Indeed C is the lowest level structured language and simplistic enough to survive for a long time. It's what sits on top of assembly and I can imagine neither disappearing except if all chips took java bytecode.
C might be changed or enhanced to match changing hardware, but neither objective C nor C++ killed C because C cannot be replaced.
It might become relatively unpopular over time however and be limited only to the layer between assembly, operating system and other langauges...
I would put vi and emacs in the list there, and stuff like tex and even tcl/tk. I would put crimping a 10base2 ethernet cable.
What about assembly language programming for DOS (remember Robert Brown's interrupt list?). BASIC is dying too although it'll never truly die.
FORTRAN is probably more deserving to be on that list along with RPG than COBOL.
But I'd never put C there. Just visit any university. However if the author meant C-only skills and not hardware (device drivers), higher level (C++), specific API or other skills, it might work for the list.
It does not have to be a disaster. Just as technology changed things to allow people to live in the city, it can change things to allow them to live in the country.
If all jobs move online, no one would want to pay 30% of their salaries for cramped apartments in the city. Everyone wants to own a house with a big backyard, heck an acre of forest and raise big dogs/horses.
Allow the transport of food and purchased goods to anywhere real fast and people will start leaving the city. Another catalyst will be much improved transportation, allowing people to work anywhere without having to live close to work.
In fact seeing how cramped some cities get, I'd almost swear urbanization will be reversed.
I'm glad someone agrees with the fact that there were other massacres, some with higher body counts.
The Stalin massacre is estimated to be over 20 million, the Mongol massacre of the Chinese almost a millennium ago, almost 40 million!!! It's certainly not immediate as it happened so long ago, and to the Chinese in the far east, by Mongols who were the devils anyway compared to the humanized (and close) Europe. But the scale of it blows one's mind... comparing the Mongol massacre to the Holocaust is like comparing the Holocaust with Kosovo. It took them longer, but the Mongols did indeed wipe out entire cities and with alarming efficiency.
The Holocaust gets a great deal of press, but the press it gets compared to every other man made disaster is disproportional. It gives the impression that the Germans were exceptionally evil and destructive, rather than the fact that violence is innate in humans and has happened to everyone everywhere. There are also political reasons to focus on the Holocaust... sympathy for Israel is among them. So is the justification by the 'allied powers' for winning the war.
So if the Holocaust is dropped from a curriculum because the teachers tried to cram in other disasters and didn't have the space, I would not consider that Holocaust denial. Of course this story was a joke, but it reflects the strong bias to tell certain historic stories over others. The Mongol empire was bigger than the Roman or Greek empires. Which one gets better coverage?
First, Holocaust denial is not a 'part of Muslim beliefs'.
Secondly it's overselling the disaster by calling it 'the Holocaust' as if it was the only Holocaust in history. I don't think the British schools particularly focus on the Cambodian massacre, Stalin's massacre of the Russians, the Mongol massacre of the Chinese etc. Some of them involved killing more than 6 million people. Yet noone really cares and there's no special word for it to make it sound like the worst mass murder ever.
I just hope the schools teach 'The Holocaust (tm)' as well as other bigger massacres in history and hope at least slashdot posters would not write bigoted posts implying Muslims generally deny the Holocaust.
Actually the transformation sound isn't on the mark either. But it's good enough for me.
My fear is this will be yet another Steven Speilburg movie where the focus is on the zoomed-in makeup-loaded faces of actresses rather than the action they're staring at. Too much movie time lended to the suspense factor rather than the action action action of the tv series which was all about the transformers, their transformations and the weapons. The trailer seemed a bit like Jurrasic Park where you don't see the dinos until the half of the movie with the suspense building before you see the first dino.
The air blows because cars push the air out and forward as they go. Block the air as in a tunnel, and cars have to burn slightly more gas to push the slightly resistant air.
So instead of something so elaborate, just charge a toll of 5 cents or something for the cars. Same effect, much less complex.
Do you guys remember when ibiblio was sunsite.unc.edu? And when it was ftp.cdrom.com?
I still remember the way I used to fetch Slackware binaries, ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slac kware/slackware-3.2.... with a capital L in Linux. Else it wouldn't work.
The right tree would be the tree of fusion. I know the JET project has been a failure but once it does succeed in long term, safe and sustainable fusion we'll not run out of fuel anytime soon. There's lots of Duterium in the oceans out there.
Linux takes way too much space for an embedded OS and REQUIRES a 32-bit cpu. It's also quite complex and therefore better suited to larger and more featureful devices. Even there, the numerous distributions lack of standards and standardized packaging and nonstandard GUI hampers it.
That's the reason why PalmOS, Symbian, QNX and wxworks exist. Not to mention eCos, uOS, FreeRTOS etc. Linux is not simply the best tool for the job. Linux is the best tool for certain jobs, the rest will require you to choose. The mobile market is just too diverse to standardize.
PC is just regular, and this seems like the brand name has been pasted onto beige run-of-the-mill PCs.
I'd rather see (and purchase) a custom ARM9-based PC with ZetaOS or something with a very funky basic compiler/interpreter on which all programs use BASIC. ARM9 should also bring the price sufficiently down to make the product a success over regular PCs (I mean in the hobbyist market).
