Except that asssembly is SO much harder to write than C and C++. But Java and C# are comparable in difficult to C and C++. Make assembly as easy to write and as portable as C/C++ and I'll switch back to it.
Yeah, you and the Java guys keep saying that over and over. You've said it so much that you even start to believe it yourself. But out here in the real world we know the truth that native machine code is still faster. C# and Java will always have less performance than C and C++. You guys need to accept that fact.
That doesn't mean that C# and Java suck. Both of those have significant advantages over ordinary C and C++. But raw execution speed isn't one of them.
The problem isn't the technology. The US health care system has the best technology in the world. That's not what's broken. The dysfunction comes from removing the health care recipient (you and I) from the health care market.
We don't buy health care, we buy insurance. While insurance works great for catastrophic needs, it falls flat when it comes to ordinary day to day needs, regardless of domain. Automobile insurance works because automobile accidents are (relatively) rare. But our costs are skyrocketing because we are using the insurance mechanism for day to day healthcare. It's as silly as buying food insurance to provide our groceries. The problem is further exacerbated because insurance companies are disinterested agents. They want to keep their costs down, but as long as we pay them, they have no interest whatsoever in keeping *our* costs down. The market system is working, but it's not working for us because we are not a part of it.
This isn't about whether healthcare is funded by the government or not. We can have government funded healthcare in a market based system. We just need to get the patient back in the role of consumer. If you give the poor vouchers for healthcare, and then allow everyone to purchase their day to day health maintenance needs out of pocket, the system can get start getting back on track.
Spill toxic mercury into the environment, or go to jail for using an incandescent bulb...? I wish the environmentalists would figure what's safe and what's not BEFORE they start telling us what to do.
Portable? As in "cross-platform"? Hah! The hinderance is Flash. It isn't available for Solaris or any BSD. I don't consider anything to be cross-platform that requires me to reboot into a different operating system. I do realize that I'm not the average user, but part of "Free Software" means not having to run the OS that Adobe tells you to.
Open Source Flash, and I'll start considering the technical merits of Flex. But until then it's a non-starter for cross-platform development.
Yeah, vote with your wallet, go live in a cave - that'll show 'em all!
If I'm trying to bankrupt Microsoft, then you're obviously stupid. But if all I'm trying to do is to operate a computer without any Microsoft software, the solution is supremely easy. No need for caves at all. Just don't install or use any Microsoft software. Bill Gates may not give a shit, but what do you care? He's just another guy you're not giving any money to.
This is a very important point, that too many people can't seem to understand. Trying to change the world is very very hard, but changing yourself is fairly easy. Organizing a boycott to put a major dent in Microsoft's earnings is a fool's errand. But not running Windows on your computer is easy.
Example: Choicepoint. They make money off you without you ever doing business with anyone.
Not one of my dollars has ever gone to Choicepoint. They may make money off of me, but they don't receive any money from me. That's a big difference.
And one person's bad credit decisions can harm others. Look at how all the foreclosures are driving down the price of homes and causing homes to take longer to sell. Even if you bought your house all cash, you're affected by Joe Spendalot next door - his foreclosed home will depress your house's value when you try to sell and move.
Is your house a home or an investment? If it's a home, then the price fluctuation doesn't affect you. If it's an investment (and ephemeral residence), then you should have realized up front that every investment is risky. From my perspective, as someone who is in the market for a house, a lower price is a good thing!
Your myopic view is endemic of ubercapitalist and ubersocialist thinkers alike.
And your distorted view of the world thinks that utopia is possible. Perfection is not possible, despite what the politicians tell you. There will ALWAYS be problems. Do you really think that with the right mix of laws and regulations you can create paradise on Earth? Get real! To reject capitalism because it isn't perfect is beyond stupid.
Socialism, as Marx defined it, has been a demonstrable failure everywhere it has been tried, but capitalism, defined as a market economy with a relatively low level of government interference, has been shown to produce the highest level of prosperity of any system ever tried. It is NOT perfect, and does not claim to be. But until you have something better to replace it with, don't even think about tossing it out.
I heard all these same arguments twenty five years ago. It was Reagon instead of Bush, and the Greed Generation instead of the Sheeple Generation, but it was otherwise identical. Funny thing, the dire future never happened.
The myth is that big business rules over us. The truth is that the only dollars they get from you are the ones you voluntarily give them. Your "soul" is in your hands. No one can take it from you without your consent. If you buy a 42" plasma TV, it is your fault. Stop blaming business for the shit you buy.
Where's there's smoke, there must be fire. Consider the following facts: Bush once stopped for a Slurpee(tm) at a convenience store in Crawford, Texas; Cindy Sheehan choked on a Little Debbie(tm) while on a hunger strike at the same Crawford convenience store. Coincidence? I think not!
