If that's your definition of interpreted then hardly no languages are interpreted. Even the BASIC interpreter on the Commodore 64 worked on a pre-parsed version of the program. Almost no interpreters will parse lines over and over again anymore - they may defer parsing until a line is reached, but most reasonably modern interpreters will in that case cache the result. How far the process the code before execution vary a lot, some will just tokenize the lines (C64 Basic for instance), some will generate an AST, some will generate bytecode, and you'll even find the odd interpreter that generate machine code for the statements.
The key distinguishing factor for an interpreter is that you can feed it unprocessed source code, and have it executed, as opposed to generating an executable in advance. How that source code is treated in order to execute the program is secondary.
First of all, Mars has a significantly lower gravity (about a third of earth?), so lauching from Mars will be significantly easier than launching from Earth.
Second, the only thing you'd need to boost into orbit from Mars would be the astronauts - you leave the return vehicle in orbit with the fuel and resources needed for the return trip.
If the full load of fuel for the trip to Mars and back + food, equipment etc. would be too large to boost from Earth in one piece it can easily be lifted in several rounds, and using multiple stages would reduce fuel load required.
Reaching escape velocity from earth is comparatively very hard compared to reaching escape velocity from Mars. There's several meteorites that originated on Mars that have fallen on Earth. While theoretically I'm sure the converse could happen, the likelihood would be a lot smaller. Also, since we don't have any undisputed proof of lifeforms of Mars, the potential spread of lifeforms from Earth to Mars isn't particularly interesting, while on Earth we know there are lots of life forms and want to find out their exact origin. The converse would become a lot more interesting if undisputed proof of Martian life is found, and it bears similarity to organisms found on earth.
An experienced developer without an ego will know that whether to rewrite or not is a decision to be made based on a thorough review of the code and it's structure, and that sometimes further development will slow to a crawl if you keep trying to work with a codebase that is rotten to the core.
Did you ever look at the Netscape code that was released? I did. It looked okay at first sight, but the more people started digging, the more obvious the limitations of the platform became. There might have been a useful Netscape 4 like browser coming out of the Mozilla effort quite quickly if they'd kept pursuing that avenue, but it would have been tremendously hard to get any further.
Thanks to the Mozilla developers taking the leap, even though it meant years of effort, we now have a platform that's been the foundation for a wide range of highly standards compliant browsers, and that is far more viable than anything based off the original codebase ever would have been.
Yes. Also, I co-founded a company called Nameplanet in 1999 that did the same thing, and while that's a bit close to the filing date of this patent, one of the key competitors we identified while working on the business plan, Netidentity was formed in 1996. Both Nameplanet and Netidentity/Mailbank explicitly were providing e-mail addresses and later web forwarding on the form firstname@lastname./firstname.lastname..
If you're going to accuse people of not using units you're not familiary with properly, maybe you ought to have a look at how to use them properly first.
Hint: kph is a perfectly valid abbreviation for kilometers per hour in many parts of the world.
What's wrong with it is that some deeply religious people consider it a symbol of evil, and make stupid assumptions about people using the logo or wearing it on t-shirts etc., such as believing them to be satanists. It might not have been a problem if people knew what BSD was, but for most people "NetBSD" is as meaningful as a string of random characters.
"Keilis-Borok's team communicates the predictions to disaster management authorities in the countries where a destructive earthquake is predicted. These authorities might use such predictions, although their accuracy is not 100 percent, to prevent considerable damage from the earthquakes -- save lives and reduce economic losses -- by undertaking such preparedness measures as conducting simulation alarms, checking vulnerable objects and mobilizing postdisaster services, Keilis-Borok said."
Besides, an earlier article about this method specifically pointed out that Iran is not one of the areas they have analysed any data for.
It has nothing to do with hating jews, and everything to do with disapproving of a state whose elected government does it's best to employ nazi tactics in the way it governs the areas they've illegally operated. Call it flavor of the week if you wish, but most countries have had groups working for the palestians cause for decades.
I'd like to point out that wireless is actually in most instances cheaper than providing telephony or internet access ANYWHERE if there aren't already copper cabling in place. Copper is expensive. Cabling is expensive, whether in urban areas (digging up roads cost a lot), or rural areas (increased amounts of cable per household). That's why cellphone use is increasing faster than landline use in many developing nations, for instance. Nigeria already have several times as many cellphones as landlines, for instance.
So wireless is a "luxury" only seen from the perspective of someone used to extensive cable networks that has been gradually built up over a century.
