This kind of nonsense is prevalent in every country (the us is certainly not the last in this type of behavior).
When was the last time a US public figure got a US court to demand that the Internet remove all pictures of them doing something disreputable?
And also, almost all companies have a French subsidiary
Uh, no, they don't. Only a tiny, miniscule fraction of companies have French subsidiaries.
But feel free to keep living in a French fantasy world if it makes you happy. You could even buy a beret and smoke some evil-smelling cigarettes on the sidewalk if you like.
I miss the tactile feel of the game, the blowing out the dust so it kinda works if you hold it in when it starts.
If I remember correctly, wiggling the Adventure cartridge in the old Atari game console could give you a substantially different map. Probably because it corrupted some RAM somewhere.
I'm astonished that neither one did the obvious lock-in tactic of backwards compatibility.
You do realize that they're based around completely different hardware?
I'd guess that emulating the old hardware on what is effectively a low-end PC would not be easy. Even PS2 emulators were struggling on PCs until hardware caught up a few years ago.
You think the grand plan to get public buy in on government run single payer was to completely botch the roll out of government directed public healthcare? I'm not sure I follow the logic there.
Then you don't know how the left work.
First they create a problem, then they offer a 'solution', which was the policy they wanted in the first place. When have they ever offered a solution which consisted of rolling back the policy that caused the problem?
I'm not sure whether this was just a case of incompetence or intentionally botched, but it doesn't really matter. When people start screaming about how they can't get insurance because they can't get on the web site, and, in any case, the other people who have been able to get on the web site discovered their insurance would cost many times what they were previously paying, the 'solution' won't be to scrap the whole law, it will be to eliminate insurance any have the government run everything.
>I'm glad the people at NASA didn't take that attitude about going to the Moon.
NASA was already planning to go to the Moon. If I remember correctly, they'd suggested it to Kennedy as the next goal, and he just put a timescale on it.
Wait what.. A whole ten seconds to download the book?
If you learned how to read, you might have noticed that comment referred to PAPER books, which you can't yet download and print in ten seconds.
Some people prefer paper books. Some people prefer paper books for some things and e-books for others. Some books aren't available as e-books, but are available on paper.
People who only buy e-books aren't going to be in a book store, so they're utterly irrelevant.
Exactly... isn't this basically "we're going put you out of business anyway, but here's a little cash if you help us do it." ?
Book stores don't sell every book that's available on Kindle (you'd need a big store to sell >1,000,000 different books). People who buy books on Kindle may well prefer buying paper books at their local book store when they are available there, so they don't have to wait for Amazon to deliver.
So, while it's not an obvious win for the stores, there are potential benefits.
Dunno about typical but I and many people I know have had one for around 3yrs. tbh, unless the screen is damaged I can see it going on for some time yet
I think mine is about three years now and has one black spot on the screen where something poked it. The two killers will be the screen, as you said, or the battery; I don't think it's replaceable.
The Air Force had wanted to preserve the "through-the-canopy" ejection option in the T-38, where the crew is shot through the canopy during the eject sequence. This makes low-level ejections faster because you don't have to wait for the canopy to separate before firing the ejection motors. However, this clearly makes it harder to make the canopy resistant to bird strikes.
I'm guessing the odds of a bird coming through the top or sides of the canopy, or the pilot ejecting out through the windshield, are quite small.
Well, unless the pilot hits a tree and doesn't have their seat-belt done up...
The whole Cult Of The CEO revolves around the magical mystical "leadership" aura that supposedly inhabits the specially gifted and turns everything they touch to gold.
If that was true, 'former Nokia CEO' Flop sure as heck wouldn't be in the list.
Itanium would have allowed Intel to dump all the x86 baggage and move the world to a Brave New Shinier CPU that was 64-bit and appeared to offer substantially better performance.
And it would have made them sole supplier for the mainstream CPU market, taking out AMD and the other clone x86 makers.
Unfortunately, the early compilers sucked and x86 emulation really, really, really sucked, so no-one with a big investment in x86 software was going to make the switch. If I remember correctly, it was also years late, so performance that would have been impressive at the initial release date had become 'meh' by the time it actually hit the market.
Based on the amusing idea that compilers can more easily determine which instructions can be executed simultaneously at compile time than the CPU can at run time...
