...that Ocaml is speed competitive with C when compiled, and with java when bytecoded. Meanwhile haskell is more in the same speed category as awk and tcl.
Queston for any reader who is: might this not excuse the computer owner from legal culpability, if it turns out he has recieved mp3s the RIAA don't like? He could just say "Hey, I subbed to the channel, but I don't control what goes out over it".
If you're about to redesign the hardware from scratch, then this stuff should just go into the RAM slots. But given the choice between "wait five years for a bus and OS redesign" and "get a SCSI drive right now that Really Screams, that goes in your normal HD slot and plays nice with your legacy OS", the latter would be the sensible business decision.
(disclaimer: my h/w knowledge is not vast, I picked SCSI as a widely-adopted standard for ultra fast HDs; if there's a better one, assume I said that instead)
A program should express WHAT you are doing, rather than require you to faff about detailing HOW you want it done, unless you actually want to.
A programming language should make this easy with syntactic sugar.
Humans read programs.
Computers read machinecode binaries.
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So where is the private sector replacement for Shuttle?
Closer nearby timewise than the NASA replacement for shuttle, unless they just unmothball and retrofit one of their old Big Dumb Booster designs.
What NASA doesn't have is a space program. It has (or had, in its heyday) brute force backed by implausibly huge resources.
It's like doing architecture using a bazillion slaves, log-rolled sleds, and earth ramps. It works, but it's not really a technology. There's little you can learn from it if you actually want to up the deployment scale, drop the price, or achieve repeatable results with reusable tools.
What the new private space companies are doing, in this analogy, is more like the invention of bricks and mortar. It won't do anywhere near as much yet, but it's the right way forward.
..that all these capitalists seem to actually be putting their money where their mouth is.
Could it be that "capitalists" are people like just anybody else, and they are as prone as anybody to love adventure and new frontiers? Seems so to me.
Oh and btw, asset centralization is bunk - these new space entrepreneurs are very blatantly CREATING assets, namely suborbital hoppers, that simply would not exist otherwise. Capitalism isn't a zero-sum-game of money accumulation, but rather consists of creating wealth out of dross.
You want to move cargo, use a big dumb cargo booster. Moving people and cargo in the same box, then making a half hearted attempt to reuse the airframe, that's daft. So's sticking stubby little glider wings on an orbiter - when the russians have repeatedly demonstrated that 'chutes work fine.
Re:Java Data Objects are nice but Hibernate is Bet
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The real solution is to use (1) ant (2) jboss. Ant can run thru all the steps from rebuild to deploy automagically, and jboss will sense the changed file and expand it into place. Tada! Your EJBs and servlets are ready to test. Try it.
Metaphorically and literally, any sufficiently capable tool is also a weapon, and the more capable, the more ways you can use it to shoot yourself in the foot.
Idiot proofing implies removing options that idiots might trigger.
Really? probably it was a continuty goofup. But one could probably get away with explaining it as: he custom built C3PO, but out of fairly industry standard scrap parts.
R2D2 is one of a line of identical robots (scads of em in the naboo royal ship for example), but C3PO is a custom job by his protege and one he'd be unlikely to forget, especially re-meeting him in pieces (C3PO's usual condition;-). But he was faking to be "old ben the hermit" at the time, so the innocent act makes sense.
Before ep 1, you didn't know that anakin made C3PO and that R2D2 used to work on leia's mum's royal yacht. Before ep 2, you didn't know that boba fett was ny more than a minor bad guy with a few minutes screen time and ten seconds of speech in "return of the jedi".
So, saying he "isn't connected" is bogus, you don't know til you find out.
Frankly, big dumb boosters may be the sensible way.
Single stage to orbit means you're lifting a huge amount of (by the time it gets up there) completely useless metal all the way up, and fetching it back all the way down. Semi-staged stuff like the shuttle drops a lot of its scrap metal, but there's all the engineering complexities of designing fuel tanks etc so that they can drop out of the sky into a highly corrosive environment (the sea) and yet be reusable.
It does make quite a lot of sense to design a rocket on the basis of "a tall stack of bits that progressively fall away".
I'm afraid that wouldn't work. Ya see, they're loking for spectrograph traces - and the presence of (70% water) splatted humans would foul the readings.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml
Sodding slashdot.
...that Ocaml is speed competitive with C when compiled, and with java when bytecoded. Meanwhile haskell is more in the same speed category as awk and tcl.
Data here.
Bah. Johnny 5 could do that in ten seconds flat, without OCR errors, and that was back in the nineteen eighties.
IANAL
Queston for any reader who is: might this not excuse the computer owner from legal culpability, if it turns out he has recieved mp3s the RIAA don't like? He could just say "Hey, I subbed to the channel, but I don't control what goes out over it".
If you're about to redesign the hardware from scratch, then this stuff should just go into the RAM slots. But given the choice between "wait five years for a bus and OS redesign" and "get a SCSI drive right now that Really Screams, that goes in your normal HD slot and plays nice with your legacy OS", the latter would be the sensible business decision.
