The mean value theorem shows that if the average rate is x, and the instantaneous rate ever goes below x, then it must necessarily also be above x sometimes. Put another way, progress will sometimes be faster than other times.
See, you just proved my point. I've been doing everything I can to help him for over 15 years, but you write it off as shrugging my shoulders and walking away. Well, the truth is a lot more complex than that, and without knowing me and my friend, you have no means to evaluate your hypothesis.
If one of my friends was ever living in a vehicle, I'd be certain to lend a hand.
Says you. Without personally knowing the people involved, you can't possibly say that. My best friend from childhood - more like a brother, really - has been homeless for well over a decade. I've gotten him three different jobs that he held for a couple weeks before not showing up one day. He's sane, inasmuch as he's acting rationally: he's not willing to invest the responsibility necessary to maintain a fixed living space. What more can I do to help him?
Maybe Woz tried to give Cap'n a hand up a few too many times and got tired of it. Again, without being personally involved in the relationship, you can't know.
You say that as if it were a current problem. This has actually been fixed in the last 3(4?) driver revisions, including a bugfix only release to a previous branch of the drivers.
Yeah. If only the other changes included in that revision didn't cause my FreeBSD machine to hang so that I could use the fixed driver, I'd be set.
So hundreds of developers (and being kernel hackers, probably paid) took a long time to find a file corruption bug that would presumably affect a lot of people. And somehow you think that NVidia's little graphics driver team should be able to magically resolve your problems overnight?
Thank you! I just found out about portsnap after reading your comment. I remember reading about portsnap on the install docs, but for some reason I ended up using cvsup instead...
It was definitely a happy discovery. It makes the update go from several minutes to a few seconds, and has to be easier on the update servers, too.
OTOH I did not find about portupgrade until few weeks after I started using FreeBSD (which I regret).
Don't regret it! You may not always find yourself on a machine that has portupgrade installed.
Do the 68Ks actually have MMUs? Or are they separate chips in Real Computers? Any MMUs that the 68Ks may have certainly don't seem to be used in Macs...
They do as of the 68030. I can't speak for MacOS, but AmigaOS used the MMU a lot for nifty tricks like copying the OS ROM into RAM and then remapping it because it was many times faster.
It updates/usr/src at line speed, as did cvsup. It's not faster, just written in a vastly more common language. I don't think anything will beat portsnap for updating ports since it's downloading a small set of patch files and applying them. There's no filesystem walking required to compare the local and remove versions.
The poor (making $20.00 an hour or less) cant afford to build a home or buy a old home in lower crime areas... you just cant afford a $350,000.00+ mortgage when you make a paltry $20.00 a hour.
I live in a sub-$200,000 "crapshack". Of course, it's 4900 square feet on a half-acre plot in the good part of a nice town with first-rate schools. I admit that the hot tub in the attached sunroom has a broken thermostat, and it's difficult in practice to fit three cars in the garage when visitors come, but I think we'll persevere.
You decided to live in someplace with a hyperinflated housing market, but don't extrapolate your lifestyle choice problems to the rest of us who've found the good life elsewhere.
No. You were broke, but not poor. Poor people do poor people things like use their rent money to buy lottery tickets, or celebrate payday with a fifth of vodka and call in sick the next day (because they "earned" it). Broke people bust their ass to send their kids to school and improve their situation.
My mom's family defined poverty. I don't think she owned a pair of store-bought shoes until high school. Still, her mom sewed dresses for the girls and pants for the boys, made them wash when appropriate, and pushed them through school whether they wanted to go or not. My aunt runs a large, successful farm. My uncle was a successful contractor. My mom ran the communications department of a large railroad. Every single one of them did well for themselves because they learned that poverty isn't an acceptable way of life and then did something about it.
The main factor though is privacy. It simply is not done to risk compromising someone else's details.
Good sir, this is your LIFE we're talking about here. I understand and respect your desire to protect the other party's privacy, but your own self preservation should trump all else. If it doesn't, then all I ask is that you talk to someone about why that is. Please, for your own sake? You're worth it.
I usually have a few details about them but given I'm into the alternative scene (and I don't mean music) you don't usually just pass these details to a friend.
OK, I haven't been in the situation to consider this for real, but I'm a geek and compelled to think my way through unlikely situations (substitute "talking to the mafia" for "meeting a stranger"; same principle).
You don't have at least one friend that you can hand a sealed envelope to with strict orders not to open it unless you don't report back, in person, by a certain time? Failing that, someone you can coerce into doing it for you ("the evidence against you is in my safe deposit box - don't screw this up!")?
