Since the cable scum have monopolies in their service areas, and they are clearly interstate businesses, there should be some other entity at the Federal level that can address this issue. I'm guess the FTC, but it not them, there should be someone else.
Oops, I forgot that we don't have any actual capitalism in the USA any more, because the regulators are all controlled by industry groups. Forget it. Your cable/phone/ISP bill is going to continue to go up far faster then inflation, and your service will suck even more. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Nothing to see here, move along. No capitalism, no competition, no democracy.
Snowden said he sent emails to the appropriate internal authorities before he went rogue, and the NSA said they couldn't find them. Everyone in the political establishment believed the NSA version. Now the IRS says that they can't find emails because of a technical problem, and no one believes them.
The NSA are professional liars. They've been caught lying about a huge number of things: spying on friendly foreign leaders, mass phone surveillance on everyone in the USA, modifying routers before they are shipped overseas, etc.
Double standard much? Who is more likely to be lying: the NSA or the IRS? Everyone in Washington are going after the IRS. Committees are meeting, IRA officials are testifying under oath, criminal investigations have been started. Higher ups at the IRA are going to be forced out, and there will be criminal charges. The same thing is also going to occur with the Veteran's Administration scandal.
Meanwhile over at the NSA, the sound of crickets. They claim that their own secret investigations have found they did everything right. Somehow this seems good enough. No one has been called to task. Even the people responsible for letting Snowden get access to all that information seem to be off the hook.
As bad as the IRS and VA situations are, they pale in comparison to the NSA situation and yet nothing has happened as a result. It's business as usual. The NSA is completely unaccountable to anybody for anything, and when they do screw up nothing happens to any insiders. This is guaranteed to result in a culture of incompetence. We are in big trouble.
A single addressing space that eliminates the distinction between memory and bulk storage (disk). Where have we seen this before?
Multics implemented a single level store for data access, discarding the clear distinction between files (called segments in Multics) and process memory. The memory of a process consisted solely of segments which were mapped into its address space. To read or write to them, the process simply used normal CPU instructions, and the operating system took care of making sure that all the modifications were saved to disk. In POSIX terminology, it was as if every file was mmap()ed; however, in Multics there was no concept of process memory, separate from the memory used to hold mapped-in files, as Unix has. All memory in the system was part of some segment, which appeared in the file system; this included the temporary scratch memory of the process, its kernel stack, etc.
Ireland's taxation laws allow multinationals to set up subsidiaries that effectively turn them into stateless entities whose revenues are subject to no jurisdiction. It's the definition of entirely legal tax avoidance, and Apple has been among the most successful companies in routing much of its international revenues and earnings through its Irish subsidiaries.
Apple has conspired with the Irish government to move it's profit outside the space/time continuum. How else can you explain "revenues are subject to no jurisdiction?" That means the money has no legal presence anywhere on the planet. Or off the planet, as far as we know.
There are lots of locations where the rule of law doesn't apply. There are places where many different legal systems claim to be in charge. There are places like Antarctica where the international community has set up treaties so that one one country has control. Apple has been able to secrete it's money so it is not in any of these places.
They have outflanked the rule of law. They are in a literal sense "lawless": without law. Yet they make extensive use of the legal system and expect to have their business protected by civil and criminal authorities. It's corporate hypocrisy at it's most blatant.
Why are they getting away with this? I have a counter suggestion: round up all current and former living board members, everyone who was a Chief Executive Anything, put them in indefinite detention and strip them of every asset they have. Why do the deserve legal protection when they have made it their business to be above the law?
The amount of money available today for studying the impact of firearms is a fraction of what it was in the mid-1990s, and the number of scientists toiling in the field has dwindled to just a handful as a result, researchers say.
The dearth of money can be traced in large measure to a clash between public health scientists and the N.R.A. in the mid-1990s. At the time, Dr. Rosenberg and others at the C.D.C. were becoming increasingly assertive about the importance of studying gun-related injuries and deaths as a public health phenomenon, financing studies that found, for example, having a gun in the house, rather than conferring protection, significantly increased the risk of homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance.
