As the AC commented, Aftonbladet is one of the shittier papers in Sweden. It ramains popular however. Misquotes and inaccuracies like this are more common than not. Ie P2P applÃications are/not/ going to be illegal.
The only thing which becomes illegal in that sense is that it is now illegal to download copies as well as providing them for download.
Regarding copyprotection it's a stupid law, and it's pretty much the same as DMCA in the states.
The entire endevour is pretty useless. You can't stop something like copying for private persons with laws. Ain't gonna happen.
I think you are confusing the terms. Or you just got the threads mixed up.
Journalling makes sure that the state of data, or meta-data is always defined. So even if you turn the computer off while in the middle of a write command the file-system will be in a correct state afterwards. (The write operation will be lost however.) It is basically a way of making HDD operations atomic. Either they succeed or they fail, the in between state is what puts your drive in a corrupted state.
When talking about 10% it is refering to space on the disk for the log file to make this possible.
Now storing the meta data in a database, which is essentially what WinFS and such are doing, is not as clear a benfit. Personally I can imagine that it would be a very practiacal FS for keeping movies and MP3's on. I don't really see the benefits of running the OS files on that FS though. A lot of unneccesary overhead. (I don't search for files in my OS partition very often.)
And if you get lowish fat yoghurt you get something which tastes pretty much like a milkshake (but with fresh fruit) is low on fat and high on vitamins.
Basically you can't go wrong.:-) It might be a good idea to get a blender type mixer instead of a food processor though. The knives on the processor go dull from the frozen fruits. Particularly if you add ice cubes.
Perhaps he doesn't want to go to England just to get a degree? (And pay a lot of money in the process.) The knowledge exist in other parts of the world too, there might just not be an established curriculum.
I've had a bad experience with LVM+XFS. The first drive on my LVM volume died and took the rest of them with it. Not that it has anyting in particular to do with XFS though, but I couldn't find a way to copy the meta data files so I had redundant versions of those. It would have been nice if I could have restored the data on the other drives in the volume.
Well, you live and you learn, I guess RAID really is the way to go for storage. (Even at home.)
I maintain a network where I live, and it's quite a rare occurence that the NICs people use cause problems. And since this is a student place it generally means that people have cheap "no name" brands.
There is the odd chance of a NIC being broken, but that's quite rare too.
As long as you stay with one of the bigger cheaper brands there's not going to be a problem. Often when people "can't see each other" it's because they have setup their OS incorrectly. Just run everything over TCP/IP and you'll save yourself a lot of problems.
I've solved it a couple of times, but I have yet to memorise all the ending tricks, so I have to cheat a bit at the end.
The best method I've found for solving is by Lars Petrus. I also found another method eight corner which IMHO is harder, but it's good to check it out to get a grasp of what you're doing when you are twisting the cube. (It's like a mathematical descition of rotational operations.)
Trying to solve it "just by trying" is not going to get you anywhere. Or at least extremely hard. Both of these methods work by solving parts of the cube and then expanding those parts until the entire cube is solved.
Of those I've seen (online, never seen one IRL) have had a keyboard as well. Some has a detachable keyboard and some are like a laptop but with a rotateable screen.
That's the kind I'd get, and if I were hunting for a laptop I'd probably get one which is "tabletable".
If that's what you get then it's worth the price. Those that are a "big PalmPC" are however generally way too expensive for the bang. As you say, you don't want to get a big PalmPC for the price of a laptop.
It is tragic in a way, though, that such a type must obviously must bolster their self-esteem by appearing so self-sufficient that they aggressively accuse others of not being in charge of their situations. One has to wonder what their obvious insecurities stem from. In any case, it was a nice troll, but clearly lacking in self-awareness.
Well put! I was going to reply myself but I think that pretty much summed up all my complaints about both the original poster, Ayn Rand and randites in general.
There are a lot of questions like this (about if we exist in "the real world" or as a simulation) that are not really interesting in themselves but in how you answer them. Because your answer contain a lot about what your preconceptions are, and in many ways it is your preconceptions which will ultimately limit you.
To "think outside the box" you must first realize that there is a box, and then realize that often it is you who has made the box.
All that said, I do in a sense agree with the original poster in that I find a lot of "deep thoughs" similar to this quite shallow. And hearing people commenting on how "deep" it is makes me want to slap them. But that's just because I fail to understand why they find it deep. It problably has something to do with my preconceptions.
They have obviously mounted a camera way up in the rafters (the angle is close to perfect)
Yes, it's a telesynch, it's not cam.
Trying to stop cam versions isn't going to do anything while there is a lot of money to be made for projectinists for setting up telesync or distributing screeners.
Yeah, it's a good read for no other reason than because you'll learn a lot of mythology. It's a bit on the long side, but I never got the feeling that the characters were "stuck". And it's a lot of fun thinking about what new messed up world the characters have gotten to. (Well, that's not so much the first book, but the later ones.)
