Some 20 year old student disseration? Is that it? Seriously?
Here's something to think about - given that legumes have been grown by man for thousands of years do explain why nitrate poisoning of the rivers only started after artificial fertilizers came on the scene. You'd expect that large crops of legumes would already have caused it.
"And really, "its" and "grammer" in a grammar flame"
You're the one who used the tired old attack on spelling instead of a cogent argument, not me. I really don't care if I make a few mistakes but if you're going to have a go at people about it you really need to get it 100% correct yourself. And I'm really not going to take english lessons from someone who speaks a language that sounds like you're trying to throw up every 3rd word.
"Environmental effects of ecological agriculture"
Just post a damn link. I've got better things to do that search the entire internet for a phrase.
"You can neither prove something is safe nor dangerous "
You can't prove something is dangerous? Seriously, is that your argument??? Man , you really need to get yourself an education.
Tell you what, if you seriously believe that go eat some cyanide. I mean its only been 100% fatal to everyone who's ever done it but that doesn't prove its dangerous in the slightest does it? Get back to me with your results though you might have to wait until I've bought a wigi board.
"So why don't you go back to swapping genes with your sister,"
Oh dear, showing your rather young age with that silly comment arn't we.
If you're going to tell a native english speaker how to spell when its not your native language then I would suggest you make sure your english is perfect first starting with your grammer. It's "we do not grow legumeS". Plural. "Go AND take lessons".
And I don't believe you about the run off. Post a link.
"If you think people are against GMO food because they're luddites, then you're an idiot."
No, they're against it because its big scaring biotech and people are always against stuff they don't have a clue about.
"People are against it because there's no evidence it's safe either,"
Oh puh-lease! The attempting to prove a negative straw man argument. Let me guess - you want to keep testing until someone or something falls ill? No? But if no one falls ill how long do you wait until you think its safe? 1 year, 10 years, 100 years, forever? Moron.
"enetically modified pigs have ended up in the food supply and contaminated crops."
And has the world come to an end or have there been ANY biological consequences? No.
"With some things (say, thalidomide) you only discover the disastrous consequences after literally years."
Thats called life. Shit happens occasionally when you advance technology but if it didn't risk it we'd still be living in the dark ages. I'm sure there were people like you prophesising doom when someone came up with the idea of farming instead of just picking stuff from the woods.
"Me, I'd prefer to avoid it."
Be my guest. Though if you're really concerned about gene swapping you might want to worry about all the bacteria in your gut doing it 24/7 via plasmids.
"But then again, if you knew what you were talking about,"
If you knew what you were talking about you'd know that leakage is a DAMN site less than the amount caused by fertlizer runoff plus it tends to stay locked in the soil. Ever heard of run off from legume farms? No, you won't have. Now back under your bridge you pathetic troll.
"I don't think it's being a Luddite to be concerned with the safety of something that is engineered,"
There's being concerned the proper tests have been done and then there's dismissing something based on nothing more than dogma. Greenpeace et al are firmly in the latter category.
"Even regular hybridization can occasionally cause bad side-effects and we've even seen this lately."
Life isn't risk free, you mitigate as much as you can. You're just using the standard issue "It went bad once so never use it again" luddite argument. Sorry, but if everyone thought like that we'd still be living in mud huts and riding around on horses.... Actually no , we'd be walking , because someone once fell off a horse and hurt themselves , best stay away from the dangerous beasts.
There is research going on to allow various wheat and barley strains to fix their own nitrogen by implanting genes from peas and beans. If these are used in agriculture substantially less nitrogen fertilizer will be required on farms growing these crops.
Unfortunately as usual the greenpeace and anti-GM rent-a-mod luddites are against it because... well I've no idea really , best ask them. Perhaps they think nitrate poisoning of the sea is better than putting pea genes in a grass.
Oh wait , sorry , news coming in.... we all need to go organic! Presumably they've found a 2nd earth in which there is enough room to farm organically for the entire world but have yet to tell us. I await their announcemant.
LOL! No, anoymous is just a bunch of teenagers suffering the usual delusions of teenage self importance. If you think anonymous are somehow a mature vision of humanity then I've got some justin beiber CDs to sell you.
But if there was a war amd the US needed to get to those bases fast then it would just do what it damn well pleased and worry about upsetting the Kiwis later. And given that the feminised socialist government of NZ in 2001 removed all the new zealand air forces combat aircraft they couldn't even launch a token protest against it. Perhaps they could just hold hands and sing CND songs loudly instead?
