eDirectory is an excellent product (beats AD in almost all areas, in my opinion) for which Novell should be paid.
Longtime Novell CNI/CNE here, and, for the record, I don't want to even pretend to hide the fact that I'm deeply skeptical of Stallman and his agenda.
Something I've been wondering for the longest time: How does Novell compile & link NDS on Linux? For years, Novell was a Watcom C++ shop, but then Watcom assumed room temperature, and Novell seemed to be in bed with Metrowerks [at least that's what you got with a DeveloperNet subscription, so I always assumed that's what Novell was using in-house]. With all the turmoil over at Motorola [in re the sell-off of the chipset fabrication division], it's not at all clear what the future of Metrowerks will be. [For the record, I always thought that the biggest hole in Novell's product lineup was the absence of a native compiler - I think they're the only OS vendor in the industry that doesn't offer at least one home grown compiler for their operating system. Seems like with the break-up of Motorola, Metrowerks might be on the auction block, and they sure would fill a great big gaping hole in the Novell line...]
Anyway, it seems like there are three major options for people looking to develop on Linux: the GCC C++ compiler & linker, the Intel C++ compiler & linker, and the Metrowerks C++ compiler & linker. My question: How does a company like Novell link NDS and not have it contaminated by the GPL?
I suppose a Stallmanite would reply that NDS can be written in such a way that it only need touch the LGPL'ed libraries of the GCC compiler/linker, but I'd reply by saying
1) The GPL & LGPL are so poorly written that it's not at all clear what they actually say [although it's abundantly clear what Stallman would have liked them to have said], and
2) Is there any place you can go, or any oracle you can consult, to get a definitive statement as to just what it is that is GPL'ed and what it is that is LGPL'ed? If you call printf(), is it GPL'ed or LGPL'ed? If you call arctan(), is it GPL'ed or LGPL'ed? If you make a call to something really sophisticated, like the NTP [the Network Time Protocol, which is fundamental to the NDS infrastructure], is your call GPL'ed or LGPL'ed? And how do these answers vary with respect to the different compiler/linker packages?
Is it possible to write something as all-encompassing as NDS and have it remain un-contaminated by the GPL? Or does Novell intend to abandon the property-rights model, open-source NDS, and move to the service contract model?
1) Do not document your code. Or, if you have to document it, make sure your creation is so arcane that it would take someone years and years to recreate it. In the case of Network Administrators: Do not document your network.
2) Under no circumstances are you allowed to train your replacements. If they outsource you, let your replacements spend a year of their lives trying to figure out just what it was that you created, or five years of their lives re-writing from scratch what you just spent the last five years of your life writing. For Network Administrators: Ditto.
I cannot tell you how important these two points are. Your only leverage over "THEM" is that you know how things work, and they don't. Why do you think Microsoft refuses to reveal the internals of NTFS, or the.DOC format? Answer: So they can make money off them.
PS: Get the hell out of any environment where you even think you might need to be engaged in this sort of pre-emptive intellectual sabotage. Find people you can trust [don't ask me how you know they'll prove to be trustworthy, but I'm not so cynical yet that I don't believe they fail to exist altogether] and do something constructive & rewarding with your life. The very best way to do this is to START YOUR OWN COMPANY AND BE YOUR OWN BOSS!!!
"EMPLOYMENT" IS JUST A POLITE EUPHEMISM FOR "SLAVERY"!!!
I changed out of IT after the crash in 2000. I started teaching college as a stopgap measure and found it immensely rewarding despite the drastic drop in pay. I got certified to teach math in Florida, and I'm now here looking to teach kids in the public school system. Job satisfaction was the only motivating factor.
At the risk of putting words in your mouth: You tried your hand at a career somewhere in the vicinity of The Greater Mathematical Sciences, found you hated it, and now you're trying to convince teenagers that they should embark on a career that they too will almost certainly hate?
I don't know which is worse, that, or this: You tried your hand at a career somewhere in the vicinity of The Greater Mathematical Sciences, found you couldn't hack it, and now you've come to the realization that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.
Well...I'd say the actual closings of shops here by companies...and having the last thing the US employees do is to train their indian counterparts for the new shop opening up over there...is a pretty good bit of evidence.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
For that sake of all that is Holy: DO NOT TRAIN YOUR REPLACEMENTS!!!
