... in what caused or happened before the big bang. Even so someone interested in cosmology like myself, I can only take so much more "and at 1 second after the big bang this happened and 1 min after this". Yeah ok , thats all good fun for particle physics types, but its not actually that interesting compared to the Big Question of why is there something rather than nothing? Which frankly I get the impression not many cosmologists appear to be too interested in finding out, being more content to leaving it to hand waving theorists.
IMO I think something like that would be better off implemented in analog hardware - you could virtually mimic the neurons 1 to 1 and it doesn't matter if a bit of noise gets in the system.
Spare us your juvenile politics. You obviously have NO idea what true socialism is. You americans make me sick , sitting between 2 oceans without a clue what its like in the rest of the world, whinging about trivia.
"Yea, this is exactly what our founders fought and died for so many years ago"
Your founders were a bunch of religious extremists. Be thankful your country isn't run by them any longer or you'd be a christian version of Iran.
"About 10% of the students completing the programs are really good; they will be star programmers and eventually software architects."
Good programmer and good designer don't dovetail as neatly as you seem to think. Someone may be a first class at writing code and designing algorithms, but useless at the overall design of the project so there is no way they could be a software architect. Conversely , plenty of shit coders make good overall architects.
I'd like to see someone try and implement chess or a 3D game purely in hardwired TTL. It might be theoretically possible but I doubt it would be more efficient (ie faster , uses less energy) than software running on a processor.
... which I don't believe because the guys at gnu know a thing or 2 about compilers and libraries - or this library has cut some corners and/or missed out some functionality.
... you'll be ok. Of course plenty of people don't but then the world is full of idiots and IT is no exception.
As for the companies - sure, they're all out to make money one way or another but if they offer something free then lets milk them for it. Just because someone uses MS Office or Googld Docs at school doesn't mean they'll be wedded to MS or Google for life. Most people who use Linux day to day started off using something else at first whether it be an 8 bit home micro or a PC running Windows or a Mac.
I believe you about the chickens. Cocks - wait for all the 14 year olds to stop sniggering - can be quite vicious to each other. Now scale it up 10 times and you have a Cassowary - the most dangerous bird on the planet which has killed a number of people. There is a youtube video (too lazy to look for it) of a pair of them stalking some keepers in a zoo - quite frightening. Now take them and increase their size another 3 times and you have this dinosaur. I for one would not want to go anywhere near it.
Oh right. So if I wanted a decent reference guide for the unix system APIs you'd tell me to go and read the linux source code instead of getting hold of a copy of Stevens?
@rsehole.
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"Of course I know about multiprocessing. Why have one copy of the interpreter and libraries loaded when you can have N, plus its so much more efficient to marshal data across process boundaries than to access a global shared memory block. "
*snort* You obviously don't have a clue about multiprocess. Look up copy-on-write then get back to me.
As for a shared memory block , uuuh , guess what , theres something called "shared memory" specificially for multiprocess access. Its been around since the 70s in unix but I wouldn't expect a clueless (obviously Windows) programmer to know about it though ironically even Windows supports it now.
The main wayland API docs are pretty meh and any others I can find are also not great. Does anyone know of a site gives proper C/C++ examples akin to the venerable Xlib Programming Manual?
Which is why there is not a single photo of me online that is linked to my name. So even though I may well be in a few tourist shots they can't find out who the ugly looking guy in the background is.
Yet.
However I suppose its only a matter of time before [select government here] matches up driving licence/passport photos using this tech against any street scene photos it can find on the internet and give a rundown of places you've been and possibly when. If they haven't done so already.
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And python has supported it (at least on unix) virtually since it was first released.
I've never really seen much virtue in multi threading - its useful in a limited number of cases but usually it creates more problems than it solves (compared to multi process) and is usually used by people who don't really know what they're doing. Essentially multi threading takes all the advantages of protected process virtual memory and throws them in the bin.
Tragic is when the drunk kills someone else , not when the drunk kills themself. And its please don't talk about drawing straws as if getting paralytically drunk is something that just happens to you rather than something you actively set out to do. Its an insult to the intelligence of everyone else who managed to stay sober enough not to do something idiotic.
