Except ROM is slow, "Read-Only", and needs a special interface (if any at all.... but if you wish to use block device abstractions, say hello MTD) while what Apple is doing will just be a logical extension of their already present boot cache mechanisms.
... this would never happen. Capitalism at it's finest. Central planning may have it downfalls, but science, especially of such crucial variety, never took a back seat to profit making in the USSR.
It's kinda neat. It takes some skill involved to go past your typical Basic stamp + push buttons + LCD - he added a PS/2 keyboard and wrote a simple interpreter. Not too bad.
Is this newsworthy though? It's just a basic stamp... with an LCD and a PS/2 keyboard. It's programmed in Basic for chris sakes. Some OS.
Iono. I have a '05 (last revision of) iBook. 1.33 Ghz G4 - 512MB ram. I really wish I got that extended warranty. My WiFi flaked off sometime after I added a gig of RAM... which was a month after the stock warranty expired. Unfortunately, the WiFi on the last batch of iBooks stopped being optional, so its somewhere deep within the laptop's bowels, and definitely not under the keyboard.
Aside from the inconvenience of having no WiFi to speak off, I am starting to get weird glitches where either the touchpad freezes for some time, or the whole machine..... with no signs of a problem upon restarting with C-Cmd-Power: no kernel panic involved.
Now, my next computer will be a MacBook (or MBP, depending on funds), but I can't say I am excited by the promise of buying another laptop which will last barely a year on my hands. I still have a TP600X, which is pushing 10 years now, and is in excellent operational and cosmetic condition.
I don't think I abuse the iBook. I carry it to work and to school every day. It sees around 6-7 hours of "action" per day. I don't bother taking it to the Uni, as I have no more Wifi...
No technical information? Did you happen to miss Rutkowska's slides linked from the page? There is more than enough information, when coupled with the freely available manuals from AMD, to understand the issue at hand....
I call bullshit.
Have you actually been through a Microsoft intreview, or are you pulling things from your rear end? High-stress situation? You have an hour. In "real life", you don't sit there for hours thinking how to apply a linked list, a queue, a stack or a tree to a problem... err.. you just DO IT. It doesn't involve much thought, because it's these are such basic data structures that you use all the time.
If you need time to figure out the specifics, need hints and can't work from your head to implement basic building blocks you are supposed to use.... how the hell are you qualified for the job? Now. For the questions asked a) you have more than 10 minutes b) they don't care what language it's in as long as you can explain (no really, make up your own if you really care) c) they care much more to see and HEAR you solve the problem, than come up with a flawless solution immediately. Obviously, the later is nice, but the hiring process wants to see you think. A large chunk of the problems asked (beyond the basic strlen... or do you need hints for that too?) are SPECIFICALLY worded vague - they want you to ask questions, clarify, and explain any assumptions made. There is a good reason why you're answering interactively in front of a whiteboard with a dry erase marker, and not simply turning in a written exam.
So no, the hiring process does exactly what it aim to do - it separates the API and library masturbators from people who have a solid grasp on core CS concepts. A good developer is exactly the person who doesn't need a desk reference to deal with basic data structures.
I call bullshit on your claim that SE don't ever implement this stuff. I do. You've never used a stack? Never had a linked list of structures? Or are you one of those weenies that hide their ignorance behind prefabbed "Collections" and templated classes available through STL? These are very useful, fast and optimized indeed and you SHOULD use them if they are available in your language of choice - but do not preclude you from Having A Clue (TM). It's pathetic that you bring the example of a freaking linked list as something you find "challenging" to do in some fixed time frame.
Your reasoning is lousy because the questions posed during the interview aren't a simple regurgitation of CS 101 material. They are designed to test how well you are at coming up with algorithms. I wouldn't be surprised if for most questions asked, they expect that moment to be the first time you've ever dealt with that situation. Because you know, that's what software engineering is all about - coming up with algorithms to solve new problems, not just wanking off with Swing, WinForms and RDBMS interfaces concoting another bloated corporate tool.
