With Glen Beck who needs the English language or math symbols anyway?
Lets forget all about civilization. Way too much thinking is involved and it seems so unnecessarily expensive. Clearly tax cuts for the rich are the answer.
Any day now, you will be replaced by a more capable electronic calculator. Since you don't have the necessary understanding, you won't be needed at the cutting edge of science and technology. The money society spends on you can be put to much better use, say a tax cut for the wealthy who will generate jobs and advanced technology in foreign countries and big profits can be had.
One of the primary reasons republicans are eager to start dismantling math education as their first target to defund educational programs in the US, except those that go into healthy contracts to testing firms.
"Out of idle curiosity, when id "ramblings of a random guy" become "news""?
When the political front men for the rich and powerful decided they could elect people like Bush and Palin, Angle, O'Donnell,... to office.
Lets do away with higher education above the 7th grade, except for the rich. Let other countries build their own university systems and seize the future of science and technology. America is about to become republicanized (privatized). Most will be so busy bending over and taking it, that we will hardly have a use or time for education, except for the school of hard knocks.
Everyone knows that problems are not solved by math or reasoning, but rather by tax cuts for the rich.
Republicans will work to send most jobs overseas anyway.
Too many mathematicians sitting idle on the street corner could simply lead to trouble or worse, a lot of theorems and proofs. Everyone knows republicans have no use for either theorems or proofs, especially since you can now hire an Indian mathematician to produce them at less than half the cost.
What business should have to pay a mathematician when they could get a tax break instead?
Expect to see more and more articles like this as republicans get on with gutting the educational system in America., which they see as why we have so many leftists and socialists. Why do Americans need any education at all, the Chinese and foreigners are going to be the only ones with jobs anyway? Lets get rid of the department of education, all public higher education, all expenditures for libraries, all scholarships. We can't afford these things any more anyway. Let other countries that have favorable balance of payments provide the world with education. You just don't need an education to vote the straight republican ticket or to watch Glen Beck. You just need to know your place.
Civilization? We don't need no stinking civilization.
and the money. There's a fortune to be made both stealing and prying into people's private lives. Expect Murdoch who always trolls for scandal that will advance his business interests to be eager to tune his new media property, you.
to put Java as a language and a cross=platform communication portal to a quick death?
Unless Oracle gets its heavy hands out of the ava Community Process and instead find ways to partner with the community before they abandon Java, they will be remembered only as the guys who killed Java in 90 days.
The clock has been ticking with respect to Oracle's performance and they seem to be killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
I guess this is what greed does to men. It blinds them from their own ignorance.
what it is with the various LInux distros. Why can't they simply establish a mechanism for systematically removing the various inconsistencies in the ways that they call the Linux kernel and in the way they are presented to the user? It that was available, then both groups build to the same standards specification to their hearts content. That way both groups have precisely what they want and users can chose which is best for them. Is it really all that hard to establish some rational measure of consistency from builds with alternate dependencies?
In principle there is nothing to stop anyone from creating a Gnome/KDE desktop that optimizes the desktop in a variety of ways of value to the user, with different optimizations for different users, who may have different needs or requirements.
Who benefits if Gnome goes down? KDE? Are their finances really that intertwined. Why is Gnome so behind in scheduled development? Is it that it has not sufficiently incorporated the consequences of all the new changes to the Linux Kernel?
I've used both and can only say I prefer KDE for its somewhat more structured approach, but this is based only on limited testing of the functionality of the desktops. Then again, this shouldn't matter too much as these desktops merely make associations with the various kernel modules to achieve their primary functionality.
Could be all sorts of reasons. Any one have any idea at all, besides the suggestion that it might be the case.
It could be the one that keeps the bee's energy budget low, which would probably be relatively straight between nodes, taking into account the bee's ability to compute the probability of feeding on a separate nearby that would favor a deviation from linearity, taking the caloric differences among the flowers constant unless there is evidence to treat them differently.
"The second problem is this "Computers solve it by comparing the length of all possible routes and choosing the shortest."
