I'm not going to post where I live on a public place like this am I? Suffice to say I live under the flight path and I don't have any problems with it. Yes its loud but not THAT loud.
They picked it probably because BA and Air France didn't have a concorde spare to lend NASA whereas the russian plane wasn't exactly in high passenger demand at the time. Plus it was built from (allegedly) stolen plans to the concorde.
Do you have a clue what you're talking about? That "analog crap" was state of the art when the plane was built and also I'd love to see you stick afterburners (which concorde uses) on a high bypass turbofan and expect them to do anything.
Quantum phenomenon may well play a part in how transistors operate on dies these days , but the transistors behaviour is entirely deterministic within the enviroment its operating in. The same could be possible to neurons , I don't know. Suffice to say , just because quantum mechanics is involved at a low level doesn't mean it will have any effect on operations at a higher level. For example , radioactivity is due to quantum processes , but that doesn't prevent various elements having consistent reliable deterministic half-lives.
I await with baited breath your book or paper that elucidates with mathematica proofs where you think he went wrong. Unless of course you're just another standard issue slashdotter with an inflated sense of his own IQ.
" Too bad itamium isnt a miserable failure, but the fastest CPU on the planet"
I think you'll find Cray Research taking issue with that , not to mention a number of military DSP producers. I think what you mean is "fastest consumer/business mass production CPU"
"Dont bitch that they run hot and are huge. Name any alpha that wasnt >300 mm^2 and a power-sucker"
That was over 10 years ago. This is 2003 , not 1993. Why are intel re-inventing a broken wheel? Why don't they use the expertise they have in their alpha engineers and produce a CPU that doesn't roast itself from day 1? Or have they all parachuted in from a time warp?
Try this - back in 1994 ie in the days when PCs could just about do fast 2D graphcis in VGA without passing out the firm I worked for rented an 64 bit alpha box. That was the 1st machine I'd EVER seen full screen mpeg run on, and by full screen I'm talking full colour 2048 x 1152 , not shitty 16 colour VGA. *THAT* was how good alpha was.
"Yes, the problem with doing this is that it's illegal"
Actually its not, since the 30 day usage is not legally binding, at least not here in the UK. And to be honest even if it was illegal , I couldn't care less.
I haven't used VMWare for ages so this probably doesn't apply anymore , but to use it indefinately at no cost all you had to do was
download a 30 day evaluation copy then when the license ran out , just reset your system clock to an appropriate date before you start it up and then reset it back once it had booted. Wrap that up in a shell script and you're sorted. Ok that can cause probs for a few apps but in general I never had any issues and I used a 30 day trial version of vmware for 2 years quite happily.
Ah well , if suddenly they find they can't use MSN for whatever reason (client doesn't work , it gets shutdown as in the UK, MS starts charging) then I hope they won't bleat about how they've suddenly been cut off from all their online friends. Eggs and baskets spring to mind...
All the clients do (with a few extra bells and whistles) is allow you to talk online. This isn't a big deal. Instead of following the relentless upgrade path for all these stupid clients (not just for MSN) that seem to want to go the bloatware route of most browsers , just use IRC or just log into a talker program using telnet. If you can't like without a point a drool interface then keep getting stressed about this sort of thing , but if you're actually interested in what these things allow you to do (ie talk) then investigate the above alternatives. Its not rocket science.
Even though the original post was a troll , as someone who has coded in assmbler all the way up to C++ and other assorted languages (OO and functional) I'm afraid that assembler IS for real programmers. Why? Because to do anything complex in it is DAMN hard and not only do you have to understand what data structures you require (the abstraction) but you have to understand how to map them down efficiently in a way the computer architecture can handle. I'm sorry , but writing even complex C++ is like a walk in the park compared to writing a complex assembler program , especially if its on a RISC CPU or god forbid a parallel architecture such as a Transputer (ok , they're long defunct but you get the point).
