My favorite is Unlambda, which is entirely independent of natural language facticity: Clickez ici. It's based on S,K,I combinators and "abstraction elimination."
n + U-238 --> U*-239 U*-239 --> U-239 + g U-239 --> Np-239 + e (T = 23.5 minutes) Np-239 --> Pu-239 + e (T = 2.355 days)
You can get trillions of neutrons per second with the junk in my basement. What you could do with higher voltages, accelerated ions, and higher pressures, I don't know. If you're willing to wait 35 thousand years or so, I can deliver a critical mass of Pu-239. You might prefer to buy me more equipment, to take delivery sooner;)
This is, of course, pure bullshit. I've written codecs in C and in Java, and the performance of Java can often be faster than C for typical codec tasks like block DCTs. Not typically as fast as Fortran, mind you, but on par with optimized Common LISP, which is also faster than GCC on x86 and PPC.
I've never made a similar comparison for fixed-point or SIMDized code, so I'm only making the claim for floating-point.
You don't need a fission reactor to turn natural U-238 into Pu-239 anymore, just a fast neutron source, such as an IEC reactor, a big fat wall socket for electricity, and a supply of tritium.
> most of the effort (by faaar most of it) went into > enriching Uranium and making Plutonium
Whereas, today, this is a trivial exercise. Given natural U metal, I can crank out Pu-239 in my basement for a few $K upfront costs, some electricity and a fair lot of deuterium gas, (which you can get from welding shops by the tank).
No, they're fighting us because we are taking over the Umma. As long as we leave them alone, we get left alone. Set one booted foot on Islamic territory, and you're toast.
The more HAMs there are, the more likely there will be HAMs after the nuclear war. Reducing the number of HAMs by imposing absurd hoops to jump through will not further this goal. The number of people competent to build radio gear from crap will increase as the number of radio hobbyists increases.
My employer has been using 2.0.40 with php 4.2.2 for a coon's age. Ignore the scarewords. (Yes, using non-threadsafe 3d party libraries with a multithreaded application execution model is prone to bugs... so don't do that, doh!)
Given that they are competing with AMD chips labelled in P4-clock-equivalents, does this mean that Pentium-M chips will start getting AMD-style speed ratings? Now *that* would be ironic.
> It is welcome to see the topic discussed on its > own legal merits, in lieu of actual law, and not > the moralistic turf both sides of the debate have > attempted to claim as their own
Oh yes, heaven knows how terrible it is when people discuss issues on their moral merits. There's no money in that.
Next thing you know, people will be making actual decisions on the basis of *right* and *wrong*!
Slashdot Mirror
In fact, the owner was never deprived of the use
of their putative property. Thus, no code was stolen.
Military use of Windows NT will likely bring new meaning to the old phrase "blue screen of death".
> we pretty much just agreed to get along and give others the same rights we would like ourself.
Unless the person in question is Ernst Zundel, or
an enemy of scientology, that is.
Hell, I've probably *slept* with more than 5%.
Aye! Moreover, toast is America's Favorite Food.
KDE is some sort of Frenchy croissant crap with
too much butter.
I've never recieved a spam email that was
encrypted. There's your solution.
My favorite is Unlambda, which is entirely independent of natural language facticity:
Clickez ici. It's based on S,K,I combinators and "abstraction elimination."
Yes.
n + U-238 --> U*-239
U*-239 --> U-239 + g
U-239 --> Np-239 + e (T = 23.5 minutes)
Np-239 --> Pu-239 + e (T = 2.355 days)
You can get trillions of neutrons per second
with the junk in my basement. What you could
do with higher voltages, accelerated ions, and
higher pressures, I don't know. If you're
willing to wait 35 thousand years or so, I can
deliver a critical mass of Pu-239. You might
prefer to buy me more equipment, to take delivery
sooner;)
> Java is also way too slow for a HDTV codec
This is, of course, pure bullshit. I've written
codecs in C and in Java, and the performance of
Java can often be faster than C for typical codec
tasks like block DCTs. Not typically as fast as
Fortran, mind you, but on par with optimized
Common LISP, which is also faster than GCC on
x86 and PPC.
I've never made a similar comparison for fixed-point
or SIMDized code, so I'm only making the claim
for floating-point.
Cool, but WHERE IS IT?
What I want to know is where I can download it.
You don't need a fission reactor to turn natural
U-238 into Pu-239 anymore, just a fast neutron source,
such as an IEC reactor, a big fat wall socket for
electricity, and a supply of tritium.
> most of the effort (by faaar most of it) went into
> enriching Uranium and making Plutonium
Whereas, today, this is a trivial exercise.
Given natural U metal, I can crank out Pu-239
in my basement for a few $K upfront costs, some
electricity and a fair lot of deuterium gas, (which
you can get from welding shops by the tank).
What's this "us" and "them" crap? Remember, al-qaeda uses slashdot too, yanqui.
Bomb...vaporware.
Vapor*ize*ware you mean?
Well, hell, they have to find some WMD *somewhere*.
Someone please mod the parent up. We have a
priority inversion going on here.
No, they're fighting us because we are taking over
the Umma. As long as we leave them alone, we get
left alone. Set one booted foot on Islamic territory,
and you're toast.
The more HAMs there are, the more likely there will
be HAMs after the nuclear war. Reducing the number
of HAMs by imposing absurd hoops to jump through
will not further this goal. The number of people
competent to build radio gear from crap will increase
as the number of radio hobbyists increases.
My employer has been using 2.0.40 with php 4.2.2
for a coon's age. Ignore the scarewords. (Yes,
using non-threadsafe 3d party libraries with a
multithreaded application execution model is prone
to bugs... so don't do that, doh!)
> They don't alter the core language in any way(at least not without serious voodoo).
Well, even if they did, wouldn't that be a meta-object protocol, generally considered to be a Good Thing?
Given that they are competing with AMD chips
labelled in P4-clock-equivalents, does this mean
that Pentium-M chips will start getting AMD-style
speed ratings? Now *that* would be ironic.
Exactly how can you tell the difference between
an intrinsic function and a library function in
Scheme?
I note that the Java language specification spends
quite a few pages on defining the library routines
which are required by the language.
Likewise C has "standard library" functions which
may be implemented by an external library or as
intrinsics by a compiler.
Why should there be a strong difference? Isn't
extensibility a good thing?
IBM is neither good nor bad. What IBM is doing
with regard to RFID is bad for your privacy.
> It is welcome to see the topic discussed on its
> own legal merits, in lieu of actual law, and not
> the moralistic turf both sides of the debate have
> attempted to claim as their own
Oh yes, heaven knows how terrible it is when people
discuss issues on their moral merits. There's no
money in that.
Next thing you know, people will be making actual
decisions on the basis of *right* and *wrong*!