By that logic, mm should be "meter meter" or meters squared. But it's not, it's defined to mean millimeter. When you use m in the context of a quantity as opposed to a length, everyone knows it means million. The reason people just use m instead of M in those cases is because at the end of a word, people are more accustomed to using a non-capital letter. Anyway, the way people should use things doesn't always line up with the way they actually do.
Why not note that the new hybrid full size pickup trucks and SUVs are actually MORE powerful and have MORE torque than their gasoline-engine-only counterparts, while STILL saving fuel and polluting less?
That would be appealing to anyone, unless the hybrid system costs an extra $10,000. $10,000 can buy an awful lot of extra gasoline. Of course, The specific numbers have to be taken into consideration. If it saves you $100 per month, over the lifetime of the vehicle, $10,000 might make sense.
Most people think that Sony and Nintendo have always sold the consoles at a profit. Of course they still make most of their money on the games, but as far as I know, Microsoft is the only one that people think is losing money selling game consoles.
Anyway, consoles have been protected since the original NES. Prior to that, consoles like the Atari 2600 were unprotected. Anyway, copy protection and protection for the company against unlicensed publishers has existed for a long time. The DMCA, however, for the first time makes it a criminal (not just civil or breach of contract) offense to bypass such copy protection mechanisms.
It's not dual processor, just P4 with HT. I get the same behavior with my Athlon XP machine at home that's also running Fedora Core 3. It must be something in their kernel. The only thing I could think of would be SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), but I have that disabled. Oh well, it's weird, but I'm not going to worry about it.
Do the manufacturer's really have a right to say that you can only use content licensed from them on a machine you bought? Hell no. Unless they make you sign a contract and that is a term, then no, this is insane.
I think you're confusing the way things should be with the way things actually are.
And yeah, that's as root. This is using a recent Fedora Core 3 kernel.
# cat/proc/version Linux version 2.6.10-1.766_FC3smp (bhcompile@bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 SMP Wed Feb 9 23:21:37 EST 2005
There seems to be a problem reading/dev/mem. It doesn't seem to work using dd either:
# dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null dd: reading `/dev/mem': Operation not permitted 2056+0 records in 2056+0 records out
So I'm guessing that there's some area of memory that it doesn't seem to want to read, like it's locked even to root or something. This is on a P4 2.6GHz w/ HT.
The purpose is to use winelib to easily recompile applications designed for WIN32 to a Unix-like environment. WINE (IIRC) implements its own widgets, since native widgets don't behave appropriately for the emulation.
I'd like one of the newer languages to have the power of assembly/C/C++ while still maintaining all their grace of memory saftey and management.
Pretty much any of those newer languages (I assume you mean Python, Ruby, Lua, et cetera) provide a C API for adding module interfaces (useful for doing fast calculations, access to C libraries, low-level operating system or device communications, et cetera). You shouldn't be afraid of mixing languages. It's the only way to really get the best of both worlds.
They always either break the scripts for making cross-compilers or something will break with glibc. Or it will break with uClibc. Or it'll require a specific version of binutils, or some other problem.
As an embedded linux developer (who has worked on both ARM and MIPS), I can tell you that for a production, shipping system, it doesn't matter. You'll almost always end up rolling together your own thing. However, when a vendor (e.g. Cirrus Logic) has an evaluation board (e.g., EDB9315) that comes with a hard drive with Debian loaded on it and you can see that X11 works with the framebuffer driver and USB keyboards and mice work and network apps work, it's very impressive. Most imporantly though it verifies that the drivers (framebuffer, usb, ide, serial, network, pcmcia, CF, et cetera) are implemented in a standard way and will work with "off the shelf" linux apps. This makes things amazingly easier than with other companies whose linux ports are not as complete or functional. And if you're a small company doing an embedded Linux project, it's much better to go with a System-on-Chip processor from a vendor that provides a good Linux port and good Linux drivers than it is to either do your own or write your own drivers.
However, it is sometimes very useful to use a full system like this to do native compiles of your applications (instead of cross-compiling) and native debugging. Of course, when you move to your custom hardware, you usually have to drop all that nice stuff.
(By the way, I am really a big fan of the Cirrus Logic 93xx series system-on-chip processors. After working on two other ARM SoC systems and one MIPS system, the Cirrus 9315 was by far the best supported.)
#pragma omp parallel for private(sum) reduction(+: sum)
Bleah. FYI, I'm pretty sure GCC will reject this. Even the newest versions.
I just tested it with GCC 2.95.3, 3.2.1, 3.3, and 3.4.2, and it works fine. Of course, GCC is just ignoring the #pragma. I didn't know about OpenMP before this, but it does look like a good way to "optimize later" and have your code still compile with gcc. And you don't have to write and maintain two different versions separated by #ifdef, #else, #endif.
