have you ever seen a program that did not have a "print" statement in it? well those don't exist. And ignoring that whopper, I can tell you that it's not the big ones that really screw up legacy programs, it is the tiny tweaks that only go wrong one in a million times. Perl5.6 to 5.8 had some really really subtle changes to regrular expressions that broke programs in almost impossible to detect ways. Python 3 is death for legacy python.
Perl 6 is out. But it's a diffent language in the same way that python 3 is not like py 2.7
The thing I really like about perl is it's the shortest oreily pocket reference. it's even shorter than c++. Yet you can do vastly more than python without importing a single lib. that is to say it's surprisingly concise for encompassing such a lot of capabilities in the core language.
I used to think the same thing about Ethernet cables. it's all digital right? And yet I've seen speeds increase 10 fold when replacing old one. Cheap cables can have bad performance that can lie under your radar for all the packet loss. Even a cheap cable connecting to another computer not related to you can cause so many packet retrandmits that all your other computers are affected. thus it's not simply a matter of testing your own connection. when you test it, it might seem fine till that other computer starts using it's connection.
Of course with HDMI you are probably going to have a pretty good test: does the picture look crappy. So maybe this is less of an issue for things with screens.
Will Chrome OS bundle flash or allow it to install?
One of the selling points of Chrome OS is the security. If someone can PWN my laptop and keylog my user level passowrd remotely then having my data on the cloud is dangerous. Right now even if someone compromises flash my computer is protected by multiple levels of user access controls and backups. with chrome OS once someone can access my account they can do it from anywhere without physcial access.
This is not a gripe about the cloud as much as it pointing out how you can go around claiming the sandbox keeps you safe if your browser lets you punch holes in the sandbox. Because chrome OS connects your filesystem cloud to your general browsing via the browser it is more incumbent to secure it.
Right now whenever IE or Firefox has some dangerous hole I can switch to a different browser. But if I use chrome OS I can't safely surf the we whatsoever until it is patched.
According the NYtimes the reason it crashed was not mechanical failure but lack of lift.
According to Aviation Week the reason it crashed was the tail rotor struck the top of the compound wall during the landing attempt, breaking the tail rotor off, which resulted in a hard landing. That's the reason the tail section was on the opposite side of the wall from the rest of the helicopter, and why it didn't get destroyed when the Seal team blew up the helicopter.
Well according to CBS news, that was the initial, but now known to be wrong, explanation. After it lost lift from the vortex, the pilot put it into a controlled crash, striking the wall.
According the NYtimes the reason it crashed was not mechanical failure but lack of lift. two reasons were given 1) thin air 2) the walls of the compound created a vortex. So apparently just some modestly walls to guide air will reduce the lift enough to crash this thing. I wonder how it is supposed to land between buildings? I wonder if perhaps the noise reduction and stealth features came at a price of reduced performance.
How is this thing different than a Gumstix? Perhaps the price which is about 10% less, but on the other hand it is has yet to be sold so we don't know the price. And as for fitting a beowulf into a shoebox, well Gumstix was there first
For years people have complain or wondered why the Apple Software Update does not update third part apps. Well the reason is simple, apple does not have the right to distribute those or manage fees for non-free updates. So now they created a unified update mechanism and all the henny penny's are abjectly whining about a walled garden.
Personally what I want is a wallwd garden I canuse for 90% of my enterprise apps. Then for the ones that I am less dependent on I can use some feeble error prone mechanism like Fink (apt-get) or mac ports or enthought to get the other apps outside of the walled garden. For those I'll accept the problems and higher risk of viruses. But for canned apps why not make it simple and robust?
What about download caps that get in the way of downloading a 4-8 GB OS?
then you'll have to do it the old fashioned way.
What about when you have like 3-5 systems and only want to download the os one time and use a disk or usbkey to load it on all of your systems?
