Yeah, but most versions of Windows don't use PAE. Irrelevant. When you have to say "yeah, but", you're wrong. You were incorrect.
In fact, you can even try to enable the boot-time switch but it won't do anything. The boot-time switch isn't needed in the version of Windows I run. PAE is enabled by default on versions that aren't crippled.
Also, from what I've heard the reason it's disabled is because it's buggy and not really worth it. It is buggy because driver writers are generally ignorant of the capabilities of the platform on which they code. Microsoft made no effort to rectify the situation because anything that drives hardware sales helps them out, too, and shoveling people to 64-bit before it was ready (XP x64, I'm looking at you) didn't hurt them one bit.
Out of curiosity, do you actually use PAE or are you just being pedantic? I use it. I've used it for quite some time, before a viable 64-bit Windows existed. One of my older Linux machines also exceeded 4GB of RAM.
I don't really know much about how Linux does it, but in any case it's not use much and anyone who might need PAE might as well use a 64 bit OS. Unless they don't feel a need to upgrade hardware.
You are incorrect. All Intel processors after the Pentium Pro except for a few Pentium M chips, as well as most Athlons and later AMD processors, support PAE, which can address up to 64GB of RAM. There are 36 address lines on all PAE-capable memory buses; 4 are just unused by Windows except for use with the XD bit.
I agree with much of what you're saying, and I'd love to see literate programming in more common use.
But you haven't answered the critical question: why would a company "waste time" going through the song and dance of literate programming if they aren't going to realize any tangible benefits from it? Yes, yes, I know, easier expansion and all of that--but why would that factor into the decisions of a manager who isn't likely to be managing the same project two, three years down the road?
I know this is probably nit picking, but when I saw that.exe attached to the end of my mono compiled test program, I quit using it.
It's there to be compatible with Windows. Windows expects executables to end in.EXE, so Mono executables end in.EXE. How else would you do it? Are you that much of a zealot? That's not nitpicking, that's being stupid.
But Mono not going its own direction instead of endlessly trailing Microsoft's direction is. Mono should have taken what is standardized and run with it. Making a competing dev environment not just reimplementing yet another Microsoft environment.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Of course they're reimplementing Microsoft's libraries--how else do you get compatibility with already written programs? "Oh, we have a CLR implementation, but.NET programs won't run on it! Hurf durf, we're cool!"
And Mono's got its own namespace with a boatload of features. GTK#, Cocoa#, Tao (the managed OpenGL/SDL bindings that people use on.NET, too--it started with Mono), the brilliant Mono.Addins, MonoCurses (which addresses a glaring deficiency in.NET, the lack of a decent console API), Mono.FUSE...I could go on. But I'm sure these libraries are OMG HORRIBLE, because I can use (most of) them in.NET too! OH NO!
I don't normally feed the trolls [i]too[/i] much, but being able to work in a clean, cross-platform way with a solid language that's far better than Java immediately drew me to the CLR, and spreading the wider adoption of a Java alternative is why I applied to work for the Mono Project this summer. (And got accepted, too.)
Unfuck your head, sir; there is no "Microsoft encroachment" with Mono; the tool is a good one, and you're being stupidly paranoid.
In no way, shape, or form is it a "donation" to purchase a fucking piece of hardware. The fact that you wouldn't expect them to provide proper support to paying customers doesn't mean that normal people wouldn't expect it.
And how many of your sites work correctly on screenreaders or other disabled-access browsers? Or do you have HTML fallbacks for everything?
AJAX and the like severely cock up access for anyone who dislikes JavaScript or is using a browser that can't properly grok it (most JavaScript events would have no business being fired by Lynx at all, for example).
True, but there are lots of holes you can end up with that a formal education will fill in. I've been coding since 8 and I still found my undergraduate education useful for that. I agree, somewhat. My undergrad education hasn't been particularly useful aside from a few classes--data structures, algorithms, etc.--that actually had some content; I have far more of the classes where you manually calculate disk seek times and other moronic shit.
I would recommend a liberal arts school over any tech school, even MIT, for the simple reason that you get more out of it. If you want to be some drooling desk jockey whose extent of a career is being promoted to senior engineer when you're 40, then a tech school is a great place to go. If you want to be a more well-rounded individual with the ability to work outside of a cube, go with a liberal arts degree.
