What?
Different elements are exothermic in different directions.
Nobody* says you get energy by fissioning helium back into hydrogen.
Even I know that, and I don't even really know what exothermic means.
Thats not open source. They have the code so they can verify its behaviour. They can't pass it on to normal users or put it on the internet.
It's not free, but it is 'open'. The source is open to them. It is not open to you, or to me. This is part of the reason that RMS doesn't like the term 'open source' - it says nothing about freedom, only "can read the source".
I think you're right, there is some of that, but even in situations where the American company stands to lose big, there's a tendency to eat the cost and placate, rather than get militant about lead in the paint or nails used as fasteners.
Nails used as fasteners? I must be misunderstanding you, that seems quite reasonable to me. What else could you use nails for?
Uhhh... no? I think what you meant to say is that 100% of Microsoft's OS customers paid for Windows. Many (if not most) Windows users are not Microsoft customers.
*whoosh*
Using Windows is how they pay. Y'know, in the bad way. The "You'll pay for this!" way.
(Which apparently they aren't, because according to the summary, the only one known to be worried is one of the actors.)
The quote from the actor says this is a "fear among the producers." I think this directly contradicts the summary's assertion that it's the actor who is "wary" about it.
Not even the summary writer read the article this time.
Well, if the version numbering converged to something interesting like pi (or e, or the golden ratio) I could see people wanting it.
Then again, that kind of system wouldn't be rational.
I seem to recall when modems with lights were still in use, that a video tape of the flashing lights on the modem could be slowed down enough to read the stream of bits. Granted 3mb/s is a great deal faster than 56kb/s, but video technology is faster now, too.
I would presume there is encryption on both ends, but I see a small IR led "bug" left on top of a computer, cube wall, file cabinet, etc. serving as a middle man pickup of the stream while it is decoded on the other end.
I suspect you remember wrongly.
Analog modems use encoding schemes such as Quadrature amplitude modulation to send multiple bits per signal. So unless the modem manufacturer deliberately flashed the 'transmit' LED on/off (say) four times per transmitted signal, you couldn't get all four bits.
Although now I think about it more, you don't even have to go that far - there's no reason for the LEDs to display which bits are being transmitted, they're only there to show that some bits are being transmitted. Sending a stream of zeroes will still turn on the LED.
... for which being deterministic is not a critical factor.
I trust that you are referring to deterministic timing in a real-time system, rather than deterministic results in general? In my experience, business applications usually benefit from producing the same results repeatably.;)
Indeed, C++ is just as easy as C to use for low-level programming, as not only do you have the option of inline assembly which mixes easily with the rest of your code, but you even rarely need to resort to it as in the major compilers (MSVC, gcc, Intel C++) there is a plethora of compiler intrinsics which almost directly map to assembly instructions while providing a type-safe interface. It's quite easy to write synchronization primitives, for example, using interlocked operation intrinsics--while the same have a nice object-oriented interface.
Just because C++ is large and has a multitude of features in no way implies that you need to try to use all of these features. You might as well complain that the library has too many books! It's ultimately a matter of programmer discipline; stop shifting the blame.
The GP didn't mean to shift the blame. They were trying to write it to an ostream.
Wait, what?
You're scaling the 322 people by four, to make it comparable to the 1272 people.
Then you're using that scaling factor (4) to multiply the 12 people (out of 322) up to 48 people (out of 1288).
Then you're comparing the 48 people (out of 1288) with the 2 from "2% of 1272 people".
I don't know much about statistics, but I know that "people" and "percent" are different units.
You're missing his point.
A double stores more precision, sure, but that does not mean that it can store a recurring-binary-digit fraction.
It's the same as how you cannot accurately represent the fraction 1/3 in any finite number of decimal digits after the decimal point.
So it's not like a million people are going to complain when their random applications lock up.
Or rather, it's not like a million people are going to complain now that their random application stops locking up because they were relying on this bug.
Google requires no feats of strength. If it's important to you to disprove him, it's not too hard, is it?
It's a bit hard to disprove the existence of something. How do you know you just haven't found it yet?
Proving the existence of the list, on the other hand, would be as simple as posting the link.
Ahh, so this was a joke?
For those who know nothing of US football like me:
NFC = National Football Conference and AFC = American Football Conference
For some reason the American NFL (National Football League) is composed of these two Conferences.
But that did resolve.
I'm confused... are we talking about DNS lookups or ping?
Anyway, three.com.au doesn't respond to ICMP Echo Requests, no matter which ISP you're connected to. Many sites don't.*
If you want to test connectivity to a website, telnet to port 80.
* iinet.net.au, westnet.com.au, internode.on.net, bigpond.com.au - all allow pings.
three.com.au, vodaphone.com.au, virginmobile.com.au, telstra.com.au - all block pings.
The point being that you can hit 100% real, even though there are multiple different faces that fit that criteria. So, not a fixed point - more of a fixed line.
There's no actual boundary on the 'unreal' end - just as far as they happened to take this particular experiment.
Slashdot Mirror
What?
Different elements are exothermic in different directions.
Nobody* says you get energy by fissioning helium back into hydrogen.
Even I know that, and I don't even really know what exothermic means.
* Nobody sane, that is.
Thats not open source. They have the code so they can verify its behaviour. They can't pass it on to normal users or put it on the internet.
It's not free, but it is 'open'. The source is open to them. It is not open to you, or to me. This is part of the reason that RMS doesn't like the term 'open source' - it says nothing about freedom, only "can read the source".
I think you're right, there is some of that, but even in situations where the American company stands to lose big, there's a tendency to eat the cost and placate, rather than get militant about lead in the paint or nails used as fasteners.
Nails used as fasteners? I must be misunderstanding you, that seems quite reasonable to me. What else could you use nails for?
