I put an AOL CD on the BBQ once. It actually surprised me how quickly it softened and then began to sag into grill. I had to be pretty quick with a fork to scoop it off before it fell onto the burners. And then I had to twirl the fork to keep the melted CD from dripping onto the ground. I actually ended up with a pretty cool looking plastic blob wrapped around the fork, but unfortunately I couldn't get the fork out without smashing my "artwork".:(
TFA explains it: main() isn't the true start of the program, _start is. That resides in ctrl.o, which fires off a bunch of setup stuff before calling __libc_start_main, which in turn kicks off main(), and off your program goes.
To put it as a car analogy: What she found is that turning the key to start doesn't just activate the starter, it also activates the airbag system, the traction control, and the radio too. And if all you want to do is start the engine to prove that it runs (ala Hello World!), then it's kind of silly to lug around all that extra "unnecessary" crap too.
Or something like that. Sadly i'm a better mechanic than a programmer (4yrs vs 1yr), but i'm working on fixing that.:)
Are you sure you can only push money to your CC? I can pull money from mine too, straight into a normal account. It's called a cash advance. It's not something i've had to use very often though.
ignore that and NOT switch to neutral. This was originally done by design to protect the engine and gearbox under specific circumstances (full load and high rpms).
Could you please cite this statement, or provide evidence to support it? In all of my years working on cars and working as a mechanic, I have never ever heard of a case where a transmission would refuse to shift to neutral. Yet I keep seeing people say that electronic-control transmissions will prevent a shift to neutral at high rpms in order to "protect" the transmission, which makes absolutely NO sense to me. The gearsets in a transmission are selected and held together by hydraulic clutches and bands. Shifting to neutral is a simple matter of releasing hydraulic pressure to unlock everything, which allows the gearsets to freewheel. How could this cause damage, other than a split second of friction as the bands loosen and the clutches disengage? So im curious, where do these rumours get started?
Any vehicle built in the last thirty or fourty years will not allow the steering column to lock unless the transmission is in park. If you're in drive (or neutral) you can only turn it to "off", not all the way to "lock". This was to prevent an errant knee from locking the steering while you're doing 70 on the freeway. Happened to me once, except I was only doing 45 on a bumpy ass gravel road when my knee smacked into my keychain. It was startling, but not particularly dangerous.
Because students could be dirt poor, eating cardboard and clothing themselves in towels stolen from the YMCA, and they'd still pick a damn smartphone over the loss of a limb. At least that's the impression I get at my university.
My bio prof does this. She's a nice lady but when it comes to class time she alternates between reiterating some amusing anecdote about her studies of cancer, and racing through the coursework because she's spent 20 minutes talking about her area of study. Then she asks us questions, invariably while the whole class is madly scribbling stuff down, and remarks to us that we sure are a lethargic class. ARGH!
I don't think I could ever doodle in class and still pay attention. My profs always seem to be scribbling something on the whiteboard to illustrate whatever they're talking about, and if they're not doing that i'm busy taking notes from their slides.
I really want a SSD for my netbook - I worry about how much abuse the little thing takes in a day at school - but I can't really justify spending more on a hard drive than I spent on the entire computer!
One time I dropped my cellphone - an old samsung clamshell - into a urinal while it was flushing.
My girlfriend called me at work one day, but I had to pee really bad, so I just one-handed things and hoped she'd have shut up by the time I was finished. No such luck. So finish, pull up my pants and take four or five steps back from the urinal, just to be safe. Phone is cradled between my ear and my shoulder while I try and get my damn zipper up. Go figure, the phone slips and falls... right onto the end of my steel-toed boot, sending it skittering across the floor and into the bottom of the now-flushing urinal. While its still connected. I snatched it out of the water and immediately turned it off. I called my girlfriend on a landline after to explain what had happened, and left the phone to dry near a heat vent for a couple of hours. Turned the phone on later that night, and everything was tickity-boo. The phone, 8 years old, still works to this day.:)
Don't get me started on my latest phone though. It's a Sony Ericsson slider that's been dropped about four times, and sustained minor (cosmetic) damage twice. I am not impressed with it.
I think they're using the term "microprocessor" very (VERY) loosely. Something like a wheel speed sensor would probably be considered a "microprocessor" to the layman journalist, when in reality its just a magnet mounted on a ring, and a stationary pickup. There are only a handful of components on a vehicle that I know of which are capable of any kind of "processing". The PCM, TCM, BCM (power/tranny/body control modules) and whatever multimedia/nav/entertainment system there is.
