So what? Pro-global warming scientists certainly have an agenda to prove that warming does exist, to keep the grant money flowing. Al Gore certainly has an agenda, to keep promoting global warming, so that the carbon credits keep coming in, so that his movies/books keep selling. All sides in this are tainted by money, and this whole issue has created an industry around it. Everyone's trying to get their slice of it.
I agree with this as well. With Boost + STL, you can have a very clean memory management strategy for C++-based software. I've also used the RAII pattern for locks, which cuts down on the potential for deadlocks.
boost::scoped_array and boost::shared_array work great for memory buffers, as well as std::vector vs. raw arrays. It's great to write a new set of classes without giving much thought to memory leaks, because everything cleans itself up automatically.
Good healthcare right now is a fucking ripoff, someone needs to punish the healthcare system and kick its ass back in line, no more Glaxxosmithkline making billions off fake drugs that cause more problems than they fix at the expense of health care premiums. No more health care premiums. Doctors don't get to buy quite as many Porche and Mercedes cars and suvs from the returns they got on investments in companies whose drugs they recommend to patients (INSANITY. Breach of ethics. Violation of Hippocratic oath. The whole nine yards on that one.)
And don't forget about getting rid of the scumbag lawyers who are driving up costs of healthcare as well..
I was talking to a cousin of mine, who has a house about twice as big as mine (1200 sq ft). Their heating bills for a 2000+ sq ft home are about 50-75% of mine. My home was built in 1955, theirs in 2000. Newer construction methods and insulation are able to make huge differences in energy costs.
If I wanted to live in North Korea I would. I would rather have my house and yard anyday.
A lot of already built software is available to help you:
The Boost library offers a number of useful tools to aid in C++ development. shared_ptr will offer a reliable reference counted pointer mechanism, that will help with eliminating memory leaks. scoped_ptr, scoped_array offer automatic memory cleanup.
Use STL containers, instead of home-grown linked lists, maps, etc. Get to know which container is the right one to use, under the circumstances.
Use STL algorithms. When using STL containers, use the STL algorithms to perform actions on the containers. The built-in loop mechanisms know how to enumerate through a container in a more efficient way than writing your own loop.
Combine the use of shared_ptr and STL containers, to store pointers in a list (for efficiency), but be able to have them automatically deleted when removed from the list.
If you have to write multithreaded code, plan out the design before implenting it, and always put the locks in as part of the design, not trying to shoehorn them in.
I just bought an iAudio U2. 1 GB model for $130. Has great sound, Ogg support out of the box. Also has voice recording, Line-in encoding, FM stereo (can record/encode the FM stream as well). It comes with a case, neckstrap, ear-buds, line-in cable, two USB connectors, manual and software. The software is optional though.
my guess would be they would lose the ability for western companies to outsource to China, because they wouldn't be able to exchange email, source code, etc. They can't be completely cut off from outside servers, but they'll try to make it as close as possible.
I'm a conservative, but I would be for a larger federal system of nuclear plants if it meant that we could wean ourselves off of mideast oil. I would definelty be in favor of any new policies which divert our money away from those countries. I would hope that once we have cheaper, cleaner electricity that we could then focus attention on coming up with replacements for goods today that require so much oil. So much of the northeast of this country requires huge amounts of heating oil for the winter, compared to the midwest which is usually electric or natural gas.
I think I read somewhere that some of the new Chrystler Hemi engines are built to consume less fuel by turning off some of the cylinders, when they aren't needed. So just coasting along, only 4 of the 6 will be receiving fuel and firing, meaning there is some gas savings. It doesn't result in a huge savings, but it does save some gas.
I don't think its illegal to fund another company through a third company. But in the case of Microsoft, their actions of funding SCO's effort to destroy the competition are to further their monopoly, which could be looked upon as illegal in the eyes of the DOJ.
This is absolutely unfair. Its one thing to have protectionist tariffs while your industries are developing. But now China wants to be considered a 1st-world country with modern industrialization, the protectionism should be over with. Besides, they have a lot more protectionism, by the fact that companies there are not required to follow any osha, environmental, labor, and human rights laws.
I think I had it backwards. Basically, it does help because it makes it very hard to hire a H-1B for an entry-level position, or a more advanced position. An entry-level position is defined as any position where the salary is less than $73,000. So to hire a non-entry level H-1B, you have to pay them > $73,000, which is comparable to an American employee, so there is no benefit.
If you want to hire a H-1B as an entry-level position, you can pay less then $73,000, but you have to pay the sponsership, fill out affidavits making your case as to why you had to hire an H-1B. When you add up all the sponsership and administrative costs, it is not going to save you nearly as much money as they thought.
Same thing with SARS...none of those countries could control it except Japan. These countries aren't ready to be treated as 1st world countries. Their governments are too unstable, no labor laws, no environmental laws, no respect for Intellectual Property. I think its going to be a combination of some of these that will eventually cause it to slow down.
