With enough experience, yes. And you can check the generated assembly afterward to see if it matches what you expect.
Of course there are some cases where you know that you don't know what will get out of the compiler, but for the majority of if-then-else assignments, you don't get surprised by what comes out of the compiler.
There are exceptions on some architecture (e.g. Itanium) where the CPU is so complex that is it very hard to predict anything, but on x86/ARM, it's pretty simple.
The wikipedia page give the Maersk a capacity of 18270 TEU. The article talks about 18000 TEU... where did you find the 14% higher capacity information ?
Indeed not the largest ever built, and roughly the size of the largest in service currently (be it supertankers, cruise ships, or container ships).
On the container ship category, it is also not a breakthrough (List of largest container ships). Couple of feet larger, couple of feet longer, roughly the same number of containers.. no big deal.
You shouldn't trust PageRank to keep you out of danger.
You shouldn't, I agree. But I can't blame people because they use it : it is the most efficient tool I know of (95% of the time, the site I'm looking for is in the first 3 results).
It actually makes a lot of sense to use google for everything. At the beginning there were IP addresses ; hard to remember. Then DNS came up and URLs got much easier to remember.
But, hey, what is the real information when you want to go to http://www.bookstore.com/ ? Answer : bookstore. And that's precisely what google does.
Moreover, if you type "bokstore" instead of "bookstore", google will give you what you actually had in mind.
So yes, Google has a lot of power, which is used in the majority of cases to help people -- this is why people use it. But with that much power, it seems to me that it should be now heavily regulated by law. Search algorithms should be regulated by laws and openly discussed in parliaments. You cannot remove / favor someone just because you want. You may have some space for business to slightly favor (to some extent) those who pay for it. This kind of things.
Ctrl-alt-T is actually pretty hard on fingers. I personnally set the most used shortcuts to Ctrl-Alt-A (Browser) and Ctrl-Alt-Q (Terminal) which I find the most comfortable for my right hand.
An easy way to fix this would be to have the USPTO grant every patent (for a fee) as it does currently, but also every time you want to sue someone, you would need an USPTO expertise granting you the right to sue.
That way, creating bad patents would cost you money ; suing for nothing would cost you money, and invalidate your patents at the same time. And the USPTO would get enough money to have real experts look at each case.
I would agree if official taxis really knew their area, had a GPS in their car, did not try to refuse drives that don't fit them, and didn't try to steal you. I don't know for London, but in Paris and Dublin, I experienced it. No GPS, doesn't know the address, use the wrong (more expensive) fare,...
The regulation is so hard that any taxi that pass it tends to consider itself "safe" from competition.
Taxi lobbies fight for more protections... states gives them more protection [real failure here]... user experience lowers... competition arises... chaos.
The fact that it is only available on Mac makes me wonder if Atom is that great...
Unless I didn't understand the idea (not easy to find out what Atom is, actually), they're developing a javascript editor on top of Chromium. How could that NOT work on Linux and Windows ?
What the incentive for doing yet another editor ?
Having an editor running inside a web browser to develop javascript code could be a nice idea (especially to instant-test code), but looking at their website I'm a bit puzzled...
When will people understand that most of the password we use are not stored on a passwd file we can crack off-line ? Basing the password policy on a brute-force offline cracking time is just annoying for everyone. Brute-force mitigation is very easy to do, and transforms a 4 character password into a very hard to crack password.
So, to all those shitty web-sites, stop enforcing annoying policies to your users (as if it would improve security) and implement other useful techniques such as mitigation on trial-error / IP attack detection,...
I'm amused to see that in the US, having an internet access is still optional:-). Are the US considered an under-developed country ?
That said, I'm sure your comment only makes sense to a very small portion of the population ; which will make cable companies useless in the short term.
What you described is not prohibited by the agreement.
The idea is only to count the work you do 24/7 as "working hours". And any hour above 35h / week will give you some rights (salary, vacations,...).
That way, your work contract will be clearer -- no hidden things, no change in situation like your boss sending you e-mails more and more without a pay increase to reflect the extra hours you're doing.
But again, it does not prevent you to check your e-mails at home.
Censorship is a very relative concept. There is no such thing as "free speech". In every country, there are laws against harassment, racism, libeling, that can make what you say (or tweet) illegal.
Now, what makes the US laws better than the Turkish laws ? If they decide some message is illegal, they are perfectly sovereign in preventing people from viewing it.
You can call for freedom and democracy if you have proofs (or arguments) showing that the court decision was not taken in a democratic way.
And besides, Twitter may be hosted in the US, if they want to do some business in Turkey, they have to obey to turkish laws - or risk a ban. The government filtering does the right thing : remove most of the traffic which makes it a (potentially) profitable company.
The fact that the court order is good or bad has little to do here. If some court decided that a message is illegal (harassing, threatening, racist,...), Twitter has little right to decide if they agree or not if they want to make some business in the country.
I don't see what is so strange that a government ban illegal (in their laws) websites. You can discuss the court order, you can discuss the law, but the fact that Twitter did not comply to the court order is a political decision (with consequences).
