Interesting. I was involved for a while in Antarctic communications and it's a big problem, mostly on the fact that most research programs are run on a shoestring budget. Only the US has a bigger budget, but not up to ordering its own satellites. For decades they've been running on mostly abandoned military satellites in 'bad' geosync orbit, meaning that they wobble around their position and can be seen when they are far enough south, so there are about 2 windows of communication daily from McMurdo, but nothing much from the pole itself which has a big need for high throughput thanks the the latest experiments such as IceCube.
Other stations on the coast (up to 65deg south) could point to geosync orbit but it usually cost too much, so they rely on short data connections via Irridium. Almost only limited to mail. Scientific data is via sneakernet in summer, on the supply ships. There are regularly ambitious plans, like a couple years ago laying an optical fiber for 1500km between the pole and Dome C and building a big antenna there, but the Antarctic Treaty precludes leaving permanent installations there, as would be a fiber on the ice.
I expected some kind of great quips, something similar to all the great Heinlein quotes that come out of his books. Although I don't like his writing style, dialogues and ideas particularly, his quotes are great. But those ?!? it can't get any lamer than this I guess: "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you". Or this "I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever". "At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead". Come on !
You see +, and translate it in your head to a call to a function called "plus" (technically operator+()).
And how do you know that there is such a function ? You can't. Unless you've read all the code before. And know precisely the type of the two operators. Good luck. If there's a function C=AddInAStrangeWay(A, B), you know that something is afoot and Ctrl-I takes you to its definition.
Yes, or at the very least, make it very easy to link to and call other languages. Mathlab/Mathematica can call C libs rather easily. C can call Fortran and Pascal. But some won't mix and that's a big show stopper.
Another issue I think is with languages that give you too much leeway. If you can redefine the syntax, the operators, how they work, etc, then another programmer, even familiar with the language, will have no idea what you wrote. Case in point, C++ where you can overload '+' to operate 30 different ways. And they all look innocuous like C=A+B, obfuscating the readability under a cloak of invisibility. It seems nice when you first read about it but ends up a maintenance nightmare.
Why does nobody simply puts forward the point that those huge dead tree encyclopedias suck. Sure, they have some in-depth articles on key subjects, but search for something more precise (like 2 words with a different meaning than each single one) and you won't find it in there. I remember trying to find things in EB in the 80s and stopping in frustration (I also had a Larousse encyclopedic dictionnary which was much better).
On the other hand I can already imagine tens of millions of dollars being spent to separate this wall in two in order to see the moldy fresco behind I I do think there are better ways to spend the money. But there are also much worse ways.
The hard part about programming is understanding and decomposing the problem.
The hard part about programming is finding the bugs in the underlying libraries you are using. You can prove your program correct and it still won't run properly.
In the last few weeks the internet provider company 'Free' has been doing exactly that to the french cell phone market. And they are kicking the hornet's nest hard. Before that there were 3 cell phone providers: Orange, SFR and Bouygue, all working on the same model of phone subsidy with hundreds of models and hundreds of different plans which you have no credible way to compare. 'Free' said clearly that they have only two plans: an unlimited 19E plan and a limited 2E plan and no phone subsidy. Since they started they've been taking 60 thousand customers daily (the max they can physically accept). The min plans from the concurrents start at about 30E and more like 80E for 'unlimited' smartphone. People who own their own phones because they don't like the crap that the providers install on them, people who root them, people who use mods, people who use old phones: basically everybody anyone who aren't tied down by their contract are leaving in droves.
I just went and checked on their microcode page, but the last download is fairly old. Anyway, the explaination on how to update on Linux is not clear:
Support for updating microcode for the AMD processors listed above will be available starting with kernel version 2.6.29. Microcode update for AMD processors uses the firmware loading infrastructure.
Does that mean that the kernel uploads the new microcode on boot ? How does it get it ?
What I'd like to see is some kind of very tough civics test as a requirement for voting.
