Big difference. To be a professional mathematician you need to be able to prove theorems. To be a professional computer scientist, you do not necessarily need to know parser theory. Since professional computer scientists are only a tiny fraction of the output of undergraduate programs anyway, this makes the case for it even weaker. Yes MIT and Cambridge et. al. should still teach it, that's the kind of stuff they do and it has its place, but the average university should focus slightly more on practically useful material.p.
to think that we humans can cause that much damage is pretty arrogant.
That's ass-backwards. Environmentalism is about humility towards the planet, global society and future generations. Let's put this in perspective. Who is more arrogant, the environmentalist who suggests we might be in danger, or the oil company executive who risks the future of our planet for the sake of personal enrichment?
The few dollops of CO2 that we produce now is nothing compared to what was emmitted then.
Er, are you sure about that? I don't think that's correct. Despite the inane ramblings of Bill Gates et. al, we are not moving towards a virtual economy - physical industry and agriculture is the foundation of the economy. And with economic growth (and lack of energy efficiency measures!) CO2 emmissions are increasing all the time.
Slashdot should have an "uninformed idiot spouting nonsense" moderation category.
Unfortunately, it is mostly a tool for Greenpeace.
What a ridiculous conspiracy theory. Has the IPCC been bribed by Greenpeace? Is that what you're suggesting?
Radical environmentalists tend to annoy me because--rather than going to school, getting an engineering degree, and working on new energy saving designs or new energy resources--they only complain about things. I'm not impressed with those that simply complain about things.
How stupid can you get? Have you ever heard of division of labor? If Greenpeace et. al. don't hold governments and corporations to account, who will? Are you living in this fairytale dream world where corporations and governments never need to be held to account by the public? Really, I can't imagine why anyone would be so out of touch as to believe that full-time environmental protestors are not a valuable contribution to our society. Unless their entire exposure to the political world was through the Cato Institute journal or something like that.
This is ridiculous. They teach you how to do pointless things that 99.9% of people will never need to do, like manually implement a parser (when parser generators are available to do it for you!), but don't teach you how to do the things that everyone needs to do, like a picking a good password! The words "stuck", "past" and "in the" spring to mind.
When I complete my PhD and become a lecturer, I'm going to try and cut the crap and focus on what's important.
If you buy a.shop domain name from new.net now, there's no guarantee that ICANN won't award the.shop TLD to a completely different registrar in future, thus creating a DNS conflict. The root DNS space should be managed by a monopoly - it's the only way that makes sense.
IIRC the kernel keeps a bunch of memory as buffers, and recently run programs and libs are frequent inhabitants of that memory.
For decades, every serious operating system, as far as I know (and no, I don't include DOS or CP/M in that category!) has had disk buffers and/or cache. Turbo mode is not the same thing - it's just a preloading of the code, and a preinitialisation (which is actually quite significant - there's a lot of slow initialisation that doesn't involve disk access.)
For the kernel to do that by itself it would need to have psychic powers to know what programs you used most often, or it would need to do some kind of cross-session profiling.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work in the recent build I'm using. Well, it closes one tab, but then pastes the clipboard URL into the next tab and loads it - which is not what I asked for!
They act as an "always-there window list", specifically for one app. Much better than trying to scrunch buttons for ten mozilla windows and ten konsole windows into a KDE taskbar. This is the killer benefit for me.
They are much faster than the real window implementation on Linux. So they're a good workaround for that problem.
With respect, you are a moron. Mac OS pre OS X does not have any security! No concept of users or permissions. All executable code can delete and corrupt any and all files, AFAIK.
You also most likely have no clue what an overflow bug is. An overflow bug gives you the ability to execute rogue exectuable code. With said code you can delete and corrupt files. Period.
At this point it seems to me like you're back to dealing with all the original problems that AOP was meant to help with (spaghetti-like code being the most significant).
Well, there is no panacea. If you have spaghetti code, you need to refactor, and AOP can help untangle code which talks about a lot of different concerns (more so than OOP can). If you can't refactor (because you're using third-party fixed APIs, or because it would be too expensive), tough.
Since it appears to have stemed from Java and was never part of academia
Wrong wrong wrong. It did not stem from Java and the term was coined by Gregor Kiczales, who is a professor at the University of British Colombia. Arguably the first AOP system, composition filters, was invented at the University of Twente. There have been dozens of papers published by various groups from around the world, a bunch of AOP workshops and conferences, and there has been a Communications of the ACM Special Issue on Aspect-Oriented Programming. See aosd.net for links to conferences and papers.
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Robin (who is doing his PhD on aspect-oriented programming and object databases, and will post more later).
To me "machine readable copy of the source code" is another word for binary.
No, it doesn't. It's old-fashioned language from the GPL itself, meaning a computer file, as opposed to say a printout which is not so easy for a computer to read (OK, there's OCR software, but that's not the point).
