90 GHz? at that freq why bother? the freaking air pollution would block the signal over the distance of a large room.
Finally, a motivation to clean up the air we breathe!
Or perhaps to remove the atmosphere completely, so wireless can deliver even higher bandwidths...
Obviously, you were lucky enough to never encounter the following error message:
Computer will now throw itself out window. Press F1 to continue.
But I have encountered the almost zen-like error message:
"Error: the operation completed successfully."
It occurs in Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2k, and XP (have not tried ME, NT, Vista, or 7).
The data-flow paradigm is easy to dismiss as junk, but once you get a handle on it.. it is as intuitive as breathing when you're writing a VI to control a device (or 10).:) it just sounds like you don't like LabVIEW because it's graphical (I had the same prejudice when I started using it), but taking the time to master it means you can write just about anything with it... and that's the mark of a good language.
Your mention of 10 devices is unimpressive, and close to trivial in complexity. I can't reveal exactly what kind of applications I've worked with without giving away my employer's ID, which I decline to do. However, we use Labview for distributed applications involving coordinated operation of hundreds of different instruments (often with necessarily very elaborate interfaces) providing several thousand real-time measurements, arrays of manipulated actuators controlled using elaborate algorithms (nonlinear nonsparse optimization, for moderate to large scale problems), with interlinked operator interfaces, all operating 24/7.
Labview's data-flow paradigm only works when the vi is small, or can be broken into a sufficiently simple net of sufficiently small sub-vis. In a large vi with complex data connections, the Labview compiler fails to solve the data-flow dependency implicit in the wiring (even if a solution exists and is very obvious to a human). With some exceptions, the wiring in a Labview vi involves copying of data between blocks, rather than using a pointer to a shared datum. When it fails to solve the data flow dependency, then timing of data copying operations becomes arbitrary with respect to the sequence of block/sub-vi invocation. In this case, merely moving one block or sub-vi can change the actual data flow in the vi, without changing the diagam's implied data flow at all! This obviously can cause weird execution behavior in loop structures. In this sense, Labview can operate opposite to what you or I would consider intuitive.
As a matter of fact, I really like graphical programming, and have been doing it for 20 years, mostly using proprietary tools developed for building particular types of application (and I also contributed to development of such tools, using Lisp and C). The step from those fully deterministic and quite flexible tools to Labview had a few good points, but these were mostly cosmetic "prettyness" features of little functional value. They were far outweighed by the bad ones: notably the loss of determinacy noted above, but also many quirks such as the flawed model for local data within a vi, and the astonishing inability to zoom in or out for graphical editing.
Perhaps I should say that I really liked graphical programming, before I encountered Labview. Now I'm merely neutral on the issue, and consider Labview to be one of the nastier attempts at such an environment, with hideous flaws below its pretty surface (I did not get into Labview's asynchronous local data quagmire, which would involve a much longer and angrier post).
I'm looking forward to languages that integrate completely with an IDE
Try Labview. And weep.
and leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
That's Labview - no plaintext representation at all. You'll be begging for one soon enough, with or without an IDE, unless your programs are at the "hello world" level of complexity. Some of the reasons are specific to Labview's failings. For instance, version management and project organization exist only as pathetic useless pretences, which obstruct rather than assist. Other reasons are intrinsic to the non-character representation. Try doing a diff between two Labview files, or even try getting a rough estimate of the amount of difference between them; sorry, no can do.
There may be a non-character-based program representation (useful for developing and maintaining non-trivial projects) in the future, but I fear we'll all be retired or expired by then.
Apple is also taking action against a music festival promoter, Poison Apple, which has applied to trademark an apple with a bite out of it atop crossed bones, and Foxtel, whose branding for a new pornography channel, Adults Only, is an apple together with an arrow and a devil's tail..
You can get as many 419s as you can handle from my colleague, until recently the Esteemed Excellency of Nigeria's Department of Overseas Resource Depletion, and now with a large number of undocumented 419s at his disposal. Please reply with banking details, home address and SIN, and all other useful information such as drivers license and credit card numbers.
I thought the EU parliament operated exactly the same as Congress - direct election of the man (or woman) you want to represent your district.
