You phrase the question differently than I would. I would ask why is perl not the default shell language.
I have a hard time understand the need for bash when perl is around. I can't quite make the same argument for Python and Ruby. THose are arguably better programming languages but not better administrative script languages. Perl on the otherhand is still very close to the common shell languages while being much more powerful. It's also faster than shell for almost every purpose where time matters. But this is achieved without making simple things difficult.
Indeed that was Larry's mantra: simple things should be simple, and hard things possible. So perl is the glue language of choice to supplant shell.
Perl's name was derived from the acronym Practical Extraction and Report Language. That's what Linux administrative scripting is all about. If you want to write a GUI word processor, use python.
And it must be focused to an intensity of 10 million watts per square centimeter.
That ought to be enough to melt the glass, don't you think?
Well it won't get hot if there is no absorption of the photons. Of course I don't see how it produces energy without absorbing the photons.
Basically the science writer was scrawling gibberish. There's probably something really interesting here but getting it from this article requires advanced degrees in Kremlinolgy and Tea Leaf reading to determine what the scientist really wanted to say.
My guess about what they are trying to say is that the energy is not being stored by promoting electrons from a valence band to a conduction band. It is some how being stored in a magnetic polarization of the media. I think it hints that this polarization can have an EMF to push mobile electrons.
I think the trick is this. Normally the magnetic fields from an E&M wave are not important but if you concentrate them enough you can extract energy. As long as you are also not doing electron-hole absorption to deplete it then this concentration can eventually become significant and the energy can be extracted in other ways.
Beyond that I have no guesses what the article might have wanted to say.
Xoom promised Flash. it was arguably the main selling point. Certainly the only one that interested me. Will xoom owners demand a refund? it was widely advertised.
Do we have programs called "sailing science" or "watchmaking science" or "business science" or "Weaving science" or "Whale oil science Computer science may deal with electronic gadgets but that no longer qualifies it as a science anymore than all the other things I mentioned. All of those were cutting edge endeavors at some point in the last 1000 years. now they are vocations or hobbies like "or "interior design sceince" or "hotel administration science".
Their is a teeny tiny bit of science left in computer science: e.g. exascale and visualization. Writing new languages or scripting or even worrying about how to organize and cache a data bases is not science.
2) spray the water along the US mexico border to create an inexpensive border wall. Not only is it unhealthy to cross, but the INS can track you down from the radioactivity.
3) dehydrate it? There's plenty of heat from those fuel rods.
4) feed it to the whales so the japanese will stop eating them.
This is stupid. it's clearly a case where capitalism should find an equilibrium between absurdly good coverage, cost and cosnumer demand.
they shul dbe putting all their eggs in the net neutrality basket.
the only use of this is a gambit to give this chit up to get something else. more likely they will just piss off some libetarian congressman and rue the day,
the richter scale is logarithmic so a 9 is something like 30 times larger in energy than a 7.4. On the other hand the march quake was initially rated as a 7.1 scale quake then updated later to 9.
for $3.75/week you can get a sunday NY paper delivered in the US, and that gives you a free on-line subscription. By itself the on-line subscription is 3.50/week. SO for less than the postage you get the delightful dead tree version too.
I think that in return for our monetizable purchasing habit info google should pay us with google shares. That way anything that benefits google benefits us. Milo Minderbinder had it all worked out.
I think the rationale is the same as apple's How do you force people to use your blessed API rather than calling kernel routines directly? Windows sucked for ages because people would try to get more performance by calling undocumented handles. Remember all the "terminate and stay resident" apps that would intercept the keyboard hooks as a way to multi-task themselves in a non-multi-tasking environment? Not only did the added hooks conflict but every new release of windows broke half your apps and you got pissed an Bill gates not the app maker. So you want people to use your defined process as apple enforces and google is now backdooring by this move.
The problem google has is they don't want crap devices running honeycomb and giving it a bad name. So why not release the code, but copyright the name "honeycomb" and "android". Sell those only to platforms meeting google specs. rename the actual code base "cheap dogpoo". So some maker of crap-tablets can't dillute the honeycomb brand appeal.
