See the link in my sig - it's a transcript, where Joe Wilson admits that Plame was not covert when the story broke. Therefore, no crime was committed, therefore, jailed reporter is just being an idiot by not coughing up the source.
That is a total fabrication. Joe Wilson admits that Plame was not covert AFTER the story was broke.. AFTER, as in leaking her name guaranteed that she was no longer covert. Wilson is not a liberty to discuss her covert status before the article broke..
You are being intellectualy dishonest to the extreme to continue to try to peddle your lie, Wilson has clarified his statement many times.
The problem is, I've seen (many times) in the past where, when you are offered a position they send over "all" ('is this all of the paperwork?', 'yes this is it, it's all we'll need') of the paperwork for you to fill out. Then later, after you've given your present employer notice and left your job, and now here you are showing up for the first day of the new job you are handed a final piece of paper, which happens to be a non-compete and you're told it's "standard" policy that "everyone" must sign this or it will be considered a forfiture of your eligibility for employment or some other legal muttering..
In fact, I've never gotten a non-compete with the initial round of paperwork ever, it's always been handed to me on the first day of work, after you think you've filled everything out.. It's hard to say "I won't accept a job until I've seen all the fine print" when you've been told you've seen all the fine print, then later you're told there's more fine print that they 'forgot' to tell you about..
I even had one position come to me 1 week after I started my job and say "ohh, we forgot to have you sign this one last paper", and there it was, a non-compete for the next 2 years with a 6 month stipulation of no software engineering FOR ANY company (competitor or not)..
The problem is, these things are typically signed under duress, whereas the hiring process is not at all the same.
Usually what happens with these non-competes is, you've quit your previous job, relocated to a new town/state/country and are reporting to your first day of work, where you are given the choice to sign a non-compete or not have a job. To the typical worker, this is a non-option, you can't "just" not sign the document, you are in a place you've never lived before, you have a family to provide for, and you've got bills/rent to pay.
Even if you didn't relocate for the job, there is still a huge amount of pressure on you to sign the document. After all you can't really go back to your previous job (you can bet that 9 times out of 10, no matter how well you treated your previous employers when you left, that that bridge is at least burned in the short term). And if you look at the debt to savings ratios here in the US you can probably see that most employees aren't in the position to just walk out of a job and spend God knows how long looking for a new position.
So you are put into a situtation where you HAVE to sign, either you sign or you risk your family going without food and shelter. I'd say that most of the time, these documents should be unenforceable because of the way these companies spring documents like this upon employees..
I'm fairly old too, I HATED text messaging until I figured out T9. It was entirely by accident. I purchased this phone from a friend (he had purchased it unlocked from ebay and didn't like it). I bought it because it gets decent signal at my house (it's the only phone that does). When I tried to write my first text message on it (just to test out the phone and make sure I had everything set correctly) I noticed the entry was REALLY wonky and I could not enter anything.
Luckily the interface to this phone sucks, so I spent an hour trying to figure out how to turn the text entry crap off and could not figure it out (it's in "Display Options" for some God forsaken reason.. wtf does text entry have to do with display?). So I broke open the manual to figure out how to turn off the t9 stuff. But then as I was searching the manual, I started thinking "wait, the guy who gave me this phone uses text messages much more than he calls people, maybe he's on to something, at least give it a try."
So instead of turning it off, I read the manual page on how to use t9, and it sounded easy enough so I tried it, and here we are. I text message more than I call people now.. And now I go around the country explaining to fellow old people how to use T9.. maybe the t9 people should start paying me.. that's it, no more explaining until I get a paycheck!:)
Just be careful, I went from sending a text message every other month or so, to having to upgrade my text messaging plan to save myself money. Once text entry becomes easy, you find it much easier to text a question to someone rather than call them, since calling them requires actual conversation..:)
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Well, it is a Sanyo 8100....picture phone that is only a couple of years old. With only a numbered keypad, and multiple letters assoc. with each key...how else do you text message if not pressing each key a number of times (3 x 3 for the letter 'f')? Does your cell phone have some kind of magic keyboard that attaches to it?
