Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 511
Doesn't mean we have to choose C for new development.
Yet its still done, often, for reasons that are obvious if you've got a clue and the right requirements.
Doesn't mean we have to choose C for new development.
Yet its still done, often, for reasons that are obvious if you've got a clue and the right requirements.
ActiveX has no sandbox and no security issues. No more than a DLL does.
ActiveX is nothing more than a method for a DLL to self describe its functionality to an application that loads it.
Your statement shows you have no idea what ActiveX is or what problems existed RELATED TO (not caused by) ActiveX.
The 'security' issues you are referring to are the result of programmers blindly downloading and loading any ActiveX on the Internet. This is no different than blindly downloading and executing EXEs and its not a flaw with EXEs or ActiveX, its a flaw with the application that is downloading and loading/executing them.
At no point was there a 'sandbox' for ActiveX. Its not part of the design and never was. It was expected that they would be used intelligently, but no one on the IE team was intelligent.
Internet Explorer was broken, not ActiveX.
Please learn WTF you are talking about before continuing to spew this ignorance. Its been 18 years since this ignorance started, you'd think by now you guys would have a clue.
No, they don't. They stopped a while back because no one cared. They tried making some instructions for generic JVM like environments after that, but those too have been deprecated.
ARMv6 added support, but ARMv8 removes support for any JIT VM instructions with the removal of ThumbEE.
That was 3 years ago.
The 'CS population is a "women aren't fucking interested" issue' Stop trying to make it out to be more than it is. Stop trying to make it 'equal'.
People are different.
Genders are different, if you don't realize that, you need to take sex ed over again.
Races are different, if you don't realize that, take a look at distribution of races in sports (All of them from chess to basketball).
Certain groups of people have certain attributes in GENERAL that make them prefer, not prefer, or have some general level of skill above or below the 'average'.
NOTHING YOU DO IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT SHORT OF GENETIC ENGINEERING.
Stop trying to turn it into a fucking social issue, its a god damn evolution issue. WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.
That doesn't mean any particular person of a race or gender CAN'T do something or MUST do something, it just means they are predisposed one way or the other and most people of that particular group will behave in a similar way.
Most women don't want to spend all day dicking with computers. FULL STOP.
To be blunt, the USA views STEM as low class.
... Really? Since when? What fucked up part of the world do you live in that believes such a silly statement? Who are the 'upper class' then? Blue collar workers perhaps?
It could make buying easier.
Its more likely that you'll just end up not being exposed to new items that may be useful to you.
Profiled advertising seems like a great idea, except (as it stands currently) you end up advertising to people who are already buying your products, and hence, theres not really any point in them getting your advertisements.
So how about you get off your ass and change the laws governing how ridiculous your taxes are?
No, you don't ACTUALLY want that do you? My guess is that you're happy to take all the benefits those taxes provide, but somehow think its okay to not actually participate in paying them.
Do you abstain from using public roads? Public transit? Public policing? How about water and power which are subsidized by taxes? Do you enjoy the protection of California's tough environmental laws or do you not?
You're just a freeloader to stupid to realize that you're happy to cut off your own nose to spite your face.
3. No-one else has done what SpaceX are doing with a real, operational rocket before. This actually is rocket science (or, at least, rocket engineering).
Except for NASA, 40-50 years ago. Reusable rockets certainly aren't new. This method isn't new. Electronics have made it far easier and more reliable, but they haven't invented shit.
SpaceX isn't doing ANYTHING new at this point, they are riding on the coat tails of work done by agencies like NASA, JAXA, Russia and the EU's space programs.
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Do you think this wasn't mandated as part of them getting approval to launch in the first place? If so you're pretty naive.
They do have oversight you know, they don't just get to do whatever they want.
No, it isn't.
Total cost for health care is far higher than before and the end result is pretty much exactly the same as before. The basic coverage you end up with on the low end is so shitty that its effectively useless for the poor people who need it, and to top it off, now the people who pay for it all, pay far more.
If you want socialized health care, fucking socialize it and take private business out of the equation entirely, it will never work as long as there greedy businesses mixed in with it.
Yes, for display on your wall or whatever its called. The archive the originals in their original form so they can be reprocessed later if they want/need to.
Seldom used data sitting in spinning power draining disks has a continuous power cost.
Why is it that you can turn off blue ray drives, but not hard drives?
Last I checked, my hard drives were simple to power on and off on the fly.
Facebook has an astounding pile of data in picture archives that after a couple months are
only called on once in a while if ever again.
And thats not what these are being used for because the page would time out before it pulled any of those pictures off the disc for display. This is for archiving what you do on the Internet once the data has been materialized by their algorithms. It can be restored and reprocessed if they want/need to.
One problem with BlueRay, DVD and CDROM media is the lack of data as storage beyond
five years or so
Not sure where you live, but writable blu ray was available in 2002 initially. DVD in 1997, CD in 1988. We're a little past 5 years. Thats 12 for BD, 17 for DVD, and 26 for CD. There is a wealth of data on storage life on all of them if you know where to look.
Wasted depends on if it is or isn't reality.
If global warming is an issue, we've not really 'wasted' anything.
If it is an issue, you could point to many things, carbon credits be the first thing that comes to mind since it seems to be coming up often lately. Though I would argue that curbing CO2 output is good for our lungs regardless of the global warming situation.
All the time spent investigating it, all the scientists spending time working on it, politics related to it, this discussion is an example of possible waste due to global warming
You don't get to question Einstein just because.
Actually, you do. Thats what makes it science.
In science, to do the methodology properly, you are NEVER EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES supposed to 'believe' you 'know' ANYTHING. Ever.
You seem to think that certain things are supposed to be believed regardless of conflicting evidence and only with substantial proof against what you WANT to believe, then its questionable. Thats exactly the opposite of proper science.
Science is completely centered around questioning the theories and accepted ideas, constantly.
I would be very interested to see the analytics supporting the notion that people were clicking enough ads
Its trivial to track for a webmaster, Google Adwords + Analytics do 99.9% of the work out of the box with a couple mouse clicks, and it most certainly does work well for the marketing using the ads if done properly.
You can waste money on ads, but figuring out if they are working, how well they are working and how much money you are making as a result of ad clickthroughs has been a solved problem for several years.
I should also point out how he blindly clicked on a link in an email that should have set off red flags the instant he saw it.
Any program which runs right is obsolete.
