Would you be so kind as to count the ways to combat money expansion? You realize that the steady 2%-5% inflation per year is not some natural feature of the free market, right? It's man made and it's skimming wealth of the top each year and if you don't happen to own a bank, investment firm or a firm being invested in chances are you are among those getting screwed?
Paper money is a perversion: A dollar is a promise by the central bank to give you a dollar. Really, just the paper an ink. Would you trade a month of your labour for some other paper and ink worth maybe a piece of bread in free exchange?
It's true that gold doesn't have an inert value but you can't deny that the market has demand for it. That gives it actual value. It really doesn't matter if you like gold: with gold as an medium of exchange you'd only have to trust that there is demand for it and that you will be able to convert it into other goods across the globe without fear that it won't be accepted.
Gold as a medium of exchange is far from a random metal. In order to buy a ton of steel you don't need to carry around a ton of gold that's one advantage. Try to figure out how much paper and ink you'd need to carry. Gold is also a nobel metal meaning it doesn't react with a lot of things, notably water and oxygen the two things that will, over time, ruin every single thing man every created. Gold is soft making it easy to work with and because it is also shiny has been used all across the world and all throughout history for adornments and jewellery.
Lastely, golds value is relatively stable because the supply just can not be expanded at will. If gold didn't exist we would need to invent it.
I agree with you but I've come to realize that it's not worth to bother. The truth is that 99% of the populance are part of the problem and give "the system" (of war, overspending, curtailing of freedom..) the inertia it has. Even here, comparitively a mekka for freethinkers (haha!), most/will/ not vote for anything deemed too far off course.
Libertarianism is a failed ethic because it requires some attention span and dedication to fully comprehend and is in the minds of those with out these qualities too easiely defeated by "look, poor people!" (DEMs) and "be very afraid!" (REPs) soundbites.
I've decided to just sit back, just not care anymore and laugh heartily at the stupitity of it all.
I can't believe you are really comparing a security vulnerability in the JVM ( a bug...) to off-by-one errors corrupting the heap in C. That's would be like saying that C is unsecure because of hypervisor exploits i.e. completely missing the point.
Yes, the JVM will not be bug free but the stuff it's hiding from the programmer will be done by code that is of much higher quality than what can be expected by an application programmer writing replacements for that code ( because he is using a lower level language).
Unless you use native bindings (C knocking again) the JVM gurantees you can't. Please show me an example to the contrary. I know it would be very easy to do in C.
The definition of "safe" is not that if everything goes according to plan nothing bad will happen. What's inherently unsafe about C is that it is possible to corrupt the complete memory area that you have access to. So a module that doesn't sanitate it's own input suddenly goes from being badly designed software to posing a danger to the physical representation in memory of the program calling it, the data of that program or even the data of other programs.
This coupled with the fact that C programs are not fail-fast at all makes it completely unsuitable for beginners. You should learn about programming concepts first and only venture into C programming when you no longer struggle with data structures, algorithms and so forth and can focus entirely on avoiding core dumps.
Java "likes" nothing. Maybe bad CS professors like to not explain stuff sufficiently though? It's quite possible to have very throughout excerises that will drive home the difference between referencing a value and manipulating a value directly. Still the argument that you need to learn C to be a real programmer is not convincing...
Extending the methaphore: you really think that Michelangelo would have liked to design and build appartment houses? Face it, software is a commodity and as much as you need the Sistine Chapel (as an operating system i.e.) you also need guys building solid, cheap and practical. Why the hell would you use C for an application in this day and age? What concepts can C teach you that you can't understand any other way?
Yes, a programmer should be able to grasp the concept of pointers, no argument there. But as you said yourself this concept is also necessary in Java. So, what was your point? That badly trained programmers are bad?
My comment was a troll and I am fully aware of it. But the OP was just waving his dick around and that's a fact. Go read it again and tell me with a straight face it isn't so. I don't like this kind of elitism eventhough I do know how to code in C.
They aren't as valid once you've realized that abstraction is the key to tackeling complexity, that how hard somethings is does not equal it worthiness, that a language where even K&R wrote unsafe code is probably not for everyone and that not every architect needs to be a Michelangelo.
It's certainly a possibility but to say that it would be infinitely likely is really a stretch. Occams Razor applies: What can be explained about our observeable universe that can not be explained if we do not live in a simulation?
It is highly complex but if you watch the video it becomes appearant that any form of sedation would have been an evolutionary advantage so the path could have been strength (wrestle the cockroach 'till it dies) > sedation > mind control. Once reduced to simple steps such complex behaviour is still awesome but less mind-boggling:-D
There are roughly four lines that are on the linked blog but not on the slashdot summary. None of them add anything substantial.
Really, did you read anything at all?
What's the point of linking a blog that links the actual article? Editors, please start rejecting submissions that do not contain a direct link that requires no registration.
I actually like the previewing pane in outlook XP. Emails are usually around three to five lines. Why should I have to open a new window or navigate to a new page for reading them?
I've just quit smoking with the help of Allen Carrs book. He would say: "would you also not mind if someone in sesame street was pushing heroin?". And it's a valid question. Smoking isn't just a bad smelling habbit. It is a drug addiction. There is no place for it in kids television.
You CANT garbage collect a live object in a managed language. You SHOULDN'T free memory that will still be read in an unmanaged language. The former will run until the memory runs out while the later will do god knows what.
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Would you be so kind as to count the ways to combat money expansion? You realize that the steady 2%-5% inflation per year is not some natural feature of the free market, right? It's man made and it's skimming wealth of the top each year and if you don't happen to own a bank, investment firm or a firm being invested in chances are you are among those getting screwed?
