There are however more stuff from C++ that could trickle back to C. Personally I'd like to see C inherit (pun intended) namespaces, better enums, default parameters values, and maybe templates from C++. C11 seem to have some basic template support in place at least, which is probably good enough.
Maybe a reply to a reply to a reply to a slashdot post isn't the best way to inform the managment at NVIDIA of this situation. Try sending the same message to them directly, or to the google+ guy. Perhaps it could even open up the eyes for someone.
I use Amiga OS almost every day. Technically, Linux have almost every capability that Amiga OS have.
I write "almost" because the Amiga OS is more or less a true "microkernel", so you could replace most everything in the system live. Normally you don't do this though, and it's pretty insignificant.
What it excelled at during the days was that it had true multitasking with a fast message passing functionality, and it took something like 5-10 years until other desktop operating systems had that (windows, macos, atari etc). In combination with hardware that could have different resolution and colours on different parts of the screen it meant that you could easily work with multiple programs at once without anything being sluggish.
All of this is easily done today, and I don't see the point of running Amiga OS on an x86 except for the "because I can"-reason. I use my Amiga because it has cool hardware and I like to code for it.
The x86 architecture is actually still used a lot on the desktop and server market, but I understand what you mean. It's pretty dead in the tablets and cellphone market, the largest market for processors.
My Amiga is right next to me on the desk. Actually, make that "two of my Amigas". I use it almost daily. It boots up and starts my music player before any of my PCs are finished checking how many SATA disks are installed.
An overwhelming majority of the server/desktop/laptop Linux distributions are what you call GNU/Linux. The only notable exceptions I know of are Android, and embedded systems that use busybox due to performance/memory constraints.
Very very few people has actually used some mythical "vanilla Linux" that isn't operated with the GNU tools.
Maybe that's why he was reported to repeatedly hit his head afterwards.
I've done many stupid things in my life, some which I regret, some which I don't, some that had negative consequences and some that fortunately didn't. If you tell me you haven't, I know you're lying.
Guys, guys. This is not "Funny". This is scary and insightful. Corporations use this exact line to protect their precious patents, RIAA use it to protect their precious copyrights.
Do you really think people would stop making music and invent things? Just as with APIs, it's done because there's a need and a demand.
I'm really not sure what they were going for, other than just a delaying tactic.
If you fear for your life, delaying is what you would do too.
Assange and his lawyers are probably not that scared of the crimes he could potentially be charged with in Sweden. It is more likely that he is afraid that Sweden will in turn find a way to export him to the U.S., where he could be accused of being some sort of terrorist. We have recently seen somewhat too close ties between the U.S. embassy and the judges here, when the case about The Pirate Bay took place, so I don't think one has to be too paranoid to fear such a chain of events.
He's actually not charged with any crimes. As far as I know, he's to be questioned by the police as a suspect.
Note that I'm Swedish, meaning that a) I can read and understand what the Swedish prosecutor says, and b) I can not necessarily translate that to correct British or U.S. lawyerspeek.
That's why they used 111000 articles, you will of course get an amount of statistical noise and articles that doesn't make much sense. That doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong, it just means it's not exact. I'm sure you are aware of that though, judging from even knowing about stuff like "word frequency analysis".:)
I haven't RTFA but it's very likely that they checked a random sample manually, and used the results from that to weigh the results from the larger set.
Actually, last time I checked, the price of ThinkPads are comparable with Macs with similar specs. Also a great machine to get used, because the good ones simply don't break.
(good ones as in, not the new lenovo consumer crap)
Bullshit. Assuming enough resources (computational time and storage), any 4-bit computer can implement an ideal digital filter with as high resolution and steepness as you wish. Something you can not simply get with an analogue filter due to laws of physics.
In practice, you have limited resources, usually time because you're realtime-constrained, and then you must cheat. If you must cheat, a higher sample rate may or may not benefit you.
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There are however more stuff from C++ that could trickle back to C. Personally I'd like to see C inherit (pun intended) namespaces, better enums, default parameters values, and maybe templates from C++. C11 seem to have some basic template support in place at least, which is probably good enough.
I'm not so sure that this database would fly that fast if it was running on a beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pi with OSX.
Maybe a reply to a reply to a reply to a slashdot post isn't the best way to inform the managment at NVIDIA of this situation. Try sending the same message to them directly, or to the google+ guy. Perhaps it could even open up the eyes for someone.
