As several commentators have already pointed out, the structure of the domain system is already broken beyond repair. What I will see happening is the abolition of the the structure and the possibility to choose the domain as one wishes.
Now they started with.coke,.pepsi, etc. which it in self a joke. If they finish milking that cow, they will just open up the system so you can choose your own TLD. That is the next logical step anyway to milk further the DNS system.
The next step is of course to allow unicode characters, or I think they already planning it.
It's like American Dad, except that this is the FBI. I would rather not think about what the guys at the CIA are told about. Probably something like, "The USA is the only civilized country and if you have torture and kill some sand people to protect it, that's ok. We do the paperwork later".
I only wish someone would have the balls and put the US government before the European Court of Human Rights or some other body.
There were other countries that thought of them self as the superior power and above laws. They were called the British Empire, the Rome Empire, and many before them.
Anyone mentioned gog.com already? You can buy and download lots of games, all DRM free, for just 10$ or less. I have like 20 games already and will definitely buy more.
As always the most important benefits of open source software is not highlighted. It is not always about the money saved. The more important issues are:
Peruvian Congressman's Open Letter to Microsoft
Free access to public information by the citizen.
Permanence of public data.
Security of the State and citizens.
It can't be the norm that government's IT infrastructure is depending on a foreign firm, with is subject to foreign laws. Especially with laws like the Patriot Act in place and laws like the SOPA and PIPA in discussions.
As if Linux or Ubuntu users are have to stick with Unity. You can just choose your desktop and if you don't like the default one, a different desktop is just a few mouse clicks away. For example, on Fedora KDE open Apper, go to "Desktop Environments" and I can choose Gnome, KDE, LXDE, MeeGo, Sugar, various window managers and Xfce.
The good part is of course that they make it available. Universities should do that and not publish in journals where you have to pay to have access to publicly funded research. The sad part is that they had to use flash for the site.
Or is that on purpose so that I can't download the documents as simple Pdf files? I don't know if I miss anything, but the documents are only available via flash?
Unfortunately, the proposed NMD system would have essentially zero
capability against the most likely emerging threat-- an ICBM from
North Korea. And it would have strictly zero capability against
the much more realistic and important threat from North Korea,
Iran, or Iraq[...]
Because the NMD interceptors are all "hit-to-kill" so that they
must collide with the warhead in order to destroy it, the attacker
need not conceal the existence of the warhead but only its exact
location. This is readily done by the use of an enclosing balloon
made of aluminum-foil coated mylar that can be put together by
anyone who buys this article of commerce and spends $20 on a
hand-held tool for heat sealing the plastic to make a large
balloon.
In 1999, former Secretary of Defense William Perry made what must have been an exhausting series of diplomatic trips to convince North Korea to stop developing and testing long-range missiles. He was remarkably successful. In fact, as news of his success reached the Pentagon, people there used to joke, "There goes the threat!" The joke showed that perhaps the easiest route in dealing with North Korea can be through creative diplomacy, not military technology. Dollar for dollar, Dr. Perry was the most cost-effective missile defense system the United States ever had, and he showed that effective diplomacy is hard to beat.
Sure, just like armor, or radar, or satellite imaging, or barricades, or moats. Yes, clearly all military technology is offensive in nature.
Yes it is. All military technology puts the other side at a disadvantage and provoke a countermeasure and is as such offensive. The USA is not a bunch of pacifists, in fact the USA is the most aggressive western country and is known for invading country after country. If the USA gets a Missile Defence System, it makes more likely that the USA will attack more countries, because they don't have to fear retaliations.
First of all, a Missile Defense System never worked and will never work. It is and was just a big black hole for money under the disguise to protect the country. Just like the Airport security is now.
Seconds, it is offensive, just like any military technology. Think of it, right now Russia, China, and the USA are bond by a treaty. What if the USA gets the perfect Missile Defense System? They are not bound anymore by the treaty and so China and Russia will cancel the treaty and stock up their arsenal of missiles to counter the Defense System. So, what did you won? On the one side you wasted billions of $ for a system that will be countered anyway, on the other side you successfully destroyed a treaty to ensure that there are less nuclear weapons.
