Have you read up on Perl 6? I've done some very extensive reading, and I'd suggest you check out the wealth of new features and concepts before making such an outlandishly foolish claim.
Like you I read the Perl 6 updates when they come across the news sites. I have tried to wade through Larry Wall's obtuse bullshit. I stand by what I said. Perhaps you enjoy waiting years for vaporware to materialize. You must be a Hurd user. My guess is you will never see Perl 6. But I doubt whether Perl 6 will advance the state of the art of programming if it ever does arrive.
Perl5 has been wildly successful by any measure. Why? It successfully merged the best (and worse) of shell programming, C system programming, awk, sed, and even some Lisp through a baroque, yet familiar (to shell programmers at least) syntax. It is marvelously useful. But it is complete! There is nothing more to add! Leave it be and people will develop nice Perl libraries for the next 20 years. Perl 6 is pure vanity. Larry Wall would be much wiser to turn his attention to other areas.
Maybe this will bring some more attention to the fact that we NEED other species around to learn from and co-habitate with. It would really suck if we killed off some kind of plant that was going to hold the key to solving a horrible disease of the future.
AIDS, Ebola, and other nasty deseases may never originated at all if the Congo basin was properly drained for development and all harmful species removed.
Hey, here's a wild idea: why not RTFA and find out?
I tried but all I could find was TFP. There is no caption. It looks like a cheezy science project. Do you know something about it? What is disruptive about it?
This idiot should stick to games. 'Disruptive' is one of those buzzwords that business school types throw around when they are trying to deceive investors. What is the advantage of this engine design? What are the reactants, ISP? Meaningful details like that don't get you posted on slashdot I guess.
The only thing an American president cares is to get reelected. He can't even care about anything else, even if he wanted, because your political system is so fucked up and monopolistic that his own partners would hang him if he did.
From your deep cynicizm about the state of US democracy I must assume you are from Europe. I find your nihilism to be not to be much of an alternative.
(1): no war is a just war: unavoidable, maybe, "just", never. This is why you have a justice system in your beloved country, because fist fights are not "just".
Your pacifism is hard to comprehend. Perhaps if your country were under a more immediate threat you would feel differently. My country's justice system applies only to its citizens, not to enemy nations that seek to harm it. For them Mr. Bush is judge, jury, and executioner!
Fuck Bush and his fascist, mentally defficient supporters.
That's 'deficient', Einstein.
The liberal left often claims intellectual superiority over conservatives. What the source of this delusion is I will never know.
Bush funnels tax money to well connected business while giving the shaft to poor people, young people, and everyone who values human life over oil company profits.
President Bush forced through tax reductions that have added money to all our wallets. These reductions have also recently caused an increase of government tax receipts because of sustained economic growth. This has forced the deficit down, just like President Bush said it would, God bless him!
But these idiot rednecks vote for him in record numbers just because he shoves a Crucifix..
Good heavens! The vast majority of Americans are Christians. Even the panderer Clinton made sure he was seen to attend church on Sunday.
The war in Iraq is a just war. Saddam repeatedly violated the surrender terms of the first gulf war. Iraqi children will be a whole lot better off than they would under the iron boot of the gangster Saddam. May he burn in hell after his hanging. I have heard a great many newborns in Iraq are named George. You should stop hating you country and get behind the great works of GDub!
IMHO, to say that "The EU has no manned program, but good space technology", this is plain wrong. Just remember the Mars Express/Beagle story. If it weren't for the US, no Mars geological data would be available today.... As for the deep pockets, they are too busy to spend the money into their state-sustained economies.
I don't know why the jerkoffs modded you a troll.
I understand your point. I am a pretty vocal critic of Europe, but in space I don't think they really deserve it. The Ariane V is a good rocket, they make good communications satellites, and they do have a successful Mars orbiter program. Beagle is a dismal footnote to an otherwise successful mission. Your comment on their socialist spending tendencies is right on. Because of it, they don't pull their weight militarily and aren't as active in space as their wealth should allow.
The tile damage to the nose seems very minimal. I doubt it is worse than anything observed before. The big debris chunk seen after the separation of the right SRB was scary. If that hit the orbiter it would have been scary. Makes you wonder what happened in the vicinity of the left SRB. It is pretty obvious from the new video footage that the debris environment surrounding the orbiter prior to Columbia's demise must have been pretty bad indeed.
This shows how desperate Russia is becoming maintaining its space exploration capability. Russia has neither the rockets nor the spacecraft to support such an offer. I think it makes more sense for them to combine efforts with the EU going forward. The EU has no manned program, but good space technology and relatively deep pockets. Russia has well developed space technology but little funding. It would make an impressive combination.
