... the word for "no" in almost all european languages regardless of the branch (latin, germanic, slavic) begins with the sound "N" and are all pretty similar. No, nein, nyet, non, ni etc. That can't be a coincidence.
People seem to obsess about fonts to the nth degree. Who really cares? The actual visible differences between fonts today and the bitmapped fonts of the 1984 mac classic are minimal and the amount of code generating todays fonts is way out of proportion with the actual improvements in their look. The law of diminishing returns doesn't even begin to describe it.
Wtf are you smoking? HTML used to do presentation. And there's no reason it still can't. Please feel free to give the exact reason for CSS having an entirely different syntax and structure to HTML when XML which can store far more complicated data than CSS manages to have a pretty similar one.
All non progammatical web code has to do is describe a page. There is no reason on earth for requiring 2 completely different formatting languages - HTML and CSS - to do this. CSS is just a nasty hack on top of HTML which was already a hack anyway and along with embedded javascript its turned web coding into a total dogs dinner.
"For developers coming from imperative programming styles, it might seem hard to lose the ability to specify more complex logical flow. That loss, though, is discipline leading toward the ability to create vastly more flexible systems"
Err , no , sorry it isn't. Declarative systems are NEVER more flexible. They might be able to do some things in 1 line that imperative might take 100 lines to do , but when it comes down to it imperative will always be more flexible and powerful simply because it allows you far more control.A declarative language is always restricted to the particular set of problems that its creators tried to solve. If that wasn't the case then why has every dialect of SQL had procedural language add-ons? Why isn't Prolog used everywhere? Why has functional - which is only midly declarative anyway but we'll let that slide - taken over the world like its proponents constantly tell us it will?
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I call BS.
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You have no real idea unless you read the release notes in depth whether 3.8 to 3.9 is a big change or just a bunch of relatively small incremental changes and bug fixes and Linus just fancied upping the minor version number.
... pay the same for a 2 year old second hand laptop with far better specs all round. Its the same deal as with cars - if you don't mind using something thats already had someone elses grubby hands on it you can get a LOT of bang for your buck.
... let them do it. They fucked up with Win8 , lets just get the popcorn and watch them fuck up xbox too.
People - an xbox is just a toy. If we were talking PC operating systems requiring always on then fine, that would be Bad News. But an Xbox? Meh, who cares. Its hardly a crucial purchase and hardcore gamers will use PCs anyway.
Does the reason matter so long as they do it? And I doubt anyone ever believed that Oracle did it out of the kindness of their heart. They're a commercial organisation, they have to make a profit - or at least break even. And they won't do that buy not selling anything. In fact more people buying Oracle keeps them in business and that'll keep them employing OSS coders.
There's no such thing as a free lunch - OSS coders either have to be paid for their work or they do it in the free time when they can around their real jobs. And while the latter approach is laudable it wouldn't alone have led to OSS as we know it today.
Strictly speaking it was never his to take (though I'd done the same) so they could shout intellectual property and ask for it back or sue him since I'm sure it won't take them too long to figure out who he is as there were only 2 prototypes and I doubt many people had access.
Back in a company I worked for in the 90s there sat a lonely unwanted tower PC sized DEC Alpha. I still wish to this day that I'd quietly taken it home with me but it would have been a bit obvious trying to lug something over 2 foot high plus a 21 inch CRT monitor past security!
But I agree, K&R really nailed it with C. Sophisticated enough to do any major task required of it - eg linux kernel - but simple enough for a beginner to write basic apps in even if he doesn't quite understand for example the subtle difference between pointers and arrays yet.
Sure its not the best language now for a lot of things but as a general purpose language that will let you program virtually anything it can't be beaten.
Oh fucking wonderful. Now the damn desktop is going to be doing its own thing on the net. Why can't the people who design these things just stop it with the stupid feature creep? If they've run out of sensible things to add perhaps thats a sign to Move On.
The changes may be small but they're significant, potentially breaking a LOT of old code. This was a foolish decision on the part of Guido IMO. Sure, deprecate some features but don't remove them or change the syntax so old code won't run! Even Larry Wall understood that much and you'd never accuse Perl of being a well designed language.
Boeing may be expert in many areas of engineering, but it appears lithium batteries is not one of them. Which I find worrying given they're betting not only the company but peoples lives on these things.
So the plane is safe so long as the battery doesn't catch fire - again - and get hot enough to burn through its containment box. Hmm , let me think about that definition of "safe" for a moment....
