I think you'll find that Linux has premptive multitasking too. What it can't do (without the preempt patch) is prempt a task that is currently running kernel code (e.g. through a syscall). I've no idea whether the Amiga's "kernel" (exec?) was preemptible in this sense or not.
I guess I was taking the phrase "logical evolutionairy step" too literally (which is itself symptomatic of Asperger's). I think the environment of the western world will allow more diversity in the future, and among that diversity will be people from the whole range of Autism. I think this is similar to what you are saying. I previously thought you were implying that people toward the "normal" end of Asperger's would become dominant through the evolutionary process.
I think you are miles off (and getting dangerously Lamarkian). Why would bright but "socially retarted" (please supply a better term) people have a better chance of reproducing than you average Joe Sixpack (whoever he may be)?
From the article you could say that people with Asperger's/Autism may have a better chance of reproducing that they used to, because of the polarization of places like Silicon Valley, but I still reckon Mr Sixpack and his friends are doing OK in the reproductive stakes (and better than Mr Geek).
On a different note why am I not surprised that I have all the symptoms of Asperger's.
Maybe the providers should be honest and start offering something to distinguish the home service (a network pipe with no QoS) to the busines service (a network pipe with no QoS that costs more). Then people might be think they are worth buying.
But no, in your strange deluded world, I should pay more to my network provider for the privillege of using some encryption software on my machine and some encryption software on the machine at work, because those encrypted bytes are so much heavier on the network than their unencrypted bretheren.
I could be totally busking here, but just because a problem is NP complete doesn't mean you can't find a pretty good solution in polynomial time. I believe there is a genetic style algorithm (involving ants walking around a map where the towns supply sugar) that gives pretty good solutions to the travelling salesman problem in polynomial time.
I think if the initial conditions were a bunch of motionless birds suspended in the air then the next thing to happend would be synchronised plummet as they wonder who the fuck was doing thought experiments on them. I guess they would eventually swarm around a lower point, unless they impacted first.
If you are sharing the bandwidth at your end then it can help promote your download to the detriment of others at your site. Unless your site has some fairer load balancing than a standard TCP stack - where each connection just grabs what it can (this tends to balance out over all connections - not over a quota per machine).
My knowledge of physics could fit in a thimble, with room to spare
With today's solid state storage technologies, the information content of the Encyclopedia Britannica could probably fit in a thimble with room to spare. That not to say a very small amount of information couldn't fit as well, mind...
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I've seen the Windows 2000 login screen at an ATM in the UK (with an error box behind it), which I have to say scared the willies out of me. I almost wish I'd had a camera with me at the time.
Hmm this appears to be my (2^8)th post, glad I'm not a Pacman machine.
I'm a CS grad student working on a large research project (over 1 million lines of code, supported on many platforms). The project has been under development for several years, and the build system is nontrivial for end-users.
Linus is that you? Or maybe those whacky XFree86 guys.
My point is that you cannot just openly apply what you think of as "the norm" to other cultures and then belittle them when it doesn't match.
If what your culture does is more successful than what another culture does, why the hell can't you? If Etcrusian culture was so equal to Roman culture, where is it now? Hell, if Greek culture wasn't better than Roman culture, why did the Romans fall all over themselves to copy it when they had the upper hand?
The trouble is that are judging the success of your culture within the rules of your culture. Of course Chinese culture comes up bad on those scores, but maybe US culture comes up bad on theirs. I'd like to agree with you, and believe me I'm happy to be living in the West. But, I've been culturally conditioned to accept these norms and judge societies this way. Why should I be convinced that its the right way, the best way or the only way?
<with apologies>I think you are missing the point of the article. Basically, a fridge does one thing - keep stuff cold. You only have to open the door, put stuff in and close it again. The article is about systems with thousands of food items, and how to allow humans to manage large amounts of temperature requirements....</with apologies>
I would be interested in a concrete example of an Englishy style statement that you you could prove by virtue of using one of these languages.
Would type errors would be impossible in Java or C++ if you refrained from using the cast operators? I guess also that its more than just being a functional language, as I can quite easily cause some Lisp (or Scheme) to blow up with the equivalent of a type exception (in emacs (* 2 (2 3)) C-M-x).
Do the Haskell style languages also have something to say on null pointer style errors - I'd guess maybe the language is constructed to make these impossible.
<troll>Of course the program won't go wrong at run time (baring hardware failure). The computer will do exactly what you tell it. Proving that the computer will do exactly what you tell it is not interesting.</troll>.
More seriously could you expand on the kind stuff that can be proven at compile time using the languages you mention.
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I think you'll find that Linux has premptive multitasking too. What it can't do (without the preempt patch) is prempt a task that is currently running kernel code (e.g. through a syscall). I've no idea whether the Amiga's "kernel" (exec?) was preemptible in this sense or not.
