And that's what OOP should be - it should be abstracting away which modules to call and automatically parallelize the calculations on an array as optimally as possible for the platform. However OOP's fame has made it that programmers think everything should be an object within an object within an object.
Need an array? There's an object for that which includes the array and all functions you might ever need to call in your life as a programmer. Need a string? Here's an object for that where you can serialize it in a AJAX call and also divide your string by a numerical value. Need a low-level GPU calculation? Here's an object that instantiates the whole freakin' GPU's memory space. I just built a program - it's also an object so you can put your object in my object and we can object our programs together.
I wonder if it would be profitable for a food place like Subway that makes 25c sandwiches (really, hardly any meat and the sandwiches have shrunk from a liberal foot x 3" to something akin to a Wal-Mart hot dog bun) to be sponsored entirely by compulsory advertising. Has our whole economy become sustainable by using ads as an exchange of goods and services?
Cannibalism was/is not something that happens or even happened all that often. It was either used in rituals, usually when fighting with another tribe and then only certain parts (brains or vital organs - wherever your soul or power was considered to be located) or in extreme situations (survival) but most of all it was used to dehumanize an opponent and morally authorize savagery from the other side. It is associated with a Creutzfeldt-Jakob type disease in humans but I don't think that it's prevalent anymore because of that even among less developed tribes.
ADC was DVI + USB + power, nothing really special. A simple (3rd party) converter was all that was needed to get a DVI signal. It was darn convenient though to have a single connector to your computer.
Thunderbolt = PCIe, just another way of connecting the bus to the outside world. It really depends on your CPU and any latency, jitter and interference the outside connection introduces. It's also cheaper compared to other same-speed tech (such as 10GbE) as you require less controllers and the controllers these days are baked into the CPU.
It's a University, people in the administration of those institutions waste massive amounts of taxpayer money doing other random stuff that nobody asks for and nobody wants. At least they did something somewhat productive with their time. When you can explain to me why a 15,000 University where individual departments take charge of their own IT need ~1,500 heads in the Central IT department to keep a network, a datacenter and some phones running, let me know.
Developers report that Apple has internally officially announced that it will pull Samba from Mac OS X Lion and Lion Server, and replace it with Windows networking software developed by Apple.
Where is the citation for that snippet? Given that they currently heavily rely on not only Samba but also are pretty far in the development of Lion without replacing it, I think this is some uninformed blogger trying to get hits on his Google AdSense account.
Maybe they should do like the iPhone then. Encrypt everything by default and when you're done with it it erases the private key - all data unreadable in under a second. I don't know where GP comes from that Apple can't but Apple is the ONLY device besides the newer Androids and some old BB's that has it and does it reliably/remotely. Many businesses actually choose iPhone over other devices (even Windows) because of the Enterprise features.
What strikes me is that even though it's a very rough project proposal that even then they were already looking for optimizations to get more done in less space as well as specify a game editor.
"Rotation can be done in software, this means we only have to store 3 frames per car (for the up/down rotation)", "Store 2 byte pointer for each block (landscape) instead of 5 faces & type", "The whole level should fit in memory (which comes out to be 1MB)".
These days they create a bunch of unnecessary graphics and seem to load them all into memory even if the level doesn't need them.
Needing Flash means you need a freakin' supercomputer these days. I haven't got a reliably working Flash on any mobile device and I've had them all - Nokia Nxxx series, Android, hacked iOS, Windows Mobile. Flash is just a piling heap of trash on non-desktop Windows. It kills your multitasking, it kills your battery, you end up killing your browser process most of the time because you can't wait for it to load.
DO NOT DO THIS!!! If you have cuts and/or your hands are wet/moist you could still get a tingle. Car batteries are made to give ~120A, plenty of Amps to seriously hurt you if something goes wrong (eg. your ring/watch/other jewelry makes contact between your hand and the ground of the car).
To see what a car battery can do, put starter cables on the battery, close the hood and then push the other two ends together with a long wooden or plastic stick. Close the hood just in case your battery explodes. It might catch fire if you weld the other ends together so have a non-water based extinguisher at the ready.
