I had a Caldera OpenLinux CD. I gave it to the Jehova's Witnesses one Sunday morning when they called round in exchange for a leaflet about Armageddon.
The point with using c++ is that gcc can already be compiled with a c++ compiler so they can now start using the c++ without a total rewrite/redesign.
No.
C and C++ diverged many years ago. C++ is not a strict superset of C. You can not compile a C program with a C++ compiler and expect it to behave correctly in general. Yes, there may be ways of hacking around it, but that would by definition lead to complex and unmaintainable code.
C++ is not even a solution looking for a problem. It is too difficult for human beings to use effectively, and there are still many deficiencies in the official language.
gcc is a critical piece of infrastructure in the Free and Open Source world. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
The GCC guys are not going crazy here. They are discussing what subset of C++ to allow...If you use all the wild features of C++, the results could be scary.
The very fact that they need to consider defining and enforcing an arbitrary subset of the language should tell you all you need to know.
and a headache severe enough to make my eyes very sensitive to light will disappear in a matter of minutes
Are these headaches migraines? I get them of varying intensity, caused by stress. I've had some so bad that I've gone blind for a few hours. A few months ago, my GP prescribed Migard for them. It works very well. The side-effects I experience are dry mouth and very sensitive (to touch and heat) skin. It's worth it for the relief from the headaches. I often don't need to take any painkillers with them.
Someone should have told British Nuclear Fuel. I think Windscale/Selafield was up to 20 accidental nuclear waste discharges a year at one point.
They're probably human operator and administrative errors, and probably to do with the storage of waste rather than the operation of nuclear reactors. The waste is typically held in tanks for weeks to decades depending on the type.
The old Windscale piles last operated in 1957. They didn't have computer control, and one of them was the one that went up in flames covering Britain in radioactive fallout (in 1957). The four Calder Hall reactors (early Magnox) were human-controlled too IIRC.
As for the WAGR (Windscale Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor), that operated in the very early 1960s, so I doubt that was computer-controlled either.
So that's 7 reactors on the Sellafield site there. Are there any others? I can't remember, and there certainly weren't any "modern" ones, unless you count the WAGR which was a very advanced prototype for its day. It began operating in 1962, the same year that the first two commercial Magnoxes, Bradwell and Berkeley, came on line.
I used to work at Bradwell.
There have never been any nuclear (reactor) accidents resulting in offsite releases in Britain since Windscale in 1957. Even the dreaded Dounreay was pretty good in that regard. Occasionally the odd few gallons of radioactive effluent made its way out to sea, but you can look that up. Her Majesty's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has it all documented and you can see who got found guilty of what.
'Allo mate! Tim 'ere! Yeah, I've been off on 'oliday. Yeah.
Was down in Spain on me bike. Lovely weather, mate, but I was sayin' to the wife, we went up in the mountains on this mowtaway, three thaasand feet and it only bloody started snowin' IN SPAIN IN MAY!!!!
You know that snow and bikes don't mix, well, I was doin' 5 miles an owa...
Yeah, and them when we got daaahn to the plain, it TURNED TO RAIN mate!!!! Rain in Spain on the PLAIN!!!
No, but Coca-Cola has the power to totally destroy your teeth as we know them. Never mind, you can replace them with comedy wind-up chattering teeth. With feet. And switch to Pepsi.
I've given you at least one citation: the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. This is a national news programme listened to millions of people every day. You can probably listen again to the programme at its web site. Quite frankly, the BBC and other reputable UK media are full of information about the vicious and poisonous nature of the BNP and its members. Even the Daily Mail which is the staple news paper of small-minded, intolerant Little Englanders has nothing good to say about them.
One of their main policies is the "repatriation" of non-whites from the UK. How much more evidence do you need? One of their candidates called Asians and Africans "black pigs." Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, was on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme shortly before the General Election both confirming and condoning what tat particular candidate had said.
That sounds a lot like white supremacy to me. I find it disgusting.
How about we make a list of all of the Labour Party members who have been convicted of various things?
How many other UK political parties have so many candidates (not just members) convicted of violence, drugs, plotting terrorist attacks, hate-crimes and sexual assault and abuse?
The thing is, you can buy or borrow books about things or read about them on the intertubes, but when you really get down to it, anyone with a good pass at GCSE or Standard Grade Chemistry could figure out how to make those things all by themselves.
Education is a dangerous thing. If you give people the tools to be able to think for themselves, you have an entire population of potential terrorists or traitors. Lukcily, people are too stupid and lazy to learn things like Chemistry, Physics and Maths in the UK these days.
Here in the UK we have an openly white-supremacist political party that fielded candidates in the recent General Election: the British National Party. They are trying so hard to appear "honest" and "reasonable" but they're really just a front for racial and religions bigotry and neo-Nazism.
Yes, but, if you listen to a recording you can transcribe it. People already provide home-made guitar tabs for commercial recordings... The RIAA and their foreign counterparts weren't very impressed.
This should result in an interesting, if not amusing, fight as the recording industry tries to tighten its grip even further.
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The Gates Foundation might pick it up...
Indeed: the more people that are alive for longer, the more Windows and Microsoft Office licenses will be bought.
Paris Hilton is smarter than you.
Unlikely. However, she is quite probably a lot more ugly. As ugly as that Parker woman from the TV.
but I'd been meditating and doing lots of energy work that month.
What does that mean?
Write a program that generates music algorithmically. Set it churning and copyright (and put under a GPL-style license) everything that it produces.
After a few million compositions, it should be trivial to find several that have been subsequently "composed" by would-be musicians.
???
Profit!
I had a Caldera OpenLinux CD. I gave it to the Jehova's Witnesses one Sunday morning when they called round in exchange for a leaflet about Armageddon.
