In most cases, Google doesn't sell to you. Instead, it sells you. Google sells you and me to advertisers, trend analysers and whatnot. That's why Google's services are "free". Bait is always free.
"It’s unprofessional and inefficient. And very error-prone for no reason at all."
There are many good reasons for choosing C over C++, Java or other languages. The most obvious reason is that C is the only language available for the target platform. Performance requirements (both size and speed) are also good reasons for choosing C.
You're correct regarding the loop. How could I get that wrong?:-(
Regarding the coding style, slashdot ate most of my comment as it contained a couple of < . What I *tried* to say is that it is silly to loop using i <= foo - 1 and much better to use i < foo.
AFAICT, the loop stops when a == numcandidates - 1. Assuming that the candidates array is zero based and has numCandidates elements, the array access should be ok.
The coding style "i http://www.thedailywtf.com/;-)
>Well, the FSF didn't change the license radically - and it only affects two kinds of software: the software initially written under GPL 3 and the software including the GPL version x or any later.
>The software which was licensed under GPL x or later was so licensed even before the GPL 3. And the possibility of license change was plainly stated.
Wrong. The GPL v2 text says: "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
It is up to the user of the software to choose between GPL v2 or a later version, not up to the author. The author may of course change the license for other versions, but that's another matter.
(Posting using Gentoo+links while rebuilding X, so forgive the crappy quoting and formatting, please) Anyway, I just wanted to add a comment about the tech marvels of the place. The romans flooded the Colosseum with water and held sea battles there. Google for details, I can't even copy&paste a link right now:-(
>I have learned that past sky-high CO2 concentrations have been documented in peer-reviewed research journals. If we have hit peak >oil, I doubt we will ever be able to reach these levels.
We may hit peak oil within a decade, and oil production will start falling. Unfortunately, that does not change anything but the price of oil. Burning *coal* is a major source of CO2 and will be widely available for hundreds of years to come.
Think about it, all that CO2 that once existed was absorbed by plants and turned into coal/oil. Now we are putting the CO2 back into the atmosphere by burning the same coal/oil. Same atoms, 100 million years later.
Your surprisingly convincing BBC documentary isn't made by BBC, but by/for Channel 4.
The documentary has also been debunked by several experts and cross-edited participants, Just fucking google it for more and more accurate information, or just follow this link .
It's amazing that your post now is +4 Insightful, -1 Troll is more appropriate IMO.
Another way to look at things, is the Google way: Don't Be Evil. The problem right now is not that rogue states and terrorists try to blackmail the west, so your argument is void.
If the US did as they spoke and started to cooperate with other nations and obeyed international agreements(geneva, hague, kyoto,...) and didn't wage war for no apparent reason, other nations perception of the US would change a lot. You guys used to be the good guys, remember?
> Ah, more hybrid misnomers. If you don't understand the battery technologies involved (Ni-Mh in current models), don't comment. Ni-Mh is not > "environmentally-disasterous" - in fact, the Ni in the battery is so valuable that Toyota pays a $500 per pack bounty for recycling.
The batteries in the Prius use Nickel (Ni). How do we get Ni? Here's how Toyota gets the Nickel used in the Prius.
From http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/print_ite m.asp?NewsID=188: [ The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius' battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist's nightmare.
"The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside," said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper.
All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn't end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce 'nickel foam.' From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce? ]
Please explain why the Prius batteries aren't an environmental disaster.
Boa
PS: The funny thing is that, according to the quoted article, a Hummer H2 is more environmentally friendly energy wise.
>Siberians are happy about global warming. Siberia is now a happening place. Some Northern European countries are also digging it.
Defrosting Siberia is the last thing you want to do.
Some estimates say that 70 billion metric tons of methane will be released into the atmosphere when/if the siberian permafrost melts. This equals approx. 1500 billion tons of CO2, or 55 years of emissions at current rate.
Google for "global warming feedback loops" for more info.
> I always thought this was a rather curious statement. What is it about train system efficiency that inculcates a preference for or against fascism in the general populace?
>Sure, you could implement something like pthread_join_with_timeout() using a conditional inside the thread. But you'd need to do that manually, as > pthreads doesn't provide a primitive for that particular use-case AFAIK.
