Email is one of those things that becomes obvious once the tech comes into existence. Give someone a computer with the option of sending data back and forth and a whole slew of people will say "Send this Memo to EVERYONE" and thus Spam was born.
Not really both China and the Vikings beat out Columbus to North America. China failed because by the time they got back the political control flipped over to Isolationists and Vikings are not very sociable and failed at making viable colonies. Go figure that it took pilgrims befriending then slaughtering the natives to get a foothold. Coupled with the, we can't go home or we'll be killed. I'm sure most of them would have left after that first winter if it was an option.
Space combat being fought on any scale in the next 100 years would probably end badly for both sides. If you just start fighting in Earth orbit you're probably going to trigger Kessler Syndrome and destroy all viable orbits. Unless we make some kind of shielding that can work at stopping a flying bolt from wiping out even your most well built craft it probably won't happen after they figure out that the shrapnel from the "loser" killed the "winning". Then if it got real bad people would just start deliberately leaving trash around in hopes that it wiped out any pursuers. Ending in no one being able to safely leave the Earth and no one being able to safely come home.
Gundam already takes your point into account. M Particles effectively block the long range anonymous forms of attack since it blocks all forms of electromagnetic communication, including laser targeting and gps. M Particles are the deus ex machina of close ranged Gundams.
Don't forget the Latency. SSD drive is what? 5ms average. FIOS - depends on what you ping but you're still going to see a lot of 50 ms ping times. Speed of light and all I think the SSD and HDD have the leg up on just about any Internet connection you could ever get. Now I'm not totally against the cloud. I can see having an application that has the equivalent work of a supercomputer running much faster on the Cloud then on my PC and if all it needs to do is send me the result that makes it so that even with the latency and reduced bandwidth to my screen that it could... in some cases... do better then my PC.
Then learn to be a good Sysadmin and set the memory limits for processes using the OS. Using the Java Xmx setting will only screw with the Garbage Collection, and you'll still not have accounted for the GC and VM overhead. I can actually tell Java to use 128megs and it still take 200. If you're trying to optimize the performance of the Garbage Collector then go ahead start fiddling with them. Other systems have ether determined that it's not worth the hassle or have figured out a better way of managing heap size Garbage Collection Ratios.
That particular reason would only apply to applets where the default is set to 64megs. The first and primary reason to go in and change the memory allocation is to decrease Garbage Collections. If Eden is TOO big your garbage collections take TOO long, but if your Eden is TOO small your garbage collections are TOO frequent. Only a lazy and arrogant system admins would think that the memory settings were for them to enforce some form of system policy.
You didn't prove anything except point out yet another option to be set. If that was the best way to set the JVM why isn't that the default. Why is it left up to the user to specify it. Why do users have to figure out how to tweak it so that Minecraft work "optimally" on multicore machines? When you have to figure out this
-Xincgc
Enable the incremental garbage collector. The incremental garbage collector, which is off by default, will eliminate occasional garbage-collection pauses during program execution. However, it can lead to a roughly 10% decrease in overall GC performance.
You have a point, and the answer isn't any good ether. You specify the Heap size so that the Garbage Collector can be lazy and not clean up memory until the specified heap is at a certain level. I think it's just a Java thing. C# and.net grow as needed up to the systems limit. GoLang even though native is Garbage Collected (sorta) and I've yet to find some arbitrary default if one exists. Java only wants to use 1/4th or less of the available system memory, and I can only think of reasons linked to Garbage Collection.
The JVM really needs to get smarter. 60 different controls and switches is just too much. How hard can it be for the JVM to look at the available number of cores and just turn on the Parallel Garbage Collector. Do I really have to manually turn it on so that Minecraft will use it? Why can't the JVM allocate more memory on its own? Does it really need permission to use more than 1 Gig of memory? It just sits there waiting for the day some user decides to import every single possible datapoint into it, crashes, having used 1 Gig of 8, with a "Out of Memory" error. It's not like Developers know what the Xmx and Xms setting need to be. They just set them arbitrarily high in hopes that some user doesn't try to find out what the maximum datafile it can take is. That just slows it down and makes it so when the GC finally does fire off it has 10x the amount of trash it should have if the value was set lower. Those options are only useful on internal applications that never get into the hands of everyday users. It's probably a great book for server side development, but it is highlighting a major failing of the JVM.
