According to Kernighan and Ritchie, the static modifier restricts the scope of externally declared variables to the rest of the source file. AC might not want to accept the GPL and BSD definitions of free/unecumbered to non-software contexts.
Fuck, Minnesota just passed plans to build a new Vikings stadium for a cost of around a billion dollars. What were these 'priorities' you were talking about again?
Before you can go Galt, you have to be Galt, and this guy isn't, unless he knows how to generate power from static atmospheric electricity (or some other way), or something like that. If Facebook went belly up, the US economy would go along just fine.
I saw that page. I clicked on the licenses link. None of which told that pcc was released under the BSD license before 1998. Before 1991, much of BSD code was still legally encumbered as belonging to AT&T. Did one have to be an AT&T licensee to use pcc before The Jolitzes' public release of 386BSD in Jan. 1992 (a bit late too help Linus)?
As for the Wikipedia article, it mentions that the current version is under a BSD license. The original version was by Stephen Johnson, who then worked at Bell Labs. Did AT&T permit him to release it under such a license?
As for what compiler Stallman used to produce GCC, he was using UNIX at the time, so he might have compiled C using a proprietary compiler.
From the last section (VI) of Chapter 10 of The General Theory (1964 ed.)
It is curious how common sense, wriggling for an escape from absurd conclusions, has been apt to reach a preference for wholly "wasteful" forms of loan expenditure rather than for partly wasteful forms, which, because they are not wholly wasteful, tend to be judged on strict "business" principles. For example, unemployment relief financed by loans is more readily accepted than the financing of improvements at a charge below the current rate of interest; whilst the form of digging holes in the ground known as gold-mining, which not only adds nothing to the real wealth of the world but involves the disutility of labour, is the most acceptable of all solutions.
and
Two pyramids, two masses for the dead, are twice as good as one; but not so two railways from London to York.
An average brain is what, 1.4 kg? Even a tenth of it would be 0.14 kg. This is about 1/500th of 72 kg, so you would still have about 4.8x10^24 molecules.
If we have a 72-kg (158 lb.) person made mostly out of water, that's about 4,000 moles, or 2.4x10^27 molecules, which is about 7.2x10^27 atoms. The actual number might be different, but it's way more than a trillion.
Interesting. RMS tried to find an open-source C compiler, but couldn't. What did he miss? And if there were alternatives, why didn't Linus use them instead of GCC?
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According to Kernighan and Ritchie, the static modifier restricts the scope of externally declared variables to the rest of the source file. AC might not want to accept the GPL and BSD definitions of free/unecumbered to non-software contexts.
2) Intel's is, and it's one of the best ones around.
Unless you are compiling for an ARM.
Fuck, Minnesota just passed plans to build a new Vikings stadium for a cost of around a billion dollars. What were these 'priorities' you were talking about again?
I'm guessing FOOTBALL!! (For our non-US readers)
He could spend $10 million a year for 300 years. Of course, that includes taxes. And that he lives 300 years.
Profitable, yes. But successful at what?
I don't seem to remember a libertarian nation.
But would they be constitutional according to state constitutions?
Before you can go Galt, you have to be Galt, and this guy isn't, unless he knows how to generate power from static atmospheric electricity (or some other way), or something like that. If Facebook went belly up, the US economy would go along just fine.
I saw that page. I clicked on the licenses link. None of which told that pcc was released under the BSD license before 1998. Before 1991, much of BSD code was still legally encumbered as belonging to AT&T. Did one have to be an AT&T licensee to use pcc before The Jolitzes' public release of 386BSD in Jan. 1992 (a bit late too help Linus)?
As for the Wikipedia article, it mentions that the current version is under a BSD license. The original version was by Stephen Johnson, who then worked at Bell Labs. Did AT&T permit him to release it under such a license?
As for what compiler Stallman used to produce GCC, he was using UNIX at the time, so he might have compiled C using a proprietary compiler.
I hope I never need to have the GGP calculate a digoxin dosage!
From the last section (VI) of Chapter 10 of The General Theory (1964 ed.)
and
Two pyramids, two masses for the dead, are twice as good as one; but not so two railways from London to York.
$22,000/44,000 = $0.50. A WRT54gs with DD-WRT only costs 50 cents?
So basically Vesta is Earth's aborted little sister.
Oh great, give the Republicans another excuse to cut science funding.
An average brain is what, 1.4 kg? Even a tenth of it would be 0.14 kg. This is about 1/500th of 72 kg, so you would still have about 4.8x10^24 molecules.
If we have a 72-kg (158 lb.) person made mostly out of water, that's about 4,000 moles, or 2.4x10^27 molecules, which is about 7.2x10^27 atoms. The actual number might be different, but it's way more than a trillion.
Like fear of 'chemicals' like hydrogen. (But likeing water.)
Yeah, those Hindenburg passengers were just being paranoid!
Hewlett-Packard would appear to have the same problem, as my HP-48GX returns 0.96875 for 31/32. This is 97% to the nearest percent.
So did RMS or did not had an available opensource C compiler?
In the case of the Pastel compiler, is it really available if you can't physically run it? Perhaps Linus could have used it.
As for the Portable C compiler, while it is now available under a BSD license, was it available that way in the 1980s? This link makes me wonder:
http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/licenses/
as the earliest license is dated 1998.
Because Bill Gates doesn't want to admit that Finns can write better operating systems than Americans?
They used to have a no-nonsense school administrator in Michele Rhee.
No nonsense?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/education/22winerip.html?pagewanted=all
Do you even search what you believe?
My bad, I forgot that from Open Sources
As for pcc, 4.4BSD dropped it in favor of GCC in 1994, and according to your link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler#Current_version
Theo deRaadt says it isn't ready (as of 2007), and it could only build the OpenBSD kernel in 2009. Indeed pcc version 1.0 wasn't released until 2011.
Stallman is the leader of the Linux Foundation? Are these corporations OK with that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation#Corporate_Members
Getting a fluid you'll be injecting into your body from someone who posted an ad on Craiglist -- well, stupid it is, then.
More like Darwin Award canditate.
I would warn off people anywhere to buy insulin from nonreputable sources.
Interesting. RMS tried to find an open-source C compiler, but couldn't. What did he miss? And if there were alternatives, why didn't Linus use them instead of GCC?