Such Missile Defense Systems will only wast billions of $ and increase the chance of a WWIII. The correct way would be to use treaties that benefit both parties, and with that I mean that a treaty should also benefit Iran.
I mean really, what is the point in blockade Iran and delete their banks from SWIFT? Cuba didn't care, North Korea don't care, so will Iran don't care. They have a lot of oil, so Iran will just make treaties with China, India, North Korea, etc. Did the blockage and sanctions decreased the possibility of a war with North Korea or their nuclear programs?
With don't make any difference. Both are believing with their live that their cause is what God want. That is the only important thing for them, so I don't really see any difference between Christian or Muslim extremists.
... DRM system (they hate it when you call it that) that actually benefits consumers...
ROFL. I had a good laugh on this one. All DRM schemes assume that you are a filthy pirate and that you need to first authenticate that you own something that you bought. The only reason why people don't complain more, is that it is "digital" and is somewhat different. I would love to see people defending a DRM scheme as somethin
I actually would very much like that model. Of course if it's reasonable and without DRM. For example Tropico 4, I would love to buy new buildings, maps, leaders, addons. Except, that they did some kind of registration servers. I enter the S/N when I was offline with my email address. Next time I try to start the game and I was online, the stupid software telling me that the S/N is already set with an email address. Duh, of course, it was my email address,
Recently three French economists produced a study comparing 12 European countries, some with fixed price laws and some without, and concluded, "Over the past decade, the growth rate of book prices is weaker in countries with fixed prices than in countries with free prices" and "the increase of new titles is stronger in the countries which have a fixed price."
Why were EGPCS (Environment, GET, POST, Cookie, Server) variables registered as global variables in the first place anyway? Who could think of it as a nice feature to just register variables from outside of the application? I think that speaks a lot of the environment of PHP and the community behind it.
PS: Sorry I reply to the wrong post.
Why were EGPCS (Environment, GET, POST, Cookie, Server) variables registered as global variables in the first place anyway? Who could think of it as a nice feature to just register variables from outside of the application? I think that speaks a lot of the environment of PHP and the community behind it.
I don't really care if the RIAA comes up with a super duper bill that will solve the world starvation or bring the world peace.
My problem is the whole concept of copyright, how it is enforced and how it invades my privacy and my property rights.
Fist of all is the term of copyright is overblown and kills our culture. How is a copyright term of over 100 years going to encourage anything? It just kills the public domain and thus our culture.
Second, is the dragonical punishment for copyright infringement, even for private, non commercial infringement.
Private, non commercial infringement should either be allowed or should have a punishment fee like 50$.
Third, it's the invasion of my privacy, with DRM and with EULAs or TOS. When I buy your stuff, it's mine to do what ever I like in my own home, for private use. That is, I can copy it as much as I like, I can format shift it and I can give it to my friends. I can play it how, when and on what device I like.
Finally, when I buy it, it's mine. I can sell it or lend it. It's my property.
And I don't care how many artists have to starve to death or how "unfair" it is. An artist have no right to be paid indefinitely over a one time job, neither have she the right to be paid or to make a living from her art. And no, that will not be the end of all art as we know it.
So just fuck of RIAA MPAA GEMA and what not. I don't need you, I don't want you, and I don't need your laws.
You have not answering my question. My question was: why can you cast an empty set to a number? If you still don't get it, here is what I would expect. I would expect that the JS parser will give me a nice error like: "Cannot cast an empty set to a number, because it does not make sense."
But Python is not on the BS Bingo book. You can find there: Web 2.0, Cloud, Synergy, etc. and JavaScript. Because Web 2.0 is the future and everything will be running in the web browser in the Cloud, they have to learn JavaScript.
Why can you convert an empty array in a number anyway? That does not make any sense at all. A number is a number, an empty set is empty. All is the Khan Ac. is going to do is ruining the kids lives with JS for ever.
