I like the idea of IPTV, and AT&T's U-Verse TV service is completely IP-based. So why do I have to have U-Verse Internet service?
Probably because multicast doesn't work over the public Internet. It works only on a particular ISP's network.
Leave it to Slashdotters to denigrate our democratic representatives and idolize a glorified dictator.
I hear Putin wrestles bears, clearly hes better for a country than our congress!
Where do you live and how much does it cost to move there?
If you had a hard requirement such as "has to be ASCII-based" or "char must be 8 bits wide", then I'd wonder where it comes from.
The fact that Internet protocols use 8-bit bytes and either ASCII or its superset UTF-8.
For requiring char to be of some specific width, there's hardly a reason, unless you're improperly (de)serializing.
Last time I checked, the C standard offered no facility for networking, graphics, or even enumeration of the files in a directory. This means most nontrivial interactive programs will need to use POSIX or Windows functions, which are defined in the POSIX and Win32 specifications but are undefined behavior from the perspective of the C standard, in order to access the data that the program is (de)serializing in the first place. Or is there a portable way to do this that I'm somehow missing?
2BE is considered quite safe, otherwise it wouldn't be used in cosmetics:
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this. I guess the question is, are you getting paid to tell this lie? Cosmetics are full of known toxics, just like perfumes.
And all it would take would be a home mechanic spilling a bottle of one of those products to get to that same parts-per-trillion levels in their own well water.
It would take a lot more than that, in all likelihood. It's usually not trivial for something you spill to wind up in your well unless you've got an open well, and you spill into it.
The reason these chemicals are expensive to dispose of is that they are difficult to destroy by any means other than sweet, cleansing flame — and a whole hell of a lot of it. Throwing it in your campfire won't do it. Anything that can't be gotten out of your water by relatively simple means isn't filtered out by your municipal water department.
I said, "I have a question about a charge on my bill," and it correctly connected me to the chargeback section.
it eliminated all but the keywords, and got "question", "charge" and "bill". It may only be scanning for about 20 keywords at the most at any given prompt. That's a very easy job compared to natural speech recognition which actually gets all the words. You could get that on a chip 20 years ago.
Oh, what's the "talent" of a software developer then? It's shipping working software as a team.
Developer, programmer, and engineer all have their own meanings, and cannot be used interchangeably.
If you're a programmer and you believe you can give 110% even for one day, you have other problems.
You're not making it better by actively promoting horrible, non-portable, implementation-dependent and error-prone coding practices.
What's wrong with making assumptions about implementation-defined behaviors and using static assertions to verify them? For example, would it be poor form to assume (and assert) things like 8-bit bytes or that the character set is ASCII, and if so, why?
extern char assert_8bitbytes[(
CHAR_BIT == 8 && sizeof(uint32_t) == 4
) ? 1 : -1];
extern char assert_ascii[(
'A' == 0x41 && 's' == 0x73
) ? 1 : -1];
This way, the compiler will fail and kick out a diagnostic if the environment doesn't match the assumptions.
Too bad that's not installed by default on the two most used desktop operating systems.
Either you got bad moderators that day or I got good moderators today, or maybe the opinion of the majority is changing.
Maybe because you can't break rocks with harsh words?
Tell that to this guy.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener
