The Article says they're considering raising the basic rate by 25 cents, to 3.00. That's ridiculously cheap That is not ridiculous cheap, that is ridiculous expensive.
In Paris a single trip is EUR 1.20. That is roughly $1.50. And you can go from one end of the city to the other.
There's zero reason for a good public transit system to not cost virtually equivalent price to private transit in a large city. You are an idiot. There are hundreds of reasons.
For starters: an empty train has nearly the exact same costs as a full train. Public transport is like the basic grid costs for electricity. It does not matter if you draw power or not, you pay the basic fee, because you are connected. That is usually a relatively cheap fee. In some countries there is even a small amount of power included in that fee, enough to run a fridge e.g.
I really don't get why idiots like you think that every aspect of life, like "walking" from A to B, by using a public transport train, needs to yield a profit for someone else.
I live in a world where 90% of the things that people take for granted, are "at cost". No one makes a profit. I have water for as close to zero as economically possible, schools and universities cost nothing, usually bus to school costs nothing, depending on city public transport is cheap (my town is probably the most expensive in Germany, suckers!), we have a working and fast railway system (cheaper than using a car, but people complain because they never actually check how much they spent using a car), I can go into a public funded swimming pool and don't pay a fortune, or go into the Sauna.
Western Europe - with short breaks - lives like this since greek and roman ages. But I see: you are happy that you don't have to pay $20 to visit a swimming pool for 2h because: you never go there. I pay like $10,000 taxes every year. And: I for funk sake don't care if they use it to pay a teacher or a swimming supervisour in a school I'm long to old to visit or a swimming pool (we actually call it a Bath!) which I only frequent once a year.
All its really doing is taking money from the middle class so the very wealthy capital owner class get access to an artificially cheap labor pool. There are people who use public transport for other things than going to work. E.g. into the swimming pool, oh that is probably public funded, too. E.g. to go to school or university, oops that is probably public funded, too. E.g. to go to the pub and drink some beer and get home again... well, in my country not public funded. E.g. to go to the cinema and home again... E.g. to visit a doctor E.g. to buy groceries
Do you really want me to pay 5 times $5 to a "profitable" pubic transport just because I do my daily activities?
Sorry: it must really suck to have grown up in a country with your retarded mindset. No wonder the US is on the decline, you don't even make good music anymore, sigh.
But I remember a story, probably actually on/., a decade ago: the smell is put into the cars deliberately. There are companies that tried to "optimize" the "new car smell".
Unfortunately the only car that I bought new had the smell still after 10 years... unbelievable, I really hated it.
Grandmaster would be Han Shi, that can be awarded around 8th DAN, Master would be Shi Han, a title that can be awarded 5 to 7 years after gaining the rank of 6th DAN. At least that is how it is somewhat resembled in martial arts. Around 4th DAN people might honourable refer to you as Sensei...
And no, for other people reading this: in Go they don't wear black belts. And most martial arts have no belt colours anyway. And if you wonder: no, a 1st degree black belt aka a Sho DAN aka a 1st DAN is not s Sensei or a Master, he is one who moved from high school into college.
Do you know why these same shooters didn't shoot up police stations instead? That is the wrong question. The correct question is: Do you know why these same shooters did shoot up schools?
Because they hate schools, most often the school they visit as students.
This is why the plethora of small countries that hate America aren't attacking us right now. The amount of "countries" that hate america is pretty limited and has most certainly nothing to do with size. They don't attack america because they have nothing to gain, not because of your weapons.
As you pointed out: People fight wars when they have a reason to fight, Hating america is not a good reason. and the expectation that they can win. of course a small country would not "win"... but it can destroy you completely.
You are completely mixing up "personal arms" with states and their armies.
The people raiding schools have personal issues, they are not an army send from a small country to attack yours (not yet at least... look at the russian tchetchenian war...)
First of all: the drugs I take at time out of work, usually don't affect my work, as I sleep about 8h before I go to work. So, assuming a worker had made a mistake which causes a defect, under drugs, is obviously not very plausible. Secondly, to let a defect escape into production says that there is something wrong with the process. Regardless if the "cause" was a person under drugs. Perhaps all people in the chain of the process are under drugs? Thirdly: consuming drugs at work, or working under influence of mind or body altering drugs obviously should be prohibited. No one likes a drunk plane pilot... But where do you draw the line? Is coffee a drug? What about pain killers? It is not even a decade ago that it was common that vending machines inside of big companies sold beer to the staff (in Germany)...
