Yeah, all these lame BSOD jokes really show how few of the slashdot readers actually base their comments on any modern Microsoft OS. If they did, they would know that the default system crash behaviour for the last three years has been automatical reboot.
What kind of crashes does this Dr. Watson program meassure? Application crashes, OS crashes or both? And are all crashes logged or do some types (like out of resource errors or kernel panics) go by unnoticed.
Most modern mod-chips come with the option of switching to the original BIOS instead. Microsoft can still check you HDD for strange-looking software, and out of spec HDDs, but the bios mod should be fine.
I don't think there is anything special about Sweden, it's just that severalcompanies got the idea that they should market Ethernet to the home, and it turns out it's not that much more expensive than DSL or cable. I'm surprised that no corporations in other countries have attempted to do the same.
Right on. Has anybody here ever had Minesweeper crash on them? I tell you, that program is ROCK SOLID. And I should know, I've put it through some serious enterprise lever stress testing.
Just goes to show the closed source programs can be just as stable as open source equivalents.
I agree that Joel is not "anybody particularly special", but I would at least give some more weight to his opinions than the average big mouth (you). He has written a pretty big library of interesting articles on software development, published a collection of them in book form, and gotten linked numerous times from Slashdot. Seems his words should hold at least some weight.
Don't know about how things are done in the US, but here in sweden we like to bring the water to a boil when making coffee. How much hotter than that was the McD coffee?
Sounds like you've never heard of Google. Google is a so called search engine, it lets you search millions and millions of websites, looking for pages matching criterions specified by you. If you find it useful, please tell your friends about it, and maybe these search engines will catch on.
Find the local telephone companys and cable companys websites for a start. The find local computer magazines, they ought to have reviews of the local ISPs.
Apple had an ugly but functional interface and replaced it with a prettier but less functional interface.
Microsoft had an ugly and usless inteface and replaced it with a prettier version of the same interface.
So Apple made the actual user experience worse while making everything pretty, while Microsoft just keeps giving the same GUI i new face every other year.
Nah. Weeds are weeds because they're hard to kill. If you dig up weed, some of the roots will survive, and it will just come back again, whereas flowers are fragile from inbreeding and mutations, and will just die if you dig them up.
Is it too much to ask for you to read the link? They've known the reason for the bug for well over a year. The problem only arises when pasting from GTK-based apps. Basically, because their GTK-clipboard implementation sucks they would have to rewrite it to squash the bug.
The far east, as well as western europe, use electric trains. The infrastructure for electric trains is rather expensive, but once it's there, electric trains are cheaper and faster.
I thought this lawsuit was about mod-chips for running pirated software. But the gamecube uses those funky ~3 inch discs, so all GC mod-chips do is let you run legit games from another region. What am I missing?
This begs the question how many C compilers actually take advantage of this feature. I don't know of any high performance fully compilant C99 compilers that are actually shipping. Support for C89 is getting there, albeit slowly.
What I meant was that f77 was designed to be used with punchcards, which made for some bad syntax when editing using a terminal. Should have been more precise there.
You're probably right about variable declarations not having their own column in f77, it's been a while.
If you check my original comment, you'll see that I never said the common block is not a global variable. It's just that the syntax is awfull. Horrible. Evil. Like implicit variable declarations. Like the infamous "IF I=1.10" syntax.
Fortran90 and C play nice nowadays when it comes to cross language library usage. At least in my experience, which is limited to the standard compilers under IBM SP2, IRIX and Solaris.
Fortran is NOT the same language as in prior decades. Some differences:
Fortran77 and earlier where made for punchcard machines. Incorrect indentation caued lines to be treated as comments, variable declarations or something other than what was intended.
For the same reason, anything past character 73 was a comment in Fortran77.
Fortran allows dynamic memory allocation nowdays.
Global variables don't use the hideous common block
The list goes on and on, but these are changes that where implemented in Fortran90. Since then, attepts have been made to turn Fortran into an OO language. Aid i18n and other things to make Fortran less of a CS language.
The reason you might want to try out Fortran is because of speed. Under gcc/Linux C may be the fastest language, but under Solaris, Irix, AIX and other oldschool OSes, Fortran is still speed king, for two reasons.
Firstly, the Fortran compilers are well tuned mature products under these platforms.
Secondly, the Fortran language makes all kinds of assumptions that the programmer must adhere to. Example: If a function recives two arrays, they must not overlap. This allows Fortran compilers to do loop unrolling in cases where a C-compiler cannot.
> Some might cite Naboo, but that was not a war but an occupation.
So you're saying that the federation did not start the war, they just invaded Naboo. It was the residents of Naboo that started the war by defending themselves. You seem like a smart person.
Someone points out you are wrong and provides a link to prove it.
You dont read the link. You complain again that id3 sucks.
So here we are. Id3v2 allows you to define your own fields, including year of composition, name of the piece that the track belongs to, and what your mother bad for breakfast. Applications can choose which fields they show, and which fields they let you define. So now I will let you complain that id3 sucks because your mp3-application doesn't allow you to specify the year of composition or your mothers breakfast habits.
