C++ already, innately, carries with it a certain number of performance hits.
And not all compilers handle templates in the same manner, or even correctly. By their very nature, templates create a lot of bloat. There are, however, tricks to keep that bloat to a minimum though.
As already mentioned by many others here, STL is NOT a standard, but nonetheless, the currently best "implementation" is STLport. They actually strive for complete portability, unlike most implementations. They also strive to make sure it works with other programming features such as multi-threading.
I know you were talking about Windows, but all of those ideas will be implemented by Debian sometime (hopefully soon) (it currently lacks package maintainer sigs) and are implemented by NSA's SELinux. In fact, Russell Coker has already put the selinux packages into the Debian database, so only the first part needs to be implemented in full now.
This is what a defeated victim says. "I just got robbed! And the robber will probably rob other stores, but he's too powerful for police to handle. Calling them would be a waste of time."
I'm sorry, but I can't see how people can stand around and let such things happen, no matter how hard it is to find the solution.
"We thought we had deployed all normal security measures," Tambolini said. "You never know if you've covered all security holes until this kind of thing happens." He also pleaded to the almost 1 million befuddled drivers for some patience and understanding.
This just shows the weakness of security through obscurity. Security ends up becoming reactive rather than proactive, so the purpose ends up defeating itself, since you cannot fix holes until something is stolen through the exploitation of those holes.
You also have to realize that many of these nations have extremely high infant mortality rates without AIDS. AIDS happens to push that rate only higher. Oddly, the cure is the curse. To combat high infant mortality rates, you need to have a lot of children. If you curb reproduction, you'll end up with a rapidly declining population. The solution isn't as simple as just having everyone stop having promiscuous sex since that serves a purpose.
Just a point of clarification. The GC is the one that runs on a customized PowerPC. The PS2 is completely customized. The instruction set for the PS2's Emotion Engine is unlike any seen before. It's very specific and very fast at things many console games need to do, but that's it. Outside that spectrum, it's pretty slow.
Ha, ha, ha, very funny. Where did you learn that pricing has anything to do with the actual cost of producing anything? Things are priced so people can afford to buy them, of course, as long as they cover at least the cost of manufacturing. You aren't incorrect, but delivery is still a service, and if you want a certain service not normally provided, then you are going to have to pay for it. To not pay for services would be like taking your car to the mechanic, and paying just for the parts the mechanic needs to fix your car and not pay for his/her labor. No mechanic in his/her right mind would ever do anything like this. Your labor doesn't come free. Gas does not come free. Making a worker drive somewhere does not come free. As long as the demand exists, your going to want to recoup all your marginal costs. If you start losing demand, you might lower a price to increase demand, but you would only do that if you're in a business that makes crap products.
What a fucking moron you are. I bet you think it's great when pizza places offer free delivery, but a discount on pick-up orders. Don't you see there's no difference between offering a discount to those who choose option X (and of course raising prices overall), versus penalizing those who choose Y, without raising prices.
How can this be? A pizza delivery place has to pay for not only making the pizza and the worker, but also for the gas used on the trip. If you have to pay for the gas on the trip, then you are going to want to recoup that cost by passing on to the customer. If a customer picks his/her pizza, there is no gas cost to recoup, so would it be fair to charge that customer for a non-existant gas cost? Unless you like ripping off your customers, then I don't think you would want to do that. When weather and traffic conditions are good, and the road allows good visibility (no blind corners, etc.), I tend to drive a little over the speed limit. When conditions are bad, I slow down significantly. Contrast this with people who always drive the speed limit, even when the road is wet or icy, and you'll see that my driving habits are a lot safer. How many times have you been pulled over for going five to ten over the speed limit? None? Wow, is that a coincidence? Not really. It's always safer to be going with the speed of the traffic rather than too much over or too much under. While legally you should really be following the speed limit, considering that you will possibly never be pulled over for doing five to ten over, an insurance company is probably going to ignore that since they know better. Heck, from your description, you'd probably get a discount if the insurance company knew more about your driving habits.
