I don't get it. Because QWERTY is unfamiliar to Dvorak users (0.01% of the population) they should switch to a layout which is unfamiliar to 100% of the population?
You know, I've been using laptops for 22 years now. Well, I guess the IBM PC Convertible didn't really count as a "laptop", but you know what I mean.
So anyway, in all that time I have never once dropped a laptop. I certainly haven't dropped one and then come on a message board complaining about the fact that it's damaged... after I... uhhh... dropped it. Not only that, but you said in another message that you've done worse to your laptops before.
So your feeling is evidently that "minor cosmetic damage after DROPPING THE DAMNED THING" is a dealbreaker, while I'm pretty much thinking "Wow, you dropped it and it still works! Huzzah!"
Seriously, you weren't just relieved that it still worked?
Ummm... you know that A) you can resize it, and B) you can have it auto-hide, right? I don't get why people are complaining about the real estate when you can just make the damned thing smaller if you don't like it.
I thought it is accepted that Hydra Scylla is by far the best. It is estimated to have a strength of over 3000+ ELO; it haven't been rated since it has never lost a competitive game...
The strongest computer chess program at the moment is Rybka. Hydra doesn't even rate, and has most certainly lost competitive games. It hasn't lost against an unaided human, but that's like saying that a Honda Civic is the fastest car in the world because no human can outrun it. Reference.
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Messy? A lot of evidence? This happened OVER A YEAR AGO. If you expect there to be a lot of evidence remaining after animals have had a year to work the crash site over, you haven't spent enough time outside.
Flesh, bone, even blood would be cleaned up after a year out in the elements.
You misunderstand. This has nothing to do with his disbarment; rather GPP is referring to a previous court order prohibiting him from submitting briefs that were not signed by another bar member in good standing.
By submitting this motion he has violated that order, though I doubt much will come of it since he has already been disbarred.
It was a wasp, if I remember correctly. The wasp's "program" was to drag its paralyzed prey to its burrow, go inside the burrow and make sure the coast was clear, then return to the prey and drag it into the burrow.
But if the researchers moved the prey while the wasp was checking its burrow, it would reposition the prey and then check its burrow again. And it would repeat this as long as they kept moving it.
The iPhone does this, and it's fantastic. I previously hated voicemail to the point that I would generally just ignore it -- they'll call back if it's important! iPhone's visual voicemail has made it pleasant to use again.
And yet, with all that thought going into your post, you don't seem to address the "why the hell would you use a foam-lined cardboard box for two sheets of paper in the first place" question.
Point me to a non-trivial benchmark showing C++ to be anywhere near 10x as fast as Java. Seriously, I'm waiting.
On real algorithms, properly-written Java is anywhere from roughly equal to properly-written C++ down to maybe 1/2 the speed. "Way more than ten times faster?" You're either trolling or an idiot.
I do happen to know of one case where Java really is far slower than C, and that's in its trigonometric functions on Intel processors. Of course, there's a very good reason for this: Intel processors' built-in trigonometric opcodes will give you the completely wrong answer outside of a very narrow range of inputs. C / C++ doesn't give a crap and uses the instructions anyway, whereas Java recognizes this and uses an algorithm which actually gives correct answers, but is slower.
Of course, if you're not concerned with accuracy, I can provide a really fast implementation of the functions:
float sin(float radians) {
return 0; }
Of course, just as with the C / C++ case, we're sacrificing some accuracy -- but at least it's fast! See how much performance you can get when you don't care whether the answer is right or not?
Far, far longer than that. Even if we assume only 1 bit per pixel, 255x255=65025 bits. So each bitmap is basically just a number, 65025 bits long, and you want all permutations of them. So the problem of generating the bitmaps devolves into "count from 0 to 2^65025".
Of course, 2^65025 is a very, very big number. How long would it take to count that high? Assume you can magically do the increment in one cycle, and you have super-unbelievably fast 4GHz processors with absolutely no overhead and perfect scalability. You also do no processing on the image whatsoever, you simply iterate through them. So each core is processing a phenomenal 4 billion images every second. You have 500 cores, so you're chewing through a grand total of 2 trillion images a second. Wow, that's pretty damned fast!
2 trillion is almost 2^41. So if you're getting through 2^41 images every second, that means it will take a mere... 2^65025 / 2^41 = 2^1586 seconds.
There are roughly 2^25 seconds in a year, so that means you're going to be able to complete this count in a mere 2^63 years. That's 9 billion billion years, much longer than the lifespan of the universe. And that's merely to iterate through the images with no processing whatsover. Increase the computing power by a factor of a billion, and it would still take 9 billion years just to count them.
Of course, the fact they sit there drinking gravy and polishing off bag after bag of chips instead of, say, exercising is influenced by their genes. I'm pretty sure separated twin studies reveal a very high weight correlation.
Sure, you have to eat more than you're burning in order to gain weight. But to suggest that there is essentially no genetic influence is disingenuous.
Where did you get the idea that humans will veto unjust orders? You might want to read up about the Milgram experiment, or maybe just consider how the Holocaust happened.
