Looking back on some of the bugs that stayed in the 2.2 tree for so long (including some that caused massive filesystem corruption) i can't help but worry that 2.4 is just as far from BugFree(TM)
Unless I see a feature in 2.4 that I absolutely need, I'm sticking with 2.2 until 2.4 becomes stable enough that they open the 2.5 tree. Granted, there's a lot of neat stuff in 2.4, but there is a difference between neat and necessary. I'm sticking with kernels i know are stable.
Is it just me, or is that second patent basically a patent on using MIME typing?
The patent is for "Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document" Translated from patent-ese to english, this means using a MIME type (i.e. text/html) to determine what application can interpret the data. Netscape was doing this long before 1998.
Of course, the generality of the patent makes it just "type data" instead of "MIME type" So it would also include extensions, and how long has Windows been associating extensions with programs? Since version 3 as i recall. This just adds a network to the equation. So the file is downloaded instead of being created on the local machine, is that really enough of a difference that it can be patentable? I think not.
i'm dumb. i didn't set the damn thing to HTML formatted...
There's a lot of questions here regarding the accident itself, or it's psychological/emotional consequences, but i'm curious about the physical consequences, too.
How has the accident changed you, in terms of permanent physical damage, any psychological damage, and just about anything else?
I would imagine that something as drastic as that car accident would change your life radically and permanently in many ways.
There's a lot of questions here regarding the accident itself, or it's psychological/emotional consequences, but i'm curious about the physical consequences, too.
<p>How has the accident changed you, in terms of permanent physical damage, any psychological damage, and just about anything else?</p>
<p>I would imagine that something as drastic as that car accident would change your life radically and permanently in many ways.</p>
Another thing to keep in mind with this is that, for a long time, it was violation of tradition, if not dogma, to print the bible in anything but latin. And only those who went to expensive schools could read latin, so the proletariat still had to rely on the church for the bible, unable to experience it themselves
While i'm not directly familiar with your book, i'd say it sounds less like a narrative and more like a reference book. You have to admit that there's a big difference there. A reference book, you come back to again and again when you need some information on the topic, but a narrative, such as a fictional novel, you read through, and frequently never return to. If you give somebody your copy of "UNIX Network Programming" they can then use it for reference. But if i were to lend somebody my copy of "Fight Club" (which i have done with several people. everyone should read that book) they read it through and have gotten the experience of reading the book.
I'm not arguing against re-reading a book. If i permanently gave away my copy of "Fight Club" I would then be unable to re-read it. But the point is that I have already read it. With a lot of books, there is little point in re-reading. But there are books that are worth returning to again and again (I'm not even sure how many times i've read "Farenheit 451" and "The Catcher in the Rye") and that's why I won't give those books away. But there have been many, many books that i've given away to friends that are interested in reading them. With reference books, the point is to return to the book in times of need. I don't think i have a single reference book i've read all the way through, even. I just look in the index and find out where the information i need is, and skip to that section. But if i gave away those books, I would lose that privelage.
I have both "Hard Boiled" and "The Killer" on DVD (unfortunately i got into it too late to get the criterion versions at a sane price...) and honestly i prefer "The Killer" to "Hard Boiled." It has several beautful sequences, both of the violent variety, and some that are more subdued. This is not to discount "Hard Boiled" as anything less than a great film, but it just didn't impress me quite as much.
anybody thinking of checking out what hong kong action is all about hould see those two films
i'm a junior at WPI, and Java is used in lots of courses. i first learned it in CS2136 (paradigms of computation). Later, i had to use it in CS3013 (operating systems, although the professor admitted later that using java for that assignment was stupid... (duh!))
In the past it's been used in CS3733 (software engineering) although, this term and D term this year it's in scheme. It's used a little bit at the end of CS4533 (databases I). plus there are other courses that give you a choice of languages to use.
