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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clean-living-in-china dept.

EmilEifrem writes: "Why hasn't everyone submitted this story one million times? Anyway, the Free Software Magazine (FSM), issue 01 is out there. There's a column by RMS, an article about making a living with free software, a C advocacy article and even an "enterprise" section, amongst other things. Seems like a promising first issue. s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g."

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  1. An Offtopic question... by Nawak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that cannot metamoderate?
    The option doesn't appear on the top of the page anymore...
    It's like that since 2-3 days...

    An idea?

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    A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
    1. Re:An Offtopic question... by Nawak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Fark!

      Yes I did! I found this post really interesting!

      Hey! That's my first whiplash!

      Thanks Taco! Now I will get into the line, I promise! I shall not encourage dissidents anylonger, message's clear!
      If I report all the dissidents to slashdot, can I have my slahsdot-citizen's rights back??

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      A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
    2. Re:An Offtopic question... by mESSDan · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Maybe it's because all of your posts are by default at -1 ? That happens when you have negative karma, and I would imagine that negative karma affects metamoderation too.

      If you don't have negative karma, who knows.

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      -- Dan
    3. Re:An Offtopic question... by yerricde · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Am I the only one that cannot metamoderate?

      Have you unchecked 'Willing to Moderate'? It also seems to affect M2.

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      Will I retire or break 10K?
  2. Re:C Advocacy by mckinlay · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    C is widely used because it allows the programmer to do exactly what he or she wants with (except in a few cases) the ability to be able to predict how the resultant binary will 'look'.

    For example, the in-memory layout of a 'struct' is exactly how the programmer decided it should be - with the exception of padding, which has a well-defined behaviour anyway.

    Similarly, the same applies to calling conventions, and to a certain extent, the raw machine code that gets generated.

    C++, on the other hand, I hate, becuase it doesn't give you this fine-grained control (for example, the in-memory layout of a class containing virtual methods is largely implementation-defined, I believe).

    The majority of the 'other' languages (with the exception of those such as Pascal, FORTRAN and COBOL) generally execute within a VM, which as well as letting you do lots of neat stuff (most of which you can do in C with a little bit of effort and a decent dynamic linker API), it also adds a layer of abstraction which means it's difficult to see how corresponds to assembler output. You're constrained by the VM, meaning that if you want to optimise for a particular CPU or architecture, you need to rebuild the compiler/interpreter/whatever and optimise the VM itself.

    My two cents.

  3. Re:Nice try but falls short by ainsoph · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I looked you up in the dictionary and found a reference to asshole. Interesting huh?

    fuckin facinating world we live in eh?