this is where C is different from most languages. C is more machine-like. The ! operator simply returns true if the variable being referenced is 0, and in terms of instructions, I believe this is actually a faster instruction, since most ALU's have an "is zero" line coming out of them.
A pointer is simply a number, in fact, really every variable in C is actually a number, including arrays that are really just pointers themselves that point to a continuous block of numbers.
Once beginners understand how generalC is, the rest is very easy.
Does the purchase of WoW come with a month free of service? If so, then Blizzard might be right in denying the recipient from getting a new account from a used copy.
If not, I think it would be better if the game itself was free, where people could download it online and pay only the monthly fee, or buy it at the store and get one month free ( that would cost maybe another $5 for the fancy manual, etc. ) but would not have the account itself transferrable, so if you were to sell the game you'd just be selling the manuals and box.
The only problem I do see with this though is limiting stock, much like the problem they have now. If this was freely downloadable, it's harder to control the creation of accounts. Although you could prevent the creation of accounts after a threshold, people who bought the box from the store would be pissed because they paid for a month already and cannot get online.
There are a lot of features that a hobbyist needs from Photoshop. I was trying to help a friend earlier with some work, she was using Elements. It was very frustrating to work with it, there is no image->canvas size, you have to use a dainty crop tool, and the ability to manipulate layers is very limited.
And yet another example, Maya. Even the educational version of Maya is too expensive, it's around $498.95 (from studioca) for Maya Unlimited. Maya PLE has lots of limits, not to mention the very, very annoying ( and ugly ) watermarks ( that are mostly opaque ) in the view panels and render view. It really ruins the satisfaction of looking at your work when you have several ugly watermarks all over the render.
Not to mention that you cannot export to Maya Binary or Maya Ascii, and I see no point for this since any large graphics studios would be violating the ToS by modelling in PLE and rendering in a commercial version anyway . So for the rest of us, if you are able to afford a copy of Maya after graduation and getting a job, you can't import your old work.
Maybe if Alias will drop the price down to $150 and $200 Canadian, more students like me who like to do this as a hobby will buy it.
Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003... ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users have had to patch 34 vulnerabilities and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 users have had to patch over 78 vulnerabilities
You can't really claim that one piece of software is more stable or secure than another by using the number of vunerabilities fixed as the only argument. According to this flawed logic, I could write a large piece of software, run one test, work fine for that one test, and claim that mine is more stable than another piece of software that has been thoroughly tested and has had bugfixes.
I guess Nash has also forgotten the old saying that testing can only show the existence of bugs, not the absense.
Actually the popularity of Britney Spears is due to a "Quality Product" in terms of what people want. She has the barbie doll image, what's what little girls want. She's also hot, so that's what most older guys want...
PDAs never got their killer application, which could have been a few of: phone capability, superior data input method compared to phones, instant messaging, mail, cheaper packet based data transfer or porn.
Try a Blackberry, the thumbpad is pretty nice, the UI is pretty simple and functional ( borrows a lot of simplicity from PalmOS ). The Cheaper packet-based data transfer is still a while way, but my guess is that's mostly due to infrastructure.
The only difference I see here is that most people using BB's are older people, and may be more succeptable to these sorts of conditions. I'm probably wrong here, but I agree with you, there are lots of other things that can cause the same symptoms like certain cellphones.
If you can make a profit selling DVDs in China for $3, you can make a profit selling them in the US for $3. Anything more is gouging the customer, and quite frankly,
I'm not supporting HP or the MPAA here, but I thought I'd just play devils advocate for a moment. The value of a dollar in China is greater than it is in the US, and by this I mean what you expect to get with $1. You could probably get a fairly good meal for $1 in most parts, whereas $1 in the US wouldn't even get you a small drink at McD's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember from my first-year economics course, this implies the utility provided from every "dollar" in the US is less than that of the utility provided by the same dollar in China.
Really you can't blame them, the idea is to price things as high as possible such that profit is maximized. If you sell a dvd for $3, you wont necessarly have 7 times more DVD's sold.
is what people are concerned about when such things are brought up.
We're all taught that everyone is equal, and overall, we are. However genetically certain races may be stronger in some respects than others.
