If we disregard the fact that the power supply story is absolute bullshit, did you have an actual place in mind that would have redundant fiber optic links and reliable power for a data center?
If you made a list of those 'inventions' by order of importance, you might find out that far less of them are attributed to your humble kind than you imagine.
"where local Uk residents felt they did not need to do any kind of periodic maintenance"
It is equally possible that the 'UK residents' were sacked because management thought they were not needed because it seemed cheaper on the short term.
As for moving the data centers to India, it is a bad idea for the heat alone, but there are also very good reasons why there are laws to that effect.
I'm not sure why so many comments are mocking this.
It is a similar delivery system rumored as possible using the Canadian Arrow (CF105) plane (likely a myth) but it benefits from not having a human passenger or pilot.
I'm sure cost overruns are on the venue and there might be mentions of "government waste", but from the looks of it, I'm betting that this will work as intended.
I would certainly object to 'there being no horror movies during film festivals' and I would personally choose by my own free will to be at a festival 'for romantic films, so I'm sorry to say that this particular example was not a very good one for me.
I don't think that 'this is very much the same thing'. I agree with that they can do whatever they want, but to promote the development of the industry and preserving the industry as it is are two very different things. They are claiming to be focused on the development, but this decision seems to indicate something else.
I can see this written by someone who cared about producing content, where that decision seem to be motivated by the need to be profitable.
"Pour durer, le Festival a dû rester fidèle à sa vocation fondatrice qui était de révéler et mettre en valeur des uvres de qualité pour servir l'évolution du cinéma, favoriser le développement de l'industrie du film dans le monde et célébrer le 7ème art à l’international. Aujourd’hui encore, cette profession de foi constitue le premier article du règlement du Festival."
This basically states that their first rule is to reveal and put in value quality creations to serve the evolution of cinema.
In my view, Netflix is part of this evolution and their stance is contrary to their own rule (for which they stress their fidelity).
You mean no visual obscure command, because they occur in the background without you seeing them.
I'm glad there are no 'killer interface advance' on my FreeBSD desktop. I like my xfce just the way it is. No need to do a search every time I want to do a well known command or task.
Not everything new and shiny is worth playing 'catchup' too, but if that is what your into, I'm happy for you.
My experience is that simply occasionally check in to see if the Customer found a solution, then they ask for details so they can feed their offshore help desk database.
Nevertheless, I have not used them myself for at least a decade so I have not idea if that got better or worse. Postgresql https://www.postgresql.org/ does everything I want, and does it better.
Vendor lock-in is sold to, and by management as "economies of scale" and the promise that you only have one vendor responsible instead of them blaming each other.
Is your animosity coming from having to work with the language in a bad situation or are you simply prejudice?
COBOL is not for everything nor for everyone, but it does what it does well.
Few languages make the programmer describe the required input and output in so much detail before coding, which may be why it is well suited to financial systems.
I for one do not try very hard to solve problems for the higer up's self inflicted greed wounds, but if it helps to train some grads, that knowledge can help to get a job at a better place.
Not encountered as a first language perhaps, but that is just incidental to your experience and has little to do with age. It is true that before home computers were widely available, one's first exposure to a computer language was likely to be from college, university or work, and there was a fair chance that that language would be Fortran.
I think you are correct about the ZX-81 and the VIC-20, those machines were somewhat restricted in what they could do. Nevertheless, the C-64 had at least Abacus Fortran and ABSoft had it for the Amiga. Microsoft and Watcom had Fortran for DOS.
Now, Windows based PCs.. that's just for gaming;) Just kidding - there is a multitude of them, including GNU Gfortran.
Sadly, unlike the VIC-20, ZX-81, C-64s of the time, PCs sold today to not even boot into an environment with a programming language, but that can be fixed by installing Linux or BSD.
I don't want to give too much credence to your 90% statement as statistics are 97% made up. I mostly use BSD, but Linux comes across as quite usable from the desktop; much more than Windows where they keep changing everything around with every version. The first thing I have to do when opening the Control Pannel is type what I want in the search field.
But what is impressive in your statement is that you actually can do this stuff from the command line. You see, computers are all about automation, and that means the ability to re-use your work. You can put it in a script so you don't have to type it again and share it with the world. Mouse clicks are forever wasted.
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I very much appreciate your ability to acknowledge a small misstep an just go on.
Very refreshing. I wish more people would understand that instead of entrenching themselves.
We are not just talking about heat.
If we disregard the fact that the power supply story is absolute bullshit, did you have an actual place in mind that would have redundant fiber optic links and reliable power for a data center?
Have you given any thought to network latency?
If you made a list of those 'inventions' by order of importance, you might find out that far less of them are attributed to your humble kind than you imagine.
Note that the emissions in GT (gigatonnes) per capita are much lower for both the EU and China than for the United States.
To stress why that matters, imagine the data if we split the EU into its constituent countries.
You had me until "more safe energy/miles".
The longer we burn coal, it gets worse, not better.
If you meant by balancing out that it explains more deaths, refer to my previous statement.
"where local Uk residents felt they did not need to do any kind of periodic maintenance"
It is equally possible that the 'UK residents' were sacked because management thought they were not needed because it seemed cheaper on the short term.