Oh boo hoo. What a lame excuse. You can't buy strippers or a rub and tug in the mall or the grocery story. do you should produce whole salers boycot Kroger cause the restrict what they are allowed to put on the shelves?
On the one hand, it's offensive and Apple has a previous precedent of banning things it deems controversial. Despite complaints and a few inconsistency it seems like they reasonably adhere to this. Which is good since even if you disagree with the policy, at least you can more or less expect what will happen if you push it. Thus I was surprised when this got approved.
on the other hand, if all it takes is a petition to remove an app then boy is that a bad precedent to set. Consider how the SF library system in the mid 80s bolderized mary popins to remove the uncultured ebonics of the black maid because they deemed it portrayed black women badly. One can go on. but everything pisses some group off. That in fact was the rationale Ray Bradbury gave for writing Farenheight 451. All books offend so burn them all.
And when I think about it, what do I care if there is a gay cure app? I'm not planning on buying it. If you think about it, the urge to ban that app is pretty aligned with the urge to write that app. that is, the writer of the app is probably concerned about what gay people might be doing in bed behind closed doors but he will never encouter that himself. and the people offended by it will never buy that app. yet both want to eliminate things that abstractly bother them
I use t-mobile because AT&T won't support iphones in my zipcode. (we have AT&T coverage, but they cancel your plan if you use more than 50% of your minutes in the zipcode.) I have an iphone that is jaiilbroken and works on t-mobile. So this kinda blows.
It's not that I a freak that needs to have a jailbroken iphone out of some misplaced sense of ownership issues. I just want an iphone and t-mobile delivers for me when AT&T won't.
I could switch to verizon but then I'd have to buy all new handsets and verizon is 1) expensive 2) has horrible customer service compared to T-mobile. Plus I can't move my GSM card to other handsets when I want to leave the iphone at home.
It's a smart gambit if your objective is to take a stand on free speech. It's an even smarter gambit if your intent is to support gay culture. Free Speech benefits "gay culture" in the end. Start with an anti-gay app. take the heat. then publish "gay" apps. who can object? Now think about what happens if you do in the opposite order. Apple takes a neutral stand on gay employees which ultimately is pro-gay. so it's reasonable to see this as a gambit to establish that same neutrality in the app world.
Great - what the internet needs is more regulation.
Thanks EU.
I think that's exactly what America needs: more EU regulation. We'll just host their sites over here, because we don't have to comply with their stupid laws.
Or Sealandia or Naru or Libya or Russia.
Which of course simply undermines your own homegrown industry and once based outside the country other exploits are now feasible.
The way we deal with this for physical goods is tariffs. e.g. your country has no OSHA laws, or pays to low a minimum wage then we may slap a tarrif to equalize the playing field and protect the home industry.
This of course eventually leads to protectionist tariffs.
If flash would just crash then sandboxing would at least solve that. But instead it happily gobbles your CPU with runaway rendering crap. The only limit on it now is it is single threaded. Not looking forward to multi-cpu flash.
Adobe is setting up HTML5 to be "flash-lite". Like the embrace and extend concept, they can offer more features leading people genetly away from HTML5. For example, you want to build a website but are not sure what the future holds. You could build it in HTML5 and then hope you don't get stuck with some content protection or interaction issues that demand HTML5. (e.g. maybe you think your social networking ite might someday offer simultaneous feature movie viewing that will demand FLASH DRM or something) Or you could build it in Flash and translate it to HTML5. and that will work till you really need flash, if ever. Going the other route: build it in HTML5 and then get stuck and have to rebuild it in Flash might look unappealing.
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You phrase the question differently than I would. I would ask why is perl not the default shell language.
I have a hard time understand the need for bash when perl is around. I can't quite make the same argument for Python and Ruby. THose are arguably better programming languages but not better administrative script languages. Perl on the otherhand is still very close to the common shell languages while being much more powerful. It's also faster than shell for almost every purpose where time matters. But this is achieved without making simple things difficult.
