At least if we are talking Swedish Lapland, customs will intercept the shipment of wine, an hold it for weeks, and tax it so it is more expensive than locally bought (very expensive) wine, and also force you to pay for the joy of being taxed, a taxation fee of around €13 last time I got taxed.
I'm sitting right now and coding an interface between Java and Erlang using JInterface, and the actual JInterface part is pretty good. It makes Java act as an Erlang node. But Java is just a horrible, horrible language.
Everything on the Java side gets so bloated it is just silly. What would take one line on the Erlang side can easily take 20 lines on the Java side.
I know you are just trolling, but...
Swing is the most horrible toolkit I've ever tried to use. Even monkeys can make a better one.
Eclipse is never needed for a real language, if you need an IDE, there is something wrong with your language.
Java does the opposite of trying to help you shoot yourself in the foot, by making the code bloated and spread out. More lines = more bugs, that is the simple fact.
Just-in-time does not make java "just as fast" automatically. I have 8 cores on my machine, and I can easily and safely make Erlang programs that max out all of them, and without any mutexes. The mutex model is just broken and as we move to more and more cores, you need languages that can easily and safely scale.
"Java unicode from the ground up", MY ASS! Why would you even make.toString() the default when converting from one type to the next. You always want.getBytes()!!!!
And stop smoking your crack for at least 5 seconds before lying to yourself about Fortune 500 companies not hiring anything but Java programmers. What do you think they coded Facebook chat in, for just one example? Not Java!
Not really a good parallel, every car insurance plan I know (even in those "socialist paradises" in Europe) you pay more if your car insurance company has to pay constantly for accidents you cause.
Not true. In Sweden it is illegal to have sexist policies, so insurance companies can't make you pay more just because you are a guy for the same model car and same address.
Nothing brainwashes a kid more than religion and has started more wars than anything else. Just ask all the religious guys what sites they do like and filter that.
try resizing your/var or / LVM partitions while the system is running, let me know how that goes. This is because real enterprises have issues your linux server in mom's basement don't.
I have been doing exactly that for years, and it is only been getting easier. These are the commands you need to use if you have them stacked LVM->DMCRYPT->EXT4
Use the tools in the stacking order that you have used to set up your system.
So I'm letting you know right now, if you actually know Linux system administration, it has worked fine for years and years. First online resize of a filesystem that was mounted over the network for a lot of users I did back in 2001.
I have no idea where the authors found their data, but it is not from this earth that we live on for sure.
Why does Sweden and Norway have among the highest "Crime Index z-scores"?, whatever that means? I mean, does Sweden have a higher crime index than Tanzania, Brazil or the US for that matter??
We have every right irritated with Linus here. I've written software for Linux, Windows, and embedded RTOSes. Linux was by far the most painful. Boost was the only thing that made it tolerable. Berating a company that supports a user base which represents 1% or less of their market without any modern-day language tools at their disposal (STL, Boost, a decent IDE) is just counter-productive.
Seriously, if you write a device driver in Boost, you should be shot in front of your kids. And I know, I used to work for a company that wrote most of its software in Boost, luckily only in user space. They had all the usual problems with Boost, all the static and dynamic cast bullshit, 8 different kinds of smart pointers, all of them thread unsafe and of course, error messages the size of a small house. They had a bug for 2 years because they couldn't follow the code because of Boost and all Design Patterns they had used. There is a reason why Boost is not STL.
So no Boost or STL in the kernel is a good thing, only to keep coders like you out. Just read what Linus has to say about it:
(full dislosure: I now work for a company doing almost all coding in Erlang, and we rely on one peice of code written in Boost, and we hate it. It is almost impossible to compile, lacks a good api, and if you change any configuration while it is running it drops all its connections. We really would like to replace it and probably will at some time.)
In order for this not to happen again do the following:
Stop using Windows and MacOSX. Download and install Fedora F16. When installing, encrypt the harddrive with a really hard to break password. Install pidgin and off the record like this: 'yum install pidgin pidgin-otr' Generate keys and verify them before communicating. Be _very_ careful if who you usually talks to changes their key, they might have been arrested. Never ever communicate in the clear.
