yeah, like the soviets would have only targeted missile solos. I don't believe there are any missile solos in Manhatten or Washington, but I'm pretty sure they would have been flattened in a nuclear exchange. How's that for collateral damage?
The funny thing is that for a long while IE was easily the most compliant of the popular browsers especially when it came to DHTML scripting. Of course, it also implemented plenty of stuff that wasn't in the spec and missed large chunks of stuff that was, but nobody forced you to use any of it.
I'm not talking about the home keys - of course you need a refernce for where to place your wrists, but after that you don't need any feedback. The fact that you can type 80 word/minute implies that your fingers are already committted to pressing the key before contact is made. So you're not feeling for the keys, the only thing you feel is the downward motion of the key and perhaps (if you're not a professional typist) somtimes the edge of the key if you hit slightly off-center. I have typed on a touch-sensitive keyboard, and while it's initially slightly disconcerting not having the keys there it's not the problem that you make it out to be. It's just a case of look, find the home keys, place the wrists, type.
eh? tactile feedback has nothing to do with knowing where the keys are. touch typists don't feel for the keys they just press instinctively in the right place. if you had actually read the article you'd know that some of the devices don't even have a visual display - they work directly off the motion of the fingers - so even if you did look you wouldn't see anything.
Yeah, if you're not adverse to a Microsoft-based solution check out the Object-Role Modeling (ORM)support in Visio.NET. The general idea is that you specify the schema of your data using a format that is easily understandable by both you and your clients: english sentances, but at the same time that information can be used to create a database schema, tables, constraints, sample data and source code for operating on that data.
But as the parent said it might take too long to familiarize youself with the tool for it to be effective.
It's still a microkernel. you're probably referring to the fact that parts of the user-mode stuff (GDI, IIS) have been made to run in the executive. They're not really part of the kernel, they just run at the same privilege.
Here's a good article that covers the details of the changes.
The idea that NT is OS/2 is complete myth. Sure some of the user-mode API names are similar (mostly because they're similar to their common Win16 ancestors - for ease of application porting) but the underlying kernel architecture is completely different.
the spambayes team tested word pairs/triples and n-grams but found no significant gain in effectiveness. it did, however, increase the size of the database immensely.
Did anyone there talk about Spambayes? I've been using this open-source spam filter for several months now and lurking on their mailing list and I have been really impressed at the lengths they've gone to to provide a mature framework for testing their statistical theories over many varied sets of spam/ham corpora.
While they started out with the bayesian algorithm described by Paul Graham they quickly discovered that the effectiveness of his algorithm tends to depend on the values of some quite sensitive tuning parameters and that diffrent people can get wildly differing degrees of success depending on their configuration and the types of spam/ham that they receive. Gary Robinson wrote an interesting critique of Paul's algorithm and helped the spambayes team incorporate his so-called chi-squared combining scheme (which apparently isn't bayesian at all) which doesn't seem to depend so much on 'magic' numbers and their testing framework showed that it works surprisingly well for both small and large sets of messages.
It's still under active development although most of the ongoing work is centered around the user interface components (POP proxies, Outlook plugins, etc...) whereas the actual spam classifier hasn't changed much in a while.
Well worth looking into if you're getting too much spam. Who isn't?
I agree. This article is essentially useless. They're basically saying "hey look, we made it faster, wohoo!" but they completely gloss over the details of how they did it. Where's the cumulative patches against various stock kernels?
the first hard drive i ever used was about 7Mb. It was connected to an Acorn BBC-B with a weird interface that made the disk look like 70 floppy-sized partitions that you could switch between using a custom command. I think that was around 1988.
400Mb? the backup PDP-11/43 that i got to sysadmin at school had two 20Mb dishwashers. I remember one day one of the drives crashed and when the Digital tech guy came round and pulled the dead disk pack out (2 large platters in a plastic case) he showed us the large circular-arc scratch in the disk's surface where the head had touched down.
unfortunately the PC version of Xenon II (one of my favorite games) didn't have the sampled music, high quality sound or multi-plane scrolling backgrounds that the Amiga version did. It was still a good port, though.
But I would say that while the C++ community was focusing on templates, the STL, and exceptions... what they were not doing was component-based development.
I don't know where Scott's been for the last 10 years but COM specifically uses multiple inheritance of abstract base classes without data or implementation to specify interfaces for component-based development (and I believe that CORBA does the same).
