Bubblesort can be implemented in less code/memory due to the simpler logic. It also has more consistent performance (there's little difference between its best, worst, and average case performance) -- consistently bad, mind you, but still, sometimes that's a consideration. If the dataset is sufficiently small, you can finish a bubblesort before you finish setting up some other sorts. So it's not entirely useless. There are times where it makes sense. Rare, and getting rarer (when was the last time you fretted about shaving 12 bytes off your executable size?), but still, it has its uses. (And I'm probably dating myself -- I have fretted about getting code into the 208 bytes of memory I had to work with before.)
I agree on the natural impulse thing. There are two sorting algorithms I consider intuitive, having implemented them on my own before any formal education in programming. The first was insertion sort, and the second was merge sort, both being things I coded after observing that how I'd sorted things by hand. I think most people will do an insertion sort if you hand them a stack of addressed envelopes and tell them to sort them. If you have a large pile of them and several volunteers, you'll hand everyone a pile to sort themselves in parallel, and them merge the piles as people finish. So, both are algorithms people just seem to naturally do when handed sorting problems, the second coming into play when you have more than one person sorting (although you end up doing a bit of both -- insertion sorting the small piles, then mergesorting them back together).
Hehe. In Reagan's case, it's not future dollars anymore. A huge chunk of our tax dollars today are going towards paying the interest on Reagan's excesses. I don't know of any democrat who's ever proposed a tax increase as big as the percentage of tax we're paying for Reagan's voodoo economics today. Mondale's proposed 10% tax increase back in 84 would have been a bargain compared to the more expensive deal we got instead.
Um, I have to say, if you actually start trying to get real use out of your site, you'll probably find GoDaddy ain't so rock solid anymore. My own site uses less than a tenth of a percent of the bandwidth or storage GoDaddy has allocated. It's very low traffic. But it does regularly talk to a backend database, and has some external scripts that talks to it regularly, so I get a pretty good idea how stable things are, even without constantly checking the site, simply because the log of activity lets me see how well things are going. Frankly, GoDaddy sucks. My external apps trying to connect to the site fail to connect frequently, and my apps on the site frequently fail as their connections to the backend database get terminated mysteriously. The site goes down for five to ten minute intervals frequently, and has been offline for as long as eight hours at a time. Attempts to contact support and get problems fixed take so long, however, that by the time someone gets back to be a day or so later, the server has been rebooted or something and everything's back online again, or whatever mysterious problem was occurring has finally passed. Hourly cron jobs go for days without being executed (support has informed me disabling and reenabling them gets them going again, which works, but fails to explain why it happens to begin with, much less solve the problem). Since it's essentially a hobby and it would be a pain to move everything at this point, I'm still there, but I wouldn't choose them again, that's for darn sure. Definitely the worst hosting experience I've ever had.
As I said before:
Since most of Obama's supporters are supporting him for psychological reasons (not political), there's little point in "debating" them.
Coming on the heels of your post about how you love a candidate for being tortured, hate one for going to church, and can't stand to listen to some guy because of the state of his balls, this is one of the most outrageously funny things I've seen. I'm wiping tears from my eyes. Thanks for the laugh, man...
No no, you actually have to put something in a folder for that. Subversion allows you to have empty containers, so it's much more appropriate for politics.
...and you can't add runes to objects to make them more effective in real life.
Depends on the object and its intended purpose. If the purpose is to direct informed viking reenactors to the proper hall for their party in your hotel, adding runes to a sign so that it reads "Viking Party, Down The Hall To The Right" will indeed make it more effective.;)
Good luck with that. I can't imagine anybody well versed in economics being pro-democrat. They're the party of minimum wage, government healthcare, government controlled social security, and overall big government. All of which flies in the face of solid economic principle. Maybe they can recruit somebody from Soviet era Russia.
