The real investigation should be who got rich from all this.
And who will also get rich building the replacement scanners? Declare it a health risk, then money can go to replacements and another study to find out if the replacements are safe.
We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Is it the ability to display a UI, or the ability to decode H.264 at that resolution
For that matter, which H.264 profile? Is it just CBP (Constrained Baseline Profile) or BP? If it can decode the same H.264 my Windows box does, then it would be quite impressive, but I just don't see how that would be possible at this price and current generation hardware.
"and your thread probably throws a null pointer exception... and you catch it and do a graceful shutdown."
Yeah, right. Show me all the Java programs which do that.
Minecraft catches them and does something (gives a program internal error message about it), but I'm not entirely confident about how "graceful" it actually is. I would expect data loss would be the preferred outcome compared to full DB corruption.
Anyways, properly typed languages won't even compile if there's a possibility of uncaught null pointer dereferencing. null is just a remnant of dark ages.
I've heard that static analysis tools can spot points in C/C++ code where the potential for this exists. So assuming those tools are in use and reliably accurate, it's pretty much a non issue either way. End result is probably just a lot of "if (ptr != NULL)" getting splattered all over the code, which probably should have been done in the first place. And yes, the tool will likely have some false positives, but relying on assumptions and known program flow really isn't worth omitting the check anyway. Not like its burning dozens of cycles or anything.
She'll likely fall apart completely right there on the sidewalk somewhere and require years of therapy.
All your other friends couldn't come either, because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikeable you are. It says so here in your personnel file: Unlikeable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikeable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. 'Shall not be mourned.' That's exactly what it says. Very formal, very official.
The way it's described in the kernel coding style is probably one of the very few "correct" uses of it. In fact, I know we have code here that does exactly that, goto cleanup; then it has a return right after taking care of whatever buffers and such. Initially I was somewhat offended looking at it but after a while I've started to agree with it. In fact, I'd say that use pretty much justifies its continued existence.
You can also add that while Wikipedia may have the legal resources to fight such claims.
Unless Wkipedia has just been trolling us every year with the begging campaign, I don't think they actually have the financial resources to do anything about it. Or is this implying lawyers are willing to take it on pro bono? I'd say either way, Wikipedia feels threatened.
I guess an orchestra costs a fair bit. -I've no idea about anything to do with music recording.
I'd say going for a full out orchestra would _not_ be the first option. In fact, there were some interviews talking about "Warhammer 40K : Space Marine" and how they were really excited to actually be using a real orchestra at all for recording the soundtrack. Of course good audio gear to make a synthetic orchestra also looks expensive, but I would assume quite a bit less investment than the real thing.
Look at something like DOOM. No DRM really (at least not of the nastiest sort), but it can't exactly run natively in Windows 7.
DooM is a somewhat interesting example because id released the source for it, effectively making the engine free at least. The only piece of it that is not free at this point is the content (which can still be purchased legally). I'm almost certain one of the dozens of source ports will run Win 7 native. You can even find ones that use DirectX or OpenGL rendering. So as far as commercial software goes, id software is a bit of an oddity (a good one) compared to the rest of the industry.
Far as I recall there wasn't any DRM on it at all. The disks it shipped on were just normal floppies, and diskcopy didn't choke on them or anything.
but iTunes meant you had an easy way of getting stuff on it.
I had an iRiver before I got an iPod. iTunes was not even close to easy when compared to the ease of copy-paste "D:\Music". Unfortunately it looks like iRiver has gone to the same "library" tool stuff, but at least the old ones were just like mass storage, installed no software whatsoever. The device could build up meta data index if browsing directories was not the preferred search method and the device could already use my M3U playlists anyway.
Also, shortly before the battery life became relatively useless, I even had a chance to try out alternative firmware on it, which was almost entirely trivial to install.
For simple music players, I really would like going back to simple "sync" methods, like raw file access. Maybe I should hunt down a new player...
These X-ray machines are a massive health risk, this is one of those things that people will look back at in the future and think "Wow, WTF were these primitive morons thinking?"
Don't panic, if enough of these devices are installed we can avoid that problem entirely.
I think the main problem is that some developers do not seem to realize WHEN the code can stand on its own, and WHEN having a bit of explanation is important. So the knee jerk reaction to this is just "we need more comments / documentation".
A lot of useless comments in completely obvious code adds absolutely nothing to the program, and in fact probably just makes it more difficult to read. A lack of comments in an extremely complicated algorithm or non-typical solution will probably result in someone breaking it later because they either think it is doing something else, or just don't get it.
