You just shoot the first few hundred who try anything then the other 999.9999 million suddenly find that keeping their heads down and tending their crops or working in a sweat shop suddenly seems that whole lot more appealing. Works everywhere in the world - look at Zimbabwe for another example.
"I went through a PhD level applied physics program including writing a simulation of chemical reactions occurring on the surface of space shuttle heat shield tiles during re-entry and never found anything more than spending a few hours here and there reading language syntax"
Which probably explains the hideous unmaintainable sphagetti code that a lot of self taught science grads bang out when they get their first job in IT.
"Once they know Python, then they can pick up C++"
I'd beg to differ on that. C++ is an order of magnitude more complicated than Python. If you don't know anything but Python then C++ will be one hell of a learning curve - assuming you learn it properly all the way from pointer arithmetic up to templates and don't just learn a few common bits of the STL (which seems to be all a lot of C++ "coders" know).
But surely the price will come down when mass production of these kicks off. Almost every new technology is expensive when its only just been released onto the market.
Am I missing something or have they forgotten about white LEDs which are making pretty rapid inroads into general lighting? They're far more efficient that incandescent or strip lights.
Don't act dumb - you know perfectly well I was talking about day to day natural toxins that would could be fatal if the body didn't quickly metabolise them to something safe and excrete them - alcohol for example. Last time I looked I'm not generally surrounded by cynanide vapours or vapours from hemlock or poisonous toadstools. I am however surrounded by a cocktail of man made organics in the air.
Fair point , but it could be argued that the human body has evolved to deal with natural toxins , but it doesn't have such a good defense against man made chemicals.
If america truckers weaned themselves off their love of conventionals and used cabovers where the engine goes under the cab (like 99.9% of euro trucks) that 2 metre hood/bonnet at the front could vanish and with it about 1 or 2 tons of unnecessary dead weight. Not only that - a shorter tractor is more manouverable and because its lighter can haul a larger load for the same engine size.
But it sounds so much cooler saying "tranche" because then people arn't 100% sure what it really means. Its designed to obfuscate to people not in the know like a lot of the financial system.
I think you'll find in reality its actually an int (or other type that uses up a memory word) that the compiler pretends is a bit at the language level. Anyway , C++ has had it for years so its nothing new.
... should have been sorted out and locked down a long time ago, this isn't exactly cutting edge technology. But then who am I kidding , look at the memory manager fun and games in early 2.6 versions.
Its not really surprising that he found ADA nicer to use than C for this sort of project because its not the sort of thing C was created for. People seem to think that C was designed as an all purpose programming language - it wasn't. It was specifically designed as a systems programming language that could substitute for assembler 99% of the time. Its abilities lie in low level manupulation of memory and I/O , not in high level mathematics algorithms (though obviously it can do this too).
Then of course C++ came along which wanted to have its cake and eat it and the end result was a nasty mishmash of low and high level constructs which is difficult to learn , unintuitive and generally messy to use.
Don't be surprised if buried in the analogue output circuitry of your digital set top box is a macrovision circuit just itching to be switched on by a hidden flag hidden in some program to mop up the remaining analogue recorders such as yourself!:)
Yes , obviously aparthied is still the reason for the problems now there. Just look at the rest of Africa for a model of how countries in the region should be run after 50 or more years of self rule... oh wait...
Really? So physical attributes are undefined genetically too? Or is intelligence somehow magic and is unrelated to our DNA? In that case how come homo sapiens are so much smarter than other animals if its not genetic? You can't have it both ways pal.
You're making the age old mistake of assuming that genetic diversity somehow precludes common traits arrising - such as similar skin colour, nose shape, hair type - whenb clearly it doesnt. Ergo theres no reason to presume it would preclude a lower average IQ than other areas in the world.
Btw , calling someone racist simply because you don't happen to like their views that different races may be different is pathetically childish, though standard tactics for people of the right-on persuation.
Shame you posted AC or I'd have modded you up. You posted exactly what I was thinking. Also if they stay somewhere like Cape Cod its probably to get away from a lot of the pace of modern life so perhaps they wouldn't even want a broadband connection.
Otherwise they wouldn't be able to manufacture highly complex microchips, lasers etc simply because western companies were too mean to build the stuff in the west. Naturally all the knowledge the chinese gain from making this stuff will reach the chinese military so who frankly is surprised they're building a GPS rival? And if they're anything like the japanese it'll probably be *better* than the orginal.
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You just shoot the first few hundred who try anything then the other 999.9999 million suddenly find that keeping their heads down and tending their crops or working in a sweat shop suddenly seems that whole lot more appealing. Works everywhere in the world - look at Zimbabwe for another example.
"I went through a PhD level applied physics program including writing a simulation of chemical reactions occurring on the surface of space shuttle heat shield tiles during re-entry and never found anything more than spending a few hours here and there reading language syntax"
Which probably explains the hideous unmaintainable sphagetti code that a lot of self taught science grads bang out when they get their first job in IT.
