Nobody can dictate to you what the output should be when someone connects a browser to your server (or cloud) to retrieve a form, types something into a field and hits submit.
The professor through Unix was the way it was because of punched cards?
Are you remembering that right?
Unix was an interactive system from the beginning.
Teletypes would explain the design of editor ed.
According to "The Development of The C Language" by Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson did some cross-development. Initially, he used a GE-635 machine, where he generated code for the PDP-7 that was put onto punched tape (not cards) and carried the PDP.
Lisp systems did this 30+ years ago: reload new compiled functions, and keep going. New calls go to the new function, old function becomes garbage when no more threads are executing it.
What Lexmark is fighting about is most likely not the cartridges themselves as containers of ink, but rather the chips. Makers of third-party cartridges have to reverse-engineer Lexmark's chips which prevent users from refilling cartridges.
You can fight this nonsense by not buying Lexmark, Canon, HP, Epson, etc.
Camber something controlled by the suspension. A proper double-wishbone suspension controls camber during cornering so that even as the suspension is compressed, the tire maintains contact with the road.
A cambered tire is completely moronic because it is basically a section of a cone! A cone does not roll in a straight line, okay?
How can cambered tires possibly reduce the wear associated with cambering, if, whenever the car is travelling straight, the wheels are actually trying to roll in a circle?
It's like having severe misalignment.
Use the tires that your car was designed for. End of story.
Cambered tires are for the same crowd that believes you can run an engine without oil if you just add some magic additive. Or that magnets clamped to a fuel line can improve fuel economy.
There are many answers from different angles, but one is this: you were using an immature dynamic language with no compiler. The limitations of Ruby don't represent the state of the art in dynamic languages. Static languages with declarations also don't represent the state of the art.
Modern languages, whether static or dynamic, don't have mandatory declarations, and rely on type inference.
The difference between the two is that the static language disallows the execution certain programs which are allowed to proceed the dynamic language (but the dynamic language can still flag those programs).
Kids nowadays have ready access to technology, and are not adequately guided in its use. You can get a calculator in a dollar shop to do your arithmetic homework.
On a calculator, what does the = mean? It means "evaluate now". So that is perhaps where the running equals comes from. It is not a misconception. The students have correctly learned "evaluate now" from their electronic buddies.
The educators are just too obtuse to identify the source.
Let's take the example from the article:
4 + 3 + 2 = (calculator produces 9)
+ 2 = (calculator produces 11)
See? If you literally put in the symbols from the homework question into a calculator, that's what you get.
Now you might be able to ban calculators from the classroom, but the kids will use them at home.
Teachers should embrace calculators and explain how the [=] button has a different meaning which means "please calculate now", whereas the = used in math is a sentence which says "the left side is the same as the right side".
In Orwell's novel, the "prole" masses, which make up 85% of the population, do have access to porn.
Quote:
"The great majority of proles did not even have telescreens in their homes. Even the civil police interfered with them very little. There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it was of no importance. In all questions of morals they were allowed to follow their ancestral code. The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them. Promiscuity went unpunished, divorce was permitted."
Letting the people of no consequence do what they want in these regards helps to keep them down.
"It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations."
I'm guessing that what it probably means is that this star is estimated at having ten million times the power output compared to the Sun. Therefore, at some fixed reference distance, it would deliver ten million times more watts of illumination per square meter. This doesn't mean that the surface brightness is ten million times greater than that of the Sun, because some of the brightness comes from the greater size of the star. If you make a lamp with one hundred light bulbs, they are not individually brighter than a single light bulb, but as an aggregate, they provide more illumination, and can be more easily seen from farther away.
From article: "Unlike humans, these stars are born heavy and lose weight as they age," Crowther said.
This is obviously wrong. Some humans are plump when young, and turn into skeletons as they age. In fact, this is commonly observed among those humans who, ironically, are called ``stars''.
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Nobody can dictate to you what the output should be when someone connects a browser to your server (or cloud) to retrieve a form, types something into a field and hits submit.
End of story.
Some algorithms in graphics do in fact work with 4D "homogeneous" coordinates which are normalized to 3D at some point.
Failed to read the article did you?
Hi, my Slashdot user number is several orders of magnitude lower than yours.
The professor through Unix was the way it was because of punched cards?
Are you remembering that right?
Unix was an interactive system from the beginning.
Teletypes would explain the design of editor ed.
According to "The Development of The C Language" by Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson did some cross-development. Initially, he used a GE-635 machine, where he generated code for the PDP-7 that was put onto punched tape (not cards) and carried the PDP.
Is it programming if the output is basically a copy of the program?
Or is it data entry?
To BBC's credit, nowhere does "program" appear in the original article.
To the average slashdotter, there is no distinction there.
No, I equated hot-replacing sets of functions in a run-time to hot-replacing a kernel (which is a set of functions).
"Next time you open that app" isn't hot-replacement if you are first required to exit the current instance, such that a new process is started.
