If you enjoy Apple's misfortune, perhaps you would also enjoy mine. I would be willing to suffer the misfortune, like Apple, of having so much money that I can't figure out what to do with it, for you amusement.
Other things we don't really want to lose, if we think responsibly about things: London is on of the biggest financial centres in the world, if not the biggest. Being in EU is an important factor in this, for the same reasons
That's actually the one potentially positive outcome of this. You can't indefinitely support an economy on arbitrage and if the City of London starts to look like a weak bet then it will force the government to stop giving it special treatment at the expense of industries that actually build things.
This is the big one. The main reform needed is to kill the commission. You can keep the Council of Ministers as an executive branch if you don't want to have a parliamentary executive, but the elected MEPs must have the most power in the system. This has to be coupled with making EU Parliament voting records public though. It's an embarrassment that, in a nominal democracy, the electorate can't see if their representatives are actually representing them.
- start working on an "EU for the people". We'd had enough of an "EU for the money".
And this is the other one. Part of this involves moving money around. The Germans pushed for the Euro because they benefitted hugely from artificially devaluing their currency and stimulating exports, but they also vetoed the mechanism to rebalance this over the long run. This, as many economists predicted, resulted in wealth concentrating in a few countries and the others needing to be bailed out when their economies collapsed. Only, unfortunately, we didn't bail them out, we bailed out the banks that had made loans to them. The Greek bailout should have been accompanies by a default. The banks should have lost their poor investments and the money should have gone into stimulating the growth of the Greek economy. Instead, we got austerity policies that, like every other time they've been tried, caused the economy to shrink and paid a load of money to banks. If you make a risky investment.
If they do it before the UK leaves, then maybe we can just have England leave both the EU and the UK at the same time. Looking at the voting map, all of the places with weak economies (including, amusingly, all of the ones that are heavily dependent on EU farm subsidies) want to leave. Maybe we should just kick them out of the UK and let them spend a few years learning what being alone in a global economy is really like.
I know a few of people with Windows Phones (although most of them work for MSR, so it's a slightly biased sample set), but none of them with a phone new enough to support NFC.
While I don't disagree with your first point, your second assumes a legitimate company. Most of these scams let the victim think that the person needing to move the cash is not able to work with the banking system. A popular one involves someone needing to get money out of a failed state quickly. They make up all sorts of plausible sounding reasons why a bank wouldn't deal with them (in some cases, hinting that the money was acquired illegally, so you shouldn't feel bad about taking 10% for a few minutes' work because you're just stealing from a criminal).
Also, criminals are well aware of the risks they take
If this were true, then setting penalties at 50% more than the reward of the crime divided by the probability of being caught would eliminate crime, yet time and time again we've seen that increasing penalties has a negligible effect on crime rates.
And cinema attendance has been dropping steadily for a decade, to the extent that my local cinema just installed much larger and more comfortable chairs and decreased their total capacity to about a quarter to try to get people to go back: when it was built, they were often close to capacity, now they don't even fill up all of the seats when they have far fewer.
That makes sense. If they're already an ARM licensee, then it should be a fairly simple transition and there's a big benefit in depending on a compiler that a load of other people also depend on, especially if they're people with deep pockets.
The big question is whether this means that Fujitsu is going to start producing ARMv8 chips. They've got a lot of in-house expertise in SPARCv9 processor design, much of which would be directly applicable to building an ARMv8 pipeline (no register window weirdness, but there are a lot of similarities). The main difference would be that they'd be sharing the ecosystem (OS, compiler, and so on) costs with companies like ARM, Apple, Google, and so on rather than with Oracle, which sounds like a very good deal.
It's also worth noting that the appreciation is often what allows you to buy the second rental property. Imagine that you buy one with a 20% deposit and a mortgage of 80%. You rent it out for enough to cover the cost of the 80% mortgage plus maintenance (assume no profit for now). Now it appreciates by 20%. Now you have new capital that is worth 16.6% of the value of a house. Wait another few months and it's up to 20%. Now you buy another house with the same arrangement. As long as the rent is covering the costs of maintenance and the mortgage, a 20% appreciation means that you've doubled your money. If you're investing in property then that same appreciation means that your spending power is slightly reduced, but that's offset by the fact that the mortgage only requires that you spend 20% of the total cost, so your available capital is still increasing at a significant rate.
Nope, in either case. It turns out quite a lot of mapping geeks work for Google (and particularly on their maps product) and keep the OSM data up to date. In the case of the house that I'm buying, the road was already on the map but I did add a link to the developers' site plan in a note and someone else has now added the two roads behind it that are currently under construction.
