"you can put the parts that need to be fast in C++, and the parts that need to be easy in Perl"
Yeah, use two languages instead of one. That will make it simple and stable...*not*!
Keep it coded silly, simple intead. That will lead you to stability.
The problem of false, flawed or planted memories needs to be dealt with.
In most cases, after a very short period of time, what people are adamant
is the *truth* is actually embellished or wrong.
The individuals personal perceptions of reality play a very large roll
in perceptions of truth.
One question that I find is being missed is that of broaching Microsofts need to challenge 'Linux History' with some study or other.
If I were a military analyst I'd have to argue that those who need to make pointless attacks tend to do so out of desperation. One could be led to assume that Microsoft's battle is already lost if they need to expend resources on things like this rather than just making a better product.
And, where the hell is the improved product? How long do we have to wait for Microsoft's *improved* operating systems to actually reach the market. Have we seen one yet that we haven't had to patch ad-nauseum to make or data safe?
The ultimate winner in the operating system race will quietly continue to improve and promote good technology rather than tearing down the competition.
Propaganda is always a double edged sword. A small part of the population will always fall for it. The rest will maintain various degrees of scepticism. Ultimately, if the story is incorrect or shown to be biased, the propagandists tend to get cut by thier own barbs.
One really has to wonder what the heck is going on at Redmond when they pull circus acts like this. Management from 'stupidville' I guess. I think I'll sell my stock while it's still high.
Has anyone noticed what most of the images of people
at MySpace have in common. They can be grouped.
I wonder if MySpace could be used as a people classifier...
Doesn't it strike anyone else as being a bit wasteful of resources
to add yet another diposable, nonrecyclable, plastic item to the regimen
of all the other toxic computer waste that is currently going into landfills?
Will Microsoft allso be taking the disc hulks back for
recycling when everyone is done with them?
Should we be mailing the discs to them so they can do this,
or will there be a special Microsoft deposit box in every town
to handle the junk?
From now on I'm not buying anything that doesn't
come with GPS/WAAS built in and a JAVA API to get
info from that GPS for onboard applications.
(Even if it's just a text only serial port API)
GPS is so cheap to implement now, only companies
that are making obsolete devices would create
a handheld without it.
Come on Nokia get with the decade/century.
If you leave the water in the cooling system too long
how long before someone gets a good dose of
legionaires disease from thier coolant (water)
accidentally spilling on thier desk?
We should revisit analog computers now that electronics have advanced. The digital computer can allow us to design a modern analog super computer.
Analog calculations would be tremendously fast and
would allow data analysis in the raw rather than
relying on fourier transforms for estimating frequency. Frequency data could be left in that domain and processed using analog algorithms.
Everything would be much faster than attempting to model an organic system digitally and then convert it back to analog.
I suggest that the analog computer would benefit from broadband spectral inputs much like having a 1024 channel analog sampling board with a specific bandpass on each channel.
I think you dismissed hard drives too quickly. LaCie has terabyte USB/Firewire drives available that you can use to do rotating backups of your data.
The company I work for has 5 terabytes of removable hard disk media that we use for daily, weekly and monthly rotating backups. With a couple of these drives, rotating backups, you could not only make your data backups but also store one copy offsite in case your house/office burns down or something else unforseen happens.
These are definately a great value for doing backups and aren't stupid slow like tape drives.
Well, I'm not sure how dropping a CD with maybe 10 songs on it is comparable to dropping an ipod
with hundreds of songs.
Also a CD is, maybe, $25 . If you drop your ipod
you're starting at ~$100 and increasing in price
from there. That doesn't include the music you have to buy all over again if you don't have backups. (ie: backups as in copies of the same music)
"I get about 15 songs, so the price of the music is the same, and in addition I also get a nice case and a physical disk and liner notes."
Yeah, I agree. I just buy CDs. Downloading
music is, and always will be, a pain in the tush.
At least my music collection won't get wiped
because I've dropped some silly little
(expensive) ipod.
