Sounds like we need a new, and truly open, language and runtime for the 21st century.
Unfortunately, to replace Java it has to have mandatory automatic memory management, since anything else will allow security to breached trivially, yet as has been demonstrated here many times over Man Men Manage Memory Manually, so such features will be limited to low-performance scripting languages. Community can't produce anything that won't turn into a glorified assembler or seventy layers of leaky abstractions - or both, in the case of C++ - and companies can't produce anything that'll stay open, as this very mess made very clear. And let's not forget how long it took for Java to gain performance.
Basically, anyone who can program a well-performing virtual machine with mandatory bounds checking and automated memory management can also do without it, so the only way to get it done is have a company pay for it, yet that runs the risk of another Oracle coming along.
Nothing he did or said, based on what we know, pointed to redistribution through government or collective means.
Of course not. Instead, it all points into whatever you want it to point to, through as many layers of reinterpretation as is necessary to achieve that. See also Bible Retranslation Project.
As far as profit goes, which do you think (either) Jesus would have preferred? A guy that makes a million dollars and chooses to give 10% (or more) to good causes that help build other people up or a guy that is not allowed to make a million dollars because it's not fair?
Can you give some examples of the latter guy, just to clarify what you mean? Because as far as I can tell, there are quite a few guys who've made billions, and it appears that nobody has stopped them.
Or is this yet another rant about how hard Bill Gates has it?
Seriously, it's good to have both sides of the coin,
No it isn't, unless you consider trillions of dollars of public debt, one war after another, general poverty for the sake of a few multibillionaires, unemployment, gay bashing, religious fundamentalism, anti-intellectualism, anti-environmentalism, creationism - excuse me, "Intelligent Design" - and the Tea Party to have some kind of value.
Sometimes one side of the coin is marred, and frankly, I nowadays consider conservatism to be some kind of weird mental illness. Try as I might, I simply can't imagine why presumably intelligent human beings keep making one stupidly destructive decision after another, unless there's a disconnect between them and reality somewhere in their brains.
I don't know why conservatists call themselves that, since they aren't conserving anything, but destroying everything they get their hands on. Their latest blunder, financial deregulation and the resulting housing bubble, took the whole world economy down with them. Please stop voting for conservatives while there's still something left to conserve.
It's been best practice for years to use SSL for anything that requires any form of authentication, and plain HTTP for anything which is completely open and anonymous.
It's best practice to always use SSL whenever possible, period. After all, if the connection isn't encrypted, the user's ISP might listen in, and with all countries nowadays trying to implement their own version of Eye of Sauron, any small bit of obfuscation helps.
And https is simply HTTP sent over SSL-encrypted connection.
But by observing the article, you're changing it. Does that mean it will explain it to you...but not to me?:)
It means that the article's explanation is fuzzy and all over the place, however once you read it you perceive it as having collapsed into either explaining or not explaining quantum computing.
While Europe was going through the Dark Ages, Islam was carrying the torch of civilization and culture.
Well, sadly they aren't doing that anymore, but are instead known for as the most barbaric culture of today. I certainly hope that they can find their way again, but until they do, I want nothing to do with them.
All people are equal, but all cultures are not. Anyone who disagrees better consider whether they'd consider a version of their own culture minus some fundamental part - such as the freedom of speech - equally good. And the sad fact is that Islamic cultures tend to be far worse for those living in them than Western ones.
Not any more. The progressives are bringing up initiatives in several states to where a person can legally vote even if they are here legally. It's pure insanity, but that's the progressive agenda, pure insanity.
Who is bringing up what laws where? BTW, I heard that some conservatives want to do something possibly bad somewhere. Prove me wrong.
In any case, anyone who can vote holds de facto citizenship. In a democracy, a citizen is someone who has power over the government. However, a democracy also requires almost all residents to have such power; almost all residents must be citizens, otherwise you'll soon get to the slippery slope of ever larger share of the populace being excluded from power, leading to a dictatorship.
Both trying to kill competition and deploying FUD only works so long. People work for the competition, and as pointed out in the articles linked to at the top of this thread those employees who are quite capable can and will work somewhere else. That somewhere else may be your new competition.
However, it takes a while for the new competitor to become a serious competitor.
And FUD? MS is the king of FUD but it still hasn't been able to stop Linux, OpenOffice.org, or other FOSS projects from compeating against MS offerings.
Of course they haven't, but they've sure tried, now haven't they? Remember the "mutant penguin" -campaign a while ago?
The thing is, it's not necessarily a succesful strategy, it's simply one which would explain Oracle spending lots of money to achieve Sun and then mismanaging their new property.
Nobody needs a database period. Actually nobody even needs to live, they may want to but they don't need to do so.
What a wonderfully philosophical argument! How about we define, in the context of this conversation, "need" to mean "it is a requirement on all reasonable paths to one's goal", or something to that effect?
