UNIX filesystems have used tiny files for years and they've had data loss under certain conditions. My favorite example is the XFS that would journal just enough to give you a consistent filesystem full of binary nulls on power failure. This behavior was even documented in their FAQ with the reply "If it hurts, don't do it."
Filesystems are a balancing act. If you want high performance, you want write caching to allow the system to flush writes in parallel while you go on computing, or make another overlapping write that could be merged. If you want high data security, you call fsync and the OS does its best possible job to write to disk before returning (modulo hard drives that lie to you). Or you open the damn file with O_SYNC.
What he's suggesting is that the POSIX API allows either option to programmers, who often don't know theres even a choice to be had. So he recommends concentrating the few people who do know the API in and out focus on system libraries like libsqllite, and have dumbass programmers use that instead. You and he may not be so far apart, except his solution still allows hard-nosed engineers access to low level syscalls, at the price of shooting their foot off.
I've seen plenty of libertarians in favor of copyright, as a means of guaranteeing individuals the fruits of their labor. I also see libertarians who strongly believe copyright is wrong. I assume this means that libertarians are in favor of the law that earns them the most consulting fees.
Even with blurred images, you have a good idea of where it is, even get GPS coordinates. Lets alter the maps and GPS database to place schools somewhere safer, where society can deal with unexpected loss of life. State politician's homes perhaps?
You're right, it's probably in Lexus Nexis, which specializes in putting public information on the web (and charging for it). Google isn't the only firm out there providing search, it's just free to the public, which means you and I can quickly find out just what Google knows about us, while most people don't know about Lexus Nexis and won't pay for it.
That's a misunderstanding of the spec. NULL has no type, so evaluating NULL = 1 results in an unknown. That does not imply that NULL is an unknown value.
So there's known knowns, known unknowns, and then there's NULL.
I'm sure it doesn't help things that Stroussoup made this explicit in C++. So if your view is that C is a subset of C++, you'll get these trivia wrong. Unfortunately, C and C++ will penalize you for getting trivia questions wrong with great zeal.
(And in reading your link, I don't see where it claims that NULL is implementation defined. Perhaps you can offer a more specific citation?)
I dual boot vista and ubuntu+1. I don't know the specifics of Vista's software, but I do know that 1) it's trainable and 2) it uses neural nets. In a sense, they use software to slice up a sentence you wrote into characters to reduce the problem to what CellWriter solves. I've noticed that their system works better in cursive, where they pretty much know where words begin and end.
Cellwriter also considers stroke order, as well as a number of factors like average distance from trained glyphs. This doesn't really help a lot with English, but lots of people seem to think it could work well with Asian character sets, where there's an established stroke order.
One of the things I do is spend a little freetime watching over tablet support in Ubuntu (if you like I can catalog recent improvements). I agree with you that Vista is currently a best of breed online handwriting recognition. In some sense I respect Microsoft's efforts here. Handwriting recognition takes a lot of time to design, analyze, and tune; very academic in nature. They've gone the extra mile and integrated the technology into something deployed.
One of the challenge Linux faces is moving academic research into deployed software. Lots of CS is published without source. In many areas, it's sufficient to publish the algorithm; but with statistical recognition, where there isn't necessarily a "right" answer, small tweaks can make make or break it. Additionally, academics sometimes abandon their research after publication, as there's little incentive to continue maintaining a program intended as a proof of concept. "Published and done, time to move onto the next grant!"
As an example, the best Linux handwriting program I know about is CellWriter; an honors undergrad student wrote and published it. It works well for what it is, but now that the semester's long over, there's not a lot of work being done on improving it, especially now that the author is in grad school and working on various other projects.
What angers people though is the routine denials of claims. I don't think its right to reject ambulance fees when you're injured with a compound fracture (this happened to my little brother); did they expect him to walk to the emergency room?
Insurance and free markets serve society best when the contracts are simple and clear. As you point out, what's covered is a massive gray area, and it's far worse than you mention. Ever read a hospital bill?
When I last read about that place and this defamation, someone pointed out that this forum is basically run by people who don't believe in moderation, and attracts a lot of frat house antics. Just as an example, I see two threads there right now with the title "Rate this girl. [1-10]" and "Do Bobby Jindal's daughters fuck N******S?" (censorship mine).
