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  1. Macs come with plenty of languages on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Macs are pre installed with AppleScript, obviously.
    Python, Perl, several Shells, AWK - actually one of my favourite beginner languages.

    However having a simple language which is already displayed as an icon on the Dock would probably rock.

    Still waiting for a viable successor of Hypercard ... (and please don't post links to that company that is changing its name every 2 years and claims it RealCoder or LifeCoder or however it is called now is a Hypercard successor, it is not, it is rubbish)

  2. Homeopathy does not disagree.
    Perhaps you want to read up how it is supposed to work?

  3. Re: India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The link you provided clearly states that Germany is importing products worth 1.9 billion from china, not raw steel.

    The cars we make are mostly made from recycled steel, facepalm - recycled cars especially.

  4. Re:Counterproductive reasoning on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ah you are right,
    I missread the announcements on www.spiegel.de, they announced "they would ratify it soon" and I only read the headline and assumed they had ratified it.
    There was a long discussion about the fact that the EU was so late, I only read that :D

  5. Re:Do the Energy Math and Space is a Distraction on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    (rockets don't run on oil)
    Actually modern rockets do. That is the whole point of the money thrown at them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Re:Counterproductive reasoning on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    As I said before: the EU officially ratified the treaty (meanwhile) 2 weeks ago.
    If there is still paper work to do as in handing in documents, I don't know.

  7. Re: India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In 2015 about 1.9 billion dollars of that came from China, products not steel/iron.
    Fixed that for you. And no, that is not noteworthy, don't be scared by big numbers. That is not even the price for one super tanker ... the 2 billion I mean. If we would import raw iron/steel I would however not know how much that is in tons, e.g. how it would relate to the amount of cars we produce.

  8. Re:Wouldn't need subsidies on US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You shoved me links to stuff that has nothing to do with a generator.

    Perhaps you should simply read up how a dynamo aka generator works?

    As long as it gets not hit by lightning or for some reason converts into a power sink and draws power from the grid and burns out/melts: it lasts for ever. There is absolutely nothing in a generator that can be damaged or destroyed by "wear and tear".

    The generators in this power plant ran for 120 years: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    And your critics against wind mill generators would hit every power plant, so every plant regardless of coal, nuclear or what ever makes the turbine spin would suffer from "generator degrading". Surprisingly: they don't. Or we never hear about it. Would even be more surprising, don't you thinks so?

  9. Re: India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Germany is not importing steel from either India nor China in noteworthy amounts. And I doubt your country is.

  10. Re:Wouldn't need subsidies on US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, to ask again: do you mean 'generator' as in https://en.oxforddictionaries.... aka a dynamo?
    Or do you mean something completely different?

    A generator, I repeat it, a dynamo, basically lasts for ever ... .Why you believe otherwise is beyond me.

    No idea what you want to say with the links, the first link completely supports my standpoint.

    The second link does not look credible. It makes no sense that UK wind farms drop down in performance an german ones don't. Especially the claim that they drop to 1/3 of original performance, how should that even physically make sense?

  11. Re:Counterproductive reasoning on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What about just having MORE countries ratifying?? BTW the EU hasn't ratified yet but is almost certain to do so.
    The EU ratified last week. Or was it two weeks ago ... can't remember.

  12. Re:Acid rain on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You probably mean the Montreal Protocol?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12...

    Germany obviously was again nearly a decade ahead, emissions of sulfur dioxide etc. was severally cut in the beginning of the 1980s.

    However, looking at the globe, this is not enough. Most sulfur emissions now come from ships. OTOH SO2 has a cooling effect, if we had not the current emission level the globe would probably already be significantly warmer.

  13. Re:India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    How much of the drop in emissions of the West can be attributed to shifts of heavy industry to China?
    Likely none.
    You still by German cars, other European cars and Japanese Cars, no one buys cars from China, yet. What exactly do you have in mind China is producing and we are buying if it is not cheap toys or computer/phones?

  14. Re:India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    1 US citizen creates 17x the greenhouse gasses that an Indian citizen does.

    Just imagine what will happen if India achieves the same prosperity level as the US./I
    Most countries that have a similar prosperity level use far less power than the US do, or produce more if its power "greener". There is no fear that India e.g. will increase its CO2 production dramatically. Unlike the thinking in the US not everyone there wants to live in a shiny western stile house that relies in AC and is otherwise uninhabitable while a traditional build house does not need any AC at all.

