We've been using java quite deeply on a project. We never tested it on any other platform than Ubuntu linux and Windows XP, and I can tell you never had any problem with our application. We just took seriously the notes in the documentation speaking about usage of the classes and cross-platform programming concerns.
Java is not perfect but has its advantages.
The worst lie is that "if someone made it, everyone can make it" -- pleeease. It's the lie of capitalism. Only one person can be the president or the leader of a software team. Would you tell it the guy who you are leading?
I think the original poster will have a very difficult time, if not impossible time, getting into the field in anything other than the lowest, least skilled position (with commensurate pay). Just knowing C++ is not enough to break into the field in a few months.
I think in general the post is true. If you cannot have the luxury to work all day on something relevant about the field, you cannot be prepared for a real job in months or a year.
Try to get a management like or consultant job that focuses on specs and like not coding, and try to do something to get better in the field in the meantime using your workplace and the mates you're working with.
In general i like AMD better, but these comparisons are usually wrong! If you upgrade your engine in your car and get +20% horsepower, are your car really 20% better?
Please notice that your computer is not just a processor, so when measuring performance of the processor/dollar then please use the performance/whole-machine formula instead.
However if you use your machine for io-intensive tasks, the question is bad for you. Anyways this way of calculating is simply not correct. If you are a quantum-mech scientist maybe... even my eclipse building my java code eats the hdd not cpu.
I think he's right in the first half. Let be data integrity and retention the default. Pleeease! I know i should RTFM but please raise hands who read an ext3 manual before installed. please don't just trash the work/life of other people and then laugh 'rtfm'
actually i had an abit nf-7 mobo some times ago and my friend had too. he trashed his bios and i restored it by booting his machine with my bios eeprom installed then switched the eeprom in the running machine to the bad and uploaded the bios successfully.
I think wind and solar NOW is not making money. It is too expensive and others are developing it. When it becomes cheaper, the biggest companies start to mass-produce it and kill the smalls that developed them. Not fair. Maybe i could say who cares. People get the tech and clean energy some day. That's what Shell wants.
The surface of Earth is hardly enough to give people food they want. Why would anyone think it's enough to drive the much more hungry cars and super-computers?:)
Anyway some regulation wave of 5% of fuel should be bio-ethanol drove the food prices to the skies just 1-2 years ago.
I think that accident didn't happen because of the infancy of the technology but because of chains human mistakes operating the facility including turning off the protection mechanism etc.
I think it strengthens and weakens your point at the same time. The technology is already foolproof and we are dumb not to use it. The humans operating the technology are idiots or some of them are idiots. The more plants you have the more chance you'll get some idiot melting it down.
Maybe some regulations can decrease this probability by orders of magnitude though.
There are test reactors that produce the same amount of energy that it eats for controlling the plasma. See the ITER project for example (i hope it gets built, some usual childish problems around the place and etc hinders the project somewhat) http://www.iter.org/a/index_nav_1.htm
Who cares they don't. I don't think that we can completely kill our planet with waste and other craps. The oil and natural gas is so rare, it's simply not enough the provide all the energy to finish ourselves by waste. When it will be damn expensive to get some energy (and wind and solar panels are more expensive now, and will be when palladium becomes rare too) then people starts to look for saving energy. All problems solved.
I see the poor programmers thousands of miles away from their routers jammed with idiot traffic configs trying to fix a bug knowing the WORLD is waiting for their patch... would be bad.
Maybe a lot of people think that evolution is a kind of convergence to perfectness. Not at all. What evolution is: everyone will survive who is not bad enough to die before making its offspring. So if times come when a good brain eats too much resources and dumb brains are good - just give it a million years and dumbness rules. Then other times come and a good brain has to develop again. No sign of convergence to perfectness.
If you see evolution that way, the article is no surprise.
The formula is not so simple.
Hardware for Google is REALLY expensive - big numbers, big money.
Now think of it a bit, what if Google had a small number of dumb programmers. Hmm. How much hardware would Google need in such situation?:) Much more, 5*big number = 5*big money.
So, programmers expensive? Not simply true.
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At least there will be some extra motivation for fusion reactor development too. I want to see that happen in my lifetime, dammit!!
I would really like to see this benchmark repeated with half and double of RAM available.
