This is a cool article on catastrophic backtracking. I remember the first time that got me. It would occasionally cause severe issues on a production server we had. I swung and missed with my reg ex on that one.
This would raise interesting ethical problems. Such as, what if you could have 1000 year life span, but the brain only lasted 100 years? That makes euthanisia a more important topic.
My understanding is that "Go" has a huge branching factor. Chess has a fewer number of moves. And many of these are obviously poor choices. "Go" has a larger number of possible good moves. This makes it harder for the computer to 'look ahead' at the different possibilities.
It has been a while since my AI class. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here.
I'm a balloon pilot, and get questions like this a lot. Balloons don't fail at altitude. If you have a problem, it is because you hit power lines, a tower, etc. 99% of problems with balloons occur within 100 feet of the ground.
Also, maximum descent for a hot air balloon is the same as a military parachute. So using a parachute would be kind of pointless.
I only know of one cases of balloons failing at altitude. It was a mid-air collision between balloons. Even then, the pilot survived. A streamering balloon slowed him down just enough.
Actually, balloons are pretty safe. They can take a lot more damage than any other aircraft I know of and still get you down to the ground ok.
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I still prefer directly writing the SQL code myself. It doesn't take that long, and for many things it seems to be more efficient. I only pull the fields that I need.
I have seen many applications where a developer will pull a list of objects out of a database and only use a small percentage of what was pulled. This was caused by a heavy persistence layer abstracting what was happening, and a developer that didn't care to find out.
I seem to be in the minority with this view though. Automated persistence is quite trendy.
No, go back to your big 'O' notation. Throwing big computers at a problem doesn't always get it to run fast.
Anyway, Java apps usually run similar to C depending on what you are doing. Like any benchmark though, you can make Java run faster than C or slower, depending on your goal.
I use java for applications that require high performance. I have one java app that moved over a billion dollars worth of transactions is a few short months.
Where I see performance problems is from programmers that don't realize what happens 'under the covers'. Web services, distributed computing, XML services, these are what kill performance on projects I've seen. People use them and don't realize the cost. They don't really know what happens under the covers. Without that, you can't do a cost benefit analysis.
And those types of problems happen in every language.
I've been reading several papers on this for a grad class I'm taking. One of the several problems is no government control. If a power outage might be prevented by shedding some load (turning out power to some people), no company wants to step up to the plate and be the one to turn out the power to their customers. So they luck out, or they have a massive power outage.
This paper (click on the PDF link) has a good summary of the problems in keeping power outages from happening again.
This one still makes me go back to IE. With the wrong setup, you can't access links for form controls. While the bug is marked as fixed in 1.7b, the test case I put in still fails.
Go to CSS Zen Garden for learning by example on stylesheets. My pages mostly just have div tags any more, and the style sheet does the rest.
(And why does Mozilla prevent links to it via Slashdot? If I create a link it says "Ook! Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.")
StarDock's WindowBlinds and its related FX software can 'shrink' a window to the desktop. You are supposed to soon be able to hold a shift key and shrink the window while keeping the content interactive.
Unfortunately I can't find a link describing that part of the software right now. It hasn't been put out as a full release yet.
I find that more useful than turning a window on its side. But not useful enough I actually use it.
If the repeatedly pull the site, getting updates, then you are in luck. Find the IP, or some other identifying pattern. Then put some logic around it and send them different text.
I knew a guy back in 1997 that did this. When his competitors looked at his web site, he brought up an old version of it. Kind of clever, given the era he'd put it together.
Interesting. All the javadocs make it look like they published documentation on their whole progam. I can pull the docs from the Google cache, but not directly from the site. Better download the docs now while you can.
I make a good living as a java programmer, but I wouldn't be programming such a tool in java. I'd probably make it a C program and install it on a linux box and sell it as a plug-in hardware piece.
Then again, I don't think I'd try making such a tool.
Who knows? Maybe they didn't have the money for it. Adoption is not cheap. Adoption is not for everyone.
How many kids a person has, and what they have for pets is a rather personal decision. I would not presume to second guess anyone for their choice, particularly in a public forum. (Unless they aren't taking care of the kids/pets.)
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This is a cool article on catastrophic backtracking. I remember the first time that got me. It would occasionally cause severe issues on a production server we had. I swung and missed with my reg ex on that one.
Nice to see Edward James Olmos is part of the cast. After the last episode, I was worried he would not return.
If you could solve these problems, most of our money would probably go to medical. Dealing with all the aches and pains we'd pick up along the way.
And who would we, as a tax-paying society, be obliged save from an early death via old age? Prisoners? Poor? Past Presidents?
This would raise interesting ethical problems. Such as, what if you could have 1000 year life span, but the brain only lasted 100 years? That makes euthanisia a more important topic.
Plus, where will we fit everyone?
