Outside of the Strong Force in the microsphere and gravitation in the macrosphere, I suppose Linux geeks could be somewhat powerful.
Except for Gentoo Linux geeks. They may have enough power, but it's all tied up at the moment. They'll be ready any day now. Oh look, a new package to emerge!
There is a great amount of discipline that can be learned from doing homework. There is almost a direct one-to-one correlation between doing homework and excelling in classes. Having the ability to trudge through what sometimes seems to be busywork leads to stronger self-control and greater self-confidence when the grade reports come out and all that work has paid off.
If you believe that school is not in the business of molding the characters of students into strong, self-confident, law-abiding citizens, then I could see how you'd rather they did nothing but play.
A little thing to realize about want ads is that they are usually filled by the time you read them.
So what is the job seeker supposed to do? Well, according to What Color is Your Parachute, the key is to use your connections to get in.
If you are a blogger with a dedicated audience, you will already have people knocking on your door to get you to write for them. I know I do, and all I do is write a few words on this site here.
If you want to blog for a company, see if you know anyone working there. They have a better idea about the hiring situation inside their company than any want-ad could ever let you know.
Kind of like how we've designed the Internet to route around damage, Nature also routes around damage.
Every time we seem to be making progress against some virus or bacteria, it mutates and foils our efforts. Cancer has been one of those diseases which we have been unable to make very much progress against directly at all. If this new mathematical treatment can seriously pose a threat to cancer, how much are we tempting Nature to change the formula.
Sure, it seems like cancers are growing in a mathematical fashion. What happens when it grows randomly? How can we treat it then?
Yeah, use it all the time when I can't get a real wired/wireless connection. It is as fast as DSL if your DSL service sucks, which in the U.S. it basically does.
We're talking a maximum of 128Kbps in either direction. I suppose if you've been conditioned to think of that as "broadband", then you'll be happy.
I don't have any blind loyalty to William Shatner as Kirk. His voice and some badly drawn cartoons played Kirk well on the Cartoon Channel.
Captain Kirk is a character, and played well, can be played by anyone.
Though he hasn't been around lately, the range of an actor like Jim Carrey can bring new life to this old character. Wit, intelligence, and a talking buttcrack are things that typify the good Captain. With the possible exceptions of Morgan Freeman and William Shatner himself (who are both way past their prime in terms of physicality), Carrey would be an awesome choice to play this legendary character.
How can they have a Star Trek movie without McCoy? And frankly, after hearing that James Spader slept with William Shatner, I don't think I can look at Capt. Kirk in quite the same way again.
Target the standard. Linux is the standard bearer, so target it.
Keep the code clean and standards-compliant. Don't start trying to perform ports until the project itself (the original code targetted at a specific platform) is stabilized.
Yes, hopefully incompatibilities will be avoided by default. In addition, by focusing energy into the primary trunk first, features get completed and the project is ready earlier. When time to port, the port won't require constant syncing because of ongoing feature additions to the main trunk.
Gotta say that Zippy the Pinhead is probably the single most unfunny "funny" comic in syndication. It lacks even the simplest wit of Family Circus, and it can't hold a candle to Peanuts for wryness.
It's like going to the Louvre and being told by the guardman that the hours are between 9am and 9:45 on Wednesdays and Fridays, 9am and 6pm every other day except Tuesdays on which it is closed.
If you aren't good enough to get syndicated, keep at it until you are. Alternatively you can find your niche audience, but that road is fraught with peril and many nights of eating nothing but instant ramen and tap water.
Only to the extent that it, you know, powers the board. *rolling eyes*
It's all just electrons, and any power supply large enough will power your computing needs. I suppose painting it metallic blue is cool because, of course, it's inside the case where looks really matter.
Frankly, it doesn't come with the Type-R sticker, so it is only Type-R in name only. Lacking in that extra 5hp, I think we are looking at a dud.