My Samsung S55 has a keypad with 3 (or 4) letters per number, but it has T9 text entry, which I've seen on basically every phone I've encountered in the last 2 years or so..
It basically works by statistically guessing what you are trying to type. Instead of entering each letter, you press the number that has that particular letter on it (only once) and then go on to the next letter. For example, to type "hotel", I would press 46835. It works best if you don't look at the screen while typing. As I press each key, the screen will display the most likely combination of letters I was attempting to enter (there is only a very finite number of possibilities that make sense). As I get to the last letter the entire word will be spelled. If there is more than one possibility for that word, it will input the "most likely" word, but then I can press a button that will scroll through each potential word, one at a time. I say it guesses the right word between 90-95% of the time. The longer the word, the more likely it will be right..
It drastically increases my text entry speed. I went from HATING text messaging to loving it, because now I can type at lightning speed on a numeric keypad (though not as fast as some people can transmit morse code)..
You have to sign up for 911 service (for free) by assigning an address to your account, and then it just works. But if you disconnect your router and plug it into someone elses internet (say you take it with you on vacation), then when you call 911 it will report your home address.
Yes yes, and most lawsuits are trivial, and the sharks are swarming to get you the moment you step into a body of water, and child abductions are WAY UP.. I get it..
I think believing everything you hear would give you the mindset that everyone who is medicated needs to be medicated. Which means that you believe no one has ever been medicated because they faked an illness for attention, or misdiagnoises by a doctor, or nonexistent symptoms.
Which is not what I'm saying at all.. I'm saying a vast majority of patients are being medicated because they need to be medicated, and the few that fall through the cracks are a very insignificant minority. You're the one that first plastered all of the mentally ill as lazy people looking for an excuse. I'm simply saying that your oversimplification of the situation was rather silly, and particularly hurtful. And it's also a myth that seems to have become a part of the zeitgiest of the US and I think it's just that, a myth.. Not all mentally ill people are just lazy.. in fact not even MOST mentally ill people are just lazy, in fact not even a large minority of mentally ill people are just lazy and looking for an excuse.
It's just a popular myth that gets repeated on Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh until the ultra-conservatives, in their constant quest to BLAME SOMEONE ELSE AT ANY COST start to believe it and repeat it.. It's a mentality of "life's hard for me, it's not fair that they get to hide behind mental illness.. IT'S JUST NOT FAIR!!1! WAAAAHHHHH!!!1!", and I call bullshit, most of the people on meds are on meds because they need to be on meds..
My point is that it's only a "plague" and negatively impacting their quality of life because we have created a name and a "cure" for a personality trait, and as such these people are expected to use it or they're considered to be lesser members of society. In the past, people just accepted each others' faults, now you're somehow irresponsible if you don't medicate your personality away. I don't see how anyone can defend that. If we've engineered our society to the point that you can't meet the expected norm without drugging your personality away, I think the problem is obvious.
And my point is, a vast majority of the people who are being medicated are being medicated because THEY NEED TO BE MEDICATED. I know that on 20/20 they keep telling you that America is over medicated and then they give you one or two anecdotal examples, but the sensationalist "journalism" that makes up nightly news is not actually the norm.
If you believe everything you hear on the nightly news you're going to believe that Iraq had WMDs, that Sharks are jumping out of the water to eat people (specifically pretty blonde people), that walking outside will put you at great risk of being abducted (assuming you are the aforementioned pretty blonde) and that outing undercover CIA agents and putting them at grave risk is "heroic" if you do it in the name of crushing your political enemies..
As someone that has anxiety and depression problems, I agree. People are taking prozac to "cure" themselves of what would have been simple personality quirks 50 years ago.
It was a "personality quirk" 50 years ago because the techonology to diagnose and fix these problems (to the limited degree that we can today) didn't exist.
People died of infection 100 years ago due to lack of antibiotics, but you aren't railing against antibiotics for allowing people to live longer today than they would have 100 years ago. Sometimes technology advances, and when that happens sometimes things that plagued humanity before can be fixed today. That doesn't mean we are taking the easy way out or somehow being less noble for fixing these issues, it just means we can improve the quality of life for people today better than we could in the past.
