Let's consider that we have a premier that is smart more or less (perhaps less) as yours. He is however, not a reborn christian, but an ultra-rich and megalomaniac tv tycoon. The origin of his fortunes is not clear, however it is known that his father worked in a bank (banca rasini) that was used as a money-laudry by the italian mafia. His main interest is himself and maybe he wants to tie his name to the bridge. The bridge will destroy a beautiful place (the areas on which it will be built were promptly bought by local mafia). Moreover Sicily and the rest of Italy are on different tectonic plates. Sicily is heading north while the other end is going in the opposite direction and is raising. So there are severe stability problems. Moreover this hyper-tecnological bridge, if ever built, will join two "deserts". In Sicily and Calabria (the other end) there are insufficient roads and the railway is made mainly by an one-way railroad. Let's say that Berlusconi does not have the H bomb so its less dangeruos than Bush.
Of course, in the 'good' old days, poor
families didn't spend their money on
televisions, computers, fridges, microwaves,
indoor toilets, supermarket meals, fizzy
drinks, new clothes, cars, holidays abroad, central heating, air conditioning, mobile
phones, hot water, leather furniture, detached
house with four bedrooms, garage and big
garden, not to mention thousands of other
luxuries which weren't available when only the man of the house went to work. All these
things COST MONEY. You want today's luxuries whilst living yesterday's lifestyle. Well
unless you're rich you can't have it. I'm sure
if you cut out all the expenses, you could live like they did in the 1950s, with the wifestaying at home, and everyone shitting outsidein a shed.
So you're saying that is right to reserve the full advancement that happened in wealth and quality of life from '50 on, only to rich people.
:-)... You're right. I need some rest.. (a lot of). However I am really interested in knowing if somebody else has found the executables for x86_64 much slower than the ones from gcc 3.4.3
I build and tested 4.0.0 against 3.4.3. I'm not a benchmarch expert but nbench byte (a pretty old version) shows that 4.0.0 outputs very binaries compared to 3.4.3.
Has someonebody else noticed this?
Your faith in the "Free Market" looks naive. The US itself is not a free market when it comes i.e. to the steel industry or to the products of agriculture. In these economic sectors the US apply heavy taxation to goods from Cina and other developing countries.
It's the greed of the capital holders who is destroying the US and the european economy.
The politics and the administration of the public health aren't done in the interest of the people who live in a country but only to serve who can buy them.
> conflict of interest warning: the author of this page is also the author of merd, so some things may be unintentionally subconsciously biased.
> merd is still in planning stage, only half of the programs work, the interactive interpreter is vaporware, and more generally merd is currently unusable.
Dear merd author, plese, use another name for your new scripting language. I couldn't use "merd" as a programming lauguage. This name sounds awful in italian.
This way of doing business which is tipically american (the american corporations are doing their better to export this corruption everywhere) is harmful for the world. Americans should stop this decadence that grabs aways from the hand of people the possibility to build a better life for itself and theirs families consigning the power to corporations.
There is always a bunch of economists that beleive that their company can live on because of trademarks and so on without actually doing anything but history has shown that sooner or later the producer will start directly to the customers.
And this shows what is behind the US (corporations) effort to force US-like laws about patents and copyrights down the throat of the other countries.
They want to detain the *rights* about something. They want to be able to enforce these rights everywhere (and if a country does not agree one day there may be a lot of "american boys" to send and make them more reasonable).
Agreed. Moreover I think that a private company should not put a bounty on other privates. This is the next step towards the government of the big corporations. May be I don't conceive this behavior becaouse I'm not american too.
Also if the fact that M$ software will be proven true by umbiased consultants, nevertheless Open source software should be preferred. The problem is the lock-in that the use of M$ software can lead to. Freedom has no price...
the decision of these asian countries to switch away from M$. I think that after echelon and the recent iraqi invasion operated by the US, the world is going to not trust anymore the US in general and one of the more powerful US companies in particular; specially when it comes to information technology one has to be sure that nobody will steal his sensitive data and control of his machines.
I am expecting that more and more governments and companies will switch in the future.
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Let's consider that we have a premier that is smart more or less (perhaps less) as yours. He is however, not a reborn christian, but an ultra-rich and megalomaniac tv tycoon. The origin of his fortunes is not clear, however it is known that his father worked in a bank (banca rasini) that was used as a money-laudry by the italian mafia. His main interest is himself and maybe he wants to tie his name to the bridge.
The bridge will destroy a beautiful place (the areas on which it will be built were promptly bought by local mafia). Moreover Sicily and the rest of Italy are on different tectonic plates. Sicily is heading north while the other end is going in the opposite direction and is raising. So there are severe stability problems.
Moreover this hyper-tecnological bridge, if ever built, will join two "deserts". In Sicily and Calabria (the other end) there are insufficient roads and the railway is made mainly by an one-way railroad.
Let's say that Berlusconi does not have the H bomb so its less dangeruos than Bush.
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This post was moderated as "Insighful". Yes it is an insight about the kind of people on this forum.
In Italy we pay about 6 $ per gallon :-((
It's not the soviet russia, YET. This about the patriot act for example.
use the money they spend now to kill people around the world to fund research on something useful to people and not only to the big corporations ...
:-) ... You're right. I need some rest.. (a lot of). However I am really interested in knowing if somebody else has found the executables for x86_64 much slower than the ones from gcc 3.4.3
I build and tested 4.0.0 against 3.4.3. I'm not a benchmarch expert but nbench byte (a pretty old version) shows that 4.0.0 outputs very binaries compared to 3.4.3. Has someonebody else noticed this?
Your faith in the "Free Market" looks naive. The US itself is not a free market when it comes i.e. to the steel industry or to the products of agriculture. In these economic sectors the US apply heavy taxation to goods from Cina and other developing countries. It's the greed of the capital holders who is destroying the US and the european economy. The politics and the administration of the public health aren't done in the interest of the people who live in a country but only to serve who can buy them.
> conflict of interest warning: the author of this page is also the author of merd, so some things may be unintentionally subconsciously biased.
> merd is still in planning stage, only half of the programs work, the interactive interpreter is vaporware, and more generally merd is currently unusable.
Dear merd author, plese, use another name for your new scripting language.
I couldn't use "merd" as a programming lauguage. This name sounds awful in italian.
This way of doing business which is tipically american (the american corporations are doing their better to export this corruption everywhere) is harmful for the world. Americans should stop this decadence that grabs aways from the hand of people the possibility to build a better life for itself and theirs families consigning the power to corporations.
Agreed. Moreover I think that a private company should not put a bounty on other privates. This is the next step towards the government of the big corporations. May be I don't conceive this behavior becaouse I'm not american too.
Also if the fact that M$ software will be proven true by umbiased consultants, nevertheless Open source software should be preferred. The problem is the lock-in that the use of M$ software can lead to. Freedom has no price...
the decision of these asian countries to switch away from M$. I think that after echelon and the recent iraqi invasion operated by the US, the world is going to not trust anymore the US in general and one of the more powerful US companies in particular; specially when it comes to information technology one has to be sure that nobody will steal his sensitive data and control of his machines. I am expecting that more and more governments and companies will switch in the future.