After peering at these pictures for a while, trying to interpret the mounds and hollows I finally realised that the surface of Ceres is made of Angel Delight. To you non-UK folk out there, Wikipedia has a nice picture of butterscotch Angel Delight that may give you a flavour of what I'm trying to convey.
It even has a few of those lumps that used to surface after it had been mixed unevenly, with the slight crunch.
Developing some embedded software we had a common issue when adding new features that the code would crash when outputting strings to the console, until we added some debug code to identify the problem, when the crash would stop happening. We were in a hurry and so the code generally got shipped with the debug code suitably disabled but still present. I had some extra time one day and decided to investigate this, but couldn't find any coding errors. I eventually got around to looking at the output of the linker/locater to discover that the problem was related to trying to print the last declared string to the console. It emerged that the build tools would fail to append the closing null to the last string stored in the initialised memory portion of the image. Stored to EPROM, some of those final strings ended up with a lot of FF characters appended.
Re:The third worst thing to happen computer histor
on
How Relevant is C in 2014?
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
I have written embedded Pascal. Never ask me to do it again.
Ah, but we don't. The problem in translation stems I think from the absence of the relevant period of history on the Western side of the Atlantic. The philosophers' stone was a mythical substance derived from alchemical pursuits with properties of confering eternal life and turning base metal into gold. The alchemists were philosophers and not sorcerers since, after all, even 500 years ago no-one admitted to believing in magic.
So all they have to do is to disconnect all the modules and tie them in a neat bundle at the centre instead of having all those radical sticky out bits.
I meant it both ways. It was just unlucky that the fish's strike hit his heart, practically any other injury would have been less life threatening. Also, if he hadn't been so enthusiastic about wildlife and about communicating this enthusiasm, he would still be alive, but perhaps not so alive as we remember him.
OK, so I feel a little dirty for using ndiswrapper, but really, it's been around for a while and defaults your wireless ethernet to be called wlan0. Now guess what device name isn't recognised by the Fedora (redhat) network config tool. How hard is that to fix? Trivial; then why do I get the feeling it isn't going to be fixed any-time soon?
I'm going to install the Nvidia binary driver just to spite them. You'll see.
Slashdot Mirror
There are naysayers living in the woodwork? My God. Are they intelligent?
Thankyou, Anonymous Serf.
I smell a rat
If you think you've solved the halting problem, you're premature.
After peering at these pictures for a while, trying to interpret the mounds and hollows I finally realised that the surface of Ceres is made of Angel Delight. To you non-UK folk out there, Wikipedia has a nice picture of butterscotch Angel Delight that may give you a flavour of what I'm trying to convey. It even has a few of those lumps that used to surface after it had been mixed unevenly, with the slight crunch.
Your attempt at a meme is lacking a USP. Try Aardvarks next time.
Developing some embedded software we had a common issue when adding new features that the code would crash when outputting strings to the console, until we added some debug code to identify the problem, when the crash would stop happening. We were in a hurry and so the code generally got shipped with the debug code suitably disabled but still present. I had some extra time one day and decided to investigate this, but couldn't find any coding errors. I eventually got around to looking at the output of the linker/locater to discover that the problem was related to trying to print the last declared string to the console. It emerged that the build tools would fail to append the closing null to the last string stored in the initialised memory portion of the image. Stored to EPROM, some of those final strings ended up with a lot of FF characters appended.
I have written embedded Pascal. Never ask me to do it again.
"Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler"
Is it the orders of magnitude that are the problem or the magnitude of order?
Tanelorn is easy. It's in Second Life.
C&S G school by any chance? I credit the man with 5 to 10% of the marks of every exam I ever took, and a great enthusiasm for math.
Please collect your cards on the way out of the building.
I am currently doing research in autonomous multi-agent systems. I have a copy of Prey on my desk. I call it irony.
Ah, but we don't. The problem in translation stems I think from the absence of the relevant period of history on the Western side of the Atlantic. The philosophers' stone was a mythical substance derived from alchemical pursuits with properties of confering eternal life and turning base metal into gold. The alchemists were philosophers and not sorcerers since, after all, even 500 years ago no-one admitted to believing in magic.
If this experiment goes messily wrong, it will resolve world poverty, trust me.
So all they have to do is to disconnect all the modules and tie them in a neat bundle at the centre instead of having all those radical sticky out bits.
I meant it both ways. It was just unlucky that the fish's strike hit his heart, practically any other injury would have been less life threatening. Also, if he hadn't been so enthusiastic about wildlife and about communicating this enthusiasm, he would still be alive, but perhaps not so alive as we remember him.
His heart was in the right place and that was his problem. If it had been somewhere else he would still be alive.
Farewell Horizontal?
OK, so I feel a little dirty for using ndiswrapper, but really, it's been around for a while and defaults your wireless ethernet to be called wlan0. Now guess what device name isn't recognised by the Fedora (redhat) network config tool. How hard is that to fix? Trivial; then why do I get the feeling it isn't going to be fixed any-time soon?
I'm going to install the Nvidia binary driver just to spite them. You'll see.
If the robot was kinda cool, it wouldn't need to go to the fridge, it could store the beer internally and just kinda dispense it.
Figures. This is Slashdot.
Moses created graffiti? Wow. I don't see Palm being part of this process though.
With a real hand it could be used by deaf-blind people who need to touch the signing hand to understand.