Who do you people think you are? Slaves? You certainly have the mentality of slaves ["employment" being a polite euphemism for "slavery," "employee" a polite euphemism for "slave"].
Do not train your replacements. Do not document your code. When the rat-bastards outsource your job, tell them to go to straight to Hell.
And tell them to take their two-week severance pay and shove it up their asses.
No, I did not RTFA, but I hope these guys know what the hell they're doing, i.e. I hope to hell [er- heaven] that they're doing this in one of those negative pressure Category III facilities, and that they're all wearing those Intel bunny spacesuits.
While I'll agree that it's a low probability event, if they were to revive some bacteria for which modern organisms lacked an immune response, there could be some serious hell to pay.
I have the same feeling about this idiotic mission to return a mist sample from a [water-based] comet, or to return a soil sample from Mars - while it's a low probability event, the expected consequences from releasing some sort of organic agent into our ecosystem for which we have no immune protection are simply catastrophic.
You may laugh, but hospitals are having a helluva time trying to protect patients from methicillin and vancomycin resistant staphylococcus aureus, and, fifteen years ago, we didn't even know that pseudo-living, pseudo-non-living things like prions even existed.
PS: This little screed is brought to you by a card-carrying, gun-toting, eco-sceptic pillar of what many/.ers would call the right-wing fringe, but folks, we need to be very, very careful with this stuff.
You only run a Microsoft operating system if you want to run the programs that come with that platform or if you want to use cheap PC hardware as a server.
I wouldn't underestimate ".NET" [whatever it is] if I were you.
I don't know if I've ever seen this much excitement in the developer community in re: a new enterprise platform [to include the circa 1995/1996 hype over Java or HTML].
The people I know who've played with it [including the most rudimentary parts, such as ASP.NET] are very impressed.
Yes, there are probably individual products that can perform better on isolated tasks than will the competing.NET solutions [for instance, I'd be loathe to ditch a Novell Directory Services infrastructure for an Active Directory infrastructure], but, on balance,.NET is where it's at.
I believe that the internet allows for the distribution of many millions of textbooks worth of valuable (as well as junk) information. It's up to the IT guys to makes sure that nobody is getting 'Paris Hilton' videos during recess. That's another issue altogether, but I don't think that the difficulties involved should preclude the expansion of technology, and working toward ubiquity of the technology by starting kids out on it young.
Look, the internet is great for ordering from eBay, or Amazon, or WineCommune. It's great for meeting kookie slut chicks at the various dating services. [I kinda doubt you'd want to meet your wife like that, but, as they say in/. land, YMMV.] And it's great for keeping up on the latest gossip: DrudgeReport, SlashDot, eRobertParker, you name it.
But being able to order an especially juicy book from Amazon doesn't mean you'll actually sit down and master the book, only that you know where to go to obtain a copy.
Unless you're the kind of kid who's gonna grow up to build the next Internet infrastructure [i.e. the kind of kid who would be interested in downloading a Java SDK, or a C# SDK, or some highly technical document like an RFC or an IEEE standard], then hanging out on the internet isn't a whole lot different than going to a cocktail party: Lots of chatter, precious little of substance.
Lot's of good Readin' and Ritin' in them downloads.
While we're on the subject of things web-ish: Know any mathematicians who write their webpages in MathML? Know any literati who read their Shakespeare in PDF?
The only competition the web has for "Greatest Dumbing-Down Device in the History of Mankind" is television itself.
Q: This point has already been mentioned a bit by previous articles, but I'd like to hear an insider's take on it. The Indian tech economy is booming now, but like in the US, it's an unstable boom. Sooner or later, the US will look to other countries for their tech work, leaving India high and dry. What measures are being taken in India to maintain a strong internal tech economy, in the event that the US is no longer a serious customer?
A: Most people I talked to believe government is the only hope; that egovernment and other government projects are the only way to develop a sustainable local IT sector. Next question (asked by Indians I spoke to): "Where is the government going to get the money?" I was asked to pose this one to Slashdot readers. Consider it posed. Plenty of Indians would like to know the answer.
Let's hope for the sake of Indians that you're wrong.
But for the sake of argument, let's assume you're right, i.e. let's assume that most [if not all] Indians look to their government to solve their problems for them.
