If this wasn't South Park, nobody would care. Yes, hence why it's on Slashdot... us nerds like the show and like to hear stuff about it. It's called entertainment, but if you'd prefer boring, humorless technology reports 24/7 might I recommend this site.
The Simpsons are great, and I hope they go on for many more years... but I wish there was a way to convince Groening & Co. that reviving Futurama will be a success as well! I've become a big fan of it since rediscovering it on Adult Swim, and I know I'm not the only one. I feel Futurama still has a lot of potential material to explore... please Mr. Groening, at least test out one year (if not on Fox then Adult Swim), us fans will not let you down!
My biggest problem, and why I stick with LILO as opposed to using GRUB, is because of the current state of the GRUB development. I'm not exactly sure what's going on with the GRUB project, I have seen their website, and read their information, but I don't understand where they are at in their development, especially with GRUB 2.
I would of tested and compared them in the context of boot environments... but you're right, a confusing web site/documentation definetly translates into "subpar product"... in fact, i'm removing any executable whose man pages I can't comprehend! brb
This is question I have asked my daughter from time to thing about... Are Bird and Fish the same or different?
Enjoy that playful moment while you can, for one day the question will be about the Birds and the Bees, at which point you'll want to quickly say "Game Over" and pretend the lawn needs mowing.
Or does the article never answer it's lead question of why the two releases within a week of each other?
I saw a lot of product pitches but why, of why, why the close releases!? Not that it's that important, in fact I'm sure they were worked on semi-independetly of each other... but now I must know... I smell a cover-up...
I like seeing how Wikis have become more neutral over time
This is going to sound like trolling, but I honestly see the opposite occuring as Wikipedia becomes more popular. As proof, check out the currently (as of Dec 3 2005) disputed articles. The history itself shows a rise in the count.
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The government seems really committed to its legacy information systems. Someone in a position of power finally decides to do something and is penalized for it.
Yes, he's a modern day martyr... and no martyr status is complete without a few personal trips with the family on taxpayer money...
6 out of 10 shows on the list are cable/satellite only and of those, 2 are on pay channels only. Can the big networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC compete anymore? It seems like the talent has moved elsewhere and the big three are caving in under their own weight.
The big networks are competing for higher ratings (i.e higher ad revenue), not talent... and a comparison of recent Nielsen ratings between broadcast and cable tv does not quite paint the "caving in under their own weight" picture you claim.
Of course, I rarely watch broadcast tv and agree with you that the talent is more in cable, where censorship issues are fewer... but the majority of tv watchers aren't as sophisticated as us. (grin)
C#, for all of the claims of performance, is a a JIT based interpretive language.
That is completely wrong.
All.NET languages, C# included, are compiled into CLI assemblies which are then compiled into native code before ever being executed. This native code is cached, so, as long as the CLI assemblies are unmodified, they're only compiled-to-native once on the hosting machine.
Creating an intermediary CLI assembly provide 2 benefits. One benifit is that it's platform-independent and therefore easier for distribution (no need for seperate platform-specific distributions). Java's jar/class files have this benifit too. Secondly, since CLI assemblies are never interpreted, it allows the hosting machine to optimize the compilation-to-native step based on it's own architecture capabilities. Today, modern Java JVMs will also compile-to-native before execution instead of interpreting and I believe they implement some sort of caching mechanism as well, but.NET was designed from the start to always execute code natively.
And what about PostgreSQL? It should fare very well.
Indeed. In fact, tests in the past showed postgres was a better choice over mysql. But don't take my word, compare it yourself with those in the article...
If you knowingly make bogus claims designed to hurt someone else, then you should face the consequences. It's no different from yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater, phoning in a bomb threat, or falsey accusing someone of being a witch (which is silly today but would of gotten you killed centuries ago).
Free speech does not mean you're free to be an idiot if it hurts others.