The main problem with H1B's is that the companies are setting the wages and not the government. There should be a list of allowed highly-qualified jobs which the job market has a shortage in and a ground floor for those wages (say 75+ for Bachelors or 150+ for PhD). If the market really needs the jobs, they will pay for it.
All we need to do is educate Americans in proper English, classic reading as well as writing skills. Then they would be able to understand both humor and sarcasm. If the highlight of University courses in English is Shakespeare then we have lost.
Boost = Sprint. There are only 4 (now 3) real carriers in the US. ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint. The rest are subsidiaries, virtual providers etc. There are only 2 technologies CDMA and GSM which only GSM is an Internationally used standard and thus preferred by business. So businesses and people with any intention of traveling frequently are now forced to get AT&T while before you could go with certain handsets on T-Mobile (T-Mobile's frequencies for eg. 3G and EDGE are NOT according to standards). Besides that not all providers cover the same area so in most places outside cities you're stuck with 1 or 2 choices which now will most likely become 0.5 or maybe 1.5 choices.
Microsoft did not have TCP/IP support until well into the '90's instead attempting to 'standardize' their NetBIOS and trying to win people over with cartoon-like chat programs and 'channels' or 'folders' instead of websites into their own Microsoft Network (MSN) which was not connected to the Internet. Thankfully the industry ignored them and MS has since been trailing in the adoption of the proper Internet in general.
Any type of simple motor assembly really. Open up any random drill in your local home improvement store if you want and the 110V/220V (depending where you are) is just connected straight through to the motor with a small triac controller to control speed. Same goes for your bigger appliances around your house (washer machine, dryer). The heating elements in appliances as well which would affect the rate at which they heat up, standard light bulbs will be either dimmer or brighter (depending on which way you go) which affects lifespan, powerline data transfer (home control units like X10 or plug-in networks) depend on a certain frequency etc. etc.
There's a lot going on that we're still relying on AC for. Until a couple of years ago there was still gear in NYC that depended on DC being there and here in the states we still expect 110-130V with hopefully a double phase in your house to get 220V vs. 220-240V 3-or-more phases (to get 400V) elsewhere in the developed world. We're stuck with the choices some of our great-grandparents made (actually choices Tesla and Edison made) for a long time to come.
There is a difference (albeit small) between the US Government and the UN Sockpuppets. Iraq was not approved by the UN and there were even objections by the UN Security Council (which the US is again, the largest voice in) against the invasion. If I remember correctly, at one point Kofi Annan even declared it an illegal invasion and Hans Blix (of Team America, World Police fame) also objected against the proofs.
In Libya a dictator is trying to hold it's power over a rebelling nation. The country has practically been taken over by the 'people' and he is shelling his own cities and it's citizens (regardless of tribal allegiance). A bit worse than Sadam Hussein did because Sadam actually had a people that supported him (it was more of a tribal genocide).
I used to live in an area like that and for those prices, WHERE DO I SIGN UP. I live in a city now, the startup cost are ~$200, the monthly cost is ~$75-120 and I get about 10M/512k which I can use 3M/128k sustained. I used to live in an apartment complex in this area that became an ISP by hiring a trunk and they got 10M/5M sustained for $30/month and has recently upgraded to 20M. Any random independent WISP/LocalISP WILL give you way better service (usually the oversubscription will be around 50-150:1) and as soon as their trunk frequently goes to 90% or their customers' service degrades they WILL upgrade their lines. The cost to connect to the backbone and to lay out the cable or the radios is the big investment but afterwards you can upgrade easily from 10 to 1000Mbps on your backbone depending on your customers' need.
You could say those two examples are racist, crazy crooks since they subscribe to the far end of the spectrum. We need a set of moderate, level headed politicians that are not influenced by contributions but that's simply impossible for even the lowest of political positions since they all need substantial marketing to even get on a ballot.
All mechanical engineering students know you can accomplish that with a 1HP motor. Finding the gears might be somewhat more of a challenge though, maybe we could use the moon as a gear.