JS is not a good language to learn from. It's a good language to learn what not to do. Like to silently convert an empty array in to a number.
Can't we just stop with this Myth once and for all? The world is capable to produce more food that humans can ever eat, the problem is that most of the people can't afford to buy food.
Please go to the poorest countries in the world, and tell them that GE food can solve all their problem and feed their children. The people don't have money to get normal wheat or rice, how please in the world can they afford to buy expensive GE wheat, or rice, from one supplier, Monsato.
It's all a matter of money and who have the money to buy stuff. In Germany we throw away food in a volume of 20 Billion Euros each year. That is one year turnover of Aldi in Germany (one of the biggest groceries stores). Alone with the thrown away food we could feed all the starving people in the world twice.
Or in England we throw away 4,1 million ton food each year. So please stop with this myth that we need better technology to feed the world population. No we don't need better technology, we need a better redistribution of wealth. We need to make sure that all people in the world can afford to buy food. We can ship bananas or pineapples around the world to Germany, but we can't ship bread, wheat or rice to the starving countries? Because the starving people don't have money to buy our food so we throw it away.
I think you already answered your own question. There is no "one size fits all" and if you can live with a 10% decrease in overall GC performance, then you can enable -Xincgc and have less GC related pauses. it's just depending on what you want and what your use case is.
If I understand Performance Options Option and Default Value correctly, then most the options you mentioned are enabled by default already anyway. Except the flags DisableExplicitGC and UseParallelGC, some other you mentioned I didn't found, and ParallelGCThreads is already set to the value for the platform where the JVM is running.
Some of the performance related options are already enabled by default, and there are some you can set if you know your machine. So I don't really understand your complain.
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As several commentators have already pointed out, the structure of the domain system is already broken beyond repair. What I will see happening is the abolition of the the structure and the possibility to choose the domain as one wishes.
Now they started with .coke, .pepsi, etc. which it in self a joke. If they finish milking that cow, they will just open up the system so you can choose your own TLD. That is the next logical step anyway to milk further the DNS system.
The next step is of course to allow unicode characters, or I think they already planning it.
It's like American Dad, except that this is the FBI. I would rather not think about what the guys at the CIA are told about. Probably something like, "The USA is the only civilized country and if you have torture and kill some sand people to protect it, that's ok. We do the paperwork later".
I only wish someone would have the balls and put the US government before the European Court of Human Rights or some other body.
There were other countries that thought of them self as the superior power and above laws. They were called the British Empire, the Rome Empire, and many before them.
Sorry, bad link. gog.com
Anyone mentioned gog.com already? You can buy and download lots of games, all DRM free, for just 10$ or less. I have like 20 games already and will definitely buy more.
As always the most important benefits of open source software is not highlighted. It is not always about the money saved. The more important issues are: Peruvian Congressman's Open Letter to Microsoft
It can't be the norm that government's IT infrastructure is depending on a foreign firm, with is subject to foreign laws. Especially with laws like the Patriot Act in place and laws like the SOPA and PIPA in discussions.
As if Linux or Ubuntu users are have to stick with Unity. You can just choose your desktop and if you don't like the default one, a different desktop is just a few mouse clicks away. For example, on Fedora KDE open Apper, go to "Desktop Environments" and I can choose Gnome, KDE, LXDE, MeeGo, Sugar, various window managers and Xfce.
The good part is of course that they make it available. Universities should do that and not publish in journals where you have to pay to have access to publicly funded research. The sad part is that they had to use flash for the site.
Or is that on purpose so that I can't download the documents as simple Pdf files? I don't know if I miss anything, but the documents are only available via flash?
Because it's not funny.
I think the author is using a lot of irony in his post.
How do you know?
