The FDIV bug, however, was the direct consequence of a person at Intel screwing up. Everything after that was just more crap rolling downhill.
It is very seldom indeed that a computer makes an actual error. It happens - ram bits flip, gamma rays arrive and cock up what was perfectly operating circuitry for a cycle... but FDIV = 100% human error.
Then ultimately it's the laws of physics who are to blame, because everything, including the humans who designed it, just followed the laws of physics.
You used the right tense: They had no information about you. Now they have the information about you that you care (or someone else does) about what information they have about you.:-) If you clicked the Slashdot link to go there, and don't block referrer, they also know that you came from Slashdot.
IPv4 addresses are a scarce property. And we know a mechanism which fits quite well for handling scarce properties: The free market. I'm not at all someone who thinks the free market is the cure for everything, but this is a case which fits exactly the case for free market: Make IPv4 addresses the property of the individual holders, and allow them to buy and sell. If they get scarce, the price will grow, just as the price of land grows if land is scarce. And if the IP addresses show up as property in the balance sheets, a growing price means there's more incentive to move to IPv6, in order to sell those IPv4 addresses.
I know for sure that neither C nor C++ require capital letters in constant names, and I'm pretty sure the C++ standard library doesn't contain a single constant in uppercase (macros excluded). Using all-uppercase in constant names is just a (IMNSHO bad) convention used by some(!) people. I'm also pretty sure that Java doesn't require constants to be uppercase (but I don't know if there are uppercase constants in the standard library).
All-Caps is not readable. You use all-caps for macros to make them stay out, so you don't accidentally use them as identifier (since C macros, being handled by the preprocessor, don't respect scope). Since usually C constants are really macros, some people took that convention over to real constants (like enum values), and even sometimes to other languages where there aren't macros anyway. I cannot imagine why one would do that if not forced to.
Well, I'd be happy if the Scroll lock key were still supported well out of the box by current Linux distributions. Yes, it doesn't have a default function, but that's exactly what makes it so useful. At least for people who know how to configure their computer.
Yeah, besides, nowadays when anyone says Titanic, everyone thinks about the movie, not the ship.
Obviously I don't exist, because otherwise I would have to be included in "everyone"... but then, you would have guessed it from my user name anyway.:-)
IMHO "misusing the internet" should only apply for sending spam, doing DoS attacks, hacking other computers, and things like that. If I look out of the window instead of working, am I misusing the window?
Well, one thing is that in principle hell and heaven could actually be the same place. For example, a place where you feel yourself all pain you try to give others instead of the other one feeling it is hell for those who like to give others pain, but heaven for the others (because nobody would give them pain -- OK, there probably would need to be an extra rule to deal with those who are at the same time sadistic and masochistic.:-)
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So a heuristic algorithm isn't an algorithm?
Damn, I should better proofread when trying puns! I of course meant an anty-computer movement.
I hope the ant computer will also be usable by Ant Tillie.
This may spur an aunty-computer movement!
You just didn't understand my post. As I wrote, everything, including the humans who designed it, just followed the laws of physics.
Or did you mean the designer as in Intelligent Design? Then yeah, he clearly fucked it up. :-)
The FDIV bug, however, was the direct consequence of a person at Intel screwing up. Everything after that was just more crap rolling downhill.
It is very seldom indeed that a computer makes an actual error. It happens - ram bits flip, gamma rays arrive and cock up what was perfectly operating circuitry for a cycle... but FDIV = 100% human error.
Then ultimately it's the laws of physics who are to blame, because everything, including the humans who designed it, just followed the laws of physics.
You used the right tense: They had no information about you. Now they have the information about you that you care (or someone else does) about what information they have about you. :-)
If you clicked the Slashdot link to go there, and don't block referrer, they also know that you came from Slashdot.
IPv4 addresses are a scarce property. And we know a mechanism which fits quite well for handling scarce properties: The free market.
I'm not at all someone who thinks the free market is the cure for everything, but this is a case which fits exactly the case for free market: Make IPv4 addresses the property of the individual holders, and allow them to buy and sell. If they get scarce, the price will grow, just as the price of land grows if land is scarce. And if the IP addresses show up as property in the balance sheets, a growing price means there's more incentive to move to IPv6, in order to sell those IPv4 addresses.
I know for sure that neither C nor C++ require capital letters in constant names, and I'm pretty sure the C++ standard library doesn't contain a single constant in uppercase (macros excluded). Using all-uppercase in constant names is just a (IMNSHO bad) convention used by some(!) people. I'm also pretty sure that Java doesn't require constants to be uppercase (but I don't know if there are uppercase constants in the standard library).
All-Caps is not readable. You use all-caps for macros to make them stay out, so you don't accidentally use them as identifier (since C macros, being handled by the preprocessor, don't respect scope). Since usually C constants are really macros, some people took that convention over to real constants (like enum values), and even sometimes to other languages where there aren't macros anyway. I cannot imagine why one would do that if not forced to.
Well, I'd be happy if the Scroll lock key were still supported well out of the box by current Linux distributions.
Yes, it doesn't have a default function, but that's exactly what makes it so useful. At least for people who know how to configure their computer.
Depends on the code you write (and your coding conventions). I very rarely need to type sequences of uppercase characters.
Are there any deposits of iron (as opposed to ore) in the ocean (or anywhere else on the planet) which are not of human origin?
No need for dropping sea levels, the shipworms will take care of undersea wood. ... :-)
Not that they would find much food in WWII ships
Yeah, besides, nowadays when anyone says Titanic, everyone thinks about the movie, not the ship.
Obviously I don't exist, because otherwise I would have to be included in "everyone" ... but then, you would have guessed it from my user name anyway. :-)
Silly politicians and their rhetoric. Are they not familiar with the law of conservation of mass?
From the WP article:
You see, the politicians are just up to date.
Well, at least we had a pretty big blow-up lately ...
From the article:
So there are extraterrestrials, they have a time machine, and they are on the way of bringing it to earth!
From TFS:
1090T = $235
1100T = $265
"Given that 1090T got the downward nudge in price to $235, however, the 1100T offers slightly better performance for less money."
Could someone explain the math to me? It seems to me that $265 is more money than $235, but this is probably just advanced math.
After you bought the 1100T you have slightly better performance, but also have less money.
IMHO "misusing the internet" should only apply for sending spam, doing DoS attacks, hacking other computers, and things like that. If I look out of the window instead of working, am I misusing the window?
"Isn't fear of death natural?"
The fear of _dying_ perhaps, death itself feels like it felt before you were born.
That wasn't so bad, wasn't it?
You mean after death I'll be inside an uterus, with an umbilical cord to give me everything I need? :-)
Well, one thing is that in principle hell and heaven could actually be the same place. For example, a place where you feel yourself all pain you try to give others instead of the other one feeling it is hell for those who like to give others pain, but heaven for the others (because nobody would give them pain -- OK, there probably would need to be an extra rule to deal with those who are at the same time sadistic and masochistic. :-)
Of course it's even better to reign in heaven. So spare your evilness for afterlife. :-)
What about posting to Usenet? Usenet postings are automatically copied to many servers throughout the world.
Now imagine Justin Bieber songs would get the protection that government secrets enjoy. Everyone who publishes them must fear jail time ...
No, a recursion. That's why WikiLeaks is so dangerous: It may cause a stack overflow, which would terminate the world.