Call me stupid, but when there is lively traffic, the billboards are in full view of several cars at a time. So the update may be slow, so that e.g., ten or twenty cars see the same advertisement that is triggered by the first car? Or does every car get its own advertisement, so that you see a constantly flickering of different ads?
Faster hardware is not always a boon. Now we have Java monsters that eat up all the performance of even decent hardware. Easy to learn? Nah, with the myriads of different libraries and paths it is a conceptual mess. And it was supposed to be the cure-all for viruses, but that has not materialized either.
The good Lord gave us C, Bash and the CLI , and we frail humans should not presume to improve on His creation.
duh... I worked out PL/1 problems with pen and paper in my favorite pub. Sooner or later a girl would ask me what I was doing... That was how I got married.
Best floppy trick: to damage part of the surface, decide which tracks were in act damaged and use that as an anti-copy scheme... If you could format those tracks, it was not the original disk:-)
The number of ^H's, like that of the dots in an ellipsis (...) generally defaulted to three, regardless the number of characters that had to be deleted.
As far as I know the third and last edition of the Hackers Dictionary stams from 1996. I certainly hope that this all leads to a new and long overdue edition...
Ah... 80 column punch cards. And walking down the stairs with a 20 cm stack of data plus program, and dropping them, and then having to sort them by hand...
The zero page on e.g., a 6502 consisted of the first 256 bytes in memory, so the address of any byte therein was only a single byte in stead of two. Access therefore was faster on that page than of all other parts of memory.
The Apple II was my first computer. I bought it when I was thirty, in 1979. I then was an art historian, looking for new ways to administrate art collections. It really changed my life
I have made a lot of beer, and every batch smelled like funky cheese or worse for the first few days or even weeks. That is normal. And as the alcohol is developing, you can drink it and get a buzz. I guess that the ancient chineese, and egyptians, and sumerians, and all other beer drinking civilizations found like me that it pays to be patient.
My dear Brian, I do not quite see where I was rude or insulting in my original post. But as you pointed out correctly, english is not my native language.
When I started university, long, long ago in the sixties, literature and textbooks were in french, german, english and, of course, dutch. When you published a paper in whatever language, you had to include abstracts in the other languages. Superficially the recent english-only situation in the western world seems an improvement. Anyway, if you want to pursue an academic career, you have no choice.
But if I were you, I would follow some courses on the way how a language defines your perception and you will see that apart from the obvious advantages of universal communication, there is a very real danger of monoculture and lack of perspective. This is acerbated by the fact that we not only use english for communication, but also in culture itself, music, movies, literature, you name it. Don't be surprised when the world lashes back at you.
I will feel some sympathy if you do not quite understand this. My best advice for you would be, stop reading websites for now and go read some books on language and philosophy, in whatever language you prefer. German would be a good choice:-)
And I still feel great about the dutch team winning this contest.
Dear Brian, although you americans sure put up a lot of effort to be universally disliked, I do not hate you. In a single generation I have seen our own culture disappear, age-old festivals replaced by Valentine and Halloween, our music and movies almost exclusively by american artists, our universities one after the other 'english-only'... I don't think you can even begin to understand what that it means to see your world disappear and taken over by a strange country.
So do not begrudge us the rare occasion that we win in a field of american competitors. And do not call it 'hatred' when we enjoy that feeling.
If I count correctly, 25 of the competing teams were from the USA. Nevertheless the dutch and the german teams performed best in terms of speed and design. Money is not everything. It is a hopeful sign in a world that for the last fifty years increasingly became 'americanized'.
I am one of your greybeards. In fact, my beard was already pretty grey when Java was introduced and then there were not that many huge, unwieldy libraries, or not many. If I remember correctly, the two selling points of Java were its supposed invulnerability and the fact that for some obscure reason it was touted as the ideal teaching language. So everybody changed their curriculum to Java and the rest is history.
As I see it, applications that rely on user interaction will be served as well by one of the scripting languages and for number crunching the Lord gave us C, vi and make. We should not presume to improve upon His designs:-)
Making money of course is an important consideration, especially for people with a certain mindset. Other people prefer to consider the impact of a technology on society or whether life is improved by it. Would you measure the importance of open source to the amount money it generated or to the fact that it made the Internet possible?
Open a shell on any android and type 'uname' or 'uname -a'. That is: if you know what a shell is. My point being that both industry and press bend over backwards to avoid the L-word. I wonder why.
In all honesty: the structure erected on top of it is a horror. From the beginning I never understood the enthousiasm for Java and the necessity to introduce it everywhere. Its strongest selling point was its invulnerability for malware, but once introduced this invulnerability was shortlived. And now this lumbering, vulnerable and slow language is the pivot on which the world turns.
The science to build computers, games and VR does not drop out of thin air. The same is true for the technology. You need a complicated economic structure to accomplish all this and to date we pretty much destroyed this planet Earth to create such a society.
Mankind will have failed long before Musks VR games are a fact. Paai
I am an european, and what I see here is a very strong growth of populist parties with more than a nodding similarity to fascist and racist ideologies. Do not believe what your american media tell you.
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Sounds reasonable... But do you *know* that they use this strategy or is it an educated guess?
Call me stupid, but when there is lively traffic, the billboards are in full view of several cars at a time. So the update may be slow, so that e.g., ten or twenty cars see the same advertisement that is triggered by the first car? Or does every car get its own advertisement, so that you see a constantly flickering of different ads?
