You grandparents are all alike. You buy a stripped down game that kinda copies the real thing but without all the violent elements. It ends up being boring. You should have bought Chess. So what if it is simulated warfare, its what all the kids want these days. Even better Check out Goban now theres a game that has some great replay value.
I do not believe this is still true. Java ByteCode is interpreted and is still equal to C in speed -- though admittedly still compiled. Even purely interpreted languages are seeing a large speed boost from JIT compilation. I believe the stratigy is to "compile" JavaScript for a page an remember the optimized control flow. In doing so JavaScript could execute faster then even a natively compiled C plug-in within the browser environment.
Puzzle games are less replayable. While not impossible, it's extremely difficult to come up with a system for dynamically generating puzzles so they're fresh each time.
And multi-player also suffers in puzzle games.
This is true for static puzzles, once they are solved your pretty much done. but optimization and economic puzzles have enormous replay value. Think anything with "Sim" in the title.
Ah, but for your same $20 a month, I get my own virtual server that I can configure in anyway I want. I can upgrade software when it is best for me. I also have guaranteed access to memory and processor time.
Shared hosting is quickly becoming an an option only for the lowest of the low end.
This Video is from the Google Tech Talks about neural networks an talks not only about identifying pictures of hand written numbers, but also about sorting pictures and text.
It seems that categorizing visual data is now a solved (if CPU intensive) problem.
But people hate being in their cars! They do all sorts of thing (many that endanger other drivers and themselves) while in the car, because they don't like sitting in traffic. Examples are making phone calls, personal hygiene, eating, and watching tv. I ride the train to work and I and my fellow passengers can do all these things and not have to worry driving into the person in front of us.
People will jump at the chance to leave their car at home if public transit can provide frequent, on-time, and efficient trips in a comfortable environment.
Your probably correct that giving up our cars completely is not a currently attainable goal, but how about this: 75% of all U.S. households owning a single vehicle, and 75% of U.S. workers commuting by some means other then a single occupant vehicle at least 3 times a week. I think that would make me happy. What about you?
There is a problem with this. I assume that you mean 16 and 3 Volts DC. As voltage goes down current goes up. With higher current you need thicker wire. 500mA is not to bad, but if an entire house is wired up one would need 10 to 20 amps. From my work in the pipe organ industry I can tell you that anything less then 10 gauge wire will cause problems.
This is precisely why 120V AC is run in homes. It is the right balance between the amount of power that can be delivered, and the safety of exposed line voltage. If the voltage were much less the current would be too much to handle. much over 300 volts and the act of connecting to the circuit becomes too risky for "the average person."
Sorry, but "duck typing" and inferred types are completely different things. See Ruby for duck typing, python is just a stripped down version of Haskell's inferred types.
The whole idea of having a single URI for these very common.js files is that they can be cached, and not just on your local computer. Any router with the ability to follow the HTTP1.1 cache protocol would serve these pages out of a local cache.
Moreover, if this idea catches on, WebBrowsers will begin shipping with these well know URIs preinstalled, perhaps even with optimized versions of the scripts that cut out all the IE6 cruft. What is really needed to make this work is a high bandwidth, high availability server that has enough name recognition to get them selves on slashdot. Google sounds like the right choice to me.
If this works, in 5 years most of the requests for these URIs will never even leave your computer, and you cannot beat that kind of privacy.
From the perspective of content, the Googlebot and a screen reader work about the same. If your page is not accessible to the blind then it is also not accessible to the web spiders that you need to dive traffic to your sight
unlike Christmas, for which there's no recorded time of year for the original event If the writers of Matthew and Luke correctly recorded the nativity, then Jesus was born in early to mid-spring during the lambing season. This is the only time of year when shepherds would be "watching their flocks by night." The Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, of late called Christmas was not intended to be Christs "Birthday Party." You are correct about the attempt to superimpose Christmas on celebrations of the Winter Solstice however.
I don't believe that it would. IANAGSA, but using javascript to manipulate the user interface is a fairly common practice. Cloaking, IMHO, refers to sending the Google Bot different content then you send a normal user. With javascript you send the same information to everyone, and simply change how it is presented with the script. A huge number of sites already do this to keep all the important content on the page while keeping the user's experience clean and straight forward. If you are using Slashdot's new comment interface, you can see the results.
This would work so much better if they used some unobtrusive javascript to hide the content. At least then it would require a person to view page source or enable FireBug.
I'm all fine with supporting children, What I don't like is paying 26% of my salary every month to subsidizes rich blue haired old ladies second home in the Hamptons and frequent trips to Europe. Particularly when I will NEVER get the same benefits.
I'm 30, I assume that I will never again see any money I give to the government for SSI. Its a tax imposed on me by AARP. If anyone my age or younger is ingliding SSI in their retirement portfolio, get a new financial adviser.
Ok, We get the point already, best beth hire someone, but that doesn't answer the question.
