You won't be able to recycle feces for protein for very long. Other nutrients, sure, but just like recycling water from urine, that's not particularly difficult.
It depends what you're doing. Embedded or GPU programs are usually small and performance intensive. Someone who's good at writing assembly can usually do better than the C or C-like languages people use to program them these days.
Of course, anyone who writes a big application in assembly today is an idiot. A lot of people would say that about someone who writes a big application in C too. But the little bits that do most of the work can still use some low level love. That's why one of my most important criteria for a language these days is how easy it is to bridge to stuff written in other languages.
Sigh. Can we just agree that both Java and C++ are the wrong choice if you want performance? Obviously you should write hand tuned assembler like a real programmer.
Um, you know SecureID was hacked, right? It's easy to blame users, but the really big problem seems to be incompetence on the server side. Not hashing passwords, doing stupid things that allow different account numbers in the URL to access other accounts, etc.
If you're an idiot and use an easy password your account might get hacked. If you're an admin and use an easy password it COULD be bad. But the big scores, taking down millions of accounts, have almost all been gross errors in server setup.
Close. I think it's because several groups are, at the moment, hacking FOR publicity.
Anonymous, LulzSec and some of the others are hacking specifically to generate publicity for themselves, their cause, or against a particular organization (like Sony). The regular background of criminal hacking doesn't get reported much because both sides don't want publicity.
There's a slight difference between freezing an embryo and freezing a fully grown person.
And the way I read the comment, he's not saying that freezing someone and later reviving them is not possible, but that it is not possible to freeze someone NOW without damaging them beyond reasonable hope of revival.
Have anything to back that up? I don't live in the US, but there isn't a legal obligation for a vet to euthanize here. A quick search doesn't show up any such obligation in the US either.
If the owner of a dog doesn't want to euthanize it, the vet can't.
You can use any alphanumeric + symbols code you want. Most people just use the simple numerical code because it's quick, easy, and does the job. If you guess wrong too many times the phone will enforce a timeout between guesses and you can set it to wipe if too many wrong guesses are entered.
And you remembered the math incorrectly. It's 10,000 unique codes. Your value is for the number of codes with no repeated numbers.
Or someone who visits Canada frequently. Or someone who wants to upgrade or replace his phone early and doesn't want to pay full price AND have to extend his contract.
Quite a few people even fall into your very restricted category. SIMs cost somewhere between nothing and about $20. If you're going to be somewhere (like either of your nearest neighbouring countries) for a week or two it can be worth picking one up.
A locked iPhone will only activate with the right SIM, and iPhones can be unlocked, by Apple at the carrier's request, remotely. There was even someone selling that service, who presumably had some kind of access into Apple's database.
Javascript is too slow and limited to write real games and the Javascript/HTML5 combination is too limited to write most other software easily. Not everything should be a web app.
.Net is Microsoft's main development platform for their OS, which is the core of their business.
MSFS was a flight simulator, admittedly with a dedicated and vocal (but relatively small) following. If what you say is true, there were a few other people who were too cheap to buy proper software using it for some other purposes.
Nonsense. They rejected it because in order to work the app had to break half of the clearly spelt out developer rules. Particularly the ones regarding messing around outside your app's sandbox and modifying system files.
Obviousness factors into trademark cases. If you take two pre-existing symbols and obviously combine them into a trademark, you're going to have trouble arguing that ALL other combinations of those two preexisting symbols are trademark infringement. In this case the two icons are different enough you probably wouldn't confuse them and any confusion that would arise does so solely from the presence of the two previously existing symbols.
Besides, it's almost certain the guy didn't apply for a trademark.
Doesn't matter. Microsoft was a monopoly because their OS was so widely used there simply wasn't a viable alternative. You COULDN'T switch to something else because either a) something else wouldn't run the programs you needed or b) things you produced on your alternative OS couldn't be easily used by people on Windows and vice versa.
