One of the better ways to optimize C++ code for building with GCC is to put all of the source code into one big code file. Or you can build it as a few independent modules, but the code is still quite large. Then you build it with the O3 flags. In GCC, the amount of RAM and CPU used in an O3 compile goes up by quite a lot as the code size in a single module increases. I am not sure what the exact equation is but I think it's an exponential function.
You hit the nail square on the head! These departments can always use every last penny given to them.
You hit it right on the head in your second sentence. There is NO possibility that a government agency will admit to being able to do the job with a smaller budget.
Yet, that is obviously not true. It did the job the year before, and the year before that. It could probably do the job with the people it had back when it started and it would be a better job, because one of the rules of bureaucracy is that new regulations and paperwork are continuously invented to justify the job of each new person hired.
Where private corporations are all about profit, government bureaucracies are all about how many people they can boss around and how much they can spend. Have you EVER heard of a bureaucracy that submitted a new budget request for less money than the year before? "We discovered that we can do just as good a job by outsourcing Fred's department and therefore we need $5 million less this year." Never happen.
To predict hurricanes, for example, takes one satellite, a nice computer cluster and about 10 people: meteorologists, system administration, a computer programmer or two. Yet, how many people are now involved with it? And how many of those are useless administrators, receptionists, coffee fetchers, etc? NOAA for example has its own legal department. Why can't they share from a pool of federal lawyers, what do they need their own for? They also have their own international affairs office. That should be the job of the State Department. NOAA has its own Education subdivision. NOAA even has its own small fleet of ships, when they could piggy-back on Navy or Coast Guard almost as well.
NOAA alone could drop 66% of its expenses and staff and still do a decent job with its primary mission. Sure, it would not be as good. But it would be 2/3rds cheaper and almost as good.
Will NOAA admit any of that? No, because it means 66% of them would be out of work. The department heads would lose political clout. They would have to make, oh horror, UNPOPULAR DECISIONS.
So you must believe that these parents with the money to send their kids to private schools (or move themselves to better public school districts), must be stupid. Otherwise, they would find better schools for their kids, where they would learn things. Most of these people with money are professional types like lawyers, doctors, and engineers. I guess that if these smart people who are paid a lot for their expertise are somehow so dumb that they cannot find good education for their children, then our country is doomed.
But wait! None of the above is actually true. Parents do send their children to private schools where they do get a better education. I wonder what kind of private schools you are including in your survey. Oral Robert's back-woods religious schools? (I am not putting down all religious private education by the way, most of it is very good.)
In my personal experience (I went to private schools. My brother did some of both.) private education may not guarantee better grades. But the whole private school experience is much more focused on actually learning as much as each student can, as opposed to just keeping kids in the classrooms and getting them to learn just enough to meet the mandated yearly standardized tests.
In private schools, you have involved parents who will turn up to talk to the principal and the board and complain loudly when things are not going right. This also happens in public schools. The difference is, in a private school, they're actually listened to and teachers actually get fired when they're not doing the job right.
Just as well as federal ones. How are federal rules somehow better than state? You think a US Senator is somehow more smarter about internet tubes than a state senator? Not really.
And if you don't like your state government it is a lot easier to change it than the federal government. There's an order of magnitude fewer citizens to convince.
I've been running FF 6.0.2 on Linux for a while and I also run FF (version 8 I think, on the Aurora branch) on Windows 7. I've never seen it break 500 MB (of Resident aka Working Set) even with 15 tabs. Do NOT measure its memory usage by its virtual memory. Virtual memory isn't necessarily used in RAM, it could be just reserved.
What crazed extensions are you running? I run Noscript, Flashblock, Certificate Patrol, DownthemAll and Firebug. No problems.
I suspect most people trying to use an actual light saber would lose a limb or cut themselves in half pretty quickly. Lose control of the grip for just a second and...
Private members are a part of the class's public interface in C++ because they affect the size of the object, and the object's size is needed by all kinds of things.
If you want to decouple the private members from the size of the class, use a pImpl pointer (make it a fancy smart pointer type) to a class or struct defined in the.cpp file. Then put all of your private data into that structure.
Modern engines can run very efficiently when the driver is careful with their foot, or when the engine is so small that there just isn't any power available.
The efficiency problem with fast cars is that when the driver has a 350 hp engine, the driver likes to USE IT.
For example, my Subaru STI normally gets 24 MPG. When I get crazy with it, that drops to 12-15 MPG. I swear that with the foot down, engine RPM at 6,000 and the turbo all the way up, you can just watch the gas gauge dropping, except you shouldn't because you really need your eyes on the road.:-)
The small airplane industry went through excessive legislation and lawsuits. The result was that people who wanted to fly an affordable small plane had to build their own.
