have u ever driven above 70mph in your life? -- probably yes... Why? - because u thought it was safe to do so....(?)
Never. I've never had call or reason to go above this speed. I'm one of those people you see plodding along in the left lane, with the truck in front of me getting ever further ahead.
As a point of note here, it's worth remembering that speed doesn't kill. Speed squared kills. At 70mph the car by KE=1/2 m*v^2 has four times the kinetic energy of a car travelling at 35 mph. A (30+10) mph head on collision has over four times the energy of a (10 + 10) mph collision.
My car has an NCAP rating of 4 out of 5... what does yours have? NCAP ratings quite simply do not apply when travelling at 100mph. Car manufacturers like to boast their 0-60mph ratings at the fact that their cars can potentially travel at 220mph or whatever. The reality is any vehicle must be pushed quite appreciably in order to hit 100mph, and once it has reached such a speed it is outside virtually every tolerance it was designed to operate in. When you are at this speed, you are not in control of the vehicle, except to tenaciously move onward in an exceptionally straight line.
And as to wet roads, in France at least, I know that the motorway speed limit is reduced when the road is wet from 130kmph to 110kmph.
A couple of years ago I tried looking for a native XML database. The solutions were either very pricey, or very slow, or both. Nothing to keep up to RDBMS. The whole "XMLDBMS" hype died over eventually, as you may recall. OR hasn't it? Are such hybrid solutions all that's left of the concept? It was a great idea.
It wasn't so much a great idea as an exceedingly obvious one which no-one has managed to pick up on.
In my humble opinion, XML is essentially crippled without some kind of query/search/XML-Database functionality. What's the point of storing data in a format if there is no clear way of searching though it?
XQuery should have been completed and implemented five years ago. Now we're just stuck with bastardised solutions like the one proposed in TFA. Right now, your best bet for an XML search/query engine is to hack something together with javascript using xmlhttprequest. I'm not joking.
I wish I was, but the FOSS community in paticular has dropped the ball on XQuery applications. What solutions exist are enormous database applications, designed for large applications with huge amounts of XML data. For my modest little applications where I want to use just a few XML files, I'm stuck with sub par parsers.
For small applications, the lack of search/query capability stands against using XML. For large applications, the volume of data stands against using XML. For medium applications... what the hell is a medium application? At least, what is a medium application that wasn't either a small application at one point, or will become a larger application in the future.
I can get done for doing 100mph in my car (which is a sports saloon & is *designed* to be safe & high speed)
If you belive this, then you are clearly one of these stupid drivers you so despise. A sports saloon will crumple into paper in a 100mph accident, just like any other vehicle that isn't an 80 ton tank.
I am fed up with seeing females negotiating junctions with their right hand holding a phone to their left ear and their left hand on the right hand side of the steering wheel.
Your whole argument was so well written and insightful right up to this point. Why did you have to blemish a perfectly good comment by singling out women drivers. It only weakens your entire comment, which was otherwise very well put.
I've seen plenty of drivers talking on their phones. About 50% of them were women. I've also seen people driving dangerously or too fast. About 90% of them were men.
BUT. I've seen a lot of drivers who drive carefully, curtiously and pragmatically. These constitute about 90% of the drivers on the road. Otherwise you'd never get anywhere with all the collisions.
When did the UK switch from using miles to kilometers??
Shortly after the last civil servant who dealt with miles, furlongs, rods, yards ainches and ounces finally snapped and scampered around raving about "60 hands to the leauge and 23 in the inch", or some other such garbled conversions.
He's getting better though. They're teaching him about metres now. He smiles whenever he converts from kilometres to centimetres.
Apparently it's OK to drink yourself to death in the UK, but woe betide you if you get in an automobile stone cold sober.
Silly rabbit. That's becasue drinking yourself to death makes people money. Speeding is a profitless offense. If you had to pay a private company every time you were speeding, why, we'd all be encouraged to do it......oh wait.
