because the godamn "call flight attendant" button is busted, magically the attendant appears anyway...along with an armed flight marshal. Ah the wonders of technology.
http://www.tjx.com/employment/life_brands.html
I don't know who paid for it but I have had new credit cards issued not because I asked for them...kinda messed up my cookies for on line purchases. These guys suck.
quite so. The more lovable and perfect it is, the more disruptive it will be to a staggering volume of interactive bits that legions of coders have tucked into all the pages on the internets. We paid a VERY high price for "run everywhere".
I didn't mean to say that was the problem. Its the loosey goosey inheritance mechanism, looks like an aferthought, not sure how you avoid circular dependencies...and the dozen hoops to jump through if you what to imitate the innate data hiding of a real OO language. You have to work to make namespaces and vars are basically global unless they start colliding. The way a function namespace comes from the context of its definition rather than invocation yet NEW requires a function to be supplied as the constructor. Plus getting the equivalent of a static storage class requires putting on asbestos mittens and using the.Prototype feature...its a kluge if you ask me. Those are problems I seen in js and presume lurk in anything layered over js.
But I shot my big mouth off too soon. I write some js to embed small data bases completely client side and working inside hacked Blogger templates. no graphics, limited dynamic generation of forms, combo boxes and such and instantaneous performance [once the DB loads into an hidden div]...but it is the shits to debug. [ its also fun: the DB is human readable xml and I cobbled up a toy imitation of XPATH for the accesses I needed to do...did I mention that it flies?]
My mistake: Flex leans on ECMA-script too. Just because I look over the shoulder of someone developing in Flex doesn't mean I know much about Flex:(
If I insisted on doctrinaire OO AND browser ubiquitous support, I would have to wait until most browsers support js 2,...and I'd have to take up farming for a while to have food. I want my whole world in a thumbdrive, and I don't want to see if there is internet so i can load gears or whatever is next [when will python be as ubiquitous and invisible to users as js?]
has the writer of that claim read chapters 8 and 9 from Flanagan's Javascript 5th ed.? It is a hopelessly messy language that is congenitally unable to do a decent job of OO implementations. Flex has classes in a more normal sense of the word. Sounds like hype. Does the newly offered code somehow bury the variable scoping sloppiness of JS?
who can't get an initial page load of google in less than a minute most days, I doubt like hell they have ever delivered that data rate to anyone on my street. If that cap bites your movie and music freeloading but raises my effective bandwidth why should I complain?
I should complain because Comcast is our local cable monopoly and have been such a perpetual data rate drought that their customers are pitted against each other instead of the real culprit.
If they charged more AND USED THE MONEY TO IMPROVE THE SERVICE, I might actually welcome it...but the chances of that are nil.
having said nothing more than I did, I suppose you could be right. But while we we make that insignificant token step in the right direction, do we use it to deflect calls for substantial corrections to our rights-shredding and our hypocrisy about oppression? I am not opposed to this measure...unless it is a way to deflate initiatives toward other measures. And do you not admit its a tad ironic?
Besides, I can bitch for a lot more reasons than self righteous gratification.
Like shouldn't we put our own house in order first and stop giving our executive a free and warrantless hand to access any communications among its citizens that it wishes?
Our pot is so black none of the kettles should be expected to listen.
that programmers are heir to, I would suggest that most people make hash out of single thread programming...we were doing that for years before we started working in the kernel. So, whats a little more complexity when we already HAVE to have ways to combat it in design and test tools?
I suppose our confidence in driving toward parallelism rests on intuition, such as analogizing that the brains of all higher animals are parallel processors therefore some solution to the problems of parallel computation must exist. It is certainly a commonplace even among non-CS-literate folk that the brain is massively parallel.
the US is hardly the one to penalize anyone for supporting repressive regimes.
How recently was Saddam Husein a client of our state department and defense organizations? Or Pinochet or...you know it is a long list.
that this "arms race" of escalating sophistication of captchas and equally sophisticated cracks is actually a form of the Turing test but one conducted with the ethics of a street brawl.
