Is anybody else sick and fscking tired of reading about Extreme Programming on SlashDot.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Extreme+Prog ra mming
Variations on the same article over and over and over and over and over again. I get the message already, and I'm not going to switch just because it's advertised here three times a week, so kindly *stop it already*.
Yeah, I found the whole "XP Ad" thing silly. I mean, one of the reasons I hate most computer shows is that "reviews" are simply ads, with a common host for half an hour. Just like this "feature". I think a link and a paragraph here would have done quite nicely, thank you very much.
That's easy. Didn't you read the Mr. Men books? Mr. Happy is yellow. He's also a walking talking smiley. QED. (Whatever QED means - it was used in H2G2 and was funny there.)
Re:QUANTUM TELEPORTATION POSSIBLE?
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Okay, what's to stop you from becoming a gigantic fly?:)
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I know this is a stupid question, but any talk of teleportation brings it to mind:
Okay, you're pulled apart and your entire quantum makeup is sent somewhere else. What stops you from becoming a pile of goo?
Banner ads don't work. End of story. I'm just surprised it's taken so long for the system to fall down.
Of course, other revenue streams backfire sometimes as well. For instance, I was one of the bajillions of people that bought the Sluggy Quatrix Sunday in shirt form.:)
I already pay my ISP a monthly fee, thank you. I'm not about to pay anybody else. What you propose is to turn the Internet into AOL. I don't like that system either.
(Oh, and there's a TV provider here in Ontario that will let you buy channels on a channel-by-channel basis.)
I just thought I would add that if the kernel ever did fork in a major, major way, there isn't a problem. If somebody did make a big change to a subsystem that lead to a much better Linux, applying it to the main branch is a cut-and-paste away. And thanks to the GPL, it's all legal.
Besides (and correct me if I'm wrong), wouldn't things like ucLinux be considered forks? Or to a lesser extent, the bad RAM or ReiserFS patches?
The neatest thing about Windows 2000, in my brief experience with it, is that if it's doing something on bootup out of the ordinary (like converting a partition), it will create a pseudo-console, wrapped by the Win2000 logo and a scrolling line thingy, that manages to contain the scrolling text and look pretty.
That's what I would want, but all the time. The important information stays, without sacrificing the "ooo..." factor. I like my boot info, but I like my Penguin too.
At least not here. Your friendly automated message comes on and tells you it's a local call so stop dialing the area code already. Oh, and if you don't want to dial again, you can press a starcode now and we'll redirect you for a 75 cent fee.
Point taken, although I must point out that even Tom admits that the P4 should kick ass when SSE2 is implemented.
However, the die is twice the size of the P3 die, and they used, essentially, the FPU off the Cyrix III. SSE2 may be the best thing since sliced bread on toast (mmmm, bread sandwich), but without a decent FPU, yau are not going to impress a soul. I mean, at least half (a third, whatever) of the chip dedicated to a set of instructions that can't be used by anything except beta versions of Sandra? This thing better wash my car and clean my floors.
Intel can probably turn the P4 into a good chip in twelve months. Probably. However, I think I'll just keep buying $50 Durons, thank you very much.
The P4 gets 1.98 k/keys (or i it Mkeys? I can't remember). The 1.2MHz Thunderbird gets 4.48, or something like that. The P4 even does for worse than my 600MHz Duron. It's sad, really.
However, you can't automatically say that the AMD 760MP is going to suck. You haven't seen it yet. Remember, the i820 was supposed to be a BX on Steroids, not the piece of crap it is now. It could be the next BX.
Okay, even I doubt that, but if the best chipset available today is three or four years old, that has to tell you something about the sorry state of the chipset market right now.
Someone could take pictures of you, get you to sign a release form that you think is just signing for a delivery or some other such ruse, and then sell the pics. The release form would still be legally binding, as you should have at least looked at the form you signed.
Wrong.
The document would not be legally binding because it was retrieved through illegal means. You may want to read up on the laws about fraud at some point.
(On the other hand, that *is* your signature on the document, so you *must* have signed it five months ago - still illegal, just hard to prove.)
