Java has generics. Unfortunately they're erased, so they're basically nothing but syntax sugar for runtime casts when you want to use generics from another jar. To add further insult, the compiler yells at you whenever you dare to accomplish such feats of reuse, so most of us have to pepper our code with annotations to shut up the stupid warning about erasure.
Java is now adding "closures", which may or may not actually act as static closures, but may just be syntax sugar for anonymous functions instead. We may see them next year if we're really lucky. Meanwhile C# has LINQ, which is statically typed throughout. C# has a BDFL in Anders Helsburg, Java has a committee that puts Ada's to shame.
I know a few people on Folsom Street who charge quite a bit of money for this sort of thing!
Truthfully, I only pick up terms from LtU -- Monads are about as far as I can actually comprehend. If I ever get through my copy of TAPL, I'll at least understand some more of the vocabulary to level up my theory.
FYI, the "Windows explorer" for the local filesystem is actually another browser window. Type an URL into the address field, and hey presto - you're surfing the internet;-)
More like "Hey presto, it becomes an OLE client of SHVDOCW.DLL." If IE hasn't already been loaded up (it does not preload if you're not running Active Desktop) there's a noticeable delay while it loads. The menus don't even manage to stay consistent, and you still don't get the full functionality of the "real" IE window.
And I thought they got rid of that integration with Vista and just made URLs in explorer open up IE instead. Guess I'll have to try it next time I'm actually on a Vista box.
Ubuntu iterates through stable versions much faster than Debian -- even the "long term support" versions come out faster than Debian Stable.
I run Sid myself, but you can't get your security updates separate from your "might break all your dependencies" functionality updates. For my single development box, that's fine, but when you've got multiple production deployments, that's really bad.
AnyDVD and the like require compromised keys from vulnerable software players. These keys can and do get revoked, at which point a new key has to be issued. Now it's true that there's probably going to be an endless stream of vulnerable software (just by virtue of being a software player in the first place) but stuff like TPM could really thin the flow by locking the whole key custody chain down. Mind you, that's not likely to happen before physical disc media itself is all but obsolete (and how are we doing at cracking XBL or Netflix's streams?)
Compare to CSS, which is irrevocably broken forever.
That's PCI-X, not PCI-E. The rest of the stats are also a retro-blast as well.
I'm not sure what kind of architectures you could really test with this thing. It has slower memory on it than is on my motherboard. I honestly believe you could write software renderers faster than this thing.
The judges did sign their oaths. Jack alleges that Tunis forged her own signature, which is certainly a pretty novel theory, but if we decide to be more generous than the law even allows and take him at his intended meaning, that she had someone else sign for her, he doesn't have a single iota of supporting evidence, other than the worthless opinion of an utterly discredited "handwriting analyst" who made his opinion based on a whopping two samples.
Accusing judges of malfeasance is just standard behavior for Jack Thompson. And his probable disbarment is just the start of his troubles -- there's one Cletus Junkin in Alabama (yeah I know... I couldn't make these great names up) who may be going after him for libel next.
If facts aren't on your side, pound on the law. If the law isn't on your side, pound on the facts. If neither the law nor the facts are on your side, pound on the table.
That describes JT more accurately. Procedurally, he's a moron -- he's actually gotten himself barred from filing directly to the Florida Supreme Court. Then again he's not exactly that sharp when it comes to facts or law either.
> I still yearn to play Dungeon Keeper on occasion.
Me too, but the damn game simply doesn't run on XP. You can increase the time it takes til it crashes from nearly instantaneous to getting in maybe 10 minutes of play if you use only software rendering and turn off QSound. Which really takes away a good chunk of what made it so good. And just to add insult to injury, the funny movies between dungeons don't even play.
Black and White was *really* good for the first few levels, and then it completely falls apart. I never bothered with BW2
Still, who can forget the sailors: "Eye-del-eye-del-eeeeeee, Eye-del-eye-del-eeeeeee... we simply can't leave til we get some more wood."
Windos Update - is a study on how not to do it. It'll pop up even if you're running a fullscreen application at that time, some of which don't handle that gracefully. It'll tell you every few minutes that it wants to reboot, no matter how often you tell it to go stand in the corner. Really annoying freak.
That's one thing I love about process explorer: "Suspend Process". It never bugs me til I'm ready to reboot. If I don't have procexp handy, I actually do just take that annoying dialog and shove it as far into the corner as it'll go without closing it.