Well they can try, but this does not provide a closed solution since there are too many comparisons to evaluate for optimaliity. In the traveling salesman problem there is a very high rate of generation of subproblems in making any comparison as to which of any possible combination of nodes to discover the optimally correct solution. As one adds more nodes to the graph, the number of their combinations multiply at a faster rate than does an iterative procedure in counting (compare) them. Consequently, the problem of choosing an optimal solution depends not only upon what one how one defines optimal, but also becomes non-polynomial bounded the as the number of potential additional nodes are considered increases the number of subproblems. Hence, the number of subproblems that must be solved in order to work out the potential optimal solution is enormous even for a few nodes. Get out to 1500 or so and you are talking about more potential combinations than electrons in the known universe. No supercomputer yet devised comes up with that solution in real time of where in space these electrons must be in order to move the least among their positions that won't take millions of years.
an ordinary honey bee only visits 5 flowers over the course of a day? Its probably on the order of hundreds, usually one ever 50-120 seconds, when not spending time in the hive.
Large SSD drives have only been on the market for a few years? Is your PC be otherwise obsolete in a few years? Better rush out and buy six, just in case the other five fail.
The rules of baseball do not allow the runner to swing outward of 18.5 from the first and third base lines, so one can not run in a circle.
With respect to first base it makes no sense to run anything other than in a straight line to first base as any other distance would be longer and hence for a runner's greatest speed would be slower increasing the probability he would be called out as it gives fielders more time to throw the ball to the first baseman tor the force out. With respect to third base it would create all kinds of potential difficulties to the rules, such as a runner heading home instead he could head for the restroom near the hotdog stand and then sneak up behind the catcher after he thinks he is continuing the game. It simply wouldn't make any sense to allow a circular route along the first and third base lines.
They'll never get this to work in the land of fried Chicken but the deep south has shades of blue in the Bluegrass State, where Toyota has a plant in Kentucky. They will have to work harder for production level cars in Mississippi.
" if the new Mac Appstore could distribute low-level software, libraries, third party software and frameworks just like linux distributions."
It will never happen because Apple products don't have GPL and are closed to third parties. This is already being played out on the App Stores, where some vendors are being barred from distributing certain kinds of software that Apple does not see in its strategic interest.
Thats precisely my point and you make it for me quite well, although MIcrosoft might beg to differ with you as to your comment that no one but Apple "sells to consumers and creatives".
Apple sees its market as entertainment, gadget-oriented, niche [nobody fills that need] markets, not truly general-purpose computing where you as a developer need to worry about issues of interoperability or truly open web-development. that it becomes an issue. If you are developing only for the Apple Platform line, you are fine as Java disappears from Macs. If you are developing for a wider audience you have a problem. Whether its a big problem or a little problem depends on what you are doing and where things go from here.
If you buy it at the Apple store it will run just fine on your Apple platform. They intend to keep the Apple store pure Apple. Its only if you will be developing across markets for business or scientific or government applications or want to run open-source software that does things Apple doesn't provide that you have to worry about java and interoperability.
Whether this will be a viable strategy long term is any one's guess as Apple is essentially conceding the server-side market as a place its developers can play, which depending on what technologies play out in cloud computing could be either a very good thing or a very bad thing for Apple. My guess is they see a near-term revenue stream and they are going for it, cutting support for general-purpose computing development as baggage they don't feel they need, as its too small and too expensive a market segment to support and compete in profitably, especially with the Linux open-source model looking over every proprietary developer's shoulder. However, if you concede the server-side market, you are in a sense no longer serve as a source for general-purpose computing, only a subset. In this case the Apple subset.
I really doubt we will see the full dimensions of this strategy unfold until IPV6 replaces IPV4 and issues of hardware-software interfacing via the web looms a lot larger. Who knows, by then Apple may have been profitable enough to buy the software-technology it needs to stay competitive should the Oracle/Sun-IBM-Linux model of Java-interoperable computing win out. They better hope so as a lot of switch and router makers have moved from C to Java to deal with software maintenance and interoperability issues. My guess is Apple will be happy to develop for such web-aware hardware, as long as it is made and marketed by Apple.
From what I can tell, he who controls the server controls the web, but maybe Apple will be the first to build what may be a host of successful independent proprietary TC/IP sub-webs where countless of customers vote with their Apple-store purchases to meet all their web-needs. Presently, I don't really see end-users steering decisions in the computer/IT market any more than cattle at a slaughterhouse can be said to be running the place by virtue of the fact that without them, there would be no slaughterhouse.