When i drove through nottingham on the M1 there is an average speed check, and it keeps you on edge all the time, the road was of minor importance like wise other cars, my speed was my primary consern as it was with other drivers, you can see this from cars "wandering" onto the lane divisions.
Bottom line then is that you, and the rest, are bad drivers. You cannot control your cars at the required speed. You seem to have a compulsion to go faster than is legal for the road you are on, and you are by your own admission not paying diligent attention to road and other cars.
If you cannot competantly do something so simple as drive at a continuous speed, why should you even be on the road?
Who bought condoms last week. Who slept where, either going away or coming over. Who went to Alcoholics Anonymous. Who went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 in cinema. Who went to a mosque last week.
In the case of the third of these, it may in fact be illegal to breach your privacy by monitoring that you have gone to the AA, as a result of the ruling in the Naomi Campbell privacy case against the Mirror newspaper. It was ruled that the mirror had no right to expose Campbell's medical problems to the public, by revealing that she was attaending a drug clinic.
There is a clear distinction between public and private actions. It is certainly the case that you may engage in public actions in private, e.g. cabinet meetings. It is also the case that you may engage in private actions in public, e.g. having a relationship with someone.
The police are entitled to investigate both your public and private actions during the normal course of their duties, namely upholding the law. It is very questionable to say that the normal course of their duty involves monitoring every facet of your daily life, both public and private that they can get their hands on, constitutes a normal course of their duty. In fact, it could be argued, that superflous monitoring of citizens is expressly outside the legal entitlement of law enforcement.
And why is this news? Is it so difficult that nobody has done it?
People have done it. Half the reason they do it is because it is difficult and they get some kind of buzz from writing ugly, ugly hacks. I've never had the pleasure of meeting such an abomination of code in person, but if I did, I'd send it screaming to/dev/null.
Except not as interesting or useful.
Amen.
Shared memory. What kind of idiot uses shared memory. Never mind the bugs and hacks. Just think of the communication overhead. What the hell are all you're CPU's doing talking with one another so much?! They're supposed to be running in parallel!
Cut down on inter thread communication and use flatfiles, or named pipes if you're feeling especially superior.
Shared memory. I'll share your memory you... scallywag!
How do you get through a proper comp sci honours degree to the point where you can take a masters and then a PhD without reading Dijkstra?
I don't know what kind of comp sci degree you got, but out there in the real world, it's a sorry story. Truckloads of graduates can do precious little but Java, some HTML 4.01, visual basic, ASP and most use Visual C++ if they look at C++ at all.
Who am I kidding. Forget the java part. They're learning C# now. Most don't know what an opcode even is, let alone how their code becomes a sequence of them. Three quarters have never even downloaded a Linux Live CD. A significant percentage believe that writing their code on one line will make it run faster. They write SQL statements that would make you openly weep. The commandline is regarded as a bug or error whenever it appears.
But they can download torrents like nobodies business!!..... OK I lied. They're just using limewire. I blame the lecturers.
I even have a degree in CS and it took me at least 5 years to really 'get' it.
It took me five months, but then again I was working with Fedora, which, every day, would throw up yet another dependancy error when I tried to rum up2date.
If you want to truely learn Linux, forget Slackware. Fedora has enough problems, issues and workarounds to either make you a great admimwan learner or leave screaming for ubuntu in the attempt.
Samus is cool, but the way she's played her Gender doesn't matter. She is a strong professional, but the games are designed is most of the time her gender is irreverent.
I'll never forget that friend of mine who played Super Metroid unknowingly, up until he died and Samus' suit flying off death sequence appeared.
"Why's there a girl in Samus' suit?!"
Classic.
Samus' gender has sweet FA to do with how good or bad a game Metroid is, and whether or not female gamers will like it. Female gamers, like males, will play and like good games. The industry still hasn't realised this.
So, what would it take to satisfy your criteria on being a proper successor to C++, if none of C#, Java, Pike, Python, and many others are unable to qualify?
