Well, yeah - but adding a char* to an int doesn't really make sense anyway.
Abstraction should mean that the operators make sense. I don't mean mathematical sense, I mean common sense.
For example, the String/std::string/string + operator you find in Java/C++/C# respectively is a good example. It makes sense to a reader that seeing a += b (where a and b are strings, of course) means 'append b to a'. It's obvious.
Operator overloading is a tool of abstraction. Use it where it makes sense.
Otherwise, don't.
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I think you're trivializing the subject.
79 casualties? That wasn't a war... that barely qualifies as a bad traffic accident.
Getting off on a bit of a tangent there. My point is that ten times the number of people died in a single war than have died in the last sixty-odd shuttle launches.
Do the math, you Texan politician.
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But how is it that we have had troops (US gov. employees) all over the world doing the most dangerous things for decades but 7 astronauts are unreasonable losses?
Without trying to trivialise death, it must be said that this is a brilliant point. Soldiers, people with the dual purpose - at least from a government standpoint - of killing and being killed. The U.S. has just come out of a war in which at least 79 American soliders were killed. Yet, a politician has the balls to stand up and say what seems to be, "It's okay to die for your country, just make sure there's a gun in your hand."
A truly disgusting man, with little more in mind than the lining of his own pockets.
However, as was posted in reply to an article some time ago relating to job layoffs, the sad fact is that some people simply refuse to use open source software - well, that's not totally correct - to be more specific, some people refuse to consider anything that won't run on Windows.
This bill kind of says "Hey, you guys should at least look at this shit."
I think that in the end, however, it will just translate to a few more pages of documentation justifying 'why we chose microsoft' when it came down to choosing between proprietary and open source software for government employees.
Having played a little with Managed DirectX 9 and C#, I can honestly say that first impressions are that while it may not be faster at runtime than C++ (people have argued black is blue against this, however, and report C# & DX9 running faster than C++ counterparts - search gamedev.net), it is certainly much faster to write the drudgery (D3D/DInput initialization, device creation, event handling) with C# and DX9.
Admittedly, it might not be ready for the lime light just yet. But as games get bigger and more complex, and the speed of computers driven ever upwards, I would predict that languages like C# and APIs like Managed DirectX will emerge simply because it's faster to write. Faster-to-write games means more content in same amount of time.
But by all means, try it before you decide against it.
Actually using spam companies to spam the mass community and tell them to stop pirating their overpriced plastics.
Maybe, but what's to make people read it? If it was me, I would delete the RIAA spam without a second thought, just like the rest of the shit I get.
In conjunction with M$, they will also roll out an unblockable windows messaging service that will pop up a message reminding you not pirate plastics as soon as a keyword is identified: Such as Britney, Spears, Boy, Band, Love, Like, Foo, plus practically the entire webster dictionary
I doubt it. If they jumped into bed with MS, chances are a more effective solution would be devised rather than just messenger spam.
Besides, imagine a situation in which you were talking about the ancient Roman army's spears with your girlfriend, Britney? And god forbid I paste a code snippet into Messenger with the ever-popular foo variable name.
Can't beat you legally? We will beat you illegally, and there's NOTHING you can do about it -RIAA PR
Wouldn't you be shitting yourself too, if you realised the reality of your billion business was quickly becoming a dream?
But they probably won't get any money the next time they want to send you a card, or the time after that, or the time after that, or...
Exactly, because nobody will want to buy you shit after you send all their cards back to them, whining about your benevolent moral card virtues.
If they can't accept that you're taking a political stand on an issue that's important to you, then you should probably reconsider whether you really want this person sending you cards to begin with.
Right. "Mum. Dad. I'm sorry, but if you can't understand why I want to bitch about greeting cards, you can fuck off."
Sending the card back is an easy and probably effective method way to get the word out about AG's actions to the non-Slashdot-reading crowd.
Great idea - as if the nerd stereotype wasn't already bad enough, now we have to deal with members of the nerd community that have a thing against greeting cards to the point where they believe they should disown family and friends.
What part of "aside from" hare you having trouble with? My idea is to not only to not buy the cards myself, but also to make sure nobody I know buys them in the future as well.
And you'll fail, and for your efforts they'll all think you're a fool - a damned fool.
Fantastic idea, but as many have pointed out - cheating will be its downfall.
People cheat when there is nothing but pride involved in games (fuck me, people even cheat in Soldat), imagine the lunacy that would ensue when money was involved - because money, unlike pride, is somewhat harder to come by.
