Optimized java can run at speeds close to c++, several orders of magnitude faster than scripting languages like PHP or python, and in some (admittedly rare) cases it can run faster than c++ thanks to optimizations performed at run time that could never be matched with precompiled code.
Its honestly the other way round. Somalia is a failed state, a pure anarchy, and has been that way for a long time. Many of these pirates are teens that have never known what its like to have a government and are desperately poor and close to starving. Its cheaper for them to buy an AK-47 than to buy a meal. The area is in a terrible famine and drought, farming is not sustainable. The fishing grounds have been bleed dry as they were the only productive food source for a time. They have a choice of joining the islamists as suicide bombers, the genocidal warlords as child soldiers or becoming a pirate.
A: I start at +2 due to excellent reputation, have not been modded here yet. B: We both have the comedian achievement. You should understand. C: Its funny because its true.
I spoke without verifying my facts. Some of the guys I worked with at my previous job were definitely javascript fanboi's, I probably wasn't listening to them very well as they described how awesome javascript was.
Its not an inappropriate mod. I suppose I did "fight fire with fire" a bit, though I suppose anything with political content at all could be considered flaimbait by someone.
xhtml2 specifies precisely how DOM is to be structured. Unfortunately it looks like html5 is winning hearts and minds as the next markup language for the web (mostly because it is more backwards compatible and supports soft failure modes for non-compliant code).
I mentioned it twice because the few communities that I know have enacted mandatory carry did so only for men. I found this odd, considering women are far more likely to be victimized than men. Also see my other comment on mandatory carry above.
I was using it as an example of what might be done to fix the irrational and uneducated fear of the parent poster. I don't actually believe mandatory carry is compatible with the principal of the constitution and freedom. However, compared to removing the right to carry arbitrarily and without due process for everyone, I would see it as a lesser evil.
Fascism has more to do with leaders of industry forming a self regulating cabal. Those cabals then form the state. Though I admit, this aspect of fascism is not well defined.
Imagine what the world would be like if the heads of IBM, Intel and Microsoft had the right to regulate the computer industry. And that same cabal was also allowed to guide national information policy.
What the hell are you talking about? 1: more people die from auto accidents every year in the US than die of fatal shootings. 2: more people die from tobacco related health issues (cancer, pneumonia, emphysema, etc) than of fatal shootings. 3: more people die from the seasonal flue than from shootings. 4: etc, there are more things than I can list that kill more people than guns.
The right to bear arms is this nations last line of defense against our enemies, and here is the key "both foreign and domestic". Nothing gives the police-statists a greater sense of security when sending out their jack booted thugs than a populace that does not have the means to fight back. Responsible ownership of firearms is not only a right, but I believe it is a requirement for a well functioning liberal democratic society.
If you really wanted to reduce the shooting crime rate in the US, I would suggest the following actions: 1: provide mandatory firearm safety courses in high school. 2: provide, free of charge, firearm safes and safety locks to all families owning firearms to prevent accidental use by children. 3: require all men to own and carry a firearm in public. 4: require all women to own and carry a firearm in public (this will also reduce the rate of sexual assault).
But hey, I am just one of those dirty freedom loving liberals.
Don't even bother. I shouldn't even have responded in the first place. He is either a troll or an ignorant fool. No amount of reason or facts can convince him. Its like talking to a moon landing conspiracy nut or a "computers are the Anti-Christ" evangelist.
Do you know the difference between a brick wall and an trolls mind? You can open both with a sledgehammer, but one leaves a dry red mess and the other leaves a wet red mess.
Its no less safe than the cosmic rays with millions of times the power that do occasionally hit the earth and have been doing so for billions of years. And yet we still exist.
I don't think you could get mini's going fast enough even if you dumped one of them out of a plane. I seem to remember something like this on mythbusters.
I've been reading the book Spook Country by William Gibson (of Neuromancer fame) recently and it amazes me just how predictive it is of this whole augmented reality thing that I had not really heard much about until earlier this year.
On the other hand, at least the "real engineers" don't have to waste their time writing the "banal blogging applications" that everyone and their grandma wants. Just imagine how much that would cost.
A purely accidental death does not warrant a crime. The only question that should arise from such a slaying is if there was gross negligence involved in the death. Only then should someone be held to account.
I have had exactly one occasion where I needed more than 64 bits, and we did use strings (technically a small array of bytes). It was a programming contest. We had 8 hours to solve as many problems as possible. One of them was to display pi to at least a 500 digits with the ability to display arbitrarily more precise values.
a 64 bit long has more than enough space to handle every currency in the world (except possibly hyper-inflationary Zimbabwe) to a tiny fraction of a penny. Even then, there are data structures that offer arbitrary precision and arbitrary ranges of values that are far more efficient than any string manipulation. In most cases, you are going to be converting the string back to a number for real math anyway. Hell even cobol handles numbers better than strings.
I won't even go into the rediculousness of using xml for data storage and retrieval for high throughput systems.
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Optimized java can run at speeds close to c++, several orders of magnitude faster than scripting languages like PHP or python, and in some (admittedly rare) cases it can run faster than c++ thanks to optimizations performed at run time that could never be matched with precompiled code.
I wonder what happens when google sees that google bot is indexing google search results?
