Let's go ahead and shut down the network connections other than the one to stream the movie. And that pesky SMS. And location services. And SD storage. And voice. And the dialer. And USB. And other apps, since you can't tell which ones do what.
Who cares if people die because they can't get their reverse 911 calls, or if kidnapped kids aren't seen because the Amber alert never made it to the guy watching Flashdance on his lunch hour? It's all about the extra $3 if someone happens to hook up to a monitor, isn't it?
Indeed much of the progress in languages these days is toward getting those performance advantages out of languages built on the lessons of flexible dynamic languages. Go, Rust, D, and even Lua to some extent compromise between a lot of flexibility and ease of prototyping vs. executable speed and error checking by combining thing like easy memory management and generic flow constructs but with tight type constraints and pointers for the actual concrete data items.
The onus for a lot of the work once done by the programmer in lower-level languages goes onto the compiler, but at the same time the compiler will complain more about type mismatches than with languages that are completely duck typed. These are both wins for overall productivity in my book. Now, as for subtlety, orthogonality, and complexity it remains to be seen where Go and Rust at least truly end up.
Atari, Tandy, IBM, Apple, Wang, Sinclair, Acorn, Texas Instruments, Digital, Xerox, Toshiba, Compaq, Timex, Sun Microsystems, Epson, Osborne, Intel, Motorola, AT&T, Microsoft, Digital Research, Lotus, Watcom, and Borland are on the time phone from 1983. They want to have a word with you.
You could buy an IBM PC and buy assemblers, COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, Pascal (including Turbo Pascal on DOS), and more for it running on a Unix system (Xenix) or DOS.
CP/M machines from several makers including Osborne and several other micros were around before that, with Apple, Atari, Commodore, and Tandy being the big ones in the US.
Sun had already launched the Sun-1 and in 1983 launched the Sun-2 series.
These are the three points I expect people to realistically bring against Perl. These three are definitely true of Perl as well. Inevitably what most people actually cite are memes about line noise, write-only code, and the impossibility of writing large projects.
Orthogonality has its merits, but true 100% orthogonality is really rare in a language. Sometimes it's convenient to have a second way to do something, even if it's confusing to have ten ways to do it. Even assembly languages are seldom completely orthogonal. It's easy to see why some languages fall too far on the many ways side of things for some people, though. C++, Perl, APL, and Ruby are guilty as are others.
Yes, some languages are so complex they have a substantial and often ongoing learning cost. C++, Perl, APL, and Ruby are guilty as are others.
Subtlety can be really powerful, but too much can cause issues and lends to bugs that are difficult to track down. Obviously Perl is also far on the subtle side of the obvious / subtle line. C++ and Ruby live on the same end of that line, but maybe not quite as close to the end. APL... well, it's APL.
I doubt all distracted driving accidents are attributable to cell phone voice calls. Texting, shaving, eating, drinking a beverage, spanking kids, head banging, receiving fellatio, messing with the stereo, messing with the GPS, tying a tie, and ogling the redhead on the side of the street are all distractions.
It doesn't have to be the same cake as long as there's enough chocolate cake to get the job done. See the reply where someone very wisely noted that the supply of 8" floppy disks is probably not as old as you're assuming.
Really? What part of SoC with SATA controller did you miss?
Quoting the story:
These latest AMD APUs aren’t strictly CPU and GPU cores crammed onto a single piece of silicon. They are full SoCs with on-die memory controllers, PCI Express, SATA, and USB connectivity, and a host of other interface elements. Connect one of these APUs to some memory and storage, and some I/O ports and you’ve essentially got a complete low-power, X86 compatible platform, with modern Radeon graphics.
That's one RAID 5 with a hot spare, one RAID 10, or two RAID 1 arrays (or one spanning volume with mirroring, but you may as well use RAID 10). For a real storage server you're kind of limited.
Six is a much better number. It would allow two fives, a ten and a one, a ten and a zero, a zero or one for the boot drive and a five with a hot spare, a single boot drive and a ten with a hot spare, two fives in a network boot or always USB booting, a six-disk ten with network/USB boot, and on and on.
This is the US military. There's a very good chance they have a six acre warehouse full of eight inch floppy disks that's fully climate controlled and guarded by snipers and dogs.
You can often invest money at a higher rate of interest than you get at on a special finance deal. One can also make more money in coming years vs. a fixed interest rate. If your income rises faster than inflation and inflation is a similar rate to your interest rate then keeping the cash in hand and making the loan payments over time is a net decision.
