Ah, but you have to look at the expected increase, not just the current numbers. Social Security is a ponzi scheme, and unless something is done soon it will grow out of control. Health care is also expected to grow (though not by as much). Barring a world war, military spending isn't expected to increase soon.
Cutting defense spending will help in the short term, but will do nothing to prevent our long term budget problems.
I have identified a few categories of properly done internet April Fools jokes.
1. Subtle jokes that could be plausible or which you wish were true. Thinkgeek has few good ones. Angry Nerds is also nice. 2. Corny and blatant jokes that have had a large amount of effort put into them. Google is good with this. Youtube and Hulu this year falls into this category. (Or so I've heard. I can't check Youtube at work.) 3. Unexpected silliness. I was working with Dokuwiki when their website changed yesterday. I got a laugh out of it. Past examples of this done well was Ponies! and the Geocities XKCD.
Actually, he's very much the classic style of crank. Instead of giving us a formal proof, his proof is a proof by example consisting of a great deal of code that has to be scrutinized by hand for conceptual errors. It works fine on his test cases of course; so therefore to him his "proof" is "correct."
It has already been shown that if a polynomial time solution is found for any NP hard problem, then there exists a P solution for all NP hard problems. Because of this, you only need a single example to prove that P == NP. A proof that P != NP would need a formal proof and would probably involve much more mathematics.
General consensus is that P != NP is more likely, but I'm hoping for P == NP since that is a much more interesting world to live in.
According to Wikipedia, they are planning to support LLVM to provide platform independence. Since the technology is still being developed, it's possible that native x86 instructions may just be a bootstrapping step and not a final feature, though I haven't seen anything from Google that suggests this.
I tried going to my town, and didn't see our largest (and best) ISP listed. Then I noticed that the map was way, way outside of town.
I tried putting in my street address, still putting me outside of town.
So, I go to Google maps and get my lat/lon to 4 decimal places. I put my lat/lon in, and it returns nothing. I notice that the URL had a positive longitude, despite my putting a negative into the text field. I edit the URL to have a - in front of the longitude. Now I have data. Way, way outside of town.
None of the download options work, they all give me an error.
I'm going to stop playing with the site. It is useless.
Please tell me the 5 years, 200 million dollars is a joke.
I think that taking the CS course on Finite Autonoma is almost necessary to understand regular expressions. It is certainly necessary to know how to optimize them (expressions that are quick in a DFA may be extremely slow in an NFA, but expressions that are doable in an NFA may not work in a DFA).
You will also learn what regular expressions cannot do for you, and when you need a context free grammar.
Which is why, as a seasoned UNIX admin, I remove all vi from my systems (to prevent broken programs that do not use $EDITOR or/etc/alternatives from dropping me into vi) and use emacs exclusively. Or jove on small systems.
This is just stupid. Yes, not using $EDITOR is wrong, but removing vi is wronger. I love Emacs (and do all my coding in it) but vi is the single greatest editor for quick and dirty edits, and is what I use almost exclusively for admin related edits.
C-X-( and M-x yank-rectangle improve my efficiency vastly for the one-off scenarios which it is not worth scripting.
Original article author apparently has never met seasoned admins of the emacs species. Specist!:-)
Here I have to agree. From time to time I need to work on a rectangular region, and Emacs is just awesome there. It also has superior macro capabilities to vi (though vim has mostly caught up), which is quite often quicker and easier than writing some quick perl. You nailed two of the three times where I use emacs instead of vi for admin related tasks. The third time is when using Oracles sqlplus, which if run inside an Emacs shell you can get easy command history, plus treating the output of a select as a text buffer is super convenient.
Learn both editors, learn where they are strong and where they are weak, and use the right tool for the job.
Chrome uses one process per tab - it uses a lot of memory
To be fair, much of the memory is shared by each process. Using top or the Windows Task Manager will give you an inaccurate memory size, since this shared memory will be included for each process. A better way is to use the built in process viewer (forget what it's called right now) to look at memory usage.
