In USSR, in late 80's - early 90's there was a mainframe of original Soviet design called Elbrus-B, a successor to BESM-6 - the workhorse of the Soviet space, scientific and military computing. To provide smooth transition from the proprietary OS of BESM-6 to UNIX (the sources of Version 7 were available), a so called Dispatcher of Virtual Systems (DVS) was designed and implemented. The feature set was exactly the same. Unfortunately, unlike BESM-6 that was on par with the U.S. computers of the time, Elbrus-B was way behind, and did not last long, especially after 1991.
DVS had an extremely tight and elegant interface, and porting both operating systems to it was quite straightforward. Xen is pretty much the same thing for x86. Therefore I dub Xen the Dispatcher of Virtual Systems for x86!
Incidentally, there is a book "Etudes for programmers" (C) 1978 Charles Wetherell that contains a chapter on decrypting Vigenere encryption, including a cryptotext as an exercise.
It was published in Russia in 1983 or 1984 and provided amusement and inspiration to many a young programmer. The translators had to decrypt the original English text (discovering that the algorithm proposed by Wetherell was faulty), and to re-encrypt its Russian translation.
Many moons ago I wrote a program to decrypt that text, including the search for the key; here the key - MEDUSA - was provided). Unfortunately, the source had been lost, but I remember that it took about 3 minutes for a 9 MHz computer to solve it. No big deal, in other words.
"Without stating any opinion regarding the content or artistic quality of , I recommend you to refrain from visiting any movie house at times the movie is shown there. I may have an irrational fear for your physical and/or mental health." Let's see them banning people from expressing their irrational fears! It will amount to abolishing religion.
In the USA, life expectancy increased 60% from 1900 to 2000. In Italy, 80%. In Japan, 80%. In Mexico, 120%.
We are already living in an age of radical life extension compared to previous generations. A much higher percentage of the population lives to 60, 80, or 100 than used to. And I don't see a lot of people clamoring to roll back life extancy from 75+ years to 45.
What most people forget is that all these numbers are for life expectancy at birth. When the infant mortality is high, it is very easy to bring that life expectancy up 100% by fixing the infant mortality problem.
Reducing deaths during childbirth brings the average life expectancy up another notch while doing zilch for men. Avoiding world wars does the same for men, and is of little use (numerically only, of course) to women.
That is to say, the real life expectancy (average age of adults at natural death) did not increase much during the last century; 30% I'll take, but hardly more.
Using your e-mail address as From to send spam to you is old news. A new technique is to go to Google groups and find who are your 'discussion buddies', then sending you spam disguised as mail from those buddies. I've seen it happening.
If the phone order sales will not be taxed, it is all moot. It is easy to avoid the "online sales" trap by creating "personalized sets of merchandise" online, receiving a one-time unique number, then actually ordering that "personalized set" by phone via an 800 number. The transaction was authorized BY PHONE!!! Period.
The "Worst Abuse 2001" entry at abuses the rules not because it is a compiler to x86 native code, but because it jumps to the code it produced, expecting it to execute, and therefore dumps core on any architecture but x86.
They know that. The blind people can call a phone number and assert that they are blind. An ALT tag that explains the purpose of the picture and mentions the phone number will be enough.
Unlike a ball, a source tree can be copied for free. And the fact that he alludes to that difference ("you are entitled to your own tree"), proves that he is not childish a bit.
Cops now might pick up someone for Driving while Black but a machine wouldn't differentiate between the lunatic going 125 and the man rushing to get his
dying wife to the hospital.
If I were the King, both would have paid an equal modest fee (NOT fine) for excessive speed, which is, I believe, quite fair as far as no damage was done, nor evedence of imminent damage because of the reckless manner of driving was demonstrated, by either. I don't care who or why someone goes 125 (mph, I presume) as far as he (to hell with the PC!) does it safely. The speed itself is no indication of recklessness, as the example with the dying wife demonstrated. And some people may be able to drive fast, but carefully, even without a dying person present in the car.
Re:Well, I guess that's how Fascism takes root....
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He DID NOT say anything about gay people. Because he did not mind the nazis coming for the gays.
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First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.
- Martin Niemöller
I'm so sick of this quote! What is actually missing (and quite notably for those who know the history), is "Then they came for the gays".
Do you know why it is missing? Because the guy would need to continue "and I did not speak out - Because I was all for it". He was a religious type, opportunistic when it suits him, and whiny when it does not.
Re:The Deaf should learn to speak with their mouth
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There is no reason, with lots of hard work and patience that a deaf people (especially starting as young childern) cannot learn to speak properly using their voice and mouth.
There is no reason gay people cannot learn (with lots of hard work, especially starting as young children) to pretend to enjoy copulating with the opposite sex.
The whole "Deaf Culture" movement that encourages deaf people to make themselves distinct (by not speaking or reading lips) from the "Hearing" people is
terrible.
