If you're going to give up on backward compatibility, why would you run Windows? There's no reason to pick it over Linux or Mac unless you need to run crusty old Windows software.
Reproduction of results isn't "add the numbers that they produced to see if they sum to the value they said it did". That isn't replication of science.
1. The data may not support their results. Without it, you can't verify that. 2. The data may be, let's say, 'adjusted' to give better results without admitting it. You may be able to show that by statistical checks, but you can't do that without the data.
Yes, you could completely re-do the experiment, but a) it may be historical data which can't be measured again (e.g. deceleration of a space probe from 1980 to 2000) and b) that may massively increase your costs.
The Apple Newton is important because it introduced the concept of a handheld.
Are you suggesting that no-one had a hand-held computer before the Newton? Is this some 'Apple invented everything, even when it already existed beforehand!' thing, or are you just talking about hand-helds with handwriting recognition?
And malloc definitel does not zero initialize by design!
But, at least early in the program's execution before you start reallocating freed memory, there's a good chance the memory malloc() returns will be zero-filled.
I seem to remember that debug builds on Windows fill allocated memory with a known pattern for just this reason? Or maybe that was a special hacked version of malloc() that we were using.
There is a reason for warnings -- it's because you're doing something wrong.
Uh, no. It's because you're doing something that may be wrong. If it was wrong, the compiler would given an error, not a warning.
'if ( a = b )' for example. The compiler warns because you probably meant 'if ( a == b )'. But maybe you didn't.
There's little reason to write such C code on a modern quad-core 3GHz CPU which spends 90% of its time idle and where the compiler will probably generate the same machine code anyway, but that doesn't make it wrong.
However, it was the Europeans that put Obama high on this pedestal of "can do no wrong", new age of enlightenment and exuberance all around.
I take it you didn't read the US media back when Obama was going to be the bestest President evar! and solve all of America's problems overnight and make the rest of the world love America again?
Why is it if some guy in Arkansas drops $70K on a Ford F450 "dually" he's just a hard-working good ol' boy, but if someone in California buys a Tesla they're they wealthy elite?
Let me guess: the first is buying his pickup because he needs it for his job, while the second is buying his Tesla because he'd be embarrassed to be seen in a Civic?
Why the hell does your thermostat run on batteries when it has to be wired to a power source anyway to trip the furnace/AC relays?
Because they don't want to put in a transformer or DC->DC convertor to reduce that voltage to 3V to run the thermostat, when you can just spend $0.50 on batteries every couple of years?
This is why people who live around here tend to buy vehicles with AWD. Otherwise, you're not going much of anywhere. The further north you go, the more true this becomes.
AWD doesn't help you stop.
I've slid right into an intersection when I hit the brakes to stop on orange and, only then, discovered that section of road was an ice rink (even though the previous couple of stop lights had been fine). On a normal, ice-free day I'd have stopped with no problem.
I know that red light cameras have sometimes been abused, but what are we supposed to do about the pandemic of red-light-running?
Replace them with roundabouts, like sane countries?
Of course, you can't make money handing out tickets for 'running a roundabout', since they tend to be tall enough to rip the front off your car if you try it.
If we'd had that system 120 years ago, today we'd have 35 (or 350) car companies instead of 3, and if one failed we would not have to bail it out in order to avoid bad outcomes.
No, you'd be riding horses, because no-one could run a car company profitably in America, and Americans would be so poor they couldn't afford to buy imports.
I remember around the time GM was bailed out, lefties kept claiming that this wasn't really a bailout and the government would make a big profit on their GM shares. How could that possibly not have happened?
I had horrible low paying jobs at times. If there are less horrible or better paying jobs available you can move to them. If not, well, it's nice to have a job when you need one.
The people complaining about the horrible, just horrible conditions at Amazon would appear to have never had to work a low-paid, low-skill production-line job.
I did that for a while when I was at school, and would have switched to Amazon without a second thought if they'd been around at the time.
Would the be a problem with breathing? I mean, literally expanding your chest to inhale if the suit was tight enough to prevent decompression?
Your lungs are designed to work against 15psi. The hard part is preventing them from expanding too much when full of air while your body is in a vacuum, not allowing them to expand at all.
For short space-walks (under 8 hours), why does the skin need air? Have a suit that's skin-tight (and air tight). It'd keep the pressure without having the bulk and weight of a large air-tight suit. Have cooling/heating lines run in the surface of the skin, like Tron. Then, all you'd need is a helmet attached to the skinsuit.
There has been a fair amount of research on skin suits. One of the downsides is that they have to be individually fitted to each astronaut, but they'd probably be light enough that you could carry six suits for the same mass as one existing suit.
I suspect the big downside is that they've never been tested in space, whereas NASA know their existing suits work.
Please go take pictures of the U.S Rovers and launch pads so the sales of books and DVD's that the USA never landed on the moon make them look like the foolish people they are:)
Except, as we all know, this so-called Chinese 'lunar' rover is actually just driving around a sound stage in Mongolia.
Come now, the Greens would never push a crazy law banning people from buying the things they want, just to make more profits for the people who make the new products they'll be forced to buy.
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If you're going to give up on backward compatibility, why would you run Windows? There's no reason to pick it over Linux or Mac unless you need to run crusty old Windows software.
Reproduction of results isn't "add the numbers that they produced to see if they sum to the value they said it did". That isn't replication of science.
1. The data may not support their results. Without it, you can't verify that.
2. The data may be, let's say, 'adjusted' to give better results without admitting it. You may be able to show that by statistical checks, but you can't do that without the data.
Yes, you could completely re-do the experiment, but a) it may be historical data which can't be measured again (e.g. deceleration of a space probe from 1980 to 2000) and b) that may massively increase your costs.
