In all seriousness, I agree with your reply to my attempt at humor post. In your scenario, all but #4 are nearly a sure thing. That's the way things are headed anyway.
What I think WILL happen in place of #4 is this.
1: Tech industry in the U.S. slides.
2: Tech industry in non-U.S.(possibly non-E.U. too) climbs, leaving U.S. economy behind.
3: U.S. becomes irrelevent, economically.
4: Rich people who destroyed the U.S. economy, and thus, the country itself, leave the U.S., taking their wealth with them, to start destroying another economy for their own financial gain.
That's just a thought. In any case, I think it's obvious things are not looking good for the U.S. tech sector in the future.
So what you're saying is that we need mafia guys running around illegally selling things that are against the DMCA, gunning each other down, killing cops, etc.?
Hell, that might get copyright itself abolished!:)
Thanks for the info guys, that was very informative.
Interestingly, my co-workers and I were discussing helicopters here in the office, after watching a police chase in L.A. on TV, and someone asked whether helicopters could do anything in case of an engine failure. So now I can explain how autorotation works:)
I knew about autorotation in the first place because my late father was a pilot and explained it to me once. Ironically, he was killed in a plane crash, apparently due to an engine failure.
The article says this thing can autorotate, and they're working on improving it(someone else who read the article said this... I can't get to the article).
As a former rotary wing aviator, can you explain autorotation for us? Also, have you ever been in a situation where that was necessary? And last, how well to helicopters autorotate compared to winged aircraft gliding?
Helicopters autorotate. I'm not sure how the physics work, but I think the forward movement of the copter can spin the blades, allowing it to "glide". Helicopters can in fact make safe landings after an engine failure. I'm not sure, statistically, how well helicopters can make these safe landings compared to airplanes, however, some airplanes are terribly bad at gliding after an engine failure.
I can't get to the site, but someone who did mentioned that this new "bird" can autorotate, and they're working on making improving it's autoratation ability.
I simply do not understand the argument that nuking the thing into much smaller pieces wouldn't be effective. Sure, it's still the same mass, but it also now has a much larger surface area, allowing MUCH more of it to burn up in the atmosphere, and the final impact of whatever gets through the atmosphere will be spread out, over distance and time, instead of one huge impact.
Am I wrong? Can someone who truly knows a bit more comment?
I entirely agree with your criticism of KDE/Gnome, both continue to add features and needless bloat, introduce show stopping bugs, etc. I personally do not like the direction they are taking.
But, you are entirely wrong about X. X is pretty good. Most complaints about X are being addressed, and relatively quickly I might add. With Xft2/fontconfig, font rendering is now extremely good, easier/quicker to add fonts than in windows. Desktop resizing is being worked on, and I believe changing color depth on the fly is as well(I could be mistaken... I don't think most people consider that to be too important these days anyway).
As for Gnome/KDE, they are beginning to work together more closely to implement some standards for menus, icon schemes, etc. Also, once some of these things are worked out, Gnome development should increase quite a bit.
Things are actually looking pretty good at this point, many long-time complaints have very recently been addressed, and very well at that.
If it hadn't been for MS, it would have been Apple, or Xerox, or unix boxes with X11. All Microsoft did was successfully take a larger part of the market than they deserved(through good business and bully-like tactics), which more than likely means that had it not been for Microsoft, the entire computer market would have been less homogenous, and having much more competition, would have far surpassed where we are today many years ago.
The alternative would be that we'd just have a different 800 lb. gorilla dominating the market.
Why are they testing this in the EU first? Seems like a mistake to me, EU governments are much less friendly to this sort of thing I think. Are they shooting themselves in the foot?
Jesus, you're complaining about people arrogantly arguing for Perl over PHP, but then you go and do the same thing, how idiotic.
I especially like this paragraph:
I would have been very shocked if they picked Perl of PHP, in my experience PHP is faster, more secure, more feature rich, way easier to compile and maintain, and takes far less code to accomplish the same things as Perl.
Are you in some way marketing PHP to clients? I haven't seen so many buzz-words/phrases since the last MS press release I read.
I just have to pick that apart... (sorry)
in my experience PHP is faster
Sounds to me like you're not sure... FWIW, I don't know which interpreter is faster at compilation/run-time, but both offer cacheing of compiled scripts, and on the Perl side there are zillions of modules written in C to handle most anything processor intensive.
more secure
where'd you pull that out of? I think they're both probably limited by the experience of the programmers using each language, and there are WAY to many inexperienced programmers writing code in BOTH of them(how often have you seen user input carelessly thrown right into sql queries?).
more feature rich
That's rich(no pun...), I thought Perl was the language overloaded with features? Further, can you say "CPAN"? I thought so...
way easier to compile and maintain
Compile? I think syntax errors are easy enough to pinpoint in either language... I don't thinking getting Perl or PHP scripts to compile is ever really an issue... or did you mean something else by that? Maintain? I've written a lot of code, and I'll tell you right now that I can write equally unmaintainable code in any language you throw at me;)
and takes far less code to accomplish the same things as Perl
Nonsense! Ludicrous! Perl and PHP can pretty easily, in most circumstances, be directly translated with minimal effort from one language to the other.
