C and C++ are the same way. In basically all 64-bit implementations, "int" is a 32-bit data type. In fact, in some of them, "long" is a 32-bit type too. The only thing that must be 64-bit is the pointer type.
When I was learning Chinese I wrote a translation function, which would take the characters at point, look them up in a dictionary (which gets loaded into its own buffer) (the dictionary I used is cedict, available on the internets somewhere), and then display the translation in the minibuffer.
This combined with an Emacs irc client, and an irc server located in China or Taiwan, was a great way to help out learning the language. And I don't think any of this could have been done in vi...
Be very careful not to click on the "[Purchase]" links on that page. If it's a one-click process like Amazon's you could suddenly find yourself in a world of pain.
It's widely known and widely taught, but it's not so. Glass does not flow at any measurable rate at room temperature. Glass at room temperature is an amorphous solid, not a liquid.
Please have this out with my freshman chemistry professor in college. He does a spectacular demo in which he drinks a glass of water, and then proceeds to drink the glass itself.
But in the case of Dickens et al, their works were being copied and the copies were then being sold. People were willing to pay for the thing, but the money was going to the wrong person. I think most of us would agree that this is bad.
In the case of file sharing, money isn't changing hands. No profits are being diverted. Was Dickens concerned about his books being available for free (or nearly free) in public lending libraries?
Have you heard of the major Lisp nuclear controller hack of a few years ago? Apparently, hackers somehow managed to get into a nuclear reactor site and make a copy of the top-secret Lisp program used to control the reactor. I can't post the entire program for security reasons, but I will post the last page:
Ignoring for the moment your comments about nuclear bombs, since this discussion is about dirty bombs, i.e. conventional bombs salted with radioactive material:
Get those as powders in a traditional bomb, and you've got a several mile cloud of you're-dead-in-three-days.
You mention the Goiania accident as a parallel, but there were <5 deaths caused by that, and all were of people in close proximity to the concentrated radiation source. I'm not an expert, but nothing I've read supports the idea of a dirty bomb producing a "several mile cloud of you're-dead-in-three-days."
I don't have a land line. Why? The cell phone is _cheaper_. If you're going to be pragmatic, ditch the land line.
It's not about new and hip. It's about being fed up with how the old-fashioned phone company rips you off and charges you out the a$$ for features that simply come included with cell plans.
I understood it was the opposite -- cell plans are opaque, the contract and pricing scheme is hard to understand, you never know when you'll be hit with roaming charges, there's little or no regulation. Not to mention the quality is lousy compared to a land line.
Apparently not a true quantum computer. From a wired news article:
D-Wave held its first public demonstration Tuesday of a machine it claims uses quantum mechanics to solve a certain type of problems, such as searching a database for matching molecular structures.
But the company did not make the machine available for inspection and instead showed video from a remote location, saying it was too sensitive to be easily transported.
And notwithstanding lofty claims in the company's press release about creating the world's first commercial quantum computer, D-Wave Chief Executive Herb Martin emphasized that the machine is not a true quantum computer and is instead a kind of special-purpose machine that uses some quantum mechanics to solve problems.
If you buy 1,000 shares of stock for one penny each, and those 1,000 shares zip up to 5,000 dollars a piece, you don't owe a dime of tax (unless you receive dividends). If they drop back down to 1 cent each, and you sell, you owe tax based on the amount of money you made when converting the shares back to cash, which, in this case, would be 10.00.
In this example, the stock was purchased for $10, and then sold for $10. The $10 obtained via the sale of stock isn't taxed because there was no capital gain -- if it were taxed, then it would have been taxed twice (presumably it was already taxed as part of the purchaser's income).
If the 1000 shares purchased at 1 cent were sold at a price of 3 cents each, then there would be a $20 capital gain, and capital gain tax would be paid on that amount.