Let's say, jut for kicks that I'm interested in web design. Maybe I'll go take a few classes someday, but I what to get the basics first. You know, see if I like it. What are some good web sites/books that will get me started without a 4 year degree. Your budget: $150, timeline: two months. I don't need to be an expert, just enough to try redesigning my blog or something.
While you sentiment is in the right place, there is a huge flaw in your logic. Most food impoverished countries are that way because it is unprofitable to farm the land. Why? because the US is dumping huge amounts of excise food onto the markets. If you want to help feed starving people, it would be much better to supply them with cash that they can use to pay local farmers rather then putting those farmers out of business with highly subsidized US corn and soy beans
Fortunate for you that Title 24 does not apply retroactively. You may keep you old low tech thermostat and enjoy the lower energy prices, and lack of rolling blackouts witout any personal cost. Well except from the dirty looks from the Prius driving envirogeeks.
Actually, the petroleum industry has refining techniques that would allow fro the same octane rating without MTBE or Ethanol, but the Federal Fuel standards mandate that ethanol be used. There was a major court case in CA regarding this in 1998.
Oh, no, they won't install them in any commercial location, only private homes. Making people uncomfortable in their own homes, no problem; Interfering with Holy Commerce, now, they just don't play games there. Won't happen.
Incorrect. Title 24 applies to all construction in California and is much more carefully inspected for in the commercial sector then in residential. Many have pointed out how easy this is to undo in a residential setting. In a commercial setting not following your Title 24 obligations is a good way to loose a lease or fail a health/fire inspection.
Except that LISP documentation explicitly states that that in a LISP program there is no distinction between code and data. This is the case for any dynamic language, and before anybody goes off about the LISP paradigm being an academic exercise, take a look at Ruby on Rails and tell me where code ends and data begins.
Most of todays programming practices introduce serial dependency where it is not needed. A good example is how most C-style languages iterate over a set of objects. for(i=0;i++;i<n) is inherently serial with 'i' needing to be updated before the next iteration. Some of you will have seen OO constructs like 'var.each do |v|' in Ruby which is a parallel construct in a lot of cases (in the case of an Array where order is assures the programmer can make assumptions about serial execution). Erlang takes this to the extreme to make incredibility parallel systems, with the cravat that it is not as programmer friendly. Think of all the operations done on tree structures that are clearly parallel with each branch analyzed independent of the others. Now consider how hard it is to convene a compiler to deal with them in that way.
The point is that the grammar of languages like Java and C force otherwise parallel operations to be serial. Using languages whose constructs assume a parallel operations will be much better then languages with additional 'thread' type constructions.
No, You are not. I am however more interested how the 'webserver with database back-end' thing works for a site with this much load -- that is what have you done besides just through hardware at the problem.
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You grandparents are all alike. You buy a stripped down game that kinda copies the real thing but without all the violent elements. It ends up being boring. You should have bought Chess. So what if it is simulated warfare, its what all the kids want these days. Even better Check out Goban now theres a game that has some great replay value.
Old folks just don`t do their research.
I do not believe this is still true. Java ByteCode is interpreted and is still equal to C in speed -- though admittedly still compiled. Even purely interpreted languages are seeing a large speed boost from JIT compilation. I believe the stratigy is to "compile" JavaScript for a page an remember the optimized control flow. In doing so JavaScript could execute faster then even a natively compiled C plug-in within the browser environment.
San Luis Obispo County Has one of those already though. Until it can properly dispose of 20 years of spent fuel, let's not build another.
Puzzle games are less replayable. While not impossible, it's extremely difficult to come up with a system for dynamically generating puzzles so they're fresh each time.
And multi-player also suffers in puzzle games.
This is true for static puzzles, once they are solved your pretty much done. but optimization and economic puzzles have enormous replay value. Think anything with "Sim" in the title.
Ah, but for your same $20 a month, I get my own virtual server that I can configure in anyway I want. I can upgrade software when it is best for me. I also have guaranteed access to memory and processor time.
Shared hosting is quickly becoming an an option only for the lowest of the low end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M
This Video is from the Google Tech Talks about neural networks an talks not only about identifying pictures of hand written numbers, but also about sorting pictures and text.
It seems that categorizing visual data is now a solved (if CPU intensive) problem.
At least Sen Clinton had the stones to vote no on this awful bill.
But people hate being in their cars! They do all sorts of thing (many that endanger other drivers and themselves) while in the car, because they don't like sitting in traffic. Examples are making phone calls, personal hygiene, eating, and watching tv. I ride the train to work and I and my fellow passengers can do all these things and not have to worry driving into the person in front of us.
People will jump at the chance to leave their car at home if public transit can provide frequent, on-time, and efficient trips in a comfortable environment.
Your probably correct that giving up our cars completely is not a currently attainable goal, but how about this: 75% of all U.S. households owning a single vehicle, and 75% of U.S. workers commuting by some means other then a single occupant vehicle at least 3 times a week. I think that would make me happy. What about you?