You raise some good points but the above is not really relevant. One can be uninterested in civics/politics while at the same time holding very valid points about an issue. Case in point, should the 'ruling' of the internet be left to the politicians/lawyers or to engineers who built it. If you exclude the latter because they are not involved 'enough' in politics, you'll break the internet. This applies to almost everything.
One could even make the case that removing the skinny side of normal from the cultural images may push the tendency towards acceptance of more obesity
Hmmm, not sure about that. Side effects can often be devious. Imagine that you are a little overweight and only see anorexic models in the magazines. You (rightfully so) think "I'll never be like that, so fuck it, let's just enjoy eating"... and become morbidly obese in the process.
If you think you are immune to advertisement, go right ahead and keep submiting to it. Just remember that they employ psychologists and a whole bunch of people for the sole purpose of making sure YOU get the message. I much prefer to avoid it altogether, weak mind or not.
If conversation fails, people escalate to violence.
Yeah, reminds we about advertisement, which is basically a way that private corps use to violate your brain. I so hate ads that I stopped watching TV at 16, I change channel on the radio as soon as one comes up and I install adblock on every computer I see. A few years ago there was this post on/. About an interferometric sound system that could send personalized messages to people in a crowd. On that day I swore that if I ever heard one, I'd resort to violence and destroy it. Well, that's what it reminds me of.
Legalization might not change the behavior of adults, who are likely to retain the stigmatization of use, but will change behavior of the maturing generation. A substantial amount of alcohol use among slightly underage and newly legal drinkers is binge drinking, especially in places where alcohol is freely and readily available
Then why is it that in France or Italy, where it's illegal but mildly enforced to teens to purchase alcohol, it is far less likely for teens to indulge in binge drinking and have only a beer or two ?
Yeah, but what stops you from using HTML with plenty of crosslinks to write your own hypertext 'literature' ? It seems to me that it would just be a self-enclosed subset of the Web. I don't see what more there is to it.
Not, it merely says that it's difficult and will stay this way. If you want to prove that it's impossible you need to look in the direction of Godel's incompletude theorems...
Well, I should have more explicitly stated that my example (and questions) applied only to countries with socialized care. What we call Social Security here in France. Apparently what you call Social Security in the US is an entirely different beast.
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...film at 11. And extended debugging session afterwards.
Other stations on the coast (up to 65deg south) could point to geosync orbit but it usually cost too much, so they rely on short data connections via Irridium. Almost only limited to mail. Scientific data is via sneakernet in summer, on the supply ships. There are regularly ambitious plans, like a couple years ago laying an optical fiber for 1500km between the pole and Dome C and building a big antenna there, but the Antarctic Treaty precludes leaving permanent installations there, as would be a fiber on the ice.
Don't try dropping a new kernel source tar-ball onto RH Enterprise Server, Fedora, or even Ubunto -- it will break your system
Where are the lists of additions/modifications that those distros make to the kernel ?
I expected some kind of great quips, something similar to all the great Heinlein quotes that come out of his books. Although I don't like his writing style, dialogues and ideas particularly, his quotes are great. But those ?!? it can't get any lamer than this I guess: "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you". Or this "I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever". "At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead". Come on !
Timecube guy, is that you?
You see +, and translate it in your head to a call to a function called "plus" (technically operator+()).
And how do you know that there is such a function ? You can't. Unless you've read all the code before. And know precisely the type of the two operators. Good luck. If there's a function C=AddInAStrangeWay(A, B), you know that something is afoot and Ctrl-I takes you to its definition.
Yes, or at the very least, make it very easy to link to and call other languages. Mathlab/Mathematica can call C libs rather easily. C can call Fortran and Pascal. But some won't mix and that's a big show stopper. Another issue I think is with languages that give you too much leeway. If you can redefine the syntax, the operators, how they work, etc, then another programmer, even familiar with the language, will have no idea what you wrote. Case in point, C++ where you can overload '+' to operate 30 different ways. And they all look innocuous like C=A+B, obfuscating the readability under a cloak of invisibility. It seems nice when you first read about it but ends up a maintenance nightmare.
