Vastly. XML is just a solution looking for a problem. XML without user agreements is so useless. You could achieve the same results, with the same effort using COBOL file discriptions.
...they reproduce. Robots in robot factories creating more robots.
This reproduction could go on, until the earth's resources are used up.
If the robots are kept under human control (and I don't see why not) then no human need ever work again. We (society) will just become richer and richer, until all (rare) material goods become plentiful.
That is the real worry. All those bored teenagers with nothing to work for.
Here is a new substance, power generating paint, improving on the previous, paintable and everything, and all the slashdotters can do is nay-say, criticize and complain. (this is a complaint too, ironically).
I would have thought that all you bright guys would come up with new and novel application ideas for this stuff. The best idea that actually was presented was to paint a car with the stuff, and thus provide a small fraction of the power required to run it.
On that note, I suggest that we paint all the streets with the stuff, and find a way to transfer the power up to cars.... If streets are all painted with the stuff, maybe that would solve the energy crisis and provide enough energy for the whole country...
maybe a/.er can do that math... let's see...area of all streets in US times power of sunlight times 30%...whats that come to...?
"The units here are watts per square mile"
That is...as long as... the area is expanding as the distance is increasing.
However, if the area is diminshing as the distance is increasing, then received level of power would be increasing. I am refering to a receiver at the polar nodal point, exactly on the other side of the planet from the transmitter. As the radiated energy is reflected around the plannet, it is focused together at the other great circle pole. Theoretically, you should then receive all of the power back that was transmitted, subtracting path losses. The P = 1/r^2 formula should not apply.
by a HAM OP AND COBOL PROGRAMMER - DOESN'T GET ANY GEEKER THAN THAT. N3IQA
First time - after six rejects. Seventh is the charm!
If I had known that my submission would have been posted, I would have checked back more often. I would have had some comments on replies too. OK, cookie crumbles.
I will check back regarding my next submission.
Excuse me for asking, but this article implies that you need to have "python" running to use the 15 line code. Here is the command line:
python tinyp2p.py password server hostname portnum [otherurl]
I believe that the python interpreter (i am assuming that it runs like an interpreter) may be larger than 15 lines.
It also assumes that you have a web server running on your box. What other assumptions are unique to this app? That you have a url defined as a domain?
In other words, I really couldn't run this from a DOS prompt, could I? So, it doesn't really count as a "program".
Does it compile into an exe? If not, then what is this article talking about?
In my IT shop we have code that has been running for up to 30 years. I guess that we have worked out most, if not all, of the "bugs" in these applications.
If Microsoft trys to release new software every 2 to 3 years, then they really have not had time to fully debug. In their race to beat the compitition, they have chosen quantity over quality. So be it. Most of the computer software consuming public have decided that it works "good enough".
Of the original article.
People talk loud in noisy environments on cell phones, not because it is hard to hear, but because the damm mike on the cell phone is so far away from the person's mouth. Older (wired) phones put the mike right by the mouth, and the user is more confident that his or her speech is being picked up, in almost any environment, it is like talking into someone's ear. But with cell phones, the mike is 5 to 10 centimeters from the mouth, and the user feels that he or she must speak louder to be heard.
Older (wired) phones also have a better feedback from the mike to the earpiece - i.e. you can hear yourself talk into the mike. Cell phones seem to lack this. In a quiet environment, it doesn't matter, but it does matter in a noisy environment.
Solution: cell phones should be longer and have the mike closer to the mouth.
It's true. In my first year computer science course, assembler programming, not one of these high school graduates knew anything at all about hexadecimal math. And these are computer science majors!
Damn Small Linux is a 50MB bootable Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spell check (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), graphics editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf, emelFM (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, Fluxbox window manager, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support as well.
This is absolutely false. In terms of dynamic range, the most linear amplifiers...
No, Inspector Lopez, even tho you work in the industry, you mis-understood. You are mixing up "dynamic range" and "linearity". Two different concepts. Tubes are better than transistors (!) for linearity - but only over the range that they are designed for.
My experience with "professional" journalists is that they nearly never get all of the facts right. For example, a story on an orthodox jewish high school basketball player (almost a good player) was carried by all of the big papers and magazines - Wash post, ny times, sports ill, etx. I read dozens of articles by-lined by each publication, (not just ap or reuters). Each and every story got one fact wrong - and very wrong - the number of students in the high school. Numbers ranged from 69 to 78 students. What was the correct number? Try 350.
It is just a small point, but NOT ONE publication got this fact right! Or even close!
Articles have been written about me, and friends of mine, and every article has had wrong facts.
Conclusion: "professional" journalists suck. Most of what they write could just as well been made up. Sometimes it is. (Blair) We will never know.
In some rare examples, the issue is found out, like with CBS/Rather scandal. Otherwise - beware. Dont believe it.
"Just because I am from Smallville, doesn't mean that I am Superman"
I am a Ham too, but BPL seems to already be obsolete. As soon as WiMax is available, it will beat out all BPL systems both in quality, cost and speed. See WiMax Home and compare it to the problems with BPL as stated by the ARRL .
Cobol is a bad language and it always has been! There is just so much that is bad about Cobol that it is unbelievable that people would use it.
Hmmm. Interesting. Reminds me of the famous quote on democracy: it is the worst possible system of government, except for all of the others.
Flame on.
What we have here is basically a bad programmer. A good programmer can use the tools that he or she is given, productivly. If this guy is not able to think out of the box, then he should have gone into another field.
Flame off.
Just as an example off the top of my head, it's common to write
if (condition = immediate)...
Need I say more? C and C++ is full of these. Was there any "code review" when C was designed? I think not. C++? Negatory. Both were designed by some geek or group of geeks, with very little contact with the real world. IMHO.
