If you took the care to let your mouse hover on the link you'd see that the article's title was "Microsoft previews Compiler-as-a-Service software". The article's author used a very bad analogy-of-an-analogy and that's what's causing this confusion.
you have much more ways to use the compiler. it still is on your desktop, still 100% in your control. but it's not a blackbox anymore, it's now something you can plug in own stuff, extend, reuse, etc.
the whole point of computer languages was to make it easier for the programmer
That's very true and that's why I use Python a lot, despite having learned to write software in the 1970s, in FORTRAN in an IBM/370.
However, there's a moment when ease of use limits the programmer if he needs to go to the limits of performance. We are used to think that we have CPU enough, so it's not necessary to optimize for performance anymore.
That might be true for business software, under some circumstances. Scientific and engineering software, OTOH, could still use a lot more CPU than what we have right now. This means you may need to reorganize your data structures in some non-obvious way.
When you need to invert a matrix, for instance, which is one of the most common operations you do in number crunching, you have to keep your data carefully aligned, you need to take advantage of what vector operations your hardware does and consider how the cache is handled. You cannot do this with object oriented programming, you need to define memory allocation and use pointers to manipulate data. Object oriented programming will not work in this case.
I may use Python to develop algorithms, but for doing real jobs only C or Fortran will do.
There are many people who don't get empathy from me and this is one of them. How could he expect not to be caught? This is so stupid that I cannot imagine the mental process that led to it.
Stock photos are available for everyone to see, the human eye is very efficient at recognizing patterns. Especially in the world of photographers, people who would admire him for getting awarded that prize would certainly have seen the stock images he used and these people were professionals who would examine his photos carefully, even if only to try to learn something from his technique.
Maybe his downfall came only because he didn't expect to win that prize, but I cannot imagine how he could think he would never be caught. Dishonest people don't realize how many witnesses there are looking at what they do.
I think you have no idea of what the Unix shell does, you are just parroting M$ marketese.
Bash can pass objects from one module to the other, that's what the pipe is for. The Unix shell is perfectly compatible with any feature of any language that has a Unix version because it can run anything that runs on the system.
For example, you need some feature that Perl has but the shell lacks?
cat test.dat | perl -p -e "s/PowerShell is great/PowerShell is a piece of shit/g"
A shell language isn't meant to have everything plus the kitchen sink built in. The Unix shell runs on servers that may be embedded into a wide range of hardware, you shouldn't assume you'll have all the CPU, memory, and storage capacity to run an object oriented system with thousands of built-in commands.
Linux shells still pass data as text, when passing objects would make so much more sense and give a lot more options
Sorry, but no, passing data as objects sucks.
Text is the one and only universal interface. Passing data as objects limits you to one system. If you have powershell objects you need a powershell environment to use them.
When I want to get data from a website into my database text is the only format that both sides understand. Putting it into more general terms, when I want to get data from X to put it into Y text is the only format that both sides understand.
I can scan and OCR text from old books and newspapers. I can print text. I can edit text in any machine from a PDP-11 to a smart phone. When I'm limited to a slow and/or high latency connection text is the only format that works. I can use vi to edit a data file in a remote Unix system using a 300 bps modem if I need to. I can speak text on a phone for someone else to type it at the other end.
When I'm managing an important system that *must* keep running under emergency situations only text will do.
Object oriented system administration is bullshit.
When climate scientists say is often used to justify restricting in various ways things that bring high profit to some corporations
FTFY. Replacing fossil fuels for renewable energy sources wouldn't harm society in general. The problem is that it would create a new caste of corporations and limit the profitability of some of the largest corporations now existing. That's why those corporations feel threatened, so they hire these shills who are spreading so much disinformation about anthropogenic global warming.
a phony baloney market in Carbon Dioxide indulgences that most researchers agree will have a minimal effect on the climate, while ignoring other potentially much more serious Green House Gasses like Methane.
First of all, the trade in pollution emissions is a well-proven system that has been highly successful over the last twenty years, it's absolutely not "phony baloney".
Second, climate scientists do take into consideration all greenhouse gases.
Finally, if you think astronomers do not conduct controlled experiments you know absolutely nothing about astronomy or science.
Astronomy was the first true science. When Kepler created a model for planetary orbits he predicted the future positions of Mars and conducted observations to see if those positions were identical to his predictions. What was that if not a controlled experiment?
You observe nature, create a model, make a prediction, perform an experiment to see if the results are according to your predictions. That, in essence, is how science works. That's what astronomers and climatologists do.
In the 1990s when Windows 3 came out CPUs weren't powerful enough for serious GUI stuff, so they buried a lot of basic functions inside the windows API. Linux has a more structured approach in having a X-window layer that's independent of the OS.
The basic structure remained even when it was no longer needed. For Microsoft to split Windows in separate layers it would mean a large refactoring effort.
Inertial guidance is nothing new, it was developed in the 1930s, German V1 and V2 missiles used it.
Two problems: it's less accurate and much more expensive than GPS. If you want military superiority you need both, Inertial guidance is for situations where GPS is jammed.
