Civility has long since gone down the tubes, as so
many comments here demonstrate. A guy makes an analogy
that isn't entirely congruent with the more popular analogy. Somebody
with a job that encompasses interacting with people from
every walk of life is criticised for failing to be an expert
in our particular walk of life. His opinions were, I assume,
not in line with the majority of Slashdotters regarding some
issue pertaining to the Internet. Do we even know what his
opinions are, or do we just know that he was a stupid poo-poo
head becasue all the other kindergardners called him that?
I feel ashamed to have anything to do with this site on a day like today.
Task Manager, Right-click process, set priority to realtime?
Just a guess.
Maybe there's some way to do it on the command-line too. Either
that, or the Express version of the compiler doesn't optimize as well.
Maybe they built a debug version.
Agreed 100%. I call those who take the opposite
postion "space cadets". If the code is an otherwise
well-written library, I leave it alone; but if I actually
have to analyze it and modify it, it gets tabbed and it's
like chains coming off.
No, start Googling. The Wiki article on the battle of Antietam (aka Sharpsburg) did have contemporary
and historic photos of that battlefield. I'm sure there are many others.
With a proper search, combined with Creative Commons content from places
like Flickr, you might even luck out and get the right angles without having
to leave your living room.
I'm no anti-MS zealot, but even I won't install Silverlight. For anything.
OK... if YouTube stopped working then I probably would; but that's not happening.
Give it up, guys. I don't need any more of that kind of crap on my machine.
I thought about this for a while. To reiterate, the *only* situation I shut
off the engine is in a downhill traffic jam. Driving that road at
full speed without ps/pb is indeed too dangerous. In a traffic jam, you would
be consuming power with the engine running, since you're idling most of
the time. The engine has to be consuming power when idling because
the cycle has negative torque below idle.
That's nothing. My Honda gets infinite miles per gallon, and in heavy traffic.
How? Well, there's a very popular route over the hills to the beach here. Sometimes
I shut off the engine when it's backed up on the downhill. You just have to be aware
of the fact that you don't have ps/pb anymore. It's harder on the brakes too, so there's
always some cost. Of course, divide by zero is undefined, but it approaches infinite so
let's say I burn a token molecule at the top of the hill. Quick, somebody calculate
the mileage from the top of Hwy 92 to the flat, and divide by a molecule of gasoline.
It had been a while since I got into this
kind of thing on/., or anywhere on the Internet.
I recognize it as the social equivalent of an anti-pattern,
and went for a short walk. I feel much better now.
Good-night.
Of course we don't live in a perfect world. C and C++
never promised "write once, run everywhere". Java did. That's
why it's flawed. Really, I wouldn't have any problem with Java
if they had simply done what would have made sense: Run C++
in a virtual machine. In other words, the MS approach minus the
new C# language. They
would have accomplished roughly the same thing, in a much more
straightforward way. Instead they gave us C++ with a GC, a little
different syntax, and then evolved it from there. I was, and continue
to be, unimpressed.
That's not the issue at all. Identifying the jvm vendor is simply a means to identify if the permgen size should be set, which is a vendor specific setting
Ahhh... so what Java really needs is something like #ifdef, so you
can work around--Hey! Waaaaait a second. Wasn't
it supposed to eliminate that?
Heheh. All this time, and I'm still glad I'm not
a Java developer.
It's understandable that they might not want to
run on just anybody's Java. For that matter, they might
have only tested on a particular version. I haven't looked
into it, but it seems likely there's a standard API to check
Java's version. It seems like the proper way to address
this is to pop up something that says, "This is Java vX.Y from
company Foo, we haven't tested with it so it may not work. Conntinue? (button) Do not
show this dialog again (checkbox)".
Plainly, whatever they did that caused an "out of memory" error
was quite a goof.
For example, If your objective was to save Abe Lincoln
Who is Abraham Lincoln? (indeterminate pause) Haha! Had you there for
a second.
Then again, are you sure that everybody reading this carries
a past that includes Lincoln? Dreadful thoughts of God programming the
world with some kind of Lisp, and invoking an infinite number of call/cc
functions on all of us, whenever He (^*&^&*^NO CARRIER.
They need to find a way to make money without
sending me physical spam, aka "bulk mail" addressed
to "occupant".
What annoys me the most about mail is the huge percentage
that I walk straight to the recycling bin.
However, if they enforced a regulation requiring that all
such mail must be printed on compostable paper, using organic
ink I'd be quite a bit happier. Into the compost bin, along with
the broccoli stalks and onion peels it would go. Then, a few months
later that grocery ad for fresh veggies would be turned into... fresh veggies!
The summary makes him sound like a winer
with no solution. If you read TFA, you see
he's pimping Google's new language, Go. That's
perfectly understandable since they pay him; but
TFA also points out that languages accumulate
cruft over time, and Go is a baby.
