Comment Re:non sequitur? (Score 2) 143
I did read the article, though not before my comment. In it was really nothing new.
Oh sorry about that, I should have pointed that out; I forgot to mention that the article isn't actually worth reading lol
I did read the article, though not before my comment. In it was really nothing new.
Oh sorry about that, I should have pointed that out; I forgot to mention that the article isn't actually worth reading lol
Maybe they're trying for a hydrogen battery?
lol because hydrogen is lighter than lithium?
If you read the article, it does at least make clear what they are trying for. Their first priority is to make batteries cheaper (the range is already good enough to sell a lot, they feel, if the price goes down). Their second priority is to increase range, and they have some ideas that could increase range 400%, but they are not ready for production yet (they have problems like short battery life or whatever). Those are the things I could gather from the article.
As far as actual chemistry, there is nothing there.
It should be simple enough to,be made bug-free.
I have a book that talks about reliable design. On one page, they demonstrate that they have a 4-line program without any bugs.
Then in the next paragraph, they admit that the first few versions had bugs.
As a developer, I'd be hesitant to heavily invest in a language that is more likely to break compatibility and leave me stranded.
Well said. Nothing worse than having to rewrite a bunch of solid code, just because someone thought it wasn't elegant.
The check box is gone, and the ads are back, and dumber than ever! I
It's still there for me, maybe your karma dropped a bit.
I miss the days of Barracuda ads that made sense on slashdot. The new ones aren't targeted at geeks at all.
I agree.
That's pretty much everything, since 1995.
There's Wayland now, and Mir was an attempt for a while. You've missed some stuff.
1. We need a "Default". Not necessarily a default Distro, but a set of standards that all distros can follow. Of course, other options will be allowed, even encouraged. Rationale: We need the "fragmentation" problem to be addressed, and I would suggest that a good start would to have a standard interface that is common across all of "Linux".
Biggest thing here is the ability to install apps that aren't in a repository. Most of the rest is ok.
It isn't really a benefit of GPL, a copyright owner can license their software in as many different ways as they like
Good luck getting companies to pay for BSD licensed software.
You probably didn’t mean that, but “syntax” isn’t the most important aspect of software development. People will suffer atrocious syntax to get valuable functionality (C++ template meta-programming is an example). Also, developers and maintainers of production code eventually tire of cute (often very terse) syntax.
[to change how people use C++] I’d like to replace uses of arrays and pointers with std::arrays and vectors. I’d like to eliminate macros. I’d like to replace old-style for loops with range-for loops. I’d like to eliminate overuse of free store (heap). I’d like to break up large functions into smaller and more precisely defined ones. I’d like to replace ad hoc code with algorithms.
Not everybody can become a good programmer. The world needs a lot of programmers, maybe 20 million, but we don’t need a billion. We need to distinguish between the education of professionals and giving people a bit of computer literacy.
Languages without C’s problems typically rely on C or C++ to do their dirty work for them. I think we should think more about isolating unsafe code in a program than to eliminate it.
My aim has been constant: a direct mapping to hardware plus zero-overhead abstraction.....I hope that the tide has turned so that C++ is becoming more “novice friendly.”
Getting a commercial license for a certain amount of help, e.g. bug fixes or other code contributions to the Qt project.
How would that help you? If you can afford to pay someone to do bug fixes, you can afford a license.
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory keeps all its data in an old gray trunk.
