I never use the default build system of MSVS, so I don't know what's the problem with MASM. I prefer CMake for cross-platform systems and build system of DDK for kernel-mode drivers.
As for IntelliSense, new Eclipse CDT is about on-par with MSVS 2008.
However, MSVS 2010 leaves it far behind, and you can download MSVS 2010 Beta right now (it's been available via MSDN subscription for a while now).
Also, MSVS 2010 supports some nice C++0A features.
VisualStudio supports plain old C++. In fact, the new MSVS it's THE BEST editor for plain old C++, with the best autocomplete and refactoring support for C++ which exists in this Universe. I routinely write kernel-mode code in it, for example.
Some features like online C++ error checking are simply unique.
Lead is not a good insulator for charged particles because rapidly decelerating particles create X-rays (braking radiation, I'd be damned if I remember how it's written in German). Of course, you can make thick enough lead blocks to adsorb the generated radiation, but It's much better to use insulation made of light chemical elements.
That's why, for example, Apollo spaceships used polyethylene and not lead foil for shielding.
"When you explain that XX% of the effect is caused by instrumentation errors, is that because you have actually determined that, or because you just can't figure out what's really causing the anomaly?"
Checking for measurement errors is usually easier than trying to change the whole model to fit the data. So that's what I'd have tried first, and only _if_ it fails then I'd try to change the model.
"Well, I think the big thing that this data-dump shows is that it's actually a small group of tightly knit e-mail connected individuals that are driving a whole lot of the AGW effort."
Quite the opposite. There's a small group of tightly knit individuals that are driving ANTI-AGW.
"Its been cooling for a decade and there is even an email about it with one of those guys asking the other what they should do about the current evidence, with a hint that the instrumental record (direct observations!) must be wrong."
WRONG! I F&@#(G WANT TO KILL ANYONE WHO REPEATS THIS TRASH! DO THE F##$!#G GOOGLE SEARCH FOR IT!
I don't think your example proves anything, I've used similar language when investigating data (not climate data, but industrial measurement results). Such language usually means: 'if we can explain that XX% of the effect is caused by instrumentation errors then there's no problem with the rest of the data as the anomaly becomes statistically insignificant'.
"Grapes grew in London vineyards, Orange trees grew in Berlin"
You can grow grapes in London right now, if you please. It's not hard. You don't even need greenhouses. In fact, my parents are growing grapes in much harsher climate in Russia (in Izhevsk, to be precise).
"and modern climate theory says it never happened."
"Only as accurate as the last update." Tax codes do not change _that_ frequently.
"More likely than not, the tax codes change a lot more frequently and the amount of stuff you are specifically dealing with is a far smaller list than what Amazon would need."
Alas, no. We're dealing with clients from the whole of the USA. So we're exactly in Amazon's position.
"How big is the database it uses for lookups? And remember, an Internet site can sell anywhere in the world"
The whole tax software is around 100Mb in size (several large binary files).
"so are you going to pay $20k per country that you might do business in? That's a hefty bill, and not likely one that anyone can afford. How many countries are there now?"
Around 300 countries. Only ~100 of them matter for Amazon. Still, even $2 million won't make a dent in Amazon's profits.
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Wow! This 'paper' contains almost the record number of lies per square centimeter of screen.
There's a lot of impressive-looking equations mixed with easily verified lies.
Yep, it's fixed.
See here: http://imgur.com/73EAu
No, you'll have to wait for Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) for these changes.
Usually, district heating uses waste heat from power plants. It'll be wasted anyway, so why not use it to heat houses?
The word 'genetic' predates the discovery of DNA: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=genetic
Uhm....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm ?
The word 'genetic' itself has nothing to do with DNA.
I never use the default build system of MSVS, so I don't know what's the problem with MASM. I prefer CMake for cross-platform systems and build system of DDK for kernel-mode drivers.
As for IntelliSense, new Eclipse CDT is about on-par with MSVS 2008.
However, MSVS 2010 leaves it far behind, and you can download MSVS 2010 Beta right now (it's been available via MSDN subscription for a while now).
Also, MSVS 2010 supports some nice C++0A features.
WTF?
VisualStudio supports plain old C++. In fact, the new MSVS it's THE BEST editor for plain old C++, with the best autocomplete and refactoring support for C++ which exists in this Universe. I routinely write kernel-mode code in it, for example.
