Now, tell me how homeowners who signed contracts for mortgages they couldn't afford is different from companies who signed contracts for labor they couldn't afford?
You mean something different besides the fact that the UAW spends millions of dollars annually in order to get what it wants?
You mean something different besides the fact that the UAW actually actively lobbies to maintain the bankruptcy laws that allows home owners to get out of their debts?
More likely, (s)he is just better at using their computing tools/resources than you.
No, this person is claiming that a single tool works for them... this single tool replaces a laptop.. but yet it doesnt have all the features or capabilities of a laptop..
Therefore this person does not use a laptop to its potential, so is quite clearly not a nerd, and is just using their existing laptop to consume media.
What, do you think that people who drive diesels are constantly getting regular gasoline in their tanks because the pump boy doesn't know how to ask you what fuel you want?
Given the fact that diesel doesnt come out of the same pump, and the fact that you dont know this, tells us that you dont even own a car.
You clearly know that you dont own a car, so you also clearly know that you don't know what you are talking about.
You know what I call people that know that they dont know what they are talking about, but are acting like an expert anyways? A fucking liar.
Well, if it's a toy, it has to be just about my favorite toy. I'd rather have a tablet than a laptop myself
Then quite clearly you do not really belong on slashdot. Don't take this as an insult, but you are not a normal slashdot user if a tablet can replace a laptop in your universe. Its my grandmothers universe where a tablet can replace a laptop, because she isnt a nerd. She is just a technology consumer, and apparently you are just a technology consumer too.
Here is some food for thought. There are more than 3 automakers in the United States. Only 3 of them are unionized.
Only 3 of them got in serious trouble with the credit crunch, and all 3 of them were the ones battered by union demands for more than the 'decade' you elude to.
Did these automakers make bad choices? Sure. The question is, how much influence did the unions have in those choices? Clearly the UAW is one of the most powerful unions in the country, and has extremely significant influence.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend that multiple inheritance is good or bad, because quite frankly thats not the point. I am also not going to pretend that templates are good or bad, because that too isnt the point.
The real question is "are these things done well?"
I'll tackle the templates vs generics.
C# generics surely has some warts on it, but what C# generics does do it also does well. A specific and quite well defined re-use problem was tackled in a highly simple and competent manner.
I'm only torrenting it because I have been looking for a 'just released' popular torrent to test my bandwidth since my ISP boosted it to supposedly 15Mbps.
Just released? Check.
Popular? It has just appeared on slashdot.. so Check.
Results: 1.6MB/s peek so far
So not only isnt my ISP traffic shaping (I pretty much knew that already) but they are quite obviously giving me at least 15Mbps.
if you want to perform a 16-bit instruction, the operating system converts it to a 64-bit instruction before sending it to the processor...
Operating system dont "send instructions to the processors"
Processors FETCH (the actual technical term) instructions from memory themselves, send them through the pipelines themselves, and then execute them themselves.
This is in fact not only how all programs get executed, but also how the operating system itself gets executed.
Mr Buzzword doesnt know what he is talking about...
The fact that the pointers use an extra 4 bytes is a negligible detail because the L1 caches are huge in relation to those 4 bytes. You would need a very large amount of pointers within the cache to have any sort of measurable effect, so large that following even small percentages of them (why are they in the caches if you arent using them?) will always cause significant L1 thrashing.
But an even harder argument for you to try to refute is that Intel isnt stupid. The cache parameters (total size, line size, number of sets, for each level of cache) are optimized for 64-bit computing on their 64-bit processors. Intel didnt choose a 64 byte L1 line size willy-nilly. Intel didn't choose 32KB of L1 data willy-nilly. Intel didnt choose 8-way set associativity for their L1 willy-nilly.
Now, after you spend a day figuring out what line sizes and set associativity are, and what impact they have, dont bother replying.. because by that point it will just be desperation on your part.
Most of the sea life in the ocean will die. The reefs are a critical component of the food chain for fish of all sizes, including plenty that don't directly live on the reef itself.
Amazingly, even though countless millions of species have gone extinct, none of them have been on the long list of critical ones until now.
Let me translate my sarcasm for you: Googling "critical species in the food web" brings up only web pages about endangered species. Apparently none of the non-endangered species are critical. Convenient, that.
