Every piece of hardware does not work with windows. There is a huge backlog of hardware that does not have windows 7 drivers and never will. Linux, for the most part, supports far more hardware than windows.
One of the advantages of open source though is that you don't have to go to one extreme or the other. You can adapt.
With in house software you shoulder the entire burden of development and support. With outsourced software you rely entirely on others for development and support, and you give up control. Your vendor may not be able or willing to implement the features you need and may even drop support for your software completely.
By using open source you can theoretically split the difference as needed. Its not free, but you will have more options.
No its not incorrect, you are just reading into it things that just are not there. I know the difference between stack and heap. I am not saying that heap faster than the stack or that the two are the same. I am saying that underneath the hood java does not exclusively use the heap for objects (for some JVMs) and in the standard case where it does use the heap, it is vastly more efficient than most people assume (faster than c/c++ use of the heap).
That article is 5 years old and JVM's have been using escape analysis for a long time.
Not actually. Go back and read what I was saying. The JVM can create an object in its heap far faster than c++ can malloc. In the cases you are talking about, garbage collection in java is also practically free. Also, just because you can not put something on the stack does not mean that java can not do so for you. I made it home from work and have a reference for you.
Not really. This is actually one of the places that java has dramatically improved over the last decade. Most optimized VMs have a heap that uses stack like mechanisms that have reduced the real cost of instantiating an object to about 60 machine instructions vs c++ using 100 to 300. Also, because of how objects are arranged, recently created objects can be reclaimed at virtually no cost. I would link to a couple articles, but the bookmarts are at home and I am on my work machine.
I seem to recall that most of the Venusians were "relocated" to "internment" camps to "operate" "furnaces" and "test" bio-weapons. But I might be reading a little to deeply on the WW2 allegory here.
There is also a fairly common biological origin hypothesis that the thermo-chemical powered life found near vents was the earliest kind of life on earth and solar powered life evolved from it. This hypothesis fits our current understanding of earths early seas rather well. Though I don't think there is any way to advance it to a theory due to the near absolute lack of fossil records from that period.
And in vegas there is a massive industry around the process of verification of the accuracy of the odds and ensuring that the house does not stack the odds below the prescribed limits and laws about how they operate.
I've been through death valley. But I do suppose I have never "been there". I saw a lot of dry, and a lot of hot, and a lot of empty, and not much else.
what the hell are you blabbering about? "Think of the children" is never about really protecting children, its an excuse to push through police state policies that would otherwise be objected to or at least questioned. Have you ever stopped for a moment to listen to the ChiCom propaganda? It sounds eerily similar to what the American censors spout. In china, one of the big reasons they claim for enacting the great firewall is to protect children from pornography and protect traditional values (just so happens child slavery might be one of those values).
not only that, but you can play those games over a direct IP connection for free without involving battle.net. So when battle.net eventually does shut down or upgrades beyond compatability. You can still play those games with your friends. However this will not be true for starcraft 2.
Probably the fact that it is Death Valley. Good luck making it out alive. The only places to get shelter from the sun are prone to flash floods. You will have to 100 liters of water to survive a month under ideal conditions, and Death Valley is about as not-ideal as you can get.
No. I fully expect to be spied on by US corporate and government interests.
However, I don't really expect them to bust down my door, dump me in a mobile organ harvesting truck and bill my family for the bullet because I disagree with how things work around here. That is exactly what I would have a healthy fear of if I was living in china.
Forgive me. My memory of the atmospheric context of mars was not as good as it was for venus. The point however remains valid. Mars is a far more hospitable planet than venus.
Venus is also 800 degrees in the shade at a hundred atmospheres of pressure with acid rain that will dissolve most of the materials we make spacecraft out of in a matter of hours.
Mars also has an atmosphere of mostly CO2, except the temperature, pressure and chemistry is closer to the top of mount everest than the center of an erupting volcano.
I don't think we have enough information to "know" that linux is "much more secure" than mac. Both have a handful of known exploits (vs a overflowing truck load of exploits available for windows). Neither one is proof against infection.
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Every piece of hardware does not work with windows. There is a huge backlog of hardware that does not have windows 7 drivers and never will. Linux, for the most part, supports far more hardware than windows.
One of the advantages of open source though is that you don't have to go to one extreme or the other. You can adapt.
With in house software you shoulder the entire burden of development and support.
With outsourced software you rely entirely on others for development and support, and you give up control. Your vendor may not be able or willing to implement the features you need and may even drop support for your software completely.