Also, Chrome is much better at reclaiming memory after a while. When a tab closes, all of its memory is freed except for some global caching. The global cache does periodically free up memory that hasn't been used in a while, but I'm not very happy about how it does it (my memory usage keeps climbing and then suddenly frees about 1G all at once).
Firefox allows you to store all your settings (bookmarks, history, tabs open, passwords, etc) strongly encrypted on mozilla's servers, or on your own personal server. You can even retrieve them from Firefox for Android and other platforms Chrome, not
Chrome bookmarks can be stored in your iGoogle account and used across browser instances. It performs well and changes seems to instantly show up in other browser instances, which is cool. I don't know how the bookmarks are encrypted, but I suspect this is something that Firefox does a lot better.
I'm in the same boat. The article mentions that affected customers were reissued credit and debit cards, so presumably not hearing anything is a good sign, but I'll be calling them as soon as I get home.
.NET will automatically close file streams when the reader or writer is collected by the garbage collector or when the application exits. To test the problem you would need to use the lower level C++ APIs.
Nobody was killed as a result of that leak, only her identity as a CIA operative was revealed.
The identity of the leaker was Richard Armitage, who managed to get immunity from prosecution for cooperating with the investigation (which did result in a perjury and obstruction conviction for Scooter Libby, who I suspect was a fall guy). He claims that he didn't know she was an operative, and that the prosecution was lenient because he was forthcoming. I, however, suspect that it went something like this:
Prosecutor: Mr Armitage, in exchange for your cooperation, no charges will be filed against you.
Armitage: Sounds great, I'll cooperate.
Prosecutor: Do you know who leaked Valerie Plames identity?
Since about 2000, standards committees have been pushing kibi, mebi, and gibi prefixes for binary usage instead of overloading the decimal prefixes.
Note that kilo = 1024 has mainly been commonly used for memory, and most other computer components used kilo to mean 1000. This is the reason for large discrepancies when reporting hard drive sizes. 1000 is also used for CPU clock frequencies, network speeds (mostly, there are a few odd exceptions).
I think that kibi and company sounds stupid, but reducing ambiguity is a good thing and they are slowly becoming more popular. We are starting to see operating systems report binary sizes using the Ki prefix instead of the K prefix.
I'd play an updated original Dark Forces game again. Updated graphics and gameplay, but original levels and plot. I can't think of any other old FPS games that I would like to see redone.
I never played the original Tie Fighter and X-Wing games, but I would love to try an updated version of them. Unlike FPS, this type of game seems ideal for consoles. I also wish they had done more with the old Privateer games.
I have an Acer Timeline, and I can tell you that battery life was about the same for Windows 7 and Ubuntu until I loaded the Acer drivers, which improved Windows 7 battery life immensely. The problem isn't that Linux power savings isn't as good as vanilla Windows, the problem is that Linux power savings isn't as good as manufacturer optimized Windows.
Slashdot works differently horrible in all browsers.
Too true. I've spent some time playing with browsers and Slashdot, and the conclusion I've reached is that Chrome works best for reading (Slashdot really benefits from fast JavaScript), but the copy and paste bug prevents it from being a good browser for posting*. Firefox is slower but it seems to have the fewest bugs. Idle pages work horrible in everything I've tried. The problems all seem to be with the poor JavaScript.
*The exact bug is that copy and paste works until you start typing, and then you can't paste into the text area. Very annoying.
While true, don't underestimate the fact that our factories were an ocean away from the action. The Germans could only go after our supply lines, not our manufacturing facilities while we were able to bomb the heck out of anything that looked like a factory.
Copy and paste works great as long as you haven't started typing anything in the comment box. I assume that some piece of JavaScript is behaving differently on Chrome than on other browsers and the Slashdot developers either don't know or don't care to work around the issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, but you have to look at the expected increase, not just the current numbers. Social Security is a ponzi scheme, and unless something is done soon it will grow out of control. Health care is also expected to grow (though not by as much). Barring a world war, military spending isn't expected to increase soon.
Cutting defense spending will help in the short term, but will do nothing to prevent our long term budget problems.
I have identified a few categories of properly done internet April Fools jokes.
