What exactly will you do if they legislate that you must switch to their name servers, and the penalty for not doing so is whatever equivalent you have to jail over there? Or even just financial, but big-euro financial?
Since I often wonder just how much performance i'm giving up using java instead of c, I try an experiment like this about once per java version.
The current result c (ms visual c, optimize speed): 4391 ms java (5.0, -server): 10031 ms
So there you have it, java is only a little over twice as slow as c, even at something that ought to be c's greatest advantage.
If anyone knows how to optimize the java outcome better without obfuscating the code or changing the contract of the functions, comments would be welcome.
I also compared replacing the strlen calls with a hard-coded length of string value (tail = 19;), to make sure that my strlen implementation didn't suck, but the outcome was pretty much the same, c twice as fast as java. (c: 2359 java: 5171)
Here's the code (link to avoid violating compression filter):
You have to consider what happens when parents abdicate their responsibilities. It's not the child's fault, and from a certain point of view it is society's duty to assure that children are properly raised. So if the parents are not able or willing to effectively police this, the government has a responsibility to step in and protect children. Much as it does if parents are committing other forms of child abuse, like beating their children. Would you argue that we as a society should do nothing about that?
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The heaven is everything 'above' earth's sky, including other planets and stars. So there you have it, theological quandary solved. And in the first 7 words no less!
I think once you establish in the story that good can create chicks out of man ribs, it becomes dull to repeat the story over and over. Cain found a woman. Maybe he did, and maybe he did not notice the missing rib, or maybe it was one of Abel's ribs. Could explain their little spat.
That was supposed to be the funny of my post for the intellectually inclined (that if you just noticed their light speed drives starting up, you're in trouble now).:-)
I think guidance as to what would happen can be found in the life of Gallileo.
Also, it's relatively unclear what religious claims are invalidated by the existence of extrasolar planets. Prior to the discover of non-human intelligent life on another planet, Christianity, for example, would have pretty much no difficulty. God put all those planets and life forms there for us to enjoy when we are sufficiently technologically advanced, presumably.
Theologically, things don't really get interesting at all until you meet something non-human that seems to have a soul that needs saving.
How much does ultra-pasteurized milk cost, and where do you buy it. Also, I don't understand how this particularly helps keep the milk fresh, as the usual problem is bacteria entering your milk after you break the seal, isn't it?
Indeed, it appears to have been modded down severely, I can no longer easily find it either. At the time I responded it was at +5, so some mod posse must have gotten mad at it.
That's true, thanks for pointing that out. Looks like we'd want to move the de into the name resolution, which leaves us either with breaking the existing resolution for.de or postpending/prepending an additional de to the name.
Except that standard practice is currently to look those up in the same way. We must be prepared to cope with the fact that the same name may lookup differently in different countries, because they can force their ISPs to do lookups from different root servers.
It would only be a PITA for those few sites for which some nation decided to make their own version available. And as for Trademark disputes, either it doesn't apply in the nation, in which case ibm has no recourse nor expectation, or it does, in which case ibms recourse is through the courts of that country as expected.
Most users would never even notice the system, because de.http would be just another kind of bookmark, and google will still be able to index across national boundaries without any real difficulty.
Actually, I think the per country root node solution is the right technical solution. The internet and its protocols should learn to deal with this since it is bound to happen eventually.
It would be annoying, but we probably need to allow for something like this:
The new 'features' are being forced down your throat by automatic download. There are a few non patchable devices out there that some people are buying, but mostly not because they are missing the good stuff that comes with the bad.
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What exactly will you do if they legislate that you must switch to their name servers, and the penalty for not doing so is whatever equivalent you have to jail over there? Or even just financial, but big-euro financial?
Since I often wonder just how much performance i'm giving up using java instead of c, I try an experiment like this about once per java version.
The current result
c (ms visual c, optimize speed): 4391 ms
java (5.0, -server): 10031 ms
So there you have it, java is only a little over twice as slow as c, even at something that ought to be c's greatest advantage.
If anyone knows how to optimize the java outcome better without obfuscating the code or changing the contract of the functions, comments would be welcome.
