Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't you want the order of the ASSERT and the x=-x; reversed? All I see happening here is basically guaranteeing you get an assertion failure.
First of all, the majority of OneWorld is written in C. C++ and java are used in the newest "parts" but the core is C. Not really a big deal, but still....
Secondly, I guarantee OneWorld does more than ManMan. Off the same codebase, we can build server-side software for WinNT, Win2000, RS6000, HP9000, Solaris, and AS/400 as well as the Windows client. It's able to run with whatever combination of servers for running applications, database, whatever.
All the applications (1000s) are completely customizable by the customer and the code for these is provided. 10GB may seem like a lot, and it may be, but keep in mind this is Enterprise software. It's not something you'd buy to keep track of your checkbook at home. To say all OneWorld does is to "provide accounting and manufacturing support for manufacturing companies" is to really sell it short. That's just two of the many different capabilities it has.
Actually I think it's better to put your money in the couch and then invite lots of people over. We can call the change that falls out of their pockets "interest" or "dividends". It's sure to make more than most stocks and just about every savings account, and definitely more than the sock in the ground.
Back in the mid 90s I was selling software at Incredible Universe. I think selling a Compaq or something got you between $75 and $300 in commission. We had little hand scanners that we could scan the box and the customer's card so the computer would be ready when they checked out... Freakin cashiers would void the one I entered and re-enter the code so they got the commission...
The point is, if you're not going to buy the CD, you're not going to buy the CD. At least this way, people who actually shelled out the money for the CD don't have to jump through hoops to get it to play on the computer or in the car, or wherever they want, plus, as an added bonus, they get some extras from an artists whose music they enjoy anyway.
If someone really enjoys Bon Jovi or and they also enjoy but they are short on budget, then it may come down to getting the one with the extras. Or maybe they'll decide that they'd rather get both and forego a few Happy Meals.
If a CD provides more than just music, then there's more incentive to buy the CD than just Kazaa it.
It sounds like he's not really trying to combat piracy, per se, but more encourage people to buy the CD for the perks and benefits that would come of it.
Sounds like a great idea... Do something where people want to buy your CD more than trying to make it impossible for them to copy it.
Think of it this way... Fill a piece of surgical tubing with ball bearings (of about the same size as the tube). Now push another bearing in on one side. It doesn't take long for your push to be felt on the other side. Even though you're only pushing at a very slow speed, the message gets there very quickly. Electrons work like the ball bearings in the tube.
That was the point of the article that this filter is much more effective if it is targetted at the individual's email. Otherwise it is just too easy to craft the spam to get around the filter.
But by the way I don't believe you.... And the spammers don't either. They are sure that you want to extend your penis or increase your bust.... or both:)
Also, believe it or not, I don't respond to the spam, and yes, I've had stuff that came as spam that I was interested in, but I didn't purchase anything from them, and I refuse to. They'll usually go in my mental blacklist for using spam as a marketing tool.
Even if I did want the Raleigh 3-speed, and I received an email (unsolicited, automated, spam, whatever) from anyone who I haven't spooken to before about my desire for the bike, I would want it deleted.
Even if I was looking for and really, really, really wanted that bike, if the opportunity to purchase it came to me through a spam email, I would still delete it. I don't want to give the spammer any revenue or to encourage spam in any way.
I admit that I didn't read the first article, but I did read the second, which apparently you didn't even do yourself. The second article explains why data was omitted from the published results and gives reasons as to why this was a tribute to Millikan's research and experiment technique and not fraud at all.
If you'd bothered to read your own link, it explains that Millikan threw out basically all of the first 68 experiments, and as he continued to do the experiment threw out less and less as he presumably got better at setting up the apparatus. He seemed to know when something wasn't quite right, ie, the temperature of the room fluctuating, etc, and would throw out those results. He also double-checked through two methods of calculating v and threw out ones which didn't compute.
He threw out good results as well as bad. If you were doing a titration and someone came in the room and took a leak in the beaker (and you knew about it), I'd hope you'd throw out the results of that one as well.
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float sqrt(float x) ...
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Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't you want the order of the ASSERT and the x=-x; reversed? All I see happening here is basically guaranteeing you get an assertion failure.
Can you provide a link to any 15" LCD screen that will show 1600x1200? I mean native resolution, not interpolated.
Dude, your toilet has a ceiling?
First of all, the majority of OneWorld is written in C. C++ and java are used in the newest "parts" but the core is C. Not really a big deal, but still....
Secondly, I guarantee OneWorld does more than ManMan. Off the same codebase, we can build server-side software for WinNT, Win2000, RS6000, HP9000, Solaris, and AS/400 as well as the Windows client. It's able to run with whatever combination of servers for running applications, database, whatever.
All the applications (1000s) are completely customizable by the customer and the code for these is provided. 10GB may seem like a lot, and it may be, but keep in mind this is Enterprise software. It's not something you'd buy to keep track of your checkbook at home. To say all OneWorld does is to "provide accounting and manufacturing support for manufacturing companies" is to really sell it short. That's just two of the many different capabilities it has.