Back in 1993, I was the first person on my block to have a 1GB Fujitsu hard drive for my Sparc Classic. It cost $900! Yes, I'll pay for 4GB solid state.
or if that money would be better spent in not going to space for the next 5 to 10 years
That was the original rationale for the space shuttle program. There was a 7 year flight hiatus. What good did it do? We really need a more incremental program. This is something we should learn from the Russians. The new NASA administrator is behind the idea. I think you will see a new Crew Exploration Vehicle launched by a shuttle-derived booster, sooner rather than later.
Just because someone is a genius at designing methods for doing some thing, does NOT automatically mean they are good, let alone a genius, at doing that thing.
Hmm, a skilled debater you are not. A convincing argument does not consist of a single emphatically stated sentence. You need to try harder if you have an argument, which I doubt.
I cited a good example that shows Don Knuth walks the walk. I am sure Alan Kay has a history of similar technical exploits. I just don't know them.
If you actually are a programmer in the private sector (where your source of income actually depends on how well you program), I can't believe you are a good one...
I am employed as a senior programmer for a DJI company. I get good reviews, and make good money.
That makes me good programmer by your measure. I wouldn't say the 'private sector' is a place to look for great programmers though. Many of the best programmers of free software are not 'good ones' by your criteria because they are not as well paid.
You don't hire Alan Kay to write code, you numbnut.
Why is that? Alan Kay has great influence on programming practice, shouldn't you expect him to program as well? Look at Don Knuth. He is a once-in-century figure in computer science, and is fantastically knowledgable, but he writes programs all the time. I suspect Alan Kay does as well.
Is the standby shuttle getting tested as well? If (as could be the case) it is a faulty batch of transistors in one of the components, then the backup shuttle would likely have the same fault.
Atlantis is attached to the ET that passed the previous Discovery tanking test. Remember the Hydrogen value cycling issue? I don't remember reading about any sensor issues with it. It should be ready to go
I was expecting to be able to browse some of the great Clementine or Apollo-era lunar images. I got juvenile humor instead. Is this the best those geniouses at google can do?
You have to wonder what's wrong with Microsoft's corporate structure when, with their vast resources and many talented people, they can't even build a useable media player (let alone content delivery and management system).
Are they really talented? That may not be true. I have talked to several people who have interviewed for Microsoft programming positions. The day consists of consistant, high pressure grilling about language trivia by a smug cadre whose sadistic zeal is fueled by their resentment of their own treatment during the interview process. Does this environment really get them the hires they need, or just the ones tough enough to withstand the day-to-day madness.
It simply amazes me when Americans talk of gas (petrol) being expensive at $2.20. You guys are practically getting the stuff for free. Try comparing your price with the UK ($7.00 a gallon, pretty much anywhere in Europe
We in the US are equally amazed that you in Europe are willing to pay 80% fuel taxes to your rapacious socialist governments.
Yeah, imagine - she'll be growing up in a country where a woman can become head of state. I'm disgusted, for sure.
Have you failed to notice that in the decade since she was deposed Islamic radicalism has grown in Pakistan, and that the plight of women has worsened? I'm glad to cite some source for your statement, even if it is wikipedia, an idiot's answer for everything. You might have read it more closely.
Beyond the usual levers of diplomatic pressure and public kvetching, Brazil and China could choose what amounts to the nuclear option: a fragmented root.
China effectively already has one. No loss there. China isolating itself in this way will put it at a competative disadvantage to India. What is motivating Brazil is harder to understand. Perhaps something like the World Trade Organisation is in order. Its charter should be very narrow. Handing this to the UN is a terrible idea. Not only because it is a political body, but because it is thoroughly corrupt and discredited.
...would be to educate people on how to identify and deal with terrorism as they go about their daily business (as is done in Israel), instead of implimenting pointless systems and policies that only serve to degrade our privacy
I would say Israel does a little more than provide 'education' in dealing with terror. They have turned their country into a fortress and physically walled their enemy off from themselves. They also bulldoze the family homes of all the murderers they identify. Not quite the sensitive, soft approach you advocate, but one which I admire.
The terrorists have already demonstrated that they can coordinate an multi-target attack with enough precision to have all the attacks complete before the authorities could react. Thus the only result would be to eliminate all possibility of someone calling for help that's bleeding to death, having a heart attack, trying to get through to their loved ones in the final moments of their life, ect.
It is hand-wringing like this that makes you the weak and inviting target you are to the enemy.
Agreed. Why anyone should be opposed to a federal agency shutting down a wireless system when cellphones were used by terrorists to detonate explosives in Madrid is beyond comprehension. I applaud the move. I just with we were doing more to kick these psycho-muslims in the balls.
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Have you read up on Perl 6? I've done some very extensive reading, and I'd suggest you check out the wealth of new features and concepts before making such an outlandishly foolish claim.
