If you jailbreak your car, however, and inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road. Everything (including braking) in Tesla cars is tied into the software, and this is not something you should mess around with.
Do you give this same speech to all the BMW owners who buy custom performance mod chips?
This to me really shows that people just are not rational enough to avoid crime no matter how harsh the punishment we mete out.
Either that, or it demonstrates that all those scary "death penalty for drugs" signs at train stations in Southeast Asia are bullshit, and that there's no such thing for anybody with enough cash. That seriously hadn't occurred to you?
in the meantime, please don't be the reason people stop posting and turn this into nothing but beta whining.
Speaking of stopping posting, it's time for US Slashdot users to start logging out. The boycott lasts from February 10 through February 17. Let's make it hurt. More specifically, let's make sure DICE hurts -- we're not really hurting/. because/. is US.
When you're talking about consumer storage for families, you need three things: reliable, easy to use, and web-based.
That said, it seems to me what you're looking for is SLASHDOT BETA. It has been designed with ease of use in mind, in fact, a complete idiot could poke around at its big images all day and have a great time, and all the whitespace means you'll never get lost, even if you have a major stroke while using it. It's reliable, because unlike the old Slashdot its daily traffic is almost zero, so you'll never have to worry about slowdowns. And it's web-based, because unlike the old Slashdot it uses lots of HTML5 and JavaScript, so that's how you know it's the web, real modern-like.
On the other hand, if you'd prefer to BOYCOTT SLASHDOT, that starts on Monday, February 10. Make sure you logout on Sunday, so that even if you want to check in to see whether Dice has got the message, Slashdot gets NO TRAFFIC from registered users.
And for all you quislings posting about "whining ACs," my real name is Neil McAllister and I am one of the first 5,000 people to register on Slashdot, which means I have been here for almost 20 years. I am fully in support of the anti-beta effort and I am willing to burn all of my karma to bring you this message.
Hell, might as well use the opportunity to shill my own stuff (seems like that's what/. is for these days, anyway)...
I was one of the first 5,000/. users, and like most of you, I too am fed up with all the shenanigans since Dice took over.
That said, I'd like to personally invite the whole, babbling mess of you to come on over to The Register at www.theregister.co.uk.
We're different. We're a little weird. We like to write headlines that pass people off. A lot of the site is pitched from a UK perspective, which means Americans sometimes don't get it, but we actually have an international staff with offices in Australia and San Francisco (where I work).
And even if the headlines sometimes get a little out there, the reporting is actually mostly pretty straight -- although we don't mind calling bullshit when it's warranted. Anyway, at least we DO reporting, unlike/., which just slaps a misleading summary on someone else's stuff. And several of our people have actual tech background (though others are just reporters).
What's more, compared to any other tech site I've ever worked for, we actually do have a lot of really articulate, whip-smart commenters on our stories. I think you would like some of what you read there. We have some trolls and dimwits, too, but that's par for the course.
Fair warning: our comments ARE moderated by our editors. That's probably never going to change, owing in part to the truly ludicrous UK libel laws, where we can be held responsible for the contents of your comments if we "publish" them. But most of what we pull are just pointless personal attacks and spam.
And as a bonus for/.ers, our site design is about as ugly as the old/., so there's that.
Come check us out. We might be kind of an acquired taste but once you acquire it you might be hooked.
Probably because it's unhealthy for tech to exclude 52% of the population based on gender.
But that wasn't the proposition. The proposition was how to "get more women interested in open source." If you're talking about excluding women, then fine, if that's actually happening then that's something worth talking about. We shouldn't be excluding people. But why is it necessary to "get people interested"? If they're not interested, then fine, let 'em pursue other interests. It's a big world with lots of options.
To clarify your last statement a bit, TypeScript is designed as a superset of JavaScript. All valid JavaScript is valid TypeScript. All you have to convert your project is say "my project is in TypeScript now," and you can then start adding TypeScript features to your code -- or not -- as you see fit. That's as opposed to Dart, which really is a different language with a different syntax and you have to start over.
The point of C is that it's fast as hell and gives you almost complete control.
No, assembly language is fast as hell and gives you complete control. The point of C is that it gives you almost as much control but makes it easier to build and maintain large systems without you being some kind of semirobotic idiot savant. In other words, C IS a "dumbed down" language, just like some of the other ones people are complaining about.
LLVM are only getting funding because Apple wants to undermine GCC.
What on Earth would Apple gain by undermining GCC? I guess it would benefit Apple's buddy Intel, but Intel's compilers are already superior to GCC on its own chips, so I don't imagine it's too bothered.
Yes, this is exactly the issue. GPL isn't "more free" than BSD. Quite the opposite. GPL is far less free as it grants the users less freedoms.
The BSD approach is "Here is something nice I made - have it and do what you like, hope you have fun!" The GPL approach is "Here is something nice I made - you can use it, but if you you have to let me play with you stuff. I don't care that your thing might be vastly better or more complicated than mine, if you're using my stuff you sure better make sure I can use everything you make."
