So you are assuming that if people weren't in the planet, then there wouldn't be wild cattle roaming around uh? So basically you propose mass extinction of bovine and other cattle on a scale that dwarfs the bison slaughters in XIXth century USA, just because you think "global warming" is a problem?
"Eat less meat"... what if the cows are grass fed? You do know there are vast regions of the earth which are basically empty, without people, where cattle can graze just fine right?
Yeah, it's even worse, it's verbose Hungarian. You typically have the type of the object and the full path of the class name, and an overly verbose description to boot. I keep pressing TAB to auto-complete names whenever I program in Java. That's the major reason why you shouldn't even bother programming in J2EE without an IDE. The other reason to use an IDE is the inane amount of boilerplate code you need to type, which makes code generators essential rather than just nice to have.
There's nothing wrong with Java in a business environment and elsewhere. The issue is with the way people THINK Java should be programmed, with design patterns, and Hungarian notation. The language itself and the runtime has its warts but it ain't actually THAT bad.
Now for high performance computing I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Floating point performance in Java sucks and the mandatory garbage collection is another issue. Then again most of the proposed Java replacement have the exact same issues. Go also has a GC for example. Python is great, to write prototypes, but it has even worse performance than Java.
A large amount semiconductors are indeed manufactured in South Korea and Taiwan. This means that if war broke out in that region, the world would be literally screwed for several years at least. But the machine tools for those factories are actually manufactured in Europe, the US, and Japan, so it's actually less dire than what it may seem at first glance.
With that kind of logic the US would have never stopped being a colony of the UK. Exporing raw materials and importing manufactured goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think China has moved away from the benevolent dictatorship phase ever since Hu Jingtao got thrown out. Xi is... well... not benevolent. I would say that. So far, he's only been consolidating power, but then again, so did Stalin in his early governments. This can be pretty scary, even if we are still in the embers of the Chinese 'NEP' right now.
Do you honestly think this sort of economic migration does not happen within nation states as well? A lot of people have migrated from the country to the cities historically. The US even does it in cycles, people migrate from the countryside to the cities to go to college, work there, then retire back in the country (because of housing prices) then the cycle repeats itself over and over.
The interesting thing is that if you read Brook's Mythical Man Month, one of the things he references is that each company should have a tools person or team to make tools to improve the productivity of the other in the team? How often do you see this happen in the real world?
I've heard that before. Last time it was ULA claiming SpaceX couldn't manufacture enough rockets that didn't fail. SpaceX just beat their record of annual launches this week, with a single launcher family, while ULA got their record with three different rocket families, with separate production lines.
Thing is, anyone who hasn't figured out Elon time, will think they can't do it. I think they can do it, it's usually a bad idea to bet against Elon on being able to deliver, but they may be 6 months or a year late. That's typical for Elon time.
I assume they don't want a laser printer in the ISS because of the zero-g environment. The toner dust might float away and get into electrical contacts or something.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars are a boondoggle. You just need to read about it to know why it makes no fucking sense at all. Last I heard they weren't selling the Honda Clarity FCV to anyone, it's fricking expensive, they only rent it for experimental purposes to collect the user data.
The technology the Honda Clarity FCT uses IIRC is basically compressed hydrogen gas storage in a composite wrapped tank, and a PEM fuel cell (which is made with platinum). The platinum content alone makes the car outrageously expensive to manufacture.
You might say: "But cheesy, there are other fuel cell technologies." Sure. there are SOFC fuel cells, great for stationary applications, on a car they run too hot and are too brittle. Or Molten Carbonate fuel cells. Also terrific for stationary applications, but require minutes to heat up before they even generate power. It's a boondoggle. I won't even mention the hydrogen gas storage and transportation issues because, well, I don't feel like it. You can read about it in the web.
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So you are assuming that if people weren't in the planet, then there wouldn't be wild cattle roaming around uh? So basically you propose mass extinction of bovine and other cattle on a scale that dwarfs the bison slaughters in XIXth century USA, just because you think "global warming" is a problem?
It got outcompeted in a large part of the world by the Intel Classmate. Right now I guess it's superceded by Chromebooks and tablets.
"Eat less meat"... what if the cows are grass fed? You do know there are vast regions of the earth which are basically empty, without people, where cattle can graze just fine right?
