In the normal flow of execution your code goes out of scope and objects inside are destroyed. The purpose of EXCEPTIONS are so that when you have exceptional behavior, all aborted scopes are still properly cleaned up with object destruction. Longjmp doesn't do that. Hence my comment.
An economist will tell you money is fungible. It doesn't matter where it comes from. If you earmark a particular source for a destination, that just means the destination needs that amount less from the general supply, which is then freed up to go wherever.
It's a great way to get unpopular revenue streams passed (my state uses Lotto to fund education), but it's entirely meaningless.
Price the new game lower as time goes on. There's no difference between new and used bits, so if there's a profit margin, get in the game. People will even place a ($5?) premium on getting an "unopened" copy.
Build a "starter pack" of DLC into the startup of a game. New copy purchasers can enter a code from the box, used purchasers can buy it with a credit card. There's your "slice" of the used game purchase.
Make your back-catalog available as a digital download. Like on WiiWare, XBLA, Steam, or GoG. People are doing this already.
Identity verification is a non-goal of SSL. The purpose of having a cert signed is so that someone receiving a cert claiming to be from http://joessite.com/ can be sure it's actually from the person who controls joessite.com, and not someone trying to MITM you.
Whether that's Joe or not is not an addressed issue.
I don't wish to contradict you, since you raise some good points about Linux (autotools... *shudders*)
That said, if you *are* interested in developing for Linux again in the future, give Qt a shot. QMake is by far easier than any of the things you've listed, and Qt Creator is a great IDE that uses qmake files as its native project files.
Come to think of it, you could do this under Windows also.
Sega v. Accolade protects trademark infringement that is necessary for the purpose of interoperability:
Because the TMSS has the effect of regulating access to the Genesis III console, and because there is no indication in the record of any public or industry awareness of any feasible alternate method of gaining access to the Genesis III, we hold that Sega is primarily responsible for any resultant confusion.
Traditionally retailers have gotten in trouble for doing anything based on the retail sales price. First, there can only be a suggested retail price, to prevent price fixing,
Yeah, that's not true. Talk to your local Apple or guitar retailer, they've been dealing with minimum retail prices for ages.
If a manufacturer, on its own, adopts a policy regarding a desired level of prices, the law allows the manufacturer to deal only with retailers who agree to that policy. A manufacturer also may stop dealing with a retailer that does not follow its resale price policy. That is, a manufacturer can implement a dealer policy on a "take it or leave it" basis.
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It seems like one of the more unique situations where protections under some sort of patent law might be justifiable. There's little doubt that the idea was unique and non-obvious, but that upon release, reimplementation was trivial.
Should Alexey Pajitnov be granted exclusive rights to release games with Tetris-like gameplay for limited time? Is it in society's best interest? Or do we benefit more by allowing the knockoffs to continue? After all, there's no clear evidence that lack of rules protection has STOPPED unique and interesting games from coming out.
HTML *is* the semantic code. CSS *is* the presentation. That's what they're for. The fact that IE6 takes a stab at but misinterprets the CSS instead of just presenting the semantic HTML (for those tags/selectors/attributes) is broken.
I don't necessarily agree with the parent (maybe the laptop helps OP's workflow, or there's some other situation he hasn't explained to us). BUT, assuming the friends won't damage your computer by using it (because you're on OSX or Linux), I don't quite see the problem. Here, let me rephrase the OP:
Dear Slashdot, I bring crayons to school but other people keep asking to use them. I don't really want to let them use my crayons. What do I do?
Um, you either share or you don't. Or you leave the crayons at home. All those choices have social consequences. Use your social skills (I know, I know, I must be new here...)
I never understood what "being authorized to charge a fee" meant. There's a lot of stupid "fees" in my phone bill that are Congressionally authorized, but why do I care? The bottom line is what I have to pay, and if the phone company calls it the monthly service fee or the Strawberry Pastry Fee that's up to them.
What I *do* give a damn about is the fact that they can't seem to accurately tell me what I'm actually going to be paying each month for their plans (assuming no overages, etc).
According to the Hulu CEO, the issue is the cable channels. They get a large chunk of their funding from cable subscriptions, and they feel very threatened by any project that attempts to replace the cable box in your living room.
Hulu would much rather have shows like Battlestar Galactica and the users it draws than have the handful of hobbyists who currently have a Boxee or XBMC setup. Of course they'd rather have both, but this is similar to the games Apple has to play with RIAA, etc.
That would be correct. ITER was slashed entirely from the '08 (I think?) budget, the first one passed after the Democrats got control back of Congress.
Story goes, Democrats wanted to use their new-found power to add items from their party wishlist onto the budget. Bush gave a specific limit over which he threatened to veto. Instead of cutting back on new stuff, the Democrats had an overnight session and ransacked much of the pre-existing budget. That's also how Fermilab got into so much trouble, along with most of the DOE Office of Science (physical sciences) budget.