You're great at regurgitating quotes and links from biased sources, but how about some actual facts? It would be nice, for a change, to hear of some specific examples of how the government has used its powers beyond the reasonable scope of national security. Whenever these topics come up, the chatter is always full of paranoid fantasies or propaganda from those with clear political loyalties. Even the news today had little about specific cases, plus it was reported by a man with a book coming out soon. But I guess if political discussions had to follow the same strict disciplines that science research papers do, they would be boring.
Thank you science, for trying to take the mystery out of art.
That's assuming the study is logically sound. I didn't see them take into account how the Renessaince culture (with its repressive religious cooncerns and high-society rearings) might affect how emotions were facially expressed.
1.5 million would hire about 3 top flight researchers and all the facilities they need to do research. The amount is so small it is almost a joke.
So how many resources would you, oh sultan of all research, throw into experiment with new stuff? Three well equipped and capable researchers sounds about right to start off with. If any good stuff starts coming out it, I'm sure that will increase. Bram Cohen was one man of almost no resources and yet look what he did...
Actually, from a developers standpoint, MacOS is the best choice because you generally know what the OS and hardware will always be. Actually, from a developers standpoint, MacOS is the best choice because you generally know what the OS and hardware will always be.
That's just plain retarded. No computer developer (especially on a multi-million dollar game project) is going to design software around a fixed hardware spec... that's on the same competence level as hardcoding paths. Mac might change video card types and then boom your code needs major re-writes. Good programmers learn early on to always have some layer of abstraction between functional components. This also leads to easier maintenance and better reusability, in the long run. Although one can't get carried away with abstraction, or the project will get too complex, so some basic decisions about OS and minimal hardware support will always be necessary.
The affordability issue never seems to stop the poor around the world from having large families. It's only the professional middle-class that concerns themselves with it, but I believe that's just an excuse. The real truth is that career-driven people have just that as their priority, their careers, and having a family would impeed on that... of course it sounds much better to say "I can't afford a family right now" than "First I'm getting a sports car!".
Does anyone doubt that, when genetic engineering reaches the point where we can graft human vocal chords to chimps and dolphins, some of them will be plainly more intelligent than many humans?
It would take more than just giving them vocal chords. They would also need brain enhancements to not only generate speech and control their vocal chords but also comprehend things more symbolically than they do now. Even the simplest language phrases involve very abstracted concepts.
What sickens me here is far more serious offenses than this go ignored if reported by your average citizen.
You're arguing there for better government enforcement of laws. This article is about a civil lawsuit brought on by a non-government corporation. These are two different things, whose parties are motivated differently.
In the first case, the government doesn't have any real motivation to "try harder" except for what people can pressure politicians to do. In the second case, Paramount is driven by profit and their perceived threat on their source of it. Of course the latter motivation would produce more aggressive persuals into things than the first.
Well, I've been enjoying playing games on my M$ box for years now, so unless I've totally overlooked a whole Linux-gaming world, then that can't be the 1st thing they've done right. Yes, M$ sucks for servers, browsing, anything needing security, etc... but I need a M$ box if I want to enjoy any games at home.
Sorry, but this needs to be ranted about, because I could be done with M$ forever if only the last piece of the puzzle was taken care of... and that's gaming. Why hasn't the open source community developed a strong gaming environment for *nix yet?! With all the awesome OSS software out there, I've often wondered why the gaming area wasn't kicking butt as well.
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This is actually quite far from the truth. While.Net was one of the reasons to push VS7 (and change the name to Visual Studio.Net), VS 2003 is miles ahead of Visual Studio 6 in many other fields, especially the compliance of the C++ compiler to the standard.
So it's quite far from the truth AND one of the reasons? err... ok
Also, VS.NET's C++ was made better compliant with the standard because of the major overhaul in the compiler's design. This new design's main purpose was to support the generation-of and intergration-with manage code from/with C++. Managed code (IL format) is roughly equivalent to a.class file outputted by a Java compiler.
Basically, the main reason behind pushing out VS.NET (i.e. VS 7) was to provide a development platform for the new managed-code world that Microsoft is moving too. Arguing otherwise is idiot since even Microsoft has stated that.
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I don't know the.NET ecosystem, so I don't know if there are any non-ms vendors pushing.NET based technologies.
