watts is not an energy unit, it's a power unit. To get a figure for the energy used we need to know how long it took you to travel that mile. If you're* using 300watt-years/mile it's not so good...
Err, don't think so. A Cooper made beer barrels, from wood with iron rings.
Now if the virus was actually yeast and you could brew a battery the size of a barrel... excellent.
Because Steve Bourne was doing this work back in 1975! About that time people had only just got beyond programming by biting holes in paper-tape with their teeth!
These days it is quite easy to get embedded perl or lisp etc.
Test Driven Development is a very useful practice.
The test suite describes the standard unambiguously (and, hopefully, accurately:-) and then you develop until all the tests work.
it allows you to get strings back from commands and use them as the text of the script as if you had typed it directly. I think this was a new idea that I, at least, had not seen in scripting languages, except perhaps LISP,
Greenspun's Tenth Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp"
So Javascript is becoming what Java should have been, the run-anywhere language, if only Java hadn't been such a superficially ugly language and goddam slow - the browser is the equivalent of the JRE.
If all JRE's (browsers) are alike in syntax, semantics, security and libraries then the faster one will become the shell of choice to run these cloudy, ajaxy apps. And we'll partying like it's 1980 with browser-and-cloud architectures replacing greenscreen-and-mainframe.
It's a shame that, like you said, javascript is superficially pretty but deeply broken (namespaces? proper, native OO? etc.)
Everything is somewhat vulnerable, and a determined intruder with infinite resource will almost always find a way in.
The point is facial recognition alone is so vulnerable! All you need is a cameraphone and a photo printer - and you can't revoke your face as your password either. At least with fingerprints you can get hacked nearly 10 times (on average) before it becomes a problem.
We already have gated communities on the web: they're the "web2.0" sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo etc.
1. You have to give up some identification when you enter/join (even if it's quite weak: ie. usually you're verified email address)
2. You have to introduce yourself (or be introduced as in LinkedIn) before you can send anyone a message.
3. All you communications are through a central server that verifies the identity of both endpoints and records all communication (possibly for ever!).
And, yes, it's been seen that people happily give up a whole heap of private info to be part of these clubs...
It would be interesting to find out what the ratio is between email and social-site IM'ing these days.
But experiments like this show that we can start with simpler and simpler types of dirt.
We're nearly at the point were we only need a god (of any kind) to make hydrogen and the rest takes care of itself - and the Large Hadron Collider guys are going to show we don't even need god for that!
The areas of ignorance where god can remain are, thankfully, getting smaller and smaller.
Fully computerised trains exist in the London Docklands Light Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
Each carriage has a small control panel a human can unlock to take control of the train. This was required for public confidence but, in practice, is almost never used.
"Especially when you consider its offshoot, the Landmark Forum"
I know this is slashdot, but I have to counter this misinformation:-)
Landmark Education is completely distinct from $ci£ntology (yes, CoS is not just American unfortunately).
Landmark is an offshot of EST, which was created by Werner Erhard http://www.wernererhard.com/ - some aspects of EST were weird, but then that was back in the early 70's when everything was weird! LF is just a bunch of people in a room talking. It takes the form of a 3 or 4-day intensive "bootcamp" type experience so can be tiring and very direct - but then direct, no-nonsense communication is part of the training. The history and detail of Landmark Education are freely available - e.g. http://www.landmarkeducation.com/display_content.jsp?top=26&mid=654&bottom=665 - and no-one from Landmark will harass me for making this post. Neither of those can be said of COS.
Yes I've done the Landmark Forum, and trained to be a coach. It's a very cathartic experience and, for the first few months at least, you come out very evangelical (which is why some people think it's "weird") but after a while you calm down and realise it's just training in communication and how to deal with the "Slings and Arrows" of life. I'd recommend it for anyone who wonders why the same old problems keep cropping up in their life.
On the other hand, the key marker of CoS is that it's *anti* communication! Everything is secret, and you get severely harassed for talking about it. *That's* the key difference and description of a (paranoid) cult. Also the higher levels of CoS belief are *out* of this world rather than in it. E.g. the Thetan machine (or whatever it's caused) is just a glorified stress detector (based on skin resistance etc.) but you try saying that around a CoS high-priest!
And so on and so on. CoS is a self-exploitation evil that needs to be blown wide open.
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Well my Saturn uses 300watts/mile.
watts is not an energy unit, it's a power unit. To get a figure for the energy used we need to know how long it took you to travel that mile. If you're* using 300watt-years/mile it's not so good...
* see the punctuation there?
