Threads are a fork that keeps all memory shared except the stack. That's pretty darn simple, and probably all he needs to know.
However, he's probably right. Threads are horribly abused in most applications. They create bloat and spaghetti code opportunities that lead to user dissatisfaction and unreasonable maintenance costs.
Threads should be used if you need SMP scaling for a I/O intensive application, or shared memory decomposition of a problem space dominates the structure of the code. Otherwise, small is beautiful, and asynchronous I/O is far more efficient and elegant (which means maintainable).
It is highly doubtful that he was a homosexual.
What is known is that he was anonymously charged
with being a homosexual once, and acquitted of
the charge. See this link.
The degree of his pacifism is also quite suspect:
1482 saw him writing to the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza listing his capabilities as a designer of both civil and military machines. Italy was being afflicted by wars between the various city-states; this was followed by a French invasion. This was a time of rapid development of firearms and explosives and military engineers were important figures. Leonardo's had many ideas for fortifications, bridges, weapons, and river diversions to flood the enemy.
The article's author is certaintly quite correct,
however, that he was a vegetarian.
Open proxies are crucial to the survival of political freedom. It's just a wrong-headed approach to access control, filtering by IP. The correct approach to access control is to require a controlled token to connect. An IP address is not a controlled token, and using it as one, as JSTOR does, is incompetent web service design.
I'd rather change out 50 blank plastic disks once than endure the need to redundantly and repeatedly spin up multiple copies of a single 200GB IDE drive.
I do hope you've optimized the *algorithm* first. Archiving deltas, etc.
Another approach is to just keep the backup always hot, and geographically distributed, e.g. using WebRAID.
Many people want to buy a copy of LoTR in large part because it is the kind of film they want to see made in the future, not because of an immediate ownership interest.
She has about 20 times as many friends as I did at her age, and a much richer and more complete life. She has the luxury of being able to choose her friends -- and the involvement of her family with her peer group, whereas I was cast into a den of vipers, and abandoned there.
There is a certain class of children for whom warehousing in the state creche is a form of abuse. I was one. My daughter is similarly ill-suited to it. My solution is simple: I keep my daughter with me. Until she was 12 her mother and I schooled her independently. Now, she takes Internet and correspondence courses with various high schools and colleges around the country.
If you choose this route, there are some practical requirements. For example, at least one parent should stay home the bulk of the time. I am fortunate in that I have been able to telecommute 100% for the past 12 years. My wife is a wonderfully creative intelligent and energetic person who has been willing to sacrifice any option of a career in favor of our daughter's education. For another example, you need to get out a lot. Or more precisely, your child needs to get out a lot, in order to gain social skills.
Personally, while I think there are certainly some people who should not be training their children at all, for whom a classical school or even a boarding school would be most appropriate, I have concluded by observing the rate of intellectual moral and emotional development of my daughter in contrast to those in the state schools that the best approach is to conform your lifestyle to the model under which humanity evolved. Extended family support is good too.
Statistics are only of use in as much as they are applied by principles. For a given set of facts, you can easily arrive at diametrically opposite conclusions if your deduction is based on conflicting principles.
I hold that the most fundamental human right is the right to exist, and the right to self-defense follows directly from that right. But I wouldn't derive from that a right to bear small arms unless said arms were the most apposite means of self-defense, a question which can only be decided according to circumstances. The same argument applies to "weapons of mass destruction".
True. That is, however, a relatively recent innovation. Even limiting yourself to MS Fonts, there are still a lot in circulation -- including all the important ones -- from distributions that occurred before the font EULAs were introduced.
Your description of classical managed solutions is apposiite, but it is not appropriate to the bittorrent solution, which is what you are responding to. You are clearly a knowledgable and intelligent person. You owe it to yourself to do a bit of research on modern peer and mesh network techniques.
In reponse to the grandparent:
I believe the release of swarmcast predates that of bittorrent by a small amount.
IBM doesn't just *choose* opensource solutions, they *produce* and *fund* them. eclipse.org is a very good example, but there are others -- check out alphaworks. In may ways IBM has been an even better citizen in the freeworld than Sun, as they tend to use OSS licenses for their open source projects, unlike Sun, which has "control issues", despite having released far more open code (but not free in *any* libre sense).
