Encounter Point (excerpts)

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How did the invalid floating point operand exception get raised when I disabled it?

Sort by The Old New Thing (Free subscription) - 07/03/2008

Last time, we learned about the dangers of uninitialized floating point variables but left with a puzzle: Why wasn't this caught during internal testing? I dropped a hint when I described how SNaN s work: You have to ask the processor to raise an exception when it encounters a signaling NaN, and the program disabled that exception. Why was an exception being raised when it had been disabled? The clue...

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Impact Point (R1) in July

Sort by DVD Times (Free subscription) - 06/23/2008

News: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Impact Point on 8th July 2008 priced at $24.96 SRP. A pro beach volleyball star encounters a psychotic stalker in this psychological thriller starring Brian Austin Green and ...

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Cairo to Damascus: Entering Palestine, Encountering a Kibbutz

Sort by Solomonia (Free subscription) - 07/19/2008

[This post continues the series of excerpts from John Roy Carlson's 1951 work, Cairo to Damascus (link to in-print paperback). All posts in the series will be collected on this page.] On the way into Palestine with the Green Shirts,...

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Still excited about Diablo III?

Sort by Aeropause (Free subscription) - 07/06/2008

I was poking around looking for whatever it is I was looking for (honestly, I’ve forgotten) when I encountered this page at Something Awful. It’s an article written by Dennis “Corin Tucker’s Stalker” Farrell, and it’s called The Internet Hates Diablo III. I was very excited for Diablo III and had lots of hopes and [...]

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Why IAX is Immune to NAT Traversal Problem?

Sort by Aswath Weblog (Free subscription) - 07/06/2008

The general perception is that unlike SIP, IAX does not suffer from NAT traversal problem. Claims along this line are routinely made and every time I encounter such a claim I will scratch my head and will do some fact...

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Facebook Encountering Setbacks In China

Sort by WebPro News (Free subscription) - 07/02/2008

So much for global domination. Less than two weeks after Facebook targeted the Chinese market, users' problems with its Chinese-language site point to either serious regional outages or government censorship. read more

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Death Race 2000 (1975) Review

Sort by Analog Medium (Free subscription) - 06/30/2008

You gotta love Death Race 2000. Anyone with a sense of humor has played the game: drive down the street and assign points to the various pedestrian targets you encounter along the way. "Five hundred points for the paraplegic transient. A thousand for the divorced family of three..." They must have been playing the game back in the 70s, too. Death Race 2000 is everyone's fantasy of point-based vehicular...

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Puerto Escondido on YouSurfTubes

Sort by Surf Nation (Free subscription) - 06/22/2008

A great site, if you've not encountered it yet, is YouSurfTubes. Here's some killer footage of Puerto Escondido to prove the point.

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AP v. Bloggers

Sort by The Mahablog (Free subscription) - 06/18/2008

Here’s the latest on the Associated Press v. Bloggers smackdown you may have read about elsewhere. The AP has announced an “Excerpt for Web Use” policy that requires payment of fees based on the number of words used. For example, one would owe the AP $12.50 for excerpting as few as five words. Yes, m’loves, [...]

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Gasquet, Andreev upended at Ordina

Sort by Fox News (Free subscription) - 06/17/2008

Second-seeded Richard Gasquet was upset by fellow Frenchman Marc Gicquel 7-5, 7-6 (6) in the second round of the Ordina Open on Tuesday. The 31-year-old Gicquel fended off seven break points to beat Gasquet for the first time in three encounters and advance to the quarterfinals of the grass-court tuneup for Wimbledon. He next plays Austria's Jurgen Melzer, who upset fifth-seeded Igor Andreev of Russia...

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McCain’s lousy grades

Sort by neo-neocon (Free subscription) - 06/14/2008

One of the points Obama supporters often make about McCain is that he must be dumb since he graduated 594th out of 599th in his class at the Naval Academy. McCain’s low ranking is true. It’s also is true that McCain’s friends insist he “achieved” this status through design, not lack of intelligence; he did [...]

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Welwitchias Off to Good Start in Qualifiers

Sort by The Shebeen (Free subscription) - 06/16/2008

Namibia's Rugby Fifteen "the Welwitschias" got their 2011 World Cup campaign off to a good start despite failing to get a bonus point when the John Williams led team narrowly defeated a stubborn Senegal team by 13 points to 10 in a hard fought encounter in the Senegalese capital, Dakar on Saturday. Full article ... (http://allafrica.com/stories/200806161551.html)

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Welwitchias Off to Good Start in Qualifiers

Sort by All Africa (Free subscription) - 06/16/2008

Namibia's Rugby Fifteen "the Welwitschias" got their 2011 World Cup campaign off to a good start despite failing to get a bonus point when the John Williams led team narrowly defeated a stubborn Senegal team by 13 points to 10 in a hard fought encounter in the Senegalese capital, Dakar on Saturday.

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