Sometimes an innocent person gets in the way of a drunk driver, but usually drunks end up killing themselves in a variety of amusing ways. In the long run it makes society stronger because it weeds out some of the stupidity and addiction genes.
"So for those who feel all puffy and bad about evil humans"
You've missed a rather crucial difference between animals and humans - we can reflect on the future and think about the consequences of our actions. we have NO excuse to hunt a species to extinction and destroy the enviroment because we know what the outcome will be. Animals pretty much work on instinct and even the ones that do apparently have some limited cogitation - its pretty damn unlikely they have the ability to think years ahead when they hunt for their lunch or reproduce.
" I've come to the conclusion that 99% of them are utter drivel and it's almost more work to figure out how to use it than it is to code it from scratch, which makes it kinda useless as in the latter case you get much better flexibility"
Agree 100%. Often they're written by idiots just out of university who've read a couple of design patterns books and now think they've got the inside view of programming. All they end up doing is creating a top heavy behemoth that is all structure and no functionality - perfect for a degree dissertation, useless for the real world - and a royal PITA for anyone to use properly which usually ends up with everyone subclassing the framework classes and rewriting half of the functionality themselves anyway.
"Code written in a different language is totally helpless here"
No it isn't. Some languages have different pitfalls to others eg, C code often has hidden out of bounds memory access issues , Ada doesn't because checking these is built into the runtime. Also different languages make people think in slightly different ways to solve a problem which means the chances of them coming up with exactly the same algorithm - and hence possibly exactly the same error - is somewhat less.
Oh rubbish. People lived in far closer proximity in medieval times than they do now. Apart from the black death which only happened once in a big way with a few smaller outbreaks over the centuries and spanish flu (which isn't bothered by proximity anyway), there haven't been any major pandemics that have come close to wiping us out.
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... in what caused or happened before the big bang. Even so someone interested in cosmology like myself, I can only take so much more "and at 1 second after the big bang this happened and 1 min after this". Yeah ok , thats all good fun for particle physics types, but its not actually that interesting compared to the Big Question of why is there something rather than nothing? Which frankly I get the impression not many cosmologists appear to be too interested in finding out, being more content to leaving it to hand waving theorists.
... that golf courses have finally stopped wasting water by watering grass every day? Thats always some good news I suppose for the state.
Good for you. Meanwhile I'll pay cash in hand for some things and get a discount. What the taxman doesn't know about...
IMO I think something like that would be better off implemented in analog hardware - you could virtually mimic the neurons 1 to 1 and it doesn't matter if a bit of noise gets in the system.
Spare us your juvenile politics. You obviously have NO idea what true socialism is. You americans make me sick , sitting between 2 oceans without a clue what its like in the rest of the world, whinging about trivia.
"Yea, this is exactly what our founders fought and died for so many years ago"
Your founders were a bunch of religious extremists. Be thankful your country isn't run by them any longer or you'd be a christian version of Iran.
"About 10% of the students completing the programs are really good; they will be star programmers and eventually software architects."
Good programmer and good designer don't dovetail as neatly as you seem to think. Someone may be a first class at writing code and designing algorithms, but useless at the overall design of the project so there is no way they could be a software architect. Conversely , plenty of shit coders make good overall architects.
I'd like to see someone try and implement chess or a 3D game purely in hardwired TTL. It might be theoretically possible but I doubt it would be more efficient (ie faster , uses less energy) than software running on a processor.
... which I don't believe because the guys at gnu know a thing or 2 about compilers and libraries - or this library has cut some corners and/or missed out some functionality.
... you'll be ok. Of course plenty of people don't but then the world is full of idiots and IT is no exception.
As for the companies - sure, they're all out to make money one way or another but if they offer something free then lets milk them for it. Just because someone uses MS Office or Googld Docs at school doesn't mean they'll be wedded to MS or Google for life. Most people who use Linux day to day started off using something else at first whether it be an 8 bit home micro or a PC running Windows or a Mac.
I believe you about the chickens. Cocks - wait for all the 14 year olds to stop sniggering - can be quite vicious to each other. Now scale it up 10 times and you have a Cassowary - the most dangerous bird on the planet which has killed a number of people. There is a youtube video (too lazy to look for it) of a pair of them stalking some keepers in a zoo - quite frightening. Now take them and increase their size another 3 times and you have this dinosaur. I for one would not want to go anywhere near it.
