Some higher level, less nasty thing (C, CoffeeScript, Dart, Java, Clojure, whatever) gets compiled into something (asm, javascript, bytecode) that runs on your chosen platform (x86, ARM, web browser, node, JVM).
The assembly equivalents in this case are ASM, javascript, bytecode.
Sure, javascript is a high level language. Someone once thought of assembly as high level when compared to machine code.
It's pretty easy to think of bytecode as the assembly of the JVM. Not much of a stretch to think of javascript as the assembly of the web, if you think of it as a crappy low level language that you'd rather not deal with - which I do.
Maybe that's just my tastes and vivid imagination...
I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day, who said "Don't you find it bizarre that Javascript has become the assembly language of the web?"
And that's just it: I think javascript sucks, and I avoid it whenever possible. Instead I use CoffeeScript, which I find unobjectionable. Sure, it "compiles" into javascript - and I don't much care.
I pointed out that I never really learned assembly when I was cutting my teeth (decades ago), and so I really didn't care what was down there. It's kind of nice that I know enough Javascript to debug tricky issues when the need arrises.
I thought that coding in assembly sucked, too - still do. The higher the language, the more I tend to like it. Besides CoffeeScript, I'm keeping an eye on Dart.
So, yeah, it's bizarre that javascript has become the assembly of the web world. But it runs all over the place because it runs all over the place. Whatever. As long as there's something better to write code in than javascript, it doesn't bother me...
If the government deals only with civil unions then the entire religious war issue is removed.
Until religious people start claiming that civil unions are defined by God? Then what?
That seems about as likely as "the degenerates" deciding that since marriage is no longer just between man and woman that they should be able to marry their dog (to quote a sometimes used argument in favor of things like DOMA).
ie. when it happens (and sure it probably would - because there is always someone in need of attention) the volume would be about 1/1,000,000 the marriage issue and pretty easy to ignore.
It's very easy to find a person of religious persuasion that will tell you that marriage is defined by God.
That's a large part of why we are in this mess.
If the government deals only with civil unions then the entire religious war issue is removed. The argument becomes mostly a personal religious issue instead of a civil issue.
Poof.
You can continue to argue that marriage can mean different things to different people and that we should all get along. Let me know how that works out for you.
What's more, if your roof (for example) can only hold 20 modules, it may be worthwhile for you to get 9% of the energy even if it costs you 5 times what the 3% module would cost.
If you have unlimited space, limited funds, and limited power demands, then you go for the 3% solution.
How much of drawing and painting is describing our surroundings? How much of science is not that same thing at a different level? Is there any overlap?
How much is music steeped in math? What is not steeped in math? Why would you not use music to appeal to someone's mathematical curiosity?
I, for one, am happy to have a little entertainment in my education.
States are passing laws. I have to think that the NHTSA has noticed. And even if they haven't said anything good about 'em, they haven't said anything forbidding 'em, either.
I don't get it. You're saying that having more computer controlled cars on the road is going to make it harder for computer controlled cars to function? Why?
and they have drivers on hand to take over right away.
It's true, and it would sure be interesting to know how often that happens. But 300K miles is a pretty awesome track record for any driver under any circumstances.
In August 2012, the team announced that they have completed over 300,000 autonomous-driving miles (500 000 km) accident-free, typically have about a dozen cars on the road at any given time, and are starting to test them with single drivers instead of in pairs.[14] Three U.S. states have passed laws permitting driverless cars as of September 2012: Nevada, Florida, and California.
More miles than most drivers rack up in 20 years, and without having caused an accident. Laws passed in 3 states.
This is a lot closer than positive net output fusion, for example.
You're right that they're more efficient than combustion engines, but so are bicycles. The point is that fast charges are not the future-- they're a dead end to a technology.
Battery swapping, on the other hand, is the most cost efficient, environmentally friendly, and quickest form of refueling an battery EV.
I think chargers are a pretty reasonable solution to a relatively rare problem: how to recharge your car when you want to drive more than a couple of hundred miles at a stretch.
What's more, the batteries weigh quite a bit (http://www.roperld.com/science/TeslaModelS.htm) 1200lbs for the S. Anyone can plug a car in. 1200lbs of battery would be a bit rough to handle. Even 1/10th that would be too much to deal with.