That said, Java is a good language to learn object orientation with. It's syntax is elegant, it's constructs are fairly simple. It doesn't suffer from multiple inheritance problems. (yay interfaces...) Importing packages is a much cleaner way to handle including other code sources than includes.
having said all this, i think i should say that despite the fact that i favor java as a language, i despise it as a platform. it's a slow, clunky piece of crap. I also have issues with sun's java compiler. It requires that in many cases, certain exceptions are either caught or thrown. Personnally, i think that, if an exception is not caught, the function should automattically be marked as throwing it, and a warning should be generated. I find that this often makes writing a quick proof of concept or prototype a pain in the ass, since i usually have to go back and add them manually BEFORE it compiles. I frequently just want to know if it works before i handle exceptions.
having said all this, i suppose i should throw in my comments on what should be done for AP in my opinion. start with C. move them on to scheme, then touch briefly on prolog. It's gppd to give the students experience in a variety of concepts of programming language. Java would be a good choice to teach object orientation at some point in the course, but time limitations would probably get in the way.
I would personnally recommend ambient music, such as "Selected Ambient Works, Volume II" by Aphex Twin (yeah, i know a lot of their other stuff is anything but ambient, but trust me on this one.) Or perhaps "Pieces in a Modern Style" by William Orbit Also check out artists like Autechre
I also find scores from video games and movies are frequently great for background music. If you can find the Soundtrack to Myst or an original Quake CD, those have decent background music.
Re:Why not create something like the DNS system?
on
The Gnutella Paradox
·
· Score: 1
i would much rather see DNS modelled after Gnutella. Power is too centralized in the DNS system right now.
The problem is that, for something as basic and common as DNS, using something as bandwidth-intensive as gnutella would be a truly stupid mistake, so some sort of caching would have to be added to the system.
A geek is a circus act based on eating anything at all. (see the enigma from the now-defunct Jim Rose Circus Crew) I'd rather be a nerd, personnaly. no rocks for me. i'm full.
Granted it's not lung cancer, but there have been a lot of musicians that have been screwed financially by the labels. Some of them have been unable to afford medical care. Just ask the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Also, many wonderful artists have been rejected by the labels because they didn't sound like whatever the current fad was. Ever notice how whenever a song in a new style becomes popular, a million others pop up? There are numerous examples of this... Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Limp Bizkit, and others that i don't follow or haven't heard of.
For most people, being a musician is not a particularly profitable line of work, but for many it is a passion worth sacrificing "the better life" for.
Granted the RIAA isn't poisoning artists, but it does contribute to their problems in a much more insidious manner. It neglects some artists in favor of the latest artificial crappy creation that can dance and sing songs that appeal to prepubescent teenage girls. Then as soon as those puppets start to wane in popularity they are thrown away as if they never existed. Ever watch "Where Are They Now" on VH1?
The RIAA doesn't directly kill people, but make no mistake. It is evil.
Actually, I know there have been a lot of scenes in futurama that were 3d rendered and made it obvious. It's just done such that it looks like classical animation. (the black hole/titanic episode had some as i recall)
I've been told that the entire show is 3d rendered.
I wonder how that stacks up to classical animation in terms of sheer production costs...
downloading netscape does not mean signing up for an aim account. it just means getting the client. You actually have to register seperately for a username on the aim servers, and you can't use aim without one. the user count = the number of paying aol users + the number of aim only accounts.
as the backbones stay up, why does it even matter as long? It would be nice to keep the name servers, but it's not an absolute necessity. Besides i doubt anybody running a server that important would be stupid enough to let it fail.
That's just the beaureaus you've seen. There have been more. THere was project Blue Book in the 50s. (I think i got that name right) That was shut down because they had no findings to report to congress. However many conspiracy theorists believe that after blue book was shut down a more elite and secret organization called Majestic 12 was formed to investigate these phenomena.
My take on all this though is that the CIA, or perhaps another such organization, is the biggest conspiracy theorist of all, leaking cover stories to feed the paranoia of the masses, and distract people from the truth, whatever that may be. I think the apparent ineptitude is intentional to make it look like they're hiding something. They are, but nobody knows what.
I have no theories as to what is really being covered up, and i doubt i ever will. I believe in aliens, but i doubt they go around mutilating cattle and abducting people. i just don't believe the lies of the governement.
