The US absolutely did NOT become a super power until after the close of WWII. And in large part, that was thanks to the Germans (including Nazis) absorbed by the US.
It had much more to do with Europe (the former economic super power) having completely wrecked its infrastructure following two major wars, while the U.S. had a completely intact infrastructure from a complete lack of being bombed into the stone age.
Well, from my personal experience, when I die in a dream (rarely, thankfully) I spend the entire next day feeling disconnected from my body. It's not a physical problem, certainly, but it's very disconcerting all the same.
The only way to counter sociopathic anti-logic is to do a better job at using sociopathic anti-logic. Your Soviet-style surveillance question is good, but the truly elegant will turn the original point back on its maker. i.e.:
This bill will help stop child pornography! Think of the children!
So you're in favor of putting tracking devices on little children to "protect" them? What a pervert! How dare you do that to a child and claim you're helping them! I see what you are!
Remember - the louder and more indignant you are, the more convincing. Double bonus points for finding a child who was hurt by being tracked constantly and show her cute little crying face to the public. Put a caption under it saying: do YOU want this to happen to YOUR child?
Dead bill. Winner: the person willing to be the most manipulative, evil sociopath.
Different strokes for different folks. Me personally, I like the experience of growing and developing a character while a story unfolds in the world around me. It's a fun diversion from the real world (which is honestly more of a grind than *any* MMO could hope to be) and it tickles the reward center of the brain as small goals are constantly being accomplished. They're as addictive as they are (for certain personality types) by very careful design.
If this guy can't keep something that was thrown in the trash, then law enforcement shouldn't be able to search through our trash for evidence. Oh, that sword cuts both ways? Oops.
You know how some stop lights have those little spikes on them the keep birds from landing on them and pooping on cars below? I wouldn't say those stop lights are bird free due to "lazy birds". I suspect for this to work at all it has to rely on making the environment physically unsuitable for micro-organisms in a similar fashion. I would like to say I know this, but the article is pretty stingy on details.
Depends on how it works. If it's a vector that some germs can survive, like with antibiotics, then there's a chance for a new generation to be born resistant to it. If it's a physical vector that is incompatible with germ life like how alcohol basically dissolves bacterial cell membranes, then no.
It's like how the human population can become resistant to a particular virus, but no one is resistant to a bullet through the heart.
Because it would have to evolve a plastic coating that still magically performed all of the functions of the original cell membrane. It would be kind of like saying why can't human evolve a plastic coating over their lungs to defend against inhaling acid fumes. You would block what was killing you at the expense of...well...killing you in a different and horrible way.
Which one? The one that Bush signed as he left or the one that Obama signed as he entered? Both were colossal wastes of money. Collectively they show that neither party cares about cutting spending, we get equally screwed no matter who is in power.
If you're on Facebook, you've already given up a nearly equivalent amount of privacy. This would just be the next logical step. Keep in mind that, just like Facebook, someone would have to go through all of those massive amounts of data to do something useful with it. Your database is only as useful as your data mining algorithms.
Not so much. That formula fits for sociopaths, which are about 4% of the population (not all of which are strictly criminals, but practically all of which are at least grade A assholes), but for the rest of criminals out there Chance+opportunity-risk = criminal action is more fitting. Many criminals feel empathy, its just that they rationalize the action as being somehow more important and overriding of consideration for the other person.
So...why are you worried about friends who pester you with their inane ramblings? Just delete the account, make up a reason (inane ramblers don't care about the content of the reason, having one at all i.e. "Pluto isn't a planet anymore so I'm deleting my account" will satisfy them) and they'll leave you alone anyway.
Yes, because everyone absolutely *must* be able to e-mail the latest 200mb "kitties playing with yarn" video to all 1000 of their closest internal friends. Because repeated stupidity like that *never* made an e-mail system choke on its own entrails. No, let's remove the "retarded" 10mb email limit that's keeping YOUR FREAKING EMAIL FLOWING just because you're inconvenienced once a month. Good plan.
What you neglect to consider is that a secure VPN tunnel back to the main office with NO DIRECT CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC INTERNET is the correct way to do security monitoring solutions. Your internet connection with a static IP is begging for hacks, man in the middle attacks, compromising the server and replaying the same loop of video over and over, anything.
