C++ adds gives the writer the ability to use virtual methods very easily, you're kind of tying one hand behind your back if you don't use polymorphism, so then you start getting bloat with your virtual tables, which can become quite massive. I don't think C++ is appropriate in many embedded applications.
I have a real problem with those who reply "I have nothing to hide" when in discussions with them about privacy. I suppose I could forgive those who know nothing of history or believe their government is this benevolent entity who stops bad guys and sets road signs to show you the way, even when they castigate Edward Snowden. But when I reply "Ok, let me have your soc., your bank numbers, and your daughter's phone and address, they of course object. When I switch it up and say "Ok, I'm the government, give my those things." they come up with "Well, you already have them" or a whole myriad of reasons why its ok. The switch is simply bizarre to me.
I think, I believe, just an opinion, that Microsoft is in its last gasps of being an IT company. Its tried and failed to fit into the new (well, relatively new/web 2.0/cell phone/Web App/Internet of Everything world, and has yet to even come close to dominating it. Being a long time user of Android tablets after knocking around a local Fry's Electronics one day I got a wild hair up my ass and bought a Windows 8 tablet, just to see. It some English made thing (Backstreet, I think?) on sale for under $70. One thing I liked about it is it has an HDMI port, so I could use it as a sort of solid-state vcr, if nothing else. But I couldn't transfer videos from my pc to its sdcard. Count 1. I also had a real hard time seeing text on the screen, the rez was very high and the screen is pretty small. Count 2. The UI is also very Windows-like and hard to use as a tablet, really. Last count. Even after the free upgrade to Windows 10.1 it wasn't much better. That tablet now sits in my drawer of curiosities.
If anything, basic necessities in the western world are getting more expensive.
In actual dollar (pick your currency) terms appliances, consumer electronics, and even cars have gotten dramatically cheaper since their inventions. Commodities like food fluctuate but we have the means to feed a lot more people than we ever did prior to 100 years ago by hundreds of factors. Food is cheap enough that we regularly throw away tons of it. Don't say land; real estate is different. Depending on where you live land may actually be cheaper now than 10 years ago, or it may be more expensive. Real estate has its own rules.
I think the questions we need to ask are: Can you devise a Utopian Society so wonderful that the real human desire for dominion over others ("power") is an outmoded one? Can you meet a human beings needs to the extent that they'll never need to covet what their neighbour has? Do people have a fundamental need for strife? I think we do.
Well, the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't help; the US & USSR came *this close* to nuclear war. Historians have been calling that a *blink* ever since. Difficult to compare to an empty threat.
IMHExperience, Java is much faster than C++ when it does heap object instantiation. C++ new and the underlying malloc are just not as good as Java new.
First, I'd love to see some numbers to back up that statement. B) C/C++ has an actual use for those memory allocation paradigms; they're call pointers, actual locations in memory, and math can be performed on them, making them very powerful and fast compared to reference indexes. Java uses references, and they are completely different. You're comparing apples and oranges there. C a bit faster than java in some kind of fantasy land? You're off your rocker, m8.
C++ libs are also fitted with plenty of security checks too
Uh, they can be. As a rule- don't expect a rule. But then that's the charm of open source. One can look and see what all that churning cruft actually does.
Actually, this is a serious point; I'm curious to know what the results might have been had the re-write been in strait C/C++, no distributed framework.
Korea and Vietnam split because the US invaded the South and interrupted democratic elections.
Can't argue about Korea, that's not quite accurate with regard to Vietnam. The US went due to a stupid agreement with France, hod nothing to do with interrupting elections, the elections were rigged by the US anyway. Ngo Dình Diem was a US puppet, and his election a foregone conclusion. Vietnam was the last gasp of France's imperial past; the US had ridiculous nightmares about communists taking over the world. To the Vietnamese, it was just a civil war.
You make it sound like Snowden traded in his used car. NO; he landed in Russia after being denied asylum in Hong Kong. And his asylum there is supposedly temporary, although I'm sure it tickles Putin no end to have him there. As for money in our political system, I certainly agree with you, I'm kind of warming up to this notion of publicly funding campaigns to keep special interests at bay (somewhat), but Snowden's alarums are certainly valid, earnest, and shocking, imo.
