As with many other things, its really just a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. In this case, it sounds allot like Erlang may be the right tool with it's live-reload, built-in fault tolerance , and distributed nature. It may still be allot of work but picking the right tool would move it from impossible (C, C++) to just difficult.
The 'Pigs' as you call them are the thin blue line between you and anarchy. In my experience policemen have been generally responsable and kind individuals who try thier best to do thier duty and follow the law. This is not to say there aren't exceptions (there are many exceptions even in my own experience). If you have a problem with policies or laws don't get upset at the cops, get upset at the policy and lawmakers. If anythings, cops should be respected for putting thier lives on the line day in and day out for little pay and almost no respect.
"Like it or not we are Human and that means that as a species we like to kill each other and take each others resources by force, etc, etc. "
Umm, some of us are a bit more civilised than that.
Please notice the term 'as a species'. As individuals most of us are bit more civilised than that. From this perspective it doesn't really matter how civilised we are on an individual basis we will still act as described when organized into large national groups.
Someone really needs to start an extra-American hyper technology-driven society with some priorities besides war-war-war. Brotherhood. Unity. Peace. Peace through power! One vision one purpose!
You will never find it. America's priority is not killing people, you can do that with very simple technologies (gas chamber, etc). The priority here is defense (or perhaps offense according to your persuasion). These means that we look 20 and 30 years into the future so that we can guarantee that we have the capability to defend ourselves and carry out our national policies.
Every nation on earth is doing this, with the constrictions of thier resources. Do you think France and Germany are sitting on thier butts and not worring about developing new military technology? No way, if they weren't they wouldn't be around in the next few decades and they know it.
Like it or not we are Human and that means that as a species we like to kill each other and take each others resources by force, etc, etc. If you have a problem with that talk to the evolution gods. Untill you do though, we will continue spending money to make sure we are not the next Carthage, Phonecia, Ottoman Empire, etc.
Actually its part of a scheme to foil counter fitters, but you are right all are bills are the same size and color. I would think that would make it really hard for machines and the blind to count them. At this point, though, it would totally freak me out if we went with multisized/colored bills.
I don't think that client/server architecture is going anywhere anytime soon. If nothing else there are still allot of things that you simply can't do with a web based solution that you can with a dedicated client. One of the big drawbacks to real applications is the Post/reply communication of web based services, you can't get a constant stream of information. The widget options on the web are also not nierly as dynamic as what you can get in a dedicated app.
Not to say that the web does not have its place, it most assuredly does. It just not quite ready to completly replace dedicated clients yet.
Time and time again it has been proven that the housing and framework around these nuclear containers can easly take the force of an explosion as well as the fall back to earth. The idea that it 'might' still rupture is just stupid. Its like saying that a big asteroid might hit the earth so I am going to hide under my bed for the rest of my life. Come on, this kind of attitude is holding us back!
Isn't terminal velocity on the order of 260+ miles per hour. That means that with out some type of assistance (some type of engine, rocket, etc) he should not be able to get anywhere near the sound barrier. Just as an FYI terminal velocity is the highest speed at which the earths gravity may pull an object. This is, of course, effected by wind resistance etc. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Yes, that is one of the points in the book. But without reading the context you can come away with a misunderstanding about the that statement. I would really suggest you read the book so that you can draw your own conclusions. I actually ended up agreeing with allot of what he put forth in the book.
You have obviously never read the book (like you said). I have not actually seen the movie, its to much of a bastardization. But the book was all about societal responsablity. If anything it glorified war and military service as an honorable way to take responsability for your fellow man. I agree with much of this btw. To say that Starship Troopers (even in its bastardized movie incarnation) has any anti-war sentiment is just stupid.
You guys dont seem to get it. Its not the fact that it was porn pop-ups or any of that other stuff. Its the fact that he misrepresented himself to the consumer. I think the nail in the coffin for him was the fact that he would forward them to the actual site they were looking for. This type of misrepresentation is illegal no matter the media or venue.
