No, but I do look them up myself when/where it matters. My boss wants the job done right. I'm trusted to get it done right without telling him how it goes. My current boss is a programmer, but I've had many who were not, and thus would not have understood the study. I'm expected to understand the study and decide if the pros and cons are worth it. (An O(n!) algorithm may be the correct choice if n is tiny and the constants in the O(n) algorithm are very large - though this example is unlikely)
True, and Microsoft doesn't do anything to change the situation. So even though it would be a trivial fix and solve a lot of problems things continue.
Hint: Nearly everyone has Ms-Office. It would be simple for Office to check your user permissions, and refuse to start (with no backdoor bypass) if you ad administrator access. That simple change and the guts to stick with it would force a change on the industry.
Microsoft doesn't care though. They have great fine grain permissions because a tiny number (but enough to make it worth the price) want it. They don't care that nobody uses it because things seem easier at the start, and that is more important than the long term useability of the system. (Not to mention there are other Microsoft products that they would have to fix)
Yes and no. Most people in the US without insurance would try to figure out how to do this themselves. However as soon as someone in the community finds out about the situation there are fund raising dinners to help them out. Often more money is raised than is needed.
There are plenty of other charities too that exist to help those in need out. Many Americans are too proud to accept help. (which is a good thing until the bills get completely out of hand)
Small bills (a few thousand dollars, big, but not terrible) you are on your own for, but a little belt tightening can take care of that.
How does your irrational fear of guns make it dangerous for me to have one on me. I'm talking about me personally, not a criminal who will have one no matter what the law says. (If they were afraid of the law they wouldn't go into crime in the first place)
The police are unlikely to be there to protect me if a criminal decides to take on me, but my Gun is always ready, and I know how to use it. I hope I never have to, odds are against it, but if I need it I have it. Guns are also useful for things other than protecting me. I enjoy target practice once in a while. I enjoy hunting (in season), not to mention the good it puts on my table.
I've seen this claim many times. However every scientific study I have seen has not found any truth to that statement. In fact some speculate it makes things worse because headlights on in the daytime no longer mean anything when you see it, so you don't pay attention to unusual situations.
I have no choice in the matter though, all my cars have 'day time running lights'.
If you don't have insurance there are charities that will help your out. Ask your doctor, or the hospital front desk if you need this. Generally the hospitals will give you a big discount (that is you pay for power and tech time, but not payments on the machine) - this wouldn't work if most people used it, but most people have insurance, so they can write off costs for those that don't. Once in a while there are fund raisers for those in my community who need something major but don't have insurance.
Mind you won't get anything unneeded without insurance, but if you need it they will get it to you.
In fact typically you don't see a bill until after treatment is done. They don't mention it, they just assume you have insurance. So without insurance you generally get treatment, and then get your figure out how to pay for it. They may send you to collections, but they cannot make you pay more than you can afford. (though collections people are jerks who will try to tell your otherwise)
Many of those without insurance don't need it. Someone who is 25 and single has little need. It will be years before their poor lifestyle catches up with them (and many live a good lifestyle - though something will get them in time) There is a risk, and I know some that age who took the gamble and lost, but the large majority of 25 year olds will not visit the doctor for more than simple vaccinations (the nurse does this for a few bucks) or broken bones (which can be taken care of for less than a years insurance costs, and people rarely break bones). When these people get older or get get a family they get insurance.
You miss the two big reasons for radio: real time traffic and weather. Most days the weather I can tell by looking out the window, but sometimes it is nice to know what is coming before I see it. (Is that a tornado and I should pull off and find shelter, or just a storm that just slows me down)
Traffic is big. If I know about an accident that happens after I leave work, but before I get to the road it is on, I can take an alternate route. (though I also need to know if everyone else is taking the alternate and I should stick with the main road)
Once in a while news is useful too. Not often, but I like to know about major events. (I don't care about which actor is sleeping with who, but I would have liked to have heard about the Columbia breakup 2 days before I got back within radio range)
Do you know enough about NTP to be able to evaluate whether those are good sources? If not, then the second part of this book may be useful.
I know that I query 3 different servers, scattered around the country. They are unrelated on an administrative level, and are either official seconds to the US government run atomic clock, or sync with official seconds.