Of course having and using a database makes things easier for those users.
Oh, goody, you agree!
I don't need one but I've been thinking of building my own, a movie DB to start with. Doing so will add to my skill set and show others I can do the same for them, I'm on disability and don't work but I want to start working again as soon as I can.
Are you planning on using Oracle for this? Or do you think that you could perhaps achieve your goal with MySQL or PostgreSQL?
FOSS databases have their limits - for example, PostgreSQL limits tables to 32 terabytes - but in practice hitting them is nigh-impossible, except for truly extreme examples. In other words: "The thing is, almost no one needs a massive database." So why buy Oracle? Unless, of course, Oracle can make other databases seem unreliable...
Which is, of course, a conspiracy theory. But then again, IT world seems to have conspiracies and evil plots with disturbing regularity...
You don't make money by paying billions of dollars buying a company then dumping that company's products.
Unless you're killing competition or engaging in FUD campaign - "Imagine if your database company got bought out tomorrow!"
The thing is, almost no one needs a massive database. And even for those, there are alternatives. However, Oracle is well-known, so the alternatives are perceived as being small; now, if Oracle can kill a few technologies, make it seem like "small" barnds could disappear any moment...
Of course this is all speculation. But it would explain the seeming mismanagement of Sun's corpse: it's purposeful.
I haven't RTFA, but a bounty of natural resources may have serious drawbacks:
Yes, but far worse threats - for Nordic countries at least - are being next to Russia and the combination of small population and lots of immigration. The former is a military threat, the latter cultural and, IMHO, far more serious.
Ah, what the heck, let's say it out loud: I don't want enough muslims to move into my country that Islam would have any influence whatsoever. My country - Finland - already went through Dark Ages once, we don't need a repeat performance.
It seems likely to me that future scientists will look back at this in not too long with stifled laugher and perhaps a little shock at the approach.
Probably. "Look at these barbarians, who didn't use tools and methods which weren't invented until later!" It's not unlike the recent story deriding Newton for being an alchemist, despite that being entirely reasonable at his time - it makes the rest of us who couldn't invent Calculus or the Laws of Motion feel better.
It's one of the more pathetic aspects of human nature.
Requiring companies to share even a portion of the expense when a vulnerability is exploited would do wonders for the situation.
Yeah: since the expense is potentially unlimited, it would become far too risky for any mere mortal to write code, thus leaving only the large companies that can duke it out in a court willing to do that. I can feel Microsoft drooling...
Christ, I bet you can make programs with it that display your password in 10 feet high numbers as well (given a large enough monitor).
And thus the claim "The compiler enforces the security policies and will not allow the programmer to write insecure code" is shown to be rubbish.
This thing may or may not help security, but claiming it won't let you write insecure code is pure marketing bullshit; Slashdots or Cornells, now that's a question.
...and yet we sort of have just such a thing in our system - a moon hot to the point of being, by far, the most volcanically active body in the system.
If you're talking about Io, it has average surface temperature of 110 Kelvin (-163.15 degrees Celsius or -261.67 degrees Fahrenheit), and even max is 113 Kelvin. That's not habitable by any water-based lifeform.
Read that sentence you quoted again, he's talking about the moons of the gas giants, not the gas giants themselves. If you want to colonize the moon, does it matter if the main planet is a gas giant or not? It just has to exist as something for the moon to orbit around.
Yes, he's talking about the moons of the gas giants, which tend to be located rather near the gas giant itself, as far as distances in solar system's scale are concerned. Because they are near the giant, they are about as far from their sun as the giant is. If they're about as far from their sun as the giant, they get about as much solar radiation per square meter, and should thus be about as warm (or cold). In other words, if the gas giant is really really cold, so will the moon be.
And we aren't talking about colonizing moons, we are talking about life evolving in one. So double fail on your part.
I don't think it's so easy that you just move your arms like you used to and the robot arms mimic it, you probably have to learn to control them.
According to this article, it is that easy. And it should be noted that all motions related to controlling a car are learned, rather than inborn reflexes.
Maybe he acted on the wrong instincts from back when he had real arms rather than controlling the robot arms, it doesn't take much of lapse to matter a lot.
The problem is that he didn't have a drivers license back then. He'd never once in his life driven a car with his fleshy arms, so he couldn't possibly have any carry-over habits.
Yeah, it's possible that the arms simply had a glitch, but it seems far more likely that an inexperienced driver simply crashed.
Look no further than our own solar system to see moons with the potential ingredients for life -- just add heat.
That's a rather big "just", since gas giants require cold to form. They're made of hydrogen and helium, which simply doesn't "stick" to a small proto-planet if the temperature is anywhere near the melting point of water. Of course, you could heat the environment of an already-existing gas giant, but how would that happen?