Java is now nearly equal to (or faster than) C++ on low-level and numeric benchmarks. This should not be surprising: Java is a compiled language (albeit JIT compiled).
the results show that Java server performance is competitive with legacy environments
Java servlets outperform CGI, and the Java platform is competitive with C or C++
Jvm optimizations such as efficient monitor and object allocation implementations have led to significant performance improvements, including better scalability that is vital for server workloads
First off, everyone will complain about this. The thinking goes that Open Source == Freedom, so the more choice in platforms you have, the more Freedom you have and thusly you actually help Open Source more.
I think this is incorrect.
First off, Open Source, despite its close engagement with Freedom ought to also stand for what is best in the Software Engineering world. This means clean, lightweight, portable code. For better or worse there is a standard which is POSIX. Linux, to the extent that it uses the GNU system, is basically POSIX-compliant. Open Source projects ought to target POSIX and keep themselves free of proprietary entanglements.
This can be achieved by focusing efforts on programming for Linux, the premier Open Source operating system. Only by keeping the code clean can a project be easily ported, but a project that isn't even near completion ought not be ported at all. Such non-mainline work results in incompatibilities and divergences from the main trunk of code that cannot be easily fixed down the road.
A very good example is the Symbian/Nokia gcc compiler which has many special extensions and cannot be used to compile for any other targets or operating systems. Well, they are doing away with their special version of the compiler and finally going back to the main line gcc tree. Unfortunately, all that work to specialize gcc for their platform is tossed out the window now. Work to no avail, essentially.
The key here is not to focus on Linux, specifically. Rather, it is to focus on a standard and program to that. That Linux is one of the best of the standard bearers, it makes sense to complete programming there first rather than start porting to esoteric platforms right away.
It's disappointing to see anti-geek trolls proliferating here on Slashdot. Worse, to see suck sentiments getting modded up.
If you have to put on a facade to impress your date, then maybe you ought not take the girl to Chuck E. Cheese. If covering up who you are is more important than being who you are, it's probably a good idea to take her to a fancy restaurant where you two can pretend to enjoy yourselves.
As for me, if a girl can't handle that I live at my parent's home and enjoy eating pizza while playing the PS2, then that's her loss. I am not going to lower my standards to become embroiled in a fake relationship where we don't really know each other because we put on a fake smile and try to pretend to be more debonnaire than we really are.
I want a girl who is going to enjoy getting her fingers with Cheetos dust with me. My standards are high, and I'm not willing to compromise my sense of self just to impress someone else.
CEC has always seemed like a gimmick. The food is bad, the service is worse, and the crap they called "fun & games" was so old and covered with years of detritus that getting into the ball room was like inviting a bacterial infection.
I guess making sure everyone only plays games in their own booths will help keep the germs at bay and localized into each customers' booth. However, I still question the longevity of a chain that refuses to cater to people who have tastebuds and wear shirts.
Schools ought to provide lunches for all children. The current situation where some kids get subsidized lunches while others bring their own lunches is one more method of separating children into castes within the school and that, in turn, leads to animosity. Whether it is the rich kids mocking the poor kids or the kids with Libertarian parents mocking the kids with parents on the dole, subsidizing only a fraction of the children leads to unnecessary divisions.
Public schooling is free. The lunches ought to be provided free as well. The cost to feed a handful of students is only marginally cheaper than feeding all the students and a school district can fully feed all the children in any school by prioritizing expenses.
In regards to the article in question, in my day we had things called monthly menu calendars which parents who were interested in what kids were eating could pick up at the school office. There wasn't any choice in a meal. If a kid was eating the cafeteria lunch, it was plain to see what was being eaten. I fail to see how a computerized system makes this any better. Nor do I see how giving kids a choice in free lunches makes the cafeteria cheaper and easier to run.
It was a great adaptation of Pinocchio, down to the recreation of the circus, but why the need for anything after Osment dies at the bottom of the ocean?
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Outside of the Strong Force in the microsphere and gravitation in the macrosphere, I suppose Linux geeks could be somewhat powerful.
Except for Gentoo Linux geeks. They may have enough power, but it's all tied up at the moment. They'll be ready any day now. Oh look, a new package to emerge!
You mean grad students, don't you?
That's like the fox guarding the henhouse.