The problem is that most TSA agents feel bad about groping another man's junk. The only ones that don't are either gay or psychopaths - TSA agents that do willfully these type of patdowns are the ones we should be scared off, they might be the Boston Strangler on their time off. And it's not like the agents can/will be fired for not willing to do their job, they just have to say: it's against my religion/sexuality (or whatever protected right) or "I would like to have a union representative present".
So is your issue more with having only one choice, or is it more with people and corporations being able to enter willy nilly into contracts you think are less mutually beneficial than they do? For example, would you withhold the regulation mandate for WiMax providers?
Both - first of all, most people are stupid and don't know what they enter into which is not bad unless you are impacted. You may have noticed that as a collective, society is locking itself into these contracts even for those who don't want to (eg. the Euro, the Patriot Act, DMCA,...). If your neighbors lock themselves into a contract with a provider that uses anti-competitive practices, you won't have much when it comes down to your choices. And people will simply pay for what is currently the best available option even if that is not the best for their own future. The other issue, if you only have one choice you are forced into a contract with that provider. Sure there are alternatives but they are usually not feasible (I could drill my own well or get satellite but how much would that cost). As far as the WiMAX providers go (and any wireless) they use up a shared, limited resource, all usage of shared limited resource should be both open to new business as well as regulated against anti-competitive practices otherwise those who can afford the biggest amplifiers win.
Also, if wired providers are making inordinate profits, how much motivation is there for non-wired providers to move in?
Wireless and wired are different services imho. Yes you can get to the Internet wireless but a wired system will always have more bandwidth. For soho and commercial, wireless is not an alternative. In the end, everything needs to be connected to a wired provider at some point. If in your area you have 1 wired provider and 10 wireless, the wireless will always cost more than the wired providers since the cost of the wireless is the cost of the wired to the wireless company + overhead and profit. There needs to be more wired providers first (currently there are maybe 14 in the whole US) so the wireless providers can build out an infrastructure based on competitive pricing for bandwidth.
You're lucky in your area and that probably happened because of regulation that made it easier for new business to be established OR a true open and free market which is very rare in the developed world. In my area, there are 2 wired providers, 1 viable wireless for home internet and 2 wireless providers who are actually subsidiaries of the 2 wired providers (you have to bundle them with their wired solutions). The wireless provider has to buy it's wires from the 2 wired providers. 1 of the wired providers purchased a contract for 100 years to be the established DSL provider while the other just purchased all the CATV copper the government put in the ground for pennies. So wireless is freakin' expensive, slow and capped. Wired is slightly less expensive, slow and capped. Also, 250GB - you can burn that in a couple of days with full IPTV, Hulu and Netflix.
But there is marginal cost to an ISP for additional units of bandwidth consumption
And it is really marginal near to non-existant. The providers buy in bulk bandwidth and have to put in the equipment whether you use it or not. As shown before, those people that are now using much will soon be the market demand. They should follow those and try to be competitive against others to fulfill those needs instead of spending their money on bribing officials to lock down the market and waging war against new businesses.
The reason (once again) why these types of 'contracts' shouldn't exist is because they'll end up being very one-sided. They are already one sided because you have NO CHOICE. It's either Provider 1 Residential or Provider 1 Commercial and if you're lucky you may have Provider 2 who has a totally different infrastructure.
The Internet is becoming a utility like electricity, postal mail, gas or water. There is no artificial limit on my water, my mail or my electricity because I live slightly farther away or because I use more in a month than my neighbor does. I literally pay a fixed fee for the service provider of my water, gas and electricity depending on the width of the pipe or kwh the wires can handle (bandwidth) and I pay another entity for what energy I consume (product). The ISP is the provider of the pipe, I cannot consume it's pipe, they do not cease to exist because I use them so my ISP charges me a fixed fee for the width of the pipe. I do occasionally pay another entity for products used on the Internet such as music or videos.
Those utilities you have at home are also regulated because you can't have a choice (there is only 1 line for each utility) so that's why the ISP's should be regulated.
