Over the course of 10 years that would be about 270 lines a day 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Including debugging an testing? I don't think so my friend.
They added far too many features to the language in order to please everyone. Why? People who need high level languages have plenty of others to choose from.
Personally I got sick of it and its never ending increase in complexity and just stick with a sort of C with classes and the occasional use of the STL and thats it. In fact sometimes I'll just use plain C. If I need a language with really high level constructs then thats what Python was invented for.
Better military technology and practice and the ability to bring together greater manpower than the enemy. That and the fact that once people were living under roman rule it was actually quite nice so long as you didn't do anything stupid like raise a rebellion. To build an empire you need a strong military - to keep it you need to keep the citizens well fed and well off by allowing free trade. And the romans managed both.
Depends how you want to define empire. I'd define it as a group of states with definate borders that have been conquered and are now ruled from a central point. The US states OTOH were created by the people they're now ruled by so its hardly conquering unless you consider the native americans. But they didn't really have nation states, just peoples so its a bit nebulous.
Endless factional infighting combined with ever more rebellious provinces and incursions from surrounding regions did for the western roman empire. It managed quite nicely for hundreds of years without permanent growth - in the sense of territory - so that had nothing to do with it.
Besides, the eastern roman empire - otherwise known as Bytzantium - continued until the 15th century when the ottomans finally conquered constantinople. Thats almost 2000 years. The british empire barely managed 200, the soviets 70 and the 3rd reich about 10. Give credit where its due!
You try spotting something that cold and not much bigger than jupiter 7 light years away! I'm incredibly impressed they've managed to spot it at all and should be congratulated since it'll barely even register in the infrared never mind visible light.
You mean the ham bands where you're not allowed to discuss anything political, not allowed to swear or basically have an opinion on anything even slightly controversial except who's going to win best tomatoes at this years vegetable growers competition?
Yeah, who needs CB eh?
No offence , but the ham bands are for old men with nothing to talk about except their radios and gardens. CB back in the day was far more vibrant.
the pressure difference between bottom and top is 5 KPA. Thats equivalent to 50m of water - a deep bath. Its nothing. You'd barely even noticed it much less be troubled by it.
Anyway altitude change doesn't explain the rise in pressure of a train travelling in a tunnel an its the same effect for a high speed lift. Its compressing the air in the direction of movement in a confined space.
No, I'm afraid it is pretty negligable as far as the human ear is concerned. Just 10m of water is equivalent of 1 atmosphere pressure and plenty of divers - even free divers - can dive that in under a minute with no issues with their ears so long as they're careful. Thats the equivalent of going from space down to sea level.
Not really. Plenty of cars can manage 0-30 in under 3 seconds. I don't think anyones been hospitalised because of the accelerative forces involved yet. And plenty of motorbikes can do 60 in the same time.
This building is only 530m high. Even at a 30mph you could do that in about 20 seconds and thats assuming you're going all the way from the bottom to the top. For that distance this lift would save around a whole 5-6 seconds (not counting acceleration time). BFD.
Sounds like an expensive technology showcase rather than something that will be a major extra benefit.
The pressure changes come from the lift moving in the shaft, not from the altitude changes like on a aircraft since the difference in air pressure between 0 and 1000 feet for example is pretty negligable. All they need to do to solve the pressure problem is seal the lift car better.
Sometimes yes - but often its down to an attempt at a "framework" some idiot tried to add in lieu of writing some actually useful code (which is the usual reason for frameworks arising - those who can - code, those who can't write frameworks).
Try eating raw meat or vegetables and see how long you last. Sure , we can digest rice AFTER its been cooked. Try eating it raw and it'll come out the same as it does in the cat. The only things we can eat properly raw without some kind of preparation first is milk and some fruits but even the fruits (and vegetables) we eat have been bred to be more nutricious. Eg: wild citrus fruits are tiny, ditto plums & tomatos and wild apples are virtually inedible.
Really? Well why don't you go sleep outside in -5C bollock naked like my dog can manage, then if you're still alive the next morning get back to us. Somehow I don't think we'd be hearing back from you.