I think IBM could leverage Rational's UML tools to generate both hardware *and* software sales in a way very similar to the way in which Sun leverages Java to generate hardware sales. A z800 with MVS generates a *lot* more profit than does a copy of Purify.
Moreover, one of IBM's major problems is that the pool of developers is small because the tools are inaccessible for self-instruction. If the significant components of the IBM toolchain were available, the pool of developers for IBM systems would explode -- and the sales case for z900s based on TCO would improve dramatically for those customers who need in-house solutions -- a lot!
After all, why do you think that Linux s390 is so hot? It's not because it's a better web server. It's because there are app developers in abudance for the Linux platform, while MVS developers are like hen's teeth.
Given the *prices* Rational charges, I think they might just be saving enough on licensing fees to make this acquisition a net win in one calendar year. Given the cost of continuing development versus the rate of *sales* of Rational, it seems unlikely that they can make a *profit* on the sales.
Of course I'm not even bothering to pull some arbitrary numbers out of my unmentionables to justify this argument, but I think it verges on credible nonetheless.
While this may change in the future, due to intense lobbying efforts by special interests and the general prevailing culture of intellectual property grants -- I will not say "rights" because it is a devaluing abuse of the word -- the constitutional proviso precluding ex post facto law insures that all currently existing fonts will never be copyrighted (within the U.S.).
I've had very good luck using OpenOffice's save As.
There are a lot of options, however. I wonder what Google uses?
One option would be saving as postscript and using a postscript-to-text extractor.
But the best thing would be to relax the POT require- ment to allow XML. XML is so trivial to parse that even if XML itself falls from grace with technological advance, the few simple tags you need will certainly be supportable with 10-15 minutes of scripting (if the computers aren't smart enought respond to your voice command and retrieve the old XML specs and interpret them well enough to perform the transformation automatically at that future point -- which seems unlikely, given that you use only the most simple and basic of XML idioms.)
Just write a little.vbs script for each of her frequently used forms and put an icon on the desktop for it. Here'' You can download WSH 5.6 from ' - http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/vbscript/scrip ting56.asp Option Explicit 'Set an automatic error for all undefined variables
Dim Wshshell, fso, oExec, shell, counter, tmp, signResult, exeError, objArgs Dim strPassword: strPassword = ""
'Create an object array of the command line arguments Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
if NOT Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle) Then
MsgBox "No such window, "+promptTitle
WScript.Quit End If
Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle) Wshshell.Send Keys(strPassword) ' Send the password to the Dialogbox WScript.Sleep 200 Wshshell.SendKeys("{ENTER}") ' Send an enter key to the Dialogbox.
I'd rather see everyone using bitzi.com, since it's goal is to gather metadata for *every* file in the universe, and keep the data free, supported by a related business model (and a viable, sustainable support mechanism is GOOD), but I support this project too, because choice and freedom are goods. Therefore, I urge everyone to submit metadata to both projects.
If you only submit to one, however, please submit to bitzi, because it provides an automation API, and uses better hashes.
Note that I have no affiliation with the Bitzi company.
The Matrix was an extended riff on the nature of the Godhead and man's relationship to God. The eye- candy is what most of the people in the audience were able to understand, but it kinda misses the point, if you can't get beyond the anime effects and bullet- time, to the conceptual core of the film.
I think it's been suspected since 1995 when the
Brookhaven Muon g-2 experiment results began
to get published, and very clear since 1998 or so,
as they expanded and were corroborated, that
there are defects, omissions, from the Standard
Model that go beyond the little detail of overlooking
gravitation.
Check out this search for more info on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
> By your own logic, you deserve to die just as much > as most of the victims of the 9/11 attack. And if that's > what you deserve, then why do you persist in living?
I certainly do deserve death. Many who die deserve to live. It is not my right to choose who lives and who dies.
My argument in favor of leaving the U.S. if it does not promptly reform is not based on the righteousness of the terror that will befall the U.S., but on the value of your own life. If you choose to remain in the U.S. and work to correct it's path, and you suffer and die as a result, it is a laudable sacrifice -- it is your choice, after all.
