But you will likely never use it in any production code. There are a lot of interesting ideas that are directly applicable to other programming languages like contracts, etc.
Anyway, if you're just trying to get ammo against your teacher because you don't want to learn another language (or don't want to waste your time learning a language that you'll never use), you're wasting your time. Every language is cool and useful (excluding TCL, of course).
Hell, I didn't want to learn Java, but now I'm glad I did because it can be put on the resume.
Dancin Santa
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Sure, but as a medic, you probably enjoyed more than anything the rush you got when *saving* a person's life.
Okay, I see your point. Still, as QA in a previous life, I have to admit enjoying finding some really nasty bugs in some convoluted test cases.
Dancin Santa
Now regretting giving the devs so much grief.
Re:I dont find this amusing at all.
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People with as deep a connection to your homeland as yourself confuse me. Move to Seattle if you like nice scenery. Move to Texas if you like cheap housing and sprawling land. There's a lot to be said for freeing your mind from territorialism.
Look at me, I left the comfort of Scandanavia to live at the North Pole.
Dancin Santa
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You likely won't see a bank sending out the repo man for a month's late payment.
As for taking pleasure in human misery, I suggest you read Kaner, et al. Testing Computer Software. Taking pleasure in one's work is a great way to be successful at it.
Not according to the article. Between 30 and 60,000 if I recall. Techies do that well almost out of college these days. 60K just doesn't seem enough for the amount of actual work involved.
I'm sorry your government lies to you as much as it does. I'll try to have something extra special for you this Christmas. How does a little brother sound?
Is that what you are taught in school down there in Canada? Do they teach you that you are the only country to have invaded the U.S. successfully too? What a wretched school system you must have to be taught such lies.
I'm not the dogsled service. And I'm not sure I'll be needing your services as I just had a Toto Prominence with heated seat and bidet option. It handles my elimination quite nicely, thank you.
Santa Claus
101 13th Ave. Apt 100a
North Pole, NP 00001-100
I'm afraid that posting opinion about a stock and its future while possessing no financial interest in the stock is not illegal. Or would you rather rent a dogsled and come visit me?
RMBS shares should be trading at a discount now. If you consider that RDRAM has a better roadmap into the future than either SDRAM or DDR, RMBS still is a good investment.
Of course, you'd have to assume that Intel will remain true to its own roadmap to see Rambus's future clearly. That may be a bigger assumption now that the patents are somewhat freed up.
People are stupid about the various Linux distributions because the Linux community is trying to intrude into an area where Windows has traditionally dominated. As much as some Linux hobbyist may bitch and moan about how Linux is becoming too mainstream and dumbed down, there is another faction that celebrates everytime Linux gains some ground against competition.
With this growth and wider acceptance, many issues will pop up. One of them is inconsistency across distributions. The Linux community may laugh at the badness of Windows, but the Windows platform has allowed developers to target one (or at most two) platform. Consumers can read the side of the box and see whether their machine can run a particular program. Since there are only a couple of Windows platforms with huge similarities between the two, developers can easily deploy programs, even with 'stupid users'.
The 'DLL hell' that used to be derided on the Windows platform has now found its way over to Linux. If a user needs to go through all the steps and research you wrote about, they aren't getting any work done. Not everyone is a hacker, which disappoints many Linux users. If Linux really is to make it into the mainstream, a whole lot of Linux distros will have to disappear. RedHat will probably be the one that is chosen as the de facto Linux platform and all others will need to become identical or face extinction.
I am not saying that any particular platform is the best (I run SuSE, myself) and deserves to become the standard, but just observing that lack of standardization among distros is the Achilles heel of Linux. Without standardized installation procedures and default libraries, those 'stupid users' will not make the jump.
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Will there then be no "tractor beam" technology? If the energy necessary to exert a force on a large object would burn that object, then this would not be a viable for anything other than microscopic movements. Bummer.
Are there any other forces that could be exerted in a focused manner (obviously this would rule out magnetism and gravity) that could be used to "latch onto" a generic object and direct it on a macroscopic level?
Dancin Santa
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They could possibly use three lasers with the same resonant frequency to "capture" microscopic objects at some point at which the nodes met. When the object is acted upon by another force (gravity), it would essentially bump into a wall of energy on all sides and be forced back into the low energy node. Adjusting frequencies could possibly move the low energy node space towards or away from any particular laser. But I don't know anything about physics so don't rely on me for that kind of stuff.
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The beam consists of a helix of twisting laser light which is able to seize hold of objects as small as a protein molecule.
So we know the approximate lower bound of the tractor beam's grip. What's the upper bound? Enquiring minds want to know!
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But you will likely never use it in any production code. There are a lot of interesting ideas that are directly applicable to other programming languages like contracts, etc.
Anyway, if you're just trying to get ammo against your teacher because you don't want to learn another language (or don't want to waste your time learning a language that you'll never use), you're wasting your time. Every language is cool and useful (excluding TCL, of course).
Hell, I didn't want to learn Java, but now I'm glad I did because it can be put on the resume.
Dancin Santa
Sure, but as a medic, you probably enjoyed more than anything the rush you got when *saving* a person's life.
Okay, I see your point. Still, as QA in a previous life, I have to admit enjoying finding some really nasty bugs in some convoluted test cases.
Dancin Santa
Now regretting giving the devs so much grief.