We've been using java quite deeply on a project. We never tested it on any other platform than Ubuntu linux and Windows XP, and I can tell you never had any problem with our application. We just took seriously the notes in the documentation speaking about usage of the classes and cross-platform programming concerns. Java is not perfect but has its advantages.
java is cool. period. :)
THEY did the cut&paste! ;)
they are not so arrogant now :) ehe
What I would like to see is a command line like firefox --save-page-in-png-to /tmp/page.png http://page.com/
The worst lie is that "if someone made it, everyone can make it" -- pleeease. It's the lie of capitalism. Only one person can be the president or the leader of a software team. Would you tell it the guy who you are leading?
I think the original poster will have a very difficult time, if not impossible time, getting into the field in anything other than the lowest, least skilled position (with commensurate pay). Just knowing C++ is not enough to break into the field in a few months.
I think in general the post is true. If you cannot have the luxury to work all day on something relevant about the field, you cannot be prepared for a real job in months or a year.
Try to get a management like or consultant job that focuses on specs and like not coding, and try to do something to get better in the field in the meantime using your workplace and the mates you're working with.
In general i like AMD better, but these comparisons are usually wrong! If you upgrade your engine in your car and get +20% horsepower, are your car really 20% better?
Please notice that your computer is not just a processor, so when measuring performance of the processor/dollar then please use the performance/whole-machine formula instead.
However if you use your machine for io-intensive tasks, the question is bad for you. Anyways this way of calculating is simply not correct. If you are a quantum-mech scientist maybe... even my eclipse building my java code eats the hdd not cpu.
I think he's right in the first half. Let be data integrity and retention the default. Pleeease! I know i should RTFM but please raise hands who read an ext3 manual before installed. please don't just trash the work/life of other people and then laugh 'rtfm'
actually i had an abit nf-7 mobo some times ago and my friend had too. he trashed his bios and i restored it by booting his machine with my bios eeprom installed then switched the eeprom in the running machine to the bad and uploaded the bios successfully.
You're right, but the reason is not the modernity of the technology but some if-else branches were eradicated.
I think wind and solar NOW is not making money. It is too expensive and others are developing it. When it becomes cheaper, the biggest companies start to mass-produce it and kill the smalls that developed them. Not fair. Maybe i could say who cares. People get the tech and clean energy some day. That's what Shell wants.
The surface of Earth is hardly enough to give people food they want. Why would anyone think it's enough to drive the much more hungry cars and super-computers? :)
Anyway some regulation wave of 5% of fuel should be bio-ethanol drove the food prices to the skies just 1-2 years ago.
I think that accident didn't happen because of the infancy of the technology but because of chains human mistakes operating the facility including turning off the protection mechanism etc.
I think it strengthens and weakens your point at the same time. The technology is already foolproof and we are dumb not to use it. The humans operating the technology are idiots or some of them are idiots. The more plants you have the more chance you'll get some idiot melting it down.
Maybe some regulations can decrease this probability by orders of magnitude though.
There are test reactors that produce the same amount of energy that it eats for controlling the plasma. See the ITER project for example (i hope it gets built, some usual childish problems around the place and etc hinders the project somewhat) http://www.iter.org/a/index_nav_1.htm
Who cares they don't. I don't think that we can completely kill our planet with waste and other craps. The oil and natural gas is so rare, it's simply not enough the provide all the energy to finish ourselves by waste. When it will be damn expensive to get some energy (and wind and solar panels are more expensive now, and will be when palladium becomes rare too) then people starts to look for saving energy. All problems solved.
That means 'they are NOT financially sound investments'... :)
To be more precise, limited to some tens of years... The cheapest kind of oil will be depleted in 10-20 years, your lifetime! :)
When the world starts massive computing using javascript, I think I quit IT. :)
I see the poor programmers thousands of miles away from their routers jammed with idiot traffic configs trying to fix a bug knowing the WORLD is waiting for their patch... would be bad.
Maybe a lot of people think that evolution is a kind of convergence to perfectness. Not at all. What evolution is: everyone will survive who is not bad enough to die before making its offspring. So if times come when a good brain eats too much resources and dumb brains are good - just give it a million years and dumbness rules. Then other times come and a good brain has to develop again. No sign of convergence to perfectness.
If you see evolution that way, the article is no surprise.
The formula is not so simple. Hardware for Google is REALLY expensive - big numbers, big money. Now think of it a bit, what if Google had a small number of dumb programmers. Hmm. How much hardware would Google need in such situation? :) Much more, 5*big number = 5*big money.
So, programmers expensive? Not simply true.