The performance may be turds, and they definitely should address that, but dear God, leave network security to the experts.
That's all money is, a commodity traded in barter. We collectively agree that it's worth something and carry on as if it is. Same thing with bitcoin. Many fiat currencies in the past have failed the mass delusion test, no one would accept them because they didn't believe in them. All they were good for was paying your taxes. Essentially "money" is whatever people decide is money. No matter what, people have to accept it for it to be useful.
Now *that* is an awesome troll. Pay attention kids, this is how it's properly done. I applaud you sir, that wrapped around into magnificent.
You actually had me mentally crafting a counterpoint about how compressed formats are more prone to complete data loss due to any bit corruption until I finally read the payoff at the end.
Aside from pointers, C has exactly 0 low level features, and even then it cannot be reliably coerced to take advantage of all the complex addressing modes of a real architecture (translation: C's abstract machine has no addressing modes, or flags, or anything else low level.. hell, you can't even get the double-wide result of a multiply that is produced by every x86 since the 8088, or get both the quotient and remainder out of the x86 division instructions, or leverage any of the instructions specifically tailored to arbitrary precision math, or... you get the point?)
C has exactly one low level feature that allows you access to all of that:
asm { //code goes here }
Other languages tend to sacrifice that for enhanced portability.
Where it really shines is making use of assembly instructions that the compiler doesn't know about. Like introducing SSE/MMX into digital processing routines. Of course, this is also just inline assembly in the midst of everything else, but for those small sections that eat like 95% of the execution time, it can make a lot of sense to introduce some clever parallel processing, cache hints, etc.
Well, once the program is finished, ASM is faster than C++. The problem is, your deliverable time on a 100k lines of code C++ project redone in hand optimized assembly is approximately equal to the number of years until the heat death of the universe.
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I would expect there to be constant controversy i.e. the abortion debate, democrats vs. republicans, gay marriage vs. traditional marriage, etc.
The US absolutely did NOT become a super power until after the close of WWII. And in large part, that was thanks to the Germans (including Nazis) absorbed by the US.
It had much more to do with Europe (the former economic super power) having completely wrecked its infrastructure following two major wars, while the U.S. had a completely intact infrastructure from a complete lack of being bombed into the stone age.
Well, from my personal experience, when I die in a dream (rarely, thankfully) I spend the entire next day feeling disconnected from my body. It's not a physical problem, certainly, but it's very disconcerting all the same.
The only way to counter sociopathic anti-logic is to do a better job at using sociopathic anti-logic. Your Soviet-style surveillance question is good, but the truly elegant will turn the original point back on its maker. i.e.:
This bill will help stop child pornography! Think of the children!
So you're in favor of putting tracking devices on little children to "protect" them? What a pervert! How dare you do that to a child and claim you're helping them! I see what you are!
Remember - the louder and more indignant you are, the more convincing. Double bonus points for finding a child who was hurt by being tracked constantly and show her cute little crying face to the public. Put a caption under it saying: do YOU want this to happen to YOUR child?
Dead bill. Winner: the person willing to be the most manipulative, evil sociopath.
Different strokes for different folks. Me personally, I like the experience of growing and developing a character while a story unfolds in the world around me. It's a fun diversion from the real world (which is honestly more of a grind than *any* MMO could hope to be) and it tickles the reward center of the brain as small goals are constantly being accomplished. They're as addictive as they are (for certain personality types) by very careful design.
If this guy can't keep something that was thrown in the trash, then law enforcement shouldn't be able to search through our trash for evidence. Oh, that sword cuts both ways? Oops.
You know how some stop lights have those little spikes on them the keep birds from landing on them and pooping on cars below? I wouldn't say those stop lights are bird free due to "lazy birds". I suspect for this to work at all it has to rely on making the environment physically unsuitable for micro-organisms in a similar fashion. I would like to say I know this, but the article is pretty stingy on details.
Depends on how it works. If it's a vector that some germs can survive, like with antibiotics, then there's a chance for a new generation to be born resistant to it. If it's a physical vector that is incompatible with germ life like how alcohol basically dissolves bacterial cell membranes, then no.
It's like how the human population can become resistant to a particular virus, but no one is resistant to a bullet through the heart.