We do occasionally find the question "Are you human?" posed in proximity to the captcha.
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_systems.html
is one page on a site run by a group who develop off-grid and grid-tied systems
they might be a fun place to browse, also try their discussion page.
Some of the stuff they get working looks like props from a mad max movie but
they do work. wood fired steam engine driving a dynamo, anyone?
shhh! don't go blabbing this all over the place
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The Return of Ada
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I make a nice living rewriting Ada systems into C++. When DoD suspended the "only quote us system development costs based on Ada" requirement, most bidders dropped Ada like a burning bag of poop.
Its best advances such as exception handling have been picked up by modern system programming languages and even Java. The doctrinaire variable type enforcements have yet to be equaled but OO it really aint. Bottom line, plenty of old defense software systems have few living authors who will admit to knowing the code and upkeep is expensive, talent hard to find. This is ironic since DoD spec'd Ada in the first place because it had a maintenance nightmare of hundreds of deployed languages. So of course the managers think a more popular language with "all the features" of Ada should be a porting target. Eventually even customers demanded modernization and compatibility ports.
I know a few die hard Ada programmers who just love it...but very few. The brilliance of the language can be debated but its moot: no talent pool to speak of.
And besides, Ada is really French. [why did GNU make an ada compiler??????????????]
technology market: you can't separate technical merits from market forces open source: your market has a small leak and is slowly collapsing.
why should the national archives repeat all the captured page loads that FBI and NSA are getting from the big telecom providers?...they don't just spy on your e-mail you know.
thats true. I didn't. They don't spell out to the dufus like myself who just has a domain name he wants to nail down how this fantastic opportunity operates. I still don't know what I would have to do to make any money back from the various names I have parked at Godaddy. I don't need the pennies comming in and I don't like the dollars leaking out of my credit card account so I cancelled the service. just not worth the hassle given that they really only seem to want my money and have little interest in showing me anything except how to automate payments to godaddy.
they offer a revenue sharing of sorts...giving you a tiny cut of any click payments from ads lodged on your parked pages. But I think its a scam unless you actually set up tons of parking because you pay godaddy a $4/month fee to join this plan. To date I have made exactly zero money back because I did not specifically set up ads on my "under construction" pages. Its just godaddy taking unearned money out of my pocket.
MIT also had a system to track people in AI/comp sci buildings and it was hated or at least hacked. Sussman's ID was duplicated and everyone used the copies...it began to look like there was only one person and he was simultaneously everywhere [that hack had the desired effect and the system promptly went out of use.]
music:it gets less appealing with each copy and modification
software:the open source religion: the code rapidly evolves [sorry Mr Gates I DO believe this is a good road to innovation]
music:ego gratification will have to do ya cause you won't get rich having strangers pass around mp3's of your song
software:ego gratification will have to do ya....
music:symphonies will cease to be created or even performed...its all hackwork
software:Systems, will only accrete not spring forth whole...the needed profit motive for a large scale undertaking is gone
or will we somehow all become so software savvy that we can get software the way we get music from iTunes: we pick the tracks we want and they all play just fine on our virtual machine?
what, in dollars-per-vote, did MS spend?
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ISO Approves OOXML
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This may be one of the most expensive "standards" ever foisted off on the business world if you factor in the cost of all the influence buying Microsoft engaged in.
One of the last things "news" papers seem to be reporting is their personal bad news.
This trend is definitely NOT news if a software engineer could point it out almost a year ago
anyone have a guess why NY Times dropped its "Select" subscription? I thought it could be turned into a decent on-line paper. Maybe stealing news comes as naturally to web users as stealing music and the Times just weren't making any sales at the measly $49 they charged.
Did everyone forget that reporters and writers need to be paid for what they do? Are we willing to just take press releases from our government officials as the whole story and forget about reporting as it once was done? [ok, that last one is a bit of a troll...we do have Judith Miller and her ilk in the print MSM]
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because the godamn "call flight attendant" button is busted, magically the attendant appears anyway...along with an armed flight marshal. Ah the wonders of technology.
http://www.tjx.com/employment/life_brands.html I don't know who paid for it but I have had new credit cards issued not because I asked for them...kinda messed up my cookies for on line purchases. These guys suck.
interesting.
