(when we have an estimated 10 years of fossil fuels left).
Funny thing is, people have been saying that since the 1960s. Eventually, it might be true, but it's no more true today than it was 40 years ago.
Re:I'm thinking of contributing to GCC...
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GCC 4.1 Released
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· Score: 0, Troll
Browse through the gcc source tree sometime. You'll find it's a big steaming pile of shit and if you want to understand it, you need to hold your nose and take a big bite. I'm not saying gcc is bad - on the contrary, it's quite good. However, there is no documentation or high/medium level overview for people that want to develop it, and the separation between the pieces (lexing, parsing, optimizing, etc) aren't as nice as academic models. Everytime gcc doesn't fuck up and produce incorrect code, you should be glad those gcc "elitists" are doing their job.
Re:I'm thinking of contributing to GCC...
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GCC 4.1 Released
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Depends. Did you get an A++ in your graduate-level compiler construction class? Are you willing to spend a couple months (or more) reading through the gcc source code to get an understanding of how all the pieces work. Are you willing to spend a few more months testing your optimizations (mathematically and with source code) to make sure they don't break anything?
The basics of compilers aren't difficult. 2nd year CS students can understand toy compilers. But gcc isn't a toy compiler, it's a real compiler in the real world dealing with a sometimes crazy language, and even crazier users. If you can write better optimizing code, prove it works, and it doesn't infringe on any patents, submit your code.
defragment your hard drive. Of course, you can't defrag the registry. So use sysinternal's PageDefrag utility which can. Over time, the registry accumulates a lot of stuff, and defragging it can help quite a bit.
Queue "Geeks In Space" / "CmdrTaco/Hemos buttfucking" jokes.
Re:What's the point of these Q&A sessions?
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Sid Meier Responds
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Judging by your skills as an 'editor', I don't think you could pick a shit nugget out of your ass, let alone decide what is or isn't important to the community as a whole.
Judging by his skills as an 'editor', I think he spends all day picking his ass.
NeXTStep used property lists to save arrays, hashes, strings, binary data, etc to a structured text file. It could later be converted back to its original format. OS X uses XML (I don't recall if they have legacy support for old fachioned proplists).
NextStep was available from 1989 - 1995 (I'm not sure if property lists were in v 1.0). OpenStep definitely had them in 1994-1995.
The kind of "funny feeling" you got when "uncle eddy" fondled your nutsack? Or the kind of "funny feeling" you got when you watched the mail man fuck your mom? Or the kind of "funny feeling" you got when you first saw the goatse man?
I lived in the middle east for a couple years (Yemen, where muslim fundamentalism isn't as popular). Maybe *you* should visit Saudi Arabia, you could learn what decapitation feels like.
Oh bother. Why can't you just keep your own cultural identity instead of trying to be the same as us? Homogenizing the world just makes it a more boring place.
Yeah. Who likes boring when you can have suicide bombers, jihadis, giving women fewer rights than goats (ok, score 1 for them), rampant illiteracy, rampant poverty,...
Homer once did that over a telephone dialling code dispute (I think it ended up with The Who getting involved).
There was also an episode where Principal Skinner locked himself in the school, then strapped hotdogs onto himself, and threatened to blow himself up.
And the NASA episode, where Homer referred to Barney 'Let's crash the space shuttle into the Whitehouse and kill the President' Gumble.
Re:The show will need local humor appeal
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Homer Becomes Omar
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having lived in the mideast for a couple years, I can tell you their humor consists of hating the US, the Jews, and Western civilization. As long as they include those themes, people will watch it.
I never really thought "games" fit with "Stuff that matters"
Well, none of Zonk's diarrhea fits in with "stuff that matters" either. As bad as Jon Katz was, he only posted once or twice a week. Zonk goes on a masturbation marathon and posts 30 or 40 articles in a row.
PS - CmdrTaco doesn't finds "meta naval gazing very boring"? Haha! When was the last time you actually read slashdot? Judging by the dupes, goatse links in articles, inaccurate headlines, the fact that Zonk hasn't been shitcanned, etc, it's very clear that you don't even read slashdot.
Calgary -- Forget the stereotype about dopey potheads. It seems marijuana could be good for your brain.
While other studies have shown that periodic use of marijuana can cause memory loss and impair learning and a host of other health problems down the road, new research suggests the drug could have some benefits when administered regularly in a highly potent form.
Most "drugs of abuse" such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine suppress growth of new brain cells. However, researchers found that cannabinoids promoted generation of new neurons in rats' hippocampuses.
Hippocampuses are the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory, and the study held true for either plant-derived or the synthetic version of cannabinoids.
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"This is quite a surprise," said Xia Zhang, an associate professor with the Neuropsychiatry Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
"Chronic use of marijuana may actually improve learning memory when the new neurons in the hippocampus can mature in two or three months," he added.
