'mexicans so it hasn't made its way into real people in the first world'
Welcome to real life in a major first world nation. It isn't real until it happens to us. Brown people in third world countries like Mexico don't count any more than aids infested brown people being used as guinea pigs in Africa count. Hell the bums living in central park in New York don't even especially count.
When something starts to impact upper-middle class Americans then it becomes real.
'You message is useless without some link to back it up'
On the contrary, your message is useless without something to back it up.
'And another lie is to say that C++ is slower than C. That's absolutely false.'
No it is not absolutely false. Object oriented coding in general is slower than procedural programming, and if you aren't writing OO C++ then you are just compiling C with a C++ compiler.
'Even if you think that C++ exception handling introduces a minor overhead (even if you don't use exceptions), is not uncommon to just disable them (Mozilla does). Other C++ features are designed so as to not impact users who don't use them.'
Again, C++ is a superset of C, if you have to disable the features of C++ to reach C performance then you aren't using C++.
Again, this is a technical distinction in practice the performance difference between C and C++ is insubstantial compared to the differences in implementation that you will see. There are many C programs that run slower than C++ equivs and vice versa. The distinction is greater with bytecode languages.
'(many people have been discovering and publishing that you are wrong)'
Yes, people discover and publish all kinds of things. They publish loaded benchmarks and studies, usually pushing an agenda (like java isn't slower than C). I specifically referred to the real world, there are a number of popular and major java applications. Very rich applications with lots of features, and most suffer performance issues. In fact, I'm not aware of any large java application that doesn't suffer performance issues.
On that I will have to bow out of the conversation I've never even taken a good look at the Firefox code let alone developed for it. I just remembered an oft repeated mantra around the time Firefox was released that it was the completion of a rewrite because the old Netscape cruft was slow, buggy, etc.
Those links would be so much more impressive if the type of hospital outpatient visits they are referring to weren't all but non-existent in the United States.
Further it seems to me that keeping waiting lists short by leaving the majority of medical conditions untreated for the bulk of the population is a less than ideal solution.
It is also a strawman, wait times have nothing to do with the drugs and surgery procedures being developed in Europe and elsewhere that the US hasn't approved. There are plenty of new drugs coming out in the US but no REAL developments. Instead the drug companies go the way of hollywood and replay the same rehashed drugs again and again making sure the patents don't run out.
Hell, the US won't even acknowledge the medicinal uses of cannabis yet and we've known about them for a few thousand years!
okay, according to this I remember correctly and incorrectly. The old Netscape cruft was rewritten, and then subsequently the interface was rewritten to become Firefox. So Firefox was the completion of the rewrite.
'People still come here from other countries to have procedures done that are simply unavailable in many parts of the world.'
The same is true equador for god sake. Procedures are developed all over the world, but for every breakthrough coming from the US there seems to be dozens of REAL breakthroughs elsewhere. Start getting your news from outside the US sources and you'll start seeing it to. I recommend the BBC for a start.
If you actually think Obama (or anyone else you are permitted to hear of running for president) is not part of the same elite backstabbing central power grabbing slime, then you certainly have no place grouping yourself with an intelligent elite.
'The M/I complex in this country is actually concentrated in a few cities (all of whom are strongly supportive of the government).'
Entire cities aren't supportive of anything. Cities are made of individuals some of whom may support the government TODAY.
Even the military which is probably the most pro government segment of the population would be split if push came to shove on a large scale. It almost happened before a rather handy incident in Oklahoma City. Organized militias were formed and training all over the country at that point and I personally knew of numerous national guard units that were prepared to defect and secure the local guard armory when 'shit went down'. Waco did a lot to scare the population into taking the possibility of armed resistance seriously.
Then one supposed militia supporter blows up a civilian target of no strategic importance and kills children in the process and the support for the resistance dissolved overnight. The resentment and distrust of our government hasn't.
'actually, its written in an obscure dialect of C++, developed when Netscape ran on a dozen various platforms'
Really? I was under the impression that the core of Firefox 1.0 was a complete rewrite because the developers determined that the old Netscape stuff was a mess that wasn't worth moving forward with.