Yes you are right for now, but my guess is that bean counters at Apple think that enough of them will be sufficiently satisfied with an Apple friendly orientation and part of the Apple Platform Store product line to serve their universe of users. Apple is moving progressively toward the Sony-Nintendo market model, not the Linux model of software development. Closed runtimes not open development and
If you are willing to pay for it and it suits your needs and you don't have a problem being dependent on Apple's way of doing things or how or if they may want to support your favorite app in the future, then Apple is a reasonable bet. They are moving away from general-purpose computing in the broadest sense, as they see more profits in more proprietary systems and captured [locked in] software audiences. Java poses a threat to that or addresses an entirely different audience.
Don't really need to if all you are really interested in doing is developing an Apple-store sub-web. Its all about user-experience, not general purpose computing. For most Mac Users, it will seem general purpose enough.
all those users who point their browsers to servers running Java distributed management systems whether they are produced by Oracle, IBM, Apache, Brocade switches, or others and expect to get a response.
Those without the JVM might at some point see their Javascript requests reach a server, which will go into a if or case statement that effectively says: if [your favorite Mac Browser environment here] {wait()}/[in low priority que until high priority Java requests are responded to first]; else {}/[continue at normal/high priority];, particularly those whose data is stored in Oracle databases, which is a lot of big corporation iron. In a sense this is what is happening now to Apple users on the client side by only having an older JVM technology at their disposal. If Apple wants leverage in server space and general-purpose computing they might be better off seeking a more powerful voice on in the Java Community Process. My sense is they are not interested and seek to build a closed Apple-oriented sub-net for Apple Store product purchasers, along the lines of Sony, Nintendo and other gaming platforms.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out going forward as Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google and others try to play one another's technology off against each other to dominate the business applications space.
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To say get rid of limits and just learn derivatives, makes clear that you didn't learn as much calculus as you thought you did.
Its always the things you learn after you know it all that count.
With Glen Beck who needs the English language or math symbols anyway?
Lets forget all about civilization. Way too much thinking is involved and it seems so unnecessarily expensive. Clearly tax cuts for the rich are the answer.
Any day now, you will be replaced by a more capable electronic calculator. Since you don't have the necessary understanding, you won't be needed at the cutting edge of science and technology. The money society spends on you can be put to much better use, say a tax cut for the wealthy who will generate jobs and advanced technology in foreign countries and big profits can be had.
One of the primary reasons republicans are eager to start dismantling math education as their first target to defund educational programs in the US, except those that go into healthy contracts to testing firms.
"Out of idle curiosity, when id "ramblings of a random guy" become "news""?
When the political front men for the rich and powerful decided they could elect people like Bush and Palin, Angle, O'Donnell, ... to office.
"Too much entitlement going on here in the US"
Lets do away with higher education above the 7th grade, except for the rich. Let other countries build their own university systems and seize the future of science and technology. America is about to become republicanized (privatized). Most will be so busy bending over and taking it, that we will hardly have a use or time for education, except for the school of hard knocks.
Everyone knows that problems are not solved by math or reasoning, but rather by tax cuts for the rich.
Republicans will work to send most jobs overseas anyway.
Too many mathematicians sitting idle on the street corner could simply lead to trouble or worse, a lot of theorems and proofs. Everyone knows republicans have no use for either theorems or proofs, especially since you can now hire an Indian mathematician to produce them at less than half the cost.
What business should have to pay a mathematician when they could get a tax break instead?
Expect to see more and more articles like this as republicans get on with gutting the educational system in America., which they see as why we have so many leftists and socialists. Why do Americans need any education at all, the Chinese and foreigners are going to be the only ones with jobs anyway? Lets get rid of the department of education, all public higher education, all expenditures for libraries, all scholarships. We can't afford these things any more anyway. Let other countries that have favorable balance of payments provide the world with education. You just don't need an education to vote the straight republican ticket or to watch Glen Beck. You just need to know your place.
Civilization? We don't need no stinking civilization.
Yes. The Bible has already made it clear that the value of pi is 3.0. There is certainly no need for mathematicians to try to confuse people.
and the money. There's a fortune to be made both stealing and prying into people's private lives. Expect Murdoch who always trolls for scandal that will advance his business interests to be eager to tune his new media property, you.
to put Java as a language and a cross=platform communication portal to a quick death?