Like you I read the Perl 6 updates when they come across the news sites. I have tried to wade through Larry Wall's obtuse bullshit. I stand by what I said. Perhaps you enjoy waiting years for vaporware to materialize. You must be a Hurd user. My guess is you will never see Perl 6. But I doubt whether Perl 6 will advance the state of the art of programming if it ever does arrive.
Perl5 has been wildly successful by any measure. Why? It successfully merged the best (and worse) of shell programming, C system programming, awk, sed, and even some Lisp through a baroque, yet familiar (to shell programmers at least) syntax. It is marvelously useful. But it is complete! There is nothing more to add! Leave it be and people will develop nice Perl libraries for the next 20 years. Perl 6 is pure vanity. Larry Wall would be much wiser to turn his attention to other areas.
Maybe this will bring some more attention to the fact that we NEED other species around to learn from and co-habitate with. It would really suck if we killed off some kind of plant that was going to hold the key to solving a horrible disease of the future.
AIDS, Ebola, and other nasty deseases may never originated at all if the Congo basin was properly drained for development and all harmful species removed.
Hey, here's a wild idea: why not RTFA and find out?
I tried but all I could find was TFP. There is no caption. It looks like a cheezy science project. Do you know something about it? What is disruptive about it?
This idiot should stick to games. 'Disruptive' is one of those buzzwords that business school types throw around when they are trying to deceive investors. What is the advantage of this engine design? What are the reactants, ISP? Meaningful details like that don't get you posted on slashdot I guess.
But how does it feel -after all pride and duty- to be part of the nation that fired up such a "baby" at first?
It feels a whole hell of a lot better than if Japan or Germany developed it first.
The only thing an American president cares is to get reelected. He can't even care about anything else, even if he wanted, because your political system is so fucked up and monopolistic that his own partners would hang him if he did.
From your deep cynicizm about the state of US democracy I must assume you are from Europe. I find your nihilism to be not to be much of an alternative.
(1): no war is a just war: unavoidable, maybe, "just", never. This is why you have a justice system in your beloved country, because fist fights are not "just".
Your pacifism is hard to comprehend. Perhaps if your country were under a more immediate threat you would feel differently. My country's justice system applies only to its citizens, not to enemy nations that seek to harm it. For them Mr. Bush is judge, jury, and executioner!
Fuck Bush and his fascist, mentally defficient supporters.
That's 'deficient', Einstein.
The liberal left often claims intellectual superiority over conservatives. What the source of this delusion is I will never know.
Bush funnels tax money to well connected business while giving the shaft to poor people, young people, and everyone who values human life over oil company profits.
President Bush forced through tax reductions that have added money to all our wallets. These reductions have also recently caused an increase of government tax receipts because of sustained economic growth. This has forced the deficit down, just like President Bush said it would, God bless him!
But these idiot rednecks vote for him in record numbers just because he shoves a Crucifix..
Good heavens! The vast majority of Americans are Christians. Even the panderer Clinton made sure he was seen to attend church on Sunday.
The war in Iraq is a just war. Saddam repeatedly violated the surrender terms of the first gulf war. Iraqi children will be a whole lot better off than they would under the iron boot of the gangster Saddam. May he burn in hell after his hanging. I have heard a great many newborns in Iraq are named George. You should stop hating you country and get behind the great works of GDub!
IMHO, to say that "The EU has no manned program, but good space technology", this is plain wrong. Just remember the Mars Express/Beagle story. If it weren't for the US, no Mars geological data would be available today .... As for the deep pockets, they are too busy to spend the money into their state-sustained economies.
I don't know why the jerkoffs modded you a troll. I understand your point. I am a pretty vocal critic of Europe, but in space I don't think they really deserve it. The Ariane V is a good rocket, they make good communications satellites, and they do have a successful Mars orbiter program. Beagle is a dismal footnote to an otherwise successful mission. Your comment on their socialist spending tendencies is right on. Because of it, they don't pull their weight militarily and aren't as active in space as their wealth should allow.
The tile damage to the nose seems very minimal. I doubt it is worse than anything observed before. The big debris chunk seen after the separation of the right SRB was scary. If that hit the orbiter it would have been scary. Makes you wonder what happened in the vicinity of the left SRB. It is pretty obvious from the new video footage that the debris environment surrounding the orbiter prior to Columbia's demise must have been pretty bad indeed.
This shows how desperate Russia is becoming maintaining its space exploration capability. Russia has neither the rockets nor the spacecraft to support such an offer. I think it makes more sense for them to combine efforts with the EU going forward. The EU has no manned program, but good space technology and relatively deep pockets. Russia has well developed space technology but little funding. It would make an impressive combination.
