I'm not sure I'd trust a system like this for a language like C, C++ or Java with its icky grammar full of parentheses, braces, commas and other types of pointless noise. But it might be nice with languages from the ML family such as Haskell where the main bit of syntactic 'glue' is simply white space. Haskell code is pretty compact too, in the sense that there's less to type per 'concept' that you want to express, so it's ideal for coding when your input rate is less than optimal.
...so I'm no expert. But thinking about my little diagram for working out what angles give constructive interference I grokked what you mean by "phase-delaying gratings". I'd never met the concept before, but it's pretty obvious that the idea could work without the cost of eliminating half of the light impinging on the grating. Neat idea. I feel like I actually learned something today. Thanks!
These sound like good old fashioned diffraction gratings to me. 'Hologram' sounds like nothing more than a marketing term. One disadvantage of using diffraction gratings is that the amount of bending is wavelength dependent. And it seems like the marketing department managed to put a spin on that too.
Life isn't just about existing. Conincidentally I just came off the phone less than one minute ago. My application for life insurance was being held up because the license number they had didn't match the database they were searching in. Turns out they had the wrong number. But it gives another example of something you can't do without a license - get life insurance.
What do you mean America is close to this? I need a driving license to do anything in the US (at least in most states). Not only do I need a license to drive a car but I seem to need a license for countless other things too, like using a credit card in many stores or buying alcohol. So much so that in the US you can get a driving license that doesn't allow you to drive - making it clear that a license is in fact an ID card. I never had anything like this when I lived in the UK. The old UK license was as far from an ID card as you can imagine, so far that when stopped by cops in the US they thought my UK license was some kind of joke. It's only recently that the UK has caught up with the US.
It's also false to say that a good text editor fixes parenthesis matching problems. It's easy to get very confused even with help from a good editor.
Look at the ML-type languages for how to do functional programming without redundant parentheses (or semicolons, braces and brackets for that matter too).
Speak for yourself. I'm fitter at 38 than at any earlier time in my life. I can run faster and longer and lift heavier weights. I'm also better off in many other ways ranging from having wider experience to having more respect due to a successful track record at work.
I have less hair admittedly. If I was going to live to 300 I'd probably shave it all off.
...telling me a product isn't for me. People telling me why I shouldn't buy an iPod nano (you can't store all your music on it, a mini is better...) or a GBA Micro (It's too small, it doesn't play games you can't play on another console, it's too expensive...) and now hybrids. The fact is, there are billions of people in this world and they all live in different niches with different needs, economic constraints and tastes. For any of these products there are probably thousands or millions of people whose needs are satisfied by them. The same is true of/. comments. They are often of the form "this product is of no use" rather than "it doesn't satisfy my particular requirements".
Yeah. When I was a kid during the early seventies nobody - and I mean nobody I knew, used to rip CDs, pirate software, share stuff by p2p, install modchips in their game consoles or do any of that evil stuff. Clearly moral standards have been eroded since I was a kid.
We don't need to understand assembly today and when you give some examples of code that weren't written in assembly you identify two applications that either turn chunks of assembly (for some virtual machine) into chunks of assembly (for a real machine) or intepret assembly (for some virtual machine). Am I the only one who sees some irony here?
Additionally, people have been writing compilers for decades. They've been 'transcoding' between machines (and virtual machines) for decades, They've been publishing challenging papers on the conmputer science of optimisation on weird and wonderful hardware for decades. I'm not convinced your examples would have been "beyond conception" a few decades ago.
Propaganda has played an important role in just about every war ever fought. I'm surprised it's not a part of any of the Civilizations I've played. They should also allow you to load up bombers with propaganda leaflets that you can drop on the enemy.
Don't forget to add features like securing contracts for your cronies to make money from reconstructing defeating countries, placating your oil hungry population by securing and maintaining oil pipelines that span potentially hostile countries, the ability to impose forms of government and constitutions on nations you invade and manipulating the media in your own country to gain support for overseas actions that might otherwise lower the morale of your population.
Hey! I didn't know about ^W. In my default shell, tcsh, it does something useful. Thanks. The 3 or 4 seconds a day that saves me will help me to claw back the hours I lose a day due to using Linux to do my job.
And I've moved from a Windows based company to a Linux based company and my productivity due to network and filesystem outages has dropped dramatically as a result. Under Windows our network and central filesystem had something like a 99.9% uptime. In four years we saw nothing worse than the occasional network slowness and one entire lost day due to a virus. In one year at the new company I've lost around a dozen entire days due to flakey OS, something like a 95% uptime, not to mention that some of the actual work is time wasting itself due to incompatibilities between different distributions. And this is a company that gets promoted on Slashdot as a flagship Linux company.
...'hardcore' gaming and 'hardcore' violence. There are plenty of non-violent games that can suck you into your computer for extended periods of what I would call 'hardcore' gaming.
No-one's figured out the right formula.