I'd guess that win32 C++ programmers make up the largest such subset of all C++ programmers. So which C++ community is he talking about exactly?
they also use a little-known feature of the linker that supports delayed loading of statically linked DLLs. They also use global optimizations such as the/LTCG linker switch and an internal code relocation tool (that used to be called LEGO) that moves functions that often appear close to ech other on the callstack (based on profiling sttistics) into the same memory page to reduce paging load.
yeah probably because the windows drivers were written by reltek themselves, and i suppose their software division isn't any better than their hardware...
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i think he's talking about nukes still in their silos being hardened against EMPs from nearby blasts.
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yeah, like the soviets would have only targeted missile solos. I don't believe there are any missile solos in Manhatten or Washington, but I'm pretty sure they would have been flattened in a nuclear exchange. How's that for collateral damage?
The funny thing is that for a long while IE was easily the most compliant of the popular browsers especially when it came to DHTML scripting. Of course, it also implemented plenty of stuff that wasn't in the spec and missed large chunks of stuff that was, but nobody forced you to use any of it.
I wonder if it's easy to disable these things by using a strong magnetic or electric field. Anyone know?
I'm not talking about the home keys - of course you need a refernce for where to place your wrists, but after that you don't need any feedback. The fact that you can type 80 word/minute implies that your fingers are already committted to pressing the key before contact is made. So you're not feeling for the keys, the only thing you feel is the downward motion of the key and perhaps (if you're not a professional typist) somtimes the edge of the key if you hit slightly off-center. I have typed on a touch-sensitive keyboard, and while it's initially slightly disconcerting not having the keys there it's not the problem that you make it out to be. It's just a case of look, find the home keys, place the wrists, type.
eh? tactile feedback has nothing to do with knowing where the keys are. touch typists don't feel for the keys they just press instinctively in the right place. if you had actually read the article you'd know that some of the devices don't even have a visual display - they work directly off the motion of the fingers - so even if you did look you wouldn't see anything.
Yup. Banks Banks Banks! You might need to go to amazon.co.uk to get some of his stuff. Read the culture series, in order!
But as the parent said it might take too long to familiarize youself with the tool for it to be effective.
Here's a good article that covers the details of the changes.
some articles:
the spambayes team tested word pairs/triples and n-grams but found no significant gain in effectiveness. it did, however, increase the size of the database immensely.
While they started out with the bayesian algorithm described by Paul Graham they quickly discovered that the effectiveness of his algorithm tends to depend on the values of some quite sensitive tuning parameters and that diffrent people can get wildly differing degrees of success depending on their configuration and the types of spam/ham that they receive. Gary Robinson wrote an interesting critique of Paul's algorithm and helped the spambayes team incorporate his so-called chi-squared combining scheme (which apparently isn't bayesian at all) which doesn't seem to depend so much on 'magic' numbers and their testing framework showed that it works surprisingly well for both small and large sets of messages.
It's still under active development although most of the ongoing work is centered around the user interface components (POP proxies, Outlook plugins, etc...) whereas the actual spam classifier hasn't changed much in a while.
Well worth looking into if you're getting too much spam. Who isn't?
I agree. This article is essentially useless. They're basically saying "hey look, we made it faster, wohoo!" but they completely gloss over the details of how they did it. Where's the cumulative patches against various stock kernels?
XP sees HT processors as a single processor from a licensing standpoint so, yes, you can use two on XP pro.
the first hard drive i ever used was about 7Mb. It was connected to an Acorn BBC-B with a weird interface that made the disk look like 70 floppy-sized partitions that you could switch between using a custom command. I think that was around 1988.
anyone else here remember RSTS/E?
are you suggesting that it's impossible to get a proxy server that doesn't use NTLM?
unfortunately the PC version of Xenon II (one of my favorite games) didn't have the sampled music, high quality sound or multi-plane scrolling backgrounds that the Amiga version did. It was still a good port, though.
it can become a performance concern as soon as you start referencing pointers to members of such a class.
I'd guess that win32 C++ programmers make up the largest such subset of all C++ programmers. So which C++ community is he talking about exactly?
they also use a little-known feature of the linker that supports delayed loading of statically linked DLLs. They also use global optimizations such as the /LTCG linker switch and an internal code relocation tool (that used to be called LEGO) that moves functions that often appear close to ech other on the callstack (based on profiling sttistics) into the same memory page to reduce paging load.
yeah probably because the windows drivers were written by reltek themselves, and i suppose their software division isn't any better than their hardware...