A jury made sense when in britain they decided a culprit should be judged by his "peers". And it made sense in the US (somewhat) when "law must have been spoken" but there was no competent law system established. Or in other words, the law system was a judge and a jury or a self proclaimed jury and an executor...
Trials by jury are considered archaic and primitive by most states of law.
He simply should move his headquarter to Europe... find a nice launch site on the many euqatorial islands or use ESA's site in French Guayana.
I don't know how much infrastructure as in roads/rails he actually needs, but I could imagine he can find an island that has everything for him, including tropical storms.
Well, most recently added language features should have been there from the beginning. But some SUN idiots claimed: "to beat MS we need to have a simple language"... so no closures, no templates... oops we have no generics, and half the planet does not grasp the difference between generics and templates...
More is better. Yes. Because the things we have now "more" were a serious lack before. Languages like Kotlin, Groovy, Scala exist for a reason: pure Java simply sucked till Java 9 extremely badly!
As Java stands right now something have to provide what the JVM provides (threading, memory allocation, communication with the underlying hardware and so on), whether you compile to native code or not have nothing to do with this. All this has to do with compiling to native code. Communication with the underlying hardware is simply accessing the memory mapped IO ports of the devices...
There are probably a dozen Java based OSes out there. No idea which rely on a micro kernel and which provide the kernel themselves. That is not relevant for me.
With a compiler that generates arbitrary native code, the language, as in C/C++, Java, Pascal, Modula 2, Ada: is completely irrelevant.
But sure, you could change the Java compiler so that when it sees some keyword or method it will add those opcodes once compiled. The JVM/Java compiler has this since ages. They use "marker data types" as AtomicInteger and AtomicLong etc.
All varieties of Unix kernels are. That is interesting, I did not know we made so much progress.
Have you written any kernel code that ran directly on hardware without an emulator? Yes, about 30 years ago.
A thing for which Java is a very shitty tool. Again: if you have a compiler that generates native code, there is no difference between C, Java or Pascal. While C lacks the "keyword" to indicate that a variable access should be atomic, it has most certainly #pragma directives for it.
a garbage collector that ultimately relies on system calls A GC (especially in Java) does not need system calls. It is basically only a glorified malloc/free substitute. Java does not even use sbrk()... the maximum memory is fixed at start up time.
You are lucky that you have projects that use C++11... my Java projects usually feel like being stuck around 1995...
Well, lambdas in the new C++ standards are likely a good thing... but I don't have a full catalog of 2014 and 2017 features in my mind anyway:D (I mean: I don't even remember what all got added, but I always read up the new changes... double &... what exactly was that for again?)
Work with servers? A large amount of backend webservices are still written in Java. Especially large scale ones. If they are not written in Java then in Groovy, Scala or Kotlin, running on the JVM, using the Java infrastructure like web serves such as Tomcat or Jetty, running big data frameworks/tools like Hadoop, Spark or Cassandra.
The snobs out there simply don't realize that 90% of their daily computer interaction that involves something else than their own computer or tablet reaches out to backends written (partly or completely) in Java, may it be FB, Amazon, Twitter, or their bank, booking a ticket for a plane or a theatre.
Swing apps are not ugly. They look usually like your OS GUI. If you use an ugly OS... your problem. There are plenty of C interpreters... no need for a compiler. Python is not compiled, it is either run by an interpreter or in an REPL environment. Javascript easily runs standalone... just use Rhino or Node or any other JavaScript interpreter. In PHP it is as easy as in any other language to separate GUI code from back end code. But for toy projects it is easier to mix it and unfortunately toy projects have the bad habit to grow into mainstream usage.
No idea why people are so full of stupid ideas and misconceptions about programming languages...
It only has two flaws: historically bad integration into browsers, aka incompatible ideas how the DOM should work/be accessed and handling of primitive types. E.g. automatic coercion.
If you think otherwise, you are a programmer who has not much clue about programming languages. are popular because any code monkey can use them. This actually indicates clearly that you have no clue about programming languages...
