Do have a look at the BUG mod if you have Beyond the Sword. It doesn't change gameplay, but adds a large amount of interface improvements that make the game much more convenient to play.
Think about that for a second. Short of a confession, can any defence testimony remove reasonable doubt? What kind of doubt can be eliminated by such a testimony?
No, it's very clear that his personality quirks played a large factor here. For instance, the judge laughed at him when he described not liking to make eye contact. Some of the jurors said that the fact that they thought he was odd played a large part in their decision. That's not the kind of thing that should remove reasonable doubt.
Oh, the poor little geek boy with the odd personality. Well, eye contact aside, how about lying on the stand about evidence and then saying "I'm sorry for being deceptive" to the jury when found out? How about ranting about what a bad person your wife was? Don't get me started on how he destroyed evidence. Don't make Reiser out as the innocent victim. He did more than enough to incriminate himself, and the jury were spot on.
So, what are they trying to show? "Because we've implemented support for a certain MMU feature and native Linux hasn't, we've demonstrated that virtualizing Linux on L4 is a good idea"? Doesn't sound perfectly logical to me. Apples and oranges come to mind.
No, most of the time they had a palette of 16 (hires) or 32 (lores) colors out of 4096. HAM mode allows you to use all 4096 colors, but you may need three pixels to change to a different color (one RGB channel at a time).
The standard OCS and ECS custom chips never did more than 4096 colors; only the later AGA chipset allowed 24 bit colors.
Anybody who's felt the chill when listening to the guitar riffs on Confortably numb (Pink Floyd) or Voodoo Child (Jimmy Hendrix) would agree that no machine will ever ever be able to create that emotion.
My CD player is quite capable of creating that emotion. Yours too, apparently.
I've been typing for 20 years, and I have no trouble with my wrists. One thing I've observed is that I've developed my own typing system, with the hands placed in a natural angle - index fingers on J and F, middle fingers on E and I, which I believe is unlike "proper" 10 finger typing where the hands are more straight. I wonder if that could be a factor that makes people develop wrist problems - can anyone who has wrist problems comment on his typing position?
But I don't use my computer as a TV, stereo or game console. For someone who wants those specific features, then a Mac would probably be a better tool.
Well, I've now managed to get ivtv and MythTV up and running, and it's a lot better (more features, and more user-friendly once properly set up) than the Windows software that came with the TV card. However, it did take a lot of time and tinkering to get it set up.
Then, abotu a year ago, I said the hell with it and completely changed direction. I threw out all of my experience, certifications, and hell, even thousands of dollars worth of books and did something completely unrelated.
Most modern algorithms and stuff that have to deal with a certain amount of instability in the world owe their success to thousands of AI researchers bashing their heads against a wall in the vain hopes of creating artificial life but coming up with all sorts of interesting observations and ideas to deal with specific problems.
Sounds a bit like the middle-age alchemists trying to convert lead into gold, and discovering other chemical processes while doing so...
well, now AMD is creating the kruftiest, heaviest, nastiest instruction set of backwards-compatible crud in the history of processor-dom. Intel comes out with a new, no-legacy 64-bit instruction set, and all of a sudden it is, "god, we hope AMD wins so all our old crap still works".
Actually x86-64 is much nicer both for assembly language programmers and compilers. For all the non-legacyness of ia64, it's even more complex than x86. Intel have totally screwed it up.
Well the normal could do fine with a pentium 200 and 64 megs of ram.
My mother is getting to the limits of her 400MHz/64MB machine, mostly when doing graphics stuff (she uses a scanner to archive all sorts of images). So, even "normal" people can make use of powerful computers.
The idea is that if you have a hydrogen and an anti-hydrogen meet, there will be a huge explosion of energy.
Each time I see this particular claim I wonder whether it really needs to be H/anti-H? As far as my limited understanding of physics goes, any kind of matter vs any kind of antimatter would cause a bang?
If RMS wants a desktop environment that is fully GPLed and thus can't be used with proprietary software, why doesn't he adopt KDE as the GNU project's desktop?
No, the SPEC benchmarks are a pretty awful way of comparing processor performance. Those synthetic benchmarks are often not equivalent to real-world performance.
SPEC isn't synthetic, it's a collection of real-world programs such as gzip and gcc.
Also be aware that Maxtor uses %100 IBM desktar drives. They just slap a Maxtor label on them.
That's nonsense. Maxtor sell some Quantum drives under the Maxtor label (since they bought out Quantum), and I believe Western Digital is selling some drives that are identical to IBM models. But not Maxtor.
The new 1.26 GHz version of the P3 (manufactured in 0.13um process) dissipates much less than the Duron (29W max), and performs a lot better (see Tom's comparison from yesterday). A P3 also has the advantage that you don't have the hassle of dealing with VIA chipset bugs, so the system ought to be more solid. If only it weren't priced quite as insanely... still, I'm probably going to get one next week.
It's really frustrating - why can't we get a CPU with the speed of an Athlon, the power consumption of a Tualatin P3 (which isn't great at 29W, but the best of all the high performers), and a stable chipset to run it on?
Start by writing the comments. Say what the code is going to do. Read your comments. Make sure you're doing the right thing.
Perhaps most importantly: we can all read your source and see what the code does. Your comments should say what it should do. This also serves as an error-correction mechanism: if the code and the comments don't agree, then there's obviously a problem.
This may or may not be good advice, depending on how one reads it.
Comments shouldn't say what the code does, but why. The statement "i++" is self-explanatory, but too often schools teach you to put a comment "/* Increment i */" above it. This sort of comment is worse than useless, it clutters up your source code and makes it more difficult to read, because you have to visually filter out the comments to see the actual code.
