This is great news! California has had an option to select renewable for some time.
BUT!
Being the cynic (skeptic?) I am, we need to be super-careful that the energy is what the distributors claim it is. For example, look at the organic labelling fiasco: food producers lobbied to reduce the standards of "organic" to include "some" organic procedures. They are not the same metrics that constitute "California Organic". As a result, there are misleading standards for organic, which can result in people buying products that could potentially bypass all that is good about organic processing.
Same goes for the Green-ergy.
Hopefully thsi will be monitored properly, so that when someone requests renewable energy, they don't get an earload marketingspeak "plants and animals die and become coal and oil, therefore coal and oil are nature's renewable resources!!!"
Sorry, but Burton has been boning it for the past few films: "Big Fish" and the embarassingly bad remake of "Planet of the Apes."
Like "Planet...", Wonka does not need a rewrite. It was made at a time that appreciated edgy, gritty films, not watered down pablum that is market tested and approved. The original planet was gruesome and horrifying, Burton's remake was a forgettable joke that focused on action and _completely_ missed what made the original horrifying.
I doubt Burton has the guts to make the character of Willy Wonka out to be the sadist he is in the originals. That type of abuse wouldn't fly today, just like the Disneyfication (perversion) all of the Grimm fairytales to have happy endings and be sugary sweet, unlike the originals.
Originality is so fucking dead, and Burton is humping its corpse dry.
Too much brand-equity in Pentium to change it. Branding is a tricky bird, once you've spent a trillion dollars of 14 years beating the name into a generation of brains, you don't change it.
Plus Hexium sounded too Satanic. I read somewhere that AMD and Intel rounded their 666 MHz processors to 667 becuase of New Testament mythology. Kinda like the "no 13th floor in hotels" nonsense.
Thanks! Some fan I am: I didn't know there was a new album, _AND_ I saw them at the Ballroom in San Francisco back in the fall!
Awesome show. I hadn't been to an industrial concert since I saw NIN/Manson in NY in Novmber of 1994 (shush, you!;-). This time I sat in the balcony and let the young-ins tear it up on the floor. In such a small venue, the sound was brain rattling, but I had to go back to the car and leave all my studed bracelets and belts behind... what's the world coming to these days...
This is great news! Lots of money for NASA and science!
But, who is going to do this research if our schools aren't funded because No Child Left Behind was gutted, and there is a growing, unchecked movement to replace science with pseudo science (ESP, Paranormal, Creationism)?
Seems like the money would be better spent improving the quality of the future. I'd rather see $10b of that 16b be spent patching up the $10b shortfall from NCLB.
That link reminds me of the "feeding robot" (lunchtime robot) in Chaplin's "Modern Times" from 1936: it basically forces him to eat at a speed that optimizes company profit. It was pretty scary when I was a kid, now it is just disturbing.
Wasn't centrino a success? It's low power and integrated wireless made AMD have to follow suit and revamp its mobile core line. Of course, the anti-intel slant (not you!) on this board tends to not see AMD failures.
AMD is struggling hard, as they always have, to hold a modicum of the market. They are still nothing more than a small Intel. Intel has proven again and again that all they can do is make CPUs. The dismisal of the p4 line is a sign they acknowledge the trend in low power computing.
They are both about to get blown out of the water by Apple.
Apple is about to introduce an entertainment server. Everyone knows the future is networked consoles, but Sony et al are still focusing on games only. Apple will introduce a device that will displace the PC in a very short time. Fortunately their suppliers have horrible fab capacity. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple built in x86 if their volumes get high enough.
The only thing you can do 80 hours a week, reliably, is dig holes. Work for a highway cleanup crew doing community service some day...
As far as coding: 60-70 hours is the limit, depending on the mix of tasks. Major creative solving simply cannot be done nonstop. Even painters divide up chores: sketching, scaling, mixing, blending, dodging... each task has a different mental load.
Personally, when my game is on: the three hour period each day that starts when I wake up, I do my problem solving. I cannot force this creativity, it only happens at a particular time.
The next period of time: 6 hours, is fleshing out the Big Idea into smaller mindless bits.
Next, ~1-2 hours is just commenting and cleaning up test cases, or saving existing test cases so I have something for regression. Preparing for the next day is always a big help.
I can maintain this 10-11 pace every day for a week straight, but no more, and when my brain DOES start to fry (I can usually smell it), I like to switch to more mundane tasks like documenting and commenting.
Even when I was 20 (13 years ago!) and doing lots of crystal to program long hours, I still had to break it down into creative tasks and mundane tasks.
