Really? We're operating on giga- and tera- size
datasets, with complex floating-point calculations, and Java is just as fast as any of our best C or Fortran programs.
Java is most certainly used in a number of
mathematically-intensive applications. See
CERN's Colt library, for example. Quite useful, asshole.
Now let's see...
1. Java is far too slow.--no, it's not. Stupid Java is slow, but you shouldn't be writing Java if you're stupid.
2. All the math libs are already written in Fortran and C, and nobody wants to port.--right, except CERN and a veritable half-ton of other nobodies. Be way of all those "two-dimensional matrix" libraries out there, though. Most suck, like you.
3. Most scientists are not fancy programers and don't care too much about OO, garbage collection, and other frills.--I see. Then I must work with some damn rare, unusual scientists. Or maybe it's just that you don't know what you're talking about.
I did this for MS-DOS as a nethack-style game. Files were items that you could pick up and move around to other levels (directories) and had various abilities depending on the nature of the file. But the monsters could use files too and destroy the system. Chaotic fun! No one liked it much.
I don't care that this logo has been spraypainted over SF. What bothers me are those who put the logo there--the ad agency behind IBM's latest ad campaign. I think to myself, "These people have no shame. They'd use their own dying mothers to promote a product if they thought it would work."
What these ads are really saying is, "Love, Peace, Linux, and a legion of happy IBM lapdogs." It seems so cheap and petty to use these ideals to hawk their cheesy wares.
We have something called a fucking apostrophe. It's often found in contractions (short combinations of two words), such as "don't", "won't", and, depending on context, sometimes "it's". I'm suprised this guy didn't end his diatribe with "thx!".
Yes, in scene 47, the "solar-powered modem" is clearly operating at night.
And, in scene 22, that woman was wearing a "Miramar" hat. As anyone could tell you, the Miramar (San Diego, CA) base is a Marine base, whilst she claimed to be from the Navy.
And might I finally add, the modem-turned-walkie-talkie needed to be within a 100m range of the Sojourner base in order to operate, yet our hero was able to use it effectively well beyond 100km from the base.
Ah, so then before running 'make all', the paranoid user can su to some nobody user, and they'll be safe, right? Oh, but not if the make actually does something like compile and execute a suite of known local root exploits.
This reminds me of the one case a whole ton of years ago when someone added a set of instructions to some cc which would automatically add a backdoor into any generated code.
There are all sorts of hidden things that any OS or program can do... the problem is to minimize risk; you can't eliminate it.
I've found that there isn't a point where you "fall asleep," it's much more of a stretch of time and change of consciousness
I tend to agree. There's an interesting condition out there known as "sleep paralysis", in which the body begins to fall asleep, but the brain remains conscious. The first thing that happens (for me, anyway) is a sense of hallucinating. Or, possibly more accurately described as being able to concentrate and imagine something in extreme detail. The image my brain gets through my closed eyes is still black, but somewhere inside the brain, I can *see* something very, very clearly, as if it was right in front of me.
After a few minutes (or more) of that, the brain begins to shut down the neural connections to muscles. This prevents the body from "acting out" any dreams. I'm not sure how it accomplishes this task, but there must be some kind of inhibitor or something, I suppose. At any rate, after this it is no longer possible to move any muscle in my body without a *great deal* of exertion. Being able to move actually brings me out of this state and back to full awakeness.
After this, I start to experience first auditory hallucinations, then later visual hallucinations. Like dreams, these hallucinations are often nonsensical and jump around between different scenes, voices, music, places, etc., with no logical flow of events.
IMHO, this is the same thing the brain is doing during normal REM sleep, only in this state the brain is conscious and awake, able to observe exactly what's going on during REM sleep. Sometimes it's interesting to "watch" what's going on in my brain. But most of the time I just try to get myself out of this state, 'cause it's scary:)
Some of the scenes and voices are snippets of events from that day or recent days. Maybe the brain is loading this information off some storage in order to process it and file it away, like the author says.
After that... there can be some weird stuff... out of body things... etc... which is getting a little offtopic.... there's quite a bit of info on sleep paralysis on the net.
About a year and a half ago I started playing xjewel for hours at a time...then I'd go to school and bring up a remote X window and play it all day as well. I had several dreams involving the "concepts" behind xjewel, such as solving certain problems or arranging situations such that "similar" objects were next to each other, so that they'd be "solved", and disappear.
