Being dismissive of the larger impact and what the future looks like isn't going to serve future generations well either.
Really, I'm being dismissive? Did you even read my post? I actually went further than net neutrality calling out the corporate corruption that is making the government be puppets on marionette strings not only with regard to Net Neutrality but in a lot of other areas as well and you call me dismissive of the big picture and not being concerned about our future as a country? Get out of here man.
It is literally a threat to some freedoms you take for granted on the internet, right now for example. You don't get this, we know.
I'm talking about the claim that Ajit Pai represents a "threat to our freedoms". I think that's sensationalist mumbo jumbo and not talking about what Ajit Pai is really guilty of. This type of talk is like a a little kid going to a parent and stamping their feet and screaming "Bobby is being mean to me! He's really mean and he's just super mean to everybody and someone shouldn't be allowed to do that." and of course the parent asks, "Why do you think Bobby is being mean?" to understand what the real claim is so they can attempt to respond to the issue appropriately. We can skip all the knee jerk emotional mumbo jumbo and get right to the core of the issue.
I do agree that not upholding the de facto principles of Net Neutrality that have been in place for several decades swings the door wide open to turn the internet into a complete unusable shit hole. I don't disagree with that but that's not what this particular post is about.
I think "A threat to our freedoms" is polarized political mumbo jumbo and not going to serve anyone well in this discussion. The real claim here is that Ajit Pai has a sympathetic view towards corporations that is likely to be a conflict of interest and is using political spin to attempt to justify this position. The political spin is nonsense as far as I can tell. By the way, I'm sure a lot of this is coming from the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. That's the real reason that Ajit Pai should be removed is because he lakes the ability to be impartial and do what's best for the country not corporate America. As we all know, there is a systemic problem of corruption in America and Ajit Pai is the latest to succumb to its influence. It's unfortunately the status quo in American politics.
Now liberals, think about this issue that you care about very dearly. You protest, you sign all these petitions, you blog and project online, etc. and what does the government and corporate America do? They laugh at you because they think you're weak and all talk and no action. It thinks you'll lose interest in the issue and the status quo will continue. Now I wonder.. how else might the people be able to compel the government to represent them? You do the math... and you'll probably move a tad to the right of your beliefs when you realize what the answer to that question is. It's a sad state of affairs in America today that no one seems to have the capability to be reasonable.
a) C and C++ are not and never have been worth a damn as a standard. Even in the absolutely best C and C++ code, there are so many platform abstractions and #ifdefs that it's a nightmare. Neither C or C++ are useful as a platform.
This is probably the most useful of your points which can be summarized as it's very hard to write something in C or C++ that is cross-platform even a standard. Doing so requires use of macros that can get quite complex at times (#ifdef __LINUX ). It also gets more complicated with Makefiles and makedepend. There are two problems:
1) The libraries available on the specific platform
2) C and C++ are compile time languages meaning that a C/C++ compiler compiles down into the native processor's instruction set whereas languages such as C# or Java compile down into platform agnostic byte code and then when run on another machine are dynamically compiled into that machine's native instruction set using the JVM (java) or the CLR (C#). Everything is a trade-off.
People use bare pointers all the time: "this". They also use references, which are semantically equivalent.
What the GP meant to say was "pointers dynamically allocated with the new keyword" not "bare pointer". Discussing use of the -> operator is not productive because all smart pointer constructs usually have this operator overloaded for example std::auto_ptr. this, as I'm sure you know, is a special "bare pointer". If I had a class Foo and in some scope I declared: Foo foo; for example, inside of foo I might access foo's members by calling this->someMemberVariable (usually inherited). Even though I'm using the this keyword, I'm using it in the context of an object that has been allocated on the stack. It's equivalent to doing (&foo)->bar(); outside of the object context
There are several reasons why languages like C++ are being abandoned in favor of other lower performing languages that cause more bloat. 1) It's hard to program well in C++ and 2) More libraries are available in other languages so you don't have to re-invent the wheel
Zillions large scale C++ projects, and nobody creates or deletes bare pointers,veerybody uses smart pointers
Real C++ programmers understand the nature of compile time languages and almost exclusively use RAII. C++11 makes it even easier to follow this principle.
