Examine the code words in the organization's name. Why would one grant them any more credibility than other code-worded organizations like the American Family Association or Concerned Women for America.
The designers of strncpy followed the idea that it's better to keep as much data as possible
Your approach is still inefficient and error-prone since one can easily forget the second part.
It seems to me that strncpy() matches the semantics of fixed-length fields in some 1970's file formats. Some really old versions of Unix stored 14-character filenames according to this semantic (plus a 2-byte inode value) in directories.
You do realize that strncpy() is fundamentally broken, right? If the source string is longer than n characters, then the destination string will not get a null terminator. The first operation after that on the destination string will go flying off the end with unpredictable results. strncpy() is also inefficient in that it will fill the dest buffer with unnecessary null characters if the source is short. I use my own strcpy() function that takes the size of the destination-string buffer as a parameter.
almost half the population of Quebec (that's ~3 million people) wanted to separate from Canada
Only about 35% of Quebecers wanted to separate from Canada. The other 15% wanted to retain their Canadian passports & citizenship, eliminate their share of the federal debt, and continue to receive federal transfers while not paying any federal taxes living in an independent country.
A legitimate secession of any province/state should require a clear question ("sucede from Canada and form an independent country") and a 2/3 majority of voters (since it's a Constitutional change). Anything less is bullshit.
Abstinence isn't truly 100%; there is only one technique that is absolutely certain: Suicide. We must teach our children to practice it, for their own safety.
Indeed, I can't imagine why they are planning to support 32-bit machines. In seven years, all of the boxes capable of running Windows 7 will be 64-bit.
The odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 5,051 in your whole lifetime.
I think a more useful statistic would be this: you're getting on a plane to fly 1000 miles in a first-world country(s). What is the probability that you will be killed or seriously injured?
it's that if your time has come there's nothing you can do.
Does this mean that people can be as reckless as they want or does it mean nothing? If 'your time' is ten years from now, then you can jump off a 60-story building today and live. Why not jump into an incinerator? You can't die.
I think that if you examine actual reality, you will find that reckless people die younger. Does this mean that 'their time' was sooner, or does it mean that their recklessness probably caused their death? What if they died needlessly and predictably doing something reckless? Do we need mysticism to explain this?
this is news for nerds, not news for people with a political bone to pick
If you look at the posting counts for stories that are inherently political, you will notice that nerds are indeed people with a political bone to pick. So, "News for Nerds" is not violated; it is promoted. Same with religion.
you have no idea where open-source products are going, whereas vendors like Microsoft provide a roadmap for the future.
Anything that a corporation says about the future of its products is either lies or wishful thinking. At least you know that popular FOSS will improve and respond to user needs.
The WOPR's not letting us back in.
I know. No one can get back on. We're trying everything.
It's like the entire password file has been wiped out.
I tried that! Don't you think I would have tried that?
so if the ISO is indeed the International Standards Organisation, it must not be influenced by a single commercial entity.
Indeed, this whole exercise really isn't about MSOXML. It is a test to see if ISO is really an International Standards Organization or just a corporate whore. I suspect that it's the latter.
Microsoft has such a cynically exploitative view of the market that they truly prove that large corporations can be psychotic.
You just need to look at the third world (and Middle East) to understand that in the absence of accountability, the most cynically and paranoid psychopathic entities are the ones that become the top leaders. The free market is supposed to provide the accountability and the democratic government is supposed to insure the free market and The People are supposed to insure the democratic government, but the government has been infested by the psychopathic corporations. It's up to The People to correct the government, but they are asleep at the switch.
this is a horrible idea. Using the client's whole computer, hard drive contents included, to sell ads is just wrong.
I think it's frikkin' awesome! Combined with the other patent about integrating advertising in the OS of your computer, Microsoft could turn using Windows for absolutely anyting into a such an ad-infested crap-fest that even their most ardent supporters would abandon them.
"Quantum mechanics is weird and spooky, and we don't quite understand how it works, consciousness is weird and spooky, and we don't quite understand how it works, therefore consciousness is a quantum effect."
