Yeah the series was pretty good until the 3rd book. I don't know what happened there, but all that underworld class society stuff was not very good IMO.
However, the first 2 books had lots of fascinating details, and I think there is serious potential for great storytelling in the Myst universe. I'm looking forward to this.
Actually that is quite close to being true in my case. Now, I love my fiance, but she and I both know that Perl is my second love. I will always have this holy fascination for Perl, and it will always hold a special place in my heart (or head).
I have been known to be excited by Perl from time to time....I figure it just goes with the territory of loving something so much.
I encountered this as well when working on Final Doom, a community doom add-on purchased and distributed by id Software. I was a leading contributor to the project, but was 15 at the time of the sale.
The solution was for my parents to sign the agreement with me as well. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know why this was acceptable to id, but perhaps something like this would work for Apple as well, in this case?
It seems many people are misreading the article. The poster said, that the **ability** to Enable/Disable it is no longer present, NOT that it is actually disabled.
Any OS tectbook or course will be full of lines like "but we can't say which of [x y z] is the best because it will depend on the application at hand."
This is true for scheduling algorithms, distributed deadlock detection algorithms, etc...
Something like an OS is very much intertwined with the problem you are solving. And that means that when you generalize, you lose some of the efficiency.
Every class has a disclaimer presented to the student at the beginning of the semester, that cheating will not be tolerated if detected.
It seems many, many students, in undergraduate and graduate programs alike, are not interested in learning to get the grade.
I have seen it in my of my classes; students turn in another student's program, with minor modifications to foil a cursory examination, as their own. Sometimes this is done across semesters to try to foil a deeper inspection.
So what is a university to do? It's not fair to other students that cheaters go by undetected. And if students urn in work from 2, 3 or 4 semesters ago, how is the teacher to detect it? That amount of data to scan is overwhelming - you can't do it by hand within a reasonable amount of time. Besides, doing so requires access to work in previous semesters.
A database is the only way to do something like this, and frankly, I applaud the approach. However, I think schools should keep their own databases. Sure, it wouldn't detect cheating from other schools, but it also ensures that the student's work (which does remain the property of the student, right?) is only kept to check for cheating.
It's a difficult problem, and of course not possible to solve completely. But I think these measures will cut down on the amount of cheating that goes undetected.
Yes but COM is a huge PITA to write for. Wrapping objects in a language-neutral interface, and then letting the programmer handle all the details is just ugly.
The biggest problem with Athlon right now is Via. Their chipsets suck. Its practically impossible to get a combination of motherboard, drivers, video card, and video drivers to be happy. The chips + drives are just too unstable.
I built a machine on the ASUS A7M266 last August and have seen problem after problem. From what I can tell, it is solely due to the Via stuff.
I am seriously considering rebuilding to machine to use NVIDIA, but I am afraid they are also unproven. Who knows if I will trade one instability for another?
I really wish AMD would get with the program and encourage quality chipset development like Intel does. There is a reason Intel chips are so much more stable - it'd because Intel cares about the chipset market. I wish we could say the same for AMD.
In my experience under good management, those that managed the people first and foremost were the best. I found that when they managed people first, if the people were talented, the projects mostly managed themselves.
Sure there were times when the manager would step in to make a decision, or change things around to fit a changing schedule. But for the most part, when the project management took a back seat to people management, things worked smoothly, and people were happier.
In conjunction with this, I think it is important for management to leave me alone. By that I mean, take a decision, inform me of it, and then leave me alone to implement it. It's important to have a daily presence to keep me up to date on news, etc..., and to ensure that I am making useful progress. However, stepping in all the time with phone calls and other interruptions is distracting. Condensing those activities to a once-a-day schedule would help keep me focused.
Finally, managers should provide useful guidance on both project and organizational issues. Management should be able to answer questions when they arise, or at least help me interface with those that can answer questions. Don't leave me stranded and expect me to somehow get through on my own. I need support to get my job done in an efficient manner.
We should all remember the words of Knuth:
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil."
At this point, code optimizers are good enough and work fast enough to make many of these optimizations unnecessary, even counter productive. As the parent poster said, these types of problems will not be the bottleneck anyways.
