Do not use Perl for this. I've been using Perl for 15-20 years, and I love it for "scripting", text processing, etc., but using it for scientific computing sounds like an exercise in masochism.
I have a friend who worked on his PhD in Physics with a combination of C and Perl. The C for the heavy compute intensive number crunching, and Perl for the final correlation and make-it-pretty part. That worked quite well for him, since he's a professor now.
I love how/. has truly grown up from being the "Voices From The Hellmouth" crowd to the "waaah, poor baby can't handle a little teasing" crowd. It's the classic "fuck you, got mine" but for advancing through life rather than up the income ladder. Where's the line for deserving sympathy, or even empathy? Does she have to shoot some classmates and THEN kill herself? Does she have to play video games first, and do people have to make that a public issue?
Poor people may not have much of a carbon footprint, but if there is no alternative to deforesting your island home, then the impact on the environment would be larger than just how much CO2 you produce.
You are allowed to complain about them deforesting when we move everyone out of the suburbs and reforest our own country to what it was.
Would you watch a Rocky movie if the boxing were as boring and silly-looking as a real professional boxing match (with most of the opponents time spent hugging each other)? Would you watch Mythbusters if they sent out all their results for months of peer-review? Would you watch House of Cards if almost of of the Senator's free time were spent at boring fundraiser dinners?
Bad science is not a requirement for "excitement." People don't fly backward when shot. Are you going to call Peckinpah's Wild Bunch a boring movie because of the realism? I guess there's one reason he found it impossible to work in Hollywood.
The number of people needed, and the time involved for a typical 15 seconds of video won't be possible in space for another hundred years.
There's a huge difference between the number needed and the number used. The number needed is one director with steady cam. The rest add production value, which is Hollywood is renowned for. But then I guess the modern viewer would never watch a movie like Clerks, with great story telling and characters, but low production values.
Can you imagine where this will go? Shelf notices that you're overweight and you picked up a candy bar? Screen says, "Are you sure you want to buy that?" This will work great until someone puts a sticker over the sensor bar.
You have that backwards. It will see that you are overweight, and suggest ice cream to go with that snickers. And for the next hour only, 10% off whipped cream.
Here's one. Take a list of crypto algorithms not recommended by the NSA (there are hundreds). Create an interface object, that calls underlying overloaded crypto algorithms at random, with a secret signature that only the library knows for which crypto algorithm was used. On decrypt, check the signature, and decrypt using the correct algorithm. Regularly seed honeypot false information messages through the system, and if any honeypot is acted upon by an outside agency, remove that encryption scheme from the DLL, re-randomize the crypto list, and release a new DLL to all authorized systems- can use the opportunity to add new routines in as well.
Yeah, you do that. That sounds like the spaz's solution to security. There is no solution that cannot be broken, this one more trivially than most. The only technique that cannot be cracked is to use code words. They can only be guessed, not solved.
It's uniformity for the sake of a pencil pusher's concept of uniformity - not for consumers.
Agreed. This is one of the most trivial issues to be concerned about. People piss away $5 a day on Starbucks and Red Bull, and they think that a $30 phone connector is going to somehow ruin them.
If I'm creating a document, I don't really care whether the encoding is HTML or RTF or docx or whatever, I just want it to look right, and Word does that.
Does it matter that there are other applications out there that are easier to use, produce better looking documents, and do this with a lot less work? I guess not. The mystical Microsoft has decreed it so.
What exactly makes Word so bad? It seems functional enough, and I fully admit that maybe I'm just not understanding the finer points of some programming strategies, so what's the deal?
Let's see, just a few off the top of my head: - Terrible flow control. It you change page one, have fun tweaking all the rest of the pages to get things to line up. - Lack of frame control. In order to create a large document or book with complicated multipage graphs or graphics, you need a strong set of rules for where to break up rows, etc. Not to mention the flow of any text around the frame. - Non-organic styles. There is no easy way to change the style of logical parts of the document globally, for example, change the size of the font on the headers of a certain class of tables over all chapters. Or to put it another way, global definitions plus exceptions.
