I don't think that is true. There are videos of the event that I have seen (admittedly, quite a few years ago). While there was a Mirage in the air which the Soviets were not informed about, it was not the direct cause of the crash, at least.
Both the C and C++ standard (at least prior to C90, not sure about that) guarantee that long is the largest builtin integral type. So if you were going to assume that a void* can be stored in an integer (which is not guaranteed, but obviously works on virtually all hardware) then it is quite reasonable to assume that it will fit in a long.
Explicit 64-bit types (prior to C90 and stdint.h) are not standard and not portable.
I do not know what they have finally decided, but at least in the early Win64 documents, size_t and ptrdiff_t etc were also 32 bits. To get 64-bit versions, you needed to use SIZE_T, PTRDIFF_T etc etc.
If Microsoft are going to do that, then they only have themselves to blame for porting problems!
I'm guessing, but tidal forces (same mechanism that caused the moon to eventually synchronize its rotation to its orbit) as it goes around the earth could cause it to lose energy and move to a lower orbit. This would be more important if the asteriod could change shape, say if it was made up of a bunch of smaller rocks held together rather than a single object.
Also, tidal forces could cause it to rotate, also affecting its orbit as orbital angular momentum is transferred into rotational angular momentum (or vice versa).
Wouldn't you be going so fast once you hit the atmosphere that you would burn up? In the absence of air resistance, all objects accelerate at the same rate independent of mass.
Of course its bogus, its just one more level in the bureocracy set in place to stop people from getting refunds. They also said that they buy the laptops from their (Tiawanese?) manufacturer with Windows already installed and they have no mechanism for getting a laptop without a windows license.
You could take them to the small claims tribunal and probably win, but unless a HUGE number of people did that, I doubt IBM would respond in any way - I would not be the least surprised if someone (probably the original manufacturer) had an agreement with microsoft that they must supply windows with every laptop they produce.
When I called IBM to get a refund for the un-used Windows XP on my Thinkpad, they told me that it referred to the product as a whole - ie you could return the laptop for a full refund, but you can't get a refund on just the OS.
Surely the US adopted the English system, rather than vice-versa? At least, I can't see any reason why England would change their system to one that is incompatible with continental Europe.
Excluding Saturn's giant moon Titan, which was already known to have an atmosphere, it's the first discovery of an atmosphere on one of the more than 30 moons that orbit the ringed planet.
So, you really mean that it is the second moon of Saturn found to contain an atmosphere? Why not say just that?
Sony asked the court to interpret parts of the Copyright Act outlawing the devices that circumvent copy protection mechanisms to include mod chips that Mr Stevens was selling.
However, Justice Ronald Sackville ruled in favour of Mr Stevens after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission intervened in the case.
The competition watchdog argued that Sony was using the copy control mechanism to erect artificial trade barriers between Australian consumers and overseas games and DVD markets.
And the new 'free trade' agreement overrides Australia's Consumer Commission to make these devices illegal.
Read the comment again: the AC is saying that gcc will compile programs faster if it is itself built with gcc 4.0. That is a completely correct statement.
Of course, gcc 4.0 should produce identical code no matter what compiler was used to bootstrap it, but I don't think that is what the comment was about.
Well, it was the same with Boba Fett. It is a sign of a film's greatness that even the bit parts become legendary. The only problem is, Ep I and II don't live up to it.
Yeah its interesting. Is good acting going to be the weak link in future home-grown productions?
It is the exact opposite of what CGI was originally promised - which was to make actors 'obsolete'. Of course, I don't know how many people believed that (probably the same number of people that believed computerization would solve all employment problems), but its still an interesting point.
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Hmm. Although on some hardware Gentoo might be difficult to install, setting CFLAGS to tune to your machine architecture is extremely simple!
I don't think that is true. There are videos of the event that I have seen (admittedly, quite a few years ago). While there was a Mirage in the air which the Soviets were not informed about, it was not the direct cause of the crash, at least.
Explicit 64-bit types (prior to C90 and stdint.h) are not standard and not portable.
What the hell is a knee-biter?
If Microsoft are going to do that, then they only have themselves to blame for porting problems!
But I would expect that having sizeof(void*) != sizeof(long) would cause even more problems. But it is years since I did any Windows programming.
Wasn't that due to the gcc/egcs split?
That is like saying "How can a country that declared itself bioweapons-free have a Department of Biology???"
I never heard 'linux' pronounced like that either. I thought it was "LIN-X", not "LY-NUKS" ?
Also, tidal forces could cause it to rotate, also affecting its orbit as orbital angular momentum is transferred into rotational angular momentum (or vice versa).
It doesn't seem like a particularly 'infamous' problem if simply specifying a modeline fixes it...
Wouldn't you be going so fast once you hit the atmosphere that you would burn up? In the absence of air resistance, all objects accelerate at the same rate independent of mass.
You could take them to the small claims tribunal and probably win, but unless a HUGE number of people did that, I doubt IBM would respond in any way - I would not be the least surprised if someone (probably the original manufacturer) had an agreement with microsoft that they must supply windows with every laptop they produce.
Stinks.
Ok, strange way of wording it though.
Surely the US adopted the English system, rather than vice-versa? At least, I can't see any reason why England would change their system to one that is incompatible with continental Europe.
I would hardly say the GP is wrong.
So, you really mean that it is the second moon of Saturn found to contain an atmosphere? Why not say just that?
However, Justice Ronald Sackville ruled in favour of Mr Stevens after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission intervened in the case.
The competition watchdog argued that Sony was using the copy control mechanism to erect artificial trade barriers between Australian consumers and overseas games and DVD markets.
And the new 'free trade' agreement overrides Australia's Consumer Commission to make these devices illegal.
This isn't funny at all, its completely true.
Mark Hamil: Shouldn't my hair be, like, all messed up after being in that trash compactor?
Harrison Ford: I don't think it's that kind of movie, kid.
Of course, gcc 4.0 should produce identical code no matter what compiler was used to bootstrap it, but I don't think that is what the comment was about.
LOL - one of the funniest subthreads on /. ever ;)
Well, it was the same with Boba Fett. It is a sign of a film's greatness that even the bit parts become legendary. The only problem is, Ep I and II don't live up to it.
It is the exact opposite of what CGI was originally promised - which was to make actors 'obsolete'. Of course, I don't know how many people believed that (probably the same number of people that believed computerization would solve all employment problems), but its still an interesting point.