Oh, this is the Nina story. Here in NZ we've been getting this in the news over the last few months, but they never mentioned that anybody 'famous' might be on board. I'd just assumed it was another recreational fishing boat that went missing.
Driving with only one hand on the wheel (e.g. stick shift) = safe
You're supposed to have two hands on the wheel except when actually shifting. In my country you can be fined for not having both hands on the wheel (although I've never heard of anyone it actually happened to).
As passenger in the car will pause when they see a potential risk ahead or when they see you requiring increased concentration, and give you another pair of eyes in the vehicle.
Ha. My ex would prattle on while I'm driving, and if I didn't make eye contact periodically or didn't respond due to concentrating on the road she'd yell at me to stop ignoring her.
T-boned at an intersection after she had a full 10 seconds of red light in front of her. She never bothered to look, and blew through the intersection at 50+.
Until you get so small as to bump into the realm of Quantum Mechanics, and then you literally can't say for certain - ever - if a specific thing is at one location or another.
"unsigned int x = -3;" generates no compile errors or warnings.
This supports the point of the poster you were referring to. The code is correct, predictable, and generates no warnings.
If you don't believe me, listen to the creator of C++
C and C++ are different languages. The implicit conversion rules and the promotion rules are different in C++ to C. In C, unsigned types always promote to unsigned types. But in C++, unsigned types may promote to signed ones, if the value fits in the signed range.
In general, it's a good idea to used signed ints whenever possible.
Says who?
In C, signed ints have a whole lot of problems associated with representation and overflow. But unsigned ints have well-defined behaviour in every circumstance. They wrap around in case of overflow or an out-of-range assignment. You can safely test, set and reset individual bits.
With signed ints, you can raise a signal (triggering a signal handler, or aborting the program if there is no handler) if there is overflow or underflow. Using '^', '|' or '&' on signed values can trap due to creating an invalid representation (e.g. negative zero, or parity error).
Test: what is wrong with this code snippet (assuming the appropriate furniture)? Hint: it doesn't always print 0x82.
char ch = 130;/* é in the traditional code page */
printf("0x%x\n", (unsigned int)ch);
As a former Alaskan I can tell you that glacialization has come back the last 3 years and summer temperatures are rapidly falling year after year. So climate != weather but 13 years of data is starting to make a case for a cooler climate regardless of increased CO2.
"global warming" doesn't meant that every point on the globe will warm up by the same amount. It could be that Alaska gets colder, but Brazil gets hotter by a larger amount, for example.
Interesting question is - if they haven't released the pirated copy, how many people would have downloaded it (assuming anyone would even bothering cracking it)?
It has no DRM so it is not possible to crack.
If the developers really want to mess with the pirates, now they will start seeding dozens broken copies with various titles like "Game Dev Tycoon - FULL VERSION", so that the pirates can't tell the real one from the broken one.
For what it's worth, bombings are happening every day elsewhere in the world. But in the US, granted, it's an uncommon sight. Quite sad. (That it happened, not that it's uncommon!)
I was watching coverage of the Boston incident and the news ticker said "Explosions across Iraq leave 24 dead". But it's only brown people, right? The priority of those stories should have been reversed.
You, and the Slashdot editors that posted this, are wasting everyone's time with this question. What's next, an Ask Slashdot for shaking crumbs and pubes out of your keyboard?
Don't be an ass. The question is whether cleaning dust out of a PC actually makes a difference or not. (or even whether it's harmful). Since most people don't do it and their PCs continue to work; and it's possible to give a component a static shock while trying to clean it, the question is reasonable.
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Oh, this is the Nina story. Here in NZ we've been getting this in the news over the last few months, but they never mentioned that anybody 'famous' might be on board. I'd just assumed it was another recreational fishing boat that went missing.
Isn't this just determined by your work contract?
If your contract has a notice period and you don't give that notice then your employer can sue for breach of contract, and vice versa.
Driving with only one hand on the wheel (e.g. stick shift) = safe
You're supposed to have two hands on the wheel except when actually shifting. In my country you can be fined for not having both hands on the wheel (although I've never heard of anyone it actually happened to).
As passenger in the car will pause when they see a potential risk ahead or when they see you requiring increased concentration, and give you another pair of eyes in the vehicle.
