Deep linking is also bullshit. It's called "linking" and it's no different from linking to a home page. It's just a URL. There appears to be no basis to think that any kind of linking is illegal in any way.
If companies want to force viewers through a predetermined path, the web is simply the wrong medium.
Hmm. I was wondering what would happen if they implement m:n on top of NPTL, but it would probably just slow it down and introduce the headaches of two-level scheduling.
No, the actual token will produce infinite variations. When you authenticate, you check a random source.
No you don't. How would that even work? What would you authenticate against? (Did you read the "artical"?)
You authenticate against a database that has several readings from several known angles:
In practice, the combination of laser light inputs and resulting speckle pattern outputs for each token could be stored on a secure database. The token could then be read at a terminal that queries the database and authenticates the token's identity.
Just because a language is turing-equivalent doesn't make it good for writing an OS. You need hardware control. You need to be able to "feel the bits". Would you write an OS in Java? (Yes, it has been attempted.)
For example, suppose for efficiency you decide you want to store a flag in the low-end bit of a pointer (because pointers are aligned to 4 bytes and those bits are otherwise unused). How do you express that in Java? Java simply doesn't have any notation for this.
Or, for that matter, suppose you have some object that is small and immutable, so you want to pass it by value instead of by reference, so that it can be cached and/or stored in registers. Java can't do that either. Both of these things are trivial in C.
It's totally retarded to compare Logo with Delphi or VB. Delphi is not Pascal, and VB is not Basic. If the original poster meant "Delphi" when he said "Pascal" then I give up.
It depends how it's taught. Logo is a better language in some respects than PASCAL and certainly than BASIC. You can learn functional programming from it.
But there's always going to be 12-year-olds who think they know everything and consider learning new programming languages a waste of time.
I suppose that's how it would go if you do it as a company. An open-source project might be different, though I guess we already have Wine, and they haven't achieved 100% compatibility yet...
You're talking about a hypothetical superhuman sensor that can see a single spot of light no bigger than 1 mm moving at 60 rpms from 1 AU away. I suspect that level of ability would also include the ability to see whatever it is that really carries light directly.
Wow, I don't know where to start. Let me just say that I never said how big or bright the spot was, and I'll let the rest of this hopeless paragraph wallow in its own ignorance.
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That's the sound of M:N threading whizzing past your head.
If companies want to force viewers through a predetermined path, the web is simply the wrong medium.
Thanks for the link.
What about hooking up a geiger counter to your smoke detector. That would be quantum-level unpredictability.
Good thinking. Then all you need is ultraviolet light and the occasional rain storm inside your microwave oven.
Some people just have a knack for the once-in-a-lifetime pun. Bravo.
Then, with NGPT (Next-Generation Posix Threads), those 100,000 threads would be in user space and may be even cheaper.
You authenticate against a database that has several readings from several known angles:
Cool! Good thinking.
Sorry, I replied to the wrong post.
(Careful---you are in danger of becomming a Slashdot naysayer.)
(You are in serious danger of becomming a Slashdot Maysayer.)
My pet peeve is KB (=1024 bytes) versus kB (=1000 bytes) versus Kb (=1024 bits) versus kb (=1000 bits). I might be a geek too.
For example, suppose for efficiency you decide you want to store a flag in the low-end bit of a pointer (because pointers are aligned to 4 bytes and those bits are otherwise unused). How do you express that in Java? Java simply doesn't have any notation for this.
Or, for that matter, suppose you have some object that is small and immutable, so you want to pass it by value instead of by reference, so that it can be cached and/or stored in registers. Java can't do that either. Both of these things are trivial in C.
You can't make a good OS out of a turing machine.
It's totally retarded to compare Logo with Delphi or VB. Delphi is not Pascal, and VB is not Basic. If the original poster meant "Delphi" when he said "Pascal" then I give up.
But there's always going to be 12-year-olds who think they know everything and consider learning new programming languages a waste of time.
I'm glad you said that. It's a decent functional language in its own right. Like Lisp, without all the parentheses.
I suppose that's how it would go if you do it as a company. An open-source project might be different, though I guess we already have Wine, and they haven't achieved 100% compatibility yet...
Why do you need that money? Where would it go?
So do it already. If it's so straightforward, what are you waiting for?
Looks like you stopped reading your parent post when you saw the word "Pinochet".