Okay, this was *WAY* offtopic. But it was good, and it was funny, and insightful, and it wasn't something that had been posted 15000 times before.
The moderation system is not to keep the conversation on topic. It's to weed the good out from the bad. If you thought this comment was a waste of time, fine, mark it offtopic, but don't automatically mark it that way just because it has nothing to do with the story. Sometimes the best comments can be OT.
And of course i'll now be instantly -1 offtopiced, evenly from people who didn't read this, just thought it was OT (relevant to the parent is not OT!) and those who have a twisted sense of irony. *sigh*;-)
I think multiple inheritance is out by design, too unsafe/unpredictable i guess. I haven't actually gone far enough into C++ to use it, but it would seem to make things less "safe" - the thing that keeps me using java is its predictability.
Assertions are in 1.4. You use a statement like "assert;". This is an incompatible change, so you must compile with "javac -source 1.4". To enable assertions at runtime, run with "java -ea".
In most but not all cases - it is when a continuous second derivative changes sign. Thus it must be zero, but the second derivative being zero is not sufficient - consider f(x)=x^4 at x=0.
This reinforces my impression of NVidia as a hardware company that knows it's a hardware company.
I was pleasantly surprised back when I got my new computer with a TNT2 that they provided nice (in my experience) fast 3D drivers. They haven't subscribed to the whole open-source/free software philosophy, they're just being smart. Giving source for their drivers may have some benefits, may have some costs, may not be possible for legal reasons. Giving away binary drivers makes sense - you're quite likely to influence a linux user's video card purchase with decent drivers. Making people download it from their website, or install it differently from any other package is just a pain in the ass and doesn't gain them anything.
There's no altruism here, just common sense. What's surprising is that so many big hardware manufacturers make things so hard.
I'm not going to trust my personal finances to a company that refuses to release their code under the GPL.
If you had said "under a {free|open source} licence", then that would have been an extreme, but reasonable, position. To specify the GPL specifically is religious nonsense. You might prefer to buy from a company that GPLs, but to say that software with some other free license is less trustworthy is absurd - the choice of free license is irrelevant to you if you don't plan to release changes to the software.
the "weight" (yeah, yeah, it's actually mass, not weight)
What was all that about? Why not just say "the mass"? This is on a site that uses computer and physics jargon and acronyms all the time, mass isn't exactly an obscure concept.
Even the claims of 100 hours of music on a DVD (assuming a standard single layer 4.7GB recordable DVD) would only allow for 110kbps which is getting kind of low.
Given that most people are fine with 128kbps MP3s, a better codec at 110kbps would probably do fine. The 30 hrs of music on CD is stretching it though.
These students are paying top tution dollars and ahve access to some of the most powerful equipment available to what? That's right. Make a giant SCREEN SAVER that "looks pretty".
(Sorry if this is offtopic, i've seen it a lot lately).
You used quote marks. Who were you quoting? Quote marks *mean* something. If you want to emphasise, use emphasis, *emphasis*, emphasis or _emphasis_. What you said made me think that the students didn't see any benefits other than the prettiness of a screensaver, when it was just you who couldn't see what they were actually doing.
Was it really neccesary to get me to click on a link and try to work out what the resulting page meant? We have an acronym tag for a reason, the browser can implement this cleanly and efficiently.
[Really offtopic] If the post submission bit doesn't allow this, that should be fixed. And it is high time that slashcode output *some* kind of HTML.
I believe that CDs already sound crap at 16bit by 44.1khz.
Fine, but 99% (not a figurative 99%, i would bet on an actual 99%) of people would not be able to distinguish between a CD and anything you might propose (that doesn't involve "nice" distortion).
Unfortunately, this is the way capitalism works, if you are in the minority, then the economies of scale don't work and you get a worse deal than the 90% of people who don't know that MP3 is lossy encoding. Buy the vinyl or whatever sounds best, but don't expect to be catered for in the first round of these services. 90% of people will think they're fine, the 10% will have to wait until the premise is established.
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and it's just so damned ugly when you have to wrap an int in an Integer.