Java ByteCode is NOT equal to C in speed in the real world. C# applications are NOT equal to C in speed in the real world. For that matter, C++ isn't even equal to C speed in the real world (although the margin is very slim if both are optimized correctly and C++ will work most anywhere that asm shouldn't be used IMHO).
That said, speed is not normally the most critical thing in an application. All of the above mentioned languages have strengths of their own and perform well when used properly.
It was predicted 10 years ago by the conspiracy nuts that these chips woudl make their way into humans. Shortly after, the chips being discussed started to be implanted in animals and now humans. Of course they are just mexicans so it hasn't made its way into real people in the first world yet but that is just around the corner. The mark of the beast has come.;) First tracking (for YOUR safety), next they start encoding emergency health information on it. After all, who wouldn't want doctor house to know they are allergic to penicillin. Next they move the monetary system to the chip.
"mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty"
Note, danger, fear, and difficulty are not consequences they are things with potential consequences.
'"lack of courage or resolution"' or in other words, lacking the mental or moral strength to... etc, would indeed be the opposite.
While intentionally taking a bullet for someone is courageous, you don't actually have to be harmed by your actions to have acted courageously. The same person, in the same situation, jumping in front of the bullet for the same reason would still have acted courageously if they were wearing a vest.
Attempting to do what is necessary at risk to yourself is courageous. Failing to take the measures you have available to you to reduce that risk without compromising your object is does NOT make you more courageous, only stupid.
Courage is not standing up to something and facing the consequences. Courage is standing up to something despite the POTENTIAL consequences. For example, fighting for your country is courageous, even if you manage to avoid the consequences and survive.
Jumping in front of a bullet when it was avoidable isn't courageous, its stupid.
After all why would you object to your privacy being invaded if you have nothing to hide.
Maybe he is cursed with ethics and a sense of civic duty and feels an obligation to resist efforts to trash the civil rights of U.S. citizens?
After all, if YOU would not resist efforts on the part of the state to violate the rights for which our fathers, sons, brothers, and even mothers have died for then you certainly have no business calling yourself an American. The rest of us hold the rights of the people to be the sacred core that separates our nation from the regimes of Stalin, Hitler, Castro, and Putin.
If the only thing you think is important is to not be prosecuted when you follow the leaders rules and a free market economy then feel free to move to China. Those ideals will serve you well there.
The reason to want to be anonymous is not cowardice. The reason is that the repercussions are not acceptable.
This myth was dispelled long ago, one example is gorilla warfare. Europeans thought it cowardly to hide from your opponents instead of facing them openly on a field of battle. It wasn't cowardly, it was tactically sound.
The same is true of avoiding prosecution by unjust government and preventing those whom you are criticizing from discovering your loved ones.
The difference between the AC and the non-AC? The AC legitimately believes there are people out there fear. The non-AC just likes to talk conspiracies.
Personally, I just think our government lacks the resources to track individual slashdot posters on a routine basis... so far.
Position the 'device' at the top of the fridge in an insulated tube. Put a heat sink directly above the 'device'. The heat will rise, heat the heat sink, and be removed by airflow outside the fridge.
Simple, cheap, and since transistor switching is REALLY fast, it would put the practical limitation on the speed of the heat exchange process.
It really doesn't matter so long as there is a Delta. It sounds like this can absorb and release heat as fast as an electrical switch can be flipped and mankind has made some pretty snappy switches that could repeat REALLY fast.
The real question is how much power is lost. Peltier coolers for instance are horrendously inefficient. If this isn't more efficient and/or cheaper than compressor technology it will never happen. Since compressor technology isn't cheap to produce the only thing that will likely stand in the way of cheapness is greed on the part of the patent-holder. We shall see.
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'mexicans so it hasn't made its way into real people in the first world'
Welcome to real life in a major first world nation. It isn't real until it happens to us. Brown people in third world countries like Mexico don't count any more than aids infested brown people being used as guinea pigs in Africa count. Hell the bums living in central park in New York don't even especially count.
When something starts to impact upper-middle class Americans then it becomes real.
'You message is useless without some link to back it up'
On the contrary, your message is useless without something to back it up.
'And another lie is to say that C++ is slower than C. That's absolutely false.'
No it is not absolutely false. Object oriented coding in general is slower than procedural programming, and if you aren't writing OO C++ then you are just compiling C with a C++ compiler.
