Of talking at great lengths about the (mainly aesthetic) shortcomings of C++ and then discussing whether or not close() can fail and how you check for it!
I don't particularly like C++ (it really does suffer from syntax bloat), but exceptions really are nice...
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Some alpha's are already made specifically for Linux, but they're expensive:-(
The only thing we need would be a **cheap(er)** ATX motherboard for non-x86 CPU's (G4 anyone?) with CPU and enough PCI slots, USB etc. It would then be useful as a desktop machine, server or as a node in a cluster.
The reason for (if French law is the same as Dutch law) is that most of these items fall under the category 'inciting race hatred' or 'discriminatory'. Publication of material of this kind can be a criminal offence in most European countries.
It is similar to laws regarding nudity in content accessible by children in the US, which, by European standards, are strict to the point of being absurd.
The reason that these kinds of laws exist in Europe is that not only that a lot people who are old enough have suffered from the consequences of racism/national socialism, but also that for the European democracies as they exist after the war, the very reason of existance is related directly to WWII and its horrors.
Especially since the 1960s the moral framework and justification for democracy and European integration has racism and national socialism as a negative reference point. Anything that condones these ideologies is by definition an attack on the European democracies, hence the zealousness with which they are fought within the bounds allowable by
a normal democracy
Of course there are grey areas but they are much the same as with the decency laws, you are right in that they are the price of curtailing freedom of speech in a certain direction, but it's a question of priorities.
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(Contrary to what the URL might suggest, this is *not* a porn site, but an article preprint server at Los Alamos National Labs)
Of talking at great lengths about the (mainly aesthetic) shortcomings of C++ and then discussing whether or not close() can fail and how you check for it! I don't particularly like C++ (it really does suffer from syntax bloat), but exceptions really are nice...
So what's the general purpose performance of this Super H CPU in the DC? is it fast enough to make up for the slow serial port?
Sierra Leone is doing pretty well too i hear.. :-)
Some alpha's are already made specifically for Linux, but they're expensive :-(
The only thing we need would be a **cheap(er)** ATX motherboard for non-x86 CPU's (G4 anyone?) with CPU and enough PCI slots, USB etc. It would then be useful as a desktop machine, server or as a node in a cluster.
Why oh why doesn't this already exist?
Does anybody actually buy it outside of America?
It is similar to laws regarding nudity in content accessible by children in the US, which, by European standards, are strict to the point of being absurd.
The reason that these kinds of laws exist in Europe is that not only that a lot people who are old enough have suffered from the consequences of racism/national socialism, but also that for the European democracies as they exist after the war, the very reason of existance is related directly to WWII and its horrors.
Especially since the 1960s the moral framework and justification for democracy and European integration has racism and national socialism as a negative reference point. Anything that condones these ideologies is by definition an attack on the European democracies, hence the zealousness with which they are fought within the bounds allowable by a normal democracy
Of course there are grey areas but they are much the same as with the decency laws, you are right in that they are the price of curtailing freedom of speech in a certain direction, but it's a question of priorities. Sander