Instead of trying for cheap laughs you might want to bear in mind that some of the old people out there actually built the internet that you're using right now. Check out the history of (D)ARPA. Anyone who was over 30 in the late 60s is a pensioner now.
is one-directional (not as in half-duplex, but competely one-directional),
is annoyingly synchronous: certain data can only be received at pre-determined timeslots,
has poorly separated protocol stack and
whose applications see UI improvements rarely.
So what? You could say the same about radio. When I come home after spending 8 hours plus sitting in front of PC the LAST thing I want when I'm doing chores/food/cuddling gf is some damn interactive crap that I have to spend ages pissing about with to get anything out of it especially if it means I have to boot up a computer! Fsck that. I press the TV ON button and it works. Period. Interactive 24/7 might be fine for some hyped up teenager on Red Bull but some of us just like to sit down, crash out and put our brains into neutral in our evenings after a long days work.
"Broadband internet has become so integral to so many of us (by us, I mean slasdot readers) that trying to find information any other way seems absolutely ludicrous."
Speak for yourself mate. Anyone who in their private lives can't do with broadband/TV/radio for a few days is one sad loser.
Here in the UK there seems to be a shift in younger children (not late teens) back to more sporting activities , outdoor games etc and away from the computer/console. Also the use of the computer and internet in schools seems to have been a bit of white elephant as letting kids just surf is no substitute for proper teaching.
"Climate data is taken from soil and ice samples, as well as rocks and trees"
If you can find many 500 year old trees in europe the yes you can. Soil? Depends on what type it is. Acidic soil is good, "normal" isn't. Ice? Yes, but that limits you to glaciers and other 365 day ice fields. Written records ARE used , if only to fill in those spots where there is no physical record and extrapolations are made.
It would take one hell of a disgrunteled employee to shut down 3 safety systems and reduce the effectiveness of a 4th then get himself onto the cleaning rota (assuming that wasn't his normal job). Sounds like typical cover up BS to me. No one is saying the indian government is perfect but it was Union Carbides plant and so THEY were responsible for it. They were happy to accept the profits from it so they should accept the responsibility too.
"For example, if it is GLOBAL warming, why only study Europe?"
Because there are lots of records in europe. Perhaps you'd care to ask the Apache or Sioux for their weather records for 1504? And I doubt you'd get much better data from africa, australia, or asia (except maybe china & japan).
Indeed. You'd think most people would understand the basic physics , but even on here (a supposed bastion of reasonably high IQs) the naysayers don't seem to get it. In which case imagine how clueless the general population is. And then of course you have the people who simply don't give a shit what happens to the climate because they'll probably be dead before the serious problems occur. Most 50-60 year old politicians fall into this latter category.
Well put. Still , we all know how vital it is that 5'2 women drive and guys with size issues around in 2.5 ton SUVs so we shouldn't be too hard on them. Social standing and misplaced insecurity are far more important than this planets ecology.
Thats all we hear with Mozilla - "new version - bug fixes". Jesus christ , how long have they been developing this now? Isn't it about time they got rid of any bugs relating to the core engine??
He states that Java (and by implication other C style languages) are over complex syntactically and cognitively. Sorry , thats wrong. Sure , for the mickey mouse "hello world" example he has a point but Java isn't designed for 1 line hello world programs , its syntax (we'll ignore the horrid JVMs) is designed for large scale complex systems and for large scale complex systems you need complex data structure abilities and flow of control. Its horses for courses , you want to write some mickey mouse program then use Perl or shell script, you want to write some sort of database system/OS etc then you use one of the C family. When you get the that level of complexity the rigid structure of the C family actually HELPS comprehension of the program and the implicit approach of Perl , shell script etc hinders.
SCTP was specifically devised as a replacement for TCP as it can emulate the 1 -> 1 connection of TCP but can do connection based 1 -> N too. I thought it has been designed with high speed in mind too. Does anyone know whether this protocol is being used more and more or has it just become another good-idea-at-the-time that got run over by the backwards compatability steamroller?
Great , another few tons of space junk floating about in the geostationary orbit. Whats worse is that if they've completely lost contact with the satellite then they won't even be able to shove it into a parking orbit like they do with old decommisioned ones. It'll just drift about in the main orbital zone and could possibly one day collide with a working satellite. AT the very least it means that spot in the orbit is out of bounds for other satellites now.
Well we're on the road towards that already with our mucking with the climate and pollution of the biosphere. I doubt some far-in-the-future machine that can create any object is anything to worry about.
Peasent 1: "These new fangled factories , they can be made to produce anything! They'll make our hand made goods valueless! They could even use it to build parts for other factories!"
Peasent 2: "You're right Mr Ludd. Lets burn em all down!"
"being driven into various other large cars. It came off very well"
Well , aside from the fact that when they drove it into a large Merc it was tossed to one side and rolled over a few times. Perhaps not lethal but the Smart passengers would be a hell of a lot more shaken up that the ones in the Merc. Now replace that merc with a large SUV.
Slashdot Mirror
Since when did you last use your printer to publish your CV on the internet? Idiot.
Instead of trying for cheap laughs you might want to bear in mind that some of the old people out there actually built the internet that you're using right now. Check out the history of (D)ARPA. Anyone who was over 30 in the late 60s is a pensioner now.