The 5th Ammendment says that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. However, you can be forced to turn over other evidence that is very damning to your case.
Oh n0es. Greedy class action lawyers can't file huge lawsuits against large corporations in tiny backwater towns full of jurors who like to give away the money of "big evil corporations". Now big class action lawsuits will more often need to go to Federal court, which makes sense anyway if it's a big national scale issue being contested.
We have too many laws already. We really don't need any more "protecting the stupid" type of laws. Really, have some faith in humanity. People can figure these things out for themselves. In the case that companies do things that are illegal, recourse is available in the courts.
I don't really care either way on the abortion issue but this whole thing makes me think that the side effect of successful embryonic stem cell research will be to reward people montetarily for having abortions or at least make people feel good about aborting.
That's why the pro-abortion people are in support of embryonic stem cell research.
There are also many Catholics who do not believe everything the Church says without thinking about it and there are many who quietly disobey the official Church teachings without fear of punishment from God. There are many Catholics who know about Martin Luther, who wrote that no one, no Church, can stand in the way or be required between a man (or woman) and God. And of course, there are Catholics who know that following Catholicism isn't the only way to live your life, and thus they are free to listen to everything with a "grain of salt", so to speak.
harvesting a few extremely useful cells from dead, young, human flesh.
Stem cells are not dead. If they were dead, they wouldn't be potentially useful.
Stem cells save lives.
Name one person who has been saved or even helped in any way by any kind of stem cell therapy, ever. You can't, because that person doesn't exist. Not only that, but an adult will most likely reject stem cells from another person the same way that a donor organ is rejected. So the most promising techniques would be taking adult stem cells from person A, isolating them, growing them to larger numbers in a lab, then re-implanting them in person A to replace damaged tissues. That doesn't involve any infants, fetuses, or embryos, so research on that type of thing is perfectly eligible for federal funding from tax money. So why isn't that research being pushed by the pro-stem cell activists or research companies who want the tax-supported research grants?
Ignore the stigma. Go see your family doctor. Get a referral to a psychiatrist. Try the drugs. Take the drugs on time every day. Wait a month. It will probably work.
The people who give you the "cowardly way out speech" are not really going to help you. They think you're probably fine, since you're probably fine at that moment when you talk to them. They're not going to hold your hand and walk you to talk to a doctor. You have to do it for yourself, during one of your "up" times. You've probably realized that there's a pattern to your life. Just do it, even if you feel fine at that moment.
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By that logic, mm should be "meter meter" or meters squared. But it's not, it's defined to mean millimeter. When you use m in the context of a quantity as opposed to a length, everyone knows it means million. The reason people just use m instead of M in those cases is because at the end of a word, people are more accustomed to using a non-capital letter. Anyway, the way people should use things doesn't always line up with the way they actually do.
Most people do not need a V8. Indeed, such engines should only be permitted to people that have just cause.
Wow, I'm glad you're not in charge of things.
Why not note that the new hybrid full size pickup trucks and SUVs are actually MORE powerful and have MORE torque than their gasoline-engine-only counterparts, while STILL saving fuel and polluting less?
That would be appealing to anyone, unless the hybrid system costs an extra $10,000. $10,000 can buy an awful lot of extra gasoline. Of course, The specific numbers have to be taken into consideration. If it saves you $100 per month, over the lifetime of the vehicle, $10,000 might make sense.
Most people think that Sony and Nintendo have always sold the consoles at a profit. Of course they still make most of their money on the games, but as far as I know, Microsoft is the only one that people think is losing money selling game consoles.
Anyway, consoles have been protected since the original NES. Prior to that, consoles like the Atari 2600 were unprotected. Anyway, copy protection and protection for the company against unlicensed publishers has existed for a long time. The DMCA, however, for the first time makes it a criminal (not just civil or breach of contract) offense to bypass such copy protection mechanisms.
It's not dual processor, just P4 with HT. I get the same behavior with my Athlon XP machine at home that's also running Fedora Core 3. It must be something in their kernel. The only thing I could think of would be SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), but I have that disabled. Oh well, it's weird, but I'm not going to worry about it.
Do the manufacturer's really have a right to say that you can only use content licensed from them on a machine you bought? Hell no. Unless they make you sign a contract and that is a term, then no, this is insane.
I think you're confusing the way things should be with the way things actually are.
The purpose is to use winelib to easily recompile applications designed for WIN32 to a Unix-like environment. WINE (IIRC) implements its own widgets, since native widgets don't behave appropriately for the emulation.
I'd like one of the newer languages to have the power of assembly/C/C++ while still maintaining all their grace of memory saftey and management.
