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An STL implementation has a few things going in its favor:

STL implementations use best-of-breed algorithms.
The designers of STL implementations are, more than likely, domain experts.
Those domain experts were entirely focused on the mission of providing a flexible, powerful, and efficient library. This was their primary task.

But then again. (only) You know your own usage scenario, data types and platform. That knowledge can probably offer some profound short cuts and optimizations.

In related news, the swedish pirate party looks as though they might hava a shot at the EU-parliament.

5.1% of the votes in a recent poll:

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Ffordjupning%2Feuropa2009%2Funga-valjare-kan-ge-piratpartiet-eu-mandat-1.855936&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=

http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=how+sick+is+steve+jobs&btnG=Search

*ducks*

Darwin has the solution on that one.

Congressman Joe Baca's brother Chew is known to be quite agressive.

Yeah ... and when he loses a video game he pulls his opponents arms off.

Congressman Joe Baca's brother Chew is known to be quite agressive.

my home, a small village up in the swedish mountains http://maps.google.se/?ie=UTF8&ll=64.065312,14.146914&spn=0.009216,0.027595&z=15 We have really good connectivity there, 8/1 Mb adsl is the normal for something around 300 sek. there is talk about laying a new fiber all the way to the village and it will be possible to get a fiber all the way to your own house but it will cost. a picture from the center of the village. http://www.fiskevalsjobyn.nu/bilder/valsjn.jpg

a map with all the houses as dot's so you see how small this town really is
http://gfx.aftonbladet.se/multimedia/archive/00424/valsjobyn_424985w.jpg
the X marks the spot where one person was killed last year by a bear.

And NO talk about paying per GB.

Restriction, bah humbug, I can still go to
http://maps.google.se/
Maybe we'll have higher res access there, oh wait nevermind.

"at least two languages"? He's burying it for 25 years, not 250! I'm sure the English language (and any other on Earth, for that matter) will still exist in a mostly compatible form 25 years from now!

While I completely agree that it's unpossible for English to go away in 25 years. Your other assertion is probably false.

"Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may survive into the next century." - Mark Abley

http://books.google.se/books?id=skV2wp81JQIC&dq=Travels+Among+Threatened+Languages&hl=en&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

we have something like that in sweden, something we call pattern-protection.

http://translate.google.se/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FM%25C3%25B6nsterskydd&sl=sv&tl=en&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8

Designs on deck

deck should be tiers in translation

here in sweden, I just got a new connection installed so now i can choose between cable, ADSL and fiber. The fiber is not own by one specific ISP and I dont know how many diffrent ISP I can choose from. I do know that the same ISP(comhem) is offering internet over all three diffrent technologies.

ADSL is 24/2,5(telia) 20/3(BBB)
cable is 24/1 (24/10 if I pay 60 kr extra)
fiber (don't know speed and prices yet)

and a while back we could read this in computersweden http://computersweden2.idg.se/
the municipal housing organization that has over 800 000 dwelling. has decided that every apartment should have 1Gb/s connections including the kitchen by year 2010.
google translation: http://translate.google.se/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomputersweden2.idg.se%2F2.2683%2F1.160850&hl=sv&ie=UTF8&sl=sv&tl=en

and no talk about caps

You are wrong.

Censorship is the correct word to describe the practice of a third party deleting or reediting publications. Google for it. If you choose to assign it a negative connotation to the word, that is your prerogative.

35 miles per gallon = 0.067 liters per kilometer

>This means my cell phone in 2009 will finally be able to read those QR graphics on
>Japanese web pages written in 2004!

[rant]
Yes but that probably only because you haven't botherd to DL the QR-reader to your phone.
Try www.quickmark.com.tw or reader.kaywa.com as starters.
[/rant]

More importantly; now that we westerns hopefully will caught up using 2D-barcodes, about five years late, we can start to PUBLISH and USE codes in ads, displays etc. Remember that Denso with their QR-code are only one of several manufacturers of 2D-codes. However QR are the defacto standard in Japan.

