Even if web apps we're good enough for everything, the UI is nowhere close to handling multitasking efficiently.
Right, and this is simply because Google doesn't want that, it would let you install and use standard LibreOffice instead of Google Docs. This is what is wrong with having one self-interested corporation own the firmware. If this roadblock was removed then tablets could really be PC replacements (the hardware is already 100% there) and the tablet market would start to increase again.
Catering to the budget PC market, which at the moment is nearly all Intel. The $200 small form factor PC market is a reality, perfectly adequate for the majority of home and business users. AMD apparently wants a piece of it, ideally a large piece.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when "constrained" to 2^53...
So true, for one thing you can ship code with more bugs in it, essentially a full time employment pact for Javascript hacks. You can also slow down computers with a bunch of extra code necessary to check boundary conditions, selling more of them. Sweet.
The export ban was an effort to focus the advantage of those policies on down-stream manufacturing in China after crippling their biggest competition (mines in the US). In the article you linked, there's reference to recent US industry proposals that we do the exact same thing here, nationalizing and re-opening the California rare earth mines.
Molycorp was a private corporation. The nationalization you speak of was nothing more than smoke blowing out Trump's ass. Note that the Mountain Pass mine may indeed be reopened, and operated by its new Chinese owner after being bought out of the Molycorp bankruptcy. Yah, Trump really sticking it to China, impressive.
The Chinese embargo was quickly abandoned when it became clear that the effect would be to bring many marginal REE operations back online. Worse, and not fully anticipated by the Chinese strategists, it spurred undersea exploration. The Japan Sea discoveries may or may not be developed in the near future, there are significant engineering and environmental issues to overcome, but they already serve to forestall further attempts by China to corner the market.
As I said, "Python is hopelessly inefficient for heavy duty programming". WTF are you blathering on about. Fresh air is good for you, maybe get out of your basement more.
I am certain that YOU don't understand that compute intensive work is a small fraction of what is done on computers.
First, you have no idea what I do or do not understand because you find yourself way too entertained by your own blather, and second, computers are used more for browsing than any other single task these days, and wasteful use of the CPU translates into perceptible lag. Playing media is very CPU intensive. You don't write those things in Python because Python sucks for efficiency. My point.
Yes, I had you figured, you're a sysadmin with delusions about being a dev. Seen way too many of those. They tend to talk a lot and don't think much.
Either you understand that Python is crap for compute intensive work, or you are lying about building a cluster. Or you just connected the cables, more like it, and really don't have a clue about how to use it.
Well, since 99.99999999999% of all software run by literally everybody is an n-body simulation..
Explaining the concept of "compute intensive" to you makes me feel more stupid. Check out any of the compute intensive Python benchmarks. Consider not waving your ignorance around quite so much.
I found Python and loved it. I still love it. You can't find anything better for both heavy duty programming...
What? Python is hopelessly inefficient for heavy duty programming, unless you happen to be doing something that is mainly handled by a Python library, written in C. Python's interface to C disgusting, so if you have a lot of small operations handled by a C library, you will get pathetic performance.
what i have seen in that clip about Trump at that press conference about the Middle East peace process, is not slurring but rather some weird issue with his teeth.
It was clearly not an issue with his false teeth. He mispronounced the word twice in a row while pronouncing similar words immediately before and after correctly. It is clearly an issue with his brain. Whatever the issue is, it has a variety of effects, including slurring and including losing the ability to perform the sequence of actions necessary to pronounce just one certain word. Whatever you call that. It's like somebody scooped out a teaspoonful of the part of his brain that formulates speech. Personally, I think that his brain is partially necrotized, for whatever reason. Probably not a concussion. Maybe something growing in there.
It is FUD. Firefox's extension ecology is as vibrant as ever, but far more secure. And if somebody disagrees, they should do so instead of taking the belly slither route.
I can't imagine anyone other than a Google employee modding that down. Sad to say, I can easily imagine a Google employee modding that down. How far they have fallen.
None of those symptoms even remotely resemble Trump's failure to pronounce a simple English word after two attempts, failing in exactly the same way each time. It was not a memory lapse because he clearly realized that the pronunciation was wrong. I have seen him do similar things on multiple occasions, actually. How about "Russiar"? On the second attempt he got it right. That was then, this is now.
I have been sleep deprived on occasion, and I have seen many other people sleep deprived. Odd behavior can result, but I have never seen anything as extreme as this.
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Even if web apps we're good enough for everything, the UI is nowhere close to handling multitasking efficiently.
Right, and this is simply because Google doesn't want that, it would let you install and use standard LibreOffice instead of Google Docs. This is what is wrong with having one self-interested corporation own the firmware. If this roadblock was removed then tablets could really be PC replacements (the hardware is already 100% there) and the tablet market would start to increase again.
Catering to the budget PC market, which at the moment is nearly all Intel. The $200 small form factor PC market is a reality, perfectly adequate for the majority of home and business users. AMD apparently wants a piece of it, ideally a large piece.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when "constrained" to 2^53...
