well, for the cases where performance matters (games, 3D rendering, CAD, simulation, etc), all it would take in that case is for one company to spend the extra money, and they will reap the benefits in better sales. Then the others would have no choice but to follow suit. Hopefully those type of companies actually do put some thought into performance of their code anyway.
Having said that, I do agree that it's good to try and keep the purpose of code as clear as possible through sensible variable names and constructs, and a good compiler should be capable of optimising a lot of code anyway, but it's no excuse for just being lazy and using more resources than you actually need..
I take it, width is proportional to height... Where did that come from?
Plus, if you read the article you'll see that it's the 'dot' containing at least 5 carbon nano rings (or something) that makes transistor that is 10 atoms (1 nanometer) wide, but the person doing the summary got r confused.
That's a pretty poor excuse - if you just comment/document the software properly then it would be fine. A little extra time taken writing the program isn't much of a price to pay for the hours and hours of processor time and RAM/HD space saved by people using the application either..
Any software that needs to access the hard disk just to move the mouse (after loading the driver of course) is doomed anyway, no matter how easy it is to maintain:P hehe
Keep your wild ideas away from my solar cells and wind turbines (what are you gonna do, wait til it spins up and chop someone's head off?), otherwise you'll be creating a legal barrier for their adoption for being more widely used!
This is more like a cat up a tree armed with a sniper rifle, picking off any emergency service personnel that get too close while his buddies rob a bank.
Thanks for the tip:p I don't think I've used malloc for a few years personally, but this is a useful thing to keep in mind for future applications. I wonder how many/.ers know that it can even be exploited in this way - I certainly don't know much about security exploits.. I'd have no idea how I'd go about exploiting buffer overflows and null pointer exploits like this, though I can imagine it would be a fun exercise:P
Yeah I think I almost agree with that law. The worst case scenario is where someone has been raped (ie no choice whatsoever in the matter of whether they were going to get pregnant - most other unwanted pregnancies are just down to stupidity). I personally would just probably consider the baby a baby once the process has been initiated, but in the case of rape, where someone's life is going to be thrown totally into upheaval (and there has already been a great deal of trauma even before the baby comes along..), it should probably be an option.
The UK is similar, the only 2 parties with any real chance of getting into government are Labour or the Conservatives ("Tories" for short). There are the Liberal Democrats and such but they're known for always sitting on the fence on every issue, and therefor would be pretty useless if the ever got into power:P Scotland has its own government now too, even though they must be subordinate to the main government (which is currently headed by a Scot anyway!), which technically must be subordinate to the Queen I suppose. Pretty strange setup if you ask me, I don't think the Queen does much apart from go on holiday.. err.. I mean.. ambassadorial errands.
I used to use it sometimes myself, but now anyone who does is automatically assumed a puppet of the grand high twitter, and I don't want to be unfairly labelled in such a way:P Maybe I should just do what I prefer. I do actually like the I$O thing, it's moderately clever.
I think the fact that campaigns are even allowed to take donations is pretty screwed up.. I don't get it. It shouldn't be some big celebrity showdown - government should be about the actual policies and such, not charisma. I think it may actually be illegal to take contributions in the UK, but as you can maybe tell, I'm not big on politics even though I'm trying to become a bit more informed:p
I've never actually thought about it like that before! I'm not a big sports fan usually - the history of football fan violence in the city that I lived right next to kind of put me off. Plus I used to end up just taking players legs out rather than getting the ball (which isn't good in non-American football:P )
Who said we didn't think about it? It's just a bit of a cliche now, even if it is awesome:P This is nowhere near Ghost in the Shell level diving and prosthetic control though, we're still in baby steps. It shouldn't really be that difficult to do because our sensory and motor sections of the brain are basically at the very surface on the top left and top right of the brains as far as I remember from my psychology classes.. just needs people gutsy enough to undergo more procedures like this and some appropriately knowledgeable bio-scientists and robotics geeks to develop something that is going to provide a high enough level of accuracy in mapping everything out. And hopefully being reliable enough not to make you lose all control of your body, crap yourself, and feel like you're getting repeatedly stabbed in the eyes by trees.
Too bad I might be dead before they figure out how to interface a "google chip" of sorts and all the knowledge known to mankind is just a thought away. Pub-quiz and TV quiz masters the land over are currently lining up private investigators and hitmen to take you out
Yeah, but how would you turn it back on again? Does it come with a built in alarm that wakes up and starts beating the crap out of you until you get up? I could do with one of those..
Hmm. I'm anti-racism and anti-abortion, I guess I just don't fit into the grand scheme of American politics:P Thanks for taking the time to explain all that, I'm getting a decent idea of things now. I still think it's all overly simplistic though.. and causing needless agression between people.
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while I'm being modded 'overrated' even though I hadn't been rated yet, I'd like to point out that it's spelled peregrine and not peragrin. Thankyou.
well, for the cases where performance matters (games, 3D rendering, CAD, simulation, etc), all it would take in that case is for one company to spend the extra money, and they will reap the benefits in better sales. Then the others would have no choice but to follow suit. Hopefully those type of companies actually do put some thought into performance of their code anyway.
