I have heard conflicting information about this. I know the new ccTLDs for China (they approved two - traditional and simplified) are aliases for each other (resolve to the same sites), but are they also both aliases for the existing cn ccTLD or do they resolve to an entirely new domain? If they are separate, why did they choose to do it this way? It seems like it would only cause confusion.
Oh, and damn slashdot and it's lack of unicode support. It would be nice to be able to type the damn things when talking about them.
No DEP only prevents execution on memory that is not marked executable. Enabling DEP marks all memory as nonexecutable by default, but you can use the VirtualAlloc function in windows to allocate memory that is marked executable. This allows for the implementation of JIT compilers even with DEP turned on.
Yeah, and apparently Flash is "DEP-safe", since IE 8 enables DEP and Flash works there (unless IE is only enabling DEP for the main process and not the tab processes).
Also I should add that Linux, OS X, and other operating systems have these same features under different names, so any work required to clean up the code to meet the standards required to enable them would be beneficial to all the platforms. Only a small amount of platform specific code would be needed to enable the features on each platform.
No, for most applications it wouldn't have much impact on the code base to implement these changes, especially compared to the other changes in GUI, Networking, IPC, and other system libraries that they already have to maintain.
The two features are both about preventing memory access errors from turning into exploits. The only apps that need to be changed before enabling DEP are ones that do some sort of JIT compilation of code into data memory and then execute it - and even these apps can enable DEP if they allocate memory for this compiled code using a windows specific api that marks it a executable. The only apps that will run into problems with ASLR are those that hardcode memory locations. No one should be doing this and a cross-platform app definitely won't be.
So it isn't a big deal for cross-platform applications, they probably just haven't spent the time to investigate all the ins and outs of MS's features, since they aren't native to that platform. I know I haven't on my in-house applications; I probably should.
Your advice makes since for the consumer market but Apple's secrecy has significantly hurt them in the enterprise market. IT doesn't want to buy a bunch of iPads, spend money shoehorning them into their current VC system only to have Apple change everything with a moment's notice. They want products that easily integrate into their current system, and which have known support and upgrade roadmaps. Companies like Cisco and HP provide this. Apple does not.
Note that you also did that for every other day of the week where the only thing that is different is the order, but you did not exclude them from the final calculation.
No, the difference is that the "Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Tuesday" state is listed twice. All the rest only occur once - check for yourself. That is why it was discarded - it has nothing to with order.
Either order matters in all cases or in no cases, you can't pick and choose what's convenient for your theory.
Again, the order of the days has not relevance on the outcome, just the fact that they are seven distinct states. They could be any seven states even ones which have no ordering property (such as seven different possible colors) and the answer would be the same.
You are neglecting to treat the two children as independent non-exchangeable objects. It is easier to think about if you consider that you have two pets a dog and a cat, each of which can be male or female. Then the enumeration of possibilities:
Male Dog, Male Cat Male Dog, Female Cat Female Dog, Male Cat Female Dog, Female Cat
If you select a family where (at least) one of them is a Male that leaves the following options:
Male Dog, Male Cat Male Dog, Female Cat Female Dog, Male Cat
So the chances of both being male are 1/3. Now moving onto the date question. You have selected a family from families known to have one male pet born on Tuesday (and one dog and cat each). The options are:
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Monday Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Tuesday * Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Wednesday Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Thursday Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Friday Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Saturday Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Sunday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Monday Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Tuesday Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Wednesday Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Thursday Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Friday Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Saturday Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Sunday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Monday Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Tuesday * Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Wednesday Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Thursday Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Friday Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Saturday Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Sunday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Monday Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Tuesday Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Wednesday Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Thursday Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Friday Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Saturday Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Sunday
* Note that I enumerated the case where both are males born on Tuesday twice. These are redundant and one must be discarded else I will double count that situation. After doing so there are 13/27 cases where both are males.
Notice that if you ignored the fact that one was a dog and the other was a cat you would have merged the two lists, ending up with your original list, and double counting the case where both are boys born on Tuesday.
In other words your mistake is that you assumed you had been given the sex and birth date of child A, and enumerated the sex and birth date of child B. However, you don't know the sex and birth date of child A or B, just that one of child A or B have that sex and birthdate. That is a subtly different problem.
So the order that they are born in is irrelevant, but keeping track of the fact that they are the two unique items while enumerating the cases is vital (and older and younger is a simple label to use while doing so).
I'm sure the company they sell it to will continue the status quo and provide bare minimum to rural area's.
No, "wireless broadband" is code for mobile data plans. Considering how each increases in speed/bandwidth for cellphone technology have always come with decreases in range, rural areas are going to be the last to see this technology if they ever do.
