Apart from a missing 'next' statement, why wouldn't any half-decent compiler just optimise out the pointless empty looping?
I'm pretty sure you've got to do something in a loop or it'll be dropped by the compiler as a trivial optimisation. But hey! What do I know after years of VB, VBA programming, in addition to *real* languages like C++ or *useful* things like SQL? I'm a babe in the woods compared to a Uni student full of piss and vinegar!
So - when will you debunk AnandTech? Clearly you're more knowledgeable than Mr Lal Shimpi.
That should bar lots of US website operators and bloggers from going to the Middle-East, where their sites would land them in hot water. I wonder what the penalty is for running a porn site, or a site critical of the government.
If a US website operator was executed, is that okay too? Should they just know better?
I'm not saying that this is right or wrong, but prosecuting citizens of other countries for things which are legal in their country but illegal in yours will become a very slippery slope.
I don't think it was a straw man. I understand that device drivers have to have root-level access to function, and that applies to all operating systems. I may well be wrong, but that's the way I read the poster above. Given that, a buggy device driver can be lethal for the system (which is probably why Microsoft started the WHQL certification for drivers).
Not on any PC I've ever built. In fact, I tried this just two days ago when I was troubleshooting the machine, before I remembered that PS/2 is not hot-pluggable.
I don't think KVMs count, as they're always connected on ground and (I think) power, just not data. That doesn't make them hot-pluggable as you're not physically removing the plugs from the sockets and plugging them back in.
I think Slate got it right when it comes to these ads. They're kinda funny, but really mean-spirited. They're "Haha...you suck!!"-ads that don't appeal to me.
I disagree completely on this. Everyone I asked sees these ads as light-hearted jabs rather than mean-spirited. They're just a bit of fun and non-technical people really like them.
"realistically their employment at Apple had nothing to do with their downloading of a copy"
You have to be kidding with this. They downloaded an illegal copy of the software produced by the company that employs them, and the tool they used to download it made them redistributors in a very real (as opposed to purely technical) sense. You think that's not sufficient grounds to can them? Seriously?
Talk about corporate ethics and how they're so evil and blah blah all you like, but there's no justification for their actions. They knowingly broke the terms of their employment. It was nice that they came clean, but they have to still accept the consequences of their actions.
Well... not exactly, but this does remind me of the Simpsons (after 15 years, doesn't everything?)
Mr Burns is thinking of firing Homer for being massively obese and unable to work properly, but Mr Smithers cautions against it with the line "think of what the papers will say!" Mr Burns can only imagine headlines like "Another Smart Move By Burns."
This case is one where I can't imagine any situation where these ex-employees look good. They did something they knew was wrong beforehand, and they knew the consequences of their actions would be dismissal, and yet they still did it and spoke about it while at work.
Yes, it's naive enthusiasm - they wanted to get a headstart on their job and be even better - but they still did something wrong in full knowledge of the consequences. I feel sorry for them, but would sack them myself if I was their manager.
And that'd be the right thing to do.
Owning up is the easy bit. Taking the consequences is hard. When you make a mistake, you've got to do both if you're honest.
But Microsoft *does* hold a monopoly according to the US legal system, so the rules are different for them. It's more about making sure competitors aren't locked out and ensuring there's no illegal product tieing.
Is it unfair that they must play by different rules than Apple? Not at all. In fact, the laws are there to promote fairness and foster good competition.
Looking at dictionary.com, it seems clear that initialisms are a subset of arconyms.
Acronym: A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
Initialism: An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word.
I'd never heard of an initialism before though. I think I'll just call "TCP/IP" an acronym anyway.
This is an article written by pundits, not Apple. If you disbelieve the premise, attack the pundits, not Apple.
Like a lot of these types of articles, it's all supposition and theorising. Nothing concrete, just ideas. These are the same people who confidently predict the iPhone is coming soon, or for years predicted the imminent demise of Apple (any day now!) so they've got little to no credibility in my eyes.
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Apart from a missing 'next' statement, why wouldn't any half-decent compiler just optimise out the pointless empty looping?
I'm pretty sure you've got to do something in a loop or it'll be dropped by the compiler as a trivial optimisation. But hey! What do I know after years of VB, VBA programming, in addition to *real* languages like C++ or *useful* things like SQL? I'm a babe in the woods compared to a Uni student full of piss and vinegar!
So - when will you debunk AnandTech? Clearly you're more knowledgeable than Mr Lal Shimpi.
iBook G4, 1.2GHz, 768MB RAM (133MHz system bus)
After a few minutes "top -s10" shows effectively no CPU time spent by bash or any processes spawned from it.
Hmm... not sure that's going to tax a more powerful machine when my (nearly) 3yo laptop is unconcerned by it.
The Maia were less like gods and more like powerful spirits, who existed before the world.
The Vala are exceptionally powerful spirits who created the world out of song and have godlike powers.
And then there's Illuvatar, who is God and who created everything, directly or indirectly.
Gandalf is Olorin, who I think was mentioned once in the Silmarillion and his age would be the age of the world plus a bit of timelessness beforehand.
Argh! I'm becoming a Tolkien-nut!
It's not hidden information:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
(look down at audio support)
So ASUS designed the MacBook Pro?
Okay, that's clearly rubbush. They manufacture for Apple, they don't design.