Word users are just used to the constant re-treaking of pages to make them look right. Just another example of Microsoft office leading to massive wastage of man hours.
There's not a damn thing wrong with Microsoft Word. It is quite adequate--superb, even--for 99% of the people 99% of the time. I've written several 300 page books with it, including extensive indices, sidebars, tables, graphs, and pics and it works just fine.
Will you hate me if I tell you that you could have created that book in less than half the time with Framemaker, the best publishing application of it's time, damn you Adobe for abandoning it! One major problem with most Microsoft supporters is that they live with such blinders on. "Word is great" is synonymous with "I've only ever worked with Word and now know so many work arounds for all its deficiencies that I'll never change." Word and Excel have so much legacy cruft that I find them mostly unusable. In the words of Larry Wall, simple things should be simple, and hard things should be possible. I can't think of a single Microsoft application that follows that mantra.
You can choose not to use Facebook if you'd like, but you can't force your entire social circle to switch back to Cc:ing everyone e-mail invitations.
Is this a fucking joke? People had parties before the internet, you know. A couple of phone calls and a run out for snacks is all that it takes. I'd argue that texting and Facebook make the process a lot more complicated than it needs to be, or should be.
And they din't use the sonic screwdriver as a deux es machina to get out of any tricky situation, rather than the Doctor using his intelligence and wits. Today, the screwdriver is a euphemism for lazy, sloppy writing. No wonder John Nathan-Turner got rid of it in 1982!
Fuck John Nathan Turner and everything he did on Doctor Who. His tenure is directly responsible for the decline in viewers, immature sappy idiotic plot lines, and the eventual cancellation of the show. He took it from it's top rating during Tom Baker and trashed it with his arrogance. Talk about someone not listening to the fans. It was only that very last McCoy season when Turner had already abandoned the show that things started getting back on track, but by then it was too late.
Turner's sins: - Replacing a first class Shakespearian actor with a TV star pretty boy - Replacing intelligent strong companions with googley eyed teenagers - Getting rid of K-9 - Reversing everything that Douglas Adams tried to do to elevate the show to a new level - Putting celery on the Doctor, still a WTF
Not that I condone date rape or think he should get away with it... but 1 in 4 college women surveyed are victims of rape or attempted rape... how many UK rape victims could they have investigated with 5 million GPB?
One would think it would be pretty hard to justify that budget for keeping one penned up in an embassy for years on end over a sexual misconduct in another country for which the evidence ultimately amounts to he-said she-said.
My god. Where to even begin. If your numbers are to be believed, then prosecution is REQUIRED to change the situation, be it this one man, or any man. One problem is the stigma assigned to the victims in the US and UK. As long as men are allowed to laugh off sexual assault as business as usual, this is one shit culture that we live in.
The 10% includes those who have bisexual urges, but identify as heterosexual.
In that case, the number would be likely much higher. After all, if the Kinsey studies have shown one thing, it is that pure homosexuality is as rare as pure heterosexuality.
The Kinsey studies were flawed and debunked a while ago. Get with the times.
Seriously, why the hell hasn't this already been a thing? I regularly engage in therapy, 99% of it is just discussion. Very little, if any, would be unable to be reproduced digitally.
Then you are going to a worthless therapist. Most therapy is what you what you do the rest of the time. The time with the doctor is to diagnose and come up with things to work on, such as strategies to avoid triggers, introspection about relationships, changing attitudes and reactions, etc. You have to work at it. The doctor does not make you better. Only you can do that. I wish there were some screws in the back of my head that could be adjusted, but it doesn't work like that.
Okay Google, that's just not nice. That's a slap in the face. So I'm not gonna be nice in my reply to you either. Everyone -- if you have a security vulnerability in a google product; Sell it on the black market. You can easily get a hundred grand for a popular product.