If by "real-world tests" you mean comparing the results of the defaults settings of a mediocre encoder, then sure that is a "real article". But it does not show that VP8 is as good of a specification as H.264. For starters, they used a baseline H.264 encoder. Jason Garrett-Glaser himself (the supposedly biased x264 developer) stated that the VP8 specification was very simular to H.264 Baseline Profile, and he expected well optimized encoder to have simular quality. The comparison you posted completely validates that.
However, if you compare to H.264 encoder using any of the other profiles (Main, Extended, or High) they blow VP8 out of the water. Seriously, show me a single clip encoded with x264 that looks worse than VP8. The only scenario I have seen where VP8 is arguably better is very low bitrate, where VP8's blurryness looks subjectively better than the blockyness of most H.264 encoders using default settings. But even then, if you encode with the "-tune psnr" option of x264 you can replicate the softness of VP8 while still preserving more details.
There was nothing about Chrisg's post that was trollish. You should grow up and stop calling people trolls just because you don't want to hear what they are saying.
Or you can use Octave which is about the same performance as python + SciPy/NumPy/matplotlib, but has the added benefit of being largely compatible with Matlab.
Every place that has implemented that has seen massive retaliation from employers, mobsters, and the government itself. To any extent that free society has grown and been preserved it has been through devising an adequate system of checks and balances, of which the popular vote is a very important one. If you remove anonymity, the other power structures can easily influence the vote and it ceases to be an effective check against them.
It is only irrelevant if all the computations you are performing are done by the libraries. I tried using python for data processing tasks, and it was unbearably slow despite the use of scipy. I think it was due in large part to poor I/O and bit-twiddling performance while reading/writing data files but I'm not sure. Anyway with the amount of time I spent optimizing code, I could have just written the damn thing in C to begin with. I just don't understand python's poor performance. All it's high level language features were implemented in LISP and ML decades ago with good performance, but python just can't seem to get it right
That remark in the summary was completely irrelevant to the story. The USPS is entirely self funding - it gets all its money from postage and none from taxes, including all the money spent to support sparse rural areas as mandated by law. Since postage is paid on every item Amazon ships they pay their fair share of it's operating costs just like everyone else who uses it.
Furthermore, I am paying taxes that pay for roads in my local state, Amazon is paying taxes that pay for roads where their warehouses are located, and gasoline taxes along the way are used to fund federal highway system. They are paying taxes on all the resources they use.
You can criticize me for not paying sales taxes I owe but tell me again why a company on the opposite side of the country should fund our local parks and schools?
This makes the most sense to me, but I would add another exception - any mail that requires a signature, regardless of class, should be attempted on the next Saturday before requiring you to pick it up at the nearest post office. If it increases the cost of that particular service, that is fine with me.
That said I don't think it is necessary to go so far right now, but if they are going to drop a day, it should be any day but Saturday.
Just because they don't have the mathematical background to fully understand the models, doesn't mean that it is worthless to expose them to the concepts. Playing around with flow simulations and seeing how changes in geometry affect flow is fun, and can give them a feel for the basic concepts of aerodynamics. It will make the class more interesting, and encourage them to pursue physics or engineering as a career.
The point of codeflex is to get people to develop open source software that runs on Microsoft's Platforms - desktop applications using WPF.NET, web applications using ASP.NET, windows mobile 7 applications using Silverlight, rich web environments using Silverlight. For desktop/phone applications this make sense - free high-quality applications improve the appeal of the operating system. For web applications, the only reason they want this is to increase market share of their proprietary technology. In both cases they still control the platform.
Developers whose sole intention is to write for Microsoft's platforms alone, probably shouldn't have any problems, because MS would be shooting themselves by hindering them. However for developers that write applications in.NET/Silverlight thinking that the existence of Mono/Moonlight means that it is a great cross-platform tool, could easily be backstabbed by Microsoft if they ever change their stance on patents.
Whenever anyone makes the claim that any corporation contributed to any political campaign, they mean that employees of that company made donations. That is because it is illegal for corporations to give money to federal candidates. So they have their upper management and majority stock holders "donate" money to a Political Action Committee which then donates the campaign. The effect is the same.
From what I've read, none of the actors learned Esperanto when making Incubus. They were just speaking words phonetically, and you can hear mispronunciations throughout the movie.
Yeah I tried that. After the third load that got covered in dirt from the wind unexpectedly picking up, I said screw it. It wasn't worth spending all that extra time only to have to rewash the load.
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I have heard conflicting information about this. I know the new ccTLDs for China (they approved two - traditional and simplified) are aliases for each other (resolve to the same sites), but are they also both aliases for the existing cn ccTLD or do they resolve to an entirely new domain? If they are separate, why did they choose to do it this way? It seems like it would only cause confusion.
Oh, and damn slashdot and it's lack of unicode support. It would be nice to be able to type the damn things when talking about them.