Indeed that was Larry's mantra: simple things should be simple, and hard things possible. So perl is the glue language of choice to supplant shell.
Perl's name was derived from the acronym Practical Extraction and Report Language. That's what Linux administrative scripting is all about. If you want to write a GUI word processor, use python.
And it must be focused to an intensity of 10 million watts per square centimeter.
That ought to be enough to melt the glass, don't you think?
Well it won't get hot if there is no absorption of the photons. Of course I don't see how it produces energy without absorbing the photons.
Basically the science writer was scrawling gibberish. There's probably something really interesting here but getting it from this article requires advanced degrees in Kremlinolgy and Tea Leaf reading to determine what the scientist really wanted to say.
My guess about what they are trying to say is that the energy is not being stored by promoting electrons from a valence band to a conduction band. It is some how being stored in a magnetic polarization of the media. I think it hints that this polarization can have an EMF to push mobile electrons.
I think the trick is this. Normally the magnetic fields from an E&M wave are not important but if you concentrate them enough you can extract energy. As long as you are also not doing electron-hole absorption to deplete it then this concentration can eventually become significant and the energy can be extracted in other ways.
Beyond that I have no guesses what the article might have wanted to say.
Perhaps that hole in the southwest plane was not so spontaneous
Xoom promised Flash. it was arguably the main selling point. Certainly the only one that interested me. Will xoom owners demand a refund? it was widely advertised.
A6? you cant get rock hard abs in 6 minutes. it's 7 minute abs.
Do we have programs called "sailing science" or "watchmaking science" or "business science" or "Weaving science" or "Whale oil science Computer science may deal with electronic gadgets but that no longer qualifies it as a science anymore than all the other things I mentioned. All of those were cutting edge endeavors at some point in the last 1000 years. now they are vocations or hobbies like "or "interior design sceince" or "hotel administration science".
Their is a teeny tiny bit of science left in computer science: e.g. exascale and visualization. Writing new languages or scripting or even worrying about how to organize and cache a data bases is not science.
1) Push the barges over Ghadaffi's "line of death".
2) spray the water along the US mexico border to create an inexpensive border wall. Not only is it unhealthy to cross, but the INS can track you down from the radioactivity.
3) dehydrate it? There's plenty of heat from those fuel rods.
4) feed it to the whales so the japanese will stop eating them.
This is stupid. it's clearly a case where capitalism should find an equilibrium between absurdly good coverage, cost and cosnumer demand.
they shul dbe putting all their eggs in the net neutrality basket.
the only use of this is a gambit to give this chit up to get something else. more likely they will just piss off some libetarian congressman and rue the day,
the richter scale is logarithmic so a 9 is something like 30 times larger in energy than a 7.4. On the other hand the march quake was initially rated as a 7.1 scale quake then updated later to 9.
I think they left the "O" out of the company initials. it's better phonetically at least.
for $3.75/week you can get a sunday NY paper delivered in the US, and that gives you a free on-line subscription. By itself the on-line subscription is 3.50/week. SO for less than the postage you get the delightful dead tree version too.
Just like people hire hackers and crackers to improve their security, maybe higher tax evaders to reform tax laws is a good thing.
I think that in return for our monetizable purchasing habit info google should pay us with google shares. That way anything that benefits google benefits us. Milo Minderbinder had it all worked out.
I think the rationale is the same as apple's How do you force people to use your blessed API rather than calling kernel routines directly? Windows sucked for ages because people would try to get more performance by calling undocumented handles. Remember all the "terminate and stay resident" apps that would intercept the keyboard hooks as a way to multi-task themselves in a non-multi-tasking environment? Not only did the added hooks conflict but every new release of windows broke half your apps and you got pissed an Bill gates not the app maker. So you want people to use your defined process as apple enforces and google is now backdooring by this move.
