BBC is a government news site, payed for by British tax dollars.
No it isn't. It is true that the TV licence is collected by the Government. The pounds pass through many layers of insulation between the Gov and the BBC's decision makers - even if they are not the "great and good" that they like to think they are. In terms of regurgitating Government news releases without question, I do not think they are particularly bad.
Don't you just need to update a language compiler to support the OS's system call structure for the language to be supported?
If the language is any good, you just replace the library you use for system calls..
OTOH, If I use any of these newfangled languages, and I need to (say) embed Postgresql, or
use existing statistical libraries like TSP, how good is the support for that? (Like the equivalent of PHP-pgsql for PHP? is the support supported? (ie updated to track changes in the underlying target code/system). Like the latest php-pgsql in Linux-Mint is way behind the curve.
And for the guy who asked about Smalltalk - the Xerox machine which first used mouse and Icons was a hardware Smalltalk machine. It is not new, and has not taken over the world yet. You probably don't want it on your servers. Better than Cobol is not a good sell.
No the didn't just suck at making them. They also sucked at supporting them. Time after time, they would fail to support users of existing defective product by introducing a new and even more defective product.
Also, where the PC enabled you to switch to Linux or BSD, when you discovered Windows didn't work properly, and can't be upgraded to a newer version (assuming that might work - big assumption) you can't switch to Lineageos or any other OS on your WInphone. Hell, if you buy a device on ebay with Chinese WinCE embedded in it, you can't even switch to the English version. I have perfectly good WinCE 5.0 device. Can I run NetBSD on it? No. Its like an Apple walled garden, but without the garden, just the wall. It may be old, but my laptop is older and running Linux fine.
There is a huge mass of totally fucked Winphone users who know just how badly MS suck and making AND SUPPORTING phones. No wonder they could not screw people one more time.
Not if you are referring to the chain of London "Southern* Fried" chicken shops.
* That's southern as in: "Bal-ham, gateway to the south".
I would upload a picture of the front of the shop, but uploading pictures is more advanced than Slashdot can manage. Use Googlemaps Streetview to look at "163 Stoke Newington High Street, London".
A good example of English-American-English if ever there was one!
That use of "of" is a regional thing in the UK. Mick Jagger was trying to sound American when he wrote the song. He would not have said it like that off stage. He probably still doesn't.
Between the presence of the good yeast and the small amount of alcohol they did produce it drove a lot of the nastier bugs off.
Actually, the carbon dioxide driving away the oxygen is more important than the yeast (and not because a bit of global warming never did anyone any harm).
Most of the programs run on super computers do not scale well down on a desktop
Most programs run on Supercomputers are probably as old as Linux, if not older. I am pretty sure a dual processor quad-core Intel processor will beat the pants off a Cray Y, let alone a CDC7600.
It might take a while to hack the Fortran from FTN to GCC, but its a lot easier if the supercomputers are 64bit machines running Linux and not Chronos on a 60 bit machine.
My Christmas present to myself is going to be an old laptop set up to run Simh as a PDP10 with Tops10 - a real TOAD! I believe a Core2 will comfortably outperform a real PDP10, and ASR33s are not really all that convenient in the bedroom late at night. (LA120's are also not great if your OS wants some sleep- yes, I have tried).
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Here in London, home of gin, it was known as "mother's ruin".
No it isn't. It is true that the TV licence is collected by the Government. The pounds pass through many layers of insulation between the Gov and the BBC's decision makers - even if they are not the "great and good" that they like to think they are. In terms of regurgitating Government news releases without question, I do not think they are particularly bad.
And there I was thinking CNN stood for "Chicken Noodle News"
If the language is any good, you just replace the library you use for system calls..
OTOH, If I use any of these newfangled languages, and I need to (say) embed Postgresql, or use existing statistical libraries like TSP, how good is the support for that? (Like the equivalent of PHP-pgsql for PHP? is the support supported? (ie updated to track changes in the underlying target code/system). Like the latest php-pgsql in Linux-Mint is way behind the curve.
And for the guy who asked about Smalltalk - the Xerox machine which first used mouse and Icons was a hardware Smalltalk machine. It is not new, and has not taken over the world yet. You probably don't want it on your servers. Better than Cobol is not a good sell.
They are just evidence of the real and more serious underlying problem: "Global warming causes mass insanity"
In the 90's Microsoft was dominant because it was the main platform for OSes on devices, because of bribery and corruption.
No the didn't just suck at making them. They also sucked at supporting them. Time after time, they would fail to support users of existing defective product by introducing a new and even more defective product.
Also, where the PC enabled you to switch to Linux or BSD, when you discovered Windows didn't work properly, and can't be upgraded to a newer version (assuming that might work - big assumption) you can't switch to Lineageos or any other OS on your WInphone. Hell, if you buy a device on ebay with Chinese WinCE embedded in it, you can't even switch to the English version. I have perfectly good WinCE 5.0 device. Can I run NetBSD on it? No. Its like an Apple walled garden, but without the garden, just the wall. It may be old, but my laptop is older and running Linux fine.
There is a huge mass of totally fucked Winphone users who know just how badly MS suck and making AND SUPPORTING phones. No wonder they could not screw people one more time.
How is Google connected to this?
You can't? I think there are numerous precedents of courts claiming national law supercedes natural law.
Here in the UK, the police are not armed (well, they are armed with CCTV, but not guns).
In America, the majority of police that are shot, are shot with their own guns, or by another policeman.
I would like a Bentley - or a Rolls-Royce, but I will accept a used one if you can't afford new.
The only similarity between American Pizza and Italian Pizza is the name.
I believe the gun man shot himself in the foot.
Not if you are referring to the chain of London "Southern* Fried" chicken shops.
* That's southern as in: "Bal-ham, gateway to the south".
I would upload a picture of the front of the shop, but uploading pictures is more advanced than Slashdot can manage. Use Googlemaps Streetview to look at "163 Stoke Newington High Street, London".
A good example of English-American-English if ever there was one!
However, it will take a huge number of academics an interminable number of years to decide which is which.
Surely you mean tossr - and you need to spell it that way if you want to crowd fund it!
That use of "of" is a regional thing in the UK. Mick Jagger was trying to sound American when he wrote the song. He would not have said it like that off stage. He probably still doesn't.
Actually, the carbon dioxide driving away the oxygen is more important than the yeast (and not because a bit of global warming never did anyone any harm).
I thought the Chinese army was No 1, and the UK's NHS was No 2.
Am I wrong? anyone have actual figures?
We are talking about Supercomputers here. Surely you mean TOPS20!
The technical term for this is "botnets".
Most programs run on Supercomputers are probably as old as Linux, if not older. I am pretty sure a dual processor quad-core Intel processor will beat the pants off a Cray Y, let alone a CDC7600.
It might take a while to hack the Fortran from FTN to GCC, but its a lot easier if the supercomputers are 64bit machines running Linux and not Chronos on a 60 bit machine.
Because if your design is a pile of manure, it is a lot more obvious in plain text files.
(The same reason that most graphics drivers are blobs).
My Christmas present to myself is going to be an old laptop set up to run Simh as a PDP10 with Tops10 - a real TOAD! I believe a Core2 will comfortably outperform a real PDP10, and ASR33s are not really all that convenient in the bedroom late at night. (LA120's are also not great if your OS wants some sleep- yes, I have tried).
If economics books will help, how come loads of academic research says "The more qualified an economist is, the less accurate his predictions"!