Here in Ohio, where tech jobs suck already, they have made a little progress. Basically, you can only easily hire H-1B's for entry-level work. Anything not entry-level, there's tons of paper-work, fees, sponserships and crap like that. Ohio then went on to define entry-level as anything making $73,000 or less. Meaning, pay them less than $73,000, and you won't have to spend thousands to bring them here. Or just pay Americans to do the job without the hassle.
This is second-hand information, but I hope its true, and I hope other states follow along.
I'm hoping that something like this will happen...that one of these outsourcing firms will just steal the code to whatever they are working on and make it available for free, or start their own competing products. What do US companies think they could do? Do they think the Chinese or Indian police/governments will actually do anything about it? They have no respect for IP over there, where you can buy CD's full of software for $1. Its bound to happen, and I hope it happens soon.
Is there a reason why we can't land a rover at the polar ice caps to look in the ice for bacteria? It seems that (since life on earth can exist in the ice) that there's a chance microbes could live in the martian ice.
How is the US's prosperity unfair? It was hardworking American's that brought our country into the industrial revolution, that invented many technologies we use around the world today. The US rose to the top of the world's properity on its own. Its not our fault if other people around the world haven't done the same on their own.
I don't have a problem with other country's increasing their prosperity, I do though when its at the expense of the US.
My company got suckered into buying tons of these shitty drives that would hold 2 GB on each disk, at a cheaper cost than a Jaz Drive. It was a good concept, but they all stopped working after a while. USB, SCSI, Parallel, IDE, didn't matter, they all stopped working. I tried recently to download their firmware updater to update my drive in the small hope that it might be better now, and their firmware loader couldn't even find the drive. One of the biggest POS's ever, I can't believe the company is still in business.
In our house, we had one circuit that basically powered half the house. One circuit for the garage, two bedrooms, half the living room and half the kitchen. My wife and I each wanted a bedroom for an office, and we needed more juice. I ran a new circuit to each room, bringing it from 2 to 5 outlets each. I also grounded the existing outlets by running a ground wire to the nearest cold water pipe (check with your inspectors to see if that is allowed). If you can't ground existing 2-prong outlets, you can replace them with a GFCI 3-prong outlet, as long as you mark them NG (no ground).
I don't know if Kodak has changed their policy, I was just commenting on Epson. I hope Kodak keeps their policy of allowing others to write drivers/software.
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So what? Pro-global warming scientists certainly have an agenda to prove that warming does exist, to keep the grant money flowing. Al Gore certainly has an agenda, to keep promoting global warming, so that the carbon credits keep coming in, so that his movies/books keep selling. All sides in this are tainted by money, and this whole issue has created an industry around it. Everyone's trying to get their slice of it.
I agree with this as well. With Boost + STL, you can have a very clean memory management strategy for C++-based software. I've also used the RAII pattern for locks, which cuts down on the potential for deadlocks.
boost::scoped_array and boost::shared_array work great for memory buffers, as well as std::vector vs. raw arrays. It's great to write a new set of classes without giving much thought to memory leaks, because everything cleans itself up automatically.
Good healthcare right now is a fucking ripoff, someone needs to punish the healthcare system and kick its ass back in line, no more Glaxxosmithkline making billions off fake drugs that cause more problems than they fix at the expense of health care premiums. No more health care premiums. Doctors don't get to buy quite as many Porche and Mercedes cars and suvs from the returns they got on investments in companies whose drugs they recommend to patients (INSANITY. Breach of ethics. Violation of Hippocratic oath. The whole nine yards on that one.)
And don't forget about getting rid of the scumbag lawyers who are driving up costs of healthcare as well..
I was talking to a cousin of mine, who has a house about twice as big as mine (1200 sq ft). Their heating bills for a 2000+ sq ft home are about 50-75% of mine. My home was built in 1955, theirs in 2000. Newer construction methods and insulation are able to make huge differences in energy costs.
If I wanted to live in North Korea I would. I would rather have my house and yard anyday.
If you have to write multithreaded code, plan out the design before implenting it, and always put the locks in as part of the design, not trying to shoehorn them in.
I just bought an iAudio U2. 1 GB model for $130. Has great sound, Ogg support out of the box. Also has voice recording, Line-in encoding, FM stereo (can record/encode the FM stream as well). It comes with a case, neckstrap, ear-buds, line-in cable, two USB connectors, manual and software. The software is optional though.
my guess would be they would lose the ability for western companies to outsource to China, because they wouldn't be able to exchange email, source code, etc. They can't be completely cut off from outside servers, but they'll try to make it as close as possible.
