Rendering plain text email is so much simpler and uses so much less CPU time/power that it could easily have a measurable effect on the global warming.
There is an accompanying study that says that a global deployment of such platoons may decrease the temperature increase by 4.27% over the next fifty years.
Why talk about how horrible the end of the century is going to be in Asia climate-wise while we still cannot predict the weather for the weekend?
It turns out to be much easier to predict the average temperature over a large area for a long term than the instantaneous temperature at a single location at a single time.
I can tell you the average height of American males with pretty good confidence (177 cm)-- but I can only guess how tall you are, and with a very high error.
Very well, so what is going to be an average height of an American male toward the end of the century?
They said "planting trees"? - wow, that actually makes sense. If only all the money we blow on reducing emissions could be spent on planting trees, cleaning water, and irrigation.
The intelligent road takes control of the (dumb) cars that drive on it. All cars drive at a high, constant speed, there are roundabouts at intersections. Changing of the lanes, etc. is all controlled by the road and happens very smoothly. (Hey, that's so cool - you modify some algorithm in the road software and the fuel economy improves for all cars driving on the road.) There was a startup allegedly working on a similar concept but I cannot find their site.
> Upton also discussed the Model A+ Raspberry Pi board
Not, really: "We’re going to do an announcement about an A+ soon. I think it’s going to be an exciting product,” he said, without giving exact details of how the board will be upgraded.
That's all he said.
1) You said on multiple occasions that backwards compatibility is an important feature of C++. That feature comes at a cost, however (e.g. in language size and complexity). Do you think that at some point the cost of backward compatibility will outweigh the benefits? To put this in a context - several recent languages try to go into the system programming domain (D, Rust, Go). All quote dissatisfaction with C++ as (one of) the primary motivations (primary reasons being language complexity, poor support for parallelism, and long compile times). Can we hope the committee will be more aggressive in obsoleting old/broken features?
2) When will size_t be replaced by a signed type?
3) Your take on increased throughput of the committee and planed standardisation of many new libraries (graphics, asio, fs, etc.)
Looks somewhat similar to JavaScript/TypeScript. They took parens out of conditionals (so you say if condition {} ). Plus is still used for concatenation and addition. (Maybe that's not a problem, unlike in JavaScript.) Wonder if they will support Swift in Safari (with possible JavaScript generation for non-Apple browsers)
Yosemite will feature a new icon set. A bigger news is Swift, a new, safe programming language with type inference. Anyone who is able to find a language reference manual (supposedly available on iBooks) will get a lot of mod points.
A piece of ice breaks off, it flows to a warmer area. 10% of the ice is above the water surface, 90% is below. It dissolves. This makes it's volume _smaller_ -- by the 10% that was above the water surface. So why say goodbye to Florida?
Why nobody is demanding a browser ballot for Android?
Monopollies are broken not by bueaucrats but by technology advance. Same thing happened to the railway monopolly (Technology brought lorries) But now the EU beaucrats have another billion to waste. If you're happy I am!
Please, rendering technology was the heart of the browser and now it's been flushed down the toilet.
> How will Opera deteriorate by using the most popular browser engine?
How will it innovate? How will it differentiate? By creating a different set of icons on the toolbar?
Look at Dell (basically sticking their logo on sb's else hardware) vs Apple which actually innovated and designed stuff.
What Dell did made sense in the short run (they were able to increase their profit margins), but in the long run without innovation and technology you lose.
The former CEO was a visionary that created the company and founded it on technical excellence. The current CEO is a sales guy. Killing Presto is said.
1) This will kill the crew morale; most of the dev's will quit.
2) Opera may continue to grow for a bit; just like Dell did when it started to outsource more and more manufacturing, and then design to asian companies. (One of those companies is now known as Asus). But it the long run, having no technology, it will deteriorate.
I skimmed the article and it looks like a wishful thinking of the publishers who see the writing on the wall.
The Association of American Publishers recently reported that annual growth in adult e-book sales dropped to 34 percent during the first half of 2012
So e-books are still growing and growing fast (34%!). The fact that an e-book costs as much as a paper one, has a DRM, and a delivery fee(!) is a disgrace but just imagine what will happen once those get fixed.
> It is really hard to recruit people with those skills.
Are you talking US? I'm curious if there is any demand for such people in Europe. AFAIK Europe is no longer relevant. One example: not a single mass market digital camera was produced in Europe.
I've been hearing that kind of crap for more than 10 years now and have known several startups that claimed exactly that.
Some would claim they had some cool software and you would start thinking, "oh my, how did they do it? that's truly incredible. This might be worth even more than the 200ooo$ they charge for it". The truth was that the price tag was that high so that noone could buy the software (because it was not ready yet; and in fact never materialized).
Some companies had some technology, e.g. Celoxica that did Handle-C (C variant) synthesis to FPGA. They had large offices, their employees drew BMW's but finally the bubble burst; they moved to a more modest location; and then finally sold the C synthesis business to Catalytic, a company that claimed they could synthesize MATLAB to FPGA (haha); and finally all that crap was acquired for 80(?)k $ by Mentor Graphics.
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The disk will then change its form (=reformat) and eventually erase old data.
Pro tip: run command `top' to quickly get to the peak of High Sierra.
Oh my gosh, Elon Mask was right!
Rendering plain text email is so much simpler and uses so much less CPU time/power that it could easily have a measurable effect on the global warming.