Alarmed, the N.R.A. and its allies on Capitol Hill fought back. The injury center was guilty of “putting out papers that were really political opinion masquerading as medical science,” said Mr. Cox, who also worked on this issue for the N.R.A. more than a decade ago.
Initially, pro-gun lawmakers sought to eliminate the injury center completely, arguing that its work was “redundant” and reflected a political agenda. When that failed, they turned to the appropriations process. In 1996, Representative Jay Dickey, Republican of Arkansas, succeeded in pushing through an amendment that stripped $2.6 million from the disease control centers’ budget, the very amount it had spent on firearms-related research the year before.
“It’s really simple with me,” Mr. Dickey, 71 and now retired, said in a telephone interview. “We have the right to bear arms because of the threat of government taking over the freedoms that we have.”
The Senate later restored the money but designated it for research on traumatic brain injury. Language was also inserted into the centers’ appropriations bill that remains in place today: “None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”
The prohibition is striking, firearms researchers say, because there are already regulations that bar the use of C.D.C. money for lobbying for or against legislation. No other field of inquiry is singled out in this way.
In the end, researchers said, even though it is murky what exactly is allowed under this provision and what is not, the upshot is clear inside the centers: the agency should tread in this area only at its own peril.
“They had a near-death experience,” said Dr. Arthur Kellermann, whose study on the risks versus the benefits of having guns in the home became a focal point of attack by the N.R.A.
In the years since, the C.D.C. has been exceedingly wary of financing research focused on firearms. In its annual requests for proposals, for example, firearms research has been notably absent. Gail Hayes, spokeswoman for the centers, confirmed that since 1996, while the agency has issued requests for proposals that include the study of violence, which may include gun violence, it had not sent out any specifically on firearms.
So over here in the real world there are no facts about gun violence because the N.R.A. and their toadies in the Republican establishment hate facts. It's just like denying climate science on global warming: facts are the enemy.
Instead of engaging in rational debate and making knowledge based policy
I wasn't writing code from scratch, I was modifying it to work in the field.
The user display end of the system was in the hut. The sensor end was in an WWII gun pillbox that was built by the Nazis as part of the Atlantic Wall. It was an empty concrete shell with all the emplacement hardware removed. Being there was unsettling.
So I guess I can assume that you live in a shack like Ted Kaczynski because you do not want to be polluted by the "evil" of contemporary life? You have somehow acquired a computer free of the low paid sweat shop labor in China/Korea/Viet Nam/etc, it's powered by a home built water powered generator running off a natural spring on your property, you have found the one ISP that does no allow any spam on their network, and you use a Linux/BSD distros that have completely open source software with no vendor supplied binaries.
Your are clearly a superior being compared to the rest of the "evil" people on Slashdot. We are clearly all polluted because we have at some point in our lives seen a frame generated by RenderMan, even if it was before Disney bought them. You only post here to set an example and shame you inferiors in the hope that we will see the error of our ways.
I also assume that you are a complete Vegan, don't wear or use any animal derived product, don't ride in cars (gas, diesel, natural gas, hydrogen, electric) and grow or gather all the food you eat without any non-natural substances.
I wonder if you have made it all the way to breatharianism and now live off pure light.
I worked for a company that was trying to develop technology for MPEG. It was a pure intellectual property play.
MPEG is (theoretically) a non-profit, open to all international standards body. The separate entity MPEG-LA is the MPEG License Authority. It's the business end. The technical committees are front organizations for the license authority, which generates a lot of cash.
The entire setup is a sham. The big players send so many representatives to the technical committees that they dominate by sheer numbers. Sometimes meetings extend for hours late into the night. The faction that wants to get their proposal excepted keeps their people in the meeting, and then when they count a majority they hold a vote and get what they want.
It's not about technology or quality or making things faster/better/cheaper. It's about decades long revenue streams protected by international standards and laws like the DCMA. Even though it looks like technology is driving to lower costs, the reality is that patent royalties are effective a huge tax on users.
