0.01$ Polish people I know are very unhappy about their government; they say it the worst one after communism was overthrown; they have also had a lot of bitter remarks about public education. (Actually some people in Poland are on hunger strike now protesting against the removal of history lessons.) So this "free" stuff looks like the goverment is trying to improve their PR.
Actually, the video player is amazing -- it has captions on the side highlighting phrases there are being spoken in the video. If you click on a phrase, the video scrolls to that point. I thought -- wow, who needs Flash any more? And now you are telling me that's just a fallback version?
Last time I used IPAD I tried to edit some circuits using an MTI web app (https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/ free login required, then go to Overview | Circuit Sandbox) but it did not work -- I could not move any part on the schematics. So maybe the APP has just to be fixed for the IPAD. Just saying it did not work for me and my instinct was to reach for a mouse.
I remember seeing a footage with some bureaucrat (an US president?) saying that in several years we will win the war with cancer. That was in the 70's.
> It kind of makes me wonder why no one has made a BT mouse adapter
Because it makes no sense? Steve Jobs mentioned that when Apple started the multi-touch interface they knew that all apps would have to be re-written to use this interface. So I guess mouse and multi-touch are two different worlds. Safari fires touch events, not mouse events -- touch events are used to simulate mouse events but some things do not work: (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html).
So it would be totally cool if I could use not only a wireless keyboard but also a mouse with my IPAD (and on occasion turn the IPAD into a poor's man desktop replacement), but I don't think that's possible.
My friend from Belgium (who speaks Dutch as the first language) said once: "oh, so the guy who created python is from the Netherlands? Well, I don't wanna touch it then".
I have similar problems with Perl -- it is too slow -- and it is impossible to fix it by re-writing parts of the system in C.
Here's the catch: you manipulate large data structures (e.g. large data sets read from a database). There is a bunch of functions for processing the data. Even if you re-write some of them in C they will still have to manipulate the very same stuff -- for example: a number in Perl is a scalar; a scalar has a string representation, a numeric representation, a reference count, etc. If you manipulate it in C you still have to take care of all this crap. So what's the point in writing that in C? Perl interpreter is also written in C. (Perl C API is way harder to use than Python's but that's irrelevant.)
So, it's like saying: if your program (in whatever language is too slow), run it through the profiler, find the routine that uses 90% of the CPU time and optimize it. Anyone who has used a profiler will know that this not always that easy.
Anybody could explain why it is so difficult to get this thing running? Last time I checked even Visual Studio 6.0 did not work. It seems that virtual machine is the only way to go...
> Oh. There it is. It's just a way to get money for the breathalyzer manufacturers,
> as well as for the government to pat themselves on the back
It's for your own good -- and I'm not talking about road security but about your attitude. You must know that the government is your master. They can force you to do whatever stupidity they see fit, they can grope your pants while you travel, they can take a share of whatever you have earned, they can counterfeit money (paper money is not real, right?), and so on.
I signed it to gmail and went to this URL but it's telling me my web history is disabled. I have never disabled it myself so could it be disabled by default?
Anybody remembers that scene from the Sting (1973) when Johny Hooker (Robert Redford) tucks money in Mottola pants and says Ain't no hard guy in the world gonna frisk ya there?
Anybody remembers that scene from the Sting (1973) when Johny Hooker (Robert Redford) tucks money in Mottola pants and says Ain't no hard guy in the world gonna frisk ya there.?
I wonder if EU will make a rant about it. There is a saying -- don't steal, government hates competition. Governments would happily extend their monopoly to data retention.
This is not only about Perl 6 implementations (which are slow and can use hundreds of megabytes of memory for the most innocent tasks) but also about the spec. Perl has had a reputation for allowing you to write code so concise that it is unreadable. For Perl 6 -- I don't know -- saying my Int $a is both ugly and more verbose than, say, C. The same goes for sub s ( Int $a is copy ) (if you don't say is copy, it's passed by reference).
Splicing rules were supposed to be simpler but they look more confusing to me. Parenthesis in sub calls are still optional (a common source of confusion in Perl5, where a comma may separate either function arguments or statements) but there is a new, alternative syntax for calling a sub using subname followed by a colon (which happens to look like a label).
Parenthesis are now skipped in more places, say in array and hash declarations (so @arr = 1,2 ; @arr = (1,2); and [1,2] all mean different things). JavaScript got it right, Perl6 gets it wrong. Apparently there are good sides to designing a language in two weeks (that would be 10 working days) rather than 10 years.