(Jesus, i seem like a crackpot now that it's written down in front of me...)
kind of reminds me of the relationship between Darkwing Duck and his nemisis Negaduck, or maybe between Superman and Bizarro. Only difference is that they could touch each other without disintegrating and releasing enormous amounts of energy.
kids shouldn't be raised by the tv
on
Quack!
·
· Score: 1
as much as i hate to admit it, i frequently agree with katz, but this time i just plain find him dead wrong. I agree with the study that young children shouldn't be exposed to television, but not on the grounds that it will cause violent behavior. In fact, this is the first connection of that study with violence that i've found. most of the time when children of that age group ( 2 y.o.) watch tv it's something along the lines of Barney or the Teletubbies, and quite frankly i'd rather not have them responsible for teaching the children of america about life. from what i've seen about the study it said that young children shouldn't watch tv because it impedes the development of social skills, not because it causes kids to be violently antisocial. there's a big difference between a kid who doens't know how to deal with his peers and a kid who kills his peers. Maybe it's been shown that kids raised by the television are more likely to be violent, but that's because kids are more likely to be violent if they don't know how to deal with people thrugh other means. That's the problem we should be adressing, not blaming it on violence on tv, and censoring.
On the other hand though, there is the recomendation for a "media history." quite frankly that's a crock of shit. Maybe a child psychologist could use this information, but not a pediatrician. If i were asked to supply a media history i would refuse and i would recommend that others do too. I just don't see how it will do anything helpful to the children.
If you think that's a Megabyte, you're obviously on crack. And we do need a new definition due to the ambiguity of the term "megabyte," as well as all the other SI prefixes attached to "byte."
This is a useful step toward clearing up the amiguity, although the names are somewhat odd. Their derrivation is clear though. Kibi=Kilo+Binary Mebi=Mega+Binary etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Looking back on some of the bugs that stayed in the 2.2 tree for so long (including some that caused massive filesystem corruption) i can't help but worry that 2.4 is just as far from BugFree(TM)
Unless I see a feature in 2.4 that I absolutely need, I'm sticking with 2.2 until 2.4 becomes stable enough that they open the 2.5 tree. Granted, there's a lot of neat stuff in 2.4, but there is a difference between neat and necessary. I'm sticking with kernels i know are stable.
Is it just me, or is that second patent basically a patent on using MIME typing?
The patent is for "Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document" Translated from patent-ese to english, this means using a MIME type (i.e. text/html) to determine what application can interpret the data. Netscape was doing this long before 1998.
Of course, the generality of the patent makes it just "type data" instead of "MIME type" So it would also include extensions, and how long has Windows been associating extensions with programs? Since version 3 as i recall. This just adds a network to the equation. So the file is downloaded instead of being created on the local machine, is that really enough of a difference that it can be patentable? I think not.
i'm dumb. i didn't set the damn thing to HTML formatted...
There's a lot of questions here regarding the accident itself, or it's psychological/emotional consequences, but i'm curious about the physical consequences, too.
How has the accident changed you, in terms of permanent physical damage, any psychological damage, and just about anything else?
I would imagine that something as drastic as that car accident would change your life radically and permanently in many ways.
There's a lot of questions here regarding the accident itself, or it's psychological/emotional consequences, but i'm curious about the physical consequences, too.
<p>How has the accident changed you, in terms of permanent physical damage, any psychological damage, and just about anything else?</p>
<p>I would imagine that something as drastic as that car accident would change your life radically and permanently in many ways.</p>
Another thing to keep in mind with this is that, for a long time, it was violation of tradition, if not dogma, to print the bible in anything but latin. And only those who went to expensive schools could read latin, so the proletariat still had to rely on the church for the bible, unable to experience it themselves
While i'm not directly familiar with your book, i'd say it sounds less like a narrative and more like a reference book. You have to admit that there's a big difference there. A reference book, you come back to again and again when you need some information on the topic, but a narrative, such as a fictional novel, you read through, and frequently never return to. If you give somebody your copy of "UNIX Network Programming" they can then use it for reference. But if i were to lend somebody my copy of "Fight Club" (which i have done with several people. everyone should read that book) they read it through and have gotten the experience of reading the book.