Some features like online C++ error checking are simply unique.
Nope. There's no single 'past' or 'present' in the Universe.
It's a future Supernova from _our_ point of view.
"trucks, planes, etc from the US contributed to buying the time to allow General Winter to intervene."
There were almost no planes provided through lend-lease programs. In any case, it was far less than _1%_ of Soviet industrial output during the WWII.
including beating Linux on MySQL SMP benchmarks
No, it doesn't. However, beating Linux was one of motivations for rewriting the old O(1) scheduler.
Lead is not a good insulator for charged particles because rapidly decelerating particles create X-rays (braking radiation, I'd be damned if I remember how it's written in German). Of course, you can make thick enough lead blocks to adsorb the generated radiation, but It's much better to use insulation made of light chemical elements.
That's why, for example, Apollo spaceships used polyethylene and not lead foil for shielding.
Undoing moderation.
Asimov - "The Feeling Of Power"
Can be read here: http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html
"When you explain that XX% of the effect is caused by instrumentation errors, is that because you have actually determined that, or because you just can't figure out what's really causing the anomaly?"
Checking for measurement errors is usually easier than trying to change the whole model to fit the data. So that's what I'd have tried first, and only _if_ it fails then I'd try to change the model.
Of course, you can't make up the data.
Nope, I worked on climate models.
Almost all AGW-denial stuff is simply a pseudoscience.
Switch to the AGW camp. I've just received my monthly paycheck from the Al Gore Conspiracy.
Seriously, you're just a victim of brainwashing by pseudoscience. Which can be provably traced back to a few conservative 'think tanks'.
Of course, by now there are millions of brainwashed people.
"Well, I think the big thing that this data-dump shows is that it's actually a small group of tightly knit e-mail connected individuals that are driving a whole lot of the AGW effort."
Quite the opposite. There's a small group of tightly knit individuals that are driving ANTI-AGW.
And that's actually proven: http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2008/06/ninety_percent_of_enviro_skept.php
"Its been cooling for a decade and there is even an email about it with one of those guys asking the other what they should do about the current evidence, with a hint that the instrumental record (direct observations!) must be wrong."
WRONG! I F&@#(G WANT TO KILL ANYONE WHO REPEATS THIS TRASH! DO THE F##$!#G GOOGLE SEARCH FOR IT!
http://climateprogress.org/2009/11/20/hacked-hadley-emails-hottest-decade-on-record-and-the-oceans-planet-keep-warming/
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/04/warming-stopped-in-1998.php
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/03/satellites-show-cooling.php
"Is Richard S. Lindzen of the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT an idiot media personality?"
Yes.
"That man is Steve McIntyre."
And I literally LOLed. He's been caught manipulating data, disregarding evidence and so on.
SURE he's 'open about the data and methodology', yep. Only excluding the cases where he's clearly wrong.
"Believe it or not (I know you won't) but not everyone who disagrees with you is on some big oil company's payroll"
Let me guess... You're with Big Coal?
Uhm.
I don't think your example proves anything, I've used similar language when investigating data (not climate data, but industrial measurement results). Such language usually means: 'if we can explain that XX% of the effect is caused by instrumentation errors then there's no problem with the rest of the data as the anomaly becomes statistically insignificant'.
"Grapes grew in London vineyards, Orange trees grew in Berlin"
You can grow grapes in London right now, if you please. It's not hard. You don't even need greenhouses. In fact, my parents are growing grapes in much harsher climate in Russia (in Izhevsk, to be precise).
"and modern climate theory says it never happened."
WTF???
"Only as accurate as the last update."
Tax codes do not change _that_ frequently.
"More likely than not, the tax codes change a lot more frequently and the amount of stuff you are specifically dealing with is a far smaller list than what Amazon would need."
Alas, no. We're dealing with clients from the whole of the USA. So we're exactly in Amazon's position.
"How big is the database it uses for lookups? And remember, an Internet site can sell anywhere in the world"
The whole tax software is around 100Mb in size (several large binary files).
"so are you going to pay $20k per country that you might do business in? That's a hefty bill, and not likely one that anyone can afford. How many countries are there now?"
Around 300 countries. Only ~100 of them matter for Amazon. Still, even $2 million won't make a dent in Amazon's profits.