If you're trying to install a java library system-wide you're doing it wrong; yes having each program package its dependencies is frustratingly wasteful, but it makes sure behaviour is consistent and reproducible.
Why bother when you have C,C++,Shell, perl, python, ruby, lisp,scheme, OCaml, Haskell, hell even Java although to be honest about how the Java community is run, why bother with Java either?
Because Java gets you a huge supply of proven libraries without any native code. Because the tools for packaging, dependency management and building are better than anything else around. I hate writing Java, but having used it in a corporate setting I can see why its been so successful.
They didn't bitch about "teaching to the test" because that is what they are supposed to be doing. If a kid can pass the test, the kid has learned. Job done.
Erm, balls to that. You can tell the kids the answers (or, being more realistic, tell them where to put the numbers in from a particular phrasing of a question) and they'll have learned nothing, but they'll pass the test.
As of v3 you can't mix tabs and spaces in the same file, which removes the "invisible bug" problem. Allowing an arbitrary number of spaces to indent a block is arguably too much flexibility, but since the indentation of each block has to be consistent I've never seen it render the code unclear.
Water wheels were around for centuries, used to power mills. What started the industrial revolution was learning to refine iron using coal rather than charcoal - which was an evolutionary improvement, but made iron a lot cheaper.
I'm just in the process of dusting off my asus a730w from about '05. Touch but no multi-touch, came with a stylus but you didn't need it, 450mhz intel xscale, windows mobile 2003, 640x480 screen, perhaps 15mm thick, weighed I don't know, maybe 200g, 3 hours usage time, price about £125, thousands of apps at least. Form factor feels more like a modern phone, but in many ways it acts like a tablet, and I can see a continuous line of incremental improvement from there to the ipad. The app store is innovation from apple, and I still don't know how they got all those developers lining up to port programs for them - I can only assume they convinced them there's money in it. I guess apple users have always been willing to spend money on small utilities that PC users would expect to find for free. Or maybe it's just that anyone who'd pay apple prices on these things must have money to burn. But either way, sure, the app store thing is something apple did first, and calling the google one a knock-off is fair. But on the hardware side the ipad is evolutionary and nothing more, and any number of non-apple tablets can match that.
Please. You should be happy that he's using facebook in unintended ways. Just because they write "friend" on the button doesn't mean you have to treat it like a friendship.
Sure, as is the possibility that something would hit the earth.
The odds of hitting a 3600000m-wide planet and those of hitting a 100m-wide asteroid are not remotely in the same ballpark.
Though I'm no math-head, I would assume that our chances for being hit would increase...even a tiny, tiny amount.
Not necessarily; there's also a chance that an incoming rock that would've otherwise hit the earth will hit our new mining source. But either way, astronomically smaller than those that a rock will just hit the earth without going anywhere near this mining rock, and therefore not worth worrying about.
So you are proposing hauling all the infrastructure and people (no, we don't have robots that can substitute for all of them) to build anything of value in space from raw materials? I doubt that would be any cheaper than hauling it down to earth.
Depends on the scale and complexity. You'd make intricate components on Earth, but something like segments for making big mirrors mirror (which have any number of uses - astronomy, power collection, cooling the earth) could be made by robots, and once you've got your admittedly heavy smelter up in orbit you can churn out as many as you like.
So how do you test your Windows software under Linux or FreeBSD without installing a copy of Windows into VirtualBox? Or do you want your software to rely on Wine bugs?
More to the point, I can write software for my windows phone under Linux or FreeBSD, and test it on the actual phone. Can't do that with an iPhone.
IIRC the main problem with multicast was it required all the routers in between to support it, and why would you upgrade something that was already working. Maybe with IPv6 we'll get working multicast, since that requires replacing/upgrading all your routers anyway.
even (good) 1080p is indistinguishable from reality at a distance of 10 feet
Depends on the screen size. 2880p is the point where pixels become invisible across the THX recommended viewing angles for cinemas (up to ~1/3 of your field of vision IIRC).