C++ code is far easier to understand and grasp than the equivalent C code. You can instantly see the structuring of the code and how it correlates.
Oh good gods yes! As an example for how all over the place c code can get, try looking into the mplayer source tree. Men have but gazed upon its grim pointer laden facade, and gone instantly mad. Mplayer.c is 4000 lines long!
In fact, forget it; just use an actual OO language instead.
C++ is an actual Object Oriented language, which is of course half the problem.
If you mean a pure OO language like Java, in which everything is an object except for primitives and it takes ten classes and wrappers just to read a file, well then C++ isn't exactly an Object Oriented language as such. Perhaps you mean Smalltalk or the like.
I tell you what though, C++ is still around after all this time. With all the hype surrounding Java, Perl, C#, Python, etc, etc, etc C++ programmers are still there beavering away with the god awful sytax Stroustrup left them with. Even after all the improvments, all the innovation and all the additional research into computer languages, for a hell of a lot of tasks, there is really no real alternative to C++.
I don't say this as a C++ fanboy, even though I am "somewhat" fond of the language when it is used properly, and not in garbled and unreadable line noise. I say this simply as a statement of fact. There is still no successor to C++.
I don't want garbage collection so much as I want a cleanup and rationalisation of the syntax. GC would be nice, but forcing more readable code would be even better.
It's perfectly OK for everyone in China to blatantly pirate information
Pirate? China is communist. Everything belongs to the people. Unless it belongs to one of the mandarins in Beijing. Then you'd best keep your grubby little peasant mits off it!
Given that "CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan [admitted] that for the past decade the network [systematically] covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities" prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in order to maintain access to Saddam's government, it would seem that CNN and TimeWarner would be prime candidates for sanctions/and or boycotts.
Yeah, well they covered up the fact that there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq either, so I guess it all balances out.
What?! Capitalists working on the side of good?! I smell a rat! A great big communist rat! Ronnie!! Ronnie come back and save us from these pinkos! How will I be able to afford my hummer if I can't sell a few activists out to the boys in Beijing? I blame television! Danm liberal media!
By being given highly subsidised housing and being paid to stay at home by the French taxpayer?
Yes. They live in shangri las, and are hand fed grapes by delightful young girls who sing them to sleep on their silk pillows that they purchace along with the casks of rich red wine and figs they have sent for from abroad with their state unemployment benefit, laughing all the while as they grow an every fatter burden on the french employers^H^H^Hworkers
Or maybe they just live in the ghetto, with just about enough spare cash at the end of the week to splash out a take away curry to share amoungst themselves. That is, if the gendarmes don't confiscate it while checking to see if their papers are in order.
And with systems like the xbox 360 going for $400, and games going for $50 each, spending $500 on a decent projector doesn't sound that bad anymore.
Actually, that sounds rather ludacrious in the face of a $150 22" CRT television I can play with the lights on, and without taking the shelves off my wall.
This coupled with the fact that the flu came immediately after fours years of the greatest war of attrition ever know, are completely unrelated occurances. Our modern, well fed and clothed society will not be safe!!
The 1918 virus sometimes killed completely healthy people in killed overnight.
I've hightlighted the most important part of this sentence. Remember, this killer is completely random and you are defensless against its almost magical abilities!
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have u ever driven above 70mph in your life? -- probably yes... Why? - because u thought it was safe to do so....(?)
Never. I've never had call or reason to go above this speed. I'm one of those people you see plodding along in the left lane, with the truck in front of me getting ever further ahead.
As a point of note here, it's worth remembering that speed doesn't kill. Speed squared kills. At 70mph the car by KE=1/2 m*v^2 has four times the kinetic energy of a car travelling at 35 mph. A (30+10) mph head on collision has over four times the energy of a (10 + 10) mph collision.
My car has an NCAP rating of 4 out of 5... what does yours have?