Having said that, I do agree that it's good to try and keep the purpose of code as clear as possible through sensible variable names and constructs, and a good compiler should be capable of optimising a lot of code anyway, but it's no excuse for just being lazy and using more resources than you actually need..
Do you even know what a Beowulf cluster is?
Plus, if you read the article you'll see that it's the 'dot' containing at least 5 carbon nano rings (or something) that makes transistor that is 10 atoms (1 nanometer) wide, but the person doing the summary got r confused.
That's a pretty poor excuse - if you just comment/document the software properly then it would be fine. A little extra time taken writing the program isn't much of a price to pay for the hours and hours of processor time and RAM/HD space saved by people using the application either..
:P hehe
Any software that needs to access the hard disk just to move the mouse (after loading the driver of course) is doomed anyway, no matter how easy it is to maintain
Keep your wild ideas away from my solar cells and wind turbines (what are you gonna do, wait til it spins up and chop someone's head off?), otherwise you'll be creating a legal barrier for their adoption for being more widely used!
This is more like a cat up a tree armed with a sniper rifle, picking off any emergency service personnel that get too close while his buddies rob a bank.
Thanks for the tip :p I don't think I've used malloc for a few years personally, but this is a useful thing to keep in mind for future applications. I wonder how many /.ers know that it can even be exploited in this way - I certainly don't know much about security exploits.. I'd have no idea how I'd go about exploiting buffer overflows and null pointer exploits like this, though I can imagine it would be a fun exercise :P
That's what the aliens get for abducting Bill Gates and basing their Mothership's OS on values obtained while probing his anus..
Yeah I think I almost agree with that law. The worst case scenario is where someone has been raped (ie no choice whatsoever in the matter of whether they were going to get pregnant - most other unwanted pregnancies are just down to stupidity). I personally would just probably consider the baby a baby once the process has been initiated, but in the case of rape, where someone's life is going to be thrown totally into upheaval (and there has already been a great deal of trauma even before the baby comes along..), it should probably be an option.
The UK is similar, the only 2 parties with any real chance of getting into government are Labour or the Conservatives ("Tories" for short). There are the Liberal Democrats and such but they're known for always sitting on the fence on every issue, and therefor would be pretty useless if the ever got into power :P Scotland has its own government now too, even though they must be subordinate to the main government (which is currently headed by a Scot anyway!), which technically must be subordinate to the Queen I suppose. Pretty strange setup if you ask me, I don't think the Queen does much apart from go on holiday .. err.. I mean.. ambassadorial errands.
I used to use it sometimes myself, but now anyone who does is automatically assumed a puppet of the grand high twitter, and I don't want to be unfairly labelled in such a way :P Maybe I should just do what I prefer. I do actually like the I$O thing, it's moderately clever.
I think the fact that campaigns are even allowed to take donations is pretty screwed up.. I don't get it. It shouldn't be some big celebrity showdown - government should be about the actual policies and such, not charisma. I think it may actually be illegal to take contributions in the UK, but as you can maybe tell, I'm not big on politics even though I'm trying to become a bit more informed :p
I've never actually thought about it like that before! I'm not a big sports fan usually - the history of football fan violence in the city that I lived right next to kind of put me off. Plus I used to end up just taking players legs out rather than getting the ball (which isn't good in non-American football :P )
So you're saying that this could be the year of BitTorrent on the desktop?
As long as your 'alarm' didn't go off by mistake while you were at work..
Who said we didn't think about it? It's just a bit of a cliche now, even if it is awesome :P This is nowhere near Ghost in the Shell level diving and prosthetic control though, we're still in baby steps. It shouldn't really be that difficult to do because our sensory and motor sections of the brain are basically at the very surface on the top left and top right of the brains as far as I remember from my psychology classes.. just needs people gutsy enough to undergo more procedures like this and some appropriately knowledgeable bio-scientists and robotics geeks to develop something that is going to provide a high enough level of accuracy in mapping everything out. And hopefully being reliable enough not to make you lose all control of your body, crap yourself, and feel like you're getting repeatedly stabbed in the eyes by trees.
So what you're saying is, my brain could run Linux? And I wouldn't need any drivers? :O cool
So that's why I can't get up in the mornings! Now I have an excuse!
Yeah, but how would you turn it back on again? Does it come with a built in alarm that wakes up and starts beating the crap out of you until you get up? I could do with one of those..
You mean like a Manatee? We named our main fileserver Manatee. Fun times.
as well as a chance to try out some interesting new piping techniques
karma whoring, or just trying to be helpful? ;)
Hmm. I'm anti-racism and anti-abortion, I guess I just don't fit into the grand scheme of American politics :P Thanks for taking the time to explain all that, I'm getting a decent idea of things now. I still think it's all overly simplistic though.. and causing needless agression between people.