I sure hope you're being sarcastic, but the ignorance among people these days, I can't be sure. Assembly is basically machine language with mnemonics so it's easier for the human to write and can be compiled to run on different processors. C is a compiled language that is even easier to use for humans, but it has gone out another level of abstraction so something closer to the metal, aka assembly, can out perform it easily if well written. (Crap code is crap no matter what it's written in.) Java is an interpreted language. It's even further away than any compiled language. It goes through a program that translates it when you run it. Kind of like Basic does. So it has a LOT more crap between it and what the machine actually runs. Again, any cases of Java running faster than C is the programmers fault.
Let's put it this way, it's like having a button in a room that you want an intern to press. The Assembly language intern is in the room and will press it the moment you call him and tell him. The C intern is at the door of the room, and is waiting for that call as well. The Java intern is sitting on your lap, but still won't do anything until you call, at which point he calls his brother, who then has to run down to wherever the room is before he can even see the button much less press it.
Yes, Assembly and C are both compiling languages, but Assembly has the potential advantage since it's a lot closer to the final product for pure speed. (I said 'potential' because the programmer can screw up anything in a program.) As to Java, in many ways it's a version of C that has an interpreter.
Now of course, we could try to explain compilers and interpreters and pcode, and a lot of other things to you, but if you weren't making a joke, you aren't even close to being ready for any of that.
In the ancient days, we actually made programs in Basic that ran faster than other peoples C programs. That's because we 'cheated' and inserted hand tuned machine code to handle the usually slow parts. We also wrote a Basic to Machine code compiler that allowed you to choose between speed, resources, or a balanced output. Of course, back then the computers were much more limited and 8k ram was considered good. No way in any hell I'm signing on for a project like that these days!
If your C is faster than your Assembly, that's because your Assembly is crap. It's the same way that your Bicycle is faster than your Jet Fighter Plane that is held together by duct tape and you've 'fueled up' with whip cream.
To identify it's age and growth rate at various years which not only yields information about the clams, and by extension a whole chunk of that areas ecology over time, but it also gives a climate data as well. Sure, it's not daily temps, but it's still important, especially when you don't have a lot of other sources to get data from. Let's just say Iceland doesn't have a whole lot of choices for extrapolating the old climate data from.
Besides, it was bound to be chowder or seagull bait after it got dredged up anyhow.
Not really. It's either elect fuckwit A or fuckwit B, or don't vote for any of them and let some deluded idiot choose the fuckwit of the term.
Blaming the person caught in that trap since before they were even born, is rather insensitive. (There are other things I would say, but I'm assuming you just really haven't thought about what's actually going on. Here's your chance.)
All children will be issued a polymer bubble that they must use when at school. Exiting your bubble is not allowed, without express permission of a teacher, the school nurse, and either the principle or vice principle. To insure that sufficient physical activity is performed, once an hour at the sound of the buzzer, the students will roll out to the P.E. field and run laps. To aid in the proper identification of each student, they will be issued a school jersey with an individualized number in large clear writing. The student that finishes first on each run will be allowed first drink at the giant water bottle. Parents are encouraged to participate by watching these 'races' and encouraging their favorites and partaking of our Parimutuel betting. We are currently working to secure a deal with several sports channels for broadcasting of these activities. All of which are expected to aid in our fund raising, and as such, will reduce the need for our bake sales down to only 3 per year. Thank you, and please support our school.
Higher education takes significant resources not available to many people, intelligence level is often not a factor. And that resource requirement is increasing every year, while the value of that 'higher education' is falling. In many cases, it's already past the point of diminishing returns. The more intelligent people are more likely to see that dilemma and not jump into that mess any more. So far, a good alternative has not come up that I know of.
Sure, grants and loans still exist. But the grants are never enough by a long shot unless you meet some really weird conditions, and the loans are part of the problem. Since I last attended college (The university is much more expensive than the college) the price of tuition has doubled, and yet the grants available have not increased by more than around 5-10%, and previously, they only covered around half. The days of a single parent working part time to send themselves through college and survive are long past.:(
There are many responses they could give without telling you what you wanted. They really should be responding, even if it's in the negative. Here are a few possible responses for your 'requests':
I'm sorry, but all incidents that occur outside of NYC are not handled by this department. Please contact the department that handles the location that incident occurred in.
