Pal, I live here, and this country is surreal; I can attest that what the GP told is true. 5% per MONTH, only that's not for businesses, that's for people. Enterprises pay a little less.
Sell abroad. The world is big, open one office in each country and expect big bucks. We in Brazil pay 3 to 4 times as much for a new car than Mexicans or Americans; I don't believe computer components will gross as much, but you may bet your ass that 1.5 to 2 times, we'll be lusting to pay for.
LOL. A bitter over-emocional about your language, aren't you? Or is it just your ego talking? Hey, if what you want is to brag better switch to whitespace, or brainfuck.
If there is a problem with torque, steering or breaking, then I know about it to manage it.
That's the very core of the question. People are forgetting about how to think about what's happening under the hood, it's all a black box where everything magically happens and you don't care how it's done, about resources laid to waste ("just buy more hardware" doesn't cut it), and if there's an error in the framework itself (JVM,.Net CLR, the Python or PHP or Perl interpreters), less and less people are able to see it for what it is and work around the issue. That's what I'm talking about. Old timers used to say about LISP programmers that they knew "the value of everything and the cost of nothing", and I think that applies to today's managed code; thankfully hardware nowadays is cheap and powerful, but Moore's law has a limit, and people will have to think better about managing their resources.
But given how little I have to do that, I think that the improved performance of not having to deal with petty details is worth it.
So very true, and very wise too, but not having to deal with "petty" details doesn't mean you may ignore even in general terms what happens under the hood.
If I find I must it often, then I'll learn to do it quickly.
Because when I am driving and thinking of how the pistons work in the engine up and down I am so more focused in driving that I am driving better?
I had to bite this one, because it shows some degree of competence in another uncorrelated field. If you think of how the pistons work in the engine, or how much fuel is drawn in, or just at what distance from piston top to valve the explosion ocurred, or when the gas will get expelled, well, you're thinking in terms of assembly language or even a bit lower, into the 0's and 1's; that's where the carburetor or the EFI will help you, with you or the computer (in both cases) will do part of the job for you.
However, if you dose the throttle pressure, applying just the right torque to your wheels, neither over-revving your engine nor burning your tires, neither over- nor under-steering, breaking neither too early or too soft nor too late or too hard, that's what will get you ahead. That's what it means when men are separated from the boys, that men have the control, they know what it takes, while the boys still have their training wheels attached.
Why be a SUV driver when you can be a bicycle rider?
I'm in Brazil, and my Firefox is set to use US locales. Lo and behold, Gizmodo still sends me to the Brazilian site. I think it must be something about geolocation. Whatheva; the ca prefixed link a fellow slashdotter posted above works well for me.
Well, one mole is, by definition (according to Wikipedia at least) the quantity of atoms in 12g of carbon-12. If we are redefining the kilogram and, by extension, the gram, we could very well say that by definition exactly 5.0E22 (or other, more convenient number) atoms of carbon-12 weigh one gram.
The problem with the IPK is that its amount of mass varies over time, either by atomic decay or by some kind of contamination. If we use the fundamental components of matter, we shouldn't have this mass variation over time.
As I see it, the biggest difficulty with defining the unit of mass as a certain ammount of a certain kind of atom is building reference weights (analogue to the IPK) with the required degree of precision; that is, the hardest problem is counting the atoms.
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But I hereby propose defining 1 gram (since it is the basic mass unit) as 5.182495E22 atoms of carbon-12 (that is 1/12 of 1 mol of C12). Actually counting the atoms to make a new physical standard is left as an exercise for the reader.
And why the <meta charset="utf-8"> followed by <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ?
My first name is José, that is, Jose with a diacritical above the "e", which Slashdot still refuses to handle. Well, the new design is beautiful at least.
I'm Brazilian, and I can tell that all they want is to satiate their thirst for controlling us citizens in all possible manners, and having a few more public organizations from which to pipe some more taxpayer money while sending the intarwebs (as is anything on the hands of the government around here) down the gutter.
There's a saying around here that is something like "Do it right now, because tomorrow it may be forbidden"; that's the spirit of the Brazilian government.
Isn't this engine layout akin to the olde Beetle's engine layout? From what I gathered by R'ing TFA, the only innovation is that this design would turn off some cylinders, and would generate power in all strokes even with some cylinders turned off; perhaps a two-stroke design?
I'm from the "indent-all-with-tabs" camp, and I don't worry much about aligning; since the invention of soft line breaks, everything is fine with me. And the Editor of Choice (vim, of course!) makes reindenting ugly code as simple as selecting a range (in visual mode) and pressing a key (= on most setups).
I would LOVE to see some comparison/benchmark that shows LLVM generated binaries being faster than GCC generated. CLang cries high and low about compiling faster than GCC, but they don't say anything about resulting executable speeds.
Again fucking statistics used as proof. No knowledge of how chemicals interact within the body, how and why the reactions that cause cancer occur, no fucking nothing. Just the damn statistics.
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Pal, I live here, and this country is surreal; I can attest that what the GP told is true. 5% per MONTH, only that's not for businesses, that's for people. Enterprises pay a little less.
Sell abroad. The world is big, open one office in each country and expect big bucks. We in Brazil pay 3 to 4 times as much for a new car than Mexicans or Americans; I don't believe computer components will gross as much, but you may bet your ass that 1.5 to 2 times, we'll be lusting to pay for.