Ha. My ex would prattle on while I'm driving, and if I didn't make eye contact periodically or didn't respond due to concentrating on the road she'd yell at me to stop ignoring her.
T-boned at an intersection after she had a full 10 seconds of red light in front of her. She never bothered to look, and blew through the intersection at 50+.
Maybe Laura Bush was on her cell phone that time?
How does the carrier know whether someone's driving or not?
(speechless)
Well, I never thought I'd see someone argue that flying a military jet is easier than driving a car.
Yeah that's a thing :) People often say "I can't hear myself think" - this means that noise is distracting them from concentrating.
That's the whole point. In both cases you're a poor judge of your own ability. "I did it and felt OK and didn't die" doesn't mean it wasn't dangerous.
But you'll put your life in the hands of somebody who's had basically no formal training in driving?
You are allowed 5 free articles (or views) of The Onion website. After that they greet you with a paywall.
Is that real? I saw it and figured it was another Onion joke.
No country has the balls to tell USA to fuck off, at the moment. Except Iran and North Korea but they know US wouldn't bother to swat them.
Until you get so small as to bump into the realm of Quantum Mechanics, and then you literally can't say for certain - ever - if a specific thing is at one location or another.
You can, but you wouldn't know where it was going
You forgot Yasser Arafat...
This is why you don't use threads for important stuff...
Does this photo have another angle on the Mars lizard ?
Huh? Google Maps still exists
"unsigned int x = -3;" generates no compile errors or warnings.
This supports the point of the poster you were referring to. The code is correct, predictable, and generates no warnings.
If you don't believe me, listen to the creator of C++
C and C++ are different languages. The implicit conversion rules and the promotion rules are different in C++ to C. In C, unsigned types always promote to unsigned types. But in C++, unsigned types may promote to signed ones, if the value fits in the signed range.
In general, it's a good idea to used signed ints whenever possible.
Says who?
In C, signed ints have a whole lot of problems associated with representation and overflow. But unsigned ints have well-defined behaviour in every circumstance. They wrap around in case of overflow or an out-of-range assignment. You can safely test, set and reset individual bits.
With signed ints, you can raise a signal (triggering a signal handler, or aborting the program if there is no handler) if there is overflow or underflow. Using '^', '|' or '&' on signed values can trap due to creating an invalid representation (e.g. negative zero, or parity error).
Test: what is wrong with this code snippet (assuming the appropriate furniture)? Hint: it doesn't always print 0x82. /* é in the traditional code page */
char ch = 130;
printf("0x%x\n", (unsigned int)ch);
As a former Alaskan I can tell you that glacialization has come back the last 3 years and summer temperatures are rapidly falling year after year. So climate != weather but 13 years of data is starting to make a case for a cooler climate regardless of increased CO2.
"global warming" doesn't meant that every point on the globe will warm up by the same amount. It could be that Alaska gets colder, but Brazil gets hotter by a larger amount, for example.
skepticalscience.com is completely unreliable source, they make non-trivial edits to posts after comments have began
So they fix mistakes pointed out by commentors. How terrible.
Of course it would be even better if they retained a change history.
Interesting question is - if they haven't released the pirated copy, how many people would have downloaded it (assuming anyone would even bothering cracking it)?
It has no DRM so it is not possible to crack.
If the developers really want to mess with the pirates, now they will start seeding dozens broken copies with various titles like "Game Dev Tycoon - FULL VERSION", so that the pirates can't tell the real one from the broken one.
For what it's worth, bombings are happening every day elsewhere in the world. But in the US, granted, it's an uncommon sight. Quite sad. (That it happened, not that it's uncommon!)
I was watching coverage of the Boston incident and the news ticker said "Explosions across Iraq leave 24 dead". But it's only brown people, right? The priority of those stories should have been reversed.
Heh you're onto it.
Here's hoping we don't end up with something like:
void main()
{
My String s;
s.read(cin);
}
You, and the Slashdot editors that posted this, are wasting everyone's time with this question. What's next, an Ask Slashdot for shaking crumbs and pubes out of your keyboard?
Don't be an ass. The question is whether cleaning dust out of a PC actually makes a difference or not. (or even whether it's harmful). Since most people don't do it and their PCs continue to work; and it's possible to give a component a static shock while trying to clean it, the question is reasonable.