No interesting comment, just an observation... it amazes me that the PS@, which I believe is something like two generations behind the XBOX, is still able to compete and win without any real trouble at all.
Sure, the same thing written in C or C++ probably would be faster - but when you literally can't tell the difference, who cares? A modern PC spends almost all its time waiting on user input or IO bound anyway.
For a long running enterprise application, it would probably be SLOWER in c/c++. No matter how good you are at programming c/c++ you can't anticipate every little bottleneck and write it in perfect assembler... but the hotspot compiler can do that rathar well.
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I guess the bigger question is how long before we see a PC included in a cereal box instead of those DVDs I've seen advertised on the boxes of Fruit Loops (or whatever it was)? "Hey! Check it out! This box contains a coupon for a free PC! (just send in 20 box tops, plus $39.95 shipping and handling)"
Hey, wow, that can be done if you think about it... 100 box tops at maybe $6~$10 a box... defintily doable.
Maintainability becomes a problem when you hire the first guy off the street who only knows the fad-du-jour, Java or VB, for example. Using off-beat languages gives you a great deal of inherent quality control: people who interview for Python, Lisp, or ML jobs generally are of higher quality.
Seems to me quite the opposite is true. With Java you have a wide range of skill levels and persoanlities to choose from wile if you pick a more obscure language you'll limit your choices a great deal.
Just because somone is a great hacker and can write a string sorting algorithm in Malboge doesn't mean they are good programmers. In fact, they usually are the kinds of people to make code LESS maintainable.
A really excellent hacker is much more likely to use some obscure, incomprehensible undocumented feature of Python build 42079.3HB5_103 that only he and four other people in the world know about. It'll make the application run like a dream, fast, efficient, stable... and then he'll quit for a higher paying job and you'll be left with an application that can't be touched since it's all magic.
Much like operator overloading in C++, this allows you to write in the language of the problem, rather than the language of the language. So, if you're dealing with dates you can overload the minus operator to calculate the time between two dates when they are subtracted. Or if you are dealing with complex numbers your operators do the right thing when you add a complex and a real.
Similarly, in Python you can create a database search object that behaves like an associative array. So, customer_id_search[ 10 ] goes to the database, retrieves the record for customer_id 10 and returns a DAO to be manipulated.
Iterators and many other constructs help you in writing clear, concise, MAINTAINABLE, extensible and reusable code by allowing you to code clearly in the language of the problem you are trying to solve.
Maintainable? Seriously? So, once you get hit by a bus, how the sam hell is your replacement going to figure out that X + Y will return X MOD Z ^ Y in one case because that fits the problem space better but not another case where it's not needed without having to read and understand *each and every line* of the code you have written.
Maybe you are in the business of writing 100 line python scripts so that's ok. But imagine if you had to write serious applications, 300k plus platforms for, say, stock trading?
You get points for murdering people in gruesome ways, with weapons like "the plastic bag", with which you strangle, snap necks, and break noses - all in a live-motion cutscene EVERY TIME you kill.
Aw MAN he disses Rock Star HARD! I mean like, some guy who murders tens of thousands of people with nerve gas and, like tortured ethnic minorities for fun is, like, way less evil than those fucker trying to make a game. DUUUUuuudDDe!
Yeah, for some reason that story doesn't ring true. It sounds a whole lot like the kind of story you want to tell if you've got a beef against modern society and wish we could all go live naked in the rainforest. Most animals that I know of don't give a crapola if it's cooked or fresh, they'll just munch on it if it tastes good, which it usually does if it's typical high-quality, high-fat "human food".
Other things seem fishy... my cat uses the door even when a window is available just because she's lazy and doesn't feel like making the annoying jump when there is another perfectly reasonable direction to go.
Also speaking, meaning out loud verbal language, is natural and instinctive in humans. The particular language used may be incomprehensible, but even "feral" children should be speaking just fine.
