I can't believe we're even discussing this. FFS just have one or two disabled bays in every parking area close to the entrance. No need to debate it - it's the right thing to do. And leave the penalty system in place. From experience it mostly works and gets progressively more useless as the area becomes poorer / less educated.
I don't think the authors were trying to make a point regarding old code size vs. current code size. They mostly chose things that are supposed to not do much in comparison to Pascal, eg. images and HTML. As such it is an interesting page and made me appreciate how little constraints we have these days.
I hope there is always a place for the bit twiddlers. Say we create this awesome new quantum-nano-computer thingy (that can do things orders faster than current architectures) but its RAM is super expensive - then we may need to get creative again until manufacturing costs go down.
Yes! He knows C and Assembler. The world needs his increasingly rare skills. He can get paid a lot of money for that. (Posting this I realize I also know C and love Assembler but use Python almost exclusively.)
I agree mostly with what you said. And of course I know Oracle is the company and not the framework:)
When we're used to swinging a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail... but the reality is that there is plenty of room for both a hammer and a screwdriver in the toolbox.
My hammer would be called Plone. It runs on top of Zope. I love it but it is not a good fit for small systems.
I quite like Django's ORM. It's not as powerful as SqlAlchemy but it is easy to learn, and the Django guys put a lot of effort into documentation. I learned SQL the traditional way years ago and I'm still glad I did, but I don't particularly miss writing my own queries. If the ORM generates bad or slow SQL I can still drop to raw SQL.
But I get your point re legacy systems. It sounds like a nice challenge to implement composite keys for Django.
The big and powerful framework is Zope. Zope was also a driving force for the Python language over the years since the original Zope devs were also Python devs (and the creator of Python at one stage worked for Zope corp). Zope has contributed tons of libraries that can be re-used in other Python projects. They're very good community members.
You are wrong about the frameworks not being as powerful as Oracle etc, but I don't blame you since it takes a long time to become familar with a large framework. I would also not have time to learn eg. any big Java framework, so I'm in the same boat.
I'm a South African. He has been competing against able-bodied athletes for ages now. It's not news. A discussion on Slashdot as to whether the blades are an unfair advantage over other athletes will be much more interesting.
In South Africa a white roof makes a huge difference in summer. You can get away without AC. In winter roofs tend to get some kind of algae that make them darker. Unfortunately I don't know if they have a significant effect - perhaps someone on/. knows. Come summer time you have to blast them away again.
Wouldn't it be cool if there is some kind of paint that turns white when it gets hot and black when it gets cold?
I used to be a Windows dev back in the day (Delphi, Borland C++ etc.). I quite liked it and worked on neat products, but eventually the Linux environment became so much more productive for me. And my eyes opened to the difficulty non-MS users encounter when trying to get things to work that were foisted upon the world by MS. So while I appreciate that Silverlght may have a good dev environment I'm really glad I was never part of something that excludes certain users.
Agreed. Also, how on earth do they plan to prevent password sharing? It's not like they can profile the devices you're connecting with and setup some kind of device whitelist. I don't see a technical solution here.
I made a similar suggestion on an old Ubisoft story as to how to counter piracy. At that stage I thought 3 months would be a good period. A week sounds a bit short, but let's wait and see.
Here in South Africa you get a second data only SIM for the equivalent of $1 per month. You have one data bundle and all your SIM cards use that. Much easier than tethering. Also, our cheapest 3G is about $30 p/m for 5GB.
Never thought of it that way. I hope you're right.
From experience my Samsung drives run slightly quieter than my WD and Seagate drives, and a lot cooler than both. In my HTPC (which has excellent cooling) the Samsung is at 27 C, and the Seagate at 35 C. In South Africa in summer.
Put the power down through the wheels - then I'll be interested. I don't even consider it a car. You might as well slap a Saturn 5 on a chassis (granted, I'll watch it for the inevitably awesome explosion).
As far as laptops are concerned I agree with the GP. As you rightly point out it's not an issue with desktops. Btw, what percentage of desktops sold in the USA are branded?
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It was so old it was bald.
If it works we can use water we would have used for coal power stations in any case. Plus it's nearly a closed loop system right?
I can't believe we're even discussing this. FFS just have one or two disabled bays in every parking area close to the entrance. No need to debate it - it's the right thing to do. And leave the penalty system in place. From experience it mostly works and gets progressively more useless as the area becomes poorer / less educated.
