It is a non-existent bug, anyway. Files and directory names can have spaces in them, so URL-s referring to them also may have spaces (in fact, %20 is an escape code for space), "http://qwe.com/there are a lot/of spaces.html" actually works (or at least, it would work:)
What he wants is for URLs to be compared with space-insesitivity. In fact, I think the primary thing he wants is to be able to enter spaces in the middle of the domain name and have them stripped out, because he's talking about users entering addresses from advertising material, and they almost never use anything other than a simple domain name.
Who puts dates in filenames anyway? This metadata is already saved with the file and any application that doesn't let you sort a list of files/directories by creation/modification date, instead of just name, is broken.
People pant at the thought of "metadata" filesystems and they can't use what they already have.
What if I wanted to create files that contained information about specific dates, but were not created or modified in any particular order? Very few current systems provide adequate metadata facilities for this, and I am forced to use the yyyy-mm-dd format (which I constantly have to explain to other people because nobody seems to understand it first time they see it).
A "smart" ASCII sort would be a nightmare, yet another example of a "smart" algorithm forcing the user to deal with "unexpected" behaviour.
This I agree with. Windows XP has one, and most people who notice it immediately think it's a bug. When it's explained to them, their next question is usually how to switch it off (there's a registry hack for it, BTW).
Well, actually, now you mention it, it's randomly selected by chromosome. Very unlikely you'll have a complete copy after twice. Better do it a few more times, just to be sure.
Increasing storage size is always driven by new applications, though. First it was a few tiny little GIF porn files, then JPEG porn, then it was low quality 30 second MPEG porn, then medium quality 30 minute MPEG porn, these days it's DVD quality 80-90 minute MPEG porn. OK, so there's HD-DVD, but, really, once that's gone, who'se going to need a bigger disk for their porn collection?
Who would have a use for this type of storage, yet would at the same time run Windows Me?
Interesting question. What's the limit on the size of a single FAT32 partition? If it's less than 100Gb (?) you won't even be able to use 1.6Tb on a single disk with WinME.
Although having said that I'm starting to get the feeling that with a large enough cluster size you might be able to use this a single FAT32 partition.
How about having a camcorder with several differently coloured light sources? By analyzing the correspondingly differently coloured shadows one could create depth information in real time.
Isn't this how the coloured-glasses 3D filming that was briefly popular in the mid 80s worked?
print sum(obj.count for obj in list_all_objects())
In Ruby, you can accomplish the same thing by writing:
print (objGenerator.map { |obj| obj.count } ).sum
Sorry, but I think the Python example is a lot more readable. I'll admit I've never programmed Ruby, but even if I hadn't programmed Python I'd be able to look at the Python code and figure out what it did. I can't say the same for the Ruby code. The "|var| var.something" syntax is rather non-intuitive, I think.
Seriously the problem is government procurement procedures. The contract goes to the lowest bidder and a record of past f****ups is not taken into account.
That's actually not true. The criteria that are _supposed_ to be used to judge a tender are "best value" (which is not the same as lowest bidder -- other potential costs and benefits than the immediate bid value are supposed to be taken into account) and "proven ability to provide similar solutions". Perhaps it gets ignored, but that's the fault of the procurement departments, not the procedure they're supposed to follow.
Microsoft will no longer license Windows 2000 Professional on new desktops, so they instead come with Windows XP Professional. (Or at least Dell won't any more, or something. I don't know the details, just that all the new machines come with Windows XP like it or not.) Since it makes little sense just to toss those licenses, the company I work for just keeps them.
Microsoft OS licenses include a 'downgrade' option. A WinXP Pro license will allow you to run Win2K pro instead, if you choose.
But I'd say there are a few inherent advantages of WinXP that would be useful for DWP. It is a much more responsive OS than Win2K, in my experience, and would probably improve staff productivity a little. Also, it seems that with SP2 many potential security problems are non-issues, therefore it becomes less necessary to constantly roll out patches to your systems.
It wont be when china, japan and saudi arabia decide to trade in their dollars for euro..
Why would they want to do that? Now's the time to _buy_ dollars -- more bucks for your... err.. bang?
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True. I've been downloading loads of FoV stuff lately, and the quality is amazing for a 350Mb file with ~40 minutes of video. High res, almost no artifacts.
I just wish they'd encode with CBR audio, as half of my apps don't like the VBR MP3 encoding they use. Particularly TMPGEnc, which I use for converting to MPEG2 for writing to DVD-R. I have to use VirtualDub to rip the audio to a separate.wav file before encoding.
We don't mind American citizens making requests of our MPs, or even of our voters. This is reasonable, and those MPs and voters are entitled to put whatever significance they think appropriate on those requests.
However, faxyourmp.org.uk is a web site run with donated bandwidth and telephone call charges. It is unfair to the people who have donated these to use them for a purpose it was not originally intended for.