  15. Re:Wouldn't need subsidies on US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you have no clue about the topic :D
    Hence you always bring stuff up that makes no sense, then you try to combine them in away that makes more sense for you but is from outside view pretty idiotic.

    You complain I missed a post or two that gives you right? Wow, you seem not to realize that basically every answer to your posts contradicts you and tries to correct you?

  16. Re:Wouldn't need subsidies on US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry,

    no idea what you want to talk about.

    Do you really mean this: The generators never last nearly that long. Literally or do you mean the ball bearings that get replaced regularly?

    If you mean the generators then you should really read up a bit. The generators literally last for ever. There must be extreme strange circumstances that a generator gets damaged.

    but the blades fail and need to be replaced. Nevertheless the expected lifetime is over 30 years ... so I don't get your point.

  17. Re:Call me strange but... on World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Most parts of the planet have no pollution.
    Pollution right now is a problem in China and India.

    Just go on parroting the nonsense you hear in church.
    I don't go into churches, and I really doubt people in churches talk about population issues or pollution.

  18. Re: Only makes sense for niches on Oracle Formally Proposes That Java Adopt Ahead-of-Time Compilation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If the C program was equivalent it had a comparable amount of files/classes.

    There is no way it compiles remotely as fast than a Java program, sorry.

    Dynamic loaded classes are of course not shared in Java processes, unlike *.so's or *.DLL's. However if a JVM links in a native *.so it is of course shared like any other process.

    We have a ways to go with runtimes. The first step is oracle admitting they are the problem.
    Why those exaggerations? We have no problem.

    The applications that start up super slow are *.EAR files in Application Containers, like WebSphere or JBoss, and in those cases AOT would be inapplicable, because the container wants to interpret all those annotations and weave in its managing code.

    Most slow starting programs are a problem of the teams developing them, I doubt they would bottom line produce better software if they used C or C++.

  19. Re: Only makes sense for niches on Oracle Formally Proposes That Java Adopt Ahead-of-Time Compilation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That is nonsense.

    You don't see the manipulated byte code, and aspect oriented code is clearly readable as object oriented code.

    The only slight problem is e.g. generated code by hibernate or the spring framework while you are debugging. But for that you simply right click on the relevant code in the stack frame and make it "invisible" (forgot the correct name of the command), then the debugger simply steps over framework code.

    We've known for decades that self modifying code is a bad idea, if you use it you're bad.
    The code is not self modifying but is modified by tools either after compiling or during load time. Also: it is a matter of taste if self modifying code is good or bad. It is called meta programming, many people are fluent in it. If you are not: if you use it you're bad.

  20. Re:So many people who think they are experts... on US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    In modern times yes, in older times it usually was a building that was about to demolition and was cut into the scene, you seem to be to young :D

  21. Re:Only makes sense for niches on Oracle Formally Proposes That Java Adopt Ahead-of-Time Compilation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In principle Java is "ahead of time" compiled to byte code.
    And during execution on most platforms "just in time" compiled to native code.

    The announcement is about compiling directly to native code, which makes only in rare cases sense.

  22. Only makes sense for niches on Oracle Formally Proposes That Java Adopt Ahead-of-Time Compilation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Penty of Enterprise software relies on byte code morphing/instrumentation and all things we get from Aspect Oriented Programming. Ahead of time compilation makes only sense in Applications that don't use such featers and should be simply part of the build process if developrs chose so and not necessarily a "language feature".
    After all there are plenty of third party AoT Conpilers for the JVM.

  23. Re:Wouldn't need subsidies on US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Warrantee means the manufactor is confident the item lasts that long.
    The 55 years were for pumps not generators, wind mills have usually a warrantee of 25/30 years. https://www.ksb.com/ksb-en/

    If you use blades from your hilts, perhaps you should switch the manufator?

    Oh, meant wind turbines ... If wind mills would be prone to lose blades they would not get a building permit. The idea that they lose blades on a regular basis is ridiculous.

  24. Re:Everybody should be prepared to die. on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I learned in school, and the graphs support it, that basically at any given point in time, the living population was more than the sum of all men living before.

    But probably my teachers where wrong?

    Anyway, 108 billion is an unbelieveable high amount.

  25. Re:Painful to read this word salad on Google's New Angular 2.0 Isn't Compatible With Angular 1 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I could not find the spider yet.

    So to be on the save side, I wont invite you ;D

    Oki?