You've obviously had neither (a) a significantly sized batch run or (b) a significant number of batch runs that had to be done on a periodic basis (and don't forget things like end of quarter or year jobs that run on top of your regular load). Because bigger iron to run these jobs on costs real money, performance is certainly not moot.
Somehow, I don't see why something that has the purpose of telling me the time would be killing anything. But I guess you could always put a tiny assault rifle in one. Or a laser beam (shark optional).
President: Legislator, executive, judge, jury, and executioner.
You know, he wouldn't need to be the first if the Republicans in the House wouldn't make their number one objective "non-cooperation". And, as for the last three (for which there seems to be relatively broad bipartisan support for in the corridors of power), I'm pretty sure that's limited to the occasional drone strike or declaration of someone as a terrorist. As far as executive orders concerning agencies other than DHS and other non-terrorist-related issues goes, I've seen many people drag this administration to court, so that rules out (again with caveats) the last three. So stop the hyperbole. It doesn't move discussion forward.
This was not a concern in the days of printed journals. Either the library had them or not. If they wanted to keep the periodical around longer, the library was responsible for scanning the periodical content onto microfiche or some other medium. The notion that some sort of eternal "access service" is required is due to the decision made by the publishers who did not want to release electronic copying rights to their customers. So why should I be paying more for a choice that the publisher made to limit what I (as an institution) could do with a publication?
Hopper had nothing to do with SNOBOL. SNOBOL was NOT a successor to COBOL. It was a completely different language, developed at Bell Labs aimed initially at symbolic computation, something that is well outside the purview of COBOL. Not that COBOL isn't great, but SNOBOL was much cooler. Tee hee...
It didn't start with IDENTIFICATION SECTION, so your example doesn't hold. But here's one:
IDENTIFICATION SECTION delightfully leading to nouns and verbs of magic... In COBOL!!! A language for managers, a language for all - Bits of love, bytes of affection, words of poetry, identifying sections of paradise. Programming, motherfucker! Do you speak it?
... my shoulder 'ball and socket' joint design works like the engineer went to Phoenix University
Dude, it's not even that good. And, if you really want a good example of how FU'ed the entire "design" is, take a really good look at your immune system. It's like someone took a bag of C pointers, sprinkled them randomly into your Java code, and tossed in a few random gotos for good measure. There is no messier system that shows how randomly evolved we are.
No. The teaching is arguably better and the controls that assure that the student who is given credit for the course on the transcript is actually the same student who attended class and took the tests to achieve the grade on the transcript are definitely better.
China is in the east and the Sun rises in the east.
What do you mean? China's to the west of where I am! Check your globe - I'm sure it's west of you, too! Or are you trying to pull a funny one by implying that there's an edge of the world between me and it? Go on! Tell us another one!
Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that's a perfectly normal and rational thing.
I look at myself in the mirror and see a device that needs an anti-virus system from the outset. Maybe it's not exactly "designed" (and, if it is, the designer is a bit of a moron), but it seems to be natural.
... why we should be having this argument on Slashdot of all places is mind boggling.
Why? Because some folks around here hate Apple so much that they believe that any report showing them as #1 at anything must obviously be because of incorrect definition or incorrect methodology or something. Plus, there are many in the Slashdot community who cannot accept the notion that definitions of categories might actually change over time. Unless it has a detachable, full-size keyboard, a monitor that sits on a desk, and an ugly box, it's not a PC, regardless of functionality.
Congress should consider allowing private companies to step in and do it for them.
Well, the private shippers might consider it, if they weren't already contracting with the USPS to do their deliveries in rural areas, you uninformed retardate.
Well, the Star Trek fans tried to start one to build a real USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E spec), but JJ Abrams jumped ship to Star Wars before we could organize a petition drive.
And we had to eat domestic cheddar instead of imported brie on our sandwiches in those days. I remember my dad telling me about places where employees even had to bring their own lunch, rather than having it subsidized by the company! It was the dark ages, I tell you...
... but economic theory tends to be driven more by what will get you a job at a Washington think tank, (which will get you laid at a party), then actual economics.
The fact that somebody else has it worse does not negate the fact that this person is in severe pain.
Well, governmentally speaking, are you really in severe pain, or do you just have a muscle ache that you're bitching about to anyone who you can persuade to (reluctantly) listen to your whining? All-in-all, I don't think that the government is doing such a bad job, given all that it's been tasked with. Can it be run more efficiently? Probably - we can all improve. And there are some pockets of corruption that need to be snipped out. But to suggest that it's some awful out-of-control rabid beast that needs to be put down or that it does absolutely no good goes beyond the pale, to me at least. Try toning down the hyperbole if you actually want a discussion.
How do you stop a society from marching over the cliff - fully aware the cliff is there, fully aware they don't want to fall off it, yet somehow not willing or able to stop themselves from doing it?
How? Well you pass these things called laws that put fences up around the cliffs to keep people from going over. Or even to redirect the actions of those heading towards the cliffs. This can prevent "prisoners' dilemma" sorts of situations where individually rational short-term behavior undertaken by some leads to catastrophic long-term outcomes suffered by everyone.
At least, that seems to be what worked in the past. Our representatives these days, on the other hand, seem to want to build airport-sized people movers to accelerate everyone's march towards the abyss.
Slashdot Mirror
You've obviously had neither (a) a significantly sized batch run or (b) a significant number of batch runs that had to be done on a periodic basis (and don't forget things like end of quarter or year jobs that run on top of your regular load). Because bigger iron to run these jobs on costs real money, performance is certainly not moot.
Somehow, I don't see why something that has the purpose of telling me the time would be killing anything. But I guess you could always put a tiny assault rifle in one. Or a laser beam (shark optional).
President: Legislator, executive, judge, jury, and executioner.