This no doubt explains why blue states like California and the New England states and such are the most economically prosperous states in the Union, while red states are the most poor and disadvantaged. It also explains why the most economically prosperous nations in the world after the US at the same ones the Republicans are always calling practically communists, what with having all those policies that no one "well versed in economics" would support. I mean, just because all empirical evidence is to the contrary doesn't mean the theory is wrong, right? Thankfully, people "well versed in economics" know better than to actually look at the evidence.
Incomplete half-baked ideas, no clearly defined or documented positions... I know, that's what I hate about his campaign too. Oh wait, you were talking about something else.
Um, no clearly defined or documented positions?! You know he wrote a book defining and documenting his positions, don't you? It was on the New York Times bestseller list long enough...
I'm curious as to what political candidates you think have ever actually done a good job of defining and documenting their positions, and just what sort of herculean efforts they needed to do to achieve that goal in your eyes, given that writing a 288 page book apparently is insufficient documentation.
But PHP does not have a good track record for being particularly easy to secure. It also likes to make it very easy to not be secure.
*yawns* Thanks for the blast from the past. Did you have any criticisms of modern PHP or are we just confining ourselves to pointing out how bad things were ages ago? Unix in general is vulnerable to precisely the same criticism (or would be, if we considered this to be valid criticism when made today).
Here, stupid moderators, here's another one - REDCRAP SUCKS. IT HAS ALWAYS SUCKED, AND WILL CONTINUE TO SUCK NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU MODERATE ME DOWN.
Um, yeah. I'm really believing people mod you down for the opinions you express rather than the way you express them. I'm sure you're being constantly persecuted for your contrarian positions.
(I've lost track of how many times I've been modded up for criticisms people insist anyone making gets modded down for.)
The only value something has is what someone places on it.
True. However, if someone wanst to assert that the value of something is zero, they must then prove that no one places any value on it (or deny the truth of the statement you just made). It does not follow from the fact that something is placed there by people that something does not exist.
Concepts like "morally right or wrong", and "value" are not absolutes governed by physical laws, much as we'd sometimes like to believe otherwise.
Actually, unless we wish to assert that humans operate outside the bounds of physical law, it follows that the values we place in things are governed by physical laws. They're certainly not absolute, though. Like many things (even physical things) they are quite relative. But that doesn't justify an assertion that the value they possess is zero (indeed, it undermines it -- it follows that the value is dependent on perspective and therefore there is no fixed value, not even zero, that you can affix to it independently).
Nah... that would be like saying that my car has acquired sentience, consciousness, and is self-aware because when I drive it.
Actually, no, that would not be like saying that at all. Unless you're asserting you are not a part of Nature, what he says does indeed follow. If I say you are sentient, it does not mean every single part of you is sentient -- I assume your big toe is not sentient, for example. Claiming you are sentient does not imply your big toe is, and likewise claiming Nature has acquired sentience does not imply your car is, much less rocks or managers. But it does follow, unless you deny that people are a part of Nature, that if people have acquired sentience, and people are a part of Nature, that indeed Nature has acquired sentience. Just not your car, your big toe, or your manager.
Um, yeah. It's the typical Slashdot policy to make up a completely false headline to go with an article, something that either says something entirely different from what the original article said, or often, to actually contradict what the article says. In this case, the linked to article is accurately titled, "Dean Kamen's Robot Arm Grabs More Publicity." No new leap forward, just new attention to the current state of the art. New attention paid to, as you say, old news.
I'm not sure what it says when Wired is orders of magnitude more honest, accurate, and less sensationalistic than Slashdot. But that's par for the course...
For specific kinds of calculations, sure, GPGPU supercomputing is superior. I would question what software optimization they had applied to the 300 CPU system. Apparently, none.
That sounds highly unlikely. The time it takes to run these kinds of programs on a PC is a major source of pain. They throw every optimization in the book at these programs.
I can't imagine that it is a coincidence that this comes along just as Nvidia are crowing about CUDA, or that the resulting machine looks like a gamer's dream rig.
