(Sorry if reference went astray, ooops, I 'm blaming nutscrape and it's inability to cut and paste properly...)
Anyway, I agree with your points. Tail packing is perfect for _many_ of the _most common_ files (in particular there are ones that are nothing but tail).
It appears that there's no reason at all why ext2 doesn't have tail packing apart from never getting round to it. Shame.
All respect to the coders who decided that 'it works' isn't good enough.
So the total time of the test is 1802.15 / 1934.97
= 0.93. (i.e. Reiser is 7% slower performing the whole test.)
I don't care if they make the thing that takes a tenth of a millisecond twice as fast, it's the reading of the bulk of the file that takes the most time, and for that part, Reiser is slower.
However, each individual has got to look at what is most important for them, for me it's 99% file read time on medium to large files (30K source code, 200K log files, that kind of thing), and judge accordingly.
His explanation unfortunately blows it - he _could_ have tried to get away with the subjunctive case instead of a preterite (i.e one which would have been non-past). Colloquially he's in the clear too, but I guess we're not permitting colloquialisms here, are we?
"
>...downloading the lyrics is wrong.
Well they are copyrighted too. Downloading them is really not wrong, but distributing them might
"
However, the "Bernstein" view (see EFF's history of Bernstein), is that the user on downloading sends a request, and that the server 'distributes' them.
So You can't _download_ them without someone illegally serving them.
Unless they're officially available, in which case the legal downloader can distribute freely, as he can claim he's simply a caching proxy as he sends copies out to other people.
And does this mean 'Hatchet' Harry Fox is going to get Metallica thrown in jail because they used to play Anti-nowhere League (So What), Budgie (Breadfan), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Tuesday's Gone) Thin Lizzy (Whiskey...) etc. etc. songs?
"I think if a company like Fender or Gibson would speak out..."
You're a bloody genius! However, they aren't going to tell anyone enything unless they are told that unless they do, their profits will be affected. So in the end of the day it's every strummer's job to write the following:
I've always liked the way
[ ] Yngwie Malmsteen
[ ] Gary Moore
[ ] Paul Gilbert
[ ] other ___________
plays the
[ ] Strat
[ ] Les Paul
[ ] Signature
[ ] other ___________
and have been learning some of his licks from tabulatures I downloaded from
[ ] The Post Office
[ ] The Nevada Archive
[ ] Olga (Inc.)
[ ] other ___________.
However, I've realised that I can't replicate his sound on my current guitar due to the inferior
[ ] scalloping
[ ] neck rigidity
[ ] other ___________,
and thus was looking into buying a new guitar of the appropriate type.
However, to my dismay, I now discover that the tabs are no longer available due to the bullying of the archives by companies who insist that the tabulatures are a breach of copyright despite the fact that they are clearly fair use, having been the output of an individual's study and interpretation of the song, and intended for the same purpose for other interested individuals.
It appears that the voices of the up-and-coming guitarists are not being heard, but I'm sure that if your company were to give some sign of support then our fair use rights could be returned to us. In particular given that music is tending towards sequenced synthesised non-music, it's all the more imporant to keep the great musical spirit alive.
Yours sincerely,
____________
Oh - and contribute your non-copyrighted tabs to these archives, and fund Olga Inc. Don't just gripe here on Slashdot.
Note - obviously do _not_ send the above letter - write your own, it was intended simply as an amusing example.
There are ways to decide:
Is the action being attempted in the requirements spec?
No required functionality that doesn't work is less than a severe error.
However, if you believe you can ship a 1.0, and noone will notice it, then you can delay it perhaps.
"
And, when push comes to shove, management will downgrade the bug if their bonus is on the line.
"
Oh man, how true.
I'm a contractor, and if I find a bug near an expected milestone, I will still create a new bug report. Noone speaks to me over lunch for a few days, as I've just taken.1% off their bonus...
Glasses don't neatly fit into either catagory cleanly as they have properties of both. My favourite description of the apparent solidity of the substace is 'resonant viscosity'. I.e. it's is a liquid which has reached a point where it is so viscous it permits its constituent molecules to form less ephemeral and correspondingly stronger bonds with their neighbouring molecules and the viscosity is thus increased. Until there's no apparant fluidity at all.
I will admit that the original poster was a bit thin on facts too, but I saw his view as being closer to what could be done. I could have read more into his post that was actually there though.
In the UK, people have got of incredible serious (alleged) offences due to typos!
Note, however, that we don't know if the typo was on the transcriber's (to the web page) part.
Hmmm, actually, I'm gonna do a quick web-suck of that page/just in case/...
"
Dear Professor Felten,
Whilst it appears from the title "professor" you may be an academic, we/urge/ you to refrain from researching in this particular field, because that would be a bad thing, and we know what school your children go to, if you know what we mean...
"
Fuck it, if they don't want the information to come out in an formal academic way, then they'll have a few months more of perceived security before it comes out via unofficial routes.
Put the cracks off guys (and gals). Let this thing become universal before breaking...:-)
Wrong. You'll never find that definition in the ANSI C library.
