k is faster (sum of times)
k(32) perl(95) java(300) tcl(1400+)
[k is much faster than c on strings and memory management.]
k is shorter (lines of code)
k(9) awk(66) perl(96) tcl(105) scheme(170) vb(200) java(350)";
Interesting comparison. It took 350 lines of java to compare to 9 lines of k and 96 lines of Perl. also Java was 10 times slower than k and 3 times slower than Perl.
People should resist giving vendors ID tracking numbers.
Let the sales person know you will not buy from them if they require a tracking number. A annoying trend is for supermarket to want to sign you up to a "loyalty card". My local albertsons just switched to the use of a card. I complained bitterly, leaveing the goods I was buying on the counter and walked out. I also sent an e-mail complaining to their corporate office at:
absfeedback@eds.com
I recommend you do also.
Also a little google searching found an organization dedicated to fighting the use of shopping cards at:
No Cards [nocards.org]
Surpisingly there are other folks [nocards.org] who do not like the use of cards or tracking devices such as your phone number.
My local albertsons just switched to the use of a card. I complained bitterly, leaveing the goods I was buying on the counter and walked out. I also sent an e-mail complaining to their corporate office at:
absfeedback@eds.com
I recommend you do also.
Also a little google searching found an organization dedicated to fighting the use of shopping cards at:
Surpisingly there are other folks who do not like the use of cards
I think it is extremely arrogant of a business to require me to sign up and carry their tracking number in my pocket. If every vendor required that I would not have enough pockets to carry around their tracking numbers. Now if just had a national id card then...
Yes I have owned a VW in past but you can be sure I will look elsewhere also. I am encouraging my friend to resist paying the $2.5k "fee" and fight it.
If they had presented a "cease and desist" letter that would been O.K. and I know that they would have pulled the product - end of story. It is this misuse of the legal system that is both unfair and detestable.
I friend of mine runs a small web store selling rubber stamps. It just so happens that he were retailing a stamp (ie. manufactured by another firm) with a "Volkswagen of America" icon. They were contacted by a legal firm, Continental Enterprises, (i wish had they website) that protects Volkswagen trademark and were ordered to pay $2500 of face court action. They stocked a total of 6 of these stamps and sold one. They had no idea that their product was not properly licensed by the manufacture.
Continental Enterprises is engaging in intimidation, knowing a small store will buckle as they cannot afford legal council.
One time i voted republican because I was for less gov't and fiscal responsibility and now they stand for the opposite. Bush's solution to all problems is spend more. I was a rich kid and never had to budget for anything. In fact in the business world he was a disaster!
Lets see in the US gov't we have the following agencies to "protect" the citizens
CIA
NSA
FBI
ATF
DEA
And probably a few others. All of these agencies are empires in their own right and the interface between them is largely opaque and there is lots of redundancies and external friction.
Your point is a good one and not ever considered, however the host state of an internet business benefits much more then just the UPS and Fedex services.
Every internet business pays employees that pay state and local income/sales tax, the company pays property tax, use tax, corporate profit tax, inventory tax, etc.
There will be a rebel state (probably NV, NJ, NM, CO, ID or MT) that will refuse to cooperate and they will become known as the dot com state as all major dot com companies will move their.
Lets just hope it is not NJ as I would hate to move to NJ.
My wife runs a small internet business selling hot sauce and other scary things. She currently pays local inventory tax, business property tax, building tax, self-employment tax, state and federal income tax and use/sales tax on equipment used to run the business and now another tax to be applied to customer on sales. It is enough to make me start thinking of a having a tea party.
It seems these days every manufacture wants you to "register". And we all know the registeration process is just a marketing ploy to get your personal information so they can profile you and stuff your mailbox/e-mail/phone with advertising.
Nuclear and biological weapons as the proliferate not only to third world despots but fringe cult groups will render such technical advances somewhat useless. While you have your projectile interceptors place neatly around your borders some zealot sneaks a WMD into your downtown area or subway and in an instant you are either a hostage or toast.
I believe we (the US) will not be able to maintain a free and ethnically diverse society and while attempting to police the world, righting every wrong and trying to reason with religious imparied freaks. Most likely advance technology will be employed to spy, track and control our own population in order to "protect" ourselves.
Rare circumstance indeed but the US achieved unconditional surrender (i.e. absolute power) of Japan and Germany starting sometime in 1945 and I believe those countries benefited significantly in the years since.
It is too bad one of the astronauts did not trudge a gigantic NASA WAS HERE into the moon dust so that the image could be seen from a large telescope. That should silence the idiots.
On another note it always amazes me that a significant segment of a human population will believe the unbelievable and doubt the obvious.
I just received the November edition of the TPJ which included a fine article "perlcc & Compiling Perl Script".
In short, the filter script could be compiled to C and built to a native binary for a variety of platforms eliminating the need for a Perl interperter.
I work for the Fed Government and we have a contractor (LMC) whom we paid to develop a system for us. Now as the contract is coming to end they have had a recently inspired reading of the contract and believe that word "software" does not imply source code. They have mentioned that we could buy the source code and the going price of $1000 / SLOC and the software has ~ 1000 lines! The Bastards. This for a completely custom system that has no use to anyone else and we (that is the taxpayers) paid for every minute that was spent on the development of the code.
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From Kernigan's benchmark test
k is faster (sum of times)
k(32) perl(95) java(300) tcl(1400+)
[k is much faster than c on strings and memory management.]
k is shorter (lines of code)
k(9) awk(66) perl(96) tcl(105) scheme(170) vb(200) java(350)";
Interesting comparison. It took 350 lines of java to compare to 9 lines of k and 96 lines of Perl. also Java was 10 times slower than k and 3 times slower than Perl.
