Why is anyone in their right mind writing applications in a systems programming language that is C++. C# is an application language, and C++ is a systems language.
I would like to have, in C++, these things that C# already has:
1) Sane compilation. Why must I still be doing #if INCLUDED in 2011? 2) Property inspection and other run time type inspection and dynamic invocation facilities. 3) datetime, decimal. 4) C# strings are better than C++ strings 5) Class extensions 6) Anonymous types, and as a consequence, LINQ 7) nullable types 8) Sane array and class construction syntax in code
C# does do some stuff that is kinda sucky compared to C++. I still miss multiple inheritance from time to time. But, all in all, C# is just better.
It's just a matter of picking my poison. If I vote left, I get some jackass preaching about saving mother earth and we're all in some syrupy Star Wars Force binding us all together, so I have to give up my money in the name of the cause and join in the mission to get rid of the evil right. If I vote right, I get some jackass preaching about saving culture and we're all god's children, so I have to give up my money in the name of the cause and join in the mission to get rid of the evil left.
In these case, units of measurement are but one of many specifications for a part. Computers can readily convert sizes... it's like, saying, we should have one thing because division is too complicated, and, its just not. We could have 100 different units of measurement, and it wouldn't matter that much.
Just saying it again... when you give an institution the power to do whatever it wants, as Democrats and then Republicans have, you create a self feeding monster that no one can control. Bravo! "Let's have the government save us" people. You didn't make a hero. You made a tyrant!
Do you promise that? Will you personally take all the blame if something does go wrong? Will you accept all responsibility for any damages that this new bacteria may or may not cause?
I can promise you this : As soon as there is a new form of life that proliferates madly, nature usually finds something to eat it.
If we are working on developing server side storage and data management, we're offering a "cloud based" computing solution and hopefully celebrating some big venture capital. If we are the customers are using it, the providers are well, "gathering our data". Of course Amazon is storing data on their servers. Of course everyone who has all that data is going to look for ways to monetize it. That's the whole point of server side computing, really.
I understand the guy my wife took off with left a note on his computer's Notepad that became very depressed and was found dead with his soda loaded up with a bunch of sleeping tablets.
I would be more than willing to bet that the descendants of the slaves that George Washington bought that are still alive today have a significantly higher standard of living than their counterparts who remained in Africa.
The point of any stealthy device is not evade detection forever, it is to evade detection long enough to achieve tactical surprise. It's a time making device, whereas enemy detection systems are time stealing devices. If you have an invisibility cloak with a bad vector, you can still develop a strategy to use it in a vector that is good. In fact, any Tom Clancy fan (I date myself), knows that this is how American stealth aircraft work. Its not just the technology, but the way it is used.
Or some other other functional language like that? Usually when you are trying to formulate loads of rules, it would seem that brevity and exactness of results trumps the implementation detail of performance.
The whole point of collaborating with the NAZIs was the idea that if we traded with them and welcomed them into the international community with open arms, it would moderate their behavior and improve world security. That worked so well we're now doing it with the communists in China....
The whole problem about comparing this place to Titan is that Titan is extremely cold. Titan's got the materials (except for Nitrogen maybe?), for sure, but, it doesn't have the heat. Life is more of an energy problem than a materials problem. You need energy to roil things, to drive all those chemical reactions and to keep stirring the pot so evolution can take place. I would be more than willing to bet that you would find single cell life on Venus more than on Titan just because Venus has plenty of heat.
"In front of an enthusiastic audience, President Obama Bold New..."
Good god.. audiences are usually always enthusiastic, because every major politician will have advance teams designed to create friendly crowds. The audiences are friendly, no matter what the politician says. So... its really kind of a stupid quote.
"Bold new plan"... like, spend some money on some stuff, still basically kill an active program, but then have some "other" program that goes to Mars maybe in 20 years with no real plan. It's really not a change in the plan at all. Manned space exploration is dead.