No DEP only prevents execution on memory that is not marked executable. Enabling DEP marks all memory as nonexecutable by default, but you can use the VirtualAlloc function in windows to allocate memory that is marked executable. This allows for the implementation of JIT compilers even with DEP turned on.
Yeah, and apparently Flash is "DEP-safe", since IE 8 enables DEP and Flash works there (unless IE is only enabling DEP for the main process and not the tab processes).
Also I should add that Linux, OS X, and other operating systems have these same features under different names, so any work required to clean up the code to meet the standards required to enable them would be beneficial to all the platforms. Only a small amount of platform specific code would be needed to enable the features on each platform.
No, for most applications it wouldn't have much impact on the code base to implement these changes, especially compared to the other changes in GUI, Networking, IPC, and other system libraries that they already have to maintain.
The two features are both about preventing memory access errors from turning into exploits. The only apps that need to be changed before enabling DEP are ones that do some sort of JIT compilation of code into data memory and then execute it - and even these apps can enable DEP if they allocate memory for this compiled code using a windows specific api that marks it a executable. The only apps that will run into problems with ASLR are those that hardcode memory locations. No one should be doing this and a cross-platform app definitely won't be.
So it isn't a big deal for cross-platform applications, they probably just haven't spent the time to investigate all the ins and outs of MS's features, since they aren't native to that platform. I know I haven't on my in-house applications; I probably should.
Your advice makes since for the consumer market but Apple's secrecy has significantly hurt them in the enterprise market. IT doesn't want to buy a bunch of iPads, spend money shoehorning them into their current VC system only to have Apple change everything with a moment's notice. They want products that easily integrate into their current system, and which have known support and upgrade roadmaps. Companies like Cisco and HP provide this. Apple does not.
Listen, the day of the week is part of the event.
Male Cat born Tuesday is a different event than Male Cat born Wednesday.
Male Cat born Tuesday and Male Dog born Monday
is a different event than
Male Cat born Monday and Male Dog born Tuesday
Male Cat born Tuesday and Male Dog born Monday
is the same event as
Male Dog born Monday and Male Cat born Tuesday
Order doesn't matter, but you have to look at the entire event state. None of the events are duplicated in my list except the one I marked.
Note that you also did that for every other day of the week where the only thing that is different is the order, but you did not exclude them from the final calculation.
No, the difference is that the "Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Tuesday" state is listed twice. All the rest only occur once - check for yourself. That is why it was discarded - it has nothing to with order.
Either order matters in all cases or in no cases, you can't pick and choose what's convenient for your theory.
Again, the order of the days has not relevance on the outcome, just the fact that they are seven distinct states. They could be any seven states even ones which have no ordering property (such as seven different possible colors) and the answer would be the same.
Same here with both Verizon and T-Mobile.
You are neglecting to treat the two children as independent non-exchangeable objects. It is easier to think about if you consider that you have two pets a dog and a cat, each of which can be male or female. Then the enumeration of possibilities:
Male Dog, Male Cat
Male Dog, Female Cat
Female Dog, Male Cat
Female Dog, Female Cat
If you select a family where (at least) one of them is a Male that leaves the following options:
Male Dog, Male Cat
Male Dog, Female Cat
Female Dog, Male Cat
So the chances of both being male are 1/3.
Now moving onto the date question. You have selected a family from families known to have one male pet born on Tuesday (and one dog and cat each). The options are:
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Monday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Tuesday *
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Wednesday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Thursday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Friday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Saturday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Male Dog born Sunday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Monday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Tuesday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Wednesday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Thursday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Friday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Saturday
Male Cat born Tuesday, Female Dog born Sunday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Monday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Tuesday *
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Wednesday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Thursday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Friday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Saturday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Male Cat born Sunday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Monday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Tuesday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Wednesday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Thursday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Friday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Saturday
Male Dog born Tuesday, Female Cat born Sunday
* Note that I enumerated the case where both are males born on Tuesday twice. These are redundant and one must be discarded else I will double count that situation. After doing so there are 13/27 cases where both are males.
Notice that if you ignored the fact that one was a dog and the other was a cat you would have merged the two lists, ending up with your original list, and double counting the case where both are boys born on Tuesday.
In other words your mistake is that you assumed you had been given the sex and birth date of child A, and enumerated the sex and birth date of child B. However, you don't know the sex and birth date of child A or B, just that one of child A or B have that sex and birthdate. That is a subtly different problem.
So the order that they are born in is irrelevant, but keeping track of the fact that they are the two unique items while enumerating the cases is vital (and older and younger is a simple label to use while doing so).
It was a suggestion to a developer. Developers shouldn't have a problem editing about:config to put the browser in flash-debug mode.
I'm sure the company they sell it to will continue the status quo and provide bare minimum to rural area's.