So, a website with programming tools is primarily used by people who use web technologies. It is not a "web site", it is a source code repository, aka version control system.
And the only thing you could remotely call web related "technologies" are JavaScript and PHP... Python is a language and a platform, so is Java.
Meanwhile, most C++ people are probably just all self-hosting repos. Yes, and shockingly the C++ crowed produces probably not much open source code... or it would be in public accessible repos...
I think that programmers are generally not interested in security or reliability. Not sure about that.
But partly you are right. E.g. reliability... what does it mean? That the software does not crash? Or hang up? Just kill the process after 5mins and restart it... (was not my idea).
But that is exactly what in modern cloud environments is happening. You have some VMs running some Docker "sub VMs" spinning up when a request comes in, getting killed after serving it, or after serving a set number of requests.
I bought a few Java Books... all were a waste of money, the "man pages" or "Java Doc" explained enough. But on the other hand, you can read them with sun glasses in bright sun shine in a park or at the beach:D
I remember "Java in a Nutshell"... it was helpful to get an overview about the broad topic (that time I only did C++... and the idea that the language has multithreading built in and a GUI (PORTABLE!!!) library, too, was ground shaking. The only other language, affordable but nevertheless expensive, that was portable and delivered that, was Eiffel. Eiffel failed badly because of its price barrier.
Well duh ITER is not a power plant that is DEMO. That is what I wrote. Thanks for repeating it.
However once it is taken out it can be stuck in a warehouse for ~20 years then recycled. No it can't.
but the half lives are basically all short on a human time scale unlike fission reactor waste. No they are not. The containment is steel and concrete, and during neutron capture and later decay any kinds of decay product can be created.
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The Article says they're considering raising the basic rate by 25 cents, to 3.00. That's ridiculously cheap
That is not ridiculous cheap, that is ridiculous expensive.
In Paris a single trip is EUR 1.20. That is roughly $1.50. And you can go from one end of the city to the other.
There's zero reason for a good public transit system to not cost virtually equivalent price to private transit in a large city.
You are an idiot. There are hundreds of reasons.
For starters: an empty train has nearly the exact same costs as a full train. Public transport is like the basic grid costs for electricity. It does not matter if you draw power or not, you pay the basic fee, because you are connected. That is usually a relatively cheap fee. In some countries there is even a small amount of power included in that fee, enough to run a fridge e.g.
I really don't get why idiots like you think that every aspect of life, like "walking" from A to B, by using a public transport train, needs to yield a profit for someone else.
I live in a world where 90% of the things that people take for granted, are "at cost". No one makes a profit. I have water for as close to zero as economically possible, schools and universities cost nothing, usually bus to school costs nothing, depending on city public transport is cheap (my town is probably the most expensive in Germany, suckers!), we have a working and fast railway system (cheaper than using a car, but people complain because they never actually check how much they spent using a car), I can go into a public funded swimming pool and don't pay a fortune, or go into the Sauna.
Western Europe - with short breaks - lives like this since greek and roman ages. But I see: you are happy that you don't have to pay $20 to visit a swimming pool for 2h because: you never go there. I pay like $10,000 taxes every year. And: I for funk sake don't care if they use it to pay a teacher or a swimming supervisour in a school I'm long to old to visit or a swimming pool (we actually call it a Bath!) which I only frequent once a year.
All its really doing is taking money from the middle class so the very wealthy capital owner class get access to an artificially cheap labor pool. ... well, in my country not public funded. ...
There are people who use public transport for other things than going to work.
E.g. into the swimming pool, oh that is probably public funded, too.
E.g. to go to school or university, oops that is probably public funded, too.
E.g. to go to the pub and drink some beer and get home again
E.g. to go to the cinema and home again
E.g. to visit a doctor
E.g. to buy groceries
Do you really want me to pay 5 times $5 to a "profitable" pubic transport just because I do my daily activities?
Sorry: it must really suck to have grown up in a country with your retarded mindset. No wonder the US is on the decline, you don't even make good music anymore, sigh.
They don't put spares in cars any more because ... ... in others they don't.
In some countries they can get away with it
I also don't know anyone who likes it.