The research by Dr. Zhang and a team of international researchers is to be published in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, but their findings are on-line now.
The scientists also noticed that cannabinoids curbed depression and anxiety, which Dr. Zhang says, suggests a correlation between neurogenesis and mood swings. (Or, it at least partly explains the feelings of relaxation and euphoria of a pot-induced high.)
Other scientists have suggested that depression is triggered when too few new brain cells are created in the hippocampus. One researcher of neuropharmacology said he was "puzzled" by the findings.
As enthusiastic as Dr. Zhang is about the potential health benefits, he warns against running out for a toke in a bid to beef up brain power or calm nerves.
The team injected laboratory rats with a synthetic substance called HU-210, which is similar, but 100 times as potent as THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound responsible for giving marijuana users a high.
They found that the rats treated regularly with a high dose of HU-210 -- twice a day for 10 days -- showed growth of neurons in the hippocampus. The researchers don't know if pot, which isn't as pure as the lab-produced version, would have the same effect.
"There's a big gap between rats and humans," Dr. Zhang points out.
But there is a lot of interest -- and controversy -- around the use of cannabinoids to improve human health.
Cannabinoids, such as marijuana and hashish, have been used to address pain, nausea, vomiting, seizures caused by epilepsy, ischemic stroke, cerebral trauma, tumours, multiple sclerosis and a host of other maladies.
There are herbal cannabinoids, which come from the cannabis plant, and the bodies of humans and animals produce endogenous cannabinoids. The substance can also be designed in the lab.
Cannabinoids can trigger the body's two cannabinoid receptors, which control the activity of various cells in the body.
One receptor, known as CB1, is found primarily in the brain. The other receptor, CB2, was thought to be found only in the immune system.
However, in a separate study to be published today in the journal Science, a group of international researchers have located the CB2 receptor in the brain stems of rats, mice and ferrets.
The brain stem is responsible for basic body function such as breathing and the gastrointestinal tract. If stimulated in a certain way, CB2 could be harnessed to eliminate the nausea and vomiting associated with post-operative analgesics or cancer and AIDS treatments, according to the researchers.
"Ultimately, new therapies could be developed as a result of these findings," said Keith Sharkey, a gastrointestinal neuroscientist at the University of Calgary, lead author of the study.
(Scientists are trying to find ways to block CB1 as a way to decrease food cravings and limit dependence on tobacco.)
When asked whether his findings explain why CmdrTaco taked it up the ass, Dr. Sharkey paused and replied: "It does not explain the effects of smoked or inhaled or ingested substances."
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Are you bi-sexual or semi-sexual?
Funny thing is, people have been saying that since the 1960s. Eventually, it might be true, but it's no more true today than it was 40 years ago.
Browse through the gcc source tree sometime. You'll find it's a big steaming pile of shit and if you want to understand it, you need to hold your nose and take a big bite. I'm not saying gcc is bad - on the contrary, it's quite good. However, there is no documentation or high/medium level overview for people that want to develop it, and the separation between the pieces (lexing, parsing, optimizing, etc) aren't as nice as academic models. Everytime gcc doesn't fuck up and produce incorrect code, you should be glad those gcc "elitists" are doing their job.
The basics of compilers aren't difficult. 2nd year CS students can understand toy compilers. But gcc isn't a toy compiler, it's a real compiler in the real world dealing with a sometimes crazy language, and even crazier users. If you can write better optimizing code, prove it works, and it doesn't infringe on any patents, submit your code.
Just to clarify, the ABI changes only apply to C++ libraries/code, not C.
defragment your hard drive. Of course, you can't defrag the registry. So use sysinternal's PageDefrag utility which can. Over time, the registry accumulates a lot of stuff, and defragging it can help quite a bit.
The Texas Attorney General filed the suit. Any fines will go to the state of Texas, not some lawyer's pocket.
I'd rather watch them much carpet.
Queue "Geeks In Space" / "CmdrTaco/Hemos buttfucking" jokes.
Judging by his skills as an 'editor', I think he spends all day picking his ass.
Objective C was created by Stepstone, it had nothing to do with Apple before The Apple/NeXT merger.
Anyhow, to back up your point, a lot of Macintosh software is still C/C++ based... iTunes and Finder for example.
NextStep was available from 1989 - 1995 (I'm not sure if property lists were in v 1.0). OpenStep definitely had them in 1994-1995.
{ /NextLibrary/Keyboards/NeXTUSA; };
Clock = {ClockStyle = 3; };
NSGlobalDomain = {24HourClock = Yes; Language = English; };
NeXT1 = {Keymap =
Viewer = {NSBrowserColumnWidth = 145; "NSWindow Frame Preferences" = "5 197 395 309 "; };
Workspace = {SelectedTabIndex = 0; WindowOrigin = "-75.000000"; };
pbs = {};
}
Inquiring minds want to know!
