SQL is a descriptive language - you describe what results you want, but you don't say how to arrive at the answer. I believe it has more in common to PROLOG than to a functional language.
Just a note - perl is the same way, reference counting is MAINLY used for GC. I believe in both perl & python if a circular reference is detected a more advanced GC technique is used (mark & sweep?)
It is redhat's OS. They chose exactly which tools to include, which versions, and what configuration. Same as Slack is an OS, Mandrake is an OS, Suse is an OS, Debian is an OS,... Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel.
My understanding of the GPL if you use GPL'ed software in your product, and you make your product available, then you have to make the source available to everyone, not just those who have bought your product
You only have to deliver the source to those to whom you deliver the binary. Of course they can then distribute the source to whomever they please.
Sony has 650MB MDs for its video camera that uses MDs. Sharp has developed 1.2GB MD, but I believe it's only in the lab. Search for the articles on www.minidisc.org.
I just wish the format was more open so that good data I/O for them could be developed. It would kick the ass of most removable media. Imagine a programmable DSP (change the codec) based on MDs.
You're not MEEPT. You don't seem very glorious, and you didn't make me laugh. I also don't see a sig about bringing together all the divided factions of/. into one big divided faction, so you must be fake. MEEPT is dead! Long live the MEEPT!
There are a TON of freely available bioinformatics type programs available, a good start is to browse Biocat. Of course to get any use out of these programs you should have some knowledge of biology & computational biology. Traditionally academic software is very open, though not GPL (I'm beginning to hate all you GPL-wanting whining fuckers (this is not necessarily directed to the poster I am replying to)). An unfortunate trend as of late is servers which provide an application but no binaries to run locally, and no code. Not very scientific if you ask me. Also not helped by the GPL.
one day not too far away kids in highschool will do lab exercises in biology class that involve cloning genes and so forth
In high school I took Advanced Placement Biology (suppose to be equiv to an intro college course) and one of the labs was to introduce a plasmid into E. Coli so that it became immune to ampicyllin, an anti-biotic. Genetic experiments are definitely possible at the high school level, it's just a matter of getting the expensive machines and specialized knowledge. Maybe a schoold district could put its money into a couple PCR machines and a knowledgable lab tech?
and if the interloper has r00t there is no way he could have replaced your chmod binaries, right? Pull the cat5 and run trusted utilities from a CD-ROM, hopefully you installed tripwire.
Harvard Business Review have shown pretty conclusively, that fear is a better motivator than love
And it works great until all your smart employees quit, or rise up against you and crucify you against a cubicle wall.
Discipline and a clear delimitation of duties are vital, but the respect and well being of employees cannot be abandoned in the quest for the bottom line, or else all gains will be very short term.
As far as the fashion issue goes, I can only sneer at my fellow employees who wear unwashed T-shirts that they got for free with their dirty jeans and sandals. It's ok to dress decently and have taste.
That's funny, every benchmark I see has the Athlon beating a PIII of the same megahertz, and costing several hundred dollars less. The difference isn't always huge in integer tests, but the Athlon destroys the PIII in FP. You might want to browse around Tom's Hardware.
Ever thought how modern computing would be different if it was women dominated by the start?
I always find these postulations ridiculous. Human nature is similar enough between genders and external factors are constant, so it's not like we would program computers by arranging flowers on screen and all computers would crash once a month. The only difference that would matter is that we would all be reading an article about how guys don't want to be geeks.
And if you are interested in the influence on early computing by a woman, look up Grace Hopper. Of course geeks might not be too happy about her support of COBOL.
I work at HP which has a female CEO, and my manager is a woman. Of course that doesn't mean she's any better than the normal clueless managers;) There has been a lot of press about the CEO though.
I find it particular ironic that Be whines about Apple not giving them the G* specs (FUD anyway, they're available from Motorola (enjoying that intel money jean?)),
Meta-FUD alert! Be complained about not having the motherboard specs (made by apple), not about lack of G4 cpu specs (made by motorola).
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Just because a language is functional doesn't mean it lacks flow control!
SQL is a descriptive language - you describe what results you want, but you don't say how to arrive at the answer. I believe it has more in common to PROLOG than to a functional language.
Just a note - perl is the same way, reference counting is MAINLY used for GC. I believe in both perl & python if a circular reference is detected a more advanced GC technique is used (mark & sweep?)
Best solution - IMAP4 with a web gateway. Thus you can access mail without the not-so-ubiquitous IMAP client and you get a nice centralized server.