I'd recommend "Gödel Escher Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. It has a lot of very interesting topics like logic, cognition, AI etc but the dialoges in the book are nothing short of brilliant.
In some cases I spent a few hours with a dialoge just to figure out if there were anything I had missed. Bloody brilliant!
Personally I found Atlas Shrugged to be one of the most boring books I have ever read. And I didn't find it hard to read, just really really boring. Besides, it contains enough logical errors to drive an entire horde of elephants through. (Easiest example is how she claims that objectivism is supposed to be rational and only based on logic. Yet most of the time in Atlas Shrugged is spent making us feel sorry for the "good industrialists", so she's basing the entire book on feelings. Stuff like that, just made me annoyed.)
The general idea is good, it just takes to frigging long to get anywhere. I did read it through though, and personally I didn't find the speech in the end that bad. I was skipping paragraphs by then so I was used to it.
Personally I find LOTR to be quite condensed. The hard part tend to be the first hundred pages or so, when they are still in the Shire and there's not much action. Also the bit about Tom Bombadill is often concidered boring and dull, as are many of the songs. However these parts are what you notice the second and third etc times you read the books. You begin to appreciate the depth of the world Tolkien has created.
If you are reading a translated version that could be a problem as well. At least the Swedish version is known to suck immensely, I've read it and there is a lot of difference with the English. Fortunately there is a new translation in the works now.
Now if you want to talk about books that are a lot longer than needed you should look no further than Wheel of Time for fantasy, or things like Ayn Rands "Atlas shrugged", which IMHO is an abomination to call a "classic".
Then it has to depend on the version you're using. Perhaps you're using the Lite version, that's operated through Java or something I think.
Because when I use ICQ 2001b and send a message, or even just browse a users "away message" then I also establish a connection to that user.
If you're using ICQ Lite then it's not starange that it goes through AOL/Mirabilis. A Java applet is not allowed to open connections besides the one to the server it comes from.
People tend to forget (or not realize to begin with) that every bit of chatter they send to one another on AIM goes through AOL's servers,
Eh, no it doesn't. Even early versions of ICQ had direct communication between clients. Only if a client is offline does it go through a server. There is no way in hell that the servers could survive otherwise.
Although the messages are in clear text, so someone could sniff them. OTOH the same is true with email.
There is (at least) one big benefit for me with BitTorrent compared to Overnet/*Donkey. It works.
Since BT uses a more basic protocol and is mainly tied to HTTP this means that it's not the first to get stopped when the "network police" starts shutting down services.
First off I'd like to give you a tip to look at GPGPU which is a site which has references to a lot of papers using graphics hardware for general purpose calculations. (I found it in another part of this topic.)
And yes, it's true that the vector processors in a PS2 are more flexible than what is found in an XBox or on a standard graphics card for a PC. And of those two the XBox has the benefit of UMA.
Still, it's an interesting way of modern hacking on a similar level as using the C64 floppy drive as an additional processor.
The "imagine a Beuwulf cluster of this" is quite a bit older than a year. The first case I found after a short amount of Googling was WYSE uses Linux for thin clients from 99-06-14. I'm sure even earlier can be found, but it was getting a bit old (har har) to look through search results. I bet you could do it quickly if you made a script for it though. (For quite a while the URL contain the date, so you'd only have to track that.)
Could even do it to build a "Beowulf cluster of these" database.;-)
Just what was it you though that the graphics card was? Besides the XBox has a more "PC" interface which would make it easier to port to.
I bet that it won't take very long until we start seeing these types of applications running on XBox hardware. You could even run it on your graphics card on your PC. As long as you can read the memory from the graphics card. (Not sure which cards actually support this.)
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Not to mention that using pointers for things like iterating over an array is downright stupid. It's a good way of making it hard for the compiler to understand what you're trying to do.
A common problem with programming is that coders like to think they are smart. Usually this mean that they introduce unnecessary bugs in order to "optimize". In my experience this is less the case for Java since if you're using Java you've already decided "not to care" about performance.
That said, in the hands of a good (or at least thurough) coder there is nothing wrong with C/C++. Personally I just don't trust myself to do the right thing all the time, so like to get some help from the language/JVM.
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What I think is interesting in their reasons for not using Java is that first they complain that Java can leak memory. (Now it's a hell of a lot easier to stop memory leaks in Java than C++ in my experience but I digress.) Particularly when an application is running for a long time.
Later on they complain that Java has a slow startup time. This would certainly seem to be a major issue with a "server" application.
Finally they complain about slow GUI's for Java. But they use a WWW based user interface.
Seems like someone just had an axe to grind IMHO. Not that I care though, well coded programs are good regardless of the language. But I don't see their comments as very realistic.