How long do you reckon MS will let Intel get away with something like this for, before threatening to (e.g.) make a statement that Windows runs better on AMD processors?
2) In Windows, I take a noticeable performance hit capturing video, and if I do anything to put pressure on the CPU, I'll get dropped frames. (When was the last time you got dropped frames on a VCR?)
When was the last time you used a VCR for doing something else at the same time as you were making a recording?
A PC capable of doing video recording/playback costs about the same as a decent VCR. Get one. Use it only for that. You'll find it works much better.
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All that article says about the quality is this:
Standing in a shop at the time, there was absolutely no visible difference in picture quality, and some reviews had found that VHS's quality was superior.
I'm sorry, that isn't enough to convince me. If he had done blind viewing tests with a variety of subjects then perhaps, but the fact that he couldn't see any difference on a shop's demo system (which was probably using a worn out tape) just doesn't cut it. Judging by his other comments, this also probably happened towards the end of the period over which betamax died. VHS systems did improve in quality over this period.
As far as I'm concerned what killed betamax was unreliability. The betamax VCR my family had needed its playback heads replaced virtually annually (at more than the cost of a new VHS player). That can only happen so many times before you just go out and get a new one, and swear never to buy a Sony product again.
Speaking of NT4, I found it far easier to back port a Windows based app written for XP or 2k back to NT4, jumping back 5-9 years in terms of age, than it is to go from Fedora Core 2 to Red Hat 6.2, a jump of only 5.
XP was released in 2001. NT4 was released in 1997. This is only a 4 year jump, not "5-9". Unless your applications were written for a version of XP that will be released in 2006?
If the automatic filters get 97.5% of it (reasonable if you want to make sure you don't miss any real messages), he'll still need about 10 people to filter the remainder by hand, by my estimate. I would say 10 e-mail filterers counts as a department.
I think if you get into work in the morning, destined to do battle with four million spam e-mails, it would be more appropriate to chant "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will allow my fear to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn my inner eye to see its path. And where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
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It is a non-existent bug, anyway. :)
Files and directory names can have spaces in them, so URL-s referring to them also may have spaces (in fact, %20 is an escape code for space), "http://qwe.com/there are a lot/of spaces.html" actually works (or at least, it would work
What he wants is for URLs to be compared with space-insesitivity. In fact, I think the primary thing he wants is to be able to enter spaces in the middle of the domain name and have them stripped out, because he's talking about users entering addresses from advertising material, and they almost never use anything other than a simple domain name.
Who puts dates in filenames anyway? This metadata is already saved with the file and any application that doesn't let you sort a list of files/directories by creation/modification date, instead of just name, is broken.
People pant at the thought of "metadata" filesystems and they can't use what they already have.
What if I wanted to create files that contained information about specific dates, but were not created or modified in any particular order? Very few current systems provide adequate metadata facilities for this, and I am forced to use the yyyy-mm-dd format (which I constantly have to explain to other people because nobody seems to understand it first time they see it).
A "smart" ASCII sort would be a nightmare, yet another example of a "smart" algorithm forcing the user to deal with "unexpected" behaviour.
This I agree with. Windows XP has one, and most people who notice it immediately think it's a bug. When it's explained to them, their next question is usually how to switch it off (there's a registry hack for it, BTW).
for f in (glob.glob("/tmp/*")).sorted() : print f
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'sorted'
The OP must have typed that wrong. It should be:
for f in sorted(glob.glob("/tmp/*")): print f
I believe the author is working on a .NET implementation these days, so probably doesn't have time/the inclination to do it.
Well, actually, now you mention it, it's randomly selected by chromosome. Very unlikely you'll have a complete copy after twice. Better do it a few more times, just to be sure.
English has a subjunctive mood. That's my excuse, anyway.
If only it were easier to spot when it was being used.
Increasing storage size is always driven by new applications, though. First it was a few tiny little GIF porn files, then JPEG porn, then it was low quality 30 second MPEG porn, then medium quality 30 minute MPEG porn, these days it's DVD quality 80-90 minute MPEG porn. OK, so there's HD-DVD, but, really, once that's gone, who'se going to need a bigger disk for their porn collection?
Who would have a use for this type of storage, yet would at the same time run Windows Me?
Interesting question. What's the limit on the size of a single FAT32 partition? If it's less than 100Gb (?) you won't even be able to use 1.6Tb on a single disk with WinME.
Although having said that I'm starting to get the feeling that with a large enough cluster size you might be able to use this a single FAT32 partition.
Why not just implant the memory of flying solo around the world in a jet - as a secret agent?
(Too many Arnie movies)
Too many Philip K Dick books for me.
I'm getting the strangest feeling that somebody's watching me....
How about having a camcorder with several differently coloured light sources? By analyzing the correspondingly differently coloured shadows one could create depth information in real time.
Isn't this how the coloured-glasses 3D filming that was briefly popular in the mid 80s worked?