The last thing I'd want in the scenario you describe is for the likely non-technical police officer to have to figure out what a zipfile is or how to import your mailspool. It'd be much more time-efficient (which may be critically important for you) to just print the stuff out. If the things you're doing are so alternative that taking this risk is simply impossible, you may wish to re-evaluate your pastimes.
Given that that is what is meant by that, it seems patently absurd to conclude that anything non-natural exists (which is the same thing as to say that there are unknowable truths)
But there are unknowable truths, and that's formally provable. Godels incompleteness theorems show that any reasonably powerful logic system can generate hypotheses that simply cannot be proven either way. This isn't just intellectual posturing either, but something that had profound effects on how science works.
Does you argument hold up when it's well known that there are things we can't know? It might, but it was kind of long and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
That presumes that the main interface remains in GL. Imagine a new client written with, say, QT, where only the world itself is rendered in 3D. Everything else - menus, dialogs, chat windows - would be rendered as plain old 2D toolkit widgets. Frankly, I wouldn't care if I only got 5 FPS if I could still carry on a chat in realtime.
and an unwillingness to talk to them *at all* unless they agree to recording the conversations.
I've dealt with these blockheads when nonexistant accounts were turned over to collections, and to a toad, every one of them gave me explicit permission to record the phone calls by stating that "this call may be monitored for quality assurance". Since no one seems to remember the difference between "may" (which includes granting permission) and "might" (which is what they probably meant), record away!
If your backup software compressed files where the software payoff is a lot bigger than the hardware one you'd end up using less space.
Are people using drives that can toggle compression on the fly? In my experience, it's usually on or off on a per-tape basis. A typical setup with Amanda Backup is to disable drive compression for the reasons you give, plus the fact that the backup software can know exactly how much data will fit on a tape in advance.
I've found that even a fully compressed LTO-3 will barely --just barely-- hold up to 1.2TB if you rig it right (by combining hardware/software compression
Well, dumping compressed data to a compressed tape will actually cause it to take up more room, so what different combination of hardware/software compression are you using?
There are trillions and trillions of water molecules in the ocean
There are 33.4 billion trillions of water molecules in a gram of the stuff. I think you understated the number in the ocean by a few dozen orders of magnitude.
I'm pretty sure that the speed reported to the user comes from the users modem, not a string sent my the host modem.
It does, but you can tell the modem to report its modem-to-computer rate instead of its modem-to-modem rate. 57600 seems a bit low, since most PC serial ports would typically run at 115200, but slower ports aren't so uncommon that I wouldn't believe it.
At the ISP where I worked, our standard "fix" for customers in one particularly awful small town was to add three commas to the end of the phone number they were dialing (eg replacing "555-1234" with "555-1234,,,"). That caused the modem to wait for three seconds after connecting before starting its handshake, which made it miss the 56k trainup but catch the 33.6 trainup almost every time. The end result was that they'd never get a flaky 56k connection, but instead get a rock-solid 33.6. It was a little slower, but at least it worked consistently.
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The mean value theorem shows that if the average rate is x, and the instantaneous rate ever goes below x, then it must necessarily also be above x sometimes. Put another way, progress will sometimes be faster than other times.
Note: schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are two different diseases.
See, you just proved my point. I've been doing everything I can to help him for over 15 years, but you write it off as shrugging my shoulders and walking away. Well, the truth is a lot more complex than that, and without knowing me and my friend, you have no means to evaluate your hypothesis.
Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a shot later tonight.
Says you. Without personally knowing the people involved, you can't possibly say that. My best friend from childhood - more like a brother, really - has been homeless for well over a decade. I've gotten him three different jobs that he held for a couple weeks before not showing up one day. He's sane, inasmuch as he's acting rationally: he's not willing to invest the responsibility necessary to maintain a fixed living space. What more can I do to help him?
Maybe Woz tried to give Cap'n a hand up a few too many times and got tired of it. Again, without being personally involved in the relationship, you can't know.
That's OK. There are plenty sitting on the shelf at the local Wal-Mart that they could probably ship to less apathetic areas.
Yeah. If only the other changes included in that revision didn't cause my FreeBSD machine to hang so that I could use the fixed driver, I'd be set.
So hundreds of developers (and being kernel hackers, probably paid) took a long time to find a file corruption bug that would presumably affect a lot of people. And somehow you think that NVidia's little graphics driver team should be able to magically resolve your problems overnight?
Yes: two weeks from now.
Yes, because in physics, nothing is like anything else. (rolls eyes)
I remember reading about portsnap on the install docs, but for some reason I ended up using cvsup instead...
It was definitely a happy discovery. It makes the update go from several minutes to a few seconds, and has to be easier on the update servers, too.
OTOH I did not find about portupgrade until few weeks after I started using FreeBSD (which I regret).Don't regret it! You may not always find yourself on a machine that has portupgrade installed.
