A passive adaptor can turn the analogue signal from a DVI port into VGA. My E-350 motherboard came with one in the box, and that's what's plugged into my projector. It also has HDMI and DisplayPort outputs so I don't have to worry when I upgrade the projector.
There are varying degrees of support. 2D works? 3D works? Video decoding offload works? Audio over HDMI works? In the past, Via has claimed 'support' meaning 2D worked, half of the other features worked but may cause kernel panics, the other half didn't work at all.
In that case, I am owed money for my Slashdot posts - will you be sending me the cheque? The grandparent was correct. If you create something, then the state will, through copyright, give you a mechanism to attempt to make money from it. If, however, it's crap that no one wants, then you are not entitled to make money. I have four books published, and all that copyright gives me is the right to attempt to profit from them by encouraging people to buy them. If no one does, then I don't automatically make money simply because I created something that is covered by copyright.
It's better than that. You can sell a product that doesn't work, and then when your customer notices that it doesn't work you can sell the new and improved version (which also doesn't work).
Companies don't care that much if it's 100% unhackable as long as it protects the content long enough (so that most sales are done) or that it hinders mass copying
Except it doesn't. BBC stuff still finds its way onto torrent trackers almost as soon as it's been broadcast. Movies are still uploaded to torrent trackers before they are released in the cinemas. The only people who find the DRM inconvenient are those wanting to legally use the media in a way not specifically catered for by the supplier.
And while it is required to be politically neutral, it is in fact a nest of Bolsheviks
I'm pretty sure bolsheviks aren't nearly as pro-strong-copyright as the BBC. For a reference, go and find the most recent article about the EU copyright extension for music. It came with three quotes, one from someone who proposed the bill, one from a music label, and one from a music industry lobbyist. No one quoted in the entire article ever even hinted that perhaps perpetually extending copyright terms might not be the best option.
You're also sending twice as much to the garbage pile.
Only if you actually throw the machines away. If anything, it's the reverse. If you upgrade components of a machine, it's much harder to find a use for the bits you remove than if you replace the whole machine. A two year old machine may be underpowered for you, but there are lots of people who can use it for another few years.
Sorry, I was referring to your comment about OOP, not specifically C++. C++ only vaguely support OOP. If you're using an actual object-oriented language, then you get very different code (for one thing, the object code tends to be one or two orders of magnitude smaller).
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but the ketchup bottles that have been common in the UK for the past few years do exactly that. I think most bottles with similar requirements, such as shampoo, do the same...
If everyone who bought a Harry Potter book got a hour's worth of enjoyment from it, I'd say that she deserves a fairly large recompense. Maybe not quite as much as she has, but I certainly don't begrudge her a few million. The fact that other people may be equally or more deserving yet not rewarded doesn't affect my assessment.
He's a US Presidential candidates who believes that having unpolluted land and food that is fit for human consumption are privileges, not rights, and that the government has no business interfering with businesses' God-given rights to dump waste wherever they want.
It's probably harder on an iPhone than on phones with actual buttons. I had an old Ericsson phone that let me dial the emergency services number when the keypad was locked (apparently, as required by EU regulations). In the UK, this number is 999, and it's really easy to accidentally dial when the phone is in your pocket - if something presses against the corner of the phone three times, you've accidentally called it.
You seem to be under the impression that the only 'true democracy' is a direct democracy, not a representative democracy. I suggest that you pick up a politics textbook, rather than getting your information about political terms from Wikipedia.
Democracy and republic are completely orthogonal terms. For example, the UK has a hereditary head of state and so is not a republic, but has an elected parliament so is a (representative) democracy. A state ruled by a military junta is a republic, but not a democracy. The USA is both a republic and a democracy, as is Germany.
I heard a rumour that VLC is one of them. If you have come to slashdot and yet somehow don't know what VLC is, it's an application for playing and streaming almost any kind of multimedia file. Pretty exciting, huh?
Yup, no vulnerability at all. Have you read the documentation for using Apple Events? The chances of anyone successfully implementing anything that relies on them is basically zero.
I would have thought the privacy guarantees would meant at least geeks but possibly a wider audience would find the attraction in using it
What privacy guarantees? Who has reviewed the federation protocol? Last time I checked, it was an ad-hoc pile of crap full of serious design flaws and the reference implementation (which was about as close as you got to real documentation for the protocol) was a security disaster. The difference between Diaspora and Facebook is that people actually had to pay for Facebook to harvest all of your 'private' information...
