I liked my idea better. Get that whale from the Bible to swim up from underneath and swallow the entire lifeboat in one gulp. Then the whale can then spit out onto the shore anyone who isn't a pirate.
Of course, a whale that spit up only millionaire pirates might be useful in some way too.
Craigslist's UI is very underrated. It isn't pretty to look at- so people don't realize what an effective UI it is. It doesn't constantly foist the trendiest UI gimmick of the week on everybody. It's ugly. But it doesn't needlessly confuse you or piss you off. And the ugliness sort of goes along with the message- if you wanted pretty style sheets you'd be getting less good deals elsewhere- that's what those drab colors are telling you. Ebay is butt ugly for the same reason. You really feel like you're suffering for every last cent.
Restaurant owners as a general rule don't seem to understand this at all. They think their web sites need to be strikingly beautiful virtual reality showcases of the interiors of their restaurants, accompanied with annoyingly loud soundtracks of "atmospheric" music to wake people in neighboring cubicles, or we won't want to eat there. I just want to see where you're located, or if you're open, or if you deliver, or if something is on a menu, and all of a sudden I've got this huge Flash file blasting off in my browser like a Saturn V which makes me close the tab immediately. I'm more likely to show up if you just open your menu in your word processor and export to HTML.
Perl's type system was developed by hippies under the influence of drugs that impair one's ability to distinguish between strings and floating point numbers.
That would be correct if the meltwater had the same salinity (density) as the ocean water it's floating in and melting into. Being less dense, it doesn't displace its own equivalent volume of ocean water- and the remaining volume is pure contribution to sea level. But the differences in density are small and the contribution to sea level is only a few percent of what it would be if the ice were on land and not already floating. So they just stick to truisms about floating ice cubes.
Am I the only one that read this article and thought "Gee it'd be fun to walk down the street with a flashmob all snapping photos of the houses and posting them all over flicker!"
Possibly, since flickr isn't spelled with an E. I was thinking the same thing though and found your post when I searched for "flick".
Nobody is going to get all excited and upset about this bailout. All you need to know is that it's Microsoft's idea, and suddenly you're unable to care.
I originally wrote that "technical/legislative/market-based/vigilante" form back in 2004. I'm too lazy to dig up the link but it was basically a spoof of one that Hardy used for Fermat's Last Theorem.
I agree with you that real life will involve a continuous struggle with spam, but the same can't be said for most of the convenient little solutions people come up with for it, and those are what the form is meant to dispense with. The whole point of it was to demonstrate the conspicuous, continued absence of any single obvious solution.
OK, more like 15 minutes. But it's a 3 year old XP install; 15 minutes is pretty good. The secret is: try not to install anything, and carefully rip out the shareware crap preinstalled by the OEM.
This reminds me of the "Prawo Jazdy" story. The Irish police were looking for this dude "Prawo Jazdy" who accumulated a very large number of speeding tickets. He kept committing infractions all across Ireland but always got away whenever he was stopped by giving a different address each time. They thought they had a supercriminal fugitive speeder on their hands until someone noticed that his name was Polish for "driver's license".
A gravitational wave already has a gravitational field in it. It's analogous to an EM wave with a superposition of perpendicular and oscillating gravitational and gravitomagnetic fields. Most people aren't familiar with gravitomagnetism since it only has slight effects. Water flowing through a pipe has a gravitomagnetic field around it with circular field lines, but unlike regular magnetism it's very hard to detect until the water is flowing near the speed of light.
After the wave is gone the amount of mass remains unchanged and hence the integral of the divergence of the vector field remains constant, even if the wave managed to move stuff around and alter the field itself. So you won't get the changes you're apparently asking about.
Many programs would benefit from being able to run just some small operations (like iterations of a loop) in parallel, but just the synchronization work required to wake up even a thread from a pool to do such a thing would greatly exceed the benefit of it.
It's not that hard. In Java for example the VM will map threads to processor cores and boilerplate code to handle this is simple. Say you have a slow method
where there's a loop and input i corresponds to output i. You can bust something like this up pretty easily. First move the loop body to a new lower level method that handles objects individually:
Back within doWork(), create an ExecutorService with Executors.newFixedThreadPool(System.numProcessors()), or get one from a cache somewhere.