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As the AC commented, Aftonbladet is one of the shittier papers in Sweden. It ramains popular however. Misquotes and inaccuracies like this are more common than not. Ie P2P applÃications are /not/ going to be illegal.
The only thing which becomes illegal in that sense is that it is now illegal to download copies as well as providing them for download.
Regarding copyprotection it's a stupid law, and it's pretty much the same as DMCA in the states.
The entire endevour is pretty useless. You can't stop something like copying for private persons with laws. Ain't gonna happen.
Perhaps it's possible to use a Linux installation disc to enter cfdisk and do the partitioning / formating in Linux instead?
I think you are confusing the terms. Or you just got the threads mixed up.
Journalling makes sure that the state of data, or meta-data is always defined. So even if you turn the computer off while in the middle of a write command the file-system will be in a correct state afterwards. (The write operation will be lost however.) It is basically a way of making HDD operations atomic. Either they succeed or they fail, the in between state is what puts your drive in a corrupted state.
When talking about 10% it is refering to space on the disk for the log file to make this possible.
Now storing the meta data in a database, which is essentially what WinFS and such are doing, is not as clear a benfit. Personally I can imagine that it would be a very practiacal FS for keeping movies and MP3's on. I don't really see the benefits of running the OS files on that FS though. A lot of unneccesary overhead. (I don't search for files in my OS partition very often.)
And if you get lowish fat yoghurt you get something which tastes pretty much like a milkshake (but with fresh fruit) is low on fat and high on vitamins.
:-) It might be a good idea to get a blender type mixer instead of a food processor though. The knives on the processor go dull from the frozen fruits. Particularly if you add ice cubes.
Basically you can't go wrong.
Yeah, but if he can get the same from a school he's already attending then it doesn't make much sense to go to England, just because.
I know I could do the relevant courses here in Sweden, it's just that they haven't made a specific program for it.
Perhaps he doesn't want to go to England just to get a degree? (And pay a lot of money in the process.) The knowledge exist in other parts of the world too, there might just not be an established curriculum.
I've had a bad experience with LVM+XFS. The first drive on my LVM volume died and took the rest of them with it. Not that it has anyting in particular to do with XFS though, but I couldn't find a way to copy the meta data files so I had redundant versions of those. It would have been nice if I could have restored the data on the other drives in the volume.
Well, you live and you learn, I guess RAID really is the way to go for storage. (Even at home.)
I maintain a network where I live, and it's quite a rare occurence that the NICs people use cause problems. And since this is a student place it generally means that people have cheap "no name" brands.
There is the odd chance of a NIC being broken, but that's quite rare too.
As long as you stay with one of the bigger cheaper brands there's not going to be a problem. Often when people "can't see each other" it's because they have setup their OS incorrectly. Just run everything over TCP/IP and you'll save yourself a lot of problems.
I've solved it a couple of times, but I have yet to memorise all the ending tricks, so I have to cheat a bit at the end.
The best method I've found for solving is by Lars Petrus. I also found another method eight corner which IMHO is harder, but it's good to check it out to get a grasp of what you're doing when you are twisting the cube. (It's like a mathematical descition of rotational operations.)
Trying to solve it "just by trying" is not going to get you anywhere. Or at least extremely hard. Both of these methods work by solving parts of the cube and then expanding those parts until the entire cube is solved.
Of those I've seen (online, never seen one IRL) have had a keyboard as well. Some has a detachable keyboard and some are like a laptop but with a rotateable screen.
That's the kind I'd get, and if I were hunting for a laptop I'd probably get one which is "tabletable".
If that's what you get then it's worth the price. Those that are a "big PalmPC" are however generally way too expensive for the bang. As you say, you don't want to get a big PalmPC for the price of a laptop.
Well put! I was going to reply myself but I think that pretty much summed up all my complaints about both the original poster, Ayn Rand and randites in general.
There are a lot of questions like this (about if we exist in "the real world" or as a simulation) that are not really interesting in themselves but in how you answer them. Because your answer contain a lot about what your preconceptions are, and in many ways it is your preconceptions which will ultimately limit you.
To "think outside the box" you must first realize that there is a box, and then realize that often it is you who has made the box.
All that said, I do in a sense agree with the original poster in that I find a lot of "deep thoughs" similar to this quite shallow. And hearing people commenting on how "deep" it is makes me want to slap them. But that's just because I fail to understand why they find it deep. It problably has something to do with my preconceptions.
Yes, it's a telesynch, it's not cam.
Trying to stop cam versions isn't going to do anything while there is a lot of money to be made for projectinists for setting up telesync or distributing screeners.
Yeah, it's a good read for no other reason than because you'll learn a lot of mythology. It's a bit on the long side, but I never got the feeling that the characters were "stuck". And it's a lot of fun thinking about what new messed up world the characters have gotten to. (Well, that's not so much the first book, but the later ones.)
