Just because some languages made a poor style decision, doesn't mean that we should all suffer. That cascading function definition is awful, keep it on one line.
Most developers that get paid to do what they do spend more time writing menial database applications than anything interesting. By a factor of at least twenty times more people doing the CS equivalent of grunt work.
Just because the law has to be defined around arbitrary limits like the age of consent, does not mean that it is a correct limit. There are plenty of people attending universities that aren't mature enough for sexual activity, and there are people at the age of 14 that are mature enough to understand what they are doing.
I have a 4 year CS degree and I can tell you with certainty that that blogger is full of shit. The problems that are already parallelizable, are easily multithreaded with current technology. The problems with serial dependency, are not, and never will be, easily multithreaded.
Rendering graphics is already done, because its easy to split the task of rendering a bunch of pixels into pixel-sized chunks. Each small thread can read from the same shared memory (the scene graph and textures, etc.) and write to a distinct location (its one pixel in the frame buffer).
Encoding video using motion-compensation techniques (basically all modern video codecs) will never be satisfactorily parallelizable because the best bang/bitrate can only be achieved when frames are processed serially. Frames need to be processed as a whole to optimize for panning and other full-scene motion, and the results of the previous frame's motion analysis is typically needed to compute the next delta. You can break the processing up into multiple threads easily enough, but you miss out on opportunities to make the output more efficient or better looking.
When Mr. PseudoScience blogger can parallelize the video encoding problem without so many dependencies that its essentially a serial process, then he should get some credit, not before then.
This hole in the DMCA is trivial for businesses to circumvent. All the company has to do is include a copyrighted image in memory on the print cartridge, then have the printer refuse to recognize print cartridges without the copyrighted image. It was done on the original Game Boy, and probably before that.
You may as well make it a requirement to spend X funds on security, because requirements like that guarantee that it will be cheaper to pay the fines than to "do whatever they have to".
A-friggin-men. JavaScript is one of the few popular languages with first-class functions. How many JS-bashers have actually written something more than document.write() rubbish?
That stuffed belly look is the end-game of starvation, don't be fooled. That woman with the obese look isn't obese, her body has started breaking down connective tissues which leads to sagging skin and distended bellies.
You deserve neither the protection of the law which you advocate nor any liberty that you would take from others. You are paving the road to hell in the name of your profits.
Until the powers that be make encrypted communication illegal for "national security reasons". And don't think that the media won't make it look like people that encrypt are terrorists or worse. After all, most lay people have already swallowed the kool-aid and think that they have nothing to hide.
Congress sets up "Christmas Tree" bills in such a way that vetoing them is political suicide. Which is why the President needs line-item veto if there will ever be a stop to that bullshit.
Many vehicles for the US market since the '90s require you to engage some sort of safety before putting the key into the OFF/lock position. Some work by pressing the key in, others have a button that must be pressed while turning. If you are accustomed to turning the key to OFF in one motion, it doesn't do much, but you can't account for all driver errors.
If a cop had seen "your friend" (by "your friend" I mean you, since that's who you're talking about), he would have received a reckless endangerment citation. At least, in Texas he would have.
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Just because some languages made a poor style decision, doesn't mean that we should all suffer. That cascading function definition is awful, keep it on one line.
The rest of us have moved from Windows 2000 and have write caching off by default.
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That's not so bad, they'll never be able to claim selling a product based on those patents.
Most developers that get paid to do what they do spend more time writing menial database applications than anything interesting. By a factor of at least twenty times more people doing the CS equivalent of grunt work.
Just because the law has to be defined around arbitrary limits like the age of consent, does not mean that it is a correct limit. There are plenty of people attending universities that aren't mature enough for sexual activity, and there are people at the age of 14 that are mature enough to understand what they are doing.
I have a 4 year CS degree and I can tell you with certainty that that blogger is full of shit. The problems that are already parallelizable, are easily multithreaded with current technology. The problems with serial dependency, are not, and never will be, easily multithreaded.
Rendering graphics is already done, because its easy to split the task of rendering a bunch of pixels into pixel-sized chunks. Each small thread can read from the same shared memory (the scene graph and textures, etc.) and write to a distinct location (its one pixel in the frame buffer).
Encoding video using motion-compensation techniques (basically all modern video codecs) will never be satisfactorily parallelizable because the best bang/bitrate can only be achieved when frames are processed serially. Frames need to be processed as a whole to optimize for panning and other full-scene motion, and the results of the previous frame's motion analysis is typically needed to compute the next delta. You can break the processing up into multiple threads easily enough, but you miss out on opportunities to make the output more efficient or better looking.
When Mr. PseudoScience blogger can parallelize the video encoding problem without so many dependencies that its essentially a serial process, then he should get some credit, not before then.
This hole in the DMCA is trivial for businesses to circumvent. All the company has to do is include a copyrighted image in memory on the print cartridge, then have the printer refuse to recognize print cartridges without the copyrighted image. It was done on the original Game Boy, and probably before that.
* Per-application volume control.
* ipv6
These were both in Vista.
You may as well make it a requirement to spend X funds on security, because requirements like that guarantee that it will be cheaper to pay the fines than to "do whatever they have to".
Easy enough.
You heard the man, noone use the Internet until this is done.
A-friggin-men. JavaScript is one of the few popular languages with first-class functions. How many JS-bashers have actually written something more than document.write() rubbish?
Don't tell those suicide bomber guys. I think they might take offense.
So in the end times, we die of overdosing on Absinthe? Might be a fun way to go...
I don't think its most coders that want patents. It's the PHBs.
That stuffed belly look is the end-game of starvation, don't be fooled. That woman with the obese look isn't obese, her body has started breaking down connective tissues which leads to sagging skin and distended bellies.
You deserve neither the protection of the law which you advocate nor any liberty that you would take from others. You are paving the road to hell in the name of your profits.
Until the powers that be make encrypted communication illegal for "national security reasons". And don't think that the media won't make it look like people that encrypt are terrorists or worse. After all, most lay people have already swallowed the kool-aid and think that they have nothing to hide.
Congress sets up "Christmas Tree" bills in such a way that vetoing them is political suicide. Which is why the President needs line-item veto if there will ever be a stop to that bullshit.
Many vehicles for the US market since the '90s require you to engage some sort of safety before putting the key into the OFF/lock position. Some work by pressing the key in, others have a button that must be pressed while turning. If you are accustomed to turning the key to OFF in one motion, it doesn't do much, but you can't account for all driver errors.
Not this troll again. The USPS is sustained on its own income, not on tax money.
If a cop had seen "your friend" (by "your friend" I mean you, since that's who you're talking about), he would have received a reckless endangerment citation. At least, in Texas he would have.
They could surely use a different set of web developers. Cold Fusion? Who actually uses that to build sites?
Its the beards.