No, what he's doing is just bad science pushing more bad science. If you want to read about real science experiments using dowsing then you have to be just as criticle of his research as any other psudo-scientist who uses a small N test case. The Munich 1987–1988 study that had 300 dowsers tested showed most were no good, but that 6 deviated away from statistical chance. That test proved that most people with supposed ability were probably deluding themselves but a rare number might not be. If he wanted to prove or disprove dowsing would need to perform a study with a Larger N and a higher level of statistical analysis. He doesn't want to do that, and just wants to put on a show that leads people to accept that nonsense studies with a small N are acceptable. If the Munich tests were correct then he had only a 0.02% chance of finding someone that might possibly prove him wrong.
Duke Nukem Forever was certainly a sign, but SCO's continued existence is more of a business as usual. Now if SCO finally dropped dead and stopped rising from the grave. Then I would worry.
When money becomes involved to join or stay apart of it you move more to the business/cult side of things.
Catholic church requires tithing along with Mormons and others. They all have different sticks and carrots to encourage it tithing. You can't get into the Temple in the Mormon church unless you're in good standing which means you've done your confession thing and paid your 10%. Catholics used to go as far as selling forgiveness which was a part of what made Protestants angry with them in the first place.
My point is whether or not money is involved shouldn't be your determining factor in deciding you're going to call someone a member of a cult or not.
The only difference is Pseudo-Religion and Clut are used to describe Religions that I/you don't like and won't accept. Suicide-Cluts are just Religions that encourage their followers to commit suicide and sense I cannot accept Suicide under those conditions I feel free to use Cult to describe their Religion. In general I don't like the word Cult or Pseudo-Religion being used to describe someone. Catholics used to call all Christians who weren't Catholic members of a Cult. It's just a way of demeaning another persons beliefs just like the Atheist Cult of Randi.
Under that logic there is no such thing as a Fraudulent religion then.
They'll probably go after Scientology, and yea there are probably people in there that believe it's one great scam. Then again their are people in the Mormon and Catholic church who believe it's just a scam to collect power as well. Conversely their are plenty of people who believe that it is completely true. In order to prove a religion as fraudulent using your logic I would have to ressurect Peter, Smith and Hubbard and beat them with a lead pipe till they told me what I wanted to hear. And even then they'd just be telling me what I wanted to hear not necessarily if they truly believed it or not.
If you're going to read an article about a benchmark you might actually read the benchmark too.
Previously each data node exploited about 6 CPUs with 8 threads, in this benchmark we used about 14 CPUs with 24 threads. We've also removed a number of bottlenecks and the configuration of the threads is done in such a manner as to handle many different loads well.
The little thing you read about memcached was about adding in a Native API which probably helped things, but getting the multithreading upgraded probably had more to do with it.
They also were comparing two benchmarks that both were using just memory, and not a case where 1 used disk and the other used ram.
If you look at the average of the top 10 oldest people verified. Excluding Japan since they cheat (not reporting grandpa as dead for 10 years doesn't make him older). Only 1 made it past 114 and most hit 113. It's hard to say what Average should be but when you're dealing with verified elderly 114 comes as close to spot on as you can.
If you include people who weren't verified as Old or include Cheating Japan then yes you're right.
I don't see why this is news though. It's been believed for quite some time that metabolism is linked to lifespan, and that people who make it past 100 tend to have a decreased thyroid. It's not really so much as a mystery but fixing it, in my opinion, could be bad. I'd like to have the lifespan of a Galapagos turtle but not if it means I have to move around like one.
No, those games are riddled with bugs because they were made by PC developers that have the mentality you do about patching. Console developers were punished for years with no option to patch a game once it hit shelves so they put more time and effort getting it write the first time.
Hard to tell if you're right. Option 1 keeps coming up and they always sound crazy. The only story about this that I believe might possibly be true is a community of people that moved out to the middle of no where to get away from wi-fi. I only might believe them because that's the only thing that would work if they were "allergic" to wi-fi.
I would have agreed with you up until Final Fantasy XIII. That was a clear sign of going in the wrong direction. I want a game with an in-depth story, and 13 gave me a movie with interactive parts which was offensive. Though being offended is my fault since Square came out and said that's what they were aiming for, but, thinking it was just the same typical pregame hype, I didn't believe them.