It's not illegal to build your own car yet (most places). So people who want to drive a genuinely fun car with actual power and only 15 MPG will order a truckload of parts delivered. Several weekends with an air wrench and they'll have whatever they want.
I didn't think I had to spell that out. Of course the Republicans are.
It's obvious Democrats are also for farm subsidies. They controlled the entire US government from 2008 for two years and didn't cut a single subsidy that I heard of.
I wonder what it would cost to get yourself qualified as a lineman and do the work yourself. Cheaper than $15,000 I bet. It can't be impossible, because the guys who do the work for those private line companies come from somewhere.
Personally, I think the subsidies for farmers should stop.
Of course, the city folks won't like it much when the prices of food triple to reflect real costs, but that's life and a fair market economy.
I suspect plenty of "blue" city congressmen and senators support farm subsidies for this very reason, because the current system takes the money from the rich folks and makes basic food stuff more affordable for the poor folks.
You know what? I tried watching independent films. What it taught me is that Hollywood knows what they're doing.
There's a reason Hollywood films generally make a lot of money. They're well done and entertaining, they deliver a easy to watch story with characters that are easy to get into and a plot where you generally know the ending will turn out well.
I've decided that I don't want to bother wasting hours of my life watching movies where, once I get to the ending, I as often as not want to throw the characters and plot into the wall and set them on fire. That's my experience of independent film.
If the article is compensating for clock speed then they obviously aren't measuring raw performance, but performance per clock. This is a useful metric in all sorts of ways.
Yeah, I can just see using my smartphone to scan items as I shop.
So, the phone is running the scan application, keeping the screen and camera live so that it is easy to use. And using CPU to try to locate barcodes in the camera image.
Then, after about 45 minutes of grocery shopping after a full day at work my phone shuts down.
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This is a guess as to the reason.
One of the better ways to optimize C++ code for building with GCC is to put all of the source code into one big code file. Or you can build it as a few independent modules, but the code is still quite large. Then you build it with the O3 flags. In GCC, the amount of RAM and CPU used in an O3 compile goes up by quite a lot as the code size in a single module increases. I am not sure what the exact equation is but I think it's an exponential function.
This would easily explain the RAM and CPU usage.
You hit the nail square on the head! These departments can always use every last penny given to them.
You hit it right on the head in your second sentence. There is NO possibility that a government agency will admit to being able to do the job with a smaller budget.
Yet, that is obviously not true. It did the job the year before, and the year before that. It could probably do the job with the people it had back when it started and it would be a better job, because one of the rules of bureaucracy is that new regulations and paperwork are continuously invented to justify the job of each new person hired.
Where private corporations are all about profit, government bureaucracies are all about how many people they can boss around and how much they can spend. Have you EVER heard of a bureaucracy that submitted a new budget request for less money than the year before? "We discovered that we can do just as good a job by outsourcing Fred's department and therefore we need $5 million less this year." Never happen.
To predict hurricanes, for example, takes one satellite, a nice computer cluster and about 10 people: meteorologists, system administration, a computer programmer or two. Yet, how many people are now involved with it? And how many of those are useless administrators, receptionists, coffee fetchers, etc? NOAA for example has its own legal department. Why can't they share from a pool of federal lawyers, what do they need their own for? They also have their own international affairs office. That should be the job of the State Department. NOAA has its own Education subdivision. NOAA even has its own small fleet of ships, when they could piggy-back on Navy or Coast Guard almost as well.
NOAA alone could drop 66% of its expenses and staff and still do a decent job with its primary mission. Sure, it would not be as good. But it would be 2/3rds cheaper and almost as good.
Will NOAA admit any of that? No, because it means 66% of them would be out of work. The department heads would lose political clout. They would have to make, oh horror, UNPOPULAR DECISIONS.
So you must believe that these parents with the money to send their kids to private schools (or move themselves to better public school districts), must be stupid. Otherwise, they would find better schools for their kids, where they would learn things. Most of these people with money are professional types like lawyers, doctors, and engineers. I guess that if these smart people who are paid a lot for their expertise are somehow so dumb that they cannot find good education for their children, then our country is doomed.
But wait! None of the above is actually true. Parents do send their children to private schools where they do get a better education. I wonder what kind of private schools you are including in your survey. Oral Robert's back-woods religious schools? (I am not putting down all religious private education by the way, most of it is very good.)
In my personal experience (I went to private schools. My brother did some of both.) private education may not guarantee better grades. But the whole private school experience is much more focused on actually learning as much as each student can, as opposed to just keeping kids in the classrooms and getting them to learn just enough to meet the mandated yearly standardized tests.
In private schools, you have involved parents who will turn up to talk to the principal and the board and complain loudly when things are not going right. This also happens in public schools. The difference is, in a private school, they're actually listened to and teachers actually get fired when they're not doing the job right.
Just as well as federal ones. How are federal rules somehow better than state? You think a US Senator is somehow more smarter about internet tubes than a state senator? Not really.