To me, a bold new plan would be to admit what everyone with half a brain already knows. In order to really get people or significant cargos to Mars and to other distant places in the solar system, we need to have alternative propulsion. That means, nuclear powered space craft for nearer places like Mars, and solar sails most likely for other stuff. Chemical rockets are simply not powerful enough. Unless you put nukes up in space, Mars is just not going to happen...
Fund THAT, and you'll have a believer out of me. But right now, I would have settled for the Moon.
Get married dude. you'll be hitting 70 hours a week of productive coding in no time as you get sick of your stupid, worthless wife, and she goes off and finds a boyfriend, and then you hate her and him more and more...
Uh... not saying anything like personal, or anything.
Yeah taking shit out of context doesn't work with an apostate Christian who was forced to study the Bible five+ days a week, nine months a year every year for nine years.
It depends on which Christianity we're talking about. Christians tend to get lumped together but the reality is that a lot of the Christian sects have very different beliefs. Indeed, some versions of Christianity have you getting into heaven so long as you just "accept Christ" and others have you getting into heaven only if you do good deeds to match your faith in Christ. And some versions of Christianity don't have you getting into heaven at all, with only a few actually being saved.
So.. when you say that someone is taking a quote in the bible out of context, be careful, because it really means you are saying that they are not speaking that verse in your context. After all, some Christian faiths would say that the Bible is not even a literal word of God, but, man's attempt to transcribe his relationship with the almighty and that actually an oral tradition of Christian storytelling is far, far more important than just reading the book by itself.
The whole point of American trading policy was to have free trade and in doing so allow the third world to take up manufacturing in exchange for remaining a more intellectual property based system.
A history lesson is in order. This mess has been almost 150 years in the making...
This basic vision was actually invented by Southern Democrats in the runup to the Civil War, who preferred to import cheap manufactured goods rather than buy more expensive goods from the North. Indeed, Northern imposition of tarrifs to protect its industries was in some ways a bigger driver of the civil war than slavery itself. That's not revisionism - that's the Tariff of Abomination and how I think it was South Carolina almost bailed on the Union even in the 1830s simply because of tariffs.
After the war, Republicans were a protectionist party and the economy frankly boomed as America became a manufacturing powerhouse, essentially doing everything to Europe that China does to the USA today. Free Trade became a plank of the Democratic Party in the 1920s as Progressives in the North cut the unholy deal with the South to get their support and form Roosevelt's Super Coalition. Once Progressives broke with the South in the 1960s over the civil rights act, the Nixon strategy was really to offer free trade back to the south, explicitly, coupled with some not-so-subtle race baiting.
Thus, the American policy of free trade is really just a national appeasement to red state farmers and miners looking to import tools as cheap as possible, so they can sell produce on the world markets as cheap as possible and make a killing. If wages crater, what of it, as these people were all slave states anyway and who cares what happens to the urban centers filled with unemployed people when your state has plenty of food to grow and coal to mine.
Thus, you can't really say free trade and its decimation is the fault of Bush / Cheney. Rather, its the fault of every administration since Wilson scrambling for red state electoral votes. The historical aberration is that World War II produced an un-unnatural demand for American manufactured goods, but the policies that wrecked American manufacturing were put into place by Roosevelt, and extended all the way through the present administration.
If you want to curb environmental abuses, re-establish a middle class, and have American manufacturing, then the thing to do is to slap a big tax on imported manufacturing goods. What puzzles me is that Democrats of today do not even see this or do this, despite their own constituencies demanding this ever since the first Toyota rolled off of the ships in the 1960s.
Instead, you have Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and company, that have made free trade the gospel of the Democratic Party, which is not too surprising since both are Southerners. The basic difference they offer is that, they would tax the profits of those to dole out some welfare to everyone getting gutted from waves of cheap imports, like, at least ask Walmart to provide health insurance for its workers. The reality is, Democrats need to let go of free trade, and understand that blue states are not resource rich and can never compete in this arena. Instead, they had foolishly hoped that they could get the world to pay an IP tax, as you said, and that's simply not going to fly. Koreans are unimpressed by American patents on inventions they can discover for themselves.
I know it's a bitter pill for some to swallow, but anyone who was paying attention could've seen this coming.