The Apple Newton is important because it introduced the concept of a handheld.
Are you suggesting that no-one had a hand-held computer before the Newton? Is this some 'Apple invented everything, even when it already existed beforehand!' thing, or are you just talking about hand-helds with handwriting recognition?
Yes, I totally want my oven and doors controllable over the Internet.
Totally.
Absolutely.
It makes so much sense.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
So, uh, how do you expect Intel to know what kind of optimizations will work best on AMD CPUs?
And malloc definitel does not zero initialize by design!
But, at least early in the program's execution before you start reallocating freed memory, there's a good chance the memory malloc() returns will be zero-filled.
I seem to remember that debug builds on Windows fill allocated memory with a known pattern for just this reason? Or maybe that was a special hacked version of malloc() that we were using.
There is a reason for warnings -- it's because you're doing something wrong.
Uh, no. It's because you're doing something that may be wrong. If it was wrong, the compiler would given an error, not a warning.
'if ( a = b )' for example. The compiler warns because you probably meant 'if ( a == b )'. But maybe you didn't.
There's little reason to write such C code on a modern quad-core 3GHz CPU which spends 90% of its time idle and where the compiler will probably generate the same machine code anyway, but that doesn't make it wrong.
However, it was the Europeans that put Obama high on this pedestal of "can do no wrong", new age of enlightenment and exuberance all around.
I take it you didn't read the US media back when Obama was going to be the bestest President evar! and solve all of America's problems overnight and make the rest of the world love America again?
Why is it if some guy in Arkansas drops $70K on a Ford F450 "dually" he's just a hard-working good ol' boy, but if someone in California buys a Tesla they're they wealthy elite?
Let me guess: the first is buying his pickup because he needs it for his job, while the second is buying his Tesla because he'd be embarrassed to be seen in a Civic?
Right. No one can afford the real estate costs; that's why they are so high.
No, they're high because people can still get mortgages that will bankrupt them when and if interest rates ever rise back to sensible levels.
How many people could afford those houses if they had to pay cash?
Why the hell does your thermostat run on batteries when it has to be wired to a power source anyway to trip the furnace/AC relays?
Because they don't want to put in a transformer or DC->DC convertor to reduce that voltage to 3V to run the thermostat, when you can just spend $0.50 on batteries every couple of years?
This is why people who live around here tend to buy vehicles with AWD. Otherwise, you're not going much of anywhere. The further north you go, the more true this becomes.
AWD doesn't help you stop.
I've slid right into an intersection when I hit the brakes to stop on orange and, only then, discovered that section of road was an ice rink (even though the previous couple of stop lights had been fine). On a normal, ice-free day I'd have stopped with no problem.
I know that red light cameras have sometimes been abused, but what are we supposed to do about the pandemic of red-light-running?
Replace them with roundabouts, like sane countries?
Of course, you can't make money handing out tickets for 'running a roundabout', since they tend to be tall enough to rip the front off your car if you try it.
If we'd had that system 120 years ago, today we'd have 35 (or 350) car companies instead of 3, and if one failed we would not have to bail it out in order to avoid bad outcomes.
No, you'd be riding horses, because no-one could run a car company profitably in America, and Americans would be so poor they couldn't afford to buy imports.
I remember around the time GM was bailed out, lefties kept claiming that this wasn't really a bailout and the government would make a big profit on their GM shares. How could that possibly not have happened?
I had horrible low paying jobs at times. If there are less horrible or better paying jobs available you can move to them. If not, well, it's nice to have a job when you need one.
The people complaining about the horrible, just horrible conditions at Amazon would appear to have never had to work a low-paid, low-skill production-line job.
I did that for a while when I was at school, and would have switched to Amazon without a second thought if they'd been around at the time.
If you're supplying breathing air for the astronaut the suit is going to inflate, unless you want to put an airtight seal around their neck
Which is exactly what a skin suit is designed to do. It's more like a leotard with a helmet than an Apollo or Shuttle space suit.
Would the be a problem with breathing? I mean, literally expanding your chest to inhale if the suit was tight enough to prevent decompression?
Your lungs are designed to work against 15psi. The hard part is preventing them from expanding too much when full of air while your body is in a vacuum, not allowing them to expand at all.
For short space-walks (under 8 hours), why does the skin need air? Have a suit that's skin-tight (and air tight). It'd keep the pressure without having the bulk and weight of a large air-tight suit. Have cooling/heating lines run in the surface of the skin, like Tron. Then, all you'd need is a helmet attached to the skinsuit.
There has been a fair amount of research on skin suits. One of the downsides is that they have to be individually fitted to each astronaut, but they'd probably be light enough that you could carry six suits for the same mass as one existing suit.
I suspect the big downside is that they've never been tested in space, whereas NASA know their existing suits work.
What makes you think this is a stage in Mongolia?
They couldn't get visas to fake it in Arizona.
Please go take pictures of the U.S Rovers and launch pads so the sales of books and DVD's that the USA never landed on the moon make them look like the foolish people they are :)
Except, as we all know, this so-called Chinese 'lunar' rover is actually just driving around a sound stage in Mongolia.
I love the way politicians think they know better than I do.
Why would you become a politician, if you didn't want to tell other people what to do? That's the whole point of politics.
Come now, the Greens would never push a crazy law banning people from buying the things they want, just to make more profits for the people who make the new products they'll be forced to buy.
Sound is one of the reasons I've never used a Linux distro for long as a desktop OS any of my computers.
Maybe you should try a distro released after 1993.
... as I said, reflections of their populaces.
How were Romney and Obama, 'reflections of their populaces'?