" There are no parens involved, since neither sizeof nor return are function calls. This seems to be a matter of personal style, though"
Its not just a case of personal taste , using sizeof with parenthesis will only work for types that only have a 1 token declaration
Eg: sizeof int
works fine , whereas
sizeof int *
sizeof struct foo
will give an error with most compilers. So in this sense the sizeof operator is not treated syntatically in an equivalent way to the return operator. Just another of C's little foibles.
"They seem to be unable to build a tower within range of my house. "
Try a land line. You know , those old fashioned phones that plug into a wall and don't require good RF reception? Jeez , what IS this obsession with cellphones people have , they're just telephones for chrissake! If your cell had a wire coming out the back and had to be plugged into a wall socket would it be quite so "kool" then?
Yeah , that'll be just whats needed , a basestation taking emergency calls that suddenly gets swamped by TCP/IP traffic from some DoS attack or similar. No thanks.
If you go to the expense of having a PC thats SERIOUSLY hardened against failure (as opposed to maybe just throwing in a UPS and some disk striping) then it'll probably cost you as much as the hardware its attempting to replace. Obviously they following the better-than-nothing approach here with a cheap price but not 5 9s reliability.
"allowing free reign for cheat coders and (most likely) unlimited cd keys... is six months really enoughtime to really fix these holes"
Err yes! 6 HOURS should be enough to come up with a new key generation algorithm! As for cheat coders, they can disassemble the executable anytime, they don't need the source code and in fact it probably wouldn't be much help anyway. As other people have said , this is just BS to cover up more delays.
"prefer to see images that comfort them by confirming their predjudices."
I don't really think seeing a bunch of drag queens on TV comforts anyone. They get up peoples noses if anything. And what exactly do these
events make people think about? That gays exist? No shit! The whole point of these events is for a bunch of egotists to stromp around irritating people , nothing else.
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I'm not going to post where I live on a public place like this am I? Suffice to say I live under the flight path
and I don't have any problems with it. Yes its loud but not THAT loud.
They picked it probably because BA and Air France didn't have a concorde spare to lend NASA whereas the russian plane wasn't exactly in high passenger
demand at the time. Plus it was built from (allegedly) stolen plans to the concorde.
I live in london and I can't say it bothers me so much. Yes its loud but no loader than a noise from a load truck passing by. Stop griping.
Do you have a clue what you're talking about? That "analog crap" was state of the art when the plane was built and also I'd love to see you
stick afterburners (which concorde uses) on a high bypass turbofan and expect them to do anything.
Quantum phenomenon may well play a part in how transistors operate on dies these days , but the transistors behaviour is entirely deterministic
within the enviroment its operating in. The same could be possible to neurons , I don't know. Suffice to say , just because quantum mechanics is involved at a low level doesn't mean
it will have any effect on operations at a higher level. For example , radioactivity is due to quantum processes , but that doesn't prevent various elements having consistent reliable deterministic half-lives.
I await with baited breath your book or paper that elucidates with mathematica proofs where you think he went wrong.
Unless of course you're just another standard issue slashdotter with an inflated sense of his own IQ.
If the new you killed the old you , would that be murder or suicide?
Only a cretin who's never worked in a 5 nines uptime enviroment would say that.
" Too bad itamium isnt a miserable failure, but the fastest CPU on the planet"
I think you'll find Cray Research taking issue with that , not to mention a number of military DSP producers. I think what you mean is "fastest
consumer/business mass production CPU"
"Dont bitch that they run hot and are huge. Name any alpha that wasnt >300 mm^2 and a power-sucker"
That was over 10 years ago. This is 2003 , not 1993. Why are intel re-inventing a broken wheel? Why don't they use the expertise they have in their
alpha engineers and produce a CPU that doesn't roast itself from day 1? Or have they all parachuted in from a time warp?
Try this - back in 1994 ie in the days when PCs could just about do fast 2D graphcis in VGA without passing out the firm I worked for rented an 64 bit alpha box.
That was the 1st machine I'd EVER seen full screen mpeg run on, and by full screen I'm talking full colour 2048 x 1152 , not shitty 16 colour VGA. *THAT* was how good alpha was.