So true, for one thing you can ship code with more bugs in it, essentially a full time employment pact for Javascript hacks. You can also slow down computers with a bunch of extra code necessary to check boundary conditions, selling more of them. Sweet.
Apple might send him one of those exploding iPhones for Christmas.
The export ban was an effort to focus the advantage of those policies on down-stream manufacturing in China after crippling their biggest competition (mines in the US). In the article you linked, there's reference to recent US industry proposals that we do the exact same thing here, nationalizing and re-opening the California rare earth mines.
Molycorp was a private corporation. The nationalization you speak of was nothing more than smoke blowing out Trump's ass. Note that the Mountain Pass mine may indeed be reopened, and operated by its new Chinese owner after being bought out of the Molycorp bankruptcy. Yah, Trump really sticking it to China, impressive.
The Chinese embargo was quickly abandoned when it became clear that the effect would be to bring many marginal REE operations back online. Worse, and not fully anticipated by the Chinese strategists, it spurred undersea exploration. The Japan Sea discoveries may or may not be developed in the near future, there are significant engineering and environmental issues to overcome, but they already serve to forestall further attempts by China to corner the market.
OK, you have your own private definition of terminology. Enjoy life in your own private universe.
As I said, "Python is hopelessly inefficient for heavy duty programming". WTF are you blathering on about. Fresh air is good for you, maybe get out of your basement more.
Yah, sorry about that. You see, there are actually people who believe that having no integers makes the language better.
I am certain that YOU don't understand that compute intensive work is a small fraction of what is done on computers.
First, you have no idea what I do or do not understand because you find yourself way too entertained by your own blather, and second, computers are used more for browsing than any other single task these days, and wasteful use of the CPU translates into perceptible lag. Playing media is very CPU intensive. You don't write those things in Python because Python sucks for efficiency. My point.
Yes, I had you figured, you're a sysadmin with delusions about being a dev. Seen way too many of those. They tend to talk a lot and don't think much.
I'm pretty sure you get another 3x penalty for not writing in assembly, too...
You are sure of that, are you? I bet you have never coded in assembly yourself, or looked at the assembly that gcc puts out in O3.
Either you understand that Python is crap for compute intensive work, or you are lying about building a cluster. Or you just connected the cables, more like it, and really don't have a clue about how to use it.
5x+ penalty just for writing the code in Python, you call it not terribly bad? So this is how Python fans think.
Well, since 99.99999999999% of all software run by literally everybody is an n-body simulation..
Explaining the concept of "compute intensive" to you makes me feel more stupid. Check out any of the compute intensive Python benchmarks. Consider not waving your ignorance around quite so much.
It really isn't.
It really is and you blathering about what you don't know does not change that fact. (Python 14 minutes vs C++ 8..24 seconds for N-Body simulation.)
I found Python and loved it. I still love it. You can't find anything better for both heavy duty programming...
What? Python is hopelessly inefficient for heavy duty programming, unless you happen to be doing something that is mainly handled by a Python library, written in C. Python's interface to C disgusting, so if you have a lot of small operations handled by a C library, you will get pathetic performance.
Tiobe is utter crap. Javascript (barf) is by far the most popular programming language today and Tiobe puts it in 8th place, behind Visual Basic.
I suppose that you have no idea why it is bad to use floats in place of integers. Only ever programmed in Javascript?
Arbitrary precision is inefficient beyond belief for the vast majority of cases where integers are appropriate.
Why not? I haven't done anything significant in it myself but Rust appears to be a more than decent server side platform.
Got nothing to say about the Javascript integer disaster?
Are you seriously suggesting "upgrading" a Perl serverside codebase to Javascript? Seriously? Perhaps you have not heard of Go, Python or Java.
what i have seen in that clip about Trump at that press conference about the Middle East peace process, is not slurring but rather some weird issue with his teeth.
It was clearly not an issue with his false teeth. He mispronounced the word twice in a row while pronouncing similar words immediately before and after correctly. It is clearly an issue with his brain. Whatever the issue is, it has a variety of effects, including slurring and including losing the ability to perform the sequence of actions necessary to pronounce just one certain word. Whatever you call that. It's like somebody scooped out a teaspoonful of the part of his brain that formulates speech. Personally, I think that his brain is partially necrotized, for whatever reason. Probably not a concussion. Maybe something growing in there.
It is FUD. Firefox's extension ecology is as vibrant as ever, but far more secure. And if somebody disagrees, they should do so instead of taking the belly slither route.
I can't imagine anyone other than a Google employee modding that down. Sad to say, I can easily imagine a Google employee modding that down. How far they have fallen.
True, but on top of that, does he exhibit evidence of neurological pathology? And are these incidents becoming more frequent, and/or more severe?
None of those symptoms even remotely resemble Trump's failure to pronounce a simple English word after two attempts, failing in exactly the same way each time. It was not a memory lapse because he clearly realized that the pronunciation was wrong. I have seen him do similar things on multiple occasions, actually. How about "Russiar"? On the second attempt he got it right. That was then, this is now.
I have been sleep deprived on occasion, and I have seen many other people sleep deprived. Odd behavior can result, but I have never seen anything as extreme as this.