According to a BBC article here, Obama seems to be the more popular one (not that I'm implying this is a popularity contest - even if it does end up being one).
The thing I particular don't like about McCain is his propensity to being nasty. As if that's not enough, he continues to be nasty even though there's ample evidence to suggest it isn't working the way he intended it to. If he doesn't listen to whats happening around him, or deliberately chooses to ignore him, he's already exposed a possibly critical weakness.
Slow. Dog Slow!
We also wanted to log to a database and thought the fastest way to go about doing it was a embedded SQLite database to do it. Apparently for simple operations (like writing log entries), its pretty fast. Even then, we found to our disappointment that writing to a flat file was at least 7-8 times faster (even when SQLite was writing in async). So if you have an app that does a lot of writes to logs, the db logger will slow it down.
I've never managed to convince myself to become a Windows developer because they have this annoying habit of deprecating API ever so often. If you rtfa, they referred to.NET as "legacy". WTF ?!! Didnt it just get here?!
At least on a Unix/Linux system API is largely similar and clean and even if there are forks in implementation, a simple man page will get u through it. I dont need a few zillion pages of MSDN and my skills are useful for way longer!
Is this a service pack, or a fresh install replacing most of the core files? Really, should a service pack take that long to install, and require that much space?
Thats cause its written in C# and has a memory leak the size of Kansas
I really think Google needs to look at more than one development language to target Android applications. Being only centered around Java is bad for more reasons than just a potential lawsuit. It locks out so many developers who are eager to contribute to the platform.
According to some patents, Apple may be working on cooler stuff like pressure sensitive screens etc...So, in short, the iPhone 2 will be 4 years ahead of any Google Open Handset Alliance phone.
Apple may hold patents on these but if you look at the present state of things, the iPhone is far from revolutionary. In terms of pure technical specs its probably outdone by other phones on the market which are cheaper too. Even mp3 players for instance existed way before the iPod came out.
Apple does make they're stuff look pretty. But I wouldn't count on it being technically superior than say, the topline smartphones on the market. Also the android SDK only encourages QVGA use, it doesn't demand it. Also considering Google has only just released the SDK nothing says they wont adapt to larger screens later.
...to lobby for further hikes in defense spending. It almost sounds deliberate. Diesel-Electric subs are noisy little buggers so either the American navy is seriously incompetent or too clever by half.
Why do people do stuff for Google for free? What do they get out of it?
Why does Google offer users free email. What do they get out of it (besides ads)? Considering how good gmail is, I might even pay for it but Google "gives" it to me free. So I don't see any harm in returning the favour.
Is it just me or did someone else read that as a "Google Powerpoint Competition". For a second there I lost all respect for Google thinking they were hosting a contest on who can make the prettiest set of slides:D.
Isn't it conceivable that light coming from such a distance may not be traveling in a straight line? ESPECIALLY since there are 20 quasars between here and the place we assume the galaxies to be. Quasars would exert powerful gravitational pulls like black holes which theoretically should bend any light passing them. Is it possible these galaxies are not actually as far as 10 billion light year away after all?
The thing this (and the fact that the price of the Ubuntu Dell machine is at par with a Windows box) points to is that Dell jumped onto the Ubuntu bandwagon more for leverage and less for business.
I've been at 5 different IT firms and I still can't comprehensively say for sure which was the best. I can safely say which was the worst but the best depends on too many variables. Some firms had amazingly captivating work but stingy and shitty management and too much pressure to be good for you. Other places had amazing perks and salary, great and proactive management but mind numbingly dull work, while still others were small, had a shitty salary but had a nice informal angle to everything that made you feel noticed more often (small fish in a small sea).
The point is... no place can be "the best" because that definition depends on who you ask and what is important to him.
Ok... update. I read the article and apparently he did carry Flash drives to "backup" data onto. And carried 3 laptops for redundancy!!
Why not save all the money from the several thumb drives and the 3 laptops and buy one nice big SSD. They might not be very commonplace but hey, neither is climbing everest!! Sure they're expensive but I bet they're cheaper than all the other hardware they bought "for redundancy".
I havent RTFA but I cant help thinking that when someone puts so much money and effort to climb everest why the hell dont they carry a "Flash" drive? Ran out of money?