You should be careful about throwing around the insult "fool" while making factually incorrect statements.
That should bar lots of US website operators and bloggers from going to the Middle-East, where their sites would land them in hot water. I wonder what the penalty is for running a porn site, or a site critical of the government.
If a US website operator was executed, is that okay too? Should they just know better?
I'm not saying that this is right or wrong, but prosecuting citizens of other countries for things which are legal in their country but illegal in yours will become a very slippery slope.
I missed the announcement where people are all forced to buy stuff from iTMS.
Maybe it's different where you are, but here in the rest of the world we get to choose whether we want to buy iTMS stuff or not.
I don't think it was a straw man. I understand that device drivers have to have root-level access to function, and that applies to all operating systems. I may well be wrong, but that's the way I read the poster above. Given that, a buggy device driver can be lethal for the system (which is probably why Microsoft started the WHQL certification for drivers).
How's your custom-built laptop going?
Yes it does. It has for ages.
Not on any PC I've ever built. In fact, I tried this just two days ago when I was troubleshooting the machine, before I remembered that PS/2 is not hot-pluggable.
I don't think KVMs count, as they're always connected on ground and (I think) power, just not data. That doesn't make them hot-pluggable as you're not physically removing the plugs from the sockets and plugging them back in.
I think Slate got it right when it comes to these ads. They're kinda funny, but really mean-spirited. They're "Haha...you suck!!"-ads that don't appeal to me.
I disagree completely on this. Everyone I asked sees these ads as light-hearted jabs rather than mean-spirited. They're just a bit of fun and non-technical people really like them.
The end justifies the means?
I've read a couple, but I don't think you have.
Pretty poor troll, although the lack of any real facts is good.
"realistically their employment at Apple had nothing to do with their downloading of a copy"
You have to be kidding with this. They downloaded an illegal copy of the software produced by the company that employs them, and the tool they used to download it made them redistributors in a very real (as opposed to purely technical) sense. You think that's not sufficient grounds to can them? Seriously?
Talk about corporate ethics and how they're so evil and blah blah all you like, but there's no justification for their actions. They knowingly broke the terms of their employment. It was nice that they came clean, but they have to still accept the consequences of their actions.
Well... not exactly, but this does remind me of the Simpsons (after 15 years, doesn't everything?)
Mr Burns is thinking of firing Homer for being massively obese and unable to work properly, but Mr Smithers cautions against it with the line "think of what the papers will say!" Mr Burns can only imagine headlines like "Another Smart Move By Burns."
This case is one where I can't imagine any situation where these ex-employees look good. They did something they knew was wrong beforehand, and they knew the consequences of their actions would be dismissal, and yet they still did it and spoke about it while at work.
Yes, it's naive enthusiasm - they wanted to get a headstart on their job and be even better - but they still did something wrong in full knowledge of the consequences. I feel sorry for them, but would sack them myself if I was their manager.
And that'd be the right thing to do.
Owning up is the easy bit. Taking the consequences is hard. When you make a mistake, you've got to do both if you're honest.
I think the modding was a little unfair. It should have been off-topic, not troll. We're talking software here!
But Microsoft *does* hold a monopoly according to the US legal system, so the rules are different for them. It's more about making sure competitors aren't locked out and ensuring there's no illegal product tieing.
Is it unfair that they must play by different rules than Apple? Not at all. In fact, the laws are there to promote fairness and foster good competition.
Ah, but you clearly bought the "Made especially to irritate shaze" edition, which was a one-off production.
No other person on the planet shares your problem, but hey! It's clearly our fault!
Looking at dictionary.com, it seems clear that initialisms are a subset of arconyms.
Acronym:
A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
Initialism:
An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word.
I'd never heard of an initialism before though. I think I'll just call "TCP/IP" an acronym anyway.
What about physics calculations? AI? World updates? Animation updates? Audio processing?
Any modern 3D game could run more efficiently across multiple cores. Some do now.
Ah, but the new logic is that the innocent have nothing to fear and should invite the police into their home.
Only the guilty have anything to fear in the new world we're in.
Isn't it wonderful!
Although I sympathise (particularly as I'm a Mac user), the more important point is that it locks devs out of the Playstation and Nintendo markets.
In these days of massive development costs, any game dev company not looking with one eye to porting is making poor financial decisions.
DX10 sounds like it's going to be great. I want OpenGL to match and exceed it though, to spur devs to use it for the portability it provides.
This is an article written by pundits, not Apple. If you disbelieve the premise, attack the pundits, not Apple.
Like a lot of these types of articles, it's all supposition and theorising. Nothing concrete, just ideas. These are the same people who confidently predict the iPhone is coming soon, or for years predicted the imminent demise of Apple (any day now!) so they've got little to no credibility in my eyes.
Argh! The shame of it all!
Still, if I said every bad pun that came to mind, my wife would probably kill me. It'd be a fair cop though.
If it were even remotely true, it would be a good point.
At the point Microsoft *bought* $150M of Apple non-voting stock, Apple had around $4B in cash sitting in the bank (well, liquid assets and cash).
The promise to keep Office on the Mac was *far* more important than a few dollars, and most commentators saw that at the time.
You need to research your history, and yes, your post should be modded down because it's just plain wrong.