I think there's something to be said for nagging the user to reboot after some updates requiring it, especially if they're security-related. A balloon tip would have been just as good though.
> Print Version [zdnet.co.uk] (unless you want to click through about 10 pages)
Seriously, the diatribe against Yahoo rings kind of hollow when I can barely find the page amidst all the surrounding ads, gadgets, and gewgaws. And have to scroll down to even read the article content. 10 times.
Oh and if you want to post a reply, it lets you type it all in, and then redirects you to a registration page.
Your eyes are continuous input, and they don't "run at" any particular speed. We're easily able to detect stimulus thresholds of thousandths of a second, but only for rapid changes. Things sitting still don't generate the same kind of sensory events. It's not altogether different from video compression, really.
Motion blur was invented for movies so they wouldn't all look like Charlie Chaplin routines. Even so, cinematographers avoid fast pans unless they're deliberately aiming for a disorienting effect.
90FPS means that the framerate can dip 30FPS before it's possible to notice. Agreed, it's kind of silly to demand 90FPS when you're really just demanding a consistent 60FPS with no dips, regardless of how you get it.
I suppose there's some ironic justice in textually flipping off the community of mods when the first copy eventually got modded up again, making me look like an idiot. C'mon guys, justify my nerd-rage!;)
Blah. I need to take another extended slashdot break.
> The graphics are pretty uninspiring, the world is a bland orange with no real features or vegetation:
The quests are indeed boring, but, ah, the rest of the world doesn't look like Durotar. But you did play EverQuest "Study On The Color Brown" 2, so I guess you can be forgiven for thinking other MMOs do all look the same throughout.
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Java has generics. Unfortunately they're erased, so they're basically nothing but syntax sugar for runtime casts when you want to use generics from another jar. To add further insult, the compiler yells at you whenever you dare to accomplish such feats of reuse, so most of us have to pepper our code with annotations to shut up the stupid warning about erasure.
Java is now adding "closures", which may or may not actually act as static closures, but may just be syntax sugar for anonymous functions instead. We may see them next year if we're really lucky. Meanwhile C# has LINQ, which is statically typed throughout. C# has a BDFL in Anders Helsburg, Java has a committee that puts Ada's to shame.
> Amb
Pshaw. That may or may not be really easy or not.
> Calculus of constructions
You win.
> Higher-order barbed bisimulation
I know a few people on Folsom Street who charge quite a bit of money for this sort of thing!
Truthfully, I only pick up terms from LtU -- Monads are about as far as I can actually comprehend. If I ever get through my copy of TAPL, I'll at least understand some more of the vocabulary to level up my theory.
FYI, the "Windows explorer" for the local filesystem is actually another browser window. Type an URL into the address field, and hey presto - you're surfing the internet ;-)
More like "Hey presto, it becomes an OLE client of SHVDOCW.DLL." If IE hasn't already been loaded up (it does not preload if you're not running Active Desktop) there's a noticeable delay while it loads. The menus don't even manage to stay consistent, and you still don't get the full functionality of the "real" IE window.
And I thought they got rid of that integration with Vista and just made URLs in explorer open up IE instead. Guess I'll have to try it next time I'm actually on a Vista box.
Yeah, how dare anyone mod down a comment that makes a commentary on Microsoft. It must be a massive conspiracy orchestrated from the CEO's office.
You go ahead and metamod, that'll show 'em. Fight the power!
From my parents basement, I stab at thee.
> Your turn.
:)
Catamorphisms. Linear Logic.
Back to you
> Aren't there orphaned files not linked to from anywhere?
Thousands, in fact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LonelyPages
Ubuntu iterates through stable versions much faster than Debian -- even the "long term support" versions come out faster than Debian Stable.
I run Sid myself, but you can't get your security updates separate from your "might break all your dependencies" functionality updates. For my single development box, that's fine, but when you've got multiple production deployments, that's really bad.
AnyDVD and the like require compromised keys from vulnerable software players. These keys can and do get revoked, at which point a new key has to be issued. Now it's true that there's probably going to be an endless stream of vulnerable software (just by virtue of being a software player in the first place) but stuff like TPM could really thin the flow by locking the whole key custody chain down. Mind you, that's not likely to happen before physical disc media itself is all but obsolete (and how are we doing at cracking XBL or Netflix's streams?)
Compare to CSS, which is irrevocably broken forever.
Four months? I find your lack of faith disturbing! What was CSS broke in, three hours with three lines of recursive code?
Try two years. And AACS still isn't truly broken.