Then I can say with 100% metaphysical certainty that these people will never pose a threat to us in any way, matter, shape, or form.
I guarantee you plenty of teachers (and administrators) would find good uses for them--like, oh, maybe running a decent school website? Providing streaming feeds of sporting events? Or graduation? I bet the art departments would love it, at least those with classes dealing in video--they could put the students' projects up online so that everyone could enjoy them, rather than just those who care enough to go find where they kept the VHS of it and borrow it.
All of which have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Reading, Writing, or Arithmetic.
While the research ended with M&M's, it started with peas. Dr. Paul M. Chaikin, a professor of physics at Princeton, assigned an undergraduate student, Evan A. Variano, to reproduce the work of an 18th-century English clergyman, Stephen Hales, who studied the packing of spheres with peas. Hales soaked the peas, which swelled and deformed, allowing him to see the precise arrangement of each pea with its neighbors.
The fellow who [has appeared to have] solved the problem of three-dimensional sphere packing is named Tom Hales, late of Michigan, but now at Pitt.
Tom - if you're following this thread: Are you any relation to Stephen Hales?
I AM in doubt as to the propriety of making my first meditations in the place above mentioned matter of discourse; for these are so metaphysical, and so uncommon, as not, perhaps, to be acceptable to every one. And yet, that it may be determined whether the foundations that I have laid are sufficiently secure, I find myself in a measure constrained to advert to them. I had long before remarked that, in (relation to) practice, it is sometimes necessary to adopt, as if above doubt, opinions which we discern to be highly uncertain, as has been already said; but as I then desired to give my attention solely to the search after truth, I thought that a procedure exactly the opposite was called for, and that I ought to reject as absolutely false all opinions in regard to which I could suppose the least ground for doubt, in order to ascertain whether after that there remained aught in my belief that was wholly indubitable. Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; and because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters of Geometry, I, convinced that I was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings I had hitherto taken for demonstrations; and finally, when I considered that the very same thoughts (presentations) which we experience when awake may also be experienced when we are asleep, while there is at that time not one of them true, I supposed that all the objects (presentations) that had ever entered into my mind when awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my dreams. But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat; and as I observed that this truth, I think, hence I am, was so certain and of such evidence, that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the Sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the Philosophy of which I was in search.
I mean, when you're doing your computations in Fortran 90, or FORTRAN 77, or C (or whatever), what platforms are you currently using to compile and run your programs?
That's the whole point. It's simply INSANE that we have all this modern hardware but no modern languages to access it.
Writing hacks like doubly indexed 32-bit arrays to access memory above 4GB is just EMBARRASSING in this day and age.
And people have the gall to chide Intel & IBM about A20 address barriers...
If you run into this limit you obviously need to subdevide the workload. Make multiple array's to fill the data with.
Go grab a random DVD from Blockbuster. There's a real good chance you'll immediately encounter files of size greater than 4GB.
As I mentioned above, in the medical imaging field, we generate files greater than 4GB in the blink of an eye.
In this day and age, there is simply no excuse whatsoever for any aspect of an "Enterprise" system to lack true 64-bit support. Yes, 32-bit support is nice for backwards compatibility [thank you, AMD], but it's just insane that we don't have a plethora of 64-bit programming languages.
It's like we're stuck in the dark ages, circa 1994.
Will someone PLEASE tell this genius to add 64-bit array indices to the language?
for(long i = 0; i < whatever; i++)
{
a[i] = foo.bar(i);
}
What in the world good is this stupid language on a 64-bit platform?
And yes, WE DO NEED 64 BITS. LIKE YESTERDAY.
Our lab is taking 24-bit Doppler readings [8 byte doubles, 16 byte long doubles] on simultaneous channels at staggering sampling frequencies, and we can generate a 4GB file in the blink of an eye.
Not to mention MPEGs of e.g. The Ten Commandments or Gone with the Wind.
I said it before, but it bears repeating: It's a pretty good rule of thumb that whenever you're dealing with something so sleazy it just makes you want to go take a shower and wash yourself of it, there's a Democrat lurking in the background.
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eDirectory is an excellent product (beats AD in almost all areas, in my opinion) for which Novell should be paid.
Longtime Novell CNI/CNE here, and, for the record, I don't want to even pretend to hide the fact that I'm deeply skeptical of Stallman and his agenda.