And you can download usefully processed vector data for offline use. My cheap phone has offline mapping data from OSM for several countries and US states. I don't need to worry about roaming charges and OSMAnd supports offline routing so I can get navigation directions anywhere that I visit.
Go for a walk around the Google campus in Mountain View. Look at Google Maps. Look at OpenStreetMap. Notice that OSM has better data. One of them is a parody, certainly. We're in the process of buying a house. It's shown on OSM, but Google Maps doesn't even have the road that it's on.
every so often I see women using a baby carriage as a means to clear a path, pushing it into traffic to make everyone stop so she can cross. What's up with that?
Around here, they seem to use them as whiskers. If they can put the baby into the road and it doesn't die then they follow.
Given that productivity for activities like writing software peaks at 20 hours a week, plateaus until 40, and then decreases, you must be writing some really bad code.
To be pedantic, it was the Schengen Agreement, not the EU that opened the borders. Members of EU countries have the right to travel (and live) within other EU countries, but countries are still allowed border controls to check that the people coming in are EU citizens. Within the Schengen Agreement there are no border controls, once you're in one you can travel freely to any of the others, though you may not have the right to live and work in all of the places that you can get to.
These changes are, indeed, very similar to Cyclone. The main difference is that they're not an all or nothing approach. You can still do unsafe things in Checked C, you will just be able to audit your code to see where you do them and gradually apply them. The lack of an incremental adoption path was probably what killed Cyclone.
As to Microsoft using LLVM, current versions of Visual Studio support all four combinations of the MS and Clang front ends and the MS and LLVM back ends. I don't think that their proprietary back end is going away any time soon (though I wouldn't be too surprised if they switched to Clang on the front end exclusively).
In case you haven't noticed, the charter for C2x explicitly includes increasing memory safety as one of the goals. Programs with memory safety errors are already undefined behaviour and have been for as long as C has been a standard.
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If you enjoy Apple's misfortune, perhaps you would also enjoy mine. I would be willing to suffer the misfortune, like Apple, of having so much money that I can't figure out what to do with it, for you amusement.
Other things we don't really want to lose, if we think responsibly about things: London is on of the biggest financial centres in the world, if not the biggest. Being in EU is an important factor in this, for the same reasons
That's actually the one potentially positive outcome of this. You can't indefinitely support an economy on arbitrage and if the City of London starts to look like a weak bet then it will force the government to stop giving it special treatment at the expense of industries that actually build things.
Exactly. Areas of the UK that have spent the last few decades being screwed over by Westminster just voted to give Westminster more power.
- strengthen parliament.
This is the big one. The main reform needed is to kill the commission. You can keep the Council of Ministers as an executive branch if you don't want to have a parliamentary executive, but the elected MEPs must have the most power in the system. This has to be coupled with making EU Parliament voting records public though. It's an embarrassment that, in a nominal democracy, the electorate can't see if their representatives are actually representing them.
- start working on an "EU for the people". We'd had enough of an "EU for the money".
And this is the other one. Part of this involves moving money around. The Germans pushed for the Euro because they benefitted hugely from artificially devaluing their currency and stimulating exports, but they also vetoed the mechanism to rebalance this over the long run. This, as many economists predicted, resulted in wealth concentrating in a few countries and the others needing to be bailed out when their economies collapsed. Only, unfortunately, we didn't bail them out, we bailed out the banks that had made loans to them. The Greek bailout should have been accompanies by a default. The banks should have lost their poor investments and the money should have gone into stimulating the growth of the Greek economy. Instead, we got austerity policies that, like every other time they've been tried, caused the economy to shrink and paid a load of money to banks. If you make a risky investment.
If they do it before the UK leaves, then maybe we can just have England leave both the EU and the UK at the same time. Looking at the voting map, all of the places with weak economies (including, amusingly, all of the ones that are heavily dependent on EU farm subsidies) want to leave. Maybe we should just kick them out of the UK and let them spend a few years learning what being alone in a global economy is really like.
But think how convenient it is. You can replace a thin piece of plastic that doesn't require a battery with a device many times the size that does!
I know a few of people with Windows Phones (although most of them work for MSR, so it's a slightly biased sample set), but none of them with a phone new enough to support NFC.
While I don't disagree with your first point, your second assumes a legitimate company. Most of these scams let the victim think that the person needing to move the cash is not able to work with the banking system. A popular one involves someone needing to get money out of a failed state quickly. They make up all sorts of plausible sounding reasons why a bank wouldn't deal with them (in some cases, hinting that the money was acquired illegally, so you shouldn't feel bad about taking 10% for a few minutes' work because you're just stealing from a criminal).
