The obvious one about the Royal Astronomical Society coming to the conclusion that ROCKS DO NOT FALL FROM THE SKY and therefore, anyone who reports finding a meteorite is lying.
Citation Needed
My google fu is a bit weak right now, but apparently, I was wrong about which group stated it. It was the French Academy of Sciences, not the Royal Astronomical Society. Same idea. https://www.newscientist.com/a...
How does it contradict my point?... And scientists are not fully sure of what Dark Matter is, but they are unequivocally stating that they donâ(TM)t know.
Many scientists agree that Dark Matter exists. Dark Matter is merely the result of torturing a misunderstanding beyond reason. It does not actually exist in any way, shape, or form.
There are competing ideas like quantum gravity but no one has been able to bring forth a verifiable model yet. That doesnâ(TM)t mean General Relativity is wrong.
There are very few things that I believe, but I take it as a matter of faith that General Relativity is as close to real Truth as humans have found. Dark Matter is not predicted by General Relativity.
Short breakdown:
Do a search with the term "gravity bends spacetime". See the results?
Now, what if gravity doesn't bend spacetime, rather gravity is a consequence of the shape of spacetime?
All the same equations describe the situation, but now, gravity is no longer a fundamental force. This can be described quite nicely in a primitive two dimensional manner: Any change in the rate of time flow will result in an acceleration towards the lower change in rate. (time flows faster for an object the further it is from another mass)
It is actually much more subtle than that, but General Relativity continues working just fine. Gravity is just an illusion... but I would not recommend stepping off of a cliff. Your body will still be accelerated as would be expected if gravity were not an illusion.
Dark Matter and Gravity are illusions based on our limited understanding of the actual shape and nature of spacetime.
Remember when Obama was in office and there was outrage over spying on Angela Merkel's phone? Yeah, figured you forgot about that.
So Germany can either get in bed with America again, where the Germans know for an absolute FACT that America will be spying on them... or, they could take a gamble on Huawei.
As a government, I wouldn't trust either, but since they are not making the technology themselves, they will have to choose the lesser of the evils.
If you suspect the CIA/NSA is really after you I wouldn't recommend you to use Lastpass, or Windows.
Or any modern CPU. That "management" feature that you can't disable? Yeah, that is a back door. Even worse, I know for a fact the Intel CPUs were being built with 3G chipsets inside of them, so even being "offline" isn't good enough. The entire computing environment needs to be TEMPEST shielded, as in Enemy of the State.
I assume they have upgraded from 3G in their CPUs. You simply can not trust any modern technology if the CIA/NSA is after you.
It should also be noted that it is not technically difficult to build an EM sensor that can capture the weakest of EM radiations up to about 50 feet away. Without TEMPEST, they can read the data travelling on the CPU bus from 50 feet away.
Also your assertion is somehow 97% of the people who know, study, and understand a subject will gladly accept a lie.
Welllllll, now that you mention it...
The obvious one about the Royal Astronomical Society coming to the conclusion that ROCKS DO NOT FALL FROM THE SKY and therefore, anyone who reports finding a meteorite is lying.
But, let's work with something a bit less obvious: Dark Matter. 97% of scientists appear to believe in this claptrap. I am sorry, but what is really going on here is that scientists have no fucking clue what gravity is and can only work with the obvious result of gravity, which is acceleration. Acceleration is NOT gravity. Attraction is NOT gravity. Those are the results of gravity, not gravity itself. Numerous scientists have said that spacetime is "bending" but nobody wants to acknowledge what that means (understandable, nobody likes thinking that reality might be WAY different than what they believe).
What does "bent space" look like? Well, it looks like what current galactic rotation curves show... but it looks incomprehensible to us because a meter is a meter and is always the same regardless of the environment. There are not even words to describe "bent space" because it is so alien to us... but the smartest scientists keep talking about "bent space" without fully understanding/thinking it through.
So yeah, Dark Matter contradicts your point. What is worse is that many younger physicists think that Dark Matter isn't just a placeholder for things we don't know, they think it is an actual thing.:)
Throwing away all of the moderations I did in this discussion:
Ok. You know someone who was harmed by vaccines. Do you know anyone who has been harmed by disease? Have you seen what the diseases do?
The ultimate question: Do you feel that the harm done by the vaccine was greater than the harm done by the virus the vaccine was proof against?
