Having a vinegar rag over your face is indeed helping against catching bacteria, and in case of flue, it will at least filter the air and reduce the risk of catching it. However plague is mainly transmitted via flea bites.
I was of the opinion that the anti vaxing... oh... vaccing... shit red underlined, too... anyway: the anti scene agains vaccination (ha! not red!) is a new phenomenon?
Your very first claim is false: in Preferences - Advanced - Firefox updates, you can easily set it to ask or never check.
I stopped using FF when they _removed_ that option.
No idea if they reintroduced it.
One of my reasons to use Firefox is that it at supports ad blocking on Android. Ah, I have a new Android device, I could try FF on it for that reason, thanx for the info.
I know that you can activate the menu... but as I said: I don't use FF anymore. Only if I have to do a manual test in an obscure software project.
Why should I be incompetent when I prefer Java and C++ over C? Or Scala over Lisp? Or Groovy for that matter?
What has competence to do with this discussion?
You can not do Aspect Oriented programming in C, well, there is an experimental tool chain for LLVM and C++, I guess a few parts would work for C.
No idea why you are ranting so angry.
C is for people who _need_ to use it for a particular reason. For everyone else it is a break, no idea why you want to argue about simple facts like this.
The toolchain is important. Especially if you need to hire people who can operate, maintain and improve it.
If you think otherwise, then you are incompetent, not me.
Monsanto is suing people who have done nothing wrong into bankruptcy and poverty. That was my point, you can find enough stuff about that yourself.
That was not one of the cross pollination cases (more of someone trying to get circumvent patent law with a perceived loophole), however the Supreme Court would later unanimously and in my opinion justly rule in favor of Monsanto. Actually it was not a cross pollination, some seeds of surrounding fields dropped on his fields. So he lost his farm for a couple of random plants. Not for a paten violation... How people can believe a farmer is violating the patent is beyond me anyway. For violating a patent you must "craft a similar product" using "technologies" described in the patent.
If you want to be taken seriously, then don't write nonsense.
E.g. Webs Sites have no access to my GPS locating device or my position beyond my IP address and what ever geo position they conclude from it. E.g. if you would use my current IP address to figure my location you would probably be off by 2km or more (roughly 1.5miles).
What is actually the "main CPU"? Do you have non "main CPU"s on your phone? Interesting.... I'm a poor guy, I only have an old iPhone 4S, it only has a single CPU, I guess that is the main CPU then?
and probably others as well that I cant think of off the top of my head. No worries, you don't need to think. Let that be done by the horses. They have bigger heads.
Since 5 years or so Firefox is autoupdating (you can not disable it) and causing problems over problems (failed updates etc. or UI changes). Why Mozzial.org thinks removing the menu bar and having a "hamburger menu" instead is a good thing is beyond me. Most people tried to revert but could not, then they deleted FF and went to other browsers.
None of my friends is using FF anymore. I only use it when a software project demands FF compatibility and we have to use it for tests. Or for fancy GreeseMonkey scripts.
I think I have no FF anymore n my Mac since 7 or 8 years... and as long as they don't revert to a sane browser with a menu bar and no automatic forced update I won't try it again.
Slackware used to be close to BSD and most other Linux distros are close to System V and the modern mix of BSD/System V. If you really want to switch, why not to Open BSD?
A real program is done in a reasonable time. Is maintainable. And is written in a language you find Employees for.
And most certainly it is not written in a portable assembler, unless you have to, e.g. in some embedded environments where C++ is overkill or not manageable.
x) Abstracts work into reusable components Close to impossible in C, as C is not object oriented. You are stuck with simple libraries like stdio and math etc.
x) Abstracts interfaces into functional, communicable units Completely impossible in C as C has nothing that resembles interfaces.
Me? I write in C. I doubt that. Or you would not have written nonsense like above.
And the weird thing is that most of them eventually rely on the C runtime like virtually every other piece of software. You are an idiot, right? Unless you compile for a virtual machine all languages/compilers compile to machine code. Pascal, COBOL, Fortran and co don't need/use any C...