I guarantee you there were maybe 5 overworked staffers going over the budget line by line trying to reach a number their bosses liked. "ITER?" "Never heard of it." "It says, fusion research" "Cut it.".
Wouldn't you like to be the lobbyist who offers them a pizza?
I thought it had been pointed out quite a few times now that people are more afraid of what they can't see or control, like how people will freak out more in an airplane than as a passenger in a car than as a driver in a car. Or people who are afraid of being outside during lightning.
The rationale is simple: everyone thinks they're a better than average driver. Everyone thinks *they're* good enough to stop bad things from happening. Take that (even illusory) control away from them, they get afraid.
You can argue that it's silly until you're blue in the face, but you're missing the point: people aren't afraid of the odds. They're terrified of being out of control.
A Fermilab discovery would actually be nice, because then it gives us somewhere in particular to look and focus our analyses. Whatever happens, the LHC *will* have the better data eventually.
Not to mention, the LHC can still take a good stab at solving the hierarchy problem by finding new particles at the TeV scale.
The real reason, at least as I see it reasoned by those around me, is to give the graduate students and post-docs a chance to finish their jobs in a *reasonable* timescale and move on. There's people who have been here for 6 years already waiting for startup, which is the average Physics PhD duration as it is. If collisions were delayed again, imagine all those people AND their advisers and bosses screaming to upper management.
If you read GP's link, he's referring more to the fact that Emacs runs on a full LISP interpreter, so you can make key-bindings to any Turing-complete operation you can think of, with plenty of hooks available back into the text-editing capabilities. I haven't seen a graphical text editor that powerful yet.
But I *do* second the recommendation of Qt Creator, despite that loss. For me, having the integrated API reference is a lifesaver, and the UI designer is really slick too. Also some textual things are just plain impressive (I'll get autocomplete suggestions for things that aren't even part of Qt or my project, just because of a header include line!)
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In the normal flow of execution your code goes out of scope and objects inside are destroyed. The purpose of EXCEPTIONS are so that when you have exceptional behavior, all aborted scopes are still properly cleaned up with object destruction. Longjmp doesn't do that. Hence my comment.
Nor are destructors called on longjmp.
For the love of God, man, use exceptions! That's what they're for!
Agreed.
An economist will tell you money is fungible. It doesn't matter where it comes from. If you earmark a particular source for a destination, that just means the destination needs that amount less from the general supply, which is then freed up to go wherever.
It's a great way to get unpopular revenue streams passed (my state uses Lotto to fund education), but it's entirely meaningless.
More options:
Price the new game lower as time goes on. There's no difference between new and used bits, so if there's a profit margin, get in the game. People will even place a ($5?) premium on getting an "unopened" copy.
Build a "starter pack" of DLC into the startup of a game. New copy purchasers can enter a code from the box, used purchasers can buy it with a credit card. There's your "slice" of the used game purchase.
Make your back-catalog available as a digital download. Like on WiiWare, XBLA, Steam, or GoG. People are doing this already.
Well, you have something that MIGHT happen and something that MIGHT NOT happen. 50/50.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=225921&title=large-hadron-collider
(sorry, that's been the joke around the office here all week)
Identity verification is a non-goal of SSL. The purpose of having a cert signed is so that someone receiving a cert claiming to be from http://joessite.com/ can be sure it's actually from the person who controls joessite.com, and not someone trying to MITM you.
Whether that's Joe or not is not an addressed issue.
I don't wish to contradict you, since you raise some good points about Linux (autotools... *shudders*)
That said, if you *are* interested in developing for Linux again in the future, give Qt a shot. QMake is by far easier than any of the things you've listed, and Qt Creator is a great IDE that uses qmake files as its native project files.
Come to think of it, you could do this under Windows also.
Sega v. Accolade protects trademark infringement that is necessary for the purpose of interoperability:
Because the TMSS has the effect of regulating access to the Genesis III console, and because there is no indication in the record of any public or industry awareness of any feasible alternate method of gaining access to the Genesis III, we hold that Sega is primarily responsible for any resultant confusion.
http://digital-law-online.info/cases/24PQ2D1561.htm
Traditionally retailers have gotten in trouble for doing anything based on the retail sales price. First, there can only be a suggested retail price, to prevent price fixing,
Yeah, that's not true. Talk to your local Apple or guitar retailer, they've been dealing with minimum retail prices for ages.
If a manufacturer, on its own, adopts a policy regarding a desired level of prices, the law allows the manufacturer to deal only with retailers who agree to that policy. A manufacturer also may stop dealing with a retailer that does not follow its resale price policy. That is, a manufacturer can implement a dealer policy on a "take it or leave it" basis.
http://www.ftc.gov/bc/antitrust/manufacturer_requirements.shtm
It seems like one of the more unique situations where protections under some sort of patent law might be justifiable. There's little doubt that the idea was unique and non-obvious, but that upon release, reimplementation was trivial.