I'm a conservative, but I would be for a larger federal system of nuclear plants if it meant that we could wean ourselves off of mideast oil. I would definelty be in favor of any new policies which divert our money away from those countries. I would hope that once we have cheaper, cleaner electricity that we could then focus attention on coming up with replacements for goods today that require so much oil. So much of the northeast of this country requires huge amounts of heating oil for the winter, compared to the midwest which is usually electric or natural gas.
I think I read somewhere that some of the new Chrystler Hemi engines are built to consume less fuel by turning off some of the cylinders, when they aren't needed. So just coasting along, only 4 of the 6 will be receiving fuel and firing, meaning there is some gas savings. It doesn't result in a huge savings, but it does save some gas.
Yes, because the terrorists are really going to stop bombing attacks because President Bush is out of office. yep. that makes sense.
Wake up people. The terrorists are against western civilization, and they aren't going to stop just because we elect some peacenik president.
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I don't think its illegal to fund another company through a third company. But in the case of Microsoft, their actions of funding SCO's effort to destroy the competition are to further their monopoly, which could be looked upon as illegal in the eyes of the DOJ.
This is absolutely unfair. Its one thing to have protectionist tariffs while your industries are developing. But now China wants to be considered a 1st-world country with modern industrialization, the protectionism should be over with. Besides, they have a lot more protectionism, by the fact that companies there are not required to follow any osha, environmental, labor, and human rights laws.
I think I had it backwards. Basically, it does help because it makes it very hard to hire a H-1B for an entry-level position, or a more advanced position. An entry-level position is defined as any position where the salary is less than $73,000. So to hire a non-entry level H-1B, you have to pay them > $73,000, which is comparable to an American employee, so there is no benefit.
If you want to hire a H-1B as an entry-level position, you can pay less then $73,000, but you have to pay the sponsership, fill out affidavits making your case as to why you had to hire an H-1B. When you add up all the sponsership and administrative costs, it is not going to save you nearly as much money as they thought.
Same thing with SARS...none of those countries could control it except Japan. These countries aren't ready to be treated as 1st world countries. Their governments are too unstable, no labor laws, no environmental laws, no respect for Intellectual Property. I think its going to be a combination of some of these that will eventually cause it to slow down.
Here in Ohio, where tech jobs suck already, they have made a little progress. Basically, you can only easily hire H-1B's for entry-level work. Anything not entry-level, there's tons of paper-work, fees, sponserships and crap like that. Ohio then went on to define entry-level as anything making $73,000 or less. Meaning, pay them less than $73,000, and you won't have to spend thousands to bring them here. Or just pay Americans to do the job without the hassle.
This is second-hand information, but I hope its true, and I hope other states follow along.
I'm hoping that something like this will happen...that one of these outsourcing firms will just steal the code to whatever they are working on and make it available for free, or start their own competing products. What do US companies think they could do? Do they think the Chinese or Indian police/governments will actually do anything about it? They have no respect for IP over there, where you can buy CD's full of software for $1. Its bound to happen, and I hope it happens soon.
Is there a reason why we can't land a rover at the polar ice caps to look in the ice for bacteria? It seems that (since life on earth can exist in the ice) that there's a chance microbes could live in the martian ice.
RedHat's fiscal year begins on Feb 1st, so that's probably why they are doing this now.
That new Mandrake 10 preview edition or cooker contains a 2.6 kernel by default, those might work with your SATA hardware.
Unfair disparity?
How is the US's prosperity unfair? It was hardworking American's that brought our country into the industrial revolution, that invented many technologies we use around the world today. The US rose to the top of the world's properity on its own. Its not our fault if other people around the world haven't done the same on their own.
I don't have a problem with other country's increasing their prosperity, I do though when its at the expense of the US.
My company got suckered into buying tons of these shitty drives that would hold 2 GB on each disk, at a cheaper cost than a Jaz Drive. It was a good concept, but they all stopped working after a while. USB, SCSI, Parallel, IDE, didn't matter, they all stopped working. I tried recently to download their firmware updater to update my drive in the small hope that it might be better now, and their firmware loader couldn't even find the drive. One of the biggest POS's ever, I can't believe the company is still in business.
"They're the war-mongering jew killers"
Well, when you kill 6 million of them for no apparent reason other than "you don't like them", you sorta get (deservingly) a reputation like that.
In our house, we had one circuit that basically powered half the house. One circuit for the garage, two bedrooms, half the living room and half the kitchen. My wife and I each wanted a bedroom for an office, and we needed more juice. I ran a new circuit to each room, bringing it from 2 to 5 outlets each. I also grounded the existing outlets by running a ground wire to the nearest cold water pipe (check with your inspectors to see if that is allowed). If you can't ground existing 2-prong outlets, you can replace them with a GFCI 3-prong outlet, as long as you mark them NG (no ground).
I don't know if Kodak has changed their policy, I was just commenting on Epson. I hope Kodak keeps their policy of allowing others to write drivers/software.