The return is completely disproportionate to the initial investment. How much do you think it cost to come up with the standard for the HDMI cable? How much do you think is being made worldwide if even $1.00 US is going for license fees?
Comparing a web site to an OS is crazy. Why is anyone taking this seriously?
At a minimum, you would need to compare HealthCare.gov to another web site that had similar requirements. It would have to be nationwide and be HIPPA compliant. For example, AMAZON or EBAY would not count, because they don't have any of the legal requirements that a heath provider has.
It is obvious that this bogus number is just another politically motivated smear against the ACA (Obamacare). Everyone here is quibbling about LOC, while the real issue is that people are engaged in propaganda and wild lies because they oppose a government program.
Something must be wrong with me. I keep making the mistake that those who post on Slashdot are somehow more intelligent then the average population. When you fixate on minute technical details rather then the larger issues you are not smart, you are dumb.
YOU ARE SQUEALING LIKE A STUCK PIG BECAUSE THE ACCUSATION IS TRUE.
(In normal conversational "voice" mode.) Let's look at a real world example. I know this is painful for you, because the truth hurts. It hurts even more when you have to leave Republican fantasy land, which you almost never do.
Let's take the very powerful and influential lobbying group, the US Chamber of Commerce. This is what I found when I asked Mr. Google the search terms "US Chamber Republican Democrat".
...the New York Times reported in October 2010 that half of the Chamber's $140 million in contributions in 2008 came from just 45 big-money donors, many of whom enlisted the Chamber's help to fight political and public opinion battles on their behalf (such as opposing financial or healthcare reforms, or other regulations). The Chamber is "dominated by oil companies, pharmaceutical giants, automakers and other polluting industries," according to James Carter, executive director of the Green Chamber of Commerce.
...
The report, “The Gilded Chamber: Despite Claims of Representing Millions of Businesses, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Gets Most of Its Money From Just 64 Donors,” analyzes the 1,619 contributions listed by the Chamber and its affiliate working against consumer access to courts, the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), on their 2012 Form 990 tax returns. Just a tiny fraction of their donors account for most of their contributions, Public Citizen found.
The average reported contribution to the U.S. Chamber was $111,254, with the top 43 entities donating a combined $80.4 million.
“The U.S. Chamber is one of the largest conduits of dark money in the country, but it refuses to disclose its donors,” said Lisa Gilbert, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division, where U.S. Chamber Watch is housed. “The American people deserve to know more about who’s influencing this powerful force in our politics. By looking at the size of the Chamber’s and ILR’s donations, we can learn a little more about what kinds of businesses they represent – seemingly, very large ones.”
So over here in the Real World big corporate interests are spending vast amounts of money to put "pro-business" (in reality pro-big business) politicians in office using untraceable money.
The Chamber is also a big players in the climate change denier network. (I'm tired of doing all this work for you, look it up yourself.)
So yes REPUBLICANS ARE WORKING FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE ULTRA RICH AND AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF EVERYONE ELSE. Glad I could explain that to you in your own language.
You don't understand the immense inertia of political pork. To put it in perspective, political pork has is the organizational equivalent of neutronium. One it comes into existence and starts moving, it is almost impossible to stop.
Remember that this was the turf of Alaska US Senator Ted Stevens. He was the longest serving Republican Senator in US history, being in the senate from 1978 to 2008. He died in a plane crash in 2010. He was also involved with the infamous freeway to nowhere.
That's why HAARP lasted so long. Even dieing is not sufficient grounds for ending a major pork event. A big time pork wrangler has to be gone and in the ground for a few years before anyone is willing to interfere with with the money flow.
(Note: this is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue. The "Big Dig" in Boston was a monument to the pork prowess of Ted Kennedy.)
Historically, the Salon Sea in inland Southern California has long term wet and dry periods. When it is filled with water there tend to be earthquakes in the region of the San Andreas Fault that run through the Salton Sea area. When it is dry there tends to be a much longer period between major quake in this part of the fault.
