To be fair, by your definition, the whole world suffers from TDS. Fox-news-republicans are like the old man driving on the highway, leaning out of his window and shouting at the cars zipping by him: "YOU'RE ALL GOING THE WRONG WAY".
I know why you think that - and it's because you watch fox news. They are desperately saying lalallalala nothing to see here. But the truth is that lots of people have already been indicted - they are just working their way up the tree until they have enough canaries singing to impeach a president.
Fox news viewers are going to be a problem, though. The channel has hidden so much from them, and sent out so many lies, it's going to end up a bit like Japan after the war ended. There were many japanese that continued the war for years because they refused to believe that Japan had waved the white flag.
You're missing the point entirely. The partisan circus is part of Putin's plan. They actually helped organize protests and counter-protests at the same time and place. For example.....
You are missing another point - Putin _really_ hates Hilary Clinton. She supports sanctions that are a pain in the arse for him, and has been talking tough on Russia the whole time. Trump is just a weak buffoon that he can control as he likes.
using that word makes everyone ignore your comment.
People who watch fox news care about what fox news wants them to care about. You think I'm wrong about that? Think about it... list the things you care about, and see how well they match up with things fox news bangs on about.
It's much worse than that. Putin is ex KGB. He has access to all the psy-ops knowledge that exists in Russia, and he actually reads security briefings. He has meetings with Trump where Trump is alone. It is child's play for him to manipulate someone like Trump to do his bidding, especially if he has some leverage.
Obama did all that he could do: try to imagine how conservatives and fox news would have reacted if he had announced it. Republicans just aren't ready to hear the truth from anyone but right-wingers: Fox news is the culprit there.
But it does replace generating capacity. Because if you don't have the storage, you have peaker power plants instead.
And gas doesn't have to have a fossil source - you can brew biogas from trash - you can even find an old landfill site, put a cap on it and harvest the gas.
I agree that Tesla was a great man and the greatest genius the world has ever seen, and only history will tell whether Elon Musk's legacy will be anywhere close. But you underestimate Musk massively if you assume that he isn't trying to do anything for the betterment of mankind. His 3 main recent projects, Solar City, SpaceX and Tesla (including power storage modules) are all his attempts to deal with climate change. The way he presents it (and I don't think he either a good liar or a good actor), he worries for mankind, and is using his tech and business skills to help mankind deal with this issue, with SpaceX being the insurance policy in case all is lost, and humankind needs to colonise another planet. He talks about becoming a "two planet species", and if we risk being erased by an errant asteroid, that might be a good insurance policy.
Tesla, for all his genius, wasn't so great at actually getting his work into the hands of people - perhaps he lacked people and business skills. That's why Edison gets the credit he does, even though he by many accounts was, well, a bit of an ass.
Whether there is a trail or not depends on atmospheric conditions - if relative humidity is high, there is likely to be a trail no matter what, but if humidity is low, there might be no trails if it is not a smoky engine.
Either Slashdot is full of trolls, or there is an extraordinary dearth of knowledge about Java on Slashdot. So much FUD....every... time.
If you are super worried about the performance of one particular algorithm you need to implement, by all means implement in C. If you have an application that actually does lots of stuff, use Java - it's likely to perform better than what you could create in C or C++ in the same time. And it will be much easier to support.
Generally, to write performant code in Java, don't try to write C++ and bitch about the fact that Java isn't C++; write good Java, let the JIT compiler do it's thing and go to the pub on a friday night instead.
This point of view smacks of "if we just worked a bit harder/longer we'll be able to build a perfectly secure system".
It aint gonna happen. Not for a system as sprawling as the internet, not for a system with as complex requirements as an operating system.
The more you know about security, the easier it seems to do what is required to improve security - but you have to have very tight control of platforms to be able to follow through on implementing that security. And tight control prevents innovation. Often, security reduces the usefulness of a product.
Convincing everyone in the IT world that they need to spend $ on educating developers and implementing security features is an insurmountable task - and even if you manage it, you still won't be done, because the security issues we understand now and have fixes for are only a subset of all security issues. New types of holes will be found continuously.
Of course, end user training might still be a waste of money - I can't deny that.
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Sorry to burst your bubble of gas, but German scientists have already proved that you can supply a power grid with _only_ renewable energy - wind, solar and biogas.
(O.k. - so I just swapped your bubble with a biogas bubble.)
I don't know what horse-faeces you've been fed, but the Danes have made it pay pretty darn well - in fact we have pretty much saturated our home market for wind turbines. This causes issues with "too much success" - when the wind really blows and energy requirements are low, they have to sell the energy abroad at knock-down prices. But most of the time, wind power provides 20% of Denmark's electricity.
So quote your sources or go away.....
And of course the global environmental factor is of no importance?