Dateline -- Louisana. Several millions of barrels
of saliva from FS/OSS zealots on Slashdot fouled the gulf
today when they thought maybe, just Mayyybe, Microsoft
might have somehow, have tenuously been connected to the previous
oil spill. A foul stench of stale beer and tacos was reported
along miles of beaches in Alabama, and was headed for Florida this
evening.
In other words, sheesh! How speculative and sensationalist can
a headline get?
First, the Obama administration is already not
prosecuting people, as long as they follow state law.
It's not a total lift of Prohibition 2.0, but it's
as close as you can get without untangling the web
of international treaties and Federal laws that prop
up the insane "war on drugs".
Second, It will be like Lotto and other forms
of legalized gambling. As soon as one state gets it,
the other states get revenue envy. The dominoes tumble.
The tide has been turning for quite some time. Prop 215
is... how old? This is just one more wave, washing away
the hypocrisy of Prohibition 2.0. Economic hard times will
also have a way of making prohibitionists forget their
"morality" if money is to be had.
I remarked some time ago, that if there is a California
association of Restaurants and Motel owners, they should be
heartily endorsing this, and Prop 19 (tax and regulate) on
the ballot this fall. Can you say "drug tourist dollars"?
My password is "password". My userid and the site where
I use "password"? Ahhh... now that's obscure, and very secure.
The = vs. == typo problem solution
on
R In a Nutshell
·
· Score: 1
The <- approach is interesting, but what's the R notation
for "less than negative six".
And so, the quest continues. Pascal's:= might be the best; although I hate to admit it because Pascal
is my "had to deal with in school and was struggling so I hate it"
language.
You also have to carry all that nitrogen from the moment of launch all the way through reentry.
This is the *weight* issue I touched upon. What I should have said was, "in space, weight is money".
Every kg of non-payload you have to carry is something that could have been payload. Here are some ballpark figures for orbiting
on a per-kilogram basis.
Don't get me wrong; it sounds like an interesting research project. Who knows, there
might be some point in the future where this technology offers the best approach. That's
why you do basic research. Don't get me right either. Somebody still has to count the beans.
Heheh... don't get me wrong, and don't get me right. I like that...
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Civility has long since gone down the tubes, as so many comments here demonstrate. A guy makes an analogy that isn't entirely congruent with the more popular analogy. Somebody with a job that encompasses interacting with people from every walk of life is criticised for failing to be an expert in our particular walk of life. His opinions were, I assume, not in line with the majority of Slashdotters regarding some issue pertaining to the Internet. Do we even know what his opinions are, or do we just know that he was a stupid poo-poo head becasue all the other kindergardners called him that?
I feel ashamed to have anything to do with this site on a day like today.
RIP Sen. Stevens, and GWS to those who survived.
Task Manager, Right-click process, set priority to realtime?
Just a guess.
Maybe there's some way to do it on the command-line too. Either that, or the Express version of the compiler doesn't optimize as well. Maybe they built a debug version.
Talking to an adult probably wouldn't have helped. Wasn't this about the same time a lot of moms were throwing out boxes full of baseball cards?
Agreed 100%. I call those who take the opposite postion "space cadets". If the code is an otherwise well-written library, I leave it alone; but if I actually have to analyze it and modify it, it gets tabbed and it's like chains coming off.
No, start Googling. The Wiki article on the battle of Antietam (aka Sharpsburg) did have contemporary and historic photos of that battlefield. I'm sure there are many others. With a proper search, combined with Creative Commons content from places like Flickr, you might even luck out and get the right angles without having to leave your living room.
Somebody from the eastern USA needs to trek out to the Civil War battlefields and try this. All the Mathew Brady photos are in the public domain.
The lower part of the badge is a bit blurry. Can you enhance that?
I'm no anti-MS zealot, but even I won't install Silverlight. For anything. OK... if YouTube stopped working then I probably would; but that's not happening. Give it up, guys. I don't need any more of that kind of crap on my machine.
I thought about this for a while. To reiterate, the *only* situation I shut off the engine is in a downhill traffic jam. Driving that road at full speed without ps/pb is indeed too dangerous. In a traffic jam, you would be consuming power with the engine running, since you're idling most of the time. The engine has to be consuming power when idling because the cycle has negative torque below idle.
That's nothing. My Honda gets infinite miles per gallon, and in heavy traffic. How? Well, there's a very popular route over the hills to the beach here. Sometimes I shut off the engine when it's backed up on the downhill. You just have to be aware of the fact that you don't have ps/pb anymore. It's harder on the brakes too, so there's always some cost. Of course, divide by zero is undefined, but it approaches infinite so let's say I burn a token molecule at the top of the hill. Quick, somebody calculate the mileage from the top of Hwy 92 to the flat, and divide by a molecule of gasoline.
