>>There's a C subset in C++ which should perform just as well
I'm sure if the op was using that subset they would have just said C.
>> it can inline the actual comparison code.
sometimes in special circumstances parts of c++ can be faster than C. In general though C is faster. You might be inlining the sort code but that's only if you are sorting classes. Since you would have to sort a class that means you are moving more memory around. Which slows your sort code. My statement was a generality.
> Yes, it's easier for an incompetent programmer to write inefficient C++ than it is to write inefficient C. But that doesn't mean that C++ itself is slower.
A competant programer writes code clearly then optimizes. Code written in C++ following the general conventions of C++ tends to be slower. It's a good trade off for most code though. The power of c++ is worth it.
You're an idiot for not disputing the charge with your credit card company. You would have had the money back in a day. Unless you charged it to a debit card. Then you are just dumb.
If my dvd player couldn't sit on top of my reciever and inside my smallish cabinet I would return it. If it made a ton of noise I would return it. Why does is an xbox supposed to get any leeway.
You know my nes, snes, ps1, and ps2 had no trouble with any of the configurations that people mention make the 360 crash. Technology has come a long way, don't tell me that modern equipment should be expected to be worse. That's bullshit, and if it means I don't get a next gen console for a good long time then so be it.
I'm hoping people are more like me and won't put up with substandard shit then like you and take mediocrity as it comes. $400 is too much to spend for bullshit.
the xbox 360 isn't a computer and Microsoft should have expected people to put it in a cabinet next to all the rest of their AV gear and not in it's own cabinet. If they expect people to uglify their living room with it by putting it on it's own pedestal then they should also expect me not to buy it. Glad I waited. Hopefully one of the other next-gen console makers will have a clue.
yeah like floppies. Seriously what is up with them, it used to be that you could put your documents on a floppy manhandle it for a week and get your data no problem. These days even new floppies protected in a case go bad instantly. Then again floppies have been obsolete for what 8 years now.
yeah this is a bad-ass card with my laptop. I know you need some sort of antenna cable for the mini-pci card. I haven't seen any mini-pci/pci adapter, but I don't see why they wouldn't exist
> And then of course you've got the whole frequency regulation crap where manufacturers can't even open source if they want to.
That always will be and always has been a bunch of bullshit. Will the card be banned if someone reverse engineers a driver? If a card company has been so shortsighted that they can't release the specs, they don't need to preach any excuses to me, they aren't getting my money.
This is the my biggest beef with linux support for wireless. I haven't found an 802.11g chipset that works reliably. I would purchase one this instant(I'm not kidding, I'll go straight to newegg or bestbuy) if I knew it worked, perfectly. All the cards have their quirks and the support is almost a joke. After twisting yourself into contortions it might work. That said the only card that I've had consistent success with has been the centrino chipset. Too bad these only come on intel laptops and not as a pci/pcmcia card.
I have a pheobe usb wireless that mostly works(atmel chipset). It only supports 802.11b(hardware limitation) and it can't do a scan for networks while connected to one, this really fucks up wifi-radar.
I had an orinico pcmcia card by smc. Very nice card, unfortunately it had a very flimsy plastic antena that broke when my cat stepped on it. Scanning did not work at all, so if I wanted to connect to a network, I had to guess the essid.
I also had a linksys pcmcia card. I forgot the name but it was one of those where earlier versions worked fine but the newest version had a different chipset even though the model name remained the same. This was a piece of shit card under any os. Though it mostly didn't work under linux.
> raise the minimum temperature at witch such protein-food are prepared
A scientist managed to Ash the prion protein and still have it transmit the dissease. So you can't really cook the food to a high enough temperature and still have it be food.
> healthy immune response causes far more damage than the actual virus.
So in that case, the solution is to get really drunk alot and sleep less when you get sick. That may keep your immune system from having to strong a response?
> If you really enjoy these products so much, why can't you pay for them like the rest of us?
I think the answer to that question is in just about every other post. Because you are worse off after buying these products.
Tell me where I can buy a copy of a movie that will play on my linux system from my hardrive. Furthermore, if I'm paying for such a copy I want the codec that it's in and the file format to be documented and don't want to relly on one company to support it.
You can't buy such a thing. Hell you can't even buy such a thing that will go on a windows system.
Don't give me any such crap about stealing, I don't do p2p. I can see where people are getting quite frustrated. All I do is buy easily scratchable shiny plastic discs that I can't backup in overly bulky containers. It's no wonder people are sharing this stuff, I may go that route myself in the future.
> Simply put, there's no such thing as a security patch that doesn't apply (other than for software that isn't installed).
Yeah, you should apply all security patches. However after updating libc you really don't need a reboot. Restarting all relevant processes is sufficient. (e.g. if it's an exploit in how libc creates temp files, you don't need to restart a process that doesn't create temp files), stupid example I know, but that is what I meant.
most patches are to one application only. If you are running a server then after upgrading libc you only have to restart the services exposed to the network and/or depending on the nature of the exploit log in and out.
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>>There's a C subset in C++ which should perform just as well
I'm sure if the op was using that subset they would have just said C.
>> it can inline the actual comparison code.
sometimes in special circumstances parts of c++ can be faster than C. In general though C is faster. You might be inlining the sort code but that's only if you are sorting classes. Since you would have to sort a class that means you are moving more memory around. Which slows your sort code. My statement was a generality.
> Yes, it's easier for an incompetent programmer to write inefficient C++ than it is to write inefficient C. But that doesn't mean that C++ itself is slower.
