... no one sends fighters against each other for a dogfight anymore...
That's what they thought when Vietnam started. The enemy didn't take long to learn how many missiles we carried, then they sent up one more plane than that. Flying around with no ammo and an enemy on your tail is no fun at all...
"What I find interesting is the complete disregard for some amazing sites."
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Depends if it is a tail recursive procedure or not, doesn't it? And when we talk about memory allocation, regardless how often you call it: it costs nothing.
To some extent, yes. But merely calling the procedure or method puts a "frame" on the stack. So recursive calls "pump up" the stack, and an unknown number of recursions can be a big number. Most OS's will halt the program if you "blow away" the stack.
This part of recursion is not often taught in schools. Many classes just ignore stack size and memory size, to teach the theory. But real programs can definitaly hit the limits, and there are always limits. The costs might be far outside the space where you are working, but they might not be and bite you if you don't know about them.
Difference is the "real" ones have beards and wear suspenders.
I have never worn suspenders. And my beard is trimmed reasonably short. But it was never true that kids right out of college could do this...
If the colleges are only teaching one computer languge, that is a problem. To get stuck with just one tool, is like a carpenter with only the preverbial hammer.
Study at least one other language, no matter what it is. (Actually, that applies to spoken language too.) I recommend "Fourth", for one that will really strech your mind! But just get something that is more than the one.
The purpose of school is not to get a piece of paper, it is to pick the teacher's minds for everything that you can get. There is no rule that you can't do anything extra.
... It's become clear that it's going to take some kind of revolutionary breakthrough to make voice recognition actually good....
If -people- can't tell what you are saying half the time, it's a bit unreasonable to expect the computer to be able to. No computer has the pattern recognition capability of a human brain. It's not even in the same "ballpark".
The people writing the checks need to better understand that these scientists are the main reason that the US economy does as well as it does....
Are you sure you are talking about the same scientists? I think part of the problem is that they were not contributing anything... or at least the congressmen thought so.
It's a Stereo-Opticon from the 1800's. They were extremely popular, for about a hundred years. Pretty good run for a product. The later ones were called ViewMaster. But these have the computing power to have movement!
... How many kids wasted their childhood being tricked into doing other peoples work? How may Eagle scouts would have learned to cooperate better and thing for themselves instead of how to be a pre military puppet?
I guess you were not in the scouts that I was in, then. Or the military, either...
School doesn't help much, in the sense that it often doesn't teach people to understand anything. Being able to write correctly has little to do with your ability to comprehend complex tasks that require logic and reason. It's little more than an ad hominem.
They are related, but that's not the point. Bad writing makes it harder and slower for -us- to read it. So if you want to have your words read, make them easy to read. I tend to just skip bad writing, and assume it is not significant.
On the other hand, writing by those whose first language is not english, is different. I know the syntax, and can understand it. They don't make the same mistakes.
The world is a complicated place. Everyone's job is complicated, it's just that after doing it for a while you get used to it, and it starts to seem easy.
Then when you encounter a new place, it seems unusually complicated. But it's not, any more that any other, it just new to you.
The reason that programming is hard, is that the world is hard. Better tools will help, but they woun't change the world.
If you think other jobs are easier, then try running the big single-disk floor polisher that the cleaning crew use. If you don't injure yourself, it will still provide much entertainment for the bystanders... 8-)
After World War 2, the surviving Nazi death camp guards pled not guilty because they "were just following orders". It was ruled, and generally agreed, that this was not a valid defense. I saw the videos (films) of some of the trials. I believe it is still so today. But check with a lawyer if you really want to know... But that does not mean that the boss should get away.
Besides, where does this "blame the victim" attitude always come from? It's ridiculous.
Different analogy: if you walk across a known-to-be-landmined field, who is to blame? The person who put the landmines there 30 years ago, the person who left the gate unlocked last night, or you?
Just like the the answer to a test, back in school, the answer is:
It's possible that the fault was in the driver, rather than the Intel SSD. It might have refused to mount an SSD that didn't write. Was it a default MS driver?
Bubble memories did just fine, until other chips got better. Tunnel diodes are still used, but not in computers. Work fine, last a long time.
I miss non-volatile mag-core memory, where you didn't even -need- a disk. This sounds like it could be used like that. Talk about "sleep" mode! Turn it off and it stops instantly, turn it back on and your previous screen appears instantly.
And what if you -only- watch "niche" channels? A' la carte means carrying -everything-, if they drop the other channels it's not! Otherwise, I'll help pay for your niche if you'll help pay for mine...
The imaging technique can pick up features as small as 12 feet, on a 1200 foot long asteeroid
So thats about 100 pixels
Not exactly todays definition of high resolution when new tablets are coming out with 2560 x 1600 pixels
Well, on that display the entire asteroid would be less than one pixel. So calculate for me the resolution that would mean for the zoomed pictures in the article!
Obviously, we are in quarantine until we learn to act civilized ! They have been here before, where do you think all of the religions came from? If you saw an alien or a starship, do you think you would even recognize it? Dream on! Anyone who acts too certain of all this is obviously wrong. (No matter which side they are on.) 8-)
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It looks pretty awful on anything with a HD resolution these days so that probably wouldn't help it.
Move back, you are too close to the screen.
... no one sends fighters against each other for a dogfight anymore...
That's what they thought when Vietnam started. The enemy didn't take long to learn how many missiles we carried, then they sent up one more plane than that.
Flying around with no ammo and an enemy on your tail is no fun at all...
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Depends if it is a tail recursive procedure or not, doesn't it?
And when we talk about memory allocation, regardless how often you call it: it costs nothing.
To some extent, yes. But merely calling the procedure or method puts a "frame" on the stack. So recursive calls "pump up" the stack, and an unknown number of recursions can be a big number. Most OS's will halt the program if you "blow away" the stack.
