.NET (and it looks like Mono as well) does -- it creates what I'll call an executable stub that invokes the IL code interpreter and tells it where to begin. Java prolly has something similar.
Then you're solving only half of the design problems, the high-level ones. Implementation quality varies greatly, and greatly affects maintainability and has some effect on expandability. Many of us subscribe to the idea that the code is the design, and implementing it is what compilers do. The reason I write less code than I did when I was a youngun is because I've learned (and for that matter grew to be even capable of learning) how to be much more productive than when I was a mere minion implementing everything in only a straightforward fashion.
That said, you can be limited by the power of the languages/technologies in use. Some environments are so behind or dumbed-down that you can't separate yourself much, productivity-wise, from the simplest coder. That's when stamina in sustained simple code-cranking can start to close the gap.
You still have the delusion of a large amount of control over your own destiny. Our countrymen and how they conduct themselves financially and who they vote for and the bankers all makes affording the big house and the killer cable TV package and retirement not very realistic. The new reality is that unless you're part of the elite swindler class, you just aren't going to be paid enough, so might as well enjoy what you do.
Mod parent up, this is a good awakening for techies who might have to go into mgmt. some day -- as middle manager you're going to be the only one who knows the project isn't going to make the deadline (or the next three), and it'll be lonely having to keep this secret to yourself, but you have to play the psychological game, not the logical one anymore.
A crappy manager might just pull a date out of thin air and give that to the Big Bosses.
It's more like the Big Bosses just pull a date out of thin air and give it to the middle manager. Crappy, mediocre, or good, it's a sucky position to be in.
Heh, given that the term "compiled" was mutated to be made applicable, I can see this next, natively-written (vs. auto-converted) interpreted code being referred to as "native code"!
I think you've just described the other piece of what they already know is coming:
"The meter is only the beginning," [...] the smart grid can usher in a system of distributed energy so electricity "will flow from homes and businesses into the grid, neighborhoods will use local power and not just power flowing from a single source."
god knows I hate booting up my PC just to grab the movie showtimes
Exactly. Of course some people are doing things like that on their cell phones nowadays. It's mostly about where you want to be on the capability vs. portability spectrum, and for some people the netbook is a happy medium.
On the lack of optical drive, to reinstall the OS, some will sell you or you can buy elsewhere a USB external one, some have a backup image on another partition and provide some recovery method to restore it, possibly others. The idea is why have to carry around an optical drive when you rarely (hopefully!) need to use it, but then installing stuff requires some creative contortions.
A laptop is meant to be a general-purpose PC, that you can drag around (like an anchor!). They typically contain everything a desktop PC has, and as such tend to cost at least as much, have relatively low battery life, and weigh a ton.
A netbook is meant to be mostly just an "Internet appliance" -- for things like web-surfing and emailing and note-taking, that don't require a lot of computing resources or speed. They do *not* contain optical drives, have zero to little expansion capability, and use specialized CPU's and graphics and other chipsets that are optimized for low power consumption. Netbooks are designed for light weight, long battery life, and to be low-priced.
But persistent majorities for the last century have voted on a large and expansive government. It seems wrong to advocate their disenfranchisement.
Completely true (to my dismay), and completely true.
But it also seems wrong to corrupt the system. That is, if we the people want the federal govt. to have expanded powers, we should amend the Constitution to permit the new things or kinds of things that we want.
The problem with stuffing everything under a "commerce" clause or other obviously bullshit backdoor is that it's an ongoing joke and makes a mockery of our system. And by approving of an environment where the rules and due process are routinely skirted, that's exactly what we encourage in our elected (and unelected) officials.
He has a 3 GB RAM machine, and left the VM size at 256 MB. I was getting sluggishness at work with XP installed in 512 MB VMware VM's. Even minimalist and cheapo netbooks come with 1 GB minimum, to properly run XP (and Home edition, at that). Try installing XP (SP3) and Word on an actual PC with only 256 MB of RAM, and then load them up and I'll bet it's sluggish as well.
Yes, unfortunately we had to listen to eight years of such infantilisms from one side, like "Bushitler" and comparing him to a chimp and making him out to be the dumbest man that ever walked the earth, so now we'll prolly get to hear eight years of lame teleprompter references et al. from the juvenile and inane on the other side. Great.
Also it has to be music with no lyrics, cause I end up singing and I can't sing and code.
Just don't sing. (Your cubemates will appreciate that too!:) I found in college that I could listen to music with lyrics while doing math or coding, but not while writing an essay. That is, (English, intelligible) lyrics interfere with my attempted simultaneous English sentence construction, but not with my manipulation of numbers or logic. Similarly, my summer jobs were in counting cash at a theme park, and I could gab away with coworkers while counting, but if someone started calling out random numbers...!
This last election I quit forever voting for the lesser evil.
Same here -- why should the privileged position of two of the private organizations that offer up candidates for govt. office be a reason to favor their candidates over those of others. (If anything, since I don't like how the two have utilized their positions of privilege, it would be reason to disfavor their candidates.)
It's a stretch to say that what Google is doing is anticompetitive, especially since they aren't competing with anyone;
Erecting artificial barriers to others possibly entering into competition is anti-competitive. Google can do this admirable thing of breathing new life into forgotten tomes without having to take steps to prevent others from doing it also. You just can't weasel away this critical distinction on some lame technicality like that.
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Here's video for the #4 part of it! :)
It sounds like you were meant for management all along.
