As I was reading all the reaction to Apple's recent news... I was thinking...
ok, so the PPC has been adopting parts of the CISC architecture and the x86 has been adopting parts of the RISC architecture... and now Apple moved to x86. So they're sort of encroaching on Windows. What if Microsoft moves to PPC? They're using an IBM PPC chip for their XBox which is very promising. If that takes off and they move to PPC, I don't think I could stop laughing.
x86? This was an architecture originally designed for 1MB of RAM and its designers never thought it would need any more than that. Why is it that shitty designs always become these huge mosters - the internet was designed for like, 30 people. x86 sucks. It totally totally sucks. Writing assembly for it is like writing brainfuck... there's only one F-ing register that you actually use. Why do people like this? I thought for sure the world would slowly move away from it, but now one of my favorite companies is moving towards it? What do I have to do, build my own operating system and my own processor so I can get some satisfaction?
IDEs pain you; Windows stains you; And WINE causes cramp. Supercomputers aren't lawful; Macs give; CISC smells awful; You might as well pack it the fuck up and strip to live.
woa, woa!
1.) silicon is an element, not a molecule.
2.) lattices and crystals are made of molecules. They are ways that molecules tend to arrange themselves in certain conditions, such as the crystals that h2o (that's a water molecule) forms when it is frozen.
about TFA, I think this is really cool, but I'm sick and tired of "possible future advances for batteries". I want MORE POWER NOW.
This Jesús Villasante has to be one of the biggest duches ever. Dude... shut up, they're one of the only sources of INCOME you have!!! Go cut off your nose to spite your face, and when you're done go bite the hand that fed you.
Open source communities need to take themselves seriously and realise they have contribution to themselves and society.
Jigga wha...? Grammar check... it's not that hard. This is my second language too.
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lol, aww man, I needed those pics because I'm in real shortage of good quality voyeur pics. For examples of awesome boyfriend revenges see CraigsList in any major city (like NY) under casual encounters.
If craigslist gets slashdotted, the low opinion of/.ers is warranted, eh?
I don't think it's precisely 1984 style. It's more like widespread chaos... which surprisingly is cool. The government is only hurting themselves by doing this. Ponder on this: When (not If) there's a bug found in the way these cards work, how the F*$& are they going to send out bugfixes?
Remember when we were in elementary and we played musical chairs? This is going to be kind of the same but with people getting their identities stolen and turning around and stealing someone else's identity to defend themselves. It'll be like musical identities.
Dude, you haven't even written one line of assembly for these things and you're saying that there's no way this could help data retrieval and pushing operations?
Why not? If the damn things are so much better at vector instructions, why is it so hard to immagine a server's software being re-written to use vectors. For example Matlab. It is obviously based on linear algebra principles and it is better at vector and matrix computations than a program written in C to do the same thing without fancy algorithms. Yes, I realize Matlab is written in C, it's the interesting nature of diagonalized and sparse matrices that makes Matlab faster. Matlab works as a web server and a database client. Just imagine if we pump Matlab with these Cell beauties what amazing performance we would see... from Servers!
Don't hate on progress just because you have no imagination.
And you Microsoft haters... there's also no reason to believe that Microsoft won't take advantage of this... they're not idiots you know.
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Good Point. However, look where the world is going. We're evermore dependent on pre-built things to do our jobs. Controls go into web pages and native applications, patterns will be more deeply interwoven into UML 2.0, code generation handles a huge percentage of the code that gets produced (between intellisense, templates, etc.). I think that custom software developers (a group to which I proudly belong) will eventually become like architects working with bricks and our job will be similar in design and picking the right materials to build our projects. See WWISA.
My point is, those components will be supplied by someone and I'd rather the development that goes into them be OSS.
I wonder what percent of the world understands this joke. It is so sad that such good humor has to be so limited in audience. I can just see myself later talking to my girlfriend saying "there was this awesome joke on slashdot... well you see ALICE is this internet AI... well what do you mean, that's how ALICE answers questions... what do you mean I should go out with ALICE... I like talking to you about how I feel... no I don't think about ALICE, come on honey"
this is not at all FUD... lets do this systematically:
Download the SDK and the documentation along with it, run it locally on your machine.
Oh, you mean you have 3 gigs of free space just lying around? COOL. Can I use your computer as a server?