I think you've mischaracterized the GPL approach. By using the personal pronoun, you make it sounds like the GPL forces people who make derivative works to do things for the original developer. That's not the intent at all. The intent is to make sure that people who make derivative works do things for everyone – meaning everyone collectively, not individually. GPL grants users lots and lots of freedoms; the one freedom it does not grant is the freedom for you to withhold from others the freedoms that you yourself enjoy. BSD does grant you that freedom.
Yeah... when every few weeks or so Windows Update tells me it's going to download something called the Malicious Software Removal Tool, I've always wondered what it did. We might have a few new clues here.
It is not random. If you have enough knowledge and the ability to comprehend that knowledge, you can predict what will happen. Nothing is random.
Sure, as long as you start a program and let it run all by itself without touching anything. As soon as you introduce human input, the system may still be deterministic, but the output of the program is in effect random because the behavior of the operator cannot be predicted. The kind of "knowledge and the ability to comprehend that knowledge" that you describe is known as omniscience, and most IDEs currently don't support it.
A really common one is simply, "I feel fine. I feel better than I have in years, and I've felt this way for months." That's when people really start looking at side effects with a critical eye ("it makes me foggy") and decide they can go it on their own. And often it's insidious; if someone is manic, for instance, at what point do family members step in and say "you're not doing as well as you think you are"? If you're skipping your treatment, you're probably not getting the feedback you need to properly evaluate where you're at.
What are you talking about? JavaScript must always necessarily be slower than native code due to its abstracted nature. If it needs an interpreter, or virtual machine, or any other intermediate process between the program code and the CPU, there will be overhead.
This is kind of an old-fashioned argument. Modern VMs are often essentially executing native code by the time the code is actually running. If the bulk of the overhead happens at launch time, or a JIT compiler only has to step in every so often, the level of performance can be such that the difference from "pure" native code is insignificant for most applications. Don't mistake a modern VM for a 1980s style Basic interpreter. The two are very different beasts.
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If you jailbreak your car, however, and inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road. Everything (including braking) in Tesla cars is tied into the software, and this is not something you should mess around with.
Do you give this same speech to all the BMW owners who buy custom performance mod chips?
This to me really shows that people just are not rational enough to avoid crime no matter how harsh the punishment we mete out.
Either that, or it demonstrates that all those scary "death penalty for drugs" signs at train stations in Southeast Asia are bullshit, and that there's no such thing for anybody with enough cash. That seriously hadn't occurred to you?
in the meantime, please don't be the reason people stop posting and turn this into nothing but beta whining.
Speaking of stopping posting, it's time for US Slashdot users to start logging out. The boycott lasts from February 10 through February 17. Let's make it hurt. More specifically, let's make sure DICE hurts -- we're not really hurting /. because /. is US.
Big talk from an AC.
tl;dr FUCK BETA
When you're talking about consumer storage for families, you need three things: reliable, easy to use, and web-based.
That said, it seems to me what you're looking for is SLASHDOT BETA. It has been designed with ease of use in mind, in fact, a complete idiot could poke around at its big images all day and have a great time, and all the whitespace means you'll never get lost, even if you have a major stroke while using it. It's reliable, because unlike the old Slashdot its daily traffic is almost zero, so you'll never have to worry about slowdowns. And it's web-based, because unlike the old Slashdot it uses lots of HTML5 and JavaScript, so that's how you know it's the web, real modern-like.
On the other hand, if you'd prefer to BOYCOTT SLASHDOT, that starts on Monday, February 10. Make sure you logout on Sunday, so that even if you want to check in to see whether Dice has got the message, Slashdot gets NO TRAFFIC from registered users.
And for all you quislings posting about "whining ACs," my real name is Neil McAllister and I am one of the first 5,000 people to register on Slashdot, which means I have been here for almost 20 years. I am fully in support of the anti-beta effort and I am willing to burn all of my karma to bring you this message.
I think it's terrible that the US would try to keep more people from getting access to effective, affordable remedies, such as beta blockers.
Talk - action = nothing.
Slashdot is a conversation site. The talk IS the action.
Here's some more of it: FUCK BETA.
But before they use that collider they'll want to get it out of Beta first.
Hell, might as well use the opportunity to shill my own stuff (seems like that's what /. is for these days, anyway)...
I was one of the first 5,000 /. users, and like most of you, I too am fed up with all the shenanigans since Dice took over.
That said, I'd like to personally invite the whole, babbling mess of you to come on over to The Register at www.theregister.co.uk.
We're different. We're a little weird. We like to write headlines that pass people off. A lot of the site is pitched from a UK perspective, which means Americans sometimes don't get it, but we actually have an international staff with offices in Australia and San Francisco (where I work).
And even if the headlines sometimes get a little out there, the reporting is actually mostly pretty straight -- although we don't mind calling bullshit when it's warranted. Anyway, at least we DO reporting, unlike /., which just slaps a misleading summary on someone else's stuff. And several of our people have actual tech background (though others are just reporters).
