So you're saying that an interview with only 4 questions isn't an interview? Exactly how many questions must it have, then? Is 5 enough? 6?
I'm grateful when anybody in the media asks challenging questions. It's not like the media was harassing somebody that doesn't have anything to do with the security of their software, for pete's sake.
A quick obvious example would be having four instances (developement, staging, qa, production) of a very hungry application server running at the same time (weblogic, jboss, etc) each with a 4GB heap, none of them should ever be paged-out at any given time on hardware that had 16GB of real memory. You could generalize this, of course, to any n hungry applications (apps that edit digital video come to mind, as do relational databases). It's actually very rare, in practice, for someone to want to devote all of real memory to a single application, in my experience, so this first step into the 64 bit world was a wise move on Apple's part.
That explains how, after we inaugurate a president they work for one day, and then ski, golf, and go horseback riding till the next year. Maybe we should "initiate" presidents instead.
Users of plain-text editors know that Microsoft has never been able to get Word to generate a simple ASCII file without issues. First, there is no option to create a plain ASCII file. Instead, we can create a variety of so-called "plain text" files, none of which seem to be plain text.
Well...DUH. ASCII isn't an obfuscated file format. Where would be the leverage in letting people easily create plain text files? You've got to erect barriers-to-exit, genius.
You'd think that Dvorak wouldn't be naive after so many years an an "industry pundit".
Addendum: In the world that actually exists, however, the funniest thing about this thread is somebody feeling like they need to stick up for the poor, little, picked-on behemoth. That is quite amusing indeed.
Let's talk about typos in OSS! I put gentoo on a firewall and now it tells me when it's "stoping openvpn". Get it! "stoping"! What's that? I know what stopping is! HAHAHHAA someone made a typo.
I can't speak for everybody, but for me I'd find this very amusing if and only if we were in some alternate reality where open source had some oppressive control, where you have to fill out some timesheet application on the corporate intranet that was pointlessly hidden behind some quirky authentication mechanism that only the open-source world was privy to, and where the tacit assumption for sharing documents was some format that commercial software hadn't yet reverse-engineered from a dominant open-source word processor, plus a myriad other situations of that nature.
Yes, in that world it would be pretty funny...because then the open-source world would be the oppressors rather than the liberating force. Call me strange, but I don't get much joy in laughing at the forces of good in the world, whereas I love it when the primary cause of misery in my field of expertise gets its just desserts.
As much as I loathe spelling-nazis, the word is "marionettes". It's also worth noting that the following entries for "puppet" disagree with your classification: puppet, puppet.
Both of those resources take contributions, so if you can cite a more definitive source you can get them corrected.
But in the trailer, there's a long list of names, (presented as though they are actors) followed by "...are all going to be really, really mad when they see..." George W. Bush is one of those names. While it's possible that Bush will not be directly caricatured, the movie must contain something that would make him really, really mad...or it would violate all of those laws against false advertising that...oh, wait. Nevermind.
Hmmm...I recognize you from the old comp.sys.next.* usenet hierarchy. Didn't you disappear after the acquisition to go work on creating Quartz? If so, it must be fun to be a few steps ahead of Gosling.
Oh, and thank you for the working implementation that I'm using right now.
You are probably right that this will offend powerful lobbyists, however your claim that Open Source, a priori, generates fewer jobs is dubious. Probably the strongest claim that you can make is that it doesn't directly suck the cock of established interests. Vendors that are willing and able to play the open source game will still be able to get contracts for contributing to open source efforts. The thing that will piss them off is that this lowers the barrier to entry so that small vendors can compete for the work.
The point was that most of Dotnet isn't standardized (~10% of classes and declining), but there is a group of/. posters who continue to insert this claim into all Mono threads although they know better.
I think Microsoft is setting an excellent example that happy customers (and fans) of Microsoft should imitate: learn everything that you can about Linux. Install it on your PC. Intentionally break your configuration just to practice fixing it. Install new hardware and figure out how to get it working no matter how much it seems like torture. Find free equivalents to software that you would normally run under Windows, and live with them for a while even if it means sacrificing features or quality. Absorb as much of this knowledge as you can, and share it with your other Microsoft-loving buddies.
