I think here at slashdot Troll is used to defame the user that made the comment, and Flamebait is used to defame the actual comment more than the user.
This is because 'Troll' is an insult. If you call someone a Troll, you hope to hurt their feelings. The reason why you want to hurt them, is because of the reasons given in the post above - usualy because the the person posted a comment that showed arrogance or the wrong facts. Usualy trolls are people that dislike linux.
Meanwhile flame bait is branded to a comment when the comment goes againts the general values / ideas. Usualy moderators brand flaimbait to comments where the poster mentions windows in a positive sence
But he did not want to retire. During an interview on an Australian TV show not too long ago (October?), he mentioned that he would like to do some more Bond movies in the future, with John Cleese as his 'assistant'
How about those poor bastards at VMWare? They will surely loose a lot from this.
Open Source has its dark side too - since it rips programmers from their jobs. If this Open VMware becomes successful, there is a chance that VMWare will not pull in big enough revenue to support all of its programmers!
And we all know that VMWare is not our enemy, after all it DOES innovate and does produce some amazing software for Linux. Why would we want to hurt a company like that??
39. In Java, disdain the interface. If your supervisors complain, tell them that Java interfaces force you to "cut-and-paste" code between different classes that implement the same interface the same way, and they know how hard that would be to maintain. Instead, do as the Java AWT designers did - put lots of functionality in your classes that can only be used by classes that inherit from them, and use lots of "instanceof" checks in your methods. This way, if someone wants to reuse your code, they have to extend your classes. If they want to reuse your code from two different classes - tough luck, they can't extend both of them at once!
I think the AWT designers probably had a good reason for designing the code that way..I'm not sure, but I'm guessing is that the classes used by the AWT are 'heavyweight' components that are provided by the OS, which might have restrictions on subclassing. Also Java does not support multiple inheritance, so inheriting from more than one class would be impossible..
I still have my GEOS 5 1/4 disks dated from 1986, by Berkeley Softworks.
GEOS was a remarkable Operating System, considering that it was written for an 8-bit machine with 64KB of RAM.
Some features of GEOS were drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste, memory managment which allowed programs to swap memory to disk, support for many IO devices, such as mice, light-pens.. printers..etc.. Later version even supported hard-drives, and task switching..
Screenshots of the GUI can be found at: http://www.zimmers.net/geos/
The Operating System was ususaly bundled with each Commodore 64 system sold, just like these days, Windows is bundled with every PC sold...
After recently upgrading to Linux myself, I've found that my particular type of modem did not work, and my video card was not supported by XF86.. Sound is pain yet to be configured too
In the end I've found that Linux too has a hardware compatibility list, and the list is no better than Microsoft's list for NT..
As for now, I can either wait till my hardware is supported, (which is what makes linux better), or I'll have to upgrade..
You are right, win32 is just another subsystem of windows NT. Tho NT is not a true microkernel OS, since the subsystems are executed in kernel mode! (also the GUI is executed in kernel mode..)
Actually, wouldn't the result with the biggest visible plume be if the spacecraft missed the cater altogether? The crater depth is about 5km.. If the craft crashed right into the bottom, then the visible pume wouln't be as big, and most of the pume would be contined in the crater..
When telstra was a monopoly, it was 100% government owned.
Being government owned, it did not make profits as big as it does now.. The company often had to provide services that resulted in very low profit margins, particularly for services that were provided for the rural and outback of australia.
Low profits from the rural australia didn't matter to Telstra as much as the extra votes the government would get in favor during the next election! Usually, the extended coverage and affordable costs kept the voters happy..
Since telstra has recently started to privatize, there is growing fear that competition might actually be bad..
To compete successfully with other tel-co's, telstra would have to cut back on spending on those low profit margin services, and divert the funds to more needed paces so that they could be used to curb competition.
In this case, telstra might cut spending on the rural / outback service, in order to to decrease the cost of a local urban call, so that it would match the competition.
As for now, competition is mainly in urban areas
Luckily, telstra still remains 50% government owned, so that low profit services can still operate.. Recently 400 million dollars has been set aside for telstra to install the CDMA cell phone network. Why CDMA? I don't know.. we already have a GSM network covering over 90% of the population... I guess the farmers have been complaining again..
