People leave lights on during the day,T.Vs on when nobody is watching(day or night)
Thanks. The rest of the world didn't have a low enough opinion of Americans, so you had to give them one more reason to think that we are selfish idiots. Of course, what you said was true, but I think that we've already inspired enough "anti-Americanism" for this year.
Does anybody know any good C++ RPC library which uses templates and which does not need code generating with any external tool nor executable?
Yes, CORBA. You can do DII (Dynamic Interface Invocation) on the client side, and DSI (Dynamic Skeleton Interface) on the server-side. You are never required to use generated code with CORBA. OTOH, the amount of code that you will have to write using DII/DSI is large (not as large as the generated code would be, but large), and usually a PITA. BTW, you can mix and match with a dynamic client talking to a static (generated) server. You can even have some dynamic clients and some static clients using the same server.
I have been programming CORBA-based systems for eight years, and only one time did DII make a lot of sense (I extended a COS-standard service, and I didn't want to generate/maintain a custom set of stubs for the clients).
Two, the distributed space is too big and has to many variables for any one (or even all of the currently existing) technologies to satisfy, which is why people continue to create new ones.
The complexity and variability of the distributed system problem domain is one reason that the CORBA specs are so huge and far reaching (another cause is design-by-consortium). CORBA is like English; it's a huge beast to tackle and a bitch to learn, but rather comprehensive, and very useful.
Our shop uses CORBA with (C++, C, Java, Python, PHP, MSVC++/MFC, and probably soon with.Net (IIOP object remoting adapter)). We will look at moving away from CORBA as soon as a realistic replacement comes along.
The current events overtones with the Homeland Security and illegal immigrant killings/deportations were only for the benefit of attracting those in the reviewer community that hate the US' current administration.
You've got the cart before the horse. This is not a dystopia motivated by current events. The Bush Administration simply insists on ripping-off ideas from the most horrific dystopias that sci-fi writers have been producing for decades.
But that was nothing compared to the lynching of blacks in the south
Sorry, I was only thinking about international affairs. Internally, our track record isn't as good, for people (not just identifiable minorities, but all non-wealthy) or for the environment.
the cheapest foods are the ones that contain lots of sugar
Actually, the worst foods usually contain "high fructose corn syrup". It's not that sugar is really expensive, but they can squeeze out a little more profit by using something even cheaper. For me, seeing HFCS on the label is a clear indication that the product is crap and to be avoided.
Dago's? I thought 'dago' was ignorant-shithead slang for Italians, not ignorant-shithead slang for Spaniards. Maybe I need to brush up on the finer point of shitheadery; do you give private lessons?
Too much of what is going on today can't be understood if your knowledge of world events pretty much ends at WW2
My wife doesn't like sad movies. When we were watching Peter Jackson's King Kong, right about the point where the ape is spinning on the frozen pond in Central Park, and the army is setting-up, she asks, "Nothing bad happens to him, right?" I didn't know that she didn't know how King Kong ends. So that's where we stopped it. As far as she knows, King Kong ends with a happy beastie butt-skating in Central Park.
If you do that same thing with U.S. History stopping at WWII, we look pretty decent.
you can find *plenty* of rerefernces the "bullshitted" statunitense term.
Read your own page. Six times, the term "americani" is used to refer to people from the USA (exlcuding terms for Native Americans and Afro-Americans). Once, the term statunitense is used to refer to Americans (the rest of the time, that adjective is used to refer to the "american culture" or "american history" or "american economy"). I didn't say that the adjective wasn't a valid word, but when Italians talk about Americans, they call us "Americani" (by a 6:1 ratio if that page is an indication).
Get out of your freaking sofa, turn off your TV and get out of your country and see that the world does not starts and ends in your America.
While I agree that,in general, Americans are not well traveled, or well educated, you are talking out of your ass. I have lived in Italy, Germany, South Korea, and the US. And I am pretty "cult" as well.
I can't call BS on your other two examples, but I can for Italian. The USA is called "gli stati uniti", but in the four years that I lived there, I never heard an Italian call us anything but "Americani".
5 hours of your time just to make sure the components you buy are all compatible. At $200 the hour this is $1000 of my time
This is a device for watching television. You are building/buying this device so that you can sit in front of the idiot box like a slack-jawed yokel for thousands of hours. You're complaining that the 5 hours learning how to set-up MythTV is the waste?
What rate do you want to bill the universe for your TV-watching hours? Go for $450/hr; it sounds even more impressive. Your TV watching hobby might be costing you $200,000 per year, OMFG!
He would just provide food as needed, or make all the sea animals survive because He wanted too?
Of course, he could have also just saved all of the animals that he wanted saved. But it is soooo much more fun to screw with people, and convince them to build a big unnecessary boat, and sleep in cramped quarters with hundreds of thousands of animals (1,100 species of bats alone don't ya know?) for a year.
I had a boss once who gave people non-productive, frustrating tasks just to prove to everyone that he was in charge. If he had been immortal we might have called him Lord, but things being as they were, we just called him a dick.
Yes, we would be SO MUCH better off with the Government running it.....
Your comment would be SO MUCH more insightful, if studies hadn't shown that many government-run socialized medicine systems provide better care than the US's private system, at about half the cost per citizen, per year.
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And if there's fraudulent information submitted, 50000 people spend 2 hours in jail.
Bitching about lazy students is easy. Creating new exams and paper assignments is work.