Should Alexey Pajitnov be granted exclusive rights to release games with Tetris-like gameplay for limited time? Is it in society's best interest? Or do we benefit more by allowing the knockoffs to continue? After all, there's no clear evidence that lack of rules protection has STOPPED unique and interesting games from coming out.
I'm curious to get people's opinions.
And it was on Vista. And I still have to see a BSOD.
Well, if you absolutely have to see a BSOD, then I suppose Windows isn't a bad operating system to use.
(I kid, I kid...)
No, you misunderstand. It requires ALL of them.
You're missing the point.
HTML *is* the semantic code. CSS *is* the presentation. That's what they're for. The fact that IE6 takes a stab at but misinterprets the CSS instead of just presenting the semantic HTML (for those tags/selectors/attributes) is broken.
Guybrush: I can't help but feel I've been ripped off.
looks at screen
Guybrush: I'm sure you're feeling something similar.
Dear Slashdot, I bring crayons to school but other people keep asking to use them. I don't really want to let them use my crayons. What do I do?
Um, you either share or you don't. Or you leave the crayons at home. All those choices have social consequences. Use your social skills (I know, I know, I must be new here...)
Nokia's most recent phones use Micro USB, which is the sanest thing I can think of to standardize on.
I never understood what "being authorized to charge a fee" meant. There's a lot of stupid "fees" in my phone bill that are Congressionally authorized, but why do I care? The bottom line is what I have to pay, and if the phone company calls it the monthly service fee or the Strawberry Pastry Fee that's up to them.
What I *do* give a damn about is the fact that they can't seem to accurately tell me what I'm actually going to be paying each month for their plans (assuming no overages, etc).
That's called advertising, which by no means dictates how they will behave. RTFI if you don't believe me.
According to the Hulu CEO, the issue is the cable channels. They get a large chunk of their funding from cable subscriptions, and they feel very threatened by any project that attempts to replace the cable box in your living room.
Hulu would much rather have shows like Battlestar Galactica and the users it draws than have the handful of hobbyists who currently have a Boxee or XBMC setup. Of course they'd rather have both, but this is similar to the games Apple has to play with RIAA, etc.
That would be correct. ITER was slashed entirely from the '08 (I think?) budget, the first one passed after the Democrats got control back of Congress.
Story goes, Democrats wanted to use their new-found power to add items from their party wishlist onto the budget. Bush gave a specific limit over which he threatened to veto. Instead of cutting back on new stuff, the Democrats had an overnight session and ransacked much of the pre-existing budget. That's also how Fermilab got into so much trouble, along with most of the DOE Office of Science (physical sciences) budget.
I guarantee you there were maybe 5 overworked staffers going over the budget line by line trying to reach a number their bosses liked. "ITER?" "Never heard of it." "It says, fusion research" "Cut it.".
Wouldn't you like to be the lobbyist who offers them a pizza?
The Swiss Franc has been consistently weaker than the dollar. Right now Google says CHF 14M = USD 12.9M.
So, what you're saying is that it's NOT necessarily better with Windows? That it's up to each individual to decide what's right for them?
I'm sure glad Asus isn't making such a claim. Oh wait.
I thought it had been pointed out quite a few times now that people are more afraid of what they can't see or control, like how people will freak out more in an airplane than as a passenger in a car than as a driver in a car. Or people who are afraid of being outside during lightning.
The rationale is simple: everyone thinks they're a better than average driver. Everyone thinks *they're* good enough to stop bad things from happening. Take that (even illusory) control away from them, they get afraid.
You can argue that it's silly until you're blue in the face, but you're missing the point: people aren't afraid of the odds. They're terrified of being out of control.
A Fermilab discovery would actually be nice, because then it gives us somewhere in particular to look and focus our analyses. Whatever happens, the LHC *will* have the better data eventually.
Not to mention, the LHC can still take a good stab at solving the hierarchy problem by finding new particles at the TeV scale.
The real reason, at least as I see it reasoned by those around me, is to give the graduate students and post-docs a chance to finish their jobs in a *reasonable* timescale and move on. There's people who have been here for 6 years already waiting for startup, which is the average Physics PhD duration as it is. If collisions were delayed again, imagine all those people AND their advisers and bosses screaming to upper management.
If you read GP's link, he's referring more to the fact that Emacs runs on a full LISP interpreter, so you can make key-bindings to any Turing-complete operation you can think of, with plenty of hooks available back into the text-editing capabilities. I haven't seen a graphical text editor that powerful yet.
But I *do* second the recommendation of Qt Creator, despite that loss. For me, having the integrated API reference is a lifesaver, and the UI designer is really slick too. Also some textual things are just plain impressive (I'll get autocomplete suggestions for things that aren't even part of Qt or my project, just because of a header include line!)