Its like 4chan for guys who decided to put down the beer and weed and get a real job. They come together to complain about how hard law school is and bitch about the people who aren't failing out.
Well, it's not the model that tanked AIG, it's that the contracts allowed AIG to write insurance with no capital reserves, because they were rated AAA. Of course, they're AAA because the have regular income from their insurance businesses, and access to capital markets, and were pretty damn big. This is stupid, because they went on to write as many contracts as big AAA rated company is allowed to.
So many problems we have come down to credit ratings manipulation, that I'm ready to demand that they be shut down, and never relied upon. A credit rating is ephemeral and subject to violation of trusted 3rd parties; cash downpayments aren't.
We use HEAT at my place of employment, and I can't figure out why. It's a total dog; most of our queries come from email, but the most it can do is write poorly threaded notices about tickets. The best case I've seen is adding "journal" entries cataloging communication with the customer. Plus the whole UI is very 1995, or designed from in Access or something.
It is a card. It has a VISA logo on it. It can use either debit or credit networks. I never stated anything more to support my point about recruiting customers into their scheme.
Actually, I think if someone rings my doorbell with a mask on (sans Halloween), I'd probably consider calling the police. Just like if I was a bank teller and someone came up to my booth with a mask on, I'd be freaking out. I doubt it's illegal, but it is suspicious activity and sounds like prelude to me being a victim.
Since the cafe's WiFi network was reserved for customers, and Peterson never came into the cafe, he was essentially piggybacking off of the open network without authorization. The arrest came about because Peterson apparently showed up to the Union Street Cafe to use its free WiFi from the comfort of his car, and he did so every single day.
Why do all these languages reinvent the package manager? Perl has CPAN, PHP has PEAR, python has pypi, and ruby has rubygems. In my experience they're all a massive pita to make cooperate with dpkg...
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UNIX filesystems have used tiny files for years and they've had data loss under certain conditions. My favorite example is the XFS that would journal just enough to give you a consistent filesystem full of binary nulls on power failure. This behavior was even documented in their FAQ with the reply "If it hurts, don't do it."
Filesystems are a balancing act. If you want high performance, you want write caching to allow the system to flush writes in parallel while you go on computing, or make another overlapping write that could be merged. If you want high data security, you call fsync and the OS does its best possible job to write to disk before returning (modulo hard drives that lie to you). Or you open the damn file with O_SYNC.
What he's suggesting is that the POSIX API allows either option to programmers, who often don't know theres even a choice to be had. So he recommends concentrating the few people who do know the API in and out focus on system libraries like libsqllite, and have dumbass programmers use that instead. You and he may not be so far apart, except his solution still allows hard-nosed engineers access to low level syscalls, at the price of shooting their foot off.
I've seen plenty of libertarians in favor of copyright, as a means of guaranteeing individuals the fruits of their labor. I also see libertarians who strongly believe copyright is wrong. I assume this means that libertarians are in favor of the law that earns them the most consulting fees.
Even with blurred images, you have a good idea of where it is, even get GPS coordinates. Lets alter the maps and GPS database to place schools somewhere safer, where society can deal with unexpected loss of life. State politician's homes perhaps?
You're right, it's probably in Lexus Nexis, which specializes in putting public information on the web (and charging for it). Google isn't the only firm out there providing search, it's just free to the public, which means you and I can quickly find out just what Google knows about us, while most people don't know about Lexus Nexis and won't pay for it.
The good news is that, as my link points out, C++0x will have a nullptr keyword to replace 0.
So there's known knowns, known unknowns, and then there's NULL.
I'm sure it doesn't help things that Stroussoup made this explicit in C++. So if your view is that C is a subset of C++, you'll get these trivia wrong. Unfortunately, C and C++ will penalize you for getting trivia questions wrong with great zeal.
(And in reading your link, I don't see where it claims that NULL is implementation defined. Perhaps you can offer a more specific citation?)
I dual boot vista and ubuntu+1. I don't know the specifics of Vista's software, but I do know that 1) it's trainable and 2) it uses neural nets. In a sense, they use software to slice up a sentence you wrote into characters to reduce the problem to what CellWriter solves. I've noticed that their system works better in cursive, where they pretty much know where words begin and end.
