I have 2GHz dual-core AMD, several years old. My OS may be doing hundreds of task all the time, but those tasks amount to 2-4% of CPU time. I could have all those tasks running on one core and use only 4-8% of that core's time, and literally have the other core waiting for me to press a button. How is adding 14 idle cores to this equation going to improve the responsiveness to my key press? Answer: it's not.
And are those 16 cores going to help with responsiveness? No. If I type the letter 'B' into my IDE, how is that to be broken into 16 or more subtasks that can be run in parallel? There's nothing but raw serial computing power that can help with that.
Exactly, and it's because that neat little abstraction called close() includes "tell them my regards and then bid them adieu" and "oh, you're still here?" and everything in between. How could one automatic clean-up abstraction deal with all that nuance without butchering something or other.
So every time WoW wants to draw triangles on the screen some nefarious DRM code is asked if drawing triangles is allowed? Do you have anything concrete?
If you're using a top-down approach to a problem, it's great fun being able to call methods as if they already existed and then, with a push of a button, they do!
Because you can't figure out those things on your own?
Don't be silly. If I've already written the return type, the method name and the types and names of the arguments elsewhere, why would I type them again to implement the method when I can get all that plus an impossible-to-miss note reminding me that the method is a stub with a single button press? Instead of fixing typos I'd rather be looking at the method and asking myself: is this really what I had in mind?
I make use of those all the time. Necessary? No, but then hardly anything is. Convenient, definitely, but more than that, essential to proving that a modification to code has been done correctly.
And unlike Clippy, quick fixes are shown when you request them and poignant, like "remove this unnecessary variable/field" or "add this argument to method signature" or "create this method/class" or "change the method return type to match this return statement".
Does it refactor methods signatures? Update import statements when copy-pasting code from an other class? Generate hashCode() and equals()? Extract a method from a block of code? Rename methods, classes, fields or local variables? Inline methods? Suggest quick fixes?
I would like to have a header, a footer and a div that's centered vertically in the remaining space in the window. The goal is to use all the available space in the window but no more, so no scrollbars unless the window is too small to fit the header, footer and div. This is pretty much the simplest real UI I can think of, but can it be done?
No, it's not. It arbitrarily and abruptly transforms what was to be a two-way communication into a one-way communication with a strict time limit. It's an artificial artefact borne of weak technology and the sooner we get rid of it the better.
Why go to the trouble of pen and paper and memory exercises when my phone already notices phonenumbers in an SMS and allows me to call them with a few keypresses?
A FOOS project could not afford that. I doubt even MS or Oracle could.
I doubt they want to kill the software industry, so they will start with baby steps while giving the industry time to adjust. I would imagine software warranty would end up costing surprisingly little once wheat has been separated from the chaff companies.
Then there are a number of farmers markets I can go to as well.
Like if food was held to health and safety standards only the rich could afford to eat? But no worries, I hear you can buy some cheap milk* from China.
* This product is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
First of all, you can't fix a technical problem with legislation.
Of course not, but you can legislate such an environment that the parties responsible for a particular technical problem will either fix it or go bankrupt and in jail. Either way the problem ceases to exists.
The law can't stop your private information from leaking or going in the wrong hands.
No, but it can make sure that it doesn't happen again. Most of the time that's good enough.
Note that I didn't claim it did. Phrased differently, insight is the understanding obtained by reading between the lines, which is, if anything, the exact opposite of literal.
Re: the moderation, I'm glad to see that you don't throw your weight behind that particular atrocity. The "insightful" moderation targeted to that slur stated as a fact was to promote the idea that anyone who doesn't disagree with Microsoft in everything is a Microsoft astroturfer or worse. What insight can there be in that?
Actually, insight - the result of apprehending the inner nature of things.
I guess in this case the moderator who moderated that crap "insightful" should have instead posted his evidence. Unless of course he didn't have any and chose a random up-moderation just to sling some mud.
This is what passes as an "insightful" comment on Slashdot?! Two tired slurs followed by an inane assumption that some random poster on Slashdot is in reality the CEO of Microsoft without any supporting evidence. Where is the insightfulness in that?
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Does this search box show screenshots and reviews of the most popular apps?
I have 2GHz dual-core AMD, several years old. My OS may be doing hundreds of task all the time, but those tasks amount to 2-4% of CPU time. I could have all those tasks running on one core and use only 4-8% of that core's time, and literally have the other core waiting for me to press a button. How is adding 14 idle cores to this equation going to improve the responsiveness to my key press? Answer: it's not.
