Actually, it's fine. Read the standard. 7.20.3.2 in the C9X 1/18/99 draft. (Sorry, all I have around here, and I want to include a ref so you'll believe me.:b) null to free is a nop.
Upside Today had a good report on this awhile back. I found it again, and you can read it here. It's called "Digital TV: What a mess", to give you an idea of the slant.:) The article talks about data delivery from a slightly different angle, in terms of interests and profit motives, and gives an overview of all parties involved: cable, broadcasters, FCC, consumers, equipment makers and policy makers. It has an obvious bias, and the typical Upside sensationalist tone, but taught me a lot of new things about how we got to where we are with HDTV.
This will mean no more stupid Iridium flares to get in the way of astronomical observations.
The flares actually weren't the big problem. Astronomers are used to planning around things all the time. The real blow was to radio astronomy.
Iridium was allocated a block in the electromagnetic spectrum contiguous with the block used to detect hydroxide emissions. When the satellites started broadcasting, there was some leakage into the science community's block... at deafening levels compared to the weak signals astronomers search for.
An agreement was worked out involving a time-sharing arrangment, but the fact is it was still an amazing limitation on the ability to conduct science. As Wired says, "Science Versus Cell Phones". Go read that for a good write up, and a google search will get you more.
I still don't like the idea that they're keeping the instruction sets closed.
Well, from ebcdic's comments in the first Trasmeta story, Transmeta just wants to be free to muck with the underlying instruction set. Seems more like a data hiding thing than a political move. And this makes sense as a justification to me. Cooler things in the future.
Sorry, a myth. A very popular myth, but one nonetheless. An article ripped from The Economist summarizes the creation and debunking of the myth quite well. Or go to Google and just do a search on "dvorak faster myth"
Sure, and it still happens, right? See Results from "Jam Echelon Day" on this site, for instance. Or read cypherpunks' e-mail; some people still have such a.sig
First I want to say that I think the new YRO section is a great idea, guys! There are certainly a number of other sites with this as a focus, but being as impressed as I am with/. for news, I hope for the same level of greatness for this.
Now all that is just to pad my little quibble.:) Adults don't actually comprise 80% of the population, at least not in the US. More like 74%. Not a big deal, but just wanted people to spout off the right stat...
There is already one on the market that will get you out of Texas.:) Empeg is the name of the player. Slashdot has had several stories already. It is like a Rio for your car, so not cool in the same way as this device; CDs aren't an option. But it does have an FM tuner and "Up to 28.2Gb of disk storage, with approximately 17 hours of CD-quality stereo audio per Gb."... And it runs linux! Bloody expensive though. ~$1000 for the 4GB version.
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In C#, enums are not just integers. They're actually strongly typed value types that derive from System.Enum in the .NET base-class library.
And it's true that in C they were... but not in C++. A variable of one enum type can't be assigned to one of another type there, either.
One of several examples where he implicitly compares C# to C, but so rarely to C++.
Calling free() on a null pointer isn't good ;)
:b) null to free is a nop.
Actually, it's fine. Read the standard. 7.20.3.2 in the C9X 1/18/99 draft. (Sorry, all I have around here, and I want to include a ref so you'll believe me.
Upside Today had a good report on this awhile back. I found it again, and you can read it here. It's called "Digital TV: What a mess", to give you an idea of the slant. :) The article talks about data delivery from a slightly different angle, in terms of interests and profit motives, and gives an overview of all parties involved: cable, broadcasters, FCC, consumers, equipment makers and policy makers. It has an obvious bias, and the typical Upside sensationalist tone, but taught me a lot of new things about how we got to where we are with HDTV.
AMD Athlon has a superior FPU at the same clock speed
However, I have yet to see any multi-proc Athlon boards. If your problem has chunks that can be done in parallel, SMP would be what you'd want.
Anyone have a date (or a contradiction) on the availability of those boards perchance?
This will mean no more stupid Iridium flares to get in the way of astronomical observations.
The flares actually weren't the big problem. Astronomers are used to planning around things all the time. The real blow was to radio astronomy.
Iridium was allocated a block in the electromagnetic spectrum contiguous with the block used to detect hydroxide emissions. When the satellites started broadcasting, there was some leakage into the science community's block... at deafening levels compared to the weak signals astronomers search for.
An agreement was worked out involving a time-sharing arrangment, but the fact is it was still an amazing limitation on the ability to conduct science. As Wired says, "Science Versus Cell Phones". Go read that for a good write up, and a google search will get you more.
That's funny, I thought that Unix was based on a monolithic kernel... silly semantics
... not anything at the semantic level.
A nit, and no one will likely see this, but you mean "syntactic ambiguity"
I still don't like the idea that they're keeping the instruction sets closed.
Well, from ebcdic's comments in the first Trasmeta story, Transmeta just wants to be free to muck with the underlying instruction set. Seems more like a data hiding thing than a political move. And this makes sense as a justification to me. Cooler things in the future.
It's also supposed to be faster.
Sorry, a myth. A very popular myth, but one nonetheless. An article ripped from The Economist summarizes the creation and debunking of the myth quite well. Or go to Google and just do a search on "dvorak faster myth"
Hope this helps.
Anybody remember "Bait for the NSA Line Eater"?
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Sure, and it still happens, right? See Results from "Jam Echelon Day" on this site, for instance. Or read cypherpunks' e-mail; some people still have such a
First I want to say that I think the new YRO section is a great idea, guys! There are certainly a number of other sites with this as a focus, but being as impressed as I am with /. for news, I hope for the same level of greatness for this.
:) Adults don't actually comprise 80% of the population, at least not in the US. More like 74%. Not a big deal, but just wanted people to spout off the right stat...
Now all that is just to pad my little quibble.
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There is already one on the market that will get you out of Texas. :) Empeg is the name of the player. Slashdot has had several stories already. It is like a Rio for your car, so not cool in the same way as this device; CDs aren't an option. But it does have an FM tuner and "Up to 28.2Gb of disk storage, with approximately 17 hours of CD-quality stereo audio per Gb." ... And it runs linux! Bloody expensive though. ~$1000 for the 4GB version.