Also part of the art expert cabal.. the kind that look at excrement covered random scribble and go "oh.. what intense imagery.. what subtle variations.. this painting is a window into the soul.. blah blah blah"
Are the scans Hi-Res so that photo quality prints can be reproduce well into the future? The article seems to say they are streamlined for download over a 56K Modem. I hope there are Hi-Res versions available too
Interviewer: Well, it's been a few years since you changed the world of
software design, how does it feel, looking back?
Stroustrup: Actually, I was thinking about those days, just before you
arrived. Do you remember? Everyone was writing 'C' and, the trouble was,
they were pretty damn good at it. Universities got pretty good at teaching
it, too. They were turning out competent - I stress the word 'competent' -
graduates at a phenomenal rate. That's what caused the problem.
Interviewer: problem?
Stroustrup: Yes, problem. Remember when everyone wrote Cobol?
Interviewer: Of course, I did too
Stroustrup: Well, in the beginning, these guys were like demi-gods. Their
salaries were high, and they were treated like royalty.
Interviewer: Those were the days, eh?
Stroustrup: Right. So what happened? IBM got sick of it, and invested
millions in training programmers, till they were a dime a dozen.
Interviewer: That's why I got out. Salaries dropped within a year, to the
point where being a journalist actually paid better.
Stroustrup: Exactly. Well, the same happened with 'C' programmers.
Interviewer: I see, but what's the point?
Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of
this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I
wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so
difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with
programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, you know, X
windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics system, that it only just ran
on those Sun 3/60 things. They had all the ingredients for what I wanted.
A really ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and pseudo-OO
structure. Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows
code. Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain your sanity.
[NJW Comment: That explains everything. Most of my thesis work was in raw
X-windows.:)]
Interviewer: You're kidding...?
Stroustrup: Not a bit of it. In fact, there was another problem. Unix was
written in 'C', which meant that any 'C' programmer could very easily become
a systems programmer. Remember what a mainframe systems programmer used
to earn?
Interviewer: You bet I do, that's what I used to do.
Stroustrup: OK, so this new language had to divorce itself from Unix, by
hiding all the system calls that bound the two together so nicely. This
would enable guys who only knew about DOS to earn a decent living too.
Interviewer: I don't believe you said that...
Stroustrup: Well, it's been long enough, now, and I believe most people
have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste of time but, I must say,
it's taken them a lot longer than I thought it would.
Interviewer: So how exactly did you do it?
Stroustrup: It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would
take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that
object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and
inefficient.
Interviewer: What?
Stroustrup: And as for 're-useable code' - when did you ever hear of a
company re-using its code?
Interviewer: Well, never, actually, but...
Stroustrup: There you are then. Mind you, a few tried, in the early days.
There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called -
really caught a cold trying to rewrite everything in C++ in about '90 or
'91. I felt sorry for them really, but I thought people would learn from
their mistakes.
Get a bloody booklet about the concert before the concert and read that. Keep your shitty, glowing, backlit crap out of theaters. Cell-phones are bad enough
Clustering, servers, dual-booting, emulation, dual-OS, blah-blah, and other geeky stuff isn't going to make Linux popular. It is just going to keep it alive in specialised applications. To become popular, geeks need to stop looking down on the average user and start treating them as a customer and design things even an idiot can use.
In the future, when there are nanoprobes of all kinds, there will probably be lots of rogue nanoprobes infesting the cells. Maybe they can be zapped out with these lasers.
It will be interesting to see how many people call in sick on the release day, especially in places where it is being released during the day. Anyone do such a study for Star Wars?
Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.
Wonder if he can refuse to pay bills, citing death as the reason.
I disagree that it's hypocritical. What the Direct Marketing Association said was that the list should not make exceptions for political and charity related calls. Now making those exceptions is hypocritical. I hate getting a call from an asshole politician as much as I hate getting a sales pitch. The list should apply to everyone. "Do not call" should mean DO NOT CALL and not "Do not call except . .."
If you have a few brain cells, the Internet is a great place to get all your information. The brain cells are needed because there are 10000s of sites filled with bullshit out there.
It's only a matter of time before IBM lawyers destroy SCO. Just sit back, relax and watch SCO lawyers and IBM/SGI/other lawyers get into some serious battle. When it's over, SCO won't exist anymore and slashdot will run out of topics.
Here's the same story on yahoo.
The article says that no scientific evidence exists for a link between 2G signals and brain tumours. But, what about 3G signals? If they can cause headache and nausea, I think you can reasonably expect it to have other effects such as malignant tumours. It's time to take a step back and study 3G more before massive deployment. There is no pressing need to surf porn or whatever faster on your cellphone.
There's actually plenty of product placement in the news. Most of those products are F-15s, F-22s, Apaches, and other stuff made by companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. They're constantly admiring and raving about the cool weapons. The final product they want to sell is of course war.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd rather have content blocked than modified although I'd prefer neither.
Here's an older slashdot article on audiophile insanity.
Also part of the art expert cabal.. the kind that look at excrement covered random scribble and go "oh.. what intense imagery.. what subtle variations.. this painting is a window into the soul.. blah blah blah"
Audiophile fluff sounds just like some vague shit that comes out of a marketing department.