Oooh, ouch... doesn't someone sound just a little bitter. All the questions asked... test one of the following a) critical thinking b) creative thinking c) solid CS foundations. If you can't manage one or more of the above, why would you consider yourself qualified?
I don't understand why some people think they can go be ``coding monkeys'' without care or thought. "But I don't need to know any of this theoretical stuff, I'm just a coder!". If you don't have sound thinking or solid CS background, you're bound to be the person whose code winds on thedailywtf. You're also the person causing numerous bugs in the code since you don't know what you're doing. You're the person who ruins performance because you don't know of any algorithims that don't run in O(n!). You are useless (worse... you're the parasite who proposes stupid ideas and shoots down normal ones "because they don't make sense to you") during design. So in the end, you're just a chair warmer. You give no useful additions to the development process.
You mean you can't tell the guy how to implement a list? Or how strcpy works? Or how to implement a tree? Wtf? If you fail to show your knowledge through these basic things, why should the interviewer trust your skill set? Because you said so on your resume? Give me a break...
No, more like.. yes... I trust to install this software, because if I don't... I won't get my paycheck since I can't do my job.
Whats with teh paranoia?
Mentioning WoW in the article summary was not the most useful thing ever, considering the native client for OS X (Not Linux, granted... - but if you're mentioning the benefits of Wine on OS X and Linux, pick a piece of software that doesn't have native ports for either platform, duh)
My comment on the quality itself was rather unnecessary... I am more stressing the - WHY Microsoft would bother looking at a reverse-engineering product of THEIR OWN SOFTWARE. I mean...
The u.e. is more like the euro these days with the dollar slowly going down the crapper... That said, the ruble is pretty stable against the falling dollar, so heh.
There's a difference between "benefiting" from Samba code and "using" Samba code. MS or anyone else can look at the Samba code and incorporate its ideas in brand-new code without violating the GPL. /me wonders what MS can learn from a reverse-engineered hack with such a poor design it gets rewritten every major version increase? I mean... don't kid yourselves.
All of the questions he asked can only be answered by the company's legal department - why the hell would a marketting guy know the answers? And even if he did, he would not be in the position to speak for the company. Because that's what the legal peopel are for. So if Roblimo really wanted answers, he would have asked the right people.... not that they have any need to tell him the answers.
*cough*, wow, you know Rob... you didn't have to fawn over Microsoft for having provided you with a trip to their campus.... but neither did you have to be such an ass about it either. Seriously. They didn't have to do this. They chose to do it to give a sense to you, Rob, that They're Human Beings Too. If I could summarize your article in one sentence, it would be "blah blah blah Microsoft is teh suck." I expected a little more...
Maybe you should GOOGLE the subject before bothering to submit this a Hot Slashdot News of The Day (TM). Both Microsoft and Apple have made great strides towards reducing the boot-up times...
Actually, I didn't. Both camps have an equivalent number of morons on their side to make snide, irrelevant and uneducated remarks at opportune moments.
I've also grown increasingly tired of people expect the Second Coming of Christ after putting Linux on their 10-year- old Compaq or Dell shitbox, so the "get a new comuter and shut the hell up already" argument well applies to those.
Back on the subject though. If there is anything you have to give props to Linux, Windows, BSD, etc for is making it all tick on really really broken HW. Fuck you, hardware "engineers".
Ugh. I think I am going to stop reading Slashdot now. Okay. So Vista has a problem dealing with S3 resume. Fine.
What bothers me are snide remarks from people who have a very vague (if any) understanding of what is involved in power management support. At all. So Microsoft dropped the non-ACPI HALs with Vista. About time. Considering the number of ACPI "compliant" systems out there, I'm not surprised a lot of this shit barely works. Get a new computer and shut the hell up already...
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...they did on PowerBooks since 2005. Look up "Safe Sleep". That's the hibernation mode.
Except ROM is slow, "Read-Only", and needs a special interface (if any at all.... but if you wish to use block device abstractions, say hello MTD) while what Apple is doing will just be a logical extension of their already present boot cache mechanisms.
