Indeed, cores. And I still don't see any reason, and AMD has 3 core processors. I can have 3G of memory. I can have 9G of memory. Binary numbers are not pervasive by mandate in all areas of computing.
Though I do agree base-10 usage for hard drives is ridiculous.
Exactly. The old "Durr, you just don't know what you're missing, newb!" argument is ridiculous. I was a Linux nerd at school from the early 90's, through my first job where I supported Linux in a large enterprise environment. I've developed a shitload of software on Linux in Java, Perl, C/C++. I still slum and develop some Java code on Linux as part of my job (a client for a Windows/web service based enterprise app).
Sorry, I still prefer Windows. It's better - it does all I want, the software is more polished and readily available, and developing in VS2010 with.NET is far superior to any development experience you can have in Linux for Enterprise software.
So yeah, the question is loaded. I prefer Windows as a desktop (and frankly, server) OS because it's fundamentally better in most regards. Linux's strength is in "run and forget" services and in heavily glueware dependent domains. An example would be engineering. If you need to run 3 Synopsys tools, some Cadence shit, and a bunch of little no-name EDA tools in a large distributed batch system, then take the output and munge it with 3 python scripts and 8 perl scripts Linux is definitely the better choice.
Amen brother. That's what people don't get. Nobody sane wants to implement shit in these low level tools. We need something like Silverlight but which runs in HTML5, some kind of framework.
I know a lot of neckbeards like writing <this... asd=ad asd=asd> and <that...> but I don't. I want nice control with easy to use bindings, a good event model, a language designed after 1995 to develop business logic in, etc...
Exactly. People don't understand Silvelight. Sure, it can be used for media and has been.
Now Silvelight is primarily for LoB (line of business) apps. i.e. enterprise applications.
The reason for this is they don't give much of a shit about pretty apps and they don't care about "locking in" to Silverlight.
If you can, you should develop in Silverlight. The tooling and integration support make HTML5 with Web Assembly Language (aka javascript) look like the pieces of shit they are. Good god, why would you spend 6 hours micromanaging some shitty open source Javascript control when you can just let the framework do it? I'll poke my fucking eye out if I have to develop large applications in HTML5. It's the same shit people did in 1995, and it's lame.
Personally I hope Microsoft does some cool Silverlight->HTML5 mapping shit, so you can develop in Silverlight but have it map to HTML5.
Not really, assuming they're sufficiently good at their job. Furthermore what if they use unarmed aerial drones to follow you from a kilometer in the sky?
If I had mod points... Yeah, Windows doesn't run mainframes. This is like when MS announced Hyper-V would "support" linux.
Don't expect your rational explanation to curtail the "durr, hehe, Big Blue screen of death teehee!" and "Durr, botnet!" childish humor this story will generate.
Insipid rabble rousing. When did most people or institutions prove they were "useful". I live in America, I don't have to be useful to anyone and neither does Wall Street. The government exists to protect my rights, I don't exist to serve society.
Fundamentally you have no right to prevent people from willingly engaging in financial transactions. You don't even have the _moral_ right. So your entire post is bullshit premised on a false assumption.
You are essentially railing against, literally, freedom. In any free economic system a "wall street" will arise.
You are a petty, clueless asshole operating on a total lack of any credible evidence.
But carry on in your angry delusions. When Gates' children make more money through this foundation than they would have without it, let me know. I'll be flying a pig on a freezing day in hell.
You clearly don't understand that if this was the goal it would be pointless - why not just give them $10 billion each? I'll tell you why - because you're fucking stupid.
I love the "Bill Gates gives to charity to save money!" conspiracy assholes. They seem to ignore the fact that he is giving away most of his money. There's no profit angle on his charities.
Care to bet whether any one of Gates' beneficiaries (other than his wife) get more than $1 billion?
Wait, you mean they're doing something to sell their product?!
God damn it, somebody call my Congressman - I won't put up with this shit where a company performs actions meant to increase the sale of their products!
Probably because it's easier to get someone to open a Word document than e.g. an executable, and yes because Word has limited code execution capabilities.
Get a clue. You don't know what a "kernel vulnerability" is, judging by your rhetoric you seem to think only silly OS's like Windows have them and allow user-land processes to exploit them. Not true.
You guys don't know much about computers, do you? You laughably seem to think only privileged processes have access to kernel calls and can exploit bugs in them.
Lol, "Insightful". The market itself sorts this out. If companies don't "really" need people with a college degree, they will run short of employees and need to lower their requirements.
The real problem is _supply_ side inflation. If any idiot can get $100k for school, school will "miraculously" end up costing $100k and any idiot can go.
No.. Sticking with the compiler most likely to be used in the programs you care about is the best option. If that's GCC it's GCC, if it's ICC, it's ICC.
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Nah. That extra bit you lose isn't going to cause anyone any heartburn. And nobody's using 6 bits for anything. It's a specious argument.
Indeed, cores. And I still don't see any reason, and AMD has 3 core processors. I can have 3G of memory. I can have 9G of memory. Binary numbers are not pervasive by mandate in all areas of computing.
Though I do agree base-10 usage for hard drives is ridiculous.
What natural phenomenon would require that the number of course on a chip be a power of 2? I can't think of any.
