What Moore's Law really means in this context is that processors aren't getting faster.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law: "Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years." Moore's law is *not*
about CPU speed. From the same link: "In general, it is not logically sound to extrapolate from the historical growth rate into the indefinite future."
If you know anything about creating circuitry from silicon and its compounds, the statement on extrapolation won't be shocking news.
Israel, Russia, South Korea and the U.S. opposed the new measures, saying that they wanted to explore potential "advantages" from autonomous weapons systems.
Europe, we are extremely tired of spending our blood and money on rescuing you from intruders. Best of luck the next time intruders, domestic or external, threaten. Don't call us, it's on you.
What a load of Apple crap: "... increase the cost of Apple products that our customers have come to rely on in their daily lives." Apple, stop buying from the ChiComms! Buy American!
Several folks have mentioned the poor response of TI calculator keys. Many years ago I had some kind of TI scientific calculator with keys that began to poop out. When I wrote TI about it, they said to send back the calculator (which was *far* past the warranty period). They replaced it with a new TI-35 Plus which I still use. Kudos to TI for excellent customer support.
The navy either has to acquire
longer range fighters and strike aircraft, buy more of their existing aircraft to use as tankers, or acquire a dedicated tanker aircraft.
There is no need for the navy to do any of the above. Consider:
"A total of 262 KC-135s and 46 KC-10s operating out of 21 locations
in 10 countries provided round the clock aerial refueling support to U.S.
Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Coalition forces during
Desert Storm." (https://archive.org/stream/DTIC_ADA279743/DTIC_ADA279743_djvu.txt with obvious typos in aircraft designations corrected.)
As far as reliability, I suspect an automated drone will be more reliable than a human pilot in short order for difficult operations like landings.
You can suspect all you want, but when was the last time you heard of a tanker crashing on a carrier? Navy pilots are exceptionally good at landing on carriers.
Troll, min() coded as a #define means (roughly) five instructions (load/compare/conditional branch/load/push) vs. two instructions (load/push) when the third argument is a variable or constant. Nice try, though.
This is a simple algorithm: find better C programmers! What idiot programmer uses a variable before setting it? When a programmer is "omitting break in a switch,"
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/making-c-less-dangerous-1808.html that's not a shortcoming of C, it's a shortcoming of the programmer.
From the provided link: 'Why does memcpy() have no "max destination length" argument?' Seriously? If you want to copy "a" to "b" and avoid overrunning "b", do something akin to memcpy (b, a, min
(bytes_in_a, sizeof (b))), where min() returns the lesser of its two arguments. This isn't rocket science, people, it's skilled coding.
If you are a C coder who is too lazy or stupid to follow sound programming principles, then you should switch to a less demanding language and leave C to the expert coders.
Yes, I can read, thank you. At more than $180 million for *each* tanker ("72 Stingrays at a cost of $13 billion..."), this is just a hideous, hideous waste of money! And that doesn't count the
inevitable cost overruns. If the military can't think of some significantly smaller expenditures, then we need some new military leaders.
Two thoughts on this boondoggle: first, it's a terrible waste of money and second (and well put a few posts above), it's an accident waiting to happen on landing.
I started with Slackware in late 1996 on a scrapped machine with ESD drives. When 3Com came out with NICs that had MAC addresses unknown to the o.s., I jumped in with my trusty C compiler and added the network driver code necessary to let the new NICs work. That was fun!
I've also used Suse, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Andy's Ham Radio Linux, DSL, and a few other variants.
I sneaked Linux into the back door of a Fortune 100 company in the form of DNS servers. When I left many years later, the company had *hundreds* of Linux machines.
I am microsoft-free thanks to Ubuntu 16.04.
Changes: stomp to death network manager, systemd, and anything else that appears to be tainted by microsoft-like developers.
From the summary: The research arm of Y Combinator plans to begin a study on universal basic income next year in which it will give unconditional cash payments to 3,000 participants.
They will study it and will find, as every other UBI study or implementation I've heard of in the USA, that UBI doesn't work. This country wasn't built by people who depended on government handouts.
It was built on hard work and independence of government. UBI fosters neither hard work nor independence of government and, as such, is an extremely poor fit for the continuance of this country.
All you UBI fans should study the current situation in Venuzuela. If you do, you will discover it isn't a good paradigm.
Most of my computer usage since the early 90s was Unix and Linux. I've never cared for microsoft: bloated, bug-ridden, slow, fragile, full of Mack-truck-sized security holes, etc. Except for excel, the
office suite is amazingly amateurish. I dumped word in about 2001 for LaTeX and never looked back.
When my windows 10-based laptop died recently, that gave me the impetus I needed to cut the remaining tiny cord to microsoft. I found an old, abandoned machine and installed ubuntu, cups, firefox, gimp,
imagemagick, libreoffice, openssh-server, opera, vi[m], whois, xfig, and a few more minor pieces.
I have been microsoft free since July 4th. Let the revolution continue!
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What Moore's Law really means in this context is that processors aren't getting faster.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law: "Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years." Moore's law is *not* about CPU speed. From the same link: "In general, it is not logically sound to extrapolate from the historical growth rate into the indefinite future."
If you know anything about creating circuitry from silicon and its compounds, the statement on extrapolation won't be shocking news.
The Bombe was originally built by Polish crypt analysts using data given to them by the French.
What data? My reading says the bombe was a strictly Polish design with no input from French or Brits.
Slashdot stand behind this decision, keep all snowflakes out of the workplace.
ftfy
Do you california nitwits realize you are generating pollutants that cause climate change by launching satellites into orbit?
Israel, Russia, South Korea and the U.S. opposed the new measures, saying that they wanted to explore potential "advantages" from autonomous weapons systems.