What you will find is that time_t must be signed arithmetic type, as -1 is used as a return value for some functions. There's nothing to stop either a time_t, or a long, from being more than 32 bits.
Oh no! Someone else who's letting facts get in the way of fun.
Let's hope a moderator graces you with something positive to cheer you up. How can you bear to live without the hope of speaking to little green men?
FP. --
Re:Your thinking is wrong...
on
Explaining SETI
·
· Score: 1
Your argument says nothing about the existance of aliens who aren't capable of interstellar travel. You have no proof that interstellar travel is viable. What happens of only 1 in a billion ships survives radiation storms or from being coated in dark-matter dust or whatever para-scientific jibber jabber stuff may or may not be out there.
What's the selection ratio for sperm to reach egg?
What makes spaceships more likely to reach their targets.
I've got to admit I agree with your conclusion (no aliens), but I don't agree with how you got there.
And I'm a mathematician, before you ask, so don't tell me to do the maths. I have plenty of other maths that I would use to dismiss the hypothesis.
Two Polish mathematicians managed to optimise the process to make it workable (namely the 2-dimensional searching techniques). The principles were born in an English brain, but the English weren't too proud to accept improvements.
Slashdot Mirror
(Sorry if reference went astray, ooops, I 'm blaming nutscrape and it's inability to cut and paste properly...)
Anyway, I agree with your points. Tail packing is perfect for _many_ of the _most common_ files (in particular there are ones that are nothing but tail).
It appears that there's no reason at all why ext2 doesn't have tail packing apart from never getting round to it. Shame.
All respect to the coders who decided that 'it works' isn't good enough.
FP.
--
Be wary of statistics...
For example, picked pretty much at random from the mongo results, Linux-2.4.2 Ext2 vs. ReiserFS-3.6:
parameters:
files=15168
base_size=10000
bytes
dirs=86
Create 203.88 / 187.01 = 1.09
Copy 411.67 / 411.28 = 1.00
Slinks 3.23 / 2.99 = 1.08
Read 1165.61 / 1325.27 = 0.88
Stats 1.49 / 1.48 = 1.01
Rename 1.81 / 1.30 = 1.39
Delete 14.46 / 5.64 = 2.56
So the total time of the test is 1802.15 / 1934.97
= 0.93. (i.e. Reiser is 7% slower performing the whole test.)
I don't care if they make the thing that takes a tenth of a millisecond twice as fast, it's the reading of the bulk of the file that takes the most time, and for that part, Reiser is slower.
However, each individual has got to look at what is most important for them, for me it's 99% file read time on medium to large files (30K source code, 200K log files, that kind of thing), and judge accordingly.
FatPhil
--
His explanation unfortunately blows it - he _could_ have tried to get away with the subjunctive case instead of a preterite (i.e one which would have been non-past). Colloquially he's in the clear too, but I guess we're not permitting colloquialisms here, are we?
FP.
--
"
>...downloading the lyrics is wrong.
Well they are copyrighted too. Downloading them is really not wrong, but distributing them might
"
However, the "Bernstein" view (see EFF's history of Bernstein), is that the user on downloading sends a request, and that the server 'distributes' them.
So You can't _download_ them without someone illegally serving them.
Unless they're officially available, in which case the legal downloader can distribute freely, as he can claim he's simply a caching proxy as he sends copies out to other people.
Unless caching proxies are now illegal...
FP.
--
And does this mean 'Hatchet' Harry Fox is going to get Metallica thrown in jail because they used to play Anti-nowhere League (So What), Budgie (Breadfan), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Tuesday's Gone) Thin Lizzy (Whiskey...) etc. etc. songs?
So it ain't _all_ bad then?
Hahaha!
FP.
--
You're a bloody genius! However, they aren't going to tell anyone enything unless they are told that unless they do, their profits will be affected. So in the end of the day it's every strummer's job to write the following:
Dear
[ ] Fender
[ ] Gibson
[ ] Ibanez
[ ] other ___________,
I've always liked the way
[ ] Yngwie Malmsteen
[ ] Gary Moore
[ ] Paul Gilbert
[ ] other ___________
plays the
[ ] Strat
[ ] Les Paul
[ ] Signature
[ ] other ___________
and have been learning some of his licks from tabulatures I downloaded from
[ ] The Post Office
[ ] The Nevada Archive
[ ] Olga (Inc.)
[ ] other ___________.
However, I've realised that I can't replicate his sound on my current guitar due to the inferior
[ ] scalloping
[ ] neck rigidity
[ ] other ___________,
and thus was looking into buying a new guitar of the appropriate type.
However, to my dismay, I now discover that the tabs are no longer available due to the bullying of the archives by companies who insist that the tabulatures are a breach of copyright despite the fact that they are clearly fair use, having been the output of an individual's study and interpretation of the song, and intended for the same purpose for other interested individuals.
It appears that the voices of the up-and-coming guitarists are not being heard, but I'm sure that if your company were to give some sign of support then our fair use rights could be returned to us. In particular given that music is tending towards sequenced synthesised non-music, it's all the more imporant to keep the great musical spirit alive.