Exactly. The old "Durr, you just don't know what you're missing, newb!" argument is ridiculous. I was a Linux nerd at school from the early 90's, through my first job where I supported Linux in a large enterprise environment. I've developed a shitload of software on Linux in Java, Perl, C/C++. I still slum and develop some Java code on Linux as part of my job (a client for a Windows/web service based enterprise app).
Sorry, I still prefer Windows. It's better - it does all I want, the software is more polished and readily available, and developing in VS2010 with .NET is far superior to any development experience you can have in Linux for Enterprise software.
So yeah, the question is loaded. I prefer Windows as a desktop (and frankly, server) OS because it's fundamentally better in most regards. Linux's strength is in "run and forget" services and in heavily glueware dependent domains. An example would be engineering. If you need to run 3 Synopsys tools, some Cadence shit, and a bunch of little no-name EDA tools in a large distributed batch system, then take the output and munge it with 3 python scripts and 8 perl scripts Linux is definitely the better choice.
Amen brother. That's what people don't get. Nobody sane wants to implement shit in these low level tools. We need something like Silverlight but which runs in HTML5, some kind of framework.
I know a lot of neckbeards like writing <this... asd=ad asd=asd> and <that...> but I don't. I want nice control with easy to use bindings, a good event model, a language designed after 1995 to develop business logic in, etc...
Exactly. People don't understand Silvelight. Sure, it can be used for media and has been.
Now Silvelight is primarily for LoB (line of business) apps. i.e. enterprise applications.
The reason for this is they don't give much of a shit about pretty apps and they don't care about "locking in" to Silverlight.
If you can, you should develop in Silverlight. The tooling and integration support make HTML5 with Web Assembly Language (aka javascript) look like the pieces of shit they are. Good god, why would you spend 6 hours micromanaging some shitty open source Javascript control when you can just let the framework do it? I'll poke my fucking eye out if I have to develop large applications in HTML5. It's the same shit people did in 1995, and it's lame.
Personally I hope Microsoft does some cool Silverlight->HTML5 mapping shit, so you can develop in Silverlight but have it map to HTML5.
Not really, assuming they're sufficiently good at their job. Furthermore what if they use unarmed aerial drones to follow you from a kilometer in the sky?
The only difference is they're defacing your property. Otherwise yeah, they could just follow you around and there's nothing you can do about it.
If I had mod points... Yeah, Windows doesn't run mainframes. This is like when MS announced Hyper-V would "support" linux.
Don't expect your rational explanation to curtail the "durr, hehe, Big Blue screen of death teehee!" and "Durr, botnet!" childish humor this story will generate.
Insipid rabble rousing. When did most people or institutions prove they were "useful". I live in America, I don't have to be useful to anyone and neither does Wall Street. The government exists to protect my rights, I don't exist to serve society.
Fundamentally you have no right to prevent people from willingly engaging in financial transactions. You don't even have the _moral_ right. So your entire post is bullshit premised on a false assumption.
You are essentially railing against, literally, freedom. In any free economic system a "wall street" will arise.
You are a petty, clueless asshole operating on a total lack of any credible evidence.
But carry on in your angry delusions. When Gates' children make more money through this foundation than they would have without it, let me know. I'll be flying a pig on a freezing day in hell.
You clearly don't understand that if this was the goal it would be pointless - why not just give them $10 billion each? I'll tell you why - because you're fucking stupid.
I love the "Bill Gates gives to charity to save money!" conspiracy assholes. They seem to ignore the fact that he is giving away most of his money. There's no profit angle on his charities.
Care to bet whether any one of Gates' beneficiaries (other than his wife) get more than $1 billion?
Yeah, that makes sense. Fuck starving Somalian babies, the 1%.
Oh, wait... they mean the _top_ 1% when they say that, don't they. That makes a little more sense.
Wait, you mean they're doing something to sell their product?!
God damn it, somebody call my Congressman - I won't put up with this shit where a company performs actions meant to increase the sale of their products!
The RdRand instruction obviates all of this, code name is "Bull Mountain" - check it out.
What next, a story on how it turns out 9/11 wasn't an inside job?
Nobody but paranoid neckbeard kooks thought there was some grand conspiracy to lock Linux off of the PC.
It wasn't. Go take an OS course, please.
Probably because it's easier to get someone to open a Word document than e.g. an executable, and yes because Word has limited code execution capabilities.
Get a clue. You don't know what a "kernel vulnerability" is, judging by your rhetoric you seem to think only silly OS's like Windows have them and allow user-land processes to exploit them. Not true.
You guys don't know much about computers, do you? You laughably seem to think only privileged processes have access to kernel calls and can exploit bugs in them.
lol. Right.
America involved: "Stupid interventionist Americans!"
America not involved: "Stupid selfish Americans, why didn't they get involved before this came to a head?!"
I'm with the rednecks, even though I don't believe in god: Fuck 'em, let god sort 'em out.
1993 called... you know the rest. NTLM.. seriously?
Lol, "Insightful". The market itself sorts this out. If companies don't "really" need people with a college degree, they will run short of employees and need to lower their requirements.
The real problem is _supply_ side inflation. If any idiot can get $100k for school, school will "miraculously" end up costing $100k and any idiot can go.
No.. Sticking with the compiler most likely to be used in the programs you care about is the best option. If that's GCC it's GCC, if it's ICC, it's ICC.
Bullshit. All of those phones are basically the same, with lesser or better hardware being the main differentiation.