The Salton Sea and surrounding basin sits over the San Andreas Fault, San Jacinto Fault, Imperial Fault Zone, and a "stepover fault" shear zone system. Geologists have determined that previous flooding episodes from the Colorado River have been linked to earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault. Sonar and other instruments were used to map the Salton Sea's underwater faults during the study. During the period when the basin was filled by Lake Cahuilla, a much larger inland sea, earthquakes higher than magnitude 7 occurred roughly every 180 years, the last one occurring within decades of the year 1700. Computer models suggest the normal faults in the area are most vulnerable to deviatoric stress loading by filling in of water. Currently, a risk still exists for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or 8. Simulations also showed, in the Los Angeles area, shaking and thus damage would be more severe for a San Andreas earthquake that propagated along the fault from the south, rather than from the north. Such an earthquake also raises the risk for soil liquefaction in the Imperial Valley region.
After the last flood from the Colorado River into the Salton Sea after 1900, a series of dams were built to keep the river from flowing into California. Since then there are been no really large magnitude earthquakes from the San Andreas in Southern California.
It seems extremely likely that human activity has altered the earthquake pattern. This means it is possible that removing large amounts of ground water from the San Joaquin Valley could measurably effect the height of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
I read the article, and it's clear that they are trading space for speed. At every step they create multiple versions of JavaScript code, each with a specific optimization goal. As far as I can tell, they are not garbage collected as long as the code is in use, because at any point they can switch from a more optimized version to a less optimized version.
Not only do they have many copies of the code around, they also keep a lot of information about how each version behaves as well as mapping structures so they can switch between the versions while they are running.
I infer that this means a lot of code bloat. I have no sense of how this memory usage compares to the memory used for DOM storage and the like. Does anyone know if code memory is a significant contributor to the overall memory footprint of a WebKit based browser?
Using FIrefox on the Mac, I experience an ever increasing memory footprint if I keep the browser running for a long period of time, i.e. over the course of a few days. This is partly laziness, but it also reflects how I use online references. Often I have multiple pages open at the same time for references, and I don't want to close them until I finish what I am working on (typically coding). After I have found a lot of relevant information online, I really don't want to end the browser session and then restore everything when I return two work.
So how will WebKit perform in this environment? How does it compare to Chrome and Firefox for memory usage? If something besides FF didn't suffer from memory bloat I might consider changing. Any experience or benchmarks would be interesting to hear about.
Learn a language that is different then other languages that you know.
Chances are that all of the software you know is written in an imperative language that is derived from C. It's pretty much any language that uses curly brackets: {} Note that even Python and JavaScript share a lot of concepts with C.
Try a Lisp family language to get exposed to functional programming. Scheme has already been mentioned via SICP. Or go further with functional programming and do ML, Ocaml, Haskell, F#, Scala.
Prolog. Declarative instead of imperative programming.
If you've never done assembly get a microprocessor like Arduino and control something in the physical world. Combine C and assembler. Or try x86 assembly. I would do the AVR micro on the Arduino before x86n since it is much more regular and doesn't have all the legacy architectural issues.
Forth. Low level but not assembler.
Erlang. Lots of parallelism with a "shared nothing" Actor style of code.
MATLAB or OCTAVE. Start thinking in terms of vectors and arrays.
Don't worry about the language being "useful". The point is to expose yourself to a different way of thinking about how to program. It will make whatever you code better.
I was a "rocket scientist". In fact, I worked for NASA at JPL. It's a modest little place in Pasadena, California. I doubt that you heard of it.
I also worked on MEG-4 decoding software, so I know something about digital video streams.
As for being a "kid", thanks for the complement. I know I look young for my age. I wrote my first program in 1968 on punch cards for an IBM 360. In PL/1.
Now I'm going to say it again more slowly:
The. Video. Stream. Was. Not. From. The. Rocket.
It. Was. From. An. Aircraft. Sent. Out. To. View. The. Splashdown.
