According to http://www.preev.com/ Bitcoin is trading at around 280 USD. Last time I looked a couple of weeks ago, it was at 313 USD. The needle has moved, whether it was this story or not, I don't know.
Both NTFS and HFS+ are file systems that are case insensitive and case preserving (by default). They work as designed. They have always worked that way as the people who ported git to those platforms should have known.
Just because you don't like the way NTFSD and HFS+ work and it makes the programmer's job a little harder doesn't mean there is a bug.
But when a prosecution can't even be bothered to determine that someone is one
The issue of whether Julian Assange is a rapist or not would have been settled years ago if he had not skipped bail. He would have been taken to Sweden and interviewed about the accusations. Maybe as a result of that, there would have been a trial and hopefully he would have been found guilty if and only if he did rape somebody.
Right now, he's a fugitive from justice, which makes me think that he is not confident that he would be acquitted of the rape allegations. You can talk about the danger of extradition to the USA, but he was in the UK for a while before he ran away and the USA made no move to extradite him. I don't think that is a real danger.
" don't really seem to understand the difference between pointers and C arrays"
Well, because there isn't one at the language level. The array syntax using square brackets is only a syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic, nothing more.
There is a difference between an array and a pointer.
char a[100]; char* b;
b = a;// Fine a = b;// Not fine.
If you read the standard, the language used is that, in an expression, an array "decays" to a pointer with the rule being that you get a pointer to the array's first element. The "array is not a pointer" rule is further demonstrated by passing an array to sizeof (as viol8 points out).
Don't be silly, they'd talk about One point twenty one jiggawatts. Then there would be a flamewar on the correct pronunciation of "giga" and whether a lightning strike can deliver 1.21Gw.
The only substantial way of improving on string concatenation in Objective-C would be to introduce custom operators, and that brings its own set of issues. The other alternatives sacrifice consistency.
Actually, you could quite easily bring custom operators to Objective-C by adopting the Smalltalk approach. Simply allow symbols to be messages e.g.
[@"foo" stringByAppendingString: @"bar];
could be written as
[@"foo" +: @"bar];
Smalltalk allows you to drop the colon with binary operators so you could even have
Money going into my account? No, never noticed any...... what's that you say? Yes, it is a nice new car. We're off to the Seychelles next week too. It's paid for by a bequest from Aunt Mildred's goldfish.
There are a number of people on this thread who are saying "I don't contribute because I don't have time". Well, why don't you contribute money instead then? If a piece of software has value to you, either because it helps you do your job, entertains you or saves you some time, then it surely has monetary value.
The advantage of contributing money apart from it taking only about five minutes is that you don't have to deal with the arrogant arseholes that all successful open source projects are staffed by (if many of the anecdotes above are correct).
Full disclosure: I am in this group of people, unless you count the very occasional bug report.
The reason I ask is that here in the UK the official speed limit on motorways is 70mph, but police can't pull you unless you're doing 10% + 2mph over the limit, so 79mph on a 70mph limit road.
This is not true. The 10% + 2 rule is a discretionary guideline that the police tend to use. In principle they can prosecute at any speed over the speed limit.
That was an idiot driver in Belgium moving into a lane where he had no visibility.
and judging by the fact that the video was taken from a lorry and the vehicle in front was a lorry and the car wasn't travelling much faster, it is unlikely that anybody was doing much more than 65mph
OS X is no more heavily controlled than any Linux in the sense of putting what software you like on it. The only downside to it is that you have to buy your hardware from Apple.
I wouldn't have thought there was enough light that far out even without the shadows.
Could you post your calculations that lead you to that conclusion. Do you think that the engineers who designed the space craft forgot to make the same calculation?
Sure it's an assumption but it's not baseless,
Yes it is unless you did the calculations to show that there is not enough energy out there for the specific solar cells on this craft.
previous deep space probes such as Cassini, pioneer, and voyager are all nuclear powered.
They were all designed to go much further than Rosetta.
You can create an interface in C. Just typedef a struct with a bunch of function pointers. People implement the interface by creating an instance of the struct and filling in the function pointers.
I'm heterosexual. I cannot choose to be sexually attracted to other men, I'm just not attracted to them. Whether this is caused by psychological reasons, the chemical environment in my mother's womb, or genetic factors is irrelevant. I cannot choose.
It should be pointed out that the choice thing is really a red herring. If homosexuality were a choice, that would still be no reason to persecute gay people.
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According to http://www.preev.com/ Bitcoin is trading at around 280 USD. Last time I looked a couple of weeks ago, it was at 313 USD. The needle has moved, whether it was this story or not, I don't know.
And yet my nephew knew how to configure the NAT/router in his parents' house so that he could run a Minecraft server for his friends when he was ten.
No it isn't.
Both NTFS and HFS+ are file systems that are case insensitive and case preserving (by default). They work as designed. They have always worked that way as the people who ported git to those platforms should have known.
Just because you don't like the way NTFSD and HFS+ work and it makes the programmer's job a little harder doesn't mean there is a bug.