You know, one of these days Intel is going to stop selling the BX. Intel has *not* made another chipset that can compare to the BX, and when it drops from the motherboard landscape, I imagine the AMD 760MP is going to look a lot more attractive.
I mean Hell, the VIA chipsets are starting to look better than the Intel ones, after you remove the BX from the equation. VIA!
So, by your reasoning, no SMP chipset will succeed once the BX is discontinued.
The 1993 election was 7 weeks.
The 1997 election was 6 weeks.
The 2000 election is 5 weeks.
At the rate this is going, in 2016 (or 2012, or 2020 for that matter) we'll be voting the day after the Governor General dissolves Parliament.
But at least our vote counts for something, unlike the Electoral College, in which the popular vote can mean, quite literally, nothing at all.
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3D imaging comes instantly to mind. Want to look at your model of...I don't know...a Star Destroyer, at a slightly different angle, *turn your head*. Granted, I have no idea if 3dwm is there yet, but that's the promise this kind of thing holds.
"there is a 1% chance I'll die from bad software and 100% chance that I can sue someone somewhere if I do die. "
Actually, I do believe there would be a 0% chance chance of *you* suing a hospital if you die of bad software, at least when done correctly. Unless God is a lawyer, of course.
Are you wearing any space shuttle parts? Do you have any in your house? Of course not.
I certainly hope not! Having parts of the ISS fall 37000 million miles*, through my roof, and into my living room would make me less than impressed with the space program.
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Is anybody else sick and fscking tired of reading about Extreme Programming on SlashDot.
g ra mming
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Extreme+Pro
Variations on the same article over and over and over and over and over again. I get the message already, and I'm not going to switch just because it's advertised here three times a week, so kindly *stop it already*.
I mean, this story isn't nearly as good as the "Apache on PalmOS" story from last year. Now *that* was a good April Fool's story.
*Reads the Run As... bit*
*tries it*
Son of a....
John F. Kennedy was anonymous? During his Inauguration Speech? Neat. :)
Yeah, I found the whole "XP Ad" thing silly. I mean, one of the reasons I hate most computer shows is that "reviews" are simply ads, with a common host for half an hour. Just like this "feature". I think a link and a paragraph here would have done quite nicely, thank you very much.
In other words, I agree with you.
That's easy. Didn't you read the Mr. Men books? Mr. Happy is yellow. He's also a walking talking smiley. QED. (Whatever QED means - it was used in H2G2 and was funny there.)
Okay, what's to stop you from becoming a gigantic fly? :)
I know this is a stupid question, but any talk of teleportation brings it to mind:
Okay, you're pulled apart and your entire quantum makeup is sent somewhere else. What stops you from becoming a pile of goo?
Banner ads don't work. End of story. I'm just surprised it's taken so long for the system to fall down.
:)
Of course, other revenue streams backfire sometimes as well. For instance, I was one of the bajillions of people that bought the Sluggy Quatrix Sunday in shirt form.
I already pay my ISP a monthly fee, thank you. I'm not about to pay anybody else. What you propose is to turn the Internet into AOL. I don't like that system either.
(Oh, and there's a TV provider here in Ontario that will let you buy channels on a channel-by-channel basis.)
Apple owns Macromedia? I didn't know Apple made Director, Flash, Fireworks, etc., etc., etc...
Apple owns Adobe? I didn't know Apple made Photoshop, Acrobat, AfterEffects, etc., etc., etc...
This is the kind of sarcasm you get when you post at 2. It's kinda like Dilbert, but I'm not sure how.
I just thought I would add that if the kernel ever did fork in a major, major way, there isn't a problem. If somebody did make a big change to a subsystem that lead to a much better Linux, applying it to the main branch is a cut-and-paste away. And thanks to the GPL, it's all legal.
Besides (and correct me if I'm wrong), wouldn't things like ucLinux be considered forks? Or to a lesser extent, the bad RAM or ReiserFS patches?
Personally, I want a meld of both.
