If you were going to do this as a one off sure you would use libc if you are going to do the same thing 10000 times in a row as you entire program and care about performance you would look for something better (this would likely be libboost in C++).
For anything to do with strings python is far more expressive than c and this case could be the more elegant and robust solution (except for memory usage). For this example i guess you 'parse' (not sure if that's the correct term in C) the text before the looping and store the result in a structure and then while looping though pass the structure as an argument this requires new libraries or you to write your own. Unless you allow on the fly editing in python I think its still equivalent function.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/sprintf/ http://bstring.sourceforge.net/features.html The first shows that the sprintf is bloated for the benchmarks purpose. The second link is of library i found from google that says it has 3980% increased performance for string concatenation (other improvements are more modest) over libc if this figure is correct then a pypy has not beaten c and that sprintf is pretty bloated. I don't not check it had the equivalent functions for this problem. Its difficult to argue this as coming up with an alternative way to do nothing in C has arbitrary rules.
So what they are really saying is pypy is faster than a function in glibc for a task that glibc would never be used for (i would think you chose a modern library if you wanted to do this in some real code). This is benchmarking not against C but a bloated and not particularly optimized library.
Did you read the comments? That's not a common task if he created a file with a meaningful output it would be a good benchmark.
This looks to either be a stumbled on case or something contrived. He used -O4 for crying out loud (it's treated as -O3) there could be a bug from excessive optimization and the main function sprintf cannot be optimized as its a pre complied library (i could be wrong here).
I comes stable so its less likely updates breaking something and then no one being around to fix it. The issue i see with Ubuntu is if no one knows how to maintain it it could get stuck with some buggy package or unity if someone mucks it up.
Just if you did use Debian be nice and get Ice Weasel tracking the current version of Firefox having anyone still using 3.5 is cruel.
Entertainment requires amusement which for the majority of athletic sports is non existent compared to regular television. Yes there are some athletics (apologies if this is incorrect usage) that if watched only on the Olympics can be entertaining. Yes i guess the first hour of an athletic you watch ever you could amazed and thus entertained but i don’t think the suspense in athletics is the kind that amuses.
Everyone who is any good has access to similar diet advice. And unless Bolt lies though his teeth (he just does not seem the guy to do it) his diet and training are nothing special.
My original argument cab be re-told as: athletes are like cars these days, it's the driver that matters, but also the kind of fuel that the car runs on, the engine oil, and various other fluids and solids that affect performance.
This is of course true for all (modern) sport just to different degrees. That's part of the sport that athlete is expected to have the best conditioning available to win if some have more available than others is just part of the sport. Yet we can still all believe it comes down to the man and his main coach if we want to.
Anyway these were just (far too) concise and generalized rebuttals you are arguing with. If you want to argue with the second paragraph that would be far more interesting.
Bottomline: fair fight is actually very boring thing in the long run, it tastes like water.
Most Olympic sports are dead boring but we only watch them once every for years. No one watches athletics for entertainment.
I think the line is generally drawn where the athlete is being harmed. In my opinion the main reason performance enchanting drugs are illegal is people will be forced to permanent harm them selves or risk their lives to compete. Seriously I'm sure you can find some would take the drugs to peak for four years and then die at the end (bloody shit sport to watch or support). If that’s negative you will still find people overdosing or having heart attacks or something. If the blades are better the sport becomes restricted to people with double amputated feat or people willing to cut them off. Where do you stop here i'm fairly sure in the next 200 years will will have a "terminator" if we stick a human brain inside it and it wins is that good for athletics and in the mean time the blades will get better.
I say I don't care whether it's fair or not, precisely because Olympics today is like football - athletes are bought and sold, managers manage, an entire industry that deals with "augmenting" athletes legally has been established.
I will ruin the basis of athletics where the best human (on the day) wins. If he was to win there will always be the debate on whether or not is its an advantage.
It also raises the financial entry barrier instead of needing to a find a sponsor for maybe upto $10000 for shoes (they will find you if your any good). It will bring in discussion of a tech race or whether improvements on the current blades are advantage or not.
This is why we have the disabled Olympics for people with various augmentations can compete against one another, he belongs there. If they start posting competition times then hold an event for both.
It will use directional transmission not radial waves.
Though if you have a mesh of transmitters you would could use radial waves i would think but the complexity function based on the number of users and nodes would be exponentials within exponentials.
Not quite sure on the definition of an APT. Wikipeida says its generally a foreign state. I would think that due to core system generally having less holes in it, getting in without user execution would be harder. I don't think it matters in the end as you would still execute something, but.dmg are not instantly ran like exe.