There is a problem with this. I assume that you mean 16 and 3 Volts DC. As voltage goes down current goes up. With higher current you need thicker wire. 500mA is not to bad, but if an entire house is wired up one would need 10 to 20 amps. From my work in the pipe organ industry I can tell you that anything less then 10 gauge wire will cause problems.
This is precisely why 120V AC is run in homes. It is the right balance between the amount of power that can be delivered, and the safety of exposed line voltage. If the voltage were much less the current would be too much to handle. much over 300 volts and the act of connecting to the circuit becomes too risky for "the average person."
Sorry, but "duck typing" and inferred types are completely different things. See Ruby for duck typing, python is just a stripped down version of Haskell's inferred types.
The whole idea of having a single URI for these very common .js files is that they can be cached, and not just on your local computer. Any router with the ability to follow the HTTP1.1 cache protocol would serve these pages out of a local cache.
Moreover, if this idea catches on, WebBrowsers will begin shipping with these well know URIs preinstalled, perhaps even with optimized versions of the scripts that cut out all the IE6 cruft. What is really needed to make this work is a high bandwidth, high availability server that has enough name recognition to get them selves on slashdot. Google sounds like the right choice to me.
If this works, in 5 years most of the requests for these URIs will never even leave your computer, and you cannot beat that kind of privacy.
From the perspective of content, the Googlebot and a screen reader work about the same. If your page is not accessible to the blind then it is also not accessible to the web spiders that you need to dive traffic to your sight
I don't believe that it would. IANAGSA, but using javascript to manipulate the user interface is a fairly common practice. Cloaking, IMHO, refers to sending the Google Bot different content then you send a normal user. With javascript you send the same information to everyone, and simply change how it is presented with the script. A huge number of sites already do this to keep all the important content on the page while keeping the user's experience clean and straight forward. If you are using Slashdot's new comment interface, you can see the results.
This would work so much better if they used some unobtrusive javascript to hide the content. At least then it would require a person to view page source or enable FireBug.
I'm all fine with supporting children, What I don't like is paying 26% of my salary every month to subsidizes rich blue haired old ladies second home in the Hamptons and frequent trips to Europe. Particularly when I will NEVER get the same benefits.
I'm 30, I assume that I will never again see any money I give to the government for SSI. Its a tax imposed on me by AARP. If anyone my age or younger is ingliding SSI in their retirement portfolio, get a new financial adviser.
Ok, We get the point already, best beth hire someone, but that doesn't answer the question.
Let's say, jut for kicks that I'm interested in web design. Maybe I'll go take a few classes someday, but I what to get the basics first. You know, see if I like it. What are some good web sites/books that will get me started without a 4 year degree. Your budget: $150, timeline: two months. I don't need to be an expert, just enough to try redesigning my blog or something.
Come on, folks lets answer the question asked.
While you sentiment is in the right place, there is a huge flaw in your logic. Most food impoverished countries are that way because it is unprofitable to farm the land. Why? because the US is dumping huge amounts of excise food onto the markets. If you want to help feed starving people, it would be much better to supply them with cash that they can use to pay local farmers rather then putting those farmers out of business with highly subsidized US corn and soy beans
Fortunate for you that Title 24 does not apply retroactively. You may keep you old low tech thermostat and enjoy the lower energy prices, and lack of rolling blackouts witout any personal cost. Well except from the dirty looks from the Prius driving envirogeeks.
Actually, the petroleum industry has refining techniques that would allow fro the same octane rating without MTBE or Ethanol, but the Federal Fuel standards mandate that ethanol be used. There was a major court case in CA regarding this in 1998.
Incorrect. Title 24 applies to all construction in California and is much more carefully inspected for in the commercial sector then in residential. Many have pointed out how easy this is to undo in a residential setting. In a commercial setting not following your Title 24 obligations is a good way to loose a lease or fail a health/fire inspection.
Except that LISP documentation explicitly states that that in a LISP program there is no distinction between code and data. This is the case for any dynamic language, and before anybody goes off about the LISP paradigm being an academic exercise, take a look at Ruby on Rails and tell me where code ends and data begins.
I'm going to be flip her but...
Make B not depend on A!
Most of todays programming practices introduce serial dependency where it is not needed. A good example is how most C-style languages iterate over a set of objects. for(i=0;i++;i<n) is inherently serial with 'i' needing to be updated before the next iteration. Some of you will have seen OO constructs like 'var.each do |v|' in Ruby which is a parallel construct in a lot of cases (in the case of an Array where order is assures the programmer can make assumptions about serial execution). Erlang takes this to the extreme to make incredibility parallel systems, with the cravat that it is not as programmer friendly. Think of all the operations done on tree structures that are clearly parallel with each branch analyzed independent of the others. Now consider how hard it is to convene a compiler to deal with them in that way.
The point is that the grammar of languages like Java and C force otherwise parallel operations to be serial. Using languages whose constructs assume a parallel operations will be much better then languages with additional 'thread' type constructions.
No, You are not. I am however more interested how the 'webserver with database back-end' thing works for a site with this much load -- that is what have you done besides just through hardware at the problem.