I can, however, see this as a fantastic idea for LAN games, amongst friends - sure, you can arrange bets outside of the game itself - but who referees in such games? No doubt arguments would follow, as people argue about bugs and whatever. Thus, supporting bets in local network multiplayer titles would probably ensure some justice.
Then again, with people being people, it might not.
Several sources (CNN, NYTimes) I've read have reported that the missiles were, in fact, not Scuds. They go so far as to spell out the fact that they were not scuds.
However, reports as to what sort of missiles they actually were vary significantly. Also, it seems that reports can only speculate what happenned to the two missles that the patriots missed - most seem to indicate somewhere 'in the desert' though.
Read news from more than one source, and you will see for yourself.
In Kuwait, the four missiles fired by Iraq were not Scuds, but shorter-range weapons. Two were Ababil 100's, which were shot down by Patriots. Another was a tactical ballistic missile, but no name or type was made available. The fourth was an antiship missile, which landed near the marines at Camp Commando.
Right, so Kieth will break XFree86 compatability to the point where libraries like GTK+ and Qt are worthless, which in turn would make his fork - at least with current toolkits - useless.
To attack a computer to which he has no physical access, he can convince it to run the program and then wait for a cosmic ray (or other natural source) to induce a memory error.
Cosmic Rays... are they like country singers in space or something?
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Well, yeah - but adding a char* to an int doesn't really make sense anyway.
Abstraction should mean that the operators make sense. I don't mean mathematical sense, I mean common sense.
For example, the String/std::string/string + operator you find in Java/C++/C# respectively is a good example. It makes sense to a reader that seeing a += b (where a and b are strings, of course) means 'append b to a'. It's obvious.
Operator overloading is a tool of abstraction. Use it where it makes sense.
Otherwise, don't.
I think you're trivializing the subject.
79 casualties? That wasn't a war... that barely qualifies as a bad traffic accident.
Getting off on a bit of a tangent there. My point is that ten times the number of people died in a single war than have died in the last sixty-odd shuttle launches.
Do the math, you Texan politician.
But how is it that we have had troops (US gov. employees) all over the world doing the most dangerous things for decades but 7 astronauts are unreasonable losses?
Without trying to trivialise death, it must be said that this is a brilliant point. Soldiers, people with the dual purpose - at least from a government standpoint - of killing and being killed. The U.S. has just come out of a war in which at least 79 American soliders were killed. Yet, a politician has the balls to stand up and say what seems to be, "It's okay to die for your country, just make sure there's a gun in your hand."
A truly disgusting man, with little more in mind than the lining of his own pockets.
If students can do it, shouldn't IT pros?
You would think so, wouldn't you?
However, as was posted in reply to an article some time ago relating to job layoffs, the sad fact is that some people simply refuse to use open source software - well, that's not totally correct - to be more specific, some people refuse to consider anything that won't run on Windows.
This bill kind of says "Hey, you guys should at least look at this shit."
I think that in the end, however, it will just translate to a few more pages of documentation justifying 'why we chose microsoft' when it came down to choosing between proprietary and open source software for government employees.
Having played a little with Managed DirectX 9 and C#, I can honestly say that first impressions are that while it may not be faster at runtime than C++ (people have argued black is blue against this, however, and report C# & DX9 running faster than C++ counterparts - search gamedev.net), it is certainly much faster to write the drudgery (D3D/DInput initialization, device creation, event handling) with C# and DX9.
Admittedly, it might not be ready for the lime light just yet. But as games get bigger and more complex, and the speed of computers driven ever upwards, I would predict that languages like C# and APIs like Managed DirectX will emerge simply because it's faster to write. Faster-to-write games means more content in same amount of time.
But by all means, try it before you decide against it.
My bad, hard to distinguish sarcastic stupidity from real stupidity sometimes :P
Actually using spam companies to spam the mass community and tell them to stop pirating their overpriced plastics.
Maybe, but what's to make people read it? If it was me, I would delete the RIAA spam without a second thought, just like the rest of the shit I get.
In conjunction with M$, they will also roll out an unblockable windows messaging service that will pop up a message reminding you not pirate plastics as soon as a keyword is identified: Such as Britney, Spears, Boy, Band, Love, Like, Foo, plus practically the entire webster dictionary
I doubt it. If they jumped into bed with MS, chances are a more effective solution would be devised rather than just messenger spam.
Besides, imagine a situation in which you were talking about the ancient Roman army's spears with your girlfriend, Britney? And god forbid I paste a code snippet into Messenger with the ever-popular foo variable name.