I would also think getting the user to execute malicious code would be significantly harder. Base apple software is generally usable so you don't need to find replacements. People who buy macs because they are macs will go apple for other software and the app store is generally easier to go to than the internet to search for program that you might need. The behaviour of having idiot users searching on the internet for unknown third-party solutions is not encouraged on OSX.
The other reason is you hardly ever load software onto it. The other problem with your theory though is chrome (browser) has a massive (relative to Linux) market share, I wonder how long it will be before a persistently open tab could become an "attack vector".
I assume he read that much of licence but its not the most permissive licence ever. From my reading anyone else wanting to use the code would have to apply for the licence and then apply his changes. If he wanted to do anything useful with the code apart from producing some figures for a journal then the licence is pretty useless.
Assuming you can prove the code is 20 years old either patents used in the code have expired or later patents are invalid due to prior art that would hard to ignore.
Unless the code modified to include new patents he should be safe?
You will have to rewrite the code to avoid copyright.
You could ask him if you can use the code if it was never used for anything profitable he could be a nice person and let you credit him.
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The drawbacks are not a issue for your 22'' for some people and tolerable for most. My impression was the main reason it happened so fast was the general public (who generally have no appreciation for picture quality) did not like weight and size. The other spec I forgot was power draw 125W for a 22'' I think LCD on performance settings as well, is about 40 percent of that halving it again for eco modes.
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Think about the other increased specs that were also increasing; depth and weight. Our 32 inch tv was two thirds of that deep and weighted about 60 kgs. I'm sure they could get it down to a half and 40 kg but that's not remotely sustainable and tipple monitors is just crazy.
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Most distros support KDE well enough that it does not matter. Make your decision depending on what you want
openSUSE supposedly is pretty good for KDE (i run gnome) from what it see it has pretty good visualisation support (used with WMware often).
You will have to at least upgrade to tumbleweed (like testing) or factory (sid) to get 4.7 before November I suspect though.
Its not a dependency for the desktop environment just its applications. Yes its right though gnome but if your package manger is any good you should be be able to cut it off at the libmono-2_0-1 dependency and have it clean up the rest. There are at least gtk alternatives for all mono applications. When mono starts killing off non mono applications you can start to worry but until then.NET compatibility is good for Linux adoption in enterprise and banshee, eye and do can be uninstalled in seconds.
If Microsoft was to ever start wanting money for mono is could be removed from gnome rather easily thus they will never do it. Gnome is not stupid enough to make the actual DE dependant on mono i would think.
I kind of look at twitter as an rrs hosting service (for personal use) that put a web interface on the top and made a purpose built manager and search engine. Its main success was that the account was secondary to the "tweets" (so you did not need to share personal information, and you knew what you were sharing) and that they got media endorsement. The limitations lowered the barrier for the general public to use it.
From my knowledge Mono is too slow to be used for anything more than user level applications which are not really a threat to gtk/gnome. Having alternatives that use mono is not really a threat to FOSS. If having.NET on Linux was such a damaging thing Microsoft would have done it far better ages ago.
On a side note the following command should comfort you $ zypper rm *mono* it leaves you having to install shotwell and your choice of music player but its not that bad.
Because News International is public enemy number one. Before they messed with a dead girls phone it really was not worth getting worked up over investigation into celebs/politicians lives but they went too far and are now hated worse than the politicians who will cheered on for attacking NI. Since they have lost the ability to use the press to defend themselves without risking this spreading to other papers they are a pretty soft target in the UK right now.
and far more importantly you have the Prime Minister who probably believes that he the tougher he is to News International the less bad involvement with them looks.
I think having influence over the PM has made NI situation much worse here.
Some of my friends use MP3 @ 320kbps. And yes, I hear the difference on both jazz and classics.
You need to sound like a much bigger dick to come up with something creditable. You would have to authenticate that you friends actually knew what they were doing when the rips were made are the latest lame ripped with EAC with at lest the -h option and maybe some other stuff or was it some shitty program that ripped as fast as possible 8 years ago (i got some terrible rips from lame due to trusting a flacon last month). Its not a remotely blind test and 'clearer' is a very subjective term for some music. MP3s can store single frequencies far more accurately than any human can.
Unless they can control the internet advertising there is no benefit to selling phones with android. I would think that every US android user is worth many times more in ad revenue and search data (i don’t think that google is likely to be kept as default search engine by the majority) than someone in china.
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If you were going to do this as a one off sure you would use libc if you are going to do the same thing 10000 times in a row as you entire program and care about performance you would look for something better (this would likely be libboost in C++).