Using this strategy you will not be immune, rubber-hose-cryptanalysis with still defeat this. Also you can be tracked so your oppresive government can see that you communicate, they will just not be able to read what you are saying. And not using major OSes will keep you away from the most common exploits and trojans.
Also, try to use TOR, HTTPS-everywhere and other good tools.
It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
No winter lasts from mid feb thru mid october at amunseon-scott. I donno anything about the schedule this year specifically, but its almost March... last trip out was probably a couple weeks ago and they're stuck there until almost Halloween. They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Exactly. It is still light there but the weather is so tough they can't fly in or out. So it is technically winter there already.
I haven't watched the video yet, but according to his Wikipedia page, Haught is an evolutionist. I don't see what anachronistic fossils would do to his position.
Then watch the fucking video! Listen to what he says literally. I'm not gonna quote him, watch the video for yourself.
Creationists have gotta stop telling each other that just because creation needs blind faith, all other positions also needs blind faith. Believing without evidence, and not believing in absence of evidence is not the same thing. The former needs blind faith, the latter is just the wise thing to do. There is no such thing as an "evolutionist", it's not an -ism. Coyne is a scientist, pure and simple.
You obviously didn't watch the video particularly closely. Coyne (and me and all the rest of the scientists) are telling you exactly the type of things that would change our minds. Human fossils in the precambrian, any anachronistic fossil for that matter, whole amputated limbs regrowing just because of some prayer and not modern medicine, things in the bible like predictions about electrons or something else that couldn't have been written by men in the bronze age, things like that. That is not blind faith. It is falsifiable.
Why not use a tool like science, when it is there, and it makes predictions about the world? Something religion never has done.
I don't think it's up to the antiponents of a hypothesis to decide that no falsification conditions exist. I had a search for falsification conditions, and I found this:
The hypothesis can be falsified by converting one organism/species into another...
That's already been done. Craig Venter converted a yeast to a bacteria. Last year in fact.
Extradition is permitted, provided that the act for which extradition is requested is equivalent to a crime that is punishable under Swedish law by imprisonment for at least one year.[...]
Extradition may not be granted for military or political offences. Nor may extradition be granted if there is reason to fear that the person whose extradition is requested runs a risk - on account of his or her ethnic origins, membership of a particular social group or religious or political beliefs - of being subjected to persecution threatening his or her life or freedom, or is serious in some other respect.[...]
Nor may he or she be re-extradited to another state without the consent of the Government. Furthermore, nor may the person who is extradited be sentenced to death.
Yeah, that's smart. Looking at what they say and not what they do.
They're claiming no radioactive waste, which means they're going straight from one stable isotope of nickel to one stable isotope of copper. That means they're going from Ni62 to Cu63. Nickel-62 has the highest binding energy of any known isotope of any known element.
That makes no sense. If Ni-62 is your starting fuel (very high binding energy) and you convert it to Cu-63 (lower binding energy), then you will get some of that binding energy out.
You're moving from a high-energy state to a low-energy state... thus giving off energy.
Actually it makes perfect sense if you know physics and understand binding energy. Binding energy is how much energy you have to use to separate nucleons. So high binding energy actually means it is a lower energy state for Ni-62 than Cu-63, thus this reaction needs energy to work, not give off it.
Think it as how deep a well is. The deeper, the higher the binding energy.
So, you think that the power to build a nuke is all that? Try building a civilization without religion. So far every attempt has ended in Horrors far worse than any nuke unleashed to date. Worse than any Crusade or Inquisition even.
What about Sweden? We've freed ourselves from religion, and we are doing just fine.
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At least if we are talking Swedish Lapland, customs will intercept the shipment of wine, an hold it for weeks, and tax it so it is more expensive than locally bought (very expensive) wine, and also force you to pay for the joy of being taxed, a taxation fee of around €13 last time I got taxed.
How about you also give American Samoans the right to vote while you are at it?
