That's very interesting. I have two questions, I hope I'll be lucky enough for you to answer them:
First of all: His thought was "the odds of someone making the same mistake twice are non existent".
Did he not know what regression testing was, and what it's for? I'm not being retorical, I'm curious.
Secondly, when you design your tests, do you generally try to specifically test the bug that existed, or do you try to be more general than that? To be specific, if your code had something like the LAND attack in it, what kind of test would you design?
I think you are reading this as: (Any technique that tries to identify "good" mail without authentication backing it up,) OR some form of personalized training.
But I think the intention was:
Any technique that tries to identify "good" mail without (authentication backing it up, OR some form of personalized training.)
He probably doesn't want to worry about voiding the warranty just for cracking the case.
The original post doesn't explain the situation in detail, but perhaps her requirements aren't met by a mac. My wife might like a Mac, but her telecommuting software very likely won't run under it.
Me, I'd prefer not to spend $500 for a machine whose specs are met by the three year old laptop I'm using right now.
My wife ended up with a Dell Dimension 4700C, which isn't as small as the mini, but it's a nice smalltowert that can sit next to the desk. The only drawback is that it has a laptop cd drive, which is a bit awkward to use.
I was really excited by this slashdot story, because I think something like this could be very very useful. I have to say that I was disappointed a bit by the download.
No docs or pointers at the top of the tarball.
One of the READMEs on the site says try "test.py" for an example, which seems to just hang.
Elsewhere it says to fire up bittorrent trackers and clients.
There clearly is a lot of work that has gone into this, and the idea sounds really promising, but it looks like it needs a better end-user documentation before it's ready for primetime.
Maybe I'm just a crumudgeon
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it is the best use of the technology I have seen
You have _got_ to be kidding me.
It's only saving grace is that it's not flash by default. The intro looks like one of those late 80's slideshow, and the navigation of the main page is infuriatingly confusing and useless.
I'm about to fire it off to one of my friends who teaches web design as an example of what _not_ to do in a web page.
I actaully _like_ pretty flash, but when it just slows things down and makes navigation harder, well then it's stupid.
I guess it's better than the html, which seems broken with my firefox setup.
That's not the case here, where they were spraying left and right in massive quanitites to completely destroy the coca crops.
One could make the opposite argument. The way to breed resistance is to grow a crop, give enough poison to kill most of the plants, breed the survivors, and repeat.
Roundup is about as toxic as salt, so I think the only limiting factor in its use is price.
Of course it isn't really stolen in the bandit wearing a striped shirt in a mask sense, but as a result of the invasion, the United States has a direct influence over a country with vast oil reserves.
To say the Iraq war isn't all about oil is akin to saying the ocean isn't all about water. Saddam Hussein built his country and military with the proceeds of his vast oil reserves. The immediate justification for going to war didn't involve oil, but oil is _the_ underlying issue in Iraq.
The amount of waste produced by a nuclear power plant is fairly small, wheras the amount of CO2 produced is on the order of the amount of fuel it burns.
Breaks it up into 2 second blocks with a 25 percent chance of choosing each block ( which works better with your average mp3 you might have lying around than 30 seconds blocks and 5%)
While we're on the subject of standards, how about some story submission standards.
The current story should read:
Repran writes "Extremetech reports that the DVD Forum this week
approved HD-DVD 1.0, [...]
In related news, an arstechnica story reports that Microsoft's VC-9
codec has
been included in the official HD-DVD specs."
I think it's important to keep story sources in the headline. It's a matter of politeness, and gives the reader a immediate idea on who is saying what. For stories with a zillion links, I think it's generally OK to leave the names of the sources out if it would lead to excessive clutter.
An anchor tag on "The University of Tokyo" should go to the
University of Tokyo's website. The link should be anchored to "illusion of invisibility" or perhaps "Optical Camouflage."
I never liked the tendency to anchor irrelevant things to stories, but
it's done often enough that it's confusing when it gets mixed up.
Also, the submitter's diatribe should be left out, but that's another
matter.
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Thanks for your response!
That's very interesting.
I have two questions, I hope I'll be lucky enough for you to answer them:
First of all:
His thought was "the odds of someone making the same mistake twice are non existent".
Did he not know what regression testing was, and what it's for? I'm not being retorical, I'm curious.
Secondly, when you design your tests, do you generally try to specifically test the bug that existed, or do you try to be more general than that? To be specific, if your code had something like the LAND attack in it, what kind of test would you design?
No need to single out Apple for finally joining the crowd in order to stay afloat.
Yes need to single out Apple for finally joining the crowd in order to stay afloat.
I think it's a relavant topic of discussion whether Apple owes its success to superior products, or cut-throat business practices.
If I'm considering buying Apple products because their cool now, will I regret it down the road when I realize they're screwing me?
I think you are reading this as:
(Any technique that tries to identify "good" mail without authentication backing it up,) OR some form of personalized training.
But I think the intention was:
Any technique that tries to identify "good" mail without (authentication backing it up, OR some form of personalized training.)
It's that comma that's confusing.
I think the book won't be as good as the radio show.
GNU General Public License (GPL)
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
are all defined in the article.
But not ERP.
Go figure.
Bullshit.
He's the one who's going to be supporting it.
He probably doesn't want to pay 4x for RAM.
He probably doesn't want to worry about voiding the warranty just for cracking the case.