And when you get done with Dawkins go read Gould's refutations of Dawkins - just as a counter balance.
There are plenty of situations where an officer is overpowered by an assailant(s) before having the opportunity to use his/her firearm.
People should resist giving vendors ID tracking numbers.
Let the sales person know you will not buy from them if they require a tracking number. A annoying trend is for supermarket to want to sign you up to a "loyalty card". My local albertsons just switched to the use of a card. I complained bitterly, leaveing the goods I was buying on the counter and walked out. I also sent an e-mail complaining to their corporate office at:
absfeedback@eds.com
I recommend you do also.
Also a little google searching found an organization dedicated to fighting the use of shopping cards at:
No Cards [nocards.org]
Surpisingly there are other folks [nocards.org] who do not like the use of cards or tracking devices such as your phone number.
My local albertsons just switched to the use of a card. I complained bitterly, leaveing the goods I was buying on the counter and walked out. I also sent an e-mail complaining to their corporate office at:
...
absfeedback@eds.com
I recommend you do also.
Also a little google searching found an organization dedicated to fighting the use of shopping cards at:
No Cards
Surpisingly there are other folks who do not like the use of cards
I think it is extremely arrogant of a business to require me to sign up and carry their tracking number in my pocket. If every vendor required that I would not have enough pockets to carry around their tracking numbers. Now if just had a national id card then
Maybe Microsoft or the Gov't will get involved than we will not have to waste time making a decision.
Yes I have owned a VW in past but you can be sure I will look elsewhere also. I am encouraging my friend to resist paying the $2.5k "fee" and fight it.
If they had presented a "cease and desist" letter that would been O.K. and I know that they would have pulled the product - end of story. It is this misuse of the legal system that is both unfair and detestable.
This is very true
I friend of mine runs a small web store selling rubber stamps. It just so happens that he were retailing a stamp (ie. manufactured by another firm) with a "Volkswagen of America" icon. They were contacted by a legal firm, Continental Enterprises, (i wish had they website) that protects Volkswagen trademark and were ordered to pay $2500 of face court action. They stocked a total of 6 of these stamps and sold one. They had no idea that their product was not properly licensed by the manufacture.
Continental Enterprises is engaging in intimidation, knowing a small store will buckle as they cannot afford legal council.
No they have the feedback and they know what works and what does not.
But the spammers will develop Bayesian filters of their own to find the best content that will sneak by your filters.
Lets see in the US gov't we have the following agencies to "protect" the citizens
CIA
NSA
FBI
ATF
DEA
And probably a few others. All of these agencies are empires in their own right and the interface between them is largely opaque and there is lots of redundancies and external friction.
Why do we need another empire!
BTW, Canada has one the RCMP.
er... yes those are my mistakes (which I just corrected). Thanks alot! ;)
Your point is a good one and not ever considered, however the host state of an internet business benefits much more then just the UPS and Fedex services.
Every internet business pays employees that pay state and local income/sales tax, the company pays property tax, use tax, corporate profit tax, inventory tax, etc.
There will be a rebel state (probably NV, NJ, NM, CO, ID or MT) that will refuse to cooperate and they will become known as the dot com state as all major dot com companies will move their.
Lets just hope it is not NJ as I would hate to move to NJ.
Actually I think this is a state thing and you probably want to pay close attention to your Governer's position.
My wife runs a small internet business selling hot sauce and other scary things. She currently pays local inventory tax, business property tax, building tax, self-employment tax, state and federal income tax and use/sales tax on equipment used to run the business and now another tax to be applied to customer on sales. It is enough to make me start thinking of a having a tea party.
It seems these days every manufacture wants you to "register". And we all know the registeration process is just a marketing ploy to get your personal information so they can profile you and stuff your mailbox/e-mail/phone with advertising.
Hey ardvarkjoe, come on back and I will rip you a third asshole!
Nuclear and biological weapons as the proliferate not only to third world despots but fringe cult groups will render such technical advances somewhat useless. While you have your projectile interceptors place neatly around your borders some zealot sneaks a WMD into your downtown area or subway and in an instant you are either a hostage or toast.
I believe we (the US) will not be able to maintain a free and ethnically diverse society and while attempting to police the world, righting every wrong and trying to reason with religious imparied freaks. Most likely advance technology will be employed to spy, track and control our own population in order to "protect" ourselves.
Rare circumstance indeed but the US achieved unconditional surrender (i.e. absolute power) of Japan and Germany starting sometime in 1945 and I believe those countries benefited significantly in the years since.
It is too bad one of the astronauts did not trudge a gigantic NASA WAS HERE into the moon dust so that the image could be seen from a large telescope. That should silence the idiots.
On another note it always amazes me that a significant segment of a human population will believe the unbelievable and doubt the obvious.
I just received the November edition of the TPJ which included a fine article "perlcc & Compiling Perl Script".
In short, the filter script could be compiled to C and built to a native binary for a variety of platforms eliminating the need for a Perl interperter.
Either that or Carl Sagan!
Unfortunately, the article contains both spelling errors, grammatical errors, and errors of style.
Great! The the author is sufficiently qualified to become a slashdot editor.
Oh I wish!
Coincidently this is timely issue were I work.
I work for the Fed Government and we have a contractor (LMC) whom we paid to develop a system for us. Now as the contract is coming to end they have had a recently inspired reading of the contract and believe that word "software" does not imply source code. They have mentioned that we could buy the source code and the going price of $1000 / SLOC and the software has ~ 1000 lines! The Bastards. This for a completely custom system that has no use to anyone else and we (that is the taxpayers) paid for every minute that was spent on the development of the code.
Lets say the state of question is North Dakota. From whom would they need protection from? Saskatchewan - the war mongers that they are.