C'mon, they managed to reproduce special effects seen in movies like ID4, The Matrix, and Star Wars for only $50 million dollars! They did all of that and STILL were able to pay Travolta and the CoS. That's gotta be worth SOMETHING.
What sort of background checks do you perform on your employees? It seems that with the requirements for privacy and security you seem to have, a thorough investigation into a potential employee's past would be necessary. What percentage of applicants are turned away because something in their past renders them inelligible? And where do I send my resume?
That's funny, there's no mention of a lawsuit being filed anywhere in the article. There's a cease and desist order, but no mention of a lawsuit. As many previous posters have mentioned, Napster _has to_ defent their trademark or risk losing it. At this point, Napster and the Offspring have met behind closed doors and worked out a solution where no one loses face. Everything will be fine come morning.
Intel could give two shits about Rambus' $160 mln. Intel wouldn't take the risk of rambus failing for such a small amount of cash. Developing the i8xx chipsets cost one hell of a lot more than $160 million, and are not by any means guaranteed success. The cash was incentive, sure, but in no way could it have been the deal-maker.
When you post the 750th comment, no one ever seems to read your opinions. Ah well. I'll post my opinion anyway.
Microsoft's lawyers are, at this very moment, preparing the next phase of their complaint against Slashdot/Andover. The particular issues behind MS's implementation of Kerberos and whether or not the spec should be made public are IRRELEVANT. MS has stated that their mods are a piece of their intellectual property, and is entitled to make decisions about how that iformation is to be distributed and used. Once that decision is made, it is MS's right to protect that decision under the law. The DMCA supports MS on this issue, and since no one has any legal reason to suggest that MS has broken the law by making non-free modifications to kerberos, their rights are protected. Until such time as the MS usage agreement is found to be invalid, MS RETAINS ALL RIGHTS to distribute it as they see fit. Arguing that the kerberos mods should be freely available doesn't touch the real issue here... have MS's rights been violated under the terms of the DMCA?
In my opinion, only twice. All copies of the spec that were posted to slashdot (two, if I remember correctly,) are not only in violation of the DMCA, but of copyright law in general. You cannot republish copyrighted work to which you don't have rights. As for the posts describing how to circumvent the EULA, and those posts pointing to unprotected versions of the document... I don't see any violations of the DMCA. You're not violating copy protection, so the terms of the DMCA about that aren't relevant. Linking to such material is also not illegal. Those posts shouldn't even be in question.
So the question lies with the illegal, full postings of the documents. Does the first ammendment allow for this? I don't know, I'm not a first ammendment specialist. Since Slashdot has a policy to NEVER censor comments, I can see a big fight brewing over this particular issue.
But sending a list of reasons why you think MS's EULA is invalid is a waste of time. It's like complaining to the grocery store that your bread is smashed, and the grocer telling you that the wheat used in the bread is of low quality. It doesn't even address the issue! The bloody bread is squashed!
I wonder about Andover's lawyer. My guess is he's inexperienced, particularly in cases of corporate law. I'm willing to bet he just graduated from law school, and Andover hired him because he's young, fresh, and cheap.
Hmm... it seems that Dre's team did some homework, but neglected the rest. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't this an impossible request? Since napster doesn't store a single Mp3 on their servers, nor does any mp3 data ever actually pass through napster's servers, wouldn't napster's only recourse be to disallow listings of particular song titles? The md5 checksum idea may seem like a good idea, but a simple solution would be for napster users to alter ONE BYTE of the song, either in the tag or in a lead-in frame, to invalidate the checksum. A good try, though...
Agreed, and if I had some moderator points I'd spend 'em on 'ya. It would be nice to respond to this interview, asking for clarification on a few points.
Umm... did I miss something? How can this claim to be the first accelerated graphics board for the linux platform? Last time I checked, hardware accelerated 3d was available for Matrox, 3dfx, and nVidia cards, (to name a few.) Am I missing something here?
