your inboxes. Which is why Linux adherents have long prootested against the situation.
It is not blah blah. It's very realistic. Open your eyes - and stop being elitist yourself.
I hope you're wrong; I suspect you're not. When it comes to human stupidity, both individual and collective, people continually strive to outdo one another.
I gotta go - I think a few pages of Also Sprack Zarathustra will cure this malaise.
Miguel de Icaza - this person is annoying. Many people write to me and tell me they suspect he is a Microsoft mole. Whatever: he's the guy who said Clippy is a good idea. Go figure.
What the world has right now is the following:
1. Native assembler. This is always a fall-back. 2. C. Great for writing operating systems. Capable of inline assembler as well, so efficiency is very high. 3. C++. I have my doubts. And I think its prevalence would not be as great were it not traditionally so difficult to use the next language on the list. 4. Objective-C. What Alan Kay always envisioned, but in compiled form. As long as we are using GUIs with widgets and gadgets, this will be the premier choice. 5. Java. Not native, but eminently portable.
In the context of the above, I am sorry, but.NET is totally uninteresting, Mono is even more uninteresting, C# is an abomination, and Miguel de Icaza is totally irrelevant.
Thompson, Ritchie, Cox, Gosling - these are great computer scientists. de Icaza is a fart.
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Visisimo is worth checking out. CMU people. Interesting concept, a lot unlike Google, and fairly debugged too.
I wonder how people can call the NYT a soul-sucking link and still ostensibly hang about at the NYT all day. Put these clowns out of business: wait until a good link appears before posting to/..
This is interesting because NewsForge are now saying Vulcan have no further interests in BayStar.
BayStar Capital is not owned by Vulcan Ventures, founded in 1986 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as has been reported elsewhere. Allen, who owns Seattle's Seahawks and Mariners sports teams, still owns a large stock position in Microsoft, but there is no known connection between him and SCO Group at this time.
This all makes great sense, except that we're seeing the story from the perspective of it now unraveling. So the little crumbs we get thrown as retraction after retraction drops in are in themselves part of the story.
I think their wording is careful, and theoretically honest. Now I don't know who would believe MS could just call up, mention SCO was a good investment, and get BayStar to fork over $50 or $100 million 'just like that' - it just doesn't happen.
Ok, aping the iPod is one thing, but in using the HP logo, as seen in this screenshot, aren't they going too far - in fact 'asking for it'? Carly could be the 'woman scorned' here...
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Heck, thanks matey, that's OK, but most of us will be in your neighbourhood this time next year hunting down IT jobs, so we can pick them up then.
Thanks again.
Yeah, I basically do it the same way, except I usually use logarithms and double precision floating point, then I just round off (ceiling or floor) to the nearest 128-bit integer.
Takes a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it, it's a piece of cake.
I suspect you're right. And I don't think anyone would be complaining if they were satisfied with MS products. What it really boils down to is being confined to third-rate software as Steve Jobs put it. A fine is a fine, and even $1 billion will not make a dent in the MS universe. So there has to be a way to force them to uphold product standards too.
Watching what Phatbot is currently doing, it's pretty obvious to me that they'll never make it.
Moz are not exactly rolling in the millions. If they want/need merchandising to keep on going, I don't see why not. Anyone merchandising off their products (the name certainly means nothing outside their context) is essentially ripping them off. I say they should go for it. The world needs what they are doing as things are right now.
hey really only seem to hurt people who are already pretty ignorant
The word 'only' is misplaced. The Internet is full of idiots. They're in the majority.
They get the shit kicked out of them every time they go online. They take their junky Gateways back to PC shops to 'wipe and reinstall' every six months. They lose files because 'I know I didn't download that file to my hard drive - I downloaded it to my desktop instead' and then they can't find it.
You tell them the simplest things to get them out of the most complex situations and they demand 'user friendly'. They want products that cure only the latest ill and demand at most one mouse click.
Wonder of wonders the world (the Internet) is as it is. And wonder of wonders is that it's taken the sophisticated malware engineers so long to get sophisticated.
There's a slaughter going on, and although MS are responsible with their crappy stuff, the users are also responsible - for using it. And I hope we've heard the last of that classic line 'it only affects Windows users', because it should be evident to even the most brain-dead MS fanatic at this point that the entire Internet is affected.
It's time to put up some housing ordinances so MS users aren't allowed to ruin the neighbourhood. High time and beyond.
I have heard from very reliable sources that there is absolutely no reason to panic. Microsoft are, as per usual, working on a patch for this Phatbot. Microsoft take computer security very seriously, as you all know. There are no flaws in Windows system architecture or any of the programs running under Windows - it's just the prevalence of Windows that does it. Microsoft and Windows are copyright Microsoft Corporation Redmond Washington USA.
The Infoworld article called PJ a 'former' editor.
