I remember earning that merit badge back when i was 14. It was pretty intense the first time I did it, but by the time you've done it 3 or 4 times it starts to feel routine.
There's an important difference to be understood between storing your data in a database, and serving your data from a database. There's a further important bit of understanding that can be gleaned with experience which is that most persistent file systems are databases. Now whether you use an SQL database, or one in another format is just a matter of feature choice. Which db features are most important to you? Queries? Persistence? Reliability? Performance? Etc.
You're still off by an order of magnitude. Also, I deliberately factored out the households when I calculated the fraction in the first place. That was why I specifically mentioned working age.
The problem is that your very religious friends are much more likely to hate your gay friends than vice-versa. While gays are pained and saddened by the hatred spewed at them by the religious right, you'll be hard pressed to find many who express such hatred in return.
I don't think most on the left would say they hate the christian conservatives. Rather, we fear them, and their control of the political process. We'd be perfectly happy if they just wanted to have their views in the privacy of their own homes. What really bothers us is their need to enforce those views on our lives. If they could just enforce those views on their own lives, everything would be fine.
The left is all about the freedom to be different, the right is all about enforcement of uniformity.
The consortium may say you'll lose your license, but they don't actually do any license revoking. There are a number of players you can buy that are capable of skipping everything.
It's cheaper up until you chip a tooth just once on an unpopped kernel you didn't notice was caught in popped one. Then you typically pay enough in dentistry bills to make up for a lifetime of quality popcorn.
The compiled code is completely (well, almost) platform-independent, eliminating the need to port or even recompile code when moving between platforms. This can be especially handy for GUI's, as it gets around the problem of different windowing systems having their own mutually exclusive API's. Write and compile your interface once, and it can be run on any machine that has a JVM installed, whether it be Windows, Mac, XFree86, or whatever.
On the other hand, while text mode apps can run on many platforms, there are c compilers on even more platforms. Well written C will port much more easily to those platforms. And GUIs just look wierd when you try to run them on a different platform than you wrote them on.
It's ALMOST as fast (and in many cases just as fast) as C code. Additionally, it compiles much faster than C, though C binaries make up for it with substantially shorter load times (Java has been improving in this regard recently, however).
On the other hand, for many practical applications, java will turn out to be much slower than C. Particularly if your work relies on the performance of two key areas: 1) you write code that does a lot of interesting array access, in which case the lifters and such in the optimizer will fail you and you'll do 3 ops in java to every one in C when you access your array. 2) you copy application data from/to disk or over a network, an extra copy is required to move the data into an object's memory, and this cannot be done in bulk either.
On compilation, I don't know what planet you're working on, none of the java compilers hold a candle to the C compilers, but really, who cares about compile time, run time is what matters, and there indeed you get the joy of slow java startup.
Also, the java compiler has no support for conditional compilation, which hampers debugging support (and lots of other nice bonuses you get with a precompiler).
Java provides free (in terms of effort) garbage collection, which (usually) prevents memory leaks.
On the other hand, most large scale apps still wind up having to track down this sort of problem, and auto_ptr can solve this for you on C if you want.
Java applets can run in web browser. This allows websites to provide visitors to their sites with custom mini-applications to provide various functionality or visual effects. One of the major benefits to this (especially when combined with the use of application servers) is that a large organization can install all their software in a central place and allow its users to access it from any machine just by using their web browsers.
On the other hand, C apps can run in a web browser too, but granted, support is not as widely deployed by default.
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guidgen is not a random number generator. look it up. obviously, random number generators are prone to collision. duh.
Not just virtually guaranteed, really guaranteed. You can't guidgen fast enough to get a conflict. Ever.
I remember earning that merit badge back when i was 14. It was pretty intense the first time I did it, but by the time you've done it 3 or 4 times it starts to feel routine.
In all fairness, FOSS does contribute to global terrorism, terrorists regularly make use of FOSS encryption products.
Surely he's in the top 99.725% also then?
Unless of course you're concerned with the performance of the application on someone else's computer. Like if you, for example, release your binaries.