I think it's a minimum, not a maximum.
To my knowledge there is no other country in the world to use the exact word 'penny' or 'pennies' to refer to their smallest denomination.
We do in the UK and we thought of it first.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was exactly the bug.
But when a prosecution can't even be bothered to determine that someone is one
The issue of whether Julian Assange is a rapist or not would have been settled years ago if he had not skipped bail. He would have been taken to Sweden and interviewed about the accusations. Maybe as a result of that, there would have been a trial and hopefully he would have been found guilty if and only if he did rape somebody.
Right now, he's a fugitive from justice, which makes me think that he is not confident that he would be acquitted of the rape allegations. You can talk about the danger of extradition to the USA, but he was in the UK for a while before he ran away and the USA made no move to extradite him. I don't think that is a real danger.
" don't really seem to understand the difference between pointers and C arrays"
Well, because there isn't one at the language level. The array syntax using square brackets is only a syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic, nothing more.
There is a difference between an array and a pointer.
char a[100];
char* b;
b = a; // Fine // Not fine.
a = b;
If you read the standard, the language used is that, in an expression, an array "decays" to a pointer with the rule being that you get a pointer to the array's first element. The "array is not a pointer" rule is further demonstrated by passing an array to sizeof (as viol8 points out).
somebody else would talk about 1.8 gigawatts.
Don't be silly, they'd talk about One point twenty one jiggawatts. Then there would be a flamewar on the correct pronunciation of "giga" and whether a lightning strike can deliver 1.21Gw.
The only substantial way of improving on string concatenation in Objective-C would be to introduce custom operators, and that brings its own set of issues. The other alternatives sacrifice consistency.
Actually, you could quite easily bring custom operators to Objective-C by adopting the Smalltalk approach. Simply allow symbols to be messages e.g.
[@"foo" stringByAppendingString: @"bar];
could be written as
[@"foo" +: @"bar];
Smalltalk allows you to drop the colon with binary operators so you could even have
[@"foo" + @"bar];
Money going into my account? No, never noticed any... ... what's that you say? Yes, it is a nice new car. We're off to the Seychelles next week too. It's paid for by a bequest from Aunt Mildred's goldfish.
There are a number of people on this thread who are saying "I don't contribute because I don't have time". Well, why don't you contribute money instead then? If a piece of software has value to you, either because it helps you do your job, entertains you or saves you some time, then it surely has monetary value.
The advantage of contributing money apart from it taking only about five minutes is that you don't have to deal with the arrogant arseholes that all successful open source projects are staffed by (if many of the anecdotes above are correct).
Full disclosure: I am in this group of people, unless you count the very occasional bug report.
He wasn't talking about the Mac itself but the software applications that run on it.
The reason I ask is that here in the UK the official speed limit on motorways is 70mph, but police can't pull you unless you're doing 10% + 2mph over the limit, so 79mph on a 70mph limit road.
This is not true. The 10% + 2 rule is a discretionary guideline that the police tend to use. In principle they can prosecute at any speed over the speed limit.
http://www.acpo.police.uk/docu...
Section 9 is the relevant part.
That was an idiot driver in Belgium moving into a lane where he had no visibility.
and judging by the fact that the video was taken from a lorry and the vehicle in front was a lorry and the car wasn't travelling much faster, it is unlikely that anybody was doing much more than 65mph
Objective-C is a preprocessor, not a real language,
From which we can deduce you know very little about Objective-C.
I'd agree with you if it weren't for the fact that measures put in place to combat terrorism have been abused before.
OS X is no more heavily controlled than any Linux in the sense of putting what software you like on it. The only downside to it is that you have to buy your hardware from Apple.
ESA is mainly a French driven organisation. In France, 75% of electricity is generated by nuclear power stations.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good stereotype.
I wouldn't have thought there was enough light that far out even without the shadows.
Could you post your calculations that lead you to that conclusion. Do you think that the engineers who designed the space craft forgot to make the same calculation?
Sure it's an assumption but it's not baseless,
Yes it is unless you did the calculations to show that there is not enough energy out there for the specific solar cells on this craft.
previous deep space probes such as Cassini, pioneer, and voyager are all nuclear powered.
They were all designed to go much further than Rosetta.
147 terrible reviews, I think the £100 charge must be part of their business model.
You can create an interface in C. Just typedef a struct with a bunch of function pointers. People implement the interface by creating an instance of the struct and filling in the function pointers.
It's actually a fairly common pattern. For example there are several described here
You're overthinking it.
I'm heterosexual. I cannot choose to be sexually attracted to other men, I'm just not attracted to them. Whether this is caused by psychological reasons, the chemical environment in my mother's womb, or genetic factors is irrelevant. I cannot choose.
It should be pointed out that the choice thing is really a red herring. If homosexuality were a choice, that would still be no reason to persecute gay people.
Ha! Rather than merely point out that you have confused the names "Columbia" and "Challenger" everybody has decided you needed a new arsehole tearing.
It would be a pain if it were true. Most of the shops in my part of the UK stay open till six and often later.