Yeah right. From today's GL:
I've been getting inundated with email, asking if Groklaw will be shutting down, thanks to an article in InfoWorld that identified me as the "former editor of Groklaw". That is inaccurate. I am still the editor of Groklaw, and my work with OSRM is separate from it. My contract is written so as to ensure my having time to do Groklaw. I have always done paid work in addition to Groklaw, so this isn't anything new.
The article said that SCO didn't sound displeased to hear the news. Not that I wish to throw cold water on anyone's pleasure in Lindon or anything, but Groklaw isn't going anywhere.
I find Windows of absolutely no technical interest. They took systems designed for isolated desktop systems and put them on the net without thinking about evildoers, as our president would say.
- Bill Joy
With DOS it was easy; everything which was embedded in command.com
And that was good? Hello?
The reason the Unix shells are so powerful is that they interpret commands and no more - this is classic Ken Thompson thinking. And you know you can move from one shell to another with ease - just type in their names.
The reason the MS shells are so poor is that they confuse things - as always. There is no good design here. Perhaps 'user-friendly' is a consideration, but where does that get them? Nowhere. MS shells are about the weakest of the lot. They percolate your coffee, mix your Mai-Tais - but can they interpret commands like a Unix shell, with advanced control flow and the like? And you truly do not see the connection?
To call COMMAND.COM a 'command interpreter' or 'shell' is really stretching it - akin to calling MS-DOS an 'operating system'.
And BTW: having things such as 'dir' embedded in COMMAND.COM did not make things any easier; the poor design just made things more difficult.
Yes. Most of us are not legal experts, but as so many have pointed out for so long, ordinary common sense and market logic do not apply in the quantum mechanics sphere of monopolies. What they're probably trying to do is stabilise and equalise the market.
Apple play almost anything right out of the box, and no one objects - it would be silly. But Apple don't strangle the market, and Microsoft do.
Having your g/f as a business partner: I dunno.
But sex at the office is always great.
Elitist blah blah my butt.
And to put an answer to your rhetorical questions, it does matter, because it matters today. People running OS X and Linux are affected by the proliferation of Windows and their accompanying attacks. It brings down connectivity. Even though you can't get infected, you still get the crap hitting your IPs and in your inboxes. Which is why Linux adherents have long prootested against the situation.
It is not blah blah. It's very realistic. Open your eyes - and stop being elitist yourself.
I hope you're wrong; I suspect you're not. When it comes to human stupidity, both individual and collective, people continually strive to outdo one another.
I gotta go - I think a few pages of Also Sprack Zarathustra will cure this malaise.
Miguel de Icaza - this person is annoying. Many people write to me and tell me they suspect he is a Microsoft mole. Whatever: he's the guy who said Clippy is a good idea. Go figure.
.NET is totally uninteresting, Mono is even more uninteresting, C# is an abomination, and Miguel de Icaza is totally irrelevant.
What the world has right now is the following:
1. Native assembler. This is always a fall-back.
2. C. Great for writing operating systems. Capable of inline assembler as well, so efficiency is very high.
3. C++. I have my doubts. And I think its prevalence would not be as great were it not traditionally so difficult to use the next language on the list.
4. Objective-C. What Alan Kay always envisioned, but in compiled form. As long as we are using GUIs with widgets and gadgets, this will be the premier choice.
5. Java. Not native, but eminently portable.
In the context of the above, I am sorry, but
Thompson, Ritchie, Cox, Gosling - these are great computer scientists. de Icaza is a fart.
Visisimo is worth checking out. CMU people. Interesting concept, a lot unlike Google, and fairly debugged too.
I wonder how people can call the NYT a soul-sucking link and still ostensibly hang about at the NYT all day. Put these clowns out of business: wait until a good link appears before posting to /..
You should never have doubted! MS need time off now and again to innovate.
They didn't 'codd' anything. It's all standard Unix. You should try it sometime.
Don't include NT/2K in the microkernel club. NT might have started that way, but the bloat code in Redmond made Cutler change his mind pretty quick.
This is interesting because NewsForge are now saying Vulcan have no further interests in BayStar.
BayStar Capital is not owned by Vulcan Ventures, founded in 1986 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as has been reported elsewhere. Allen, who owns Seattle's Seahawks and Mariners sports teams, still owns a large stock position in Microsoft, but there is no known connection between him and SCO Group at this time.
This all makes great sense, except that we're seeing the story from the perspective of it now unraveling. So the little crumbs we get thrown as retraction after retraction drops in are in themselves part of the story.
This is all very plausible, but the Mormons don't like pink tutus in their tabernacles. That detail is possibly in error.
I think their wording is careful, and theoretically honest. Now I don't know who would believe MS could just call up, mention SCO was a good investment, and get BayStar to fork over $50 or $100 million 'just like that' - it just doesn't happen.
Ok, aping the iPod is one thing, but in using the HP logo, as seen in this screenshot, aren't they going too far - in fact 'asking for it'? Carly could be the 'woman scorned' here...