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    Texas Rape Survivors Billed for Rape Kits

    I have no problem whatsoever with charging someone who falsifies a police report. It certainly shouldn't be left to everyday tax payers to foot the bill for police work done for someone who deliberately lied about an incident. Why shouldn't they have to pay for it? If you want a rape...
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    Texas Rape Survivors Billed for Rape Kits

    Why not just make payment for rape kits conditional upon results? The idea of rape seriously bothers and concerns me, so I certainly think such services need to be available to any woman at any time. However, considering the number of false rape allegations, why not take such a stance...
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    40 things never said by Southerners.

    Being from the South, I'd say this would be much funnier if there just weren't so many listed. IMO, this shortened version is much better and much more accurate. There you go, try that out. Much better and must more accurately numbered. (I might have included checkmate, but I'm a chess...
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    developing in a virtual environment

    VM's are a great place to setup your development environment. I'd recommend a couple things though, aside from what's already been mentioned. First, once you have Windows/Linux/whatever freshly installed and updated, copy it. It's good to have a clean install available to test your code in...
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    Data Function In Its Own Thread?

    I'd agree with Crusty. If you're concerned about missing data, you could create a thread and have it do nothing but handle the interrupt and store the data into some queue or memory buffer. Then just have your main thread process the data as it is added by the other thread. That way you don't...
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    C & the inline keyword

    Sounds like you have the idea already. ObscureCaucasian is 100% correct in his advice. You want the function to be small. It's basically just a trade-off between code size and run-time overhead. As you mentioned, you eliminate unnecessary parameter copying at the expense of larger code...
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    Quick question: C++ compare to null?

    The value at 0xabcd would always represent the value of next. I'm just picking some arbitrary memory location as the location of the variable next. So from that point on, any time you reference the variable next, it's going to look at memory address 0xabcd for the value of next. After you...
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    Best books to learn the following languages: VHDL, MATLAB

    Here's an excellent VHDL book. It's a little pricey, but well worth it. A professor had me check it out back when I was in grad school and it was the best one I'd ever seen. http://www.amazon.com/Fundamen...ineering/dp/0072499389
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    Quick question: C++ compare to null?

    The reason you are getting a value there is because that's the value that just happens to be residing in the memory area where the variable is stored, which is likely just some spot on the stack. dighn was correct in what he said. The statement VCore *next is merely allocating a pointer (32 or...
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    Quick question: C++ compare to null?

    Just FYI, instantiating a variable VCore *next doesn't actually initialize anything. All you've done is create a pointer. It doesn't allocate any memory for the actual class itself. I think what you actually need is this: VCore *next; next = new VCore; if (next == NULL) { ... } else...
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    Tidal Wave Building Against Mormon Church After Prop 8 Passes

    I will say this and only this. 1) Proposition 8 is hate and those who approve it are bigots! This is actually two things, so I?ll tackle the first then the second. As far as proposition 8 being about hate, I think it?s important to note one major issue: love does not necessitate approval...
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    I saw something weird while driving through Albuquerque

    There's an Air Force base and a National Lab in Albuquerque, both of which use government vehicles and drive off-road. I'd say chances are it belongs to one of them.
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    Gordon B. Hinckley dies at age 97

    For those of you who don't know who he is, or what he's done, here's a little info. President Hinckley received a number of educational honors, including the Distinguished Citizen Award from Southern Utah University; the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Utah; and honorary...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    The fact that you have nothing? That comment, regardless of the number of times you quote it, still shows absolutely nothing. You have yet to show anything that show the church effecting the law. That isn't even a law, it's a proposal. It wasn't written by the church, the church didn't hire...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    Yes they do, and as I've stated several times already, that should be seen as a viable alternative. However, there is absolutely nothing legally wrong with what they are doing. They are well within their rights. It's funny to me that you're are complaining about religious group enacting...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    No, you're dodging the facts. You have no ground to stand on on this one. You're claims are unfounded, unsupported, and flat out wrong. You're claiming that the church is too involved in politics, yet in your comment above you state that they don't weigh in on speeding limits and parking...
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    So what do Christians think of Muslims and Hindus?

    Why would a belief in Jesus be necessary in order for this to happen? These events are provided for those who don't believe in him, or who have never been given the opportunity. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, so feel free to let me know where I'm missing you on this.
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    You see that part in bold? That means that the proposal already existed prior to the endorsement of the church. And I'm sorry, but when did the church's endorsement equal a law? I must have missed that part of my PolySci classes. Roll your eyes all you want, but you have no case or claim...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    They have the right to demand whatever changes they want. Doesn't mean they'll get them, but they have the right to "demand" them. And protesting is well within their rights under freedom of speech. Now personally, I wouldn't give much credit to the 1,000 signatures unless the majority of...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    I don't think it'd be pointless. I'm not disputing the fact that many lawmakers are Mormon. However, when they are in session, they are lawmakers first, Mormons second (or at least, that's what they should be). Their responsibility is to make laws in accordance to the will of the people they...
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    So what do Christians think of Muslims and Hindus?

