Because the most frequently used files are put on the SSD automatically. It's a little known technique called "caching". You might be surprised to find out that the processor in your computer does something similar with respect to RAM.
What do you mean by a containment failure? The tube is going to have a near vacuum in it so it has to be built to withstand a pressure difference of only one atmosphere. That's like a submarine diving to 10 metres. I think we can manage that.
I think it's much more likely that the tube will develop a leak. When a train traveling at 700 mph hits the air, it's going to slow down, probably quite rapidly. I couldn't begin to tell you how that will pan out. It may be that it is not a big deal because there probably won't be a wall of air so much as a pressure gradient.
Well, let's be honest, the whole C language is stuck in the 1980's. There's no automatic memory management. There's no bounds checking. The type system is primitive. There's no introspection. It's GUI UX is not stuck in any decade because it does not have one, nor, in fact, a proper string type.
Granted, C is more portable at the source level than almost any other language (as long as you have one of those horrible kludges like the GNU autoconf system and you avoid all the undefined an implementation defined behaviour), whereas Java is only portable to architectures with a conforming JVM available, but it is binary compatible with all of those architectures so that I can distribute the compiled byte code. And yes, for at least releases 7, 8 and 9 there are rarely any issues sensitive to the point release number of the JVM.
I don't know why you re complaining about the syntax because Java's syntax is lifted directly from C via C++.
Why would I choose Java for my next project? Well, I wouldn't by choice, I admit. I'm usually mandated to use it by the target environment or customer. But nobody has asked me to write a C program for a decade.
Google is not a competitor to Apple - not a big one anyway. Apple's biggest competitors are companies like Samsung and HP. Apple is not in the advertising business and Google is only in the computer hardware business in a small way,
Nobody in the real world gives a toss about open versus closed. They want cool and shiny. Some even see the walled garden as an advantage. You want an app for your iPhone. There's only one place you need to go to find it. Most people can't program a dishwasher. Why would they care that they can't program an iPhone thew way they want?
With the current Xcode I can target any version of iOS back to version 8. I think that's the one that introduced 64 bit. So I can write an app that will use the latest shiny stuff if it is available but will also run on older iPhones. If you want to continue to support older versions of iOS you do have to keep older versions of Xcode around which means keeping an older version of OS X around. Unfortunately for people with phones that can't run iOS 8 there aren't many of them so I guess they do get shitcanned.
More importantly, I can write an app today that targets iOS 11 which is not released yet and know that a pretty sizeable percentage of my market will be on iOS 11 by the time I release the app. The culture is that most people upgrade because it's very easy to do so. Unfortunately, the Android model makes it extremely difficult to emulate that because most of the manufacturers don't really give a toss.
Android doesn't have market share, neither does iOS. Samsung has market share. HTC has market share. Apple has market share. You don't buy the operating system, you buy the phone.
And you had better hope that Apple remains relevant because the only thing that drives innovation in either operating system is the fact that the other exists.
Since Trump is quite obviously the worst US president that I can remember (I don't really remember Nixon since I was six when he bailed out), I'd say age has not improved his clarity of thought.
The wind doesn't make the rotor sail spin more. In fact, thanks to the faster airflow and friction, it'll probably slow it down. All the spin comes from an electric motor, so it would be more efficient to just connect the electric motor directly to your generator. Then I guess you could supply the motor's electricity from the generator.
It's likely that these rotary sails are indeed more efficient than an underwater propeller
Well of course they are. If they provide 3 MW but only need 90 kW input, most of the energy is clearly coming from somewhere else i.e. the wind.
The problem with these sails is that they can only produce thrust at right angles to the direction of the wind and, of course, there has to be wind. This is the main reason why you need engines too.
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No. It could be one bug that causes data loss and that hasn't been fixed.
There's no need for beta testers to worry about their data because, of course, they didn't use this beta for anything critical did they....
If there was no possibility of the beta testers being fucked over like this, you wouldn't need to do a beta.
It's a beta ffs. Of course this could happen. No software vendor in the world makes guarantees like the ones you are asking for in beta test.
Because the most frequently used files are put on the SSD automatically. It's a little known technique called "caching". You might be surprised to find out that the processor in your computer does something similar with respect to RAM.
What do you mean by a containment failure? The tube is going to have a near vacuum in it so it has to be built to withstand a pressure difference of only one atmosphere. That's like a submarine diving to 10 metres. I think we can manage that.
I think it's much more likely that the tube will develop a leak. When a train traveling at 700 mph hits the air, it's going to slow down, probably quite rapidly. I couldn't begin to tell you how that will pan out. It may be that it is not a big deal because there probably won't be a wall of air so much as a pressure gradient.
