We've released embedded products running in debug compiles precisely because that's where almost all our testing is done, it fits in the memory constraints, and we occasionally had bugs with the regular, optimized code.
You need to compile this compiler with a compiler which begs the question....
How was the first compiler compiled?
As mentioned, the first one was done in assembly language.
In fact, one of the standard tests for such self-compiled "new" compilers is they are compiled using the old compiler, producing the new one, then re-compiled using the new one. Then the even newer one re-compiles it and they see if the product is identical. If so, bingo! (And if not, why?) The new compiler compiled by the old one and the new one compiled by the new one should themselves both produce identical products, if you follow that.
Creation of compilers got so common they automated the compiler construction by creating compiler specification languages that fed compiler compilers. And those themselves got so common someone created one called YACC, Yet Another Compiler Compiler. Give it an input syntax and map it to an output syntax and press a button.
I remember getting dual-channel ISDN, which was 128k, but it was split into two 56k data channels and a 16k control channel. You could never download from any one site faster than 56k because a connection couldn't straddle more than one data channel.
Still, I could play EQ and surf at the same time on a different computer, a novel thing you young punks take for granted get off my lawn!
Presumably they left in the app: Sweatshop Left Town Because Of Western Pressure HD, where the employees leave the empty building and return to dirt-floor, grinding poverty, with extra bonus levels where western doogooders get points slapping each other on the back and seeing how many shrimp cocktails they can chug at their award parties.
What business does the state have regulating marriage per se?
What business do religions have with marriage?
Marriages were a public, religious commitment before the community and god long before government insinuated itself into the situation. Government is used to ensure additional benefits, and disbursal in the case of divorce, because the government maintains the courts, at the behest of the people, who are the ones who do marriage. Government is the servant, helping smooth things the people choose to do, like marriage.
Now that you've had your history lesson, the man asked you a question: What business does the state have regulating marriage per se?
Nobody is forcing content creators to use it -- just those who want to stop copying, 99.9869% of which has nothing to do with backups or fair use.
Such a standard is ludicrous, though, and I would make a joke about plugins being released to work around it in 0.0022s after release, but they'll probably be available long before release.
"'More and more, I’m seeing thatgames are mining good, old-fashioned human anxieties for their drama "
I see a popular Slashdot game based on exploiting anxieties!
You see brightly-colored lights of a party. You are not likely to be eaten by a girl. > Enter party You enter the party room. > look There are several bowls of Doritos and 17 girls who are not looking at you, and one who looks at you and rolls her eyes. > Talk Girl.18 "What do you want? Don't you have a 'raid' or something?"
Ya know what, this isn't fun. I don't wanna play anymore.
You could cancel the entire defense department and still be borrowing half a trillion or more a year.
Taxing 100% of the income of the rich won't do it, either. Nor will both together.
Finally, we are some 40 trillion short in unfunded liabilities. Even socking it to the middle class, which will not happen, will not save us from that one.
You see cowardly behabior by politicians who trade off power now for problems future politicians must solve.
Innovation rules. That which gets in the way of it kills more than it saves.
Severe restrictions on industry by "concerned" people 100 years ago would have left us with, maybe, a cleaner environment, but 1980-level tech instead of 2013. Net effect: Magnitudes more deaths, not fewer.
Well, in other sports with officials, the officials are considered part of the game field. If the ball/puck hits one, they will try their best to avoid it, but if it hits anyway, oh well.
"Ok, mom. I'll put the wash in the drier right after this raid is over!"
"No, mom. My school doesn't have any dances scheduled this year."
"No, mom. My college doesn't have any dances scheduled this year."
"Ok, mom. I will try OKCupid right after this raid is over."
"Thanks for bringing me my AARP application, which they mail to people at age 50. You really didn't need to come down all these stairs into the basement at your age."
This was absolutely huge because of the implications of what would have happened if it had gone the other way.
Both sides rejected as unlikely the "horribles" as unrealistic conjurations. That's all that crap about copyrighted labels, user manuals, packaging, art works on loan from museums, and so on, being unworkably burdensome.
Congress could still address the issue. Both sides also acknowledged the intent of Congress in deliberately allowing copyright holders to take advantage of price differentials afforded between richer and poorer areas of the world when carving up distribution contracts.
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I spend 5 years paying off a huge credit card debt. Never again will I have a credit card, never.
Or high-speed rotating gravity nullification discs without high-speed rotating gravity nullification discs?
And large virgin deposits of virgins who will step up to the technical challenge.
We've released embedded products running in debug compiles precisely because that's where almost all our testing is done, it fits in the memory constraints, and we occasionally had bugs with the regular, optimized code.
So we release what we beat the hell out of.
As mentioned, the first one was done in assembly language.
In fact, one of the standard tests for such self-compiled "new" compilers is they are compiled using the old compiler, producing the new one, then re-compiled using the new one. Then the even newer one re-compiles it and they see if the product is identical. If so, bingo! (And if not, why?) The new compiler compiled by the old one and the new one compiled by the new one should themselves both produce identical products, if you follow that.
