If your Fortran program ran correctly on a PC it would run correctly on a mainframe, mini, or supercomputer. More importantly, it would produce the same result. It didn't matter which compiler you used.
This isn't true. As in C, optimizations might have changed the order of fp operations resulting in subtle differences that often matter. Memory allocation (yes, the static arrays) has some really funny weirdnesses across compilers that make buggy programs produce very different results on different versions of the same compiler. The F77 language has very little support for avoiding bugs, and quite a few booby traps. Most F77 codes are just riddled with bugs and depend on undefined behavior that varies a lot from one compiler to the next.
Just look at all the code generation flags of gfortran to get an idea.
This is a very real problemâ"it's not just some rich people being assholes, but rather some rich people who stand to become substantially less rich if things go the way they seem to be going.
I thought the actual story was that if you or me dislike some policy we can go fuck ourselves, whereas if the Kochs dislike it, they get a real chance to change it.
What I also find a little unsettling is that most commenters, including you, don't seem to think much of that power imbalance (or even be aware of it) directly jumping to the solar vs. no solar issue.
I expect Ada to make a comeback. It is a safe language, but without the bizarrness of a functional programming language, so it can be used to do actual work.
Your law may not be properly upheld in practice but that does not change the situation of Germany being in the very small club of countries where the art of street photography is effectively illegal or at least very cumbersome.
Yes, and they keep constantly weeping about all the street photography they miss out. Well, actually, they don't. It seems they like their law like that. For some reason, people assume that street photography, or being able to shoot photos of whoever you want, is a right nobody would object to. Well, I do, especially in times of facebook, and it seems I am not alone.
Things like google glass belong, as far as I am concerned, banned, and its use in public places punishable by jail. In the same vein, cell phones should be forbidden from having a camera.
There is this thing with privacy. For some reason, everybody is for it as long as it is not them who have to respect it.
The best tools in the worst hands are far worse than the worst tools in the best hands. Yelling for tools is a specious argument. Someone has to do the work, and that someone may well bone the job.
A similar argument was put forward against the use of seat belts in cars. It just does not hold water.
The point of safer tools is to keep the reasonably good programmers from shooting themselves in the foot. Because as good as they may be, they are human and make mistakes. C needlessly invites a lot of mistakes, and even good programmers fuck up in C all the time.
Again one needs MOTIVATED AND QUALIFIED eyes AAAAAND good QA and test cases.
Perhaps using a safety aware language like Ada would be helpful too. C is known to be brittle, yet people insist in writing all sorts of mission critical code in it. I really wonder why.
The more troubling element of your claim is that regulation somehow solves the problems. What if a regulator makes a mistake?
You make it sound as if regulation was something completely exotic. Regulation actually exists, and there is plenty of it. To answer you question: If regulators make mistakes, they are eventually corrected. Happens all the time.
When it comes to something like donating money to help poor kids, I don't care who is doing it or why.
This is myopic at best. Part of the reason corporations get away with so much is that there exist people who are happy to let them off the hook as soon as they spend a little on charity.
The issue is that by giving a little to poor kids, this behemoth of a company can get away with the continuing destruction of the neighborhoods where there is affordable housing. It really is a PR move that does not solve any problems on a medium to long timescale. It is important to understand that charity is the sort of thing that just perpetrates problems and is only good as a stopgap. It would be much better if things could be aranged in such a way that charity wasn't necessary.
Thanks for the link. I find it especially interesting how careful you need to be to not risk getting robbed. See this email on the bitcoin dev list for some details. Among other things, it permeates that the problems that bit MtGox haven't been solved conclusively.
Clearly, the average person on the street should stay clear of things like bitcoin, because you really have to understand the protocol and know exactly what you are doing. The folks at MtGox surely spent some thought on this, and now look at this fuckup. They are in huge trouble right now.
If you tried before December 21, 2012 that was a pre-release. The 0.17.0 release was on Doomsday.