You know, he wouldn't need to be the first if the Republicans in the House wouldn't make their number one objective "non-cooperation". And, as for the last three (for which there seems to be relatively broad bipartisan support for in the corridors of power), I'm pretty sure that's limited to the occasional drone strike or declaration of someone as a terrorist. As far as executive orders concerning agencies other than DHS and other non-terrorist-related issues goes, I've seen many people drag this administration to court, so that rules out (again with caveats) the last three. So stop the hyperbole. It doesn't move discussion forward.
This was not a concern in the days of printed journals. Either the library had them or not. If they wanted to keep the periodical around longer, the library was responsible for scanning the periodical content onto microfiche or some other medium. The notion that some sort of eternal "access service" is required is due to the decision made by the publishers who did not want to release electronic copying rights to their customers. So why should I be paying more for a choice that the publisher made to limit what I (as an institution) could do with a publication?
Hopper had nothing to do with SNOBOL. SNOBOL was NOT a successor to COBOL. It was a completely different language, developed at Bell Labs aimed initially at symbolic computation, something that is well outside the purview of COBOL. Not that COBOL isn't great, but SNOBOL was much cooler. Tee hee...
... the following languages all support an accurate decimal data type in the standard libraries: Python, Ruby, Java, and Objective-C.
Which is not the same as supporting it in the language itself, either from a convenience nor a performance point of view.
It didn't start with IDENTIFICATION SECTION, so your example doesn't hold. But here's one:
IDENTIFICATION SECTION delightfully leading to nouns and verbs of magic...
In COBOL!!!
A language for managers, a language for all -
Bits of love, bytes of affection, words of poetry, identifying sections of paradise.
Programming, motherfucker!
Do you speak it?
... my shoulder 'ball and socket' joint design works like the engineer went to Phoenix University
Dude, it's not even that good. And, if you really want a good example of how FU'ed the entire "design" is, take a really good look at your immune system. It's like someone took a bag of C pointers, sprinkled them randomly into your Java code, and tossed in a few random gotos for good measure. There is no messier system that shows how randomly evolved we are.
It's good to know such things before applying for a job.
It might also be good to know such things before buying their companies' products. Just sayin'...
No. The teaching is arguably better and the controls that assure that the student who is given credit for the course on the transcript is actually the same student who attended class and took the tests to achieve the grade on the transcript are definitely better.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use...
... by posting on Slashdot. My head explodes...
...the end is definitely fucking neigh for google
Why? Is someone giving Sergei a pony?
... and judging from most Slashdot submissions, the answer must be "No."
China is in the east and the Sun rises in the east.
What do you mean? China's to the west of where I am! Check your globe - I'm sure it's west of you, too! Or are you trying to pull a funny one by implying that there's an edge of the world between me and it? Go on! Tell us another one!
Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that's a perfectly normal and rational thing.
I look at myself in the mirror and see a device that needs an anti-virus system from the outset. Maybe it's not exactly "designed" (and, if it is, the designer is a bit of a moron), but it seems to be natural.
... why we should be having this argument on Slashdot of all places is mind boggling.
Why? Because some folks around here hate Apple so much that they believe that any report showing them as #1 at anything must obviously be because of incorrect definition or incorrect methodology or something. Plus, there are many in the Slashdot community who cannot accept the notion that definitions of categories might actually change over time. Unless it has a detachable, full-size keyboard, a monitor that sits on a desk, and an ugly box, it's not a PC, regardless of functionality.
Congress should consider allowing private companies to step in and do it for them.
Well, the private shippers might consider it, if they weren't already contracting with the USPS to do their deliveries in rural areas, you uninformed retardate.
... next we'll have a Slashdot article about Watson working at Starbucks.
Not until they figure out how to give it a bad attitude, pink-dyed hair, tats, a nose ring, and two-inch gauges in its ears.
Thank your brain dead Star Wars fans.
Well, the Star Trek fans tried to start one to build a real USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E spec), but JJ Abrams jumped ship to Star Wars before we could organize a petition drive.
And we had to eat domestic cheddar instead of imported brie on our sandwiches in those days. I remember my dad telling me about places where employees even had to bring their own lunch, rather than having it subsidized by the company! It was the dark ages, I tell you...
... but economic theory tends to be driven more by what will get you a job at a Washington think tank, (which will get you laid at a party), then actual economics.
FTFY.
The fact that somebody else has it worse does not negate the fact that this person is in severe pain.
Well, governmentally speaking, are you really in severe pain, or do you just have a muscle ache that you're bitching about to anyone who you can persuade to (reluctantly) listen to your whining? All-in-all, I don't think that the government is doing such a bad job, given all that it's been tasked with. Can it be run more efficiently? Probably - we can all improve. And there are some pockets of corruption that need to be snipped out. But to suggest that it's some awful out-of-control rabid beast that needs to be put down or that it does absolutely no good goes beyond the pale, to me at least. Try toning down the hyperbole if you actually want a discussion.
How do you stop a society from marching over the cliff - fully aware the cliff is there, fully aware they don't want to fall off it, yet somehow not willing or able to stop themselves from doing it?
How? Well you pass these things called laws that put fences up around the cliffs to keep people from going over. Or even to redirect the actions of those heading towards the cliffs. This can prevent "prisoners' dilemma" sorts of situations where individually rational short-term behavior undertaken by some leads to catastrophic long-term outcomes suffered by everyone.
At least, that seems to be what worked in the past. Our representatives these days, on the other hand, seem to want to build airport-sized people movers to accelerate everyone's march towards the abyss.
I'm just a bit daunted by the concept of working to death.
Don't worry, if things like this law keep happening, you'll get a chance to try it for yourself.
What would Kevin Smith have done?
Jay as Luke Skywalker and Silent Bob as (the mute) Princess Leia.