Aren't these questions addressed by using an FPGA? Small or big projects are easily prototyped on mine, and verilog is such a simple language... and breadboards for whatever i/o and support circuits, voila! your working prototype is ready for whatever pcb it wants. And that gets printed or sent out. No waiting, no mess, no fuss.
Why? How "unixy" Linux or MacOS is is a really rather tired argument by now, isn't? Having cut my unix teeth on Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX, seems like I should be able to tell how "unixy" something is. I have MacOS because of my work, but I hate it. It doesn't really fee like unix to me at all, and I have a hard time understanding how "unixy" it really is since the kernel is a heavily modified mach clone. But whatever, just saying your reasoning on how "unixy" Mac is seems a bit strained to me, even with a big web page with small characters explaining how "unixy" it is.
Yeah, this. Only thing I don't like is you have to take an extra step and install a driver for the crappy broadcom wifi it has, but otherwise macbook pros, especially the retina versions, really rock and run linux like a champ.
4chan now is an anti-Japan meme-hating shitposter site filled with anonymous cowards.
On/b/, yes. And worse. Much worse. Like pretty sick worse. But not so much on the other sub boards. There can be some pretty interesting discussions on those. And I'm not so sure there's a down side to hating memes.
YOU have no idea what your talking about. OpenGL is excellent, and is used by many games and commercial products (think cad). I have owned more than one game that gave me opengl as a gfx option, and I've seen it do some amazing things.Its not widely adopted by major players because those players have deals with MicroSoft, who throw in deals and free tools and support to those guys. That certainly DOES NOT make DirectX "better".
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Calm down. Its for pop tv. What did you expect? Plus, I think Hyneman is getting tired of rolling his eyes evey time Savage does something stupid.
C++ adds gives the writer the ability to use virtual methods very easily, you're kind of tying one hand behind your back if you don't use polymorphism, so then you start getting bloat with your virtual tables, which can become quite massive. I don't think C++ is appropriate in many embedded applications.
I still think VS is the best (free and proprietary) IDE for developing C/C++ code on windows.
It was written by the same beast that created Windows. Small wonder.
I have a real problem with those who reply "I have nothing to hide" when in discussions with them about privacy. I suppose I could forgive those who know nothing of history or believe their government is this benevolent entity who stops bad guys and sets road signs to show you the way, even when they castigate Edward Snowden. But when I reply "Ok, let me have your soc., your bank numbers, and your daughter's phone and address, they of course object. When I switch it up and say "Ok, I'm the government, give my those things." they come up with "Well, you already have them" or a whole myriad of reasons why its ok. The switch is simply bizarre to me.
I think, I believe, just an opinion, that Microsoft is in its last gasps of being an IT company. Its tried and failed to fit into the new (well, relatively new/web 2.0/cell phone/Web App/Internet of Everything world, and has yet to even come close to dominating it. Being a long time user of Android tablets after knocking around a local Fry's Electronics one day I got a wild hair up my ass and bought a Windows 8 tablet, just to see. It some English made thing (Backstreet, I think?) on sale for under $70. One thing I liked about it is it has an HDMI port, so I could use it as a sort of solid-state vcr, if nothing else. But I couldn't transfer videos from my pc to its sdcard. Count 1. I also had a real hard time seeing text on the screen, the rez was very high and the screen is pretty small. Count 2. The UI is also very Windows-like and hard to use as a tablet, really. Last count. Even after the free upgrade to Windows 10.1 it wasn't much better. That tablet now sits in my drawer of curiosities.
I like the ads asking for "...10+ years of python experience."
If anything, basic necessities in the western world are getting more expensive.
In actual dollar (pick your currency) terms appliances, consumer electronics, and even cars have gotten dramatically cheaper since their inventions. Commodities like food fluctuate but we have the means to feed a lot more people than we ever did prior to 100 years ago by hundreds of factors. Food is cheap enough that we regularly throw away tons of it. Don't say land; real estate is different. Depending on where you live land may actually be cheaper now than 10 years ago, or it may be more expensive. Real estate has its own rules. I think the questions we need to ask are: Can you devise a Utopian Society so wonderful that the real human desire for dominion over others ("power") is an outmoded one? Can you meet a human beings needs to the extent that they'll never need to covet what their neighbour has? Do people have a fundamental need for strife? I think we do.