ROFL, compared to what?
Hmmm... Java. I use firefox and "find as you type" coupled with the lightweight, well explained, very detailed Java documetation makes for a very happy programmer. In comparison, loading up MSDN takes forever and the examples are sometimes retarded and seem as if they're jokes made by microsoft employees (look up the very useless ToString() function of enums. Also, Perl man documentation is amazing.
Specifics, please. What "other" IDEs would those be?
Most of the friends I have from Microsoft work in EMacs or #Develop. They use CVS and SVN not SourceSafe and they compile using NAnt. From what they've told me this is also typical of most people in their respective groups. I am basing this on about a dozen friends that work for Microsoft in every unit from Word to Longhorn.
Actually, that's not true. The more space you have on the disc, the more space you have for error correcting information. This is already present on normal CDs and DVDs. My CDs are scratched up beyond all recognition (subar) and they have no info loss. Error correction is awesome.
I am happy for you that your projects are small enough to use Visual Studio.net. Fact of the matter is, almost any important project at Microsoft itself is not compiled / debugged / programmed in Visual Studio but in other IDEs... Visual Studio.net has an incredible amount of flaws in it and I don't even want to go down that path. Just search the web for something like "I hate Visual Studio.net " and you'll see what I'm referring to. My favorite horrendous error is that it actually compiles the code in order to run the designer. This means that if you make a type-o or something in your code and it can't compile some user controls that you're using, it'll strip them out of the designer and you have to go through and add them all manually.
As for the "online manual" that you guys speak of, I have yet to see a POORER documentation for a language than the MSDN documentation. The site design sucks, it's slow, I can't ever find what I'm looking for because there's no easily accessible flat structure but a poorly designed hierarchy.
I believe it's truly a shame that all this terrible stuff has to be attached to such a beautiful language as C#. GO MONO!!!
dude, I totally agree, if someone uses the word "leverage" one more time, I am afraid Archimides will jump out of his grave, bust out a mirror and fry him like the ant he is.
I think this request is idiotic. Maybe when the police department gets their act together and sets up an infrastructure so that their closest dispatch can be contacted through their 911 service over the internet, then VOIP should be asked to have roaming 911.
Either 1 or 2:
1.) Ask VOIP providers to only provide 911 access from the home where the service is initially set up.
2.) Ask every baby and not-so-baby-anymore bell to allow you to unplug your phone, go to a different person's house, plug it in and get service on your account!
p.s. I love the idea the guy had to carry the barebones cell phone around that can only make 911 calls.
p.p.s. If you VOIP companies out there need me to help you out programming any of this, let me know, I'll do this shit pro-bono... fucking big phone companies and government trying to ruin something good.
ok, the woman and porn issue came up so here I am... to the rescue.
Women don't like porn as a simple demand / supply issue. We supply too much sex so they don't demand anything from porn. They supply almost no sex and the sex they do supply is bad quality so we demand a lot from our porn.
But they're clever too... if we stop giving them sex, they just get it from somewhere else and feel in the right too.
So how do you solve this dilema? Simple! Fuck'em!
I'm not bad with computers, I've tinkered with Linux and I love Gentoo. I got really excited reading the news about OpenBSD 3.7 and I was hopping all around the mirrors to get me an.iso so I can start installing.
???
Where's the iso? Where's the friendly installation. I'm sorry but if you want people to use/contribute to your project, you've got to make it easy for them to try it out. There are like a gazillion different Linux live CDs even in Catalan.
I read through the installation files on the release for i386... um... am I missing something or is this thing ridiculously hard to install?
actually, this reminds me of something. A friend of mine who worked for microsoft told me that their OS names came from mountain ranges and valleys. Can anyone confirm/expand on this?
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In other news, Longhorn will also be featuring an improved search feature
ahem... you mean like Spotlight?
and a better root / normal user management scheme
ahem... ahem... you mean line *NIX?
and nice transparrent windows, and a cooool hypervisor!!
like X and third party software for windows have been doing for ages, and like Xen does so nicely
Give me a break, come up with something original. Say after me Microsoft... I am ORIGINAL.