Also, criminals are well aware of the risks they take
If this were true, then setting penalties at 50% more than the reward of the crime divided by the probability of being caught would eliminate crime, yet time and time again we've seen that increasing penalties has a negligible effect on crime rates.
And cinema attendance has been dropping steadily for a decade, to the extent that my local cinema just installed much larger and more comfortable chairs and decreased their total capacity to about a quarter to try to get people to go back: when it was built, they were often close to capacity, now they don't even fill up all of the seats when they have far fewer.
That makes sense. If they're already an ARM licensee, then it should be a fairly simple transition and there's a big benefit in depending on a compiler that a load of other people also depend on, especially if they're people with deep pockets.
The big question is whether this means that Fujitsu is going to start producing ARMv8 chips. They've got a lot of in-house expertise in SPARCv9 processor design, much of which would be directly applicable to building an ARMv8 pipeline (no register window weirdness, but there are a lot of similarities). The main difference would be that they'd be sharing the ecosystem (OS, compiler, and so on) costs with companies like ARM, Apple, Google, and so on rather than with Oracle, which sounds like a very good deal.
Hmm, maybe this could work to our advantage. If we can persuade them that Facebook and Twitter are to blame then September might finally end...
the number of fags in the population is very low
Most of the democrats are gay
If there are so few democrats, then they're probably not going to be a very relevant party for much longer.
It's also worth noting that the appreciation is often what allows you to buy the second rental property. Imagine that you buy one with a 20% deposit and a mortgage of 80%. You rent it out for enough to cover the cost of the 80% mortgage plus maintenance (assume no profit for now). Now it appreciates by 20%. Now you have new capital that is worth 16.6% of the value of a house. Wait another few months and it's up to 20%. Now you buy another house with the same arrangement. As long as the rent is covering the costs of maintenance and the mortgage, a 20% appreciation means that you've doubled your money. If you're investing in property then that same appreciation means that your spending power is slightly reduced, but that's offset by the fact that the mortgage only requires that you spend 20% of the total cost, so your available capital is still increasing at a significant rate.
Nope, in either case. It turns out quite a lot of mapping geeks work for Google (and particularly on their maps product) and keep the OSM data up to date. In the case of the house that I'm buying, the road was already on the map but I did add a link to the developers' site plan in a note and someone else has now added the two roads behind it that are currently under construction.
And you can download usefully processed vector data for offline use. My cheap phone has offline mapping data from OSM for several countries and US states. I don't need to worry about roaming charges and OSMAnd supports offline routing so I can get navigation directions anywhere that I visit.
Go for a walk around the Google campus in Mountain View. Look at Google Maps. Look at OpenStreetMap. Notice that OSM has better data. One of them is a parody, certainly. We're in the process of buying a house. It's shown on OSM, but Google Maps doesn't even have the road that it's on.
every so often I see women using a baby carriage as a means to clear a path, pushing it into traffic to make everyone stop so she can cross. What's up with that?
Around here, they seem to use them as whiskers. If they can put the baby into the road and it doesn't die then they follow.
The reason that Clinton was able to balance the budget was that he classified a load of expenditure as not-really-expenditure-honest.
I work 12 hours days writing software
Given that productivity for activities like writing software peaks at 20 hours a week, plateaus until 40, and then decreases, you must be writing some really bad code.
long before the EU opened the borders
To be pedantic, it was the Schengen Agreement, not the EU that opened the borders. Members of EU countries have the right to travel (and live) within other EU countries, but countries are still allowed border controls to check that the people coming in are EU citizens. Within the Schengen Agreement there are no border controls, once you're in one you can travel freely to any of the others, though you may not have the right to live and work in all of the places that you can get to.
These changes are, indeed, very similar to Cyclone. The main difference is that they're not an all or nothing approach. You can still do unsafe things in Checked C, you will just be able to audit your code to see where you do them and gradually apply them. The lack of an incremental adoption path was probably what killed Cyclone.
As to Microsoft using LLVM, current versions of Visual Studio support all four combinations of the MS and Clang front ends and the MS and LLVM back ends. I don't think that their proprietary back end is going away any time soon (though I wouldn't be too surprised if they switched to Clang on the front end exclusively).
In case you haven't noticed, the charter for C2x explicitly includes increasing memory safety as one of the goals. Programs with memory safety errors are already undefined behaviour and have been for as long as C has been a standard.
0. Even better solution: Close your Facebook account. Tell people that want to contact you to use email or some other mechanism that isn't under the sole control of a single entity.