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> How do you add two ints? How about two floats? Why is overloading bad?
Add the string "0.5" to the string "1.0." with the '+' operator. Is the result "1.5" or "1.00.5" ?
Is there an easy way to find out based on the syntax of the language, or do you have to dig into the class libraries you're including which may contradict each other?
Always "1.00.5" unless you or one of your includes declared some extremely evil operators.
Because they can lead to surprising behavior, c++ operators are usually defined with care so that they won't be accidentally invoked and don't do strange things when they are used (such as interpret strings as floating point values).
Oh hey, it's another brilliant idea for fucking up my Linux systems. I wonder if Lennart Poettering has anything to do with it.
Let's see:
It's an unnecessary change that comes from the Fedora project. 90% chance it's Lennart Poettering.
The defense for it is extremely passive aggressive and suggests we "don't understand how things work in the real world." 99% chance it's Lennart Poettering.
It's a bad idea. 100% chance it's Lennart Poettering.
But "Windows Mobile" has NOTHING to do with the new WP7 phones...
It's the version that came after windows mobile 6. If what you say were true, they'd call it Bing Phone 1.0 or something. Hmm, that's a shit name.
Ok, how about XBox Phone 1.0? Alright, I agree, also terrible.
Zune Ph... nope. Kinect Phone? Damn.
You know what? How about Metro Phone. It's all about Metro, anyway. So they should call it Metro Phone. Everyone will know to avoid it once Windows 8 comes out and they learn to hate Metro, but at least the name would make sense and it wouldn't be stuck with the even worse association with Windows Mobile.
You are delusional, I cut& paste nothing, and I'm not paid anything to post here or anywhere else. I was responding honestly to a comment. You're just being a dick (and being wrong) while adding nothing of any value to the conversation. Congratulations.
Laying it on a bit thick, aren't we? Yeah, I get that you're being ironic to make pro-Microsoft people look bad. Very funny. You can stop, now.
Yes, but then the music will be freely copied, and you won't make any money
Not necessarily. I bought a couple pantyraid albums yesterday from Amazon in MP3 format because it's convenient to have known quality such as good bitrate and correct metadata. My usenet client was open in another window, and it found all their tracks... plus hundreds of remixes and other junk that doesn't interest me.
I spend perhaps $30 a month average on Amazon MP3s.
Kind of sad since my very first laptop (a Dell) had 1600x1200 resolution
What is sad? A change in aspect ratio? It is a move towards the 16:9 aspect ratio. The end result is greater horizontal resolution, less vertical resolution, and a greater number of pixels overall than your 4:3 ratio 1600x1200 screen.
IT HAS LESS VERTICAL RESOLUTION. 10 years later, less vertical resolution. That's what is sad.
Another opportunity for Slashdotters to pity themselves for their victimization at the hands of a global scientific conspiracy. "We've been labeled deniers," the Slashdotters will lament, "it's ad hominem!"
"In our view, these billboards just return the favor. It's how politics, I mean science and peer review, works! It's hard ball, and climate-change-anistas are big bully crybabies!"
Indeed, it's reminiscent of how Copernicus, in his deep resentment of the Catholic church, formed the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun and then set about finding evidence of his pre-determined conclusion, labeling those who disagreed "deniers," and proceeded to build "scientific consensus" by using his position to deny grant money and publication to sensible, honest researchers!
the AUD/USD exchange rate can fluctuate by 2% per day. On CS6, that would be a $50 change per day.
You can pretend that you wouldn't mind a 2% fluctuation, but people will care about a $50 change in the price per day.
Either Australians will be outraged it changed so rapidly (and Adobe's greed), or they will try to play the exchange rates to purchase at the lowest price, making demand very variable.
Probably both.
why do you calculate that rate change on an AUD$2600 base price rather than the actual USD base price, though?
Right now, 1 AUD is about 1 USD. Since CS6 is 2600 USD, it's also 2600 AUD (without the GST).
Excuse me, but I'd take a $1600 discount in exchange for $50 variability. I import a lot from the US, converting NOK to USD daily. It's really not that much of a problem. Milk, eggs, gasoline, fruit, fertilizer, salt, gold, wood, diamonds, the real value of the USD itself, interest rates, RAM, vinyl siding, hard drive, bunker C fuel oil, airfare, cigarette, broccoli, and liquid nitrogen prices vary daily. They don't cost the theoretical maximum expected value over the next 2 years. They cost what they are worth today.
