I've read the D spec and I like a lot of it. It certainly would not be difficult for a C programmer to start developing in D as specified.
However, I have to wonder about the string concatenation code. Specifically, I've noticed that it does the same thing as java - namely a + b = c for strings. In Java, this is mindblowingly inefficient - a StringBuffer does the job with far less memory wasteage and so on - BUT, as the + operator is easier to use, it tends to be the chosen solution. I wonder if these string concatenations are efficient...
There have been many new game ports for Mac in the last while. Sure, nowhere near as many as for the PC, but that's not entirely surprising given the relative sizes of the markets.
Also, remember that C code, while portable, will not magically always run on the Mac with SDL even if will run on PCs with SDL. Endian bugs abound, and while they are not difficult to fix, recompiling code on the Mac is (almost) never just a matter of running the compilation.
Are you saying that Athletics is a prerequisite for something to be considered a sport?
The classic example here is Motor Sport (of any kind). The amount of athletic activity while driving (excluding G-forces etc) is not actually that high - most of it is mental concentration. On the other hand, you really need to be very fit indeed to hold concentration long enough for a motor race.
Napster may have made it easy to trade copyrighted music files, but don't forget that it could just as easily be used for swapping free music and personal recordings.
The Internet can be used for wholesale piracy of music, videos, commercial software, you name it. Is the Internet being shut down? No, because it has many redeeming qualities.
I'm not trying to justify keeping Napster alive - I recognise that the number of people using it legally was somewhere between zero and zero - but nevertheless, I believe that shutting Napster down is not all that different to shutting down Hard Disk manufacturers because their media can be used for piracy.
Nope. The lawsuit has been filed on behalf of two people - Melissa Connelly and Laurence Stanton. Not Greg Gaub, though who knows, he may join the party:)
Honestly, I look at this claim with as much skepticism as the people who find live maggots in a McDonalds hamburger that just went through frying in a microwave for three minutes.
That's a different issue, relating to how well said burger is cooked:)
I have to admit I'm not all that familiar with off the shelf PC hardware. Having said that, I'd be astonished if this was possible.
I would assume that serial ports are protected by fuses. If this isn't the case, surely it's a recipe for disaster. It's hardly Palm's fault, either - do you launch a class action suit against god when lightning zaps your modem?:)
In fact, going on that - I've heard of several instances of fried modems after a thunderstorm. These go into the serial port too. If motherboards were vulnerable to damage from bad serial transmissions, surely lightning would kill the computer too here.
Have you ever tried translating back and forth in Babelfish? I took the liberty of translating this story back and forth into different languages a few times. Somebody set us up the bomb:
Conectiva Linux 7,0 is outside. It pulls announcement here. And here babelfish translation. Those already the frame and England give very quick * start to Portugal. However (perhaps you obtain, it was) already, there is a OIN material with ds English. Common document transmission word of the agreement server due to stacking too much. The Hoever and the Rik VanRiel offer the fast server one not to lie to us. I above-mentioned predicate do not do the side of each unit, but, as for general correction following to the adaptation of conclusion of the eastfront whose point of view of the foundation of the mine is rather good. Help of the nerve, you write, is.
Nobody could ever swap my keyboard without me noticing. It's far too dirty; last time I turned it upside down and shook it, you won't believe how many breadcrumbs fell out.
You're right, the first move can only be of any one of 12 pieces. It was only a rough calculation anyway. I was only out by about 3TB for the first four moves - hardly anything to speak of:-)
There is no way you could fit all possible chess games in 40GB of disk space.
Let me give you an example. I realise I'm oversimplifying things here for ease of maths, but it's just a demo anyway. Consider the following, which, by the way, does not try to take account of pieces which are taken - but nevertheless, gives an example of the storage required.
In chess, there are 16 pieces per side. This means there are 16*16 possible combinations of first move (for each side). Assuming you are storing chess moves in 2 bytes (possible, but compact - given no index space is given here), that's 512 bytes for the first move. when you get to the second move, though, you hit 16*16*16*16 possibilities. Suddenly, that's 131072 bytes - 128K. For each additional move, using these raw calculations, you need 256 times more space.