Actually, if I remember my history correctly, it was 2400 baud. That is, in fact, the actual limit of analog modems, even today. Your baud rate and bitrate are two different numbers. Baud is the number of distinct signals that can be sent per second. In modern modems, more than one "tone" can be generated, allowing us to send larger values in a single signal. Thus, a 56k modem can generate 24 different "tones" per signal. Even though only 2400 tones are being generated, a data rate of 56k can be achieved. On older phone lines, or lines with longer runs, the distinction between tones and signals can be lost, decreasing your data rate. Inside your house, you're not as likely to have the same problems as with the regular telephone network, so the signal rate can be higher. I don't know what the exact number is, but 2400 Hz should be no problem. That's not to say that they're using a totally different signalling technology (which they probably are.) Probably something digital. I don't know, I've never played with one. My house is wired with ethernet, so I'm probably not likely to try one out in the near future. The contents of this post are based on old memories, and little technical understanding of telephone systems beyond the fundamentals described above. If you think you know better, you probably do
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I had a friend once who was so afraid of the "fedz" busting him that he wired up a DIe-Hard truck battery with an iron railroad spike wrapped in heavy gauge wire. The electromagnet was then placed between his hard drives. There was a switch under his desk and a switch inside the case that would be activated if the cover were removed without throwing a switch on the underside of the case. Neat system. Probably worthless, though, as he bragged about it so much that the "fedz" would know about it if they were really that interested in him.
Incidentally, he threw the switch one day while moving his monitor and proved that the system worked.;) He only lost a few hundred megs, but that was back int he day when your total hard drive space only reached a few hundred.;)
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The picture also illustrates that the safety is engaged on the weapon, though you can't always see that in the resolution-crippled versions that you see in the newspaper. Also realize that we're only dealing with a moment in time... accounts from witnesses at the scene (including the AP photographer who is, incidentally, guaranteed to win a pulitzer, ) state that the agent immediately raised the barrel of his weapon upon seeing the fisherman and the child inside the closet and confirming that there was no threat.
Events didn't quite go off the way I would have planned them, but the end result was acceptable... zero injuries and mission accomplished.
The linux community has been accused of overreaction in the past, and I for one am glad to see OSS supporters giving people the benefit of the doubt while the truth is sorted out. Be was also given the benefit of the doubt, and the situation is being resolved. If it turns out Abit really isn't making the source code available, then you'll see the violent onslaught.
I don't overclock on the majority of my systems, but the premise behind it is sound, and those who do it are taking advantage of a little known fact about the CPU manufacturing process (whether they know it or not.) When intel (or any other manufacturer,) produces a batch of CPUs there are minute differences in each batch that can lead to a wide range of performance statistics. A select number of chips from each batch are tested, and the entire batch is rated based on the performance of those pulled parts. As a manufacturing process matures, the yield of faster CPUs also increases.
Thus, a PIII 667EB is _exactly_ the same part as a PIII 500E, just running at a higher bust speed. In the case of the 500E, enough parts failed intel's performance tests to fail the entire batch. There are still parts in that batch that will run fine at 133Mhz fsb, though. Also, as the manufacturing process improves, more parts will pass the inspection tests, but lower speed parts will still be needed. Parts that passed the high-speed tests will be under marked simply to fill demand.
This means a few things... one, a certain percentage of 500E parts will run at 667 mhz. Later in the cycle, this number will increase to near 100%. This also means that intel's costs for the 500E and 667EB are EXACTLY the same. Faster CPUs are more lucrative, so intel is pushed to improve their fab processes to increase yields of the more expensive parts.
So the overclockers are really just taking advantage of Intel's product marking techniques. If they're kids, they're smart ones.
Incidentally, I usually choose not to overclock my systems. My upgrade cycle usually leaves me purchasing a top-of-the-line system every few years. Since I buy near the beginning of a product's life cycle, overclocking can reduce the life expectancy of my CPUs. I'll only ever overclock my home systems, and only as I approach upgrade time. This is done as a way of squeezing the last bit of life out of a system right before I get rid of it.
Hasn't it already been determined that you can't copyright/trademark a sound byte? If this is the case, lucas can go f*** himself. In fact, even if it _isn't_ true, Lucas can go f*** himself. In fact, under ANY circumstances, George Lucas and go f*** himself. That is, of course, unless he does ALL of the following things... 1> Release the Star Wars movies on DVD (Ep. 1 not required, as it is a piece of dog shit.) 2> Admit that he was being a pud over the whole DVD thing. You know why THX isn't supported on DVD? 'cause THX ain't that cool. 3> Remove sophomoric humor (ala Ep. 1) from Ep. 2. Fart and poop jokes just don't fit in star wars. 4> Kill Jar Jar. Painfully.
I don't much care for Dre, but if he's sticking it to Lucas, more power to him.
"I think we all know that the screen sizes suck, and that the drop-down menus are the road to hell," Yankowski said.