I thought he gave himself away at the end.
Well, no shit sherlock as they say over here.
What Signal 11 did when he wasn't on /.
Last I looked, the object browser is a downloadable module from the update center. Not that I use it - so it may not be what it used to be.
A VCR can't be that simple, because if it was that simple it would be a watch.
I'm hoping a man who converts the mass of a gorilla from metric to imperial (to within a couple of pounds) did it on purpose.
I guess I was taking the phrase "logical evolutionairy step" too literally (which is itself symptomatic of Asperger's). I think the environment of the western world will allow more diversity in the future, and among that diversity will be people from the whole range of Autism. I think this is similar to what you are saying. I previously thought you were implying that people toward the "normal" end of Asperger's would become dominant through the evolutionary process.
I think you are miles off (and getting dangerously Lamarkian). Why would bright but "socially retarted" (please supply a better term) people have a better chance of reproducing than you average Joe Sixpack (whoever he may be)?
From the article you could say that people with Asperger's/Autism may have a better chance of reproducing that they used to, because of the polarization of places like Silicon Valley, but I still reckon Mr Sixpack and his friends are doing OK in the reproductive stakes (and better than Mr Geek).
On a different note why am I not surprised that I have all the symptoms of Asperger's.
Maybe the providers should be honest and start offering something to distinguish the home service (a network pipe with no QoS) to the busines service (a network pipe with no QoS that costs more). Then people might be think they are worth buying.
But no, in your strange deluded world, I should pay more to my network provider for the privillege of using some encryption software on my machine and some encryption software on the machine at work, because those encrypted bytes are so much heavier on the network than their unencrypted bretheren.
IHBT, fuckwit.
I could be totally busking here, but just because a problem is NP complete doesn't mean you can't find a pretty good solution in polynomial time. I believe there is a genetic style algorithm (involving ants walking around a map where the towns supply sugar) that gives pretty good solutions to the travelling salesman problem in polynomial time.
I think if the initial conditions were a bunch of motionless birds suspended in the air then the next thing to happend would be synchronised plummet as they wonder who the fuck was doing thought experiments on them. I guess they would eventually swarm around a lower point, unless they impacted first.
Just ignore me.
If you are sharing the bandwidth at your end then it can help promote your download to the detriment of others at your site. Unless your site has some fairer load balancing than a standard TCP stack - where each connection just grabs what it can (this tends to balance out over all connections - not over a quota per machine).
What is "Galactic macrolensing"?
It would go some way to solving the unemployment problems too.
My knowledge of physics could fit in a thimble, with room to spare
With today's solid state storage technologies, the information content of the Encyclopedia Britannica could probably fit in a thimble with room to spare. That not to say a very small amount of information couldn't fit as well, mind...
I've seen the Windows 2000 login screen at an ATM in the UK (with an error box behind it), which I have to say scared the willies out of me. I almost wish I'd had a camera with me at the time.
Hmm this appears to be my (2^8)th post, glad I'm not a Pacman machine.
Linus is that you? Or maybe those whacky XFree86 guys.
My point is that you cannot just openly apply what you think of as "the norm" to other cultures and then belittle them when it doesn't match.
The trouble is that are judging the success of your culture within the rules of your culture. Of course Chinese culture comes up bad on those scores, but maybe US culture comes up bad on theirs. I'd like to agree with you, and believe me I'm happy to be living in the West. But, I've been culturally conditioned to accept these norms and judge societies this way. Why should I be convinced that its the right way, the best way or the only way?
<with apologies>I think you are missing the point of the article. Basically, a fridge does one thing - keep stuff cold. You only have to open the door, put stuff in and close it again. The article is about systems with thousands of food items, and how to allow humans to manage large amounts of temperature requirements....</with apologies>
There is lots said on this over at Database Debunkings
Thanks for your response.
I would be interested in a concrete example of an Englishy style statement that you you could prove by virtue of using one of these languages.
Would type errors would be impossible in Java or C++ if you refrained from using the cast operators? I guess also that its more than just being a functional language, as I can quite easily cause some Lisp (or Scheme) to blow up with the equivalent of a type exception (in emacs (* 2 (2 3)) C-M-x).
Do the Haskell style languages also have something to say on null pointer style errors - I'd guess maybe the language is constructed to make these impossible.
<troll>Of course the program won't go wrong at run time (baring hardware failure). The computer will do exactly what you tell it. Proving that the computer will do exactly what you tell it is not interesting.</troll>.
More seriously could you expand on the kind stuff that can be proven at compile time using the languages you mention.
Could you explain how tagged unions differ in concept from subclasses? I'm just a clueless non C developer. TIA
OS 390, because rebooting is for, err I forget...
$29.99 is nothing. Besides you can then download the trailer and watch it to your heart's content.
Ah, so by induction you wouldn't mind passing a couple of million US dollars my way.