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And that's what OOP should be - it should be abstracting away which modules to call and automatically parallelize the calculations on an array as optimally as possible for the platform. However OOP's fame has made it that programmers think everything should be an object within an object within an object.
Need an array? There's an object for that which includes the array and all functions you might ever need to call in your life as a programmer. Need a string? Here's an object for that where you can serialize it in a AJAX call and also divide your string by a numerical value. Need a low-level GPU calculation? Here's an object that instantiates the whole freakin' GPU's memory space. I just built a program - it's also an object so you can put your object in my object and we can object our programs together.
I wonder if it would be profitable for a food place like Subway that makes 25c sandwiches (really, hardly any meat and the sandwiches have shrunk from a liberal foot x 3" to something akin to a Wal-Mart hot dog bun) to be sponsored entirely by compulsory advertising. Has our whole economy become sustainable by using ads as an exchange of goods and services?
Cannibalism was/is not something that happens or even happened all that often. It was either used in rituals, usually when fighting with another tribe and then only certain parts (brains or vital organs - wherever your soul or power was considered to be located) or in extreme situations (survival) but most of all it was used to dehumanize an opponent and morally authorize savagery from the other side. It is associated with a Creutzfeldt-Jakob type disease in humans but I don't think that it's prevalent anymore because of that even among less developed tribes.
ADC was DVI + USB + power, nothing really special. A simple (3rd party) converter was all that was needed to get a DVI signal. It was darn convenient though to have a single connector to your computer.
Thunderbolt = PCIe, just another way of connecting the bus to the outside world. It really depends on your CPU and any latency, jitter and interference the outside connection introduces. It's also cheaper compared to other same-speed tech (such as 10GbE) as you require less controllers and the controllers these days are baked into the CPU.
It's a University, people in the administration of those institutions waste massive amounts of taxpayer money doing other random stuff that nobody asks for and nobody wants. At least they did something somewhat productive with their time. When you can explain to me why a 15,000 University where individual departments take charge of their own IT need ~1,500 heads in the Central IT department to keep a network, a datacenter and some phones running, let me know.
This whole article sounds kinda fishy to me:
Developers report that Apple has internally officially announced that it will pull Samba from Mac OS X Lion and Lion Server, and replace it with Windows networking software developed by Apple.
Where is the citation for that snippet? Given that they currently heavily rely on not only Samba but also are pretty far in the development of Lion without replacing it, I think this is some uninformed blogger trying to get hits on his Google AdSense account.
Maybe they should do like the iPhone then. Encrypt everything by default and when you're done with it it erases the private key - all data unreadable in under a second. I don't know where GP comes from that Apple can't but Apple is the ONLY device besides the newer Androids and some old BB's that has it and does it reliably/remotely. Many businesses actually choose iPhone over other devices (even Windows) because of the Enterprise features.
What strikes me is that even though it's a very rough project proposal that even then they were already looking for optimizations to get more done in less space as well as specify a game editor.
"Rotation can be done in software, this means we only have to store 3 frames per car (for the up/down rotation)", "Store 2 byte pointer for each block (landscape) instead of 5 faces & type", "The whole level should fit in memory (which comes out to be 1MB)".
These days they create a bunch of unnecessary graphics and seem to load them all into memory even if the level doesn't need them.
Needing Flash means you need a freakin' supercomputer these days. I haven't got a reliably working Flash on any mobile device and I've had them all - Nokia Nxxx series, Android, hacked iOS, Windows Mobile. Flash is just a piling heap of trash on non-desktop Windows. It kills your multitasking, it kills your battery, you end up killing your browser process most of the time because you can't wait for it to load.
It's actually -48VDC. Something to do with corrosion.
Now imagine you're an average University with ~30,000 computers.
DO NOT DO THIS!!! If you have cuts and/or your hands are wet/moist you could still get a tingle. Car batteries are made to give ~120A, plenty of Amps to seriously hurt you if something goes wrong (eg. your ring/watch/other jewelry makes contact between your hand and the ground of the car).
To see what a car battery can do, put starter cables on the battery, close the hood and then push the other two ends together with a long wooden or plastic stick. Close the hood just in case your battery explodes. It might catch fire if you weld the other ends together so have a non-water based extinguisher at the ready.