The original post doesn't explain the situation in detail, but perhaps her requirements aren't met by a mac. My wife might like a Mac, but her telecommuting software very likely won't run under it.
Me, I'd prefer not to spend $500 for a machine whose specs are met by the three year old laptop I'm using right now.
My wife ended up with a Dell Dimension 4700C, which isn't as small as the mini, but it's a nice smalltowert that can sit next to the desk. The only drawback is that it has a laptop cd drive, which is a bit awkward to use.
Do other people think the A380 is ugly?
I mean this is a serious question, though it's admittedly not not a very good topic for objective debate.
I've always liked the lines of the 747, but the 380 just doesn't look nice to me.
Is the U.S. corperate mind control taking hold?
Ah. That's the word I was looking for.
Nah. I knew it wasn't right. I was just looking for superfluous (thanks goofyspouse). Damn kernel messages flooding my brain.
:)
I guess "extra" would have been OK too.
Did any of this "left over" information happen to be spurious commas?
I think I found a defect.
This thing doesn't make any fucking sense.
I was really excited by this slashdot story, because I think something like this could be very very useful. I have to say that I was disappointed a bit by the download.
No docs or pointers at the top of the tarball.
One of the READMEs on the site says try "test.py" for an example, which seems to just hang.
Elsewhere it says to fire up bittorrent
trackers and clients.
There clearly is a lot of work that has gone into this, and the idea sounds really promising, but it looks like it needs a better end-user documentation before it's ready for primetime.
You have _got_ to be kidding me.
It's only saving grace is that it's not flash by default. The intro looks like one of those late 80's slideshow, and the navigation of the main page is infuriatingly confusing and useless.
I'm about to fire it off to one of my friends who teaches web design as an example of what _not_ to do in a web page.
I actaully _like_ pretty flash, but when it just slows things down and makes navigation harder, well then it's stupid.
I guess it's better than the html, which seems broken with my firefox setup.
I agree, and I didn't have any problem understanding the submission, but the original poster is right, it is uunnecessarily confusing.
It wouldn't have taken much to clarify that the "hostile action" was the sudden purchase of 20% of Ubisoft's shares by EA.
I've often been frustrated by similar submission, so I sympathize.
Penny arcade was one of the first major places that mentioned homestarrunner, so I think he'll get the joke.
How do you type with boxing gloves on?
When was the last time something insightful came out of usenet?
That's not the case here, where they were spraying left and right in massive quanitites to completely destroy the coca crops.
One could make the opposite argument. The way to breed resistance is to grow a crop, give enough poison to kill most of the plants, breed the survivors, and repeat.
Roundup is about as toxic as salt, so I think the only limiting factor in its use is price.
Do people steal things that aren't valuable?
Of course it isn't really stolen in the bandit wearing a striped shirt in a mask sense, but as a result of the invasion, the United States has a direct influence over a country with vast oil reserves.
To say the Iraq war isn't all about oil is akin to saying the ocean isn't all about water. Saddam Hussein built his country and military with the proceeds of his vast oil reserves. The immediate justification for going to war didn't involve oil, but oil is _the_ underlying issue in Iraq.
It's different because it's much much worse.
The amount of waste produced by a nuclear power plant is fairly small, wheras the amount of CO2 produced is on the order of the amount of fuel it burns.
mpg123 -s foo.mp3 | perl -e ' $seconds = 2; ,44100*$seconds*2*4)) { if (rand() < ($percent_chance/100)) { ; /tmp/foo
/tmp/foo -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
$percent_chance = 25
while (read( STDIN, $_
print $_
} }' >|
Breaks it up into 2 second blocks with a 25 percent chance of choosing each block ( which works better with your average mp3 you might have lying around than 30 seconds blocks and 5%)
Output is raw 16 bit signed PCM
sox -s -t raw -c 2 -w -r 44100
will play it
Adding a PCM header, re-mpeging the data and splitting into seprate files is left as a exersice to the reader.
Gates Gives Governor's Gala, Gets Government Guards
Don't use a comma to separate a subordinate clause from a main clause, except in cases of extreme contrast.
BladeRunner Dual Mode Transport, or see the main web page.
The first clause needs a verb badly. Adding "It's called" to the beginning of the sentence might be a good start.
The current story should read:
Repran writes "Extremetech reports that the DVD Forum this week approved HD-DVD 1.0, [...] In related news, an arstechnica story reports that Microsoft's VC-9 codec has been included in the official HD-DVD specs."
I think it's important to keep story sources in the headline. It's a matter of politeness, and gives the reader a immediate idea on who is saying what. For stories with a zillion links, I think it's generally OK to leave the names of the sources out if it would lead to excessive clutter.
Even more annoying is this story:
An anchor tag on "The University of Tokyo" should go to the University of Tokyo's website. The link should be anchored to "illusion of invisibility" or perhaps "Optical Camouflage."
I never liked the tendency to anchor irrelevant things to stories, but it's done often enough that it's confusing when it gets mixed up. Also, the submitter's diatribe should be left out, but that's another matter.
Or maybe I'm just getting old and crusty.
they apparently provide up to 57 degrees (F) reduction in heat transfer.
:
57 degrees is not a unit of heat transfer.
A better statement might be
they apparently provide up to 57 degrees (F) reduction in contact temperature