Massively parallel? I can't even manage to do things right one at a time, never mind a bunch in parallel... =(
While you may not be able to do multiple things at the same time on a conscious level, your brain is in fact performing a hell of a lot at the same time. Take things like walking, talking, seeing etc. There is a huge flow of information going from and to your brain at any time. It's just that you can't perform two tasks at the same time and "know about it" so to speak.:)
I'm a parent in a bilingual family. (Finnish & Swedish, two fundamentally different languages.) One of the more interesting things is the way my kids pick up grammar. I speak Swedish to the kids (my first language) and my wife speaks Finnish. The kids (even our younger one and a half year olds) understand both languages more or less perfectly, but they do tend to mess up grammar and sometimes words between them. Every now and then they use the grammar of one language to conjugate a word from the other. It's all pretty interesting.
But I personally believe that the human brain does a hell of a lot more data mining than we give it credit for. There's a damn good reason why things seem clearer after a good night's sleep. The human brain is designed for massively parallel information processing, and we can't possibly handle it all in a conscious processing context. A lot happens behind the scenes. I'm guessing it's going to be quite some time still until we can fully understand the "inner workings" of the human brain.
Quite frankly only those who have built IE-only sites for IE6 should really suffer. I think it's all worth it if we can finally have a critical mass of users supporting standards even a little better. As a former web developer I'm biased though.:)
Finnish libraries are not dull. You can find a little bit of everything. Books, videos, music, etc. in mostly every category. Including not-so-agreeable stuff like sexology, weird-artsy works and so on. There are also computers for browsing the net and doing other work. Usage stats a pretty decent: "[Finland] has high usage of public libraries: 20,3 loans and 11.98 library visits per inhabitant in 2005" (http://kirjastoseura.kaapeli.fi/etusivu/apua/english). I can get any work sent to my local library for 0.5 €, all trough the net: http://www.helmet.fi/. With a system like this I don't mind paying for it with taxes.
Being a few years shy of thirty, I can certainly relate to this. When I was a kid the only source of information was the library, and whatever books we had at home. I remember reading about subjects that interested me and having to do a lot of research and work until I finally got results.
These days I find myself being very annoyed if I can't find information that I need. Growing up as the web evolved sort of helps me see how I've changed myself. My work (R&D) depends on finding information quickly. At home I have very little free time (small kids), and I'm very annoyed whenever I fail to find the information I need. Don't even get me started on what happens when I have no internet connection at home...
Oddly, being netless is not much of a problem for me when I go to the summer cottage for example, I still seem to have the ability to detach properly. I suspect people 5-10 years younger than me may not do so well under similar circumstances.
In Finland we switched over to purely digital terrestrial broadcasting last year. And most people did indeed have to get a DVB-T STB (Set Top Box) in order to watch TV. Despite of this, the government did not subsidize this this switchover in any way. I find it almost sad that the United States government are willing to pay for something like this when Finland's (already broken) public healthcare system it still way better than it's US counterpart.
OK, so I might be trolling, but doesn't it say something about a society when TV is regarded as something important enough to subsidize? (Disclaimer: Finland has it's own equivalent to the BBC though, YLE.)
I just had to say that you have like the best geek girl sig ever. And having been online for well over a decade please take it as the compliment I intended.:)
I seem to find that trying to code more slowly than I could helps a lot. I'm not the most efficient coder there is, but I tend to produce less bugs and have more time to make better design decisions when I slow myself down.
I've had several jobs where I've found that although management never seems to approve of a slower process in itself, they do begin to see the values once they notice that my code tends to be less buggy than that of my peer programmers.
As for turning around bad practices... That's always hard. Culture is a tricky thing. But it helps to use analogies, lots of analogies! System grown too large with too many kludges? Compare to building a skyscraper on the foundations of a cottage. Management wants to speed up a project by senselessly adding more people? Compare to: "One woman can make one baby in nine months. Two women can make two babies in nine months, but two women can't make one baby in four and a half months..."
Be creative, be thorough, and be proud of your work. Always try to make the next iteration better, but also remember that sometime meeting the deadline is all that counts.
And the sad thing is that there's a 50-50 chance this wasn't just a stupid teen trolling, but someone actually believing in Nazi ideology who wrote that...
While it's reasonable to assume that some people will react with "We should ban X" -reactions, judging from the recent local news (I live in Finland) I think this time around there will be more talk about how no one noticed what was happening inside the shooters head and less about what to blame.
Interestingly, the news interviewed a friend of his who apparently hadn't noticed anything much more than the kid keeping to himself. It seems to have come as a surprise to everyone.
The shooter's manifesto also claimed that he did not wish anyone to be blamed for his own actions. It seems he saw the media reaction coming.
Ultimately, much depends on the survival of the shooter. When I last saw the news at 22:00 local time he was alive but in a critical state after having shot himself in the head. If he does survive the aftermath will hopefully have less guessing to be done.