Well, I tried 0.17.0 and, heck, it managed to freeze my display. That didn't happen to me for years nor did it happen since. And lots of other things kept crashing.
Many of the themes were unmaintained, and the black one that came bundled had this gross faux-racecar aesthetics of a "pimp my ride" episode gone wrong. Well, IMO, anyway. But I didn't manage to get the others working. You could claim that it was my fault, but frankly, I don't think so. And I will not install a special distro just to use WM, because I actually work on my computer.
That said, I'll try again with 0.18.0. The promise of E is too good, even though the realization isnt (IMO).
It's not always laziness. I added outgoing filters to my routers so that it only allowed source addresses from my network. That was great at stopping DOS attacks, but as I found-out the hard way, several of my customers were sending outbound traffic with source addresses not on my network.
Oh, and it has AWD standard, and all sorts of fancy electronics to keep those gullwing doors (because that's what those are called, Elon) from whacking into stuff.
What's wrong with AWD?
The gullwing doors, however, really look like a stupid idea. Sure, they look great, but I would be surprised if they are anything but inconvenient unless you have lots of parking space.
If by "computer" you understand "general purpose / user programmable computer", then the differences are easy to explain. Neither the wi-fi card nor the smartphone have a built-in general purpose programming language/environment for the user to play with.
At least for android, downloading the sdk and running your first app on a phone is a matter of less than an hour (up to bandwidth limitations).
Seriously - in a western society where everyone is well fed and healthy and has access to 24/7 entertainment there is nothing vital that (non health related) technology or science can add to our existence - its all toys, gadgets and gizmos that are a brief amusement until they get tossed in landfill and then we all go out and buy the next piece of crap.
That's not entirely true. There is a lot of cancer to be cured, and cured painlessly. Having a longer period of livable life would be very desirable, which includes delaying decrepitude as well as making old age more livable. There is a lot of sientific advance possible and desirable in those areas.
A piece of robot kit able to navigate a typical human dwelling would be a fantastic achievement upon which a lot could be built, not just vacuum cleaners. That said, I don't believe that you can make breakthroughs happen just by sprinkling money on scientists, especially a lump sum like this 5 million pounds.
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Without us Slashdot is just another lame webscraper.
The kind of strident and petulant arrogance reflected in this and other similar comment makes me look forward to the slashcott, when all the morons like you just stay away. If you take a story this one, and substract the ant-beta vandalism from the comments, you end up with a very high level discussion forum.
And to the people suggesting usenet as an alternative: hell yeah, go ahead and have fun.
As to linkdin, I can't comment as I just joined yesterday. Looks OK. Found a few folks that I hadn't seen in years. What scared me a little is that they want me to import my address book, like that, unfiltered. But given the nature of modern employment, I see little alternative to being a member, unfortunately.
I see that as a major problem. Someone looking for a job has no choice but to engage in the dubious customs of the prospective employers. It really is a bit of good luck that the linkedin people don't abuse their power more, the way facebook does it.
...if they catch you running an illegal operation using Bitcoins, the necessary bribe to the authorities just got bigger.
Sure, and that is indeed an additional cost when doing business with bitcoins. That's what many libertarians that like bitcoin are unaware of: risk has its costs, and many people and organization have a low tollerance for risk. Especially needless risk, and few actually need bitcoin.
It is possible to outlaw cryptocurrency. It doesn't mean the state can stop it, just that it becomes very risky to use, which does diminish its use.
Speaking of libertarians. Where are all the property-is-everything, guns-and-freedom, company-defending people now? My opinion on the beta is, yes, it sucks. But do you guys really think you own this site?
While I enjoyed slashdot the way it was, I don't see any reason to pretend that the "community" only has positive attributes. The senseless vandalism of the last two days is disgusting and a case in point. Is this really the community a for profit company wants to be based uppon? After what has happened recently - why would anyone run a site with such a crazy and spiteful following?