Microsoft is a US company. Microsoft can't relieve itself of US jurisdiction by telling the judge "oh, sorry, we, here in the US, moved that data offshore."
If they accepted bribes in the form of a well-paying job after leaving the regulatory position,and if that new job has no access or authority sufficient to harm the new employer, then yes. The whole issue here is the perception if not the actual action of the job being the bribe.
So which is the lynchpin factor here, the scale or the random assignment? If I rent a specific server with a specific antenna that's mine all the time, does that change what's happening here?
If you're lucky. I live in Houston and have friends in the field. Everyone from welders to cooks to field support people to make the most of their income don't go just to North Dakota or Alberta but to places like the Gulf of Mexico out of sight of land for two months at a time, or to Nigeria, or to somewhere on the Arabian peninsula. Many of them do this for a few years and save up a nest egg, then change fields or industries.
What's the difference, functionally, if I rent a house with an antenna on the roof then use a Slingbox / SiliconDust Homerun or rent a server that has an antenna on it? Practically none to actually none, really. The legal difference will hopefully be the same.
He's talking about being able to shift the download to his unlimited transfer plan and download it once rather than streaming it repeatedly on a limited transfer wireless plan. The overhead of the actual DRM is small. The overhead caused in actual practice of forcing an active stream to happen for each viewing on each device can work out to be huge in some situations.
Hey, what does being uneducated have to do with being Scots-Irish or for that matter being from a mountainous state? Let's leave "hillbilly" out of this. There are educated and uneducated people of many different ethnicities and locales. I think some of you people so dismissive of "hillbillies" and hog farmers forget that small town schools are often better funded and better performing than those in large portions of the biggest cities.
I guess according to your city arrogance the schools in Newark, Baltimore, or East St. Louis are much better than those in, say, Cartersville, Georgia or Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
In what universe was the US Constitution written to ensure economic equality. In this one it was written to ensure equality under the law, which we have enough problems realizing.
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One doesn't mine bitcoins to launder cash. One buys the bitcoins, sends them around, then cashes back out.
Let's go ahead and shut down the network connections other than the one to stream the movie. And that pesky SMS. And location services. And SD storage. And voice. And the dialer. And USB. And other apps, since you can't tell which ones do what.
Who cares if people die because they can't get their reverse 911 calls, or if kidnapped kids aren't seen because the Amber alert never made it to the guy watching Flashdance on his lunch hour? It's all about the extra $3 if someone happens to hook up to a monitor, isn't it?
It's just a shame nobody makes a phone with 1920x1080 output on HDMI... oh, never mind. This post was meant for more than a year ago.
Article listing multiple phones with HDMI output in April, 2013
Indeed much of the progress in languages these days is toward getting those performance advantages out of languages built on the lessons of flexible dynamic languages. Go, Rust, D, and even Lua to some extent compromise between a lot of flexibility and ease of prototyping vs. executable speed and error checking by combining thing like easy memory management and generic flow constructs but with tight type constraints and pointers for the actual concrete data items.
The onus for a lot of the work once done by the programmer in lower-level languages goes onto the compiler, but at the same time the compiler will complain more about type mismatches than with languages that are completely duck typed. These are both wins for overall productivity in my book. Now, as for subtlety, orthogonality, and complexity it remains to be seen where Go and Rust at least truly end up.
Atari, Tandy, IBM, Apple, Wang, Sinclair, Acorn, Texas Instruments, Digital, Xerox, Toshiba, Compaq, Timex, Sun Microsystems, Epson, Osborne, Intel, Motorola, AT&T, Microsoft, Digital Research, Lotus, Watcom, and Borland are on the time phone from 1983. They want to have a word with you.
You could buy an IBM PC and buy assemblers, COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, Pascal (including Turbo Pascal on DOS), and more for it running on a Unix system (Xenix) or DOS.
CP/M machines from several makers including Osborne and several other micros were around before that, with Apple, Atari, Commodore, and Tandy being the big ones in the US.
Sun had already launched the Sun-1 and in 1983 launched the Sun-2 series.
This list could go on and on.
These are the three points I expect people to realistically bring against Perl. These three are definitely true of Perl as well. Inevitably what most people actually cite are memes about line noise, write-only code, and the impossibility of writing large projects.