A quick look in pthread.h tells me that there's one function named pthread_timedjoin_np. The function seems to be a GNU extension and the _np suffix is short for not portable. It probably does that the OP wants, but may not be portable enough for his needs.
>The Linux kernel has _always_ been under the GPL v2. Nothing else has ever >been valid.
Bzzt. Look even closer.
From http://math.hws.edu/orr/linuxtalk/my10bits.html: In December of that year, Linus released the first stand-alone version (0.11) of the Linux kernel and chunked minix completely. Up to this point, he destributed his code under a personal copyright that allowed anyone to freely distribute the code, but was more restrictive than the GPL (no money could change hands for example). Linux had been using GNU tools to develop Linux, and partly out of gratitude to the GNU project, he placed the Linux kernel under the GPL a couple of weeks later, with version 0.12. He later admitted that it was one of the smartest things he ever did.
Do you understand the difference between protocol and TCP/IP stack? Microsoft didn't just implement the protocols, they copied the source code from BSD and used it in Windows NT/2000/XP.
Even the source code for programs like FTP.EXE was copied, so the program(as you call it) they are selling back to the public, was built from source code copied from BSD and probably originally founded by US tax payers.
It's not like the TCP/IP RFC's were unavailable to Microsoft and they were free to implement their own TCP/IP stack, but Time To Market is important and Bill decided to copy the source code instead, perfectly legal because of the BSD licence.
> I could of course be wrong but I'm pretty sure there aren't 31-bit architectures. At least, these architectures are exceedingly rare if they do indeed exist.
Of course you're wrong:-) The IBM OS/390 and Z/OS operating systems, which run on most IBM mainframes, are both 31-bit.
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In most cases, Google doesn't sell to you. Instead, it sells you. Google sells you and me to advertisers, trend analysers and whatnot. That's why Google's services are "free". Bait is always free.
"Just as I'd suspect anyone from another country would prefer their country to be the country of assembly for their next gadget."
I live in Norway, but still would like my next gadget to be made in the USA. Why? I like you guys and a lot of US stuff is of excellent quality.
Too bad the good stuff is hard to get here in europe. You're not really into exporting stuff anymore, are you? ;-)
"It’s unprofessional and inefficient. And very error-prone for no reason at all."
There are many good reasons for choosing C over C++, Java or other languages. The most obvious reason is that C is the only language available for the target platform. Performance requirements (both size and speed) are also good reasons for choosing C.
ATI Radeon 4890 with binary ATI driverse works well for me under Ubuntu 9.10.
This is an interesting approach to security, use machines so old that no one can crack. Maybe that's why the Russians still use vacuum tubes in MiGs.
Maybe, or maybe they do it to protect their planes from EMP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_bomb#Effects
You're correct regarding the loop. How could I get that wrong? :-(
Regarding the coding style, slashdot ate most of my comment as it contained a couple of < . What I *tried* to say is that it is silly to loop using i <= foo - 1 and much better to use i < foo.
AFAICT, the loop stops when a == numcandidates - 1. Assuming that the candidates array is zero based and has numCandidates elements, the array access should be ok.
;-)
The coding style "i http://www.thedailywtf.com/
>Well, the FSF didn't change the license radically - and it only affects two kinds of software: the software initially written under GPL 3 and the software including the GPL version x or any later.
>The software which was licensed under GPL x or later was so licensed even before the GPL 3. And the possibility of license change was plainly stated.
Wrong. The GPL v2 text says: "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
It is up to the user of the software to choose between GPL v2 or a later version, not up to the author. The author may of course change the license for other versions, but that's another matter.
HTH & HAND
(Posting using Gentoo+links while rebuilding X, so forgive the crappy quoting and formatting, please) :-(
Anyway, I just wanted to add a comment about the tech marvels of the place. The romans flooded the Colosseum with water and held sea battles there. Google for details, I can't even copy&paste a link right now
>I have learned that past sky-high CO2 concentrations have been documented in peer-reviewed research journals. If we have hit peak >oil, I doubt we will ever be able to reach these levels.
We may hit peak oil within a decade, and oil production will start falling. Unfortunately, that does not change anything but the price of oil. Burning *coal* is a major source of CO2 and will be widely available for hundreds of years to come.