Cell phones have a GPS and it's automatically activated whenever you call 911. No. Only a few cell phones have GPS. And no again: it is not automatically "activated" and or transferred to the calling site.
And you perhaps should read what you link:
In 1996, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order requiring wireless carriers to determine and transmit the location of callers who dial 9-1-1. The FCC set up a phased program: Phase I involved sending the location of the receiving antenna for 9-1-1 calls, while Phase II sends the location of the calling telephone. Carriers were allowed to choose to implement 'handset based' location by Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar technology in each phone, or 'network based' location by means of triangulation between cell towers. The order set technical and accuracy requirements: carriers using 'handset based' technology must report handset location within 50 meters for 67% of calls, and within 150 meters for 90% of calls; carriers using 'network based' technology must report location within 100 meters for 67% of calls and 300 meters for 90% of calls.
Or scroll down to "Technology" and read from here on.
So the truth is: some american network providers use GPS of phones to assist 911. Not all of them, though.
has completely ignored the fact that you can't locate most cell phone calls any better than several hundred meters That is nonsense.
The problem with plant patents is their abuse e.g. by companies like Monsanto. Some stray seeds land on your ground, the plant grows, they sue you for patent infringement and surprisingly won often enough to sue farmers into poverty and losing all their land. Why a court has no common sense that plants have seeds and they grow where they drop is beyond me. We are not talking about farmers who had a field full with crops from patents but a few single plants.
Unfortunately vaccines and GMO have nothing in common. The first one is a life saver and the last one a permanent risk. And yes: I'm informed about both as we learn about both in school from about age 10 or 12 on...
And yes, your cell often sends your location via GPS to your provider No it does not. GPS is a receiver only thing. You can not send data (your position) via GPS. Sentences like this make your whole post inplausible.
Triangulating from cell towers is Hollywood fantasy No it is not. I wrote software for law enforcement where we used features like this.
Exactly my point. However/. is full with people who consider "new things for nerds" evil instead of interesting. No one has to use Rust. But it has lots of nice features. Self proclaimed experts here should acknowledge that.
Wow... you seem not to be in the software business...
A real program: OAuth HTTP Request to an authentification server REST requests to the main business servers SOAP request to a legacy system Backend(s) request data from relational and NoSQL databases Some data gets piped in from third parties as XML or JSON Some other data gets in in proprietary file formats
And all this is handled by various pieces of "software" written in "some language"
The language, is the least problem, but if you use C or Perl you add to the problems, you don't make anything "simple".
Why do you call the once a year mentioning of Rust a Hype? Typical american? You know something, which most people don't know, you get news about it "again" and then you call it a hype? I would assume that 90% or more "developers" or "programmers" never ever have heard about Rust. I only know Rust because it is occasionally mentioned on/.
This "hype scare" is a quite strange thing for us europeans.
Honestly, I rather code in Rust than C. Yes, a lot of coding *is* about the language, and the eco system of tools and libraries in that "platform", that is e.g. why Java is so widely successful. As a language It is just a simpler C++ but with VM and libraries and tools it is far beyond everything else. E.g. I never would code in VB... (regardless of old or.Net), it makes me eye cancer and brain cancer same time. I rather take the bullet and code in Lisp/Scheme... and get lost in the labyrinth of braces...
Well, C++ might be a bit ugly when it comes to templates, but for that you have typedef. Nothing against Rust, it looks like a decent enough language (exept for the name, looks like the inventors like to repeat the subvers-ive/ion failure).
Anyway: why would one replace C with Rust instead of C++ is beyond me.
If you write new code, then I would probably agree, but for existing old code I see no justification.
I wonder if there is a Rust to JVM compiler... googeling a bit...
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Having a vinegar rag over your face is indeed helping against catching bacteria, and in case of flue, it will at least filter the air and reduce the risk of catching it.
However plague is mainly transmitted via flea bites.
I was of the opinion that the anti vaxing ... oh ... vaccing ... shit red underlined, too ... anyway: the anti scene agains vaccination (ha! not red!) is a new phenomenon?
