I'm no expert at this, but here's my two cents. I think what happens is that the fission reaction causes shorter lived radioactive isotopes to be created. This essentially causes the pile of uranium to become more "active" and hence more dangerous. In the long, long run, it will probably be less radioactive than it originally would have been. However, this timescale is something like 10,000+ years.
Depends on where your active window is on the screen, doesn't it? Takes longer to move from the window to the menu if you have to go all the way across the screen.
As a matter of fact, it doesn't (unless your screen is really, really, really big). See AskTog, the answer to #5. The top of the screen is much faster (factor of 5 or so) to access than a menu in the middle due to the precision of mouse control required.
Yes, except Microsoft can afford to pay a license fee. Last I checked, Palm was already in a fair amount of trouble business-wise. In some sense it would be smart of Microsoft to admit that they're infringing and pay Xerox some money. That might strengthen the case against Palm and cause them further problems, possibly crippling them financially (making a Microsoft win easier).
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No. There is no evidence of who did it.
My opinion is that it is most likely domestic right-wing nuts taking advantage of a confused situation. Why? Look at who the targets were. Two Democratic senators and members of the "libral" media. If it were Al Qaeda, then they would have added targets such as the White House, Dennis Hassert (speaker of the house), the Wall Street Journal (what better symbol of American corruption?). I mean, Patrick Leahy over Dennis Hassert???
Sorry, but there's nothing in the constitution preventing Congress to pass constitutional laws. Indeed, there's nothing in the consistition saying that the courts are where laws are deemed to be constitutional. The Supreme Court took this power upon itself, way back when (sorry, I forget the case where they decided it). They basically said "if we don't, then who?".
for example, the iPod. it was hyped-up so much that when people actually saw it, it was a let down, even tho it's a great piece of hardware (a bit costly, but cool)...
Apple had a press release before it was unveiled and called it a "breakthrough digital device". That's why there was so much hype.
The initializing of variables is required (except maybe p1). Otherwise if the p1 or p2 allocations fail, the program will pass an uninitialized variable to free().
I like having the "if" statement. It's a consistency thing. The style of code can be used with other "allocate" functions that don't allow NULL or the equivalent on the free routine and I like making it consistent.
One thing I don't like about your sample allocate_3 routine is the fact that you need to call free routines twice:
CALL ( FREE(p1) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p2) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p3) ) ;
PROCEDURE_RESCUE
/* This is executed when there is a problem in the body */
CALL ( FREE(p1) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p2) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p3) ) ;
PROCEDURE_FAILURE
I like to always execute the same free routines whether or not there is an error. That way you don't forget to free something in one branch or the other (or if you do, you forget in both branches and it's easier to detect = fewer bugs). If you want to return an allocated variable, then set p1 = NULL just before ReturnResult.
One of these days, I'm going to write my own C style guide.
Here's my code. I had to remove some white space due to slashdot's "compress filter" rejection.
#define FAILED (xxx)// depends on program
#define ERRCHECK(a) if(FAILED(rc=(a))) goto ReturnResult;
int MyMalloc(int size, void **p)
{
*p = malloc(size);
if (!*p)
return ERR_MEMFAIL;
return ERR_SUCCESS;
}
int allocate_3(void){
int *p1=NULL, *p2=NULL, *p3=NULL;
int rc = ERR_SUCCESS;
ERRCHECK(MyMalloc(SOME_NUMBER*sizeof(int),&p1));
ERRCHECK(MyMalloc(SOME_NUMBER*sizeof(int),&p2);
ERRCHECK(MyMalloc(SOME_NUMBER*sizeof(int),&p3);
/* Here we do something with p1, p2, p3 */
ReturnResult:
if (p1) free(p1);
if (p2) free(p2);
if (p3) free(p3);
return rc;
}
Sounds like that would be a reason *in favor* of a cashless society to me. After all, selling Marijuana is *illegal*. If you have a problem with this, then the problem is not with the cashless society, but rather a problem with the illegality of marijuana. Make marijuana legal, and there is no problem, right?
Yes, but there are some things that, while not illegal, are embarassing. (e.g. the parent post mentioned visiting a strip club, or even say going to see Police Academy IX). Using cash makes it significantly more difficult to track you down in these situations as well as illegal ones.
P.S. Where in the documentation does it say this? I just read through it and the documentation on Load gives no indication that this is possible. (I'm looking at VB6).
