Newton was most definitely a mathematician. He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge for a number of years. He also developed mathematics outside of what he needed to describe his physics, such as finding the infinite series necessary to expand (a+b)^n where n is negative, or a fraction.
Also consider this quote about Newton from Leibniz himself: "Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half."
So talking shit is equivalent to making a death threat, sending his address to him, and calling his home and mother's cell?
It should be clear that someone crossed a line here. Anyone who feels they have to stoop to such levels to feel like they came out on top after some trash talk is pathetic imo.
This thread started with claims of misogyny and fanboyism. Quite insulting and aggressive.
The claims of misogyny and fanboyism were based on evidence of posts by people trashing a movie they have not yet seen. If you follow the links further it tells the tale of one Star Wars actress who was forced off of social media due to racist/sexist remarks. If a cop pulls someone over for speeding due to evidence is he being insulting and aggressive or merely doing his job?
Nearly every thread in this topic has insults of incel or misogyny or SJW blah blah blah. I got to the end of reading most comments and decided to reply to this one because I can.
That's funny, most of the posts I see are shrilling proclaiming the terrors of the SJWs. Care to take a count? I guess I assumed the post you'd choose to reply to would be the one you'd find objectionable enough to argue against. *shrug*
Stunning and brave. Meatbag.
Brave? Seriously? I've talked shit on slashdot from time-to-time too (obviously) but I never once confused it for being brave.
So the post you are reacting to, the one that is answering to a "critique" that begins with "Grow a brain, you arrogant shit," the one that simply asks how it honestly affects them to inspire such a hostile reaction, that is what you see as an aggressive defense shitting on someone else?
He is the "father of linguistic" in the same sense that Freud is the Father of Psychology; he started a field before his theories had to be discarded.
Can you list some of his theories of linguistics that have been discarded? Anyone familiar with Computer Science knows that at least one of them is still relevant today.
And there it is in a nutshell. "Climate change" is only cared about as a tool for obtaining more political power.
No. Climate change is a serious problem that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fix without giving political power to people who are concerned about it. Nice try casting a rational response into something sinister though.
Ah ha.... and a compiler can not generate that opcode ?
Not as a part of any general code syntax you can't. It's a specialized instruction. One that is different from processor to processor. (In x86 they usually use an xchg instruction). There are a lot of OS kernel specific spots where you'd need something like that.
But sure, you could change the Java compiler so that when it sees some keyword or method it will add those opcodes once compiled. But those instructions have to be added to the compiler first. Written if you will. Written in assembly. Which is what I'm saying. And if you think that doesn't count then by that reasoning someone could code thousands of lines of assembly manually into the compiler, called upon by mock static methods and claim, "See, no assembly was required. Just the Java compiler. Success!" LOL
How many kernels are multithreaded aka reentrant?
All varieties of Unix kernels are. Possibly Windows as well. So there's a possibility that most OS kernels used today are reentrant. But even if the kernel itself is not, you'll still have to implement the locking mechanisms so that any processes or threads it runs can share resources safely.
I'm going to ask you again. Have you written any kernel code that ran directly on hardware without an emulator? By that I mean the only code that is run on the machine other than the code you compiled yourself is a handful of BIOS calls for some set up needed upon boot-up. I have, and done plenty of Java coding as well. One mistake that people make when they are only familiar with Java and an overview of OS internals is all the things Java does for them that they take for granted.
Look it's fine to have a language when you can have a JVM, a garbage collector that ultimately relies on system calls and libraries to complete the freeing of resources, synchronization primitives and the like. You get used to them enough and you might think they are covered by just some simple, unimportant details that are like any other programming issue you've used the language to solve before. But when the purpose of the system you are writing is to implement those very same functions that you have been taking for granted, it's a very different thing. A thing for which Java is a very shitty tool.
Yes. But with the whole Brexit brouhaha in the UK and increasingly authoritarian governments coming to fruition in several nations around the world we're hardly alone, unfortunately.
No they don't. Why would they? Every language that compiles to machine code can be used. A no brainer...
Because you need a single atomic operation can both read from and write to the same memory location in one shot. That requires assembly language instruction(s) to pull off. But if you have an example of how it can be done in Java or some other high level language, feel free to post the code here.
You can hate the Java Eco System as much as you want: it is a language, and a vm and a set of libraries. If it lacks something you need for a specific reason, you always can upgrade the vm or the libraries or the compiler of the language.
The question is, how much do you have to change the language to be a preferable choice for creating a kernel? It's extremely likely that by the time you make enough changes to Java for that, it will be something other than Java.