Whatever "it" is, the answer is most probably a resounding "no!"
I know this is Slashdot, home of the geeky nerd, but let me pull out my big ClueBat(tm) and whack you one: LIFE IS NOT SOFTWARE! You can't fix life's problems by adjusting a few of society's variables or getting government to run a different algorithm. Human beings are not cellular automata that you can manipulate in a social experiment.
For once, try thinking of a solution that doesn't involve laws and courts and cops and guns.
I can certainly disagree with that concluding paragraph. The US is still a free nation, and will remain a free nation. We aren't perfectly free (no one is), but we're definitely way over on the free end of the spectrum. I'm just not seeing the line of people waiting to emigrate out of the United States.
I certainly don't need Pravda, a relic of the totalitarian Soviet Union, telling me how unfree I am.
If Bush were President for life, then we would have some truly dire problems. But he will be done in a year and a half. That's the truly great thing about democracy with term limits: numbnuts can't stay in any one office long enough to cause permanent damage. We survived the Clinton baboon, we can survive the Bush chimpanzee.
At the risk of being called a troll, I'm running a FreeBSD desktop, and the GUI is very responsive. Significantly more so than Windows on the same machine, and slightly more so than on Linux.
Ummm, I hate to break the news to you, but Boston is as liberal as they come. While not as leftist as the left coast, Boston is still Democrat Central. It's the bluest of the blue cities in a blue state.
Is it just me, or is the Russian media fscking nuts? Pravda is claiming Imus was fired for threatening to reveal 9/11 secrets! I guess when you're not allowed to tell the truth, you have to pull stories out your ass instead.
Stop scaring yourself to death. Don't believe everything the fearmongers tell you.
Asbestos is a problem with multiple exposures over years. A single exposure, such as removing your tile, is not going to give you cancer. Professional tile layers need to worry about it, you don't. Use water to keep the dust down, and wear a 50 cent filter mask.
No one's being forced to accept any changes. If you don't like the new license, don't use the new software. Stick with the old GPLv2 version. It's simple really.
It actually depends on the nature of the submission. Trivial submissions, such as one-line bug fixes don't need explicit copyright assignment. Large submissions like new classes, do. The boundary line is not clear but my sense is that less than ten lines of ordinary code without an explicit copyright do not taint the original.
Of course, many vehemently disagree. Some viciously maintain that a patch that changes "n++" to "++n" is sufficient to to kick in the GPL viral clauses.
A couple of protesters threw bottles before the presidential limousine arrived, and one hurled an egg that landed near the motorcade...
I do not call that a "peaceful" protest. The fact that you do frightens me.
As for your other link, "Anti-Bush protester sues HPD officers over arrest in 2004", I'm not finding any information other than what's in his lawsuit claim. It's a case of "he said" with not even a "she said" from the other side. That I'm only finding the same rehashed quotes on online three years later tells me that there's not much to this story. Of course, the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory tells us that these means he's been shipped off to Gitmo...
Many years ago I knew a couple of medical transcriptionists. These are people who type 120 WPM for hours at a time. Many actually speed up their audio playback so they can type faster. I talked with one about DVORAK, and she said those in her profession that used DVORAK weren't any faster than the QWERTY users. My high school typing teacher decades back used to switch between QWERTY and DVORAK typewriters at a moments notice. She wasn't any faster on one than another.
My conclusion is that much of the DVORAK claims are wishful myth.
I almost bought a Das Keyboard. But then I actually used one. The problem with keyboards in general is that the key positions are *NOT* standardized. Really. If you use one and only one keyboard, then the Das Keyboard is great. I switch between several different keyboard layouts on a regular basis: iBook, desktop PC, Thinkpad T60, and UltraSparc. I also note that the "standard" PC keyboard isn't all that standardized either. The differences between these keyboards are things like meta keys and a few symbols. Not much, but enough that I need to occasionally glance down.
The mechanical feel of the Das Keyboard is fantastic, however. If they ever made one with printed keys I would buy it in a heartbeat.
I am arguing against an asinine four word bumper sticker. It's a supremely inane bumper sticker. But every once in a while I run across someone who really believes it. Damn.
p.s. Your petro-stock when up during the last six years, so you think it's proof. But wait! My WHOLE mutual fund portfolio when up during the last six years too. Maybe this whole thing is being run by mutual fund managers! Every think of that? No conspiracy theory is so complex you cannot add to the complexity to make it even more insidious.
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Except that asssembly is SO much harder to write than C and C++. But Java and C# are comparable in difficult to C and C++. Make assembly as easy to write and as portable as C/C++ and I'll switch back to it.
