Perhaps *in theory* you could create some system using metals, but in practice in the real world if there was any carbon around in the system than whatever kicks off "life" would be more likely to end up using that simply because of the flexibility it allows and metal based organisms would soon be outcompeted and go extinct. Also its curious to note that his system still requires water.
Wasn't silicon the carbon alternative a few decades back? Whatever happened to the ideas of alternative life based on that (no, not electronics)?
For the same reason that the FPU was first integrated into the 386DX. People forget that it used to be on a seperate chip (287). It would seem perverse to have a seperate chip for the FPU these days and I suspect in 5 or 10 years the same will be said for standalone GPUs.
"How would you like to be in the situation 100 years ago where you want to sell your stock but no one is around to buy it? "
There are always going to be people around to buy a stock that has an intrinsic value as of itself - eg foodstuffs. More exotics? Well sucks to be you if there are no buyers then. Buy something more sensible next time.
"you literally can lose all your money in a matter of hours in a rough market "
Tough. The stock market is just long term gambling. If you can't take the heat...
Really? I tend to find that managers in their 40s are the ones who stayed doing software for a long time until they got bored with it or just fancied an easier life. The ones who end up as PMs in their 20s don't usually stay in the industry - they tend to go and take their PM "skills" to other less technical arenas.
I use code in classes because it saves having to write mystruct-> all the time which makes the code a bit neater, and the STL has its uses if you're in a hurry. But other than that...
"if they use c++ they probably have a bunch of 20somethings wanting to show off this or that feature of the language."
Maybe true 10 years ago, these days substitute C++ for Java where the coders have even less of a clue whats going on and just let the VM garbage collector sort out their mess for them.
I don't know about the USA but here in the UK there simply are no C coding jobs any more except in very limited areas such as you describe. Probably single figure vacancies for the entire country. You should really learn C++ , its not that hard to get up to speed if you're good at C. Starting with C++ and moving to C seems to be a lot harder for people.
Hey , there are still some of us around!:) I just have to put "++" on the end these days otherwise I'd never get hired! C++ might make writing programs easier but C is a damn sight easier to debug when things go wrong because everything is explicit.
Especially since a lot of IT managers in their 20s are usually the ones who arn't so great at producing actual software so are slowly moving sideways into project management before they get found out and don't like being picked up on stupid technical decisions by someone old enough to be their dad. I speak from personal experience.
"The internet is pretty much essential for those who work on the land, too."
Bollocks. Do you actually know any farmers? I do. Believe me, when they're dipping the sheep they don't really care if they can access iPlayer or not. The internet might be a nice-to-have where they can look up work related issues but it is no way an essential.
"Modern agriculture and husbandry isn't the world of Beatrix Potter any more"
No , it isn't. But you don't need the internet to use a tractor or sell your goods especially if you're already locked into a wholesaler/supermarket contract.
"If you lived in the countryside in the UK and couldn't even get 1Mbps internet it would be a crisis for you too."
Oh please. Turn off your hyperbole-o-matic. Most people in the country either work on the land or commute to an office in a town. In the former case the internet is hardly a major requirement for their daily existence and in the latter they'll probably have net access at work , in neither case is there a "crisis". Perhaps to you an obvious net addict like you it would be but we're not talking about you.
"hat crisis being that the reduced commincation infrastructure is creating local pockets of populations that are so poorly educated"
I'm sorry , what? Schools have these things called "teachers" who teach the children and I think you'll find people in the country are very WELL educated because they have decent schools with teachers who can teach and don't just dump kids in front of a PC. Its in the inner city - where good broadband services are available - where you'll find a lot more of the idiotic and lazy kids.
"The CIA is really throwing everything at the wall here"
Sure. If anything the slightest bit unfortunate happens to any hacktivist sacred cow then it - duh! - has to be the CIA. Or FBI. Or NSA. Or some government black hat organisation that only the l337 know about.
Get a fucking grip. If the CIA wanted to take down wikileaks they'd go for the people, not the infrastructure. And why do it now? 6 months ago would have been a lot more useful.
But hey , why bother thinking it through when a good ole conspiracy theory will suffice eh?
Because I assume the code as written could only handle one bullet at a time. I doubt they put in extra memory locations and support code for more "just in case someone hit select at power-up".
Boy are you naive. The only thing that prevents journos from publishing anything they like is the thought of being sued or prison. Ethncis doesn't come into it and never has.
Fairly simple. Given the poor resolution however I suspect its cropping. I would have expected better frankly. In space 6M miles really isn't very far.
"Simple? Nothing's as simple as connecting to one port for the control channel and then having another random port you need to connect to for a data channel and then there's the PASV/EPASV vs. Active question."
So you claim it has a fault then provide the answer and say its a question? Riiight.
"Easy to automate?"
Yes. And if you don't know how to do it then you've obviously never used ftp for much of anything so your opinions are void.
You're missing something obvious - most of the star has gone so its gravity will be a lot less. Perhaps the core would revert to near normal matter under these cirumstances?
"Pulling it apart might be possible,"
Neutron star matter in turn makes white dwarf matter look like a wispy puff of h2. It could easily pull apart a white dwarf.
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Perhaps *in theory* you could create some system using metals, but in practice in the real world if there was any carbon around in the system than whatever kicks off "life" would be more likely to end up using that simply because of the flexibility it allows and metal based organisms would soon be outcompeted and go extinct. Also its curious to note that his system still requires water.
Wasn't silicon the carbon alternative a few decades back? Whatever happened to the ideas of alternative life based on that (no, not electronics)?
I shouldn't rely on memory. Still 386 or 486 the point still stands.