Reminds me of the referral bonus they offered at a place I worked a while ago. The bonus was $500. However they were willing to pay $25,000 to a head hunter for the same service. Needless to say, not many people bothered to take them up on it.
That's not really an Android problem, is it? You circumvented the controls by downloading a shady app from an unaccreditied source. Don't blame Android for your own stupidity.
Android users can't have it both ways. Is the walled garden good or bad? I guess it's only bad if you are not as "smart" as the poster.
The spies whine and spin it their way. If what they were doing was so innocuous, uncontroversial and even beneficial then they would be happy to be praised in the press. The fact is what they ware doing is deeply offensive to a large segment of society and they wish to hide it.
One thing we need to realize, is that it's not the spies, it's their handlers. Homeland Security in the US is completely owned by large corporations that get most of their expenditure. Remember, most spooks are contractors now. They are not even government employees. I suspect that MI# is a bit different, with the money being handles more by the old school network of people with titles, but the result is the same. If the spies are embarrassed, they lose their cash cow.
What is this besides a gimmick? How does a curved screen make anything better? Is there anyone out there who ever said, "this would be much better if only the screen were curved?" Answers are "nothing," "it doesn't," and "no."
Actually, the average America works more hours per year than the average Japanese by about ~40 hours. The times vary from year to year. Last year (2012) it was 45 hours, but in 2011, it was over 60. Go see for yourself:
In Japan, the APPEARANCE of working long hours is of utmost importance. However, there is no stigma against sleeping at your desk. I'm not joking. Sleeping at your desk shows how hard you work that you are so tired. They also take very long breaks and lunches. So it's not about actual work. It's more about getting in before the boss and leaving after the boss leaves, but not about actually working hard.
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Perl is still in wide use.
Do not use Perl for this. I've been using Perl for 15-20 years, and I love it for "scripting", text processing, etc., but using it for scientific computing sounds like an exercise in masochism.
I have a friend who worked on his PhD in Physics with a combination of C and Perl. The C for the heavy compute intensive number crunching, and Perl for the final correlation and make-it-pretty part. That worked quite well for him, since he's a professor now.
I love how /. has truly grown up from being the "Voices From The Hellmouth" crowd to the "waaah, poor baby can't handle a little teasing" crowd. It's the classic "fuck you, got mine" but for advancing through life rather than up the income ladder. Where's the line for deserving sympathy, or even empathy? Does she have to shoot some classmates and THEN kill herself? Does she have to play video games first, and do people have to make that a public issue?
The Truth about De-Evolution.
Poor people may not have much of a carbon footprint, but if there is no alternative to deforesting your island home, then the impact on the environment would be larger than just how much CO2 you produce.
You are allowed to complain about them deforesting when we move everyone out of the suburbs and reforest our own country to what it was.
Would you watch a Rocky movie if the boxing were as boring and silly-looking as a real professional boxing match (with most of the opponents time spent hugging each other)? Would you watch Mythbusters if they sent out all their results for months of peer-review? Would you watch House of Cards if almost of of the Senator's free time were spent at boring fundraiser dinners?
Bad science is not a requirement for "excitement." People don't fly backward when shot. Are you going to call Peckinpah's Wild Bunch a boring movie because of the realism? I guess there's one reason he found it impossible to work in Hollywood.
Have you ever been near a film shoot?
The number of people needed, and the time involved for a typical 15 seconds of video won't be possible in space for another hundred years.
There's a huge difference between the number needed and the number used. The number needed is one director with steady cam. The rest add production value, which is Hollywood is renowned for. But then I guess the modern viewer would never watch a movie like Clerks, with great story telling and characters, but low production values.
Can you imagine where this will go? Shelf notices that you're overweight and you picked up a candy bar? Screen says, "Are you sure you want to buy that?" This will work great until someone puts a sticker over the sensor bar.
You have that backwards. It will see that you are overweight, and suggest ice cream to go with that snickers. And for the next hour only, 10% off whipped cream.
