No implemented communism governments in existence were close to what Marx had in his vision. If you're an idealist, Marxism is still the best government out there, in theory. Unfortunately, it's the hardest to implement, in practice.
Not true. Some filters which took minutes in Adobe Photoshop CS2 only took half a second in CS4. Just doing a low-pass filter or a blur to get noise reduction would, of course, be doable by a single cpu correctly. But once you go professional, the time saved through using GPGPU is amazing, and means you can see results in realtime, so you can make adjustments much much faster.
What's with people using the word nerd incorrectly?
So you implied that it wasn't a personal opinion.
Aside of that, I don't understand why people are bashing guys like this one. I have absolutely no problem with him paying 36 accounts to have his fun. If he can pay his bills, no harm done. If it's an addiction, get a treatment. If it's not, spend as much as you'd like.
I've seen people spend much more than 3000$ a year on hobbies. So where's the problem? Why is WoW different than building a car piece by piece? I currently play WAR and played WoW for 2 years and a half. I've met a lot of good friends and had a lot of fun, but I've also seen people destroyed by it. Same with alcoholism.
To me, GEEK, means: fascinated by technology, completely clueless how it even works
NERD means: knows technology and how it works, useful to society and isn't locked in basement playing D&D (or WoW) all day, every day like GEEKS.
There's your problem. Just there, emphasis mine. Welcome to the world of "I don't care what you think, my definition of the word is the right one". And btw, his use of the word nerd is good. Just check it out here.
Sure, you can link your PC to your phone through USB, but IIRC there is no software available on the PC to exchange data/software with your phone (iTunes like). I might be mistaken though. If you know the answer, please confirm/correct me.
Also, please note that you can install applications on your iPhone without getting it from the App Store (adhoc distribution), though it is limited (developer still has to be approved by Apple and get valid certificates).
We should run auto cad as a web app! I cant believe nobody has ever thought of that before!
With silverlight and flex, are we that far off such possibilities?
And the OP was talking about public agencies that imposed platform choices on their users (sometimes refered as "We, The People" - might want to google that), not about private companies that had specific needs about high-end software that needs years of R&D.
The GP and you are both right on observable properties in Obj-C, I'm not sure why he'd whip out a claim like it was "really fast," though 90% of the time you're doing all your key-value work in response to events, and it seems fast because you aren't doing it very often.
I didn't say it was "really fast", I just did say it wasn't "slow". Not weaseling my way out - I know every call through a virtual hash-table will be slower than a vtable, I've done enough Obj-C and C++. (Obj-C 2.1 hopes to solve part of this problem) But, as you and someone said, in the context it's not much slower to use observers and key-value coding than using the same method calls.
Key-Value is almost there in.Net, and I hope the Observer pattern will get much farther than it is now. Like you rightly said, it plays a major part in slimming down your designs (and thus give free elegancy most of the time) and playing around with objects and their relations to each others, decoupling use and maintenance of data.
The good news is that the MS guys know about it, and it seems that some cleanup is on the TODO list - hopefully scheduled for 4.0, as it will be a "breaking" release (like 2.0 was with respect to 1.x), so they can change more things.
Just like they knew about Win16 flaws when they made Win32. Just like they knew about GDI flaws when making GDI+. Just like they knew Win32 had flaws that inherited from Win16 when they made the 64-bits version and the Pocket PC version of the API...
The only well designed API that ever came out from Microsoft was.Net, and they are slowly working on that so it's not so good anymore.
May I note that Objective-C had observable properties for every object out there (as well as keying for those) and it's not slow?
As said by your parents, you don't understand Liberalism. Do some wikipedia search and stop pretending you know anything about what you're talking about.
Liberalism is a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that consider individual liberty to be the most important political goal.[1] Modern liberalism has its roots in the Age of Enlightenment. Liberalism rejected many foundational assumptions that dominated most earlier theories of government, such as the Divine Right of Kings, hereditary status, state religion, and protectionism.
That distinction is exactly what is being proposed here. Encrypted TCP would solve the eavesdropping problem (mostly, not totally) and the X509 certs would solve the authenticity problem. Best of both worlds.
How do you know they are "boys"? Japanese names are hard (for non-Japanese) to determine the gender just by reading them.
Sexist!
Unless I magically happened to know them (not necessarily personally)? Or I made some research. Or I know how male and female japanese names are differentiated. Or D) all of the above.
Disclaimer: this is not a troll. I just wanted to congratulate two of the great researchers of our time. These discoveries changed our views of sub-atomic particles. Good job!
As the disconnected logic of believing that if something hasn't been proven, it doesn't exist? People believe because they have to, and they have the right to believe what they want.
Slashdot Mirror
No implemented communism governments in existence were close to what Marx had in his vision. If you're an idealist, Marxism is still the best government out there, in theory. Unfortunately, it's the hardest to implement, in practice.
Yes! Lets fork the country and call it some other name!