I realize this is slashdot but it still disheartens me to see such blatent and obvious editorial bias on what is essentially a news site. Oh well back to microsoft bashing.
Like many sideline critics you assume that becuase it is a simple principle in hindsight it must have been simple to come up with. This is, of couse, blatantly wrong headed of you. The genious in these types of things is that initial spark of inventivness that causes a person to make the leap of imagination to make something that did not exist exist. By your principles, wilber and orville where lucky idiots becuase the wing is such a simple concept, or perhaps edison was truly a useless moron becuase the lightbulb is so simple, just a filiment that heats up right? There are thousands of other inventions that seem simple in hindsight but where difficult to come up with the first time. That doesnt make them useless.
You are right, the movie was almost the most horrible movie I have ever seen (the most horrible being Robot Wars II). I would however say the book was not bad, it was one of hubbards last good ones before he embarked on his trip to wacky world.
That may have been the gist of the movie but not the book. If I remember correctly the book never mentioned where the meteor came from. Simply that it hit earth. I think most people assume it came from a nearby location. Remember as well that the meteor did not start the war but was used as a weopon in it.
Why the pain? Ada is great language that has matured quite allot in the last 10 years or so, especially with the update in 1995. I cant say the Ada mandate was a good thing for the langauge, but the language itself is very nice. I think the main problem that people have with it is its pascal like syntax and the fact that it imposes allot of discipline. Programmers generally dont like any discipline much less externally imposed by the language. However, that does not negate Ada's benifits as a programming enviroment and it shouldnt be dismissed out of hand.
We have things like Pascal (none of which IMO, are very powerful).
I assume by this that you also mean pascals children. If that is the case have you never heard of Ada (Ada95 to be exact). Its a powerfull or moreso then C, easy to understand, and extreamly safe. To make a blanket statement like this about an entire family of languages seem to speak to a lack of knowlege on your part. Please get you facts strait before making blanket statements. If you do that you will probably end up not making these statements at all.
You speak as if Ada (notice correct capitalization, its a name not an acronym) is dead or outdated. It is not at all dead or outdated. It was updated in 1995, becoming the first standardized Object Oriented langugage and is one of the best languages available for large project development. There is even a really great compiler out there for it called gnat. Its even going to be included in the gcc tool chain in v3.1. So please dont speak as if this were a dead or outdated language
How is the a troll or flaimbait? Simple becuase he expresses an opinion you do not agree with? The fact that opinions that do not follow your world view are moded down is very totaliterian.I personnally agree with the opinion expressed here, but whether I did or not he should not be modded as flamebait simply becuase you disagree. What happened to free and open exchange of valid opinions?
Last I looked redhat didnt own more then 90% of the OS market. Also redhats database (which is really Postgresql) is not integrated directly into redhat's linux distro, they sell it as a seperate product altogether. What microsoft is doing is integrating the database directly into the OS much like they did with Internet Explorer several years ago. The death of IEs competitor Netscape followed shortly thereafter. So oracle will have a very valid antitrust claim. So your argument really doesn't apply at all. You should probably think these comments through a little more before you post them.
Similar problems generally have similar solutions, expecially when every person producing that solution was taught by the same instructer. It is very likly that many of these programs would share a similar structure overall. Of course, the did not mention how similar it has to be, but I would not bet on this program only catch actuall cheaters, allot of dolphins probably get caught in that tuna net.
And this is a bad thing? Linux(by any name) on 33 million desktops? This is great, linux would gain huge acceptance by this. Perhaps we would become more mainstream, get some new desktop glitter. More programs, more corporate support, maybe even kill microsoft. I think you dont like the idea that people will think AOL invented linux. I say that is better then them not knowing Linux exists at all.
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As with many other things, its really just a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. In this case, it sounds allot like Erlang may be the right tool with it's live-reload, built-in fault tolerance , and distributed nature. It may still be allot of work but picking the right tool would move it from impossible (C, C++) to just difficult.
