That's a nice list of scripting languages you've got there. And don't get me wrong, scripting languages are nice. However, if speed is an issue, Lua's never going to cut it in the same way that Java does.
Have you seen LuaJIT really? It's not exactly slow. (Also, what the hell is a 'scripting' language?)
It appears from the article that it's a new, separate architecture to which the kernel hasn't been ported yet, so these are add-on processors that can help reduce the load on the actual CPU, at least for now.
So, em, two things:
1. How exactly does that work without kernel level support? They claimed having ported separate apps (MySQL, memcached, Apache), so this might suggest a generic kernel interface and userspace scheduling.
2. How does this fix the apps they ported being mostly IO bound in a lot of cases and 99% of the cores will still just be eating out of their noses?
A properly written unit test might have a chance of finding it if you take the approach of writing your unit tests by looking at how the function can fail. It is still unlikely that you will find it but the most important thing after something like this is found is to add it to your unit tests and look for similar mistakes elsewhere.
Presumably (especially considering how long the bug has managed to go unnoticed and how prevalent it is), it's obscure and an implementation detail (then again, most bugs are). You can't expect random developers to have this kind of knowledge of an underlying XML library -- especially when the rest of the world had no clue either.
Despite being unit tested all around the world, nobody has managed to find and report this bug prior to this person. Doesn't that say anything?
Correct, but when one implementation is obviously dominant (say, CPython and it's GIL), it becomes a language problem for anyone that wants to write real software in it right now.
If you don't encrypt confidential data with keys not given to everyone in your company, let alone people in *OTHER* companies, you deserve to have all your corporate data stolen.
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Not to mention countries where the father (family) of the bride is responsible for the dowry, such as India and Pakistan. Many of the poorer villages there are effectively doomed to die out, since some of them are almost exclusively male due to this practice.
It did flag Youtube. It didn't flag Youtube *videos* or Google videos. Neither did it flag Google Maps results, images, news, groups (news servers)... This 'website flagging' thing, obviously, only works on website search results -- not everything else.
Please note that even though you clone (ie geneticaly copy) an organism, you do not copy what you 'love'. There is no guarantee (in fact, it is exceedingly likely, sort of depending on who you ask) that many of the mannerisms that you've learned to recognize in your current dog will not happen in the 'new' version of it -- because those mannerisms were learned from a very specific set of events that can impossibly be reproduced.
Bad human analogy: if you were adopted by a rich/poor family, you (same genetic makeup) would have a completely different life.
KDE and Gnome are window managers? I thought they were desktop environments. Pretty big difference. There's nothing stopping you using GNOME/KDE with FVWM, e17, openbox, whatever.
The fact that you're actually playing a human is a big factor too. Fast connections and low ping times aren't the only reason LAN parties were successful -- sometimes you just want to rub it in.
Exactly. I can recommend The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable to anyone. It's a great book, and written before the current financial and economical crisis. I'm not going to say he predicted it accurately, but reading it again knowing all this has significantly changed my opinion on the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515
Read it -- you won't regret it.
I'm very happy with my X301, and I'm typing this on a T43p. I can't say I feel the T43p is significantly better or worse engineered. However, I haven't had the X301 very long...
The article makes no sense to me. Not only doe it contradict McCain's own website, but why would a party (Republican) that opposes adding regulations and promotes free, unrestrained markets everywhere, want to implement anti-NN laws?
Am I just being too naive?
The living room also had 3-prong outlets, which did appear to be actually grounded, but which were miswired somewhere, such that 60-cycle hum would emanate from the stereo -unless- the clothes drier was running, which I still haven't figured out.
I was under the conception that grounding was for security and security only, and as such has no effect on the hum your stereo is experiencing.
I had the inverse problem. For some strange reason, if you want to install a REMOTE LPR queue on WinXP, you need to add a LOCAL port. Makes perfect sense!
The confusion arises because you're discussing different products. c0p0n refers to TomTom NAVIGATOR (for WinCE) which is navigation software, whereas the discussion here is about standalone TT units (GO, ONE, and what have you).
I have money in an offshore account left to me by my dying dog may he rest in Jesus' arms, $30,000,000 MILLION USD. Please act as my feduciary agent in moving this moneys safely onshore, and I shall with you share 10%, that is $10,000 THOUSAND USD.
You sir, look like an excellent candiate for our recent job opening here at Verizon!
It's reasonably accurate. The problem is that "water" and "sea level pressure" is not the same everywhere to the degree which we want it to make extremely accurate measurements. A human breathing on the water will cause slightly more CO2 do be diluted, slightly different temperatures will cause expansion/compression... These will be made possible by having a better kilogram -- this kilogram.
Even the idea of antimatter or neutrinos or quantum mechanics were considered "impossible" some time ago. There is simply too much we do not grasp completely yet, despite all the formulas and appraisals we make. Declaring a dogma to be absolutely true is something we should've left to the Christians and Muslims of the world. They always "know" and they are "always right". Scientists were supposed to be open minded, at some point, they even were. Antimatter and neutrino's were both predicted by the physical models that shortly predated them. Quantum mechanics was not though "impossible" -- just noone thought of it yet.
Also, in reply to your dogma quote, very little in science is truly dogmatic in the sense that it is considered infallible.
