Exceptions are not possible in C for the same reason that they are not possible in Objective-C even though they exist. There is a vast quantity of code in the C world that is not written to be exception safe. So if you throw an exception in your callback that you passed to library, the unwinding of the call stack may cause all kinds of resource leaks and other issues.
There are EU regulations about government assistance for corporations. These are in place because Europe has a single market and government subsidies for one company are the same as tariffs for everybody else. The EU thinks that Apple paying corporate tax at 1% when the official rate is 12.5% in Ireland amounts to an illegal subsidy.
The bill is for eleven years and includes interest. Plus Apple did pay some taxes in Ireland, probably around a billion euros. To give you some perspective, it looks like Ireland collects around €45 billion each year in all taxes and around €7 billion in corporation tax. This €13 billion would be a substantial windfall for them.
Actually, no. The EU does not have overall governance over Ireland. The EU does not set Irish taxes but only gives broad guidelines in an effort to keep the playing field as level as possible. As a member of the EU and its single market, Ireland commits to keeping to the guidelines. The EU says it has transgressed and Ireland says it hasn't. Either way, Apple has paid all the taxes that the Irish government said it needed to. Apple is not at fault here.
This is the first time I've heard of this problem.
I have an iPhone 6 and many people I know have the 6 or 6s and nobody has reported it that I am aware of. This, to me, suggests that the "many" spoken of in TFS is actually quite a small percentage of iPhone 6/6s owners.
My thoughts as well, but actually, you are pretty much tied in to what Canonical makes available on their apt repository (or whatever) unless you have a bit of technical ability.
Let's pretend the total profit of the entire smart phone industry is $100. We look at Apple's profits and find they are $75. We look at Samsung's profits and find they are $30. We look at everybody else and find that, in total, they are losing $5 between them.
Not heard of systemd-emacs? It has the advantage that all your editing sessions are spawned directly off process 1. No need to su anymore to edit/etc/passwd.
Also, you can have dependency management so when you invoke systemd-emacs, systemd will make sure that the emacs vi emulator extension is installed first.
My three year old rMBP shows a cycle count of 396 and condition normal. Battery Health tells me it has 88% of its original capacity. My experience with MBPs with removable batteries is that they tended to start degrading after 100 cycles and would be dead well before 300 (the alleged lifetime).
I normally would have replaced this laptop a year ago, but the current offerings from Apple are not compelling. This one is fine for everything I do with it but it will be changed after the refresh.
The derivative of population growth is not a positive number though.
Population growth is slowing which means that, at some point, it will be zero and the population will stabilise. The problem is that, if the story is correct, the population is already too big. The other problem is that, maybe it won't stop growing before it is too late.
Democracy isn't just having votes. Democracy will not work unless the people making the decisions are well informed about the issues.
There was nothing democratic about the referendum given the level of misinformation being peddled by the anti-EU media. Under normal circumstances, the UK is a representative democracy: we elect people to represent us and make the decisions, then we fire them when they screw up badly enough to notice. That works because ordinary people don't have the time or resources to do the research to make the right decisions.
This referendum was an unnecessary and unmitigated disaster. Too many people had no real idea of the benefits and costs of the EU. For instance, both Cornwall and Wales voted decisively to Leave and both are in receipt of billions of pounds of EU grants as deprived areas. Now they are begging the government to replace the funding, but that is by no means a given.
After what happened in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, if the EU insists on any new members joining the Euro, they'll be laughed out of the room. The EU is a great project, the Euro is a fucked up disaster.
The EU isn't a competitor: the UK is currently part of the EU. How can it be a competitor with part of itself?
Even the countries in the EU are not competitors. No, companies in the UK are competing with companies in the rest of the EU but at the higher level, it's better to work together than against each other. Economics is not a zero sum game. France doing well does not mean the UK has to do badly. In fact, success reinforces success.
Funny, I never had trouble accessing registers using C.
You weren't using C. There's nothing in C about accessing machine registers. Have a look at the C11 standard some time. It doesn't even mention the stack.
You don't seem to understand how it works. You made an assertion that you cannot update an 8 bit device in the field. All that is needed to prove your assertion false is one counter example. Temples provided that counter example.
In fact any device that can be programmed can be updated in the field provided there is a reasonable means of replacing the programming. e.g. replace an EPROM, have a firmware updater etc.
The lesson to be learned is the companies are not people.
Wrong. Companies don't make decisions, they are not sentient. People make decisions. It wasn't the company that fired you, it was a person working on behalf of the company. They fired you because they thought that was in the best interests of the company, or more likely in the best interests of themselves in the context of the company.
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Because now it's confirmed, so they changed the title.
Exceptions are not possible in C for the same reason that they are not possible in Objective-C even though they exist. There is a vast quantity of code in the C world that is not written to be exception safe. So if you throw an exception in your callback that you passed to library, the unwinding of the call stack may cause all kinds of resource leaks and other issues.
There are EU regulations about government assistance for corporations. These are in place because Europe has a single market and government subsidies for one company are the same as tariffs for everybody else. The EU thinks that Apple paying corporate tax at 1% when the official rate is 12.5% in Ireland amounts to an illegal subsidy.