Consider the example you gave:
print sum(obj.count for obj in list_all_objects())
In Ruby, you can accomplish the same thing by writing:
print (objGenerator.map { |obj| obj.count } ).sum
Sorry, but I think the Python example is a lot more readable. I'll admit I've never programmed Ruby, but even if I hadn't programmed Python I'd be able to look at the Python code and figure out what it did. I can't say the same for the Ruby code. The "|var| var.something" syntax is rather non-intuitive, I think.
But then NTFS is a chore to acess from a "dead" system...
Not in the slightest.
Seriously the problem is government procurement procedures. The contract goes to the lowest bidder and a record of past f****ups is not taken into account.
That's actually not true. The criteria that are _supposed_ to be used to judge a tender are "best value" (which is not the same as lowest bidder -- other potential costs and benefits than the immediate bid value are supposed to be taken into account) and "proven ability to provide similar solutions". Perhaps it gets ignored, but that's the fault of the procurement departments, not the procedure they're supposed to follow.
Microsoft will no longer license Windows 2000 Professional on new desktops, so they instead come with Windows XP Professional. (Or at least Dell won't any more, or something. I don't know the details, just that all the new machines come with Windows XP like it or not.) Since it makes little sense just to toss those licenses, the company I work for just keeps them.
Microsoft OS licenses include a 'downgrade' option. A WinXP Pro license will allow you to run Win2K pro instead, if you choose.
But I'd say there are a few inherent advantages of WinXP that would be useful for DWP. It is a much more responsive OS than Win2K, in my experience, and would probably improve staff productivity a little. Also, it seems that with SP2 many potential security problems are non-issues, therefore it becomes less necessary to constantly roll out patches to your systems.
It wont be when china, japan and saudi arabia decide to trade in their dollars for euro..
Why would they want to do that? Now's the time to _buy_ dollars -- more bucks for your... err.. bang?
True. I've been downloading loads of FoV stuff lately, and the quality is amazing for a 350Mb file with ~40 minutes of video. High res, almost no artifacts.
.wav file before encoding.
I just wish they'd encode with CBR audio, as half of my apps don't like the VBR MP3 encoding they use. Particularly TMPGEnc, which I use for converting to MPEG2 for writing to DVD-R. I have to use VirtualDub to rip the audio to a separate
I downloaded Evanescence's My Immortal arranged for piano on Gnutella a few weeks back. I've also found copies of a few others. It's already coming.
And given the ludicrous price of books of music (my local music shop charges about GBP 25 == $50 US for anything current), it's a wide open market.
You bastard. I wondered why I couldn't get to suprnova earlier. :(
We don't mind American citizens making requests of our MPs, or even of our voters. This is reasonable, and those MPs and voters are entitled to put whatever significance they think appropriate on those requests.
However, faxyourmp.org.uk is a web site run with donated bandwidth and telephone call charges. It is unfair to the people who have donated these to use them for a purpose it was not originally intended for.
Clear?
How long do you reckon MS will let Intel get away with something like this for, before threatening to (e.g.) make a statement that Windows runs better on AMD processors?
2) In Windows, I take a noticeable performance hit capturing video, and if I do anything to put pressure on the CPU, I'll get dropped frames. (When was the last time you got dropped frames on a VCR?)
When was the last time you used a VCR for doing something else at the same time as you were making a recording?
A PC capable of doing video recording/playback costs about the same as a decent VCR. Get one. Use it only for that. You'll find it works much better.
All that article says about the quality is this:
Standing in a shop at the time, there was absolutely no visible difference in picture quality, and some reviews had found that VHS's quality was superior.
I'm sorry, that isn't enough to convince me. If he had done blind viewing tests with a variety of subjects then perhaps, but the fact that he couldn't see any difference on a shop's demo system (which was probably using a worn out tape) just doesn't cut it. Judging by his other comments, this also probably happened towards the end of the period over which betamax died. VHS systems did improve in quality over this period.
As far as I'm concerned what killed betamax was unreliability. The betamax VCR my family had needed its playback heads replaced virtually annually (at more than the cost of a new VHS player). That can only happen so many times before you just go out and get a new one, and swear never to buy a Sony product again.
Speaking of NT4, I found it far easier to back port a Windows based app written for XP or 2k back to NT4, jumping back 5-9 years in terms of age, than it is to go from Fedora Core 2 to Red Hat 6.2, a jump of only 5.
XP was released in 2001. NT4 was released in 1997. This is only a 4 year jump, not "5-9". Unless your applications were written for a version of XP that will be released in 2006?
If the automatic filters get 97.5% of it (reasonable if you want to make sure you don't miss any real messages), he'll still need about 10 people to filter the remainder by hand, by my estimate. I would say 10 e-mail filterers counts as a department.
I think if you get into work in the morning, destined to do battle with four million spam e-mails, it would be more appropriate to chant "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will allow my fear to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn my inner eye to see its path. And where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."