Programs trapping Ctrl-C as an exception are exceptionally lazy - there should be a more "front end" way to quit. Originally Ctrl-C was just to kill, not to gracefully shut-down.
I take exception to the summary's bad automotive analogy. I'd say that removing Ctrl-C functionality is like removing the standard brake pedal, leaving the driver to read the manual to discover where alternate brake controls might be found - naturally different locations in different programs.
Offline is secure. As others have pointed out, this clown didn't have "sensitive" information on his site, so there's nothing at risk that way - but simply being able to secure your own message to the world would seem to be a pre-requisite for cyber-security-tsar or whatever we're calling him. I guess he'll be figuring out the right consultants to hire to secure his security consultant site now.
The founder has basically declared that his idea, name and expertise is worth $36M and he's asking the world to please give him an initial round of $1M cash to start development, in exchange for shares.
My wife uses Facebook, and if she plays with posting videos while out of the house, she'll hit 3-4GB a month - 200GB a month, what are these people doing? Serving torrents?
Almost as stupid as the idea to make it in the first place. Portable and unwieldy... might be easier to ship 2 conventional flat screens wherever you are going and just connect them.
If anyone did steal them, it's to go in their private tech-person-cave until the statutes of limitations run out.
This *could* be a publicity stunt to keep "three display laptop" meme bouncing around in the `news'.
An item like this *could* also be headed into a private collection, not to be seen to the outside world for at least seven years. Something as unique as "a very early example of a three display laptop" would be interesting to more than a couple of people with the means to do this.
Somehow I doubt the industrial espionage angle, triple display drivers are so common they are built into Intel integrated graphics units now.
My Google Fi account says that I use about 0.4GB per month on average - but, then, I don't usually stream video except when in WiFi coverage, and I only stream Pandora to the car on weekend trips.
If you want to be obtuse: unlimited plans are grandfathered, kept for existing customer loyalty purposes but not offered to new subscribers. They could force everyone (out of contract, which is everyone on unlimited plans) to switch to their 100GB plan or simply terminate service - just because they offered the unlimited plans back in 2011 does not obligate them to continue to offer them in 2017.
Now, having defended the big red V, let me say that they are douchebags to do business with and I dropped them like a hot potato once I moved to a location where they weren't the only provider with decent coverage in my neighborhood.
Age discrimination is not as protected against as sex, race, religion, etc. There are some age discrimination protections, but obviously, we can't drive or vote based on age discrimination.
Power corrupts - especially in computer software. The most powerful languages and programs are the easiest for the users to become utterly lost and confused in. Nobody had a problem when the computer was a single switch between a power source and a light-bulb - On/Off, even your dog can figure that one out after a while. Take it up a notch with a second switch in another location and people start getting confused - especially if some joker puts the distant switch neither in up or down position, but in the middle...
Just because C++ has the power to do amazingly complex things does not mean that doing amazingly complex things is always (or even often) a good idea.
The fun thing about C++ is that you can write virtually straight C in it (or, port existing C into it) and it works, well - with tiny adjustments here and there.
Straight language queries are rare for experienced developers - more telling would be queries for APIs. Even after 10 years using an API, I still google search for how some of the functions work, what's the order of the arguments, what are the available enum options. The API you query often gives away the language you are using.
Calling out MSVC as the reference C compiler for execution speed is like calling out a parade float as the performance reference for internal combustion powered vehicles.
This statistic might just mirror my thinking on the "popularity" of C. Are we talking market share, or number of users?
I'd guess that the number of users is remaining constant, or slowly growing. The market for users of programming languages continues to expand rather quickly, so it's entirely possible that C's market share declines while its number of users continues to grow.
Then you have the college grad resume effect: every language they ever wrote two lines of code in ends up on the resume... what does lines of code mean, anyway? Can we have a metric for number of hours that end-users execute code that was written in each language, coupled with another metric for number of hours that people spend writing and maintaining that code? Is there any way to untangle that from the number of hours spent in requirements gathering sessions and showing prototypes to people who don't know what they want? I don't think so.
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Programs trapping Ctrl-C as an exception are exceptionally lazy - there should be a more "front end" way to quit. Originally Ctrl-C was just to kill, not to gracefully shut-down.
I take exception to the summary's bad automotive analogy. I'd say that removing Ctrl-C functionality is like removing the standard brake pedal, leaving the driver to read the manual to discover where alternate brake controls might be found - naturally different locations in different programs.
Chillin' in Costa Rica, or dead, probably both.
