I'd choose a solid metal shaft connecting my steering wheel to the road above any electronics , no matter how reliable. Yes , you're right about all of the above , but lets face it , none of it is essential for a car. And as for predictive lighting, well Citreon had that in the 50s with the lights being connected to and turned by the the steering rod. A mechanical no brainer.
"Tinnitus is horrible (ringing in the ears), but it's also common to suffer damage in the 3-6 KHz range, where much of the understandability of speech is"
I have just that problem. After too many years of listening to loud rock music in my youth I have the strange situation of still being able to hear very high frequency sounds well for my age (late 30s, could still hear 17khz at company medical a few years ago) but I can have trouble understanding what someone is saying if the enviroment is noisy, whereas other people around me have no problems. Its wierd because I can hear the sound of the voices no problem, but my brain sometimes just can't work out the words.
Personally I'd prefer no OS at all. Cars used to be able to run quite happily with no computers whatsoever and very little electronics. The ONLY reason computers are in cars is to have VERY small improvements in miles per gallon but mainly as a marketing tool - "Ooh , look at this cool gizmo telling me how many doors are open , duh , I must have that! *slobber*". Etc.
Protectionism is active *prevention* of the *opposition* getting a deal for chrissake. You can argue the morality of bribing or not until the cows come home , but ultimately a bribe does not prevent the contract from going to another party of the buyer wants to go that way. Get a clue.
How is france offering "bribes" to the Saudi government protectionism? Perhaps you should look the meaning of the word up in the dictionary. All corporations offer sweeteners to get deals, its part of the global corporate business culture. Seems to me you just shot yourself in the foot with that example as it plainly shows the US using illegal spying to bolster up its own failing aircraft industry.
"read - protecting Airbus and their other golden boys"
Unlike in the US , where Boeing and other american aerospace contractors are never given preferential treatment over foreign ones in government contracts. Oh no. And er , oh , what about Iraq where EU corperations were squeezed out of the bidding for the rebuilding contracts , which , (and this is a complete surprise), are almost all american! Well what next? US trade import tarifs? US steel market protectionism? Nah , would never happen.
Thats what I've done for the last 2 years. Never been stopped once by plod. Sure , you can still get done on the rear plate but it cuts down the amount of surveilance by 50%. And if you're really worried (and I'm getting that way), smear the rear plate with mud so 1 or more of the characters are unreadable.
Problem is the opposition is so lame. The tories keep changing their policies and leaders depending on which way the wind is blowing and the liberals exist in a parallel dimension called Politically Correct world. IMO all 3 of the parties are currently unelectable in any serious election, but people tend to stick with what they know so unless the other 2 parties sort themselves out fast labour will win yet again.
Xlib desperately needs a lot of basic functionality only found in extension libraries merged into the core API. For example even double buffering (never mind any fancy graphics manipulation) is still an extension for chrissake! In 2005!
Personally though X11.R7 is nice, I think its time we had a complete rewrite and brought out X12 for the new millenium.
Ignore all the script functional language fanboys. The ONLY languages you can write EVERYTHING in on ALMOST EVERY platform is C (and also C++). It goes all the way from the OS itself through device drivers, database engines, games, GUIs , you name it.
If you don't know C learn that first as it'll give you a good grounding in low level techniques then learn C++ to get a reasonable grasp of OO & generics. (Cue ivory tower academic rant on how C++ isn't true OO...)
Seems to be popular on her but I'll risk a troll rating by saying that I found Enders Games to be the dullest sci fi book I've ever read and in fact I got so bored I gave up 3/4 way through. The only other book that got even remotely close in tedium rating was Radix by A. A. Attanasio.
Enders Game - great book for people who rate political allegory above anything remotely resembling a good plot.
"Python uses the indentation of statements under a header to group the statements in a nested block."
A language called Occam (used on a long since forgotten late 80s parallel CPU called a Transputer) did the same and was derided for the same reason. Funny how some people never learn.
XML is not declarative. It does not define something you want done. It defines data. It does not ensure the parser does anything except load it in a certain internal format. Examples of declarative programming languages are SQL and Prolog. Go look them up.
Sorry, not interested in anything larry wall has to say given the mess he created. Programming languages are NOT just data structures, they're ideas converted into sequenced logic operations AND data. If you don't understand the difference I'd suggest you go find yourself a different career to work in.
As for Jelly , on question - whats the point? With hacked add ons you could turn Wordstar markup tags into a language that can mimick proper coding languages. Doesn't mean that it actually is one in its normal form. Same goes for XML.
