Basically they do a google search for "X programming" (where X is the name of a language) and count the number of hits. That's it.
All that means is that Python is the most "talked about" language.
It may be that Python has more hits because it causes more problems and more people go looking for answers. Who knows? Certainly not the people who do that survey.
Whatever. Unemployment around here is at record lows, and my portfolio at record highs. My taxes didn't go up, and freedom didn't go down. Couldn't say that during the 2008-2016.
All bought and paid for using borrowed money and environmental disasters just so Trump can make himself look good on TV.
(and some Democrat government will have to try and clean the mess up in the future, after Trump is gone)
We can extract water from the oceans and it eventually ends up back there
You might find that's only a theoretical possibility.
eg. How much water-extraction and transportation capacity does the USA currently have? How much will it cost to build more? How expensive will the resulting water be?
Isn't it a better idea that people's lawns could be a little less lush in exchange for not having to do all that?
The people using WhatsApp are doing so in part with the knowledge that there doesn't appear to be any snooping going on. Adding ads to the service would pretty much destroy that reason for using it
Are you saying there can't be ads without snooping?
They've shrink it by a whole 3mm in width/height; Is that just to make all the existing iPad docks and protective cases incompatible or is a 1.2% reduction a really big deal in Apple land?
Nope, the real problem is in the "storage" of the information.
They shouldn't be storing and tracking every last thing that everybody does, by default or otherwise.
PS: They don't actually sell your data to anybody, that's a fallacy. It's much too valuable to start passing around. What they actually do is promise to show your adverts to "relevant" users on their systems - if you pay them enough.
Certainly, apply criminal charges for piracy... as long as, in such prosecutions, the MPAA proves, beyond doubt, rather than simply a preponderance of evidence (as required under criminal law) that each download or stream represents an actual lost sale to an MPAA member, rather than just a presumption of a lost sale
And (2): The punishment should be proportional to the crime. What's the punishment if I steal a DVD from a store? It should be less than that because I didn't actually deprive anybody of anything.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh no, not this shit again.
(facepalm)
Here's the methodology: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stat...
Basically they do a google search for "X programming" (where X is the name of a language) and count the number of hits. That's it.
All that means is that Python is the most "talked about" language.
It may be that Python has more hits because it causes more problems and more people go looking for answers. Who knows? Certainly not the people who do that survey.
Whatever. Unemployment around here is at record lows, and my portfolio at record highs. My taxes didn't go up, and freedom didn't go down. Couldn't say that during the 2008-2016.
All bought and paid for using borrowed money and environmental disasters just so Trump can make himself look good on TV.
(and some Democrat government will have to try and clean the mess up in the future, after Trump is gone)
We can extract water from the oceans and it eventually ends up back there
You might find that's only a theoretical possibility.
eg. How much water-extraction and transportation capacity does the USA currently have? How much will it cost to build more? How expensive will the resulting water be?
Isn't it a better idea that people's lawns could be a little less lush in exchange for not having to do all that?
No, "yours" is correct.
Yes, but you missed the chance for an awesome grammar joke.
Is there a PC on sale with Windows 7 on it?
If there was then these numbers might not happen.
As have yours.
You misspelled "your's"
I don't understand. How can we possibly use more than the Earth can provide? Where's the extra coming from? Mars?
There's buffers/reserves, eg. reservoirs of water.
Their water level can go down if we use more than the rainfall can replenish in a year.
Same for forests, etc. We can easily cut more trees than can regrow in a year.
It's not difficult.
Huh?
If the reservoirs of drinking water are going down and there's no rain then we have a problem. Period.
It's not a "non-story story" when things like that happen.
If we need more water than all the rain on earth, we will desalinate. Too expensive? We will innovate.
Yep, we'll just push a few buttons and it'll all happen overnight.
Trump's golf courses are important enough that we should spend a few trillion tax dollars to build an artificial water supply for the country.
The people using WhatsApp are doing so in part with the knowledge that there doesn't appear to be any snooping going on. Adding ads to the service would pretty much destroy that reason for using it
Are you saying there can't be ads without snooping?
What I want to know is whether it's two or three. Surely slashdot editors can count that high.
(And why is this filed under "apple"?)
Meanwhile, the geniuses at Microsoft are planning to move Windows to a rental model.
Let's see how this ends.
I'm wondering what the point to this is.
They've shrink it by a whole 3mm in width/height; Is that just to make all the existing iPad docks and protective cases incompatible or is a 1.2% reduction a really big deal in Apple land?
It works as well as Apple keyboards on Slashdot.
And heck, why would you get anything at all? Too many people think the world just owes them a living, literally.
Also ... that if the world isn't going to hand it to them on a plate they're going to go out and take it anyway.
I thought Trump was sending them down the coal mines.
Rio Grande
Rio Tinto
Hint: It means "River" in Foreign.
Metric people don't do fractions. They decimalize things. No one likes that. I like eight farthings to the half shilling. Get off my lawn!
Would it be twelve farthings to the half shilling (or did you just disprove your own point)?
Nope, he goes in Twitter and insults somebody to divert press attention away from his ignorance.
Nope, the real problem is in the "storage" of the information.
They shouldn't be storing and tracking every last thing that everybody does, by default or otherwise.
PS: They don't actually sell your data to anybody, that's a fallacy. It's much too valuable to start passing around. What they actually do is promise to show your adverts to "relevant" users on their systems - if you pay them enough.
Tump's Clean Coal produces CO2?
That's news.
Funny. I don't see them jacking up the cost of the subscription service.
Yet.
The 'subscription' version has already shown itself to be a price increase over the old version:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Microsoft can never have a bad quarter any more. Need to meet sales projections? Just crank the subscription dial up a bit...
Couldn't they, ummmm.... ask the user?
Huh? He's the one saying "I'm not bothered about the slaughter of animals" and giving no justification.
Yeah, because "food" was the only subject mentioned above.
I guess some people only read what they want to read.
Certainly, apply criminal charges for piracy... as long as, in such prosecutions, the MPAA proves, beyond doubt, rather than simply a preponderance of evidence (as required under criminal law) that each download or stream represents an actual lost sale to an MPAA member, rather than just a presumption of a lost sale
And (2): The punishment should be proportional to the crime. What's the punishment if I steal a DVD from a store? It should be less than that because I didn't actually deprive anybody of anything.