And here's some filler text to compensate for/.'s sucktacular lameness filter. Blah blah blah. "It won't be any more frightening than the time I climbed up an elevator shaft with my teeth," said Sunny.
There's a standard industry joke that if DEC were in charge of marketing for Kentucky Fried Chicken, the advertisements would be for "warm dead bird". Their technical staff was brilliant, and even their general management staff had some bright bulbs in their, but the marketing was utterly inept.
Well, a little bit of thought would bear this out, but okay:
Go to the phone book. Find the number of your local Federal building. Call them and ask to speak with a DIS (Defense Investigative Services) representative. Ask him or her.
I might have the acronym wrong, because it's been many years since I had to go through the clearance process, and the Feds change acronyms more often than most people change underwear. At any rate, I asked questions similar to yours (although without the snide tone, I'd like to think), and they showed me some then-current numbers.
You're clearly not going to believe me no matter what I say, so I encourage you to go to the people producing said numbers. I found them to be very open and willing to explain their reasoning. With evidence.
Employees with low credit are usually more willing to sell company secrets for cash. It's a simple fact, demonstrated over and over again. Not because they're inherently evil employees or some other kneejerk reaction, but because the situations that got them a low credit score are precisely the ones that create a desperate need for lots of cash.
Now combine that situation with a government clearance, and you've moved from selling company confedential data to their competitors, into selling military secrets to foreign nations. I rather like the fact that they look hard at credit ratings. In debt? Here's a small packet of red-stamped SECRET/NOFRN papers that will pay off your credit cards if passed on to the right people....
They're not denying you work because "you're not willing to work at these wages," they're denying you work because "a very high percentage of people with similar credit ratings sell out their country if given a job here."
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who, as a compiler hacker, would have expected an optimization pass to transform the first form into the second form before generating the bytecode.
Or more precisely, to understand that both forms are testing for the same thing, and to produce identical simplified bytecode.
...I was reassured that the votes in my precinct, and those all around mine, were plain ol' simple punch cards. No Diebold BS yet.
I also made damn' sure that there was no dangling chad (hi Chad!) on the back of my ballot before I turned it in. So if Ohio fucks up the election like Florida did, it is entirely not my fault.
I must have read right past his name about twenty times. You're right, it does make me feel like a complete idiot.:-) Also I don't know how my comment got posted twice... clearly a bad browsing day for me.
...slashdot actually acted like a responsible net citizen and delayed the announcement until the mirrors were populated.
And it hurts nobody, I think you'll agree. Those who desperately want the 3.6 code will already have it; more casual users will benefit from using a mirror.
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Oh, yeah, I forgot. Slashdot editors don't like science unless it's outer space.
Where's that article... okay, here it is, althought I suspect it will have gone into subscription-only archive by now. Probably there's a mirror somewhere.
One of the points was that, using brain scans, we can accurately predict which of the colas you'll prefer. Also, there's no scientific basis for the "blindfolded taste test": it'll come out 50/50... which makes me wonder what a truly "blindfolded" political survey would show.
One of my favorite bits from the article you linked to:
Alenia Spazio [/.ers: the name of a company designing a key component] wasn't alone in missing the impact Doppler shift would have on the decoder. All the design reviews of the communications link, including those conducted with NASA participation, also failed to notice the error that would threaten to turn Huygens's moment of glory into an embarrassing failure.
Alenia Spazio's insistence on confidentiality may have played a role in this oversight. NASA reviewers were never given the specs of the receiver. As JPL's Mitchell explained to Spectrum, "Alenia Spazio considered JPL to be a competitor and treated the radio design as proprietary data."
Insert shameless plug for open-source space probes here, eh?
"You can't use virtual functions or type checking. GCC and G++ already annoy Linus with the type checking"
Well, that's one of the many places where I disagree with Linus. One of the whole points of C++ was to tighten up the type system. That alone would be worth it, in my opinion. If it "annoys" him, too bad for him.
One of the messages by a maintainer on the gcc-patches list in the last month, maybe month and a half. I wish I'd kept a link to it, but I didn't. The archives are at gcc.gnu.org/lists.html if you want to search.
I'm not even reading all of that. Your argument falls down as soon as you point to "documentation: that is hopelessly outdated and known to be abondoned and unmaintained.
Which are now 4 years old. They're dead. They're unsupported unless you pay hefty dollars. They're known to be non-complaint with any C++ standard, ever. They never were.
C++ is syntactical sugar
So is C. So is anything above assembly. Door's that way, troll.
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And here's some filler text to compensate for /.'s sucktacular lameness filter. Blah blah blah. "It won't be any more frightening than the time I climbed up an elevator shaft with my teeth," said Sunny.
...here.
Whaddya mean, "but that's another webcomic"?
There's a standard industry joke that if DEC were in charge of marketing for Kentucky Fried Chicken, the advertisements would be for "warm dead bird". Their technical staff was brilliant, and even their general management staff had some bright bulbs in their, but the marketing was utterly inept.
who believes that the purpose of the Democratic party should be to provide "cute but not that bright" comfort women to Republicans.