Given that a gamer's dream rig is precisely the kind of platform that can best computationally solve the problem they have at hand, you're right, there's nothing at all coincidental about it.
While there is ample crossover between hardware enthusiasts and academia, anyone soley with the computation interest in mind probabyl wouldn't be selecting neon fans, aftermarket coolers or spend that much time on presentable wiring.
Anyone solely with one and only interest in mind is probably not a human being. That's the kind of singlemindedness you find in a good calculator but is probably literally impossible for a human to achieve. And we know that's not the case here. If that was their one and only interest, we'd never have heard about it, they'd have just built and used the machine to solve their problem. The fact that we even know it exists is because they also displayed a human need to tell other people about it, and even show it to them. Of course, once you stray into wanting to show it to someone, making it presentable becomes a real concern.
Six dollars and twenty two (rounding up) cents?! That's quite a bargain!
(One should probably refrain from using a "." as a separator when posting a figure in US dollars, where, by US convention [and this is US currency we're talking about], a "." indicates the end of the dollar part and the start of the cents part.)
Yeah. And shooting wife...right in her head, while saying 'consider this as divorce'??? It is relevant.
This, of course, is totally distorting the scene to make it sound more shocking than it actually was. When you phrase it accurately, "shooting the enemy agent who was pretending to be his wife", it sounds a lot less shocking.
Apparently anyone who really loved them also would not care to buy their new music...:)
Indeed, the past tense of "loved" was appropriate.
I loved them to death. I remember when Motley Crüe and Def Leppard were my two absolutely favorite by far bands ever. I had every cassette tape of theirs I could get my little hands on. And I bought them all over again when I got a CD player.
And there they sit, in my CD rack. I took my favorite one out and actually encoded it into MP3 so I could actually listen to it again. After that, I didn't bother encoding the rest. My tastes, apparently, have changed...
Only the crazies use chars not in the first 127 of ASCII That's pretty much all of ASCII, actually. There's only 128 ASCII codes, so the "first 127 of ASCII" is all of ASCII except DEL.
Until you know EXACTLY what he was downloading I don't think you are in a position to say that.
Actually, he is, and he's right, and you're wrong. It's truly frighting how many people think government investigation of "thought crimes" is a good idea.
There IS something fundamentally wrong with a government if how it treats you is AT ALL based on what you're reading. The fact that the government even knows what you're reading is fundamentally wrong. And I don't have to know a flying frak about what you're reading to be in a position to say that.
Heh, too true. Not to mention portraying as a struggle for liberty against a dictatorial monarchy what was, in fact, a tax-revolt against a parliamentary democracy (albeit one in which the colonies did not receive fair representation).
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Bubblesort can be implemented in less code/memory due to the simpler logic. It also has more consistent performance (there's little difference between its best, worst, and average case performance) -- consistently bad, mind you, but still, sometimes that's a consideration. If the dataset is sufficiently small, you can finish a bubblesort before you finish setting up some other sorts. So it's not entirely useless. There are times where it makes sense. Rare, and getting rarer (when was the last time you fretted about shaving 12 bytes off your executable size?), but still, it has its uses. (And I'm probably dating myself -- I have fretted about getting code into the 208 bytes of memory I had to work with before.)
I agree on the natural impulse thing. There are two sorting algorithms I consider intuitive, having implemented them on my own before any formal education in programming. The first was insertion sort, and the second was merge sort, both being things I coded after observing that how I'd sorted things by hand. I think most people will do an insertion sort if you hand them a stack of addressed envelopes and tell them to sort them. If you have a large pile of them and several volunteers, you'll hand everyone a pile to sort themselves in parallel, and them merge the piles as people finish. So, both are algorithms people just seem to naturally do when handed sorting problems, the second coming into play when you have more than one person sorting (although you end up doing a bit of both -- insertion sorting the small piles, then mergesorting them back together).
