Which reminds me of something... Isn't it time for C and its likes to let us specify explicitly how many bits we want for a variable? I would like to tell the compiler that a variable should be _exactly_ 32 bits and another one _at least_ 64 bits. It's appears strange to me that an int seems to be allowed to be, well, anything it wants to be, and I will never know. Throw in arbitrary precision floats too while we're at it. If the hardware cannot handle 523-bit floats or whatever I specified, then emulate it in software -- just like it is done when compiling for processors that cannot do floating point at all. Normally, I would just specify floats with _at least_ 15 bit precision, or something, which could be handled like a 32 bit float, or whatever the CPU happens to be capable of.
Provided your code isn't written in assembly, do you really _have_ to do anything else than to recompile it? Of course, you might want to make changes to make better use of the 64 bits, but to just make it run, wouldn't this be enough?
"Dinosaurs and humans lived 6000 years ago together" yeah, he is brainwashed
Being utterly wrong (as I suppose you want to imply) is perfectly possible without being _brainwashed_. Just like being dead is possible without having died in a car accident.
OK, they were the victim here. On the other hand, isn't it incredibly embarrasing to be the victim of this kind? I mean, if you're the big giant in the game, and a little kid comes and pokes you with a needle (which is of course criminal), you shouldn't pop like a balloon, should you.:-) Heh, that's embarrasing.
On the third hand (what? oh, you earthlings are so narrow-minded!), building such a secure system may be considered über-human, while not being a ballon isn't.
I'm excited for this well balanced and thought out discussion that is sure to follow!
I think "balanced" is overrated. If "balanced" means that there should be about as much arguments for either side, then many things _shouldn't_ be discussed in a balanced fashion. If it's obvious that one side is right and the other is wrong (nothing said about the current topic), what's the point of presenting them as if they were equally reasonable?
Just yesterday we had an article saying that all kinds of information about air force one, from layout's (and secret service agent locations in the plane) to information on the counter measure systems it has. And that was on a government website.
Do you have a pointer to where it was? (Or where it can be found now.) The closest I have gotten is to the Guardian website.
*wakes up abruptly* Huh?! I heard something. I work for Godwin, and I heard "nazi".. eh.. oh, sorry. False positive. You're clear. Have a nice day. *falls to sleep again*
So basically it's going to make it more difficult to see obnoxious flash ads take over websites as soon as a page is loaded. And in the rare chance you actually want to see a flash or java object, you have to click a button. Sounds like MS should toss this on the feature list.
Click a button in the way us firefoxers already can do, you mean?
Wouldn't we rather see a stripped down cell phone, which, instead of cameras, games, voice recognition, accelerometers and spacecraft launch pads, would be rediculously tiny and cheaper than it's behemoth counterparts. It's hardly like they are small enough as they are.
Well, that's how I would like them anyway. The extra things are just junk. (Apart from the launch pad, possibly.)
My cell phone can set up a conference call between me and all persons in South Africa whose names start with "J", using whatever directories of phone numbers is possible to connect to from where I'm standing for the moment.
Me: Call mom.
Phone: Set up a conference call between you and all persons in South Africa whose names start with "J", using whatever directories of phone numbers is possible to connect to from where you're standing for the moment?
So far, this is unfortunately all I have gotten it to do.
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Provided your code isn't written in assembly, do you really _have_ to do anything else than to recompile it? Of course, you might want to make changes to make better use of the 64 bits, but to just make it run, wouldn't this be enough?
Instead of fighting eachother, we could take the best from Linux and OS X (and others) and conquer the world!
I don't get it either: Why did parent get modded _funny_ of all things?
On the third hand (what? oh, you earthlings are so narrow-minded!), building such a secure system may be considered über-human, while not being a ballon isn't.
..large scale fusion! ;-)
You're merciless. But fair and balanced, I think.
There was a great post about it.
Wouldn't we rather see a stripped down cell phone, which, instead of cameras, games, voice recognition, accelerometers and spacecraft launch pads, would be rediculously tiny and cheaper than it's behemoth counterparts. It's hardly like they are small enough as they are.
Well, that's how I would like them anyway. The extra things are just junk. (Apart from the launch pad, possibly.)
My cell phone can set up a conference call between me and all persons in South Africa whose names start with "J", using whatever directories of phone numbers is possible to connect to from where I'm standing for the moment.
Me: Call mom.
Phone: Set up a conference call between you and all persons in South Africa whose names start with "J", using whatever directories of phone numbers is possible to connect to from where you're standing for the moment?
So far, this is unfortunately all I have gotten it to do.