The difference is that Windows fixed that problem. XP and later have no registry size limit.
And here's a tip that really should be a clue-batting, but I'm feeling nice: telling end users to use IRC for help is the dumbest fucking thing you can do. And for the record--with a few exceptions, the people in #ubuntu are dumb as a box of rocks. Completely useless for almost any questions. (This is not a slight against the half-dozen helpful people on the channel--just the 400+ who suck.)
In which case the same people who are currently selling guns legally at gun shows will instead just sell them under-the-table and you won't be able to track where they're going, so your Big Brother-esque wet-dream falls over.
Who the hell are you to be infringing on my rights anyway? Who gave you the right to fight against that little bit in the Second Amendment that states that the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Take your control-freak policies somewhere where they're wanted. I hear the UK is nicely packed with people who share your "ideas" (if they can be granted the compliment of being called such) outlined in these near-illiterate posts.
Find me one place in the world where gun control has lowered crime rates.
Go look at the UK. Something like 65% increase in gun-related crime since handguns were banned.
If you take firearms out of the hands of civilians, the only people who have them are the military and criminals. You are suddenly a second-class citizen. You now don't matter.
Even were this a good idea--and it might be one of the most staggeringly stupid ideas I have ever heard--you'll have a hard time prying firearms away from those people who can read little things like the Second fucking Amendment.
Ian Murdock was the reason I first tried Debian, after disastrous experience with early RedHat builds. Read an interview, he seemed like a good guy and knew how to run a project.
Debian's meteoric rise in suckitude correlates very well with Murdock's departure and the further stepping away from the way he ran things.
Ubuntu is the new Debian--even despite its often-busted packages and all.
I'll probably put my resume up there tomorrow, but somehow I doubt I'm anywhere near Microsoft's "hireable" bracket...;) Worth a shot, though. Thanks for the link.
As a student, I can agree with all of this. Understanding algorithms and data structures is vital--implementation of each of them less so.
I personally don't like algorithms, and mine tend to be meataxed on a first run through a design--chopped at until they do what I want, and efficiency can wait. I make no bones about it: I can program well and fast, but efficiency, to me, comes after I've got it working (and I can usually do a decent job of it, truth be told; I just don't like it). Algorithms classes seem to me to be more or less common sense. Once I see quicksort, I know what it does and where to use it. If I want an implementation, I can go look at Wikipedia.
Data structures are the same. I doubt I could efficiently program a hashtable from scratch, but I know what they are, how to use them, and the languages I use for projects where hashtables become necessary all have them--Hashtables and generic Dictionaries for C#, std::maps in C++, etcetera. About the only ones I could do from memory are b-trees and linked lists--but isn't that what documentation and references are for? If you can use them, that's the key--at least, I think so.
You may want to reevaluate ATI cards. Their Linux support has gotten markedly better. I have an ATI Radeon X1300 right now and was running Kubuntu (I'm in the process of deciding whether I want to try Debian or just reinstall Kubuntu); the ATI drivers were rock-solid and the card worked like a charm.
Agreed entirely. I program because I want to, and I'm there to get the degree. As it stands now, if my professors would allow it, I could test out of most of my classes up through 300-level (Java I, Java II, C, and Network Programming--couldn't test out of compiler design, but that's an elective anyway). It's a 4-year push to learn what I already know.
It's also why I constantly put in work on my own stuff as well--because I'll rot if I do just the toy problems they ask for.
I'm a first-year student and I know more and can do more than most of the seniors I've met, and my abilities to design a program to tackle a problem and implement that design seem to rival grad students.
The DS sucks. The GBA was the last handheld I bought, and I see no reason to expect the purchase of some shitty thing with two screens and gimmicky gameplay.
Anyway.
GBFS is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about an actual file system supported in hardware on the cartridge.
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More importantly, give the frigging thing a file system instead of pinging random points in memory. We've gone beyond that these days, I would think.
I'd also like to see them go with a form of SD memory in the cartridges (if they stick to cartridges), as it's gotten cheap enough that you could easily get quite a bit more space than the traditional PROMs.
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The difference is that Windows fixed that problem. XP and later have no registry size limit.
And here's a tip that really should be a clue-batting, but I'm feeling nice: telling end users to use IRC for help is the dumbest fucking thing you can do. And for the record--with a few exceptions, the people in #ubuntu are dumb as a box of rocks. Completely useless for almost any questions. (This is not a slight against the half-dozen helpful people on the channel--just the 400+ who suck.)
ATI's newer drivers have gotten markedly better.
Parent poster sounds like he's from 2003.
In which case the same people who are currently selling guns legally at gun shows will instead just sell them under-the-table and you won't be able to track where they're going, so your Big Brother-esque wet-dream falls over.