The 'Pigs' as you call them are the thin blue line between you and anarchy. In my experience policemen have been generally responsable and kind individuals who try thier best to do thier duty and follow the law. This is not to say there aren't exceptions (there are many exceptions even in my own experience). If you have a problem with policies or laws don't get upset at the cops, get upset at the policy and lawmakers. If anythings, cops should be respected for putting thier lives on the line day in and day out for little pay and almost no respect.
"Like it or not we are Human and that means that as a species we like to kill each other and take each others resources by force, etc, etc. "
Umm, some of us are a bit more civilised than that.
Please notice the term 'as a species'. As individuals most of us are bit more civilised than that. From this perspective it doesn't really matter how civilised we are on an individual basis we will still act as described when organized into large national groups.
Someone really needs to start an extra-American hyper technology-driven society with some priorities besides war-war-war. Brotherhood. Unity. Peace. Peace through power! One vision one purpose!
You will never find it. America's priority is not killing people, you can do that with very simple technologies (gas chamber, etc). The priority here is defense (or perhaps offense according to your persuasion). These means that we look 20 and 30 years into the future so that we can guarantee that we have the capability to defend ourselves and carry out our national policies.
Every nation on earth is doing this, with the constrictions of thier resources. Do you think France and Germany are sitting on thier butts and not worring about developing new military technology? No way, if they weren't they wouldn't be around in the next few decades and they know it.
Like it or not we are Human and that means that as a species we like to kill each other and take each others resources by force, etc, etc. If you have a problem with that talk to the evolution gods. Untill you do though, we will continue spending money to make sure we are not the next Carthage, Phonecia, Ottoman Empire, etc.
Would the Joint Military Off-Shore Base do? (JMOB)
Theoretically you could land and launch a B-52 from this so a 747 is probably not a problem.
Actually its part of a scheme to foil counter fitters, but you are right all are bills are the same size and color. I would think that would make it really hard for machines and the blind to count them. At this point, though, it would totally freak me out if we went with multisized/colored bills.
I don't think that client/server architecture is going anywhere anytime soon. If nothing else there are still allot of things that you simply can't do with a web based solution that you can with a dedicated client. One of the big drawbacks to real applications is the Post/reply communication of web based services, you can't get a constant stream of information. The widget options on the web are also not nierly as dynamic as what you can get in a dedicated app.
Not to say that the web does not have its place, it most assuredly does. It just not quite ready to completly replace dedicated clients yet.
Time and time again it has been proven that the housing and framework around these nuclear containers can easly take the force of an explosion as well as the fall back to earth. The idea that it 'might' still rupture is just stupid. Its like saying that a big asteroid might hit the earth so I am going to hide under my bed for the rest of my life. Come on, this kind of attitude is holding us back!
Isn't terminal velocity on the order of 260+ miles per hour. That means that with out some type of assistance (some type of engine, rocket, etc) he should not be able to get anywhere near the sound barrier. Just as an FYI terminal velocity is the highest speed at which the earths gravity may pull an object. This is, of course, effected by wind resistance etc. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Yes, that is one of the points in the book. But without reading the context you can come away with a misunderstanding about the that statement. I would really suggest you read the book so that you can draw your own conclusions. I actually ended up agreeing with allot of what he put forth in the book.
You have obviously never read the book (like you said). I have not actually seen the movie, its to much of a bastardization. But the book was all about societal responsablity. If anything it glorified war and military service as an honorable way to take responsability for your fellow man. I agree with much of this btw. To say that Starship Troopers (even in its bastardized movie incarnation) has any anti-war sentiment is just stupid.
You guys dont seem to get it. Its not the fact that it was porn pop-ups or any of that other stuff. Its the fact that he misrepresented himself to the consumer. I think the nail in the coffin for him was the fact that he would forward them to the actual site they were looking for. This type of misrepresentation is illegal no matter the media or venue.