To each his own. But, for the love of Jebus, stop the insanity! They're both useful language, stop insulting each over other personal preferences.
OS X is darwin running on top of a mach micro-kernel. Darwin is derived from BSD, which is _not_ Unix. BSD doesn't even contain any original Unix code, and it is not a certified Unix, the two things which can arguably make something a Unix.
OS X is a certified Unix, but to most people, that is absolutely meaningless.
Now where being a Unix(-like), Linux has it where it counts(and so does *BSD). GNU/Linux & BSD work and behave like you'd expect a Unix OS to, from the gui(X) down to the command-line.
So, while OS X is a certified Unix and Linux/BSD are not, Linux/BSD meet peoples' expectations of how a Unix OS should work much more than OS X.
On the other hand, I'm not saying that OS X shouldn't do things it's own way, in fact in many areas they've done a good job of making things better for most(ie. desktop users) users while at the same time keeping the system more robust that OS9 or Windows and comparable to more traditional Unix(-like) systems.
I've had a very similar experience to yours. The only cell phone users who annoy me are those who drive erratically while talking on them, those who leave them on in the theater, etc. These people are usually equally as rude _without_ their phones, so it really doesn't matter.
Now, my experience with people who get annoyed by people talking on cells is thus; they are simply annoyed by people carrying on a conversation with another party that they cannot see/hear. Perhaps it looks unnatural seeing someone going about their business talking to noone, but the personal feelings of the annoyed are, nonetheless, irrational.
So, in conclusion, I think some people just need to grow a thicker skin, and quit worrying about what other people are doing.
Is it just me, or am I the only one who thinks that most "normal" people really don't give a flying fuck what "celebrities" do in their spare time? I may just be imagining it, but it seems to me that "celebrities" have been recently flaunting their "celebrity" status more so of late.
Seriously, "celebrity" in America has really been pissing me off of late, with all the goddam "reality tv" shows trying to make "normal" people into "celebrities", American Idol(gag!), "star" after "star" on Good Morning America, tabloids having nothing but celebrity rumors(what the fuck ever happened to good ol' Pres. Bush meets Aliens stuff?), etc.?
I refuse to believe that Americans really care so much about goddam celebrities; IMO, this is all just Hollywood pressure to keep themselves feeling like they're better than the average "joe", considering iMacs, free video editing tools, etc., becoming accessible to your average computer user must be making them piss their pants about their impending irrelevancy.
Anyone else in the states notice this trend, or am I imaging things; I realize "celebrities" have always been pretentious fucks, but it seems even more so lately.
I have never once on/. mentioned writing a game, nor in my post did I say whether it was any good or not. In fact, it was downright pathetic, and was nothing more than a proof of concept.
There are plenty of reasons to embed Perl in C. The first thing that comes to my mind is using Perl as a scripting language for a game, which I have done. Write all the low level graphics stuff in C, then write the high level game logic in Perl.
As for C in Perl... Perl is a scripting language, it's simply not fast enough for everything, and you're going to need C to access different things, like joysticks, video, graphics libraries, etc...
This one thing is a major hurdle for _some_ new users. My wife in particular gets very annoyed with having to (u)mount disks before using/ejecting them.
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What I think WILL happen in place of #4 is this.
1: Tech industry in the U.S. slides.
2: Tech industry in non-U.S.(possibly non-E.U. too) climbs, leaving U.S. economy behind.
3: U.S. becomes irrelevent, economically.
4: Rich people who destroyed the U.S. economy, and thus, the country itself, leave the U.S., taking their wealth with them, to start destroying another economy for their own financial gain.
That's just a thought. In any case, I think it's obvious things are not looking good for the U.S. tech sector in the future.
I like you're #4 a lot better! :)
Hell, that might get copyright itself abolished! :)
Interestingly, my co-workers and I were discussing helicopters here in the office, after watching a police chase in L.A. on TV, and someone asked whether helicopters could do anything in case of an engine failure. So now I can explain how autorotation works :)
I knew about autorotation in the first place because my late father was a pilot and explained it to me once. Ironically, he was killed in a plane crash, apparently due to an engine failure.
As a former rotary wing aviator, can you explain autorotation for us? Also, have you ever been in a situation where that was necessary? And last, how well to helicopters autorotate compared to winged aircraft gliding?