Dont forget that a black hole also bends time!! Time also decreases the closer you are to a black hole, and time is NIL when you are inside a back hole...
So suspending a blackole into a vaccum, and blasting it for a ride out of this solar system might take a very long time, especially for the person that will be the closest to it!
Compared to software, hardware had come a long, long, long way..
This is mostly thanks to that kind of competition that was mentioned, where each company has enough market share to influence another.
Perhaps in the future, Linux and others will have enough market influence to exert more pressure on Microsoft - resulting in Microsoft producing better quality software..??
Film will still have a big adavantage over digital video, which is storage. The article claimed that the camera spits out a 48MB image for a resolution of 4000 by 4000! This makes this camera usefulness for video very expensive.. Assuming that no compression is used so to preserve quality, a second of video footage might take 48*25= 1.2 Gigabytes! Ofcorse you can compress your video using mpeg or another simular codec, but in the end you still will need at least a Terrabyte of harddisk to store the beginning credits of'The Matrix' at acceptable quality.. Also you are going to need a super fast hard disk that can write 1.2 Gigabytes per second to save your digital video!
Perl, being a great language, doesn't get much recognition from the academic community. How many times do you see perl mentioned in a programming language text book??
You find that perl is often snubbed by all CS courses, for traditional imperative programming languages (and ofcorse the almost useless functional and declarative languages)..
My guess to why this is occurring is that perl brakes away from the traditional programming language design rules (or current trends) so much that it is viewed as inferior. While every traditional imperative language can have a 'record' data type, Perl can have none... Pointers in Perl are all but gone.. and all variables are global, unless explicitly declared.. - and those are just one of the many examples to why this language is viewed as a step back. However, these features are what make the language better, and I could go on about the many superior features that perl has that are not found in any of the major languages..
I nominate the person who's quest would be to re-write the text books, and put at least a page on the most Practical language on Earth, Perl!
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I think here at slashdot Troll is used to defame the user that made the comment, and Flamebait is used to defame the actual comment more than the user.
This is because 'Troll' is an insult. If you call someone a Troll, you hope to hurt their feelings. The reason why you want to hurt them, is because of the reasons given in the post above - usualy because the the person posted a comment that showed arrogance or the wrong facts. Usualy trolls are people that dislike linux.
Meanwhile flame bait is branded to a comment when the comment goes againts the general values / ideas. Usualy moderators brand flaimbait to comments where the poster mentions windows in a positive sence
He also mentioned that Pierce Brosnan was better then Sean Connery at playing Bond! :)
But he did not want to retire. During an interview on an Australian TV show not too long ago (October?), he mentioned that he would like to do some more Bond movies in the future, with John Cleese as his 'assistant'
Cool?
How about those poor bastards at VMWare? They will surely loose a lot from this.
Open Source has its dark side too - since it rips programmers from their jobs. If this Open VMware becomes successful, there is a chance that VMWare will not pull in big enough revenue to support all of its programmers!
And we all know that VMWare is not our enemy, after all it DOES innovate and does produce some amazing software for Linux. Why would we want to hurt a company like that??
Not Cool.
IE5 keeps the cookies encrypted..
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So I have the problem you mentioned.
I have 234KB worth of cookie files, of which 4 of them are from slashdot which look something like:
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I think the AWT designers probably had a good reason for designing the code that way..I'm not sure, but I'm guessing is that the classes used by the AWT are 'heavyweight' components that are provided by the OS, which might have restrictions on subclassing. Also Java does not support multiple inheritance, so inheriting from more than one class would be impossible..
The page was a Good read anyways! :)
I still have my GEOS 5 1/4 disks dated from 1986, by Berkeley Softworks.
GEOS was a remarkable Operating System, considering that it was written for an 8-bit machine with 64KB of RAM.
Some features of GEOS were drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste, memory managment which allowed programs to swap memory to disk, support for many IO devices, such as mice, light-pens.. printers..etc..
Later version even supported hard-drives, and task switching..
