From one perspective, this test wasn't available a few years ago. A company spent the money and time to make it available, and now they want a return on their investment. If it was a new method of toasting bread, we wouldn't care... but it's breast cancer detection/prevention so it's not "business" anymore. The question is: where is (or can there be) a happy balance between the pharmaceuticals screwing us, and us screwing them?
The big question, though, is whether they should be allowed to enter the commercial domain, where they could be used by organised crime and terrorism to thwart eavesdropping by police.
Yes. True. On a similar note: cars, food and snail-mail are used by organized crime and terrorists for transportation, nourishment, and communications. Imagine how much better and safer the world would be if we didn't give the public access to these things.
Well, I like to a have a portable Mosix cluster with me at all times (it's much nicer to run fluid dynamics simulations at the local cafe than in the lab) and of course my primary node is my laptop. But the other 40 nodes are Cappuchinos.
My stats, if interested: Mozilla idle CPU - 0% Rendering slashdot frontpage, 46% for well under a second. Scrolling much faster than I can read, 3%. Scrolling as fast as I can spin the mouse wheel on a story with >300 comments 17-25%. New tabs as fast as I want them. New windows between 1 and 2/second.
There must be some farily substantial Mozilla FreeBSD/Linux difference. Probably not worth the OS switch to fix.
I run linux, with an ADSL connection (~1.5Mbit/s), and surf with several windows open. And it doesn't seem like I have to wait that long (or at all). Maybe we just have different standards. Maybe I surf simple sites. It could just be that I use Gentoo so everything is optimized for my system and it makes a difference.
Anyway, I know people who can do way more productive work with a 486 then most could ever hope to do with a P4. And with that in mind, an Athalon 750 IS fast.
(Lisp/Scheme) are base on "S-Expressions". But you are 100% accurate. S-Expressions save space, eliminate redundant information, and any programmer worth his salt can easily write a simple S-Expression parser in under an hour.
Take a look at this if you want some reading material. It's by Ron Rivest (the R in RSA).
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Everyone knows ford's cars aren't as good as BMW. Ford should start a new ad campaign that says "Why don't ya'll just go buy BMW's, they're better"?
Yes. Or lie. Or avoid the truth.
I guess you've answered my question. Although many trust and look up to Larry Wall as a visionary, this doesn't mean that he owes us jack shit.
Well, that seems to be you're response, luckily it's not Larry's.
From LWN (http://old.lwn.net/2001/features/LarryWall/)
CL: Once again about Ruby, until a few years ago, I would recommend Perl with no doubt because of its usability, its big enough development and user community base, many good books, etc. Now, I think Ruby and Python can also be good candidates. What should I do?
LW: Obviously, you should still recommend Perl:-) It really depends on the kind of the programmer you are talking to. Ruby and Python are languages that are designed more with the computer science mind-set, trying to be minimalistic. Some people prefer that kind of language. Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
So, it really depends on whether if you would just like to learn a smaller language and then you just fight with it all the time, or, learn a slightly larger language and have more fun. I think Perl is still more fun than the other languages.
In any case, let me elaborate on my first post so there might be some small chance you'll understand and be able to reply in a way that makes sense.
Obviously Larry Wall influences what people think about computers/software/language etc. Because he wrote a very successfull language (Perl), and this is a Slashdot interview with Larry Wall.
1+1=2 get it?
Now my point was that if "his own thing" wasn't as good as someone else's, doesn't he owe it to us to say "hey guys, forget Perl. Yake a look at Ruby". If the answer was "yes" or "no", I didn't really care. I just wanted to know why.
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I'd find it hard to beleive that someone could argue that Perl as a language has a better design than Ruby (now's your chance if you want to). If Larry Wall is any sort of visionary shouldn't he swallow his pride and switch to Ruby?
NOTE TO [STUPID] MODERATORS: This is not a troll. This is serious. Think about it.
I just don't beleive you. I have an Athalon 750 at home, use Mozilla, and have no reason to upgrade.
Which brings us to the biggest issue. So many people jump on the upgrade bandwagon because many programmers are using up ungodly ammounts of CPU and Memory. It's relatively few causing the problems, but for Unix, programs like Mozilla are practically required. So, even surfing the web brings my 750 to it's knees. Hopefully the Dillo project will add the handful of needed features to their browser soon, and I'll be able to trash Mozilla, and be happy with my 750 again.
Are your for real? Did you ever own a 386, 486, or P90. Have you ever run win 95 in a 486 with 16M of RAM.
My experiences with my Athalon tell me either 1) you're clueless, 2) full of shit, 3) the rest of your hardware is ancient, or 4) you should run top and see what's going on.