NCAP ratings quite simply do not apply when travelling at 100mph. Car manufacturers like to boast their 0-60mph ratings at the fact that their cars can potentially travel at 220mph or whatever. The reality is any vehicle must be pushed quite appreciably in order to hit 100mph, and once it has reached such a speed it is outside virtually every tolerance it was designed to operate in. When you are at this speed, you are not in control of the vehicle, except to tenaciously move onward in an exceptionally straight line.
And as to wet roads, in France at least, I know that the motorway speed limit is reduced when the road is wet from 130kmph to 110kmph.
A couple of years ago I tried looking for a native XML database. The solutions were either very pricey, or very slow, or both. Nothing to keep up to RDBMS. The whole "XMLDBMS" hype died over eventually, as you may recall. OR hasn't it? Are such hybrid solutions all that's left of the concept? It was a great idea.
It wasn't so much a great idea as an exceedingly obvious one which no-one has managed to pick up on.
In my humble opinion, XML is essentially crippled without some kind of query/search/XML-Database functionality. What's the point of storing data in a format if there is no clear way of searching though it?
XQuery should have been completed and implemented five years ago. Now we're just stuck with bastardised solutions like the one proposed in TFA. Right now, your best bet for an XML search/query engine is to hack something together with javascript using xmlhttprequest. I'm not joking.
I wish I was, but the FOSS community in paticular has dropped the ball on XQuery applications. What solutions exist are enormous database applications, designed for large applications with huge amounts of XML data. For my modest little applications where I want to use just a few XML files, I'm stuck with sub par parsers.
For small applications, the lack of search/query capability stands against using XML. For large applications, the volume of data stands against using XML. For medium applications... what the hell is a medium application? At least, what is a medium application that wasn't either a small application at one point, or will become a larger application in the future.
I can get done for doing 100mph in my car (which is a sports saloon & is *designed* to be safe & high speed)
If you belive this, then you are clearly one of these stupid drivers you so despise. A sports saloon will crumple into paper in a 100mph accident, just like any other vehicle that isn't an 80 ton tank.
I am fed up with seeing females negotiating junctions with their right hand holding a phone to their left ear and their left hand on the right hand side of the steering wheel.
Your whole argument was so well written and insightful right up to this point. Why did you have to blemish a perfectly good comment by singling out women drivers. It only weakens your entire comment, which was otherwise very well put.
I've seen plenty of drivers talking on their phones. About 50% of them were women. I've also seen people driving dangerously or too fast. About 90% of them were men.
BUT. I've seen a lot of drivers who drive carefully, curtiously and pragmatically. These constitute about 90% of the drivers on the road. Otherwise you'd never get anywhere with all the collisions.
When did the UK switch from using miles to kilometers??
Shortly after the last civil servant who dealt with miles, furlongs, rods, yards ainches and ounces finally snapped and scampered around raving about "60 hands to the leauge and 23 in the inch", or some other such garbled conversions.
He's getting better though. They're teaching him about metres now. He smiles whenever he converts from kilometres to centimetres.
Apparently it's OK to drink yourself to death in the UK, but woe betide you if you get in an automobile stone cold sober.
...oh wait.
Silly rabbit. That's becasue drinking yourself to death makes people money. Speeding is a profitless offense. If you had to pay a private company every time you were speeding, why, we'd all be encouraged to do it...
When i drove through nottingham on the M1 there is an average speed check, and it keeps you on edge all the time, the road was of minor importance like wise other cars, my speed was my primary consern as it was with other drivers, you can see this from cars "wandering" onto the lane divisions.
Bottom line then is that you, and the rest, are bad drivers. You cannot control your cars at the required speed. You seem to have a compulsion to go faster than is legal for the road you are on, and you are by your own admission not paying diligent attention to road and other cars.
If you cannot competantly do something so simple as drive at a continuous speed, why should you even be on the road?
Drive slower. It's easy!
Who bought condoms last week.
