Although, the Linux-c6x release notes page says "this release uses the gcc tool chain (4.5-124) from Code Sourcery."
The Code Sourcery link says "Mentor Graphics makes extensive enhancements to the base versions, adding support for more CPUs, improving code-generation, and addressing defects found through its validation process."
Maybe their patches got rolled into mainline in version 4.7?
I think the intended punctuation was "Power's Hell".
It's a reference to a book about the US response to genocide in the 20th century by Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell", not that weird Microsoft thing you linked.
$13.75/mo/user, is chump change for a business to provide to their employees, sure.
It is not chump change if that's what you pay per person to offer a service for free to everyone on the Internet.
Except to the people who want to that support on their shiny new Android tablet.
Are such people rare? Sure. But who are you to tell them they can't have what they want?
Especially when they're the ones putting in the work to make it happen, and you're just whining on the Internet.
In my head, it has no feet - just legs going straight down to the ground, like hooves. If you picture that bottom joint as a knee instead of an ankle, then it looks a lot like a running animal.
It's just like the Necker cube, or the old woman / young woman illusion - you can flip the way you see it from being a clown-footed weird thing running backwards to being a footless catlike animal running forwards.
We need to find out why matter is called matter and antimatter is called antimatter and not the other way around.
Oh that's easy - it's because protons have a positive charge so they're 'normal' matter, but anti-protons have a negative charge, so they're 'anti' matter.
Fine - CD or DVD images, then.
Just because I'm not downloading at 10MB/s 24/7 does not mean that I am unable to appreciate it finishing more quickly when I am downloading.
Oh, and did you read what you just wrote?
"download speed becomes irrelevant once its faster than the playback speed." -> "... a 600kbit connection..."
What if I want to watch a video with a higher bitrate than 600k? Is that unreasonable, just because I won't be streaming video constantly all month?
Last I checked the spell checker didn't send the data off to Microsoft when it checked my spelling. If it ever did they would lose all their corporate customers because the use of it would violate privacy laws in many countries.
1. The cable is permanently stretched by a counterweight at the 96000 km altitude. If you sever the cable 1 km from the surface, the bottom 1 km falls to the ground, the top 95999 km fly away and settle in an orbit around the Earth.
Would it? I'm not so great with orbital mechanics, but my understanding is that the Earth end is basically dangling in place - so cutting the bottom 1km off would drop that bottom 1km on the ground as you say, but then the top 95999km would just stay dangling in place (excepting wind effects).
Would the mass change from losing 0.x% off the bottom really be enough to let the counter-weight pull the whole thing away from the planet?
I don't know the details of the implementation, but I'm pretty sure that any DRM could be included as part of the game, rather than the client (which, in case you're not familiar with it, is basically just a GUI shell for purchasing, downloading and launching games).
Open-sourcing the Desura client itself would not necessarily impact any libraries that are linked into the games, even if those libraries were also provided by Desura.
Actually, even if they open-sourced the DRM library itself, the games you download will still be compiled (presumably statically) with their own original copy of the library - so, to circumvent the DRM, you'd have to patch the game to use your own modified DRM code, just as you would had nothing been open-sourced.
I think maybe you haven't thought through that example enough.
Exactly what inch-long object do you suppose they use when making a 1/4" object? Last time I checked, screws and bolts (for example) were not manufactured by carefully halving and re-halving other, larger, screws and bolts.
You could even call it 0.00347222222 fathoms - and manufacturing one would still be exactly the same process, with exactly the same amount of material required, and exactly the same cost.
Shouldn't something check to see if the computer can handle such a request
Yes, the Operating System - the thing that manages the hardware of the computer.
Having said that, there's nothing wrong with user-mode programs also doing sanity checking - defense-in-depth and all.
The books Jehovah's Witnesses hand out contain a description of their point of view.
The books mentioned above contain facts that go a long way towards proving* the authors' points of view.
There's a difference.
* 'Proving' in the every-day sense, not the mathematical sense. No, you can not prove God does not exist. No, that does not mean that he does.
I have literally NO idea what Ayn Rand writes about.
Everybody's always making fun of her (him? I don't even know that), but in such general terms that I can not make head nor tail of it.
Is it worth reading, at least so I'm in on the jokes - or should I cherish my ignorance on this matter?
This means programmers are aware of lack of sun? Or is it the compounding effects of eating too much of that retched chocolate and other things found around the office during holidays? I know my stomach is doing somersaults right now and a package filled with more treats is winging its way to my from my family.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie.. Walla Walla was and Kalamazoo.
I dunno... when I find retched chocolate lying around the office, eating it is not the first thing that comes to mind.
*retches*
Note, I am not a scientist, but this is my take on the question.
We don't know. There isn't really anything specific and practical that anyone is aiming towards. (In this particular case! I'm not saying we never do that.)
People are researching things that interest them intellectually (while also compromising to get funding, presumably).
Why do we (society) find this to be worth spending money and time on?
From experience, we know that unexpected practical applications often arise from previously pure-theoretical research.
It isn't until we know the answers that we know what use we can make of that knowledge.
Of course, a lot of facts don't go on to become the foundation for a new practical application. But we won't know which are which until after we've done the research.
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Although, the Linux-c6x release notes page says "this release uses the gcc tool chain (4.5-124) from Code Sourcery."
The Code Sourcery link says "Mentor Graphics makes extensive enhancements to the base versions, adding support for more CPUs, improving code-generation, and addressing defects found through its validation process."
Maybe their patches got rolled into mainline in version 4.7?
Powershell runs circles around bash.
Incidentally, it's PowerShell, not Powershell.
I think the intended punctuation was "Power's Hell".
It's a reference to a book about the US response to genocide in the 20th century by Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell", not that weird Microsoft thing you linked.