"Once they know Python, then they can pick up C++"
I'd beg to differ on that. C++ is an order of magnitude more complicated than Python. If you don't know anything but Python then C++ will be one hell of a learning curve - assuming you learn it properly all the way from pointer arithmetic up to templates and don't just learn a few common bits of the STL (which seems to be all a lot of C++ "coders" know).
But surely the price will come down when mass production of these kicks off. Almost every new technology is expensive when its only just been released onto the market.
Am I missing something or have they forgotten about white LEDs which are making pretty rapid inroads into general lighting? They're far more efficient that incandescent or strip lights.
"Because the code is written faster in Java, runs as fast as C code can (because the JIT does an equivalent job; plenty-o-examples upon request)"
Sorry , remind me what language the JIT compiler is written in. Java is it? No , thought not.
"Maybe because the JVM can "optimize the hell" out of the running Java code far better than you could "optimize the hell" out of your C++ by hand?"
:o)
Oh please , thats just funny.
The day I see a half decent java JIT compiler I'll know the 22nd century has arrived.
"Java surpassed C++ performance many years ago, and by such a wide margin that no one even bothers running benchmarks anymore."
Yeah , sure it did. Btw , how is the weather on Planet Pie-in-the-sky these days?
Don't act dumb - you know perfectly well I was talking about day to day natural toxins that would could be fatal if the body didn't quickly metabolise them to something safe and excrete them - alcohol for example. Last time I looked I'm not generally surrounded by cynanide vapours or vapours from hemlock or poisonous toadstools. I am however surrounded by a cocktail of man made organics in the air.
Fair point , but it could be argued that the human body has evolved to deal with natural toxins , but it doesn't have such a good defense against man made chemicals.
If thats not coercian of the worst kind I don't know what is. And it was a part of the roman catholic church - a supposed religion.
If america truckers weaned themselves off their love of conventionals and used cabovers where the engine goes under the cab (like 99.9% of euro trucks) that 2 metre hood/bonnet at the front could vanish and with it about 1 or 2 tons of unnecessary dead weight. Not only that - a shorter tractor is more manouverable and because its lighter can haul a larger load for the same engine size.
But it sounds so much cooler saying "tranche" because then people arn't 100% sure what it really means. Its designed to obfuscate to people not in the know like a lot of the financial system.
I think you'll find in reality its actually an int (or other type that uses up a memory word) that the compiler pretends is a bit at the language level. Anyway , C++ has had it for years so its nothing new.
... should have been sorted out and locked down a long time ago, this isn't exactly cutting edge technology. But then who am I kidding , look at the memory manager fun and games in early 2.6 versions.
Its not really surprising that he found ADA nicer to use than C for this sort of project because its not the sort of thing C was created for. People seem to think that C was designed as an all purpose programming language - it wasn't. It was specifically designed as a systems programming language that could substitute for assembler 99% of the time. Its abilities lie in low level manupulation of memory and I/O , not in high level mathematics algorithms (though obviously it can do this too).
Then of course C++ came along which wanted to have its cake and eat it and the end result was a nasty mishmash of low and high level constructs which is difficult to learn , unintuitive and generally messy to use.
Don't be surprised if buried in the analogue output circuitry of your digital set top box is a macrovision circuit just itching to be switched on by a hidden flag hidden in some program to mop up the remaining analogue recorders such as yourself! :)
"OS X picked up everything but the sound "
Oh is that all? Meh , I hated listening to those pesky mp3's and watching silent videos on youtube is sooo much more fun.
Yes , obviously aparthied is still the reason for the problems now there. Just look at the rest of Africa for a model of how countries in the region should be run after 50 or more years of self rule ... oh wait...
"ntellectual capacity is a)undefined genetically"
Really? So physical attributes are undefined genetically too? Or is intelligence somehow magic and is unrelated to our DNA? In that case how come homo sapiens are so much smarter than other animals if its not genetic? You can't have it both ways pal.
You're making the age old mistake of assuming that genetic diversity somehow precludes common traits arrising - such as similar skin colour, nose shape, hair type - whenb clearly it doesnt. Ergo theres no reason to presume it would preclude a lower average IQ than other areas in the world.
Btw , calling someone racist simply because you don't happen to like their views that different races may be different is pathetically childish, though standard tactics for people of the right-on persuation.
Shame you posted AC or I'd have modded you up. You posted exactly what I was thinking. Also if they stay somewhere like Cape Cod its probably to get away from a lot of the pace of modern life so perhaps they wouldn't even want a broadband connection.
3 miles is only a 1 hour walk and could be done in 20 mins on a foldable bike.
Oh wait , I forgot this is america , ok 3 miles is a 5 hour waddle. Forget it.
Otherwise they wouldn't be able to manufacture highly complex microchips, lasers etc simply because western companies were too mean to build the stuff in the west. Naturally all the knowledge the chinese gain from making this stuff will reach the chinese military so who frankly is surprised they're building a GPS rival? And if they're anything like the japanese it'll probably be *better* than the orginal.
They're probably not even clones - they're probably from the actual iPhone production line that just "accidentaly" got siphoned off late one night.
Thanks.