Finally, a CEO who just comes right out and says what he thinks. I'm tired of all of the posturing and marketing hype that we're always exposed to. I'm sure Palm's PR department dropped a bomb in their collective pants when they heard that one.
There are plenty of applications for which faster processors are needed. High end 3-d rendering, CAD, engineering analysis, real time number crunching... there are plenty of applications for which fast processors on inexpensive systems are desirable. And yes, $1200 for a single processor can be considered relatively cheap to people that need that kind of processing power. The next step up would be either a large cluster of cheaper machines, or a large supercompuer. Both of which are very expensive, and not necessary for some of the applications listed above. The home user doesn't need it, you're right. But don't believe that just because YOU don't need it, no one else does.
We've spoken about this before (please see my post about epudding from a few days ago. Not everything is about geeks, geek life, and geek culture. As I mentioned before, that "culture" doesn't really exist, as most of the "geeks" I know are so vastly different from one another as to be almost uncanny. If ePudding didn't do it for you, John, try this on for size...
We have here a bottle of Windex(tm) brand glass cleaner. But this is no ordinary Windex(tm) brand glass cleaner... no way, no how, nuh uh. This is Geek Windex(tm) Why, do you ask, is it so special and geek-oriented? Well, I'll tel you. Its uses in the last twenty four hours alone have been so geek-like that it can't possibly be described as regular Windex(tm) brand glass cleaner anymore. Most recently, it was used to clean the one inch layer of dust off of my computer monitor. Before that, I cleaned my big fat 34" Geek television, which is used to display movies from my Geek DVD player. Only Geek movies are played on that DVD player, by the way. And those DVDs, when dirty are cleaned with Geek Windex(tm). What else do I use Geek Windex for? Why, for cleaning my bathroom mirror, of course! And since I'm such a geek, and all of my friends are geek-by-association, it's a Geek Mirror! Hot damn! I've spawned a whole new series of articles... Geek Mirror: A window into the world of the Geek. If only this had been covered before Columbine... we could have saved those poor, innocent geeks who went on a murderous rampage because they just didn't look in their Geek Mirror enough. Those poor, poor boys.
John, relax. You're not a geek, so top pretending. I don't know what a geek is, but fifty some odd year old men who think movies like the Beach, Scream 3, and High Fidelity are Geek Films most certainly ain't a geek.
Try this. I've got a friend who thinks he's a geek, too. He's about to graduate with an english degree from Ohio State, and he thinks he's a geek by proxy. Ask him about it. You and he are cut from the same cloth, John. The difference is he's only 23 and he knows a bit more than how to find the fucking power switch. You can e-mail him at holtman.4@osu.edu. He'd love to hear from you. Maybe the two of you could come up with the next great geek book over a capuchino (sp) while you try and figure out how to decrease your web cache.
...most serious software bugs are due to mistakes with manual memory allocation (seg-faults, buffer overruns, etc...). I'm not saying that pointers aren't easy, BUT they are also easy to screw up.
I agree completely. Manual memory allocation is easy to screw up, particularly for the beginning programmer. And true, development times can be sped up by working in an environment in which manual memory handling is not needed. However, you will end up with bloated, slow, and wasteful products. This is my primary problem with Perl. Perl is a _GREAT_ tool for the quick and dirty, the small scale script, or what have you. But its inefficiencies are too much to bear in a large scale environment. Give me admin scripts in Perl, give me CGI scripts in Perl, but for the love of god... don't give me a whole application for which speed and efficiency are important in Perl. "Compiled" perl is slightly better, but still no replacement for a good solid chunk of C code.
Hoe harsh! It is true, I do not list projects I've worked on in my resume. However, I also do not describe myself as a professional programmer. My programming experience is extensive, however. I've been programming in C for ten years, and C++ for five or six.
I still prefer C, however. C++ has its place, and there are certain applications (GUI design was mentioned in an earlier post,) for which C++ is better suited. The style and elegance of C are lost in C++.
Of course, I hate Perl, too, so what do I know.
I stand by my original statement, though... C++ blows BIG pirahna dick.
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Actually, the mac code was guzzardo, the PC code didn't work unless you added porntips to the beginning. Or was it the other way around?
C'mon, they managed to reproduce special effects seen in movies like ID4, The Matrix, and Star Wars for only $50 million dollars! They did all of that and STILL were able to pay Travolta and the CoS. That's gotta be worth SOMETHING.