And finally, why stop at Dillo. Use lynx. I'm sure that'll hum on your slow 750.
Looks like people took me too seriously.//BEGIN SARCASM The patented parts of the kernel were deveopled in Malta, Egypt and Madagascar where no one holds said patents.//END SARCASM
My point was that Linux was developed globally, so who knows whether "int i=7;" was typed in Berlin or in Montreal.
The patented parts of the kernel were deveopled in Malta, Egypt and Madagascar where no one holds said patents.
Also, kernel.org releases the SOURCE code. And it's more of a "reference implementation" or "proof of concept" than anything else. If someone actually COMPILES the kernel without first removing patented techniques, well, that's their own problem.
it did sound like updateing the licenses for the "new" computer was pretty simple.
What I don't understand is the reason the files could be "re-licensed" was because they were legit in the first place. Well.... isn't this true for any copy? (at some point down the line it was legit)
It will export your script as C....and Java and Fortran.
From the websites www.maplesoft.com and www.mapleapps.com:
The new CodeGeneration package provides routines to translate "numeric" Maple procedures and code, such as expressions, lists, arrays, rtables, and lists of equations, to Java code. This new package also contains improved versions of codegen[C] and codegen[fortran]. You now have several options to choose from when translating Maple code to Java, C or Fortran code that provide greater control over how analysis and translation of types are performed. Maple 8 has extended the external linking capability with the ability to link to static Java methods.
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From one perspective, this test wasn't available a few years ago. A company spent the money and time to make it available, and now they want a return on their investment. If it was a new method of toasting bread, we wouldn't care...
but it's breast cancer detection/prevention so it's not "business" anymore. The question is: where is (or can there be) a happy balance between the pharmaceuticals screwing us, and us screwing them?
Books, comics, movies, tv shows, news and games with violence are everywhere.
Violence is OK everyone.
A naked person, though, will destroy the fabric of society as we know it. And s*x, I won't even dare say the word.
People die all the time doing all sorts of things:
reading, baking a peach cobbler, yawning, scrathcing their head.
I think this just goes to show what kind of sh*t journalists "report" nowadays. That goes for you too Slashdot.
The big question, though, is whether they should be allowed to enter the commercial domain, where they could be used by organised crime and terrorism to thwart eavesdropping by police.
Yes. True. On a similar note: cars, food and snail-mail are used by organized crime and terrorists for transportation, nourishment, and communications. Imagine how much better and safer the world would be if we didn't give the public access to these things.
I used to used berolinux, and from what i recall it was an optimized redhat, because redhat was i386 optimized back then. Don't quote me on that.
IANAL, but isn't what you're looking for "prior art"?
Here's an electronic notary service. Using this, you can prove that you had an idea at a specific time/date.
http://www.e-timestamp.com/
Well, I like to a have a portable Mosix cluster with me at all times (it's much nicer to run fluid dynamics simulations at the local cafe than in the lab) and of course my primary node is my laptop. But the other 40 nodes are Cappuchinos.
My stats, if interested: /second.
Mozilla idle CPU - 0%
Rendering slashdot frontpage, 46% for well under a second.
Scrolling much faster than I can read, 3%.
Scrolling as fast as I can spin the mouse wheel on a story with >300 comments 17-25%.
New tabs as fast as I want them. New windows between 1 and 2
There must be some farily substantial Mozilla FreeBSD/Linux difference. Probably not worth the OS switch to fix.
I run linux, with an ADSL connection (~1.5Mbit/s), and surf with several windows open. And it doesn't seem like I have to wait that long (or at all). Maybe we just have different standards. Maybe I surf simple sites. It could just be that I use Gentoo so everything is optimized for my system and it makes a difference.
Anyway, I know people who can do way more productive work with a 486 then most could ever hope to do with a P4. And with that in mind, an Athalon 750 IS fast.
(Lisp/Scheme) are base on "S-Expressions".
But you are 100% accurate. S-Expressions save space, eliminate redundant information, and any programmer worth his salt can easily write a simple S-Expression parser in under an hour.
Take a look at this if you want some reading material. It's by Ron Rivest (the R in RSA).
Everyone knows ford's cars aren't as good as BMW. Ford should start a new ad campaign that says "Why don't ya'll just go buy BMW's, they're better"?
:-) It really depends on the kind of the programmer you are talking to. Ruby and Python are languages that are designed more with the computer science mind-set, trying to be minimalistic. Some people prefer that kind of language. Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
Yes. Or lie. Or avoid the truth.
I guess you've answered my question.