Actually I think it's better to put your money in the couch and then invite lots of people over. We can call the change that falls out of their pockets "interest" or "dividends". It's sure to make more than most stocks and just about every savings account, and definitely more than the sock in the ground.
How about a spoiler alert next time, you insensitive clod! :)
I'm gonna need to find me a bunch of stuff that goes with green in that case...
Back in the mid 90s I was selling software at Incredible Universe. I think selling a Compaq or something got you between $75 and $300 in commission. We had little hand scanners that we could scan the box and the customer's card so the computer would be ready when they checked out... Freakin cashiers would void the one I entered and re-enter the code so they got the commission...
Bastards...
Scientists have recently discovered the secret to making 3,000 ton refrigerators. Fat people around the world rejoice.
One of my favorite bits of code from the ioccc is one that will read and write morse. Here it is for your compiling pleasure:
.-\0R^8)NJ6%K4O+A2M(*0ID57$3G1FBL";s (l+45,954,stdin)){O ,l+11)];
#include
#include
main()
{
char*O,l[999]="'`acgo\177~|xp
while(O=fget
*l=O[strlen(O)[O-1]=0,strspn(
while(*O)switch((*l&&isalnum(*O))-!*l){
case-1:{char*I=(O+=strspn(O,l+12)+1)-2,O=34;
while(*I&3&&(O=(O-1661)*32];
while(putchar(45+*l%2),(*l=*l+32>>1)>35);
case 0: putchar((++O,32));}
putchar(10);}
}
42nd post!!!
The point is, if you're not going to buy the CD, you're not going to buy the CD. At least this way, people who actually shelled out the money for the CD don't have to jump through hoops to get it to play on the computer or in the car, or wherever they want, plus, as an added bonus, they get some extras from an artists whose music they enjoy anyway.
If someone really enjoys Bon Jovi or and they also enjoy but they are short on budget, then it may come down to getting the one with the extras. Or maybe they'll decide that they'd rather get both and forego a few Happy Meals.
If a CD provides more than just music, then there's more incentive to buy the CD than just Kazaa it.
It sounds like he's not really trying to combat piracy, per se, but more encourage people to buy the CD for the perks and benefits that would come of it.
Sounds like a great idea... Do something where people want to buy your CD more than trying to make it impossible for them to copy it.
I hope it works for him.
17 hours of sleep / day seems just a tad excessive, don't you think?
Think of it this way... Fill a piece of surgical tubing with ball bearings (of about the same size as the tube). Now push another bearing in on one side. It doesn't take long for your push to be felt on the other side. Even though you're only pushing at a very slow speed, the message gets there very quickly. Electrons work like the ball bearings in the tube.
It simply wouldn't work...
I mean seriously, have you ever tried to wipe your ass with a tylenol?
That was the point of the article that this filter is much more effective if it is targetted at the individual's email. Otherwise it is just too easy to craft the spam to get around the filter.
:)
But by the way I don't believe you.... And the spammers don't either. They are sure that you want to extend your penis or increase your bust.... or both
Also, believe it or not, I don't respond to the spam, and yes, I've had stuff that came as spam that I was interested in, but I didn't purchase anything from them, and I refuse to. They'll usually go in my mental blacklist for using spam as a marketing tool.
Even if I did want the Raleigh 3-speed, and I received an email (unsolicited, automated, spam, whatever) from anyone who I haven't spooken to before about my desire for the bike, I would want it deleted.
Even if I was looking for and really, really, really wanted that bike, if the opportunity to purchase it came to me through a spam email, I would still delete it. I don't want to give the spammer any revenue or to encourage spam in any way.
Dammit, you beat me to it :)
Which is nothing like the thousands spent on copy-protecting CDs only to be circumvented by a $1.50 Sharpie marker... :)
Somehow aiming a heat gun at mine or even someone else's crotch doesn't sound like such a fun thing.
Using some spare brain cycles to figure out how to keep the webserver from getting slashdotted?
You mean throw out the results, or piss in the titration beaker?
I admit that I didn't read the first article, but I did read the second, which apparently you didn't even do yourself. The second article explains why data was omitted from the published results and gives reasons as to why this was a tribute to Millikan's research and experiment technique and not fraud at all.
If you'd bothered to read your own link, it explains that Millikan threw out basically all of the first 68 experiments, and as he continued to do the experiment threw out less and less as he presumably got better at setting up the apparatus. He seemed to know when something wasn't quite right, ie, the temperature of the room fluctuating, etc, and would throw out those results. He also double-checked through two methods of calculating v and threw out ones which didn't compute.
He threw out good results as well as bad. If you were doing a titration and someone came in the room and took a leak in the beaker (and you knew about it), I'd hope you'd throw out the results of that one as well.
"Sookie sookie"? I don't know about you, but where I come from we call that "doing the hibbidy-jibbidy".