So, once again we Americans managed to elect another stiff that breaks his campaign vision? Hell, we on the right threw everything we had into Bush's vision of a "humbler America" and "limited government" only to find ourselves compromising our own very values in support of an administration that pissed off the entire planet and ironically, laid the groundwork for the very federal activism that is taking place now.
The great foolishness of American political fans is that they always fail to see that neither party ever really rolls back the excesses of the other's usurpations of power, but merely sanitize them for their own side's uneasy palatibility. If Democrats and Republicans from 50 years ago were alive today, they would be sick at what either party has become. I highly doubt Adlai Stevenson or Jack Kennedy would approve of Obama's budgetary mess and forgive me foreign policy any more than Richard Nixon or Dwight Eisenhower would have approved of Bush's interventions and his budgetary messes.
I'm no big tree hugger, but as an animal I have come to form an emotional relationship with the earth and I would prefer that while, we recognize that changes to come to the environment and biosphere, that, we not go around pissing on things all over the place either. Like, I don't think its entirely wrong to ask people to respect the world they live in. Like, I never understood how my fellow right wingers could be so up and up on God, and not ponder for a moment that the earth should be respected because it is His gift to us. I would expect them to be leading the charge on the environment, not dragging their feet on it.
The problem with BeOS was that that which made it sweet also made it difficult to program. In Windows and other STA modelled applications, you don't have to worry about your application being pre-empted within the context of a message. BeOS would do that, which is why it was so responsive and so scalable. If you did the cheesy thing and put a locking mechanism around the body of your message handlers, you would effectively cripple what the OS could do with your application and essentially "Windowsify" it.
They were still managing to sell quite a few copies. Be could have made a business out of distributing and selling operating systems online. Indeed, that's really the only way Linux got distributed. I thought they were doing a good job of it too.
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Why is anyone in their right mind writing applications in a systems programming language that is C++. C# is an application language, and C++ is a systems language.
I would like to have, in C++, these things that C# already has:
1) Sane compilation. Why must I still be doing #if INCLUDED in 2011?
2) Property inspection and other run time type inspection and dynamic invocation facilities.
3) datetime, decimal.
4) C# strings are better than C++ strings
5) Class extensions
6) Anonymous types, and as a consequence, LINQ
7) nullable types
8) Sane array and class construction syntax in code
C# does do some stuff that is kinda sucky compared to C++. I still miss multiple inheritance from time to time. But,
all in all, C# is just better.
It's just a matter of picking my poison. If I vote left, I get some jackass preaching about saving mother earth and we're all in some syrupy Star Wars Force binding us all together, so I have to give up my money in the name of the cause and join in the mission to get rid of the evil right. If I vote right, I get some jackass preaching about saving culture and we're all god's children, so I have to give up my money in the name of the cause and join in the mission to get rid of the evil left.
In these case, units of measurement are but one of many specifications for a part. Computers can readily convert sizes... it's like, saying, we should have one thing because division is too complicated, and, its just not. We could have 100 different units of measurement, and it wouldn't matter that much.
Just saying it again... when you give an institution the power to do whatever it wants, as Democrats and then Republicans have, you create a self feeding monster that no one can control. Bravo! "Let's have the government save us" people. You didn't make a hero. You made a tyrant!
The thought makes sense.
Just curious, but who is donating bucks to Mozilla?
Must.....resist.....Waterworld.....joke....
Probably needs to clean up the gulf of mexico just to finally pay off a bunch of old waterworld bills.
Do you promise that? Will you personally take all the blame if something does go wrong? Will you accept all responsibility for any damages that this new bacteria may or may not cause?
I can promise you this : As soon as there is a new form of life that proliferates madly, nature usually finds something to eat it.
If we are working on developing server side storage and data management, we're offering a "cloud based" computing solution and hopefully celebrating some big venture capital. If we are the customers are using it, the providers are well, "gathering our data". Of course Amazon is storing data on their servers. Of course everyone who has all that data is going to look for ways to monetize it. That's the whole point of server side computing, really.
Suicide should be a human right.