Unless Oracle gets its heavy hands out of the ava Community Process and instead find ways to partner with the community before they abandon Java, they will be remembered only as the guys who killed Java in 90 days.
The clock has been ticking with respect to Oracle's performance and they seem to be killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
I guess this is what greed does to men. It blinds them from their own ignorance.
Please. Its as good a name as any other, as long as you are cognizant of the consequences. Language is full of homonyms. Get used to it.
what it is with the various LInux distros. Why can't they simply establish a mechanism for systematically removing the various inconsistencies in the ways that they call the Linux kernel and in the way they are presented to the user? It that was available, then both groups build to the same standards specification to their hearts content. That way both groups have precisely what they want and users can chose which is best for them. Is it really all that hard to establish some rational measure of consistency from builds with alternate dependencies?
In principle there is nothing to stop anyone from creating a Gnome/KDE desktop that optimizes the desktop in a variety of ways of value to the user, with different optimizations for different users, who may have different needs or requirements.
Who benefits if Gnome goes down? KDE? Are their finances really that intertwined. Why is Gnome so behind in scheduled development? Is it that it has not sufficiently incorporated the consequences of all the new changes to the Linux Kernel?
I've used both and can only say I prefer KDE for its somewhat more structured approach, but this is based only on limited testing of the functionality of the desktops. Then again, this shouldn't matter too much as these desktops merely make associations with the various kernel modules to achieve their primary functionality.
Could be all sorts of reasons. Any one have any idea at all, besides the suggestion that it might be the case.
It could be the one that keeps the bee's energy budget low, which would probably be relatively straight between nodes, taking into account the bee's ability to compute the probability of feeding on a separate nearby that would favor a deviation from linearity, taking the caloric differences among the flowers constant unless there is evidence to treat them differently.
"The second problem is this "Computers solve it by comparing the length of all possible routes and choosing the shortest."
Well they can try, but this does not provide a closed solution since there are too many comparisons to evaluate for optimaliity. In the traveling salesman problem there is a very high rate of generation of subproblems in making any comparison as to which of any possible combination of nodes to discover the optimally correct solution. As one adds more nodes to the graph, the number of their combinations multiply at a faster rate than
does an iterative procedure in counting (compare) them. Consequently, the problem of choosing an optimal solution depends not only upon what one how one defines optimal, but also becomes non-polynomial bounded the as the number of potential additional nodes are considered increases the number of subproblems. Hence, the number of subproblems that must be solved in order to work out the potential optimal solution is enormous even for a few nodes. Get out to 1500 or so and you are talking about more potential combinations than electrons in the known universe. No supercomputer yet devised comes up with that solution in real time of where in space these electrons must be in order to move the least among their positions that won't take millions of years.
an ordinary honey bee only visits 5 flowers over the course of a day? Its probably on the order of hundreds, usually one ever 50-120 seconds, when not spending time in the hive.
Large SSD drives have only been on the market for a few years? Is your PC be otherwise obsolete in a few years? Better rush out and buy six, just in case the other five fail.
everyone feels eager to pay thousands of times too much for fast access to non-volatile memory?
Sounds as if Wall Street must be breathing done his neck to meet next quarters numbers for hype.
The rules of baseball do not allow the runner to swing outward of 18.5 from the first and third base lines, so one can not run in a circle.
With respect to first base it makes no sense to run anything other than in a straight line to first base as any other distance would be longer and hence for a runner's greatest speed would be slower increasing the probability he would be called out as it gives fielders more time to throw the ball to the first baseman tor the force out. With respect to third base it would create all kinds of potential difficulties to the rules, such as a runner heading home instead he could head for the restroom near the hotdog stand and then sneak up behind the catcher after he thinks he is continuing the game. It simply wouldn't make any sense to allow a circular route along the first and third base lines.
They'll never get this to work in the land of fried Chicken but the deep south has shades of blue in the Bluegrass State, where Toyota has a plant in Kentucky. They will have to work harder for production level cars in Mississippi.
" if the new Mac Appstore could distribute low-level software, libraries, third party software and frameworks just like linux distributions."
