I think instead of Linus Torvalds, the position should instead go to Bill Gates\n\nint main(int argc, char**argv) { extern struct room** parents_basement; extern struct shower*; extern struct girlfriend_s*; parents_basement->leave->now(); shower->now(SHAMPOO | BRUSH_TEETH); gf = girlfriend_s.get(GF_DOESNT_PLAY_WARCRAFT); return 0; }
Ok, let me ask this question.. how did Clinton *specifically* keep the money in the hands of the middle class? As I recall, both he and Newt Gingrich at the time supported balancing the budget, so they coordinated their efforts and made it happen. That's about all I know he did for the economy as president...
The US government is in debt, but that's not a big problem, since we've been selling treasury bonds for, oh, two hundred years or so. Our tax dollars go to paying off the interest, and the confidence other countries have that the government will pay off the debt is so unbelievably strong that since the credit crisis even otherwise strong banks in Europe have been jumping into US treasury bonds because they're perceived as being so safe.
I'm not saying I support the idea that Republican presidents do better with the economy, but can you name one thing Clinton did that directly caused the economic boom of the 90's?
"I'm happy to surrender my property to the state, since it's for a good cause" does not mean the government should be forcing you to cough up your hard earned dough. Your altruism is respectable; perhaps if more people thought that way, people would give money to private charities designed to help those struggling below the poverty line. Take a look at the Mormon Church and what their welfare system does.. it's not perfect but it beats the state hands down. No, they don't make you attend their church to get welfare, but they do check up on you regularly.
What I'm saying is that as soon as you try to actually do *anything*, like click on a button, the OS will have to load all of the virtual pages on disk containing needed libraries as the application traverses down its software stack. Your mouse click will generate an interrupt, which then needs to invoke the USB subsystem, which then invokes a callback which generates a windowing system message, which then gets routed to your processes, which then loads your process' window event callback function. Eventually, by the time the software stack is traversed, you've quite likely loaded your entire application plus most of your GUI libraries into memory.
I mean, I could be wrong, it all comes down to how much of the physical code gets touched in response to any particular gui event. Just redrawing the screen would require loading quite a bit of libraries, though.
Think about doing that with a 50-200 megabyte binary (like Word or Firefox). You still have to copy all of that from disk straight into memory. Plus you have to copy the libraries that are linked to. Basically, the only performance difference would be that all the useless libraries and services that get run on startup wouldn't have to get loaded immediately. This would be an incremental improvement, but not really 'instant on.' Furthermore, it just makes more sense to *stop* loading the crap I *don't* need in the first place.
Actually, quite a few republicans are up in arms against the bailout, and quite a few dems are for it. Bush happens to be for it; he was never seen as a fiscal conservative, though.
I come to work at nine, work straight till 5, and bring lunch in. About 5-10 minutes of every hour are spent checking personal emails, calling my home internet service, calling back the health insurance compan, etc. A lot of stuff can only get done during the day. Plus, a lot of other employees spend 10 minutes every hour outside smoking. Big deal.. my boss knows I don't spend every minute staring at my code, but he also knows that it's important to renew the mind regularly in order to maintain quality.
Or a situation where national legislation can invalidate marriages between couples of the same sex, even in states that allow it. Or a situation where the Feds bust open a marijuana clinic in California which provides medication for many people who are suffering. Or a situation where the federal government signs $(legislation you oppose) because $(a group of powerful people whom you don't like) want to apply their community standards to the whole country.
Yeah, but the reason it speeds up mechanical hard drives is because your kernel can schedule I/O on multiple spindles, effectively parallelizing your I/O. Flash chips don't have to batch up a lot of transactions in memory and then block the process for long periods of time. Flash does not typically operate synchronous to the bus speed it's connected to, so you could get some speed benefits by accessing multiple banks in tandem, but probably not as much.
In that situation, you should choose a back-ended loan instead of a front loaded one (think ARM here in the States). You'd pay minimal interest if you got out in 5 years.
As someone who talks a good game, knows the right people, and is utterly incompetent, I take offense. We *know* we'll screw up 90% of the things we touch, so that's why we convince socially inept geniuses eager to find a friend to touch things for us. Then we take credit when we meet with the 'right people' for drinks after work.
If that is the sacrifice you have to make in order to pay for your retirement, then yes. No one owes you a comfortable time growing old. No one owes you nice vacations and expensive cars today. You can either face that truth now or wait until you're too old to bring in significant income.
There's legions of people all around the world who desperately want to come to this country and work their tails off for a better life. They're hungrier than us, and don't feel like society owes them. They will out-compete if we adopt the attitude you are espousing.
