Agreed. Most skilled coders I know don't write code that has memory leaks. Even simple things like making sure your source code looks symetrical, matching allocations with deallocations (of whatever flavor), etc., is usually enough to avoid any problems with memory. It's easy (easy!) to write loops that never overflow, though you wouldn't know it with the amazing number of overflow exploits that have been found over the years.
However, it gets nasty when dealing with legacy code that is already leaking, or when you unfortunately get partnered with somebody that doesn't know how to practice safe coding techniques. In those cases, I guess these sorts of tools are useful.
>> Malaysia wasn't bombed by the USAF, creating anarchy and an environment encouraging revolution.
His claim was that socialism was necessary for a colony to transition to a properous nation, which is preposterous. And the problem with Cambodia was that we stopped the bombing -- hence the Khmer Rogue took over, and countless people were killed.
Hurray! Socialism is the answer! Oh, wait. No, it's not. Socialism and Communism create by their very nature totalitarian regimes and depress the economy.
If you look at the capitalistic former-colony countries that didn't go through socialism/communism or, they tend to be a lot better off if they didn't go through a socialist or communist phase. Compare Malaysia with Cambodia, for example.
>>Five years ago, you could count on one hand the number of people who could do a lot of these things,' says one investigator.
Yes, yes.
Five years ago (2002) there were five people (or less) that knew touch.
Lol. The guy is a moron.
I remember walking through a parking lot in college in 1996 and listening to a couple guys talk about how they would touch their files to make late homeworks appear as if they were done on time.
About a year after that, UCSD switched to a turnin-based system. =)
You're trying to ignore data points which don't fit on the curve created by the (pulled-out-of-the-ass) hypothesis of the Uncanny Valley. Hand-waving fallacy arguments doesn't forgive this.
As it is, there are plenty of almost-real characters in games, and they fit people's expectations fine. Consider Final Fantasy 12. Nobody can pretend the characters look real, but they don't trigger the sense of rejection that the Spirits Within did. And if you think that's perfectly-real (which it isn't, by a long shot), there's plenty of other games in which the animation or art isn't as well done, but people still accept them.
I taught parallel processing (as a TA) at UC San Diego, and worked at the supercomputer center for years doing parallel code.
No, parallel processing is not "too hard". Phah.
It's simply hard for people that are being forced to write parallel code without taking a class in the subject, or really understanding what they're doing. Parallel code is as mind bending as recursive code the first time you saw it, only more so. It takes a lot of work to wrap your mind around the weirdness of having the same code being executed in different places with different data, making sure you pass the data back and forth correctly, synchronize correctly, and doing it all without making mistakes that destroy your performance.
To anyone interested in the field, sit down, learn MPI, run through some tutorials, and get to the point where you can run something like a radial blur on an array in parallel without breaking a sweat, and you know you're mentally ready to write parallel code. In class, getting to this state usually takes 2-3 weeks, but if you're working on your own, you should be able to do it faster.
Censorship is technically the restriction of speech by the government. It has popular meanings which are more expansive than the real definition. Dictionaries publish popular definitions, so you appear to be quite dimwitted when you quote it, or worse, the Google everything-under-the-sun definition.
Most people incorrectly to use it any restriction of speech. But even in the article it doesn't meet even this criteria for censored, since it calls them stories which didn't see the light of day, which is the textbook definition of the Gatekeeper effect.
>>So what is it in the McDonald's and Wendy's that is making me feel ill?
Your diet has changed, and you are not used to them any more. While people can be sensitive to MSG and other chemicals, if the ingredients are the same at once place as another, you should not react any differently unless the effects are psychosomatic.
Try the following experiment: buy a McDonald's 100% beef burger, get rid of everything but the patty, and eat that. Their 100% beef patties have no additives, fillers, or extenders in them, just beef, salt and pepper. So if you feel ill after eating it, you know it's either the beef, the salt, the pepper, or the fact that your mind knows you're eating at McDonald's.
That's a circular argument. You quoted some popular "definitions" of censorship, which, as I mentioned in my other post, are being used incorrectly.