So - 'no'.
... this would never happen. Capitalism at it's finest. Central planning may have it downfalls, but science, especially of such crucial variety, never took a back seat to profit making in the USSR.
It's kinda neat. It takes some skill involved to go past your typical Basic stamp + push buttons + LCD - he added a PS/2 keyboard and wrote a simple interpreter. Not too bad.
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Is this newsworthy though? It's just a basic stamp... with an LCD and a PS/2 keyboard. It's programmed in Basic for chris sakes. Some OS.
Slow news day
Iono. I have a '05 (last revision of) iBook. 1.33 Ghz G4 - 512MB ram. I really wish I got that extended warranty. My WiFi flaked off sometime after I added a gig of RAM... which was a month after the stock warranty expired. Unfortunately, the WiFi on the last batch of iBooks stopped being optional, so its somewhere deep within the laptop's bowels, and definitely not under the keyboard.
Aside from the inconvenience of having no WiFi to speak off, I am starting to get weird glitches where either the touchpad freezes for some time, or the whole machine..... with no signs of a problem upon restarting with C-Cmd-Power: no kernel panic involved.
Now, my next computer will be a MacBook (or MBP, depending on funds), but I can't say I am excited by the promise of buying another laptop which will last barely a year on my hands. I still have a TP600X, which is pushing 10 years now, and is in excellent operational and cosmetic condition.
I don't think I abuse the iBook. I carry it to work and to school every day. It sees around 6-7 hours of "action" per day. I don't bother taking it to the Uni, as I have no more Wifi...
No technical information? Did you happen to miss Rutkowska's slides linked from the page? There is more than enough information, when coupled with the freely available manuals from AMD, to understand the issue at hand....
I call bullshit. Have you actually been through a Microsoft intreview, or are you pulling things from your rear end? High-stress situation? You have an hour. In "real life", you don't sit there for hours thinking how to apply a linked list, a queue, a stack or a tree to a problem... err.. you just DO IT. It doesn't involve much thought, because it's these are such basic data structures that you use all the time. If you need time to figure out the specifics, need hints and can't work from your head to implement basic building blocks you are supposed to use.... how the hell are you qualified for the job? Now. For the questions asked a) you have more than 10 minutes b) they don't care what language it's in as long as you can explain (no really, make up your own if you really care) c) they care much more to see and HEAR you solve the problem, than come up with a flawless solution immediately. Obviously, the later is nice, but the hiring process wants to see you think. A large chunk of the problems asked (beyond the basic strlen... or do you need hints for that too?) are SPECIFICALLY worded vague - they want you to ask questions, clarify, and explain any assumptions made. There is a good reason why you're answering interactively in front of a whiteboard with a dry erase marker, and not simply turning in a written exam. So no, the hiring process does exactly what it aim to do - it separates the API and library masturbators from people who have a solid grasp on core CS concepts. A good developer is exactly the person who doesn't need a desk reference to deal with basic data structures. I call bullshit on your claim that SE don't ever implement this stuff. I do. You've never used a stack? Never had a linked list of structures? Or are you one of those weenies that hide their ignorance behind prefabbed "Collections" and templated classes available through STL? These are very useful, fast and optimized indeed and you SHOULD use them if they are available in your language of choice - but do not preclude you from Having A Clue (TM). It's pathetic that you bring the example of a freaking linked list as something you find "challenging" to do in some fixed time frame. Your reasoning is lousy because the questions posed during the interview aren't a simple regurgitation of CS 101 material. They are designed to test how well you are at coming up with algorithms. I wouldn't be surprised if for most questions asked, they expect that moment to be the first time you've ever dealt with that situation. Because you know, that's what software engineering is all about - coming up with algorithms to solve new problems, not just wanking off with Swing, WinForms and RDBMS interfaces concoting another bloated corporate tool.
