A lot will depend on the compiler. For instance, when SGI went from 32 to 64 bits, the cc compiler had an option flag to maintain 32 bit integrity. The include files were also changed to support both 32 and 64 bit compiling.
If one wrote "clean" source code then the transition is easier. For example, does the code use size_t instead of int (good)? Actually this applies for a lot of the _t POSIX defs. Does the code use int and long interchangebly (bad)? And as you pointed out, are assumptions made about a pointer being 32 bits?
Another problem is changes in the byte alignment in data structures if one used such things as size_t. Furthermore, any binary data that you have will not automatically change to reflect a change to 64 bits. Hence, something like fread(&mysize,sizeof(size_t),1,fd) takes on new meaning when reading binary data that was written out using fwrite(&mysize,sizeof(size_t),1,fd) on a 32 bit system.
But time_t does become 64 bits and you know what this means.
I wonder what Jim Garvin is doing on this panel. His main work is with MOLA (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter); this instrument is making nice topo maps of Mars. Perhaps his laser zapped and killed a Martian. Yup, that would be news worthy.
Factoids: Jim has a ScB from Brown and a MS from Stanford, both degrees in computer science! He then moved on to work in Planetary Sciences where he earned his PhD at Brown. Jim is an ex(?) hockey goalie and has the mentality of one. Jim claims to have crashed an IBM mainframe computer by putzing with variables in an APL program.
Let us analyze this one. Yahoo (Reuters) posts the initial story at 1:30 pm EST. Transmeta stock price does a nose dive starting at 2:00 pm. Now that is a difference of 30 critical minutes! 30 minutes!
Compare that to the lightning quick reflexes of ppl that get First Posts here at/. You snooze, you lose. So cheer up all you FP'ers out there. There is a future for you in the Stock Market.:)
In case you younger ppl are wondering what a Wheel-O (Whee-Lo) is, then look for it here. The Tickle Bee is here. Lots of great old toys can be found at this site.
As for Dave Barry, I really liked his annual summary of the events of the past year. I also liked his book about Guys where he explains the ritual of selecting a urinal.:)
Perhaps, but Kasparov has some pretty good competition for that title: Morphy, Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine. For his time, Paul Morphy was great and he had a very major impact on chess. Jose Capablanca was noted for his brilliant attacks. Alexander Alkehine was a long time champ noted for his defense and tactics, who surplanted Capablanca as world champion. And finally, Emanuel Lasker was a long time champ (and also a mathematican).
The title of greatest does not always go to the latest great player. IMHO, one must also keep in mind the historical perspective. I view greatest as someone that had a major impact on his/her field, and one that set a relative standard that must be met.
A scene from an old "Get Smart" episode where Maxwell Smart faces the evil Dr. Claw. In response to Agent 86's constant misprounciation of his name, sayeth Dr. Claw (who is of Asian ancestry):
No! Not Craw! Craw!
A scene from when I was in grad school living in a house with 5 fellow students. After seeing this episode they turn and say to me:
Only a putz would think that English is not the defacto language of the internet. Now I know that some of you European prima donnas might think that English looks rather passe when compared vis-a-vis to your rather bizarre languages. You do not have carte blanche to say this.
English is the grande dame of the internet, not some language du jour. English is not a kludge consisting of some funky words that we so irregardlessly made up. English is the Big Kahuna!
One thing to note is that Commerce Secretary Norm Mineta spent part of his childhood in the Heart Mountain Internment Camp (Wyoming) during WWII (see previous post by Bruce). Mineta is extremely aware and sensitive about potential abuse of privacy. However, how long Mineta stays in his current position is obviously uncertain at this time.
As a side note, Mineta was intentionly dressed up in his Cub Scout uniform when he entered Heart Mountain. Another interesting story is that he became friends with a Wyoming Boy Scout that he met while on a camp-out; this was former Senator Alan Simpson.
Gotta to agree. I have a PowerBook. It is extremely functional and IMHO, very stylish in a professional sort-of-way. I like the bronze keyboard, the rounded edges and the glowing apple. Geez, I hope the Vaio letters don't light up like the glowing backlit apple.
Speaking of Casio, did you see the little item on the bottom of the 1st link? A combination Casio mouse and label printer? I'm speechless.
Actually, when the Malin paper was published, there were some scientists that immediately speculated that the channels were caused by CO2. Note that the standard protocol within the planetary sciences is to have those scientists that are part of the mission team have first dibs on the data (e.g., photographs). After the mission team published there conclusions, other scientists are then free to publish their own findings.
