To be fair, UK welcomed Chechen islamists with open arms back in the 1990ies and also allowed them fund raising and still refuses to extradite them on terrorism charges. Brits really are no better in this matter.
Nah dude, look, almost every language since 1980 has copied C syntax. If it were a bad language, Java wouldn't have copied the syntax.
"People, eat more shit. Billions of flies can't be wrong". Seriously, though, that was only done so people can feel a semblance of familiarity with the syntax. I personally can't stand C syntax, it is very awkward to type on any keyboard that differs from ANSI. All this letter salad is seriously uncomfortable on my German keyboards and even worse on keyboards meant for other languages.
Also, "undefined behavior" isn't an ugly hack, it's just reality in language design. Every language has undefined behavior except a special few like ML.
Yeah right, it's not a bug, it is a feature. That is a seriously weak excuse.
C# has this specification: "A program that does not contain any occurrences of the unsafe modifier cannot exhibit any undefined behavior." Java also quite similar in this area (completely defined inside a single thread, multithreading may be non-deterministic). I develop for embedded systems that are in the field and aren't easily accessible if something goes wrong. Thanks to all those shitty quirks of C I have to program in an overly defensive way. If I had a say in it, I'd rather develop in Ada, but I haven't, so I had to spend two years converting old C code in modern, readable and much safer C++ code. The application is somewhat slower now, but much more stable and with half the amount of source code.
I don't use it to defend C++, I use it to disprove your quaint notion that C is supposed to be clean and not an ugly hack of a language that should have died out twenty years ago. C++ is the lipstick that is used to make C look less like a pig - surprisingly with some success, especially since C++11.
I am German and the lowest amount of paid vacation days I ever had was 28 (working for a Finnish company). In all other cases I got 30 paid vacation days. Official holidays that are on the weekend are considered tough luck in Germany, though.
Sweden: 13.2 France: 15.8 United Kingdom: 7.0 Spain: 7.0 South Korea: 36.8 Canada: 11.4 United States: 13.7 Mexico: 4.1
Oh, and suicide rates strongly correlate to the latitude (because of the amount of sunlight in winter). United States shares most of its the latitude with Southern Europe, but its suicide rate is higher:
Malta is basically as far south as Southern Europe goes and it is on about the same latitude as Los Alamos, New Mexico, so USA goes even further south. Seriously, suicide rates in USA suck in comparison to what they ought to be.
Matter of fact, yes. And this only drives my point home harder. I had to port a few of these for a proprietary embedded system. Ultimately it was easier to rewrite them in clean C++ and maintain the result than to maintain the original mess of code (and I am not really a C++ fan). There is no good reason to use primitive tools if advanced tools can do the job in a safer and more comfortable way. Only use primitive tools when advanced tools are unfit for the task on hand.
And yet there is no good reason to use C for anything outside certain special fields like drivers or operating system kernels, and even in these fields usage of C becomes more and more questionable.
A second stage is not required with a space tug. It could be kept in orbit for years, retrieve stuff that was brought to a low orbit by the first stage (+ boosters for heavy payloads) and the only the fuel tanks would be expendable. Besides, Musk has given up on reusable second stage for now.
Not even close. There are several engines with higher thrust to weight ratio while having significantly more thrust, like F-1 or RD-170. The latter is the most powerful liquid fuelled engine ever built and actually also reusable, even though it never happened. SSME was more efficient (higher specific impulse) thanks to hydrogen fuel.
You seriously exaggerate the danger. It weren't 1930ies anymore when Tereshkova went to space. Even those who seriously pissed off the Soviet government kept their lives, otherwise people like Solzhenitsyn wouldn't have survived.
Finns are quite okay with nuclear power, yet the new Olkiluoto block they are currently building suffers from huge cost overruns and shitty construction quality. Klaus Traube, probably the most prominent nuclear power opponent in Germany, used to be a lead nuclear engineer at General Electrics, AEG and KWU and developed a fast sodium cooled breeder reactor. He opposed nuclear power because of his experience and stated that it never can be economically practical.
So just because you use Chrome, everyone does? I don't, for my use cases Chrome sucks donkey balls, so I use Firefox (and Edge in edge cases).
I don't use Microsoft Paint (paint.net or photoshop works fine), and I don't create 3D models.
Good for you. Some people surely do. You are most certainly not a shining paragon of computer usage.
There have been apps to do this for as long as I can remember.
So? Is any given software allowed to exist only once in that little universe of yours? Is the purpose of an application used a primary key in the data base in your head?
I don't tend to lock my computer at home, and the large delay (30 seconds after the bluetooth signal drops) before it locks after you walk around the computer makes it useless for any environment that actually requirse real security.
You forget all the environments where real security is not a must, but locking the computer when away for lunch/making tea/going for a piss still makes sense and avoids pranks by coworkers.
Windows has had native support for surround sound (without any custom software) since, what, Vista?
Depends. Maybe this update brings a real time Dolby Surround encoder or something like that.
