Honestly, this makes sense to me. I'm going to stop using PHP now, because crap like that has actually been ingrained enough that it doesn't bother me. === and checking types in PHP is second nature.. *Sigh*
I was going to disagree, but then I looked at it. Apparently orthogonality wasn't much of a concern when creating this language. I realize it's loosely/dynamically typed (the distinction between the two has always been difficult for me), but come on.. different types of compare operators that work on regular variables (one for numbers, one for strings)? Can't the interpreter just say "Oh, one of these is a string, internally. Do it like that. Or, have a special cast or somethign so in the rare cases it doesn't do that, then you can make it?
I guess it's better for there to be operators for each, so there's no ambiguity. But if you didn't want type ambiguity, why not just make variables statically typed?
Even if you use only 5% of this language, reading the code of someone else who uses even just a different 1% of the language is going to be a maintenance nightmare, imho.
Tell them exactly what you're doing, and tell them that it's optional. Perhaps provide a bonus for doing so. Tell them they'll get people in to their department who are more like them, and thus more likely to work efficiently (like they obviously do). Don't tell them if you've already sorted them in to good or bad employees though. Obviously:)
I wouldn't mind taking the tests. Especially if they were to give me percentage values (how I relate in various traits to the average population, the average of the company, and the average in similar job positions to mine), though I can see how this would be an HR nightmare. People would obviously find out that Joe had the best scores all over the board, and feel resentment. He'd find out he was the best, and feel godlike. Soo.. I don't see that happening.
That is not your business, and not under your control. Encrypt the email in an attachment to them if it matters so much to you, and you trust THEM to not scan it or do other subversive things to it. You send a (snail mail) letter out to a friend, that friend can do whatever they want to it. Including typing it up and putting it on a webpage. Which google will then scan. As long as they attribute it (which in some cases would probably make this slip of judgement worse), then there's no legal issue with this that I am aware of.
So yes, if someone has a gmail account, and you're paranoid about some (as far as we know) non-scientient technology reading your email, then don't send them an email. But if I ever get email from you, I'm going to post it to a webpage now. In fact, I might even post your slashdot comment.. Oh wait, it'll already be scanned by the big bad google. And other companies, most of which I trust a hell of a lot less than google.
If you're paranoid, make it so google can't read it (encrypted attachment) and get on with your life. If you care that much though, this probably isn't good enough for you, though I don't know why.
Note: I enjoy the freedoms of encryption and understand paranoia. I'm not saying that not wanting peope to read it is necessarily a bad thing, just that it's not you that should have to consent to google scanning it, it's the recipient, like always.
The biggest thing to worry about is whether the adapter works properly. Some register the dpad buttons as an axis, and thus you can't do jumps properly. The stepmania page has links to adapters that work and don't work.
The OS X version on my friend's powerbook runs about as well as the windows version does on my computer. The linux one seems to stutter a bit more, I don't know why, but I'm working on it.
I play on ignition pads when I'm at my friend's house, but prefer the arcade pad feel. When I can't do either, I just practice rhythm using the keyboard. Even that's fun, I don't know why.
I don't need to lose weight though, I just play it because it's fun. And because the girls seem to like it.;)
Just because there's a web interface doesn't mean that they're inextricably linked. email works over its own protocols. Just because there's a bridge between the web and those protocols doesn't mean if you redesign the web, you redesign email too. That's like saying if you redesign the web, you have to redesign UPS, since they have a web interface to their shipping controls.
Any class handling advanced placement CS better have offered Pascal and C++ and currently offer Java, because those are the three languages the test has been in.
responses would be out of date (you'd quote something that would no longer be there), what a way to remove moderation if you get modded down.. "Oh crap, I lost 3 karma points on this, I'll just edit the spelling of a word, and bam.. my karma comes back?
If they're NOT overcompensated, they're either compensated properly or undercompensated. Thus his new company won't work, because he's paying them less than they deserve. You seem to not understand what he's saying:
If they do the job good enough for what they're being paid for, even though they don't have a degree, then what's the problem.
if they're being paid more than their competence should allow, then the company is stupid for paying them that much.
From what I understand, if the OS had that much control over every program's execution path, computers would run impossibly slow. The current method is to say "Ok, I'm the master program, I can do anything. Here, run this program, they can only do this stuff (or, conversely.. they can't do this other stuff). Call me back when they're done, or after 100ms have passed."
This way the programs are protected from each other, can't do anything stupid unless the OS lets them, but still run at 'native' speed. If the OS was running future predictive decisions as to which processor was getting a specific chunk of code, that'd mean it's running that decision on every bit of code sent through it. Also, the setup costs for a GPU operation, and then the read back of the result, would kill this for 'general' computing. Only if there's a MASSIVE amount of data.
