The time report on task manager after a full day of scanning would be 3-5 hours total. I agree that the bottleneck was the disk which means my loss of resources was much higher than 3-5 hours out of each day.
The virus scanners on the computer I used at my last job used up 3-5 hours of CPU time per 8 hours I was logged on. This means viruses and their solution consumed a minimum of 37% of the CPU hours my computer was capable. Of course running Lotus Notes used up the rest, and I just sat there for a year.
I've noticed a trend of breaking into the music to tell people you appreciate that their business. So even if the music is worth hearing, it is constantly interrupted. Breakdown from help desk at my company: 29 seconds of "we appreciate..." 51 seconds of music repeat above 2 indefinitely
I agree. It is their computer and they can do what they want to with it. However, at my last job during any 8 hour period that I was logged on, the virus scanners would use up 3-5 hours of the CPU time. Of course the I/O was more intensive than that. This had a great impact on productivity when trying to run Lotus Notes, WebLogic and and IDE all on one computer with 256M of RAM.
The fascist policies go well beyond locking people out of changes into locking the possibility of changes out of the company entirely.
That's kind of the point. As they become more realistically human, they require a higher standard for the brain to accept them. The fact is, humans aren't any harder to animate but the brain is much better at noticing the differences. Spaceships look good because the brain doesn't intrinsically recognize the proper shape for a spacehip.
I'm sure that to pilots a lot of the plane animations in Pearl Harbor looked just wrong. If someone drew a dragon with the ears tapered back along the top of the head instead of out to the side would you immediately notice that as wrong? Now draw a human and move any feature around by half and inch and see what a difference it makes.
And you'd be responsible for their loss of revenue if you redisplayed their logo. Since they generally don't get paid for display of their logo the penalties might not be so bad.
Right. But most of the article is about the Kobe case.
Surely the victims can waive their right to privacy. While the messages may have been from the defendants, they were sent to the victims. While you may have a right to privacy, that does not bind the recipients to protect your privacy. If you send a text message, it is stored not for the sender but stored for the recipient and the only issue about redistribution at that point would be copyright which is irrelevant to a court proceeding. Look at it this way, if it was mail then all parties would expect confidentiality but the victims could certainly turn it over.
The other cases would have been more interesting if they had sent the text message to themselves.
You typically don't need a warrant to exhonorate someone.
There is the possibility that these messages could be used to acquit Kobe, but then be inadmissable against her if some perjury charge was brought up.
You generally don't have a right to keep evidence private (someone else's right to life trumps your right to privacy). You have a right to not incriminate yourself (I just love to blatantly split infinitives).
Sure there is. The whole field of probability deals with percentages of infinite sets. While a set composed of the natural numbers and a set composed of the even natural numbers are both countable infinite, the odds of picking a number from the first set that is a member of the second set is 50%. Analysis and Topology are entirely different realms from probability and statistics.
I was answering why Java was unpopular here. It may have fixed many of the problems I stated, but it still left bad feelings. A lot was promised and when a lot of people have it crammed down their throat there is ill will.
You mention yourself that C++ doesn't exactly bend to the programmer's will. This is certrainly true, of course I didn't mention C++ as an example of that (nor will you find it among the most popular languages here on slashdot).
The languages you find popular here just flat out do what the programmer wants them to do. PHP is immensely popular for web pages. Sure, there are a zillion reasons not to use it and only the fact that it works well going for it. Perl occupies that same spot for many of us and is a workhorse for Unix people in particular. Python is popular because they abduct people before they get to see Perl and indoctrinate them into the secret ways (so secret they are recorded only in whitespace).
I never said corporations are evil. But if some company spent billions convincing my employer to serve nothing but salads in the cafeteria I wouldn't be too thrilled.
Maybe I'm just bitter because I work at places that are willing to spend $10k or more on software for me personally to work on, but I'm constantly stuck on a 4 year old computer (who gets the new ones anyway).
As far as my comment on disliking Java because it isn't LISP, it's perfectly valid to compare apples to oranges. It is my opinion and I like oranges, and if they both satisfy the requirement of being a fruit preference is all I need to justify my opinion. Once I learned about macros in LISP, I miss them everywhere else. LISP may lack libraries but those can be added. It is near impossible to work around a lack of macros without writing an entirely different program.
Seriously, don't you people have anything better to do than look for something that is wrong. Finding a typo in a post on a message bored isn't such a big deal. I hope you are proud of yourself.
What's more glaring, a single character typo or an extra post jammed in the middle of a thread that offers nothing constructive.