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He says budget is tight. So I'd expect something like an ARM7 chip which is more general purpose and has way more kick per dollar.
Even if he does have to use PICs, he could use PIC18 or PIC24. A single pic however has way more coolfactor.
I must mention these days computers are a little less predictable.
Blocked airflow, low power powersupply etc. might not always work.
I had a memory stick which would work in the socket closest to the CPU and not in the next one. Another memstick worked in both. High frequency issues?
At least during the 386 days computers would either work or not work for a very good and visible reason. High frequency and power, low cost devices are just finicky. They may not always work and you may never know why. Back then debugging IRQ problems was simple enough and could be fixed. Nowadays IRQ is handled by PCI, BIOS and the northbridge but when it's out-of-whack, time to buy a new computer.
Backups are not a 'solution'. They are a 'backup solution' to the 'main solution'.
Of course one should keep backups, but I'm sick of it being called a solution to drive crashes.
I had a drive crash this morning (on a server that is fully backed up daily. And I've had to get another server started and serving DHCP and DNS simply because I needed the thing up and running FAST. The RAID system crashed. If a drive crashed and it was in a RAID system, the server will keep running. Now that's what I'd call a 'primary solution' to a drive crash rather than blurt out 'oh and regular backups is a good solution'. Only if you can backup once every minute and restore within 60 seconds.
In other news... they'll be deleting all your emails daily rather than monthly if you havent logged in. They'll offer 4GB of space to beat google, and then delete emails as they come.
# Cron job: rm -rf/var/spool/*
# Since we all know they continue to use Solaris for their hotmail servers.
That reminds me of the idea of using a cargo shuttle that is all robotic for increased payload. Alas the reusability of the shuttle is still expensive and using Soyuz disposable spacecraft is still cheaper.
Spacecraft should be simplified to just being the fuel and its container (and some glue logic to hold the payload). Anything else is bureaucracy.
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Yup. It's a dupe by Palm.
Not a bad driver. Just a closed driver. A driver not having been exposed to enough 'eyeballs'.
Indeed C is the lowest level structured language and simplistic enough to survive for a long time. It's what sits on top of assembly and I can imagine neither disappearing except if all chips took java bytecode.
C might be changed or enhanced to match changing hardware, but neither objective C nor C++ killed C because C cannot be replaced.
It might become relatively unpopular over time however and be limited only to the layer between assembly, operating system and other langauges...
Some of the items were job titles not skills.
I would put vi and emacs in the list there, and stuff like tex and even tcl/tk. I would put crimping a 10base2 ethernet cable.
What about assembly language programming for DOS (remember Robert Brown's interrupt list?). BASIC is dying too although it'll never truly die.
FORTRAN is probably more deserving to be on that list along with RPG than COBOL.
But I'd never put C there. Just visit any university. However if the author meant C-only skills and not hardware (device drivers), higher level (C++), specific API or other skills, it might work for the list.
It does not have to be a disaster. Just as technology changed things to allow people to live in the city, it can change things to allow them to live in the country.
If all jobs move online, no one would want to pay 30% of their salaries for cramped apartments in the city. Everyone wants to own a house with a big backyard, heck an acre of forest and raise big dogs/horses.
Allow the transport of food and purchased goods to anywhere real fast and people will start leaving the city. Another catalyst will be much improved transportation, allowing people to work anywhere without having to live close to work.
In fact seeing how cramped some cities get, I'd almost swear urbanization will be reversed.
Wow!
Where can I get one of those? I have to write a letter and pay higher bills to get 4 IPs.
Maybe I do not understand the reasoning or am taking it emotionally,
but I think it's a little unfair to have managers who have little or no experience in the respective field.
It's much easier to respect a manager who knows her stuff and understands the work well rather than a fresh-out-of-college MBA.
I'm glad someone agrees with the fact that there were other massacres, some with higher body counts.
The Stalin massacre is estimated to be over 20 million, the Mongol massacre of the Chinese almost a millennium ago, almost 40 million!!! It's certainly not immediate as it happened so long ago, and to the Chinese in the far east, by Mongols who were the devils anyway compared to the humanized (and close) Europe. But the scale of it blows one's mind... comparing the Mongol massacre to the Holocaust is like comparing the Holocaust with Kosovo. It took them longer, but the Mongols did indeed wipe out entire cities and with alarming efficiency.
The Holocaust gets a great deal of press, but the press it gets compared to every other man made disaster is disproportional. It gives the impression that the Germans were exceptionally evil and destructive, rather than the fact that violence is innate in humans and has happened to everyone everywhere. There are also political reasons to focus on the Holocaust... sympathy for Israel is among them. So is the justification by the 'allied powers' for winning the war.
So if the Holocaust is dropped from a curriculum because the teachers tried to cram in other disasters and didn't have the space, I would not consider that Holocaust denial. Of course this story was a joke, but it reflects the strong bias to tell certain historic stories over others. The Mongol empire was bigger than the Roman or Greek empires. Which one gets better coverage?
What a silly post.
