I love how overblown the coverage of this has been..as if it's driven people to suicide. It's their site, they can do what they want; people are free to leave if they want. Nothing to see here.
Pop in the bookshop and take a photo. Sign it digitally at home (superimpose a signature on a white -> transparent background). Or sign an acetate and hold it over the book in the bookshop.
Not really. Whether you're paying for a service or not, people still have your data. Don't forget - any time your data, music, emails, messages etc pass through or is stored in a server/network in the US, you have to assume that the US government has access to it.
Why do people keep saying that? Nobody cares! It makes no difference to anything at any level. "Normal company"? They're all normal companies - they exist to make money. Which company isn't normal? You probably meant "companies you spent money with"; this is clearer; additionally it highlights the emptiness of your "point". People have been "the product" for years; whenever you turn on the radio, tv, pick up a newspaper, look at an advert or a logo on a branded item.
LOL! I remember people complaining about the size of browsers. The browser IS computer usage for most people. I don't care if Chrome is a 1gig install as long as it works and is fast. Storage is cheap, bandwidth is cheap. Fast is all; lean is massively overrated, unless you're on a limited device. Show me a device where you can afford 10megs for a browser but not 100megs and i'll show you someone who needs to get a decent device.
Major updates? You mean from 13 LTS to 17 LTS or some specific package? You don't have to update anything if you don't want to, of course. I was happy with 13 and recently (this is old news, btw - 17 has been out a month or so) rebuilt a 17 just because it's just less hassle than twatting around trying to find PPAs which contain newer versions of vi, clang, git etc etc.
Yes. The example I remember - because it was when I learnt about it - was on the Amiga, where you had a memory location which was where the mouse hardware buttons were mapped into. Some compilers would see you reading it, then reading it again later and would go "ah! that location hasn't changed in between so I'll store the state of the left mouse button somewhere (register, some other memory location - doesn't matter, it's up to the compiler how it does it's stuff) and present it to the user a little bit later on". Obviously the mouse button may have changed state between the first and the second state.
--- I can't offhand think of many situations where I could say with any degree of certainty that if something read or wrote to memory externally that it wouldn't matter, and it would rarely be the best use of my time to try an establish it... so really... mark everything volatile all the time.
Clearly THAT isn't right. ---
Yeah, that would be a poor design. You use volatile when you need to. That's the rule. You just need to work out when you need to.
> If you do not expect the memory to be written to or read from, you don't mark it > volatile.
> So now you are saying, well, if you REALLY don't expect the memory to written > to or read from externally, then you should mark it volatile.
I'm not sure you typed that in right, or maybe you don't understand what volatile means or when to use it.
Yes. You can step through the code on your device from your pc. (Even if connected over wifi. Which is nice, when it works, but it's a little flakey. It's solid over USB though).
Hmmm... one for digital, one against. So I guess we're only going to get "the answer" if we ask loads of people. Because democracy is a great thing and always gets us "the answer", at which point we know definitively who is right and who is wrong.
How does this compare to hard drives, though? That's the key metric. I don't mind my pc booting up in 30 rather than 10 seconds if I don't have to do disaster recovery and pay far more per gig.
Don't forget people are starving in the USA, UK etc too! According to the way it's currently measured, I mean. Best get some GM bananas out there too. Don't worry about the consequences.
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I love how overblown the coverage of this has been..as if it's driven people to suicide. It's their site, they can do what they want; people are free to leave if they want. Nothing to see here.
Just signing the acetate with a pen (normal, cd-writing pen etc). Hold the sheet over the book and take the picture.
Pop in the bookshop and take a photo. Sign it digitally at home (superimpose a signature on a white -> transparent background). Or sign an acetate and hold it over the book in the bookshop.
Well, they'll start on about alcohol like they do with smoking. Plain packaging, not having people drink on tv, ban on commercials etc etc.
> "I've never had someone tell me my leg was badass before."
