In a real socialist society, you would then be sent off to a work camp where either you would build infrastructure for food and board, or get beaten to death for not making quota.
The soviets didn't fall because the economic system was a failure, it fell because the political system was. They put too much effort into preserving power, and trying to spread their ideologies (very much like the American goals of spreading democracy). I don't think either socialism or democracy are bad, but I do believe that trying to force a system of goverment / economy on someone is.
Socialism has been shown to work - just look at Sweden and Canada for two of the best examples. It just needs to be kept in check by a healthy democracy (which I believe means that more than two parties have a hope of creating a government).
You do realize that you can reformat the hard drive that comes with your computer? Dell won't hunt you down for erasing the existing partitions and reinstalling.
I am, but precisely because I don't care about small tweaks in rendering/javascript speed when there are 5-10 second+ pauses while waiting for some goofy plugin that can't run it's own background thread. The whole multiprocess thing is a great idea and something that I'm glad IE8 is pursuing, maybe firefox will get a clue sooner or later.
It's having the entire browser freeze up because some plugin (I'm looking at you acrobat reader) is downloading and rendering. Why can't this be done on another thread and let me continue reading in another tab?
I live in Canada, and I can book my kid an appointment with his pediatrician the same day I call, and depend on getting into the office within about 5 minutes of the appointment time. I realize that a lot of clinic or emergency rooms are going to have issues, but it's hardly a requirement of socialized health care to have poor service. It just means that you have one centralized insurance agency that is accountable to the people, as opposed to hundreds of smaller ones that are accountable to shareholders. You can complain about the ineffiency of a government beurocracy, but the inneffiency of trying to handle so many different insurance companies and private billing is far greater.
CPAN is definitely a valid reason, a bigger one is portability. But the text vs object thing is really a point against Perl. The text-parsing stuff is still there in PowerShell, only if the small-script you're are calling supports it, you get an object stream back. You can convert it to text if you really feel the need, but knowing that $_.ProcessName is always going to refer to the Process name is way better than having to find column 5, and trust that the script's author hasn't rearranged things on you.
I'm not Irish (other than a 1/32nd sliver from way back), and I've never worked directly with an Irish IT crew. But the fact that it is so easy to move around in Europe now means that talent is going to concentrate where the good jobs are. Once you hit a critical level of talent, you start getting new start-ups, and the whole thing cascades.
Of course eventually, things will get to the point where corporations are taking advantage of tax loopholes, and not contributing back to the local economy. Eventually you get the arms race between the corporations and the tax collectors, leading to the mess of a tax code that the United States now has, and the corporations start looking elsewhere.
Now that I'm thinking about it, there's almost a parallel between developing software to keep out hackers, and developing tax laws to keep corporations from abusing them. You want to maximize ease of use, difficulty of abuse, and overall utility. And while it's tempting to scrap the whole thing and start over with something simpler, each of those little hacks are in there to fix some "bug", or implement some desired feature.
If all of these corporations keep setting up in Ireland, it will start attracting the needed talent. When the economy can no longer support all the tech companies in Seattle and California, those employees aren't just going to sit around. They'll go looking for new tech centers. Ireland has the advantage that Guinness is locally made, so who wouldn't want to move there.
class HeapAllocate {
int *x; public:
HeapAllocate() : x (new int()) {}
~HeapAllocate() { delete x; } };
Of course if you want to do more than one allocation (of memory or any other resource) in a single class, then you'll have to have to use a smart pointer, or other RAII class for each one.
Try living in northern Canada, where 8 months of the year it's below freezing in the morning, and two of those months can approach -40 (C or F). When you add in the windchill effect you pretty much eliminate motorcycles, segways, and mopeds, and only the craziest of people can handle a bicycles in that weather. So it's pretty much just cars for everyone all winter long.
No real quotable source - CNN's "Black in America" would back this up for african americans in particular, but in general it's just my own, admittedly anecdotal, experience.
What has happened is that a culture has formed among guys who don't do great in school that going to college is a waste of time. Women in general have less of this, and are more likely to try for college regardless of previous academic success. As a result, fewer guys take the SATs, but those that do represent tend to come from stronger academic backgrounds, raising the average for guys.
Maybe I'm missing something, but installing cable internet on my (windows) computer didn't require a power cycle - and I'm pretty sure Linux wouldn't either. Make sure the firewall is enabled, plug the cat5 in, little network cable unplugged icon disappears, browse to Google.
It would be easy enough to tune things so that the attempt to stand up would cause the vehicle to slow down, and it wouldn't actually let you stand up until you got down to an appropriate speed.
I would expect that the acceleration could be linked to how much you lean forward (a la segway) - and with in-wheel electric motors, all three could be powered.
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Sorry - I was being facetious about the work camp thing.
In a real socialist society, you would then be sent off to a work camp where either you would build infrastructure for food and board, or get beaten to death for not making quota.
The soviets didn't fall because the economic system was a failure, it fell because the political system was. They put too much effort into preserving power, and trying to spread their ideologies (very much like the American goals of spreading democracy). I don't think either socialism or democracy are bad, but I do believe that trying to force a system of goverment / economy on someone is.