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Yeah, all these lame BSOD jokes really show how few of the slashdot readers actually base their comments on any modern Microsoft OS. If they did, they would know that the default system crash behaviour for the last three years has been automatical reboot.
What kind of crashes does this Dr. Watson program meassure? Application crashes, OS crashes or both? And are all crashes logged or do some types (like out of resource errors or kernel panics) go by unnoticed.
Most modern mod-chips come with the option of switching to the original BIOS instead. Microsoft can still check you HDD for strange-looking software, and out of spec HDDs, but the bios mod should be fine.
I don't think there is anything special about Sweden, it's just that several companies got the idea that they should market Ethernet to the home, and it turns out it's not that much more expensive than DSL or cable. I'm surprised that no corporations in other countries have attempted to do the same.
No he's not. He is taking himself too seriously.
Right on. Has anybody here ever had Minesweeper crash on them? I tell you, that program is ROCK SOLID. And I should know, I've put it through some serious enterprise lever stress testing.
Just goes to show the closed source programs can be just as stable as open source equivalents.
I agree that Joel is not "anybody particularly special", but I would at least give some more weight to his opinions than the average big mouth (you). He has written a pretty big library of interesting articles on software development, published a collection of them in book form, and gotten linked numerous times from Slashdot. Seems his words should hold at least some weight.
Don't know about how things are done in the US, but here in sweden we like to bring the water to a boil when making coffee. How much hotter than that was the McD coffee?
Sounds like you've never heard of Google. Google is a so called search engine, it lets you search millions and millions of websites, looking for pages matching criterions specified by you. If you find it useful, please tell your friends about it, and maybe these search engines will catch on.
Find the local telephone companys and cable companys websites for a start. The find local computer magazines, they ought to have reviews of the local ISPs.
Simple.
Apple had an ugly but functional interface and replaced it with a prettier but less functional interface.
Microsoft had an ugly and usless inteface and replaced it with a prettier version of the same interface.
So Apple made the actual user experience worse while making everything pretty, while Microsoft just keeps giving the same GUI i new face every other year.
Nah. Weeds are weeds because they're hard to kill. If you dig up weed, some of the roots will survive, and it will just come back again, whereas flowers are fragile from inbreeding and mutations, and will just die if you dig them up.
Is it too much to ask for you to read the link? They've known the reason for the bug for well over a year. The problem only arises when pasting from GTK-based apps. Basically, because their GTK-clipboard implementation sucks they would have to rewrite it to squash the bug.
And since when is reverse engineering illegal, if I may ask?
The far east, as well as western europe, use electric trains. The infrastructure for electric trains is rather expensive, but once it's there, electric trains are cheaper and faster.
How is using a reverse engineered BIOS on the X-Box different than using a reverse engineered BIOS on a PC?
Is this the same Greg Ballard who used to be the CEO of 3dfx?
If so, isn't it the consensus that bad management drove 3dfx to the ground?
This begs the question how many C compilers actually take advantage of this feature. I don't know of any high performance fully compilant C99 compilers that are actually shipping. Support for C89 is getting there, albeit slowly.
What I meant was that f77 was designed to be used with punchcards, which made for some bad syntax when editing using a terminal. Should have been more precise there.
You're probably right about variable declarations not having their own column in f77, it's been a while.
If you check my original comment, you'll see that I never said the common block is not a global variable. It's just that the syntax is awfull. Horrible. Evil. Like implicit variable declarations. Like the infamous "IF I=1.10" syntax.
Fortran90 and C play nice nowadays when it comes to cross language library usage. At least in my experience, which is limited to the standard compilers under IBM SP2, IRIX and Solaris.
The list goes on and on, but these are changes that where implemented in Fortran90. Since then, attepts have been made to turn Fortran into an OO language. Aid i18n and other things to make Fortran less of a CS language.
The reason you might want to try out Fortran is because of speed. Under gcc/Linux C may be the fastest language, but under Solaris, Irix, AIX and other oldschool OSes, Fortran is still speed king, for two reasons.
Firstly, the Fortran compilers are well tuned mature products under these platforms.
Secondly, the Fortran language makes all kinds of assumptions that the programmer must adhere to. Example: If a function recives two arrays, they must not overlap. This allows Fortran compilers to do loop unrolling in cases where a C-compiler cannot.
You said Solaris twice. And there was a comma between Linux and and.
Shame on you.
IRIX == Operating system
KDE == Desktop environment
Comparing the two is like comparing grapfruits to Volfram. One has a juicy pulp interior and the other has a truly remarkable melting point.
It should be noted that KDE runs under IRIX.
> Some might cite Naboo, but that was not a war but an occupation.
So you're saying that the federation did not start the war, they just invaded Naboo. It was the residents of Naboo that started the war by defending themselves. You seem like a smart person.
So here we are. Id3v2 allows you to define your own fields, including year of composition, name of the piece that the track belongs to, and what your mother bad for breakfast. Applications can choose which fields they show, and which fields they let you define. So now I will let you complain that id3 sucks because your mp3-application doesn't allow you to specify the year of composition or your mothers breakfast habits.