You can't say that because some people spell it purty, that purty is the correct spelling. Though there are sea changes in language, which can provide a valid counterargument, this is simply a case of idiots not knowing the definition between censorship and the gatekeeper effect.
>>When I've succumbed to a craving, I felt like crap.
As the other poster commented, your body has gotten used to a new diet. Any time a person switches diets, they tend to feel ill. Try moving to an area that doesn't have cuisine that you're used to, and you're likely to feel sick, get gastrointestinal distress, and have various other problems, regardless of how healthy the foods actually are. For example, when people eat Papaya for the first time, they tend to get the runs.
News Organizations can only report on a small number of stories per day, out of hundreds of interesting story leads. At some level, certain stories get picked over others. This is called the Gatekeeper effect.
Censorship is when the government kills a story.
Irks me when/. uses 'censorship' and its the wrong word.
Parents, save your kids and give them unique names! Who cares if they get picked on in school? There sure as hell won't be any Fibonacci Martel Williams Fourier Johnsons on any of these database lists!
>>but I'd wonder how illiterate Chinese people throughout history were able to even hold a conversation without being baffled by homophones.
They ask something like: "ditie de di haishi didi de di?" if there's confusion. That's why I said it's less of an issue when having a two way conversation or playing online. You can ask.
But it's very suboptimal to expect them to live with a crippled system when the characters provide the disambiguation.
>>I realize that what you're stating is the received wisdom and as such can scarcely be questioned
It's not like the Chinese government hasn't tried to replace characters with romanizations. And was rejected by the people for the reasons I listed before.
You're missing the key roadblock to simply replacing characters with pinyin, or any other romanization: Chinese is a heavily overloaded language. While there are a bit of homophones in English, *every* word in Chinese is a homophone, with something like 13 different homophones per sound on some of them. We differentiate some of homophones by writing them differently (layed, laid, etc.), Pinyin *cannot* differentiate these homophones -- it's an exact transcription of the sound. Chinese differentiate their written words with characters. When having a conversation you can get by with spoken Chinese or pinyin, since you can always ask the other person which character they meant, if there's confusion, and Chinese will make do with pinyin in a pinch, but it's more or less impossible to ask them to switch to a Romanisation for all purposes.
>>1. Your body absorbs EM radiation from the infra-red band! Also known as heat, IR sources are everywhere and can eliminate the need for you to wear thick clothing.
Uh, no.
Heat is the vibration of molecules. EM radiation (including infrared) is not heat. Common misconception, because hot particles radiate EM radiation in the infrared band at around room temperatures, similar to a hotter light bulb will radiate EM radiation in the visible spectrum.
I used to work with Scott Baden and Fran Berman at UCSD / San Diego Supercomputer Center. It's nice to see what was research 10 years ago running in the prime time. =)
That got me thinking. Is there a wikipedia page for these common units of measure? We need to know how to be able to convert between LoCs and Books Stacked to the Moon and Back, Olympic Swimming Pools, Beowulf Clusters, etc.
I'm serious, someone should write a wikipedia page if there isn't one already.
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>> foster safe coding practice
Agreed. Most skilled coders I know don't write code that has memory leaks. Even simple things like making sure your source code looks symetrical, matching allocations with deallocations (of whatever flavor), etc., is usually enough to avoid any problems with memory. It's easy (easy!) to write loops that never overflow, though you wouldn't know it with the amazing number of overflow exploits that have been found over the years.
However, it gets nasty when dealing with legacy code that is already leaking, or when you unfortunately get partnered with somebody that doesn't know how to practice safe coding techniques. In those cases, I guess these sorts of tools are useful.
>> Please do not compare Islam to Nazism.
>> For one who just took IB American History, this is crystal clear.
Snort. I didn't compare Islam to Nazism. *Islamofascism* is a direct descendant of Nazism.
Research it yourself.
Congrats on finishing a high school history class, and all, but there's a lot more cause and effect in history than textbooks make it appear.
