I know people who only write FORTRAN code. They need the speed which the heavily optimised compilers provide (they use it for simulation of stellar evolution and planetary evolution) Its still taught to many Physics students at Cambridge University due to the speed and wide availability of scientific libraries.
Never heard that suggestion before. So long as we don't overfarm the Kelp forests of course...
The combustion of methane will of course produce mroe CO2, but this should also be offset by the kelp's growth as well.
What about trasportation and storage of the methane though? That's going to be a tricky problem, although transporting the kelp to more local places which then extract methane would solve that in part.
I totally agree.
Ethanol may be cleaner to combust, but the environmental impact of monoculture farming are huge.
Farming techniques are getting better, but there's a long way to go.
From a theoretical point of view. As someone who's incredibly interested in theoretic computer science, this is a fascinating and very important result. Practically it may not have much of an effect. It is in P, but that doesn't tell you how long it actually takes to run. It could be that the algorithm takes an inpractical time to run, although refinements to the algorithm might be made to speed it up. This will also have little impact on the problem of factoring, unless the maths used provides a new approach to that problem. Great news though. I'll have to read the paper now.
All these 'features' you suggest are reasons Java is better than C/C++ in my opinion. Perhaps multiple inheritance could be done in a sane way, but there's interfaces to avoid the need for multiple inheritence. Operator Overloading - This is asking for trouble. I wouldn't mind having different arithmetic operators for Ints and Reals, it would make my life easier in the long run. Pointers and direct memory access - ummmm, this is part of the point of Java, portable code, no direct memory access.
I would like to see a clean up of the APIs, and threading is a bit of a mess. And making basic types proper classes would be great.
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$5 will be quite a lot.
As an aside, Bhutan's King and government don't see GNP as important. They're much more interested in GNH, Gross National Happiness.
I know people who only write FORTRAN code. They need the speed which the heavily optimised compilers provide (they use it for simulation of stellar evolution and planetary evolution)
Its still taught to many Physics students at Cambridge University due to the speed and wide availability of scientific libraries.
Never heard that suggestion before.
So long as we don't overfarm the Kelp forests of course...
The combustion of methane will of course produce mroe CO2, but this should also be offset by the kelp's growth as well.
What about trasportation and storage of the methane though? That's going to be a tricky problem, although transporting the kelp to more local places which then extract methane would solve that in part.
I totally agree. Ethanol may be cleaner to combust, but the environmental impact of monoculture farming are huge. Farming techniques are getting better, but there's a long way to go.
From a theoretical point of view.
As someone who's incredibly interested in theoretic computer science, this is a fascinating and very important result.
Practically it may not have much of an effect. It is in P, but that doesn't tell you how long it actually takes to run. It could be that the algorithm takes an inpractical time to run, although refinements to the algorithm might be made to speed it up.
This will also have little impact on the problem of factoring, unless the maths used provides a new approach to that problem.
Great news though.
I'll have to read the paper now.
All these 'features' you suggest are reasons Java is better than C/C++ in my opinion.
Perhaps multiple inheritance could be done in a sane way, but there's interfaces to avoid the need for multiple inheritence.
Operator Overloading - This is asking for trouble. I wouldn't mind having different arithmetic operators for Ints and Reals, it would make my life easier in the long run.
Pointers and direct memory access - ummmm, this is part of the point of Java, portable code, no direct memory access.
I would like to see a clean up of the APIs, and threading is a bit of a mess. And making basic types proper classes would be great.