Stop subsidizing corn. Instead subsidize wheat and healthy fruits, and vegetables. Make it illegal for advertisers to target young children with food ads, most of which are unhealthy.
"A system of sugar tariffs and sugar quotas imposed in 1977 in the United States significantly increased the cost of imported sugar and U.S. producers sought cheaper sources. High-fructose corn syrup, derived from corn, is more economical because the domestic U.S. and Canadian prices of sugar are twice the global price and the price of corn is kept low through government subsidies paid to growers."
If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that it's more economical for some farmers to grow corn even during a surplus because of government subsidies. I don't have a citation for it though.
Considering the amount of energy required to create the pellets and the cost to transport it, is this really producing energy and saving money for the company?
If they're going to build OS/2 on top of Linux then why not just use Linux? This brings back memories of the whole "Linspire" PR stunt.
I'm not a Linux expert so can someone explain why porting just the shell would be useful? Wouldn't it break compatibility with existing applications which use the KDE or Gnome APIs?
Concurrency is important but my point is that it's not even complete. It might not ever be complete if it's just a pet project, Google-backed or not.
There are plenty of other languages for parallel programming that have a lot more testing and have been around for a lot longer.
Until I see Go used in something mission critical with some real financial backing I don't see it being any more than a hobbyists tool.
But if it's only being used for something small then why bother? If it's a script then use Bash. If it needs to be portable use Java. If you want to interact with a lot of free libraries then use C or C++. I don't understand where Go fits in. Just being "fast" is completely arbitrary.
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Yup. Same here! :D
Umm.. my sense of direction is so bad that I was given a GPS for Christmas. Navigating around town versus Vvanderfell? It's not really the same thing.
Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, etc, etc.
Stop subsidizing corn. Instead subsidize wheat and healthy fruits, and vegetables. Make it illegal for advertisers to target young children with food ads, most of which are unhealthy.
"A system of sugar tariffs and sugar quotas imposed in 1977 in the United States significantly increased the cost of imported sugar and U.S. producers sought cheaper sources. High-fructose corn syrup, derived from corn, is more economical because the domestic U.S. and Canadian prices of sugar are twice the global price and the price of corn is kept low through government subsidies paid to growers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
HFCS has been linked to obesity, liver disease, and one study in 2005 found "measurable amounts" of mercury in 9/20 samples tested within the US.
http://ehjournal.net/content/8/1/2
If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that it's more economical for some farmers to grow corn even during a surplus because of government subsidies. I don't have a citation for it though.
Simple, portable. I use it for everything.
Considering the amount of energy required to create the pellets and the cost to transport it, is this really producing energy and saving money for the company?
Lan.. lan.. lan.
It's not a bug. It's a feature!
If they're going to build OS/2 on top of Linux then why not just use Linux? This brings back memories of the whole "Linspire" PR stunt.
I'm not a Linux expert so can someone explain why porting just the shell would be useful? Wouldn't it break compatibility with existing applications which use the KDE or Gnome APIs?
Did you stop reading after the first line? That's exactly what I was suggesting.
An open source project already exists that does just that:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickconnect
So what do you do if you want to make a call to the system API? Or if you want to use something like OpenGL/OpenCL?
I've seen these before and they're more of a novelty than something robust enough for anything other than technology demos.
Did anyone misread the title as "The Economics of the Perfect Square"?
Concurrency is important but my point is that it's not even complete. It might not ever be complete if it's just a pet project, Google-backed or not.
There are plenty of other languages for parallel programming that have a lot more testing and have been around for a lot longer.
Until I see Go used in something mission critical with some real financial backing I don't see it being any more than a hobbyists tool.
But if it's only being used for something small then why bother? If it's a script then use Bash. If it needs to be portable use Java. If you want to interact with a lot of free libraries then use C or C++. I don't understand where Go fits in. Just being "fast" is completely arbitrary.
It's all just a bunch of hype. Last time I checked the language wasn't even finished.
Yes, yes it did.
This actually made it to the front page?
Fortran has supported object-oriented programming since Fortran 2003. It's on the Wikipedia article you cited.