I can finally say, with reason: "I am not a lawyer"
But the main reason lawyers do pro bono work is the big payoff if they win the suit. I haven't ever heard of it being done for any of the reasons you stated.
huh? How is #2 easier. How could anyone come up with that? Incrementing s in the loop declaration may not be obvious (though it reads more logically), but its a more likely solution. Here is one everyone has seen before and is arguably more elegant than your hack.
int strlen(char *s)
{
int n = 0;
while (s[n] != '\0')
{
n++;
}
return n;
}
or how about
int strlen (const char *s)
{
int n = 0;
return (while(s[n++]));}
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segfault core dumped
I think I just proved myself wrong
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I don't think that saying means what you think it means. Anyway...
C++ pointer/reference errors are only difficult to track once lost. It's pretty easy to prevent them. The only time you need to do anything trick with pointers and references is when you're building optimized algorithms (where java wouldn't help you in the first place) or when you're setting up a back end library or UI.
That's not to say it doesn't happen, but
strncpy(a, b) is no more error prone than its equivalent if you don't try and get macho with operator.copy {strlib::string &a, char **b[0], char **b[x])
you could probably sue your software consultant too if he leaves a comment in your code like/*jimmy was here*/ That's even worse than a styrofoam cup in the insulation. The R factor loss aint as bad as all those wasted bytes in your source tree
I think you should spend a little time fixing a bridge or remodelling a house before you hold them up as examples
Don't believe in the 'enterprise'
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Everyone wants to believe that the real money is in "Enterprise services" or whatever they'll call it next year. The truth is, for both these companies, the enterprise is a crumb. It's an ego thing, the PC-Clone makers want to be respected so they buy expensive legacy systems to make them feel like they are "real" computer companies. No one has made any money with Alphas or Apollos for years. THATS WHY THEY WERE BOUGHT!
And even if the margins were so great for "Enterprise" computing, it still doesn't add up. Say you get a thousand million dollar contracts that turn 90% profit. That's just short of one billion dollars.
But if you're selling 100 million PCs at 500 bucks and your only making 10% profit, that's five times as much money.
And you're alot more vulnerable if you lose even one big contract than if you lose 10% of the pc market share.
Yes, but don't be a fool. Clinton created ICANN, and most of the mega-corporations today. If you flee blindly from one tyranny, you'll run into the arms of another.
"limited edition" in Marketing Speak mean "fewer features" not "collector's item" -- though we may hope it becomes one. Think of an LE version of a car. Think Photoshop LE.
He will see an "AMD Athlon Thunderbird Palomino 4" at P2000+
He won't have a clue what P2000+ means
He's familiar with the terms "Megahertz" and "Gigabyte"
He looks in frustration for the MHz rating on the AMD system
He associates a known benchmark, "GHz" with Intel >br?
"Intel Inside" becomes a mark of quality
If AMD ever catches up in clockspeed again, they will have to spend years fighting the perception that their products are inferior to Intel's. By the time they start to gain acceptance, Intel will have something else up its sleeve.
How do I know this? It already happened. Haven't you ever seen an "Intel Inside" logo? Only last time there was a pretty big group of competitors that backed the P rating and gave credibility to the standard.
why would they want to get rid of it? It has to be among the most profitable revenue sources for them (next to ongoing Word Perfect 4.2 support contracts)
If Corel is selling 14% of their bunsiness (and the only segement with growth potential) for $2 million, what does that say about Corel?
Anyway, this sire reminds me of all the corporate Something Awful clones, but with a whole lot of marketing-speak semi-analysis and denigration of Mozilla.
Who do we know that would be motivated to produce an over the top amateur-looking anti-Mozilla (AOL/Time Warner Netscape division) packed with rumors and lots and lots of half-analyzed middle management data?
That said, mozilla sucks.
And I think 1.0 would probably slip past the new year, if as one reader pointed out, the 1.0 schedule is the layoff schedule for AOL/Time Warner Netscape division.