Your 40GB disk will cover slightly less than all the combinations possible for four moves of chess, based on my calculations. Sorry.
Most computers play chess by looking ahead at the consequences of whatever moves are made. Depending on how fast the computer is, huge numbers of possibilities can be checked.
In many cases this is augmented by a database of opening sequences, which is used to give the computer a head start, so to speak.
The computer algorithm works out, for example, what is likely to happen 5 or 6 moves from now if it should move a piece to a certain place. It runs through all possible moves, looking at each one and the likely consequences of it, before deciding exactly what move to execute.
No human can possibly consider anything like the number of moves a computer can, but a truly excellent player stands a chance because look ahead methods are far from flawless.
Why should there be compensation for anything? Given the situation where a stillborn baby has organs removed for research - do the parents deserve to be compensated, given that the use of the organs would not be for profit?
I dunno - I feel that without explicit permission for something like this, compensation probably should be on the cards...
Your suggestion about Time To Live just gave me a silly idea...
Imagine if the Patent system was operated like that of the DNS system. $70 to register a patent for two years; first come first served! Time to live on the Patent servers might be set at 24 hours, so your patent might temporarily expire if your local patent server crashed...
GreatPatents.com - the Internet's Number 1 patent marketplace - could sell you the leading patents at discount prices!
I'm amazed that nobody yet has mentioned that the better part of these older machines can be emulated - many with open source software. Sure, it's nice to have the original machine over a software emulation any day - but lets face it; these things take up a lot of space, are noisy, and are often complicatedto maintain when things go wrong. (Anyone know where I can get a 11V - yes, 11 volt - power supply for my Amstrad GX 4000?)
The classic open source example is MESS, but there are lots of other emulators out there.
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I've read the D spec and I like a lot of it. It certainly would not be difficult for a C programmer to start developing in D as specified.
However, I have to wonder about the string concatenation code. Specifically, I've noticed that it does the same thing as java - namely a + b = c for strings. In Java, this is mindblowingly inefficient - a StringBuffer does the job with far less memory wasteage and so on - BUT, as the + operator is easier to use, it tends to be the chosen solution. I wonder if these string concatenations are efficient...
It's back up and running now, although it was definitely dead earlier today (all pages gave 404s).
:-)
FWIW - my ISPs link to Europe is largely irrelevant, given that I'm in fact in Europe
All of www.zeppelin-nt.com is unavailable right now...
The Slashdot effect is one thing, but when the web pages are physically removed it's quite another!
There have been many new game ports for Mac in the last while. Sure, nowhere near as many as for the PC, but that's not entirely surprising given the relative sizes of the markets.
Also, remember that C code, while portable, will not magically always run on the Mac with SDL even if will run on PCs with SDL. Endian bugs abound, and while they are not difficult to fix, recompiling code on the Mac is (almost) never just a matter of running the compilation.
Aye - be sure to wear protective clothing, and make sure you check yourself with a Geiger counter before and afterwards!
Are you saying that Athletics is a prerequisite for something to be considered a sport?
The classic example here is Motor Sport (of any kind). The amount of athletic activity while driving (excluding G-forces etc) is not actually that high - most of it is mental concentration. On the other hand, you really need to be very fit indeed to hold concentration long enough for a motor race.
See here.
This is from the person who spells Grammar wrong! :)
Napster may have made it easy to trade copyrighted music files, but don't forget that it could just as easily be used for swapping free music and personal recordings.
The Internet can be used for wholesale piracy of music, videos, commercial software, you name it. Is the Internet being shut down? No, because it has many redeeming qualities.
I'm not trying to justify keeping Napster alive - I recognise that the number of people using it legally was somewhere between zero and zero - but nevertheless, I believe that shutting Napster down is not all that different to shutting down Hard Disk manufacturers because their media can be used for piracy.