Nobody uses Bing Maps. People use Google Maps, or Transit, or even Apple Maps. But not Bing Maps.
Speak for yourself, kiddo. I use Bing Maps because it is 10 times faster than Google Maps.
I'm sure that all three people who mortgaged their houses to buy the HoloLens will be thrilled. For most people, headset (I presume you meant headset) based mixed reality is far enough away that Windows 10 won't be relevant by the time it's a thing.
Windows XP is still widely used, even though it was released over 15 years ago. Windows 7 is the most used version of Windows and is over 7 years old. Mixed reality can become a thing in a few years, and this way Microsoft avoids the chicken and egg problem.
Airports have exactly defined approach charts for every runway that might be so detailed that the pilot has to time every segment and every turn of the approach to the second. That would be really difficult with a circular runway and would add serious workload to what is already the most difficult part of the flight.
A circular runway might work for either GPS assisted fully automatic landing, or general aviation.
Obviously. On the other hand, if the customer is nice to the girl, the girl might actually enjoy the encounter as well. Other girls actually do enjoy the sex and can get angry if the client is not performing (too tired from a long flight for example), even though they have been paid anyway, or they might enjoy the conversation afterwards (and this is by the way the reason why even if one doesn't need to speak the same language to have sex, it really is helpful). This is not hearsay, but actual personal experience. People can be surprisingly strange and diverse.
Real prostitution is not always about making money for the next meal or to save a loved one. More often than not - at least in countries, where prostitution is legal - it is simply easy money.
And yet these socialist societies were much more successful than many Christian nations. Matter of fact, Soviet Russia was far more prosperous than the Tsarist Russia, proving you wrong. in 1917 Russia was a century behind the most developed countries of the world and the majority of its population was illiterate - just like the Orthodox Christian patriarchs liked it. The godless communists went through that missing century in 30 years and the literacy climbed to over 99%. Nowadays Russia becomes more and more Christian again and fails more and more economically. Cuba is in every way better than Haiti.
Here is more food for thoughts: the poorest country in the world is Christian. Out of 10 poorest countries in the world, 6 are predominantly Christian and two more are 50% Christian. A lot of that poverty is directly caused by religion, because, like I already mentioned, illiterate population makes devout Christians - they listen to everything the church says, no matter how much the church distorts the reality.
Seriously, disavowing the church was one of the few things communists did right. Religion is a serious hindrance for progress.
You are a religious nut. For every successful christian country I can name you several failed ones. Basically the only religion that has a 100% corellation to success is shintoism, and that only because of a sample size of 1.
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To be fair, UK welcomed Chechen islamists with open arms back in the 1990ies and also allowed them fund raising and still refuses to extradite them on terrorism charges. Brits really are no better in this matter.
"People, eat more shit. Billions of flies can't be wrong". Seriously, though, that was only done so people can feel a semblance of familiarity with the syntax. I personally can't stand C syntax, it is very awkward to type on any keyboard that differs from ANSI. All this letter salad is seriously uncomfortable on my German keyboards and even worse on keyboards meant for other languages.
Yeah right, it's not a bug, it is a feature. That is a seriously weak excuse.
C# has this specification: "A program that does not contain any occurrences of the unsafe modifier cannot exhibit any undefined behavior."
Java also quite similar in this area (completely defined inside a single thread, multithreading may be non-deterministic).
I develop for embedded systems that are in the field and aren't easily accessible if something goes wrong. Thanks to all those shitty quirks of C I have to program in an overly defensive way.
If I had a say in it, I'd rather develop in Ada, but I haven't, so I had to spend two years converting old C code in modern, readable and much safer C++ code. The application is somewhat slower now, but much more stable and with half the amount of source code.
And so does Russia, resulting in millions of illegal immigrants there. Must be an awesome place to live according to your logic.
Both are countries I won't visit again.
I don't use it to defend C++, I use it to disprove your quaint notion that C is supposed to be clean and not an ugly hack of a language that should have died out twenty years ago. C++ is the lipstick that is used to make C look less like a pig - surprisingly with some success, especially since C++11.
a design that allows undefined behavior is as dirty as they come.
It is just considered vanity, that's all.
I am German and the lowest amount of paid vacation days I ever had was 28 (working for a Finnish company). In all other cases I got 30 paid vacation days. Official holidays that are on the weekend are considered tough luck in Germany, though.
25 paid vacation days is actually the low end.
You are a liar. USA has twice the amount of suicides.
http://apps.who.int/gho/data/n...
Sweden: 13.2
France: 15.8
United Kingdom: 7.0
Spain: 7.0
South Korea: 36.8
Canada: 11.4
United States: 13.7
Mexico: 4.1
Oh, and suicide rates strongly correlate to the latitude (because of the amount of sunlight in winter). United States shares most of its the latitude with Southern Europe, but its suicide rate is higher:
Spain: 7.0
Italy: 6.4
Portugal: 12.5
Greece: 4.9
Malta: 6.8
Malta is basically as far south as Southern Europe goes and it is on about the same latitude as Los Alamos, New Mexico, so USA goes even further south. Seriously, suicide rates in USA suck in comparison to what they ought to be.
