Remember that the definitions is most of the battle.
First define what you mean by a programming language. Try to get them to agree that it is something that is turing complete. Then show that html is not turing complete.
If they disagree that a programming language has to be turing complete, then you can pin them in a corner by trying to get them to define what it is without also allow lots of other things to be programming languages.
hmm I guess it just comes down to difference in opinion then. I think if a company bases 90% of it's work on an open source product, then it's polite to acknoledge that.
I dislike Sun as well for doing this with their Java desktop thing.
It wouldn't have been a problem at all if they just mentioned on their website that they used wine, instead of trying to make it look like they did it all themselves.
hmm, I read it another way. In that they have been keeping track, but theres some open source code that they might or might not use, and haven't decided yet.
That's just so dumb that it wouldn't even occur to me as a 'memory leak' so to speak.
And I know it's a sort of 'begging the question' statement, but that's what I meant by "remember to delete objects when you are finished with them".
I was thinking that perhaps there are certain conditions where it fails. Like how reference GC's fail with circular references.
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what you could do is just record your gps coordinates. Then as hundreds of people move about, all recording it, then you'll build a map. What's better is the popular routes will be strengthened.
"or how to prevent memory leaks even with garbage collection"
Ignoring the bad grammar, what sort of answer are you expecting here? I can't think of any answer for this off the top of my head... Is it just to remember to delete objects when you are finished with them, or am I missing something?
I know what you mean, but just to nit pick, it's not even a fact that you'll fall if you jump off of a skyscraper. All you know is that all the previous jumps led to you falling. You don't know for a fact that you would fall next time.
For an analogy, I rather like this one that I thought up:
Imagine you toss a coin. Sometimes it's heads, sometimes it's tails. You do it a million times, and always it's heads or tails. So you make a theory that it will always be heads or tails.
However after a trillion throws, the coin manages to land on it's side. Suddenly a theory that seemed so true, is wrong.
I think one of the worries is lulling you into a false sense of security, which can be worse then no security.
If someone hacks in and has access to the machine, what stops them waiting around for a moment until someone uses the database, and grabs the password?
Also I don't understand how this will quite work, but I don't think it will stop sql injection etc.
While people do use normal sized isolation table (dinner table size), it's kinda pointless making them any bigger. You just can't do large holograms using a continous laser beam - you'll spend all day trying to get it to be even remotely stable, and even then it's pot luck.
IMHO, pretty much all holography in the future will be done digitally and with pulsed lasers. With a pulse laser you could do the hologram in the back of a moving van. Be pointless, but I just mean the vibrations then become irrelevant at the speeds pulsed lasers work out.
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Exactly. In games you take the path of most-resistance.
>> I could care less if Microsoft.office.NET looks like gnome when run on gnome.
You could care less? So it does bother you then? So why did you say "I am not so tied to the look.." ?
Good think I said Cairo then, and not Waimea. :P
How does cairo tie in with Keith's X server?
Are they competing? What are the differences of each?
Remember that the definitions is most of the battle.
First define what you mean by a programming language. Try to get them to agree that it is something that is turing complete.
Then show that html is not turing complete.
If they disagree that a programming language has to be turing complete, then you can pin them in a corner by trying to get them to define what it is without also allow lots of other things to be programming languages.
It's to stop people writing really longs words and screwing up the table widths.
Make them actual links and you won't have that problem.
Jeez. Trusting a company that promises to pay is lofty and unrealistic.
hmm I guess it just comes down to difference in opinion then. I think if a company bases 90% of it's work on an open source product, then it's polite to acknoledge that.
I dislike Sun as well for doing this with their Java desktop thing.
Yeah you're right, I can't think of any reason.
Oh wait, common curtesy - that was it.
You're going to trust a company that is asking for VC money for a product that they aren't even going to say where 90% of the code came from?
It wouldn't have been a problem at all if they just mentioned on their website that they used wine, instead of trying to make it look like they did it all themselves.
hmm, I read it another way. In that they have been keeping track, but theres some open source code that they might or might not use, and haven't decided yet.
I know java doesn't have that problem.
Interesting what you said about the second part, I didn't know about that. Makes sense.
Well that's why I'd object to such a question in an interview.
That's just so dumb that it wouldn't even occur to me as a 'memory leak' so to speak.
And I know it's a sort of 'begging the question' statement, but that's what I meant by "remember to delete objects when you are finished with them".
I was thinking that perhaps there are certain conditions where it fails. Like how reference GC's fail with circular references.
what you could do is just record your gps coordinates. Then as hundreds of people move about, all recording it, then you'll build a map. What's better is the popular routes will be strengthened.
"or how to prevent memory leaks even with garbage collection"
Ignoring the bad grammar, what sort of answer are you expecting here? I can't think of any answer for this off the top of my head... Is it just to remember to delete objects when you are finished with them, or am I missing something?
It's easy (for a mathematican) to prove that PI is infinite.
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I started trying to write out a proof, but it looks too messy in slashdot
Have a look at something like:
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~hr/numb/pi-irr.html
I know what you mean, but just to nit pick, it's not even a fact that you'll fall if you jump off of a skyscraper. All you know is that all the previous jumps led to you falling. You don't know for a fact that you would fall next time.
For an analogy, I rather like this one that I thought up:
Imagine you toss a coin. Sometimes it's heads, sometimes it's tails. You do it a million times, and always it's heads or tails. So you make a theory that it will always be heads or tails.
However after a trillion throws, the coin manages to land on it's side. Suddenly a theory that seemed so true, is wrong.
I'm confused. What do they do, strip out the javascript tags? How can they stop you putting javascript code in your html?
I think one of the worries is lulling you into a false sense of security, which can be worse then no security.
If someone hacks in and has access to the machine, what stops them waiting around for a moment until someone uses the database, and grabs the password?
Also I don't understand how this will quite work, but I don't think it will stop sql injection etc.
Irrelevant to my argument.
Just a comment on the holography statement.
While people do use normal sized isolation table (dinner table size), it's kinda pointless making them any bigger. You just can't do large holograms using a continous laser beam - you'll spend all day trying to get it to be even remotely stable, and even then it's pot luck.
IMHO, pretty much all holography in the future will be done digitally and with pulsed lasers. With a pulse laser you could do the hologram in the back of a moving van. Be pointless, but I just mean the vibrations then become irrelevant at the speeds pulsed lasers work out.
Disclaimer: I make hologram printers.
isn't there an option in slashdot to hide your email address?
To be fair, you did say "..pushing their false religion" which is loaded enough to be asking for trouble.
Also why do you put your email address on slashdot if you don't accept unsolicited email?
I heard that here, the uk, global warming will divert the gulf stream, leading to the uk getting a lot colder, not hotter.