'Even if you think that C++ exception handling introduces a minor overhead (even if you don't use exceptions), is not uncommon to just disable them (Mozilla does). Other C++ features are designed so as to not impact users who don't use them.'
Again, C++ is a superset of C, if you have to disable the features of C++ to reach C performance then you aren't using C++.
Again, this is a technical distinction in practice the performance difference between C and C++ is insubstantial compared to the differences in implementation that you will see. There are many C programs that run slower than C++ equivs and vice versa. The distinction is greater with bytecode languages.
'(many people have been discovering and publishing that you are wrong)'
Yes, people discover and publish all kinds of things. They publish loaded benchmarks and studies, usually pushing an agenda (like java isn't slower than C). I specifically referred to the real world, there are a number of popular and major java applications. Very rich applications with lots of features, and most suffer performance issues. In fact, I'm not aware of any large java application that doesn't suffer performance issues.
On that I will have to bow out of the conversation I've never even taken a good look at the Firefox code let alone developed for it. I just remembered an oft repeated mantra around the time Firefox was released that it was the completion of a rewrite because the old Netscape cruft was slow, buggy, etc.
Those links would be so much more impressive if the type of hospital outpatient visits they are referring to weren't all but non-existent in the United States.
Further it seems to me that keeping waiting lists short by leaving the majority of medical conditions untreated for the bulk of the population is a less than ideal solution.
It is also a strawman, wait times have nothing to do with the drugs and surgery procedures being developed in Europe and elsewhere that the US hasn't approved. There are plenty of new drugs coming out in the US but no REAL developments. Instead the drug companies go the way of hollywood and replay the same rehashed drugs again and again making sure the patents don't run out.
Hell, the US won't even acknowledge the medicinal uses of cannabis yet and we've known about them for a few thousand years!
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11423-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24298&messageID=456803&start=0
okay, according to this I remember correctly and incorrectly. The old Netscape cruft was rewritten, and then subsequently the interface was rewritten to become Firefox. So Firefox was the completion of the rewrite.
Slashdot is not an international forum, Slashdot is a USian forum with international guests.
'People still come here from other countries to have procedures done that are simply unavailable in many parts of the world.'
The same is true equador for god sake. Procedures are developed all over the world, but for every breakthrough coming from the US there seems to be dozens of REAL breakthroughs elsewhere. Start getting your news from outside the US sources and you'll start seeing it to. I recommend the BBC for a start.
'I remember mocking the USSR for having secret courts, secret laws, secret prisons. Now WE have those things.'
That's rather silly. We had all those things when you were laughing at the USSR!
If you actually think Obama (or anyone else you are permitted to hear of running for president) is not part of the same elite backstabbing central power grabbing slime, then you certainly have no place grouping yourself with an intelligent elite.
'The civil war may have been bloody but at least we still remember and learn from it.'
Sort of, the civil war failed and propaganda has masked the real issues of the civil war and turned it into a story of liberating slaves.
'I agree entirely: people need to get out there and get involved. When the system is breaking, fix it from within, not through violence.'
'Failing that, then yes, it must involve guns. I hope it never comes to that. I fear that it might.'
Unfortunately, we are WAY past the possibility of a peaceful solution.
'The M/I complex in this country is actually concentrated in a few cities (all of whom are strongly supportive of the government).'
Entire cities aren't supportive of anything. Cities are made of individuals some of whom may support the government TODAY.
Even the military which is probably the most pro government segment of the population would be split if push came to shove on a large scale. It almost happened before a rather handy incident in Oklahoma City. Organized militias were formed and training all over the country at that point and I personally knew of numerous national guard units that were prepared to defect and secure the local guard armory when 'shit went down'. Waco did a lot to scare the population into taking the possibility of armed resistance seriously.
Then one supposed militia supporter blows up a civilian target of no strategic importance and kills children in the process and the support for the resistance dissolved overnight. The resentment and distrust of our government hasn't.
how is this flamebait, its accurate.
'actually, its written in an obscure dialect of C++, developed when Netscape ran on a dozen various platforms'
Really? I was under the impression that the core of Firefox 1.0 was a complete rewrite because the developers determined that the old Netscape stuff was a mess that wasn't worth moving forward with.