The hard drive might claim its empty but the bits are likely still in their last position. This is why professionals can still recover a large chunk of data from a hard drive even if you used a drillbit to punch a hole in it..
Saywhat? Methinks you have two thoughts crossed in your head. Deleting a file and physically destroying the disk are very different concepts. Restoring file references is simple enough, but a platter punched full of holes is only partially recoverable at best.
My CS prof is the same way. He keeps telling us that "In the real world your boss is not going to slap you on the wrist for looking up a solution - the point is to know where to find it and how to use it properly". I literally just came from my intro CS midterm exam, and it was open-book, open-laptop, open-whatever we wanted. Mind you, the questions were more about comprehension ("Given the following code, where does the maze-robot wind up?") than straight notes reference. Though there were a few "convert to/from binary/hex/octal" free marks too.
Now the problem in my university is that we have a VERY strict anti-cheating policy and if the profs suspect plagiarism they are "obligated" to report it to the anti-cheating board. A board filled with Arts profs who don't understand collaboration in programing and will hang your ass out to dry before you can say "oh snap". So while we are encouraged to use code from other sources as "reference" (read: disguise the damn thing), we're not officially supposed to copy anything. But that's a clash between CS and general academics. Oh well. At least the prof is on our side. He said the only time he's ever reported someone to the board was when they copied one of the profs own programs, renamed it and handed the whole thing in as their own work. Smooth.
Why go to venus when we can simply terraform earth to have a venus-like atmosphere? We're already well on our way! Mars is a much better place to escape to... I mean, investigate.
The sticking point here is that prion is defined as an infectious agent. Saying "normal prion" or "non-infectious prion" is like saying "non-explosive bomb". The adjective contradicts the nouns definition. What they're actually referring to are proteins (like PrP) which are the precursor to a prion (they can change into one). Apparently those proteins have some other uses too, which makes sense seeing as how evolution has a tendency to discard things that aren't in use.
Where I live in Canada, everything you just said IS the norm. Almost everyone's gasoline powered car has either a block heater or a frost plug (same idea, different application) and lots of midrange apartments and condos have electrified stalls. My condo has them anyways. Oh and yes we have diesels too.:)
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But what if my car is already red?
There's an XKCD for that.
I put an AOL CD on the BBQ once. It actually surprised me how quickly it softened and then began to sag into grill. I had to be pretty quick with a fork to scoop it off before it fell onto the burners. And then I had to twirl the fork to keep the melted CD from dripping onto the ground. I actually ended up with a pretty cool looking plastic blob wrapped around the fork, but unfortunately I couldn't get the fork out without smashing my "artwork". :(
TFA explains it: main() isn't the true start of the program, _start is. That resides in ctrl.o, which fires off a bunch of setup stuff before calling __libc_start_main, which in turn kicks off main(), and off your program goes.
To put it as a car analogy: What she found is that turning the key to start doesn't just activate the starter, it also activates the airbag system, the traction control, and the radio too. And if all you want to do is start the engine to prove that it runs (ala Hello World!), then it's kind of silly to lug around all that extra "unnecessary" crap too.
Or something like that. Sadly i'm a better mechanic than a programmer (4yrs vs 1yr), but i'm working on fixing that. :)
Are you sure you can only push money to your CC? I can pull money from mine too, straight into a normal account. It's called a cash advance. It's not something i've had to use very often though.
Yes, they can. And I have proof!
Could you please cite this statement, or provide evidence to support it?
In all of my years working on cars and working as a mechanic, I have never ever heard of a case where a transmission would refuse to shift to neutral. Yet I keep seeing people say that electronic-control transmissions will prevent a shift to neutral at high rpms in order to "protect" the transmission, which makes absolutely NO sense to me. The gearsets in a transmission are selected and held together by hydraulic clutches and bands. Shifting to neutral is a simple matter of releasing hydraulic pressure to unlock everything, which allows the gearsets to freewheel. How could this cause damage, other than a split second of friction as the bands loosen and the clutches disengage?
So im curious, where do these rumours get started?
Any vehicle built in the last thirty or fourty years will not allow the steering column to lock unless the transmission is in park. If you're in drive (or neutral) you can only turn it to "off", not all the way to "lock". This was to prevent an errant knee from locking the steering while you're doing 70 on the freeway. Happened to me once, except I was only doing 45 on a bumpy ass gravel road when my knee smacked into my keychain. It was startling, but not particularly dangerous.
ALL cars have neutral. Park is just neutral with a pin or block to keep the transmission (and by extension, the wheels) from moving.