Each EU country can choose among systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_elections#Voting_system
Almost all use variants on the crappy list system, where you vote for a party, and the party list is usually headed by a bunch of sleazy vampires who would be unelectable as individuals. The list system also results in a really weak link between voters and the elected elite. Arguably, it's as bad as the first-past-the-post system used in US congressional elections and UK parliamentary elections - gerrymandering is no longer needed, being replaced by list precedence, which is determined by internal party machinations. In EU elections, Ireland and Northern Ireland use the much better transferrable vote system, which gives almost as proportional result as the list system, but keeps a strong link between voters and their elected representatives, all of whom are elected as individuals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote
Headmaster [leading the school in prayer]: "Oh Lord, we give thee humble and hearty thanks for this, thy gift of discipline, knowing that it is only through the constraints of others that we come to know ourselves, and only through true misery can we find true contentment." - from Tomkinson's Schooldays, a Ripping Yarn by Michael Palin & Terry Jones http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075568/
There is a hoax running especially in Europe, +358 or similar number, similar to Italy code (+35).
The dialling code for Italy is +39, not +35. There is no country with +35 as a code, all of the +35x country codes are three digits (BTW +358 is Finland). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes#Zones_3.2F4_.E2.80.93_Europe
The only phone hoaxes I've heard of in Europe are those idiot-trap ringtone rip-offs and suchlike. I would not be surprised if there are others, but this one sounds bogus.
My calculation agrees with yours. I have 100 Mbps fiber at home, and I calculate it only gives 31 petabits per decade at full utilization. Luckily, my ISP imposes no limits, but I still rarely use even a percent of the available capacity (at most a few hundred GB per month out of 32 TB potentially available).
Moreover, Theora is the only decent video codec which complies with the W3C's patent policy. There is no question or threat of demands for patent royalties or license payments for any use of the codec.
Cue the musical vikings: spam spam spam spam. Followed by the dancing astroturfers, posturing political whiners, beggars of all descriptions, and every other audience-seeker that sane audiences are trying to avoid. Popular sites will see their popularity getting hijacked in service of idiot causes and losers that deserve to stay in their present obscurity.
Of course, we'll need another Firefox add-in to block crap from known sleazebags and protect from the malignant content that will turn out to be embeddable (scripts, nasty links, etc.) in this SideWanki.
There are some other issues relating to copyright material distributed under GFDL and some CC licenses. Redistribution is allowed, but certain nonfinancial conditions are attached, applying to the distributor and/or to the recipient. A financial settlement, which is meaningless in the context of GFDL or CC material, cannot absolve the distributor from the nonfinancial duties associated with distribution.
General GFDL conditions for distribution can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL#Conditions. Additionally, if anyone distributes GFDL documents in quantity, they are obliged to make available also the associated document source (such as LaTeX), and if it is a program manual for a GPL program, they must also make the program source code available. There are analogous issues for the several variants on CC licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons#Types_of_Creative_Commons_licenses.
Even the FSF is against the Google settlement...
WHY THE FUCK DON'T LAPTOPS COME WITH BETTER RESOLUTION?
Probably just penny pinching to get the sticker price down. But perhaps you've been looking at the wrong laptops. Those in most stores have crappy resolutions, even with large displays. I just hate when they say 18" widescreen LCD, without saying how many pixels. As like as not, it's just 1440x800 or something equally pathetic, but you might have to corner a sales droid to find out.
At home, I've got a 6-year-old laptop, with a 17" WUXGA (1920x1200) display. Since I got it, I'm unwilling to accept any less. So our home PCs each have dual 24" 1920x1200 displays, and I was recently able to wangle a 1920x1200 laptop at work.
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90 GHz? at that freq why bother? the freaking air pollution would block the signal over the distance of a large room.
Finally, a motivation to clean up the air we breathe!
Or perhaps to remove the atmosphere completely, so wireless can deliver even higher bandwidths...
Obviously, you were lucky enough to never encounter the following error message:
Computer will now throw itself out window. Press F1 to continue.
But I have encountered the almost zen-like error message:
"Error: the operation completed successfully."
It occurs in Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2k, and XP (have not tried ME, NT, Vista, or 7).
Hacking into digitally enhanced humans (and robots: androids/gynoids) in the future. Excellent animated SciFi movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347246
The data-flow paradigm is easy to dismiss as junk, but once you get a handle on it.. it is as intuitive as breathing when you're writing a VI to control a device (or 10). :) it just sounds like you don't like LabVIEW because it's graphical (I had the same prejudice when I started using it), but taking the time to master it means you can write just about anything with it... and that's the mark of a good language.
