C++ has probably set back the computing industry by 10 years.
Probably set back the industry 10 years? That you believe it to be so doesn't make it probable. You give no evidence why this is true.
After programming in C++ extensively for the last 9 years, I've come to the conclusion that it's much better to program in C (or a scripting language)
There has been much ranting on this topic on./ (and many other places). I think that most (not all) people believe you should use the right tool for the job. I, for instance, like to use C++ when working with bison because the polymorphism comes in handy.
I would like to have seen a more detailed and complete explanation of the object-oriented aspects of C++ (including more diagrams).
Also, the terms instantiation, polymorphism and encapsulation are not used in the book.
Seem odd to me that a book that is designed to teach C++ would skimp on the object oriented features of C++. I find polymorphism extremely powerful in many situations. For example, I use it often with bison when writing parsers, and for writing cool Zoo example programs where you call a function MakeSound and it automatically says "Ooo Ooo" for the Monkey, and "Eeeee haaaaa" for the Ass.
I think it's at the turn of the hockey stick, because it's at about 15 percent of the Web population that's paying for content right now--that's still a low number
I didn't realize so many people had porn subscriptions.
All of Marshall Brain's examples are from retail stores. Here is his list:
I got money in the morning from the ATM.
I bought gas from an automated pump.
I bought groceries at BJ's (a warehouse club) using an extremely well-designed self-service check out line.
I bought some stuff for the house at Home Depot using their not-as-well-designed-as-BJ's self-service check out line.
I bought my food at McDonald's at the kiosk, as described above
That sounds like a list of jobs people would love to have. Then he goes on to say:
The problem is that these systems will also eliminate jobs in massive numbers. In fact, we are about to see a seismic shift in the American workforce. As a nation, we have no way to understand or handle the level of unemployment that we will see in our economy over the next several decades.
I personally know two people who make careers as retail clerks. All other people I know use those jobs to get them through college or as a job. These automated systems are merely looking up prices or giving a menu to select from. Try providing customer service to customers that have different requirements. Try building a robot. Try composing music. Robots are not creative.
Go back in time before the industrial revolution. Common people didn't have jack. Everything was expensive: books, tools, clothes, everything. You had to make a lot of it yourself (which sounds cool to me). Whenever some new technology like this emerges a lot of people worry about job loss. Someone has to build, service, sale, market, etc, these robots (I doubt you will have robot sales and marketing, they are much too creative;) ). So even if they do become pervasive they will not just take away jobs, but add some too.
I live in Southern California and have seen a kiosk system like the one described in the article at a local Arby's fast food resturant (Arby's makes roast beef sandwitches and such). The system at Arby's has been there for years, probably 8 or 9. I doubt that in 5 years (2008) every meal in ever fast food restaurant will be ordered from a kiosk like this. Also, for I doubt that old fashioned fast food restaurants like In-N-Out Burger (the best fast food chain burger you can buy in Southern Cali, IMHO) will use Kiosks within the next 5 years.
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Thank you for speaking for all nerds. You, epotimizing nerds everywhere, are the authority on nerd tates and can speak, without prior authorization, on behalf of nerds everywhere. Thank you, Mr. Nerd Chairperson.
A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a peer-to-peer network.
Sweet. This isn't too bad. I'll let some Chinese (or someone from some other country) upload their junk, and then I'll download it. In fact, only one person need upload the material. Then two people DOWNLOAD it from them, then four people from those two, then eight from those four,..., then 4294967296 from those 2147483648.
Analysts estimate that the approximately 10 billion spam messages sent via e-mail each day cost European businesses $2.5 billion per year.
Where do analysts come up with numbers like this? I identify an e-mail as spam in about 1.5 seconds (but my Outlook SpamBayes filter does it even faster). If an employee is going to get that distracted by a spam (or 50 of them a day) then they will probably also get easily distracted with other things, like Slashdot;).
Oracle made it clear their intention was to discontinue all PeopleSoft products, ultimately forcing customers to convert to Oracle's application and database.
For me personally, this would have a negative impact because the company I work for integrates software with JD Edwards, who PeopleSoft just acquired (merged, whatever). We receive a lot of revenue as a part of that integration.
Another thing is that I don't like the Oracle software I've used. True, I've only used their database software and supporting applications, but that is their flagship. Oracle's database is a beast, and their tools like sqlplus don't even have the equivalent of readline built in (and if they try, I know the FSF guys will jump on them to release their code GPL;) ). I'd rather use PostgreSQL anyday. I'd rather even use SQL Server (gasp!, oh no, SLAMMER!).
