The knowledge/discipline needed to use GC properly isn't less than learning to use reference counting.
Worse: In a GC language you'll be retyping the exact same boiler plate code over and over gain to workaround the problem. This leads to copy/paste errors, code verbosity that hides other bugs, forgetting to do it, etc.
Angry AC doesn't like it when his BS gets smacked down by logic
You talk as if we've never seen a matte screen before.
Clues: a) The surface of the screen doesn't alter the underlying electronics. b) Contrast doesn't matter a hoot if 90% of the light coming from the screen is a reflection of the room.
This infomercial is a frickin joke. 999$ USD for an entry level Core i5 laptop with Windows on it is an insult to our intelligence.
Only if you compare it to the end-of-isle specials at Walmart.
How much does a 14mm thick laptop with 14 hour battery life and a bit of style cost at Walmart? Oh, that's right, they don't even sell them!
This is way cheaper than a similar size Macbook and better specced. Those Macbooks sell by the million. You can complain about a lot of things but the price isn't one of them. Not really.
(and anybody who'd buy something with an Alcantara keyboard certainly won't be complaining about that)
Ted Cruz is from Texas, and Austin (its capitol city) is most definitely a tech hub. That said, I would not trust a single thing that comes out of Cruz's mouth. With the exception of religious comments, I don't think Cruz listens to anyone in Texas.
I wasn't attacking Ted Cruz in particular.
That cartoon is a couple of years old, maybe you can imagine it has different names on it, mmmmmkay?
The FTC has done very well going after crooks and people scamming the end users
But Trump has made it obvious that he 100% favors business profits over those end users. If he keeps on his current trajectory we can expect inflation to be through the roof a few years from now.
I'd bet 95% of politicians are not tech-savvy. They tend to be older individuals, and also come from backgrounds not dependent in tech. There are exceptions, but most of them aren't tech savvy.
"this engine of growth is threatened by the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 Open Internet Order, which would put federal bureaucrats in charge of engineering the Internet's infrastructure."
What a load of doublespeak bollocks.
Either the person who wrote that is lying or they have no idea what the Internet is.
Yep. The problem isn't that the government isn't "digital" enough, the problem is that it's run by people who wouldn't recognize the scientific method if it was served to them on a plate with a sprig of parsley on top.
If he goes to Silicon Valley all he'll find is a bunch of people who want to sell him a lot of useless new computers+software under a lucrative government contract.
When I say EPROM Programmer, I mean it was an EPROM programmer to us. To everybody else it was just a bunch of wires and crocodile clips with a 9V battery.
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Never attribute to one that which can adequately be explained by the other.
So.... how about they pay some taxes on that?
They know the big screen will sell more. After that it's your problem.
Let's hope none of the buyers find out about protective cases. We wouldn't want all those repair shops to miss out.
If it's infinitely fast then you don't need a programming language at all.
Just define some input/output conditions and let the computer fill the memory with random garbage until the conditions are met.
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GC creates more problems than it solves.
The knowledge/discipline needed to use GC properly isn't less than learning to use reference counting.
Worse: In a GC language you'll be retyping the exact same boiler plate code over and over gain to workaround the problem. This leads to copy/paste errors, code verbosity that hides other bugs, forgetting to do it, etc.
It's a good thing the fakers don't know the techniques people will use to identify their stories.
In other news: Police bodycam footage doesn't have the time/date on it and it's the individual officer who decides what to show in court.
So what use is it as evidence?
And that's when Microsoft will release a Windows 10 S N for Europe, an edition nobody will use ever.
Apart from all those people who buy a PC in Europe.
Remember: The USA is only 4% of the world.
What's next? Putting the lead back in gasoline?
Make American cars great again!
I thought so until I got one at work. Damn, it's useful.
Smear isn't a problem, when I do see it, I also see glare and reposition anyways.
"Reposition"?
This word 'work'. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Angry AC doesn't like it when his BS gets smacked down by logic
You talk as if we've never seen a matte screen before.
Clues:
a) The surface of the screen doesn't alter the underlying electronics.
b) Contrast doesn't matter a hoot if 90% of the light coming from the screen is a reflection of the room.
Are there any capacitive touch matte screens? No.
Who wants capacitive touch in a laptop?
I hate glare, but you have to choose between contrast and no glare. You can get rid of glare by adjusting where you place the screen.
ie. You have to use it in the dark.
No, thanks. I bought _one_ laptop with a shiny screen. Never again. My list of specs now starts with "matte screen" and goes from there.
This infomercial is a frickin joke. 999$ USD for an entry level Core i5 laptop with Windows on it is an insult to our intelligence.
Only if you compare it to the end-of-isle specials at Walmart.
How much does a 14mm thick laptop with 14 hour battery life and a bit of style cost at Walmart? Oh, that's right, they don't even sell them!
This is way cheaper than a similar size Macbook and better specced. Those Macbooks sell by the million. You can complain about a lot of things but the price isn't one of them. Not really.
(and anybody who'd buy something with an Alcantara keyboard certainly won't be complaining about that)
Ted Cruz is from Texas, and Austin (its capitol city) is most definitely a tech hub. That said, I would not trust a single thing that comes out of Cruz's mouth. With the exception of religious comments, I don't think Cruz listens to anyone in Texas.
I wasn't attacking Ted Cruz in particular.
That cartoon is a couple of years old, maybe you can imagine it has different names on it, mmmmmkay?
The FTC has done very well going after crooks and people scamming the end users
But Trump has made it obvious that he 100% favors business profits over those end users. If he keeps on his current trajectory we can expect inflation to be through the roof a few years from now.
They want the web to be the new cable tv, with them raking in the profits, plain and simple.
Yep. This is being bought and paid for by large ISPs.
Google will be the first target of anti-neutrality (ie. Youtube, Google search, Gmail), hopefully Google can fight this.
Netflix, Facebook, etc, will all be interested, too. None of them wants ISPs to charge a "premium" rate for access to their services.
I'd bet 95% of politicians are not tech-savvy. They tend to be older individuals, and also come from backgrounds not dependent in tech. There are exceptions, but most of them aren't tech savvy.
That doesn't mean it can't be explained to them: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/net...
It's gotta be a troll. Not even the most clueless lawyer would write "GPL = Gnu Protective License".
We're now living in Trump-land, don't make any bets on what ought to happen.
"this engine of growth is threatened by the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 Open Internet Order, which would put federal bureaucrats in charge of engineering the Internet's infrastructure."
What a load of doublespeak bollocks.
Either the person who wrote that is lying or they have no idea what the Internet is.
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/net...
If the US Gov. is "more effective than most" it's mostly because it has more money to burn.
Yep. The problem isn't that the government isn't "digital" enough, the problem is that it's run by people who wouldn't recognize the scientific method if it was served to them on a plate with a sprig of parsley on top.
If he goes to Silicon Valley all he'll find is a bunch of people who want to sell him a lot of useless new computers+software under a lucrative government contract.
When I say EPROM Programmer, I mean it was an EPROM programmer to us. To everybody else it was just a bunch of wires and crocodile clips with a 9V battery.
(NINE volt battery? You were lucky...)
IOW you had a C compiler and text editor!
When I was young we had to program Z80 by entering HEX values into EPROMS.
I once had a deadline and a broken EPROM eraser so I had to finish a program by only changing ones to zeros in an EPROM.
(for the youngsters: When you erase a chip it changes to all ones, there's no way to go from zero to one without wiping the chip)
Hire new writers, and stop getting recycled retreads of movies that have been done three (or more) times before?
Nah, it just means more reruns.