The GP made this thread into an atheism vs. theism bent. Christianity (more specifically Catholicism) in particular thinks masturbation is a sin. Porn is generally well a means to "get off" for a lot of people. Therefore the GP, on their religious high horse, declared porn sites to be associated with Atheism exclusively which is absurd. In Christianity, we have things like if a woman is raped she can be stoned to death and all sorts of other nonsense about regulating people's sexual behavior. In Catholicism, pedophilia is widespread and actively covered up. If you cover up something, rather than acknowledging and dealing with the problem, for all intents and purpose you condone the behavior. Pedophilia probably rises partially from taking vows of celibacy which go directly against animal nature. So, what I'm saying is, accept your animal nature or don't, which is better? Make more sense now? Get educated.
...considering the intelligence of someone who believes the Earth is flat despite the fact that Eratostenes proved that it was curved in the 3rd Century BC:
The J-value is a new method pioneered by Professor Thomas that assesses how much should be spent to protect human life and the environment.
The environment is probably a better long term investment than human stupidity. We should split them into two values and weight the environment heavier.
Teaching atheism ? Huh ?!? You are an atheist when you are born, and you stay this way unless 'taught' a religion with a belt or endless rote learning sessions.
"Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position" -Bill Maher
People there don't "cut themselves off"; they know better than any urbanite how much they need the help of their friends and neighbours
You're a fucktard for thinking I'm not a contributing part of my community. I most certainly am dipshit. I'm talking about country in the macro sense. You know the one we pay taxes to? Or is that too advanced of a concept for your small brain to grasp?
Tired of incompetent governements ? Stop electing incompetent people.
There is no one worth a shit to vote for.
As a great man once said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Bullshit. You can't do that when the government is practically owned by corporate America. The sum total of all influence power of normal citizens is minuscule compared to the corporate lobby machine. We need real leadership to stand up.
Educate yourselves. Get involved. Become more knowledgeable, smarter, wiser, more mature, more rational.
I already am educated and very rational. Get off your high horse. You're the one who isn't looking at reality and being rational. You're advocating exercises in futility which are by definition completely IRRATIONAL.
Become a people worthy of the kind of government you demand.
We already are. No one gives a fuck about the voice of the people anymore. The halls of justice are painted with greed and power.
There's a huge difference between acquiring skills and becoming self sufficient on one side (good thing) and becoming a paranoid para-military prepper on the other (bad thing)
You sir have this all wrong. Yes there is a point to the 2nd amendment whereby you should be able to own weapons to protect yourself in case the government goes apeshit. You do know history right? There have been many oppressive regimes throughout history that were by many yard sticks evil. Some of them even started with good intentions and turn into corrupt, foul abominations. The framers of the Constitution sought to put in place a framework that would hopefully counterbalance most concerns into a state of balance but the reality is no one has ever seen such a system work forever. All empires historically have risen and fallen. This historical lesson is the basis for two things:
1) If the government becomes oppressive, citizens have a way to defend themselves and possibly take back control of their country
2) If the government destabilizes or is overthrown (or even taken over by some other country), you have a way to protect yourself during the transition period of anarchy and lawlessness that usually follows
The liberal mindset in all these scenarios is to look for someone else to protect you and take care of you but in these scenarios, and there are plenty of examples in history if you can be bothered to read, you only have yourself and if you're not ready, you're fucked.
Now, like I said, I really hope none of that happens and the country realizes it's better to compromise than let things get to the point but I'm not willing to take the risk of putting my faith in a system that is pretty wobbly at the moment.
