Dude, slashdot... this is. Links to youtube for answers to mainframe questions will simply not suffice. Video? No thanks. You must link to a slideshow of picture of IBM cards of programs ( preferably FORTRAN) that will out put the answers to the questions that we seek.
Uhhmm I think this is in the wrong place. By your comment history, it doesn't look like you are a troll and you actually did post on topic a few minutes after this. So, I was wondering if you'd mind sharing how it came to be that this was posted on this page. And most importantly: are you sure the gas was turned off before you posted?
Thanks. I'll take a look at that. I understand how difficult it would be to write an intelligent caching scheme on a general purpose desktop, and I will need to experience the difference with it on vs off. But just having the ability( even if it is a registry modification) lowers the barrier for me to switch to vista if I have to at work.
I agree completely with your comments about firefox, however, I think you are a little naive when it comes to vista. Every freaking version of windows since 98 has promised faster application start up time due to prefetching of data. Which leads to a larger memory usage. Now every freaking program takes the same stupid approach and pre allocates all of the memory it will need on start up. I don't think my applications start or run any faster with vista on a vastly more powerful computer than they did with windows 95 (and now I have 5mb of 2 gig free, whoopee!). I should be able to slap windows and tell it to not try to guess what I'm going to do next.
Wait, can I actually do that? If so, then I take it all back.
True enough. And the sad part is I felt really bad disagreeing with him. I almost joined in. Doom II is the pinnacle of games. It has never gotten any better and it never will.
I think he's referring to all of the patent threats microsoft has made, a somewhat valid point. Still, couldn't Adobe pursue patent claims against Gnash?
No, I'd say my own personal boycott of Vista is working quite nicely as its resulted in me not running Vista. I guess it works in the same way that I'm 'boycotting' Ferrari and a dumpster full of sour cream.
See, thats marked as troll, and the poster probably was trolling. However, is there a real difference between flash and silverlight? They're both controlled by a single company. If Moonlight (the linux based open source version based on mono) takes off, shouldn't that put more pressure on Adobe to fix their crappy linux port?
Of course, I'd take silverlight more seriously if it worked better on Windows. Several computers I've set up have had problems installing Silverlight.
I'm sure it is confusing to a lot of people. Deciding who to vote for is a complex process. A voter has various opinions on the various topics as well as a weighting factor relating how much that particular issue is to them. You can't just assume that the voter will vote for the candidate who they agree with on the majority or plurality of positions.
This coming from a person who is socially conservative, pro welfare ( using your terminology) state. It would be silly at this point to decide( I think for everyone, but mainly I'm referring to myself ) who to vote for without knowing who the Veeps would be.
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I understand your desires, for mine are the same. I think 90% of it would be solved if their was greater native browser support for SVG & SMIL.
If the US didn't have "jigsaw puzzle elections" a corrupt political machine in a major urban area would be able to swing enough bogus votes to control the national government.
Call me cynical, but isn't that what is happening right now? I think there is plentiful evidence that both major parties are corrupt. And recent presidential elections seem to be decided by wedge issues and bogus votes.
Yeah, as far as I can tell this is basically a replay of the Bosnian wars or even WWI. The good guys are the ones that end up winning, or end up drawing the largest power into the conflict.
Yes, for too long have the world's space powers ignored my design of a positronic interferometer based plasma drive. It runs on homeopathisized , magnetic water and an organic copper catalyst. It removes carbon dioxide from the air and harnesses the 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE.
My data is always encrypted. Even this message appearing to inform users that I always encrypt my data, is actually the result of a one time pad code sending a message to my minions to do the bidding proscribed for today.
Oh, okay. I understand. The only thing you have to worry about is people picking up a book to learn PHP. I had a friend that picked up one of the first php5 books, that had them using the old crufty deprecated functions and horrible security practices (ie magic quotes and register globals are your friends!).
Strange. Are you really suggesting wrapper functions around PHP's native functions for no other reason than to fix naming conventions? That seems like a bad idea. New developers to the project will have to learn your conventions and remember not to just use the native functions. Having said that there are also cases where you can reimplement a built in PHP function in PHP code that is faster than the built in function, but less flexible.