What sort of background checks do you perform on your employees? It seems that with the requirements for privacy and security you seem to have, a thorough investigation into a potential employee's past would be necessary. What percentage of applicants are turned away because something in their past renders them inelligible? And where do I send my resume?
That's funny, there's no mention of a lawsuit being filed anywhere in the article. There's a cease and desist order, but no mention of a lawsuit. As many previous posters have mentioned, Napster _has to_ defent their trademark or risk losing it. At this point, Napster and the Offspring have met behind closed doors and worked out a solution where no one loses face. Everything will be fine come morning.
Intel could give two shits about Rambus' $160 mln. Intel wouldn't take the risk of rambus failing for such a small amount of cash. Developing the i8xx chipsets cost one hell of a lot more than $160 million, and are not by any means guaranteed success. The cash was incentive, sure, but in no way could it have been the deal-maker.
When you post the 750th comment, no one ever seems to read your opinions. Ah well. I'll post my opinion anyway.
Microsoft's lawyers are, at this very moment, preparing the next phase of their complaint against Slashdot/Andover. The particular issues behind MS's implementation of Kerberos and whether or not the spec should be made public are IRRELEVANT. MS has stated that their mods are a piece of their intellectual property, and is entitled to make decisions about how that iformation is to be distributed and used. Once that decision is made, it is MS's right to protect that decision under the law. The DMCA supports MS on this issue, and since no one has any legal reason to suggest that MS has broken the law by making non-free modifications to kerberos, their rights are protected. Until such time as the MS usage agreement is found to be invalid, MS RETAINS ALL RIGHTS to distribute it as they see fit. Arguing that the kerberos mods should be freely available doesn't touch the real issue here... have MS's rights been violated under the terms of the DMCA?
In my opinion, only twice. All copies of the spec that were posted to slashdot (two, if I remember correctly,) are not only in violation of the DMCA, but of copyright law in general. You cannot republish copyrighted work to which you don't have rights. As for the posts describing how to circumvent the EULA, and those posts pointing to unprotected versions of the document... I don't see any violations of the DMCA. You're not violating copy protection, so the terms of the DMCA about that aren't relevant. Linking to such material is also not illegal. Those posts shouldn't even be in question.
So the question lies with the illegal, full postings of the documents. Does the first ammendment allow for this? I don't know, I'm not a first ammendment specialist. Since Slashdot has a policy to NEVER censor comments, I can see a big fight brewing over this particular issue.
But sending a list of reasons why you think MS's EULA is invalid is a waste of time. It's like complaining to the grocery store that your bread is smashed, and the grocer telling you that the wheat used in the bread is of low quality. It doesn't even address the issue! The bloody bread is squashed!
I wonder about Andover's lawyer. My guess is he's inexperienced, particularly in cases of corporate law. I'm willing to bet he just graduated from law school, and Andover hired him because he's young, fresh, and cheap.
Hmm... it seems that Dre's team did some homework, but neglected the rest. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't this an impossible request? Since napster doesn't store a single Mp3 on their servers, nor does any mp3 data ever actually pass through napster's servers, wouldn't napster's only recourse be to disallow listings of particular song titles? The md5 checksum idea may seem like a good idea, but a simple solution would be for napster users to alter ONE BYTE of the song, either in the tag or in a lead-in frame, to invalidate the checksum. A good try, though...
Agreed, and if I had some moderator points I'd spend 'em on 'ya. It would be nice to respond to this interview, asking for clarification on a few points.
Umm... did I miss something? How can this claim to be the first accelerated graphics board for the linux platform? Last time I checked, hardware accelerated 3d was available for Matrox, 3dfx, and nVidia cards, (to name a few.) Am I missing something here?
Haven't you ever played SimCity? Beam it down as microwaves! ;)
Actually, if I remember my history correctly, it was 2400 baud. That is, in fact, the actual limit of analog modems, even today. Your baud rate and bitrate are two different numbers. Baud is the number of distinct signals that can be sent per second. In modern modems, more than one "tone" can be generated, allowing us to send larger values in a single signal. Thus, a 56k modem can generate 24 different "tones" per signal. Even though only 2400 tones are being generated, a data rate of 56k can be achieved. On older phone lines, or lines with longer runs, the distinction between tones and signals can be lost, decreasing your data rate.
