And yet, if I take pictures anywhere near a Federal building, subway tunnel or bridge, even from a public sidewalk, the goons will want to catalogue me as a potential threat.
Correction: 88% of all metro commuters (car occupants observed at rush hours in the morning and afternoon) in one very large metropolitan area.
That does not count people who live in the city (which may even have a better reason for this sort of vehicle) or people who don't have a job in the city, or the delivery trucks going in and out of the city, or the bicyclists.
You might say "well, they should drive a Toyota pod-mod when they commute, and use other appropriate cars when they need them." How many people give up their comfortable, roomy, powerful vehicles when those comfortable, roomy, powerful vehicles would be overkill? Sure, some do. Now, how many of those people who use alternate transportation already ride the subway or bicycle to work?
I'm sure these are handy on the golf course, or on the set of your next Sci Fi film. I work at a place that's big enough that electric carts and tricycles are actually useful things. I understand there are niches.
But man, this thing looks like Sigourney Weaver should be attacking them before they spawn.
I never said IBM should be the only vendor of hardware, that IBM should be the only vendor of Linux on any platform, or that Linux should be the only operating system people can choose regardless of hardware. If IBM sells you support for your big-iron server, and you deviate from the supportable configuration, then that's your waste of money to choose. And some OTHER organization can sell support on IBM hardware, if they find that marketplace useful.
All I'm saying is that Microsoft offers the only "choice" on ALL hardware, whether you pay for support or not. This is the monopoly that must be broken.
Anything that can undermine Microsoft's ability to come up with vendor-lockin monopolistic "standards" is a good thing in my book. If a user wants to run a machine that lets her do anything and everything that the hardware is capable, without DRM, without Activation, without upgrade fees, without limiting her to ancient versions, then it should be her prerogative.
Anyone have a Borland Sidekick 1.0 manual? They may have used the word 'windows' to refer to their pop-up panels, especially the scrollable parts for the editors.
The whole Star Wars franchise was always, from day one, supposed to be a pulp "Saturday Matinee" sort of pulp serial.
It has a campy, heavily derivative space opera story line. It's been pieced together with black and white heroes and villains, both of which make the audience boo and giggle at the same time.
To fix one is to break the series. Most die-hard Star Wars fans are fans because they were kids when they saw the originals. Hell, many of you weren't even BORN to watch the original in the theaters in 1977. The series hangs together precisely because it is all schlock, and yet we love the characters anyway.
The Silliwood crap seems to come up every three years, which is about the same cycle that the game and toy industry follows. Everytime it's profitable, Hollywood starts to comes back. Everytime it drops like a stone, Hollywood slinks away quietly. Now, correlation doesn't prove causation, but it's pretty peculiar, don't you think?
While this is often repeated, it's not completely true. A judge can dismiss your suit with prejudice, and can even charge you with contempt or the crime of barratry, depending on how poorly conceived your suit is. It is therefore a crime to sue over some things.
Re: WMD!! (Score: 5, Funny) Next stop for her: Guantanemo Bay...
The government has already proven it will detain people just for what they know, without criminal charge, without provocation, without family access, without legal representation, without regard for international criticism, without regard for international laws and norms, without safeguards for personal safety, without justification or oversight by the courts.
I doubt the G goons will be sweeping up this particular researcher, but what small and subtle distinction really lies between this case and others? What shred of humanity protects her from the inhumanity of the Bush/Rumsfeld/Ashcroft three-ring circus? Oh, she has red hair and freckles? Alrighty then.
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Personally, I see this as a mild security benefit. If I delete something, I want it GONE. It's not as good as an idle-time thread that 11-pass nukes unallocated sectors at random, but it'll do for a start.
So, RAMBUS gets a government monopoly on a given process (by shady means, or not), and then it's somehow illegal when other companies decide to use other processes instead? Yeah, that makes sense.
People keep saying that the JIT-style optimizers in.NET and Java can radically optimize the application "for programmers who can't or won't."