And are those 16 cores going to help with responsiveness? No. If I type the letter 'B' into my IDE, how is that to be broken into 16 or more subtasks that can be run in parallel? There's nothing but raw serial computing power that can help with that.
Exactly, and it's because that neat little abstraction called close() includes "tell them my regards and then bid them adieu" and "oh, you're still here?" and everything in between. How could one automatic clean-up abstraction deal with all that nuance without butchering something or other.
Ever heard of the terms undefined and unspecified behaviour? Well, I guess one could argue about the predictability of unpretictability...
So every time WoW wants to draw triangles on the screen some nefarious DRM code is asked if drawing triangles is allowed? Do you have anything concrete?
If you're using a top-down approach to a problem, it's great fun being able to call methods as if they already existed and then, with a push of a button, they do!
Because you can't figure out those things on your own?
Don't be silly. If I've already written the return type, the method name and the types and names of the arguments elsewhere, why would I type them again to implement the method when I can get all that plus an impossible-to-miss note reminding me that the method is a stub with a single button press? Instead of fixing typos I'd rather be looking at the method and asking myself: is this really what I had in mind?
I make use of those all the time. Necessary? No, but then hardly anything is. Convenient, definitely, but more than that, essential to proving that a modification to code has been done correctly.
And unlike Clippy, quick fixes are shown when you request them and poignant, like "remove this unnecessary variable/field" or "add this argument to method signature" or "create this method/class" or "change the method return type to match this return statement".
Does it refactor methods signatures? Update import statements when copy-pasting code from an other class? Generate hashCode() and equals()? Extract a method from a block of code? Rename methods, classes, fields or local variables? Inline methods? Suggest quick fixes?
I would like to have a header, a footer and a div that's centered vertically in the remaining space in the window. The goal is to use all the available space in the window but no more, so no scrollbars unless the window is too small to fit the header, footer and div. This is pretty much the simplest real UI I can think of, but can it be done?
What couldn't be delivered in a browser via Ajax
Anything that uses the second mouse button.
If you forget that tricky little s there, it will instead refer to the interface Collection, which of course doesn't have a static reverse method.
Could it be that they weren't Windows netbooks originally?
I don't understand, how does SMS transform a communication arbitrarily and abruptly?
The correct answer is c:\Users\MrEricSir
No, it's not. It arbitrarily and abruptly transforms what was to be a two-way communication into a one-way communication with a strict time limit. It's an artificial artefact borne of weak technology and the sooner we get rid of it the better.
Why go to the trouble of pen and paper and memory exercises when my phone already notices phonenumbers in an SMS and allows me to call them with a few keypresses?
A FOOS project could not afford that. I doubt even MS or Oracle could.
I doubt they want to kill the software industry, so they will start with baby steps while giving the industry time to adjust. I would imagine software warranty would end up costing surprisingly little once wheat has been separated from the chaff companies.
Then there are a number of farmers markets I can go to as well.
Let's hope they don't add melamine if their milk is more water and no protein even if it's cheaper.
Like if food was held to health and safety standards only the rich could afford to eat? But no worries, I hear you can buy some cheap milk* from China.
* This product is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
What happens when your business depends on servers that happened to be located in a building that burns down? Should we not keep servers in buildings?
First of all, you can't fix a technical problem with legislation.
Of course not, but you can legislate such an environment that the parties responsible for a particular technical problem will either fix it or go bankrupt and in jail. Either way the problem ceases to exists.
The law can't stop your private information from leaking or going in the wrong hands.
No, but it can make sure that it doesn't happen again. Most of the time that's good enough.
Note that I didn't claim it did. Phrased differently, insight is the understanding obtained by reading between the lines, which is, if anything, the exact opposite of literal.
Re: the moderation, I'm glad to see that you don't throw your weight behind that particular atrocity. The "insightful" moderation targeted to that slur stated as a fact was to promote the idea that anyone who doesn't disagree with Microsoft in everything is a Microsoft astroturfer or worse. What insight can there be in that?
Actually, insight - the result of apprehending the inner nature of things.
I guess in this case the moderator who moderated that crap "insightful" should have instead posted his evidence. Unless of course he didn't have any and chose a random up-moderation just to sling some mud.
This is what passes as an "insightful" comment on Slashdot?! Two tired slurs followed by an inane assumption that some random poster on Slashdot is in reality the CEO of Microsoft without any supporting evidence. Where is the insightfulness in that?