Adobe charges a 1600 AUD premium because that is the very most they can possibly squeeze out of the "well, but, exchange rates and stuff" apologists like you.
On the 22nd, this happened when I tried it in a VM: log into a disposable hotmail account and open another browser tab. In the new tab, go to lots of disreputable sites such as astalavista.am. And behold: you have been logged out of hotmail. Log back in and note that you now have a bunch of bounce messages from the spam sent by whoever just hijacked your hotmail account.
Perhaps Microsoft fixed it by now. Nonetheless, Hotmail has a long history of incredibly bad exploits, such as when anyone could view anyone else's account by modifying a URL after logging in. I wouldn't trust it.
I would think orbital mechanics plays a part that eliminates markovian analysis. ( ie, large object breaks up into smaller pieces, which stay largely in the same orbital path, hence the perseid's meteor showers:) Haley's comet as a predictable 75 year orbit, why wouldnt there be stuff with 100, 500, 1000, 10000 year orbits that cross our path ?
I accounted for those things with my weasel wording:) It's "largely" markovian, but not entirely as each rock that hits us is one less that can hit us later, and a big lump broken up can hit us each time we pass through its orbit - though it would be unlikely to do so at the one month interval I mentioned.
Regarding us being "due" for another Tonguska owing to the expected outcome of one Tunguska-sized impact per century, you should agree that the odds of it happening tomorrow don't change even if it last happened 100 years ago. We're not due for it in the sense that a fault can be due for an earthquake. In that sense, likelihood of impact given no other information is certainly markovian.
I'm going to disagree with you there. Its the Democrats vs everyone else. The second you express an opposing opinion to any of the Democrat's platforms they come out in force and call you names. In the last 3 years I have been called racist, terrorist, and Nazi, not by random DNC people, but their very top people and not one of them said it was inapproprate. Yea, there are Repuclicans that do the same, but they tend not to when they are president or VP or speaker of the house.
No, the Democrats have declared war on everyone that is not a Democrat. I'm independent and they have let me know under no circumstances that I am not welcome under their "big tent".
I haven't RTFA, but the summary is ridiculous: in what sense of 'like' were WM6 phones not 'like' an iPhone? In that they had proper support for handwriting recognition? In that they weren't marketed by Apple?
Your standard issue WM6 phone had 48 to 64 megabytes of RAM, a shit slow processor, and anemic graphics so horrid it couldn't update a full screen of 2D without tearing horribly. The interface was rendered with GDI and had no support for fancy effects such as zoom transitions and sliding. The widget set was entirely stylus oriented. Pocket IE was a terrible, terrible browser and would take minutes to render a page that would show up on a first gen iPhone instantaneously.
In comparison to the first iPhone, all WM and Pocket PC devices were garbage. I worked for company writing WM apps. When I first tried an iPhone, I immediately realized it was time to update my resume. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's share of the smartphone market dropped to essentially nothing, and my former employer fired my entire department.
You do know there are other eyewitnesses who claimed that was not the case? That's your probable cause right there.
Fabulous! New information! I'm for new information. Here is a link showing the eye witness I'm referring to:
In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.
And here is another report, which seems consistent with the above, and seems to be someone different:
After hearing raised voice, the witness said he peered out of the window and saw two men grappling with each other on the ground, one on top of the other. He said there were two struggles, both of which were on the grass next to a sidewalk. “I heard the yell for help then I heard another as I would describe as an excruciating type of yell. It didn’t even sound like a help it just sounded so painful,” he said. Following the cry, he described hearing “popping” sounds, believed to be multiple gunshots. One of the men then cried out for help.
As it was, the police took Zimmerman in for questioning in handcuffs, and released him. They know where he lives.
Do you have a link for me?
How about the surveillance video from the police station showing Zimmerman with no injuries after he was brought in? If his head was slammed into concrete such that he was at risk of dying, you would have been able to see it half an hour later. Here's the link you asked for. I bet you don't even view it - you've already made up your mind.
Also, the 100A cables are big and chunky (which you need because they reduce the "R" part of IIR losses).
Thickness of wires has nothing to do with R. You use big cables to reduce heating of wires.
LOL, absolutely not. 0 credit given. Temperature held constant, the resistance of a conductor decreases with conductor thickness.