Unrelatedly, I'm wondering if anyone else with an imperfect grasp of a foreign language (whatever is foreign to you) has dreams in which other people appear to be speaking the language better than you yourself are able to. I've had dreams in which people appear to speak fluent Japanese, a language of which I have quite some knowledge, but not fluency. If the brain was storing and replaying different parts of my life involving Japanese language (and there are such things), then... I dunno. Perhaps an interesting experiment would be to let someone with a memory deficit like amnesia or something more severe listen to objects being named in some language unknown to them. I'd like to see whether these people could recall that an "apple" is also called a "ringo", and yet not know where they picked up this information...
I've heard the same thing about not being able to read. I'm not sure if I *really* read in my dreams, or if (because it's a dream) I just "know" what it's saying ahead of time, so I just think I can read.
I know for certain I have difficulty writing in dreams. I remember becoming frustrated, because I knew I was just writing simple things, and I couldn't figure out why I sucked so bad at writing (ie, "Wait... that word doesn't end in a 'd'... nor does it start in a 'k'! I don't remember writing a 'k'.. and now I messed up writing the 'e' twice! I suck so bad!"):)
Um, it's actually a USB+Video4Linux+3Dfx+NAT thing... though most of them are available to a lesser degree in 2.2 (ie, USB backport, 3Dfx drivers from 3Dfx), I really prefer the 2.4 stuff, esp. NAT.
Indeed!.. though my roommate might get a little pissed if the connection goes out on him in the middle of diablo II again:) Maybe when the tests get into double digits I'll try it again, but until then it's 2.2, and I'll stick to running test kernels on my own machine (which aside from occasional X lockups with windowed stressed-out GL, runs quite well).
Well... though you could say "Here's the kernel!", and hand out modules separately, that could easily become difficult to manage, especially if there are significant kernel/module changes.
And yes, there are many many new devices supported in 2.4 (as opposed to 2.2). I've been using test8 at home on one machine for quite a while with no difficulties at all. However, there are still problems (tried to set up another box as a dhcp/masquerade/firewall, but it panics after 1-2 hours of operation).
And hey, putting everything together is in the monolithic style.
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Troll? Ok, whatever. I'm responding to my own post, because I think most people missed the point here.
The thing is, no, *you* downloading a CD from Napster and burning it doesn't affect a thing. The problem is when *everyone* downloads CDs from Napster and burns them.
So then, I restate my opinion with, "What if everyone downloaded CDs from Napster and burned them, then was just too damn lazy to find a way to pay the artist for their music?"
Or in terms some other guy up there used, "What if someone spent a whole lot of money to design and manufacture a car, then everyone came along with cloning devices and got nice cloned cars?"
Yes, everyone. That's the nature of the problem. Not you in particular, but everyone.
Another thing... the only thing "stealing" CDs by burning them from Napster "tells" the RIAA is that you're a thief, and so they're going to try to plug the hole in their system, which is what we see now. They don't see it as some kind of rebellion against high CD prices, unfortunately.
If you really think CD prices are too high, I'm sure there's a used CD store somewhere around you. Buy from there, or just don't buy from RIAA-affiliated labels at all (kinda hard to do, but my personal solution).
So... if instead of banning Napster, the RIAA looked for ways to lower CD prices (which shouldn't be too hard, obviously), then might we see an increase in CD sales and a decrease in Napster use?
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Yes, they are responsible for quite a few greedy laws and egocentrical practices, but they do have a right to protect their interests (money), and to misphrase someone, one should never argue with a major corporation when death is on the line.
The majority of the people I know use services like Napster to download music etc. that they never have any intention of paying for. Comments like, "I haven't had to buy a CD in months!" abound. So, here the commons problem gets tested en masse, and the greedy short-sighted people screw us all over.
To those of us who who've got every album released in the last month filed away on a RAID somewhere, you are dumb. The correct solution to "CD prices are too high 'cause of the RIAA!" is not, "...soooo I'll steal 'em!"
Napster does not work. There will be another solution. It might be SDMI. That would be bad. Unfortunately, with the way online distribution has been going so far, we're not giving them many choices.
I've got one of these. I think they're supposed to last ~two years. I've had mine for five now, and it's still 'working'. Actually, now there's a new shrimp (meaning, reproduction, not adding a new one).
In regards to getting the *exact* page the searcher wants, that's compounded more by the fact that different people interpret things in different ways.
I'd like to see a search engine which 'profiles' an individual user in an attempt to improve search results. And that segues nicely into the next paragraph:
Ideas like this exist to some extent, but unfortunately all the ones I've seen are of the targetted advertisement variety (gross..). It seems any kind of profiling ability eventually ends up being used for ads. Are there any search engines out there that keep track of preferences like this, becoming more accurate over time, and without any pornographic vampire junk mail distributors lurking in the background?