I love comedy. If only computers were funny....
Why would somebody named 'Hilton' name thier kid
after a major world city. Are they hotelliers?
Who's responsible for this!!??
The problem with a lot of programmers is they take something like stdio and think that's how it should be done.
ie:
FILE *file=NULL;
char buffer[256];
file=fopen(filename,mode);
if(file!=NULL)
{
fread(buffer,256,1,file);/*or worse fgets(buffer,256,file)*/
fclose(file);
}
First of all the buffer isn't dynamic and not wrapped or protected in any way.
Second, if I read over the end of the buffer without remembering the allocation size I'm screwed.
The buffer is never zeroed, so I don't know what's
in it to start with.
For a lot of programmers this is the normal technique. No structured data, lots of global variables, no planning, no modularity, no modular testing, no error checking, no code documentation. Spagetti!
Let's hope they're not working on anything that's mission critical, like medical life support equipment.
Slashdot Mirror
"Doesn't have to return anything from main. But it must be defined as int main(void) or int main(int argc, char *argv[]) or equivalent."
g e#.22hello.2C_world.22_examplehttp://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/C_programming_language%23.22hello.2C_worl d.22_example
Actually the following is K&R standard and works just fine:
main()
{
printf("hello world\n");
}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_programming_langua
You failed to notice that he doesn't *return* anything
from main, which is declared as 'int main'.
You fail the test!
Just a thought, Why does google redirect me to a different
google front page based on my IP block location?
How do I know I'm getting the same content using google from say, France, as
opposed to someone using google from the U.K.?
The reality is, it's pretty easy to filter information when the supply
is essentially an unknown.
Wow! Great news. ;)
Maybe they will dump OSX and make a 64 bit version of BEOS!!!!
YAY!!!!
We all knew Jobs couldn't keep his hands off BEOS.
(I'm being levitous)
"you can put the parts that need to be fast in C++, and the parts that need to be easy in Perl" Yeah, use two languages instead of one. That will make it simple and stable...*not*! Keep it coded silly, simple intead. That will lead you to stability.
The problem of false, flawed or planted memories needs to be dealt with.
In most cases, after a very short period of time, what people are adamant
is the *truth* is actually embellished or wrong.
The individuals personal perceptions of reality play a very large roll
in perceptions of truth.
The human memory never was what it used to be.
http://www.skepticfiles.org/false/mgfmsasc.htm
One question that I find is being missed is that of broaching Microsofts need to challenge 'Linux History' with some study or other.
If I were a military analyst I'd have to argue that
those who need to make pointless attacks tend to do
so out of desperation. One could be led to assume that
Microsoft's battle is already lost if they need to
expend resources on things like this rather than just
making a better product.
And, where the hell is the improved product?
How long do we have to wait for Microsoft's
*improved* operating systems to actually reach
the market. Have we seen one yet that we haven't
had to patch ad-nauseum to make or data safe?
The ultimate winner in the operating system race
will quietly continue to improve and promote
good technology rather than tearing down the
competition.
Propaganda is always a double edged sword. A small
part of the population will always fall for it. The
rest will maintain various degrees of scepticism.
Ultimately, if the story is incorrect or shown to
be biased, the propagandists tend to get cut by thier
own barbs.
One really has to wonder what the heck is going on
at Redmond when they pull circus acts like this.
Management from 'stupidville' I guess. I think I'll
sell my stock while it's still high.
Does it cause cancer?
If your going to be doing 12 hours of
house checking, it may be nice to survive
the RADAR RADIATION experience down the road.
Or are they counting on the cancer from
the use of depleated uranium bullets to mask
the cancer from using the handheld radar device?
Has anyone noticed what most of the images of people
at MySpace have in common. They can be grouped.
I wonder if MySpace could be used as a people classifier...
These are symptoms of compulsive behaviour.
It's a chicken/egg thing.
Drugs create a chemical compulsion based
on screwing up the brains
frontal vs. amigdalic regulatory chemistry.
