I said "if all options are on the table." By this I meaning that you can have your pick of languages. You keep referencing speed and throwing in scalability - if you need those things you don't have many options for languages.
I'm not sure what you most programming tasks are like in your world, but in my world, 95% of them do not require any blazing speed or true scalability.
Things change fast sure, but by that token, not all of the changes are permanent or important. I'm not averse to learning new stuff if it's proven, but I don't go running after new stuff simply because it's there. Old programming languages still work fine for new tech if they have appropriate libraries, etc.
Nothing against that comment, but it should not be marked as insightful.
Old programming languages are used at the peril of the company left to support them. Speaking generally, old languages are more difficult to integrate with, harder to support, and more expensive to support than contemporary languages.
If all options are on the table, it'd be tough to make a case to go with COBOL, PASCAL, or PERL (or even C++) when Ruby, Python or C# are available. imho.
There was a major series of incidents at RAF Bentwaters installation (a base in the UK, ran by the US). Numerous people, including the base commander are on record saying that they've seen. Recorded audio of the objects being observed by the tower. Radar pings of the object. Photos of the landed object. Sketches done immediately after the landing.
I believe their are 13 people from the base who have gone on record speaking about the incidents that happened over a number of days.
To assume that all military personnel on the base, including the base commander are someone mistaken or crazy seems irrational.
The exclusivity was tied to an online delivery service integrated into the console. Netflix gets around this with Wii and PS3 by essentially selling a "Netflix Game" that streams the video from the service.
I downloaded Windows 7 x64 from Microsoft TechNet, I installed it over Windows XP. The install backed up all my files and it took less than 30 minutes.
I use Ubuntu at home, and I use it by choice. We all now that if we're running FreeBSD of a PowerPC Mac there are certain things that aren't available for us either. It's the price we knowingly pay for the choices me make. We're the exceptions, not the rule.
Over above whatever the swimmers are using, the pool itself is engineered to create faster times. Everything from the lane dividers, to the wall of the pool, to the extra meter of depth are meant to dissipate turbulence in the water and increase times.
The biggest crime that fat people commit is the stealing of time from us normal folks.
As you may or may not know, gravity slows down time. Gravity is the product of mass. Their larger than average masses steals a larger than average portion of time from you as you pass through their (considerable) area of influence.
I'm walking and gravity is constant; normal; time is passing. Then I attempt to squeeze around this fat person because they're too slow. To the fat person, they're walking at a normal speed, but their time operates slowers than ours so relative to us and the natural, they're in fact walking slower.
So as I pass them, the grip of their massive gravity slows down the space-time I have to walk through to pass them. Even though it seems like it only took me 1 second to walk past them, 1.x seconds elapsed in the real world outside the gravity of the fat person.
In affect, the fat person STOLE X amount of time from me!!!
You can't get that back.
This phenomenon also accounts for fat people having lower IQs (just google it). There answers always take longer to formulate because their time is slowed down relative to ours. (assuming you're not fat)
The time-differential between obese and non-obese people is accountable for countless things.
You also might notice that the Japanese appear to be smarter than Americans. And potentially more efficient and harder workings. You'll also notice that per capita they're skinnier. Giving them more relative-time in a day to accomplish the same tasks.
It wouldn't surprise if the American day is actually 23.5 hours compared to the 24 hour day the rest of the world enjoys.
From what I understand, 80% of the computational power of the system is dedicated to scanning the connections between data. Approximately only 20% is used to create the artificial intelligence.
What truth do you know of the following statement?
CENNS stands for Core Engine Neural Network System, and started as a research consolidation project under DARPA's Intelligent Systems and Software program in 1995. It was a joint effort with the RAND institute to leverage all A.I. research in the past 50 years under a single initiative.
Project SUR paved the way for systems HARPY and HEARSAY-I, then abandoned until 1984, under the Strategic Computing Program. HEARSAY-II introduced the concept of a common database called "blackboard" that could be accessed from independent but mutually interacting knowledge sources. This is the concept under which CENNS instances operate today, but it was not implemented until 1999, under the Intelligent Integration of Information program, or I3. In July 16 of 2000, all Helios instances successfully passed the Turing test.
Today, as before, CENNS funding continues to be spread across various program areas, but leadership is localized within the Information Exploration Office, or IXO. In November 3 2007, United Kingdom's QINETIQ launched its own CENNS in cooperation with IXO. CENNS technology was first utilized in project GILA for Air Traffic Control, and has been since leveraged in many other applications. Focus today, is on project NetSTAR.
