I have to wonder whether HP management even cares at this point. I get the impression that meeting short term attrition goals is considered more important than long term viability.
During the first downsizing craze of the 1990s this was known as "dumbsizing".
Would he have been better served to still be here w/o some "reward center". I don't know. I will never know.
I read somewhere within the past month that the traditional/popular notion of a pleasure center is not correct. According to whatever I was reading, it's more of an impulse/addiction center, and the pleasure/reward comes from several other parts of the brain working together.
The argument was something along the line that people or apes would repeat actions that stimulate the center, but it doesn't actually cause any pleasure.
Commerce, industry, governments, and militaries need to get *real* serious about computer security. If intelligence operatives can make attacks on critical infrastructure now, script kiddies will be able to do it before too many years. People will be shutting down critical industry just for the lulz.
CO2 has no effect on the Earth's temperature, this has been clearly proved time and time again.
Look at the second plot on this page. It's a direct measurement of the amount of the reduced re-radiation from planet earth at 1996 vs. 1970, and shows substantial dips for CO2 (far left) and methane (far right).
Apparently, he has been published and is therefore a celebrity or something like that. Anyway, he has a bizarre set of problems which include replying to his own posts pretending to be someone else, assertions that he had "blown away," "burned," "destroyed" or any other such juveline taunt. He apparently believes I and others are "Jorge Bastida" whoever that may be. His mental deficiencies are his reality and therefore he projects his notion of what normal healthy behavior is upon everyone else. He therefore believes multiple people are all one and has little to do than sit here and and attempt to belittle and berate them with commentary.
Of course his problems with reality extend into the realm of believing things which aren't "quite right." I attempted to point out that this sort of behavior is archived for, so far, "ever" on slashdot and that any searches for anything he might have written could be found by anyone including and especially [potential] employers. With all the stories about how government and employers use social networking (which slashdot nearly qualifies as being) I would think this would be obvious but pointing out the obvious is apparently blackmail. (please grow up... please... prove it by not responding to this!)
So with this, I lay shame and I believe I don't need to name. Will it work?
Someone steals your car every night and drives it around, you're not aware of the problem, however someone sees people driving your car and throwing shit at people and lets the police know. The police then pass on the information to you saying "Why is your car out there throwing shit at people at night?"
It is up to you to make sure that your car is properly locked and secured at night, so people can't steal it and take it for joyrides.
I had to take it in college. To this day, when I see a:= operator in source code, I want to close my editor and forget I ever saw it. That I saw the:= operator in Visual Basic confirmed this notion.
IIRC that notation was introduced in Algol, as a compromise between the Europeans who wanted "=" and the Americans who wanted "=".
I've used it in years past. The languages that I've used that help me produce code that just works, no matter how inclined I am to screw things up, are F#, Scala, Ada -- basically your strongly-typed languages keep me out of trouble. If you can handle the pricing and/or license issues, I would still recommend Ada as the best fit for procedural/OO programmers who want to work with tools that sustain quality. I'd expect that a very highly skilled team that wrote F#, Scala, Lisp, or Haskell could beat the dog out of most Ada teams for productivity over a few months or even a few years, but that over a period of many years, a good Ada team would be hard to bear for reliability and maintainability.
In my experience Ada catches things at compile time that other languages leave you to catch at run time, and catches things at run time that other languages leave you to discover when you find out you've been getting erroneous results for bog-knows how long.
Anybody here using Ada, or has used Ada? Not implying anything, but genuinely interested. Isn't Ada one of the most crazy complex algorithm languages ever invented? Just my impression.
I've used it a lot, but not lately. Its syntax is Pascal-like rather than C-like. However, I think Ada 2005 introduced the C++-style syntax for methods.
It does have a lot of complex features, e.g. rendezvous for distributed programming, but you can get started by ignoring most of the unusual stuff and using a subset that is very much like Pascal, then learning the advanced features as needed.