Yeah, it's even worse, it's verbose Hungarian. You typically have the type of the object and the full path of the class name, and an overly verbose description to boot. I keep pressing TAB to auto-complete names whenever I program in Java. That's the major reason why you shouldn't even bother programming in J2EE without an IDE. The other reason to use an IDE is the inane amount of boilerplate code you need to type, which makes code generators essential rather than just nice to have.
There's nothing wrong with Java in a business environment and elsewhere. The issue is with the way people THINK Java should be programmed, with design patterns, and Hungarian notation. The language itself and the runtime has its warts but it ain't actually THAT bad.
Now for high performance computing I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Floating point performance in Java sucks and the mandatory garbage collection is another issue. Then again most of the proposed Java replacement have the exact same issues. Go also has a GC for example. Python is great, to write prototypes, but it has even worse performance than Java.
If it were FB et. al, I'd disconnect it all off for a day - see how that goes down. That would be hilarious.
The Russians and Chinese seem to do fine without it.
A large amount semiconductors are indeed manufactured in South Korea and Taiwan. This means that if war broke out in that region, the world would be literally screwed for several years at least. But the machine tools for those factories are actually manufactured in Europe, the US, and Japan, so it's actually less dire than what it may seem at first glance.
I'll tell you the name of one such company: Samsung.
With that kind of logic the US would have never stopped being a colony of the UK. Exporing raw materials and importing manufactured goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Acrobat has built-in OCR features IIRC.
He meant Acrobat of course.
Banks are some of the institutions which won't switch to Windows 10 any time soon.
Not just Einstein. Much more important than him would be Enrico Fermi who also had a Jewish wife and fled Fascist Italy as a result.
I think China has moved away from the benevolent dictatorship phase ever since Hu Jingtao got thrown out. Xi is... well... not benevolent. I would say that. So far, he's only been consolidating power, but then again, so did Stalin in his early governments. This can be pretty scary, even if we are still in the embers of the Chinese 'NEP' right now.
I still remember when Bayesian filtering spam was *the* thing.
Do you honestly think this sort of economic migration does not happen within nation states as well? A lot of people have migrated from the country to the cities historically. The US even does it in cycles, people migrate from the countryside to the cities to go to college, work there, then retire back in the country (because of housing prices) then the cycle repeats itself over and over.
VAT is charged at the point of sale. Currently that's considered to be the country from where you access the website.
The interesting thing is that if you read Brook's Mythical Man Month, one of the things he references is that each company should have a tools person or team to make tools to improve the productivity of the other in the team? How often do you see this happen in the real world?
The $35,000 deliveries won't begin until late next year. They'll fullfill the higher end, more expensive orders first, IIRC.
Hahah. Well it was bound to happen, the stock is inflated like heck. Good show.
I've heard that before. Last time it was ULA claiming SpaceX couldn't manufacture enough rockets that didn't fail. SpaceX just beat their record of annual launches this week, with a single launcher family, while ULA got their record with three different rocket families, with separate production lines.
Thing is, anyone who hasn't figured out Elon time, will think they can't do it. I think they can do it, it's usually a bad idea to bet against Elon on being able to deliver, but they may be 6 months or a year late. That's typical for Elon time.
I assume they don't want a laser printer in the ISS because of the zero-g environment. The toner dust might float away and get into electrical contacts or something.
Then again at least in the UK it also seems to be lease only. Even for the 2016 model. So... What gives?
PS: Ok, I didn't know there was a 2016 model. So I guess it's available for sale now. But it basically still costs $60k.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars are a boondoggle. You just need to read about it to know why it makes no fucking sense at all. Last I heard they weren't selling the Honda Clarity FCV to anyone, it's fricking expensive, they only rent it for experimental purposes to collect the user data.
The technology the Honda Clarity FCT uses IIRC is basically compressed hydrogen gas storage in a composite wrapped tank, and a PEM fuel cell (which is made with platinum). The platinum content alone makes the car outrageously expensive to manufacture.
You might say: "But cheesy, there are other fuel cell technologies." Sure. there are SOFC fuel cells, great for stationary applications, on a car they run too hot and are too brittle. Or Molten Carbonate fuel cells. Also terrific for stationary applications, but require minutes to heat up before they even generate power. It's a boondoggle. I won't even mention the hydrogen gas storage and transportation issues because, well, I don't feel like it. You can read about it in the web.