Yeah, you and the Java guys keep saying that over and over. You've said it so much that you even start to believe it yourself. But out here in the real world we know the truth that native machine code is still faster. C# and Java will always have less performance than C and C++. You guys need to accept that fact.
That doesn't mean that C# and Java suck. Both of those have significant advantages over ordinary C and C++. But raw execution speed isn't one of them.
The problem isn't the technology. The US health care system has the best technology in the world. That's not what's broken. The dysfunction comes from removing the health care recipient (you and I) from the health care market.
We don't buy health care, we buy insurance. While insurance works great for catastrophic needs, it falls flat when it comes to ordinary day to day needs, regardless of domain. Automobile insurance works because automobile accidents are (relatively) rare. But our costs are skyrocketing because we are using the insurance mechanism for day to day healthcare. It's as silly as buying food insurance to provide our groceries. The problem is further exacerbated because insurance companies are disinterested agents. They want to keep their costs down, but as long as we pay them, they have no interest whatsoever in keeping *our* costs down. The market system is working, but it's not working for us because we are not a part of it.
This isn't about whether healthcare is funded by the government or not. We can have government funded healthcare in a market based system. We just need to get the patient back in the role of consumer. If you give the poor vouchers for healthcare, and then allow everyone to purchase their day to day health maintenance needs out of pocket, the system can get start getting back on track.
Spill toxic mercury into the environment, or go to jail for using an incandescent bulb...? I wish the environmentalists would figure what's safe and what's not BEFORE they start telling us what to do.
Portable? As in "cross-platform"? Hah! The hinderance is Flash. It isn't available for Solaris or any BSD. I don't consider anything to be cross-platform that requires me to reboot into a different operating system. I do realize that I'm not the average user, but part of "Free Software" means not having to run the OS that Adobe tells you to.
Open Source Flash, and I'll start considering the technical merits of Flex. But until then it's a non-starter for cross-platform development.
Yeah, vote with your wallet, go live in a cave - that'll show 'em all!
If I'm trying to bankrupt Microsoft, then you're obviously stupid. But if all I'm trying to do is to operate a computer without any Microsoft software, the solution is supremely easy. No need for caves at all. Just don't install or use any Microsoft software. Bill Gates may not give a shit, but what do you care? He's just another guy you're not giving any money to.
This is a very important point, that too many people can't seem to understand. Trying to change the world is very very hard, but changing yourself is fairly easy. Organizing a boycott to put a major dent in Microsoft's earnings is a fool's errand. But not running Windows on your computer is easy.
Example: Choicepoint. They make money off you without you ever doing business with anyone.
Not one of my dollars has ever gone to Choicepoint. They may make money off of me, but they don't receive any money from me. That's a big difference.
And one person's bad credit decisions can harm others. Look at how all the foreclosures are driving down the price of homes and causing homes to take longer to sell. Even if you bought your house all cash, you're affected by Joe Spendalot next door - his foreclosed home will depress your house's value when you try to sell and move.
Is your house a home or an investment? If it's a home, then the price fluctuation doesn't affect you. If it's an investment (and ephemeral residence), then you should have realized up front that every investment is risky. From my perspective, as someone who is in the market for a house, a lower price is a good thing!
Your myopic view is endemic of ubercapitalist and ubersocialist thinkers alike.
And your distorted view of the world thinks that utopia is possible. Perfection is not possible, despite what the politicians tell you. There will ALWAYS be problems. Do you really think that with the right mix of laws and regulations you can create paradise on Earth? Get real! To reject capitalism because it isn't perfect is beyond stupid.
Socialism, as Marx defined it, has been a demonstrable failure everywhere it has been tried, but capitalism, defined as a market economy with a relatively low level of government interference, has been shown to produce the highest level of prosperity of any system ever tried. It is NOT perfect, and does not claim to be. But until you have something better to replace it with, don't even think about tossing it out.
I heard all these same arguments twenty five years ago. It was Reagon instead of Bush, and the Greed Generation instead of the Sheeple Generation, but it was otherwise identical. Funny thing, the dire future never happened.
The myth is that big business rules over us. The truth is that the only dollars they get from you are the ones you voluntarily give them. Your "soul" is in your hands. No one can take it from you without your consent. If you buy a 42" plasma TV, it is your fault. Stop blaming business for the shit you buy.
It is expected to pass soon with 'strong bipartisan support.
Damned Republicans!
Where's there's smoke, there must be fire. Consider the following facts: Bush once stopped for a Slurpee(tm) at a convenience store in Crawford, Texas; Cindy Sheehan choked on a Little Debbie(tm) while on a hunger strike at the same Crawford convenience store. Coincidence? I think not!