Now we're accepting mass surveillance for the sake of stopping rare crazed killers?
You see, you can't take away everyones rights in one big legislation. So instead you take just a small bit of rights away for every million to one shot. There is an endless supply of rare events to rinse and repeat this upon...
Meanwhile we are using drone strikes on American citizens without even a facade of due process...
it never goes into any detail about the student's behavior
Yes it does. It says he was drawing weapons. Thats it. Thats the behavior. You are reading more into it because it violates the senses that drawing weapons in a notebook is a "behavior."
I've read 4 or 5 news articles on this now.
More extensive articles go into some of the background here. This is a school district that is "counseling students following last Friday’s shooting in Connecticut"
Let me lay down what else they are doing (also from news articles:)
1) cameras inside and outside each school;
2) one armed school resource officer in each building;
3) a lobby guard that runs the identification of each visitor to each school;
4) proximity card readers for staff members, who must swipe their cards before gaining access to the building; and
5) security officers at each school 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
They are obviously hyper-reacting. Way over the top. 24/7/365 security, armed guards, "papers please"... they are doing it all.
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Did you just try to defend gun ownership rights by comparing them to infectious diseases...?
No, I trivially pointed out the flaw in the simplistic theology of the liberal mind.
Funny, I didn't know having an infectious disease was a choice.
I didn't know that securing the means to defend the lives and liberties of me and my family was a choice.
It becomes everyone's business when your property is a hazard or risk to others.
So that infectious disease you have should be public information?
Now, tell me how homeowners who signed contracts for mortgages they couldn't afford is different from companies who signed contracts for labor they couldn't afford?
You mean something different besides the fact that the UAW spends millions of dollars annually in order to get what it wants?
You mean something different besides the fact that the UAW actually actively lobbies to maintain the bankruptcy laws that allows home owners to get out of their debts?
Citation not needed
Yeah.. these things are exactly the same.
More likely, (s)he is just better at using their computing tools/resources than you.
No, this person is claiming that a single tool works for them... this single tool replaces a laptop.. but yet it doesnt have all the features or capabilities of a laptop..
Therefore this person does not use a laptop to its potential, so is quite clearly not a nerd, and is just using their existing laptop to consume media.
What, do you think that people who drive diesels are constantly getting regular gasoline in their tanks because the pump boy doesn't know how to ask you what fuel you want?
Given the fact that diesel doesnt come out of the same pump, and the fact that you dont know this, tells us that you dont even own a car.
You clearly know that you dont own a car, so you also clearly know that you don't know what you are talking about.
You know what I call people that know that they dont know what they are talking about, but are acting like an expert anyways? A fucking liar.
...and the auto unions
..and then which places to invade after they have a firearm.
Well, if it's a toy, it has to be just about my favorite toy. I'd rather have a tablet than a laptop myself
Then quite clearly you do not really belong on slashdot. Don't take this as an insult, but you are not a normal slashdot user if a tablet can replace a laptop in your universe. Its my grandmothers universe where a tablet can replace a laptop, because she isnt a nerd. She is just a technology consumer, and apparently you are just a technology consumer too.
Here is some food for thought. There are more than 3 automakers in the United States. Only 3 of them are unionized.
Only 3 of them got in serious trouble with the credit crunch, and all 3 of them were the ones battered by union demands for more than the 'decade' you elude to.
Did these automakers make bad choices? Sure. The question is, how much influence did the unions have in those choices? Clearly the UAW is one of the most powerful unions in the country, and has extremely significant influence.
if all you can pick on is semantics, then at least you're admitting that the general gist of my argument is correct
It only seems like semantics because you have no idea what you are talking about.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend that multiple inheritance is good or bad, because quite frankly thats not the point. I am also not going to pretend that templates are good or bad, because that too isnt the point.
The real question is "are these things done well?"
I'll tackle the templates vs generics.
C# generics surely has some warts on it, but what C# generics does do it also does well. A specific and quite well defined re-use problem was tackled in a highly simple and competent manner.
C++ templates on the other hand.. it seems like the specific and well defined problem templates tackle is the problem of people speaking negatively about C++ with regards to re-use problems. "this solves that problem once and for all.. ONCE AND FOR ALL!!"
