On kickstarter, you give money to a particular project. It is that person moral responsability to do something clever with the money. kickstarter takes a constant fee of 5% (if I recall correctly)
Or you might want to add automatic "that's what she said" on the screen on tv shows. Having non-vocal "editorial" comments is very common in some program (mainly from extreme asia).
Well, I know the difference between 'then' and 'that'. But sometimes, you type one instead of the other one by mistake and you do not spot the mistake when you read it.
I just received some comments on a 40 pages document I wrote and there are a lot of such mistake. I know they were mistakes but when you read a document so many times you no longer see typos.
Of course, it's a different story if the same mistake is repeated hundreds of times per page. But it isn't the case here.
I do not have faith in Newton's mecanical laws of physics. I built it myself in high school. We actually used a device that drops a object with a electric pen that prints every x milliseconds over a rotating paper. After that we computed speed as a function of time then acceleration and show it is constant (ish) over time.
"If I sound cynical, it's because I freaking hate these freaking people. I am just so sick & tired of these fsckers. As a Frenchman, I really think it's time to get the Guillotine out, give it a good scrub, and start chopping some (politician) heads off. Tree of liberty refreshed by the blood of tyrants and all that."
From the general point of social usefulness. My training is not well used writing for wikipedia as well. I spend a large amount of my time writing documents on my research. But the format and style are very different from wikipedia's guideline. I believe my work time is better spent for mankind on writing new research or survey and review of other people research than on wikipedia. Because there are not many people with the training required for writing such document. However much more people have the training required to read them and compile layman's summary.
BTW, I am also communicating about my research toward the public. Not as much these days than before. But I used to go and talk in multiple science fair a year. Go to middle school to explain what I do and why it is important. I wrote articles in a high-schooler journal. And if anybody contact me to know more about what I do or have questions about my field. I WILL answer by email or phone or interview.
I do not believe my time is well spent writing wikipedia articles.
And that's not even talking about the fact that our job is not wikipedia contributor. I have no interest in editing wikipedia. I'd rather spend that time writing a paper or a grant application than a wikipedia page. the first two ones make me professionnlay progress while the second one is close to useless.
The reason behind is easy. When one use a lnked list, one usually does not need to know its size frequently. Therefore counting the number of element is pretty much redundant and a performance hog in most application.
If you really need to know the size of the list, then you can do the accounting manually. It is not hard at all to do.
I am personnally very happy that std::list does not know its size. Because I never need this information and I would hate having to rewrite list just to kick the accounting out.
I understand your experience was frustrating, but most porting operation leads to stupid bugs or behavior like that.
I beg to differ actually. I do not think the interface is the main problem. If the machine is properly installed then people use gnome very easily without much trouble. In my experience, the problem mainly comes from hardware support and installation. Getting a graphic driver to work just correctly can be a major PITA. I stumbled yesterday on someone with a laptop with hybrid graphic card: an intel for low power consumption and an nvidia for performance. It just does not work. The user would be happy with gnome but there is no support for his weird system.
And I am not even talking about the nightmare of wifi drivers. If you are lucky it just work. If you are not lucky you have to install a firmware package. If you are unlucky, you have to compile/install kernel modules by hand.
I think the main problem is there. The lack of hardware support is the main problem to reach the mythical year of the linux desktop.
I agree with OP. It is very hard to understand. I'd like to see the difference between operation systems for the same machine. But I can not find a way of doing it.
The status of graph isomorphism is maybe unclear. Well, it is unclear whether it is in P, in NP-complete or in between. But it trivially is in NP. Since encoding the bijection can be done in polynomial space.
provided the problem is in NP I can reduce is to any NP-complete problem (for instance SAT) in polynomial time. Solving that instance of SAT in polynomial time (if P=NP) will provide a solution for the graph isomorphism instance. All these step can be performed in polynomial time.
So YES, showing a polynomial algorithm for SAT or 3-SAT WILL have an impact on security.
"And how many non-English monolingual people are there in the US?"
Actually quite a bit. My wife occasionnaly work as a korean interpret for columbus (Ohio) hospitals. And she has a case every week with the hospital. Sometimes, it is not that the patient does not speak english, but s/he doesnot feel confident enough in english to fully understand what the doctor says. Some other times, the patient is a housewife who spent time with her (korean) friends and probably do not speak english every week. I am not even talking about tourist.
So I'd say that yes there is a demand for medical interpretation. 15k for a single device seems a quite a high price, since you will probably need more than one in an hospital to avoid carrying it all around the place.
In my experience, Atom processors do not play high resolution very well. But even if it did, having a version that uses the GPU would be a significant improvement. It would free the CPU to do potentially something else. Including downclocking, which could improve energy efficiency significantly.
On my PDA (Nokia N810), I used to decompress audio using a software lib. When I switched to a lib that uses the internal DSP, my battery life increase 300%.