Think about it, all that CO2 that once existed was absorbed by plants and turned into coal/oil. Now we are putting the CO2 back into the atmosphere by burning the same coal/oil. Same atoms, 100 million years later.
You didn't google for xterm+vulnerability before posting, did you? ;-)
The documentary has also been debunked by several experts and cross-edited participants, Just fucking google it for more and more accurate information, or just follow this link .
It's amazing that your post now is +4 Insightful, -1 Troll is more appropriate IMO.
Another way to look at things, is the Google way: Don't Be Evil. The problem right now is not that rogue states and terrorists try to blackmail the west, so your argument is void.
If the US did as they spoke and started to cooperate with other nations and obeyed international agreements(geneva, hague, kyoto,...) and didn't wage war for no apparent reason, other nations perception of the US would change a lot. You guys used to be the good guys, remember?
> Ah, more hybrid misnomers. If you don't understand the battery technologies involved (Ni-Mh in current models), don't comment. Ni-Mh is not
e m.asp?NewsID=188:
> "environmentally-disasterous" - in fact, the Ni in the battery is so valuable that Toyota pays a $500 per pack bounty for recycling.
The batteries in the Prius use Nickel (Ni). How do we get Ni? Here's how Toyota gets the Nickel used in the Prius.
From http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/print_it
[ The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius' battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist's nightmare.
"The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside," said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper.
All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn't end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce 'nickel foam.' From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce? ]
Please explain why the Prius batteries aren't an environmental disaster.
Boa
PS: The funny thing is that, according to the quoted article, a Hummer H2 is more environmentally friendly energy wise.
>Siberians are happy about global warming. Siberia is now a happening place. Some Northern European countries are also digging it.
Defrosting Siberia is the last thing you want to do.
Some estimates say that 70 billion metric tons of methane will be released into the atmosphere when/if the siberian permafrost melts. This equals approx. 1500 billion tons of CO2, or 55 years of emissions at current rate.
Google for "global warming feedback loops" for more info.
HAND
Boa
> I always thought this was a rather curious statement. What is it about train system efficiency that inculcates a preference for or against fascism in the general populace?
It's an Italian thing, Mussolini 'made the trains run on time.' Or did he? Not according to this article: http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.htm
Boa
>Sure, you could implement something like pthread_join_with_timeout() using a conditional inside the thread. But you'd need to do that manually, as
> pthreads doesn't provide a primitive for that particular use-case AFAIK.
A quick look in pthread.h tells me that there's one function named pthread_timedjoin_np. The function seems to be a GNU extension and the _np suffix is short for not portable. It probably does that the OP wants, but may not be portable enough for his needs.
HTH
boa
>Bzzt. Look closer.
>The Linux kernel has _always_ been under the GPL v2. Nothing else has ever
>been valid.
Bzzt. Look even closer.
From http://math.hws.edu/orr/linuxtalk/my10bits.html:
In December of that year, Linus released the first stand-alone version (0.11) of the Linux kernel and chunked minix completely. Up to this point, he destributed his code under a personal copyright that allowed anyone to freely distribute the code, but was more restrictive than the GPL (no money could change hands for example). Linux had been using GNU tools to develop Linux, and partly out of gratitude to the GNU project, he placed the Linux kernel under the GPL a couple of weeks later, with version 0.12. He later admitted that it was one of the smartest things he ever did.
boa
I wrote in my original post, What do you think I meant by "perfectly legal"?
Do you understand the difference between protocol and TCP/IP stack? Microsoft didn't just implement the protocols, they copied the source code from BSD and used it in Windows NT/2000/XP.
Even the source code for programs like FTP.EXE was copied, so the program(as you call it) they are selling back to the public, was built from source code copied from BSD and probably originally founded by US tax payers.
It's not like the TCP/IP RFC's were unavailable to Microsoft and they were free to implement their own TCP/IP stack, but Time To Market is important and Bill decided to copy the source code instead, perfectly legal because of the BSD licence.
> I could of course be wrong but I'm pretty sure there aren't 31-bit architectures. At least, these architectures are exceedingly rare if they do indeed exist.
:-)
Of course you're wrong
The IBM OS/390 and Z/OS operating systems, which run on most IBM mainframes, are both 31-bit.