All the typography, syntax, numerics support, sophisticated type system, and java-esque exception model is just various kinds of sugar, and not new.
Having loops be parallel by default, on the other hand, is going to explode a lot of heads.
Can you imagine what it will be like to write a loop which doesn't depend on the effects of any previous iteration?
Granted, this has existed in various supercomputing languages and VLIW/vector processing assembly since the 80s, but trying to push this out to the masses is pretty revolutionary. A lot of people are going to see it as a serious drawback, and either shy away from Fortress or ask for sequential loops explicitly everywhere, unless they can be taught how to parallelize, which is often a very difficult task for all but the simplest loop side-effects. Sometime's it's just hard, and sometimes it's NP-hard, depending on the details of the algorithm considered for parallelization.
Frankly, given that functional style is much less of a stretch from ordinary procedural programming, and given how slowly ML variants and things like Haskell have been catching on, I guess Fortess is destined for permanent niche status, and not even math typography will save it from consignment to the high-preist class of supercomuter programmers. In fact, that may be a disadvantage, because the scientists writing the formulae aren't the engineers translating those formulae for parallel processing, in most cases.
Firstly, my neolithic friend, only people with your prehistoric perspective see cadadaring into lists as abstract-anything. Hmpf! Furthermore, Tcl has had object scintilation and real honest-to-god numeric types for any string that happens to be treated as if they were one, since somthing like v7.1. Sure it took a while. But good things come to those who wait.
Well, I'm glad your mom uses unix! If she's going to be using her unix box for a UDP audio session, then surely you can ssh to it to set things up. Or, perhaps, make a shar-cive for her. That's how I had to install C News for granny back in '91.
It doesn't say "law enforcement," it says "designated competent authority." In practice, after subpoenas reach a certain volume, "designated competent authority" comes to mean "anyone who sends us a fax which looks half-assed reasonable and answers their phone number 'Sgt. Fibber, Metro Police,' whereupon we will email your recordings of all your Skype calls to their hotmail account."
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If you want real privacy, use SpeakFreely with your own choice of encryption library.
FAQ: Is Skype secure?
Yes. When you call another Skype user your call is encrypted with strong encryption algorithms ensuring you privacy. In some cases your Skype communication may be routed via other users in the peer-to-peer network. Skype encryption protects you from potential eavesdropping from malicious users.
Policy: Please be informed that, notwithstanding the abovementioned, in the event of a designated competent authority requesting Skype or Skype's local partner responsible towards such authority, to retain and provide Personal and/or Traffic Data, or to install wiretapping equipment in order to intercept communications, Skype and/or its local partner will provide all necessary assistance and information to fulfil this request.
If you want real privacy, use SpeakFreely with your own choice of encryption library.
Which would you rather have, a syntax error where indicating the code is faulty, or a silent semantics error?
Although (ahem) uh, the possibility of the former doesn't preclude the latter, but, uh, please observe the authoratative manner in which I wave my hands!
You are saying that you think a bunch of big picket signs saying "Please Vote No" above a caption saying "WalMart Unites Communities" could be reasonably seen as an actual WalMart site? If that's a pretty good case for confusion in your mind, then I salute all five of your brain cells.
I should be able to have any adult who tells my children about sex arrested on corruption of a minor charges. This is just incredible that we say "teachers" are allowed to do this without explicit parental permission, but other adults are not.
Trying to get him to admit that witholding technie junkets on political grounds is wrong is probably going to be pretty hard.
Why don't you start with trying to convince him that scientists writing about evolution should have access to government grants, and try to work your way from there?
What would Woz be without Mr. & Mrs. Woz? The point being that there is nothing magic about Jobs or anyone else. While Apple has had its share of non-Jobs bad CEOs, competing against the likes of Microsoft, with their swiss-cheese security philosophy over the past decade, should have been easy. Jobs has too much personal baggage, and should be running his studio where an uneven temperament is an asset, not a computer computer company.