It will never happen because Apple products don't have GPL and are closed to third parties. This is already being played out on the App Stores, where some vendors are being barred from distributing certain kinds of software that Apple does not see in its strategic interest.
Thats precisely my point and you make it for me quite well, although MIcrosoft might beg to differ with you as to your comment that no one but Apple "sells to consumers and creatives".
Apple sees its market as entertainment, gadget-oriented, niche [nobody fills that need] markets, not truly general-purpose computing where you as a developer need to worry about issues of interoperability or truly open web-development. that it becomes an issue. If you are developing only for the Apple Platform line, you are fine as Java disappears from Macs. If you are developing for a wider audience you have a problem. Whether its a big problem or a little problem depends on what you are doing and where things go from here.
If you buy it at the Apple store it will run just fine on your Apple platform. They intend to keep the Apple store pure Apple. Its only if you will be developing across markets for business or scientific or government applications or want to run open-source software that does things Apple doesn't provide that you have to worry about java and interoperability.
Whether this will be a viable strategy long term is any one's guess as Apple is essentially conceding the server-side market as a place its developers can play, which depending on what technologies play out in cloud computing could be either a very good thing or a very bad thing for Apple. My guess is they see a near-term revenue stream and they are going for it, cutting support for general-purpose computing development as baggage they don't feel they need, as its too small and too expensive a market segment to support and compete in profitably, especially with the Linux open-source model looking over every proprietary developer's shoulder. However, if you concede the server-side market, you are in a sense no longer serve as a source for general-purpose computing, only a subset. In this case the Apple subset.
I really doubt we will see the full dimensions of this strategy unfold until IPV6 replaces IPV4 and issues of hardware-software interfacing via the web looms a lot larger. Who knows, by then Apple may have been profitable enough to buy the software-technology it needs to stay competitive should the Oracle/Sun-IBM-Linux model of Java-interoperable computing win out. They better hope so as a lot of switch and router makers have moved from C to Java to deal with software maintenance and interoperability issues. My guess is Apple will be happy to develop for such web-aware hardware, as long as it is made and marketed by Apple.
From what I can tell, he who controls the server controls the web, but maybe Apple will be the first to build what may be a host of successful independent proprietary TC/IP sub-webs where countless of customers vote with their Apple-store purchases to meet all their web-needs. Presently, I don't really see end-users steering decisions in the computer/IT market any more than cattle at a slaughterhouse can be said to be running the place by virtue of the fact that without them, there would be no slaughterhouse.
Yes you are right for now, but my guess is that bean counters at Apple think that enough of them will be sufficiently satisfied with an Apple friendly orientation and part of the Apple Platform Store product line to serve their universe of users. Apple is moving progressively toward the Sony-Nintendo market model, not the Linux model of software development. Closed runtimes not open development and
If you are willing to pay for it and it suits your needs and you don't have a problem being dependent on Apple's way of doing things or how or if they may want to support your favorite app in the future, then Apple is a reasonable bet. They are moving away from general-purpose computing in the broadest sense, as they see more profits in more proprietary systems and captured [locked in] software audiences. Java poses a threat to that or addresses an entirely different audience.
Don't really need to if all you are really interested in doing is developing an Apple-store sub-web. Its all about user-experience, not general purpose computing. For most Mac Users, it will seem general purpose enough.
all those users who point their browsers to servers running Java distributed management systems whether they are produced by Oracle, IBM, Apache, Brocade switches, or others and expect to get a response.
Those without the JVM might at some point see their Javascript requests reach a server, which will go into a if or case statement that effectively says: if [your favorite Mac Browser environment here] {wait()} /[in low priority que until high priority Java requests are responded to first]; else {} /[continue at normal/high priority];, particularly those whose data is stored in Oracle databases, which is a lot of big corporation iron. In a sense this is what is happening now to Apple users on the client side by only having an older JVM technology at their disposal. If Apple wants leverage in server space and general-purpose computing they might be better off seeking a more powerful voice on in the Java Community Process. My sense is they are not interested and seek to build a closed Apple-oriented sub-net for Apple Store product purchasers, along the lines of Sony, Nintendo and other gaming platforms.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out going forward as Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google and others try to play one another's technology off against each other to dominate the business applications space.