I ALMOST agree with you. As far as "standard" languages go, FORTRAN does do this best. The problem is, there's a much better solution now.
1) Array, vector, and matrix processing can not only be done better, but with FAR less work in MATLAB, and using their converter, will nicely produce C (C++?) on the other end. 2) Parallelization of vector processing can also be done with >version R11 of Matlab, again with many fewer lines of codes, using a toolkit. (see here)
A couple years ago I was working on some "Cutting Stock" optimization problems. The current system was written in Fortran, but Matlab was the language of choice for the new one. Its probably more expensive, but talk about saving you some trouble in the long run...
Will I get spam if I use the PGP Global Directory? No. Searches of the PGP Global Directory are limited to one (1) response, thus making gathering email addresses from the PGP Global Directory one of the least-effective ways of harvesting email addresses for spammers.
Perfectly put. I actually know someone who bought one of these things. He also happens to own a library of, no lie, over 700 DVD titles. All purchased, all nicely tucked away in their little binders. Heaven forbid he put any of them on a server...
I'm planning my Senior design for next year, and it looks like its gonna involve a computer in a car (I know, original, eh?). The problem was going to be selecting the parts that'd be cheap enough and portable enough.
This would be IDEAL; basically a hopped-up PDA with a regular full screen interface available. BUT: I don't want to run CE!! I know the poster hasn't been able to, but if anyone knows of a hack that has managed to put Linux on this beastie, please post!!
That means for questions that aren't critical, but have me scratching my head, I get a response for free. Last time I had to open a case with MS, it cost over $400 to get the issue resolved (had to do with client PC timing their subscription requests to an AD domain incorrectly). I would assume that this would be covered under Redhats included support.
For any consistent formal system F purporting to settle, prove or disprove all statements of arithmetic, there exists an arithmetical proposition that can be neither proved nor disproved in this system; therefore, the formal system F is incomplete
What we need is a good hacking job
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What we need is a good hacking job on one of these companies. Every now and then we hear "Amazon.com/newegg.com/etc Hacked, millions of credit card numbers stolen". But Amazon.com has deals with Visa, Mastercard, etc. and they happily protect their customers. What would happen if a company like this was hacked, and tons of information was stolen? Maybe people would wise up to the fact that no, its not OK for these people to monitor your activities, even if "it's not like there's anything interesting or criminal in my e-mail.""
Interestingly, the FCC already is already giving away spectrum, albeit rather reluctantly and with a lot of restrictions. Research on UWB (and I mean REAL UWB, not the commercially hyped UWB) is going on right now, to create a method for cell phones to use extremely narrow ( this guy's papers if you want to know more about it...
Coming soon to you: Your new UWB-based cell phone!
It's a replacement for the current VB.Net syntax. Right now, if you want to make sure an object is instantiated before you use it (esp. for putting checks in form events so they don't break on load), you have to do
If Not Object Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
wheareas with the newly patented crapola you get..
If Object IsNot Nothing Then Exit Sub
As you can see, its just a readability issue they wanted to address in the version of.Net for 2005. (I read this on a beta site about 6 months ago).
Write a Natural Language Compiler and you'll find that programmers can't write in a Natural Language. Can you imagine what would happen when you have to understand, not the flow of the code, not the overall process of the application(s), but HOW the writer was THINKING when they wrote the code? I've worked on a couple interesting projects where the programmers originally were involved in the physical business process, and eventually ended up coding (don't ask). When I had to edit their code, there was NO way of understanding it unless you actually talked to them and realized how they were thinking about the problem. It's not that the code was so poor, but they wrote code based on how they'd seen the business operate, and that just didn't translate nicely into straightforward code.
Personally, I don't see how creating a language that encourages this behaviour can be a good thing. Isn't this the point of learned programmers? The ability to translate real world situations into easy to understand processes? Then again, I'm no language development guru.:)
You know, I've heard this argument before, but I've also heard/read a very interesting counter. If you've noticed, as the eyesight gets better, the nose gets smaller (as stands to reason using Darwin's theory, since there would be less reliance on smell and more on sight). However, what happens when the eye and the nose are both at just mediocre stages of progression? Then we have some being with lousy sight AND lousy sense of smell. Ergo, again by Darwin's theory, natural selection should cause that being to cease to exist. Seems a bit contradictory to me...