Jobs wasn't wrong. If someone posts images of the PCB board of an iPhone 5, everybody will be interested in looking at it. At this period of time, showing a PCB board was just awesome. It looked like the future. Having a beautiful PCB could have been a strong communication point.
Maybe Jobs didn't think about that and was just plain wrong at this time, but I'm not convinced the situation is so clear.
The main reason why 10GbE took time to arrive is simple : connectors are not the good-old RJ45 used for 10Mb, 100Mb and 1GbE. The RJ45 connector is small, cheap and backward compatible. The 10GbE connectors are deep, expensive and not RJ45-compatible, hence cannot be used as a 1GbE port.
10GbE is appearing on servers because the price order is compatible with the expensive and deep connector. It won't appear on commodity motherboards until a smaller connector is designed.
I'm I the only one who is concerned by the validity of their experiment. The last experiment lets me very dubious.
Imagine you have 3 smileys. They have similar ratings, but for sure there is one you prefer, one you rate 2nd and one you rate 3rd. Now, let's just see the result we would have for each scenario.
Rating of cards 1/2/3 ; 3rd card chosen after initial choice ; 3rd card chosen without initial choice (so just between card 2 and card 3)
1/2/3 ; False (1 chosen on first pass) ; False
1/3/2 ; True (1 chosen on first pass) ; True
2/1/3 ; False (1 chosen on first pass) ; False
2/3/1 ; True (2 chosen on first pass) ; True 3/1/2 ; True (1 chosen on first pass) ; False
3/2/1 ; True (2 chosen on first pass) ; True
Which makes in the first experiment 50% chances of choosing the third card and 66% when we made a previous "preselection". This is approximately the figures children had. Monkeys had lower 3rd card preference, maybe because they prefer to take cards in order.
About the rest of the article, I'm just as dubious. If you choose a product, for sure you rate it better. It's called the cause of you choosing it, not a consequence...
I would agree that you are responsible for what you put on the internet.
Still, what you are calling a "moron" may be more than 50% of internet users. At this level, the responsibility may reside in the big companies that lure masses into their "trap".
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With enough experience, yes. And you can check the generated assembly afterward to see if it matches what you expect.
Of course there are some cases where you know that you don't know what will get out of the compiler, but for the majority of if-then-else assignments, you don't get surprised by what comes out of the compiler.
There are exceptions on some architecture (e.g. Itanium) where the CPU is so complex that is it very hard to predict anything, but on x86/ARM, it's pretty simple.
The wikipedia page give the Maersk a capacity of 18270 TEU. The article talks about 18000 TEU... where did you find the 14% higher capacity information ?
Indeed not the largest ever built, and roughly the size of the largest in service currently (be it supertankers, cruise ships, or container ships).
On the container ship category, it is also not a breakthrough (List of largest container ships). Couple of feet larger, couple of feet longer, roughly the same number of containers .. no big deal.
You shouldn't trust PageRank to keep you out of danger.
You shouldn't, I agree. But I can't blame people because they use it : it is the most efficient tool I know of (95% of the time, the site I'm looking for is in the first 3 results).
It actually makes a lot of sense to use google for everything. At the beginning there were IP addresses ; hard to remember. Then DNS came up and URLs got much easier to remember.
But, hey, what is the real information when you want to go to http://www.bookstore.com/ ? Answer : bookstore. And that's precisely what google does.
Moreover, if you type "bokstore" instead of "bookstore", google will give you what you actually had in mind.
So yes, Google has a lot of power, which is used in the majority of cases to help people -- this is why people use it. But with that much power, it seems to me that it should be now heavily regulated by law. Search algorithms should be regulated by laws and openly discussed in parliaments. You cannot remove / favor someone just because you want. You may have some space for business to slightly favor (to some extent) those who pay for it. This kind of things.
My LEFT hand, of course :-)
Ctrl-alt-T is actually pretty hard on fingers. I personnally set the most used shortcuts to Ctrl-Alt-A (Browser) and Ctrl-Alt-Q (Terminal) which I find the most comfortable for my right hand.
An easy way to fix this would be to have the USPTO grant every patent (for a fee) as it does currently, but also every time you want to sue someone, you would need an USPTO expertise granting you the right to sue.
That way, creating bad patents would cost you money ; suing for nothing would cost you money, and invalidate your patents at the same time. And the USPTO would get enough money to have real experts look at each case.
I would agree if official taxis really knew their area, had a GPS in their car, did not try to refuse drives that don't fit them, and didn't try to steal you. I don't know for London, but in Paris and Dublin, I experienced it. No GPS, doesn't know the address, use the wrong (more expensive) fare, ...
The regulation is so hard that any taxi that pass it tends to consider itself "safe" from competition.
Taxi lobbies fight for more protections ... states gives them more protection [real failure here] ... user experience lowers ... competition arises ... chaos.
The fact that it is only available on Mac makes me wonder if Atom is that great ...
Unless I didn't understand the idea (not easy to find out what Atom is, actually), they're developing a javascript editor on top of Chromium. How could that NOT work on Linux and Windows ?