Good question. so far I've been able to move apps by USB key to other machines. the apps are tethered to my account not to my machine. In the past apple, unlike MS, has always treated the OS as your property. you can move it where you like or re-sell it as long as it's not on multiple machines at the same time (unless you bought a multi-machine lic).
What about systems that only have dial up and you need to go off site for higher speed downloads?
then you'll have to do it the old fashioned way.
What about people with slow downloads in lots of areas 1.5 meg dsl is the best that you can get.
then you'll have to do it the old fashioned way.
What about if you need to reload the os on a blank HDD?
I use apt-get on my macs and linux boxes. It is one method among many I use. In my experience it is chaos. I much prefer installing canned stand alone apps on my mac. I use apt-get to get ones that are more widespread projects like scipy and so forth that cant be as easily encapsulated into apps. and even there many times I've had to give up on apt-get from fink or mac ports and install some pre-built tar ball or other customized installer.
I don't want to see apt-get go away. But for encapsulated app distribution its too fragile for my mom to use. And for me, when i'm at work, it's not worth my time to deal with all the inconstancies it has if there is just a way to get an app pre-packaged even if I have to pay for it.
I would imagine a big old truecrypt partition, though perhaps he didn't encrypt things for some reason?
Well I'm reading through the files from bin laden's drives that were posted on wikileaks an hour ago and it looks like they he used steganography based on goat porn.
There is a lot of money to be made in knowing where a user is. For Google it is a great advertising opportunity. By their own admission they are an advertising company. Put location gathering capabilities in a device made by such an advertiser and isn't it common sense that they may try to gather location information?
which is why 50 million would be cheap if it's a class action settlement.
previous announcements on may 1 have been about the ending of some form of human terror, or the beginning of a new more insidious kind.
on May 1: 2010- the death of OBL announced. 2003 - Bush's "Mission Accomplished." speech 1961 – Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections 1956 – Public availability of The polio vaccine announced 1945- the anouncement of the death of Adolph Hitler.
right, I've heard of this. But it's unappealing because it pushes the nuiscance on to the user. It also isn't universal, it's linked to citi cards, so you can't push this onto the merchant (otherwise there could be 200 different interfaces to deal with).
What would fix this is to have credit cards generate a contract not tap an open vein. that is, the credit card is used to authorize a one time transaction (after which the credit card number itself can be discarded for the transaction ID). For recurring charges the transaction authorized should only enable payments to sony, for goods provided to a specific address or online account, and include a cap. that is non-transferable transactions are the thing we should keep on record.
There needs to be a mechanism for generating these transaction IDs.
There is a legend that this is what happens at Intel and Microsoft. It used to be said that every odd numbered Intel was not much of an improvement. It's still true since Windows 1.0 that every other release of windows has sucked. It was perfectly predictable that Vista would tank. (No I don't hate microsoft. Even people that love microsoft can see this has become a "law".)
In both cases the supposed explanation is that there are two difffenent teams working at the same time. The better one gets the first release and second one patches their changes into it for the sucky intervening release.
The article description sounds like a perfect description of the state of all the linux distro's, all the linux desktop managers, and all the linux word processors. That is, there is a proliferation of not quite compatible products that do 80% of the job well.
So I guess the article is saying we should take this shining example from computer engineering and use it to refor how scientific packages are developed.
The original article is clueless about the difference between research products and production software. In research there is no a priori omniscience about what is best. What you see at the end is the few survivors of an evolutionary competition of zillions of efforts. You don't see the three planned outcomes that we had known could have been written from a well thought out requirements document.
There is a decades old saying that scientists develop the next generation of algorithms using last years computers . COmputer scientists write last years algorithm on next years computer. It is still true.
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have you ever seen a program that did not have a "print" statement in it? well those don't exist. And ignoring that whopper, I can tell you that it's not the big ones that really screw up legacy programs, it is the tiny tweaks that only go wrong one in a million times. Perl5.6 to 5.8 had some really really subtle changes to regrular expressions that broke programs in almost impossible to detect ways. Python 3 is death for legacy python.