When one person does evil, it affects other people. It is unfortunate and unjust, but then that is the very nature of evil. It is generally good to avoid the consequences of other person's evil actions.
The "Agents of Justice" are typically blind and evil themselves. They probably won't know not to kill you. Providence takes a rod of correction in her hands, and when done using it to discipline a nation, she casts it in the firepit to burn.
This is the world we live in. It sucks, yeah, but it is reality.
> the us has done horrible injustices in the world. the > us has done wonderful things in this world. buth are > true statements. they are also true statements that > can apply to any country.
And they are both of marginal relevance to the issue of the crimes and injustices currently being perpetrated by the regime in power. Marginal, at best. If Jeffrey Dahmer guides a blind old lady through a traffic crossing, it doesn't make his horrific crimes any less culpable.
> so what do you want to do? have a crybaby > blame game pointing fingers fest? or actually > solve world problems?
When there is blame to be assigned, it must be assigned, or you'll never stop the criminal behaviour. Clearly a large number of people in the world have assigned blame to the U.S. for it's actions, and their indignation has exceeded all tolerable bounds to the point where some are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to bring the U.S. to justice, in an effort to stop the crimes and protect the prospective victims of those crimes.
What I see in practice is that refusal to acknowledge the crimes of this government is insuring their continuation and expansion. There is a very real axis of evil in the world today, and it runs through Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney to George Bush. They are the ones who are responsible for the genocide of the Palestinian Christians, for the mass murders in Afghanistan, and for the deaths and multilations of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children.
If you stick your head in the sand, your ass is going to get whacked. That's reality.
Slashdot Mirror
except the stack. That's pretty darn simple, and
probably all he needs to know.
However, he's probably right. Threads are horribly
abused in most applications. They create bloat
and spaghetti code opportunities that lead to
user dissatisfaction and unreasonable maintenance
costs.
Threads should be used if you need SMP scaling
for a I/O intensive application, or shared memory
decomposition of a problem space dominates the
structure of the code. Otherwise, small
is beautiful, and asynchronous I/O is far more
efficient and elegant (which means maintainable).
The degree of his pacifism is also quite suspect:
The article's author is certaintly quite correct, however, that he was a vegetarian.
Open proxies are crucial to the survival of political
freedom.
It's just a wrong-headed approach to access
control, filtering by IP. The correct approach to
access control is to require a controlled token
to connect. An IP address is not a controlled
token, and using it as one, as JSTOR does, is
incompetent web service design.
> But you shouldn't demand a refund, but rather get
> them to sell you the computer without the OS in the
> first place.
You seem to be missing the point that you *can't*,
because of Microsoft's criminal abuse of their
monopoly position.
Ah... clever. But, being from France, he's not black, he's noir, which, you must admit, is much, much cooler.
I'd rather change out 50 blank plastic disks once
than endure the need to redundantly and repeatedly
spin up multiple copies of a single 200GB IDE drive.
I do hope you've optimized the *algorithm* first.
Archiving deltas, etc.
Another approach is to just keep the backup always
hot, and geographically distributed, e.g. using
WebRAID.
I think you're missing the motivation here.
Many people want to buy a copy of LoTR in large part
because it is the kind of film they want to see made
in the future, not because of an immediate ownership
interest.
Yes, clearly this is bullshit. But you have to
consider the source. The linked article is on CNN.
Only idiots believe things they read on CNN.
She has about 20 times as many friends as I did
at her age, and a much richer and more complete
life. She has the luxury of being able to choose her
friends -- and the involvement of her family with her
peer group, whereas I was cast into a den of vipers,
and abandoned there.
There is a certain class of children for whom
warehousing in the state creche is a form of abuse.
I was one. My daughter is similarly ill-suited to it.
My solution is simple: I keep my daughter with me.
Until she was 12 her mother and I schooled her
independently. Now, she takes Internet and
correspondence courses with various high schools
and colleges around the country.