No, "wireless broadband" is code for mobile data plans. Considering how each increases in speed/bandwidth for cellphone technology have always come with decreases in range, rural areas are going to be the last to see this technology if they ever do.
If by "real-world tests" you mean comparing the results of the defaults settings of a mediocre encoder, then sure that is a "real article". But it does not show that VP8 is as good of a specification as H.264. For starters, they used a baseline H.264 encoder. Jason Garrett-Glaser himself (the supposedly biased x264 developer) stated that the VP8 specification was very simular to H.264 Baseline Profile, and he expected well optimized encoder to have simular quality. The comparison you posted completely validates that.
However, if you compare to H.264 encoder using any of the other profiles (Main, Extended, or High) they blow VP8 out of the water. Seriously, show me a single clip encoded with x264 that looks worse than VP8. The only scenario I have seen where VP8 is arguably better is very low bitrate, where VP8's blurryness looks subjectively better than the blockyness of most H.264 encoders using default settings. But even then, if you encode with the "-tune psnr" option of x264 you can replicate the softness of VP8 while still preserving more details.
There was nothing about Chrisg's post that was trollish. You should grow up and stop calling people trolls just because you don't want to hear what they are saying.
Or you can use Octave which is about the same performance as python + SciPy/NumPy/matplotlib, but has the added benefit of being largely compatible with Matlab.
Every place that has implemented that has seen massive retaliation from employers, mobsters, and the government itself. To any extent that free society has grown and been preserved it has been through devising an adequate system of checks and balances, of which the popular vote is a very important one. If you remove anonymity, the other power structures can easily influence the vote and it ceases to be an effective check against them.
In that case James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, and Mark Twain were all cowards.
It is only irrelevant if all the computations you are performing are done by the libraries. I tried using python for data processing tasks, and it was unbearably slow despite the use of scipy. I think it was due in large part to poor I/O and bit-twiddling performance while reading/writing data files but I'm not sure. Anyway with the amount of time I spent optimizing code, I could have just written the damn thing in C to begin with. I just don't understand python's poor performance. All it's high level language features were implemented in LISP and ML decades ago with good performance, but python just can't seem to get it right
That remark in the summary was completely irrelevant to the story. The USPS is entirely self funding - it gets all its money from postage and none from taxes, including all the money spent to support sparse rural areas as mandated by law. Since postage is paid on every item Amazon ships they pay their fair share of it's operating costs just like everyone else who uses it.
Furthermore, I am paying taxes that pay for roads in my local state, Amazon is paying taxes that pay for roads where their warehouses are located, and gasoline taxes along the way are used to fund federal highway system. They are paying taxes on all the resources they use.
You can criticize me for not paying sales taxes I owe but tell me again why a company on the opposite side of the country should fund our local parks and schools?
This makes the most sense to me, but I would add another exception - any mail that requires a signature, regardless of class, should be attempted on the next Saturday before requiring you to pick it up at the nearest post office. If it increases the cost of that particular service, that is fine with me.
That said I don't think it is necessary to go so far right now, but if they are going to drop a day, it should be any day but Saturday.
Just because they don't have the mathematical background to fully understand the models, doesn't mean that it is worthless to expose them to the concepts. Playing around with flow simulations and seeing how changes in geometry affect flow is fun, and can give them a feel for the basic concepts of aerodynamics. It will make the class more interesting, and encourage them to pursue physics or engineering as a career.
No word on how fast it can make the Kessel run
I think you meant how short it can make the Kessel run.
The point of codeflex is to get people to develop open source software that runs on Microsoft's Platforms - desktop applications using WPF.NET, web applications using ASP.NET, windows mobile 7 applications using Silverlight, rich web environments using Silverlight. For desktop/phone applications this make sense - free high-quality applications improve the appeal of the operating system. For web applications, the only reason they want this is to increase market share of their proprietary technology. In both cases they still control the platform.
Developers whose sole intention is to write for Microsoft's platforms alone, probably shouldn't have any problems, because MS would be shooting themselves by hindering them. However for developers that write applications in .NET/Silverlight thinking that the existence of Mono/Moonlight means that it is a great cross-platform tool, could easily be backstabbed by Microsoft if they ever change their stance on patents.
Whenever anyone makes the claim that any corporation contributed to any political campaign, they mean that employees of that company made donations. That is because it is illegal for corporations to give money to federal candidates. So they have their upper management and majority stock holders "donate" money to a Political Action Committee which then donates the campaign. The effect is the same.
From what I've read, none of the actors learned Esperanto when making Incubus. They were just speaking words phonetically, and you can hear mispronunciations throughout the movie.
Yeah I tried that. After the third load that got covered in dirt from the wind unexpectedly picking up, I said screw it. It wasn't worth spending all that extra time only to have to rewash the load.