The main hardware powering CENNS resides at an undisclosed BlueGene/P supercomputer in Edwards Air Force Flight Test Center. QINETIQ's CENNS runs covertly out of the Jülich Research Centre, in Germany.
The photo gallery demo on SproutCore.com fails to work on Opera - the right photo pane not even rendering. Although Opera isn't widely used, with its exceptional standards-compliance it's a great barometer for how compatible something may ultimately be.
It's an interesting idea, and maybe I'm missing the "awesomeness" of it, but I don't find a compelling reason to switch to this over a standard development stack. It just seems as though it's a highly widgetized javascript framework, running on ruby.
I develop in Rails and C#, and I'd just as soon use jQuery and it's host of extensions to build my own application like widgets that I could use across any backend.
I've looked through the documentation and I'm hoping I'm just missing something about SproutCore's awesomeness.
Windows is complicated - in a bad way. But it's what people know. If they modularize Windows 7 and start to make it so the whole operating system is an add-on, I think that would only confuse people. I can't imagine my parents downloading a new module to make their Windows installation complete.
I understand the new the business model, but if Windows 7 is going to change so drastically, doesn't it give users a great opportunity to switch to a Mac? I swear, if an OS is so unfamiliar that they're going to have to effectively "re-learn" it, they might as well just go with whatever Apple is selling because in my limited experience, it's far better.
And as much as my wife loves using the Mac, I can still bust open a BASH shell terminal and do incredibly geeky stuff. Win-win.
EA's main motivation for this acquisition is to regain the old price point for their flag ship sports titles. Take-Two publishes basketball, basebeall & hockey games (and to a lesser degree football) games that are direct competitors to EA's flagship sport titles. However, Take-Two at times has priced these titles as low as $29.99 which causes EA to drive it's own prices down.
Therefore, buying Take-Two would rid EA of there sports-related competition and all them to price their games at whatever they want. EA is one record saying that this is their intention, and that GTA is just icing on the cake.
It's a rain of red cells that multiply like yeast yet have no detectable DNA. All earth based-life contains DNA, these cells do not appear. And this is just the tip of their unusual properties:
Alien life, in some sense, has likely already found us.
And on a side note, I would encourage everyone to take a look at Linda Moulton Howe's work at Earthfiles.com. As is always the case, if there is an interesting phenomena on the planet, she does a more in-depth, facsinating job reporting on it than anyone else dare.
What I have always found to be most arrogant about Nintendo is the fact that they release the same software for each console they release. Granted, the games are well received and predominantly well reviewed, but as consumer it strikes me as pompus (or lazy?) of Nintendo to just release
Mario World Mario Kart Mario Party Smash Bros Metroid Zelda
Even games that aren't that good, like Mario Golf and Mario Strikers get rehashed on every system. I understand franchises, but it just seems to me like Nintendo keeps pumping them out assuming that the games will be purchased by the faithful. That strikes me as arrogant. Of course Smash Bros, Metroid, Zelda, Mario Kart et cetera all turns out to be very good games, but as a Nintendo aficionado for the better part of two decades, I resent Nintendo for expecting me to continually buy the same type of games over and over.
*And I know there are new types of games for the Wii and DS that are innovative, but I'm talking about traditional gaming, not the "new gaming"
And if it means all these electronics are going to be recycled/reused in a more efficient manner, I have no problems with theses fees. It's better than my broken 50" TV or desktop computer getting buried in the earth. Most of the fees are incidental compared to the total purchase price of the goods anyways.
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You're taking my comments out of context.
I said "if all options are on the table." By this I meaning that you can have your pick of languages. You keep referencing speed and throwing in scalability - if you need those things you don't have many options for languages.
I'm not sure what you most programming tasks are like in your world, but in my world, 95% of them do not require any blazing speed or true scalability.
Things change fast sure, but by that token, not all of the changes are permanent or important. I'm not averse to learning new stuff if it's proven, but I don't go running after new stuff simply because it's there. Old programming languages still work fine for new tech if they have appropriate libraries, etc.
Nothing against that comment, but it should not be marked as insightful.
Old programming languages are used at the peril of the company left to support them. Speaking generally, old languages are more difficult to integrate with, harder to support, and more expensive to support than contemporary languages.