Parallel programming is just a different paradigm. Moving from sequential to parallel programming has about as much difference as moving from procedural to OO programming. That said, it IS hard to be a good OO programmer. I have had the good fortune of working quite a bit in massively parallel systems (try an app split up into 8 processes each with custom threading inside them for size), as well as large sequential OO systems and the thing I've learned to appreciate is, each paradigm has its spoken and unspoken rules:
Parallel programs work best when the independent execution units are regularly busy and the messaging overhead between the parallel units is kept small compared to the processing time taken. This demands the problem be sensibly broken up such that compute power is utilized most effectively. [It also depends on the problem of course, like GUIs use parallel processing merely to indicate status in a statusbar - a purely usability driven implementation.]
Similarly OO requires you to break up the problem in terms of abstracted entities which "talk" to one another. Its about managing complexity thinking in self contained "meta" terms of real life entities.
Going to generic programming has its own set of do's and donts to use it effectively which are also reasonably difficult to get right.
There are lots of people who claim to be great OO programmers when all they're code is totally procedural and there are a lot of programmers who claim they can write good parallel code while in reality they have not designed a solution for handling parallel execution.
No one seems to handle a paradigm shift easily. That isnt so much because parallel programming is hard, its more because people don't unlearn old habits.
This is a real culture clash and M$ is going to lose. Compare it to Gandhi's Salt March to Dandi and you can see where this is going....M$ can no more stop this than the British Empire could keep people from taking salt from the sea.
Oh please. The civil disobedience movements in India had a much larger more fundamental purpose. They did not want to be ruled by the British and have they're country pillaged. To compare it to a bunch of shopkeepers from allowing MS to make a little more money is stupid. Fine... you can argue that they're "fighting for freedom" as in free software, but exactly where is freedom NOT there at present? Anyone is still "free" to install Linux and not MS. The "MS tax" is not really that binding in India where most computers are sold "assembled" and not from any particular vendor. MS isnt chasing people with a pitchfork to get them to use they're stuff. Its not like they're massacring people to prolong they're rule like the British did in India. When one company tries to force people to not pirate it might get a small following, but when you're basic human rights are threatened, a flood of people will support you. As for MS being a monopoly, most people in India don't give a rats ass.
I know this is Slashdot but lets just call things as they are. This is piracy..period. Its a bunch of pirates who are illegally cashing in on other peoples work..period. As for all that "seva (service to others)" bullshit I'm not buying. There are plenty of moves to Linux in India but most people still think Windows is the "standard". All the biggest companies and most of the general public us Windows. Most retailers in India sell Windows on the comp BECAUSE IT GETS THEM THE BUYERS. So indirectly they do profit from this venture since it clinches the sale, even if they dont sell Windows directly.
I'm on Ubuntu and I'm no MS fanboy : I thoroughly despise the policies MS follows to quell competition. But lets not get all jihadi about what MS is doing and see things in a proper perspective.
>> At worst, the Linux team can then rewrite the offending code so that it no longer infringes.
Or just move to OpenSolaris. I know Linux fanboys like to ridicule Solaris but in my low level experiences with both OSes, the Solaris kernel is way more stable and solid. Stuff like the implementation of Asynchronous IO on RHEL has been and is a cruel joke! There is very little patent controversy around Solaris too and it plays nice with other Unices...and oh...its also free. Even though IBM and RH like to claim Solaris isn't "free enough", they both probably respect the OS more than they want to admit.
Add all the recent frills around Solaris 10 (Dtrace, ZFS, zones, etc) and the sweeter it gets. I know there are efforts to port these to BSD and Linux but its already there on Solaris!
And no.. I don't work for Sun Micro. Never have. I just think (and I'm not trolling here) that outside of driver compatibility, they have a powerful system.
and all the functionality of Linux has jumped ahead of Solaris...
Just like all the functionality of Windows has jumped ahead of Linux? I'm not talking about Windows clean install, I mean a typical windows setup for a typical (non-power) user with all the very capable and user friendly and consistent looking userland tools and freeware sprawling all over the internet.