The RIAA/MPAA aren't artists, they're middlemen. Artists directly engaging their customers is the *AA's worst nightmare, since it makes them unnecessary. That's why they fight all alternative forms of distribution tooth and nail.
I would definitely ditch an OS that fucked up a file copy because I used the computer for something else while I was waiting.
But it fucked it up with highest possible bandwidth, and in a way that's O(1) scalable up to 1024 processors in a NUMA cluster. Don't you care about server fuckup performance?
Edit: this "new and improved" page formatting SUCKS. Now the buttons that were right there are hiddden behind DUMBASS popup menus. Fucking "engineers" thinking they know how to improve shit. How do I turn this bullshit off?
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When they see a font they're used to (or hear a familiar voice), it's easy to attempt to function on auto-pilot while really thinking about something else.
And when you're reading "death of a salesman" or any other "classic", that's the right way to do it: in from one ear, out from another, then go consult the Internet on what interpretations you're supposed to regurgitate to get a good number.
On the other hand, if you're reading physics or some other real subject, there's enough formulas to force your attention to stay in the subject, so this kind of stupidity is unnecessary.
I think it's obvious (heh heh) that it forces you to think about the content in order to read it, when using a font which requires no conscious thought to process results in more flow with less processing and thus less retention. Perhaps future systems will sense the user's level of interest and change fonts dynamically to keep them learning.
And perhaps my future computer program marketed to college kids will forcefully change all fonts back to Times New Roman, through OCR if need be.
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Unfortunately, to replace Java it has to have mandatory automatic memory management, since anything else will allow security to breached trivially, yet as has been demonstrated here many times over Man Men Manage Memory Manually, so such features will be limited to low-performance scripting languages. Community can't produce anything that won't turn into a glorified assembler or seventy layers of leaky abstractions - or both, in the case of C++ - and companies can't produce anything that'll stay open, as this very mess made very clear. And let's not forget how long it took for Java to gain performance.
Basically, anyone who can program a well-performing virtual machine with mandatory bounds checking and automated memory management can also do without it, so the only way to get it done is have a company pay for it, yet that runs the risk of another Oracle coming along.
Of course not. Instead, it all points into whatever you want it to point to, through as many layers of reinterpretation as is necessary to achieve that. See also Bible Retranslation Project.
Can you give some examples of the latter guy, just to clarify what you mean? Because as far as I can tell, there are quite a few guys who've made billions, and it appears that nobody has stopped them.
Or is this yet another rant about how hard Bill Gates has it?
No it isn't, unless you consider trillions of dollars of public debt, one war after another, general poverty for the sake of a few multibillionaires, unemployment, gay bashing, religious fundamentalism, anti-intellectualism, anti-environmentalism, creationism - excuse me, "Intelligent Design" - and the Tea Party to have some kind of value.
Sometimes one side of the coin is marred, and frankly, I nowadays consider conservatism to be some kind of weird mental illness. Try as I might, I simply can't imagine why presumably intelligent human beings keep making one stupidly destructive decision after another, unless there's a disconnect between them and reality somewhere in their brains.
I don't know why conservatists call themselves that, since they aren't conserving anything, but destroying everything they get their hands on. Their latest blunder, financial deregulation and the resulting housing bubble, took the whole world economy down with them. Please stop voting for conservatives while there's still something left to conserve.
It's best practice to always use SSL whenever possible, period. After all, if the connection isn't encrypted, the user's ISP might listen in, and with all countries nowadays trying to implement their own version of Eye of Sauron, any small bit of obfuscation helps.
And https is simply HTTP sent over SSL-encrypted connection.
It means that the article's explanation is fuzzy and all over the place, however once you read it you perceive it as having collapsed into either explaining or not explaining quantum computing.
Well, sadly they aren't doing that anymore, but are instead known for as the most barbaric culture of today. I certainly hope that they can find their way again, but until they do, I want nothing to do with them.
All people are equal, but all cultures are not. Anyone who disagrees better consider whether they'd consider a version of their own culture minus some fundamental part - such as the freedom of speech - equally good. And the sad fact is that Islamic cultures tend to be far worse for those living in them than Western ones.
Who is bringing up what laws where? BTW, I heard that some conservatives want to do something possibly bad somewhere. Prove me wrong.
In any case, anyone who can vote holds de facto citizenship. In a democracy, a citizen is someone who has power over the government. However, a democracy also requires almost all residents to have such power; almost all residents must be citizens, otherwise you'll soon get to the slippery slope of ever larger share of the populace being excluded from power, leading to a dictatorship.
However, it takes a while for the new competitor to become a serious competitor.
Of course they haven't, but they've sure tried, now haven't they? Remember the "mutant penguin" -campaign a while ago?
