This is emphatically not a trolling comment. I would say the most widely used programming language today is JavaScript.
In use meaning deployments, or in-use meaning active programmers? JavaScript is being used a lot, I'm sure, as every web site uses it and there are hundreds of millions of web sites. However, a lot of that deployment is using canned JavaScript, there are only a few dozen web frameworks that most of those sites use.
C is heavily used in embedded applications, which have an *enormous* market. Embedded processors outsell desktop and server processors by an order of magnitude. And nearly all of it is custom, you can't use the same code to drive a furnace as a vending machine, though they might use the same controller. I'm pretty sure C programmers outnumber JavaScript programmers.
The American legal system is so interesting to an outsider... companies can sue you for patent infringement without telling you what patent was violated
Not entirely true. They can serve you notice of litigation without spelling out what patent you violated, but once it gets to trial they must say exactly what parts of which patent you violated.
The government can sue you based on a "secret" interpretation of the law..... if the law is secret how do I know if I have broken it? Doesn't ignorance of the law become a valid defense ?
The laws themselves are still public knowledge. It's the governments interpretation of them that's secret. Which I think is completely bogus, but hey, a constitutional scholar is currently sitting in the white house - he must think it's kosher, right?
There has been tons of experimentation and competing engine designs. There hasn't been anything that could compete with the standard internal combustion engine's benefits:
1 - Gasoline carries a lot of energy per unit of mass - it's relatively cheap and easy to make and transport as well. 2 - Internal combustion engines are pretty reliable, operate under a wide variety of environments, and are easy to maintain 3 - ICEs are relatively efficient, and are capable of trading off efficiency for power when needed.
It's not just a matter of building a better engine - it needs to compete with the modern ICE in all these areas. There needs to be an ecosystem of parts providers, suppliers, and maintenance organizations as well. If you are using a new fuel system you need an entire processing, transmission and support ecosystem for that as well.
Sure, nothing has changed in engine design for the last 50 years. That's why in the 70's a 6L V-8 engine would barely develop 220HP, and now we have turbocharged 2.5L 4's that develop 240HP.
There you go. Clean and uncluttered. I think going for the black and white look made all the difference. Unless you were doing a bar chart or something, EGA graphics looked just awful.
Why on earth would Apple pay Adobe a licensing fee for a browser plugin? Where else does that happen? How is adopting HTML 5 over Flash pushing people into "walled gardens?"
I was ten years old. After wearing out a Timex Sinclair 1000 and a VIC-20, my dad took me to the computer shop to pick out a new one. They all looked cool and incredibly complex - the TI/99 with it's bizarre cartridge slot, the Apple II with it's strange ribbon cables coming out of the back (sorry Woz) the Atari 400 with it's horrid keyboard, the clunky PC with it's austere green display.
Then there was the Macintosh. It made the other machines look like junk. It had real fonts. It had *graphics*. It could make sounds other than a harsh piezoelectric bleep. You looked at it and could figure out how to get something done. My dad saved up and pulled a deal from a friend, and my early Christmas (and birthday and second Christmas) present that year was a shiny new beige Macintosh 512K with a wide-carriage Imagewriter and external floppy drive. Using it felt like you were using something from Star Trek. I learned how to touch type doing papers on that thing. I learned how to program using Microsoft Basic, then Metrowerks Pascal. I took it to Heathkit and had it upgraded to a 512KE with an enormous 800k drive. While there I drooled over the completely maxed-out Mac II with color ImageWriter II, LaserWriter II, dual 1.44MB floppies, a stack of SCSI drives (40MB HD, tape backup, and CD-ROM) and every desk accessory known to man loaded and ready to go. I finally retired it when I got a job out of high school and saved up enough to buy a PowerMac 6100/60, which I still have, and still works. Since then I've gotten into DIY, building my own PC compatables to experiment with Windows, Linux, Inferno, BeOS, and OS/2. Then I needed a PC at home to run all the development environments I had to learn for work. But I still have a soft spot for the elegance and simplicity of Mac hardware and software.
Thanks, Jobs, for pushing computer design forward on all fronts - from UI design to standardizing iconography used for ports, and forcing everyone else to at least attempt to be as innovative. I think, for my next computer, I'm retiring the water cooled behemoth running Windows 7 under my desk, and buying a Macbook Air.
To the old timers, Microsoft used to equal Windows 95, Windows ME, clippy, Bob, data-access technology of the moment, having to reboot every time you change a basic system setting or update anything, registry nightmares, DLL hell, god-awful web browsers that couldn't properly render a well formed HTML document, office macro viruses, SQL worms, OSes that got slower with each service pack or major release, etc...
To the younguns, Microsoft equals having fun playing Madden on their Xbox, and viewing the world through the default MSN page that came on their computer.