Hehe. In Reagan's case, it's not future dollars anymore. A huge chunk of our tax dollars today are going towards paying the interest on Reagan's excesses. I don't know of any democrat who's ever proposed a tax increase as big as the percentage of tax we're paying for Reagan's voodoo economics today. Mondale's proposed 10% tax increase back in 84 would have been a bargain compared to the more expensive deal we got instead.
Um, I have to say, if you actually start trying to get real use out of your site, you'll probably find GoDaddy ain't so rock solid anymore. My own site uses less than a tenth of a percent of the bandwidth or storage GoDaddy has allocated. It's very low traffic. But it does regularly talk to a backend database, and has some external scripts that talks to it regularly, so I get a pretty good idea how stable things are, even without constantly checking the site, simply because the log of activity lets me see how well things are going. Frankly, GoDaddy sucks. My external apps trying to connect to the site fail to connect frequently, and my apps on the site frequently fail as their connections to the backend database get terminated mysteriously. The site goes down for five to ten minute intervals frequently, and has been offline for as long as eight hours at a time. Attempts to contact support and get problems fixed take so long, however, that by the time someone gets back to be a day or so later, the server has been rebooted or something and everything's back online again, or whatever mysterious problem was occurring has finally passed. Hourly cron jobs go for days without being executed (support has informed me disabling and reenabling them gets them going again, which works, but fails to explain why it happens to begin with, much less solve the problem). Since it's essentially a hobby and it would be a pain to move everything at this point, I'm still there, but I wouldn't choose them again, that's for darn sure. Definitely the worst hosting experience I've ever had.
Coming on the heels of your post about how you love a candidate for being tortured, hate one for going to church, and can't stand to listen to some guy because of the state of his balls, this is one of the most outrageously funny things I've seen. I'm wiping tears from my eyes. Thanks for the laugh, man...
No no, you actually have to put something in a folder for that. Subversion allows you to have empty containers, so it's much more appropriate for politics.
#4 from the "Keating Five". ;)
...and you can't add runes to objects to make them more effective in real life.Depends on the object and its intended purpose. If the purpose is to direct informed viking reenactors to the proper hall for their party in your hotel, adding runes to a sign so that it reads "Viking Party, Down The Hall To The Right" will indeed make it more effective. ;)
This no doubt explains why blue states like California and the New England states and such are the most economically prosperous states in the Union, while red states are the most poor and disadvantaged. It also explains why the most economically prosperous nations in the world after the US at the same ones the Republicans are always calling practically communists, what with having all those policies that no one "well versed in economics" would support. I mean, just because all empirical evidence is to the contrary doesn't mean the theory is wrong, right? Thankfully, people "well versed in economics" know better than to actually look at the evidence.
Um, no clearly defined or documented positions?! You know he wrote a book defining and documenting his positions, don't you? It was on the New York Times bestseller list long enough...
I'm curious as to what political candidates you think have ever actually done a good job of defining and documenting their positions, and just what sort of herculean efforts they needed to do to achieve that goal in your eyes, given that writing a 288 page book apparently is insufficient documentation.
Haha! Pretty funny. But seriously, what realistic options do we have...
*yawns* Thanks for the blast from the past. Did you have any criticisms of modern PHP or are we just confining ourselves to pointing out how bad things were ages ago? Unix in general is vulnerable to precisely the same criticism (or would be, if we considered this to be valid criticism when made today).
Um, yeah. I'm really believing people mod you down for the opinions you express rather than the way you express them. I'm sure you're being constantly persecuted for your contrarian positions.
(I've lost track of how many times I've been modded up for criticisms people insist anyone making gets modded down for.)
True. However, if someone wanst to assert that the value of something is zero, they must then prove that no one places any value on it (or deny the truth of the statement you just made). It does not follow from the fact that something is placed there by people that something does not exist.
