Shouldn't awards be given based on what a developer/project/concept/whatever HAS done, and not what they're GOING to do, as you've suggested Valgrind will?
RAID and backups may prevent your data from being lost in a catastrophic event, but they don't keep you from having to shell out 100s of $ everytime a crufty hard drive craps out beyond the ever-dwindling warranty period...
it's still the law, and I'd still have to vote according to what the law says, not what it means
This is a common misconception. If juries were obliged to base their decisions on literal interpretations of the law, what would be the point of having juries at all? Juries are made up of people, and people have common sense. This is intentional.
Of course, if the attorneys on either side find out you know about this during juror selection, you won't be serving on that case -- lawyers don't like presenting to unpredictable jurors.
There are known, mathematical ways to test audio quality.
s/quality/fidelity/
You can measure how accurately an algorithm reproduces a given input signal, but there is no objective mathematical way to measure the quality of the audio, eg, whether the signal is any good in the first place.
Other than that, you're correct -- a thorough evaluation of an audio algorithm's worth will include both objective (waveform analysis) and subjective (humans listening) testing.
Coupled with airlines now charging up to $80 per bag to check the bag if it's over an arbitrary size and basically what you have is an industry that is committed to committing suicide.
This is nothing new; excess baggage has ALWAYS been subject to additional fees. If the industry were really intent to destroy itself, wouldn't it do exactly the opposite and allow passengers to bring as much luggage as they want for a flat price, no matter what the airline's expenses for transporting that luggage might be?
Did you hear that ticket agents will soon no longer waste time asking you if you packed your own bag and if the bag has left your sight at any time? It's true. There's no evidence that suggests any terrorism was ever averted because these questions were asked, so there's no reason to keep asking them.
The airline industry reacted to the flaws demonstrated on 9/11 by overreacting and clamping down hard on any potential exploit. This is to be expected. Now they're starting to get a feeling of which measures work and which don't, and the hardships of air travel will gradually be relaxed until flying is just as painless as it was before 9/11 -- but it will be safer.
I think "Valdis E. Krebs" is the coolest name I have ever heard.
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The sad truth is that the average person is dumb, and half the population is even dumber than that.
Thus, it doesn't surprise me when 4 out of 10 people say that they don't think the press and the academic community should be allowed to criticize government plans -- they're the 4 who are dumber than average.
Besides, when you're at a concert, you don't sit in the middle of the stage, so the only source of sound is from the front.
Have you ever been to a concert? There's ALWAYS some asshole behind you talking loudly to his buddy while you're trying to enjoy the music. With surround-sound audio, that experience can be accurately recreated!
What's the point of stereo, anyway? All the sound is coming from a single point -- the stage! Maybe there's a PA system with a big speaker at each end of the stage, but chances are the same signal (or close to it) is coming out of both speakers, so that the balance is the same no matter where in the venue you're seated.
The sole purpose of recorded audio should NOT be to accurately reproduce the experience of being at a concert (what ever that is).
And to the poor shmucks who listen to music on a satellite-subwoofer combo: I hope you don't ever come near a high-end audio system.
I hope so too, because it would probably mean I would have to get a lecture on fidelity from the insufferable asshole that owns the system.
Our "low-end" systems are good enough for us "poor shmucks". We're happy. Leave us alone.
If hard drives have to CONTINUALLY refresh their data, you might as well be using volatile RAM. It's certainly much easier to wire a solid-state component to refresh each bit on every clock tick than it is to run a drive head over every single sector on every single platter of a mechanical disk within one tick...
If the magnetic instability is something that can be addressed by PERIODICALLY refreshing the data, which would recondition the disk surface to "like new" and reset the clock on degradation, then the technology has a place on desktops and other non-uptime-critical machines. FAT32 file system users are used to running Scandisk and Defrag on their drives already, there probably wouldn't be any outcry if a "Recharge Disk" task was added to the scheduler.
I don't know if that would work. Maybe instead of using regular light to scan the CD surface, you could use a laser, and instead of scanning the entire surface of the disc at once, you could spin the disc around and scan the disc one bit at a time...
The past two posts are proof that most Slashdotters have never talked to a real woman, instead gaining all their knowledge of the mysterious opposite sex from 1940's radio sitcoms.
Come on, fellas. Question those outdated ideas about gender roles.
Competition doesn't just factor in the bandwidth of the connections each provider offers, or the prices they charge for those connections, but also the quality of customer support they provide.
AT&T's customer service department treating you like crap? Maybe Earthlink hires better phone jockeys.
Services such as mail and news access, etc., can also vary from provider to provider, even over the same lines at the same price.
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How about we don't restrict the freedoms of coders in any way, instead?
They're not just looking for talented hackers, though. They're looking for talented EMPLOYEEs.
And like it or not, you will not fit into the corporate culture at Microsoft unless you have a college degree.
The "self-taught computar expurts" out there might be inclined to say this is a good thing, but it's not.
Shouldn't awards be given based on what a developer/project/concept/whatever HAS done, and not what they're GOING to do, as you've suggested Valgrind will?
RAID and backups may prevent your data from being lost in a catastrophic event, but they don't keep you from having to shell out 100s of $ everytime a crufty hard drive craps out beyond the ever-dwindling warranty period...