We do not track people that are officially dead and have no idea where they might be if they are not in their assigned grave, tomb, or urn.
Unidentified Flying Objects are the domain of Federal Aviation Administration or the United States Air Force, and although we appreciate your admiration for our abilities, our officers still do not have the ability to fly.
The police department does not specifically investigate aliens, unless they are performing criminal activities. Simply being an alien is not illegal, though improper entry into this country is illegal, that issue is handled by the Department of Immigration. Thank you for your concern, and please stop asking us if anyone is from another planet. You don't really want to know the response.
We regret that your request can not be fulfilled at this time due to legal restrictions. Thank you for your concern.
You can't 'blow the whistle' to someone whom you believe is complicit. You can't call up the president to do so either. On the other hand, the public was both available and non-complicit.
With the b.s. the three letter acronym government agencies get away with, if I caught them red handed I'd think about an exit plan as well, I just doubt I'd choose Russia. (Actually I can't think of anywhere I could go to be 'safe' that I would like to be, but it's still understandable.)
Exactly. It's like the difference between building a car from scratch, and driving it off a cliff. Building it is a lot harder than taking it down or destroying it.
I thought it was illegal to rate the performance of someone based on the performance of someone else that is neither on their team nor supervised by them.
What about the 60s TV show Batman and his Bat Tracer? Him and Robin were always pegging villians cars with those things.
I don't remember James Bond doing that, but then again, I can't say I remember all the details of those movies, and I haven't seen any with the latest Bond, but still, the Batman TV show was from 66-68 and 120 episodes. (That show was really corny, but hey, I was only 6 when I watched it in reruns. I definitely didn't watch it when it was originally aired. Come to think of it, pretty much everything on Saturday morning was rather campy.)
Oh yes, if someone wants to complain that it wasn't GPS, I guess you have to remember 2 things. First GPS is rather new, the first GPS satellite was launched in 89, and it wasn't completed until 94. There were other navigation systems before then. Second, the Batman TV show didn't say how the bat tracers worked, but they did put up the exact location on a map, so they were a lot better than the basic radio beacon you would have expected back then. Of course, this is Batman. A rich guy with access to all the best super tech of a world where super heroes and super science exists.
Oh well. It doesn't really matter. It's just that it's late, and I feel like pointing this out.:P:D Don't forget the past, otherwise it will p0wn you ya n00b ! (Trust me, nobody wants to get teabagged by grandpa.)
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Just troll the papers about gas explosions. They happen, and tend to kill a lot of people, and that's just when a house or an apartment goes. Then there are the people that die of asphyxiation from gas leaks. I know they tend to add a chemical (at least in this country) to give it a nasty smell, but people often sleep through that, at least until they die.
Also, the gas itself slowly destroys the integrity of the pipes that carry it. The older they get, the more likely there will be an incident. (There are entire studies on how the hydrogen in the gas infiltrates the metal of the pipes and weakens them.)
You want citations, no, you can go look it up for yourself, since a lot of those studies and relevant articles are either not on the internet, or are not in a language I can read since they tend to happen in countries that rely heavily on gas instead of electricity. Besides, I don't have any more time to waste on someone that can't even comprehend the possible dangers of a highly flammable and explosive substance that also acts as an oxygen displacer.
He paid $700 for unreleased and presumably lost recordings of a Star Wars movie of the original trilogy on an obsolete media format.
He'll get at least $7000 if he sells it to a collector, or even to Lucas or Disney so they can take it off the market. I bet if it went to a collectors auction, it could go for x10 that. Yeah, sure, he paid too much for it... NOT
Agreed. Heck, even those spammers that for years have been collecting databases of solved captchas for their bots do much better at those damn things than I do. And what really pisses me off is when you get a captcha wrong, either through incorrect entry or because it's decided you took to long, and the damn thing wipes out all the fields forcing you to redo the entire page! Those sites I truly despise I hope their programmers/scripters get a horrible infestation of something nasty.
If the politicians would leave us alone, they'd be little more than an occasional joke entry. But so long as they keep taking pot shots at us, we should show them why you don't kick the slumbering dragon.
You also have a duty to oppose governmental over-reach and abuse, as well as to uphold the ethical standards your business is based on. You have many other duties as well. When they conflict, how do you decide which one(s) to follow?
