Funny thing is, my battery IS in the range listed ( 6N541 prefix which I assume is in the '6N530-6N551' range) but their web app says that my battery's serial # is not valid!!
No, but Dr. Weir's character only pretends to be strong - the character is horribly written and it seems like in the last year of episodes the plot line goes 'Weir makes stupid blunder and the team recovers from it with luck in spite of stupid decisions". It is sad because the end of the first season really was quite good.
The women I know who tried to like it felt that Dr. Weir is anything but a strong female lead, and perpetuates the stereotypes of female leaders.
Yes, treating the meat may be beneficial. But it should not be illegal to state that the food is or is not processed in a specific way in order to allow the customer to make an informed decision.
The problem is that I believe that some food producers had put a label on their products stating that the food was not irradiated, and the FDA took them to court and told them that they were not allowed to say that - And the FDA won.
The hard drives do a dynamic re-mapping of bad sectors to a different area. If you write an entire sector, and the sector was already marked a 'unreadable', the drive has an opportunity of using the 'secret' sector area instead. From then on, reads for this sector will come from the secret area. There are a limited number of secret tracks.
This is one of the 'gotchas' with multimedia content. A hard drive may have fast access times and a fast bus, but if there are persistent CRC errors (and there is quite often CRC errors on a non-failing drive!), then the drive may have to take 15 or so separate reads of the track to reconstruct - It may also temporarily move the surrounding tracks to the secret area, then zero out the surrounding tracks in order to reduce track-to-track crosstalk.
All of this takes time, and quite often any real time media bandwidth budgets get blown when this happens.
The neat thing is, when this does happen, it is never an error. The program does finally get the data, but it just takes longer than expected. Typically one way to find out if the drive has remapped tracks on you is to have a program which measures track to track access time sequentially, and find the track boundaries that take a lot longer than a move from adjacent tracks should.
The problem is deeper than just accuracy of money, people have died because of floating point rounding errors. See Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile. In this case the rounding error did not really cause the problem, it was that the assumptions that the programmers had made caused a delta between the calculated clock and the actual clock.
People in general have no clue about the math behind floating point.
In my opinion, it should be an error to compare two floats values for equality or inequality.
We are continuously moving into a state where the government is our father. It starts with 'soft paternalism' and then becomes 'hard'. It has nothing to do with Liberals or Democrats - all people in power want this.
"We know what is best for you because you are dumb"
Interesting to note that Duff's device causes enormous slow downs on different architectures. The real problem here is that duff's code is too low level for any compiler to properly infer the original purpose, and the manual pointer arithmetic makes it tough because of the aliases problems that C has. Things are a bit better with the 'restrict' keyword, but it still limits you to optimise only on architectures that have one execution unit.
As an example, I wrote My Little Article on Duff's Device for you to read. I specifically tested it on a platform that has 8 explicit execution units and software pipelining, and duff's version is 48 times slower than the simpler for loop with array indexing if count is much larger than 5.
With the array indexing, the compiler can be smart about re-ordering the calculations. With the pointer arithmetic it is forced to not be!
There has been standards for blind web browsing for many years! The problem is that hardly anyone use them, even a lot of government web sites which by law must be accessible.
The amazing thing is that google, by page-ranking these pages higher, I believe it will do more to improve web accessibility than any law or standards organisation could.
That is all pretty and everything but it is not an official w3c test and it tests the rendering engine just as much as my parser.
IMHO, all 'standards' organisations ought to publish detailed test codes so that designers can know exactly what level of compliance they are achieving.
In fact in the HTTP protocol case, it seems that the standard is so obfuscated with the "SHOULD" and "SHOULD NOT" words instead of "MUST" and "MUST NOT" that it is a major undertaking to fully test a HTTP/1.1 web server protocol. Hence the reason why so many servers and clients are broken in different ways! See apache.conf for some simple examples.
If I write a CSS parser, or even an HTTP server, where are the w3c approved validation tests that I can run on it to see if my implementations are correct?
Actually, the smp version of quake3 I was running was not the server... on Mac OS X, with smp enabled I got better fps even when playing on other servers.