For having done the blind test myself (lossless flac and lossy flac from ripped cd of classical music). I can not tell the difference, my earing is pretty bad. Most of my "audiophile" friends can not tell the difference as well (about 20 tried). Some people (3 people) I know can tell the difference.
There is definitly way less people that claim they make the difference than people that actually do.
I actually am pretty serious. I do not see how one can expect to fund a production per copy when cloning such a production is a virtually free operation. The funding needs to be done beforehand. I would totally chip in a few hundreds bucks a year to fund arts I like.
actually, I find CC pretty useful. The To field tells who the mail is addressed to and CC gives interested parties. I often Send mails to distant collaborators while CCing my boss that manage the whole thing.
I actually see two main things coming out of the freebsd kernel on debian.
1/ having a really good kernel without the stupid port system. I know that sounds like a troll. But I really elieve linux is a crappy kernel. It is supposed to be monolithic so everything got thrown in the kernel. And now, we realized it is not going to work, so we start using micro kernel types techniques such as network manager, udev, hal... That's not the way to go with a monolithic kernel.
On the other hand freebsd has an awful packing system in my opinion. I need to install weird packages all the time and I don't want to spend so much time compiling everything. I think debian really rocks at having a lot of packages that are overall well compiled with appropriate dependencies. I expect a lot out of debian/freebsd
2/ using a different kernel is likely to activate different code path. That's a great thing for debugging purpose. As parent said, that will help to find GNU dependent code and probably linux dependent assumption. That's a good thing for make our tools more reliable.
Do we really need to have 3 ipv6 article a week on slashdot. I believe every single slashdotter knows and understands what the problem is about. So I suggest the editors to skip all the articles about "how my god we need to move to ipv6 FAST",
on tpb, there is a tag that tells if the uploader is an official tpb member. That helps a lot in my choice. You can also check the seed,leech numbers. Thousands of seeders and thousand of leecher are likely to be a valid torrents.
(This message is offtopic and a question for TheRaven64)
I have been reading your comments on/. for sometime and I always found your post detailed and interesting. Do you happen to maintain a blog or something similar ?
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On kickstarter, you give money to a particular project. It is that person moral responsability to do something clever with the money. kickstarter takes a constant fee of 5% (if I recall correctly)
Or you might want to add automatic "that's what she said" on the screen on tv shows. Having non-vocal "editorial" comments is very common in some program (mainly from extreme asia).
Well, I know the difference between 'then' and 'that'. But sometimes, you type one instead of the other one by mistake and you do not spot the mistake when you read it.
I just received some comments on a 40 pages document I wrote and there are a lot of such mistake. I know they were mistakes but when you read a document so many times you no longer see typos.
Of course, it's a different story if the same mistake is repeated hundreds of times per page. But it isn't the case here.
I do not have faith in Newton's mecanical laws of physics. I built it myself in high school. We actually used a device that drops a object with a electric pen that prints every x milliseconds over a rotating paper. After that we computed speed as a function of time then acceleration and show it is constant (ish) over time.
I do not have faith in that. I built it.
"If I sound cynical, it's because I freaking hate these freaking people. I am just so sick & tired of these fsckers. As a Frenchman, I really think it's time to get the Guillotine out, give it a good scrub, and start chopping some (politician) heads off. Tree of liberty refreshed by the blood of tyrants and all that."
Call me when you set up the Guillotine!
(Putain, un an!)
My point was: I have no incentive to do it.
From the general point of social usefulness. My training is not well used writing for wikipedia as well. I spend a large amount of my time writing documents on my research. But the format and style are very different from wikipedia's guideline. I believe my work time is better spent for mankind on writing new research or survey and review of other people research than on wikipedia. Because there are not many people with the training required for writing such document. However much more people have the training required to read them and compile layman's summary.
BTW, I am also communicating about my research toward the public. Not as much these days than before. But I used to go and talk in multiple science fair a year. Go to middle school to explain what I do and why it is important. I wrote articles in a high-schooler journal. And if anybody contact me to know more about what I do or have questions about my field. I WILL answer by email or phone or interview.
I do not believe my time is well spent writing wikipedia articles.
And that's not even talking about the fact that our job is not wikipedia contributor. I have no interest in editing wikipedia. I'd rather spend that time writing a paper or a grant application than a wikipedia page. the first two ones make me professionnlay progress while the second one is close to useless.
The reason behind is easy. When one use a lnked list, one usually does not need to know its size frequently. Therefore counting the number of element is pretty much redundant and a performance hog in most application.
If you really need to know the size of the list, then you can do the accounting manually. It is not hard at all to do.
I am personnally very happy that std::list does not know its size. Because I never need this information and I would hate having to rewrite list just to kick the accounting out.
