A bunch are armed people, without any communications between them, are hardly going to have any affect against an organized army. No matter what path their reistance takes, communications are key
This was clearly written by someone who doesn't actually do any scientific computing.
As hard as it may be for some CS-types (myself included) to believe, Fortran is still the language for scientific computing.
I've worked at flight simulation companies for two different companies (and 5 different groups) for the last 15 years. The math required to simulate a flying aircraft in realtime is ungodly hairy. It also has to get done fast. We typically have 50 or so different simulation models (plus all the I/O) that have to run to completion 60 times a second. That's about 17ms, or 8ms if we want %50 spare. In addition, for a realtime app like a simulatior it needs to take the same time to execute every time (no runtime dynamic allocations, GC, etc.) or things "jitter".
Everywhere I've worked, with the exception of Ada mandated jobs, had this code done in Fortran. Yes that includes today. We are today writing new Fortran, and we are not alone. When we request models from the aircract manufacturers, they come in Fortran (or occasionally Ada). Fortran is still, and quite possibly always will be, the language for Scientific Computing.
Suggesting non-CS math and science students learn some other programming language instead is just wrong. Further suggesting that it should be the author's favorite hip new interpreted languge is just laughable.
Mad props to Pixar for giving a great actor like Ed Asner a starring role in a high-budget blockbuster film at the age of 76. The man's earned the right to rake in some serious royalty cash for himself and his heirs.
Don't worry about that. You can be assured that the books they use to calculate voice-actor residuals will show that Up lost money, no matter how much it actually rakes in. Large entertainment companies put their best creative talent in their accounting departments.
This isn't my understanding at all. I work for a flight training company and talk to the pilots a bit, so I do have some small (but not direct) knowledge.
What I have been told is that the airlines love hiring from the military, due to the large number of hours (experience) the pilots come with. However, it is very true that they prefer to hire military cargo pilots, rather that fighter pilots. The cargo pilots are used to flying the larger planes, and generally aren't as inclined to pull crap like buzzing the control tower upside-down.
One item in the list is gnat which is one particular implementation of Ada. So, there is at least one Ada implementation on the list. I did not recognize any others.
Gnat is the only Ada compiler you are likely to see there. I believe the shootout requires a free (as-in cost) implementation of the language. If the poor bastard had to buy compilers for all those languages, he'd go broke pretty quickly.
Roughly the same logic holds for Fortran, which seems represented there by g95 (the gcc-based Fortran 95 compiler).
Other interesting languages hidden in there: Scheme ("Stalin", "Gambit", and probably others), Rexx ("Regina"), and Niklaus Wirth's Oberon ("ooc").
Same here in Oklahoma, except snow is more like two days every winter. But since we are in the middle of the continent we regularly get stretches below 0(F). The folks up in North Dakota have it worse, I know, but they get the snow on their roofs too.
I don't see how this idea would help us at all, unless we retiled our roof every 6 months. (No, a white tarp wouldn't help. We have wind here too.)
I don't know what build he was using, but it isn't mine. I have the latest official gnu NT emacs build. I just tried dragging a 11MB file into it (closest I could find easily), and after the "it's big, are you sure?" dialog was clicked away, it loaded the file instantly.
Generally, I agree with you. However, the cinematic interludes in Diablo II were so good, they made a rather entertaining (if smallish) movie in and of themselves.
The effect made them kind of like a reward for successfully completing a stage. Which is exactly what they are supposed to be.
Anyway, Blizzard knows there are people like you, which is why every one of those interludes is skippable.
If both legal systems are part of the same circus than the Swedish system is the clown car where another clown keeps getting out of the car just when you think it's empty and the US system is the rampaging elephant that tramples the audience.
Not only is this the best analogy I've read in years, but it also uses a car. Bravo!
you will also have the issue of game license issues due to only having one computer, running 2 instances of the same game at the same time will be very difficult if not impossible for many games.