Just my 0.02 Euro...
I have to admit I'm not all that familiar with off the shelf PC hardware. Having said that, I'd be astonished if this was possible.
:)
I would assume that serial ports are protected by fuses. If this isn't the case, surely it's a recipe for disaster. It's hardly Palm's fault, either - do you launch a class action suit against god when lightning zaps your modem?
In fact, going on that - I've heard of several instances of fried modems after a thunderstorm. These go into the serial port too. If motherboards were vulnerable to damage from bad serial transmissions, surely lightning would kill the computer too here.
Am I missing something?
Conectiva Linux 7,0 is outside. It pulls announcement here. And here babelfish translation. Those already the frame and England give very quick * start to Portugal. However (perhaps you obtain, it was) already, there is a OIN material with ds English. Common document transmission word of the agreement server due to stacking too much. The Hoever and the Rik VanRiel offer the fast server one not to lie to us. I above-mentioned predicate do not do the side of each unit, but, as for general correction following to the adaptation of conclusion of the eastfront whose point of view of the foundation of the mine is rather good. Help of the nerve, you write, is.
Indeed.
Nobody could ever swap my keyboard without me noticing. It's far too dirty; last time I turned it upside down and shook it, you won't believe how many breadcrumbs fell out.
:)
This is what comes from eating at your desk
You're right, the first move can only be of any one of 12 pieces. It was only a rough calculation anyway. I was only out by about 3TB for the first four moves - hardly anything to speak of :-)
There is no way you could fit all possible chess games in 40GB of disk space.
Let me give you an example. I realise I'm oversimplifying things here for ease of maths, but it's just a demo anyway. Consider the following, which, by the way, does not try to take account of pieces which are taken - but nevertheless, gives an example of the storage required.
In chess, there are 16 pieces per side. This means there are 16*16 possible combinations of first move (for each side). Assuming you are storing chess moves in 2 bytes (possible, but compact - given no index space is given here), that's 512 bytes for the first move. when you get to the second move, though, you hit 16*16*16*16 possibilities. Suddenly, that's 131072 bytes - 128K. For each additional move, using these raw calculations, you need 256 times more space.
Your 40GB disk will cover slightly less than all the combinations possible for four moves of chess, based on my calculations. Sorry.
Most computers play chess by looking ahead at the consequences of whatever moves are made. Depending on how fast the computer is, huge numbers of possibilities can be checked.
In many cases this is augmented by a database of opening sequences, which is used to give the computer a head start, so to speak.
The computer algorithm works out, for example, what is likely to happen 5 or 6 moves from now if it should move a piece to a certain place. It runs through all possible moves, looking at each one and the likely consequences of it, before deciding exactly what move to execute.
No human can possibly consider anything like the number of moves a computer can, but a truly excellent player stands a chance because look ahead methods are far from flawless.
LOL, I can think of a number of families that might want compensation for certain relatives...!
Why should there be compensation for anything? Given the situation where a stillborn baby has organs removed for research - do the parents deserve to be compensated, given that the use of the organs would not be for profit?
I dunno - I feel that without explicit permission for something like this, compensation probably should be on the cards...
Your suggestion about Time To Live just gave me a silly idea...
:-)
Imagine if the Patent system was operated like that of the DNS system. $70 to register a patent for two years; first come first served! Time to live on the Patent servers might be set at 24 hours, so your patent might temporarily expire if your local patent server crashed...
GreatPatents.com - the Internet's Number 1 patent marketplace - could sell you the leading patents at discount prices!
OK, I'll do some work now!
It's just before 9:00am where I am. Not everyone in this world lives on the East Coast of the USA :)
It's amazing what the thought of money for nothing does to people.
The classic one was Apple being sued by the original makers of OS9 when they released Mac OS 9.0. I ask you...
The classic open source example is MESS, but there are lots of other emulators out there.
Windows and Unix users should check Retrogames and Zophar, and Mac users should check emulation.net.