It does remind me about a embeded C project I once worked on where someone had written wrapper functions for some built in c functions, that did nothing except switch the order of the parameters( because he once worked with a c compiler that accepted those as functions). Of course he left the company after a mental breakdown, and the subsequent developers sometimes used his wrapper functions and sometimes the the built in C functions. It was a bit of a mess that I'd rather avoid if possible.
You have my deepest sympathies. That sounds like a thankless task. Hopefully, the measures you are taking are being well documented and explained to management to prevent any similar mistakes in the future.
When you get down to such a small scale, do quantum affects come into play? Once you get into a quantum scale wouldn't you have to talk about probabilities of states, rather than actuall states? Even if you do have a finite number of probable states with a quantum system, you can't really know what state it is in without disturbing it. It just sounds like your explanation is too determanistic. Our brains are capable of truely amazing things, but they fail at tasks that are simple for computers. If you could build a human brain out of electronic componants, You probably wouldn't want to assign it the task of being a database. I'm pretty sure it would fail ACID compliance.
Pointers? Python, Java,Ruby, PHP, they don't have pointers. Pointers are pretty much relegated to c, c++ and Pascal, not exactly a who's who of modern languages.
No it doesn't really make sense to make new applications in COBOL. Many people such as I dislike its verbosity, but the real reason is deeper. If you were to rewrite the system, you would want something that did the job well, but also one that has a number of people who know and understand the particular quirks of the language/platform. Plus you'd want one that had support for modern problems( parsing and validating XML, database client libraries for the popular databases, SOAP, Http, threading, inter process communication, Encryption). While a touring complete language could do any of those tasks, it would be best not to let your developers write implementations for those tasks and focus on the job at hand. At the same time you don't want to have the language allow common coding problems to crash the system (no c,c++). I believe that java would be the safe, conventional choice. A multi vendor requirement ( which I would like to see imposed for government jobs to keep competition) would prelude C#, at least until Mono is more accepted/polished.
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Dude, slashdot ... this is. Links to youtube for answers to mainframe questions will simply not suffice. Video? No thanks. You must link to a slideshow of picture of IBM cards of programs ( preferably FORTRAN) that will out put the answers to the questions that we seek.
Uhhmm I think this is in the wrong place. By your comment history, it doesn't look like you are a troll and you actually did post on topic a few minutes after this. So, I was wondering if you'd mind sharing how it came to be that this was posted on this page. And most importantly: are you sure the gas was turned off before you posted?
Thanks. I'll take a look at that. I understand how difficult it would be to write an intelligent caching scheme on a general purpose desktop, and I will need to experience the difference with it on vs off. But just having the ability( even if it is a registry modification) lowers the barrier for me to switch to vista if I have to at work.
More like:
who stole Taco's password and posted that one awesome story back in 2002?
And why the hell haven't they done it since?
I keed, I keed. Taco's a very good eidtor.
I agree completely with your comments about firefox, however, I think you are a little naive when it comes to vista. Every freaking version of windows since 98 has promised faster application start up time due to prefetching of data. Which leads to a larger memory usage. Now every freaking program takes the same stupid approach and pre allocates all of the memory it will need on start up. I don't think my applications start or run any faster with vista on a vastly more powerful computer than they did with windows 95 (and now I have 5mb of 2 gig free, whoopee!). I should be able to slap windows and tell it to not try to guess what I'm going to do next.
Wait, can I actually do that? If so, then I take it all back.
True enough. And the sad part is I felt really bad disagreeing with him. I almost joined in. Doom II is the pinnacle of games. It has never gotten any better and it never will.
Well, that or qubert.
The article was interesting, but it doesn't explain why Doom would feel less like there was less latency. Wouldn't the main loop be the same thing?
What is this 1996? That was true of Doom vs WinDoom before Direct X. I don't think I've had a problem since then.
I think he's referring to all of the patent threats microsoft has made, a somewhat valid point. Still, couldn't Adobe pursue patent claims against Gnash?
No, I'd say my own personal boycott of Vista is working quite nicely as its resulted in me not running Vista. I guess it works in the same way that I'm 'boycotting' Ferrari and a dumpster full of sour cream.
See, thats marked as troll, and the poster probably was trolling. However, is there a real difference between flash and silverlight? They're both controlled by a single company. If Moonlight (the linux based open source version based on mono) takes off, shouldn't that put more pressure on Adobe to fix their crappy linux port?
