Motorola isn't a Google child company. Motorola Mobility is a company which Google has agreed to purchase from Motorola, but the purchase has not yet been completed.
Google's not buying it from Motorola. Motorola spun off Motorola Mobility in January 2011. At the same time, the parent company changed its name to “Motorola Solutions”, so there is no longer any company just called “Motorola”.
Did Firefly or Battlestar Galactica ever win an Emmy? Nope.
Battlestar Galactica (reimagined) won twice for special visual effects, once for sound editing, and one for a "Razor" featurette.
What really killed C++ for me was when a student created a situation like this:
std::string somefunction(){}
The fact that such a thing can compile is a glaring error. A function that declares a return type should have a return statement in it, and that should be beyond question. In C, failing to actually return will cause you to have corrupt data; in C++, it can cause a crash, when a temporary object that was never created is destroyed (and happens to have a virtual destructor, which is common).
Corrupt data can just as easily crash a C program. Suppose the function should allocate and return a nul-terminated string, but it falls off the end:
char * somefunction()
{
}
// ...
char *s = somefunction()
printf("%s\n", s);
free(s);
You laugh, but I have never observed a self-serve gas station in New Jersey....
That's right. Self-serve is illegal in New Jersey, and also Oregon.
You can't have everything... where would you put it? -- Steven Wright
