Or even better, inside a virtual machine, with nothing else running inside it. And that's exactly how I'll run it if I'm forced to run that thing. But I know my gov, they'll never finish it. In 10 years it'll still be going through think-tanks and debating groups. Or more likely it will be quietly killed on the next gov change. And anyway when you have several computers on your home network, how would they know ?
Why would we want to kill these "shenanigans"? And why do you think a delay would stop the shenanigans (rather than introduce bizarre oscillations and such into the stock market)
I think all 3 of your comments are wrong, but this is the easiest to debunk. As an engineer, when you deal with unstable quantities ('noise'), you smooth them out with a digital filter: FIR, IIR, etc... Those have very well known mathematical properties and are used everywhere. And their purpose is to remove those 'bizarre oscillations' which you claim would appear. Using a random delay is one of those methods (it's easy to understand although it's far from the most mathematically efficient).
"Most importantly, usury is the derivation of profit from biological time, which is linked to life, considered sacred, God-given and divine..."
I always wonder how religions can make such shit up. And get away with it too. We are not even talking LSD-induced imagination here. It's a whole category above that.
Language X actually isn't bad at debugging unless you're trying to do multi-threaded stuff. In which case you should probably just punch yourself in the face instead.
FTFY. I just spent 3 months debugging a multithreaded app. 6 hours before deadline I spent 2 hours reorganizing it as a single threaded app. Worked at once.
Because your land is really not your land. Try and stop paying taxes for a while to see how long it takes the gov to recover its land that it was just renting you all that time. So now you understand that those rules are there just to protect that land from you...
Effectively it creates blocks on economic activity
One famous example are toll roads. During the roman empire there were no toll roads and commerce flourished within the empire. After its collapse and the feudal states, every little road or bridge had a toll booth. It stopped commerce as long distance transportation of goods was simply too expensive. There's one good example of that in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle: the most powerful king of Europe (Louis XIV) could purchase excellent wood for shipbuilding... but he couldn't afford to pay the tolls to carry it from the forests to the shipyards.
And you forget the most important, taking the land of others by killing them off. It's easy becoming a rich landowner if you don't need to work your ass off to purchase every square foot first and/or respect former uses of said land.
I've long used LabWindows at work and stayed away from LabView. For those who don't know, they both share the same libraries but the former is pure ANSI C while the latter is boxes+spaghetti connectors. 3 years ago I did a data acquisition project that was also given to another team to do in LabView in parallel. After 3 months I was done and the project went into operational mode. The LV project was hitting some snags so I made some DLLs with all my underlying code for them and they would only need to add some pretty boxes on top. After 3 years their project still doesn't work properly. LV is impossible to debug (retroactive timings anyone ?). And while you can write spaghetti code in C, when you do so in LV it actually LOOKS like a plate of spaghetti !!!
And don't get me started on the fuckwads who recently tried to convert me to UML as a better way to do real-time programming. What a crock of shit dreamed up by computer theorists who've never actually run one of their programs.
the Romans funded their society on plunder of outlying civilizations for a long time
I'm no historian but it's hard to summarize a society as complex as the romans to that little quip. It'd be at least as right to say that they funded their society on building great roads and a stable peace within their confines so that commerce would flourish. And indeed when travel was no longer safe, commerce stopped all the towns and villages closed on themselves and that was the start of feudalism.
Just a general question, does it ever happen that the employees of a company all quit after said company changes owners? Then the company is suddenly worthless if it's based on intellectual stuff like software, right? So is the law OK with it or can the new owners sue or whatever ?
...bayes...
And in the end you end up with something looking like chinese: you type (or rather, draw) some quick symbol for a very common word, a more complex symbol for a rarer word (and you need to define and then memorize them all), and for any 'foreign' word, you spell it the old way. Asians are used to type a lot faster than we do on cell phones. And they also take notes faster on paper (a chinese student friend in the US would write down the physics courses in chinese, which allowed her to write down the entire course, while the US student could only grad words here and there).
That's exactly what I came here to ask. In addition I already know that autocorrective software, as currently installed on 'smart'phones is totally useless: I alternate between 3 languages daily, one of which is not on the phone, and the other 2 I need to go 5 menus deep into the phone to change, and it changes not only the typing language but the interface as well. At least on a PC, for instance with Kmail, I get the language change in a single click.
Can you modify the grammar of the language in place?
Why would you want to do something as monstrous as this ? To ensure that you are the only coder who will ever be able to understand the code ? I thought using Perl was already enough for that purpose... If you can use rules to turn a language into another that is entirely your own, I'm sure I won't want to use it. Yeah, I like Ada but not Perl, clarity for me is a lot more important than conciseness and 'absolute power'.
As far as I know there's no cure for Raynaud's, but the best remediation is to in fact alternate contrasting temperatures (hands+feet in ice water with the body in a sauna, followed by hands+feet in hot water with the body outdoors in winter). So this device could be some help.