But the topper is the preference for bananas. Sure monkies like bananas, but for some reason I have a hard time seeing lots and lots of wild banana trees in south africa just sitting around for him to get hooked on "just like a monkey".
Communicating is instinctive; refined and specific methods of doing it (talking versus growling, grunting, humming, etc) must be taught.
Actually, language is instinctive to humans. Particular language, however, is not. If you put two babies together thier entire lives and never talk to them, they will make up thier own language that only they understand. It will be as sophisticated and nuanced as any language spoken today. This can bee seen in varying degrees in all the cerole languages that exist in the world today. Kids who's parents were slaves from completely different cultures would form thier own language that was complete and distinct from the parent's languages.
Walking upright does have at least one disadvantage - The pelvis has to be stronger, as it is carrying more weight. In humans it became more bulky, narrowing the birth canal, making for more painful / dangerous births, and smaller more vunerable offspring.
This may not be the disadvantage that you think it is. As long as it doesn't kill off ALL of your women, it will kill enough of them to make sure that your population of hunter-gatherers don't outgrow the food supply too quickly, even if there is a temporary abundance. (An easy way to kill of a population is to give it a huge abundance for just long enough to grow the population a few times and then drop back to more normal levels. Chaos ensues.)
s that because things falling in go into a rapid orbit that doesn't decay enough to pass them through the horizon because they can't lose enough energy to finish falling in? Or is it related to the asymptopic time-slowdown as things approach the event horizon (which I thought was a relativistic artifact from the viewpoint of the distant observer, not something that also occurs in the coordinate system of the entering object)?
I think it works like this... as you travel to the horizon, you slow down. By the time you reach it, it's already evaporated away.
But from the point of a falling particle, it'll just cross the event horizon without even noticing much..
I think in this case, from the point of view of the particle, it'll get close and closer and right before it can cross it, pop the horizon vanishes and it's a jillion years later for the rest of the universe.
So there was this priest, this rabbi and this guy who's right hand got tangled in the umbilical cord and as a result is severely mangled and doesn't really resemble a hand at all... Kinda hard to work with.
I can see a scenario where somebody announces thier web site was hacked. Then a greedy ambulance chaser threatens to sue for neglegence. In order to "prove" negligence, he'll supoena all you computer systems, drown you in bad press, and lock you in expensive legal battle. It'll be easier to pay him off, and thus a new industry is born.
We humans aren't going to have any immunity to these microbes that have been isolated for 500000 years.
Actually, the reverse is probably true. These things have been isolated from the wild wild world for so long they probably be no match for the predators that await them.
Any expensive evolutionary defenses and weapons will have been bred out as they are unneeded and wasteful.
Think about it logically, who are you going to be more afraid of meeting on the street, somebody who grew up shielded from the outside world thier entire life, given all the food and shelter they ever needed but no knowledge of how the world works, or somone who grew up on the mean streets of detroit having to fight every day just to survive?
There is a reason why you don't just toss your pets into the forest when you are done with them and expect them to survive the night. Things brought up without enemies are very very weak when confronted with new threats.
What about experiencing day and night, wind, tide, rain, hearing bird song, the fragrance of flowers and freshly cut grass or a good chicken jalfrezi?
I know, what about experiencing an earth-rise, floating in zero gravity with the entire universe beneath your feet, seeing nebula with the naked eye and stars as bright as diamonds. I mean, you can't just live your life in some crappy space port and expect to see anything as mind-shatteringly cool as that. Err, oh wait...
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No interesting comment, just an observation... it amazes me that the PS@, which I believe is something like two generations behind the XBOX, is still able to compete and win without any real trouble at all.
If everyone thought as you do, there wouldn't be a music industry.
I'm curious, how much did you get piad for posting that comment? I mean, people don't do things that they enjoy for free, right? So how much?
Digital != lossy compression.
Sampling is what then?
Sure, the same thing written in C or C++ probably would be faster - but when you literally can't tell the difference, who cares? A modern PC spends almost all its time waiting on user input or IO bound anyway.
