This benchmark strongly favours languages compiled to native code. A much better place to seek language comparisions is The Great Language Shootout, even if it hasn't been updated for 2 years or so. (There's a more up-to-date version, albeit Windows-oriented, at The Great Win32 Language Shootout.)
This delay would limit bulk emailing speeds to around 8000 a day, meaning that to spam all of those 'fresh, guaranteed 25 million addresses' would take approximately 8.5 years.
From one computer, if I understood correctly. Quite worthless, considering recent Security Focus spam column.
I mean, the guy should have at least asked if he should wipe his ass with a copy of the constitution, and delete the links only if he got a positive answer. Oh, and he should wipe his ass with the now worthless piece of paper afterwards.
Once upon a time you didn't need to waste your CPU cycles for SpamAssassin. (It's not that I don't use spambayes myself:)) The point is, electronic spam is so cheap for spammers that they don't even have to think how to do it - they just do it. The Internet then takes care of the rest, mostly because it was designed to do so and that's what we all love it for.
Most people I know don't get the beauty of something like C++. It's a massively complex language. So complex, as a matter of fact, that you can create OTHER languages with it (via templates).
How funny it is that I consider Lisp a quite simple language (at least syntactically) and it still can do all this OOP, language-in-language stuff, etc., despite being ~20 years older...
Try benchmarking Java vs. Python some day. You'll discover that aside from start up time, Java outperforms Python in the majority of cases.
So what? It still is slower than C, so that's what you use for time-critical parts. Then use some Python glue and voila. Alternatively, you can get some near-Java (or even near-C! though rarely) performance out of pure Python with Psyco.
Besides, Python is so much more programmer friendly, so why not use it?
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Bino Viewer $250
Focusers
1.25" $49
2" $69
4" $140
Equatorial Table $275
Mirror Grinder
10" $250
20" $475
40" $1800
80mm Binocular Holder $250
16" DOB $1800
18" DOB $2200
16" Mirror $900
2" Adapter $30
Led Colimator $30
Silvering Kit $50
Encoder $30
Guide Scope $40
Interferometer 10" $160
10" Folded Schmidt Camera $4500
I wouldn't call $13298 Very Low Cost...
(Assuming all of this stuff is needed of course.)
You forgot UFO: Enemy Unknown (or X-COM, or whatever it was called.)
No mere kiddie will tell you the phone number you're dialing without looking. Apart from that, the money has them.
This benchmark strongly favours languages compiled to native code. A much better place to seek language comparisions is The Great Language Shootout, even if it hasn't been updated for 2 years or so. (There's a more up-to-date version, albeit Windows-oriented, at The Great Win32 Language Shootout.)
Someone will get around this, legally or not.
2 local (= almost remote) roots in the kernel in 3 months isn't good. Guess the OpenBSD paranoia isn't that bad after all.
I do not trust this person's predictions.
Why not trust the obvious?
I think he's wrong about Sun. If I'm not mistaken, these guys are going to earn some really big $$$ in China.
The First Commandment of Business: There Is No Such Thing As Lasting Global Prosperity
This delay would limit bulk emailing speeds to around 8000 a day, meaning that to spam all of those 'fresh, guaranteed 25 million addresses' would take approximately 8.5 years. From one computer, if I understood correctly. Quite worthless, considering recent Security Focus spam column.
What do you mean by 'harm'?
Where's your courage? Right next to your wallet?
I mean, the guy should have at least asked if he should wipe his ass with a copy of the constitution, and delete the links only if he got a positive answer. Oh, and he should wipe his ass with the now worthless piece of paper afterwards.
Don't hestitate. Mod me down.
Itsfuckingscarygoddammit.
Amount of everything matters. You can die of freaking oxygen not only when there isn't enough of it, but when there's too much of it.
Without Google, I believe that the web, as a resource for information and communication, would become pointless within the space of 5 years.
Don't forget that MS boasts its MSN search. The question is whether they would allow people to use it for free if Google moved to pay-for-service.
Bush/terrorist perhaps?
Think about it. Primary Bush, secondary Bush...
It's a good thing all those Koreans didn't know that. They have Starcraft on the TV AFAIK.
5. PROFIT!!!
Once upon a time you didn't need to waste your CPU cycles for SpamAssassin. (It's not that I don't use spambayes myself :)) The point is, electronic spam is so cheap for spammers that they don't even have to think how to do it - they just do it. The Internet then takes care of the rest, mostly because it was designed to do so and that's what we all love it for.
Unfortunately, not only we.
Will this run Quake?
Make sure you don't have both a LG cdrom drive and packet writing enabled at the same time, or your cd is going bye-bye.
This should convince anyone that had any doubts that SCO's case is a total bullsh*t. It seems that they want to milk fat cows first.
Most people I know don't get the beauty of something like C++. It's a massively complex language. So complex, as a matter of fact, that you can create OTHER languages with it (via templates).
How funny it is that I consider Lisp a quite simple language (at least syntactically) and it still can do all this OOP, language-in-language stuff, etc., despite being ~20 years older...
Anyway, go Python :P
Try benchmarking Java vs. Python some day. You'll discover that aside from start up time, Java outperforms Python in the majority of cases.
So what? It still is slower than C, so that's what you use for time-critical parts. Then use some Python glue and voila. Alternatively, you can get some near-Java (or even near-C! though rarely) performance out of pure Python with Psyco.
Besides, Python is so much more programmer friendly, so why not use it?
When will SCO sue themselves?