Yes, I also think it's quite fun to program in assembly (if only debugging it was fun and easy too...). And as Randall Hyde says, the impact on project time of choosing assembly as a language isn't as big as people think; most of the time is usually spent in designing anyway. As you say, the biggest problem is portability today... That's probably the biggest reason why programs made completely in assembly are more and more rare nowadays.
because we can safely asume that to "count" an atom takes at least one atom, which would then need to be counted, which takes more atoms ad nauseum. No?
No. With 1 bit you can count 2 different things. With 2 bits you can count 4. With 3 bits you can count 8. With 128 bits you can count exactly 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 different things.
according to a survey done by another firm in June (mentioned in this Reuters article [reuters.co.uk]), the estimated unduplicated audience of Windows Live and Yahoo messengers was 43.5 million U.S. users. Perhaps Yahoo and MS are counting all Yahoo and Passport accounts?
Or perhaps the world is something more than the U.S.? I know it sounds incredible to some of you, but it may be true!
You're talking about totally different codebases. Windows XP comes from Win2k which comes from the Windows NT codebase, which was totally independent of the OSs you're mentioning (and also much more stable). Think a little bit before posting!
In other news, a team of scientists has collected a list of the 10 most common human illnesses, and has concluded that it's much safer to be an ant since they're invulnerable to them.
OK, here I go saying this again - evolution theory DOES NOT MEAN that every single detail of the things we do as humans was evolved specifically! Some of our actions and behaviors just emerge from the rest of our characteristics (which may have been evolved, or emergent from... etc etc ad infinitum).
This bug has been known by IE7's developers for at least 1/2 weeks, and in fact they have discussed it with slashdot (or at least tried to). See this for the technical explanation.
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Yes, I also think it's quite fun to program in assembly (if only debugging it was fun and easy too...). And as Randall Hyde says, the impact on project time of choosing assembly as a language isn't as big as people think; most of the time is usually spent in designing anyway. As you say, the biggest problem is portability today... That's probably the biggest reason why programs made completely in assembly are more and more rare nowadays.
This is not true. What they mean, I think, is "the task of mapping C code to efficient machine code has gradually become increasingly difficult".
It is an improvement (for certain applications). Do you want people accessing your private data from far away?
OK, I got what you said, it was the wrong way you wrote it that confused me:
The law of diminishing returns makes far less likely that an exploit intended for one office suite used by the masses is going to work on another.
Yeah, because OpenOffice never has security problems!!11one!!.
I'm sorry but what does the law of diminishing returns have to do with exploits??
because we can safely asume that to "count" an atom takes at least one atom, which would then need to be counted, which takes more atoms ad nauseum. No?
No. With 1 bit you can count 2 different things. With 2 bits you can count 4. With 3 bits you can count 8. With 128 bits you can count exactly 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 different things.
Or perhaps the world is something more than the U.S.? I know it sounds incredible to some of you, but it may be true!
I think this deserves a new slashdot meme...
At least give credit where it's due! And don't try to pass it as a true court transcript or whatever...
Please post the list of incorrect pages here or somewhere else then!
Slashdot: giving you hilarious displays of proud and loud ignorance since....
You're talking about totally different codebases. Windows XP comes from Win2k which comes from the Windows NT codebase, which was totally independent of the OSs you're mentioning (and also much more stable). Think a little bit before posting!
Windows 2000 was already very good in terms of stability.
Nope, not even in Redmond... MBS
Funny, I work at Microsoft and a window in my office got broken today (yes, there were jokes about it)...
In other news, a team of scientists has collected a list of the 10 most common human illnesses, and has concluded that it's much safer to be an ant since they're invulnerable to them.
Where can I buy some of that sureness?
How do you know?
Why should they be donated to OSS projects?
OK, here I go saying this again - evolution theory DOES NOT MEAN that every single detail of the things we do as humans was evolved specifically! Some of our actions and behaviors just emerge from the rest of our characteristics (which may have been evolved, or emergent from ... etc etc ad infinitum).
And you too, for having revealed the secret now...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190080&cid=156 47268
Read this before speaking any more bullshit about how they don't care AT ALL about standards and feedback from users.
This bug has been known by IE7's developers for at least 1/2 weeks, and in fact they have discussed it with slashdot (or at least tried to). See this for the technical explanation.