I understand the guy my wife took off with left a note on his computer's Notepad that became very depressed and was found dead with his soda loaded up with a bunch of sleeping tablets.
Yeah, make suicide legal...NOT
I would be more than willing to bet that the descendants of the slaves that George Washington bought that are still alive today have a significantly higher standard of living than their counterparts who remained in Africa.
The point of any stealthy device is not evade detection forever, it is to evade detection long enough to achieve tactical surprise. It's a time making device, whereas enemy detection systems are time stealing devices. If you have an invisibility cloak with a bad vector, you can still develop a strategy to use it in a vector that is good. In fact, any Tom Clancy fan (I date myself), knows that this is how American stealth aircraft work. Its not just the technology, but the way it is used.
Or some other other functional language like that? Usually when you are trying to formulate loads of rules, it would seem that brevity and exactness of results trumps the implementation detail of performance.
Would be use that software to track the lives of mothers, and provide cash incentives for abortions to prevent criminal children from being born.
The whole point of collaborating with the NAZIs was the idea that if we traded with them and welcomed them into the international community with open arms, it would moderate their behavior and improve world security. That worked so well we're now doing it with the communists in China....
I assume then that the interior of the sun would be a good place to look for life, because of all the heat?
You can take anything to extremes and make it silly.
The whole problem about comparing this place to Titan is that Titan is extremely cold. Titan's got the materials (except for Nitrogen maybe?), for sure, but, it doesn't have the heat. Life is more of an energy problem than a materials problem. You need energy to roil things, to drive all those chemical reactions and to keep stirring the pot so evolution can take place. I would be more than willing to bet that you would find single cell life on Venus more than on Titan just because Venus has plenty of heat.
"In front of an enthusiastic audience, President Obama Bold New..."
Good god.. audiences are usually always enthusiastic, because every major politician will have advance teams designed to create friendly crowds. The audiences are friendly, no matter what the politician says. So... its really kind of a stupid quote.
"Bold new plan"... like, spend some money on some stuff, still basically kill an active program, but then have some "other" program that goes to Mars maybe in 20 years with no real plan. It's really not a change in the plan at all. Manned space exploration is dead.
To me, a bold new plan would be to admit what everyone with half a brain already knows. In order to really get people or significant cargos to Mars and to other distant places in the solar system, we need to have alternative propulsion. That means, nuclear powered space craft for nearer places like Mars, and solar sails most likely for other stuff. Chemical rockets are simply not powerful enough. Unless you put nukes up in space, Mars is just not going to happen...
Fund THAT, and you'll have a believer out of me. But right now, I would have settled for the Moon.
Get married dude. you'll be hitting 70 hours a week of productive coding in no time as you get sick of your stupid, worthless wife, and she goes off and finds a boyfriend, and then you hate her and him more and more...
Uh... not saying anything like personal, or anything.
Yeah taking shit out of context doesn't work with an apostate Christian who was forced to study the Bible five+ days a week, nine months a year every year for nine years.
It depends on which Christianity we're talking about. Christians tend to get lumped together but the reality is that a lot of the Christian sects have very different beliefs. Indeed, some versions of Christianity have you getting into heaven so long as you just "accept Christ" and others have you getting into heaven only if you do good deeds to match your faith in Christ. And some versions of Christianity don't have you getting into heaven at all, with only a few actually being saved.
So.. when you say that someone is taking a quote in the bible out of context, be careful, because it really means you are saying that they are not speaking that verse in your context. After all, some Christian faiths would say that the Bible is not even a literal word of God, but, man's attempt to transcribe his relationship with the almighty and that actually an oral tradition of Christian storytelling is far, far more important than just reading the book by itself.
The whole point of American trading policy was to have free trade and in doing so allow the third world to take up manufacturing in exchange for remaining a more intellectual property based system.
A history lesson is in order. This mess has been almost 150 years in the making...
This basic vision was actually invented by Southern Democrats in the runup to the Civil War, who preferred to import cheap manufactured goods rather than buy more expensive goods from the North. Indeed, Northern imposition of tarrifs to protect its industries was in some ways a bigger driver of the civil war than slavery itself. That's not revisionism - that's the Tariff of Abomination and how I think it was South Carolina almost bailed on the Union even in the 1830s simply because of tariffs.
