Those traitors who would still attempt to download it are committing suicide against the firewalls of our server farm. We will lure the imperialist dogs into our honey pots and decimate them with unconventional DDOS attacks. Allahu Akhbar!
Extremely. I haven't been fooled by any of these stories even for a few seconds. Failing in deception, they don't even particularly succed in being humorous.
At some point we'll probably see benchmarks on TPC/kW or Webstones/rack where Transmeta could make a dent.
The only place Transmeta's going to make a dent is in its investors' portfolios. I expect your TPC/kW prediction to come to pass within 5-10 years, but the only thing left of Transmeta by then will be an entry in fuckedcompany.com's archives.
Transmeta's processors are technologically fascinating and far ahead of their time. However, the company overhyped itself with all that Skunk Works shit (*cough*segway*cough*) and then failed to deliver a product with sufficiently compelling advantages to offset its disadvantages for all but a narrow segment of today's market.
While much of my work can be done in MySQL, until there are views I cannot switch completely from SQL Server 2K.
Why the hell would you even try to switch to MySQL from MS-SQL when there are such open source offerings as SAPDB, PostgreSQL, and Firebird? Oh well, I hope you enjoy the wait for MySQL 5.1.
Digging up the moon will not ruin it for the lunar campers who sometimes frequent it.
No, but it should--it's a gameplay balance issue! The cowardly fuckers sit out there with the sniper rifle and pick off those of us who have the balls to fight mano-a-mano.
4) Sun gets 2 of the leading 64-bit processor platforms, plus some control over the Windows hardware platform.
Your Business 101 professor must be rolling over in his grave. What part of simultaneously marketing the top two competitors in the same arena has become sensible since I last cracked a textbook?
Shit, you didn't even have the decency to add:
6) Sun can control the cost of its Linux platform.
7)...
8) Profit!!!
Is it true that some companies are so overcome with code bias they'd assign weeks of unnecessary work rather than give it to the scripting untouchables?
Yes, it is true, and I hope it stays that way.
There's nothing more satisfying than shoving my Python down the throat of an obtuse, lumbering behemoth of a competitor that's too narrow-minded to consider using an unconventional language in an imaginative way. In fact, I get off on it.
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I'm not sure what "real CS applications are" but Python is frequently used for scientific computing.
"Real CS applications" are programs written by Real Programmers--the "anything less efficient than asm is an abomination" crowd.
You can address this problem with one or more of the following:
...)
...
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- a folding editor (SciTE, PythonWin, jEdit,
- block delimiters placed in a comment, like:
if x: #{
#}
- a preprocessor that Tim Peters wrote to strip block delimiters automatically before the code is sent to the interpreter
If you could just go ahead and register over the weekend and have it ready by Monday, that'd be greeeaatt.
Ever heard of a back door, man?
Those traitors who would still attempt to download it are committing suicide against the firewalls of our server farm. We will lure the imperialist dogs into our honey pots and decimate them with unconventional DDOS attacks. Allahu Akhbar!
Which topic of conversation could be more important than Carrie-Anne Moss in a tight leather catsuit?
Richard Stallman in a G-string?
Yeah, well, that is Poland, after all.
When talk exceeds the bounds of the talker's knowledge, there ought to be a segfault :-)
Nah, then Eric Raymond's laptop would put the lie to claims that Linux doesn't crash.
these stories are lame.
Extremely. I haven't been fooled by any of these stories even for a few seconds. Failing in deception, they don't even particularly succed in being humorous.
Open source programmers deserve to be paid too. Put your money where your mouth is.
Somehow I don't see how wrapping dollar bills around Richard Stallman's cock would do any good.
I could've sworn I read idiot-pc there...
This is Slashdot's new adaptive personalization code at work. Pretty cool to have the text tailored so closely to the reader, huh?
Everyone knows that REAL programmers don't use garbage collectors, so I'm afraid I don't follow your line of reasoning.
I've been waiting for something like Eclipse since I did my first C code to generate COBOL list programs.
C code to generate COBOL list programs?! I think I would've opted to flop my scrotum onto the nearest anvil and reach for the sledgehammer.
Hold the phone, I thought CmdrTaco was a guy!
So did CmdrTaco's fiance, but she has since come to know better.
At some point we'll probably see benchmarks on TPC/kW or Webstones/rack where Transmeta could make a dent.
The only place Transmeta's going to make a dent is in its investors' portfolios. I expect your TPC/kW prediction to come to pass within 5-10 years, but the only thing left of Transmeta by then will be an entry in fuckedcompany.com's archives.
Transmeta's processors are technologically fascinating and far ahead of their time. However, the company overhyped itself with all that Skunk Works shit (*cough*segway*cough*) and then failed to deliver a product with sufficiently compelling advantages to offset its disadvantages for all but a narrow segment of today's market.
Remember Cyrix?
Remember 3dfx?
Two words:
human ignorance
welcome to real *relational* databases
Easy there, you'll scare the puppy.
While much of my work can be done in MySQL, until there are views I cannot switch completely from SQL Server 2K.
Why the hell would you even try to switch to MySQL from MS-SQL when there are such open source offerings as SAPDB, PostgreSQL, and Firebird? Oh well, I hope you enjoy the wait for MySQL 5.1.
Digging up the moon will not ruin it for the lunar campers who sometimes frequent it.
No, but it should--it's a gameplay balance issue! The cowardly fuckers sit out there with the sniper rifle and pick off those of us who have the balls to fight mano-a-mano.
those people in the middle-east are certainly fighting for their beliefs and way of life
You make a lot of broad and dramatic claims, but who are you talking about, specifically?
4) Sun gets 2 of the leading 64-bit processor platforms, plus some control over the Windows hardware platform.
Your Business 101 professor must be rolling over in his grave. What part of simultaneously marketing the top two competitors in the same arena has become sensible since I last cracked a textbook?
Shit, you didn't even have the decency to add:
6) Sun can control the cost of its Linux platform. ...
7)
8) Profit!!!
Is it true that some companies are so overcome with code bias they'd assign weeks of unnecessary work rather than give it to the scripting untouchables?
Yes, it is true, and I hope it stays that way.
There's nothing more satisfying than shoving my Python down the throat of an obtuse, lumbering behemoth of a competitor that's too narrow-minded to consider using an unconventional language in an imaginative way. In fact, I get off on it.
All we could afford was one piece of paper though, and we had to write the zeros and ones on it. Bah, kids. Zzzzzzz....
Sheit, kid. When I was growin up we didn't have no paper... had to smear the ones and zeroes on birch bark with the bloody stumps of our fingers.
Congrats! Just don't go on a month-long binge that ends in an arrest, like I did ;)