Recent Java updates, for around the past year or so, have been increasingly draconian in their security measures.
Well, considering that Oracle has been consistently bashed here in Slashdot and other sites because of the security problems with applets and client side Java I would think that is very reasonable for them to increased greatly security.
I'm using both The Old Reader and Commafeed. Both are similar. I liked The Old Reader design a little better but Commafeed had less unplanned downtime. Commafeed is also open source so you can run your own instance if you want to.
Redhat provides a quick start for Tiny Tiny RSS in its public cloud (Openshift) for free. I didn't try nor use it but some may find it useful so you don't need to run own server.
So you didn't even looked at the contest site right? read some previous winners entries and come back then. There is a reason that there is not a VB obfuscated contest.
Please explain the features of Flexisheet that would put it in anyone shopping list. I could only find a domain for sale, a Sourceforge project with no released files and a CVS repository and also it seems only runs in Mac OSX.
About LyX, I guess most people wouldn't want it a little rough, wouldn't them? From the site:
It does look a bit rough, but don't worry, because the output will be fine
I think most people would want to edit text, not mathematical formulas for LaTeX and science papers which seems to be the main focus of this editor. It may be very good for that for all I know.
Someone is using FORTRAN for life critical control systems? really? FORTRAN? There are much more use cases that don't need that kind of hard real time constraint in today world. Even phones can run over more high level languages.
You might note that in any way I tried to correct your post. Just pointing to plausible causes for simultaneous global extinction. I was going for +1 informative. BTW "probably" sounded good IMHO.
Astronomical events could do that easily. For example a big asteroid collision, direct hit by long gamma ray burst, change in (supposedly) cosmical constants and others.
We could instead send small robots that can build anything on site when arrive, even self replicate themselves. We would call them 'replicators'. What could go wrong?
Faster light (Casimir vacuum and quantum tunnelling)
Raymond Y. Chiao was first to measure the quantum tunnelling time, which was found to be between 1.5 to 1.7 times the speed of light.
Einstein's equations of special relativity postulate that the speed of light in a vacuum is invariant in inertial frames. That is, it will be the same from any frame of reference moving at a constant speed. The equations do not specify any particular value for the speed of the light, which is an experimentally determined quantity for a fixed unit of length. Since 1983, the SI unit of length (the meter) has been defined using the speed of light.
The experimental determination has been made in vacuum. However, the vacuum we know is not the only possible vacuum which can exist. The vacuum has energy associated with it, unsurprisingly called the vacuum energy. This vacuum energy can perhaps be changed in certain cases.[38] When vacuum energy is lowered, light itself has been predicted to go faster than the standard value c.
I used ecipse, doxygen, nm, dot to understand code. Understand, control, refactor, repeat is the main method. The details vary from project to project. If something is too complex to understand try to isolate it. Maybe you will need to replace it later. Modular code is your friend. Very important: make small changes and commit them often so you can backtrack if you make a misstep. Use your favorite version control tool. I used hg+svn but use whatever you like best. Prefer to commit atomic changes, for example single changes in functionality, so you can undo one thing without breaking another. I don't use source navigator since more than 10 years but I don't think you'll need it with Eclipse+doxygen. FIrst add documentation and small changes. I use to add doxygen comments and convert old K&R code to ansi c o c++ first to gain type checking without changing any semantic.
There is an ongoing project for development of a python front end for GCC. I don't know its current status but it most be experimental. Also there is the Java implementation of Python, JPython. By virtue of running over the JVM Just In Time compiler Python code gets compiled to native code in runtime eventually. I can understand your point about C but the lastest C++ compilers are looking real good for the same job, even if you limit yourself to a subset of C++. I have been converting some old libraries and small apps from C to more modern C++ using mostly strings and maps and I can report that is much safer and readable than C. Just using std::string to replace char*s have been a pleasure in security gained, even if std::string is not very nice. Practically hadn't needed pointers in most cases.
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No, no, It's a bug in Intel codecs. They are going to fix it for their next gen CPUs.
Recent Java updates, for around the past year or so, have been increasingly draconian in their security measures.
Well, considering that Oracle has been consistently bashed here in Slashdot and other sites because of the security problems with applets and client side Java I would think that is very reasonable for them to increased greatly security.
Yeah but by the standard model protons are composed of 3 quarks so you may want to use floating point for something.
Scientists are really looking for the element that would induce mutant super powers by exposition.
...which would revolutionize landfills, since they would have fewer contributions. Sheesh, do I have to explain everything here?
What do you mean? EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!
I'm using both The Old Reader and Commafeed. Both are similar. I liked The Old Reader design a little better but Commafeed had less unplanned downtime. Commafeed is also open source so you can run your own instance if you want to.