For a long running enterprise application, it would probably be SLOWER in c/c++. No matter how good you are at programming c/c++ you can't anticipate every little bottleneck and write it in perfect assembler... but the hotspot compiler can do that rathar well.
I guess the bigger question is how long before we see a PC included in a cereal box instead of those DVDs I've seen advertised on the boxes of Fruit Loops (or whatever it was)? "Hey! Check it out! This box contains a coupon for a free PC! (just send in 20 box tops, plus $39.95 shipping and handling)"
Hey, wow, that can be done if you think about it... 100 box tops at maybe $6~$10 a box... defintily doable.
Maintainability becomes a problem when you hire the first guy off the street who only knows the fad-du-jour, Java or VB, for example. Using off-beat languages gives you a great deal of inherent quality control: people who interview for Python, Lisp, or ML jobs generally are of higher quality.
Seems to me quite the opposite is true. With Java you have a wide range of skill levels and persoanlities to choose from wile if you pick a more obscure language you'll limit your choices a great deal.
Just because somone is a great hacker and can write a string sorting algorithm in Malboge doesn't mean they are good programmers. In fact, they usually are the kinds of people to make code LESS maintainable.
A really excellent hacker is much more likely to use some obscure, incomprehensible undocumented feature of Python build 42079.3HB5_103 that only he and four other people in the world know about. It'll make the application run like a dream, fast, efficient, stable... and then he'll quit for a higher paying job and you'll be left with an application that can't be touched since it's all magic.
Much like operator overloading in C++, this allows you to write in the language of the problem, rather than the language of the language. So, if you're dealing with dates you can overload the minus operator to calculate the time between two dates when they are subtracted. Or if you are dealing with complex numbers your operators do the right thing when you add a complex and a real.
Similarly, in Python you can create a database search object that behaves like an associative array. So, customer_id_search[ 10 ] goes to the database, retrieves the record for customer_id 10 and returns a DAO to be manipulated.
Iterators and many other constructs help you in writing clear, concise, MAINTAINABLE, extensible and reusable code by allowing you to code clearly in the language of the problem you are trying to solve.
Maintainable? Seriously? So, once you get hit by a bus, how the sam hell is your replacement going to figure out that X + Y will return X MOD Z ^ Y in one case because that fits the problem space better but not another case where it's not needed without having to read and understand *each and every line* of the code you have written.
Maybe you are in the business of writing 100 line python scripts so that's ok. But imagine if you had to write serious applications, 300k plus platforms for, say, stock trading?
Seriously, syntactic whitespace! Damn you Python! Long live Ruby?
You get points for murdering people in gruesome ways, with weapons like "the plastic bag", with which you strangle, snap necks, and break noses - all in a live-motion cutscene EVERY TIME you kill.
Unlike, say, hollywood movies... how?
Aw MAN he disses Rock Star HARD! I mean like, some guy who murders tens of thousands of people with nerve gas and, like tortured ethnic minorities for fun is, like, way less evil than those fucker trying to make a game. DUUUUuuudDDe!
how about working on the existing theory so that it doesn't require yet another particle???
If you can do that I think I may have Nobel Prize around here somewhere to give you.
Yeah, for some reason that story doesn't ring true. It sounds a whole lot like the kind of story you want to tell if you've got a beef against modern society and wish we could all go live naked in the rainforest. Most animals that I know of don't give a crapola if it's cooked or fresh, they'll just munch on it if it tastes good, which it usually does if it's typical high-quality, high-fat "human food".
Other things seem fishy... my cat uses the door even when a window is available just because she's lazy and doesn't feel like making the annoying jump when there is another perfectly reasonable direction to go.
Also speaking, meaning out loud verbal language, is natural and instinctive in humans. The particular language used may be incomprehensible, but even "feral" children should be speaking just fine.
But the topper is the preference for bananas. Sure monkies like bananas, but for some reason I have a hard time seeing lots and lots of wild banana trees in south africa just sitting around for him to get hooked on "just like a monkey".
