Symbols never get in the cache unless your're running a debugger. Code bloat is not a problem for caches, because they cache lines of sequential bytes. Logic bloat is a problem for caches, lots of long branches.
Just remember Orwell's vision of the future of mankind as a boot endlessly stomping on a human face. In the long run, we're all slaves. At least your great-grandparents were free, once.
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I'm of the opinion that invested vendors want to raise the bar to entry for competitors, so they inject as much complexity as they feel they can easily manage. This turns into a bidding war at the standards table, when multiple vendors all try to inject complexity in areas where they feel they have leverage. It's just like price-fixing, really. It's an anticompetitive practice.
Opening more universities would be very much like printing more money, or more specifically, like pumping more oil: The relative value of the education held by each individual would decrease, but the economic value to society as a whole would skyrocket. A rising tide lifts all boats. The interest of vested individuals is in keeping everyone else down. The interest of society as a whole, as well as the interest of the majority of people, is in a rising tide.
Name a president better than Nixon since 1992? Nixon openned China and terminated the Vietnam War. Not all cheaters are traitors.
As regards IE7, now is the time for everyone to code their website so that IE7 breaks, before it gets market share. Afterwards, you'll be stuck developing for the Microsoft Web, in Microsoft languages on Microsoft platforms. And none of it will work anywhere else.
Amen to that! The luck of being found after 110 my is profound.
Consider the 150 years or so of serious palentology that it took to find one 110 myo duck. Assuming that the rate of discovery decays exponentially with age, and it takes, let's say, a week to find a 10 yo duck corpse, exp(nx+m), x|0.02=>10, x|150=>1.1e8...
I predict on the basis of curve fitting that after 10 more years we'll discover a duck that is 320 myo, and within 50 years the oldest known duck fossil will be a staggering 24 billion years old!
> Imagine trying to modify Debian or Suse (or any other distribution) so that you could install and run any Linux rpm or deb file created since 1999 without having to modify your system. And imagine modifying it so that an upgrade to the next version would not break any of your installed software.
That would actually be an incredibly easy task, given originals of all of the systems in question. It's the interfaces between them that would complicate matters, so you might want to add specific interoperation requirements and communication channels that they must support.
> no matter how good your technique, you can't generate information
horsepucky. you can generate all the information you want. about half of it is wrong, in a 2symbol stream, if you just toss coins, but you can do a whole lot better than that without straining yourself, and an order of magnitude more if you are willing to burn the midnite. being wrong is not a bad thing either. being credibly wrong is often better than being incredibly right.
The medium-sized enterprise where I work has dynamic and often rigorous requirements, including - end-to-end security - the option to log centrally for multi-user chats - multiple client platforms - interoperation with external partners and collaborators who may use other services - alert delivery to external endpoints - sms integration - integration with internal groupware user administration
I found all of this easy to do using GAIM as a default client with a Jabber server, AIM/Yahoo/MSN/IRC plugins on the server, and a very carefully written routing script. Now if only it did voip, and GAIM would stop crashing on file-send when using the Jabber protocol, we'd have a total solution. As it is, everyone runs skype or firefly as well.
> It really isn't logical to use 64 ints when you compile ls! For the VAST majority of programs using 64 bit ints and and pointers is a total waste of memory.
Nor will an LP64 compiler use 64b ints when you compile ls. An ILP64 compiler will do so. 64 bit pointers are a big win when you want to address large memory, period. 64 bit processors are a big win when you want to exploit a fat memory bus. SIMD 128bit instructions are even bigger wins.
I don't know of a version of ls that is built to exploit these benefits, but one could be. It's not worth the trouble, however, because ls doesn't take any time.
Oh joy. Background downloading. When they offer swarming downloads that can compete with BitTorrent, I might consider signing up. At the current rate, I guess that will happen sometime when I enter my 50s. I should be retired by then, and have more time for gaming.
Communism requires community control of the economy. Capitalism requires totalitarian oppression of the majority in order to protect capital against the community. Central planning requires nothing more than hubris, and is accomplished in both capitalist and socialist systems.
But you can have sex a couple of times a day, whereas this guy is talking about no sex for several days. To me that seems like a sure-fire recipie for an axe murder spree.
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Symbols never get in the cache unless your're running a debugger.
Code bloat is not a problem for caches, because they cache lines
of sequential bytes. Logic bloat is a problem for caches, lots of
long branches.
Just remember Orwell's vision of the future of mankind as a boot endlessly stomping on a human face. In the long run, we're all slaves. At least your great-grandparents were free, once.
I'm of the opinion that invested vendors want to raise the bar to entry for competitors, so they inject as much complexity as they feel they can easily manage. This turns into a bidding war at the standards table, when multiple vendors all try to inject complexity in areas where they feel they have leverage. It's just like price-fixing, really. It's an anticompetitive practice.
re sig:
i'd like them all to alliterate! ignoble, ignorant, insensitive, insipid, intelligent, iberian, whatever!