No, you need enough parts of enough strands to be able to piece 'em together. And for help along the way, you can use asian elephants to help out (which seems to be their nearest uncle).
The kind that can do math? From that very article:
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of 5 C, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier — perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
“This confirms the widely held suspicion that claims of DNA from dinosaurs and ancient insects trapped in amber are incorrect,” says Simon Ho, a computational evolutionary biologist at the University of Sydney in Australia. However, although 6.8 million years is nowhere near the age of a dinosaur bone — which would be at least 65 million years old — “We might be able to break the record for the oldest authentic DNA sequence, which currently stands at about half a million years,” says Ho.
Emphasis mine.
So 10K years -- enough material and it should certainly be possible.
I fooled around with Dart a few months ago. I like the language. But I really want to be able to use it AND all the javascript libraries that do lots of work for me. It's my opinion that it will be hard for Dart to get traction if all those libraries have to be rewritten.
Piracy is shorter than "sharing files you don't have the right to share." People understand what it is. When you mention piracy, very few people think of high seas shenanigans.
What is important is that it is illegal. What is important is that maybe it should not be illegal.
Calling it piracy is fine. People should probably also call it civil disobedience.
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> I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day, who said "Don't you find it bizarre that Javascript has become the assembly language of the web?"
I can't think of any way JavaScript is at all like assembly, except that a lot of programmers hate using it...
And, frankly, that's about enough for me.
But the other - and probably more important one:
It gets compiled into.
Some higher level, less nasty thing (C, CoffeeScript, Dart, Java, Clojure, whatever) gets compiled into something (asm, javascript, bytecode) that runs on your chosen platform (x86, ARM, web browser, node, JVM).
The assembly equivalents in this case are ASM, javascript, bytecode.
Sure, javascript is a high level language. Someone once thought of assembly as high level when compared to machine code.
It's pretty easy to think of bytecode as the assembly of the JVM. Not much of a stretch to think of javascript as the assembly of the web, if you think of it as a crappy low level language that you'd rather not deal with - which I do.
Maybe that's just my tastes and vivid imagination...
I understand not liking coffeescript - to each their own.
But I don't understand the dependency thing. coffeescript compiles 100% to javascript. Why do you care what it was written in?
I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day, who said "Don't you find it bizarre that Javascript has become the assembly language of the web?"
And that's just it: I think javascript sucks, and I avoid it whenever possible. Instead I use CoffeeScript, which I find unobjectionable. Sure, it "compiles" into javascript - and I don't much care.
I pointed out that I never really learned assembly when I was cutting my teeth (decades ago), and so I really didn't care what was down there. It's kind of nice that I know enough Javascript to debug tricky issues when the need arrises.
I thought that coding in assembly sucked, too - still do. The higher the language, the more I tend to like it. Besides CoffeeScript, I'm keeping an eye on Dart.
So, yeah, it's bizarre that javascript has become the assembly of the web world. But it runs all over the place because it runs all over the place. Whatever. As long as there's something better to write code in than javascript, it doesn't bother me...
If the government deals only with civil unions then the entire religious war issue is removed.
Until religious people start claiming that civil unions are defined by God?
Then what?
That seems about as likely as "the degenerates" deciding that since marriage is no longer just between man and woman that they should be able to marry their dog (to quote a sometimes used argument in favor of things like DOMA).
ie. when it happens (and sure it probably would - because there is always someone in need of attention) the volume would be about 1/1,000,000 the marriage issue and pretty easy to ignore.
It's very easy to find a person of religious persuasion that will tell you that marriage is defined by God.
That's a large part of why we are in this mess.
If the government deals only with civil unions then the entire religious war issue is removed. The argument becomes mostly a personal religious issue instead of a civil issue.
Poof.
You can continue to argue that marriage can mean different things to different people and that we should all get along. Let me know how that works out for you.
What's more, if your roof (for example) can only hold 20 modules, it may be worthwhile for you to get 9% of the energy even if it costs you 5 times what the 3% module would cost.
If you have unlimited space, limited funds, and limited power demands, then you go for the 3% solution.
Art is as many things as there are things. But I guess I like a little entertainment in my art, too :-)
Carnival. Inspire young people.
How much of drawing and painting is describing our surroundings? How much of science is not that same thing at a different level? Is there any overlap?
