Comment Re:Strongly typed language? (Score 1) 299
Unfortunately I don't have a link handy that will help me use English correctly.
Comment Re:Strongly typed language? (Score 1) 299
Here is a great resource on these issues and might help you use some of the language you are using correctly:
http://www.pphsg.org/cdsmith/types.html
I understand that static versus dynamic is a fairly binary valued property, but my understanding is that strength of type systems is real valued.
There are 2 axes to strength:
1. If you have a type system (you outlaw certain programs), how well is it enforced? Are there ways to get around it? (Yes/No)
2. How many and what type of behaviors do you outlaw in programs. On this axis a lot of trade offs can be made. Do you allow automatic coercion? Do you allow generic data types to be expressed? If so, are covariant and contravariant type parameters allowed? etc... (Subjective 0.0 - 1.0)
Comment Arrested Development (Score 3, Funny) 210
I feel like there is an Arrested Development joke somewhere in here.
Lindsay:
There's a cream with real diamonds in it. I can actually smear diamonds on my face! And it's only $400 a tub! That's, like, what, like, a million diamonds for $400? A million bleeping diamonds!
Lindsay:
There's a cream with real diamonds in it. I can actually smear diamonds on my face! And it's only $400 a tub! That's, like, what, like, a million diamonds for $400? A million bleeping diamonds!
Comment Re:August (Score 1) 1146
Comment Correction: First Cryptographic Thriller (Score 2, Informative) 216
Comment Question Mark (Score 1) 249
Shouldn't the headline have a question mark at the end?
Submission + - Five AJAX frameworks reviewed
prostoalex writes: "Dr. Dobb's Journal reviews 5 AJAX frameworks: Dojo 0.3.1, Prototype and Scriptaculous 1.4, Direct Web Reporting 1.0, Yahoo! User Interface Library 0.11.1 and Google Web Toolkit 1.0. Each framework was tested in two basic scenarios — writing a "hub" (titled collapsible link list frequently seen on sidebars of many Web sites) and a "tab panel" (horizontal tabbed navigation bar). During the process, Dr. Dobb's Journal reviewers noted that "Dojo provides more features and HTML widgets than YUI and Prototype" but eventually "settled on the Yahoo! User Interface Library"."
Submission + - Digg's "Boston Tea Party"?
Seismologist writes: Forbes.com is running an article about the recent user base revolt that occurred on Digg over 'the' HD-DVD encryption key which of course can be followed in this or this Slashdot article:
Digg.com has become one of the Web's top news portals by putting the power to choose the news in the hands of its users. Just how much power they wield, however, only became clear Tuesday night, when Digg turned into what one user called a "digital Boston Tea Party."
When the site's administrators attempted to prevent users from posting links to pages revealing the copyright encryption key for HD-DVD discs, Digg's users rebelled. Hundreds of references to the code flooded the site's submissions, filling its main pages and overwhelming the administrators' attempts to control the site's content.
Submission + - Response to CLF Mercury Levels
theNetImp writes: The Consumerist has written a response to the the article linked to the other day from this slashdot article regarding the safety of CLFs.
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A woman in Maine broke a CFL and, rather than carefully cleaning the mess up herself, she called Home Depot. They told her not to vacuum, and directed her to call Poison Control. Poison Control directed her to the Maine DEP, who then sent an agent. The agent told her to call in a toxic waste team to give an estimate. Naturally, they told her it was going to be around $2,000. She heard that number, walled off the bedroom and alerted the local media.
Enter Fox News, where Steven "Junk Science" Milloy a well known, self-appointed "Junk Science expert" and global warming denier, writes an editorial extolling the dangers of CFLs to you, me, and our precious, precious babies.
A woman in Maine broke a CFL and, rather than carefully cleaning the mess up herself, she called Home Depot. They told her not to vacuum, and directed her to call Poison Control. Poison Control directed her to the Maine DEP, who then sent an agent. The agent told her to call in a toxic waste team to give an estimate. Naturally, they told her it was going to be around $2,000. She heard that number, walled off the bedroom and alerted the local media.
Enter Fox News, where Steven "Junk Science" Milloy a well known, self-appointed "Junk Science expert" and global warming denier, writes an editorial extolling the dangers of CFLs to you, me, and our precious, precious babies.
Submission + - Texas High School Suspends over Counter-Strike
Phi Kai writes: As found on the GamePolitics.com main page, a 17 year old High School Student was arrested and suspended from school for creating a Counter-Strike map based on the school. The student's map was brought to the attention of the administration the day after the VT shootings. The map has evidently been available for months prior to this, but was only brought to light after the shootings. The student in question is of Asian decent and the Asian-American community in the area is rallying around the student. Read more at GamePolitics.com or just check the Google.com results.
Submission + - Book as College Graduation Present?
tigersha writes: I am the boss of a young lad who worked for me for a few years as an intern. He is about to graduate with a degree in computer science and I would like to give him a book as present. Does not have to be CS. Any suggestions?
Journal Journal: Orkut quietly removes https login
When I tried to access my Orkut account on Monday morning, I got an "Unable to Connect" message. I just assumed that they were having some temporary problems. When I couldn't login on Tuesday, I thought maybe the company had tightened down the firewall, so I tried later that evening from home with the same result. So I did a Google search to see if anything had been reported, and found a Wikipedia entry. Other than that, it seems very few people noticed this security problem.
Submission + - Solar Cells Waste Money, Save Energy
sciencebase writes: "A complete cost-benefit analysis of photovoltaic solar cells suggests that their cost far outweighs the financial savings one might expect from reduced electricity costs. On the other hand, the cradle to grave analysis carried out by the researchers also that from cradle to grave these devices actually save energy. The balance will tip in favor of solar cells should the cost of electricity generated using fossil fuels rise three or four times today's price or the efficiency of solar cells rise beyond a few percent.
Full story here"
Submission + - Growth of e-waste may lead to national 'e-fee'
jcatcw writes: "A bill in Congress would add a recycling charge to the cost of laptop PCs, computer monitors, televisions and some other electronic devices, according to a story at Computerworld. The effort to control what's called e-waste could lead to a national "e-fee" that would be paid just like a sales tax. Nationwide the cost could amount to $300 million per year. Already, California, Washington, Maryland and Maine have approved electronics recycling laws, and another 21 states plus Puerto Rico, are considering them."
AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box" 182
UncleFluffy writes "AMD gave a sneak preview of their upcoming R600 GPU. The demo system was a single PC with two R600 cards running streaming computing tasks at just over 1 Teraflop. Though a prototype, this beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years." Ars has an article exploring why it's hard to program such GPUs for anything other than graphics applications.
