Further reality check: We're talking 10 to 15 years in the future. We're at the top of the Hubbert Curve now. In 10 years we'll be wondering where to get food to eat, let alone how to fly to the moon.
This will very definitely be a global trend. But it will occur through necessity as power supplies shrink all around the world due to the Hubbert Curve.
Now two years of delays, appeals etc. while we get pounded with FUD like "The GPL is before the courts, you're exposing your business to unnecessary risk". Sigh.
I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but Peak Oil is going to prevent all this amazing sounding stuff in the future. We're going back to the Middle Ages and we need to find the best ways of dealing with that.
You start to realise:
- How many "advanced" modern language features Lisp had 20 years ago.
- That you've been missing out on some serious fun.
Lisp is not right for everything, but it's suitable for far more tasks than people realise, and very often is dramatically better than "industry standard" languages.
There's actually a bit of a debate in Lisp circles about whether they should bother trying to advertise this fact or just profit from it by bidding for jobs at a much lower cost.
Science considers the theory of evolution a proven fact. Just like the theory of alternating current or any other of a long list of facts. Don't let the word theory confuse you.
Actually, modern Lisp implementations can be faster than compiled C. Some Lisps run like lightning on numerical stuff.
See here for an example:
http://home.comcast.net/~bc19191/blog/040308.html
Apparently the Russians have lost most of their data from the Mir days (and prior to that) and end up quoting data obtained from the Skylab missions. Tragic if true.
I've read exactly the same sorts of comments from top physics guys who've been using particle accelerators for 20 years, but find that the PCs and networks they now have installed are actually much more complex.
I remember reading somewhere that a stack of paper
put into a microwave will char in the middle. Heat
input from all around maximising at the centre. Try
it with ordinary paper (carefully) before drawing
any paranoid conclusions about RFID tracking.
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How about: "Why do you hate our freedom?" ;-)
Just like how we were told M$ will stop spam, I guess.
There won't be enough energy to drive this vision of the future. http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ will show you why.
There will be none of these grand plans. Civilisation will crash first. Sad but true. http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Further reality check: We're talking 10 to 15 years in the future. We're at the top of the Hubbert Curve now. In 10 years we'll be wondering where to get food to eat, let alone how to fly to the moon.
This will very definitely be a global trend. But it will occur through necessity as power supplies shrink all around the world due to the Hubbert Curve.
Now two years of delays, appeals etc. while we get pounded with FUD like "The GPL is before the courts, you're exposing your business to unnecessary risk". Sigh.
I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but Peak Oil is going to prevent all this amazing sounding stuff in the future. We're going back to the Middle Ages and we need to find the best ways of dealing with that.
Sigh. Yet another long term engineering mega-project that ignores the fact that the world economy will soon begin and endless contraction.
Except for Visual Source Safe, apparently.
You start to realise: - How many "advanced" modern language features Lisp had 20 years ago. - That you've been missing out on some serious fun. Lisp is not right for everything, but it's suitable for far more tasks than people realise, and very often is dramatically better than "industry standard" languages. There's actually a bit of a debate in Lisp circles about whether they should bother trying to advertise this fact or just profit from it by bidding for jobs at a much lower cost.
Hubbert's Curve (peak oil) is going to trump Moore's Law. There will be no accelerating returns.
This free tool is great for helping you to write regular expressions: http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
Science considers the theory of evolution a proven fact. Just like the theory of alternating current or any other of a long list of facts. Don't let the word theory confuse you.
Actually, modern Lisp implementations can be faster than compiled C. Some Lisps run like lightning on numerical stuff. See here for an example:
http://home.comcast.net/~bc19191/blog/040308.html
A lot of people say that converting to the Dvorak keyboard solves the problem.
Sounds like Lisp to me, only more inefficient.
Apparently the Russians have lost most of their data from the Mir days (and prior to that) and end up quoting data obtained from the Skylab missions. Tragic if true.
Here is the top ten list as rated by a lot of serious gamers: http://boardgamegeek.com/top10.htm
Is that OS written by convicted criminals? Now that's a check I'd like to see.
Actually GnuGo 3.4 beats me every time on level 1. I assume you mean a *good* human player.
I've read exactly the same sorts of comments from top physics guys who've been using particle accelerators for 20 years, but find that the PCs and networks they now have installed are actually much more complex.
I remember reading somewhere that a stack of paper put into a microwave will char in the middle. Heat input from all around maximising at the centre. Try it with ordinary paper (carefully) before drawing any paranoid conclusions about RFID tracking.
Perhaps this simply means Intel thinks that if they make their CPU incompatible with AMD that more people will buy the AMD one.
They forgot to read him his rights.