Java is new in the Real Time space, it is true. Real-time, low memory footprint behaviour has never been a goal for core Java. So your comment makes you seem foolish. ("The iPhone is crap because it still won't brew my coffee, unlike this coffee machine over here!!")
If you want to spend your life reinventing the garbage collection wheel, you are welcome. I have been informed that any sizeable c++ app needs some sort of garbage collection algorithm.... I don't have enough c++ experience to factcheck that. If it is true, then I would certainly trust the guys at Sun, Ibm etc to do it better than anyone in any given enterprise.
Java is for people who want to get work done and still have a life at the end of the day. Java is focussed at business applications, but Java can do a lot of things very well nowadays - most of the mud thrown at Java was true a decade ago, but is no longer true at all.
I'm amazed that americans aren't up in arms - isn't USA built on the principles of the free market - supply and demand - beating the competition by producing better products and/or delivering them to the market more effectively?
This sounds like corruption, nothing else. Paying customers to stay away from the competition? Are you kidding me? This is why I try to boycott Microsoft every time I can.
... based on what, exactly??? Your obviously massive experience of such setups?
This is actually a good idea in practice... there are plenty of places in Denmark that have it, and they typically have 10Mbps connection or more, and pay around 20 GBP (about 40 of your worthless dollars) per month or less.
If I had any points I'd mod you up....
I am writing this on an 8Mbps ADSL copper connection - as more people creep up in speed, the price comes down, and everyone who can afford it will get the deluxe version.
I lol'ed at the gp's quote: The only thing that will drive high-bandwidth stuff like this is media.
Errrm... welcome to the 1990s.... have you heard of youtube? I know you don't need 5M connection for that, but most people don't know that - they have a slow computer, and will pay extra to make it go faster - if they think a faster connection will do it, they'll pay.
I think it is Singapore or Tokyo where they have 100Mb connections.... that's coming to a city near you within the next 5-10 years. It's just a matter of time.
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Ok, now explain why you don't get robocalls in the UK? Is it because of the welsh-speaking population?
It's not language, it's pricing and/or legislation and/or culture.
I've never in my life experienced a robocall. If we can avoid them in Europe, so can the US.
To be fair, by your definition, the whole world suffers from TDS. Fox-news-republicans are like the old man driving on the highway, leaning out of his window and shouting at the cars zipping by him: "YOU'RE ALL GOING THE WRONG WAY".
If 8-9 investigations failed to find anything, then perhaps there's a teensy chance that there was nothing to find?
I know why you think that - and it's because you watch fox news. They are desperately saying lalallalala nothing to see here. But the truth is that lots of people have already been indicted - they are just working their way up the tree until they have enough canaries singing to impeach a president.
Fox news viewers are going to be a problem, though. The channel has hidden so much from them, and sent out so many lies, it's going to end up a bit like Japan after the war ended. There were many japanese that continued the war for years because they refused to believe that Japan had waved the white flag.
If Trump is so squeaky clean (newsflash: he is not), why was he so incensed that his "fixer" was raided by the FBI?
You're missing the point entirely. The partisan circus is part of Putin's plan. They actually helped organize protests and counter-protests at the same time and place. For example.....
You are missing another point - Putin _really_ hates Hilary Clinton. She supports sanctions that are a pain in the arse for him, and has been talking tough on Russia the whole time. Trump is just a weak buffoon that he can control as he likes.
> tard
using that word makes everyone ignore your comment.
People who watch fox news care about what fox news wants them to care about. You think I'm wrong about that? Think about it... list the things you care about, and see how well they match up with things fox news bangs on about.
It's much worse than that. Putin is ex KGB. He has access to all the psy-ops knowledge that exists in Russia, and he actually reads security briefings. He has meetings with Trump where Trump is alone. It is child's play for him to manipulate someone like Trump to do his bidding, especially if he has some leverage.
Obama did all that he could do: try to imagine how conservatives and fox news would have reacted if he had announced it. Republicans just aren't ready to hear the truth from anyone but right-wingers: Fox news is the culprit there.
He did warn Trump not to hire Flynn.
But it does replace generating capacity. Because if you don't have the storage, you have peaker power plants instead.
And gas doesn't have to have a fossil source - you can brew biogas from trash - you can even find an old landfill site, put a cap on it and harvest the gas.
> Another unusual property of the particle is that it has two positive charges double that of the proton and it is four times heavier
I agree that Tesla was a great man and the greatest genius the world has ever seen, and only history will tell whether Elon Musk's legacy will be anywhere close. But you underestimate Musk massively if you assume that he isn't trying to do anything for the betterment of mankind. His 3 main recent projects, Solar City, SpaceX and Tesla (including power storage modules) are all his attempts to deal with climate change. The way he presents it (and I don't think he either a good liar or a good actor), he worries for mankind, and is using his tech and business skills to help mankind deal with this issue, with SpaceX being the insurance policy in case all is lost, and humankind needs to colonise another planet. He talks about becoming a "two planet species", and if we risk being erased by an errant asteroid, that might be a good insurance policy.