I'm not being an MS fanboy and I'm writing this off Ubuntu 7.04 but the point I'm trying to make is, Linux "functionality" isn't miles ahead of everyone else. Also from my own experience of working on the systems side of things, Solaris is a very powerful, stable and rock solid system under the hood with YEARS of "beta testing" by some of the most demanding customers on Wall Street. You can't dismiss all that just because vim or X-windows comes out of the box on a Linux system.
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According to a BBC article here, Obama seems to be the more popular one (not that I'm implying this is a popularity contest - even if it does end up being one).
The thing I particular don't like about McCain is his propensity to being nasty. As if that's not enough, he continues to be nasty even though there's ample evidence to suggest it isn't working the way he intended it to. If he doesn't listen to whats happening around him, or deliberately chooses to ignore him, he's already exposed a possibly critical weakness.
Slow. Dog Slow! We also wanted to log to a database and thought the fastest way to go about doing it was a embedded SQLite database to do it. Apparently for simple operations (like writing log entries), its pretty fast. Even then, we found to our disappointment that writing to a flat file was at least 7-8 times faster (even when SQLite was writing in async). So if you have an app that does a lot of writes to logs, the db logger will slow it down.
I've never managed to convince myself to become a Windows developer because they have this annoying habit of deprecating API ever so often. If you rtfa, they referred to .NET as "legacy". WTF ?!! Didnt it just get here?!
At least on a Unix/Linux system API is largely similar and clean and even if there are forks in implementation, a simple man page will get u through it. I dont need a few zillion pages of MSDN and my skills are useful for way longer!
To stipulate a health warning on devices is absolutely ludacris.
;)
I guess you meant ludicrous. But I do sympathize - are you typing this after a Blackberry overdose?
TATA may be a relatively unknown name outside India but have a look at where they're generally headed : They just bought Jaguar and Land Rover
Is this a service pack, or a fresh install replacing most of the core files? Really, should a service pack take that long to install, and require that much space?
Thats cause its written in C# and has a memory leak the size of Kansas
I really think Google needs to look at more than one development language to target Android applications. Being only centered around Java is bad for more reasons than just a potential lawsuit. It locks out so many developers who are eager to contribute to the platform.
According to some patents, Apple may be working on cooler stuff like pressure sensitive screens etc ...So, in short, the iPhone 2 will be 4 years ahead of any Google Open Handset Alliance phone.
Apple may hold patents on these but if you look at the present state of things, the iPhone is far from revolutionary. In terms of pure technical specs its probably outdone by other phones on the market which are cheaper too. Even mp3 players for instance existed way before the iPod came out.
Apple does make they're stuff look pretty. But I wouldn't count on it being technically superior than say, the topline smartphones on the market. Also the android SDK only encourages QVGA use, it doesn't demand it. Also considering Google has only just released the SDK nothing says they wont adapt to larger screens later.
...to lobby for further hikes in defense spending. It almost sounds deliberate. Diesel-Electric subs are noisy little buggers so either the American navy is seriously incompetent or too clever by half.
Well consider a world sans google mail. I'd be stuck with less capable and engaging offerings (e.g. Yahoo and Hotmail accounts with 2 MB !!)
Is it just me or did someone else read that as a "Google Powerpoint Competition". For a second there I lost all respect for Google thinking they were hosting a contest on who can make the prettiest set of slides :D.
Isn't it conceivable that light coming from such a distance may not be traveling in a straight line? ESPECIALLY since there are 20 quasars between here and the place we assume the galaxies to be. Quasars would exert powerful gravitational pulls like black holes which theoretically should bend any light passing them. Is it possible these galaxies are not actually as far as 10 billion light year away after all?
Maybe IBM may be taking this from 2 angles
- Enemy of my enemy is my friend
- Keeping its options open with OpenSolaris just in case customers get scared off with potential litigation and decide against going with Linux
What I'm more curious about is what this will do to the AIX market.The thing this (and the fact that the price of the Ubuntu Dell machine is at par with a Windows box) points to is that Dell jumped onto the Ubuntu bandwagon more for leverage and less for business.