Although this is a somewhat contrived example, in general it is better to develop code that is easy to read and maintain, especially when the compiler can optimize it.
I used the term "Real Work (TM)" to poke fun at the idea that what I get paid to do is not necessarily what I would like to do. That is to say, for me real work is anything that I find interesting, that has solid, defineable goals, and helps me learn more. Unfortunately, in business, Real Work tens to be anything that has the hope of making them money.
About once I week I scan mozillazine's build comments and download the best of the latest nightlies. Helps me stay current to report new bugs, without risking too much. I recommend it for those that like bleeding edge, but still need to get Real Work (TM) done.
Since it has been folded into SysAdmin, TPJ has pretty much sucked. 2 or 3 articles, once every 3 months is really sad. I appreciate what Jon Orwant and others have done, but TPJ is not what it used to be.
This sounds plausible, since you can use fewer machines. But the problem I see is, where do you find a machine that can address 80+ gigabytes of memory? Otherwise, you have to but just as many commodity boxes to hold the ram, which ruins the cost benefit.
Does anyone have any insight on what machines you would use to support this scheme? Does a SAN-type device for RAM exist? Some network-attached box that holds tens or hundreds of gigabytes of RAM?
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What does the courier do that even the $99 USRobotics does not?
What makes it superior?
Would that happen to be this book, for the interested reader?
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Yeah the series was pretty good until the 3rd book. I don't know what happened there, but all that underworld class society stuff was not very good IMO.
However, the first 2 books had lots of fascinating details, and I think there is serious potential for great storytelling in the Myst universe. I'm looking forward to this.
Perl makes you hung like a camel.
:)
Actually that is quite close to being true in my case. Now, I love my fiance, but she and I both know that Perl is my second love. I will always have this holy fascination for Perl, and it will always hold a special place in my heart (or head).
I have been known to be excited by Perl from time to time....I figure it just goes with the territory of loving something so much.
Fortunately my fiance never minds
I encountered this as well when working on Final Doom, a community doom add-on purchased and distributed by id Software. I was a leading contributor to the project, but was 15 at the time of the sale.
The solution was for my parents to sign the agreement with me as well. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know why this was acceptable to id, but perhaps something like this would work for Apple as well, in this case?
That's an excellent idea, but making the editor do syntax analysis to pick out the functions and merge them together is probably CPU prohibitive.
But that is just my guess.
I second that. ClearCase is an awesome system. Of course, I don't know if it is worth the price, but I really like using it.
It seems many people are misreading the article. The poster said, that the **ability** to Enable/Disable it is no longer present, NOT that it is actually disabled.
That's a big difference.
I just bought an MSI nForce board, and it is awesome. Perfect stable, good features, and a good price.
I highly recommend this motherboard. For $159, you really can't go wrong.
You are quite right.
Any OS tectbook or course will be full of lines like "but we can't say which of [x y z] is the best because it will depend on the application at hand."
This is true for scheduling algorithms, distributed deadlock detection algorithms, etc...
Something like an OS is very much intertwined with the problem you are solving. And that means that when you generalize, you lose some of the efficiency.
Every class has a disclaimer presented to the student at the beginning of the semester, that cheating will not be tolerated if detected.
It seems many, many students, in undergraduate and graduate programs alike, are not interested in learning to get the grade.
I have seen it in my of my classes; students turn in another student's program, with minor modifications to foil a cursory examination, as their own. Sometimes this is done across semesters to try to foil a deeper inspection.
So what is a university to do? It's not fair to other students that cheaters go by undetected. And if students urn in work from 2, 3 or 4 semesters ago, how is the teacher to detect it? That amount of data to scan is overwhelming - you can't do it by hand within a reasonable amount of time. Besides, doing so requires access to work in previous semesters.
A database is the only way to do something like this, and frankly, I applaud the approach. However, I think schools should keep their own databases. Sure, it wouldn't detect cheating from other schools, but it also ensures that the student's work (which does remain the property of the student, right?) is only kept to check for cheating.