I assure you, the Nazis didn't manage to put together an army of thoroughly evil people -- the vast majority of the Nazis were perfectly ordinary human beings receiving evil orders. We like to think we're different, but that's an incredibly dangerous opinion. It's much better to accept the fact that we are human, and that humans are overly obedient, and not trust ourselves or anyone else to be smart enough to overrule an unjust order.
So... one particular avenue of attack succeeded on one system and failed on the others, so it must be less secure overall? That's great logic there, buckaroo.
Consider a 35mm film camera with a mechanical shutter... what degree of force and mechanism would be required to move that shutter to open AND close the height of 24mm in 80 attoseconds? IANAPhysicist, but I doubt human hands could hang on to it.
Apparently we're not realizing just how short 80 attoseconds is. You doubt human hands could hang on to it? Moving 24mm in 80 attoseconds is faster than the speed of light. Not only is it faster than the speed of light, it's a million times faster than the speed of light.
but when you have to roll this for 200 cities, also chosen by a 1d6 roll, you have two dies being rolled 200 times, and you want to know how many times both dies have the same value
Ummm... yeah. And it's still 1/6 times. You failed statistics, didn't you?
There seems to be plenty of blame to go around, but I think it's rather disingenuous for consultants to be rewriting code in Java instead of [original obscure language]. The comparison has no value, and I hope they didn't bill their client for the time. Unless they were brought in to do a Java rewrite, and that doesn't appear to be the case, they should have been spending their time working in [original obscure language].
Faced with 140,000 lines of obscure cruft which barely performed an extremely simple task, they had the choice between attempting to maintain the monstrosity or start from scratch and do it right. They started from scratch and did it right, which according to the memo involved cutting out 136,000 lines of useless code and vastly increasing the performance.
And you're calling them out on it? You think they did the wrong thing by eliminating 136,000 lines of bloat and significantly improving the performance? You're part of the reason shit like this happens.
What the hell else would you suggest? Allow software to install itself globally WITHOUT admin privileges? Make it so that software by default only works for the user who installed it?
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I don't get it. Because QWERTY is unfamiliar to Dvorak users (0.01% of the population) they should switch to a layout which is unfamiliar to 100% of the population?
We need an option for "-1 Didn't get the joke".
You know, I've been using laptops for 22 years now. Well, I guess the IBM PC Convertible didn't really count as a "laptop", but you know what I mean.
So anyway, in all that time I have never once dropped a laptop. I certainly haven't dropped one and then come on a message board complaining about the fact that it's damaged... after I... uhhh... dropped it. Not only that, but you said in another message that you've done worse to your laptops before.
So your feeling is evidently that "minor cosmetic damage after DROPPING THE DAMNED THING" is a dealbreaker, while I'm pretty much thinking "Wow, you dropped it and it still works! Huzzah!"
Seriously, you weren't just relieved that it still worked?
Ummm... you know that A) you can resize it, and B) you can have it auto-hide, right? I don't get why people are complaining about the real estate when you can just make the damned thing smaller if you don't like it.
Just learn from the OpenGL ES spec. It's not hard at all -- I was rendering real graphics in a few hours.
It won't. Unless I'm mistaken the hardware in the iPhone simply doesn't support the features in question. Almost no currently-shipping device does.
I thought it is accepted that Hydra Scylla is by far the best. It is estimated to have a strength of over 3000+ ELO; it haven't been rated since it has never lost a competitive game...
The strongest computer chess program at the moment is Rybka. Hydra doesn't even rate, and has most certainly lost competitive games. It hasn't lost against an unaided human, but that's like saying that a Honda Civic is the fastest car in the world because no human can outrun it. Reference.
Messy? A lot of evidence? This happened OVER A YEAR AGO. If you expect there to be a lot of evidence remaining after animals have had a year to work the crash site over, you haven't spent enough time outside.
Flesh, bone, even blood would be cleaned up after a year out in the elements.
You misunderstand. This has nothing to do with his disbarment; rather GPP is referring to a previous court order prohibiting him from submitting briefs that were not signed by another bar member in good standing.
By submitting this motion he has violated that order, though I doubt much will come of it since he has already been disbarred.
It was a wasp, if I remember correctly. The wasp's "program" was to drag its paralyzed prey to its burrow, go inside the burrow and make sure the coast was clear, then return to the prey and drag it into the burrow.
But if the researchers moved the prey while the wasp was checking its burrow, it would reposition the prey and then check its burrow again. And it would repeat this as long as they kept moving it.
I would guess (entirely uninformed) that the engineering staff for OS X is much smaller than 650 people, probably closer to 65 people.
You are out of your mind. There's no other explanation.
The iPhone does this, and it's fantastic. I previously hated voicemail to the point that I would generally just ignore it -- they'll call back if it's important! iPhone's visual voicemail has made it pleasant to use again.
And yet, with all that thought going into your post, you don't seem to address the "why the hell would you use a foam-lined cardboard box for two sheets of paper in the first place" question.