By using open source you can theoretically split the difference as needed. Its not free, but you will have more options.
I was thinking terminators, hunter killers to be specific.
No its not incorrect, you are just reading into it things that just are not there. I know the difference between stack and heap. I am not saying that heap faster than the stack or that the two are the same. I am saying that underneath the hood java does not exclusively use the heap for objects (for some JVMs) and in the standard case where it does use the heap, it is vastly more efficient than most people assume (faster than c/c++ use of the heap).
That article is 5 years old and JVM's have been using escape analysis for a long time.
Not actually. Go back and read what I was saying. The JVM can create an object in its heap far faster than c++ can malloc. In the cases you are talking about, garbage collection in java is also practically free. Also, just because you can not put something on the stack does not mean that java can not do so for you. I made it home from work and have a reference for you.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp09275.html
Not really. This is actually one of the places that java has dramatically improved over the last decade. Most optimized VMs have a heap that uses stack like mechanisms that have reduced the real cost of instantiating an object to about 60 machine instructions vs c++ using 100 to 300. Also, because of how objects are arranged, recently created objects can be reclaimed at virtually no cost. I would link to a couple articles, but the bookmarts are at home and I am on my work machine.
If you have a solid plan and experience in the area of the problem, double your estimate.
If you have a basic idea of what to do, but have to do some research, triple your estimate.
If you have seen it all, and know exactly how to do it, quadruple your estimate.
I seem to recall that most of the Venusians were "relocated" to "internment" camps to "operate" "furnaces" and "test" bio-weapons. But I might be reading a little to deeply on the WW2 allegory here.
You bastards, thanks for reminding me of that show. Its virtually impossible to get your hands on a decent quality copy these days.
There is also a fairly common biological origin hypothesis that the thermo-chemical powered life found near vents was the earliest kind of life on earth and solar powered life evolved from it. This hypothesis fits our current understanding of earths early seas rather well. Though I don't think there is any way to advance it to a theory due to the near absolute lack of fossil records from that period.
Is she single?
And in vegas there is a massive industry around the process of verification of the accuracy of the odds and ensuring that the house does not stack the odds below the prescribed limits and laws about how they operate.
Could be worse, you could be consulting with the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), they do real fighting and risk brain injury regularly.
I've been through death valley. But I do suppose I have never "been there". I saw a lot of dry, and a lot of hot, and a lot of empty, and not much else.
what the hell are you blabbering about? "Think of the children" is never about really protecting children, its an excuse to push through police state policies that would otherwise be objected to or at least questioned. Have you ever stopped for a moment to listen to the ChiCom propaganda? It sounds eerily similar to what the American censors spout. In china, one of the big reasons they claim for enacting the great firewall is to protect children from pornography and protect traditional values (just so happens child slavery might be one of those values).
Don't kid yourself, Most of Asia (and by that I mean China) is just as quick to "think of the children" as America.
No, he just didn't get the chance for his loaf to go stale. He was in power for what? 12 years?
Monsanto already has that covered. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to genetically engineer both DRM and pesticides into our food supply?
not only that, but you can play those games over a direct IP connection for free without involving battle.net. So when battle.net eventually does shut down or upgrades beyond compatability. You can still play those games with your friends. However this will not be true for starcraft 2.
Probably the fact that it is Death Valley. Good luck making it out alive. The only places to get shelter from the sun are prone to flash floods. You will have to 100 liters of water to survive a month under ideal conditions, and Death Valley is about as not-ideal as you can get.
No. I fully expect to be spied on by US corporate and government interests.
However, I don't really expect them to bust down my door, dump me in a mobile organ harvesting truck and bill my family for the bullet because I disagree with how things work around here. That is exactly what I would have a healthy fear of if I was living in china.
Forgive me. My memory of the atmospheric context of mars was not as good as it was for venus. The point however remains valid. Mars is a far more hospitable planet than venus.
Venus is also 800 degrees in the shade at a hundred atmospheres of pressure with acid rain that will dissolve most of the materials we make spacecraft out of in a matter of hours.
Mars also has an atmosphere of mostly CO2, except the temperature, pressure and chemistry is closer to the top of mount everest than the center of an erupting volcano.
you forgot reverse cowgirl...
I don't think we have enough information to "know" that linux is "much more secure" than mac. Both have a handful of known exploits (vs a overflowing truck load of exploits available for windows). Neither one is proof against infection.