Mind you, in order to answer that question fully, you have to consider how many people are harmed by the vaccine and how many people are harmed by the disease. You can't just say, "the person died, but the disease would have only crippled him for life".
Remember, this is a numbers game. If 50 people died from the vaccine and 1,000 would have been crippled by the disease, I would still call that a huge win, even if I were one of the unlucky ones.:(
it's about _control_. You want to be the exclusive source for comment and truth about your God so that folks have to get to God through _you_. Then you can charge them for the privilege.
You called this one correctly. (credit where credit is due)
I think my point was not as clear as it could have been.
I only referenced DST in my response to your discussion of time zones and DST. I don't want localtime to be moved around based on the position of the sun in the sky. I am sympathetic to people wanting their days to be defined by daylight. It can be done by agreeing to go work an hour earlier or later rather than saying that time itself has changed.
I will address time zones now. The military has all of this figured out just fine. You use Zulu time (essentially GMT) for everything of note. You use localtime for everything else. Zulu time is essentially one time zone for the entire planet. Localtime is whatever craziness the local authorities decided upon, such as Kabul being a half hour, rather than hour off from the previous timezone.
It is desirable for an Administrative Unit, such as a country like India, or an ISP such as HE.net, to want to simplify administrative tasks, through a single unified time zone. This has nothing to do with flat Earth thinking; although I am sure some arrive at the same conclusion through flat Earth thinking.
TL;DR. Don't fuck with how time is measured. Use localtime for non-important stuff like scheduling lunch and use GMT for logs, International Treaties, etc.
Which is why there should be laws penalizing invasion of privacy.
That will not happen in the USA. The foundational laws of the land tell the government they can't collect that kind of data about its citizens. The un-elected officials are, at heart, dictators. That is a normal consequence of working in government and being lazy.
So how will these would-be dictators get all their data? Through businesses collecting it and then passing laws granting government access to it.
No. You will not get any serious privacy laws passed in the USA. The government wants control/information and businesses want money. I am pretty sure America can be called a failed experiment in Freedom at this time... but, the show isn't over until the fat lady sings.
There is no hidden motive, as some seem to suspect.
They suspect it because they likely do have a hidden motive. I can see very clearly that you are genuine. If I had any hidden motives, it would prevent me from seeing you being genuine.
That and I've got a mod stalker who systematically mods everything I post as troll until they run out of points
I fundamentally disagree with you on many your positions and ideas. I hold the person doing that to you in lower regard than I do you. You are honest and straightforward with your beliefs; therefore, you still deserve basic human respect. What this person is doing is completely unacceptable to me. What is worse, is that it is anonymous, so you can't even address whatever it is they are pissed off about. That person does not deserve basic human respect. Fuck them.
But the point is if you are an American living in the U.S., a Chinese government back door and spying is less dangerous to you than a U.S. government back door and spying.
That is exactly why I have a Huawei smart phone. If there is going to be a backdoor, I want the organization that has access to it to not have any direct control over my life. China doesn't care about me.:)
I noticed that too. (btw hello, we have not talked in a while)
Then it occurred to me, if I were not aware that I was looking at manufactured images, I would not have noticed on casual inspection.
I went through a few dozen images. Amazing stuff. Still needs human caretaking to ensure a perfect final product.
But yeah, "I saw Angelina Jolie's eyes, Brad Pitt's jaw, Caitlin Jenner's hair.", too. It was weird. Like I was seeing some aspect of what makes up a real human. I saw one photo that looked absolutely real, where I could feel the humanity behind the face. The rest didn't stir that sense of "intimacy".
The DST and now single Time zone proponents are like a mild form of anti-vaxxing.
I guess that is a valid way of looking at it.
I look at it differently. I have lived a majority of my life without having to deal with DST. Every time I have to deal with it (DST), I get headaches and weariness and I can never concentrate because I always have to worry about when the time is going to change again.
From my point of view, changing time is like changing reality. Fuck that. Reality is. Change yourself. Don't like waking up with the sun in your eyes? Go to bed earlier. Don't try to redefine time itself. If a country feels the need to coordinate large masses of people, then tell them to come in an hour later, don't try to pretend that the time itself has actually changed.