There's an important difference to be understood between storing your data in a database, and serving your data from a database. There's a further important bit of understanding that can be gleaned with experience which is that most persistent file systems are databases. Now whether you use an SQL database, or one in another format is just a matter of feature choice. Which db features are most important to you? Queries? Persistence? Reliability? Performance? Etc.
moderated troll on a factual ontopic post ... slashdot moderation quality is on the rise again.
Wow, moderators on crack alert, my post:
1.5 million customers + 4 in your office of 25 people => skewed sample.
If one in 6 working age americans used netflix that would be a customer base more like 30 million.
got moderated troll. Not sure how much more untroll a post could be.
You're still off by an order of magnitude. Also, I deliberately factored out the households when I calculated the fraction in the first place. That was why I specifically mentioned working age.
1.5 million customers + 4 in your office of 25 people => skewed sample.
If one in 6 working age americans used netflix that would be a customer base more like 30 million.
On the contrary, that's a great story. If only one in one thousand christians actually lived their lives that way, we'd be so much better off!
The problem is that your very religious friends are much more likely to hate your gay friends than vice-versa. While gays are pained and saddened by the hatred spewed at them by the religious right, you'll be hard pressed to find many who express such hatred in return.
I don't think most on the left would say they hate the christian conservatives. Rather, we fear them, and their control of the political process. We'd be perfectly happy if they just wanted to have their views in the privacy of their own homes. What really bothers us is their need to enforce those views on our lives. If they could just enforce those views on their own lives, everything would be fine.
The left is all about the freedom to be different, the right is all about enforcement of uniformity.
http://ijpor.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/ 14/2/141
Among various other studies. Basically, liberal leanings represent a more comprehensive, considered, thoughtful view of the world.
The consortium may say you'll lose your license, but they don't actually do any license revoking. There are a number of players you can buy that are capable of skipping everything.
... it completely explains why.
Of course, lucas had nothing to do with maniac mansion, his company was just the publisher.
Unfortunately, what we really want is for the converse to be true. Sadly, the converse is far less likely.
Except for the fact that he's doing the work in the USA, and was trained in the USA. Not to be racist, but a trained monkey can do this stuff.
Yes, there are two obvious setups which avoid ever seeing a license, one of which tridge explicity said he used:
bk client -- router -- bk server
(tridge sits at router between bk client and bk server, neither of which he is using, and monitors traffic)
telnet client -- bk server
(tridge sits at client not running bk, but instead just pokes at the bk server to learn what it does)
tridge says he used the second.
either way, he never sees a license.
It's cheaper up until you chip a tooth just once on an unpopped kernel you didn't notice was caught in popped one. Then you typically pay enough in dentistry bills to make up for a lifetime of quality popcorn.
Traditionally code complete means all features implemented, alpha testing can begin.
On the other hand, while text mode apps can run on many platforms, there are c compilers on even more platforms. Well written C will port much more easily to those platforms. And GUIs just look wierd when you try to run them on a different platform than you wrote them on.
On the other hand, for many practical applications, java will turn out to be much slower than C. Particularly if your work relies on the performance of two key areas: 1) you write code that does a lot of interesting array access, in which case the lifters and such in the optimizer will fail you and you'll do 3 ops in java to every one in C when you access your array. 2) you copy application data from/to disk or over a network, an extra copy is required to move the data into an object's memory, and this cannot be done in bulk either.
On compilation, I don't know what planet you're working on, none of the java compilers hold a candle to the C compilers, but really, who cares about compile time, run time is what matters, and there indeed you get the joy of slow java startup.
Also, the java compiler has no support for conditional compilation, which hampers debugging support (and lots of other nice bonuses you get with a precompiler).
On the other hand, most large scale apps still wind up having to track down this sort of problem, and auto_ptr can solve this for you on C if you want.
On the other hand, C apps can run in a web browser too, but granted, support is not as widely deployed by default.
Just in case no one knows, we extend copyright to dead authors to decrease the motivation to expire them early.
Yes, and when he sets fire to his house, he gets all that money!