I took a Programming Languages course up at Michigan Tech a couple years back. We wrote our own interpreter using nothing but Common LISP, and it blew my mind. It got me really interested in programming language design.
However, LISP can also be hard to learn. The function names don't make sense to most people who have been raised on higher-level (1980s+) languages. I mean, 'car' to grab the first element of a list, and 'cdr' to grab all the others? It can get downright confusing sometimes.
Actually... is the FCC a government body, or does the government just write laws that follow their recommendations? I understand that the difference is essentially meaningless, but I'm curious.
Excuse me, I think I'm lost.
I thought I was in the right place, but I noticed that the first post was not a childish celebration of its being such.
Is this Slashdot? I'm confused.
By the way, are those ping packets you mentioned pink ping packets, pig ping packets, purple ping packets, plastic ping packets, portly ping packets, or pretentious ping packets?
"I want to thank Nike. They recently eliminated a major weakness of the apparel community, by announcing the end of their campaign to use sweatshops to promote their non-free products. Soon, apparel development will no longer use this technique, and no longer spread the message that sweatshops are a good thing if they're convenient."
In other words, how in the world has this eliminated anything??
Time required by my home internet connection, 3mbps, to transfer this data: 41.6666666... years. Rounded to one sig fig, since 500TB is: 42 years. It really IS the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
It all started at the party. Peter noticed Paul staring at him the whole time, and knew that he had to do something about it. He walked over to Paul and waited for him to say something.
Mandleson and Allen gazed longingly into each other's eyes. They knew that the moment was right, and if everything was perfect, there would be magic tonight.
"Whatever shall we do, Paul?" Peter said with a coy smile.
Paul just grinned and patted his hand. "How about we go into the bedroom and... talk about those patents?"
Seriously. Homoeroticism abounds in this article. Two men spending New Year's Eve on the Caribbean in a private yacht? Whoa.
Anyways, to continue the story...
It was a night to remember. The two were up all night long, engaging in passionate discourse about patent restrictions on software in Europe. They say that private bargaining is like eating at a Chinese restaurant - it's not over until everyone gets their cookies. Paul got his patent cookies, and Mandelson got his legal jibblies off.
They knew that they could tell no one, so they told their spokespeople that "there was no substantial conversation" and that they had merely exchanged pleasantries.
I know this as well as you, but what really bothers me is that there are people out there who will spend $ridiculous for a computer that they'll do basically nothing with.
Example: My dad bought a $3000 laptop. THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. What is he doing with it? Listening to music, using iTunes with his iPod shuffle, playing DVDs, surfing the web and OCCASIONALLY writing something. As a geek, it physically pains me to see such a beautiful machine (64-bit processor, DVD+/-R/RW, Harmon-Kardon speakers...) being wasted. But there it sits.
I suppose that makes sense. The question this raises, though, is whether there are any games designed to work better on hyperthreaded/multiprocessor systems.
So we have:
scientific computing applications (MATLAB and LS-DYNA)
digital photography
video encoding
Cinebench and
"a few other applications".
So what about the average user? Will the college kid who just needs to type their papers, the parents who want to do their taxes, the gamers who want to play high-end stuff, etc. get any sort of boost from this?
Or how about when the program commits an illegal operation? What if they take it as a warning?
PDA: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
EMS: Oh, man! I just started here and we're breaking the law? Cheese it, it's the fuzz!
Although I'm not sure that Microsoft is the right person for the job, I agree that this was a huge need right after the attacks. Cell phone and land line exchanges were absolutely flooded with calls, and couldn't handle all the traffic.
My question: How, exactly, is a PocketPC application going to help with this? I mean, really - do they expect us to all rush out and buy one so that we can have access to emergency information? How would putting it in a rental car be of any use to the people who own the car they're driving when an emergency occurs?
I think the timing is pretty distasteful as well - almost as if they're saying "We could have done it better, and here's how!"
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Oddly enough, they only taught us the nonsense word names. Well, I suppose 'car' isn't a nonsense word... but in this context it's damn close.
I took a Programming Languages course up at Michigan Tech a couple years back. We wrote our own interpreter using nothing but Common LISP, and it blew my mind. It got me really interested in programming language design.
However, LISP can also be hard to learn. The function names don't make sense to most people who have been raised on higher-level (1980s+) languages. I mean, 'car' to grab the first element of a list, and 'cdr' to grab all the others? It can get downright confusing sometimes.
