Good point. I recall long ago in high school state history being told that Governor Edmonson put an end to Prohibition in Oklahoma... by enforcing it. How can we put an end to the strategy of turning a blind eye to piracy until the target population is hooked?
Isn't that sort of like asking, "Why the bleep is this music in stereo if the singer and instruments don't pan back and forth every few seconds?" Old stereo recordings were a lot of trains,. cars, and aircraft going from side to side, and old 3D movies were full of gratuitous stuff flying at the audience, like the barker with the paddle balls in _House of Wax_, Eventually, they learn how to use it in ways that aren't gratuitous or distracting.
How would that notion apply to the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The whole point of the US government is that there are checks and balances even against the people. It shouldn't be possible to deprive people of their rights just because a significant number of people think it proper.
Dhrystone went through the same thing. The first version was written not taking into account dead code elimination, and compilers capable of it pretty well eliminated it all, rendering it useless as a benchmark. Dhrystone 2.0 was revised to prevent dead code elimination, so that to run it you actually had to perform the operations the code was intended to perform.
So... when will we see SunSpider 2.0, and results of running it under various web browsers?
... is the end of the page, where two large graphics cover the last part of the text, and beneath that is a link to something about Intuit web site building software.
As someone once said in Latin, who cleans up after the custodians? (Yes, I know that's a lousy translation.)
As someone else once said, "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." Government IS power; it has a monopoly on the (supposedly) legitimate use of force. Who's going to protect you from it? If I don't like XYZ Foods' products or the color of their labels or the suit the CEO wears, I can buy another brand. If I don't like a government decree, I have no recourse; one person's vote has essentially zero effect.
Back in the days of ELIZA and people wondering whether computers really could be used to augment, if not replace, human therapists, I recall people describing their surprise at how readily people would confide in such software; perhaps people's inclination to post everything on Facebook is related. But:the existence of a difference between what people tell automated polls and human pollers doesn't, by itself, tell you which of those responses reflects what the people polled really think. For all I know, that ELIZA effect still holds, and people will tell the machine something that they wouldn't tell a human. A robocall won't turn on you and say "You favor tax cuts?! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" (at least not yet!) or give you a dirty look or inflection that indicates disapproval.
Admittedly, I haven't followed your instructions exactly. I have Firefox 3.6.11 from the Ubuntu repositories for 10.10, rather than what one would retrieve from mozilla.org. Also, I have several add-ons active, though only Adblock Plus would potentially filter out things that might add to memory leakage--and wouldn't more plugins use more RAM? ps output shows that it's been running for an hour I have twelve tabs open, including Facebook, Yahoo! mail, Instapundit and New World Notes, both of which tend to have lots of embedded flash videos, Slashdot of course, flickr, and other stray web pages. Ubuntu System Monitor shows firefox-bin using 348.3 MB and plugin-container using 218.3, total well under a gigabyte.
Your beef is with GNOME, not Ubuntu. Things should "just work", so, the logic goes, why make them configurable at all? Besides, you can't be trusted. Just ask the creator of gnome-screensaver.
Let's just hope the fellow responsible for this utility has a Meerkat version of his ppa up and going.
Guess he didn't hear the current party line.... and I think nossos amigos portuguêses would appreciate the appropriate choice of language for the department.
Whatever your opinion of inalienable rights, check out Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which one would think the UN might actually support.
I'm reminded of something that happened to me while I was a student assistant at a remote job entry location of a university's computer facilities.
The incoming batch of engineering freshmen were being taught, as was the tradition, to program badly in FORTRAN. An instructor assigned them the problem of counting the ways to make change for a dollar, assuming you had plenty of all the denominations of coins. How did he have them do it? Nested DO loops, one per denomination, with each denomination running from 0 to 100 / the denomination's value, of course!
The result? Bunches of students exceeding the thirty-second time limit for WATFIV jobs so their programs were cancelled before they finished. They'd run them again, of course--maybe the first time was a fluke. (The university ran on a 370/138 at the time....) Then they'd come in and ask how to run in a different job class so they weren't limited to thirty seconds.
I wrote a program in Algol W with a recursive function that would solve the general change making problem. It solved the specific one in 0.01 seconds. A friend and coworker (alas, no longer with us) wrote a non-recursive program in FORTRAN that took less than 0.01 seconds, so that the output showed it as running in 0.00 seconds. Our boss took the listings and output and had a discussion with the instructor. He, and I hope his students, learned something.
Nowadays, they wouldn't. Today's computers would run the horribly inefficient version so quickly that nobody would care, and they'd move on to the next thing.
So I applaud this approach, and hope everyone gets that experience.
That is my experience, too. By the time I read and decide to give either thumbs up or thumbs down to any conservative comment on a Digg article, it is invariably buried. For leftist comments, the reverse is true; their ratings increase usually by ten, sometimes twenty or more points in the same interval.
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Might as well go whole hog for "LibreOficina"... or should they keep LibreOffica and call Spanish language version be "FreeOficina"?
Good point. I recall long ago in high school state history being told that Governor Edmonson put an end to Prohibition in Oklahoma... by enforcing it. How can we put an end to the strategy of turning a blind eye to piracy until the target population is hooked?
Doesn't requiring that percentage imply "regardless of cost"?