I'm guessing they have full debugging options turned on, unstripped binaries with debug symbols intact that take up way more space, and very conservative compile time options. Let's wait until they actually release it before we judge it.
You have confused some half truths on your argument against the Christian scriptures. I'm also not certain you have a correct understanding of what the purpose of the Council of Nicea actually was. But I don't really care about that argument now; it's a tired and old debate.
The key hole in what you said about Down Syndrome as I see it is this:
this is why i would be rather unborn than born to such a life. and heavens curse any fool who would decide that for me.
Aside from the fact that I strongly suspect that you are taking this passionate stance as a posture against abortion, which you already have strong views in favor of, I'd like to remind you that this is only your opinion. The fact that you may decide this for yourself does not mean that a mother or a society should always make that same choice. I was born with a serious genetic problem that manifests itself as serious sinus infections, polyps, asthma, and other chronic respiratory infirmities. I'm 23 and I've had three surgeries and suffer constantly because of a condition known as Samter's Triad. What if I said I'd curse any fool who decided to have me because I don't like the genes I was dealt? My case is less debilitating as DS for sure, but the argument could still be applied.
As long as there are people who suffer from serious ailments such as DS and CP who would prefer life to never having been born, it's asinine in my view to claim that we should be selecting what fetuses live and die based on our assessment of the child's projected quality of life.
To put it short, just because you couldn't muster up the courage and strength to have a fruitful life even under adverse circumstances doesn't mean that other aren't able to, or should be denied that chance.
One of these days I hope you actually do some unbiased research into these tired old arguments that you've taken up. How many documents are used as sources in modern translations of the New Testament? What time periods (e.g. before or after 325 AD) do they come from? Why do you think that having down syndrome is such a curse for a human being that you would rather have been unborn? Do you really believe that no one with D.S. can actually live a fruitful life? Aren't you really just saying that to prove a point?
The flash medium must be memory mapped for this to work. This means that nand flash is out without sitting behind some other logic to bridge the nand controller to the memory bus. Nand flash won't lend itself too well to this sort of behavior, though, since when code 'jumps' outside a page boundary there will be a bus stall until the next page gets read. Also, 'real programmers' modify the code during execution:P
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Didn't the democrats draft and propose the bailout bill? It seems like both parties teamed up for this one..
I think instead of Linus Torvalds, the position should instead go to Bill Gates\n\nint main(int argc, char**argv) { extern struct room** parents_basement; extern struct shower*; extern struct girlfriend_s*; parents_basement->leave->now(); shower->now(SHAMPOO | BRUSH_TEETH); gf = girlfriend_s.get(GF_DOESNT_PLAY_WARCRAFT); return 0; }
Ok, let me ask this question.. how did Clinton *specifically* keep the money in the hands of the middle class? As I recall, both he and Newt Gingrich at the time supported balancing the budget, so they coordinated their efforts and made it happen. That's about all I know he did for the economy as president...
The US government is in debt, but that's not a big problem, since we've been selling treasury bonds for, oh, two hundred years or so. Our tax dollars go to paying off the interest, and the confidence other countries have that the government will pay off the debt is so unbelievably strong that since the credit crisis even otherwise strong banks in Europe have been jumping into US treasury bonds because they're perceived as being so safe.
I'm not saying I support the idea that Republican presidents do better with the economy, but can you name one thing Clinton did that directly caused the economic boom of the 90's?
"I'm happy to surrender my property to the state, since it's for a good cause" does not mean the government should be forcing you to cough up your hard earned dough. Your altruism is respectable; perhaps if more people thought that way, people would give money to private charities designed to help those struggling below the poverty line. Take a look at the Mormon Church and what their welfare system does.. it's not perfect but it beats the state hands down. No, they don't make you attend their church to get welfare, but they do check up on you regularly.
No, two and two is true. :P
...and be done with it.
What I'm saying is that as soon as you try to actually do *anything*, like click on a button, the OS will have to load all of the virtual pages on disk containing needed libraries as the application traverses down its software stack. Your mouse click will generate an interrupt, which then needs to invoke the USB subsystem, which then invokes a callback which generates a windowing system message, which then gets routed to your processes, which then loads your process' window event callback function. Eventually, by the time the software stack is traversed, you've quite likely loaded your entire application plus most of your GUI libraries into memory.
I mean, I could be wrong, it all comes down to how much of the physical code gets touched in response to any particular gui event. Just redrawing the screen would require loading quite a bit of libraries, though.
Think about doing that with a 50-200 megabyte binary (like Word or Firefox). You still have to copy all of that from disk straight into memory. Plus you have to copy the libraries that are linked to. Basically, the only performance difference would be that all the useless libraries and services that get run on startup wouldn't have to get loaded immediately. This would be an incremental improvement, but not really 'instant on.' Furthermore, it just makes more sense to *stop* loading the crap I *don't* need in the first place.