After the war, Republicans were a protectionist party and the economy frankly boomed as America became a manufacturing powerhouse, essentially doing everything to Europe that China does to the USA today. Free Trade became a plank of the Democratic Party in the 1920s as Progressives in the North cut the unholy deal with the South to get their support and form Roosevelt's Super Coalition. Once Progressives broke with the South in the 1960s over the civil rights act, the Nixon strategy was really to offer free trade back to the south, explicitly, coupled with some not-so-subtle race baiting.
Thus, the American policy of free trade is really just a national appeasement to red state farmers and miners looking to import tools as cheap as possible, so they can sell produce on the world markets as cheap as possible and make a killing. If wages crater, what of it, as these people were all slave states anyway and who cares what happens to the urban centers filled with unemployed people when your state has plenty of food to grow and coal to mine.
Thus, you can't really say free trade and its decimation is the fault of Bush / Cheney. Rather, its the fault of every administration since Wilson scrambling for red state electoral votes. The historical aberration is that World War II produced an un-unnatural demand for American manufactured goods, but the policies that wrecked American manufacturing were put into place by Roosevelt, and extended all the way through the present administration.
If you want to curb environmental abuses, re-establish a middle class, and have American manufacturing, then the thing to do is to slap a big tax on imported manufacturing goods. What puzzles me is that Democrats of today do not even see this or do this, despite their own constituencies demanding this ever since the first Toyota rolled off of the ships in the 1960s.
Instead, you have Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and company, that have made free trade the gospel of the Democratic Party, which is not too surprising since both are Southerners. The basic difference they offer is that, they would tax the profits of those to dole out some welfare to everyone getting gutted from waves of cheap imports, like, at least ask Walmart to provide health insurance for its workers. The reality is, Democrats need to let go of free trade, and understand that blue states are not resource rich and can never compete in this arena. Instead, they had foolishly hoped that they could get the world to pay an IP tax, as you said, and that's simply not going to fly. Koreans are unimpressed by American patents on inventions they can discover for themselves.
I know it's a bitter pill for some to swallow, but anyone who was paying attention could've seen this coming.
So, once again we Americans managed to elect another stiff that breaks his campaign vision? Hell, we on the right threw everything we had into Bush's vision of a "humbler America" and "limited government" only to find ourselves compromising our own very values in support of an administration that pissed off the entire planet and ironically, laid the groundwork for the very federal activism that is taking place now.
The great foolishness of American political fans is that they always fail to see that neither party ever really rolls back the excesses of the other's usurpations of power, but merely sanitize them for their own side's uneasy palatibility. If Democrats and Republicans from 50 years ago were alive today, they would be sick at what either party has become. I highly doubt Adlai Stevenson or Jack Kennedy would approve of Obama's budgetary mess and forgive me foreign policy any more than Richard Nixon or Dwight Eisenhower would have approved of Bush's interventions and his budgetary messes.
I'm no big tree hugger, but as an animal I have come to form an emotional relationship with the earth and I would prefer that while, we recognize that changes to come to the environment and biosphere, that, we not go around pissing on things all over the place either. Like, I don't think its entirely wrong to ask people to respect the world they live in. Like, I never understood how my fellow right wingers could be so up and up on God, and not ponder for a moment that the earth should be respected because it is His gift to us. I would expect them to be leading the charge on the environment, not dragging their feet on it.
The problem with BeOS was that that which made it sweet also made it difficult to program. In Windows and other STA modelled applications, you don't have to worry about your application being pre-empted within the context of a message. BeOS would do that, which is why it was so responsive and so scalable. If you did the cheesy thing and put a locking mechanism around the body of your message handlers, you would effectively cripple what the OS could do with your application and essentially "Windowsify" it.
They were still managing to sell quite a few copies. Be could have made a business out of distributing and selling operating systems online. Indeed, that's really the only way Linux got distributed. I thought they were doing a good job of it too.