People with as deep a connection to your homeland as yourself confuse me. Move to Seattle if you like nice scenery. Move to Texas if you like cheap housing and sprawling land. There's a lot to be said for freeing your mind from territorialism.
Look at me, I left the comfort of Scandanavia to live at the North Pole.
Dancin Santa
You likely won't see a bank sending out the repo man for a month's late payment.
As for taking pleasure in human misery, I suggest you read Kaner, et al. Testing Computer Software. Taking pleasure in one's work is a great way to be successful at it.
Dancin Santa
A shitty job but it DOES PAY WELL
Not according to the article. Between 30 and 60,000 if I recall. Techies do that well almost out of college these days. 60K just doesn't seem enough for the amount of actual work involved.
BTW, have you seen my sleigh?
Dancin Santa
Did anyone see where I left my fucking sleigh? I thought I left it out by the goddamn reindeer pen. Jesus H. Christ, I've got fucking errands to run!
Dancin Santa
I'm sorry your government lies to you as much as it does. I'll try to have something extra special for you this Christmas. How does a little brother sound?
Dancin Santa
I'll go see the elves about your dogsled. I can't promise anything about the condition, though. You don't seem to have been very nice this year.
You don't think the super-gravity flushing mechanism is sufficient for my needs? Maybe I need to cut back on those gingerbread men...
Dancin Santa
Is that what you are taught in school down there in Canada? Do they teach you that you are the only country to have invaded the U.S. successfully too? What a wretched school system you must have to be taught such lies.
Do you want to take credit for Celine Dion?
Dancin Santa
Interesting, could you elaborate more?
Dancin Santa
I'm not the dogsled service. And I'm not sure I'll be needing your services as I just had a Toto Prominence with heated seat and bidet option. It handles my elimination quite nicely, thank you.
Dancin Santa
Santa Claus
101 13th Ave. Apt 100a
North Pole, NP 00001-100
I'm afraid that posting opinion about a stock and its future while possessing no financial interest in the stock is not illegal. Or would you rather rent a dogsled and come visit me?
Dancin Santa
RMBS shares should be trading at a discount now. If you consider that RDRAM has a better roadmap into the future than either SDRAM or DDR, RMBS still is a good investment.
Of course, you'd have to assume that Intel will remain true to its own roadmap to see Rambus's future clearly. That may be a bigger assumption now that the patents are somewhat freed up.
Dancin Santa
You want fries with that?
Dancin McSanta
I thought that genetically modified humans were being born all the time. How else do you explain the fact that we're all different?
Except for twins and other freaks.
Dancin Santa
Same here. Dell's supplied me with my last 2 computers, and I got a nifty OS included for next to nothing. :-)
Dancin Santa
People are stupid about the various Linux distributions because the Linux community is trying to intrude into an area where Windows has traditionally dominated. As much as some Linux hobbyist may bitch and moan about how Linux is becoming too mainstream and dumbed down, there is another faction that celebrates everytime Linux gains some ground against competition.
With this growth and wider acceptance, many issues will pop up. One of them is inconsistency across distributions. The Linux community may laugh at the badness of Windows, but the Windows platform has allowed developers to target one (or at most two) platform. Consumers can read the side of the box and see whether their machine can run a particular program. Since there are only a couple of Windows platforms with huge similarities between the two, developers can easily deploy programs, even with 'stupid users'.
The 'DLL hell' that used to be derided on the Windows platform has now found its way over to Linux. If a user needs to go through all the steps and research you wrote about, they aren't getting any work done. Not everyone is a hacker, which disappoints many Linux users. If Linux really is to make it into the mainstream, a whole lot of Linux distros will have to disappear. RedHat will probably be the one that is chosen as the de facto Linux platform and all others will need to become identical or face extinction.
I am not saying that any particular platform is the best (I run SuSE, myself) and deserves to become the standard, but just observing that lack of standardization among distros is the Achilles heel of Linux. Without standardized installation procedures and default libraries, those 'stupid users' will not make the jump.
Dancin Santa
I believe that this thing could possibly run on hot grits. If that's what you were asking.
Dancin Santa
Not unlike the Levitron. I've never see someone get one of those things spinning in real life, though.
Dancin Santa
I do! I have a whole dance called the Jigawatt dedicated to it!
Dancin Santa
Does it travel through time when it hits 88mph?
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Will there then be no "tractor beam" technology? If the energy necessary to exert a force on a large object would burn that object, then this would not be a viable for anything other than microscopic movements. Bummer.
Are there any other forces that could be exerted in a focused manner (obviously this would rule out magnetism and gravity) that could be used to "latch onto" a generic object and direct it on a macroscopic level?
Dancin Santa
They could possibly use three lasers with the same resonant frequency to "capture" microscopic objects at some point at which the nodes met. When the object is acted upon by another force (gravity), it would essentially bump into a wall of energy on all sides and be forced back into the low energy node. Adjusting frequencies could possibly move the low energy node space towards or away from any particular laser. But I don't know anything about physics so don't rely on me for that kind of stuff.
Dancin Santa
The beam consists of a helix of twisting laser light which is able to seize hold of objects as small as a protein molecule.
So we know the approximate lower bound of the tractor beam's grip. What's the upper bound? Enquiring minds want to know!
Dancin Santa
How much is that going to cost?
Dancin Santa