It. Was. Not. A. Telemetry. Data. Stream.
Since. It. Was. Not. Telemetry. It. Was. Not. Recorded. In. Analog. Form.
The. Camera. System. Was. Not. Spacecraft. Grade.
It. Was. An. Off. The. Shelf. Piece. Of. Equipment.
I hope that this makes sense to you. I know it's Slashdot, so a lack of real applicable technical expertise is the way to get modded up. Unfortunately for me, I have this problem with facts: I try to stay factual, so I often get modded down. For some reason I still keep trying. I think it's a personality flaw.
I think you are living in the past. To the best of my knowledge nobody records analog data streams for digital video. There is very little analog hardware in the system. The analog signal pretty much goes through an A/D converter as soon as possible, and the error correction is digital.
Terrestrial broadcast HDTV in the US uses 8VSB encoding:
8VSB is an 8-level vestigial sideband modulation. In essence, it converts a binary stream into an octal representation by amplitude modulating a sinusoidal carrier to one of eight levels. 8VSB is capable of transmitting three bits (2^3=8) per symbol; in ATSC, each symbol includes two bits from the MPEG transport stream which are trellis modulated to produce a three-bit figure. The resulting signal is then band-pass filtered with a Nyquist filter to remove redundancies in the side lobes, and then shifted up to the broadcast frequency.
Somehow I doubt that "analog filters can be applied to that in an attempt to create a cleaner input signal to the demodulator stage". That part of the system is already highly optimal.
Additionally, it's not telemetry data in the first place.
A telemeter is a device used to remotely measure any quantity. It consists of a sensor, a transmission path, and a display, recording, or control device. Telemeters are the physical devices used in telemetry. Electronic devices are widely used in telemetry and can be wireless or hard-wired, analog or digital.
It's not from the rocket stage, it's from an aircraft observing the splashdown. This is more remote sensing. I know that this is a quibble, but you seem to be confused about the nature of data sources and encoding.
Why was this modded down? If I had mod points I would mod it up.
All I can assume is that some anti-green ideological idiot wants to shoot down any thing that makes good sense and saves energy.
I assume that they are political conservatives, since it fits their typical behavior. I wonder if the Koch (pronounced COCK) brothers are somehow involved.
If you accept that the market system is a way of determining the value of securities, then what does HFT mean? How is it possible for real world value to change over the course of milliseconds?
When put this way, the only events that qualify are explosions and lightning. Even an earthquake takes seconds to minutes to "change value". Tornadoes take minutes and hurricanes take hours or days.
HFT is totally removed from real world phenomena. It is a completely fictional construct. Is it any surprise that it is used to fleece the suckers? It has no legitimate purpose because it is not a real world measure of anything.
I suspect that the chip is not as fast as physical system. There is also the matter of I/O. How do you get data in and out?
This looks good for research, but a lot of effort will be required to get beyond the lab. OTOH I expect that you could sell this to Wall Street HFT types even if it doesn't work...
Having worked on a BASIC interpreter for the Data General NOVA minicomputer, I can tell you that it was a cost effective solution for teaching programming. A computer with 32K words (64k bytes) and a disk could be purchased for under $30000. This was by far cheaper then any other machine on the market.
These machines had no memory protections support, and it was difficult, if not impossible, to multitask different programs. It could only be interactive running a single core image.
BASIC was ideal for this computing model. The BASIC interpreter could round robin between the interactive users. It was effectively a combined dedicated OS and language.
In the system I worked on the disk was used for swapping users and storing user programs and data. A single CPU could support up to 20 or so terminals. These systems were used for both teaching and simple business automation.
In contrast, even using an assembler was a multipass operation, and only one person could work at a time. Compiling anything more complex, like Fortran IV took a long time. Personally, I only saw people working in assembler since anything else quickly exhausted system resources like memory. Only a very small Fortran program could run in 32K words.