While it is possible for one server to be compromised, it is unlikely that you could compromise all servers (remember the administrators are not related). NTP rejects servers that are seriously out of sync.
pool.[country code].ntp.org is great for your sync duties. Enough servers there (in most countries) that you are unlikely to get several servers that are related and intentionally messing with your time. (I also sync with my local university which is an official second to the main US clocks)
Only if the editors choose good comics to put on the page though. I'll grant that tastes differ, but even still there are a large number of comics in my local paper that I can't find anyone who is interested in them.
The editors choose the comics I see. I don't get the paper from the next town, so I won't see that editor's choice. Even if their comic editor is better I won't because the rest of the paper is useless to me. So when the editors do a good job you are correct. When the editors make poor choices (perhaps because the comic is cheaper? bribes? what do I know about their back room), I don't see anything else on the page, even though it is there.
At least on line there are millions of people who can tell me about something interesting, and I can evaluate each for myself.
Don't forget that depending on the emergency, you might be doing all that while accelerating at 13G. (If none of the engines shut down in the emergency) Of course if the engines all shutdown you might do this at ~0G, and since this is launch you aren't used to this. (though presumably you were in training)
Where you must have cables you are in for a lot of work. Easiest is to pull off baseboards, run cables behind, and replace; done right this works and looks fine, but it only allows a few cables. Harder is to drill access holes where needed (get long drill bits so you can drill from your future box where possible), and then patch as needed. Remember to plan everything so minimize pain.
Not true. Ground source heat pumps work just fine in the far north. However you must go deeper. If you live in the south you can get by with pipes in a trench just a few feet below ground. In Canada you need to drill a well, as a shallow trench will freeze up and produce nothing. (A 24 foot deep trench might work, a 10 foot deep trench will not) If you have the land a shallow trench is much cheaper than a well.
Maybe when you get to permafrost to very deep a ground source heat pump won't work even with wells, but most of Canada is isn't that cold.
Maybe you already are, but just in case (and for those who are considering this): consider energy costs first.
Smart homes seems like a neat idea, but what is the gain over just putting a stereo in each room, and a wi-fi receiver for those rooms where you really want mp3s? (As long as you need to remove the inside walls anyway you may as well run CAT-5, but for most people wi-fi works well)
Spend your budget first on low-E windows, and good insulation. Then put in a good heating/cooling system (preferably a ground source heat pump).
Saving energy will make the world a better place, and in the long run is good for your wallet. Your 'smart home' is not very smart if it wastes energy, and at best won't make the world a better place.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea. I'm just urging you to take care of the important parts first, then the toys. I also encourage you to think about the toys. If you don't have a radio of some sort in your current bathroom, why put one in.
Often it is better to watch the enemy you know, than to get him and let someone else take his place.
Thus the US let many Soviet spy's continue on, because they could carefully steer them to less sensitive areas. (Or in one spectacular case misinformation that caused a large pipeline fire!) Arresting them would just cause the Soviets to get more spy's who we don't know.
You are also assuming that Bin Laden was at the location of the phone. It is however trivial run a couple miles of wire (amps are needed of course) to his hideout, along with some cameras. When the US storms that location he sees it on the cameras, and runs. One presumes he has plenty of hideouts and wouldn't keep anything sensitive in one that can be tracked.
We can debate what should have been done for year. Unfortunately we do not know how to open parallel universes where that one thing changed, so we can never know if we took the best track.
He can declare bankruptcy. However that won't matter much. Bankruptcy just turns your bills and assets to the courts. The court then decides how to pay your bills for you. First the lawyers get paid (of course), then all court judgments get paid, next secured loans, then unsecured loans. (I'm likely to have missed something in there) The court can sell anything (often with exceptions like your house, but this varies from state to state) to raise funds.
Bankruptcy isn't a free way to get rid of debts and keep everything you have. It is a way to start over from scratch. Own nothing, owe nothing, bad credit rating, but at least you are not getting phone calls/letters about bills you can't pay.
Beyond that, not all debts can be gotten out of. You cannot get rid of child support with bankruptcy. The court is unlikely to let your out of a judgment. You cannot get out of credit card bills.
If Richter can come up with 7 million he will pay, no matter what is involved in coming up with it. The question is can he then afford to pay off everyone else he owes?
Geico sells direct, so they don't pay commissions in general. Their operators are paid by the hour (They have not outsourced to India, so the English is pretty good).
What you describe is how most insurance companies work. The first year (I'm not sure what the scale and timeframe is) your premiums go to the agent. After the insurance company takes them.