Here's one. Take a list of crypto algorithms not recommended by the NSA (there are hundreds). Create an interface object, that calls underlying overloaded crypto algorithms at random, with a secret signature that only the library knows for which crypto algorithm was used. On decrypt, check the signature, and decrypt using the correct algorithm. Regularly seed honeypot false information messages through the system, and if any honeypot is acted upon by an outside agency, remove that encryption scheme from the DLL, re-randomize the crypto list, and release a new DLL to all authorized systems- can use the opportunity to add new routines in as well.
Yeah, you do that. That sounds like the spaz's solution to security. There is no solution that cannot be broken, this one more trivially than most. The only technique that cannot be cracked is to use code words. They can only be guessed, not solved.
It's uniformity for the sake of a pencil pusher's concept of uniformity - not for consumers.
Agreed. This is one of the most trivial issues to be concerned about. People piss away $5 a day on Starbucks and Red Bull, and they think that a $30 phone connector is going to somehow ruin them.
These are not what everyone is imagining. The Nazis did this 60 years ago.
If I'm creating a document, I don't really care whether the encoding is HTML or RTF or docx or whatever, I just want it to look right, and Word does that.
Does it matter that there are other applications out there that are easier to use, produce better looking documents, and do this with a lot less work? I guess not. The mystical Microsoft has decreed it so.
What exactly makes Word so bad? It seems functional enough, and I fully admit that maybe I'm just not understanding the finer points of some programming strategies, so what's the deal?
Let's see, just a few off the top of my head:
- Terrible flow control. It you change page one, have fun tweaking all the rest of the pages to get things to line up.
- Lack of frame control. In order to create a large document or book with complicated multipage graphs or graphics, you need a strong set of rules for where to break up rows, etc. Not to mention the flow of any text around the frame.
- Non-organic styles. There is no easy way to change the style of logical parts of the document globally, for example, change the size of the font on the headers of a certain class of tables over all chapters. Or to put it another way, global definitions plus exceptions.
Word users are just used to the constant re-treaking of pages to make them look right. Just another example of Microsoft office leading to massive wastage of man hours.
There's not a damn thing wrong with Microsoft Word. It is quite adequate--superb, even--for 99% of the people 99% of the time. I've written several 300 page books with it, including extensive indices, sidebars, tables, graphs, and pics and it works just fine.
Will you hate me if I tell you that you could have created that book in less than half the time with Framemaker, the best publishing application of it's time, damn you Adobe for abandoning it! One major problem with most Microsoft supporters is that they live with such blinders on. "Word is great" is synonymous with "I've only ever worked with Word and now know so many work arounds for all its deficiencies that I'll never change." Word and Excel have so much legacy cruft that I find them mostly unusable. In the words of Larry Wall, simple things should be simple, and hard things should be possible. I can't think of a single Microsoft application that follows that mantra.
You can choose not to use Facebook if you'd like, but you can't force your entire social circle to switch back to Cc:ing everyone e-mail invitations.
Is this a fucking joke? People had parties before the internet, you know. A couple of phone calls and a run out for snacks is all that it takes. I'd argue that texting and Facebook make the process a lot more complicated than it needs to be, or should be.
it jumped 1%. that's hardly significant. in fact, that's just pretty regular. this is a stupid article. who the hell approves this crap?
I wouldn't mind a daily 1% increase in my wealth.
When Obama vetoes this, will it still be Bush's fault?
The guy who created it, or the guy who didn't get rid of it? Yes, it's Bush's fault for giving Obama such a nasty toy to play with.
Personally, I hadn't been running any updates, but if I did, I would be going back, wiping my machines, and re-installing.
DNS hijacking has nothing to do with server access.
And they din't use the sonic screwdriver as a deux es machina to get out of any tricky situation, rather than the Doctor using his intelligence and wits. Today, the screwdriver is a euphemism for lazy, sloppy writing. No wonder John Nathan-Turner got rid of it in 1982!