As I was reading all the reaction to Apple's recent news... I was thinking...
ok, so the PPC has been adopting parts of the CISC architecture and the x86 has been adopting parts of the RISC architecture... and now Apple moved to x86. So they're sort of encroaching on Windows. What if Microsoft moves to PPC? They're using an IBM PPC chip for their XBox which is very promising. If that takes off and they move to PPC, I don't think I could stop laughing.
x86? This was an architecture originally designed for 1MB of RAM and its designers never thought it would need any more than that. Why is it that shitty designs always become these huge mosters - the internet was designed for like, 30 people. x86 sucks. It totally totally sucks. Writing assembly for it is like writing brainfuck... there's only one F-ing register that you actually use. Why do people like this? I thought for sure the world would slowly move away from it, but now one of my favorite companies is moving towards it? What do I have to do, build my own operating system and my own processor so I can get some satisfaction?
IDEs pain you;
Windows stains you; And WINE causes cramp.
Supercomputers aren't lawful; Macs give;
CISC smells awful; You might as well pack it the fuck up and strip to live.
The day that consoles have *perfect* support for my MX 500 mouse and a decent responsive quick keyboard I will never look back.
woa, woa! 1.) silicon is an element, not a molecule. 2.) lattices and crystals are made of molecules. They are ways that molecules tend to arrange themselves in certain conditions, such as the crystals that h2o (that's a water molecule) forms when it is frozen. about TFA, I think this is really cool, but I'm sick and tired of "possible future advances for batteries". I want MORE POWER NOW.
This Jesús Villasante has to be one of the biggest duches ever. Dude... shut up, they're one of the only sources of INCOME you have!!! Go cut off your nose to spite your face, and when you're done go bite the hand that fed you.
Open source communities need to take themselves seriously and realise they have contribution to themselves and society.
Jigga wha...? Grammar check... it's not that hard. This is my second language too.
Edumacation, schmaducation, you just take the fucking gloves OFF.
The only way that this would work is if you put it in the KEY. Last time I checked, none of us hold on to the steering wheel while turning on the car.
So anyway, really cool invention, but PUT IT IN THE KEY!!!
some things you just have to let go man...
no... just le.... no! just let it go!
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/.ers is warranted, eh?
lol, aww man, I needed those pics because I'm in real shortage of good quality voyeur pics. For examples of awesome boyfriend revenges see CraigsList in any major city (like NY) under casual encounters.
If craigslist gets slashdotted, the low opinion of
I don't think it's precisely 1984 style. It's more like widespread chaos... which surprisingly is cool. The government is only hurting themselves by doing this. Ponder on this: When (not If) there's a bug found in the way these cards work, how the F*$& are they going to send out bugfixes?
Remember when we were in elementary and we played musical chairs? This is going to be kind of the same but with people getting their identities stolen and turning around and stealing someone else's identity to defend themselves. It'll be like musical identities.
Dude, you haven't even written one line of assembly for these things and you're saying that there's no way this could help data retrieval and pushing operations?
Why not? If the damn things are so much better at vector instructions, why is it so hard to immagine a server's software being re-written to use vectors. For example Matlab. It is obviously based on linear algebra principles and it is better at vector and matrix computations than a program written in C to do the same thing without fancy algorithms. Yes, I realize Matlab is written in C, it's the interesting nature of diagonalized and sparse matrices that makes Matlab faster. Matlab works as a web server and a database client. Just imagine if we pump Matlab with these Cell beauties what amazing performance we would see... from Servers!
Don't hate on progress just because you have no imagination.
And you Microsoft haters... there's also no reason to believe that Microsoft won't take advantage of this... they're not idiots you know.
Awesome!! If you're reading this, congratulations, now just kill the spammers and we'll give you honors Star Wars IV style.
you're right, but it's really funny either way and they're both women's names so hopefully what I said is still funny
ALICE
Good Point. However, look where the world is going. We're evermore dependent on pre-built things to do our jobs. Controls go into web pages and native applications, patterns will be more deeply interwoven into UML 2.0, code generation handles a huge percentage of the code that gets produced (between intellisense, templates, etc.). I think that custom software developers (a group to which I proudly belong) will eventually become like architects working with bricks and our job will be similar in design and picking the right materials to build our projects. See WWISA.
My point is, those components will be supplied by someone and I'd rather the development that goes into them be OSS.
