All car owners should be required (at their expense) to purchase a special ENCRYPTED AUTOMOBILE ID TRANSPONDER...
Are you sure you won't mind when somebody hacks their transponder to transmit your code? Or just breaks your car window and steals your unit outright? Or when the transponder is used to monitor all of your activities?
The "long long" hack in C99 is just plain stupid. How is C/C++ going to be patched *cough hacked cough* to support 128-bit integers? "long long long"?
I make a proposal a while back to add the keyword "extra", and define long and short as 32 bits and 16 bits, respectively.
64 bit data would be "extra long", 128 bit
data would be "extra extra long", etc.
This would add a true integral (not char) 8 bit
type, the "extra short". Bool could go away, since it's redundant with "extra extra extra extra short".
This is discussed in chapter 2 of book 2 (the second half of "The Fellowship of the Ring").
From the purely military point of view, the combined forces may have equalled those of Sauron, but were not overwhelming enough to overcome the formidable defensive structure of Mordor.
Elrond sums up the desperation of their plight: "The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because the must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
There is also the question of destiny. Again, quoting Elrond: "If I understand aright all that I have heard, I think that this task is asppointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will. This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the great. Who of all the Wise could have forseen it? Or, if they are wise, why should they expect to know it, until the hour has struck?"
HTH, Mark.
PS, my favorite quotation in the chapter, from Frodo: "I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way."
Great comments on the browser part, can somebody "in the know" comment on the mail component? Specifically, can it handle more than one POP account? Can it import mail from other mail programs? What is the mail file format?
I can use up an aweful lot of bandwidth downloading Linux/*BSD isos to burn
But not compared to listening to music. It's easy to listen to 5-6 albums in an evening. Even the most enthusiastic software downloader can't keep up with that, right?
"Who should be held accontable, the person who posts his homework to the net, or the people who answer it for him?"
Studs Terkel, call your office...
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There are lots of people much worse off than your average overworked web page designer. People who work the same number of hours, but for a pittance compared to what a typical tech worker makes, and often in conditions that threaten their life or health.
Frankly, it is embarrasing to read such drivel, although I guess it does beat watching professional athletes complain about their low pay and bad working conditions.
To all slashdot reviewers: Please make a note in the introduction if a review contains a spoiler. Or take a note from traditional journalism nd make a distinction between a "review" (answers the question "will this movie/book interest you?") and a "critique" ("here's what I thought of that piece of work, which I assume you are familiar with.").
Any word on porting visibroker/c++ ? This would be the next to last step in fully replicating my company's standard solaris environment!
So far, they seem much more interested in convincing us to (a) switch to NT and use their builder products for visibroker devlopment or (b) switch all development to java and use their builder products for development.:-/
Microsoft already has invested quite a lot in Chinese versions of their software. Actually, the Chinese versions of Windows and Office are quite well done -- much better than Chinese Solaris, for example. Their new office is really nice, too.
PS, to anyone attending O'Reilly's Open Source: come here my talk on Tcl (and other free software) in China.
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Are you sure you won't mind when somebody hacks their transponder to transmit your code? Or just breaks your car window and steals your unit outright? Or when the transponder is used to monitor all of your activities?
I make a proposal a while back to add the keyword "extra", and define long and short as 32 bits and 16 bits, respectively.
64 bit data would be "extra long", 128 bit data would be "extra extra long", etc.
This would add a true integral (not char) 8 bit type, the "extra short". Bool could go away, since it's redundant with "extra extra extra extra short".
Otherwise, who knows what you're leaving your customers--and yourself-- open to?
I went there when they were interviewed on
cnn.com, but my browser crashed.
Then I tried using lynx, and got the message
"You can't view this page because you don't
have java enabled.
After reading some of the comments here I'm
dying of curiosity about how bad their pages
actually were!
This is discussed in chapter 2 of book 2 (the second half of "The Fellowship of the Ring").
From the purely military point of view, the combined forces may have equalled those of Sauron, but were not overwhelming enough to overcome the formidable defensive structure of Mordor.
Elrond sums up the desperation of their plight: "The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because the must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
There is also the question of destiny. Again, quoting Elrond: "If I understand aright all that I have heard, I think that this task is asppointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will. This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the great. Who of all the Wise could have forseen it? Or, if they are wise, why should they expect to know it, until the hour has struck?"
HTH, Mark.
PS, my favorite quotation in the chapter, from Frodo: "I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way."
tia!
But not compared to listening to music. It's easy to listen to 5-6 albums in an evening. Even the most enthusiastic software downloader can't keep up with that, right?
Actually, they're willing to throw other people's mone at it... It's being funded by a government grant, right?
"Who should be held accontable, the person who posts his homework to the net, or the people who answer it for him?"
There are lots of people much worse off than your
average overworked web page designer. People who
work the same number of hours, but for a pittance compared to what a typical tech worker makes, and
often in conditions that threaten their life
or health.
Frankly, it is embarrasing to read such drivel,
although I guess it does beat watching
professional athletes complain about their
low pay and bad working conditions.
To all slashdot reviewers: Please make a
note in the introduction if a review contains
a spoiler. Or take a note from traditional
journalism nd make a distinction between a
"review" (answers the question "will this
movie/book interest you?") and a "critique"
("here's what I thought of that piece of work,
which I assume you are familiar with.").
Slashdot readers will thank you!
...mere words...
"mere" words? Words are the most powerful means of intellectual communication we have.
Cheers,
Mark "I only read slashdot for the articles" Harrison.
Any word on porting visibroker/c++ ? This would be the next to last step in fully replicating my company's standard solaris environment!
:-/
So far, they seem much more interested in convincing us to (a) switch to NT and use their builder products for visibroker devlopment or (b) switch all development to java and use their builder products for development.
Microsoft already has invested quite a lot in Chinese versions of their software. Actually, the Chinese versions of Windows and Office are quite well done -- much better than Chinese Solaris,
for example. Their new office is really nice, too.
PS, to anyone attending O'Reilly's Open Source: come here my talk on Tcl (and other free software) in China.