I lived in the middle east for a couple years (Yemen, where muslim fundamentalism isn't as popular). Maybe *you* should visit Saudi Arabia, you could learn what decapitation feels like.
Yeah. Who likes boring when you can have suicide bombers, jihadis, giving women fewer rights than goats (ok, score 1 for them), rampant illiteracy, rampant poverty, ...
There was also an episode where Principal Skinner locked himself in the school, then strapped hotdogs onto himself, and threatened to blow himself up.
And the NASA episode, where Homer referred to Barney 'Let's crash the space shuttle into the Whitehouse and kill the President' Gumble.
having lived in the mideast for a couple years, I can tell you their humor consists of hating the US, the Jews, and Western civilization. As long as they include those themes, people will watch it.
the US is a republic.
Bill Clinton thought that campaign cash for the 1996 elsections was a good reason.
Well, none of Zonk's diarrhea fits in with "stuff that matters" either. As bad as Jon Katz was, he only posted once or twice a week. Zonk goes on a masturbation marathon and posts 30 or 40 articles in a row.
PS - CmdrTaco doesn't finds "meta naval gazing very boring"? Haha! When was the last time you actually read slashdot? Judging by the dupes, goatse links in articles, inaccurate headlines, the fact that Zonk hasn't been shitcanned, etc, it's very clear that you don't even read slashdot.
Which physician (or some other qualified expert) diagnosed you?
Yeah, it's more of a life style choice.
Calgary -- Forget the stereotype about dopey potheads. It seems marijuana could be good for your brain.
While other studies have shown that periodic use of marijuana can cause memory loss and impair learning and a host of other health problems down the road, new research suggests the drug could have some benefits when administered regularly in a highly potent form.
Most "drugs of abuse" such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine suppress growth of new brain cells. However, researchers found that cannabinoids promoted generation of new neurons in rats' hippocampuses.
Hippocampuses are the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory, and the study held true for either plant-derived or the synthetic version of cannabinoids.
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"This is quite a surprise," said Xia Zhang, an associate professor with the Neuropsychiatry Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
"Chronic use of marijuana may actually improve learning memory when the new neurons in the hippocampus can mature in two or three months," he added.
The research by Dr. Zhang and a team of international researchers is to be published in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, but their findings are on-line now.
The scientists also noticed that cannabinoids curbed depression and anxiety, which Dr. Zhang says, suggests a correlation between neurogenesis and mood swings. (Or, it at least partly explains the feelings of relaxation and euphoria of a pot-induced high.)
Other scientists have suggested that depression is triggered when too few new brain cells are created in the hippocampus. One researcher of neuropharmacology said he was "puzzled" by the findings.
As enthusiastic as Dr. Zhang is about the potential health benefits, he warns against running out for a toke in a bid to beef up brain power or calm nerves.
The team injected laboratory rats with a synthetic substance called HU-210, which is similar, but 100 times as potent as THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound responsible for giving marijuana users a high.
They found that the rats treated regularly with a high dose of HU-210 -- twice a day for 10 days -- showed growth of neurons in the hippocampus. The researchers don't know if pot, which isn't as pure as the lab-produced version, would have the same effect.
"There's a big gap between rats and humans," Dr. Zhang points out.
But there is a lot of interest -- and controversy -- around the use of cannabinoids to improve human health.
Cannabinoids, such as marijuana and hashish, have been used to address pain, nausea, vomiting, seizures caused by epilepsy, ischemic stroke, cerebral trauma, tumours, multiple sclerosis and a host of other maladies.
There are herbal cannabinoids, which come from the cannabis plant, and the bodies of humans and animals produce endogenous cannabinoids. The substance can also be designed in the lab.
Cannabinoids can trigger the body's two cannabinoid receptors, which control the activity of various cells in the body.
One receptor, known as CB1, is found primarily in the brain. The other receptor, CB2, was thought to be found only in the immune system.
However, in a separate study to be published today in the journal Science, a group of international researchers have located the CB2 receptor in the brain stems of rats, mice and ferrets.
The brain stem is responsible for basic body function such as breathing and the gastrointestinal tract. If stimulated in a certain way, CB2 could be harnessed to eliminate the nausea and vomiting associated with post-operative analgesics or cancer and AIDS treatments, according to the researchers.
"Ultimately, new therapies could be developed as a result of these findings," said Keith Sharkey, a gastrointestinal neuroscientist at the University of Calgary, lead author of the study.
(Scientists are trying to find ways to block CB1 as a way to decrease food cravings and limit dependence on tobacco.)
When asked whether his findings explain why CmdrTaco taked it up the ass, Dr. Sharkey paused and replied: "It does not explain the effects of smoked or inhaled or ingested substances."
Just look at the community response from "semi-open" licenses like Sun's.