For anything to do with strings python is far more expressive than c and this case could be the more elegant and robust solution (except for memory usage). For this example i guess you 'parse' (not sure if that's the correct term in C) the text before the looping and store the result in a structure and then while looping though pass the structure as an argument this requires new libraries or you to write your own. Unless you allow on the fly editing in python I think its still equivalent function.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/sprintf/
http://bstring.sourceforge.net/features.html
The first shows that the sprintf is bloated for the benchmarks purpose.
The second link is of library i found from google that says it has 3980% increased performance for string concatenation (other improvements are more modest) over libc if this figure is correct then a pypy has not beaten c and that sprintf is pretty bloated. I don't not check it had the equivalent functions for this problem. Its difficult to argue this as coming up with an alternative way to do nothing in C has arbitrary rules.
So what they are really saying is pypy is faster than a function in glibc for a task that glibc would never be used for (i would think you chose a modern library if you wanted to do this in some real code).
This is benchmarking not against C but a bloated and not particularly optimized library.
Did you read the comments?
That's not a common task if he created a file with a meaningful output it would be a good benchmark.
This looks to either be a stumbled on case or something contrived. He used -O4 for crying out loud (it's treated as -O3) there could be a bug from excessive optimization and the main function sprintf cannot be optimized as its a pre complied library (i could be wrong here).
The result is best summed up by the comment:
PyPy does nothing 1.9 times faster than C.
I comes stable so its less likely updates breaking something and then no one being around to fix it. The issue i see with Ubuntu is if no one knows how to maintain it it could get stuck with some buggy package or unity if someone mucks it up.
Just if you did use Debian be nice and get Ice Weasel tracking the current version of Firefox having anyone still using 3.5 is cruel.
Entertainment requires amusement which for the majority of athletic sports is non existent compared to regular television. Yes there are some athletics (apologies if this is incorrect usage) that if watched only on the Olympics can be entertaining. Yes i guess the first hour of an athletic you watch ever you could amazed and thus entertained but i don’t think the suspense in athletics is the kind that amuses.
Everyone who is any good has access to similar diet advice. And unless Bolt lies though his teeth (he just does not seem the guy to do it) his diet and training are nothing special.
My original argument cab be re-told as: athletes are like cars these days, it's the driver that matters, but also the kind of fuel that the car runs on, the engine oil, and various other fluids and solids that affect performance.
This is of course true for all (modern) sport just to different degrees. That's part of the sport that athlete is expected to have the best conditioning available to win if some have more available than others is just part of the sport. Yet we can still all believe it comes down to the man and his main coach if we want to.
Anyway these were just (far too) concise and generalized rebuttals you are arguing with. If you want to argue with the second paragraph that would be far more interesting.
Bottomline: fair fight is actually very boring thing in the long run, it tastes like water.
Most Olympic sports are dead boring but we only watch them once every for years. No one watches athletics for entertainment.
I think the line is generally drawn where the athlete is being harmed. In my opinion the main reason performance enchanting drugs are illegal is people will be forced to permanent harm them selves or risk their lives to compete. Seriously I'm sure you can find some would take the drugs to peak for four years and then die at the end (bloody shit sport to watch or support). If that’s negative you will still find people overdosing or having heart attacks or something. If the blades are better the sport becomes restricted to people with double amputated feat or people willing to cut them off. Where do you stop here i'm fairly sure in the next 200 years will will have a "terminator" if we stick a human brain inside it and it wins is that good for athletics and in the mean time the blades will get better.
I say I don't care whether it's fair or not, precisely because Olympics today is like football - athletes are bought and sold, managers manage, an entire industry that deals with "augmenting" athletes legally has been established.
Bolt still beats Gay.
I will ruin the basis of athletics where the best human (on the day) wins. If he was to win there will always be the debate on whether or not is its an advantage.
It also raises the financial entry barrier instead of needing to a find a sponsor for maybe upto $10000 for shoes (they will find you if your any good). It will bring in discussion of a tech race or whether improvements on the current blades are advantage or not.
This is why we have the disabled Olympics for people with various augmentations can compete against one another, he belongs there. If they start posting competition times then hold an event for both.
He's fought hard to prove they provide no advantage, and according to IAAF they do not.
I will admit the sentence is terrible but you hardly need to that offensive because of it.
It will use directional transmission not radial waves.
Though if you have a mesh of transmitters you would could use radial waves i would think but the complexity function based on the number of users and nodes would be exponentials within exponentials.
Not quite sure on the definition of an APT. Wikipeida says its generally a foreign state. .dmg are not instantly ran like exe.