Also, he needs to stop suing the journalists that tell the public about his products. If there is any more compelling evidence of mismanagement than that, I can't imagine what it would be.
You get one...ONE...major virus outbreak (which is far from impossible. OSX security is good, but it's not infallible) and Microsoft's FUD machine goes into high gear.
They already are in high gear, and they will readily trumpet flaws, whether or not Apple does, and they've proven it. Jobs is a wimpy coward for not telling the truth about the simplicity and magnitude of eavesdropping on Microsoft-equiped computers. If he ever decides to, then Apple will break out of their market share range.
If you think Apple would be in the (incredibly good) position it's in today without Jobs' leadership, you're delusional.
While it is difficult for me to take an assertion in the form of a psychiatric diagnosis based on a single indicator which any reasonable person would agree is merely a matter of opinion, have you considered that Jobs is not without his faults?
Jobs' kid-gloves attitude towards Microsoft in hopes of getting another handout (did I say handout? I mean "investment," yeah, that's the ticket) limits the market share to people who are either predisposed towards Apple to begin with, or willing to go to the trouble to determine whether the advantages are worth the premium. This reinforces the premium, because if Jobs were to compete agressively, then the increased economies of scale would reduce the premium.
This kind of personal bullshit is bad enough, but the fact that Jobs doesn't put the security risks and security record of Microsoft operating systems and applications into every other Apple ad is just inexcusable. There are plenty of people who could do better, and I hope the Board starts interviewing.
I'm sure Jobs would be happier at Pixar full-time. What is all this crap about suing everyone in sight who doesn't obey every NDA whether or not they ever knew about it let alone signed it? That's find for a movie production studio, but alienating journalists is just plain stupid for manufacturing hardware or software.
Steve is also well within his rights to tell the publishers that they'll not sell a damn thing in his bookstores from now on.
On the contrary, those aren't his bookstores, they are the shareholders', and to cut their profits by removing an entire publisher's line of books because of a personal vendetta indicates that Jobs has put his personal preferences above his fiducidary duty. Frankly, now that MacOS is Unix, why do we even need Jobs anymore? Wouldn't he be better off making movies full time?
I should be able to have any adult who tells my children about sex arrested on corruption of a minor charges. This is just incredible that we say "teachers" are allowed to do this without explicit parental permission, but other adults are not.
Trying to get him to admit that witholding technie junkets on political grounds is wrong is probably going to be pretty hard.
Why don't you start with trying to convince him that scientists writing about evolution should have access to government grants, and try to work your way from there?
IBM would give you a map of the pinouts and everything else
On the contrary, the entire "microchannel archtecture" is still considered a trade secret by IBM (please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is a contractual reason that it might always be.)
Also, you still can't get docs on a whole lot of BIOS stuff which was reverse engineered years ago, because of indefinite-duration contractual obligations.
In any case, certainly, using telnet to type "help" and reading the resulting documentation does not count as reverse engineering. It is instead a form of RTFM/RTFD.
Why don't we get modular batteries with equipment to change them at service stations which recharge them underground, so we don't have to worry about charging times at all?
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Having loops be parallel by default, on the other hand, is going to explode a lot of heads. Can you imagine what it will be like to write a loop which doesn't depend on the effects of any previous iteration?
Granted, this has existed in various supercomputing languages and VLIW/vector processing assembly since the 80s, but trying to push this out to the masses is pretty revolutionary. A lot of people are going to see it as a serious drawback, and either shy away from Fortress or ask for sequential loops explicitly everywhere, unless they can be taught how to parallelize, which is often a very difficult task for all but the simplest loop side-effects. Sometime's it's just hard, and sometimes it's NP-hard, depending on the details of the algorithm considered for parallelization.
Frankly, given that functional style is much less of a stretch from ordinary procedural programming, and given how slowly ML variants and things like Haskell have been catching on, I guess Fortess is destined for permanent niche status, and not even math typography will save it from consignment to the high-preist class of supercomuter programmers. In fact, that may be a disadvantage, because the scientists writing the formulae aren't the engineers translating those formulae for parallel processing, in most cases.
