Yep. Most people don't know about the semantic advantages Fortran has over C or that its syntax allows for compact expression of complex calculations. C is no more a Fortran replacement than Fortran is a C replacement.
Sure, warming might help Canadians save a bit on their heating bills but the soil at least in most of southern Canada is terrible for agriculture. It's a rocky landscape mostly undisturbed by glacial activity. I would like to know how much Canadian land would be viable for agriculture given various warming scenarios. I have a feeling it won't make up for the midwest U.S. breadbasket.
PROTIP: It is 100% COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT who's the president. He's nothing more than a decorative veil of distraction. It could be your perfect dream candididate... It could be *you*... It's meaningless!
(Disclaimer: I work in the field.)
As do I. Frankly, your dismissal of the power of the executive makes me seriously question exactly what you do in this field. Obama has made a huge difference in important areas. Transportation is one of them. With an obstructionist Congress there's not much he can accomplish in the legislative arena but he can very well influence the way existing law is carried out.
No, I'm not delusional. I've seen and experienced the difference Obama has made. Personally.
I fundamentally disagree with your analysis. It displays a lack of understanding of political power and Obama is neither a Marxist or a Socialist. But that's not what I want to address today. What we need to address is this:
Obama and Romney differ very little when it comes to the actual issues
You're kidding, right?
One pushed through a big health care reform which will cover millions of uninsured people while the other is moving as far away from his (mostly identical) program as possible.
One believes that progressive taxation is essential to prosperity. The other has done everything he can to make the tax system regressive.
One believes we need to regulate the financial sector to ensure stability. The other has pledged to tear down what little regulation we have.
One has invested in renewable energy and the other says he will fund "traditional" energy sources and dismantle decades of environmental law.
One may agree or disagree with the candidates on these points but one cannot honestly say there is no difference between them.
Oh please. The man sexually assaulted multiple women. He does not deserve asylum.
He also leaked private diplomatic documents. He should expect to get arrested. All honorable practitioners of civil disobedience expect to be arrested and spend time in jail.
Assange is a narcissistic attention-grabber with serious sexual predator characteristics, nothing more.
Actually, Target will. You can go back without a receipt and get a replacement. No store credit, no cash, just a one-for-one replacement, which is what the GP wanted.
You don't seem to understand the tremendous power the executive has. The president doesn't just sign laws, he gets to execute them. Thus, the Executive Branch. That means he gets to decide how they are implemented (laws are intentially left vague), gets to decide how many resources are dedicated to implementing them, sets general policy, etc. An examination of the history of, say, transportation in this country would be most enlightening, I think. The Executive branch has wide-reaching powers. That's why it matters.
Every dollar the government spends is a dollar taken from the free market.
No. Those dollars are used to hire contractors, etc., all from your "free market," which is just "the market." There is no separation between government spending and any other spending. It all goes to the same places.
Are you noticing any of the chipset framerate issues with Sandy Bridge? I'm looking to build an HTPC out of them but it sounds like waiting for Ivy Bridge might be a better idea given the chipset issues.
Racism is a pretty damned weak excuse for this. I mean really someone explain it to me - how does a "racist" thought in a white man's mind force a black man to abandon his children?
Because racism is not "thoughts." I find it helpful to distinguish bigotry from racism. I consider bigotry to be in the realm of individual thoughts. Racism is about power. Racism is more about social constructions than individual thoughts and actions. For example, Jim Crow laws are racist.
Racism is indeed the cause of your observations. Education disparity is a gigantic problem in this country. It's difficult to overcome because we have several centuries of public policy in place that closed educational opportunities to people of color. We've eliminated most of the official policies but we have hundreds of years of effects of those policies to undo. Simply fixing the law isn't enough. We've set an entire class of people on a certain track for hundreds of years and it will take active undoing of that to set them on a different track.
When you don't have access to basic education, you don't have access to higher education. If you get rid of the legal barriers now you have to deal with all sorts of cultural issues such as teachers not understanding your background and experience as a person of color, lack of teachers who have shared that experience and so on. This is very complicated stuff, not easily changed by simply repealing some laws. Maybe you'll dismiss it as "touchy-feely" nonsense but I assure you that every person of color I've engaged around this stuff tells me it's real, whether they are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American or whatever.