I would think that due to core system generally having less holes in it, getting in without user execution would be harder. I don't think it matters in the end as you would still execute something, but
I would also think getting the user to execute malicious code would be significantly harder. Base apple software is generally usable so you don't need to find replacements. People who buy macs because they are macs will go apple for other software and the app store is generally easier to go to than the internet to search for program that you might need. The behaviour of having idiot users searching on the internet for unknown third-party solutions is not encouraged on OSX.
Linux does not have the market share either.
The other reason is you hardly ever load software onto it. The other problem with your theory though is chrome (browser) has a massive (relative to Linux) market share, I wonder how long it will be before a persistently open tab could become an "attack vector".
I assume he read that much of licence but its not the most permissive licence ever. From my reading anyone else wanting to use the code would have to apply for the licence and then apply his changes. If he wanted to do anything useful with the code apart from producing some figures for a journal then the licence is pretty useless.
Assuming you can prove the code is 20 years old either patents used in the code have expired or later patents are invalid due to prior art that would hard to ignore.
Unless the code modified to include new patents he should be safe?
You will have to rewrite the code to avoid copyright.
You could ask him if you can use the code if it was never used for anything profitable he could be a nice person and let you credit him.
The drawbacks are not a issue for your 22'' for some people and tolerable for most. My impression was the main reason it happened so fast was the general public (who generally have no appreciation for picture quality) did not like weight and size. The other spec I forgot was power draw 125W for a 22'' I think LCD on performance settings as well, is about 40 percent of that halving it again for eco modes.
Think about the other increased specs that were also increasing; depth and weight. Our 32 inch tv was two thirds of that deep and weighted about 60 kgs. I'm sure they could get it down to a half and 40 kg but that's not remotely sustainable and tipple monitors is just crazy.
Most distros support KDE well enough that it does not matter. Make your decision depending on what you want
openSUSE supposedly is pretty good for KDE (i run gnome) from what it see it has pretty good visualisation support (used with WMware often).
You will have to at least upgrade to tumbleweed (like testing) or factory (sid) to get 4.7 before November I suspect though.
Its not a dependency for the desktop environment just its applications. Yes its right though gnome but if your package manger is any good you should be be able to cut it off at the libmono-2_0-1 dependency and have it clean up the rest. There are at least gtk alternatives for all mono applications. .NET compatibility is good for Linux adoption in enterprise and banshee, eye and do can be uninstalled in seconds.
When mono starts killing off non mono applications you can start to worry but until then
If Microsoft was to ever start wanting money for mono is could be removed from gnome rather easily thus they will never do it. Gnome is not stupid enough to make the actual DE dependant on mono i would think.
I kind of look at twitter as an rrs hosting service (for personal use) that put a web interface on the top and made a purpose built manager and search engine. Its main success was that the account was secondary to the "tweets" (so you did not need to share personal information, and you knew what you were sharing) and that they got media endorsement. The limitations lowered the barrier for the general public to use it.
From my knowledge Mono is too slow to be used for anything more than user level applications which are not really a threat to gtk/gnome. Having alternatives that use mono is not really a threat to FOSS. If having .NET on Linux was such a damaging thing Microsoft would have done it far better ages ago.
On a side note the following command should comfort you
$ zypper rm *mono*
it leaves you having to install shotwell and your choice of music player but its not that bad.
Because News International is public enemy number one. Before they messed with a dead girls phone it really was not worth getting worked up over investigation into celebs/politicians lives but they went too far and are now hated worse than the politicians who will cheered on for attacking NI.
Since they have lost the ability to use the press to defend themselves without risking this spreading to other papers they are a pretty soft target in the UK right now.
and far more importantly you have the Prime Minister who probably believes that he the tougher he is to News International the less bad involvement with them looks.
I think having influence over the PM has made NI situation much worse here.
Some of my friends use MP3 @ 320kbps. And yes, I hear the difference on both jazz and classics.
You need to sound like a much bigger dick to come up with something creditable. You would have to authenticate that you friends actually knew what they were doing when the rips were made are the latest lame ripped with EAC with at lest the -h option and maybe some other stuff or was it some shitty program that ripped as fast as possible 8 years ago (i got some terrible rips from lame due to trusting a flacon last month). Its not a remotely blind test and 'clearer' is a very subjective term for some music. MP3s can store single frequencies far more accurately than any human can.
Could he not have stoped at say 15M and taken an indefinite vacation to a non extradition country.
Unless they can control the internet advertising there is no benefit to selling phones with android. I would think that every US android user is worth many times more in ad revenue and search data (i don’t think that google is likely to be kept as default search engine by the majority) than someone in china.