I hate flying to , but even I know that I'm more likely to die in the car on the way to the airport than flying in the plane. But the drive doesn't bother me - the flight does. I suppose it doesn't matter how many times someone tells you flying is safe , that primitive part of your brain is telling you that there's just something fundamentally wrong about travelling in a metal tube 7 miles up at 500mph surrounded by 50 tons of fuel.;o)
"'d love it if they spent every minute inside reading, creating art, making music (things I'm sure your kids have mastered), but I don't have a problem with 30 minutes or so of screen time"
How does that make a console a vital piece of equipment? Are your kids so hyper or you so lazy that they can't go an afternoon without playing video games? You imbecile.
Infinite density = zero size and something with zero size no longer exists. If something has a presence in spacetime it will have some form of dimension. You can't have "something" that isn't actually there.
"You know how annoying it is to give your kid two hours of play time only to have it eaten up by patches and updates and reboots for every game they try???"
You ever thought of giving them , oh I dunno, a ball or a bike rather that sticking them in front of a monitor to vegitate? FFS , how do idiots like you ever figure out how to reproduce?
While the kid lives in your house it does what you tell it. If that means no console then it'll have to suck it up or get out. If you haven't grasped that then you're another in a long list of douches who should've used contraception.
The Man is you if your internet access or activities have ever suffered because stupid little fuckwits on yet another cyber crusade for [insert cause of the week here] have screwed it up.
"and looting my pockets."
No one is looting your pockets. Learn some basic economics.
"What is it with Slashdot's (and other geek sites) support for criminals when they are geeks?"
A large proportion of Slashdotters are still at the Stick-it-to-the-man age - anything up to 21-22yo, (maybe 25 if they're particularly immature). Rebelling against, parents, teachers etc. So in their eyes anyone who does have a go at The Man (even if The Man is you and I) is automatically a cyber warrior hero in their eyes.
Luckily a lot of kids, most probably, don't suffer from this self important self righteous bollocks and even the ones who do eventually grow up and see that their actions are immature and counter productive. Unfortunately in the meantime we have to put up with a small subsection of the same age group doing the same old rebellious shit thinking they're changing the world and making life difficult for everyone else in the process. Plus ca change.
True, but then you wouldn't try and hold an intelligent conversation with a baby. Quite how babies learn is another matter, but we haven't written anything yet than can mimic it.
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... the word for "no" in almost all european languages regardless of the branch (latin, germanic, slavic) begins with the sound "N" and are all pretty similar. No, nein, nyet, non, ni etc. That can't be a coincidence.
People seem to obsess about fonts to the nth degree. Who really cares? The actual visible differences between fonts today and the bitmapped fonts of the 1984 mac classic are minimal and the amount of code generating todays fonts is way out of proportion with the actual improvements in their look. The law of diminishing returns doesn't even begin to describe it.
"This would mean changing the look of a page would require completely recoding it instead of simply updating the stylesheet."
And it would be impossible to update the syntax of HTML to allow one piece of HTML to reference another piece in a seperate file why exactly?
Wtf are you smoking? HTML used to do presentation. And there's no reason it still can't. Please feel free to give the exact reason for CSS having an entirely different syntax and structure to HTML when XML which can store far more complicated data than CSS manages to have a pretty similar one.
All non progammatical web code has to do is describe a page. There is no reason on earth for requiring 2 completely different formatting languages - HTML and CSS - to do this. CSS is just a nasty hack on top of HTML which was already a hack anyway and along with embedded javascript its turned web coding into a total dogs dinner.
"For developers coming from imperative programming styles, it might seem hard to lose the ability to specify more complex logical flow. That loss, though, is discipline leading toward the ability to create vastly more flexible systems"
Err , no , sorry it isn't. Declarative systems are NEVER more flexible. They might be able to do some things in 1 line that imperative might take 100 lines to do , but when it comes down to it imperative will always be more flexible and powerful simply because it allows you far more control.A declarative language is always restricted to the particular set of problems that its creators tried to solve. If that wasn't the case then why has every dialect of SQL had procedural language add-ons? Why isn't Prolog used everywhere? Why has functional - which is only midly declarative anyway but we'll let that slide - taken over the world like its proponents constantly tell us it will?
Answers on a postcard.
I call BS.
You have no real idea unless you read the release notes in depth whether 3.8 to 3.9 is a big change or just a bunch of relatively small incremental changes and bug fixes and Linus just fancied upping the minor version number.
... pay the same for a 2 year old second hand laptop with far better specs all round. Its the same deal as with cars - if you don't mind using something thats already had someone elses grubby hands on it you can get a LOT of bang for your buck.
... let them do it. They fucked up with Win8 , lets just get the popcorn and watch them fuck up xbox too.
People - an xbox is just a toy. If we were talking PC operating systems requiring always on then fine, that would be Bad News. But an Xbox? Meh, who cares. Its hardly a crucial purchase and hardcore gamers will use PCs anyway.