In my defense, you are the one that started out at the extreme and then jogged back to reality when I called you on it. Here was your original statement:
"There is no more accountability anymore, just people making more excuses and using unrelated medical information to give their problem a name."
You seem to be blaming the modern ability to diagnose mental illness with some percieved (though so far unproven) lack of accountablity in the modern world. Last I heard, 75% of people who give statistics without a cite are pulling them out of their ass, my friend who works as a guy who makes up statistics told me that..;)
I guess I'm just confused on who these nebulous "people" are who are refusing to take responsibility. I keep hearing people talk about them, but then they all tell me that THEIR family members with mental illness are actually sick, it's just everyone else who is faking it. Sorta like the whole welfare thing, everyone agrees that their family members who are on welfare deserve it, it's just everyone else who is cheating the system.. *shrug*..
I think this idea of the quick fix is also causing a lack of mental responsiblity... There is no more accountability anymore, just people making more excuses and using unrelated medical information to give their problem a name.
This view of mental health that is invasive in our country, especially invasive in the conservative ditto head culture in our country, is perplexing to me.
My wife had gall stones and had to have her gall bladder removed. Do you doubt the validity of her medical condition?
My mother has hyperthyroidism, and has had to take a pill every day of her life since she was a teenager (and was diagnosed). Do you doubt the validity of her medical condition?
I often get the shingles, a recurrence of the Chicken Pox virus along one nerve bundle that results in a large crusty oozing rash along a thin band around one half of my body. Do you doubt the validity of my medical condition?
My friend had appendicitis and had to be rushed to the hospital to have his appendix removed. Do you doubt the validity of his medical condition?
If all of these conditions are medically valid, why is it so hard to believe that the brain, simply another organ in our body, like our thyroid, our gall bladder, our nerves, our appendix, our heart, or any other organ, is capable of being stricken ill? I doubt you would tell your friend with intense abdominal pain, or your father with shortness of breath and chest pains, that they were just imagining a condition to avoid accountability and that they are just making excuses.
Why do we look down on people with illnesses of the brain and not people with broken arms or heart disease or any other illness? The human organism is not perfect, sometimes the pieces of the puzzle that make us tick don't work the correct way. For some reason we've decided to single out a certain group, those with mental illness, and decide they are weak, while the ones with other ailments are perfectly fine.
You underestimate humanity. The desire for a quick fix is nothing new and it's not growing, it's been here for centuries and it will be here for centuries to come. It's part of the human condition. It just happens to be manifesting itself in slightly different ways because the world is slightly different today than it was 100 years ago. Today we take anti-virals (which happen to work, I can testify to this, thanks to my recurring bouts of shingles), 100 years ago we lined up for snake oil (which happens to not work).
Technology has advanced, our ability to create cures has advanced, our desire for a quick fix to our ailments (be that illness, or lack of money, or lack of knowledge, or boredom, or whatever else ails us) is the same as it ever was..
Because a compiler just spits out machine instructions, it's a trivial task to compare the instructions from one code path to another.
For example, you write some code that would typically use SSE2 regisers when compiled, then you compile the code for each processor, and check to see if it used SSE2 registers on each, or if it ouput slower "emulation" style instructions on the AMD.
I currently wait two days for my Netflix movies instead of going to the Blockbuster around the corner (1 day to ship to Netflix, 1 day for the movie to come back), so I don't see why waiting a couple of hours would be a big deal.
And no, I don't use Netflix because I'm lazy (it's really more of a hassle than going to Blockbuster). I use Netflix because they have a HUGE selection of movies. Their buisness model provides for a much larger selection of movies than a brick and morter store. And going to a "movies on demand" format can only help to increase their selection, it sounds great to me (since I don't tend to watch the normal summer blockbuster style movies and instead watch more obscure stuff)..
I almost modded this insightful, but then I put a little more thought into it.
What about my journal (think written paper journal), I never intended to exploit it for commercial gain, but I hardly think it should be public domain.. would I even use it if at any moment someone could take it freely and publish it?