Cellwriter also considers stroke order, as well as a number of factors like average distance from trained glyphs. This doesn't really help a lot with English, but lots of people seem to think it could work well with Asian character sets, where there's an established stroke order.
One of the things I do is spend a little freetime watching over tablet support in Ubuntu (if you like I can catalog recent improvements). I agree with you that Vista is currently a best of breed online handwriting recognition. In some sense I respect Microsoft's efforts here. Handwriting recognition takes a lot of time to design, analyze, and tune; very academic in nature. They've gone the extra mile and integrated the technology into something deployed.
One of the challenge Linux faces is moving academic research into deployed software. Lots of CS is published without source. In many areas, it's sufficient to publish the algorithm; but with statistical recognition, where there isn't necessarily a "right" answer, small tweaks can make make or break it. Additionally, academics sometimes abandon their research after publication, as there's little incentive to continue maintaining a program intended as a proof of concept. "Published and done, time to move onto the next grant!"
As an example, the best Linux handwriting program I know about is CellWriter; an honors undergrad student wrote and published it. It works well for what it is, but now that the semester's long over, there's not a lot of work being done on improving it, especially now that the author is in grad school and working on various other projects.
What angers people though is the routine denials of claims. I don't think its right to reject ambulance fees when you're injured with a compound fracture (this happened to my little brother); did they expect him to walk to the emergency room?
Insurance and free markets serve society best when the contracts are simple and clear. As you point out, what's covered is a massive gray area, and it's far worse than you mention. Ever read a hospital bill?
When I last read about that place and this defamation, someone pointed out that this forum is basically run by people who don't believe in moderation, and attracts a lot of frat house antics. Just as an example, I see two threads there right now with the title "Rate this girl. [1-10]" and "Do Bobby Jindal's daughters fuck N******S?" (censorship mine).
Its like 4chan for guys who decided to put down the beer and weed and get a real job. They come together to complain about how hard law school is and bitch about the people who aren't failing out.
Well, it's not the model that tanked AIG, it's that the contracts allowed AIG to write insurance with no capital reserves, because they were rated AAA. Of course, they're AAA because the have regular income from their insurance businesses, and access to capital markets, and were pretty damn big. This is stupid, because they went on to write as many contracts as big AAA rated company is allowed to.
So many problems we have come down to credit ratings manipulation, that I'm ready to demand that they be shut down, and never relied upon. A credit rating is ephemeral and subject to violation of trusted 3rd parties; cash downpayments aren't.
Launchpad does most of this. For some reason they've skipped out on the wiki. And it's not open yet, so I can't flame you for non-OSS ;)
We use HEAT at my place of employment, and I can't figure out why. It's a total dog; most of our queries come from email, but the most it can do is write poorly threaded notices about tickets. The best case I've seen is adding "journal" entries cataloging communication with the customer. Plus the whole UI is very 1995, or designed from in Access or something.
Are you sure this isn't a grass is greener thing?
There's a simple solution to this: claim your encryption password is the location of jimmy hoffa's body.
No no, shoot him in the head, then replace him with a Markov Chain fed into a TTS. Replace not only speakers, but authors!
I choose to think it shows what the software community thinks of the Mac.
And the point about anticompetitive pricing and terms of service remain.
No, but there is still the "no longer being patched, buy the next installment" bullshit. I'm looking at you, Civilization Revolution.
It is a card. It has a VISA logo on it. It can use either debit or credit networks. I never stated anything more to support my point about recruiting customers into their scheme.
Actually, I think if someone rings my doorbell with a mask on (sans Halloween), I'd probably consider calling the police. Just like if I was a bank teller and someone came up to my booth with a mask on, I'd be freaking out. I doubt it's illegal, but it is suspicious activity and sounds like prelude to me being a victim.
From the article you failed to read:
Since the cafe's WiFi network was reserved for customers, and Peterson never came into the cafe, he was essentially piggybacking off of the open network without authorization. The arrest came about because Peterson apparently showed up to the Union Street Cafe to use its free WiFi from the comfort of his car, and he did so every single day.
Why do all these languages reinvent the package manager? Perl has CPAN, PHP has PEAR, python has pypi, and ruby has rubygems. In my experience they're all a massive pita to make cooperate with dpkg...
Can someone explain why it's acceptable to describe users as "Joe Sixpack"?