Supposedly when it first came out they had to invent new compiler technology to implement it, but things don't look so exotic now. Lots of integral support for real-time and distributed systems, and as others have said, verbose and an emphasis on reliability. Those last two are related: it makes you say what you mean and mean what you say. Ada programmers laugh when they hear someone describe C++ as "strongly typed".
However, in my experience the more I worked on it the leaner my code got and the more I was able to think on the level of abstractions rather than details, e.g. by using the 'range attribute when looping over arrays.
C# went Ada 95 one better on pragmas and attributes, but I don't know what Ada did in 2005 or 2012. I found them *really* helpful.
Can't give much more comparison, because I'm not up on the latest features of more familiar languages either.
Supposedly the space shuttle's on-board system was written in a subset of Ada.
Linux is GPL encumbered. If you develop closed source applications for Linux have to be extra careful. Developing a client for a commercial friendly OS such as FreeBSD is always safe and can fully concentrate on development rather fear of GPL violations.
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What language was this originally written in?
I think it's what you get when you babelfish English into Neanderthal and then back to English.
I have to wonder whether HP management even cares at this point. I get the impression that meeting short term attrition goals is considered more important than long term viability.
During the first downsizing craze of the 1990s this was known as "dumbsizing".
do the cartoon people fuck yet? and if not what do they do?
They're modelled on you, so you can probably figure it out.
Would he have been better served to still be here w/o some "reward center". I don't know. I will never know.
I read somewhere within the past month that the traditional/popular notion of a pleasure center is not correct. According to whatever I was reading, it's more of an impulse/addiction center, and the pleasure/reward comes from several other parts of the brain working together.
The argument was something along the line that people or apes would repeat actions that stimulate the center, but it doesn't actually cause any pleasure.
The sooner it goes away the better.
Seconded. I *always* go see the 2D version of any movie I want to see.
And even those suffer, because of the scenes that are so obviously a gimmick for the 3D version. Very distracting and annoying, even in 2D.
Like so many other applications of technology, we need a better reason than "because we can".
I should have said, "dips at the absorption frequencies for CO2 (far left) and methane (far right)."
Commerce, industry, governments, and militaries need to get *real* serious about computer security. If intelligence operatives can make attacks on critical infrastructure now, script kiddies will be able to do it before too many years. People will be shutting down critical industry just for the lulz.
CO2 has no effect on the Earth's temperature, this has been clearly proved time and time again.
Look at the second plot on this page. It's a direct measurement of the amount of the reduced re-radiation from planet earth at 1996 vs. 1970, and shows substantial dips for CO2 (far left) and methane (far right).
We've had a bunch of climate related stories on /. lately. My theory is that when IPCC AR5 comes out officially, the jig will be up.
We've had a lot of creationism stories too. My theory is that flame wars drive page hits.
I haven't tracked it, but I get the impression that they usually get posted on slow news days - weekends and holidays.
And what do you do when all your 10GB fibers are saturated?
If his post didn't saturate his link, he's probably safe against DDOS.
There is a person who frequents here, famous for using hosts files as a security something or other some-such. I had gone for quite some time without having to see or hear from him but apparently has come back.
Apparently, he has been published and is therefore a celebrity or something like that. Anyway, he has a bizarre set of problems which include replying to his own posts pretending to be someone else, assertions that he had "blown away," "burned," "destroyed" or any other such juveline taunt. He apparently believes I and others are "Jorge Bastida" whoever that may be. His mental deficiencies are his reality and therefore he projects his notion of what normal healthy behavior is upon everyone else. He therefore believes multiple people are all one and has little to do than sit here and and attempt to belittle and berate them with commentary.
Of course his problems with reality extend into the realm of believing things which aren't "quite right." I attempted to point out that this sort of behavior is archived for, so far, "ever" on slashdot and that any searches for anything he might have written could be found by anyone including and especially [potential] employers. With all the stories about how government and employers use social networking (which slashdot nearly qualifies as being) I would think this would be obvious but pointing out the obvious is apparently blackmail. (please grow up... please... prove it by not responding to this!)
So with this, I lay shame and I believe I don't need to name. Will it work?
