See http://www.maxxon.com/
I have used their Acoustimat product in the past to make my bedroom substantially quieter, and it worked fantastically. It's, unfortunately, somewhat expensive, but it is at least effective.
depending upon the problem domain, a very useful (albeit expensive) set of tools is StarLight, written for the US Government: http://starlight.pnl.gov/
highly recommended if you've got tough visualization problems. this tends to get used for the *really* interesting visualization challenges.
i suppose i should throw in my support of ZipZoomFly.com
like newegg, they have a good selection, very good customer service (i've never had a goofed up order, but did once receive a product that had some sort of odd problem from the factory and they immediately provided me an RMA and replacement).
finally, by the time you count their 0-dollar shipping, their prices are almost ALWAYS the lowest anywhere. i did a month of research before i assembled my last machine, and i simply couldn't find a better deal on average than theirs on just about every component...
who knows how many thousands of pieces of software were written that DEPEND upon this particular reference to ensure that the object doesn't get garbage collected?
alredy written software would have to most likely change, that's all i was trying to imply...
just to be clear, THE BUG WAS NOT IN THE RUNTIME, not by any stretch.
there are very clear constructs in place in the language/runtime to allow any object to unregister itself from event registrations it initiated.
this was VERY MUCH a bug in the end-user software, not the runtime (i've written code almost IDENTICALLY to this and blew lots of time having made this same mistake).
the only thing the runtime could do to protect the idiot developer (myself included) is automagically make all event references WEAK references, but that has plenty of undesirable side-effects too... in clr, you can do this yourself if you're so inclined... (just like in a JVM)
to add to what the author of the comment to which i reply said:
the percentage of laborers at NASA who are employees is exceedingly small (and usually the lines separate at program/project managers and everyone else).
almost everything is subcontracted...
so a party that excluded contractors would be a fat-cat party... even the fat-cats at NASA know they can't get work done without the rest of us.
and yes, i have some first-hand knowledge in this area as i suspect invidious might.
i can speculate on what happened here with some authority.
i happen to be a customer of AT&T's, responsible for something in an AT&T data center that also happens to have a bunch of WoW equipment in it, and it JUST SO HAPPENS that there was emergency maintenance being performed on AT&T's network in this facility on friday night...
we saw NO OUTAGE WHATSOEVER due to this particular problem in AT&T's network, for two reasons:
1) AT&T's network itself is dual-homed with multiple sonet rings converging upon the facility from different directions, etc.
2) OUR OWN UPLINKS to at&t are dual homed to two different AT&T distribution switches (and yes, we had to pay more for that).
i got the warning about friday night's outages from AT&T, and we were NOT AT ALL IMPACTED because of #2.
if a given customer of AT&T chooses NOT to dual home their own uplinks, they would most certainly have seen a substantial outage.
can i say with certainty that this is what caused friday's outage? no. does it seem very reasonable given what i know about how that facility operates? yes.
would those sweat shops have existed if there hadn't been someone constantly wanting the products they were putting out at fantastically low prices? probably, but i'd like to think that in a more stable economy (i.e. one not in the middle of economic war for mere survival), they might not have.
this is an absolutely superb book that tries to quantify exactly how greedy we are when compared to the majority of the humans on the planet...
indeed, there are plenty of people the world over who take advantage of others, to be sure. i'm still thinking we "westerners" tend to be better than most at it...
there's just too much history to suggest otherwise...
i really didn't expect everyone to think that i took it as anything other than rhetoric, i suppose i must point that out in big bold letters next time. how can any reader of slashdot not get the real point of this article with as much anti-USPTO sentiment that permeates the air here?
so, again, yes, i got it.
the point i was making was *totally* off-topic in observing: we tend to use the technique he uses a lot. he hit the nail on the head in using it precisely because it happens SO often that we aren't even remotely phased by it any longer...
my point is, ignoring this particular article, (notice i never said anything specifically criticising what THE AUTHOR SAID, as it was obviously rhetoric) how many cases can you think of in the recent past where someone DOES rank things in just this manner?