It had been a while since I got into this kind of thing on /., or anywhere on the Internet.
I recognize it as the social equivalent of an anti-pattern,
and went for a short walk. I feel much better now.
Good-night.
Of course we don't live in a perfect world. C and C++ never promised "write once, run everywhere". Java did. That's why it's flawed. Really, I wouldn't have any problem with Java if they had simply done what would have made sense: Run C++ in a virtual machine. In other words, the MS approach minus the new C# language. They would have accomplished roughly the same thing, in a much more straightforward way. Instead they gave us C++ with a GC, a little different syntax, and then evolved it from there. I was, and continue to be, unimpressed.
That's not the issue at all. Identifying the jvm vendor is simply a means to identify if the permgen size should be set, which is a vendor specific setting
Ahhh... so what Java really needs is something like #ifdef, so you can work around--Hey! Waaaaait a second. Wasn't it supposed to eliminate that?
Heheh. All this time, and I'm still glad I'm not a Java developer.
It's understandable that they might not want to run on just anybody's Java. For that matter, they might have only tested on a particular version. I haven't looked into it, but it seems likely there's a standard API to check Java's version. It seems like the proper way to address this is to pop up something that says, "This is Java vX.Y from company Foo, we haven't tested with it so it may not work. Conntinue? (button) Do not show this dialog again (checkbox)".
Plainly, whatever they did that caused an "out of memory" error was quite a goof.
I really care about this. It's probably the most important thing I've read this year.
See? No special punctuation needed. Next!
For example, If your objective was to save Abe Lincoln
Who is Abraham Lincoln? (indeterminate pause) Haha! Had you there for a second.
Then again, are you sure that everybody reading this carries a past that includes Lincoln? Dreadful thoughts of God programming the world with some kind of Lisp, and invoking an infinite number of call/cc functions on all of us, whenever He (^*&^&*^NO CARRIER.
They need to find a way to make money without sending me physical spam, aka "bulk mail" addressed to "occupant".
What annoys me the most about mail is the huge percentage that I walk straight to the recycling bin.
However, if they enforced a regulation requiring that all such mail must be printed on compostable paper, using organic ink I'd be quite a bit happier. Into the compost bin, along with the broccoli stalks and onion peels it would go. Then, a few months later that grocery ad for fresh veggies would be turned into... fresh veggies!
The summary makes him sound like a winer with no solution. If you read TFA, you see he's pimping Google's new language, Go. That's perfectly understandable since they pay him; but TFA also points out that languages accumulate cruft over time, and Go is a baby.
Literal LOL. You made my day.
Dateline -- Louisana. Several millions of barrels of saliva from FS/OSS zealots on Slashdot fouled the gulf today when they thought maybe, just Mayyybe, Microsoft might have somehow, have tenuously been connected to the previous oil spill. A foul stench of stale beer and tacos was reported along miles of beaches in Alabama, and was headed for Florida this evening.
In other words, sheesh! How speculative and sensationalist can a headline get?
First, the Obama administration is already not prosecuting people, as long as they follow state law. It's not a total lift of Prohibition 2.0, but it's as close as you can get without untangling the web of international treaties and Federal laws that prop up the insane "war on drugs".
Second, It will be like Lotto and other forms of legalized gambling. As soon as one state gets it, the other states get revenue envy. The dominoes tumble.
The tide has been turning for quite some time. Prop 215 is... how old? This is just one more wave, washing away the hypocrisy of Prohibition 2.0. Economic hard times will also have a way of making prohibitionists forget their "morality" if money is to be had.
I remarked some time ago, that if there is a California association of Restaurants and Motel owners, they should be heartily endorsing this, and Prop 19 (tax and regulate) on the ballot this fall. Can you say "drug tourist dollars"?
My password is "password". My userid and the site where I use "password"? Ahhh... now that's obscure, and very secure.
The <- approach is interesting, but what's the R notation for "less than negative six".
And so, the quest continues. Pascal's := might be the best; although I hate to admit it because Pascal
is my "had to deal with in school and was struggling so I hate it"
language.
I Googled for the "next big thing" and this post was the number 1 hit. I'm still not sure what it is though.
You also have to carry all that nitrogen from the moment of launch all the way through reentry.
This is the *weight* issue I touched upon. What I should have said was, "in space, weight is money". Every kg of non-payload you have to carry is something that could have been payload. Here are some ballpark figures for orbiting on a per-kilogram basis.
Don't get me wrong; it sounds like an interesting research project. Who knows, there might be some point in the future where this technology offers the best approach. That's why you do basic research. Don't get me right either. Somebody still has to count the beans. Heheh... don't get me wrong, and don't get me right. I like that...