It'd be nice to combine the personalization of intelligent agents with the vast databases of major search engines...
When I took his class, there was no mention of anything other than gcc/sun cc (as the labs were [back then] mostly sunstations). The previous version of his textbook was not tied specifically to any compiler or IDE.
I wonder, then, for the change to codewarrior. Who benefits from a deal like this? The company, by having their IDE pushed into the malleable minds of 1st-year CSE students? Does the professor/university receive some sort of kickback?
Mayhap I'll head over to AP&M and ask the Man himself.
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Java is most certainly used in a number of mathematically-intensive applications. See CERN's Colt library, for example. Quite useful, asshole .
Now let's see...
1. Java is far too slow.--no, it's not. Stupid Java is slow, but you shouldn't be writing Java if you're stupid.
2. All the math libs are already written in Fortran and C, and nobody wants to port.--right, except CERN and a veritable half-ton of other nobodies. Be way of all those "two-dimensional matrix" libraries out there, though. Most suck, like you.
3. Most scientists are not fancy programers and don't care too much about OO, garbage collection, and other frills.--I see. Then I must work with some damn rare, unusual scientists. Or maybe it's just that you don't know what you're talking about.
The End, Hooray!
I did this for MS-DOS as a nethack-style game. Files were items that you could pick up and move around to other levels (directories) and had various abilities depending on the nature of the file. But the monsters could use files too and destroy the system. Chaotic fun! No one liked it much.
Also, their English grammar is tragicomically bad (ie, in MandrakeUpdate).
By the way, if anyone has the libstdc++-devel rpm from the days of 7.1...
What these ads are really saying is, "Love, Peace, Linux, and a legion of happy IBM lapdogs." It seems so cheap and petty to use these ideals to hawk their cheesy wares.
Go fuck yourself, IBM.
Ah, but if only I could find the passage where the number pi is stated to be exactly 3. I believe it's either in Deuteronomy or Numbers.
Does IE support streaming JPEGs yet?
And, in scene 22, that woman was wearing a "Miramar" hat. As anyone could tell you, the Miramar (San Diego, CA) base is a Marine base, whilst she claimed to be from the Navy.
And might I finally add, the modem-turned-walkie-talkie needed to be within a 100m range of the Sojourner base in order to operate, yet our hero was able to use it effectively well beyond 100km from the base.
In conclusion, Worst Movie Ever.
This reminds me of the one case a whole ton of years ago when someone added a set of instructions to some cc which would automatically add a backdoor into any generated code.
There are all sorts of hidden things that any OS or program can do... the problem is to minimize risk; you can't eliminate it.
I tend to agree. There's an interesting condition out there known as "sleep paralysis", in which the body begins to fall asleep, but the brain remains conscious. The first thing that happens (for me, anyway) is a sense of hallucinating. Or, possibly more accurately described as being able to concentrate and imagine something in extreme detail. The image my brain gets through my closed eyes is still black, but somewhere inside the brain, I can *see* something very, very clearly, as if it was right in front of me.
After a few minutes (or more) of that, the brain begins to shut down the neural connections to muscles. This prevents the body from "acting out" any dreams. I'm not sure how it accomplishes this task, but there must be some kind of inhibitor or something, I suppose. At any rate, after this it is no longer possible to move any muscle in my body without a *great deal* of exertion. Being able to move actually brings me out of this state and back to full awakeness.
After this, I start to experience first auditory hallucinations, then later visual hallucinations. Like dreams, these hallucinations are often nonsensical and jump around between different scenes, voices, music, places, etc., with no logical flow of events.
IMHO, this is the same thing the brain is doing during normal REM sleep, only in this state the brain is conscious and awake, able to observe exactly what's going on during REM sleep. Sometimes it's interesting to "watch" what's going on in my brain. But most of the time I just try to get myself out of this state, 'cause it's scary :)
Some of the scenes and voices are snippets of events from that day or recent days. Maybe the brain is loading this information off some storage in order to process it and file it away, like the author says.
After that... there can be some weird stuff... out of body things... etc... which is getting a little offtopic.... there's quite a bit of info on sleep paralysis on the net.
Unrelatedly, I'm wondering if anyone else with an imperfect grasp of a foreign language (whatever is foreign to you) has dreams in which other people appear to be speaking the language better than you yourself are able to. I've had dreams in which people appear to speak fluent Japanese, a language of which I have quite some knowledge, but not fluency. If the brain was storing and replaying different parts of my life involving Japanese language (and there are such things), then... I dunno. Perhaps an interesting experiment would be to let someone with a memory deficit like amnesia or something more severe listen to objects being named in some language unknown to them. I'd like to see whether these people could recall that an "apple" is also called a "ringo", and yet not know where they picked up this information...