STFU...
Whoooosh!
Monty Python
I'm sitting right now and coding an interface between Java and Erlang using JInterface, and the actual JInterface part is pretty good. It makes Java act as an Erlang node. But Java is just a horrible, horrible language.
Everything on the Java side gets so bloated it is just silly. What would take one line on the Erlang side can easily take 20 lines on the Java side.
I know you are just trolling, but...
Swing is the most horrible toolkit I've ever tried to use. Even monkeys can make a better one.
Eclipse is never needed for a real language, if you need an IDE, there is something wrong with your language.
Java does the opposite of trying to help you shoot yourself in the foot, by making the code bloated and spread out. More lines = more bugs, that is the simple fact.
Just-in-time does not make java "just as fast" automatically. I have 8 cores on my machine, and I can easily and safely make Erlang programs that max out all of them, and without any mutexes. The mutex model is just broken and as we move to more and more cores, you need languages that can easily and safely scale.
"Java unicode from the ground up", MY ASS! Why would you even make .toString() the default when converting from one type to the next. You always want .getBytes()!!!!
And stop smoking your crack for at least 5 seconds before lying to yourself about Fortune 500 companies not hiring anything but Java programmers. What do you think they coded Facebook chat in, for just one example? Not Java!
That should be enough fodder for the trolls.
Really. I mean it. It is not that hard.
Profanity, motherfucker! Do. You. Speak. It?
Pizdets!
Too bad slashcode can't do UTF-8....
...translators and software won't be patentable!
Not really a good parallel, every car insurance plan I know (even in those "socialist paradises" in Europe) you pay more if your car insurance company has to pay constantly for accidents you cause.
Not true. In Sweden it is illegal to have sexist policies, so insurance companies can't make you pay more just because you are a guy for the same model car and same address.
So in Sweden this pricing policy would not fly.
Totally Agree. Also, my students used to do this as an art project 7 years ago. They did nice slices through a whole football (non-american) game.
Nothing brainwashes a kid more than religion and has started more wars than anything else. Just ask all the religious guys what sites they do like and filter that.
Start with http://www.conservapedia.com/ and work from there on.
try resizing your /var or / LVM partitions while the system is running, let me know how that goes. This is because real enterprises have issues your linux server in mom's basement don't.
I have been doing exactly that for years, and it is only been getting easier. These are the commands you need to use if you have them stacked LVM->DMCRYPT->EXT4
fdisk
partprobe
pvresize
lvresize
cryptsetup resize
resize2fs
Use the tools in the stacking order that you have used to set up your system.
So I'm letting you know right now, if you actually know Linux system administration, it has worked fine for years and years. First online resize of a filesystem that was mounted over the network for a lot of users I did back in 2001.
I have no idea where the authors found their data, but it is not from this earth that we live on for sure.
Why does Sweden and Norway have among the highest "Crime Index z-scores"?, whatever that means? I mean, does Sweden have a higher crime index than Tanzania, Brazil or the US for that matter??
I subject to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Please find any study where Sweden and Norway have among the highest crime rates.
The authors are worse than "damned liars" I say.
We have every right irritated with Linus here. I've written software for Linux, Windows, and embedded RTOSes. Linux was by far the most painful. Boost was the only thing that made it tolerable. Berating a company that supports a user base which represents 1% or less of their market without any modern-day language tools at their disposal (STL, Boost, a decent IDE) is just counter-productive.
Seriously, if you write a device driver in Boost, you should be shot in front of your kids. And I know, I used to work for a company that wrote most of its software in Boost, luckily only in user space. They had all the usual problems with Boost, all the static and dynamic cast bullshit, 8 different kinds of smart pointers, all of them thread unsafe and of course, error messages the size of a small house. They had a bug for 2 years because they couldn't follow the code because of Boost and all Design Patterns they had used. There is a reason why Boost is not STL.
So no Boost or STL in the kernel is a good thing, only to keep coders like you out. Just read what Linus has to say about it:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918
(full dislosure: I now work for a company doing almost all coding in Erlang, and we rely on one peice of code written in Boost, and we hate it.
