What you've said is true, but if you RTFA the negative comments in question were posted by a blogger who apparently (according to him) gets about 100,000 hits per months. He's not Bill O'Reilly (after all, who is?) but that's not exactly a dark corner of the internet, either.
Are the bags getting there slower, or are you just getting there faster? It seems to me the trains that run from the concourses to the terminal run quite a bit more frequently than they used to. You might have just traded time waiting for the train for time waiting for the bags.
I really hate to agree with the parent, but he's right. I loathe Windows, and all the horrendously bad API's that come with it. But VS blows away every other IDE I've ever used (including Eclipse).
Yeah, tech companies really need to get more involved with enforcing moral and ethical behavior.
Hey, maybe we could get Dell to stop selling PC's to all those theiving college students that will only use them to download music w/o paying for it.
Oh, wait...
I think alot of the posts on this article are suffering from a Serious Contradiction of Principles. On the one hand is human rights, we all think everyone should be free and clearly the Chineese government is not with the program. But, on the other hand, we hate it when big companies start telling customers what they can and can't do with technology. Software and technology should also be free, right?
Suppose it wasn't Cisco, suppose the Chineese government was using Linux to build their Great Firewall. Would you then be then advocating that we prevent them from using it (as if you could)? No, more likely we'd all be hailing them as geniuses for recognizing the fabulousness of Open Source.
Seriously folks, do you really think the answer here is for tech companies to become even more controlling of technology?
Er... how is this any different from your favorite bank or investment firm having it's servers and backups getting wiped out by same natural disaster? This is why god created off-site backup warehousing.
This is a good start, but since C is technically a complete language, the first operand of the expression would always evaluate to 1, thereby prohibiting C++ from ever even being evaluated.:-p
It doesn't make much sense to do line-for-line comparisons between Java and C++ and then argue over the results. A more productive approach would be to define a set of requirements for a real-world application, and then set off to develop a version of this application in each of the two languages. Each implementation may take advantage of whatever features its language has to offer, including it's own standard library.
The results of this activity should be measured objectively based on speed, memory usage, correctness, stability, and the amount of time required to implement it.
As a follow on, it would be interesting to add additional requirements in order to evaluate how well the implementation can be extended and/or modified.
This would make for an interesting competition, and would be alot more fruitful than this discussion.
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Hmm... I would have thought Los Alamos would have them both beat by a longshot.
Yep, Fort Collins rocks. I'd move there if Boulder wasn't so much better ;-).
"... it's a no-smoking sign, on your cigaratte break..."
This isn't ironic? Could have fooled me... guess I need a new dictionary.
What you've said is true, but if you RTFA the negative comments in question were posted by a blogger who apparently (according to him) gets about 100,000 hits per months. He's not Bill O'Reilly (after all, who is?) but that's not exactly a dark corner of the internet, either.
Are the bags getting there slower, or are you just getting there faster? It seems to me the trains that run from the concourses to the terminal run quite a bit more frequently than they used to. You might have just traded time waiting for the train for time waiting for the bags.
I really hate to agree with the parent, but he's right. I loathe Windows, and all the horrendously bad API's that come with it. But VS blows away every other IDE I've ever used (including Eclipse).
Yeah, tech companies really need to get more involved with enforcing moral and ethical behavior. Hey, maybe we could get Dell to stop selling PC's to all those theiving college students that will only use them to download music w/o paying for it. Oh, wait...
Suppose it wasn't Cisco, suppose the Chineese government was using Linux to build their Great Firewall. Would you then be then advocating that we prevent them from using it (as if you could)? No, more likely we'd all be hailing them as geniuses for recognizing the fabulousness of Open Source.
Seriously folks, do you really think the answer here is for tech companies to become even more controlling of technology?
Er... how is this any different from your favorite bank or investment firm having it's servers and backups getting wiped out by same natural disaster? This is why god created off-site backup warehousing.
Not sure I want to fly on an airline that builds it's own planes...
This is a good start, but since C is technically a complete language, the first operand of the expression would always evaluate to 1, thereby prohibiting C++ from ever even being evaluated. :-p
It doesn't make much sense to do line-for-line comparisons between Java and C++ and then argue over the results. A more productive approach would be to define a set of requirements for a real-world application, and then set off to develop a version of this application in each of the two languages. Each implementation may take advantage of whatever features its language has to offer, including it's own standard library.
The results of this activity should be measured objectively based on speed, memory usage, correctness, stability, and the amount of time required to implement it.
As a follow on, it would be interesting to add additional requirements in order to evaluate how well the implementation can be extended and/or modified.
This would make for an interesting competition, and would be alot more fruitful than this discussion.