OSX takes your approach. It has its upsides, but also its problems - they had to push out new versions of absolutely everything when the libpng vulnerability was found. It also means macs tend to need more RAM than other systems - if multiple dynamically-linked applications are using the same library, the OS only needs to load one copy into memory. You might not care about 3MB vs 150MB for diskspace, but it's still relevant for RAM.
What's needed is for libraries to be strict in their versioning, and for the OS to support having multiple versions of the same library when needed. This is actually something that MS has got right in recent years - seriously, when was the last time you had a "dll hell" problem - while linux in particular lags behind.
When we can store more full-quality (we're talking 2880p and probably 120fps) video on a single drive than you could ever want, then it's enough. But you yourself say there are databases bigger than 2TB out there; of course people are going to want to transport them. Honestly 8GB is plenty for most espionage purposes already.
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Um, no. Torture is torture. Waterboarding is torture, and that's a fight that needs to be fought. Solitary confinement... isn't.
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Direct debits are a million times worse than credit cards. If someone runs up a bill on your credit card, you tell them it's fraud and don't pay it. If someone takes too much out on a direct debit, sure you'll get your money back... in 1-2 months. Also, any chump with your sort code and account number (which you have to hand out to people who want to send you money) can set up a direct debit on your account.
Yes, and there's a perfectly good way for determining which protocol someone wants, that being the port number. By all means route different services to different machines internally, but the details of that shouldn't be exposed to external users; there should be one, and only one, public-facing domain name, on which all your public services are available.
Electric cars do nothing for such people, their range is too limited. And while we'll eventually need to do something about the CO2 emissions of the what, 3% of the population who actually need to live out in the country, better to go after the big target first.
It's useful for the people as a whole if services are available at earlier hours during summer. So the federal government changes its clock, government offices change when they open, and most businesses go along with them for convenience. So right back at you; if you want to get up at the same "absolute time" in summer, why don't you? But don't bitch that the stores are shutting an hour earlier; that's what the majority prefers.
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If you're trying to install a java library system-wide you're doing it wrong; yes having each program package its dependencies is frustratingly wasteful, but it makes sure behaviour is consistent and reproducible.
Why bother when you have C,C++,Shell, perl, python, ruby, lisp,scheme, OCaml, Haskell, hell even Java although to be honest about how the Java community is run, why bother with Java either?
Because Java gets you a huge supply of proven libraries without any native code. Because the tools for packaging, dependency management and building are better than anything else around. I hate writing Java, but having used it in a corporate setting I can see why its been so successful.
They didn't bitch about "teaching to the test" because that is what they are supposed to be doing. If a kid can pass the test, the kid has learned. Job done.
Erm, balls to that. You can tell the kids the answers (or, being more realistic, tell them where to put the numbers in from a particular phrasing of a question) and they'll have learned nothing, but they'll pass the test.
As of v3 you can't mix tabs and spaces in the same file, which removes the "invisible bug" problem. Allowing an arbitrary number of spaces to indent a block is arguably too much flexibility, but since the indentation of each block has to be consistent I've never seen it render the code unclear.
Water wheels were around for centuries, used to power mills. What started the industrial revolution was learning to refine iron using coal rather than charcoal - which was an evolutionary improvement, but made iron a lot cheaper.
I'm just in the process of dusting off my asus a730w from about '05. Touch but no multi-touch, came with a stylus but you didn't need it, 450mhz intel xscale, windows mobile 2003, 640x480 screen, perhaps 15mm thick, weighed I don't know, maybe 200g, 3 hours usage time, price about £125, thousands of apps at least. Form factor feels more like a modern phone, but in many ways it acts like a tablet, and I can see a continuous line of incremental improvement from there to the ipad. The app store is innovation from apple, and I still don't know how they got all those developers lining up to port programs for them - I can only assume they convinced them there's money in it. I guess apple users have always been willing to spend money on small utilities that PC users would expect to find for free. Or maybe it's just that anyone who'd pay apple prices on these things must have money to burn. But either way, sure, the app store thing is something apple did first, and calling the google one a knock-off is fair. But on the hardware side the ipad is evolutionary and nothing more, and any number of non-apple tablets can match that.
