I consider mathematical thinking not only Linear Algebra, Infi et al, but everything that requires exact abstract thinking
Exactly. You need to understand maths to, for example, predict what a particular SQL query will do, or to perform any more than the most basic reasoning about how two parts of a program will interact. Maths is a lot broader than dealing with numbers and vectors.
Company: javascript/java/flash/silverlight are good enough for now, since we want to sell the devices while we have time to develop a native sdk!
MS has a native SDK. It's not like this is the first version of their OS, it's just an incremental upgrade to previous ones with native SDKs already published. It should run the same apps with the same install process. MS just want to exert more control on what you can do with your phone.
"Escape Velocity is a precursor to Elite in many ways"
Yes, I can see how a 1996 release is a precursor to a 1984 one.
"In addition to a rich storyline, [Elite] used 3D wireframe graphics."
Rich storyline? You mean the fact that the game was packaged with a story that bore at least a passing resemblance to the gameplay? That's not what we mean these days when we say a game has a storyline.
"For a start it used a truly elegant programming hack to create over 200 different worlds to explore while using 32kb of memory"
(1) IIRC, there were 1024 worlds in Elite. (2) Not particularly elegant or innovative, if you ask me, using a PRNG to generate random worlds. Things very much like it had been done time and time before. We've largely stopped doing it this way, but only because we don't have to any more...
1) Javascript-based banner ad 2) MFSA2010-01 (or something similar that was present in Firefox 3.5.7) 3) Mozilla extension to redirect links from google, yahoo and bing to a site of your choice 4) Site that serves large numbers of per-impression banners for dubious porn sites 5) Profit.
Clicking not necessary. I was infected with malware earlier this month without any interaction after visiting the Pirate Bay. An advert used javascript to redirect me to an obscure URL ( http://uqwaaa.in/cgi-bin/gjj ), which proceded to use a Firefox flaw of some kind to infect me. 3.6 doesn't seem to be susceptible, but 3.5.7 which I was running at the time *was*. The exploit installed a Firefox extension that randomly redirects links from google, yahoo and bing to advertising pages.
The vulnerability *only* affects the current 3.6 branch
Although note that other vulnerabilities with exploits in the wild and being actively used affect the 3.5 branch. I've had malware installed on my machine by drive-by redirects in advertising on otherwise trustworthy sites (TPB, for instance). If you're on 3.5, upgrade now.
Every assembler instruction in ARM is 4 bytes. Except when you use Thumb mode, then it's 2 bytes but I don't think they use that.
Any app developer can use thumb if they prefer; you set a bit in your jump/call instructions to specify whether the code you're jumping to is thumb or normal.
As opposed to x86 where it takes from 1/2 bytes up to 8 (or even more IIRC) bytes
Up to 15 bytes.
And those are RISC instructions in arm so you need more of them to do what you want. For example, no operating directly into memory except with a load/store.
You can do in one instruction in x86 what you'd need 3/4 ARM instructions.
Potentially. However, *most* instructions in most programs are on a 1-1 mapping. I think you end up with about 20% more instructions overall.
And lastly, the problem isn't that most falls should probably be category B. That's already taken care of, but falls over six feet being category A must have made sense to someone, and apparently it cost lives changing it.
(reposting,/. ate the last post...)
It's not changing it that cost lives, it's changing it badly. RTFA, and try to construct the rules the system is following from the description. Here's my guess:
Original system:
Falls > 6ft - Cat A Falls < 6ft - Cat B, unless aggravated by symptoms that suggest Cat A more appropriate
Modified system:
Falls > 6ft - Cat B Falls < 6ft - Cat B, unless aggravated by symptoms that suggest Cat A more appropriate
The change should have made the two identical, but didn't. Whoever implemented the change screwed up, presumably by not understanding the system well enough
And lastly, the problem isn't that most falls should probably be category B. That's already taken care of, but falls over six feet being category A must have made sense to someone, and apparently it cost lives changing it.
It's not changing it that cost lives, it's changing it badly. RTFA, and try to construct the rules the system is following from the description. Here's my guess:
Original system:
Falls >6ft - Cat A Falls 6ft - Cat B Falls 6ft - Cat B, unless aggravated by symptoms that suggest Cat A more appropriate
The change should have made the two identical, but didn't. Whoever implemented the change screwed up, presumably by not understanding the system well enough
How strange. When I was living in the UK there always seemed to be some kid on TV looking for money to pay for them to fly to America to get treatment which they couldn't get under the rationed socialist NHS.
Usually experimental treatments that aren't legal in the UK. I.e. slow British bureaucracy taking a while to catch up with the faster US kind.
One is that ARM native code is bigger, size-wise, than Dalvik VM bytecode.
Citation needed. Dalvik is better than baseline Java bytecode, agreed. But so is ARM native code. [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=377837&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=82959920&CFTOKEN=24064384 - "[...] the code efficiency of Java turns out to be inferior to that of ARM Thumb"]. I can find no direct comparison of ARM Thumb and Dalvik, so I can't tell you which produces the smaller code size.
