I only have opera running on my WinMobile Dell Axim v51x PDA and it's currently running, it seems to be 30-40 times slower than the desktop, so I'll not be waiting before I post...
Okay, it wasn't that bad - it finished in 317.8s. So 15-20 times slower. I was actually surpriced that it managed to run to the end.
For playing with the kid Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii is amazing. The graphics are okay, for a wii, but the puzzles and the game eplay is just amazingly engaging. It's just fun.
Halflife 2. Ep 2 looks amazing. My PC isn't a dedicated gaming PC, but fairly new, and I did splash a bit extra on the graphics card. It's fun and it has a few good places where a literally twitched and dodged, when something jumped me. You need to be in the game to do that. Was a bit short through...
WinXP Firefox 2.0.0.11: 18.8s WinXP Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11: 33.1s (same issue with the strings performance) Ubuntu Firefox 2.0.0.6 (yeah, well): 15.3s
I only have opera running on my WinMobile Dell Axim v51x PDA and it's currently running, it seems to be 30-40 times slower than the desktop, so I'll not be waiting before I post...
Gee. Imagine retailers wanting people to spend more money in a free-market, capitalist, consumer-driven economy. Shocking
I'm not contesting that or even saying that it's wrong, what I'm trying to is that our ideas of what normal or even right, are being badly skewed by a massive bombardment of commercials, that only want us to buy more.
I think that it bears repeating that commercials, or just any program that wants to suck up to its sponsors, are badly misrepresenting just about everything about real life. It looks real, but it isn't.
This is what they want to you to believe that it's normal to spend. Like a shampoo commercial where they use a goddamn handful of the stuff - perferable twice a day. Or where day time make-up for women makes them look like whores on halloween. Or... Or... rememeber people they are trying to make you spend more money. Nothing else. Nothing.
You should have turned of his computer and remove the powercable, keyboard, network cable, etc, with the words. "Congratulations: you now have the most secure PC in the house".
I think Angola is one of the few African countries that managed to work it self out of that trap. They are, as far as I understand, fairly self sufficient, having until recently, basically denied any foreign help or investment for the last 30 years. The price has been high - no democracy for you - but I'm not sure that the elections in most other African countries are worth much more, and Angola actually have an chance to become rich enough that democracy actually means something. Can you have democracy on an empty belly?... "real" elections have been promised for next year.
Lets say that you application,at any give time can know the stress level of the user. On a scale from 1 to 11.
How would you want an application that you use or develop to changes it workings depending on this?
There's an example of workload sharing in TFA, but really, there's a fine line between "this person is stressed and working well with that", and "this person is overstressed, and we better share the load a bit".
And for everyday use... "You seem stressed - I'll delay all your incoming mails (including the one you are stressed over not having arrived yet)"...
I just don't think our computers are intelligent enough right now to use this information to anything useful...
NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently.
Anybody, have an idea how fast that is compared to modern a CPU?
IIRC, the last time I did anything like this it took my 2200+ AMD about 24 hours to do a 6-character keyspace (from 64-character set) - with MD5.
1. Record the event 2. Post on YouTube 3. Have Large TV network steal it 4. Post that on YouTube 5. Get sued by TV network 6. Now you are a Pirate and can surely kick Ninja ass... 7. Profit (if you win the lawsuit).
The people who actually care about facts, are already on the side of evolution.
The people who do not believe in evolution, do so because the alternative appeal more to their feelings. They will not be swayed by facts.
Yes, you can probably make them look silly with their faith based opinions, but that will not win them over. It will only make the debate more dirty.
If you want to win them over, you have present evolution as an emotional alternative that can appeal to them.
Me, I think that's close to impossible, but more importantly, totally pointless.
I think that it would be more productive to make them understand the difference between belief and science, and get them to respect that other people may have other opinions on the matter. Make an emotional appeal to their sense of... generosity.
Read Vernor Vinges Rainbows End for a description how this could "work". In this future a Homeland Security like entity holds the root certificate, which then delegates a chain of trust all the way down to every single bit on every single "trusted" computer/device. All in the interest of protecting us all...
And... the moment a movie/book/whatever leaves the hands of the creator, it's not his anymore. He may have had intention as to how the content should/could be understood, but I decide how to read what's there. He can't dictate, how his creation interacts with what's in my brain. I think Bladerunner is a better movie for leaving the issue open.
When Scott comes out and says "Deckard was an Android", he's only telling how he saw it. In this case I disagree...
I felt the same way.... but then I watched some "art" by Yoko Ono, and the by the feeling of mounting doom and the need to puke, I knew that I was still (relatively) sane...
I didn't say "legal precedent" - and there's a reason.
This... fight is fought in several fronts. Some in the courts, some in the perception of what the terms like fair-user means. If Disney doesn't DMCA (or whatever) this, it sets a precedent on what you can get away with without being sued.
Speeding is a question of hard numbers. Understanding of a term like Fair Use is something different and a lot more bendable. As the FUD compaigns of the Intellectual Property prove.
A lot of hard work must have gone into this. But, well, the results are less than stellar. But in a ways it's more like a piece of bait for the legal department of Disney. It's not so much the message of the movie itself, but it's ability to force a reaction, that exactly the point of the message itself, that's interesting.
Viral marketing payed by the legal department of Disney, if you want. If it works. If Disney can't find a quiet way to kill it. On the otherhand, if they do not try to kill it, a small piece of fair use got got accepted, and will set a precedence. A win-win situation, as far as I see it.
Anyway, I'm afraid this is another article by a 21-year-old student who is well-meaning, but not nearly experienced enough yet to appreciate that his suggestion is just rehashing (no pun intended) a lot of long-established ideas. I did this once in "advances data structures" class. The teacher was explaining about linked arrays, and I managed, all by my self, to invent the loosely linked multi dimensional array (or some such, it's been a bit), which I promptly shared with the class, thus ensuring that this monumental discovery could wouldn't go unused. The teachers response was along the lines of "yes, that would be Chapter 8 in your text book and we will working on that next week".
I've been using LightRoom since the beta's and 1.0 since it came out (link to my walk-through in the sig).
It's a really nice program. As a developer, the structure of the program it self, gives me a warm fussy feeling. More programs should be written like this - it's clear that Adobe has given a lot of though to responsiveness and threading. They haven't perfected it, but most of the time, the program responds very quickly, by starting on something that shows you that it's working on what you wanted it to do - like you can see the details in your thumbs-images get better and better and suddenly it's there. But the important thing is - the interface is still responsive, if you can click on a thumb and have that image load, even if the thumb is only halfway loaded (note: some people do have issue with LR performance, but it seems to be a specific issue for them).
As a photographer - well. As a work-flow program it does everything I want. As a "darkroom" it does most of what it should, but there's still some most have functions that are just not good enough (Noise Reduction/Sharpen/Clone).
He calls it one of the most interesting examples of a software 'abuse case' he has ever seen. He doesn't get out much.... oh, on a plane?
I think it's more of a case of bad quality control. If the testing environment of the developers had contained a single "lets throw an exception" or maybe a "lets try to lock up a process at 100%" test, they would have see that they needed to at a bit of exception handling (in the first case).
But writing good test cases can be hard.
Anyway. I've seen code like this tons of times. Some people apparently have issues with (how hard can it be), so they use equal instead, but one day, the step value is changed from 1 to 2 (make it go directly from 99 to 101), or some routine fails and returns a default value of -1. And suddenly the code is in the twilight zone.
Anyway^2, I actually did find this rather un-interesting.
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Okay, it wasn't that bad - it finished in 317.8s. So 15-20 times slower. I was actually surpriced that it managed to run to the end.
For playing with the kid Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii is amazing. The graphics are okay, for a wii, but the puzzles and the game eplay is just amazingly engaging. It's just fun.
Halflife 2. Ep 2 looks amazing. My PC isn't a dedicated gaming PC, but fairly new, and I did splash a bit extra on the graphics card. It's fun and it has a few good places where a literally twitched and dodged, when something jumped me. You need to be in the game to do that. Was a bit short through...
Okay, maybe not, but this is my numbers:
WinXP Firefox 2.0.0.11: 18.8s
WinXP Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11: 33.1s (same issue with the strings performance)
Ubuntu Firefox 2.0.0.6 (yeah, well): 15.3s
I only have opera running on my WinMobile Dell Axim v51x PDA and it's currently running, it seems to be 30-40 times slower than the desktop, so I'll not be waiting before I post...
I'm not contesting that or even saying that it's wrong, what I'm trying to is that our ideas of what normal or even right, are being badly skewed by a massive bombardment of commercials, that only want us to buy more.
I think that it bears repeating that commercials, or just any program that wants to suck up to its sponsors, are badly misrepresenting just about everything about real life. It looks real, but it isn't.
This is what they want to you to believe that it's normal to spend. Like a shampoo commercial where they use a goddamn handful of the stuff - perferable twice a day. Or where day time make-up for women makes them look like whores on halloween. Or... Or... rememeber people they are trying to make you spend more money. Nothing else. Nothing.
You should have turned of his computer and remove the powercable, keyboard, network cable, etc, with the words. "Congratulations: you now have the most secure PC in the house".
I think Angola is one of the few African countries that managed to work it self out of that trap. They are, as far as I understand, fairly self sufficient, having until recently, basically denied any foreign help or investment for the last 30 years. The price has been high - no democracy for you - but I'm not sure that the elections in most other African countries are worth much more, and Angola actually have an chance to become rich enough that democracy actually means something. Can you have democracy on an empty belly? ... "real" elections have been promised for next year.
.. what would you use this for?
,at any give time can know the stress level of the user. On a scale from 1 to 11.
...
Lets say that you application
How would you want an application that you use or develop to changes it workings depending on this?
