Work from a clean work area. Really no matter what you think, you will be more productive in a neat organized workspace. Read the studies, people who claimed to be more productive in a chaotic environment, were very surprised to learn that objective measurements and their own experience showed dramatic increases in productivity when forced to work from a organized, neat environment.
I beg to differ and I'd like to read up on the study that you're referring to. Link?
I love my crowded desk with piles of stuff. I hardly ever have to search for something on my desk because I just intuitively know where I "would put it if I had it in my hand right now".
I'm not keeping more than about 2 layers of things (sometimes three if I'm really busy). Most of it is "hot" paperwork (bills, contracts) that I'm working on during that month. It gets filed away (or trashed) when I know that it's finalized.
The rest is just cables, plugs, tools, CDs, little plastic toys, well, maybe a hundred tiny things but I always know where to grab when I need one of them.
I once tried to get more "organized" and stash things into drawers, paper trays, boxes etc. but it turned out that I would actually need *longer* to find my stuff. I'm just not that kind of person and I highly doubt that any kind of study can properly file *me* into whatever category either.
So, my little Anonymous Coward, I know you're just trolling, but I'll still correct some of the bshit that you're spilling:
Linux: Most documentation is filler ripped off from SUN OS Manuals, or HP-UX.
What you call "filler" is in fact precise and accurate documentation. And most of it doesn't come from solaris nor HP unix (?!?! what kinda crack are you smoking?) but was adapted from BSD. And what does it matter where it comes from anyways as long as it's complete and very, very helpful?
I found reference to 'renice' options relevant to HP-UX in SuSE 9.0 Professional Edition Linux.
Oh, really. Well, then SuSE made a mistake there I guess. Which doesn't change the fact that having a manual page to 99,5% of all available commands is pretty complete (which was the subject that we're discussing here, remember?) and a lot more than windows has to offer.
I'll just assume you were drunk while writing that post and generously ignore the rest of your trolling.
Actually, a while back I saw PC versions offered. No idea about price and whether they're actually the same quality as the original. But some googling might find you that info.
Ummm, sorry?! May I invite you to type "man man" into a command prompt near you?
Linux or rather unices in general come with the most complete documentation that you can get nowadays. And most of it is actually very useful, very unlike the infamous F1-help in windows.
Where can I buy some of the crack that you're smokin', though?
And lets be realistic - not using a framework isn't going to cure lazyness, so what you will end up with is not going to be as good as if you had used a framework.
In this day and age, real men write HTML by integrating several streams from databases, RSS feeds, and all manner of other things, and passing the resultant XML through an XSL transform on the fly.
Yeah, right. I've seen such apps. And then those "real men" come crying to the various mailing lists of the various frameworks that they are trying to put to use without even the slightest clue about what those are doing, how they are doing it and much less how it would be done right (i.e. without a bloated framework).
You could claim it "works" if it wouldn't break existing functionality. But it does:
- Mousewheel scrolling stops working when you're over a flash movie - You can't copy/paste the whole page, the "flashed up" parts will be missing - The flash-text doesn't resize when you tell your browser to resize fonts - Flash takes longer to load and occassionally flickers while doing so - Flash occassionally fails to load or run at all - Many small flash movies on a single page can bog down even rather fast machines (esp. on linux).
Mostly noticable when you try to scroll such a page.
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I guess you are confusing UI responsiveness with overall performance. Getting a cross-platform UI toolkit right (and fast) is hard. That has not much to do with the java language, though.
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I'm wondering if you actually are talking about software in your question. And while the application server most certainly will be multithreaded your web request will most likely execute in one thread from the time the request is made until you send the response. Unless you create a second thread yourself.
I really don't get your point. You have a request, you process it, you respond. There's not much to parallelize in that situation.
And the benefit I'm talking about is that the cleanup can take place after the response has been sent.
You mean the GC? Well, the java GC is pretty mature and has been proven faster than most malloc(), free() schemes in all but very special situations. You generally do not *want* to clean up after each request because lots of the stuff will be re-used (and would have to be re-allocated) later anyways.
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So they will be able to do some of the work after the web service has responded to the client. This is a benefit for single threaded hardware.
Wtf. Can you name a piece of "single threaded hardware" that provides "web services" (I assume you're talking about SOAP and the ilk?).
Well, LDAP, in all it's shapes and forms is absolutely hideous and unfriendly. Its age shows, it's software from "way back".
LDAP is one of the architectures that would really be worth reinventing. Imho the main reason why we still don't have "easy" single-signon in unix-land is because the only available route nowadays leads through LDAP- and kerberos-land which both do their particular job well but are such a pain to setup, maintain and integrate with that only the bravest and most fearless sysadmins dare to walk it.
find that on the same hardware, performance is vanishingly close to the same on Windows as on Linux
Well, it *is* close but it is not equal. As said, I guess most of the sluggish feel is to blame on the Toolkit (XUL/GTK). I remember using a real old firebird version that was linked to GTK1 and it was just amazing...