Inside your house, you're not as likely to have the same problems as with the regular telephone network, so the signal rate can be higher. I don't know what the exact number is, but 2400 Hz should be no problem. That's not to say that they're using a totally different signalling technology (which they probably are.) Probably something digital. I don't know, I've never played with one. My house is wired with ethernet, so I'm probably not likely to try one out in the near future.
The contents of this post are based on old memories, and little technical understanding of telephone systems beyond the fundamentals described above. If you think you know better, you probably do
I had a friend once who was so afraid of the "fedz" busting him that he wired up a DIe-Hard truck battery with an iron railroad spike wrapped in heavy gauge wire. The electromagnet was then placed between his hard drives. There was a switch under his desk and a switch inside the case that would be activated if the cover were removed without throwing a switch on the underside of the case. Neat system. Probably worthless, though, as he bragged about it so much that the "fedz" would know about it if they were really that interested in him.
;) He only lost a few hundred megs, but that was back int he day when your total hard drive space only reached a few hundred. ;)
Incidentally, he threw the switch one day while moving his monitor and proved that the system worked.
The picture also illustrates that the safety is engaged on the weapon, though you can't always see that in the resolution-crippled versions that you see in the newspaper. Also realize that we're only dealing with a moment in time... accounts from witnesses at the scene (including the AP photographer who is, incidentally, guaranteed to win a pulitzer, ) state that the agent immediately raised the barrel of his weapon upon seeing the fisherman and the child inside the closet and confirming that there was no threat.
Events didn't quite go off the way I would have planned them, but the end result was acceptable... zero injuries and mission accomplished.
The linux community has been accused of overreaction in the past, and I for one am glad to see OSS supporters giving people the benefit of the doubt while the truth is sorted out. Be was also given the benefit of the doubt, and the situation is being resolved. If it turns out Abit really isn't making the source code available, then you'll see the violent onslaught.
People are chilling out. it's a good thing
I don't overclock on the majority of my systems, but the premise behind it is sound, and those who do it are taking advantage of a little known fact about the CPU manufacturing process (whether they know it or not.) When intel (or any other manufacturer,) produces a batch of CPUs there are minute differences in each batch that can lead to a wide range of performance statistics. A select number of chips from each batch are tested, and the entire batch is rated based on the performance of those pulled parts. As a manufacturing process matures, the yield of faster CPUs also increases.
Thus, a PIII 667EB is _exactly_ the same part as a PIII 500E, just running at a higher bust speed. In the case of the 500E, enough parts failed intel's performance tests to fail the entire batch. There are still parts in that batch that will run fine at 133Mhz fsb, though. Also, as the manufacturing process improves, more parts will pass the inspection tests, but lower speed parts will still be needed. Parts that passed the high-speed tests will be under marked simply to fill demand.
This means a few things... one, a certain percentage of 500E parts will run at 667 mhz. Later in the cycle, this number will increase to near 100%. This also means that intel's costs for the 500E and 667EB are EXACTLY the same. Faster CPUs are more lucrative, so intel is pushed to improve their fab processes to increase yields of the more expensive parts.
So the overclockers are really just taking advantage of Intel's product marking techniques. If they're kids, they're smart ones.
Incidentally, I usually choose not to overclock my systems. My upgrade cycle usually leaves me purchasing a top-of-the-line system every few years. Since I buy near the beginning of a product's life cycle, overclocking can reduce the life expectancy of my CPUs. I'll only ever overclock my home systems, and only as I approach upgrade time. This is done as a way of squeezing the last bit of life out of a system right before I get rid of it.
Hasn't it already been determined that you can't copyright/trademark a sound byte? If this is the case, lucas can go f*** himself. In fact, even if it _isn't_ true, Lucas can go f*** himself. In fact, under ANY circumstances, George Lucas and go f*** himself. That is, of course, unless he does ALL of the following things...
1> Release the Star Wars movies on DVD (Ep. 1 not required, as it is a piece of dog shit.)
2> Admit that he was being a pud over the whole DVD thing. You know why THX isn't supported on DVD? 'cause THX ain't that cool.
3> Remove sophomoric humor (ala Ep. 1) from Ep. 2. Fart and poop jokes just don't fit in star wars.
4> Kill Jar Jar. Painfully.
I don't much care for Dre, but if he's sticking it to Lucas, more power to him.
My favorite quote from the article...
"I think we all know that the screen sizes suck, and that the
drop-down menus are the road to hell," Yankowski said.
