There is APL ("A Programming Language"), which I remember getting some limited use (not by me) on campus when I was an undergrad. The language was sufficiently greek that it used some Greek characters as part of its language; I think the aim was to design a language programmed by mathematical notation. The keyboards for APL also came with stickers on the keys so that you knew which keys to chord in order to generate the non-standard language constructs. It looked like a very symbolic programming language to me. And I was scared of its keyboards.
Wiki page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_programming_langu age
Wiping out life on Europa
on
Melting Europa
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· Score: 5, Insightful
But I wonder how long the time lag will be between the probe finding life, and a leak in the radioactive heater wiping all of it out.
That would be close to never. Europa isn't exactly
like a small city like Nagasaki for instance. Even when we intentionally unleashed 2 radioactive devices at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, we failed to wipe out all life on the local chain of Japanese islands.
I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net? It's not what we're used to, but maybe we're asking for more than is reasonable. I just don't know
I'm not saying that having commercials on the net is wrong, but it's not quote as well-received because the WWW is an interactive medium, where the consumer clicks on a link and is waiting for a response. TV programming differs in that the consumer picks a channel, but otherwise has no control over the data stream being fed back to his/her TV set. To illustrate, let me ask this: what's the response time of a TV program?
That little bit of interaction vs. passivity gives net users their protectiveness toward their online experience, and most (or at the very least me) are loathe to surrender our time and screen real-estate for an ad or commercial to load up while we wait for the server to respond with the web page to which we really wanted to get.
A good leader must surround him or herself with
with the best advisors and experts within their
respective fields. Who will you be bringing in
to your campaign and administration, and what
are their qualifications?
Gates:
Only if that is what'll sell! We've never done a piece of software unless we thought it would sell. That's why everything we do in software... it's really amazing: We do it because we think that's what customers want. That's why we do what we do.
Bill Gates and u$oft thought that Microsoft Bob(TM) and that paper clip thingie would sell? And that consumers wanted it? WTF is with that?
The crime is not at the ISP and access; the "scene" of crime is at the server end where the material is being located.
If banning access to the sites is the primary form of kiddie porn solution, then all Bush would have to do is to ban Saddam from launching his WMD missiles, we don't have to go root out his source materiels.
So now u$oft can intentionally release buggy
and exploitable API code
(as if their code were bug-free anyway) and then couch their refusal to disclose under the
reasoning that doing so would compromise "security."
Hey Cathy, thanks for showing us that geeks can be
hotties too.
Anyway, for both JYW and FMC, who and how do you
guys decide on what the contestants need to
build? And how much of an advance hint do the
teams get prior to showing up with power tools in
hand (because the teams seem to always have the
correct expert on hand.)
But, he said, Linux isn't being asked to do too much high-stress computing here. "It's just a nice, low-cost platform for doing kind of everyday computing."
Ha, ha, ha. They're worried about Linux doing high-stress computing; I guess they haven't come across Beowulf clusters nor Google yet.
As if uSoft doing high-stress computing and ending up with a BSOD is a much better alternative.
You're right, just because it's compiled with GCC
doesn't make it part of the GNU project. But when
you include GNU's GCC, GNU make, GNU ls, GNU cat,
GNU more, and all the GNU man section 1 programs
along with the kernel, then it's most definitely
a GNU project.
The fact that it took Linux to give the disparate
GNU programs the critical component to make it
all one cohesive system does not negate the fact
that a very large part of a GNU/Linux codebase
is GNU.
Personally, I'm eagerly waiting for the time when
HURD shows up on scene, then what I can have by
choice is a completely FSF system.
I prefer AFS (www.openafs.org) over NFS. I used AFS at Carnegie Mellon, and I know it scales up very well. AFS provides a user transparent and uniform file tree.
On whatever AFS client enabled machine I log in, my home directory is always on the same absolute path, and I can be completely unaware of which AFS server my home volume resides on; AFS takes care of resolving all those issues of access and volume location for me "behind the scenes."
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There is APL ("A Programming Language"), which I remember getting some limited use (not by me) on campus when I was an undergrad. The language was sufficiently greek that it used some Greek characters as part of its language; I think the aim was to design a language programmed by mathematical notation. The keyboards for APL also came with stickers on the keys so that you knew which keys to chord in order to generate the non-standard language constructs. It looked like a very symbolic programming language to me. And I was scared of its keyboards.
Wiki page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_programming_langu age
But I wonder how long the time lag will be between the probe finding life, and a leak in the radioactive heater wiping all of it out.
That would be close to never. Europa isn't exactly like a small city like Nagasaki for instance. Even when we intentionally unleashed 2 radioactive devices at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, we failed to wipe out all life on the local chain of Japanese islands.
Even around Chernobyl 18 years later life seems to be going on as usual.
The reactors for spacecraft just aren't large enough to cause any large scale catastrophic wipe-outs.
I'm not saying that having commercials on the net is wrong, but it's not quote as well-received because the WWW is an interactive medium, where the consumer clicks on a link and is waiting for a response. TV programming differs in that the consumer picks a channel, but otherwise has no control over the data stream being fed back to his/her TV set. To illustrate, let me ask this: what's the response time of a TV program?
That little bit of interaction vs. passivity gives net users their protectiveness toward their online experience, and most (or at the very least me) are loathe to surrender our time and screen real-estate for an ad or commercial to load up while we wait for the server to respond with the web page to which we really wanted to get.
A good leader must surround him or herself with with the best advisors and experts within their respective fields. Who will you be bringing in to your campaign and administration, and what are their qualifications?
Ah, I get it now: Trustworthy Computer = firewall the port.
"It's not our software's fault, you've been using it wrong in unsafe manners."
Gates: Only if that is what'll sell! We've never done a piece of software unless we thought it would sell. That's why everything we do in software ... it's really amazing: We do it because we think that's what customers want. That's why we do what we do.
Bill Gates and u$oft thought that Microsoft Bob(TM) and that paper clip thingie would sell? And that consumers wanted it? WTF is with that?
The crime is not at the ISP and access; the "scene" of crime is at the server end where the material is being located.
If banning access to the sites is the primary form of kiddie porn solution, then all Bush would have to do is to ban Saddam from launching his WMD missiles, we don't have to go root out his source materiels.
So now u$oft can intentionally release buggy and exploitable API code (as if their code were bug-free anyway) and then couch their refusal to disclose under the reasoning that doing so would compromise "security."
Hey Cathy, thanks for showing us that geeks can be hotties too. Anyway, for both JYW and FMC, who and how do you guys decide on what the contestants need to build? And how much of an advance hint do the teams get prior to showing up with power tools in hand (because the teams seem to always have the correct expert on hand.)
You're right, just because it's compiled with GCC doesn't make it part of the GNU project. But when you include GNU's GCC, GNU make, GNU ls, GNU cat, GNU more, and all the GNU man section 1 programs along with the kernel, then it's most definitely a GNU project. The fact that it took Linux to give the disparate GNU programs the critical component to make it all one cohesive system does not negate the fact that a very large part of a GNU/Linux codebase is GNU. Personally, I'm eagerly waiting for the time when HURD shows up on scene, then what I can have by choice is a completely FSF system.
I prefer AFS (www.openafs.org) over NFS. I used
AFS at Carnegie Mellon, and I know it scales up
very well. AFS provides a user transparent and
uniform file tree.
On whatever AFS client enabled machine I log
in, my home directory is always on the same
absolute path, and I can be completely unaware
of which AFS server my home volume resides on;
AFS takes care of resolving all those issues of
access and volume location for me "behind the
scenes."
...Rudy