Your mention of 10 devices is unimpressive, and close to trivial in complexity. I can't reveal exactly what kind of applications I've worked with without giving away my employer's ID, which I decline to do. However, we use Labview for distributed applications involving coordinated operation of hundreds of different instruments (often with necessarily very elaborate interfaces) providing several thousand real-time measurements, arrays of manipulated actuators controlled using elaborate algorithms (nonlinear nonsparse optimization, for moderate to large scale problems), with interlinked operator interfaces, all operating 24/7.
Labview's data-flow paradigm only works when the vi is small, or can be broken into a sufficiently simple net of sufficiently small sub-vis. In a large vi with complex data connections, the Labview compiler fails to solve the data-flow dependency implicit in the wiring (even if a solution exists and is very obvious to a human). With some exceptions, the wiring in a Labview vi involves copying of data between blocks, rather than using a pointer to a shared datum. When it fails to solve the data flow dependency, then timing of data copying operations becomes arbitrary with respect to the sequence of block/sub-vi invocation. In this case, merely moving one block or sub-vi can change the actual data flow in the vi, without changing the diagam's implied data flow at all! This obviously can cause weird execution behavior in loop structures. In this sense, Labview can operate opposite to what you or I would consider intuitive.
As a matter of fact, I really like graphical programming, and have been doing it for 20 years, mostly using proprietary tools developed for building particular types of application (and I also contributed to development of such tools, using Lisp and C). The step from those fully deterministic and quite flexible tools to Labview had a few good points, but these were mostly cosmetic "prettyness" features of little functional value. They were far outweighed by the bad ones: notably the loss of determinacy noted above, but also many quirks such as the flawed model for local data within a vi, and the astonishing inability to zoom in or out for graphical editing.
Perhaps I should say that I really liked graphical programming, before I encountered Labview. Now I'm merely neutral on the issue, and consider Labview to be one of the nastier attempts at such an environment, with hideous flaws below its pretty surface (I did not get into Labview's asynchronous local data quagmire, which would involve a much longer and angrier post).
I'm looking forward to languages that integrate completely with an IDE
Try Labview. And weep.
and leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
That's Labview - no plaintext representation at all. You'll be begging for one soon enough, with or without an IDE, unless your programs are at the "hello world" level of complexity. Some of the reasons are specific to Labview's failings. For instance, version management and project organization exist only as pathetic useless pretences, which obstruct rather than assist. Other reasons are intrinsic to the non-character representation. Try doing a diff between two Labview files, or even try getting a rough estimate of the amount of difference between them; sorry, no can do.
There may be a non-character-based program representation (useful for developing and maintaining non-trivial projects) in the future, but I fear we'll all be retired or expired by then.
Looking at the 1951 Longman version http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/ChemicalGalaxy_Longman_1951.jpg, it would seem that Microsoft's researcher has "innovated" to the usual Microsoft extent: backwards (the ancient spiral arrangement is superior from many points of view).
assfault roads
I do NOT want to drive around your neighborhood...
Apple is also taking action against a music festival promoter, Poison Apple, which has applied to trademark an apple with a bite out of it atop crossed bones, and Foxtel, whose branding for a new pornography channel, Adults Only, is an apple together with an arrow and a devil's tail..
Any fool can see that these logos are using deflowered pomegranates, not apples...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomegranate_waterdrops2.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomegranate_fruit.jpg
...on rootkit transmission.
Who pwns you? Sony!
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will get my boot in your stones."
That's the way it went in practice.
I have a pair of 404s, but I can never find them.
You can get as many 419s as you can handle from my colleague, until recently the Esteemed Excellency of Nigeria's Department of Overseas Resource Depletion, and now with a large number of undocumented 419s at his disposal. Please reply with banking details, home address and SIN, and all other useful information such as drivers license and credit card numbers.
I thought the EU parliament operated exactly the same as Congress - direct election of the man (or woman) you want to represent your district.
