Parent is really funny, I laughed. Unless you're too stupid to understand the joke.Posted Via JFPB - Java First Post Bot -- Read that again, remove your head from your ass and maybe you'll understand.
You see your post modded down? That's because you pissed off Java programmers by saying that you think that an aspect of something they do is not very perfect. You insulted their egos. Bad bad Kimos. Go sit in the corner.
Did you even read the summary? We are talking about two implementations of two applications, not the very syntax of the languages themselves. Yeah, we all know that a language by itself can't be fast or slow blah blah blah. Whenever we're having a practical discussion about a "language", we're talking about the syntax *and* the general qualities of its implementations - in this case there is only one significat implementation of each. This one summary itself would take the entire slashdot frontpage if we had to mention every particular detail like this. BTW, when people say "java is slow" they mean the most significant implementation of java is slow. They're just trying to be concise, practical and to the point.
Longhorn (hopefully) has more than just 64-bit support. They are working on all of them. And they don't want their existing version of XP completely 64-bitless until Longhorn came out. 64-bit (x86-64) is catching up fast and if they don't release something fast, people might start switching to other OSes (like Linux). BTW, there was a 64-bit alpha of Longhorn, so it's not like they haven't started work on it at all.
aha, but you want your cheap motherboard, don't you? Imagine how much that factory cost to engineer. A billion dollars? 2 billion? I don't know, but it looks very expensive to build and maintain and run on daily basis.
It looks expensive? That's something I'd expect to hear from an uneducated, unwise, five year old kid. At most these plants cost tens of millions. And this is usually recovered within the first few months. And the operating costs other than salaries aren't much. They get raw material cheaply (some of them even have their own electronics division which manufacture electronic parts.) And, as I said, the salaries are really really less.
So the firm has to recover the cost and then make a profit. So now if you paid your average US or Canadian or German worker salaries for running this factory and building these devices, wouldn't the MBs cost at least 10x as much? And you know what, they are worth the money. But you know what? Many people wouldn't buy them then. So the process depends on the economy of scale - the firm needs to sell to everyone, so the prices go down. The firm competes with a dozen other manufacturers, so the prices go down.
Sure, jump on me. Nice going. Did I say that they should be priced less or that the workers should be paid more? (your) Grandparent asked about the profit margin and I told about it to him. That's all
Of-course the manual workers are underpaid, but the robots are paid nothing at all, do we have to cry about it too?
How is this, in any way, related to the discussion at hand?
And they get all those parts for much lesser than they cost in the market. They also buy a lot of parts in the same developing countries which, again, reduces their costs. And most of these are manufactured in developing countries where they have to pay much lesser slaries (why else do you think they manufacture there and there is a boom in offshoring?). No, I'm not trolling, I'm from one of these developing countries too. I'm stating a fact. Oh and BTW, the chipsets are also overpriced.
Compared to how much they pay the workers who manufacture them, almost all computer parts are highly overpriced. HIGHLY. Especially the ones manufactured in developing countries. (No, not sweatshops in developing countries. The employees are paid well. The economical differences work out very well for the manufacturers.)
Ok, something is up with these April Fools jokes. Like slashdot has been hacked, or the editors are playing a joke on us, or SOMETHING. People just can't be such big idiots. It's biologically impossible.
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Er, this is actually a real article. But stick with the 30 day break, trust me.
This was "Tee kid". This guy didn't write the original Blaster worm that "wreaked havoc". He took the original one, modified it and spreaded it. IIRC, he got caught by leaving references to his nick of various sites "Tee kid" and leaving the URL to his website in the worm (I can't remember well). This guy was really stupid.
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You wish! Linux still has a pretty tiny market share.
Actually grandparent meant re-installing Windows. A lot of people do this a lot.
Actually that mod is appropriate for you. You didn't get the joke.
Parent is really funny, I laughed. Unless you're too stupid to understand the joke.Posted Via JFPB - Java First Post Bot -- Read that again, remove your head from your ass and maybe you'll understand.
You see your post modded down? That's because you pissed off Java programmers by saying that you think that an aspect of something they do is not very perfect. You insulted their egos. Bad bad Kimos. Go sit in the corner.
