Posts by Bleu 860 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2012
This is amazing. We have several commenters claiming to have worked in intolerably hot conditions.
Come to think of it, so have I, and would not willingly do it again.
I am not to be the 'net detective, but it is hard not to suspect some of those commentards of shilling for Amazon.
After all, there are scores of shills for Apple, why not a few for Amazon?
Absolutely, it is my expert opinion on the poor quality of writing on what is clearly a copy-and-paste job by a rather dim bulb.
I am amused that I get so many down-votes for pointing out obvious idiocies like 'salt, if you didn't know, is NaCl'.
If you have a basic education, revisit the article, contemplate just how stupid it is, then tell me 'tut tut'.
as presumably a paid reg 'writer'.
Not to mention the clunky style, all of the quotes below are insults to the intelligence or knowledge of any Regtard who isn't just hanging around for the occasional humour value, or as a school-aged troll having some time off.
'the pH value - the acidity or alkalinity'
No shit, thanks for your enlightening words.
'scientists to determine Enceladus' potential for acquiring and hosting life.'
WTF is that supposed to mean, although I suppose that there, you are just quoting whatever source you made your 'article' from.
'the same sodium chloride (NaCl) salt as our oceans here on Earth do, but additional sodium carbonate (Na2CO3)'
You may be an idiot, most readers here are not. Are you being paid by the letter? Way to sound like a condescending fool.
It's not so much a paradigm, but intended to allow more readability in the many languages that allow it or aren't based on models that exclude it.
That, plus a little comment to explain what the loop variable is to count and why, a declaration leaves a neater space and is a better place to describe the variable in a comment, must be so out-of-fashion now.
Can't go trying to write readable programs, can we?
MS was second-rate from the start, but they gave a generation of unqualified and clueless IT managers a creed: nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft.
To their credit, though, they did turn it into a great gaming platform (eventually, I'm surely not the only one to recall how lame their early efforts looked in comparison with, say, games on a Commodore 64).
Good dev. tools, I would always want a *nix or *nux on the desktop, but would not do without Windoze too. Too many programs I like that won't run on anything else.
As for phone OS wars, really, who cares? I do like many Android programs, don't mind paying, but am disturbed by the chunk that goes to the Google monster. At least they are not as greedy as Apple (30%, FFS).
I would not even be writing this if I had not broken the USB port of my iTron phone, which I still prefer in many ways, and keep charged for the alarm, camera, and old downloads.
Would be writing something slightly, but not much, different.
I have. Mentioned in an earlier comment, had to drive for about two hours to get there.
It was at the number two site, in southern Kyushu, the launch was of the Nozomi (Hope), to Mars.
At such a beautiful site, and in the early hours (about three in the morning), it was breathtaking.
I still feel sad about Nozomi, the agency's people did a wonderful job of getting it there late, despite problems, only to be ordered by the IAU to forget it, as there was a chance of it hitting Mars and it hadn't been sterilized to the required level.
Tears still, writing this.
More on our rockets, the pencil rocket, a tiny thing launched in 1955, is being billed around the station nearest where it was first launched as 'The Japan's first rocket', with, of course, a cute mascot.
Forgetting the war-time human-guided ones and the history of fireworks.
The pencil rocket programme is interesting, JAXA has a little on it in English for the majority of Regtards. It was quite close to the fireworks level, but metal, and the first step in a pretty successful programme.
We think of clockwork as analogue, but it really is not. The hands may all appear to sweep smoothly, but that is artifice, they are driven by a mechanical oscillator (pendulum, spring recoil, etc.) that pulses at a certain rate.
I liked programming assembler most of all, it is just like clockwork.
Some of the earlier electronic methods (out of use) might more aptly be described as analogue.
All this talk of watches, I have two at hand, but it really makes me want to find my old Seiko (battery, not Kinetic) and Swiss self-winder.
Still have them.
Never buying a 'smart-watch', like to read a map and ask people instead of staring at a display and living in a bubble.
'the right track, a small functional module that can be incorporated into a traditional analogue watch'
You are wrong on so many counts.
Clockwork is not analog. It is digital, just not binary.
Analog timepieces are sundials, sand or liquid~based timers, I am sure there are others.
How do you propose to economically place a digital electronics module in a clockwork watch and leave the beauty of the watch intact?
Granted, it could be done, but can't see the point.
Seems to have liked it too much to have sold it.
14 down-votes (so far). Must have been a recruiting drive on Apple fan fora. Although, interestingly, this is the second time I've made a very negative comment about an article, and the first also got an instant 14 Down's syndromers. Perhaps it is an automated function.
A further quibble, the claim of a 'hirsute wrist'. Are the photos of the magical device being worn all taken with it worn by someone else, or just altered to remove any evidence of hair?
A year in the future.
'iOS 8 wiii no longer support the Apple Watch, but by then, your watch battery will be dead, so hey guys, just support us by throwing more of your cash our way. Just buy the latest one! Apple's gratitude to you, our valued mark, is unlimited!'
I recommend checking the repair plans, FFS, talk about gouging.
for sheer sumptuousness of ways to write unintelligible code.
Sure, you can do even better with Perl, but those folks do it for the pure art of play, and it's in a different dimension of languages (translated, not compiled, meant for the quick fix, natter, natter).
Stroustrop likes to imagine that his book is up there with K & R's.