I'd like to second that. While I love firefox as much as the next guy I'm really wondering why it is so much slower in linux than in windows. Is XUL to blame, is it X11? At the same time opera on linux somehow manages to render lightning fast and respond to all button clicks with zero noticable lag.
My number one wish would be to make the linux firefox as fast as the windows version. Does there really have to be a noticable delay when switching tabs or creating a new one? Is there no way to have new pages pop up instantly (like in windows) when a link is clicked?
Well, at least reponsiveness of the menus has improved a lot in v1.5. Scrolling through long lists of bookmarks has gotten much more bearable - but, well it's still feels very "sloppy". I can't say exactly what it is but when compared head to head to opera it's a night and day difference. Opera just feels "solid" and firefox feels "sloppy".
I guess XUL is to blame for most of my complaints, maybe that's the price to pay for portability... But then again, opera is portable as well. Hummm.
Hmm. Maybe I'm more resistant to lag, but 20fps sounds very low to me. I haven't measured it (don't even know the console command) but the game is definately playable for me. No noticable delays, e.g. turning the mouse moves the viewport instantly and without flicker or stutter.
Admittedly there is one map (the one with the rain, don't recall the name) that cause noticable lag. But it's only that one map and it's still playable. I assume that on in that map it would go down to around 20fps in certain situations but most of the time it's still fast enough to hand out precise headshots...
Maybe the G550 is actually better than it's reputation but no 3d-game except counterstrike and ET would run at an acceptable framerate.
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Work from a clean work area. Really no matter what you think, you will be more productive in a neat organized workspace. Read the studies, people who claimed to be more productive in a chaotic environment, were very surprised to learn that objective measurements and their own experience showed dramatic increases in productivity when forced to work from a organized, neat environment.
I beg to differ and I'd like to read up on the study that you're referring to. Link?
I love my crowded desk with piles of stuff. I hardly ever have to search for something on my desk because I just intuitively know where I "would put it if I had it in my hand right now".
I'm not keeping more than about 2 layers of things (sometimes three if I'm really busy).
Most of it is "hot" paperwork (bills, contracts) that I'm working on during that month.
It gets filed away (or trashed) when I know that it's finalized.
The rest is just cables, plugs, tools, CDs, little plastic toys, well, maybe a hundred tiny things but
I always know where to grab when I need one of them.
I once tried to get more "organized" and stash things into drawers, paper trays, boxes etc. but it turned out
that I would actually need *longer* to find my stuff. I'm just not that kind of person and I highly doubt that any kind of study can properly file *me* into whatever category either.
It just works for me. Believe it or not.
So, my little Anonymous Coward, I know you're just trolling, but I'll still correct some of the bshit that you're spilling:
Linux: Most documentation is filler ripped off from SUN OS Manuals, or HP-UX.
What you call "filler" is in fact precise and accurate documentation. And most of it doesn't come from solaris nor HP unix (?!?! what kinda crack are you smoking?) but was adapted from BSD. And what does it matter where it comes from anyways as long as it's complete and very, very helpful?
I found reference to 'renice' options relevant to HP-UX in SuSE 9.0 Professional Edition Linux.
Oh, really. Well, then SuSE made a mistake there I guess. Which doesn't change the fact that having a manual page to 99,5% of all available commands is pretty complete (which was the subject that we're discussing here, remember?) and
a lot more than windows has to offer.
I'll just assume you were drunk while writing that post and generously ignore the rest of your trolling.
Actually, a while back I saw PC versions offered. No idea about price and whether they're actually the same quality
as the original. But some googling might find you that info.
What the hell?!
Anybody worth their Turrican and Speedball highscores knows the the only Joysticks you'd ever need were the Competition and Competition Pro (red).
Power stick..bwhaha.. looks like it was made for the physiognomy of dr.zoidberg!
Linux in general, has really crummy documentation
Ummm, sorry?!
May I invite you to type "man man" into a command prompt near you?
Linux or rather unices in general come with the most complete documentation that you can get nowadays.
And most of it is actually very useful, very unlike the infamous F1-help in windows.
Where can I buy some of the crack that you're smokin', though?
Another thing that you (plural) seem to forget is that most of Bill's billions are not liquid--it's tied up in stock.
Oh, poor guy. I feel for him. *sob*
It amazes me how often marketing people are monumentally stupid.
I'll be amazed if I ever meet a marketing person that is *not* monumentally stupid...
And lets be realistic - not using a framework isn't going to cure lazyness, so what you will end up with is not going to be as good as if you had used a framework.
Speak for yourself.
In this day and age, real men write HTML by integrating several streams from databases, RSS feeds, and all manner of other things, and passing the resultant XML through an XSL transform on the fly.