For the same reason that the FPU was first integrated into the 386DX. People forget that it used to be on a seperate chip (287). It would seem perverse to have a seperate chip for the FPU these days and I suspect in 5 or 10 years the same will be said for standalone GPUs.
"How would you like to be in the situation 100 years ago where you want to sell your stock but no one is around to buy it? "
There are always going to be people around to buy a stock that has an intrinsic value as of itself - eg foodstuffs. More exotics? Well sucks to be you if there are no buyers then. Buy something more sensible next time.
"you literally can lose all your money in a matter of hours in a rough market "
Tough. The stock market is just long term gambling. If you can't take the heat...
Really? I tend to find that managers in their 40s are the ones who stayed doing software for a long time until they got bored with it or just fancied an easier life. The ones who end up as PMs in their 20s don't usually stay in the industry - they tend to go and take their PM "skills" to other less technical arenas.
"Writing a GUI in C, maybe"
You're not a fan of GTK+I take it? ;)
Logic is easier to follow in C just looking at the code because there is no overloading or hidden conversations going on behind the scenes.
"buffer overflows and bad pointers. ...which C++ eliminated."
Yeah , riiiight.... Keep drinking the Stroustrup Kool Aid.
"and its abused. oh, how c++ is abused."
Thats true.
"I find very little is NEEDED beyond regular c."
I use code in classes because it saves having to write mystruct-> all the time which makes the code a bit neater, and the STL has its uses if you're in a hurry. But other than that...
"if they use c++ they probably have a bunch of 20somethings wanting to show off this or that feature of the language."
Maybe true 10 years ago, these days substitute C++ for Java where the coders have even less of a clue whats going on and just let the VM garbage collector sort out their mess for them.
"but I can't find a C programming job."
I don't know about the USA but here in the UK there simply are no C coding jobs any more except in very limited areas such as you describe. Probably single figure vacancies for the entire country. You should really learn C++ , its not that hard to get up to speed if you're good at C. Starting with C++ and moving to C seems to be a lot harder for people.
Hey , there are still some of us around! :) I just have to put "++" on the end these days otherwise I'd never get hired! C++ might make writing programs easier but C is a damn sight easier to debug when things go wrong because everything is explicit.
Especially since a lot of IT managers in their 20s are usually the ones who arn't so great at producing actual software so are slowly moving sideways into project management before they get found out and don't like being picked up on stupid technical decisions by someone old enough to be their dad. I speak from personal experience.
"The internet is pretty much essential for those who work on the land, too."
Bollocks. Do you actually know any farmers? I do. Believe me, when they're dipping the sheep they don't really care if they can access iPlayer or not. The internet might be a nice-to-have where they can look up work related issues but it is no way an essential.
"Modern agriculture and husbandry isn't the world of Beatrix Potter any more"
No , it isn't. But you don't need the internet to use a tractor or sell your goods especially if you're already locked into a wholesaler/supermarket contract.
"If you lived in the countryside in the UK and couldn't even get 1Mbps internet it would be a crisis for you too."
Oh please. Turn off your hyperbole-o-matic. Most people in the country either work on the land or commute to an office in a town. In the former case the internet is hardly a major requirement for their daily existence and in the latter they'll probably have net access at work , in neither case is there a "crisis". Perhaps to you an obvious net addict like you it would be but we're not talking about you.
"hat crisis being that the reduced commincation infrastructure is creating local pockets of populations that are so poorly educated"
I'm sorry , what? Schools have these things called "teachers" who teach the children and I think you'll find people in the country are very WELL educated because they have decent schools with teachers who can teach and don't just dump kids in front of a PC. Its in the inner city - where good broadband services are available - where you'll find a lot more of the idiotic and lazy kids.
Assassination of people running a website? Christ , you really are off with the pixies. I meant arresting them on trumped up charges.
"The CIA is really throwing everything at the wall here"
Sure. If anything the slightest bit unfortunate happens to any hacktivist sacred cow then it - duh! - has to be the CIA. Or FBI. Or NSA. Or some government black hat organisation that only the l337 know about.
Get a fucking grip. If the CIA wanted to take down wikileaks they'd go for the people, not the infrastructure. And why do it now? 6 months ago would have been a lot more useful.
But hey , why bother thinking it through when a good ole conspiracy theory will suffice eh?
Sounds the most likely explanation.
Because I assume the code as written could only handle one bullet at a time. I doubt they put in extra memory locations and support code for more "just in case someone hit select at power-up".
"journalistic ethics"
Boy are you naive. The only thing that prevents journos from publishing anything they like is the thought of being sued or prison. Ethncis doesn't come into it and never has.
Fair enough. I didn't realise that.
Fairly simple. Given the poor resolution however I suspect its cropping. I would have expected better frankly. In space 6M miles really isn't very far.
"And every single one of them required slightly different syntax"
Oh BS. I've yet to come across an ftp server than didn't except the standard rfc commands.
"For EOL "conventions", you may as well flip a coin"
Wtf are you talking about? What are these servers running on, Windows??
"Simple? Nothing's as simple as connecting to one port for the control channel and then having another random port you need to connect to for a data channel and then there's the PASV/EPASV vs. Active question."
So you claim it has a fault then provide the answer and say its a question? Riiight.
"Easy to automate?"
Yes. And if you don't know how to do it then you've obviously never used ftp for much of anything so your opinions are void.
You're missing something obvious - most of the star has gone so its gravity will be a lot less. Perhaps the core would revert to near normal matter under these cirumstances?
"Pulling it apart might be possible,"
Neutron star matter in turn makes white dwarf matter look like a wispy puff of h2. It could easily pull apart a white dwarf.
Very true. Also the only difference between a religion and a cult is the number of followers.