Drug and alcohol abuse follows. When you have little hope to get a job because demonstrated bias in employment still exists, what motivates you to even try? That's not an excuse, it's simply reality. Some blame it on "inferior culture" or similar nonsense but imagine growing up and seeing your grandfather, your mother, you father, your brother and your sister treated like dirt. I don't know about you, but that would get to me.
I will honestly say I struggle with the single mother family statistics. My wife and I talk about this from time to time, trying to figure out where that comes from. I don't know. But when I see a strong trend in a group, I tend to think that there is something deeper driving that trend than simply a culture of irresponsibility. We have to ask ourselves why we observe what we do, not simply blame people for the observation.
They are a broken people, unfortunately, and only they can fix themselves.
There's that bigotry thing. Start passing laws motivated by an attitude like that and it becomes racism. No people is "broken" and the poor and opporessed can rarely help themselves.
Actually, a lot (maybe most) hardware is not a commodity. We still build a lot of hardware here in the U.S. All kinds of embedded gadgets get designed here and a good number of them are manufactured here. They are quite profitable. A lot of supercomputing hardware is still built here and almost all of it is designed here.
While I agree that software is important (and lucrative) we can't just give up on building hardware. At the very least, doing so has a bunch of national security implications.
The core cities were in no way "shut down" during or after any storm last year. Frankly, I was amazed how well the city crews did given the parking challenges they face that suburban municipalities generally don't. I live in Minneapolis very close to downtown. We were fully functional throughout the winter.
Minnetonka is a big city, geographically. While you're right that not all of it is super-wealthy, almost all of it is wealthy. And while the eastern border is about a 20 minute drive from Minneapolis, reaching the lake takes at least 40 minutes from Minneapolis without traffic so it's not exactly close.
This is a data center. There is absolutely no reason it needs to be physically close to its customers. I don't think there are many large corporate headquarters near where this thing would be. The Golden Triangle in Eden Prairie is possibly the closest, or perhaps the Carlson Towers area. I totally believe the tax writeoff scam explanation. It's clearly a way to rig the system to suck even more money out of the general welfare.
You misunderstand the problem. Antibiotics are not the problem. The overuse of antibiotics is the problem. I hear about this every single week from my wife, who is a provider. She constantly gets pressured by patients to prescribe antibiotics when they are clearly not necessary or justified. We have to change the culture of medical care here in the U.S.
Retailers gripe about people using their shop for browsing, then buying on Amazon --- but nobody mentions the people (I'm one) who use Amazon for reading reviews, while they're shopping and buying in the retail store.
I do this all the time. I always buy as locally as I can both to support local businesses and to ensure that the public interest is served with the tax money I owe. Amazon does provide a nice review service, though I usually look other places first. That said, I will buy from an online retailer if I can't find the item anywhere else, which is distressingly more and more common.
I don't buy the "Amazon has no presence and thus no responsibility" argument. Amazon benefits hugely from local investments, from schools to roads (not fully paid for by the shippers, BTW), to public internet infrastructure. They have a responsibility to collect the taxes that contribute to upkeep of local infrastructure.
This is really overdue. Not only does sales tax exemption create an unfair advantage for out-of-state retailers (which is bad for the local and thus national economy), it depletes funding for civilization. And yes, Amazon does use public infrastructure to operate its business and no, shippers do not pay the Amazon's share of that infrastructure. Amazon uses all sorts of local services. Amazon operates as part of our civilization and thus should be contributing to its upkeep.
Many of us have to drive to various locations during the day to perform our work.
That's fine, you need a car for your job. But that doesn't mean everyone or even most people do. Most of us could really make good use of a convenient transit system. Just because one solution doesn't work for everyone doesn't mean you give up on providing it. We're in serious need of multi-modal transportation in this country. We're literally destroying our economy with our dependence on oil and the automobile.