1. Subtle jokes that could be plausible or which you wish were true. Thinkgeek has few good ones. Angry Nerds is also nice.
2. Corny and blatant jokes that have had a large amount of effort put into them. Google is good with this. Youtube and Hulu this year falls into this category. (Or so I've heard. I can't check Youtube at work.)
3. Unexpected silliness. I was working with Dokuwiki when their website changed yesterday. I got a laugh out of it. Past examples of this done well was Ponies! and the Geocities XKCD.
See how many you can identify!
On normal days, people don't read the articles, but do read the headline and about half of us skim the summaries.
On April Fools, we don't even go through that much effort.
Reader productivity on slashdot has never been higher!
Given his memory, it sounds more like Tim Benzedrine.
This works just fine in Chrome.
Actually, he's very much the classic style of crank. Instead of giving us a formal proof, his proof is a proof by example consisting of a great deal of code that has to be scrutinized by hand for conceptual errors. It works fine on his test cases of course; so therefore to him his "proof" is "correct."
It has already been shown that if a polynomial time solution is found for any NP hard problem, then there exists a P solution for all NP hard problems. Because of this, you only need a single example to prove that P == NP. A proof that P != NP would need a formal proof and would probably involve much more mathematics.
General consensus is that P != NP is more likely, but I'm hoping for P == NP since that is a much more interesting world to live in.
According to Wikipedia, they are planning to support LLVM to provide platform independence. Since the technology is still being developed, it's possible that native x86 instructions may just be a bootstrapping step and not a final feature, though I haven't seen anything from Google that suggests this.
I tried going to my town, and didn't see our largest (and best) ISP listed. Then I noticed that the map was way, way outside of town.
I tried putting in my street address, still putting me outside of town.
So, I go to Google maps and get my lat/lon to 4 decimal places. I put my lat/lon in, and it returns nothing. I notice that the URL had a positive longitude, despite my putting a negative into the text field. I edit the URL to have a - in front of the longitude. Now I have data. Way, way outside of town.
None of the download options work, they all give me an error.
I'm going to stop playing with the site. It is useless.
Please tell me the 5 years, 200 million dollars is a joke.
I think that taking the CS course on Finite Autonoma is almost necessary to understand regular expressions. It is certainly necessary to know how to optimize them (expressions that are quick in a DFA may be extremely slow in an NFA, but expressions that are doable in an NFA may not work in a DFA).
You will also learn what regular expressions cannot do for you, and when you need a context free grammar.
Which is why, as a seasoned UNIX admin, I remove all vi from my systems (to prevent broken programs that do not use $EDITOR or /etc/alternatives from dropping me into vi) and use emacs exclusively. Or jove on small systems.
This is just stupid. Yes, not using $EDITOR is wrong, but removing vi is wronger. I love Emacs (and do all my coding in it) but vi is the single greatest editor for quick and dirty edits, and is what I use almost exclusively for admin related edits.
C-X-( and M-x yank-rectangle improve my efficiency vastly for the one-off scenarios which it is not worth scripting.
Original article author apparently has never met seasoned admins of the emacs species. Specist! :-)
Here I have to agree. From time to time I need to work on a rectangular region, and Emacs is just awesome there. It also has superior macro capabilities to vi (though vim has mostly caught up), which is quite often quicker and easier than writing some quick perl. You nailed two of the three times where I use emacs instead of vi for admin related tasks. The third time is when using Oracles sqlplus, which if run inside an Emacs shell you can get easy command history, plus treating the output of a select as a text buffer is super convenient.
Learn both editors, learn where they are strong and where they are weak, and use the right tool for the job.
I just picked up an HTC G2 Android phone from T-Mobile.
Smart phone: FREE
Data capable plan: $80 for unlimited data
You might try shopping around a bit.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but Mythbusters tried a giant slingshot, not a catapult.
That would be the Mexican Army that you see. The uniforms are slightly different.
Chrome uses one process per tab - it uses a lot of memory
To be fair, much of the memory is shared by each process. Using top or the Windows Task Manager will give you an inaccurate memory size, since this shared memory will be included for each process. A better way is to use the built in process viewer (forget what it's called right now) to look at memory usage.