There are several other types of guidance systems, the US military has them all. One wonders about the wisdom of so much research on weapon systems, but it's a fact that it provides useful side-effects on civilian systems.
The big problem will be the things that robotics cannot produce. Real estate, for instance. How would you buy or sell a home in a world where everyone has robots to produce all they want and no one earns a salary?
What they have IS a replacement table. The problem is that I want the original title, not the title in the country I happen to be. What they should have done is to present both the original and the replacement, if they wish to cater to worldwide audiences.
When they do benchmarks "proving" Java has the same performance as C/C++ they go to great lengths to make sure the garbage collector will not kick in.
That and the problem of versions, every Java application seems to suffer from the problem of being compatible with some but not all of the different versions of the Java runtime.
I would tax dividends paid from corporation to corporation, but not dividends paid from corporations to humans. That would make it less attractive for one corporation to own another.
The problem today is that corporation management answer only to themselves when one corporation owns another. If all corporations were owned by people there would exist someone whose best interest would be in how effective the company was, not in how much they could milk the cash box without going to jail.
Sorry for replying again, but Slashdot doesn't allow one to edit comments.
Another relevant factor is that in red shift the spectral lines are shifted towards the red end of the spectrum. The reddening from dust does not shift the lines, just makes the blue part of the spectrum fainter.
Materials, for several decades at least, will not be ready for a space elevator, but a launch loop seems viable for sending loads up.
Getting them down is easy, assuming a supply of silica to make heat shields up there, aero braking is the simplest technique for that, used since the start of space exploration.
depending on where and how you live the measles vaccine still can have a higher chance of serious to deadly outcome as apposed to the chance of getting measles and having a serious to deadly outcome
Doh... That's because people in those areas are vaccinated!
Having a pediatrician that's used to servicing hacidic(sp) Jews helps as they can have religious issues with vaccines.
This is a clear cut case. Public health trumps religious issues, hasidic Jews children should be vaccinated against their parents dogmas.
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Obviously, we should invade Mexico!
Huh? How do you think the US got Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California?
If you took the care to let your mouse hover on the link you'd see that the article's title was "Microsoft previews Compiler-as-a-Service software". The article's author used a very bad analogy-of-an-analogy and that's what's causing this confusion.
you have much more ways to use the compiler. it still is on your desktop, still 100% in your control. but it's not a blackbox anymore, it's now something you can plug in own stuff, extend, reuse, etc.
Hmmm, I wonder where have I seen this before?
the whole point of computer languages was to make it easier for the programmer
That's very true and that's why I use Python a lot, despite having learned to write software in the 1970s, in FORTRAN in an IBM/370.
However, there's a moment when ease of use limits the programmer if he needs to go to the limits of performance. We are used to think that we have CPU enough, so it's not necessary to optimize for performance anymore.
That might be true for business software, under some circumstances. Scientific and engineering software, OTOH, could still use a lot more CPU than what we have right now. This means you may need to reorganize your data structures in some non-obvious way.
When you need to invert a matrix, for instance, which is one of the most common operations you do in number crunching, you have to keep your data carefully aligned, you need to take advantage of what vector operations your hardware does and consider how the cache is handled. You cannot do this with object oriented programming, you need to define memory allocation and use pointers to manipulate data. Object oriented programming will not work in this case.
I may use Python to develop algorithms, but for doing real jobs only C or Fortran will do.
There are many people who don't get empathy from me and this is one of them. How could he expect not to be caught? This is so stupid that I cannot imagine the mental process that led to it.
Stock photos are available for everyone to see, the human eye is very efficient at recognizing patterns. Especially in the world of photographers, people who would admire him for getting awarded that prize would certainly have seen the stock images he used and these people were professionals who would examine his photos carefully, even if only to try to learn something from his technique.
Maybe his downfall came only because he didn't expect to win that prize, but I cannot imagine how he could think he would never be caught. Dishonest people don't realize how many witnesses there are looking at what they do.
I think you have no idea of what the Unix shell does, you are just parroting M$ marketese.
Bash can pass objects from one module to the other, that's what the pipe is for. The Unix shell is perfectly compatible with any feature of any language that has a Unix version because it can run anything that runs on the system.
For example, you need some feature that Perl has but the shell lacks?
cat test.dat | perl -p -e "s/PowerShell is great/PowerShell is a piece of shit/g"
A shell language isn't meant to have everything plus the kitchen sink built in. The Unix shell runs on servers that may be embedded into a wide range of hardware, you shouldn't assume you'll have all the CPU, memory, and storage capacity to run an object oriented system with thousands of built-in commands.
Linux shells still pass data as text, when passing objects would make so much more sense and give a lot more options
Sorry, but no, passing data as objects sucks.
Text is the one and only universal interface. Passing data as objects limits you to one system. If you have powershell objects you need a powershell environment to use them.
When I want to get data from a website into my database text is the only format that both sides understand. Putting it into more general terms, when I want to get data from X to put it into Y text is the only format that both sides understand.