Several European nations have a constitution as well, and they are used in much the same way as the US constitution.
Finland, where you seem to hail from, got a new constitution in 2000 (http://www.om.fi/21910.htm), so maybe that's why you aren't familiar with it
Did you read my post? I'm perfectly aware that we have a constitution in Finland. I'm just curious as to why there's a need to refer to it in seemingly every other trial.
Can someone please explain to a European, what this compulsive need to refer to the constitution in seemingly all matters relating to the law is all about?
I'll be the first one to agree that these damages are "ridiculously excessive" or "fabricated", but what does this have to do with the constitution? Is it just a cultural thing?
A twirl is essentially shifting pixels around an image, and is designed to keep as much information as possible.
A blur on the other hand, especially a gaussian blur, will mix pixels together in such a way that any recovered image will be one of many possible outcomes.
Then again, removing information, by pixellating for example, would be best.
It's funny. I don't mind being without net access at our summer cottage, for example. But if my connection is down at home I quickly get frustrated.
Then again, I need net access for most everyday tasks these days: Banking, bus schedules, general communication, (and soon IPTV service). Network access is quickly becoming like electricity, or running water.
Spending sleepless nights playing WoW on the other hand, is a whole 'nother ballgame.
The only negative side is the lack of Python developers.
I've always found this hard to understand. As both a programmer and a human in general I've always tried to learn new languages. My Swedish, Finnish, and English are on about equal terms. My French is pretty good, and I can manage in German and Norwegian if need be.
Similarly, I try to learn programming languages just for the kick of it, if for nothing else to broaden my horizons. I can't understand why any programmer would want to code in just one language...
Most web developers I know (myself included) have a fair idea of how to do things well. But most web development is project-driven, and once the page/site/app looks and works OK telling management that you need an extra week to refactor things isn't necessarily feasible.
That being said, we all know what happens to maintainability of a big project if done the fastest way possible...
I use to use K-Meleon before Firefox came along. I guess I should try it out again. For work (webdev) Firefox is indispensable. Nothing comes close to the debugging abilities of Firefox with the Firebug extension.
Right now, the biggest issues with both IE and Firefox is a huge memory footprint. If Opera wants to bring something valuable to the table, make sure it can run smoothly on XP with 256 megs of memory. That would be valuable for a lot of people with aging hardware.
The brothers are once again drawing inspiration from comics. The original Matrix was shot in such a way that most angles looked like frames in a comic book. I think it's a good thing they try to think outside the box and push the limits on cinematography.
Slashdot Mirror
While you may not be able to do multiple things at the same time on a conscious level, your brain is in fact performing a hell of a lot at the same time. Take things like walking, talking, seeing etc. There is a huge flow of information going from and to your brain at any time. It's just that you can't perform two tasks at the same time and "know about it" so to speak.
I'm a parent in a bilingual family. (Finnish & Swedish, two fundamentally different languages.) One of the more interesting things is the way my kids pick up grammar. I speak Swedish to the kids (my first language) and my wife speaks Finnish. The kids (even our younger one and a half year olds) understand both languages more or less perfectly, but they do tend to mess up grammar and sometimes words between them. Every now and then they use the grammar of one language to conjugate a word from the other. It's all pretty interesting.
But I personally believe that the human brain does a hell of a lot more data mining than we give it credit for. There's a damn good reason why things seem clearer after a good night's sleep. The human brain is designed for massively parallel information processing, and we can't possibly handle it all in a conscious processing context. A lot happens behind the scenes. I'm guessing it's going to be quite some time still until we can fully understand the "inner workings" of the human brain.
Ah, it seems that whoever made the Slashdotter extension should update it then. I never go through the Coral Cache site these days. :)
Links:
http://www.ronkleinphotos.com.nyud.net:8090/Lawrence.html
http://www.ronkleinphotos.com.nyud.net:8090/success.html
PS. Install the Slashdotter extension for Firefox, does the CC links automagically.
...For web standards at least.
:)
Quite frankly only those who have built IE-only sites for IE6 should really suffer. I think it's all worth it if we can finally have a critical mass of users supporting standards even a little better. As a former web developer I'm biased though.
Finnish libraries are not dull. You can find a little bit of everything. Books, videos, music, etc. in mostly every category. Including not-so-agreeable stuff like sexology, weird-artsy works and so on. There are also computers for browsing the net and doing other work. Usage stats a pretty decent: "[Finland] has high usage of public libraries: 20,3 loans and 11.98 library visits per inhabitant in 2005" (http://kirjastoseura.kaapeli.fi/etusivu/apua/english). I can get any work sent to my local library for 0.5 €, all trough the net: http://www.helmet.fi/. With a system like this I don't mind paying for it with taxes.
Being a few years shy of thirty, I can certainly relate to this. When I was a kid the only source of information was the library, and whatever books we had at home. I remember reading about subjects that interested me and having to do a lot of research and work until I finally got results.
