I really used to like Perl, programed in it all the time. But until Randy drops dead, Perl is going to continue to change, making it really worthless as a scripting language. How many times have you had old scripts stop working because they 'improved' Perl and a particular feature isn't there anymore? Or works differently? I've had to re-write entire test harnesses and tool sets.
Plus everyone is trying to make Perl into a language! We have enough languages. Lets take all the dumb stuff back out of Perl (Does object oriented scripting really make sense to anyone out there?) and let it be what it was supposed to be: A good Scripting language. Not Bloatware!
I had a prof named Tobin too who used to love to go on about Tannenbaum's books. Where was this at? (I was picking up some refresher classes). Wonder if it's the same guy...
It's what drives them to make stuff, and attempt to make better stuff than the next guy. If they all got along we'd all still be using SLS!
As it is the arguments and many different flavors of Linux have helped all of us, and brought a great many things to the Linux world. When all the developers stop arguing and dissing each other, that's when -I'll- get worried.
So I'm supposed to believe that they got it right for 50 years from now?
Oh please...
And I thought that the 'flash freezes' had been already explained away by extreme volcanic eruptions in the area? (As were seen on one of Jupiter's moons)
Drill the coasts...
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America has huge oil fields off of all three of our coasts, yet only limited drilling is allowed in the gulf. And no more at all apparently will be allowed in Alaska.
If we were to develop those resources, get rid of the stupid EPA's '8 different types of gas' rules, and build more refineries, then the prices would drop back down.
But the people of the US (or at least enough of them in powerful positions) don't want that. So gas prices will remain high for now. But we won't be running out of oil in the lifetime of anybody here.
In college back in 77 I had a physics professor who was at least in his 60's if not 70's. We were all shocked one day when we found out not only was he a huge Steve Martin fan, but he watched SNL every night.
Just because people get old, it doesn't mean they lose touch with what's popular or current. We just like to think they do so we can feel superior to them.
Think about it, more heat in the atmosphere in the summer, warmer summers. Less light in the winter, colder winters.
Be interesting to see if that held true, or any other reasonable affect could be shown be the increase of light scattering or absorbing material in the atmosphere.
I also wonder if the increase is in scattering particles, absorbing particles, or a mix of the two. (And how those ratios affect the weather!)
I see a pretty good Phd thesis here if one hasn't been done already.
Just some guy who watched a poor schlock cover your butt when you showed up late several times and then not at all once. And you still got him fired because you didn't like him either.
I worked with Bruce once, years and years ago. Can't stand the guy, don't like him very much either. He's not a nice person, and sorta the co-worker from hell.
Not to be rude, but you are obviously not a student of battery technology. Yes the NiMh cells are not heated. However they are not the only type of battery used in electric cars.
I would reccomend that you do a little research in this area.
I know too many people who have the ability to hack these machines, so I'm afraid that someone will. Yes there is fraud with paper ballots, but at least there's more of a trail there then with the electronic ones.
Personally, I'd love to see balloting made public, then you could easily prove if your vote had been suborned or stolen. Yes I know some people say that secret ballots are necessary to protect the voters, but let's face facts, that's not really the case in the USA anymore. We have enough of a tradition here of people being allowed to voice unpopular opinions that anyone who attempted to punish people for voting 'the wrong way' would generate a tremendous backlash from all parties.
I agree with you, the only other function my phone does that I have any use for (besides phone calls) is as a modem. Some of the bells and whistles were fun for the first ten minutes, but I really could care less about them.
Those batteries can be pretty nasty. I'm not just talking the battery Acid either. Some of the batteries in electric cars have to be heated to 200 degrees to work properly. And a lot of them contain some pretty nasty and toxic chemicals. Far worse than gasoline.
And if they explode due to a short or a fire, they'll not only act like shrapnel, but very poisonous shrapnel. I wonder if there are any safety regs dealing with this subject?
And yes I also don't like the idea of them being able to scan my email for their own purposes (even if those purposes are 'harmless' to me, sorry), which I'm sure they do.
A gig of space? Big deal my cheap little linux server at home has 20 of those and I have email going back 10 years on it. And if/when google goes out of business or decides to charge my email will still be there, and I won't have to spend days trying to download it from google.
One of the big problems with flying is that people start to think of their aircraft as being 'alive' and start to think that the plane will do 'special' things 'this one time' in defiance of the laws of physics so they can get where they want to go.
They die everytime of course, and it's been responsible for a lot of airplane crashes. Probably more than half. Beating this belief out of people is extremely difficult and probably half of what flight training is aimed at.
Have you ever written military software? I have. Funny how those nukes don't go off by accident isn't it? Or all those planes don't suddenly crash because of a software failure.
Look, you're the one who isn't really a programmer. You're just some kid who hacks on computers and thinks he knows how to write code. Serious bugs can be prevented if you just want to make the effort. Problem is most people either don't want to spend that money, or make that effort.
But it can be done, and is done all the time in some industries.
That's why the managers have to learn how to do -their- jobs right as well. Too many managers don't understand software or the software coding process. So they make unrealistic demands.
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I really used to like Perl, programed in it all the time. But until Randy drops dead, Perl is going to continue to change, making it really worthless as a scripting language. How many times have you had old scripts stop working because they 'improved' Perl and a particular feature isn't there anymore? Or works differently? I've had to re-write entire test harnesses and tool sets.
Plus everyone is trying to make Perl into a language! We have enough languages. Lets take all the dumb stuff back out of Perl (Does object oriented scripting really make sense to anyone out there?) and let it be what it was supposed to be: A good Scripting language. Not Bloatware!