Can't beat you legally? We will beat you illegally, and there's NOTHING you can do about it -RIAA PR
Wouldn't you be shitting yourself too, if you realised the reality of your billion business was quickly becoming a dream?
But they probably won't get any money the next time they want to send you a card, or the time after that, or the time after that, or...
Exactly, because nobody will want to buy you shit after you send all their cards back to them, whining about your benevolent moral card virtues.
If they can't accept that you're taking a political stand on an issue that's important to you, then you should probably reconsider whether you really want this person sending you cards to begin with.
Right. "Mum. Dad. I'm sorry, but if you can't understand why I want to bitch about greeting cards, you can fuck off."
Sending the card back is an easy and probably effective method way to get the word out about AG's actions to the non-Slashdot-reading crowd.
Great idea - as if the nerd stereotype wasn't already bad enough, now we have to deal with members of the nerd community that have a thing against greeting cards to the point where they believe they should disown family and friends.
What part of "aside from" hare you having trouble with? My idea is to not only to not buy the cards myself, but also to make sure nobody I know buys them in the future as well.
And you'll fail, and for your efforts they'll all think you're a fool - a damned fool.
Which part of "disowned" don't you understand?
- TL
And why on earth would American Greetings care? I mean, since they:
Sorry to sound harsh, but gee whiz - if you really must do something, just don't buy the damn things yourself!
lol woah, woah, easy, I was kidding :P
but not only programmers use PCs, you know.
Programmers are the only ones who actually make use of computers.
Everyone else is using the mouse.
Thereafter, the students objectize everything. This leads to situations where you've got horribly bloated code that runs slow as hell.
I think you mean "horribly bloated Java code that runs slow as hell" *grins evilly*
Exactly.
For example, I'm certain George Boole didn't have computers in mind when he set about developing Boolean Algebra back in 1854.
I think it is completely totally fucking tasteless to post a story that says something like "i just laid two guys off"
you're so fucking proud. Yea it's a fact of life. But you boast about it like you take joy in it.
You aren't an unemployed Win32 coder by any chance, are you? :D
lmao ... that's awesome
I would also love to see them embed regular expressions in the same way perl does. Nothing makes me more annoyed than preg_match() and preg_replace().
Dear god no! We want to be able to read the code when we're finished writing it :P
Fantastic idea, but as many have pointed out - cheating will be its downfall.
People cheat when there is nothing but pride involved in games (fuck me, people even cheat in Soldat), imagine the lunacy that would ensue when money was involved - because money, unlike pride, is somewhat harder to come by.
I can, however, see this as a fantastic idea for LAN games, amongst friends - sure, you can arrange bets outside of the game itself - but who referees in such games? No doubt arguments would follow, as people argue about bugs and whatever. Thus, supporting bets in local network multiplayer titles would probably ensure some justice.
Then again, with people being people, it might not.
My 2 cents.
Yeah, you're hard core because you can post a link to a site that states they were scuds.
... 16 people were killed in a helicopter crash a few hours ago. First coalition casualties, apparrently :(
I posted some links (two?) before to sites saying they weren't scuds.
Furthermore, CNN reported that they initially beleived them to be scuds and then backpeddled to say they made a mistake.
Take your arrogance and stick it, asshole.
In other news
According to this none of them were :) [fourth paragraph]
Several sources (CNN, NYTimes) I've read have reported that the missiles were, in fact, not Scuds. They go so far as to spell out the fact that they were not scuds. However, reports as to what sort of missiles they actually were vary significantly. Also, it seems that reports can only speculate what happenned to the two missles that the patriots missed - most seem to indicate somewhere 'in the desert' though. Read news from more than one source, and you will see for yourself.
Further info:
In Kuwait, the four missiles fired by Iraq were not Scuds, but shorter-range weapons. Two were Ababil 100's, which were shot down by Patriots. Another was a tactical ballistic missile, but no name or type was made available. The fourth was an antiship missile, which landed near the marines at Camp Commando.
(nytimes.com)
This turned out to be misinformation. They weren't Scuds.
Right, so Kieth will break XFree86 compatability to the point where libraries like GTK+ and Qt are worthless, which in turn would make his fork - at least with current toolkits - useless.
...
Think about it
'Cause Windows sux0r. :D
/. masses*
*tries to hide bulky XP and 98 packaging from unforgiving
To
attack a computer to which he has no physical access, he
can convince it to run the program and then wait for a
cosmic ray (or other natural source) to induce a memory
error.
Cosmic Rays... are they like country singers in space or something?