So when the Malin paper was published, some scientists speculated (for instance, in interviews published in the AAAS Science magazine) that CO2 may be the culprit. I know that the wired article mentions liquid CO2. However, the initial thought was that gaseous CO2 venting could create gas suspended particle/debris flows. This could produce the erosion patterns that were observed.
Furthermore, it is suspected that CO2 plays a significant role in shaping features seen near the poles. Additionally, CO2 mixed with water can produce subsurface clathrates (solids). There was one speculation that the ill-fated mars lander may have "melted" subsurface clathrates when it touched down. This would then result in a fairly violent release of gas that could have destroy the lander.
Nobel prizes for "practical" applications is highly subjective. When does a Nobel worthy award become recognized as being significant by ppl such as those that submit such a story?
Nobel prizes for physics have been given for: wireless telegraph, automatic lighthouses, transitors, maser (precurser to lasers), transistor, high-temp superconductors, wireless wireless telegraphs, bubble chambers, cyclotrons, discovery of argon, x-rays, microscopy (tunneling and optical), color photography, etc...
What do you think? The Nobel Prize for physics is only given for those that come up with a new version of F=ma?
Extra point question: Einstein recieve his Nobel prize for something related to Planck's constant. Question: How does one measure Planck's contant? Physics majors should not respond. This question is for CS majors.
An important thing to remember is that the use of stock options is a way a company can compensate (pay) their employees without it affecting its reported net earnings. IOW, stock option payouts are not listed as part of a companies operating expenses. OTOH, if a company were to increase the base salaries of their employees (no options), then this would show up on their operating expenses.
Just a thought. Many IT companies' stock values have plummented thereby making many (but not all) stock options worthless. They might then have to raise the base salaries to keep their valued employees. This will then lower their reported profit margin, which will likely lower the company's stock value. Additionally, they also lose the benefits of this tax break.
BTW, I said not all stock option will be worthless for a specific reason. Take a company like Microsoft. Many of their executives are exercising options at a purchase price below $10 a share.
A lot of ppl seem to think the MS wants to draw out the appeal process so that the final arbitration can be performed by a Supreme Court that may have some Bush appointees. Remember, the eventual Court of Appeals ruling will probably be appealed to the SC. However, it is not a given that Bush will win.
This may part of MS's strategy, but the main reason to lengthen the process is to make Jackson's remedial solution no longer pertinent in the fast changing computer industry. That's it. This is not a criminal case where one is simply punished for performing a crime. This is anti-trust. The final solution is one that restores competition in a framework of the consumers that were harmed by the illegal actions of the monopolist.
As long as this case is being decided, MS stock value will remain relative low. Furthermore, MS can't be the predatory shark that they usually are. They have to be a little bit more subtle.
Remember why MS "integrated" the browser into the Windows98. It was to make the previous Jackson ruling non-pertinent.
Did a lengthy anti-trust case help or hurt IBM? I think that it hurt them. While IBM never fully appreciated the PC market back then, the anti-trust case is believed to have hindered IBM's ability to enter new markets using their dominant computer position.
Has the anti-trust case against Microsoft slowed down this company? Perhaps yes. But I think that MS also knows that they can't behave in the same fashion as IBM. After all, MS knows that they are where they are today because IBM didn't move fast enough.
Moderation will always be inherently flawed when moderators achieve moderator powers for arbitrary reasons. I could put a stream of funny posts that get moderated up. Why should I then get the chance to moderate something as +1 insightful. Interesting post seem to mean, sounds good because I don't really understand the post. Interesting should mean something that a knowleable person has not previously realized. Now interesting means is that a newbie just learned something.
That said, the kuri5hin recommendations is better than the moderation here.
Question: Why doesn't/. return to the days of the ultimate moderators? What was/were the factors that eliminate this? IIRC, it was because this power was being abused.
This is just too weird. I was going to make a comment about the vast number of patents that exists for paperclips. Paperclips are also historically interesting from a patent perspective since the basic design was 1st developed in Norway. However, Norway did not have patents back then.
So I went to google to find an appropriate link to this story. Tried a search for "paperclip patent." I hit "I'm Feeling Lucky."
Did you see the little item at the end of the article.
And a "digital scent" technology that could enable consumers to send scented e-mails and smell fragrances as they shop online.
I don't think that this is a good idea. Properly scented spam? You can use your own vivid imagination to figure out other abuses of this technology. Of course, scented/. posts would be acceptable.;)
And the golf club is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Stepping into the main lobby of the NASM is simply awesome as they have the Voyager (1st around the world, non-stop, no refueling), X-1 (Yeager's plane), Wright 1903 Flyer, the X-15, and the Spirit of St Louis hanging from the ceiling.
