With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
A younger disciple, like, maybe, his son?
Sean Connery as Grandpa Jones, Harrison Ford as Daddy Jones, and, I dunno, Hugh Jackman, or Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jones Jr? Maybe Karen Allen [the original Lost Ark love interest] as Mrs Jones?
Of course, Steven Spielberg [having ditched Amy Irving for Kate Capshaw, of Temple of Doom fame], and Harrison Ford, having ditched a succession of wives for some damned whore from Ally McBeal, are probably not the kinds of guys to whom it might occur to portray fatherhood in a favorable light.
Looks like it's a mixed bag. Apparently 1/3rd of the reviewers were very intrigued by the new results [and at least one reviewer was convinced].
Funding recommendations are similarly indecisive:
The nearly unanimous opinion of the reviewers was that funding agencies should entertain individual, well-designed proposals for experiments that address specific scientific issues relevant to the question of whether or not there is anomalous energy production in Pd/D systems, or whether or not D-D fusion reactions occur at energies on the order of a few eV. These proposals should meet accepted scientific standards, and undergo the rigors of peer review. No reviewer recommended a focused federally funded program for low energy nuclear reactions.
We get to see some snippets of the final confrontation between Gandalf and Sauroman, as well as some other intriguing scenes that will add a lot of depth to the final movie.
WTF? Saruman was killed by Wormtongue during the Scouring of the Shire.
Because Microsoft believes the Update Rollup will better meet the needs of customers than a new service pack, there will not be a Service Pack 5 (SP5) for Windows 2000.
Does this mean there will never be an SP5?
I was loading some new boxes yesterday, and, even after SP4, Windows Update wanted to install well in excess of 20 patches [which couldn't be done in one fell swoop because IE6 SP1 insists on being installed solo].
My guess is that eventually Redmond will listen to their customers on this one.
PS: Anyone wanna bet that this is due to that gosh-awful security update from last March that hosed so many systems? [Completely screwed all our machines with VIA chipsets.]
The project, though a commercial one, wants to become a true community project and encourages experts and everyone who have good ideas to add to the development process to join the mailing list.
TRANSLATION: We at Tech Source can't be bothered with silly little inconveniences like "salaries" and "fringe benefits".
TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATION: All the fruit of your labor are belong to us.
TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATION: You've been 0wned, l00zer.
This sounds like that "Compassionate Conservatism" crap I keep hearing about.
Compassion doesn't have anything to do with it.
Doctors, like all people, come in bell curves, and most doctors fall somewhere between mediocre and dangerously incompetent. [And, as an aside, none of them give a rat's ass about your well-being: To them, you're just another slab of meat on the assembly line.]
You want mediocre to incompetent? Then purchase a random HMO plan with a typical copayment, and get stuck with a random doctor in a random ER in a random hospital in a random city in the United States the next time you experience chest pains.
You want outstanding? Then find the best medical school in your state [or region], find the best specialist on their staff, and schedule a visit. Or, better yet, discover his home address and go bang on his door.
Obviously, I have not examined this guy. He might have a new disease that completely goes against science as we know it. But people come to us for rare medical problems all the time... we love it. When we find something rare, we jump around giving each other high-5s. We spend tons of research and government money trying to figure out these rare case. However...
I'm just not buying in this case.
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When his story was first posted on slashdot, several of the hospital network gurus came up to me and asked me about it in our CIS meeting...
If you were to reread my post, I wasn't giving advice. I was just giving my opinion of his situation.
Oddly enough, I had just finished reading this post on an unrelated thread:
Client/Server Calendar Program? Rephrase the question: We want everything, and want it for free. We could use the free tools available, but they aren't stable enough and we're too lazy to help develop the free product.
Sadly, I got the same feeling when I perused Volkerding's missive - I couldn't help but wonder whether the guy is willing to pay for proper medical care.
As you indicated in your first post, one of the most likely explanations for his condition is hypochondria, but competing for the title of "most likely explanation" will always be the possibility [or even probability] of incompetence on the part of the attending physician. And closely related to that possibility is an obtuse, self-destructive determined-ness on the part of the patient to refuse to pay for proper medical care.
Volkerding goes on and on about showing up at this or that emergency room with this and that complaint, but surely he must realize that the MDs in the ER who are examining him at all hours of the night are precisely the doctors who were too stupid to get into a proper American medical school, and got their degrees from some diploma mill in a third world cesspool like Grenada.