Depends on what your preferences are. For example, I like being able to run dbx or gdb on the command line for a quick stack trace. You can't do that with VS.NET, you need to launch the whole IDE and wait for it to sort itself out. I like the easy yet powerful extensibility of Emacs and elisp. VS.NET IDE add-ins are limited (for example, how can you write an add-in that accesses the information in the Pending Checkins window?). I'm not a fan of Intellisense (or syntax highlighting for that matter) so that feature of the VS.NET IDE never really did anything for me. Emacs is available on all platforms; VS.NET is Windows-only.
In the end, Emacs is open while the VS.NET IDE is a black box, and I think this is the best argument in favor of Emacs. I spend most of my working life in my editor, and I want to feel confident about it. The VS.NET IDE doesn't give me that feeling.
Almost everything in that piece of propaganda masquerading as a FAQ is a lie.
I think it's funny that the FAQ (in fact the whole www.trustedcomputinggroup.org site) is SSL-encrypted. "Look you, we're security experts here. We even encrypted the FAQ!"
There is http://penisland.net/, which I actually ordered a couple of pens from. The receptionist at my office still calls me "Pen Island" occasionally.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html
When I was learning Chinese I wrote a translation function, which would take the characters at point, look them up in a dictionary (which gets loaded into its own buffer) (the dictionary I used is cedict, available on the internets somewhere), and then display the translation in the minibuffer.
This combined with an Emacs irc client, and an irc server located in China or Taiwan, was a great way to help out learning the language. And I don't think any of this could have been done in vi...
Be very careful not to click on the "[Purchase]" links on that page. If it's a one-click process like Amazon's you could suddenly find yourself in a world of pain.
But in the case of Dickens et al, their works were being copied and the copies were then being sold. People were willing to pay for the thing, but the money was going to the wrong person. I think most of us would agree that this is bad.
In the case of file sharing, money isn't changing hands. No profits are being diverted. Was Dickens concerned about his books being available for free (or nearly free) in public lending libraries?
Have you heard of the major Lisp nuclear controller hack of a few years ago? Apparently, hackers somehow managed to get into a nuclear reactor site and make a copy of the top-secret Lisp program used to control the reactor. I can't post the entire program for security reasons, but I will post the last page:
(Imagine a page full of right-parens)
Can you back that up? According to the NRC, "Immediate health effects from exposure to the low radiation levels expected from an RDD would likely be minimal." (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fac t-sheets/dirty-bombs.html)
You mention the Goiania accident as a parallel, but there were <5 deaths caused by that, and all were of people in close proximity to the concentrated radiation source. I'm not an expert, but nothing I've read supports the idea of a dirty bomb producing a "several mile cloud of you're-dead-in-three-days."
Oh, have you got a video?!
In this example, the stock was purchased for $10, and then sold for $10. The $10 obtained via the sale of stock isn't taxed because there was no capital gain -- if it were taxed, then it would have been taxed twice (presumably it was already taxed as part of the purchaser's income).
If the 1000 shares purchased at 1 cent were sold at a price of 3 cents each, then there would be a $20 capital gain, and capital gain tax would be paid on that amount.
Depends on what your preferences are. For example, I like being able to run dbx or gdb on the command line for a quick stack trace. You can't do that with VS.NET, you need to launch the whole IDE and wait for it to sort itself out. I like the easy yet powerful extensibility of Emacs and elisp. VS.NET IDE add-ins are limited (for example, how can you write an add-in that accesses the information in the Pending Checkins window?). I'm not a fan of Intellisense (or syntax highlighting for that matter) so that feature of the VS.NET IDE never really did anything for me. Emacs is available on all platforms; VS.NET is Windows-only.
In the end, Emacs is open while the VS.NET IDE is a black box, and I think this is the best argument in favor of Emacs. I spend most of my working life in my editor, and I want to feel confident about it. The VS.NET IDE doesn't give me that feeling.
There is http://penisland.net/, which I actually ordered a couple of pens from. The receptionist at my office still calls me "Pen Island" occasionally.