I don't know what I would do, but I have to applaud the owner for his brave choice to not compromise his ethics to obey a questionable government action.
If you are curious (probably not, but here goes) you always hear that the people in the military have to obey the orders of their superiors. That is wrong. They have to obey the LAWFUL orders of their superiors, and REFUSE to obey unlawful ones. Hollywood always gets that wrong, but then again, they tend to get most things wrong in one way or another. Along those lines, the founders of this country fully believed that it was the right and duty of any citizen to oppose inappropriate laws and actions by the government.
Not all laws are 'legal', even if they are still on the books and being enforced. (Perhaps 'constitutional' is the more appropriate term.) Perfect case in point, the various anti-black laws that used to be around before the supreme court finally shot them down. Even the supreme court screws up.
Also, laws often exist and are used for some time, often many decades, before someone starts perverting them and employing them in ways they weren't supposed to be used. There has been a huge upswing in abuse of various laws against the public in the past appx 20 years. Unfortunately politicians assume everything it won't be their problem and say if there's any issue, the courts will sort it out. Far too often, that not only takes way too long, sometimes in excess of 60 years, but there are all the people that are 'harmed' during it's period of abuse. The truth is that it's not 'if' a law will be abused, but rather 'when' a law will be abused.
Don't forget that not all information is equal, nor is it likely to be sought out by the same individuals. I thought that kind of stuff was first term communication basics. And of course, the internet really is just a giant communications network. Oh well, not all 'eggheads' can be AAA X-large, some of them are month old quail.:p
Really? A large percentage of the drugs and medical devices COULD be used for torture or execution. That's a pretty flimsy stance there people. (Though as just a company, it has to follow the law or get severely screwed, at least in other countries.)
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I sure hope you're being sarcastic, but the ignorance among people these days, I can't be sure.
Assembly is basically machine language with mnemonics so it's easier for the human to write and can be compiled to run on different processors.
C is a compiled language that is even easier to use for humans, but it has gone out another level of abstraction so something closer to the metal, aka assembly, can out perform it easily if well written. (Crap code is crap no matter what it's written in.)
Java is an interpreted language. It's even further away than any compiled language. It goes through a program that translates it when you run it. Kind of like Basic does. So it has a LOT more crap between it and what the machine actually runs. Again, any cases of Java running faster than C is the programmers fault.
Let's put it this way, it's like having a button in a room that you want an intern to press.
The Assembly language intern is in the room and will press it the moment you call him and tell him.
The C intern is at the door of the room, and is waiting for that call as well.
The Java intern is sitting on your lap, but still won't do anything until you call, at which point he calls his brother, who then has to run down to wherever the room is before he can even see the button much less press it.
Yes, Assembly and C are both compiling languages, but Assembly has the potential advantage since it's a lot closer to the final product for pure speed.
(I said 'potential' because the programmer can screw up anything in a program.)
As to Java, in many ways it's a version of C that has an interpreter.
Now of course, we could try to explain compilers and interpreters and pcode, and a lot of other things to you, but if you weren't making a joke, you aren't even close to being ready for any of that.
In the ancient days, we actually made programs in Basic that ran faster than other peoples C programs. That's because we 'cheated' and inserted hand tuned machine code to handle the usually slow parts. We also wrote a Basic to Machine code compiler that allowed you to choose between speed, resources, or a balanced output. Of course, back then the computers were much more limited and 8k ram was considered good. No way in any hell I'm signing on for a project like that these days!
If your C is faster than your Assembly, that's because your Assembly is crap.
It's the same way that your Bicycle is faster than your Jet Fighter Plane that is held together by duct tape and you've 'fueled up' with whip cream.
To identify it's age and growth rate at various years which not only yields information about the clams, and by extension a whole chunk of that areas ecology over time, but it also gives a climate data as well. Sure, it's not daily temps, but it's still important, especially when you don't have a lot of other sources to get data from. Let's just say Iceland doesn't have a whole lot of choices for extrapolating the old climate data from.
Besides, it was bound to be chowder or seagull bait after it got dredged up anyhow.
I can't pass any one of those they've got posted.
I guess you need to be dropping acid for those to work.