Finally, a CEO who just comes right out and says what he thinks. I'm tired of all of the posturing and marketing hype that we're always exposed to. I'm sure Palm's PR department dropped a bomb in their collective pants when they heard that one.
I sync my pilot to outlook... it's great.
I wouldn't worry about it. Someone will eventually crack the copy protection and allow free distribution. it's just a matter of time.
True, but you pay an even higher premium...
Octane with dual R12k, SSE graphics -- ~$35k
Estimated total system cost for dual 1ghz PIII ~$7000 - $10000
The octane will be faster, no doubt, but not three times as fast. The PIII system is a bargain.
And don't get me started with sun equipment... sun workstations are just PCs with different processors in 'em. UltraSparc just ain't that cool.
There are plenty of applications for which faster processors are needed. High end 3-d rendering, CAD, engineering analysis, real time number crunching... there are plenty of applications for which fast processors on inexpensive systems are desirable. And yes, $1200 for a single processor can be considered relatively cheap to people that need that kind of processing power. The next step up would be either a large cluster of cheaper machines, or a large supercompuer. Both of which are very expensive, and not necessary for some of the applications listed above. The home user doesn't need it, you're right. But don't believe that just because YOU don't need it, no one else does.
Oh, fear not... this geek's monitor is pretty old, and suffers not from such non-geek damage.
We've spoken about this before (please see my post about epudding from a few days ago. Not everything is about geeks, geek life, and geek culture. As I mentioned before, that "culture" doesn't really exist, as most of the "geeks" I know are so vastly different from one another as to be almost uncanny. If ePudding didn't do it for you, John, try this on for size...
We have here a bottle of Windex(tm) brand glass cleaner. But this is no ordinary Windex(tm) brand glass cleaner... no way, no how, nuh uh. This is Geek Windex(tm) Why, do you ask, is it so special and geek-oriented? Well, I'll tel you. Its uses in the last twenty four hours alone have been so geek-like that it can't possibly be described as regular Windex(tm) brand glass cleaner anymore. Most recently, it was used to clean the one inch layer of dust off of my computer monitor. Before that, I cleaned my big fat 34" Geek television, which is used to display movies from my Geek DVD player. Only Geek movies are played on that DVD player, by the way. And those DVDs, when dirty are cleaned with Geek Windex(tm). What else do I use Geek Windex for? Why, for cleaning my bathroom mirror, of course! And since I'm such a geek, and all of my friends are geek-by-association, it's a Geek Mirror! Hot damn! I've spawned a whole new series of articles... Geek Mirror: A window into the world of the Geek. If only this had been covered before Columbine... we could have saved those poor, innocent geeks who went on a murderous rampage because they just didn't look in their Geek Mirror enough. Those poor, poor boys.
John, relax. You're not a geek, so top pretending. I don't know what a geek is, but fifty some odd year old men who think movies like the Beach, Scream 3, and High Fidelity are Geek Films most certainly ain't a geek.
Try this. I've got a friend who thinks he's a geek, too. He's about to graduate with an english degree from Ohio State, and he thinks he's a geek by proxy. Ask him about it. You and he are cut from the same cloth, John. The difference is he's only 23 and he knows a bit more than how to find the fucking power switch. You can e-mail him at holtman.4@osu.edu. He'd love to hear from you. Maybe the two of you could come up with the next great geek book over a capuchino (sp) while you try and figure out how to decrease your web cache.
I agree completely. Manual memory allocation is easy to screw up, particularly for the beginning programmer. And true, development times can be sped up by working in an environment in which manual memory handling is not needed. However, you will end up with bloated, slow, and wasteful products. This is my primary problem with Perl. Perl is a _GREAT_ tool for the quick and dirty, the small scale script, or what have you. But its inefficiencies are too much to bear in a large scale environment. Give me admin scripts in Perl, give me CGI scripts in Perl, but for the love of god... don't give me a whole application for which speed and efficiency are important in Perl. "Compiled" perl is slightly better, but still no replacement for a good solid chunk of C code.
Hoe harsh! It is true, I do not list projects I've worked on in my resume. However, I also do not describe myself as a professional programmer. My programming experience is extensive, however. I've been programming in C for ten years, and C++ for five or six.
I still prefer C, however. C++ has its place, and there are certain applications (GUI design was mentioned in an earlier post,) for which C++ is better suited. The style and elegance of C are lost in C++.
Of course, I hate Perl, too, so what do I know.
I stand by my original statement, though... C++ blows BIG pirahna dick.
Have a nice day.