Yeah, right. I've seen such apps. And then those "real men" come crying to the various mailing lists of the various frameworks that they are trying to put to use without even the slightest clue about what those are doing, how they are doing it and much less how it would be done right (i.e. without a bloated framework).
cf TooMuchMagic
But maybe you were just being sarcastic...
debatable whether they do this deliberately or if it's plain, old incompetence.
A good mixture of both.
it reports on the porn you saw tomorrow.
reports? i would assume that it's just going to send a copy to home for inspection.
Why should the advertisement have another advertisement embedded in it to pay for the main advertisement?
Sorry, my friend. To understand recursion you must first understand recursion.
your word versus the Sheriff's.
Shoot the sheriff. And don't forget the deputy!
Well, except that... it doesn't "work".
You could claim it "works" if it wouldn't break existing functionality.
But it does:
- Mousewheel scrolling stops working when you're over a flash movie
- You can't copy/paste the whole page, the "flashed up" parts will be missing
- The flash-text doesn't resize when you tell your browser to resize fonts
- Flash takes longer to load and occassionally flickers while doing so
- Flash occassionally fails to load or run at all
- Many small flash movies on a single page can bog down even rather fast machines (esp. on linux).
Mostly noticable when you try to scroll such a page.
I guess you are confusing UI responsiveness with overall performance.
Getting a cross-platform UI toolkit right (and fast) is hard.
That has not much to do with the java language, though.
I'm wondering if you actually are talking about software in your question. And while the application server most certainly will be multithreaded your web request will most likely execute in one thread from the time the request is made until you send the response. Unless you create a second thread yourself.
I really don't get your point. You have a request, you process it, you respond. There's not much to parallelize in that situation.
And the benefit I'm talking about is that the cleanup can take place after the response has been sent.
You mean the GC? Well, the java GC is pretty mature and has been proven faster than most malloc(), free() schemes in all but very special situations. You generally do not *want* to clean up after each request because lots of the stuff will be re-used (and would have to be re-allocated) later anyways.
So they will be able to do some of the work after the web service has responded to the client. This is a benefit for single threaded hardware.
Wtf. Can you name a piece of "single threaded hardware" that provides "web services" (I assume you're talking about SOAP and the ilk?).
Well, LDAP, in all it's shapes and forms is absolutely hideous and unfriendly.
Its age shows, it's software from "way back".
LDAP is one of the architectures that would really be worth reinventing.
Imho the main reason why we still don't have "easy" single-signon in unix-land is because
the only available route nowadays leads through LDAP- and kerberos-land which both do their particular
job well but are such a pain to setup, maintain and integrate with that only the bravest and most fearless
sysadmins dare to walk it.
and the applications are supposed to be smart enough to use the correct version.
Bwahahahaha....
You mean self-indoctrination?
Load it with blanks. The bangs will encourage a fast retreat. And if the bad guy disarms you, you won't get shot.
Yeah. Unless the bad guy notices that your bangs don't sting. And/or pulls his own gun.
Your logic is flawed.
find that on the same hardware, performance is vanishingly close to the same on Windows as on Linux
Well, it *is* close but it is not equal. As said, I guess most of the sluggish feel is to blame on the Toolkit (XUL/GTK).
I remember using a real old firebird version that was linked to GTK1 and it was just amazing...
(it is illegal to retain their head)
Oh?!
Hmmmmmmmmm...
Must get rid of that bizley.
I'd like to second that. While I love firefox as much as the next guy I'm really wondering why it is so much slower in linux than in windows. Is XUL to blame, is it X11? At the same time opera on linux somehow manages to render lightning fast and respond to all button clicks with zero noticable lag.
My number one wish would be to make the linux firefox as fast as the windows version.
Does there really have to be a noticable delay when switching tabs or creating a new one?
Is there no way to have new pages pop up instantly (like in windows) when a link is clicked?
Well, at least reponsiveness of the menus has improved a lot in v1.5.
Scrolling through long lists of bookmarks has gotten much more bearable - but, well
it's still feels very "sloppy". I can't say exactly what it is but when compared head to head to
opera it's a night and day difference. Opera just feels "solid" and firefox feels "sloppy".
I guess XUL is to blame for most of my complaints, maybe that's the price to pay for portability...
But then again, opera is portable as well. Hummm.
Hmm. Maybe I'm more resistant to lag, but 20fps sounds very low to me. I haven't measured it (don't even know the console command) but the game is definately playable for me. No noticable delays, e.g. turning the mouse moves the viewport instantly and without flicker or stutter.
Admittedly there is one map (the one with the rain, don't recall the name) that cause noticable lag. But it's only that one map and it's still playable. I assume that on in that map it would go down to around 20fps in certain situations but most of the time it's still fast enough to hand out precise headshots...
Maybe the G550 is actually better than it's reputation but no 3d-game except counterstrike and ET would run
at an acceptable framerate.