The current system, where any wine producer can just stick any place name on their wine, doesn't make sense.
It'd be like seeing something labeled "Scottish salmon", when in fact it was caught and processed in Norway.
That's not the current system, If you labeled salmon caught in Norway as Scottish, then you would be breaking the law. Wine names have never meant that the wine came from a specific region, you have to label where your wine is coming from(which is a much more common-sense way to figure out where wine is coming from).
I'm glad that common sense is being imposed. Not that I care very much really, but I'm certainly not against such an outbreak of common sense.
Common-sense is imposing the meaning of words from a group of self-important countries half-way around the world on your citizens?
Java, because you can't use pointer arithmetic, is going to be slower than the same code in c using pointer arithmetic, because a non-pointer solution is always going to be slower, in any language, even c.
That sounds like a stupid blanket statement... Back it up with some numbers.
Native code is always going to be 'potentially' faster than any interpreted language, but Java has quite a few optimization advantages because it doesn't use pointers. Interpreted has a lot of weak points(like overhead when all your program is doing is just calling native methods), but lack of pointers isn't all bad. http://scribblethink.org/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
The GP was responding to whether Dalvik is really faster than Java on other phones. A LOT of optimization has gone into the Java VM. Since Android doesn't run Java(which is why they are getting sued), this is difficult. There is a post comparing the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and the T-Mobile G1, which have nearly identical hardware specs. In that case, Dalvik was 8x slower. http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/ede9ba8c787661a1/f155644d757f7bbf?#f155644d757f7bbf
anytime the legalise pot discussion comes up, the US ambassador to Canada starts making threats of trade sanctions. Since canada does more than 90% of its trade with the US, these sanctions would put us into a recession.
Oh ya... I forgot about the USA imposing all those trade sanctions against Canada all the time... Can you point to a time when a threat like this actually happened?
So yeah, pot is illegal in Canada entirely because of the US. Its like this in most countries.
Canadians made pot illegal in the 1920s(along with opium), LONG LONG before it was illegal in the USA.
You obviously haven't been paying to international politics recently. Extension of US laws (aka: "harmonisation" or "bringing laws in sync", esp. copyright and drug law) to other countries is part and parcel of negotiations. Often times a country will decide that access to the US as a market for their exports outweighs the consequences of taking onboard more egregious aspects of the US body of law.
What the hell are you smoking.......
Can you point to a single case of the US trying to harmonise criminal drug law with another country(much less Canada)? The Canadians may want a 1980's US-style "war on drugs", but nobody is pushing them into it...
If you are talking about countries going overboard on patent/trademark/copyright harmonisation, then the US is part of the problem, but FAR FAR from THE country to blame.
It's sad that a museum would do that. Not only does it stop people from viewing the page on small devices, but it makes it nearly impossible to make handicap accessible.
It seems like most people I've talked to have used at least two different touch phones... Usually people like one phone over another not because of the software, but because of some physical part of the phone:
The USA may have some crap to answer for... but drug policy in your own country is your own fault. What a bunch of crybabies.
The USA is closer then ever to allowing small amounts of pot for recreational use since pot was Federally banned in the 1970s (The DEA isn't going after people who use pot legally under state law now). Canada is closer than ever to imposing mandatory jail time for a single plant since banning pot in the 1920s... The countries are headed in opposite directions.
50%-100% markups aren't just coming from economies of scale...
B&N doesn't have to beat Amazon's prices, but if it's always going to cost me at least 50% more, I can't justify using B&N unless I NEED the book that day. Luckily I live in NYC and pass by Strand every day...
You could also read this report to be a strongly in favor of cities. Urban/Rural living is much more likely to be a sterile airconditioned monoculture than city living.
In practice it usually works fine, but I have seen issues when a drive is used between XP and Vista. NTFS is undocumented and has wacky features(like ActiveX NSS).
From Wikipedia:
While the different NTFS versions are for the most part fully forward- and backward-compatible, there are technical considerations for mounting newer NTFS volumes in older versions of Microsoft Windows. This affects dual-booting, and external portable hard drives.
For example, attempting to use an NTFS partition with "Previous Versions" (a.k.a. Volume Shadow Copy) on an operating system that doesn't support it, will result in the contents of those previous versions being lost.
But when we had to start taking showers in PE class, it was the uncircumsized that were different than the rest of us. The rest of us didn't know we had lost our most sensitive bits.
And that is the NUMBER ONE reason people have their babys circumcised... It's just cultish and freaky
Yes, I am saying your parents fucked you up by having part of your dick cut off. You will never be able to have normal sex because of a decision your parents made!
You can try to rationalize it by saying you like the way it looks, but knowing that they made the decision to destroy the sensitive end of your dick for whatever reason has to effect you. Do you even know why they did it?
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The current system, where any wine producer can just stick any place name on their wine, doesn't make sense.
It'd be like seeing something labeled "Scottish salmon", when in fact it was caught and processed in Norway.
That's not the current system, If you labeled salmon caught in Norway as Scottish, then you would be breaking the law. Wine names have never meant that the wine came from a specific region, you have to label where your wine is coming from(which is a much more common-sense way to figure out where wine is coming from).
I'm glad that common sense is being imposed. Not that I care very much really, but I'm certainly not against such an outbreak of common sense.
Common-sense is imposing the meaning of words from a group of self-important countries half-way around the world on your citizens?
Fanta was created for and by Nazi's... not kidding at all here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta )
You Europeans can keep Fanta, but Coke and Pepsi are both American.