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Portable devices have tiny screens. I like to watch movies on big screens. So why would I buy a portable video player? There's nothing more horrible than spoiling a good movie by watching it on a tiny airliner screen embedded in the back of someone's seat. I don't see why a video iPod would be any better. Maybe a portable device that projects onto a big screen would be cool. Except it wouldn't be cool, if it generated enough lumens it'd be so hot it'd burn its way through the table.
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And that's a piss poor joke.
Um...maybe I retract my argument. :-)
...Wii Wii.
I'm not sure I'd trust a system like this for a language like C, C++ or Java with its icky grammar full of parentheses, braces, commas and other types of pointless noise. But it might be nice with languages from the ML family such as Haskell where the main bit of syntactic 'glue' is simply white space. Haskell code is pretty compact too, in the sense that there's less to type per 'concept' that you want to express, so it's ideal for coding when your input rate is less than optimal.
...that I've ever heard of! It's probably about as reliable as predicting next week's weather using tea leaves.
...so I'm no expert. But thinking about my little diagram for working out what angles give constructive interference I grokked what you mean by "phase-delaying gratings". I'd never met the concept before, but it's pretty obvious that the idea could work without the cost of eliminating half of the light impinging on the grating. Neat idea. I feel like I actually learned something today. Thanks!
...I think "move my hand" and my hand moves the joystick. Simple really.
These sound like good old fashioned diffraction gratings to me. 'Hologram' sounds like nothing more than a marketing term. One disadvantage of using diffraction gratings is that the amount of bending is wavelength dependent. And it seems like the marketing department managed to put a spin on that too.
What do you mean America is close to this? I need a driving license to do anything in the US (at least in most states). Not only do I need a license to drive a car but I seem to need a license for countless other things too, like using a credit card in many stores or buying alcohol. So much so that in the US you can get a driving license that doesn't allow you to drive - making it clear that a license is in fact an ID card. I never had anything like this when I lived in the UK. The old UK license was as far from an ID card as you can imagine, so far that when stopped by cops in the US they thought my UK license was some kind of joke. It's only recently that the UK has caught up with the US.
I never did believe that stuff about beauty and truth...
It's also false to say that a good text editor fixes parenthesis matching problems. It's easy to get very confused even with help from a good editor. Look at the ML-type languages for how to do functional programming without redundant parentheses (or semicolons, braces and brackets for that matter too).
I have less hair admittedly. If I was going to live to 300 I'd probably shave it all off.
...telling me a product isn't for me. People telling me why I shouldn't buy an iPod nano (you can't store all your music on it, a mini is better...) or a GBA Micro (It's too small, it doesn't play games you can't play on another console, it's too expensive...) and now hybrids. The fact is, there are billions of people in this world and they all live in different niches with different needs, economic constraints and tastes. For any of these products there are probably thousands or millions of people whose needs are satisfied by them. The same is true of /. comments. They are often of the form "this product is of no use" rather than "it doesn't satisfy my particular requirements".
Additionally, people have been writing compilers for decades. They've been 'transcoding' between machines (and virtual machines) for decades, They've been publishing challenging papers on the conmputer science of optimisation on weird and wonderful hardware for decades. I'm not convinced your examples would have been "beyond conception" a few decades ago.
Propaganda has played an important role in just about every war ever fought. I'm surprised it's not a part of any of the Civilizations I've played. They should also allow you to load up bombers with propaganda leaflets that you can drop on the enemy.
Don't forget to add features like securing contracts for your cronies to make money from reconstructing defeating countries, placating your oil hungry population by securing and maintaining oil pipelines that span potentially hostile countries, the ability to impose forms of government and constitutions on nations you invade and manipulating the media in your own country to gain support for overseas actions that might otherwise lower the morale of your population.
Hey! I didn't know about ^W. In my default shell, tcsh, it does something useful. Thanks. The 3 or 4 seconds a day that saves me will help me to claw back the hours I lose a day due to using Linux to do my job.
I don't know, but they can't be worse than the people they hire to work at airports currently. I mean, dolphins are supposed to be intelligent.
And I've moved from a Windows based company to a Linux based company and my productivity due to network and filesystem outages has dropped dramatically as a result. Under Windows our network and central filesystem had something like a 99.9% uptime. In four years we saw nothing worse than the occasional network slowness and one entire lost day due to a virus. In one year at the new company I've lost around a dozen entire days due to flakey OS, something like a 95% uptime, not to mention that some of the actual work is time wasting itself due to incompatibilities between different distributions. And this is a company that gets promoted on Slashdot as a flagship Linux company.
...'hardcore' gaming and 'hardcore' violence. There are plenty of non-violent games that can suck you into your computer for extended periods of what I would call 'hardcore' gaming.
Portable devices have tiny screens. I like to watch movies on big screens. So why would I buy a portable video player? There's nothing more horrible than spoiling a good movie by watching it on a tiny airliner screen embedded in the back of someone's seat. I don't see why a video iPod would be any better. Maybe a portable device that projects onto a big screen would be cool. Except it wouldn't be cool, if it generated enough lumens it'd be so hot it'd burn its way through the table.