"Far" faster? Well, maybe percentage-wise. But I bet it would be 0.0001% of program execution for one and 0.00013% for the other. Worrying about the relative speed of alternate constructs and using them everywhere is a backwards approach; instead, find out what's taking most of the time in your code using a profiler, fix it, rinse and repeat.
And since somebody else will say this if I don't, OO enthusiasts have a distaste for both else-if's and case statements, seeing either as a candidate for subclassing and virtual functions.
Adam Lanza, who murdered 27 people in Newtown, Connecticut, 26 of them at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, shot himself as police were closing in, the stateâ(TM)s governor said on Sunday.
Dannel Malloy said the authorities believed Lanza committed suicide when he heard police arriving, while children were still trapped inside the school.
not a single one of the new regulations being proposed would have stopped any of these mass shootings
Define "stopped." Sandy Hook stopped as soon as the police showed up, so a lower rate of fire certainly would have reduced the death toll.
But if the next mass shooting happens under a ban on large magazines, will anybody be rational enough to care or even recognize that the body count may have been somewhat higher with a large magazine? Of course not. It's unknowable, like the affect of global warming on the intensity of a single hurricane.
Originally expected to cost £2.3 billion (bn) over three years, in June 2006 the total cost was estimated by the National Audit Office to be £12.4bn over 10 years, and the NAO also noted that "...it was not demonstrated that the financial value of the benefits exceeds the cost of the Programme"....
While the Daily Mail announced on 22 September 2011 that "£12bn NHS computer system is scrapped...",[5] The Guardian noted that the announcement from the Department of Health on 9 September,[6] had been "part of a process towards localising NHS IT that has been under way for several years".[7] Whilst remaining aspects of the National Programme for IT were cancelled, most of the spending would proceed with the Department of Health seeking for local software solutions rather than a single nationally imposed system.[8]
In other words, they backed down from a single, unified solution, after spending 5x what they thought it would cost when they set out.
I really don't understand it. You would think by now there would be affordable out-of-the-box solutions, akin to QuickBooks.
Hmm, what surprises me is how transparent we're finding things have been all along, and with what little apparent consequence. Not unlike Manning's wikileaks.
Writing a JRE is like writing an OS. You can write a toy one in a few months (Minux) or spend lifetimes writing one good enough to be competitive in the real world (Linux).
Do people moan and groan this much about whiteboards? That's what this is, the latest incarnation of the smartboard. So far I haven't seen any smartboards actually displace whiteboards - too laggy, not enough contrast - but maybe they'll get it right eventually.
You're right, porting is not really a solution. And there's really no problem in the first place, since we don't do web apps. But all this negative press damages the Java brand name immensely, and it's very easy for people higher up in the bureaucracy to simply say, "Java? Oh yeah, we're aware of all the problems with that. The answer is no."
All the main codebases I work with and develop are in java. Tonight I was doing some work and tried to google some javadoc, but the first result was an illustration of a java-logo coffee cup going into a garbage can, and the first pageful of results were "how to uninstall java." I already had a customer balking about installing java. Now it seems certain we'll have to port everything away, a huge undertaking. (Even though we'll end up porting it to C++ and have multiple times more vulnerabilities when we're done, but I guess at least they'll be specific to our application).
Do investors want to select for delusional entrepreneurs without a sense of the realities of the world?
The lottery mentality runs very deep in American culture. This is not just my opinion: More than half of those aged 18 to 29 (54 percent), believe they will get rich. And yet, only 2% of the population identifies themselves as actually rich. That is a BIG disconnect. Put another way, there's a sucker born every minute.
Perhaps the issue is more that you're seeing American unions through the filter of American culture, which is very business friendly, and could be summarized as: "be thankful you have a job." Unfilled $12/hr job openings are sometimes featured on the evening news, the subtext being that it is a crime by the lazy against the economy, and a personal insult to employers.
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Granted, I've never even worked in a union myself. But honestly, if a German union and all its workers were suddenly transported here, with all the time off and other benefits they receive, can you imagine anything but mortal conflict with US management?
Blue collar America has taken an incredible beating with a huge decline in standard of living over the last 30 years, today's auto workers are lucky to make half of what their fathers did. Unions are the instrument by which they've struggled, without much success, to fight against that decline. It is hard to imagine some ugliness not resulting from such a struggle.
You can do this with a 50/50 mix of corn starch and clear silicone. There are several refinements of this idea around the internet, here is one. What works even better IMHO is to use the moulded material to make the plugs stay in your ear, then a foam material (cutoff foam earplugs) on the tips to maintain a tight seal.
People make this argument against cushioned running shoes too (now that barefoot is the big thing) and I find it completely nonsensical. I can easily see where the padding might make you increase your activity to negate the padding, but I do not see that you would increase it so much as to be worse off than if the padding were not there. In the absence of data we are just playing thought experiments. If there is data that airbags, anti-lock brakes, or 4wd make cars less safe to due to overconfidence, that would be relevant.
If that's the main problem, why haven't goggles for 2d information caught on? No variation in focal distance there. People sit for hours on the airplane crouched over the tiny 2d screen on their cellphone watching a movie, or smashing the screen of their laptop up against the guy reclining his chair into them. Goggle screens are available but do not seem very popular, but why? (I haven't tried them).
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Mea culpa, I was confusing it with megapixels. Still, 3840x2160 is not very much higher than on the 15" retinal display.
I think we won't see consumer 4k devices for another 20 years.