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Oops, I forgot that we don't have any actual capitalism in the USA any more, because the regulators are all controlled by industry groups. Forget it. Your cable/phone/ISP bill is going to continue to go up far faster then inflation, and your service will suck even more. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Nothing to see here, move along. No capitalism, no competition, no democracy.
The NSA are professional liars. They've been caught lying about a huge number of things: spying on friendly foreign leaders, mass phone surveillance on everyone in the USA, modifying routers before they are shipped overseas, etc.
Double standard much? Who is more likely to be lying: the NSA or the IRS? Everyone in Washington are going after the IRS. Committees are meeting, IRA officials are testifying under oath, criminal investigations have been started. Higher ups at the IRA are going to be forced out, and there will be criminal charges. The same thing is also going to occur with the Veteran's Administration scandal.
Meanwhile over at the NSA, the sound of crickets. They claim that their own secret investigations have found they did everything right. Somehow this seems good enough. No one has been called to task. Even the people responsible for letting Snowden get access to all that information seem to be off the hook.
As bad as the IRS and VA situations are, they pale in comparison to the NSA situation and yet nothing has happened as a result. It's business as usual. The NSA is completely unaccountable to anybody for anything, and when they do screw up nothing happens to any insiders. This is guaranteed to result in a culture of incompetence. We are in big trouble.
I agree 100%. How can there be global warming when the world flat, not spherical?
It tells me things that no one else knows. Things that I'm not supposed to hear.
Sometime it tells me to do things. It told me not to tell you what they are.
Computers only talk to very special people. You wouldn't understand.
It told me to shut up now. Bye.
Apple has conspired with the Irish government to move it's profit outside the space/time continuum. How else can you explain "revenues are subject to no jurisdiction?" That means the money has no legal presence anywhere on the planet. Or off the planet, as far as we know.
There are lots of locations where the rule of law doesn't apply. There are places where many different legal systems claim to be in charge. There are places like Antarctica where the international community has set up treaties so that one one country has control. Apple has been able to secrete it's money so it is not in any of these places.
They have outflanked the rule of law. They are in a literal sense "lawless": without law. Yet they make extensive use of the legal system and expect to have their business protected by civil and criminal authorities. It's corporate hypocrisy at it's most blatant.
Why are they getting away with this? I have a counter suggestion: round up all current and former living board members, everyone who was a Chief Executive Anything, put them in indefinite detention and strip them of every asset they have. Why do the deserve legal protection when they have made it their business to be above the law?
How can I say this? None of your assertions have any factual support.
When you say "the most dangerous cities to live in today, are precisely those cities with the strictest gun control" you are making things up.
How can I make this assertion? N.R.A. Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists Say
So over here in the real world there are no facts about gun violence because the N.R.A. and their toadies in the Republican establishment hate facts. It's just like denying climate science on global warming: facts are the enemy.
Instead of engaging in rational debate and making knowledge based policy
The user display end of the system was in the hut. The sensor end was in an WWII gun pillbox that was built by the Nazis as part of the Atlantic Wall. It was an empty concrete shell with all the emplacement hardware removed. Being there was unsettling.
Your are clearly a superior being compared to the rest of the "evil" people on Slashdot. We are clearly all polluted because we have at some point in our lives seen a frame generated by RenderMan, even if it was before Disney bought them. You only post here to set an example and shame you inferiors in the hope that we will see the error of our ways.
I also assume that you are a complete Vegan, don't wear or use any animal derived product, don't ride in cars (gas, diesel, natural gas, hydrogen, electric) and grow or gather all the food you eat without any non-natural substances.
I wonder if you have made it all the way to breatharianism and now live off pure light.
Someday you may be the "dummy". I hope when that day comes that you get the exact treatment that you are now advocating.
MPEG is (theoretically) a non-profit, open to all international standards body. The separate entity MPEG-LA is the MPEG License Authority. It's the business end. The technical committees are front organizations for the license authority, which generates a lot of cash.
The entire setup is a sham. The big players send so many representatives to the technical committees that they dominate by sheer numbers. Sometimes meetings extend for hours late into the night. The faction that wants to get their proposal excepted keeps their people in the meeting, and then when they count a majority they hold a vote and get what they want.