I don't know what kind of store you are refering to, but I'm warry of putting my credit card info on my phone (Android) app market. So, even though I've downloaded plenty of free apps, I have never downloaded a paying one. Not out of being a cheapass, I would pay for a really worthy one, but I just haven't taken the plunge yet. It's the same as my mother in law who keeps saying that she'll buy something on the internet, someday...
To be fair, no debate in the history of the world has ever actually changed the truth of any matter.
'Debates' are one of the things that astound me about the US. Those competitive debate teams at school who get to debate things they don't even believe in. In the end the better orator wins. Not the truth. And you wonder why there are so many lawyers ?!? And the guy who's right but not a good talker gets stuffed. It is the exact thing an efficient society would want to abolish.
I must say I've never understood why USans rate schoolwork with letters. How do you compute yearly averages ? Where I'm from we rate 0 to 20, failing below 10. Where my wife's from it's 0 to 30, failing below 18. I was astounded when I met my pen-pal to learn that he'd only ever got As, like several of his friends. I thought I'd met Einstein until I got to know him better. Here you'd be pretty good around 12~14 and nobody EVER would only get grades above 16 (the equivalent of A). It made me wonder if US teachers only gave good grades for the touchy goody feeling.
This is part of why everything is moving from massive parallelism (ribbon cables) to high-speed differential signaling.
Another reason is keeping the signals on the various wires synchronized. At the frequencies we now use, say 50Gbps, that's only 6mm between one bit and the other. If one wire of the same cable is only 1mm longer than the other you run a one in 6 chance of mistaking the bit with the previous or next one. Adding delay lines add lots of complexity.
No. I should able to refuse anyone for employment for any damn reason I want.
Like for being black, or a moslem, or pregnant...? I think the law already takes care of that, so why not add 'for having done perfectly legal things in the past' ?
Let's put this thing in perspective. I'm in France where the Euro has been legal tender for about 10 year, I'm a geek who changes computer every couple years, and even on my brand new Dell laptop 8G+500G+4proc I have no frigging idea where the euro key is. So for me (and many others), the solution to the sarcasm symbol will be;-) or:-P for quite a while still.
...so, make it easy to sue the puritanical pricks who refused employment because they saw one pic of you getting drunk on facebook. the problem should correct itself over time.
To Say Nothing of The Dog, by Connie Willis (1998), with its concept of "slippage" to keep time travelers away from critical points in history, and an inability to transport significant objects forward in time.
An okay book but the characters are so annoying... But by all means, don't read her 'Doomsday book': exact same story and the ineptitude of the characters are infuriating.
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Oh, nice! Can I have the Linux version?
Who knows, it might run on Wine.
Or even better, inside a virtual machine, with nothing else running inside it. And that's exactly how I'll run it if I'm forced to run that thing. But I know my gov, they'll never finish it. In 10 years it'll still be going through think-tanks and debating groups. Or more likely it will be quietly killed on the next gov change. And anyway when you have several computers on your home network, how would they know ?
Why would we want to kill these "shenanigans"? And why do you think a delay would stop the shenanigans (rather than introduce bizarre oscillations and such into the stock market)
I think all 3 of your comments are wrong, but this is the easiest to debunk. As an engineer, when you deal with unstable quantities ('noise'), you smooth them out with a digital filter: FIR, IIR, etc... Those have very well known mathematical properties and are used everywhere. And their purpose is to remove those 'bizarre oscillations' which you claim would appear. Using a random delay is one of those methods (it's easy to understand although it's far from the most mathematically efficient).
"Most importantly, usury is the derivation of profit from biological time, which is linked to life, considered sacred, God-given and divine ..."
I always wonder how religions can make such shit up. And get away with it too. We are not even talking LSD-induced imagination here. It's a whole category above that.
Language X actually isn't bad at debugging unless you're trying to do multi-threaded stuff. In which case you should probably just punch yourself in the face instead.
FTFY. I just spent 3 months debugging a multithreaded app. 6 hours before deadline I spent 2 hours reorganizing it as a single threaded app. Worked at once.
Because your land is really not your land. Try and stop paying taxes for a while to see how long it takes the gov to recover its land that it was just renting you all that time. So now you understand that those rules are there just to protect that land from you...
Effectively it creates blocks on economic activity
One famous example are toll roads. During the roman empire there were no toll roads and commerce flourished within the empire. After its collapse and the feudal states, every little road or bridge had a toll booth. It stopped commerce as long distance transportation of goods was simply too expensive. There's one good example of that in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle: the most powerful king of Europe (Louis XIV) could purchase excellent wood for shipbuilding... but he couldn't afford to pay the tolls to carry it from the forests to the shipyards.
And you forget the most important, taking the land of others by killing them off. It's easy becoming a rich landowner if you don't need to work your ass off to purchase every square foot first and/or respect former uses of said land.
And don't get me started on the fuckwads who recently tried to convert me to UML as a better way to do real-time programming. What a crock of shit dreamed up by computer theorists who've never actually run one of their programs.
