The great thing about the I.D. argument is that we can now put blame on this 'intelligence' for the screw-ups. Like the poor design of human's knees. Seems this 'intelligence' is not so intelligent after all
I'm confused too! the word "quantum" in the article is a link. I clicked on the link for more information and it took me to a Skin Care from Europe website? auto-generated word ads gone wrong?
I wish we had it, instead of government approved monopolies everywhere.
What ever happened to the law the RIAA was trying to get approved requiring all 'internet radio stations' to pay royalties to RIAA even if the music that was played was not RIAA-related?
I was involved in the development of a well-known kids internet filter. By the owner's request, it blocked pages that discussed oral sex. Once the monica Lewinsky scandal broke out, people were complaining that that the government report detailing the indescretions, on a government web site, was being blocked by the filter. So we were asked to modify the filter so that any *.gov sites were allowed to have pornography.
The problem in Javascript is not namespaces - it is the fact that there's no way to mark a method/variable as protected/private. So you need to resort to old C-style crap like appending _ to private members if you want to enforce your contracts.
What are the chances that some spy ware can be set to be running in the background on your computer, filling up your browser history with links in order to help frame you for a murder that you did not do?
Are you suggesting the SDRAM refresh is different when the memory value is read more frequently than once a day? If failures would be expected when testing once a day why not when testing multiple times a day, only with greater successes between failures?
YES. Reading a word in an sdram row triggers a refresh.
If the refresh mechanism is not operating properly you will not know it until you do not read the memory for quite a while.
--jeffk++
I think this would be great. As long as the people in power push to make your existing TV unusable, it would end up making less people waste time watching this horrible television that we have. This can only be a good thing for society.
Of course if there is only one speaker, it will be impossible for anyone to tell the difference that 20ms causes.
The problem comes when you have two speakers playing back stereo content, and one speaker is 20ms out. You may not hear it as a delay, but you will perceive it as a stereo imaging problem.
I need a system that can do pre-commit testing with subversion, but the testing needs to be done on different platforms: Suse Linux i386, linux embedded powerpc, Mac OS X, Windows XP, embedded tms6701 dsp. Yes, some code is common to all these platforms. I would need the system to compile and run the unit tests in the appropriate contexts on multiple computers before allowing the commit. Would Calavista do something like that or am I stuck 'rolling my own'?
We need to get rid of more fanatic dictators. Start with Saddam, but what about Pol Pot, Suharto and Pinochet? Is it some kind of alliance that forbids us to punish them?
But Winston Churchill used mustard gas on the Kurds in Iraq first! When is it OKAY to use anthrax and mustard gas? and when is it not? If you are white it is okay? or what?
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected... We cannot, in any circumstances acquiesce to the non-utilisation of any weapons which are available to procure a speedy termination of the disorder which prevails on the frontier.
Did you just violate Microsoft's Intellectual Property? I didn't sign any microsoft agreement and now I know how to make a simple document with their patented XML schema....
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Wow! A truly informative post. Thank you.
Jeff
This page, while out of date, and referenced earlier during this discussion, needs re-emphasis. I hope it gets updated soon:
http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
Very awesome paper. How do _you_ make a server that handles 10,000 connections?
--jeff++
The great thing about the I.D. argument is that we can now put blame on this 'intelligence' for the screw-ups. Like the poor design of human's knees. Seems this 'intelligence' is not so intelligent after all
jeff
Does MySQL 5 support transactions AND full text searches on the same tables?
--jeffk++
I'm confused too! the word "quantum" in the article is a link. I clicked on the link for more information and it took me to a Skin Care from Europe website? auto-generated word ads gone wrong?
--jeffk++
Capitalism looks good on paper!
I wish we had it, instead of government approved monopolies everywhere.
What ever happened to the law the RIAA was trying to get approved requiring all 'internet radio stations' to pay royalties to RIAA even if the music that was played was not RIAA-related?
jeff
Well, that's the point of this whole article.
I am not allowed to write my own dvd player without a license. Even without using any copyrighted work done by anyone else! (patents are different!)
This is all about freedom.
--jeff++
Linux is on my desktop.
I am not free to give the linspire dvd player to my friends.
I am not free to modify any dvd player.
I am not free to design a dvd player with my own license without agreeing to make the users of my dvd player not free to do these things.
--jeff++
Free meaning no cost? or Free as in freedom / Open Source?
--jeff++
I was involved in the development of a well-known kids internet filter. By the owner's request, it blocked pages that discussed oral sex. Once the monica Lewinsky scandal broke out, people were complaining that that the government report detailing the indescretions, on a government web site, was being blocked by the filter. So we were asked to modify the filter so that any *.gov sites were allowed to have pornography.
--jeffk++
It turns out that Javascript really is a cool dynamic language with more features that most people think. protected/private are possible. see http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.htm l
--jeff++What are the chances that some spy ware can be set to be running in the background on your computer, filling up your browser history with links in order to help frame you for a murder that you did not do?
--jeff++
Here I thought Old School meant BattleZone, Joust, and PacMan.
--jeff++
for the freedom to modify and fix problems instead of being at the whim of any other vendor.
Jeff
YES. Reading a word in an sdram row triggers a refresh.
If the refresh mechanism is not operating properly you will not know it until you do not read the memory for quite a while.
--jeffk++
Although what you say may be true, your test is flawed with regard to SDRAM refresh. Try make it verify the memory once every day instead.
Jeff
I think this would be great. As long as the people in power push to make your existing TV unusable, it would end up making less people waste time watching this horrible television that we have. This can only be a good thing for society.
--jeff++
Of course if there is only one speaker, it will be impossible for anyone to tell the difference that 20ms causes.
The problem comes when you have two speakers playing back stereo content, and one speaker is 20ms out. You may not hear it as a delay, but you will perceive it as a stereo imaging problem.
jeff
The print-outs needs to go into a box in the voting machine after they are visually validated by the voter.
If you can hold the vote receipt, then you have to be able to deal with the forged vote receipts as well
jeff
I need a system that can do pre-commit testing with subversion, but the testing needs to be done on different platforms: Suse Linux i386, linux embedded powerpc, Mac OS X, Windows XP, embedded tms6701 dsp. Yes, some code is common to all these platforms. I would need the system to compile and run the unit tests in the appropriate contexts on multiple computers before allowing the commit. Would Calavista do something like that or am I stuck 'rolling my own'?
--jeffk++
But Sir Churchill DID authorize mustard gas against Kurdish villages in Iraq...
jeff
I wasn't defending anything...
Thanks for the info.
We need to get rid of more fanatic dictators. Start with Saddam, but what about Pol Pot, Suharto and Pinochet? Is it some kind of alliance that forbids us to punish them?
jeff
But Winston Churchill used mustard gas on the Kurds in Iraq first! When is it OKAY to use anthrax and mustard gas? and when is it not? If you are white it is okay? or what?
--jeffk++
--jeffk++
Did you just violate Microsoft's Intellectual Property? I didn't sign any microsoft agreement and now I know how to make a simple document with their patented XML schema....
Jeff