This might seem like things are unequal, but overall it all works out. One race may have raw strength but might lack in coordination.
The only problem that arises in all of this is these things are of different importance to different people, like valuing intelligence over physical strength, and they may start thinking that one race is "better" than another.
What if the routers used a one-time-only ( that is, after you change the password it no longer does this check, unless you do a full restore to defaults ) CD-key like password? Print out a 6-8 digit key on the router somewhere, and have it so that the firmware will accept a certain set of keys.
So every 200 or so units, change the key checking algorithm slightly ( like changing a constant in it ) and generate 200 keys for those units that only work for those 200 units.
This way, there is no default password for all of the routers and a keygen app would be difficult to make.
This might be a little excessive but I think it would be worth it for those who change their passwords a month after they've set up their router ( or not changing it at all ).
I wonder how the build quality of the cars will be affected here. I think in terms of the cars, this will probably be a pretty significant improvement.
I'm sure we'd have less lemons and perhaps smaller gaps between components of the car. Imagine interiors with detail and quality rivaling those of hand made cars. I think this can really give Lexus a reputation for being the "high tech" luxury car.
I'd also think that this might revolutionize the mechanics of the car as well where these robots may be able to assemble things like more complex suspension systems that give better comfort or simply how the engine is put together.
well OK, instead of making it bigger, what if we made it a sphere with the same radius as half the length of one side of a square-ish CPU?
Wouldn't that reduce distances travelled? I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but has cancelled it out for some major problem that I'm not seeing here.
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Seems like he misunderstood the image. Interesting idea though, have tires ever been used to create some sort of downforce? I have no idea how this would work, but it might be an interesting prospect.
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when there will be a "female" version, and what new "tricks" it will be able to do.
because I think that's exactly what we need for a "walk around" type holograph that we see in movies. The problem is that most hologram solutions right now are on a flat surface.
However, in the movies, the hologram appears to be suspended in mid air, and people are actually around it. The problem with creating such a thing here is bouncing the light off a surface, and also making it so that each angle produces a different image.
The only way I can see anything close to this being produced is if we have something like a cylindrical tank made out of low-reflectivity glass full of little particles, and a laser shines beams off whatever's in the tank to produce an image that "appears" to be suspended in air. I'm sure someone's tried something like this before, anyone know of such attempts?
might be an answer to our fuel problem, at least a temporary one. I just did a google search on this idea, it's obviously been looked at before.
I think I've heard of proposals to make gasoline out of sunflower oil or something.
Does anyone know more about this? I'm sure there's a reason why it's not currently being used ( I'm guessing cost here ).
You're quite right. I think the success of the blackberry is analogous to the success of the iPod with the easy to use system, interface and good infrastrucuture to support it.
Many professionals have them. I'm a student at the University of Waterloo which is located right beside Research in Motion, and there are a lot of students here that want them as well from seeing RIM co-op students walking around with their blackberries.
Simplicity works, PDA makers don't need to throw useless and redundant features ( that drive up cost and eat into battery life ) into a PDA like a camera that might only be "cool" to the user for a couple of days. Given there are a few features that are both cool and functional ( like the new colour screen on the newer Blackberries ), companies need to think functionality, otherwise their products just become toys.
might be a list of common typoes and also weird compile errors that often scare newer programmers. Here's are a couple that I know of
if( blah = true ){// common single equal sign mistake }
if( someclass->someMethod ){//I know of some compilers that do NOT give you a warning when you forget to put brackets in a function call. }
As for compile errors, one that ususally scares newer programmers is making a mistake in a header file that in return causes a whole lot of other errors. This happens when you forget to put a ";" in a class definition in a header file, then in the source file, you include "someheader.h" and then include "" below it, I've noticed a lot of compilers spew out odd errors that can very confusing.
Another common compile error deals with mismatched curly brackets, editors like vim will point this out, but I know some 2nd year students here in Computer Engineering that still want to use Notepad and refuse to try anything else.
Anyone know of any others?
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this is where C is different from most languages. C is more machine-like. The ! operator simply returns true if the variable being referenced is 0, and in terms of instructions, I believe this is actually a faster instruction, since most ALU's have an "is zero" line coming out of them.