Of course, I'd take silverlight more seriously if it worked better on Windows. Several computers I've set up have had problems installing Silverlight.
I'm sure it is confusing to a lot of people. Deciding who to vote for is a complex process. A voter has various opinions on the various topics as well as a weighting factor relating how much that particular issue is to them. You can't just assume that the voter will vote for the candidate who they agree with on the majority or plurality of positions.
This coming from a person who is socially conservative, pro welfare ( using your terminology) state. It would be silly at this point to decide( I think for everyone, but mainly I'm referring to myself ) who to vote for without knowing who the Veeps would be.
I understand your desires, for mine are the same. I think 90% of it would be solved if their was greater native browser support for SVG & SMIL.
Call me cynical, but isn't that what is happening right now? I think there is plentiful evidence that both major parties are corrupt. And recent presidential elections seem to be decided by wedge issues and bogus votes.
No, Windows Explorer is more of a suicide bomber than a highly trained assassin.
Yeah, as far as I can tell this is basically a replay of the Bosnian wars or even WWI. The good guys are the ones that end up winning, or end up drawing the largest power into the conflict.
Yes, for too long have the world's space powers ignored my design of a positronic interferometer based plasma drive. It runs on homeopathisized , magnetic water and an organic copper catalyst. It removes carbon dioxide from the air and harnesses the 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE.
My data is always encrypted. Even this message appearing to inform users that I always encrypt my data, is actually the result of a one time pad code sending a message to my minions to do the bidding proscribed for today.
Oh, okay. I understand. The only thing you have to worry about is people picking up a book to learn PHP. I had a friend that picked up one of the first php5 books, that had them using the old crufty deprecated functions and horrible security practices (ie magic quotes and register globals are your friends!).
Strange. Are you really suggesting wrapper functions around PHP's native functions for no other reason than to fix naming conventions? That seems like a bad idea. New developers to the project will have to learn your conventions and remember not to just use the native functions. Having said that there are also cases where you can reimplement a built in PHP function in PHP code that is faster than the built in function, but less flexible.
It does remind me about a embeded C project I once worked on where someone had written wrapper functions for some built in c functions, that did nothing except switch the order of the parameters( because he once worked with a c compiler that accepted those as functions). Of course he left the company after a mental breakdown, and the subsequent developers sometimes used his wrapper functions and sometimes the the built in C functions. It was a bit of a mess that I'd rather avoid if possible.
You have my deepest sympathies. That sounds like a thankless task. Hopefully, the measures you are taking are being well documented and explained to management to prevent any similar mistakes in the future.
When you get down to such a small scale, do quantum affects come into play? Once you get into a quantum scale wouldn't you have to talk about probabilities of states, rather than actuall states? Even if you do have a finite number of probable states with a quantum system, you can't really know what state it is in without disturbing it. It just sounds like your explanation is too determanistic. Our brains are capable of truely amazing things, but they fail at tasks that are simple for computers. If you could build a human brain out of electronic componants, You probably wouldn't want to assign it the task of being a database. I'm pretty sure it would fail ACID compliance.
Upon further reflection, I think by 'easy', you mean 'simple'. Simplicity has its place, but at other times it can make things more difficult.
Pointers? Python, Java,Ruby, PHP, they don't have pointers. Pointers are pretty much relegated to c, c++ and Pascal, not exactly a who's who of modern languages.
No it doesn't really make sense to make new applications in COBOL. Many people such as I dislike its verbosity, but the real reason is deeper. If you were to rewrite the system, you would want something that did the job well, but also one that has a number of people who know and understand the particular quirks of the language/platform. Plus you'd want one that had support for modern problems( parsing and validating XML, database client libraries for the popular databases, SOAP, Http, threading, inter process communication, Encryption). While a touring complete language could do any of those tasks, it would be best not to let your developers write implementations for those tasks and focus on the job at hand. At the same time you don't want to have the language allow common coding problems to crash the system (no c,c++). I believe that java would be the safe, conventional choice. A multi vendor requirement ( which I would like to see imposed for government jobs to keep competition) would prelude C#, at least until Mono is more accepted/polished.