I don't think the authors were trying to make a point regarding old code size vs. current code size. They mostly chose things that are supposed to not do much in comparison to Pascal, eg. images and HTML. As such it is an interesting page and made me appreciate how little constraints we have these days.
I hope there is always a place for the bit twiddlers. Say we create this awesome new quantum-nano-computer thingy (that can do things orders faster than current architectures) but its RAM is super expensive - then we may need to get creative again until manufacturing costs go down.
I already did. I specifically chose the Galaxy because of Apple's antics.
Yes! He knows C and Assembler. The world needs his increasingly rare skills. He can get paid a lot of money for that. (Posting this I realize I also know C and love Assembler but use Python almost exclusively.)
Whoosh.
My hammer would be called Plone. It runs on top of Zope. I love it but it is not a good fit for small systems.
I quite like Django's ORM. It's not as powerful as SqlAlchemy but it is easy to learn, and the Django guys put a lot of effort into documentation. I learned SQL the traditional way years ago and I'm still glad I did, but I don't particularly miss writing my own queries. If the ORM generates bad or slow SQL I can still drop to raw SQL.
But I get your point re legacy systems. It sounds like a nice challenge to implement composite keys for Django.
The big and powerful framework is Zope. Zope was also a driving force for the Python language over the years since the original Zope devs were also Python devs (and the creator of Python at one stage worked for Zope corp). Zope has contributed tons of libraries that can be re-used in other Python projects. They're very good community members.
You are wrong about the frameworks not being as powerful as Oracle etc, but I don't blame you since it takes a long time to become familar with a large framework. I would also not have time to learn eg. any big Java framework, so I'm in the same boat.
And interestingly twisted uses Zope's component architecture. It's pretty cool how the Python frameworks / apps try to play along with each other.
I for one won't be happy until I can weld from my netbook.
I'm a South African. He has been competing against able-bodied athletes for ages now. It's not news. A discussion on Slashdot as to whether the blades are an unfair advantage over other athletes will be much more interesting.
I thought Bloated Piece Of Sh*t was a good acronym :)
Games look fake regardless of frame rate. Movies look like real life (ie. the people look human). Your comparison is invalid.
That summary is confusing. Why do we have Firehose?
In South Africa a white roof makes a huge difference in summer. You can get away without AC. In winter roofs tend to get some kind of algae that make them darker. Unfortunately I don't know if they have a significant effect - perhaps someone on /. knows. Come summer time you have to blast them away again.
Wouldn't it be cool if there is some kind of paint that turns white when it gets hot and black when it gets cold?
I used to be a Windows dev back in the day (Delphi, Borland C++ etc.). I quite liked it and worked on neat products, but eventually the Linux environment became so much more productive for me. And my eyes opened to the difficulty non-MS users encounter when trying to get things to work that were foisted upon the world by MS. So while I appreciate that Silverlght may have a good dev environment I'm really glad I was never part of something that excludes certain users.
Agreed. Also, how on earth do they plan to prevent password sharing? It's not like they can profile the devices you're connecting with and setup some kind of device whitelist. I don't see a technical solution here.
I made a similar suggestion on an old Ubisoft story as to how to counter piracy. At that stage I thought 3 months would be a good period. A week sounds a bit short, but let's wait and see.
Mine will be subject to random and inexplicable bursts of EMP.
Downloading the movie or having bad enough taste to download the movie?
Here in South Africa you get a second data only SIM for the equivalent of $1 per month. You have one data bundle and all your SIM cards use that. Much easier than tethering. Also, our cheapest 3G is about $30 p/m for 5GB.
Never thought of it that way. I hope you're right.
From experience my Samsung drives run slightly quieter than my WD and Seagate drives, and a lot cooler than both. In my HTPC (which has excellent cooling) the Samsung is at 27 C, and the Seagate at 35 C. In South Africa in summer.
Put the power down through the wheels - then I'll be interested. I don't even consider it a car. You might as well slap a Saturn 5 on a chassis (granted, I'll watch it for the inevitably awesome explosion).
As far as laptops are concerned I agree with the GP. As you rightly point out it's not an issue with desktops. Btw, what percentage of desktops sold in the USA are branded?