Re:Printer catches fire bug
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Pet Bugs?
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I've seen something like this as an error message from a printer driver somewhere (IIRC, it was a Linux box, but I may be wrong) - something like "Printer not responding. Is it on fire?"
One version of MSVC++ (I'm not sure which one, but its not particularly recent) chokes on:
class Foo { Foo() throw(); };
But is happy with:
class Foo { Foo() throw();; };
(For those that missed it, the second version has an extra - syntactically invalid - ; after the throw spec.) At least it's a compile time problem.
Going further back in history, there was a version of the (pre "Visual") MS C compiler - I think maybe 4 or 5 - which would die (at runtime) if you called the following function:
void foo() { int i = strlen( "a" ); { int j = i+1; } }
The problem turned out to be that, if you used the wrong combination of optimiser switches, it allocated stack space for both i and j, but only released the stack space for i, so the return from the function effectively went to a random address.
> does it mean ill be charged for music i download before i even listen to it? Two things: 1) You'll be charged before you even download it. 2) You're ALREADY being charged for it.
Re:Could someone just please explain...
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Minority Report
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> what does this movie have to do with minorities I have no idea. Do you think it should be reported?
> Exactly how will Picard become more bald? By using whatever technique it is that Jimmy Doohan uses to get fatter (I'm not sure yet whether he's massive enough to implode into a black hole yet, but he's a damn find candidate for "where is the missing mass of the Universe":)
Re:MSNBC praising Linux would be like /. praising
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Is Linux Dead?
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> There is something about the keyboard and the computer screen that helps a computer programmer create code. Sure - they help the code take shape. With a screen and keyboard, you can mould the code incrementally - you can build a rough outline, then fill in the details. Move stuff around if it doesn't "work" (either functionally or stylistically). A little like a potter and his wheel. This incremental evolution is next to impossible with pencil & paper. (It's possbile, but it's incredibly time consuming)
> Suppose, for example, you are working on a major piece of software with millions of linesof code that takes an hour to compile Well, if it's got "millions of lines of code", I sure hope you didn't have to write it all out long-hand first. If it takes an hour to compile, you probably want to look at the structure of the source. Mind you, I am somewhat older than 15. And I have over 20 years of experience as a preofessional software developer.
> no, but he said the trains derailed, not a part of them Talk about splitting hairs. The common usage of "train derailment" (in English) includes partial derailment. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "a train was partially derailed" - and I live in a country where we have a rediculous number of derailments (partial or otherwise). If the OP had presented his case as a scientific thesis, I might be able to accept your nit-picking, but it was a comment on a thread. > as a side note, crash tests are being done with dummy-dolls, but I digress You can't kill a dummy-doll (I presume you mean a crash-test dummy?). > anyway this thread has become uninteresting, let's discontinue it. You discontinue a thread by not responding to it. If you wish to discontinue the thread, then don't respond to this. If you do respond, I reserve the right to respond to your response. Or are you trying to silence me because you don't like my opinions?
Luddite. You need computers in everything - it's the 21st centruy for {insert-relevant-deity}'s sake. Besides, it's a gadget, and I like gadgets, since I'm both a geek AND a guy. Since it's clearly a gadget, it doesn't need to have its existence justified - it is its own raison d'etre. > leaving messages for other family members can be done with a pen and paper So can writing letters, but I guess you've never used e-mail?
I'm in the UK too. American fridges tend to be a lot bigger (and hence heavier) than ours - although I've noticed the size of fridges over here increasing recently. (Which is good, since it means I can shop less often).
> I hope that's the case So do I. I certainly have no indication either way.
> the original grandparent poster made an over-general remark As you yourself quoted, the original poster wrote:
a handful of those trains derailed, but no-one was killed...
Which is accurate - I can't find any way to read it which is "over-general".
> I'm neither an expert on TGV nor BR nor any other railway network
Nor am I.
> I just read a comment which appeared (from a physicist's point of view) extremely unlikely.
As a physicist, you should realise that evidence was given which maintained the assertion that was made. There's evidence that there have been no fatalities due to derailments - Which is the assertion which was originally made (the OP didn't say "Nobody will ever be killed as a result of a derailment of the TGV")
> the fact no link were given strengthens that view.