In addition, I think Larry Ellison is pushing this because his company isn't producing much that is innovating or good. He seems like he is trying to buy his way out of sorryness. Not to say Oracle hasn't help to advance the state of databases, because they have. They are after all, SQL 92 complient (oh yeah, you can say you are compliant on different levels though, and they are complient on the newbie level).
Sorry if this post rambles on. I think my Oracle frustrations (that is, using SQL Plus when I'm used to mysql or psql) needed to be vented.
Why would this make you mad? You make no objections to any part of the journalism. Is it inaccurate, or do you just not like the conclusions?
Why do people have to conform in society in order to be accepted?
People who live in community establish laws for each member to follow. Conformity isn't always bad.
Why can't we leverage from richness in variety within our organizational fabric in order to attain greater heights intellectually?
WTF? I didn't know that diversity implied more opportunity for improving intellectual capacity.
It's more valuable to have him focus on this activity than to obtain social skills that will just hamper him in the pursuit of his research once he completes his post-graduate degree.
I disagree. Research isn't only done by mad scientists working incessantly in their basement. It is also done by teams of researchers, therefore social skills are important. Not that you can't learn social skills from MMOGs (though the NPCs are probably the most socially adept characters;)
I say, bring back the pale geek!
If that isn't a sterotype the mass media plays off of I don't know what is. Yes, bring back the pale (white?), nerdy researcher. We need all our researchers to be pale, white, and neerdy. That way they are all the same. Wait. Wasn't your point to have them different? Whatever.
...all of a sudden everyone criticizes the methodology of the report!
I have seen 3 main criticisms:
Bad Statistics
They used an Apache development version against a released commercial version
The severity of the defects in Apache are not as bad as the severity of the defects in commercial web servers.
I agree with you that those who say these are "Bad Statistics" have different standards if they thought the TCP/IP report was great. But the other two reasons are valid. Testing a development version of Apache against a commercial release version (if it was actually a release version of whatever commercial web server they used) is not a fair test. Also, the severity of the bug is very important. If you have one bug on Apache that will cause the server to crash and one bug on IIS that will allow you to execute commands on the web server then obviously the two bugs are not equal. It would be more informative if there were different weights given according to bug severity (though it would be difficult to come up with a weight objectively).
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Probably set back the industry 10 years? That you believe it to be so doesn't make it probable. You give no evidence why this is true.
After programming in C++ extensively for the last 9 years, I've come to the conclusion that it's much better to program in C (or a scripting language)
There has been much ranting on this topic on ./ (and many other places). I think that most (not all) people believe you should use the right tool for the job. I, for instance, like to use C++ when working with bison because the polymorphism comes in handy.
Also, the terms instantiation, polymorphism and encapsulation are not used in the book.
Seem odd to me that a book that is designed to teach C++ would skimp on the object oriented features of C++. I find polymorphism extremely powerful in many situations. For example, I use it often with bison when writing parsers, and for writing cool Zoo example programs where you call a function MakeSound and it automatically says "Ooo Ooo" for the Monkey, and "Eeeee haaaaa" for the Ass.
Software Enginneering positions at Google say having a Ph.D is a plus. Of course, Google was started by two Stanford Ph.D students.
It's all about:
./configure && make
su
make install
Bring on the dependency hell. It's all about the bleeding edge.
Unfortunately, there is a LOT of prior art. No such patent would hold up ;)
I didn't realize so many people had porn subscriptions.
That is because all of the "sex" searches were really "free sex" ;)
Did anyone else notice that the European viewpoint was written by Anonymous Coward? ;)
And no, I'm not writing this post with IE ;)
- I got money in the morning from the ATM.
- I bought gas from an automated pump.
- I bought groceries at BJ's (a warehouse club) using an extremely well-designed self-service check out line.
- I bought some stuff for the house at Home Depot using their not-as-well-designed-as-BJ's self-service check out line.
- I bought my food at McDonald's at the kiosk, as described above
That sounds like a list of jobs people would love to have. Then he goes on to say:I personally know two people who make careers as retail clerks. All other people I know use those jobs to get them through college or as a job. These automated systems are merely looking up prices or giving a menu to select from. Try providing customer service to customers that have different requirements. Try building a robot. Try composing music. Robots are not creative.
Go back in time before the industrial revolution. Common people didn't have jack. Everything was expensive: books, tools, clothes, everything. You had to make a lot of it yourself (which sounds cool to me). Whenever some new technology like this emerges a lot of people worry about job loss. Someone has to build, service, sale, market, etc, these robots (I doubt you will have robot sales and marketing, they are much too creative ;) ). So even if they do become pervasive they will not just take away jobs, but add some too.
