I personally think one of the reasons exceptions are worth while is because the compiler squawks at bad programmers and tells them to handle worst case scenarios. It makes coding a pain in the ass, because the compiler is dumb (i.e. even if there is no reason to make you catch an exception you may have to), but it's better then letting some n00bs straight out of school code without thinking about where their program could fail.... So you force higher code quality at the expense of more man hours. And even the best of us get caught having to catch an exception, where we normally wouldn't have...
Only one of your answers can actually be done without getting down and dirty with the Windows API. Granted, if you want to implement something in Mozilla that isn't there, you have to do some coding. However, all the options the parent was talking about were readily available in Mozilla, or could be found easily.
BTW, add tabbed browsing and pop up blocking and an icon of Bill Gates in a borg suit to the list.:-D
I really hate having to agree with you. I mean, those people could have put their phones on vibrate with no problem, and not ruined the movie for everyone else. They (as a group) didn't, so now we need some more drastic means of enforcing the silence
Interview his old subordinates. Seriously. You could get a nice guy who answered all the questions well, who ends up riding your ass later. Ask for references and then ask to speak to old subordinates. If they love him, you know he's golden.
No AGP. I don't think gamers are interested in ditching their (expensive) AGP video cards at the moment.
According to the article gamers buying new mobos will want to ditch their old AGP cards because PCI Express is a whole lot faster than even 8x AGP. And the article did say some mobos would be released with AGP slots to be backwards compatible. Then when the gamer wants to upgrade his video card, he can get one with PCIe, and voila!
I just read the article, and it didn't talk about any major architecture changes in the P 4 -- just that Intel was integrating the latest and greatest in shiny new things into the motherboard (i.e. comes with DDR2 instead of DDR, PCI Express instead of PCI, etc.). Are these upgrades actually going to do anything revolutionary to the Pentium chips? Or do we have to wait until the Pentium 5 because all the changes they made are about compatability to the new technologies used?
It sounds like all he has is an 80GB HD, and it serves up files.
Couldn't an ultra tiny machine do this?
If you RTFA you would know that one of the reasons he needed a Sun E450 was because sometimes when he was on vacation / on the road he'd need to check whether or not an upgrade / security fix / bugfix would fsck his system, or do a number of other things you can do when you have an E450 running Oracle in your trunk and the ability to play with it that you just can't with a lap top running x86 Solaris. Of course, this logic sounds like he just wanted a reason to write off an E450 for personal use, but, hey, if it's his company / money, good for him...
Ahhh, ok. Don't you know not to drink and post to/.? As soon as I thought I saw Java equated to Javascript, which as you realize isn't the same thing, I tuned you out and assumed you were just another troll. Apologies...
It's still 53 years old in base 53, it's just represented as 10. Now if you lived on a planet which took 5.3 years to revolve around the sun, it would be 10 years for you.
I'm a computer programmer and work with this stuff for a living. And the fact remains that Javascript is not Java (it's technical name is ECMA Script). So you see it doesn't matter what you can do with Javascript, it's not Java.
Javascript is not java. It was loosely based on java, but you could say PHP was loosely based on Perl. Scripting with java involves JSP and servlets. So you're way off base...
php for real-time multiuser applications on the high level, C for real performance
perl for non-real-time application (unless you're slashdot and have oodles of resources at your disposal, even then, it's still inefficient)
Most copies of PHP use the equivalent of mod_perl -- i.e. they cache the compilation. Use mod_perl, cache your compilations, and you will find performance is as good if not better than PHP.
. I hardly see the point in having a picture-phone, but thats just me.
Picture phones are useful because, although you might not have a (digital) camera on you, you are certain to have a phone. I know somebody who has one, and she's always whipping it out to take pictures at unexpected moments -- because that's when you get the best pictures. So, haul around a camera, or keep a camera in the phone, which do you prefer? Granted, they still need to work on the camera phones so they get zoom and better quality pictures, but I think they're great.
Hmmm... Are you sure they aren't doing it for backwards compatibility? Anything 2k doesn't have the security model. Perhaps once Windows 98 and Windows 95 go away developers can use a single security paradigm. (i.e. I assume if you program using the XP paradigm you break under 98 and 95)
This is what I wish people would put in their TCO studies for Windows. Not only do you spend at least $100 a copy for XP home edition (and it's a lot more a year for corporate offices), to properly secure it you spend hundreds of dollars. I once asked a big Windows geek I knew how to make XP secure. He rattled off programs: Zone Alarm Pro, Norton Antivirus (note: subscription only these days), Norton Ghost (because when the computers shit the bed you want to be able to restore an image), Partition Magic, and the list goes on and on.
That's hundreds of dollars in software (maybe even thousands depending on your requirements) that you get free with Linux / BSD / Open Source. If corporations started realizing this, Linux would catch up real fast, because large corporations would realize they could pay a group of indians to create whatever they need for the intense licensing fees they pay. I really think that, besides a lot of misinformation, because Linux makes things so easy, lots of IT jobs would be cut. This means that people aren't going to want to recommend Linux because many of the techies that are used to fix computers suddenly become obsolete.