Actually... is the FCC a government body, or does the government just write laws that follow their recommendations? I understand that the difference is essentially meaningless, but I'm curious.
Excuse me, I think I'm lost.
I thought I was in the right place, but I noticed that the first post was not a childish celebration of its being such.
Is this Slashdot? I'm confused.
By the way, are those ping packets you mentioned pink ping packets, pig ping packets, purple ping packets, plastic ping packets, portly ping packets, or pretentious ping packets?
Doesn't the word "exploiting" frighten anyone else here???
They must bring back that pothead to do the commercials. Dell is nothing without him.
Warning: Sense.of.humor not found. Please recompile from the appropriate Bitkeeper repository. ;)
"I want to thank Nike. They recently eliminated a major weakness of the apparel community, by announcing the end of their campaign to use sweatshops to promote their non-free products. Soon, apparel development will no longer use this technique, and no longer spread the message that sweatshops are a good thing if they're convenient."
In other words, how in the world has this eliminated anything??
OK, so it's two sig figs. Crap. Let's just say "rounded" instead. /me goes off to do some remedial math...
Time required by my home internet connection, 3mbps, to transfer this data: 41.6666666... years. Rounded to one sig fig, since 500TB is: 42 years. It really IS the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
But Shell's gas is always mysteriously one cent more expensive...
I already knew that he worked with patents. That's no secret, although he tried to hide it for many years.
It all started at the party. Peter noticed Paul staring at him the whole time, and knew that he had to do something about it. He walked over to Paul and waited for him to say something. ... talk about those patents?"
Mandleson and Allen gazed longingly into each other's eyes. They knew that the moment was right, and if everything was perfect, there would be magic tonight.
"Whatever shall we do, Paul?" Peter said with a coy smile.
Paul just grinned and patted his hand. "How about we go into the bedroom and
Seriously. Homoeroticism abounds in this article. Two men spending New Year's Eve on the Caribbean in a private yacht? Whoa.
Anyways, to continue the story...
It was a night to remember. The two were up all night long, engaging in passionate discourse about patent restrictions on software in Europe. They say that private bargaining is like eating at a Chinese restaurant - it's not over until everyone gets their cookies. Paul got his patent cookies, and Mandelson got his legal jibblies off.
They knew that they could tell no one, so they told their spokespeople that "there was no substantial conversation" and that they had merely exchanged pleasantries.
I like my version better.
I know this as well as you, but what really bothers me is that there are people out there who will spend $ridiculous for a computer that they'll do basically nothing with.
Example: My dad bought a $3000 laptop. THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. What is he doing with it? Listening to music, using iTunes with his iPod shuffle, playing DVDs, surfing the web and OCCASIONALLY writing something. As a geek, it physically pains me to see such a beautiful machine (64-bit processor, DVD+/-R/RW, Harmon-Kardon speakers...) being wasted. But there it sits.
Isn't there an option in the Task Manager for Windows XP on dual proc systems that lets you pick which processor a process should run on?
No kidding. A 2gHz P4 should not cost $190 at Best Buy...
I suppose that makes sense. The question this raises, though, is whether there are any games designed to work better on hyperthreaded/multiprocessor systems.
Thank you for that, O master of links. Once again you have provided us with that which we could not possibly have simply Googled for.
So we have:
scientific computing applications (MATLAB and LS-DYNA)
digital photography
video encoding
Cinebench and
"a few other applications".
So what about the average user? Will the college kid who just needs to type their papers, the parents who want to do their taxes, the gamers who want to play high-end stuff, etc. get any sort of boost from this?
Let the flames begin... I just realized someone already said this.
It had to be said: Hopefully this helps Linus Git 'er done.
Or how about when the program commits an illegal operation? What if they take it as a warning?
PDA: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
EMS: Oh, man! I just started here and we're breaking the law? Cheese it, it's the fuzz!
If necessary, yes. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Although I'm not sure that Microsoft is the right person for the job, I agree that this was a huge need right after the attacks. Cell phone and land line exchanges were absolutely flooded with calls, and couldn't handle all the traffic.
My question: How, exactly, is a PocketPC application going to help with this? I mean, really - do they expect us to all rush out and buy one so that we can have access to emergency information? How would putting it in a rental car be of any use to the people who own the car they're driving when an emergency occurs?
I think the timing is pretty distasteful as well - almost as if they're saying "We could have done it better, and here's how!"
Numbers ARE quantity. To say "Show me a number without a quantity" is meaningless.
You can have 1 apple. You cannot have i apples.