The problem comes with multiple apps that have different dependencies. For instance take installations of php4, php5, apache1, apache2, phpBB, mediawiki, coppermine, subversion and trac, all using mysql and postgresql. Each one has plugins. Each one has potential security vulnerabilities.
I've been in the situation where one of the above required updating to fix a security hole, effectively breaking the rest. For instance, one needed to be using mysql5 but the others didn't support it.
Now they can all live on their own separate Vmware machines and can be updated separately.
The power in that case would then lie with the 'people who determine the issue that you are voting on'. Who determines that we are to vote on an irrelevant issue instead of the relevant ones? It is like getting to vote on "Chocolate vs. Vanilla" instead of voting on "Fund our National Guard More to protect our borders vs. Fund our friends at Choicepoint More to make huge databases on citizens.
To be effective it requires a much more complex system.
--jeffk++
I think this exchange shows why these tools need to be 'dumbed-down' to a level so that people can get started without reading any documentation... It seems that no one reads any documentation anymore.
Using gladexml and perl is a great idea. All it needs is a 'wizard' to install everything required on to a computer, and a 'wizard' to start a project.
Then, the people who would normally use "Excel As A Database" may be able to understand and use it. That may save countless hours and frustration and cost due to lost and corrupted data in the corporate world...
Jeez, that reminds me of the "Database Specialists" doing "SELECT * from mytable;" and then doing a java for() loop to find the rows they are interested in.. Then they complain about the database machine being too slow so they get it upgraded.
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Saudi Arabia has given more than $500 million, and Kuwait has given $800 million dollars to Lebanon in support because of this conflict.
Perhaps we should go after those guys too?
--jeffk++
Funny thing is, my battery IS in the range listed ( 6N541 prefix which I assume is in the '6N530-6N551' range) but their web app says that my battery's serial # is not valid!!
--jeffk++
No, but Dr. Weir's character only pretends to be strong - the character is horribly written and it seems like in the last year of episodes the plot line goes 'Weir makes stupid blunder and the team recovers from it with luck in spite of stupid decisions". It is sad because the end of the first season really was quite good.
The women I know who tried to like it felt that Dr. Weir is anything but a strong female lead, and perpetuates the stereotypes of female leaders.
--jeffk++
Yes, treating the meat may be beneficial. But it should not be illegal to state that the food is or is not processed in a specific way in order to allow the customer to make an informed decision.
The problem is that I believe that some food producers had put a label on their products stating that the food was not irradiated, and the FDA took them to court and told them that they were not allowed to say that - And the FDA won.
--jeffk++
The hard drives do a dynamic re-mapping of bad sectors to a different area. If you write an entire sector, and the sector was already marked a 'unreadable', the drive has an opportunity of using the 'secret' sector area instead. From then on, reads for this sector will come from the secret area. There are a limited number of secret tracks.
This is one of the 'gotchas' with multimedia content. A hard drive may have fast access times and a fast bus, but if there are persistent CRC errors (and there is quite often CRC errors on a non-failing drive!), then the drive may have to take 15 or so separate reads of the track to reconstruct - It may also temporarily move the surrounding tracks to the secret area, then zero out the surrounding tracks in order to reduce track-to-track crosstalk.
All of this takes time, and quite often any real time media bandwidth budgets get blown when this happens.
The neat thing is, when this does happen, it is never an error. The program does finally get the data, but it just takes longer than expected. Typically one way to find out if the drive has remapped tracks on you is to have a program which measures track to track access time sequentially, and find the track boundaries that take a lot longer than a move from adjacent tracks should.
Jeff
Fascinating! "Not being allowed to donate" is the most important reason why 'donate now' buttons are not better than timebombware.
In addition, designers should be aware that even if their software is GPL, they can still sell support contracts!
--jeffk++
People in general have no clue about the math behind floating point.
In my opinion, it should be an error to compare two floats values for equality or inequality.
--jeffk++
--jeffk++
--jeffk++
Another problem however is that telus provides their phone service too. Stop all payments = No more telephone.
Hooray for the competition and free market! We must have dozens of telephone companies to choose from now since 'de-regulation' happened!