If you're sick, and you suspect you have a viral infection, you don't go to a family practitioner, or an internist, or even an "Emergency Room Physician" - you go to a virologist. And you don't go to any virologist, you go to the virologist who graduated #1 from his class at Harvard Med and who is chairman of the Department of Infectious Diseases and who has published numerous articles in Nature, Science, and the like.
And if you suspect you have a cardiovascular problem, you don't go to a family practitioner, or an internist, or even an "Emergency Room Physician" - you go to a cardiologist, or a cardiovascular surgeon. And you don't go to any cardiologist, you go to the cardiologist who graduated #1 from his class at Harvard Med and who is chairman of the Cardiology Department and who has published numerous articles in Nature, Science, and the like.
"But that's not fair," legions of/.-ers will cry. Your damned right it's not fair - it's called "life." You want fair, you purchase your crappy HMO policy from Oligopoly Insurance Inc, with its $10 co-payments for ER visits, and you get "fair" medicine. Better yet, you move to Canada and sit in line for two years waiting to see a doctor.
You know, a while back, there was this experiment in "fair", where a bunch of intellectuals tried to create a "fair" society, and all that's left of their efforts now is the rapidly fading memory of about 100 million people who were butchered by equal opportunity murderers parading under pseudonyms like Lenin and Stalin.
Back to the original point, though: There's a reason that Oracle isn't free, that Windows isn't free, that DB2 isn't free, that Novell Directory Services isn't free, etc, etc, etc: It's because th
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!
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Sitting at my desk (a bargain second hand, due to lack of drawers) I looked at the side and realized I could build a nice little cluster, on either side of it. It already has wooden rails for rack mounts, holes in the back (from previous cables for computers) for cooling, and several computers in the cupboard.
Never, ever, EVER put electronic parts anywhere in the general vicinity of wood - you're just asking for a conflagration if you do.
One of my best friends was in a professor in a big EE lab that had some benches and risers made of wood - and subsequently burned to the ground. Thereafter he spent several years of his life doing nothing but filling out millions of dollars worth of claims with insurance companies. Trust me - you do not want to go there.
[And he was one of the lucky ones - he got out unscathed.]
Which brings up the suite of office software that was developed for NeXT and which is owned by Sun but which will never see the light of day. IT should port quite easily.
Sun steps up acquisition efforts
April 24, 2001 Bungled deal
Jonathan Schwartz, who heads Sun's 63-person acquisitions team, says Sun bungled the purchase of his company, Lighthouse Design, in 1996.
Athlons have always been fairly LOW latency chips, and the memory used (fast DDR memory) is low latency too.
The scary thing about these Opteron results is that the Opteron is bitch-slapping the P4EE at 32-bit performance, AND THAT'S NOT EVEN WHAT IT WAS DESIGNED FOR!!!
The 32-bit circuitry in the Opteron is almost an afterthought - the raison d'etre of the Opteron is 64-bit operating systems.
You gotta figure there's some sweating of the palms and some grinding of the teeth amongst the suits in Santa Clara. Or, if there isn't, there ought to be.
What do you mean by COM & DCOM functionality? You're just pulling shit out your ass.
My bad - I was wrong: There's no such thing as "DCOM functionality" in the greater sphere of applied computer science, and you certainly wouldn't find such a thing wandering around in the bowels of a Microsoft product.
Oh, also one more thing: Ha ha, SUSE whips NT's anus on their home turf, on one of their flagship server capacities - SMB/CIFS file sharing. Samba basically has to reverse engineer the entire (massive) protocol, and do a decent amount of hard work to convert UNIX permissions and names to NT ones. I'd like to see how badly NT gets shat on when Linux isn't so hamstrung.
Look, if a properly configured SuSE Server beats a properly configured Windows Server at NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWHATEVER file sharing, then kudos to Novell/SuSE & the Samba team.
But that's not my point: The Windows Server is doing about a gazillion other things in the background, like cross-correlating all that NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWHATEVER traffic with NTFS File Permissions, finely-grained NT Policies, Active Directory Permissions, COM & DCOM functionality,.NET functionality, Distributed File Systems, Event Services, you name it.