Orthogonality has its merits, but true 100% orthogonality is really rare in a language. Sometimes it's convenient to have a second way to do something, even if it's confusing to have ten ways to do it. Even assembly languages are seldom completely orthogonal. It's easy to see why some languages fall too far on the many ways side of things for some people, though. C++, Perl, APL, and Ruby are guilty as are others.
Yes, some languages are so complex they have a substantial and often ongoing learning cost. C++, Perl, APL, and Ruby are guilty as are others.
Subtlety can be really powerful, but too much can cause issues and lends to bugs that are difficult to track down. Obviously Perl is also far on the subtle side of the obvious / subtle line. C++ and Ruby live on the same end of that line, but maybe not quite as close to the end. APL... well, it's APL.
Sounds good.
I doubt all distracted driving accidents are attributable to cell phone voice calls. Texting, shaving, eating, drinking a beverage, spanking kids, head banging, receiving fellatio, messing with the stereo, messing with the GPS, tying a tie, and ogling the redhead on the side of the street are all distractions.
It doesn't have to be the same cake as long as there's enough chocolate cake to get the job done. See the reply where someone very wisely noted that the supply of 8" floppy disks is probably not as old as you're assuming.
Really? What part of SoC with SATA controller did you miss?
Quoting the story:
Even quoting the summary:
Maybe you should step back a moment from your geekier-than-thou routine and read the specs like an actual geek.
That's one RAID 5 with a hot spare, one RAID 10, or two RAID 1 arrays (or one spanning volume with mirroring, but you may as well use RAID 10). For a real storage server you're kind of limited.
Six is a much better number. It would allow two fives, a ten and a one, a ten and a zero, a zero or one for the boot drive and a five with a hot spare, a single boot drive and a ten with a hot spare, two fives in a network boot or always USB booting, a six-disk ten with network/USB boot, and on and on.
This is the US military. There's a very good chance they have a six acre warehouse full of eight inch floppy disks that's fully climate controlled and guarded by snipers and dogs.
I would pay for shipping to Texas, or I'll be in the Chicago area in July. Heck. I'll be there this weekend but my schedule is tight.
You can often invest money at a higher rate of interest than you get at on a special finance deal. One can also make more money in coming years vs. a fixed interest rate. If your income rises faster than inflation and inflation is a similar rate to your interest rate then keeping the cash in hand and making the loan payments over time is a net decision.
Microsoft is a US company. Microsoft can't relieve itself of US jurisdiction by telling the judge "oh, sorry, we, here in the US, moved that data offshore."
If we could live to be 500 then the generation ships have to worry a lot less about inbreeding. ;-)
If they accepted bribes in the form of a well-paying job after leaving the regulatory position ,and if that new job has no access or authority sufficient to harm the new employer, then yes. The whole issue here is the perception if not the actual action of the job being the bribe.
So which is the lynchpin factor here, the scale or the random assignment? If I rent a specific server with a specific antenna that's mine all the time, does that change what's happening here?
If you're lucky. I live in Houston and have friends in the field. Everyone from welders to cooks to field support people to make the most of their income don't go just to North Dakota or Alberta but to places like the Gulf of Mexico out of sight of land for two months at a time, or to Nigeria, or to somewhere on the Arabian peninsula. Many of them do this for a few years and save up a nest egg, then change fields or industries.
What's public about a private stream from a private antenna? "On the Internet!"?
What's the difference, functionally, if I rent a house with an antenna on the roof then use a Slingbox / SiliconDust Homerun or rent a server that has an antenna on it? Practically none to actually none, really. The legal difference will hopefully be the same.
He's talking about being able to shift the download to his unlimited transfer plan and download it once rather than streaming it repeatedly on a limited transfer wireless plan. The overhead of the actual DRM is small. The overhead caused in actual practice of forcing an active stream to happen for each viewing on each device can work out to be huge in some situations.
Hey, what does being uneducated have to do with being Scots-Irish or for that matter being from a mountainous state? Let's leave "hillbilly" out of this. There are educated and uneducated people of many different ethnicities and locales. I think some of you people so dismissive of "hillbillies" and hog farmers forget that small town schools are often better funded and better performing than those in large portions of the biggest cities.
I guess according to your city arrogance the schools in Newark, Baltimore, or East St. Louis are much better than those in, say, Cartersville, Georgia or Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
That $2000 number was as of 2006. It's 2014 now.
In what universe was the US Constitution written to ensure economic equality. In this one it was written to ensure equality under the law, which we have enough problems realizing.