Linus has created a model, from which dozens (hundreds?) of additional creations have been made, ranging in purpose from full-fledged supercomputers to OS-on-a-chip. Bill has created a monopoly, who's empire pulls the rug out from under people left right and center. While I don't think its difficult to determine which has had the BETTER impact on technology (and society), I can understand the difficulty in determining who had MORE of an impact.
Ever try running an MS OS with anything other than admin priviledges? There's not a really easy way to switch to a priviledged account, either, so if you wanna do anything beyond the basics, full admin is a must. Yes, I realize this is simply bc I'm using MS Windows, but such is life for me to play all my games!
Lessee....he currently has about $30 billion, so that would be roughly 6.5% of his total wealth at the moment. Mind you, I could probably spare 6.5% of my net worth if the remaining $$ left me well over the $29 billion mark...
I have a feeling this is all a gimmick to satisfy the new HDD craze that Apple has driven.
You know, I sincerely doubt that any greater than 2% of the population has a clue that the iPod uses a HDD. All anyone in the general population cares about is "hey, this thing can hold X days of music and still have room for X pictures!!"
I'll probably get blasted for this, but like it or leave it, MS is known for making an interface that's usable to the masses. Want Linux on the desktop? That's the way to do it.
According to my last installation of the.Net framework, 0 seconds remaining = ~20 minutes. So, if we do the math, that actually means SP2 will never be released. So much for Longhorn...
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I ALMOST agree with you. As far as "standard" languages go, FORTRAN does do this best. The problem is, there's a much better solution now.
1) Array, vector, and matrix processing can not only be done better, but with FAR less work in MATLAB, and using their converter, will nicely produce C (C++?) on the other end.
2) Parallelization of vector processing can also be done with >version R11 of Matlab, again with many fewer lines of codes, using a toolkit. (see here)
A couple years ago I was working on some "Cutting Stock" optimization problems. The current system was written in Fortran, but Matlab was the language of choice for the new one. Its probably more expensive, but talk about saving you some trouble in the long run...
From the FAQ:
Will I get spam if I use the PGP Global Directory?
No. Searches of the PGP Global Directory are limited to one (1) response, thus making gathering email addresses from the PGP Global Directory one of the least-effective ways of harvesting email addresses for spammers.
Perfectly put. I actually know someone who bought one of these things. He also happens to own a library of, no lie, over 700 DVD titles. All purchased, all nicely tucked away in their little binders. Heaven forbid he put any of them on a server...
I'm planning my Senior design for next year, and it looks like its gonna involve a computer in a car (I know, original, eh?). The problem was going to be selecting the parts that'd be cheap enough and portable enough.
This would be IDEAL; basically a hopped-up PDA with a regular full screen interface available. BUT: I don't want to run CE!! I know the poster hasn't been able to, but if anyone knows of a hack that has managed to put Linux on this beastie, please post!!
+Support with two day response time
That means for questions that aren't critical, but have me scratching my head, I get a response for free. Last time I had to open a case with MS, it cost over $400 to get the issue resolved (had to do with client PC timing their subscription requests to an AD domain incorrectly). I would assume that this would be covered under Redhats included support.
GOEDEL's THEOREM
For any consistent formal system F purporting to settle, prove or disprove all statements of arithmetic, there exists an arithmetical proposition that can be neither proved nor disproved in this system; therefore, the formal system F is incomplete
What we need is a good hacking job on one of these companies. Every now and then we hear "Amazon.com/newegg.com/etc Hacked, millions of credit card numbers stolen". But Amazon.com has deals with Visa, Mastercard, etc. and they happily protect their customers. What would happen if a company like this was hacked, and tons of information was stolen? Maybe people would wise up to the fact that no, its not OK for these people to monitor your activities, even if "it's not like there's anything interesting or criminal in my e-mail.""
