This is by far the most inaccessable front page article I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Even though this shows a good starting point at jumping into GCC and ARCH debugging, it completely alienates all the Slashdot readers who don't have a rather high level understanding of how compilers work and the debugging process in general. The author presents a very readable and complete overview of the process he used, which is good. Unfortunately, he doesn't go into any details of why he chose to do what he is doing or the effects of doing it a different way.
This article is only truly accessable to the readers who are already familiar with C and wish to spend at least an hour going over the article and accompanying code. Even then, looking from the comments posted thus far, most readers will still be unable to grasp what is truly going on in the author's head or in the process he uses.
This article does belong in slashdot, but not the front page.
When I originally signed up for @home it was 10 mb down. I also was the only one in my neighborhood who used @home. It was the golden age of the internet for me. Then there were the speed decreases...and defunctness.
Right now I also use comcast. They advertised something like 1.5 mb down and 256 k up. I wasn't allowed to order the upgraded package due to my "location." Well...the speeds I see are usually well over 2 mb down, but a paltry 100 k up. What's up with that? Once again, I'd rather sacrifice that extra "free".5 mb down for an extra.5 up.
This is kinda like claiming improper search and seizure for drug cases. I wonder if there is precedent in electronic law.
You're kidding right? Improper search and seizure could completely foul up an otherwise open-and-shut case. Same thing with Miranda Rights and the such.
Much of this country's laws are based on the "proper" way to handle things. Since the RIAA didn't want to fish out a few bucks to buy Kazaa Plus, and couldn't handle the ads, they, and every other Kazaa Lite user, are leaving themselves wide open to law suit.
I found a short article that outlines some basic details of what they (Loral) know now and what they're doing to alleviate any problems to the end-user (you).
Interesting...just saw your pc. Like it. Good use of cables et al. The most interesting part is that I already read it before I read your post. How you say? Somebody else liked it too and had a link to your rig at Quakcon 2003.
Inherintly nothing. It's just that innovating can mean stealing an idea, just slightly changing it, and selling it as your own. An example of good innovation: GNU/Linux. An example of bad innovation: Microsoft.
RTFA
In the same paragraph Cringley explains the difference between invention and innovation (in his context). Invention is coming up with a new idea or new way to use an existing idea, innovation is changing (sometims stealing) an idea for specialized purposes (ie profit).
I think they're right. If no one knew that the movie wasn't up to par, everyone would have to believe the hype.
There are 3 aspects of a profitable movie, in order of precedence:
- Marketing the movie.
- Making the deal.
- Making the movie.
This is nothing new. It's been this way since movies were commercially viable. I'm sure the same held (and holds) true to movies' predecessors, plays, operas, symphonies, etc.
could you not measure the exact voltage on a CPU, or the ambient temperature to several decimals, or other environmental
You could if the voltages/temperatures/etc were swinging widly around at random intervals.
Another problem lies in the computer's ability to accurately detect minute enough changes. I seriously doubt that the computer's internal sensors are accurate enough to produce truly random results with their deterministic nature.
I bet you Tarantella Inc is kicking themselves over their semi-recent sale of 994,400 stocks sold at just around a dollar (320,000 at.86, 500,000 at 1.59, and 174,400 at 1.07) back in late march/early april for a total of $11,258,112.
Had they held onto the stock and sold it now it would have been worth $8,407,456 more if they sold it now at 9.72, or even $11,171,888 more if they sold it at 12.5 a week ago.
Who uses Java?
Nobody, that's who. Sun paid off some schools to force students to learn it, and even with that brainwashing, nobody uses it.
Now I'm sad. Not only did I have to pay for tuition that Sun was supposedly paying for me, but I also got brainwashed into being an idiot nobody. I think I'll go cry now.
If you're REALLY a cheapskate, you'll convince all of your friends to learn Java. A month later, you'll have every "24 hours", "21 days", "for dummies", etc book ever written about the language.
