Roughly, when you're receiving an AM signal, you use the rectifying effect of a diode coupled to a low-pass filter. The idea is that the envelope is all you really need to pass to the speaker, if the signal itself is powerful enough.
It still exists, and it's still relevant /if/ you're in the situation Dave above describes - and you have sufficient clout to get stlport included in your code. In almost every other situation where you can actually use the stl, it's probably a better idea to use the libs that come with the compiler.
> maybe we do owe them all an apology and some hard cash.
I would think this is a terrible idea. For example, my government might actually take it into its head to ask (yet again) that we get the Kohinoor diamond back :)
Um, no argument either way - I just believe a lump of crystalline carbon can collect dust equally well in one museum as another.
More seriously, given that pretty much all of history is rife with examples of transfer of wealth from one place to another. it's better to (try to) not make the same mistake again, rather than fixing the past.
> Brogrammers are mostly Silicon Valley / Harvard type douchebags who got into programming. YCombinator drop outs. Years of experience in managed and web languages, but who have no idea how to setup a build system nor work in native code.
I think I met more brogrammers working for Amazon in Seattle and hanging out with Microsofties, than in the Bay Area.
I almost feel like "real geeks" are a rare breed these days. It's so rare nowadays to meet a hacker that likes to hack, as opposed to a coder who's really in it so he can afford to rage at the club every chance he gets.
I almost linked to that, but wanted to share the love with the other bro's sites out there too. That vid is in the top of the search results I linked, it's all good.
I imagine her main gripe would be that the free food was treated as a component of her compensation, and then withdrawn for the perfectly rational (but unrelated) reason of cutting costs.If someone did that to my salary (and it's happened a few times, for various reasons), that would generate a certain amount of ill-will.
It's also their fault. They made an offer they weren't planning on keeping. And they lose the most - an irate employee is a dead loss to an organization, but still gets a paycheck (until they more on or get fired, which takes a long time).
Well that's human nature people get far more upset about losing something losing $20 a day in free food feels much worse than gaining the same amount in pay.
Stupid question: wouldn't the ND ("You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.") part of the license basically mean that you can't use these colour schemes?
IANAL. But I've been told that an abstract color scheme like this isn't covered by IP laws, while a color scheme in a specific context may be considered part of a trademark or trade dress. In either case it would not be covered by copyright, as that license implies.
Someone who knows more about this should jump in and elaborate.
"Your projects" does have a rather wide applicability, I guess :)
That said, I'm wondering what a /proper/ license for a colour scheme should be. If it's a css file (or even an emacs theme), that doesn't seem to be so hard to imagine.
Don't forget the high-end FPGA's, too - that's where ARM's licensing gives them a decisive advantage (not least because if you're using one of them to prototype something, you will end up producing your ASIC with licensed components from ARM anyway.)
For what it's worth, the WCCC's Rule 2 seems to be a lot like a university honor code (if you do borrow code or ideas, make sure you cite it.) I don't believe that's too hard to follow. Maybe someone should fund a kaggle competition to design the best chess-playing program, with the final requirement of making the code open-source after :)
Given that most of what you'd implement a computer chess engine is pretty much available online (at most,behind a paywall), and digging through the source code of GNUChess and Crafty would give a lot of insight into the scoring function, so, yes, the score function would be pretty much similar in most parts unless someone comes up with a radically new way of doing things.
Um, seriously? What genre would you place either of The War of the Worlds or 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, then? That the books manage to get a lot of things wrong doesn't really alter the fact that they were early, very popular examples of science fiction (and there were a lot more dating back to before WWII, when SF really took off.)
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