I would want it at the OS level like the original. The operating system is the database and the database is the operating system.
it has been so long since I have even touched it I would have to take a crash course. D-basic was pretty cool put I think it would be nice to have something *like* C or FreePascal ported onto it.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
The framers did not define the phrase "limited time" so that has been left up to the congress, ie: "the people" and therefor if you want to get that defined you have to make the changes in the CFR.
Here is a general explanation of the definition of a "limited time" as it currently exists"
The term of copyright for a particular work depends on several factors, including whether it has been published, and, if so, the date of first publication. As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. For works first published prior to 1978, the term will vary depending on several factors. To determine the length of copyright protection for a particular work, consult chapter 3 of the Copyright Act (title 17 of the United States Code). More information on the term of copyright can be found in Circular 15a, Duration of Copyright, and Circular 1, Copyright Basics.
If you don't like that, then it is time to start working on your senators and congressman. Get enough of a ground swell going that those people will see that they will not be re-elected if they don't change it and guess what, it will get changed.
You are wasting your breath here. I think you are correct, but you are speaking to a bunch of people who see the ability to get something, hell anything. by anyone and put it on a torent for all to have as some sort of inalienable right.
not even Cat like reflex's will help you since most handgun murders are within 5 meters. So with a 9mm traveling at 335mps you have about 2msec to get the clipboard into the bullet path and here is a hint, no ones limbs can move that fast. This wont help you against a pro since they will simply pop you in the melon from behind and you will never even know it happened. But hey if it makes you sleep better at night.
Is not that kids are stupid, it is in the presentation.
Math as it is presented in most all schools is one of the driest subjects on the planet.
Yes there are kids who just get it but they are not the majority in point of fact they are a tiny minority.
I remember sitting through basic algebra and it was mind numbing ( this was in the early 70's ) and nothing was related to the real world, just the rules of algebra for weeks on end.
Even today with a 10 year old I am having to go back and re-learn math skills that have long since faded to someplace in the back of my brain so I can help my own kid with his homework. The Kahn Academy has been the best refresher course I have ever found.
to use DropBox. Ffter the last SNAFU with their TOS they don't use them anymore. DropBox is simply not to be trusted.
They now have several terabytes of storage on their servers and some screaming fast LTO4 tape drives in three tape changers that back up everything every night, and those are shipped off site every night.
At least 75% of the distro's it is going to remain a non RAD platform.
The ONLY project that comes close is Lazarus. They have it pretty well worked out. Yes is is Delphi and I know everyone just LOVES to hate Pascal but guess what people as a language it does 99% of what needs to be done and the other 1% is just esoteric stuff that can be done without.
If you want it to do C++ then get onto the project and write the C++ for it.
It is drag and drop GUI interface, right click of the component or double click on the component and write your logic.
It is free software and it works but until the Linux community gels around a single GUI nothing will change and the chances of that happening are about the same of a snowballs chance in hell.
Linux could rule the desktop but because there are so very many variants with all the cooks screaming "Mine is better" it never fucking will.
Lets see a petawatt is 1 x 10^15.. Our star (sol) has a surface power of +/- 4 x 10^25 and it hasn't rent space time asunder yet that I know of, but hell I could be wrong. 200 PW is only a little more then the power of the sun that hits the earth. The sun runs at its power level continuously and they think they can do that in a couple of fempto seconds? I think not.
Ever been in a commercial jet on a go around? This are normally executed WAY before minimums and it takes a good 15 seconds to develop go around power, while you are retracting all the crap hanging out into the breeze. The engines are still generating a good amount of thrust but not go around thrust. You fuck up on short final in a large passenger jet and you are just dead.
Because Anders is a fucking genius. Sadly he was seduced by the dark side ( with no small amount of help from the morons who renamed Borland "Imprise" ).
Don't feel bad. I have seen some of his code. Just fucking insanely brilliant. I read in awe and I count myself as a pretty damn good programmer.
I don't care if you are flying a piper cub or a 787 Dreamliner. Final approach and landing is the single most dangerous operation performed by pilots.