I find it interesting as I read through this how many people listed what was wrong with Unix. Very, very few people listed how to fix it.
(Including me.)
My understanding is that "Go" has a huge branching factor. Chess has a fewer number of moves. And many of these are obviously poor choices. "Go" has a larger number of possible good moves. This makes it harder for the computer to 'look ahead' at the different possibilities.
It has been a while since my AI class. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here.
I'm a balloon pilot, and get questions like this a lot. Balloons don't fail at altitude. If you have a problem, it is because you hit power lines, a tower, etc. 99% of problems with balloons occur within 100 feet of the ground.
Also, maximum descent for a hot air balloon is the same as a military parachute. So using a parachute would be kind of pointless.
I only know of one cases of balloons failing at altitude. It was a mid-air collision between balloons. Even then, the pilot survived. A streamering balloon slowed him down just enough.
Actually, balloons are pretty safe. They can take a lot more damage than any other aircraft I know of and still get you down to the ground ok.
This is just what Guy Montag needed to silence Denham's Dentifrice.
I still prefer directly writing the SQL code myself. It doesn't take that long, and for many things it seems to be more efficient. I only pull the fields that I need.
I have seen many applications where a developer will pull a list of objects out of a database and only use a small percentage of what was pulled. This was caused by a heavy persistence layer abstracting what was happening, and a developer that didn't care to find out.
I seem to be in the minority with this view though. Automated persistence is quite trendy.
No, go back to your big 'O' notation. Throwing big computers at a problem doesn't always get it to run fast.
Anyway, Java apps usually run similar to C depending on what you are doing. Like any benchmark though, you can make Java run faster than C or slower, depending on your goal.
I use java for applications that require high performance. I have one java app that moved over a billion dollars worth of transactions is a few short months.
Where I see performance problems is from programmers that don't realize what happens 'under the covers'. Web services, distributed computing, XML services, these are what kill performance on projects I've seen. People use them and don't realize the cost. They don't really know what happens under the covers. Without that, you can't do a cost benefit analysis.
And those types of problems happen in every language.
If you want to see more of her search on gnutella on the image file name!
NH3 is a lifting gas. Some balloonists use it as an alternative to helium (expensive) or hydrogen (safety risks).
Using my RSA I enter a password and the RSA keychain number. It's two factor, so access to my entire credit history isn't on my keychain.
Sorry, but I thought 'Pump Up The Volume' was a great movie.
Hope it doesn't hail. A good hail storm can wreak havok on a solar panel.
Could you do that tattoo on an animal instead? A dead animal?
I've been reading several papers on this for a grad class I'm taking. One of the several problems is no government control. If a power outage might be prevented by shedding some load (turning out power to some people), no company wants to step up to the plate and be the one to turn out the power to their customers. So they luck out, or they have a massive power outage.
This paper (click on the PDF link) has a good summary of the problems in keeping power outages from happening again.
I don't prefer using IE. I use Firefox. It's just that IE does not exibit this particular bug.
Maybe it's the way I do stylesheets, but I always run into this problem.
I had the same issue with really early Mozilla versions. I'd lose my mail as well as my bookmarks.
But I haven't had that problem for at least two years now.
I like using a lot of div tags and css styles. 1.7b is better with several bugs fixed. But this bug:
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This one still makes me go back to IE. With the wrong setup, you can't access links for form controls. While the bug is marked as fixed in 1.7b, the test case I put in still fails.
Go to CSS Zen Garden for learning by example on stylesheets. My pages mostly just have div tags any more, and the style sheet does the rest.
(And why does Mozilla prevent links to it via Slashdot? If I create a link it says "Ook! Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.")
StarDock's WindowBlinds and its related FX software can 'shrink' a window to the desktop. You are supposed to soon be able to hold a shift key and shrink the window while keeping the content interactive.
Unfortunately I can't find a link describing that part of the software right now. It hasn't been put out as a full release yet.
I find that more useful than turning a window on its side. But not useful enough I actually use it.
If the repeatedly pull the site, getting updates, then you are in luck. Find the IP, or some other identifying pattern. Then put some logic around it and send them different text.
I knew a guy back in 1997 that did this. When his competitors looked at his web site, he brought up an old version of it. Kind of clever, given the era he'd put it together.
Interesting. All the javadocs make it look like they published documentation on their whole progam. I can pull the docs from the Google cache, but not directly from the site. Better download the docs now while you can.
I make a good living as a java programmer, but I wouldn't be programming such a tool in java. I'd probably make it a C program and install it on a linux box and sell it as a plug-in hardware piece.
Then again, I don't think I'd try making such a tool.
Who knows? Maybe they didn't have the money for it. Adoption is not cheap. Adoption is not for everyone.
How many kids a person has, and what they have for pets is a rather personal decision. I would not presume to second guess anyone for their choice, particularly in a public forum. (Unless they aren't taking care of the kids/pets.)