As for moving the data centers to India, it is a bad idea for the heat alone, but there are also very good reasons why there are laws to that effect.
Fear not; the two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity ;)
Hydrogen combines well with Oxygen, so you end up H20 (two Hydrogen atoms with one Oxygen = water).
All you need to break the hydrogen free is electricity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You're not a Greek. Just someone trying to spin his view about Greeks and Gates.
I'm not sure why so many comments are mocking this.
It is a similar delivery system rumored as possible using the Canadian Arrow (CF105) plane (likely a myth) but it benefits from not having a human passenger or pilot.
I'm sure cost overruns are on the venue and there might be mentions of "government waste", but from the looks of it, I'm betting that this will work as intended.
Not all people will accept being forced to Windows 10, and that is why they are not patching their machines.
That is regardless of the fact that the ones that did update were secure.
I would certainly object to 'there being no horror movies during film festivals' and I would personally choose by my own free will to be at a festival 'for romantic films, so I'm sorry to say that this particular example was not a very good one for me.
I don't think that 'this is very much the same thing'. I agree with that they can do whatever they want, but to promote the development of the industry and preserving the industry as it is are two very different things. They are claiming to be focused on the development, but this decision seems to indicate something else.
I can see this written by someone who cared about producing content, where that decision seem to be motivated by the need to be profitable.
Their goals, according to their own site http://www.festival-cannes.com... is as follow (in french):
"Pour durer, le Festival a dû rester fidèle à sa vocation fondatrice qui était de révéler et mettre en valeur des uvres de qualité pour servir l'évolution du cinéma, favoriser le développement de l'industrie du film dans le monde et célébrer le 7ème art à l’international. Aujourd’hui encore, cette profession de foi constitue le premier article du règlement du Festival."
This basically states that their first rule is to reveal and put in value quality creations to serve the evolution of cinema.
In my view, Netflix is part of this evolution and their stance is contrary to their own rule (for which they stress their fidelity).
You mean no visual obscure command, because they occur in the background without you seeing them.
I'm glad there are no 'killer interface advance' on my FreeBSD desktop. I like my xfce just the way it is. No need to do a search every time I want to do a well known command or task.
Not everything new and shiny is worth playing 'catchup' too, but if that is what your into, I'm happy for you.
Or fined double the amount as it is sounds like a bi-sexual joke.
My experience is that simply occasionally check in to see if the Customer found a solution, then they ask for details so they can feed their offshore help desk database.
Nevertheless, I have not used them myself for at least a decade so I have not idea if that got better or worse. Postgresql https://www.postgresql.org/ does everything I want, and does it better.
Vendor lock-in is sold to, and by management as "economies of scale" and the promise that you only have one vendor responsible instead of them blaming each other.
The efficiency of resulting the code is not affected by how much analysis the compiler has to do to produce that code.
"drivers often have to run before the entire system is loaded."
One can use Kernel modules, unless your OS of choice doesn't support it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The "Coward" in "Anonymous Coward" is embolden and shows his/her true nature.
"infinitely more likely to end up working for a large utility"..
Maybe because large utilities governments can support dead weight?
I just witnessed a large conversion project from COBOL to C# fail miserably. The consultants sales pitch sounded very much like your post.
Thanks for that. I just built it on FreeBSD.
Any OS you would recommend? I'm considering Turnkey-MVS.
Nice.
I'm learning micro APL on a Commodore Super-PET 9000 as a hobby. Unfortunately, I don't have access to an IBM mainframe at the moment.
Is your animosity coming from having to work with the language in a bad situation or are you simply prejudice?
COBOL is not for everything nor for everyone, but it does what it does well.
Few languages make the programmer describe the required input and output in so much detail before coding, which may be why it is well suited to financial systems.
I for one do not try very hard to solve problems for the higer up's self inflicted greed wounds, but if it helps to train some grads, that knowledge can help to get a job at a better place.
Not encountered as a first language perhaps, but that is just incidental to your experience and has little to do with age. It is true that before home computers were widely available, one's first exposure to a computer language was likely to be from college, university or work, and there was a fair chance that that language would be Fortran.
;) Just kidding - there is a multitude of them, including GNU Gfortran.
I think you are correct about the ZX-81 and the VIC-20, those machines were somewhat restricted in what they could do. Nevertheless, the C-64 had at least Abacus Fortran and ABSoft had it for the Amiga. Microsoft and Watcom had Fortran for DOS.
Now, Windows based PCs.. that's just for gaming
Sadly, unlike the VIC-20, ZX-81, C-64s of the time, PCs sold today to not even boot into an environment with a programming language, but that can be fixed by installing Linux or BSD.
I don't want to give too much credence to your 90% statement as statistics are 97% made up. I mostly use BSD, but Linux comes across as quite usable from the desktop; much more than Windows where they keep changing everything around with every version. The first thing I have to do when opening the Control Pannel is type what I want in the search field.
But what is impressive in your statement is that you actually can do this stuff from the command line. You see, computers are all about automation, and that means the ability to re-use your work. You can put it in a script so you don't have to type it again and share it with the world. Mouse clicks are forever wasted.