There are at least five totally different types of life on earth that have nothing in common.

http://www.google.se/search?q=Five+kingdoms+of+life

Also, I find spiders to be highly suspicious what with having no muscles and using hydraulics instead and all.

And the verdict is still out on viruses, whether they are alive or not and whether they would be an own lifetype.

Number of addresses on the net:
2^32 = 4 294 967 296

Info needed to white list an ip
1 bit

Size of a full white list:
2^32 bit = 512 megabytes

Number of Reserved IP addresses RFC3300:
(8 * (2^24)) + (4 * (2^16)) + (2^20) + (4 * (2^8)) + (2^15) + (2 * (2^28)) = 672 433 152

Number of bytes needed for a 1-to-1 white list
(2^32-672 433 152) / 8 = 430 megabytes

Bytes needed for a 64-to-1 white list
452 816 768 / 16 = 27 megabytes

if it passes the white list then don't send to google..

Number of addresses on the net:
2^32 = 4 294 967 296

Info needed to white list an ip
1 bit

Size of a full white list:
2^32 bit = 512 megabytes

Number of Reserved IP addresses RFC3300:
(8 * (2^24)) + (4 * (2^16)) + (2^20) + (4 * (2^8)) + (2^15) + (2 * (2^28)) = 672 433 152

Number of bytes needed for a 1-to-1 white list
(2^32-672 433 152) / 8 = 430 megabytes

Bytes needed for a 64-to-1 white list
452 816 768 / 16 = 27 megabytes

if it passes the white list then don't send to google..

Oh? Are you really sure?
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=concrete+speak ers&btnG=Google-s%C3%B6kning&meta=lr%3Dlang_en%7Cl ang_sv

Bwahaha.

http://blog.digg.com/?p=74

One more page in the 295,000+ for the RIAA to send a DMCA takedown notice to.

Kind of reminds me of the end of Spartacus, except the bastards will run out of crosses this time.

Nice (and very old) discussion on this point if you look up the first Usenet spam, Canter & Siegel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canter_&_Siegel ) also ( http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,19098,00 .html _) and from 1994, some reaction to them: http://groups.google.se/group/news.admin.misc/brow se_thread/thread/34588f6adcaf2c79/ad6060b1bd82c185 ?lnk=st&q=cantor+siegel+&rnum=10#ad6060b1bd82c185

There's really no way to draw a dividing line between legitimate marketing and spam except whether people agreed to receive it. If your friends didn't want the ads, then it's spam.

Im quite fond of the way they use adresses. A search for the word "bassoon" simply gets the adress http://www.searchmash.com/search/bassoon. I usually hate the adress of previous searches, because they don't fit in the location-bar. When you click the bar and type www.google.com you get a whole bunch of adresses that you have no idea where they lead.

I definitely prefer
http://www.searchmash.com/search/bassoon
before
http://www.google.se/search?hs=L0w&hl=sv&client=fi refox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Asv-SE%3Aofficial&q=basso on&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=

Sorry for the bad english. I'm from sweden. Bork Bork

http://www.google.se/search?q=finding+primes

I've always thought there's something a bit Gödelly about this, along the lines of "Any sufficiently complex system can never be secure".

E.g. I added a new hard drive, and left it downloading a vast 55GB set of files by FTP from the UK over my shiny new 2Mbit connection. Since the machine at the other end is ADSL, it's a very slow process. When I try and watch a DVD, I'd get a BSOD. Figured the drive was bad, so I checked the SMART data. Can't see the drive at all, motherboard has a Sil3112 and the the shitty SATA drivers manage to fumble the SMART command so they always go to drive 0 even if you ask for drive 1. The two drives are in non raid mode, and I'm using the non raid drivers, so I should be able to do this, but all the tools I have return drive 0 data for both drives.

