No, the ones who allowed the development or purchase of IE-only apps are incompetent and don't deserve more money. They placed the organization in a very poor strategic position.
On reading this, was looking forward to snagging a copy if it is open source, as the current Windows open source text editor I use is not entirely to my liking.
No dice. This company has an interesting variation on open source:
"... To discourage piracy, a tiny but essential core (also containing the licensing code), will be kept private (at least until users reach a certain rating)."
Well, they got some free publicity on Slashdot at any rate.
Anyone recommend a good Windows editor? Not into vi/emacs style editors. Wordpad/Notepad do as a last resort, but are not designed for technical uses.
I use an IDE for code, but frequently need a programmers editor for data files or when using PCs other than my development box.
Textpad is shareware and may not have been bought at some companies. I found its Unicode support problematic in the past. Handles massive data files well though.
Notepad++ is free &open source, but a little rough around the edges in usability. Like many IDEs, it adds code folding to XML documents. When XML files are very large this is a problem due to the number of widgets that get created to support minimizing and maximizing each parent node. Notepad++ managed to crash the video drivers on one PC here, which is almost perversely impressive.
When you install / upgrade Java, you get support for the latest Java runtime in your browser to run those applets. It has been thus since the olden times (the mid-nineties when Java was launched).
From the description, this is just a performance optimization so the runtime is loaded and you don't get a delay when there is an applet in the page.
Whether I am right about what the plugin does or not, installing / upgrading the Java Runtime Edition has always affected your browser.
I am not a German or a German-speaker, but most of in the English speaking world have seen "von" in front of a German surname. It seems similar to the suffix "son" in English/Scandinavian surnames or the prefix "Mac" in Irish/Scottish surnames.
However "von und zu" translates as "from and to". Does this refer to some inbreeding problem in the German aristocracy?:-)
Holy crap. Who brags about KLOCs (thousands of line of code) in 2008?
Are you an 80's IBM programmer timewarped to today?
I will take a guess that your 250 KLOCs would have been 50 KLOCs of more maintanable less redundant and probably more correct code from a better developer.
C++ programmers diving straight in like that make shitty Java programmers. Make at least a reasonable effort to learn Java and it's idioms - has a very different culture around it from C++. Java is (shrewdly) designed to look a little like C++ but that is superficial. C++ -> Java is more like Perl -> Python.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
If we built a Dyson sphere around Bruce Schneier and captured all of his energy for 2 months, without any loss, we could power an ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees K to count up to 2^256. This strongly implies that not only can Bruce Schneier brute-force attack 256-bit keys, but that he is built of something other than matter and occupies something other than space.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
If Sun could do it, they would keep it tightly closed and charge everyone $1,000 per runtime and $10,000 / development license. Of course, for many reasons, they can't charge those rates. But you know they would if they could, which should tell you how altruistic they are with this move.
... ahem... I suppose that is why they gave it away runtimes for free (gratis, not libre) in '95? And included the source (not under GPL though)?
A desktop Mac, between the mini and the pro would have another benefit: Displays become obsolete much more slowly than computers themselves (if at all), so all those iMacs lead to chucking away good LCDs prematurely.
Internally, the drives should be configured as several banks of flash memory with their own read controllers. Then the drive can stripe the data across those banks (like a RAID array) for huge boost in sustained read/write speed.
The cool thing about this is you can have as many banks and controllers as you are willing to pay for, so you can scale up the throughput almost as much as you like.
From the outside, the drive would appear as a normal single drive.
Why Og no subtle? Og be subtle when Og want be subtle.
Og handle Mrs. Og question about weight with much subtle. Mrs. Og no use club on Og, and Og and Mrs. Og have happy that night.
I don't know why people are getting their knickers in a knot over Google, when the main problem lies with the US backbone carriers, who - with only one known exception - have opened their networks to constant and widespread monitoring by US security agencies.
Slashdot Mirror
According to the article, MS have an option to match a hypothetical offer from somebody else for Nvidia.
They may not want to match such an offer should it ever arise.
Yes, in the last five years, Samsung have been the drive of choice for the discerning gentleman. Now? I don't know where to turn.
No, the ones who allowed the development or purchase of IE-only apps are incompetent and don't deserve more money. They placed the organization in a very poor strategic position.
