Previously, the key of G-flat was a popular key among independant Open Music authors, as the RIAA had neglected to secure rights to it during the Commercial Copyright Reforms of 2016.
RIAA spokesman Darl Hollingsworth explained, "After CCR/2016, the RIAA secured the rights to all keys in which music can be composed. Traditional music theory, dating back to the 15th century, stipulates that there is no such key signature as G-flat major. Unfortunately, Open Music pirates have discovered a way to represent the key of G-flat; however, G-flat major is simply an isomorph of F-sharp. The court rightly recognized this equivalence and the blatent theft of musical keys by Open Music pirates everywhere. In accordance with the law, the Supreme Court of the United States of America has assigned us the world-wide copyright to these songs."
While timing is expected to vary from state to state, all residents of the USA will have their CRMIs (Cranial Rights Management Implants) updated by the end of 2023. The levy for mentally accessing a song written in G-flat will begin at twice the regular rate, to make up for nearly a decade of Note Piracy. The levy will be scaled back to the regular rate of $19.84 per thought once the new CRMI software has been uploaded for two years. Residents of the so-called "Oil States" of Iraq and Saudi America will continue to receive the Western Culture subsidy.
> We wouldn't want someone come up with a new way of doing things. > Were these people around in 1994 saying "who needs HTTP/HTML, > gopher/archie/wais is the de-facto standard".
Actually, I was calling it "FTP with Pictures". I feel kind of silly now.
> It certainly gives new meaning to "Licking" your opponents... > just hope you don't whip their a**...
I was playing Quake (or was it Doom? -- LONG time ago!!) against a Russian friend of mine once. He had the rocket launcher and was hiding in a little cave waaay up on the first level (you know the one -- kill two grunts, go around a square wall into a room with an S curve and acid pools; look up and left).
Anyhow, he saw me running by, and told me he was going to lick my ass.
I laughed so hard, the little bastard actually managed to shoot me.
> Have the police ever visited your home for voting for > another party, including the socialist party?
I heard that the House Un-American Activities Committee once used the FBI to round up, blacklist, jail, and ruin the lives of a bunch of actors and writers because they thought they might be sympathetic to the Communist party..
I guess it's really important to preserve that two-party system of yours!
Programmers come up with algorithms. Transcribers turn algorithms into code. Optimizers make a given algorithm perform its best.
The author of the article is suggesting that we eliminate optimzers, since he claims they are the least important.
Some people are good programmers. Many of these are good transcribers. Some of these are good optimizers. The people that are all three, and who know when to wear which hat, are what I like to have working for me.
A lousy programmer tasked with a programming job will come up with a lousy algorithm. Often, he'll be able to transcribe is successfully and optimze the hell out of it. This type of program will almost always be slow.
Here's a stunning example. My highschool had a bunch of Turbo 8086 machines (8Mhz, whoo hoo!). My highschool CS teacher wanted to teach us about "optimization", so he challenged us to write a program to factor large numbers. He "optimized" his program by re-writing it in assembly, and showed us how it was faster than a our BASIC programs, even when the assembled version was running on the old IBM box (4.77 MHz).
I "optimized" my program by using a better algorithm. (Only checking up to the square root. The stupid fool was checking every freakin' number!). His program was indeed very fast for small N, but mine *smoked* his for large values of N.
He gave me an F because I "cheated" by not checking every number.
You need to learn how to use Google. I found decent information after about 45 seconds., here
That's the fourth link on this search: 'johan svendsen' -"buy it" -cd -amazon
Once you've got one link, you can find similar ones by properly sprinkling keywords in your searches. Like his birth year. Searching for "john svendsen" 1840 yields a page full of on-topic results.
..that machine should have at least 2GB swap (same as RAM) for a very simple reason:/var/crash/`hostname`/*.
When your kernel panics, it [basically] copies memory to your swap partition; on boot, it stuffs it back in/var/crash in a format useful for debugging.
> There's an old trick with a paper towel tube, some salt, and wax paper.
There's an older trick which has been known for thousands of years.
The Go'ald (Egyptian Gods to our ancestors) employ a personal defence shield. This shield is resistant to high-energy weapons, such as a Zatnikatel, staff weapon, or bullets. Yet a weapon with lower kinetic energy, such as a hand-thrown knife, can pass through the shield unmolested.
Actually, the GUI wizards just generate code for you anyhow -- so at least you can freely build programs built with the GUIs with just the command-line compiler.
At least, that's how I understand it works. I let Other People handle the Windows GUI programming. I like to keep my hands clean.
...I've been using MS VC and eVC to build code under Winblows and Wince for a long time. I use GNU make under Cygwin with a bunch of fancy default rules.
Having this compiler released means that a) I don't have to install that confusing GUI b) I don't have to cough up the money to upgrade (Currently running VC 5.0)..the MS compiler is actually not that bad, and you're stuck with at least *SOME* MS tools if you want interoperatibility with other MS tools. MIDL interfaces (formerly ODL), for one.