The relationship can be stated as R = pL/A where p is material resistivity, for example in ohm meters, L is conductor length, and A is conductor cross section area. p varies with temperature, but as you can see, R does indeed vary with A, and discounting A as you suggest is incorrect.
Yes, they should build lots of wind farms right along the coast. I mean, there's no history of things like tsunamis or anything, right? That should work out just fine.
Wind turbines are mounted on tall, slender poles. They don't give a fuck about earthquake tsunamis. Perhaps a massive undersea landslide or asteroid impact that kicks up a 1km tall tsunami would wipe them out, but the commensurate reduction of demand imparted by losing 80% of the population would offset the loss of generating capacity handily.
Yes, we all know that Europe has tons of money to dump into renewable energy sources; it's not like there's a debt crisis or anything. Oh wait, there is.
How may people live in Denmark? About 5.5 million. That's a large city nearly everywhere else (Miami, USA has about 5.6 million and Nanjing, China has about 5.4 million), so your country doesn't have nearly the challenge that China, India, the US, Japan, and Germany has in making the transition to alternative energy reliance. Good luck though, I honestly hope that you can do it.
High horse Norwegian, here. I'd like to point out that Norway's electricity is already 100% renewable. Right now. 100%. So much for "waah waah it can't be done." Incidentally, I pay about the equivalent of USD 0.04 per kilowatt hour in Oppland. Probably less than half what you pay. Deal with it.
Very true. Compare Trondheim's average daily temperatures to those of inland cities at the same latitude, such as Yakutsk. Due to the ocean and the gulf stream, Trondheim is something like 35C warmer in January than you might expect. Even a ways inland here in Skreia, Oppland, my outdoor thermometer is reading -13C, which is still a bit lower than average for this time of year. This is fine for working outside and skiing; grade school recess is outdoors and some kids around here walk 1km to their bus stop in these temperatures.
There's a world of difference between Norwegian and Russian winter temperatures. -10C isn't any sort of problem; -40C is trees exploding, frostbite to your dick if you pee outside.
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> How do you add two ints? How about two floats? Why is overloading bad?
Add the string "0.5" to the string "1.0." with the '+' operator. Is the result "1.5" or "1.00.5" ?
Is there an easy way to find out based on the syntax of the language, or do you have to dig into the class libraries you're including which may contradict each other?
Always "1.00.5" unless you or one of your includes declared some extremely evil operators.
Because they can lead to surprising behavior, c++ operators are usually defined with care so that they won't be accidentally invoked and don't do strange things when they are used (such as interpret strings as floating point values).
Oh hey, it's another brilliant idea for fucking up my Linux systems. I wonder if Lennart Poettering has anything to do with it.
Let's see:
But "Windows Mobile" has NOTHING to do with the new WP7 phones...
It's the version that came after windows mobile 6. If what you say were true, they'd call it Bing Phone 1.0 or something. Hmm, that's a shit name.
Ok, how about XBox Phone 1.0? Alright, I agree, also terrible.
Zune Ph... nope. Kinect Phone? Damn.
You know what? How about Metro Phone. It's all about Metro, anyway. So they should call it Metro Phone. Everyone will know to avoid it once Windows 8 comes out and they learn to hate Metro, but at least the name would make sense and it wouldn't be stuck with the even worse association with Windows Mobile.
You are delusional, I cut& paste nothing, and I'm not paid anything to post here or anywhere else. I was responding honestly to a comment. You're just being a dick (and being wrong) while adding nothing of any value to the conversation. Congratulations.
Laying it on a bit thick, aren't we? Yeah, I get that you're being ironic to make pro-Microsoft people look bad. Very funny. You can stop, now.
it's a new way of thinking about a phone and apps and functionality
*chuckle* Keep doing what you're doing. At least someone here gets it.
To all the other repliers: LAUGH, HE'S JOKING!
The street car systems were failing and unsustainable
[citation needed]
I was misled by the summary. This isn't a whole new OS from the ground up - it's a Linux distro with some python code included.
Is a Linux distro with some python the new Linux? Umm... yeah... how about no.
Is there some deficiency in Linux and the various BSDs that OpenStack is intended to remedy?
Yes, but then the music will be freely copied, and you won't make any money
Not necessarily. I bought a couple pantyraid albums yesterday from Amazon in MP3 format because it's convenient to have known quality such as good bitrate and correct metadata. My usenet client was open in another window, and it found all their tracks... plus hundreds of remixes and other junk that doesn't interest me.