Heck, Norway have ".bv" for the Bouvet Island, which is a Norwegian owned island in the South Atlantic with no residents, an abandoned whaling and weather station from the 20's, rock and a lot of seabirds... Look it up it the CIA world factbook, it's an amusing entry. (Norid, the organization that handles domain registrations for Norway doesn't allow anyone to register under ".bv" though)
Nieu receives more than it's GDP per capita in aid from New Zealand each year, and New Zealand also built most of the housing etc. on the island before it became a sovereign nation. Infrastructure is expensive - 34 million USD is well within reach even for an island with that small population.
Microsoft broke the law, and have to pay the price. It's as simple as that. Because of their anti-competitive tactics, consumers have paid billions of dollars more than they would have been likely to had Microsoft played fair.
The fact that you're offered the chance to get part of the money they illegally overcharged you with is in recognition that for many people there was no real choice. It wasn't about "making an informed purchase" but about customer being given the choice of Microsoft or nothing because of Microsofts illegal practices.
If you don't want it, don't take it. But don't go around whining because the government upholds the law.
If you think anti trust laws should be repealed, fine, but if they do, don't come whining when you get shafted left right and center by companies that get powerful enough to dictate whatever price they choose.
This reminds me of a story one of my teachers told me. One of the "classic" Norwegian authors were once interviewed about a particular scene in one of his book, and the interviewer spent a lot of time talking about all the symbolism in the scene, and how profound it was, and then went on to ask if he was on the right track, on how the author could have come up with what he did. The answer?
He'd written the scene because it sounded good.
I'm all for discussing what a work means to you. But to me literary criticism is ripping something apart, breaking it into pieces, and leaving it as a torn up carcass - it completely destroys the enjoyment of the work for me, even when the person writing the criticism tries to be comprehensible.
Going back to the work after being subjected to something like that for me is like watching a magic show with continuous commentary about how it's really done. I don't care, and it ruins the pleasure of watching. I know it's an illusion, but the commentary shatters it. Even worse, a lot of the time the commentary will be wrong or completely uninformed because people have gotten an idea about a work and refuse to let it go, sometimes even in face of overwhealming evidence.
Most people have a LIFE, and don't want to spend it learning obscure jargon for umpteen different fields to communicate with people around him. Yes, by all means use words specific to your field when communicating with your peers, but the article writers point was that within certain areas there is no pressure to ever learn to communicate with people outside their field about their subject.
Most engineers will at some level be able to "dumb down" their subject to make it at least somewhat understandable when explaining it to people outside their field, because they need to in their jobs.
Being able to communicate about your field is vital for your field to be viable in the long run.
The DNS traffic will be negligible. DNS is lightweight, and caching of DNS records means the number of machines trying to look up the SPF records will never get anywhere near to the traffic they would waste on bounces because of people using AOL addresses in the from field without SPF. One bounce could easily use more bandwidth than hundreds of clients doing DNS lookups.
As for 2, are you really complaining that delivery of spam would be delayed? It's not as if MTA's usually try to deliver only one message at a time. Also, it isn't the mail server that should be responding to these requests, but a DNS server, which for any reasonably sized ISP will be on separate hardware. A purely authorative DNS server can easily reply in the roundtrip time +
The thing is, this could add a tremendous amount of DNS traffic before it would become even a fraction of the traffic currently caused by bounces because of spam to invalid addresses being repeatedly attempted delivered to unavailable servers, or to innocent third parties.
Once enough larger service providers uses SPF, we're close enough that it might be justified to, if not stopping mail from domains without SPF records published, at least increasing scrutiny, or degrading performance. For instance, running spam filters with lower thresholds before the mail is thrown out.
As for people on the road, they should have access to a VPN setup or to connect to a password protected corporate smarthost if they want to send e-mail with the corporate from address. It's not as if it's hard to do.
But anyway, just slightly reducing the risk of being on the receiving end of a few hundred thousand bounces or complaints because of spammers using a real or fake address on your domain in the from field makes it worth it to add SPF records to your own domain...
The flaw in your argument is that you don't need "pretty high-tech rockets" to reach the moon, and you don't need "pretty high-tech rockets" for the missile defence system. For the first case, what you need is ca. 1969 technology, for the latter case what you need is advances in targetting and guidance systems.
Complain about expenditure that actually make up a noticable chunk of the budget instead, will you, like military spending (where the US incidentally spend more than the next 25 nations combined)
Excessive spending now will force the government to increase taxes later. If you seriously think the government will shrink because of a debt burden, you need to get out more. Excessive spending now will also have seriously bad effects on businesses once the governments needs to cut spending and increase taxes to make up for it - businesses that are expanding to meet demand created by government expenditure now will suddenly run into problems.
