"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!" - Richard Feynman
I don't read that as calling for a bubble, rather he is pointing out that Greenspan is trapped and must create another one to sustain the already inflated valuations. This implies that he's putting off a problem rather than dealing with it. Which does seem to be what subsequently happened.
Might not have a home planet. They could have completely evolved in space from a small stowaway creature in some space-faring specie's giant vessels. Or they could have been engineered as an ultimate weapon in an ancient war. And so on...
I don't think they are making it worse. There is a certain class of changes that are possible but not practical which they can't do but, imho, it is wrong to assume that because of that any changes that are additions are making any problems worse.
The additions and changes currently in the draft so far will only make my job easier. An that's what I really want. Improvements to a difficult and far from perfect language that is an industry standard.
I'm not interested in defending the language against other languages here. The next c++ will be better though. That I am sure of.
But it's not really a legacy language yet. There really is no strong contender to replace it. There are certainly problems for which it is not suitable and nevertheless will be used to solve but that's not a problem of c++. And, again at the risk of repeating myself, the changes in the next standard will make it easier to write better programs in c++.
I wouldn't exactly say 'a joy' but yes, type safe generic programming is pretty powerful in c++ and not what the GP seems to describe it as. Those tricks of using templates to do compile time computation are not examples of what templates are really used for.
However, only a mad man would defend c++ syntax. Get past that and it's not so bad at all.
" how many years before we can trust that most compilers can use it effectively... two, three?"
FYI, you can use a lot of it already http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html It's a fair bet that by the time it's signed off most of it will be available in gcc and you'll have an 'effective' implementation.
How quickly your shop upgrades compilers is a different problem.
"It does not add anything that is not already possible"
I can understand why this might seem so but, whilst a lot of it is standardising things that have become popular in the real world, which is a good thing imho, rvalue references are an example of something new which is currently impossible.
One of the requirements of the standardisation body is to continue to support the billions of lines of code out there in the real world. Given that, removing features is almost impossible to do.
The crack about the apple menu actually is in my opinion one of the biggest flaws in the OSX window manager. When you've got 2 24"+ screens, having to mouse over to the top of one screen to access a menu is demented.
Yes!
Keyboard menu navigation is a help but a bit of a pain compared to Windows. Control+fn+F2 to get to the menus, if they work at all.
"To charge a 35-kWh battery in 10 minutes requires 250 kilowatts of powerâ"five times as much as the average office building consumes at its peak. That rules out rapid charging at home. Even rapid-charge âfilling stationsâ stretch the imagination, as youâ(TM)d need a megawatt power feedâ"generally available only at electrical substationsâ"to simultaneously operate four power pumps. "
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"so I'd expect that a 50$ pill could have a bigger placebo effect than a 5$ pill of identical composition, provided that the patients know it."
Probably. It's been known for years that two pills of quantity X are more effective than one pill of quantity 2X due to placebo.
http://sdk.nikonimaging.com/apply/
D5000, D3x, D90, D700, D40, D60, D3, D300, D200, D80
And NEF (RAW) files
"compiling on your server, you are doing something wrong."
I do 'make -j16' all the time on a server.
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!" - Richard Feynman
I don't read that as calling for a bubble, rather he is pointing out that Greenspan is trapped and must create another one to sustain the already inflated valuations. This implies that he's putting off a problem rather than dealing with it. Which does seem to be what subsequently happened.
Might not have a home planet.
They could have completely evolved in space from a small stowaway creature in some space-faring specie's giant vessels.
Or they could have been engineered as an ultimate weapon in an ancient war.
And so on...
You're doing it wrong.
zarthrag didn't ask for the points for his/her post.
I don't think they are making it worse. There is a certain class of changes that are possible but not practical which they can't do but, imho, it is wrong to assume that because of that any changes that are additions are making any problems worse.
The additions and changes currently in the draft so far will only make my job easier. An that's what I really want. Improvements to a difficult and far from perfect language that is an industry standard.
I'm not interested in defending the language against other languages here. The next c++ will be better though. That I am sure of.
But it's not really a legacy language yet. There really is no strong contender to replace it. There are certainly problems for which it is not suitable and nevertheless will be used to solve but that's not a problem of c++. And, again at the risk of repeating myself, the changes in the next standard will make it easier to write better programs in c++.
I wouldn't exactly say 'a joy' but yes, type safe generic programming is pretty powerful in c++ and not what the GP seems to describe it as.
Those tricks of using templates to do compile time computation are not examples of what templates are really used for.
However, only a mad man would defend c++ syntax.
Get past that and it's not so bad at all.
" how many years before we can trust that most compilers can use it effectively... two, three?"
FYI, you can use a lot of it already http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
It's a fair bet that by the time it's signed off most of it will be available in gcc and you'll have an 'effective' implementation.
How quickly your shop upgrades compilers is a different problem.
"It does not add anything that is not already possible"
I can understand why this might seem so but, whilst a lot of it is standardising things that have become popular in the real world, which is a good thing imho, rvalue references are an example of something new which is currently impossible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Rvalue_reference_and_move_semantics
One of the requirements of the standardisation body is to continue to support the billions of lines of code out there in the real world.
Given that, removing features is almost impossible to do.
that makes about as much sense as ye olde "video games cause violent behaviour"
Snopes says... http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp
The crack about the apple menu actually is in my opinion one of the biggest flaws in the OSX window manager. When you've got 2 24"+ screens, having to mouse over to the top of one screen to access a menu is demented.
Yes!
Keyboard menu navigation is a help but a bit of a pain compared to Windows. Control+fn+F2 to get to the menus, if they work at all.
"Our existing grid could easily handle 20 million plugin cars"
I'm not sure it could. Take for example the 10 minute fill up of this car http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/electriccar-maker-touts-10minute-fillup
"To charge a 35-kWh battery in 10 minutes requires 250 kilowatts of powerâ"five times as much as the average office building consumes at its peak. That rules out rapid charging at home. Even rapid-charge âfilling stationsâ stretch the imagination, as youâ(TM)d need a megawatt power feedâ"generally available only at electrical substationsâ"to simultaneously operate four power pumps. "
actually i set mine to ctrl
very very handy
It's already dead on my mac.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2181/mac_os_x_disable_caps_lock_key/
they would provide an advanced menu option to allow 3rd party batteries that the user deems safe.
Not to mention that groups of people have always had tendencies to link all sorts of random things with their ailments.
Quite!
I really wanted to see someone succeed with HTM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory :'(
9.64 on OSX
It's hard to understand why the Slashdot dev's can't just try out any changes on Firefox, Safari, IE and Opera.
3.5 isn't even too bad.
Some headlines from 1987 http://www.1980sflashback.com/1987/News.asp