Don't throw it away if it is a book on theory. If it's "Learn xxx in 21 days" or "xxx version y.0", burn it with fire!
Historical texts such as Gosling's "Hot Java"? ~1995 are invaluable in learning the original motivations for the language; they will most likely be lost in the mists of time!
Classics like K&R C are invaluable and still useful today, and I've used them recently on ancient systems that don't have man pages.
I passed 3rd year transistor theory only by visiting an old book sale and buying a textbook from the 60s that explained the bits that the dodgey lecturer "forgot about". Transistors don't change. The bindings were so cracked I had to drill the book's pages and sew them together...
Books on design patterns are also still useful even if they are old e.g. Meyer's "Effective C++".
I'm an ex C++ developer, who has worked in Javaland for the last 5 years, or J2EE or whatever the fuck they call it now. I don't see any benefit from GC apart from barely educated Javaschool (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html) graduates writing bloated, slow and misguided code, resulting from their complete misunderstanding of the JVM and basic memory allocation.
I'll take boost's shared_ptr and OBJ-C's autorelease any day.
xxxxViewController is only a suggestion... you don't really have to use it. Besides, how restrictive is "model and controller" in one class and view in another representation?
...except that they haven't done anything at all. There are just a few mumbles of 'concern' over something their voter-base is likely to disapprove of. I don't see that making a difference any-time soon.
True... we need a larger, more official push. If we get that, then the Australian government will cave as it always does e.g. FTA (Free Trade Agreement) between the USA and Australia.
Normally I disagree with USA foreign policy, but in this case I welcome US government sticking its nose in where it's not welcome.
On behalf of all (thinking) Australians, thank you USA for standing up to our government and this facist policy.
http://stephenconroy.com.au/
Is that the FSM with green noodly appendages, or the evil FSM with orange noodly appendages? If you follow the teachings of the FSMwONA I'm going to kill you like the filthy infidel you are!!
These centuries old disputes about whose pretend friend is actually real are definitely worth spending all these countless millions of dollars on and losing all these lives over.
It seems to me, when looking at the big picture, that digital data is being distributed to customers. Digital data is exactly copyable, due to its nature.
Now this digital data is encrypted, however if it can be decrypted (i.e. played!) then the encryption can be broken. It might prove to be difficult, but it will be broken.
There are two possible ways that the big content distributors can go:
(1) Get rid of DRM and change your marketing and pricing model so that it is convenient and cheap enough for most consumers to just by the media through the channels that they provide.
(2) Remove digital data distribution and instead distribute media in the form of a sealed, enclosed device (with speakers, no other outputs) that only plays the media that you have purchased.
Option (1) is the logical conclusion to most people and the neolithic companies will eventually (maybe in 10 years?) realise this and go with it. Option (2) is just not feasible, due to cost, space and sound quality issues.
Ben Woods' argument is correct, if we are talking about a piece of electronics, where, say, 90% of the cost of that piece of electronics is in the production. However, only a very small amount of the cost of the cd (less than 1% if 1c for the CD and 3c for the case/cover) is in the PRODUCTION of the CD.
Most of the cost of a CD is in the marketing and (of course) profits for the record company. Sure there are a few extras, like the pittance they give the artist, but the majority of the cost is MARKETING. This gets more and more expensive as they get more and more ridiculous in their marketing and the cost of marketing increases over time.
Another spin might be that CDs are now more expensive to produce due to all the non-redbook copy prevention measures that they keep trying to put on "CDs" now.
The difference in the specific situation here and the above examples (engines from one manufacturer in another's car, OSX on all PCs) is that the examples do NOT come from monopoly situations. The only reason that Apple is being chased here is because they have a monopoly on the DRM'd music / portable music player market.
It sounds like you were saved from having to work with morons there SilentBob.
I view a job interview as a chance not just for them to find out about me, but a chance to find out whether they are a group of people worth working for.
You may have to pay more (IBM) or you may get a crappy product (Dell) however if you buy a laptop that is very popular, there are more likely to be drivers written for it's devices. If you are lucky, it will "just work" out of the box.
I had a good experience earlier this year with a Dell Latitude D610. It's a cheap an cheerful laptop, however OpenSUSE 10.0 was a breeze - after a trouble free installation everything just worked, with minimal configuration of drivers and hardware.
From "Computer Camp Love":
I Ran In to her on Computer Camp
Was it 1984?
Not Sure, Had my Commodore 64, Had to Score
Not With a Dirty Tramp
She's not a Tramp, Her Name is Judy
That's a Nice Name
Yeah, She's a Nice Girl
Big Deal, Did You Get in Her Pants
She's Not That Kind of a Girl, Booger
Why? Does She Have a Penis?
Slashdot Mirror
But the 2nd amendment says that all Americans should have automatic weapons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (John Oliver)
Do you remember the title of the 1960s book?
Sorry... I know it was paperback novel sized, white cover, about 1cm thick.
Don't throw it away if it is a book on theory. If it's "Learn xxx in 21 days" or "xxx version y.0", burn it with fire!
Historical texts such as Gosling's "Hot Java"? ~1995 are invaluable in learning the original motivations for the language; they will most likely be lost in the mists of time!
Classics like K&R C are invaluable and still useful today, and I've used them recently on ancient systems that don't have man pages.
I passed 3rd year transistor theory only by visiting an old book sale and buying a textbook from the 60s that explained the bits that the dodgey lecturer "forgot about". Transistors don't change. The bindings were so cracked I had to drill the book's pages and sew them together...