There's actually several, but Mono is growing the most in popularity and is backed by Novell.
Much of the developer attention to Microsoft technologies would have been there with visual studio 7 even if.NET didn't exist.
Wrong. The whole point being Visual Studio 7 was to support the new.NET technologies. So much so that they dropped the popular pre-.NET Visual Basic in favor of a new.NET version of it.
Most coders these days fall into three buckets: Java developer, Web developer,.NET developer. See?
Wrong again. Most developers are spread all over the place as far as technologies they work with. One learns quickly that they'll be more efficient if the start off with the right tool for a particular job. Certainly most Java developers do, or have done, web development as well. I myself actively develop in both Java, C#, C/C++ (not as much), and PHP for various projects.
but as of today, MS can't expect.NET technologies to dominate the developer market.
Well of course not, captain obvious. The technology is relatively new compared to other established ones... but have you looked at the new crop of programming job offerings lately?.NET jobs have been increasing.
I came across the Arabic Numerals article on Wikipedia a little while ago and it shocked me how many errors there were in the article, all suggesting a strong Hindu Nationalist and Hindu revisionist bias.
Welcome to Wikipedia. Writing a well organized and factual entry takes time, time which very scholars have incentive to spend knowing that their work could get edited/mangled by anyone. It may sound like an ego thing, but it's more part of the discipline that all scholars/researchers follow. A discipline that requires facts to be verifiable and duplicateable, as well as having works thoroughly edited before published.
The bottom line is, with scholars mainly uninterested, the main Wikipedia contributor is usually less than qualified to write correctly about a topic and often does so with colloquial facts rather than researched/quotable ones. Think I'm wrong? Then please stray from the highlighted articles and jump a few random pages.
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If this wasn't South Park, nobody would care.
Yes, hence why it's on Slashdot... us nerds like the show and like to hear stuff about it. It's called entertainment, but if you'd prefer boring, humorless technology reports 24/7 might I recommend this site.
What does Simpsons use?
Because its way better.
The Simpsons are great, and I hope they go on for many more years... but I wish there was a way to convince Groening & Co. that reviving Futurama will be a success as well! I've become a big fan of it since rediscovering it on Adult Swim, and I know I'm not the only one. I feel Futurama still has a lot of potential material to explore... please Mr. Groening, at least test out one year (if not on Fox then Adult Swim), us fans will not let you down!
My biggest problem, and why I stick with LILO as opposed to using GRUB, is because of the current state of the GRUB development. I'm not exactly sure what's going on with the GRUB project, I have seen their website, and read their information, but I don't understand where they are at in their development, especially with GRUB 2.
I would of tested and compared them in the context of boot environments... but you're right, a confusing web site/documentation definetly translates into "subpar product"... in fact, i'm removing any executable whose man pages I can't comprehend! brb
This is question I have asked my daughter from time to thing about... Are Bird and Fish the same or different?
Enjoy that playful moment while you can, for one day the question will be about the Birds and the Bees, at which point you'll want to quickly say "Game Over" and pretend the lawn needs mowing.
Or does the article never answer it's lead question of why the two releases within a week of each other?
I saw a lot of product pitches but why, of why, why the close releases!? Not that it's that important, in fact I'm sure they were worked on semi-independetly of each other... but now I must know... I smell a cover-up...
I like seeing how Wikis have become more neutral over time
This is going to sound like trolling, but I honestly see the opposite occuring as Wikipedia becomes more popular. As proof, check out the currently (as of Dec 3 2005) disputed articles. The history itself shows a rise in the count.
The government seems really committed to its legacy information systems. Someone in a position of power finally decides to do something and is penalized for it.
Yes, he's a modern day martyr... and no martyr status is complete without a few personal trips with the family on taxpayer money...
6 out of 10 shows on the list are cable/satellite only and of those, 2 are on pay channels only. Can the big networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC compete anymore? It seems like the talent has moved elsewhere and the big three are caving in under their own weight.
