You think/evidence/ is needed?! Undesirables not only face detention without charge or trial, they also now face state assassination. Is that legal? Who cares; it's not being challenged, is it.
It is as ignorant and inaccurate to call Ahmadinejad one of Iran's "leaders" as it is to call the US President one of the USA's "leaders". Both are spokespeople and figureheads whose authority extends little further than public relations.
But whatever: Anything that paints Iran as the bad guy (against poor embattled little Israel, the lonely regional good guy...) helps build the case for the next unnecessary and awful American military action. Nice work, editors. Haz real journalism?
RAID has little merit for desktops. The concept of RAID is useful for servers, because it is an availability measure (and as everyone will point out, does not substitute for backups).
Also, conventional RAID (no matter how expensive your fancy controller) does not offer end-to-end integrity and can be corrupted as simply as a power cut, hardware fault, or flipped bit anywhere (mirror sides out of sync with no way to know which side is valid). ZFS is a far superior design if you want integrity: copy-on-write, block and tree checksumming, self healing, snapshots, etc...
The ubiquity of the technology may contribute to the ease of surveillance, but authoritarian governments were already doing bad things
This kind of evasion was used by the citizens of every other 20th C state which soon after descended into fascism. = "It can't happen here," etc. Of course it would be nice if it "couldn't happen" wherever you live. But please study some history.
It is classically disingenuous, hypocritical and opportunistic for the Conservatives to declare the Liberals would not honour Kyoto.
The main obstacle to progress on Canada's carbon reduction is the Harper Conservative government's devotion to the vastly damaging oil sands projects, and its greedy cronies in Alberta. But lying and manipulation is what Conservatives do best.
Agree 100%. I study technical topics and try to extend my analysis and coding skills every day, but my younger colleagues do not.
I also notice the conservatism and suspicion of ideas that you mention (this appears to be a North American trait in contrast to Europe which is, based on job postings that I see lately, much more interested in non-mainstream technologies), and a weird inability to differentiate "hard" from "easy" tasks.
I'm a little older than the "half life" figure, but I am quite different from my twentysomething colleagues:
I have already lived and worked in 3 different continents in the past 10 years, and will relocate for good opportunities - but my colleagues don't seem interested in leaving town;
The technologies that I'm interested in and have been studying over the years are forward looking and paradigm shifting, such as ZFS, Erlang, functional programming, etc.; while my younger colleagues aren't much interested in thinking beyond what's been mainstream for the past 10-30 years.
All the fear and uncertainty coming from those who've never tried functional languages here sound just like the mobs in 1965 insisting 'compiled languages will never catch on'.
The real question is, can NON-FP systems effectively leverage multicore? Functional programming has extremely powerful tools to exploit new hardware. Pthreads and explicit locking do not. Have you heard of Erlang?
"Procedural languages are the norm because they're a lot simpler"
Maybe you haven't seen Scheme.
Procedural programming isn't simpler. Its popularity and mindshare (like that of say, Windows) is accidental, and needs to end for the industry to move forward. Minsky's not the first or last to point this out.
I don't think China is doing anyone a favor by trashing their environment for short term profit
Could not agree more. Ultimately, China's heedlessness is helping manufacture future catastrophe for every living thing on the planet. As is all negligence of environmental concerns.
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Proper lexical closures (such as exist in Scheme and JavaScript) cannot be implemented in Java or C++.
hoping that Dropbox and partners will not start telling people what can/can't be backed up
Oh come on—I'd be surprised if this wasn't already happening. Read the fine print.
So Microsoft and Saint "I'm an honest rich man! And a hero!" Gates reap free publicity from this kid even in death.
People still use Windows????
You think /evidence/ is needed?! Undesirables not only face detention without charge or trial, they also now face state assassination. Is that legal? Who cares; it's not being challenged, is it.
TEPCO clearly didn't confess it was unsafe before the tsunami. So this rule is worthless.
That said, I didn't RTFA. But any loophole is inevitably exploited by profiteers.
Or, here are some interesting alternatives.
Is that App Inventor is the brainchild of Professor Hal Abelson, not exactly somebody who deserves another slap in the face from Google.
Don't know who Professor Abelson is? Do some reading, kids.
It is as ignorant and inaccurate to call Ahmadinejad one of Iran's "leaders" as it is to call the US President one of the USA's "leaders". Both are spokespeople and figureheads whose authority extends little further than public relations.
But whatever: Anything that paints Iran as the bad guy (against poor embattled little Israel, the lonely regional good guy...) helps build the case for the next unnecessary and awful American military action. Nice work, editors. Haz real journalism?
RAID has little merit for desktops. The concept of RAID is useful for servers, because it is an availability measure (and as everyone will point out, does not substitute for backups).
Also, conventional RAID (no matter how expensive your fancy controller) does not offer end-to-end integrity and can be corrupted as simply as a power cut, hardware fault, or flipped bit anywhere (mirror sides out of sync with no way to know which side is valid). ZFS is a far superior design if you want integrity: copy-on-write, block and tree checksumming, self healing, snapshots, etc...
This kind of evasion was used by the citizens of every other 20th C state which soon after descended into fascism. = "It can't happen here," etc. Of course it would be nice if it "couldn't happen" wherever you live. But please study some history.
It is classically disingenuous, hypocritical and opportunistic for the Conservatives to declare the Liberals would not honour Kyoto.
The main obstacle to progress on Canada's carbon reduction is the Harper Conservative government's devotion to the vastly damaging oil sands projects, and its greedy cronies in Alberta. But lying and manipulation is what Conservatives do best.
An extraordinarily offensive advertising campaign is currently running in Canada defending this ecological disaster with photographs of beautiful wilderness.
Agree 100%. I study technical topics and try to extend my analysis and coding skills every day, but my younger colleagues do not.
I also notice the conservatism and suspicion of ideas that you mention (this appears to be a North American trait in contrast to Europe which is, based on job postings that I see lately, much more interested in non-mainstream technologies), and a weird inability to differentiate "hard" from "easy" tasks.
I'm a little older than the "half life" figure, but I am quite different from my twentysomething colleagues:
You linked to FOX News...
(which is, if nothing else, predictably consistent about whipping up paranoia about the Chinese Menace...wonder who benefits from that?)
All the fear and uncertainty coming from those who've never tried functional languages here sound just like the mobs in 1965 insisting 'compiled languages will never catch on'.
Smell the coffee. Learn something. The industry needs to change.
The real question is, can NON-FP systems effectively leverage multicore? Functional programming has extremely powerful tools to exploit new hardware. Pthreads and explicit locking do not. Have you heard of Erlang?
"Procedural languages are the norm because they're a lot simpler"
Maybe you haven't seen Scheme.
Procedural programming isn't simpler. Its popularity and mindshare (like that of say, Windows) is accidental, and needs to end for the industry to move forward. Minsky's not the first or last to point this out.
We have found the problem with the software business.
Bad news: It's you and your 100,000,000 ignorant & unwilling to learn clones.
Apple (a hardware company) and Microsoft (organised crime^W^W uh, a "software company") are not really in competition.
The old "everyone but me is an idiot" argument.
by requiring everyone to fly naked.
Very good point. We CANNOT afford to landfill all these extractive metals and elements (regardless of China or any other specific issue).
Could not agree more. Ultimately, China's heedlessness is helping manufacture future catastrophe for every living thing on the planet. As is all negligence of environmental concerns.
"You're the one who is wrong."