They do as of the 68030. I can't speak for MacOS, but AmigaOS used the MMU a lot for nifty tricks like copying the OS ROM into RAM and then remapping it because it was many times faster.
It updates /usr/src at line speed, as did cvsup. It's not faster, just written in a vastly more common language. I don't think anything will beat portsnap for updating ports since it's downloading a small set of patch files and applying them. There's no filesystem walking required to compare the local and remove versions.
I live in a sub-$200,000 "crapshack". Of course, it's 4900 square feet on a half-acre plot in the good part of a nice town with first-rate schools. I admit that the hot tub in the attached sunroom has a broken thermostat, and it's difficult in practice to fit three cars in the garage when visitors come, but I think we'll persevere.
You decided to live in someplace with a hyperinflated housing market, but don't extrapolate your lifestyle choice problems to the rest of us who've found the good life elsewhere.
No. You were broke, but not poor. Poor people do poor people things like use their rent money to buy lottery tickets, or celebrate payday with a fifth of vodka and call in sick the next day (because they "earned" it). Broke people bust their ass to send their kids to school and improve their situation.
My mom's family defined poverty. I don't think she owned a pair of store-bought shoes until high school. Still, her mom sewed dresses for the girls and pants for the boys, made them wash when appropriate, and pushed them through school whether they wanted to go or not. My aunt runs a large, successful farm. My uncle was a successful contractor. My mom ran the communications department of a large railroad. Every single one of them did well for themselves because they learned that poverty isn't an acceptable way of life and then did something about it.
She was broke, but never poor. Neither were you.
Good sir, this is your LIFE we're talking about here. I understand and respect your desire to protect the other party's privacy, but your own self preservation should trump all else. If it doesn't, then all I ask is that you talk to someone about why that is. Please, for your own sake? You're worth it.
OK, I haven't been in the situation to consider this for real, but I'm a geek and compelled to think my way through unlikely situations (substitute "talking to the mafia" for "meeting a stranger"; same principle).
You don't have at least one friend that you can hand a sealed envelope to with strict orders not to open it unless you don't report back, in person, by a certain time? Failing that, someone you can coerce into doing it for you ("the evidence against you is in my safe deposit box - don't screw this up!")?
The last thing I'd want in the scenario you describe is for the likely non-technical police officer to have to figure out what a zipfile is or how to import your mailspool. It'd be much more time-efficient (which may be critically important for you) to just print the stuff out. If the things you're doing are so alternative that taking this risk is simply impossible, you may wish to re-evaluate your pastimes.
If you can smell it from 100m away, I'd say that a sound cone is probably also involved.
Can't believe I'm having this conversation.
But there are unknowable truths, and that's formally provable. Godels incompleteness theorems show that any reasonably powerful logic system can generate hypotheses that simply cannot be proven either way. This isn't just intellectual posturing either, but something that had profound effects on how science works.
Does you argument hold up when it's well known that there are things we can't know? It might, but it was kind of long and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
That presumes that the main interface remains in GL. Imagine a new client written with, say, QT, where only the world itself is rendered in 3D. Everything else - menus, dialogs, chat windows - would be rendered as plain old 2D toolkit widgets. Frankly, I wouldn't care if I only got 5 FPS if I could still carry on a chat in realtime.
I've dealt with these blockheads when nonexistant accounts were turned over to collections, and to a toad, every one of them gave me explicit permission to record the phone calls by stating that "this call may be monitored for quality assurance". Since no one seems to remember the difference between "may" (which includes granting permission) and "might" (which is what they probably meant), record away!
Are people using drives that can toggle compression on the fly? In my experience, it's usually on or off on a per-tape basis. A typical setup with Amanda Backup is to disable drive compression for the reasons you give, plus the fact that the backup software can know exactly how much data will fit on a tape in advance.
Well, dumping compressed data to a compressed tape will actually cause it to take up more room, so what different combination of hardware/software compression are you using?
There are 33.4 billion trillions of water molecules in a gram of the stuff. I think you understated the number in the ocean by a few dozen orders of magnitude.
It does, but you can tell the modem to report its modem-to-computer rate instead of its modem-to-modem rate. 57600 seems a bit low, since most PC serial ports would typically run at 115200, but slower ports aren't so uncommon that I wouldn't believe it.
At the ISP where I worked, our standard "fix" for customers in one particularly awful small town was to add three commas to the end of the phone number they were dialing (eg replacing "555-1234" with "555-1234,,,"). That caused the modem to wait for three seconds after connecting before starting its handshake, which made it miss the 56k trainup but catch the 33.6 trainup almost every time. The end result was that they'd never get a flaky 56k connection, but instead get a rock-solid 33.6. It was a little slower, but at least it worked consistently.