Yeah, screw the poor who will end up paying those taxes. It's not like they might need their car to get to work or go to the store or anything.
Spare me the disingenuous reply. I've got news for you: the poor already can't afford a car given the maintenance cost. If we had proper investment in public transit we'd have a lot fewer people dependent on cars. But no, shifting just a bit of money from roads to transit is anathema in this country.
Who cares how much time is 'thrown down the drain'?
I care. Not about the time specifically but the tremendous amount of money we waste building and maintaining multi-lane freeways to places 70 miles away from the urban core. It's a gigantic waste of resources that could be put to much better use elsewhere.
Not living in the crime infested crap hole that is Chicago
Have you even spent any length of time in Chicago. No, I know you haven't given your completely ignorant statement. And no, Detroit is not a hell-hole either.
Since you're being so incredibly critical, I'm assuming you have access to data that you will share that proves conclusively the opposing point -- that supply-side economics doesn't work?
What, the last 30 years and its record levels of economic disparity don't count?
Taking addresses of the function isn't a problem. It's easy to do in C++. What it would do is break the existing ABI, which is certainly a concern, but not a showstopper in my mind. You've got to recompile code to take advantage of it anyway.
Can anyone explain this design decision? It makes no sense to me. What they really want is function overloading. It reminds me of Fortran 2003 and its dumb, dumb, dumb implementation of polymorphism.
Thanks, pal. Already knew about that. I was trying to get some real user perspectives. lowendbox.com is pretty tough to navigate to find actual up-to-date user reviews.
I checked a lot of providers referred by lowendbox.com. The problem is you don't know which ones are solid providers and which are fly-by-night operations run out of someone's dorm room. I found a lot of sites that looked less than reputable to me. Hence the question.
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Yep. Most people don't know about the semantic advantages Fortran has over C or that its syntax allows for compact expression of complex calculations. C is no more a Fortran replacement than Fortran is a C replacement.
This.
Sure, warming might help Canadians save a bit on their heating bills but the soil at least in most of southern Canada is terrible for agriculture. It's a rocky landscape mostly undisturbed by glacial activity. I would like to know how much Canadian land would be viable for agriculture given various warming scenarios. I have a feeling it won't make up for the midwest U.S. breadbasket.
SLS (0.97pl?? kernel) -> Slackware (wow, packages!) -> RedHat (wow, dependencies!) -> Debian (wow, apt!)
I probably still have the fullscreen Linux 95 gif somewhere.
And for the record:
twm -> fvwm -> GNOME (very briefly) -> KDE
PROTIP: It is 100% COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT who's the president. He's nothing more than a decorative veil of distraction. It could be your perfect dream candididate... It could be *you*... It's meaningless!
(Disclaimer: I work in the field.)
As do I. Frankly, your dismissal of the power of the executive makes me seriously question exactly what you do in this field. Obama has made a huge difference in important areas. Transportation is one of them. With an obstructionist Congress there's not much he can accomplish in the legislative arena but he can very well influence the way existing law is carried out.
No, I'm not delusional. I've seen and experienced the difference Obama has made. Personally.
I fundamentally disagree with your analysis. It displays a lack of understanding of political power and Obama is neither a Marxist or a Socialist. But that's not what I want to address today. What we need to address is this:
Obama and Romney differ very little when it comes to the actual issues
You're kidding, right?
One pushed through a big health care reform which will cover millions of uninsured people while the other is moving as far away from his (mostly identical) program as possible.
One believes that progressive taxation is essential to prosperity. The other has done everything he can to make the tax system regressive.
One believes we need to regulate the financial sector to ensure stability. The other has pledged to tear down what little regulation we have.
One has invested in renewable energy and the other says he will fund "traditional" energy sources and dismantle decades of environmental law.
One may agree or disagree with the candidates on these points but one cannot honestly say there is no difference between them.
Oh please. The man sexually assaulted multiple women. He does not deserve asylum.
He also leaked private diplomatic documents. He should expect to get arrested. All honorable practitioners of civil disobedience expect to be arrested and spend time in jail.