Also, what about my music? I may one day want to exploit it for commercial gain, but mostly I do it just because I enjoy making music. For the most part I've been too self conscious to ever publish it (though I may one day release some stuff under the creative commons or what have you). But would I even make music anymore if, because of my lack of desire for commercial gain, it immediately became public domain? What if I never publish my music, but 10 years from now I find the master CD and change my mind about the commcerial gain aspect and want to sell the music rather than let it rot away?
Where do you draw the line? Is my journal protected but my music not? What if my music is a journal of sorts, music made to private events in my life that I don't want anyone else to hear? Does the medium make a difference (i.e. a written journal is protected but a musical journal is not)? Often I start a song and then scrap it because I don't like where it is going, should all of my work be part of the public domain, no matter how bad it sounds? What if I think it sounds horrible, but other people think it's a masterpiece? I'm the creator, shouldn't I have ultimate say in the publication of that work?
Nothing that you listed is goes beyond a warning. But it goes to prove my point, you are blaming the compiler for my poor code, when in reality it would be the poor code in my example at fault, not the compiler. If the compiler appropriately warns, the compiler is implemented correctly.
I've never had the opportunity to care about bottle deposits in California, but in Oregon there is a bottle deposit and all of the grocery stores have a redemption center in front of the store (they are big machines in which you can stick either cans or bottles and it prints a receipt that you can then exchange inside for cash).
It is like... saying that C programs are broken because they make core dumps...
void main(void) {
int *test;
test = malloc(10);
free(test);
free(test); }
Now, exactly how is it the COMPILER'S fault that the above program is going to dump core? I've rarely seen a core dump occur for any reason OTHER than because a C program is broken. It's very rarely a compiler issue.
This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.
I tell you what, I'll start a blog tommorrow you start a syndicated talk radio program that has a similar number of listeners as my blog. At the end of the year, lets compare expenses..
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See the link in my sig - it's a transcript, where Joe Wilson admits that Plame was not covert when the story broke. Therefore, no crime was committed, therefore, jailed reporter is just being an idiot by not coughing up the source.
That is a total fabrication. Joe Wilson admits that Plame was not covert AFTER the story was broke.. AFTER, as in leaking her name guaranteed that she was no longer covert. Wilson is not a liberty to discuss her covert status before the article broke..
You are being intellectualy dishonest to the extreme to continue to try to peddle your lie, Wilson has clarified his statement many times.
The problem is, I've seen (many times) in the past where, when you are offered a position they send over "all" ('is this all of the paperwork?', 'yes this is it, it's all we'll need') of the paperwork for you to fill out. Then later, after you've given your present employer notice and left your job, and now here you are showing up for the first day of the new job you are handed a final piece of paper, which happens to be a non-compete and you're told it's "standard" policy that "everyone" must sign this or it will be considered a forfiture of your eligibility for employment or some other legal muttering..
In fact, I've never gotten a non-compete with the initial round of paperwork ever, it's always been handed to me on the first day of work, after you think you've filled everything out.. It's hard to say "I won't accept a job until I've seen all the fine print" when you've been told you've seen all the fine print, then later you're told there's more fine print that they 'forgot' to tell you about..
I even had one position come to me 1 week after I started my job and say "ohh, we forgot to have you sign this one last paper", and there it was, a non-compete for the next 2 years with a 6 month stipulation of no software engineering FOR ANY company (competitor or not)..
The problem is, these things are typically signed under duress, whereas the hiring process is not at all the same.
Usually what happens with these non-competes is, you've quit your previous job, relocated to a new town/state/country and are reporting to your first day of work, where you are given the choice to sign a non-compete or not have a job. To the typical worker, this is a non-option, you can't "just" not sign the document, you are in a place you've never lived before, you have a family to provide for, and you've got bills/rent to pay.
Even if you didn't relocate for the job, there is still a huge amount of pressure on you to sign the document. After all you can't really go back to your previous job (you can bet that 9 times out of 10, no matter how well you treated your previous employers when you left, that that bridge is at least burned in the short term). And if you look at the debt to savings ratios here in the US you can probably see that most employees aren't in the position to just walk out of a job and spend God knows how long looking for a new position.