In short, DST is a mental manipulation that REALLY fucks me up. I wish that where I live now did not follow DST.:(
Of course you're just parroting a long standing anti-Union straw man.
So what you are saying is that we don't need to worry about corruption in unions, that we should just join unions regardless of any doubts or prior experiences?
I guess the corruption thing will just work its own way out and should not be a concern to us mortals?
Your blindness is adorable in its naivety. It is also extremely dangerous to me. You are the first person that I have ever considered making a "foe" on Slashdot. Not because you offend me or make me mad. No. It is your blindness. You are dangerous to be near. Your blindness enables and encourages catastrophes to occur. It is like you are advising a sexy young woman to walk down an unlit alley, alone and intoxicated because rape is illegal; therefore, she shouldn't need to worry about protecting herself.
Yeah. You are actively encouraging evil here bro. I don't like it.
Yeah, it must be nice to be the type of person with the resources and connections to actually get crimes like this investigated.
I see a lot of "class warfare" posts. These types of posts are not wrong, but they are not right either.
I get the same sorts of benefits and I am certainly not anyone special. Whenever something happens around me that concerns my special skills, I get much better responses from "authorities".
My judgement is not questioned.
My assessment of the situation is respected.
I get to deal directly with the person most responsible for addressing the situation.
And yet, when I go to a doctor, if they are not accusing me of drug seeking, they dismiss all of my concerns about my health. It is disgusting to get treated that way.
And yet if a nurse walks into a hospital, shit is totally different for that nurse than for me.
TL;DR, The same thing would have happened had it been any well respected law enforcement agent. The exact opposite would have occurred had it been anyone else outside of law enforcement.
In fact correctional services officers should face evaluation and possible penalty for releasing a person who latter commits a crime and certainly the government should pay for the harm caused by a citizen released who was not rehabilitated.
You are not entirely wrong here... but I think you are approaching this in an extremely naive manner. There are volumes of concerns and an infinite number of ways that this idea could lead to hell on earth.
As a society, I don't think we are ready to responsibly start assigning culpability to those who deal with recidivist criminals.
If you claim to cure cancer then this is a special case... your product is illegal and you will be shut down and fined
Sounds like finding the cure to cancer (not that there is just one type of cancer) is quite the minefield over in the UK. If I found a cure to cancer, I couldn't sell my product as such because it is illegal!
Or did I misunderstand your words or intended meaning?:)
Yeah, yeah. I get it. A cure for cancer would be announced and it would be a HUGE medical discovery that couldn't be held back. It is just that the laws sound... somewhat odd.
Hm. My iPhone 3GS didn't get the update to ios12. As a matter of fact, I think I had to stop updating it around IOS 5 or so. The newer versions of IOS slowed it down to unusability.
Yeah, yeah. I know. I didn't buy hardware, I bought access to ios and the hardware that came along with that purchase was not fit for duty 3 years after purchasing said access to ios. I was supposed to know even if it wasn't printed on the side of the box: This hardware will become unusable after 3 years and there is NOTHING (other than block further software upgrades) you can do about it. Have a nice day.
But yeah, feel smug about your IOS always being up to date.... completely ignoring the fact that you have to keep paying for hardware every couple years in order to keep your ios up to date.
C was designed to be more of a shorthand for assembly rather than a high level language.
There is no string type in C. The C Standard Library functions that are string-related have to assume that the pointer you pass will be a pointer to a null terminated array. Those Standard Library functions could have been set up so that they accept a length argument... and in fact, some functions do accept/require a length element. strncpy() is one such function.
C is perfectly fine. The C Standard Library could use some attention, but C is fine AND it is not going anywhere until something can actually replace its functionality. Seeing as how all replacements proposed so far are actually higher level languages, I don't see C getting replaced any time soon.
The problem with creating a replacement for C is that no matter how you design the language, it will still be a weapon of mass destruction in the wrong hands. How could it not be?
Ignorant people seek to kill C. But the language they write their C killer in is... wait for it... C.
Complexity is inescapable. Skill is non-replaceable.
You can wish for a nice warm steak to be in front of you, but I guarantee it will NOT happen without a cow getting murdered, sliced up, and cooked. You can wish for the nastiness to go away, but it will always be there. You either deal with it, write in C, or you try your best to avoid, by using a higher level language than C... but that higher level language was likely written in C.