Templates solve the re-use problems in the same way that physics solves my wreath hanging problem.
To falsify my sarcasm, all you had to do was name a "critical species" that wasnt endangered.
Instead, you speculated about how the information might be hiding and if only I searched a little bit harder...
Good job, Notch, you successfully stopped me from "pirating" the movie
Notch didnt make the movie, nor is Notch distributing the movie, and in all likelihood Notch doesnt even endorse the movie.
I'm only torrenting it because I have been looking for a 'just released' popular torrent to test my bandwidth since my ISP boosted it to supposedly 15Mbps.
Just released? Check.
Popular? It has just appeared on slashdot.. so Check.
Results: 1.6MB/s peek so far
So not only isnt my ISP traffic shaping (I pretty much knew that already) but they are quite obviously giving me at least 15Mbps.
if you want to perform a 16-bit instruction, the operating system converts it to a 64-bit instruction before sending it to the processor...
Operating system dont "send instructions to the processors"
Processors FETCH (the actual technical term) instructions from memory themselves, send them through the pipelines themselves, and then execute them themselves.
This is in fact not only how all programs get executed, but also how the operating system itself gets executed.
You are a complete idiot.
Intel and AMD are my sources.
Got better ones?
Umm... No, it does not.
Mr Buzzword doesnt know what he is talking about...
The fact that the pointers use an extra 4 bytes is a negligible detail because the L1 caches are huge in relation to those 4 bytes. You would need a very large amount of pointers within the cache to have any sort of measurable effect, so large that following even small percentages of them (why are they in the caches if you arent using them?) will always cause significant L1 thrashing.
But an even harder argument for you to try to refute is that Intel isnt stupid. The cache parameters (total size, line size, number of sets, for each level of cache) are optimized for 64-bit computing on their 64-bit processors. Intel didnt choose a 64 byte L1 line size willy-nilly. Intel didn't choose 32KB of L1 data willy-nilly. Intel didnt choose 8-way set associativity for their L1 willy-nilly.
Now, after you spend a day figuring out what line sizes and set associativity are, and what impact they have, dont bother replying.. because by that point it will just be desperation on your part.
Most of the sea life in the ocean will die. The reefs are a critical component of the food chain for fish of all sizes, including plenty that don't directly live on the reef itself.
Amazingly, even though countless millions of species have gone extinct, none of them have been on the long list of critical ones until now.
Let me translate my sarcasm for you: Googling "critical species in the food web" brings up only web pages about endangered species. Apparently none of the non-endangered species are critical. Convenient, that.
i'm pretty sure it would be still be possible to thunk a 16 or 32 bit instruction on a 128 bit processor
Sure, just like its possible to thunk back to 16-bit once in 64-bit mode on AMD64...
...oh wait, it isnt! You dont know what you are talking about.
sigh..
...but using a lot of pointers negates whatever cache argument that you thought that you had had..
Look, the pointer size is only of concern if you are using a lot of pointers..
Now we're accepting mass surveillance for the sake of stopping rare crazed killers?
You see, you can't take away everyones rights in one big legislation. So instead you take just a small bit of rights away for every million to one shot. There is an endless supply of rare events to rinse and repeat this upon...
Meanwhile we are using drone strikes on American citizens without even a facade of due process...
Kneejerk reactions are to be expected after a tragedy.
Why? At what point did irrationality become 'expected'?
These were pictures of penises drawn by children who clearly should never have seen adult penises before.. so its child pornography.
it never goes into any detail about the student's behavior
Yes it does. It says he was drawing weapons. Thats it. Thats the behavior. You are reading more into it because it violates the senses that drawing weapons in a notebook is a "behavior."
... they are doing it all.
I've read 4 or 5 news articles on this now.
More extensive articles go into some of the background here. This is a school district that is "counseling students following last Friday’s shooting in Connecticut"
Let me lay down what else they are doing (also from news articles:)
1) cameras inside and outside each school;
2) one armed school resource officer in each building;
3) a lobby guard that runs the identification of each visitor to each school;
4) proximity card readers for staff members, who must swipe their cards before gaining access to the building; and
5) security officers at each school 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
They are obviously hyper-reacting. Way over the top. 24/7/365 security, armed guards, "papers please"