Look at it as a piece of sound that has to survive in its environment. The environment here is a lot of humans. The worst sounds die.
Huh, wtf? Where? When?
I use Amiga OS almost every day. Technically, Linux have almost every capability that Amiga OS have.
I write "almost" because the Amiga OS is more or less a true "microkernel", so you could replace most everything in the system live. Normally you don't do this though, and it's pretty insignificant.
What it excelled at during the days was that it had true multitasking with a fast message passing functionality, and it took something like 5-10 years until other desktop operating systems had that (windows, macos, atari etc). In combination with hardware that could have different resolution and colours on different parts of the screen it meant that you could easily work with multiple programs at once without anything being sluggish.
All of this is easily done today, and I don't see the point of running Amiga OS on an x86 except for the "because I can"-reason. I use my Amiga because it has cool hardware and I like to code for it.
The x86 architecture is actually still used a lot on the desktop and server market, but I understand what you mean. It's pretty dead in the tablets and cellphone market, the largest market for processors.
I am using dwm. However, I was writing about a display manager, akin to 'GDM' or 'XDM', in reply to the parent, not a window manager.
Ok, so the Commodore 64 didn't have any user-replaceable parts either. It's obviously a marvel of engineering. Or what's your actual point?
Had they managed to fit everything using standard parts, it would have been impressive. Now it's just standard procedure.
My Amiga is right next to me on the desk. Actually, make that "two of my Amigas". I use it almost daily. It boots up and starts my music player before any of my PCs are finished checking how many SATA disks are installed.
What is there to update? The copyright string? It only starts up X, no login, no splash screen, no crap.
There is a much better one. "NoDM".
Hm, how is that solved when you buy an Android phone? When I bought my Asus router running Linux, they delivered the source code on a CD.
An overwhelming majority of the server/desktop/laptop Linux distributions are what you call GNU/Linux. The only notable exceptions I know of are Android, and embedded systems that use busybox due to performance/memory constraints.
Very very few people has actually used some mythical "vanilla Linux" that isn't operated with the GNU tools.
Maybe that's why he was reported to repeatedly hit his head afterwards.
I've done many stupid things in my life, some which I regret, some which I don't, some that had negative consequences and some that fortunately didn't. If you tell me you haven't, I know you're lying.
Don't forget the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740
Guys, guys. This is not "Funny". This is scary and insightful. Corporations use this exact line to protect their precious patents, RIAA use it to protect their precious copyrights.
Do you really think people would stop making music and invent things? Just as with APIs, it's done because there's a need and a demand.
I'm really not sure what they were going for, other than just a delaying tactic.
If you fear for your life, delaying is what you would do too.
Assange and his lawyers are probably not that scared of the crimes he could potentially be charged with in Sweden. It is more likely that he is afraid that Sweden will in turn find a way to export him to the U.S., where he could be accused of being some sort of terrorist. We have recently seen somewhat too close ties between the U.S. embassy and the judges here, when the case about The Pirate Bay took place, so I don't think one has to be too paranoid to fear such a chain of events.
He's actually not charged with any crimes. As far as I know, he's to be questioned by the police as a suspect.
Note that I'm Swedish, meaning that a) I can read and understand what the Swedish prosecutor says, and b) I can not necessarily translate that to correct British or U.S. lawyerspeek.
Might be more interesting and relevant to compare Windows, Linux, OSX and BSD...
And of course Amiga, but that would be cheating.
That's why they used 111000 articles, you will of course get an amount of statistical noise and articles that doesn't make much sense. That doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong, it just means it's not exact. I'm sure you are aware of that though, judging from even knowing about stuff like "word frequency analysis". :)
I haven't RTFA but it's very likely that they checked a random sample manually, and used the results from that to weigh the results from the larger set.
Actually, last time I checked, the price of ThinkPads are comparable with Macs with similar specs. Also a great machine to get used, because the good ones simply don't break.
(good ones as in, not the new lenovo consumer crap)
Google? Slashdot?
I wish more audiophiles would realize this very basic property of the human psychology that you just now described.
Bullshit. Assuming enough resources (computational time and storage), any 4-bit computer can implement an ideal digital filter with as high resolution and steepness as you wish. Something you can not simply get with an analogue filter due to laws of physics.
In practice, you have limited resources, usually time because you're realtime-constrained, and then you must cheat. If you must cheat, a higher sample rate may or may not benefit you.