Would you pay $100 for a 4GB Solid State Drive
Back in 1993, I was the first person on my block to have a 1GB Fujitsu hard drive for my Sparc Classic. It cost $900! Yes, I'll pay for 4GB solid state.
or if that money would be better spent in not going to space for the next 5 to 10 years
That was the original rationale for the space shuttle program. There was a 7 year flight hiatus. What good did it do? We really need a more incremental program. This is something we should learn from the Russians. The new NASA administrator is behind the idea. I think you will see a new Crew Exploration Vehicle launched by a shuttle-derived booster, sooner rather than later.
Just because someone is a genius at designing methods for doing some thing, does NOT automatically mean they are good, let alone a genius, at doing that thing.
Hmm, a skilled debater you are not. A convincing argument does not consist of a single emphatically stated sentence. You need to try harder if you have an argument, which I doubt. I cited a good example that shows Don Knuth walks the walk. I am sure Alan Kay has a history of similar technical exploits. I just don't know them.
If you actually are a programmer in the private sector (where your source of income actually depends on how well you program), I can't believe you are a good one...
I am employed as a senior programmer for a DJI company. I get good reviews, and make good money. That makes me good programmer by your measure. I wouldn't say the 'private sector' is a place to look for great programmers though. Many of the best programmers of free software are not 'good ones' by your criteria because they are not as well paid.
You don't hire Alan Kay to write code, you numbnut.
Why is that? Alan Kay has great influence on programming practice, shouldn't you expect him to program as well? Look at Don Knuth. He is a once-in-century figure in computer science, and is fantastically knowledgable, but he writes programs all the time. I suspect Alan Kay does as well.
Is the standby shuttle getting tested as well? If (as could be the case) it is a faulty batch of transistors in one of the components, then the backup shuttle would likely have the same fault.
Atlantis is attached to the ET that passed the previous Discovery tanking test. Remember the Hydrogen value cycling issue? I don't remember reading about any sensor issues with it. It should be ready to go
I was expecting to be able to browse some of the great Clementine or Apollo-era lunar images. I got juvenile humor instead. Is this the best those geniouses at google can do?
You have to wonder what's wrong with Microsoft's corporate structure when, with their vast resources and many talented people, they can't even build a useable media player (let alone content delivery and management system).
Are they really talented? That may not be true. I have talked to several people who have interviewed for Microsoft programming positions. The day consists of consistant, high pressure grilling about language trivia by a smug cadre whose sadistic zeal is fueled by their resentment of their own treatment during the interview process. Does this environment really get them the hires they need, or just the ones tough enough to withstand the day-to-day madness.
It simply amazes me when Americans talk of gas (petrol) being expensive at $2.20. You guys are practically getting the stuff for free. Try comparing your price with the UK ($7.00 a gallon, pretty much anywhere in Europe
We in the US are equally amazed that you in Europe are willing to pay 80% fuel taxes to your rapacious socialist governments.
Yeah, imagine - she'll be growing up in a country where a woman can become head of state. I'm disgusted, for sure.
Have you failed to notice that in the decade since she was deposed Islamic radicalism has grown in Pakistan, and that the plight of women has worsened? I'm glad to cite some source for your statement, even if it is wikipedia, an idiot's answer for everything. You might have read it more closely.
Well done to Arfa and her father. I hope she becomes a very competent member of the software development community.
Agreed. But I fear for her and millions of promising girls in the Islamic world for whom misogyny, early forced marrage, and the burqa await.
Beyond the usual levers of diplomatic pressure and public kvetching, Brazil and China could choose what amounts to the nuclear option: a fragmented root.
China effectively already has one. No loss there. China isolating itself in this way will put it at a competative disadvantage to India. What is motivating Brazil is harder to understand. Perhaps something like the World Trade Organisation is in order. Its charter should be very narrow. Handing this to the UN is a terrible idea. Not only because it is a political body, but because it is thoroughly corrupt and discredited.
I would say Israel does a little more than provide 'education' in dealing with terror. They have turned their country into a fortress and physically walled their enemy off from themselves. They also bulldoze the family homes of all the murderers they identify. Not quite the sensitive, soft approach you advocate, but one which I admire.
The terrorists have already demonstrated that they can coordinate an multi-target attack with enough precision to have all the attacks complete before the authorities could react. Thus the only result would be to eliminate all possibility of someone calling for help that's bleeding to death, having a heart attack, trying to get through to their loved ones in the final moments of their life, ect.
It is hand-wringing like this that makes you the weak and inviting target you are to the enemy.
Agreed. Why anyone should be opposed to a federal agency shutting down a wireless system when cellphones were used by terrorists to detonate explosives in Madrid is beyond comprehension. I applaud the move. I just with we were doing more to kick these psycho-muslims in the balls.