It's a difficult problem, and of course not possible to solve completely. But I think these measures will cut down on the amount of cheating that goes undetected.
I'v worked as a co-op under the same mentor for almost three years, and I can say hands down that I am a much better software engineer as a result.
Mentoring is a crucial aspect to career development, I think.
I find the macros quite egregious. It's like programming in some bastardized language.
And advocating programming by wizard? Come on. That's like admitting its a PITA, and saying "look, here is a tool to make it less of a pain."
COM is a big hack. I'd hate to do all my programming in COM for a distributed system.
No the board is a hybrid chipset - it uses Via Southbridge, and that is where the problems lie.
Yes but COM is a huge PITA to write for. Wrapping objects in a language-neutral interface, and then letting the programmer handle all the details is just ugly.
The biggest problem with Athlon right now is Via. Their chipsets suck. Its practically impossible to get a combination of motherboard, drivers, video card, and video drivers to be happy. The chips + drives are just too unstable.
I built a machine on the ASUS A7M266 last August and have seen problem after problem. From what I can tell, it is solely due to the Via stuff.
I am seriously considering rebuilding to machine to use NVIDIA, but I am afraid they are also unproven. Who knows if I will trade one instability for another?
I really wish AMD would get with the program and encourage quality chipset development like Intel does. There is a reason Intel chips are so much more stable - it'd because Intel cares about the chipset market. I wish we could say the same for AMD.
Of course she cried; if a woman doesn't cry, then you just didn't get it right. Besides, that is the best part for us - it shows she really loves you.
.JPG of Slashdot and that email now - gotta have something for the grandkids before your HDD dies :)
Burn a CDR with
I wish you many happy years together.
In my experience under good management, those that managed the people first and foremost were the best. I found that when they managed people first, if the people were talented, the projects mostly managed themselves.
Sure there were times when the manager would step in to make a decision, or change things around to fit a changing schedule. But for the most part, when the project management took a back seat to people management, things worked smoothly, and people were happier.
In conjunction with this, I think it is important for management to leave me alone. By that I mean, take a decision, inform me of it, and then leave me alone to implement it. It's important to have a daily presence to keep me up to date on news, etc..., and to ensure that I am making useful progress. However, stepping in all the time with phone calls and other interruptions is distracting. Condensing those activities to a once-a-day schedule would help keep me focused.
Finally, managers should provide useful guidance on both project and organizational issues. Management should be able to answer questions when they arise, or at least help me interface with those that can answer questions. Don't leave me stranded and expect me to somehow get through on my own. I need support to get my job done in an efficient manner.
We should all remember the words of Knuth:
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil."
At this point, code optimizers are good enough and work fast enough to make many of these optimizations unnecessary, even counter productive. As the parent poster said, these types of problems will not be the bottleneck anyways.
Although this is a somewhat contrived example, in general it is better to develop code that is easy to read and maintain, especially when the compiler can optimize it.
I used the term "Real Work (TM)" to poke fun at the idea that what I get paid to do is not necessarily what I would like to do. That is to say, for me real work is anything that I find interesting, that has solid, defineable goals, and helps me learn more. Unfortunately, in business, Real Work tens to be anything that has the hope of making them money.
Most Linux machines can be subverted by something as simple as a bootfloppy, or linux single
local root exploits are not something to underestimate.
About once I week I scan mozillazine's build comments and download the best of the latest nightlies. Helps me stay current to report new bugs, without risking too much. I recommend it for those that like bleeding edge, but still need to get Real Work (TM) done.
Since it has been folded into SysAdmin, TPJ has pretty much sucked. 2 or 3 articles, once every 3 months is really sad. I appreciate what Jon Orwant and others have done, but TPJ is not what it used to be.
I wish Perl Mongers success with their efforts.
This sounds plausible, since you can use fewer machines. But the problem I see is, where do you find a machine that can address 80+ gigabytes of memory? Otherwise, you have to but just as many commodity boxes to hold the ram, which ruins the cost benefit.
Does anyone have any insight on what machines you would use to support this scheme? Does a SAN-type device for RAM exist? Some network-attached box that holds tens or hundreds of gigabytes of RAM?