I just need more than a reuters reporter and a japanese man in a suit, who turned out to be pretty much lying (well duh), to throw out the second law.
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That's a nice list of scripting languages you've got there. And don't get me wrong, scripting languages are nice. However, if speed is an issue, Lua's never going to cut it in the same way that Java does.
Have you seen LuaJIT really? It's not exactly slow. (Also, what the hell is a 'scripting' language?)
It appears from the article that it's a new, separate architecture to which the kernel hasn't been ported yet, so these are add-on processors that can help reduce the load on the actual CPU, at least for now. So, em, two things: 1. How exactly does that work without kernel level support? They claimed having ported separate apps (MySQL, memcached, Apache), so this might suggest a generic kernel interface and userspace scheduling. 2. How does this fix the apps they ported being mostly IO bound in a lot of cases and 99% of the cores will still just be eating out of their noses?
As subject says. If there is a "Y" cromosome, well, you have a male then...
Yes, except, no.
People with genotype XY, and non-active (mutated) SRY. Female phenotype.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16934
A properly written unit test might have a chance of finding it if you take the approach of writing your unit tests by looking at how the function can fail. It is still unlikely that you will find it but the most important thing after something like this is found is to add it to your unit tests and look for similar mistakes elsewhere.
Presumably (especially considering how long the bug has managed to go unnoticed and how prevalent it is), it's obscure and an implementation detail (then again, most bugs are). You can't expect random developers to have this kind of knowledge of an underlying XML library -- especially when the rest of the world had no clue either. Despite being unit tested all around the world, nobody has managed to find and report this bug prior to this person. Doesn't that say anything?
There's also the quadruple blind test, where we don't give give the actual measurements to the statisticians, to remove all possible bias.
Correct, but when one implementation is obviously dominant (say, CPython and it's GIL), it becomes a language problem for anyone that wants to write real software in it right now.
If you don't encrypt confidential data with keys not given to everyone in your company, let alone people in *OTHER* companies, you deserve to have all your corporate data stolen.
Not to mention countries where the father (family) of the bride is responsible for the dowry, such as India and Pakistan. Many of the poorer villages there are effectively doomed to die out, since some of them are almost exclusively male due to this practice.
It did flag Youtube. It didn't flag Youtube *videos* or Google videos. Neither did it flag Google Maps results, images, news, groups (news servers)... This 'website flagging' thing, obviously, only works on website search results -- not everything else.
Please note that even though you clone (ie geneticaly copy) an organism, you do not copy what you 'love'. There is no guarantee (in fact, it is exceedingly likely, sort of depending on who you ask) that many of the mannerisms that you've learned to recognize in your current dog will not happen in the 'new' version of it -- because those mannerisms were learned from a very specific set of events that can impossibly be reproduced. Bad human analogy: if you were adopted by a rich/poor family, you (same genetic makeup) would have a completely different life.
KDE and Gnome are window managers? I thought they were desktop environments. Pretty big difference. There's nothing stopping you using GNOME/KDE with FVWM, e17, openbox, whatever.
The fact that you're actually playing a human is a big factor too. Fast connections and low ping times aren't the only reason LAN parties were successful -- sometimes you just want to rub it in.
Exactly. I can recommend The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable to anyone. It's a great book, and written before the current financial and economical crisis. I'm not going to say he predicted it accurately, but reading it again knowing all this has significantly changed my opinion on the book. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515 Read it -- you won't regret it.
Isn't Runescape a Java applet? I don't play it, but I could've sworn it was.
I'm very happy with my X301, and I'm typing this on a T43p. I can't say I feel the T43p is significantly better or worse engineered. However, I haven't had the X301 very long...
You can't hear a Prius from all the way down the road, silly.
The article makes no sense to me. Not only doe it contradict McCain's own website, but why would a party (Republican) that opposes adding regulations and promotes free, unrestrained markets everywhere, want to implement anti-NN laws? Am I just being too naive?
Wii 2...
Wii II...
Wiiii?
The living room also had 3-prong outlets, which did appear to be actually grounded, but which were miswired somewhere, such that 60-cycle hum would emanate from the stereo -unless- the clothes drier was running, which I still haven't figured out.
I was under the conception that grounding was for security and security only, and as such has no effect on the hum your stereo is experiencing.
I had the inverse problem. For some strange reason, if you want to install a REMOTE LPR queue on WinXP, you need to add a LOCAL port. Makes perfect sense!
The confusion arises because you're discussing different products. c0p0n refers to TomTom NAVIGATOR (for WinCE) which is navigation software, whereas the discussion here is about standalone TT units (GO, ONE, and what have you).
I have money in an offshore account left to me by my dying dog may he rest in Jesus' arms, $30,000,000 MILLION USD. Please act as my feduciary agent in moving this moneys safely onshore, and I shall with you share 10%, that is $10,000 THOUSAND USD.
You sir, look like an excellent candiate for our recent job opening here at Verizon!
It's reasonably accurate. The problem is that "water" and "sea level pressure" is not the same everywhere to the degree which we want it to make extremely accurate measurements. A human breathing on the water will cause slightly more CO2 do be diluted, slightly different temperatures will cause expansion/compression... These will be made possible by having a better kilogram -- this kilogram.
Putting it that way, most men are ready, willing and able tools for the job.