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Comment Re:That's a broken way to think of it (Score 5, Informative) 961

by wmshub on Thursday April 24, 2008 @05:21PM (#23189684) Attached to: Are C and C++ Losing Ground?

Duh.

I think the parent was implying that C often directly maps into assembly language, and he's right. As an embedded programmer, one of the benefits of C is that, other than register selection, I can often tell you exactly what assembly statements will be emitted by a chunk of C code. Often I do use C as a shorthand for assembly.

Nobody who knows the term "assembly language" will think that C is one. But it's a lot closer than you might think.

Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru 357

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @01:05PM from the i've-read-a-book-about-this dept.

eldavojohn writes "A meteorite struck in Peru on Saturday leaving cinders, rock & water boiling out of the ground. Villagers nearby reported headaches & vomiting and attributed it to the event. From the article, 'Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.' It's not yet clear whether this is from the meteorite, gas trapped underground that was released or a chemical reaction between the two."

Submission + - Council of the EU says: We cannot support Linux

Submitted by

stefon

on Friday December 29, 2006 @05:49PM

stefon writes: "The Council of the EU has a streaming service to watch the meetings. But the streaming service can be only be used by Mac or MS Windows user. This is because they use wmv for the videos. An online petition has been set created to create pressure to convince the EU council to change its serve in a way that its platform independent. More infos about "

Submission + - Wild bird blinding Laser beacon announced

Submitted by

snot.dotted

on Friday December 29, 2006 @05:44PM

snot.dotted writes: "Southampton, UK. City council announced the construction of a Laser Beacon that will cost £249,000 or $487,590. To be constructed with four high powered lasers (5 watts, class 4) that will be visible for 20 miles and the lasers will be constantly running from dusk until midnight. Local astronomers pissed at the light pollution link to local news paper article, City council leaders unaware of diffraction and beam divergence! You can read their proposal here as a pdf Pidgeons and other wild birds likely to be blinded. Apparently a world first. Next, council to attach frickin' lasers to sharks. Dr Evil running for re-election again! more Beacon of the South Stories"

Submission + - Grand Canyon's age: Don't ask, don't tell

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Friday December 29, 2006 @05:09PM

netbuzz writes: "So how old is the Grand Canyon anyway? The Bush Administration has adopted a don't ask/don't tell policy toward answering the question; specifically, it won't let the Park Service tell.

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801"

Submission + - GNU Classpath responds to Sun OpenJDK

Submitted by

Mark Wielaard

on Friday December 15, 2006 @01:04PM

Mark Wielaard writes: "Ever since Sun announced they would release all of their Java ME, SE and EE implementations under the GPL people wondered what the reaction of the existing libre java community would be. The FSF was very positive about the move in their press release. Now the GNU Classpath developers have responded. The GNU Classpath 0.93 "Dreamland" release notes show their reaction is to produce lots of new code (nio for Darwin/BSD, Swing HTML support, Corba, Graphics2D through Cairo, plus screenshots) and has a lot of postive reactions from their developers (plus some from gcj, kaffe, ikvm, etc.) on the OpenJDK announcement. Seems this might turn out to be a very positive and constructive cooperation. Maybe this will make Java a first class programming language for GNU/Linux next year?"

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