Beta must be abandoned as a failed experiment. It is awful - not due to bugs, but due to the intention behind the redesign.
Your existing 'audience' is what makes slashdot. If you want a larger audience I suggest you create a celebrity gossip website.
Awful.
I'm down to 2 Windows machines now; My wife's laptop - she needs IE for remote access to her work PC, and my media center - the games I want to play run fine on Wine, but I'm still haven't been able to get a user friendly bluray setup (which means disk goes into drive and plays without further user intervention) on linux. Irritating.
IPv6 is not a solution to this problem. If we allocate IPv6 addresses the way we have allocated IPv4 addresses, we'll run out of them in just a few more years. Then what? IPv8, with 1024-bit addresses, so we can start allocating entire/256 blocks and run out again?
You don't realise how big a 128-bit address space is. As for a 1024-bit address space, why would every atom in the observable universe need over 10^200 IP addresses?
No. The NHS does not work. The reason US politicians who are opposed to universal healthcare always use the NHS as an example is because it is the among the very worst state healthcare providers in the developed world. The NHSis an example of how not to do state provided medical care - many countries make public healthcare work far more effectively (and US healthcare is an example of how not to do private medical care - many countries make private healthcare work far more effectively).
Most boring story ever?It's not even the most boring story today. Gears of War 3 released is - derivative sequel of derivative sequel of original that fails to be anything more than just another FPS with nothing to distinguish it from any other example in a crowded genre.
A compacting GC is often a win over naive manual memory management - they improve cache coherency and speed up dynamic allocation. Of course, using smarter allocation techniques (small object pools etc) instead of general purpose allocators (new/malloc) can provide even grater benefits to GC - but that's what Google were talking about when they said "extensive tuning efforts".
In other words, a C# or Java application using GC can outperform a naive C++ application because of, not in spite of, GC. The worst case is when somebody decides that every dynamic allocation belongs inside a shared_ptr *shudder*.
Or perhaps we should let the work stand for itself, evaluate the methodology, strip away the marketing spin, and come away with some nugget of truth, regardless of who funded it.
We can't evaluate the methodology because the methodology hasn't been published.
From what we do know, neither the testing nor the data released was objective - the tests compared bleeding edge releases of IE9 to an obsolete versions of Chrome, and the data they chose to publicise focussed on the single areqa in which IE9 triumphed, despite it performing poorly in other areas.
Transportation and long term storage of hydrogen is problematic *on Earth* because of the presence of oxygen in our atmosphere - that's not a problem in space or on Mars.
It says five months of maternity leave with full pay.
In the UK, it's 6 weeks at 90% salary, 33 weeks at £124.88 or 90% of salary (whichever is lower) and 13 weeks unpaid.
Google's terms are much, much better than most of Europe. There are exceptions - but only a handful (Lithuania gives 100% salary for 52 weeks + 85% for 52 weeks - but that's almost twice as generous as the next best).
Most heterosexual couples wait several years in between starting their relationship and getting married - during which period they won't be entitled to this perk, but homosexual employees will.
It's not really a problem though - more like replacing a discriminatory policy with a small effect with another discriminatory policy with a tiny effect. Not an especially big deal, but certainly a big enough deal to make the grandparent's "give me a fucking break" unjustified.
Put a sock in it. Your government discriminates against unmarried people of all sexualities, Gogole discriminates against unmarried heterosexual people.
I think what happens is that health benefits to your spouse are tax free. Health benefits to your partner to whom you're not married are not - and gay couples can't get married.
Of course this screws over the non-married heterosexual couples - maybe Google should just pay the tax for everyone who gets charged it.
If the raw physical limits of machines are taken into account, every algorithm becomes O(1).
Your logic is an exact analogy to "Bubblesort is O(1) - a naive analysis says O(n^2), but because n is bounded to 2^64 on 64 bit machines, it's actually O(2^128) which is actually O(1)".
Where, n is the number of items stored, the lookup time is given by log(n)*COMPARRISON_COST + log(n)*MEMORY_ACCESS_COST. That gives O(logn) only if COMPARRISON_COST and MEMORY_ACCESS_COST are *constant* - the entire point of the article is that MEMORY_ACCESS_COST is not constant, but increases as n increases.
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There's no such thing as the "EU high court". This was a ruling by the British High Court.
WE HEAR YOU We did tell you we wanted feedback. Here's our response.
Your response shows that you didn't hear. The beta is an experiment that has failed. Accept that and move on.
Beta must be abandoned as a failed experiment. It is awful - not due to bugs, but due to the intention behind the redesign. Your existing 'audience' is what makes slashdot. If you want a larger audience I suggest you create a celebrity gossip website. Awful.