Your very first claim is false: in Preferences - Advanced - Firefox updates, you can easily set it to ask or never check.
I stopped using FF when they _removed_ that option.
No idea if they reintroduced it.
One of my reasons to use Firefox is that it at supports ad blocking on Android.
Ah, I have a new Android device, I could try FF on it for that reason, thanx for the info.
I know that you can activate the menu ... but as I said: I don't use FF anymore. Only if I have to do a manual test in an obscure software project.
Why should I be incompetent when I prefer Java and C++ over C?
Or Scala over Lisp? Or Groovy for that matter?
What has competence to do with this discussion?
You can not do Aspect Oriented programming in C, well, there is an experimental tool chain for LLVM and C++, I guess a few parts would work for C.
No idea why you are ranting so angry.
C is for people who _need_ to use it for a particular reason. For everyone else it is a break, no idea why you want to argue about simple facts like this.
The toolchain is important. Especially if you need to hire people who can operate, maintain and improve it.
If you think otherwise, then you are incompetent, not me.
You want to tell me, your company is writing their business applications in C?
Sorry, I don't believe that.
Yes fail :D
As I fail to see a hype.
Monsanto is suing people who have done nothing wrong into bankruptcy and poverty.
That was my point, you can find enough stuff about that yourself.
That was not one of the cross pollination cases (more of someone trying to get circumvent patent law with a perceived loophole), however the Supreme Court would later unanimously and in my opinion justly rule in favor of Monsanto. ...
Actually it was not a cross pollination, some seeds of surrounding fields dropped on his fields. So he lost his farm for a couple of random plants. Not for a paten violation
How people can believe a farmer is violating the patent is beyond me anyway. For violating a patent you must "craft a similar product" using "technologies" described in the patent.
If you want to be taken seriously, then don't write nonsense.
E.g. Webs Sites have no access to my GPS locating device or my position beyond my IP address and what ever geo position they conclude from it. E.g. if you would use my current IP address to figure my location you would probably be off by 2km or more (roughly 1.5miles).
What is actually the "main CPU"? Do you have non "main CPU"s on your phone? Interesting ....
I'm a poor guy, I only have an old iPhone 4S, it only has a single CPU, I guess that is the main CPU then?
and probably others as well that I cant think of off the top of my head.
No worries, you don't need to think. Let that be done by the horses. They have bigger heads.
Since 5 years or so Firefox is autoupdating (you can not disable it) and causing problems over problems (failed updates etc. or UI changes). Why Mozzial.org thinks removing the menu bar and having a "hamburger menu" instead is a good thing is beyond me. Most people tried to revert but could not, then they deleted FF and went to other browsers.
None of my friends is using FF anymore. I only use it when a software project demands FF compatibility and we have to use it for tests. Or for fancy GreeseMonkey scripts.
I think I have no FF anymore n my Mac since 7 or 8 years ... and as long as they don't revert to a sane browser with a menu bar and no automatic forced update I won't try it again.
For tha we would need to know your bitcoin address!
Slackware used to be close to BSD and most other Linux distros are close to System V and the modern mix of BSD/System V.
If you really want to switch, why not to Open BSD?
I just created a random binary digit user on my Mac. Starting with a 0 ... no problem. ...
AFAIK user names only need to be type able on a keyboard
First hit on a google search:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
A real program is done in a reasonable time.
Is maintainable.
And is written in a language you find Employees for.
And most certainly it is not written in a portable assembler, unless you have to, e.g. in some embedded environments where C++ is overkill or not manageable.
x) Abstracts work into reusable components
Close to impossible in C, as C is not object oriented. You are stuck with simple libraries like stdio and math etc.
x) Abstracts interfaces into functional, communicable units
Completely impossible in C as C has nothing that resembles interfaces.
Me? I write in C.
I doubt that. Or you would not have written nonsense like above.
And the weird thing is that most of them eventually rely on the C runtime like virtually every other piece of software. ...
You are an idiot, right? Unless you compile for a virtual machine all languages/compilers compile to machine code. Pascal, COBOL, Fortran and co don't need/use any C
I'm not from this planet, are you? (or do I need to write "is"?)