It's not about technology or quality or making things faster/better/cheaper. It's about decades long revenue streams protected by international standards and laws like the DCMA. Even though it looks like technology is driving to lower costs, the reality is that patent royalties are effective a huge tax on users.
The return is completely disproportionate to the initial investment. How much do you think it cost to come up with the standard for the HDMI cable? How much do you think is being made worldwide if even $1.00 US is going for license fees?
No capitalism here. Nothing to see. Move along.
At a minimum, you would need to compare HealthCare.gov to another web site that had similar requirements. It would have to be nationwide and be HIPPA compliant. For example, AMAZON or EBAY would not count, because they don't have any of the legal requirements that a heath provider has.
It is obvious that this bogus number is just another politically motivated smear against the ACA (Obamacare). Everyone here is quibbling about LOC, while the real issue is that people are engaged in propaganda and wild lies because they oppose a government program.
Something must be wrong with me. I keep making the mistake that those who post on Slashdot are somehow more intelligent then the average population. When you fixate on minute technical details rather then the larger issues you are not smart, you are dumb.
YOU ARE SQUEALING LIKE A STUCK PIG BECAUSE THE ACCUSATION IS TRUE.
(In normal conversational "voice" mode.) Let's look at a real world example. I know this is painful for you, because the truth hurts. It hurts even more when you have to leave Republican fantasy land, which you almost never do.
Let's take the very powerful and influential lobbying group, the US Chamber of Commerce. This is what I found when I asked Mr. Google the search terms "US Chamber Republican Democrat".
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=US+Chamber+of+Commerce
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce
So over here in the Real World big corporate interests are spending vast amounts of money to put "pro-business" (in reality pro-big business) politicians in office using untraceable money.
The Chamber is also a big players in the climate change denier network. (I'm tired of doing all this work for you, look it up yourself.)
So yes REPUBLICANS ARE WORKING FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE ULTRA RICH AND AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF EVERYONE ELSE. Glad I could explain that to you in your own language.
Remember that this was the turf of Alaska US Senator Ted Stevens. He was the longest serving Republican Senator in US history, being in the senate from 1978 to 2008. He died in a plane crash in 2010. He was also involved with the infamous freeway to nowhere.
That's why HAARP lasted so long. Even dieing is not sufficient grounds for ending a major pork event. A big time pork wrangler has to be gone and in the ground for a few years before anyone is willing to interfere with with the money flow. (Note: this is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue. The "Big Dig" in Boston was a monument to the pork prowess of Ted Kennedy.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea#Earthquake_geology
After the last flood from the Colorado River into the Salton Sea after 1900, a series of dams were built to keep the river from flowing into California. Since then there are been no really large magnitude earthquakes from the San Andreas in Southern California.
It seems extremely likely that human activity has altered the earthquake pattern. This means it is possible that removing large amounts of ground water from the San Joaquin Valley could measurably effect the height of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Not only do they have many copies of the code around, they also keep a lot of information about how each version behaves as well as mapping structures so they can switch between the versions while they are running.
I infer that this means a lot of code bloat. I have no sense of how this memory usage compares to the memory used for DOM storage and the like. Does anyone know if code memory is a significant contributor to the overall memory footprint of a WebKit based browser?
Using FIrefox on the Mac, I experience an ever increasing memory footprint if I keep the browser running for a long period of time, i.e. over the course of a few days. This is partly laziness, but it also reflects how I use online references. Often I have multiple pages open at the same time for references, and I don't want to close them until I finish what I am working on (typically coding). After I have found a lot of relevant information online, I really don't want to end the browser session and then restore everything when I return two work.
So how will WebKit perform in this environment? How does it compare to Chrome and Firefox for memory usage? If something besides FF didn't suffer from memory bloat I might consider changing. Any experience or benchmarks would be interesting to hear about.
Nothing to Watch. Move Along.
