* Gender: Male
* Astrological Sign: Scorpio
* Industry: Consulting
* Occupation: Software Engineer
* Location: New York : NY : United States
Whoops! Your tongue is now a magnet. Whatever will you use for silverware?
Plastic. Interests
* road trips
* programming
* languages
* movies
* going out to eat
* perkins
* ihop
* grammar
* legends of the hidden temple
Favorite Movies
* Garden State
* Little Miss Sunshine
* Finding Neverland
* Center Stage
* Sphere
* 1984
* The Devil Wears Prada
* Moulin Rouge
* 28 Days Later
* Cruel Intentions
* Dogma
* Contact
* Rules of Attraction
* LOTR
Favorite Music
* Alanis Morissette
* Dixie Chicks
* RHCP
* Ben Folds
* Styx
* Journey
* Eurythmics
* The Police
* Weezer
* Indochine
* Chumbawamba
* Les Vulgaires Machins
* Wicked
* The Beatles
* Jimmy Eat World
* Avenue Q
* Jason Robert Brown
* Do As Infinity
* U2
* Fischerspooner
* Chicks on Speed
* Les Miserables
* Talking Heads
* They Might be Giants
* Phantom Planet
* Motion City Soundtrack
* ABBA
Even if thats all made up, this guy has posted more than one item to this blog.
By mission critical, we're talking things like Aviation
Yeah I know. I work with Ada in exactly that environment. Its just another language where shit can happen. Nothing really special. I would say there are fewer opportunities to get yourself badly into trouble than C or C++. About the same as java.
I can see the other two replies now. Sorry for the noise but I got the notification email for your reply about a hundred times overnight. Was there any explanation for the outage? I didn't see one.
Posting seems to be broken so this may not get through.
Petrol stations here are mixed businesses anyway. They sell convenience store products. Country petrol stations which combine engineering with good service should survive. Many city petrol stations will go, to be replaced by small convenience stores. Shopping centres will provide charging facilities. That way you can shop for food, get a meal and see a movie while your car is being charged.
No, because you normally don't pit-stop at home for 6 minutes at a time. At home you would charge it at night, likely from a 220v source like your dryer and stove use. What the fast charge is for is to also enable the car to make long trips by having special chargers at gas stations.
If electric cars catch on I think "gas stations" will be a thing of the past. A charging station could be a box attached to an electricity pylon.
If this car can't get to 75 mph in 10 seconds or less, the last 370 miles won't matter. I'll already have been run over or run off the road in the metroplex.
WTF is a "metroplex"? Is this something specific to where you live? My bicycle can't get anywhere near 75 mph in 10 or 1000 seconds yet I don't seem to share your issues.
However, I am both puzzled and worried by Oracle's motivation here. It sounds to me like Oracle is actually going to kill Java by making it impossible to adopt in the name of trying to leverage the (very expensive) IP they bought along with Sun.
If mankind were to vanish today and some other species were to achieve our technological advancement in fifty million years, what evidence would remain for them to find?
LM descent stages on the moon. Satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The lunar hardware should be recognizably artificial even after a billion years. GEO is stable because of minima in the earth's gravitational field. Satellites will slide along the orbit and collect (some of them) over Sri Lanka (Arthur Clarke loved that bit). Once in that stable location only impacts will move them out.
Practically everything on Earth will be gone. maybe a few durable metal components will survive. I once visited an old graveyard in Ireland. Gravestones more than 300 years old had eroded to unreadability.
Oh okay but lets assume our civilisation lasts a million years. We are going to be scattering material through the solar system for a lot of that time.
But other humans came along and lived there. If as the AC claims other species had civilisations like ours on Earth it is reasonable to assume they visited both LA and Tranquillity Base.
The diversity and timing of the new anthropoids raises two scenarios. Anthropoids might simply have emerged in Africa much earlier than thought, and gone undiscovered by modern paleontologists. Or they could have crossed over from Asia, where evidence suggests that anthropoids lived 55 million years ago, flourishing and diversifying in the wide-open ecological niches of an anthropoid-free Africa.
So the only older evidence of these animals is in Asia, suggesting they came from there originally.
Prior civilisations would have left artefacts in space. Geosynchronous orbit is both attractive and stable, but it was empty when we got here. Then there is all the fossil fuel we are burning. Why would an earlier civilisation leave it for us?
Yeah I saw that on bb last night. I wondered why Daguerre picked such a boring scene with only one person? I suppose the guy getting his shoes cleaned was friendly to long exposures.
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More like Iraq and Afghanistan are not useful wars.
Why can't this be used for wireless power in general? For example, beaming power to laptops, phones, and what-have-you...or Is it?
I wouldn't want to point those lasers at a person, particularly if it might hit somebody in the eye.
Gary LosHuertos
* Gender: Male
* Astrological Sign: Scorpio
* Industry: Consulting
* Occupation: Software Engineer
* Location: New York : NY : United States
Whoops! Your tongue is now a magnet. Whatever will you use for silverware?
Plastic.