Actually, quite a few republicans are up in arms against the bailout, and quite a few dems are for it. Bush happens to be for it; he was never seen as a fiscal conservative, though.
I come to work at nine, work straight till 5, and bring lunch in. About 5-10 minutes of every hour are spent checking personal emails, calling my home internet service, calling back the health insurance compan, etc. A lot of stuff can only get done during the day. Plus, a lot of other employees spend 10 minutes every hour outside smoking. Big deal.. my boss knows I don't spend every minute staring at my code, but he also knows that it's important to renew the mind regularly in order to maintain quality.
Or a situation where national legislation can invalidate marriages between couples of the same sex, even in states that allow it. Or a situation where the Feds bust open a marijuana clinic in California which provides medication for many people who are suffering. Or a situation where the federal government signs $(legislation you oppose) because $(a group of powerful people whom you don't like) want to apply their community standards to the whole country.
Ever heard of optimizing compilers?
int is_spinning(struct politician* politician)
{
return (politician->is_alive() && politician->mouth == POLITICIAN_MOUTH_OPEN);
}
Wow. Noted. Getting more sleep tonight...
I don't think you have to comply with an anonymous takedown notice.
Yeah, but the reason it speeds up mechanical hard drives is because your kernel can schedule I/O on multiple spindles, effectively parallelizing your I/O. Flash chips don't have to batch up a lot of transactions in memory and then block the process for long periods of time. Flash does not typically operate synchronous to the bus speed it's connected to, so you could get some speed benefits by accessing multiple banks in tandem, but probably not as much.
In that situation, you should choose a back-ended loan instead of a front loaded one (think ARM here in the States). You'd pay minimal interest if you got out in 5 years.
As someone who talks a good game, knows the right people, and is utterly incompetent, I take offense. We *know* we'll screw up 90% of the things we touch, so that's why we convince socially inept geniuses eager to find a friend to touch things for us. Then we take credit when we meet with the 'right people' for drinks after work.
If that is the sacrifice you have to make in order to pay for your retirement, then yes. No one owes you a comfortable time growing old. No one owes you nice vacations and expensive cars today. You can either face that truth now or wait until you're too old to bring in significant income.
There's legions of people all around the world who desperately want to come to this country and work their tails off for a better life. They're hungrier than us, and don't feel like society owes them. They will out-compete if we adopt the attitude you are espousing.
I'm guessing they have full debugging options turned on, unstripped binaries with debug symbols intact that take up way more space, and very conservative compile time options. Let's wait until they actually release it before we judge it.
You have confused some half truths on your argument against the Christian scriptures. I'm also not certain you have a correct understanding of what the purpose of the Council of Nicea actually was. But I don't really care about that argument now; it's a tired and old debate.
The key hole in what you said about Down Syndrome as I see it is this:
this is why i would be rather unborn than born to such a life. and heavens curse any fool who would decide that for me.
Aside from the fact that I strongly suspect that you are taking this passionate stance as a posture against abortion, which you already have strong views in favor of, I'd like to remind you that this is only your opinion. The fact that you may decide this for yourself does not mean that a mother or a society should always make that same choice. I was born with a serious genetic problem that manifests itself as serious sinus infections, polyps, asthma, and other chronic respiratory infirmities. I'm 23 and I've had three surgeries and suffer constantly because of a condition known as Samter's Triad. What if I said I'd curse any fool who decided to have me because I don't like the genes I was dealt? My case is less debilitating as DS for sure, but the argument could still be applied.
As long as there are people who suffer from serious ailments such as DS and CP who would prefer life to never having been born, it's asinine in my view to claim that we should be selecting what fetuses live and die based on our assessment of the child's projected quality of life.
To put it short, just because you couldn't muster up the courage and strength to have a fruitful life even under adverse circumstances doesn't mean that other aren't able to, or should be denied that chance.
One of these days I hope you actually do some unbiased research into these tired old arguments that you've taken up. How many documents are used as sources in modern translations of the New Testament? What time periods (e.g. before or after 325 AD) do they come from? Why do you think that having down syndrome is such a curse for a human being that you would rather have been unborn? Do you really believe that no one with D.S. can actually live a fruitful life? Aren't you really just saying that to prove a point?
The flash medium must be memory mapped for this to work. This means that nand flash is out without sitting behind some other logic to bridge the nand controller to the memory bus. Nand flash won't lend itself too well to this sort of behavior, though, since when code 'jumps' outside a page boundary there will be a bus stall until the next page gets read. Also, 'real programmers' modify the code during execution :P