A box containing 1,500 postal Money Orders. ;)
(as of ~2 years ago, the max amount a MO could be made for was $700 IIRC)
Those who can't GOVERN, threaten to invade IRAQ.
it's still the law, and I'd still have to vote according to what the law says, not what it means
This is a common misconception. If juries were obliged to base their decisions on literal interpretations of the law, what would be the point of having juries at all? Juries are made up of people, and people have common sense. This is intentional.
Of course, if the attorneys on either side find out you know about this during juror selection, you won't be serving on that case -- lawyers don't like presenting to unpredictable jurors.
Sorry, can't sue the Patent Office.
Your friend does know it's a crime to impersonate a federal agent, right...?
Humans having skulls with the same thickness as rats' and heads the same size as rats' should also not use cellphones...
Is this the state of our educational system, where "thought" and "memorization" are considered to be the same thing?
*sigh*
There are known, mathematical ways to test audio quality.
s/quality/fidelity/
You can measure how accurately an algorithm reproduces a given input signal, but there is no objective mathematical way to measure the quality of the audio, eg, whether the signal is any good in the first place.
Other than that, you're correct -- a thorough evaluation of an audio algorithm's worth will include both objective (waveform analysis) and subjective (humans listening) testing.
Coupled with airlines now charging up to $80 per bag to check the bag if it's over an arbitrary size and basically what you have is an industry that is committed to committing suicide.
This is nothing new; excess baggage has ALWAYS been subject to additional fees. If the industry were really intent to destroy itself, wouldn't it do exactly the opposite and allow passengers to bring as much luggage as they want for a flat price, no matter what the airline's expenses for transporting that luggage might be?
Did you hear that ticket agents will soon no longer waste time asking you if you packed your own bag and if the bag has left your sight at any time? It's true. There's no evidence that suggests any terrorism was ever averted because these questions were asked, so there's no reason to keep asking them.
The airline industry reacted to the flaws demonstrated on 9/11 by overreacting and clamping down hard on any potential exploit. This is to be expected. Now they're starting to get a feeling of which measures work and which don't, and the hardships of air travel will gradually be relaxed until flying is just as painless as it was before 9/11 -- but it will be safer.
As soon as the computer was booted up the people started downloading movie trailers -- unfortunately they were all in Commodore 64 format!
I think "Valdis E. Krebs" is the coolest name I have ever heard.
The sad truth is that the average person is dumb, and half the population is even dumber than that.
Thus, it doesn't surprise me when 4 out of 10 people say that they don't think the press and the academic community should be allowed to criticize government plans -- they're the 4 who are dumber than average.
On my WinNT box at least, it's "Ctrl-Alt-Del, S" and then you have to hit "OK" on the dialog box that comes up.
Besides, when you're at a concert, you don't sit in the middle of the stage, so the only source of sound is from the front.
Have you ever been to a concert? There's ALWAYS some asshole behind you talking loudly to his buddy while you're trying to enjoy the music.
With surround-sound audio, that experience can be accurately recreated!
What's the point of stereo, anyway? All the sound is coming from a single point -- the stage! Maybe there's a PA system with a big speaker at each end of the stage, but chances are the same signal (or close to it) is coming out of both speakers, so that the balance is the same no matter where in the venue you're seated.
The sole purpose of recorded audio should NOT be to accurately reproduce the experience of being at a concert (what ever that is).
And to the poor shmucks who listen to music on a satellite-subwoofer combo: I hope you don't
ever come near a high-end audio system.
I hope so too, because it would probably mean I would have to get a lecture on fidelity from the insufferable asshole that owns the system.
Our "low-end" systems are good enough for us "poor shmucks". We're happy. Leave us alone.
If hard drives have to CONTINUALLY refresh their data, you might as well be using volatile RAM. It's certainly much easier to wire a solid-state component to refresh each bit on every clock tick than it is to run a drive head over every single sector on every single platter of a mechanical disk within one tick...
If the magnetic instability is something that can be addressed by PERIODICALLY refreshing the data, which would recondition the disk surface to "like new" and reset the clock on degradation, then the technology has a place on desktops and other non-uptime-critical machines. FAT32 file system users are used to running Scandisk and Defrag on their drives already, there probably wouldn't be any outcry if a "Recharge Disk" task was added to the scheduler.
Silly... you couldn't BUY a phone until 20 years ago, when Ma Bell was chopped up into pieces.
I don't know if that would work. Maybe instead of using regular light to scan the CD surface, you could use a laser, and instead of scanning the entire surface of the disc at once, you could spin the disc around and scan the disc one bit at a time...
The past two posts are proof that most Slashdotters have never talked to a real woman, instead gaining all their knowledge of the mysterious opposite sex from 1940's radio sitcoms.
Come on, fellas. Question those outdated ideas about gender roles.
Making money and fostering innovation go hand-in-hand.
(I would explain my position, but you didn't bother presenting anything that supported your statement, so why should I?)
Competition doesn't just factor in the bandwidth of the connections each provider offers, or the prices they charge for those connections, but also the quality of customer support they provide.
AT&T's customer service department treating you like crap? Maybe Earthlink hires better phone jockeys.
Services such as mail and news access, etc., can also vary from provider to provider, even over the same lines at the same price.
Remember, you can't spell "BIN LADEN" without "BIDEN"...