The Telegraph reports Karen Gillan as specifically denying that Smith's going anywhere, so this is just a spurious attempt by the Sun to generate "news".
Here's hoping Smith stays on for at least 3 years, and we get some more multi-season arcs going.
Unfortunately, that mantle has already been taken: Muphry's Law, which states that any proofreading or editing comment will contain a proofing or editing mistake of some kind.
No doubt this post will come out with some HTML fuckup, but I expect that.
Let's ignore that C doesn't even have "pass by reference"; there's either pass by value or pass by pointer-to-a-value, which is itself a value.
I never understood the animosity against C++. Sure, it's a larger language (you just need to look at the difference in sizes between K&R and Stroustrup to see that); and sure, g++ spits out utterly incomprehensible errors when you work with the Template Black Magic; but on the whole, I find it makes for a more structured program than the equivalent C.
Of course, the only way to fly is Brainfuck; don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
That sounds very similar to what I did back in 2006, on the Nintendo DS. I tried to put together the smallest DS ROM that could actually do something (in this case, turn the screen red):
I ended up embedding the code in the NDS header, which is 352 bytes long; I don't think it's possible to get a DS ROM smaller than that, but I'd be willing to be proved wrong.
You state that a million electric vehicles, charging all at the same time, will take 3TW of power for an hour. When was the last time you saw a million cars fuelling up at once?
If we assume that the car charging times are evenly distributed, and that the cars all need fully recharging once a day, we get 0.125TW of power for each hour of the day. That's worst case, with the stipulations I've just given; a long-range EV isn't going to need charging once a day, unless it's constantly going transcontinental. With 1.08TW of capacity, I don't think we'll have a problem.
Of course, this neglects to mention the sterling work that members of the xkcd forums do to destroy and/or improve the comics, in the spirit of "Making xkcd Slightly Worse".
I'm currently building an archive of the xkcd/sw posts, and I'm looking to release a book of the "best" of the worsened comics. I will probably be buying Randall's book, if only to get ideas for layout and styling.
I had a similar problem when I was writing an "extended text-mode" (80x25) software driver for the C64, recently. Since each character is encoded into 8 bytes, and there are 256 possible characters, the character definitions span over a wider space than the 8-bit index register can fetch.
Simple to fix: just self-modify the instructions that handle the font buffer, changing the base pointer as you enter a new page. Since the C64 has a 6510 chip, you'll probably understand the code quite well.
I wrote an article on the code a few months back, might be an interesting read.
So, with the "breakthrough" a few months ago that three different dyes in a cell could capture 40% of light from the sun, does that make this more efficient than coal?
Could the ecomentalists finally have something to cheer about?!
The talking woman is not an ad, it is a site element, so adblocker comments don't apply.
And was adblock mentioned even once? No.
Flashblock blocks any Flash embed or object element, replacing it with a clickable button. If you wish to load a particular Flash element, you click the button and only then does it load. Hugely useful, especially in conjunction with Adblock.
You need to be careful of details round here otherwise the pendants will eat you alive.
<predictable>U Mean Pedants, Rite.</predictable>
Although it would be strange to find your house infested by man-eating pendants. Would they contain black holes, or just near-infinite power sources like the Sangraal?
Most definitely. I've just spent two days grappling with the Unichrome driver for X, trying to get it to play video. Of course, the first time I try to play a video file, X crashes and takes IRQ #11 with it, taking the Ethernet chip offline.
So, I'd welcome better support for the CLE266, personally;)
It's also never going to work. Execution will start at the top, with the H of Hello; I forget what that opcode translates to, but it can't be what you expected it to be.
This might work better:
main: mov dx, offset msg
mov ah, 9
int 21h
int 20h msg: db 'Hello World!',13,10,34
Then you've never been near a VIA or Atom-powered box.
I run a VIA C3 at 600MHz, as my fileserver; the CPU is passively cooled, the PSU is from a laptop, and the only moving parts are the HDD platters. And my box is 6 years old; such systems will become increasingly common as the 4W Atom goes mainstream, and the VIA C7 gains popularity.
It's the difference between voltage and current. The Atlantis stardrive requires at least 10GV to fire, and the output of any given ZPM is rated at a more-or-less-constant 5GV, with DC/DC stepdowns feeding power through the city.
(Or maybe I'm talking utter shit, it's up to you.)
I believe the GP's point was that copyright will be extended by Congress as long as Mickey Mouse exists. Thus, the length of copyright is approximately the age of Mickey: this will hold true into the foreseeable future.
You just have to write or port the applications yourself; the only thing the phone can do right now is call people. Feel free to port a web browser, mp3 player, office package...
Absolute classic. (To be fair, it looks more Sindarin. The primitive Elves hadn't encountered the inhabitants of Wales, and thus wouldn't have such torturous constructions as "ll".)
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The Telegraph reports Karen Gillan as specifically denying that Smith's going anywhere, so this is just a spurious attempt by the Sun to generate "news".
Here's hoping Smith stays on for at least 3 years, and we get some more multi-season arcs going.
Unfortunately, that mantle has already been taken: Muphry's Law, which states that any proofreading or editing comment will contain a proofing or editing mistake of some kind.
No doubt this post will come out with some HTML fuckup, but I expect that.