(Now my drug is sleep and food. I work so much better after a good meal and a solid nap. Yes, I'm an old fukker who codes for a living, not one you 15 year old brainiacs who has thousands of CVS tags in Sourceforge and no girlfriend...);-)
>> Perhaps in an age of blogging, there's a common tendency in thinking that every single thought that crosses one's mind is worthy of becoming an article. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.
Geez, somebody woke up on the god-side of the bed this morning...
Why don't you apply your philosophy to yourself: either stop being a hypocrite or shut your pie hole, Mr. Condescending.
Actually, Massively Parallel doesn't mean Non_Von_Neumann. Multi-core architecture still connects execution units, memory, and IO using common busses, which is the crux of VNA.
Now if you had multiple busses connecting multiple paths to the same execution units in a web, like the internet, or a neural net, that's nonVNA.
I may become flamebait for saying this, but I completely agree with you. A 14 year old who quickly grasps some code about how to exploit a flaw in an O/S is a far cry from someone who has multi-disciplanary skills from 20+ years of analyzing code on different platforms, applications and levels of academic merit.
Not to discourage the little punks, but if they devote themselves to the art and stick with it, they could end up becoming major contributors to the discipline.
Somehow I get the feeling it is a few big brains finding the exploits, and legions of punks running the code because they're bored on day, and forgetting all about it a year later.
Does anyone else find it pretty cool that this battle is NSA vs script kiddies? I mean, a $2B a year cost is equvialent to a small terrorist attack, this is a big problem. I'm glad to see people from all walks of life attempting to combat the little punks.
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'find /' also is unsuitable if you have many mounted file servers. I did the same thing at my work and I ended up killing the process after 24 hours...
just my $.02
What I don't get is why the EU had to reach an agreement with the US? The EU should just use GWB's strategy and do whatever the hell it wants.
Very good point. Very good point indeed.
Allow me to modify my first reply:
Get a life, you FUCKING dork.
...or replying to them when they are childish?
Because when you think you know it all and have to correct someone's OPINION, you're a big, fat dork.
This is great news! California has had an option to select renewable for some time.
BUT!
Being the cynic (skeptic?) I am, we need to be super-careful that the energy is what the distributors claim it is. For example, look at the organic labelling fiasco: food producers lobbied to reduce the standards of "organic" to include "some" organic procedures. They are not the same metrics that constitute "California Organic". As a result, there are misleading standards for organic, which can result in people buying products that could potentially bypass all that is good about organic processing.
Same goes for the Green-ergy.
Hopefully thsi will be monitored properly, so that when someone requests renewable energy, they don't get an earload marketingspeak "plants and animals die and become coal and oil, therefore coal and oil are nature's renewable resources!!!"
Get a life, dork.
And by the way, Johnny Depp is too damned SEXY to play Wonka! The paigeboy bob cut is too androgynous, in a good way.
Sorry, but Burton has been boning it for the past few films: "Big Fish" and the embarassingly bad remake of "Planet of the Apes."
Like "Planet...", Wonka does not need a rewrite. It was made at a time that appreciated edgy, gritty films, not watered down pablum that is market tested and approved. The original planet was gruesome and horrifying, Burton's remake was a forgettable joke that focused on action and _completely_ missed what made the original horrifying.
I doubt Burton has the guts to make the character of Willy Wonka out to be the sadist he is in the originals. That type of abuse wouldn't fly today, just like the Disneyfication (perversion) all of the Grimm fairytales to have happy endings and be sugary sweet, unlike the originals.
Originality is so fucking dead, and Burton is humping its corpse dry.
Sad days.
Well too bad they released 266 and 166 MHz parts, both which round to 267 and 167.
What's your explanation now?
Too much brand-equity in Pentium to change it. Branding is a tricky bird, once you've spent a trillion dollars of 14 years beating the name into a generation of brains, you don't change it.
Plus Hexium sounded too Satanic. I read somewhere that AMD and Intel rounded their 666 MHz processors to 667 becuase of New Testament mythology. Kinda like the "no 13th floor in hotels" nonsense.
Thanks! Some fan I am: I didn't know there was a new album, _AND_ I saw them at the Ballroom in San Francisco back in the fall!
Awesome show. I hadn't been to an industrial concert since I saw NIN/Manson in NY in Novmber of 1994 (shush, you!
SP? What, is VX Gas Attack more relevant today than it was when they released it in 1988?
What station was boycotted and when?
Just curious.
An SP fan.
This is great news! Lots of money for NASA and science!
But, who is going to do this research if our schools aren't funded because No Child Left Behind was gutted, and there is a growing, unchecked movement to replace science with pseudo science (ESP, Paranormal, Creationism)?
Seems like the money would be better spent improving the quality of the future. I'd rather see $10b of that 16b be spent patching up the $10b shortfall from NCLB.