said another way: doesn't it just annoy you when people don't get that you got it, and were, instead, commenting on the sad state of affairs that would allow this guy to use this technique to make his point, because it's in such common use that it just seems to make sense to everyone?
i understand your point and totally agree that it was an interesting choice of words, but i did use it intentionally, because i've found some of these same tendencies in europe (to a much lesser degree) as well, but i see far fewer of my asian friends exhibit these behaviors...
i suppose that in my pre-conceived view of the world, eastern cultures don't have quite as much rampant greed in open circulation, but then again, having only anecdotal evidence, i could be wrong....
we certainly do seem to "win" that competition, no? (where win isn't a good thing:)
(and maybe a little depressing) that in so many parts of our (western) culture, we value quantity over quality?
to wit:
"And the nation's greatest native inventor seems to be a man who has come up with 100 different ways to make a flower pot."
the nation's greatest inventor, in my mind, would be the inventor that has most positively impacted society at large with their inventions, etc, etc. basically, a totally subjective unit-of-measure unless we find some nice way of ranking the value of a given patent to society...
it's just curious how often this happens....
(large houses over well constructed houses, etc, etc, etc).
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See http://www.maxxon.com/ I have used their Acoustimat product in the past to make my bedroom substantially quieter, and it worked fantastically. It's, unfortunately, somewhat expensive, but it is at least effective.
Came here to say *exactly* this, good sir or madam!
One i've not seen anyone mention yet is JFileSync.
Yes yes, we all know that java is anathema around here, but this is an exceptional tool to have in the toolchest...
depending upon the problem domain, a very useful (albeit expensive) set of tools is StarLight, written for the US Government: http://starlight.pnl.gov/
highly recommended if you've got tough visualization problems. this tends to get used for the *really* interesting visualization challenges.
apparently you weren't around for the short life of Incredible Universe?
i suppose i should throw in my support of ZipZoomFly.com
like newegg, they have a good selection, very good customer service (i've never had a goofed up order, but did once receive a product that had some sort of odd problem from the factory and they immediately provided me an RMA and replacement).
finally, by the time you count their 0-dollar shipping, their prices are almost ALWAYS the lowest anywhere. i did a month of research before i assembled my last machine, and i simply couldn't find a better deal on average than theirs on just about every component...
not entirely on-topic, but i figured the slashdot community might be interested in this tool.
OpenModelica
a very nice modelling package that can help you with practical mathematics issues like mathematica might.
cheers.
Peter
who knows how many thousands of pieces of software were written that DEPEND upon this particular reference to ensure that the object doesn't get garbage collected?
alredy written software would have to most likely change, that's all i was trying to imply...
cheers.
Peter
that said, in almost all normal cases, had the event registrations been done with weak references, this problem would have been a non-issue.
the gc would have had lots and lots of opportunities to run before consuming the entire heap...
cheers.
Peter
your solution is absolutely the correct way to do this.
works perfectly in clr.
cheers.
Peter
just to be clear, THE BUG WAS NOT IN THE RUNTIME, not by any stretch.
there are very clear constructs in place in the language/runtime to allow any object to unregister itself from event registrations it initiated.
this was VERY MUCH a bug in the end-user software, not the runtime (i've written code almost IDENTICALLY to this and blew lots of time having made this same mistake).
the only thing the runtime could do to protect the idiot developer (myself included) is automagically make all event references WEAK references, but that has plenty of undesirable side-effects too... in clr, you can do this yourself if you're so inclined... (just like in a JVM)
cheers.
Peter
Reason two: government benefits are rediculously expensive and relatively poorly managed (from a fiscal perspective)...
to add to what the author of the comment to which i reply said:
the percentage of laborers at NASA who are employees is exceedingly small (and usually the lines separate at program/project managers and everyone else).
almost everything is subcontracted...
so a party that excluded contractors would be a fat-cat party...
even the fat-cats at NASA know they can't get work done without the rest of us.
and yes, i have some first-hand knowledge in this area as i suspect invidious might.
some readers might not realize that the phrase "open source" has a number of common uses.
besides the one most slashdot readers are familiar with, another is possibly equally interesting to slashdot readers:
click here for an alternative definition.
cheers.
i can speculate on what happened here with some authority.
i happen to be a customer of AT&T's, responsible for something in an AT&T data center that also happens to have a bunch of WoW equipment in it, and it JUST SO HAPPENS that there was emergency maintenance being performed on AT&T's network in this facility on friday night...
we saw NO OUTAGE WHATSOEVER due to this particular problem in AT&T's network, for two reasons:
1) AT&T's network itself is dual-homed with multiple sonet rings converging upon the facility from different directions, etc.
