Comment Re:Alright (Score 1) 374
s/astronaunt/astronomer/
Unless you were making a clever joke that I didn't spot...
Comment Misinformation is more dangerous than infection (Score 1) 374
> Swine flu is probably several times more deadlier than a normal flu.
Cite please. "Swine flue" is no more deadly than other influenzas. It is just more contagious.
I'm more worried about H1Z1.
Comment Hardly (Score 1) 720
I bought Vista for the PC I built in April. I guess I just missed out on the 'free Windows 7 upgrade' window. I don't care because as far as I can tell, Windows 7 is identical to Vista with the exception that they crippled UAC, thus making it less secure!
Comment Re:Self-incrimination becoming mandatory (Score 1) 554
There is no such right in the UK.
"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court."
Comment Re:C++: even iostream is doing it wrong (Score 1) 346
$ /usr/share/misc/config.guess
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
$ cat h.cpp
#include <iostream>
int main () {
std::cout << "hello, world\n";
}
$ size h
text data bss dec hex filename
2030 608 296 2934 b76 h
That's with GCC 4.3.3, no optimization, stripping the executable after compiling it.
The problem with mingw is that it doesn't yet support linking to libstdc++ dynamically. Even if you manage to build an executable that appears to link to it dynamically, it still includes a bunch of code statically anyway. Hence the apparent bloat in your executable.
The definition of 'improper' and 'proper' really do depend on your exact requirements. On a PC, who cares if you are linking to one more library that is already on the target system? If you are developing code to run on a GBA then yes, you probably don't want the overhead you mention. But even the DS? That has 4 MB of RAM. That is a lot! If using features from libstdc++ means that you finish your program faster, then you have more time to debug it, and add extra features, etc.
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
$ cat h.cpp
#include <iostream>
int main () {
std::cout << "hello, world\n";
}
$ size h
text data bss dec hex filename
2030 608 296 2934 b76 h
That's with GCC 4.3.3, no optimization, stripping the executable after compiling it.
The problem with mingw is that it doesn't yet support linking to libstdc++ dynamically. Even if you manage to build an executable that appears to link to it dynamically, it still includes a bunch of code statically anyway. Hence the apparent bloat in your executable.
The definition of 'improper' and 'proper' really do depend on your exact requirements. On a PC, who cares if you are linking to one more library that is already on the target system? If you are developing code to run on a GBA then yes, you probably don't want the overhead you mention. But even the DS? That has 4 MB of RAM. That is a lot! If using features from libstdc++ means that you finish your program faster, then you have more time to debug it, and add extra features, etc.
Comment Re:Tearing (Score 1) 427
That's very strange. I would guess that either the OpenGL implementation is buggy or configured incorrectly, or VLC is doing some toolkit-specific thing to disable it.
AFAIK the only way to sync screen updates to vertical blanks in X11 is by using OpenGL, what a pain.
Comment Tearing (Score 2, Interesting) 427
Try using the OpenGL output driver, and make sure 'wait for vertical blank' (vsync) or a similarly-worded option is enabled.
Comment Daemon (Score 1) 187
That's nothing compared to what Matthew Sobel pulled off...
Comment Re:Good luck (Score 1) 358
How can you pay for it anonymously?
Submission + - Inventor of "MOTORAZR" Wins Domain Dispute
An anonymous reader writes: Vincent Nguyen, who runs the phone and gadget review sites SlashPhone and SlashGear, had coined the expression MOTORAZR in July 2004, which led to his registration of MOTORAZR.com for a planned news site about mobile phones. Motorola filed a trademark application for MOTORAZR in June 2005 and now tried to appropriate the domain without compensation.
http://www.dailydomainer.com/200790-inventor-of-mo torazr-wins-domain-dispute-against-motorola.html
http://www.dailydomainer.com/200790-inventor-of-m
Submission + - Open Graphics Round Table
cranos writes: "In this fortnights episode of Open Source On The Air, I sit down with three Graphic Artists who have based their entire work flow on Free and Open Source Software.
We talk about the state of the current FOSS graphics toolset, how this has affected things like barriers to entry, as well as discussing the growing interaction between the audience and the graphic artists.
You can find the full show here: http://localfoss.org/OSOTA/Episode_16"
We talk about the state of the current FOSS graphics toolset, how this has affected things like barriers to entry, as well as discussing the growing interaction between the audience and the graphic artists.
You can find the full show here: http://localfoss.org/OSOTA/Episode_16"
Submission + - Appeal to Google! Use Google Adsense for Good!
Raindeer writes: "I sent the Google Adsense people the following suggestion/feature request; for Google to add an option to allow the pay-out of (a part of) the Adsense revenue of a site directly to a charity. The Google ads on my blog don't generate much income and well, I don't really care about it, they're partially a service to let people find interesting companies and partially a way for me to keep track of statistics (before Google Analytics came around). It's a bit of a long tail idea, where many small sites help generate a big amount of money for charity. I hope some people in the blogosphere help to give this idea some thrust and also encourage Google to allow people to easily let a charity become the beneficiary of the revenue the Google Ads generate."