This would technically be possible in virtualized systems like.net or java, but still impractical for general use. Compilers could also be written to take advantage of this, but again: why bother? The benefits, while great, aren't great enough to enough people that compiler writers would want to spend time on that instead of making normal things run better (like unrolling loops and using SIMD, more standards compliance, etc.)
How exactly am I wrong? 5 years ago (99) they switched to C++. While I was in my AP CS class, I heard rumors of them already deciding to switch to Java in 5 years. I took it in 99. So they decided all the way back then that the change to Java was going to be made, I'm pretty sure. I didn't say what was happening before 99..
No, because only 5 years ago did they switch to C++ (and right after the switch they knew they were going to Java, so I don't know why they bothered with the C++ transition, unless the process was already irrevocably chugging along the path towards C++ by the time they made that decision).
Not knowing spanish (and, like the stupid American I am, automatically assuming it IS spanish), how do you pronounce Juarez? If Juan is essentually pronounced with the ju becoming a 'w', is his name 'warez'?
:-P Well, I guess what I'm wondering then (I've checked the internet2.org site, and my uni isn't part of Abilene) is where does it say that I2 runs only IPv6? I think any protocol that wants to run over it can (and does). IPv4, IPv6, etc. Hence, the reason why the I2 LSR requires IPv4. If it always ran IPv6, and IPv4 would always have to be encapsulated inside of IPv6 packets, that'd be rather dumb to make the requirements be IPv4 then. I know there are bridges between the regular 'internet' and I2, my uni lets me access both from my on-campus desktop, in fact.
No, Internet2 is a network. Perhaps all nodes have to run IPv6, but I know for a fact that IPv4 runs over it too. I don't have 6to4 installed or anything like that, so I don't know how my IPv4 stuff would go over it (hell, maybe it gets encapsulated in IPv6 automatically, whatever..) But notice the article specifically said IPv4.. why would the I2 LSR requirements require IPv4 on an IPv6 network?
That's not quite the same analogy. You beta test, and are often told at the beginning that your account will be wiped, as if you are leveled up this will provide imbalance for the new players upon release. Also, it's just a game.
Email, however involves other people, and is (if not already) quickly becoming mandatory for daily life. Google hasn't said they're going to delete it afterwards, and if they did that would be rather dumb and retarded: I've given out my gmail address to many people. Switched accounts over to using it, etc. If they suddenly delete it on everyone using the beta, they're going to get sued, bigtime. And with the court system the way it is now, they'll most likely lose.
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You get invited to beta test gmail. Each invitation gives you one account. If you use it enough, etc., you might get more invitations to give to other people (or yourself, I guess. Though technically that's against the TOS and illegal). So only one account/address, legitimately.
actually, it's rather commonly understood that when someone says someone else is in 'a mood', that said mood is certainly not a good one. So even THAT sentence is fine, or at least understood by most.
I've not seen any other PSX emulator come close to the low sysreqs that VGS had. I played through some game on a horrible computer, one that was borderline on the VGS 'requirements', but it played fine. Every other emulator chokes on this game and slows it down to the point of it being unplayable.
How old is PNG and IE still doesn't support it properly (alpha-transparency specifically)? Age means nothing. What about MNGs? Hell, what about CSS?:) Browsers are a mess of incompatibilities. The web stagnates because of it, and I (like many) blame IE for this, partially. Their lack of adherence to standards is so annoying. They have, however, added things that were working drafts at the time they were added (I seem to remember something about their XSL support being based off of an incomplete spec). I just wish they'd work on getting the current stuff working properly, before fixing it halfway or adding things that aren't 'finalized' yet, and then never fixing their implementation when it is.
How would you get them to not float or sink? You said 'neutrally buoyant', but isn't buoyancy dependent upon relative densities? The density of most beverages is changing so rapidly that it'd be nearly impossible, at least from my extremely limited physics knowledge.
think of those annoying beads that went up and down the spokes as you were biking.. I guess this wouldnt work with sufficiently fast biking, but slow enough and with low enough friction, they will follow gravity, and hit the outside of the wheel on the bottom and the inside when the spoke is on the top. But yeah, any sped I'd be bikign I'd think centrifical (centrifugal?) force would keep them towards the rim.
maybe on the pedals? A gentle rotation motion prolly wouldn't work would it.. Yes, I didn't read the article and know nothing of the tech:)
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Honestly, this makes sense to me. I'm going to stop using PHP now, because crap like that has actually been ingrained enough that it doesn't bother me. === and checking types in PHP is second nature.. *Sigh*
I was going to disagree, but then I looked at it. Apparently orthogonality wasn't much of a concern when creating this language. I realize it's loosely/dynamically typed (the distinction between the two has always been difficult for me), but come on.. different types of compare operators that work on regular variables (one for numbers, one for strings)? Can't the interpreter just say "Oh, one of these is a string, internally. Do it like that. Or, have a special cast or somethign so in the rare cases it doesn't do that, then you can make it?