Chances are that all of the software you know is written in an imperative language that is derived from C. It's pretty much any language that uses curly brackets: {} Note that even Python and JavaScript share a lot of concepts with C.
Try a Lisp family language to get exposed to functional programming. Scheme has already been mentioned via SICP. Or go further with functional programming and do ML, Ocaml, Haskell, F#, Scala.
Prolog. Declarative instead of imperative programming.
If you've never done assembly get a microprocessor like Arduino and control something in the physical world. Combine C and assembler. Or try x86 assembly. I would do the AVR micro on the Arduino before x86n since it is much more regular and doesn't have all the legacy architectural issues.
Forth. Low level but not assembler.
Erlang. Lots of parallelism with a "shared nothing" Actor style of code.
MATLAB or OCTAVE. Start thinking in terms of vectors and arrays.
Don't worry about the language being "useful". The point is to expose yourself to a different way of thinking about how to program. It will make whatever you code better.
Just run the car into the nearest programmer.
I was a "rocket scientist". In fact, I worked for NASA at JPL. It's a modest little place in Pasadena, California. I doubt that you heard of it.
I also worked on MEG-4 decoding software, so I know something about digital video streams.
As for being a "kid", thanks for the complement. I know I look young for my age. I wrote my first program in 1968 on punch cards for an IBM 360. In PL/1.
Now I'm going to say it again more slowly:
The. Video. Stream. Was. Not. From. The. Rocket.
It. Was. From. An. Aircraft. Sent. Out. To. View. The. Splashdown.
It. Was. Not. A. Telemetry. Data. Stream.
Since. It. Was. Not. Telemetry. It. Was. Not. Recorded. In. Analog. Form.
The. Camera. System. Was. Not. Spacecraft. Grade.
It. Was. An. Off. The. Shelf. Piece. Of. Equipment.
I hope that this makes sense to you. I know it's Slashdot, so a lack of real applicable technical expertise is the way to get modded up. Unfortunately for me, I have this problem with facts: I try to stay factual, so I often get modded down. For some reason I still keep trying. I think it's a personality flaw.
Terrestrial broadcast HDTV in the US uses 8VSB encoding:
Somehow I doubt that "analog filters can be applied to that in an attempt to create a cleaner input signal to the demodulator stage". That part of the system is already highly optimal.
Additionally, it's not telemetry data in the first place.
It's not from the rocket stage, it's from an aircraft observing the splashdown. This is more remote sensing. I know that this is a quibble, but you seem to be confused about the nature of data sources and encoding.
All I can assume is that some anti-green ideological idiot wants to shoot down any thing that makes good sense and saves energy.
I assume that they are political conservatives, since it fits their typical behavior. I wonder if the Koch (pronounced COCK) brothers are somehow involved.
When put this way, the only events that qualify are explosions and lightning. Even an earthquake takes seconds to minutes to "change value". Tornadoes take minutes and hurricanes take hours or days.
HFT is totally removed from real world phenomena. It is a completely fictional construct. Is it any surprise that it is used to fleece the suckers? It has no legitimate purpose because it is not a real world measure of anything.
I suspect that the chip is not as fast as physical system. There is also the matter of I/O. How do you get data in and out?
This looks good for research, but a lot of effort will be required to get beyond the lab. OTOH I expect that you could sell this to Wall Street HFT types even if it doesn't work...
These machines had no memory protections support, and it was difficult, if not impossible, to multitask different programs. It could only be interactive running a single core image.
BASIC was ideal for this computing model. The BASIC interpreter could round robin between the interactive users. It was effectively a combined dedicated OS and language.
In the system I worked on the disk was used for swapping users and storing user programs and data. A single CPU could support up to 20 or so terminals. These systems were used for both teaching and simple business automation.
In contrast, even using an assembler was a multipass operation, and only one person could work at a time. Compiling anything more complex, like Fortran IV took a long time. Personally, I only saw people working in assembler since anything else quickly exhausted system resources like memory. Only a very small Fortran program could run in 32K words.