Flipped the drives around. Now I see SMART data for the new drive on both drives. SMART data looks ok - no reallocated sectors for example. Got the Debugging Tools for Windows and WinDbg'd the dump - csrss.exe had aborted and the system bug checked since it needs csrss.exe. Looking in the log, csrss had aborted due to an IO error, STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES. Elsewhere in the error log I can see references to running out of non paged pool. Figured that the SATA driver had a leak. Turned on pool tagging, left it FTPing with PoolTag from the DDK running. I can see the lots of non paged pool being allocated to tag HidC, the Hid class driver.

I bought a cheap USB remote control, a Trust NB-5100P. At least on my system, it seems to Hid Class driver to use lots of memory. It's pretty dramatic, a K per second. Over 24hours day I ended up with 57MB of non paged memory to just this driver. If I stop the system tray applet, the memory is freed instantly.

So it looks like once I got the new drive and started to leave the machine on for several days pulling the files, I could get to the point where it run out of non paged pool and died. Now I only turn on the Trust control panel applet when I'm watching video.

Who's at fault here

1) Trust for making the stupid applet which uses vast amounts of a extremely precious resource. Note that the HID class driver isn't leaking - if you turn off the trust applet the memory is freed. Trust have managed to bring down the system from user mode though.
2) Silicon Image for making a driver that misroutes IOCTL_SMART_*
3) Me for buying Trust/Silicon Image stuff and expecting it to work properly.

.haeger

Maybe you should tell the people at http://www.google.se/ that directing people to copyrighted works is illegal in Sweden.

A US cup is 236 ml

Or it's 48 US teaspoons

or half a US pint, or 41.6% of a uk pint

If the cup were full of tea made out of antimatter and it combined with a cup of normal matter it would produce a blast of about

10.6 megatons

So 22g of antimatter+22g of normal matter=1 megaton. This is a very useful thing to know

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126'

Include file not found /article2/0,1895,1923151,00.asp, line 377

The include file '/component/util_generate_article_discussion_info/ 0,1460,a=171069,00.asp' was not found.

What's even funnier (or scarier, I can't decide) is that the same search on google.se (Sweden) displays this text in Swedish at the bottom of the page:

"Som reaktion på ett klagomål som stödjer sig på USA:s lag "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA), har vi tagit bort 2 resultat från den här sidan. Om du vill kan du läsa det DMCA-relaterade klagomålet som orsakade borttagningen av ChillingEffects.org."

It's almost a word-for-word translation of the text displayed at google.com. We don't have that stupid law in Sweden (yet) so why are they crippling the results for us?

Let's spread the link-love!

0wnz0red is my favorite of Doctorow's. Some of his other short stories published on salon.com are Truncat, Anda's Game and Liberation Spectrum.

Also, slashdot has previously covered Cory in an O'Reilly interview and his take on DRM. There is, of course, more.

To get the meaning of a Scandinavian troll, please check the art by John Bauer.

Good point. Although I'm living in a country where firearms are way less common than in the US, so that I have zero personal experience with handguns, I have some gun-geeky streaks. Enough to recognize the unit "Gr" above as "grains", which seems to be commonly used for some reason to measure the mass of bullets. Thing is, you simply converted 240 Gr into 0.24 kg, as if 1 Grain == 1 gram. This, I found dubious enough to ask Google about. The reply, for the click-lazy, was that 240 grains is about 15 grams.

This makes sense too, since if a single bullet (not to mention cartridge and powder) of .44 Magnum weighed 240 grams (about half a pound), then a full magazine of 6 (I guess?) would weigh almost 1.5 kg, which seems like quite a lot for just part of the ammunition in a handgun. Or perhaps all users of such guns are also body-builders? :)

With the corrected value for the mass of the bullet, the energy beecomes: 0.015/2 * 259^2 = 0.0075 * 67081 ~= 503 J, which is at least closer to your value for the softball. I'm not sure, but I think this perhaps brings them into the same ballpark. If a factor of ~3 is not too much, I'm not sure, expressions like that are vague.

The arguiment boils down to 'Taxation is theft, since it restricts the right to own property'.

This is a extremist stance that has been discussed many times.

