If you believe C++ is the OOPC version of C. Do not use it. It is indeed pretty useless. C++ is good because of templates which only C equivalent is macros.
I aggree that people tend to do too many things in C++ (me first). However, there are quite some place where C++ should be used. Mainly gaming engines and high performance computing. You NEED low level programming to deal with that. They could be written in C. But numerous C++ programming techniques (mainly template mechanism) makes it much easier to program. You could not get reusable algorithm accross multiple data type with efficient compile-time type checking at no runtime cost without templates. You could do it with macros but you will have terrible compilation problem if you screw up. Or you could use inheritance but will pay the cost at runtime.
Well, I also recalled spending hours looking for books in a epub (even drm-ed) format and I couldn't find it. I finally resolved to look for it on TPB and I found it in 2 minutes. I wanted to buy the book. But I couldn't find it!
"Eventually, more heuristics might be added, so that a GUI application that launches a bunch of threads and hogs the CPU might have all it's threads grouped, so they don't hurt responsiveness of interactive apps either."
First thing I do when I got this patch in: write a wrapper to firefox that starts it in its own group. So that it stops killing my desktop because of crappy javascript or flash!
texting is a nice feature. But I must say I am very happy with my crappy basic phone. My shopping for phone session went something like: -"hello, I'm looking for a cheap phone that can call 911 and keep me in touch with my wife in case of emergency and that will last more than a week without being plugged in" -"Here is our cheapest nokia sir, have a good day"
"But it won't necessarily work if the task creating the load is also a ttyless GUI task (such as programs such as dvdstyler)"
well a terminal as a tty. You could set up the window manager to start each application through an hidden terminal so that it belongs to an other tty and got group scheduled.
It is well known in the academic field that if you keep sending your crappy paper to journals, it will eventually get published. And I can tell you that I review a LOT a crap those days. Measuring papers is stupid,, it won't discriminate good papers from bad papers. The editors are supposed not to publish bad papers, but eventually they will. There is no good (IMHO) to discriminate those. So let's not use the number of paper as a metric of how good countries are at science.
In which country do people go for their study if they ARE going to another country looks like a much better metric to me. And let's face it, no one goes to india, china or brazil. It might come and I wish that eventually they will. I wish those country will produce good science. But let's face it. Right now, they have 20 years to catch up.
That's what I thought at first. But then, I thought that people are likely to try to get a driver for that just for fun, and for free. Putting a bounty is a way to push people into doing it faster and releasing it publicly.
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You'll get pages that becomes invalid with time despite they were valid before. That sounds like a very stupid idea.
Until you name the revision by dates, which is basically the same thing as giving version numbers...
Actually I think that anyone taht does not have a CS degree will not understand why it is important to begin with.
NP does not stand for Not Polynomial
it stands for polynomial on a non-deterministic turing mahcine.
If P != NP then there is an infinite number of complexity classes between P and NP-complete.
For the record, A problem is NP-complete if it is in NP and harder than any problem in NP.
A problem is np-hard if it is harder than any problem in NP (it may or may not be in NP)
well, I actually needed to google glenn beck to know who he is. I don't think this guy is much known outside the USA...
If you believe C++ is the OOPC version of C. Do not use it. It is indeed pretty useless. C++ is good because of templates which only C equivalent is macros.
I aggree that people tend to do too many things in C++ (me first). However, there are quite some place where C++ should be used. Mainly gaming engines and high performance computing. You NEED low level programming to deal with that. They could be written in C. But numerous C++ programming techniques (mainly template mechanism) makes it much easier to program. You could not get reusable algorithm accross multiple data type with efficient compile-time type checking at no runtime cost without templates. You could do it with macros but you will have terrible compilation problem if you screw up. Or you could use inheritance but will pay the cost at runtime.
Well, I also recalled spending hours looking for books in a epub (even drm-ed) format and I couldn't find it. I finally resolved to look for it on TPB and I found it in 2 minutes. I wanted to buy the book. But I couldn't find it!
to get the $.01 per transaction google currently gets.
with a gas fueled car, when the saudis decide you are paying $5/ gallon so they can send more money to islamic militant causes, you have no choice.
In france, we already pay gas more than $5 a gallon... Not that it makes your point invalid. Just to let you know :)
That's so true... I'm french... And I am crying... I hate Santa for not bringing France the resignation of the president...
well, why do you need your phone or computer for during your juror duty ?
that's the one that actually contain the table your are looking for.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/the-strange-unpredictable-pricing-3g-data-plans-485?page=0,2
which article ? We post links to actual articles on slashdot ? I thought the posts were just random thought!
it might be much easier to unlock once it is jailbroken...
I don't know.
But shampoo is to nitrogen based ones!
"Eventually, more heuristics might be added, so that a GUI application that launches a bunch of threads and hogs the CPU might have all it's threads grouped, so they don't hurt responsiveness of interactive apps either."
First thing I do when I got this patch in: write a wrapper to firefox that starts it in its own group. So that it stops killing my desktop because of crappy javascript or flash!
"Has Linux ever had a stable sound system?"
Yes, when it did not supported sound.
texting is a nice feature. But I must say I am very happy with my crappy basic phone. My shopping for phone session went something like:
-"hello, I'm looking for a cheap phone that can call 911 and keep me in touch with my wife in case of emergency and that will last more than a week without being plugged in"
-"Here is our cheapest nokia sir, have a good day"
You know what they say: Everybody is equal. But some are more equal...
"But it won't necessarily work if the task creating the load is also a ttyless GUI task (such as programs such as dvdstyler)"
well a terminal as a tty. You could set up the window manager to start each application through an hidden terminal so that it belongs to an other tty and got group scheduled.
It is well known in the academic field that if you keep sending your crappy paper to journals, it will eventually get published. And I can tell you that I review a LOT a crap those days. Measuring papers is stupid,, it won't discriminate good papers from bad papers. The editors are supposed not to publish bad papers, but eventually they will. There is no good (IMHO) to discriminate those. So let's not use the number of paper as a metric of how good countries are at science.
In which country do people go for their study if they ARE going to another country looks like a much better metric to me. And let's face it, no one goes to india, china or brazil. It might come and I wish that eventually they will. I wish those country will produce good science. But let's face it. Right now, they have 20 years to catch up.
marcan, Will we have a wii port ? :)
Am I the only one that smiled at the "handheld" tag ? :)
That's what I thought at first. But then, I thought that people are likely to try to get a driver for that just for fun, and for free. Putting a bounty is a way to push people into doing it faster and releasing it publicly.
Would a cyber condom work ?