Comment Re:Does it make Minecraft run faster? (Score 1) 302
Not primitive types, not it doesn't. Objects, yes. Hence the need to create objects when all you want it to pass an int as a reference.
Not primitive types, not it doesn't. Objects, yes. Hence the need to create objects when all you want it to pass an int as a reference.
And now you're the one trolling
Threading has always been there in Java, from version 1.0. 32 and 64 bits have nothing to do with it.
Wow... You really think of yourselves as invincible?
Of which they can print any amount they want to.
At a huge cost for Americans. Printing money == instant inflation.
You're = Your
Oh no, oh nooooooooo, don't tell that to anyone!
So the price wouldn't be a limitation of the Ferrari? Well, it's up to you to ignore what most would consider the first limitation of the object... but still...
If WebP was available in all browsers like GIF, PNG and JPG, I would've had a deeper look into it. It's not. I couldn't care less about this file format. What use could I possibly find for it? What purpose does it serve for anyone? If you need lossy, go JPG. If you need lossless, go PNG. WebP doesn't fit any scenario...
JPEG is the MP3 of images. Goo enough and so ubiquitous that nobody even tries to compete anymore.
What features do you see WebP lacking
Ability to be displayed on most browsers?
In what way is Metro responsive to different environments? It's the exact same thing whether you have a 5 inch screen or a 4k 30 inch display. Touch? Pointing device? Pfff, all the same for Metro.
That's not being responsive, that's zooming to fit the screen, and it sucks. And users hate it. Big surprise.
If you think you can cram the same UI for a 5 inch touch-screen and a 25 inch desktop computer, I'm afraid it just means you haven't much of a clue about UI in general.
Linux Torvalds? Really? On Slashdot? In 2014?
Come on...
ChromeOS is their OS on a hardware thay approved beforehand. Nothing to do with a random Linux machine out there.
If you really are a fan of the Hobbit (the book) I strongly urge you *not* to see the 2nd movie, and if you did, you're most certainly not going to see the third - but that time it'll not be on my advice, you'll get to that conclusion all by yourself.
What a nightmare this movie was...
'Cause, uh, it's a sports car designed for racing?
But it's being sold through normal retail channels as a street-legal road car. As such, drivers have a right to expect that it will meet the basic safety standards that you'd see in other cars.
What happened to using your brains in order to think about what you're buying?
So you ask me to name one, and yet you've already come up with 3. So you're asking me for a forth. To what point when you've already come up with 3. You've already accespted that the category of things that are best done by government exists. You're just wanting to quibble about which items belong in the set.
Indeed, there are things that I think are best done by the government. They probably represent less than 10% of the actual government spending hence the ire at the 90% of the budget which could be drastically reduced.
And "just fine" isn't good enough. "As good or better than the government" is the bar.
Roads is an obvious one. Sure, there is the odd private road in most countries, but that's cherry picking the profitable routes. Private enterprise never provides a comprehensive road system like a government.
2/3rd of the roads in sweden are private. That's not what I call the "odd private road" by any measure. That's mostly small rural roads, not the most profitable kind where you can put a toll. And it works fine. I really don't see the need for the government here.
Welfare is another.
In many countries, public healthcare is only providing the absolute minimum, and things work fine. Sure, you can carpet-bomb the field and make everything public, but that leads to a waste of resource, and most countries cannot afford it - they get indebted more and more and while every country is in this situation everybody agrees that it is not sustainable.
Schools is another. Again, a few private schools doesn't cut it - that's cherry picking the offspring of the richest few. Private enterprise doesn't ever provide a comprehensive education system.
There are many more.
in the Netherlands, 2/3rd of schools are run independently. Granted, they are mostly government funded, but the money comes from somewhere anyways. Most revenue from the government coming from VAT, everyone pays for it, including the poor. The point is that the government doesn't need to handle the education, subsiding it (partially) is more than enough.
The global point is that in general, a field taken over by the government removes incentive by removing competition, and ends up costing much more for everyone. In general, except for the fields I cited, public money well spent is public money that A) the government has and B) that will significantly improve the field it is spent into. More often than not, none of these conditions are met, so the government shouldn't do them.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