You are low and slow and the engines are spooled way down because you are using minimum power, just enough to keep the damn thing flying, but slow enough so that when the wheels hit the pavement you don't blow all the tires and shear off the gear and kill all the people on board. Unless you are shooting a landing into damn near zero / zero conditions ( and only a very few airports are equipped to do that ( no GPS does not do that ) the plane is most assuredly NOT on auto pilot there are people flying those planes. At night it is dark in the cockpit and has been for hours. The pilots pupils are basically wide open, so just imagine how your eyes are going to react when a laser hits that acrylic windshield and every little minor scratch starts sending light in every fucking direction. even if you don;t take a shot into the eyes the windshield becomes damn near opaque and the pour underpaid overworked tired bastard is now a couple of hundred feet from the ground and suddenly can see a god damn thing except for his glowing windshield. Nice scenario eh? I am making 150kts and sinking at 500 feet per minute, or 8 feet per second so at 200 feet i got less then 30 seconds to get everything right or your relatives coming to visit are going to be showing up at your house in a barbeque bag.
Please don't try an minimize this at all. Your post shows you at least have some sense of the problem.
This is not really hard to understand, actually it is really simple, the problem is the solution.
Now once we are past all the "Oh the poor buggy ship manufacturers" idiots...
We have 308 Million people in this country. According to the last census 67% of those are working age ( 15 to 64 years old ).
That gives us about 200 million people who are work capable. Now it is about a 50/50 split male and female.
Given the current estimated national unemployment rate of +/- 9% would give us a gross number of about 18 million unemployed.
Now I don't know about you but an informal sample of my friends, that are married/partnered, about 80% of those have both people working. So lets lop 20% of of 18 million and that leaves us with approximately 15 million.
So lets be clear on what that number really looks like. The population of the 88 cities of Los Angeles County and the five Burroughs of New York City is 17 million people.
So explain how this is going to work. Anybody?
Automation continues to idle workers as does moving employment ( all sectors manufacturing, software, medical, textile, etc. ) offshore. Job creation in this country is increasingly low paying service sector employment which more often then not does not include any medical insurance etc.
The cost of basic commodities in this country is going up at an alarming rate or is churning so drastically ( look at the price of gasoline and diesel ) that it is quickly overpowering almost everyone's ability to withstand the depression we are currently experiencing.
The stock market keeps going up but unfortunately it is feeding on itself without any real value being produced in the form of goods. it is all services and it is being mostly driven by financial and information services which are not commodity goods they are vapor. Facebook does not produce goods, it sells information, the same as Google and increasingly Apple since all of its products are produced outside of the USA.
So we have the problem. The amount of the population that needs jobs that pay something more then minimum wages is growing faster then the number of jobs being created in this country.
The tipping point is getting dangerously close. There is going to be a collapse and suddenly investments will be meaningless. The number of people that wont be able to service their mortgage will grow to the point that it won't be possible, or even advisable, to throw them out and take possession of the "asset" because it will have become worth next to nothing and people are just going to start staying there and refusing to leave because there is simply no place to go. Think about the city you live in. If the economy continues to collapse at the current rate how many of those people who "own" homes will still have jobs that can support the debt that they have in just in the form of a house? If the job they have disappears ( like Bank of America closing down an entire development facility and moving it off shore with very little notice ) then they are just screwed which is why one woman killed herself.
We as a society have to figure this out and we have to figure it out quickly. We spent trillions saving banks and investment companies and we are still collapsing. We don't have the resources to continue propping up banks and the stock market, we simply don't when less the 200 hundred companies are controlling where the jobs are based upon nothing but a P/L statement. Fundamental change must happen and it must happen soon if we are to avoid a breakdown that will reduce the United States to a 3rd world country or worse
There is nothing particularly wrong with the syntax of python, it is a fine scripting language.
What is wrong with it is that the author decided that his indentation style was better then anyone else and he coded his interpreter to enforce his stylistic view. Forgive me, but having an invisible block closure characters is stupid and wrong and that is why I am forking it and recoding it so that you can have your choice between something invisible and a curly brace ( which just happens to be the block opening ) as a block closure.
They will try, but this will fail and here is why:
Keep in mind I have a 5th grade boy in Oakland Ca Public School.
Teachers are to the whims of politicians in the form of:
Local School Boards
State School Boards
Local Curriculum Committees
State Curriculum Committees
Local text book Committees
State text book Committees
Teachers have little control over class size
Teachers have little control over what students are in their class
Teachers have little control over class budgets
Teachers have little or no control over what students are can be taught
A principal can no longer expel a student, that decision has to be made by a committee and let me tell you that is one of the hardest things to get done.