"Yes, the problem with doing this is that it's illegal"
Actually its not, since the 30 day usage is not legally binding, at least not here in the UK. And to be honest even if it was illegal , I couldn't care less.
I haven't used VMWare for ages so this probably doesn't apply anymore , but to use it indefinately at no cost all you had to do was
download a 30 day evaluation copy then when the license ran out , just reset your system clock to an appropriate date before you start it up
and then reset it back once it had booted. Wrap that up in a shell script and you're sorted. Ok that can cause probs for a few apps but in general I never had any issues and I
used a 30 day trial version of vmware for 2 years quite happily.
Good to see all that talk of MySQL being ready for the heavy enterprise work was so accurate. *cough*.
Ah well , if suddenly they find they can't use MSN for whatever reason (client doesn't work , it gets shutdown as in the UK, MS starts charging)
then I hope they won't bleat about how they've suddenly been cut off from all their online friends. Eggs and baskets spring to mind...
Why not? A lot of people use multiple services anyway so what difference will adding IRC to that list make?
All the clients do (with a few extra bells and whistles) is allow you to talk online. This isn't a big deal. Instead of following the relentless
upgrade path for all these stupid clients (not just for MSN) that seem to want to go the bloatware route of most browsers , just use IRC or
just log into a talker program using telnet. If you can't like without a point a drool interface then keep getting stressed about this sort of thing ,
but if you're actually interested in what these things allow you to do (ie talk) then investigate the above alternatives. Its not rocket science.
Even though the original post was a troll , as someone who has coded in assmbler all the way up to C++ and other assorted languages (OO and functional)
I'm afraid that assembler IS for real programmers. Why? Because to do anything complex in it is DAMN hard and not only do you have to understand what data structures you require
(the abstraction) but you have to understand how to map them down efficiently in a way the computer architecture can handle. I'm sorry , but writing even complex C++ is like a walk in the park compared to writing a complex assembler program , especially if its on a RISC CPU or god forbid a parallel architecture such as a Transputer (ok , they're long defunct but you get the point).
Missed out a newline
sizeof int *
sizeof struct foo
should have been seperate.
" There are no parens involved, since neither sizeof nor return are function calls. This seems to be a matter of personal style, though"
Its not just a case of personal taste , using sizeof with parenthesis will only work for types that only have a 1 token declaration
Eg: sizeof int
works fine , whereas
sizeof int * sizeof struct foo
will give an error with most compilers. So in this sense the sizeof operator is not treated
syntatically in an equivalent way to the return operator. Just another of C's little foibles.
"Man" is a generic term for people and you know it. Get a life you politically correct sad moron.
"They seem to be unable to build a tower within range of my house. "
Try a land line. You know , those old fashioned phones that plug into a wall and don't require
good RF reception? Jeez , what IS this obsession with cellphones people have , they're just telephones for chrissake! If your cell had a wire coming
out the back and had to be plugged into a wall socket would it be quite so "kool" then?
Yeah , that'll be just whats needed , a basestation taking emergency calls that suddenly gets swamped by TCP/IP traffic from some DoS attack or similar. No thanks.
If you go to the expense of having a PC thats SERIOUSLY hardened against failure (as opposed to maybe just throwing in a UPS and some disk striping)
then it'll probably cost you as much as the hardware its attempting to replace. Obviously they following the better-than-nothing approach here with a cheap price but not 5 9s reliability.
"allowing free reign for cheat coders and (most likely) unlimited cd keys... is six months really enoughtime to really fix these holes"
Err yes! 6 HOURS should be enough to come up with a new key generation algorithm! As for cheat coders, they can disassemble the executable anytime, they
don't need the source code and in fact it probably wouldn't be much help anyway. As other people have said , this is just BS to cover up more delays.
"prefer to see images that comfort them by confirming their predjudices."
I don't really think seeing a bunch of drag queens on TV comforts anyone. They get up peoples noses if anything. And what exactly do these
events make people think about? That gays exist? No shit! The whole point of these events is for a bunch of egotists to stromp around irritating people , nothing else.