Motorola isn't a Google child company. Motorola Mobility is a company which Google has agreed to purchase from Motorola, but the purchase has not yet been completed.
Google's not buying it from Motorola. Motorola spun off Motorola Mobility in January 2011. At the same time, the parent company changed its name to “Motorola Solutions”, so there is no longer any company just called “Motorola”.
The Amiga really was the successor to the Atari 2600 and the Atari 8-bit computers. The graphics hardware of all of them were designed by Jay Miner. Both the Amiga and the Atari computers were able to change the display mode from one scan line to another, and the graphics hardware used display lists to do this without involving the CPU.
What really killed C++ for me was when a student created a situation like this:
std::string somefunction(){}
The fact that such a thing can compile is a glaring error. A function that declares a return type should have a return statement in it, and that should be beyond question. In C, failing to actually return will cause you to have corrupt data; in C++, it can cause a crash, when a temporary object that was never created is destroyed (and happens to have a virtual destructor, which is common).
Corrupt data can just as easily crash a C program. Suppose the function should allocate and return a nul-terminated string, but it falls off the end:
My theory is that the search feature relies on street addresses. The Lincoln Memorial doesn't have one, but the FDR Memorial does. The US Capitol doesn't have a street address either. If you search for it, the first hit is the nearby visitor's center. The second hit is on the building itself, but the title is in Chinese for some reason.
Autoduel had a casino where you could gamble away your money (or cheat for a fortune).
When I played Autoduel, I computed the odds for the poker game, and I found that the game is in your favor, if you use some basic strategy.
So if you have patience, you can make money there.
The 2GHz black model cost $200 than the 2GHz white one. Besides the case, the only difference is that the hard drive is larger. But you can order the white one with the larger hard drive for an extra $45. So simply getting the black case costs an extra $145.
VirtualPC will probably become obsolete since under OS X/Intel it will just be a crappy additional (and somewhat unrequired) layer.
Virtual PC will still be useful on Intel Macs. In the future, you'll be able to boot Windows on an Intel Mac, but virtualization software lets you use your Mac and Windows applications at the same time. Remember that Microsoft sells Virtual PC for Windows for just this purpose, to run Linux, DOS or another version of Windows.
I don't even like rebooting my PowerBook into OS 9 just to play X-Wing. (It doesn't work in Classic. It looks like they are writing directly into video memory, which Classic can't emulate.) But WINE on the Mac might turn out to be better than Virtual PC.
I'd love to see a C64 laptop! Now that would be a ultimate geek's toy! I love the C64, I still load up and play "Miner 2049'er" or "Maniac Mansion" from time to time.
That should be easier, since you can now buy a "direct to TV" Commodore 64 clone. It's built inside a joystick, runs on batteries, and it includes 30 games on a ROM. They put places on the circuit board where you can wire up a keyboard and peripherals like a disk drive. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/26/161522 4&from=rss.
The chip doesn't protect against duplication. But it does stop you from modifying any of the information (name, picture, etc.), because it has a digital signature. So if someone wanted a fake passport, the best he'd be able to do is collect the data from a large number of passports, and pick one with a face that closely resembles his own. One problem with the original electronic proposal is that someone could hide a chip reader where many international travelers would pass, like a store or restaurant in an airport.
The newly proposed RF shielding and printed password make it very hard to read a passport when it is not opened.
If this works, then the only way to copy the passport data would be to infiltrate a customs and immigration station, or some other office that can ask for passports (like maybe a hotel front desk).
If there is sooo much more to learn for that engineering degree, then either it should be spread out over 5 years, or the liberal arts curriculum should be compressed into 3.
At the University of Florida, my old school, an engineering degree does take 5 years (nominally), while most bachelor's degrees take 4.
This makes even less sense when you try to find the target audience. If the person reading the article already knows who Bjarne is (by which I mean every single C++ programmer), then I could see them omitting the entire "creator of C++" description because, well, they already know... but then why have a description at all?