You could have Jaime Escalante and if you have a classroom full of kids that have no respect for teachers and authority it is a lose lose for the teachers. I have seen damn fine teachers at my sons school. Imaginative, innovative, young men and women simply just leave because they were not being allowed to teach outside the box since it was not in line with the Federal / State / Local "guidelines" ( read that as mandates ) even though they could show that their methods were working in relation to test scores and the like.
The other problem is parents. Parents tend to come in a few flavors:
Very involved - These are parents that are actively involved with their child's education. They sit and do homework with them, they teach at home, they raise their kids to respect both teachers and authority and at the same time to think outside the box. Most of these are families with a stay at home parent who aslo gets involved with the school and volunteers.
Involved as much as they can be - These are parents who both work long hours and barely have enough energy to go over the homework with their kid to make sure it is mostly correct. These parents are so exhausted by the time they get home it is all they can do to get a good healthy meal on the table, make sure the kid gets to bed at a reasonable hour and up and fed, ready for school the next day.
Not involved, and sadly these seem to be the vast majority of the parents. They never even review or go over their kids work, allow massive screen time and generally get surprised and pissed off when they discover little Johnny cant read and go screaming at the schools, teachers, principals, school boards, etc.
Education starts at home not at the local school house. The school is there to build on what kids should start learning at home. My son is evaluated twice a year once at the local and once at the state level and my wife and I see exactly where is he is on math, english and science and then we act accordingly. Are we a couple of standard deviations from the mean as far as parental involvement in our child's education? Yeah probably but we are nothing particularly special. We just want our kid to have the best start we and the public school system can give him. We have parent teacher conferences more often then the scheduled ones. Our son's teacher knows, because we have said it explicitly to her, that if our kid gets out of line she is free to nail his little ass for it. If his work in class falls off then we want to know it well before the grading period so we can kick his little butt a bit and start clamping down on privileges AND start spending more time with flashcards, more reading time with him etc. then we already do.
Teachers who are left to try and educate children completely on their own with parents that just don't get involved will fail, that is a given. Why, well because when they have 30+ kids in a classroom and they have to deal with kids that are disruptive and they cannot eject them and a hundred different factors that they have had control over taken from them because there are 348 committees all trying to tell them ho
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I would want it at the OS level like the original. The operating system is the database and the database is the operating system.
it has been so long since I have even touched it I would have to take a crash course. D-basic was pretty cool put I think it would be nice to have something *like* C or FreePascal ported onto it.
Just watch your overflow frames!
Talk about your white balance target!
At fucking last someone who knows something.
PIC is just insanely fast at what it does and it does what it does in ways no one has picked up on.
Last version of the PIC OS I worked on was OEM'd by the now defunct Ultimate Computer Corp.
Baby with the bathwater much?
The clause reads as follows:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
The framers did not define the phrase "limited time" so that has been left up to the congress, ie: "the people" and therefor if you want to get that defined you have to make the changes in the CFR.
Here is a general explanation of the definition of a "limited time" as it currently exists"
The term of copyright for a particular work depends on several factors, including whether it has been published, and, if so, the date of first publication. As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. For works first published prior to 1978, the term will vary depending on several factors. To determine the length of copyright protection for a particular work, consult chapter 3 of the Copyright Act (title 17 of the United States Code). More information on the term of copyright can be found in Circular 15a, Duration of Copyright, and Circular 1, Copyright Basics.
If you don't like that, then it is time to start working on your senators and congressman. Get enough of a ground swell going that those people will see that they will not be re-elected if they don't change it and guess what, it will get changed.
Mark,
You are wasting your breath here. I think you are correct, but you are speaking to a bunch of people who see the ability to get something, hell anything. by anyone and put it on a torent for all to have as some sort of inalienable right.
not even Cat like reflex's will help you since most handgun murders are within 5 meters. So with a 9mm traveling at 335mps you have about 2msec to get the clipboard into the bullet path and here is a hint, no ones limbs can move that fast. This wont help you against a pro since they will simply pop you in the melon from behind and you will never even know it happened. But hey if it makes you sleep better at night.
Are you saying size matters?
Sorry I couldn't help myself.
Is not that kids are stupid, it is in the presentation.
Math as it is presented in most all schools is one of the driest subjects on the planet.
Yes there are kids who just get it but they are not the majority in point of fact they are a tiny minority.
I remember sitting through basic algebra and it was mind numbing ( this was in the early 70's ) and nothing was related to the real world, just the rules of algebra for weeks on end.