Yours sincerely,
____________
Oh - and contribute your non-copyrighted tabs to these archives, and fund Olga Inc. Don't just gripe here on Slashdot.
Note - obviously do _not_ send the above letter - write your own, it was intended simply as an amusing example.
FatPhil
--
There are ways to decide:
Is the action being attempted in the requirements spec?
No required functionality that doesn't work is less than a severe error.
However, if you believe you can ship a 1.0, and noone will notice it, then you can delay it perhaps.
However, don't confuse _severity_ and _priority_.
FP.
--
"
.1% off their bonus...
And, when push comes to shove, management will downgrade the bug if their bonus is on the line.
"
Oh man, how true.
I'm a contractor, and if I find a bug near an expected milestone, I will still create a new bug report. Noone speaks to me over lunch for a few days, as I've just taken
FP.
--
"
If bug X triggers a BSOD when I'm surfing the Web, it is a level 4 or 5.
"
It has utterly stopped you surfing the web, it's catagory 1.
FP.
--
The perl ones map onto our A.R.S. schema:
Fatal - the thing is unusable/crashes for no reason
Major - required features don't work
Minor
Cosmetic
And where I come from we don't ship anything with even _major_ bugs. Period.
FP.
--
The Arsemunch RIAA lawyers, that is
"
If your research is released to the public this is exactly what could occur.
"
_Could_.
There exist baseball bats in the world. I _could_ batter the living shit out of the litigious scum.
So I guess they have to arrest me now.
And you - because you could do it too...
FP.
--
Wooo - that's lateral thinking. And there I was thinking they were defining the lattice-points, which would be more conventional.
FP.
--
Glasses don't neatly fit into either catagory cleanly as they have properties of both. My favourite description of the apparent solidity of the substace is 'resonant viscosity'. I.e. it's is a liquid which has reached a point where it is so viscous it permits its constituent molecules to form less ephemeral and correspondingly stronger bonds with their neighbouring molecules and the viscosity is thus increased. Until there's no apparant fluidity at all.
Et voila, a glass.
FatPhil
--
We are unrelated. It would be sad indeed.
I will admit that the original poster was a bit thin on facts too, but I saw his view as being closer to what could be done. I could have read more into his post that was actually there though.
FP.
--
And I quote:
...
"a dot around 400 nanometers in diameter"
...
"dots can be spaced 100 nanometers apart"
...
So they're 4 times larger than the space between them?
This is a bigger discovery than first thought! Call the mathemeticians - the Axiom of choice has been proved - Tarski's paradox has been solved!
;-D
FP.
--
I bring enlightenment.
Phase Locked Loop.
Now apologise to the guy you took a jab at, and go learn.
FP.
--
+1 Funny to that, for sure!
/close/. :-)
/just in case/...
New Jersey? Hell it's
In the UK, people have got of incredible serious (alleged) offences due to typos!
Note, however, that we don't know if the typo was on the transcriber's (to the web page) part.
Hmmm, actually, I'm gonna do a quick web-suck of that page
FP.
--
" /urge/ you to refrain from researching in this particular field, because that would be a bad thing, and we know what school your children go to, if you know what we mean...
:-)
Dear Professor Felten,
Whilst it appears from the title "professor" you may be an academic, we
"
Fuck it, if they don't want the information to come out in an formal academic way, then they'll have a few months more of perceived security before it comes out via unofficial routes.
Put the cracks off guys (and gals). Let this thing become universal before breaking...
Whiney fuckers.
FatPhil (mad)
--
"as time_t, defined as a long, which is 32-bits"
Wrong. You'll never find that definition in the ANSI C library.
What you will find is that time_t must be signed arithmetic type, as -1 is used as a return value for some functions. There's nothing to stop either a time_t, or a long, from being more than 32 bits.
FP.
--
2038 is +2G
1970 is zero
1901 is -2G
What's the problem?
FP.
--
U2G (Unix 2 Gig?)
--
Oh no! Someone else who's letting facts get in the way of fun.
Let's hope a moderator graces you with something positive to cheer you up. How can you bear to live without the hope of speaking to little green men?
FP.
--
Your argument says nothing about the existance of aliens who aren't capable of interstellar travel. You have no proof that interstellar travel is viable. What happens of only 1 in a billion ships survives radiation storms or from being coated in dark-matter dust or whatever para-scientific jibber jabber stuff may or may not be out there.
What's the selection ratio for sperm to reach egg?
What makes spaceships more likely to reach their targets.
I've got to admit I agree with your conclusion (no aliens), but I don't agree with how you got there.
And I'm a mathematician, before you ask, so don't tell me to do the maths. I have plenty of other maths that I would use to dismiss the hypothesis.
FP.
--
Two Polish mathematicians managed to optimise the process to make it workable (namely the 2-dimensional searching techniques). The principles were born in an English brain, but the English weren't too proud to accept improvements.
FP.
--
Cnat type. Apologies to Dave Touretzky.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/
FP.
--