qmail is a piece of crap. The source code is completely unreadable, and it seems to think that "getpid()" is a good source of random data. /* myrand - pseudo-random number */
int myrand(void) {
if (myrand_initdone == 0)
mysrand(getpid() ^ time((time_t *) 0));
return (rand()); }
What I really like about slashdot is that every year they manage to sneak in one subtle, carefully crafted April's Fool joke amid all of the regular stories. Their prank blends in very well almost unnoticable, unless for the the prepared or critical reader. If you're not alert, you're made to believe something totally outrageous. Subtlety, careful avoidance to reference the actual date, and not ruining the joke by overdoing it: that is the real April Fool's spirit! I thank slashdot for honoring this tradation.
What I really like about slashdot is that every year they manage to sneak in one subtle, carefully crafted April's Fool joke amid all of the reagular stories. Their prank blends in very well almost unnoticable, unless for the the prepared or critical reader. If you're not alert, you're made to believe something totally outrageous. Subtlety, careful avoidance to reference the actual date, and not ruining the joke by overdoing it: that is the real April Fool's spirit! I thank slashdot for honoring this tradation.
Re:Whats specific about Taiwan?
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Spam from Taiwan
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Most people I know there earn about US$15k/yr [...] Now 24Mbit internet access is like $5-$10 per month,
I live in Taiwan. Here's some info for you. An average person earns like US$150~200k a year. The 8M/640k ADSL line from Hinet, taiwan's largest ISP, is US$33/month, with 1 fixed IP+ 7 floating IP addresses.
Funny. I also live in Taiwan. Here is some information extracted from the CIA factbook for both of you:
First look at the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita:
USA: $41,800 European Union: $29,100 Taiwan: $27,600
Now correct it for purchasing power parity:
Taiwan: $53,800 USA: $41,400 European Union: $26,600
Taiwan is a wealthy country.
Second: Your Hinet.net rate must be a very special deal. 33 USD is about 1000 NTD. For 1,200 NTD/month you barely get 2M/512k dynamic IP. This hasn't changed much over the past two years that I have lived here.
Your 8M is on the hinet website and it costs 5,000 NTD or $150/month)
Quantum computers can be used to get approximate solutions to large NP-complete optimization problems much more quickly than the best known methods running on any supercomputer.
Did someone invent a quantum algorithm that makes a dent in NP-complete? News to me.
That is why the headline says 'approximate solutions'.
Anonymous Coward wrote: Every time I finish something I abuse the hell out of it. It should be indestructable or it's not worthy of having my name on it. I also do lots of unit testing.
That must be why everybody is always so exited to deploy software written by Anonymous Coward.
I realize that things have to change, but I wish that they would not break compat between versions quite so often...
Have you tried maintaining a compiler used in as many situations as GCC? (If not, you should try, before making complaints like this. It's an educational experience.)
This is exactly the ivory tower thinking that the poster is complaining about. You are overestimating the maintenance cost und underestimating the pain for your users. This is typical for open source: think that what is good for the developer justifies major compatibility issues for everybody else.
It is striking that this nonsense FORTRAN debate makes it to the/. front page on the day that the death of E.W.Dijkstra has been announced. It is even more striking that the news about the loss of this computer science giant is deemed of less significance by your moderators. What is next? Advocating the implementation of 'goto' in java 3?
E.W.D. was one of the most influential pioneers of computer science, like Turing, Zuse and Von Neuman. His work was always been in the light of creating a solid mathematical foundation for programming. His most remarkable achievements include the wide acceptance of 'structured programming', the invention of semaphores and ofcourse the Dijkstra shortest-path algortihm. He was awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1972. For/.-ers is may be interesting that he also started the first real flamewar with his infamous "Goto considered harmful"-article.
For programmers who like to read all of his manuscripts (if you haven't read them, you don't know what programming is about): there is a great archive of all his material. Dijkstra died at the age of 72. May he rest in peace and may his work live on.
Back on topic:
FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra.
> Forget conversational ability. I'd like to see a Chess Turing Test, where grandmasters go up against an unknown opponent, and have to ascertain whether they're playing a computer or a machine.
Actually, the computers have already demonstrated greater skill in judging chess Turing tests: they are better than grandmaster at deciding if an unknown player is human or not.
When we built a 256 node system out of 75MHz off-the-shelf pentiums. This was done during the International Olympiad for Informatics at the University of Eindhoven in an attempt to make the biggest arcade game. The system ran a custom-made game that could be played by 256 players sitting in front of this monster.