Who slept where, either going away or coming over.
Who went to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 in cinema.
Who went to a mosque last week.
In the case of the third of these, it may in fact be illegal to breach your privacy by monitoring that you have gone to the AA, as a result of the ruling in the Naomi Campbell privacy case against the Mirror newspaper. It was ruled that the mirror had no right to expose Campbell's medical problems to the public, by revealing that she was attaending a drug clinic.
There is a clear distinction between public and private actions. It is certainly the case that you may engage in public actions in private, e.g. cabinet meetings. It is also the case that you may engage in private actions in public, e.g. having a relationship with someone.
The police are entitled to investigate both your public and private actions during the normal course of their duties, namely upholding the law. It is very questionable to say that the normal course of their duty involves monitoring every facet of your daily life, both public and private that they can get their hands on, constitutes a normal course of their duty. In fact, it could be argued, that superflous monitoring of citizens is expressly outside the legal entitlement of law enforcement.
http://del.icio.us/ being in production for well over a year ought to provide sufficient prior art...
Nonsense! Here at the USPTO we grant patents irrespective of trivial details like prior art, gross obviousness and indeed patentability itself.
Funny how fresh, new and on topic submissions get rejected whilst the same old junk (and sometimes dupes too) get through.
Nonsense. The Slashdot Random Story Submission Selection System is completely fair and without bias.
It just needs a shuffle feature so that tracks^H^Hstories arne't repeated so often.
And why is this news? Is it so difficult that nobody has done it?
/dev/null.
People have done it. Half the reason they do it is because it is difficult and they get some kind of buzz from writing ugly, ugly hacks. I've never had the pleasure of meeting such an abomination of code in person, but if I did, I'd send it screaming to
Except not as interesting or useful.
Amen.
Shared memory. What kind of idiot uses shared memory. Never mind the bugs and hacks. Just think of the communication overhead. What the hell are all you're CPU's doing talking with one another so much?! They're supposed to be running in parallel!
Cut down on inter thread communication and use flatfiles, or named pipes if you're feeling especially superior.
Shared memory. I'll share your memory you... scallywag!
How do you get through a proper comp sci honours degree to the point where you can take a masters and then a PhD without reading Dijkstra?
I don't know what kind of comp sci degree you got, but out there in the real world, it's a sorry story. Truckloads of graduates can do precious little but Java, some HTML 4.01, visual basic, ASP and most use Visual C++ if they look at C++ at all.
Who am I kidding. Forget the java part. They're learning C# now. Most don't know what an opcode even is, let alone how their code becomes a sequence of them. Three quarters have never even downloaded a Linux Live CD. A significant percentage believe that writing their code on one line will make it run faster. They write SQL statements that would make you openly weep. The commandline is regarded as a bug or error whenever it appears.
But they can download torrents like nobodies business!!..... OK I lied. They're just using limewire. I blame the lecturers.
I even have a degree in CS and it took me at least 5 years to really 'get' it.
It took me five months, but then again I was working with Fedora, which, every day, would throw up yet another dependancy error when I tried to rum up2date.
If you want to truely learn Linux, forget Slackware. Fedora has enough problems, issues and workarounds to either make you a great admimwan learner or leave screaming for ubuntu in the attempt.
Samus is cool, but the way she's played her Gender doesn't matter. She is a strong professional, but the games are designed is most of the time her gender is irreverent.
I'll never forget that friend of mine who played Super Metroid unknowingly, up until he died and Samus' suit flying off death sequence appeared.
"Why's there a girl in Samus' suit?!"
Classic.
Samus' gender has sweet FA to do with how good or bad a game Metroid is, and whether or not female gamers will like it. Female gamers, like males, will play and like good games. The industry still hasn't realised this.
So, what would it take to satisfy your criteria on being a proper successor to C++, if none of C#, Java, Pike, Python, and many others are unable to qualify?
Isn't it obvious? Something better!
