The '11 of the top 15' is also grossly misleading. There were twice as many proprietory projects as OSS projects - you'd expect them to take 10 out of the top 15 slots. Deviation by 1 from that is lost in the noise.
I agree with your analysis - I've been on the fixing end of a lot of these kinds of reports, and have known that the flagged error can never occur, but the linting nazis insist that there must be zero warnings at any cost.
I thought Voyager was the ultimate in stable code, not the space shuttle?
However, for familiarity I run linux on my pegasos box (a loaner from work, noone else uses it).
I'll fess up to being an ex Atari ST fan. I'd have bought an Amiga if I could have afforded it. It was better, just out of the reach of my limited budget.
""" And an in-built anti-phishing is very much welcome - even if its going to add 50MB more. Because, one fine day, it may save me from losing some money. """
Is there some new kind of geek-cred for displaying the height of your stupidity in public?
What do I care? Not a whit. Install bloat-ware for idiots 2.0, it's your machine.
Well, at least contributors to arXiv between them seem to. (The 'GM' section in mathematics has been dubbed by some serious mathematicians "garbage machine", for example.)
Wait for the peer review to begin. I've not seen anyone familiar with the field say anything about the paper yet, only then does it gain credibility.
This sentence from it sounds like bullcrap: <<< For example, it would be inappropriate for them to say "based on Mozilla Firefox". >>> If it is based on Mozilla firefox, then that statement is a fact. Facts like this are never inappropriate, only inconvenient.
My understanding was that ephemeral copies, such as the loading into RAM, are explicitly excluded - they themselves do not cause you to break copyright. If, however, the copy on your HD is in violation, then you're in vailation whether you copy it to RAM or not, so ephemeral copies aren't relevant from that perspective either.
It looks like many previous versions of MS's windows software violates their own guidelines too.
E.g. Almost every program written since Windows 3.1 was released was in violation of this: "Don't accompany warning messages with sound effects. Doing so is jarring and unnecessary." I bet every future program will be too.
Actaully, he does take (A) into account. That force diagram on the 5th page. The problem is that he takes it into account in a *completely incorrect* way. Magically, forces on the walls are not perpendicular to them. Heck, if you can point force arrows in arbitrary directions, you can get a lot more efficient thrust than this!
This guy's funny farm material. New Scientist has reached a new low.
Whatever Digg may be, it's users seem to be experts in missing the point.
If you google for ``hot asian noodz'', and go to the first hit, with javascript turned on for the full effect, then you'll see something which makes kwota.net look almost meditative.
[Note - if I appear partisan, it's because I'm a prime-hunter myself]
I don't think that it's fair to say that no-one is trying as hard, as many people are, it's just a matter of quantity of effort, rather than quality of effort. GIMPS is huge (and maintains a momentum because of that - people join it because it's the biggest).
So electricity-wise, you're not just right, you're so right that you're completely wrong! (Did that make sense?) It we pretend that on average they have been running 50000 machines for the last 10 years, this prize amounts to 0.2c per machine year.
I happy that it's gotting more easier. Are not you too?
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I got to that dialog only using mouse events (clicking in a menu), I expect to perform the actual save itself using only mouse events (clicking on a button or file), and to leave the dialog using only mouse events (clicking on a button).
Expecting the user to fart around with mystical magical hidden keyboard shortcuts is entirely out of place.
However, it fits in perfectly with the rest of the whole abortion that calls itself the Gnome GUI. I do not believe anyone who's worked on it has ever had any UI design training at all. It's a step back 2 decades.
I'd like to agree with you, I dearly would. However, if movie makers simply kept to the believable, then none of them would ever make any movies. They have to aim a movie for the demographic sector which they believe will be forgiving of the unbelievable aspects - i.e. will suspend disbelief.
If you are not prepared to suspend disbelief because you insist that superman must obey the laws of conservation of energy and momentum, then it's not the film-makers fault - it's your fault for going to a movie where the lead character by design violates the laws of physics.
It doesn't always work that way - the 'everything blows up/bursts into flames' device is unbelievable to anyone with more than double-digit tally of axons, and yet trashy film-makers (yes, that means 99% of Holywood) insist on using it frequently - and indeed that _is_ bad film-making.
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According to http://scan.coverity.com/ , subversion has 15 lines of code.
That's a bug, surely. Hypocrites!
FatPhil
The '11 of the top 15' is also grossly misleading. There were twice as many proprietory projects as OSS projects - you'd expect them to take 10 out of the top 15 slots. Deviation by 1 from that is lost in the noise.
I agree with your analysis - I've been on the fixing end of a lot of these kinds of reports, and have known that the flagged error can never occur, but the linting nazis insist that there must be zero warnings at any cost.
I thought Voyager was the ultimate in stable code, not the space shuttle?
FatPhil
In what way is that post flamebait? What the fuck was I being inflamatory about?
Mods on crack.
In particular, September 1993 - the september that never ended.
Fortunately googlegroups has taken over the torch for the attempt to fill usenet with idiots since AOL pulled out.
FatPhil
For me, the Amiga philosophy was picked up more by MorphOS and Pegasos than this new so-called "Amiga".
http://www.morphos.org/index.php3
http://www.pegasosppc.com/
However, for familiarity I run linux on my pegasos box (a loaner from work, noone else uses it).
I'll fess up to being an ex Atari ST fan. I'd have bought an Amiga if I could have afforded it. It was better, just out of the reach of my limited budget.