Some agents will switch you around every few years to get their commissions. A few will (as you describe) treat you like dirt after they have you. Most know that your situation will change over time, and thus you will often change insurance anyway. Therefore if they find you good rates, and treat you well, even after the sale, you will be back again latter. (not just for the car, but also the house, and perhaps a business venture)
In the state of Minnesota it is (or it was 10 years ago) illegal to view porn in a public place. Doesn't matter if it is a magazine or a computer.
Libraries can still carry playboy if they want. (though most sources of funding won't pay for the subscription) They just keep it behind the desk, and make you bring it home to read.
A law written the way it should be. Generic enough to cover things that were not invented when the law was written.
Really? Come visit some time, I will introduce you do a few.
Carpenters do not use hammers for driving nails much anymore, their are tools that do the job faster. Take a hammer and beat a chunk of wood with the claw and you can get an acceptable dado. Not as good as what a chisel/dado saw/router can do, but acceptable for rough work, and you may not have the other tools.
I've never done it, but a sharp claw ought to be able to turn a table leg just like real lathe tools. Mind it would be very dangerous, but when you just need to get the job done and you don't have the tools...
Come to think of it, first year carpenters use their hammer more as a shovel than anything else. (how else to make a ladder sit level on a hillside?)
But none of this changes the fact there there are better tools for those jobs. If you need something quick, use the tool you have. If you spend a lot of time doing something, you should get the right tool for the job. Thus if you need a web page quick, and already know php, then use php. (though why you would know php I'm not sure...) If you are going to design a website, it is worth your while to get something better. Either Ruby or Python is better than php.
Both matter. Individual letters get more weight, but a form letter than 1000 people send in is (particularly when you get a lawyer to write the letter so it is good) more likely to be read by the politician, because the staff can pass it on with a note: 10000 copies of this letter arrived. Not as powerful as 10000 individually written letters (even though they are of less quality), but still it is a powerful statement.
When driving on a frozen lake you should never wear a seat belt. There is no thickness of ice that won't break at speeds of 20mph given the right circumstances, and ice varies in thickness enough that even if there was, you can't be sure you are driving on such a section. Combine that with the fact that you are driving on slippery ice, and your speeds are always going to be slow enough that a worst case crash is one you can walk away from.
However if/when you car goes through the ice you need to get out fast - preferably while the door can still open, which isn't much time. The time it takes to get your seat belt off may be long enough that water pressue keeps your door closed no matter how strong you are.
I can think of no other situation where the risks from wearing a seatbelt are worse than the risks of not wearing it.
Fine, now how do I go about getting them changed? My town is just fine, but I work in a different town, and they have no left turn on red, with long cycles at the intersection to my work. I can see there are no cars on the road in the other direction. (AT all, it comes to a T 1/2 mile on, anyone who can safely drive can see that there is nothing coming) I still have to wait 2 minutes every morning. (They time the lights together, the left turns red just after the previous light turns green, so I need to wait a full cycle every day)
That is they can place a copywritten work that you must place on your device, but but requiring that it be there, they have turned it into something purely functional, and thus not subject to copyright so long as it is only used in that context.
Or the money to the politician wasn't that you supported him, but you wanted to bend his will a little in your direction?
You need to get a little more paranoid. If you were living under Stalin in Russia, you would not want anyone to know about your efforts to get rid of Stalin. You would be killed for your beliefs. (Along with several million innocents because Stalin had so many people in fear that he couldn't meet his quota of dissidents to kill)
Today John Kerry supporters do not fear that their next boss will refuse to hire them even though he is a Bush supporter. Will that last?
Short answer: because FreeBSD has softupdates, which for most people turn out to be just as good, and for some better.
There are two ways to get the advantages most people want from a journaling file system. The obvious is to write a journal. FreeBSD instead spent time to make sure that meta-data could not get out of date in the first place, and thus there is no need for a journal. The latter is harder to implement, but has some significant advantages, and other disadvantages. For most people either will work fine, for those who have a case where it matters FreeBSD is implementing the journal. The real question is why nobody else is implementing softupdates so they don't need a journal in the cases where it is worse.
Remember, this is not a case where journals are always better than softupdates. For some workloads journals are better, for others softupdates is better. FreeBSD will soon be the only one to let you choose based on your real-world needs.
