Microsoft deserves it's reputation if it fires people just for speaking out. This man did not deserve to be fired just for saying what everyone knows: that Microsoft is monopolistic.
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Microsoft didn't fire him, but they may have been involved.
And his paper didn't say that Microsoft is monopolistic, it said that lack of diversity is a bad thing, be it all MS or all Linux or whatever.
From it's manual: "The -w causes all whitespace in the file (including blank lines) to be ignored for comparison purposes (line numbers in the output report will nevertheless be correct). This is recommended for comparing C code; among other things it means the comparison won't be fooled by differences in indent style."
The point of the research was to measure the degradation of CD-Rs. Your CDs still work because of error correction, it doesn't mean they haven't suffered any damage over time.
A man is walking a distance of 100 miles at 5 mph. We take a snapshot a 1 second, then at 1.1 seconds, then 1.11 seconds, etc... Does the man reach his goal: yes. But do we ever get a snapshot of him reaching his goal: no. Does that imply he never gets there: NO IT DOES NOT.
Just because you read each page of a book slower than you read the page before, such that you practically never reach the last page doesn't mean the last page doesn't exist, nor does it imply a paradox.
..."the Achilles and the tortoise paradox, submitted to Philosophy of Science, helped explain the work. A tortoise challenges Achilles, the swift Greek warrior, to a race, gets a 10m head start, and says Achilles can never pass him. When Achilles has run 10m, the tortoise has moved a further metre. When Achilles has covered that metre, the tortoise has moved 10cm...and so on. It is impossible for Achilles to pass him. The paradox is that in reality, Achilles would easily do so."
The first snapshot was when Achilles was at 10m, then after another meter (at 11m), etc... If you keep taking increasingly smaller and smaller step, your never going to reach the point in time the Achilles actually crosses the tortoise! DUH!
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Microsoft deserves it's reputation if it fires people just for speaking out. This man did not deserve to be fired just for saying what everyone knows: that Microsoft is monopolistic.
RTFA
Microsoft didn't fire him, but they may have been involved.
And his paper didn't say that Microsoft is monopolistic, it said that lack of diversity is a bad thing, be it all MS or all Linux or whatever.
You're right. Duh's much better.
...the redundant rating is for.
From it's manual:
"The -w causes all whitespace in the file (including blank lines) to be ignored for comparison purposes (line numbers in the output report will nevertheless be correct). This is recommended for comparing C code; among other things it means the comparison won't be fooled by differences in indent style."
Because lossy compression would be useless. When decompressed the source code wouldn't work anymore.
Source code isn't loss-tolerant (or whatever)
This was Athlon64 vs Pentium4... A Pentium 4 doesn't emulate 32 bit mode either.
The point of the research was to measure the degradation of CD-Rs. Your CDs still work because of error correction, it doesn't mean they haven't suffered any damage over time.
According to Merriam-Webster: having human form or characteristics
It has nothing to do with it's beharior or abilities. A mannequin could be called humanoid.
I thought Yen were worth less than dollars, not more. Maybe it's supposed to be the other way around - 400 billion Yen = 50 billion US Dollars
Maybe that's code that isn't essential to their case - just some code they think they can afford to let the Linux community remove.
A man is walking a distance of 100 miles at 5 mph. We take a snapshot a 1 second, then at 1.1 seconds, then 1.11 seconds, etc... Does the man reach his goal: yes. But do we ever get a snapshot of him reaching his goal: no. Does that imply he never gets there: NO IT DOES NOT.
Just because you read each page of a book slower than you read the page before, such that you practically never reach the last page doesn't mean the last page doesn't exist, nor does it imply a paradox.
..."the Achilles and the tortoise paradox, submitted to Philosophy of Science, helped explain the work. A tortoise challenges Achilles, the swift Greek warrior, to a race, gets a 10m head start, and says Achilles can never pass him. When Achilles has run 10m, the tortoise has moved a further metre. When Achilles has covered that metre, the tortoise has moved 10cm...and so on. It is impossible for Achilles to pass him. The paradox is that in reality, Achilles would easily do so." The first snapshot was when Achilles was at 10m, then after another meter (at 11m), etc... If you keep taking increasingly smaller and smaller step, your never going to reach the point in time the Achilles actually crosses the tortoise! DUH!