Probably a Google translation from the original Chinese of "your leg resembles buttock made from mouldy tofu"
Not really. Whether you're paying for a service or not, people still have your data. Don't forget - any time your data, music, emails, messages etc pass through or is stored in a server/network in the US, you have to assume that the US government has access to it.
Why do people keep saying that? Nobody cares! It makes no difference to anything at any level. "Normal company"? They're all normal companies - they exist to make money. Which company isn't normal? You probably meant "companies you spent money with"; this is clearer; additionally it highlights the emptiness of your "point". People have been "the product" for years; whenever you turn on the radio, tv, pick up a newspaper, look at an advert or a logo on a branded item.
Because of the trillions of dollars of funding it's received over the years.
http://www.wrmea.org/digital-i...
If you want to make sure he's dead, chuck him out of the nearest airlock!
Shame - you missed a good one. Although there was more variety in 1942 and Vietnam.
> For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question,
> "who cares"?
Intensive purposes?
no, 10 vs 100 megs for the size of the browser.
LOL! I remember people complaining about the size of browsers. The browser IS computer usage for most people. I don't care if Chrome is a 1gig install as long as it works and is fast. Storage is cheap, bandwidth is cheap. Fast is all; lean is massively overrated, unless you're on a limited device. Show me a device where you can afford 10megs for a browser but not 100megs and i'll show you someone who needs to get a decent device.
Quotes suggest "we know this is a bullshit word, but we're going to use it anyway". I have no idea what secular decline is, though.
Major updates? You mean from 13 LTS to 17 LTS or some specific package? You don't have to update anything if you don't want to, of course. I was happy with 13 and recently (this is old news, btw - 17 has been out a month or so) rebuilt a 17 just because it's just less hassle than twatting around trying to find PPAs which contain newer versions of vi, clang, git etc etc.
Yes. The example I remember - because it was when I learnt about it - was on the Amiga, where you had a memory location which was where the mouse hardware buttons were mapped into. Some compilers would see you reading it, then reading it again later and would go "ah! that location hasn't changed in between so I'll store the state of the left mouse button somewhere (register, some other memory location - doesn't matter, it's up to the compiler how it does it's stuff) and present it to the user a little bit later on". Obviously the mouse button may have changed state between the first and the second state.
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I can't offhand think of many situations where I could say with any degree of certainty that if something read or wrote to memory externally that it wouldn't matter, and it would rarely be the best use of my time to try an establish it... so really... mark everything volatile all the time.
Clearly THAT isn't right.
---
Yeah, that would be a poor design. You use volatile when you need to. That's the rule. You just need to work out when you need to.
> If you do not expect the memory to be written to or read from, you don't mark it
> volatile.
> So now you are saying, well, if you REALLY don't expect the memory to written
> to or read from externally, then you should mark it volatile.
I'm not sure you typed that in right, or maybe you don't understand what volatile means or when to use it.
You mean if you copy "file.txt" to "file-copy.txt" in the same folder you've not performed a backup? Wow! I learned something today!
I hope their customers get their money back! Or did the attackers copy "all our bank details.txt" as well?
Yes. You can step through the code on your device from your pc. (Even if connected over wifi. Which is nice, when it works, but it's a little flakey. It's solid over USB though).
Hmmm... one for digital, one against. So I guess we're only going to get "the answer" if we ask loads of people. Because democracy is a great thing and always gets us "the answer", at which point we know definitively who is right and who is wrong.
If it has the Play Store I'll consider buying it. If it doesn't, I won't. It's pretty simple.
How does this compare to hard drives, though? That's the key metric. I don't mind my pc booting up in 30 rather than 10 seconds if I don't have to do disaster recovery and pay far more per gig.
Hey, this isn't Vietnam we're talking about! At least France surrendered to an army!
Don't forget people are starving in the USA, UK etc too! According to the way it's currently measured, I mean. Best get some GM bananas out there too. Don't worry about the consequences.
While you're at it, let's toy with Spanish Flu:
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
I mean, why not? Let the market decide, eh?
http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...
Been watching a little too much Penn and Teller? Starving Africans? In which country are Africans starving?