Have tried any real (not simulated) OS kernel development? This guy seems like he might know a thing or two about it. I do not do kernel development professionally myself. But in my job the language I use more often than any other is, in fact, Java.
Right. But the point is there are huge swaths of code that can be written in something more low-level like C (without dipping into assembly) that cannot be done in Java. And yeah, spinlock implementations require assembly.
You can write an OS in any language. There are actually a few OSes written in Java...
Fantastic. And how many of those are practical enough that you can use them for your serious day-to-day work? Little if any, I bet. And there's a reason for that.
I seriously doubt you could right one in pure Java though. Especially in dynamic memory allocation code, which requires assigning and returning an explicit address at some point. Sure, even C kernels need to employ another language (assembly) from time-to-time. But not that much.
I think the best way for cyclists to handle stop signs and traffic lights (and the way I do on my bike) is using the Idaho stop style rules. That is, when you're riding a bike treat stop lights like stop signs and stop signs like yield signs. I should add here that if I get to an all-way stop intersection after one or more car gets there first, I wait my turn like everyone else.
It's a shame it's not the law everywhere as it really does work best for everyone involved. Stopping at every stop sign religiously can really unnecessarily slow down cars around you. And if you are a cyclist stopped at a stop light that is waiting for some other car to change it then you're likely to stay there a long long time for no reason. If done correctly the only people who get annoyed are motorists who are jealous that they don't get the same advantages. But the way I see it, I put in the effort pedaling the bike so I'm the one who earned them. Sorry.
So you believe that women and black people are the most powerful classes in the US. That's very interesting. What evidence do you have for this? Perhaps you can cite which classes in the US have the highest average salaries or hold most positions of political power to support your views?
There are some nutty offshoots like black nationalism and some types of feminism to be sure. But most of the BLM and feminist folks are just after equal opportunities. When it comes down to it, anyone under the guise of White Nationalism or Supremacy or whatever is trying to dominate and intimidate all other classes. It's that simple.
White supremacists use baiting, physical intimidation and feigned victimhood from a position of power to maintain and expand upon their dominance over minorities. While it is unfortunate that BLM and feminists (like all humans) may use false generalization or stereotyping at times, equating it to the goals and actions of neo-Nazi types is laughable on its face.
And here I thought slashdotters had a reputation for being bright. Is this really not obvious to you?
Perhaps people in positions of power are the ones most likely to manipulate them for nefarious purposes, and that's why straight white males seem to be caught doing this kind of stuff more so than others?
In the end it all comes down to culture. A lot of culture comes from what nation you are a part of. And if not that, the general region you are from as you tend to get cultural influences from those close to you. That can relate to the ethnic makeup of people as they adapt to the demands of their geographic location. But they are NOT directly correlated. Ethnicity is not the same thing as culture. To say that is to suggest that there is some white-related gene that makes some races genetically capable of coming up with an Enlightenment and others inferior. And if you believe that we don't have to continue with this debate. I'd hate to keep you from some Klan meeting or something.
Even though the Enlightenment happened to come to a head in Europe, there were a lot of influences from different regions that led up to it. In particular, there was an increased availability of Muslim region based discoveries from the Middle Ages that helped them out. So yeah, you can argue that some of the Enlightenment came from Muslim values. I'm sure there were others as well.
I myself do not mind if a white person wears dreadlocks. (It sometimes looks a little goofy to me but, hey, it's their life). I'm a fan of multi-culturalism. I celebrate the things I like about my cultural background and if someone from another culture takes something they like from it then, good for them. Maybe there's something positive from theirs I can get as well. I'll leave the separatist attitudes to the alt-right and extreme social left.
A white person first and foremost an appearance, and is secondarily an adherence to a certain culture.
But as the GP touched on when mentioning Irish, Germans and Italians, there is no general white culture. You'll find that the multiple cultural regions of Europe are extremely different from each other, and would probably be offended to be lazily grouped together under one broad umbrella. If anything, what we think of as "white culture" in the US is the result of our immigrant ancestors giving up all the things that made their mother cultures unique and cool in a desperate attempt to fit in. An anti-culture, if you will.
People tend to get offended when they hear mention of celebrating "white culture", but not a particular white culture. I haven't seen anyone particularly offended about the existence of St. Patrick's Day for instance. Have you ever wondered why that is?
Just because someone is "not part of the political establishment" doesn't automatically make them better. That person she's accused of rigging her party's primary against backed her in the general election after the fact. That should tell you something.
Honestly, the situation was analogous to questioning whether an experienced surgeon with some (debatably) questionable decisions on her record should perform the job or be replaced. So then it's...
