Dude, you deserve a prize; I've been a Slashdotter since the 90s and these useless troll-posts of yours have been attached to every news story on here without fail since then.
For nearly 20 years, trolling uselessly, without any content or point.
Just because there's a rate of improvement now doesn't mean it won't taper off and eventually flatten in the future.
Just like the Tower of Babel: They wanted to reach the heavens, and for the first few hundred feet or so, they made excellent progress, but they just couldn't continue at the same pace
You are so right. Every time she is on-screen I have to watch the scene at least three time to be able to finally read the subtitles, I just can't take my eyes off her
In the mid-eighties, I worked as an apprentice at a place where they used LOGO (M.I.T. Experimental LOGO #43 or some other number) on a mini running TSX (or RT-11, can't remember) to do bookkeeping for about 30 small businesses.
This mini ran about 12 terminals in text-mode (of course) and we had a small complement of clerks entering data.
This LOGO also had NO turtle, although we had an Apple-II that I was given to take home that did have the turtle-graphics.
What this LOGO did have were the list and word operators, which we used to write accounting software that had specialized rounding, which was more precise than using something like C floats because you could calculate precision to any arbitrary limit by simply breaking numbers apart as words and calculating their digits to the decimal place of your choosing. By being strings, they were immune to typical numerical-storage problem.
Another thing I did with LOGO was have almost-constant epiphanies about recursion and abstraction. LOGO was designed to light fires in young minds and it certainly did for me.
Seymour Papert has thus been a hero of mine since then and I've always longed to someday thank him for his work. I offer up my thanks to his spirit. Everything I ever went on to write in software is owed to him.
Thank you again, Mr. Papert and may God rest your soul.
PS - Sadly, one of the partners embezzled the business, which folded and I never got to program in LOGO again professionally, which is a real shame because LOGO was simply wonderful
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Give 'em a break, they've only been developing software for 40 years
Browser with no market-share beats out one of the world's most targetted browser?
How could this be???
ZK, I both admire and commend you for your can-do attitude but the average needs ready-solutions and will almost always trade their security for it.
I'm not saying Microsoft is right.
I'm saying they have a market-segment.
They'll be saying things like "remember that massive DDOS attack last year? That one's going in the history books too"
We need a solution that will let emergency vehicles on alert pass at high speeds while slowing other forms of fast traffic.
Speed bumps kill dozens every year in avoidable deaths by delaying emergency services.
Speed-bumps-as-a-solution need to be binned
It's like MS haven't changed, instead of joining an existing project and improving it, they want to be in control.
Old Microsoft, you haven't changed.
Do not want
It comes down to simply playing the media files and being quick and reliable. All the rest is just useless crap.
Now that you know that I like SMPlayer - LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE!
It seems like Winamp was really good but then got more and more bloated, I don't want that happening to SMPlayer
Dude, you deserve a prize; I've been a Slashdotter since the 90s and these useless troll-posts of yours have been attached to every news story on here without fail since then.
For nearly 20 years, trolling uselessly, without any content or point.
It's pretty impressive
Source-level compatibility, so you have to recompile your source for each different chip, but you only need to write your app once.
Write up here
www.sprysoftware.com
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(The single period to mark a passing may not be a thing here but it once was, on metafilter)
Apple should get out of the Courage business and get back into making computer hardware.
I don't know how much more "courage" the industry can take...
That was my thought as I read this too, Rei. Let's hope we're both wrong
Are there any worthy alternatives to sites like LinkedIn?
There is no such thing as portable code, only code that has been ported
Just like the Tower of Babel: They wanted to reach the heavens, and for the first few hundred feet or so, they made excellent progress, but they just couldn't continue at the same pace
You are so right.
Every time she is on-screen I have to watch the scene at least three time to be able to finally read the subtitles, I just can't take my eyes off her
At that price, I'll buy one and install Android on it instead
Soviet Green is people!
Is their swimming pool big enough to hold two?
Ever since the horseless carriage appeared, I've been losing money.
I demand the government subsidize me.
Well, that or I could recognize that my business model is outdated and superseded and I could go into something else...
But how do you catch the pokemons???
Just kidding, I don't play that game.
I do wonder if those that do will report the bar as a deadspot and try to work around it...
In the mid-eighties, I worked as an apprentice at a place where they used LOGO (M.I.T. Experimental LOGO #43 or some other number) on a mini running TSX (or RT-11, can't remember) to do bookkeeping for about 30 small businesses.
This mini ran about 12 terminals in text-mode (of course) and we had a small complement of clerks entering data.
This LOGO also had NO turtle, although we had an Apple-II that I was given to take home that did have the turtle-graphics.
What this LOGO did have were the list and word operators, which we used to write accounting software that had specialized rounding, which was more precise than using something like C floats because you could calculate precision to any arbitrary limit by simply breaking numbers apart as words and calculating their digits to the decimal place of your choosing. By being strings, they were immune to typical numerical-storage problem.
Another thing I did with LOGO was have almost-constant epiphanies about recursion and abstraction. LOGO was designed to light fires in young minds and it certainly did for me.
Seymour Papert has thus been a hero of mine since then and I've always longed to someday thank him for his work. I offer up my thanks to his spirit. Everything I ever went on to write in software is owed to him.
Thank you again, Mr. Papert and may God rest your soul.
PS - Sadly, one of the partners embezzled the business, which folded and I never got to program in LOGO again professionally, which is a real shame because LOGO was simply wonderful
That one is a contraction of "how did it come to this"
You know what, screw your company, I'm gonna start my own company with pay, blackjack and hookers
500 pounds, reclining like Jabba the Hutt on a sofa while a robot shovels food into their maw