Sometimes I shave my teeth and brush my beard instead, and boy does it taste AWFUL
Personally, I'd nuke the Ark first, then go on to the rest of the planet.
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/howto/rst-dir ectives.html The directives aren't doing it for you?
And what, pray tell, is perverted about stalking 14-year old girls? It's the most natural thing in the world.
Opening more universities would be very much like printing more money, or more specifically, like pumping more oil:
The relative value of the education held by each individual would decrease, but the economic value to society as a
whole would skyrocket. A rising tide lifts all boats. The interest of vested individuals is in keeping everyone
else down. The interest of society as a whole, as well as the interest of the majority of people, is in a rising tide.
Name a president better than Nixon since 1992?
Nixon openned China and terminated the Vietnam War.
Not all cheaters are traitors.
As regards IE7, now is the time for everyone to code their website so that
IE7 breaks, before it gets market share. Afterwards, you'll be stuck
developing for the Microsoft Web, in Microsoft languages on Microsoft platforms.
And none of it will work anywhere else.
> this aquatic bird
...had luck
You mean the duck.
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Amen to that! The luck of being found after 110 my is profound.
Consider the 150 years or so of serious palentology that it took to find one 110 myo duck.
Assuming that the rate of discovery decays exponentially with age, and it takes, let's say, a week to find a 10 yo duck corpse, exp(nx+m), x|0.02=>10, x|150=>1.1e8...
I predict on the basis of curve fitting that after 10 more years we'll discover a duck that is 320 myo, and
within 50 years the oldest known duck fossil will be a staggering 24 billion years old!
So how does one report an empirical observation that no one has witnessed?
Then, clearly, anyone doing business with GoDaddy is a fool. They reserve the right to screw you over for no reason.
> Imagine trying to modify Debian or Suse (or any other distribution) so that you could install and run any Linux rpm or deb file created since 1999 without having to modify your system. And imagine modifying it so that an upgrade to the next version would not break any of your installed software.
That would actually be an incredibly easy task, given originals of all of the systems in question. It's the interfaces between them that would complicate matters, so you might want to add specific interoperation requirements and communication channels that they must support.
I think the article's viewpoint is simply against. Against the truth, and against Bush. Being right half the time is not so bad, these days.
> no matter how good your technique, you can't generate information
horsepucky. you can generate all the information you want. about half of it is wrong, in a 2symbol stream, if you just toss coins, but you can do a whole lot better than that without straining yourself, and an order of magnitude more if you are willing to burn the midnite. being wrong is not a bad thing either. being credibly wrong is often better than being incredibly right.
The medium-sized enterprise where I work has dynamic and often rigorous requirements, including
- end-to-end security
- the option to log centrally for multi-user chats
- multiple client platforms
- interoperation with external partners and collaborators who may use other services
- alert delivery to external endpoints
- sms integration
- integration with internal groupware user administration
I found all of this easy to do using GAIM as a default client with a Jabber server, AIM/Yahoo/MSN/IRC plugins on the server, and a very carefully written routing script. Now if only it did voip, and GAIM would stop crashing on file-send when using the Jabber protocol, we'd have a total solution. As it is, everyone runs skype or firefly as well.
> It really isn't logical to use 64 ints when you compile ls! For the VAST majority of programs using 64 bit ints and and pointers is a total waste of memory.
Nor will an LP64 compiler use 64b ints when you compile ls. An ILP64 compiler will do so.
64 bit pointers are a big win when you want to address large memory, period.
64 bit processors are a big win when you want to exploit a fat memory bus.
SIMD 128bit instructions are even bigger wins.
I don't know of a version of ls that is built to exploit these benefits, but one could be. It's not worth the trouble, however, because ls doesn't take any time.
Oh joy. Background downloading. When they offer swarming downloads that can compete with BitTorrent, I might consider signing up. At the current rate, I guess that will happen sometime when I enter my 50s. I should be retired by then, and have more time for gaming.
host -t AAAA www.google.com
google.com AAAA record currently not present
Not very useful, then, is it?
Portable AJAX can only use the same host name, ip, and port (!), as the page the script was served from.
You're telling me that IE's XHR violates the HTTP protocol? I'm shocked, sir!
Communism requires community control of the economy. Capitalism requires totalitarian oppression of the majority in order to protect capital against the community. Central planning requires nothing more than hubris, and is accomplished in both capitalist and socialist systems.
a new improvement in our ability to slaughter the infidel darkies is always welcome
But you can have sex a couple of times a day, whereas this guy is talking about no sex for several days. To me that seems like a sure-fire recipie for an axe murder spree.