Let us know how it turns out, Jorge.
Someone steals your car every night and drives it around, you're not aware of the problem, however someone sees people driving your car and throwing shit at people and lets the police know. The police then pass on the information to you saying "Why is your car out there throwing shit at people at night?"
It is up to you to make sure that your car is properly locked and secured at night, so people can't steal it and take it for joyrides.
Is that a better analogy?
Could you explain that with a car analogy?
Too bad they don't get this kind of response on all the other crap legislation they produce.
Which way is west in antarctica?
Face north, then turn left.
So just how long do we have to wait for this "doomsday" thing?
I'm going to have to spend Christmas catching up on two months' chores that I've been skipping.
Also note that there doesn't seem to be a genuinely free [copyfree.org] implementation of Ada...
Isn't it still part of the GNU Compiler Collection?
IIRC that notation was introduced in Algol, as a compromise between the Europeans who wanted "=" and the Americans who wanted "=".
Sorry; that first one was supposed to look like what we commonly interpret as "less-than-or-equal-to", but it didn't HTMLify very well.
I had to take it in college. To this day, when I see a := operator in source code, I want to close my editor and forget I ever saw it. That I saw the := operator in Visual Basic confirmed this notion.
IIRC that notation was introduced in Algol, as a compromise between the Europeans who wanted "=" and the Americans who wanted "=".
FYI: It hasn't been called "ADA" for some time, simply "Ada."
Never was "ADA". It was named after Ada, Lady Lovelace, whose birthday we discussed here a few weeks ago.
I've used it in years past. The languages that I've used that help me produce code that just works, no matter how inclined I am to screw things up, are F#, Scala, Ada -- basically your strongly-typed languages keep me out of trouble. If you can handle the pricing and/or license issues, I would still recommend Ada as the best fit for procedural/OO programmers who want to work with tools that sustain quality. I'd expect that a very highly skilled team that wrote F#, Scala, Lisp, or Haskell could beat the dog out of most Ada teams for productivity over a few months or even a few years, but that over a period of many years, a good Ada team would be hard to bear for reliability and maintainability.
In my experience Ada catches things at compile time that other languages leave you to catch at run time, and catches things at run time that other languages leave you to discover when you find out you've been getting erroneous results for bog-knows how long.
Anybody here using Ada, or has used Ada? Not implying anything, but genuinely interested. Isn't Ada one of the most crazy complex algorithm languages ever invented? Just my impression.
I've used it a lot, but not lately. Its syntax is Pascal-like rather than C-like. However, I think Ada 2005 introduced the C++-style syntax for methods.
It does have a lot of complex features, e.g. rendezvous for distributed programming, but you can get started by ignoring most of the unusual stuff and using a subset that is very much like Pascal, then learning the advanced features as needed.
Supposedly when it first came out they had to invent new compiler technology to implement it, but things don't look so exotic now. Lots of integral support for real-time and distributed systems, and as others have said, verbose and an emphasis on reliability. Those last two are related: it makes you say what you mean and mean what you say. Ada programmers laugh when they hear someone describe C++ as "strongly typed".
However, in my experience the more I worked on it the leaner my code got and the more I was able to think on the level of abstractions rather than details, e.g. by using the 'range attribute when looping over arrays.
C# went Ada 95 one better on pragmas and attributes, but I don't know what Ada did in 2005 or 2012. I found them *really* helpful.
Can't give much more comparison, because I'm not up on the latest features of more familiar languages either.
Supposedly the space shuttle's on-board system was written in a subset of Ada.
There are still plenty of other places you can go.
Especially if you're one of us ASD "not the club joining type" types.
Linux is GPL encumbered. If you develop closed source applications for Linux have to be extra careful. Developing a client for a commercial friendly OS such as FreeBSD is always safe and can fully concentrate on development rather fear of GPL violations.
That would have been a good troll, 15 years ago.
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So what you are saying is, there is no down side?
You've got a funny notion of whose benefit this country is supposed to be run for.