Also, in terms of where it is located, I think developers are at least more likely to keep some description or outline in the code comments up to date, compared to say a separate document. So unless it is being sucked in from some automated tool like doxygen, I'd consider offline documents secondary to whatever is right in front of you.
How do you know? It's not like they pop up a window to let you know if the installation was successful.
No, some of them do. The popup that warns you it's time to purchase the full version of their virus scanner with cleaning capability, because--surprise--you are infected now.
Seriously though, this is how I identified one of my old XP boxes was infected. Also around the time I switched from Avast to MSE.
There are still the usual health potions (in current Beta form) in addition to the "bulbs" or "globes". However, stocked potions do have an actual cooldown rather than instant in prior Diablo titles. In D1 & D2 it was pretty much possible to just spam potions to live. D2 made this a little harder with the way potions actually gradually filled the globe, but the purple potions were always instant.
scientists can't get by ignoring the moral/ethical considerations
Actually, if you look into it, that's exactly what J. Robert Oppenheimer actually did. This paper provides some compelling reasoning to back it up: The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Well, it is quite replaceable, just buy a violin and wait. Voila, an old violin. Personally I don't really see why anything old has an excessive value beyond its use.
If GM sells you a car and throws in a year of free oil changes and tune ups, would you be a bit annoyed if during one of the oil changes they also installed a governor that prevented you from driving faster than 50 kph?
Of course that car will not need another oil change because it's going to be completely destroyed in a cataclysmic road rage accident.
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The real investigation should be who got rich from all this.
And who will also get rich building the replacement scanners? Declare it a health risk, then money can go to replacements and another study to find out if the replacements are safe.
We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Is it the ability to display a UI, or the ability to decode H.264 at that resolution
For that matter, which H.264 profile? Is it just CBP (Constrained Baseline Profile) or BP? If it can decode the same H.264 my Windows box does, then it would be quite impressive, but I just don't see how that would be possible at this price and current generation hardware.
Can't tell if troll or usual MS tactic.
You say that like there is a difference?
"and your thread probably throws a null pointer exception ... and you catch it and do a graceful shutdown."
Yeah, right. Show me all the Java programs which do that.
Minecraft catches them and does something (gives a program internal error message about it), but I'm not entirely confident about how "graceful" it actually is. I would expect data loss would be the preferred outcome compared to full DB corruption.
Anyways, properly typed languages won't even compile if there's a possibility of uncaught null pointer dereferencing. null is just a remnant of dark ages.
I've heard that static analysis tools can spot points in C/C++ code where the potential for this exists. So assuming those tools are in use and reliably accurate, it's pretty much a non issue either way. End result is probably just a lot of "if (ptr != NULL)" getting splattered all over the code, which probably should have been done in the first place. And yes, the tool will likely have some false positives, but relying on assumptions and known program flow really isn't worth omitting the check anyway. Not like its burning dozens of cycles or anything.
Unless you decide to keep up in programming languages whatever you learn is going to be completely and uterly useless.
Yeah, like C. It's only been around for about 40 years and it's already totally obsolete. /s
If one is to understand the great mystery, one must study all its aspects. Lets put some assembly in there, preferably some simple RISC architecture.
Ok, maybe not to start with, but anyone who wants to really be a programmer should have some exposure to the real thing.
She'll likely fall apart completely right there on the sidewalk somewhere and require years of therapy.
All your other friends couldn't come either, because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikeable you are. It says so here in your personnel file: Unlikeable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikeable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. 'Shall not be mourned.' That's exactly what it says. Very formal, very official.
but the DEA and CIA make far too much money off of drugs
They do? So where is my tax cut? Clearly they don't need funding from my money if they are making so much.
Actually, there was a link in TFA to the actual survey (I know, why bother right?). N=770. Somewhat more significant.
The way it's described in the kernel coding style is probably one of the very few "correct" uses of it. In fact, I know we have code here that does exactly that, goto cleanup; then it has a return right after taking care of whatever buffers and such. Initially I was somewhat offended looking at it but after a while I've started to agree with it. In fact, I'd say that use pretty much justifies its continued existence.
You can also add that while Wikipedia may have the legal resources to fight such claims.
Unless Wkipedia has just been trolling us every year with the begging campaign, I don't think they actually have the financial resources to do anything about it. Or is this implying lawyers are willing to take it on pro bono? I'd say either way, Wikipedia feels threatened.