A pointer is simply a number, in fact, really every variable in C is actually a number, including arrays that are really just pointers themselves that point to a continuous block of numbers.
Once beginners understand how generalC is, the rest is very easy.
Glen A. Larson had some part in the original Knight Rider series and the original BSG series and might explain the scanning red beam-eyes.
Does the purchase of WoW come with a month free of service? If so, then Blizzard might be right in denying the recipient from getting a new account from a used copy.
If not, I think it would be better if the game itself was free, where people could download it online and pay only the monthly fee, or buy it at the store and get one month free ( that would cost maybe another $5 for the fancy manual, etc. ) but would not have the account itself transferrable, so if you were to sell the game you'd just be selling the manuals and box.
The only problem I do see with this though is limiting stock, much like the problem they have now. If this was freely downloadable, it's harder to control the creation of accounts. Although you could prevent the creation of accounts after a threshold, people who bought the box from the store would be pissed because they paid for a month already and cannot get online.
Robin Willaims ( Impersonating G.W. Bush ): "I was at the Coyote-conference..."
Quite wrong.
There are a lot of features that a hobbyist needs from Photoshop. I was trying to help a friend earlier with some work, she was using Elements. It was very frustrating to work with it, there is no image->canvas size, you have to use a dainty crop tool, and the ability to manipulate layers is very limited.
And yet another example, Maya. Even the educational version of Maya is too expensive, it's around $498.95 (from studioca) for Maya Unlimited. Maya PLE has lots of limits, not to mention the very, very annoying ( and ugly ) watermarks ( that are mostly opaque ) in the view panels and render view. It really ruins the satisfaction of looking at your work when you have several ugly watermarks all over the render. Not to mention that you cannot export to Maya Binary or Maya Ascii, and I see no point for this since any large graphics studios would be violating the ToS by modelling in PLE and rendering in a commercial version anyway . So for the rest of us, if you are able to afford a copy of Maya after graduation and getting a job, you can't import your old work.
Maybe if Alias will drop the price down to $150 and $200 Canadian, more students like me who like to do this as a hobby will buy it.
You can't really claim that one piece of software is more stable or secure than another by using the number of vunerabilities fixed as the only argument. According to this flawed logic, I could write a large piece of software, run one test, work fine for that one test, and claim that mine is more stable than another piece of software that has been thoroughly tested and has had bugfixes.
I guess Nash has also forgotten the old saying that testing can only show the existence of bugs, not the absense.
eBay has Customer Service? I thought everything that I sent them regarding disputes and such were forwarded to a black hole...
Actually the popularity of Britney Spears is due to a "Quality Product" in terms of what people want. She has the barbie doll image, what's what little girls want. She's also hot, so that's what most older guys want...
PDAs never got their killer application, which could have been a few of: phone capability, superior data input method compared to phones, instant messaging, mail, cheaper packet based data transfer or porn.
Try a Blackberry, the thumbpad is pretty nice, the UI is pretty simple and functional ( borrows a lot of simplicity from PalmOS ). The Cheaper packet-based data transfer is still a while way, but my guess is that's mostly due to infrastructure.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them (Wi-Fi networks)
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. ( Download porn! )
The only difference I see here is that most people using BB's are older people, and may be more succeptable to these sorts of conditions.
I'm probably wrong here, but I agree with you, there are lots of other things that can cause the same symptoms like certain cellphones.
Gates donated some money ( no strings attached ) towards Patrick's medical bills?
I don't see how it would hurt, sure slackware might me somewhat of a competitor, but most Joe Somebody Windows users wont want to deal with Slackware.
here in Canada right now. It's so cold I can't even tell if I'm freezing my ass off because it's numb :(
If you can make a profit selling DVDs in China for $3, you can make a profit selling them in the US for $3. Anything more is gouging the customer, and quite frankly,
I'm not supporting HP or the MPAA here, but I thought I'd just play devils advocate for a moment. The value of a dollar in China is greater than it is in the US, and by this I mean what you expect to get with $1. You could probably get a fairly good meal for $1 in most parts, whereas $1 in the US wouldn't even get you a small drink at McD's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember from my first-year economics course, this implies the utility provided from every "dollar" in the US is less than that of the utility provided by the same dollar in China.
