"Maybe they fear that their creation story will be seen for what it is if pupils get to learn ideas supported evidence."
What would that be? I see nothing wrong with accepting the creation story in a theological context and evolution in a scientific context. I totally agree evolution should be taught in school over creationism since the context is science. But I also detest snide comments such as this.
'The tablet and phone app ecosystem is slowly, painstakingly reinventing everything I hated about the computer software industry before the web blew it all up.'"
Zero-cost, but certainly not Free Software; one has to wonder whether Open Source games with a "donation" build in the store would do better than proprietary games with upfront costs.
I would rather pay a dollar for a high quality game than have a dumb ad supported model. There is nothing wrong with people wanting to be paid for software they have written. What is wrong is people stealing it. Worse stealing it when it only costs a dollar.
wrong, the hatch act does not prohibit political activity on your own time. I have a friend who worked for OSC (as an IG). That said the current head of OSC, Josh Block, is a real knuckle head. He is being investigated for multiple ethics violations, such as using gov't funds for political activity. Do a google search about him.
I recently (a year ago) switched to c#/wpf from java when I switch jobs. I have developed enterprise java applications (both swing and web front ends) since the start of java. As a language and api i find myself liking java far more. I'm sure part of this is familiarity, but mostly java's api is organized better.
Eclipse is hands down the best IDE i have used, VS sucks for base features-- we do use resharper which makes it way better.
Now here is where Microsoft rules: UI developent. WPF is so much easier to work with than anything java has to offer. Designing UIs and maintaining them with java is a royal pain. Microsoft makes it quick and easy. Sure, it may not be perfect, but it gets the job done.
I use hand braces (futuro brand). They sell them at Rite-aid or Walgreens. I also use a split keyboard. When I don't use the braces my wrists and hands hurt (insert joke here ). A split keyboard helps, but the braces eliminate any pain. I notice that if I use the braces then it helps with other things when I'm not wearing the braces that can be painful like opening cans or gripping things.
I don't have anything against evolution nor intelligent design and I don't see why other people like that. I don't see why the two theories can't be merged.
Neither do I; however, I hardly think that the 2 should be merged though. The second to last thing I want is some religious nut trying to explain science-- the very last think I want is some scientist trying to explain God. Trying to do either is demeaning to the other.
Both Java and.Net have the same problem. Sloppy memory. [...] No direct memory control, GC waited until it was too late, and everything started to crawl.
I would hardly call it sloppy: Read this article on tuning GC ergonomics. Object allocation/deallocation is highly organized and much of it can be tuned.
With the default Throughput collector full gc does not happend until the young generation is full. So your application may not fill the young generation; Additionally, collection in the young generation is parallel so memory reclaimation can implictly take advantage of multiple processors.
The example you give where allocation/deallocation happens in a loop over 2^32 iteration can be made to run by knowing something about how/whats being allocated. With smaller objects you could decrease the size of the young generation to make incremental collections faster. With variable size object you could set and adaptive resize policy for the tenured/young generation size-- this would allow the heap to grow and shrink as needed (this can make GC faster since it may have to collect on a smaller space). You can also increase the amount of GC can consume; sometimes gc can be too timid and allow memory allocation to get out of control, resulting in a heap that grows too big for GC to collect in a reasonable amount of time.
That said there are still times when it would be nice to have direct memory access, but there are always to get around this (such as JNI and managing your own memory/reusing objects).
As an end user you should not have to worry about what to set your memory sizes to be. As a developer you should determine what your application's memory requirements should be and package your application accordingly for the end user. I wouldn't complain if you are a developer and end user. That said you can use an adaptive size policy for your generations to keep the jvm size smaller. The jvm size will grow and shrink as it needs to. Understanding ergonomics of GC is at least as important as understanding how to free memory in C/C++.
and when some one makes music they are not spending their time? You think that because their time is not spent exclusively on you their work is inconsequential? This is a BS argument. I am not aware that theft is defined in terms of effort by the creator. There is not much grey when it comes to theft, either you payed or you didn't.
I'm certainly not going to argue that violence is ok and sex is not, however sex does carry with it certain responsibilities.
And killing some one doesn't? give me break. Althought I agree with your statement:
Maybe he should come down with an STD if he fucks every skank in the neighborhood. Or maybe he can be have his cash taken away to support the kid he fathered.
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"Maybe they fear that their creation story will be seen for what it is if pupils get to learn ideas supported evidence."
What would that be? I see nothing wrong with accepting the creation story in a theological context and evolution in a scientific context. I totally agree evolution should be taught in school over creationism since the context is science. But I also detest snide comments such as this.
'The tablet and phone app ecosystem is slowly, painstakingly reinventing everything I hated about the computer software industry before the web blew it all up.'"
Web blew it all up? Web sucks too.
EOM
Zero-cost, but certainly not Free Software; one has to wonder whether Open Source games with a "donation" build in the store would do better than proprietary games with upfront costs.
I would rather pay a dollar for a high quality game than have a dumb ad supported model. There is nothing wrong with people wanting to be paid for software they have written. What is wrong is people stealing it. Worse stealing it when it only costs a dollar.