"We have the perfect person! No record of surgeries ending in infections or anything!"
"Wait a minute, this person has no record of surgeries at all. He's not even a surgeon."
"Exactly!"
"So you're sure he would be competent at performing surgery?"
"Well he's a successful business man, so he has to have some skills."
Under further investigation it is discovered his business dealings are riddled with bankruptcies, lies, and ripping people off. And then he gets the job.
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Newton was most definitely a mathematician. He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge for a number of years. He also developed mathematics outside of what he needed to describe his physics, such as finding the infinite series necessary to expand (a+b)^n where n is negative, or a fraction.
Also consider this quote about Newton from Leibniz himself: "Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half."
Whether or not it fits the "narrative" (whatever that means) doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is if it fits the truth.
So talking shit is equivalent to making a death threat, sending his address to him, and calling his home and mother's cell?
It should be clear that someone crossed a line here. Anyone who feels they have to stoop to such levels to feel like they came out on top after some trash talk is pathetic imo.
The claims of misogyny and fanboyism were based on evidence of posts by people trashing a movie they have not yet seen. If you follow the links further it tells the tale of one Star Wars actress who was forced off of social media due to racist/sexist remarks. If a cop pulls someone over for speeding due to evidence is he being insulting and aggressive or merely doing his job?
That's funny, most of the posts I see are shrilling proclaiming the terrors of the SJWs. Care to take a count? I guess I assumed the post you'd choose to reply to would be the one you'd find objectionable enough to argue against. *shrug*
Brave? Seriously? I've talked shit on slashdot from time-to-time too (obviously) but I never once confused it for being brave.
So the post you are reacting to, the one that is answering to a "critique" that begins with "Grow a brain, you arrogant shit," the one that simply asks how it honestly affects them to inspire such a hostile reaction, that is what you see as an aggressive defense shitting on someone else?
Stunning.
Whatever you do, don't show these petitioners a copy of Preacher. Their heads would explode.
On second thought, do. Do show them copies.
Can you list some of his theories of linguistics that have been discarded? Anyone familiar with Computer Science knows that at least one of them is still relevant today.
And the bad news is, you don't judge Trump for being a retard.
Those aren't "Approved Conspiracy theories". They're just a bunch of straw men you invented to represent everyone who pisses you off.
No. Climate change is a serious problem that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fix without giving political power to people who are concerned about it. Nice try casting a rational response into something sinister though.
Not as a part of any general code syntax you can't. It's a specialized instruction. One that is different from processor to processor. (In x86 they usually use an xchg instruction). There are a lot of OS kernel specific spots where you'd need something like that.
But sure, you could change the Java compiler so that when it sees some keyword or method it will add those opcodes once compiled. But those instructions have to be added to the compiler first. Written if you will. Written in assembly. Which is what I'm saying. And if you think that doesn't count then by that reasoning someone could code thousands of lines of assembly manually into the compiler, called upon by mock static methods and claim, "See, no assembly was required. Just the Java compiler. Success!" LOL
All varieties of Unix kernels are. Possibly Windows as well. So there's a possibility that most OS kernels used today are reentrant. But even if the kernel itself is not, you'll still have to implement the locking mechanisms so that any processes or threads it runs can share resources safely.
I'm going to ask you again. Have you written any kernel code that ran directly on hardware without an emulator? By that I mean the only code that is run on the machine other than the code you compiled yourself is a handful of BIOS calls for some set up needed upon boot-up. I have, and done plenty of Java coding as well. One mistake that people make when they are only familiar with Java and an overview of OS internals is all the things Java does for them that they take for granted.
Look it's fine to have a language when you can have a JVM, a garbage collector that ultimately relies on system calls and libraries to complete the freeing of resources, synchronization primitives and the like. You get used to them enough and you might think they are covered by just some simple, unimportant details that are like any other programming issue you've used the language to solve before. But when the purpose of the system you are writing is to implement those very same functions that you have been taking for granted, it's a very different thing. A thing for which Java is a very shitty tool.
Yes. But with the whole Brexit brouhaha in the UK and increasingly authoritarian governments coming to fruition in several nations around the world we're hardly alone, unfortunately.
Because you need a single atomic operation can both read from and write to the same memory location in one shot. That requires assembly language instruction(s) to pull off. But if you have an example of how it can be done in Java or some other high level language, feel free to post the code here.
The question is, how much do you have to change the language to be a preferable choice for creating a kernel? It's extremely likely that by the time you make enough changes to Java for that, it will be something other than Java.