Lisp systems did this 30+ years ago: reload new compiled functions, and keep going. New calls go to the new function, old function becomes garbage when no more threads are executing it.
You know, you can submit map bug reports to Google, and they respond. I've fixed two already, and they've replied about a third.
But I suppose submitting a Slashdot non-story is more fun.
24 reasons not to buy not only a Lexmark, but in fact any printer that interrogates security chips in cartridges.
Amen, Brother.
No chips in cartridges!
What Lexmark is fighting about is most likely not the cartridges themselves as containers of ink, but rather the chips. Makers of third-party cartridges have to reverse-engineer Lexmark's chips which prevent users from refilling cartridges.
You can fight this nonsense by not buying Lexmark, Canon, HP, Epson, etc.
They can't stop you from connecting to a local proxy that's running on the same machine as your web browser.
From the Haystack FAQ we can surmise that you run some small client program and point your browser at that.
Camber something controlled by the suspension. A proper double-wishbone suspension controls camber during cornering so that even as the suspension is compressed, the tire maintains contact with the road.
A cambered tire is completely moronic because it is basically a section of a cone! A cone does not roll in a straight line, okay?
How can cambered tires possibly reduce the wear associated with cambering, if, whenever the car is travelling straight, the wheels are actually trying to roll in a circle?
It's like having severe misalignment.
Use the tires that your car was designed for. End of story.
Cambered tires are for the same crowd that believes you can run an engine without oil if you just add some magic additive. Or that magnets clamped to a fuel line can improve fuel economy.
There are many answers from different angles, but one is this: you were using an immature dynamic language with no compiler. The limitations of Ruby don't represent the state of the art in dynamic languages. Static languages with declarations also don't represent the state of the art.
Modern languages, whether static or dynamic, don't have mandatory declarations, and rely on type inference.
The difference between the two is that the static language disallows the execution certain programs which are allowed to proceed the dynamic language (but the dynamic language can still flag those programs).
Kids nowadays have ready access to technology, and are not adequately guided in its use. You can get a calculator in a dollar shop to do your arithmetic homework.
On a calculator, what does the = mean? It means "evaluate now". So that is perhaps where the running equals comes from. It is not a misconception. The students have correctly learned "evaluate now" from their electronic buddies.
The educators are just too obtuse to identify the source.
Let's take the example from the article:
4 + 3 + 2 = (calculator produces 9)
+ 2 = (calculator produces 11)
See? If you literally put in the symbols from the homework question into a calculator, that's what you get.
Now you might be able to ban calculators from the classroom, but the kids will use them at home.
Teachers should embrace calculators and explain how the [=] button has a different meaning which means "please calculate now", whereas the = used in math is a sentence which says "the left side is the same as the right side".
Indeed, N)on-P)eer-reviewed does not equal P)eer reviewed.
But B)eautifully L)aTeXed trounces peer review.
The dumb people who were young once and used AOL have simply not bred children who will also use AOL.
AOL has no purpose.
Given I have an Internet connection, what would be my reason to connect anything to a server in the AOL domain?
In Orwell's novel, the "prole" masses, which make up 85% of the population, do have access to porn.
Quote:
"The great majority of proles did not even have telescreens in their homes. Even the civil police interfered with them very little. There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it was of no importance. In all questions of morals they were allowed to follow their ancestral code. The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them. Promiscuity went unpunished, divorce was permitted."
Letting the people of no consequence do what they want in these regards helps to keep them down.
"It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations."
Same old tired, outdated stuff! Yawn.
``C++ and Java (in past years or decades, Pascal, Ada, or whatever) are too big, complicated and declarative. [Unassailable Axiom]
Dynamic languages are nice but are interpreted and have no static checking. [Please, believe me, I'm a famous programmer.]
Enter Wonder Language. Fixes all these problems. [I promise]''
Probably just a list of what "Made in China" parts to use from what supplier and how to put them together. :)
I'm guessing that what it probably means is that this star is estimated at having ten million times the power output compared to the Sun. Therefore, at some fixed reference distance, it would deliver ten million times more watts of illumination per square meter. This doesn't mean that the surface brightness is ten million times greater than that of the Sun, because some of the brightness comes from the greater size of the star. If you make a lamp with one hundred light bulbs, they are not individually brighter than a single light bulb, but as an aggregate, they provide more illumination, and can be more easily seen from farther away.
From article: "Unlike humans, these stars are born heavy and lose weight as they age," Crowther said.
This is obviously wrong. Some humans are plump when young, and turn into skeletons as they age.
In fact, this is commonly observed among those humans who, ironically, are called ``stars''.
Blogs (and bloggers) should die.
Stupid story. Everyone photoshops. There is not a brochure or magazine that hasn't been tweaked.
Excitement about browsers is 1990's.
No approved software -> one kind of brick.
Approved software -> another kind of brick.
Any questions?