Yup. Flat out won't work with CoH. We share one account at my house. A second login attempt on the same account will both fail and kick the logged-in session out of the game. Additionally, it is inevitable that they will eventually both want to play at the same time, and she will get upset. I would highly suggest dude get his girlfriend her own account.
Since the expansion came out, I've seen it for sale at Target for $10, which is a damn good deal considering a month of gameplay normally costs $15.
They want to release it on the 360. Microsoft has not agreed to this yet (shockingly, they rule their platform with an iron fist). The developers are openly musing about paying for a Playstation port if Microsoft keeps being a pain.
Even if they do approve, it isn't likely to come out until months after the PC version is released.
You obviously meant this for a funny mod, and got your reward.
However, this really isn't all that odd at all. My wife plays MMORPGs with me. In fact, it was our only way to get some time out having fun together back in the days when the kids were young and we couldn't leave them alone to physically go out together.
This is far from uncommon. Most of my Warcraft guild was couples, and there were more than a few single women (in the guild sans boyfriend) as well. On the roleplaying servers, I wouldn't be shocked if I were told most players were female.
Accurate, unbiased reporting isn't going to come from folks who blog in their spare time. It comes from professionals.
This just shows how out of it a lot of people are.
The only reason anybody ever cared about "unbiased reporting" was because for a breif period in the 20th Century we had very few alternative outlets to go to if we personally found the reporting unreasonable.
However, we have oodles of outlet choices today, so now nobody gives a crap. In fact, if the story is about something like a hate group marching in my city, or a looming catastrophe that every scientific specialist agrees is coming, supposedly "unbiased reporting" is not only unwelcome, it is morally reprehensible.
The last thing in the world we need in this day and age is a bunch of "professionals" controlling our access to information, and hiding their biases from us while pretending they don't have any at all.
And what are you going to do when we're all charging for access?
I'll probably ride my unicorn up over the rainbow into the clouds, because that will never happen.
The fact of the matter is that (porn excepted) people don't pay for online content. Period. If that means we only get "amateur" news reporting, then that's what it will mean.
Show me one successful online news source that pays for a large investigative staff off of walled-off subscription content. One.
I know my local paper tried allowing online access only to subscribers (print subscription worked). It failed. There are just too many other places to get free news (even if its inferior). They eventually had to make everything free to try to generate some kind of revenue off of it. Salon tried the same thing when their VC money initially ran out. They hemoraged readership. Within a few weeks they felt the need to provide public access again with annoyance ads that you could buy away. Eventually those were gone too.
Perhaps Mr. Murdoch thinks he has some grand business theory that nobody on the web has ever thought of before to make pay content work. But unless porn is involved, he's wrong.
I don't have a crystal ball, but my guess for where we are all headed is a web full of independent investivate reporters with their own websites. Here's a local example
I once came across some code that consisted of many unrelated branches of nested loops spread across several source files. Everything was done in a loop, including calls to other routines (also implemented in loops).
After puzzling over this for quite a while, I finally realised that this was an old Fortran programmer's way of implementing threads. The termination condition for these loops was typically seme kind of flag-signaled event, or a time expiring, whereupon the program would bubble back out of all the loops, then descend down some other path into some other inner loop to service the event.
It was really beautiful Fortran code, very clean and organized. Sadly, he wasn't using Fortran anymore, but Ada, which supports threads in the language...
I'd be really suspicious of this message. First off, I would have expected any such message to circulate in the US before Europe, as we have much closer ties with Mexico. Secondly, it seems to be designed specifically to cause panic. Lastly, it seems to be using British spellings. Damn near every Mexican who has learned English would have leared the US variety, and thus would have used US spellings.
This looks to me more like a message generated in England specifically to scare people.
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A bunch are armed people, without any communications between them, are hardly going to have any affect against an organized army. No matter what path their reistance takes, communications are key
This was clearly written by someone who doesn't actually do any scientific computing.