Uhhh... no? I think what you meant to say is that 100% of Microsoft's OS customers paid for Windows. Many (if not most) Windows users are not Microsoft customers.
*whoosh*
Using Windows is how they pay. Y'know, in the bad way. The "You'll pay for this!" way.
Which is actually pretty much the same as the US:
President of the United States
Commander and Chief
and somewhat unofficially also the defacto political party leader.
I suspect you meant Commander-in-Chief?
(Which apparently they aren't, because according to the summary, the only one known to be worried is one of the actors.)
The quote from the actor says this is a "fear among the producers." I think this directly contradicts the summary's assertion that it's the actor who is "wary" about it.
Not even the summary writer read the article this time.
Well, if the version numbering converged to something interesting like pi (or e, or the golden ratio) I could see people wanting it. Then again, that kind of system wouldn't be rational.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
*claps*
freedom is trouble because you have to get your fat ass off the couch to claim it.
Freedom is trouble because you and enough other people to make a difference have to get your (our!) fat arses off the couch.
(That's right, I said "arses". I'm Australian, and I don't have an ass or any other equine.)
Genius pairing the references. Though I'm not sure how familiar the average slashdotter is with literature;)
Geez, give us some credit.
The only reason I'm even looking at the comments on this story is to check out the "Hell is other people" adaptations!
Don't know about you people, but I'm going to have to start lining my hats with aluminum foil again. The voices... the voices....
Now you don't need to worry about the foil - you can just wear a normal hat!
I seem to recall when modems with lights were still in use, that a video tape of the flashing lights on the modem could be slowed down enough to read the stream of bits. Granted 3mb/s is a great deal faster than 56kb/s, but video technology is faster now, too.
I would presume there is encryption on both ends, but I see a small IR led "bug" left on top of a computer, cube wall, file cabinet, etc. serving as a middle man pickup of the stream while it is decoded on the other end.
I suspect you remember wrongly.
Analog modems use encoding schemes such as Quadrature amplitude modulation to send multiple bits per signal. So unless the modem manufacturer deliberately flashed the 'transmit' LED on/off (say) four times per transmitted signal, you couldn't get all four bits.
Although now I think about it more, you don't even have to go that far - there's no reason for the LEDs to display which bits are being transmitted, they're only there to show that some bits are being transmitted. Sending a stream of zeroes will still turn on the LED.
... for which being deterministic is not a critical factor.
I trust that you are referring to deterministic timing in a real-time system, rather than deterministic results in general? In my experience, business applications usually benefit from producing the same results repeatably. ;)
Indeed, C++ is just as easy as C to use for low-level programming, as not only do you have the option of inline assembly which mixes easily with the rest of your code, but you even rarely need to resort to it as in the major compilers (MSVC, gcc, Intel C++) there is a plethora of compiler intrinsics which almost directly map to assembly instructions while providing a type-safe interface. It's quite easy to write synchronization primitives, for example, using interlocked operation intrinsics--while the same have a nice object-oriented interface. Just because C++ is large and has a multitude of features in no way implies that you need to try to use all of these features. You might as well complain that the library has too many books! It's ultimately a matter of programmer discipline; stop shifting the blame.
The GP didn't mean to shift the blame. They were trying to write it to an ostream.
Maybe not...
warning C4189: 'i' : local variable is initialized but not referenced
Wait, what?
You're scaling the 322 people by four, to make it comparable to the 1272 people.
Then you're using that scaling factor (4) to multiply the 12 people (out of 322) up to 48 people (out of 1288).
Then you're comparing the 48 people (out of 1288) with the 2 from "2% of 1272 people".
I don't know much about statistics, but I know that "people" and "percent" are different units.
You're missing his point.
A double stores more precision, sure, but that does not mean that it can store a recurring-binary-digit fraction.
It's the same as how you cannot accurately represent the fraction 1/3 in any finite number of decimal digits after the decimal point.
So it's not like a million people are going to complain when their random applications lock up.
Or rather, it's not like a million people are going to complain now that their random application stops locking up because they were relying on this bug.
Google requires no feats of strength. If it's important to you to disprove him, it's not too hard, is it?
It's a bit hard to disprove the existence of something. How do you know you just haven't found it yet?
Proving the existence of the list, on the other hand, would be as simple as posting the link.
Ahh, so this was a joke?
For those who know nothing of US football like me:
NFC = National Football Conference and AFC = American Football Conference
For some reason the American NFL (National Football League) is composed of these two Conferences.
ping three.com.au
PING three.com.au (203.37.69.133) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- three.com.au ping statistics ---
25 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2015ms
But that did resolve.
I'm confused... are we talking about DNS lookups or ping?
Anyway, three.com.au doesn't respond to ICMP Echo Requests, no matter which ISP you're connected to. Many sites don't.*
If you want to test connectivity to a website, telnet to port 80.
* iinet.net.au, westnet.com.au, internode.on.net, bigpond.com.au - all allow pings.
three.com.au, vodaphone.com.au, virginmobile.com.au, telstra.com.au - all block pings.
> "Users can then initiate a number of gestures, much like on Microsoft Kinect, to manipulate onscreen content."
What if I want to manipulate offscreen content instead?
Actually never mind, I couldn't do that with a touchscreen either.
After this move, there should be less smug in France (at least in the immediate area around Paris).
That's gotta be good, right?
I think you'll find that bat guano from albino bats is no more white than that of the usual black variety.
But it's more exclusive!
I only accept the finest albino bat guano hand cream.
It's good in coffee, too. It goes perfectly with civet cat scat coffee.
Hear, hear!
The point being that you can hit 100% real, even though there are multiple different faces that fit that criteria. So, not a fixed point - more of a fixed line.
There's no actual boundary on the 'unreal' end - just as far as they happened to take this particular experiment.