Peephole optimization and clock-scheduling are among the simplest of optimization. The machine looks at a few low-level instructions and might suggest an alternative which would operate identically but with better performance. That's really all that the VM has time or capability to perform today.
Mid-range optimizations include vectorizing, unrolling of loops, and register reduction. These are still machine-analyzable, so I expect the JIT-style optimizers to continue to make strides here.
But I don't think you're ever going to see JIT-style optimizers which replace an O(n^2) algorithm with an O(log n) algorithm. That is real optimization. That's where you win the performance races. That's the one that programmers should care about, and should learn how to do. The level of analysis required to "divine" the whole meaning of a large routine, realize the alternative algorithm equivalent, and fix up the code is far beyond any JIT solution.
I think we will have to wait far longer than the 6 GHz Longhorn machines before you see any meaningful machine optimization of sloppy code.
Frugality isn't so much about only buying the cheapest thing, it's about not buying things in the first place.
Both meanings are well-accepted and dictionary-listed. A moderate position between the two is "avoiding waste." You should buy what you need, but you should make the most of it. If the more expensive option is necessary for the results you want, then get it. If you don't need to buy something at all, then don't.
Buying 2 liters of store-brand cola instead of a pack of 20oz favorite-brand cola isn't frugality if you prefer the favorite brand, it's being a miser. (Remember the Frugal Gourmet?)
The common meta build tools can be a nightmare to learn all at once.
autoconf
automake
patch files
.spec and.src.rpm
.deb
-devel packages vs user packages
While these are not essential to the beginning developer, having a chapter which covers the background, the problem, the solution and the practice of each of these "meta" tools would be really useful to get new developers going. They don't have to be covered in detail, but really honestly understanding WHY a project might be using a given meta build tool can help more people get involved.
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And yet, if I take pictures anywhere near a Federal building, subway tunnel or bridge, even from a public sidewalk, the goons will want to catalogue me as a potential threat.
That does not count people who live in the city (which may even have a better reason for this sort of vehicle) or people who don't have a job in the city, or the delivery trucks going in and out of the city, or the bicyclists.
You might say "well, they should drive a Toyota pod-mod when they commute, and use other appropriate cars when they need them." How many people give up their comfortable, roomy, powerful vehicles when those comfortable, roomy, powerful vehicles would be overkill? Sure, some do. Now, how many of those people who use alternate transportation already ride the subway or bicycle to work?
I'm sure these are handy on the golf course, or on the set of your next Sci Fi film. I work at a place that's big enough that electric carts and tricycles are actually useful things. I understand there are niches.
But man, this thing looks like Sigourney Weaver should be attacking them before they spawn.
So how do I get my two toddlers to the grocery store?
What breakfast food does this most resemble: Hummer IV meets PM?
What about poor wireless reception or active radio jamming?
To start it, do you pull it back in your driveway until the spring catches?
All I'm saying is that Microsoft offers the only "choice" on ALL hardware, whether you pay for support or not. This is the monopoly that must be broken.
Anything that can undermine Microsoft's ability to come up with vendor-lockin monopolistic "standards" is a good thing in my book. If a user wants to run a machine that lets her do anything and everything that the hardware is capable, without DRM, without Activation, without upgrade fees, without limiting her to ancient versions, then it should be her prerogative.
Anyone have a Borland Sidekick 1.0 manual? They may have used the word 'windows' to refer to their pop-up panels, especially the scrollable parts for the editors.
The whole Star Wars franchise was always, from day one, supposed to be a pulp "Saturday Matinee" sort of pulp serial.
It has a campy, heavily derivative space opera story line. It's been pieced together with black and white heroes and villains, both of which make the audience boo and giggle at the same time.
To fix one is to break the series. Most die-hard Star Wars fans are fans because they were kids when they saw the originals. Hell, many of you weren't even BORN to watch the original in the theaters in 1977. The series hangs together precisely because it is all schlock, and yet we love the characters anyway.