The problem google has is they don't want crap devices running honeycomb and giving it a bad name. So why not release the code, but copyright the name "honeycomb" and "android". Sell those only to platforms meeting google specs. rename the actual code base "cheap dogpoo". So some maker of crap-tablets can't dillute the honeycomb brand appeal.
yes that is sensible. I think I was trying to say that.
It was approximately 1980/81 before the internet so you won't find it online.
Oh boo hoo. What a lame excuse. You can't buy strippers or a rub and tug in the mall or the grocery story. do you should produce whole salers boycot Kroger cause the restrict what they are allowed to put on the shelves?
On the one hand, it's offensive and Apple has a previous precedent of banning things it deems controversial. Despite complaints and a few inconsistency it seems like they reasonably adhere to this. Which is good since even if you disagree with the policy, at least you can more or less expect what will happen if you push it. Thus I was surprised when this got approved.
on the other hand, if all it takes is a petition to remove an app then boy is that a bad precedent to set. Consider how the SF library system in the mid 80s bolderized mary popins to remove the uncultured ebonics of the black maid because they deemed it portrayed black women badly. One can go on. but everything pisses some group off. That in fact was the rationale Ray Bradbury gave for writing Farenheight 451. All books offend so burn them all.
And when I think about it, what do I care if there is a gay cure app? I'm not planning on buying it. If you think about it, the urge to ban that app is pretty aligned with the urge to write that app. that is, the writer of the app is probably concerned about what gay people might be doing in bed behind closed doors but he will never encouter that himself. and the people offended by it will never buy that app. yet both want to eliminate things that abstractly bother them
They won't sell in my zipcode either. But many people live in one zip code and do all their phone operating in another one.
I use t-mobile because AT&T won't support iphones in my zipcode. (we have AT&T coverage, but they cancel your plan if you use more than 50% of your minutes in the zipcode.) I have an iphone that is jaiilbroken and works on t-mobile. So this kinda blows.
It's not that I a freak that needs to have a jailbroken iphone out of some misplaced sense of ownership issues. I just want an iphone and t-mobile delivers for me when AT&T won't.
I could switch to verizon but then I'd have to buy all new handsets and verizon is 1) expensive 2) has horrible customer service compared to T-mobile. Plus I can't move my GSM card to other handsets when I want to leave the iphone at home.
It's a smart gambit if your objective is to take a stand on free speech. It's an even smarter gambit if your intent is to support gay culture. Free Speech benefits "gay culture" in the end. Start with an anti-gay app. take the heat. then publish "gay" apps. who can object? Now think about what happens if you do in the opposite order. Apple takes a neutral stand on gay employees which ultimately is pro-gay. so it's reasonable to see this as a gambit to establish that same neutrality in the app world.
Great - what the internet needs is more regulation.
Thanks EU.
I think that's exactly what America needs: more EU regulation. We'll just host their sites over here, because we don't have to comply with their stupid laws.
Or Sealandia or Naru or Libya or Russia.
Which of course simply undermines your own homegrown industry and once based outside the country other exploits are now feasible.
The way we deal with this for physical goods is tariffs. e.g. your country has no OSHA laws, or pays to low a minimum wage then we may slap a tarrif to equalize the playing field and protect the home industry.
This of course eventually leads to protectionist tariffs.
If flash would just crash then sandboxing would at least solve that. But instead it happily gobbles your CPU with runaway rendering crap. The only limit on it now is it is single threaded. Not looking forward to multi-cpu flash.
Adobe is setting up HTML5 to be "flash-lite". Like the embrace and extend concept, they can offer more features leading people genetly away from HTML5. For example, you want to build a website but are not sure what the future holds. You could build it in HTML5 and then hope you don't get stuck with some content protection or interaction issues that demand HTML5. (e.g. maybe you think your social networking ite might someday offer simultaneous feature movie viewing that will demand FLASH DRM or something) Or you could build it in Flash and translate it to HTML5. and that will work till you really need flash, if ever. Going the other route: build it in HTML5 and then get stuck and have to rebuild it in Flash might look unappealing.