Did you even read the summary? We are talking about two implementations of two applications, not the very syntax of the languages themselves. Yeah, we all know that a language by itself can't be fast or slow blah blah blah. Whenever we're having a practical discussion about a "language", we're talking about the syntax *and* the general qualities of its implementations - in this case there is only one significat implementation of each. This one summary itself would take the entire slashdot frontpage if we had to mention every particular detail like this. BTW, when people say "java is slow" they mean the most significant implementation of java is slow. They're just trying to be concise, practical and to the point.
You post looks like a poor attempt at saying "no way, java still rules."
Actually, I'd say that to companies making money from selling free software (which they didn't write) like Lindows (spire) et al.
You forgot the hot secretary and the expensive out of court settlement for the sexual harrasment suit.
Again, this is not about Electronic Music, the genre, but about music in elctronic form, which has nothing to do with the genre.
OMG. This is not about Electronic Music, the genre, but about music in elctronic form, which has nothing to do with the genre.
This is not about Electronic Music, the genre. This is about music in electronic form. This has nothing to do with the genre.
EMT64T and AMD64 are the same thing (technically at least). Collectively they're called x86-64.
Don't programs need to be coded (compiled at least) specifically for x86-64 to use 64bit features?
Longhorn (hopefully) has more than just 64-bit support. They are working on all of them. And they don't want their existing version of XP completely 64-bitless until Longhorn came out. 64-bit (x86-64) is catching up fast and if they don't release something fast, people might start switching to other OSes (like Linux). BTW, there was a 64-bit alpha of Longhorn, so it's not like they haven't started work on it at all.
aha, but you want your cheap motherboard, don't you? Imagine how much that factory cost to engineer. A billion dollars? 2 billion? I don't know, but it looks very expensive to build and maintain and run on daily basis.
It looks expensive? That's something I'd expect to hear from an uneducated, unwise, five year old kid. At most these plants cost tens of millions. And this is usually recovered within the first few months. And the operating costs other than salaries aren't much. They get raw material cheaply (some of them even have their own electronics division which manufacture electronic parts.) And, as I said, the salaries are really really less.
So the firm has to recover the cost and then make a profit. So now if you paid your average US or Canadian or German worker salaries for running this factory and building these devices, wouldn't the MBs cost at least 10x as much? And you know what, they are worth the money. But you know what? Many people wouldn't buy them then. So the process depends on the economy of scale - the firm needs to sell to everyone, so the prices go down. The firm competes with a dozen other manufacturers, so the prices go down.
Sure, jump on me. Nice going. Did I say that they should be priced less or that the workers should be paid more? (your) Grandparent asked about the profit margin and I told about it to him. That's all
Of-course the manual workers are underpaid, but the robots are paid nothing at all, do we have to cry about it too?
How is this, in any way, related to the discussion at hand?
And they get all those parts for much lesser than they cost in the market. They also buy a lot of parts in the same developing countries which, again, reduces their costs. And most of these are manufactured in developing countries where they have to pay much lesser slaries (why else do you think they manufacture there and there is a boom in offshoring?). No, I'm not trolling, I'm from one of these developing countries too. I'm stating a fact. Oh and BTW, the chipsets are also overpriced.
Compared to how much they pay the workers who manufacture them, almost all computer parts are highly overpriced. HIGHLY. Especially the ones manufactured in developing countries. (No, not sweatshops in developing countries. The employees are paid well. The economical differences work out very well for the manufacturers.)
He meant letter, smartass. A newline is not a letter, just a character on computers. Who modded parent as Insightful?
I think slashdot has been hacked. Watch out, it might try to install something on your hard disk through some browser hole.
This is NOT an April Fools joke. This is real. RTFA.
Ok, something is up with these April Fools jokes. Like slashdot has been hacked, or the editors are playing a joke on us, or SOMETHING. People just can't be such big idiots. It's biologically impossible.
Er, this is actually a real article. But stick with the 30 day break, trust me.
Maybe a huge pile of April Fool stories on slashdot is the April fool joke this time. Or maybe all the monkies have been hired by slashdot.
This was "Tee kid". This guy didn't write the original Blaster worm that "wreaked havoc". He took the original one, modified it and spreaded it. IIRC, he got caught by leaving references to his nick of various sites "Tee kid" and leaving the URL to his website in the worm (I can't remember well). This guy was really stupid.
They missed the part where The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.