Standardized name mangling is not sufficient nor desirable. Foo C++ may implement the language in a manner completely incompatible with Bar C++. There are too many hidden things that are implementation dependent, even on the same processor and operating system.
What's the most expensive component of the space shuttle? It's the main tank - and it costs a small fortune.
It isn't the most expensive component. Figures are hard to find, but the external tank costs about 50 million dollars. That is about 10% of total costs for a shuttle launch.
We have airplanes that for all intents and purposes can obtain low earth orbit.. add some maneuvering jets and you got a spacecraft - why does it cost a billion dollars to do THAT?!
Please point out the airplane than can get remotely close to low earth orbit, let alone carry a cargo there. Space is hard, drawing pretty pictures of non-existent space planes and bitching about NASA is much easier.
Every time the subjects of drugs or gun control are debated in public, you can expect a deluge of distorted or fabricated statistics. The ones that make good "sound bites" take on a life of their own, no matter how many times they are debunked. Intellectual honesty takes a back seat to political expediency.
Remember, "It's for the children" and "If it saves just one life".
I've been told that you should multiply the parts cost by a factor of 3 to 5 to get the retail price of the finished product. A gigabit Ethernet card is not going to be cheap.
There seem to be a large number of companies that will master and press DVDs. All you have to do is supply the content and non-trivial pile of money. The CSS encoding involves licensing fees, but it isn't restricted to the big movie studios. The DVD FAQ has a section on DVD production.
okay, if i'm a physicist, i can publish drawings and descriptions of a nuclear weapon in a book or on a web page.
No, you can't.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1946/1954 says that nuclear weapons design information is "born classified". A general description is OK but detailed design and manufacturing information is classified as "Restricted Data".
Here is the definition:
Restricted Data (RD) is defined by the AEA as all data concerning: (1) design, manufacture, or utilization of atomic (nuclear) weapons; (2) the production of special nuclear material (i.e., uranium enriched in U235, U233, and plutonium); or (3) the use of special nuclear material in the production of energy, but not data declassified or removed from the RD category (now almost everything associated with energy production). The AEA requires continuous review of RD and associated classification guides to determine which information may be declassified without undue risk to the common defense and security. Unless expressly declassified or removed from this category by an authorized DOE official, all data meeting the RD definition are considered to be "Born Classified" and remain classified indefinitely.
What about color film? I thought that there were problems with the stability of the organic dyes used in some motion picture film. Some old color prints have a weird looking color balance, like they had been left out in the Sun.
I'm not sure about the over-the-air signal, but they are working on an encrypted, copy protected, version of IEEE-1394 (Firewire) to connect DTV receivers to DTV monitors and digital video recorders.
I've actually been told by otherwise intelligent informed people that it's you can't sue the government.
That is true. Look up Sovereign Immunity. You can't sue the State or Federal government without their permission, typically expressed in a law that permits certain types of cases to be brought to court.
Nanoweapons may first be deployed against progressive activists, since they currently represent the biggest threat to the ruling class and they congregate readily.
Any activist who feels threatened by Sandia has severe delusions of grandeur. Sandia's primary mission is thermonuclear weapons, not crowd control.
I think the Berkeley folks learned from their mistakes with early versions of BSD on the VAX. The early VM system was too dependent on the details of the VAX hardware, making it difficult to port that code to other systems.
The 68000 and 68010 both supported an external MMU. The 68010 added support for instruction restart/continuation to the 68000. There was a kludge involving a pair of 68000 chips that supported instruction restart/continuation. I ran a 68010 based Unix System V box for years.
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Like UNIX, which means you can create the BAD situation of a file name that's the same except for capitalization. Why the hell would one WANT this? Filenames are supposed to provide context about the file's contents, and this does NOT serve that purpose.
I prefer the Unix approach. The whole idea of upper and lower case turns into a tar pit when you have to deal with internationalization. Some languages don't have cases and others have quirky rules that vary by country. It is much simpler to treat a file name as a sequence of character codes, preferably Unicode.
"Please die" is uninspired. A good flame doesn't just make a point, it uses humor and sarcasm to expose the idiocy or other defects of the target.
Dorothy Parker was a wonderful critic and flamer. An example of her criticism can be found here.
The world is full of idiots, and more than a few have discovered the Internet. Some are so confident in their idiocy that it is difficult to resist that little voice that murmurs "pull".
My main problem with DIVX was the modem built into the player that communicated with DIVX headquarters. What movies I rent/buy/watch is my business, not data for corporate marketeers and other nosy people.