(I'm not american btw , but countries who think they have the yanks by the balls are almost always deluding themselves)
"If someone proposed HTTP today, it wouldn't pass muster by these experts either."
And with good reason. Berners-Lee might have invented the web as we know it but like all first attempts (yes I know about hypercard and all the rest , they weren't networked!) it could really do with some serious improvement. Unfortunately the best solution would be to bin it and start again but its way to late for that so its make do and mend which almost always ends up in a total mess. Which is we what we have today.
"Since there are plenty of other ways of getting digital television, I think it's reasonable that a small number of people are affected for the benefit of the majority. Perhaps relax planning regulations for satellite antennae for those affected."
I think you've got that the wrong way around - almost everyone watches TV and they far outnumber the people using 3G for mobile internet , never mind 4G.
UK governments don't give a stuff about you and me - they only care about the money they can make from selling spectrum to big business. If that means the new use of the spectrum will cause interference to our TV viewing... weeeell, thats just collateral damage.
Ok , fair enough. Except that scenario requires the stack to be unrolled in the reverse order to that which it was rolled up. longjmp literally allows the program to immediately jump anywhere in the code without any unrolling being done, it just replaces with stack with whaveter setjmp had saved which in that particular scenario is a lot more efficient.
Low level in the sense of C means direct manipulation of memory addresses including pointers, usually a fairly obvious mapping of C code to assemby code and allowing 2 way interaction with inline assembly code. Also there is very little implicit assembler being generated unlike with C++ for things such as constructors, destructors, hidden conversions, template code duplication , pre-main() initialisation etc etc.
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... a bunch of cops immobilise a drunk former armed robber who was trying to flee from them at over 100mph.
And I'm supposed to have sympathy ... why exactly? Because of the colour of his skin?
Seriously, who gave a **** apart from the usual gh3tto troublemakers?
Some 20 year old student disseration? Is that it? Seriously?
Here's something to think about - given that legumes have been grown by man for thousands of years do explain why nitrate poisoning of the rivers only started after artificial fertilizers came on the scene. You'd expect that large crops of legumes would already have caused it.
"The correct flame would be "peas ARE legumes"."
Wow, you're flaming yourself. Thats impressive.
"And really, "its" and "grammer" in a grammar flame"
You're the one who used the tired old attack on spelling instead of a cogent argument, not me. I really don't care if I make a few mistakes but if you're going to have a go at people about it you really need to get it 100% correct yourself. And I'm really not going to take english lessons from someone who speaks a language that sounds like you're trying to throw up every 3rd word.
"Environmental effects of ecological agriculture"
Just post a damn link. I've got better things to do that search the entire internet for a phrase.
"You can neither prove something is safe nor dangerous "
You can't prove something is dangerous? Seriously, is that your argument??? Man , you really need to get yourself an education.
Tell you what, if you seriously believe that go eat some cyanide. I mean its only been 100% fatal to everyone who's ever done it but that doesn't prove its dangerous in the slightest does it? Get back to me with your results though you might have to wait until I've bought a wigi board.
"So why don't you go back to swapping genes with your sister,"
Oh dear, showing your rather young age with that silly comment arn't we.
"or at least learn how to spell."
If you're going to tell a native english speaker how to spell when its not your native language then I would suggest you make sure your english is perfect first starting with your grammer. It's "we do not grow legumeS". Plural. "Go AND take lessons".
And I don't believe you about the run off. Post a link.
"If you think people are against GMO food because they're luddites, then you're an idiot."
No, they're against it because its big scaring biotech and people are always against stuff they don't have a clue about.
"People are against it because there's no evidence it's safe either,"
Oh puh-lease! The attempting to prove a negative straw man argument. Let me guess - you want to keep testing until someone or something falls ill? No? But if no one falls ill how long do you wait until you think its safe? 1 year, 10 years, 100 years, forever? Moron.
"enetically modified pigs have ended up in the food supply and contaminated crops."
And has the world come to an end or have there been ANY biological consequences? No.
"With some things (say, thalidomide) you only discover the disastrous consequences after literally years."
Thats called life. Shit happens occasionally when you advance technology but if it didn't risk it we'd still be living in the dark ages. I'm sure there were people like you prophesising doom when someone came up with the idea of farming instead of just picking stuff from the woods.
"Me, I'd prefer to avoid it."