In other words, NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWHATEVER doesn't exist in a vacuum anymore - it's just a tiny, miniscule fraction of the services that a Windows Server is offering - almost an afterthought, if you will.
Grandparent:>Anand sees more promise in multiple CPU cores that perform different operations
Aren't they called 'CPU' and 'GPU'?
Parent:Sometimes I wonder why people even post...
Another possibility is where the entire system is devoted to a single task (think HPC: fluid flow, weather simulations, etc) where you could have threads doing the intensive floating point calculations on one core, and the heavy integer arithmetic on the other, or maybe split up the cores based on memory accesses patterns, or cache use, or built-in ASICs!
Mr. Pot, allow me to introduce you to Mr. Kettle...
Say Hello to Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
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Am I the only one disturbed by this stuff? I know it's only a rat, but...imagine a world where your brain (sliced and diced) is worth more outside your body than inside.
And you wonder why people oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research [ESCR]???
That diagram is for NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWhatever file sharing, which is maybe one one-hundredth of one one-hundredth of one one-hundredth of the possible things that a Windows 2003 server can do.
Why doesn't some Linux distro ship with LDAP configured with everythign it needs including the appropriate schema and a decent front end for setting up Unix and Samba logins?
Dude, if Novell can't do Directory Services, then no one can.
One of the benefits [to software developers, at least] of a directory, like M$FT's Active Directory [or Novell's NDS] was supposed to be the ability to sell software by the seat - Active Directory would keep a record of how many users accessed the SQLServer each month [in both directions - data entry in, and data analysis/data mining out], and would bill accordingly.
I guess they [the would-be "cheaters"] must get around this in the "out" direction by running all their analysis each night as one great big batch file under a single user account. Still, you'd think that the "in" direction would tend to balance things.
Anyway, the idea of per-seat pricing really appealed to me - I always figured that what each seat chose to use the license for was up to the seat-ee.
The spyware situation today is one created by a nexus of influences:
1) Bad security design in Microsoft Windows,
2) Absent security education for the ordinary user,
3) The unethical business practice of contract date-rape, and
4) Negligent refusal on the part of law enforcement to respond to electronic trespass offenses in other media, such as e-mail spam.
I can't argue with 3) or 4). But as for 1) [and it touches a little on 2)], we've been running Windows NT & Windows 2000 for more than five years now, and we've NEVER had a SINGLE piece of spyware installed on any of our systems. [Never had a virus or a worm either, although I hope I didn't just jinx myself by saying that.]
You know why? BECAUSE NONE OF OUR END-USERS LOG ON AS ADMINISTRATORS!!! That's it - it's that simple. They don't have Administrative rights, and they can't install spyware [or viruses, or worms]. [Of course, yours truly installs the latest security patches as soon as they appear, and has always had all of his users behind a fire wall, but that's not the important point here.]
If you surf the web as an Administrator [Root] on OSX, or if you surf the web as an Administrator [Root] on Linux, you're every bit as prone to this stuff as any Microsoft user surfing the web as an Administrator [or you would be, if those operating systems had large enough market share for the spyware people to be bothered with writing spyware for them].
Are any of these new releases compatible with the old 760MPX Dual Athlon Boards [Tyan S246X-series, Asus A7M266-D]?
It sure would be mighty nice to have a little bit of an upgrade path for those platforms.
Java is a 32-bit language; C# is a 64-bit language
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SexyFingers: So if you're doing C# and your foundations in OOP are rock-solid, there really isn't any difference whether you're coding C# or Java.
GCP (122438): And I was a member of one of the JCP expert groups that brought you Java 5.
The single biggest disadvantage of Java is that it is inherently 32-bit in nature, and is utterly unsuited for use in the emerging 64-bit marketplace [x86-64, anyone?].
For instance, the following code will NOT compile [or "javac", or whatever you want to call it] in Java 1.5:
public class SixtyFourBit
{
public static void main (String args[])
{
long theLong = 1;
theLong <<= 32;
System.out.println("theLong = " + theLong);
double [] theDoubleArray = new double[theLong];
}
}
Java is a language designed to run on the hardware of the 1980's. C# is a language designed to run on the hardware of the next two decades.
For this reason alone, I cannot recommend that any new project start from the ground up with an obsolete 32-bit language like Java. [Obviously existing projects may need to remain mired in an obsolete language, owing to the inertia of legacy code.]
