The fact that you support it wouldn't bother most people. Its the blatently insensitive way you're choosing to express that support. Simple, straight talk is for simpletons. Our civilization is built on people having a measure of subtlety and tact.
I've noticed this too, and its very interesting to compare it to other countries where the amount of work people do isn't nearly as much. Take, for example, where I'm from, Bangladesh. There, the middle class* has enough time to actually come home from work to eat lunch. In the evening, they have enough time to get together and talk about politics, the world, etc. Lots of people (especially older people, who are taken care of by their children) can sit around a coffee shop and yell at each other about which political party is right. Over here, after a long day at work, you just want to plop down on your ass and watch Will and Grace. I know that's what I do.
PS> Middle class means something different there than it does here. We're talking about educated people who have money, but not so much that they don't have to work for it.
Yes a computer is a tool. And Linux is the equivilent of a tool custom designed for you specifically. Think of it as Lance Armstrong's bicycle. Totally customized for him so he can get 100% of his performance out of it.
English is like C++: Random features lifted wholesale from other languages, with little internal coherence. French is like Haskell: Clean, elegant, pure as possible. Lacking in the usefulness department.
I don't personally like French much, but I think its rather noble of them to try to protect the integrity of their language. Its not like the world needs any more overly-pragmatic people.
Actually, I don't think this is a bad idea. I don't know if we should be regulating it as such, but its not exactly without precedence (child labor laws). The main problem is that the American 50 hour work week (Americans take less days of in a year than the *Japanese*) is destroying the social structure. You've suddenly got a whole bunch of children who effectively grow up with part-time parents, and it really shows.
I some of the stupid pseudo-science the other day. There was this website claiming that the world population problem was a scam. One of their pieces of evidence was that the population density of India was about half the population density of New Jersey. Any moron who has been to India can tell you that India clearly cannot support a population twice as large as the one it has. Their economy can't do it, their urban centers can't do it, and their rural areas might not be able to do it. The simple population density comparison ignores such a huge host of other factors that its not even funny.
I think the real reason pseudo-science takes hold is that it seems to make sense at first glance. Its the whole idea that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. However, if you know more about these things (my dad has worked in international development all his life, so I got exposed to this stuff a lot) some of the seemingly logical arguments that some people make seem utterly ridiculous.
Some juveniles confuse Counter Strike with real life... A handheld rail gun... >>>>>>>>>>>> Oh, so Counter Strike is juvenile, but Quake is just fine???
This has nothing to do with my skin. I'm not a visual learner, but a verbal one. I'm reacting to the attitude I see among a lot of smart math-types on Slashdot.
Both the P4 and G5 have 6.4GB busses (the G5 is 7, but has packet overhead the P4 doesn't). So performance should be similar. Certain algorthms, though, should really shine on the G5, when they don't actually need to stream all that data, but reuses parts of the dataset that are already cached.
Pictorial reasoning is not reliable; if you try to use it because you're a ``visual learner'', you will fail. >>>>>>>>> I take that as an insult to visual learners (largely because of the quotes). If that's not what you meant, you should have structured your *language* such that you didn't come across as a jerk.
You know what's funny? When someone cites Debian as a system that "allows and users and system operators of all walks of life to easily maintain their system." Wow. BSD must really be hardcore! Even a Gentoo user like me is shaking in his shoes...
Um, pretty much every OS I know of supports FTP flawlessly. In Linux an FTP directory appears just as any other directory in the system. WinXP has something called Web Folders, and I'm sure OS X has an equivilent.
devfs is also similar to what FreeBSD has had for years. Dynamic device files make sense, there is no way around it. Besides, your complients are the first I've heard of any issues. I've been using devfs for awhile (Gentoo's defaults to it on) and its nice not having to remember major/minor numbers for stuff like my iPod or my USB mouse.
Pray-tell, how do you plan to achieve reference counting semantics if you don't want to increment/decrement the reference count? Please don't tell me you hand off COM pointers without calling AddRef/Release! If COM makes reference count increment/decrement expensive, that it's problem, and the standard library should try to make workarounds for it.
What is COM? COM isn't part of standard C++, and anything related to it has no business being in the standard library. Facetious c.l.c++ answer aside, Boost's smart pointers do what you want. Take a look at the intrusive_ptr template.
Kinda makes it hard to use for those legions of coders who don't use an IDE:) I don't think VIM will take well to having to display object graphics. I do think we need a better module mechanism, but the resulting system must still be text-pased. If you don't like it, go use Squeak.
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The fact that you support it wouldn't bother most people. Its the blatently insensitive way you're choosing to express that support. Simple, straight talk is for simpletons. Our civilization is built on people having a measure of subtlety and tact.
I have read the Bible. In the current political climate here in the US, Jesus would be labeled a communist...
