The example that searching an MPEG looking for header frames was pretty cool. It gave me bad flashbacks to when I had to search an unmountable filesystem and extract all the JPEGs[*]. The C code I wrote was horrible...
*: I somehow managed to corrupt a VFAT partition enough that it wouldn't mount in Windows or Linux. Right after my wife unloaded the digital camera, but before she remembered to tell me to back up the photos. So I had to fix it. I scanned the entire drive, looking for the JPEG magic, and hoped the files were relatively unfragmented. It worked pretty well.
I spend most of my day doing procedural and OOP. Odds are good that I'll never write a single Erlang program after I finish the book. But I guarantee that I'll be using the concepts that I'm learning for the rest of my life.
For the same reason you had to take liberal arts classes in university, everybody should learn a functional language or two.
The Sparcs had Solaris 8 64bit, the Intel's had RedHat Enterprise 4.2 64bit....running MySQL. I think the problem was partly that MySQL had been better optimized for 64bit Solaris, but not not so much for the Intel. Mostly because X86-64 was new enough that it hadn't had time to be optimized.
It was a database server. I needed very little CPU and a lot of IO. The Sun machines are designed to do IO. Even their X86 machines do some nice things for heavy IO loads. For my comparison, the 5yo Sparc machines had nearly the same IO subsystem that the new X86 machines had.
So yes, I'm comparing apples to oranges. I replaced a machine designed to handle heavy IO with a machine designed to be a web server, then got upset when it couldn't handle the IO. But it's funny... when I try to find an X86 machine with a comparible IO subsystem, it costs more than the Sparc.
Several years ago, I had the opposite problem with a real world OLTP load. I replaced a 5 year old Quad SparcII 450MHz machine with a Dual Opteron 2.4GHz. The Opterons had 3x the total MHz, 4x the RAM, more PCI bandwidth, and faster disks. They were half the price of the Sparc relacements, so I was not allowed to evalate the Sparc options. I guestimated that the new Sparc option would have been 2x faster and handled 4x the transactions compared to the 5 year old machines.
The Opterons were slight faster, but did not handle load spikes nearly as well. Had I been allowed to purchase the 5 year old hardware used, I probably would have been better off sticking with the 5 year old hardware. If I allow hindsight, including all the architecture conversion problems and software upgrade issues I had, the old-but-tested hardware would have been a big win. (Note: I had the ability to scale my database horitzontally very easily, so old machines were still useful machines.)
For a database server, I highly recommend that a Sparc based machine be evaulated next to any X86 based machine. They cost more upfront, but I found them to be cheaper in the long run.
I'll always be NATing my home connection, even with IPv6. I assume my cable provider will charge me for those "extra" IPv6 IPs that I would be using. And if this one doesn't, the cable provider that buys this one will.
If you plan is to do true systems engineering (chip design, manufacturing design, etc) or work in high tech aspects of IT, then a masters in both CS and math...
Despite the contempt that many parents have for high school teachers, very very few parents can teach all the major high school subjects at the level of even average high school teachers.
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Here's the thing: I don't have to. My wife will teach her areas, I'll teach my areas. If the kids aren't rounding out their education on their own, then we'll enroll them in a correspondence class or a community college class. I expect my kids to "graduate" high school with a 2 year college degree.
I wouldn't have taken the hot resin option. I'm glad I had my vasectomy. But I also like knowing that it's reversible, just in case something really bad happens.
There's no reason you can't use a condom even though she's on the pill.
If you don't want kids, it's your responsibility to make sure. If she doesn't want kids, it's her responsiblity. Two complimentary methods are better than one. 3 are even better. I've got a sibling that my mom claims made it past 2 forms of birth control, and at least one form was not suseptible to user error.
Maybe it's just me (being one of 7 children, and my parents claim that we all made it past at least one form of birth control), but I'm paranoid. And you know what? I didn't have my first until my wife & I were ready.
Sure, but over time the percentage of computers that are sold new, and in general use, that are significantly below the "top of the line" increases
I'm noticing this in a lot of different areas, not just computers. The car I bought last year has plenty of power (more than the average US driver should be allowed to have). The cheap audio system I bought sounds way better than the high end system my dad had. My walmart bicycle is lighter and stronger than the touring bike I bought 20 years ago.
If I go on much longer, I'll make myself sound even older than my UID suggests.
Will my 'good enough' computer handle my photo library, my 32MP entry level camera, recognise the faces in my photo collection. This sound like far fetched stuff today, but as these technologies peculate down from high end systems and people get used to the computer doing more of their mind-numbing repetitive tasks, user expectation will adapt and want them in their 'good enough' computers.
And from the FA, a "Good Enough" computer won't last forever. It just has to last long enough that Microsoft destroys itself because people don't buy a new OS every 2 years.
You can buy this data. I've used taxrates.com before. It is a bit tricky, but if you have city, state, and zip, it's usually right. In the cases that it isn't right, adding zip+4 nearly always resolves the ambiguity.
I don't believe it deals with Tax Holidays though. Or maybe we didn't buy that set of data.
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everything is poisonous. :(
the women AND the beer?
The example that searching an MPEG looking for header frames was pretty cool. It gave me bad flashbacks to when I had to search an unmountable filesystem and extract all the JPEGs[*]. The C code I wrote was horrible...
*: I somehow managed to corrupt a VFAT partition enough that it wouldn't mount in Windows or Linux. Right after my wife unloaded the digital camera, but before she remembered to tell me to back up the photos. So I had to fix it. I scanned the entire drive, looking for the JPEG magic, and hoped the files were relatively unfragmented. It worked pretty well.
I've been (slowly) working my way through Programming Erlang.
I spend most of my day doing procedural and OOP. Odds are good that I'll never write a single Erlang program after I finish the book. But I guarantee that I'll be using the concepts that I'm learning for the rest of my life.