Fuck John Nathan Turner and everything he did on Doctor Who. His tenure is directly responsible for the decline in viewers, immature sappy idiotic plot lines, and the eventual cancellation of the show. He took it from it's top rating during Tom Baker and trashed it with his arrogance. Talk about someone not listening to the fans. It was only that very last McCoy season when Turner had already abandoned the show that things started getting back on track, but by then it was too late.
Turner's sins:
- Replacing a first class Shakespearian actor with a TV star pretty boy
- Replacing intelligent strong companions with googley eyed teenagers
- Getting rid of K-9
- Reversing everything that Douglas Adams tried to do to elevate the show to a new level
- Putting celery on the Doctor, still a WTF
Not that I condone date rape or think he should get away with it... but 1 in 4 college women surveyed are victims of rape or attempted rape... how many UK rape victims could they have investigated with 5 million GPB?
One would think it would be pretty hard to justify that budget for keeping one penned up in an embassy for years on end over a sexual misconduct in another country for which the evidence ultimately amounts to he-said she-said.
My god. Where to even begin. If your numbers are to be believed, then prosecution is REQUIRED to change the situation, be it this one man, or any man. One problem is the stigma assigned to the victims in the US and UK. As long as men are allowed to laugh off sexual assault as business as usual, this is one shit culture that we live in.
The 10% includes those who have bisexual urges, but identify as heterosexual.
In that case, the number would be likely much higher. After all, if the Kinsey studies have shown one thing, it is that pure homosexuality is as rare as pure heterosexuality.
The Kinsey studies were flawed and debunked a while ago. Get with the times.
Seriously, why the hell hasn't this already been a thing? I regularly engage in therapy, 99% of it is just discussion. Very little, if any, would be unable to be reproduced digitally.
Then you are going to a worthless therapist. Most therapy is what you what you do the rest of the time. The time with the doctor is to diagnose and come up with things to work on, such as strategies to avoid triggers, introspection about relationships, changing attitudes and reactions, etc. You have to work at it. The doctor does not make you better. Only you can do that. I wish there were some screws in the back of my head that could be adjusted, but it doesn't work like that.
Okay Google, that's just not nice. That's a slap in the face. So I'm not gonna be nice in my reply to you either. Everyone -- if you have a security vulnerability in a google product; Sell it on the black market. You can easily get a hundred grand for a popular product.
Reminds me of the referral bonus they offered at a place I worked a while ago. The bonus was $500. However they were willing to pay $25,000 to a head hunter for the same service. Needless to say, not many people bothered to take them up on it.
That's not really an Android problem, is it? You circumvented the controls by downloading a shady app from an unaccreditied source. Don't blame Android for your own stupidity.
Android users can't have it both ways. Is the walled garden good or bad? I guess it's only bad if you are not as "smart" as the poster.
The spies whine and spin it their way. If what they were doing was so innocuous, uncontroversial and even beneficial then they would be happy to be praised in the press. The fact is what they ware doing is deeply offensive to a large segment of society and they wish to hide it.
One thing we need to realize, is that it's not the spies, it's their handlers. Homeland Security in the US is completely owned by large corporations that get most of their expenditure. Remember, most spooks are contractors now. They are not even government employees. I suspect that MI# is a bit different, with the money being handles more by the old school network of people with titles, but the result is the same. If the spies are embarrassed, they lose their cash cow.
What is this besides a gimmick? How does a curved screen make anything better? Is there anyone out there who ever said, "this would be much better if only the screen were curved?" Answers are "nothing," "it doesn't," and "no."
Actually, the average America works more hours per year than the average Japanese by about ~40 hours. The times vary from year to year. Last year (2012) it was 45 hours, but in 2011, it was over 60. Go see for yourself:
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS
In Japan, the APPEARANCE of working long hours is of utmost importance. However, there is no stigma against sleeping at your desk. I'm not joking. Sleeping at your desk shows how hard you work that you are so tired. They also take very long breaks and lunches. So it's not about actual work. It's more about getting in before the boss and leaving after the boss leaves, but not about actually working hard.