Even today with a 10 year old I am having to go back and re-learn math skills that have long since faded to someplace in the back of my brain so I can help my own kid with his homework. The Kahn Academy has been the best refresher course I have ever found.
to use DropBox. Ffter the last SNAFU with their TOS they don't use them anymore. DropBox is simply not to be trusted.
They now have several terabytes of storage on their servers and some screaming fast LTO4 tape drives in three tape changers that back up everything every night, and those are shipped off site every night.
C seems pretty sane to me. Just about everything you really depend on is written in C. The linux Kernel is written in C.
And just about every language that supports those things you plead for is written in C.
Can we please just write in C
Generics are ughhh. They introduce more trouble then they are worth. They are clever though.
Function literals? Pointer to a function much?
Sane? Please! gimme a break.
Just be thankful it does not use white space as a block closure.
Lets take C, wrap it in C, then wrap that in C and then wrap the whole thing in yet more C.
Can we please just program in C?
At least 75% of the distro's it is going to remain a non RAD platform.
The ONLY project that comes close is Lazarus. They have it pretty well worked out. Yes is is Delphi and I know everyone just LOVES to hate Pascal but guess what people as a language it does 99% of what needs to be done and the other 1% is just esoteric stuff that can be done without.
If you want it to do C++ then get onto the project and write the C++ for it.
It is drag and drop GUI interface, right click of the component or double click on the component and write your logic.
It is free software and it works but until the Linux community gels around a single GUI nothing will change and the chances of that happening are about the same of a snowballs chance in hell.
Linux could rule the desktop but because there are so very many variants with all the cooks screaming "Mine is better" it never fucking will.
Lets see a petawatt is 1 x 10^15.. Our star (sol) has a surface power of +/- 4 x 10^25 and it hasn't rent space time asunder yet that I know of, but hell I could be wrong. 200 PW is only a little more then the power of the sun that hits the earth. The sun runs at its power level continuously and they think they can do that in a couple of fempto seconds? I think not.
Ever been in a commercial jet on a go around? This are normally executed WAY before minimums and it takes a good 15 seconds to develop go around power, while you are retracting all the crap hanging out into the breeze. The engines are still generating a good amount of thrust but not go around thrust. You fuck up on short final in a large passenger jet and you are just dead.
Yeah I feel ya. LIM Spec was such much fun!
Because Anders is a fucking genius. Sadly he was seduced by the dark side ( with no small amount of help from the morons who renamed Borland "Imprise" ).
Don't feel bad. I have seen some of his code. Just fucking insanely brilliant. I read in awe and I count myself as a pretty damn good programmer.
You must really be in pain still because we still have segments and offsets.
Before I go any further, I am a pilot.
I don't care if you are flying a piper cub or a 787 Dreamliner. Final approach and landing is the single most dangerous operation performed by pilots.
You are low and slow and the engines are spooled way down because you are using minimum power, just enough to keep the damn thing flying, but slow enough so that when the wheels hit the pavement you don't blow all the tires and shear off the gear and kill all the people on board. Unless you are shooting a landing into damn near zero / zero conditions ( and only a very few airports are equipped to do that ( no GPS does not do that ) the plane is most assuredly NOT on auto pilot there are people flying those planes. At night it is dark in the cockpit and has been for hours. The pilots pupils are basically wide open, so just imagine how your eyes are going to react when a laser hits that acrylic windshield and every little minor scratch starts sending light in every fucking direction. even if you don;t take a shot into the eyes the windshield becomes damn near opaque and the pour underpaid overworked tired bastard is now a couple of hundred feet from the ground and suddenly can see a god damn thing except for his glowing windshield. Nice scenario eh? I am making 150kts and sinking at 500 feet per minute, or 8 feet per second so at 200 feet i got less then 30 seconds to get everything right or your relatives coming to visit are going to be showing up at your house in a barbeque bag.
Please don't try an minimize this at all. Your post shows you at least have some sense of the problem.
This is not really hard to understand, actually it is really simple, the problem is the solution.
Now once we are past all the "Oh the poor buggy ship manufacturers" idiots...
We have 308 Million people in this country. According to the last census 67% of those are working age ( 15 to 64 years old ).
That gives us about 200 million people who are work capable. Now it is about a 50/50 split male and female.
Given the current estimated national unemployment rate of +/- 9% would give us a gross number of about 18 million unemployed.