The main problem with H1B's is that the companies are setting the wages and not the government. There should be a list of allowed highly-qualified jobs which the job market has a shortage in and a ground floor for those wages (say 75+ for Bachelors or 150+ for PhD). If the market really needs the jobs, they will pay for it.
All we need to do is educate Americans in proper English, classic reading as well as writing skills. Then they would be able to understand both humor and sarcasm. If the highlight of University courses in English is Shakespeare then we have lost.
Boost = Sprint. There are only 4 (now 3) real carriers in the US. ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint. The rest are subsidiaries, virtual providers etc. There are only 2 technologies CDMA and GSM which only GSM is an Internationally used standard and thus preferred by business. So businesses and people with any intention of traveling frequently are now forced to get AT&T while before you could go with certain handsets on T-Mobile (T-Mobile's frequencies for eg. 3G and EDGE are NOT according to standards). Besides that not all providers cover the same area so in most places outside cities you're stuck with 1 or 2 choices which now will most likely become 0.5 or maybe 1.5 choices.
Microsoft did not have TCP/IP support until well into the '90's instead attempting to 'standardize' their NetBIOS and trying to win people over with cartoon-like chat programs and 'channels' or 'folders' instead of websites into their own Microsoft Network (MSN) which was not connected to the Internet. Thankfully the industry ignored them and MS has since been trailing in the adoption of the proper Internet in general.
Any type of simple motor assembly really. Open up any random drill in your local home improvement store if you want and the 110V/220V (depending where you are) is just connected straight through to the motor with a small triac controller to control speed. Same goes for your bigger appliances around your house (washer machine, dryer). The heating elements in appliances as well which would affect the rate at which they heat up, standard light bulbs will be either dimmer or brighter (depending on which way you go) which affects lifespan, powerline data transfer (home control units like X10 or plug-in networks) depend on a certain frequency etc. etc.
There's a lot going on that we're still relying on AC for. Until a couple of years ago there was still gear in NYC that depended on DC being there and here in the states we still expect 110-130V with hopefully a double phase in your house to get 220V vs. 220-240V 3-or-more phases (to get 400V) elsewhere in the developed world. We're stuck with the choices some of our great-grandparents made (actually choices Tesla and Edison made) for a long time to come.
There is a difference (albeit small) between the US Government and the UN Sockpuppets. Iraq was not approved by the UN and there were even objections by the UN Security Council (which the US is again, the largest voice in) against the invasion. If I remember correctly, at one point Kofi Annan even declared it an illegal invasion and Hans Blix (of Team America, World Police fame) also objected against the proofs.
In Libya a dictator is trying to hold it's power over a rebelling nation. The country has practically been taken over by the 'people' and he is shelling his own cities and it's citizens (regardless of tribal allegiance). A bit worse than Sadam Hussein did because Sadam actually had a people that supported him (it was more of a tribal genocide).
I used to live in an area like that and for those prices, WHERE DO I SIGN UP. I live in a city now, the startup cost are ~$200, the monthly cost is ~$75-120 and I get about 10M/512k which I can use 3M/128k sustained. I used to live in an apartment complex in this area that became an ISP by hiring a trunk and they got 10M/5M sustained for $30/month and has recently upgraded to 20M. Any random independent WISP/LocalISP WILL give you way better service (usually the oversubscription will be around 50-150:1) and as soon as their trunk frequently goes to 90% or their customers' service degrades they WILL upgrade their lines. The cost to connect to the backbone and to lay out the cable or the radios is the big investment but afterwards you can upgrade easily from 10 to 1000Mbps on your backbone depending on your customers' need.
You could say those two examples are racist, crazy crooks since they subscribe to the far end of the spectrum. We need a set of moderate, level headed politicians that are not influenced by contributions but that's simply impossible for even the lowest of political positions since they all need substantial marketing to even get on a ballot.
All mechanical engineering students know you can accomplish that with a 1HP motor. Finding the gears might be somewhat more of a challenge though, maybe we could use the moon as a gear.