Concepts like "morally right or wrong", and "value" are not absolutes governed by physical laws, much as we'd sometimes like to believe otherwise.Actually, unless we wish to assert that humans operate outside the bounds of physical law, it follows that the values we place in things are governed by physical laws. They're certainly not absolute, though. Like many things (even physical things) they are quite relative. But that doesn't justify an assertion that the value they possess is zero (indeed, it undermines it -- it follows that the value is dependent on perspective and therefore there is no fixed value, not even zero, that you can affix to it independently).
Actually, no, that would not be like saying that at all. Unless you're asserting you are not a part of Nature, what he says does indeed follow. If I say you are sentient, it does not mean every single part of you is sentient -- I assume your big toe is not sentient, for example. Claiming you are sentient does not imply your big toe is, and likewise claiming Nature has acquired sentience does not imply your car is, much less rocks or managers. But it does follow, unless you deny that people are a part of Nature, that if people have acquired sentience, and people are a part of Nature, that indeed Nature has acquired sentience. Just not your car, your big toe, or your manager.
Um, yeah. It's the typical Slashdot policy to make up a completely false headline to go with an article, something that either says something entirely different from what the original article said, or often, to actually contradict what the article says. In this case, the linked to article is accurately titled, "Dean Kamen's Robot Arm Grabs More Publicity." No new leap forward, just new attention to the current state of the art. New attention paid to, as you say, old news.
I'm not sure what it says when Wired is orders of magnitude more honest, accurate, and less sensationalistic than Slashdot. But that's par for the course...
That sounds highly unlikely. The time it takes to run these kinds of programs on a PC is a major source of pain. They throw every optimization in the book at these programs.
I can't imagine that it is a coincidence that this comes along just as Nvidia are crowing about CUDA, or that the resulting machine looks like a gamer's dream rig.
Given that a gamer's dream rig is precisely the kind of platform that can best computationally solve the problem they have at hand, you're right, there's nothing at all coincidental about it.
While there is ample crossover between hardware enthusiasts and academia, anyone soley with the computation interest in mind probabyl wouldn't be selecting neon fans, aftermarket coolers or spend that much time on presentable wiring.
Anyone solely with one and only interest in mind is probably not a human being. That's the kind of singlemindedness you find in a good calculator but is probably literally impossible for a human to achieve. And we know that's not the case here. If that was their one and only interest, we'd never have heard about it, they'd have just built and used the machine to solve their problem. The fact that we even know it exists is because they also displayed a human need to tell other people about it, and even show it to them. Of course, once you stray into wanting to show it to someone, making it presentable becomes a real concern.
20th century thinking. Welcome to globalization. The product was designed, manufactured, and purchased on Earth.
Six dollars and twenty two (rounding up) cents?! That's quite a bargain!
(One should probably refrain from using a "." as a separator when posting a figure in US dollars, where, by US convention [and this is US currency we're talking about], a "." indicates the end of the dollar part and the start of the cents part.)
This, of course, is totally distorting the scene to make it sound more shocking than it actually was. When you phrase it accurately, "shooting the enemy agent who was pretending to be his wife", it sounds a lot less shocking.
Indeed, the past tense of "loved" was appropriate.
I loved them to death. I remember when Motley Crüe and Def Leppard were my two absolutely favorite by far bands ever. I had every cassette tape of theirs I could get my little hands on. And I bought them all over again when I got a CD player.
And there they sit, in my CD rack. I took my favorite one out and actually encoded it into MP3 so I could actually listen to it again. After that, I didn't bother encoding the rest. My tastes, apparently, have changed...
It's called Seasteading.
Actually, he is, and he's right, and you're wrong. It's truly frighting how many people think government investigation of "thought crimes" is a good idea.
There IS something fundamentally wrong with a government if how it treats you is AT ALL based on what you're reading. The fact that the government even knows what you're reading is fundamentally wrong. And I don't have to know a flying frak about what you're reading to be in a position to say that.
Heh, too true. Not to mention portraying as a struggle for liberty against a dictatorial monarchy what was, in fact, a tax-revolt against a parliamentary democracy (albeit one in which the colonies did not receive fair representation).