I write library code under UNIX in C, debug it in a sane environment (100% GNU, except for Xemacs) and then port it to Windows (generally pretty trivial -- I port by making Windows look like POSIX, so the UNIX codebase stays basically virgin). Run it through MIDL to get a type library, and all of a sudden your stupid VB developers developing one-off, simple GUIs have access to all kinds of well-debugged code that was originally developed on a sane platform.
As long as your code only touches files or sockets, it will run okay under MS VC.
Linux men exist. I don't see the problem with his post.;)
Virii is the plural form of virius, which isn't a word in Latin or English.
A far as Caesar was concerned, virus didn't have a plural form in Latin. It already has pluraity implied (sort of like people, deer, geese, and sheep); so "a virus" -- singular -- is an Anglicism.
Which means, of course, you're right, viruses is the best English plural form; if we are to pluralize an English word we should use English rules.
> Look up the history of Kudzu for an example > of something that once was thought of a great > idea, now everyone hates it.
I hate it too -- it makes my RedHat boxes boot way too slowly. So I modified the rc?.d script so that it doesn't actually probe for any new devices unless/reconfigure exists.
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Posted by michael on Monday May 23, @01:25PM
from the we-miss-the-dmca dept.
The RIAA announced today that they have secured the exclusive right to the key of G-flat.
Previously, the key of G-flat was a popular key among independant Open Music authors, as the RIAA had neglected to secure rights to it during the Commercial Copyright Reforms of 2016.
RIAA spokesman Darl Hollingsworth explained, "After CCR/2016, the RIAA secured the rights to all keys in which music can be composed. Traditional music theory, dating back to the 15th century, stipulates that there is no such key signature as G-flat major. Unfortunately, Open Music pirates have discovered a way to represent the key of G-flat; however, G-flat major is simply an isomorph of F-sharp. The court rightly recognized this equivalence and the blatent theft of musical keys by Open Music pirates everywhere. In accordance with the law, the Supreme Court of the United States of America has assigned us the world-wide copyright to these songs."
While timing is expected to vary from state to state, all residents of the USA will have their CRMIs (Cranial Rights Management Implants) updated by the end of 2023. The levy for mentally accessing a song written in G-flat will begin at twice the regular rate, to make up for nearly a decade of Note Piracy. The levy will be scaled back to the regular rate of $19.84 per thought once the new CRMI software has been uploaded for two years. Residents of the so-called "Oil States" of Iraq and Saudi America will continue to receive the Western Culture subsidy.
> We wouldn't want someone come up with a new way of doing things.
> Were these people around in 1994 saying "who needs HTTP/HTML,
> gopher/archie/wais is the de-facto standard".
Actually, I was calling it "FTP with Pictures". I feel kind of silly now.
You missed one... Final Fantasy XXX
> Let's not make any handicapped jokes please.
> Alright, porn industry jokes are fine.
I saw a porn movie once about two lesbians. One of them had her foot amputated just above her ankle. She was using it on the other one as a dildo.
> It certainly gives new meaning to "Licking" your opponents...
> just hope you don't whip their a**...
I was playing Quake (or was it Doom? -- LONG time ago!!) against a Russian friend of mine once. He had the rocket launcher and was hiding in a little cave waaay up on the first level (you know the one -- kill two grunts, go around a square wall into a room with an S curve and acid pools; look up and left).
Anyhow, he saw me running by, and told me he was going to lick my ass.
I laughed so hard, the little bastard actually managed to shoot me.
> I'm wondering if Majel Barret/Roddenbery got involved
What the hell is Nurse Chapel gonna do? Add a lesbian hologram?
> I had no idea there were so many Goa'uld walking around?
They're probably Ashraks looking for Tok'rah.
> Why, a skip could open up, and then we could be getting porn from German broadcast TV
Or, a region 1 movie clip might broadcast in region 2.. The MPAA would have a total shit fit
> Anyone else more knowledgable, please correct.
> Distance from Impact: 1000.00 km = 621.00 miles
1000.00 km = 621.371192 miles.
You're welcome.
> Have the police ever visited your home for voting for
> another party, including the socialist party?
I heard that the House Un-American Activities Committee once used the FBI to round up, blacklist, jail, and ruin the lives of a bunch of actors and writers because they thought they might be sympathetic to the Communist party..
I guess it's really important to preserve that two-party system of yours!
If the US wants to pay for things like SDI (or whatever Star Wars is being called these days), you guys should offer an ASP defence solution.
Like, say, "we'll shoot down missles going from Korea to Japan for you.. $500,000,000/yr maintenance fee plus $1,000,000,000 per incident".
I guess the QoS SLA might come back to slap them in the face. Think they can kill four-nines worth of missles?