Because it would have to evolve a plastic coating that still magically performed all of the functions of the original cell membrane. It would be kind of like saying why can't human evolve a plastic coating over their lungs to defend against inhaling acid fumes. You would block what was killing you at the expense of ...well...killing you in a different and horrible way.
It depends on your cognitive dissonance level.
Which one? The one that Bush signed as he left or the one that Obama signed as he entered? Both were colossal wastes of money. Collectively they show that neither party cares about cutting spending, we get equally screwed no matter who is in power.
If you're on Facebook, you've already given up a nearly equivalent amount of privacy. This would just be the next logical step. Keep in mind that, just like Facebook, someone would have to go through all of those massive amounts of data to do something useful with it. Your database is only as useful as your data mining algorithms.
Not so much. That formula fits for sociopaths, which are about 4% of the population (not all of which are strictly criminals, but practically all of which are at least grade A assholes), but for the rest of criminals out there Chance+opportunity-risk = criminal action is more fitting. Many criminals feel empathy, its just that they rationalize the action as being somehow more important and overriding of consideration for the other person.
So...why are you worried about friends who pester you with their inane ramblings? Just delete the account, make up a reason (inane ramblers don't care about the content of the reason, having one at all i.e. "Pluto isn't a planet anymore so I'm deleting my account" will satisfy them) and they'll leave you alone anyway.
If you're programming in BASIC already, how much worse could it be?
Yes, because everyone absolutely *must* be able to e-mail the latest 200mb "kitties playing with yarn" video to all 1000 of their closest internal friends. Because repeated stupidity like that *never* made an e-mail system choke on its own entrails. No, let's remove the "retarded" 10mb email limit that's keeping YOUR FREAKING EMAIL FLOWING just because you're inconvenienced once a month. Good plan.
What you neglect to consider is that a secure VPN tunnel back to the main office with NO DIRECT CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC INTERNET is the correct way to do security monitoring solutions. Your internet connection with a static IP is begging for hacks, man in the middle attacks, compromising the server and replaying the same loop of video over and over, anything.
The performance may be turds, and they definitely should address that, but dear God, leave network security to the experts.
Remember to multiply by 100 when converting to % - 2/708 = 0.002857 or 0.2857%
Still low, but orders of magnitude matter.
That's all money is, a commodity traded in barter. We collectively agree that it's worth something and carry on as if it is. Same thing with bitcoin. Many fiat currencies in the past have failed the mass delusion test, no one would accept them because they didn't believe in them. All they were good for was paying your taxes. Essentially "money" is whatever people decide is money. No matter what, people have to accept it for it to be useful.
More to the point, good algorithm design will always trump compiler optimization tricks.
My heapsort will always beat your insertion sort on arrays over 1000 or so elements, no matter what language/compiler/optimization tactics are used.
Now *that* is an awesome troll. Pay attention kids, this is how it's properly done. I applaud you sir, that wrapped around into magnificent.
You actually had me mentally crafting a counterpoint about how compressed formats are more prone to complete data loss due to any bit corruption until I finally read the payoff at the end.
Golf clap --> Standing Ovation.
Aside from pointers, C has exactly 0 low level features, and even then it cannot be reliably coerced to take advantage of all the complex addressing modes of a real architecture (translation: C's abstract machine has no addressing modes, or flags, or anything else low level.. hell, you can't even get the double-wide result of a multiply that is produced by every x86 since the 8088, or get both the quotient and remainder out of the x86 division instructions, or leverage any of the instructions specifically tailored to arbitrary precision math, or... you get the point?)
C has exactly one low level feature that allows you access to all of that:
//code goes here
asm {
}
Other languages tend to sacrifice that for enhanced portability.
Where it really shines is making use of assembly instructions that the compiler doesn't know about. Like introducing SSE/MMX into digital processing routines. Of course, this is also just inline assembly in the midst of everything else, but for those small sections that eat like 95% of the execution time, it can make a lot of sense to introduce some clever parallel processing, cache hints, etc.
The tests are still running. Results are expected next year some time.
Well, once the program is finished, ASM is faster than C++. The problem is, your deliverable time on a 100k lines of code C++ project redone in hand optimized assembly is approximately equal to the number of years until the heat death of the universe.