I spend perhaps $30 a month average on Amazon MP3s.
Kind of sad since my very first laptop (a Dell) had 1600x1200 resolution
What is sad? A change in aspect ratio? It is a move towards the 16:9 aspect ratio. The end result is greater horizontal resolution, less vertical resolution, and a greater number of pixels overall than your 4:3 ratio 1600x1200 screen.
IT HAS LESS VERTICAL RESOLUTION. 10 years later, less vertical resolution. That's what is sad.
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Another opportunity for Slashdotters to pity themselves for their victimization at the hands of a global scientific conspiracy. "We've been labeled deniers," the Slashdotters will lament, "it's ad hominem!"
"In our view, these billboards just return the favor. It's how politics, I mean science and peer review, works! It's hard ball, and climate-change-anistas are big bully crybabies!"
Indeed, it's reminiscent of how Copernicus, in his deep resentment of the Catholic church, formed the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun and then set about finding evidence of his pre-determined conclusion, labeling those who disagreed "deniers," and proceeded to build "scientific consensus" by using his position to deny grant money and publication to sensible, honest researchers!
the AUD/USD exchange rate can fluctuate by 2% per day. On CS6, that would be a $50 change per day.
You can pretend that you wouldn't mind a 2% fluctuation, but people will care about a $50 change in the price per day.
Either Australians will be outraged it changed so rapidly (and Adobe's greed), or they will try to play the exchange rates to purchase at the lowest price, making demand very variable.
Probably both.
why do you calculate that rate change on an AUD$2600 base price rather than the actual USD base price, though?
Right now, 1 AUD is about 1 USD. Since CS6 is 2600 USD, it's also 2600 AUD (without the GST).
Excuse me, but I'd take a $1600 discount in exchange for $50 variability. I import a lot from the US, converting NOK to USD daily. It's really not that much of a problem. Milk, eggs, gasoline, fruit, fertilizer, salt, gold, wood, diamonds, the real value of the USD itself, interest rates, RAM, vinyl siding, hard drive, bunker C fuel oil, airfare, cigarette, broccoli, and liquid nitrogen prices vary daily. They don't cost the theoretical maximum expected value over the next 2 years. They cost what they are worth today.
Adobe charges a 1600 AUD premium because that is the very most they can possibly squeeze out of the "well, but, exchange rates and stuff" apologists like you.
On the 22nd, this happened when I tried it in a VM: log into a disposable hotmail account and open another browser tab. In the new tab, go to lots of disreputable sites such as astalavista.am. And behold: you have been logged out of hotmail. Log back in and note that you now have a bunch of bounce messages from the spam sent by whoever just hijacked your hotmail account.
Perhaps Microsoft fixed it by now. Nonetheless, Hotmail has a long history of incredibly bad exploits, such as when anyone could view anyone else's account by modifying a URL after logging in. I wouldn't trust it.
I would think orbital mechanics plays a part that eliminates markovian analysis. ( ie, large object breaks up into smaller pieces, which stay largely in the same orbital path, hence the perseid's meteor showers :)
Haley's comet as a predictable 75 year orbit, why wouldnt there be stuff with 100, 500, 1000, 10000 year orbits that cross our path ?
I accounted for those things with my weasel wording :) It's "largely" markovian, but not entirely as each rock that hits us is one less that can hit us later, and a big lump broken up can hit us each time we pass through its orbit - though it would be unlikely to do so at the one month interval I mentioned.
Regarding us being "due" for another Tonguska owing to the expected outcome of one Tunguska-sized impact per century, you should agree that the odds of it happening tomorrow don't change even if it last happened 100 years ago. We're not due for it in the sense that a fault can be due for an earthquake. In that sense, likelihood of impact given no other information is certainly markovian.
If Tunguska sized blasts happen once in a hundred years aren't we due for one?
Asteroid impact is largely markovian, so no. The odds of another Tunguska were the same the month after as they are today.
The football coach alone may make more than the entire CS department costs. Make football intramural and allocate resources to education.
And I'll be god damned if we're not going to make that money back! The world owes us big time!
