Comment Re:Great potential (Score 1) 404
i++ or ++i or i = i + 1 doesn't generate an atomic operation. You need some intrinsic like Increment(&i) to get that.
i++ or ++i or i = i + 1 doesn't generate an atomic operation. You need some intrinsic like Increment(&i) to get that.
That's because Germans are still reluctant to embrace that Credit Card thingie and without that you have to carry cash to a shop.
Germans (actually all Europeans) don't need credit cards because with EC/Maestro cards, they already have something better: free card and transactions for customers, and just 0.3% transaction fee for merchants. Payment is online with PIN against your bank account. AmEx and others don't offer free cards (here) and seem to take 3-5% transaction fee.
Other vendors can do better.
Apple iPod: Just copying audio files to the device doesn't work, special software has to be used, which also updates the index. File and directory names are lost, replaced by has values.
Philips GoGear: You can copy audio files on/off it with any file manager. Directory and file names are preserved. When file system content has been changed, on detach, the device updates the index itself. So you can add/remove tracks with any file manager and the device still can use an index database.
I hope the US gets to adopt SI units before hitting 4.3L/100km in 2025.
I wonder how they came up with US$ 1.90 retail for 500ml in Germany. That's fair for 2 premium or 3 average 500ml units, but not for one. For that price, there is quite some selection of sixpacks at discounters.
And 130km/h (81 mph) is the recommended speed for highways, meaning if conditions are good, you should go at least 81mph.
Is it the speed or the address space, or what, that you're calling limited?
On the 2600, the CPU has to generate the video signal, each frame (@60/50Hz), all the time.
The playfield makes up around 50% of the analog video signal's beam time. Therefore, even if you use
all tricks to have the CPU available for game logic on left, right, top & bottom border, you still have less
than 50% of the CPU time available.
If you want to use the hardware sprites (movable overlays), you have
around 30% CPU time (=0.36MHz) left for game logic.
MS made it way too hard to reconfigure Win7 to have the same quicklaunch bar like in XP. You need the recipe how to do it and around 30 clicks. No wonder user behavior changed compared to XP.
I was really missing the XP-like quicklaunch it in Win7, mainly because "pinned icons" (?) only work to open the first window:
Click "Firefox" to open one window. Fine. Click again for a second window? Doesn't work.
Only because of this article, google found me how to get the XP behavior back.
It's a bit more complicated than just hacking away some license check. Each game happens in it's own randomly generated game world.
The world generator code & data is server-side only. The game client does not have the code to generate a world, it can only display and navigate a world. I heard that some (or all?) world generator stuff was shipped with the closed alpha test builds, but was removed before beta test.
It would take somebody to code something emulating a Blizzard D3 server with quite some logic.
Nearly 9 years ago,
http://slashdot.org/story/03/09/27/175242/tcpip-over-bongo-drums
As the original page is offlne since years, here's archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031230015730/http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/
That Virginia Beach residential area and central London residentials are quite a different thing.
From Google Maps & Street View:
Virginia Beach: 2-story buildings covering one third of the surface.
London: ~4-story buildings on two thirds of the surface with seemingly much less floor area per apartment.
Wikipedia says, London has 7.5 times the population density of Virginia Beach.
then what about when crapware gets on a unpatched system and starts spamming the network and you can't block the system on the firewall as it needs to talk to outside systems?
Hospital IT can put a firewall between the medical device and the hospital network and configure it accordingly. Or detach the system from the network and call service.
FDA states on this topic pretty clearly (http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm189111.htm):
"All software changes that address cybersecurity threats should be validated before installation to ensure they do not affect the safety and effectiveness of the medical devices."
This pretty much means that the medical device manufacturer has to validate OS and AV signature updates before allowing their own service or hospital IT to install to systems. This also implies that auto-update of OS and AV must be disabled.
I'm pretty sure that regulation currently prohibits hospital IT and others to change the medical device software (yes, AV, drivers, OS also belongs to that) to some configuration which has not gone through validation testing.
You can be sure that if 80 million Germans suddenly found a message saying "Because of your courts and GEMA you will no longer be able to use YouTube", it wouldn't be long before GEMA came crawling back begging.
Youtube already blocks quite a few current music video clips for german IPs saying "The video is not available in Germany because it might contain music not licensed by GEMA."
There's a firefox plugin (ProxTube) which detects exactly this and reloads the video using a non-german proxy.
it's pretty clear from the quality of their products that, for the most part, all they care about is the money. There are bugs in Office that have been there probably more than a decade.
I was also quite annoyed lately as I stumbled upon a bug in Visual Studio 2008 and how it was handled by MS. The bug report was closed as "cannot reproduce", because while it is in VS2008, it could not be reproduced in VS 2010 (!). As if buying and migrating to VS2010 would be a proper bugfix...
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