Offline is secure. As others have pointed out, this clown didn't have "sensitive" information on his site, so there's nothing at risk that way - but simply being able to secure your own message to the world would seem to be a pre-requisite for cyber-security-tsar or whatever we're calling him. I guess he'll be figuring out the right consultants to hire to secure his security consultant site now.
Nothing to talk about, plenty to do... 15 known exploits: get to work.
I think Sondors might be following this model for their e-car startup:
https://www.startengine.com/st...
The founder has basically declared that his idea, name and expertise is worth $36M and he's asking the world to please give him an initial round of $1M cash to start development, in exchange for shares.
XX, XY
Women don't have Y traits, but men do have X traits.
It should make a hell of a battery powered flappy bird - if they can scale the wings up to relative to the size of the battery and flapper motor.
My wife uses Facebook, and if she plays with posting videos while out of the house, she'll hit 3-4GB a month - 200GB a month, what are these people doing? Serving torrents?
But, why? If you believe the market is there to support competition, why would you even want to do three screens the same way?
Almost as stupid as the idea to make it in the first place. Portable and unwieldy... might be easier to ship 2 conventional flat screens wherever you are going and just connect them.
If anyone did steal them, it's to go in their private tech-person-cave until the statutes of limitations run out.
It's not over until somebody puts a bucky-ball of displays around your head.
This *could* be a publicity stunt to keep "three display laptop" meme bouncing around in the `news'.
An item like this *could* also be headed into a private collection, not to be seen to the outside world for at least seven years. Something as unique as "a very early example of a three display laptop" would be interesting to more than a couple of people with the means to do this.
Somehow I doubt the industrial espionage angle, triple display drivers are so common they are built into Intel integrated graphics units now.
My Google Fi account says that I use about 0.4GB per month on average - but, then, I don't usually stream video except when in WiFi coverage, and I only stream Pandora to the car on weekend trips.
Contracts have expiration dates.
If you want to be obtuse: unlimited plans are grandfathered, kept for existing customer loyalty purposes but not offered to new subscribers. They could force everyone (out of contract, which is everyone on unlimited plans) to switch to their 100GB plan or simply terminate service - just because they offered the unlimited plans back in 2011 does not obligate them to continue to offer them in 2017.
Now, having defended the big red V, let me say that they are douchebags to do business with and I dropped them like a hot potato once I moved to a location where they weren't the only provider with decent coverage in my neighborhood.
Pixar Monsters Inc.: Child Detection Agency
Age discrimination is not as protected against as sex, race, religion, etc. There are some age discrimination protections, but obviously, we can't drive or vote based on age discrimination.
Watch out for the nasal demons... they're perilously close to your optic nerves.
Power corrupts - especially in computer software. The most powerful languages and programs are the easiest for the users to become utterly lost and confused in. Nobody had a problem when the computer was a single switch between a power source and a light-bulb - On/Off, even your dog can figure that one out after a while. Take it up a notch with a second switch in another location and people start getting confused - especially if some joker puts the distant switch neither in up or down position, but in the middle...
Just because C++ has the power to do amazingly complex things does not mean that doing amazingly complex things is always (or even often) a good idea.
The fun thing about C++ is that you can write virtually straight C in it (or, port existing C into it) and it works, well - with tiny adjustments here and there.
Straight language queries are rare for experienced developers - more telling would be queries for APIs. Even after 10 years using an API, I still google search for how some of the functions work, what's the order of the arguments, what are the available enum options. The API you query often gives away the language you are using.
Calling out MSVC as the reference C compiler for execution speed is like calling out a parade float as the performance reference for internal combustion powered vehicles.
C is a portable shorthand for assembly language.
C was conceived as a portable shorthand for assembly language. It has evolved into its own beast over the decades - especially when you include C++.
This statistic might just mirror my thinking on the "popularity" of C. Are we talking market share, or number of users?
I'd guess that the number of users is remaining constant, or slowly growing. The market for users of programming languages continues to expand rather quickly, so it's entirely possible that C's market share declines while its number of users continues to grow.
Then you have the college grad resume effect: every language they ever wrote two lines of code in ends up on the resume... what does lines of code mean, anyway? Can we have a metric for number of hours that end-users execute code that was written in each language, coupled with another metric for number of hours that people spend writing and maintaining that code? Is there any way to untangle that from the number of hours spent in requirements gathering sessions and showing prototypes to people who don't know what they want? I don't think so.
I was thinking how much fun it would be if the bullet shorted the battery...