There is a great amount of discipline that can be learned from doing homework. There is almost a direct one-to-one correlation between doing homework and excelling in classes. Having the ability to trudge through what sometimes seems to be busywork leads to stronger self-control and greater self-confidence when the grade reports come out and all that work has paid off.
If you believe that school is not in the business of molding the characters of students into strong, self-confident, law-abiding citizens, then I could see how you'd rather they did nothing but play.
A little thing to realize about want ads is that they are usually filled by the time you read them.
So what is the job seeker supposed to do? Well, according to What Color is Your Parachute, the key is to use your connections to get in.
If you are a blogger with a dedicated audience, you will already have people knocking on your door to get you to write for them. I know I do, and all I do is write a few words on this site here.
If you want to blog for a company, see if you know anyone working there. They have a better idea about the hiring situation inside their company than any want-ad could ever let you know.
Direct from the government of Michigan, USA: Learn how Nature uses math to grow cancer!
Be safe! Ask an adult to help you, kids.
Kind of like how we've designed the Internet to route around damage, Nature also routes around damage.
Every time we seem to be making progress against some virus or bacteria, it mutates and foils our efforts. Cancer has been one of those diseases which we have been unable to make very much progress against directly at all. If this new mathematical treatment can seriously pose a threat to cancer, how much are we tempting Nature to change the formula.
Sure, it seems like cancers are growing in a mathematical fashion. What happens when it grows randomly? How can we treat it then?
But she blinded me with science!
I'm Dancin Santa, bitch!
Is that a real world figure? Is it that quality just about everywhere you have coverage?
Maximums are interesting, but useless most of the time. What are the expected average figures?
Yeah, use it all the time when I can't get a real wired/wireless connection. It is as fast as DSL if your DSL service sucks, which in the U.S. it basically does.
We're talking a maximum of 128Kbps in either direction. I suppose if you've been conditioned to think of that as "broadband", then you'll be happy.
Convenient: Yes
Fast: No
I don't have any blind loyalty to William Shatner as Kirk. His voice and some badly drawn cartoons played Kirk well on the Cartoon Channel.
Captain Kirk is a character, and played well, can be played by anyone.
Though he hasn't been around lately, the range of an actor like Jim Carrey can bring new life to this old character. Wit, intelligence, and a talking buttcrack are things that typify the good Captain. With the possible exceptions of Morgan Freeman and William Shatner himself (who are both way past their prime in terms of physicality), Carrey would be an awesome choice to play this legendary character.
Janeway is a hottie. You can bet she could captain my Voyager inside her delta quadrant, if you catch my drift.
How can they have a Star Trek movie without McCoy? And frankly, after hearing that James Spader slept with William Shatner, I don't think I can look at Capt. Kirk in quite the same way again.
I do think that a link to Spock singing about Bilbo Baggins makes sense right here.
Where's the contradiction?
Target the standard. Linux is the standard bearer, so target it.
Keep the code clean and standards-compliant. Don't start trying to perform ports until the project itself (the original code targetted at a specific platform) is stabilized.
Yes, hopefully incompatibilities will be avoided by default. In addition, by focusing energy into the primary trunk first, features get completed and the project is ready earlier. When time to port, the port won't require constant syncing because of ongoing feature additions to the main trunk.
Gotta say that Zippy the Pinhead is probably the single most unfunny "funny" comic in syndication. It lacks even the simplest wit of Family Circus, and it can't hold a candle to Peanuts for wryness.
It's like going to the Louvre and being told by the guardman that the hours are between 9am and 9:45 on Wednesdays and Fridays, 9am and 6pm every other day except Tuesdays on which it is closed.
Google search for "Image comics"
If you aren't good enough to get syndicated, keep at it until you are. Alternatively you can find your niche audience, but that road is fraught with peril and many nights of eating nothing but instant ramen and tap water.
Only to the extent that it, you know, powers the board. *rolling eyes*
It's all just electrons, and any power supply large enough will power your computing needs. I suppose painting it metallic blue is cool because, of course, it's inside the case where looks really matter.
Frankly, it doesn't come with the Type-R sticker, so it is only Type-R in name only. Lacking in that extra 5hp, I think we are looking at a dud.
