It's the editors who take responsibility for completely lame submissions. I wonder about the review process. I'm sure/dev/random plays an important part.
If you kill them without damaging their lovely coats you could remove the insides and stuff them with something safe so they can be sold to children as cuddly toys. Hmmm...you'd probably have to replace the eyes too. Can't wait to see them in stores!
I fully understand what you mean by efficient. Look at the specs for the machines that used to run BASIC. Try developing an implementation of Java that runs on them. BASIC is an excellent use of the available resources and for many tasks is much more efficient than the alternatives - in many cases just one: writing in assembler. For most applications programming in BASIC is a much more efficient use of programmer time than assembler. The only other serious contender for these machines is probably FORTH. BASIC has the advantage that mathematical expressions in it bear a passing resemblance to those in conventional mathematical notation.
Efficiency! Please! My first computer had a BASIC interpreter in 4K of ROM used only 1K of RAM. I think it's the BASIC programmers of the late seventies and early eighties who should be giving the lessons in efficiency.
But It is the intent that makes the art.
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How can someone so completely and utterly miss the point about art? It's astounding. What does the intent have to do with anything? If I see a work by Leonardo, say, what do I know about the intent? I wasn't there 500 years ago. I know nothing. Leonardo might have been a hack trying to make as much money as he could. But that's completely irrelevant now. Those intentions disappeared with Leaonardo's death. All that exists know is the art itself. I don't need a biography of Leonardo to judge that work now. I need a pair of eyes to look at it.
PS A rock isn't art for the simple reason that it's not art. I can make that simple distinction without involving any kind of concept of intent.
I think we really have to forget purpose in any kind of consideration of what is and isn't art. Artiness is a function of the final result, rather than the process of getting there. (Yes, so-and-so may have poured their heart and soul into this sculpture but it's still crap...) Unless, of course, the process itself is worthy of being considered art, though that's pretty unusual (e.g. some types of performance art).
Similarly we must reject the works of Shakespeare as unworthy of being considered Art because, believe it or not, his plays have been known to entertain one or two people.
You have OS support. New instructions are a resource that the OS manages. Too many processes want to add their own instructions? Then when a context switch takes place the OS overwrites instructions for the outgoing context with instructions for the new one. Same as managing small amounts of RAM by swapping.
..understaffed and underqualified. There's probably loads of prior art. I bet there are everything from cereals to tampons already called NetBSD. You mark my words!
Yup, you're right. It really is time to roll up my sleeves and start writing a tolerably decent calculator for my Palm. It's like calculators come from a different universe where the last 20 years in computer technology didn't happen.
Well yeah, whether or not 25 9's in a row stands out as significant depends on whether you have an interest in such things. (PS I didn't really mean 25, it was a joke, ha ha!)
Say Hoover to an American and they think President Hoover, that's why it sounds stupid. At least it does to the vaguely educated ones. Most Americans have never heard of President Hoover.
the concept of "too much hard drive space" is completely foreign and absurd
To a geek the concept makes perfect sense when rewritten as "too much space occupied by a hard drive". My iPod is actually a little bulky when working out down the gym and I wish I had an iPod mini now!
Pick a state of the art digital signature algorithm, there are plenty around and you can download the tools to compute them. Then just check the digital signatures on your files each time you reburn them. The chances of the digital signature failing to detect an error are so miniscule you're more likely to lose your data by a meteor crashing through your house.
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It's the editors who take responsibility for completely lame submissions. I wonder about the review process. I'm sure /dev/random plays an important part.
Er...Russia has been freer than the US for a long time. It's currently one of the best places in the world to have a criminal organization.
Hey! I never watch Futurama. But maybe I should.
If you kill them without damaging their lovely coats you could remove the insides and stuff them with something safe so they can be sold to children as cuddly toys. Hmmm...you'd probably have to replace the eyes too. Can't wait to see them in stores!
I fully understand what you mean by efficient. Look at the specs for the machines that used to run BASIC. Try developing an implementation of Java that runs on them. BASIC is an excellent use of the available resources and for many tasks is much more efficient than the alternatives - in many cases just one: writing in assembler. For most applications programming in BASIC is a much more efficient use of programmer time than assembler. The only other serious contender for these machines is probably FORTH. BASIC has the advantage that mathematical expressions in it bear a passing resemblance to those in conventional mathematical notation.
Efficiency! Please! My first computer had a BASIC interpreter in 4K of ROM used only 1K of RAM. I think it's the BASIC programmers of the late seventies and early eighties who should be giving the lessons in efficiency.
That's not his job these days. So say it like it's a criticism but there's no reason to criticize someone just because they don't do science.
A real programmer can extract useful work from anything from a pile of matchboxes to a state of the art cluster without bitching.
Is it still a troll when it's actually true?
PS A rock isn't art for the simple reason that it's not art. I can make that simple distinction without involving any kind of concept of intent.
I think we really have to forget purpose in any kind of consideration of what is and isn't art. Artiness is a function of the final result, rather than the process of getting there. (Yes, so-and-so may have poured their heart and soul into this sculpture but it's still crap...) Unless, of course, the process itself is worthy of being considered art, though that's pretty unusual (e.g. some types of performance art).
You have OS support. New instructions are a resource that the OS manages. Too many processes want to add their own instructions? Then when a context switch takes place the OS overwrites instructions for the outgoing context with instructions for the new one. Same as managing small amounts of RAM by swapping.
..understaffed and underqualified. There's probably loads of prior art. I bet there are everything from cereals to tampons already called NetBSD. You mark my words!
I can see why this thread has the name it has.
Yup, you're right. It really is time to roll up my sleeves and start writing a tolerably decent calculator for my Palm. It's like calculators come from a different universe where the last 20 years in computer technology didn't happen.
Well yeah, whether or not 25 9's in a row stands out as significant depends on whether you have an interest in such things. (PS I didn't really mean 25, it was a joke, ha ha!)
He did that right after President Ford invented the automobile.
Say Hoover to an American and they think President Hoover, that's why it sounds stupid. At least it does to the vaguely educated ones. Most Americans have never heard of President Hoover.
On second thoughts, get one that can give you more than 2 digits of accuracy to start with.
Pick a state of the art digital signature algorithm, there are plenty around and you can download the tools to compute them. Then just check the digital signatures on your files each time you reburn them. The chances of the digital signature failing to detect an error are so miniscule you're more likely to lose your data by a meteor crashing through your house.
Yup, we only need to start worrying when they start shipping cars with APIs so that we can upload our own code to them...