Oh, please. C++ is (basically) a superset of C. You can do anything you can do in C in C++, and you can take advantage of *some* CC features (e.g., references, function templates, etc) even without having to use classes and OOP. Stop spreading your FUD.
As for the sparcs, their high temperature is justified, and, since they run on custom hardware anyway, it can be designed for this.
At the other end of the spectrum, we have Apple with its nice, cool, but still extremely powerful G4s. They may not be as powerful as the fastest x86 cpus, but mhz per mhz they are far superior, and are also cooler than the processors they approximately equal.
New board, new cases, new RAM, new peripherals. It happens. It's expensive. Get over it. Do you really want old
technology sticking around just because we're stubborn? (ISA, coff coff).
Unlike ISA, current case designs, power supplies, etc. are adequate. Unlike ISA, better alternatives do not exist (e.g., PCI). If any processor needs the kind of power that only this new type of motherboard can accomidate, and then needs to radiate it away with a one pound(!) heatsink, the processor has problems, not the case/motherboard/power supply technology.
If you actually knew the tool you'd know there's an option to fix that, it's not the default because so much
pre-existing code breaks when you turn it on.
Oh, like VC++'s own header files?
Oh, and I have used the tool.
Linux is not a difficult operating system at all. It is virtually impossible to use at all without being educated properly in how to use it.
Yes, it's called reading the documentation, something Windows users have grown unaccustomed to. Windows may be easier to learn, but Linux/Unix is far less painful to use.
Colleges don't exist to hold your hand and walk you through the easiest possible way of doing something. They exist to provide *knowledge* to students attending (and paying for) them. Are you paying to be taught the easiest, quickest, least reliable and most propreity way of doing something? That's what I'd expect from a public school.
Ok. Fine. How is the body supposed to damage something like that? The immune system is designed to fight things made of either cells or protien-coated RNA strands, not vast (relatively) expandes of smooth metal.
My high school's censorware blocks all sites (that I know of, at least) that implement any sort of web page tunneling. Fortunately, it can't detect me telneting into my home box and using links to view a page.:)
Oh, really? Think about all the people that have televisions. Does the quality of the television decrease when more people are added to the network? I don't think so. Cablemodems essentially use a specialized television "channel" and an sorta-ethernet uplink. Also, it's much easier to alleviate the shared bandwidth problem --- divide the area into smaller segments. Bandwidth is only 'shared' among a single segment, at least in the sense ADSL advocates refer to it as. Not to mention that DSL *is* shared, just at the ISP instead of the local quasi-LAN.
No, we have a 3mbit download speed. Hell, with my old Lancity modem, we were theoretically capped at 10mbit! Of course, we never *got* that speed, but I do remember a few 600kB/sec burst tramsissions in the early hours of the morning. Now we're limited to 375kB/sec by the design of the hardware, which is still damn fast. Optimum Online is *great* now.
Ever hear of oversubscription? Each customer isn't going to use the whole line all the time, so it's acceptable to put more customers on the line than you can support (to a point).
Also, instead of lining their pockets, the executives might want to spend money buying another T3. It would be good for their business in the long run.
Recent versions of the call are fine. The problem had to do with SYSCALL not allowing IRETs until a SYSRET, which meant that it couldn't be used for system calls that could sleep (and switch to another process).
There are many PDF-viewing (and creation!) programs available --- You can use xdvi or gv to view PDFs as well. No need to use Adobe's crufy Motif-based quivering mount of hacks.
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Oh, please. C++ is (basically) a superset of C. You can do anything you can do in C in C++, and you can take advantage of *some* CC features (e.g., references, function templates, etc) even without having to use classes and OOP. Stop spreading your FUD.
Socklet[0] A was necessary for technical reasons
new bus and all). Intel's socklet wasn't.
[0] Convenient general term for slot and socket, since they are often pin-for-pin compatable.
As for the sparcs, their high temperature is justified, and, since they run on custom hardware anyway, it can be designed for this.
At the other end of the spectrum, we have Apple with its nice, cool, but still extremely powerful G4s. They may not be as powerful as the fastest x86 cpus, but mhz per mhz they are far superior, and are also cooler than the processors they approximately equal.
Unlike ISA, current case designs, power supplies, etc. are adequate. Unlike ISA, better alternatives do not exist (e.g., PCI). If any processor needs the kind of power that only this new type of motherboard can accomidate, and then needs to radiate it away with a one pound(!) heatsink, the processor has problems, not the case/motherboard/power supply technology.
Linux can easily be installed on a non-networked machine. What color crack is he on?
Feh. Internal combustion engines are much less efficient than power plants, and transmission losses are neglagible.
Oh, like VC++'s own header files? Oh, and I have used the tool.
Sorry, slashdot mangled the comparison.
Yes, it's called reading the documentation, something Windows users have grown unaccustomed to. Windows may be easier to learn, but Linux/Unix is far less painful to use.
Colleges don't exist to hold your hand and walk you through the easiest possible way of doing something. They exist to provide *knowledge* to students attending (and paying for) them. Are you paying to be taught the easiest, quickest, least reliable and most propreity way of doing something? That's what I'd expect from a public school.
VC6 has a number of incompatabilities in the *core* *language*. For example, consider this:
for(int i=0; i10; ++i) {;}
for(int i=0; i10; ++i) {;}
Perfectly legal in The Standard and any other compiler, but it breaks in MSVC because the i isn't part of the for loop scope.
What school would that be?
Ok. Fine. How is the body supposed to damage something like that? The immune system is designed to fight things made of either cells or protien-coated RNA strands, not vast (relatively) expandes of smooth metal.
If it's not biological, your body won't reject it.
My high school's censorware blocks all sites (that I know of, at least) that implement any sort of web page tunneling. Fortunately, it can't detect me telneting into my home box and using links to view a page. :)
Wouldn't this be covered under libel? They are claiming a site is obscene, contains hate speech, etc. when it does not!
Three words: Magic Sysrq Key
Oh, really? Think about all the people that have televisions. Does the quality of the television decrease when more people are added to the network? I don't think so. Cablemodems essentially use a specialized television "channel" and an sorta-ethernet uplink. Also, it's much easier to alleviate the shared bandwidth problem --- divide the area into smaller segments. Bandwidth is only 'shared' among a single segment, at least in the sense ADSL advocates refer to it as. Not to mention that DSL *is* shared, just at the ISP instead of the local quasi-LAN.
Moderators, this is *not* flamebate. It may look like it, but everything said above is true. Please moderate accordingly.
No, we have a 3mbit download speed. Hell, with my old Lancity modem, we were theoretically capped at 10mbit! Of course, we never *got* that speed, but I do remember a few 600kB/sec burst tramsissions in the early hours of the morning. Now we're limited to 375kB/sec by the design of the hardware, which is still damn fast. Optimum Online is *great* now.
Ever hear of oversubscription? Each customer isn't going to use the whole line all the time, so it's acceptable to put more customers on the line than you can support (to a point).
Also, instead of lining their pockets, the executives might want to spend money buying another T3. It would be good for their business in the long run.
Actually, no. I saw this story in the Science slashbox.
No, but you *can* fix problems with software, or you can alter a trajectory if the first probe fails.
Recent versions of the call are fine. The problem had to do with SYSCALL not allowing IRETs until a SYSRET, which meant that it couldn't be used for system calls that could sleep (and switch to another process).
There are many PDF-viewing (and creation!) programs available --- You can use xdvi or gv to view PDFs as well. No need to use Adobe's crufy Motif-based quivering mount of hacks.
:)
(Last four words stolen from elsewhere
This same argument was made in favor of 16bit systems. See any modern 16bit systems?