I bet they're at BestBuy within 2 years, and a nearly-free premium above 1080 within 4.
Something else that could look fantastic in 4K, and could be done easily, is video games. The 15" Macbook Pro already has a 2880 by 1800 screen, which is over 5K pixels. Sadly I doubt the PS4 and XBox720 (whatever they end up calling them) will do it. But it would be so great for splitscreen gaming, and simulation-type games such as flight simulators.
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And since somebody else will say this if I don't, OO enthusiasts have a distaste for both else-if's and case statements, seeing either as a candidate for subclassing and virtual functions.
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Was that not true after all?
I remember after Columbine having the feeling the police and swat teams had showed up with all their paramilitary toys and then did nothing.
Define "stopped." Sandy Hook stopped as soon as the police showed up, so a lower rate of fire certainly would have reduced the death toll.
But if the next mass shooting happens under a ban on large magazines, will anybody be rational enough to care or even recognize that the body count may have been somewhat higher with a large magazine? Of course not. It's unknowable, like the affect of global warming on the intensity of a single hurricane.
Interesting. It's too bad that on message boards like this the most informative posts sometimes come after the crowd is gone.
Perhaps you're talking about different irregularities, but these days they use a scanner like this on your eyes to map it out instantly.
In other words, they backed down from a single, unified solution, after spending 5x what they thought it would cost when they set out.
I really don't understand it. You would think by now there would be affordable out-of-the-box solutions, akin to QuickBooks.
Hmm, what surprises me is how transparent we're finding things have been all along, and with what little apparent consequence. Not unlike Manning's wikileaks.
Writing a JRE is like writing an OS. You can write a toy one in a few months (Minux) or spend lifetimes writing one good enough to be competitive in the real world (Linux).
Do people moan and groan this much about whiteboards? That's what this is, the latest incarnation of the smartboard. So far I haven't seen any smartboards actually displace whiteboards - too laggy, not enough contrast - but maybe they'll get it right eventually.
No, desktop applications. What managed, crossplatform runtime is better?
You're right, porting is not really a solution. And there's really no problem in the first place, since we don't do web apps. But all this negative press damages the Java brand name immensely, and it's very easy for people higher up in the bureaucracy to simply say, "Java? Oh yeah, we're aware of all the problems with that. The answer is no."
All the main codebases I work with and develop are in java. Tonight I was doing some work and tried to google some javadoc, but the first result was an illustration of a java-logo coffee cup going into a garbage can, and the first pageful of results were "how to uninstall java." I already had a customer balking about installing java. Now it seems certain we'll have to port everything away, a huge undertaking. (Even though we'll end up porting it to C++ and have multiple times more vulnerabilities when we're done, but I guess at least they'll be specific to our application).
Yeah, well, last week's big petition was to build a Death Star, that got 34,435 signatures. So, yeah, they're toilet paper.
The lottery mentality runs very deep in American culture. This is not just my opinion: More than half of those aged 18 to 29 (54 percent), believe they will get rich. And yet, only 2% of the population identifies themselves as actually rich. That is a BIG disconnect. Put another way, there's a sucker born every minute.
Asia has something of a stereotype for suicide but Europe, especially Eastern Europe, takes the cake.
Here's a weird one, why do whites commit suicide at a much higher rate than other races?
Ego boost is the only real reason to amass a great fortune, so having it and keeping it secret is little better than not having it at all.
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Granted, I've never even worked in a union myself. But honestly, if a German union and all its workers were suddenly transported here, with all the time off and other benefits they receive, can you imagine anything but mortal conflict with US management?
Blue collar America has taken an incredible beating with a huge decline in standard of living over the last 30 years, today's auto workers are lucky to make half of what their fathers did. Unions are the instrument by which they've struggled, without much success, to fight against that decline. It is hard to imagine some ugliness not resulting from such a struggle.
You can do this with a 50/50 mix of corn starch and clear silicone. There are several refinements of this idea around the internet, here is one. What works even better IMHO is to use the moulded material to make the plugs stay in your ear, then a foam material (cutoff foam earplugs) on the tips to maintain a tight seal.
The Urban Dictionary is not like any person, it is a forced attempt to define every possible word in terms of sex.
People make this argument against cushioned running shoes too (now that barefoot is the big thing) and I find it completely nonsensical. I can easily see where the padding might make you increase your activity to negate the padding, but I do not see that you would increase it so much as to be worse off than if the padding were not there. In the absence of data we are just playing thought experiments. If there is data that airbags, anti-lock brakes, or 4wd make cars less safe to due to overconfidence, that would be relevant.
Oblig. Back to the Future II. Splitscreen gaming would also really rock on a big 4k screen (if the consoles support it).
If that's the main problem, why haven't goggles for 2d information caught on? No variation in focal distance there. People sit for hours on the airplane crouched over the tiny 2d screen on their cellphone watching a movie, or smashing the screen of their laptop up against the guy reclining his chair into them. Goggle screens are available but do not seem very popular, but why? (I haven't tried them).
Mea culpa, I was confusing it with megapixels. Still, 3840x2160 is not very much higher than on the 15" retinal display.
I bet they're at BestBuy within 2 years, and a nearly-free premium above 1080 within 4.
Something else that could look fantastic in 4K, and could be done easily, is video games. The 15" Macbook Pro already has a 2880 by 1800 screen, which is over 5K pixels. Sadly I doubt the PS4 and XBox720 (whatever they end up calling them) will do it. But it would be so great for splitscreen gaming, and simulation-type games such as flight simulators.