Tricorder gather data with sensors, and analyze it. These do not! They are more like PADDs.
j pg
http://toshitin.hp.infoseek.co.jp/library/padd.
There are *three* kinds of people in a dev shop:
- Programmers
- Transcribers
- Optimizers
Programmers come up with algorithms.
Transcribers turn algorithms into code.
Optimizers make a given algorithm perform its best.
The author of the article is suggesting that we eliminate optimzers, since he claims they are the least important.
Some people are good programmers. Many of these are good transcribers. Some of these are good optimizers. The people that are all three, and who know when to wear which hat, are what I like to have working for me.
A lousy programmer tasked with a programming job will come up with a lousy algorithm. Often, he'll be able to transcribe is successfully and optimze the hell out of it. This type of program will almost always be slow.
Here's a stunning example. My highschool had a bunch of Turbo 8086 machines (8Mhz, whoo hoo!). My highschool CS teacher wanted to teach us about "optimization", so he challenged us to write a program to factor large numbers. He "optimized" his program by re-writing it in assembly, and showed us how it was faster than a our BASIC programs, even when the assembled version was running on the old IBM box (4.77 MHz).
I "optimized" my program by using a better algorithm. (Only checking up to the square root. The stupid fool was checking every freakin' number!). His program was indeed very fast for small N, but mine *smoked* his for large values of N.
He gave me an F because I "cheated" by not checking every number.
I played Budokan for the rest of the year.
You need to learn how to use Google. I found decent information after about 45 seconds., here
That's the fourth link on this search: 'johan svendsen' -"buy it" -cd -amazon
Once you've got one link, you can find similar ones by properly sprinkling keywords in your searches. Like his birth year. Searching for "john svendsen" 1840 yields a page full of on-topic results.
..that machine should have at least 2GB swap (same as RAM) for a very simple reason: /var/crash/`hostname`/*.
/var/crash in a format useful for debugging.
When your kernel panics, it [basically] copies memory to your swap partition; on boot, it stuffs it back in
> There's an old trick with a paper towel tube, some salt, and wax paper.
There's an older trick which has been known for thousands of years.
The Go'ald (Egyptian Gods to our ancestors) employ a personal defence shield. This shield is resistant to high-energy weapons, such as a Zatnikatel, staff weapon, or bullets. Yet a weapon with lower kinetic energy, such as a hand-thrown knife, can pass through the shield unmolested.
Did somebody pour a Beowulf cluster of hot grits down your pants?
Actually, the GUI wizards just generate code for you anyhow -- so at least you can freely build programs built with the GUIs with just the command-line compiler.
At least, that's how I understand it works. I let Other People handle the Windows GUI programming. I like to keep my hands clean.
...I've been using MS VC and eVC to build code under Winblows and Wince for a long time. I use GNU make under Cygwin with a bunch of fancy default rules.
..the MS compiler is actually not that bad, and you're stuck with at least *SOME* MS tools if you want interoperatibility with other MS tools. MIDL interfaces (formerly ODL), for one.
Having this compiler released means that
a) I don't have to install that confusing GUI
b) I don't have to cough up the money to upgrade (Currently running VC 5.0)
I write library code under UNIX in C, debug it in a sane environment (100% GNU, except for Xemacs) and then port it to Windows (generally pretty trivial -- I port by making Windows look like POSIX, so the UNIX codebase stays basically virgin). Run it through MIDL to get a type library, and all of a sudden your stupid VB developers developing one-off, simple GUIs have access to all kinds of well-debugged code that was originally developed on a sane platform.
As long as your code only touches files or sockets, it will run okay under MS VC.
>> I have a magnet which I had when I was little,
>> and it is now much weaker."
> This is a completely different effect, related
> more to entropy than to the expenditure of energy.
You're trying to hard. You could just say "Yeah, dummy, 'cause you dropped it.. probably a thousand times in the last 20 years!"
Hey, I know that name.
He should've gotten a C programmer to collaborate with him on cgihtml.a... because he obviously can't write stable code all by himself.
Viri is the plural of Vir, "man".
;)
Linux men exist. I don't see the problem with his post.
Virii is the plural form of virius, which isn't a word in Latin or English.
A far as Caesar was concerned, virus didn't have a plural form in Latin. It already has pluraity implied (sort of like people, deer, geese, and sheep); so "a virus" -- singular -- is an Anglicism.
Which means, of course, you're right, viruses is the best English plural form; if we are to pluralize an English word we should use English rules.
> Next week: GNU/Assembler. . .
We have that, it's called gas.
> All Sparc chips have to be Sparc V9 compatible
Even the sun4m and sun4c chips?
> Look up the history of Kudzu for an example
/reconfigure exists.
> of something that once was thought of a great
> idea, now everyone hates it.
I hate it too -- it makes my RedHat boxes boot way too slowly. So I modified the rc?.d script so that it doesn't actually probe for any new devices unless