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No, but I do look them up myself when/where it matters. My boss wants the job done right. I'm trusted to get it done right without telling him how it goes. My current boss is a programmer, but I've had many who were not, and thus would not have understood the study. I'm expected to understand the study and decide if the pros and cons are worth it. (An O(n!) algorithm may be the correct choice if n is tiny and the constants in the O(n) algorithm are very large - though this example is unlikely)
True, and Microsoft doesn't do anything to change the situation. So even though it would be a trivial fix and solve a lot of problems things continue.
Hint: Nearly everyone has Ms-Office. It would be simple for Office to check your user permissions, and refuse to start (with no backdoor bypass) if you ad administrator access. That simple change and the guts to stick with it would force a change on the industry.
Microsoft doesn't care though. They have great fine grain permissions because a tiny number (but enough to make it worth the price) want it. They don't care that nobody uses it because things seem easier at the start, and that is more important than the long term useability of the system. (Not to mention there are other Microsoft products that they would have to fix)
Yes and no. Most people in the US without insurance would try to figure out how to do this themselves. However as soon as someone in the community finds out about the situation there are fund raising dinners to help them out. Often more money is raised than is needed.
There are plenty of other charities too that exist to help those in need out. Many Americans are too proud to accept help. (which is a good thing until the bills get completely out of hand)
Small bills (a few thousand dollars, big, but not terrible) you are on your own for, but a little belt tightening can take care of that.
It isn't prooven to increase crime either. Therefore why not let the honest folks carry a gun in case it helps?
How does your irrational fear of guns make it dangerous for me to have one on me. I'm talking about me personally, not a criminal who will have one no matter what the law says. (If they were afraid of the law they wouldn't go into crime in the first place)
The police are unlikely to be there to protect me if a criminal decides to take on me, but my Gun is always ready, and I know how to use it. I hope I never have to, odds are against it, but if I need it I have it. Guns are also useful for things other than protecting me. I enjoy target practice once in a while. I enjoy hunting (in season), not to mention the good it puts on my table.
I've seen this claim many times. However every scientific study I have seen has not found any truth to that statement. In fact some speculate it makes things worse because headlights on in the daytime no longer mean anything when you see it, so you don't pay attention to unusual situations.
I have no choice in the matter though, all my cars have 'day time running lights'.
If you don't have insurance there are charities that will help your out. Ask your doctor, or the hospital front desk if you need this. Generally the hospitals will give you a big discount (that is you pay for power and tech time, but not payments on the machine) - this wouldn't work if most people used it, but most people have insurance, so they can write off costs for those that don't. Once in a while there are fund raisers for those in my community who need something major but don't have insurance.
Mind you won't get anything unneeded without insurance, but if you need it they will get it to you.
In fact typically you don't see a bill until after treatment is done. They don't mention it, they just assume you have insurance. So without insurance you generally get treatment, and then get your figure out how to pay for it. They may send you to collections, but they cannot make you pay more than you can afford. (though collections people are jerks who will try to tell your otherwise)
Many of those without insurance don't need it. Someone who is 25 and single has little need. It will be years before their poor lifestyle catches up with them (and many live a good lifestyle - though something will get them in time) There is a risk, and I know some that age who took the gamble and lost, but the large majority of 25 year olds will not visit the doctor for more than simple vaccinations (the nurse does this for a few bucks) or broken bones (which can be taken care of for less than a years insurance costs, and people rarely break bones). When these people get older or get get a family they get insurance.
You miss the two big reasons for radio: real time traffic and weather. Most days the weather I can tell by looking out the window, but sometimes it is nice to know what is coming before I see it. (Is that a tornado and I should pull off and find shelter, or just a storm that just slows me down)
Traffic is big. If I know about an accident that happens after I leave work, but before I get to the road it is on, I can take an alternate route. (though I also need to know if everyone else is taking the alternate and I should stick with the main road)
Once in a while news is useful too. Not often, but I like to know about major events. (I don't care about which actor is sleeping with who, but I would have liked to have heard about the Columbia breakup 2 days before I got back within radio range)
Do you know enough about NTP to be able to evaluate whether those are good sources? If not, then the second part of this book may be useful.
I know that I query 3 different servers, scattered around the country. They are unrelated on an administrative level, and are either official seconds to the US government run atomic clock, or sync with official seconds.