First, Holocaust denial is not a 'part of Muslim beliefs'.
Secondly it's overselling the disaster by calling it 'the Holocaust' as if it was the only Holocaust in history. I don't think the British schools particularly focus on the Cambodian massacre, Stalin's massacre of the Russians, the Mongol massacre of the Chinese etc. Some of them involved killing more than 6 million people. Yet noone really cares and there's no special word for it to make it sound like the worst mass murder ever.
I just hope the schools teach 'The Holocaust (tm)' as well as other bigger massacres in history and hope at least slashdot posters would not write bigoted posts implying Muslims generally deny the Holocaust.
I did miss the music though.
And the mask-flip sequence.
Actually the transformation sound isn't on the mark either. But it's good enough for me.
My fear is this will be yet another Steven Speilburg movie where the focus is on the zoomed-in makeup-loaded faces of actresses rather than the action they're staring at. Too much movie time lended to the suspense factor rather than the action action action of the tv series which was all about the transformers, their transformations and the weapons. The trailer seemed a bit like Jurrasic Park where you don't see the dinos until the half of the movie with the suspense building before you see the first dino.
The air blows because cars push the air out and forward as they go. Block the air as in a tunnel, and cars have to burn slightly more gas to push the slightly resistant air.
So instead of something so elaborate, just charge a toll of 5 cents or something for the cars. Same effect, much less complex.
Do you guys remember when ibiblio was sunsite.unc.edu? And when it was ftp.cdrom.com?
c kware/slackware-3.2 .... with a capital L in Linux. Else it wouldn't work.
I still remember the way I used to fetch Slackware binaries, ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/sla
They're not called goat farmers, they're called Shepherds.
The right tree would be the tree of fusion. I know the JET project has been a failure but once it does succeed in long term, safe and sustainable fusion we'll not run out of fuel anytime soon. There's lots of Duterium in the oceans out there.
How do you know it's the best tool for the job?
Linux takes way too much space for an embedded OS and REQUIRES a 32-bit cpu. It's also quite complex and therefore better suited to larger and more featureful devices. Even there, the numerous distributions lack of standards and standardized packaging and nonstandard GUI hampers it.
That's the reason why PalmOS, Symbian, QNX and wxworks exist. Not to mention eCos, uOS, FreeRTOS etc. Linux is not simply the best tool for the job. Linux is the best tool for certain jobs, the rest will require you to choose. The mobile market is just too diverse to standardize.
This is the last time they'd outsource programming.
You can't nudge nudge wink wink "exclude me from the list" through email to someone 12 timezones away.
How about the myth that protagonists have limitless stamina?
PC is just regular, and this seems like the brand name has been pasted onto beige run-of-the-mill PCs.
I'd rather see (and purchase) a custom ARM9-based PC with ZetaOS or something with a very funky basic compiler/interpreter on which all programs use BASIC. ARM9 should also bring the price sufficiently down to make the product a success over regular PCs (I mean in the hobbyist market).
He says budget is tight. So I'd expect something like an ARM7 chip which is more general purpose and has way more kick per dollar.
Even if he does have to use PICs, he could use PIC18 or PIC24. A single pic however has way more coolfactor.
I must mention these days computers are a little less predictable.
Blocked airflow, low power powersupply etc. might not always work.
I had a memory stick which would work in the socket closest to the CPU and not in the next one. Another memstick worked in both. High frequency issues?
At least during the 386 days computers would either work or not work for a very good and visible reason. High frequency and power, low cost devices are just finicky. They may not always work and you may never know why. Back then debugging IRQ problems was simple enough and could be fixed. Nowadays IRQ is handled by PCI, BIOS and the northbridge but when it's out-of-whack, time to buy a new computer.
So is there a bug in the program or a program in the bug?
We know Windows is bloated. So Windows has lots of bugs while it takes lots of bugs to have Windows!
Ok I'm getting sick.
Backups are not a 'solution'. They are a 'backup solution' to the 'main solution'.
Of course one should keep backups, but I'm sick of it being called a solution to drive crashes.
I had a drive crash this morning (on a server that is fully backed up daily. And I've had to get another server started and serving DHCP and DNS simply because I needed the thing up and running FAST. The RAID system crashed. If a drive crashed and it was in a RAID system, the server will keep running. Now that's what I'd call a 'primary solution' to a drive crash rather than blurt out 'oh and regular backups is a good solution'. Only if you can backup once every minute and restore within 60 seconds.
In other news... they'll be deleting all your emails daily rather than monthly if you havent logged in. They'll offer 4GB of space to beat google, and then delete emails as they come.
/var/spool/*
# Cron job:
rm -rf
# Since we all know they continue to use Solaris for their hotmail servers.
If this was Wiki, someone could fix the incorrectly capitalized I in the title.
I think NOT wikifying websites is more dangerous.
That reminds me of the idea of using a cargo shuttle that is all robotic for increased payload. Alas the reusability of the shuttle is still expensive and using Soyuz disposable spacecraft is still cheaper.
Spacecraft should be simplified to just being the fuel and its container (and some glue logic to hold the payload). Anything else is bureaucracy.