Something I've been wondering for the longest time: How does Novell compile & link NDS on Linux? For years, Novell was a Watcom C++ shop, but then Watcom assumed room temperature, and Novell seemed to be in bed with Metrowerks [at least that's what you got with a DeveloperNet subscription, so I always assumed that's what Novell was using in-house]. With all the turmoil over at Motorola [in re the sell-off of the chipset fabrication division], it's not at all clear what the future of Metrowerks will be. [For the record, I always thought that the biggest hole in Novell's product lineup was the absence of a native compiler - I think they're the only OS vendor in the industry that doesn't offer at least one home grown compiler for their operating system. Seems like with the break-up of Motorola, Metrowerks might be on the auction block, and they sure would fill a great big gaping hole in the Novell line...]
Anyway, it seems like there are three major options for people looking to develop on Linux: the GCC C++ compiler & linker, the Intel C++ compiler & linker, and the Metrowerks C++ compiler & linker. My question: How does a company like Novell link NDS and not have it contaminated by the GPL?
I suppose a Stallmanite would reply that NDS can be written in such a way that it only need touch the LGPL'ed libraries of the GCC compiler/linker, but I'd reply by saying
Is it possible to write something as all-encompassing as NDS and have it remain un-contaminated by the GPL? Or does Novell intend to abandon the property-rights model, open-source NDS, and move to the service contract model?Inquiring minds want to know...
1) Do not document your code. Or, if you have to document it, make sure your creation is so arcane that it would take someone years and years to recreate it. In the case of Network Administrators: Do not document your network.
2) Under no circumstances are you allowed to train your replacements. If they outsource you, let your replacements spend a year of their lives trying to figure out just what it was that you created, or five years of their lives re-writing from scratch what you just spent the last five years of your life writing. For Network Administrators: Ditto.
I cannot tell you how important these two points are. Your only leverage over "THEM" is that you know how things work, and they don't. Why do you think Microsoft refuses to reveal the internals of NTFS, or the .DOC format? Answer: So they can make money off them.
PS: Get the hell out of any environment where you even think you might need to be engaged in this sort of pre-emptive intellectual sabotage. Find people you can trust [don't ask me how you know they'll prove to be trustworthy, but I'm not so cynical yet that I don't believe they fail to exist altogether] and do something constructive & rewarding with your life. The very best way to do this is to START YOUR OWN COMPANY AND BE YOUR OWN BOSS!!!
"EMPLOYMENT" IS JUST A POLITE EUPHEMISM FOR "SLAVERY"!!!
I changed out of IT after the crash in 2000. I started teaching college as a stopgap measure and found it immensely rewarding despite the drastic drop in pay. I got certified to teach math in Florida, and I'm now here looking to teach kids in the public school system. Job satisfaction was the only motivating factor.
At the risk of putting words in your mouth: You tried your hand at a career somewhere in the vicinity of The Greater Mathematical Sciences, found you hated it, and now you're trying to convince teenagers that they should embark on a career that they too will almost certainly hate?
I don't know which is worse, that, or this: You tried your hand at a career somewhere in the vicinity of The Greater Mathematical Sciences, found you couldn't hack it, and now you've come to the realization that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.
Well...I'd say the actual closings of shops here by companies...and having the last thing the US employees do is to train their indian counterparts for the new shop opening up over there...is a pretty good bit of evidence. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
For that sake of all that is Holy: DO NOT TRAIN YOUR REPLACEMENTS!!!
Who do you people think you are? Slaves? You certainly have the mentality of slaves ["employment" being a polite euphemism for "slavery," "employee" a polite euphemism for "slave"].
Do not train your replacements. Do not document your code. When the rat-bastards outsource your job, tell them to go to straight to Hell.
And tell them to take their two-week severance pay and shove it up their asses.
No, I did not RTFA, but I hope these guys know what the hell they're doing, i.e. I hope to hell [er- heaven] that they're doing this in one of those negative pressure Category III facilities, and that they're all wearing those Intel bunny spacesuits.
While I'll agree that it's a low probability event, if they were to revive some bacteria for which modern organisms lacked an immune response, there could be some serious hell to pay.