Let's ignore that C doesn't even have "pass by reference"; there's either pass by value or pass by pointer-to-a-value, which is itself a value.
I never understood the animosity against C++. Sure, it's a larger language (you just need to look at the difference in sizes between K&R and Stroustrup to see that); and sure, g++ spits out utterly incomprehensible errors when you work with the Template Black Magic; but on the whole, I find it makes for a more structured program than the equivalent C.
Of course, the only way to fly is Brainfuck; don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
That sounds very similar to what I did back in 2006, on the Nintendo DS. I tried to put together the smallest DS ROM that could actually do something (in this case, turn the screen red):
http://imrannazar.com/The-Smallest-NDS-File
I ended up embedding the code in the NDS header, which is 352 bytes long; I don't think it's possible to get a DS ROM smaller than that, but I'd be willing to be proved wrong.
Your figures are very interesting, but bad.
You state that a million electric vehicles, charging all at the same time, will take 3TW of power for an hour. When was the last time you saw a million cars fuelling up at once?
If we assume that the car charging times are evenly distributed, and that the cars all need fully recharging once a day, we get 0.125TW of power for each hour of the day. That's worst case, with the stipulations I've just given; a long-range EV isn't going to need charging once a day, unless it's constantly going transcontinental. With 1.08TW of capacity, I don't think we'll have a problem.
Of course, this neglects to mention the sterling work that members of the xkcd forums do to destroy and/or improve the comics, in the spirit of "Making xkcd Slightly Worse".
I'm currently building an archive of the xkcd/sw posts, and I'm looking to release a book of the "best" of the worsened comics. I will probably be buying Randall's book, if only to get ideas for layout and styling.
Obligatory xkcdsw: http://xkcdsw.com/279
For those who haven't seen it before, csh sees unmatched parentheses and gives you:
Too many ('s.
I had a similar problem when I was writing an "extended text-mode" (80x25) software driver for the C64, recently. Since each character is encoded into 8 bytes, and there are 256 possible characters, the character definitions span over a wider space than the 8-bit index register can fetch.
Simple to fix: just self-modify the instructions that handle the font buffer, changing the base pointer as you enter a new page. Since the C64 has a 6510 chip, you'll probably understand the code quite well.
I wrote an article on the code a few months back, might be an interesting read.
So, with the "breakthrough" a few months ago that three different dyes in a cell could capture 40% of light from the sun, does that make this more efficient than coal?
Could the ecomentalists finally have something to cheer about?!
No, I think that was his point. It's not "OVER NINE THOUSAND", since that was never said in the Japanese.
It's "OVER EIGHT THOUSAND".
What, you're not pining for a bit of Age of Empires on the train home?
To be honest, I can't see the point of running desktop applications on your phone. Anyone else?
And was adblock mentioned even once? No.
Flashblock blocks any Flash embed or object element, replacing it with a clickable button. If you wish to load a particular Flash element, you click the button and only then does it load. Hugely useful, especially in conjunction with Adblock.
They're not the same thing.
I wouldn't worry about it: GP should try being funny first, then maybe he can get Funny mods.
<predictable>U Mean Pedants, Rite.</predictable>
Although it would be strange to find your house infested by man-eating pendants. Would they contain black holes, or just near-infinite power sources like the Sangraal?
A "first post" that ends up more than halfway down the page!
There's irony.
Most definitely. I've just spent two days grappling with the Unichrome driver for X, trying to get it to play video. Of course, the first time I try to play a video file, X crashes and takes IRQ #11 with it, taking the Ethernet chip offline.
So, I'd welcome better support for the CLE266, personally ;)
A bunch of code is given to a project under the LGPL, which contains MS-patented methods and algorithms.
You can guess what comes next: another SCO-style attempt at bankrupting the project in question.
It's also never going to work. Execution will start at the top, with the H of Hello; I forget what that opcode translates to, but it can't be what you expected it to be.
This might work better:
main: mov dx, offset msg
mov ah, 9
int 21h
int 20h
msg: db 'Hello World!',13,10,34
Sure, it's larger. But it works.
Then you've never been near a VIA or Atom-powered box.
I run a VIA C3 at 600MHz, as my fileserver; the CPU is passively cooled, the PSU is from a laptop, and the only moving parts are the HDD platters. And my box is 6 years old; such systems will become increasingly common as the 4W Atom goes mainstream, and the VIA C7 gains popularity.
It's the difference between voltage and current. The Atlantis stardrive requires at least 10GV to fire, and the output of any given ZPM is rated at a more-or-less-constant 5GV, with DC/DC stepdowns feeding power through the city.
(Or maybe I'm talking utter shit, it's up to you.)
I believe the GP's point was that copyright will be extended by Congress as long as Mickey Mouse exists. Thus, the length of copyright is approximately the age of Mickey: this will hold true into the foreseeable future.
Sure, you can do all those things!
You just have to write or port the applications yourself; the only thing the phone can do right now is call people. Feel free to port a web browser, mp3 player, office package...
You know, I wish there was a "-1 Not Funny" sometimes. That was fucking terrible.
Yo momma's so fat, she weighs more than the Internet!
Absolute classic. (To be fair, it looks more Sindarin. The primitive Elves hadn't encountered the inhabitants of Wales, and thus wouldn't have such torturous constructions as "ll".)