Thanks! I don't think stupid is the right word, though. It's ignorant. I don't know how to do everything in VB (indeed, I avoid it if I can due). I asked an experienced VB programmer how to do it and he didn't think it was possible, so I gave up (obviously too early). My dislike of the environment is the biggest reason I dislike VB (undo is broken!), but there are still limitations that are frustrating to deal with.
I go between C++ and VB all the time. I hate working with VB. Why?
When I use it, I feel it's constantly trying to constrain what I do. For example, it doesn't allow you to create controls dynamically (for example, if I want a variable number of controls on a form). (Yes, I probably could figure out how to do this using Windows APIs, but why?). You can't do multi-threading (well, there are hacks to allow this, but you can't debug programs!).
There are silly language options, such as Option Base, that can make understanding some else's code harder.
I also find the IDE very annoying. Undos often only work in the text editor. When a program crashes, it brings down the IDE, etc. Searching is a pain. You can't look at a form when running the program, etc.
I could go on, but the bottom line for me is that it's frustrating to use VB.
It's one part in 100,000 over 15 billion years or so. For nearly all intents and purposes, these are constant. The error in measurement of the age of the earth is much greater than 1/100,000.
When Slashdot becomes the voice of the majority (Warning: About 1 million years of evolution of the human species required), then maybe some of this will change.
What makes you think that reading slashdot has a positive selective effect? (Do people who read slashdot have more kids???)
- Some of the 'flaws' of forking mentioned are actually 'flaws' of having multiple choices in general, regardless of whether those choices were generated due to code forking or independant code bases competing with each other. Thus they are 'flaws' that are shared by the closed-source world as well a the open source world.
That's a flaw that Microsoft has been working hard to fix for many years in the closed-source world (see: Netscape, Borland, Novell and that pesky Apple...).
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that gaurentees you a severence pay of at least a monet, often more.
Damn, I want a job that gives me severence pay of a Monet (or maybe if I'm lucky, a Picasso)
I'm no expert at this, but here's my two cents. I think what happens is that the fission reaction causes shorter lived radioactive isotopes to be created. This essentially causes the pile of uranium to become more "active" and hence more dangerous. In the long, long run, it will probably be less radioactive than it originally would have been. However, this timescale is something like 10,000+ years.
It also would have prevented Netscape from running on non-Windows systems (ok, maybe the Macintosh, but nothing else).
Depends on where your active window is on the screen, doesn't it? Takes longer to move from the window to the menu if you have to go all the way across the screen.
As a matter of fact, it doesn't (unless your screen is really, really, really big). See AskTog, the answer to #5. The top of the screen is much faster (factor of 5 or so) to access than a menu in the middle due to the precision of mouse control required.
700MHz G3
The iMac now comes with a 700 MHz G4
Yes, except Microsoft can afford to pay a license fee. Last I checked, Palm was already in a fair amount of trouble business-wise. In some sense it would be smart of Microsoft to admit that they're infringing and pay Xerox some money. That might strengthen the case against Palm and cause them further problems, possibly crippling them financially (making a Microsoft win easier).
No. There is no evidence of who did it.
My opinion is that it is most likely domestic right-wing nuts taking advantage of a confused situation. Why? Look at who the targets were. Two Democratic senators and members of the "libral" media. If it were Al Qaeda, then they would have added targets such as the White House, Dennis Hassert (speaker of the house), the Wall Street Journal (what better symbol of American corruption?). I mean, Patrick Leahy over Dennis Hassert???
Sorry, but there's nothing in the constitution preventing Congress to pass constitutional laws. Indeed, there's nothing in the consistition saying that the courts are where laws are deemed to be constitutional. The Supreme Court took this power upon itself, way back when (sorry, I forget the case where they decided it). They basically said "if we don't, then who?".
The cost of firewire drives can be even less. You can buy enclosures for them and pop in IDE drives. You only need to get one enclosure.
The P, like the G and H are silent. It's one of those little know English pronounciation rules. ;-)
for example, the iPod. it was hyped-up so much that when people actually saw it, it was a let down, even tho it's a great piece of hardware (a bit costly, but cool)...
Apple had a press release before it was unveiled and called it a "breakthrough digital device". That's why there was so much hype.
That is funny! I'm really sick of hearing him say evil this, evil that. Three swigs if he refers to you or someone you know (like, say, librals) ;-)
I was doing some video compression in my hotel room the other day and I swear I saw smoke coming from the bedspread under my TiBook.
Some pretty hot porn, huh?
The initializing of variables is required (except maybe p1). Otherwise if the p1 or p2 allocations fail, the program will pass an uninitialized variable to free().