And I definitely think trying to execute the idea is worth a lifetime of talk about ideas
Unfortunately, Diaspora always seemed to fall into the latter category. Lots of UI stuff (none of it original - designing a good UI is hard, copying an existing UI is easy), but no attempt to address any of the problems in that space that are actually difficult, such as how should the network be federated in a way that doesn't allow malicious nodes to harvest information, scales to hundreds of millions of users, and doesn't have a single point of failure.
Not really. Small functions that are called a lot are fine for icache usage. They're often better than big functions with some hot and some cold code paths. One of the optimisations that I'm currently working on is to move cold code paths out of big functions into a separate function so that they can reduce icache pressure.
I haven't ever used a C++ compiler which didn't have some way to control inlining
Yes, I know, I do work on a couple of C++ compilers...
Some even let you set hard limits on levels on resulting function size
... but it's always done at that kind of granularity. That's the problem. In every case, inlining can appear to be a locally correct optimisation. Every function that has something small inlined into it will become faster. You can measure that with microbenchmarks. The problem is that doing this
And it's not like C can't be inlined just as well
Not as easily. The C specification doesn't define ODR linkage, which makes creating inline functions more difficult. C++ templates get expanded in every compilation unit and either inlined or emitted with link-once ODR linkage. This means that the compiler is far more likely, given C and C++ code, to have something that is used in a lot of translation units available to inline.
Especially if you enable link-time code generation, where compiler can peek across translation unit lines.
But if you're doing LTO then the compiler will also be considering the total binary size with respect to the CPU cache. More importantly, the inlining decision in modern compilers also factors in the number of call sites. If something has a single call site and is not exported outside of the compilation unit, it will always be inlined because there is never a case when that is the wrong thing to do. When the compiler can see more call sites, it is less likely to do make the decision to inline.
Unfortunately, the inlining pass tends to happen twice, once per compilation unit and once with LTO, and there is no uninline pass in any compiler I've used (it's actually one of the things on my todo list).
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A passive adaptor can turn the analogue signal from a DVI port into VGA. My E-350 motherboard came with one in the box, and that's what's plugged into my projector. It also has HDMI and DisplayPort outputs so I don't have to worry when I upgrade the projector.
There are varying degrees of support. 2D works? 3D works? Video decoding offload works? Audio over HDMI works? In the past, Via has claimed 'support' meaning 2D worked, half of the other features worked but may cause kernel panics, the other half didn't work at all.
In the same country that has "super-injunctions" and doesn't find them funny
I think anyone who watches Have I Got News For You finds them quite funny...
Yes, do they have the right, legally and morally
In that case, I am owed money for my Slashdot posts - will you be sending me the cheque? The grandparent was correct. If you create something, then the state will, through copyright, give you a mechanism to attempt to make money from it. If, however, it's crap that no one wants, then you are not entitled to make money. I have four books published, and all that copyright gives me is the right to attempt to profit from them by encouraging people to buy them. If no one does, then I don't automatically make money simply because I created something that is covered by copyright.
It's better than that. You can sell a product that doesn't work, and then when your customer notices that it doesn't work you can sell the new and improved version (which also doesn't work).
Companies don't care that much if it's 100% unhackable as long as it protects the content long enough (so that most sales are done) or that it hinders mass copying
Except it doesn't. BBC stuff still finds its way onto torrent trackers almost as soon as it's been broadcast. Movies are still uploaded to torrent trackers before they are released in the cinemas. The only people who find the DRM inconvenient are those wanting to legally use the media in a way not specifically catered for by the supplier.
And while it is required to be politically neutral, it is in fact a nest of Bolsheviks
I'm pretty sure bolsheviks aren't nearly as pro-strong-copyright as the BBC. For a reference, go and find the most recent article about the EU copyright extension for music. It came with three quotes, one from someone who proposed the bill, one from a music label, and one from a music industry lobbyist. No one quoted in the entire article ever even hinted that perhaps perpetually extending copyright terms might not be the best option.
I would normally say, "This isn't your father's IBM", but with respect to Mr. Buffett's age, I'm not sure it is his father's IBM, either.
I think his father's IBM was selling typewriters and tabulating machines to the Nazis...
Yes. Take a look at some of the OpenFirmware implementations. Even a pretty rubbish FORTH compiler tends to achieve reasonable speed.
You're also sending twice as much to the garbage pile.
Only if you actually throw the machines away. If anything, it's the reverse. If you upgrade components of a machine, it's much harder to find a use for the bits you remove than if you replace the whole machine. A two year old machine may be underpowered for you, but there are lots of people who can use it for another few years.