I guess it's better for there to be operators for each, so there's no ambiguity. But if you didn't want type ambiguity, why not just make variables statically typed?
Even if you use only 5% of this language, reading the code of someone else who uses even just a different 1% of the language is going to be a maintenance nightmare, imho.
Tell them exactly what you're doing, and tell them that it's optional. Perhaps provide a bonus for doing so. Tell them they'll get people in to their department who are more like them, and thus more likely to work efficiently (like they obviously do). Don't tell them if you've already sorted them in to good or bad employees though. Obviously :)
I wouldn't mind taking the tests. Especially if they were to give me percentage values (how I relate in various traits to the average population, the average of the company, and the average in similar job positions to mine), though I can see how this would be an HR nightmare. People would obviously find out that Joe had the best scores all over the board, and feel resentment. He'd find out he was the best, and feel godlike. Soo.. I don't see that happening.
That is not your business, and not under your control. Encrypt the email in an attachment to them if it matters so much to you, and you trust THEM to not scan it or do other subversive things to it. You send a (snail mail) letter out to a friend, that friend can do whatever they want to it. Including typing it up and putting it on a webpage. Which google will then scan. As long as they attribute it (which in some cases would probably make this slip of judgement worse), then there's no legal issue with this that I am aware of.
So yes, if someone has a gmail account, and you're paranoid about some (as far as we know) non-scientient technology reading your email, then don't send them an email. But if I ever get email from you, I'm going to post it to a webpage now. In fact, I might even post your slashdot comment.. Oh wait, it'll already be scanned by the big bad google. And other companies, most of which I trust a hell of a lot less than google.
If you're paranoid, make it so google can't read it (encrypted attachment) and get on with your life. If you care that much though, this probably isn't good enough for you, though I don't know why.
Note: I enjoy the freedoms of encryption and understand paranoia. I'm not saying that not wanting peope to read it is necessarily a bad thing, just that it's not you that should have to consent to google scanning it, it's the recipient, like always.
The biggest thing to worry about is whether the adapter works properly. Some register the dpad buttons as an axis, and thus you can't do jumps properly. The stepmania page has links to adapters that work and don't work.
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The OS X version on my friend's powerbook runs about as well as the windows version does on my computer. The linux one seems to stutter a bit more, I don't know why, but I'm working on it.
I play on ignition pads when I'm at my friend's house, but prefer the arcade pad feel. When I can't do either, I just practice rhythm using the keyboard. Even that's fun, I don't know why.
I don't need to lose weight though, I just play it because it's fun. And because the girls seem to like it.
nybble. byte and nybble. it's cute and funny, get it?
At least, that's how I've always seen it spelled.
Just because there's a web interface doesn't mean that they're inextricably linked. email works over its own protocols. Just because there's a bridge between the web and those protocols doesn't mean if you redesign the web, you redesign email too. That's like saying if you redesign the web, you have to redesign UPS, since they have a web interface to their shipping controls.
The crouton-o-christ.. Though I still love christ chex the best. Good morning!
Any class handling advanced placement CS better have offered Pascal and C++ and currently offer Java, because those are the three languages the test has been in.
responses would be out of date (you'd quote something that would no longer be there), what a way to remove moderation if you get modded down.. "Oh crap, I lost 3 karma points on this, I'll just edit the spelling of a word, and bam.. my karma comes back?
If they're NOT overcompensated, they're either compensated properly or undercompensated. Thus his new company won't work, because he's paying them less than they deserve. You seem to not understand what he's saying:
If they do the job good enough for what they're being paid for, even though they don't have a degree, then what's the problem.
if they're being paid more than their competence should allow, then the company is stupid for paying them that much.
From what I understand, if the OS had that much control over every program's execution path, computers would run impossibly slow. The current method is to say "Ok, I'm the master program, I can do anything. Here, run this program, they can only do this stuff (or, conversely.. they can't do this other stuff). Call me back when they're done, or after 100ms have passed."
.net or java, but still impractical for general use. Compilers could also be written to take advantage of this, but again: why bother? The benefits, while great, aren't great enough to enough people that compiler writers would want to spend time on that instead of making normal things run better (like unrolling loops and using SIMD, more standards compliance, etc.)