Then you're solving only half of the design problems, the high-level ones. Implementation quality varies greatly, and greatly affects maintainability and has some effect on expandability. Many of us subscribe to the idea that the code is the design, and implementing it is what compilers do. The reason I write less code than I did when I was a youngun is because I've learned (and for that matter grew to be even capable of learning) how to be much more productive than when I was a mere minion implementing everything in only a straightforward fashion.
That said, you can be limited by the power of the languages/technologies in use. Some environments are so behind or dumbed-down that you can't separate yourself much, productivity-wise, from the simplest coder. That's when stamina in sustained simple code-cranking can start to close the gap.
You still have the delusion of a large amount of control over your own destiny. Our countrymen and how they conduct themselves financially and who they vote for and the bankers all makes affording the big house and the killer cable TV package and retirement not very realistic. The new reality is that unless you're part of the elite swindler class, you just aren't going to be paid enough, so might as well enjoy what you do.
Mod parent up, this is a good awakening for techies who might have to go into mgmt. some day -- as middle manager you're going to be the only one who knows the project isn't going to make the deadline (or the next three), and it'll be lonely having to keep this secret to yourself, but you have to play the psychological game, not the logical one anymore.
A crappy manager might just pull a date out of thin air and give that to the Big Bosses.
It's more like the Big Bosses just pull a date out of thin air and give it to the middle manager. Crappy, mediocre, or good, it's a sucky position to be in.
As a child my only "Erector Set" was my friend's dad's stack of Playboys you insensitive clod!
I think you're right, as a people prolly either prefers an extensive and involved govt. or tends not to. And as for
there's countries for that as well!
The next version: 2.0gre2
"natively written" Java
Heh, given that the term "compiled" was mutated to be made applicable, I can see this next, natively-written (vs. auto-converted) interpreted code being referred to as "native code"!
Google - evil you can trust!
Whether to stop trusting after one "mistake" is a personal decision. But one betrayal is evidence of untrustworthiness.
I think you've just described the other piece of what they already know is coming:
Americans have never accepted a radical political transformation that would change their future.
Until now.
IOW great idea but we don't have the money for it.
god knows I hate booting up my PC just to grab the movie showtimes
Exactly. Of course some people are doing things like that on their cell phones nowadays. It's mostly about where you want to be on the capability vs. portability spectrum, and for some people the netbook is a happy medium.
On the lack of optical drive, to reinstall the OS, some will sell you or you can buy elsewhere a USB external one, some have a backup image on another partition and provide some recovery method to restore it, possibly others. The idea is why have to carry around an optical drive when you rarely (hopefully!) need to use it, but then installing stuff requires some creative contortions.
A laptop is meant to be a general-purpose PC, that you can drag around (like an anchor!). They typically contain everything a desktop PC has, and as such tend to cost at least as much, have relatively low battery life, and weigh a ton.
A netbook is meant to be mostly just an "Internet appliance" -- for things like web-surfing and emailing and note-taking, that don't require a lot of computing resources or speed. They do *not* contain optical drives, have zero to little expansion capability, and use specialized CPU's and graphics and other chipsets that are optimized for low power consumption. Netbooks are designed for light weight, long battery life, and to be low-priced.
Completely true (to my dismay), and completely true.
But it also seems wrong to corrupt the system. That is, if we the people want the federal govt. to have expanded powers, we should amend the Constitution to permit the new things or kinds of things that we want.
The problem with stuffing everything under a "commerce" clause or other obviously bullshit backdoor is that it's an ongoing joke and makes a mockery of our system. And by approving of an environment where the rules and due process are routinely skirted, that's exactly what we encourage in our elected (and unelected) officials.
He has a 3 GB RAM machine, and left the VM size at 256 MB. I was getting sluggishness at work with XP installed in 512 MB VMware VM's. Even minimalist and cheapo netbooks come with 1 GB minimum, to properly run XP (and Home edition, at that). Try installing XP (SP3) and Word on an actual PC with only 256 MB of RAM, and then load them up and I'll bet it's sluggish as well.
Yes, unfortunately we had to listen to eight years of such infantilisms from one side, like "Bushitler" and comparing him to a chimp and making him out to be the dumbest man that ever walked the earth, so now we'll prolly get to hear eight years of lame teleprompter references et al. from the juvenile and inane on the other side. Great.
Just don't sing. (Your cubemates will appreciate that too! :) I found in college that I could listen to music with lyrics while doing math or coding, but not while writing an essay. That is, (English, intelligible) lyrics interfere with my attempted simultaneous English sentence construction, but not with my manipulation of numbers or logic. Similarly, my summer jobs were in counting cash at a theme park, and I could gab away with coworkers while counting, but if someone started calling out random numbers...!
This last election I quit forever voting for the lesser evil.
Same here -- why should the privileged position of two of the private organizations that offer up candidates for govt. office be a reason to favor their candidates over those of others. (If anything, since I don't like how the two have utilized their positions of privilege, it would be reason to disfavor their candidates.)
It's a stretch to say that what Google is doing is anticompetitive, especially since they aren't competing with anyone;
Erecting artificial barriers to others possibly entering into competition is anti-competitive. Google can do this admirable thing of breathing new life into forgotten tomes without having to take steps to prevent others from doing it also. You just can't weasel away this critical distinction on some lame technicality like that.
It's funny how Slashdotters completely forget what "anti-competitive behavior" means when the perpetrator is not spelled M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T.