So it takes up more memory.
Even if your first statement is true, this doesn't necessarily follow. VMs add overhead, usually using up somewhat more runtime memory to execute, particularly if a JIT is used (the current version of Dalvik doesn't have one, but the next one apparently will).
Oddly, a grand jury found reason enough to charge, and a second criminal jury found reason enough to convict.
A member of the criminal jury commented on their reasoning on one of the newspaper articles. Essentially, the way the law is written you must comply with any instruction issued *immediately*. Watts didn't do this, instead asking why the instruction had been issued. The jury therefore felt the law had been violated, and it's kind-of hard to blame them on this one. The problem is that the law is totally stupid.
Jesus Christ, it's bad enough when the mainstream press repeats crap like this, but I would have thought Slashdot posters were capable of reading plain English.
He was convicted of failing to follow direction quickly enough for the border guards. The accusations of assault were found to be baseless.
If you read the discussion on his blog, it turns out that on a technicality, this is actually considered to be assaulting an officer, whether anything like what you or I would consider an assault took place or not.
Yes. Email is great for certain document-management applications, particularly where you need everything time ordered, but it has a few key drawbacks:
* very poorly searchable (particularly if stuff is in PDF or images, as it's likely to be if it's correspondence coming from outside), which is a huge issue for some applications. * no support for automatic workflow management.
Plone and the other suggestions here are all much better at these two than any system built on e-mail.
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Are you sure inverted sugar comes from corn?
No, it doesn't. But it's chemically the same stuff, just with a different manufacturing process.
Or, for that matter, what does it have to do with pedophiles?
Didn't you get the memo? You're a paedophile now if you're attracted to anyone under 18. Next year it's going up to 21.
And in the UK.
So, basically, a single node in a CDN has gone down. Huge story, and /. has done well to be the first to (apparently) break it. 'Grats, Taco. ;)
No, I'm actually quite an exciting faggot most of the time. Do you always make people want to punch you in the face the first time you talk to them?
Trouble is...HFCS is in fucking everything..
Move. Here in the UK, you hardly ever see it (and yes, I'm aware of the terminology difference: we call it inverted sugar syrup here).
I consider mathematical thinking not only Linear Algebra, Infi et al, but everything that requires exact abstract thinking
Exactly. You need to understand maths to, for example, predict what a particular SQL query will do, or to perform any more than the most basic reasoning about how two parts of a program will interact. Maths is a lot broader than dealing with numbers and vectors.
Company: javascript/java/flash/silverlight are good enough for now, since we want to sell the devices while we have time to develop a native sdk!
MS has a native SDK. It's not like this is the first version of their OS, it's just an incremental upgrade to previous ones with native SDKs already published. It should run the same apps with the same install process. MS just want to exert more control on what you can do with your phone.
The games that have kept me occupied for the most time would be the various Microprose sims.
Oh, yeah. I must have spent *months* playing Gunship. The career progression stuff that Microprose did with those sims really got you hooked.
Don't let them get in the way of a good article.
"Escape Velocity is a precursor to Elite in many ways"
Yes, I can see how a 1996 release is a precursor to a 1984 one.
"In addition to a rich storyline, [Elite] used 3D wireframe graphics."
Rich storyline? You mean the fact that the game was packaged with a story that bore at least a passing resemblance to the gameplay? That's not what we mean these days when we say a game has a storyline.
"For a start it used a truly elegant programming hack to create over 200 different worlds to explore while using 32kb of memory"
(1) IIRC, there were 1024 worlds in Elite.
(2) Not particularly elegant or innovative, if you ask me, using a PRNG to generate random worlds. Things very much like it had been done time and time before. We've largely stopped doing it this way, but only because we don't have to any more...
Of course Elite became Eve Online [...]
Have you spent more than about 30 seconds playing EVE? The game play is _completely_ different. This isn't a good thing.
1) Flash-based Banner Ad
2) JRE Exploit (CVE-2008-5353)
3) Adobe Reader Exploit
4) Profit?
From what I saw when this happened to me:
1) Javascript-based banner ad
2) MFSA2010-01 (or something similar that was present in Firefox 3.5.7)
3) Mozilla extension to redirect links from google, yahoo and bing to a site of your choice
4) Site that serves large numbers of per-impression banners for dubious porn sites
5) Profit.
Never ever click an ad!
Clicking not necessary. I was infected with malware earlier this month without any interaction after visiting the Pirate Bay. An advert used javascript to redirect me to an obscure URL ( http://uqwaaa.in/cgi-bin/gjj ), which proceded to use a Firefox flaw of some kind to infect me. 3.6 doesn't seem to be susceptible, but 3.5.7 which I was running at the time *was*. The exploit installed a Firefox extension that randomly redirects links from google, yahoo and bing to advertising pages.