I would say the same thing to Chuck:
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/drones-at-home-raise-1460393.html
A review that tries to debunk the conspiracy theories set out in the book... pretty lame.
what a whiner.
hEll
wrong, the hatch act does not prohibit political activity on your own time. I have a friend who worked for OSC (as an IG). That said the current head of OSC, Josh Block, is a real knuckle head. He is being investigated for multiple ethics violations, such as using gov't funds for political activity. Do a google search about him.
I recently (a year ago) switched to c#/wpf from java when I switch jobs. I have developed enterprise java applications (both swing and web front ends) since the start of java. As a language and api i find myself liking java far more. I'm sure part of this is familiarity, but mostly java's api is organized better.
Eclipse is hands down the best IDE i have used, VS sucks for base features-- we do use resharper which makes it way better.
Now here is where Microsoft rules: UI developent. WPF is so much easier to work with than anything java has to offer. Designing UIs and maintaining them with java is a royal pain. Microsoft makes it quick and easy. Sure, it may not be perfect, but it gets the job done.
like having more sun in the evening to exercise outside after work. Normally its still dark. I like the change.
For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality.
e restAAJ_03.pdf
This is per expedition. See:
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pdfs/aaj/HueyEv
1 in 54 climbers dies. 1 in 10 expeditions will experience a fatality.
For any climbers out there the above reference has good statistics of risk, including vs denali and k2.
Come on:
"Some String".replaceAll("Java", "Bloated piece of shit")
And FYI PatternSyntaxException is a runtime exception so no need to catch it and rethrow as a RuntimeException.
so to write it your way:
String theTruth(String s){
return Pattern.compile("Java").matcher().replaceAll(s);
}
I use hand braces (futuro brand). They sell them at Rite-aid or Walgreens. I also use a split keyboard. When I don't use the braces my wrists and hands hurt (insert joke here ). A split keyboard helps, but the braces eliminate any pain. I notice that if I use the braces then it helps with other things when I'm not wearing the braces that can be painful like opening cans or gripping things.
"which is possibly one of the reasons astronauts who have been to the Moon tend to get cataracts about 7 years earlier than other astronauts"
or because the sound stage they faked the landing on was contaminated with radiation from the manhattan project.
call me crazy but you need more than 5hours of sleep.
unless it is adorama or B&H photo. They don't do sucker deals and have good reps in Photography circles.
Jonathan
And which God would that be?
my perspective: the one I worship
your perspective: the one you worship
the guy with a turban: the one he worships
your cat: can of tuna
And thats the whole problem with teaching ID, at some point someone will say my God is responsible for this.
I don't have anything against evolution nor intelligent design and I don't see why other people like that. I don't see why the two theories can't be merged.
Neither do I; however, I hardly think that the 2 should be merged though. The second to last thing I want is some religious nut trying to explain science-- the very last think I want is some scientist trying to explain God. Trying to do either is demeaning to the other.
And lets face it, ID is about God.
Jonathan
Both Java and .Net have the same problem. Sloppy memory. [...] No direct memory control, GC waited until it was too late, and everything started to crawl.
I would hardly call it sloppy: Read this article on tuning GC ergonomics. Object allocation/deallocation is highly organized and much of it can be tuned.
With the default Throughput collector full gc does not happend until the young generation is full. So your application may not fill the young generation; Additionally, collection in the young generation is parallel so memory reclaimation can implictly take advantage of multiple processors.
The example you give where allocation/deallocation happens in a loop over 2^32 iteration can be made to run by knowing something about how/whats being allocated. With smaller objects you could decrease the size of the young generation to make incremental collections faster. With variable size object you could set and adaptive resize policy for the tenured/young generation size-- this would allow the heap to grow and shrink as needed (this can make GC faster since it may have to collect on a smaller space). You can also increase the amount of GC can consume; sometimes gc can be too timid and allow memory allocation to get out of control, resulting in a heap that grows too big for GC to collect in a reasonable amount of time.
That said there are still times when it would be nice to have direct memory access, but there are always to get around this (such as JNI and managing your own memory/reusing objects).
As an end user you should not have to worry about what to set your memory sizes to be. As a developer you should determine what your application's memory requirements should be and package your application accordingly for the end user. I wouldn't complain if you are a developer and end user. That said you can use an adaptive size policy for your generations to keep the jvm size smaller. The jvm size will grow and shrink as it needs to. Understanding ergonomics of GC is at least as important as understanding how to free memory in C/C++.
and when some one makes music they are not spending their time? You think that because their time is not spent exclusively on you their work is inconsequential? This is a BS argument. I am not aware that theft is defined in terms of effort by the creator. There is not much grey when it comes to theft, either you payed or you didn't.
I'm certainly not going to argue that violence is ok and sex is not, however sex does carry with it certain responsibilities.
And killing some one doesn't? give me break. Althought I agree with your statement:
Maybe he should come down with an STD if he fucks every skank in the neighborhood. Or maybe he can be have his cash taken away to support the kid he fathered.
They want people to accept DRM, this time its easy to crack-- first hit is free. Next time though...
call me paranoid
Jonathan
All hail the strongbox!
lockbox