I think you're being horribly pedantic. everybody knows the difference between a star and a planet. a kindergartner could tell you. it's only the people who have too much time on their hands to slice these fine hairs even finer.
We use to call those "people who have too much time on their hands" "scientists", or "astronomers" in the case at hand.
Now, think of the possibilities of substituting those "scientists" with kindergartners... A brave new world, I say!
Sorry to hear that. But don't despair, it's always a good time to start.
In this case, I would recommend some reading of History books on the period known as "European Medieval" (I don't know if that's the exact English term, sorry). Fascinating stuff.
The difference is that the WWII planes could only do it in a near-suicidal dive. The X-1 could do it intentionally, under normal powered flight.
2 things you may not know:
- The Me262 was a jet fighter/bomber. WWII plane. As cited in a post above, some claim it broke the sound barrier in levelled flight.
- The Me163 was a rocket fighter. Some claim it broke the sound barrier in 1944. The Bell X-1 is almost a copy of its design.
No official world records, I'm afraid. Well, there was this war going on, that made quite difficult for international records bodies to arrange for a convenient validation spot...
Of course, these planes were on the wrong side of History. So hardly anybody today knows they existed at all...
Too lazy for links. Just google "Me163" and "Me262".
(...) female "circumcision" (which isn't even anywhere near male circumcision. It's a couple orders of magnitude worse).
Why? How can it possibly be worse? In both cases, the point is to take away and/or numb nerve endings that might bring that God-forbidden, devilish "sex pleasure" thing.
'Internetworking' predated Ethernet by a long shot. One could argue that the UUCP network was the progenitor to or perhaps the first incarnation of the Internet - it had file transfers, email, usenet news,
And I thought it was wonderful. Messages coming and going from and to all over the world. Much different from the closed mail systems I had to work with before.
Then in 1992(3?) I experimented that hypertext thing from CERN that worked across different computers. Couldn't see the point immediately, since there was only one server (at CERN), and only with docs on this "HTTP" stuff. Later, there was Mosaic and... You know.
and was a loosely-managed, cooperative network of systems across companies, universities, and government. It was mostly modem-based; those with dedicated leased lines were the envy of all.
It was store-and-forward, explicitly routed,
Yes, I remember bang(!) paths "...!uucp!(...)!mcvax!(...etc...)". You can tell I'm in Europe, always had to go through mcvax in Amsterdam;-)
The research centre where I worked in the 80's had one X25 dedicated line (64kbps) that was among the first Internet connections in Portugal (1st?).
Not only memories: we have here in the campus at least one operational 10BASE5 network -- since 1984, I think. Cable, transceivers, hubs and repeaters (mostly DEC brand) still quiet and relentlessly operating after 28 years.
We have been chasing and disconnecting those "yellow cable" networks for years, but they were everywhere:-)
10base2 has also been seen and deservedly shot on the spot. With a vengeance.
Oh, and 10base5 is enough for casual Internet use in a small LAN, in case you're wondering. When nobody is messing with the cable, it just works.
Yes, I feel for the guys who may have been forced to write complicated GUI apps or similar exclusively in C. But it's not nearly a common case in all my years.
OTOH, C IS the right tool for:
- systems programming (linux kernel in my phone is great, slim and fast, Java Android "kernel" isn't)
- libraries implementing algorithms efficiently
- small unix-tool-like apps
- embedded/small systems
- many other cases where small and fast is paramount, but you don't want to write it in assembly and lose portability
So, I think we agree C still has some uses where it is second to none.
The point is that since nobody really (?) needs to use C for application development, all that hate we are talking about seems out of proportion.
Glossary and Notes (...) 4 Pairing-based cryptography:
A next-generation cryptography (proposed in 2001) based on a map called pairing, which offers many useful functionalities that could not be achieved by previous public-key cryptography. The security of pairing-based cryptography is based on the intractability of discrete logarithm problem (DLP). DLP is a problem to compute d such that a = gd for given g and a
No shit. Something like this happened to me -- in my first visit to the USA. Yes, United States of America. Third-world places, indeed?
I didn't have a laptop then, and they didn't take my passport -- I was showing it at the car rental desk in Phoenix "International" Airport (that's why I had to put the bag down). I got to keep the clothes I had on, also. Yay.:-/
But they did take everything else. Conference presentation, money, tickets...
Fortunately, I was travelling with colleagues going to the same conference. Otherwise, I'd be in a difficult spot, 2500miles from the nearest Consulate, without a penny.
It was, so far, my first and last time I travelled to the USofA.
True, true, and true.
However, he wrote some really bad quality prose - I couldn't finish reading "Memorial do Convento". Abolishing punctuation? Bad idea. Obligatory reading for students? Worse.
That's unfortunate they gave him the Nobel. There were better portuguese authors around... IMHO.
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PS: "Judge Rubberstamp" really cracked me up.
Here, have my virtual +1 Funny. Thanks for the ROTFL. I was needing it...
I think you're being horribly pedantic. everybody knows the difference between a star and a planet. a kindergartner could tell you. it's only the people who have too much time on their hands to slice these fine hairs even finer.
We use to call those "people who have too much time on their hands" "scientists", or "astronomers" in the case at hand.
Now, think of the possibilities of substituting those "scientists" with kindergartners... A brave new world, I say!
I'm quickly downloading the Internet before it becomes contraband here.
E=mc**2
Suddenly, "energy particles" can have mass properties, like momentum...
In Newton's physics this is impossible, of course. But today we use Einstein's.
the US tends to
There, FTFY.
Now where are my US$50.00?
PS: Comment Subject... ;-)
[education needed]
Sorry to hear that. But don't despair, it's always a good time to start.
In this case, I would recommend some reading of History books on the period known as "European Medieval" (I don't know if that's the exact English term, sorry). Fascinating stuff.