Wait, where's the checkbox for that again?
Tools/Options, Content, click on the Advanced button in the Fonts & Colours group.
The vulnerability *only* affects the current 3.6 branch
Although note that other vulnerabilities with exploits in the wild and being actively used affect the 3.5 branch. I've had malware installed on my machine by drive-by redirects in advertising on otherwise trustworthy sites (TPB, for instance). If you're on 3.5, upgrade now.
Every assembler instruction in ARM is 4 bytes. Except when you use Thumb mode, then it's 2 bytes but I don't think they use that.
Any app developer can use thumb if they prefer; you set a bit in your jump/call instructions to specify whether the code you're jumping to is thumb or normal.
As opposed to x86 where it takes from 1/2 bytes up to 8 (or even more IIRC) bytes
Up to 15 bytes.
And those are RISC instructions in arm so you need more of them to do what you want. For example, no operating directly into memory except with a load/store.
You can do in one instruction in x86 what you'd need 3/4 ARM instructions.
Potentially. However, *most* instructions in most programs are on a 1-1 mapping. I think you end up with about 20% more instructions overall.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEm9ynRyeg
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And lastly, the problem isn't that most falls should probably be category B. That's already taken care of, but falls over six feet being category A must have made sense to someone, and apparently it cost lives changing it.
(reposting, /. ate the last post...)
It's not changing it that cost lives, it's changing it badly. RTFA, and try to construct the rules the system is following from the description. Here's my guess:
Original system:
Falls > 6ft - Cat A
Falls < 6ft - Cat B, unless aggravated by symptoms that suggest Cat A more appropriate
Modified system:
Falls > 6ft - Cat B
Falls < 6ft - Cat B, unless aggravated by symptoms that suggest Cat A more appropriate
The change should have made the two identical, but didn't. Whoever implemented the change screwed up, presumably by not understanding the system well enough
And lastly, the problem isn't that most falls should probably be category B. That's already taken care of, but falls over six feet being category A must have made sense to someone, and apparently it cost lives changing it.
It's not changing it that cost lives, it's changing it badly. RTFA, and try to construct the rules the system is following from the description. Here's my guess:
Original system:
Falls >6ft - Cat A
Falls 6ft - Cat B
Falls 6ft - Cat B, unless aggravated by symptoms that suggest Cat A more appropriate
The change should have made the two identical, but didn't. Whoever implemented the change screwed up, presumably by not understanding the system well enough
How is this a flaw in the Emergency Response System if the change initiated by a government committee is how the incidents were classified wrongly?
Because the rules that are used to classify incidents are part of the emergency response system? Just a guess.
How strange. When I was living in the UK there always seemed to be some kid on TV looking for money to pay for them to fly to America to get treatment which they couldn't get under the rationed socialist NHS.
Usually experimental treatments that aren't legal in the UK. I.e. slow British bureaucracy taking a while to catch up with the faster US kind.
One is that ARM native code is bigger, size-wise, than Dalvik VM bytecode.
Citation needed. Dalvik is better than baseline Java bytecode, agreed. But so is ARM native code. [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=377837&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=82959920&CFTOKEN=24064384 - "[...] the code efficiency of Java turns out to be inferior to that of ARM Thumb"]. I can find no direct comparison of ARM Thumb and Dalvik, so I can't tell you which produces the smaller code size.
So it takes up more memory.
Even if your first statement is true, this doesn't necessarily follow. VMs add overhead, usually using up somewhat more runtime memory to execute, particularly if a JIT is used (the current version of Dalvik doesn't have one, but the next one apparently will).
Oddly, a grand jury found reason enough to charge, and a second criminal jury found reason enough to convict.
A member of the criminal jury commented on their reasoning on one of the newspaper articles. Essentially, the way the law is written you must comply with any instruction issued *immediately*. Watts didn't do this, instead asking why the instruction had been issued. The jury therefore felt the law had been violated, and it's kind-of hard to blame them on this one. The problem is that the law is totally stupid.
Jesus Christ, it's bad enough when the mainstream press repeats crap like this, but I would have thought Slashdot posters were capable of reading plain English.
He was convicted of failing to follow direction quickly enough for the border guards. The accusations of assault were found to be baseless.
If you read the discussion on his blog, it turns out that on a technicality, this is actually considered to be assaulting an officer, whether anything like what you or I would consider an assault took place or not.
The ML post, I'll grant, was exaggerating a little for the sake of snark.
Yeah, but that's some grade-A snark going on there.
Am I crazy for suggesting email?
Yes. Email is great for certain document-management applications, particularly where you need everything time ordered, but it has a few key drawbacks:
* very poorly searchable (particularly if stuff is in PDF or images, as it's likely to be if it's correspondence coming from outside), which is a huge issue for some applications.
* no support for automatic workflow management.
Plone and the other suggestions here are all much better at these two than any system built on e-mail.