Under capitalism, you can have companies that exploit workers but if they do that too much workers are free to leave and start new companies that start afresh... at least you have that ability as long as regulations do not impose too heavy a burden to start a new company to compete.
Regulations, schmegulations. The reason small businesses can't compete is because big business has rigged the game to their favor, and the playing field is no longer level.
Sorry to barge in here, but I just skiffed through the GP's comments and I think he's a little dinghy.
The schooner you learn to optimize, the less boated your code will be, and you won't have to scow-er it for bugs constantly. Yacht to be able to minimize the footprint without having to punt.
By judging the rest of his post on its merit. ("while (*src++ = *dst++);" is also missing an "=").
See, this is why C sucks and is wonderful at the same time.
There is no '=' missing. The assignment belongs in the conditional, and actually is the reason why it works.
In C, the value of an assignment statement is the value being assigned, so this expression copies the value at one location to another location (per the pointers src and dest) and increments both pointers. If the value is null (indicating the end of a string) the expression evaluates as false and the loop terminates.
The fact that you missed this, or perhaps didn't learn it while learning C, is an argument against this confusing kind of usage. Yes, it's efficient, but is it worth the trouble?
There's a reason we imagine fictional robots as humanoid - we can relate to them if we think of them as people, but if they are just toasters then we are less forgiving.
Just as you wouldn't want a person constantly pestering you asking if you want help writing your letter, you get annoyed with a paper clip doing the same.
Not originally, at least in the US. The justification for copyrights and patents in the Constitution was "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
The authors and inventors may also be the distributors, but that's certainly not a requirement. Notice it doesn't say "publishers and marketers."
"...do not forget this, Winston: always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever."
Notice the only technology in that image is a boot!
Personally, I don't give a rat's ass if he believes in evolution or not, as long as he writes about topics he has knowledge of. I don't think it's relevant unless you're teaching science or trying to pass laws against teaching evolutionary science.
That said, the fact that he belongs to the National Science Teachers Association and Texas Academy of Science, yet buys into creationism, is... disappointing. Actually, that's an understatement - "mind-boggling" is more like it.
The book was decades ahead of its time, it's more topical than ever. Gibson is a miracle, imo, not only because he pretty accurately predicted a future where corporations rule the world and information and information exchange has become omnipresent (ok, he overdid both a bit, but what SciFi author doesn't?)
Other posters have already addressed this, but from the horse's mouth: I was at a Gibson reading in 1991 or so where he said himself that he's surprised when people praise his "predictions." He said (paraphrased), "None of this stuff is the future - I just look at what's going on today and exaggerate it."
Of course, you realize it's only five bucks to download it if you're not in the program, right?
I do like that part, but do you get free upgrades? Do you have to purchase it again every time a new version is released? How many versions are released each year?
My question is who are they going to get to play Molly the "Razorgirl"? That would be a big make or break decision for me. =)
Back in the '90s I thought Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro) or Linda Fiorentino would have been good choices. They're a bit old for it now. Gina Gershon could have pulled it off too.
Actually, no. XCode 4 is free. Yes, you need a Mac to run it, but it's a free download for anyone who registers (again, for free) to be a developer.
Not anymore. I just registered as a developer for free (using this page) and when I try to download Xcode 4, I see the following message:
You must be an iOS or Mac Developer Program member to download Xcode 4 or you can purchase Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store.
So, it's 99 bucks a year if you want the latest tools. So long, Apple - I remember the days when you used to make it easy for developers to support your platform.
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Scripted, of course...
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12447772/xtranormal-vs-cleverbot
Regulations, schmegulations. The reason small businesses can't compete is because big business has rigged the game to their favor, and the playing field is no longer level.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-12-10/
Sorry to barge in here, but I just skiffed through the GP's comments and I think he's a little dinghy.
The schooner you learn to optimize, the less boated your code will be, and you won't have to scow-er it for bugs constantly. Yacht to be able to minimize the footprint without having to punt.
See, this is why C sucks and is wonderful at the same time.
There is no '=' missing. The assignment belongs in the conditional, and actually is the reason why it works.
In C, the value of an assignment statement is the value being assigned, so this expression copies the value at one location to another location (per the pointers src and dest) and increments both pointers. If the value is null (indicating the end of a string) the expression evaluates as false and the loop terminates.
The fact that you missed this, or perhaps didn't learn it while learning C, is an argument against this confusing kind of usage. Yes, it's efficient, but is it worth the trouble?
Would 50% chance of being accurate be acceptable?
You can copy it, but it copies both a one and a zero. You don't know which it is until you look.
"You can have my DNA when you biopsy it from my cold, dead hand!"
Correcting someone in an online forum is the epitamy of hoodspa.
That's because it's all shortcuts!
Pressing the 'a' key, for example, is a keyboard shortcut for inserting the character 'a' (in certain modes).
There's a reason we imagine fictional robots as humanoid - we can relate to them if we think of them as people, but if they are just toasters then we are less forgiving.
Just as you wouldn't want a person constantly pestering you asking if you want help writing your letter, you get annoyed with a paper clip doing the same.
Yes, but the point of having that exclusive right is supposed to be to encourage the creation of new works.
Not originally, at least in the US. The justification for copyrights and patents in the Constitution was "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
The authors and inventors may also be the distributors, but that's certainly not a requirement. Notice it doesn't say "publishers and marketers."
Are the neutrons free as in speech, or free as in beer?
In case I'm being chased by a thug with a meat tenderizer on his head.
"Netiquette." Now there's a term I haven't heard in a long, long time. What a quaint concept!
Amen. From the book:
"...do not forget this, Winston: always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever."
Notice the only technology in that image is a boot!
Here's Mims' account of the Scientific American controversy:
http://www.forrestmims.org/scientificamerican.html
Personally, I don't give a rat's ass if he believes in evolution or not, as long as he writes about topics he has knowledge of. I don't think it's relevant unless you're teaching science or trying to pass laws against teaching evolutionary science.
That said, the fact that he belongs to the National Science Teachers Association and Texas Academy of Science, yet buys into creationism, is... disappointing. Actually, that's an understatement - "mind-boggling" is more like it.
"It's like Sputnik - spherical, but quite pointy in parts."
Other posters have already addressed this, but from the horse's mouth: I was at a Gibson reading in 1991 or so where he said himself that he's surprised when people praise his "predictions." He said (paraphrased), "None of this stuff is the future - I just look at what's going on today and exaggerate it."
I do like that part, but do you get free upgrades? Do you have to purchase it again every time a new version is released? How many versions are released each year?
Back in the '90s I thought Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro) or Linda Fiorentino would have been good choices. They're a bit old for it now. Gina Gershon could have pulled it off too.
Not anymore. I just registered as a developer for free (using this page) and when I try to download Xcode 4, I see the following message:
You must be an iOS or Mac Developer Program member to download Xcode 4 or you can purchase Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store.
So, it's 99 bucks a year if you want the latest tools. So long, Apple - I remember the days when you used to make it easy for developers to support your platform.
Maybe it's Teletext-- you know, for the hearing-impaired.
Yeah, never mind it, because it doesn't.
As long as the sun is shining on the earth, there is no problem with entropy decreasing here.