As hard as it may be for some CS-types (myself included) to believe, Fortran is still the language for scientific computing. I've worked at flight simulation companies for two different companies (and 5 different groups) for the last 15 years. The math required to simulate a flying aircraft in realtime is ungodly hairy. It also has to get done fast. We typically have 50 or so different simulation models (plus all the I/O) that have to run to completion 60 times a second. That's about 17ms, or 8ms if we want %50 spare. In addition, for a realtime app like a simulatior it needs to take the same time to execute every time (no runtime dynamic allocations, GC, etc.) or things "jitter".
Everywhere I've worked, with the exception of Ada mandated jobs, had this code done in Fortran. Yes that includes today. We are today writing new Fortran, and we are not alone. When we request models from the aircract manufacturers, they come in Fortran (or occasionally Ada). Fortran is still, and quite possibly always will be, the language for Scientific Computing.
Suggesting non-CS math and science students learn some other programming language instead is just wrong. Further suggesting that it should be the author's favorite hip new interpreted languge is just laughable.
Mad props to Pixar for giving a great actor like Ed Asner a starring role in a high-budget blockbuster film at the age of 76. The man's earned the right to rake in some serious royalty cash for himself and his heirs.
Don't worry about that. You can be assured that the books they use to calculate voice-actor residuals will show that Up lost money, no matter how much it actually rakes in. Large entertainment companies put their best creative talent in their accounting departments.
The article states that "the merchandising on Cars currently accounts for over $5bn in revenues"
I wish I could "fail" like that.
This isn't my understanding at all. I work for a flight training company and talk to the pilots a bit, so I do have some small (but not direct) knowledge.
What I have been told is that the airlines love hiring from the military, due to the large number of hours (experience) the pilots come with. However, it is very true that they prefer to hire military cargo pilots, rather that fighter pilots. The cargo pilots are used to flying the larger planes, and generally aren't as inclined to pull crap like buzzing the control tower upside-down.
When a pilot makes a nonfatal mistake and learns from it, it adds to his experience. But that all walks out the door when he or she retires.
This is why we have FlightSafety.
Computer control merely makes these economic by having fewer do landscaping.
Is "landscaping" some amusing pilot euphamisim referring to the alterations a crashing plane makes to the ground when it hits?
Great. Now you've gotten Safari banned too.
One item in the list is gnat which is one particular implementation of Ada. So, there is at least one Ada implementation on the list. I did not recognize any others.
Gnat is the only Ada compiler you are likely to see there. I believe the shootout requires a free (as-in cost) implementation of the language. If the poor bastard had to buy compilers for all those languages, he'd go broke pretty quickly.
Roughly the same logic holds for Fortran, which seems represented there by g95 (the gcc-based Fortran 95 compiler).
Other interesting languages hidden in there: Scheme ("Stalin", "Gambit", and probably others), Rexx ("Regina"), and Niklaus Wirth's Oberon ("ooc").
Same here in Oklahoma, except snow is more like two days every winter. But since we are in the middle of the continent we regularly get stretches below 0(F). The folks up in North Dakota have it worse, I know, but they get the snow on their roofs too. I don't see how this idea would help us at all, unless we retiled our roof every 6 months. (No, a white tarp wouldn't help. We have wind here too.)
I don't know what build he was using, but it isn't mine. I have the latest official gnu NT emacs build. I just tried dragging a 11MB file into it (closest I could find easily), and after the "it's big, are you sure?" dialog was clicked away, it loaded the file instantly.
Generally, I agree with you. However, the cinematic interludes in Diablo II were so good, they made a rather entertaining (if smallish) movie in and of themselves.
The effect made them kind of like a reward for successfully completing a stage. Which is exactly what they are supposed to be.
Anyway, Blizzard knows there are people like you, which is why every one of those interludes is skippable.
If both legal systems are part of the same circus than the Swedish system is the clown car where another clown keeps getting out of the car just when you think it's empty and the US system is the rampaging elephant that tramples the audience.
Not only is this the best analogy I've read in years, but it also uses a car. Bravo!
lmao. This should have been modded insightful. Think about it..