Huh? You can't provide experimental evidence (which is effectively what you're asking for) without performing the experiment - in other words, putting people on the train and derailing it. Now, the French have many flaws, but I don't think killing themselves for your scientific curiosity is one of them.
> congratulations to the french if true What has been asserted would appear to be true. We have no evidence one way or the other regarding your question.
> but my post was not about the full safety record. Your post was, apparently, about what appears to be a hypothetical situation.
> * The roads don't have guard rails. ..you could easily fall off a cliff
WHAT? You cannot be serious!
Just a suggestion, but you know that big, round thing some people hang on to whilst they're driving? It's called a "steering wheel". If you turn it to the left, your car turns to the left. If you turn it to the right, your car turns to the right. Cunning, eh? Saves bouncing off the "guard rails", which might save bodywork damage on your vehicle.
> Another reason is there are cute girls who go up and down the aisles selling snacks
But Japan's swimming in cute girls even when you're not on the train (the cutest girls I've ever seen was working as a bellhop at the Tokyo Prince hotel a couple of years ago)
Switzerland - do you still have to switch off the engine of your car every time you stop at a red light? Does nobody realise that's INCREASING pollution?
> and announce massive profits just after a major train crash with several fatalities. That's because British train companies use the fatal accidents to increase revenue. A couple of years ago, just after the Paddington incident, I needed to travel to London by train. Beacause the route I wanted to use (into Paddington) was closed due to the aftermath of the incident, I had to take the route into Euston - which more than doubled the price of my ticket and added an hour to my journey.
> Instead, all we have had to show for it is a collection of weapons that are only useful against a giant enemy that doesn't exist anymore and hundreds of thousands of out of work government defense contractors And the interstate highway network, which (ISTR) was originally funded as a military project for shipping ICBMs around.
> For eight years Clinton sat in office and didn't do a thing for the railways. Now you want to blame it on Bush? Clinton was clearly too busy getting his whistle blown:) > No, there's something else at work here called inertia. The government is full of it. Most governments are full of something. That's the first time I've heard it called "inertia" though:)
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I've seen something like this as an error message from a printer driver somewhere (IIRC, it was a Linux box, but I may be wrong) - something like "Printer not responding. Is it on fire?"
Going further back in history, there was a version of the (pre "Visual") MS C compiler - I think maybe 4 or 5 - which would die (at runtime) if you called the following function:The problem turned out to be that, if you used the wrong combination of optimiser switches, it allocated stack space for both i and j, but only released the stack space for i, so the return from the function effectively went to a random address.
> does it mean ill be charged for music i download before i even listen to it?
Two things:
1) You'll be charged before you even download it.
2) You're ALREADY being charged for it.
> what does this movie have to do with minorities
I have no idea. Do you think it should be reported?
(Too easy)
Can't we just have a whole pile of jpegs and flick through them by hand?
Not to mention the fact that "torpedo's" is NOT the plural of "torpedo".
> Exactly how will Picard become more bald? :)
By using whatever technique it is that Jimmy Doohan uses to get fatter (I'm not sure yet whether he's massive enough to implode into a black hole yet, but he's a damn find candidate for "where is the missing mass of the Universe"
> Why is the article a surprise to anyone?
Because it took so long for it to be published?
> There is something about the keyboard and the computer screen that helps a computer programmer create code.
Sure - they help the code take shape.
With a screen and keyboard, you can mould the code incrementally - you can build a rough outline, then fill in the details. Move stuff around if it doesn't "work" (either functionally or stylistically). A little like a potter and his wheel. This incremental evolution is next to impossible with pencil & paper. (It's possbile, but it's incredibly time consuming)
> Suppose, for example, you are working on a major piece of software with millions of linesof code that takes an hour to compile
Well, if it's got "millions of lines of code", I sure hope you didn't have to write it all out long-hand first. If it takes an hour to compile, you probably want to look at the structure of the source. Mind you, I am somewhat older than 15. And I have over 20 years of experience as a preofessional software developer.
> no, but he said the trains derailed, not a part of them
Talk about splitting hairs. The common usage of "train derailment" (in English) includes partial derailment. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "a train was partially derailed" - and I live in a country where we have a rediculous number of derailments (partial or otherwise). If the OP had presented his case as a scientific thesis, I might be able to accept your nit-picking, but it was a comment on a thread.