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Should C++ implementations be required to provide support for range, type and overflow checks?
Standardized name mangling is not sufficient nor desirable. Foo C++ may implement the language in a manner completely incompatible with Bar C++. There are too many hidden things that are implementation dependent, even on the same processor and operating system.
It isn't the most expensive component. Figures are hard to find, but the external tank costs about 50 million dollars. That is about 10% of total costs for a shuttle launch.
We have airplanes that for all intents and purposes can obtain low earth orbit.. add some maneuvering jets and you got a spacecraft - why does it cost a billion dollars to do THAT?!
Please point out the airplane than can get remotely close to low earth orbit, let alone carry a cargo there. Space is hard, drawing pretty pictures of non-existent space planes and bitching about NASA is much easier.
Remember, "It's for the children" and "If it saves just one life".
They put 250 MBPS on each of the four pairs in the CAT-5 cable.
I've been told that you should multiply the parts cost by a factor of 3 to 5 to get the retail price of the finished product. A gigabit Ethernet card is not going to be cheap.
There seem to be a large number of companies that will master and press DVDs. All you have to do is supply the content and non-trivial pile of money. The CSS encoding involves licensing fees, but it isn't restricted to the big movie studios. The DVD FAQ has a section on DVD production.
No, you can't.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1946/1954 says that nuclear weapons design information is "born classified". A general description is OK but detailed design and manufacturing information is classified as "Restricted Data".
Here is the definition:
Restricted Data (RD) is defined by the AEA as all data concerning: (1) design, manufacture, or utilization of atomic (nuclear) weapons; (2) the production of special nuclear material (i.e., uranium enriched in U235, U233, and plutonium); or (3) the use of special nuclear material in the production of energy, but not data declassified or removed from the RD category (now almost everything associated with energy production). The AEA requires continuous review of RD and associated classification guides to determine which information may be declassified without undue risk to the common defense and security. Unless expressly declassified or removed from this category by an authorized DOE official, all data meeting the RD definition are considered to be "Born Classified" and remain classified indefinitely.
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Mort Sahl on Werner von Braun
Every time they do that I can't help thinking it would have been cheaper to rent a boat and dump the spacecraft in the ocean.
What about color film? I thought that there were problems with the stability of the organic dyes used in some motion picture film. Some old color prints have a weird looking color balance, like they had been left out in the Sun.
I'm not sure about the over-the-air signal, but they are working on an encrypted, copy protected, version of IEEE-1394 (Firewire) to connect DTV receivers to DTV monitors and digital video recorders.
You might try taking your own advice. Go to http://www.mpaa.org/about/ and tell me what you see.
That's right, there are two associations, the Motion Picture Association and the Motion Picture Association of America.
No they don't, not without a search warrant. An arrest warrant is not a replacement for a search warrant.
That is true. Look up Sovereign Immunity. You can't sue the State or Federal government without their permission, typically expressed in a law that permits certain types of cases to be brought to court.
Any activist who feels threatened by Sandia has severe delusions of grandeur. Sandia's primary mission is thermonuclear weapons, not crowd control.
I think the Berkeley folks learned from their mistakes with early versions of BSD on the VAX. The early VM system was too dependent on the details of the VAX hardware, making it difficult to port that code to other systems.
The 68000 and 68010 both supported an external MMU. The 68010 added support for instruction restart/continuation to the 68000. There was a kludge involving a pair of 68000 chips that supported instruction restart/continuation. I ran a 68010 based Unix System V box for years.
Like UNIX, which means you can create the BAD situation of a file name that's the same except for capitalization. Why the hell would one WANT this? Filenames are supposed to provide context about the file's contents, and this does NOT serve that purpose.
I prefer the Unix approach. The whole idea of upper and lower case turns into a tar pit when you have to deal with internationalization. Some languages don't have cases and others have quirky rules that vary by country. It is much simpler to treat a file name as a sequence of character codes, preferably Unicode.
I already receive spam in Chinese on a regular basis, mostly from Hong Kong.
Dorothy Parker was a wonderful critic and flamer. An example of her criticism can be found here.
The world is full of idiots, and more than a few have discovered the Internet. Some are so confident in their idiocy that it is difficult to resist that little voice that murmurs "pull".
My main problem with DIVX was the modem built into the player that communicated with DIVX headquarters. What movies I rent/buy/watch is my business, not data for corporate marketeers and other nosy people.
Ha! We had a KSR-28 Teletype with a 110 baud Bell dataphone, and we liked it!
That's the first time I've seen "screaming fast" and DRAM in the same sentence.