And once you all are as conversant in Linux as are those people who are choosing it over Windows, you'll be able to more effectively lobby against it...beacuse you'll be armed with knowledge.
Never mind that you'll be helping the Linux culture to spread. Hey, look over there...it's an angel, and she's giving away free bacon!
Not at all, it's the story of a plucky DOS hacker that was so small and flacid that his friends burdened him with nickname Micro Soft. With the help of some viagra spam and three girls in tartan pleat skirts, he overcomes the riddicule and gains a new nickname The Behemoth.
...(and what a line of code is for that matter)...
I can only take this to mean that you must be assuming that there is some code-generation going on underneath the drag-and-drop mechanism that connects components together in InterfaceBuilder. That's an understandable mistake since so many other similar tools chose that implementation. (Most of them had to because C++ was too static to support the more elegant strategy.) When you're using InterfaceBuilder, however, you're actually working with live instantiations and manipulating the live values of their instance variables (in this case, references to other objects on the heap). The graph of objects then gets serialized when you save your project. Running your application, of course, causes this pickled interface to be unmarshalled back into memory. Yes, there are many lines of code behind this mechanism too, but they're lines of code that I didn't have to write, which I think is what most people mean when they say they can do something in N lines of code, isn't it?
You must have not seen the demo at the keynote. While it may be true that it also happens to sit architecturally underneath video services, it is a very general-purpose framework and certainly could be used to make something like GIMP or Photoshop. That is, in fact, the first thing that they demonstrated before they moved on to how it is used in the video services. Steve Jobs specifically mentioned in the keynote that he would like to see Adobe use this new framework in Photoshop, which struck many as a veiled threat that if they do not then two guys in a garage somewhere will eat their lunch.
35-40 lines of code is cool, but zero lines of code is cooler. And soon you'll be able to pull a similar trick to build something like GIMP.
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Seems like an odd word to use to describe free software. Try not to lip-sync to the jargon, dude.
Oh, please...you think all musicians conform without deviation to some ISO-6969 protocol for musical jargon? I've heard the word "cold" used many times in the context of sight-reading. Get over yourself; you'll make better music.
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So you're saying that an interview with only 4 questions isn't an interview? Exactly how many questions must it have, then? Is 5 enough? 6? I'm grateful when anybody in the media asks challenging questions. It's not like the media was harassing somebody that doesn't have anything to do with the security of their software, for pete's sake.
A quick obvious example would be having four instances (developement, staging, qa, production) of a very hungry application server running at the same time (weblogic, jboss, etc) each with a 4GB heap, none of them should ever be paged-out at any given time on hardware that had 16GB of real memory. You could generalize this, of course, to any n hungry applications (apps that edit digital video come to mind, as do relational databases). It's actually very rare, in practice, for someone to want to devote all of real memory to a single application, in my experience, so this first step into the 64 bit world was a wise move on Apple's part.
That explains how, after we inaugurate a president they work for one day, and then ski, golf, and go horseback riding till the next year. Maybe we should "initiate" presidents instead.
This thread started at 80 copious-buttload-pounds of funny, but now it's down to a few femto-buttload-pounds.
Well...DUH. ASCII isn't an obfuscated file format. Where would be the leverage in letting people easily create plain text files? You've got to erect barriers-to-exit, genius.
You'd think that Dvorak wouldn't be naive after so many years an an "industry pundit".
Addendum: In the world that actually exists, however, the funniest thing about this thread is somebody feeling like they need to stick up for the poor, little, picked-on behemoth. That is quite amusing indeed.
I can't speak for everybody, but for me I'd find this very amusing if and only if we were in some alternate reality where open source had some oppressive control, where you have to fill out some timesheet application on the corporate intranet that was pointlessly hidden behind some quirky authentication mechanism that only the open-source world was privy to, and where the tacit assumption for sharing documents was some format that commercial software hadn't yet reverse-engineered from a dominant open-source word processor, plus a myriad other situations of that nature.