So will they remove all limits on Rainbow Trout now?
Reminds me of a recent story about flathead catfish:
Alien Catfish Species Found in N.J. Canal
An alien species of catfish has been caught in the Delaware Raritan Canal, prompting fears among environmental officials that the voracious predator could devastate native catfish, sunfish and some sturgeon populations the way it has in southeastern states.
Slashdot Mirror
With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
A younger disciple, like, maybe, his son?
Sean Connery as Grandpa Jones, Harrison Ford as Daddy Jones, and, I dunno, Hugh Jackman, or Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jones Jr? Maybe Karen Allen [the original Lost Ark love interest] as Mrs Jones?
Of course, Steven Spielberg [having ditched Amy Irving for Kate Capshaw, of Temple of Doom fame], and Harrison Ford, having ditched a succession of wives for some damned whore from Ally McBeal, are probably not the kinds of guys to whom it might occur to portray fatherhood in a favorable light.
The only real threat is fire, and it is no more dangerous than it is to CDs or hard drives.
Go back and look at some old notebooks - if they used acid-based paper, then they'll be getting rather fragile.
The "conclusion" is in this PDF document: Looks like it's a mixed bag. Apparently 1/3rd of the reviewers were very intrigued by the new results [and at least one reviewer was convinced].
Funding recommendations are similarly indecisive:
We get to see some snippets of the final confrontation between Gandalf and Sauroman, as well as some other intriguing scenes that will add a lot of depth to the final movie.
WTF? Saruman was killed by Wormtongue during the Scouring of the Shire.
Because Microsoft believes the Update Rollup will better meet the needs of customers than a new service pack, there will not be a Service Pack 5 (SP5) for Windows 2000.
Does this mean there will never be an SP5?
I was loading some new boxes yesterday, and, even after SP4, Windows Update wanted to install well in excess of 20 patches [which couldn't be done in one fell swoop because IE6 SP1 insists on being installed solo].
My guess is that eventually Redmond will listen to their customers on this one.
PS: Anyone wanna bet that this is due to that gosh-awful security update from last March that hosed so many systems? [Completely screwed all our machines with VIA chipsets.]
TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATION: All the fruit of your labor are belong to us.
TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATION: You've been 0wned, l00zer.
This sounds like that "Compassionate Conservatism" crap I keep hearing about.
Compassion doesn't have anything to do with it.
Doctors, like all people, come in bell curves, and most doctors fall somewhere between mediocre and dangerously incompetent. [And, as an aside, none of them give a rat's ass about your well-being: To them, you're just another slab of meat on the assembly line.]
You want mediocre to incompetent? Then purchase a random HMO plan with a typical copayment, and get stuck with a random doctor in a random ER in a random hospital in a random city in the United States the next time you experience chest pains.
You want outstanding? Then find the best medical school in your state [or region], find the best specialist on their staff, and schedule a visit. Or, better yet, discover his home address and go bang on his door.
Obviously, I have not examined this guy. He might have a new disease that completely goes against science as we know it. But people come to us for rare medical problems all the time... we love it. When we find something rare, we jump around giving each other high-5s. We spend tons of research and government money trying to figure out these rare case. However...
I'm just not buying in this case.
*****
When his story was first posted on slashdot, several of the hospital network gurus came up to me and asked me about it in our CIS meeting...
If you were to reread my post, I wasn't giving advice. I was just giving my opinion of his situation.
Oddly enough, I had just finished reading this post on an unrelated thread:
Sadly, I got the same feeling when I perused Volkerding's missive - I couldn't help but wonder whether the guy is willing to pay for proper medical care.
As you indicated in your first post, one of the most likely explanations for his condition is hypochondria, but competing for the title of "most likely explanation" will always be the possibility [or even probability] of incompetence on the part of the attending physician. And closely related to that possibility is an obtuse, self-destructive determined-ness on the part of the patient to refuse to pay for proper medical care.
Volkerding goes on and on about showing up at this or that emergency room with this and that complaint, but surely he must realize that the MDs in the ER who are examining him at all hours of the night are precisely the doctors who were too stupid to get into a proper American medical school, and got their degrees from some diploma mill in a third world cesspool like Grenada.