Just a 1 minute search in Google of "Missile Defense Systems effectiveness" gave me: Effectiveness of Proposed National Missile Defense Against ICBMs from North Korea
Unfortunately, the proposed NMD system would have essentially zero capability against the most likely emerging threat-- an ICBM from North Korea. And it would have strictly zero capability against the much more realistic and important threat from North Korea, Iran, or Iraq[...] Because the NMD interceptors are all "hit-to-kill" so that they must collide with the warhead in order to destroy it, the attacker need not conceal the existence of the warhead but only its exact location. This is readily done by the use of an enclosing balloon made of aluminum-foil coated mylar that can be put together by anyone who buys this article of commerce and spends $20 on a hand-held tool for heat sealing the plastic to make a large balloon.
Missile defense costs $10 billion a year. What do we get for that?
In 1999, former Secretary of Defense William Perry made what must have been an exhausting series of diplomatic trips to convince North Korea to stop developing and testing long-range missiles. He was remarkably successful. In fact, as news of his success reached the Pentagon, people there used to joke, "There goes the threat!" The joke showed that perhaps the easiest route in dealing with North Korea can be through creative diplomacy, not military technology. Dollar for dollar, Dr. Perry was the most cost-effective missile defense system the United States ever had, and he showed that effective diplomacy is hard to beat.
Sure, just like armor, or radar, or satellite imaging, or barricades, or moats. Yes, clearly all military technology is offensive in nature.
Yes it is. All military technology puts the other side at a disadvantage and provoke a countermeasure and is as such offensive. The USA is not a bunch of pacifists, in fact the USA is the most aggressive western country and is known for invading country after country. If the USA gets a Missile Defence System, it makes more likely that the USA will attack more countries, because they don't have to fear retaliations.
Why is that +5 Insightful and not +5 Funny?
First of all, a Missile Defense System never worked and will never work. It is and was just a big black hole for money under the disguise to protect the country. Just like the Airport security is now.
Seconds, it is offensive, just like any military technology. Think of it, right now Russia, China, and the USA are bond by a treaty. What if the USA gets the perfect Missile Defense System? They are not bound anymore by the treaty and so China and Russia will cancel the treaty and stock up their arsenal of missiles to counter the Defense System. So, what did you won? On the one side you wasted billions of $ for a system that will be countered anyway, on the other side you successfully destroyed a treaty to ensure that there are less nuclear weapons.
Such Missile Defense Systems will only wast billions of $ and increase the chance of a WWIII. The correct way would be to use treaties that benefit both parties, and with that I mean that a treaty should also benefit Iran.
I mean really, what is the point in blockade Iran and delete their banks from SWIFT? Cuba didn't care, North Korea don't care, so will Iran don't care. They have a lot of oil, so Iran will just make treaties with China, India, North Korea, etc. Did the blockage and sanctions decreased the possibility of a war with North Korea or their nuclear programs?
With don't make any difference. Both are believing with their live that their cause is what God want. That is the only important thing for them, so I don't really see any difference between Christian or Muslim extremists.
... DRM system (they hate it when you call it that) that actually benefits consumers ...
ROFL. I had a good laugh on this one. All DRM schemes assume that you are a filthy pirate and that you need to first authenticate that you own something that you bought. The only reason why people don't complain more, is that it is "digital" and is somewhat different. I would love to see people defending a DRM scheme as somethin
I actually would very much like that model. Of course if it's reasonable and without DRM. For example Tropico 4, I would love to buy new buildings, maps, leaders, addons. Except, that they did some kind of registration servers. I enter the S/N when I was offline with my email address. Next time I try to start the game and I was online, the stupid software telling me that the S/N is already set with an email address. Duh, of course, it was my email address,
Recently three French economists produced a study comparing 12 European countries, some with fixed price laws and some without, and concluded, "Over the past decade, the growth rate of book prices is weaker in countries with fixed prices than in countries with free prices" and "the increase of new titles is stronger in the countries which have a fixed price."
I must still laught everytime I read the word "Bing". Actually my mental image is like someone is smacking someone on the head and it goes "bing".
Why were EGPCS (Environment, GET, POST, Cookie, Server) variables registered as global variables in the first place anyway? Who could think of it as a nice feature to just register variables from outside of the application? I think that speaks a lot of the environment of PHP and the community behind it. PS: Sorry I reply to the wrong post.