At least that is a way to think about it. A sort of disturbing view as you could say the protagonist is actually killing his fellow marines and is the real enemy
Also, it is kind of depressing, as it means that his friends are pretty stupid by subjecting themselves to such a decimation without changing strategy.
This is OPT-IN. You only get them if you sign up for them.
Ah, thanks. With this piece of information, the UK seems only a tiny little bit less creepy than before I read your comment. It speaks volumes that the idea that in the UK something like this isn't opt-in seems entirely plausible.
It's a voluntary relationship where each side can expect the other to exploit any weakness for their own interest.
For the engineers, it is a weakness that they are peasants before they are engineers. The CEOs have an unfair advantage over them, and that advantage is not part of engineers voluntary agreement.
We find it unnerving (but not surprising) that somebody with zero background in health, fitness, or nutrition is leading a cadre of lemmings to near-certain long-term trouble.
You uh... realize that the alternative to sideing with the EU is being eaten by Russia again?
Yes, I do, and I realize that this is not good,
You don't think that Russia has any ability to sway politics and policy in Ukraine?
Where did I say they don't? But I don't think they are behind the protests, and I don't think you do, either.
Just to clarify. Whenever I think about these issues, I make a point of trying to see what is true, and not confuse this with what I would wish were true. A prosperous Ukraine as a member of the EU would be a very nice thing in my opinion. More likely, IMO less nice, would be a Ukraine that is not prosperous (and whose democracy has been lobotomized) and is a member of the EU, because, you see, the EU isn't a club of philantropists either. Much more likely, unfortunately, is that Russia keeps a tight grip on Ukraine.
What also seems likely (coold blooded, factual consideration) is that a lot of young people will get tragically ground down in a standoff whose dimensions they do not understand.
They could kick out Yanukovitch and show the future leaders that they have to respect the rights of their citizens.
Much to my regret, I see about zero chance of this actually happening.
Sometimes digging in and waiting for a better time to fight is the best you can do.
Things are very bad for Ukraine right now. I don't fully understand the ideological issues they're fighting over, but I can certainly recognize the nature of the government's response.
IIUC, this is at the core about wether to join the EU at some point or not. At least, this is the culmination of an escalation that started right after the breakdown of talks between the gov. of Ukraine and the EU, followed by a move to closer ties with Russa.
One should not be fooled by any of this. The EU is quite capable of funding and supporting disruptive agitators, and has about zero qualms of doing that. After all, this is about the geopolitics of power, so none of the big boys cares if a few lives are ruined. It is a tragedy that those protesting (who have, I am convinced, goals they believe to be virtuous) are being exploited and fooled like this from one side, and shot down like this from the other. There is literally nothing they can win, and quite a bit they can lose.
Experiments in Europe with 35 and 38 work hours failed and were rolled back to nearly 40 hours or even more.
These "experiments" did not really fail except in the sense that bosses and conservatives felt the employees and lower classes where having it too good.
In theory, you cannot be competitive with that number of hours. In practice, a lot could be gained by having employees that are less stressed, less sleep-deprived, and generally happier. But there is a sadistic streak running in those well off that refuses to see it that way.
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This isn't true. As in C, optimizations might have changed the order of fp operations resulting in subtle differences that often matter. Memory allocation (yes, the static arrays) has some really funny weirdnesses across compilers that make buggy programs produce very different results on different versions of the same compiler. The F77 language has very little support for avoiding bugs, and quite a few booby traps. Most F77 codes are just riddled with bugs and depend on undefined behavior that varies a lot from one compiler to the next.
Just look at all the code generation flags of gfortran to get an idea.
I thought the actual story was that if you or me dislike some policy we can go fuck ourselves, whereas if the Kochs dislike it, they get a real chance to change it.
An oligarchy indeed.
What I also find a little unsettling is that most commenters, including you, don't seem to think much of that power imbalance (or even be aware of it) directly jumping to the solar vs. no solar issue.
Like Ada.