Creation of compilers got so common they automated the compiler construction by creating compiler specification languages that fed compiler compilers. And those themselves got so common someone created one called YACC, Yet Another Compiler Compiler. Give it an input syntax and map it to an output syntax and press a button.
I remember getting dual-channel ISDN, which was 128k, but it was split into two 56k data channels and a 16k control channel. You could never download from any one site faster than 56k because a connection couldn't straddle more than one data channel.
Still, I could play EQ and surf at the same time on a different computer, a novel thing you young punks take for granted get off my lawn!
If I was going to launder money, do you think the government would notice if I declined to state I was carrying more than $10,000?
This would apply to state-level taxes only. Grotesquely innefficient local Peoples' Republics can suck it.
This is the current climate, a kindergartener would be embarrassed to admit this as a thought process:
"Our spending went up 30% in two years. We should cut back a paltry 5% of that."
"WHY DO YOU WANT TO MURDER OLD PEOPLE AND BABIES WITH DRACONIAN CUTS!?!?!?"
Presumably they left in the app: Sweatshop Left Town Because Of Western Pressure HD, where the employees leave the empty building and return to dirt-floor, grinding poverty, with extra bonus levels where western doogooders get points slapping each other on the back and seeing how many shrimp cocktails they can chug at their award parties.
Marriages were a public, religious commitment before the community and god long before government insinuated itself into the situation. Government is used to ensure additional benefits, and disbursal in the case of divorce, because the government maintains the courts, at the behest of the people, who are the ones who do marriage. Government is the servant, helping smooth things the people choose to do, like marriage.
Now that you've had your history lesson, the man asked you a question: What business does the state have regulating marriage per se?
"Daddy, why is the groom wearing a skirt?"
"It's not a skirt -- it's a kilt."
"Oh. Daddy? Why is the bride wearing honey buns on her ears?"
"I don't know."
Nobody is forcing content creators to use it -- just those who want to stop copying, 99.9869% of which has nothing to do with backups or fair use.
Such a standard is ludicrous, though, and I would make a joke about plugins being released to work around it in 0.0022s after release, but they'll probably be available long before release.
> the FCC wants to see at least one community in each state with 1 Gigabit home service by 2015.
Aren't these the same helpers who spent a decade forbidding fiber to the house "to help us"?
Oh god, the rotting eggplants. THE ROTTING EGGPLANTS!
Indeed I do. Now considering...
I see a popular Slashdot game based on exploiting anxieties!
You see brightly-colored lights of a party. You are not likely to be eaten by a girl.
> Enter party
You enter the party room.
> look
There are several bowls of Doritos and 17 girls who are not looking at you, and one who looks at you and rolls her eyes.
> Talk Girl.18
"What do you want? Don't you have a 'raid' or something?"
Ya know what, this isn't fun. I don't wanna play anymore.
You could cancel the entire defense department and still be borrowing half a trillion or more a year.
Taxing 100% of the income of the rich won't do it, either. Nor will both together.
Finally, we are some 40 trillion short in unfunded liabilities. Even socking it to the middle class, which will not happen, will not save us from that one.
You see cowardly behabior by politicians who trade off power now for problems future politicians must solve.
Presumably this analysis is more meaningful in places like Canada where content creators get a slice of sales of blank DVDs and so on.
Well, if my company forces one of these on me, I'll worry about it...when they get to it 3 years from now.
Innovation rules. That which gets in the way of it kills more than it saves.
Severe restrictions on industry by "concerned" people 100 years ago would have left us with, maybe, a cleaner environment, but 1980-level tech instead of 2013. Net effect: Magnitudes more deaths, not fewer.
Well, in other sports with officials, the officials are considered part of the game field. If the ball/puck hits one, they will try their best to avoid it, but if it hits anyway, oh well.
Now we need LazySlashdotter, with such gems as:
"Minus 1 - Troll!"
"Minus 1 - I disagree!"
"Ok, mom. I'll put the wash in the drier right after this raid is over!"
"No, mom. My school doesn't have any dances scheduled this year."
"No, mom. My college doesn't have any dances scheduled this year."
"Ok, mom. I will try OKCupid right after this raid is over."
"Thanks for bringing me my AARP application, which they mail to people at age 50. You really didn't need to come down all these stairs into the basement at your age."
I want the octocore one even if each core is a little bit slower. I has a sad it apparently won't be available in the US.
Both sides rejected as unlikely the "horribles" as unrealistic conjurations. That's all that crap about copyrighted labels, user manuals, packaging, art works on loan from museums, and so on, being unworkably burdensome.
Congress could still address the issue. Both sides also acknowledged the intent of Congress in deliberately allowing copyright holders to take advantage of price differentials afforded between richer and poorer areas of the world when carving up distribution contracts.
> Kirsty Hughes, the chief executive of Index on Censorship, said this a 'sad day' for British democracy.
and
> Members of Parliament voted on Clause 21A late last night, it passed 530 to 13 .
This is a sad day for freedom, but a wonderful day for democracy.
Rarely do we see the difference, which few acknowledge exists, so starkly highlighted.