I'm not arguing against re-reading a book. If i permanently gave away my copy of "Fight Club" I would then be unable to re-read it. But the point is that I have already read it. With a lot of books, there is little point in re-reading. But there are books that are worth returning to again and again (I'm not even sure how many times i've read "Farenheit 451" and "The Catcher in the Rye") and that's why I won't give those books away. But there have been many, many books that i've given away to friends that are interested in reading them. With reference books, the point is to return to the book in times of need. I don't think i have a single reference book i've read all the way through, even. I just look in the index and find out where the information i need is, and skip to that section. But if i gave away those books, I would lose that privelage.
You really can't draw a comparison.
it's not a rumor. Linus said December.
I have both "Hard Boiled" and "The Killer" on DVD (unfortunately i got into it too late to get the criterion versions at a sane price...) and honestly i prefer "The Killer" to "Hard Boiled." It has several beautful sequences, both of the violent variety, and some that are more subdued. This is not to discount "Hard Boiled" as anything less than a great film, but it just didn't impress me quite as much.
anybody thinking of checking out what hong kong action is all about hould see those two films
i'm a junior at WPI, and Java is used in lots of courses. i first learned it in CS2136 (paradigms of computation). Later, i had to use it in CS3013 (operating systems, although the professor admitted later that using java for that assignment was stupid... (duh!)) In the past it's been used in CS3733 (software engineering) although, this term and D term this year it's in scheme. It's used a little bit at the end of CS4533 (databases I). plus there are other courses that give you a choice of languages to use.
That said, Java is a good language to learn object orientation with. It's syntax is elegant, it's constructs are fairly simple. It doesn't suffer from multiple inheritance problems. (yay interfaces...) Importing packages is a much cleaner way to handle including other code sources than includes.
having said all this, i think i should say that despite the fact that i favor java as a language, i despise it as a platform. it's a slow, clunky piece of crap. I also have issues with sun's java compiler. It requires that in many cases, certain exceptions are either caught or thrown. Personnally, i think that, if an exception is not caught, the function should automattically be marked as throwing it, and a warning should be generated. I find that this often makes writing a quick proof of concept or prototype a pain in the ass, since i usually have to go back and add them manually BEFORE it compiles. I frequently just want to know if it works before i handle exceptions.
having said all this, i suppose i should throw in my comments on what should be done for AP in my opinion. start with C. move them on to scheme, then touch briefly on prolog. It's gppd to give the students experience in a variety of concepts of programming language. Java would be a good choice to teach object orientation at some point in the course, but time limitations would probably get in the way.
I would personnally recommend ambient music, such as "Selected Ambient Works, Volume II" by Aphex Twin (yeah, i know a lot of their other stuff is anything but ambient, but trust me on this one.) Or perhaps "Pieces in a Modern Style" by William Orbit Also check out artists like Autechre
I also find scores from video games and movies are frequently great for background music. If you can find the Soundtrack to Myst or an original Quake CD, those have decent background music.
i would much rather see DNS modelled after Gnutella. Power is too centralized in the DNS system right now.
The problem is that, for something as basic and common as DNS, using something as bandwidth-intensive as gnutella would be a truly stupid mistake, so some sort of caching would have to be added to the system.
A geek is a circus act based on eating anything at all. (see the enigma from the now-defunct Jim Rose Circus Crew) I'd rather be a nerd, personnaly. no rocks for me. i'm full.
Spinal Tap is giving out a bunch of songs free in mp3 on their new site, Tapster
Granted it's not lung cancer, but there have been a lot of musicians that have been screwed financially by the labels. Some of them have been unable to afford medical care. Just ask the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Also, many wonderful artists have been rejected by the labels because they didn't sound like whatever the current fad was. Ever notice how whenever a song in a new style becomes popular, a million others pop up? There are numerous examples of this... Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Limp Bizkit, and others that i don't follow or haven't heard of.
For most people, being a musician is not a particularly profitable line of work, but for many it is a passion worth sacrificing "the better life" for.