Are the scans Hi-Res so that photo quality prints can be reproduce well into the future? The article seems to say they are streamlined for download over a 56K Modem. I hope there are Hi-Res versions available too
If you have proprietary secrets to protect, do not develop that code under GPL. Use some other closed source option.
Interviewer: Well, it's been a few years since you changed the world of software design, how does it feel, looking back?
Stroustrup: Actually, I was thinking about those days, just before you arrived. Do you remember? Everyone was writing 'C' and, the trouble was, they were pretty damn good at it. Universities got pretty good at teaching it, too. They were turning out competent - I stress the word 'competent' - graduates at a phenomenal rate. That's what caused the problem.
Interviewer: problem?
Stroustrup: Yes, problem. Remember when everyone wrote Cobol?
Interviewer: Of course, I did too
Stroustrup: Well, in the beginning, these guys were like demi-gods. Their salaries were high, and they were treated like royalty.
Interviewer: Those were the days, eh?
Stroustrup: Right. So what happened? IBM got sick of it, and invested millions in training programmers, till they were a dime a dozen.
Interviewer: That's why I got out. Salaries dropped within a year, to the point where being a journalist actually paid better.
Stroustrup: Exactly. Well, the same happened with 'C' programmers.
Interviewer: I see, but what's the point?
Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, you know, X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics system, that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things. They had all the ingredients for what I wanted. A really ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and pseudo-OO structure. Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows code. Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain your sanity.
[NJW Comment: That explains everything. Most of my thesis work was in raw X-windows. :)]
Interviewer: You're kidding...?
Stroustrup: Not a bit of it. In fact, there was another problem. Unix was written in 'C', which meant that any 'C' programmer could very easily become a systems programmer. Remember what a mainframe systems programmer used to earn?
Interviewer: You bet I do, that's what I used to do.
Stroustrup: OK, so this new language had to divorce itself from Unix, by hiding all the system calls that bound the two together so nicely. This would enable guys who only knew about DOS to earn a decent living too.
Interviewer: I don't believe you said that...
Stroustrup: Well, it's been long enough, now, and I believe most people have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste of time but, I must say, it's taken them a lot longer than I thought it would.
Interviewer: So how exactly did you do it?
Stroustrup: It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient.
Interviewer: What?
Stroustrup: And as for 're-useable code' - when did you ever hear of a company re-using its code?
Interviewer: Well, never, actually, but...
Stroustrup: There you are then. Mind you, a few tried, in the early days. There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called - really caught a cold trying to rewrite everything in C++ in about '90 or '91. I felt sorry for them really, but I thought people would learn from their mistakes.
Interviewer: Obviously, they didn't?
Stroustrup:
http://dvr.sourceforge.net/html/main.html
Lets beat the shit out of people who say violent games lead to violence
Get a bloody booklet about the concert before the concert and read that. Keep your shitty, glowing, backlit crap out of theaters. Cell-phones are bad enough
Clustering, servers, dual-booting, emulation, dual-OS, blah-blah, and other geeky stuff isn't going to make Linux popular. It is just going to keep it alive in specialised applications. To become popular, geeks need to stop looking down on the average user and start treating them as a customer and design things even an idiot can use.
In the future, when there are nanoprobes of all kinds, there will probably be lots of rogue nanoprobes infesting the cells. Maybe they can be zapped out with these lasers.
. . and save the real democracies out there. Politicians are gradually creating a police state. Virtual democracy is the least of our problems.
It will be interesting to see how many people call in sick on the release day, especially in places where it is being released during the day. Anyone do such a study for Star Wars?
Wonder if he can refuse to pay bills, citing death as the reason.
Can't be any worse than brown shorts of death
Clothes that report whenever they are being removed to the spouse.
This should make space probes, satellites, etc that use solar energy much cheaper.
SGI is not powerful enough to fight SCO at this point. They will probably perish. We can only count on IBM to make SCO perish.
I disagree that it's hypocritical. What the Direct Marketing Association said was that the list should not make exceptions for political and charity related calls. Now making those exceptions is hypocritical. I hate getting a call from an asshole politician as much as I hate getting a sales pitch. The list should apply to everyone. "Do not call" should mean DO NOT CALL and not "Do not call except . . ."
If you have a few brain cells, the Internet is a great place to get all your information. The brain cells are needed because there are 10000s of sites filled with bullshit out there.
It's only a matter of time before IBM lawyers destroy SCO. Just sit back, relax and watch SCO lawyers and IBM/SGI/other lawyers get into some serious battle. When it's over, SCO won't exist anymore and slashdot will run out of topics.
Here's an article on the Dutch economic ministry's website (if you can read dutch)
Here's the same story on yahoo.
The article says that no scientific evidence exists for a link between 2G signals and brain tumours. But, what about 3G signals? If they can cause headache and nausea, I think you can reasonably expect it to have other effects such as malignant tumours. It's time to take a step back and study 3G more before massive deployment. There is no pressing need to surf porn or whatever faster on your cellphone.
There's actually plenty of product placement in the news. Most of those products are F-15s, F-22s, Apaches, and other stuff made by companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. They're constantly admiring and raving about the cool weapons. The final product they want to sell is of course war.