But I remember a story, probably actually on /., a decade ago: the smell is put into the cars deliberately. There are companies that tried to "optimize" the "new car smell".
Unfortunately the only car that I bought new had the smell still after 10 years ... unbelievable, I really hated it.
Grandmaster would be Han Shi, that can be awarded around 8th DAN, Master would be Shi Han, a title that can be awarded 5 to 7 years after gaining the rank of 6th DAN. At least that is how it is somewhat resembled in martial arts. Around 4th DAN people might honourable refer to you as Sensei ...
And no, for other people reading this: in Go they don't wear black belts. And most martial arts have no belt colours anyway. And if you wonder: no, a 1st degree black belt aka a Sho DAN aka a 1st DAN is not s Sensei or a Master, he is one who moved from high school into college.
You are a delusioned idiot.
Do you know why these same shooters didn't shoot up police stations instead? That is the wrong question. The correct question is: Do you know why these same shooters did shoot up schools?
Because they hate schools, most often the school they visit as students.
This is why the plethora of small countries that hate America aren't attacking us right now.
The amount of "countries" that hate america is pretty limited and has most certainly nothing to do with size.
They don't attack america because they have nothing to gain, not because of your weapons.
As you pointed out: People fight wars when they have a reason to fight, Hating america is not a good reason. and the expectation that they can win. of course a small country would not "win" ... but it can destroy you completely.
You are completely mixing up "personal arms" with states and their armies.
The people raiding schools have personal issues, they are not an army send from a small country to attack yours (not yet at least ... look at the russian tchetchenian war ...)
First of all: the drugs I take at time out of work, usually don't affect my work, as I sleep about 8h before I go to work. So, assuming a worker had made a mistake which causes a defect, under drugs, is obviously not very plausible. ... But where do you draw the line? Is coffee a drug? What about pain killers? It is not even a decade ago that it was common that vending machines inside of big companies sold beer to the staff (in Germany) ...
Secondly, to let a defect escape into production says that there is something wrong with the process. Regardless if the "cause" was a person under drugs. Perhaps all people in the chain of the process are under drugs?
Thirdly: consuming drugs at work, or working under influence of mind or body altering drugs obviously should be prohibited. No one likes a drunk plane pilot
No! By letting him smoke a lethal dose!!
Most countries have no jury trials.
A jury made sense when in britain they decided a culprit should be judged by his "peers". ...
And it made sense in the US (somewhat) when "law must have been spoken" but there was no competent law system established. Or in other words, the law system was a judge and a jury or a self proclaimed jury and an executor
Trials by jury are considered archaic and primitive by most states of law.
He simply should move his headquarter to Europe ... find a nice launch site on the many euqatorial islands or use ESA's site in French Guayana.
I don't know how much infrastructure as in roads/rails he actually needs, but I could imagine he can find an island that has everything for him, including tropical storms.
Your mistake is that you mixed up former with later, and the attempted joke was rather lame anyway.
Well, ... so no closures, no templates ... oops we have no generics, and half the planet does not grasp the difference between generics and templates ...
most recently added language features should have been there from the beginning.
But some SUN idiots claimed: "to beat MS we need to have a simple language"
More is better. Yes. Because the things we have now "more" were a serious lack before. Languages like Kotlin, Groovy, Scala exist for a reason: pure Java simply sucked till Java 9 extremely badly!
My Mac came with Python, gcc and PHP preinstalled.
No idea what a modern Ubuntu will install by default, though.
Windows ... oh yeah.
As Java stands right now something have to provide what the JVM provides (threading, memory allocation, communication with the underlying hardware and so on), whether you compile to native code or not have nothing to do with this. ...
All this has to do with compiling to native code.
Communication with the underlying hardware is simply accessing the memory mapped IO ports of the devices
There are probably a dozen Java based OSes out there. No idea which rely on a micro kernel and which provide the kernel themselves. That is not relevant for me.
With a compiler that generates arbitrary native code, the language, as in C/C++, Java, Pascal, Modula 2, Ada: is completely irrelevant.
But sure, you could change the Java compiler so that when it sees some keyword or method it will add those opcodes once compiled.
The JVM/Java compiler has this since ages. They use "marker data types" as AtomicInteger and AtomicLong etc.
All varieties of Unix kernels are.
