Well, we just need to reduce Earth's momentum of inertia. According to the law of conservation of angular momentum it will make Earth rotate faster.
You can try this on yourself: sit on a swivel chair and start spinning with your hands held apart, then quickly pull your hands close to your body - you should start rotate faster.
I think if we level all mountain ranges and melt both ice caps it should be enough to make Earth spin faster enough to compensate for this leap second.
That's because Windows understands structered storage format natively and owner application's GUID is stored as the first entry.
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It's about 0, because they are installed along with the Internet Explorer. It's possible to create a _full_ MFC application in just about 500Kb if one uses static versions of MFC and CRT libraries.
You're right, file sharing is not very popular in Russia, mostly because Internet connection is EXPENSIVE (I pay about 5 cents for 1 MEGABYTE of data). So it will cost me about $30 just to download files.
Most of music piracy is bootleg disks ('extra' printed copies of officialy licensed disks). They cost only about $3-$4, so NOBODY is going to buy $15-$20 legal disks. It's funny that most European labels understand that and now I can buy legal copies of most of European albums just for $4-$5.
Well, now we have a game almost completely written in Python. This game is called Civilization IV.
It's amasing! I never thought it is possible to make a TURN BASED strategy game which will work too slow on P4M-1.6Ghz-512Mb computer. But now Civ IV proves me wrong.
I'm not a native English speaker, so sometimes I need to read lyrics just to understand a song.
Having said that, I don't think lyrics are usefull WITHOUT the song itself. So if I download lyrics it means I've already bought this song. And there is no way I'm going to buy lyrics separately.
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The main reason Chernobyl still has such a big exclusion area is that nobody wants to live there. There are still some radiation "hot spots" but generaly exclusion area is safe enough to live. There are estimates that it will be fully habitable in 50 years (except for some areas near the power plant).
Besides, there are some "bureaucratic" reasons: regions near the exclusion zone receive large government subsidies. So usually radiation checks are "magically" performed in the most "hottest" places.
Radionucleotide levels are increased but there are some places (Três Corações for example) on Earth where _natural_ radiation is much stronger.
PS: I live in Russia and have relatives in Ukraine in area very close to the exclusion zone.
Well, it's possible to use shmem as a very fast method for marshalling of arguments across process boundaries and then use BIL (Boost Interfaces Library) to marshall actual function calls. It will look like Local Procedure Call subsystem in Windows NT.
You can get virtual functions this way and it will be fast enough but not very "nice", of course.
There is a great C++ library for shared memory support: SHMEM. It can place complex objects and STL-like containers in shared memory. And it is crossplatform (POSIX and Windows are supported).
That article is the most idiotic I've ever seen on Slashdot....
1. Autocomplete and IntelliSense is evil. Sure, that's why every Linux user has it turned on in his favorite shell.
2. Studio can't help me finish programs. What an idiotic IDE! It can't even use Windows Telepathy API to read my mind and write eveything automagicaly!
3. Criticism of WinForms is fine, but it is not really related to VisualStudio.
etc.
PS: I use VisualStudio+VisualAssist as my primary IDE for C++, and I don't use any code generation or wizards (aside from "New Project" wizard) provided by VisualStudio. Currently, I help to develop Code::Blocks IDE because there is _NO_ OpenSource IDE for C++ which is even remotely as powerful as VS (and don't get me started on Emacs or ViM).
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Well, we just need to reduce Earth's momentum of inertia. According to the law of conservation of angular momentum it will make Earth rotate faster.
You can try this on yourself: sit on a swivel chair and start spinning with your hands held apart, then quickly pull your hands close to your body - you should start rotate faster.
I think if we level all mountain ranges and melt both ice caps it should be enough to make Earth spin faster enough to compensate for this leap second.
Have you ever heard about a liger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger) or a Wolphin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolphin)? Or about a hinny or mule?
Such hybrids are almost always sterile but sometimes they aren't.
That's because Windows understands structered storage format natively and owner application's GUID is stored as the first entry.
It's about 0, because they are installed along with the Internet Explorer. It's possible to create a _full_ MFC application in just about 500Kb if one uses static versions of MFC and CRT libraries.
I'm speaking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_War_of_1812 when Napoleon directly invaded Russia.