MDI that uses nested windows consistent with the current window manager is a "problem", though it shouldn't be hard to provide an X protocol extension to allow windows to have managed sub-windows (I think, though I'm not sure, that it might be feasible to do it even without a change to the server itself, by letting apps ask the window manager directly to reparent it's windows, but there might be restrictions that stop this). The reason nobody has bothered doing this is that MDI is a giant hack which had as it's sole purpose to "work around" a problem created by the menu-per-window mechanism of Windows, which is the defacto standard also for X apps.
It's confusing as hell to most users, but was considered more or less a necessity due to avoid reproducing toolbars etc. for all document windows.
AmigaOS and MacOS avoided similar issues with an app-wide menu at the top of the screen, and in AmigaOS' case with "screens" as a more generic type of grouping (because screens weren't restricted to having Windows from one app)
In X you can get the same grouping by keeping an app on a virtual screen, so MDI serves very little purpose. Using virtual screens gives you the advantage that there is one less mechanism for the user to understand.
Increased screen real estate and configurable and draggable toolbars also lessen the problem of losing screen realestate by duplicating toolbars in each document window.
To sum it up, MDI was a hack to solve a problem that's mostly gone away.
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The key distinguishing factor for an interpreter is that you can feed it unprocessed source code, and have it executed, as opposed to generating an executable in advance. How that source code is treated in order to execute the program is secondary.
Second, the only thing you'd need to boost into orbit from Mars would be the astronauts - you leave the return vehicle in orbit with the fuel and resources needed for the return trip.
If the full load of fuel for the trip to Mars and back + food, equipment etc. would be too large to boost from Earth in one piece it can easily be lifted in several rounds, and using multiple stages would reduce fuel load required.
Reaching escape velocity from earth is comparatively very hard compared to reaching escape velocity from Mars. There's several meteorites that originated on Mars that have fallen on Earth. While theoretically I'm sure the converse could happen, the likelihood would be a lot smaller. Also, since we don't have any undisputed proof of lifeforms of Mars, the potential spread of lifeforms from Earth to Mars isn't particularly interesting, while on Earth we know there are lots of life forms and want to find out their exact origin. The converse would become a lot more interesting if undisputed proof of Martian life is found, and it bears similarity to organisms found on earth.
Did you ever look at the Netscape code that was released? I did. It looked okay at first sight, but the more people started digging, the more obvious the limitations of the platform became. There might have been a useful Netscape 4 like browser coming out of the Mozilla effort quite quickly if they'd kept pursuing that avenue, but it would have been tremendously hard to get any further.
Thanks to the Mozilla developers taking the leap, even though it meant years of effort, we now have a platform that's been the foundation for a wide range of highly standards compliant browsers, and that is far more viable than anything based off the original codebase ever would have been.
Yes. Also, I co-founded a company called Nameplanet in 1999 that did the same thing, and while that's a bit close to the filing date of this patent, one of the key competitors we identified while working on the business plan, Netidentity was formed in 1996. Both Nameplanet and Netidentity/Mailbank explicitly were providing e-mail addresses and later web forwarding on the form firstname@lastname./firstname.lastname..
Hint: kph is a perfectly valid abbreviation for kilometers per hour in many parts of the world.
Of course the internet WAS invented in the 60's, so that's hardly a good example :)
What's wrong with it is that some deeply religious people consider it a symbol of evil, and make stupid assumptions about people using the logo or wearing it on t-shirts etc., such as believing them to be satanists. It might not have been a problem if people knew what BSD was, but for most people "NetBSD" is as meaningful as a string of random characters.
"Keilis-Borok's team communicates the predictions to disaster management authorities in the countries where a destructive earthquake is predicted. These authorities might use such predictions, although their accuracy is not 100 percent, to prevent considerable damage from the earthquakes -- save lives and reduce economic losses -- by undertaking such preparedness measures as conducting simulation alarms, checking vulnerable objects and mobilizing postdisaster services, Keilis-Borok said."
Besides, an earlier article about this method specifically pointed out that Iran is not one of the areas they have analysed any data for.
It has nothing to do with hating jews, and everything to do with disapproving of a state whose elected government does it's best to employ nazi tactics in the way it governs the areas they've illegally operated. Call it flavor of the week if you wish, but most countries have had groups working for the palestians cause for decades.
So wireless is a "luxury" only seen from the perspective of someone used to extensive cable networks that has been gradually built up over a century.