I want to believe that David is right, but deep down I still want a story to go along with my games. I just don't want the story to be the game.
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So you're going to pay RapidShare in cash or bitcoins?
Email is one of those things that becomes obvious once the tech comes into existence. Give someone a computer with the option of sending data back and forth and a whole slew of people will say "Send this Memo to EVERYONE" and thus Spam was born.
Then Re-run the experiment and hand out the mass value for the neutrino already so it can replace the "Non-Zero" mass entry.
Not really both China and the Vikings beat out Columbus to North America. China failed because by the time they got back the political control flipped over to Isolationists and Vikings are not very sociable and failed at making viable colonies. Go figure that it took pilgrims befriending then slaughtering the natives to get a foothold. Coupled with the, we can't go home or we'll be killed. I'm sure most of them would have left after that first winter if it was an option.
Space combat being fought on any scale in the next 100 years would probably end badly for both sides. If you just start fighting in Earth orbit you're probably going to trigger Kessler Syndrome and destroy all viable orbits. Unless we make some kind of shielding that can work at stopping a flying bolt from wiping out even your most well built craft it probably won't happen after they figure out that the shrapnel from the "loser" killed the "winning". Then if it got real bad people would just start deliberately leaving trash around in hopes that it wiped out any pursuers. Ending in no one being able to safely leave the Earth and no one being able to safely come home.
Gundam already takes your point into account. M Particles effectively block the long range anonymous forms of attack since it blocks all forms of electromagnetic communication, including laser targeting and gps. M Particles are the deus ex machina of close ranged Gundams.
Don't forget the Latency. SSD drive is what? 5ms average. FIOS - depends on what you ping but you're still going to see a lot of 50 ms ping times. Speed of light and all I think the SSD and HDD have the leg up on just about any Internet connection you could ever get. Now I'm not totally against the cloud. I can see having an application that has the equivalent work of a supercomputer running much faster on the Cloud then on my PC and if all it needs to do is send me the result that makes it so that even with the latency and reduced bandwidth to my screen that it could... in some cases... do better then my PC.
Then learn to be a good Sysadmin and set the memory limits for processes using the OS. Using the Java Xmx setting will only screw with the Garbage Collection, and you'll still not have accounted for the GC and VM overhead. I can actually tell Java to use 128megs and it still take 200. If you're trying to optimize the performance of the Garbage Collector then go ahead start fiddling with them. Other systems have ether determined that it's not worth the hassle or have figured out a better way of managing heap size Garbage Collection Ratios.
That particular reason would only apply to applets where the default is set to 64megs. The first and primary reason to go in and change the memory allocation is to decrease Garbage Collections. If Eden is TOO big your garbage collections take TOO long, but if your Eden is TOO small your garbage collections are TOO frequent. Only a lazy and arrogant system admins would think that the memory settings were for them to enforce some form of system policy.
java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+UseAdaptiveGCBoundary -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=500 -XX:SurvivorRatio=16 -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:UseSSE=3 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4 -jar /media/storage/minecraft.jar
-Xincgc might sound good but then again
-Xincgc Enable the incremental garbage collector. The incremental garbage collector, which is off by default, will eliminate occasional garbage-collection pauses during program execution. However, it can lead to a roughly 10% decrease in overall GC performance.
You have a point, and the answer isn't any good ether. You specify the Heap size so that the Garbage Collector can be lazy and not clean up memory until the specified heap is at a certain level. I think it's just a Java thing. C# and .net grow as needed up to the systems limit. GoLang even though native is Garbage Collected (sorta) and I've yet to find some arbitrary default if one exists. Java only wants to use 1/4th or less of the available system memory, and I can only think of reasons linked to Garbage Collection.
How many years were we on Java6 before Java7 came out?
The JVM really needs to get smarter. 60 different controls and switches is just too much. How hard can it be for the JVM to look at the available number of cores and just turn on the Parallel Garbage Collector. Do I really have to manually turn it on so that Minecraft will use it? Why can't the JVM allocate more memory on its own? Does it really need permission to use more than 1 Gig of memory? It just sits there waiting for the day some user decides to import every single possible datapoint into it, crashes, having used 1 Gig of 8, with a "Out of Memory" error. It's not like Developers know what the Xmx and Xms setting need to be. They just set them arbitrarily high in hopes that some user doesn't try to find out what the maximum datafile it can take is. That just slows it down and makes it so when the GC finally does fire off it has 10x the amount of trash it should have if the value was set lower. Those options are only useful on internal applications that never get into the hands of everyday users. It's probably a great book for server side development, but it is highlighting a major failing of the JVM.