I expect Ada to make a comeback. It is a safe language, but without the bizarrness of a functional programming language, so it can be used to do actual work.
Yes, and they keep constantly weeping about all the street photography they miss out. Well, actually, they don't. It seems they like their law like that. For some reason, people assume that street photography, or being able to shoot photos of whoever you want, is a right nobody would object to. Well, I do, especially in times of facebook, and it seems I am not alone.
Things like google glass belong, as far as I am concerned, banned, and its use in public places punishable by jail. In the same vein, cell phones should be forbidden from having a camera.
There is this thing with privacy. For some reason, everybody is for it as long as it is not them who have to respect it.
A similar argument was put forward against the use of seat belts in cars. It just does not hold water.
The point of safer tools is to keep the reasonably good programmers from shooting themselves in the foot. Because as good as they may be, they are human and make mistakes. C needlessly invites a lot of mistakes, and even good programmers fuck up in C all the time.
Perhaps using a safety aware language like Ada would be helpful too. C is known to be brittle, yet people insist in writing all sorts of mission critical code in it. I really wonder why.
You make it sound as if regulation was something completely exotic. Regulation actually exists, and there is plenty of it. To answer you question: If regulators make mistakes, they are eventually corrected. Happens all the time.
This is myopic at best. Part of the reason corporations get away with so much is that there exist people who are happy to let them off the hook as soon as they spend a little on charity.
The issue is that by giving a little to poor kids, this behemoth of a company can get away with the continuing destruction of the neighborhoods where there is affordable housing. It really is a PR move that does not solve any problems on a medium to long timescale. It is important to understand that charity is the sort of thing that just perpetrates problems and is only good as a stopgap. It would be much better if things could be aranged in such a way that charity wasn't necessary.
No, the owner went way too far. Being an owner does not entitle you to behave like a pig.
Thanks for the link. I find it especially interesting how careful you need to be to not risk getting robbed. See this email on the bitcoin dev list for some details. Among other things, it permeates that the problems that bit MtGox haven't been solved conclusively.
Clearly, the average person on the street should stay clear of things like bitcoin, because you really have to understand the protocol and know exactly what you are doing. The folks at MtGox surely spent some thought on this, and now look at this fuckup. They are in huge trouble right now.
It might be tangentially interesting in this regard that, technically, all of britain is a constituion free zone.
Also, you do not have many rights even outside of those buildings. The UK has been steadily degenerating into a police state out of a SciFi movie.
Well, I tried 0.17.0 and, heck, it managed to freeze my display. That didn't happen to me for years nor did it happen since. And lots of other things kept crashing.
Many of the themes were unmaintained, and the black one that came bundled had this gross faux-racecar aesthetics of a "pimp my ride" episode gone wrong. Well, IMO, anyway. But I didn't manage to get the others working. You could claim that it was my fault, but frankly, I don't think so. And I will not install a special distro just to use WM, because I actually work on my computer.
That said, I'll try again with 0.18.0. The promise of E is too good, even though the realization isnt (IMO).
Interesting. What where they doing?
What's wrong with AWD?
The gullwing doors, however, really look like a stupid idea. Sure, they look great, but I would be surprised if they are anything but inconvenient unless you have lots of parking space.
At least for android, downloading the sdk and running your first app on a phone is a matter of less than an hour (up to bandwidth limitations).
For the wifi card - well, it depends on your determination. It is possible to get root on the linux that runs on it, and since it has at least sh, you can program it.
That's not entirely true. There is a lot of cancer to be cured, and cured painlessly. Having a longer period of livable life would be very desirable, which includes delaying decrepitude as well as making old age more livable. There is a lot of sientific advance possible and desirable in those areas.
A piece of robot kit able to navigate a typical human dwelling would be a fantastic achievement upon which a lot could be built, not just vacuum cleaners. That said, I don't believe that you can make breakthroughs happen just by sprinkling money on scientists, especially a lump sum like this 5 million pounds.