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Can you say "Timex-Sinclare"?
Imagine it. Done. (Unisys motto)
We already have that. It's called "Ham Radio".
$20K? That's what I get for making tacos.
Vastly. XML is just a solution looking for a problem. XML without user agreements is so useless. You could achieve the same results, with the same effort using COBOL file discriptions.
...they reproduce. Robots in robot factories creating more robots.
This reproduction could go on, until the earth's resources are used up.
If the robots are kept under human control (and I don't see why not) then no human need ever work again. We (society) will just become richer and richer, until all (rare) material goods become plentiful.
That is the real worry. All those bored teenagers with nothing to work for.
Microsoft Releases "Malicious Software" Removal Tool or Microsoft Releases "Malicious" Software Removal Tool
Here is a new substance, power generating paint, improving on the previous, paintable and everything, and all the slashdotters can do is nay-say, criticize and complain. (this is a complaint too, ironically). /.er can do that math... let's see...area of all streets in US times power of sunlight times 30%...whats that come to...?
I would have thought that all you bright guys would come up with new and novel application ideas for this stuff. The best idea that actually was presented was to paint a car with the stuff, and thus provide a small fraction of the power required to run it. On that note, I suggest that we paint all the streets with the stuff, and find a way to transfer the power up to cars....
If streets are all painted with the stuff, maybe that would solve the energy crisis and provide enough energy for the whole country...
maybe a
That is...as long as... the area is expanding as the distance is increasing.
However, if the area is diminshing as the distance is increasing, then received level of power would be increasing. I am refering to a receiver at the polar nodal point, exactly on the other side of the planet from the transmitter. As the radiated energy is reflected around the plannet, it is focused together at the other great circle pole. Theoretically, you should then receive all of the power back that was transmitted, subtracting path losses. The P = 1/r^2 formula should not apply.
by a HAM OP AND COBOL PROGRAMMER - DOESN'T GET ANY GEEKER THAN THAT. N3IQA
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Octal 31 = Decimal 25
Happy Holidays!
First time - after six rejects. Seventh is the charm! If I had known that my submission would have been posted, I would have checked back more often. I would have had some comments on replies too. OK, cookie crumbles. I will check back regarding my next submission.
I believe that the python interpreter (i am assuming that it runs like an interpreter) may be larger than 15 lines.
It also assumes that you have a web server running on your box. What other assumptions are unique to this app? That you have a url defined as a domain?
In other words, I really couldn't run this from a DOS prompt, could I? So, it doesn't really count as a "program". Does it compile into an exe? If not, then what is this article talking about?
In my IT shop we have code that has been running for up to 30 years. I guess that we have worked out most, if not all, of the "bugs" in these applications.
If Microsoft trys to release new software every 2 to 3 years, then they really have not had time to fully debug. In their race to beat the compitition, they have chosen quantity over quality. So be it. Most of the computer software consuming public have decided that it works "good enough".
People talk loud in noisy environments on cell phones, not because it is hard to hear, but because the damm mike on the cell phone is so far away from the person's mouth. Older (wired) phones put the mike right by the mouth, and the user is more confident that his or her speech is being picked up, in almost any environment, it is like talking into someone's ear. But with cell phones, the mike is 5 to 10 centimeters from the mouth, and the user feels that he or she must speak louder to be heard.
Older (wired) phones also have a better feedback from the mike to the earpiece - i.e. you can hear yourself talk into the mike. Cell phones seem to lack this. In a quiet environment, it doesn't matter, but it does matter in a noisy environment.
Solution: cell phones should be longer and have the mike closer to the mouth.
OCT 31 = DEC 25
BTW, speaking of math, DEC 25 = OCT 31. Really.
Damn Small Linux is a 50MB bootable Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spell check (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), graphics editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf, emelFM (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, Fluxbox window manager, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support as well.
No, Inspector Lopez, even tho you work in the industry, you mis-understood. You are mixing up "dynamic range" and "linearity". Two different concepts. Tubes are better than transistors (!) for linearity - but only over the range that they are designed for.
OCT 31 = DEC 25 mathematically speaking...
Boat anchor now.
It is just a small point, but NOT ONE publication got this fact right! Or even close!
Articles have been written about me, and friends of mine, and every article has had wrong facts.
Conclusion: "professional" journalists suck. Most of what they write could just as well been made up. Sometimes it is. (Blair) We will never know.
In some rare examples, the issue is found out, like with CBS/Rather scandal. Otherwise - beware. Dont believe it.
"Just because I am from Smallville, doesn't mean that I am Superman"
I haven't seen where the Space Ship 1 company has made much profit yet. So profit doesn't follow 1-2-3.
I am a Ham too, but BPL seems to already be obsolete. As soon as WiMax is available, it will beat out all BPL systems both in quality, cost and speed. See WiMax Home and compare it to the problems with BPL as stated by the ARRL .
Cobol is a bad language and it always has been! There is just so much that is bad about Cobol that it is unbelievable that people would use it.
Hmmm. Interesting. Reminds me of the famous quote on democracy: it is the worst possible system of government, except for all of the others.
Flame on. What we have here is basically a bad programmer. A good programmer can use the tools that he or she is given, productivly. If this guy is not able to think out of the box, then he should have gone into another field. Flame off.
Just as an example off the top of my head, it's common to write if (condition = immediate) ...
Need I say more? C and C++ is full of these. Was there any "code review" when C was designed? I think not. C++? Negatory. Both were designed by some geek or group of geeks, with very little contact with the real world. IMHO.
Others have said it better than me. See Still Relevant and There's Gold in Them Thar COBOL Skills . For some "true facts" on COBOL, see What Professionals think of the Future of COBOL? .