I can scan and OCR text from old books and newspapers. I can print text. I can edit text in any machine from a PDP-11 to a smart phone. When I'm limited to a slow and/or high latency connection text is the only format that works. I can use vi to edit a data file in a remote Unix system using a 300 bps modem if I need to. I can speak text on a phone for someone else to type it at the other end.
When I'm managing an important system that *must* keep running under emergency situations only text will do.
Object oriented system administration is bullshit.
His mum won't give him any pocket money until he gets his lazy arse out of the basement and looks for a job.
She told him so in his thirtieth birthday.
When climate scientists say is often used to justify restricting in various ways things that bring high profit to some corporations
FTFY. Replacing fossil fuels for renewable energy sources wouldn't harm society in general. The problem is that it would create a new caste of corporations and limit the profitability of some of the largest corporations now existing. That's why those corporations feel threatened, so they hire these shills who are spreading so much disinformation about anthropogenic global warming.
a phony baloney market in Carbon Dioxide indulgences that most researchers agree will have a minimal effect on the climate, while ignoring other potentially much more serious Green House Gasses like Methane.
First of all, the trade in pollution emissions is a well-proven system that has been highly successful over the last twenty years, it's absolutely not "phony baloney".
Second, climate scientists do take into consideration all greenhouse gases.
Finally, if you think astronomers do not conduct controlled experiments you know absolutely nothing about astronomy or science.
Astronomy was the first true science. When Kepler created a model for planetary orbits he predicted the future positions of Mars and conducted observations to see if those positions were identical to his predictions. What was that if not a controlled experiment?
You observe nature, create a model, make a prediction, perform an experiment to see if the results are according to your predictions. That, in essence, is how science works. That's what astronomers and climatologists do.
In the 1990s when Windows 3 came out CPUs weren't powerful enough for serious GUI stuff, so they buried a lot of basic functions inside the windows API. Linux has a more structured approach in having a X-window layer that's independent of the OS.
The basic structure remained even when it was no longer needed. For Microsoft to split Windows in separate layers it would mean a large refactoring effort.
Inertial guidance is nothing new, it was developed in the 1930s, German V1 and V2 missiles used it.
Two problems: it's less accurate and much more expensive than GPS. If you want military superiority you need both, Inertial guidance is for situations where GPS is jammed.
There are several other types of guidance systems, the US military has them all. One wonders about the wisdom of so much research on weapon systems, but it's a fact that it provides useful side-effects on civilian systems.
The big problem will be the things that robotics cannot produce. Real estate, for instance. How would you buy or sell a home in a world where everyone has robots to produce all they want and no one earns a salary?
Apple is well known for abusing justice with frivolous court actions. No one can complain if people assume Apple to be guilty by default.
They think they have the monopoly rights to all the concepts they copied from Xerox.
What they have IS a replacement table. The problem is that I want the original title, not the title in the country I happen to be. What they should have done is to present both the original and the replacement, if they wish to cater to worldwide audiences.
IMDB fucked up badly when they started translating movie titles randomly based on their perception of the location the browser is in.
I hate so much to be forced to log in to IMDB to cancel this shit that I simply do not go there anymore.
It's interesting to note that the intersection of the sets of AGW deniers and creationists is not a null set.
Java is shit for real time applications.
When they do benchmarks "proving" Java has the same performance as C/C++ they go to great lengths to make sure the garbage collector will not kick in.
That and the problem of versions, every Java application seems to suffer from the problem of being compatible with some but not all of the different versions of the Java runtime.
I would tax dividends paid from corporation to corporation, but not dividends paid from corporations to humans. That would make it less attractive for one corporation to own another.
The problem today is that corporation management answer only to themselves when one corporation owns another. If all corporations were owned by people there would exist someone whose best interest would be in how effective the company was, not in how much they could milk the cash box without going to jail.
Sorry for replying again, but Slashdot doesn't allow one to edit comments.
Another relevant factor is that in red shift the spectral lines are shifted towards the red end of the spectrum. The reddening from dust does not shift the lines, just makes the blue part of the spectrum fainter.
Red shift only appears for other galaxies. In our galaxy relative movements of stars are much bigger than the effect of the expansion of the universe.
Where I work we would gladly hire a C programmer, of any age, if we could find one.
IANAL, but I'm sure someone could make an argument that Congress should make vaccination mandatory.
Article 1, section 8 - " provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States" should do the trick.
Materials, for several decades at least, will not be ready for a space elevator, but a launch loop seems viable for sending loads up.
Getting them down is easy, assuming a supply of silica to make heat shields up there, aero braking is the simplest technique for that, used since the start of space exploration.
depending on where and how you live the measles vaccine still can have a higher chance of serious to deadly outcome as apposed to the chance of getting measles and having a serious to deadly outcome
Doh... That's because people in those areas are vaccinated!
Having a pediatrician that's used to servicing hacidic(sp) Jews helps as they can have religious issues with vaccines.
This is a clear cut case. Public health trumps religious issues, hasidic Jews children should be vaccinated against their parents dogmas.