I know for certain I have difficulty writing in dreams. I remember becoming frustrated, because I knew I was just writing simple things, and I couldn't figure out why I sucked so bad at writing (ie, "Wait... that word doesn't end in a 'd'... nor does it start in a 'k'! I don't remember writing a 'k'.. and now I messed up writing the 'e' twice! I suck so bad!") :)
Um, it's actually a USB+Video4Linux+3Dfx+NAT thing... though most of them are available to a lesser degree in 2.2 (ie, USB backport, 3Dfx drivers from 3Dfx), I really prefer the 2.4 stuff, esp. NAT.
Indeed! .. though my roommate might get a little pissed if the connection goes out on him in the middle of diablo II again :) Maybe when the tests get into double digits I'll try it again, but until then it's 2.2, and I'll stick to running test kernels on my own machine (which aside from occasional X lockups with windowed stressed-out GL, runs quite well).
And yes, there are many many new devices supported in 2.4 (as opposed to 2.2). I've been using test8 at home on one machine for quite a while with no difficulties at all. However, there are still problems (tried to set up another box as a dhcp/masquerade/firewall, but it panics after 1-2 hours of operation).
And hey, putting everything together is in the monolithic style.
The thing is, no, *you* downloading a CD from Napster and burning it doesn't affect a thing. The problem is when *everyone* downloads CDs from Napster and burns them.
So then, I restate my opinion with, "What if everyone downloaded CDs from Napster and burned them, then was just too damn lazy to find a way to pay the artist for their music?"
Or in terms some other guy up there used, "What if someone spent a whole lot of money to design and manufacture a car, then everyone came along with cloning devices and got nice cloned cars?"
Yes, everyone. That's the nature of the problem. Not you in particular, but everyone.
Another thing... the only thing "stealing" CDs by burning them from Napster "tells" the RIAA is that you're a thief, and so they're going to try to plug the hole in their system, which is what we see now. They don't see it as some kind of rebellion against high CD prices, unfortunately.
If you really think CD prices are too high, I'm sure there's a used CD store somewhere around you. Buy from there, or just don't buy from RIAA-affiliated labels at all (kinda hard to do, but my personal solution).
So... if instead of banning Napster, the RIAA looked for ways to lower CD prices (which shouldn't be too hard, obviously), then might we see an increase in CD sales and a decrease in Napster use?
The majority of the people I know use services like Napster to download music etc. that they never have any intention of paying for. Comments like, "I haven't had to buy a CD in months!" abound. So, here the commons problem gets tested en masse, and the greedy short-sighted people screw us all over.
To those of us who who've got every album released in the last month filed away on a RAID somewhere, you are dumb. The correct solution to "CD prices are too high 'cause of the RIAA!" is not, "...soooo I'll steal 'em!"
Napster does not work. There will be another solution. It might be SDMI. That would be bad. Unfortunately, with the way online distribution has been going so far, we're not giving them many choices.
I've got one of these. I think they're supposed to last ~two years. I've had mine for five now, and it's still 'working'. Actually, now there's a new shrimp (meaning, reproduction, not adding a new one).
I'd like to see a search engine which 'profiles' an individual user in an attempt to improve search results. And that segues nicely into the next paragraph:
Ideas like this exist to some extent, but unfortunately all the ones I've seen are of the targetted advertisement variety (gross..). It seems any kind of profiling ability eventually ends up being used for ads. Are there any search engines out there that keep track of preferences like this, becoming more accurate over time, and without any pornographic vampire junk mail distributors lurking in the background?
It'd be nice to combine the personalization of intelligent agents with the vast databases of major search engines...
I believe it's the 'Super Street Nvidia GeForce II Champion Edition'.
...when I first saw that headline, I thought it read "Nookie Media Terminal". Now THAT would be interesting...
When I took his class, there was no mention of anything other than gcc/sun cc (as the labs were [back then] mostly sunstations). The previous version of his textbook was not tied specifically to any compiler or IDE.
I wonder, then, for the change to codewarrior. Who benefits from a deal like this? The company, by having their IDE pushed into the malleable minds of 1st-year CSE students? Does the professor/university receive some sort of kickback?
Mayhap I'll head over to AP&M and ask the Man himself.
"hey! maybe mafiaboy is symbolic of our teamwork!"
"hmm... nah, they said there'd be sandwiches."