This essay was originally published in the C/C++ Users Journal, so most readers will know that he created C++. Also, some of those who know him might not know what he is doing now.
Have you even read Apple's "universal_binary.pdf" document? It is clear that the Intel architecture is a technical compromise at best: It is difficult to locate a paragraph in that document that extolls the virtues of the Intel way. To the contrary, we read about the vulnerability of the Intel ABI:
"Thus, programming errors, or other operations that access past the end of a local variable array or otherwise incorrectly manipulate values on the stack may be more likely to crash applications on x86 systems than on PowerPC. ",
and simple math things:
"An integer divide-by-zero is fatal on an x86 system, and continues on a PowerPC system, where it returns zero."
"Dammit! My buggy program ran just fine on PowerPC, but it crashes on Intel."
APIs are half-published. Example code is poorly written. And Apple prevents google from indexing their developer site so finding the little information that *is* published is a pain in the ass.
Your comment about Google searches is not true, though maybe it was true at one time. I just tried searching for some functions like NewHandle and Get1Resource, and the top result for each is documentation on developer.apple.com.
A coworker of mine noticed that I drive a blue Pontiac Grand Am. He said that it reminded him of one of the cars in GTA. "I was about to press Triangle and take it from you," he joked.
I stand corrected. Amazing how common misspellings eventually become part of the vernacular... and sad.
But cipher comes from the French cifre (which originally comes from the Arabic sifr).
So it seems that it was spelled with an I first,
though I haven't found a reference that says that explicitly.
I'd heard that Freespace 2 had fallen into a legal hole that meant that nobody owned it, and so was legal to download. It seems unlikely to me, but does anyone know anything about it?
No, it's still under copyright, but the developers
have released the source for non-commercial use.
See http://www.liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=8.
The artwork for the game is not free, so you'll still
have to buy the game, or just play the demo.
Actually, the Star Wars sets are pretty good about using reusable pieces. This TIE Bomber is 229 pieces, and the only custom pieces are the cockpit windows, the bomb, and the pilot. A very nice set.
The cockpit shape in used in six other ways in Star Wars models, with different colors and painted patterns. See
http://www.peeron.com/inv/catpic/30366px2.
The bomb and its launcher are used in many other sets too.
Sure you can accept the consequences of not showing you passport to a cusoms officer on privacy grounds. It would probably result in an even greater invasion of privacy when they do (amongst other things) a cavity search.
More likely, the custom official will just refuse you entry to his country.
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Motorola isn't a Google child company. Motorola Mobility is a company which Google has agreed to purchase from Motorola, but the purchase has not yet been completed.
Google's not buying it from Motorola. Motorola spun off Motorola Mobility in January 2011. At the same time, the parent company changed its name to “Motorola Solutions”, so there is no longer any company just called “Motorola”.
The Amiga really was the successor to the Atari 2600 and the Atari 8-bit computers. The graphics hardware of all of them were designed by Jay Miner. Both the Amiga and the Atari computers were able to change the display mode from one scan line to another, and the graphics hardware used display lists to do this without involving the CPU.
Did Firefly or Battlestar Galactica ever win an Emmy? Nope.
Battlestar Galactica (reimagined) won twice for special visual effects, once for sound editing, and one for a "Razor" featurette.
Every year, Pixar hosts a benefit for San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum. There are screenings, Q&A sessions, and exhibits of pre-production artwork. The last one was November 6th, so it will be almost another year before the next one. http://cartoonart.org/2010/10/seventh-annual-cartoon-art-museum-benefit-at-pixar-animation-studios/
What really killed C++ for me was when a student created a situation like this:
The fact that such a thing can compile is a glaring error. A function that declares a return type should have a return statement in it, and that should be beyond question. In C, failing to actually return will cause you to have corrupt data; in C++, it can cause a crash, when a temporary object that was never created is destroyed (and happens to have a virtual destructor, which is common).