I don't want to write a damn compositor - I want to learn the user API FFS!
Oh right. So if I wanted a decent reference guide for the unix system APIs you'd tell me to go and read the linux source code instead of getting hold of a copy of Stevens?
@rsehole.
"Of course I know about multiprocessing. Why have one copy of the interpreter and libraries loaded when you can have N, plus its so much more efficient to marshal data across process boundaries than to access a global shared memory block. "
*snort* You obviously don't have a clue about multiprocess. Look up copy-on-write then get back to me.
As for a shared memory block , uuuh , guess what , theres something called "shared memory" specificially for multiprocess access. Its been around since the 70s in unix but I wouldn't expect a clueless (obviously Windows) programmer to know about it though ironically even Windows supports it now.
Here, educate yourself:
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
The main wayland API docs are pretty meh and any others I can find are also not great. Does anyone know of a site gives proper C/C++ examples akin to the venerable Xlib Programming Manual?
Well there is that, but there's no point making it easy for them.
"their faces are always scrunched up and lips pursed"
Hey what-eva!, Didn't you know doing faces is like so like TOTALLY hilarious and original? Duh! Like get with the program!
Which is why there is not a single photo of me online that is linked to my name. So even though I may well be in a few tourist shots they can't find out who the ugly looking guy in the background is.
Yet.
However I suppose its only a matter of time before [select government here] matches up driving licence/passport photos using this tech against any street scene photos it can find on the internet and give a rundown of places you've been and possibly when. If they haven't done so already.
And python has supported it (at least on unix) virtually since it was first released.
I've never really seen much virtue in multi threading - its useful in a limited number of cases but usually it creates more problems than it solves (compared to multi process) and is usually used by people who don't really know what they're doing. Essentially multi threading takes all the advantages of protected process virtual memory and throws them in the bin.
Tragic is when the drunk kills someone else , not when the drunk kills themself. And its please don't talk about drawing straws as if getting paralytically drunk is something that just happens to you rather than something you actively set out to do. Its an insult to the intelligence of everyone else who managed to stay sober enough not to do something idiotic.
Sometimes an innocent person gets in the way of a drunk driver, but usually drunks end up killing themselves in a variety of amusing ways. In the long run it makes society stronger because it weeds out some of the stupidity and addiction genes.
"So for those who feel all puffy and bad about evil humans"
You've missed a rather crucial difference between animals and humans - we can reflect on the future and think about the consequences of our actions. we have NO excuse to hunt a species to extinction and destroy the enviroment because we know what the outcome will be. Animals pretty much work on instinct and even the ones that do apparently have some limited cogitation - its pretty damn unlikely they have the ability to think years ahead when they hunt for their lunch or reproduce.
" I've come to the conclusion that 99% of them are utter drivel and it's almost more work to figure out how to use it than it is to code it from scratch, which makes it kinda useless as in the latter case you get much better flexibility"
Agree 100%. Often they're written by idiots just out of university who've read a couple of design patterns books and now think they've got the inside view of programming. All they end up doing is creating a top heavy behemoth that is all structure and no functionality - perfect for a degree dissertation, useless for the real world - and a royal PITA for anyone to use properly which usually ends up with everyone subclassing the framework classes and rewriting half of the functionality themselves anyway.
"Code written in a different language is totally helpless here"
No it isn't. Some languages have different pitfalls to others eg, C code often has hidden out of bounds memory access issues , Ada doesn't because checking these is built into the runtime. Also different languages make people think in slightly different ways to solve a problem which means the chances of them coming up with exactly the same algorithm - and hence possibly exactly the same error - is somewhat less.
Scalability (CPUs and petabyte storage ability), reliability, proper containers, kernel tuned to the specific hardware, better system management apps
Oh rubbish. People lived in far closer proximity in medieval times than they do now. Apart from the black death which only happened once in a big way with a few smaller outbreaks over the centuries and spanish flu (which isn't bothered by proximity anyway), there haven't been any major pandemics that have come close to wiping us out.