A competant programer writes code clearly then optimizes. Code written in C++ following the general conventions of C++ tends to be slower. It's a good trade off for most code though. The power of c++ is worth it.
c++ not as fast as C. Though I'm sure it would still be faster in asm, provided you know what you are doing.
You're an idiot for not disputing the charge with your credit card company. You would have had the money back in a day. Unless you charged it to a debit card. Then you are just dumb.
yeah, god forbid they actually design it properly.
If my dvd player couldn't sit on top of my reciever and inside my smallish cabinet I would return it. If it made a ton of noise I would return it. Why does is an xbox supposed to get any leeway.
You know my nes, snes, ps1, and ps2 had no trouble with any of the configurations that people mention make the 360 crash. Technology has come a long way, don't tell me that modern equipment should be expected to be worse. That's bullshit, and if it means I don't get a next gen console for a good long time then so be it.
I'm hoping people are more like me and won't put up with substandard shit then like you and take mediocrity as it comes. $400 is too much to spend for bullshit.
the xbox 360 isn't a computer and Microsoft should have expected people to put it in a cabinet next to all the rest of their AV gear and not in it's own cabinet. If they expect people to uglify their living room with it by putting it on it's own pedestal then they should also expect me not to buy it. Glad I waited. Hopefully one of the other next-gen console makers will have a clue.
Well, this is why I always wait a few months before jumping on a console, if not a year. Nothing pisses me off more while I'm gaming than a crash.
oohh a new dell dual core laptop. That would be sweet.
yeah like floppies. Seriously what is up with them, it used to be that you could put your documents on a floppy manhandle it for a week and get your data no problem. These days even new floppies protected in a case go bad instantly. Then again floppies have been obsolete for what 8 years now.
It's funny how the public has grown to accept a defective product and then shrugs and says, well at least it's cheap.
yeah this is a bad-ass card with my laptop. I know you need some sort of antenna cable for the mini-pci card. I haven't seen any mini-pci/pci adapter, but I don't see why they wouldn't exist
I really like wifi-radar.
http://www.bitbuilder.com/wifi_radar/
since centrino does this fine, I would say it's a driver thing.
ok, so when I go to newegg.com and type in ralink I get zero results. This information is mildly helpfull at best.
> And then of course you've got the whole frequency regulation crap where manufacturers can't even open source if they want to.
That always will be and always has been a bunch of bullshit. Will the card be banned if someone reverse engineers a driver? If a card company has been so shortsighted that they can't release the specs, they don't need to preach any excuses to me, they aren't getting my money.
This is the my biggest beef with linux support for wireless. I haven't found an 802.11g chipset that works reliably. I would purchase one this instant(I'm not kidding, I'll go straight to newegg or bestbuy) if I knew it worked, perfectly. All the cards have their quirks and the support is almost a joke. After twisting yourself into contortions it might work. That said the only card that I've had consistent success with has been the centrino chipset. Too bad these only come on intel laptops and not as a pci/pcmcia card.
I have a pheobe usb wireless that mostly works(atmel chipset). It only supports 802.11b(hardware limitation) and it can't do a scan for networks while connected to one, this really fucks up wifi-radar.
I had an orinico pcmcia card by smc. Very nice card, unfortunately it had a very flimsy plastic antena that broke when my cat stepped on it. Scanning did not work at all, so if I wanted to connect to a network, I had to guess the essid.
I also had a linksys pcmcia card. I forgot the name but it was one of those where earlier versions worked fine but the newest version had a different chipset even though the model name remained the same. This was a piece of shit card under any os. Though it mostly didn't work under linux.
There's a reason vcr's and tv's stay on. It's so that a lazy ass can just use the remote control to turn all their shit on.
only if you ignore a few things.
Honda's typically have very high residual values, even with repair costs you are much better buying a used domestic from a rental company.
> No; that makes your comment needlessly sarcastic.
awww, did your feelings get hurt. I'm so sorry.
> raise the minimum temperature at witch such protein-food are prepared
A scientist managed to Ash the prion protein and still have it transmit the dissease. So you can't really cook the food to a high enough temperature and still have it be food.
> healthy immune response causes far more damage than the actual virus.
So in that case, the solution is to get really drunk alot and sleep less when you get sick. That may keep your immune system from having to strong a response?
> If you really enjoy these products so much, why can't you pay for them like the rest of us?
I think the answer to that question is in just about every other post. Because you are worse off after buying these products.
Tell me where I can buy a copy of a movie that will play on my linux system from my hardrive. Furthermore, if I'm paying for such a copy I want the codec that it's in and the file format to be documented and don't want to relly on one company to support it.
You can't buy such a thing. Hell you can't even buy such a thing that will go on a windows system.
Don't give me any such crap about stealing, I don't do p2p. I can see where people are getting quite frustrated. All I do is buy easily scratchable shiny plastic discs that I can't backup in overly bulky containers. It's no wonder people are sharing this stuff, I may go that route myself in the future.
> Simply put, there's no such thing as a security patch that doesn't apply (other than for software that isn't installed).
Yeah, you should apply all security patches. However after updating libc you really don't need a reboot. Restarting all relevant processes is sufficient. (e.g. if it's an exploit in how libc creates temp files, you don't need to restart a process that doesn't create temp files), stupid example I know, but that is what I meant.
most patches are to one application only. If you are running a server then after upgrading libc you only have to restart the services exposed to the network and/or depending on the nature of the exploit log in and out.
but very few gnu/linux updates require reboots. IOW, It is rare for the kernel itself to need a patch.