Also, Chrome is much better at reclaiming memory after a while. When a tab closes, all of its memory is freed except for some global caching. The global cache does periodically free up memory that hasn't been used in a while, but I'm not very happy about how it does it (my memory usage keeps climbing and then suddenly frees about 1G all at once).
Firefox allows you to store all your settings (bookmarks, history, tabs open, passwords, etc) strongly encrypted on mozilla's servers, or on your own personal server. You can even retrieve them from Firefox for Android and other platforms
Chrome, not
Chrome bookmarks can be stored in your iGoogle account and used across browser instances. It performs well and changes seems to instantly show up in other browser instances, which is cool. I don't know how the bookmarks are encrypted, but I suspect this is something that Firefox does a lot better.
I'm in the same boat. The article mentions that affected customers were reissued credit and debit cards, so presumably not hearing anything is a good sign, but I'll be calling them as soon as I get home.
.NET will automatically close file streams when the reader or writer is collected by the garbage collector or when the application exits. To test the problem you would need to use the lower level C++ APIs.
I think you mean Valerie Plame.
Nobody was killed as a result of that leak, only her identity as a CIA operative was revealed.
The identity of the leaker was Richard Armitage, who managed to get immunity from prosecution for cooperating with the investigation (which did result in a perjury and obstruction conviction for Scooter Libby, who I suspect was a fall guy). He claims that he didn't know she was an operative, and that the prosecution was lenient because he was forthcoming. I, however, suspect that it went something like this:
Prosecutor: Mr Armitage, in exchange for your cooperation, no charges will be filed against you.
Armitage: Sounds great, I'll cooperate.
Prosecutor: Do you know who leaked Valerie Plames identity?
Armitage: I did, sucker!
Since about 2000, standards committees have been pushing kibi, mebi, and gibi prefixes for binary usage instead of overloading the decimal prefixes.
Note that kilo = 1024 has mainly been commonly used for memory, and most other computer components used kilo to mean 1000. This is the reason for large discrepancies when reporting hard drive sizes. 1000 is also used for CPU clock frequencies, network speeds (mostly, there are a few odd exceptions).
I think that kibi and company sounds stupid, but reducing ambiguity is a good thing and they are slowly becoming more popular. We are starting to see operating systems report binary sizes using the Ki prefix instead of the K prefix.
kibicore, mebicore, gibicore?
Fixed that for you.
I'd play an updated original Dark Forces game again. Updated graphics and gameplay, but original levels and plot. I can't think of any other old FPS games that I would like to see redone.
I never played the original Tie Fighter and X-Wing games, but I would love to try an updated version of them. Unlike FPS, this type of game seems ideal for consoles. I also wish they had done more with the old Privateer games.
I have an Acer Timeline, and I can tell you that battery life was about the same for Windows 7 and Ubuntu until I loaded the Acer drivers, which improved Windows 7 battery life immensely. The problem isn't that Linux power savings isn't as good as vanilla Windows, the problem is that Linux power savings isn't as good as manufacturer optimized Windows.
Slashdot works differently horrible in all browsers.
Too true. I've spent some time playing with browsers and Slashdot, and the conclusion I've reached is that Chrome works best for reading (Slashdot really benefits from fast JavaScript), but the copy and paste bug prevents it from being a good browser for posting*. Firefox is slower but it seems to have the fewest bugs. Idle pages work horrible in everything I've tried. The problems all seem to be with the poor JavaScript.
*The exact bug is that copy and paste works until you start typing, and then you can't paste into the text area. Very annoying.
While true, don't underestimate the fact that our factories were an ocean away from the action. The Germans could only go after our supply lines, not our manufacturing facilities while we were able to bomb the heck out of anything that looked like a factory.
Copy and paste works great as long as you haven't started typing anything in the comment box. I assume that some piece of JavaScript is behaving differently on Chrome than on other browsers and the Slashdot developers either don't know or don't care to work around the issue.
Drives do this all the time. Think of it like labeling a sector as bad during an fsck or chkdsk.