This way the programs are protected from each other, can't do anything stupid unless the OS lets them, but still run at 'native' speed. If the OS was running future predictive decisions as to which processor was getting a specific chunk of code, that'd mean it's running that decision on every bit of code sent through it. Also, the setup costs for a GPU operation, and then the read back of the result, would kill this for 'general' computing. Only if there's a MASSIVE amount of data.
This would technically be possible in virtualized systems like
How exactly am I wrong? 5 years ago (99) they switched to C++. While I was in my AP CS class, I heard rumors of them already deciding to switch to Java in 5 years. I took it in 99. So they decided all the way back then that the change to Java was going to be made, I'm pretty sure. I didn't say what was happening before 99..
No, because only 5 years ago did they switch to C++ (and right after the switch they knew they were going to Java, so I don't know why they bothered with the C++ transition, unless the process was already irrevocably chugging along the path towards C++ by the time they made that decision).
Not knowing spanish (and, like the stupid American I am, automatically assuming it IS spanish), how do you pronounce Juarez? If Juan is essentually pronounced with the ju becoming a 'w', is his name 'warez'?
:-P Well, I guess what I'm wondering then (I've checked the internet2.org site, and my uni isn't part of Abilene) is where does it say that I2 runs only IPv6? I think any protocol that wants to run over it can (and does). IPv4, IPv6, etc. Hence, the reason why the I2 LSR requires IPv4. If it always ran IPv6, and IPv4 would always have to be encapsulated inside of IPv6 packets, that'd be rather dumb to make the requirements be IPv4 then. I know there are bridges between the regular 'internet' and I2, my uni lets me access both from my on-campus desktop, in fact.
No, Internet2 is a network. Perhaps all nodes have to run IPv6, but I know for a fact that IPv4 runs over it too. I don't have 6to4 installed or anything like that, so I don't know how my IPv4 stuff would go over it (hell, maybe it gets encapsulated in IPv6 automatically, whatever..) But notice the article specifically said IPv4.. why would the I2 LSR requirements require IPv4 on an IPv6 network?
That's not quite the same analogy. You beta test, and are often told at the beginning that your account will be wiped, as if you are leveled up this will provide imbalance for the new players upon release. Also, it's just a game.
Email, however involves other people, and is (if not already) quickly becoming mandatory for daily life. Google hasn't said they're going to delete it afterwards, and if they did that would be rather dumb and retarded: I've given out my gmail address to many people. Switched accounts over to using it, etc. If they suddenly delete it on everyone using the beta, they're going to get sued, bigtime. And with the court system the way it is now, they'll most likely lose.
You get invited to beta test gmail. Each invitation gives you one account. If you use it enough, etc., you might get more invitations to give to other people (or yourself, I guess. Though technically that's against the TOS and illegal). So only one account/address, legitimately.
you get the name you want before anyone else does.
actually, it's rather commonly understood that when someone says someone else is in 'a mood', that said mood is certainly not a good one. So even THAT sentence is fine, or at least understood by most.
I've not seen any other PSX emulator come close to the low sysreqs that VGS had. I played through some game on a horrible computer, one that was borderline on the VGS 'requirements', but it played fine. Every other emulator chokes on this game and slows it down to the point of it being unplayable.
How old is PNG and IE still doesn't support it properly (alpha-transparency specifically)? Age means nothing. What about MNGs? Hell, what about CSS? :) Browsers are a mess of incompatibilities. The web stagnates because of it, and I (like many) blame IE for this, partially. Their lack of adherence to standards is so annoying. They have, however, added things that were working drafts at the time they were added (I seem to remember something about their XSL support being based off of an incomplete spec). I just wish they'd work on getting the current stuff working properly, before fixing it halfway or adding things that aren't 'finalized' yet, and then never fixing their implementation when it is.
How would you get them to not float or sink? You said 'neutrally buoyant', but isn't buoyancy dependent upon relative densities? The density of most beverages is changing so rapidly that it'd be nearly impossible, at least from my extremely limited physics knowledge.
think of those annoying beads that went up and down the spokes as you were biking.. I guess this wouldnt work with sufficiently fast biking, but slow enough and with low enough friction, they will follow gravity, and hit the outside of the wheel on the bottom and the inside when the spoke is on the top. But yeah, any sped I'd be bikign I'd think centrifical (centrifugal?) force would keep them towards the rim.
:)
maybe on the pedals? A gentle rotation motion prolly wouldn't work would it.. Yes, I didn't read the article and know nothing of the tech