Now, if there was a non-obvious reason to increment i (i.e. it's not the loop counter), then that warrants a comment. Say why it needs to be incremented.
New scheduler: The CITY-Umich scheduler project is pretty interesting, as was the work done by IBM's Java group. Regardless of what solution is used, though, we have to stop making excuses and admit that the current scheduler is highly flawed for systems running hundreds or thousands of threads.
Or we have to stop making excuses and admit that systems running hundreds or thousands of threads are highly flawed.
The point people tend to forget is that making a system run acceptably for this kind of workload will hurt it for more realistic everyday workloads. Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be done. The people in charge of the kernel seem to have understood this very well.
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Do have a look at the BUG mod if you have Beyond the Sword. It doesn't change gameplay, but adds a large amount of interface improvements that make the game much more convenient to play.
Think about that for a second. Short of a confession, can any defence testimony remove reasonable doubt? What kind of doubt can be eliminated by such a testimony?
No, it's very clear that his personality quirks played a large factor here. For instance, the judge laughed at him when he described not liking to make eye contact. Some of the jurors said that the fact that they thought he was odd played a large part in their decision. That's not the kind of thing that should remove reasonable doubt.
Oh, the poor little geek boy with the odd personality. Well, eye contact aside, how about lying on the stand about evidence and then saying "I'm sorry for being deceptive" to the jury when found out? How about ranting about what a bad person your wife was? Don't get me started on how he destroyed evidence.
Don't make Reiser out as the innocent victim. He did more than enough to incriminate himself, and the jury were spot on.
There was a discussion on heise.de just last week or so about how the German Wikipedia is basically fucked for much the same reasons.
So, what are they trying to show? "Because we've implemented support for a certain MMU feature and native Linux hasn't, we've demonstrated that virtualizing Linux on L4 is a good idea"? Doesn't sound perfectly logical to me. Apples and oranges come to mind.
I need some help to come up with a rationalization how I can still justify buying Seinfeld season 5 once it comes out. Anyone?
Maybe a stupid question, but am I the only one who wants his filesystems checked after a crash? (I could do without the check-after-N-mounts thing.)
I assume you mean disk images, not ROMs (as in the Kickstart ROM). Try http://www.back2roots.org/News/, it's quite comprehensive and even all legal.
No, most of the time they had a palette of 16 (hires) or 32 (lores) colors out of 4096. HAM mode allows you to use all 4096 colors, but you may need three pixels to change to a different color (one RGB channel at a time).
The standard OCS and ECS custom chips never did more than 4096 colors; only the later AGA chipset allowed 24 bit colors.
My CD player is quite capable of creating that emotion. Yours too, apparently.
I've been typing for 20 years, and I have no trouble with my wrists. One thing I've observed is that I've developed my own typing system, with the hands placed in a natural angle - index fingers on J and F, middle fingers on E and I, which I believe is unlike "proper" 10 finger typing where the hands are more straight. I wonder if that could be a factor that makes people develop wrist problems - can anyone who has wrist problems comment on his typing position?
Well, I've now managed to get ivtv and MythTV up and running, and it's a lot better (more features, and more user-friendly once properly set up) than the Windows software that came with the TV card. However, it did take a lot of time and tinkering to get it set up.
Bzzt. PPro and Pentium were different cores. Pentium is an in-order design, PPro the first out-of-order x86.
So, what exactly did you do?
Sounds a bit like the middle-age alchemists trying to convert lead into gold, and discovering other chemical processes while doing so...
Well the normal could do fine with a pentium 200 and 64 megs of ram.
My mother is getting to the limits of her 400MHz/64MB machine, mostly when doing graphics stuff (she uses a scanner to archive all sorts of images). So, even "normal" people can make use of powerful computers.
The idea is that if you have a hydrogen and an anti-hydrogen meet, there will be a huge explosion of energy.
Each time I see this particular claim I wonder whether it really needs to be H/anti-H? As far as my limited understanding of physics goes, any kind of matter vs any kind of antimatter would cause a bang?
If RMS wants a desktop environment that is fully GPLed and thus can't be used with proprietary software, why doesn't he adopt KDE as the GNU project's desktop?
SPEC isn't synthetic, it's a collection of real-world programs such as gzip and gcc.
That's nonsense. Maxtor sell some Quantum drives under the Maxtor label (since they bought out Quantum), and I believe Western Digital is selling some drives that are identical to IBM models. But not Maxtor.
The new 1.26 GHz version of the P3 (manufactured in 0.13um process) dissipates much less than the Duron (29W max), and performs a lot better (see Tom's comparison from yesterday). A P3 also has the advantage that you don't have the hassle of dealing with VIA chipset bugs, so the system ought to be more solid. If only it weren't priced quite as insanely... still, I'm probably going to get one next week.
It's really frustrating - why can't we get a CPU with the speed of an Athlon, the power consumption of a Tualatin P3 (which isn't great at 29W, but the best of all the high performers), and a stable chipset to run it on?
This may or may not be good advice, depending on how one reads it.
Comments shouldn't say what the code does, but why. The statement "i++" is self-explanatory, but too often schools teach you to put a comment "/* Increment i */" above it. This sort of comment is worse than useless, it clutters up your source code and makes it more difficult to read, because you have to visually filter out the comments to see the actual code.
Now, if there was a non-obvious reason to increment i (i.e. it's not the loop counter), then that warrants a comment. Say why it needs to be incremented.
Or we have to stop making excuses and admit that systems running hundreds or thousands of threads are highly flawed.
The point people tend to forget is that making a system run acceptably for this kind of workload will hurt it for more realistic everyday workloads. Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be done. The people in charge of the kernel seem to have understood this very well.