Unfortunately when you do receive and read those books you'll be no better at Java than you were before.
Once you've read these two books (or just one if you're a cheapskate)
Being the cheapskate that I am, I would hope that either book would be sufficient to learn a programming language's syntax, nuances, etc. Unless I've never programmed before and expect to learn to be an professional level programmer in Java, one book should be enough to cover my needs.
So let me get this straight...Once enough people (read everyone who wants the game) buys it, they drop the price. Oh well...guess I have to buy for the Gamecube now as well.
It is scheduled to be the single most interesting thing that has EVER happened in Utah.
Well, having lived in Utah for most of my life I'll say this: it's the single most interesting thing that to happen in our state that we don't need to be ashamed of. Other noteworthy things to happen in Utah recently and currently:
The Elizibeth Smart debacle (showing the US that the only crime in Utah is done by religious zealots)
Polygamy for all (south of Utah County at least)
A hiker who decided to cut off his arm (to save his life...or so he says)
Of course...maybe we should be ashamed of just existing.
You'll need to convince a teacher before you even talk to the administrators. I know that if I was an administrator I'd say No. All of those out-dated computers your school has cost money to buy and to maintain. The last thing the administrators want is a bunch of "computer savvy" kids dinking with their computers.
The only way to get a CS club started is to convince at least one teacher first, and have him/her help talk to the adminstrators.
Another hint: don't try to sell them linux. Teachers, administrators, librarians, etc, like having something that they're used to on their computers. If you change it, you'll get the club disbanded.
Not only that but the idea of "a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes" would result in loss of battery life rather quickly. You don't get free energy here. You'd need 100% effeciency (impossible) to not lose energy. You'd need more than 100% effeciency (even more impossible) to gain energy by using the phones vibrator.
The poster needs to go back to Junior High and relearn basic physics.
Just to clarify why Intel is saying they need this, this is not about preventing the end-user (i.e. you) from overclocking. That is merely an unfortunate side effect. The main idea is to prevent "unscrupulous" retailers from selling cpus at a higher clock rating than they are shipped with. And don't fool yourself, Intel doesn't want the end-user overclocking either. It leads to people buying lower-clocked cpus and pumping them up to a cpu that costs an hundred dollars more. I'm sure that overclocking is also a headache for their tech support.
IMHO this is a good thing. If both Intel and AMD cpus are completely overclock-proof this will lead to people having to buy the higher-clocked cpus, which lead to more money being pumped into the two cpu giants. What does that lead to? Eventually a better, more stable technology economy. If you really want to keep overclocking, you could always go to VIA and Transmeta chips. I'm fairly sure that they won't follow suit and keep their cpus clear of anti-overclocking facilities.
Alright, I know that it isn't, and never can be, fair to compare anyone to Hitler. I'm merely reposting an article that forces you to think about what's going on the world. No matter what opinion you come to, I've succeeded as long as you thought about it, and hopefully, without thinking only from your emotions.
Also, what kind of mentally inept moderator would mod down people who post responses to this article? If you don't agree with them, that's one thing, modding them down is another. I've read them, and not a single one deserved to be modded down. In fact, several deserved to modded up. Grow a backbone and mod up criticism.
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Even though this shows a good starting point at jumping into GCC and ARCH debugging, it completely alienates all the Slashdot readers who don't have a rather high level understanding of how compilers work and the debugging process in general. The author presents a very readable and complete overview of the process he used, which is good. Unfortunately, he doesn't go into any details of why he chose to do what he is doing or the effects of doing it a different way.
This article is only truly accessable to the readers who are already familiar with C and wish to spend at least an hour going over the article and accompanying code. Even then, looking from the comments posted thus far, most readers will still be unable to grasp what is truly going on in the author's head or in the process he uses.
This article does belong in slashdot, but not the front page.