"No, but *Comedians* on the other hand are more than qualified :)"
Yeah, but we're talking Al Franken here, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
Isn't that sort of like asking, "Why the bleep is this music in stereo if the singer and instruments don't pan back and forth every few seconds?" Old stereo recordings were a lot of trains,. cars, and aircraft going from side to side, and old 3D movies were full of gratuitous stuff flying at the audience, like the barker with the paddle balls in _House of Wax_, Eventually, they learn how to use it in ways that aren't gratuitous or distracting.
How would that notion apply to the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The whole point of the US government is that there are checks and balances even against the people. It shouldn't be possible to deprive people of their rights just because a significant number of people think it proper.
Then let's get rid of that advantage--states should get rid of the sales tax.
Hmmmm.... I thought I recalled reading that Sweden, at least, was moving away from its socialist policies. See http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/0514/sweden-hardly-a-socialist-nightmare for some details.
Dhrystone went through the same thing. The first version was written not taking into account dead code elimination, and compilers capable of it pretty well eliminated it all, rendering it useless as a benchmark. Dhrystone 2.0 was revised to prevent dead code elimination, so that to run it you actually had to perform the operations the code was intended to perform.
So... when will we see SunSpider 2.0, and results of running it under various web browsers?
... is the end of the page, where two large graphics cover the last part of the text, and beneath that is a link to something about Intuit web site building software.
As someone once said in Latin, who cleans up after the custodians? (Yes, I know that's a lousy translation.)
As someone else once said, "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." Government IS power; it has a monopoly on the (supposedly) legitimate use of force. Who's going to protect you from it? If I don't like XYZ Foods' products or the color of their labels or the suit the CEO wears, I can buy another brand. If I don't like a government decree, I have no recourse; one person's vote has essentially zero effect.
Back in the days of ELIZA and people wondering whether computers really could be used to augment, if not replace, human therapists, I recall people describing their surprise at how readily people would confide in such software; perhaps people's inclination to post everything on Facebook is related. But:the existence of a difference between what people tell automated polls and human pollers doesn't, by itself, tell you which of those responses reflects what the people polled really think. For all I know, that ELIZA effect still holds, and people will tell the machine something that they wouldn't tell a human. A robocall won't turn on you and say "You favor tax cuts?! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" (at least not yet!) or give you a dirty look or inflection that indicates disapproval.
Seems appropriate for Halloween.
Admittedly, I haven't followed your instructions exactly. I have Firefox 3.6.11 from the Ubuntu repositories for 10.10, rather than what one would retrieve from mozilla.org. Also, I have several add-ons active, though only Adblock Plus would potentially filter out things that might add to memory leakage--and wouldn't more plugins use more RAM? ps output shows that it's been running for an hour I have twelve tabs open, including Facebook, Yahoo! mail, Instapundit and New World Notes, both of which tend to have lots of embedded flash videos, Slashdot of course, flickr, and other stray web pages. Ubuntu System Monitor shows firefox-bin using 348.3 MB and plugin-container using 218.3, total well under a gigabyte.
Your beef is with GNOME, not Ubuntu. Things should "just work", so, the logic goes, why make them configurable at all? Besides, you can't be trusted. Just ask the creator of gnome-screensaver.
Let's just hope the fellow responsible for this utility has a Meerkat version of his ppa up and going.
Thanks, but I think my condo counts as a basement of sorts. (No, it wasn't inherited.)
Guess he didn't hear the current party line.... and I think nossos amigos portuguêses would appreciate the appropriate choice of language for the department.
>Does this help?
If you would, please do one more thing: name the company, so I can make a point of avoiding its products.
Whatever your opinion of inalienable rights, check out Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which one would think the UN might actually support.
I'm reminded of something that happened to me while I was a student assistant at a remote job entry location of a university's computer facilities.
The incoming batch of engineering freshmen were being taught, as was the tradition, to program badly in FORTRAN. An instructor assigned them the problem of counting the ways to make change for a dollar, assuming you had plenty of all the denominations of coins. How did he have them do it? Nested DO loops, one per denomination, with each denomination running from 0 to 100 / the denomination's value, of course!
The result? Bunches of students exceeding the thirty-second time limit for WATFIV jobs so their programs were cancelled before they finished. They'd run them again, of course--maybe the first time was a fluke. (The university ran on a 370/138 at the time....) Then they'd come in and ask how to run in a different job class so they weren't limited to thirty seconds.
I wrote a program in Algol W with a recursive function that would solve the general change making problem. It solved the specific one in 0.01 seconds. A friend and coworker (alas, no longer with us) wrote a non-recursive program in FORTRAN that took less than 0.01 seconds, so that the output showed it as running in 0.00 seconds. Our boss took the listings and output and had a discussion with the instructor. He, and I hope his students, learned something.
Nowadays, they wouldn't. Today's computers would run the horribly inefficient version so quickly that nobody would care, and they'd move on to the next thing.
So I applaud this approach, and hope everyone gets that experience.
You won't, unless it's to their benefit. If recycling is actually worthwhile, then pay people to do it in accordance with what it's worth.
Thought that was Mencken. The Barnum quote was something about d(sucker)/dt, and I bet it's gone up since then, too.
The 0s are zeroier, and the 1s more one-ey!
It's open source. If you have any questions about just what it does, you can find out for yourself.
That is my experience, too. By the time I read and decide to give either thumbs up or thumbs down to any conservative comment on a Digg article, it is invariably buried. For leftist comments, the reverse is true; their ratings increase usually by ten, sometimes twenty or more points in the same interval.