Java, because you can't use pointer arithmetic, is going to be slower than the same code in c using pointer arithmetic, because a non-pointer solution is always going to be slower, in any language, even c.
That sounds like a stupid blanket statement... Back it up with some numbers.
Most of Oracle's desktop tools were already Java before this purchase. I also use JEdit and Vuze regularly.
Native code is always going to be 'potentially' faster than any interpreted language, but Java has quite a few optimization advantages because it doesn't use pointers. Interpreted has a lot of weak points(like overhead when all your program is doing is just calling native methods), but lack of pointers isn't all bad. http://scribblethink.org/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
The GP was responding to whether Dalvik is really faster than Java on other phones. A LOT of optimization has gone into the Java VM. Since Android doesn't run Java(which is why they are getting sued), this is difficult. There is a post comparing the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and the T-Mobile G1, which have nearly identical hardware specs. In that case, Dalvik was 8x slower. http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/ede9ba8c787661a1/f155644d757f7bbf?#f155644d757f7bbf
anytime the legalise pot discussion comes up, the US ambassador to Canada starts making threats of trade sanctions. Since canada does more than 90% of its trade with the US, these sanctions would put us into a recession.
Oh ya... I forgot about the USA imposing all those trade sanctions against Canada all the time... Can you point to a time when a threat like this actually happened?
So yeah, pot is illegal in Canada entirely because of the US. Its like this in most countries.
Canadians made pot illegal in the 1920s(along with opium), LONG LONG before it was illegal in the USA.
If the US is not to blame for said issues, please name the country(s) you are referring to who are responsible.
How about you take some fucking personal responsibility? Your government and laws are your problem.
Also can you provide a cite for anything suggesting Canadians may want a "1980s style US 'war on drugs'"?
Are you suggesting that Canadians aren't passing laws aimed at doing just that?
You obviously haven't been paying to international politics recently. Extension of US laws (aka: "harmonisation" or "bringing laws in sync", esp. copyright and drug law) to other countries is part and parcel of negotiations. Often times a country will decide that access to the US as a market for their exports outweighs the consequences of taking onboard more egregious aspects of the US body of law.
What the hell are you smoking.......
Can you point to a single case of the US trying to harmonise criminal drug law with another country(much less Canada)? The Canadians may want a 1980's US-style "war on drugs", but nobody is pushing them into it...
If you are talking about countries going overboard on patent/trademark/copyright harmonisation, then the US is part of the problem, but FAR FAR from THE country to blame.
Flash-only sites shouldn't exist.
It's sad that a museum would do that. Not only does it stop people from viewing the page on small devices, but it makes it nearly impossible to make handicap accessible.
WTF?
The USA may have some crap to answer for... but drug policy in your own country is your own fault. What a bunch of crybabies.
The USA is closer then ever to allowing small amounts of pot for recreational use since pot was Federally banned in the 1970s (The DEA isn't going after people who use pot legally under state law now). Canada is closer than ever to imposing mandatory jail time for a single plant since banning pot in the 1920s... The countries are headed in opposite directions.
50%-100% markups aren't just coming from economies of scale...
B&N doesn't have to beat Amazon's prices, but if it's always going to cost me at least 50% more, I can't justify using B&N unless I NEED the book that day. Luckily I live in NYC and pass by Strand every day...
the best states are comparable to the worst eurozone countries.
http://calorielab.com/news/2010/06/28/fattest-states-2010/
What city depopulation are you talking about?
You could also read this report to be a strongly in favor of cities. Urban/Rural living is much more likely to be a sterile airconditioned monoculture than city living.
http://nymag.com/news/features/35815/
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/new-york-citys-superior-health/
Why are you needing case-sensitivity? I've run into several Mac programs that expect to be on case-insensitive storage systems.
From Wikipedia:
While the different NTFS versions are for the most part fully forward- and backward-compatible, there are technical considerations for mounting newer NTFS volumes in older versions of Microsoft Windows. This affects dual-booting, and external portable hard drives.
For example, attempting to use an NTFS partition with "Previous Versions" (a.k.a. Volume Shadow Copy) on an operating system that doesn't support it, will result in the contents of those previous versions being lost.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
My last job had this problem... I feel your pain
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Interesting... I hadn't seen this before, but here is a link to pics of those Finish engines.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/04/16/340727/pictures-finnish-f-18-engine-check-reveals-effects-of-volcanic.html
That is unlikely going to be a problem since moc is just a preprocessor. The code is still C++.
All those things are fine. The opposite of all of those are also fine.
Ya... I'm being broad and have cognitively dissonant. You do know that cognitive dissonance means that you hold contrary views at the same time.
How was my statement broad... It really couldn't have been more succinct.
But when we had to start taking showers in PE class, it was the uncircumsized that were different than the rest of us. The rest of us didn't know we had lost our most sensitive bits.
And that is the NUMBER ONE reason people have their babys circumcised... It's just cultish and freaky
Yes, I am saying your parents fucked you up by having part of your dick cut off. You will never be able to have normal sex because of a decision your parents made!
You can try to rationalize it by saying you like the way it looks, but knowing that they made the decision to destroy the sensitive end of your dick for whatever reason has to effect you. Do you even know why they did it?
Your parents had the most sensitive parts of your penis removed as a baby... Even if it is considered normal by society, that's got to fuck you up.
I doubt this would effect them, QT is C++.