Years ago one of my friends had the misfortune to have to write code generators for a CPU which required the compiler to determine whether a previous pipelined instruction had completed before reading the result because there were no interlocks to stall the CPU if it hadn't. He could have told Intel a thing or two about trusting software engineers to schedule instructions rather than CPU designers.
You want a free & open internet? Remove you ad blocker & help pay for the services you use for free.
We had a 'free and open internet' long before ads appeared.
Concerned about your privacy with ads? Wait till everyone starts "pay-walling" their websites (eg WSJ, NYT etc) and you have to shell out cash AND give up your credit card.
I have a simpler solution: I just don't go to paywalled sites.
Honestly, if your compile times are that much, and that much of a burden, you need to upgrade, and you also need to modularise your code more. The fact is that most of that compile time isn't actually needed for 90% of compiles unless your code is very crap.
Hint: I said 'two hours to compile from scratch'. You can't avoid compiling all your source if you just did a clean checkout from SVN into an empty source tree; as you would, for example, before building a release or release candidate.
Besides if it's spending 80% of the time idle, then the program is waiting for the user not the other way around.
Bingo. When the software is waiting for something to do 80% of the time, and nothing else of any importance is running on that machine, optimization is pretty much irrelevant; at best it would save a tiny amount of power by slightly reducing CPU usage.
My current project takes two hours to compile from scratch, and uses around 20% CPU when it runs. So yes, compile time can be more important than how fast the code runs.
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Not only was it made at the time the movie came out, but the director explicitly states it in the DVD commentary.
Outside of farmers' markets, most foods do cross state boundaries (and much of it, national boundaries).
And what does that have to do with anything?
Hint: the founders didn't intend to give the Federal government power to restrict and control anything that might possibly cross state boundaries.
This kind of nonsense is prevalent in every country (the us is certainly not the last in this type of behavior).
When was the last time a US public figure got a US court to demand that the Internet remove all pictures of them doing something disreputable?
And also, almost all companies have a French subsidiary
Uh, no, they don't. Only a tiny, miniscule fraction of companies have French subsidiaries.
But feel free to keep living in a French fantasy world if it makes you happy. You could even buy a beret and smoke some evil-smelling cigarettes on the sidewalk if you like.
I miss the tactile feel of the game, the blowing out the dust so it kinda works if you hold it in when it starts.
If I remember correctly, wiggling the Adventure cartridge in the old Atari game console could give you a substantially different map. Probably because it corrupted some RAM somewhere.
I'm astonished that neither one did the obvious lock-in tactic of backwards compatibility.
You do realize that they're based around completely different hardware?
I'd guess that emulating the old hardware on what is effectively a low-end PC would not be easy. Even PS2 emulators were struggling on PCs until hardware caught up a few years ago.
Whether France has the authority to do that or not, I have no idea.
Of course it doesn't. But if Google want to continue doing business there, they may have to comply.
This kind of nonsense is why few sane companies would want a presence in France.
Wasn't Vista in development under the codename "Longhorn" for like 6 years? I remember it being the butt of vaporware jokes for a long time.
Yes, but, if I remember correctly, it was then scrapped and a completely new version rushed out.
You think the grand plan to get public buy in on government run single payer was to completely botch the roll out of government directed public healthcare? I'm not sure I follow the logic there.
Then you don't know how the left work.
First they create a problem, then they offer a 'solution', which was the policy they wanted in the first place. When have they ever offered a solution which consisted of rolling back the policy that caused the problem?
I'm not sure whether this was just a case of incompetence or intentionally botched, but it doesn't really matter. When people start screaming about how they can't get insurance because they can't get on the web site, and, in any case, the other people who have been able to get on the web site discovered their insurance would cost many times what they were previously paying, the 'solution' won't be to scrap the whole law, it will be to eliminate insurance any have the government run everything.
>I'm glad the people at NASA didn't take that attitude about going to the Moon.
NASA was already planning to go to the Moon. If I remember correctly, they'd suggested it to Kennedy as the next goal, and he just put a timescale on it.
Wait what.. A whole ten seconds to download the book?
If you learned how to read, you might have noticed that comment referred to PAPER books, which you can't yet download and print in ten seconds.
Some people prefer paper books. Some people prefer paper books for some things and e-books for others. Some books aren't available as e-books, but are available on paper.