(disclaimer: my h/w knowledge is not vast, I picked SCSI as a widely-adopted standard for ultra fast HDs; if there's a better one, assume I said that instead)
You don't really want it compatible with RAM. What OS could possibly address it?
I'm betting that when this first comes on the market, it's packaged in hard-disk sized boxes and has a SCSI connector.
Sounds to me like they just slurped in XDoclet, just like they slurped in Log4J in the 1.4 release.
A program should express WHAT you are doing, rather than require you to faff about detailing HOW you want it done, unless you actually want to.
A programming language should make this easy with syntactic sugar.
Humans read programs.
Computers read machinecode binaries.
So where is the private sector replacement for Shuttle?
Closer nearby timewise than the NASA replacement for shuttle, unless they just unmothball and retrofit one of their old Big Dumb Booster designs.
What NASA doesn't have is a space program. It has (or had, in its heyday) brute force backed by implausibly huge resources.
It's like doing architecture using a bazillion slaves, log-rolled sleds, and earth ramps. It works, but it's not really a technology. There's little you can learn from it if you actually want to up the deployment scale, drop the price, or achieve repeatable results with reusable tools.
What the new private space companies are doing, in this analogy, is more like the invention of bricks and mortar. It won't do anywhere near as much yet, but it's the right way forward.
All computer languages undergoing rapid user-driven evolution are doomed to either converge on perl or python. Looks like java is heading pythonwards.
..that all these capitalists seem to actually be putting their money where their mouth is.
Could it be that "capitalists" are people like just anybody else, and they are as prone as anybody to love adventure and new frontiers? Seems so to me.
Oh and btw, asset centralization is bunk - these new space entrepreneurs are very blatantly CREATING assets, namely suborbital hoppers, that simply would not exist otherwise. Capitalism isn't a zero-sum-game of money accumulation, but rather consists of creating wealth out of dross.
K.I.S.S. engineering.
You want to move cargo, use a big dumb cargo booster. Moving people and cargo in the same box, then making a half hearted attempt to reuse the airframe, that's daft. So's sticking stubby little glider wings on an orbiter - when the russians have repeatedly demonstrated that 'chutes work fine.
The real solution is to use (1) ant (2) jboss. Ant can run thru all the steps from rebuild to deploy automagically, and jboss will sense the changed file and expand it into place. Tada! Your EJBs and servlets are ready to test. Try it.
"If you're dumb, and it's losing you money on windows, then even if you switch to linux you'll still be dumb, and it will still lose you money."
...between american and russian space engineering.
Russian: oops, bug, looks like we'll land in Kazakhstan.
USA: oops, bug, we're confetti.
Metaphorically and literally, any sufficiently capable tool is also a weapon, and the more capable, the more ways you can use it to shoot yourself in the foot.
Idiot proofing implies removing options that idiots might trigger.
Sometimes you want those options.
...then there really isn't much need for pants.
Unless you get a boner, I suppose. Then it might be embarrasing.
Really? probably it was a continuty goofup. But one could probably get away with explaining it as: he custom built C3PO, but out of fairly industry standard scrap parts.
Do not meddle in the affairs of ewoks, because thou tasteth of pork when roasted and thine skull will tune up nicely as a party drum!
Weeee hah! Awoo! Yubba yubba yubba!
Cheap hosting, hmm.
Slashdot effect, hmm.
Your bills may increase next month, I fear.
R2D2 is one of a line of identical robots (scads of em in the naboo royal ship for example), but C3PO is a custom job by his protege and one he'd be unlikely to forget, especially re-meeting him in pieces (C3PO's usual condition ;-). But he was faking to be "old ben the hermit" at the time, so the innocent act makes sense.
Too much star wars geekness, I know.
Doh yeah, and I forgot boba fett was in "empire strikes back" too (it's not my favourite one). Still semingly no more than a minor bad guy though.
Before ep 1, you didn't know that anakin made C3PO and that R2D2 used to work on leia's mum's royal yacht. Before ep 2, you didn't know that boba fett was ny more than a minor bad guy with a few minutes screen time and ten seconds of speech in "return of the jedi".
So, saying he "isn't connected" is bogus, you don't know til you find out.
Frankly, big dumb boosters may be the sensible way.
Single stage to orbit means you're lifting a huge amount of (by the time it gets up there) completely useless metal all the way up, and fetching it back all the way down. Semi-staged stuff like the shuttle drops a lot of its scrap metal, but there's all the engineering complexities of designing fuel tanks etc so that they can drop out of the sky into a highly corrosive environment (the sea) and yet be reusable.
It does make quite a lot of sense to design a rocket on the basis of "a tall stack of bits that progressively fall away".
I'm afraid that wouldn't work. Ya see, they're loking for spectrograph traces - and the presence of (70% water) splatted humans would foul the readings.
Sorry.