I realize this is slashdot but it still disheartens me to see such blatent and obvious editorial bias on what is essentially a news site. Oh well back to microsoft bashing.
Like many sideline critics you assume that becuase it is a simple principle in hindsight it must have been simple to come up with. This is, of couse, blatantly wrong headed of you. The genious in these types of things is that initial spark of inventivness that causes a person to make the leap of imagination to make something that did not exist exist. By your principles, wilber and orville where lucky idiots becuase the wing is such a simple concept, or perhaps edison was truly a useless moron becuase the lightbulb is so simple, just a filiment that heats up right? There are thousands of other inventions that seem simple in hindsight but where difficult to come up with the first time. That doesnt make them useless.
You are right, the movie was almost the most horrible movie I have ever seen (the most horrible being Robot Wars II). I would however say the book was not bad, it was one of hubbards last good ones before he embarked on his trip to wacky world.
That may have been the gist of the movie but not the book. If I remember correctly the book never mentioned where the meteor came from. Simply that it hit earth. I think most people assume it came from a nearby location. Remember as well that the meteor did not start the war but was used as a weopon in it.
If you have released your code under GPL I dont think you really have a choice in the matter. I may of course be wrong here.
Why the pain? Ada is great language that has matured quite allot in the last 10 years or so, especially with the update in 1995. I cant say the Ada mandate was a good thing for the langauge, but the language itself is very nice. I think the main problem that people have with it is its pascal like syntax and the fact that it imposes allot of discipline. Programmers generally dont like any discipline much less externally imposed by the language. However, that does not negate Ada's benifits as a programming enviroment and it shouldnt be dismissed out of hand.
We have things like Pascal (none of which IMO, are very powerful).
I assume by this that you also mean pascals children. If that is the case have you never heard of Ada (Ada95 to be exact). Its a powerfull or moreso then C, easy to understand, and extreamly safe. To make a blanket statement like this about an entire family of languages seem to speak to a lack of knowlege on your part. Please get you facts strait before making blanket statements. If you do that you will probably end up not making these statements at all.
You speak as if Ada (notice correct capitalization, its a name not an acronym) is dead or outdated. It is not at all dead or outdated. It was updated in 1995, becoming the first standardized Object Oriented langugage and is one of the best languages available for large project development. There is even a really great compiler out there for it called gnat. Its even going to be included in the gcc tool chain in v3.1. So please dont speak as if this were a dead or outdated language
How is the a troll or flaimbait? Simple becuase he expresses an opinion you do not agree with? The fact that opinions that do not follow your world view are moded down is very totaliterian.I personnally agree with the opinion expressed here, but whether I did or not he should not be modded as flamebait simply becuase you disagree. What happened to free and open exchange of valid opinions?
Actuall Ada95 has these things and on modern architectures the speed diffrence is unnoticable.
Last I looked redhat didnt own more then 90% of the OS market. Also redhats database (which is really Postgresql) is not integrated directly into redhat's linux distro, they sell it as a seperate product altogether. What microsoft is doing is integrating the database directly into the OS much like they did with Internet Explorer several years ago. The death of IEs competitor Netscape followed shortly thereafter. So oracle will have a very valid antitrust claim. So your argument really doesn't apply at all. You should probably think these comments through a little more before you post them.
Similar problems generally have similar solutions, expecially when every person producing that solution was taught by the same instructer. It is very likly that many of these programs would share a similar structure overall. Of course, the did not mention how similar it has to be, but I would not bet on this program only catch actuall cheaters, allot of dolphins probably get caught in that tuna net.
And this is a bad thing? Linux(by any name) on 33 million desktops? This is great, linux would gain huge acceptance by this. Perhaps we would become more mainstream, get some new desktop glitter. More programs, more corporate support, maybe even kill microsoft. I think you dont like the idea that people will think AOL invented linux. I say that is better then them not knowing Linux exists at all.