Is Austin some Green paradise where everybody lives close to their work and the roads are clear? Nobody works downtown? How does a rail line like that fail so badly?
Hah, quite the opposite. Traffic here is terrible. We've been the fastest growing area in the nation for a few years now, so things will only get worse. The biggest problem is that all of our major thoroughfares (at least in Austin proper) were built in such a way that it will be extremely difficult to expand them. Unfortunately that's meant that we've had toll roads crammed down our throats. Several pre-existing highways have been converted, with more slated to be converted over the next few years. In theory that should mean mass transit should be a great option, and I think that's why the city has chosen to take this route. In practice, however, it's not at all convenient to use public transport. Though extensive, the bus system is highly inefficient. Count on an hour bus ride to get somewhere when you could drive yourself in 30 minutes, or maybe less. Light rail could be better since it can bypass the traffic altogether, but it really only connects 2 main points in the city, and you have to use the bus from there.
It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem: until they expand the number of routes for light rail, it's going to be of limited use. To be fair, the line was just completed a year or two ago and they do have plans to expand. However, expanding the routes is so expensive, its a tough pill to swallow when you see a train go by with only a couple of people onboard.
And I can honestly say it was great. I learned a lot, and it was structured in such a way that I learned much more quickly than had I just gone out and purchased a book and tried to learn it on my own. The homework assignments were great too - more real-world than theoretical. Thinking back to college, I wish my classes then were more like the ML class. Perhaps it was because I was taking it merely for personal enrichment and wasn't at all stressed about homework, exams, grades, etc. but the class was very enjoyable. All of that, and it was free.
Obviously I can't speak for these new class offerings with Coursera, but what have you got to lose? If nothing else, it's a great way to expand your horizons.
Re-read the link, specifically the post by chockenberry who is apparently one of the devs for twitterific. He says that the project took way more than 200 hours. The first poster "guesstimates" 200 hours, but is clearly wrong.
I had a similar situation my freshman year in college (2000). Both my roommate and I received mailers from Playboy for a yearly magazine subscription. Mine had an offer for 50% off the cover price whereas he was only offered 33% off. He was quite upset...
If you have an old PIX or old firmware (6.3(2) or older) then you will be affected. And if you do, you should just go ahead and upgrade to an ASA at this point.;)
I had this happen a year or so ago on a Server 2003 box and never could find the actual cause. I don't know if the fix is the same in this case, but in my case it was simple:
Check out [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors] - if everything is set to [0 0 0], modify those values to something other than black. The easiest thing to do, actually, is to export that key from another box that's good, then import on the box that's got the problem.
I only come across it occasionally, but several times I have found myself wishing for LEAST and GREATEST functions in T-SQL, like in Oracle. Of course people always suggest creating workarounds via a CLR addin, functions or CASE statements. But really, in both cases, this seems like a trivial feature to implement. C'mon MS!
"The sequence points in the logical expressions such as && and || and ternary operator ?: and the comma operator mean that the left hand side operand is evaluated before the right hand side operand. These few operands are the only operands in C++ that introduce sequence points."
IIRC, there is nothing in the C++ specs that guarantee the left-to-right order of evaulating statements (not sure about C). So there is a possiblity that some day, on some compiler, *phead could be evaluated first, and BAM! You've just dereferenced a null pointer...
I was just considering this the other day with regards to bands. The longer a band has been around, the older the fans are.
Take, for example, the Rolling Stones. Sure there are some young people who are into the Stones, but by and large, their audience is the group of people who were in their teen to young adult years when the Stones first got popular.
Seems to me that this progression is kind of human nature. However, I'm not sure that this tendency would apply to Slashdot. Avid users of technology (the Slashdot crowd) tend to always stay current with the latest tech -- it's not so much a matter of taste as is music.
Meh, Cringley mentions adding another phone for $9.99 but I've never seen it that cheap unless you are already spending a decent amount in the first place.
And you gotta factor in the cost of another handset, although used ones go for pretty cheap...
But not very cost-effective if you're the only one using it.
2x cheapest cell plan is still about $60-70. For that much money, you can almost buy unlimited minutes (or at least practically unless you talk non-stop) from the cell provider.
For a family or group of friends, however, this sounds like a great deal.
Yeah, and in the Why are you doing this project section:
I became tired of hearing the term "posthuman" within a critical theory / philosophical context. As a reaction, I thought that a cockroach makes a better posthuman than Fukyamama, Stock or Hayles envisions: in a literal sense, it's a robust system that will likely outlast nuclear war, computers, and the human species.
Sometimes a good reference book is much better than the man pages. I can still navigate a dead tree a lot faster than I can a man page, and it's a lot more convenient that way. Not to mention that if I'm looking at multiple topics at once, it's easier to bookmark and flip pages than to open a term for each topic I'm looking at.
Guess when it comes down to it, it's really a matter of preference.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=Gy1WNc4buPk
Is Austin some Green paradise where everybody lives close to their work and the roads are clear? Nobody works downtown? How does a rail line like that fail so badly?