Wow, I'm way offtopic...
That link reminds me of the "feeding robot" (lunchtime robot) in Chaplin's "Modern Times" from 1936: it basically forces him to eat at a speed that optimizes company profit. It was pretty scary when I was a kid, now it is just disturbing.
Isn't intel shifting centrino architecture to the desktop in lieu of P4 limits?
Won't that bone AMD because they are still making super high power CPUs? I thought noise and power were more important to OEMS than performance?
You're my hero.
Your staggering intellect gleams like a glistening nerd erection in a dark bedroom in your parents house.
Wasn't centrino a success? It's low power and integrated wireless made AMD have to follow suit and revamp its mobile core line. Of course, the anti-intel slant (not you!) on this board tends to not see AMD failures.
AMD is struggling hard, as they always have, to hold a modicum of the market. They are still nothing more than a small Intel. Intel has proven again and again that all they can do is make CPUs. The dismisal of the p4 line is a sign they acknowledge the trend in low power computing.
They are both about to get blown out of the water by Apple.
Apple is about to introduce an entertainment server. Everyone knows the future is networked consoles, but Sony et al are still focusing on games only. Apple will introduce a device that will displace the PC in a very short time. Fortunately their suppliers have horrible fab capacity. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple built in x86 if their volumes get high enough.
My bet is on the apple device.
How is this +5 Informative when there is absolutely nothing in the comment except a quote from the original source???
The only thing you can do 80 hours a week, reliably, is dig holes. Work for a highway cleanup crew doing community service some day...
;-)
As far as coding: 60-70 hours is the limit, depending on the mix of tasks. Major creative solving simply cannot be done nonstop. Even painters divide up chores: sketching, scaling, mixing, blending, dodging... each task has a different mental load.
Personally, when my game is on: the three hour period each day that starts when I wake up, I do my problem solving. I cannot force this creativity, it only happens at a particular time.
The next period of time: 6 hours, is fleshing out the Big Idea into smaller mindless bits.
Next, ~1-2 hours is just commenting and cleaning up test cases, or saving existing test cases so I have something for regression. Preparing for the next day is always a big help.
I can maintain this 10-11 pace every day for a week straight, but no more, and when my brain DOES start to fry (I can usually smell it), I like to switch to more mundane tasks like documenting and commenting.
Even when I was 20 (13 years ago!) and doing lots of crystal to program long hours, I still had to break it down into creative tasks and mundane tasks.
(Now my drug is sleep and food. I work so much better after a good meal and a solid nap. Yes, I'm an old fukker who codes for a living, not one you 15 year old brainiacs who has thousands of CVS tags in Sourceforge and no girlfriend...)
>> Perhaps in an age of blogging, there's a common tendency in thinking that every single thought that crosses one's mind is worthy of becoming an article. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.
Geez, somebody woke up on the god-side of the bed this morning...
Why don't you apply your philosophy to yourself: either stop being a hypocrite or shut your pie hole, Mr. Condescending.
Actually, Massively Parallel doesn't mean Non_Von_Neumann. Multi-core architecture still connects execution units, memory, and IO using common busses, which is the crux of VNA.
Now if you had multiple busses connecting multiple paths to the same execution units in a web, like the internet, or a neural net, that's nonVNA.
I may become flamebait for saying this, but I completely agree with you. A 14 year old who quickly grasps some code about how to exploit a flaw in an O/S is a far cry from someone who has multi-disciplanary skills from 20+ years of analyzing code on different platforms, applications and levels of academic merit.
Not to discourage the little punks, but if they devote themselves to the art and stick with it, they could end up becoming major contributors to the discipline.
Somehow I get the feeling it is a few big brains finding the exploits, and legions of punks running the code because they're bored on day, and forgetting all about it a year later.
I'm surprised by the regex grammar. It looks a lot like how I use boost::spirit::rule for parsing regex in C++:
:w { };
// rule for parsing a token string
// 1. Parse declarations
;-)
Perl6---
# note this is just a language example, not an accurate name matcher
grammar Names
{
rule name
rule singlename { + };
};
C++::boost::spirit---
rule split = *(*space_p >>
(+graph_p)[append(tok)] >>
*space_p);
msg "Parsing input\n";
while (!header_ok && getline(input, line) && input.good())
{
tok.clear();
parse(line.c_str(), split);
There are even grammar classes in Spirit.
I sure hope perl6 is faster!
Does anyone else find it pretty cool that this battle is NSA vs script kiddies? I mean, a $2B a year cost is equvialent to a small terrorist attack, this is a big problem. I'm glad to see people from all walks of life attempting to combat the little punks.