I understand your experience was frustrating, but most porting operation leads to stupid bugs or behavior like that.
I beg to differ actually. I do not think the interface is the main problem. If the machine is properly installed then people use gnome very easily without much trouble. In my experience, the problem mainly comes from hardware support and installation. Getting a graphic driver to work just correctly can be a major PITA. I stumbled yesterday on someone with a laptop with hybrid graphic card: an intel for low power consumption and an nvidia for performance. It just does not work. The user would be happy with gnome but there is no support for his weird system.
And I am not even talking about the nightmare of wifi drivers. If you are lucky it just work. If you are not lucky you have to install a firmware package. If you are unlucky, you have to compile/install kernel modules by hand.
I think the main problem is there. The lack of hardware support is the main problem to reach the mythical year of the linux desktop.
I agree with OP. It is very hard to understand. I'd like to see the difference between operation systems for the same machine. But I can not find a way of doing it.
What was your PhD on ? In which journal did you got your research published ?
What about an SD card slot or USB port?
[mod me troll] And a proper Operating System ? [/mod me troll]
The status of graph isomorphism is maybe unclear. Well, it is unclear whether it is in P, in NP-complete or in between. But it trivially is in NP. Since encoding the bijection can be done in polynomial space.
provided the problem is in NP I can reduce is to any NP-complete problem (for instance SAT) in polynomial time. Solving that instance of SAT in polynomial time (if P=NP) will provide a solution for the graph isomorphism instance. All these step can be performed in polynomial time.
So YES, showing a polynomial algorithm for SAT or 3-SAT WILL have an impact on security.
"And how many non-English monolingual people are there in the US?" Actually quite a bit. My wife occasionnaly work as a korean interpret for columbus (Ohio) hospitals. And she has a case every week with the hospital. Sometimes, it is not that the patient does not speak english, but s/he doesnot feel confident enough in english to fully understand what the doctor says. Some other times, the patient is a housewife who spent time with her (korean) friends and probably do not speak english every week. I am not even talking about tourist. So I'd say that yes there is a demand for medical interpretation. 15k for a single device seems a quite a high price, since you will probably need more than one in an hospital to avoid carrying it all around the place.
In my experience, Atom processors do not play high resolution very well. But even if it did, having a version that uses the GPU would be a significant improvement. It would free the CPU to do potentially something else. Including downclocking, which could improve energy efficiency significantly.
On my PDA (Nokia N810), I used to decompress audio using a software lib. When I switched to a lib that uses the internal DSP, my battery life increase 300%.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWFivMjJG0&feature=player_embedded
For having done the blind test myself (lossless flac and lossy flac from ripped cd of classical music). I can not tell the difference, my earing is pretty bad. Most of my "audiophile" friends can not tell the difference as well (about 20 tried). Some people (3 people) I know can tell the difference.
There is definitly way less people that claim they make the difference than people that actually do.
As we used to fund art before with Patronage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage ).
I actually am pretty serious. I do not see how one can expect to fund a production per copy when cloning such a production is a virtually free operation. The funding needs to be done beforehand. I would totally chip in a few hundreds bucks a year to fund arts I like.
actually, I find CC pretty useful.
The To field tells who the mail is addressed to and CC gives interested parties. I often Send mails to distant collaborators while CCing my boss that manage the whole thing.
I actually see two main things coming out of the freebsd kernel on debian.
1/ having a really good kernel without the stupid port system.
I know that sounds like a troll. But I really elieve linux is a crappy kernel. It is supposed to be monolithic so everything got thrown in the kernel. And now, we realized it is not going to work, so we start using micro kernel types techniques such as network manager, udev, hal... That's not the way to go with a monolithic kernel.
On the other hand freebsd has an awful packing system in my opinion. I need to install weird packages all the time and I don't want to spend so much time compiling everything. I think debian really rocks at having a lot of packages that are overall well compiled with appropriate dependencies. I expect a lot out of debian/freebsd
2/ using a different kernel is likely to activate different code path. That's a great thing for debugging purpose. As parent said, that will help to find GNU dependent code and probably linux dependent assumption. That's a good thing for make our tools more reliable.
Debian: here is an attaboy from me!
Do we really need to have 3 ipv6 article a week on slashdot. I believe every single slashdotter knows and understands what the problem is about. So I suggest the editors to skip all the articles about "how my god we need to move to ipv6 FAST",
on tpb, there is a tag that tells if the uploader is an official tpb member. That helps a lot in my choice.
You can also check the seed,leech numbers. Thousands of seeders and thousand of leecher are likely to be a valid torrents.
My grandma's cookies are awesome!
What is the link with tfa ?
(This message is offtopic and a question for TheRaven64)
I have been reading your comments on /. for sometime and I always found your post detailed and interesting. Do you happen to maintain a blog or something similar ?