I'd recommend "Gödel Escher Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. It has a lot of very interesting topics like logic, cognition, AI etc but the dialoges in the book are nothing short of brilliant.
In some cases I spent a few hours with a dialoge just to figure out if there were anything I had missed. Bloody brilliant!
Personally I found Atlas Shrugged to be one of the most boring books I have ever read. And I didn't find it hard to read, just really really boring. Besides, it contains enough logical errors to drive an entire horde of elephants through. (Easiest example is how she claims that objectivism is supposed to be rational and only based on logic. Yet most of the time in Atlas Shrugged is spent making us feel sorry for the "good industrialists", so she's basing the entire book on feelings. Stuff like that, just made me annoyed.)
The general idea is good, it just takes to frigging long to get anywhere. I did read it through though, and personally I didn't find the speech in the end that bad. I was skipping paragraphs by then so I was used to it.
Personally I find LOTR to be quite condensed. The hard part tend to be the first hundred pages or so, when they are still in the Shire and there's not much action. Also the bit about Tom Bombadill is often concidered boring and dull, as are many of the songs. However these parts are what you notice the second and third etc times you read the books. You begin to appreciate the depth of the world Tolkien has created.
If you are reading a translated version that could be a problem as well. At least the Swedish version is known to suck immensely, I've read it and there is a lot of difference with the English. Fortunately there is a new translation in the works now.
Now if you want to talk about books that are a lot longer than needed you should look no further than Wheel of Time for fantasy, or things like Ayn Rands "Atlas shrugged", which IMHO is an abomination to call a "classic".
Then it has to depend on the version you're using. Perhaps you're using the Lite version, that's operated through Java or something I think.
Because when I use ICQ 2001b and send a message, or even just browse a users "away message" then I also establish a connection to that user.
If you're using ICQ Lite then it's not starange that it goes through AOL/Mirabilis. A Java applet is not allowed to open connections besides the one to the server it comes from.
Eh, no it doesn't. Even early versions of ICQ had direct communication between clients. Only if a client is offline does it go through a server. There is no way in hell that the servers could survive otherwise.
Although the messages are in clear text, so someone could sniff them. OTOH the same is true with email.
There is (at least) one big benefit for me with BitTorrent compared to Overnet/*Donkey. It works.
Since BT uses a more basic protocol and is mainly tied to HTTP this means that it's not the first to get stopped when the "network police" starts shutting down services.
The Horror, The Horror.
First off I'd like to give you a tip to look at GPGPU which is a site which has references to a lot of papers using graphics hardware for general purpose calculations. (I found it in another part of this topic.)
And yes, it's true that the vector processors in a PS2 are more flexible than what is found in an XBox or on a standard graphics card for a PC. And of those two the XBox has the benefit of UMA.
Still, it's an interesting way of modern hacking on a similar level as using the C64 floppy drive as an additional processor.
The "imagine a Beuwulf cluster of this" is quite a bit older than a year. The first case I found after a short amount of Googling was WYSE uses Linux for thin clients from 99-06-14. I'm sure even earlier can be found, but it was getting a bit old (har har) to look through search results. I bet you could do it quickly if you made a script for it though. (For quite a while the URL contain the date, so you'd only have to track that.)
;-)
Could even do it to build a "Beowulf cluster of these" database.
Yes, the PS2 has vector units. So does the XBox.
Just what was it you though that the graphics card was? Besides the XBox has a more "PC" interface which would make it easier to port to.
I bet that it won't take very long until we start seeing these types of applications running on XBox hardware. You could even run it on your graphics card on your PC. As long as you can read the memory from the graphics card. (Not sure which cards actually support this.)
Not to mention that using pointers for things like iterating over an array is downright stupid. It's a good way of making it hard for the compiler to understand what you're trying to do.
A common problem with programming is that coders like to think they are smart. Usually this mean that they introduce unnecessary bugs in order to "optimize". In my experience this is less the case for Java since if you're using Java you've already decided "not to care" about performance.
That said, in the hands of a good (or at least thurough) coder there is nothing wrong with C/C++. Personally I just don't trust myself to do the right thing all the time, so like to get some help from the language/JVM.
What I think is interesting in their reasons for not using Java is that first they complain that Java can leak memory. (Now it's a hell of a lot easier to stop memory leaks in Java than C++ in my experience but I digress.) Particularly when an application is running for a long time.
Later on they complain that Java has a slow startup time. This would certainly seem to be a major issue with a "server" application.
Finally they complain about slow GUI's for Java. But they use a WWW based user interface.
Seems like someone just had an axe to grind IMHO. Not that I care though, well coded programs are good regardless of the language. But I don't see their comments as very realistic.