No, he's not joking. Yes, he's publishing a book.
There are jokes about how "he needed killin'" is a valid murder defense in Texas. Sheesh, this guy qualifies.
Well, a little bit of thought would bear this out, but okay:
Go to the phone book. Find the number of your local Federal building. Call them and ask to speak with a DIS (Defense Investigative Services) representative. Ask him or her.
I might have the acronym wrong, because it's been many years since I had to go through the clearance process, and the Feds change acronyms more often than most people change underwear. At any rate, I asked questions similar to yours (although without the snide tone, I'd like to think), and they showed me some then-current numbers.
You're clearly not going to believe me no matter what I say, so I encourage you to go to the people producing said numbers. I found them to be very open and willing to explain their reasoning. With evidence.
Employees with low credit are usually more willing to sell company secrets for cash. It's a simple fact, demonstrated over and over again. Not because they're inherently evil employees or some other kneejerk reaction, but because the situations that got them a low credit score are precisely the ones that create a desperate need for lots of cash.
Now combine that situation with a government clearance, and you've moved from selling company confedential data to their competitors, into selling military secrets to foreign nations. I rather like the fact that they look hard at credit ratings. In debt? Here's a small packet of red-stamped SECRET/NOFRN papers that will pay off your credit cards if passed on to the right people....
They're not denying you work because "you're not willing to work at these wages," they're denying you work because "a very high percentage of people with similar credit ratings sell out their country if given a job here."
who, as a compiler hacker, would have expected an optimization pass to transform the first form into the second form before generating the bytecode.
Or more precisely, to understand that both forms are testing for the same thing, and to produce identical simplified bytecode.
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...I was reassured that the votes in my precinct, and those all around mine, were plain ol' simple punch cards. No Diebold BS yet.
I also made damn' sure that there was no dangling chad (hi Chad!) on the back of my ballot before I turned it in. So if Ohio fucks up the election like Florida did, it is entirely not my fault.
D'oh!
I must have read right past his name about twenty times. You're right, it does make me feel like a complete idiot. :-) Also I don't know how my comment got posted twice... clearly a bad browsing day for me.
What character did he play? I don't remember seeing or hearing him anywhere in the films. "Actors returning to their triolgy roles"??
If you don't know who Lennix is, go to a movie store and rent the coolest adaptation ever of Shakespeare's bloodiest play ever.
What character did he play? I don't remember seeing or hearing him anywhere.
If you don't know who Lennix is, go to a movie store and rent the coolest adaptation ever of Shakespeare's bloodiest play ever.
...slashdot actually acted like a responsible net citizen and delayed the announcement until the mirrors were populated.
And it hurts nobody, I think you'll agree. Those who desperately want the 3.6 code will already have it; more casual users will benefit from using a mirror.
Oh, I realize that the writers would like them to have a dual nature. Most of them, include iLoveBees, don't. It's nothing but crap.
They're a series of ads for Halo 2, marketed as a game for people too stupid to walk away from advertising.
I didn't say we should be doing it. The comment was on the technical feasibility, not the appropriateness.
Didn't I just read this somewhere...
- Coca-Cola Rewires Your Brain; Pepsi Cannot
Oh, yeah, I forgot. Slashdot editors don't like science unless it's outer space.22:21 Tuesday 19 October 2004
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Where's that article... okay, here it is, althought I suspect it will have gone into subscription-only archive by now. Probably there's a mirror somewhere.
One of the points was that, using brain scans, we can accurately predict which of the colas you'll prefer. Also, there's no scientific basis for the "blindfolded taste test": it'll come out 50/50... which makes me wonder what a truly "blindfolded" political survey would show.
One of my favorite bits from the article you linked to:
Insert shameless plug for open-source space probes here, eh?
So does C, and every other language derived from it. That changes nothing.
I think it's unreasonable -- and dishonest -- to say that <some tool I have no relevent experience with> is untrustworthy.
"You can't use virtual functions or type checking. GCC and G++ already annoy Linus with the type checking"
Well, that's one of the many places where I disagree with Linus. One of the whole points of C++ was to tighten up the type system. That alone would be worth it, in my opinion. If it "annoys" him, too bad for him.
One of the messages by a maintainer on the gcc-patches list in the last month, maybe month and a half. I wish I'd kept a link to it, but I didn't. The archives are at gcc.gnu.org/lists.html if you want to search.
I'm not even reading all of that. Your argument falls down as soon as you point to "documentation: that is hopelessly outdated and known to be abondoned and unmaintained.
Which are now 4 years old. They're dead. They're unsupported unless you pay hefty dollars. They're known to be non-complaint with any C++ standard, ever. They never were.
So is C. So is anything above assembly. Door's that way, troll.
Even g++ can give the zero-overhead ideal for exceptions. It's heavily dependant on the platform and the platform-specific ABI.
Linux on x86 ain't one of those platforms.