Apple is a minority player in the smart phone business, there are several viable alternatives (for both developers and end users) and smart phones all talk to each other quite successfully in all the ways that are necessary. "They have a monopoly because it's the platform I can make most money on!" isn't a valid argument.
Apple has something like 25% of the smart phone market. It's pretty hard to argue that they've got a monopoly.
Your Wikipedia definition is silly. By that definition Coke has a monopoly (on Coke), Wal-Mart has a monopoly (on Wal-Mart stores) and Joe Blow developer has a monopoly (on that app he wrote last week while hung over).
They didn't implement tethering for years either. Until well after there were lots of tethering apps. Did Apple rip off the people who wrote those tethering apps? Did THEY rip off RIM, Nokia, et. al. who had tethering implemented a long time before there were iPhones?
Wifi sync (oooh, I just ripped off his name, didn't I?) is a pretty generic idea that everyone wanted from when the first iPhone was released. Apple took their sweet time introducing it, but the idea that they had to rip off some third party developer's idea to send data over wifi instead of a USB cable is ridiculous. The idea is generic. The implementation is trivial (for Apple). The name is obvious. The logo is also generic.
Come on. Half the comments on this story are probably going to be better than this dork's.
A light saber that used plasma would likely be hot. Hot enough that holding it would get very uncomfortable, magnetic field or no. And if the magnetic field is confining it, how does it get through the porous metal? Without destroying the metal? Where does the plasma come from if it's constantly leaking out? Why do lightsabers require focusing gems? How does a light saber deflect blaster and laser hits that would otherwise melt metal? How can lightsabers be an ancient weapon and the guy who designed them is still living on some planet somewhere?
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You won't be able to recycle feces for protein for very long. Other nutrients, sure, but just like recycling water from urine, that's not particularly difficult.
"More importantly tho, would be to know which language provides the best balance between performance and work required?"
A combination of more than one. Python with C modules, for example.
Wonderful that we can use our fancy technology to cover up our own sloppiness.
Five years ago I remember Slashdotters complaining about how faster CPUs were just being used to compensate for Microsoft bloat.
It depends what you're doing. Embedded or GPU programs are usually small and performance intensive. Someone who's good at writing assembly can usually do better than the C or C-like languages people use to program them these days.
Of course, anyone who writes a big application in assembly today is an idiot. A lot of people would say that about someone who writes a big application in C too. But the little bits that do most of the work can still use some low level love. That's why one of my most important criteria for a language these days is how easy it is to bridge to stuff written in other languages.
It's weird how scared the Java kids are of things like memory allocation and pointers. I wonder what they'd do if they saw a jmp?
Sigh. Can we just agree that both Java and C++ are the wrong choice if you want performance? Obviously you should write hand tuned assembler like a real programmer.
"using SecureID style authentication"
Um, you know SecureID was hacked, right? It's easy to blame users, but the really big problem seems to be incompetence on the server side. Not hashing passwords, doing stupid things that allow different account numbers in the URL to access other accounts, etc.
If you're an idiot and use an easy password your account might get hacked. If you're an admin and use an easy password it COULD be bad. But the big scores, taking down millions of accounts, have almost all been gross errors in server setup.
Close. I think it's because several groups are, at the moment, hacking FOR publicity.
Anonymous, LulzSec and some of the others are hacking specifically to generate publicity for themselves, their cause, or against a particular organization (like Sony). The regular background of criminal hacking doesn't get reported much because both sides don't want publicity.
You could make the same argument for hiring security guards, buying an alarm system, or putting decent locks on the doors.
There's a slight difference between freezing an embryo and freezing a fully grown person.
And the way I read the comment, he's not saying that freezing someone and later reviving them is not possible, but that it is not possible to freeze someone NOW without damaging them beyond reasonable hope of revival.
Have anything to back that up? I don't live in the US, but there isn't a legal obligation for a vet to euthanize here. A quick search doesn't show up any such obligation in the US either.
If the owner of a dog doesn't want to euthanize it, the vet can't.