It's ok, there's a PSA for that. (NSFW)
Because students could be dirt poor, eating cardboard and clothing themselves in towels stolen from the YMCA, and they'd still pick a damn smartphone over the loss of a limb. At least that's the impression I get at my university.
My bio prof does this. She's a nice lady but when it comes to class time she alternates between reiterating some amusing anecdote about her studies of cancer, and racing through the coursework because she's spent 20 minutes talking about her area of study. Then she asks us questions, invariably while the whole class is madly scribbling stuff down, and remarks to us that we sure are a lethargic class. ARGH!
I don't think I could ever doodle in class and still pay attention. My profs always seem to be scribbling something on the whiteboard to illustrate whatever they're talking about, and if they're not doing that i'm busy taking notes from their slides.
Next time, dude should use a microSD card.
And maybe some mayo. Blegh.
I really want a SSD for my netbook - I worry about how much abuse the little thing takes in a day at school - but I can't really justify spending more on a hard drive than I spent on the entire computer!
*Sigh* Maybe for my next one.
One time I dropped my cellphone - an old samsung clamshell - into a urinal while it was flushing.
My girlfriend called me at work one day, but I had to pee really bad, so I just one-handed things and hoped she'd have shut up by the time I was finished. No such luck. So finish, pull up my pants and take four or five steps back from the urinal, just to be safe. Phone is cradled between my ear and my shoulder while I try and get my damn zipper up. Go figure, the phone slips and falls... right onto the end of my steel-toed boot, sending it skittering across the floor and into the bottom of the now-flushing urinal. While its still connected. I snatched it out of the water and immediately turned it off. I called my girlfriend on a landline after to explain what had happened, and left the phone to dry near a heat vent for a couple of hours. Turned the phone on later that night, and everything was tickity-boo. The phone, 8 years old, still works to this day. :)
Don't get me started on my latest phone though. It's a Sony Ericsson slider that's been dropped about four times, and sustained minor (cosmetic) damage twice. I am not impressed with it.
I think they're using the term "microprocessor" very (VERY) loosely. Something like a wheel speed sensor would probably be considered a "microprocessor" to the layman journalist, when in reality its just a magnet mounted on a ring, and a stationary pickup. There are only a handful of components on a vehicle that I know of which are capable of any kind of "processing". The PCM, TCM, BCM (power/tranny/body control modules) and whatever multimedia/nav/entertainment system there is.
Maybe they suck at math because they have anxiety... ?
Saywhat?
Methinks you have two thoughts crossed in your head. Deleting a file and physically destroying the disk are very different concepts. Restoring file references is simple enough, but a platter punched full of holes is only partially recoverable at best.
My CS prof is the same way. He keeps telling us that "In the real world your boss is not going to slap you on the wrist for looking up a solution - the point is to know where to find it and how to use it properly". I literally just came from my intro CS midterm exam, and it was open-book, open-laptop, open-whatever we wanted. Mind you, the questions were more about comprehension ("Given the following code, where does the maze-robot wind up?") than straight notes reference. Though there were a few "convert to/from binary/hex/octal" free marks too.
Now the problem in my university is that we have a VERY strict anti-cheating policy and if the profs suspect plagiarism they are "obligated" to report it to the anti-cheating board. A board filled with Arts profs who don't understand collaboration in programing and will hang your ass out to dry before you can say "oh snap". So while we are encouraged to use code from other sources as "reference" (read: disguise the damn thing), we're not officially supposed to copy anything. But that's a clash between CS and general academics. Oh well. At least the prof is on our side. He said the only time he's ever reported someone to the board was when they copied one of the profs own programs, renamed it and handed the whole thing in as their own work. Smooth.
"Sorry mister IRS man, my tax got hax'd!"
Why go to venus when we can simply terraform earth to have a venus-like atmosphere? We're already well on our way! Mars is a much better place to escape to... I mean, investigate.
Honest men can be found everywhere.
Honest politicians? SETI is still working on that one.
The sticking point here is that prion is defined as an infectious agent. Saying "normal prion" or "non-infectious prion" is like saying "non-explosive bomb". The adjective contradicts the nouns definition. What they're actually referring to are proteins (like PrP) which are the precursor to a prion (they can change into one). Apparently those proteins have some other uses too, which makes sense seeing as how evolution has a tendency to discard things that aren't in use.
Where I live in Canada, everything you just said IS the norm. Almost everyone's gasoline powered car has either a block heater or a frost plug (same idea, different application) and lots of midrange apartments and condos have electrified stalls. My condo has them anyways. Oh and yes we have diesels too. :)