All I do are "basement projects" but I've found a 100MHz digital scope amazingly useful, even for stuff that's pure digital. And in any case "modern electronics" doesn't mean exclusively digital. A great deal of stuff a modern hobbyist does will include analogue (basically interfacing with most things in the outside world).
I suspect in the UK you could successfully argue that the appliance (a TV) is not fit for purpose if it contains an EULA you can't agree with and which you can't read until after you've opened the packaging, and get the retailer to take it back under the Sale of Goods Act.
But the nation saves as a whole. While the overall cost may be the same, instead of all the money going to the United States in the form of licence payments to Microsoft, quite a bit of the money is remaining in Munich and at least Germany because instead of money just being sent away to Microsoft, it is being paid to local employees - who in turn are spending most of their money in Munich and Germany, therefore regardless or not of any *direct* cost saving, Munich as a whole is better off.
We (the people of Britain) did NOT want to go to war. It was almost universally opposed by all except the politicians. Politicians, incidentally, who were completely and utterly infatuated with the United States for reasons we can only probably guess at (but probably have something to do with personal enrichment).
Reins - things you use for a horse. Rain - water that falls from the sky Reign - rules over.
I think you probably means "reigns in the desktop world". If windows was reining in the desktop world it would mean that Windows was slowing a galloping desktop world to a halt, like you do when you rein in a horse. Oh wait... perhaps that's really what you meant after all:-)
If you've ever seen a typical skydive jumpship, you'll understand that these are far from "perfectly good planes".
They make the skydive jumpships scary enough that the skydivers would rather jump than land with the aircraft, but not quite scary enough that the pilot wants to do the same.
I'd like to say the actual wording on the policy that says "if you don't use the car during the week, we invalidate your insurance". I have two vehicles (a car and a motorcycle) and I use both to commute, but if the weather's good I might use the bike all the time. Different insurers insure the two. I find it hard to believe that because I chose to use a different vehicle to commute for a few months out of the year that my car insurance would be invalidated as a consequence. I think they would have trouble defending that when I sued them if they did.
Nope, it's still absolutely true today. We are still using x86 and other architectures that fundamentally control loops by setting a flag somewhere and using a conditional branch. All variants of x86 (basically, anything where arithmetic instructions set flags) can do the loop control in one fewer instructions if the loop is comparing by zero instead of an arbitrary value. Basically, in a loop testing for an arbitrary non-zero value in many architectures in use today will be something like (in pseudocode):
inc register cmp #value bne loop
Now counting down it'll be more like:
dec register bne loop...because when the dec instruction on these architectures results in zero being stored in the register, it sets the zero flag. If counting up to an arbitrary value you need that extra compare instruction to do that job.
In which case BitCoin is fatally flawed. Its basic design means it's deflationary, therefore it rewards those who hoard it like Scrooge McDuck, therefore that sort of behaviour is exactly the sort of behaviour that is inevitable.
The Argentinians may have the right to ask. But the population that lives there also has the right to self-determination, and they have roundly told the Argentinians to fuck off.
Why should it belong to Argentina? No Argentinians live there. Just because it's close to Argentina isn't a justification (or perhaps the US should give Puerto Rico to Cuba because PR is closer to Cuba than it is to the USA). What's important is the population, now established for a couple of centuries, is British and wants to remain that way. They have the right to self-determination.
The Spanish name (Las Malvinas) isn't even Spanish, it's actually derived from French. A French sailor named the islands after the port of Saint Malo in France.
If the Argentinans want to argue that the British originally took it by force (from whom? no one was living there) then they need to return Argentina back to the native people they took Argentina from before taking that particular "moral high ground".
When the Argentinians return Argentina to the control of the natives they took Argentina from by force, then perhaps they might have a point (and not a very good one - who did the British take the Falklands from by force? No one actually lived on those islands when the British first settled there). The Falklands haven't ever been Argentinian, and furthermore the Spanish name for them (Las Malvinas) isn't even Spanish, it's derived from French (the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville gave them the name îles Malouines derived from the name Saint-Malo in France, which became Las Malvinas in Spanish).
Saying Argentina should have them because they are close to Argentina is like saying Puerto Rico should be given to Cuba because it's closer to Cuba than the USA.
That's only due to the limitations of the materials they used: had they used a flexible material that could stand the heat of soldering they could solder the parts. Or if they used a printer that had a straight path through it they could use conventional PCB material.
Commercial board making services are great, I use them - but when you want to test a prototype right now this evening, it would be great to have something that doesn't require the usual toner transfer/UV type processing and ferric chloride etching. Much less messy to stick a blank board in a printer.
They already do. If you come in on a visa, you get a white I-94 card when you arrive, and you return this I-94 when you leave. It's how the DHS knows you don't overstay. If the airport authorities have collected the I-94 and you boarded the aircraft, they know you have left.
They will deport you if you overstay. The trouble is if someone overstays, since the US so far doesn't insist on making visitors wear a GPS tracker, you have to go and find them to deport them which can be quite difficult.