I had a prof named Tobin too who used to love to go on about Tannenbaum's books. Where was this at? (I was picking up some refresher classes). Wonder if it's the same guy...
It's what drives them to make stuff, and attempt to make better stuff than the next guy. If they all got along we'd all still be using SLS!
As it is the arguments and many different flavors of Linux have helped all of us, and brought a great many things to the Linux world. When all the developers stop arguing and dissing each other, that's when -I'll- get worried.
So I'm supposed to believe that they got it right for 50 years from now?
Oh please...
And I thought that the 'flash freezes' had been already explained away by extreme volcanic eruptions in the area? (As were seen on one of Jupiter's moons)
America has huge oil fields off of all three of our coasts, yet only limited drilling is allowed in the gulf. And no more at all apparently will be allowed in Alaska.
If we were to develop those resources, get rid of the stupid EPA's '8 different types of gas' rules, and build more refineries, then the prices would drop back down.
But the people of the US (or at least enough of them in powerful positions) don't want that. So gas prices will remain high for now. But we won't be running out of oil in the lifetime of anybody here.
In college back in 77 I had a physics professor who was at least in his 60's if not 70's. We were all shocked one day when we found out not only was he a huge Steve Martin fan, but he watched SNL every night.
Just because people get old, it doesn't mean they lose touch with what's popular or current. We just like to think they do so we can feel superior to them.
Yes, they do take all of that into account. For take off they have a series of 'refusal speeds' based on engine losses, etc.
Once in the air losing an engine is not as dangerous an event as you might think.
Think about it, more heat in the atmosphere in the summer, warmer summers.
Less light in the winter, colder winters.
Be interesting to see if that held true, or any other reasonable affect could be shown be the increase of light scattering or absorbing material in the atmosphere.
I also wonder if the increase is in scattering particles, absorbing particles, or a mix of the two. (And how those ratios affect the weather!)
I see a pretty good Phd thesis here if one hasn't been done already.
Just some guy who watched a poor schlock cover your butt when you showed up late several times and then not at all once. And you still got him fired because you didn't like him either.
I worked with Bruce once, years and years ago.
Can't stand the guy, don't like him very much either. He's not a nice person, and sorta the co-worker from hell.
Not to be rude, but you are obviously not a student of battery technology. Yes the NiMh cells are not heated. However they are not the only type of battery used in electric cars.
I would reccomend that you do a little research in this area.
I know too many people who have the ability to hack these machines, so I'm afraid that someone will. Yes there is fraud with paper ballots, but at least there's more of a trail there then with the electronic ones.
Personally, I'd love to see balloting made public, then you could easily prove if your vote had been suborned or stolen. Yes I know some people say that secret ballots are necessary to protect the voters, but let's face facts, that's not really the case in the USA anymore.
We have enough of a tradition here of people being allowed to voice unpopular opinions that anyone who attempted to punish people for voting 'the wrong way' would generate a tremendous backlash from all parties.
I agree with you, the only other function my phone does that I have any use for (besides phone calls) is as a modem. Some of the bells and whistles were fun for the first ten minutes, but I really could care less about them.
Those batteries can be pretty nasty. I'm not just talking the battery Acid either. Some of the batteries in electric cars have to be heated to 200 degrees to work properly. And a lot of them contain some pretty nasty and toxic chemicals. Far worse than gasoline.
And if they explode due to a short or a fire, they'll not only act like shrapnel, but very poisonous shrapnel. I wonder if there are any safety regs dealing with this subject?
Ah, so they're attaching their own spam to my email while filtering out everyone elses.
How nice.
I do backups.
I can read my mail from anywhere.
I also have a spam filter.
So I'm not gaining anything here.
Shows that they don't believe it will work. So why all the hoopla about this?
Why in the world would I want this service?
And yes I also don't like the idea of them being able to scan my email for their own purposes (even if those purposes are 'harmless' to me, sorry), which I'm sure they do.
A gig of space? Big deal my cheap little linux server at home has 20 of those and I have email going back 10 years on it. And if/when google goes out of business or decides to charge my email will still be there, and I won't have to spend days trying to download it from google.
And often die because of it.
One of the big problems with flying is that people start to think of their aircraft as being 'alive' and start to think that the plane will do 'special' things 'this one time' in defiance of the laws of physics so they can get where they want to go.
They die everytime of course, and it's been responsible for a lot of airplane crashes. Probably more than half. Beating this belief out of people is extremely difficult and probably half of what flight training is aimed at.
Interesting, got a link to more information?
And I call bullshit on you.
Why?
Cause you have no idea what you're talking about, and used a great many words to prove it.
Have you ever written military software? I have. Funny how those nukes don't go off by accident isn't it? Or all those planes don't suddenly crash because of a software failure.
Look, you're the one who isn't really a programmer. You're just some kid who hacks on computers and thinks he knows how to write code. Serious bugs can be prevented if you just want to make the effort. Problem is most people either don't want to spend that money, or make that effort.
But it can be done, and is done all the time in some industries.
That's why the managers have to learn how to do -their- jobs right as well. Too many managers don't understand software or the software coding process. So they make unrealistic demands.
I'm sorry, but no, you're wrong. It is totally possible to release code without serious bugs.
I started programing in the early 70s, where you even alive then? So please don't say I'm not a programmer. I just know HOW to do the job right.
Also don't forget, you can't Test Quality into a product!!! Testing is NOT QA!!!