I still am skeptical about static checking be very effective in seeing race conditions...but then Coverity also as dynamic checking tools: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=110122&sessionid=1&key=678B7E9A4BA76B1FB9659E52F0946162&partnerref=5SD&sourcepage=register
...its darn near a sure bet that its developers never thought it would be around that long.
What would we have if designers were trained and we had infrastructure to PLAN on a program being used for 200 years?
earlier comments to the effect that code is inherently long lived vis a vis hardware is a point well taken and mother nature provides the strongest example. Dinosaurs, dodo birds and Neanderthals are all gone but many "protein subroutines" in their vanished DNA are STILL "conserved" in our very own DNA.
"dreading js 2"
quite so. The more lovable and perfect it is, the more disruptive it will be to a staggering volume of interactive bits that legions of coders have tucked into all the pages on the internets. We paid a VERY high price for "run everywhere".
I didn't mean to say that was the problem. Its the loosey goosey inheritance mechanism, looks like an aferthought, not sure how you avoid circular dependencies...and the dozen hoops to jump through if you what to imitate the innate data hiding of a real OO language. You have to work to make namespaces and vars are basically global unless they start colliding. The way a function namespace comes from the context of its definition rather than invocation yet NEW requires a function to be supplied as the constructor. Plus getting the equivalent of a static storage class requires putting on asbestos mittens and using the .Prototype feature...its a kluge if you ask me. Those are problems I seen in js and presume lurk in anything layered over js.
But I shot my big mouth off too soon. I write some js to embed small data bases completely client side and working inside hacked Blogger templates. no graphics, limited dynamic generation of forms, combo boxes and such and instantaneous performance [once the DB loads into an hidden div]...but it is the shits to debug. [ its also fun: the DB is human readable xml and I cobbled up a toy imitation of XPATH for the accesses I needed to do...did I mention that it flies?]
My mistake: Flex leans on ECMA-script too. Just because I look over the shoulder of someone developing in Flex doesn't mean I know much about Flex:(
If I insisted on doctrinaire OO AND browser ubiquitous support, I would have to wait until most browsers support js 2,...and I'd have to take up farming for a while to have food. I want my whole world in a thumbdrive, and I don't want to see if there is internet so i can load gears or whatever is next [when will python be as ubiquitous and invisible to users as js?]
has the writer of that claim read chapters 8 and 9 from Flanagan's Javascript 5th ed.? It is a hopelessly messy language that is congenitally unable to do a decent job of OO implementations. Flex has classes in a more normal sense of the word. Sounds like hype. Does the newly offered code somehow bury the variable scoping sloppiness of JS?
that could predict global warming without first causing it.
who can't get an initial page load of google in less than a minute most days, I doubt like hell they have ever delivered that data rate to anyone on my street. If that cap bites your movie and music freeloading but raises my effective bandwidth why should I complain?
...but the chances of that are nil.
I should complain because Comcast is our local cable monopoly and have been such a perpetual data rate drought that their customers are pitted against each other instead of the real culprit.
If they charged more AND USED THE MONEY TO IMPROVE THE SERVICE, I might actually welcome it
...but it would be criminal if University of California did NOT learn a lesson from its brush with hacking.
having said nothing more than I did, I suppose you could be right. But while we we make that insignificant token step in the right direction, do we use it to deflect calls for substantial corrections to our rights-shredding and our hypocrisy about oppression? I am not opposed to this measure...unless it is a way to deflate initiatives toward other measures. And do you not admit its a tad ironic?
Besides, I can bitch for a lot more reasons than self righteous gratification.
Like shouldn't we put our own house in order first and stop giving our executive a free and warrantless hand to access any communications among its citizens that it wishes?
Our pot is so black none of the kettles should be expected to listen.
that programmers are heir to, I would suggest that most people make hash out of single thread programming...we were doing that for years before we started working in the kernel. So, whats a little more complexity when we already HAVE to have ways to combat it in design and test tools?