Paper money is a perversion: A dollar is a promise by the central bank to give you a dollar. Really, just the paper an ink. Would you trade a month of your labour for some other paper and ink worth maybe a piece of bread in free exchange?
It's true that gold doesn't have an inert value but you can't deny that the market has demand for it. That gives it actual value. It really doesn't matter if you like gold: with gold as an medium of exchange you'd only have to trust that there is demand for it and that you will be able to convert it into other goods across the globe without fear that it won't be accepted.
Gold as a medium of exchange is far from a random metal. In order to buy a ton of steel you don't need to carry around a ton of gold that's one advantage. Try to figure out how much paper and ink you'd need to carry. Gold is also a nobel metal meaning it doesn't react with a lot of things, notably water and oxygen the two things that will, over time, ruin every single thing man every created. Gold is soft making it easy to work with and because it is also shiny has been used all across the world and all throughout history for adornments and jewellery.
Lastely, golds value is relatively stable because the supply just can not be expanded at will. If gold didn't exist we would need to invent it.
I agree with you but I've come to realize that it's not worth to bother. The truth is that 99% of the populance are part of the problem and give "the system" (of war, overspending, curtailing of freedom ..) the inertia it has. Even here, comparitively a mekka for freethinkers (haha!), most /will/ not vote for anything deemed too far off course.
Libertarianism is a failed ethic because it requires some attention span and dedication to fully comprehend and is in the minds of those with out these qualities too easiely defeated by "look, poor people!" (DEMs) and "be very afraid!" (REPs) soundbites.
I've decided to just sit back, just not care anymore and laugh heartily at the stupitity of it all.
Free Speech as in "free to agree with anything you say"?
I can't believe you are really comparing a security vulnerability in the JVM ( a bug ...) to off-by-one errors corrupting the heap in C. That's would be like saying that C is unsecure because of hypervisor exploits i.e. completely missing the point.
Yes, the JVM will not be bug free but the stuff it's hiding from the programmer will be done by code that is of much higher quality than what can be expected by an application programmer writing replacements for that code ( because he is using a lower level language).
Unless you use native bindings (C knocking again) the JVM gurantees you can't. Please show me an example to the contrary. I know it would be very easy to do in C.
The definition of "safe" is not that if everything goes according to plan nothing bad will happen. What's inherently unsafe about C is that it is possible to corrupt the complete memory area that you have access to. So a module that doesn't sanitate it's own input suddenly goes from being badly designed software to posing a danger to the physical representation in memory of the program calling it, the data of that program or even the data of other programs.
This coupled with the fact that C programs are not fail-fast at all makes it completely unsuitable for beginners. You should learn about programming concepts first and only venture into C programming when you no longer struggle with data structures, algorithms and so forth and can focus entirely on avoiding core dumps.
Java "likes" nothing. Maybe bad CS professors like to not explain stuff sufficiently though? It's quite possible to have very throughout excerises that will drive home the difference between referencing a value and manipulating a value directly. Still the argument that you need to learn C to be a real programmer is not convincing ...
Extending the methaphore: you really think that Michelangelo would have liked to design and build appartment houses? Face it, software is a commodity and as much as you need the Sistine Chapel (as an operating system i.e.) you also need guys building solid, cheap and practical. Why the hell would you use C for an application in this day and age? What concepts can C teach you that you can't understand any other way?
Yes, a programmer should be able to grasp the concept of pointers, no argument there. But as you said yourself this concept is also necessary in Java. So, what was your point? That badly trained programmers are bad?
My comment was a troll and I am fully aware of it. But the OP was just waving his dick around and that's a fact. Go read it again and tell me with a straight face it isn't so. I don't like this kind of elitism eventhough I do know how to code in C.
They aren't as valid once you've realized that abstraction is the key to tackeling complexity, that how hard somethings is does not equal it worthiness, that a language where even K&R wrote unsafe code is probably not for everyone and that not every architect needs to be a Michelangelo.
To sum up: "Look at how large my penis is"
A shop is private property. If the owner doesn't want you on it for any reason, though luck. And, do you really want to do business with racists?
Very cool product. The name sucks though. Google finds 2.560.000.000 hits for "SHOW".
I certainly can't find it in this bunch of Q2/Q3 clones ...
For the love of god, PLEASE link directly next time! Why are the editors allowing this stuff?
It's certainly a possibility but to say that it would be infinitely likely is really a stretch. Occams Razor applies: What can be explained about our observeable universe that can not be explained if we do not live in a simulation?
It is highly complex but if you watch the video it becomes appearant that any form of sedation would have been an evolutionary advantage so the path could have been strength (wrestle the cockroach 'till it dies) > sedation > mind control. Once reduced to simple steps such complex behaviour is still awesome but less mind-boggling :-D
It's not journalism, it's copy and pasting. And it's fine but there is no need to quote a quote of the original and then link to the quote.
The slashdot summary and most of the blog post are lifted verbatim from the article ... I'd add the provokative "Get it?" but why bother?
There are roughly four lines that are on the linked blog but not on the slashdot summary. None of them add anything substantial.
Really, did you read anything at all?
What's the point of linking a blog that links the actual article? Editors, please start rejecting submissions that do not contain a direct link that requires no registration.
I actually like the previewing pane in outlook XP. Emails are usually around three to five lines. Why should I have to open a new window or navigate to a new page for reading them?
I've just quit smoking with the help of Allen Carrs book. He would say: "would you also not mind if someone in sesame street was pushing heroin?". And it's a valid question. Smoking isn't just a bad smelling habbit. It is a drug addiction. There is no place for it in kids television.
You CANT garbage collect a live object in a managed language. You SHOULDN'T free memory that will still be read in an unmanaged language. The former will run until the memory runs out while the later will do god knows what.