Thanks. The rest of the world didn't have a low enough opinion of Americans, so you had to give them one more reason to think that we are selfish idiots. Of course, what you said was true, but I think that we've already inspired enough "anti-Americanism" for this year.
According to Newt Gingrich: You don't ask in English, no rights for you!
Yes, CORBA. You can do DII (Dynamic Interface Invocation) on the client side, and DSI (Dynamic Skeleton Interface) on the server-side. You are never required to use generated code with CORBA. OTOH, the amount of code that you will have to write using DII/DSI is large (not as large as the generated code would be, but large), and usually a PITA. BTW, you can mix and match with a dynamic client talking to a static (generated) server. You can even have some dynamic clients and some static clients using the same server.
I have been programming CORBA-based systems for eight years, and only one time did DII make a lot of sense (I extended a COS-standard service, and I didn't want to generate/maintain a custom set of stubs for the clients).
The complexity and variability of the distributed system problem domain is one reason that the CORBA specs are so huge and far reaching (another cause is design-by-consortium). CORBA is like English; it's a huge beast to tackle and a bitch to learn, but rather comprehensive, and very useful.
Our shop uses CORBA with (C++, C, Java, Python, PHP, MSVC++/MFC, and probably soon with .Net (IIOP object remoting adapter)). We will look at moving away from CORBA as soon as a realistic replacement comes along.
Kiiiiiiillllll meeeeeeeeee.
You've got the cart before the horse. This is not a dystopia motivated by current events. The Bush Administration simply insists on ripping-off ideas from the most horrific dystopias that sci-fi writers have been producing for decades.
Sorry, I was only thinking about international affairs. Internally, our track record isn't as good, for people (not just identifiable minorities, but all non-wealthy) or for the environment.
Ethanol requires sugar. Hemp produces seed-oil that is very good for biodiesel, but not for ethanol.
Actually, the worst foods usually contain "high fructose corn syrup". It's not that sugar is really expensive, but they can squeeze out a little more profit by using something even cheaper. For me, seeing HFCS on the label is a clear indication that the product is crap and to be avoided.
Dago's? I thought 'dago' was ignorant-shithead slang for Italians, not ignorant-shithead slang for Spaniards. Maybe I need to brush up on the finer point of shitheadery; do you give private lessons?
My wife doesn't like sad movies. When we were watching Peter Jackson's King Kong, right about the point where the ape is spinning on the frozen pond in Central Park, and the army is setting-up, she asks, "Nothing bad happens to him, right?" I didn't know that she didn't know how King Kong ends. So that's where we stopped it. As far as she knows, King Kong ends with a happy beastie butt-skating in Central Park.
If you do that same thing with U.S. History stopping at WWII, we look pretty decent.
They're willing to try. That's why the Dremel tools come with a warning, "This is not a dental tool."
Easy, you just "welcome our LEGO-comprised overlords".
Read your own page. Six times, the term "americani" is used to refer to people from the USA (exlcuding terms for Native Americans and Afro-Americans). Once, the term statunitense is used to refer to Americans (the rest of the time, that adjective is used to refer to the "american culture" or "american history" or "american economy"). I didn't say that the adjective wasn't a valid word, but when Italians talk about Americans, they call us "Americani" (by a 6:1 ratio if that page is an indication).
Get out of your freaking sofa, turn off your TV and get out of your country and see that the world does not starts and ends in your America.
While I agree that,in general, Americans are not well traveled, or well educated, you are talking out of your ass. I have lived in Italy, Germany, South Korea, and the US. And I am pretty "cult" as well.
I can't call BS on your other two examples, but I can for Italian. The USA is called "gli stati uniti", but in the four years that I lived there, I never heard an Italian call us anything but "Americani".
Carl Sagan said that the ship would look like a dandelion, so it's going to look like a dandelion, physics be damned!
No, he's using "FUDbuntu: The distro that uses 'reboot' to fix problems."
This is a device for watching television. You are building/buying this device so that you can sit in front of the idiot box like a slack-jawed yokel for thousands of hours. You're complaining that the 5 hours learning how to set-up MythTV is the waste?
What rate do you want to bill the universe for your TV-watching hours? Go for $450/hr; it sounds even more impressive. Your TV watching hobby might be costing you $200,000 per year, OMFG!
Of course, he could have also just saved all of the animals that he wanted saved. But it is soooo much more fun to screw with people, and convince them to build a big unnecessary boat, and sleep in cramped quarters with hundreds of thousands of animals (1,100 species of bats alone don't ya know?) for a year.
I had a boss once who gave people non-productive, frustrating tasks just to prove to everyone that he was in charge. If he had been immortal we might have called him Lord, but things being as they were, we just called him a dick.
Maybe because you don't know the command-line very well:
cd /dir; rm -rf ab<TAB>
/dir/ab<TAB>
rm -rf
for i in `find . -name \*.html`; do sed -e '/path1/path2/g' $i.sed && mv $i.sed $i; done
find . -iname "*.html" -exec sed -i 's/path1/path2/g' {} \;
And now the government is larger. How does their total failure to make a dent in today's illegal drug trade jibe with your statement?
Let's compromise: Laws are created to protect rich people.
Your comment would be SO MUCH more insightful, if studies hadn't shown that many government-run socialized medicine systems provide better care than the US's private system, at about half the cost per citizen, per year.