While it is possible for one server to be compromised, it is unlikely that you could compromise all servers (remember the administrators are not related). NTP rejects servers that are seriously out of sync.
pool.[country code].ntp.org is great for your sync duties. Enough servers there (in most countries) that you are unlikely to get several servers that are related and intentionally messing with your time. (I also sync with my local university which is an official second to the main US clocks)
Only if the editors choose good comics to put on the page though. I'll grant that tastes differ, but even still there are a large number of comics in my local paper that I can't find anyone who is interested in them.
The editors choose the comics I see. I don't get the paper from the next town, so I won't see that editor's choice. Even if their comic editor is better I won't because the rest of the paper is useless to me. So when the editors do a good job you are correct. When the editors make poor choices (perhaps because the comic is cheaper? bribes? what do I know about their back room), I don't see anything else on the page, even though it is there.
At least on line there are millions of people who can tell me about something interesting, and I can evaluate each for myself.
Don't forget that depending on the emergency, you might be doing all that while accelerating at 13G. (If none of the engines shut down in the emergency) Of course if the engines all shutdown you might do this at ~0G, and since this is launch you aren't used to this. (though presumably you were in training)
Start with wireless as much as you can.
Where you must have cables you are in for a lot of work. Easiest is to pull off baseboards, run cables behind, and replace; done right this works and looks fine, but it only allows a few cables. Harder is to drill access holes where needed (get long drill bits so you can drill from your future box where possible), and then patch as needed. Remember to plan everything so minimize pain.
Not true. Ground source heat pumps work just fine in the far north. However you must go deeper. If you live in the south you can get by with pipes in a trench just a few feet below ground. In Canada you need to drill a well, as a shallow trench will freeze up and produce nothing. (A 24 foot deep trench might work, a 10 foot deep trench will not) If you have the land a shallow trench is much cheaper than a well.
Maybe when you get to permafrost to very deep a ground source heat pump won't work even with wells, but most of Canada is isn't that cold.
Maybe you already are, but just in case (and for those who are considering this): consider energy costs first.
Smart homes seems like a neat idea, but what is the gain over just putting a stereo in each room, and a wi-fi receiver for those rooms where you really want mp3s? (As long as you need to remove the inside walls anyway you may as well run CAT-5, but for most people wi-fi works well)
Spend your budget first on low-E windows, and good insulation. Then put in a good heating/cooling system (preferably a ground source heat pump).
Saving energy will make the world a better place, and in the long run is good for your wallet. Your 'smart home' is not very smart if it wastes energy, and at best won't make the world a better place.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea. I'm just urging you to take care of the important parts first, then the toys. I also encourage you to think about the toys. If you don't have a radio of some sort in your current bathroom, why put one in.
Often it is better to watch the enemy you know, than to get him and let someone else take his place.
Thus the US let many Soviet spy's continue on, because they could carefully steer them to less sensitive areas. (Or in one spectacular case misinformation that caused a large pipeline fire!) Arresting them would just cause the Soviets to get more spy's who we don't know.
You are also assuming that Bin Laden was at the location of the phone. It is however trivial run a couple miles of wire (amps are needed of course) to his hideout, along with some cameras. When the US storms that location he sees it on the cameras, and runs. One presumes he has plenty of hideouts and wouldn't keep anything sensitive in one that can be tracked.
We can debate what should have been done for year. Unfortunately we do not know how to open parallel universes where that one thing changed, so we can never know if we took the best track.
He can declare bankruptcy. However that won't matter much. Bankruptcy just turns your bills and assets to the courts. The court then decides how to pay your bills for you. First the lawyers get paid (of course), then all court judgments get paid, next secured loans, then unsecured loans. (I'm likely to have missed something in there) The court can sell anything (often with exceptions like your house, but this varies from state to state) to raise funds.
Bankruptcy isn't a free way to get rid of debts and keep everything you have. It is a way to start over from scratch. Own nothing, owe nothing, bad credit rating, but at least you are not getting phone calls/letters about bills you can't pay.
Beyond that, not all debts can be gotten out of. You cannot get rid of child support with bankruptcy. The court is unlikely to let your out of a judgment. You cannot get out of credit card bills.
If Richter can come up with 7 million he will pay, no matter what is involved in coming up with it. The question is can he then afford to pay off everyone else he owes?
Geico sells direct, so they don't pay commissions in general. Their operators are paid by the hour (They have not outsourced to India, so the English is pretty good).
What you describe is how most insurance companies work. The first year (I'm not sure what the scale and timeframe is) your premiums go to the agent. After the insurance company takes them.