Redhat provides a quick start for Tiny Tiny RSS in its public cloud (Openshift) for free. I didn't try nor use it but some may find it useful so you don't need to run own server.
Just code in VB.
So you didn't even looked at the contest site right? read some previous winners entries and come back then.
There is a reason that there is not a VB obfuscated contest.
People with no mutation to hide have nothing to fear. What could go wrong?
Please explain the features of Flexisheet that would put it in anyone shopping list. I could only find a domain for sale, a Sourceforge project with no released files and a CVS repository and also it seems only runs in Mac OSX.
About LyX, I guess most people wouldn't want it a little rough, wouldn't them? From the site:
It does look a bit rough, but don't worry, because the output will be fine
I think most people would want to edit text, not mathematical formulas for LaTeX and science papers which seems to be the main focus of this editor. It may be very good for that for all I know.
Someone is using FORTRAN for life critical control systems? really? FORTRAN?
There are much more use cases that don't need that kind of hard real time constraint in today world. Even phones can run over more high level languages.
You are either absolutely right or absolutely wrong. Or in between.
So does Java support unsigned integers (words) yet ?
Quite how anything can profess to be a "programming language" without the concept of an unsigned integer is simply beyond me.
There, there. I put a link for you: Shakespeare Programming Language.
You are welcome.
Lord President Rassilon to be more precise.
You might note that in any way I tried to correct your post. Just pointing to plausible causes for simultaneous global extinction. I was going for +1 informative.
BTW "probably" sounded good IMHO.
Outside world? what outside world?
Astronomical events could do that easily. For example a big asteroid collision, direct hit by long gamma ray burst, change in (supposedly) cosmical constants and others.
Of course they... wait a minute, false is upside down or upside up?
And remember, never send any military surplus drones to Mars!
Why not? they very safe. Just be sure to set the 'KILL' switch to 'false'... And hope the programmers read the DailyWTF site. Hope real hard.
We could instead send small robots that can build anything on site when arrive, even self replicate themselves. We would call them 'replicators'.
What could go wrong?
Found this on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Faster_light_.28Casimir_vacuum_and_quantum_tunnelling.29
Faster light (Casimir vacuum and quantum tunnelling)
Raymond Y. Chiao was first to measure the quantum tunnelling time, which was found to be between 1.5 to 1.7 times the speed of light.
Einstein's equations of special relativity postulate that the speed of light in a vacuum is invariant in inertial frames. That is, it will be the same from any frame of reference moving at a constant speed. The equations do not specify any particular value for the speed of the light, which is an experimentally determined quantity for a fixed unit of length. Since 1983, the SI unit of length (the meter) has been defined using the speed of light.
The experimental determination has been made in vacuum. However, the vacuum we know is not the only possible vacuum which can exist. The vacuum has energy associated with it, unsurprisingly called the vacuum energy. This vacuum energy can perhaps be changed in certain cases.[38] When vacuum energy is lowered, light itself has been predicted to go faster than the standard value c.
+1 to parent.
I used ecipse, doxygen, nm, dot to understand code. Understand, control, refactor, repeat is the main method. The details vary from project to project.
If something is too complex to understand try to isolate it. Maybe you will need to replace it later. Modular code is your friend.
Very important: make small changes and commit them often so you can backtrack if you make a misstep. Use your favorite version control tool. I used hg+svn but use whatever you like best. Prefer to commit atomic changes, for example single changes in functionality, so you can undo one thing without breaking another.
I don't use source navigator since more than 10 years but I don't think you'll need it with Eclipse+doxygen.
FIrst add documentation and small changes. I use to add doxygen comments and convert old K&R code to ansi c o c++ first to gain type checking without changing any semantic.
From TFA:
Born in Argentina and schooled in systems engineering at Georgia Tech
Italian last names are pretty common in Argentina.
And as others pointed out Pavarotti has already died.
As a joke was pretty lame.
We have discovered a new, lower state. Its called Slashdot editing.
I would refute you but I have no energy.
There is an ongoing project for development of a python front end for GCC. I don't know its current status but it most be experimental.
Also there is the Java implementation of Python, JPython. By virtue of running over the JVM Just In Time compiler Python code gets compiled to native code in runtime eventually.
I can understand your point about C but the lastest C++ compilers are looking real good for the same job, even if you limit yourself to a subset of C++. I have been converting some old libraries and small apps from C to more modern C++ using mostly strings and maps and I can report that is much safer and readable than C. Just using std::string to replace char*s have been a pleasure in security gained, even if std::string is not very nice.
Practically hadn't needed pointers in most cases.