There is some very nice stuff in Perl 6 but my final verdict would be thumbs down - both for the implementation(s) and for the spec.
Perl is where JavaScript used to be at version 1.3 -- version 1.4 was on the horizon, it was supposed to change the language radically, add packages, type system, etc. However, 1.4 was killed and 1.5 was born. 1.5 was a small incremental update to 1.3.
Perl 6 is never going to make it (yes, I've looked at it recently) so the community should let it die and start Perl 7 instead. Perl 7 should be for Perl 5 what JavaScript 1.5 was for JavaScript 1.3. It should add 1) classes using MooseX::declare syntax 2) autoboxing @arr.push( $elem ) instead push @arr, $elem and 3) and maybe a few syntactic enhancements that everybody is going to love such like chained comparisons or while @arr -> $x, $y
10 hrs+ per week per course is a rough guess. Depends on whether the material is entirely new for you or not.
I took two courses last year -- databases and machine learning. It was tough to have a full time job and a life at the same time -- but I managed to complete both with maximum scores so that's doable. Also note that the courses this year (some of them at least) are shorter than the ones offered in 2o11. It is easier to work hard (every evening on a weekday + Saturdays) for just 5 weeks rather than 9 or 10 weeks.
It still baffles me - how dilbertian do you have to be to shell out 1.2 bln $ for a hack that took just nine months to develop?
When Apple was looking for a new OS back in the 90's they approached BE Inc. (who were working on a new OS at the time) estimating that BE was worth 50 mln $ at most. BE refused the offer asking for well over 2oo mln $ assuming wrongly that Apple had no alternatives; Apple ended up buying NeXT and bringing back Steve Jobs to Cupertino. (They also considered licensing Windows NT from MicroSoft.)
New robots/machines are most likely to appear in existing factories. And when a manufacturing company builds a brand new factory, it's likely to pick a location near existing factories.
Plus it's not only about cheap labor but also about fewer regulations and more economic freedom in general.
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Will it support lambdas, auto, and initializer lists?
I hope it's not dead. I use both Gmail and Yahoo! mail and I find Y! far superior. Plus D.C. talks on JavaScript rock.
0.01$ Socialism never works.
0.01$ Polish people I know are very unhappy about their government; they say it the worst one after communism was overthrown; they have also had a lot of bitter remarks about public education. (Actually some people in Poland are on hunger strike now protesting against the removal of history lessons.) So this "free" stuff looks like the goverment is trying to improve their PR.
Just checked -- works on a "regular" Safari.
Actually, the video player is amazing -- it has captions on the side highlighting phrases there are being spoken in the video. If you click on a phrase, the video scrolls to that point. I thought -- wow, who needs Flash any more? And now you are telling me that's just a fallback version?
Last time I used IPAD I tried to edit some circuits using an MTI web app (https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/ free login required, then go to Overview | Circuit Sandbox) but it did not work -- I could not move any part on the schematics. So maybe the APP has just to be fixed for the IPAD. Just saying it did not work for me and my instinct was to reach for a mouse.
I remember seeing a footage with some bureaucrat (an US president?) saying that in several years we will win the war with cancer. That was in the 70's.
> It kind of makes me wonder why no one has made a BT mouse adapter
Because it makes no sense? Steve Jobs mentioned that when Apple started the multi-touch interface they knew that all apps would have to be re-written to use this interface. So I guess mouse and multi-touch are two different worlds. Safari fires touch events, not mouse events -- touch events are used to simulate mouse events but some things do not work: (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html).
So it would be totally cool if I could use not only a wireless keyboard but also a mouse with my IPAD (and on occasion turn the IPAD into a poor's man desktop replacement), but I don't think that's possible.
My friend from Belgium (who speaks Dutch as the first language) said once: "oh, so the guy who created python is from the Netherlands? Well, I don't wanna touch it then".
I have similar problems with Perl -- it is too slow -- and it is impossible to fix it by re-writing parts of the system in C.
Here's the catch: you manipulate large data structures (e.g. large data sets read from a database). There is a bunch of functions for processing the data. Even if you re-write some of them in C they will still have to manipulate the very same stuff -- for example: a number in Perl is a scalar; a scalar has a string representation, a numeric representation, a reference count, etc. If you manipulate it in C you still have to take care of all this crap. So what's the point in writing that in C? Perl interpreter is also written in C. (Perl C API is way harder to use than Python's but that's irrelevant.)