Books on design patterns are also still useful even if they are old e.g. Meyer's "Effective C++".
Am I missing the point somehow? I've installed the browser and attempted to go to two sites: http://www.smh.com.au/ and http://slashdot.org/
Neither of those worked as I expected... it gave me the non-mobile version of the website which is _useless_ on a screen the size of iPhone's.
I don't see the point of this browser. Perhaps it's only suitable for iPad...
Wait... NM... sarcasm filter was not enabled...
If I don't already know it, it just isn't worth knowing.
It seems that your experience is limited to flash and c-hash, whatever that is. Obj-C has only been around since 1983... C has only been around since the mid-70s... C++ since the mid-80s... Apparently lots of real developers use those obscure tools too: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/04/06/2354221/C-Programming-Language-Back-At-Number-1
I'm an ex C++ developer, who has worked in Javaland for the last 5 years, or J2EE or whatever the fuck they call it now. I don't see any benefit from GC apart from barely educated Javaschool (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html) graduates writing bloated, slow and misguided code, resulting from their complete misunderstanding of the JVM and basic memory allocation.
I'll take boost's shared_ptr and OBJ-C's autorelease any day.
This fits the bill nicely:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/
Besides... LUA is really just a layer on top of pure C.
Hear hear!
xxxxViewController is only a suggestion... you don't really have to use it. Besides, how restrictive is "model and controller" in one class and view in another representation?
Seriously, shove these Aussie stories up your ass. We're fucking sick of the sight of them. Go beg for attention elsewhere.
This is slashdot.org, not slashdot.org.us
In the meantime if you're an Aussie, don't forget the Electronic Frontiers Australia is accepting donations for their Open Internet campaign.
Tax deductible!
...except that they haven't done anything at all. There are just a few mumbles of 'concern' over something their voter-base is likely to disapprove of. I don't see that making a difference any-time soon.
True... we need a larger, more official push. If we get that, then the Australian government will cave as it always does e.g. FTA (Free Trade Agreement) between the USA and Australia.
Normally I disagree with USA foreign policy, but in this case I welcome US government sticking its nose in where it's not welcome. On behalf of all (thinking) Australians, thank you USA for standing up to our government and this facist policy. http://stephenconroy.com.au/
You made cheese come out my nose...
On a serious note, you may be twiddled for using the FSM in an unauthorised simile.
You will find most will work.
What is this "ur" word?
Is that the FSM with green noodly appendages, or the evil FSM with orange noodly appendages? If you follow the teachings of the FSMwONA I'm going to kill you like the filthy infidel you are!!
These centuries old disputes about whose pretend friend is actually real are definitely worth spending all these countless millions of dollars on and losing all these lives over.
It seems to me, when looking at the big picture, that digital data is being distributed to customers. Digital data is exactly copyable, due to its nature.
Now this digital data is encrypted, however if it can be decrypted (i.e. played!) then the encryption can be broken. It might prove to be difficult, but it will be broken.
There are two possible ways that the big content distributors can go:
(1) Get rid of DRM and change your marketing and pricing model so that it is convenient and cheap enough for most consumers to just by the media through the channels that they provide.
(2) Remove digital data distribution and instead distribute media in the form of a sealed, enclosed device (with speakers, no other outputs) that only plays the media that you have purchased.
Option (1) is the logical conclusion to most people and the neolithic companies will eventually (maybe in 10 years?) realise this and go with it. Option (2) is just not feasible, due to cost, space and sound quality issues.
Ben Woods' argument is correct, if we are talking about a piece of electronics, where, say, 90% of the cost of that piece of electronics is in the production. However, only a very small amount of the cost of the cd (less than 1% if 1c for the CD and 3c for the case/cover) is in the PRODUCTION of the CD.
Most of the cost of a CD is in the marketing and (of course) profits for the record company. Sure there are a few extras, like the pittance they give the artist, but the majority of the cost is MARKETING. This gets more and more expensive as they get more and more ridiculous in their marketing and the cost of marketing increases over time.
Another spin might be that CDs are now more expensive to produce due to all the non-redbook copy prevention measures that they keep trying to put on "CDs" now.
The difference in the specific situation here and the above examples (engines from one manufacturer in another's car, OSX on all PCs) is that the examples do NOT come from monopoly situations. The only reason that Apple is being chased here is because they have a monopoly on the DRM'd music / portable music player market.
It sounds like you were saved from having to work with morons there SilentBob.
I view a job interview as a chance not just for them to find out about me, but a chance to find out whether they are a group of people worth working for.
You may have to pay more (IBM) or you may get a crappy product (Dell) however if you buy a laptop that is very popular, there are more likely to be drivers written for it's devices. If you are lucky, it will "just work" out of the box.
I had a good experience earlier this year with a Dell Latitude D610. It's a cheap an cheerful laptop, however OpenSUSE 10.0 was a breeze - after a trouble free installation everything just worked, with minimal configuration of drivers and hardware.
From "Computer Camp Love": I Ran In to her on Computer Camp Was it 1984? Not Sure, Had my Commodore 64, Had to Score Not With a Dirty Tramp She's not a Tramp, Her Name is Judy That's a Nice Name Yeah, She's a Nice Girl Big Deal, Did You Get in Her Pants She's Not That Kind of a Girl, Booger Why? Does She Have a Penis?
You assume that all WoW subscribers are american?
10) We don't suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) Syndrome