Back in the 90's? Microsoft is still in full-bore embrace/extend/extinguish mode. In the early 00's they bought out nearly every mid-sized accounting package, and is tying them all together into one big product.
They aren't sexy, but every 7-11 in the country (world?) has at least one for inventory control. People use them for work, not watching movies, so I guess they don't count.
Seriously? Every 7-11? So that's 40,000 units. Let's be generous and say there's two per store - that's 80,000. And let's say every hospital in the US has a hundred - since that's the only other place I've seen them. So that's roughly 600,000 units.
Apple has sold 69,000,000 iPads and iPad 2s.
The consumer market is different than the commercial market.
All Berners-Lee did was create a basic protocol for requesting a dumbed-down SGML document over a network. Hypertext was already developed and a well established concept.
The original httpd was developed on a NeXT cube, by the way:)
Over-specialization and compartmentalization. You need at least two people who know how to run any one system - including all the security details. He was probably the "VMWare guy," I'm guessing the company was too cheap to have another.
In my department we all have our areas of expertise, but we share with everyone else. We all check each others work, and go over what we are doing and what we plan to do. That way we can all learn, and if someone isn't available in an emergency someone else can always fill in.
Of course - you want to know what is feasible so you know what you're up against (cobalt bombs are not feasible as a doomsday device, by the way.)
> . I don't think you fully appreciate the level of twisted evil socialpathic fucks we have in the military-industrial complex.
I think you've watched too many James Bond movies. Is there a corrupt system funneling money into military industries? Of course. Are there evil geniuses trying to kill everyone on the planet so they can control the world from their secret underground lair? No.
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Original link: "Update 3 (2009-05-04): NoScript author made an official statement on the events."
"and then he created a new problem and blamed others to justify his continued agenda of pushing ads"
When did that happen, exactly? Have a link?
He fixed the problem and apologized. Nobody is perfect. NoScript is awesome.
If it makes them feel better, they can store the movie data on tape backups. If properly stored, magnetic tapes can last several decades.
This is emphatically not a trolling comment. I would say the most widely used programming language today is JavaScript.
In use meaning deployments, or in-use meaning active programmers? JavaScript is being used a lot, I'm sure, as every web site uses it and there are hundreds of millions of web sites. However, a lot of that deployment is using canned JavaScript, there are only a few dozen web frameworks that most of those sites use.
C is heavily used in embedded applications, which have an *enormous* market. Embedded processors outsell desktop and server processors by an order of magnitude. And nearly all of it is custom, you can't use the same code to drive a furnace as a vending machine, though they might use the same controller. I'm pretty sure C programmers outnumber JavaScript programmers.
The American legal system is so interesting to an outsider ... companies can sue you for patent infringement without telling you what patent was violated
Not entirely true. They can serve you notice of litigation without spelling out what patent you violated, but once it gets to trial they must say exactly what parts of which patent you violated.
The government can sue you based on a "secret" interpretation of the law..... if the law is secret how do I know if I have broken it? Doesn't ignorance of the law become a valid defense ?
The laws themselves are still public knowledge. It's the governments interpretation of them that's secret. Which I think is completely bogus, but hey, a constitutional scholar is currently sitting in the white house - he must think it's kosher, right?
There has been tons of experimentation and competing engine designs. There hasn't been anything that could compete with the standard internal combustion engine's benefits:
1 - Gasoline carries a lot of energy per unit of mass - it's relatively cheap and easy to make and transport as well.
2 - Internal combustion engines are pretty reliable, operate under a wide variety of environments, and are easy to maintain
3 - ICEs are relatively efficient, and are capable of trading off efficiency for power when needed.
It's not just a matter of building a better engine - it needs to compete with the modern ICE in all these areas. There needs to be an ecosystem of parts providers, suppliers, and maintenance organizations as well. If you are using a new fuel system you need an entire processing, transmission and support ecosystem for that as well.
Sure, nothing has changed in engine design for the last 50 years. That's why in the 70's a 6L V-8 engine would barely develop 220HP, and now we have turbocharged 2.5L 4's that develop 240HP.
Windows 1.0:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Windows1.0.png
Better than AmigaOS, but still eye-bleeding. Windows 2 was cleaner, but the layout was still awkward.
System 1.0:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.png
There you go. Clean and uncluttered. I think going for the black and white look made all the difference. Unless you were doing a bar chart or something, EGA graphics looked just awful.
I invented transparent aluminum using MultiPlan.
They do?
http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/05/adobe-seeks-to-extend-reach-of-flash-nukes-licensing-fees.ars
You mean this?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Amiga_Workbench_1_0.png
The Amiga was a technically superior machine in many respects. Too bad the UI looked like arse.
Why on earth would Apple pay Adobe a licensing fee for a browser plugin? Where else does that happen? How is adopting HTML 5 over Flash pushing people into "walled gardens?"