    Sorry to jump into this in the middle, but I do have an answer for your questions. All will have the opportunity to hear and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ, thereby covering all the cases you spoke of. This is the belief of the LDS church, which is not common to all Christiandom. As for...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    Yes, and that provides a good alternative if they are not able to meet there objectives at Gold's Gym, but that still does not nullify their right to use Gold's Gym and make request for changes. If it was a "change or we'll close you down", that's one thing. But that is not what this is and...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    Yes, and they have a petition signed by 1000 people, if I recall correctly. These people are presumably members of Gold's Gym, which would seem to me to be a pretty good majority. It's at least large enough to warrant their attention. But if they're not a majority, I agree completely. They...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    I bring it up because I get tired of hearing it as an excuse from people to hate the church. It's completely ignorant. Utah, and Idaho, are both predominantly LDS (overall) and yet alcohol is still sold, strip clubs still exist (even in the "great" Salt Lake City), and Idaho even has a...
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    So do you think the college town you live in SUCKS?????????

    First off, not every Mormon is voting for Romney, even if he is Mormon. For instance, this one. Mormon or not, the man tells people only what they want to hear. In Massachusetts, he believed/supported what would get him elected. Now that the Republican party is looking for a more "Regan-esk"...
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    Health Care Poll

    I personally think the biggest problem is health care cost, specifically with all the exuberant law suits that are being handed out against doctors. Put a cap on those and help reduce insurance cost that are being paid for by patients. This is not the only change that would need to occur...
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    I am so freaking proud of my son

    Props to the kid, and good job Dad! Thanks for sharing.
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    :laugh: ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?! GET TICK COUNT????? Do you even know what that does? It returns the number of milliseconds that have passed. What in the hell does that have to do with how many clock cycles a portion of code has taken? Any number of things could affect that count...
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    Okay, it is obvious that a hardware lesson is needed because you guys just aren't getting it. First and foremost, looking at this at the hardware level is NOT too low level. How do you measure a software program? How do you say one software implementation is faster that the other? By the...
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    Yes it is because the copy instruction is independent of the other instructions, therefore they can execute in parallel. The prefix instruction is not. I can instantiate a copy instruction and continue right on trucking. Without it, I have to sit there and wait for the increment operation to...
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    Do you believe?

    What amazes me is that these people can open their doors, see ghost/gouls/demons/whatever, and just keep on filming. They don't drop their camera and run screaming, they just sit there filming these things. As for believing in them, sure, I think there are other spirits here on the Earth...
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    Well, if that is the case, some software engineer foobar'd that problem big time. Fact still remains the even with the temp, the postfix is going to run faster on any modern microprocessor.
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    Why would it created an entire copy? All that is being returned is a pointer to the location, whether you do a postfix or prefix. If an entire copy is being made, then what you've got is one screwed up compiler. I've never written a compiler that would do something that stupid. Doesn't mean...
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: mlm <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: engineereeyore But that is not at all true. When the processor creates a copy, it's not copying the entire data structure. i is nothing more than a pointer. Copying a pointer...
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    Agreed. Any compiler should be able to look at the use of the incremented value and determine that the function should be called first, thereby eliminating the need for a temp.
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    But that is not at all true. When the processor creates a copy, it's not copying the entire data structure. i is nothing more than a pointer. Copying a pointer is a very simple process. You can't increment an object, only a pointer to an object. Therefore, what you are copying is a pointer...
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    Here's an example I found of why people believe this to be true. Consider this example: void PrintElement(const std::vector<int>::iterator& i) { std::cout << *i << " "; } int main() { std::vector<int> v; v.push_back(1); v.push_back(2); v.push_back(3); std::vector<int>::iterator...
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    Ratatouille Scoring 95% on RT

    Great movie. Really enjoyed it.
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    Well, that depends. If you're using the increment operator inside of an array reference, i++ is going to work faster. I know ++i and i++ would reference two different values in an array, but you can typically change how you're referencing things to make it work. I'm still not sure if I buy...
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    C/C++ prefix vs postfix increment

    I think the problem is people associate fewer instructions with faster execution. On a modern superscaler architecture, multiple instructions are always being executed concurrently. So the number of instruction has almost no bearing on how quickly something is actually done. For instance...