There is certainly value in reducing the amount of state you are managing, but too often it seem like Functional programmers are willing to declare it gone when they've just swept it under the rug. Sure you don't have a variable now, but instead you have the logic tied up in your stack. This is especially true when the language does pattern matches on the parameters to determine which function to call. In the end you have to keep track of that iterator somehow, and I tend to think something like a for loop tends to be clearer than looking through the function headers to figure out how the loop is initialized and when it terminates.
To go on with UEFI development, you will need two development packages: EFI Development Kit (EDK) and EFI Toolkit.
In the old ROM BASIC days all you had to do was turn the machine on without the floppy disk in the drive. The fallback on a boot failure was a BASIC interpreter.
Assuming what you wanted to use it for was to start programming some BASIC from scratch. If you wanted to load a program off of the severely braindamaged 1541 disk drive that was another 8 minute wait.
Absolutely this. Manuals that included a section on programming the computer are a gateway drug. Of course I also miss computers that came with a programming environment, even if it was as simple as ROM BASIC. The C64 manual even came with sections on how to program the sprite generator and sound chip, even though the built-in BASIC didn't include a sensible extension for doing so.
It's kind of a shame that today's UEFI BIOSes are many megabytes and still they can't find any room for a tiny BASIC interpreter anywhere in there.
The day the Mac Pro was announced haters all over the internet were complaining that the thermals were too tight and that it would be too hard to upgrade the components and that Apple being Apple would never offer an upgrade for the video card or processor. They were proven right on all counts. Hopefully Apple listens to the users this time and puts out something that can live comfortably under the desk and has headroom to grow. Also, using commodity parts so people can do their own upgrades since Apple is so bad at upgrading their own machines.
That's exactly the sort of phrase a business would use to justify their wildly noncompetitive and unethical behavior. It's practically a textbook example.
Translation: Remove government oversight and public programs to increase corporate power.
Update: I found the closest thing to a mission statement I could find buried in a wall of text on page 17 of their 2013 tax return.
Although the Phoenix Center does not meet the safe harbor test for public support (33-1/3%) in 2013, it believes that the following facts and circumstances support the organization's continuance as a public charity. The Phoenix Center has grown and developed since its inception to become a voice for consumer welfare by promoting free markets, competition, and individual freedom and liberty.
In other words, its exacta what everyone thinks. This is yet another one of those corporate mouthpiece "think tanks" that release studies to push a corporate agenda.
I have never heard of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Policy Studies so I went to the their website. Unfortunately I can't find anything talking about their funding sources. However, they do have a prominent endorsement on their homepage from Ajit Pai, which is a substantial red flag.
Propublica sadly only has their funding lumped together as "contributions", which doesn't help.
Also, you can't just "drop" a rock out of orbit. You have to slow it down to suborbital velocities before it will fall to Earth. If you are talking about a cube of iron 24 feet on a side that is going to require a titanic amount of Delta-V.
I mean rockets are basically giant bombs already, if you're worried about people misbehaving with them then it's already too late.
The summary is just a trainwreck. Also, I don't think she is technically a candidate yet since all she has done is announce on Facebook her intention to run. This story is basically "crazy person says something crazy".
Radio died January 3, 1996 with the passage of the Telecommunication Act of 1996. It basically allowed big corporations to buy up all of the smaller independent stations in a region and homogenize the content to the same bland mush that advertisers like and which generates the fewest angry letters to the station. Luckily we have the internet now so broadcast radio can go quietly into the night.
The article goes into some discussion about the limitations of the methodology involved, but a huge negative net worth isn't impossible. You could easily have a guy who used to have some money but then made some catastrophic bets on the stock or housing market and is now seriously under water. Or a family member may have gotten really sick and now he has typical medical debts to deal with.
As I recall the biggest problem they had in making the stuff in the first place was constantly shattering the diamonds when they tried to shine light through them. Also, the breathless talk of this revolutionizing every industry under the sun is tremendously overblown. Right now these are laboratory curiosities, they may very well amount to nothing.
As I understand it phone fingerprint scanners don't actually look at your fingerprint. Rather they measure the capacitance over a series of fluctuations in the field density to make the "fingerprint". Or something like that. I don't know how many unique bits you can get out of that, but the danger of someone managing a false positive is reduced by simply locking it out after three failed scans and making the user type in their password instead.
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There is certainly value in reducing the amount of state you are managing, but too often it seem like Functional programmers are willing to declare it gone when they've just swept it under the rug. Sure you don't have a variable now, but instead you have the logic tied up in your stack. This is especially true when the language does pattern matches on the parameters to determine which function to call. In the end you have to keep track of that iterator somehow, and I tend to think something like a for loop tends to be clearer than looking through the function headers to figure out how the loop is initialized and when it terminates.