It is not, it is an opaque mess, his attitude is to talk down to the lowly reader.
Anyone unfortunate enough to have worked with early C++ will know that half the stuff in the book that isn't C JUST DID NOT WORK for years.
Since they finally made most of it work, there has been a never-ending effort to pile on more and more ways to write unreadable code.
I think you are talking about something completely different.
A smart terminal had the hardware to handle things like scrolling and moving the cursor around in text.
A dumb terminal had a single active line at the bottom of the screen, display only above that.
Both were intended for use with something else, a mini or mainframe, or later, a workstation network.
I had to use a dumb terminal once during my thesis, because all of the other machines were taken. An interesting experience. It was hooked up to a workstation network.
My favourite smart terminals were the ones from IBM, hooked up to one of their mainframes. Very impressive!
I think that, by dumb terminal, you mean what thin client used to mean.
upbringing, and micros at home, I am less than impressed by Microsoft's efforts on the shell and command-line fronts.
After all, there was clearly a fight over whether or not to continue it at all. Nice to see that sanity prevailed.
That said, its roots in DOS are very clear, it isn't much good as a consequence. Also, useful.
I, for one, avoid facebook like the plague, but they probably have a dossier on me, from morons using it mentioning me, and from my occasionally checking pages there because people don't bother updating their websites with 'what's on' information, instead doing it all through faescesbook and twatter.
Facebook has frequently been said to keep non-user profiles.
It's concatenation, not catenation.
Catenation is a term in chemistry. A url is not language. Running words together as in the article and several comments is simple ineptitude (although I'll grant that a commentor may have had the intention of highlighting the writer's ineptitude).
You've done a good job of highlighting your own ineptitude with misuse of 'catenation' and not knowing 'concatenation'.
What kind of techie are you?
just repetitive and bombastic.
Generally overrated.
I will again recommend Schrader's Mishima, a Life in Four Parts, and the Glass soundtrack.
The movie was long-banned here, because his widow has sway with the habitual ruling party, and members and friends of the party don't like like the brief depiction of his gay side.
For goodness sakes, it was a central theme in his own novel.
I recommend Mishima, a Life in Four Parts, to all Regtards, it is a brilliant movie, and IMHO, work of Glass on the soundtrack, not always great, is great in many places.
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Glass sure is overrated in general.
I liked Einstein on the Beach many years ago. Ashamed of my lack of taste at the time, now.
Still love his soundtrack to Schrader's Mishima, a Life in Four Parts. Some is dull, most is very fitting and really works well with the film. ... but that is a movie soundtrack, presumably not what Glass would like to be remembered for.
Favourite for me.
do you think Ada Countess Lovelace a software developer? She developed vague ideas for things to do on the Babbage machines, but none were realised.
My fave old computers, and earliest to really deserve a place, are Zuse. Someone must make a simulator.
Seriously, I would love to be contradicted, what did Countess Lovelace come up with in programming or language design that flowed into or influenced the current era?
Did Babbage influence computers of now?
I really think that he did not.
do you think Ada Countess Lovelace a software developer? She developed vague ideas for things to do on the Babbage machines, but none were realised.
My fave old computers, and earliest to really deserve a place, are Zuse. Someone must make a simulator.
Seriously, I would love to be contradicted, what did Countless Lovelace come up with in programming or language design that flowed into or influenced the current era?
Nothing. Like Babbage.
off-topic, I will add an on-topic reminder that Poles did much of the work on working out how Enigma (an ingenious design itself) worked. They did not just hand over a captured machine that they didn't comprehend to their intellectual betters at Bletchly Park, they understood how it worked, and explained that.
Earlier this evening, I was sorry for a rat (animal) for the first time in my life. A back-street going home from work at times, central Tokyo, often saw the rat. Not the nasty type.
The rat appeared briefly this evening, it looked pitiable, I really do not like rats, but I was moved by how it had been injured. Its movements were painful and it clearly had sense of mortality.
Then I saw the reason, a big cat, not quite domestic.
I hate the cat cult on the 'net, and the cat concerned would never qualify, but that is where cats do good, although I had seen that particular (lab I think) rat so many times, I was sorry to see it limping along last night, it was so pathetic in the original sense of the word, clearly injured.
Sony buying media assets in the boom years now has the media tail wagging the tech dog.
Springer was/is a moron.
Morita would be spinning in his grave if he saw what Sony as a tech-media combo has become.
They still design and make many great products, video cameras, walkman, phones, game machines, etc.
That is handled by what is now the Japanese branch, with little support, much hindrance, and giant costs from the overpaid and inept American and European 'manager' types who now appear to be in control (look at the names in the linked articles).
Another factor for Sony is US media control, so when the latest Playstation doesn't randomly catch fire or crash like the latest X Box, thousands of US trolls raise their voices as loud as they can on the 'net to berate Sony's superior product.
Likewise, Sony in Japan has made many superior players, media devices, US state-supported Apple push (and I would extend that to MS and Google) means that people in many places are so bombarded by propaganda as not to seek an alternative.
As for this leak, it is rather amusing, but it would be nice to see the real tech Sony made by Morita separate from the morons controlling the company from the media-holdings side.
All of the fake claims that Assange did anything wrong in Sweden are the usual crap, groupies were around, he tupped them, they even boasted about it at the time.
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