So what, should people not go to the bathroom? Don't you find the process of bodily excretion to be a tad embarassing? I sure do, and I know many of my female friends would not appreciate being videotaped within the bathrooms without their consent (not that any of them would give it.) I find that kind of voyeurism absolutely disgusting in more than one way, and I don't want my female friends to be treated like that, but yet, it happens all the time. It pisses me off to no end.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to create a full fledged game engine, level editors, creature/player editors, texture editors, etc. in a package and sell it as nothing more than a mod kit with no other purpose. You could GPL the source code, but remember that the GPL does allow you to sell your software. For most game engines, I don't think I'll care to look at their source code.
I think that this would be quite profitable.
The kit could come with some examples, and lots of reading material. If a person wanted to create an RPG, there could be a meta-language used to create the vocabulary needed to describe the world, and the interactions between characters and creatures.
Hey, id, Valve, or whoever else, are you listening?
The DO NOT CALL list is the same thing as being taken off the their list in my mind. I probably should have worded it differently because that was the way it worked at the firm I worked for. If someone asked to be off that list, we had to select the DO NOT CALL option. So, really, it's the same thing anyway.
This also explains why some telemarketers would be sending people money. They'd rather pay $500 to $2500 instead of $10000. This is just a way to keep people from saying anything.
Well, you wouldn't necessarily get $10000, but the telemarketing firm would have to pay that in fines if you request that you take your name off their list and they do not do that.
I've worked for a telemarketer before (yes, I have been to hell and back), and I k now for a fact that we were required to immediately, upon request, take a person or business' name and information off our list without any questions asked. If we did not, the firm was risking a $10000 fine. This is federal law. If a telemarketer continues to bug you after requesting that your name be taken off this list, just remind them if this little law.
This theory is more realistic and would resolve the problem of "why haven't we met people from the future" problem.
From what I understand, physics allow for a limited amount of time travel. I say limited because you would only be able to travel back only to the time in which the time machine was created (i.e. you would need a machine that sends objects through time and a machine that receives objects through time, and if one or the other does not exist, time travel doesn't happen.) Within this framework, it would be impossible to travel back in time and tell everyone that time travel exists because you wouldn't be able to travel back that far.
I'm going to bet that this is old news, but not really because it's new news from the future because someone from the future came back here and gave us his old news and presented it to us as new news, but really it's just his old news, right? So really, this is just new news that's old.
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Except that that assumes that the time machine can go back in time before the time machine was invented. Current theories of physics allow time machines to only go back as far as the time the original time machine was invented. So, thus, we could never visit our complete past anyway.
You obviously did not see what the Sci-Fi channel did with the Dune series. I was of the feeling that they did a rather good job on covering the first book in the Dune saga. It was a two hour mini-series with six episodes in all.
The special effects were great, on par, if not better, than something that would have come out of traditional Hollywood movie series (and remember, this was six two-hour episodes.)
Although the acting left a little to be desired, it wasn't horrible. Many people will disagree with me on this, but I preferred how House Harkonnen was portrayed as an arrogant aristocracy in this series than the filthy pigs in the original, 1980s version of the movie.
While the series did not feel rushed, one could definitely tell that it catered to people who already read the book. There were a lot of important, implicit, character thinking stuff in the book that was missed in the movie and so to a person unfamiliar with the Dune series would have been completely lost and would have a hard time understanding the entirety of the plot.
Among the 30 audience members were several Microsoft booth workers. One asked a couple of questions about the SELinux project, including, ironically, whether changes made to ready it for the security certification would be released back to the community under the GNU General Public License. Panelists said that although the rules of security certification and the GPL sometimes conflict they were looking at ways to resolve the potential problems. Among those issues: A security certified operating system that's had outside changes made to it may lose its certification, and a distribution that's downloaded from a site that's not part of the official certification channels loses its certification, Westerman said.
If an OS loses certification due to changes from the outside, then do what Debian does, have a stable, testing, and unstable distributions, and officially distribute only the stable distributions on CD. A long as you keep tight control over the changes made to the stable distribution, this shouldn't be a problem. This is how Debian does it, and also the reason why it's often accused of being out of date.
Also, distribute the certification only with CDs if you can't certify downloaded OSes (and make CDs the official distribution), even if they are exactly the same. Make it clearly noted, obviously, that certification only comes on official distribution channels (i.e. the CDs.)
While I agree with you, the history of such people still needs to be examined so that we may see if such symptom show up in other people, all in the hope of preventing such events from happening again. We need to find the factors that make people grow up to be who they are. We woull the causes, but we would find many of them. Perhaps some of them could be prevented in the future.