Java ByteCode is NOT equal to C in speed in the real world. C# applications are NOT equal to C in speed in the real world. For that matter, C++ isn't even equal to C speed in the real world (although the margin is very slim if both are optimized correctly and C++ will work most anywhere that asm shouldn't be used IMHO).
That said, speed is not normally the most critical thing in an application. All of the above mentioned languages have strengths of their own and perform well when used properly.
Because, the RFID chip would probably let even mexican grade technology identify the body in the ditch as the person you are collecting a ransom on.
It was predicted 10 years ago by the conspiracy nuts that these chips woudl make their way into humans. Shortly after, the chips being discussed started to be implanted in animals and now humans. Of course they are just mexicans so it hasn't made its way into real people in the first world yet but that is just around the corner. The mark of the beast has come. ;) First tracking (for YOUR safety), next they start encoding emergency health information on it. After all, who wouldn't want doctor house to know they are allergic to penicillin. Next they move the monetary system to the chip.
courage is defined as
"mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty"
Note, danger, fear, and difficulty are not consequences they are things with potential consequences.
'"lack of courage or resolution"' or in other words, lacking the mental or moral strength to... etc, would indeed be the opposite.
While intentionally taking a bullet for someone is courageous, you don't actually have to be harmed by your actions to have acted courageously. The same person, in the same situation, jumping in front of the bullet for the same reason would still have acted courageously if they were wearing a vest.
Attempting to do what is necessary at risk to yourself is courageous. Failing to take the measures you have available to you to reduce that risk without compromising your object is does NOT make you more courageous, only stupid.
late, redundant, and pointless. If you knew it was guerrilla then obviously I was clear enough ;)
Actually:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cowardice
Cowardice is the opposite of courage.
Courage is not standing up to something and facing the consequences. Courage is standing up to something despite the POTENTIAL consequences. For example, fighting for your country is courageous, even if you manage to avoid the consequences and survive.
Jumping in front of a bullet when it was avoidable isn't courageous, its stupid.
After all why would you object to your privacy being invaded if you have nothing to hide.
Maybe he is cursed with ethics and a sense of civic duty and feels an obligation to resist efforts to trash the civil rights of U.S. citizens?
After all, if YOU would not resist efforts on the part of the state to violate the rights for which our fathers, sons, brothers, and even mothers have died for then you certainly have no business calling yourself an American. The rest of us hold the rights of the people to be the sacred core that separates our nation from the regimes of Stalin, Hitler, Castro, and Putin.
If the only thing you think is important is to not be prosecuted when you follow the leaders rules and a free market economy then feel free to move to China. Those ideals will serve you well there.
I wish there was a 'sad' moderation. Unfortunately, people and courts accept police testimony as if it were evidence all the time.
Just wait until its your word vs the word of a police officer and see how well it goes.
The reason to want to be anonymous is not cowardice. The reason is that the repercussions are not acceptable.
This myth was dispelled long ago, one example is gorilla warfare. Europeans thought it cowardly to hide from your opponents instead of facing them openly on a field of battle. It wasn't cowardly, it was tactically sound.
The same is true of avoiding prosecution by unjust government and preventing those whom you are criticizing from discovering your loved ones.
The difference between the AC and the non-AC? The AC legitimately believes there are people out there fear. The non-AC just likes to talk conspiracies.
Personally, I just think our government lacks the resources to track individual slashdot posters on a routine basis... so far.
Sounds far too complex to be cheap.
Position the 'device' at the top of the fridge in an insulated tube. Put a heat sink directly above the 'device'. The heat will rise, heat the heat sink, and be removed by airflow outside the fridge.
Simple, cheap, and since transistor switching is REALLY fast, it would put the practical limitation on the speed of the heat exchange process.
It really doesn't matter so long as there is a Delta. It sounds like this can absorb and release heat as fast as an electrical switch can be flipped and mankind has made some pretty snappy switches that could repeat REALLY fast.
The real question is how much power is lost. Peltier coolers for instance are horrendously inefficient. If this isn't more efficient and/or cheaper than compressor technology it will never happen. Since compressor technology isn't cheap to produce the only thing that will likely stand in the way of cheapness is greed on the part of the patent-holder. We shall see.