Sorry, I was referring to your comment about OOP, not specifically C++. C++ only vaguely support OOP. If you're using an actual object-oriented language, then you get very different code (for one thing, the object code tends to be one or two orders of magnitude smaller).
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but the ketchup bottles that have been common in the UK for the past few years do exactly that. I think most bottles with similar requirements, such as shampoo, do the same...
Again, orthogonal terms. A republic is simply a state that does not have a monarchy. An oligarchy or dictatorship is still a republic.
If everyone who bought a Harry Potter book got a hour's worth of enjoyment from it, I'd say that she deserves a fairly large recompense. Maybe not quite as much as she has, but I certainly don't begrudge her a few million. The fact that other people may be equally or more deserving yet not rewarded doesn't affect my assessment.
He's a US Presidential candidates who believes that having unpolluted land and food that is fit for human consumption are privileges, not rights, and that the government has no business interfering with businesses' God-given rights to dump waste wherever they want.
It's probably harder on an iPhone than on phones with actual buttons. I had an old Ericsson phone that let me dial the emergency services number when the keypad was locked (apparently, as required by EU regulations). In the UK, this number is 999, and it's really easy to accidentally dial when the phone is in your pocket - if something presses against the corner of the phone three times, you've accidentally called it.
You seem to be under the impression that the only 'true democracy' is a direct democracy, not a representative democracy. I suggest that you pick up a politics textbook, rather than getting your information about political terms from Wikipedia.
Democracy and republic are completely orthogonal terms. For example, the UK has a hereditary head of state and so is not a republic, but has an elected parliament so is a (representative) democracy. A state ruled by a military junta is a republic, but not a democracy. The USA is both a republic and a democracy, as is Germany.
I heard a rumour that VLC is one of them. If you have come to slashdot and yet somehow don't know what VLC is, it's an application for playing and streaming almost any kind of multimedia file. Pretty exciting, huh?
Yup, no vulnerability at all. Have you read the documentation for using Apple Events? The chances of anyone successfully implementing anything that relies on them is basically zero.
I would have thought the privacy guarantees would meant at least geeks but possibly a wider audience would find the attraction in using it
What privacy guarantees? Who has reviewed the federation protocol? Last time I checked, it was an ad-hoc pile of crap full of serious design flaws and the reference implementation (which was about as close as you got to real documentation for the protocol) was a security disaster. The difference between Diaspora and Facebook is that people actually had to pay for Facebook to harvest all of your 'private' information...
And I definitely think trying to execute the idea is worth a lifetime of talk about ideas
Unfortunately, Diaspora always seemed to fall into the latter category. Lots of UI stuff (none of it original - designing a good UI is hard, copying an existing UI is easy), but no attempt to address any of the problems in that space that are actually difficult, such as how should the network be federated in a way that doesn't allow malicious nodes to harvest information, scales to hundreds of millions of users, and doesn't have a single point of failure.
Not really. Small functions that are called a lot are fine for icache usage. They're often better than big functions with some hot and some cold code paths. One of the optimisations that I'm currently working on is to move cold code paths out of big functions into a separate function so that they can reduce icache pressure.
I haven't ever used a C++ compiler which didn't have some way to control inlining
Yes, I know, I do work on a couple of C++ compilers...
Some even let you set hard limits on levels on resulting function size
... but it's always done at that kind of granularity. That's the problem. In every case, inlining can appear to be a locally correct optimisation. Every function that has something small inlined into it will become faster. You can measure that with microbenchmarks. The problem is that doing this
And it's not like C can't be inlined just as well
Not as easily. The C specification doesn't define ODR linkage, which makes creating inline functions more difficult. C++ templates get expanded in every compilation unit and either inlined or emitted with link-once ODR linkage. This means that the compiler is far more likely, given C and C++ code, to have something that is used in a lot of translation units available to inline.
Especially if you enable link-time code generation, where compiler can peek across translation unit lines.
But if you're doing LTO then the compiler will also be considering the total binary size with respect to the CPU cache. More importantly, the inlining decision in modern compilers also factors in the number of call sites. If something has a single call site and is not exported outside of the compilation unit, it will always be inlined because there is never a case when that is the wrong thing to do. When the compiler can see more call sites, it is less likely to do make the decision to inline.
Unfortunately, the inlining pass tends to happen twice, once per compilation unit and once with LTO, and there is no uninline pass in any compiler I've used (it's actually one of the things on my todo list).
Microsoft allows the DoD to see their code for Windows and Office and has since the mid '90s. I doubt that Apple would charge more than them...
Did they stick NSA-approved iDucktape over the lenses?