Re: re. every man.woman and child in the Western Hemisphere has had access to a digital camera 24/7
So you're saying the aliens we can see are the shit ones and not the ones we really want to see but cant.
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Check out ROOT (from CERN) C++ interpreter.
Having said that I tend not to worry about what language I'm writing in if I want speed as that tends to come from the routines I'm calling and what they run on ( a couple of graphics cards if I need some speed) Writing a new language is always a tricky thing when you can RTFM of pretty much any computing language and find a solution to the problem you naively think you are the first to come across!
WWW is a subset of the internet. email is a subset of the internet etc etc. IRC was a subset of the internet. Nothing ever said WWW couldnt access email or IRC. It was just there were programs that people were familiar with that held sway for quite a while, even though the clients were easily re-written to work in the browser, well until MS and others decided to make it difficult,
Then the Internet came, and we got to do everything all over again.
Then smartphones came, and we got to do everything all over again even though we didnt have to.
Then web services and the cloud came, and we got to do everything over again because we didnt realise we'd done most of it already.
Nobody you knew was predicting this in 1975 - we'd have needed the web for that.
When ferreting about inside PC cases even today I keep my forearms bare and touch one or other to the bare metal of the case and keep it there before diving in. Never trusted leads as deliberately open circuit ones where left around the labs by Mr Funny in one place I worked. Except of course when training in which case the avo came out to check.
leaving me at a much higher security level than I had as a user. We used a VAX 8600 with VMS and originally we only had a couple of dozen engineers using it and then someone decided to put 120 secretaries doing word processing on it. This meant that during the day jobs that used to run in just a few minutes could now take hours. There was a program on the system that crashed almost as soon as it was run and one day I'd discovered that it left me in some kind of admin level so I could raise my job priority to near max and the job would whizz along and finish in seconds before anyone could complain or seemingly track what I was doing. I didnt do it very often - generally when I needed to finish the job before a meeting or pub o'clock on a Friday but it saved me many an hour of finger drumming.
One scone jam first, one cream first. If you're still hungry involve butter for 6 more permutations to try.
I am intrigued by the cornish idea that the jam will slide the cream off which shows they've not testes the idea since jam became conserve and wont even stick to a knife let alone slide clotted cream off. My next door neighbour makes clotted cream for their neighbours at xmas and despite my lactose intolerance its so good I can cope with some cramps and near terminal flatulence to consume it. However straight from the fridge there is no jam that will shift it, indeed a nice scone is under threat from it if you try a large lump without some softening of the cream first.
What evidence? That its the same composition as comets. Now there is a surprise. As for planets being hot then I guess the massive reservoirs of water found in the hot sub crust of the earth dont exist? The water that came from comets would have evaporated - the stuff a 100m or so under the surface would not have.
I do wonder if the planets could at least start to form before the star lights up and then supposedly blasts the water off to the outer solar system to then come back and seed the planet with water - possibly when a gas giant goes rogue and legs it from the inner solar system. Seems a lot easier for it to end up on the planet and the star to light up a bit later. I'll call the reasoning behind this Occams Shaving Mug as you need the water first to make the razor work more easily.
Or how about a package that includes the software and a list of packages that may need installing and calls apt to do that. I reckon I've got about 30Gbytes of duplicate packages in various Snap crap and another 50Gbytes or so for various Python VMs. Its getting back to the good old days like brexit does.
I do wonder sometimes about the hunt for quantum gravity. Electric charges are quantum, electromagnetic fields are continuous. Mass comes in quanta, gravity* is continuous. Shouldn't we be looking for quantum mass theory to unify everything?
*is the dark energy field orthogonal to gravity.
But the customers are ultimately being fucked over. The service is getting worse and worse and overnight delivery to a nearby back garden is not good enough. I dont think they are very far from a tipping point they'll have difficulty recovering from. Just a few more cost savings...
Yup, We're now in a world where no-one, absolutely no-one knows more than their small broom cupboard in the company and wondering why things are going to hell in a handcart while those who cause this flit from company to company causing the same damage and yet getting paid handsomely for doing ugly.
round hole behind which is the SAP financial vacuum of such minuscule Hg that the physics dept is really jelaous!
It does seem to be a lot of money for things that me and a few others managed to achieve in house when the IT staff were embedded enough to actually know what the various depts wanted.
I've always worked with the expectation that from time to time extra hours will be required and TOIL or extra money will be provided for work above and beyond the normal hours. I think it would be dumb to risk the possibility of both jobs requiring those extra hours simultaneously causing massive problems for you and your employers.
Having said that I think the idea of basically turning yourself into a zero hour contractor will only result in further collapse in management capabilities and hence your dreams of big money,