Interests
* road trips
* programming
* languages
* movies
* going out to eat
* perkins
* ihop
* grammar
* legends of the hidden temple
Favorite Movies
* Garden State
* Little Miss Sunshine
* Finding Neverland
* Center Stage
* Sphere
* 1984
* The Devil Wears Prada
* Moulin Rouge
* 28 Days Later
* Cruel Intentions
* Dogma
* Contact
* Rules of Attraction
* LOTR
Favorite Music
* Alanis Morissette
* Dixie Chicks
* RHCP
* Ben Folds
* Styx
* Journey
* Eurythmics
* The Police
* Weezer
* Indochine
* Chumbawamba
* Les Vulgaires Machins
* Wicked
* The Beatles
* Jimmy Eat World
* Avenue Q
* Jason Robert Brown
* Do As Infinity
* U2
* Fischerspooner
* Chicks on Speed
* Les Miserables
* Talking Heads
* They Might be Giants
* Phantom Planet
* Motion City Soundtrack
* ABBA
Even if thats all made up, this guy has posted more than one item to this blog.
By mission critical, we're talking things like Aviation
Yeah I know. I work with Ada in exactly that environment. Its just another language where shit can happen. Nothing really special. I would say there are fewer opportunities to get yourself badly into trouble than C or C++. About the same as java.
I can see the other two replies now. Sorry for the noise but I got the notification email for your reply about a hundred times overnight. Was there any explanation for the outage? I didn't see one.
Posting seems to be broken so this may not get through.
Petrol stations here are mixed businesses anyway. They sell convenience store products. Country petrol stations which combine engineering with good service should survive. Many city petrol stations will go, to be replaced by small convenience stores. Shopping centres will provide charging facilities. That way you can shop for food, get a meal and see a movie while your car is being charged.
The charging interface should have a data channel so that account details can be negotiated.
Or a data channel in the charging interface. Negotiate account details to get charging current. Similar to USB.
No, because you normally don't pit-stop at home for 6 minutes at a time. At home you would charge it at night, likely from a 220v source like your dryer and stove use. What the fast charge is for is to also enable the car to make long trips by having special chargers at gas stations.
If electric cars catch on I think "gas stations" will be a thing of the past. A charging station could be a box attached to an electricity pylon.
If this car can't get to 75 mph in 10 seconds or less, the last 370 miles won't matter. I'll already have been run over or run off the road in the metroplex.
WTF is a "metroplex"? Is this something specific to where you live? My bicycle can't get anywhere near 75 mph in 10 or 1000 seconds yet I don't seem to share your issues.
extremely deterministic, somewhat provable code
Oh if only it were so. Its just a programming language. Closer to java than to C. No better or worse than the others.
However, I am both puzzled and worried by Oracle's motivation here. It sounds to me like Oracle is actually going to kill Java by making it impossible to adopt in the name of trying to leverage the (very expensive) IP they bought along with Sun.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
a revival for Ada?
Thats hilarious.
If mankind were to vanish today and some other species were to achieve our technological advancement in fifty million years, what evidence would remain for them to find?
LM descent stages on the moon. Satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The lunar hardware should be recognizably artificial even after a billion years. GEO is stable because of minima in the earth's gravitational field. Satellites will slide along the orbit and collect (some of them) over Sri Lanka (Arthur Clarke loved that bit). Once in that stable location only impacts will move them out.
Practically everything on Earth will be gone. maybe a few durable metal components will survive. I once visited an old graveyard in Ireland. Gravestones more than 300 years old had eroded to unreadability.
Oh okay but lets assume our civilisation lasts a million years. We are going to be scattering material through the solar system for a lot of that time.
Can you clarify?
But other humans came along and lived there. If as the AC claims other species had civilisations like ours on Earth it is reasonable to assume they visited both LA and Tranquillity Base.
The diversity and timing of the new anthropoids raises two scenarios. Anthropoids might simply have emerged in Africa much earlier than thought, and gone undiscovered by modern paleontologists. Or they could have crossed over from Asia, where evidence suggests that anthropoids lived 55 million years ago, flourishing and diversifying in the wide-open ecological niches of an anthropoid-free Africa.
So the only older evidence of these animals is in Asia, suggesting they came from there originally.
Prior civilisations would have left artefacts in space. Geosynchronous orbit is both attractive and stable, but it was empty when we got here. Then there is all the fossil fuel we are burning. Why would an earlier civilisation leave it for us?
Looking at this map it seems that they may have been in contact.
My son is an Aussie kid and there is no way he could not eat a gummi bear long enough to foil a finger scanner.
Hand stencils dating back 2,500 years have also been found on the walls of Argentina's Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands) in Patagonia, in France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia's Gua Ham cave, in the Handprint Cave of Belize and Elands Bay Cave in South Africa [9]. Handprints and stencils span all continents and began appearing on rock walls around the world at least 30,000 years ago [9].
Ah good point.
You need the old African pictures...
Yeah I saw that on bb last night. I wondered why Daguerre picked such a boring scene with only one person? I suppose the guy getting his shoes cleaned was friendly to long exposures.