Socialism has been shown to work - just look at Sweden and Canada for two of the best examples. It just needs to be kept in check by a healthy democracy (which I believe means that more than two parties have a hope of creating a government).
You do realize that you can reformat the hard drive that comes with your computer? Dell won't hunt you down for erasing the existing partitions and reinstalling.
What's with the mixing of units? Use either 50 miles and 50 yards, or 80 km and 50 m. Mixing imperial and metric units like this, will probably cause http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/25/1449212#the test devices to explode.
I am, but precisely because I don't care about small tweaks in rendering/javascript speed when there are 5-10 second+ pauses while waiting for some goofy plugin that can't run it's own background thread. The whole multiprocess thing is a great idea and something that I'm glad IE8 is pursuing, maybe firefox will get a clue sooner or later.
It's having the entire browser freeze up because some plugin (I'm looking at you acrobat reader) is downloading and rendering. Why can't this be done on another thread and let me continue reading in another tab?
I live in Canada, and I can book my kid an appointment with his pediatrician the same day I call, and depend on getting into the office within about 5 minutes of the appointment time. I realize that a lot of clinic or emergency rooms are going to have issues, but it's hardly a requirement of socialized health care to have poor service. It just means that you have one centralized insurance agency that is accountable to the people, as opposed to hundreds of smaller ones that are accountable to shareholders.
You can complain about the ineffiency of a government beurocracy, but the inneffiency of trying to handle so many different insurance companies and private billing is far greater.
I wouldn't say more accurate, but it is more precise.
CPAN is definitely a valid reason, a bigger one is portability. But the text vs object thing is really a point against Perl. The text-parsing stuff is still there in PowerShell, only if the small-script you're are calling supports it, you get an object stream back. You can convert it to text if you really feel the need, but knowing that $_.ProcessName is always going to refer to the Process name is way better than having to find column 5, and trust that the script's author hasn't rearranged things on you.
I'm not Irish (other than a 1/32nd sliver from way back), and I've never worked directly with an Irish IT crew. But the fact that it is so easy to move around in Europe now means that talent is going to concentrate where the good jobs are. Once you hit a critical level of talent, you start getting new start-ups, and the whole thing cascades.
Of course eventually, things will get to the point where corporations are taking advantage of tax loopholes, and not contributing back to the local economy. Eventually you get the arms race between the corporations and the tax collectors, leading to the mess of a tax code that the United States now has, and the corporations start looking elsewhere.
Now that I'm thinking about it, there's almost a parallel between developing software to keep out hackers, and developing tax laws to keep corporations from abusing them. You want to maximize ease of use, difficulty of abuse, and overall utility. And while it's tempting to scrap the whole thing and start over with something simpler, each of those little hacks are in there to fix some "bug", or implement some desired feature.
If all of these corporations keep setting up in Ireland, it will start attracting the needed talent. When the economy can no longer support all the tech companies in Seattle and California, those employees aren't just going to sit around. They'll go looking for new tech centers.
Ireland has the advantage that Guinness is locally made, so who wouldn't want to move there.
Ummm, how do you think the smart pointers do it?
class HeapAllocate {
int *x;
public:
HeapAllocate() : x (new int()) {}
~HeapAllocate() { delete x; }
};
Of course if you want to do more than one allocation (of memory or any other resource) in a single class, then you'll have to have to use a smart pointer, or other RAII class for each one.
Try living in northern Canada, where 8 months of the year it's below freezing in the morning, and two of those months can approach -40 (C or F). When you add in the windchill effect you pretty much eliminate motorcycles, segways, and mopeds, and only the craziest of people can handle a bicycles in that weather. So it's pretty much just cars for everyone all winter long.
No real quotable source - CNN's "Black in America" would back this up for african americans in particular, but in general it's just my own, admittedly anecdotal, experience.
What? You mean you can't visualize 4, 5 and N dimensional spaces? Clearly you must not be a guy.
What has happened is that a culture has formed among guys who don't do great in school that going to college is a waste of time. Women in general have less of this, and are more likely to try for college regardless of previous academic success. As a result, fewer guys take the SATs, but those that do represent tend to come from stronger academic backgrounds, raising the average for guys.
Note that if you have an older Athlon without SSE, you won't be able to install Silverlight even if you're well over that 500 MHz mark.
I'm doing the same thing running XP, and even office 2007 - runs just fine. But I wouldn't even try to put vista on it.
Clearly "Pearl" doesn't belong. The other 5 are spelled correctly.
If the constructor throws, the memory gets cleaned up automatically.
Don't write destructors that leak exceptions.
Just don't.
If this were 32 or 64 GB, then I'd be impressed, but come on - we already have 8GB Micro SD cards.
Maybe I'm missing something, but installing cable internet on my (windows) computer didn't require a power cycle - and I'm pretty sure Linux wouldn't either. Make sure the firewall is enabled, plug the cat5 in, little network cable unplugged icon disappears, browse to Google.
Look up the MSDS on Febreeze and it's pretty much alcohol and corn starch.
It would be easy enough to tune things so that the attempt to stand up would cause the vehicle to slow down, and it wouldn't actually let you stand up until you got down to an appropriate speed.
I would expect that the acceleration could be linked to how much you lean forward (a la segway) - and with in-wheel electric motors, all three could be powered.