I have the same feeling about this idiotic mission to return a mist sample from a [water-based] comet, or to return a soil sample from Mars - while it's a low probability event, the expected consequences from releasing some sort of organic agent into our ecosystem for which we have no immune protection are simply catastrophic.
You may laugh, but hospitals are having a helluva time trying to protect patients from methicillin and vancomycin resistant staphylococcus aureus, and, fifteen years ago, we didn't even know that pseudo-living, pseudo-non-living things like prions even existed.
PS: This little screed is brought to you by a card-carrying, gun-toting, eco-sceptic pillar of what many /.ers would call the right-wing fringe, but folks, we need to be very, very careful with this stuff.
You only run a Microsoft operating system if you want to run the programs that come with that platform or if you want to use cheap PC hardware as a server.
I wouldn't underestimate ".NET" [whatever it is] if I were you.
I don't know if I've ever seen this much excitement in the developer community in re: a new enterprise platform [to include the circa 1995/1996 hype over Java or HTML].
The people I know who've played with it [including the most rudimentary parts, such as ASP.NET] are very impressed.
Yes, there are probably individual products that can perform better on isolated tasks than will the competing .NET solutions [for instance, I'd be loathe to ditch a Novell Directory Services infrastructure for an Active Directory infrastructure], but, on balance, .NET is where it's at.
Well, there and maybe Bangalore.
I believe that the internet allows for the distribution of many millions of textbooks worth of valuable (as well as junk) information. It's up to the IT guys to makes sure that nobody is getting 'Paris Hilton' videos during recess. That's another issue altogether, but I don't think that the difficulties involved should preclude the expansion of technology, and working toward ubiquity of the technology by starting kids out on it young.
Look, the internet is great for ordering from eBay, or Amazon, or WineCommune. It's great for meeting kookie slut chicks at the various dating services. [I kinda doubt you'd want to meet your wife like that, but, as they say in /. land, YMMV.] And it's great for keeping up on the latest gossip: DrudgeReport, SlashDot, eRobertParker, you name it.
But being able to order an especially juicy book from Amazon doesn't mean you'll actually sit down and master the book, only that you know where to go to obtain a copy.
Unless you're the kind of kid who's gonna grow up to build the next Internet infrastructure [i.e. the kind of kid who would be interested in downloading a Java SDK, or a C# SDK, or some highly technical document like an RFC or an IEEE standard], then hanging out on the internet isn't a whole lot different than going to a cocktail party: Lots of chatter, precious little of substance.
Not yet, but if you'd have asked me 10 years ago how I called my mother on the phone, I'd certainly have left a computer out of my answer.
But that's my point - you're using your computer as a telephone, not as a display device for reading the Corpus of Aristotle.
Telephones, and their evil, bastard off-spring, Cell Phones, are the scourge of rational thought everywhere.
The next long term threat being the disease that wipes them out and the rest of the world due to their govt's poor health care system.
But the idea is that it's not your government's responsibility to tend to your personal hygiene.
People who look to their government to wipe their asses for them are hopeless.
Well, let's see, you can use the internet to Lot's of good Readin' and Ritin' in them downloads.
While we're on the subject of things web-ish: Know any mathematicians who write their webpages in MathML? Know any literati who read their Shakespeare in PDF?
The only competition the web has for "Greatest Dumbing-Down Device in the History of Mankind" is television itself.
Q: This point has already been mentioned a bit by previous articles, but I'd like to hear an insider's take on it. The Indian tech economy is booming now, but like in the US, it's an unstable boom. Sooner or later, the US will look to other countries for their tech work, leaving India high and dry. What measures are being taken in India to maintain a strong internal tech economy, in the event that the US is no longer a serious customer?
A: Most people I talked to believe government is the only hope; that egovernment and other government projects are the only way to develop a sustainable local IT sector. Next question (asked by Indians I spoke to): "Where is the government going to get the money?" I was asked to pose this one to Slashdot readers. Consider it posed. Plenty of Indians would like to know the answer.
Let's hope for the sake of Indians that you're wrong.
But for the sake of argument, let's assume you're right, i.e. let's assume that most [if not all] Indians look to their government to solve their problems for them.
Then I can say with 100% metaphysical certainty that these people will never pose a threat to us in any way, matter, shape, or form.
Next. [Threat, that is.]