Assange is a narcissistic attention-grabber with serious sexual predator characteristics, nothing more.
I'm getting an ASUS UX32VD. 10GB RAM and 256GB SSD should blow the Air out of the water.
Actually, Target will. You can go back without a receipt and get a replacement. No store credit, no cash, just a one-for-one replacement, which is what the GP wanted.
You don't seem to understand the tremendous power the executive has. The president doesn't just sign laws, he gets to execute them. Thus, the Executive Branch. That means he gets to decide how they are implemented (laws are intentially left vague), gets to decide how many resources are dedicated to implementing them, sets general policy, etc. An examination of the history of, say, transportation in this country would be most enlightening, I think. The Executive branch has wide-reaching powers. That's why it matters.
Every dollar the government spends is a dollar taken from the free market.
No. Those dollars are used to hire contractors, etc., all from your "free market," which is just "the market." There is no separation between government spending and any other spending. It all goes to the same places.
Are you noticing any of the chipset framerate issues with Sandy Bridge? I'm looking to build an HTPC out of them but it sounds like waiting for Ivy Bridge might be a better idea given the chipset issues.
This is flamebait but I'm compelled to respond.
Racism is a pretty damned weak excuse for this. I mean really someone explain it to me - how does a "racist" thought in a white man's mind force a black man to abandon his children?
Because racism is not "thoughts." I find it helpful to distinguish bigotry from racism. I consider bigotry to be in the realm of individual thoughts. Racism is about power. Racism is more about social constructions than individual thoughts and actions. For example, Jim Crow laws are racist.
Racism is indeed the cause of your observations. Education disparity is a gigantic problem in this country. It's difficult to overcome because we have several centuries of public policy in place that closed educational opportunities to people of color. We've eliminated most of the official policies but we have hundreds of years of effects of those policies to undo. Simply fixing the law isn't enough. We've set an entire class of people on a certain track for hundreds of years and it will take active undoing of that to set them on a different track.
When you don't have access to basic education, you don't have access to higher education. If you get rid of the legal barriers now you have to deal with all sorts of cultural issues such as teachers not understanding your background and experience as a person of color, lack of teachers who have shared that experience and so on. This is very complicated stuff, not easily changed by simply repealing some laws. Maybe you'll dismiss it as "touchy-feely" nonsense but I assure you that every person of color I've engaged around this stuff tells me it's real, whether they are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American or whatever.
Drug and alcohol abuse follows. When you have little hope to get a job because demonstrated bias in employment still exists, what motivates you to even try? That's not an excuse, it's simply reality. Some blame it on "inferior culture" or similar nonsense but imagine growing up and seeing your grandfather, your mother, you father, your brother and your sister treated like dirt. I don't know about you, but that would get to me.
I will honestly say I struggle with the single mother family statistics. My wife and I talk about this from time to time, trying to figure out where that comes from. I don't know. But when I see a strong trend in a group, I tend to think that there is something deeper driving that trend than simply a culture of irresponsibility. We have to ask ourselves why we observe what we do, not simply blame people for the observation.
They are a broken people, unfortunately, and only they can fix themselves.
There's that bigotry thing. Start passing laws motivated by an attitude like that and it becomes racism. No people is "broken" and the poor and opporessed can rarely help themselves.
Actually, a lot (maybe most) hardware is not a commodity. We still build a lot of hardware here in the U.S. All kinds of embedded gadgets get designed here and a good number of them are manufactured here. They are quite profitable. A lot of supercomputing hardware is still built here and almost all of it is designed here.
While I agree that software is important (and lucrative) we can't just give up on building hardware. At the very least, doing so has a bunch of national security implications.
The core cities were in no way "shut down" during or after any storm last year. Frankly, I was amazed how well the city crews did given the parking challenges they face that suburban municipalities generally don't. I live in Minneapolis very close to downtown. We were fully functional throughout the winter.
Minnetonka is a big city, geographically. While you're right that not all of it is super-wealthy, almost all of it is wealthy. And while the eastern border is about a 20 minute drive from Minneapolis, reaching the lake takes at least 40 minutes from Minneapolis without traffic so it's not exactly close.