That said, I mozilla exclusively for my personal browser (except for lynx)
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But the main reason lawyers do pro bono work is the big payoff if they win the suit. I haven't ever heard of it being done for any of the reasons you stated.
your bond doesn't go up.
huh? How is #2 easier. How could anyone come up with that? Incrementing s in the loop declaration may not be obvious (though it reads more logically), but its a more likely solution. Here is one everyone has seen before and is arguably more elegant than your hack.
int strlen(char *s)
{
int n = 0;
while (s[n] != '\0')
{
n++;
}
return n;
}
or how about
int strlen (const char *s)
{
int n = 0;
return (while(s[n++]));}
You kill me
core dumped
I think I just proved myself wrong
C++ pointer/reference errors are only difficult to track once lost. It's pretty easy to prevent them. The only time you need to do anything trick with pointers and references is when you're building optimized algorithms (where java wouldn't help you in the first place) or when you're setting up a back end library or UI.
That's not to say it doesn't happen, but
strncpy(a, b) is no more error prone than its equivalent if you don't try and get macho with operator
you could probably sue your software consultant too if he leaves a comment in your code like /*jimmy was here*/ That's even worse than a styrofoam cup in the insulation. The R factor loss aint as bad as all those wasted bytes in your source tree
I think you should spend a little time fixing a bridge or remodelling a house before you hold them up as examples
And even if the margins were so great for "Enterprise" computing, it still doesn't add up. Say you get a thousand million dollar contracts that turn 90% profit. That's just short of one billion dollars.
But if you're selling 100 million PCs at 500 bucks and your only making 10% profit, that's five times as much money.
And you're alot more vulnerable if you lose even one big contract than if you lose 10% of the pc market share.
I'm your enemy.
Yes, but don't be a fool. Clinton created ICANN, and most of the mega-corporations today. If you flee blindly from one tyranny, you'll run into the arms of another.
Has it even been two years since Compaq bought DEC?
"limited edition" in Marketing Speak mean "fewer features" not "collector's item" -- though we may hope it becomes one. Think of an LE version of a car. Think Photoshop LE.
Yeah. Sure. Marketing people focus on people outside their focus groups.
Realize that none of us would have ever have heard of cyrix if it wasn't for their PR scheme.
And AMD should realize that we have heard of Cyrix.
Got any?
Here's what will really happen:
Joe Average Consumer will walk into the store
He will see an "Intel Pentium 4" at "2 GHz"
He will see an "AMD Athlon Thunderbird Palomino 4" at P2000+
He won't have a clue what P2000+ means
He's familiar with the terms "Megahertz" and "Gigabyte"
He looks in frustration for the MHz rating on the AMD system
He associates a known benchmark, "GHz" with Intel >br?
"Intel Inside" becomes a mark of quality
If AMD ever catches up in clockspeed again, they will have to spend years fighting the perception that their products are inferior to Intel's. By the time they start to gain acceptance, Intel will have something else up its sleeve.
How do I know this? It already happened. Haven't you ever seen an "Intel Inside" logo? Only last time there was a pretty big group of competitors that backed the P rating and gave credibility to the standard.
ps. The new slashdot is hell on lynx
If Corel is selling 14% of their bunsiness (and the only segement with growth potential) for $2 million, what does that say about Corel?
I've never heard of a C Virtual Machine. C interpreters, yes. Maybe that's what the Java VM is comparable to in speed.
you mean "i"?
from the article:
[...previously ran on Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) servers that used Unix. But they will now run on IBM Linux servers...]
cause I still can't buy it anywhere
Who do we know that would be motivated to produce an over the top amateur-looking anti-Mozilla (AOL/Time Warner Netscape division) packed with rumors and lots and lots of half-analyzed middle management data?
That said, mozilla sucks.
And I think 1.0 would probably slip past the new year, if as one reader pointed out, the 1.0 schedule is the layoff schedule for AOL/Time Warner Netscape division.
That said, I mozilla exclusively for my personal browser (except for lynx)
Bah! My microwave is 26 years old!
The only reason cybercafes in America don't block port 22 and don't remove floppy drives is that they're incompetent. It's naivette, not benevolence.