Yea, maybe I don't know the difference between owners and owner's. Maybe I wrote owner's on purpose and backspaced the end of the sentence and changed which owner'?s I should have been using. Maybe English is my second language. Maybe I touch type and the occasional homonym comes out wrong because I never look at it. Maybe my editor is on vacation and couldn't spend time reviewing my work for correctness.
Does anyone really read threw there posts for accuracy?
Even if you aren't doing it to raise capital, you do increase the liquidity of shares. Now owner's can sell and realize some of the wealth they have created.
I notice myself doing all sorts of strange capitalization when writing about Java. I probably capitalized that word in particular because I probably have only ever written it down on my resume. The fact is, my editor is on vacation and can't get to my slashdot posts for corrections this week.
I have to explain to Java people what mod_perl does. I usually get blank stares. The general opinion seems to be that Perl is interpreted in the way that Basic was interpreted long ago, line by line. I'm serious, lots of java people think this.
Java is less programmer friendly that Python, Perl and LISP. It's that simple. Look no further than all the nice things they are putting into 1.5. All things that are in C# apparently that Sun used to say weren't necessary until C# showed up. I promise autoboxing was discussed years ago, why does it only show up now?
I didn't say Java is all hype, I said it was "all about hype". If you weren't programming it in '96 or so, perhaps you don't remember. Companies were sending secretaries to learn Java since it was going to change the world. They lead with marketing and delivered parts of promises later. That's just unpopular here.
As for not grokking Java, I've been programming Java and Perl since '96. I'm currently an Architect on a major enterprise level project. I do just fine with it regardless of how I like it.
As for my comments that it needs things: It does need basic things that I take for granted after working with Perl, Python or LISP. Regexes and flexible data structures come to mind.
I'm not sure how windows stands, but I've always had a list of things I have to install immediately upon getting a new system. Winzip used to be #1 priority but I believe the finally put zip capability into windows xp. There are other things like grep, pdf viewer, email client and of course emacs that don't come with windows. I realize that's a pretty programmer centric view of things but this is the developers section of slashdot and this thread was discussing why java is unpopular (hence a programmer centric view isn't unreasonable).
Oh, and as far as programs bending to the programmer's will, I've seen a lot of programs that started as concept in Perl or Python, caught fire and ended up in production *making money* for the company. I can't say I've seen the same phenomenon with java. Java seems mired in endless requirements gather for perfect architecture goals that are always 6 months down the road. Perl, Python and LISP express what is in the Programmer's mind today. I have experience with all of these and success with all of these. Never has Java been the tool of choice for the creative.
Proove me wrong. (or just call me stupid, childish and whiny again)
Java the language has been drawn into the hatred here by its association with other things:
The billions of dollars of advertising that got managers and HR people to take Java classes because it was the way of the future.
All the things that don't live up to their billing: AWT, Swing, keep trying.
Anyone else feel like the "write once run anywhere" philosophy just reduced java to the lowest common denominator of functionality?
Sun has spent a lot of money promising Java will do a lot of things it hasn't done.
Then there are all the fanboys of java that drive some of us nuts on a daily basis. Just trying to explain to them that even though Java is compiled, it is still interpreted (in the same fashion as Perl or Python) falls on deaf ears.
Other languages popular here are popular because they bend to the programmers will. With Java it is the programmer who must bend.
Java is and has been all about marketing. Marketing isn't well liked here.
To me, java is like ms-windows. It is usable, but only after you go out and get someone else's add-ons that should have been included in the first place.
Was anyone else disturbed by the fact that they killed off Nemo's mother and 399 siblings to kick off the movie?
Personally, I think it was a political statement from the left leaning hollywood tree huggers in favor of abortion. Certainly there was content directed toward adults.
Not Pixar, but still Disney: Of course the theme of the Lion King was that every person is born into their place and should make no attempt to find another place. Sure, some people were born to be kings, but whole lot were born to be hyenas. If you're born a hyena you should stay on the fringe of society. It also was not lost on me that in serving this message they aimed to include the African American community as much as possible.
My wife doesn't like watching movies with me for some reason.
Let's not forget the serendipity of the card catalog. I had many hunts lead me to other things that were related only by two subjects being close to each other in the alphabet.
The same can be said for a physical dictionary versus the online equivalent.
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The time report on task manager after a full day of scanning would be 3-5 hours total. I agree that the bottleneck was the disk which means my loss of resources was much higher than 3-5 hours out of each day.
The virus scanners on the computer I used at my last job used up 3-5 hours of CPU time per 8 hours I was logged on. This means viruses and their solution consumed a minimum of 37% of the CPU hours my computer was capable. Of course running Lotus Notes used up the rest, and I just sat there for a year.