That is interesting, I did not know we made so much progress.
Have you written any kernel code that ran directly on hardware without an emulator?
Yes, about 30 years ago.
A thing for which Java is a very shitty tool.
Again: if you have a compiler that generates native code, there is no difference between C, Java or Pascal. While C lacks the "keyword" to indicate that a variable access should be atomic, it has most certainly #pragma directives for it.
a garbage collector that ultimately relies on system calls ... the maximum memory is fixed at start up time.
A GC (especially in Java) does not need system calls. It is basically only a glorified malloc/free substitute. Java does not even use sbrk()
How long did it take till Amazon made profit ?
I have to admit, I never realized that this two are different companies ...
You are lucky that you have projects that use C++11 ... my Java projects usually feel like being stuck around 1995 ...
Well, lambdas in the new C++ standards are likely a good thing ... but I don't have a full catalog of 2014 and 2017 features in my mind anyway :D (I mean: I don't even remember what all got added, but I always read up the new changes ... double & ... what exactly was that for again?)
Work with servers? A large amount of backend webservices are still written in Java. Especially large scale ones.
If they are not written in Java then in Groovy, Scala or Kotlin, running on the JVM, using the Java infrastructure like web serves such as Tomcat or Jetty, running big data frameworks/tools like Hadoop, Spark or Cassandra.
The snobs out there simply don't realize that 90% of their daily computer interaction that involves something else than their own computer or tablet reaches out to backends written (partly or completely) in Java, may it be FB, Amazon, Twitter, or their bank, booking a ticket for a plane or a theatre.
Swing apps are not ugly. They look usually like your OS GUI. If you use an ugly OS ... your problem. ... no need for a compiler. ... just use Rhino or Node or any other JavaScript interpreter.
There are plenty of C interpreters
Python is not compiled, it is either run by an interpreter or in an REPL environment.
Javascript easily runs standalone
In PHP it is as easy as in any other language to separate GUI code from back end code. But for toy projects it is easier to mix it and unfortunately toy projects have the bad habit to grow into mainstream usage.
No idea why people are so full of stupid ideas and misconceptions about programming languages ...
JavaScript is actually a very fine language.
It only has two flaws: historically bad integration into browsers, aka incompatible ideas how the DOM should work/be accessed and handling of primitive types. E.g. automatic coercion.
If you think otherwise, you are a programmer who has not much clue about programming languages. are popular because any code monkey can use them. This actually indicates clearly that you have no clue about programming languages ...
So, a website with programming tools is primarily used by people who use web technologies.
It is not a "web site", it is a source code repository, aka version control system.
And the only thing you could remotely call web related "technologies" are JavaScript and PHP ... Python is a language and a platform, so is Java.
Meanwhile, most C++ people are probably just all self-hosting repos. ... or it would be in public accessible repos ...
Yes, and shockingly the C++ crowed produces probably not much open source code
I think that programmers are generally not interested in security or reliability.
Not sure about that.
But partly you are right. E.g. reliability ... what does it mean? That the software does not crash? Or hang up? Just kill the process after 5mins and restart it ... (was not my idea).
But that is exactly what in modern cloud environments is happening. You have some VMs running some Docker "sub VMs" spinning up when a request comes in, getting killed after serving it, or after serving a set number of requests.
I bought a few Java Books ... all were a waste of money, the "man pages" or "Java Doc" explained enough. But on the other hand, you can read them with sun glasses in bright sun shine in a park or at the beach :D
I remember "Java in a Nutshell" ... it was helpful to get an overview about the broad topic (that time I only did C++ ... and the idea that the language has multithreading built in and a GUI (PORTABLE!!!) library, too, was ground shaking. The only other language, affordable but nevertheless expensive, that was portable and delivered that, was Eiffel. Eiffel failed badly because of its price barrier.
Well duh ITER is not a power plant that is DEMO.
That is what I wrote. Thanks for repeating it.
However once it is taken out it can be stuck in a warehouse for ~20 years then recycled.
No it can't.
but the half lives are basically all short on a human time scale unlike fission reactor waste.
No they are not. The containment is steel and concrete, and during neutron capture and later decay any kinds of decay product can be created.
Well, ... but not 3 :D
I used 1 and 2