I've noticed this too, and its very interesting to compare it to other countries where the amount of work people do isn't nearly as much. Take, for example, where I'm from, Bangladesh. There, the middle class* has enough time to actually come home from work to eat lunch. In the evening, they have enough time to get together and talk about politics, the world, etc. Lots of people (especially older people, who are taken care of by their children) can sit around a coffee shop and yell at each other about which political party is right. Over here, after a long day at work, you just want to plop down on your ass and watch Will and Grace. I know that's what I do.
PS> Middle class means something different there than it does here. We're talking about educated people who have money, but not so much that they don't have to work for it.
Yes a computer is a tool. And Linux is the equivilent of a tool custom designed for you specifically. Think of it as Lance Armstrong's bicycle. Totally customized for him so he can get 100% of his performance out of it.
English is like C++: Random features lifted wholesale from other languages, with little internal coherence.
French is like Haskell: Clean, elegant, pure as possible. Lacking in the usefulness department.
I don't personally like French much, but I think its rather noble of them to try to protect the integrity of their language. Its not like the world needs any more overly-pragmatic people.
Actually, I don't think this is a bad idea. I don't know if we should be regulating it as such, but its not exactly without precedence (child labor laws). The main problem is that the American 50 hour work week (Americans take less days of in a year than the *Japanese*) is destroying the social structure. You've suddenly got a whole bunch of children who effectively grow up with part-time parents, and it really shows.
I some of the stupid pseudo-science the other day. There was this website claiming that the world population problem was a scam. One of their pieces of evidence was that the population density of India was about half the population density of New Jersey. Any moron who has been to India can tell you that India clearly cannot support a population twice as large as the one it has. Their economy can't do it, their urban centers can't do it, and their rural areas might not be able to do it. The simple population density comparison ignores such a huge host of other factors that its not even funny.
I think the real reason pseudo-science takes hold is that it seems to make sense at first glance. Its the whole idea that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. However, if you know more about these things (my dad has worked in international development all his life, so I got exposed to this stuff a lot) some of the seemingly logical arguments that some people make seem utterly ridiculous.
Some juveniles confuse Counter Strike with real life...
A handheld rail gun...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh, so Counter Strike is juvenile, but Quake is just fine???
This has nothing to do with my skin. I'm not a visual learner, but a verbal one. I'm reacting to the attitude I see among a lot of smart math-types on Slashdot.
Both the P4 and G5 have 6.4GB busses (the G5 is 7, but has packet overhead the P4 doesn't). So performance should be similar. Certain algorthms, though, should really shine on the G5, when they don't actually need to stream all that data, but reuses parts of the dataset that are already cached.
Only if your dataset is relatively small. Once you fall out of cache, both are usually going to be memory bandwidth limited.
Pictorial reasoning is not reliable; if you try to use it because you're a ``visual learner'', you will fail.
>>>>>>>>>
I take that as an insult to visual learners (largely because of the quotes). If that's not what you meant, you should have structured your *language* such that you didn't come across as a jerk.
I have nothing against mathematics. Its the "our school of thought is the only one" arrogance that I can't stand.
Not really. IBM's PPC PDA design, for example, has an FPGA for misc. functions like modems.
You know what's funny? When someone cites Debian as a system that "allows and users and system operators of all walks of life to easily maintain their system." Wow. BSD must really be hardcore! Even a Gentoo user like me is shaking in his shoes...
One more reason I hate mathematicians.
Um, pretty much every OS I know of supports FTP flawlessly. In Linux an FTP directory appears just as any other directory in the system. WinXP has something called Web Folders, and I'm sure OS X has an equivilent.
Use .zip, which has the benifet of preserving all metadata.
But might make Microsoft Publisher unnecessary :)
devfs is also similar to what FreeBSD has had for years. Dynamic device files make sense, there is no way around it. Besides, your complients are the first I've heard of any issues. I've been using devfs for awhile (Gentoo's defaults to it on) and its nice not having to remember major/minor numbers for stuff like my iPod or my USB mouse.
Because in most religions, suicide is a sin? Actually kinda twisted when you think about it.
Microsoft tries to patent "fast user baiting-and-switching."
Pray-tell, how do you plan to achieve reference counting semantics if you don't want to increment/decrement the reference count? Please don't tell me you hand off COM pointers without calling AddRef/Release! If COM makes reference count increment/decrement expensive, that it's problem, and the standard library should try to make workarounds for it.
What is COM? COM isn't part of standard C++, and anything related to it has no business being in the standard library. Facetious c.l.c++ answer aside, Boost's smart pointers do what you want. Take a look at the intrusive_ptr template.
Kinda makes it hard to use for those legions of coders who don't use an IDE :) I don't think VIM will take well to having to display object graphics. I do think we need a better module mechanism, but the resulting system must still be text-pased. If you don't like it, go use Squeak.