The point with using c++ is that gcc can already be compiled with a c++ compiler so they can now start using the c++ without a total rewrite/redesign.
No.
C and C++ diverged many years ago. C++ is not a strict superset of C. You can not compile a C program with a C++ compiler and expect it to behave correctly in general. Yes, there may be ways of hacking around it, but that would by definition lead to complex and unmaintainable code.
C++ is not even a solution looking for a problem. It is too difficult for human beings to use effectively, and there are still many deficiencies in the official language.
gcc is a critical piece of infrastructure in the Free and Open Source world. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
The GCC guys are not going crazy here. They are discussing what subset of C++ to allow...If you use all the wild features of C++, the results could be scary.
The very fact that they need to consider defining and enforcing an arbitrary subset of the language should tell you all you need to know.
It'll all end in tears, mark my words.
and a headache severe enough to make my eyes very sensitive to light will disappear in a matter of minutes
Are these headaches migraines? I get them of varying intensity, caused by stress. I've had some so bad that I've gone blind for a few hours. A few months ago, my GP prescribed Migard for them. It works very well. The side-effects I experience are dry mouth and very sensitive (to touch and heat) skin. It's worth it for the relief from the headaches. I often don't need to take any painkillers with them.
Someone should have told British Nuclear Fuel. I think Windscale/Selafield was up to 20 accidental nuclear waste discharges a year at one point.
They're probably human operator and administrative errors, and probably to do with the storage of waste rather than the operation of nuclear reactors. The waste is typically held in tanks for weeks to decades depending on the type.
The old Windscale piles last operated in 1957. They didn't have computer control, and one of them was the one that went up in flames covering Britain in radioactive fallout (in 1957). The four Calder Hall reactors (early Magnox) were human-controlled too IIRC.
As for the WAGR (Windscale Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor), that operated in the very early 1960s, so I doubt that was computer-controlled either.
So that's 7 reactors on the Sellafield site there. Are there any others? I can't remember, and there certainly weren't any "modern" ones, unless you count the WAGR which was a very advanced prototype for its day. It began operating in 1962, the same year that the first two commercial Magnoxes, Bradwell and Berkeley, came on line.
I used to work at Bradwell.
There have never been any nuclear (reactor) accidents resulting in offsite releases in Britain since Windscale in 1957. Even the dreaded Dounreay was pretty good in that regard. Occasionally the odd few gallons of radioactive effluent made its way out to sea, but you can look that up. Her Majesty's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has it all documented and you can see who got found guilty of what.
Haven't you heard about the Cosmic Cockerel and Cosmic Hen and the Infinite Sea of Eggs?
Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans! Whatever next?
I forgot to say, some of us are trying to fix bugs in code.
'Allo mate! Tim 'ere! Yeah, I've been off on 'oliday. Yeah.
Was down in Spain on me bike. Lovely weather, mate, but I was sayin' to the wife, we went up in the mountains on this mowtaway, three thaasand feet and it only bloody started snowin' IN SPAIN IN MAY!!!!
You know that snow and bikes don't mix, well, I was doin' 5 miles an owa...
Yeah, and them when we got daaahn to the plain, it TURNED TO RAIN mate!!!! Rain in Spain on the PLAIN!!!
No, but Coca-Cola has the power to totally destroy your teeth as we know them. Never mind, you can replace them with comedy wind-up chattering teeth. With feet. And switch to Pepsi.
I'll see your cupcake and raise you a chicken jalfrezi (Asian strength) and 3 660ml bottles of Cobra.
I tried to post it in the original caps but the lameness filter prevented it :-(
I saw this once on the intertubes:
I am willing to die to prove that my god exists!!! Are you willing to die to prove that he doesn't!
So it's all well and good.
And this is Slashdot, not the Economist or Nature.
I've given you at least one citation: the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. This is a national news programme listened to millions of people every day. You can probably listen again to the programme at its web site. Quite frankly, the BBC and other reputable UK media are full of information about the vicious and poisonous nature of the BNP and its members. Even the Daily Mail which is the staple news paper of small-minded, intolerant Little Englanders has nothing good to say about them.
One of their main policies is the "repatriation" of non-whites from the UK. How much more evidence do you need? One of their candidates called Asians and Africans "black pigs." Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, was on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme shortly before the General Election both confirming and condoning what tat particular candidate had said.
That sounds a lot like white supremacy to me. I find it disgusting.
How about we make a list of all of the Labour Party members who have been convicted of various things?
How many other UK political parties have so many candidates (not just members) convicted of violence, drugs, plotting terrorist attacks, hate-crimes and sexual assault and abuse?
The thing is, you can buy or borrow books about things or read about them on the intertubes, but when you really get down to it, anyone with a good pass at GCSE or Standard Grade Chemistry could figure out how to make those things all by themselves.
Education is a dangerous thing. If you give people the tools to be able to think for themselves, you have an entire population of potential terrorists or traitors. Lukcily, people are too stupid and lazy to learn things like Chemistry, Physics and Maths in the UK these days.
Here in the UK we have an openly white-supremacist political party that fielded candidates in the recent General Election: the British National Party. They are trying so hard to appear "honest" and "reasonable" but they're really just a front for racial and religions bigotry and neo-Nazism.
OK, so I was using "RIAA" as a catch-all for the entertainment publishing industry. They're all in it together and as bad as each other.
I don't feel seething hatred for them as much as dismay and pity these days. They are bound to fail embarrassingly soon enough.
Yes, but, if you listen to a recording you can transcribe it. People already provide home-made guitar tabs for commercial recordings... The RIAA and their foreign counterparts weren't very impressed.
This should result in an interesting, if not amusing, fight as the recording industry tries to tighten its grip even further.