In my day, we had our own websites, and we were happy.
We had our own writing, our own art and our own photographs (and source code etc.) and we kept a backup on our own PCs. And we owned the copyright on the stuff that we had created ourselves. We put links to other peoples' web sites that we liked.
These young people today don't know know how easy they have it. And I'll tell you another thing, it's so easy for them, they've never had to think for themselves. And they've never had to take any responsibility.
When it all goes horribly wrong, they'll have nothing left and they won't know what to do, and when someone say, "Well, just restore from your backup." They'll say, "What's a backup?"
And you'll say, "The spare copies of everything that you kept for safe-keeping."
And there will be a look of bewilderment on their faces and they'll say, "I didn't know you could do that..."
No, the difference is that a CLI is nearly impossible to use if you aren't familiar with it
Have you ever used VMS? I used it once or twice to edit, compile and run a FORTRAN program in 1994. In c1999/2000 I was presented with a Micro VAX and asked "can you find out what the IP address of that system is?"
All I could remember was "DIR" and "HELP." After typing HELP and going through the topics presented, I found the command that gave me the IP address.
No GUI required, virtually no prior knowledge required.
If a CLI responds to obvious commands in the user's native language (like "help" for example) and if's done right, it shouldn't be that difficult.
Ridiculously untrue, particularly in the context of non-specialised, non-expert users.
I just did a google for "open source itanium emulator" and found this thing called ski which is allegedly an IA64 instruction set simulator, originally developed by HP and released under the GPL.
I wonder would it be possible to hack together an itanium emulator from this code that would achieve or surpass native itanium performance on cheap x86-64 hardware? Multi-core/multi-CPU x86-64 boxes are so cheap these days that price/performance wise, we can't be far off.
I don't just not buy music anymore, radio has all but disappeared from my life. If it wasn't for the radio on my MP3 player, I wouldn't even have a radio anymore. Oh wait, my clock radio has one and I use it because NOTHING wakes me up faster with the vile bitter hatred I need to get my day going then being woken by morning radio.
I gave up listening to music radio back in the 1990s. I listen to BBC Radio 4.
I get my fix of new music (new bands) by word-of-mouth, reviews in magazines etc. I like to buy CDs and rip them myself, but I never pay full price, I wait for the sales. Unfortunately the independent record shops have all died, and the mainstream music shops have a much smaller range nowadays.
I go to as many gigs and support my favourite bands that way.
The "music industry" wants to control distribution as tightly as it can so that it can peddle cheap rubbish sold expensive to the unwashed masses. If you keep people ignorant of the competition, when they do buy something, it will be from you.
I knew a guy who had one once. He used to use it for drying his clothes.
The marketing hype made me cringe. It was pretty obvious that the whole thing would be a disaster from the start.
itanic relied on "good compilers" to get any performance. However, compilers that "good" will never be made, since you can't write a compiler that can predict the future.
However, you can put hardware in your CPU to reorder instructions at run time based on observations of the behaviour of the running code, speculatively execute certain code paths, predict branches and swap to a different thread context when the current one stalls waiting for memory to catch up...
Proof that bittorrent can be used for legit purposes. Hopefully as a side benifit, this will make it harder for the MPAA crowd to villify these types of file sharing networks.
The MPAA/RIAA/BPI etc. have chosen to ignore the established legitimate uses for BitTorrent and other P2P technologies. They would also prefer to pretend the Free Software, Open Source, Creative Commons and all of those other free-as-in-speech, free-as-in-freedom, independent, do-it-for-ourselves-thank-you-very-much stuff does not exist.
They think that by not mentioning any of this that "normal people" will remain ignorant.
If the universe is expanding in the sense that there is more space between all particles (this was how it was explained to me: that with each passing moment the distance between all particles increases as the fabric of space-time slowly expands) wouldn't the speed of light be slowly increasing (or decreasing) as well. Would a lightyear 600 years ago be the same as it is now?
All particles are not moving apart from one another. Some are. Those within atoms are not, and the expansion of the universe does result in a very tiny force being on those particles, but the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces are strong enough to compensate for this. Gravity is much weaker and operates over much larger distances, therefore the expansion of the universe has a pronounced effect over very long distances (intergalactic space).
A light year was always a light year. It's the distance that light travels in a year. As far as we know, the speed of light has always been the same. However, a lightyear used to be "longer" relative to the size of the universe, since the universe is expanding. This has interesting implications for the geometry of the universe as viewed through telescopes at large scales...