I guarantee you plenty of teachers (and administrators) would find good uses for them--like, oh, maybe running a decent school website? Providing streaming feeds of sporting events? Or graduation? I bet the art departments would love it, at least those with classes dealing in video--they could put the students' projects up online so that everyone could enjoy them, rather than just those who care enough to go find where they kept the VHS of it and borrow it.
All of which have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Reading, Writing, or Arithmetic.
Be great for the hax0rs who want better access to confidential student records, though.
And let's be honest with ourselves: Unless you're downloading Java or C# SDKs, there just ain't all that much on the internet that's worth diddly squat in the first place.
A firewall/tunnel/authentication scheme/protocol/whatever is only as good as its ASN.1 Buffer Underflows.
Don't laugh - have you strcpy()'ed today?
While the research ended with M&M's, it started with peas. Dr. Paul M. Chaikin, a professor of physics at Princeton, assigned an undergraduate student, Evan A. Variano, to reproduce the work of an 18th-century English clergyman, Stephen Hales, who studied the packing of spheres with peas. Hales soaked the peas, which swelled and deformed, allowing him to see the precise arrangement of each pea with its neighbors.
The fellow who [has appeared to have] solved the problem of three-dimensional sphere packing is named Tom Hales, late of Michigan, but now at Pitt.
Tom - if you're following this thread: Are you any relation to Stephen Hales?
You want to create single arrays larger than 32GB? What kind of hardware are you using?
Larger than 2^32 = 4GB, dude.
You're [possibly] thinking of Intel's 36-bit hardware hack, which gets you [at least theoretically] to 2^4 * 2^32 = 64GB.
But I know of no programming language which supports 36-bit array indices.
WE NEED 64-BIT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES!!!
Reposted 'cause I could use the mod points.
What does "cogitoergosum" mean?
Cogito ergo sum:
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Methode, Part 4:So, you are advocating making screwing up on a computer lethal?
Them "screw-uppers" is what we like to call customers.
Please don't kill them all - curried chicken is nice, but I'm not sure I would want to eat it every night.
And I sure as heck ain't in the mood to pay fealty to the statue of an eight-armed pagan god...
Finally! I can use a 64 bit version of Java on the Opterons and see how the speed on the large (~6 to 8 gig datasets) improves/decreases
Unless and until the language supports a construction like the following, so-called "64-bit" support is utterly meaningless:
So: Did we get 64-bit array indices this go-round? Or do we have to wait another two years?If the latter, then: HELLO C#!!!
Richard Burgess's "Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System": Used to be published by SAMS, but they no longer list it. Now available as an online download.
I mean, when you're doing your computations in Fortran 90, or FORTRAN 77, or C (or whatever), what platforms are you currently using to compile and run your programs?
That's the whole point. It's simply INSANE that we have all this modern hardware but no modern languages to access it.
Writing hacks like doubly indexed 32-bit arrays to access memory above 4GB is just EMBARRASSING in this day and age.
And people have the gall to chide Intel & IBM about A20 address barriers...
If you run into this limit you obviously need to subdevide the workload. Make multiple array's to fill the data with.
Go grab a random DVD from Blockbuster. There's a real good chance you'll immediately encounter files of size greater than 4GB.
As I mentioned above, in the medical imaging field, we generate files greater than 4GB in the blink of an eye.
In this day and age, there is simply no excuse whatsoever for any aspect of an "Enterprise" system to lack true 64-bit support. Yes, 32-bit support is nice for backwards compatibility [thank you, AMD], but it's just insane that we don't have a plethora of 64-bit programming languages.
It's like we're stuck in the dark ages, circa 1994.
Will someone PLEASE tell this genius to add 64-bit array indices to the language? What in the world good is this stupid language on a 64-bit platform?
And yes, WE DO NEED 64 BITS. LIKE YESTERDAY.
Our lab is taking 24-bit Doppler readings [8 byte doubles, 16 byte long doubles] on simultaneous channels at staggering sampling frequencies, and we can generate a 4GB file in the blink of an eye.
Not to mention MPEGs of e.g. The Ten Commandments or Gone with the Wind.
(Score:-1, Flamebait)
Quod erat demonstrandum.
I said it before, but it bears repeating: It's a pretty good rule of thumb that whenever you're dealing with something so sleazy it just makes you want to go take a shower and wash yourself of it, there's a Democrat lurking in the background.