France was at the state of war with Russia in 1805 (during Austerlitz campaign) and in 1812-1814 (during Russian and European campaigns).
You're right, file sharing is not very popular in Russia, mostly because Internet connection is EXPENSIVE (I pay about 5 cents for 1 MEGABYTE of data). So it will cost me about $30 just to download files.
Most of music piracy is bootleg disks ('extra' printed copies of officialy licensed disks). They cost only about $3-$4, so NOBODY is going to buy $15-$20 legal disks. It's funny that most European labels understand that and now I can buy legal copies of most of European albums just for $4-$5.
Napoleon lost his war in little more than 5 months. So don't be afraid :)
Well, now we have a game almost completely written in Python. This game is called Civilization IV.
It's amasing! I never thought it is possible to make a TURN BASED strategy game which will work too slow on P4M-1.6Ghz-512Mb computer. But now Civ IV proves me wrong.
Solution is simple: just add ANOTHER non-threadsafe collections. Or even better, add a 'unsafe' attribute for non-threadsafe variables.
Well, here is an article (sorry, in Russian) about a cluster of iPAQs (connected using IRDA): http://hard.compulenta.ru/2003/10/9/42473/
For those who can read Russian here's a discussion about [X]Emacs here: http://rsdn.ru/Forum/?mid=1322168
PS: I'm currently developing my own IDE (called FlexIDE) because _none_ of UNIX IDEs (and this includes Emacs and ViM) is good enough for me...
I'm not a native English speaker, so sometimes I need to read lyrics just to understand a song.
Having said that, I don't think lyrics are usefull WITHOUT the song itself. So if I download lyrics it means I've already bought this song. And there is no way I'm going to buy lyrics separately.
This index doesn't even contain Boost (http://www.boost.org/) and Loki libraries!
It can't be called 'comprehensive' after that...
Have you ever heard the word 'rootkit'?
The main reason Chernobyl still has such a big exclusion area is that nobody wants to live there. There are still some radiation "hot spots" but generaly exclusion area is safe enough to live. There are estimates that it will be fully habitable in 50 years (except for some areas near the power plant).
Besides, there are some "bureaucratic" reasons: regions near the exclusion zone receive large government subsidies. So usually radiation checks are "magically" performed in the most "hottest" places.
Radionucleotide levels are increased but there are some places (Três Corações for example) on Earth where _natural_ radiation is much stronger.
PS: I live in Russia and have relatives in Ukraine in area very close to the exclusion zone.
Well, it's possible to use shmem as a very fast method for marshalling of arguments across process boundaries and then use BIL (Boost Interfaces Library) to marshall actual function calls. It will look like Local Procedure Call subsystem in Windows NT.
You can get virtual functions this way and it will be fast enough but not very "nice", of course.
No, but I think reading about ownership policies and why they almost always make GC unneccessary must be compulsory.
There is a great C++ library for shared memory support: SHMEM. It can place complex objects and STL-like containers in shared memory. And it is crossplatform (POSIX and Windows are supported).
And it will soon (hopefully) be a part of Boost!
That's not true - USSR was a socialistic country.
You are probably thinking about 'communism' which is the final form of development of socialism (according to Karl Marx).
That article is the most idiotic I've ever seen on Slashdot....
1. Autocomplete and IntelliSense is evil. Sure, that's why every Linux user has it turned on in his favorite shell.
2. Studio can't help me finish programs. What an idiotic IDE! It can't even use Windows Telepathy API to read my mind and write eveything automagicaly!
3. Criticism of WinForms is fine, but it is not really related to VisualStudio.
etc.
PS: I use VisualStudio+VisualAssist as my primary IDE for C++, and I don't use any code generation or wizards (aside from "New Project" wizard) provided by VisualStudio. Currently, I help to develop Code::Blocks IDE because there is _NO_ OpenSource IDE for C++ which is even remotely as powerful as VS (and don't get me started on Emacs or ViM).
Why not? After all, jews are still whining about the Holocaust.
You forget about ionization in the storm clouds, and ionized gas is a pretty good microwave insulator.
It depends, for example grammar checking for Russian language in Word is the best one in existance. No OSS product even come close.
Thanks, for correction.
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English is not my native language
Wrong.
One degree Celsius is exactly equal to one degree Kelvin. The only difference is the starting point: 0C is approxiamtely equal to 272K.