Corrupt data can just as easily crash a C program. Suppose the function should allocate and return a nul-terminated string, but it falls off the end:
You laugh, but I have never observed a self-serve gas station in New Jersey....
That's right. Self-serve is illegal in New Jersey, and also Oregon.
My theory is that the search feature relies on street addresses. The Lincoln Memorial doesn't have one, but the FDR Memorial does. The US Capitol doesn't have a street address either. If you search for it, the first hit is the nearby visitor's center. The second hit is on the building itself, but the title is in Chinese for some reason.
4 kB carts weren't bank-switched. You only needed bank switching to go beyond 4 kB .
When I played Autoduel, I computed the odds for the poker game, and I found that the game is in your favor, if you use some basic strategy. So if you have patience, you can make money there.
It's well past the year 2000. Where are the death races? I was promised death races!
The 2GHz black model cost $200 than the 2GHz white one. Besides the case, the only difference is that the hard drive is larger. But you can order the white one with the larger hard drive for an extra $45. So simply getting the black case costs an extra $145.
Virtual PC will still be useful on Intel Macs. In the future, you'll be able to boot Windows on an Intel Mac, but virtualization software lets you use your Mac and Windows applications at the same time. Remember that Microsoft sells Virtual PC for Windows for just this purpose, to run Linux, DOS or another version of Windows.
I don't even like rebooting my PowerBook into OS 9 just to play X-Wing. (It doesn't work in Classic. It looks like they are writing directly into video memory, which Classic can't emulate.) But WINE on the Mac might turn out to be better than Virtual PC.
That should be easier, since you can now buy a "direct to TV" Commodore 64 clone. It's built inside a joystick, runs on batteries, and it includes 30 games on a ROM. They put places on the circuit board where you can wire up a keyboard and peripherals like a disk drive. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/26/161522 4&from=rss.
The chip doesn't protect against duplication. But it does stop you from modifying any of the information (name, picture, etc.), because it has a digital signature. So if someone wanted a fake passport, the best he'd be able to do is collect the data from a large number of passports, and pick one with a face that closely resembles his own. One problem with the original electronic proposal is that someone could hide a chip reader where many international travelers would pass, like a store or restaurant in an airport. The newly proposed RF shielding and printed password make it very hard to read a passport when it is not opened. If this works, then the only way to copy the passport data would be to infiltrate a customs and immigration station, or some other office that can ask for passports (like maybe a hotel front desk).
At the University of Florida, my old school, an engineering degree does take 5 years (nominally), while most bachelor's degrees take 4.
This essay was originally published in the C/C++ Users Journal, so most readers will know that he created C++. Also, some of those who know him might not know what he is doing now.
"Dammit! My buggy program ran just fine on PowerPC, but it crashes on Intel."
Your comment about Google searches is not true, though maybe it was true at one time. I just tried searching for some functions like NewHandle and Get1Resource, and the top result for each is documentation on developer.apple.com.
A coworker of mine noticed that I drive a blue Pontiac Grand Am. He said that it reminded him of one of the cars in GTA. "I was about to press Triangle and take it from you," he joked.
But cipher comes from the French cifre (which originally comes from the Arabic sifr). So it seems that it was spelled with an I first, though I haven't found a reference that says that explicitly.
No, it's still under copyright, but the developers have released the source for non-commercial use. See http://www.liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=8. The artwork for the game is not free, so you'll still have to buy the game, or just play the demo.
The cockpit shape in used in six other ways in Star Wars models, with different colors and painted patterns. See http://www.peeron.com/inv/catpic/30366px2. The bomb and its launcher are used in many other sets too.
You can even render the Mandelbrot set on a video card. There's an example of this in the OpenGL Shading Language manual (the orange book).
http://opengl.org/documentation/books.html#oglsl
He could also look for a copy of the Mac version of MOO 2.
More likely, the custom official will just refuse you entry to his country.