Your assessment of Powerpoint and Open Office is based on one use-case from 14 years ago that didn't involve Powerpoint?
I say BS to that.
Properly coded C++( Qt, wxwidget, ...) apps deliver all your listed goodies
So you need to add external dependencies like Qt to get the same functionality as the Java standard library.
And one of the listed goodies was portable binaries. No, you don't get that with C++.
but at much better performance and efficiency. Except you need to recompile on each platform. They are generally much snappier than the Java stuff.
On the other hand, you have to program in C++ which is a bloated mess of a language.
Well, let's be honest, the whole C language is stuck in the 1980's. There's no automatic memory management. There's no bounds checking. The type system is primitive. There's no introspection. It's GUI UX is not stuck in any decade because it does not have one, nor, in fact, a proper string type.
Granted, C is more portable at the source level than almost any other language (as long as you have one of those horrible kludges like the GNU autoconf system and you avoid all the undefined an implementation defined behaviour), whereas Java is only portable to architectures with a conforming JVM available, but it is binary compatible with all of those architectures so that I can distribute the compiled byte code. And yes, for at least releases 7, 8 and 9 there are rarely any issues sensitive to the point release number of the JVM.
I don't know why you re complaining about the syntax because Java's syntax is lifted directly from C via C++.
Why would I choose Java for my next project? Well, I wouldn't by choice, I admit. I'm usually mandated to use it by the target environment or customer. But nobody has asked me to write a C program for a decade.
I would count that as a win that they don't know your gender.
No matter. A glass made to drink Scotch whisky out of is a scotch glass. A glass made in Scotland would be a Scottish glass.
Google is not a competitor to Apple - not a big one anyway. Apple's biggest competitors are companies like Samsung and HP. Apple is not in the advertising business and Google is only in the computer hardware business in a small way,
No it isn't.
Nobody in the real world gives a toss about open versus closed. They want cool and shiny. Some even see the walled garden as an advantage. You want an app for your iPhone. There's only one place you need to go to find it. Most people can't program a dishwasher. Why would they care that they can't program an iPhone thew way they want?
With the current Xcode I can target any version of iOS back to version 8. I think that's the one that introduced 64 bit. So I can write an app that will use the latest shiny stuff if it is available but will also run on older iPhones. If you want to continue to support older versions of iOS you do have to keep older versions of Xcode around which means keeping an older version of OS X around. Unfortunately for people with phones that can't run iOS 8 there aren't many of them so I guess they do get shitcanned.
More importantly, I can write an app today that targets iOS 11 which is not released yet and know that a pretty sizeable percentage of my market will be on iOS 11 by the time I release the app. The culture is that most people upgrade because it's very easy to do so. Unfortunately, the Android model makes it extremely difficult to emulate that because most of the manufacturers don't really give a toss.
Android doesn't have market share, neither does iOS. Samsung has market share. HTC has market share. Apple has market share. You don't buy the operating system, you buy the phone.
And you had better hope that Apple remains relevant because the only thing that drives innovation in either operating system is the fact that the other exists.
Well it's random Youtube video against random Slashdot commenter.
You decide.
You're in the "can't afford it" category, I see.
You've never done a software demo, have you.
You can rehearse as much as you like, something can always go wrong.
Which it is because the power saving features are better.
JEE is a specification. It's a set of APIs and specifications for packaging applications. Typically, it is furnished as add-on libraries.
That would be the UK that drove one of its greatest mathematicians and war winners to suicide. I'm glad it's gone
Since Trump is quite obviously the worst US president that I can remember (I don't really remember Nixon since I was six when he bailed out), I'd say age has not improved his clarity of thought.
The wind doesn't make the rotor sail spin more. In fact, thanks to the faster airflow and friction, it'll probably slow it down. All the spin comes from an electric motor, so it would be more efficient to just connect the electric motor directly to your generator. Then I guess you could supply the motor's electricity from the generator.
Hmm, there ought to be a law against that...
Well of course they are. If they provide 3 MW but only need 90 kW input, most of the energy is clearly coming from somewhere else i.e. the wind.
The problem with these sails is that they can only produce thrust at right angles to the direction of the wind and, of course, there has to be wind. This is the main reason why you need engines too.
Who cares whether it is unconstitutional or not. Sending these people back to countries with which they have zero connection is inhuman.
If you want to be a shit, don't hide behind the constitution.
Presumably, since he mentioned translation, he'd like the OS in his native language.