Tesla, for all his genius, wasn't so great at actually getting his work into the hands of people - perhaps he lacked people and business skills. That's why Edison gets the credit he does, even though he by many accounts was, well, a bit of an ass.
Whether there is a trail or not depends on atmospheric conditions - if relative humidity is high, there is likely to be a trail no matter what, but if humidity is low, there might be no trails if it is not a smoky engine.
Either Slashdot is full of trolls, or there is an extraordinary dearth of knowledge about Java on Slashdot. So much FUD....every... time.
If you are super worried about the performance of one particular algorithm you need to implement, by all means implement in C. If you have an application that actually does lots of stuff, use Java - it's likely to perform better than what you could create in C or C++ in the same time. And it will be much easier to support.
Generally, to write performant code in Java, don't try to write C++ and bitch about the fact that Java isn't C++; write good Java, let the JIT compiler do it's thing and go to the pub on a friday night instead.
I use NemId to login to my bank accounts - Nordea et al., as well as the tax authorities and any government website you choose to log in to.
They all use Java, and I am fine with that.
Can you try to summarize in a paragraph what QED tells us about the world?
This point of view smacks of "if we just worked a bit harder/longer we'll be able to build a perfectly secure system".
It aint gonna happen. Not for a system as sprawling as the internet, not for a system with as complex requirements as an operating system.
The more you know about security, the easier it seems to do what is required to improve security - but you have to have very tight control of platforms to be able to follow through on implementing that security. And tight control prevents innovation. Often, security reduces the usefulness of a product.
Convincing everyone in the IT world that they need to spend $ on educating developers and implementing security features is an insurmountable task - and even if you manage it, you still won't be done, because the security issues we understand now and have fixes for are only a subset of all security issues. New types of holes will be found continuously.
Of course, end user training might still be a waste of money - I can't deny that.
He's on first.
Sorry to burst your bubble of gas, but German scientists have already proved that you can supply a power grid with _only_ renewable energy - wind, solar and biogas.
(O.k. - so I just swapped your bubble with a biogas bubble.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR8gEMpzos4
I don't know what horse-faeces you've been fed, but the Danes have made it pay pretty darn well - in fact we have pretty much saturated our home market for wind turbines. This causes issues with "too much success" - when the wind really blows and energy requirements are low, they have to sell the energy abroad at knock-down prices. But most of the time, wind power provides 20% of Denmark's electricity.
So quote your sources or go away.....
And of course the global environmental factor is of no importance?
Java is new in the Real Time space, it is true. Real-time, low memory footprint behaviour has never been a goal for core Java. So your comment makes you seem foolish. ("The iPhone is crap because it still won't brew my coffee, unlike this coffee machine over here!!")
If you want to spend your life reinventing the garbage collection wheel, you are welcome. I have been informed that any sizeable c++ app needs some sort of garbage collection algorithm.... I don't have enough c++ experience to factcheck that. If it is true, then I would certainly trust the guys at Sun, Ibm etc to do it better than anyone in any given enterprise.
Java is for people who want to get work done and still have a life at the end of the day. Java is focussed at business applications, but Java can do a lot of things very well nowadays - most of the mud thrown at Java was true a decade ago, but is no longer true at all.
Real time java is on the way, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_Java
I'm amazed that americans aren't up in arms - isn't USA built on the principles of the free market - supply and demand - beating the competition by producing better products and/or delivering them to the market more effectively?
This sounds like corruption, nothing else. Paying customers to stay away from the competition? Are you kidding me? This is why I try to boycott Microsoft every time I can.
... based on what, exactly??? Your obviously massive experience of such setups?
This is actually a good idea in practice... there are plenty of places in Denmark that have it, and they typically have 10Mbps connection or more, and pay around 20 GBP (about 40 of your worthless dollars) per month or less.
If I had any points I'd mod you up....
I am writing this on an 8Mbps ADSL copper connection - as more people creep up in speed, the price comes down, and everyone who can afford it will get the deluxe version. I lol'ed at the gp's quote:
The only thing that will drive high-bandwidth stuff like this is media.
Errrm... welcome to the 1990s.... have you heard of youtube? I know you don't need 5M connection for that, but most people don't know that - they have a slow computer, and will pay extra to make it go faster - if they think a faster connection will do it, they'll pay.
I think it is Singapore or Tokyo where they have 100Mb connections.... that's coming to a city near you within the next 5-10 years. It's just a matter of time.