It is possible for an autistic person to have a unique and fully consistent analog to a real language.
Its honestly the other way round. Somalia is a failed state, a pure anarchy, and has been that way for a long time. Many of these pirates are teens that have never known what its like to have a government and are desperately poor and close to starving. Its cheaper for them to buy an AK-47 than to buy a meal. The area is in a terrible famine and drought, farming is not sustainable. The fishing grounds have been bleed dry as they were the only productive food source for a time. They have a choice of joining the islamists as suicide bombers, the genocidal warlords as child soldiers or becoming a pirate.
A: I start at +2 due to excellent reputation, have not been modded here yet.
B: We both have the comedian achievement. You should understand.
C: Its funny because its true.
This is unregulated laissez faire capitalism at its finest. I'm so proud, little Somolia is growing up.
Its been a long time, memory may be slightly faulty, but google worked well enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia
I believe there is at least one in Kansas, but I can't find a name for it.
I spoke without verifying my facts. Some of the guys I worked with at my previous job were definitely javascript fanboi's, I probably wasn't listening to them very well as they described how awesome javascript was.
Its not an inappropriate mod. I suppose I did "fight fire with fire" a bit, though I suppose anything with political content at all could be considered flaimbait by someone.
xhtml2 specifies precisely how DOM is to be structured. Unfortunately it looks like html5 is winning hearts and minds as the next markup language for the web (mostly because it is more backwards compatible and supports soft failure modes for non-compliant code).
most implementations of JS have threads, its just that its transparent to the language.
I mentioned it twice because the few communities that I know have enacted mandatory carry did so only for men. I found this odd, considering women are far more likely to be victimized than men. Also see my other comment on mandatory carry above.
I was using it as an example of what might be done to fix the irrational and uneducated fear of the parent poster. I don't actually believe mandatory carry is compatible with the principal of the constitution and freedom. However, compared to removing the right to carry arbitrarily and without due process for everyone, I would see it as a lesser evil.
Fascism has more to do with leaders of industry forming a self regulating cabal. Those cabals then form the state. Though I admit, this aspect of fascism is not well defined.
Imagine what the world would be like if the heads of IBM, Intel and Microsoft had the right to regulate the computer industry. And that same cabal was also allowed to guide national information policy.
the militia during the revolutionary period (the militia referenced in the constitution) consisted of all able bodied adult white male citizens.
What the hell are you talking about?
1: more people die from auto accidents every year in the US than die of fatal shootings.
2: more people die from tobacco related health issues (cancer, pneumonia, emphysema, etc) than of fatal shootings.
3: more people die from the seasonal flue than from shootings.
4: etc, there are more things than I can list that kill more people than guns.
The right to bear arms is this nations last line of defense against our enemies, and here is the key "both foreign and domestic". Nothing gives the police-statists a greater sense of security when sending out their jack booted thugs than a populace that does not have the means to fight back. Responsible ownership of firearms is not only a right, but I believe it is a requirement for a well functioning liberal democratic society.
If you really wanted to reduce the shooting crime rate in the US, I would suggest the following actions:
1: provide mandatory firearm safety courses in high school.
2: provide, free of charge, firearm safes and safety locks to all families owning firearms to prevent accidental use by children.
3: require all men to own and carry a firearm in public.
4: require all women to own and carry a firearm in public (this will also reduce the rate of sexual assault).
But hey, I am just one of those dirty freedom loving liberals.
Don't even bother. I shouldn't even have responded in the first place. He is either a troll or an ignorant fool. No amount of reason or facts can convince him. Its like talking to a moon landing conspiracy nut or a "computers are the Anti-Christ" evangelist.
Do you know the difference between a brick wall and an trolls mind? You can open both with a sledgehammer, but one leaves a dry red mess and the other leaves a wet red mess.
Its no less safe than the cosmic rays with millions of times the power that do occasionally hit the earth and have been doing so for billions of years. And yet we still exist.
I don't think you could get mini's going fast enough even if you dumped one of them out of a plane. I seem to remember something like this on mythbusters.
I've been reading the book Spook Country by William Gibson (of Neuromancer fame) recently and it amazes me just how predictive it is of this whole augmented reality thing that I had not really heard much about until earlier this year.
On the other hand, at least the "real engineers" don't have to waste their time writing the "banal blogging applications" that everyone and their grandma wants. Just imagine how much that would cost.
A purely accidental death does not warrant a crime. The only question that should arise from such a slaying is if there was gross negligence involved in the death. Only then should someone be held to account.
I have had exactly one occasion where I needed more than 64 bits, and we did use strings (technically a small array of bytes). It was a programming contest. We had 8 hours to solve as many problems as possible. One of them was to display pi to at least a 500 digits with the ability to display arbitrarily more precise values.
Use this experience as evidence that you need to implement a robust software testing regiment.
a 64 bit long has more than enough space to handle every currency in the world (except possibly hyper-inflationary Zimbabwe) to a tiny fraction of a penny. Even then, there are data structures that offer arbitrary precision and arbitrary ranges of values that are far more efficient than any string manipulation. In most cases, you are going to be converting the string back to a number for real math anyway. Hell even cobol handles numbers better than strings.
I won't even go into the rediculousness of using xml for data storage and retrieval for high throughput systems.