Big versus little endian. If you are migrating from a Sun, HP, or SGI to Linux, and if you have lots of binary data, then the PPC offers a nice platform for the initial migration. Or you can be like me and convert all your fread/fwrite statements to xdr input functions.
I have a dual-boot Powerbook. Having the MacOS and LinuxPPC gives me a lot of options all on one mobile computer.
Wow, I used Interleaf a long, long time ago. It was a real nice package; pricey but nice. I still know some scientists that still use TeX to write their papers because know and like TeX's ability to format equations. Numerical Recipes (a scientific best seller on numerical methods) was typeset using TeX.
The best example I have ever seen of the "power" of UNIX based typesetting/formatting was books by Richard Stevens. Take a look at the intro section of his last two books/volumes on Networking. Troff and other UNIX based tools were used. Simply freaking amazing.
On a similiar note, I would just like to say that I really wanted to watch the US basketball play Italy on TV. The announcers would have had fun with Italy's Gregor Fucka . It also would have been nice to have them point out Fucka's mom if she was in attendance. And yes, I could make the obvious joke about head nuns with this name, but of course I won't.
If you like this sort of thing then go to google and do a search on Dikshit. That is of course, if you don't have filtering software.
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Bruntons are geological/transit compasses that are great but very pricey. They are similar to some of the better Suunto's (compass, lid with a mirror, sighting capabilities). Now that I think about it, the Bruntons are probably overkill; the Suunto's will do just fine. But the Bruntons have been around for a long, long time. In fact the term Brunton is sort of generic like the term Kleenix (to me at least).
If you are using a topo map, then you would need the Silvas or Suuntos with a clear delineated base.
The group that is going to do the review is located in Lanham, MD right down the road from, gasp, NSA. That's a cheap shot as I could have also said that they are right down the road from NASA.
The pertinent web page is probably this one. I looked at their list of customers, and oh my gawd, they do work for the Los Angeles County Metro Authority! They also do work for the DISA, DTIC, DARPA, NIH, and, oh no, the IRS.
These guys look like some of the other not for profit groups out there.
Nice concept that looks like fun. However, why GPS? Wouldn't it be more of a challenge to give map/terrain descriptions. This is how these types of "Easter Egg" hunts used to be conducted in the past. I participated in one of these hunts many, many years ago. Go to the tree that looks like Bugs Bunny, go NNE 85 ft, go ESE 227 ft, etc...
This used to be called orienteering. Give a person a map and compass, and let them loose. Ever hear of a Brunton compass?
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If one wrote "clean" source code then the transition is easier. For example, does the code use size_t instead of int (good)? Actually this applies for a lot of the _t POSIX defs. Does the code use int and long interchangebly (bad)? And as you pointed out, are assumptions made about a pointer being 32 bits?
Another problem is changes in the byte alignment in data structures if one used such things as size_t. Furthermore, any binary data that you have will not automatically change to reflect a change to 64 bits. Hence, something like fread(&mysize,sizeof(size_t),1,fd) takes on new meaning when reading binary data that was written out using fwrite(&mysize,sizeof(size_t),1,fd) on a 32 bit system.
But time_t does become 64 bits and you know what this means.
I wonder what Jim Garvin is doing on this panel. His main work is with MOLA (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter); this instrument is making nice topo maps of Mars. Perhaps his laser zapped and killed a Martian. Yup, that would be news worthy.
Factoids: Jim has a ScB from Brown and a MS from Stanford, both degrees in computer science! He then moved on to work in Planetary Sciences where he earned his PhD at Brown. Jim is an ex(?) hockey goalie and has the mentality of one. Jim claims to have crashed an IBM mainframe computer by putzing with variables in an APL program.
Compare that to the lightning quick reflexes of ppl that get First Posts here at /. You snooze, you lose. So cheer up all you FP'ers out there. There is a future for you in the Stock Market.:)
As for Dave Barry, I really liked his annual summary of the events of the past year. I also liked his book about Guys where he explains the ritual of selecting a urinal.:)
The title of greatest does not always go to the latest great player. IMHO, one must also keep in mind the historical perspective. I view greatest as someone that had a major impact on his/her field, and one that set a relative standard that must be met.
No! Not Craw! Craw!
A scene from when I was in grad school living in a house with 5 fellow students. After seeing this episode they turn and say to me:
Craw!
See nick.
English is the grande dame of the internet, not some language du jour. English is not a kludge consisting of some funky words that we so irregardlessly made up. English is the Big Kahuna!
