No, he looked at GGP's broken link and saw what it was supposed to be pointing to. Then he read the article:

[The thorn letter] has the sound of either a voiceless dental fricative, like th as in the English word thick, or a voiced dental fricative, like th as in the English word the. Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth; [...]

Like all modern trivia, it was learned on an arbitrarily hyper-specific wiki entry.

My point Einstein, is that C is the language that CUDA, Cell, OpenCL and OpenGL SL are derived from. So it's a rather useful property of MagicNewLanguage if it is similar to what people are accustomed to already, preferably allowing them to express the same concepts in a terser but similar form.

And how, exactly speaking, would the MagicNewLanguage do that? Because we can probably assume that OpenCL etc. were written by people who knew what they were doing, and are thus already as or nearly ast good as a C-like interface to GPU gets. And that means that MagicNewLanguage either introduces some MagicNewConcept to the mix, or is redundant.

Technically speaking, there was little incremental gain at great expense and modest inconvenience.

But I like your description better.

A much better long term saving would be to fire the person who signed that plan.

The only thing firing people for making mistakes does is make everyone concentrate mostly on covering their asses rather than doing their job. And the most efficient way to do that is to avoid being responsible for anything, the end result being that only corruption gets done.

You rarely get people who can show that sort of nous, effectiveness, ruthlessness and pragmatism in one individual, and I bet very few people would survive, let alone thrive with the sort of irrational, hateful opposition that man sees.

Dunno if Obama is particularly ruthless or not, but in any case it's a character fault, not a virtue, especially for someone in a position of power.

Remember, we're in the midst of a once-in-a-century global economic crisis, and the West is fighting wars on two separate fronts, and Cold Wars on others.

Economy is in a crisis, like it always is. And "the West" isn't fighting any wars; the US is fighting a Cold War on its own citizens and the rest of the world simultaneously, and occasionally invading random countries.

What, the unity of data and code?
Sure, it's academically cooler not to kick your design out of the Garden of Eden, but let's not kid ourselves: besides performance, the other reason Lispy systems haven't conquered is that it's darn hard to have a business model that DOESN'T separate code and data to at least some degree.
This is more an observation than a value judgement about the "rightness" of the situation.

More than that, the French spent so much money on the war with Britain that it essentially bankrupted the monarchy. This fairly directly led to the French Revolution.

It certainly flattens the syntax learning curve.

The algorithm learning curve on the other hand....

The question is whether simplifying the syntax down to a nubbin really flattens the learning curve or not.

By the way, with Obamacare (or any other single-government-payer system) you can expect such new treatments to NEVER be deployed - or even developed.

If such a new procedure succeeded it would mean paying a lot of extra money saving the person, after which it would mean paying MORE money as they live longer to collect more benefits, further straining an already self-bankrupting system.

Preventing this is what "death panels" are about.

(As a government official once said - about in 1979 or so, when the impending bankruptcy of Social Security was first being hand-wrung over - "We've got to get the death rate up to meet the birth rate.")

As usual, any kind of clinical use of this stem cell stuff is "ten years away". These guys are as bad as fusion researchers.

I'm sure they'd love to try it in a human dying of liver disease. But between the FDA regs, the self-appointed Medical Ethics czars, and the malpractice ambulance-chasers there's a lot of hurdles to jump before they MIGHT be allowed to try it (let alone deploy it as a regular procedure).

BCE == Before Copyrights were Eternal.

He's obviously confused or deranged. Next he'll be claiming something outlandish, like "Han shot first" or something equally absurd.

I mean really, Lucas has screwed these films up so badly, he's even sullied the original 2, which were decent to great when they came out. The prequels were so awful and badly cast that no one that watched the originals cared to watch them.