Define a little inner class to represent a unit of work:
final class CoreJob implements Callable<PainfulOutput> {
PainfulInput myInput;
Worker(PainfulInput myin) {myInput=myin;}
public PainfulOutput call() throws Exception {
return doBitOfWork(myInput);
} }
Submit instances of it to the ExecutorService:
List<Future<PainfulOutput>> futures = new ArrayList<Future<PainfulOutput>>(); for (PainfulInput in : inputs)
futures.add(threadPool.submit(new CoreJob(in));
Then collect the results, tearing the thread pool down afterward if necessary before returning:
List<PainfulOutput>goodies = new ArrayList<PainfulOutput>(); for (Future<PainfulOutput> future : futures)
goodies.add(future.get()); threadPool.shutdown(); return goodies;
Proper exception handling can be added but it wouldn't have gotten past the crap filter. Note no synchronized keywords either- the main thread will keep getting blocked in that last collection loop until all the worker threads finish.
Hey, I read your journal- you're certainly consistent.
Journal by Reality Master 201 on 09:59 PM October 6th, 2006: I seldom bother checking the messages that I get on Slashdot, since they're usually nothing particularly interesting. For shits and giggles, though, I did just a couple minutes ago. Apparently, two people have made me their "foe," just today: morie (227571) and Somegeek (624100) don't seem to like me for some reason. So I went looking back through my comments, and I can't find (given an admittedly cursory and quick glance of about 4 seconds) anywhere that I've interacted with them. Maybe they read something I wrote and decided they don't like me. I took a look at the comments they've made, and they're the typical banal crap you find on Slashdot, nothing remarkable. Me, I decided I wanted to be friends, cause I'm just a nice person way deep down. Also, because making you my foe, particularly because you made me your foe, just seems so... high school. I'd say it's tough being the grown up in all this, but it's not.
So glad you could grace us with your presence; Slashdot needs more grownups who are nice people way deep down.
Slashdot Mirror
I liked my idea better. Get that whale from the Bible to swim up from underneath and swallow the entire lifeboat in one gulp. Then the whale can then spit out onto the shore anyone who isn't a pirate.
Of course, a whale that spit up only millionaire pirates might be useful in some way too.
In a word, bullshit. Quake still works. So does Doom, for that matter.
Would you tune in to watch people play Doom in this day and age? Pac-Man still works too.
Craigslist's UI is very underrated. It isn't pretty to look at- so people don't realize what an effective UI it is. It doesn't constantly foist the trendiest UI gimmick of the week on everybody. It's ugly. But it doesn't needlessly confuse you or piss you off. And the ugliness sort of goes along with the message- if you wanted pretty style sheets you'd be getting less good deals elsewhere- that's what those drab colors are telling you. Ebay is butt ugly for the same reason. You really feel like you're suffering for every last cent.
Restaurant owners as a general rule don't seem to understand this at all. They think their web sites need to be strikingly beautiful virtual reality showcases of the interiors of their restaurants, accompanied with annoyingly loud soundtracks of "atmospheric" music to wake people in neighboring cubicles, or we won't want to eat there. I just want to see where you're located, or if you're open, or if you deliver, or if something is on a menu, and all of a sudden I've got this huge Flash file blasting off in my browser like a Saturn V which makes me close the tab immediately. I'm more likely to show up if you just open your menu in your word processor and export to HTML.
Perl's type system was developed by hippies under the influence of drugs that impair one's ability to distinguish between strings and floating point numbers.
You should have used HTML bullets.
That would be correct if the meltwater had the same salinity (density) as the ocean water it's floating in and melting into. Being less dense, it doesn't displace its own equivalent volume of ocean water- and the remaining volume is pure contribution to sea level. But the differences in density are small and the contribution to sea level is only a few percent of what it would be if the ice were on land and not already floating. So they just stick to truisms about floating ice cubes.
This guy is obvious Slashdot material. Which one of you dorks was this?
The only thing that doesn't make sense is the daughter.... obvious evidence of having gotten laid.
Forget 20-20 vision, now you can have 160 x 120.
Am I the only one that read this article and thought "Gee it'd be fun to walk down the street with a flashmob all snapping photos of the houses and posting them all over flicker!"
Possibly, since flickr isn't spelled with an E. I was thinking the same thing though and found your post when I searched for "flick".
That the novelty of having your private shit paraded on Google is wearing out. About friggin time.
Are you talking about your mansion that was photographed from the street by their car, or just an old alt.drugs post from 1991 bearing your real name?
Nobody is going to get all excited and upset about this bailout. All you need to know is that it's Microsoft's idea, and suddenly you're unable to care.
It will have zero effect. Carbonation does not create CO2. And all CO2 produced by yeast originated from sugar, which originated from CO2 in air.
But this is an excellent argument for avoiding consumption of alcohol derived from petroleum.
I originally wrote that "technical/legislative/market-based/vigilante" form back in 2004. I'm too lazy to dig up the link but it was basically a spoof of one that Hardy used for Fermat's Last Theorem.