Why were EGPCS (Environment, GET, POST, Cookie, Server) variables registered as global variables in the first place anyway? Who could think of it as a nice feature to just register variables from outside of the application? I think that speaks a lot of the environment of PHP and the community behind it.
I think I will trademark it. :p
I don't really care if the RIAA comes up with a super duper bill that will solve the world starvation or bring the world peace.
My problem is the whole concept of copyright, how it is enforced and how it invades my privacy and my property rights.
Fist of all is the term of copyright is overblown and kills our culture. How is a copyright term of over 100 years going to encourage anything? It just kills the public domain and thus our culture.
Second, is the dragonical punishment for copyright infringement, even for private, non commercial infringement. Private, non commercial infringement should either be allowed or should have a punishment fee like 50$.
Third, it's the invasion of my privacy, with DRM and with EULAs or TOS. When I buy your stuff, it's mine to do what ever I like in my own home, for private use. That is, I can copy it as much as I like, I can format shift it and I can give it to my friends. I can play it how, when and on what device I like.
Finally, when I buy it, it's mine. I can sell it or lend it. It's my property.
And I don't care how many artists have to starve to death or how "unfair" it is. An artist have no right to be paid indefinitely over a one time job, neither have she the right to be paid or to make a living from her art. And no, that will not be the end of all art as we know it.
So just fuck of RIAA MPAA GEMA and what not. I don't need you, I don't want you, and I don't need your laws.
You have not answering my question. My question was: why can you cast an empty set to a number? If you still don't get it, here is what I would expect. I would expect that the JS parser will give me a nice error like: "Cannot cast an empty set to a number, because it does not make sense."
But Python is not on the BS Bingo book. You can find there: Web 2.0, Cloud, Synergy, etc. and JavaScript. Because Web 2.0 is the future and everything will be running in the web browser in the Cloud, they have to learn JavaScript.
Why can you convert an empty array in a number anyway? That does not make any sense at all. A number is a number, an empty set is empty. All is the Khan Ac. is going to do is ruining the kids lives with JS for ever.
JS is not a good language to learn from. It's a good language to learn what not to do. Like to silently convert an empty array in to a number.
Can't we just stop with this Myth once and for all? The world is capable to produce more food that humans can ever eat, the problem is that most of the people can't afford to buy food.
Please go to the poorest countries in the world, and tell them that GE food can solve all their problem and feed their children. The people don't have money to get normal wheat or rice, how please in the world can they afford to buy expensive GE wheat, or rice, from one supplier, Monsato.
It's all a matter of money and who have the money to buy stuff. In Germany we throw away food in a volume of 20 Billion Euros each year. That is one year turnover of Aldi in Germany (one of the biggest groceries stores). Alone with the thrown away food we could feed all the starving people in the world twice.
Or in England we throw away 4,1 million ton food each year. So please stop with this myth that we need better technology to feed the world population. No we don't need better technology, we need a better redistribution of wealth. We need to make sure that all people in the world can afford to buy food. We can ship bananas or pineapples around the world to Germany, but we can't ship bread, wheat or rice to the starving countries? Because the starving people don't have money to buy our food so we throw it away.
* http://www.taste-the-waste.de/
You can also use JMonkeyEngine for 3D engines in Java. Or you can use Piccolo2D for 2D in Java.
I think you already answered your own question. There is no "one size fits all" and if you can live with a 10% decrease in overall GC performance, then you can enable -Xincgc and have less GC related pauses. it's just depending on what you want and what your use case is.
If I understand Performance Options Option and Default Value correctly, then most the options you mentioned are enabled by default already anyway. Except the flags DisableExplicitGC and UseParallelGC, some other you mentioned I didn't found, and ParallelGCThreads is already set to the value for the platform where the JVM is running.
Some of the performance related options are already enabled by default, and there are some you can set if you know your machine. So I don't really understand your complain.
In Germany we pretty much get 1 and 2 Cent coins. I don't know what countries are try to get rid of them.