I've noticed a trend of breaking into the music to tell people you appreciate that their business. So even if the music is worth hearing, it is constantly interrupted. Breakdown from help desk at my company:
29 seconds of "we appreciate..."
51 seconds of music
repeat above 2 indefinitely
One does not wonder if something exists for Emacs. One believes.
That is to say, yes.
I agree. It is their computer and they can do what they want to with it. However, at my last job during any 8 hour period that I was logged on, the virus scanners would use up 3-5 hours of the CPU time. Of course the I/O was more intensive than that. This had a great impact on productivity when trying to run Lotus Notes, WebLogic and and IDE all on one computer with 256M of RAM.
The fascist policies go well beyond locking people out of changes into locking the possibility of changes out of the company entirely.
You've got it wrong:
Welcome to Texas State
Login: root
Pass: *
That's kind of the point. As they become more realistically human, they require a higher standard for the brain to accept them. The fact is, humans aren't any harder to animate but the brain is much better at noticing the differences. Spaceships look good because the brain doesn't intrinsically recognize the proper shape for a spacehip.
I'm sure that to pilots a lot of the plane animations in Pearl Harbor looked just wrong. If someone drew a dragon with the ears tapered back along the top of the head instead of out to the side would you immediately notice that as wrong? Now draw a human and move any feature around by half and inch and see what a difference it makes.
M-x list-matching-lines
It makes a list from a user specific token. This lists the lines that can be middle clicked to take you to the line of code in question.
And you'd be responsible for their loss of revenue if you redisplayed their logo. Since they generally don't get paid for display of their logo the penalties might not be so bad.
Right. But most of the article is about the Kobe case.
Surely the victims can waive their right to privacy. While the messages may have been from the defendants, they were sent to the victims. While you may have a right to privacy, that does not bind the recipients to protect your privacy. If you send a text message, it is stored not for the sender but stored for the recipient and the only issue about redistribution at that point would be copyright which is irrelevant to a court proceeding. Look at it this way, if it was mail then all parties would expect confidentiality but the victims could certainly turn it over.
The other cases would have been more interesting if they had sent the text message to themselves.
You typically don't need a warrant to exhonorate someone.
There is the possibility that these messages could be used to acquit Kobe, but then be inadmissable against her if some perjury charge was brought up.
You generally don't have a right to keep evidence private (someone else's right to life trumps your right to privacy). You have a right to not incriminate yourself (I just love to blatantly split infinitives).
It must be noted that it is the accuser's text messages that are being retrieved.
This is not like a defendant is having his own messages used against him.
I like the ones that tell you to delete all copies of the message. Is that implicit permission to access their mail servers for deletion?
Sure there is. The whole field of probability deals with percentages of infinite sets. While a set composed of the natural numbers and a set composed of the even natural numbers are both countable infinite, the odds of picking a number from the first set that is a member of the second set is 50%. Analysis and Topology are entirely different realms from probability and statistics.
The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
Thank you (and the other posts as well).
You answered the questions I should have been asking:
1. Where can I get chips that have the right casino "feel"?
2. Where can I get chips that I'll be able to get matching chips later?
Or a website that answers the same. Now to get to work finishing that table...
Where can you get some quality clay chips? I see lots of places selling them, but am suspect about the quality.
I was answering why Java was unpopular here. It may have fixed many of the problems I stated, but it still left bad feelings. A lot was promised and when a lot of people have it crammed down their throat there is ill will.
You mention yourself that C++ doesn't exactly bend to the programmer's will. This is certrainly true, of course I didn't mention C++ as an example of that (nor will you find it among the most popular languages here on slashdot).
The languages you find popular here just flat out do what the programmer wants them to do. PHP is immensely popular for web pages. Sure, there are a zillion reasons not to use it and only the fact that it works well going for it. Perl occupies that same spot for many of us and is a workhorse for Unix people in particular. Python is popular because they abduct people before they get to see Perl and indoctrinate them into the secret ways (so secret they are recorded only in whitespace).
I never said corporations are evil. But if some company spent billions convincing my employer to serve nothing but salads in the cafeteria I wouldn't be too thrilled.
Maybe I'm just bitter because I work at places that are willing to spend $10k or more on software for me personally to work on, but I'm constantly stuck on a 4 year old computer (who gets the new ones anyway).
As far as my comment on disliking Java because it isn't LISP, it's perfectly valid to compare apples to oranges. It is my opinion and I like oranges, and if they both satisfy the requirement of being a fruit preference is all I need to justify my opinion. Once I learned about macros in LISP, I miss them everywhere else. LISP may lack libraries but those can be added. It is near impossible to work around a lack of macros without writing an entirely different program.
Your good. I'll help:
Win will ewe figure out your being mocked?