The big networks are competing for higher ratings (i.e higher ad revenue), not talent... and a comparison of recent Nielsen ratings between broadcast and cable tv does not quite paint the "caving in under their own weight" picture you claim.
Of course, I rarely watch broadcast tv and agree with you that the talent is more in cable, where censorship issues are fewer... but the majority of tv watchers aren't as sophisticated as us. (grin)
C#, for all of the claims of performance, is a a JIT based interpretive language.
.NET languages, C# included, are compiled into CLI assemblies which are then compiled into native code before ever being executed. This native code is cached, so, as long as the CLI assemblies are unmodified, they're only compiled-to-native once on the hosting machine.
.NET was designed from the start to always execute code natively.
That is completely wrong.
All
Creating an intermediary CLI assembly provide 2 benefits. One benifit is that it's platform-independent and therefore easier for distribution (no need for seperate platform-specific distributions). Java's jar/class files have this benifit too. Secondly, since CLI assemblies are never interpreted, it allows the hosting machine to optimize the compilation-to-native step based on it's own architecture capabilities. Today, modern Java JVMs will also compile-to-native before execution instead of interpreting and I believe they implement some sort of caching mechanism as well, but
And what about PostgreSQL? It should fare very well.
Indeed. In fact, tests in the past showed postgres was a better choice over mysql. But don't take my word, compare it yourself with those in the article...
http://www.postgresql.org/
Wikipedia's stregnths lie in the fact that it's editable by everyone.
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Wikipedia's strengths lie in the fact that it's editable by ninjas.
Free speech my ass.
If you knowingly make bogus claims designed to hurt someone else, then you should face the consequences. It's no different from yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater, phoning in a bomb threat, or falsey accusing someone of being a witch (which is silly today but would of gotten you killed centuries ago).
Free speech does not mean you're free to be an idiot if it hurts others.
You're great at regurgitating quotes and links from biased sources, but how about some actual facts? It would be nice, for a change, to hear of some specific examples of how the government has used its powers beyond the reasonable scope of national security. Whenever these topics come up, the chatter is always full of paranoid fantasies or propaganda from those with clear political loyalties. Even the news today had little about specific cases, plus it was reported by a man with a book coming out soon. But I guess if political discussions had to follow the same strict disciplines that science research papers do, they would be boring.
Thank you science, for trying to take the mystery out of art.
That's assuming the study is logically sound. I didn't see them take into account how the Renessaince culture (with its repressive religious cooncerns and high-society rearings) might affect how emotions were facially expressed.
Imagine items on grocer's shelves that flash commercials at you as you walk by
And imagine me walking to the nearest competitor that will not annoy me with real life pop-up adds.
1.5 million would hire about 3 top flight researchers and all the facilities they need to do research. The amount is so small it is almost a joke.
So how many resources would you, oh sultan of all research, throw into experiment with new stuff? Three well equipped and capable researchers sounds about right to start off with. If any good stuff starts coming out it, I'm sure that will increase. Bram Cohen was one man of almost no resources and yet look what he did...
So Novell wants to reinforce their commitment to the Java community while at the same time funding Mono, a project porting .NET to Linux/etc...
interesting... very interesting... (strokes soul patch)
Actually, from a developers standpoint, MacOS is the best choice because you generally know what the OS and hardware will always be.
Actually, from a developers standpoint, MacOS is the best choice because you generally know what the OS and hardware will always be.
That's just plain retarded. No computer developer (especially on a multi-million dollar game project) is going to design software around a fixed hardware spec... that's on the same competence level as hardcoding paths. Mac might change video card types and then boom your code needs major re-writes. Good programmers learn early on to always have some layer of abstraction between functional components. This also leads to easier maintenance and better reusability, in the long run. Although one can't get carried away with abstraction, or the project will get too complex, so some basic decisions about OS and minimal hardware support will always be necessary.
The affordability issue never seems to stop the poor around the world from having large families. It's only the professional middle-class that concerns themselves with it, but I believe that's just an excuse. The real truth is that career-driven people have just that as their priority, their careers, and having a family would impeed on that... of course it sounds much better to say "I can't afford a family right now" than "First I'm getting a sports car!".