The problem is that most TSA agents feel bad about groping another man's junk. The only ones that don't are either gay or psychopaths - TSA agents that do willfully these type of patdowns are the ones we should be scared off, they might be the Boston Strangler on their time off. And it's not like the agents can/will be fired for not willing to do their job, they just have to say: it's against my religion/sexuality (or whatever protected right) or "I would like to have a union representative present".
So is your issue more with having only one choice, or is it more with people and corporations being able to enter willy nilly into contracts you think are less mutually beneficial than they do? For example, would you withhold the regulation mandate for WiMax providers? Both - first of all, most people are stupid and don't know what they enter into which is not bad unless you are impacted. You may have noticed that as a collective, society is locking itself into these contracts even for those who don't want to (eg. the Euro, the Patriot Act, DMCA, ...). If your neighbors lock themselves into a contract with a provider that uses anti-competitive practices, you won't have much when it comes down to your choices. And people will simply pay for what is currently the best available option even if that is not the best for their own future. The other issue, if you only have one choice you are forced into a contract with that provider. Sure there are alternatives but they are usually not feasible (I could drill my own well or get satellite but how much would that cost). As far as the WiMAX providers go (and any wireless) they use up a shared, limited resource, all usage of shared limited resource should be both open to new business as well as regulated against anti-competitive practices otherwise those who can afford the biggest amplifiers win.
Also, if wired providers are making inordinate profits, how much motivation is there for non-wired providers to move in?
Wireless and wired are different services imho. Yes you can get to the Internet wireless but a wired system will always have more bandwidth. For soho and commercial, wireless is not an alternative. In the end, everything needs to be connected to a wired provider at some point. If in your area you have 1 wired provider and 10 wireless, the wireless will always cost more than the wired providers since the cost of the wireless is the cost of the wired to the wireless company + overhead and profit. There needs to be more wired providers first (currently there are maybe 14 in the whole US) so the wireless providers can build out an infrastructure based on competitive pricing for bandwidth.
You're lucky in your area and that probably happened because of regulation that made it easier for new business to be established OR a true open and free market which is very rare in the developed world. In my area, there are 2 wired providers, 1 viable wireless for home internet and 2 wireless providers who are actually subsidiaries of the 2 wired providers (you have to bundle them with their wired solutions). The wireless provider has to buy it's wires from the 2 wired providers. 1 of the wired providers purchased a contract for 100 years to be the established DSL provider while the other just purchased all the CATV copper the government put in the ground for pennies. So wireless is freakin' expensive, slow and capped. Wired is slightly less expensive, slow and capped. Also, 250GB - you can burn that in a couple of days with full IPTV, Hulu and Netflix.
But there is marginal cost to an ISP for additional units of bandwidth consumption
And it is really marginal near to non-existant. The providers buy in bulk bandwidth and have to put in the equipment whether you use it or not. As shown before, those people that are now using much will soon be the market demand. They should follow those and try to be competitive against others to fulfill those needs instead of spending their money on bribing officials to lock down the market and waging war against new businesses.
The reason (once again) why these types of 'contracts' shouldn't exist is because they'll end up being very one-sided. They are already one sided because you have NO CHOICE. It's either Provider 1 Residential or Provider 1 Commercial and if you're lucky you may have Provider 2 who has a totally different infrastructure.
The Internet is becoming a utility like electricity, postal mail, gas or water. There is no artificial limit on my water, my mail or my electricity because I live slightly farther away or because I use more in a month than my neighbor does. I literally pay a fixed fee for the service provider of my water, gas and electricity depending on the width of the pipe or kwh the wires can handle (bandwidth) and I pay another entity for what energy I consume (product). The ISP is the provider of the pipe, I cannot consume it's pipe, they do not cease to exist because I use them so my ISP charges me a fixed fee for the width of the pipe. I do occasionally pay another entity for products used on the Internet such as music or videos.
Those utilities you have at home are also regulated because you can't have a choice (there is only 1 line for each utility) so that's why the ISP's should be regulated.