Cell phones have a GPS and it's automatically activated whenever you call 911.
No.
Only a few cell phones have GPS.
And no again: it is not automatically "activated" and or transferred to the calling site.
And you perhaps should read what you link:
In 1996, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order requiring wireless carriers to determine and transmit the location of callers who dial 9-1-1. The FCC set up a phased program: Phase I involved sending the location of the receiving antenna for 9-1-1 calls, while Phase II sends the location of the calling telephone. Carriers were allowed to choose to implement 'handset based' location by Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar technology in each phone, or 'network based' location by means of triangulation between cell towers. The order set technical and accuracy requirements: carriers using 'handset based' technology must report handset location within 50 meters for 67% of calls, and within 150 meters for 90% of calls; carriers using 'network based' technology must report location within 100 meters for 67% of calls and 300 meters for 90% of calls.
Or scroll down to "Technology" and read from here on.
So the truth is: some american network providers use GPS of phones to assist 911. Not all of them, though.
has completely ignored the fact that you can't locate most cell phone calls any better than several hundred meters
That is nonsense.
The problem with plant patents is their abuse e.g. by companies like Monsanto.
Some stray seeds land on your ground, the plant grows, they sue you for patent infringement and surprisingly won often enough to sue farmers into poverty and losing all their land.
Why a court has no common sense that plants have seeds and they grow where they drop is beyond me.
We are not talking about farmers who had a field full with crops from patents but a few single plants.
Unfortunately vaccines and GMO have nothing in common. ...
The first one is a life saver and the last one a permanent risk.
And yes: I'm informed about both as we learn about both in school from about age 10 or 12 on
And yes, your cell often sends your location via GPS to your provider
No it does not.
GPS is a receiver only thing.
You can not send data (your position) via GPS.
Sentences like this make your whole post inplausible.
Triangulating from cell towers is Hollywood fantasy
No it is not. I wrote software for law enforcement where we used features like this.
Your GPS ideas are fantasy, though.
Exactly my point. /. is full with people who consider "new things for nerds" evil instead of interesting.
However
No one has to use Rust. But it has lots of nice features. Self proclaimed experts here should acknowledge that.
Considering that your awk code from the late 70's does nor compile either, I fail to see your point ;D
Wow ... you seem not to be in the software business ...
A real program:
OAuth HTTP Request to an authentification server
REST requests to the main business servers
SOAP request to a legacy system
Backend(s) request data from relational and NoSQL databases
Some data gets piped in from third parties as XML or JSON
Some other data gets in in proprietary file formats
And all this is handled by various pieces of "software" written in "some language"
The language, is the least problem, but if you use C or Perl you add to the problems, you don't make anything "simple".
You never will be CTO/CIO in my company ...
Why do you call the once a year mentioning of Rust a Hype? /.
Typical american?
You know something, which most people don't know, you get news about it "again" and then you call it a hype?
I would assume that 90% or more "developers" or "programmers" never ever have heard about Rust.
I only know Rust because it is occasionally mentioned on
This "hype scare" is a quite strange thing for us europeans.
Exactly.
And that is why we still see ppl on /. who argue functional or object oriented is evil.
Honestly, I rather code in Rust than C. ... (regardless of old or .Net), it makes me eye cancer and brain cancer same time. ... and get lost in the labyrinth of braces ...
Yes, a lot of coding *is* about the language, and the eco system of tools and libraries in that "platform", that is e.g. why Java is so widely successful. As a language It is just a simpler C++ but with VM and libraries and tools it is far beyond everything else.
E.g. I never would code in VB
I rather take the bullet and code in Lisp/Scheme
Well,
C++ might be a bit ugly when it comes to templates, but for that you have typedef.
Nothing against Rust, it looks like a decent enough language (exept for the name, looks like the inventors like to repeat the subvers-ive/ion failure).
Anyway: why would one replace C with Rust instead of C++ is beyond me.
If you write new code, then I would probably agree, but for existing old code I see no justification.
I wonder if there is a Rust to JVM compiler ... googeling a bit ...