"Of course there are animals with better resistance to certain temperatures"
ITYF that would be most animals. Take away our clothing and we get hypothermia below about 5C and in strong sunshine we'll get bad sunburn - even people with dark skin eventually. Meanwhile most animals & birds will happily go about their business unconcerned in the same enviroments.
TBH the human body is a prime example of how NOT to design an animal physically. The only thing apart from our brains we have going for us is opposable thumbs and the ability of speech. Everything else is 2nd rate. Even for land based bipedalism plenty of flightless birds outclass us.
Except its not most, not its not even a majority. Most mammals can survive temperature variations and diseases that would kill us without clothing or modern medicine.
"Capable of keep going under cold or heat in ways most animals would die"
Can't let you get away with that. My dog can go out when its below freezing quite happily. I need 2 layers of clothing plus a coat.
As for heat, yes , we're slightly better adapted due to being able to sweat but that comes with a price - huge water consumption. Not very useful in a desert. Mr Camel solved the problem far better.
"We can survive bacteria, viruses and parasites and wounds"
So can most animals otherwise the most complex life would still be a sponge. And to use my dog as an example again - he can happily drink water from streams and puddles that would put me on the toilet for 2 days.
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in ID anymore than anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size, but as far as comparisons to other animals goes, the human body in the raw is pretty feeble. Even compared to our nearest cousin chimpanzees we're pretty hopeless physically - our muscles and bones are much weaker and they can survive falls from heights that would easily kill a human.
FIlters on coal fired power stations and industrial chimneys, catalysts and DPFs on vehicles and a ban on coal heating in cities. Why China can't manage these simple tasks is anyones guess. Its not like they don't have the money.
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Over the course of 10 years that would be about 270 lines a day 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Including debugging an testing? I don't think so my friend.
They added far too many features to the language in order to please everyone. Why? People who need high level languages have plenty of others to choose from.
Personally I got sick of it and its never ending increase in complexity and just stick with a sort of C with classes and the occasional use of the STL and thats it. In fact sometimes I'll just use plain C. If I need a language with really high level constructs then thats what Python was invented for.
Better military technology and practice and the ability to bring together greater manpower than the enemy. That and the fact that once people were living under roman rule it was actually quite nice so long as you didn't do anything stupid like raise a rebellion. To build an empire you need a strong military - to keep it you need to keep the citizens well fed and well off by allowing free trade. And the romans managed both.
Depends how you want to define empire. I'd define it as a group of states with definate borders that have been conquered and are now ruled from a central point. The US states OTOH were created by the people they're now ruled by so its hardly conquering unless you consider the native americans. But they didn't really have nation states, just peoples so its a bit nebulous.
Endless factional infighting combined with ever more rebellious provinces and incursions from surrounding regions did for the western roman empire. It managed quite nicely for hundreds of years without permanent growth - in the sense of territory - so that had nothing to do with it.
Besides, the eastern roman empire - otherwise known as Bytzantium - continued until the 15th century when the ottomans finally conquered constantinople. Thats almost 2000 years. The british empire barely managed 200, the soviets 70 and the 3rd reich about 10. Give credit where its due!
You try spotting something that cold and not much bigger than jupiter 7 light years away! I'm incredibly impressed they've managed to spot it at all and should be congratulated since it'll barely even register in the infrared never mind visible light.
Yes, because not having nuclear weapons obviously prevents armed conflict. Just ask Iraq or Ukraine.... oh , wait....
... that they seem to be painfully unaware of any technology from before they were born. Which for most of them was probably the year 2000.
You mean the ham bands where you're not allowed to discuss anything political, not allowed to swear or basically have an opinion on anything even slightly controversial except who's going to win best tomatoes at this years vegetable growers competition?
Yeah, who needs CB eh?
No offence , but the ham bands are for old men with nothing to talk about except their radios and gardens. CB back in the day was far more vibrant.
Oh come on - this building is 500m high. According to this:
http://www.altitude.org/air_pr...
the pressure difference between bottom and top is 5 KPA. Thats equivalent to 50m of water - a deep bath. Its nothing. You'd barely even noticed it much less be troubled by it.