I also compared replacing the strlen calls with a hard-coded length of string value (tail = 19;), to make sure that my strlen implementation didn't suck, but the outcome was pretty much the same, c twice as fast as java. (c: 2359 java: 5171)
Here's the code (link to avoid violating compression filter):
C:
http://ptth.net/slashdot/stringreverse_c.txt
Java:
http://ptth.net/slashdot/stringreverse_java.txt
You have to consider what happens when parents abdicate their responsibilities. It's not the child's fault, and from a certain point of view it is society's duty to assure that children are properly raised. So if the parents are not able or willing to effectively police this, the government has a responsibility to step in and protect children. Much as it does if parents are committing other forms of child abuse, like beating their children. Would you argue that we as a society should do nothing about that?
From your link:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The heaven is everything 'above' earth's sky, including other planets and stars. So there you have it, theological quandary solved. And in the first 7 words no less!
bleah, bad typo there. substitute god for good, though I suppose the two are supposed to be interchangeable anyway.
Or ... "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) And the heavens includes other planets.
I think once you establish in the story that good can create chicks out of man ribs, it becomes dull to repeat the story over and over. Cain found a woman. Maybe he did, and maybe he did not notice the missing rib, or maybe it was one of Abel's ribs. Could explain their little spat.
That was supposed to be the funny of my post for the intellectually inclined (that if you just noticed their light speed drives starting up, you're in trouble now). :-)
I think guidance as to what would happen can be found in the life of Gallileo.
Also, it's relatively unclear what religious claims are invalidated by the existence of extrasolar planets. Prior to the discover of non-human intelligent life on another planet, Christianity, for example, would have pretty much no difficulty. God put all those planets and life forms there for us to enjoy when we are sufficiently technologically advanced, presumably.
Theologically, things don't really get interesting at all until you meet something non-human that seems to have a soul that needs saving.
Unfortunately, you'll only be able to see them when they ignite their light speed drives. Those suckers are bright!
Well, they are in the middle of a massive shift to intel x86 based processors. That might have something to do with it.
Thanks for the follow up, I will have to take a more than passing glance the next time i'm in the milk aisle.
How much does ultra-pasteurized milk cost, and where do you buy it. Also, I don't understand how this particularly helps keep the milk fresh, as the usual problem is bacteria entering your milk after you break the seal, isn't it?
Indeed, it appears to have been modded down severely, I can no longer easily find it either. At the time I responded it was at +5, so some mod posse must have gotten mad at it.
Ah, on rereading I see that that is indeed unclear in my text. My apologies.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ca.html
a constitutional monarchy that is also a parliamentary democracy and a federation
Hardly sounds like a candidate for largest faux democracy republic.
Also, it's up for grabs which is bigger:
United States:
land: 9,161,923 sq km
Canada:
land: 9,093,507 sq km
It's a federation according to the world fact book.
/ rs.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
So I assume it doesn't count when considering republics with democratic leanings.
Out of curiosity, how does it obtain programming updates? (How does it know when shows are on?)
That's true, thanks for pointing that out. Looks like we'd want to move the de into the name resolution, which leaves us either with breaking the existing resolution for .de or postpending/prepending an additional de to the name.
No, india is only about a third the size of the united states.
/ in.html
/ us.html
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India:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
total: 3,287,590 sq km
land: 2,973,190 sq km
water: 314,400 sq km
United States
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
total: 9,631,418 sq km
land: 9,161,923 sq km
water: 469,495 sq km
note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia
Though technically, neither is a democracy. Both are republics.
Is a phone booth with 14 people in it larger than a phonebooth with 1?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/316
Except that standard practice is currently to look those up in the same way. We must be prepared to cope with the fact that the same name may lookup differently in different countries, because they can force their ISPs to do lookups from different root servers.
It would only be a PITA for those few sites for which some nation decided to make their own version available. And as for Trademark disputes, either it doesn't apply in the nation, in which case ibm has no recourse nor expectation, or it does, in which case ibms recourse is through the courts of that country as expected.
Most users would never even notice the system, because de.http would be just another kind of bookmark, and google will still be able to index across national boundaries without any real difficulty.
Actually, I think the per country root node solution is the right technical solution. The internet and its protocols should learn to deal with this since it is bound to happen eventually.
It would be annoying, but we probably need to allow for something like this:
de.http://www.ibm.com/ not being the same as us.http://www.ibm.com/
The new 'features' are being forced down your throat by automatic download. There are a few non patchable devices out there that some people are buying, but mostly not because they are missing the good stuff that comes with the bad.
I meant the peoples' side, as opposed to the corporations' side, which I thought would be clear in the context.