Hah, quite the opposite. Traffic here is terrible. We've been the fastest growing area in the nation for a few years now, so things will only get worse. The biggest problem is that all of our major thoroughfares (at least in Austin proper) were built in such a way that it will be extremely difficult to expand them. Unfortunately that's meant that we've had toll roads crammed down our throats. Several pre-existing highways have been converted, with more slated to be converted over the next few years. In theory that should mean mass transit should be a great option, and I think that's why the city has chosen to take this route. In practice, however, it's not at all convenient to use public transport. Though extensive, the bus system is highly inefficient. Count on an hour bus ride to get somewhere when you could drive yourself in 30 minutes, or maybe less. Light rail could be better since it can bypass the traffic altogether, but it really only connects 2 main points in the city, and you have to use the bus from there.
It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem: until they expand the number of routes for light rail, it's going to be of limited use. To be fair, the line was just completed a year or two ago and they do have plans to expand. However, expanding the routes is so expensive, its a tough pill to swallow when you see a train go by with only a couple of people onboard.
And I can honestly say it was great. I learned a lot, and it was structured in such a way that I learned much more quickly than had I just gone out and purchased a book and tried to learn it on my own. The homework assignments were great too - more real-world than theoretical. Thinking back to college, I wish my classes then were more like the ML class. Perhaps it was because I was taking it merely for personal enrichment and wasn't at all stressed about homework, exams, grades, etc. but the class was very enjoyable. All of that, and it was free.
Obviously I can't speak for these new class offerings with Coursera, but what have you got to lose? If nothing else, it's a great way to expand your horizons.
Offtopic, I know, but was there ever a more manly name than 'Guy Steele'? That may be better than Max Power, even.
Re-read the link, specifically the post by chockenberry who is apparently one of the devs for twitterific. He says that the project took way more than 200 hours. The first poster "guesstimates" 200 hours, but is clearly wrong.
I had a similar situation my freshman year in college (2000). Both my roommate and I received mailers from Playboy for a yearly magazine subscription. Mine had an offer for 50% off the cover price whereas he was only offered 33% off. He was quite upset...
Correct - see here
...the system was built thanks to a database of millions of human-labeled images put together by Chinese workers
Is the output of the program in Engrish? Hilarious possibilities indeed.
If you have an old PIX or old firmware (6.3(2) or older) then you will be affected. And if you do, you should just go ahead and upgrade to an ASA at this point. ;)
Don't forget his associate, Dr. Les Wang
http://www.urologyteam.com/our-doctors/dr-lester-wang
http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/12/01/snoop-dogg-gps/
Who needs a screen anyway!
I had this happen a year or so ago on a Server 2003 box and never could find the actual cause. I don't know if the fix is the same in this case, but in my case it was simple:
Check out [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors] - if everything is set to [0 0 0], modify those values to something other than black. The easiest thing to do, actually, is to export that key from another box that's good, then import on the box that's got the problem.
I only come across it occasionally, but several times I have found myself wishing for LEAST and GREATEST functions in T-SQL, like in Oracle. Of course people always suggest creating workarounds via a CLR addin, functions or CASE statements. But really, in both cases, this seems like a trivial feature to implement. C'mon MS!
Looks like I stand corrected:
"The sequence points in the logical expressions such as && and || and ternary operator ?: and the comma operator mean that the left hand side operand is evaluated before the right hand side operand. These few operands are the only operands in C++ that introduce sequence points."
From http://www.langer.camelot.de/Articles/VSJ/Sequence Points/SequencePoints.html
IIRC, there is nothing in the C++ specs that guarantee the left-to-right order of evaulating statements (not sure about C). So there is a possiblity that some day, on some compiler, *phead could be evaluated first, and BAM! You've just dereferenced a null pointer...
Actually, it made me think of the cockroach controlled robot.
Just a tip, you'll probably wanna keep that beer away from your new space heater...
I was just considering this the other day with regards to bands. The longer a band has been around, the older the fans are.
Take, for example, the Rolling Stones. Sure there are some young people who are into the Stones, but by and large, their audience is the group of people who were in their teen to young adult years when the Stones first got popular.
Seems to me that this progression is kind of human nature. However, I'm not sure that this tendency would apply to Slashdot. Avid users of technology (the Slashdot crowd) tend to always stay current with the latest tech -- it's not so much a matter of taste as is music.
Meh, Cringley mentions adding another phone for $9.99 but I've never seen it that cheap unless you are already spending a decent amount in the first place.
And you gotta factor in the cost of another handset, although used ones go for pretty cheap...
But not very cost-effective if you're the only one using it.
2x cheapest cell plan is still about $60-70. For that much money, you can almost buy unlimited minutes (or at least practically unless you talk non-stop) from the cell provider.
For a family or group of friends, however, this sounds like a great deal.
If that's somebody's real name, I pity the fool!
Sometimes a good reference book is much better than the man pages. I can still navigate a dead tree a lot faster than I can a man page, and it's a lot more convenient that way. Not to mention that if I'm looking at multiple topics at once, it's easier to bookmark and flip pages than to open a term for each topic I'm looking at.
Guess when it comes down to it, it's really a matter of preference.
This guy is thinking big -- planet building!
for me. Just two nice red X's.
Has Slashdot Slashdotted itself? Is this even possible?
Is it just me, or does the though of coding in VB make anyone else want to cry?