Saw the film last night - wicked!:-) With the risk of be a spoiler myself I can say: the spoiler in the last line is false. Read that bastard line as well yesterday and was quite pissed off about it, but it turned out to be a dud, thank God!;-)
Obviousness - which one will seem obvious to an inexperienced programmer like, say, a hypothetical trainee given the task of making minor changes to an old program.
Must say I believe pointer arithmetic is such an integral and common part of c that it is one of those things you, as a programmer, must grasp. I cannot really see how it is less obvious than indexing, it's just another way of expressing what you want to (gettingthe next item in an array)
The optimization comes from realizing that you're frequently performing the exact same operation on many elements and could thus use multiple threads and/or SIMD to parallelize it
um, what's so much harder about grasping about a pointer increment than array indexing? Also, how do one optimise a jump in memory more then as a jump in memory? (I suppose I should go back and check the first geezers source)
hear, hear, so true, used profilers for the first time at my old job. Was a dream to use, managed to increase the performance of my app (comm app tx/recv SMS messages) from 5 msgs/sec to ~50 msgs.sec. not bad. Should have been able to squeze out more, but that would have been pretty much a complete rewrite plus our database wouldn't have been able to cope with much more anyway(ppl apparently got it up to ~400 msgs/sec, but that's the Big Boys, read: Mobile Network Providers).
yeah, but when you mostly use Java on the server side as servlets, beans, et. al. startup time is pretty irrelevant. THinking of which, it's not *that* slow IMHO... It's bearable... the java IDEs I use do more than well (and that's NetBeans and IntelliJ in case you wonder...)
FSF ian't changing the rules, this have been coming a long time - actually, one might say it's weird FSF didn't do anything earlier. Basically, closed source software or as in this case a closed codebase/GPL source after a year shouldn't have anything to do in the GNU project, since it's meant, and *always has*, to be 100% pure, certified-by-mama, Free Software. period. The Ghostscript poeple are more than welcome to keep it under a GPL licence, and so they will according to themselves, but they couldn't keep it within the GNU ptoject in the current state, probably tough for FSF, suppose they really wanted to keep 'em, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.
No, I do not agree with Stallman on a number of issues, but I do respect his work and him for standing up for his beliefs.
well, it's not really an alternate universe, just a paret of universe we haven't bee able to see yet, since it's too far away for it's light to have traveled to us, every year our hubble sphere expands a light year in each direction. I must admit the way they talk about it as an 'alternative universe' is a bit misleading, it's not. The only reason they say there might be a planet with 'us' on is because of probability (think sometinhg along 'Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters and they will eventually produce the prose the likes of Shakespeare.'). If you travel 1 lightyear 'north' yeah you will get a new hubble sphere, but you will be able to see a bit into your original hubble sphere.
hum, are you serious or not? the hubble sphere depends on us being in the centre of a sphere, but it doesn't really mean anythinng really, if You went to mars your hubble sphere's centre would be on mars, etc, etc. It's all about that after a certain distance you cannot see any further and that is true in all directions, hence a sphere. Heck, each one of us little critters on this planet got our own hubble sphere!
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Ah sorry, was a bit unclear. didn't mean you check for dodgy code with MD5, but rather just make sure that all 3rd party stuff got the identical checksum as their respective maker says, just making sure you don't get an dodgy (trojans etc, etc) build. Basically you put your trust in the 3rd party that everything is in order as long as the checksum is ok. This would IMHO mean that if any 3rd party stuff is tainted with code that shouldn't be there then it's *that* 3rd party that's responisble - not the distribution maker itself. SCO said for some time that the tainted code was *not* in the kernel itself - seems like they backed away from that now... Anyway, I'm not sure if I can agree with you about not checking the kernel at least, but then again, I might be wrong - never tried to set myself into such a big project as the linux kernel myself, so I assume I'm talking about things slightly out of my league!;-)
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actually, the linux kernel isn't *that* big, believe it's around 3 MLOC nowadays (anyone got an exact figure?). whereas I can appreciate SCO not checking all 3rd party apps that comes with their dist, but rather relying on MD5 checksums, I would imagine it's not an impossible task to check the source for code that shouldn't be there. You would only have to check the total once, and after that you only would have to check the *changes* made to the kernel.
Question is though, wouldn't SCO have to put their copyright comment on the pieces that were theirs in the kernel? if they're not there and one can prove that it is their code, I'm not too sure the GPL stands.
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We're working on it. Don't hold your breath though!;-)
It's actually from an ad campaign with electrolux, bit of a screw-up for various reasons;-) Mind you, there's a rumour that says that the ad people at electrolux knew about the potetial double meaning and used it to get a bit of extra publicity. (especially since you have the very same double meaning in swedish)
If you want to know more about it, goggle for it, it's everywhere... usually listed as one of those cases when a translation goes wrong
Netscape 3 sucked?? That was Netscapes best browser at any point! small and still with the old UI. then Netscape 4 came along and - well, sucked hard... Can't understand how someone can fsck up so badly... THank good the lizard is ok again with mozilla/phoenix....
ah, energia has a reputation to try to put blame on their cosmonauts (and in this case the only austronaut). There has been *alot* of tension between the cosmonauts and energia before - read all about it in the book Dragonfly
very book IMHO.
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Saw the film last night - wicked! :-) ;-)
With the risk of be a spoiler myself I can say: the spoiler in the last line is false. Read that bastard line as well yesterday and was quite pissed off about it, but it turned out to be a dud, thank God!
