Well, the first line says that 'cdecl' stands for 'c declaration'...so calling a pig a pig...
Anyway, when I took an assembly course a couple years back, we referred to passing on the stack as "the C calling convention," so I suppose I'm probably overgeneralizing. Obviously you have to be careful when passing by register though, as many ops destroy register values so you can't expect them to retain their starting value when you return, unless you manually restore them inside the subroutine. I suppose that's a general observation of anything you do in assembly, though.
Am I just hallucinating, or are there actually 2 separate styles of microUSB plugs out there? I swear the plugs used to be trapezoidal, whereas ubiquitous cell phone microUSB ports lately are more rectangular.
I mean that there doesn't seem to be a good reason to use 3.0 connectors now if they aren't going to be forwards-compatible with 3.1, unless 3.1 takes awhile to come out.
Not being an electrical guy, somebody still needs to explain to me how one can transmit power wirelessly without wasting massive amounts of electricity...
The logic is that you can't circumvent security if the security is nonexistent. I suppose it's still considered "breaking and entering" if you just walk in their unlocked front door (or is it just trespassing unless you commit some other crime in the process?), although you didn't break anything.
2. Or the rider could just slow down to a stop like any other vehicle.
Because the cops have demonstrated so well that they can resist the urge to taser people who don't need it. If this gets widely deployed, we can assume they'll start routinely popping cars with it before even turning on their lights.
I thought the point of the FSM was to ridicule Christians? In which case invoking His Noodlyness in a scientific article where no one mentioned religion is a non sequitur.
I'm not saying consciousness is magic God dust but this is an area where there is a hell of a lot we don't understand so it seems premature to make blanket statements.
Lots of humans can't have offspring. Are they then a different species?
That's not analogous. If you take one random male human and one random female human (of child-bearing age), the odds are almost assured that they will be able to reproduce. I challenge you to find even one case where a male human and a female chimp or vice versa can successfully mate and produce fertile offspring. You're being obtuse.
we know that there is no magical 'stuff' that humans have that animals don't.
Oh look, here we go again asserting that we've somehow proven that something doesn't exist. I would love to see some citations for that assertion.
Anyone know what a HERF gun is? A EM pulse cannon or gun. Easy to build. Aim and fire, fry the electronics of the car, instant crash.
To be fair, if you hit a current car with an EMP, I assume you'd lose power steering, which would make things mighty interesting. Don't know how the automatic transmission and other parts would react...but at least this is actually on the ground to begin with.
they crashed a hunter killer drone in a test by telling the GPS receiver that the drone was 500 feet higher than it was. It dived into the ground.
IIRC they did that in Die Hard 2 as well. If you had zero visibility and your instruments told you you were 500 feet off the deck, would you do any better? But then we're getting into the territory of instances where pilots didn't trust their instruments when they were actually correct and ended up crashing....What alternative would you propose to said GPS system? A rangefinding laser to find height off the ground? That wouldn't work well either in a lot of circumstances.
To summarize, complicated software is complicated. And humans are generally stupid:)
Slashdot Mirror
Well, the first line says that 'cdecl' stands for 'c declaration'...so calling a pig a pig...
Anyway, when I took an assembly course a couple years back, we referred to passing on the stack as "the C calling convention," so I suppose I'm probably overgeneralizing. Obviously you have to be careful when passing by register though, as many ops destroy register values so you can't expect them to retain their starting value when you return, unless you manually restore them inside the subroutine. I suppose that's a general observation of anything you do in assembly, though.
Am I just hallucinating, or are there actually 2 separate styles of microUSB plugs out there? I swear the plugs used to be trapezoidal, whereas ubiquitous cell phone microUSB ports lately are more rectangular.
index, indices; matrix, matrices; syntax, syntices?
Hmm...Firefox spellcheck says no. But there are lots of things I don't trust spellcheck about.
...tools like Swig make even...
This whole problem sounds like it would be eased somewhat by a few large swigs :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#cdecl
Doesn't this count?
I mean that there doesn't seem to be a good reason to use 3.0 connectors now if they aren't going to be forwards-compatible with 3.1, unless 3.1 takes awhile to come out.
Hmmm...so they're basically saying 'nobody buy this version'?
Not being an electrical guy, somebody still needs to explain to me how one can transmit power wirelessly without wasting massive amounts of electricity...
The logic is that you can't circumvent security if the security is nonexistent. I suppose it's still considered "breaking and entering" if you just walk in their unlocked front door (or is it just trespassing unless you commit some other crime in the process?), although you didn't break anything.
I think you meant 'proponents.'
2. Or the rider could just slow down to a stop like any other vehicle.
Because the cops have demonstrated so well that they can resist the urge to taser people who don't need it. If this gets widely deployed, we can assume they'll start routinely popping cars with it before even turning on their lights.
Why the hell would anyone need even 75 megs down for comparison pricing while in a store?!
Ermagerd, I'm without Internet access for entire minutes at a time!!! Cry me a river.
Because incompetent government and evil corporations are mutually exclusive?
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
Pure use of funds and ethically dubious, maybe, but how is this fraudulent?
I thought the point of the FSM was to ridicule Christians? In which case invoking His Noodlyness in a scientific article where no one mentioned religion is a non sequitur.
Maybe they apologized to Michelangelo for asking him to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Fertile offspring might be hoping for a bit much, but
No. That's the definition of a species. Look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
QED
Just because you cannot think like the AI does not mean the AI cannot think.
I'm not saying consciousness is magic God dust but this is an area where there is a hell of a lot we don't understand so it seems premature to make blanket statements.
Lots of humans can't have offspring. Are they then a different species?
That's not analogous. If you take one random male human and one random female human (of child-bearing age), the odds are almost assured that they will be able to reproduce. I challenge you to find even one case where a male human and a female chimp or vice versa can successfully mate and produce fertile offspring. You're being obtuse.
we know that there is no magical 'stuff' that humans have that animals don't.
Oh look, here we go again asserting that we've somehow proven that something doesn't exist. I would love to see some citations for that assertion.
Anyone know what a HERF gun is? A EM pulse cannon or gun. Easy to build. Aim and fire, fry the electronics of the car, instant crash.
To be fair, if you hit a current car with an EMP, I assume you'd lose power steering, which would make things mighty interesting. Don't know how the automatic transmission and other parts would react...but at least this is actually on the ground to begin with.
they crashed a hunter killer drone in a test by telling the GPS receiver that the drone was 500 feet higher than it was. It dived into the ground.
IIRC they did that in Die Hard 2 as well. If you had zero visibility and your instruments told you you were 500 feet off the deck, would you do any better? But then we're getting into the territory of instances where pilots didn't trust their instruments when they were actually correct and ended up crashing....What alternative would you propose to said GPS system? A rangefinding laser to find height off the ground? That wouldn't work well either in a lot of circumstances.
To summarize, complicated software is complicated. And humans are generally stupid :)
We're trying to mate the 1950s with a drone
Now I'm picturing Humping Robot and...what was a stereotypical person in the 50s?
It's like Svedka: Most Popular Vodka of 2033.
Don't look now, but Washington, D.C. is only number 24 in the U.S.