If it weren't for those two reasons, Kim Jong-il and co. would have been wiped out a long time ago.
Kim Jong-Il wasn't wiped out a long time ago because there isn't any oil in North Korea so it's not worth risking US lives.
China will not side with North Korea.
If North Korea attacks Seoul, I'm sure the USAF and South Korea will have plenty of ordnance dropped on North Korea's military targets before you can say, "I so ronrey."
What is very depressing is that innocent lives will be lost for the dictators of North Korea to shake a feeble and withering fist at the rest of the world.
If North Korea does fire a nuke, you can rest assured that the West will not retaliate with a nuke. We're not that bloody-minded, and we wouldn't want to be seen to be stooping to their level.
Their nuclear bomb fizzled and their ICBM fell in the sea well short of its target.
If they try anything at all, the Western powers will wipe Kim Jong-Il and his sons from the face of the earth with a couple of cruse missiles launched from off the cost. The starving population will rejoyce and Korea will be reunited.
This sounds like the deranged provocations of a suicidal maniac.
Sun already tried this and had to give up. Sun's CPU design team just couldn't get the mode complex cored to work at competitive speeds.
I think that Oracle is making a big mistake here. They should let Fujitsu develop the big cores (which they are supremely good at) and themselves concentrate on the highly-multithreaded ones, which they are good at.
I don't see why this is a problem for developers, since the compilers take care of the CPU-specific details, and if your code is written in Java, it's a non-issue anyway.
Everyone should have a KNOPPIX CD/DVD to hand. It's very useful for when someone messes up the Windows PC. I've used it several times for cleaning malware off of Mrs. Turgid's laptops after the monkeys have been on the intarwebs.
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Not that it matters at this point. VLIW, like in high-performance DSP's and certain niche processors, is the future.
Yes, VLIW has been the future since the 1970s.
In your day, you had your own web site... and no one ever read it.
That's not true! I used to get two or three hits a day and occasionally one wasn't a bot or web crawler. Someone even emailed me once.
In my day, we had our own websites, and we were happy.
We had our own writing, our own art and our own photographs (and source code etc.) and we kept a backup on our own PCs. And we owned the copyright on the stuff that we had created ourselves. We put links to other peoples' web sites that we liked.
These young people today don't know know how easy they have it. And I'll tell you another thing, it's so easy for them, they've never had to think for themselves. And they've never had to take any responsibility.
When it all goes horribly wrong, they'll have nothing left and they won't know what to do, and when someone say, "Well, just restore from your backup." They'll say, "What's a backup?"
And you'll say, "The spare copies of everything that you kept for safe-keeping."
And there will be a look of bewilderment on their faces and they'll say, "I didn't know you could do that..."
No, the difference is that a CLI is nearly impossible to use if you aren't familiar with it
Have you ever used VMS? I used it once or twice to edit, compile and run a FORTRAN program in 1994. In c1999/2000 I was presented with a Micro VAX and asked "can you find out what the IP address of that system is?"
All I could remember was "DIR" and "HELP." After typing HELP and going through the topics presented, I found the command that gave me the IP address.
No GUI required, virtually no prior knowledge required.
If a CLI responds to obvious commands in the user's native language (like "help" for example) and if's done right, it shouldn't be that difficult.
Ridiculously untrue, particularly in the context of non-specialised, non-expert users.
I shall leave you to ponder the wisdom of Master Foo on this very subject.
I just did a google for "open source itanium emulator" and found this thing called ski which is allegedly an IA64 instruction set simulator, originally developed by HP and released under the GPL.
I wonder would it be possible to hack together an itanium emulator from this code that would achieve or surpass native itanium performance on cheap x86-64 hardware? Multi-core/multi-CPU x86-64 boxes are so cheap these days that price/performance wise, we can't be far off.
I don't just not buy music anymore, radio has all but disappeared from my life. If it wasn't for the radio on my MP3 player, I wouldn't even have a radio anymore. Oh wait, my clock radio has one and I use it because NOTHING wakes me up faster with the vile bitter hatred I need to get my day going then being woken by morning radio.
I gave up listening to music radio back in the 1990s. I listen to BBC Radio 4.
I get my fix of new music (new bands) by word-of-mouth, reviews in magazines etc. I like to buy CDs and rip them myself, but I never pay full price, I wait for the sales. Unfortunately the independent record shops have all died, and the mainstream music shops have a much smaller range nowadays.