Err, don't think so. A Cooper made beer barrels, from wood with iron rings. Now if the virus was actually yeast and you could brew a battery the size of a barrel... excellent.
If all you're doing is moving files around or creating tarballs etc. then all those backticks in perl can become a PITA
shell is still around 'cos it's still the right tool for some jobs...
Because Steve Bourne was doing this work back in 1975! About that time people had only just got beyond programming by biting holes in paper-tape with their teeth!
These days it is quite easy to get embedded perl or lisp etc.
Test Driven Development is a very useful practice. The test suite describes the standard unambiguously (and, hopefully, accurately :-) and then you develop until all the tests work.
it allows you to get strings back from commands and use them as the text of the script as if you had typed it directly. I think this was a new idea that I, at least, had not seen in scripting languages, except perhaps LISP,
Greenspun's Tenth Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp"
So Javascript is becoming what Java should have been, the run-anywhere language, if only Java hadn't been such a superficially ugly language and goddam slow - the browser is the equivalent of the JRE.
If all JRE's (browsers) are alike in syntax, semantics, security and libraries then the faster one will become the shell of choice to run these cloudy, ajaxy apps. And we'll partying like it's 1980 with browser-and-cloud architectures replacing greenscreen-and-mainframe.
It's a shame that, like you said, javascript is superficially pretty but deeply broken (namespaces? proper, native OO? etc.)
Everything is somewhat vulnerable, and a determined intruder with infinite resource will almost always find a way in.
The point is facial recognition alone is so vulnerable! All you need is a cameraphone and a photo printer - and you can't revoke your face as your password either. At least with fingerprints you can get hacked nearly 10 times (on average) before it becomes a problem.
We already have gated communities on the web: they're the "web2.0" sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo etc.
1. You have to give up some identification when you enter/join (even if it's quite weak: ie. usually you're verified email address)
2. You have to introduce yourself (or be introduced as in LinkedIn) before you can send anyone a message.
3. All you communications are through a central server that verifies the identity of both endpoints and records all communication (possibly for ever!).
And, yes, it's been seen that people happily give up a whole heap of private info to be part of these clubs...
It would be interesting to find out what the ratio is between email and social-site IM'ing these days.
Step 3. Profit!!
A beginner blames their tools whereas an expert knows when they are defective...
God said "Start with your own dirt."
But experiments like this show that we can start with simpler and simpler types of dirt. We're nearly at the point were we only need a god (of any kind) to make hydrogen and the rest takes care of itself - and the Large Hadron Collider guys are going to show we don't even need god for that! The areas of ignorance where god can remain are, thankfully, getting smaller and smaller.
And the aluminium can be made into the big mirror needed for the aluminium smelting furnace.
Fully computerised trains exist in the London Docklands Light Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway Each carriage has a small control panel a human can unlock to take control of the train. This was required for public confidence but, in practice, is almost never used.
Thanks for the rickross link. This report http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark80.html mirrors exactly my own Landmark Forum experience - and shows why it is *so* different from CoS
"Especially when you consider its offshoot, the Landmark Forum"
:-)
I know this is slashdot, but I have to counter this misinformation
Landmark Education is completely distinct from $ci£ntology (yes, CoS is not just American unfortunately).
Landmark is an offshot of EST, which was created by Werner Erhard http://www.wernererhard.com/ - some aspects of EST were weird, but then that was back in the early 70's when everything was weird! LF is just a bunch of people in a room talking. It takes the form of a 3 or 4-day intensive "bootcamp" type experience so can be tiring and very direct - but then direct, no-nonsense communication is part of the training. The history and detail of Landmark Education are freely available - e.g. http://www.landmarkeducation.com/display_content.jsp?top=26&mid=654&bottom=665 - and no-one from Landmark will harass me for making this post. Neither of those can be said of COS.
Yes I've done the Landmark Forum, and trained to be a coach. It's a very cathartic experience and, for the first few months at least, you come out very evangelical (which is why some people think it's "weird") but after a while you calm down and realise it's just training in communication and how to deal with the "Slings and Arrows" of life. I'd recommend it for anyone who wonders why the same old problems keep cropping up in their life.
On the other hand, the key marker of CoS is that it's *anti* communication! Everything is secret, and you get severely harassed for talking about it. *That's* the key difference and description of a (paranoid) cult. Also the higher levels of CoS belief are *out* of this world rather than in it. E.g. the Thetan machine (or whatever it's caused) is just a glorified stress detector (based on skin resistance etc.) but you try saying that around a CoS high-priest!
And so on and so on. CoS is a self-exploitation evil that needs to be blown wide open.