Tell him it's an industry standard, and give him the names of a couple of websites that use it: pannasonic.com for a start,
What, like people who sell eye-patches, parrots, and wooden legs without asking for ID?
I'm down to 2 Windows machines now; My wife's laptop - she needs IE for remote access to her work PC, and my media center - the games I want to play run fine on Wine, but I'm still haven't been able to get a user friendly bluray setup (which means disk goes into drive and plays without further user intervention) on linux. Irritating.
IPv6 is not a solution to this problem. If we allocate IPv6 addresses the way we have allocated IPv4 addresses, we'll run out of them in just a few more years. Then what? IPv8, with 1024-bit addresses, so we can start allocating entire /256 blocks and run out again?
You don't realise how big a 128-bit address space is. As for a 1024-bit address space, why would every atom in the observable universe need over 10^200 IP addresses?
Texas got Explorer .
Maybe his language of choice is Prolog.
No. The NHS does not work. The reason US politicians who are opposed to universal healthcare always use the NHS as an example is because it is the among the very worst state healthcare providers in the developed world. The NHSis an example of how not to do state provided medical care - many countries make public healthcare work far more effectively (and US healthcare is an example of how not to do private medical care - many countries make private healthcare work far more effectively).
That's why pension funds typically move investments into lower risk assets as the ages of the owner approaches retirement.
Most boring story ever?It's not even the most boring story today. Gears of War 3 released is - derivative sequel of derivative sequel of original that fails to be anything more than just another FPS with nothing to distinguish it from any other example in a crowded genre.
A compacting GC is often a win over naive manual memory management - they improve cache coherency and speed up dynamic allocation. Of course, using smarter allocation techniques (small object pools etc) instead of general purpose allocators (new/malloc) can provide even grater benefits to GC - but that's what Google were talking about when they said "extensive tuning efforts". In other words, a C# or Java application using GC can outperform a naive C++ application because of, not in spite of, GC. The worst case is when somebody decides that every dynamic allocation belongs inside a shared_ptr *shudder*.
Sounds more like misconduct in public office.
Or perhaps we should let the work stand for itself, evaluate the methodology, strip away the marketing spin, and come away with some nugget of truth, regardless of who funded it.
We can't evaluate the methodology because the methodology hasn't been published. From what we do know, neither the testing nor the data released was objective - the tests compared bleeding edge releases of IE9 to an obsolete versions of Chrome, and the data they chose to publicise focussed on the single areqa in which IE9 triumphed, despite it performing poorly in other areas.
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Are you interested in which language makes you most employable or not?
Transportation and long term storage of hydrogen is problematic *on Earth* because of the presence of oxygen in our atmosphere - that's not a problem in space or on Mars.
It says five months of maternity leave with full pay. In the UK, it's 6 weeks at 90% salary, 33 weeks at £124.88 or 90% of salary (whichever is lower) and 13 weeks unpaid. Google's terms are much, much better than most of Europe. There are exceptions - but only a handful (Lithuania gives 100% salary for 52 weeks + 85% for 52 weeks - but that's almost twice as generous as the next best).
Most heterosexual couples wait several years in between starting their relationship and getting married - during which period they won't be entitled to this perk, but homosexual employees will. It's not really a problem though - more like replacing a discriminatory policy with a small effect with another discriminatory policy with a tiny effect. Not an especially big deal, but certainly a big enough deal to make the grandparent's "give me a fucking break" unjustified.
Put a sock in it. Your government discriminates against unmarried people of all sexualities, Gogole discriminates against unmarried heterosexual people.
I think what happens is that health benefits to your spouse are tax free. Health benefits to your partner to whom you're not married are not - and gay couples can't get married. Of course this screws over the non-married heterosexual couples - maybe Google should just pay the tax for everyone who gets charged it.
Spelling errors yes, syntax errors no. So do please read the whole tree of the comment thread above the post you wish to dissect.
If the raw physical limits of machines are taken into account, every algorithm becomes O(1).
Your logic is an exact analogy to "Bubblesort is O(1) - a naive analysis says O(n^2), but because n is bounded to 2^64 on 64 bit machines, it's actually O(2^128) which is actually O(1)".
O(1) *is* O(100000). The point of the article is that memory access is not O(1) - it's O(n) or worse.
He does know what he's talking about.
Where, n is the number of items stored, the lookup time is given by log(n)*COMPARRISON_COST + log(n)*MEMORY_ACCESS_COST.
That gives O(logn) only if COMPARRISON_COST and MEMORY_ACCESS_COST are *constant* - the entire point of the article is that MEMORY_ACCESS_COST is not constant, but increases as n increases.