I recall something about forbidding porn with "excessive ejaculation". When the government has to decide what constitutes excessive ejaculation, there's a problem. I mean, seriously. Twice? Three times? 100? Yes, I know they were probably trying to ban "bukake" or whatever it's called, but when no objective standard can be derived, there can be no meaningful law, only moralistic oppression.
In the US, we used to have the "prurient interest" standard. That's when porn became "nudist documentary art" or some such.
It's a blue-ribbon panel harrumphing and nodding as NASA does whatever it wants to. Did you expect something different from our government? I'm just surprised they don't have to consult the Flat Earth Society or put a disclaimer sticker on the Shuttle like: " This spacecraft was designed using science. Science is an unproven theory, nor is it mentioned in the Bible, so weigh these facts carefully and with skepticism as you decide if you are in with Jesus enough to ride the Shuttle without blowing up. "
If your opinion is desired, you will be sent a memo from management via flying monkey courier. Until then, STFU and keep your pie-in-the-sky fantasies to yourself. And put a tie on, FFS.
You're just used to it. Problems: difficult to compile, difficult to convert to better languages (thank you preprocessor), encourages obfuscation, some constructs are clearly tacked on and/or poorly implemented (switch), arbitrary nonorthogonality (struct, parens and brace usage, pointer/array declaration), shitty strings. That's just off the top of my head.
I only obey the law because it's expedient, since the social contract has been thoroughly broken. I follow my own ethical rules, and laws are a poor substitute, especially in times when laws are written by evil men.
I write code to accomplish what I intend, and I succeed. I don't need to test. What needs testing is other peoples' crappy code that my code depends on. I'm looking at you, GW BASIC maintainers!
Solaris is just another Unix, but MacOS has Cocoa (TM) and Quicktime (TM) and other branded "technologies" that provide us with shiny widgets. Who can resist the shiny?
First you have to know HOW these things are done before you just grab an off-the-shelf solution, at least if you want to pretend to expertise, which at the college level is your goal. For instance, being a CS guy, I use off-the-shelf operating systems and compilers, but by golly, I could code one myself if I wanted to.
The parent's example is particulary egregious since virtually all challenges in college are artificial. Using the above "wisdom", I might as well just sneak out of any test, grab my textbook, and fill in the answers therefrom, expecting an A. After all, why bother remembering all that knowledge when it's written down somewhere for easy reference anyway? Answer: You are there to learn the material, not just learn where the library is. Blah...this stuff is obvious.
In case you don't remember, the point of RISC was to put optimization on the compiler so it wouldn't require massive on-the-fly speculative bibbledy-bop with millions of extra transistors and hideous pipelines like we have nowadays. This was done by providing, essentially, a compiler-accessible cache in the form of lots of registers, and by having an instruction set that was amenable to automated optimization.
In theory, you don't need any GP registers at all, you could just have memory-memory ops and rely on the cache. This is impractical due to the size of memory addresses eating up your bandwidth (incidentally, this is a problem with RISC architectures, eating bandwidth and clogging the cache, but that's another story). As an alternative, you can simply expose the cache as one big honking register file using somewhat smaller addresses, and let your fancy-pants optimizing compiler do its best.
The real problem seems to be that compilers have just not been able to keep up with the last 20 years of theory. Witness the Itanium--in theory it should have been the ultimate, but they didn't seem to be able to get things optimized for it (other problems, too). Then what happens are curmudgeons complain about the extra work of optimization and insist on setting us back to early 80s architecture rather than writing a decent compiler.
Moral of the story: write a decent compiler and stop trying to glorify crappy ISAs that suit your antiquated and inefficient coding habits.
You can buy a C3 or C7 today if you like. Since VIA seems to be staking out the same low-cost, low-power embedded territory as Transmeta, I wouldn't doubt a similar fate (for the chip, not VIA, which has many irons in the fire). I'm guessing ARM-type architectures are ruling this field (vs. x86 type).
My esteem for my peers became replaced by contempt, and planted the seed of suspicion in my mind that my whole community was of the same calibre foolish cowards. A notion that experience rarely confounded but often confirmed, so insensibly I became a social exile. This was just as well, for in a declining community any citizen who retains respect for the truth must become alienated from the majority of his fellow citizens because they hate the truth.
There is no way you could recover anything but wood pulp from those things. They rendered paper to a fluffy mass with individual chunks around a millimeter in size. I've never seen shredders as beefy as those for sale in the civilian world. I wonder if this is intentional...
There are numerous cheaper, less flashy iPod alternatives available. I have an old 20GB RCA Lyra (around $170 new) myself. Surely the iPod is a better bit of kit, but then I just want an easy way to listen to music at a minimal cost.
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Cold water can make air colder. Woohoo!
I recall something about forbidding porn with "excessive ejaculation". When the government has to decide what constitutes excessive ejaculation, there's a problem. I mean, seriously. Twice? Three times? 100? Yes, I know they were probably trying to ban "bukake" or whatever it's called, but when no objective standard can be derived, there can be no meaningful law, only moralistic oppression.
In the US, we used to have the "prurient interest" standard. That's when porn became "nudist documentary art" or some such.
Stop criminalizing victimless actions. Full stop.