There is a price to be paid for quality programmers. People seem to be trying VERY hard to avoid that price, but look at what we get for that price: Hardware that is less effectively LESS powerful than the 8.5Mhz 68000 CPU that used to provide an awesome computing experience.
You know, they can't actually pay for good programmers though... they are not willing to pay for management than can recognize and promote quality programmers.
So we get a screensaver in Windows 10 that activates even when a full screen video game is active when this problem was solved several decades ago in Windows 98. Microsoft isn't even wearing clothes anymore and nobody seems to care. Their (Microsoft's) shame is on perfect display for anyone to see... and for some reason, everyone gives them a free pass. WTF?
TL;DR, No. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie would likely have not changed C just to make hiring easier on the corporate types.
Do you really think that putting a highly addictive and harmful product into the hands of kids is acceptable?
Maybe I am missing something here... but I was under the impression that people under 18 years of age can't buy vaping materials legally. If that is the case, we are no more putting these things into the hands of kids than we are putting alcohol into the hands of kids.
If a customer BUYS your software, then you get paid once but you still have to support it for years.
No. You don't have to support it. The customer bought what you were selling and if it was fit for sale at the time, then no support is necessary or needed.
No. The support argument is more about a company not delivering stuff that is fit for sale.
The ultimate goal is to slow people down to the speed limit.
This might be true where you are. In the USA, this is most assuredly not true. In the USA, the speed limits are set to generate revenue, not to facilitate safety. Facilitating safety is the "modesty screen" that they use to hide the fact that they are after money.
How can I be certain that this is true and not a paranoid fantasy? The speeds that are set, are lower than the traffic engineers indicated that the speeds need to be. Slower MUST be safer, right? In a vacuum, yes. In reality, it can make things more dangerous... but that doesn't matter. Money matters.
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The obvious one about the Royal Astronomical Society coming to the conclusion that ROCKS DO NOT FALL FROM THE SKY and therefore, anyone who reports finding a meteorite is lying.
Citation Needed
My google fu is a bit weak right now, but apparently, I was wrong about which group stated it. It was the French Academy of Sciences, not the Royal Astronomical Society. Same idea.
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
How does it contradict my point? ... And scientists are not fully sure of what Dark Matter is, but they are unequivocally stating that they donâ(TM)t know.
Many scientists agree that Dark Matter exists. Dark Matter is merely the result of torturing a misunderstanding beyond reason. It does not actually exist in any way, shape, or form.
There are competing ideas like quantum gravity but no one has been able to bring forth a verifiable model yet. That doesnâ(TM)t mean General Relativity is wrong.
There are very few things that I believe, but I take it as a matter of faith that General Relativity is as close to real Truth as humans have found. Dark Matter is not predicted by General Relativity.
Short breakdown:
Do a search with the term "gravity bends spacetime". See the results?
Now, what if gravity doesn't bend spacetime, rather gravity is a consequence of the shape of spacetime?
All the same equations describe the situation, but now, gravity is no longer a fundamental force. This can be described quite nicely in a primitive two dimensional manner: Any change in the rate of time flow will result in an acceleration towards the lower change in rate. (time flows faster for an object the further it is from another mass)
It is actually much more subtle than that, but General Relativity continues working just fine. Gravity is just an illusion... but I would not recommend stepping off of a cliff. Your body will still be accelerated as would be expected if gravity were not an illusion.
Dark Matter and Gravity are illusions based on our limited understanding of the actual shape and nature of spacetime.
As even Apple has learned. Now Microsoft will be burned.
Really?! Microsoft gave themselves access to ALL of your files and you think that THIS misuse of trust is the one that will get them?
Pardon me for a second. I can't type while I am laughing so hard. I think I might be getting a broken rib here. OMGWTFBBQ
Remember when Obama was in office and there was outrage over spying on Angela Merkel's phone? Yeah, figured you forgot about that.
So Germany can either get in bed with America again, where the Germans know for an absolute FACT that America will be spying on them... or, they could take a gamble on Huawei.
As a government, I wouldn't trust either, but since they are not making the technology themselves, they will have to choose the lesser of the evils.
If you suspect the CIA/NSA is really after you I wouldn't recommend you to use Lastpass, or Windows.