> as a side note, crash tests are being done with dummy-dolls, but I digress
You can't kill a dummy-doll (I presume you mean a crash-test dummy?).
> anyway this thread has become uninteresting, let's discontinue it.
You discontinue a thread by not responding to it. If you wish to discontinue the thread, then don't respond to this. If you do respond, I reserve the right to respond to your response. Or are you trying to silence me because you don't like my opinions?
At least we have showers in the west.
Luddite. You need computers in everything - it's the 21st centruy for {insert-relevant-deity}'s sake. Besides, it's a gadget, and I like gadgets, since I'm both a geek AND a guy. Since it's clearly a gadget, it doesn't need to have its existence justified - it is its own raison d'etre.
> leaving messages for other family members can be done with a pen and paper
So can writing letters, but I guess you've never used e-mail?
I'm in the UK too. American fridges tend to be a lot bigger (and hence heavier) than ours - although I've noticed the size of fridges over here increasing recently. (Which is good, since it means I can shop less often).
Not as cool as petsovernight.com though :)
> You have to wonder what a beowulf cluster of these would accomplish
MORE beer. (I'd have thought that was obvious...)
> That is very heavy for a fridge isnt it?
That depends largely on which side of the Atlantic you live.
> I hope that's the case
So do I. I certainly have no indication either way.
> the original grandparent poster made an over-general remark
As you yourself quoted, the original poster wrote:
a handful of those trains derailed, but no-one was killed...
Which is accurate - I can't find any way to read it which is "over-general".
> I'm neither an expert on TGV nor BR nor any other railway network
Nor am I.
> I just read a comment which appeared (from a physicist's point of view) extremely unlikely.
As a physicist, you should realise that evidence was given which maintained the assertion that was made. There's evidence that there have been no fatalities due to derailments - Which is the assertion which was originally made (the OP didn't say "Nobody will ever be killed as a result of a derailment of the TGV")
> the fact no link were given strengthens that view.
Huh? You can't provide experimental evidence (which is effectively what you're asking for) without performing the experiment - in other words, putting people on the train and derailing it. Now, the French have many flaws, but I don't think killing themselves for your scientific curiosity is one of them.
> congratulations to the french if true
What has been asserted would appear to be true. We have no evidence one way or the other regarding your question.
> but my post was not about the full safety record.
Your post was, apparently, about what appears to be a hypothetical situation.
> * The roads don't have guard rails. . .you could easily fall off a cliff
WHAT? You cannot be serious!
Just a suggestion, but you know that big, round thing some people hang on to whilst they're driving? It's called a "steering wheel". If you turn it to the left, your car turns to the left. If you turn it to the right, your car turns to the right. Cunning, eh? Saves bouncing off the "guard rails", which might save bodywork damage on your vehicle.
> some people might consider the UK to be more of another state of the USA than a full member of Europe.
Tricky choice - to be one of the US of America, or one of the US of Germany?. Personally, I'm planning on heading South
> Another reason is there are cute girls who go up and down the aisles selling snacks
But Japan's swimming in cute girls even when you're not on the train (the cutest girls I've ever seen was working as a bellhop at the Tokyo Prince hotel a couple of years ago)
Switzerland - do you still have to switch off the engine of your car every time you stop at a red light? Does nobody realise that's INCREASING pollution?
> and announce massive profits just after a major train crash with several fatalities.
That's because British train companies use the fatal accidents to increase revenue. A couple of years ago, just after the Paddington incident, I needed to travel to London by train. Beacause the route I wanted to use (into Paddington) was closed due to the aftermath of the incident, I had to take the route into Euston - which more than doubled the price of my ticket and added an hour to my journey.
> Instead, all we have had to show for it is a collection of weapons that are only useful against a giant enemy that doesn't exist anymore and hundreds of thousands of out of work government defense contractors
And the interstate highway network, which (ISTR) was originally funded as a military project for shipping ICBMs around.
> For eight years Clinton sat in office and didn't do a thing for the railways. Now you want to blame it on Bush? :) :)
Clinton was clearly too busy getting his whistle blown
> No, there's something else at work here called inertia. The government is full of it.
Most governments are full of something. That's the first time I've heard it called "inertia" though