Oh come off it. How many years would you have to work on $150k/year to match earning median income until typical retirement?
The stupid thing is, none of those will work with this thing since it only has HDMI and not VGA or even DVI.
Please. You should be happy that he's using facebook in unintended ways. Just because they write "friend" on the button doesn't mean you have to treat it like a friendship.
Sure, as is the possibility that something would hit the earth.
The odds of hitting a 3600000m-wide planet and those of hitting a 100m-wide asteroid are not remotely in the same ballpark.
Though I'm no math-head, I would assume that our chances for being hit would increase...even a tiny, tiny amount.
Not necessarily; there's also a chance that an incoming rock that would've otherwise hit the earth will hit our new mining source. But either way, astronomically smaller than those that a rock will just hit the earth without going anywhere near this mining rock, and therefore not worth worrying about.
So you are proposing hauling all the infrastructure and people (no, we don't have robots that can substitute for all of them) to build anything of value in space from raw materials? I doubt that would be any cheaper than hauling it down to earth.
Depends on the scale and complexity. You'd make intricate components on Earth, but something like segments for making big mirrors mirror (which have any number of uses - astronomy, power collection, cooling the earth) could be made by robots, and once you've got your admittedly heavy smelter up in orbit you can churn out as many as you like.
Um, what? Optical fiber is the correct term for it. Wouldn't want to confuse it with piece-of-string internet.
So how do you test your Windows software under Linux or FreeBSD without installing a copy of Windows into VirtualBox? Or do you want your software to rely on Wine bugs?
More to the point, I can write software for my windows phone under Linux or FreeBSD, and test it on the actual phone. Can't do that with an iPhone.
IIRC the main problem with multicast was it required all the routers in between to support it, and why would you upgrade something that was already working. Maybe with IPv6 we'll get working multicast, since that requires replacing/upgrading all your routers anyway.
even (good) 1080p is indistinguishable from reality at a distance of 10 feet
Depends on the screen size. 2880p is the point where pixels become invisible across the THX recommended viewing angles for cinemas (up to ~1/3 of your field of vision IIRC).
What's needed is for libraries to be strict in their versioning, and for the OS to support having multiple versions of the same library when needed. This is actually something that MS has got right in recent years - seriously, when was the last time you had a "dll hell" problem - while linux in particular lags behind.
When we can store more full-quality (we're talking 2880p and probably 120fps) video on a single drive than you could ever want, then it's enough. But you yourself say there are databases bigger than 2TB out there; of course people are going to want to transport them. Honestly 8GB is plenty for most espionage purposes already.
Um, no. Torture is torture. Waterboarding is torture, and that's a fight that needs to be fought. Solitary confinement... isn't.
Direct debits are a million times worse than credit cards. If someone runs up a bill on your credit card, you tell them it's fraud and don't pay it. If someone takes too much out on a direct debit, sure you'll get your money back... in 1-2 months. Also, any chump with your sort code and account number (which you have to hand out to people who want to send you money) can set up a direct debit on your account.
Yes, and there's a perfectly good way for determining which protocol someone wants, that being the port number. By all means route different services to different machines internally, but the details of that shouldn't be exposed to external users; there should be one, and only one, public-facing domain name, on which all your public services are available.
Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitals_(novel)
Electric cars do nothing for such people, their range is too limited. And while we'll eventually need to do something about the CO2 emissions of the what, 3% of the population who actually need to live out in the country, better to go after the big target first.
EFFICIENT add-ons are more valuable than tons of DUMP so-called add-on.
Yeah, and a browser that has the right features in the first place is more valuable still.
BTW, Firefox also runs on Linux based OS
And? So do most of the browsers they mention.
If they'd mentioned the add-ons then they should've run the test with a few installed; my guess is it'd make firefox's performance even worse.
It's useful for the people as a whole if services are available at earlier hours during summer. So the federal government changes its clock, government offices change when they open, and most businesses go along with them for convenience. So right back at you; if you want to get up at the same "absolute time" in summer, why don't you? But don't bitch that the stores are shutting an hour earlier; that's what the majority prefers.