Or any modern CPU. That "management" feature that you can't disable? Yeah, that is a back door. Even worse, I know for a fact the Intel CPUs were being built with 3G chipsets inside of them, so even being "offline" isn't good enough. The entire computing environment needs to be TEMPEST shielded, as in Enemy of the State.
I assume they have upgraded from 3G in their CPUs. You simply can not trust any modern technology if the CIA/NSA is after you.
It should also be noted that it is not technically difficult to build an EM sensor that can capture the weakest of EM radiations up to about 50 feet away. Without TEMPEST, they can read the data travelling on the CPU bus from 50 feet away.
Also your assertion is somehow 97% of the people who know, study, and understand a subject will gladly accept a lie.
Welllllll, now that you mention it...
The obvious one about the Royal Astronomical Society coming to the conclusion that ROCKS DO NOT FALL FROM THE SKY and therefore, anyone who reports finding a meteorite is lying.
But, let's work with something a bit less obvious: Dark Matter. 97% of scientists appear to believe in this claptrap. I am sorry, but what is really going on here is that scientists have no fucking clue what gravity is and can only work with the obvious result of gravity, which is acceleration. Acceleration is NOT gravity. Attraction is NOT gravity. Those are the results of gravity, not gravity itself. Numerous scientists have said that spacetime is "bending" but nobody wants to acknowledge what that means (understandable, nobody likes thinking that reality might be WAY different than what they believe).
What does "bent space" look like? Well, it looks like what current galactic rotation curves show... but it looks incomprehensible to us because a meter is a meter and is always the same regardless of the environment. There are not even words to describe "bent space" because it is so alien to us... but the smartest scientists keep talking about "bent space" without fully understanding/thinking it through.
So yeah, Dark Matter contradicts your point. What is worse is that many younger physicists think that Dark Matter isn't just a placeholder for things we don't know, they think it is an actual thing. :)
Throwing away all of the moderations I did in this discussion:
Ok. You know someone who was harmed by vaccines. Do you know anyone who has been harmed by disease? Have you seen what the diseases do?
The ultimate question:
Do you feel that the harm done by the vaccine was greater than the harm done by the virus the vaccine was proof against?
Mind you, in order to answer that question fully, you have to consider how many people are harmed by the vaccine and how many people are harmed by the disease. You can't just say, "the person died, but the disease would have only crippled him for life".
Remember, this is a numbers game. If 50 people died from the vaccine and 1,000 would have been crippled by the disease, I would still call that a huge win, even if I were one of the unlucky ones. :(
Fuck. A +6 post, I have mod points, it is an anonymous coward, and it is already at +5. *sigh*
Damnit, why couldn't you have logged in to say this?
it's about _control_. You want to be the exclusive source for comment and truth about your God so that folks have to get to God through _you_. Then you can charge them for the privilege.
You called this one correctly. (credit where credit is due)
I think my point was not as clear as it could have been.
I only referenced DST in my response to your discussion of time zones and DST. I don't want localtime to be moved around based on the position of the sun in the sky. I am sympathetic to people wanting their days to be defined by daylight. It can be done by agreeing to go work an hour earlier or later rather than saying that time itself has changed.
I will address time zones now. The military has all of this figured out just fine. You use Zulu time (essentially GMT) for everything of note. You use localtime for everything else. Zulu time is essentially one time zone for the entire planet. Localtime is whatever craziness the local authorities decided upon, such as Kabul being a half hour, rather than hour off from the previous timezone.
It is desirable for an Administrative Unit, such as a country like India, or an ISP such as HE.net, to want to simplify administrative tasks, through a single unified time zone. This has nothing to do with flat Earth thinking; although I am sure some arrive at the same conclusion through flat Earth thinking.
TL;DR. Don't fuck with how time is measured. Use localtime for non-important stuff like scheduling lunch and use GMT for logs, International Treaties, etc.
Which is why there should be laws penalizing invasion of privacy.
That will not happen in the USA. The foundational laws of the land tell the government they can't collect that kind of data about its citizens. The un-elected officials are, at heart, dictators. That is a normal consequence of working in government and being lazy.
So how will these would-be dictators get all their data? Through businesses collecting it and then passing laws granting government access to it.
No. You will not get any serious privacy laws passed in the USA. The government wants control/information and businesses want money. I am pretty sure America can be called a failed experiment in Freedom at this time... but, the show isn't over until the fat lady sings.