I was ten years old. After wearing out a Timex Sinclair 1000 and a VIC-20, my dad took me to the computer shop to pick out a new one. They all looked cool and incredibly complex - the TI/99 with it's bizarre cartridge slot, the Apple II with it's strange ribbon cables coming out of the back (sorry Woz) the Atari 400 with it's horrid keyboard, the clunky PC with it's austere green display.
Then there was the Macintosh. It made the other machines look like junk. It had real fonts. It had *graphics*. It could make sounds other than a harsh piezoelectric bleep. You looked at it and could figure out how to get something done. My dad saved up and pulled a deal from a friend, and my early Christmas (and birthday and second Christmas) present that year was a shiny new beige Macintosh 512K with a wide-carriage Imagewriter and external floppy drive. Using it felt like you were using something from Star Trek. I learned how to touch type doing papers on that thing. I learned how to program using Microsoft Basic, then Metrowerks Pascal. I took it to Heathkit and had it upgraded to a 512KE with an enormous 800k drive. While there I drooled over the completely maxed-out Mac II with color ImageWriter II, LaserWriter II, dual 1.44MB floppies, a stack of SCSI drives (40MB HD, tape backup, and CD-ROM) and every desk accessory known to man loaded and ready to go. I finally retired it when I got a job out of high school and saved up enough to buy a PowerMac 6100/60, which I still have, and still works. Since then I've gotten into DIY, building my own PC compatables to experiment with Windows, Linux, Inferno, BeOS, and OS/2. Then I needed a PC at home to run all the development environments I had to learn for work. But I still have a soft spot for the elegance and simplicity of Mac hardware and software.
Thanks, Jobs, for pushing computer design forward on all fronts - from UI design to standardizing iconography used for ports, and forcing everyone else to at least attempt to be as innovative. I think, for my next computer, I'm retiring the water cooled behemoth running Windows 7 under my desk, and buying a Macbook Air.
To the old timers, Microsoft used to equal Windows 95, Windows ME, clippy, Bob, data-access technology of the moment, having to reboot every time you change a basic system setting or update anything, registry nightmares, DLL hell, god-awful web browsers that couldn't properly render a well formed HTML document, office macro viruses, SQL worms, OSes that got slower with each service pack or major release, etc...
To the younguns, Microsoft equals having fun playing Madden on their Xbox, and viewing the world through the default MSN page that came on their computer.
Back in the 90's? Microsoft is still in full-bore embrace/extend/extinguish mode. In the early 00's they bought out nearly every mid-sized accounting package, and is tying them all together into one big product.
They aren't sexy, but every 7-11 in the country (world?) has at least one for inventory control. People use them for work, not watching movies, so I guess they don't count.
Seriously? Every 7-11? So that's 40,000 units. Let's be generous and say there's two per store - that's 80,000. And let's say every hospital in the US has a hundred - since that's the only other place I've seen them. So that's roughly 600,000 units.
Apple has sold 69,000,000 iPads and iPad 2s.
The consumer market is different than the commercial market.
Well, Jobs didn't leave - he was kicked out, indicating how dumb the management team that replaced him was.
He went on to start NeXT, which did fairly well, and Pixar, which did rather spectacular...
All Berners-Lee did was create a basic protocol for requesting a dumbed-down SGML document over a network. Hypertext was already developed and a well established concept.
The original httpd was developed on a NeXT cube, by the way :)
Over-specialization and compartmentalization. You need at least two people who know how to run any one system - including all the security details. He was probably the "VMWare guy," I'm guessing the company was too cheap to have another.
In my department we all have our areas of expertise, but we share with everyone else. We all check each others work, and go over what we are doing and what we plan to do. That way we can all learn, and if someone isn't available in an emergency someone else can always fill in.
Zero. What's your point?
Not to mention it's easier to play Madden with three of your friends when you're in a living room, instead of huddled around a desktop.
Of course - you want to know what is feasible so you know what you're up against (cobalt bombs are not feasible as a doomsday device, by the way.)
> . I don't think you fully appreciate the level of twisted evil socialpathic fucks we have in the military-industrial complex.
I think you've watched too many James Bond movies. Is there a corrupt system funneling money into military industries? Of course. Are there evil geniuses trying to kill everyone on the planet so they can control the world from their secret underground lair? No.
you're saying we don't have engineers and scientists that wouldn't cheerfully work on something that could kill a billion people or more?
That's a completely different argument. Killing a lot of people isn't the same as killing every human on the entire planet.
People don't seem to realize that, if more than two people are involved, it really isn't a private conversation.
If dozens of people are involved on a third party's message board, then you might as well be shouting it in a shopping mall.
+1
Samsung's MO is to copy successful designs as closely as possible. There's a reason refer to them as Samesung.
Motorla Razr - Samsung A900
Motorola Slvr - Samsung T509
Blackberry - Samsung Blackjack