Seriously, don't you people have anything better to do than look for something that is wrong. Finding a typo in a post on a message bored isn't such a big deal. I hope you are proud of yourself.
What's more glaring, a single character typo or an extra post jammed in the middle of a thread that offers nothing constructive.
Yea, maybe I don't know the difference between owners and owner's. Maybe I wrote owner's on purpose and backspaced the end of the sentence and changed which owner'?s I should have been using. Maybe English is my second language. Maybe I touch type and the occasional homonym comes out wrong because I never look at it. Maybe my editor is on vacation and couldn't spend time reviewing my work for correctness.
Does anyone really read threw there posts for accuracy?
Mod parent and myself down, thanks.
Even if you aren't doing it to raise capital, you do increase the liquidity of shares. Now owner's can sell and realize some of the wealth they have created.
I notice myself doing all sorts of strange capitalization when writing about Java. I probably capitalized that word in particular because I probably have only ever written it down on my resume. The fact is, my editor is on vacation and can't get to my slashdot posts for corrections this week.
I have to explain to Java people what mod_perl does. I usually get blank stares. The general opinion seems to be that Perl is interpreted in the way that Basic was interpreted long ago, line by line. I'm serious, lots of java people think this.
Java is less programmer friendly that Python, Perl and LISP. It's that simple. Look no further than all the nice things they are putting into 1.5. All things that are in C# apparently that Sun used to say weren't necessary until C# showed up. I promise autoboxing was discussed years ago, why does it only show up now?
I didn't say Java is all hype, I said it was "all about hype". If you weren't programming it in '96 or so, perhaps you don't remember. Companies were sending secretaries to learn Java since it was going to change the world. They lead with marketing and delivered parts of promises later. That's just unpopular here.
As for not grokking Java, I've been programming Java and Perl since '96. I'm currently an Architect on a major enterprise level project. I do just fine with it regardless of how I like it.
As for my comments that it needs things: It does need basic things that I take for granted after working with Perl, Python or LISP. Regexes and flexible data structures come to mind.
I'm not sure how windows stands, but I've always had a list of things I have to install immediately upon getting a new system. Winzip used to be #1 priority but I believe the finally put zip capability into windows xp. There are other things like grep, pdf viewer, email client and of course emacs that don't come with windows. I realize that's a pretty programmer centric view of things but this is the developers section of slashdot and this thread was discussing why java is unpopular (hence a programmer centric view isn't unreasonable).
Oh, and as far as programs bending to the programmer's will, I've seen a lot of programs that started as concept in Perl or Python, caught fire and ended up in production *making money* for the company. I can't say I've seen the same phenomenon with java. Java seems mired in endless requirements gather for perfect architecture goals that are always 6 months down the road. Perl, Python and LISP express what is in the Programmer's mind today. I have experience with all of these and success with all of these. Never has Java been the tool of choice for the creative.
Proove me wrong. (or just call me stupid, childish and whiny again)
Java the language has been drawn into the hatred here by its association with other things:
The billions of dollars of advertising that got managers and HR people to take Java classes because it was the way of the future.
All the things that don't live up to their billing: AWT, Swing, keep trying.
Anyone else feel like the "write once run anywhere" philosophy just reduced java to the lowest common denominator of functionality?
Sun has spent a lot of money promising Java will do a lot of things it hasn't done.
Then there are all the fanboys of java that drive some of us nuts on a daily basis. Just trying to explain to them that even though Java is compiled, it is still interpreted (in the same fashion as Perl or Python) falls on deaf ears.
Other languages popular here are popular because they bend to the programmers will. With Java it is the programmer who must bend.
Java is and has been all about marketing. Marketing isn't well liked here.
To me, java is like ms-windows. It is usable, but only after you go out and get someone else's add-ons that should have been included in the first place.
Oh, and I hate java because it isn't LISP.
Was anyone else disturbed by the fact that they killed off Nemo's mother and 399 siblings to kick off the movie?
Personally, I think it was a political statement from the left leaning hollywood tree huggers in favor of abortion. Certainly there was content directed toward adults.
Not Pixar, but still Disney:
Of course the theme of the Lion King was that every person is born into their place and should make no attempt to find another place. Sure, some people were born to be kings, but whole lot were born to be hyenas. If you're born a hyena you should stay on the fringe of society. It also was not lost on me that in serving this message they aimed to include the African American community as much as possible.
My wife doesn't like watching movies with me for some reason.
Let's not forget the serendipity of the card catalog. I had many hunts lead me to other things that were related only by two subjects being close to each other in the alphabet.
The same can be said for a physical dictionary versus the online equivalent.