If by poke you mean "completely ignore", yes, we should. Stop sending them food and force them to attack someone. Then nuke them when they do. Problem solved.
I agree -- for a single CPU. But perhaps for large numbers of independent cores you could gain a lot by neglecting locks and allowing certain race conditions to happen? Essentially "So what if it's off by one, if I can get the result much faster".
Sorry, but "given the capabilities of today's electronics" is so vague, it comes nowhere near. You could use this argument to claim exascale computing in a sand grain is already possible today.
Thanks. Fair enough, I get the headphones plugged into a multi-purpose jack hijacked to switch to mic in scenario, maybe that could be pulled off.
Not to move the goalposts, but with speakers though, wouldn't you have an analog amp layer in between the coil and the jack? How do you make the power amp driving the speakers function backwards?
Dude, that a coil and magnet can be both a speaker and a microphone is no revelation for anyone with a basic grasp of physics. What the GP seems to imply though, is that the D/A converter that drives the speakers can be turned into an A/D converter "easily with code, no rewiring needed", in other words, that you could talk to your earbuds and record off them while they are not plugged into the mic socket. This does sound like an extraordinary claim and asking for extraordinary evidence is pretty sensible.
On my Ubuntu box I have Windblows 7,8, 10, and OSX 10 all playing nice together. I'm just baffled as to why one would buy a Windsucks box and publish on this forum?
What, you have them integrated within the same runtime, like these guys (promise)? Or as an exclusive boot-time choice, which is a different matter. Or as guest VMs running on an Ubuntu host, which is yet a different matter. If the first option, you gonna be rich, man! If the latter two, this is off topic, regardless which OS you'd like to diss.
With a few extensions, it is now fully usable and comparable to any other Environments. Just compare it to 3.10 and see how much ground they've covered.
I tend to think that if a device is actually needed for their health, they're not going to be too big on modding it to add more functionality at risk of damaging it.
I think you hugely underestimate how motivated a hardly relevant fraction of people are to cheat and the lengths they will go to to get ahead.
FTFY. We're not looking for a perfect solution, are we, just a considerable improvement.
And clearly a corollary is that if mommy and daddy have enough money to buy such cheats for you then you deserve to pass too, even if you are a borderline idiot and you are taking exams in critical areas like medicine or civil engineering.
Right, use corner cases of corner cases to figure out works-in-most-cases solutions.
Huh? I can pop my Windows 7 Pro disc or flash drive into any PC I buy and have it installed in no time. And why would you have to first remove Windows 8 or Windows 10? Why would you not just tell the Windows 7 installer to format the drive and clean install? Fabricating extra steps to make it sound more complex than it really is, are we?
Quite an attitude you've got there. I'm not fabricating anything. Looks like your experience is different. Mine was the following. The PCs was not mine, I was helping out my mom. It came with Win8 preinstalled, together with the "backup partition" nonsense that laptop vendors throw in. This had to be cloned first, so that it could be returned to pristine state in case installing Win7 did not work (missing drivers, etc.). Extract the drive, pop into a USB enclosure, connect to a second laptop, clonezilla, done. Easy? Yes, but an extra step.
Then *my* Win7 installation disc just "blackscreened" early during the installation process. The error message was rather generic, along the lines of "This installation disc will not work with this system", and it took me a while to figure out that it was something to do with the EFI/UEFI boot process. Took some fiddling with BIOS settings, I think this is what toddestan referes to as the secure boot bullshit. So yes, the install was not smooth at all.
Also, Windows Vista/7 drivers are the same as Windows 8 and Windows 10 drivers. They are interchangeable.
What, vendor-provided drivers for NIC, touchpad, chipset and so on advertised as Win10 drivers work without issues under Win7? Maybe for you they do, can't say they did for me.
I'll be happy (okay, happier) to pay for an ad-free and spyware-free version of Windows 10.
Windows 7 is still on sale, performs far better, and has an interface that is doesn't have people ringing up tech support to ask how to turn it off.
I know, but good luck finding a new laptop with Windows 7. The effort to remove Win8 or Win10 from your new purchase, installing Win7 and hunting for necessary Win7 drivers is non-negligible. And you better make sure those Win7 drivers exist in the first place.
Wireless keyboard on a desk has always seemed particularly ridiculous to me - the thing doesn't need to move, so why is having a cable an issue?
But the keyboard does move -- usually to temporarily make room for something else: notepad, snacks, book, body parts. And then the cable invariably trips either the wine glass or the coffee cup. The wireless signals have a better track record of not doing that.
I argue the exact opposite! C++ the programming language leaves way too many decisions to the compiler implementer. A better specified language, such as Java, Ada, Eiffel, etc, doesn't have that problem of different compiler interpretations of the standard.
Interpretations of the standard? C++ standard has few ambiguities, hard to come with many interpretations. Perhaps you mean the bits that are left as implementation-dependent? I think grandparent was talking about dumb programmers who argue about precise results of undefined behaviour.
Seconded. I use git locally and then commit to a central svn repository via git-svn. The git-svn interface is a bit fragile, but the ease of merging nontrivial changes git-side rather than svn-side makes up for that.
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Oh not this nonsense again. Have a go: http://philsci-archive.pitt.ed...
If by poke you mean "completely ignore", yes, we should. Stop sending them food and force them to attack someone. Then nuke them when they do. Problem solved.
Except China.
I agree -- for a single CPU. But perhaps for large numbers of independent cores you could gain a lot by neglecting locks and allowing certain race conditions to happen? Essentially "So what if it's off by one, if I can get the result much faster".