If taxation is theft, you should refuse to pay taxes, but if you do, the repo men will come and invade your property, at which time you will be forced to defend yourself and your propery, which will lead to police actions that most probably result in your death. If you however survive, you will be sent to prison where you in all probability will be raped. Hence, taxation is also either murder or rape. But we already knew the latter.

GNER has had WiFI on (faster) trains running between Aberdeen / Leeds and London. The single drawback is that the firm that set it up, Icomera having just sold a system to a Swedish train company, Linx AB, appears to be routing through Sweden, meaning that your default google becomes google.se. Oh. And the GNER website has a lovely little map which updates itself as you wind up & down the country, showing you where you are. In sum, it rocks.

Just a quick fact check shows your argument to be rather spurious.

25 000 acres ~ 100 km2 (http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=2500 0+acres+to+square+kilometers&spell=1)

size of 4 biggest deserts in usa toghether 535 000 miles2(http://www.desertusa.com/glossary.html) ~1 400 000 km2

Toghether this means that you cam fit 14 000 of these plants in the US deserts. With 200 mw per plant, that gives 2800 gigawatt of electricity.
For comparison, the total energy production capacity in USA is 735 gigawatt (http://www.eece.ksu.edu/~pahwa/School/Element.htm l)

It's IS a very big project though, I give you that.

But if you are in Germany and type in http://google.ca, low and behold, you get Google Canada, the Canadian Google site. Google.com, Google.se, Google.fr, Google.ch, Google.ru, Google.co.nz, Google.co.au, all appear to work from other countries, and I presume all of the 113 country local domains should also work. I have no idea if the search results vary, as that is a study for someone else to do.

Actually Sony stole the concept from the German Andreas Pavel and denied to pay license, they finally lost a law suit after 20 years.
Check the web http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=walkman+invent or+german

I'm not trying to argue with you, or disagree about the trouble to find relevant information with Google, but how about this site: http://fileshare.eshop.bg/list.php?

I don't know shit about schematics but to me, it seems useful. It was my second result for that search, btw.

Practically, I can see where the horned devil might make certain religious people uncomfortable.

I don't think anyone is offended. It's always a "someone but not me" who doesn't like it and I've never heard about anyone who was directly offended by it. People just speculate that "hey, they might" even if they never are. If someone was, all you'd need to do is explain that it's not frikkin lucifer on the picture then they should be ok with it, I mean, a daemon is a Good Thing. If FreeBSD drops the daemon it also means the end of the brand since they're the only BSD still using it.

FreeBSD - C'mon guys, the daemon is part of the hacker spirit! Remember when Apple complained about the "die you gravy sucking pig dog()" joke in the source code? You stood up for yourself and refused remove it. Do it again.

I would be ruling over actually might be better off under my system of comic tyrany

I would be ruling over actually might be better off under my system of comic tyrany

I would be ruling over actually might be better off under my system of comic tyrany

I would be ruling over actually might be better off under my system of comic tyrany

Of course you should trust them.

It's not like the chief executive of Diebold has promised to deliver the votes the George Bush. Or. Darn!

Without the Internet, these things would pass us by, but with the engagement of the people, we'll overturn this scam.

"You have two cows. You keep both of the cows, shoot the government agent and steal another cow."

Try googling for it...

use mirrors instead:

http://www.google.co.jp/
http://www.google.fr/
http://www.google.se/
http://www.google.fi/
http://www.google.ca/

all above seem to be responsive atleast to me

Or, if you're really picky, 30 meters = 98.4251969 feet.

> and collectivist-the key elements of socialism.
Collectivist my ass, at least in the context of socialism. It was in fact, if not pro-business, then very much leave-business-alone-if-they-stay-out-of-politics. Many well known corporations thrived under Nazi rule, both German and other, and there were a string of close ties between them. Google Link.

But the bottom line on Nazism and economic policy was that they didn't really have much of their own, in fact, their policies on that area weren't much different from progressive european democracies. Their abhorrent activities (slave labor, etc.) can more easily be understood in context of their totalitarian views of society, but aside from that, their economic policies were in fact slightly right of center.