You wish. The evidence does say no such thing. Only if you to assume Physicalism first, then you can prove.... Physicalism! That is the same meaningless nonsense that any other religion does (and Physicalism taken as truth is nothing but religion).
But you don't need to go to a conference for that.
No argument on that. Perl 5.x is basically finished. "Improving" something finished makes it usually much worse. The exceptionally long time Perl 6 has been in the works is a valuable clue.
Hehehehe, funny. Have looked at the TIOBE index lately? It may not be very accurate, but nothing in the TIOBE top-5 is going away anytime soon, let along the long-term 2nd place.
What do you mean? That depends on the database, obviously. Usually it will be the Simple (but stupid) Query Language, but some other models exist. Databases are not complicated or powerful enough to really matter language-wise and a query language hardly qualifies as programming language, far too limited. Databases can just get large and they have (if sane) ACID out of the box, but that is about it.
No, but from a quick glance now, the way to do it is rather obvious. The Python OO model also transfers fully to embedded C components. Still nice that somebody wrote this up.
Indeed. These people want to believe something very much religion-like, bit are somehow smart enough to see how ridiculous traditional religion is. So they invented a surrogate that is not one bit better, but a bit less obvious.
He is a stellar example of an idiot with no understanding of science and a big ego. Kind of like a politician, but without the PR training and the power. As such he can be used as a negative example. I do not see any other use knowing about him would have.
Physicalism is about as scientifically sound as any other fundamentalist religion-type view. Its proponents claim to be anti-religion, but they are doing basically the same thing and with about as much scientifically sound evidence.
At this point Science does not have any insights into what consciousness, intelligence, intuition, etc. actually is. In particular for consciousness, there is simply no mechanism in Physics, but it looks more and more like intelligence on the level of a smart human being cannot actually be done with computing machinery in this universe either, not enough matter and energy available.
Kurzweil ist a stellar example for that. He is also wrong, 100 years ago, Newspapers were rare and expensive, but they did report all the things that mattered. At that time, the idea was already several centuries old (on paper).
Just my take. That is why I am back to C for anything but glue-logic. All that clutter more "modern" languages add is just not worth it. True, I currently use Python3 as glue, and the C I write is somewhat OO as it is Python modules, but that is it. Most "revolutionary" trends in programming languages are just not fit for actual production use.
Of course, most programmers are not fit to write productive code either (the utter crap I see when doing code-reviews is incredible), but that is another story.
Or alternatively, that is just how things are and this technology is reaching maturity, i.e. no grand advances to be expected anymore. From all other available examples of technology, that happens eventually. There is no reason to expect computers to be any different.
Perl is quite alive. Just use the last non-drug fueled version (5.x) and you will not have to deal with pink elephants.
Although 6.x Perl serves as a nice example of the "Second System Effect" (a bit delayed) and hence is quite useful as an example of how to not do things.
In actual reality, most of Moore's law has stopped 6-8 years ago. Just compare a midrange CPU from back then with one from today in actual performance. Not so much of a difference.
In some spaces (and IT security is one of those), you need to offer more than good compensation and benefits to get and retain really good people. You need to offer interesting work and I seriously doubt they can do this.
I agree. While they might find something, they will not have the skills to come up with a good final verdict and recommendations. Really good IT Security people (needed for this) will not work for a government bureaucracy in the first place, far too boring.
My condolences. That company has some good and some bad tech, but the management is among the most evil and negative in the world. "Lawyers" would explain that nicely, of course.
Indeed. They have gone and killed what made them unique to now compete in the cheap-trash mass-market. Corporate suicide at its best.
What will be interesting to see is whether Cyanogen Mod survives. The fired OS-group should start their own company and carry on. Maybe try Patreon financing or something like it.
Apparently much of the supposedly adults of the western world have now become so infantilized that they will focus incredible energies on a game that would rightfully only be targeted at smaller children. This hype explains a lot and not much of it is good.
And that is something completely different as these do not work as speakers anymore as long as they are connected that way. Seems to me you have absolutely no clue how things actually work. Having a speaker acting _only_ as microphone is trivial. Having it acting as speaker _and_ microphone is anything but. Or perhaps you missed the little detail that a speaker that does not work as a speaker is dead obvious?
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You wish. The evidence does say no such thing. Only if you to assume Physicalism first, then you can prove .... Physicalism! That is the same meaningless nonsense that any other religion does (and Physicalism taken as truth is nothing but religion).
But you don't need to go to a conference for that.
