Quebec is only an hour or two by aeroplane from Kentucky. Though most Canadians I met, even in neighbouring Ontario, regarded learning French as a waste of time since the Quebecois all know English anyway.
The ability to speak multiple languages, to some degree at least, is commonplace around the world. Monolingualism seems particularly severe in Anglosphere countries (including my own).
In Australia there's been a move away from teaching European languages in favour of the languages of Asia from the trade perspective. It's also a shorter duration to fly to Japan (whose language my brother's kids are learning) than the 20 or so hours to fly from Melbourne to Vienna or Paris.
Much server code (e.g. Linux based) is processor agnostic from LAMP to JBoss. High performance stuff Oracle/Weblogic/Solaris on Sparc or DB2/Websphere on POWER is tuned to run on vendor specific hardware. That leaves Windows and SQLServer/.net. With MS investing in ARMv8, even Windows server applications on the CLR won't be Intel dependent.
so if the future of the data center is parallelized ARM64 for performance/watt and IBM's own POWER for grunt work then x86 becomes a diminishing market.
RMS has no interest in helping Eclipse. It was a gift from IBM but at the same time, they and other companies have used the platform as a base for proprietary products.
That's the fundamental copyleft schism - the FSF have no interest in providing 'a decent C++ parser' to the benefit of closed-source offerings.
If the future of commodity servers is low-powered ARM64 running Windows RT Blade Edition then IBM exits at the right time can focus on their own 'high end' and leave their competitor Intel's Xeon arch to Lenovo.
Well if it makes the Yanks feel any better, one can colour Australia blue from July 1 onwards, when the new senate repeals legislation as their first act.
Our new PM (back in 2009) "The argument is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger." 4 years on and he convinced a majority of electors that action on climate change was "socialism masquerading as environmentalism".
So it's not just conservatives in the US that regard climate change as a big socialist conspiracy...
Nice freudian slip to ignite a Chrome vs Firefox flamewar.:)
Thought bubble: Suppose firefox-nextgen (implemented 99% in rust) includes
where rust-web is a subset of rust for which FF provides a rust console (repl). Code compiles directly to 'safe' native code without the need for an interpreter nor the overhead of garbage collection. As a Mozilla-proprietary open source language (i.e. like vbscript and Dart, no other browser adopts it), it could offer performance gains due to being a typed 'systems language'.
JS is currently hailed as 'the assembly language of the web' in terms of languages that compile-to-JS. But if we've reached the performance limits of a Javascript interpreter perhaps we'll have multiple browser-specific 'assembly languages'. i.e. someday we'll be writing code in Coffeescript 7.0 (or equiv), with various backends for Javascript, Dart and rust depending on the user-agent.
The Ruskies were hoping that Putin would fund ReactOS development but there's been no new release in the past 6 months, so I guess it's a little premature to welcome our new Kremlin overlords...
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I have a Pentium 4 desktop I can ship to the arctic circle - shipping might cost a bit though.
Norway is a niche in itself, offering subsidies to electric vehicles.
Contrast that to the eurozone, where sales of said Tesla were about an 1/8 of that in nearby Germany, despite a population 15 times bigger.
So roughly a four-thousandth of a Delorean!
Quebec is only an hour or two by aeroplane from Kentucky. Though most Canadians I met, even in neighbouring Ontario, regarded learning French as a waste of time since the Quebecois all know English anyway.
The ability to speak multiple languages, to some degree at least, is commonplace around the world. Monolingualism seems particularly severe in Anglosphere countries (including my own).
In Australia there's been a move away from teaching European languages in favour of the languages of Asia from the trade perspective. It's also a shorter duration to fly to Japan (whose language my brother's kids are learning) than the 20 or so hours to fly from Melbourne to Vienna or Paris.
Troll, really mods??
Much server code (e.g. Linux based) is processor agnostic from LAMP to JBoss. High performance stuff Oracle/Weblogic/Solaris on Sparc or DB2/Websphere on POWER is tuned to run on vendor specific hardware. That leaves Windows and SQLServer/.net. With MS investing in ARMv8, even Windows server applications on the CLR won't be Intel dependent.
so if the future of the data center is parallelized ARM64 for performance/watt and IBM's own POWER for grunt work then x86 becomes a diminishing market.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Gecko, FTW. :)
RMS has no interest in helping Eclipse. It was a gift from IBM but at the same time, they and other companies have used the platform as a base for proprietary products.
That's the fundamental copyleft schism - the FSF have no interest in providing 'a decent C++ parser' to the benefit of closed-source offerings.
If the future of commodity servers is low-powered ARM64 running Windows RT Blade Edition then IBM exits at the right time can focus on their own 'high end' and leave their competitor Intel's Xeon arch to Lenovo.
C is 12 in decimal.
If I knew C back-to-front and wanted to get into 'web development', I'd be sending my CV into Mozilla and getting a job on the rust/servo teams.
They're constructing a systems language to rebuild firefox from the ground up.
What about a compiler that has been mathematically proven to be correct?
http://compcert.inria.fr/
Submissions also contain lots of link-bait to Phoronix or the verge.
Well if it makes the Yanks feel any better, one can colour Australia blue from July 1 onwards, when the new senate repeals legislation as their first act.
Our new PM (back in 2009) "The argument is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger." 4 years on and he convinced a majority of electors that action on climate change was "socialism masquerading as environmentalism".
So it's not just conservatives in the US that regard climate change as a big socialist conspiracy...
Perhaps Obama could chip in some of the bitcoin seized from Silk Road to keep OpenBSD afloat. :)
It's Monday evening east of the international date line. Slashdot has an international readership...
Where I'm from, NSFW stands for New South F'ing Wales, Australia. Yet this article is about Romania, not Sydney. :)
1987 called to say the Archimedes will spank any 386SX.
RISC OS is a footnote but ARM is in great shape.
Soon enough if they don't get donations totalling $20,000 to pay their power bill.
http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/14/01/15/1719244/openbsd-looking-at-funding-shortfall-in-2014
It's been bloody hot this week downunder. perhaps the sun just flew south.
Linus? He's a well known critic. I thought Gnomers embraced the philosophy, i.e. that real programmers didn't need any fancy OO abstractions...
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918
Nice freudian slip to ignite a Chrome vs Firefox flamewar. :)
Thought bubble: Suppose firefox-nextgen (implemented 99% in rust) includes
where rust-web is a subset of rust for which FF provides a rust console (repl). Code compiles directly to 'safe' native code without the need for an interpreter nor the overhead of garbage collection. As a Mozilla-proprietary open source language (i.e. like vbscript and Dart, no other browser adopts it), it could offer performance gains due to being a typed 'systems language'.
JS is currently hailed as 'the assembly language of the web' in terms of languages that compile-to-JS. But if we've reached the performance limits of a Javascript interpreter perhaps we'll have multiple browser-specific 'assembly languages'. i.e. someday we'll be writing code in Coffeescript 7.0 (or equiv), with various backends for Javascript, Dart and rust depending on the user-agent.
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS
Why Ceylon in particular?
The Ruskies were hoping that Putin would fund ReactOS development but there's been no new release in the past 6 months, so I guess it's a little premature to welcome our new Kremlin overlords...
one of the most widely deployed vms on the planet is register based - dalvik. consequently, such an architecture may be back in vogue.