Paai
Faster hardware is not always a boon. Now we have Java monsters that eat up all the performance of even decent hardware. Easy to learn? Nah, with the myriads of different libraries and paths it is a conceptual mess. And it was supposed to be the cure-all for viruses, but that has not materialized either.
The good Lord gave us C, Bash and the CLI , and we frail humans should not presume to improve on His creation.
Paai
Perhaps APL should be revived. Imagine the money to be made by keyboard manufacturers.
Paai
It is not as if you could not exist without beer...
Paai
duh... I worked out PL/1 problems with pen and paper in my favorite pub. Sooner or later a girl would ask me what I was doing... That was how I got married.
Paai
Best floppy trick: to damage part of the surface, decide which tracks were in act damaged and use that as an anti-copy scheme... If you could format those tracks, it was not the original disk :-)
Paai
Ok, very funny.
Paai
The number of ^H's, like that of the dots in an ellipsis (...) generally defaulted to three, regardless the number of characters that had to be deleted.
Paai
Ebg13, unia'g frra gung sbe ntrf.
paai
As far as I know the third and last edition of the Hackers Dictionary stams from 1996. I certainly hope that this all leads to a new and long overdue edition...
Paai
Ah... 80 column punch cards. And walking down the stairs with a 20 cm stack of data plus program, and dropping them, and then having to sort them by hand...
Paai
And insulting somebody, writing "you are an idi^H^H^H misguided"...
Paai
CP/M...
paai
The zero page on e.g., a 6502 consisted of the first 256 bytes in memory, so the address of any byte therein was only a single byte in stead of two. Access therefore was faster on that page than of all other parts of memory.
The Apple II was my first computer. I bought it when I was thirty, in 1979. I then was an art historian, looking for new ways to administrate art collections. It really changed my life
Paai
I have made a lot of beer, and every batch smelled like funky cheese or worse for the first few days or even weeks. That is normal. And as the alcohol is developing, you can drink it and get a buzz. I guess that the ancient chineese, and egyptians, and sumerians, and all other beer drinking civilizations found like me that it pays to be patient.
Paai
My dear Brian, I do not quite see where I was rude or insulting in my original post. But as you pointed out correctly, english is not my native language.
When I started university, long, long ago in the sixties, literature and textbooks were in french, german, english and, of course, dutch. When you published a paper in whatever language, you had to include abstracts in the other languages. Superficially the recent english-only situation in the western world seems an improvement. Anyway, if you want to pursue an academic career, you have no choice.
But if I were you, I would follow some courses on the way how a language defines your perception and you will see that apart from the obvious advantages of universal communication, there is a very real danger of monoculture and lack of perspective. This is acerbated by the fact that we not only use english for communication, but also in culture itself, music, movies, literature, you name it. Don't be surprised when the world lashes back at you.
I will feel some sympathy if you do not quite understand this. My best advice for you would be, stop reading websites for now and go read some books on language and philosophy, in whatever language you prefer. German would be a good choice :-)
And I still feel great about the dutch team winning this contest.
Paai
Dear Brian, although you americans sure put up a lot of effort to be universally disliked, I do not hate you. In a single generation I have seen our own culture disappear, age-old festivals replaced by Valentine and Halloween, our music and movies almost exclusively by american artists, our universities one after the other 'english-only'... I don't think you can even begin to understand what that it means to see your world disappear and taken over by a strange country.
So do not begrudge us the rare occasion that we win in a field of american competitors. And do not call it 'hatred' when we enjoy that feeling.
Paai
If I count correctly, 25 of the competing teams were from the USA. Nevertheless the dutch and the german teams performed best in terms of speed and design. Money is not everything. It is a hopeful sign in a world that for the last fifty years increasingly became 'americanized'.
Paai
I am one of your greybeards. In fact, my beard was already pretty grey when Java was introduced and then there were not that many huge, unwieldy libraries, or not many. If I remember correctly, the two selling points of Java were its supposed invulnerability and the fact that for some obscure reason it was touted as the ideal teaching language. So everybody changed their curriculum to Java and the rest is history.
As I see it, applications that rely on user interaction will be served as well by one of the scripting languages and for number crunching the Lord gave us C, vi and make. We should not presume to improve upon His designs :-)
Paai
Making money of course is an important consideration, especially for people with a certain mindset. Other people prefer to consider the impact of a technology on society or whether life is improved by it. Would you measure the importance of open source to the amount money it generated or to the fact that it made the Internet possible?
Paai
Open a shell on any android and type 'uname' or 'uname -a'. That is: if you know what a shell is. My point being that both industry and press bend over backwards to avoid the L-word. I wonder why.
In all honesty: the structure erected on top of it is a horror. From the beginning I never understood the enthousiasm for Java and the necessity to introduce it everywhere. Its strongest selling point was its invulnerability for malware, but once introduced this invulnerability was shortlived. And now this lumbering, vulnerable and slow language is the pivot on which the world turns.
Paai
The science to build computers, games and VR does not drop out of thin air. The same is true for the technology. You need a complicated economic structure to accomplish all this and to date we pretty much destroyed this planet Earth to create such a society.
Mankind will have failed long before Musks VR games are a fact.
Paai
I am an european, and what I see here is a very strong growth of populist parties with more than a nodding similarity to fascist and racist ideologies. Do not believe what your american media tell you.
Paai
And you are surprised when somebody flies into the WTC?
Paai