I live in Southern California and have seen a kiosk system like the one described in the article at a local Arby's fast food resturant (Arby's makes roast beef sandwitches and such). The system at Arby's has been there for years, probably 8 or 9. I doubt that in 5 years (2008) every meal in ever fast food restaurant will be ordered from a kiosk like this. Also, for I doubt that old fashioned fast food restaurants like In-N-Out Burger (the best fast food chain burger you can buy in Southern Cali, IMHO) will use Kiosks within the next 5 years.
I have had trouble with my wrists and arms getting sore at work. I found a good stretch guide. You might find it helpful.
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WTF? Why not make this service available to Mac and Linux users as well?
Thank you for speaking for all nerds. You, epotimizing nerds everywhere, are the authority on nerd tates and can speak, without prior authorization, on behalf of nerds everywhere. Thank you, Mr. Nerd Chairperson.
You, oh lamer, are using MS SQL Server syntax on Slashdot. If your sorry FP wasn't enough to get you modded down, your SQL statement will be.
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I don't think they are going to do much with that.
See Vorbis for more information.
Do not take this Ogg Vorbis player outside in bad weather, as rain can damage the player and also poses an electrocution hazard.
Sweet. This isn't too bad. I'll let some Chinese (or someone from some other country) upload their junk, and then I'll download it. In fact, only one person need upload the material. Then two people DOWNLOAD it from them, then four people from those two, then eight from those four, ..., then 4294967296 from those 2147483648.
Where do analysts come up with numbers like this? I identify an e-mail as spam in about 1.5 seconds (but my Outlook SpamBayes filter does it even faster). If an employee is going to get that distracted by a spam (or 50 of them a day) then they will probably also get easily distracted with other things, like Slashdot ;).
For me personally, this would have a negative impact because the company I work for integrates software with JD Edwards, who PeopleSoft just acquired (merged, whatever). We receive a lot of revenue as a part of that integration.
Another thing is that I don't like the Oracle software I've used. True, I've only used their database software and supporting applications, but that is their flagship. Oracle's database is a beast, and their tools like sqlplus don't even have the equivalent of readline built in (and if they try, I know the FSF guys will jump on them to release their code GPL ;) ). I'd rather use PostgreSQL anyday. I'd rather even use SQL Server (gasp!, oh no, SLAMMER!).
In addition, I think Larry Ellison is pushing this because his company isn't producing much that is innovating or good. He seems like he is trying to buy his way out of sorryness. Not to say Oracle hasn't help to advance the state of databases, because they have. They are after all, SQL 92 complient (oh yeah, you can say you are compliant on different levels though, and they are complient on the newbie level).
Sorry if this post rambles on. I think my Oracle frustrations (that is, using SQL Plus when I'm used to mysql or psql) needed to be vented.
You're right. Anyone with any muscles belongs anywhere near a computer. Muscles and computer skills are mutually exclusive.
Sadly, once "Joe Sixpack" has installed a DVD-burner, or some software, they start thinking they are computer masters...
Yes, that is sad. Unfortunately, you think the same thing about body building when you do a single sit up.
When Masses were said in Latin, with the priest facing away from the people, it was a much more mysterious, deep experience.
That is because everyone was asleep, dreaming.
Why would this make you mad? You make no objections to any part of the journalism. Is it inaccurate, or do you just not like the conclusions?
Why do people have to conform in society in order to be accepted?
People who live in community establish laws for each member to follow. Conformity isn't always bad.
Why can't we leverage from richness in variety within our organizational fabric in order to attain greater heights intellectually?
WTF? I didn't know that diversity implied more opportunity for improving intellectual capacity.
It's more valuable to have him focus on this activity than to obtain social skills that will just hamper him in the pursuit of his research once he completes his post-graduate degree.
I disagree. Research isn't only done by mad scientists working incessantly in their basement. It is also done by teams of researchers, therefore social skills are important. Not that you can't learn social skills from MMOGs (though the NPCs are probably the most socially adept characters ;)
I say, bring back the pale geek!
If that isn't a sterotype the mass media plays off of I don't know what is. Yes, bring back the pale (white?), nerdy researcher. We need all our researchers to be pale, white, and neerdy. That way they are all the same. Wait. Wasn't your point to have them different? Whatever.
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I have seen 3 main criticisms:
I agree with you that those who say these are "Bad Statistics" have different standards if they thought the TCP/IP report was great. But the other two reasons are valid. Testing a development version of Apache against a commercial release version (if it was actually a release version of whatever commercial web server they used) is not a fair test. Also, the severity of the bug is very important. If you have one bug on Apache that will cause the server to crash and one bug on IIS that will allow you to execute commands on the web server then obviously the two bugs are not equal. It would be more informative if there were different weights given according to bug severity (though it would be difficult to come up with a weight objectively).