So you are put into a situtation where you HAVE to sign, either you sign or you risk your family going without food and shelter. I'd say that most of the time, these documents should be unenforceable because of the way these companies spring documents like this upon employees..
I'm fairly old too, I HATED text messaging until I figured out T9. It was entirely by accident. I purchased this phone from a friend (he had purchased it unlocked from ebay and didn't like it). I bought it because it gets decent signal at my house (it's the only phone that does). When I tried to write my first text message on it (just to test out the phone and make sure I had everything set correctly) I noticed the entry was REALLY wonky and I could not enter anything.
:)
Luckily the interface to this phone sucks, so I spent an hour trying to figure out how to turn the text entry crap off and could not figure it out (it's in "Display Options" for some God forsaken reason.. wtf does text entry have to do with display?). So I broke open the manual to figure out how to turn off the t9 stuff. But then as I was searching the manual, I started thinking "wait, the guy who gave me this phone uses text messages much more than he calls people, maybe he's on to something, at least give it a try."
So instead of turning it off, I read the manual page on how to use t9, and it sounded easy enough so I tried it, and here we are. I text message more than I call people now.. And now I go around the country explaining to fellow old people how to use T9.. maybe the t9 people should start paying me.. that's it, no more explaining until I get a paycheck!
Just be careful, I went from sending a text message every other month or so, to having to upgrade my text messaging plan to save myself money. Once text entry becomes easy, you find it much easier to text a question to someone rather than call them, since calling them requires actual conversation.. :)
Well, it is a Sanyo 8100....picture phone that is only a couple of years old. With only a numbered keypad, and multiple letters assoc. with each key...how else do you text message if not pressing each key a number of times (3 x 3 for the letter 'f')? Does your cell phone have some kind of magic keyboard that attaches to it?
My Samsung S55 has a keypad with 3 (or 4) letters per number, but it has T9 text entry, which I've seen on basically every phone I've encountered in the last 2 years or so..
It basically works by statistically guessing what you are trying to type. Instead of entering each letter, you press the number that has that particular letter on it (only once) and then go on to the next letter. For example, to type "hotel", I would press 46835. It works best if you don't look at the screen while typing. As I press each key, the screen will display the most likely combination of letters I was attempting to enter (there is only a very finite number of possibilities that make sense). As I get to the last letter the entire word will be spelled. If there is more than one possibility for that word, it will input the "most likely" word, but then I can press a button that will scroll through each potential word, one at a time. I say it guesses the right word between 90-95% of the time. The longer the word, the more likely it will be right..
It drastically increases my text entry speed. I went from HATING text messaging to loving it, because now I can type at lightning speed on a numeric keypad (though not as fast as some people can transmit morse code)..
You have to sign up for 911 service (for free) by assigning an address to your account, and then it just works. But if you disconnect your router and plug it into someone elses internet (say you take it with you on vacation), then when you call 911 it will report your home address.
Yes yes, and most lawsuits are trivial, and the sharks are swarming to get you the moment you step into a body of water, and child abductions are WAY UP.. I get it..
I think believing everything you hear would give you the mindset that everyone who is medicated needs to be medicated. Which means that you believe no one has ever been medicated because they faked an illness for attention, or misdiagnoises by a doctor, or nonexistent symptoms.
Which is not what I'm saying at all.. I'm saying a vast majority of patients are being medicated because they need to be medicated, and the few that fall through the cracks are a very insignificant minority. You're the one that first plastered all of the mentally ill as lazy people looking for an excuse. I'm simply saying that your oversimplification of the situation was rather silly, and particularly hurtful. And it's also a myth that seems to have become a part of the zeitgiest of the US and I think it's just that, a myth.. Not all mentally ill people are just lazy.. in fact not even MOST mentally ill people are just lazy, in fact not even a large minority of mentally ill people are just lazy and looking for an excuse.