No, what he's doing is just bad science pushing more bad science. If you want to read about real science experiments using dowsing then you have to be just as criticle of his research as any other psudo-scientist who uses a small N test case. The Munich 1987–1988 study that had 300 dowsers tested showed most were no good, but that 6 deviated away from statistical chance. That test proved that most people with supposed ability were probably deluding themselves but a rare number might not be. If he wanted to prove or disprove dowsing would need to perform a study with a Larger N and a higher level of statistical analysis. He doesn't want to do that, and just wants to put on a show that leads people to accept that nonsense studies with a small N are acceptable. If the Munich tests were correct then he had only a 0.02% chance of finding someone that might possibly prove him wrong.
Duke Nukem Forever was certainly a sign, but SCO's continued existence is more of a business as usual. Now if SCO finally dropped dead and stopped rising from the grave. Then I would worry.
When money becomes involved to join or stay apart of it you move more to the business/cult side of things.
Catholic church requires tithing along with Mormons and others. They all have different sticks and carrots to encourage it tithing. You can't get into the Temple in the Mormon church unless you're in good standing which means you've done your confession thing and paid your 10%. Catholics used to go as far as selling forgiveness which was a part of what made Protestants angry with them in the first place.
My point is whether or not money is involved shouldn't be your determining factor in deciding you're going to call someone a member of a cult or not.
The only difference is Pseudo-Religion and Clut are used to describe Religions that I/you don't like and won't accept. Suicide-Cluts are just Religions that encourage their followers to commit suicide and sense I cannot accept Suicide under those conditions I feel free to use Cult to describe their Religion. In general I don't like the word Cult or Pseudo-Religion being used to describe someone. Catholics used to call all Christians who weren't Catholic members of a Cult. It's just a way of demeaning another persons beliefs just like the Atheist Cult of Randi.
Under that logic there is no such thing as a Fraudulent religion then. They'll probably go after Scientology, and yea there are probably people in there that believe it's one great scam. Then again their are people in the Mormon and Catholic church who believe it's just a scam to collect power as well. Conversely their are plenty of people who believe that it is completely true. In order to prove a religion as fraudulent using your logic I would have to ressurect Peter, Smith and Hubbard and beat them with a lead pipe till they told me what I wanted to hear. And even then they'd just be telling me what I wanted to hear not necessarily if they truly believed it or not.
Previously each data node exploited about 6 CPUs with 8 threads, in this benchmark we used about 14 CPUs with 24 threads. We've also removed a number of bottlenecks and the configuration of the threads is done in such a manner as to handle many different loads well.
The little thing you read about memcached was about adding in a Native API which probably helped things, but getting the multithreading upgraded probably had more to do with it. They also were comparing two benchmarks that both were using just memory, and not a case where 1 used disk and the other used ram.
If you include people who weren't verified as Old or include Cheating Japan then yes you're right.
I don't see why this is news though. It's been believed for quite some time that metabolism is linked to lifespan, and that people who make it past 100 tend to have a decreased thyroid. It's not really so much as a mystery but fixing it, in my opinion, could be bad. I'd like to have the lifespan of a Galapagos turtle but not if it means I have to move around like one.
hmm... what would happen if a bot net instead of doing a DoS just had every user "browse" that site?
No, those games are riddled with bugs because they were made by PC developers that have the mentality you do about patching. Console developers were punished for years with no option to patch a game once it hit shelves so they put more time and effort getting it write the first time.
Hard to tell if you're right. Option 1 keeps coming up and they always sound crazy. The only story about this that I believe might possibly be true is a community of people that moved out to the middle of no where to get away from wi-fi. I only might believe them because that's the only thing that would work if they were "allergic" to wi-fi.
I want to believe that David is right, but deep down I still want a story to go along with my games. I just don't want the story to be the game.
Depends, if it's a patent that was being infinity appealed and just now made it though then he would only be able to make the claim now.