Each EU country can choose among systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_elections#Voting_system
Almost all use variants on the crappy list system, where you vote for a party, and the party list is usually headed by a bunch of sleazy vampires who would be unelectable as individuals. The list system also results in a really weak link between voters and the elected elite. Arguably, it's as bad as the first-past-the-post system used in US congressional elections and UK parliamentary elections - gerrymandering is no longer needed, being replaced by list precedence, which is determined by internal party machinations. In EU elections, Ireland and Northern Ireland use the much better transferrable vote system, which gives almost as proportional result as the list system, but keeps a strong link between voters and their elected representatives, all of whom are elected as individuals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote
...that the $10,000 fine was a lot cheaper than the front page ad in the WSJ.
Discipline is an important aspect of education.
Headmaster [leading the school in prayer]: "Oh Lord, we give thee humble and hearty thanks for this, thy gift of discipline, knowing that it is only through the constraints of others that we come to know ourselves, and only through true misery can we find true contentment." - from Tomkinson's Schooldays, a Ripping Yarn by Michael Palin & Terry Jones http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075568/
There is a hoax running especially in Europe, +358 or similar number, similar to Italy code (+35).
The dialling code for Italy is +39, not +35. There is no country with +35 as a code, all of the +35x country codes are three digits (BTW +358 is Finland). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes#Zones_3.2F4_.E2.80.93_Europe
The only phone hoaxes I've heard of in Europe are those idiot-trap ringtone rip-offs and suchlike. I would not be surprised if there are others, but this one sounds bogus.
These allegations, if true, might well change my opinion of James Joyce. They would change my opinions of Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses not one whit.
Because I get:
100 * 10^15 / 10 / 365.25 / 24 / 60 / 60 / 10^6 = 316 Mbps.
My calculation agrees with yours. I have 100 Mbps fiber at home, and I calculate it only gives 31 petabits per decade at full utilization. Luckily, my ISP imposes no limits, but I still rarely use even a percent of the available capacity (at most a few hundred GB per month out of 32 TB potentially available).
...to leave a fool with any money.
This is taught in business ethics 101, and reiterated in all subsequent business ethics classes.
Did they use only data for Northern hemisphere women (north of the tropics)?, Or is it a mix with tropical and Southern hemisphere as well?
Moreover, Theora is the only decent video codec which complies with the W3C's patent policy. There is no question or threat of demands for patent royalties or license payments for any use of the codec.
Dunno if your Patriot Act allows it, though...
It appears to allow whatever they want to do.
Nobody expected the American Inquisition, but here it is...
Oh god.... what's going to happen in the Sidewiki comments on YouTube?
Or... imagine the SideWanki comments on FaceBook or MySpace.
The mind boggles at the potential for sustained vacuity.
Cue the musical vikings: spam spam spam spam. Followed by the dancing astroturfers, posturing political whiners, beggars of all descriptions, and every other audience-seeker that sane audiences are trying to avoid. Popular sites will see their popularity getting hijacked in service of idiot causes and losers that deserve to stay in their present obscurity.
Of course, we'll need another Firefox add-in to block crap from known sleazebags and protect from the malignant content that will turn out to be embeddable (scripts, nasty links, etc.) in this SideWanki.
There are some other issues relating to copyright material distributed under GFDL and some CC licenses. Redistribution is allowed, but certain nonfinancial conditions are attached, applying to the distributor and/or to the recipient. A financial settlement, which is meaningless in the context of GFDL or CC material, cannot absolve the distributor from the nonfinancial duties associated with distribution.
General GFDL conditions for distribution can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL#Conditions. Additionally, if anyone distributes GFDL documents in quantity, they are obliged to make available also the associated document source (such as LaTeX), and if it is a program manual for a GPL program, they must also make the program source code available. There are analogous issues for the several variants on CC licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons#Types_of_Creative_Commons_licenses.
Even the FSF is against the Google settlement...
WHY THE FUCK DON'T LAPTOPS COME WITH BETTER RESOLUTION?
Probably just penny pinching to get the sticker price down. But perhaps you've been looking at the wrong laptops. Those in most stores have crappy resolutions, even with large displays. I just hate when they say 18" widescreen LCD, without saying how many pixels. As like as not, it's just 1440x800 or something equally pathetic, but you might have to corner a sales droid to find out.
At home, I've got a 6-year-old laptop, with a 17" WUXGA (1920x1200) display. Since I got it, I'm unwilling to accept any less. So our home PCs each have dual 24" 1920x1200 displays, and I was recently able to wangle a 1920x1200 laptop at work.