That's PCI-X, not PCI-E. The rest of the stats are also a retro-blast as well.
I'm not sure what kind of architectures you could really test with this thing. It has slower memory on it than is on my motherboard. I honestly believe you could write software renderers faster than this thing.
> Utopia doesn't exist, will not exist ... ever.
You are aware that the word "Utopia" means "Nowhere", right?
The judges did sign their oaths. Jack alleges that Tunis forged her own signature, which is certainly a pretty novel theory, but if we decide to be more generous than the law even allows and take him at his intended meaning, that she had someone else sign for her, he doesn't have a single iota of supporting evidence, other than the worthless opinion of an utterly discredited "handwriting analyst" who made his opinion based on a whopping two samples.
... I couldn't make these great names up) who may be going after him for libel next.
Accusing judges of malfeasance is just standard behavior for Jack Thompson. And his probable disbarment is just the start of his troubles -- there's one Cletus Junkin in Alabama (yeah I know
The way I heard it was:
If facts aren't on your side, pound on the law. If the law isn't on your side, pound on the facts. If neither the law nor the facts are on your side, pound on the table.
That describes JT more accurately. Procedurally, he's a moron -- he's actually gotten himself barred from filing directly to the Florida Supreme Court. Then again he's not exactly that sharp when it comes to facts or law either.
> I still yearn to play Dungeon Keeper on occasion.
... we simply can't leave til we get some more wood."
Me too, but the damn game simply doesn't run on XP. You can increase the time it takes til it crashes from nearly instantaneous to getting in maybe 10 minutes of play if you use only software rendering and turn off QSound. Which really takes away a good chunk of what made it so good. And just to add insult to injury, the funny movies between dungeons don't even play.
Black and White was *really* good for the first few levels, and then it completely falls apart. I never bothered with BW2
Still, who can forget the sailors: "Eye-del-eye-del-eeeeeee, Eye-del-eye-del-eeeeeee
"Sheep have many uses!"
Windos Update - is a study on how not to do it. It'll pop up even if you're running a fullscreen application at that time, some of which don't handle that gracefully. It'll tell you every few minutes that it wants to reboot, no matter how often you tell it to go stand in the corner. Really annoying freak.
That's one thing I love about process explorer: "Suspend Process". It never bugs me til I'm ready to reboot. If I don't have procexp handy, I actually do just take that annoying dialog and shove it as far into the corner as it'll go without closing it.
I think there's something to be said for nagging the user to reboot after some updates requiring it, especially if they're security-related. A balloon tip would have been just as good though.
Not to defend MacAfee's software in any way, but antivirus apps are supposed to be hard to kill.
> Print Version [zdnet.co.uk] (unless you want to click through about 10 pages)
Seriously, the diatribe against Yahoo rings kind of hollow when I can barely find the page amidst all the surrounding ads, gadgets, and gewgaws. And have to scroll down to even read the article content. 10 times.
Oh and if you want to post a reply, it lets you type it all in, and then redirects you to a registration page.
Your eyes are continuous input, and they don't "run at" any particular speed. We're easily able to detect stimulus thresholds of thousandths of a second, but only for rapid changes. Things sitting still don't generate the same kind of sensory events. It's not altogether different from video compression, really.
Motion blur was invented for movies so they wouldn't all look like Charlie Chaplin routines. Even so, cinematographers avoid fast pans unless they're deliberately aiming for a disorienting effect.
90FPS means that the framerate can dip 30FPS before it's possible to notice. Agreed, it's kind of silly to demand 90FPS when you're really just demanding a consistent 60FPS with no dips, regardless of how you get it.
I suppose there's some ironic justice in textually flipping off the community of mods when the first copy eventually got modded up again, making me look like an idiot. C'mon guys, justify my nerd-rage! ;)
Blah. I need to take another extended slashdot break.
> The graphics are pretty uninspiring, the world is a bland orange with no real features or vegetation:
The quests are indeed boring, but, ah, the rest of the world doesn't look like Durotar. But you did play EverQuest "Study On The Color Brown" 2, so I guess you can be forgiven for thinking other MMOs do all look the same throughout.
Refresh my memory, which MMO does Valve run?
Hey mods, fuck you.
> Blizzard does not allow mods like Valve does.
Refresh my memory, which MMO does Valve run?
"The Mythical Man Month" points out that adding people to a project often/usually slows it down.
Ergo, the fastest projects have nobody working on them.
I think Brooks might have been aiming at something more nuanced.