/* This is executed when there is a problem in the body */
I like having the "if" statement. It's a consistency thing. The style of code can be used with other "allocate" functions that don't allow NULL or the equivalent on the free routine and I like making it consistent.
One thing I don't like about your sample allocate_3 routine is the fact that you need to call free routines twice:
CALL ( FREE(p1) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p2) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p3) ) ;
PROCEDURE_RESCUE
CALL ( FREE(p1) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p2) ) ;
CALL ( FREE(p3) ) ;
PROCEDURE_FAILURE
I like to always execute the same free routines whether or not there is an error. That way you don't forget to free something in one branch or the other (or if you do, you forget in both branches and it's easier to detect = fewer bugs). If you want to return an allocated variable, then set p1 = NULL just before ReturnResult.
One of these days, I'm going to write my own C style guide.
If the alloc of p2 or p3 fails, then you have a memory leak.
Here's my code. I had to remove some white space due to slashdot's "compress filter" rejection.
// depends on program
/* Here we do something with p1, p2, p3 */
#define FAILED (xxx)
#define ERRCHECK(a) if(FAILED(rc=(a))) goto ReturnResult;
int MyMalloc(int size, void **p)
{
*p = malloc(size);
if (!*p)
return ERR_MEMFAIL;
return ERR_SUCCESS;
}
int allocate_3(void){
int *p1=NULL, *p2=NULL, *p3=NULL;
int rc = ERR_SUCCESS;
ERRCHECK(MyMalloc(SOME_NUMBER*sizeof(int),&p1));
ERRCHECK(MyMalloc(SOME_NUMBER*sizeof(int),&p2);
ERRCHECK(MyMalloc(SOME_NUMBER*sizeof(int),&p3);
ReturnResult:
if (p1) free(p1);
if (p2) free(p2);
if (p3) free(p3);
return rc;
}
Sounds like that would be a reason *in favor* of a cashless society to me. After all, selling Marijuana is *illegal*. If you have a problem with this, then the problem is not with the cashless society, but rather a problem with the illegality of marijuana. Make marijuana legal, and there is no problem, right?
Yes, but there are some things that, while not illegal, are embarassing. (e.g. the parent post mentioned visiting a strip club, or even say going to see Police Academy IX). Using cash makes it significantly more difficult to track you down in these situations as well as illegal ones.
P.S. Where in the documentation does it say this? I just read through it and the documentation on Load gives no indication that this is possible. (I'm looking at VB6).
Thanks! I don't think stupid is the right word, though. It's ignorant. I don't know how to do everything in VB (indeed, I avoid it if I can due). I asked an experienced VB programmer how to do it and he didn't think it was possible, so I gave up (obviously too early). My dislike of the environment is the biggest reason I dislike VB (undo is broken!), but there are still limitations that are frustrating to deal with.
I go between C++ and VB all the time. I hate working with VB. Why?
When I use it, I feel it's constantly trying to constrain what I do. For example, it doesn't allow you to create controls dynamically (for example, if I want a variable number of controls on a form). (Yes, I probably could figure out how to do this using Windows APIs, but why?). You can't do multi-threading (well, there are hacks to allow this, but you can't debug programs!).
There are silly language options, such as Option Base, that can make understanding some else's code harder.
I also find the IDE very annoying. Undos often only work in the text editor. When a program crashes, it brings down the IDE, etc. Searching is a pain. You can't look at a form when running the program, etc.
I could go on, but the bottom line for me is that it's frustrating to use VB.
It's one part in 100,000 over 15 billion years or so. For nearly all intents and purposes, these are constant. The error in measurement of the age of the earth is much greater than 1/100,000.
Yeah, but the poster quoted 3.0, implying two significant digits...
Its a case of a trade off between bandwidth and computing power. ASN.1 requires CPU (and lots of debugging) while HTML,etc require bandwidth :)
Yes, but which is the most limited in most situtations? I'd say bandwidth is the limiting factor in most cases.
When Slashdot becomes the voice of the majority (Warning: About 1 million years of evolution of the human species required), then maybe some of this will change.
What makes you think that reading slashdot has a positive selective effect? (Do people who read slashdot have more kids???)
- Some of the 'flaws' of forking mentioned are actually 'flaws' of having multiple choices in general, regardless of whether those choices were generated due to code forking or independant code bases competing with each other. Thus they are 'flaws' that are shared by the closed-source world as well a the open source world.
That's a flaw that Microsoft has been working hard to fix for many years in the closed-source world (see: Netscape, Borland, Novell and that pesky Apple ...).