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The reality is that successful technologies take years, usually decades, perhaps longer, to fade away. Most people would be shocked at how much of the world runs on RPG, COBOL, FORTRAN, C, and C++ – all languages that became obsolete decades ago. Software written in these languages runs on mainframes and minicomputers (also obsolete decades ago) as well as more modern hardware in some cases. Of course in reality mainframes and minicomputers are still manufactured, so perhaps they aren’t technically “obsolete” except in our minds. "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."
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Researchers at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, have been conducting fusion experiments for some time. Using 192 beams from the world's most powerful laser, they heat and compress a small pellet of hydrogen fuel until nuclear fusion reactions take place. Usually, they have to dump more power in using the lasers than they manage to create from the fusion reaction.
The BBC is reporting, though, that during an experiment conducted in the facility during September the "amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel". If it's true, it's the first time any fusion experiment has managed such a feat—and it's a huge milestone in our quest for fusion power. Bring me my Mr. Fusion!
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You have to think that this is a cheap way for companies to find (and maybe fix) bugs. I'm assuming that most of the security researchers that find these are "the good guys". So, you might as well pay them, as have one of the others find it, and exploit it. Plus, they get good press for working with the community. "When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hmmmm?"
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Apparently the average age of an AOL worker is 30...
I'm shocked that anyone younger than 30 would be willing to work there at all.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They had to get them young enough to not know just how much AOL sucks.
Their CDs did make great coasters though.
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TTFN - Kent
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AOL got me young; but I've long since recovered. At one point I had probably 70 or 80 free floppies they sent me in the mail and a few dozen more from Prodigy and CompuServe (although these cheapskates only sent a single disk with a downloader instead of several with the full package on it). My 30th birthday is a few years past.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In his final shareholder letter, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expresses enthusiasm for the company's future and reiterates its focus on being a "devices and services" business. "Everything is gonna be satisfactual"
I'll avoid my first couple of snarky thoughts.
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JUCE is an extensive, mature, cross-platform C++ toolkit Why should the script folk have all the fun - there are libraries for big kids too!
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Looks almost like a Java framework
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Probably "inspired" by one.
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TTFN - Kent
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Windows Phone users have returned to square one with the 'updated' YouTube app today “You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”
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More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity, state media say, providing a rare glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet. Well, that's one way to keep employment numbers up.
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Security expert calls it a success -- enough bugs to fill one or two IE updates -- even though the dollar amount was about the same as Google's for the last iteration of Chrome "This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive."
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The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world. And a chicken in every pot.
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If you've run a publicly visible server with open SSH access and looked through your auth logs once in a while, you'll have noted a large number of seemingly random login attempts. Unless you restrict SSH access to a list of specific source IP addresses, anyone on the Internet can attempt to log into the box, and large numbers of individuals running scripts will do just that. For the most part, smart security will reduce this threat to nothing more than a nuisance, but it's still relatively interesting to see what's going on with those attempts. "The shields can't take much more of this, Captain."
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But sometimes the simplest JavaScript features are sitting right under our noses and we just haven’t had a lot of exposure to them. I’m talking about native, more-or-less cross-browser features that have been in the language for some time. Why load a library when a line is all you need?
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Scratch for Arduino (S4A) is a modified version of Scratch, ready to interact with Arduino boards. It was developed in 2010 by the Citilab Smalltalk Team and it has been used since by many people in a lot of differents projects around the world. Scratch your hardware itch
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British telecommunications regulator Ofcom has revealed that 20 organizations will participate in a major trial of UK white space over the next six months. "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission."
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Today, BlackBerry got some rare positive recognition. Thomson Reuters recognized the smartphone pioneer as one of the world's top 100 most innovative organizations of 2013. And by 'innovative', they mean 'doomed'
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And in other news Reuters is recognized as one of the Top 1 most tech-clueless organizations of 2013.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The goal of Mozilla Appmaker is to empower everyone to make mobile apps, regardless of their digital skillset. Apps made by apps that allow anyone to build apps should be used by no one
But who knows, it might be different than every other "no skills required" app builder.
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Oak, an open source project is an attempt to leverage the dynamic capabilities inherent within C# and gain the productivity benefits of a system such as Ruby on Rails, but keep it all in a language (C#) that offers static type checking and verification. It's Monday. Time to learn a new language.
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Wasn't Java initially called Oak?
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It was, and that was a little confusing (to me) when I first heard of this language. Seems like it's just a case of recycling though (or perhaps like all the languages named D) as this is a variant of C#.
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TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Finally, as part of its rapid, interactive style, Oak wants to be able to flash messages at you from the continuous compilation system in the background, so Oak wants Growl for Windows, a notification system that will pop little messages to you onto the desktop (such as MSN Messenger used to) when events happen—such as a successful or unsuccessful build in the background.
If this means what I think it means they lost me here. Any attempt to compile something mid-code edit is going to barf; and while I'm fine with red squiggles or marks on an overview bar from something like resharper because they're trivial to ignore if this is going to vomit popup type notices to tell me that **Incomplete sentence error** the half typ**Incomplete word error**ed line of code **Incomplete sentence error** I'm working on **Incomplete sentence error** doesn't compile there'll be **Incomplete sentence error** laptop shaped dents in the wall/ceiling in**Incomplete sentence error** short order. **Sentence complete**
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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