Might as well call it the Hiper Civic.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/udrepper/7326.htm l
Academics looking at the question
Java is now nearly equal to (or faster than) C++ on low-level and numeric benchmarks. This should not be surprising: Java is a compiled language (albeit JIT compiled).
As does IBM
the results show that Java server performance is competitive with legacy environments
Java servlets outperform CGI, and the Java platform is competitive with C or C++
Jvm optimizations such as efficient monitor and object allocation implementations have led to significant performance improvements, including better scalability that is vital for server workloads
A hundred times slower than what? Assembly?
This was in 1998
Please update your trolls.
First off, everyone will complain about this. The thinking goes that Open Source == Freedom, so the more choice in platforms you have, the more Freedom you have and thusly you actually help Open Source more.
I think this is incorrect.
First off, Open Source, despite its close engagement with Freedom ought to also stand for what is best in the Software Engineering world. This means clean, lightweight, portable code. For better or worse there is a standard which is POSIX. Linux, to the extent that it uses the GNU system, is basically POSIX-compliant. Open Source projects ought to target POSIX and keep themselves free of proprietary entanglements.
This can be achieved by focusing efforts on programming for Linux, the premier Open Source operating system. Only by keeping the code clean can a project be easily ported, but a project that isn't even near completion ought not be ported at all. Such non-mainline work results in incompatibilities and divergences from the main trunk of code that cannot be easily fixed down the road.
A very good example is the Symbian/Nokia gcc compiler which has many special extensions and cannot be used to compile for any other targets or operating systems. Well, they are doing away with their special version of the compiler and finally going back to the main line gcc tree. Unfortunately, all that work to specialize gcc for their platform is tossed out the window now. Work to no avail, essentially.
The key here is not to focus on Linux, specifically. Rather, it is to focus on a standard and program to that. That Linux is one of the best of the standard bearers, it makes sense to complete programming there first rather than start porting to esoteric platforms right away.
It's disappointing to see anti-geek trolls proliferating here on Slashdot. Worse, to see suck sentiments getting modded up.
If you have to put on a facade to impress your date, then maybe you ought not take the girl to Chuck E. Cheese. If covering up who you are is more important than being who you are, it's probably a good idea to take her to a fancy restaurant where you two can pretend to enjoy yourselves.
As for me, if a girl can't handle that I live at my parent's home and enjoy eating pizza while playing the PS2, then that's her loss. I am not going to lower my standards to become embroiled in a fake relationship where we don't really know each other because we put on a fake smile and try to pretend to be more debonnaire than we really are.
I want a girl who is going to enjoy getting her fingers with Cheetos dust with me. My standards are high, and I'm not willing to compromise my sense of self just to impress someone else.
CEC has always seemed like a gimmick. The food is bad, the service is worse, and the crap they called "fun & games" was so old and covered with years of detritus that getting into the ball room was like inviting a bacterial infection.
I guess making sure everyone only plays games in their own booths will help keep the germs at bay and localized into each customers' booth. However, I still question the longevity of a chain that refuses to cater to people who have tastebuds and wear shirts.
Schools ought to provide lunches for all children. The current situation where some kids get subsidized lunches while others bring their own lunches is one more method of separating children into castes within the school and that, in turn, leads to animosity. Whether it is the rich kids mocking the poor kids or the kids with Libertarian parents mocking the kids with parents on the dole, subsidizing only a fraction of the children leads to unnecessary divisions.
Public schooling is free. The lunches ought to be provided free as well. The cost to feed a handful of students is only marginally cheaper than feeding all the students and a school district can fully feed all the children in any school by prioritizing expenses.
In regards to the article in question, in my day we had things called monthly menu calendars which parents who were interested in what kids were eating could pick up at the school office. There wasn't any choice in a meal. If a kid was eating the cafeteria lunch, it was plain to see what was being eaten. I fail to see how a computerized system makes this any better. Nor do I see how giving kids a choice in free lunches makes the cafeteria cheaper and easier to run.
In the re-released version, Lucas has the scimitar guy shooting first.
It was a great adaptation of Pinocchio, down to the recreation of the circus, but why the need for anything after Osment dies at the bottom of the ocean?