Although many trust and look up to Larry Wall as a visionary, this doesn't mean that he owes us jack shit.
Well, that seems to be you're response, luckily it's not Larry's.
From LWN (http://old.lwn.net/2001/features/LarryWall/)
CL: Once again about Ruby, until a few years ago, I would recommend Perl with no doubt because of its usability, its big enough development and user community base, many good books, etc. Now, I think Ruby and Python can also be good candidates. What should I do?
LW: Obviously, you should still recommend Perl
So, it really depends on whether if you would just like to learn a smaller language and then you just fight with it all the time, or, learn a slightly larger language and have more fun. I think Perl is still more fun than the other languages.
You are either dumb, not funny or socially inept.
In any case, let me elaborate on my first post so there might be some small chance you'll understand and be able to reply in a way that makes sense.
Obviously Larry Wall influences what people think about computers/software/language etc. Because he wrote a very successfull language (Perl), and this is a Slashdot interview with Larry Wall.
1+1=2 get it?
Now my point was that if "his own thing" wasn't as good as someone else's, doesn't he owe it to us to say "hey guys, forget Perl. Yake a look at Ruby". If the answer was "yes" or "no", I didn't really care. I just wanted to know why.
I'd find it hard to beleive that someone could argue that Perl as a language has a better design than Ruby (now's your chance if you want to). If Larry Wall is any sort of visionary shouldn't he swallow his pride and switch to Ruby?
NOTE TO [STUPID] MODERATORS: This is not a troll. This is serious. Think about it.
I just don't beleive you.
I have an Athalon 750 at home, use Mozilla, and have no reason to upgrade.
Which brings us to the biggest issue. So many people jump on the upgrade bandwagon because many programmers are using up ungodly ammounts of CPU and Memory. It's relatively few causing the problems, but for Unix, programs like Mozilla are practically required. So, even surfing the web brings my 750 to it's knees. Hopefully the Dillo project will add the handful of needed features to their browser soon, and I'll be able to trash Mozilla, and be happy with my 750 again.
Are your for real? Did you ever own a 386, 486, or P90. Have you ever run win 95 in a 486 with 16M of RAM.
My experiences with my Athalon tell me either
1) you're clueless,
2) full of shit,
3) the rest of your hardware is ancient, or
4) you should run top and see what's going on.
And finally, why stop at Dillo. Use lynx. I'm sure that'll hum on your slow 750.
Thanks. That's all it was supposed to be.
Looks like people took me too seriously. //BEGIN SARCASM //END SARCASM
The patented parts of the kernel were deveopled in Malta, Egypt and Madagascar where no one holds said patents.
My point was that Linux was developed globally, so who knows whether "int i=7;" was typed in Berlin or in Montreal.
Is it just me, or is this very immature speach?
The one sure rule of existence is "do whatever you want and live by the consequences".
If Linus wants to hire a hitman or talk about hiring a hitman. Let him do it and see what happens. People have done worse.
It certainly doesn't do anything to make me respect Linus.
You should watch yourself, or you might be on that hitman's list.
The patented parts of the kernel were deveopled in Malta, Egypt and Madagascar where no one holds said patents.
Also, kernel.org releases the SOURCE code. And it's more of a "reference implementation" or "proof of concept" than anything else. If someone actually COMPILES the kernel without first removing patented techniques, well, that's their own problem.
Blackadder has been in the works for quite a while......... Still waiting to see how it'll do as a Ruby IDE.
it did sound like updateing the licenses for the "new" computer was pretty simple.
What I don't understand is the reason the files could be "re-licensed" was because they were legit in the first place. Well.... isn't this true for any copy? (at some point down the line it was legit)
Synopsis: "Someone in the hardware industry has created a faster CPU".
Moderation: -1 Redundant.
My dentist always asks me if I'd like nitrous oxide along with the "freezing". I always say yes.
If these lasers are painless I WON'T GET MY NO2!
the much more powerful matlab ...
;)
after you add the Maple symbolic evaluation engine. Without it they're powerful in different ways.
things OTHER than math
I can do things other than math with a rubber hose.
It will export your script as C. ...and Java and Fortran.
From the websites www.maplesoft.com and www.mapleapps.com:
The new CodeGeneration package provides routines to translate "numeric" Maple procedures and code, such as expressions, lists, arrays, rtables, and lists of equations, to Java code. This new package also contains improved versions of codegen[C] and codegen[fortran]. You now have several options to choose from when translating Maple code to Java, C or Fortran code that provide greater control over how analysis and translation of types are performed. Maple 8 has extended the external linking capability with the ability to link to static Java methods.
It will export your script as C.