Alas, poor Willy is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2S04
Can Legislation Fix It?
Whatever "it" is, the answer is most probably a resounding "no!"
I know this is Slashdot, home of the geeky nerd, but let me pull out my big ClueBat(tm) and whack you one: LIFE IS NOT SOFTWARE! You can't fix life's problems by adjusting a few of society's variables or getting government to run a different algorithm. Human beings are not cellular automata that you can manipulate in a social experiment.
For once, try thinking of a solution that doesn't involve laws and courts and cops and guns.
I can certainly disagree with that concluding paragraph. The US is still a free nation, and will remain a free nation. We aren't perfectly free (no one is), but we're definitely way over on the free end of the spectrum. I'm just not seeing the line of people waiting to emigrate out of the United States.
I certainly don't need Pravda, a relic of the totalitarian Soviet Union, telling me how unfree I am.
If Bush were President for life, then we would have some truly dire problems. But he will be done in a year and a half. That's the truly great thing about democracy with term limits: numbnuts can't stay in any one office long enough to cause permanent damage. We survived the Clinton baboon, we can survive the Bush chimpanzee.
At the risk of being called a troll, I'm running a FreeBSD desktop, and the GUI is very responsive. Significantly more so than Windows on the same machine, and slightly more so than on Linux.
Wait, where's the conspiracy in that?
Ummm, I hate to break the news to you, but Boston is as liberal as they come. While not as leftist as the left coast, Boston is still Democrat Central. It's the bluest of the blue cities in a blue state.
Is it just me, or is the Russian media fscking nuts? Pravda is claiming Imus was fired for threatening to reveal 9/11 secrets! I guess when you're not allowed to tell the truth, you have to pull stories out your ass instead.
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http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/89728
Stop scaring yourself to death. Don't believe everything the fearmongers tell you.
Asbestos is a problem with multiple exposures over years. A single exposure, such as removing your tile, is not going to give you cancer. Professional tile layers need to worry about it, you don't. Use water to keep the dust down, and wear a 50 cent filter mask.
No one's being forced to accept any changes. If you don't like the new license, don't use the new software. Stick with the old GPLv2 version. It's simple really.
It actually depends on the nature of the submission. Trivial submissions, such as one-line bug fixes don't need explicit copyright assignment. Large submissions like new classes, do. The boundary line is not clear but my sense is that less than ten lines of ordinary code without an explicit copyright do not taint the original.
Of course, many vehemently disagree. Some viciously maintain that a patch that changes "n++" to "++n" is sufficient to to kick in the GPL viral clauses.
A couple of protesters threw bottles before the presidential limousine arrived, and one hurled an egg that landed near the motorcade...
I do not call that a "peaceful" protest. The fact that you do frightens me.
As for your other link, "Anti-Bush protester sues HPD officers over arrest in 2004", I'm not finding any information other than what's in his lawsuit claim. It's a case of "he said" with not even a "she said" from the other side. That I'm only finding the same rehashed quotes on online three years later tells me that there's not much to this story. Of course, the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory tells us that these means he's been shipped off to Gitmo...
It's amazing how the "Reality Based Community" insists on living in a fantasy world.
Many years ago I knew a couple of medical transcriptionists. These are people who type 120 WPM for hours at a time. Many actually speed up their audio playback so they can type faster. I talked with one about DVORAK, and she said those in her profession that used DVORAK weren't any faster than the QWERTY users. My high school typing teacher decades back used to switch between QWERTY and DVORAK typewriters at a moments notice. She wasn't any faster on one than another.
My conclusion is that much of the DVORAK claims are wishful myth.
I almost bought a Das Keyboard. But then I actually used one. The problem with keyboards in general is that the key positions are *NOT* standardized. Really. If you use one and only one keyboard, then the Das Keyboard is great. I switch between several different keyboard layouts on a regular basis: iBook, desktop PC, Thinkpad T60, and UltraSparc. I also note that the "standard" PC keyboard isn't all that standardized either. The differences between these keyboards are things like meta keys and a few symbols. Not much, but enough that I need to occasionally glance down.
The mechanical feel of the Das Keyboard is fantastic, however. If they ever made one with printed keys I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Draw your own conclusions.
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I am arguing against an asinine four word bumper sticker. It's a supremely inane bumper sticker. But every once in a while I run across someone who really believes it. Damn.
Here's a rebutting link for you. Scroll down to the "No Blood for Oil!" section. http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000136.ht
p.s. Your petro-stock when up during the last six years, so you think it's proof. But wait! My WHOLE mutual fund portfolio when up during the last six years too. Maybe this whole thing is being run by mutual fund managers! Every think of that? No conspiracy theory is so complex you cannot add to the complexity to make it even more insidious.