If you choose this route, there are some practical
requirements. For example, at least one parent
should stay home the bulk of the time. I am fortunate
in that I have been able to telecommute 100% for
the past 12 years. My wife is a wonderfully creative
intelligent and energetic person who has been
willing to sacrifice any option of a career in favor
of our daughter's education. For another example,
you need to get out a lot. Or more precisely, your
child needs to get out a lot, in order to gain social
skills.
Personally, while I think there are certainly some
people who should not be training their children
at all, for whom a classical school or even a
boarding school would be most appropriate, I have
concluded by observing the rate of intellectual
moral and emotional development of my daughter in
contrast to those in the state schools that the best
approach is to conform your lifestyle to the model
under which humanity evolved. Extended family
support is good too.
Statistics are only of use in as much as they are
applied by principles. For a given set of facts, you
can easily arrive at diametrically opposite conclusions
if your deduction is based on conflicting principles.
I hold that the most fundamental human right is
the right to exist, and the right to self-defense
follows directly from that right. But I wouldn't
derive from that a right to bear small arms unless
said arms were the most apposite means of
self-defense, a question which can only be decided
according to circumstances. The same argument
applies to "weapons of mass destruction".
I repent in sackcloth and ashes for not previewing that
before I posted. However, I'm too lazy to dig it up
again and repost:P
True. That is, however, a relatively recent innovation.
Even limiting yourself to MS Fonts, there are still a lot
in circulation -- including all the important ones -- from
distributions that occurred before the font EULAs were
introduced.
Your description of classical managed solutions is
apposiite, but it is not appropriate to the bittorrent
solution, which is what you are responding to.
You are clearly a knowledgable and intelligent
person. You owe it to yourself to do a bit of
research on modern peer and mesh network
techniques.
In reponse to the grandparent:
I believe the release of swarmcast predates that
of bittorrent by a small amount.
IBM doesn't just *choose* opensource solutions,
they *produce* and *fund* them. eclipse.org is a
very good example, but there are others -- check out
alphaworks. In may ways IBM has been an even
better citizen in the freeworld than Sun, as they
tend to use OSS licenses for their open source
projects, unlike Sun, which has "control issues",
despite having released far more open code (but
not free in *any* libre sense).
I think IBM could leverage Rational's UML tools
to generate both hardware *and* software sales
in a way very similar to the way in which Sun
leverages Java to generate hardware sales.
A z800 with MVS generates a *lot* more profit
than does a copy of Purify.
Moreover, one of IBM's major problems is that
the pool of developers is small because the tools
are inaccessible for self-instruction. If the significant
components of the IBM toolchain were available,
the pool of developers for IBM systems would
explode -- and the sales case for z900s based on
TCO would improve dramatically for those
customers who need in-house solutions -- a lot!
After all, why do you think that Linux s390 is so
hot? It's not because it's a better web server.
It's because there are app developers in abudance
for the Linux platform, while MVS developers are
like hen's teeth.
Given the *prices* Rational charges, I think they
might just be saving enough on licensing fees to
make this acquisition a net win in one calendar year.
Given the cost of continuing development versus
the rate of *sales* of Rational, it seems unlikely that
they can make a *profit* on the sales.
Of course I'm not even bothering to pull some
arbitrary numbers out of my unmentionables to
justify this argument, but I think it verges on
credible nonetheless.
fonts -- and in fact, fonts can't be copyrighted!
While this may change in the future, due to intense
lobbying efforts by special interests and the general
prevailing culture of intellectual property grants --
I will not say "rights" because it is a devaluing abuse
of the word -- the constitutional proviso precluding
ex post facto law insures that all currently existing
fonts will never be copyrighted (within the
U.S.).
I've had very good luck using OpenOffice's save As.
There are a lot of options, however. I wonder what
Google uses?
One option would be saving as postscript and using
a postscript-to-text extractor.
But the best thing would be to relax the POT require-
ment to allow XML. XML is so trivial to parse that
even if XML itself falls from grace with technological
advance, the few simple tags you need will certainly
be supportable with 10-15 minutes of scripting
(if the computers aren't smart enought respond
to your voice command and retrieve the old XML
specs and interpret them well enough to perform
the transformation automatically at that future point
-- which seems unlikely, given that you use only
the most simple and basic of XML idioms.)