Europe, we are extremely tired of spending our blood and money on rescuing you from intruders. Best of luck the next time intruders, domestic or external, threaten. Don't call us, it's on you.
If it's "settled" it is not science, if it is science it is not settled.
If that's original, I salute your originality, sir!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'd never heard of Tony Heller. Thanks for the link. He is one more data point on how biased and untruthful the NYTimes is these days.
Running with Linux daily since September, 1996.
Reminds me of a doctor visit: (me) "Doc, it hurts when I do this."
(Doctor) "Don't do that."
Perhaps there's a lesson herein.
If they're not in charge, why would you need to "resist?"
Google thinks they are in charge. They need to be persuaded they aren't.
The subject says it all. Google is neither in charge of the internet nor trustworthy. Resist everything they suggest.
What a load of Apple crap: "... increase the cost of Apple products that our customers have come to rely on in their daily lives." Apple, stop buying from the ChiComms! Buy American!
bothered to contact them
I really liked the old calculator. The newer one is even better. Contacting them was time well spent.
Several folks have mentioned the poor response of TI calculator keys. Many years ago I had some kind of TI scientific calculator with keys that began to poop out. When I wrote TI about it, they said to send back the calculator (which was *far* past the warranty period). They replaced it with a new TI-35 Plus which I still use. Kudos to TI for excellent customer support.
I think you meant 58008.
The navy either has to acquire longer range fighters and strike aircraft, buy more of their existing aircraft to use as tankers, or acquire a dedicated tanker aircraft.
There is no need for the navy to do any of the above. Consider:
"A total of 262 KC-135s and 46 KC-10s operating out of 21 locations in 10 countries provided round the clock aerial refueling support to U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Coalition forces during Desert Storm." (https://archive.org/stream/DTIC_ADA279743/DTIC_ADA279743_djvu.txt with obvious typos in aircraft designations corrected.)
As far as reliability, I suspect an automated drone will be more reliable than a human pilot in short order for difficult operations like landings.
You can suspect all you want, but when was the last time you heard of a tanker crashing on a carrier? Navy pilots are exceptionally good at landing on carriers.
You made C slower than BASIC...
Troll, min() coded as a #define means (roughly) five instructions (load/compare/conditional branch/load/push) vs. two instructions (load/push) when the third argument is a variable or constant. Nice try, though.
This is a simple algorithm: find better C programmers! What idiot programmer uses a variable before setting it? When a programmer is "omitting break in a switch," https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/making-c-less-dangerous-1808.html that's not a shortcoming of C, it's a shortcoming of the programmer.
From the provided link: 'Why does memcpy() have no "max destination length" argument?' Seriously? If you want to copy "a" to "b" and avoid overrunning "b", do something akin to memcpy (b, a, min (bytes_in_a, sizeof (b))), where min() returns the lesser of its two arguments. This isn't rocket science, people, it's skilled coding.
If you are a C coder who is too lazy or stupid to follow sound programming principles, then you should switch to a less demanding language and leave C to the expert coders.
It's a STEALTHY carrier based tanker...
Yes, I can read, thank you. At more than $180 million for *each* tanker ("72 Stingrays at a cost of $13 billion..."), this is just a hideous, hideous waste of money! And that doesn't count the inevitable cost overruns. If the military can't think of some significantly smaller expenditures, then we need some new military leaders.
Two thoughts on this boondoggle: first, it's a terrible waste of money and second (and well put a few posts above), it's an accident waiting to happen on landing.
I started with Slackware in late 1996 on a scrapped machine with ESD drives. When 3Com came out with NICs that had MAC addresses unknown to the o.s., I jumped in with my trusty C compiler and added the network driver code necessary to let the new NICs work. That was fun!
I've also used Suse, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Andy's Ham Radio Linux, DSL, and a few other variants.
I sneaked Linux into the back door of a Fortune 100 company in the form of DNS servers. When I left many years later, the company had *hundreds* of Linux machines.
I am microsoft-free thanks to Ubuntu 16.04.
Changes: stomp to death network manager, systemd, and anything else that appears to be tainted by microsoft-like developers.
From the summary: The research arm of Y Combinator plans to begin a study on universal basic income next year in which it will give unconditional cash payments to 3,000 participants.
They will study it and will find, as every other UBI study or implementation I've heard of in the USA, that UBI doesn't work. This country wasn't built by people who depended on government handouts. It was built on hard work and independence of government. UBI fosters neither hard work nor independence of government and, as such, is an extremely poor fit for the continuance of this country. All you UBI fans should study the current situation in Venuzuela. If you do, you will discover it isn't a good paradigm.
BBT is the funniest thing that's ever been on tv, period.
I am extremely difficult to entertain, so if BBT entertains me, I don't give a rat's ass what anyone else says, especially columnists of any type.
Assuming ocean levels really are rising, maybe you should consider moving to higher ground. Adapt or die. It ain't rocket science.
Most of my computer usage since the early 90s was Unix and Linux. I've never cared for microsoft: bloated, bug-ridden, slow, fragile, full of Mack-truck-sized security holes, etc. Except for excel, the office suite is amazingly amateurish. I dumped word in about 2001 for LaTeX and never looked back.
When my windows 10-based laptop died recently, that gave me the impetus I needed to cut the remaining tiny cord to microsoft. I found an old, abandoned machine and installed ubuntu, cups, firefox, gimp, imagemagick, libreoffice, openssh-server, opera, vi[m], whois, xfig, and a few more minor pieces.
I have been microsoft free since July 4th. Let the revolution continue!
More Right Rudder! (Any pilot knows what I mean..)
In the early days of flight training, I can't tell you how many times I heard the instructor yell "Right rudder! Right rudder!"
Nothing could go wrong with this scenario, nothing, I tell you!
100% uptime until the cows come home!
wait...cows?