As a side note, Mineta was intentionly dressed up in his Cub Scout uniform when he entered Heart Mountain. Another interesting story is that he became friends with a Wyoming Boy Scout that he met while on a camp-out; this was former Senator Alan Simpson.
Speaking of Casio, did you see the little item on the bottom of the 1st link? A combination Casio mouse and label printer? I'm speechless.
So when the Malin paper was published, some scientists speculated (for instance, in interviews published in the AAAS Science magazine) that CO2 may be the culprit. I know that the wired article mentions liquid CO2. However, the initial thought was that gaseous CO2 venting could create gas suspended particle/debris flows. This could produce the erosion patterns that were observed.
Furthermore, it is suspected that CO2 plays a significant role in shaping features seen near the poles. Additionally, CO2 mixed with water can produce subsurface clathrates (solids). There was one speculation that the ill-fated mars lander may have "melted" subsurface clathrates when it touched down. This would then result in a fairly violent release of gas that could have destroy the lander.
Nobel prizes for physics have been given for: wireless telegraph, automatic lighthouses, transitors, maser (precurser to lasers), transistor, high-temp superconductors, wireless wireless telegraphs, bubble chambers, cyclotrons, discovery of argon, x-rays, microscopy (tunneling and optical), color photography, etc...
What do you think? The Nobel Prize for physics is only given for those that come up with a new version of F=ma?
Extra point question: Einstein recieve his Nobel prize for something related to Planck's constant. Question: How does one measure Planck's contant? Physics majors should not respond. This question is for CS majors.
Just a thought. Many IT companies' stock values have plummented thereby making many (but not all) stock options worthless. They might then have to raise the base salaries to keep their valued employees. This will then lower their reported profit margin, which will likely lower the company's stock value. Additionally, they also lose the benefits of this tax break.
BTW, I said not all stock option will be worthless for a specific reason. Take a company like Microsoft. Many of their executives are exercising options at a purchase price below $10 a share.
This may part of MS's strategy, but the main reason to lengthen the process is to make Jackson's remedial solution no longer pertinent in the fast changing computer industry. That's it. This is not a criminal case where one is simply punished for performing a crime. This is anti-trust. The final solution is one that restores competition in a framework of the consumers that were harmed by the illegal actions of the monopolist.
As long as this case is being decided, MS stock value will remain relative low. Furthermore, MS can't be the predatory shark that they usually are. They have to be a little bit more subtle.
Remember why MS "integrated" the browser into the Windows98. It was to make the previous Jackson ruling non-pertinent.
Has the anti-trust case against Microsoft slowed down this company? Perhaps yes. But I think that MS also knows that they can't behave in the same fashion as IBM. After all, MS knows that they are where they are today because IBM didn't move fast enough.
That said, the kuri5hin recommendations is better than the moderation here.
Question: Why doesn't /. return to the days of the ultimate moderators? What was/were the factors that eliminate this? IIRC, it was because this power was being abused.
So I went to google to find an appropriate link to this story. Tried a search for "paperclip patent." I hit "I'm Feeling Lucky."
This the link. Freaking weird.
And a "digital scent" technology that could enable consumers to send scented e-mails and smell fragrances as they shop online.
I don't think that this is a good idea. Properly scented spam? You can use your own vivid imagination to figure out other abuses of this technology. Of course, scented /. posts would be acceptable.;)
And the golf club is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Stepping into the main lobby of the NASM is simply awesome as they have the Voyager (1st around the world, non-stop, no refueling), X-1 (Yeager's plane), Wright 1903 Flyer, the X-15, and the Spirit of St Louis hanging from the ceiling.
I have a dual-boot Powerbook. Having the MacOS and LinuxPPC gives me a lot of options all on one mobile computer.
The best example I have ever seen of the "power" of UNIX based typesetting/formatting was books by Richard Stevens. Take a look at the intro section of his last two books/volumes on Networking. Troff and other UNIX based tools were used. Simply freaking amazing.
If you like this sort of thing then go to google and do a search on Dikshit. That is of course, if you don't have filtering software.
If you are using a topo map, then you would need the Silvas or Suuntos with a clear delineated base.
The pertinent web page is probably this one. I looked at their list of customers, and oh my gawd, they do work for the Los Angeles County Metro Authority! They also do work for the DISA, DTIC, DARPA, NIH, and, oh no, the IRS.
These guys look like some of the other not for profit groups out there.
Thanks for the info. I just realized that this is the conflict between the analog and digital worlds.:)
This used to be called orienteering. Give a person a map and compass, and let them loose. Ever hear of a Brunton compass?