You can use any alphanumeric + symbols code you want. Most people just use the simple numerical code because it's quick, easy, and does the job. If you guess wrong too many times the phone will enforce a timeout between guesses and you can set it to wipe if too many wrong guesses are entered.
And you remembered the math incorrectly. It's 10,000 unique codes. Your value is for the number of codes with no repeated numbers.
Or they graduated in 1998 and they're around 30.
Or someone who visits Canada frequently. Or someone who wants to upgrade or replace his phone early and doesn't want to pay full price AND have to extend his contract.
Quite a few people even fall into your very restricted category. SIMs cost somewhere between nothing and about $20. If you're going to be somewhere (like either of your nearest neighbouring countries) for a week or two it can be worth picking one up.
A locked iPhone will only activate with the right SIM, and iPhones can be unlocked, by Apple at the carrier's request, remotely. There was even someone selling that service, who presumably had some kind of access into Apple's database.
5 years you say? On .Net? Wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller
That one is from 1979.
So do other, much more capable languages.
Javascript is too slow and limited to write real games and the Javascript/HTML5 combination is too limited to write most other software easily. Not everything should be a web app.
.Net is Microsoft's main development platform for their OS, which is the core of their business.
MSFS was a flight simulator, admittedly with a dedicated and vocal (but relatively small) following. If what you say is true, there were a few other people who were too cheap to buy proper software using it for some other purposes.
If nobody trademarked the name then you could go ahead and set up an App Store.
Oh, wait, Apple trademarked the name. They still can't stop other people from making app stores and calling them something else though.
Nonsense. They rejected it because in order to work the app had to break half of the clearly spelt out developer rules. Particularly the ones regarding messing around outside your app's sandbox and modifying system files.
Obviousness factors into trademark cases. If you take two pre-existing symbols and obviously combine them into a trademark, you're going to have trouble arguing that ALL other combinations of those two preexisting symbols are trademark infringement. In this case the two icons are different enough you probably wouldn't confuse them and any confusion that would arise does so solely from the presence of the two previously existing symbols.
Besides, it's almost certain the guy didn't apply for a trademark.
Doesn't matter. Microsoft was a monopoly because their OS was so widely used there simply wasn't a viable alternative. You COULDN'T switch to something else because either a) something else wouldn't run the programs you needed or b) things you produced on your alternative OS couldn't be easily used by people on Windows and vice versa.
Apple is a minority player in the smart phone business, there are several viable alternatives (for both developers and end users) and smart phones all talk to each other quite successfully in all the ways that are necessary. "They have a monopoly because it's the platform I can make most money on!" isn't a valid argument.
Apple has something like 25% of the smart phone market. It's pretty hard to argue that they've got a monopoly.
Your Wikipedia definition is silly. By that definition Coke has a monopoly (on Coke), Wal-Mart has a monopoly (on Wal-Mart stores) and Joe Blow developer has a monopoly (on that app he wrote last week while hung over).
They didn't implement tethering for years either. Until well after there were lots of tethering apps. Did Apple rip off the people who wrote those tethering apps? Did THEY rip off RIM, Nokia, et. al. who had tethering implemented a long time before there were iPhones?
Wifi sync (oooh, I just ripped off his name, didn't I?) is a pretty generic idea that everyone wanted from when the first iPhone was released. Apple took their sweet time introducing it, but the idea that they had to rip off some third party developer's idea to send data over wifi instead of a USB cable is ridiculous. The idea is generic. The implementation is trivial (for Apple). The name is obvious. The logo is also generic.
Nothing to see here.
Come on. Half the comments on this story are probably going to be better than this dork's.
A light saber that used plasma would likely be hot. Hot enough that holding it would get very uncomfortable, magnetic field or no. And if the magnetic field is confining it, how does it get through the porous metal? Without destroying the metal? Where does the plasma come from if it's constantly leaking out? Why do lightsabers require focusing gems? How does a light saber deflect blaster and laser hits that would otherwise melt metal? How can lightsabers be an ancient weapon and the guy who designed them is still living on some planet somewhere?