...or better yet, buy yourself a new PC and give her your old one. :-)
you will also have the issue of game license issues due to only having one computer, running 2 instances of the same game at the same time will be very difficult if not impossible for many games.
Yup. Flat out won't work with CoH. We share one account at my house. A second login attempt on the same account will both fail and kick the logged-in session out of the game. Additionally, it is inevitable that they will eventually both want to play at the same time, and she will get upset. I would highly suggest dude get his girlfriend her own account.
Since the expansion came out, I've seen it for sale at Target for $10, which is a damn good deal considering a month of gameplay normally costs $15.
Even if they do approve, it isn't likely to come out until months after the PC version is released.
You obviously meant this for a funny mod, and got your reward.
However, this really isn't all that odd at all. My wife plays MMORPGs with me. In fact, it was our only way to get some time out having fun together back in the days when the kids were young and we couldn't leave them alone to physically go out together.
This is far from uncommon. Most of my Warcraft guild was couples, and there were more than a few single women (in the guild sans boyfriend) as well. On the roleplaying servers, I wouldn't be shocked if I were told most players were female.
This isn't the 1990's anymore folks. Enjoy it.
One wonders how much they could improve their student/teacher ratio if they used all that money on hiring more teachers instead.
My hometown paper, the Tulsa World used to do exactly that.
Used to.
Accurate, unbiased reporting isn't going to come from folks who blog in their spare time. It comes from professionals.
This just shows how out of it a lot of people are.
The only reason anybody ever cared about "unbiased reporting" was because for a breif period in the 20th Century we had very few alternative outlets to go to if we personally found the reporting unreasonable.
However, we have oodles of outlet choices today, so now nobody gives a crap. In fact, if the story is about something like a hate group marching in my city, or a looming catastrophe that every scientific specialist agrees is coming, supposedly "unbiased reporting" is not only unwelcome, it is morally reprehensible. The last thing in the world we need in this day and age is a bunch of "professionals" controlling our access to information, and hiding their biases from us while pretending they don't have any at all.
And what are you going to do when we're all charging for access?
I'll probably ride my unicorn up over the rainbow into the clouds, because that will never happen.
The fact of the matter is that (porn excepted) people don't pay for online content. Period. If that means we only get "amateur" news reporting, then that's what it will mean.
Show me one successful online news source that pays for a large investigative staff off of walled-off subscription content. One.
I know my local paper tried allowing online access only to subscribers (print subscription worked). It failed. There are just too many other places to get free news (even if its inferior). They eventually had to make everything free to try to generate some kind of revenue off of it. Salon tried the same thing when their VC money initially ran out. They hemoraged readership. Within a few weeks they felt the need to provide public access again with annoyance ads that you could buy away. Eventually those were gone too.
Perhaps Mr. Murdoch thinks he has some grand business theory that nobody on the web has ever thought of before to make pay content work. But unless porn is involved, he's wrong.
I don't have a crystal ball, but my guess for where we are all headed is a web full of independent investivate reporters with their own websites. Here's a local example
I once came across some code that consisted of many unrelated branches of nested loops spread across several source files. Everything was done in a loop, including calls to other routines (also implemented in loops).
After puzzling over this for quite a while, I finally realised that this was an old Fortran programmer's way of implementing threads. The termination condition for these loops was typically seme kind of flag-signaled event, or a time expiring, whereupon the program would bubble back out of all the loops, then descend down some other path into some other inner loop to service the event.
It was really beautiful Fortran code, very clean and organized. Sadly, he wasn't using Fortran anymore, but Ada, which supports threads in the language...
Ada's no worse for GUI's than C++ is. However, it was not designed to build GUI apps, like VB was.
I'd be really suspicious of this message. First off, I would have expected any such message to circulate in the US before Europe, as we have much closer ties with Mexico. Secondly, it seems to be designed specifically to cause panic. Lastly, it seems to be using British spellings. Damn near every Mexican who has learned English would have leared the US variety, and thus would have used US spellings.
This looks to me more like a message generated in England specifically to scare people.