Not really. It's either elect fuckwit A or fuckwit B, or don't vote for any of them and let some deluded idiot choose the fuckwit of the term.
Blaming the person caught in that trap since before they were even born, is rather insensitive.
(There are other things I would say, but I'm assuming you just really haven't thought about what's actually going on. Here's your chance.)
At least J.E.H. wore relatively clean panties and garters.
All children will be issued a polymer bubble that they must use when at school. Exiting your bubble is not allowed, without express permission of a teacher, the school nurse, and either the principle or vice principle. To insure that sufficient physical activity is performed, once an hour at the sound of the buzzer, the students will roll out to the P.E. field and run laps. To aid in the proper identification of each student, they will be issued a school jersey with an individualized number in large clear writing. The student that finishes first on each run will be allowed first drink at the giant water bottle. Parents are encouraged to participate by watching these 'races' and encouraging their favorites and partaking of our Parimutuel betting. We are currently working to secure a deal with several sports channels for broadcasting of these activities. All of which are expected to aid in our fund raising, and as such, will reduce the need for our bake sales down to only 3 per year.
Thank you, and please support our school.
I would also expect that it would only apply to France as well.
There is a Google.fr, right?
Yeah, and they'd have to run an extension cord to South Korean for enough juice to run it in the first place. :P
Higher education takes significant resources not available to many people, intelligence level is often not a factor.
:(
And that resource requirement is increasing every year, while the value of that 'higher education' is falling.
In many cases, it's already past the point of diminishing returns.
The more intelligent people are more likely to see that dilemma and not jump into that mess any more.
So far, a good alternative has not come up that I know of.
Sure, grants and loans still exist. But the grants are never enough by a long shot unless you meet some really weird conditions, and the loans are part of the problem. Since I last attended college (The university is much more expensive than the college) the price of tuition has doubled, and yet the grants available have not increased by more than around 5-10%, and previously, they only covered around half. The days of a single parent working part time to send themselves through college and survive are long past.
There are many responses they could give without telling you what you wanted. They really should be responding, even if it's in the negative. Here are a few possible responses for your 'requests':
I'm sorry, but all incidents that occur outside of NYC are not handled by this department. Please contact the department that handles the location that incident occurred in.
We do not track people that are officially dead and have no idea where they might be if they are not in their assigned grave, tomb, or urn.
Unidentified Flying Objects are the domain of Federal Aviation Administration or the United States Air Force, and although we appreciate your admiration for our abilities, our officers still do not have the ability to fly.
The police department does not specifically investigate aliens, unless they are performing criminal activities. Simply being an alien is not illegal, though improper entry into this country is illegal, that issue is handled by the Department of Immigration. Thank you for your concern, and please stop asking us if anyone is from another planet. You don't really want to know the response.
We regret that your request can not be fulfilled at this time due to legal restrictions. Thank you for your concern.
You can't 'blow the whistle' to someone whom you believe is complicit.
You can't call up the president to do so either.
On the other hand, the public was both available and non-complicit.
With the b.s. the three letter acronym government agencies get away with, if I caught them red handed I'd think about an exit plan as well, I just doubt I'd choose Russia. (Actually I can't think of anywhere I could go to be 'safe' that I would like to be, but it's still understandable.)
Exactly. It's like the difference between building a car from scratch, and driving it off a cliff.
Building it is a lot harder than taking it down or destroying it.
I thought it was illegal to rate the performance of someone based on the performance of someone else that is neither on their team nor supervised by them.
What about the 60s TV show Batman and his Bat Tracer?
:P :D
Him and Robin were always pegging villians cars with those things.
I don't remember James Bond doing that, but then again, I can't say I remember all the details of those movies, and I haven't seen any with the latest Bond, but still, the Batman TV show was from 66-68 and 120 episodes.
(That show was really corny, but hey, I was only 6 when I watched it in reruns. I definitely didn't watch it when it was originally aired. Come to think of it, pretty much everything on Saturday morning was rather campy.)
Oh yes, if someone wants to complain that it wasn't GPS, I guess you have to remember 2 things.
First GPS is rather new, the first GPS satellite was launched in 89, and it wasn't completed until 94. There were other navigation systems before then.