The whole "gay culture" movement that encourages gay people to make themselves distinct (by not copulating with the opposite sex) from the "straight" people is
terrible.
If a deaf person can learn to speak and read lips they can get along extremely well, almost unnoticed in everyday life.
If a gay person can learn to pretend to enjoy copulating with the opposite sex they can get along extremely well, almost unnoticed in everyday life.
Actually, there is a reason for neither of the two happening: the gains (of being almost unnoticed in everyday life) do not outweigh the sacrifices (hard work and patience learning how to do something extremely discomforting, especially starting as young children).
Re:Valgrid is not as complete as Purify
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There are two important features of Purify that are most notably absent in valgrind: - the ability to specify user's memory allocators/deallocators (it is mentioned in the documentation, though) - the ability to detect array bound violations (Purify's ABR/ABW).
You decide which of the two is more important for you.
The allocators are broken in my opinion. Using (different) customized
allocators prevents interactions between your containers.
I believe it is a good thing, otherwise things may get error-prone.
There is another problem with allocators and STL: the standard does not require that the allocator-provided pointer types be used; so no matter what smart pointers you're using in 64-bit mode in your classes to reduce memory consumption, the STL containers may still use the basic 64-bit pointers. Some implementations are good, some are not so good, and trying to use STLport, IMHO, is a pain.
It looks more and more like the American society, with the corporations suing
or attempting to sue the consumers and their competitors, forgets a simple rule:
dependence does not guarantee entitlement.
The advertizers are not entitled
to having their ads undisturbed in movies just because they depend on it; the producers and distributors of the audiovisual entertainment are not entitled to perpetual copyright just because they need money, etc., etc.
If frowning is used as trigger, then Grampa Simpson's phrase "to give somebody the frowning of their life" will get a new meaning.
The funniest algorithm
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The funniest, while quite deep, algorithm is a text compression (or, rather, transformation) algorithm called Burrows-Wheeler Transform. It is quite a surprizing realization that you can write the letters of a message in a somewhat "sorted" way, but it is still possible to restore the message. The algorithm
was only invented in the 1980's, but it is so simple and cute that even (bright) children can understand it and use it for "cryptograms". I am somewhat surprized that it was not invented earlier.
Speaking of sorting, the scientists contemporary to Galileo used it to "patent" their yet unverified ideas and hypotheses by publishing a "one-way hash" of the statement describing the idea by alphabetically sorting the letters of that statement. E.g. a hypothesis "Mars has two satellites" will be "Aaaeehillmorsssstttw". Of course, to be secure, the statement must be much longer.
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Just to bring things in perspective:
In USSR, in late 80's - early 90's there was a mainframe of original Soviet design called Elbrus-B, a successor to BESM-6 - the workhorse of the Soviet space, scientific and military computing. To provide smooth transition from the proprietary OS of BESM-6 to UNIX (the sources of Version 7 were available), a so called Dispatcher of Virtual Systems (DVS) was designed and implemented. The feature set was exactly the same. Unfortunately,
unlike BESM-6 that was on par with the U.S. computers of the time, Elbrus-B was way behind, and did not last long, especially after 1991.
DVS had an extremely tight and elegant interface, and porting both operating systems to it was quite straightforward. Xen is pretty much the same thing for x86. Therefore I dub Xen the Dispatcher of Virtual Systems for x86!
Incidentally, there is a book "Etudes for programmers" (C) 1978 Charles Wetherell that contains a chapter on decrypting Vigenere encryption, including a cryptotext as an exercise.
It was published in Russia in 1983 or 1984 and provided amusement and inspiration to many a young programmer. The translators had to decrypt the original English text (discovering that the algorithm proposed by Wetherell was faulty), and to re-encrypt its Russian translation.
Many moons ago I wrote a program to decrypt that text, including the search for the key; here the key - MEDUSA - was provided). Unfortunately, the source had been lost, but I remember that it took about 3 minutes for a 9 MHz computer to solve it.
No big deal, in other words.
"Without stating any opinion regarding the content or artistic quality of , I recommend you to refrain from visiting any movie house at times the movie is shown there. I may have an irrational fear for your physical and/or mental health." Let's see them banning people from expressing their irrational fears! It will amount to abolishing religion.
What most people forget is that all these numbers are for life expectancy at birth. When the infant mortality is high, it is very easy to bring that life expectancy up 100% by fixing the infant mortality problem.
Reducing deaths during childbirth brings the average life expectancy up another notch while doing zilch for men. Avoiding world wars does the same for men, and is of little use (numerically only, of course) to women.
That is to say, the real life expectancy (average age of adults at natural death) did not increase much during the last century; 30% I'll take, but hardly more.