Indeed, there is no reason to believe that quantum effects are any more relevant to the process of consciousness than to the operation of a bicycle.
There is no direct connection between the two brains, so it would be impossible to be "looking" through 2 sets of eyes.
You're not getting it. There would be two different, independent "you"s, each a universe unto itself. Each "you" would be looking through only the set of eyes directly attached to it. All of the processing hardware and memories of each "you" would be identical, so so would the illusion of "you" to each instance.
My though is that each individual is like a singleton, and when destroyed, the question of reviving that "singleton" fully or ending up with a clone that is different, is truly the mystery.
There is no rational reason to believe this; this notion is just something that you are pulled out of your ass. Rationality tells us that the brain operates like a computer and your consciousness is an illusion, and as long as the brain operates correctly, so does the illusion of that unique, mysterious, unduplicatable "you".
It's something that seemingly only you yourself could test.
Rationally, you are an unreliable witness to your own consciousness. If the passage of time in some absolute sense ever slowed down or sped up, you would never know, because you are trapped within it. Similarly, you are trapped within your own consciousness, and you would have no way to know if something "absolute" ever changed about it, except for your own memories. How do you know that you have the same consciousness that you had five minutes ago? Really, you don't.
Maybe someday science will reveal a way to truly test this aspect of the universe, but for now I guess it sits in the realm of philosophy.
Rationality tells us right now how this all works, unless you want to insert a box into the middle of the block diagram that is labelled "Magic happens here".
It is a *profoundly* mysterious question if it would, in fact, be the same "you" inside if your brain were switched off for a while and then turned back on.
Seems pretty straightforward to me. If we accept the hypothesis that consciousness is an illusion, there's not *really* a "you" to begin with. "You" are a process that your brain runs while it is active. So, when you restart your brain, your "you" process would run again like normal. If you duplicate your brain completely, there would be two "you"s running.
Personally I feel it has something to do with the continuity of brain activity.
My understanding is that the bulk of the state of your brain is contained in the wiring of it, and like Flash memory, this content doesn't go away when the power is off (provided that your brain meat doesn't deteriorate when the power is off). Maybe your short-term memory is stored in a chemical or electrical state and like SRAM and would be lost if the power is turned off.
it would be a different consciousness, albeit one that thinks everything went just fine.
Even if this were true and you did have a somehow "different" consciousness, you would never even know it.
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Examine the code words in the organization's name. Why would one grant them any more credibility than other code-worded organizations like the American Family Association or Concerned Women for America.
Your approach is still inefficient and error-prone since one can easily forget the second part.
It seems to me that strncpy() matches the semantics of fixed-length fields in some 1970's file formats. Some really old versions of Unix stored 14-character filenames according to this semantic (plus a 2-byte inode value) in directories.
Why would they name it after a Quebec city? Perhaps the relationship is phonetic, as in "We've got-a-no answers for you!"
People should start referring to it my it's truthful name, MSOXML: Microsoft Office XML.
You do realize that strncpy() is fundamentally broken, right? If the source string is longer than n characters, then the destination string will not get a null terminator. The first operation after that on the destination string will go flying off the end with unpredictable results. strncpy() is also inefficient in that it will fill the dest buffer with unnecessary null characters if the source is short. I use my own strcpy() function that takes the size of the destination-string buffer as a parameter.
On the understanding that those in control of the business would be cashing out soon.?
It seems to me that they are struggling businesses who get a one-time payday from Microsoft if they sign up.
Only about 35% of Quebecers wanted to separate from Canada. The other 15% wanted to retain their Canadian passports & citizenship, eliminate their share of the federal debt, and continue to receive federal transfers while not paying any federal taxes living in an independent country.
A legitimate secession of any province/state should require a clear question ("sucede from Canada and form an independent country") and a 2/3 majority of voters (since it's a Constitutional change). Anything less is bullshit.
3-GHz Athlon + Java + XSLT == 1-MHz 6502.