Who the hell are you to be infringing on my rights anyway? Who gave you the right to fight against that little bit in the Second Amendment that states that the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Take your control-freak policies somewhere where they're wanted. I hear the UK is nicely packed with people who share your "ideas" (if they can be granted the compliment of being called such) outlined in these near-illiterate posts.
Don't you remember? The English are sodden little gray rags with a national sport of standing in line.
Find me one place in the world where gun control has lowered crime rates.
Go look at the UK. Something like 65% increase in gun-related crime since handguns were banned.
If you take firearms out of the hands of civilians, the only people who have them are the military and criminals. You are suddenly a second-class citizen. You now don't matter.
Even were this a good idea--and it might be one of the most staggeringly stupid ideas I have ever heard--you'll have a hard time prying firearms away from those people who can read little things like the Second fucking Amendment.
Troll.
Halon gas transmits heat and is fire-retardant.
Ian Murdock was the reason I first tried Debian, after disastrous experience with early RedHat builds. Read an interview, he seemed like a good guy and knew how to run a project.
Debian's meteoric rise in suckitude correlates very well with Murdock's departure and the further stepping away from the way he ran things.
Ubuntu is the new Debian--even despite its often-busted packages and all.
Sir, if I had mod points, I'd be modding this Insightful.
No, that's Electronic Arts.
Oho, Microsoft? Well, then. :P
I'll probably put my resume up there tomorrow, but somehow I doubt I'm anywhere near Microsoft's "hireable" bracket...;) Worth a shot, though. Thanks for the link.
I use it for both, actually, with no problems.
Hunh.
Hell, this shouldn't have been AC'd!
As a student, I can agree with all of this. Understanding algorithms and data structures is vital--implementation of each of them less so.
I personally don't like algorithms, and mine tend to be meataxed on a first run through a design--chopped at until they do what I want, and efficiency can wait. I make no bones about it: I can program well and fast, but efficiency, to me, comes after I've got it working (and I can usually do a decent job of it, truth be told; I just don't like it). Algorithms classes seem to me to be more or less common sense. Once I see quicksort, I know what it does and where to use it. If I want an implementation, I can go look at Wikipedia.
Data structures are the same. I doubt I could efficiently program a hashtable from scratch, but I know what they are, how to use them, and the languages I use for projects where hashtables become necessary all have them--Hashtables and generic Dictionaries for C#, std::maps in C++, etcetera. About the only ones I could do from memory are b-trees and linked lists--but isn't that what documentation and references are for? If you can use them, that's the key--at least, I think so.
You may want to reevaluate ATI cards. Their Linux support has gotten markedly better. I have an ATI Radeon X1300 right now and was running Kubuntu (I'm in the process of deciding whether I want to try Debian or just reinstall Kubuntu); the ATI drivers were rock-solid and the card worked like a charm.
Agreed entirely. I program because I want to, and I'm there to get the degree. As it stands now, if my professors would allow it, I could test out of most of my classes up through 300-level (Java I, Java II, C, and Network Programming--couldn't test out of compiler design, but that's an elective anyway). It's a 4-year push to learn what I already know.
It's also why I constantly put in work on my own stuff as well--because I'll rot if I do just the toy problems they ask for.
From my experience? Spot-on.
I'm a first-year student and I know more and can do more than most of the seniors I've met, and my abilities to design a program to tackle a problem and implement that design seem to rival grad students.
I taught myself pretty much everything I know.
(And yes, I can malloc() properly.)
The DS sucks. The GBA was the last handheld I bought, and I see no reason to expect the purchase of some shitty thing with two screens and gimmicky gameplay.
Anyway.
GBFS is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about an actual file system supported in hardware on the cartridge.
They can be reconfigured, can't they?
Your machine has tens of thousands of open unprivileged ports.
Thanks to the magic of port forwarding, you can take advantage of all of them! Squee!
More importantly, give the frigging thing a file system instead of pinging random points in memory. We've gone beyond that these days, I would think.
I'd also like to see them go with a form of SD memory in the cartridges (if they stick to cartridges), as it's gotten cheap enough that you could easily get quite a bit more space than the traditional PROMs.
Looking to hire anyone...?
(College student who actually can tell the difference between his ass and a data structure here.)
de Icaza might be slime, but Mono's good stuff. Very nice to use, effective, and better than Java.
If Java didn't suck, I wouldn't be using C#.
That's what happens these days. You get a guy in your base and he starts killin ur d00dz.
Sad, really.
SL does require a huge cache, though.
For the majority of their systems (unless you want to buy their one or two models that come with FreeDOS), you're still paying for Windows.