They mentioned briefly that the US tried to subsidize solar but the Chinese kept undercutting our manufacturers and we just couldn't beat their prices. What is Germany doing differently that allows them to beat Chinese prices? Tariffs? Import restrictions? Why does that kind of market manipulation work for Germany and why do we allow subsidies to happen in the states but not that sort of competition restriction?
Oh, right, they have more sun... which still doesn't answer how their solar products compete with the Chinese. I like how they named dropped 'natgas' several times because the US has so much of it! No problems worth mentioning about natural gas!
The only explanation is that China must get more sun than anyone else in the World.
The entire point of Fortran is that it has difficult-to-deal-with aliasing rules that make the compiler more free to produce optimized code. That's why it is suitable for things that require every last bit of performance you can wring out of it. Today probably you can get the same thing with C or C++ provided you are prepared to use things like restrict, but it used to be you couldn't, so Fortran ruled certain topics.
Python is an easy-to-use system with abysmal performance - expect 10-100x slowdown for code that runs in pure Python over a similar C version. If you can get things set up so Python is only gluing other C components together and the data never has to touch native Python data structures or loops, then performance will be fine, but now you aren't really coding in Python any more.
The point is, the purpose of Fortran and the purpose of Python are entirely opposed. They are exactly the opposite of each other. So it boggles the mind how you can think that Python can be Fortran "done right". So much so that now I suspect I got trolled. Well done, sir.
Yes I understand, and many people made the same point. However Fortran was for a lot of scientists and engineers the hammer to crack any nut. It was used for simple "try outs" where performance wasn't needed, simply because it was the language that Engineers knew. I think the same thing is happening with Python now, it is the first and sometimes only language that many engineers know. Now for the performance issue, it will not give the best performance but packages like SciPy and NumPy do give very good performance (arguably by using these libraries you are just using python to string c functions together, but it is properly integrated). Tests show that you are getting about a third of the performance of Fortran, (with the exception of the Fortran DGEMM marix multiply which greatly outperforms Python and other Fortran variants). The typical engineering reaction to performance needs is to throw hardware at the problem, then optimise your algorithm, and only change language if absolutely necessary!
Some American citizens are Muslims. Think about it
Oh, lord, not this asshole again...
We get it, Chrisq - you're bigotted against Muslims. Good for you.
Now please do us all a favor and go take a long walk off a short pier.
Realistic, not bigoted. Muslim clerics self-proclaim their aim to destroy democracy, end equality and replace Justice with a system where non-Muslims cannot testify against Muslims. Many other Muslims try to enforce this with acid attacks against unveiled muslims, bomb attacks against unbelievers, and so on. Those idiots who think that a Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or atheist are as likely to riot and kill if someone burns a book they like, or throw acid in the face of someone who dresses in a way they find provocative are the idiots.
Well, geostationary orbit is about 250,000 km in circumference, and it contains about 400 satellites at present. Assuming they're each 50m wide (which is probably an exaggeration) then the satellites, in total, cover 20km of that circumference. So if we were to assume that all the satellites are in the same plane, and that the asteroid was definitely going to come in through that plane, then the chances of the asteroid meeting one of those satellites is 0.008%.
A back of the envelope calculation suggests you have the same odds of spinning around in a circle with your eyes shut and successfully pointing at a person standing 3km away.
Thanks, that's a very informative way of putting it into perspective. If I owned a satellites I would not be over-worried but would probably buy some insurance!
Is there a chance of it hitting a satellite? I mean I don't know if they can calculate timing accurately enough to predict if it will yet. If it did I would imagine the display would be pretty spectacular!
In my view Perl's greatest success was its influence on other languages. Its pattern matching capabilities are a key part of Python, Ruby, and more and are even bolted on to Java. Perl may be on the very slow decline but the best bits are still increasingly in use
People do not commit suicide because of a single thing. It's not the rape alone that makes rape victims suicidal, it's the associated shame, social isolation, finger pointing and blame (it's never the victim's fault) as well, and those come from society - not the rapist, no matter how despicable the crime is.
So what are you saying here - if someone is raped, were previously fine, but then kill themselves because of shame that it is not the rapists fault? If not when is anything totally anyone's fault - if I beat you and left you in constant pain and paralysed then it would be your perception of pain and societies's provision and reaction to disabled that did it!
Pinning Swartz' suicide on overzealous prosecutors is as fair as pinning Jacintha Saldanha's suicide on the radio hosts.
In both cases they started a course of events that lead to someone committing suicide. Their degree of blame depends on to what degree they could have foreseen the risk, and to what degree they could have seen any unjust negative consequences for the victim (e.g. if I want to make you feel bad and you end up killing yourself I am more to blame than if I accidentally bring up a touchy subject that leads to it.). There is no doubt tough that to some extent they are to blame.
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I would recommend that any residents of Arizona who want some more sunshine visit Bavaria!
Just in case someone doesn't get it: Bavaria climate, and Arizona climate.
The sun has a well-known liberal bias, therefore the US gets less sunlight than a socialist European welfare state.
What sort of communist power source would give heat and light for free!
I would recommend that any residents of Arizona who want some more sunshine visit Bavaria!
They mentioned briefly that the US tried to subsidize solar but the Chinese kept undercutting our manufacturers and we just couldn't beat their prices. What is Germany doing differently that allows them to beat Chinese prices? Tariffs? Import restrictions? Why does that kind of market manipulation work for Germany and why do we allow subsidies to happen in the states but not that sort of competition restriction? Oh, right, they have more sun ... which still doesn't answer how their solar products compete with the Chinese. I like how they named dropped 'natgas' several times because the US has so much of it! No problems worth mentioning about natural gas!
The only explanation is that China must get more sun than anyone else in the World.
It's the very first time Fox has said anything that's factually incorrect.