There is no hidden motive, as some seem to suspect.
They suspect it because they likely do have a hidden motive. I can see very clearly that you are genuine. If I had any hidden motives, it would prevent me from seeing you being genuine.
That and I've got a mod stalker who systematically mods everything I post as troll until they run out of points
I fundamentally disagree with you on many your positions and ideas. I hold the person doing that to you in lower regard than I do you. You are honest and straightforward with your beliefs; therefore, you still deserve basic human respect. What this person is doing is completely unacceptable to me. What is worse, is that it is anonymous, so you can't even address whatever it is they are pissed off about. That person does not deserve basic human respect. Fuck them.
Have a nice day. :)
But the point is if you are an American living in the U.S., a Chinese government back door and spying is less dangerous to you than a U.S. government back door and spying.
That is exactly why I have a Huawei smart phone. If there is going to be a backdoor, I want the organization that has access to it to not have any direct control over my life. China doesn't care about me. :)
I noticed that too. (btw hello, we have not talked in a while)
Then it occurred to me, if I were not aware that I was looking at manufactured images, I would not have noticed on casual inspection.
I went through a few dozen images. Amazing stuff. Still needs human caretaking to ensure a perfect final product.
But yeah, "I saw Angelina Jolie's eyes, Brad Pitt's jaw, Caitlin Jenner's hair.", too. It was weird. Like I was seeing some aspect of what makes up a real human. I saw one photo that looked absolutely real, where I could feel the humanity behind the face. The rest didn't stir that sense of "intimacy".
The DST and now single Time zone proponents are like a mild form of anti-vaxxing.
I guess that is a valid way of looking at it.
I look at it differently. I have lived a majority of my life without having to deal with DST. Every time I have to deal with it (DST), I get headaches and weariness and I can never concentrate because I always have to worry about when the time is going to change again.
From my point of view, changing time is like changing reality. Fuck that. Reality is. Change yourself. Don't like waking up with the sun in your eyes? Go to bed earlier. Don't try to redefine time itself. If a country feels the need to coordinate large masses of people, then tell them to come in an hour later, don't try to pretend that the time itself has actually changed.
In short, DST is a mental manipulation that REALLY fucks me up. I wish that where I live now did not follow DST. :(
Of course you're just parroting a long standing anti-Union straw man.
So what you are saying is that we don't need to worry about corruption in unions, that we should just join unions regardless of any doubts or prior experiences?
I guess the corruption thing will just work its own way out and should not be a concern to us mortals?
Your blindness is adorable in its naivety. It is also extremely dangerous to me. You are the first person that I have ever considered making a "foe" on Slashdot. Not because you offend me or make me mad. No. It is your blindness. You are dangerous to be near. Your blindness enables and encourages catastrophes to occur. It is like you are advising a sexy young woman to walk down an unlit alley, alone and intoxicated because rape is illegal; therefore, she shouldn't need to worry about protecting herself.
Yeah. You are actively encouraging evil here bro. I don't like it.
Yeah, it must be nice to be the type of person with the resources and connections to actually get crimes like this investigated.
I see a lot of "class warfare" posts. These types of posts are not wrong, but they are not right either.
I get the same sorts of benefits and I am certainly not anyone special. Whenever something happens around me that concerns my special skills, I get much better responses from "authorities".
My judgement is not questioned.
My assessment of the situation is respected.
I get to deal directly with the person most responsible for addressing the situation.
And yet, when I go to a doctor, if they are not accusing me of drug seeking, they dismiss all of my concerns about my health. It is disgusting to get treated that way.
And yet if a nurse walks into a hospital, shit is totally different for that nurse than for me.
TL;DR, The same thing would have happened had it been any well respected law enforcement agent. The exact opposite would have occurred had it been anyone else outside of law enforcement.
In fact correctional services officers should face evaluation and possible penalty for releasing a person who latter commits a crime and certainly the government should pay for the harm caused by a citizen released who was not rehabilitated.
You are not entirely wrong here... but I think you are approaching this in an extremely naive manner. There are volumes of concerns and an infinite number of ways that this idea could lead to hell on earth.
As a society, I don't think we are ready to responsibly start assigning culpability to those who deal with recidivist criminals.