If all options are on the table, it'd be tough to make a case to go with COBOL, PASCAL, or PERL (or even C++) when Ruby, Python or C# are available. imho.
There was a major series of incidents at RAF Bentwaters installation (a base in the UK, ran by the US). Numerous people, including the base commander are on record saying that they've seen. Recorded audio of the objects being observed by the tower. Radar pings of the object. Photos of the landed object. Sketches done immediately after the landing.
I believe their are 13 people from the base who have gone on record speaking about the incidents that happened over a number of days.
To assume that all military personnel on the base, including the base commander are someone mistaken or crazy seems irrational.
Back in August when this was news:
http://www.crispygamer.com/blogs/post/2009/08/11/NOT-NEWS-Xbox-360s-Netflix-Exclusivity.aspx
The exclusivity was tied to an online delivery service integrated into the console. Netflix gets around this with Wii and PS3 by essentially selling a "Netflix Game" that streams the video from the service.
I downloaded Windows 7 x64 from Microsoft TechNet, I installed it over Windows XP. The install backed up all my files and it took less than 30 minutes.
I use Ubuntu at home, and I use it by choice. We all now that if we're running FreeBSD of a PowerPC Mac there are certain things that aren't available for us either. It's the price we knowingly pay for the choices me make. We're the exceptions, not the rule.
In Canada, they're not allowed to force you to bundle services.
The phone & cable companies have to sell you DSL or Cable internet even if you have no other services with them.
in Canada.
The common man speaks.
if they just chipped us all.
I'll pass.
Everyone is faster in the pool. I watched a race where even the 5th place finisher came in above the old world record time.
Just read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/sports/olympics/12records.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Over above whatever the swimmers are using, the pool itself is engineered to create faster times. Everything from the lane dividers, to the wall of the pool, to the extra meter of depth are meant to dissipate turbulence in the water and increase times.
But space, the planets and galaxy are too numerous to imagine. Basically infinite.
Rare x Infinite = Infinite
They might be thousands of lights years apart, but there are still billions of them.
JQuery
The biggest crime that fat people commit is the stealing of time from us normal folks.
As you may or may not know, gravity slows down time. Gravity is the product of mass. Their larger than average masses steals a larger than average portion of time from you as you pass through their (considerable) area of influence.
I'm walking and gravity is constant; normal; time is passing. Then I attempt to squeeze around this fat person because they're too slow. To the fat person, they're walking at a normal speed, but their time operates slowers than ours so relative to us and the natural, they're in fact walking slower.
So as I pass them, the grip of their massive gravity slows down the space-time I have to walk through to pass them. Even though it seems like it only took me 1 second to walk past them, 1.x seconds elapsed in the real world outside the gravity of the fat person.
In affect, the fat person STOLE X amount of time from me!!!
You can't get that back.
This phenomenon also accounts for fat people having lower IQs (just google it). There answers always take longer to formulate because their time is slowed down relative to ours. (assuming you're not fat)
The time-differential between obese and non-obese people is accountable for countless things.
You also might notice that the Japanese appear to be smarter than Americans. And potentially more efficient and harder workings. You'll also notice that per capita they're skinnier. Giving them more relative-time in a day to accomplish the same tasks.
It wouldn't surprise if the American day is actually 23.5 hours compared to the 24 hour day the rest of the world enjoys.
From what I understand, 80% of the computational power of the system is dedicated to scanning the connections between data. Approximately only 20% is used to create the artificial intelligence.
Xeth,
What truth do you know of the following statement?
CENNS stands for Core Engine Neural Network System, and started as a research consolidation project under DARPA's Intelligent Systems and Software program in 1995. It was a joint effort with the RAND institute to leverage all A.I. research in the past 50 years under a single initiative.
Project SUR paved the way for systems HARPY and HEARSAY-I, then abandoned until 1984, under the Strategic Computing Program. HEARSAY-II introduced the concept of a common database called "blackboard" that could be accessed from independent but mutually interacting knowledge sources. This is the concept under which CENNS instances operate today, but it was not implemented until 1999, under the Intelligent Integration of Information program, or I3. In July 16 of 2000, all Helios instances successfully passed the Turing test.
Today, as before, CENNS funding continues to be spread across various program areas, but leadership is localized within the Information Exploration Office, or IXO. In November 3 2007, United Kingdom's QINETIQ launched its own CENNS in cooperation with IXO. CENNS technology was first utilized in project GILA for Air Traffic Control, and has been since leveraged in many other applications. Focus today, is on project NetSTAR.