It's a blue-ribbon panel harrumphing and nodding as NASA does whatever it wants to. Did you expect something different from our government? I'm just surprised they don't have to consult the Flat Earth Society or put a disclaimer sticker on the Shuttle like:
" This spacecraft was designed using science. Science is an unproven theory, nor is it mentioned in the Bible, so weigh these facts carefully and with skepticism as you decide if you are in with Jesus enough to ride the Shuttle without blowing up. "
If your opinion is desired, you will be sent a memo from management via flying monkey courier. Until then, STFU and keep your pie-in-the-sky fantasies to yourself. And put a tie on, FFS.
You're just used to it. Problems: difficult to compile, difficult to convert to better languages (thank you preprocessor), encourages obfuscation, some constructs are clearly tacked on and/or poorly implemented (switch), arbitrary nonorthogonality (struct, parens and brace usage, pointer/array declaration), shitty strings. That's just off the top of my head.
I only obey the law because it's expedient, since the social contract has been thoroughly broken. I follow my own ethical rules, and laws are a poor substitute, especially in times when laws are written by evil men.
Two good reasons for the Prof to stay on the island.
I write code to accomplish what I intend, and I succeed. I don't need to test. What needs testing is other peoples' crappy code that my code depends on. I'm looking at you, GW BASIC maintainers!
I'll start feeling sympathy when I have billions of dollars of cash money and thousands of minions in my thrall.
So when's he gonna hire those ten good programmers and flood the market with good software?
Solaris is just another Unix, but MacOS has Cocoa (TM) and Quicktime (TM) and other branded "technologies" that provide us with shiny widgets. Who can resist the shiny?
She might have something to tell you. Better sooner than later, when the court starts directing payments.
First you have to know HOW these things are done before you just grab an off-the-shelf solution, at least if you want to pretend to expertise, which at the college level is your goal. For instance, being a CS guy, I use off-the-shelf operating systems and compilers, but by golly, I could code one myself if I wanted to.
The parent's example is particulary egregious since virtually all challenges in college are artificial. Using the above "wisdom", I might as well just sneak out of any test, grab my textbook, and fill in the answers therefrom, expecting an A. After all, why bother remembering all that knowledge when it's written down somewhere for easy reference anyway? Answer: You are there to learn the material, not just learn where the library is. Blah...this stuff is obvious.
In case you don't remember, the point of RISC was to put optimization on the compiler so it wouldn't require massive on-the-fly speculative bibbledy-bop with millions of extra transistors and hideous pipelines like we have nowadays. This was done by providing, essentially, a compiler-accessible cache in the form of lots of registers, and by having an instruction set that was amenable to automated optimization.
In theory, you don't need any GP registers at all, you could just have memory-memory ops and rely on the cache. This is impractical due to the size of memory addresses eating up your bandwidth (incidentally, this is a problem with RISC architectures, eating bandwidth and clogging the cache, but that's another story). As an alternative, you can simply expose the cache as one big honking register file using somewhat smaller addresses, and let your fancy-pants optimizing compiler do its best.
The real problem seems to be that compilers have just not been able to keep up with the last 20 years of theory. Witness the Itanium--in theory it should have been the ultimate, but they didn't seem to be able to get things optimized for it (other problems, too). Then what happens are curmudgeons complain about the extra work of optimization and insist on setting us back to early 80s architecture rather than writing a decent compiler.
Moral of the story: write a decent compiler and stop trying to glorify crappy ISAs that suit your antiquated and inefficient coding habits.
RFID is amazing it will:
- optimize seamless communities
- generate vertical e-services
- leverage synergistic convergence
and best of all
- engage e-business content
Perfect solution!
In Korea only old people abuse memes.
a slap in the face of human culture? That would be daytime television. Fight the real enemy--Dr. Phil.
You can buy a C3 or C7 today if you like. Since VIA seems to be staking out the same low-cost, low-power embedded territory as Transmeta, I wouldn't doubt a similar fate (for the chip, not VIA, which has many irons in the fire). I'm guessing ARM-type architectures are ruling this field (vs. x86 type).
That was quick. Is nothing sacred?? Could the RIAA be next?? Teh INTARNETS IS NOT A JOKE!!1!!!11!11
My esteem for my peers became replaced by contempt, and planted the seed of suspicion in my mind that my whole community was of the same calibre foolish cowards. A notion that experience rarely confounded but often confirmed, so insensibly I became a social exile. This was just as well, for in a declining community any citizen who retains respect for the truth must become alienated from the majority of his fellow citizens because they hate the truth.
Sounds like half of Slashdot.
There is no way you could recover anything but wood pulp from those things. They rendered paper to a fluffy mass with individual chunks around a millimeter in size. I've never seen shredders as beefy as those for sale in the civilian world. I wonder if this is intentional...
They could uncork the vengeance of JHVH over hostile countries. Just so long as they don't have chariots of iron (Judges 1:19).
It's about hollow promises. Yes my face is straight--well, maybe smirking a tiny bit.
There are numerous cheaper, less flashy iPod alternatives available. I have an old 20GB RCA Lyra (around $170 new) myself. Surely the iPod is a better bit of kit, but then I just want an easy way to listen to music at a minimal cost.
Now imagine applying that computer to the question, "What will your next result be?" The universe just ceased to exi
Yeah. "Do No Evil" ranks up there with "Trust Me" or "I Won't Date Rape You But I Spiked Your Drink With Rohypnol So You Won't Remember Anyway".