It is almost impossible to compile, lacks a good api, and if you change any configuration while it is running it drops all its connections. We really would like to replace it and probably will at some time.)
In order for this not to happen again do the following:
Stop using Windows and MacOSX.
Download and install Fedora F16.
When installing, encrypt the harddrive with a really hard to break password.
Install pidgin and off the record like this: 'yum install pidgin pidgin-otr'
Generate keys and verify them before communicating.
Be _very_ careful if who you usually talks to changes their key, they might have been arrested.
Never ever communicate in the clear.
Using this strategy you will not be immune, rubber-hose-cryptanalysis with still defeat this. Also you can be tracked so your oppresive government can see that you communicate, they will just not be able to read what you are saying. And not using major OSes will keep you away from the most common exploits and trojans.
Also, try to use TOR, HTTPS-everywhere and other good tools.
References:
https://fedoraproject.org/
http://fr2.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/16/x86_64/pidgin-otr-3.2.0-4.fc15.x86_64.html
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
Good luck.
Totally. To all Iranians doing business. Switch to bitcoins right now.
They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Dang its early in the morning here. Of course they have access, or we wouldn't have seen their uploaded picture...
They have very low bandwidth and only connection when a satellite is overhead so it is very spotty.
It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
No winter lasts from mid feb thru mid october at amunseon-scott. I donno anything about the schedule this year specifically, but its almost March... last trip out was probably a couple weeks ago and they're stuck there until almost Halloween. They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Exactly. It is still light there but the weather is so tough they can't fly in or out. So it is technically winter there already.
I haven't watched the video yet, but according to his Wikipedia page, Haught is an evolutionist. I don't see what anachronistic fossils would do to his position.
Then watch the fucking video! Listen to what he says literally. I'm not gonna quote him, watch the video for yourself.
Creationists have gotta stop telling each other that just because creation needs blind faith, all other positions also needs blind faith. Believing without evidence, and not believing in absence of evidence is not the same thing. The former needs blind faith, the latter is just the wise thing to do. There is no such thing as an "evolutionist", it's not an -ism. Coyne is a scientist, pure and simple.
You obviously didn't watch the video particularly closely. Coyne (and me and all the rest of the scientists) are telling you exactly the type of things that would change our minds. Human fossils in the precambrian, any anachronistic fossil for that matter, whole amputated limbs regrowing just because of some prayer and not modern medicine, things in the bible like predictions about electrons or something else that couldn't have been written by men in the bronze age, things like that. That is not blind faith. It is falsifiable.
Why not use a tool like science, when it is there, and it makes predictions about the world? Something religion never has done.
I don't think it's up to the antiponents of a hypothesis to decide that no falsification conditions exist. I had a search for falsification conditions, and I found this:
That's already been done. Craig Venter converted a yeast to a bacteria. Last year in fact.
A null hypothesis must be falsifiable, and therefor "it must be a wizard that did it" cannot be the null hypothesis.
Q.E.D.
Those people are part of a terrorist organization and should have _all_ their funds seized as all terrorist suspects.
Nor does Sweden:
Yeah, that's smart. Looking at what they say and not what they do.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-ban-cia-rendition
That makes no sense. If Ni-62 is your starting fuel (very high binding energy) and you convert it to Cu-63 (lower binding energy), then you will get some of that binding energy out.
You're moving from a high-energy state to a low-energy state... thus giving off energy.
Actually it makes perfect sense if you know physics and understand binding energy. Binding energy is how much energy you have to use to separate nucleons. So high binding energy actually means it is a lower energy state for Ni-62 than Cu-63, thus this reaction needs energy to work, not give off it.
Think it as how deep a well is. The deeper, the higher the binding energy.
So, you think that the power to build a nuke is all that? Try building a civilization without religion. So far every attempt has ended in Horrors far worse than any nuke unleashed to date. Worse than any Crusade or Inquisition even.
What about Sweden? We've freed ourselves from religion, and we are doing just fine.