2) OUR OWN UPLINKS to at&t are dual homed to two different AT&T distribution switches (and yes, we had to pay more for that).
i got the warning about friday night's outages from AT&T, and we were NOT AT ALL IMPACTED because of #2.
if a given customer of AT&T chooses NOT to dual home their own uplinks, they would most certainly have seen a substantial outage.
can i say with certainty that this is what caused friday's outage? no. does it seem very reasonable given what i know about how that facility operates? yes.
who knows where the truth lies...
i see your points...
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would those sweat shops have existed if there hadn't been someone constantly wanting the products they were putting out at fantastically low prices? probably, but i'd like to think that in a more stable economy (i.e. one not in the middle of economic war for mere survival), they might not have.
on a similar note: have you ever read this book?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871564378/102-2
this is an absolutely superb book that tries to quantify exactly how greedy we are when compared to the majority of the humans on the planet...
indeed, there are plenty of people the world over who take advantage of others, to be sure. i'm still thinking we "westerners" tend to be better than most at it...
there's just too much history to suggest otherwise...
sigh.
i really didn't expect everyone to think that i took it as anything other than rhetoric, i suppose i must point that out in big bold letters next time. how can any reader of slashdot not get the real point of this article with as much anti-USPTO sentiment that permeates the air here?
so, again, yes, i got it.
the point i was making was *totally* off-topic in observing: we tend to use the technique he uses a lot. he hit the nail on the head in using it precisely because it happens SO often that we aren't even remotely phased by it any longer...
clearly, i saw it...
my point is, ignoring this particular article, (notice i never said anything specifically criticising what THE AUTHOR SAID, as it was obviously rhetoric) how many cases can you think of in the recent past where someone DOES rank things in just this manner?
said another way: doesn't it just annoy you when people don't get that you got it, and were, instead, commenting on the sad state of affairs that would allow this guy to use this technique to make his point, because it's in such common use that it just seems to make sense to everyone?
sigh.
i understand your point and totally agree that it was an interesting choice of words, but i did use it intentionally, because i've found some of these same tendencies in europe (to a much lesser degree) as well, but i see far fewer of my asian friends exhibit these behaviors...
:)
i suppose that in my pre-conceived view of the world, eastern cultures don't have quite as much rampant greed in open circulation, but then again, having only anecdotal evidence, i could be wrong....
we certainly do seem to "win" that competition, no? (where win isn't a good thing
(and maybe a little depressing) that in so many parts of our (western) culture, we value quantity over quality?
to wit:
"And the nation's greatest native inventor seems to be a man who has come up with 100 different ways to make a flower pot."
the nation's greatest inventor, in my mind, would be the inventor that has most positively impacted society at large with their inventions, etc, etc. basically, a totally subjective unit-of-measure unless we find some nice way of ranking the value of a given patent to society...
it's just curious how often this happens....
(large houses over well constructed houses, etc, etc, etc).
enjoy.
Peter
haven't you always wanted a monkey?
hm....
this technique (as purportedly implemented per the article) uses an adjacent slot for the self-contained, sealed cooling module.
net sum zero.
cheers.
Peter
another location i found a good bit of information:
r oducts/otg/index.html
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/buses/usb/p
just wanted to point out that one of the other things that turbo was well known for is their prowess on linux for 390 / z-series.
cheers.
Peter
i'm absolutely shocked that more people don't know about aegis.
this thing corrects almost every design flaw that cvs has (and there are a lot of them due to its lineage).
at this point, aegis has gotten no attention whatsoever, so now lots of redundant projects are underway to supplant it.
i just don't know what exactly to do to get it coverage.
Peter