How much is music steeped in math? What is not steeped in math? Why would you not use music to appeal to someone's mathematical curiosity?
I, for one, am happy to have a little entertainment in my education.
States are passing laws. I have to think that the NHTSA has noticed. And even if they haven't said anything good about 'em, they haven't said anything forbidding 'em, either.
When you Scale Up is where the issues pop up
I don't get it. You're saying that having more computer controlled cars on the road is going to make it harder for computer controlled cars to function? Why?
and they have drivers on hand to take over right away.
It's true, and it would sure be interesting to know how often that happens. But 300K miles is a pretty awesome track record for any driver under any circumstances.
I believe that snow/sleet/ice are known issues, and google is avoiding 'em for now.
As for the difference between sanfran, ny, and boston - they don't feel all that different to me.
Of the things you mentioned, I have to think that construction is one of the oddest cases - and vegas is no stranger to that.
But the point is: they're on the roads, now. And they're doing really well. And it is a technology in its infancy.
To believe "it's never gonna happen" seems pretty foolish to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car
In August 2012, the team announced that they have completed over 300,000 autonomous-driving miles (500 000 km) accident-free, typically have about a dozen cars on the road at any given time, and are starting to test them with single drivers instead of in pairs.[14] Three U.S. states have passed laws permitting driverless cars as of September 2012: Nevada, Florida, and California.
More miles than most drivers rack up in 20 years, and without having caused an accident. Laws passed in 3 states.
This is a lot closer than positive net output fusion, for example.
You're right that they're more efficient than combustion engines, but so are bicycles. The point is that fast charges are not the future-- they're a dead end to a technology.
Battery swapping, on the other hand, is the most cost efficient, environmentally friendly, and quickest form of refueling an battery EV.
I think chargers are a pretty reasonable solution to a relatively rare problem: how to recharge your car when you want to drive more than a couple of hundred miles at a stretch.
What's more, the batteries weigh quite a bit (http://www.roperld.com/science/TeslaModelS.htm) 1200lbs for the S. Anyone can plug a car in. 1200lbs of battery would be a bit rough to handle. Even 1/10th that would be too much to deal with.
I'll grant you that nuclear powered marine robots could become a real problem.
But a robot on land that is both nuclear power and shielded and subtle (hard to find) is too much of a stretch for me to imagine.
Mines are generally mechanical and hidden. Which means they can remain functional for as long as the environment doesn't destroy them.
Killer robots are generally powered and function where they can be seen. They are not particularly hard to find. They will wind down all on their own.
Killer robots that use nuclear energy have a pretty obvious signature and are easy to find because of it.
So I'm thinking this isn't even an imaginary problem, let alone a real one.
No, you need enough parts of enough strands to be able to piece 'em together. And for help along the way, you can use asian elephants to help out (which seems to be their nearest uncle).
The kind that can do math? From that very article:
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of 5 C, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier — perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
“This confirms the widely held suspicion that claims of DNA from dinosaurs and ancient insects trapped in amber are incorrect,” says Simon Ho, a computational evolutionary biologist at the University of Sydney in Australia. However, although 6.8 million years is nowhere near the age of a dinosaur bone — which would be at least 65 million years old — “We might be able to break the record for the oldest authentic DNA sequence, which currently stands at about half a million years,” says Ho.
Emphasis mine.
So 10K years -- enough material and it should certainly be possible.
It's not like yahoo and microsoft have never poked at the ISP space. Mostly using partners, but there have often been rumblings.
Virtually everyone in the US who wants access to the internet has it. Huge numbers of them use google.
Lots of people who want access to the internet access in Africa and the pacific rim and can't get it (I guess).
Why would google not engage in those markets?
Seems like this has more to do with getting more users and rolling out technology in places with little competition than anything else.
Yeah! Like /.!
Can you supply a pointer to how one would do that?
I fooled around with Dart a few months ago. I like the language. But I really want to be able to use it AND all the javascript libraries that do lots of work for me. It's my opinion that it will be hard for Dart to get traction if all those libraries have to be rewritten.
Turing complete?
Piracy is shorter than "sharing files you don't have the right to share." People understand what it is. When you mention piracy, very few people think of high seas shenanigans.
What is important is that it is illegal. What is important is that maybe it should not be illegal.
Calling it piracy is fine. People should probably also call it civil disobedience.