What the incentive for doing yet another editor ?
Having an editor running inside a web browser to develop javascript code could be a nice idea (especially to instant-test code), but looking at their website I'm a bit puzzled ...
So True.
When will people understand that most of the password we use are not stored on a passwd file we can crack off-line ? Basing the password policy on a brute-force offline cracking time is just annoying for everyone. Brute-force mitigation is very easy to do, and transforms a 4 character password into a very hard to crack password.
So, to all those shitty web-sites, stop enforcing annoying policies to your users (as if it would improve security) and implement other useful techniques such as mitigation on trial-error / IP attack detection, ...
I'm amused to see that in the US, having an internet access is still optional :-). Are the US considered an under-developed country ?
That said, I'm sure your comment only makes sense to a very small portion of the population ; which will make cable companies useless in the short term.
What you described is not prohibited by the agreement.
The idea is only to count the work you do 24/7 as "working hours". And any hour above 35h / week will give you some rights (salary, vacations, ...).
That way, your work contract will be clearer -- no hidden things, no change in situation like your boss sending you e-mails more and more without a pay increase to reflect the extra hours you're doing.
But again, it does not prevent you to check your e-mails at home.
Disclaimer : I'm french.
Censorship is a very relative concept. There is no such thing as "free speech". In every country, there are laws against harassment, racism, libeling, that can make what you say (or tweet) illegal.
Now, what makes the US laws better than the Turkish laws ? If they decide some message is illegal, they are perfectly sovereign in preventing people from viewing it.
You can call for freedom and democracy if you have proofs (or arguments) showing that the court decision was not taken in a democratic way.
Agreed.
And besides, Twitter may be hosted in the US, if they want to do some business in Turkey, they have to obey to turkish laws - or risk a ban. The government filtering does the right thing : remove most of the traffic which makes it a (potentially) profitable company.
The fact that the court order is good or bad has little to do here. If some court decided that a message is illegal (harassing, threatening, racist, ...), Twitter has little right to decide if they agree or not if they want to make some business in the country.
I don't see what is so strange that a government ban illegal (in their laws) websites. You can discuss the court order, you can discuss the law, but the fact that Twitter did not comply to the court order is a political decision (with consequences).
Jobs wasn't wrong. If someone posts images of the PCB board of an iPhone 5, everybody will be interested in looking at it. At this period of time, showing a PCB board was just awesome. It looked like the future. Having a beautiful PCB could have been a strong communication point. Maybe Jobs didn't think about that and was just plain wrong at this time, but I'm not convinced the situation is so clear.
Mann also says she has not been paid any royalties by the company since Sept. 30, 2005
Looks like the company did receive the termination notice. But likely a *software bug* in the streaming software missed the removal ...
The main reason why 10GbE took time to arrive is simple : connectors are not the good-old RJ45 used for 10Mb, 100Mb and 1GbE. The RJ45 connector is small, cheap and backward compatible. The 10GbE connectors are deep, expensive and not RJ45-compatible, hence cannot be used as a 1GbE port.
10GbE is appearing on servers because the price order is compatible with the expensive and deep connector. It won't appear on commodity motherboards until a smaller connector is designed.
Quoting http://askville.amazon.com/dangerous-car-batteries/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=4217899 :
It is not dangerous to touch the positive terminal with your bare skin, because 12V is not a hazardous voltage.
So the answer is simply : no, it is not dangerous to touch my car battery (though the battery can be dangerous in a lot of other ways).
I learned something today :-)
Hum ... so you mean that touching my car battery + and - which is just 12V DC is not dangerous ? I kinda doubt that.
I'm I the only one who is concerned by the validity of their experiment. The last experiment lets me very dubious.
Imagine you have 3 smileys. They have similar ratings, but for sure there is one you prefer, one you rate 2nd and one you rate 3rd. Now, let's just see the result we would have for each scenario.
Rating of cards 1/2/3 ; 3rd card chosen after initial choice ; 3rd card chosen without initial choice (so just between card 2 and card 3)
1/2/3 ; False (1 chosen on first pass) ; False
1/3/2 ; True (1 chosen on first pass) ; True
2/1/3 ; False (1 chosen on first pass) ; False
2/3/1 ; True (2 chosen on first pass) ; True
3/1/2 ; True (1 chosen on first pass) ; False
3/2/1 ; True (2 chosen on first pass) ; True
Which makes in the first experiment 50% chances of choosing the third card and 66% when we made a previous "preselection". This is approximately the figures children had. Monkeys had lower 3rd card preference, maybe because they prefer to take cards in order.
About the rest of the article, I'm just as dubious. If you choose a product, for sure you rate it better. It's called the cause of you choosing it, not a consequence ...
Without a steady supply of iPad 2's, civilization would collapse overnight.
I didn't know Civilization had been ported to ipad ...
Because .. Stanley Miller was in fact God. Problem solved, everyone agree now.
I would agree that you are responsible for what you put on the internet. Still, what you are calling a "moron" may be more than 50% of internet users. At this level, the responsibility may reside in the big companies that lure masses into their "trap".
I'd rather have Windows Love.