>> Malaysia wasn't bombed by the USAF, creating anarchy and an environment encouraging revolution.
His claim was that socialism was necessary for a colony to transition to a properous nation, which is preposterous. And the problem with Cambodia was that we stopped the bombing -- hence the Khmer Rogue took over, and countless people were killed.
Hurray! Socialism is the answer! Oh, wait. No, it's not. Socialism and Communism create by their very nature totalitarian regimes and depress the economy.
If you look at the capitalistic former-colony countries that didn't go through socialism/communism or, they tend to be a lot better off if they didn't go through a socialist or communist phase. Compare Malaysia with Cambodia, for example.
>>They do not want to hear about American responsibility for the 9/11 incident.
Really? And there I was thinking it was islamofascism that was responsible for 9/11, and much of the turmoil in the middle east.
Islamofascism is the philosophical descendant of Nazism. Hussein was an admirer of Hitler.
In America, some homeowners with big sticks would start sitting on their fences at that certain time of the evening.
Violence might not always be the answer, but sometimes it is the best answer.
When you square a unit of measure, it means you lay out one unit long, and one wide, and produces a new, higher-dimension unit.
It's correct to say 10 meters squared, though it is sort of ambiguous, as you point out, as some will read it as 10x1, and some as 10x10.
The summary says, "you could count on one hand".
That's 5.
You really should read before making yourself look like an ignorant fool.
>>Five years ago, you could count on one hand the number of people who could do a lot of these things,' says one investigator.
Yes, yes.
Five years ago (2002) there were five people (or less) that knew touch.
Lol. The guy is a moron.
I remember walking through a parking lot in college in 1996 and listening to a couple guys talk about how they would touch their files to make late homeworks appear as if they were done on time.
About a year after that, UCSD switched to a turnin-based system. =)
You're trying to ignore data points which don't fit on the curve created by the (pulled-out-of-the-ass) hypothesis of the Uncanny Valley. Hand-waving fallacy arguments doesn't forgive this.
As it is, there are plenty of almost-real characters in games, and they fit people's expectations fine. Consider Final Fantasy 12. Nobody can pretend the characters look real, but they don't trigger the sense of rejection that the Spirits Within did. And if you think that's perfectly-real (which it isn't, by a long shot), there's plenty of other games in which the animation or art isn't as well done, but people still accept them.
The GP was right.
I taught parallel processing (as a TA) at UC San Diego, and worked at the supercomputer center for years doing parallel code.
No, parallel processing is not "too hard". Phah.
It's simply hard for people that are being forced to write parallel code without taking a class in the subject, or really understanding what they're doing. Parallel code is as mind bending as recursive code the first time you saw it, only more so. It takes a lot of work to wrap your mind around the weirdness of having the same code being executed in different places with different data, making sure you pass the data back and forth correctly, synchronize correctly, and doing it all without making mistakes that destroy your performance.
To anyone interested in the field, sit down, learn MPI, run through some tutorials, and get to the point where you can run something like a radial blur on an array in parallel without breaking a sweat, and you know you're mentally ready to write parallel code. In class, getting to this state usually takes 2-3 weeks, but if you're working on your own, you should be able to do it faster.
You've never studied government, then.
Censorship is technically the restriction of speech by the government. It has popular meanings which are more expansive than the real definition. Dictionaries publish popular definitions, so you appear to be quite dimwitted when you quote it, or worse, the Google everything-under-the-sun definition.
Most people incorrectly to use it any restriction of speech. But even in the article it doesn't meet even this criteria for censored, since it calls them stories which didn't see the light of day, which is the textbook definition of the Gatekeeper effect.
Sheer ignorance.
>>So what is it in the McDonald's and Wendy's that is making me feel ill?
Your diet has changed, and you are not used to them any more. While people can be sensitive to MSG and other chemicals, if the ingredients are the same at once place as another, you should not react any differently unless the effects are psychosomatic.