I agree with you that real life will involve a continuous struggle with spam, but the same can't be said for most of the convenient little solutions people come up with for it, and those are what the form is meant to dispense with. The whole point of it was to demonstrate the conspicuous, continued absence of any single obvious solution.
OK, more like 15 minutes. But it's a 3 year old XP install; 15 minutes is pretty good. The secret is: try not to install anything, and carefully rip out the shareware crap preinstalled by the OEM.
My wife's 17" macbook is now my dev machine! She can surf on my old XP box that takes a half hour to boot. All I have to do now is learn Ruby.
This reminds me of the "Prawo Jazdy" story. The Irish police were looking for this dude "Prawo Jazdy" who accumulated a very large number of speeding tickets. He kept committing infractions all across Ireland but always got away whenever he was stopped by giving a different address each time. They thought they had a supercriminal fugitive speeder on their hands until someone noticed that his name was Polish for "driver's license".
This was a wise choice of costume. A Japanese TV character superhero wouldn't have been taken seriously.
This chip sounds stupid.
A gravitational wave already has a gravitational field in it. It's analogous to an EM wave with a superposition of perpendicular and oscillating gravitational and gravitomagnetic fields. Most people aren't familiar with gravitomagnetism since it only has slight effects. Water flowing through a pipe has a gravitomagnetic field around it with circular field lines, but unlike regular magnetism it's very hard to detect until the water is flowing near the speed of light.
After the wave is gone the amount of mass remains unchanged and hence the integral of the divergence of the vector field remains constant, even if the wave managed to move stuff around and alter the field itself. So you won't get the changes you're apparently asking about.
...have you considered a career change into piracy?
You could set the place up with even nicer warez than they've already stolen. Everyone would think you're da bomb.
Just be careful everyone knows what not to mention when writing your LinkedIn recommendations.
But what's the solution? This is the real question.
Just put a checkbox in the Firefox preferences window somewhere. I suggest this wording:
(x) Warn me before running JavaScript written by capitalist pigs
Why do I care if I visit a web site and "non-free" JavaScript runs in my browser?
Many programs would benefit from being able to run just some small operations (like iterations of a loop) in parallel, but just the synchronization work required to wake up even a thread from a pool to do such a thing would greatly exceed the benefit of it.
It's not that hard. In Java for example the VM will map threads to processor cores and boilerplate code to handle this is simple. Say you have a slow method
List<PainfulOutput> doWork(List<PainfulInput> inputs) throws Exception {...}
where there's a loop and input i corresponds to output i. You can bust something like this up pretty easily. First move the loop body to a new lower level method that handles objects individually:
PainfulObject doBitOfWork(PainfulInput input) {...}.
Back within doWork(), create an ExecutorService with Executors.newFixedThreadPool(System.numProcessors()), or get one from a cache somewhere.
Define a little inner class to represent a unit of work:
final class CoreJob implements Callable<PainfulOutput> {
PainfulInput myInput;
Worker(PainfulInput myin) {myInput=myin;}
public PainfulOutput call() throws Exception {
return doBitOfWork(myInput);
}
}
Submit instances of it to the ExecutorService:
List<Future<PainfulOutput>> futures = new ArrayList<Future<PainfulOutput>>();
for (PainfulInput in : inputs)
futures.add(threadPool.submit(new CoreJob(in));
Then collect the results, tearing the thread pool down afterward if necessary before returning:
List<PainfulOutput>goodies = new ArrayList<PainfulOutput>();
for (Future<PainfulOutput> future : futures)
goodies.add(future.get());
threadPool.shutdown();
return goodies;
Proper exception handling can be added but it wouldn't have gotten past the crap filter. Note no synchronized keywords either- the main thread will keep getting blocked in that last collection loop until all the worker threads finish.
No, seriously - suicide is too good for you.
I'll take your word for it.
Hey, I read your journal- you're certainly consistent.
Journal by Reality Master 201 on 09:59 PM October 6th, 2006: I seldom bother checking the messages that I get on Slashdot, since they're usually nothing particularly interesting. For shits and giggles, though, I did just a couple minutes ago. Apparently, two people have made me their "foe," just today: morie (227571) and Somegeek (624100) don't seem to like me for some reason. So I went looking back through my comments, and I can't find (given an admittedly cursory and quick glance of about 4 seconds) anywhere that I've interacted with them. Maybe they read something I wrote and decided they don't like me. I took a look at the comments they've made, and they're the typical banal crap you find on Slashdot, nothing remarkable. Me, I decided I wanted to be friends, cause I'm just a nice person way deep down. Also, because making you my foe, particularly because you made me your foe, just seems so... high school. I'd say it's tough being the grown up in all this, but it's not.
So glad you could grace us with your presence; Slashdot needs more grownups who are nice people way deep down.