Not quite, my fellow pink floyd fan. The first few years big parts of the forest died out. Also there were extreme mutations, which couldn't survive, though. It took two decades to re-establish some wildlife balance and even now (for example) the mice in the zone are genetically more different from normal mice than mice from rats.
Augmented reality glasses with a built in ad blocker is a thing that could very well happen in a few decades. Ad companies will probably compensate it with hypnotic ads however so those suckers who haven't got the ad blocker installed in their glasses are doomed.
The odds were huge because the party wanted to produce scientists "on the conveyor belt". Not being drafted as long as you are at the university can be quite a motivation. Also it is quite wrong to say that Stalin killed the scientists. He just imprisoned them and they continued to work in prison. There were almost no German scientists imports in the Soviet Union, all the scientists were in the USA. USSR got the engineers instead.
And you are wrong about the second one, Khrushchev fully de-Stalinized the Soviet Union by 1961.
There were lots of deep-frozen mammoths in north-eastern parts of Russia which were eaten by locals even only some decades ago. AFAIR they said the mammoths were very tasty.
When I bought my phone (HTC Touch HD) it was somewhat more expensive than the iPhone 3G. I still went for the former because looking at the features and at the freedoms, iPhone sucked in comparison. I never regretted that.
Dude, I know that C is standard for embedded applications, I am an embedded developer myself (Aplicom C and F Series, Owasys OWA22N, various Windows CE devices) but it still doesn't make it a right tool for writing applications. Operating systems, yes. Compilers also, as far as I am concerned, but not applications. Not because the lack of OOP, you don't need that for simple apps, but because C is too low-level, even for embedded. It is also not very readable, which makes the maintenance more difficult.
If you choose to program procedurally, that's fine with C. If you chose to program functionally, you may do so via pointer to function... If you choose Object Oriented Programming, such is facilitated via. structures and pointers.
Ouch. I suppose that when all what you've got is a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. And you definitely sound like somebody who would hammer screws and bolts in.
Most serious programming efforts are in C. Many, if not most, compilers and interpreters are written in C. GTK is written in C. Most all basic applications in the UNIX tool chain are written in C.
Well, that is because far too many people work as mentioned above. Besides, compilers and interpreters are a minority of applications.
Um... that's a bad thing?
Yes. If you are such a low leven fetishist, why do you write software at all? Please implement all your functions in real transistors, capacitors and resistors.
were cause by people that learned BASIC, Pascal, or Java as their first language & couldn't be bothered to compile with -Wall and run with Valgrind.
Wrong. Those people take the right tools for writing business applications (which is not C) because they can't be bothered doing 10 times more work than needed just to insure that everything works properly.
but I would say that I believe it is the lingua franca or even the root of all portable computer languages -- of which no programmer should be without a thorough understanding and appreciation.
One can learn C but without the duty to mindlessly adore it.
IMHO everything is wrong with C as first language. It gives you dreadful programming style and is not a right tool for application programming. You can mod me as a troll if you want but you've got to chose the best tool for the job and C is a tool for writing operating systems for fuck's sake. It isn't even a high level language. All those buffer overflow security holes happen because of both typical "clever hack" C programming style and choice of using a language for writing operating systems to write business applications.
Pascal wasn't a very good teaching language for nothing - it forced you to write software in a very clean and readable way.
That is not quite true, too. Nur Mohammad Taraki (the president of Afghanistan in 1978) asked the Soviet Union to help, but was overthrown and killed by Hafizullah Amin (who wasn't quite a friend of the USSR). He was assassinated by Soviet commandos (Alfa), then USSR invaded Afghanistan to reinstall the government of Taraki back.
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Not according to the industry, this is just the difference between USA and continental Europe.
Microsoft is dying even for longer than BSD.
Uhm, I am one of those other three guys but my phone (Touch HD, WM6.5 build 21896.5.0.82) is not affected.
Okay, I also do (I am 30), but it doesn't mean that everyone should, especially not those who isn't immunized against tetanus.