MATLAB was dog-ass slow, also, until they got a byte compiler six years ago. Now it is merely dog slow.
Firstly, my neolithic friend, only people with your prehistoric perspective see cadadaring into lists as abstract-anything. Hmpf! Furthermore, Tcl has had object scintilation and real honest-to-god numeric types for any string that happens to be treated as if they were one, since somthing like v7.1. Sure it took a while. But good things come to those who wait.
Sheesh! I hope I will still be able to sort by date.
Well, I'm glad your mom uses unix! If she's going to be using her unix box for a UDP audio session, then surely you can ssh to it to set things up. Or, perhaps, make a shar-cive for her. That's how I had to install C News for granny back in '91.
Perhaps you can compile mom's executable on your own machine and mail it to her?
Don't forget to go after the law firm in their home town, please.
It doesn't say "law enforcement," it says "designated competent authority." In practice, after subpoenas reach a certain volume, "designated competent authority" comes to mean "anyone who sends us a fax which looks half-assed reasonable and answers their phone number 'Sgt. Fibber, Metro Police,' whereupon we will email your recordings of all your Skype calls to their hotmail account."
Since it is open source, you can recompile SpeakFreely with whatever port number or protocol you might want to use.
If you want real privacy, use SpeakFreely with your own choice of encryption library.
If you want real privacy, use SpeakFreely with your own choice of encryption library.
Which would you rather have, a syntax error where indicating the code is faulty, or a silent semantics error?
Although (ahem) uh, the possibility of the former doesn't preclude the latter, but, uh, please observe the authoratative manner in which I wave my hands!
I predict this comment lasts 12 minutes before being modded down to -1. WHY DO THE MODERATORS HATE AMERICA?
Why don't you challenge the take-down letter, then? Deadline expired?
You are saying that you think a bunch of big picket signs saying "Please Vote No" above a caption saying "WalMart Unites Communities" could be reasonably seen as an actual WalMart site? If that's a pretty good case for confusion in your mind, then I salute all five of your brain cells.
Please note that Pudge wants schoolteachers sent to jail if they mention sex:
Trying to get him to admit that witholding technie junkets on political grounds is wrong is probably going to be pretty hard.Why don't you start with trying to convince him that scientists writing about evolution should have access to government grants, and try to work your way from there?
Also, he needs to stop suing the journalists that tell the public about his products. If there is any more compelling evidence of mismanagement than that, I can't imagine what it would be.
Jobs' kid-gloves attitude towards Microsoft in hopes of getting another handout (did I say handout? I mean "investment," yeah, that's the ticket) limits the market share to people who are either predisposed towards Apple to begin with, or willing to go to the trouble to determine whether the advantages are worth the premium. This reinforces the premium, because if Jobs were to compete agressively, then the increased economies of scale would reduce the premium.
This kind of personal bullshit is bad enough, but the fact that Jobs doesn't put the security risks and security record of Microsoft operating systems and applications into every other Apple ad is just inexcusable. There are plenty of people who could do better, and I hope the Board starts interviewing.
I'm sure Jobs would be happier at Pixar full-time. What is all this crap about suing everyone in sight who doesn't obey every NDA whether or not they ever knew about it let alone signed it? That's find for a movie production studio, but alienating journalists is just plain stupid for manufacturing hardware or software.
Someone call Al Gore.
Why don't you start with trying to convince him that scientists writing about evolution should have access to government grants, and try to work your way from there?
Also, you still can't get docs on a whole lot of BIOS stuff which was reverse engineered years ago, because of indefinite-duration contractual obligations.
In any case, certainly, using telnet to type "help" and reading the resulting documentation does not count as reverse engineering. It is instead a form of RTFM/RTFD.
Why don't we get modular batteries with equipment to change them at service stations which recharge them underground, so we don't have to worry about charging times at all?
Perhaps FCV audio will be accessable, someday.