At least they're getting some fresh air and keeping fit by running away from the police every night ;)
is one-directional (not as in half-duplex, but competely one-directional),
is annoyingly synchronous: certain data can only be received at pre-determined timeslots,
has poorly separated protocol stack and
whose applications see UI improvements rarely.
So what? You could say the same about radio. When I come home after spending 8 hours plus sitting in front of PC the LAST thing I want when I'm doing chores/food/cuddling gf is some damn interactive crap that I have to spend ages pissing about with to get anything out of it especially if it means I have to boot up a computer! Fsck that. I press the TV ON button and it works. Period. Interactive 24/7 might be fine for some hyped up teenager on Red Bull but some of us just like to sit down, crash out and put our brains into neutral in our evenings after a long days work.
"Broadband internet has become so integral to so many of us (by us, I mean slasdot readers) that trying to find information any other way seems absolutely ludicrous."
Speak for yourself mate. Anyone who in their private lives can't do with broadband/TV/radio for a few days is one sad loser.
Here in the UK there seems to be a shift in younger children (not late teens) back to more sporting activities , outdoor games etc and away from the computer/console. Also the use of the computer and internet in schools seems to have been a bit of white elephant as letting kids just surf is no substitute for proper teaching.
"Climate data is taken from soil and ice samples, as well as rocks and trees"
If you can find many 500 year old trees in europe the yes you can. Soil? Depends on what type it is. Acidic soil is good, "normal" isn't. Ice? Yes, but that limits you to glaciers and other 365 day ice fields. Written records ARE used , if only to fill in those spots where there is no physical record and extrapolations are made.
Actually it was Jesus Christ I believe though Mary may have called him that other name occasionally when she fancied one.
You think internal home policy is all above board then?
It would take one hell of a disgrunteled employee to shut down 3 safety systems and reduce the effectiveness of a 4th then get himself onto the cleaning rota (assuming that wasn't his normal job). Sounds like typical cover up BS to me. No one is saying the indian government is perfect but it was Union Carbides plant and so THEY were responsible for it. They were happy to accept the profits from it so they should accept the responsibility too.
Surely you've learnt that now? Hypocracy is one of the founding tenets of the US policy.
"For example, if it is GLOBAL warming, why only study Europe?"
Because there are lots of records in europe. Perhaps you'd care to ask the Apache or Sioux for their weather records for 1504? And I doubt you'd get much better data from africa, australia, or asia (except maybe china & japan).
Indeed. You'd think most people would understand the basic physics , but even on here (a supposed bastion of reasonably high IQs) the naysayers don't seem to get it. In which case imagine how clueless the general population is. And then of course you have the people who simply don't give a shit what happens to the climate because they'll probably be dead before the serious problems occur. Most 50-60 year old politicians fall into this latter category.
Well put. Still , we all know how vital it is that 5'2 women drive and guys with size issues around in 2.5 ton SUVs so we shouldn't be too hard on them. Social standing and misplaced insecurity are far more important than this planets ecology.
Thats all we hear with Mozilla - "new version - bug fixes". Jesus christ , how long have they been developing this now? Isn't it about time they got rid of any bugs relating to the core engine??
Along with his cousin O'Bject?
#read_expression "x-1";;
Exception: You don't want to be reading from that stream you don't lad, no, that ya don't...
He states that Java (and by implication other C style languages) are over complex syntactically and cognitively. Sorry , thats wrong. Sure , for the mickey mouse "hello world" example he has a point but Java isn't designed for 1 line hello world programs , its syntax (we'll ignore the horrid JVMs) is designed for large scale complex systems and for large scale complex systems you need complex data structure abilities and flow of control. Its horses for courses , you want to write some mickey mouse program then use Perl or shell script, you want to write some sort of database system/OS etc then you use one of the C family. When you get the that level of complexity the rigid structure of the C family actually HELPS comprehension of the program and the implicit approach of Perl , shell script etc hinders.
If he could only have held out just another year then who knows....
SCTP was specifically devised as a replacement for TCP as it can emulate the 1 -> 1 connection of TCP but can do connection based 1 -> N too. I thought it has been designed with high speed in mind too. Does anyone know whether this protocol is being used more and more or has it just become another good-idea-at-the-time that got run over by the backwards compatability steamroller?
Great , another few tons of space junk floating about in the geostationary orbit. Whats worse is that if they've completely lost contact with the satellite then they won't even be able to shove it into a parking orbit like they do with old decommisioned ones. It'll just drift about in the main orbital zone and could possibly one day collide with a working satellite. AT the very least it means that spot in the orbit is out of bounds for other satellites now.
Well we're on the road towards that already with our mucking with the climate and pollution of the biosphere. I doubt some far-in-the-future machine that can create any object is anything to worry about.
1750 somewhere in northern england:
Peasent 1: "These new fangled factories , they can be made to produce anything! They'll make our hand made goods valueless! They could even use it to build parts for other factories!"
Peasent 2: "You're right Mr Ludd. Lets burn em all down!"
You have to have insurance or a credit card.
To be fair , most cars , even large SUVs are going to come off a very poor second if they have a head-on with a 40 ton truck.
"being driven into various other large cars. It came off very well"
Well , aside from the fact that when they drove it into a large Merc it was tossed to one side and rolled over a few times. Perhaps not lethal but the Smart passengers would be a hell of a lot more shaken up that the ones in the Merc. Now replace that merc with a large SUV.