There is an accompanying study that says that a global deployment of such platoons may decrease the temperature increase by 4.27% over the next fifty years.
Why talk about how horrible the end of the century is going to be in Asia climate-wise while we still cannot predict the weather for the weekend?
It turns out to be much easier to predict the average temperature over a large area for a long term than the instantaneous temperature at a single location at a single time.
I can tell you the average height of American males with pretty good confidence (177 cm)-- but I can only guess how tall you are, and with a very high error.
Very well, so what is going to be an average height of an American male toward the end of the century?
They said "planting trees"? - wow, that actually makes sense. If only all the money we blow on reducing emissions could be spent on planting trees, cleaning water, and irrigation.
The intelligent road takes control of the (dumb) cars that drive on it. All cars drive at a high, constant speed, there are roundabouts at intersections. Changing of the lanes, etc. is all controlled by the road and happens very smoothly. (Hey, that's so cool - you modify some algorithm in the road software and the fuel economy improves for all cars driving on the road.) There was a startup allegedly working on a similar concept but I cannot find their site.
Is the birthrate up or down under Trump?
> Upton also discussed the Model A+ Raspberry Pi board
Not, really: "We’re going to do an announcement about an A+ soon. I think it’s going to be an exciting product,” he said, without giving exact details of how the board will be upgraded.
That's all he said.
The parens in the condition should be optional instead. I think new languages (go, Perl6) do it like that.
1) You said on multiple occasions that backwards compatibility is an important feature of C++. That feature comes at a cost, however (e.g. in language size and complexity). Do you think that at some point the cost of backward compatibility will outweigh the benefits? To put this in a context - several recent languages try to go into the system programming domain (D, Rust, Go). All quote dissatisfaction with C++ as (one of) the primary motivations (primary reasons being language complexity, poor support for parallelism, and long compile times). Can we hope the committee will be more aggressive in obsoleting old/broken features?
2) When will size_t be replaced by a signed type?
3) Your take on increased throughput of the committee and planed standardisation of many new libraries (graphics, asio, fs, etc.)
An idle router will surely use less electricity.
Looks somewhat similar to JavaScript/TypeScript. They took parens out of conditionals (so you say if condition {} ). Plus is still used for concatenation and addition. (Maybe that's not a problem, unlike in JavaScript.) Wonder if they will support Swift in Safari (with possible JavaScript generation for non-Apple browsers)
Yosemite will feature a new icon set. A bigger news is Swift, a new, safe programming language with type inference. Anyone who is able to find a language reference manual (supposedly available on iBooks) will get a lot of mod points.
A piece of ice breaks off, it flows to a warmer area. 10% of the ice is above the water surface, 90% is below. It dissolves. This makes it's volume _smaller_ -- by the 10% that was above the water surface. So why say goodbye to Florida?
Why nobody is demanding a browser ballot for Android? Monopollies are broken not by bueaucrats but by technology advance. Same thing happened to the railway monopolly (Technology brought lorries) But now the EU beaucrats have another billion to waste. If you're happy I am!
> Why would it kill morale?
Please, rendering technology was the heart of the browser and now it's been flushed down the toilet.
> How will Opera deteriorate by using the most popular browser engine?
How will it innovate? How will it differentiate? By creating a different set of icons on the toolbar? Look at Dell (basically sticking their logo on sb's else hardware) vs Apple which actually innovated and designed stuff. What Dell did made sense in the short run (they were able to increase their profit margins), but in the long run without innovation and technology you lose.
The former CEO was a visionary that created the company and founded it on technical excellence. The current CEO is a sales guy. Killing Presto is said.
1) This will kill the crew morale; most of the dev's will quit.
2) Opera may continue to grow for a bit; just like Dell did when it started to outsource more and more manufacturing, and then design to asian companies. (One of those companies is now known as Asus). But it the long run, having no technology, it will deteriorate.
I skimmed the article and it looks like a wishful thinking of the publishers who see the writing on the wall.
The Association of American Publishers recently reported that annual growth in adult e-book sales dropped to 34 percent during the first half of 2012
So e-books are still growing and growing fast (34%!). The fact that an e-book costs as much as a paper one, has a DRM, and a delivery fee(!) is a disgrace but just imagine what will happen once those get fixed.
Its f*ing close to water!
> It is really hard to recruit people with those skills.
Are you talking US? I'm curious if there is any demand for such people in Europe. AFAIK Europe is no longer relevant. One example: not a single mass market digital camera was produced in Europe.
I've been hearing that kind of crap for more than 10 years now and have known several startups that claimed exactly that.
Some would claim they had some cool software and you would start thinking, "oh my, how did they do it? that's truly incredible. This might be worth even more than the 200ooo$ they charge for it". The truth was that the price tag was that high so that noone could buy the software (because it was not ready yet; and in fact never materialized).
Some companies had some technology, e.g. Celoxica that did Handle-C (C variant) synthesis to FPGA. They had large offices, their employees drew BMW's but finally the bubble burst; they moved to a more modest location; and then finally sold the C synthesis business to Catalytic, a company that claimed they could synthesize MATLAB to FPGA (haha); and finally all that crap was acquired for 80(?)k $ by Mentor Graphics.
Apparently it's only programmers that say -- this sucks, I need to re-write it from scratch.
http://xkcd.com/224/
Go for Lego Mindstorms or something similar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT#Programming