Perl 6 is out. But it's a diffent language in the same way that python 3 is not like py 2.7
The thing I really like about perl is it's the shortest oreily pocket reference. it's even shorter than c++. Yet you can do vastly more than python without importing a single lib. that is to say it's surprisingly concise for encompassing such a lot of capabilities in the core language.
I used to think the same thing about Ethernet cables. it's all digital right? And yet I've seen speeds increase 10 fold when replacing old one. Cheap cables can have bad performance that can lie under your radar for all the packet loss. Even a cheap cable connecting to another computer not related to you can cause so many packet retrandmits that all your other computers are affected. thus it's not simply a matter of testing your own connection. when you test it, it might seem fine till that other computer starts using it's connection.
Of course with HDMI you are probably going to have a pretty good test: does the picture look crappy. So maybe this is less of an issue for things with screens.
so once you have paid the copy tax you are free to copy as much music as you like?
Yes! but data compression requires extra payment. So you can only use AIFF or FLAC not MP3
Will Chrome OS bundle flash or allow it to install?
One of the selling points of Chrome OS is the security. If someone can PWN my laptop and keylog my user level passowrd remotely then having my data on the cloud is dangerous. Right now even if someone compromises flash my computer is protected by multiple levels of user access controls and backups. with chrome OS once someone can access my account they can do it from anywhere without physcial access.
This is not a gripe about the cloud as much as it pointing out how you can go around claiming the sandbox keeps you safe if your browser lets you punch holes in the sandbox. Because chrome OS connects your filesystem cloud to your general browsing via the browser it is more incumbent to secure it.
Right now whenever IE or Firefox has some dangerous hole I can switch to a different browser. But if I use chrome OS I can't safely surf the we whatsoever until it is patched.
And the rest are all women who claim to be under 28, telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, and FBI agents.
those robot pilots didn't do as well as Ballu
Telemarketers use this so they can call you just as you get out of the shower.
the length of my dick (in centimeters). So if I want to comment, I have to call up grandma and ask for both.
This is a good idea. It could make the news commentary system be more like Chat roullette only with more pen1ses.
According to Aviation Week the reason it crashed was the tail rotor struck the top of the compound wall during the landing attempt, breaking the tail rotor off, which resulted in a hard landing. That's the reason the tail section was on the opposite side of the wall from the rest of the helicopter, and why it didn't get destroyed when the Seal team blew up the helicopter.
Well according to CBS news, that was the initial, but now known to be wrong, explanation. After it lost lift from the vortex, the pilot put it into a controlled crash, striking the wall.
According the NYtimes the reason it crashed was not mechanical failure but lack of lift. two reasons were given 1) thin air 2) the walls of the compound created a vortex. So apparently just some modestly walls to guide air will reduce the lift enough to crash this thing. I wonder how it is supposed to land between buildings? I wonder if perhaps the noise reduction and stealth features came at a price of reduced performance.
How is this thing different than a Gumstix? Perhaps the price which is about 10% less, but on the other hand it is has yet to be sold so we don't know the price. And as for fitting a beowulf into a shoebox, well Gumstix was there first
For years people have complain or wondered why the Apple Software Update does not update third part apps. Well the reason is simple, apple does not have the right to distribute those or manage fees for non-free updates. So now they created a unified update mechanism and all the henny penny's are abjectly whining about a walled garden.
Personally what I want is a wallwd garden I canuse for 90% of my enterprise apps. Then for the ones that I am less dependent on I can use some feeble error prone mechanism like Fink (apt-get) or mac ports or enthought to get the other apps outside of the walled garden. For those I'll accept the problems and higher risk of viruses. But for canned apps why not make it simple and robust?
What about download caps that get in the way of downloading a 4-8 GB OS?
then you'll have to do it the old fashioned way.
What about when you have like 3-5 systems and only want to download the os one time and use a disk or usbkey to load it on all of your systems?