The thing is, it's not necessarily a succesful strategy, it's simply one which would explain Oracle spending lots of money to achieve Sun and then mismanaging their new property.
What a wonderfully philosophical argument! How about we define, in the context of this conversation, "need" to mean "it is a requirement on all reasonable paths to one's goal", or something to that effect?
Oh, goody, you agree!
Are you planning on using Oracle for this? Or do you think that you could perhaps achieve your goal with MySQL or PostgreSQL?
FOSS databases have their limits - for example, PostgreSQL limits tables to 32 terabytes - but in practice hitting them is nigh-impossible, except for truly extreme examples. In other words: "The thing is, almost no one needs a massive database." So why buy Oracle? Unless, of course, Oracle can make other databases seem unreliable...
Which is, of course, a conspiracy theory. But then again, IT world seems to have conspiracies and evil plots with disturbing regularity...
Such as that one?
Is there something you'd like to tell us, Obi-Wan?
Unless you're killing competition or engaging in FUD campaign - "Imagine if your database company got bought out tomorrow!"
The thing is, almost no one needs a massive database. And even for those, there are alternatives. However, Oracle is well-known, so the alternatives are perceived as being small; now, if Oracle can kill a few technologies, make it seem like "small" barnds could disappear any moment...
Of course this is all speculation. But it would explain the seeming mismanagement of Sun's corpse: it's purposeful.
Yes, but far worse threats - for Nordic countries at least - are being next to Russia and the combination of small population and lots of immigration. The former is a military threat, the latter cultural and, IMHO, far more serious.
Ah, what the heck, let's say it out loud: I don't want enough muslims to move into my country that Islam would have any influence whatsoever. My country - Finland - already went through Dark Ages once, we don't need a repeat performance.
There, I said it. Let the flaming begin.
Probably. "Look at these barbarians, who didn't use tools and methods which weren't invented until later!" It's not unlike the recent story deriding Newton for being an alchemist, despite that being entirely reasonable at his time - it makes the rest of us who couldn't invent Calculus or the Laws of Motion feel better.
It's one of the more pathetic aspects of human nature.
Yeah: since the expense is potentially unlimited, it would become far too risky for any mere mortal to write code, thus leaving only the large companies that can duke it out in a court willing to do that. I can feel Microsoft drooling...
And thus the claim "The compiler enforces the security policies and will not allow the programmer to write insecure code" is shown to be rubbish.
This thing may or may not help security, but claiming it won't let you write insecure code is pure marketing bullshit; Slashdots or Cornells, now that's a question.
If you're talking about Io, it has average surface temperature of 110 Kelvin (-163.15 degrees Celsius or -261.67 degrees Fahrenheit), and even max is 113 Kelvin. That's not habitable by any water-based lifeform.
Yes, he's talking about the moons of the gas giants, which tend to be located rather near the gas giant itself, as far as distances in solar system's scale are concerned. Because they are near the giant, they are about as far from their sun as the giant is. If they're about as far from their sun as the giant, they get about as much solar radiation per square meter, and should thus be about as warm (or cold). In other words, if the gas giant is really really cold, so will the moon be.
And we aren't talking about colonizing moons, we are talking about life evolving in one. So double fail on your part.
According to this article, it is that easy. And it should be noted that all motions related to controlling a car are learned, rather than inborn reflexes.
The problem is that he didn't have a drivers license back then. He'd never once in his life driven a car with his fleshy arms, so he couldn't possibly have any carry-over habits.
Yeah, it's possible that the arms simply had a glitch, but it seems far more likely that an inexperienced driver simply crashed.
Look no further than our own solar system to see moons with the potential ingredients for life -- just add heat.
That's a rather big "just", since gas giants require cold to form. They're made of hydrogen and helium, which simply doesn't "stick" to a small proto-planet if the temperature is anywhere near the melting point of water. Of course, you could heat the environment of an already-existing gas giant, but how would that happen?
Except that you can't, since your data is being held hostage in the "cloud". That is the whole point of web apps, isn't it?
The RIAA/MPAA aren't artists, they're middlemen. Artists directly engaging their customers is the *AA's worst nightmare, since it makes them unnecessary. That's why they fight all alternative forms of distribution tooth and nail.
Whoever wins, we lose.
But it fucked it up with highest possible bandwidth, and in a way that's O(1) scalable up to 1024 processors in a NUMA cluster. Don't you care about server fuckup performance?
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And when you're reading "death of a salesman" or any other "classic", that's the right way to do it: in from one ear, out from another, then go consult the Internet on what interpretations you're supposed to regurgitate to get a good number.
On the other hand, if you're reading physics or some other real subject, there's enough formulas to force your attention to stay in the subject, so this kind of stupidity is unnecessary.
And perhaps my future computer program marketed to college kids will forcefully change all fonts back to Times New Roman, through OCR if need be.