Granted the RIAA isn't poisoning artists, but it does contribute to their problems in a much more insidious manner. It neglects some artists in favor of the latest artificial crappy creation that can dance and sing songs that appeal to prepubescent teenage girls. Then as soon as those puppets start to wane in popularity they are thrown away as if they never existed. Ever watch "Where Are They Now" on VH1?
The RIAA doesn't directly kill people, but make no mistake. It is evil.
the most interesting UNIX netscape bug i've seen is on DEC, i once got an error message stating that there was a negative number of windows open.
Actually, I know there have been a lot of scenes in futurama that were 3d rendered and made it obvious. It's just done such that it looks like classical animation. (the black hole/titanic episode had some as i recall)
I've been told that the entire show is 3d rendered.
I wonder how that stacks up to classical animation in terms of sheer production costs...
downloading netscape does not mean signing up for an aim account. it just means getting the client. You actually have to register seperately for a username on the aim servers, and you can't use aim without one.
the user count = the number of paying aol users + the number of aim only accounts.
er, um, i should have previewed. i restructured that first sentence and didn't move enough of it over...
as the backbones stay up, why does it even matter as long? It would be nice to keep the name servers, but it's not an absolute necessity. Besides i doubt anybody running a server that important would be stupid enough to let it fail.
That's just the beaureaus you've seen. There have been more. THere was project Blue Book in the 50s. (I think i got that name right) That was shut down because they had no findings to report to congress. However many conspiracy theorists believe that after blue book was shut down a more elite and secret organization called Majestic 12 was formed to investigate these phenomena.
My take on all this though is that the CIA, or perhaps another such organization, is the biggest conspiracy theorist of all, leaking cover stories to feed the paranoia of the masses, and distract people from the truth, whatever that may be. I think the apparent ineptitude is intentional to make it look like they're hiding something. They are, but nobody knows what.
I have no theories as to what is really being covered up, and i doubt i ever will. I believe in aliens, but i doubt they go around mutilating cattle and abducting people. i just don't believe the lies of the governement.
(Jesus, i seem like a crackpot now that it's written down in front of me...)
as long as the particle is charged, it could be held in a magnetic field, just as long a it doesn't touch matter. :-)
kind of reminds me of the relationship between Darkwing Duck and his nemisis Negaduck, or maybe between Superman and Bizarro. Only difference is that they could touch each other without disintegrating and releasing enormous amounts of energy.
as much as i hate to admit it, i frequently agree with katz, but this time i just plain find him dead wrong. I agree with the study that young children shouldn't be exposed to television, but not on the grounds that it will cause violent behavior. In fact, this is the first connection of that study with violence that i've found.
most of the time when children of that age group ( 2 y.o.) watch tv it's something along the lines of Barney or the Teletubbies, and quite frankly i'd rather not have them responsible for teaching the children of america about life.
from what i've seen about the study it said that young children shouldn't watch tv because it impedes the development of social skills, not because it causes kids to be violently antisocial. there's a big difference between a kid who doens't know how to deal with his peers and a kid who kills his peers. Maybe it's been shown that kids raised by the television are more likely to be violent, but that's because kids are more likely to be violent if they don't know how to deal with people thrugh other means. That's the problem we should be adressing, not blaming it on violence on tv, and censoring.
On the other hand though, there is the recomendation for a "media history." quite frankly that's a crock of shit. Maybe a child psychologist could use this information, but not a pediatrician. If i were asked to supply a media history i would refuse and i would recommend that others do too. I just don't see how it will do anything helpful to the children.
Thus ends my ranting...
christ i feel dumb now.
maybe i should refrain from posting before my coffee...
8E6 Bits == 262144 Bits == 32768 Bytes != 1 Megabyte
If you think that's a Megabyte, you're obviously on crack. And we do need a new definition due to the ambiguity of the term "megabyte," as well as all the other SI prefixes attached to "byte."
1 Megabyte == 1048576 Bytes == 8388608 Bits
OR:
1 Megabyte == 1000000 Bytes == 8000000 Bits.
This is a useful step toward clearing up the amiguity, although the names are somewhat odd. Their derrivation is clear though.
Kibi=Kilo+Binary
Mebi=Mega+Binary
etc.