FatPhil
Accepted. My reading of the thread was highly non-linear.
"they have no First Amendment in the UK"
Why the heck would the United Kingdom need a First Amendment of the Constitution for the United States of America?
FatPhil
Cold Start: 12.49 vs. 9.64 = 30% slower
Warm Start: 5.89 vs. 3.95 = 49% slower
What different meaning of "at most" do you have from the rest of the world?
Both OSX and Windows showed >10% slowdowns in some tests.
"""
And an in-built anti-phishing is very much welcome - even if its going to add 50MB more. Because, one fine day, it may save me from losing some money.
"""
Is there some new kind of geek-cred for displaying the height of your stupidity in public?
What do I care? Not a whit. Install bloat-ware for idiots 2.0, it's your machine.
FatPhil
Well, at least contributors to arXiv between them seem to. (The 'GM' section in mathematics has been dubbed by some serious mathematicians "garbage machine", for example.)
Wait for the peer review to begin. I've not seen anyone familiar with the field say anything about the paper yet, only then does it gain credibility.
FatPhil
But don't forget that the fax machine is also a shredder.
Thanks for hunting that out.
This sentence from it sounds like bullcrap:
<<<
For example, it would be inappropriate for them to say "based on Mozilla Firefox".
>>>
If it is based on Mozilla firefox, then that statement is a fact. Facts like this are never inappropriate, only inconvenient.
FatPhil
Superb suggestion.
Borrowing that idea, 'freerfox' has identical syllable stresses.
FatPhil
My understanding was that ephemeral copies, such as the loading into RAM, are explicitly excluded - they themselves do not cause you to break copyright. If, however, the copy on your HD is in violation, then you're in vailation whether you copy it to RAM or not, so ephemeral copies aren't relevant from that perspective either.
FatPhil
It looks like many previous versions of MS's windows software violates their own guidelines too.
E.g. Almost every program written since Windows 3.1 was released was in violation of this:
"Don't accompany warning messages with sound effects. Doing so is jarring and unnecessary."
I bet every future program will be too.
Chord.wav will never die...
FatPhil
Actaully, he does take (A) into account. That force diagram on the 5th page.
The problem is that he takes it into account in a *completely incorrect* way.
Magically, forces on the walls are not perpendicular to them.
Heck, if you can point force arrows in arbitrary directions, you can get
a lot more efficient thrust than this!
This guy's funny farm material. New Scientist has reached a new low.
Phil
Whatever Digg may be, it's users seem to be experts in missing the point.
If you google for ``hot asian noodz'', and go to the first hit, with javascript turned on for the full effect, then you'll see something which makes kwota.net look almost meditative.
FatPhil
If a divides n, then 2^a-1 divides 2^n-1.
.... 2^((n/a)*a) == 1.
So for 2^n-1 to be prime, n itself must be prime.
Quick proof - consider the values of 2^i modulo (2^a-1) for i=0..n,
You'll notice that 2^0 == 2^a == 2^(2a) ==
i.e. 2^n-1 == 0 (mod 2^a-1)
Note, however, that it's a necessary condition, but is not sufficient.
There are plenty of prime p such that 2^p-1 is not prime.
See http://www.primepages.org/
FatPhil
[Note - if I appear partisan, it's because I'm a prime-hunter myself]
I don't think that it's fair to say that no-one is trying as hard, as many people are, it's just a matter of quantity of effort, rather than quality of effort. GIMPS is huge (and maintains a momentum because of that - people join it because it's the biggest).
So electricity-wise, you're not just right, you're so right that you're completely wrong! (Did that make sense?) It we pretend that on average they have been running 50000 machines for the last 10 years, this prize amounts to 0.2c per machine year.
FatPhil
Your PC isn't Turing Complete.
Blue Gene isn't Turing Complete.
Of course Colossus was't Turing Complete.
FatPhil
I happy that it's gotting more easier. Are not you too?
I got to that dialog only using mouse events (clicking in a menu), I expect to perform the actual save itself using only mouse events (clicking on a button or file), and to leave the dialog using only mouse events (clicking on a button).
Expecting the user to fart around with mystical magical hidden keyboard shortcuts is entirely out of place.
However, it fits in perfectly with the rest of the whole abortion that calls itself the Gnome GUI. I do not believe anyone who's worked on it has ever had any UI design training at all. It's a step back 2 decades.
I'd like to agree with you, I dearly would. However, if movie makers simply kept to the believable, then none of them would ever make any movies. They have to aim a movie for the demographic sector which they believe will be forgiving of the unbelievable aspects - i.e. will suspend disbelief.
If you are not prepared to suspend disbelief because you insist that superman must obey the laws of conservation of energy and momentum, then it's not the film-makers fault - it's your fault for going to a movie where the lead character by design violates the laws of physics.
It doesn't always work that way - the 'everything blows up/bursts into flames' device is unbelievable to anyone with more than double-digit tally of axons, and yet trashy film-makers (yes, that means 99% of Holywood) insist on using it frequently - and indeed that _is_ bad film-making.
FatPhil
Was MP3.com really that small? I know I bought loads of stuff from it before it got borgified.
FatPhil
arXiv is not peer reviewed.
Yes, it's published, but so is any blog or slashdot post.
Papers does not mean fact. Reproducable results is what
you're looking for, which requires third parties.