When I originally signed up for @home it was 10 mb down. I also was the only one in my neighborhood who used @home. It was the golden age of the internet for me. Then there were the speed decreases...and defunctness. .5 mb down for an extra .5 up.
Right now I also use comcast. They advertised something like 1.5 mb down and 256 k up. I wasn't allowed to order the upgraded package due to my "location." Well...the speeds I see are usually well over 2 mb down, but a paltry 100 k up. What's up with that? Once again, I'd rather sacrifice that extra "free"
Now the name "Slack" is brought to full term.
You're kidding right? Improper search and seizure could completely foul up an otherwise open-and-shut case. Same thing with Miranda Rights and the such.
Much of this country's laws are based on the "proper" way to handle things. Since the RIAA didn't want to fish out a few bucks to buy Kazaa Plus, and couldn't handle the ads, they, and every other Kazaa Lite user, are leaving themselves wide open to law suit.
I found a short article that outlines some basic details of what they (Loral) know now and what they're doing to alleviate any problems to the end-user (you).
Interesting...just saw your pc. Like it. Good use of cables et al. The most interesting part is that I already read it before I read your post. How you say? Somebody else liked it too and had a link to your rig at Quakcon 2003.
Inherintly nothing. It's just that innovating can mean stealing an idea, just slightly changing it, and selling it as your own. An example of good innovation: GNU/Linux. An example of bad innovation: Microsoft.
RTFA
In the same paragraph Cringley explains the difference between invention and innovation (in his context). Invention is coming up with a new idea or new way to use an existing idea, innovation is changing (sometims stealing) an idea for specialized purposes (ie profit).
Dave: I think I'll go to the park. HAL: I'm sorry. I can't let you do that.
I've tried and tried, but I still can't teach my Aibo.
There are 3 aspects of a profitable movie, in order of precedence:
- Marketing the movie.
- Making the deal.
- Making the movie.
This is nothing new. It's been this way since movies were commercially viable. I'm sure the same held (and holds) true to movies' predecessors, plays, operas, symphonies, etc.
Another problem lies in the computer's ability to accurately detect minute enough changes. I seriously doubt that the computer's internal sensors are accurate enough to produce truly random results with their deterministic nature.
Had they held onto the stock and sold it now it would have been worth $8,407,456 more if they sold it now at 9.72, or even $11,171,888 more if they sold it at 12.5 a week ago.
Oops.
I'm not using BitTorrent (or any other download manager) and I'm still getting a steady (eerily steady) 87.10 kbps.
So let me get this straight...Once enough people (read everyone who wants the game) buys it, they drop the price. Oh well...guess I have to buy for the Gamecube now as well.
I wish I had an important enough job to require my reading of this book.
The Elizibeth Smart debacle (showing the US that the only crime in Utah is done by religious zealots)
Polygamy for all (south of Utah County at least)
A hiker who decided to cut off his arm (to save his life...or so he says) Of course...maybe we should be ashamed of just existing.
The only way to get a CS club started is to convince at least one teacher first, and have him/her help talk to the adminstrators.
Another hint: don't try to sell them linux. Teachers, administrators, librarians, etc, like having something that they're used to on their computers. If you change it, you'll get the club disbanded.
Good luch. You'll need it.
The poster needs to go back to Junior High and relearn basic physics.
IMHO this is a good thing. If both Intel and AMD cpus are completely overclock-proof this will lead to people having to buy the higher-clocked cpus, which lead to more money being pumped into the two cpu giants. What does that lead to? Eventually a better, more stable technology economy. If you really want to keep overclocking, you could always go to VIA and Transmeta chips. I'm fairly sure that they won't follow suit and keep their cpus clear of anti-overclocking facilities.
Also, what kind of mentally inept moderator would mod down people who post responses to this article? If you don't agree with them, that's one thing, modding them down is another. I've read them, and not a single one deserved to be modded down. In fact, several deserved to modded up. Grow a backbone and mod up criticism.