Thanks
I can't get to the site, but someone who did mentioned that this new "bird" can autorotate, and they're working on making improving it's autoratation ability.
So yeah, I can see how that could be worse than the body of the earth absorbing the entire impact.
I wonder if nukes could be used to alter the big rock's trajectory instead.
Am I wrong? Can someone who truly knows a bit more comment?
This is just too funny.
But, you are entirely wrong about X. X is pretty good. Most complaints about X are being addressed, and relatively quickly I might add. With Xft2/fontconfig, font rendering is now extremely good, easier/quicker to add fonts than in windows. Desktop resizing is being worked on, and I believe changing color depth on the fly is as well(I could be mistaken... I don't think most people consider that to be too important these days anyway).
As for Gnome/KDE, they are beginning to work together more closely to implement some standards for menus, icon schemes, etc. Also, once some of these things are worked out, Gnome development should increase quite a bit.
Things are actually looking pretty good at this point, many long-time complaints have very recently been addressed, and very well at that.
FWIW...
The alternative would be that we'd just have a different 800 lb. gorilla dominating the market.
Then we'll quickly have a nice place in the OSS community for translators! ;-)
I especially like this paragraph:
Are you in some way marketing PHP to clients? I haven't seen so many buzz-words/phrases since the last MS press release I read.
I just have to pick that apart... (sorry)
in my experience PHP is faster
Sounds to me like you're not sure... FWIW, I don't know which interpreter is faster at compilation/run-time, but both offer cacheing of compiled scripts, and on the Perl side there are zillions of modules written in C to handle most anything processor intensive.
more secure
where'd you pull that out of? I think they're both probably limited by the experience of the programmers using each language, and there are WAY to many inexperienced programmers writing code in BOTH of them(how often have you seen user input carelessly thrown right into sql queries?).
more feature rich
That's rich(no pun...), I thought Perl was the language overloaded with features? Further, can you say "CPAN"? I thought so...
way easier to compile and maintain
Compile? I think syntax errors are easy enough to pinpoint in either language... I don't thinking getting Perl or PHP scripts to compile is ever really an issue... or did you mean something else by that? Maintain? I've written a lot of code, and I'll tell you right now that I can write equally unmaintainable code in any language you throw at me ;)
and takes far less code to accomplish the same things as Perl
Nonsense! Ludicrous! Perl and PHP can pretty easily, in most circumstances, be directly translated with minimal effort from one language to the other.
To each his own. But, for the love of Jebus, stop the insanity! They're both useful language, stop insulting each over other personal preferences.
OS X is a certified Unix, but to most people, that is absolutely meaningless.
Now where being a Unix(-like), Linux has it where it counts(and so does *BSD). GNU/Linux & BSD work and behave like you'd expect a Unix OS to, from the gui(X) down to the command-line.
So, while OS X is a certified Unix and Linux/BSD are not, Linux/BSD meet peoples' expectations of how a Unix OS should work much more than OS X.
On the other hand, I'm not saying that OS X shouldn't do things it's own way, in fact in many areas they've done a good job of making things better for most(ie. desktop users) users while at the same time keeping the system more robust that OS9 or Windows and comparable to more traditional Unix(-like) systems.
Now, my experience with people who get annoyed by people talking on cells is thus; they are simply annoyed by people carrying on a conversation with another party that they cannot see/hear. Perhaps it looks unnatural seeing someone going about their business talking to noone, but the personal feelings of the annoyed are, nonetheless, irrational.
So, in conclusion, I think some people just need to grow a thicker skin, and quit worrying about what other people are doing.
Just my experience/opinion, YMMV.
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Seriously, "celebrity" in America has really been pissing me off of late, with all the goddam "reality tv" shows trying to make "normal" people into "celebrities", American Idol(gag!), "star" after "star" on Good Morning America, tabloids having nothing but celebrity rumors(what the fuck ever happened to good ol' Pres. Bush meets Aliens stuff?), etc.?
I refuse to believe that Americans really care so much about goddam celebrities; IMO, this is all just Hollywood pressure to keep themselves feeling like they're better than the average "joe", considering iMacs, free video editing tools, etc., becoming accessible to your average computer user must be making them piss their pants about their impending irrelevancy.
Anyone else in the states notice this trend, or am I imaging things; I realize "celebrities" have always been pretentious fucks, but it seems even more so lately.
Sorry, way OT I guess...
Nice troll though...
As for C in Perl... Perl is a scripting language, it's simply not fast enough for everything, and you're going to need C to access different things, like joysticks, video, graphics libraries, etc...
The article doesn't explain the technical problems in any depth at all.
And don't get me started on piracy; movie "piracy" isn't even a dent in their damn sales...
Bunch of theiving fucking liars...