Try the following experiment: buy a McDonald's 100% beef burger, get rid of everything but the patty, and eat that. Their 100% beef patties have no additives, fillers, or extenders in them, just beef, salt and pepper. So if you feel ill after eating it, you know it's either the beef, the salt, the pepper, or the fact that your mind knows you're eating at McDonald's.
That's a circular argument. You quoted some popular "definitions" of censorship, which, as I mentioned in my other post, are being used incorrectly.
You can't say that because some people spell it purty, that purty is the correct spelling. Though there are sea changes in language, which can provide a valid counterargument, this is simply a case of idiots not knowing the definition between censorship and the gatekeeper effect.
>>When I've succumbed to a craving, I felt like crap.
As the other poster commented, your body has gotten used to a new diet. Any time a person switches diets, they tend to feel ill. Try moving to an area that doesn't have cuisine that you're used to, and you're likely to feel sick, get gastrointestinal distress, and have various other problems, regardless of how healthy the foods actually are. For example, when people eat Papaya for the first time, they tend to get the runs.
Gatekeeper Effect != Censorship.
/. uses 'censorship' and its the wrong word.
News Organizations can only report on a small number of stories per day, out of hundreds of interesting story leads. At some level, certain stories get picked over others. This is called the Gatekeeper effect.
Censorship is when the government kills a story.
Irks me when
It's a bad time to be named John Smith, in today's America.
Terrorist, Tax Dodger, Fraud Artist, Unemployed Worker...
Parents, save your kids and give them unique names! Who cares if they get picked on in school? There sure as hell won't be any Fibonacci Martel Williams Fourier Johnsons on any of these database lists!
>>but I'd wonder how illiterate Chinese people throughout history were able to even hold a conversation without being baffled by homophones.
They ask something like: "ditie de di haishi didi de di?" if there's confusion. That's why I said it's less of an issue when having a two way conversation or playing online. You can ask.
But it's very suboptimal to expect them to live with a crippled system when the characters provide the disambiguation.
>>I realize that what you're stating is the received wisdom and as such can scarcely be questioned
It's not like the Chinese government hasn't tried to replace characters with romanizations. And was rejected by the people for the reasons I listed before.
You're missing the key roadblock to simply replacing characters with pinyin, or any other romanization: Chinese is a heavily overloaded language. While there are a bit of homophones in English, *every* word in Chinese is a homophone, with something like 13 different homophones per sound on some of them. We differentiate some of homophones by writing them differently (layed, laid, etc.), Pinyin *cannot* differentiate these homophones -- it's an exact transcription of the sound. Chinese differentiate their written words with characters. When having a conversation you can get by with spoken Chinese or pinyin, since you can always ask the other person which character they meant, if there's confusion, and Chinese will make do with pinyin in a pinch, but it's more or less impossible to ask them to switch to a Romanisation for all purposes.
>>1. Your body absorbs EM radiation from the infra-red band! Also known as heat, IR sources are everywhere and can eliminate the need for you to wear thick clothing.
Uh, no.
Heat is the vibration of molecules. EM radiation (including infrared) is not heat. Common misconception, because hot particles radiate EM radiation in the infrared band at around room temperatures, similar to a hotter light bulb will radiate EM radiation in the visible spectrum.
I used to work with Scott Baden and Fran Berman at UCSD / San Diego Supercomputer Center. It's nice to see what was research 10 years ago running in the prime time. =)
Yeah, Jayjg is a nutcase, who reverts everything he can get away with.
"Because Microsoft protected its customers' holiday investments"
They did? Actually, they did a good job pretending they'd give you a deal if you bought XP over the holiday.
I ended up just buying Vista for less than what they offered through the well-maybe-it'll-be-free holiday-bought-XP to Vista upgrade path.
That got me thinking. Is there a wikipedia page for these common units of measure? We need to know how to be able to convert between LoCs and Books Stacked to the Moon and Back, Olympic Swimming Pools, Beowulf Clusters, etc.
I'm serious, someone should write a wikipedia page if there isn't one already.
Woot, another fun result from UC San Diego, my alma mater.
Everyone put 'UCSD' in their tags! =)