--jeffk++
We are continuously moving into a state where the government is our father. It starts with 'soft paternalism' and then becomes 'hard'. It has nothing to do with Liberals or Democrats - all people in power want this.
"We know what is best for you because you are dumb"
--jeffk++
Interesting to note that Duff's device causes enormous slow downs on different architectures. The real problem here is that duff's code is too low level for any compiler to properly infer the original purpose, and the manual pointer arithmetic makes it tough because of the aliases problems that C has. Things are a bit better with the 'restrict' keyword, but it still limits you to optimise only on architectures that have one execution unit.
As an example, I wrote My Little Article on Duff's Device for you to read. I specifically tested it on a platform that has 8 explicit execution units and software pipelining, and duff's version is 48 times slower than the simpler for loop with array indexing if count is much larger than 5.
With the array indexing, the compiler can be smart about re-ordering the calculations. With the pointer arithmetic it is forced to not be!
--jeffk++
There has been standards for blind web browsing for many years! The problem is that hardly anyone use them, even a lot of government web sites which by law must be accessible.
The amazing thing is that google, by page-ranking these pages higher, I believe it will do more to improve web accessibility than any law or standards organisation could.
--jeffk++
That is all pretty and everything but it is not an official w3c test and it tests the rendering engine just as much as my parser.
IMHO, all 'standards' organisations ought to publish detailed test codes so that designers can know exactly what level of compliance they are achieving.
In fact in the HTTP protocol case, it seems that the standard is so obfuscated with the "SHOULD" and "SHOULD NOT" words instead of "MUST" and "MUST NOT" that it is a major undertaking to fully test a HTTP/1.1 web server protocol. Hence the reason why so many servers and clients are broken in different ways! See apache.conf for some simple examples.
--jeffk++
In a way, CSS and even HTTP are both 'broken'...
If I write a CSS parser, or even an HTTP server, where are the w3c approved validation tests that I can run on it to see if my implementations are correct?
--jeffk++
Actually, the smp version of quake3 I was running was not the server... on Mac OS X, with smp enabled I got better fps even when playing on other servers.
--jeffk++
hey, even Quake 3 had support for SMP, back in 2001.
The problem comes with multiple apps that have different dependencies. For instance take installations of php4, php5, apache1, apache2, phpBB, mediawiki, coppermine, subversion and trac, all using mysql and postgresql. Each one has plugins. Each one has potential security vulnerabilities.
I've been in the situation where one of the above required updating to fix a security hole, effectively breaking the rest. For instance, one needed to be using mysql5 but the others didn't support it.
Now they can all live on their own separate Vmware machines and can be updated separately.
--jeffk++
The power in that case would then lie with the 'people who determine the issue that you are voting on'. Who determines that we are to vote on an irrelevant issue instead of the relevant ones? It is like getting to vote on "Chocolate vs. Vanilla" instead of voting on "Fund our National Guard More to protect our borders vs. Fund our friends at Choicepoint More to make huge databases on citizens.
To be effective it requires a much more complex system.
--jeffk++
--jeffk++
(... a fool and his money are best parted... )
I think this exchange shows why these tools need to be 'dumbed-down' to a level so that people can get started without reading any documentation... It seems that no one reads any documentation anymore.
Using gladexml and perl is a great idea. All it needs is a 'wizard' to install everything required on to a computer, and a 'wizard' to start a project.
Then, the people who would normally use "Excel As A Database" may be able to understand and use it. That may save countless hours and frustration and cost due to lost and corrupted data in the corporate world...
--jeffk++
I wonder if the "America's Army" video game has missions like "Torture Prisoners" and "Kill Innocent Families in this village".
That would be more in line with the real army! And still educational too!
--jeffk++
Regardless of their winnings in court, RAMBUS played very dirty pool with JEDEC. The JEDEC IP policies have changed as a result.
--jeffk++
Regardless, betcha Wal-Mart has a patent on that very same business method!
--jeffk++
Jeez, that reminds me of the "Database Specialists" doing "SELECT * from mytable;" and then doing a java for() loop to find the rows they are interested in.. Then they complain about the database machine being too slow so they get it upgraded.
How much do these new machines cost?
How much does a competent programmer cost?
Which one is the best option?
--jeffk++