Gorilla glass for devices that cause gorilla arm syndrome. There must be a sarcastic tag somewhere in there.
the Romans funded their society on plunder of outlying civilizations for a long time
I'm no historian but it's hard to summarize a society as complex as the romans to that little quip. It'd be at least as right to say that they funded their society on building great roads and a stable peace within their confines so that commerce would flourish. And indeed when travel was no longer safe, commerce stopped all the towns and villages closed on themselves and that was the start of feudalism.
Just a general question, does it ever happen that the employees of a company all quit after said company changes owners? Then the company is suddenly worthless if it's based on intellectual stuff like software, right? So is the law OK with it or can the new owners sue or whatever ?
...bayes... And in the end you end up with something looking like chinese: you type (or rather, draw) some quick symbol for a very common word, a more complex symbol for a rarer word (and you need to define and then memorize them all), and for any 'foreign' word, you spell it the old way. Asians are used to type a lot faster than we do on cell phones. And they also take notes faster on paper (a chinese student friend in the US would write down the physics courses in chinese, which allowed her to write down the entire course, while the US student could only grad words here and there).
That's exactly what I came here to ask. In addition I already know that autocorrective software, as currently installed on 'smart'phones is totally useless: I alternate between 3 languages daily, one of which is not on the phone, and the other 2 I need to go 5 menus deep into the phone to change, and it changes not only the typing language but the interface as well. At least on a PC, for instance with Kmail, I get the language change in a single click.
Can you modify the grammar of the language in place?
Why would you want to do something as monstrous as this ? To ensure that you are the only coder who will ever be able to understand the code ? I thought using Perl was already enough for that purpose... If you can use rules to turn a language into another that is entirely your own, I'm sure I won't want to use it. Yeah, I like Ada but not Perl, clarity for me is a lot more important than conciseness and 'absolute power'.
As far as I know there's no cure for Raynaud's, but the best remediation is to in fact alternate contrasting temperatures (hands+feet in ice water with the body in a sauna, followed by hands+feet in hot water with the body outdoors in winter). So this device could be some help.
I don't know what kind of store you are refering to, but I'm warry of putting my credit card info on my phone (Android) app market. So, even though I've downloaded plenty of free apps, I have never downloaded a paying one. Not out of being a cheapass, I would pay for a really worthy one, but I just haven't taken the plunge yet. It's the same as my mother in law who keeps saying that she'll buy something on the internet, someday...
Note, by the by, that "efficient society" pretty much reduces to "fascist society".
The aim of society isn't "efficiency"....
Right after posting I knew that someone would answer that. 'Just society' is a better choice but still not exactly what I was aiming for.
To be fair, no debate in the history of the world has ever actually changed the truth of any matter.
'Debates' are one of the things that astound me about the US. Those competitive debate teams at school who get to debate things they don't even believe in. In the end the better orator wins. Not the truth. And you wonder why there are so many lawyers ?!? And the guy who's right but not a good talker gets stuffed. It is the exact thing an efficient society would want to abolish.
I must say I've never understood why USans rate schoolwork with letters. How do you compute yearly averages ? Where I'm from we rate 0 to 20, failing below 10. Where my wife's from it's 0 to 30, failing below 18. I was astounded when I met my pen-pal to learn that he'd only ever got As, like several of his friends. I thought I'd met Einstein until I got to know him better. Here you'd be pretty good around 12~14 and nobody EVER would only get grades above 16 (the equivalent of A). It made me wonder if US teachers only gave good grades for the touchy goody feeling.
Now my regex statement is about 20K in size
I almost fainted when I read that...
This is part of why everything is moving from massive parallelism (ribbon cables) to high-speed differential signaling.
Another reason is keeping the signals on the various wires synchronized. At the frequencies we now use, say 50Gbps, that's only 6mm between one bit and the other. If one wire of the same cable is only 1mm longer than the other you run a one in 6 chance of mistaking the bit with the previous or next one. Adding delay lines add lots of complexity.
No. I should able to refuse anyone for employment for any damn reason I want.
Like for being black, or a moslem, or pregnant...? I think the law already takes care of that, so why not add 'for having done perfectly legal things in the past' ?
Let's put this thing in perspective. I'm in France where the Euro has been legal tender for about 10 year, I'm a geek who changes computer every couple years, and even on my brand new Dell laptop 8G+500G+4proc I have no frigging idea where the euro key is. So for me (and many others), the solution to the sarcasm symbol will be ;-) or :-P for quite a while still.
...so, make it easy to sue the puritanical pricks who refused employment because they saw one pic of you getting drunk on facebook. the problem should correct itself over time.
To Say Nothing of The Dog, by Connie Willis (1998), with its concept of "slippage" to keep time travelers away from critical points in history, and an inability to transport significant objects forward in time.
An okay book but the characters are so annoying... But by all means, don't read her 'Doomsday book': exact same story and the ineptitude of the characters are infuriating.