The UK had it all but I don;t think there was a "conspiracy" to help let US brands (or any other brands) in - don't ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
The real tragedy is this. Although in the late 80s our school offered no courses in computing, it did have a computer lab, and anyone who showed even a slight interest was more than encouraged to come in during break times, free periods, after school and play with the machines (an econet network of BBC Micros). The only real rule was no games - unless you wrote the game. There were quite a few kids who spent much of their free time tinkering with the computers - teaching themselves, and in the process learning more things too, such as learning maths in a fun and rewarding way (writing a computer game will often mean you have to make practical use of all those things that come up in maths lessons - trigonometry, matrices, vectors, algebra, that kind of thing).
Now in 2013 most schools don't have a computer lab like that. Oh, they have plenty of computers but they are all locked down hard and students are actively blocked from self-directed computer learning.
It is grotesque than in 2013 students are offered less opportunity to learn computing than I was in the late 1980s. There really is no excuse for it.
Why not use computing to teach maths? Especially for the students who seem to enjoy doing that. Mathematics to many is a pretty dry subject and it's also pretty abstract. In the late 80s our computer room at school had no real rules except "you must not play any computer game that you didn't write yourself".
Many students who got bored in maths learned *properly* about trigonometry, algebra, quadratic functions, linear transformations and the like because of their curiosity with computers and their attempts to write a game, programming gave them the motivation to learn these things.
The thing is you don't have to sink huge amounts of money into it.
The problem is with schools (at least around here) is that what they teach as "IT" and "computer literacy" is in fact nothing of the sort - they are just teaching office skills, not really any different to how my mother was taught to touch type and to use shorthand.
This is then compounded by the schools going out of their way and spending quite a lot of resources **actively blocking** children who are curious about how computers work actually experimenting and learning how they work. A teenager in 2013 has fewer opportunities today to learn how to program at school in their own time than I did in 1989. My school in the late 80s didn't teach programming, but they did encourage you to use the computer room and learn for yourself if you were interested in that sort of thing. The schools today don't do that, they actually actively go out of their way to prevent kids from learning about how computers work. I find it grotesque that in 2013 kids have fewer opportunities to learn to program than I did in 1989.
You say that as if it is a bad thing. If the Scottish want to be independent, it's their right, they ought to have the right to self-determination. "National identity" is grossly overvalued.
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All I do are "basement projects" but I've found a 100MHz digital scope amazingly useful, even for stuff that's pure digital. And in any case "modern electronics" doesn't mean exclusively digital. A great deal of stuff a modern hobbyist does will include analogue (basically interfacing with most things in the outside world).
I suspect in the UK you could successfully argue that the appliance (a TV) is not fit for purpose if it contains an EULA you can't agree with and which you can't read until after you've opened the packaging, and get the retailer to take it back under the Sale of Goods Act.
But the nation saves as a whole. While the overall cost may be the same, instead of all the money going to the United States in the form of licence payments to Microsoft, quite a bit of the money is remaining in Munich and at least Germany because instead of money just being sent away to Microsoft, it is being paid to local employees - who in turn are spending most of their money in Munich and Germany, therefore regardless or not of any *direct* cost saving, Munich as a whole is better off.
We (the people of Britain) did NOT want to go to war. It was almost universally opposed by all except the politicians. Politicians, incidentally, who were completely and utterly infatuated with the United States for reasons we can only probably guess at (but probably have something to do with personal enrichment).
Sorry to be spelling nazi...
Reins - things you use for a horse.
Rain - water that falls from the sky
Reign - rules over.
I think you probably means "reigns in the desktop world". If windows was reining in the desktop world it would mean that Windows was slowing a galloping desktop world to a halt, like you do when you rein in a horse. Oh wait... perhaps that's really what you meant after all :-)
What's the difference between golf and skydiving?
In golf you go "Whack... uh oh"
In skydiving you go "Uh oh....whack!"
If you've ever seen a typical skydive jumpship, you'll understand that these are far from "perfectly good planes".
They make the skydive jumpships scary enough that the skydivers would rather jump than land with the aircraft, but not quite scary enough that the pilot wants to do the same.
I'd like to say the actual wording on the policy that says "if you don't use the car during the week, we invalidate your insurance". I have two vehicles (a car and a motorcycle) and I use both to commute, but if the weather's good I might use the bike all the time. Different insurers insure the two. I find it hard to believe that because I chose to use a different vehicle to commute for a few months out of the year that my car insurance would be invalidated as a consequence. I think they would have trouble defending that when I sued them if they did.
Nope, it's still absolutely true today. We are still using x86 and other architectures that fundamentally control loops by setting a flag somewhere and using a conditional branch. All variants of x86 (basically, anything where arithmetic instructions set flags) can do the loop control in one fewer instructions if the loop is comparing by zero instead of an arbitrary value. Basically, in a loop testing for an arbitrary non-zero value in many architectures in use today will be something like (in pseudocode):
inc register
cmp #value
bne loop
Now counting down it'll be more like:
dec register ...because when the dec instruction on these architectures results in zero being stored in the register, it sets the zero flag. If counting up to an arbitrary value you need that extra compare instruction to do that job.
bne loop
Speak for yourself. I can count to 1023 without taking off my shoes or unzipping...