People who only buy e-books aren't going to be in a book store, so they're utterly irrelevant.
Same here. Someone mentioned their local Blockbuster was closing a few weeks ago, and I thought I'd fallen through a time-warp.
You obviously don't know what an MBA teaches.
How to destroy companies while collecting fat stock options?
That's mostly what the products of the MBA programs seem to do.
Exactly ... isn't this basically "we're going put you out of business anyway, but here's a little cash if you help us do it." ?
Book stores don't sell every book that's available on Kindle (you'd need a big store to sell >1,000,000 different books). People who buy books on Kindle may well prefer buying paper books at their local book store when they are available there, so they don't have to wait for Amazon to deliver.
So, while it's not an obvious win for the stores, there are potential benefits.
Dunno about typical but I and many people I know have had one for around 3yrs. tbh, unless the screen is damaged I can see it going on for some time yet
I think mine is about three years now and has one black spot on the screen where something poked it. The two killers will be the screen, as you said, or the battery; I don't think it's replaceable.
The Air Force had wanted to preserve the "through-the-canopy" ejection option in the T-38, where the crew is shot through the canopy during the eject sequence. This makes low-level ejections faster because you don't have to wait for the canopy to separate before firing the ejection motors. However, this clearly makes it harder to make the canopy resistant to bird strikes.
I'm guessing the odds of a bird coming through the top or sides of the canopy, or the pilot ejecting out through the windshield, are quite small.
Well, unless the pilot hits a tree and doesn't have their seat-belt done up...
The whole Cult Of The CEO revolves around the magical mystical "leadership" aura that supposedly inhabits the specially gifted and turns everything they touch to gold.
If that was true, 'former Nokia CEO' Flop sure as heck wouldn't be in the list.
Itanium would have allowed Intel to dump all the x86 baggage and move the world to a Brave New Shinier CPU that was 64-bit and appeared to offer substantially better performance.
And it would have made them sole supplier for the mainstream CPU market, taking out AMD and the other clone x86 makers.
Unfortunately, the early compilers sucked and x86 emulation really, really, really sucked, so no-one with a big investment in x86 software was going to make the switch. If I remember correctly, it was also years late, so performance that would have been impressive at the initial release date had become 'meh' by the time it actually hit the market.
Based on the amusing idea that compilers can more easily determine which instructions can be executed simultaneously at compile time than the CPU can at run time...
Years ago one of my friends had the misfortune to have to write code generators for a CPU which required the compiler to determine whether a previous pipelined instruction had completed before reading the result because there were no interlocks to stall the CPU if it hadn't. He could have told Intel a thing or two about trusting software engineers to schedule instructions rather than CPU designers.
You want a free & open internet? Remove you ad blocker & help pay for the services you use for free.
We had a 'free and open internet' long before ads appeared.
Concerned about your privacy with ads? Wait till everyone starts "pay-walling" their websites (eg WSJ, NYT etc) and you have to shell out cash AND give up your credit card.
I have a simpler solution: I just don't go to paywalled sites.
That's odd, because I've been running with third-party cookies blocked for years with no obvious problems.
PR stunt that leads to being paid to launch commercial satellites at cheaper rates than the US/EU/Russian alternatives.
[citation needed]
Honestly, if your compile times are that much, and that much of a burden, you need to upgrade, and you also need to modularise your code more. The fact is that most of that compile time isn't actually needed for 90% of compiles unless your code is very crap.
Hint: I said 'two hours to compile from scratch'. You can't avoid compiling all your source if you just did a clean checkout from SVN into an empty source tree; as you would, for example, before building a release or release candidate.
Besides if it's spending 80% of the time idle, then the program is waiting for the user not the other way around.
Bingo. When the software is waiting for something to do 80% of the time, and nothing else of any importance is running on that machine, optimization is pretty much irrelevant; at best it would save a tiny amount of power by slightly reducing CPU usage.
Which one produced the fastest code?
My current project takes two hours to compile from scratch, and uses around 20% CPU when it runs. So yes, compile time can be more important than how fast the code runs.
This is a "slippery slope argument" and therefore invalid.
Oh look, it's the 'slippery slope is a logical fallacy so it could never ever possibly even thinkg of actually happening' brigade, right on cue.
Hint, dude: the time to stop sliding down a slippery slope is before you first slip, not when you're racing toward the bottom.