I happen to own the patent on stupid patents. Every time some moron does this, ka-CHING! I'm 84 cents closer to retirement and I get a warm fuzzy for having made money off a lawyer.
"Ah... So even if it's not outright bullshit, it's too slow to use?"
Someone above said something about video streaming being better now. This whole thing is giving me the distinct impression that, even though they may have reduced the file size, streaming will be the same (or worse), since we exchange travel time for unravel time.
I also seem to recall a patent grant in the past year that said pretty much the same thing as this release, but I don't think it was ZeoSync's.
...not as near as we thought. We were hoping for better, but we were only given 10 hours to bodge an asteroid launcher from part we found in the junkyard. What did you expect?
Ada95 is object-oriented. Ada83 is not, but it is still commonly used. It is also possible to use Ada95 without taking advantage of the OO features (which is what we do where I work).
Ada is no longer required by the government. They dropped the requirement over a year ago. However, Ada was designed for aviation usage, so it's still by far the most commonly used language, as it's convenient to the task. We're doing things in C now as well, though.
Your point about these features being language- or developer-dependent is correct, but certification authorities don't give a damn what we think. They're still pretty leery of OO usage, and anything we do use, we have to show unequivocably that we've avoided the problems they can cause. Frankly, they don't trust anyone (nor should they). This is neither easy nor cheap, so OO has been slow to enter aviation.
There are some areas where OOP is considered undesirable. The avionics industry, for example, makes very limited use of OOP because certain aspects (garbage collection, dynamic allocation of resources, & others) raise safety-of-flight issues. Certification authorities prefer things more controlled, as plane crashes are generally considered a bummer.
This is also why the aviation industry doesn't adopt new technologies quickly. It prefers to wait until they have a proven service history. The 486 is stilled widely used in the industry, for example.
One of my college roommates (this was about 16 years ago) managed to set up a Hewlett Packard HP-41CV calcuator as a terminal to a PDP 11/70. It was amazing how much effort he put into creating a 3 baud LCD terminal.
This was right before he fried the box by connecting it to a home-built 5 VDC power supply that had a 30 VAC hum.
There are some pretty good comments about the technology and privacy issues, but frankly, both of those pale in comparison to the economic impact of the Euro. The EC is about to create effectively a whole new economy, one significant enough that the Euro may displace the US dollar as the "golden boy" of trade. The others are looming, but this is NOW.
Your analogy is flawed. Regardless of the number you call or the language you speak, the phone company needs to provide only a fixed bandwidth for you to complete your call. With an ISP, your choice of language (or even the topic of conversation) affects them. Nice thought, but it's just not the same thing.
Further, phone companies DO perform something like bandwidth shaping. That's why there are separate business and residential rates. Use your phone enough, and you will either get a call from the company or the overall rates will (eventually, if enough people do this) go up.
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I happen to own the patent on stupid patents. Every time some moron does this, ka-CHING! I'm 84 cents closer to retirement and I get a warm fuzzy for having made money off a lawyer.
My friend Sid preferred to exercise cats using a rather graphic method involving a Q-tip and turpentine....
Yes, he hated cats.
"However.. travelling faster than c WOULD mean you were travelling backwards in time.. at least as far as the math goes.."
Actually, the math doesn't indicate a negative number, but a complex (imaginary) one.
"Ah... So even if it's not outright bullshit, it's too slow to use?"
Someone above said something about video streaming being better now. This whole thing is giving me the distinct impression that, even though they may have reduced the file size, streaming will be the same (or worse), since we exchange travel time for unravel time.
I also seem to recall a patent grant in the past year that said pretty much the same thing as this release, but I don't think it was ZeoSync's.
gm
...not as near as we thought. We were hoping for better, but we were only given 10 hours to bodge an asteroid launcher from part we found in the junkyard. What did you expect?
How DARE you suggest that anyone on Iron Chef would use ARTIFICIAL ingredients! Philistine!
Hey, Jeff?
Yeah, John?
Just in case there is anyone out there who still doesn't know that we have absolutely no life whatsoever, let's put this on a web site!
Great!
Ada95 is object-oriented. Ada83 is not, but it is still commonly used. It is also possible to use Ada95 without taking advantage of the OO features (which is what we do where I work).
Ada is no longer required by the government. They dropped the requirement over a year ago. However, Ada was designed for aviation usage, so it's still by far the most commonly used language, as it's convenient to the task. We're doing things in C now as well, though.
Your point about these features being language- or developer-dependent is correct, but certification authorities don't give a damn what we think. They're still pretty leery of OO usage, and anything we do use, we have to show unequivocably that we've avoided the problems they can cause. Frankly, they don't trust anyone (nor should they). This is neither easy nor cheap, so OO has been slow to enter aviation.
gm
There are some areas where OOP is considered undesirable. The avionics industry, for example, makes very limited use of OOP because certain aspects (garbage collection, dynamic allocation of resources, & others) raise safety-of-flight issues. Certification authorities prefer things more controlled, as plane crashes are generally considered a bummer.
This is also why the aviation industry doesn't adopt new technologies quickly. It prefers to wait until they have a proven service history. The 486 is stilled widely used in the industry, for example.
gm
One of my college roommates (this was about 16 years ago) managed to set up a Hewlett Packard HP-41CV calcuator as a terminal to a PDP 11/70. It was amazing how much effort he put into creating a 3 baud LCD terminal.
This was right before he fried the box by connecting it to a home-built 5 VDC power supply that had a 30 VAC hum.
gm
There are some pretty good comments about the technology and privacy issues, but frankly, both of those pale in comparison to the economic impact of the Euro. The EC is about to create effectively a whole new economy, one significant enough that the Euro may displace the US dollar as the "golden boy" of trade. The others are looming, but this is NOW.
gm
it happened to be the 5% not worth viewing.
Your analogy is flawed. Regardless of the number you call or the language you speak, the phone company needs to provide only a fixed bandwidth for you to complete your call. With an ISP, your choice of language (or even the topic of conversation) affects them. Nice thought, but it's just not the same thing. Further, phone companies DO perform something like bandwidth shaping. That's why there are separate business and residential rates. Use your phone enough, and you will either get a call from the company or the overall rates will (eventually, if enough people do this) go up. gila monster