Scripting languages are stored as text files, and are (mostly) compiled into some kind of intermediate or binary form *only at runtime*. Examples are Javascript and PHP.
Byte-code languages are stored in a platform-neutral ("virtual machine") binary code, and then this is interpreted - or else compiled into real machine code - at runtime. Examples are Java and ActionScript (in Adobe Flash).
Compiled languages are stored as real machine binary code, formatted according to the specific platform they were compiled for (e.g. ELF, PE, etc). Examples are C++ and Fortran.
Corporate types only hate Perl in a superficial sneering way. They don't understand what is really wrong with it, they just know that it is out of fashion.
True Perl-Haters (TM) hate Perl with a deep visceral hatred bred of traumatic experience of its most evil features. They don't just think it is evil, They Know It Is Evil (TM).
Corporate types are mere dilettantes. Perl-Haters are the connoisseurs.
"The buzzword "free will" is bringing out the idiots with no science education."
What about the more numerous idiots with no philosophical education? And a freshman course in Philosophy 101 doth not a philosopher make.
Add to that the numerous idiots with science (or engineering, or programming) qualifications who think they can solve major philosophical questions without bothering to study philosophy at a professional level.
Let's make a deal: I won't pontificate about advanced particle physics if physicists will stop pontificating about philosophical issues. (And yes, I have post grad quals in philosophy)
The universe exists the way it does because I chose to post this crap on Slashdot. If I hadn't chosen to post this crap on Slashdot, the universe would have been different from the beginning of time.
As long as someone is clever enough to devise a universe that accommodates all our actual choices, then we have free will AND the universe is fully deterministic.
And who is that someone? Well Tolkien of course!
(What you don't live in Middle Earth? Whoops I am in the wrong universe, I better get back home - Oi, Gimli, we managed to bust into Tolkienian space-time again!).
There is only so much scientific intelligence to go round. If your Nobel prize winners hog it all, then the rest of the population has to be extraordinarily dumb to make up for it.
It is called the Law of the Conservation of IQ. Either everyone is mediocre, or some are geniuses ad the rest are loonies. You guys wanted to win a lot of Nobel prizes, so you paid the price - a nation full of dummies and a handful of ueber-geniuses.
I reckon if you put everyone on the right combination of sedative drugs - Mogadon or something - you really could get a totally secure society.
I say the government should keep trying. If they keep taking away our liberties, they will eventually score the right combination of serfdom and slavery and mental incapacity that will *ensure* our security.
Just give them some more time and quit complaining.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, you are right.
The Internet interprets America as damage and routes around it.
Scripting languages are stored as text files, and are (mostly) compiled into some kind of intermediate or binary form *only at runtime*. Examples are Javascript and PHP.
Byte-code languages are stored in a platform-neutral ("virtual machine") binary code, and then this is interpreted - or else compiled into real machine code - at runtime. Examples are Java and ActionScript (in Adobe Flash).
Compiled languages are stored as real machine binary code, formatted according to the specific platform they were compiled for (e.g. ELF, PE, etc). Examples are C++ and Fortran.
Yeah? So what?
In Javascript everything is a var.
So it is strongly typed too.
Damn! It is a really long way from Antarctica.
No hope for me getting cheap cooling then, here in northern Greenland.
Satellites here in Australia all point north.
Won't I laugh when you get lost in the Australian bush and look at a satellite dish and head in the wrong direction!
I saw two cows. One was bovine, the other was an ad for Windows. I often hear people saying "That's a cow of an OS!"
Now I know why.
I thought that editors were supposed to be steeped in ...
... boiling water?
(Well, it works for teabags.)
And the more stupid they become, the more stupid their children will be.
-Lamarck.
Yeah, and in any case, she would be a czarina!
It's alright.
Corporate types only hate Perl in a superficial sneering way. They don't understand what is really wrong with it, they just know that it is out of fashion.
True Perl-Haters (TM) hate Perl with a deep visceral hatred bred of traumatic experience of its most evil features. They don't just think it is evil, They Know It Is Evil (TM).
Corporate types are mere dilettantes. Perl-Haters are the connoisseurs.
Perl is dying because Perl 6 is taking as long as "Duke Nukem Forever" to be released.
There are more choices in scripting languages now than there were back when Perl 5 came out: PHP, python, Ruby, ...
What could possibly go wrong?
Syphilis? Gonorrhea? Herpes?
I can't wait to meet the evil me and see how I look with a pointy beard^H^H^H^H^Htail.
"Any argument against free will -- in the way that most ordinary people regard it -- is easily brushed aside."
Any argument against *anything* -- in the way that *most ordinary people* regard it -- is easily brushed aside.
That is what Socrates spent his life showing 2,500 years ago.
Please try to catch up.
"The buzzword "free will" is bringing out the idiots with no science education."
What about the more numerous idiots with no philosophical education? And a freshman course in Philosophy 101 doth not a philosopher make.
Add to that the numerous idiots with science (or engineering, or programming) qualifications who think they can solve major philosophical questions without bothering to study philosophy at a professional level.
Let's make a deal: I won't pontificate about advanced particle physics if physicists will stop pontificating about philosophical issues. (And yes, I have post grad quals in philosophy)
Do robots "try"?
Robots hate being described in anthropomorphic terms.
Um, let's see.
The universe exists the way it does because I chose to post this crap on Slashdot. If I hadn't chosen to post this crap on Slashdot, the universe would have been different from the beginning of time.
As long as someone is clever enough to devise a universe that accommodates all our actual choices, then we have free will AND the universe is fully deterministic.
And who is that someone? Well Tolkien of course!
(What you don't live in Middle Earth? Whoops I am in the wrong universe, I better get back home - Oi, Gimli, we managed to bust into Tolkienian space-time again!).
First answer me the question: do subatomic particles have a *will*?
If the answer is no, then I think we can dispense with any further questions along this line.
But while we are investigating the choices made by subatomic particles, I just want to know: do they prefer vi or emacs?
Look, it's quite simple really.
There is only so much scientific intelligence to go round. If your Nobel prize winners hog it all, then the rest of the population has to be extraordinarily dumb to make up for it.
It is called the Law of the Conservation of IQ. Either everyone is mediocre, or some are geniuses ad the rest are loonies. You guys wanted to win a lot of Nobel prizes, so you paid the price - a nation full of dummies and a handful of ueber-geniuses.
I have never seen a mildly retarded gibbon write crappy device drivers.
Sir, you tarnish their good name!
I never watch or listen to CNN - it is not available on any channel on my TV and I am not interested in it.
I would put any email from CNN straight into the bin. So spammers trying to impersonate CNN are going to get exactly the same treatment.
So spammers - keep impersonating the firms I don't care about (and that's almost all of them).
You are way too pessimistic.
I reckon if you put everyone on the right combination of sedative drugs - Mogadon or something - you really could get a totally secure society.
I say the government should keep trying. If they keep taking away our liberties, they will eventually score the right combination of serfdom and slavery and mental incapacity that will *ensure* our security.
Just give them some more time and quit complaining.
Cost of ownership has nothing to do with *you* owning the product ... it is the cost you pay because they own you.
Perhaps it would be better if they called it the Cost of Pwnership?
+1 Funny to the first one who can use DNS cache poisoning to trick a Beijing restaurant into calling itself the "Free Tibet Cafe".
Wouldn't that just describe a monastery that gives away coffee?
You just exposited the Spanish expectation.