Why does nobody simply puts forward the point that those huge dead tree encyclopedias suck. Sure, they have some in-depth articles on key subjects, but search for something more precise (like 2 words with a different meaning than each single one) and you won't find it in there. I remember trying to find things in EB in the 80s and stopping in frustration (I also had a Larousse encyclopedic dictionnary which was much better).
On the other hand I can already imagine tens of millions of dollars being spent to separate this wall in two in order to see the moldy fresco behind I I do think there are better ways to spend the money. But there are also much worse ways.
The hard part about programming is understanding and decomposing the problem.
The hard part about programming is finding the bugs in the underlying libraries you are using. You can prove your program correct and it still won't run properly.
And we all know that if the magic smoke comes out of the electronics, the data is truly lost...
So 'unworkable' my ass.
Fine, then why not contact the parents, and/or have a teacher/administrator/psychologist with some tact speak to the student ?
OK, thanks. I'm on one of the affected processors, but there's no /lib/firmware/amd directory. Have to wait I guess.
Support for updating microcode for the AMD processors listed above will be available starting with kernel version 2.6.29. Microcode update for AMD processors uses the firmware loading infrastructure.
Does that mean that the kernel uploads the new microcode on boot ? How does it get it ?
So hopefully it's microcode fixable
Another even easier fix could be to add a (3000 thousandth) compiler option to insert a NOP or two before the RET.
What I'd like to see is some kind of very tough civics test as a requirement for voting.
You raise some good points but the above is not really relevant. One can be uninterested in civics/politics while at the same time holding very valid points about an issue. Case in point, should the 'ruling' of the internet be left to the politicians/lawyers or to engineers who built it. If you exclude the latter because they are not involved 'enough' in politics, you'll break the internet. This applies to almost everything.
One could even make the case that removing the skinny side of normal from the cultural images may push the tendency towards acceptance of more obesity
Hmmm, not sure about that. Side effects can often be devious. Imagine that you are a little overweight and only see anorexic models in the magazines. You (rightfully so) think "I'll never be like that, so fuck it, let's just enjoy eating"... and become morbidly obese in the process.
If you think you are immune to advertisement, go right ahead and keep submiting to it. Just remember that they employ psychologists and a whole bunch of people for the sole purpose of making sure YOU get the message. I much prefer to avoid it altogether, weak mind or not.
If conversation fails, people escalate to violence.
Yeah, reminds we about advertisement, which is basically a way that private corps use to violate your brain. I so hate ads that I stopped watching TV at 16, I change channel on the radio as soon as one comes up and I install adblock on every computer I see. A few years ago there was this post on /. About an interferometric sound system that could send personalized messages to people in a crowd. On that day I swore that if I ever heard one, I'd resort to violence and destroy it. Well, that's what it reminds me of.
Legalization might not change the behavior of adults, who are likely to retain the stigmatization of use, but will change behavior of the maturing generation. A substantial amount of alcohol use among slightly underage and newly legal drinkers is binge drinking, especially in places where alcohol is freely and readily available
Then why is it that in France or Italy, where it's illegal but mildly enforced to teens to purchase alcohol, it is far less likely for teens to indulge in binge drinking and have only a beer or two ?
Yeah, but what stops you from using HTML with plenty of crosslinks to write your own hypertext 'literature' ? It seems to me that it would just be a self-enclosed subset of the Web. I don't see what more there is to it.
...but isn't it everywhere around us and called 'the Web' ?!?
So science is impossible?
Not, it merely says that it's difficult and will stay this way. If you want to prove that it's impossible you need to look in the direction of Godel's incompletude theorems...
Well, I should have more explicitly stated that my example (and questions) applied only to countries with socialized care. What we call Social Security here in France. Apparently what you call Social Security in the US is an entirely different beast.