Really you can't blame them, the idea is to price things as high as possible such that profit is maximized. If you sell a dvd for $3, you wont necessarly have 7 times more DVD's sold.
is what people are concerned about when such things are brought up.
We're all taught that everyone is equal, and overall, we are. However genetically certain races may be stronger in some respects than others.
This might seem like things are unequal, but overall it all works out. One race may have raw strength but might lack in coordination.
The only problem that arises in all of this is these things are of different importance to different people, like valuing intelligence over physical strength, and they may start thinking that one race is "better" than another.
What if the routers used a one-time-only ( that is, after you change the password it no longer does this check, unless you do a full restore to defaults ) CD-key like password? Print out a 6-8 digit key on the router somewhere, and have it so that the firmware will accept a certain set of keys.
So every 200 or so units, change the key checking algorithm slightly ( like changing a constant in it ) and generate 200 keys for those units that only work for those 200 units.
This way, there is no default password for all of the routers and a keygen app would be difficult to make.
This might be a little excessive but I think it would be worth it for those who change their passwords a month after they've set up their router ( or not changing it at all ).
racist?
:)
I mean crackers? I'm sure asian people, black people and people of other races are doing it too
I wonder how the build quality of the cars will be affected here. I think in terms of the cars, this will probably be a pretty significant improvement.
I'm sure we'd have less lemons and perhaps smaller gaps between components of the car. Imagine interiors with detail and quality rivaling those of hand made cars. I think this can really give Lexus a reputation for being the "high tech" luxury car.
I'd also think that this might revolutionize the mechanics of the car as well where these robots may be able to assemble things like more complex suspension systems that give better comfort or simply how the engine is put together.
well OK, instead of making it bigger, what if we made it a sphere with the same radius as half the length of one side of a square-ish CPU?
Wouldn't that reduce distances travelled? I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but has cancelled it out for some major problem that I'm not seeing here.
Seems like he misunderstood the image. Interesting idea though, have tires ever been used to create some sort of downforce? I have no idea how this would work, but it might be an interesting prospect.
when there will be a "female" version, and what new "tricks" it will be able to do.
because I think that's exactly what we need for a "walk around" type holograph that we see in movies. The problem is that most hologram solutions right now are on a flat surface.
However, in the movies, the hologram appears to be suspended in mid air, and people are actually around it. The problem with creating such a thing here is bouncing the light off a surface, and also making it so that each angle produces a different image.
The only way I can see anything close to this being produced is if we have something like a cylindrical tank made out of low-reflectivity glass full of little particles, and a laser shines beams off whatever's in the tank to produce an image that "appears" to be suspended in air. I'm sure someone's tried something like this before, anyone know of such attempts?
might be an answer to our fuel problem, at least a temporary one. I just did a google search on this idea, it's obviously been looked at before.
I think I've heard of proposals to make gasoline out of sunflower oil or something.
Does anyone know more about this? I'm sure there's a reason why it's not currently being used ( I'm guessing cost here ).
You're quite right. I think the success of the blackberry is analogous to the success of the iPod with the easy to use system, interface and good infrastrucuture to support it.
Many professionals have them. I'm a student at the University of Waterloo which is located right beside Research in Motion, and there are a lot of students here that want them as well from seeing RIM co-op students walking around with their blackberries.
Simplicity works, PDA makers don't need to throw useless and redundant features ( that drive up cost and eat into battery life ) into a PDA like a camera that might only be "cool" to the user for a couple of days. Given there are a few features that are both cool and functional ( like the new colour screen on the newer Blackberries ), companies need to think functionality, otherwise their products just become toys.
As for compile errors, one that ususally scares newer programmers is making a mistake in a header file that in return causes a whole lot of other errors. This happens when you forget to put a ";" in a class definition in a header file, then in the source file, you include "someheader.h" and then include "" below it, I've noticed a lot of compilers spew out odd errors that can very confusing.
Another common compile error deals with mismatched curly brackets, editors like vim will point this out, but I know some 2nd year students here in Computer Engineering that still want to use Notepad and refuse to try anything else.
Anyone know of any others?