I honestly don't know. I would hazard a guess that because MS has access to source code and they are intimately familiar with all the bumps and warts of the APIs (they did write them after all), that they have a leg up over the competition in creating programs.
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I personally think one of the reasons exceptions are worth while is because the compiler squawks at bad programmers and tells them to handle worst case scenarios. It makes coding a pain in the ass, because the compiler is dumb (i.e. even if there is no reason to make you catch an exception you may have to), but it's better then letting some n00bs straight out of school code without thinking about where their program could fail.... So you force higher code quality at the expense of more man hours. And even the best of us get caught having to catch an exception, where we normally wouldn't have...
Only one of your answers can actually be done without getting down and dirty with the Windows API. Granted, if you want to implement something in Mozilla that isn't there, you have to do some coding. However, all the options the parent was talking about were readily available in Mozilla, or could be found easily.
:-D
BTW, add tabbed browsing and pop up blocking and an icon of Bill Gates in a borg suit to the list.
I really hate having to agree with you. I mean, those people could have put their phones on vibrate with no problem, and not ruined the movie for everyone else. They (as a group) didn't, so now we need some more drastic means of enforcing the silence
I don't understand how you'd live in this world with no ID and no SSN...
Do you mind if I use the text of your post in a letter I am writing to the president, Halliburton^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvice president and my congress men and women?
Because /. hasn't gotten around to renaming the category to "Rights you used to think you had". *ducks*
Interview his old subordinates. Seriously. You could get a nice guy who answered all the questions well, who ends up riding your ass later. Ask for references and then ask to speak to old subordinates. If they love him, you know he's golden.
You make a good point, especially considering that he's going to have to buy wireless access points anyway....
I just read the article, and it didn't talk about any major architecture changes in the P 4 -- just that Intel was integrating the latest and greatest in shiny new things into the motherboard (i.e. comes with DDR2 instead of DDR, PCI Express instead of PCI, etc.). Are these upgrades actually going to do anything revolutionary to the Pentium chips? Or do we have to wait until the Pentium 5 because all the changes they made are about compatability to the new technologies used?
I'd say PHP borrows more from Java than C/C++, although I don't disagree with you that PHP is a lot different than Perl...
Can you email me the nude pics?
If you RTFA you would know that one of the reasons he needed a Sun E450 was because sometimes when he was on vacation / on the road he'd need to check whether or not an upgrade / security fix / bugfix would fsck his system, or do a number of other things you can do when you have an E450 running Oracle in your trunk and the ability to play with it that you just can't with a lap top running x86 Solaris. Of course, this logic sounds like he just wanted a reason to write off an E450 for personal use, but, hey, if it's his company / money, good for him...
Ahhh, ok. Don't you know not to drink and post to /.? As soon as I thought I saw Java equated to Javascript, which as you realize isn't the same thing, I tuned you out and assumed you were just another troll. Apologies...
I'm a computer programmer and work with this stuff for a living. And the fact remains that Javascript is not Java (it's technical name is ECMA Script). So you see it doesn't matter what you can do with Javascript, it's not Java.
Javascript is not java. It was loosely based on java, but you could say PHP was loosely based on Perl. Scripting with java involves JSP and servlets. So you're way off base...
Most copies of PHP use the equivalent of mod_perl -- i.e. they cache the compilation. Use mod_perl, cache your compilations, and you will find performance is as good if not better than PHP.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"
--Gandhi
Picture phones are useful because, although you might not have a (digital) camera on you, you are certain to have a phone. I know somebody who has one, and she's always whipping it out to take pictures at unexpected moments -- because that's when you get the best pictures. So, haul around a camera, or keep a camera in the phone, which do you prefer? Granted, they still need to work on the camera phones so they get zoom and better quality pictures, but I think they're great.
Hmmm... Are you sure they aren't doing it for backwards compatibility? Anything 2k doesn't have the security model. Perhaps once Windows 98 and Windows 95 go away developers can use a single security paradigm. (i.e. I assume if you program using the XP paradigm you break under 98 and 95)
This is what I wish people would put in their TCO studies for Windows. Not only do you spend at least $100 a copy for XP home edition (and it's a lot more a year for corporate offices), to properly secure it you spend hundreds of dollars. I once asked a big Windows geek I knew how to make XP secure. He rattled off programs: Zone Alarm Pro, Norton Antivirus (note: subscription only these days), Norton Ghost (because when the computers shit the bed you want to be able to restore an image), Partition Magic, and the list goes on and on.
That's hundreds of dollars in software (maybe even thousands depending on your requirements) that you get free with Linux / BSD / Open Source. If corporations started realizing this, Linux would catch up real fast, because large corporations would realize they could pay a group of indians to create whatever they need for the intense licensing fees they pay. I really think that, besides a lot of misinformation, because Linux makes things so easy, lots of IT jobs would be cut. This means that people aren't going to want to recommend Linux because many of the techies that are used to fix computers suddenly become obsolete.
I honestly don't know. I would hazard a guess that because MS has access to source code and they are intimately familiar with all the bumps and warts of the APIs (they did write them after all), that they have a leg up over the competition in creating programs.