Be my guest. Though if you're really concerned about gene swapping you might want to worry about all the bacteria in your gut doing it 24/7 via plasmids.
"But then again, if you knew what you were talking about,"
If you knew what you were talking about you'd know that leakage is a DAMN site less than the amount caused by fertlizer runoff plus it tends to stay locked in the soil. Ever heard of run off from legume farms? No, you won't have. Now back under your bridge you pathetic troll.
"I don't think it's being a Luddite to be concerned with the safety of something that is engineered,"
There's being concerned the proper tests have been done and then there's dismissing something based on nothing more than dogma. Greenpeace et al are firmly in the latter category.
"Even regular hybridization can occasionally cause bad side-effects and we've even seen this lately."
Life isn't risk free, you mitigate as much as you can. You're just using the standard issue "It went bad once so never use it again" luddite argument. Sorry, but if everyone thought like that we'd still be living in mud huts and riding around on horses. ... Actually no , we'd be walking , because someone once fell off a horse and hurt themselves , best stay away from the dangerous beasts.
"Yeah, that or maybe they think GM wheat and barley will be as much of a disaster as GM corn has been. We should do neither..."
Fine. Whats your solution then? A nobel prize awaits you...
There is research going on to allow various wheat and barley strains to fix their own nitrogen by implanting genes from peas and beans. If these are used in agriculture substantially less nitrogen fertilizer will be required on farms growing these crops.
Unfortunately as usual the greenpeace and anti-GM rent-a-mod luddites are against it because ... well I've no idea really , best ask them. Perhaps they think nitrate poisoning of the sea is better than putting pea genes in a grass.
Oh wait , sorry , news coming in.... we all need to go organic! Presumably they've found a 2nd earth in which there is enough room to farm organically for the entire world but have yet to tell us. I await their announcemant.
Not all , but most. And the ones who arn't are just as immature and/or socially inept.
LOL! No, anoymous is just a bunch of teenagers suffering the usual delusions of teenage self importance. If you think anonymous are somehow a mature vision of humanity then I've got some justin beiber CDs to sell you.
But if there was a war amd the US needed to get to those bases fast then it would just do what it damn well pleased and worry about upsetting the Kiwis later. And given that the feminised socialist government of NZ in 2001 removed all the new zealand air forces combat aircraft they couldn't even launch a token protest against it. Perhaps they could just hold hands and sing CND songs loudly instead?
(I'm not american btw , but countries who think they have the yanks by the balls are almost always deluding themselves)
Wish I had points to mod you up. So true!
"If someone proposed HTTP today, it wouldn't pass muster by these experts either."
And with good reason. Berners-Lee might have invented the web as we know it but like all first attempts (yes I know about hypercard and all the rest , they weren't networked!) it could really do with some serious improvement. Unfortunately the best solution would be to bin it and start again but its way to late for that so its make do and mend which almost always ends up in a total mess. Which is we what we have today.
As a static data format its just about passable, but as a low overhead network protocol??
Wtf have you been smoking??
The Internet Printing Protocol is a wierd mash up of HTTP and a proprietary binary format. God knows what they were smoking when they dreamt it up.
"Since there are plenty of other ways of getting digital television, I think it's reasonable that a small number of people are affected for the benefit of the majority. Perhaps relax planning regulations for satellite antennae for those affected."
I think you've got that the wrong way around - almost everyone watches TV and they far outnumber the people using 3G for mobile internet , never mind 4G.
UK governments don't give a stuff about you and me - they only care about the money they can make from selling spectrum to big business. If that means the new use of the spectrum will cause interference to our TV viewing ... weeeell, thats just collateral damage.
... and it was still the same. Perhaps the 1992 tech doesn't work in my shiny new HTML5 browser? ;o)
I mean who uses the GUI to do much work in Windows anyway? Pfffft , cmd.exe is all I need!
... of the discussion. You're as predictable as everyone else.
Ok , fair enough. Except that scenario requires the stack to be unrolled in the reverse order to that which it was rolled up. longjmp literally allows the program to immediately jump anywhere in the code without any unrolling being done, it just replaces with stack with whaveter setjmp had saved which in that particular scenario is a lot more efficient.
Low level in the sense of C means direct manipulation of memory addresses including pointers, usually a fairly obvious mapping of C code to assemby code and allowing 2 way interaction with inline assembly code. Also there is very little implicit assembler being generated unlike with C++ for things such as constructors, destructors, hidden conversions, template code duplication , pre-main() initialisation etc etc.