Not true. Some filters which took minutes in Adobe Photoshop CS2 only took half a second in CS4. Just doing a low-pass filter or a blur to get noise reduction would, of course, be doable by a single cpu correctly. But once you go professional, the time saved through using GPGPU is amazing, and means you can see results in realtime, so you can make adjustments much much faster.
What's with people using the word nerd incorrectly?
So you implied that it wasn't a personal opinion.
Aside of that, I don't understand why people are bashing guys like this one. I have absolutely no problem with him paying 36 accounts to have his fun. If he can pay his bills, no harm done. If it's an addiction, get a treatment. If it's not, spend as much as you'd like.
I've seen people spend much more than 3000$ a year on hobbies. So where's the problem? Why is WoW different than building a car piece by piece? I currently play WAR and played WoW for 2 years and a half. I've met a lot of good friends and had a lot of fun, but I've also seen people destroyed by it. Same with alcoholism.
Yeah I just don't get why... My 386 with Lotus 123 can makes my tax reports just fine, thank you.
There's your problem. Just there, emphasis mine. Welcome to the world of "I don't care what you think, my definition of the word is the right one". And btw, his use of the word nerd is good. Just check it out here.
Sure, you can link your PC to your phone through USB, but IIRC there is no software available on the PC to exchange data/software with your phone (iTunes like). I might be mistaken though. If you know the answer, please confirm/correct me.
Also, please note that you can install applications on your iPhone without getting it from the App Store (adhoc distribution), though it is limited (developer still has to be approved by Apple and get valid certificates).
my god! Your right!
"Your" use of "grammer" astound me, AC.
We should run auto cad as a web app! I cant believe nobody has ever thought of that before!
With silverlight and flex, are we that far off such possibilities?
And the OP was talking about public agencies that imposed platform choices on their users (sometimes refered as "We, The People" - might want to google that), not about private companies that had specific needs about high-end software that needs years of R&D.
Not one to take matter into context, are you?
So they should turn toward web apps. In fact, the shift is happening, albeit slowly.
Until you realize you're on slashdot. Then it sounds like the only option.
Sorry, but 509 and 725 comments? You're a timid one too...
The GP and you are both right on observable properties in Obj-C, I'm not sure why he'd whip out a claim like it was "really fast," though 90% of the time you're doing all your key-value work in response to events, and it seems fast because you aren't doing it very often.
I didn't say it was "really fast", I just did say it wasn't "slow". Not weaseling my way out - I know every call through a virtual hash-table will be slower than a vtable, I've done enough Obj-C and C++. (Obj-C 2.1 hopes to solve part of this problem) But, as you and someone said, in the context it's not much slower to use observers and key-value coding than using the same method calls.
Key-Value is almost there in .Net, and I hope the Observer pattern will get much farther than it is now. Like you rightly said, it plays a major part in slimming down your designs (and thus give free elegancy most of the time) and playing around with objects and their relations to each others, decoupling use and maintenance of data.
Love your sig, btw.
The good news is that the MS guys know about it, and it seems that some cleanup is on the TODO list - hopefully scheduled for 4.0, as it will be a "breaking" release (like 2.0 was with respect to 1.x), so they can change more things.
Just like they knew about Win16 flaws when they made Win32. Just like they knew about GDI flaws when making GDI+. Just like they knew Win32 had flaws that inherited from Win16 when they made the 64-bits version and the Pocket PC version of the API...
The only well designed API that ever came out from Microsoft was .Net, and they are slowly working on that so it's not so good anymore.
May I note that Objective-C had observable properties for every object out there (as well as keying for those) and it's not slow?
As said by your parents, you don't understand Liberalism. Do some wikipedia search and stop pretending you know anything about what you're talking about.
Liberalism: (this is a fine start)
Is that a trick question? Cause I'm not sure if there should be a sarcasm tag or not there...
Calm yourself. The shuttle can still dock as long as it doesn't use the magnification feature of the dock. sheesh people.
That distinction is exactly what is being proposed here. Encrypted TCP would solve the eavesdropping problem (mostly, not totally) and the X509 certs would solve the authenticity problem. Best of both worlds.
Would you put an "usually" about english names too? Cause there are male and female Kim and Alex.
In every language, there are dual-gender names. The fact that these are the exception rather than the rules is what made me say it that way.
How do you know they are "boys"? Japanese names are hard (for non-Japanese) to determine the gender just by reading them.
Sexist!
Unless I magically happened to know them (not necessarily personally)? Or I made some research. Or I know how male and female japanese names are differentiated. Or D) all of the above.
Disclaimer: this is not a troll. I just wanted to congratulate two of the great researchers of our time. These discoveries changed our views of sub-atomic particles. Good job!
Grats boys! Phat loot.
This is /. you don't have a Ferrari.
We're on the internet. Being a douchebag is not only his right, but a duty for every interneter.
As the disconnected logic of believing that if something hasn't been proven, it doesn't exist? People believe because they have to, and they have the right to believe what they want.
Wow I wouldn't like to live in your world...