I've been running Firefox on 6 machines running a combination of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 for the last 5 years. The flash plugin is installed, and I frequently browse sites that use Flash heavily for web galleries. The number of times Firefox has crashed on me in those 5 years I can count on one hand (actually I think its less than 3). My anecdotal evidence is as good yours and at least to me hints that perhaps something else wrong with your set up.
The city and police as an organization probably would. Speed traps have nothing to do with enforcing the law and everything to do with revenue generation. If this gets in the way of their revenue generation, you can bet they will try to find a way to make it illegal.
I priced out an 4 core x 2 Mac vs. a comparable Dell system and the Dell came out about $1000 more. Conversely in the really low-end bargain basement segment, there are lots of new great PCs you can get with a monitor for $600, which you would be hard pressed to find from Apple.
Now thats interesting. I didn't use collections or any ADTs actually. All I used were simple doubles held in a class with operations performed on them.
I unlike many others am willing to put my code where my mouth is, so I will implement a rigorous floating point benchmark in both C++ and Java and I'll be more than happy to have people school me on my crappy Java coding by optimizing it to be as fast (or with 90%) of the C++ code.
I have been writing 3D software in C++ for years and every so often (every release of Java) I get excited and want to port to Java. However, every time I try running simple performance tests of Java's floating point, the results are tragically dissapointing. The last time I tried (with JDK 1.4.1), Java was 2 decimal orders of magnitude (ie. 100x) slower than the identical code in C++ (interestingly, C# was 50x slower). My test was really simple involving vector math and matrix multiplication.
I did some reading and found (from a long time ago) that floating point representation in Java was really slow because of the floating point standard in the VM set forth by Sun.
My challenge is for Java advocates to publish with source a head to head comparison of floating point performance of Java vs. C++. Most of the challenges tend to focus on integer performance or memory performance, but very few people talk about floating point performance which is essential for 3D graphics.
They are at revision 0.6 but they do provide many of the useful features in AOP. My one beef is that they don't provide the ability to specify aspects based on the 'const-ness' of a function, but hey its only 0.6 and they have a way to go before 1.0
Its funny, both of you bash each other, but do not realize how similar you both are. By both I mean the "westerner" and the "American-basher".
I think both of your lack an fuller understanding of the other and base your beliefs of the other on what he media tells or what you see on the surface.
The typical "American-basher" thinks all Americans are decadant, corrupt money grubbing bastards who would sell their own mother if it would make him money. They think Americans have no respect for anyone particularily non-Americans. The tragedy is that is this is simply not true, many Americans are respectful, knowledgeable, ethical people. Noted there are some that aren't, but "American-bashers" shouldn't bash an entire society or group of people because of some noted exceptions.
On the other hand the typical "westerner" bases his/her views of the world on what the media tells them, on a particular negative event the media chooses to portray. They see a report or stry of horrendous acts commited against someone of a lower caste and choose to believe this is a regular occurance and accepted practice in the entire country. So I say those "westerners" should judge an entire nation or society based on what little tidbits the media decides to feed you.
So I propose to both sides before you go about bashing the other, try to learn exactly who you are bashing, try puttng yourself in their shoes, try to see what it is they are talking about, rather than rant and rave and generalize.
Ok, lets dissect your statement into two portions, first the analogy of a mother walking aimlessly in the streets.
Yes I agree, if my mother were talking around aimlessly I would endeavor to place her in an environment where she cannot, but that implies I have that ability. The simple fact is that is the people who own these cows may not have the ability to contain them. And lets look at it this way, if you a poor Indian and you have a choice of spending money on containing your cow or letting it roam knowing that no one will harm your cow, would you really spend that money?
Now as for the second statement, "It is almost certain that the welfare of cows are often...". That as far as I am concerned is an opinion, one for which there is no fact to back up. You say "in India". Are you saying this is true for most Indians living in India or are you saying that there exists some set of people for which this statement is true. I will agree that there probably exist some people for which this is true, but this goes back to my original statement that no blanket statement can encompass a group of people, particularily a billion people.
"...would imply that cows are regarded better than one's own mother."
If your claim is that this statement holds true for a *majority* or even a vast number of people in India then I have to disagree with you. I have not seen any evidence to that effect.
What I am trying to say is that you shouldn't form an opinion of an entire nation or entire group of people based on single incidents the media tells you about. Yes cows have been known to roam streets, no they aren't everywhere roaming every street halting all the traffic all the time causing accidents and deaths. The incidents you read about are single incidents in a vast country with a billion people, I ask you to look, read and understand with that in mind.