Using your e-mail address as From to send spam to you is old news. A new technique is to go to Google groups and find who are your 'discussion buddies', then sending you spam disguised as mail from those buddies. I've seen it happening.
Alt-Fx to switch consoles first appeared in Microsoft Xenix, AFAIK. So, in all fairness, Microsoft should win.
As far as it is positive, there is nothing to whine about.
Shouldn't it be either a rotten partially eaten apple (note no comma), or a partially eaten, rotten apple?
If the phone order sales will not be taxed, it is all moot.
It is easy to avoid the "online sales" trap
by creating "personalized sets of merchandise" online, receiving a one-time unique number, then actually ordering that "personalized set" by phone via an 800 number. The transaction was authorized BY PHONE!!! Period.
The "Worst Abuse 2001" entry at abuses the rules not because it is a compiler to x86 native code, but because it jumps to the code it produced, expecting it to execute, and therefore dumps core on any architecture but x86.
They know that. The blind people can call a phone number and assert that they are blind. An ALT tag that explains the purpose of the picture and mentions the phone number will be enough.
Unlike a ball, a source tree can be copied for free. And the fact that he alludes to that difference ("you are entitled to your own tree"), proves that he is not childish a bit.
If I were the King, both would have paid an equal modest fee (NOT fine) for excessive speed, which is, I believe, quite fair as far as no damage was done, nor evedence of imminent damage because of the reckless manner of driving was demonstrated, by either. I don't care who or why someone goes 125 (mph, I presume) as far as he (to hell with the PC!) does it safely. The speed itself is no indication of recklessness, as the example with the dying wife demonstrated. And some people may be able to drive fast, but carefully, even without a dying person present in the car.
He DID NOT say anything about gay people. Because he did not mind the nazis coming for the gays.
I'm so sick of this quote! What is actually missing (and quite notably for those who know the history), is
"Then they came for the gays".
Do you know why it is missing? Because the guy would need to continue
"and I did not speak out - Because I was all for it".
He was a religious type, opportunistic when it suits him, and whiny when it does not.
There is no reason, with lots of hard work and patience that a deaf people (especially starting as young childern) cannot learn to speak properly using their voice and mouth.
There is no reason gay people cannot learn (with lots of hard work, especially starting as young children) to pretend to enjoy copulating with the opposite sex.
The whole "Deaf Culture" movement that encourages deaf people to make themselves distinct (by not speaking or reading lips) from the "Hearing" people is terrible.
The whole "gay culture" movement that encourages gay people to make themselves distinct (by not copulating with the opposite sex) from the "straight" people is terrible.
If a deaf person can learn to speak and read lips they can get along extremely well, almost unnoticed in everyday life.
If a gay person can learn to pretend to enjoy copulating with the opposite sex they can get along extremely well, almost unnoticed in everyday life.
Actually, there is a reason for neither of the two happening: the gains (of being almost unnoticed in everyday life) do not outweigh the sacrifices (hard work and patience learning how to do something extremely discomforting, especially starting as young children).
There are two important features of Purify that are most notably absent in valgrind:
- the ability to specify user's memory allocators/deallocators (it is mentioned in the documentation, though)
- the ability to detect array bound violations (Purify's ABR/ABW).
You decide which of the two is more important for you.
I'd prefer The world's oldest man dies in his sleep.
I believe it is a good thing, otherwise things may get error-prone.
There is another problem with allocators and STL: the standard does not require that the allocator-provided pointer types be used; so no matter what smart pointers you're using in 64-bit mode in your classes to reduce memory consumption, the STL containers may still use the basic 64-bit pointers. Some implementations are good, some are not so good, and trying to use STLport, IMHO, is a pain.
It looks more and more like the American society, with the corporations suing or attempting to sue the consumers and their competitors, forgets a simple rule: dependence does not guarantee entitlement.
The advertizers are not entitled to having their ads undisturbed in movies just because they depend on it; the producers and distributors of the audiovisual entertainment are not entitled to perpetual copyright just because they need money, etc., etc.
If frowning is used as trigger, then Grampa Simpson's phrase "to give somebody the frowning of their life" will get a new meaning.
Speaking of sorting, the scientists contemporary to Galileo used it to "patent" their yet unverified ideas and hypotheses by publishing a "one-way hash" of the statement describing the idea by alphabetically sorting the letters of that statement. E.g. a hypothesis "Mars has two satellites" will be "Aaaeehillmorsssstttw". Of course, to be secure, the statement must be much longer.
If you have a compiler that can compile itself,
you do not need anything else to keep developing the compiler.
Incidentally, one of the IOCCC winners (Brian Westley) had a (dishonorable) mention in the Bulwer-Lytton contest in 1999; namely, for the following:
"So far this year, Cary Yamanaka's skill in karate had netted him three trophies--two bowling, one golf."
Because the client can send arbitrary multi-part MIME data in POST requests. 'Nuff said.