This part of recursion is not often taught in schools. Many classes just ignore stack size and memory size, to teach the theory. But real programs can definitaly hit the limits, and there are always limits. The costs might be far outside the space where you are working, but they might not be and bite you if you don't know about them.
Not really, as memory allocation is performance wise very cheap :) ...
Maybe it would be good to know why calling a procedure or method recursivly an unknown number of times it a Bad Thing ? !! 8-)
Difference is the "real" ones have beards and wear suspenders.
I have never worn suspenders. And my beard is trimmed reasonably short.
But it was never true that kids right out of college could do this...
If the colleges are only teaching one computer languge, that is a problem. To get stuck with just one tool, is like a carpenter with only the preverbial hammer.
Study at least one other language, no matter what it is. (Actually, that applies to spoken language too.)
I recommend "Fourth", for one that will really strech your mind! But just get something that is more than the one.
The purpose of school is not to get a piece of paper, it is to pick the teacher's minds for everything that you can get. There is no rule that you can't do anything extra.
... Did folks criticize Mary Tyler Moore Show for not being an accurate enough representation of life in a network news room?
Yes, they did.
Probably, if they worked in one and didn't have a sense of humor. ...
Exactly!
Now, get off of my lawn...
... It's become clear that it's going to take some kind of revolutionary breakthrough to make voice recognition actually good. ...
If -people- can't tell what you are saying half the time, it's a bit unreasonable to expect the computer to be able to. No computer has the pattern recognition capability of a human brain. It's not even in the same "ballpark".
The people writing the checks need to better understand that these scientists are the main reason that the US economy does as well as it does. ...
Are you sure you are talking about the same scientists? I think part of the problem is that they were not contributing anything... or at least the congressmen thought so.
It's a Stereo-Opticon from the 1800's. They were extremely popular, for about a hundred years. Pretty good run for a product. The later ones were called ViewMaster.
But these have the computing power to have movement!
So why do I have to watch a 30 second commercial to see a 15 second video?
Because your sub-conscious mind compels you to see the "Dancing Bunny", and you will do -anything- to see it!
8-)
... How many kids wasted their childhood being tricked into doing other peoples work? How may Eagle scouts would have learned to cooperate better and thing for themselves instead of how to be a pre military puppet?
I guess you were not in the scouts that I was in, then. Or the military, either...
The public doesn't know enough to read the progress report. Much less would they have the time to read all of them.
An individual, chosen at random, probably doesn't know enough.
But "the public" is a -lot- of people, and some of them are smarter than you or I.
School doesn't help much, in the sense that it often doesn't teach people to understand anything. Being able to write correctly has little to do with your ability to comprehend complex tasks that require logic and reason. It's little more than an ad hominem.
They are related, but that's not the point.
Bad writing makes it harder and slower for -us- to read it. So if you want to have your words read, make them easy to read.
I tend to just skip bad writing, and assume it is not significant.
On the other hand, writing by those whose first language is not english, is different. I know the syntax, and can understand it. They don't make the same mistakes.
My favorite is they can't take time to spell Your, but take the time to put the fucking ' in there making it double stupid.
Do you mean "you're" ?
The world is a complicated place. Everyone's job is complicated, it's just that after doing it for a while you get used to it, and it starts to seem easy.
Then when you encounter a new place, it seems unusually complicated. But it's not, any more that any other, it just new to you.
The reason that programming is hard, is that the world is hard. Better tools will help, but they woun't change the world.
If you think other jobs are easier, then try running the big single-disk floor polisher that the cleaning crew use. If you don't injure yourself, it will still provide much entertainment for the bystanders... 8-)
You are blaming the wrong people, troll.
After World War 2, the surviving Nazi death camp guards pled not guilty because they "were just following orders". It was ruled, and generally agreed, that this was not a valid defense. I saw the videos (films) of some of the trials.
I believe it is still so today. But check with a lawyer if you really want to know...
But that does not mean that the boss should get away.
Different analogy: if you walk across a known-to-be-landmined field, who is to blame? The person who put the landmines there 30 years ago, the person who left the gate unlocked last night, or you?
Just like the the answer to a test, back in school, the answer is:
D: All of the Above.
It's possible that the fault was in the driver, rather than the Intel SSD. It might have refused to mount an SSD that didn't write.
Was it a default MS driver?
...as bubble memories and tunnel diodes were.
Bubble memories did just fine, until other chips got better.
Tunnel diodes are still used, but not in computers. Work fine, last a long time.
I miss non-volatile mag-core memory, where you didn't even -need- a disk. This sounds like it could be used like that.
Talk about "sleep" mode! Turn it off and it stops instantly, turn it back on and your previous screen appears instantly.
And what if you -only- watch "niche" channels?
A' la carte means carrying -everything-, if they drop the other channels it's not!
Otherwise, I'll help pay for your niche if you'll help pay for mine...
The imaging technique can pick up features as small as 12 feet, on a 1200 foot long asteeroid
So thats about 100 pixels
Not exactly todays definition of high resolution when new tablets are coming out with 2560 x 1600 pixels
Well, on that display the entire asteroid would be less than one pixel. So calculate for me the resolution that would mean for the zoomed pictures in the article!
Its all analog, from 1978, there is no security what so ever other than knowing how to send it commands and what commands.
Theres no CPU in it.
It's not all analog. It has a processor, just not what you would call a CPU.
P.S., I had a home computer in 1978, the world was not all analog.
Obviously, we are in quarantine until we learn to act civilized !
They have been here before, where do you think all of the religions came from?
If you saw an alien or a starship, do you think you would even recognize it? Dream on!
Anyone who acts too certain of all this is obviously wrong. (No matter which side they are on.) 8-)