Facing Rising Unemployment, Young People Return to Subsistence Living
It's ironic isn't is? During the Industrial Revolution, industrial tycoons had difficulty convincing people in rural communities to come work in factories. They had to compel them with competitive wages. Now the corporate universe keeps trying to use psychological tricks to get us to digest more and more bullshit reasons to work more for less wages and now it's sparked a trend of fleeing the post-industrial world back to rural communities. The big difference between rural work and corporate work is that you, the individual, reap the rewards of rural work while in the corporate world, it's the Board of Directors that reaps most of the benefits. It's no surprise why people would be compelled to move back to rural communities.
It's because the government is incompetent and young people are smart enough to realize the future of the current system is uncertain. Buy land, learn to live off of it, learn to shoot, learn self defense and protect your land. Learn how to build dwellings and maintain them. Move your family onto the land and live in a self sufficient way. It's not an easy life but when the government is incompetent and influenced by corporations to keep us all in wage slavery, it's not surprising that people would consider this lifestyle as a better alternative to what is going on today and what might be down the road in the future. FWIW - I really do hope our country gets back to the principles it was founded on so that people will trust in it again. That trust at this point is battered.
70% is a lot more than half. In this case the difference between half and 70% is a casual 129,000,000 duplicated files.
Kudos for not going in mega-clickbait mode, but still, "nearly 3/4 or more than 2/3" would be a better title.
The files aren't duplicated with modern clustered file storage technology. They're only logically duplicated. That's why I don't see why this topic is of interest.
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Being dismissive of the larger impact and what the future looks like isn't going to serve future generations well either.
Really, I'm being dismissive? Did you even read my post? I actually went further than net neutrality calling out the corporate corruption that is making the government be puppets on marionette strings not only with regard to Net Neutrality but in a lot of other areas as well and you call me dismissive of the big picture and not being concerned about our future as a country? Get out of here man.
It is literally a threat to some freedoms you take for granted on the internet, right now for example. You don't get this, we know.
I'm talking about the claim that Ajit Pai represents a "threat to our freedoms". I think that's sensationalist mumbo jumbo and not talking about what Ajit Pai is really guilty of. This type of talk is like a a little kid going to a parent and stamping their feet and screaming "Bobby is being mean to me! He's really mean and he's just super mean to everybody and someone shouldn't be allowed to do that." and of course the parent asks, "Why do you think Bobby is being mean?" to understand what the real claim is so they can attempt to respond to the issue appropriately. We can skip all the knee jerk emotional mumbo jumbo and get right to the core of the issue.
I do agree that not upholding the de facto principles of Net Neutrality that have been in place for several decades swings the door wide open to turn the internet into a complete unusable shit hole. I don't disagree with that but that's not what this particular post is about.
I think "A threat to our freedoms" is polarized political mumbo jumbo and not going to serve anyone well in this discussion. The real claim here is that Ajit Pai has a sympathetic view towards corporations that is likely to be a conflict of interest and is using political spin to attempt to justify this position. The political spin is nonsense as far as I can tell. By the way, I'm sure a lot of this is coming from the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. That's the real reason that Ajit Pai should be removed is because he lakes the ability to be impartial and do what's best for the country not corporate America. As we all know, there is a systemic problem of corruption in America and Ajit Pai is the latest to succumb to its influence. It's unfortunately the status quo in American politics.
Now liberals, think about this issue that you care about very dearly. You protest, you sign all these petitions, you blog and project online, etc. and what does the government and corporate America do? They laugh at you because they think you're weak and all talk and no action. It thinks you'll lose interest in the issue and the status quo will continue. Now I wonder.. how else might the people be able to compel the government to represent them? You do the math... and you'll probably move a tad to the right of your beliefs when you realize what the answer to that question is. It's a sad state of affairs in America today that no one seems to have the capability to be reasonable.
a) C and C++ are not and never have been worth a damn as a standard. Even in the absolutely best C and C++ code, there are so many platform abstractions and #ifdefs that it's a nightmare. Neither C or C++ are useful as a platform.