So, it's like saying: if your program (in whatever language is too slow), run it through the profiler, find the routine that uses 90% of the CPU time and optimize it. Anyone who has used a profiler will know that this not always that easy.
My first thought: Taking DNA is taking part of your body. So is habeas corpus gone?
Anybody could explain why it is so difficult to get this thing running? Last time I checked even Visual Studio 6.0 did not work. It seems that virtual machine is the only way to go...
> Oh. There it is. It's just a way to get money for the breathalyzer manufacturers,
> as well as for the government to pat themselves on the back
It's for your own good -- and I'm not talking about road security but about your attitude. You must know that the government is your master. They can force you to do whatever stupidity they see fit, they can grope your pants while you travel, they can take a share of whatever you have earned, they can counterfeit money (paper money is not real, right?), and so on.
I signed it to gmail and went to this URL but it's telling me my web history is disabled. I have never disabled it myself so could it be disabled by default?
Anybody remembers that scene from the Sting (1973) when Johny Hooker (Robert Redford) tucks money in Mottola pants and says Ain't no hard guy in the world gonna frisk ya there?
Enter TSA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhTj3UDnf4&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP04B8F748756250C5#t=6m15s
Anybody remembers that scene from the Sting (1973) when Johny Hooker (Robert Redford) tucks money in Mottola pants and says Ain't no hard guy in the world gonna frisk ya there.?
Yeah, I've heard that Chomsky is a commie. Thanks for bringing it up.
I wonder if EU will make a rant about it. There is a saying -- don't steal, government hates competition. Governments would happily extend their monopoly to data retention.
This is not only about Perl 6 implementations (which are slow and can use hundreds of megabytes of memory for the most innocent tasks) but also about the spec. Perl has had a reputation for allowing you to write code so concise that it is unreadable. For Perl 6 -- I don't know -- saying my Int $a is both ugly and more verbose than, say, C. The same goes for sub s ( Int $a is copy ) (if you don't say is copy, it's passed by reference).
Splicing rules were supposed to be simpler but they look more confusing to me. Parenthesis in sub calls are still optional (a common source of confusion in Perl5, where a comma may separate either function arguments or statements) but there is a new, alternative syntax for calling a sub using subname followed by a colon (which happens to look like a label).
Parenthesis are now skipped in more places, say in array and hash declarations (so @arr = 1,2 ; @arr = (1,2); and [1,2] all mean different things). JavaScript got it right, Perl6 gets it wrong. Apparently there are good sides to designing a language in two weeks (that would be 10 working days) rather than 10 years.
There is some very nice stuff in Perl 6 but my final verdict would be thumbs down - both for the implementation(s) and for the spec.
Perl is where JavaScript used to be at version 1.3 -- version 1.4 was on the horizon, it was supposed to change the language radically, add packages, type system, etc. However, 1.4 was killed and 1.5 was born. 1.5 was a small incremental update to 1.3.
Perl 6 is never going to make it (yes, I've looked at it recently) so the community should let it die and start Perl 7 instead. Perl 7 should be for Perl 5 what JavaScript 1.5 was for JavaScript 1.3. It should add 1) classes using MooseX::declare syntax 2) autoboxing @arr.push( $elem ) instead push @arr, $elem and 3) and maybe a few syntactic enhancements that everybody is going to love such like chained comparisons or while @arr -> $x, $y
We know (thanks to CPAN modules) that those work.
10 hrs+ per week per course is a rough guess. Depends on whether the material is entirely new for you or not.
I took two courses last year -- databases and machine learning. It was tough to have a full time job and a life at the same time -- but I managed to complete both with maximum scores so that's doable. Also note that the courses this year (some of them at least) are shorter than the ones offered in 2o11. It is easier to work hard (every evening on a weekday + Saturdays) for just 5 weeks rather than 9 or 10 weeks.
A year and a half ago HP might have bought it for a billion!
It still baffles me - how dilbertian do you have to be to shell out 1.2 bln $ for a hack that took just nine months to develop?
When Apple was looking for a new OS back in the 90's they approached BE Inc. (who were working on a new OS at the time) estimating that BE was worth 50 mln $ at most. BE refused the offer asking for well over 2oo mln $ assuming wrongly that Apple had no alternatives; Apple ended up buying NeXT and bringing back Steve Jobs to Cupertino. (They also considered licensing Windows NT from MicroSoft.)
New robots/machines are most likely to appear in existing factories. And when a manufacturing company builds a brand new factory, it's likely to pick a location near existing factories. Plus it's not only about cheap labor but also about fewer regulations and more economic freedom in general.