Yes, in that world it would be pretty funny...because then the open-source world would be the oppressors rather than the liberating force. Call me strange, but I don't get much joy in laughing at the forces of good in the world, whereas I love it when the primary cause of misery in my field of expertise gets its just desserts.
Both of those resources take contributions, so if you can cite a more definitive source you can get them corrected.
But in the trailer, there's a long list of names, (presented as though they are actors) followed by "...are all going to be really, really mad when they see..." George W. Bush is one of those names. While it's possible that Bush will not be directly caricatured, the movie must contain something that would make him really, really mad...or it would violate all of those laws against false advertising that...oh, wait. Nevermind.
Hmmm...I recognize you from the old comp.sys.next.* usenet hierarchy. Didn't you disappear after the acquisition to go work on creating Quartz? If so, it must be fun to be a few steps ahead of Gosling. Oh, and thank you for the working implementation that I'm using right now.
You are probably right that this will offend powerful lobbyists, however your claim that Open Source, a priori, generates fewer jobs is dubious. Probably the strongest claim that you can make is that it doesn't directly suck the cock of established interests. Vendors that are willing and able to play the open source game will still be able to get contracts for contributing to open source efforts. The thing that will piss them off is that this lowers the barrier to entry so that small vendors can compete for the work.
Astroturfers, all of them.
If SCO or Microsoft (you _know_ they have shills here too) wants to pay me $$$$ to push their agenda, I'll consider the offer.
I think Microsoft is setting an excellent example that happy customers (and fans) of Microsoft should imitate: learn everything that you can about Linux. Install it on your PC. Intentionally break your configuration just to practice fixing it. Install new hardware and figure out how to get it working no matter how much it seems like torture. Find free equivalents to software that you would normally run under Windows, and live with them for a while even if it means sacrificing features or quality. Absorb as much of this knowledge as you can, and share it with your other Microsoft-loving buddies. And once you all are as conversant in Linux as are those people who are choosing it over Windows, you'll be able to more effectively lobby against it...beacuse you'll be armed with knowledge. Never mind that you'll be helping the Linux culture to spread. Hey, look over there...it's an angel, and she's giving away free bacon!
Yes, it seems like they are working to make grammar obviate.
Oh, wait,...GAY porn. Make that three VMS kernel hackers in chaps.
Not at all, it's the story of a plucky DOS hacker that was so small and flacid that his friends burdened him with nickname Micro Soft. With the help of some viagra spam and three girls in tartan pleat skirts, he overcomes the riddicule and gains a new nickname The Behemoth.
I can only take this to mean that you must be assuming that there is some code-generation going on underneath the drag-and-drop mechanism that connects components together in InterfaceBuilder. That's an understandable mistake since so many other similar tools chose that implementation. (Most of them had to because C++ was too static to support the more elegant strategy.) When you're using InterfaceBuilder, however, you're actually working with live instantiations and manipulating the live values of their instance variables (in this case, references to other objects on the heap). The graph of objects then gets serialized when you save your project. Running your application, of course, causes this pickled interface to be unmarshalled back into memory. Yes, there are many lines of code behind this mechanism too, but they're lines of code that I didn't have to write, which I think is what most people mean when they say they can do something in N lines of code, isn't it?
You must have not seen the demo at the keynote. While it may be true that it also happens to sit architecturally underneath video services, it is a very general-purpose framework and certainly could be used to make something like GIMP or Photoshop. That is, in fact, the first thing that they demonstrated before they moved on to how it is used in the video services. Steve Jobs specifically mentioned in the keynote that he would like to see Adobe use this new framework in Photoshop, which struck many as a veiled threat that if they do not then two guys in a garage somewhere will eat their lunch.
35-40 lines of code is cool, but zero lines of code is cooler. And soon you'll be able to pull a similar trick to build something like GIMP.
Seems like an odd word to use to describe free software. Try not to lip-sync to the jargon, dude.
Oh, please...you think all musicians conform without deviation to some ISO-6969 protocol for musical jargon? I've heard the word "cold" used many times in the context of sight-reading. Get over yourself; you'll make better music.
Here is a Wikipedia entry about Binaural Recording for anyone who is interested.