Who says we can build light sails? Certainly nobody has tried to do it on anything close to the scale necessary yet.
I'm still using my 1995 email account for pretty much everything. It would be a massive PITA if I had to move it now.
AT&T maybe, but T-Mo has been spectrum constrained really badly for almost a decade now. They really needed this.
Verizon is swimming in spectrum that they aren't even using, why would they go and buy even more?
In the old ROM BASIC days all you had to do was turn the machine on without the floppy disk in the drive. The fallback on a boot failure was a BASIC interpreter.
One could be forgiven for mistaking Unity for Gnome 3 since they are so similar and originated from the same codebase.
Assuming what you wanted to use it for was to start programming some BASIC from scratch. If you wanted to load a program off of the severely braindamaged 1541 disk drive that was another 8 minute wait.
Absolutely this. Manuals that included a section on programming the computer are a gateway drug. Of course I also miss computers that came with a programming environment, even if it was as simple as ROM BASIC. The C64 manual even came with sections on how to program the sprite generator and sound chip, even though the built-in BASIC didn't include a sensible extension for doing so.
It's kind of a shame that today's UEFI BIOSes are many megabytes and still they can't find any room for a tiny BASIC interpreter anywhere in there.
The day the Mac Pro was announced haters all over the internet were complaining that the thermals were too tight and that it would be too hard to upgrade the components and that Apple being Apple would never offer an upgrade for the video card or processor. They were proven right on all counts. Hopefully Apple listens to the users this time and puts out something that can live comfortably under the desk and has headroom to grow. Also, using commodity parts so people can do their own upgrades since Apple is so bad at upgrading their own machines.
Can you give an example of a situation where an Internet startup has been hampered by the net neutrality rules?
That's exactly the sort of phrase a business would use to justify their wildly noncompetitive and unethical behavior. It's practically a textbook example.
Translation: Remove government oversight and public programs to increase corporate power.
The word you are looking for is "artisinal", as in "hand crafted locally sourced organic free range gluten free artisinal 3mm x 16mm screw"
As far as I know NASA never skimped on tile maintence, it was one of the many reasons every shuttle flight was so damn expensive.
In other words, its exacta what everyone thinks. This is yet another one of those corporate mouthpiece "think tanks" that release studies to push a corporate agenda.
I have never heard of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Policy Studies so I went to the their website. Unfortunately I can't find anything talking about their funding sources. However, they do have a prominent endorsement on their homepage from Ajit Pai, which is a substantial red flag.
Propublica sadly only has their funding lumped together as "contributions", which doesn't help.
Full disk encryption, so it won't even mount without the password.
Also, you can't just "drop" a rock out of orbit. You have to slow it down to suborbital velocities before it will fall to Earth. If you are talking about a cube of iron 24 feet on a side that is going to require a titanic amount of Delta-V.
I mean rockets are basically giant bombs already, if you're worried about people misbehaving with them then it's already too late.
The summary is just a trainwreck. Also, I don't think she is technically a candidate yet since all she has done is announce on Facebook her intention to run. This story is basically "crazy person says something crazy".
Radio died January 3, 1996 with the passage of the Telecommunication Act of 1996. It basically allowed big corporations to buy up all of the smaller independent stations in a region and homogenize the content to the same bland mush that advertisers like and which generates the fewest angry letters to the station. Luckily we have the internet now so broadcast radio can go quietly into the night.
The article goes into some discussion about the limitations of the methodology involved, but a huge negative net worth isn't impossible. You could easily have a guy who used to have some money but then made some catastrophic bets on the stock or housing market and is now seriously under water. Or a family member may have gotten really sick and now he has typical medical debts to deal with.
While it's true that most politicians are millionaires, not all of them are.
As I recall the biggest problem they had in making the stuff in the first place was constantly shattering the diamonds when they tried to shine light through them. Also, the breathless talk of this revolutionizing every industry under the sun is tremendously overblown. Right now these are laboratory curiosities, they may very well amount to nothing.
Your identity isn't copyrighted, so there is no DMCA violation.
As I understand it phone fingerprint scanners don't actually look at your fingerprint. Rather they measure the capacitance over a series of fluctuations in the field density to make the "fingerprint". Or something like that. I don't know how many unique bits you can get out of that, but the danger of someone managing a false positive is reduced by simply locking it out after three failed scans and making the user type in their password instead.