The bill is for eleven years and includes interest. Plus Apple did pay some taxes in Ireland, probably around a billion euros. To give you some perspective, it looks like Ireland collects around €45 billion each year in all taxes and around €7 billion in corporation tax. This €13 billion would be a substantial windfall for them.
Nope.
Ireland joined the EEC in 1973. The EU officially came into existence in 1992 but it is the same organisation as the one that Ireland joined in 1973.
Actually, no. The EU does not have overall governance over Ireland. The EU does not set Irish taxes but only gives broad guidelines in an effort to keep the playing field as level as possible. As a member of the EU and its single market, Ireland commits to keeping to the guidelines. The EU says it has transgressed and Ireland says it hasn't. Either way, Apple has paid all the taxes that the Irish government said it needed to. Apple is not at fault here.
Tests showed that they were significantly weaker than other phones in the market, requiring much less force to deform.
Nope.
Tests showed that they were about the same as other phones on the market.
This is the first time I've heard of this problem.
I have an iPhone 6 and many people I know have the 6 or 6s and nobody has reported it that I am aware of. This, to me, suggests that the "many" spoken of in TFS is actually quite a small percentage of iPhone 6/6s owners.
My thoughts as well, but actually, you are pretty much tied in to what Canonical makes available on their apt repository (or whatever) unless you have a bit of technical ability.
Because everybody else together is making a loss.
Let's pretend the total profit of the entire smart phone industry is $100. We look at Apple's profits and find they are $75. We look at Samsung's profits and find they are $30. We look at everybody else and find that, in total, they are losing $5 between them.
If I can afford it why shouldn't I buy stuff I merely want as opposed to need?
Twenty years ago I didn't have a mobile phone at all so I guess I don't need my iPhone now, but it sure makes life easier.
Not heard of systemd-emacs? It has the advantage that all your editing sessions are spawned directly off process 1. No need to su anymore to edit /etc/passwd.
Also, you can have dependency management so when you invoke systemd-emacs, systemd will make sure that the emacs vi emulator extension is installed first.
My three year old rMBP shows a cycle count of 396 and condition normal. Battery Health tells me it has 88% of its original capacity. My experience with MBPs with removable batteries is that they tended to start degrading after 100 cycles and would be dead well before 300 (the alleged lifetime).
I normally would have replaced this laptop a year ago, but the current offerings from Apple are not compelling. This one is fine for everything I do with it but it will be changed after the refresh.
The derivative of population growth is not a positive number though.
Population growth is slowing which means that, at some point, it will be zero and the population will stabilise. The problem is that, if the story is correct, the population is already too big. The other problem is that, maybe it won't stop growing before it is too late.
Doing stunts in mid air is a vastly easier proposition than determining the difference between a terrorist base and a local supermarket.
To be fair though, kids murdering each other with bombs isn't really a thing.
Actually, yes it is.
I don't think you do want some of our sense of humour. Right now I am thinking it's so well developed because if we didn't laugh, we'd have to cry.
Democracy isn't just having votes. Democracy will not work unless the people making the decisions are well informed about the issues.
There was nothing democratic about the referendum given the level of misinformation being peddled by the anti-EU media. Under normal circumstances, the UK is a representative democracy: we elect people to represent us and make the decisions, then we fire them when they screw up badly enough to notice. That works because ordinary people don't have the time or resources to do the research to make the right decisions.
This referendum was an unnecessary and unmitigated disaster. Too many people had no real idea of the benefits and costs of the EU. For instance, both Cornwall and Wales voted decisively to Leave and both are in receipt of billions of pounds of EU grants as deprived areas. Now they are begging the government to replace the funding, but that is by no means a given.
After what happened in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, if the EU insists on any new members joining the Euro, they'll be laughed out of the room. The EU is a great project, the Euro is a fucked up disaster.
The EU isn't a competitor: the UK is currently part of the EU. How can it be a competitor with part of itself?
Even the countries in the EU are not competitors. No, companies in the UK are competing with companies in the rest of the EU but at the higher level, it's better to work together than against each other. Economics is not a zero sum game. France doing well does not mean the UK has to do badly. In fact, success reinforces success.
If they're pointers to bytes then you can compare them directly.
No you can't.
You can't guarantee that two arbitrary pointers are comparable. Think of segmented architectures, for example.
Funny, I never had trouble accessing registers using C.
You weren't using C. There's nothing in C about accessing machine registers. Have a look at the C11 standard some time. It doesn't even mention the stack.
You don't seem to understand how it works. You made an assertion that you cannot update an 8 bit device in the field. All that is needed to prove your assertion false is one counter example. Temples provided that counter example.
In fact any device that can be programmed can be updated in the field provided there is a reasonable means of replacing the programming. e.g. replace an EPROM, have a firmware updater etc.
If you are on an 8 bit MCU, speed is critical because you wouldn't be on an 8 bit MCU if you had a choice to use larger faster hardware.
Frequently the programmer has no choice about the hardware but is still required to make the code as fast as possible.
Wrong. Companies don't make decisions, they are not sentient. People make decisions. It wasn't the company that fired you, it was a person working on behalf of the company. They fired you because they thought that was in the best interests of the company, or more likely in the best interests of themselves in the context of the company.