First, outside of strict mathematical definitions, the statement "Untouchability is not practiced in India anymore" does not necessarily imply that there are absolutely no cases of untouchability practised. It would be tantamount to pointing to news stories within the US involving hate crimes and claiming that the assertion that the US does not support hate crimes is false. Even several counter examples are not sufficient to render the original claim false. When you have a billion people, it is inevitable that some will do stupid things, however that DOES NOT reflect the attitude of the population as a whole. What does reflect the attitudes of the population are the laws upheld by the society, laws which clearly state that any discrimination based on caste are illegal.
Now for your second paragraph. Yes CNN is in fact known for making things up and exagerrating facts, but that is beside the issue.
Lets look at the story you point to:
It is the author that claims that hindus worship cows even though the article has the following quote "Cow in this country is like a mother" which I believe was the original poster's claim.
As for your google links I find it interesting that several of those particular links are sites which try not to present facts but try to convince you of the moral superiority of another religions belief. Come on now, do you honestly expect the site muslimonline.com to present a fair and unopinionated view of any aspect of hinduism?
The risk that a researcher could go to jail for giving a speech at an academic conference is essentially zero
This is also somewhat misleading because, its not the prospect of going to jail that is frightening, its the prospect of getting sued. The way the courts work, the cost and burden of a law suit could be enough to wipe out the career of a researcher, particularily a young one.
I seem to remember reading on Slashdot a while back that there was a Japanese company working on some panelling that would block the signals. So the technology does exist.
Now thats out of the way. You are right on the money with the CS354 thing. The majority of CS students I have seen really don't know their heads from their asses.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep and in fact Amazon has even publicly stated that they believe a national system is the reasonable way to go.
http://www.boe.ca.gov/members/runner/newsreleases/Amazon_Letter_to_Senator_Runner.pdf
In particular near the end:
"A national resolution, involving tax simplification evenhandedly applied, is the legally-permissible path for states to follow."
I've been running Firefox on 6 machines running a combination of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 for the last 5 years. The flash plugin is installed, and I frequently browse sites that use Flash heavily for web galleries. The number of times Firefox has crashed on me in those 5 years I can count on one hand (actually I think its less than 3). My anecdotal evidence is as good yours and at least to me hints that perhaps something else wrong with your set up.
Liquid rescale is an implementation of the Seam Carving technology which was incorporated into Photoshop CS4 as a feature titled Content Aware Scale.
This new feature comes from an algorithm titled PatchMatch which was presented at SIGGRAPH 2009:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.php
The city and police as an organization probably would. Speed traps have nothing to do with enforcing the law and everything to do with revenue generation. If this gets in the way of their revenue generation, you can bet they will try to find a way to make it illegal.
If you start having sex with 9 women right now the chances of you being a father in 9 months is much greater than if you only had sex with one.
I priced out an 4 core x 2 Mac vs. a comparable Dell system and the Dell came out about $1000 more. Conversely in the really low-end bargain basement segment, there are lots of new great PCs you can get with a monitor for $600, which you would be hard pressed to find from Apple.
Now thats interesting. I didn't use collections or any ADTs actually. All I used were simple doubles held in a class with operations performed on them.
I unlike many others am willing to put my code where my mouth is, so I will implement a rigorous floating point benchmark in both C++ and Java and I'll be more than happy to have people school me on my crappy Java coding by optimizing it to be as fast (or with 90%) of the C++ code.
I have been writing 3D software in C++ for years and every so often (every release of Java) I get excited and want to port to Java. However, every time I try running simple performance tests of Java's floating point, the results are tragically dissapointing. The last time I tried (with JDK 1.4.1), Java was 2 decimal orders of magnitude (ie. 100x) slower than the identical code in C++ (interestingly, C# was 50x slower). My test was really simple involving vector math and matrix multiplication.
I did some reading and found (from a long time ago) that floating point representation in Java was really slow because of the floating point standard in the VM set forth by Sun.
My challenge is for Java advocates to publish with source a head to head comparison of floating point performance of Java vs. C++. Most of the challenges tend to focus on integer performance or memory performance, but very few people talk about floating point performance which is essential for 3D graphics.
For those of you who are C++ programers and would like to see Aspects in C++ check out:
aspectc.org
They are at revision 0.6 but they do provide many of the useful features in AOP. My one beef is that they don't provide the ability to specify aspects based on the 'const-ness' of a function, but hey its only 0.6 and they have a way to go before 1.0
Ummm no...
Read this:
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
The levy is set to increase on Jan. 2003
CDRs - 53 cents / disc
Hard Drives on portable MP3 players - $ 21.00 / GB !!! 21 dollars!
They are also going to institute levys against removable and non-removable memory cards.
This is hardly 'a few cents per CD'
Actually I believe ActiveState makes a compiler plugin for Visual Studio .NET that allows you to use VS .NET as an IDE for Perl and Python.