These days I find myself being very annoyed if I can't find information that I need. Growing up as the web evolved sort of helps me see how I've changed myself. My work (R&D) depends on finding information quickly. At home I have very little free time (small kids), and I'm very annoyed whenever I fail to find the information I need. Don't even get me started on what happens when I have no internet connection at home...
Oddly, being netless is not much of a problem for me when I go to the summer cottage for example, I still seem to have the ability to detach properly. I suspect people 5-10 years younger than me may not do so well under similar circumstances.
In Finland we switched over to purely digital terrestrial broadcasting last year. And most people did indeed have to get a DVB-T STB (Set Top Box) in order to watch TV. Despite of this, the government did not subsidize this this switchover in any way. I find it almost sad that the United States government are willing to pay for something like this when Finland's (already broken) public healthcare system it still way better than it's US counterpart.
OK, so I might be trolling, but doesn't it say something about a society when TV is regarded as something important enough to subsidize? (Disclaimer: Finland has it's own equivalent to the BBC though, YLE.)
I seem to find that trying to code more slowly than I could helps a lot. I'm not the most efficient coder there is, but I tend to produce less bugs and have more time to make better design decisions when I slow myself down.
I've had several jobs where I've found that although management never seems to approve of a slower process in itself, they do begin to see the values once they notice that my code tends to be less buggy than that of my peer programmers.
As for turning around bad practices... That's always hard. Culture is a tricky thing. But it helps to use analogies, lots of analogies! System grown too large with too many kludges? Compare to building a skyscraper on the foundations of a cottage. Management wants to speed up a project by senselessly adding more people? Compare to: "One woman can make one baby in nine months. Two women can make two babies in nine months, but two women can't make one baby in four and a half months..."
Be creative, be thorough, and be proud of your work. Always try to make the next iteration better, but also remember that sometime meeting the deadline is all that counts.
My two cents, I guess...
While it's reasonable to assume that some people will react with "We should ban X" -reactions, judging from the recent local news (I live in Finland) I think this time around there will be more talk about how no one noticed what was happening inside the shooters head and less about what to blame.
Interestingly, the news interviewed a friend of his who apparently hadn't noticed anything much more than the kid keeping to himself. It seems to have come as a surprise to everyone.
The shooter's manifesto also claimed that he did not wish anyone to be blamed for his own actions. It seems he saw the media reaction coming.
Ultimately, much depends on the survival of the shooter. When I last saw the news at 22:00 local time he was alive but in a critical state after having shot himself in the head. If he does survive the aftermath will hopefully have less guessing to be done.
There's a Wikipedia article about the Jokela school shooting as well, with some bits and pieces of information.
First of all, this is a dupe...
But more to the point, doesn't VDSL2 already provide similar speeds?
Can someone please explain to a European, what this compulsive need to refer to the constitution in seemingly all matters relating to the law is all about?
I'll be the first one to agree that these damages are "ridiculously excessive" or "fabricated", but what does this have to do with the constitution? Is it just a cultural thing?
A twirl is essentially shifting pixels around an image, and is designed to keep as much information as possible.
A blur on the other hand, especially a gaussian blur, will mix pixels together in such a way that any recovered image will be one of many possible outcomes.
Then again, removing information, by pixellating for example, would be best.
It's funny. I don't mind being without net access at our summer cottage, for example. But if my connection is down at home I quickly get frustrated.
Then again, I need net access for most everyday tasks these days: Banking, bus schedules, general communication, (and soon IPTV service). Network access is quickly becoming like electricity, or running water.
Spending sleepless nights playing WoW on the other hand, is a whole 'nother ballgame.
Similarly, I try to learn programming languages just for the kick of it, if for nothing else to broaden my horizons. I can't understand why any programmer would want to code in just one language...
Most web developers I know (myself included) have a fair idea of how to do things well. But most web development is project-driven, and once the page/site/app looks and works OK telling management that you need an extra week to refactor things isn't necessarily feasible.
That being said, we all know what happens to maintainability of a big project if done the fastest way possible...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Given complete freedom, my choice is Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/
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Check out the tutorial, and you'll know why: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutori
I use to use K-Meleon before Firefox came along. I guess I should try it out again. For work (webdev) Firefox is indispensable. Nothing comes close to the debugging abilities of Firefox with the Firebug extension.
Right now, the biggest issues with both IE and Firefox is a huge memory footprint. If Opera wants to bring something valuable to the table, make sure it can run smoothly on XP with 256 megs of memory. That would be valuable for a lot of people with aging hardware.
Interestingly, Richard Stallman warned us about "Treacherous computing" years ago. It's sad that these things are becoming reality.
The brothers are once again drawing inspiration from comics. The original Matrix was shot in such a way that most angles looked like frames in a comic book. I think it's a good thing they try to think outside the box and push the limits on cinematography.