Matter of fact, yes. And this only drives my point home harder. I had to port a few of these for a proprietary embedded system. Ultimately it was easier to rewrite them in clean C++ and maintain the result than to maintain the original mess of code (and I am not really a C++ fan). There is no good reason to use primitive tools if advanced tools can do the job in a safer and more comfortable way. Only use primitive tools when advanced tools are unfit for the task on hand.
And yet there is no good reason to use C for anything outside certain special fields like drivers or operating system kernels, and even in these fields usage of C becomes more and more questionable.
A second stage is not required with a space tug. It could be kept in orbit for years, retrieve stuff that was brought to a low orbit by the first stage (+ boosters for heavy payloads) and the only the fuel tanks would be expendable. Besides, Musk has given up on reusable second stage for now.
I am surprised that SpaceX is not planning to develop a space tug instead of throwing away the second stage after every flight.
Not even close. There are several engines with higher thrust to weight ratio while having significantly more thrust, like F-1 or RD-170. The latter is the most powerful liquid fuelled engine ever built and actually also reusable, even though it never happened. SSME was more efficient (higher specific impulse) thanks to hydrogen fuel.
You seriously exaggerate the danger. It weren't 1930ies anymore when Tereshkova went to space. Even those who seriously pissed off the Soviet government kept their lives, otherwise people like Solzhenitsyn wouldn't have survived.
They probably think that this passage is talking about basic algebra.
You are a conspiracy nut.
Finns are quite okay with nuclear power, yet the new Olkiluoto block they are currently building suffers from huge cost overruns and shitty construction quality.
Klaus Traube, probably the most prominent nuclear power opponent in Germany, used to be a lead nuclear engineer at General Electrics, AEG and KWU and developed a fast sodium cooled breeder reactor. He opposed nuclear power because of his experience and stated that it never can be economically practical.
You do realise that natural gas pipelines basically use jet engines to pump that gas?
So just because you use Chrome, everyone does? I don't, for my use cases Chrome sucks donkey balls, so I use Firefox (and Edge in edge cases).
Good for you. Some people surely do. You are most certainly not a shining paragon of computer usage.
So? Is any given software allowed to exist only once in that little universe of yours? Is the purpose of an application used a primary key in the data base in your head?
You forget all the environments where real security is not a must, but locking the computer when away for lunch/making tea/going for a piss still makes sense and avoids pranks by coworkers.
Depends. Maybe this update brings a real time Dolby Surround encoder or something like that.
Speak for yourself, kiddo. I use Bing Maps because it is 10 times faster than Google Maps.
Windows XP is still widely used, even though it was released over 15 years ago. Windows 7 is the most used version of Windows and is over 7 years old. Mixed reality can become a thing in a few years, and this way Microsoft avoids the chicken and egg problem.
Dude, grow up, seriously.
Airports have exactly defined approach charts for every runway that might be so detailed that the pilot has to time every segment and every turn of the approach to the second. That would be really difficult with a circular runway and would add serious workload to what is already the most difficult part of the flight.
A circular runway might work for either GPS assisted fully automatic landing, or general aviation.
Obviously. On the other hand, if the customer is nice to the girl, the girl might actually enjoy the encounter as well. Other girls actually do enjoy the sex and can get angry if the client is not performing (too tired from a long flight for example), even though they have been paid anyway, or they might enjoy the conversation afterwards (and this is by the way the reason why even if one doesn't need to speak the same language to have sex, it really is helpful).
This is not hearsay, but actual personal experience. People can be surprisingly strange and diverse.
Real prostitution is not always about making money for the next meal or to save a loved one. More often than not - at least in countries, where prostitution is legal - it is simply easy money.
And yet these socialist societies were much more successful than many Christian nations. Matter of fact, Soviet Russia was far more prosperous than the Tsarist Russia, proving you wrong. in 1917 Russia was a century behind the most developed countries of the world and the majority of its population was illiterate - just like the Orthodox Christian patriarchs liked it. The godless communists went through that missing century in 30 years and the literacy climbed to over 99%. Nowadays Russia becomes more and more Christian again and fails more and more economically. Cuba is in every way better than Haiti. Here is more food for thoughts: the poorest country in the world is Christian. Out of 10 poorest countries in the world, 6 are predominantly Christian and two more are 50% Christian. A lot of that poverty is directly caused by religion, because, like I already mentioned, illiterate population makes devout Christians - they listen to everything the church says, no matter how much the church distorts the reality. Seriously, disavowing the church was one of the few things communists did right. Religion is a serious hindrance for progress.
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You are a religious nut. For every successful christian country I can name you several failed ones.
Basically the only religion that has a 100% corellation to success is shintoism, and that only because of a sample size of 1.