Not really terribly, just about five months. Given that those features were availiable for other platforms for years, it is forgivable.
Well, the answer is easy: in Italia noodles are the staple food, while in Belarus, potatoes are the staple food.
HTC is still the biggest innovator in Windows Mobile. Their WM phones are more powerful than any other phones.
Even the goatse guy wouldn't want a hot soldering iron in his arsehole.
Ever heard of thermorectal cryptoanalysis?
The immune system of a child is much stronger than the one of an adult.
Not quite, my fellow pink floyd fan. The first few years big parts of the forest died out. Also there were extreme mutations, which couldn't survive, though. It took two decades to re-establish some wildlife balance and even now (for example) the mice in the zone are genetically more different from normal mice than mice from rats.
Augmented reality glasses with a built in ad blocker is a thing that could very well happen in a few decades. Ad companies will probably compensate it with hypnotic ads however so those suckers who haven't got the ad blocker installed in their glasses are doomed.
you surely mean "cursed".
The odds were huge because the party wanted to produce scientists "on the conveyor belt". Not being drafted as long as you are at the university can be quite a motivation. Also it is quite wrong to say that Stalin killed the scientists. He just imprisoned them and they continued to work in prison. There were almost no German scientists imports in the Soviet Union, all the scientists were in the USA. USSR got the engineers instead.
And you are wrong about the second one, Khrushchev fully de-Stalinized the Soviet Union by 1961.
Okay. How about that: Nokia made their first cell phone in 1982. Ten years later they made the world's first GSM phone.
There were lots of deep-frozen mammoths in north-eastern parts of Russia which were eaten by locals even only some decades ago. AFAIR they said the mammoths were very tasty.
One could think that there were some scientists born after the thirties and Stalin was dead by 1953, but no, that can't be possible.
Same for the ICE in Germany, except for one-way stations.
When I bought my phone (HTC Touch HD) it was somewhat more expensive than the iPhone 3G. I still went for the former because looking at the features and at the freedoms, iPhone sucked in comparison. I never regretted that.
Nostalgy at its best.
Dude, I know that C is standard for embedded applications, I am an embedded developer myself (Aplicom C and F Series, Owasys OWA22N, various Windows CE devices) but it still doesn't make it a right tool for writing applications. Operating systems, yes. Compilers also, as far as I am concerned, but not applications. Not because the lack of OOP, you don't need that for simple apps, but because C is too low-level, even for embedded. It is also not very readable, which makes the maintenance more difficult.
Ouch. I suppose that when all what you've got is a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. And you definitely sound like somebody who would hammer screws and bolts in.
Well, that is because far too many people work as mentioned above. Besides, compilers and interpreters are a minority of applications.
Yes. If you are such a low leven fetishist, why do you write software at all? Please implement all your functions in real transistors, capacitors and resistors.
Wrong. Those people take the right tools for writing business applications (which is not C) because they can't be bothered doing 10 times more work than needed just to insure that everything works properly.
One can learn C but without the duty to mindlessly adore it.
IMHO everything is wrong with C as first language. It gives you dreadful programming style and is not a right tool for application programming. You can mod me as a troll if you want but you've got to chose the best tool for the job and C is a tool for writing operating systems for fuck's sake. It isn't even a high level language. All those buffer overflow security holes happen because of both typical "clever hack" C programming style and choice of using a language for writing operating systems to write business applications.
Pascal wasn't a very good teaching language for nothing - it forced you to write software in a very clean and readable way.
The U.S. centric entry is nearly 6 years old. Slashdot was quite different back then.
That is not quite true, too. Nur Mohammad Taraki (the president of Afghanistan in 1978) asked the Soviet Union to help, but was overthrown and killed by Hafizullah Amin (who wasn't quite a friend of the USSR). He was assassinated by Soviet commandos (Alfa), then USSR invaded Afghanistan to reinstall the government of Taraki back.