I've been at 5 different IT firms and I still can't comprehensively say for sure which was the best. I can safely say which was the worst but the best depends on too many variables. Some firms had amazingly captivating work but stingy and shitty management and too much pressure to be good for you. Other places had amazing perks and salary, great and proactive management but mind numbingly dull work, while still others were small, had a shitty salary but had a nice informal angle to everything that made you feel noticed more often (small fish in a small sea).
... no place can be "the best" because that definition depends on who you ask and what is important to him.
The point is
Ok ... update. I read the article and apparently he did carry Flash drives to "backup" data onto. And carried 3 laptops for redundancy!!
Why not save all the money from the several thumb drives and the 3 laptops and buy one nice big SSD. They might not be very commonplace but hey, neither is climbing everest!! Sure they're expensive but I bet they're cheaper than all the other hardware they bought "for redundancy".
I havent RTFA but I cant help thinking that when someone puts so much money and effort to climb everest why the hell dont they carry a "Flash" drive? Ran out of money?
I sorta disagree.
Parallel programming is just a different paradigm. Moving from sequential to parallel programming has about as much difference as moving from procedural to OO programming. That said, it IS hard to be a good OO programmer. I have had the good fortune of working quite a bit in massively parallel systems (try an app split up into 8 processes each with custom threading inside them for size), as well as large sequential OO systems and the thing I've learned to appreciate is, each paradigm has its spoken and unspoken rules:
Parallel programs work best when the independent execution units are regularly busy and the messaging overhead between the parallel units is kept small compared to the processing time taken. This demands the problem be sensibly broken up such that compute power is utilized most effectively. [It also depends on the problem of course, like GUIs use parallel processing merely to indicate status in a statusbar - a purely usability driven implementation.]
Similarly OO requires you to break up the problem in terms of abstracted entities which "talk" to one another. Its about managing complexity thinking in self contained "meta" terms of real life entities.
Going to generic programming has its own set of do's and donts to use it effectively which are also reasonably difficult to get right.
There are lots of people who claim to be great OO programmers when all they're code is totally procedural and there are a lot of programmers who claim they can write good parallel code while in reality they have not designed a solution for handling parallel execution.
No one seems to handle a paradigm shift easily. That isnt so much because parallel programming is hard, its more because people don't unlearn old habits.
The fact that aliens haven't made any attempt to contact us humans proves theres intelligent life out there. ;)
I know this is Slashdot but lets just call things as they are. This is piracy
I'm on Ubuntu and I'm no MS fanboy : I thoroughly despise the policies MS follows to quell competition. But lets not get all jihadi about what MS is doing and see things in a proper perspective.
>> At worst, the Linux team can then rewrite the offending code so that it no longer infringes.
...and oh ...its also free. Even though IBM and RH like to claim Solaris isn't "free enough", they both probably respect the OS more than they want to admit.
.. I don't work for Sun Micro. Never have. I just think (and I'm not trolling here) that outside of driver compatibility, they have a powerful system.
Or just move to OpenSolaris. I know Linux fanboys like to ridicule Solaris but in my low level experiences with both OSes, the Solaris kernel is way more stable and solid. Stuff like the implementation of Asynchronous IO on RHEL has been and is a cruel joke! There is very little patent controversy around Solaris too and it plays nice with other Unices
Add all the recent frills around Solaris 10 (Dtrace, ZFS, zones, etc) and the sweeter it gets. I know there are efforts to port these to BSD and Linux but its already there on Solaris!
And no
They do. Its called Monads
Bang Stars for Profit ? Err ... what sorta business are you in ?
and all the functionality of Linux has jumped ahead of Solaris...
Just like all the functionality of Windows has jumped ahead of Linux? I'm not talking about Windows clean install, I mean a typical windows setup for a typical (non-power) user with all the very capable and user friendly and consistent looking userland tools and freeware sprawling all over the internet.
I'm not being an MS fanboy and I'm writing this off Ubuntu 7.04 but the point I'm trying to make is, Linux "functionality" isn't miles ahead of everyone else. Also from my own experience of working on the systems side of things, Solaris is a very powerful, stable and rock solid system under the hood with YEARS of "beta testing" by some of the most demanding customers on Wall Street. You can't dismiss all that just because vim or X-windows comes out of the box on a Linux system.
I for one am eagerly awaiting Nexenta