Oooh, ouch... doesn't someone sound just a little bitter. All the questions asked... test one of the following a) critical thinking b) creative thinking c) solid CS foundations. If you can't manage one or more of the above, why would you consider yourself qualified?
I don't understand why some people think they can go be ``coding monkeys'' without care or thought. "But I don't need to know any of this theoretical stuff, I'm just a coder!". If you don't have sound thinking or solid CS background, you're bound to be the person whose code winds on thedailywtf. You're also the person causing numerous bugs in the code since you don't know what you're doing. You're the person who ruins performance because you don't know of any algorithims that don't run in O(n!). You are useless (worse... you're the parasite who proposes stupid ideas and shoots down normal ones "because they don't make sense to you") during design. So in the end, you're just a chair warmer. You give no useful additions to the development process.
You mean you can't tell the guy how to implement a list? Or how strcpy works? Or how to implement a tree? Wtf? If you fail to show your knowledge through these basic things, why should the interviewer trust your skill set? Because you said so on your resume? Give me a break...
Ya. plus "VirusFree" can go fuck himself. You can't copyright an algorithm. Only it's implementation.
No, more like.. yes... I trust to install this software, because if I don't... I won't get my paycheck since I can't do my job. Whats with teh paranoia?
Microsoft didn't "port" CE from anything - it was a from-scratch effort targetting embedded systems.
The correct naming would be `the aughts'
Mentioning WoW in the article summary was not the most useful thing ever, considering the native client for OS X (Not Linux, granted... - but if you're mentioning the benefits of Wine on OS X and Linux, pick a piece of software that doesn't have native ports for either platform, duh)
My comment on the quality itself was rather unnecessary... I am more stressing the - WHY Microsoft would bother looking at a reverse-engineering product of THEIR OWN SOFTWARE. I mean...
The u.e. is more like the euro these days with the dollar slowly going down the crapper... That said, the ruble is pretty stable against the falling dollar, so heh.
The hell are you smoking? How do they not integrate well? I use GIMP on OS X on a nearly day to day basis...
They can be self-signed. So cut the hysteria already - this is meant as an integrity check...
Ah, I love how any comment against the /. status quo gets modded troll. Sheesh. Sorry for having *an opinion* you braying herd of rams...
All of the questions he asked can only be answered by the company's legal department - why the hell would a marketting guy know the answers? And even if he did, he would not be in the position to speak for the company. Because that's what the legal peopel are for. So if Roblimo really wanted answers, he would have asked the right people.... not that they have any need to tell him the answers.
*cough*, wow, you know Rob... you didn't have to fawn over Microsoft for having provided you with a trip to their campus.... but neither did you have to be such an ass about it either. Seriously. They didn't have to do this. They chose to do it to give a sense to you, Rob, that They're Human Beings Too. If I could summarize your article in one sentence, it would be "blah blah blah Microsoft is teh suck." I expected a little more...
Maybe you should GOOGLE the subject before bothering to submit this a Hot Slashdot News of The Day (TM). Both Microsoft and Apple have made great strides towards reducing the boot-up times...
...obviously not "just fine" if it BSODs.
Actually, I didn't. Both camps have an equivalent number of morons on their side to make snide, irrelevant and uneducated remarks at opportune moments.
I've also grown increasingly tired of people expect the Second Coming of Christ after putting Linux on their 10-year- old Compaq or Dell shitbox, so the "get a new comuter and shut the hell up already" argument well applies to those.
Back on the subject though. If there is anything you have to give props to Linux, Windows, BSD, etc for is making it all tick on really really broken HW. Fuck you, hardware "engineers".
Ugh. I think I am going to stop reading Slashdot now. Okay. So Vista has a problem dealing with S3 resume. Fine.
What bothers me are snide remarks from people who have a very vague (if any) understanding of what is involved in power management support. At all. So Microsoft dropped the non-ACPI HALs with Vista. About time. Considering the number of ACPI "compliant" systems out there, I'm not surprised a lot of this shit barely works. Get a new computer and shut the hell up already...