I'm going to disagree with you there. Its the Democrats vs everyone else. The second you express an opposing opinion to any of the Democrat's platforms they come out in force and call you names. In the last 3 years I have been called racist, terrorist, and Nazi, not by random DNC people, but their very top people and not one of them said it was inapproprate. Yea, there are Repuclicans that do the same, but they tend not to when they are president or VP or speaker of the house.
No, the Democrats have declared war on everyone that is not a Democrat. I'm independent and they have let me know under no circumstances that I am not welcome under their "big tent".
cool story, bro
I haven't RTFA, but the summary is ridiculous: in what sense of 'like' were WM6 phones not 'like' an iPhone? In that they had proper support for handwriting recognition? In that they weren't marketed by Apple?
Your standard issue WM6 phone had 48 to 64 megabytes of RAM, a shit slow processor, and anemic graphics so horrid it couldn't update a full screen of 2D without tearing horribly. The interface was rendered with GDI and had no support for fancy effects such as zoom transitions and sliding. The widget set was entirely stylus oriented. Pocket IE was a terrible, terrible browser and would take minutes to render a page that would show up on a first gen iPhone instantaneously.
In comparison to the first iPhone, all WM and Pocket PC devices were garbage. I worked for company writing WM apps. When I first tried an iPhone, I immediately realized it was time to update my resume. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's share of the smartphone market dropped to essentially nothing, and my former employer fired my entire department.
You do know there are other eyewitnesses who claimed that was not the case? That's your probable cause right there.
Fabulous! New information! I'm for new information. Here is a link showing the eye witness I'm referring to:
And here is another report, which seems consistent with the above, and seems to be someone different:
And of course Zimmerman was treated on the scene for head injuries, which is again consistent with the other reports.
As it was, the police took Zimmerman in for questioning in handcuffs, and released him. They know where he lives.
Do you have a link for me?
How about the surveillance video from the police station showing Zimmerman with no injuries after he was brought in? If his head was slammed into concrete such that he was at risk of dying, you would have been able to see it half an hour later. Here's the link you asked for. I bet you don't even view it - you've already made up your mind.
Also, the 100A cables are big and chunky (which you need because they reduce the "R" part of IIR losses).
Thickness of wires has nothing to do with R. You use big cables to reduce heating of wires.
LOL, absolutely not. 0 credit given. Temperature held constant, the resistance of a conductor decreases with conductor thickness.
The relationship can be stated as R = pL/A where p is material resistivity, for example in ohm meters, L is conductor length, and A is conductor cross section area. p varies with temperature, but as you can see, R does indeed vary with A, and discounting A as you suggest is incorrect.
Yes, they should build lots of wind farms right along the coast. I mean, there's no history of things like tsunamis or anything, right? That should work out just fine.
Wind turbines are mounted on tall, slender poles. They don't give a fuck about earthquake tsunamis. Perhaps a massive undersea landslide or asteroid impact that kicks up a 1km tall tsunami would wipe them out, but the commensurate reduction of demand imparted by losing 80% of the population would offset the loss of generating capacity handily.
Yes, we all know that Europe has tons of money to dump into renewable energy sources; it's not like there's a debt crisis or anything. Oh wait, there is.
How may people live in Denmark? About 5.5 million. That's a large city nearly everywhere else (Miami, USA has about 5.6 million and Nanjing, China has about 5.4 million), so your country doesn't have nearly the challenge that China, India, the US, Japan, and Germany has in making the transition to alternative energy reliance.
Good luck though, I honestly hope that you can do it.
High horse Norwegian, here. I'd like to point out that Norway's electricity is already 100% renewable. Right now. 100%. So much for "waah waah it can't be done." Incidentally, I pay about the equivalent of USD 0.04 per kilowatt hour in Oppland. Probably less than half what you pay. Deal with it.
They're not that cold considering their latitude.
Very true. Compare Trondheim's average daily temperatures to those of inland cities at the same latitude, such as Yakutsk. Due to the ocean and the gulf stream, Trondheim is something like 35C warmer in January than you might expect. Even a ways inland here in Skreia, Oppland, my outdoor thermometer is reading -13C, which is still a bit lower than average for this time of year. This is fine for working outside and skiing; grade school recess is outdoors and some kids around here walk 1km to their bus stop in these temperatures.
There's a world of difference between Norwegian and Russian winter temperatures. -10C isn't any sort of problem; -40C is trees exploding, frostbite to your dick if you pee outside.