I wonder what percent of the world understands this joke. It is so sad that such good humor has to be so limited in audience. I can just see myself later talking to my girlfriend saying "there was this awesome joke on slashdot... well you see ALICE is this internet AI... well what do you mean, that's how ALICE answers questions... what do you mean I should go out with ALICE... I like talking to you about how I feel... no I don't think about ALICE, come on honey"
this is not at all FUD... lets do this systematically:
Download the SDK and the documentation along with it, run it locally on your machine.
Oh, you mean you have 3 gigs of free space just lying around? COOL. Can I use your computer as a server?
ROFL, compared to what?
Hmmm... Java. I use firefox and "find as you type" coupled with the lightweight, well explained, very detailed Java documetation makes for a very happy programmer. In comparison, loading up MSDN takes forever and the examples are sometimes retarded and seem as if they're jokes made by microsoft employees (look up the very useless ToString() function of enums. Also, Perl man documentation is amazing.
Specifics, please. What "other" IDEs would those be?
Most of the friends I have from Microsoft work in EMacs or #Develop. They use CVS and SVN not SourceSafe and they compile using NAnt. From what they've told me this is also typical of most people in their respective groups. I am basing this on about a dozen friends that work for Microsoft in every unit from Word to Longhorn.
Actually, that's not true. The more space you have on the disc, the more space you have for error correcting information. This is already present on normal CDs and DVDs. My CDs are scratched up beyond all recognition (subar) and they have no info loss. Error correction is awesome.
I am happy for you that your projects are small enough to use Visual Studio .net. Fact of the matter is, almost any important project at Microsoft itself is not compiled / debugged / programmed in Visual Studio but in other IDEs... Visual Studio .net has an incredible amount of flaws in it and I don't even want to go down that path. Just search the web for something like "I hate Visual Studio .net " and you'll see what I'm referring to. My favorite horrendous error is that it actually compiles the code in order to run the designer. This means that if you make a type-o or something in your code and it can't compile some user controls that you're using, it'll strip them out of the designer and you have to go through and add them all manually.
As for the "online manual" that you guys speak of, I have yet to see a POORER documentation for a language than the MSDN documentation. The site design sucks, it's slow, I can't ever find what I'm looking for because there's no easily accessible flat structure but a poorly designed hierarchy.
I believe it's truly a shame that all this terrible stuff has to be attached to such a beautiful language as C#. GO MONO!!!
dude, I totally agree, if someone uses the word "leverage" one more time, I am afraid Archimides will jump out of his grave, bust out a mirror and fry him like the ant he is.
I think this request is idiotic. Maybe when the police department gets their act together and sets up an infrastructure so that their closest dispatch can be contacted through their 911 service over the internet, then VOIP should be asked to have roaming 911.
Either 1 or 2:
1.) Ask VOIP providers to only provide 911 access from the home where the service is initially set up.
2.) Ask every baby and not-so-baby-anymore bell to allow you to unplug your phone, go to a different person's house, plug it in and get service on your account!
p.s. I love the idea the guy had to carry the barebones cell phone around that can only make 911 calls.
p.p.s. If you VOIP companies out there need me to help you out programming any of this, let me know, I'll do this shit pro-bono... fucking big phone companies and government trying to ruin something good.
ok, the woman and porn issue came up so here I am... to the rescue. Women don't like porn as a simple demand / supply issue. We supply too much sex so they don't demand anything from porn. They supply almost no sex and the sex they do supply is bad quality so we demand a lot from our porn. But they're clever too... if we stop giving them sex, they just get it from somewhere else and feel in the right too. So how do you solve this dilema? Simple! Fuck'em!
I'm not bad with computers, I've tinkered with Linux and I love Gentoo. I got really excited reading the news about OpenBSD 3.7 and I was hopping all around the mirrors to get me an .iso so I can start installing.
???
Where's the iso? Where's the friendly installation. I'm sorry but if you want people to use/contribute to your project, you've got to make it easy for them to try it out. There are like a gazillion different Linux live CDs even in Catalan.
I read through the installation files on the release for i386... um... am I missing something or is this thing ridiculously hard to install?
actually, this reminds me of something. A friend of mine who worked for microsoft told me that their OS names came from mountain ranges and valleys. Can anyone confirm/expand on this?