Sorry, but "given the capabilities of today's electronics" is so vague, it comes nowhere near. You could use this argument to claim exascale computing in a sand grain is already possible today.
Thanks. Fair enough, I get the headphones plugged into a multi-purpose jack hijacked to switch to mic in scenario, maybe that could be pulled off. Not to move the goalposts, but with speakers though, wouldn't you have an analog amp layer in between the coil and the jack? How do you make the power amp driving the speakers function backwards?
Dude, that a coil and magnet can be both a speaker and a microphone is no revelation for anyone with a basic grasp of physics. What the GP seems to imply though, is that the D/A converter that drives the speakers can be turned into an A/D converter "easily with code, no rewiring needed", in other words, that you could talk to your earbuds and record off them while they are not plugged into the mic socket. This does sound like an extraordinary claim and asking for extraordinary evidence is pretty sensible.
On my Ubuntu box I have Windblows 7,8, 10, and OSX 10 all playing nice together. I'm just baffled as to why one would buy a Windsucks box and publish on this forum?
What, you have them integrated within the same runtime, like these guys (promise)? Or as an exclusive boot-time choice, which is a different matter. Or as guest VMs running on an Ubuntu host, which is yet a different matter. If the first option, you gonna be rich, man! If the latter two, this is off topic, regardless which OS you'd like to diss.
With a few extensions, it is now fully usable and comparable to any other Environments. Just compare it to 3.10 and see how much ground they've covered.
Like, they *now* have middle-click paste.
AC, this is PR. PR, this is AC.
I tend to think that if a device is actually needed for their health, they're not going to be too big on modding it to add more functionality at risk of damaging it.
I think you hugely underestimate how motivated a hardly relevant fraction of people are to cheat and the lengths they will go to to get ahead.
FTFY. We're not looking for a perfect solution, are we, just a considerable improvement.
And clearly a corollary is that if mommy and daddy have enough money to buy such cheats for you then you deserve to pass too, even if you are a borderline idiot and you are taking exams in critical areas like medicine or civil engineering.
Right, use corner cases of corner cases to figure out works-in-most-cases solutions.
Huh? I can pop my Windows 7 Pro disc or flash drive into any PC I buy and have it installed in no time. And why would you have to first remove Windows 8 or Windows 10? Why would you not just tell the Windows 7 installer to format the drive and clean install? Fabricating extra steps to make it sound more complex than it really is, are we?
Quite an attitude you've got there. I'm not fabricating anything. Looks like your experience is different. Mine was the following. The PCs was not mine, I was helping out my mom. It came with Win8 preinstalled, together with the "backup partition" nonsense that laptop vendors throw in. This had to be cloned first, so that it could be returned to pristine state in case installing Win7 did not work (missing drivers, etc.). Extract the drive, pop into a USB enclosure, connect to a second laptop, clonezilla, done. Easy? Yes, but an extra step. Then *my* Win7 installation disc just "blackscreened" early during the installation process. The error message was rather generic, along the lines of "This installation disc will not work with this system", and it took me a while to figure out that it was something to do with the EFI/UEFI boot process. Took some fiddling with BIOS settings, I think this is what toddestan referes to as the secure boot bullshit. So yes, the install was not smooth at all.
Also, Windows Vista/7 drivers are the same as Windows 8 and Windows 10 drivers. They are interchangeable.
What, vendor-provided drivers for NIC, touchpad, chipset and so on advertised as Win10 drivers work without issues under Win7? Maybe for you they do, can't say they did for me.
Windows 7 is still on sale, performs far better, and has an interface that is doesn't have people ringing up tech support to ask how to turn it off.
I know, but good luck finding a new laptop with Windows 7. The effort to remove Win8 or Win10 from your new purchase, installing Win7 and hunting for necessary Win7 drivers is non-negligible. And you better make sure those Win7 drivers exist in the first place.
Wireless keyboard on a desk has always seemed particularly ridiculous to me - the thing doesn't need to move, so why is having a cable an issue?
But the keyboard does move -- usually to temporarily make room for something else: notepad, snacks, book, body parts. And then the cable invariably trips either the wine glass or the coffee cup. The wireless signals have a better track record of not doing that.
Mr. Dengo was *the* GOTO, not *a* GOTO.
I can't understand [...]
And that should be your cue not to post, and think for a moment. If you have sensitive data, you use encryption.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
x = x++;
It looks okay at first glance,
TBH, it screams "@fixme, sequence points" even at a first glance.
I even had a boss once who cut and pasted code without re-indenting afterwords.
These go into a separate chapter usually, just like forewords, so they might be indented differently on purpose.
s/10e/1e/g
Excellent job extrapolating from 50 to infinity. Malthus would be proud.
It would be "same thing" iff each of those models were used by one person, on average. Is it really what you are implying here?
Slashdot: Critical Vulnerability In NetUSB Driver Exposes Millions of Routers To Hacking
TFA: Tiny list of router models affected.
FTFY
I argue the exact opposite! C++ the programming language leaves way too many decisions to the compiler implementer. A better specified language, such as Java, Ada, Eiffel, etc, doesn't have that problem of different compiler interpretations of the standard.
Interpretations of the standard? C++ standard has few ambiguities, hard to come with many interpretations. Perhaps you mean the bits that are left as implementation-dependent? I think grandparent was talking about dumb programmers who argue about precise results of undefined behaviour.
Seconded. I use git locally and then commit to a central svn repository via git-svn. The git-svn interface is a bit fragile, but the ease of merging nontrivial changes git-side rather than svn-side makes up for that.