When exactly did XML become a programming language? Its a data structuring language you idiot. As for the javascript side of the API, its naturally very heavily biased towards manipulating a web browser. I'm not sure exactly how loading documents into frames and the like is relevant or even a good enviroment to learning basic coding skills such as looping , variables , function calling etc.
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"before you were even an embryo."
Funnily enough , I'm hardly just out of nappies and have been in the industry for a looong time. And just because you CAN run LISP programs on limited hardware doesn't mean its the best approach. For heavens sake people used to program using BASIC interpreters on 8 bit home computers. But the ones who required speed and had a clue used assembler. End.
"Back in the mid 1990s there was even talk from Sun about creating similar machines, except involving Java."
We if you had a clue yourself you'd know they DID create those machines. They were called java terminals and they were junk. See any around today? They even developed a CPU which ran java but it was inefficient for obvious reasons.
When you can write a device driver or any real time system that has to talk to the metal in LISP then get back to us. In the meantime go and play with your LISP fiends in the nice cosy high level language playpen and leave the real coding to people who arn't frightened of memory addresses and interrupts and the like.
Not to mention the fact that DAB is not a global standard and will probably never be one. The USA is going its own way and apart from europe and canada and (I think) a couple of far eastern countries no one seems to care about DAB. Which is why most DAB radios are cottage industry homebrew company jobs. When I can go into an electrical shop and see reams of DAB tuners by Sony, Pioneer, Technics etc then we'll know DAB has really arrived. However the imminent arrival of Digital Radio Mondiale (or digital AM for the uninitated) could screw DAB for good as its a true global standard. There are already test transmissions on the SW band and the MW band could be next.
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Thats still half a million, the population of a medium sized city. I'd say thats a lot of displaced workers.
I'd choose a solid metal shaft connecting my steering wheel to the road
above any electronics , no matter how reliable. Yes , you're right about
all of the above , but lets face it , none of it is essential for a car.
And as for predictive lighting, well Citreon had that in the 50s with the
lights being connected to and turned by the the steering rod. A mechanical
no brainer.
"Tinnitus is horrible (ringing in the ears), but it's also common to suffer damage in the 3-6 KHz range, where much of the understandability of speech is"
I have just that problem. After too many years of listening to loud rock music in my youth I have the strange situation of still being able to hear very high frequency sounds well for my age (late 30s, could still hear
17khz at company medical a few years ago) but I can have trouble understanding what someone is saying if the enviroment is noisy, whereas other people around me have no problems. Its wierd because I can hear the sound of the voices no problem, but my brain sometimes just can't work out the words.
Personally I'd prefer no OS at all. Cars used to be able to run quite
happily with no computers whatsoever and very little electronics. The ONLY
reason computers are in cars is to have VERY small improvements in miles
per gallon but mainly as a marketing tool - "Ooh , look at this cool
gizmo telling me how many doors are open , duh , I must have that! *slobber*".
Etc.
Protectionism is active *prevention* of the *opposition* getting
a deal for chrissake. You can argue the morality of bribing or not
until the cows come home , but ultimately a bribe does not prevent
the contract from going to another party of the buyer wants to go
that way. Get a clue.
"Ni"? Are these polish ruffians then?
How is france offering "bribes" to the Saudi government protectionism?
Perhaps you should look the meaning of the word up in the dictionary.
All corporations offer sweeteners to get deals, its part of the
global corporate business culture. Seems to me you just shot yourself
in the foot with that example as it plainly shows the US using
illegal spying to bolster up its own failing aircraft industry.
"read - protecting Airbus and their other golden boys"
Unlike in the US , where Boeing and other american aerospace
contractors are never given preferential treatment over foreign
ones in government contracts. Oh no. And er , oh , what about Iraq
where EU corperations were squeezed out of the bidding for the
rebuilding contracts , which , (and this is a complete surprise),
are almost all american! Well what next? US trade import tarifs?
US steel market protectionism? Nah , would never happen.
Thats what I've done for the last 2 years. Never been stopped once
by plod. Sure , you can still get done on the rear plate but it
cuts down the amount of surveilance by 50%. And if you're really
worried (and I'm getting that way), smear the rear plate with mud
so 1 or more of the characters are unreadable.