The same way America has turned into a 3rd world country? Oooh, scary.
On reading this, was looking forward to snagging a copy if it is open source, as the current Windows open source text editor I use is not entirely to my liking.
No dice. This company has an interesting variation on open source:
"... To discourage piracy, a tiny but essential core (also containing the licensing code), will be kept private (at least until users reach a certain rating)."
Well, they got some free publicity on Slashdot at any rate.
Anyone recommend a good Windows editor? Not into vi/emacs style editors. Wordpad/Notepad do as a last resort, but are not designed for technical uses.
I use an IDE for code, but frequently need a programmers editor for data files or when using PCs other than my development box.
Textpad is shareware and may not have been bought at some companies. I found its Unicode support problematic in the past. Handles massive data files well though.
Notepad++ is free &open source, but a little rough around the edges in usability. Like many IDEs, it adds code folding to XML documents. When XML files are very large this is a problem due to the number of widgets that get created to support minimizing and maximizing each parent node. Notepad++ managed to crash the video drivers on one PC here, which is almost perversely impressive.
Applets, you have heard of them?
When you install / upgrade Java, you get support for the latest Java runtime in your browser to run those applets. It has been thus since the olden times (the mid-nineties when Java was launched).
From the description, this is just a performance optimization so the runtime is loaded and you don't get a delay when there is an applet in the page.
Whether I am right about what the plugin does or not, installing / upgrading the Java Runtime Edition has always affected your browser.
I am not a German or a German-speaker, but most of in the English speaking world have seen "von" in front of a German surname. It seems similar to the suffix "son" in English/Scandinavian surnames or the prefix "Mac" in Irish/Scottish surnames.
However "von und zu" translates as "from and to". Does this refer to some inbreeding problem in the German aristocracy? :-)
Holy crap. Who brags about KLOCs (thousands of line of code) in 2008?
Are you an 80's IBM programmer timewarped to today?
I will take a guess that your 250 KLOCs would have been 50 KLOCs of more maintanable less redundant and probably more correct code from a better developer.
So ignore this guy.
C++ programmers diving straight in like that make shitty Java programmers. Make at least a reasonable effort to learn Java and it's idioms - has a very different culture around it from C++. Java is (shrewdly) designed to look a little like C++ but that is superficial. C++ -> Java is more like Perl -> Python.
Don't worry, it isn't funny.
(Simpsons parody of the Stonemasons)
... depends on what programming/scripting language you are referring to.
"Spectacular".
Some of you may not be aware of the stature of Bruce Schneier in the field of computer security, so here is some background information:
http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/facts/top
Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
If we built a Dyson sphere around Bruce Schneier and captured all of his energy for 2 months, without any loss, we could power an ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees K to count up to 2^256. This strongly implies that not only can Bruce Schneier brute-force attack 256-bit keys, but that he is built of something other than matter and occupies something other than space.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
If Sun could do it, they would keep it tightly closed and charge everyone $1,000 per runtime and $10,000 / development license. Of course, for many reasons, they can't charge those rates. But you know they would if they could, which should tell you how altruistic they are with this move.
... ahemI knew a Solaris fan would reply :-)
... people recognize the scale and generosity of what Sun have done in GPL'ing their crown jewel.
etc.
IntelliJ: a Java IDE worth paying for in a world that has Eclipse in it. 'Nuff said.
A desktop Mac, between the mini and the pro would have another benefit: Displays become obsolete much more slowly than computers themselves (if at all), so all those iMacs lead to chucking away good LCDs prematurely.
"Until the day after the merger, the execs cache out"
Yes, loading data from main memory is a killer...
Internally, the drives should be configured as several banks of flash memory with their own read controllers. Then the drive can stripe the data across those banks (like a RAID array) for huge boost in sustained read/write speed.
The cool thing about this is you can have as many banks and controllers as you are willing to pay for, so you can scale up the throughput almost as much as you like.
From the outside, the drive would appear as a normal single drive.
I'm guessing Boards.ie? They have a mod power trip problem on lesser issues, so it would not surprise me.
Why Og no subtle? Og be subtle when Og want be subtle. Og handle Mrs. Og question about weight with much subtle. Mrs. Og no use club on Og, and Og and Mrs. Og have happy that night.
Nice try Asus, but I'll stick with my Compaq Portable.
Who dat?