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The world wide web is much much better than anything predicted in science fiction. We take the web so much for granted that it is difficult for us to imagine a time when there was no web/internet for us to communicate (and that was not so long ago). Could anyone have predicted that within a span of 10 years, almost every community on earth would be connected by computers without the whole setup being owned by any company or government (an amazing idea in itself) with so much content provided by people for free(amazing too). I am of the strong view that the world of the future will be shaped in ways that no science fiction author has thought of and someone will be saying these very same words in another discussion forum (wonder what they will be like in the future) at that time.
Re:Vehicle that runs on bad news
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And in one of those books there was this rock band which blasted a zillion watts of music from their spacecraft over some planet and their magnificient finale involved having one spacecraft dive into the sun! Now that's the kind of future I want!
People are never hopeless.. they are like you and me, they want a better life, but in the given circumstances, they do what they need to do in order to survive. All the polital meddling and puppet regimes and colonialism in Africa has not exactly given people there a great experience of how democratic life should be. They have seen guns and they use it. They have not been given access to education (and more importantly, any good use of education after putting in all that effort), so they do know about 'not making 15 children'.
Maybe we should just stop being so condescending.
1. Yup, you're right about VLIW. The point is, Transmeta came out with a great concept of putting a software layer over the microchip so that the chip architecture could be improved as much as possible without worrying about back compatibility, and yes, it's a shame to see it being reduced to being used in just some low power laptops.
2. As thynk said, Unix and Linux are not the same thing.
3. The whole potential of the Transmeta chips are underutilized. Imagine being able to port so much functionality to software - how fast you could roll out chips for customized apps.. it's a great concept that could define the way chips are created in the future (that is, if it is not completely covered by patents)
Now when do we see a Transmeta chip that can run both Unix and Windows programs? Seems to me like a waste of the RISC architecture of Transmeta if it only runs Windows/Linux.
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I guess it is primarily because PHP doensn't really have any data typing to start with, and having function overloading the way you have it in CPP will cause a lot of confusion. Having said that, it's really easy to obtain pretty much the same results using the very fact that PHP is not strict about data types. You could just have: function getBalance($id) { ... if(is_numeric($id)) &nbs p; {...do something} else {...do something else} }
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The world wide web is much much better than anything predicted in science fiction. We take the web so much for granted that it is difficult for us to imagine a time when there was no web/internet for us to communicate (and that was not so long ago). Could anyone have predicted that within a span of 10 years, almost every community on earth would be connected by computers without the whole setup being owned by any company or government (an amazing idea in itself) with so much content provided by people for free(amazing too). I am of the strong view that the world of the future will be shaped in ways that no science fiction author has thought of and someone will be saying these very same words in another discussion forum (wonder what they will be like in the future) at that time.
or using your cellphone as a sex toy
And in one of those books there was this rock band which blasted a zillion watts of music from their spacecraft over some planet and their magnificient finale involved having one spacecraft dive into the sun! Now that's the kind of future I want!
On the other hand, we were not promised the World Wide Web either and see what we have today! Who wants a flying car anyway :-)
People are never hopeless.. they are like you and me, they want a better life, but in the given circumstances, they do what they need to do in order to survive. All the polital meddling and puppet regimes and colonialism in Africa has not exactly given people there a great experience of how democratic life should be. They have seen guns and they use it. They have not been given access to education (and more importantly, any good use of education after putting in all that effort), so they do know about 'not making 15 children'. Maybe we should just stop being so condescending.
1. Yup, you're right about VLIW. The point is, Transmeta came out with a great concept of putting a software layer over the microchip so that the chip architecture could be improved as much as possible without worrying about back compatibility, and yes, it's a shame to see it being reduced to being used in just some low power laptops. 2. As thynk said, Unix and Linux are not the same thing. 3. The whole potential of the Transmeta chips are underutilized. Imagine being able to port so much functionality to software - how fast you could roll out chips for customized apps.. it's a great concept that could define the way chips are created in the future (that is, if it is not completely covered by patents)
Now when do we see a Transmeta chip that can run both Unix and Windows programs? Seems to me like a waste of the RISC architecture of Transmeta if it only runs Windows/Linux.
I guess it is primarily because PHP doensn't really have any data typing to start with, and having function overloading the way you have it in CPP will cause a lot of confusion.s p; {...do something}
Having said that, it's really easy to obtain pretty much the same results using the very fact that PHP is not strict about data types. You could just have:
function getBalance($id)
{
...
if(is_numeric($id))
&nb
else
{...do something else}
}