The kind of strident and petulant arrogance reflected in this and other similar comment makes me look forward to the slashcott, when all the morons like you just stay away. If you take a story this one, and substract the ant-beta vandalism from the comments, you end up with a very high level discussion forum.
And to the people suggesting usenet as an alternative: hell yeah, go ahead and have fun.
As to linkdin, I can't comment as I just joined yesterday. Looks OK. Found a few folks that I hadn't seen in years. What scared me a little is that they want me to import my address book, like that, unfiltered. But given the nature of modern employment, I see little alternative to being a member, unfortunately.
I see that as a major problem. Someone looking for a job has no choice but to engage in the dubious customs of the prospective employers. It really is a bit of good luck that the linkedin people don't abuse their power more, the way facebook does it.
Sure, and that is indeed an additional cost when doing business with bitcoins. That's what many libertarians that like bitcoin are unaware of: risk has its costs, and many people and organization have a low tollerance for risk. Especially needless risk, and few actually need bitcoin.
It is possible to outlaw cryptocurrency. It doesn't mean the state can stop it, just that it becomes very risky to use, which does diminish its use.
Speaking of libertarians. Where are all the property-is-everything, guns-and-freedom, company-defending people now? My opinion on the beta is, yes, it sucks. But do you guys really think you own this site?
While I enjoyed slashdot the way it was, I don't see any reason to pretend that the "community" only has positive attributes. The senseless vandalism of the last two days is disgusting and a case in point. Is this really the community a for profit company wants to be based uppon? After what has happened recently - why would anyone run a site with such a crazy and spiteful following?
Also, it is kind of depressing, as it means that his friends are pretty stupid by subjecting themselves to such a decimation without changing strategy.
Ah, thanks. With this piece of information, the UK seems only a tiny little bit less creepy than before I read your comment. It speaks volumes that the idea that in the UK something like this isn't opt-in seems entirely plausible.
For the engineers, it is a weakness that they are peasants before they are engineers. The CEOs have an unfair advantage over them, and that advantage is not part of engineers voluntary agreement.
Why do I have to even explain this to you?
Here is a good takedown: http://www.priceplow.com/blog/... . From the link:
Yes, I do, and I realize that this is not good,
Where did I say they don't? But I don't think they are behind the protests, and I don't think you do, either.
Just to clarify. Whenever I think about these issues, I make a point of trying to see what is true, and not confuse this with what I would wish were true. A prosperous Ukraine as a member of the EU would be a very nice thing in my opinion. More likely, IMO less nice, would be a Ukraine that is not prosperous (and whose democracy has been lobotomized) and is a member of the EU, because, you see, the EU isn't a club of philantropists either. Much more likely, unfortunately, is that Russia keeps a tight grip on Ukraine.
What also seems likely (coold blooded, factual consideration) is that a lot of young people will get tragically ground down in a standoff whose dimensions they do not understand.
Much to my regret, I see about zero chance of this actually happening.
Sometimes digging in and waiting for a better time to fight is the best you can do.
IIUC, this is at the core about wether to join the EU at some point or not. At least, this is the culmination of an escalation that started right after the breakdown of talks between the gov. of Ukraine and the EU, followed by a move to closer ties with Russa.
One should not be fooled by any of this. The EU is quite capable of funding and supporting disruptive agitators, and has about zero qualms of doing that. After all, this is about the geopolitics of power, so none of the big boys cares if a few lives are ruined. It is a tragedy that those protesting (who have, I am convinced, goals they believe to be virtuous) are being exploited and fooled like this from one side, and shot down like this from the other. There is literally nothing they can win, and quite a bit they can lose.
These "experiments" did not really fail except in the sense that bosses and conservatives felt the employees and lower classes where having it too good.
In theory, you cannot be competitive with that number of hours. In practice, a lot could be gained by having employees that are less stressed, less sleep-deprived, and generally happier. But there is a sadistic streak running in those well off that refuses to see it that way.