This is probably the most useful of your points which can be summarized as it's very hard to write something in C or C++ that is cross-platform even a standard. Doing so requires use of macros that can get quite complex at times (#ifdef __LINUX ). It also gets more complicated with Makefiles and makedepend. There are two problems:
1) The libraries available on the specific platform
2) C and C++ are compile time languages meaning that a C/C++ compiler compiles down into the native processor's instruction set whereas languages such as C# or Java compile down into platform agnostic byte code and then when run on another machine are dynamically compiled into that machine's native instruction set using the JVM (java) or the CLR (C#). Everything is a trade-off.
People use bare pointers all the time: "this". They also use references, which are semantically equivalent.
What the GP meant to say was "pointers dynamically allocated with the new keyword" not "bare pointer". Discussing use of the -> operator is not productive because all smart pointer constructs usually have this operator overloaded for example std::auto_ptr. this, as I'm sure you know, is a special "bare pointer". If I had a class Foo and in some scope I declared: Foo foo; for example, inside of foo I might access foo's members by calling this->someMemberVariable (usually inherited). Even though I'm using the this keyword, I'm using it in the context of an object that has been allocated on the stack. It's equivalent to doing (&foo)->bar(); outside of the object context
There are several reasons why languages like C++ are being abandoned in favor of other lower performing languages that cause more bloat. 1) It's hard to program well in C++ and 2) More libraries are available in other languages so you don't have to re-invent the wheel
Zillions large scale C++ projects, and nobody creates or deletes bare pointers,veerybody uses smart pointers
Real C++ programmers understand the nature of compile time languages and almost exclusively use RAII. C++11 makes it even easier to follow this principle.
How do I write drivers and firmware in Go? I think C is going to be around for awhile.
Your comment makes no sense to me.
The GP made this thread into an atheism vs. theism bent. Christianity (more specifically Catholicism) in particular thinks masturbation is a sin. Porn is generally well a means to "get off" for a lot of people. Therefore the GP, on their religious high horse, declared porn sites to be associated with Atheism exclusively which is absurd. In Christianity, we have things like if a woman is raped she can be stoned to death and all sorts of other nonsense about regulating people's sexual behavior. In Catholicism, pedophilia is widespread and actively covered up. If you cover up something, rather than acknowledging and dealing with the problem, for all intents and purpose you condone the behavior. Pedophilia probably rises partially from taking vows of celibacy which go directly against animal nature. So, what I'm saying is, accept your animal nature or don't, which is better? Make more sense now? Get educated.
They just want to keep their monopoly on chemical reactions and Newtonian mechanics.
You just gave me a great idea... I'm going to patent Physics! Thank you so much I'm going to be RICH!!!
It's because his driveway is flat. Everyone knows driveways should be round.
Think before you comment. What are the definitions of the following words?
Spherical
Curved
Round
You're welcome.
I bet this guy has us all tricked and he is really just trying to win the Darwin Award.
And the golden casket award for best Darwin award goes to....(drum roll)...
...considering the intelligence of someone who believes the Earth is flat despite the fact that Eratostenes proved that it was curved in the 3rd Century BC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Could we compromise and nuke London?
I'd start with North Korea but that's just me I guess
Statistically speaking, we could solve a big part of the climate change problem if we just killed off half of the world's population.
Starting with all the religious warmongers. Peace on Earth and Good will towards men might be an actual possibility then.
The J-value is a new method pioneered by Professor Thomas that assesses how much should be spent to protect human life and the environment.
The environment is probably a better long term investment than human stupidity. We should split them into two values and weight the environment heavier.
It didn't have Gleek the Monkey or that snazzy announcer "Meaaaanwhiiile, back at the Hall of Justice..."
I can just imagine how the atheists will react to having their websites banned and being told that they cannot teach atheism to their children.
Let's see... which is worse, masturbation or pedophilia... you're definitely the "good guys"...
Teaching atheism ? Huh ?!? You are an atheist when you are born, and you stay this way unless 'taught' a religion with a belt or endless rote learning sessions.
"Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position" -Bill Maher
People there don't "cut themselves off"; they know better than any urbanite how much they need the help of their friends and neighbours
You're a fucktard for thinking I'm not a contributing part of my community. I most certainly am dipshit. I'm talking about country in the macro sense. You know the one we pay taxes to? Or is that too advanced of a concept for your small brain to grasp?
Tired of incompetent governements ? Stop electing incompetent people.
There is no one worth a shit to vote for.
As a great man once said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Bullshit. You can't do that when the government is practically owned by corporate America. The sum total of all influence power of normal citizens is minuscule compared to the corporate lobby machine. We need real leadership to stand up.
Educate yourselves. Get involved. Become more knowledgeable, smarter, wiser, more mature, more rational.
I already am educated and very rational. Get off your high horse. You're the one who isn't looking at reality and being rational. You're advocating exercises in futility which are by definition completely IRRATIONAL.
Become a people worthy of the kind of government you demand.
We already are. No one gives a fuck about the voice of the people anymore. The halls of justice are painted with greed and power.
There's a huge difference between acquiring skills and becoming self sufficient on one side (good thing) and becoming a paranoid para-military prepper on the other (bad thing)
You sir have this all wrong. Yes there is a point to the 2nd amendment whereby you should be able to own weapons to protect yourself in case the government goes apeshit. You do know history right? There have been many oppressive regimes throughout history that were by many yard sticks evil. Some of them even started with good intentions and turn into corrupt, foul abominations. The framers of the Constitution sought to put in place a framework that would hopefully counterbalance most concerns into a state of balance but the reality is no one has ever seen such a system work forever. All empires historically have risen and fallen. This historical lesson is the basis for two things:
1) If the government becomes oppressive, citizens have a way to defend themselves and possibly take back control of their country
2) If the government destabilizes or is overthrown (or even taken over by some other country), you have a way to protect yourself during the transition period of anarchy and lawlessness that usually follows
The liberal mindset in all these scenarios is to look for someone else to protect you and take care of you but in these scenarios, and there are plenty of examples in history if you can be bothered to read, you only have yourself and if you're not ready, you're fucked.
Now, like I said, I really hope none of that happens and the country realizes it's better to compromise than let things get to the point but I'm not willing to take the risk of putting my faith in a system that is pretty wobbly at the moment.
Facing Rising Unemployment, Young People Return to Subsistence Living
It's ironic isn't is? During the Industrial Revolution, industrial tycoons had difficulty convincing people in rural communities to come work in factories. They had to compel them with competitive wages. Now the corporate universe keeps trying to use psychological tricks to get us to digest more and more bullshit reasons to work more for less wages and now it's sparked a trend of fleeing the post-industrial world back to rural communities. The big difference between rural work and corporate work is that you, the individual, reap the rewards of rural work while in the corporate world, it's the Board of Directors that reaps most of the benefits. It's no surprise why people would be compelled to move back to rural communities.
It's because the government is incompetent and young people are smart enough to realize the future of the current system is uncertain. Buy land, learn to live off of it, learn to shoot, learn self defense and protect your land. Learn how to build dwellings and maintain them. Move your family onto the land and live in a self sufficient way. It's not an easy life but when the government is incompetent and influenced by corporations to keep us all in wage slavery, it's not surprising that people would consider this lifestyle as a better alternative to what is going on today and what might be down the road in the future. FWIW - I really do hope our country gets back to the principles it was founded on so that people will trust in it again. That trust at this point is battered.
70% is a lot more than half. In this case the difference between half and 70% is a casual 129,000,000 duplicated files.
Kudos for not going in mega-clickbait mode, but still, "nearly 3/4 or more than 2/3" would be a better title.
The files aren't duplicated with modern clustered file storage technology. They're only logically duplicated. That's why I don't see why this topic is of interest.
You you don't don't say say.
Too bad there isn't a server de-dupe solution for Slashdot to optimize space usage