I go to as many gigs and support my favourite bands that way.
The "music industry" wants to control distribution as tightly as it can so that it can peddle cheap rubbish sold expensive to the unwashed masses. If you keep people ignorant of the competition, when they do buy something, it will be from you.
I knew a guy who had one once. He used to use it for drying his clothes.
The marketing hype made me cringe. It was pretty obvious that the whole thing would be a disaster from the start.
itanic relied on "good compilers" to get any performance. However, compilers that "good" will never be made, since you can't write a compiler that can predict the future.
However, you can put hardware in your CPU to reorder instructions at run time based on observations of the behaviour of the running code, speculatively execute certain code paths, predict branches and swap to a different thread context when the current one stalls waiting for memory to catch up...
Proof that bittorrent can be used for legit purposes. Hopefully as a side benifit, this will make it harder for the MPAA crowd to villify these types of file sharing networks.
Yes, we know.
The MPAA/RIAA/BPI etc. have chosen to ignore the established legitimate uses for BitTorrent and other P2P technologies. They would also prefer to pretend the Free Software, Open Source, Creative Commons and all of those other free-as-in-speech, free-as-in-freedom, independent, do-it-for-ourselves-thank-you-very-much stuff does not exist.
They think that by not mentioning any of this that "normal people" will remain ignorant.
You will go far.
Is that now synonymous with programmers?
It always was. It's the other meaning that's wrong.
Can you please explain what this means?
Or what lies to the north of North Pole.
Newcastle upon Tyne.
+1 Funny
I'll see your Buzzard and raise you a Bustard!
Unless it's bad news.
If the universe is expanding in the sense that there is more space between all particles (this was how it was explained to me: that with each passing moment the distance between all particles increases as the fabric of space-time slowly expands) wouldn't the speed of light be slowly increasing (or decreasing) as well. Would a lightyear 600 years ago be the same as it is now?
All particles are not moving apart from one another. Some are. Those within atoms are not, and the expansion of the universe does result in a very tiny force being on those particles, but the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces are strong enough to compensate for this. Gravity is much weaker and operates over much larger distances, therefore the expansion of the universe has a pronounced effect over very long distances (intergalactic space).
A light year was always a light year. It's the distance that light travels in a year. As far as we know, the speed of light has always been the same. However, a lightyear used to be "longer" relative to the size of the universe, since the universe is expanding. This has interesting implications for the geometry of the universe as viewed through telescopes at large scales...
Shhh! Don't give away the secret!
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Percy Thrower, rest in peace!
If it goes nuclear, NATO will retaliate nuclear as well.
NATO is not that stupid.
If it weren't for those two reasons, Kim Jong-il and co. would have been wiped out a long time ago.
Kim Jong-Il wasn't wiped out a long time ago because there isn't any oil in North Korea so it's not worth risking US lives.
China will not side with North Korea.
If North Korea attacks Seoul, I'm sure the USAF and South Korea will have plenty of ordnance dropped on North Korea's military targets before you can say, "I so ronrey."
What is very depressing is that innocent lives will be lost for the dictators of North Korea to shake a feeble and withering fist at the rest of the world.
If North Korea does fire a nuke, you can rest assured that the West will not retaliate with a nuke. We're not that bloody-minded, and we wouldn't want to be seen to be stooping to their level.
Their nuclear bomb fizzled and their ICBM fell in the sea well short of its target.
If they try anything at all, the Western powers will wipe Kim Jong-Il and his sons from the face of the earth with a couple of cruse missiles launched from off the cost. The starving population will rejoyce and Korea will be reunited.
This sounds like the deranged provocations of a suicidal maniac.
Uncle Bulgaria begs to differ.
Sun already tried this and had to give up. Sun's CPU design team just couldn't get the mode complex cored to work at competitive speeds.
I think that Oracle is making a big mistake here. They should let Fujitsu develop the big cores (which they are supremely good at) and themselves concentrate on the highly-multithreaded ones, which they are good at.
I don't see why this is a problem for developers, since the compilers take care of the CPU-specific details, and if your code is written in Java, it's a non-issue anyway.
But instead we limit the H1-B quota to 65000 a year
Pesky 16-bit Win16 applications! At least they used an unsigned int.
Everyone should have a KNOPPIX CD/DVD to hand. It's very useful for when someone messes up the Windows PC. I've used it several times for cleaning malware off of Mrs. Turgid's laptops after the monkeys have been on the intarwebs.