Pretty much any of those newer languages (I assume you mean Python, Ruby, Lua, et cetera) provide a C API for adding module interfaces (useful for doing fast calculations, access to C libraries, low-level operating system or device communications, et cetera). You shouldn't be afraid of mixing languages. It's the only way to really get the best of both worlds.
They always either break the scripts for making cross-compilers or something will break with glibc. Or it will break with uClibc. Or it'll require a specific version of binutils, or some other problem.
"They that can give up high performance to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither performance nor security."
--not Benjamin Franklin
As an embedded linux developer (who has worked on both ARM and MIPS), I can tell you that for a production, shipping system, it doesn't matter. You'll almost always end up rolling together your own thing. However, when a vendor (e.g. Cirrus Logic) has an evaluation board (e.g., EDB9315) that comes with a hard drive with Debian loaded on it and you can see that X11 works with the framebuffer driver and USB keyboards and mice work and network apps work, it's very impressive. Most imporantly though it verifies that the drivers (framebuffer, usb, ide, serial, network, pcmcia, CF, et cetera) are implemented in a standard way and will work with "off the shelf" linux apps. This makes things amazingly easier than with other companies whose linux ports are not as complete or functional. And if you're a small company doing an embedded Linux project, it's much better to go with a System-on-Chip processor from a vendor that provides a good Linux port and good Linux drivers than it is to either do your own or write your own drivers.
However, it is sometimes very useful to use a full system like this to do native compiles of your applications (instead of cross-compiling) and native debugging. Of course, when you move to your custom hardware, you usually have to drop all that nice stuff.
(By the way, I am really a big fan of the Cirrus Logic 93xx series system-on-chip processors. After working on two other ARM SoC systems and one MIPS system, the Cirrus 9315 was by far the best supported.)
That's weird. I don't have any llamas on my system. What are you running?
I just tested it with GCC 2.95.3, 3.2.1, 3.3, and 3.4.2, and it works fine. Of course, GCC is just ignoring the #pragma. I didn't know about OpenMP before this, but it does look like a good way to "optimize later" and have your code still compile with gcc. And you don't have to write and maintain two different versions separated by #ifdef, #else, #endif.
He must be a KDE developer.
No, no, no. He's a KFC developer.
The 5th Ammendment says that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. However, you can be forced to turn over other evidence that is very damning to your case.
Oh n0es. Greedy class action lawyers can't file huge lawsuits against large corporations in tiny backwater towns full of jurors who like to give away the money of "big evil corporations". Now big class action lawsuits will more often need to go to Federal court, which makes sense anyway if it's a big national scale issue being contested.
You're assuming that Maui X-Stream actually has any money.
Two words: Class Action.
offering rebates should be illegal
We have too many laws already. We really don't need any more "protecting the stupid" type of laws. Really, have some faith in humanity. People can figure these things out for themselves. In the case that companies do things that are illegal, recourse is available in the courts.
We can't let the truth get out there. It will be damaging to our position.
Mod this guy down, for Ford's sake!!!
I don't really care either way on the abortion issue but this whole thing makes me think that the side effect of successful embryonic stem cell research will be to reward people montetarily for having abortions or at least make people feel good about aborting.
That's why the pro-abortion people are in support of embryonic stem cell research.
This is more toward the grandparent poster:
There are also many Catholics who do not believe everything the Church says without thinking about it and there are many who quietly disobey the official Church teachings without fear of punishment from God. There are many Catholics who know about Martin Luther, who wrote that no one, no Church, can stand in the way or be required between a man (or woman) and God. And of course, there are Catholics who know that following Catholicism isn't the only way to live your life, and thus they are free to listen to everything with a "grain of salt", so to speak.
harvesting a few extremely useful cells from dead, young, human flesh.
Stem cells are not dead. If they were dead, they wouldn't be potentially useful.
Stem cells save lives.
Name one person who has been saved or even helped in any way by any kind of stem cell therapy, ever. You can't, because that person doesn't exist. Not only that, but an adult will most likely reject stem cells from another person the same way that a donor organ is rejected. So the most promising techniques would be taking adult stem cells from person A, isolating them, growing them to larger numbers in a lab, then re-implanting them in person A to replace damaged tissues. That doesn't involve any infants, fetuses, or embryos, so research on that type of thing is perfectly eligible for federal funding from tax money. So why isn't that research being pushed by the pro-stem cell activists or research companies who want the tax-supported research grants?
Ignore the stigma. Go see your family doctor. Get a referral to a psychiatrist. Try the drugs. Take the drugs on time every day. Wait a month. It will probably work.
The people who give you the "cowardly way out speech" are not really going to help you. They think you're probably fine, since you're probably fine at that moment when you talk to them. They're not going to hold your hand and walk you to talk to a doctor. You have to do it for yourself, during one of your "up" times. You've probably realized that there's a pattern to your life. Just do it, even if you feel fine at that moment.