Problem is the opposition is so lame. The tories keep changing
their policies and leaders depending on which way the wind is
blowing and the liberals exist in a parallel dimension called
Politically Correct world. IMO all 3 of the parties are currently
unelectable in any serious election, but people tend to stick with
what they know so unless the other 2 parties sort themselves out
fast labour will win yet again.
Xlib desperately needs a lot of basic functionality only found
in extension libraries merged into the core API. For example
even double buffering (never mind any fancy graphics manipulation)
is still an extension for chrissake! In 2005!
Personally though X11.R7 is nice, I think its time we had a complete
rewrite and brought out X12 for the new millenium.
Philosphy texts are they to be "got". Novels are there to be enjoyed.
In this respect Enders Game fails utterly.
"I just don't see what so important about plot"
Your names not Orson is it?
"The interaction between Ender and the other kids made this book fun to read."
Whatever floats your boat. Personally I like stuff to happen,
not endless wittering about nothing. Perhaps you should rent out
Bridget Jones.
Ignore all the script functional language fanboys. The ONLY languages
you can write EVERYTHING in on ALMOST EVERY platform is C (and also C++).
It goes all the way from the OS itself through device drivers, database
engines, games, GUIs , you name it.
If you don't know C learn that first as it'll give you a good grounding
in low level techniques then learn C++ to get a reasonable grasp of
OO & generics. (Cue ivory tower academic rant on how C++ isn't true OO...)
Seems to be popular on her but I'll risk a troll rating by saying
that I found Enders Games to be the dullest sci fi book I've ever
read and in fact I got so bored I gave up 3/4 way through.
The only other book that got even remotely close in tedium rating
was Radix by A. A. Attanasio.
Enders Game - great book for people who rate political allegory above
anything remotely resembling a good plot.
"Python uses the indentation of statements under a header to group the statements in a nested block."
A language called Occam (used on a long since forgotten late 80s parallel
CPU called a Transputer) did the same and was derided for the same
reason. Funny how some people never learn.
XML is not declarative. It does not define something you want done. It defines data.
It does not ensure the parser does anything except load it in a certain internal format.
Examples of declarative programming languages are SQL and Prolog. Go look them up.
1. No they're not. Get a clue. Further OP said "I would likely use this as a means to teach basic programming skills." RTFP first.
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2. Ah , Latin 101 plus schoolyard insults. How very slashdot
Sorry, not interested in anything larry wall has to say given the mess he created.
Programming languages are NOT just data structures, they're ideas converted into
sequenced logic operations AND data. If you don't understand the difference I'd
suggest you go find yourself a different career to work in.
As for Jelly , on question - whats the point? With hacked add ons you could turn
Wordstar markup tags into a language that can mimick proper coding languages. Doesn't
mean that it actually is one in its normal form. Same goes for XML.
When exactly did XML become a programming language? Its a data structuring language you idiot. As for the javascript side of the API, its naturally very heavily biased towards manipulating a web browser. I'm not sure exactly how loading documents into frames and the like is relevant or even a good enviroment to learning basic coding skills such as looping , variables , function calling etc.
"before you were even an embryo."
Funnily enough , I'm hardly just out of nappies and have been in the
industry for a looong time. And just because you CAN run LISP programs
on limited hardware doesn't mean its the best approach. For heavens
sake people used to program using BASIC interpreters on 8 bit home
computers. But the ones who required speed and had a clue used assembler.
End.
"Back in the mid 1990s there was even talk from Sun about creating similar machines, except involving Java."
We if you had a clue yourself you'd know they DID create those machines. They were called java terminals and they were junk. See any around today?
They even developed a CPU which ran java but it was inefficient for
obvious reasons.
When you can write a device driver or any real time system that has to
talk to the metal in LISP then get back to us. In the meantime go
and play with your LISP fiends in the nice cosy high level language
playpen and leave the real coding to people who arn't frightened of memory
addresses and interrupts and the like.
Pah , you think they'll listen?? The only thing they'll listen to is the
sound of their share price falling when people stop buying.
Not to mention the fact that DAB is not a global standard and will
probably never be one. The USA is going its own way and apart from
europe and canada and (I think) a couple of far eastern countries
no one seems to care about DAB. Which is why most DAB radios are
cottage industry homebrew company jobs. When I can go into an electrical
shop and see reams of DAB tuners by Sony, Pioneer, Technics etc then
we'll know DAB has really arrived. However the imminent arrival of
Digital Radio Mondiale (or digital AM for the uninitated) could screw
DAB for good as its a true global standard. There are already test transmissions on the SW band and the MW band could be next.