I suppose our confidence in driving toward parallelism rests on intuition, such as analogizing that the brains of all higher animals are parallel processors therefore some solution to the problems of parallel computation must exist. It is certainly a commonplace even among non-CS-literate folk that the brain is massively parallel.
the US is hardly the one to penalize anyone for supporting repressive regimes. How recently was Saddam Husein a client of our state department and defense organizations? Or Pinochet or...you know it is a long list.
that this "arms race" of escalating sophistication of captchas and equally sophisticated cracks is actually a form of the Turing test but one conducted with the ethics of a street brawl.
We do occasionally find the question "Are you human?" posed in proximity to the captcha.
talk a lot more than the people who get it done.
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_systems.html is one page on a site run by a group who develop off-grid and grid-tied systems they might be a fun place to browse, also try their discussion page. Some of the stuff they get working looks like props from a mad max movie but they do work. wood fired steam engine driving a dynamo, anyone?
I make a nice living rewriting Ada systems into C++. When DoD suspended the "only quote us system development costs based on Ada" requirement, most bidders dropped Ada like a burning bag of poop. Its best advances such as exception handling have been picked up by modern system programming languages and even Java. The doctrinaire variable type enforcements have yet to be equaled but OO it really aint. Bottom line, plenty of old defense software systems have few living authors who will admit to knowing the code and upkeep is expensive, talent hard to find. This is ironic since DoD spec'd Ada in the first place because it had a maintenance nightmare of hundreds of deployed languages. So of course the managers think a more popular language with "all the features" of Ada should be a porting target. Eventually even customers demanded modernization and compatibility ports.
I know a few die hard Ada programmers who just love it...but very few. The brilliance of the language can be debated but its moot: no talent pool to speak of.
And besides, Ada is really French. [why did GNU make an ada compiler??????????????]
technology market: you can't separate technical merits from market forces
open source: your market has a small leak and is slowly collapsing.
why should the national archives repeat all the captured page loads that FBI and NSA are getting from the big telecom providers?...they don't just spy on your e-mail you know.
thats true. I didn't. They don't spell out to the dufus like myself who just has a domain name he wants to nail down how this fantastic opportunity operates. I still don't know what I would have to do to make any money back from the various names I have parked at Godaddy. I don't need the pennies comming in and I don't like the dollars leaking out of my credit card account so I cancelled the service. just not worth the hassle given that they really only seem to want my money and have little interest in showing me anything except how to automate payments to godaddy.
between a bureaucrat's understanding of technology and a technologists understanding of technology.
put up no resistance...
oh never mind. the idea was Russian but the result was in the US
they offer a revenue sharing of sorts...giving you a tiny cut of any click payments from ads lodged on your parked pages. But I think its a scam unless you actually set up tons of parking because you pay godaddy a $4/month fee to join this plan. To date I have made exactly zero money back because I did not specifically set up ads on my "under construction" pages. Its just godaddy taking unearned money out of my pocket.
MIT also had a system to track people in AI/comp sci buildings and it was hated or at least hacked. Sussman's ID was duplicated and everyone used the copies...it began to look like there was only one person and he was simultaneously everywhere [that hack had the desired effect and the system promptly went out of use.]
music: software:
or will we somehow all become so software savvy that we can get software the way we get music from iTunes: we pick the tracks we want and they all play just fine on our virtual machine?
This may be one of the most expensive "standards" ever foisted off on the business world if you factor in the cost of all the influence buying Microsoft engaged in.
One of the last things "news" papers seem to be reporting is their personal bad news. This trend is definitely NOT news if a software engineer could point it out almost a year ago
anyone have a guess why NY Times dropped its "Select" subscription? I thought it could be turned into a decent on-line paper. Maybe stealing news comes as naturally to web users as stealing music and the Times just weren't making any sales at the measly $49 they charged.
Did everyone forget that reporters and writers need to be paid for what they do? Are we willing to just take press releases from our government officials as the whole story and forget about reporting as it once was done? [ok, that last one is a bit of a troll...we do have Judith Miller and her ilk in the print MSM]