Interestingly, the FCC already is already giving away spectrum, albeit rather reluctantly and with a lot of restrictions. Research on UWB (and I mean REAL UWB, not the commercially hyped UWB) is going on right now, to create a method for cell phones to use extremely narrow ( this guy's papers if you want to know more about it...
Coming soon to you: Your new UWB-based cell phone!
D'oh. My code up there sucks. The exit subs should be continues....
It's a replacement for the current VB.Net syntax. Right now, if you want to make sure an object is instantiated before you use it (esp. for putting checks in form events so they don't break on load), you have to do
.Net for 2005. (I read this on a beta site about 6 months ago).
If Not Object Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
wheareas with the newly patented crapola you get..
If Object IsNot Nothing Then Exit Sub
As you can see, its just a readability issue they wanted to address in the version of
Write a Natural Language Compiler and you'll find that programmers can't write in a Natural Language. Can you imagine what would happen when you have to understand, not the flow of the code, not the overall process of the application(s), but HOW the writer was THINKING when they wrote the code? I've worked on a couple interesting projects where the programmers originally were involved in the physical business process, and eventually ended up coding (don't ask). When I had to edit their code, there was NO way of understanding it unless you actually talked to them and realized how they were thinking about the problem. It's not that the code was so poor, but they wrote code based on how they'd seen the business operate, and that just didn't translate nicely into straightforward code.
:)
Personally, I don't see how creating a language that encourages this behaviour can be a good thing. Isn't this the point of learned programmers? The ability to translate real world situations into easy to understand processes? Then again, I'm no language development guru.
You know, I've heard this argument before, but I've also heard/read a very interesting counter. If you've noticed, as the eyesight gets better, the nose gets smaller (as stands to reason using Darwin's theory, since there would be less reliance on smell and more on sight). However, what happens when the eye and the nose are both at just mediocre stages of progression? Then we have some being with lousy sight AND lousy sense of smell. Ergo, again by Darwin's theory, natural selection should cause that being to cease to exist. Seems a bit contradictory to me...
Now if the RIAA is disallowed from using "John Doe" litigation, we can finally be (at least somewhat) proud of the justice system!
Linus has created a model, from which dozens (hundreds?) of additional creations have been made, ranging in purpose from full-fledged supercomputers to OS-on-a-chip. Bill has created a monopoly, who's empire pulls the rug out from under people left right and center. While I don't think its difficult to determine which has had the BETTER impact on technology (and society), I can understand the difficulty in determining who had MORE of an impact.
Ever try running an MS OS with anything other than admin priviledges? There's not a really easy way to switch to a priviledged account, either, so if you wanna do anything beyond the basics, full admin is a must. Yes, I realize this is simply bc I'm using MS Windows, but such is life for me to play all my games!
What really needs to be done: have the gov't put in place a formal pricipal that states THIS. Maybe then they'd actually accomplish something.
Lessee....he currently has about $30 billion, so that would be roughly 6.5% of his total wealth at the moment. Mind you, I could probably spare 6.5% of my net worth if the remaining $$ left me well over the $29 billion mark...
I have a feeling this is all a gimmick to satisfy the new HDD craze that Apple has driven.
You know, I sincerely doubt that any greater than 2% of the population has a clue that the iPod uses a HDD. All anyone in the general population cares about is "hey, this thing can hold X days of music and still have room for X pictures!!"
Not only that, but as the world's predominant web server, Apache has a fair bit of clout with the IETF.
I'll probably get blasted for this, but like it or leave it, MS is known for making an interface that's usable to the masses. Want Linux on the desktop? That's the way to do it.
Interestingly, the Google Mirror is NOT blocked, allowing full access to google through the inverting proxy created by alltooflat.
Hehe, I think I'll leave that one to IBM.
Considering that SCO shares are about $3.00 and IBM is stuck at a measly $84.68.
Of couse it will only be useful to people named Bob. One Bob in particular.
According to my last installation of the .Net framework, 0 seconds remaining = ~20 minutes. So, if we do the math, that actually means SP2 will never be released. So much for Longhorn...
Einstein's Relativity papers, which were not in Physical Review journals, are the most stunning absence.
Nobody quoted them, cause nobody understood what the heck he was talking about. You ever tried really understanding his papers???!