The planet has a surface temperature of about 1000 degrees Celsius. It is scourged by 7000 km/h winds. Pieces of silica, or if you prefer: glass, are flying around at supersonic speeds. And yes, it is the silica and the glass that give the planet its blue color. We should not call it Eiffel65. We should call it Philip.
My manager is an absolute bitch, caring only about her piece of the BU's budget and benefit. If I want to integrate some code from another BU, or even bring that code to a higher TRL, she'll try and convince me that I am her soldier, and should for her piece of the cake only. Steve Ballmer and his approach could do a lot of good where I work.
With the huge success that Java has been and still is, when contemplating the quite recent surge of JVM languages, I can not help but think of the future. For example, I have begun to adopt Julia, recently, for number-crunching; it seems hard to deny that such functional HPC languages have a bright future. It seems, too, that the first, minor onset of decline is there for Java. This is natural, it happens to all technologies. Hence - when you think of the future, what is your vision upon where we shall be standing, in terms of computer languages and programming paradigms, in say 10 years from now ? 20 ? 30 ?
Ah, you must be a data storage specialist, Sir. Probably you even have your own research lab doing R & D in exactly the direction these talented people work in, and you know all the relevant literature, went to the important conferences. Otherwise you would not, I trust, have emitted such a peremptory yet wise judgment ?
Good point. Besides, Telefonica is one of the European telephony giants, and has very, very deep pockets; hence, Mozilla actually landed a good deal by having Telefonica doing this launch. Good for them ! I wish them all the luck they need, and more.
Amen. I recently acquired an old Sund V1280 Fire server. The beast is 130+ kgs heavy, and I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, screaming and covered in sweat: one more dream of throwing the thing out of the window à la "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest".
Agreed. Yet, I live in a democracy, and this is the way to go. If it works out as you depict, I will have a last option: go into politics myself *shudder*
QR codes. You can encrypt these. If you print them e.g. on plastic foil, they'll last close to forever. Of course, you will need to keep a piece of hardware that can read QR codes.
I would, however, take another route, although outside of the scope of your question. It is something I already do for files that are very valuable to me: I put them on magneto-optical disks. The things last forever and withstand the roughest of treatments. Writing and reading are slow, but that is a downside I just accept. I still have a database ( invaluable to me ) I acquired in the middle '90s on magneto-optical disk. It survived: a fire; spilling of liquids, including dog pee; some mild X-ray radiation; an inadvertent stay in our home's trash can; being jumped upon by a kid; and a 20-foot fall.
If you provided the general public with a name and an email address, your statement might just be slightly more confidence-inspiring than random, anonymous belchings...
Well said and well written, except for the "DC pukes" part ( but then again, yours truly lives not in the USA, so what the heck ). I already got to work: teaching my partner how to conduct encrypted email conversations, for example. And preparing to vote for a party, here, vigorously opposing any spying on citizens.
That is a theme oft occurring in sci-fi: sex with Aliens. "Aaaaaaaaaahhhh... that weekend on Arcturus ! Gosh - you can do ANYTHING with the 27 holes of an Arcturian ! "
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Is that you, Alistair ?
The planet has a surface temperature of about 1000 degrees Celsius. It is scourged by 7000 km/h winds. Pieces of silica, or if you prefer: glass, are flying around at supersonic speeds. And yes, it is the silica and the glass that give the planet its blue color. We should not call it Eiffel65. We should call it Philip.
My manager is an absolute bitch, caring only about her piece of the BU's budget and benefit. If I want to integrate some code from another BU, or even bring that code to a higher TRL, she'll try and convince me that I am her soldier, and should for her piece of the cake only. Steve Ballmer and his approach could do a lot of good where I work.
a lot. At least for the time being, and at least within the current "security" context. A lot.
With the huge success that Java has been and still is, when contemplating the quite recent surge of JVM languages, I can not help but think of the future. For example, I have begun to adopt Julia, recently, for number-crunching; it seems hard to deny that such functional HPC languages have a bright future. It seems, too, that the first, minor onset of decline is there for Java. This is natural, it happens to all technologies. Hence - when you think of the future, what is your vision upon where we shall be standing, in terms of computer languages and programming paradigms, in say 10 years from now ? 20 ? 30 ?
Period ( . )
Ah, you must be a data storage specialist, Sir. Probably you even have your own research lab doing R & D in exactly the direction these talented people work in, and you know all the relevant literature, went to the important conferences. Otherwise you would not, I trust, have emitted such a peremptory yet wise judgment ?
roundhouse-kicked a bunch of soldiers from the Civil War into Orbit. That is Pluto. The pixel nearby is their lieutenant.
- pedantic mode on - "...although there was no zombie apocalypse..." implies that there COULD have been one for real. Gosh. These 'mericans !
Indian culture is hierarchical, and deference to your superiors counts enormously. Yet, Indian airlines do not have worse-than-average crash rates.
which begs the question is it simlocked? I know it would be.. well, counter to the name.. but still, can anyone confirm it is not sim-locked?
At least the one that went one sale in Germany, recently, was not :-)
Good point. Besides, Telefonica is one of the European telephony giants, and has very, very deep pockets; hence, Mozilla actually landed a good deal by having Telefonica doing this launch. Good for them ! I wish them all the luck they need, and more.
Amen. I recently acquired an old Sund V1280 Fire server. The beast is 130+ kgs heavy, and I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, screaming and covered in sweat: one more dream of throwing the thing out of the window à la "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest".
Friggin blackberry...
I would go for the lack of sense of wonder... Mooms risins on snother worl wow.d.
Proof ? Any credible material, anywhere ? No ? Then walk on, people. Nothing to see here. News at eleven.
Dream on, bro !
Agreed. Yet, I live in a democracy, and this is the way to go. If it works out as you depict, I will have a last option: go into politics myself *shudder*
QR codes. You can encrypt these. If you print them e.g. on plastic foil, they'll last close to forever. Of course, you will need to keep a piece of hardware that can read QR codes.
I would, however, take another route, although outside of the scope of your question. It is something I already do for files that are very valuable to me: I put them on magneto-optical disks. The things last forever and withstand the roughest of treatments. Writing and reading are slow, but that is a downside I just accept. I still have a database ( invaluable to me ) I acquired in the middle '90s on magneto-optical disk. It survived: a fire; spilling of liquids, including dog pee; some mild X-ray radiation; an inadvertent stay in our home's trash can; being jumped upon by a kid; and a 20-foot fall.
If you provided the general public with a name and an email address, your statement might just be slightly more confidence-inspiring than random, anonymous belchings...
Well said and well written, except for the "DC pukes" part ( but then again, yours truly lives not in the USA, so what the heck ). I already got to work: teaching my partner how to conduct encrypted email conversations, for example. And preparing to vote for a party, here, vigorously opposing any spying on citizens.
If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and fucks like a duck, it might still be an alien.
Ex-tended, prolly yes.
You a UI / GUI developer ? I am a good server-side and distributed stuff developer. Wanna team up ?
That is a theme oft occurring in sci-fi: sex with Aliens. "Aaaaaaaaaahhhh... that weekend on Arcturus ! Gosh - you can do ANYTHING with the 27 holes of an Arcturian ! "