What's more, compared to any other tech site I've ever worked for, we actually do have a lot of really articulate, whip-smart commenters on our stories. I think you would like some of what you read there. We have some trolls and dimwits, too, but that's par for the course.
Fair warning: our comments ARE moderated by our editors. That's probably never going to change, owing in part to the truly ludicrous UK libel laws, where we can be held responsible for the contents of your comments if we "publish" them. But most of what we pull are just pointless personal attacks and spam.
And as a bonus for /.ers, our site design is about as ugly as the old /., so there's that.
Come check us out. We might be kind of an acquired taste but once you acquire it you might be hooked.
I don't really see what good these autonomous vehicles will do. They won't do anything to help get rid of Slashdot Beta, so what's the point?
Probably because it's unhealthy for tech to exclude 52% of the population based on gender.
But that wasn't the proposition. The proposition was how to "get more women interested in open source." If you're talking about excluding women, then fine, if that's actually happening then that's something worth talking about. We shouldn't be excluding people. But why is it necessary to "get people interested"? If they're not interested, then fine, let 'em pursue other interests. It's a big world with lots of options.
Well, that's true, too.
My understanding is that the most common use case for both NaCl and ASM.js is to write your code in, of all things, C.
To clarify your last statement a bit, TypeScript is designed as a superset of JavaScript. All valid JavaScript is valid TypeScript. All you have to convert your project is say "my project is in TypeScript now," and you can then start adding TypeScript features to your code -- or not -- as you see fit. That's as opposed to Dart, which really is a different language with a different syntax and you have to start over.
The point of C is that it's fast as hell and gives you almost complete control.
No, assembly language is fast as hell and gives you complete control. The point of C is that it gives you almost as much control but makes it easier to build and maintain large systems without you being some kind of semirobotic idiot savant. In other words, C IS a "dumbed down" language, just like some of the other ones people are complaining about.
The best approach, therefore, is to build a compiler back-end that targets *both* ASM.js *and* (P)NaCl.
Or just compile your code twice, using two different back ends? I don't see much wisdom in building a compiler that tries to do two things at once.
Is the word "platform" officially over? My fucking toaster is a bread-browning platform.
LLVM are only getting funding because Apple wants to undermine GCC.
What on Earth would Apple gain by undermining GCC? I guess it would benefit Apple's buddy Intel, but Intel's compilers are already superior to GCC on its own chips, so I don't imagine it's too bothered.
Yes, this is exactly the issue. GPL isn't "more free" than BSD. Quite the opposite. GPL is far less free as it grants the users less freedoms.
The BSD approach is "Here is something nice I made - have it and do what you like, hope you have fun!"
The GPL approach is "Here is something nice I made - you can use it, but if you you have to let me play with you stuff. I don't care that your thing might be vastly better or more complicated than mine, if you're using my stuff you sure better make sure I can use everything you make."
I think you've mischaracterized the GPL approach. By using the personal pronoun, you make it sounds like the GPL forces people who make derivative works to do things for the original developer. That's not the intent at all. The intent is to make sure that people who make derivative works do things for everyone – meaning everyone collectively, not individually. GPL grants users lots and lots of freedoms; the one freedom it does not grant is the freedom for you to withhold from others the freedoms that you yourself enjoy. BSD does grant you that freedom.
Yeah ... when every few weeks or so Windows Update tells me it's going to download something called the Malicious Software Removal Tool, I've always wondered what it did. We might have a few new clues here.
What is with all the HAL©, HAL(Circle-C) nonsense in the submission? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke? Looking at the website, the company doesn't style the product name that way. Is it supposed to be some sort of winking reference to copyright (hurrr, hurrr)? Because that doesn't make any sense...
It is not random. If you have enough knowledge and the ability to comprehend that knowledge, you can predict what will happen. Nothing is random.
Sure, as long as you start a program and let it run all by itself without touching anything. As soon as you introduce human input, the system may still be deterministic, but the output of the program is in effect random because the behavior of the operator cannot be predicted. The kind of "knowledge and the ability to comprehend that knowledge" that you describe is known as omniscience, and most IDEs currently don't support it.
40 here, birthday's in March.
A really common one is simply, "I feel fine. I feel better than I have in years, and I've felt this way for months." That's when people really start looking at side effects with a critical eye ("it makes me foggy") and decide they can go it on their own. And often it's insidious; if someone is manic, for instance, at what point do family members step in and say "you're not doing as well as you think you are"? If you're skipping your treatment, you're probably not getting the feedback you need to properly evaluate where you're at.
What are you talking about? JavaScript must always necessarily be slower than native code due to its abstracted nature. If it needs an interpreter, or virtual machine, or any other intermediate process between the program code and the CPU, there will be overhead.
This is kind of an old-fashioned argument. Modern VMs are often essentially executing native code by the time the code is actually running. If the bulk of the overhead happens at launch time, or a JIT compiler only has to step in every so often, the level of performance can be such that the difference from "pure" native code is insignificant for most applications. Don't mistake a modern VM for a 1980s style Basic interpreter. The two are very different beasts.