Abstinence isn't truly 100%; there is only one technique that is absolutely certain: Suicide. We must teach our children to practice it, for their own safety.
This is why we are seeing an exponentially increasing number of A.D.D. 'tardos in our society.
Indeed, I can't imagine why they are planning to support 32-bit machines. In seven years, all of the boxes capable of running Windows 7 will be 64-bit.
I think a more useful statistic would be this: you're getting on a plane to fly 1000 miles in a first-world country(s). What is the probability that you will be killed or seriously injured?
Does this mean that people can be as reckless as they want or does it mean nothing? If 'your time' is ten years from now, then you can jump off a 60-story building today and live. Why not jump into an incinerator? You can't die.
I think that if you examine actual reality, you will find that reckless people die younger. Does this mean that 'their time' was sooner, or does it mean that their recklessness probably caused their death? What if they died needlessly and predictably doing something reckless? Do we need mysticism to explain this?
Um, Bill Gates has always been a f**king a**hole and 20 years ago, Microsoft had an awesome future.
If you look at the posting counts for stories that are inherently political, you will notice that nerds are indeed people with a political bone to pick. So, "News for Nerds" is not violated; it is promoted. Same with religion.
Anything that a corporation says about the future of its products is either lies or wishful thinking. At least you know that popular FOSS will improve and respond to user needs.
The WOPR's not letting us back in. I know. No one can get back on. We're trying everything. It's like the entire password file has been wiped out. I tried that! Don't you think I would have tried that?
Indeed, this whole exercise really isn't about MSOXML. It is a test to see if ISO is really an International Standards Organization or just a corporate whore. I suspect that it's the latter.
You just need to look at the third world (and Middle East) to understand that in the absence of accountability, the most cynically and paranoid psychopathic entities are the ones that become the top leaders. The free market is supposed to provide the accountability and the democratic government is supposed to insure the free market and The People are supposed to insure the democratic government, but the government has been infested by the psychopathic corporations. It's up to The People to correct the government, but they are asleep at the switch.
I think it's frikkin' awesome! Combined with the other patent about integrating advertising in the OS of your computer, Microsoft could turn using Windows for absolutely anyting into a such an ad-infested crap-fest that even their most ardent supporters would abandon them.
Indeed, there is no reason to believe that quantum effects are any more relevant to the process of consciousness than to the operation of a bicycle.
You're not getting it. There would be two different, independent "you"s, each a universe unto itself. Each "you" would be looking through only the set of eyes directly attached to it. All of the processing hardware and memories of each "you" would be identical, so so would the illusion of "you" to each instance.
There is no rational reason to believe this; this notion is just something that you are pulled out of your ass. Rationality tells us that the brain operates like a computer and your consciousness is an illusion, and as long as the brain operates correctly, so does the illusion of that unique, mysterious, unduplicatable "you".
Rationally, you are an unreliable witness to your own consciousness. If the passage of time in some absolute sense ever slowed down or sped up, you would never know, because you are trapped within it. Similarly, you are trapped within your own consciousness, and you would have no way to know if something "absolute" ever changed about it, except for your own memories. How do you know that you have the same consciousness that you had five minutes ago? Really, you don't.
Rationality tells us right now how this all works, unless you want to insert a box into the middle of the block diagram that is labelled "Magic happens here".
Seems pretty straightforward to me. If we accept the hypothesis that consciousness is an illusion, there's not *really* a "you" to begin with. "You" are a process that your brain runs while it is active. So, when you restart your brain, your "you" process would run again like normal. If you duplicate your brain completely, there would be two "you"s running.
My understanding is that the bulk of the state of your brain is contained in the wiring of it, and like Flash memory, this content doesn't go away when the power is off (provided that your brain meat doesn't deteriorate when the power is off). Maybe your short-term memory is stored in a chemical or electrical state and like SRAM and would be lost if the power is turned off.
Even if this were true and you did have a somehow "different" consciousness, you would never even know it.
I can't understand why Microsoft didn't bring in a hundred new companies. Then they could boast a 107-6 result.