Screenshots of the GUI can be found at: http://www.zimmers.net/geos/
The Operating System was ususaly bundled with each Commodore 64 system sold, just like these days, Windows is bundled with every PC sold...
Bill Gates didn't inovate anything new at all..
Not totally true..
After recently upgrading to Linux myself, I've found that my particular type of modem did not work, and my video card was not supported by XF86.. Sound is pain yet to be configured too
In the end I've found that Linux too has a hardware compatibility list, and the list is no better than Microsoft's list for NT..
As for now, I can either wait till my hardware is supported, (which is what makes linux better), or I'll have to upgrade..
You are right, win32 is just another subsystem of windows NT. Tho NT is not a true microkernel OS, since the subsystems are executed in kernel mode! (also the GUI is executed in kernel mode..)
Fonts on the linux desktop look so yuck!
Thats why I choose Windows.
Windows is like a big tamagotchi..!!
If you dont give it upgrades and reboot reguraly, then it will eventually die..
Actually, wouldn't the result with the biggest visible plume be if the spacecraft missed the cater altogether?
The crater depth is about 5km.. If the craft crashed right into the bottom, then the visible pume wouln't be as big, and most of the pume would be contined in the crater..
When telstra was a monopoly, it was 100% government owned.
Being government owned, it did not make profits as big as it does now.. The company often had to provide services that resulted in very low profit margins, particularly for services that were provided for the rural and outback of australia.
Low profits from the rural australia didn't matter to Telstra as much as the extra votes the government would get in favor during the next election! Usually, the extended coverage and affordable costs kept the voters happy..
Since telstra has recently started to privatize, there is growing fear that competition might actually be bad..
To compete successfully with other tel-co's, telstra would have to cut back on spending on those low profit margin services, and divert the funds to more needed paces so that they could be used to curb competition.
In this case, telstra might cut spending on the rural / outback service, in order to to decrease the cost of a local urban call, so that it would match the competition.
As for now, competition is mainly in urban areas
Luckily, telstra still remains 50% government owned, so that low profit services can still operate.. Recently 400 million dollars has been set aside for telstra to install the CDMA cell phone network. Why CDMA? I don't know.. we already have a GSM network covering over 90% of the population... I guess the farmers have been complaining again..
Dont forget that a black hole also bends time!!
Time also decreases the closer you are to a black hole, and time is NIL when you are inside a back hole...
So suspending a blackole into a vaccum, and blasting it for a ride out of this solar system might take a very long time, especially for the person that will be the closest to it!
Compared to software, hardware had come a long, long, long way..
This is mostly thanks to that kind of competition that was mentioned, where each company has enough market share to influence another.
Perhaps in the future, Linux and others will have enough market influence to exert more pressure on Microsoft - resulting in Microsoft producing better quality software..??
Film will still have a big adavantage over digital video, which is storage.
The article claimed that the camera spits out a
48MB image for a resolution of 4000 by 4000!
This makes this camera usefulness for video very expensive..
Assuming that no compression is used so to preserve quality,
a second of video footage might take 48*25= 1.2 Gigabytes!
Ofcorse you can compress your video using mpeg or another simular codec,
but in the end you still will need at least a Terrabyte of harddisk
to store the beginning credits of'The Matrix' at acceptable quality..
Also you are going to need a super fast hard disk that can write
1.2 Gigabytes per second to save your digital video!
Perl, being a great language, doesn't get much recognition from the academic community.
How many times do you see perl mentioned in a programming language text book??
You find that perl is often snubbed by all CS courses, for traditional imperative programming languages (and ofcorse the almost useless functional and declarative languages)..
My guess to why this is occurring is that perl brakes away from the traditional programming language design rules (or current trends) so much that it is viewed as inferior. While every traditional imperative language can have a 'record' data type, Perl can have none... Pointers in Perl are all but gone.. and all variables are global, unless explicitly declared.. - and those are just one of the many examples to why this language is viewed as a step back. However, these features are what make the language better, and I could go on about the many superior features that perl has that are not found in any of the major languages..
I nominate the person who's quest would be to re-write the text books, and put at least a page on the most Practical language on Earth, Perl!