Well, the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't help; the US & USSR came *this close* to nuclear war. Historians have been calling that a *blink* ever since. Difficult to compare to an empty threat.
IMHExperience, Java is much faster than C++ when it does heap object instantiation.
C++ new and the underlying malloc are just not as good as Java new.
First, I'd love to see some numbers to back up that statement. B) C/C++ has an actual use for those memory allocation paradigms; they're call pointers, actual locations in memory, and math can be performed on them, making them very powerful and fast compared to reference indexes. Java uses references, and they are completely different. You're comparing apples and oranges there.
C a bit faster than java in some kind of fantasy land? You're off your rocker, m8.
C++ libs are also fitted with plenty of security checks too
Uh, they can be. As a rule- don't expect a rule. But then that's the charm of open source. One can look and see what all that churning cruft actually does.
Actually, good point. I've been frequently amazed by some of the stuff I've seen written in js. The browser as a platform is alive and well, I guess.
Actually, this is a serious point; I'm curious to know what the results might have been had the re-write been in strait C/C++, no distributed framework.
Korea and Vietnam split because the US invaded the South and interrupted democratic elections.
Can't argue about Korea, that's not quite accurate with regard to Vietnam. The US went due to a stupid agreement with France, hod nothing to do with interrupting elections, the elections were rigged by the US anyway. Ngo Dình Diem was a US puppet, and his election a foregone conclusion. Vietnam was the last gasp of France's imperial past; the US had ridiculous nightmares about communists taking over the world. To the Vietnamese, it was just a civil war.
Snowden traded the US for Russia.
You make it sound like Snowden traded in his used car. NO; he landed in Russia after being denied asylum in Hong Kong. And his asylum there is supposedly temporary, although I'm sure it tickles Putin no end to have him there. As for money in our political system, I certainly agree with you, I'm kind of warming up to this notion of publicly funding campaigns to keep special interests at bay (somewhat), but Snowden's alarums are certainly valid, earnest, and shocking, imo.
The carriers really hate that "feature".
Which is true, if you're limiting yourself to Western European languages.
I limit myself to languages I can speak so, yeah, I'm fairly limiting myself by only speaking the one I guess.
Hey, I'm not looking to buy such a keyboard any time soon, and I agree, he probably wasted his time. But it was his time to waste.
Aren't these questions addressed by using an FPGA? Small or big projects are easily prototyped on mine, and verilog is such a simple language... and breadboards for whatever i/o and support circuits, voila! your working prototype is ready for whatever pcb it wants. And that gets printed or sent out. No waiting, no mess, no fuss.
...but the distinction should be maintained.
Why? How "unixy" Linux or MacOS is is a really rather tired argument by now, isn't? Having cut my unix teeth on Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX, seems like I should be able to tell how "unixy" something is. I have MacOS because of my work, but I hate it. It doesn't really fee like unix to me at all, and I have a hard time understanding how "unixy" it really is since the kernel is a heavily modified mach clone. But whatever, just saying your reasoning on how "unixy" Mac is seems a bit strained to me, even with a big web page with small characters explaining how "unixy" it is.
Yeah, this. Only thing I don't like is you have to take an extra step and install a driver for the crappy broadcom wifi it has, but otherwise macbook pros, especially the retina versions, really rock and run linux like a champ.
4chan now is an anti-Japan meme-hating shitposter site filled with anonymous cowards.
On /b/, yes. And worse. Much worse. Like pretty sick worse. But not so much on the other sub boards. There can be some pretty interesting discussions on those. And I'm not so sure there's a down side to hating memes.
If it was any good
YOU have no idea what your talking about. OpenGL is excellent, and is used by many games and commercial products (think cad). I have owned more than one game that gave me opengl as a gfx option, and I've seen it do some amazing things.Its not widely adopted by major players because those players have deals with MicroSoft, who throw in deals and free tools and support to those guys. That certainly DOES NOT make DirectX "better".
yeah, just a dab of regression testing and all bugs are squashed. why don't devs do more regression testing!!?!?!! WHY???
Chrome crashed for me. Did you remove the space between http: & //a/%%30%30?
Too difficult to use? Would love to see some cites or references to that or something...