$13.75/mo/user, is chump change for a business to provide to their employees, sure.
It is not chump change if that's what you pay per person to offer a service for free to everyone on the Internet.
Muratic acid? Sure, I guess that might be a cause for suspicion, I don't even know what that is. The GP was talking about a bottle. A glass bottle.
Except to the people who want to that support on their shiny new Android tablet.
Are such people rare? Sure. But who are you to tell them they can't have what they want?
Especially when they're the ones putting in the work to make it happen, and you're just whining on the Internet.
In my head, it has no feet - just legs going straight down to the ground, like hooves. If you picture that bottom joint as a knee instead of an ankle, then it looks a lot like a running animal.
It's just like the Necker cube, or the old woman / young woman illusion - you can flip the way you see it from being a clown-footed weird thing running backwards to being a footless catlike animal running forwards.
We need to find out why matter is called matter and antimatter is called antimatter and not the other way around.
Oh that's easy - it's because protons have a positive charge so they're 'normal' matter, but anti-protons have a negative charge, so they're 'anti' matter.
Fine - CD or DVD images, then.
..."
Just because I'm not downloading at 10MB/s 24/7 does not mean that I am unable to appreciate it finishing more quickly when I am downloading.
Oh, and did you read what you just wrote?
"download speed becomes irrelevant once its faster than the playback speed." -> "... a 600kbit connection
What if I want to watch a video with a higher bitrate than 600k? Is that unreasonable, just because I won't be streaming video constantly all month?
Sheesh.
They meant no operator[] in std::list<>
... The Theory of Interstellar Trade, ...
Is the acronym intentional, I wonder...?
And no, I do not mean TTOIT.
Last I checked the spell checker didn't send the data off to Microsoft when it checked my spelling. If it ever did they would lose all their corporate customers because the use of it would violate privacy laws in many countries.
What about the spell checker in Office365, then?
1. The cable is permanently stretched by a counterweight at the 96000 km altitude. If you sever the cable 1 km from the surface, the bottom 1 km falls to the ground, the top 95999 km fly away and settle in an orbit around the Earth.
Would it? I'm not so great with orbital mechanics, but my understanding is that the Earth end is basically dangling in place - so cutting the bottom 1km off would drop that bottom 1km on the ground as you say, but then the top 95999km would just stay dangling in place (excepting wind effects).
Would the mass change from losing 0.x% off the bottom really be enough to let the counter-weight pull the whole thing away from the planet?
You mean, gotta love the altitude! Haha! Right? Who's with me?
Looks like what youd get if a donkey f****ed a lawnmower.
I' d rather have the donkey.
Not if it's going to go around f***ing lawnmowers...
I don't know the details of the implementation, but I'm pretty sure that any DRM could be included as part of the game, rather than the client (which, in case you're not familiar with it, is basically just a GUI shell for purchasing, downloading and launching games).
Open-sourcing the Desura client itself would not necessarily impact any libraries that are linked into the games, even if those libraries were also provided by Desura.
Actually, even if they open-sourced the DRM library itself, the games you download will still be compiled (presumably statically) with their own original copy of the library - so, to circumvent the DRM, you'd have to patch the game to use your own modified DRM code, just as you would had nothing been open-sourced.
Hooray! They re-invented Bresenham's line algorithm!
I think maybe you haven't thought through that example enough.
Exactly what inch-long object do you suppose they use when making a 1/4" object? Last time I checked, screws and bolts (for example) were not manufactured by carefully halving and re-halving other, larger, screws and bolts.
You could even call it 0.00347222222 fathoms - and manufacturing one would still be exactly the same process, with exactly the same amount of material required, and exactly the same cost.
Changed from Marketting to Stratagy?
Was that Mr. Christoforo too?
Shouldn't something check to see if the computer can handle such a request
Yes, the Operating System - the thing that manages the hardware of the computer.
Having said that, there's nothing wrong with user-mode programs also doing sanity checking - defense-in-depth and all.
The books Jehovah's Witnesses hand out contain a description of their point of view.
The books mentioned above contain facts that go a long way towards proving* the authors' points of view.
There's a difference.
* 'Proving' in the every-day sense, not the mathematical sense. No, you can not prove God does not exist. No, that does not mean that he does.
I have literally NO idea what Ayn Rand writes about.
Everybody's always making fun of her (him? I don't even know that), but in such general terms that I can not make head nor tail of it.
Is it worth reading, at least so I'm in on the jokes - or should I cherish my ignorance on this matter?
This means programmers are aware of lack of sun? Or is it the compounding effects of eating too much of that retched chocolate and other things found around the office during holidays? I know my stomach is doing somersaults right now and a package filled with more treats is winging its way to my from my family.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie .. Walla Walla was and Kalamazoo.
I dunno... when I find retched chocolate lying around the office, eating it is not the first thing that comes to mind.
*retches*
I vote typo of the day!
F-Costs a lot and To: dont know how to read.
U-Got no time to mess with that which no one
C-will read anyway. I.e., don't waste my
K-time, dude.
I think you're
Doing it wrong.
It's really quite easy to
Organise the words so that
The initial letters match.
Note, I am not a scientist, but this is my take on the question.
We don't know. There isn't really anything specific and practical that anyone is aiming towards. (In this particular case! I'm not saying we never do that.)
People are researching things that interest them intellectually (while also compromising to get funding, presumably).
Why do we (society) find this to be worth spending money and time on?
From experience, we know that unexpected practical applications often arise from previously pure-theoretical research.
It isn't until we know the answers that we know what use we can make of that knowledge.
Of course, a lot of facts don't go on to become the foundation for a new practical application. But we won't know which are which until after we've done the research.
I care.
There. Happy now?