The FSF will have to fix this loophole in GPL v2.0.
You obviously haven't read the GPL very carefully, or you'd have noticed:
A. The GPL is currently at version 2!
B. The two parties involved in the GPL are the copyright holder(s) on one side and the licensee on the other. If any one of the copyright holders has revoked your right to copy, you have no right to copy! End of story. Standard copyright law.
In related news, I found a few more ways today to get by that stupid proxy server BESS.
Please do tell. Public access machines here have their proxy settings locked down, and it would be very nice to be able to change them when the webcache crashes again (which used to be a weekly occurence).
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Big difference. To be a professional mathematician you need to be able to prove theorems. To be a professional computer scientist, you do not necessarily need to know parser theory. Since professional computer scientists are only a tiny fraction of the output of undergraduate programs anyway, this makes the case for it even weaker. Yes MIT and Cambridge et. al. should still teach it, that's the kind of stuff they do and it has its place, but the average university should focus slightly more on practically useful material.p.
That's ass-backwards. Environmentalism is about humility towards the planet, global society and future generations. Let's put this in perspective. Who is more arrogant, the environmentalist who suggests we might be in danger, or the oil company executive who risks the future of our planet for the sake of personal enrichment?
The few dollops of CO2 that we produce now is nothing compared to what was emmitted then.
Er, are you sure about that? I don't think that's correct. Despite the inane ramblings of Bill Gates et. al, we are not moving towards a virtual economy - physical industry and agriculture is the foundation of the economy. And with economic growth (and lack of energy efficiency measures!) CO2 emmissions are increasing all the time.
Slashdot should have an "uninformed idiot spouting nonsense" moderation category.
Unfortunately, it is mostly a tool for Greenpeace.
What a ridiculous conspiracy theory. Has the IPCC been bribed by Greenpeace? Is that what you're suggesting?
Radical environmentalists tend to annoy me because--rather than going to school, getting an engineering degree, and working on new energy saving designs or new energy resources--they only complain about things. I'm not impressed with those that simply complain about things.
How stupid can you get? Have you ever heard of division of labor? If Greenpeace et. al. don't hold governments and corporations to account, who will? Are you living in this fairytale dream world where corporations and governments never need to be held to account by the public? Really, I can't imagine why anyone would be so out of touch as to believe that full-time environmental protestors are not a valuable contribution to our society. Unless their entire exposure to the political world was through the Cato Institute journal or something like that.
If the fuel is spent, it's spent for a reason. It's going to take more than 1Mw in to produce 1Mw out, which makes it pointless.
Who says?
It's still a valid point.
I'm not sure whether that's correct, but please note in civil trials the accused is effectively guilty until proven innocent.
Huh? Are you calling me a criminal?
When I complete my PhD and become a lecturer, I'm going to try and cut the crap and focus on what's important.
Rubbish. Britain doesn't have (many) software patents, and therefore almost all US software patents are null and void over here.
For decades, every serious operating system, as far as I know (and no, I don't include DOS or CP/M in that category!) has had disk buffers and/or cache. Turbo mode is not the same thing - it's just a preloading of the code, and a preinitialisation (which is actually quite significant - there's a lot of slow initialisation that doesn't involve disk access.)
For the kernel to do that by itself it would need to have psychic powers to know what programs you used most often, or it would need to do some kind of cross-session profiling.
You also most likely have no clue what an overflow bug is. An overflow bug gives you the ability to execute rogue exectuable code. With said code you can delete and corrupt files. Period.
???
Well, there is no panacea. If you have spaghetti code, you need to refactor, and AOP can help untangle code which talks about a lot of different concerns (more so than OOP can). If you can't refactor (because you're using third-party fixed APIs, or because it would be too expensive), tough.
Wrong wrong wrong. It did not stem from Java and the term was coined by Gregor Kiczales, who is a professor at the University of British Colombia. Arguably the first AOP system, composition filters, was invented at the University of Twente. There have been dozens of papers published by various groups from around the world, a bunch of AOP workshops and conferences, and there has been a Communications of the ACM Special Issue on Aspect-Oriented Programming. See aosd.net for links to conferences and papers.
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Robin (who is doing his PhD on aspect-oriented programming and object databases, and will post more later).
No, it doesn't. It's old-fashioned language from the GPL itself, meaning a computer file, as opposed to say a printout which is not so easy for a computer to read (OK, there's OCR software, but that's not the point).
I think they are just plain lying.
You obviously haven't read the GPL very carefully, or you'd have noticed:
A. The GPL is currently at version 2!
B. The two parties involved in the GPL are the copyright holder(s) on one side and the licensee on the other. If any one of the copyright holders has revoked your right to copy, you have no right to copy! End of story. Standard copyright law.
Please do tell. Public access machines here have their proxy settings locked down, and it would be very nice to be able to change them when the webcache crashes again (which used to be a weekly occurence).