The odd thing is, before the West was radically religious, it was the Muslim world which was tolerant and open.
[citation needed]
How about Mr. Creosote?
The difference is that the WWII planes could only do it in a near-suicidal dive. The X-1 could do it intentionally, under normal powered flight.
2 things you may not know:
- The Me262 was a jet fighter/bomber. WWII plane. As cited in a post above, some claim it broke the sound barrier in levelled flight.
- The Me163 was a rocket fighter. Some claim it broke the sound barrier in 1944. The Bell X-1 is almost a copy of its design.
No official world records, I'm afraid. Well, there was this war going on, that made quite difficult for international records bodies to arrange for a convenient validation spot...
Of course, these planes were on the wrong side of History. So hardly anybody today knows they existed at all...
Too lazy for links. Just google "Me163" and "Me262".
(...) female "circumcision" (which isn't even anywhere near male circumcision. It's a couple orders of magnitude worse).
Why? How can it possibly be worse? In both cases, the point is to take away and/or numb nerve endings that might bring that God-forbidden, devilish "sex pleasure" thing.
Bingo. A big screen is another thing, but some tablets can connect via HDMI, so I'll let that pass.
'Internetworking' predated Ethernet by a long shot. One could argue that the UUCP network was the progenitor to or perhaps the first incarnation of the Internet - it had file transfers, email, usenet news,
And I thought it was wonderful. Messages coming and going from and to all over the world. Much different from the closed mail systems I had to work with before.
Then in 1992(3?) I experimented that hypertext thing from CERN that worked across different computers. Couldn't see the point immediately, since there was only one server (at CERN), and only with docs on this "HTTP" stuff. Later, there was Mosaic and... You know.
and was a loosely-managed, cooperative network of systems across companies, universities, and government. It was mostly modem-based; those with dedicated leased lines were the envy of all.
It was store-and-forward, explicitly routed,
Yes, I remember bang(!) paths "...!uucp!(...)!mcvax!(...etc...)". You can tell I'm in Europe, always had to go through mcvax in Amsterdam ;-)
The research centre where I worked in the 80's had one X25 dedicated line (64kbps) that was among the first Internet connections in Portugal (1st?).
Speaking of ethernet, anyone else remember thick ethernet cable and vampire taps?
Not only memories: we have here in the campus at least one operational 10BASE5 network -- since 1984, I think. Cable, transceivers, hubs and repeaters (mostly DEC brand) still quiet and relentlessly operating after 28 years.
We have been chasing and disconnecting those "yellow cable" networks for years, but they were everywhere :-)
10base2 has also been seen and deservedly shot on the spot. With a vengeance.
Oh, and 10base5 is enough for casual Internet use in a small LAN, in case you're wondering. When nobody is messing with the cable, it just works.
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Old fart out
an anti-social computer geek that has learned to relate to women through 4chan
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yes, I feel for the guys who may have been forced to write complicated GUI apps or similar exclusively in C. But it's not nearly a common case in all my years.
OTOH, C IS the right tool for:
- systems programming (linux kernel in my phone is great, slim and fast, Java Android "kernel" isn't)
- libraries implementing algorithms efficiently
- small unix-tool-like apps
- embedded/small systems
- many other cases where small and fast is paramount, but you don't want to write it in assembly and lose portability
So, I think we agree C still has some uses where it is second to none.
The point is that since nobody really (?) needs to use C for application development, all that hate we are talking about seems out of proportion.
> It forces programmers to actually look at what they're doing
OMG! There. That's where all the hate comes from.
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(Programming in C since 1984)
Stop spamming please. You got your point, once is enough. Twenty times is spam.
Bzzt!
:-)
Sorry, but the population density mantra just does not cut it:
Population density:
Finland: 16/km2
USA: 32/km2
(source: Wikipedia)
Let me explain: population density of USA is DOUBLE that of Finland. Yes, even in sq. miles
So, every mile of deployed cable is --in average-- twice as efficient in the USA...
It's explained in the article notes, actually:
Glossary and Notes
(...)
4 Pairing-based cryptography:
A next-generation cryptography (proposed in 2001) based on a map called pairing, which offers many useful functionalities that could not be achieved by previous public-key cryptography. The security of pairing-based cryptography is based on the intractability of discrete logarithm problem (DLP). DLP is a problem to compute d such that a = gd for given g and a
No shit. Something like this happened to me -- in my first visit to the USA. Yes, United States of America. Third-world places, indeed?
:-/
I didn't have a laptop then, and they didn't take my passport -- I was showing it at the car rental desk in Phoenix "International" Airport (that's why I had to put the bag down). I got to keep the clothes I had on, also. Yay.
But they did take everything else. Conference presentation, money, tickets...
Fortunately, I was travelling with colleagues going to the same conference. Otherwise, I'd be in a difficult spot, 2500miles from the nearest Consulate, without a penny.
It was, so far, my first and last time I travelled to the USofA.
> A man can be brilliant, reliable, successful, and completely physically unattractive
I thought you could only choose three out of these four.
Austria 0.30%
United States 0.21%
Wow, even Portugal is ahead of the US here, at 0.23%
while the GNI by capita seems pretty much comparable between US and austria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(nominal,_Atlas_method)_per_capita
17 United States 47,390
18 Austria 47,060
Portugal is a distant 43rd. As in "less than half GNI per capita compared to the US".
Mmm... Note that private donations are not included.
SPF is intended to work like you say. Minus the "fee".
True, true, and true. However, he wrote some really bad quality prose - I couldn't finish reading "Memorial do Convento". Abolishing punctuation? Bad idea. Obligatory reading for students? Worse. That's unfortunate they gave him the Nobel. There were better portuguese authors around... IMHO.