I'll be damned if you're going to turn out some uneducated brats for the rest of the world to deal with. You mean like the uneducated brats who come out of public schools?
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If you're actually seeing bad sectors, your disk is on the way out anyway.
You are incorrect. All Intel processors after the Pentium Pro except for a few Pentium M chips, as well as most Athlons and later AMD processors, support PAE, which can address up to 64GB of RAM. There are 36 address lines on all PAE-capable memory buses; 4 are just unused by Windows except for use with the XD bit.
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So she says.
A mother with children is dead and all you can think about is a fucking file system. I hope you die of lung cancer.
She's dead, little troll? Then show me a body.
Brilliantly said. Remove the geekthink and we can start getting somewhere.
Chalk up a "yeah, no shit" here...
I'm not a fan of the iPhone, but typing on it is extremely easy.
I agree with much of what you're saying, and I'd love to see literate programming in more common use.
But you haven't answered the critical question: why would a company "waste time" going through the song and dance of literate programming if they aren't going to realize any tangible benefits from it? Yes, yes, I know, easier expansion and all of that--but why would that factor into the decisions of a manager who isn't likely to be managing the same project two, three years down the road?
Twelve.
So does that make the happy medium "manicotti code"? :D
Fair enough. Thank you! :)
I know this is probably nit picking, but when I saw that .exe attached to the end of my mono compiled test program, I quit using it.
.EXE, so Mono executables end in .EXE. How else would you do it? Are you that much of a zealot? That's not nitpicking, that's being stupid.
.NET programs won't run on it! Hurf durf, we're cool!"
.NET, too--it started with Mono), the brilliant Mono.Addins, MonoCurses (which addresses a glaring deficiency in .NET, the lack of a decent console API), Mono.FUSE...I could go on. But I'm sure these libraries are OMG HORRIBLE, because I can use (most of) them in .NET too! OH NO!
It's there to be compatible with Windows. Windows expects executables to end in
But Mono not going its own direction instead of endlessly trailing Microsoft's direction is. Mono should have taken what is standardized and run with it. Making a competing dev environment not just reimplementing yet another Microsoft environment.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Of course they're reimplementing Microsoft's libraries--how else do you get compatibility with already written programs? "Oh, we have a CLR implementation, but
And Mono's got its own namespace with a boatload of features. GTK#, Cocoa#, Tao (the managed OpenGL/SDL bindings that people use on
Get a clue.
What's it going to do that's better than what I've already got with Kubuntu?
I don't normally feed the trolls [i]too[/i] much, but being able to work in a clean, cross-platform way with a solid language that's far better than Java immediately drew me to the CLR, and spreading the wider adoption of a Java alternative is why I applied to work for the Mono Project this summer. (And got accepted, too.)
Unfuck your head, sir; there is no "Microsoft encroachment" with Mono; the tool is a good one, and you're being stupidly paranoid.
I would have? That would mean that I felt that the OLPC program was a good one. That's a good joke.
Why would I buy something I have no use for? I already have a laptop and I don't need an ultraportable.
In no way, shape, or form is it a "donation" to purchase a fucking piece of hardware. The fact that you wouldn't expect them to provide proper support to paying customers doesn't mean that normal people wouldn't expect it.
The way you "see" it is idiotic.
They're just CSS wrappers to create those buttons, I believe.
And how many of your sites work correctly on screenreaders or other disabled-access browsers? Or do you have HTML fallbacks for everything?
AJAX and the like severely cock up access for anyone who dislikes JavaScript or is using a browser that can't properly grok it (most JavaScript events would have no business being fired by Lynx at all, for example).
I would recommend a liberal arts school over any tech school, even MIT, for the simple reason that you get more out of it. If you want to be some drooling desk jockey whose extent of a career is being promoted to senior engineer when you're 40, then a tech school is a great place to go. If you want to be a more well-rounded individual with the ability to work outside of a cube, go with a liberal arts degree.
That's nothing. Mine's looking at an increase of almost twice that for next year.
And uneducated fucks come out of public schools, too. Get a fucking brain.
And I'm not your buddy, friend!