And therein lies the story. They're still at it three years later. Riveting, no. But it is newsworthy when the government seems to abuse its' power and decides to continue to do so for years rather than admit to being wrong. Note that I said newsworthy, but not new.
I understand why compiler writers, driver writers, and folks working on non-PC architectures can use assembly. I also agree that it is healthy for PC programmers to learn assembly to get an idea of what goes on under the hood. But how feasible is it for most programmers to determine how their assembly will actually execute on today's superscalar, out-of-order execute, pipelined architectures, with all the hardware based optimizations? How often can you still "beat the compiler". I ask because I've often wanted to spend some time on learning assembly, but as I learn more about the current architectures this question keeps nagging me.
I take exception to your inferences about monkeys and stench. Just because you're an upset college student doesn't mean you should take out your anger by bashing monkey-kind. I think the current and politically correct response is to write a witty blog about your anger.
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I never had a problem with FOIL, but I really like the visualization. I'll remember that if I ever have to tutor someone on this. Thank you.
And therein lies the story. They're still at it three years later. Riveting, no. But it is newsworthy when the government seems to abuse its' power and decides to continue to do so for years rather than admit to being wrong. Note that I said newsworthy, but not new.
Great link. It made sifting through the comments worth it. Thanks.
I understand why compiler writers, driver writers, and folks working on non-PC architectures can use assembly. I also agree that it is healthy for PC programmers to learn assembly to get an idea of what goes on under the hood. But how feasible is it for most programmers to determine how their assembly will actually execute on today's superscalar, out-of-order execute, pipelined architectures, with all the hardware based optimizations? How often can you still "beat the compiler". I ask because I've often wanted to spend some time on learning assembly, but as I learn more about the current architectures this question keeps nagging me.
The crocodile is eaten by the snake. It looks something like the following: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4313978.stm
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I take exception to your inferences about monkeys and stench. Just because you're an upset college student doesn't mean you should take out your anger by bashing monkey-kind. I think the current and politically correct response is to write a witty blog about your anger.
Not at only a mile long it doesn't.
I don't know about the movie yet, but it's also quite the T-shirt (see the site). For some strange reason I just bought three.