Anyway altitude change doesn't explain the rise in pressure of a train travelling in a tunnel an its the same effect for a high speed lift. Its compressing the air in the direction of movement in a confined space.
No, I'm afraid it is pretty negligable as far as the human ear is concerned. Just 10m of water is equivalent of 1 atmosphere pressure and plenty of divers - even free divers - can dive that in under a minute with no issues with their ears so long as they're careful. Thats the equivalent of going from space down to sea level.
Not really. Plenty of cars can manage 0-30 in under 3 seconds. I don't think anyones been hospitalised because of the accelerative forces involved yet. And plenty of motorbikes can do 60 in the same time.
This building is only 530m high. Even at a 30mph you could do that in about 20 seconds and thats assuming you're going all the way from the bottom to the top. For that distance this lift would save around a whole 5-6 seconds (not counting acceleration time). BFD.
Sounds like an expensive technology showcase rather than something that will be a major extra benefit.
The pressure changes come from the lift moving in the shaft, not from the altitude changes like on a aircraft since the difference in air pressure between 0 and 1000 feet for example is pretty negligable. All they need to do to solve the pressure problem is seal the lift car better.
... is just a load of water with some fat and proteins mixed in. Why should it deserve any form of protection?
Idiot.
Sometimes yes - but often its down to an attempt at a "framework" some idiot tried to add in lieu of writing some actually useful code (which is the usual reason for frameworks arising - those who can - code, those who can't write frameworks).
I never said you couldn't eat raw veg/salad/whatever - I said try living on it. You won't last long. I'll give you the steak tartar though.
Try eating raw meat or vegetables and see how long you last. Sure , we can digest rice AFTER its been cooked. Try eating it raw and it'll come out the same as it does in the cat. The only things we can eat properly raw without some kind of preparation first is milk and some fruits but even the fruits (and vegetables) we eat have been bred to be more nutricious. Eg: wild citrus fruits are tiny, ditto plums & tomatos and wild apples are virtually inedible.
Yeah, whatever you say hippy. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Really? Well why don't you go sleep outside in -5C bollock naked like my dog can manage, then if you're still alive the next morning get back to us. Somehow I don't think we'd be hearing back from you.
"Of course there are animals with better resistance to certain temperatures"
ITYF that would be most animals. Take away our clothing and we get hypothermia below about 5C and in strong sunshine we'll get bad sunburn - even people with dark skin eventually. Meanwhile most animals & birds will happily go about their business unconcerned in the same enviroments.
TBH the human body is a prime example of how NOT to design an animal physically. The only thing apart from our brains we have going for us is opposable thumbs and the ability of speech. Everything else is 2nd rate. Even for land based bipedalism plenty of flightless birds outclass us.
Except its not most, not its not even a majority. Most mammals can survive temperature variations and diseases that would kill us without clothing or modern medicine.
"Capable of keep going under cold or heat in ways most animals would die"
Can't let you get away with that. My dog can go out when its below freezing quite happily. I need 2 layers of clothing plus a coat.
As for heat, yes , we're slightly better adapted due to being able to sweat but that comes with a price - huge water consumption. Not very useful in a desert. Mr Camel solved the problem far better.
"We can survive bacteria, viruses and parasites and wounds"
So can most animals otherwise the most complex life would still be a sponge. And to use my dog as an example again - he can happily drink water from streams and puddles that would put me on the toilet for 2 days.
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in ID anymore than anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size, but as far as comparisons to other animals goes, the human body in the raw is pretty feeble. Even compared to our nearest cousin chimpanzees we're pretty hopeless physically - our muscles and bones are much weaker and they can survive falls from heights that would easily kill a human.
Try getting a good reception on an iWhatever inside a car and then try changing channels on the move.
FIlters on coal fired power stations and industrial chimneys, catalysts and DPFs on vehicles and a ban on coal heating in cities. Why China can't manage these simple tasks is anyones guess. Its not like they don't have the money.