It is redhat's OS. They chose exactly which tools to include, which versions, and what configuration. Same as Slack is an OS, Mandrake is an OS, Suse is an OS, Debian is an OS, ... Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel.
My understanding of the GPL if you use GPL'ed software in your product, and you make your product available, then you have to make the source available to everyone, not just those who have bought your product
You only have to deliver the source to those to whom you deliver the binary. Of course they can then distribute the source to whomever they please.
Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing?
Thank you.
Do you have Java experience? I'm curious because much of what you describe sounds like a description of Java. How do the two languages compare?
When I first learned C++ I liked it, then as I learned more I began to love it, now that I have lots of experience in it I hate it.
Sony has 650MB MDs for its video camera that uses MDs. Sharp has developed 1.2GB MD, but I believe it's only in the lab. Search for the articles on www.minidisc.org.
I just wish the format was more open so that good data I/O for them could be developed. It would kick the ass of most removable media. Imagine a programmable DSP (change the codec) based on MDs.
Don't forget the \n's!
You're not MEEPT. You don't seem very glorious, and you didn't make me laugh. I also don't see a sig about bringing together all the divided factions of /. into one big divided faction, so you must be fake. MEEPT is dead! Long live the MEEPT!
There are a TON of freely available bioinformatics type programs available, a good start is to browse Biocat. Of course to get any use out of these programs you should have some knowledge of biology & computational biology. Traditionally academic software is very open, though not GPL (I'm beginning to hate all you GPL-wanting whining fuckers (this is not necessarily directed to the poster I am replying to)). An unfortunate trend as of late is servers which provide an application but no binaries to run locally, and no code. Not very scientific if you ask me. Also not helped by the GPL.
one day not too far away kids in highschool will do lab exercises in biology class that involve cloning genes and so forth
In high school I took Advanced Placement Biology (suppose to be equiv to an intro college course) and one of the labs was to introduce a plasmid into E. Coli so that it became immune to ampicyllin, an anti-biotic. Genetic experiments are definitely possible at the high school level, it's just a matter of getting the expensive machines and specialized knowledge. Maybe a schoold district could put its money into a couple PCR machines and a knowledgable lab tech?
Genbank & Pubmed rock my world....even if a lot of the genbank stuff is crap.
One time a cell phone going off in class was apropos to the lecture - it was a networking class and the topic was wireless protocols.
No, it isn't censorship. They were protecting their patents and copyrights.
No, MS was enforcing an illegal clause in their software license which didn't allow one to sell the software.
I used to use geoworks on my commie! Long live the C64!!!
and if the interloper has r00t there is no way he could have replaced your chmod binaries, right? Pull the cat5 and run trusted utilities from a CD-ROM, hopefully you installed tripwire.
But I guarnette you I learned more on my first linux install when linux was "raw" then I have in all my CS classes and Windows expeince combined
You must go to a really shitty school.
Harvard Business Review have shown pretty conclusively, that fear is a better motivator than love
And it works great until all your smart employees quit, or rise up against you and crucify you against a cubicle wall.
Discipline and a clear delimitation of duties are vital, but the respect and well being of employees cannot be abandoned in the quest for the bottom line, or else all gains will be very short term.
As far as the fashion issue goes, I can only sneer at my fellow employees who wear unwashed T-shirts that they got for free with their dirty jeans and sandals. It's ok to dress decently and have taste.
Luckily thinking and action have no connection at all when it comes to lawyers.
That's funny, every benchmark I see has the Athlon beating a PIII of the same megahertz, and costing several hundred dollars less. The difference isn't always huge in integer tests, but the Athlon destroys the PIII in FP. You might want to browse around Tom's Hardware.
Ever thought how modern computing would be different if it was women dominated by the start?
I always find these postulations ridiculous. Human nature is similar enough between genders and external factors are constant, so it's not like we would program computers by arranging flowers on screen and all computers would crash once a month. The only difference that would matter is that we would all be reading an article about how guys don't want to be geeks.
And if you are interested in the influence on early computing by a woman, look up Grace Hopper. Of course geeks might not be too happy about her support of COBOL.
I work at HP which has a female CEO, and my manager is a woman. Of course that doesn't mean she's any better than the normal clueless managers ;) There has been a lot of press about the CEO though.
You've inspired me to grab a pint of beer this instant!
I find it particular ironic that Be whines about Apple not giving them the G* specs (FUD anyway, they're available from Motorola (enjoying that intel money jean?)),
Meta-FUD alert!
Be complained about not having the motherboard specs (made by apple), not about lack of G4 cpu specs (made by motorola).