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C++ already, innately, carries with it a certain number of performance hits.
And not all compilers handle templates in the same manner, or even correctly. By their very nature, templates create a lot of bloat. There are, however, tricks to keep that bloat to a minimum though.
As already mentioned by many others here, STL is NOT a standard, but nonetheless, the currently best "implementation" is STLport. They actually strive for complete portability, unlike most implementations. They also strive to make sure it works with other programming features such as multi-threading.
I know you were talking about Windows, but all of those ideas will be implemented by Debian sometime (hopefully soon) (it currently lacks package maintainer sigs) and are implemented by NSA's SELinux. In fact, Russell Coker has already put the selinux packages into the Debian database, so only the first part needs to be implemented in full now.
It makes you wonder why people sell and buy bottled water, huh?
This is what a defeated victim says. "I just got robbed! And the robber will probably rob other stores, but he's too powerful for police to handle. Calling them would be a waste of time."
I'm sorry, but I can't see how people can stand around and let such things happen, no matter how hard it is to find the solution.
You are one limber and intelligent cat my friend! All cats should strive to be like you.
This just shows the weakness of security through obscurity. Security ends up becoming reactive rather than proactive, so the purpose ends up defeating itself, since you cannot fix holes until something is stolen through the exploitation of those holes.
You also have to realize that many of these nations have extremely high infant mortality rates without AIDS. AIDS happens to push that rate only higher. Oddly, the cure is the curse. To combat high infant mortality rates, you need to have a lot of children. If you curb reproduction, you'll end up with a rapidly declining population. The solution isn't as simple as just having everyone stop having promiscuous sex since that serves a purpose.
Just a point of clarification. The GC is the one that runs on a customized PowerPC. The PS2 is completely customized. The instruction set for the PS2's Emotion Engine is unlike any seen before. It's very specific and very fast at things many console games need to do, but that's it. Outside that spectrum, it's pretty slow.
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Ha, ha, ha, very funny. Where did you learn that pricing has anything to do with the actual cost of producing anything? Things are priced so people can afford to buy them, of course, as long as they cover at least the cost of manufacturing.
You aren't incorrect, but delivery is still a service, and if you want a certain service not normally provided, then you are going to have to pay for it. To not pay for services would be like taking your car to the mechanic, and paying just for the parts the mechanic needs to fix your car and not pay for his/her labor. No mechanic in his/her right mind would ever do anything like this. Your labor doesn't come free. Gas does not come free. Making a worker drive somewhere does not come free. As long as the demand exists, your going to want to recoup all your marginal costs. If you start losing demand, you might lower a price to increase demand, but you would only do that if you're in a business that makes crap products.
What a fucking moron you are. I bet you think it's great when pizza places offer free delivery, but a discount on pick-up orders. Don't you see there's no difference between offering a discount to those who choose option X (and of course raising prices overall), versus penalizing those who choose Y, without raising prices.
How can this be? A pizza delivery place has to pay for not only making the pizza and the worker, but also for the gas used on the trip. If you have to pay for the gas on the trip, then you are going to want to recoup that cost by passing on to the customer. If a customer picks his/her pizza, there is no gas cost to recoup, so would it be fair to charge that customer for a non-existant gas cost? Unless you like ripping off your customers, then I don't think you would want to do that.
When weather and traffic conditions are good, and the road allows good visibility (no blind corners, etc.), I tend to drive a little over the speed limit. When conditions are bad, I slow down significantly. Contrast this with people who always drive the speed limit, even when the road is wet or icy, and you'll see that my driving habits are a lot safer.
How many times have you been pulled over for going five to ten over the speed limit? None? Wow, is that a coincidence? Not really. It's always safer to be going with the speed of the traffic rather than too much over or too much under. While legally you should really be following the speed limit, considering that you will possibly never be pulled over for doing five to ten over, an insurance company is probably going to ignore that since they know better. Heck, from your description, you'd probably get a discount if the insurance company knew more about your driving habits.