... Said a Fox news reporter!
Valentine's day is next week and my sex slave would love the book of gimps!
The section on masks is on page 119.
Electricity Gives Bubbles Super Strength
My favourite hooker's become a super-hero!
I'm sure she deserved her doctorate as much as Dr Ian Paisley deserved his.
Since the use of CBC-based cipher suites in TLS is discouraged since BEAST attacks this is just adding more weight to the argument.
The entire point of Fortran is that it has difficult-to-deal-with aliasing rules that make the compiler more free to produce optimized code. That's why it is suitable for things that require every last bit of performance you can wring out of it. Today probably you can get the same thing with C or C++ provided you are prepared to use things like restrict, but it used to be you couldn't, so Fortran ruled certain topics.
Python is an easy-to-use system with abysmal performance - expect 10-100x slowdown for code that runs in pure Python over a similar C version. If you can get things set up so Python is only gluing other C components together and the data never has to touch native Python data structures or loops, then performance will be fine, but now you aren't really coding in Python any more.
The point is, the purpose of Fortran and the purpose of Python are entirely opposed. They are exactly the opposite of each other. So it boggles the mind how you can think that Python can be Fortran "done right". So much so that now I suspect I got trolled. Well done, sir.
Yes I understand, and many people made the same point. However Fortran was for a lot of scientists and engineers the hammer to crack any nut. It was used for simple "try outs" where performance wasn't needed, simply because it was the language that Engineers knew. I think the same thing is happening with Python now, it is the first and sometimes only language that many engineers know. Now for the performance issue, it will not give the best performance but packages like SciPy and NumPy do give very good performance (arguably by using these libraries you are just using python to string c functions together, but it is properly integrated). Tests show that you are getting about a third of the performance of Fortran, (with the exception of the Fortran DGEMM marix multiply which greatly outperforms Python and other Fortran variants). The typical engineering reaction to performance needs is to throw hardware at the problem, then optimise your algorithm, and only change language if absolutely necessary!
I get the impression that in the Engineering and Scientific community Python is the new Fortran. I hope so, because it would be "Fortran done right".
Nah bigoted, you cherry pick the few bad apples and use them to paint every muslim as evil.
Keep telling yourself that when they start imposing Sharia law in your neighbourhood.
Some American citizens are Muslims. Think about it
Oh, lord, not this asshole again...
We get it, Chrisq - you're bigotted against Muslims. Good for you.
Now please do us all a favor and go take a long walk off a short pier.
Realistic, not bigoted. Muslim clerics self-proclaim their aim to destroy democracy, end equality and replace Justice with a system where non-Muslims cannot testify against Muslims. Many other Muslims try to enforce this with acid attacks against unveiled muslims, bomb attacks against unbelievers, and so on. Those idiots who think that a Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or atheist are as likely to riot and kill if someone burns a book they like, or throw acid in the face of someone who dresses in a way they find provocative are the idiots.
Some American citizens are Muslims. Think about it
Well, geostationary orbit is about 250,000 km in circumference, and it contains about 400 satellites at present. Assuming they're each 50m wide (which is probably an exaggeration) then the satellites, in total, cover 20km of that circumference. So if we were to assume that all the satellites are in the same plane, and that the asteroid was definitely going to come in through that plane, then the chances of the asteroid meeting one of those satellites is 0.008%.
A back of the envelope calculation suggests you have the same odds of spinning around in a circle with your eyes shut and successfully pointing at a person standing 3km away.
Thanks, that's a very informative way of putting it into perspective. If I owned a satellites I would not be over-worried but would probably buy some insurance!
Is there a chance of it hitting a satellite? I mean I don't know if they can calculate timing accurately enough to predict if it will yet. If it did I would imagine the display would be pretty spectacular!
When's the last time you used duct tape on a duck?
but I s/t?$/k?$/
I would be worried if it were
s/d?{4}$/f$1/
you'd be quite restrained.
That's what worries me!
Vaccines are not that easy to develop, especially for something that makes a 'viable' bioweapon.
Of course that's not an issue to Muzzie outfits like Al Quaida, if they die as well its a bonus.
When's the last time you used duct tape on a duck?
but I s/t?$/k?$/
I would be worried if it were
s/d?{4}$/f$1/
I hope that its really a secret operation against Muzzy terrorists in Miami
In my view Perl's greatest success was its influence on other languages. Its pattern matching capabilities are a key part of Python, Ruby, and more and are even bolted on to Java. Perl may be on the very slow decline but the best bits are still increasingly in use
People do not commit suicide because of a single thing. It's not the rape alone that makes rape victims suicidal, it's the associated shame, social isolation, finger pointing and blame (it's never the victim's fault) as well, and those come from society - not the rapist, no matter how despicable the crime is.
So what are you saying here - if someone is raped, were previously fine, but then kill themselves because of shame that it is not the rapists fault? If not when is anything totally anyone's fault - if I beat you and left you in constant pain and paralysed then it would be your perception of pain and societies's provision and reaction to disabled that did it!
Pinning Swartz' suicide on overzealous prosecutors is as fair as pinning Jacintha Saldanha's suicide on the radio hosts.
In both cases they started a course of events that lead to someone committing suicide. Their degree of blame depends on to what degree they could have foreseen the risk, and to what degree they could have seen any unjust negative consequences for the victim (e.g. if I want to make you feel bad and you end up killing yourself I am more to blame than if I accidentally bring up a touchy subject that leads to it.). There is no doubt tough that to some extent they are to blame.
Its probably just to cover the news that their nuclear weapon research bunker was blown up.Don't look here, watch the monkey!
I agree, oranges are the tastiest fruit.
Yawn...
But never forget Oranges are not the only fruit
Isn't it always midnight somewhere?
Only on local sidereal time or local solar time