This is a data center. There is absolutely no reason it needs to be physically close to its customers. I don't think there are many large corporate headquarters near where this thing would be. The Golden Triangle in Eden Prairie is possibly the closest, or perhaps the Carlson Towers area. I totally believe the tax writeoff scam explanation. It's clearly a way to rig the system to suck even more money out of the general welfare.
You misunderstand the problem. Antibiotics are not the problem. The overuse of antibiotics is the problem. I hear about this every single week from my wife, who is a provider. She constantly gets pressured by patients to prescribe antibiotics when they are clearly not necessary or justified. We have to change the culture of medical care here in the U.S.
Retailers gripe about people using their shop for browsing, then buying on Amazon --- but nobody mentions the people (I'm one) who use Amazon for reading reviews, while they're shopping and buying in the retail store.
I do this all the time. I always buy as locally as I can both to support local businesses and to ensure that the public interest is served with the tax money I owe. Amazon does provide a nice review service, though I usually look other places first. That said, I will buy from an online retailer if I can't find the item anywhere else, which is distressingly more and more common.
I don't buy the "Amazon has no presence and thus no responsibility" argument. Amazon benefits hugely from local investments, from schools to roads (not fully paid for by the shippers, BTW), to public internet infrastructure. They have a responsibility to collect the taxes that contribute to upkeep of local infrastructure.
This is really overdue. Not only does sales tax exemption create an unfair advantage for out-of-state retailers (which is bad for the local and thus national economy), it depletes funding for civilization. And yes, Amazon does use public infrastructure to operate its business and no, shippers do not pay the Amazon's share of that infrastructure. Amazon uses all sorts of local services. Amazon operates as part of our civilization and thus should be contributing to its upkeep.
Perhaps it has something to do with the federal highway trust fund being bankrupt. Because...(wait for it)...gas taxes are too low!
Many of us have to drive to various locations during the day to perform our work.
That's fine, you need a car for your job. But that doesn't mean everyone or even most people do. Most of us could really make good use of a convenient transit system. Just because one solution doesn't work for everyone doesn't mean you give up on providing it. We're in serious need of multi-modal transportation in this country. We're literally destroying our economy with our dependence on oil and the automobile.
Yeah, screw the poor who will end up paying those taxes. It's not like they might need their car to get to work or go to the store or anything.
Spare me the disingenuous reply. I've got news for you: the poor already can't afford a car given the maintenance cost. If we had proper investment in public transit we'd have a lot fewer people dependent on cars. But no, shifting just a bit of money from roads to transit is anathema in this country.
Who cares how much time is 'thrown down the drain'?
I care. Not about the time specifically but the tremendous amount of money we waste building and maintaining multi-lane freeways to places 70 miles away from the urban core. It's a gigantic waste of resources that could be put to much better use elsewhere.
Not living in the crime infested crap hole that is Chicago
Have you even spent any length of time in Chicago. No, I know you haven't given your completely ignorant statement. And no, Detroit is not a hell-hole either.
Since you're being so incredibly critical, I'm assuming you have access to data that you will share that proves conclusively the opposing point -- that supply-side economics doesn't work?
What, the last 30 years and its record levels of economic disparity don't count?
Taking addresses of the function isn't a problem. It's easy to do in C++. What it would do is break the existing ABI, which is certainly a concern, but not a showstopper in my mind. You've got to recompile code to take advantage of it anyway.
_Generic() letting you write type-generic macros.
Can anyone explain this design decision? It makes no sense to me. What they really want is function overloading. It reminds me of Fortran 2003 and its dumb, dumb, dumb implementation of polymorphism.
Thanks, pal. Already knew about that. I was trying to get some real user perspectives. lowendbox.com is pretty tough to navigate to find actual up-to-date user reviews.
I checked a lot of providers referred by lowendbox.com. The problem is you don't know which ones are solid providers and which are fly-by-night operations run out of someone's dorm room. I found a lot of sites that looked less than reputable to me. Hence the question.