The main hardware powering CENNS resides at an undisclosed BlueGene/P supercomputer in Edwards Air Force Flight Test Center. QINETIQ's CENNS runs covertly out of the Jülich Research Centre, in Germany.
The photo gallery demo on SproutCore.com fails to work on Opera - the right photo pane not even rendering. Although Opera isn't widely used, with its exceptional standards-compliance it's a great barometer for how compatible something may ultimately be.
It's an interesting idea, and maybe I'm missing the "awesomeness" of it, but I don't find a compelling reason to switch to this over a standard development stack. It just seems as though it's a highly widgetized javascript framework, running on ruby.
I develop in Rails and C#, and I'd just as soon use jQuery and it's host of extensions to build my own application like widgets that I could use across any backend.
I've looked through the documentation and I'm hoping I'm just missing something about SproutCore's awesomeness.
Windows is complicated - in a bad way. But it's what people know. If they modularize Windows 7 and start to make it so the whole operating system is an add-on, I think that would only confuse people. I can't imagine my parents downloading a new module to make their Windows installation complete.
I understand the new the business model, but if Windows 7 is going to change so drastically, doesn't it give users a great opportunity to switch to a Mac? I swear, if an OS is so unfamiliar that they're going to have to effectively "re-learn" it, they might as well just go with whatever Apple is selling because in my limited experience, it's far better.
And as much as my wife loves using the Mac, I can still bust open a BASH shell terminal and do incredibly geeky stuff. Win-win.
EA's main motivation for this acquisition is to regain the old price point for their flag ship sports titles. Take-Two publishes basketball, basebeall & hockey games (and to a lesser degree football) games that are direct competitors to EA's flagship sport titles. However, Take-Two at times has priced these titles as low as $29.99 which causes EA to drive it's own prices down.
Therefore, buying Take-Two would rid EA of there sports-related competition and all them to price their games at whatever they want. EA is one record saying that this is their intention, and that GTA is just icing on the cake.
it's -amazing- the sound that the Capcom developers got out of that console.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7tpIdDfoLk
It's a rain of red cells that multiply like yeast yet have no detectable DNA. All earth based-life contains DNA, these cells do not appear. And this is just the tip of their unusual properties:
http://education.vsnl.com/godfrey/
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1337&category=Environment
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/2c21c0f98d07b010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html
Alien life, in some sense, has likely already found us.
And on a side note, I would encourage everyone to take a look at Linda Moulton Howe's work at Earthfiles.com. As is always the case, if there is an interesting phenomena on the planet, she does a more in-depth, facsinating job reporting on it than anyone else dare.
I believe that's called a computer.
What I have always found to be most arrogant about Nintendo is the fact that they release the same software for each console they release. Granted, the games are well received and predominantly well reviewed, but as consumer it strikes me as pompus (or lazy?) of Nintendo to just release
Mario World
Mario Kart
Mario Party
Smash Bros
Metroid
Zelda
Even games that aren't that good, like Mario Golf and Mario Strikers get rehashed on every system. I understand franchises, but it just seems to me like Nintendo keeps pumping them out assuming that the games will be purchased by the faithful. That strikes me as arrogant. Of course Smash Bros, Metroid, Zelda, Mario Kart et cetera all turns out to be very good games, but as a Nintendo aficionado for the better part of two decades, I resent Nintendo for expecting me to continually buy the same type of games over and over.
*And I know there are new types of games for the Wii and DS that are innovative, but I'm talking about traditional gaming, not the "new gaming"
They are as follows:
Television (18" and smaller) $15.00
Television (19"- 29") $25.00
Television (30" - 45") $30.00
Television (46" and larger) $45.00
CPUs (including mouse, keyboard, cables, speakers.) $10.00 (basically, $10 for your entire computer)
Printers/printer combos $8.00
Laptops/electronic notebooks $5.00
Computer monitors $12.00
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/env/waste/ewaste/index.html
And if it means all these electronics are going to be recycled/reused in a more efficient manner, I have no problems with theses fees. It's better than my broken 50" TV or desktop computer getting buried in the earth. Most of the fees are incidental compared to the total purchase price of the goods anyways.
...I'd recommond every Canadian to go to here:
n MPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/Mai
Find their member of parliament and tell them that they will not tolerate motions like this under any circumstance.