It's just a popular myth that gets repeated on Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh until the ultra-conservatives, in their constant quest to BLAME SOMEONE ELSE AT ANY COST start to believe it and repeat it.. It's a mentality of "life's hard for me, it's not fair that they get to hide behind mental illness.. IT'S JUST NOT FAIR!!1! WAAAAHHHHH!!!1!", and I call bullshit, most of the people on meds are on meds because they need to be on meds..
My point is that it's only a "plague" and negatively impacting their quality of life because we have created a name and a "cure" for a personality trait, and as such these people are expected to use it or they're considered to be lesser members of society. In the past, people just accepted each others' faults, now you're somehow irresponsible if you don't medicate your personality away. I don't see how anyone can defend that. If we've engineered our society to the point that you can't meet the expected norm without drugging your personality away, I think the problem is obvious.
And my point is, a vast majority of the people who are being medicated are being medicated because THEY NEED TO BE MEDICATED. I know that on 20/20 they keep telling you that America is over medicated and then they give you one or two anecdotal examples, but the sensationalist "journalism" that makes up nightly news is not actually the norm.
If you believe everything you hear on the nightly news you're going to believe that Iraq had WMDs, that Sharks are jumping out of the water to eat people (specifically pretty blonde people), that walking outside will put you at great risk of being abducted (assuming you are the aforementioned pretty blonde) and that outing undercover CIA agents and putting them at grave risk is "heroic" if you do it in the name of crushing your political enemies..
As someone that has anxiety and depression problems, I agree. People are taking prozac to "cure" themselves of what would have been simple personality quirks 50 years ago.
It was a "personality quirk" 50 years ago because the techonology to diagnose and fix these problems (to the limited degree that we can today) didn't exist.
People died of infection 100 years ago due to lack of antibiotics, but you aren't railing against antibiotics for allowing people to live longer today than they would have 100 years ago. Sometimes technology advances, and when that happens sometimes things that plagued humanity before can be fixed today. That doesn't mean we are taking the easy way out or somehow being less noble for fixing these issues, it just means we can improve the quality of life for people today better than we could in the past.
In my defense, you are the one that started out at the extreme and then jogged back to reality when I called you on it. Here was your original statement:
;)
"There is no more accountability anymore, just people making more excuses and using unrelated medical information to give their problem a name."
You seem to be blaming the modern ability to diagnose mental illness with some percieved (though so far unproven) lack of accountablity in the modern world. Last I heard, 75% of people who give statistics without a cite are pulling them out of their ass, my friend who works as a guy who makes up statistics told me that..
I guess I'm just confused on who these nebulous "people" are who are refusing to take responsibility. I keep hearing people talk about them, but then they all tell me that THEIR family members with mental illness are actually sick, it's just everyone else who is faking it. Sorta like the whole welfare thing, everyone agrees that their family members who are on welfare deserve it, it's just everyone else who is cheating the system.. *shrug*..
I think this idea of the quick fix is also causing a lack of mental responsiblity... There is no more accountability anymore, just people making more excuses and using unrelated medical information to give their problem a name.
This view of mental health that is invasive in our country, especially invasive in the conservative ditto head culture in our country, is perplexing to me.
My wife had gall stones and had to have her gall bladder removed. Do you doubt the validity of her medical condition?
My mother has hyperthyroidism, and has had to take a pill every day of her life since she was a teenager (and was diagnosed). Do you doubt the validity of her medical condition?
I often get the shingles, a recurrence of the Chicken Pox virus along one nerve bundle that results in a large crusty oozing rash along a thin band around one half of my body. Do you doubt the validity of my medical condition?
My friend had appendicitis and had to be rushed to the hospital to have his appendix removed. Do you doubt the validity of his medical condition?
If all of these conditions are medically valid, why is it so hard to believe that the brain, simply another organ in our body, like our thyroid, our gall bladder, our nerves, our appendix, our heart, or any other organ, is capable of being stricken ill? I doubt you would tell your friend with intense abdominal pain, or your father with shortness of breath and chest pains, that they were just imagining a condition to avoid accountability and that they are just making excuses.