If you're sick, and you suspect you have a viral infection, you don't go to a family practitioner, or an internist, or even an "Emergency Room Physician" - you go to a virologist. And you don't go to any virologist, you go to the virologist who graduated #1 from his class at Harvard Med and who is chairman of the Department of Infectious Diseases and who has published numerous articles in Nature, Science, and the like.
And if you suspect you have a cardiovascular problem, you don't go to a family practitioner, or an internist, or even an "Emergency Room Physician" - you go to a cardiologist, or a cardiovascular surgeon. And you don't go to any cardiologist, you go to the cardiologist who graduated #1 from his class at Harvard Med and who is chairman of the Cardiology Department and who has published numerous articles in Nature, Science, and the like.
"But that's not fair," legions of /.-ers will cry. Your damned right it's not fair - it's called "life." You want fair, you purchase your crappy HMO policy from Oligopoly Insurance Inc, with its $10 co-payments for ER visits, and you get "fair" medicine. Better yet, you move to Canada and sit in line for two years waiting to see a doctor.
You know, a while back, there was this experiment in "fair", where a bunch of intellectuals tried to create a "fair" society, and all that's left of their efforts now is the rapidly fading memory of about 100 million people who were butchered by equal opportunity murderers parading under pseudonyms like Lenin and Stalin.
Back to the original point, though: There's a reason that Oracle isn't free, that Windows isn't free, that DB2 isn't free, that Novell Directory Services isn't free, etc, etc, etc: It's because th
Sitting at my desk (a bargain second hand, due to lack of drawers) I looked at the side and realized I could build a nice little cluster, on either side of it. It already has wooden rails for rack mounts, holes in the back (from previous cables for computers) for cooling, and several computers in the cupboard.
Never, ever, EVER put electronic parts anywhere in the general vicinity of wood - you're just asking for a conflagration if you do.
One of my best friends was in a professor in a big EE lab that had some benches and risers made of wood - and subsequently burned to the ground. Thereafter he spent several years of his life doing nothing but filling out millions of dollars worth of claims with insurance companies. Trust me - you do not want to go there.
[And he was one of the lucky ones - he got out unscathed.]
Which brings up the suite of office software that was developed for NeXT and which is owned by Sun but which will never see the light of day. IT should port quite easily.
PC Expo: Sun buys object developer9 6/swol-06-lighthouse.html
Lighthouse Design noted for its OpenStep tools
June 1996
http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-06-19
Sun steps up acquisition efforts
April 24, 2001
Bungled deal
Jonathan Schwartz, who heads Sun's 63-person acquisitions team, says Sun bungled the purchase of his company, Lighthouse Design, in 1996.
"There was no integration," Schwartz said. "The only things that changed were the business cards and the T-shirts."c net
http://news.com.com/2009-1001-256399.html?legacy=
Athlons have always been fairly LOW latency chips, and the memory used (fast DDR memory) is low latency too.
The scary thing about these Opteron results is that the Opteron is bitch-slapping the P4EE at 32-bit performance, AND THAT'S NOT EVEN WHAT IT WAS DESIGNED FOR!!!
The 32-bit circuitry in the Opteron is almost an afterthought - the raison d'etre of the Opteron is 64-bit operating systems.
You gotta figure there's some sweating of the palms and some grinding of the teeth amongst the suits in Santa Clara. Or, if there isn't, there ought to be.
I had my hopes up until the fifth and sixth words, when I realized that this wasn't a story by Tolkein.
ABC News is reporting that anthropologists have found the skeletal remains of seven hobbit sized hominids.
What do you mean by COM & DCOM functionality? You're just pulling shit out your ass.
My bad - I was wrong: There's no such thing as "DCOM functionality" in the greater sphere of applied computer science, and you certainly wouldn't find such a thing wandering around in the bowels of a Microsoft product.
Oh, also one more thing: Ha ha, SUSE whips NT's anus on their home turf, on one of their flagship server capacities - SMB/CIFS file sharing. Samba basically has to reverse engineer the entire (massive) protocol, and do a decent amount of hard work to convert UNIX permissions and names to NT ones. I'd like to see how badly NT gets shat on when Linux isn't so hamstrung.
Look, if a properly configured SuSE Server beats a properly configured Windows Server at NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWHATEVER file sharing, then kudos to Novell/SuSE & the Samba team.