So what, should people not go to the bathroom? Don't you find the process of bodily excretion to be a tad embarassing? I sure do, and I know many of my female friends would not appreciate being videotaped within the bathrooms without their consent (not that any of them would give it.) I find that kind of voyeurism absolutely disgusting in more than one way, and I don't want my female friends to be treated like that, but yet, it happens all the time. It pisses me off to no end.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to create a full fledged game engine, level editors, creature/player editors, texture editors, etc. in a package and sell it as nothing more than a mod kit with no other purpose. You could GPL the source code, but remember that the GPL does allow you to sell your software. For most game engines, I don't think I'll care to look at their source code.
I think that this would be quite profitable.
The kit could come with some examples, and lots of reading material. If a person wanted to create an RPG, there could be a meta-language used to create the vocabulary needed to describe the world, and the interactions between characters and creatures.
Hey, id, Valve, or whoever else, are you listening?
The DO NOT CALL list is the same thing as being taken off the their list in my mind. I probably should have worded it differently because that was the way it worked at the firm I worked for. If someone asked to be off that list, we had to select the DO NOT CALL option. So, really, it's the same thing anyway.
This also explains why some telemarketers would be sending people money. They'd rather pay $500 to $2500 instead of $10000. This is just a way to keep people from saying anything.
Well, you wouldn't necessarily get $10000, but the telemarketing firm would have to pay that in fines if you request that you take your name off their list and they do not do that.
I've worked for a telemarketer before (yes, I have been to hell and back), and I k now for a fact that we were required to immediately, upon request, take a person or business' name and information off our list without any questions asked. If we did not, the firm was risking a $10000 fine. This is federal law. If a telemarketer continues to bug you after requesting that your name be taken off this list, just remind them if this little law.
This theory is more realistic and would resolve the problem of "why haven't we met people from the future" problem.
From what I understand, physics allow for a limited amount of time travel. I say limited because you would only be able to travel back only to the time in which the time machine was created (i.e. you would need a machine that sends objects through time and a machine that receives objects through time, and if one or the other does not exist, time travel doesn't happen.) Within this framework, it would be impossible to travel back in time and tell everyone that time travel exists because you wouldn't be able to travel back that far.
I'm going to bet that this is old news, but not really because it's new news from the future because someone from the future came back here and gave us his old news and presented it to us as new news, but really it's just his old news, right? So really, this is just new news that's old.
Except that that assumes that the time machine can go back in time before the time machine was invented. Current theories of physics allow time machines to only go back as far as the time the original time machine was invented. So, thus, we could never visit our complete past anyway.
You obviously did not see what the Sci-Fi channel did with the Dune series. I was of the feeling that they did a rather good job on covering the first book in the Dune saga. It was a two hour mini-series with six episodes in all.
The special effects were great, on par, if not better, than something that would have come out of traditional Hollywood movie series (and remember, this was six two-hour episodes.)
Although the acting left a little to be desired, it wasn't horrible. Many people will disagree with me on this, but I preferred how House Harkonnen was portrayed as an arrogant aristocracy in this series than the filthy pigs in the original, 1980s version of the movie.
While the series did not feel rushed, one could definitely tell that it catered to people who already read the book. There were a lot of important, implicit, character thinking stuff in the book that was missed in the movie and so to a person unfamiliar with the Dune series would have been completely lost and would have a hard time understanding the entirety of the plot.
A Beowulf cluster of these? Don't you worry about the health implications of something so hideous?
No, I'd rather encase my computer in a termite colony before encasing it in whatever material that is.
If an OS loses certification due to changes from the outside, then do what Debian does, have a stable, testing, and unstable distributions, and officially distribute only the stable distributions on CD. A long as you keep tight control over the changes made to the stable distribution, this shouldn't be a problem. This is how Debian does it, and also the reason why it's often accused of being out of date.
Also, distribute the certification only with CDs if you can't certify downloaded OSes (and make CDs the official distribution), even if they are exactly the same. Make it clearly noted, obviously, that certification only comes on official distribution channels (i.e. the CDs.)
After actually reading the review, it seems that most desktop distros have the installation thing down to a pin. It's the actual desktop that suffers.
...that'd be great for all your one night stands.
Linux Gaming on a super cool, super fast, very specialized system==priceless.
While I agree with you, the history of such people still needs to be examined so that we may see if such symptom show up in other people, all in the hope of preventing such events from happening again. We need to find the factors that make people grow up to be who they are. We woull the causes, but we would find many of them. Perhaps some of them could be prevented in the future.