Some agents will switch you around every few years to get their commissions. A few will (as you describe) treat you like dirt after they have you. Most know that your situation will change over time, and thus you will often change insurance anyway. Therefore if they find you good rates, and treat you well, even after the sale, you will be back again latter. (not just for the car, but also the house, and perhaps a business venture)
In the state of Minnesota it is (or it was 10 years ago) illegal to view porn in a public place. Doesn't matter if it is a magazine or a computer.
Libraries can still carry playboy if they want. (though most sources of funding won't pay for the subscription) They just keep it behind the desk, and make you bring it home to read.
A law written the way it should be. Generic enough to cover things that were not invented when the law was written.
Really? Come visit some time, I will introduce you do a few.
Carpenters do not use hammers for driving nails much anymore, their are tools that do the job faster. Take a hammer and beat a chunk of wood with the claw and you can get an acceptable dado. Not as good as what a chisel/dado saw/router can do, but acceptable for rough work, and you may not have the other tools.
I've never done it, but a sharp claw ought to be able to turn a table leg just like real lathe tools. Mind it would be very dangerous, but when you just need to get the job done and you don't have the tools...
Come to think of it, first year carpenters use their hammer more as a shovel than anything else. (how else to make a ladder sit level on a hillside?)
But none of this changes the fact there there are better tools for those jobs. If you need something quick, use the tool you have. If you spend a lot of time doing something, you should get the right tool for the job. Thus if you need a web page quick, and already know php, then use php. (though why you would know php I'm not sure...) If you are going to design a website, it is worth your while to get something better. Either Ruby or Python is better than php.
Both matter. Individual letters get more weight, but a form letter than 1000 people send in is (particularly when you get a lawyer to write the letter so it is good) more likely to be read by the politician, because the staff can pass it on with a note: 10000 copies of this letter arrived. Not as powerful as 10000 individually written letters (even though they are of less quality), but still it is a powerful statement.
When driving on a frozen lake you should never wear a seat belt. There is no thickness of ice that won't break at speeds of 20mph given the right circumstances, and ice varies in thickness enough that even if there was, you can't be sure you are driving on such a section. Combine that with the fact that you are driving on slippery ice, and your speeds are always going to be slow enough that a worst case crash is one you can walk away from.
However if/when you car goes through the ice you need to get out fast - preferably while the door can still open, which isn't much time. The time it takes to get your seat belt off may be long enough that water pressue keeps your door closed no matter how strong you are.
I can think of no other situation where the risks from wearing a seatbelt are worse than the risks of not wearing it.
Fine, now how do I go about getting them changed? My town is just fine, but I work in a different town, and they have no left turn on red, with long cycles at the intersection to my work. I can see there are no cars on the road in the other direction. (AT all, it comes to a T 1/2 mile on, anyone who can safely drive can see that there is nothing coming) I still have to wait 2 minutes every morning. (They time the lights together, the left turns red just after the previous light turns green, so I need to wait a full cycle every day)
No that can't, see Sega vs. Accolade
That is they can place a copywritten work that you must place on your device, but but requiring that it be there, they have turned it into something purely functional, and thus not subject to copyright so long as it is only used in that context.
Or the money to the politician wasn't that you supported him, but you wanted to bend his will a little in your direction?
You need to get a little more paranoid. If you were living under Stalin in Russia, you would not want anyone to know about your efforts to get rid of Stalin. You would be killed for your beliefs. (Along with several million innocents because Stalin had so many people in fear that he couldn't meet his quota of dissidents to kill)
Today John Kerry supporters do not fear that their next boss will refuse to hire them even though he is a Bush supporter. Will that last?
Short answer: because FreeBSD has softupdates, which for most people turn out to be just as good, and for some better.
There are two ways to get the advantages most people want from a journaling file system. The obvious is to write a journal. FreeBSD instead spent time to make sure that meta-data could not get out of date in the first place, and thus there is no need for a journal. The latter is harder to implement, but has some significant advantages, and other disadvantages. For most people either will work fine, for those who have a case where it matters FreeBSD is implementing the journal. The real question is why nobody else is implementing softupdates so they don't need a journal in the cases where it is worse.
Remember, this is not a case where journals are always better than softupdates. For some workloads journals are better, for others softupdates is better. FreeBSD will soon be the only one to let you choose based on your real-world needs.