But that's not my point: The Windows Server is doing about a gazillion other things in the background, like cross-correlating all that NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWHATEVER traffic with NTFS File Permissions, finely-grained NT Policies, Active Directory Permissions, COM & DCOM functionality, .NET functionality, Distributed File Systems, Event Services, you name it.
In other words, NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWHATEVER doesn't exist in a vacuum anymore - it's just a tiny, miniscule fraction of the services that a Windows Server is offering - almost an afterthought, if you will.
Grandparent: >Anand sees more promise in multiple CPU cores that perform different operations
Aren't they called 'CPU' and 'GPU'?
Parent: Sometimes I wonder why people even post...
Another possibility is where the entire system is devoted to a single task (think HPC: fluid flow, weather simulations, etc) where you could have threads doing the intensive floating point calculations on one core, and the heavy integer arithmetic on the other, or maybe split up the cores based on memory accesses patterns, or cache use, or built-in ASICs!
Mr. Pot, allow me to introduce you to Mr. Kettle...
Am I the only one disturbed by this stuff? I know it's only a rat, but...imagine a world where your brain (sliced and diced) is worth more outside your body than inside.
And you wonder why people oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research [ESCR]???
That diagram is for NetBIOS/NetBEUI/NetBT/NetWhatever file sharing, which is maybe one one-hundredth of one one-hundredth of one one-hundredth of the possible things that a Windows 2003 server can do.
Why doesn't some Linux distro ship with LDAP configured with everythign it needs including the appropriate schema and a decent front end for setting up Unix and Samba logins?
Dude, if Novell can't do Directory Services, then no one can.
One of the benefits [to software developers, at least] of a directory, like M$FT's Active Directory [or Novell's NDS] was supposed to be the ability to sell software by the seat - Active Directory would keep a record of how many users accessed the SQLServer each month [in both directions - data entry in, and data analysis/data mining out], and would bill accordingly.
I guess they [the would-be "cheaters"] must get around this in the "out" direction by running all their analysis each night as one great big batch file under a single user account. Still, you'd think that the "in" direction would tend to balance things.
Anyway, the idea of per-seat pricing really appealed to me - I always figured that what each seat chose to use the license for was up to the seat-ee.
The spyware situation today is one created by a nexus of influences:
I can't argue with 3) or 4). But as for 1) [and it touches a little on 2)], we've been running Windows NT & Windows 2000 for more than five years now, and we've NEVER had a SINGLE piece of spyware installed on any of our systems. [Never had a virus or a worm either, although I hope I didn't just jinx myself by saying that.]
You know why? BECAUSE NONE OF OUR END-USERS LOG ON AS ADMINISTRATORS!!! That's it - it's that simple. They don't have Administrative rights, and they can't install spyware [or viruses, or worms]. [Of course, yours truly installs the latest security patches as soon as they appear, and has always had all of his users behind a fire wall, but that's not the important point here.]
If you surf the web as an Administrator [Root] on OSX, or if you surf the web as an Administrator [Root] on Linux, you're every bit as prone to this stuff as any Microsoft user surfing the web as an Administrator [or you would be, if those operating systems had large enough market share for the spyware people to be bothered with writing spyware for them].
Are any of these new releases compatible with the old 760MPX Dual Athlon Boards [Tyan S246X-series, Asus A7M266-D]?
It sure would be mighty nice to have a little bit of an upgrade path for those platforms.
SexyFingers: So if you're doing C# and your foundations in OOP are rock-solid, there really isn't any difference whether you're coding C# or Java.
GCP (122438): And I was a member of one of the JCP expert groups that brought you Java 5.
The single biggest disadvantage of Java is that it is inherently 32-bit in nature, and is utterly unsuited for use in the emerging 64-bit marketplace [x86-64, anyone?].
For instance, the following code will NOT compile [or "javac", or whatever you want to call it] in Java 1.5:
Java is a language designed to run on the hardware of the 1980's. C# is a language designed to run on the hardware of the next two decades.For this reason alone, I cannot recommend that any new project start from the ground up with an obsolete 32-bit language like Java. [Obviously existing projects may need to remain mired in an obsolete language, owing to the inertia of legacy code.]
If you can't bear the thought of a life as a salesman, then consign yourself to a life as a wage slave.
So will they remove all limits on Rainbow Trout now?
Reminds me of a recent story about flathead catfish:
As long as it tastes better than the species it supplants, I ain't got no problem.