In video gamers, the compulsion is likely
a part of thier personality.
The real question is:
Are video gamers drawn to them because of latent compulsive behaviours?
Disposable DVDs....
Doesn't it strike anyone else as being a bit wasteful of resources
to add yet another diposable, nonrecyclable, plastic item to the regimen
of all the other toxic computer waste that is currently going into landfills?
Will Microsoft allso be taking the disc hulks back for
recycling when everyone is done with them?
Should we be mailing the discs to them so they can do this,
or will there be a special Microsoft deposit box in every town
to handle the junk?
From now on I'm not buying anything that doesn't come with GPS/WAAS built in and a JAVA API to get info from that GPS for onboard applications. (Even if it's just a text only serial port API) GPS is so cheap to implement now, only companies that are making obsolete devices would create a handheld without it. Come on Nokia get with the decade/century.
If you leave the water in the cooling system too long how long before someone gets a good dose of legionaires disease from thier coolant (water) accidentally spilling on thier desk?
Actually hamsters have more dark meat. Guinea pigs have more white meat.
There's a linux inside logo that shows the skeleton of Tux.
It appears that Tux is not a penguin. It must be some kind of alien thing. That's not a penguin skeleton at all. Not even close to a bird.
electronics have advanced. The digital computer
can allow us to design a modern analog super computer.
Analog calculations would be tremendously fast and
would allow data analysis in the raw rather than
relying on fourier transforms for estimating
frequency. Frequency data could be left in that domain
and processed using analog algorithms.
Everything would be much faster than attempting to
model an organic system digitally
and then convert it back to analog.
I suggest that the analog computer would
benefit from broadband spectral inputs
much like having a 1024 channel analog sampling
board with a specific bandpass on each channel.
Let's go analog!!!!! Yay!!!!
(About darn time)
LaCie has terabyte USB/Firewire drives available
that you can use to do rotating backups of your data.
The company I work for has 5 terabytes of removable
hard disk media that we use for daily, weekly and monthly rotating backups.
With a couple of these drives, rotating backups, you could
not only make your data backups but
also store one copy offsite in case your
house/office burns down or something else unforseen happens.
These are definately a great value for doing backups and aren't stupid slow like tape drives.
songs on it is comparable to dropping an ipod
with hundreds of songs.
Also a CD is, maybe, $25 . If you drop your ipod
you're starting at ~$100 and increasing in price
from there. That doesn't include the music you have
to buy all over again if you don't have backups.
(ie: backups as in copies of the same music)
"I get about 15 songs, so the price of the music is the same, and in addition I also get a nice case and a physical disk and liner notes." Yeah, I agree. I just buy CDs. Downloading music is, and always will be, a pain in the tush. At least my music collection won't get wiped because I've dropped some silly little (expensive) ipod.
Is it hyphenated....
My God!, I hate that!
I love comedy. If only computers were funny.... Why would somebody named 'Hilton' name thier kid after a major world city. Are they hotelliers? Who's responsible for this!!??
There's an open Hilton in Paris...??
Do they take air miles?
arent electronics supposed to be getting smaller ?
There's the build, the lead-in, and the product. Sounds like he's selling Amentra to me. It's advertising YAY!!!!!!
The problem with a lot of programmers is they take something like stdio and think that's how it should be done. ie: FILE *file=NULL; char buffer[256]; file=fopen(filename,mode); if(file!=NULL) { fread(buffer,256,1,file); /*or worse fgets(buffer,256,file)*/
fclose(file);
}
First of all the buffer isn't dynamic and not wrapped or protected in any way.
Second, if I read over the end of the buffer without remembering the allocation size I'm screwed.
The buffer is never zeroed, so I don't know what's
in it to start with.
For a lot of programmers this is the normal technique. No structured data, lots of global variables, no planning, no modularity, no modular testing, no error checking, no code documentation. Spagetti!
Let's hope they're not working on anything that's mission critical, like medical life support equipment.