For some impressive pictures, check out
Slashdot Mirror
qmail is a piece of crap. The source code is completely unreadable, and it /* myrand - pseudo-random number */
seems to think that "getpid()" is a good source of random data.
int myrand(void)
{
if (myrand_initdone == 0)
mysrand(getpid() ^ time((time_t *) 0));
return (rand());
}
Source: postfix 2.4.3
What I really like about slashdot is that every year they manage to sneak in one subtle, carefully crafted April's Fool joke amid all of the regular stories. Their prank blends in very well almost unnoticable, unless for the the prepared or critical reader. If you're not alert, you're made to believe something totally outrageous. Subtlety, careful avoidance to reference the actual date, and not ruining the joke by overdoing it: that is the real April Fool's spirit! I thank slashdot for honoring this tradation.
What I really like about slashdot is that every year they manage to sneak in one subtle, carefully crafted April's Fool joke amid all of the reagular stories. Their prank blends in very well almost unnoticable, unless for the the prepared or critical reader. If you're not alert, you're made to believe something totally outrageous. Subtlety, careful avoidance to reference the actual date, and not ruining the joke by overdoing it: that is the real April Fool's spirit! I thank slashdot for honoring this tradation.
'nuff said
Most people I know there earn about US$15k/yr [...]
Now 24Mbit internet access is like $5-$10 per month,
I live in Taiwan.
Here's some info for you.
An average person earns like US$150~200k a year.
The 8M/640k ADSL line from Hinet, taiwan's largest ISP, is US$33/month, with 1 fixed IP+ 7 floating IP addresses.
Funny. I also live in Taiwan. Here is some information extracted from the CIA factbook for both of you:
First look at the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita:
USA: $41,800
European Union: $29,100
Taiwan: $27,600
Now correct it for purchasing power parity:
Taiwan: $53,800
USA: $41,400
European Union: $26,600
Taiwan is a wealthy country.
Second: Your Hinet.net rate must be a very special deal. 33 USD is about 1000 NTD.
For 1,200 NTD/month you barely get 2M/512k dynamic IP. This hasn't changed much
over the past two years that I have lived here.
Your 8M is on the hinet
website and it costs 5,000 NTD or $150/month)
Their site says
Quantum computers can be used to get approximate solutions to large NP-complete optimization problems much more quickly than the best known methods running on any supercomputer.
Did someone invent a quantum algorithm that makes a dent in NP-complete? News to me.
That is why the headline says 'approximate solutions'.
Anonymous Coward wrote: Every time I finish something I abuse the hell out of it. It should be indestructable or it's not worthy of having my name on it. I also do lots of unit testing.
That must be why everybody is always so exited to deploy software written by Anonymous Coward.
Have you tried maintaining a compiler used in as many situations as GCC? (If not, you should try, before making complaints like this. It's an educational experience.)
This is exactly the ivory tower thinking that the poster is complaining about. You are overestimating the maintenance cost und underestimating the pain for your users. This is typical for open source: think that what is good for the developer justifies major compatibility issues for everybody else.
I currently request songs by holding up my phone as close as possible, but that isn't always readable.
I just give them my ipod ready to plug in.
I was baffled by the following entry in my http log yesterday, it seems that the actually DO eat their own dog food:
/~marcelk/ HTTP/1.0" 200 5506 "[...]" "Mozilla/4.77C-CCK-MCD Caldera Systems OpenLinux [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686)"
132.147.67.17 - - [26/Aug/2003:21:45:52 +0200] "GET
The IP (the Internet address thing, not their other `business'..) resolves to somewhere in caldera.com
It is striking that this nonsense FORTRAN debate makes it to the /. front page on the day that the death of E.W.Dijkstra has been announced. It is even more striking that the news about the loss of this computer science giant is deemed of less significance by your moderators. What is next? Advocating the implementation of 'goto' in java 3?
/.-ers is may be interesting that he also started the first real flamewar with his infamous "Goto considered harmful"-article.
E.W.D. was one of the most influential pioneers of computer science, like Turing, Zuse and Von Neuman. His work was always been in the light of creating a solid mathematical foundation for programming. His most remarkable achievements include the wide acceptance of 'structured programming', the invention of semaphores and ofcourse the Dijkstra shortest-path algortihm. He was awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1972. For
For the news on his death: here, here or here.
For programmers who like to read all of his manuscripts (if you haven't read them, you don't know what programming is about): there is a great archive of all his material. Dijkstra died at the age of 72. May he rest in peace and may his work live on.
Back on topic:
FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra.
> Forget conversational ability. I'd like to see a Chess Turing Test, where grandmasters go up against an unknown opponent, and have to ascertain whether they're playing a computer or a machine.
Actually, the computers have already demonstrated greater skill in judging chess Turing tests: they are better than grandmaster at deciding if an unknown player is human or not.
I think you missed creative loop unrolling.
Given that this machine recycles its
airflow, it provides a good training
for these birds not to shit during flight.
If you wonder what XP is really about, CNN summarizes it in its very first sentence on XP:
"The [Windows XP] system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive." (cnn.com)
Now, -that- is a killerapp!
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