Now I don't know about you but an informal sample of my friends, that are married/partnered, about 80% of those have both people working. So lets lop 20% of of 18 million and that leaves us with approximately 15 million.
So lets be clear on what that number really looks like. The population of the 88 cities of Los Angeles County and the five Burroughs of New York City is 17 million people.
So explain how this is going to work. Anybody?
Automation continues to idle workers as does moving employment ( all sectors manufacturing, software, medical, textile, etc. ) offshore. Job creation in this country is increasingly low paying service sector employment which more often then not does not include any medical insurance etc.
The cost of basic commodities in this country is going up at an alarming rate or is churning so drastically ( look at the price of gasoline and diesel ) that it is quickly overpowering almost everyone's ability to withstand the depression we are currently experiencing.
The stock market keeps going up but unfortunately it is feeding on itself without any real value being produced in the form of goods. it is all services and it is being mostly driven by financial and information services which are not commodity goods they are vapor. Facebook does not produce goods, it sells information, the same as Google and increasingly Apple since all of its products are produced outside of the USA.
So we have the problem. The amount of the population that needs jobs that pay something more then minimum wages is growing faster then the number of jobs being created in this country.
The tipping point is getting dangerously close. There is going to be a collapse and suddenly investments will be meaningless. The number of people that wont be able to service their mortgage will grow to the point that it won't be possible, or even advisable, to throw them out and take possession of the "asset" because it will have become worth next to nothing and people are just going to start staying there and refusing to leave because there is simply no place to go. Think about the city you live in. If the economy continues to collapse at the current rate how many of those people who "own" homes will still have jobs that can support the debt that they have in just in the form of a house? If the job they have disappears ( like Bank of America closing down an entire development facility and moving it off shore with very little notice ) then they are just screwed which is why one woman killed herself.
We as a society have to figure this out and we have to figure it out quickly. We spent trillions saving banks and investment companies and we are still collapsing. We don't have the resources to continue propping up banks and the stock market, we simply don't when less the 200 hundred companies are controlling where the jobs are based upon nothing but a P/L statement. Fundamental change must happen and it must happen soon if we are to avoid a breakdown that will reduce the United States to a 3rd world country or worse
Hmmm disassemble, remove the core, install dummy core, then re-assemble and drop. That would test everything but the actual nuclear bits.
My Error, it does not use a curly brace to open a block.
But it will!
Spoken like someone who can't read.
There is nothing particularly wrong with the syntax of python, it is a fine scripting language.
What is wrong with it is that the author decided that his indentation style was better then anyone else and he coded his interpreter to enforce his stylistic view. Forgive me, but having an invisible block closure characters is stupid and wrong and that is why I am forking it and recoding it so that you can have your choice between something invisible and a curly brace ( which just happens to be the block opening ) as a block closure.
They will try, but this will fail and here is why:
Keep in mind I have a 5th grade boy in Oakland Ca Public School.
A principal can no longer expel a student, that decision has to be made by a committee and let me tell you that is one of the hardest things to get done.
You could have Jaime Escalante and if you have a classroom full of kids that have no respect for teachers and authority it is a lose lose for the teachers. I have seen damn fine teachers at my sons school. Imaginative, innovative, young men and women simply just leave because they were not being allowed to teach outside the box since it was not in line with the Federal / State / Local "guidelines" ( read that as mandates ) even though they could show that their methods were working in relation to test scores and the like.
The other problem is parents. Parents tend to come in a few flavors:
Education starts at home not at the local school house. The school is there to build on what kids should start learning at home. My son is evaluated twice a year once at the local and once at the state level and my wife and I see exactly where is he is on math, english and science and then we act accordingly. Are we a couple of standard deviations from the mean as far as parental involvement in our child's education? Yeah probably but we are nothing particularly special. We just want our kid to have the best start we and the public school system can give him. We have parent teacher conferences more often then the scheduled ones. Our son's teacher knows, because we have said it explicitly to her, that if our kid gets out of line she is free to nail his little ass for it. If his work in class falls off then we want to know it well before the grading period so we can kick his little butt a bit and start clamping down on privileges AND start spending more time with flashcards, more reading time with him etc. then we already do.
Teachers who are left to try and educate children completely on their own with parents that just don't get involved will fail, that is a given. Why, well because when they have 30+ kids in a classroom and they have to deal with kids that are disruptive and they cannot eject them and a hundred different factors that they have had control over taken from them because there are 348 committees all trying to tell them ho