Humans can still score on it occasionally, so they're `beating' it in that sense.
That's like saying that Deep Blue isn't "unbeatable" because it still loses pieces during the match.
If you can't win a game, you haven't beaten it, despite scoring points.
Point me to a non-trivial benchmark showing C++ to be anywhere near 10x as fast as Java. Seriously, I'm waiting.
On real algorithms, properly-written Java is anywhere from roughly equal to properly-written C++ down to maybe 1/2 the speed. "Way more than ten times faster?" You're either trolling or an idiot.
I do happen to know of one case where Java really is far slower than C, and that's in its trigonometric functions on Intel processors. Of course, there's a very good reason for this: Intel processors' built-in trigonometric opcodes will give you the completely wrong answer outside of a very narrow range of inputs. C / C++ doesn't give a crap and uses the instructions anyway, whereas Java recognizes this and uses an algorithm which actually gives correct answers, but is slower.
Of course, if you're not concerned with accuracy, I can provide a really fast implementation of the functions:
float sin(float radians) {
return 0;
}
Of course, just as with the C / C++ case, we're sacrificing some accuracy -- but at least it's fast! See how much performance you can get when you don't care whether the answer is right or not?
Dammit, I know that. I've had a rough day.
*grumble*
And now I feel stupid on top of it.
Bullshit. No way, no how is C++ ten times faster than Java. You're smoking crack.
Far, far longer than that. Even if we assume only 1 bit per pixel, 255x255=65025 bits. So each bitmap is basically just a number, 65025 bits long, and you want all permutations of them. So the problem of generating the bitmaps devolves into "count from 0 to 2^65025".
Of course, 2^65025 is a very, very big number. How long would it take to count that high? Assume you can magically do the increment in one cycle, and you have super-unbelievably fast 4GHz processors with absolutely no overhead and perfect scalability. You also do no processing on the image whatsoever, you simply iterate through them. So each core is processing a phenomenal 4 billion images every second. You have 500 cores, so you're chewing through a grand total of 2 trillion images a second. Wow, that's pretty damned fast!
2 trillion is almost 2^41. So if you're getting through 2^41 images every second, that means it will take a mere... 2^65025 / 2^41 = 2^1586 seconds.
There are roughly 2^25 seconds in a year, so that means you're going to be able to complete this count in a mere 2^63 years. That's 9 billion billion years, much longer than the lifespan of the universe. And that's merely to iterate through the images with no processing whatsover. Increase the computing power by a factor of a billion, and it would still take 9 billion years just to count them.
Of course, the fact they sit there drinking gravy and polishing off bag after bag of chips instead of, say, exercising is influenced by their genes. I'm pretty sure separated twin studies reveal a very high weight correlation.
Sure, you have to eat more than you're burning in order to gain weight. But to suggest that there is essentially no genetic influence is disingenuous.
Where did you get the idea that humans will veto unjust orders? You might want to read up about the Milgram experiment, or maybe just consider how the Holocaust happened.
I assure you, the Nazis didn't manage to put together an army of thoroughly evil people -- the vast majority of the Nazis were perfectly ordinary human beings receiving evil orders. We like to think we're different, but that's an incredibly dangerous opinion. It's much better to accept the fact that we are human, and that humans are overly obedient, and not trust ourselves or anyone else to be smart enough to overrule an unjust order.
So... one particular avenue of attack succeeded on one system and failed on the others, so it must be less secure overall? That's great logic there, buckaroo.
Consider a 35mm film camera with a mechanical shutter... what degree of force and mechanism would be required to move that shutter to open AND close the height of 24mm in 80 attoseconds? IANAPhysicist, but I doubt human hands could hang on to it.
Apparently we're not realizing just how short 80 attoseconds is. You doubt human hands could hang on to it? Moving 24mm in 80 attoseconds is faster than the speed of light. Not only is it faster than the speed of light, it's a million times faster than the speed of light.
Light only travels 24 nanometers in 80 attoseconds.
but when you have to roll this for 200 cities, also chosen by a 1d6 roll, you have two dies being rolled 200 times, and you want to know how many times both dies have the same value
Ummm... yeah. And it's still 1/6 times. You failed statistics, didn't you?
There seems to be plenty of blame to go around, but I think it's rather disingenuous for consultants to be rewriting code in Java instead of [original obscure language]. The comparison has no value, and I hope they didn't bill their client for the time. Unless they were brought in to do a Java rewrite, and that doesn't appear to be the case, they should have been spending their time working in [original obscure language].
Faced with 140,000 lines of obscure cruft which barely performed an extremely simple task, they had the choice between attempting to maintain the monstrosity or start from scratch and do it right. They started from scratch and did it right, which according to the memo involved cutting out 136,000 lines of useless code and vastly increasing the performance.
And you're calling them out on it? You think they did the wrong thing by eliminating 136,000 lines of bloat and significantly improving the performance? You're part of the reason shit like this happens.
What the hell else would you suggest? Allow software to install itself globally WITHOUT admin privileges? Make it so that software by default only works for the user who installed it?