No argument on that. Perl 5.x is basically finished. "Improving" something finished makes it usually much worse. The exceptionally long time Perl 6 has been in the works is a valuable clue.
Hehehehe, funny. Have looked at the TIOBE index lately? It may not be very accurate, but nothing in the TIOBE top-5 is going away anytime soon, let along the long-term 2nd place.
What do you mean? That depends on the database, obviously. Usually it will be the Simple (but stupid) Query Language, but some other models exist. Databases are not complicated or powerful enough to really matter language-wise and a query language hardly qualifies as programming language, far too limited. Databases can just get large and they have (if sane) ACID out of the box, but that is about it.
No, but from a quick glance now, the way to do it is rather obvious. The Python OO model also transfers fully to embedded C components. Still nice that somebody wrote this up.
Indeed. These people want to believe something very much religion-like, bit are somehow smart enough to see how ridiculous traditional religion is. So they invented a surrogate that is not one bit better, but a bit less obvious.
Seems much more likely these are not _his_ inventions, and more likely somebody is trying to artificially generate a legend.
He is a stellar example of an idiot with no understanding of science and a big ego. Kind of like a politician, but without the PR training and the power. As such he can be used as a negative example. I do not see any other use knowing about him would have.
They probably were too stupid to publish...
Physicalism is about as scientifically sound as any other fundamentalist religion-type view. Its proponents claim to be anti-religion, but they are doing basically the same thing and with about as much scientifically sound evidence.
At this point Science does not have any insights into what consciousness, intelligence, intuition, etc. actually is. In particular for consciousness, there is simply no mechanism in Physics, but it looks more and more like intelligence on the level of a smart human being cannot actually be done with computing machinery in this universe either, not enough matter and energy available.
Kurzweil ist a stellar example for that. He is also wrong, 100 years ago, Newspapers were rare and expensive, but they did report all the things that mattered. At that time, the idea was already several centuries old (on paper).
Just my take. That is why I am back to C for anything but glue-logic. All that clutter more "modern" languages add is just not worth it. True, I currently use Python3 as glue, and the C I write is somewhat OO as it is Python modules, but that is it. Most "revolutionary" trends in programming languages are just not fit for actual production use.
Of course, most programmers are not fit to write productive code either (the utter crap I see when doing code-reviews is incredible), but that is another story.
If you need to ask, then you cannot understand the answer. Or maybe you are just trolling?
Or alternatively, that is just how things are and this technology is reaching maturity, i.e. no grand advances to be expected anymore. From all other available examples of technology, that happens eventually. There is no reason to expect computers to be any different.
Perl is quite alive. Just use the last non-drug fueled version (5.x) and you will not have to deal with pink elephants.
Although 6.x Perl serves as a nice example of the "Second System Effect" (a bit delayed) and hence is quite useful as an example of how to not do things.
In actual reality, most of Moore's law has stopped 6-8 years ago. Just compare a midrange CPU from back then with one from today in actual performance. Not so much of a difference.
But a lot of projects that primarily feed egos and serve to prevent people from getting generally useful skills (so they cannot easily change jobs).
In some spaces (and IT security is one of those), you need to offer more than good compensation and benefits to get and retain really good people. You need to offer interesting work and I seriously doubt they can do this.
I agree. While they might find something, they will not have the skills to come up with a good final verdict and recommendations. Really good IT Security people (needed for this) will not work for a government bureaucracy in the first place, far too boring.
My condolences. That company has some good and some bad tech, but the management is among the most evil and negative in the world. "Lawyers" would explain that nicely, of course.
Time will tell. The basis is there, but are the capable and interested people? I hope they are.
Indeed. They have gone and killed what made them unique to now compete in the cheap-trash mass-market. Corporate suicide at its best.
What will be interesting to see is whether Cyanogen Mod survives. The fired OS-group should start their own company and carry on. Maybe try Patreon financing or something like it.
Hehehehe, nice. Although I play Fallout 4 mostly in stealth and without companions (or use of the power-armor).
Apparently much of the supposedly adults of the western world have now become so infantilized that they will focus incredible energies on a game that would rightfully only be targeted at smaller children. This hype explains a lot and not much of it is good.
And that is something completely different as these do not work as speakers anymore as long as they are connected that way. Seems to me you have absolutely no clue how things actually work. Having a speaker acting _only_ as microphone is trivial. Having it acting as speaker _and_ microphone is anything but. Or perhaps you missed the little detail that a speaker that does not work as a speaker is dead obvious?