Chimed in to join the big THANK YOU chorus. Have a good life and keeping fighting the good fight.
Way to ruin a good post.
The correct link is http://gbf.sourceforge.net/
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Kids these days... My e-dick big enough?
That's the very core of the question. People are forgetting about how to think about what's happening under the hood, it's all a black box where everything magically happens and you don't care how it's done, about resources laid to waste ("just buy more hardware" doesn't cut it), and if there's an error in the framework itself (JVM, .Net CLR, the Python or PHP or Perl interpreters), less and less people are able to see it for what it is and work around the issue. That's what I'm talking about. Old timers used to say about LISP programmers that they knew "the value of everything and the cost of nothing", and I think that applies to today's managed code; thankfully hardware nowadays is cheap and powerful, but Moore's law has a limit, and people will have to think better about managing their resources.
So very true, and very wise too, but not having to deal with "petty" details doesn't mean you may ignore even in general terms what happens under the hood.
I sincerely hope so.
Good luck.
Because when I am driving and thinking of how the pistons work in the engine up and down I am so more focused in driving that I am driving better?
I had to bite this one, because it shows some degree of competence in another uncorrelated field. If you think of how the pistons work in the engine, or how much fuel is drawn in, or just at what distance from piston top to valve the explosion ocurred, or when the gas will get expelled, well, you're thinking in terms of assembly language or even a bit lower, into the 0's and 1's; that's where the carburetor or the EFI will help you, with you or the computer (in both cases) will do part of the job for you.
However, if you dose the throttle pressure, applying just the right torque to your wheels, neither over-revving your engine nor burning your tires, neither over- nor under-steering, breaking neither too early or too soft nor too late or too hard, that's what will get you ahead. That's what it means when men are separated from the boys, that men have the control, they know what it takes, while the boys still have their training wheels attached.
Why be a SUV driver when you can be a bicycle rider?
Great one, this. But I still yearn for good old pink slashdot
I'm in Brazil, and my Firefox is set to use US locales. Lo and behold, Gizmodo still sends me to the Brazilian site. I think it must be something about geolocation. Whatheva; the ca prefixed link a fellow slashdotter posted above works well for me.
as direct and fast as Java
Tee-heh, kids these days :)
IBYM "than he/she/it attesteth" or "than thou attestest"
"I hate to say it but $CURRENT_MOBILE_MICROSOFT_OS is great (unlike prior versions)".
Time and again I read this, and time and again people don't ever learn.
Well, one mole is, by definition (according to Wikipedia at least) the quantity of atoms in 12g of carbon-12. If we are redefining the kilogram and, by extension, the gram, we could very well say that by definition exactly 5.0E22 (or other, more convenient number) atoms of carbon-12 weigh one gram.
The problem with the IPK is that its amount of mass varies over time, either by atomic decay or by some kind of contamination. If we use the fundamental components of matter, we shouldn't have this mass variation over time.
As I see it, the biggest difficulty with defining the unit of mass as a certain ammount of a certain kind of atom is building reference weights (analogue to the IPK) with the required degree of precision; that is, the hardest problem is counting the atoms.
Correcting myself, the value should be 5.0182495E22. My math skill betrayed me.
Excellent! I would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
But I hereby propose defining 1 gram (since it is the basic mass unit) as 5.182495E22 atoms of carbon-12 (that is 1/12 of 1 mol of C12). Actually counting the atoms to make a new physical standard is left as an exercise for the reader.
Still no UTF-8?
And why the <meta charset="utf-8"> followed by
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ?
My first name is José, that is, Jose with a diacritical above the "e", which Slashdot still refuses to handle. Well, the new design is beautiful at least.
I'm Brazilian, and I can tell that all they want is to satiate their thirst for controlling us citizens in all possible manners, and having a few more public organizations from which to pipe some more taxpayer money while sending the intarwebs (as is anything on the hands of the government around here) down the gutter.
There's a saying around here that is something like "Do it right now, because tomorrow it may be forbidden"; that's the spirit of the Brazilian government.
"Sex" is the three-letter abbreviation of "Sexta-feira", Portuguese for Friday. Yeah, I love to ruin everyone's party.
Talk is cheap, show me the cores.
Isn't this engine layout akin to the olde Beetle's engine layout? From what I gathered by R'ing TFA, the only innovation is that this design would turn off some cylinders, and would generate power in all strokes even with some cylinders turned off; perhaps a two-stroke design?
"Is this the end of the Mac as an open platform?"
Praytell, when was the Mac ever an open platform?
Ladies and gentlemen, here comes THE HIT at our party: ioshhdflwuegfh!!
(to ruin the joke, and apologize to ioshhdflwuegfh, I inform you that I'm slightly drunk and I tend not to be that hit at parties myself)
I'm from the "indent-all-with-tabs" camp, and I don't worry much about aligning; since the invention of soft line breaks, everything is fine with me. And the Editor of Choice (vim, of course!) makes reindenting ugly code as simple as selecting a range (in visual mode) and pressing a key (= on most setups).
I was half expecting something like Bilbo Baggins' disappearance on his birthday.
I would LOVE to see some comparison/benchmark that shows LLVM generated binaries being faster than GCC generated. CLang cries high and low about compiling faster than GCC, but they don't say anything about resulting executable speeds.
Again fucking statistics used as proof. No knowledge of how chemicals interact within the body, how and why the reactions that cause cancer occur, no fucking nothing. Just the damn statistics.