The neatest thing about Windows 2000, in my brief experience with it, is that if it's doing something on bootup out of the ordinary (like converting a partition), it will create a pseudo-console, wrapped by the Win2000 logo and a scrolling line thingy, that manages to contain the scrolling text and look pretty.
That's what I would want, but all the time. The important information stays, without sacrificing the "ooo..." factor. I like my boot info, but I like my Penguin too.
Bart: "Don't you mean Shining?"
Willy: "Quiet boy. Do you want us to get sued?"
Sorry, had to.
At least not here. Your friendly automated message comes on and tells you it's a local call so stop dialing the area code already. Oh, and if you don't want to dial again, you can press a starcode now and we'll redirect you for a 75 cent fee.
Point taken, although I must point out that even Tom admits that the P4 should kick ass when SSE2 is implemented.
However, the die is twice the size of the P3 die, and they used, essentially, the FPU off the Cyrix III. SSE2 may be the best thing since sliced bread on toast (mmmm, bread sandwich), but without a decent FPU, yau are not going to impress a soul. I mean, at least half (a third, whatever) of the chip dedicated to a set of instructions that can't be used by anything except beta versions of Sandra? This thing better wash my car and clean my floors.
Intel can probably turn the P4 into a good chip in twelve months. Probably. However, I think I'll just keep buying $50 Durons, thank you very much.
Anand's got some RC5 benchmarks.
The P4 gets 1.98 k/keys (or i it Mkeys? I can't remember). The 1.2MHz Thunderbird gets 4.48, or something like that. The P4 even does for worse than my 600MHz Duron. It's sad, really.
Point taken.
However, you can't automatically say that the AMD 760MP is going to suck. You haven't seen it yet. Remember, the i820 was supposed to be a BX on Steroids, not the piece of crap it is now. It could be the next BX.
Okay, even I doubt that, but if the best chipset available today is three or four years old, that has to tell you something about the sorry state of the chipset market right now.
Someone could take pictures of you, get you to sign a release form that you think is just signing for a delivery or some other such ruse, and then sell the pics. The release form would still be legally binding, as you should have at least looked at the form you signed.
Wrong.
The document would not be legally binding because it was retrieved through illegal means. You may want to read up on the laws about fraud at some point.
(On the other hand, that *is* your signature on the document, so you *must* have signed it five months ago - still illegal, just hard to prove.)
You know, one of these days Intel is going to stop selling the BX. Intel has *not* made another chipset that can compare to the BX, and when it drops from the motherboard landscape, I imagine the AMD 760MP is going to look a lot more attractive.
I mean Hell, the VIA chipsets are starting to look better than the Intel ones, after you remove the BX from the equation. VIA!
So, by your reasoning, no SMP chipset will succeed once the BX is discontinued.
(Pretzel logic at it's finest).
The 1993 election was 7 weeks.
The 1997 election was 6 weeks.
The 2000 election is 5 weeks.
At the rate this is going, in 2016 (or 2012, or 2020 for that matter) we'll be voting the day after the Governor General dissolves Parliament.
But at least our vote counts for something, unlike the Electoral College, in which the popular vote can mean, quite literally, nothing at all.
3D imaging comes instantly to mind. Want to look at your model of...I don't know...a Star Destroyer, at a slightly different angle, *turn your head*. Granted, I have no idea if 3dwm is there yet, but that's the promise this kind of thing holds.
At least for me.
"there is a 1% chance I'll die from bad software and 100% chance that I can sue someone somewhere if I do die. "
Actually, I do believe there would be a 0% chance chance of *you* suing a hospital if you die of bad software, at least when done correctly. Unless God is a lawyer, of course.
Are you wearing any space shuttle parts? Do you have any in your house? Of course not.
I certainly hope not! Having parts of the ISS fall 37000 million miles*, through my roof, and into my living room would make me less than impressed with the space program.
* may be off by an order of magnitude or seven.
Actually, neither. Work work work, it's all I do.
And if my Commodore 64 still worked (I burned out the power supply...three of four times), I'd be playing Jumpman all the time. I loved that game.