I guess an orchestra costs a fair bit. -I've no idea about anything to do with music recording.
I'd say going for a full out orchestra would _not_ be the first option. In fact, there were some interviews talking about "Warhammer 40K : Space Marine" and how they were really excited to actually be using a real orchestra at all for recording the soundtrack. Of course good audio gear to make a synthetic orchestra also looks expensive, but I would assume quite a bit less investment than the real thing.
Look at something like DOOM. No DRM really (at least not of the nastiest sort), but it can't exactly run natively in Windows 7.
DooM is a somewhat interesting example because id released the source for it, effectively making the engine free at least. The only piece of it that is not free at this point is the content (which can still be purchased legally). I'm almost certain one of the dozens of source ports will run Win 7 native. You can even find ones that use DirectX or OpenGL rendering. So as far as commercial software goes, id software is a bit of an oddity (a good one) compared to the rest of the industry.
Far as I recall there wasn't any DRM on it at all. The disks it shipped on were just normal floppies, and diskcopy didn't choke on them or anything.
but iTunes meant you had an easy way of getting stuff on it.
I had an iRiver before I got an iPod. iTunes was not even close to easy when compared to the ease of copy-paste "D:\Music". Unfortunately it looks like iRiver has gone to the same "library" tool stuff, but at least the old ones were just like mass storage, installed no software whatsoever. The device could build up meta data index if browsing directories was not the preferred search method and the device could already use my M3U playlists anyway.
Also, shortly before the battery life became relatively useless, I even had a chance to try out alternative firmware on it, which was almost entirely trivial to install.
For simple music players, I really would like going back to simple "sync" methods, like raw file access. Maybe I should hunt down a new player...
These X-ray machines are a massive health risk, this is one of those things that people will look back at in the future and think "Wow, WTF were these primitive morons thinking?"
Don't panic, if enough of these devices are installed we can avoid that problem entirely.
I think the main problem is that some developers do not seem to realize WHEN the code can stand on its own, and WHEN having a bit of explanation is important. So the knee jerk reaction to this is just "we need more comments / documentation".
A lot of useless comments in completely obvious code adds absolutely nothing to the program, and in fact probably just makes it more difficult to read. A lack of comments in an extremely complicated algorithm or non-typical solution will probably result in someone breaking it later because they either think it is doing something else, or just don't get it.
Also, in terms of where it is located, I think developers are at least more likely to keep some description or outline in the code comments up to date, compared to say a separate document. So unless it is being sucked in from some automated tool like doxygen, I'd consider offline documents secondary to whatever is right in front of you.
Or, for the real elite playing the first Doom, "IDSPISPOPD"! "IDCLIP" didn't come along until Doom 2.
How do you know? It's not like they pop up a window to let you know if the installation was successful.
No, some of them do. The popup that warns you it's time to purchase the full version of their virus scanner with cleaning capability, because--surprise--you are infected now.
Seriously though, this is how I identified one of my old XP boxes was infected. Also around the time I switched from Avast to MSE.
There are still the usual health potions (in current Beta form) in addition to the "bulbs" or "globes". However, stocked potions do have an actual cooldown rather than instant in prior Diablo titles. In D1 & D2 it was pretty much possible to just spam potions to live. D2 made this a little harder with the way potions actually gradually filled the globe, but the purple potions were always instant.
At least now we know who their target market is.
Let's get real: do the /. editors have no sense of magnitude at all?!
For that matter how did this get published by Wired without catching that? Or are they also known to be an unreliable source with poor fact checking?
scientists can't get by ignoring the moral/ethical considerations
Actually, if you look into it, that's exactly what J. Robert Oppenheimer actually did. This paper provides some compelling reasoning to back it up: The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
destroy an irreplaceable piece of history
Well, it is quite replaceable, just buy a violin and wait. Voila, an old violin. Personally I don't really see why anything old has an excessive value beyond its use.
If GM sells you a car and throws in a year of free oil changes and tune ups, would you be a bit annoyed if during one of the oil changes they also installed a governor that prevented you from driving faster than 50 kph?
Of course that car will not need another oil change because it's going to be completely destroyed in a cataclysmic road rage accident.
"I'm a food expert, and I've seen what damage it can do... you don't want it."
Well, one of the biggest health risks in America is obesity. I guess he had to find something he could do better than us. Congrats on that I guess.