_ x=1
/ ?_x=1
It really is quite slick and works well.
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Visual_Perl/?
and
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Visual_Python
Its funny, both of you bash each other, but do not realize how similar you both are. By both I mean the "westerner" and the "American-basher".
I think both of your lack an fuller understanding of the other and base your beliefs of the other on what he media tells or what you see on the surface.
The typical "American-basher" thinks all Americans are decadant, corrupt money grubbing bastards who would sell their own mother if it would make him money. They think Americans have no respect for anyone particularily non-Americans. The tragedy is that is this is simply not true, many Americans are respectful, knowledgeable, ethical people. Noted there are some that aren't, but "American-bashers" shouldn't bash an entire society or group of people because of some noted exceptions.
On the other hand the typical "westerner" bases his/her views of the world on what the media tells them, on a particular negative event the media chooses to portray. They see a report or stry of horrendous acts commited against someone of a lower caste and choose to believe this is a regular occurance and accepted practice in the entire country. So I say those "westerners" should judge an entire nation or society based on what little tidbits the media decides to feed you.
So I propose to both sides before you go about bashing the other, try to learn exactly who you are bashing, try puttng yourself in their shoes, try to see what it is they are talking about, rather than rant and rave and generalize.
Ok, lets dissect your statement into two portions, first the analogy of a mother walking aimlessly in the streets.
Yes I agree, if my mother were talking around aimlessly I would endeavor to place her in an environment where she cannot, but that implies I have that ability. The simple fact is that is the people who own these cows may not have the ability to contain them. And lets look at it this way, if you a poor Indian and you have a choice of spending money on containing your cow or letting it roam knowing that no one will harm your cow, would you really spend that money?
Now as for the second statement, "It is almost certain that the welfare of cows are often...". That as far as I am concerned is an opinion, one for which there is no fact to back up. You say "in India". Are you saying this is true for most Indians living in India or are you saying that there exists some set of people for which this statement is true. I will agree that there probably exist some people for which this is true, but this goes back to my original statement that no blanket statement can encompass a group of people, particularily a billion people.
"...would imply that cows are regarded better than one's own mother."
If your claim is that this statement holds true for a *majority* or even a vast number of people in India then I have to disagree with you. I have not seen any evidence to that effect.
What I am trying to say is that you shouldn't form an opinion of an entire nation or entire group of people based on single incidents the media tells you about. Yes cows have been known to roam streets, no they aren't everywhere roaming every street halting all the traffic all the time causing accidents and deaths. The incidents you read about are single incidents in a vast country with a billion people, I ask you to look, read and understand with that in mind.
I feel compelled to point out a few things.
First, outside of strict mathematical definitions, the statement "Untouchability is not practiced in India anymore" does not necessarily imply that there are absolutely no cases of untouchability practised. It would be tantamount to pointing to news stories within the US involving hate crimes and claiming that the assertion that the US does not support hate crimes is false. Even several counter examples are not sufficient to render the original claim false. When you have a billion people, it is inevitable that some will do stupid things, however that DOES NOT reflect the attitude of the population as a whole. What does reflect the attitudes of the population are the laws upheld by the society, laws which clearly state that any discrimination based on caste are illegal.
Now for your second paragraph. Yes CNN is in fact known for making things up and exagerrating facts, but that is beside the issue.
Lets look at the story you point to:
It is the author that claims that hindus worship cows even though the article has the following quote "Cow in this country is like a mother" which I believe was the original poster's claim.
As for your google links I find it interesting that several of those particular links are sites which try not to present facts but try to convince you of the moral superiority of another religions belief. Come on now, do you honestly expect the site muslimonline.com to present a fair and unopinionated view of any aspect of hinduism?
I think you are confusing this with the release of Star Trek The Original Series...
DS9 has never been released on DVD...
Actually both sites seem to be handling the slashdot effect quite well...
why wait...
That is a gross exaggeration. The twin appeared in one episode in TNG, then in one in DS9. Thats it.
Exactly... the article also says:
The risk that a researcher could go to jail for giving a speech at an academic conference is essentially zero
This is also somewhat misleading because, its not the prospect of going to jail that is frightening, its the prospect of getting sued. The way the courts work, the cost and burden of a law suit could be enough to wipe out the career of a researcher, particularily a young one.
There are things worse than going to jail...
I seem to remember reading on Slashdot a while back that there was a Japanese company working on some panelling that would block the signals. So the technology does exist.
Ian Goldberg
Now thats out of the way.
You are right on the money with the CS354 thing. The majority of CS students I have seen really don't know their heads from their asses.
I would like to point out one of the few universities where this isn't true. The University of Waterloo.