Just write a little .vbs script for each of her frequentlyp ting56.asp
d Keys(strPassword) ' Send the password to the Dialogbox
used forms and put an icon on the desktop for it.
Here'' You can download WSH 5.6 from
' - http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/vbscript/scri
Option Explicit 'Set an automatic error for all undefined variables
Const promptTitle = "Enter Private Key Password"
Const ShowSigningStatus = True
Dim Wshshell, fso, oExec, shell, counter, tmp, signResult, exeError, objArgs
Dim strPassword: strPassword = ""
'Create an object array of the command line arguments
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
if NOT Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle) Then
MsgBox "No such window, "+promptTitle
WScript.Quit
End If
Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle)
Wshshell.Sen
WScript.Sleep 200
Wshshell.SendKeys("{ENTER}") ' Send an enter key to the Dialogbox.
WScript.Quit
s a kernel to get you started:
I'd rather see everyone using bitzi.com, since it's
goal is to gather metadata for *every* file in the
universe, and keep the data free, supported by a
related business model (and a viable, sustainable
support mechanism is GOOD), but I support this
project too, because choice and freedom are goods.
Therefore, I urge everyone to submit metadata
to both projects.
If you only submit to one, however, please submit
to bitzi, because it provides an automation API,
and uses better hashes.
Note that I have no affiliation with the Bitzi company.
The Matrix was an extended riff on the nature of the
Godhead and man's relationship to God. The eye-
candy is what most of the people in the audience
were able to understand, but it kinda misses the point,
if you can't get beyond the anime effects and bullet-
time, to the conceptual core of the film.
Check out this search for more info on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
If the children are frozen, you can't pour them.
Oh, wait, I get it.... You'll *melt* them with the heat,
then pour them?
But... you said they were freezing, not melting...
I'm confused again.
> By your own logic, you deserve to die just as much
> as most of the victims of the 9/11 attack. And if that's
> what you deserve, then why do you persist in living?
I certainly do deserve death. Many who die
deserve to live. It is not my right to choose who
lives and who dies.
My argument in favor of leaving the U.S. if it
does not promptly reform is not based on the
righteousness of the terror that will befall the U.S.,
but on the value of your own life. If you choose to
remain in the U.S. and work to correct it's path,
and you suffer and die as a result, it is a laudable
sacrifice -- it is your choice, after all.
When one person does evil, it affects other people.
It is unfortunate and unjust, but then that is the
very nature of evil. It is generally good to avoid
the consequences of other person's evil actions.
The "Agents of Justice" are typically blind and
evil themselves. They probably won't know not
to kill you. Providence takes a rod of correction
in her hands, and when done using it to discipline
a nation, she casts it in the firepit to burn.
This is the world we live in. It sucks, yeah, but
it is reality.
> the us has done horrible injustices in the world. the
> us has done wonderful things in this world. buth are
> true statements. they are also true statements that
> can apply to any country.
And they are both of marginal relevance to the
issue of the crimes and injustices currently being
perpetrated by the regime in power. Marginal,
at best. If Jeffrey Dahmer guides a blind old lady
through a traffic crossing, it doesn't make his
horrific crimes any less culpable.
> so what do you want to do? have a crybaby
> blame game pointing fingers fest? or actually
> solve world problems?
When there is blame to be assigned, it must be
assigned, or you'll never stop the criminal behaviour.
Clearly a large number of people in the world
have assigned blame to the U.S. for it's actions,
and their indignation has exceeded all tolerable
bounds to the point where some are willing to
sacrifice their lives in order to bring the U.S. to
justice, in an effort to stop the crimes and protect
the prospective victims of those crimes.
What I see in practice is that refusal to acknowledge
the crimes of this government is insuring their
continuation and expansion. There is a very real
axis of evil in the world today, and it runs through
Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld,
John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney to George Bush.
They are the ones who are responsible for the
genocide of the Palestinian Christians, for the
mass murders in Afghanistan, and for the deaths
and multilations of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
children.
If you stick your head in the sand, your ass is going
to get whacked. That's reality.