I disagree. You're still thinking of the commands as individual processes. If you think of the commands as objects, all (potentially) acting in the same process, then there's no marshalling of data required.
I don't think so. I did some Googling, and it seems that this scheme differs from unix pipelines. Unix pipelines are processes that pass each other streams of data. MSH seems to contruct pipelines of objects that pass each other objects.
Sounds interesting to me. Having a command instantiate an object instead of a process seems inherently more efficient, as does communicating with objects instead of text. (With text, you need to convert your information to textual form, and the next command in the pipeline has to parse it.)
A "sheet" in this case is an A6 sheet, which is 1/4 the area of a letter-sized piece of paper. It's roughly the size of a 4x6 photo: a little under 4.2" x 5.9" (105mm x 148mm).
Agreed completely. It should be a social contract between the rulers and the ruled: I'll make the rules understandable, and you can't claim you don't understand them.
This should be filed under 'ignorance of the law, and by extension ignorance of the tools used in law enforcement, is no excuse'.
Absolutely wrong. The corollary to "ignorance of the law is no excuse" is that citizens have the responsibility to educate themselves about the law. For the state to make that impossible, and then require citizens to do it anyway, is truly Orwellian.
Nonsense. It's called information hiding, and it works on any programming system invented since the 1960s. Show me a programming environment where it's not practical to confine knowledge of number-of-digits-in-a-sol-number to a small, contiguous portion of the program, and I'll show you an environment that does not deserve to be in use on modern software projects.
Sorry for the troll (which this is), but how fucking stupid do you have to be to hard-code the number of digits in a date these days? Didn't we just go though this?
Eratosthenes (284-192 B.C.) , the librarian of Alexandria, was able to determine the circumference of the Earth to an accuracy of 0.1-0.5% . . . Eratosthenes measured it to be 40,000 km (24,855 miles), and the current accepted figure is 40,032 km (24,875 miles).
Close. Eratosthenes lived from 276-194 BC, which is 2000 years before the invention of the kilometer, so he definitely didn't measure it to be 40,000 km. Instead he used a unit called the stadion, whose length is no longer known precisely. He measured the circumference as 252,000 stadia, and (according to Wikipedia) "it is generally believed that Eratosthenes' value corresponds to between 39,690 km and 46,620 km".
Also, he was measuring the polar circumference of the Earth, not the equatorial circumference. The mean polar circumference is 40,008 km.
The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration.
This guy is full of shit. If someone gunned down his child and said "well, he was about to step on an ant hill", what do you think Mr. Fox's response would be?
It's a two-stage rocket. The first stage is reusable, which is nice, since it should keep costs down.
What worries me is that the second stage is propelled by four solid-fuel rockets. Suppose one of these babies doesn't work for some reason. The other three will fire, giving asymmetrical thrust, causing the second stage to spin. Being solid rockets, they can't be stopped once they are lit, so you'll just keep spinning faster and faster until the fuel runs out, at which point (aside from having passed out from the g-forces) you'll be in no position to try to land because you'll have nowhere near the necessary attitude.
However, I'm speaking as a rank amateur. Does anyone who actually knows what they are talking about have any insight into this?
Repeating something that was said in the Slashdot blurb itself, and then embellishing with fairly typical Slashdot remarks about "Microsoft FUD", is not insightful, even if you agree with it (which I do).
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I disagree. You're still thinking of the commands as individual processes. If you think of the commands as objects, all (potentially) acting in the same process, then there's no marshalling of data required.
Sounds interesting to me. Having a command instantiate an object instead of a process seems inherently more efficient, as does communicating with objects instead of text. (With text, you need to convert your information to textual form, and the next command in the pipeline has to parse it.)
What are you talking about?
A "sheet" in this case is an A6 sheet, which is 1/4 the area of a letter-sized piece of paper. It's roughly the size of a 4x6 photo: a little under 4.2" x 5.9" (105mm x 148mm).
Agreed completely. It should be a social contract between the rulers and the ruled: I'll make the rules understandable, and you can't claim you don't understand them.
Then you haven't used Java.
Nonsense. It's called information hiding, and it works on any programming system invented since the 1960s. Show me a programming environment where it's not practical to confine knowledge of number-of-digits-in-a-sol-number to a small, contiguous portion of the program, and I'll show you an environment that does not deserve to be in use on modern software projects.
Hint, guys: "#define NUM_DIGITS_IN_SOL_NUMBER 3".
I guess it just means you can have your site show up in Google searches with site:xxx.
Touche.
I bet you understood that word in isolation.
Also, he was measuring the polar circumference of the Earth, not the equatorial circumference. The mean polar circumference is 40,008 km.
That's called the Fermi Paradox.
What the hell are you talking about?
Please see this.
If there were such a moderation, I would have just used it.
What worries me is that the second stage is propelled by four solid-fuel rockets. Suppose one of these babies doesn't work for some reason. The other three will fire, giving asymmetrical thrust, causing the second stage to spin. Being solid rockets, they can't be stopped once they are lit, so you'll just keep spinning faster and faster until the fuel runs out, at which point (aside from having passed out from the g-forces) you'll be in no position to try to land because you'll have nowhere near the necessary attitude.
However, I'm speaking as a rank amateur. Does anyone who actually knows what they are talking about have any insight into this?
You are naive in the extreme if you don't think the word "theft" is carefully-chosen propaganda.
"almost near-broadcast economics"
Repeating something that was said in the Slashdot blurb itself, and then embellishing with fairly typical Slashdot remarks about "Microsoft FUD", is not insightful, even if you agree with it (which I do).
Sorry, I don't know what I was smoking when I wrote that.
FYI, IBM has a cleanroom J2ME implementation, complete with JCL. IBM also has a cleanroom J2SE VM and JIT compiler.