And if you don't like your state government it is a lot easier to change it than the federal government. There's an order of magnitude fewer citizens to convince.
The issue that is solved by "buying" names is spamming.
A DNS replacement that had no cost per name would be drowned by people running scripts to register {/usr/share/dict/words}.com
I've been running FF 6.0.2 on Linux for a while and I also run FF (version 8 I think, on the Aurora branch) on Windows 7. I've never seen it break 500 MB (of Resident aka Working Set) even with 15 tabs. Do NOT measure its memory usage by its virtual memory. Virtual memory isn't necessarily used in RAM, it could be just reserved.
What crazed extensions are you running? I run Noscript, Flashblock, Certificate Patrol, DownthemAll and Firebug. No problems.
Lethal weapon. Heck yes.
I suspect most people trying to use an actual light saber would lose a limb or cut themselves in half pretty quickly. Lose control of the grip for just a second and ...
Private members are a part of the class's public interface in C++ because they affect the size of the object, and the object's size is needed by all kinds of things.
If you want to decouple the private members from the size of the class, use a pImpl pointer (make it a fancy smart pointer type) to a class or struct defined in the .cpp file. Then put all of your private data into that structure.
Cars crash and spill burning fuel everywhere. Wouldn't you rather take a hypothetical five years off your life span than die in a fireball?
It's Debian. It's obsolete when it's released.
And if it had an in-game Ping Pong table you would say it was nothing new, Pong did it before...
Modern engines can run very efficiently when the driver is careful with their foot, or when the engine is so small that there just isn't any power available.
The efficiency problem with fast cars is that when the driver has a 350 hp engine, the driver likes to USE IT.
For example, my Subaru STI normally gets 24 MPG. When I get crazy with it, that drops to 12-15 MPG. I swear that with the foot down, engine RPM at 6,000 and the turbo all the way up, you can just watch the gas gauge dropping, except you shouldn't because you really need your eyes on the road. :-)
The small airplane industry went through excessive legislation and lawsuits. The result was that people who wanted to fly an affordable small plane had to build their own.
It's not illegal to build your own car yet (most places). So people who want to drive a genuinely fun car with actual power and only 15 MPG will order a truckload of parts delivered. Several weekends with an air wrench and they'll have whatever they want.
Except for when the suspend/resume cycle crashes because of a video interrupt problem.
Except for when the kernel is updated three times a month for security fixes.
Except for when the GUI freezes solid and you don't have another machine nearby to SSH in with.
I am sure I could think of some more.
I didn't think I had to spell that out. Of course the Republicans are.
It's obvious Democrats are also for farm subsidies. They controlled the entire US government from 2008 for two years and didn't cut a single subsidy that I heard of.
I wonder what it would cost to get yourself qualified as a lineman and do the work yourself. Cheaper than $15,000 I bet. It can't be impossible, because the guys who do the work for those private line companies come from somewhere.
Personally, I think the subsidies for farmers should stop.
Of course, the city folks won't like it much when the prices of food triple to reflect real costs, but that's life and a fair market economy.
I suspect plenty of "blue" city congressmen and senators support farm subsidies for this very reason, because the current system takes the money from the rich folks and makes basic food stuff more affordable for the poor folks.
Haven't you seen the Martin jetpack?
Admittedly, it's more like a helicopter that you stand in, but you get a half hour of flight time. Probably long enough to get to work!
You know what? I tried watching independent films. What it taught me is that Hollywood knows what they're doing.
There's a reason Hollywood films generally make a lot of money. They're well done and entertaining, they deliver a easy to watch story with characters that are easy to get into and a plot where you generally know the ending will turn out well.
I've decided that I don't want to bother wasting hours of my life watching movies where, once I get to the ending, I as often as not want to throw the characters and plot into the wall and set them on fire. That's my experience of independent film.
Use an IPS monitor. It'll cost more but there's hardly any view-angle problem.
That matches with what I've read, and is also the reason for the high power output levels of the Thunderbolt port.
And anyone who needed a disk faster than FireWire has been using eSATA.
So far, the only use I've seen for USB 3 is over-priced flash drives.
Don't be stupid.
If the article is compensating for clock speed then they obviously aren't measuring raw performance, but performance per clock. This is a useful metric in all sorts of ways.
Yeah, I can just see using my smartphone to scan items as I shop.
So, the phone is running the scan application, keeping the screen and camera live so that it is easy to use. And using CPU to try to locate barcodes in the camera image.
Then, after about 45 minutes of grocery shopping after a full day at work my phone shuts down.
Right. That's going to work really well.
Or you know, you could buy the tools to work on your car. Or possibly even rent a tool kit.
I assume you aren't claiming metric size sockets are non-standard, because that would be stupid. Metric tools are easy to find.