Second, the Batman TV show didn't say how the bat tracers worked, but they did put up the exact location on a map, so they were a lot better than the basic radio beacon you would have expected back then. Of course, this is Batman. A rich guy with access to all the best super tech of a world where super heroes and super science exists.
Oh well. It doesn't really matter. It's just that it's late, and I feel like pointing this out.
Don't forget the past, otherwise it will p0wn you ya n00b !
(Trust me, nobody wants to get teabagged by grandpa.)
Posters are not allowed to attempt to compromise the lingering Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field, Apple is perfect, and perceived issues are figments of your imagination. Please remit all your money to Apple and thank us for the privilege to partake in our excellence. Thank you. :p
Just troll the papers about gas explosions. They happen, and tend to kill a lot of people, and that's just when a house or an apartment goes. Then there are the people that die of asphyxiation from gas leaks. I know they tend to add a chemical (at least in this country) to give it a nasty smell, but people often sleep through that, at least until they die.
Also, the gas itself slowly destroys the integrity of the pipes that carry it. The older they get, the more likely there will be an incident. (There are entire studies on how the hydrogen in the gas infiltrates the metal of the pipes and weakens them.)
You want citations, no, you can go look it up for yourself, since a lot of those studies and relevant articles are either not on the internet, or are not in a language I can read since they tend to happen in countries that rely heavily on gas instead of electricity. Besides, I don't have any more time to waste on someone that can't even comprehend the possible dangers of a highly flammable and explosive substance that also acts as an oxygen displacer.
He paid $700 for unreleased and presumably lost recordings of a Star Wars movie of the original trilogy on an obsolete media format.
He'll get at least $7000 if he sells it to a collector, or even to Lucas or Disney so they can take it off the market. I bet if it went to a collectors auction, it could go for x10 that. Yeah, sure, he paid too much for it... NOT
Agreed. Heck, even those spammers that for years have been collecting databases of solved captchas for their bots do much better at those damn things than I do.
And what really pisses me off is when you get a captcha wrong, either through incorrect entry or because it's decided you took to long, and the damn thing wipes out all the fields forcing you to redo the entire page! Those sites I truly despise I hope their programmers/scripters get a horrible infestation of something nasty.
I've been to Boulder Colorado. I'm pretty sure most of the folks there are suffering from Hypoxia.
If the politicians would leave us alone, they'd be little more than an occasional joke entry.
But so long as they keep taking pot shots at us, we should show them why you don't kick the slumbering dragon.
You also have a duty to oppose governmental over-reach and abuse, as well as to uphold the ethical standards your business is based on.
You have many other duties as well. When they conflict, how do you decide which one(s) to follow?
I don't know what I would do, but I have to applaud the owner for his brave choice to not compromise his ethics to obey a questionable government action.
If you are curious (probably not, but here goes) you always hear that the people in the military have to obey the orders of their superiors. That is wrong. They have to obey the LAWFUL orders of their superiors, and REFUSE to obey unlawful ones. Hollywood always gets that wrong, but then again, they tend to get most things wrong in one way or another. Along those lines, the founders of this country fully believed that it was the right and duty of any citizen to oppose inappropriate laws and actions by the government.
Not all laws are 'legal', even if they are still on the books and being enforced. (Perhaps 'constitutional' is the more appropriate term.)
Perfect case in point, the various anti-black laws that used to be around before the supreme court finally shot them down.
Even the supreme court screws up.
Also, laws often exist and are used for some time, often many decades, before someone starts perverting them and employing them in ways they weren't supposed to be used. There has been a huge upswing in abuse of various laws against the public in the past appx 20 years. Unfortunately politicians assume everything it won't be their problem and say if there's any issue, the courts will sort it out. Far too often, that not only takes way too long, sometimes in excess of 60 years, but there are all the people that are 'harmed' during it's period of abuse. The truth is that it's not 'if' a law will be abused, but rather 'when' a law will be abused.
Don't forget that not all information is equal, nor is it likely to be sought out by the same individuals. I thought that kind of stuff was first term communication basics. And of course, the internet really is just a giant communications network. :p
Oh well, not all 'eggheads' can be AAA X-large, some of them are month old quail.
Really? A large percentage of the drugs and medical devices COULD be used for torture or execution. That's a pretty flimsy stance there people. (Though as just a company, it has to follow the law or get severely screwed, at least in other countries.)