Heck, Norway have ".bv" for the Bouvet Island, which is a Norwegian owned island in the South Atlantic with no residents, an abandoned whaling and weather station from the 20's, rock and a lot of seabirds... Look it up it the CIA world factbook, it's an amusing entry. (Norid, the organization that handles domain registrations for Norway doesn't allow anyone to register under ".bv" though)
Nieu receives more than it's GDP per capita in aid from New Zealand each year, and New Zealand also built most of the housing etc. on the island before it became a sovereign nation. Infrastructure is expensive - 34 million USD is well within reach even for an island with that small population.
Before you start accusing people of lying, at least make sure you accuse the right person - text in italics is from the submitter, not the editor.
The study of Mars. Mars == Ares (Mars is the name of the Roman god of war and originally fertility, Ares the equivalent Greek god of war).
The fact that you're offered the chance to get part of the money they illegally overcharged you with is in recognition that for many people there was no real choice. It wasn't about "making an informed purchase" but about customer being given the choice of Microsoft or nothing because of Microsofts illegal practices.
If you don't want it, don't take it. But don't go around whining because the government upholds the law.
If you think anti trust laws should be repealed, fine, but if they do, don't come whining when you get shafted left right and center by companies that get powerful enough to dictate whatever price they choose.
He'd written the scene because it sounded good.
I'm all for discussing what a work means to you. But to me literary criticism is ripping something apart, breaking it into pieces, and leaving it as a torn up carcass - it completely destroys the enjoyment of the work for me, even when the person writing the criticism tries to be comprehensible.
Going back to the work after being subjected to something like that for me is like watching a magic show with continuous commentary about how it's really done. I don't care, and it ruins the pleasure of watching. I know it's an illusion, but the commentary shatters it. Even worse, a lot of the time the commentary will be wrong or completely uninformed because people have gotten an idea about a work and refuse to let it go, sometimes even in face of overwhealming evidence.
Most engineers will at some level be able to "dumb down" their subject to make it at least somewhat understandable when explaining it to people outside their field, because they need to in their jobs.
Being able to communicate about your field is vital for your field to be viable in the long run.
As for 2, are you really complaining that delivery of spam would be delayed? It's not as if MTA's usually try to deliver only one message at a time. Also, it isn't the mail server that should be responding to these requests, but a DNS server, which for any reasonably sized ISP will be on separate hardware. A purely authorative DNS server can easily reply in the roundtrip time + The thing is, this could add a tremendous amount of DNS traffic before it would become even a fraction of the traffic currently caused by bounces because of spam to invalid addresses being repeatedly attempted delivered to unavailable servers, or to innocent third parties.
As for people on the road, they should have access to a VPN setup or to connect to a password protected corporate smarthost if they want to send e-mail with the corporate from address. It's not as if it's hard to do.
But anyway, just slightly reducing the risk of being on the receiving end of a few hundred thousand bounces or complaints because of spammers using a real or fake address on your domain in the from field makes it worth it to add SPF records to your own domain...
The flaw in your argument is that you don't need "pretty high-tech rockets" to reach the moon, and you don't need "pretty high-tech rockets" for the missile defence system. For the first case, what you need is ca. 1969 technology, for the latter case what you need is advances in targetting and guidance systems.
Complain about expenditure that actually make up a noticable chunk of the budget instead, will you, like military spending (where the US incidentally spend more than the next 25 nations combined)
Excessive spending now will force the government to increase taxes later. If you seriously think the government will shrink because of a debt burden, you need to get out more. Excessive spending now will also have seriously bad effects on businesses once the governments needs to cut spending and increase taxes to make up for it - businesses that are expanding to meet demand created by government expenditure now will suddenly run into problems.
So you add the IP or IP range of your home Linux box to the SPF record for the domain you use for the colocated box you have. Problem solved.
It's confusing as hell to most users, but was considered more or less a necessity due to avoid reproducing toolbars etc. for all document windows.
AmigaOS and MacOS avoided similar issues with an app-wide menu at the top of the screen, and in AmigaOS' case with "screens" as a more generic type of grouping (because screens weren't restricted to having Windows from one app)
In X you can get the same grouping by keeping an app on a virtual screen, so MDI serves very little purpose. Using virtual screens gives you the advantage that there is one less mechanism for the user to understand.
Increased screen real estate and configurable and draggable toolbars also lessen the problem of losing screen realestate by duplicating toolbars in each document window.
To sum it up, MDI was a hack to solve a problem that's mostly gone away.