There's an example of workload sharing in TFA, but really, there's a fine line between "this person is stressed and working well with that", and "this person is overstressed, and we better share the load a bit".
And for everyday use... "You seem stressed - I'll delay all your incoming mails (including the one you are stressed over not having arrived yet)"
I just don't think our computers are intelligent enough right now to use this information to anything useful...
... route is probably the one you know.
I actually quoted that myself...
I was wondering how it compared with the latest and greatest like x64 with SSE3/4 or a Cell processor...
(that'll learn you to actually read the post you are replying to. Or not)
Anybody, have an idea how fast that is compared to modern a CPU?
IIRC, the last time I did anything like this it took my 2200+ AMD about 24 hours to do a 6-character keyspace (from 64-character set) - with MD5.
1. Record the event
2. Post on YouTube
3. Have Large TV network steal it
4. Post that on YouTube
5. Get sued by TV network
6. Now you are a Pirate and can surely kick Ninja ass...
7. Profit (if you win the lawsuit).
Bingo! .... if things are going to the shits, find something else people can concentrate on.
...
Like going to the moon
I agree. That's why I said that I thought it was kind of impossible.
You are not going to win anybody over with facts.
... generosity.
The people who actually care about facts, are already on the side of evolution.
The people who do not believe in evolution, do so because the alternative appeal more to their feelings. They will not be swayed by facts.
Yes, you can probably make them look silly with their faith based opinions, but that will not win them over. It will only make the debate more dirty.
If you want to win them over, you have present evolution as an emotional alternative that can appeal to them.
Me, I think that's close to impossible, but more importantly, totally pointless.
I think that it would be more productive to make them understand the difference between belief and science, and get them to respect that other people may have other opinions on the matter. Make an emotional appeal to their sense of
Read Vernor Vinges Rainbows End for a description how this could "work". In this future a Homeland Security like entity holds the root certificate, which then delegates a chain of trust all the way down to every single bit on every single "trusted" computer/device. All in the interest of protecting us all...
Totally agree.
... the moment a movie/book/whatever leaves the hands of the creator, it's not his anymore. He may have had intention as to how the content should/could be understood, but I decide how to read what's there. He can't dictate, how his creation interacts with what's in my brain. I think Bladerunner is a better movie for leaving the issue open.
And
When Scott comes out and says "Deckard was an Android", he's only telling how he saw it. In this case I disagree...
I felt the same way.... but then I watched some "art" by Yoko Ono, and the by the feeling of mounting doom and the need to puke, I knew that I was still (relatively) sane ...
I didn't say "legal precedent" - and there's a reason.
This... fight is fought in several fronts. Some in the courts, some in the perception of what the terms like fair-user means. If Disney doesn't DMCA (or whatever) this, it sets a precedent on what you can get away with without being sued.
Speeding is a question of hard numbers. Understanding of a term like Fair Use is something different and a lot more bendable. As the FUD compaigns of the Intellectual Property prove.
A lot of hard work must have gone into this. But, well, the results are less than stellar. But in a ways it's more like a piece of bait for the legal department of Disney. It's not so much the message of the movie itself, but it's ability to force a reaction, that exactly the point of the message itself, that's interesting.
Viral marketing payed by the legal department of Disney, if you want. If it works. If Disney can't find a quiet way to kill it. On the otherhand, if they do not try to kill it, a small piece of fair use got got accepted, and will set a precedence. A win-win situation, as far as I see it.
So, what kind of test did she have to complete to qualify?
I've been using LightRoom since the beta's and 1.0 since it came out (link to my walk-through in the sig).
It's a really nice program. As a developer, the structure of the program it self, gives me a warm fussy feeling. More programs should be written like this - it's clear that Adobe has given a lot of though to responsiveness and threading. They haven't perfected it, but most of the time, the program responds very quickly, by starting on something that shows you that it's working on what you wanted it to do - like you can see the details in your thumbs-images get better and better and suddenly it's there. But the important thing is - the interface is still responsive, if you can click on a thumb and have that image load, even if the thumb is only halfway loaded (note: some people do have issue with LR performance, but it seems to be a specific issue for them).
As a photographer - well. As a work-flow program it does everything I want. As a "darkroom" it does most of what it should, but there's still some most have functions that are just not good enough (Noise Reduction/Sharpen/Clone).
Oh, and I badly miss dual monitor support!
Du'h - Nemesis if anything. Here are the missing character: > <
I think it's more of a case of bad quality control. If the testing environment of the developers had contained a single "lets throw an exception" or maybe a "lets try to lock up a process at 100%" test, they would have see that they needed to at a bit of exception handling (in the first case).
But writing good test cases can be hard.
Anyway. I've seen code like this tons of times. Some people apparently have issues with (how hard can it be), so they use equal instead, but one day, the step value is changed from 1 to 2 (make it go directly from 99 to 101), or some routine fails and returns a default value of -1. And suddenly the code is in the twilight zone.
Anyway^2, I actually did find this rather un-interesting.