Good question. so far I've been able to move apps by USB key to other machines. the apps are tethered to my account not to my machine. In the past apple, unlike MS, has always treated the OS as your property. you can move it where you like or re-sell it as long as it's not on multiple machines at the same time (unless you bought a multi-machine lic).
What about systems that only have dial up and you need to go off site for higher speed downloads?
then you'll have to do it the old fashioned way.
What about people with slow downloads in lots of areas 1.5 meg dsl is the best that you can get.
then you'll have to do it the old fashioned way.
What about if you need to reload the os on a blank HDD?
good question. I bet there is an answer too.
I use apt-get on my macs and linux boxes. It is one method among many I use. In my experience it is chaos. I much prefer installing canned stand alone apps on my mac. I use apt-get to get ones that are more widespread projects like scipy and so forth that cant be as easily encapsulated into apps. and even there many times I've had to give up on apt-get from fink or mac ports and install some pre-built tar ball or other customized installer.
I don't want to see apt-get go away. But for encapsulated app distribution its too fragile for my mom to use. And for me, when i'm at work, it's not worth my time to deal with all the inconstancies it has if there is just a way to get an app pre-packaged even if I have to pay for it.
Why is apt-get significantly different than the app-store? Plus the app-store handles the paid transaction which apt-get is not intended for.
I would imagine a big old truecrypt partition, though perhaps he didn't encrypt things for some reason?
Well I'm reading through the files from bin laden's drives that were posted on wikileaks an hour ago and it looks like they he used steganography based on goat porn.
There is a lot of money to be made in knowing where a user is. For Google it is a great advertising opportunity. By their own admission they are an advertising company. Put location gathering capabilities in a device made by such an advertiser and isn't it common sense that they may try to gather location information?
which is why 50 million would be cheap if it's a class action settlement.
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Identification on
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previous announcements on may 1 have been about the ending of some form of human terror, or the beginning of a new more insidious kind.
on May 1:
2010- the death of OBL announced.
2003 - Bush's "Mission Accomplished." speech
1961 – Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections
1956 – Public availability of The polio vaccine announced
1945- the anouncement of the death of Adolph Hitler.
right, I've heard of this. But it's unappealing because it pushes the nuiscance on to the user. It also isn't universal, it's linked to citi cards, so you can't push this onto the merchant (otherwise there could be 200 different interfaces to deal with).
But the idea is notionally correct.
What would fix this is to have credit cards generate a contract not tap an open vein. that is, the credit card is used to authorize a one time transaction (after which the credit card number itself can be discarded for the transaction ID). For recurring charges the transaction authorized should only enable payments to sony, for goods provided to a specific address or online account, and include a cap. that is non-transferable transactions are the thing we should keep on record.
There needs to be a mechanism for generating these transaction IDs.
There is a legend that this is what happens at Intel and Microsoft. It used to be said that every odd numbered Intel was not much of an improvement. It's still true since Windows 1.0 that every other release of windows has sucked. It was perfectly predictable that Vista would tank. (No I don't hate microsoft. Even people that love microsoft can see this has become a "law".)
In both cases the supposed explanation is that there are two difffenent teams working at the same time. The better one gets the first release and second one patches their changes into it for the sucky intervening release.
No idea if that is true in practice.
The article description sounds like a perfect description of the state of all the linux distro's, all the linux desktop managers, and all the linux word processors. That is, there is a proliferation of not quite compatible products that do 80% of the job well.
So I guess the article is saying we should take this shining example from computer engineering and use it to refor how scientific packages are developed.
Wow. glass houses much?
The original article is clueless about the difference between research products and production software. In research there is no a priori omniscience about what is best. What you see at the end is the few survivors of an evolutionary competition of zillions of efforts. You don't see the three planned outcomes that we had known could have been written from a well thought out requirements document.
There is a decades old saying that scientists develop the next generation of algorithms using last years computers . COmputer scientists write last years algorithm on next years computer. It is still true.