Communicating is instinctive; refined and specific methods of doing it (talking versus growling, grunting, humming, etc) must be taught.
Actually, language is instinctive to humans. Particular language, however, is not. If you put two babies together thier entire lives and never talk to them, they will make up thier own language that only they understand. It will be as sophisticated and nuanced as any language spoken today. This can bee seen in varying degrees in all the cerole languages that exist in the world today. Kids who's parents were slaves from completely different cultures would form thier own language that was complete and distinct from the parent's languages.
Walking upright does have at least one disadvantage - The pelvis has to be stronger, as it is carrying more weight. In humans it became more bulky, narrowing the birth canal, making for more painful / dangerous births, and smaller more vunerable offspring.
This may not be the disadvantage that you think it is. As long as it doesn't kill off ALL of your women, it will kill enough of them to make sure that your population of hunter-gatherers don't outgrow the food supply too quickly, even if there is a temporary abundance. (An easy way to kill of a population is to give it a huge abundance for just long enough to grow the population a few times and then drop back to more normal levels. Chaos ensues.)
will hold technology companies liable for supplying devices or software that can be used to illegally copy music, videos, software, etc.
Quick, somone write a compiler that takes Brittany Spear's latest album lyrics as "source" and turns them into a CD ripper program.
s that because things falling in go into a rapid orbit that doesn't decay enough to pass them through the horizon because they can't lose enough energy to finish falling in? Or is it related to the asymptopic time-slowdown as things approach the event horizon (which I thought was a relativistic artifact from the viewpoint of the distant observer, not something that also occurs in the coordinate system of the entering object)?
I think it works like this... as you travel to the horizon, you slow down. By the time you reach it, it's already evaporated away.
But from the point of a falling particle, it'll just cross the event horizon without even noticing much..
I think in this case, from the point of view of the particle, it'll get close and closer and right before it can cross it, pop the horizon vanishes and it's a jillion years later for the rest of the universe.
So there was this priest, this rabbi and this guy who's right hand got tangled in the umbilical cord and as a result is severely mangled and doesn't really resemble a hand at all... Kinda hard to work with.
I'll take you up on that...
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I'm deaf and I've been looking for some new deaf jokes
I'd tell them to you, but uh...
It's got NEARLY everything my free docomo phone had only a scant two years ago, that's incredible!
Being excessively anal accomplishes nothing.
You're not a programmer, are you?
Nor a pornographer.
Unless there are still Christians who believe that the orbit of any planet can be described by a perfect circle...
Oh, but it CAN be... Just need to be creative with your non-euclidian geometry.
I can see a scenario where somebody announces thier web site was hacked. Then a greedy ambulance chaser threatens to sue for neglegence. In order to "prove" negligence, he'll supoena all you computer systems, drown you in bad press, and lock you in expensive legal battle. It'll be easier to pay him off, and thus a new industry is born.
We humans aren't going to have any immunity to these microbes that have been isolated for 500000 years.
Actually, the reverse is probably true. These things have been isolated from the wild wild world for so long they probably be no match for the predators that await them.
Any expensive evolutionary defenses and weapons will have been bred out as they are unneeded and wasteful.
Think about it logically, who are you going to be more afraid of meeting on the street, somebody who grew up shielded from the outside world thier entire life, given all the food and shelter they ever needed but no knowledge of how the world works, or somone who grew up on the mean streets of detroit having to fight every day just to survive?
There is a reason why you don't just toss your pets into the forest when you are done with them and expect them to survive the night. Things brought up without enemies are very very weak when confronted with new threats.
What about experiencing day and night, wind, tide, rain, hearing bird song, the fragrance of flowers and freshly cut grass or a good chicken jalfrezi?
I know, what about experiencing an earth-rise, floating in zero gravity with the entire universe beneath your feet, seeing nebula with the naked eye and stars as bright as diamonds. I mean, you can't just live your life in some crappy space port and expect to see anything as mind-shatteringly cool as that. Err, oh wait...