Have tried any real (not simulated) OS kernel development? This guy seems like he might know a thing or two about it. I do not do kernel development professionally myself. But in my job the language I use more often than any other is, in fact, Java.
Right. But the point is there are huge swaths of code that can be written in something more low-level like C (without dipping into assembly) that cannot be done in Java. And yeah, spinlock implementations require assembly.
Fantastic. And how many of those are practical enough that you can use them for your serious day-to-day work? Little if any, I bet. And there's a reason for that.
I seriously doubt you could right one in pure Java though. Especially in dynamic memory allocation code, which requires assigning and returning an explicit address at some point. Sure, even C kernels need to employ another language (assembly) from time-to-time. But not that much.
I think the best way for cyclists to handle stop signs and traffic lights (and the way I do on my bike) is using the Idaho stop style rules. That is, when you're riding a bike treat stop lights like stop signs and stop signs like yield signs. I should add here that if I get to an all-way stop intersection after one or more car gets there first, I wait my turn like everyone else.
It's a shame it's not the law everywhere as it really does work best for everyone involved. Stopping at every stop sign religiously can really unnecessarily slow down cars around you. And if you are a cyclist stopped at a stop light that is waiting for some other car to change it then you're likely to stay there a long long time for no reason. If done correctly the only people who get annoyed are motorists who are jealous that they don't get the same advantages. But the way I see it, I put in the effort pedaling the bike so I'm the one who earned them. Sorry.
Are you sure?
So you believe that women and black people are the most powerful classes in the US. That's very interesting. What evidence do you have for this? Perhaps you can cite which classes in the US have the highest average salaries or hold most positions of political power to support your views?
There are some nutty offshoots like black nationalism and some types of feminism to be sure. But most of the BLM and feminist folks are just after equal opportunities. When it comes down to it, anyone under the guise of White Nationalism or Supremacy or whatever is trying to dominate and intimidate all other classes. It's that simple.
White supremacists use baiting, physical intimidation and feigned victimhood from a position of power to maintain and expand upon their dominance over minorities. While it is unfortunate that BLM and feminists (like all humans) may use false generalization or stereotyping at times, equating it to the goals and actions of neo-Nazi types is laughable on its face.
And here I thought slashdotters had a reputation for being bright. Is this really not obvious to you?
Perhaps people in positions of power are the ones most likely to manipulate them for nefarious purposes, and that's why straight white males seem to be caught doing this kind of stuff more so than others?
Preserved and built upon a lot of it as well.
I mean, seriously. Don't you have any interest in history and science/mathematics beyond "hooray white people"?
In the end it all comes down to culture. A lot of culture comes from what nation you are a part of. And if not that, the general region you are from as you tend to get cultural influences from those close to you. That can relate to the ethnic makeup of people as they adapt to the demands of their geographic location. But they are NOT directly correlated. Ethnicity is not the same thing as culture. To say that is to suggest that there is some white-related gene that makes some races genetically capable of coming up with an Enlightenment and others inferior. And if you believe that we don't have to continue with this debate. I'd hate to keep you from some Klan meeting or something.
Even though the Enlightenment happened to come to a head in Europe, there were a lot of influences from different regions that led up to it. In particular, there was an increased availability of Muslim region based discoveries from the Middle Ages that helped them out. So yeah, you can argue that some of the Enlightenment came from Muslim values. I'm sure there were others as well.
I myself do not mind if a white person wears dreadlocks. (It sometimes looks a little goofy to me but, hey, it's their life). I'm a fan of multi-culturalism. I celebrate the things I like about my cultural background and if someone from another culture takes something they like from it then, good for them. Maybe there's something positive from theirs I can get as well. I'll leave the separatist attitudes to the alt-right and extreme social left.
But as the GP touched on when mentioning Irish, Germans and Italians, there is no general white culture. You'll find that the multiple cultural regions of Europe are extremely different from each other, and would probably be offended to be lazily grouped together under one broad umbrella. If anything, what we think of as "white culture" in the US is the result of our immigrant ancestors giving up all the things that made their mother cultures unique and cool in a desperate attempt to fit in. An anti-culture, if you will.
People tend to get offended when they hear mention of celebrating "white culture", but not a particular white culture. I haven't seen anyone particularly offended about the existence of St. Patrick's Day for instance. Have you ever wondered why that is?
Speaking of lies...
Honestly, the situation was analogous to questioning whether an experienced surgeon with some (debatably) questionable decisions on her record should perform the job or be replaced. So then it's...
Under further investigation it is discovered his business dealings are riddled with bankruptcies, lies, and ripping people off. And then he gets the job.