Does the reason matter so long as they do it? And I doubt anyone ever believed that Oracle did it out of the kindness of their heart. They're a commercial organisation, they have to make a profit - or at least break even. And they won't do that buy not selling anything. In fact more people buying Oracle keeps them in business and that'll keep them employing OSS coders.
There's no such thing as a free lunch - OSS coders either have to be paid for their work or they do it in the free time when they can around their real jobs. And while the latter approach is laudable it wouldn't alone have led to OSS as we know it today.
Strictly speaking it was never his to take (though I'd done the same) so they could shout intellectual property and ask for it back or sue him since I'm sure it won't take them too long to figure out who he is as there were only 2 prototypes and I doubt many people had access.
Back in a company I worked for in the 90s there sat a lonely unwanted tower PC sized DEC Alpha. I still wish to this day that I'd quietly taken it home with me but it would have been a bit obvious trying to lug something over 2 foot high plus a 21 inch CRT monitor past security!
Sorry, bad pun :o)
But I agree, K&R really nailed it with C. Sophisticated enough to do any major task required of it - eg linux kernel - but simple enough for a beginner to write basic apps in even if he doesn't quite understand for example the subtle difference between pointers and arrays yet.
Sure its not the best language now for a lot of things but as a general purpose language that will let you program virtually anything it can't be beaten.
Oh fucking wonderful. Now the damn desktop is going to be doing its own thing on the net. Why can't the people who design these things just stop it with the stupid feature creep? If they've run out of sensible things to add perhaps thats a sign to Move On.
So because there already safety issues we shouldn't be bothered about another? Yeah , great logic there pal.
The changes may be small but they're significant, potentially breaking a LOT of old code. This was a foolish decision on the part of Guido IMO. Sure, deprecate some features but don't remove them or change the syntax so old code won't run! Even Larry Wall understood that much and you'd never accuse Perl of being a well designed language.
Boeing may be expert in many areas of engineering, but it appears lithium batteries is not one of them. Which I find worrying given they're betting not only the company but peoples lives on these things.
So the plane is safe so long as the battery doesn't catch fire - again - and get hot enough to burn through its containment box. Hmm , let me think about that definition of "safe" for a moment....
I hate flying to , but even I know that I'm more likely to die in the car on the way to the airport than flying in the plane. But the drive doesn't bother me - the flight does. I suppose it doesn't matter how many times someone tells you flying is safe , that primitive part of your brain is telling you that there's just something fundamentally wrong about travelling in a metal tube 7 miles up at 500mph surrounded by 50 tons of fuel. ;o)
"'d love it if they spent every minute inside reading, creating art, making music (things I'm sure your kids have mastered), but I don't have a problem with 30 minutes or so of screen time"
How does that make a console a vital piece of equipment? Are your kids so hyper or you so lazy that they can't go an afternoon without playing video games? You imbecile.
Infinite density = zero size and something with zero size no longer exists. If something has a presence in spacetime it will have some form of dimension. You can't have "something" that isn't actually there.
"You know how annoying it is to give your kid two hours of play time only to have it eaten up by patches and updates and reboots for every game they try???"
You ever thought of giving them , oh I dunno, a ball or a bike rather that sticking them in front of a monitor to vegitate? FFS , how do idiots like you ever figure out how to reproduce?
"You don't have kids, do you?"
You don't have any parental abilities do you?
While the kid lives in your house it does what you tell it. If that means no console then it'll have to suck it up or get out. If you haven't grasped that then you're another in a long list of douches who should've used contraception.
"The Man is not me"
The Man is you if your internet access or activities have ever suffered because stupid little fuckwits on yet another cyber crusade for [insert cause of the week here] have screwed it up.
"and looting my pockets."
No one is looting your pockets. Learn some basic economics.
"What is it with Slashdot's (and other geek sites) support for criminals when they are geeks?"
A large proportion of Slashdotters are still at the Stick-it-to-the-man age - anything up to 21-22yo, (maybe 25 if they're particularly immature). Rebelling against, parents, teachers etc. So in their eyes anyone who does have a go at The Man (even if The Man is you and I) is automatically a cyber warrior hero in their eyes.
Luckily a lot of kids, most probably, don't suffer from this self important self righteous bollocks and even the ones who do eventually grow up and see that their actions are immature and counter productive. Unfortunately in the meantime we have to put up with a small subsection of the same age group doing the same old rebellious shit thinking they're changing the world and making life difficult for everyone else in the process. Plus ca change.
True, but then you wouldn't try and hold an intelligent conversation with a baby. Quite how babies learn is another matter, but we haven't written anything yet than can mimic it.