For the same reason you had to take liberal arts classes in university, everybody should learn a functional language or two.
The Sparcs had Solaris 8 64bit, the Intel's had RedHat Enterprise 4.2 64bit. ...running MySQL. I think the problem was partly that MySQL had been better optimized for 64bit Solaris, but not not so much for the Intel. Mostly because X86-64 was new enough that it hadn't had time to be optimized.
It was a database server. I needed very little CPU and a lot of IO. The Sun machines are designed to do IO. Even their X86 machines do some nice things for heavy IO loads. For my comparison, the 5yo Sparc machines had nearly the same IO subsystem that the new X86 machines had.
So yes, I'm comparing apples to oranges. I replaced a machine designed to handle heavy IO with a machine designed to be a web server, then got upset when it couldn't handle the IO. But it's funny... when I try to find an X86 machine with a comparible IO subsystem, it costs more than the Sparc.
Several years ago, I had the opposite problem with a real world OLTP load. I replaced a 5 year old Quad SparcII 450MHz machine with a Dual Opteron 2.4GHz. The Opterons had 3x the total MHz, 4x the RAM, more PCI bandwidth, and faster disks. They were half the price of the Sparc relacements, so I was not allowed to evalate the Sparc options. I guestimated that the new Sparc option would have been 2x faster and handled 4x the transactions compared to the 5 year old machines.
The Opterons were slight faster, but did not handle load spikes nearly as well. Had I been allowed to purchase the 5 year old hardware used, I probably would have been better off sticking with the 5 year old hardware. If I allow hindsight, including all the architecture conversion problems and software upgrade issues I had, the old-but-tested hardware would have been a big win. (Note: I had the ability to scale my database horitzontally very easily, so old machines were still useful machines.)
For a database server, I highly recommend that a Sparc based machine be evaulated next to any X86 based machine. They cost more upfront, but I found them to be cheaper in the long run.
Everybody said the same thing about XP when it came out.
Just make Soyleen Green. It contains 100% of a human's dietary requirements.
I'll always be NATing my home connection, even with IPv6. I assume my cable provider will charge me for those "extra" IPv6 IPs that I would be using. And if this one doesn't, the cable provider that buys this one will.
I'm kind of curious about Naked Women + Paint Remover.
If you plan is to do true systems engineering (chip design, manufacturing design, etc) or work in high tech aspects of IT, then a masters in both CS and math...
(Emphasis mine)
Or perhaps a degree in Engineering?
Marry an English Teacher. That's what I did. :-)
Despite the contempt that many parents have for high school teachers, very very few parents can teach all the major high school subjects at the level of even average high school teachers. Cancel Reply Parent
Here's the thing: I don't have to. My wife will teach her areas, I'll teach my areas. If the kids aren't rounding out their education on their own, then we'll enroll them in a correspondence class or a community college class. I expect my kids to "graduate" high school with a 2 year college degree.
Lesson learned? Money is important, but it should never be "the goal". Improving the world should be the goal.
You have to spin if differently when talking to the MBAs. Try "Don't focus on the short term money at the expense of the long term money."
Games that expect you to "upgrade" to 640x480 - 256 colors, and install QuickTime 3.0.
I have several of these games (mostly from Microsoft!). I had to dust off an old machine and install Win98 to get these games to work.
I'd say the same to any woman complaining about being stuck for 18 years raising a child.
If you both are going to make bad decision, you both have to suck it up. Yes, she has some more options than you do. Tough titties.
Just wear the damn condom.
I wouldn't have taken the hot resin option. I'm glad I had my vasectomy. But I also like knowing that it's reversible, just in case something really bad happens.
There's no reason you can't use a condom even though she's on the pill.
If you don't want kids, it's your responsibility to make sure. If she doesn't want kids, it's her responsiblity. Two complimentary methods are better than one. 3 are even better. I've got a sibling that my mom claims made it past 2 forms of birth control, and at least one form was not suseptible to user error.
Maybe it's just me (being one of 7 children, and my parents claim that we all made it past at least one form of birth control), but I'm paranoid. And you know what? I didn't have my first until my wife & I were ready.
Sure, but over time the percentage of computers that are sold new, and in general use, that are significantly below the "top of the line" increases
I'm noticing this in a lot of different areas, not just computers. The car I bought last year has plenty of power (more than the average US driver should be allowed to have). The cheap audio system I bought sounds way better than the high end system my dad had. My walmart bicycle is lighter and stronger than the touring bike I bought 20 years ago.
If I go on much longer, I'll make myself sound even older than my UID suggests.
Call me back when my computer can infect my brain with a virus by projecting a bitmap on my retina. Until then, it's not good enough.
How many of us have super computers?
I own a PS3, you insensitive clod!
Will my 'good enough' computer handle my photo library, my 32MP entry level camera, recognise the faces in my photo collection. This sound like far fetched stuff today, but as these technologies peculate down from high end systems and people get used to the computer doing more of their mind-numbing repetitive tasks, user expectation will adapt and want them in their 'good enough' computers.
Today's "Good Enough" computer won't. Tomorrow's "Good Enough" computer will.
And from the FA, a "Good Enough" computer won't last forever. It just has to last long enough that Microsoft destroys itself because people don't buy a new OS every 2 years.
Question: how long do I have to be here before I can be said to no longer be new here?
You'll be new here until you tell those damn kids to get off your lawn.
You can buy the data. See my previous post
You can buy this data. I've used taxrates.com before. It is a bit tricky, but if you have city, state, and zip, it's usually right. In the cases that it isn't right, adding zip+4 nearly always resolves the ambiguity.
I don't believe it deals with Tax Holidays though. Or maybe we didn't buy that set of data.