The Silliwood crap seems to come up every three years, which is about the same cycle that the game and toy industry follows. Everytime it's profitable, Hollywood starts to comes back. Everytime it drops like a stone, Hollywood slinks away quietly. Now, correlation doesn't prove causation, but it's pretty peculiar, don't you think?
I, for one, am tired of seeing that guy's ASCII.
Oh, come on. It builds character. You never know when it might be your * .
The empty set Null.
Canopy Group director Ralph Yarrow.
Tet Offensive at da Nang, Vietnam. Tet, Nang.
Fedora Core 3, Bubonic?
You can sue over anything and everything.
While this is often repeated, it's not completely true. A judge can dismiss your suit with prejudice, and can even charge you with contempt or the crime of barratry, depending on how poorly conceived your suit is. It is therefore a crime to sue over some things.
Next stop for her: Guantanemo Bay...
The government has already proven it will detain people just for what they know, without criminal charge, without provocation, without family access, without legal representation, without regard for international criticism, without regard for international laws and norms, without safeguards for personal safety, without justification or oversight by the courts.
I doubt the G goons will be sweeping up this particular researcher, but what small and subtle distinction really lies between this case and others? What shred of humanity protects her from the inhumanity of the Bush/Rumsfeld/Ashcroft three-ring circus? Oh, she has red hair and freckles? Alrighty then.
I'm sure he would have made a deeper recursion, but the Slashdot lameness filter was able to compress it too efficiently.
Personally, I see this as a mild security benefit. If I delete something, I want it GONE. It's not as good as an idle-time thread that 11-pass nukes unallocated sectors at random, but it'll do for a start.
Um, have you never seen financials or spreadsheets, where negative financial terms are shown in parentheses?
So, RAMBUS gets a government monopoly on a given process (by shady means, or not), and then it's somehow illegal when other companies decide to use other processes instead? Yeah, that makes sense.
Isn't this the whole premise behind the old movie, "Desk Set," where a research librarian's job is endangered by the newfangled Computer?
People keep saying that the JIT-style optimizers in .NET and Java can radically optimize the application "for programmers who can't or won't."
Peephole optimization and clock-scheduling are among the simplest of optimization. The machine looks at a few low-level instructions and might suggest an alternative which would operate identically but with better performance. That's really all that the VM has time or capability to perform today.
Mid-range optimizations include vectorizing, unrolling of loops, and register reduction. These are still machine-analyzable, so I expect the JIT-style optimizers to continue to make strides here.
But I don't think you're ever going to see JIT-style optimizers which replace an O(n^2) algorithm with an O(log n) algorithm. That is real optimization. That's where you win the performance races. That's the one that programmers should care about, and should learn how to do. The level of analysis required to "divine" the whole meaning of a large routine, realize the alternative algorithm equivalent, and fix up the code is far beyond any JIT solution.
I think we will have to wait far longer than the 6 GHz Longhorn machines before you see any meaningful machine optimization of sloppy code.
That would make Microsoft a forty-times-better employer, wouldn't it?
"So sorry. My bad. --con$umer"
Both meanings are well-accepted and dictionary-listed. A moderate position between the two is "avoiding waste." You should buy what you need, but you should make the most of it. If the more expensive option is necessary for the results you want, then get it. If you don't need to buy something at all, then don't.
Buying 2 liters of store-brand cola instead of a pack of 20oz favorite-brand cola isn't frugality if you prefer the favorite brand, it's being a miser. (Remember the Frugal Gourmet?)
Most non-geeky people can't use Debian, period.
Sure, there are a LOT of people who haven't used SCO Unix for seven years. Hell, I haven't used SCO Unix for over thirty years!
The common meta build tools can be a nightmare to learn all at once.
While these are not essential to the beginning developer, having a chapter which covers the background, the problem, the solution and the practice of each of these "meta" tools would be really useful to get new developers going. They don't have to be covered in detail, but really honestly understanding WHY a project might be using a given meta build tool can help more people get involved.