Does anyone doubt that, when genetic engineering reaches the point where we can graft human vocal chords to chimps and dolphins, some of them will be plainly more intelligent than many humans?
It would take more than just giving them vocal chords. They would also need brain enhancements to not only generate speech and control their vocal chords but also comprehend things more symbolically than they do now. Even the simplest language phrases involve very abstracted concepts.
What sickens me here is far more serious offenses than this go ignored if reported by your average citizen.
You're arguing there for better government enforcement of laws. This article is about a civil lawsuit brought on by a non-government corporation. These are two different things, whose parties are motivated differently.
In the first case, the government doesn't have any real motivation to "try harder" except for what people can pressure politicians to do. In the second case, Paramount is driven by profit and their perceived threat on their source of it. Of course the latter motivation would produce more aggressive persuals into things than the first.
Funny, M$ is doing something _right_ for once.
Well, I've been enjoying playing games on my M$ box for years now, so unless I've totally overlooked a whole Linux-gaming world, then that can't be the 1st thing they've done right. Yes, M$ sucks for servers, browsing, anything needing security, etc... but I need a M$ box if I want to enjoy any games at home.
Sorry, but this needs to be ranted about, because I could be done with M$ forever if only the last piece of the puzzle was taken care of... and that's gaming. Why hasn't the open source community developed a strong gaming environment for *nix yet?! With all the awesome OSS software out there, I've often wondered why the gaming area wasn't kicking butt as well.
This is actually quite far from the truth. While .Net was one of the reasons to push VS7 (and change the name to Visual Studio .Net), VS 2003 is miles ahead of Visual Studio 6 in many other fields, especially the compliance of the C++ compiler to the standard.
.class file outputted by a Java compiler.
So it's quite far from the truth AND one of the reasons? err... ok
Also, VS.NET's C++ was made better compliant with the standard because of the major overhaul in the compiler's design. This new design's main purpose was to support the generation-of and intergration-with manage code from/with C++. Managed code (IL format) is roughly equivalent to a
Basically, the main reason behind pushing out VS.NET (i.e. VS 7) was to provide a development platform for the new managed-code world that Microsoft is moving too. Arguing otherwise is idiot since even Microsoft has stated that.
I don't know the .NET ecosystem, so I don't know if there are any non-ms vendors pushing .NET based technologies.
.NET didn't exist.
.NET technologies. So much so that they dropped the popular pre-.NET Visual Basic in favor of a new .NET version of it.
.NET developer. See?
.NET technologies to dominate the developer market.
.NET jobs have been increasing.
There's actually several, but Mono is growing the most in popularity and is backed by Novell.
Much of the developer attention to Microsoft technologies would have been there with visual studio 7 even if
Wrong. The whole point being Visual Studio 7 was to support the new
Most coders these days fall into three buckets: Java developer, Web developer,
Wrong again. Most developers are spread all over the place as far as technologies they work with. One learns quickly that they'll be more efficient if the start off with the right tool for a particular job. Certainly most Java developers do, or have done, web development as well. I myself actively develop in both Java, C#, C/C++ (not as much), and PHP for various projects.
but as of today, MS can't expect
Well of course not, captain obvious. The technology is relatively new compared to other established ones... but have you looked at the new crop of programming job offerings lately?
I came across the Arabic Numerals article on Wikipedia a little while ago and it shocked me how many errors there were in the article, all suggesting a strong Hindu Nationalist and Hindu revisionist bias.
Welcome to Wikipedia. Writing a well organized and factual entry takes time, time which very scholars have incentive to spend knowing that their work could get edited/mangled by anyone. It may sound like an ego thing, but it's more part of the discipline that all scholars/researchers follow. A discipline that requires facts to be verifiable and duplicateable, as well as having works thoroughly edited before published.
The bottom line is, with scholars mainly uninterested, the main Wikipedia contributor is usually less than qualified to write correctly about a topic and often does so with colloquial facts rather than researched/quotable ones. Think I'm wrong? Then please stray from the highlighted articles and jump a few random pages.