RTFA.
Also, it's statically typed. It's so fucking annoying to have to typecast everything - I know I have a damn String - quit holding my fucking hand!
RTFA.
Oh, wait.
and i would challenge you to find ANY OS who only has one guy in charge of approving code/patches to the kernel.
Uh, Linux?
Does freedom only matter if it's American?
Er, no. A gram is one thousandth of a kilogram, which is the SI unit for mass.
The moderation system is not to keep the conversation on topic. It's to weed the good out from the bad. If you thought this comment was a waste of time, fine, mark it offtopic, but don't automatically mark it that way just because it has nothing to do with the story. Sometimes the best comments can be OT.
And of course i'll now be instantly -1 offtopiced, evenly from people who didn't read this, just thought it was OT (relevant to the parent is not OT!) and those who have a twisted sense of irony. *sigh* ;-)
Dude, you guys won the cold war already. get over it
you insensitive claude!
I think multiple inheritance is out by design, too unsafe/unpredictable i guess. I haven't actually gone far enough into C++ to use it, but it would seem to make things less "safe" - the thing that keeps me using java is its predictability.
Assertions are in 1.4. You use a statement like "assert ;". This is an incompatible change, so you must compile with "javac -source 1.4". To enable assertions at runtime, run with "java -ea".
In most but not all cases - it is when a continuous second derivative changes sign. Thus it must be zero, but the second derivative being zero is not sufficient - consider f(x)=x^4 at x=0.
He should use an AMD, it would be faster.
Fuck.
I was pleasantly surprised back when I got my new computer with a TNT2 that they provided nice (in my experience) fast 3D drivers. They haven't subscribed to the whole open-source/free software philosophy, they're just being smart. Giving source for their drivers may have some benefits, may have some costs, may not be possible for legal reasons. Giving away binary drivers makes sense - you're quite likely to influence a linux user's video card purchase with decent drivers. Making people download it from their website, or install it differently from any other package is just a pain in the ass and doesn't gain them anything.
There's no altruism here, just common sense. What's surprising is that so many big hardware manufacturers make things so hard.
Well, given slashdotters' treatment of linked articles, reading doesn't really seem a reasonable way, does it? ;-)
You mean security fears like the big hole in 4.3.0 that only affected CGI users?
If you had said "under a {free|open source} licence", then that would have been an extreme, but reasonable, position. To specify the GPL specifically is religious nonsense. You might prefer to buy from a company that GPLs, but to say that software with some other free license is less trustworthy is absurd - the choice of free license is irrelevant to you if you don't plan to release changes to the software.
What was all that about? Why not just say "the mass"? This is on a site that uses computer and physics jargon and acronyms all the time, mass isn't exactly an obscure concept.
Are you root?
If the file ain't there, good luck catting it ;-)
You meant echo right?
Given that most people are fine with 128kbps MP3s, a better codec at 110kbps would probably do fine. The 30 hrs of music on CD is stretching it though.
Word to the wise: on slashdot, it's generally more efficient to realise the grammar doesn't make sense, and THEN read it.
(Sorry if this is offtopic, i've seen it a lot lately).
You used quote marks. Who were you quoting? Quote marks *mean* something. If you want to emphasise, use emphasis, *emphasis*, emphasis or _emphasis_. What you said made me think that the students didn't see any benefits other than the prettiness of a screensaver, when it was just you who couldn't see what they were actually doing.
[Really offtopic] If the post submission bit doesn't allow this, that should be fixed. And it is high time that slashcode output *some* kind of HTML.
Fine, but 99% (not a figurative 99%, i would bet on an actual 99%) of people would not be able to distinguish between a CD and anything you might propose (that doesn't involve "nice" distortion).
Unfortunately, this is the way capitalism works, if you are in the minority, then the economies of scale don't work and you get a worse deal than the 90% of people who don't know that MP3 is lossy encoding. Buy the vinyl or whatever sounds best, but don't expect to be catered for in the first round of these services. 90% of people will think they're fine, the 10% will have to wait until the premise is established.