Surely you can just use bolivars as toilet paper? Or do they chafe too much?
In which case BitCoin is fatally flawed. Its basic design means it's deflationary, therefore it rewards those who hoard it like Scrooge McDuck, therefore that sort of behaviour is exactly the sort of behaviour that is inevitable.
The Argentinians may have the right to ask. But the population that lives there also has the right to self-determination, and they have roundly told the Argentinians to fuck off.
The Falklands had no human population when the British colonised them.
Why should it belong to Argentina? No Argentinians live there. Just because it's close to Argentina isn't a justification (or perhaps the US should give Puerto Rico to Cuba because PR is closer to Cuba than it is to the USA). What's important is the population, now established for a couple of centuries, is British and wants to remain that way. They have the right to self-determination.
The Spanish name (Las Malvinas) isn't even Spanish, it's actually derived from French. A French sailor named the islands after the port of Saint Malo in France.
If the Argentinans want to argue that the British originally took it by force (from whom? no one was living there) then they need to return Argentina back to the native people they took Argentina from before taking that particular "moral high ground".
When the Argentinians return Argentina to the control of the natives they took Argentina from by force, then perhaps they might have a point (and not a very good one - who did the British take the Falklands from by force? No one actually lived on those islands when the British first settled there). The Falklands haven't ever been Argentinian, and furthermore the Spanish name for them (Las Malvinas) isn't even Spanish, it's derived from French (the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville gave them the name îles Malouines derived from the name Saint-Malo in France, which became Las Malvinas in Spanish).
Saying Argentina should have them because they are close to Argentina is like saying Puerto Rico should be given to Cuba because it's closer to Cuba than the USA.
That's only due to the limitations of the materials they used: had they used a flexible material that could stand the heat of soldering they could solder the parts. Or if they used a printer that had a straight path through it they could use conventional PCB material.
Commercial board making services are great, I use them - but when you want to test a prototype right now this evening, it would be great to have something that doesn't require the usual toner transfer/UV type processing and ferric chloride etching. Much less messy to stick a blank board in a printer.
Clearly a vitreous cycle, as they are all made from glass.
They already do. If you come in on a visa, you get a white I-94 card when you arrive, and you return this I-94 when you leave. It's how the DHS knows you don't overstay. If the airport authorities have collected the I-94 and you boarded the aircraft, they know you have left.
They will deport you if you overstay. The trouble is if someone overstays, since the US so far doesn't insist on making visitors wear a GPS tracker, you have to go and find them to deport them which can be quite difficult.
In that vein, I tried:
while(1) {
bar=bar++;
if(bar > 3) {
printf("bar = %d\n", bar);
break;
}
}
Under gcc (trying -O0 to -O3 and -Os), this code printed "bar = 4". Compiling the same code with clang resulted in an infinite loop.
The UK had it all but I don;t think there was a "conspiracy" to help let US brands (or any other brands) in - don't ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
The real tragedy is this. Although in the late 80s our school offered no courses in computing, it did have a computer lab, and anyone who showed even a slight interest was more than encouraged to come in during break times, free periods, after school and play with the machines (an econet network of BBC Micros). The only real rule was no games - unless you wrote the game. There were quite a few kids who spent much of their free time tinkering with the computers - teaching themselves, and in the process learning more things too, such as learning maths in a fun and rewarding way (writing a computer game will often mean you have to make practical use of all those things that come up in maths lessons - trigonometry, matrices, vectors, algebra, that kind of thing).
Now in 2013 most schools don't have a computer lab like that. Oh, they have plenty of computers but they are all locked down hard and students are actively blocked from self-directed computer learning.
It is grotesque than in 2013 students are offered less opportunity to learn computing than I was in the late 1980s. There really is no excuse for it.
Why not use computing to teach maths? Especially for the students who seem to enjoy doing that. Mathematics to many is a pretty dry subject and it's also pretty abstract. In the late 80s our computer room at school had no real rules except "you must not play any computer game that you didn't write yourself".
Many students who got bored in maths learned *properly* about trigonometry, algebra, quadratic functions, linear transformations and the like because of their curiosity with computers and their attempts to write a game, programming gave them the motivation to learn these things.
The thing is you don't have to sink huge amounts of money into it.
The problem is with schools (at least around here) is that what they teach as "IT" and "computer literacy" is in fact nothing of the sort - they are just teaching office skills, not really any different to how my mother was taught to touch type and to use shorthand.
This is then compounded by the schools going out of their way and spending quite a lot of resources **actively blocking** children who are curious about how computers work actually experimenting and learning how they work. A teenager in 2013 has fewer opportunities today to learn how to program at school in their own time than I did in 1989. My school in the late 80s didn't teach programming, but they did encourage you to use the computer room and learn for yourself if you were interested in that sort of thing. The schools today don't do that, they actually actively go out of their way to prevent kids from learning about how computers work. I find it grotesque that in 2013 kids have fewer opportunities to learn to program than I did in 1989.
You say that as if it is a bad thing. If the Scottish want to be independent, it's their right, they ought to have the right to self-determination. "National identity" is grossly overvalued.
And this is why the Guardian's nickname is "The Grauniad"