C++ code is far easier to understand and grasp than the equivalent C code. You can instantly see the structuring of the code and how it correlates.
Oh good gods yes! As an example for how all over the place c code can get, try looking into the mplayer source tree. Men have but gazed upon its grim pointer laden facade, and gone instantly mad. Mplayer.c is 4000 lines long!
In fact, forget it; just use an actual OO language instead.
C++ is an actual Object Oriented language, which is of course half the problem.
If you mean a pure OO language like Java, in which everything is an object except for primitives and it takes ten classes and wrappers just to read a file, well then C++ isn't exactly an Object Oriented language as such. Perhaps you mean Smalltalk or the like.
I tell you what though, C++ is still around after all this time. With all the hype surrounding Java, Perl, C#, Python, etc, etc, etc C++ programmers are still there beavering away with the god awful sytax Stroustrup left them with. Even after all the improvments, all the innovation and all the additional research into computer languages, for a hell of a lot of tasks, there is really no real alternative to C++.
I don't say this as a C++ fanboy, even though I am "somewhat" fond of the language when it is used properly, and not in garbled and unreadable line noise. I say this simply as a statement of fact. There is still no successor to C++.
I don't want garbage collection so much as I want a cleanup and rationalisation of the syntax. GC would be nice, but forcing more readable code would be even better.
It's perfectly OK for everyone in China to blatantly pirate information
Pirate? China is communist. Everything belongs to the people. Unless it belongs to one of the mandarins in Beijing. Then you'd best keep your grubby little peasant mits off it!
Given that "CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan [admitted] that for the past decade the network [systematically] covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities" prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in order to maintain access to Saddam's government, it would seem that CNN and TimeWarner would be prime candidates for sanctions/and or boycotts.
Yeah, well they covered up the fact that there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq either, so I guess it all balances out.
We are just like you. We live in the same world, and have similar concerns.
We are also immortal! Inviolable! Unassailable in our Glory! Our mighty hosts of lawyers sweep all before us!
Kneel plebain! Kneel and gaze upon the world which we have wrought for you! Bite not the hand that feeds thee!
So Preacheth The Church Of The New Global Capitalism!! Hail Satan!
What?! Capitalists working on the side of good?! I smell a rat! A great big communist rat! Ronnie!! Ronnie come back and save us from these pinkos! How will I be able to afford my hummer if I can't sell a few activists out to the boys in Beijing? I blame television! Danm liberal media!
By being given highly subsidised housing and being paid to stay at home by the French taxpayer?
Yes. They live in shangri las, and are hand fed grapes by delightful young girls who sing them to sleep on their silk pillows that they purchace along with the casks of rich red wine and figs they have sent for from abroad with their state unemployment benefit, laughing all the while as they grow an every fatter burden on the french employers^H^H^Hworkers
Or maybe they just live in the ghetto, with just about enough spare cash at the end of the week to splash out a take away curry to share amoungst themselves. That is, if the gendarmes don't confiscate it while checking to see if their papers are in order.
I can't even keep UP with all the good games that are coming out right now.
I love how you give a big long extensive list of these glamorous and in depth titles.
Here let me give you a hand.
for $i in "96 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006"
do
for $j in "madden fifa"
do
echo $j $i
done
done
You're right! The shelves are brimming with quality titles!
And with systems like the xbox 360 going for $400, and games going for $50 each, spending $500 on a decent projector doesn't sound that bad anymore.
Actually, that sounds rather ludacrious in the face of a $150 22" CRT television I can play with the lights on, and without taking the shelves off my wall.
The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40.
This coupled with the fact that the flu came immediately after fours years of the greatest war of attrition ever know, are completely unrelated occurances. Our modern, well fed and clothed society will not be safe!!
The 1918 virus sometimes killed completely healthy people in killed overnight.
I've hightlighted the most important part of this sentence. Remember, this killer is completely random and you are defensless against its almost magical abilities!