Must say I believe pointer arithmetic is such an integral and common part of c that it is one of those things you, as a programmer, must grasp. I cannot really see how it is less obvious than indexing, it's just another way of expressing what you want to (gettingthe next item in an array)
The optimization comes from realizing that you're frequently performing the exact same operation on many elements and could thus use multiple threads and/or SIMD to parallelize it
Ah, clever! never though of that.
um, what's so much harder about grasping about a pointer increment than array indexing?
Also, how do one optimise a jump in memory more then as a jump in memory? (I suppose I should go back and check the first geezers source)
hear, hear, so true, used profilers for the first time at my old job. Was a dream to use, managed to increase the performance of my app (comm app tx/recv SMS messages) from 5 msgs/sec to ~50 msgs.sec. not bad. Should have been able to squeze out more, but that would have been pretty much a complete rewrite plus our database wouldn't have been able to cope with much more anyway(ppl apparently got it up to ~400 msgs/sec, but that's the Big Boys, read: Mobile Network Providers).
Don't like Swing? Well you'd better like AWT.
bah, you should try eclipse
yeah, but when you mostly use Java on the server side as servlets, beans, et. al. startup time is pretty irrelevant. THinking of which, it's not *that* slow IMHO... It's bearable... the java IDEs I use do more than well (and that's NetBeans and IntelliJ in case you wonder...)
ROTFL... Here's my mod points when I need them....
FSF ian't changing the rules, this have been coming a long time - actually, one might say it's weird FSF didn't do anything earlier. Basically, closed source software or as in this case a closed codebase/GPL source after a year shouldn't have anything to do in the GNU project, since it's meant, and *always has*, to be 100% pure, certified-by-mama, Free Software. period. The Ghostscript poeple are more than welcome to keep it under a GPL licence, and so they will according to themselves, but they couldn't keep it within the GNU ptoject in the current state, probably tough for FSF, suppose they really wanted to keep 'em, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.
No, I do not agree with Stallman on a number of issues, but I do respect his work and him for standing up for his beliefs.
hey, you never heard of the ghost in the machine?? ;-)
since you have access to the header anyway in c++, why not just move the private stuff into the public section? simpler than rewriting it...
well, it's not really an alternate universe, just a paret of universe we haven't bee able to see yet, since it's too far away for it's light to have traveled to us, every year our hubble sphere expands a light year in each direction. I must admit the way they talk about it as an 'alternative universe' is a bit misleading, it's not. The only reason they say there might be a planet with 'us' on is because of probability (think sometinhg along 'Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters and they will eventually produce the prose the likes of Shakespeare.'). If you travel 1 lightyear 'north' yeah you will get a new hubble sphere, but you will be able to see a bit into your original hubble sphere.
hum, are you serious or not? the hubble sphere depends on us being in the centre of a sphere, but it doesn't really mean anythinng really, if You went to mars your hubble sphere's centre would be on mars, etc, etc. It's all about that after a certain distance you cannot see any further and that is true in all directions, hence a sphere. Heck, each one of us little critters on this planet got our own hubble sphere!
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Ah sorry, was a bit unclear. didn't mean you check for dodgy code with MD5, but rather just make sure that all 3rd party stuff got the identical checksum as their respective maker says, just making sure you don't get an dodgy (trojans etc, etc) build. Basically you put your trust in the 3rd party that everything is in order as long as the checksum is ok. This would IMHO mean that if any 3rd party stuff is tainted with code that shouldn't be there then it's *that* 3rd party that's responisble - not the distribution maker itself. SCO said for some time that the tainted code was *not* in the kernel itself - seems like they backed away from that now... ;-)
Anyway, I'm not sure if I can agree with you about not checking the kernel at least, but then again, I might be wrong - never tried to set myself into such a big project as the linux kernel myself, so I assume I'm talking about things slightly out of my league!
actually, the linux kernel isn't *that* big, believe it's around 3 MLOC nowadays (anyone got an exact figure?). whereas I can appreciate SCO not checking all 3rd party apps that comes with their dist, but rather relying on MD5 checksums, I would imagine it's not an impossible task to check the source for code that shouldn't be there. You would only have to check the total once, and after that you only would have to check the *changes* made to the kernel.
Question is though, wouldn't SCO have to put their copyright comment on the pieces that were theirs in the kernel? if they're not there and one can prove that it is their code, I'm not too sure the GPL stands.
We're working on it. Don't hold your breath though! ;-)
since MDI is crippled in itself (most HCI ppl seems to agree on that), a crippled MDI is nothing but good! :-)
It's actually from an ad campaign with electrolux, bit of a screw-up for various reasons ;-) Mind you, there's a rumour that says that the ad people at electrolux knew about the potetial double meaning and used it to get a bit of extra publicity. (especially since you have the very same double meaning in swedish)
If you want to know more about it, goggle for it, it's everywhere... usually listed as one of those cases when a translation goes wrong
Nintendo is definetly planning to stick to their own consoles, at least according to this link
hey don't badmouth ketchup...
I really, really like ketchup...
Netscape 3 sucked?? That was Netscapes best browser at any point! small and still with the old UI. then Netscape 4 came along and - well, sucked hard... Can't understand how someone can fsck up so badly...
THank good the lizard is ok again with mozilla/phoenix....
ah, energia has a reputation to try to put blame on their cosmonauts (and in this case the only austronaut). There has been *alot* of tension between the cosmonauts and energia before - read all about it in the book Dragonfly
very book IMHO.
um, they do not use GPS to land, just properlycalculated trajectories.
...and finding a location for this thing is another kettle of fish altogether.
(E.g. Right on top of Mount Kilamanjaro? I doubt the locals wil let ya)
at sea would be a better place, IMHO. Just grab a few old oil platforms and start from there!
It's the same way that you don't get an eclipse during every full and new moon.
ah, should have thought about that! thanks for answering!