Why do we look down on people with illnesses of the brain and not people with broken arms or heart disease or any other illness? The human organism is not perfect, sometimes the pieces of the puzzle that make us tick don't work the correct way. For some reason we've decided to single out a certain group, those with mental illness, and decide they are weak, while the ones with other ailments are perfectly fine.
You underestimate humanity. The desire for a quick fix is nothing new and it's not growing, it's been here for centuries and it will be here for centuries to come. It's part of the human condition. It just happens to be manifesting itself in slightly different ways because the world is slightly different today than it was 100 years ago. Today we take anti-virals (which happen to work, I can testify to this, thanks to my recurring bouts of shingles), 100 years ago we lined up for snake oil (which happens to not work).
Technology has advanced, our ability to create cures has advanced, our desire for a quick fix to our ailments (be that illness, or lack of money, or lack of knowledge, or boredom, or whatever else ails us) is the same as it ever was..
Bad news, someone already beat you to the punch.
Likewise, I'd go to jail just the same if i was threatening the life of George Bush or the President of the United states.
Or, Laura Bush's husband.
Because a compiler just spits out machine instructions, it's a trivial task to compare the instructions from one code path to another.
For example, you write some code that would typically use SSE2 regisers when compiled, then you compile the code for each processor, and check to see if it used SSE2 registers on each, or if it ouput slower "emulation" style instructions on the AMD.
I currently wait two days for my Netflix movies instead of going to the Blockbuster around the corner (1 day to ship to Netflix, 1 day for the movie to come back), so I don't see why waiting a couple of hours would be a big deal.
And no, I don't use Netflix because I'm lazy (it's really more of a hassle than going to Blockbuster). I use Netflix because they have a HUGE selection of movies. Their buisness model provides for a much larger selection of movies than a brick and morter store. And going to a "movies on demand" format can only help to increase their selection, it sounds great to me (since I don't tend to watch the normal summer blockbuster style movies and instead watch more obscure stuff)..
I almost modded this insightful, but then I put a little more thought into it.
What about my journal (think written paper journal), I never intended to exploit it for commercial gain, but I hardly think it should be public domain.. would I even use it if at any moment someone could take it freely and publish it?
Also, what about my music? I may one day want to exploit it for commercial gain, but mostly I do it just because I enjoy making music. For the most part I've been too self conscious to ever publish it (though I may one day release some stuff under the creative commons or what have you). But would I even make music anymore if, because of my lack of desire for commercial gain, it immediately became public domain? What if I never publish my music, but 10 years from now I find the master CD and change my mind about the commcerial gain aspect and want to sell the music rather than let it rot away?
Where do you draw the line? Is my journal protected but my music not? What if my music is a journal of sorts, music made to private events in my life that I don't want anyone else to hear? Does the medium make a difference (i.e. a written journal is protected but a musical journal is not)? Often I start a song and then scrap it because I don't like where it is going, should all of my work be part of the public domain, no matter how bad it sounds? What if I think it sounds horrible, but other people think it's a masterpiece? I'm the creator, shouldn't I have ultimate say in the publication of that work?
Nothing that you listed is goes beyond a warning. But it goes to prove my point, you are blaming the compiler for my poor code, when in reality it would be the poor code in my example at fault, not the compiler. If the compiler appropriately warns, the compiler is implemented correctly.
Bad code is not the compilers fault.
I've never had the opportunity to care about bottle deposits in California, but in Oregon there is a bottle deposit and all of the grocery stores have a redemption center in front of the store (they are big machines in which you can stick either cans or bottles and it prints a receipt that you can then exchange inside for cash).
It is like... saying that C programs are broken because they make core dumps...
void main(void)
{
int *test;
test = malloc(10);
free(test);
free(test);
}
Now, exactly how is it the COMPILER'S fault that the above program is going to dump core? I've rarely seen a core dump occur for any reason OTHER than because a C program is broken. It's very rarely a compiler issue.
No, it is not "running":
This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.
I tell you what, I'll start a blog tommorrow you start a syndicated talk radio program that has a similar number of listeners as my blog. At the end of the year, lets compare expenses..