If you claim to cure cancer then this is a special case ... your product is illegal and you will be shut down and fined
Sounds like finding the cure to cancer (not that there is just one type of cancer) is quite the minefield over in the UK. If I found a cure to cancer, I couldn't sell my product as such because it is illegal!
Or did I misunderstand your words or intended meaning? :)
Yeah, yeah. I get it. A cure for cancer would be announced and it would be a HUGE medical discovery that couldn't be held back. It is just that the laws sound... somewhat odd.
Hm. My iPhone 3GS didn't get the update to ios12. As a matter of fact, I think I had to stop updating it around IOS 5 or so. The newer versions of IOS slowed it down to unusability.
Yeah, yeah. I know. I didn't buy hardware, I bought access to ios and the hardware that came along with that purchase was not fit for duty 3 years after purchasing said access to ios. I was supposed to know even if it wasn't printed on the side of the box: This hardware will become unusable after 3 years and there is NOTHING (other than block further software upgrades) you can do about it. Have a nice day.
But yeah, feel smug about your IOS always being up to date.... completely ignoring the fact that you have to keep paying for hardware every couple years in order to keep your ios up to date.
C was designed to be more of a shorthand for assembly rather than a high level language.
There is no string type in C. The C Standard Library functions that are string-related have to assume that the pointer you pass will be a pointer to a null terminated array. Those Standard Library functions could have been set up so that they accept a length argument... and in fact, some functions do accept/require a length element. strncpy() is one such function.
C is perfectly fine. The C Standard Library could use some attention, but C is fine AND it is not going anywhere until something can actually replace its functionality. Seeing as how all replacements proposed so far are actually higher level languages, I don't see C getting replaced any time soon.
The problem with creating a replacement for C is that no matter how you design the language, it will still be a weapon of mass destruction in the wrong hands. How could it not be?
Ignorant people seek to kill C. But the language they write their C killer in is... wait for it... C.
Complexity is inescapable. Skill is non-replaceable.
You can wish for a nice warm steak to be in front of you, but I guarantee it will NOT happen without a cow getting murdered, sliced up, and cooked. You can wish for the nastiness to go away, but it will always be there. You either deal with it, write in C, or you try your best to avoid, by using a higher level language than C... but that higher level language was likely written in C.
There is a price to be paid for quality programmers. People seem to be trying VERY hard to avoid that price, but look at what we get for that price: Hardware that is less effectively LESS powerful than the 8.5Mhz 68000 CPU that used to provide an awesome computing experience.
You know, they can't actually pay for good programmers though... they are not willing to pay for management than can recognize and promote quality programmers.
So we get a screensaver in Windows 10 that activates even when a full screen video game is active when this problem was solved several decades ago in Windows 98. Microsoft isn't even wearing clothes anymore and nobody seems to care. Their (Microsoft's) shame is on perfect display for anyone to see... and for some reason, everyone gives them a free pass. WTF?
TL;DR, No. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie would likely have not changed C just to make hiring easier on the corporate types.
Do you really think that putting a highly addictive and harmful product into the hands of kids is acceptable?
Maybe I am missing something here... but I was under the impression that people under 18 years of age can't buy vaping materials legally. If that is the case, we are no more putting these things into the hands of kids than we are putting alcohol into the hands of kids.
Or are you referring to something else here?
Why on earth would Adobe - exclusively a software company - need to design their own silicon?
Ummm... because the "tax" imposed by the current silicon overlords is too much to pay? Because the current silicon is not flexible enough?
I can think of a dozen reasons. What should bother you about all of this is that it is necessary.
If a customer BUYS your software, then you get paid once but you still have to support it for years.
No. You don't have to support it. The customer bought what you were selling and if it was fit for sale at the time, then no support is necessary or needed.
No. The support argument is more about a company not delivering stuff that is fit for sale.
The ultimate goal is to slow people down to the speed limit.
This might be true where you are. In the USA, this is most assuredly not true. In the USA, the speed limits are set to generate revenue, not to facilitate safety. Facilitating safety is the "modesty screen" that they use to hide the fact that they are after money.
How can I be certain that this is true and not a paranoid fantasy? The speeds that are set, are lower than the traffic engineers indicated that the speeds need to be. Slower MUST be safer, right? In a vacuum, yes. In reality, it can make things more dangerous... but that doesn't matter. Money matters.