I bought a "lifetime" subscription. TiVo are now defining that as nine years, no argument, tough.
I am extremely unimpressed, and won't be buying a new TiVo. Not that I can get Virgin - or would want Virgin - anyway. They seem to have given up making good kit and selling it themselves, and instead got into bed with first Sky, then Virgin, two of the greediest and crappiest providers around.
Anyway, there will be homebrew, so the box won't be bricked, and even failing that I should still be able to use it to rip&store DVDs, which I mostly do because I DIDN'T NICK THE FUCKING DVD, I FUCKING RENTED IT, SO STOP NAGGING ME NOT TO FUCKING NICK IT.
It's not a complete circle. There are a few over on bottom right of the picture, but they are only 'almost touching' around the top left.
It's the ends of the closely packed stones that form a chord which is aligned with the midsummer sun. Seems unlikely to be chance.
Next thing to do is for someone, maybe someone 'anonymous' to use the same trick to spam the rankings. Simply set up a proxy so that when you hit google for xxx, it returns a page containing yyy then click on it. Automate. Repeat.
Challenge: get Goatse on the first page for George W or T Blair, perhaps, or at least the dictionary page for 'idiot'.
I would suggest they have actually found that a small group are responsible for a lot of seeding, not the initial upload (initial seed).
Thus they have either (a) no fucking idea how this works and I'm right or (b) some really, really smart tracing software and I'm wrong.
There's a superb sketch by Not The Nine O''Clock News showing a boy and a girl sitting in a steamed up car. A cop knock on the window. It's would down, revealing the boy, still dressed, and the girl, still dressed and knitting. Cop says "Excuse me sir, is this young lady 16*?". Boy looks at his watch and replies "Not for another 15 minutes".
To be fair, that astounding statistic is based on one type of study only - air bubbles in ice cores. We could be wrong about the way gases move in ice.
One of the first predictions of Climate Change is that both the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream should move north slightly, leading to hot wet summers and cold dry winters for the UK.
In ten years, I will buy an automatic, self-drive-on-motorways car. It will come with insurance for that task, which is dependent on my having had the car suitably maintained (service stamps) and which runs for five years.
I will need insurance for the human driver.
After five years, I will need to buy insurance for the automatic self drive too.
I concur exactly with your null/NPE observations. The next addition I want to the Java spec is the ability to mark a method as never returning null. (Also I want to be allowed to hunt with a shotgun anyone else who tells me that every calling routine should check for null return.)
Out of interest, did you do the analysis separating out the actual gc cost, or just lumping it with creation/destruction?
malloc/init/free isn't cost-free in any language, so any language will get a benefit from re-use if it can be designed in, whether it is a gc or manual memory management language. I'd be surprised if the majority of the cost was gc, but am happy to be proven wrong. Every day's a school day;)
Agreed. I have one of the original beige ones, and work bought me a new black one last year.
Mine is nice and clacky, positive to use and you can rest your finger-weight on the keys. The new one was soft and spongy and I had to lift my fingers - a major cause of RSI.
When my Dad was visiting a Tokyo University, the Professor he was visiting told him what time to get off the train, instead of what station, as he thought it would be easier for a westerner than reading station names.
As I said, WHEN W3C fix the standard in stone, -webkit-xxx and -moz-xxx will become xxx. So, no, neither Mozilla or Apple is advising to use xxx yet.
So you can have lots of lovely features to use in a way that will gracefully degrade (transitions simple don't occur, so fade-out becomes snap-out), and there's no problem worth speaking of. When the standards become standard, a very small change to the content of the css file will bring them in line.
And you're still going to need those graceful degradations because not everyone will upgrade on the same day anyway, so IE6 will still need support for a while.
In other words, we already support heterogeneous clients, so this is just business as usual.
Graphene is just a very common form of carbon that has long existed.
Um, no it isn't. You may be thinking of graphite. Even that's not that common.
Graphene doesn't occur in nature except as part of graphite, and can't be separated unless in tiny, tiny pieces. To be of useful size it has to be manufactured.
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I bought a "lifetime" subscription. TiVo are now defining that as nine years, no argument, tough.
I am extremely unimpressed, and won't be buying a new TiVo. Not that I can get Virgin - or would want Virgin - anyway. They seem to have given up making good kit and selling it themselves, and instead got into bed with first Sky, then Virgin, two of the greediest and crappiest providers around.
Anyway, there will be homebrew, so the box won't be bricked, and even failing that I should still be able to use it to rip&store DVDs, which I mostly do because I DIDN'T NICK THE FUCKING DVD, I FUCKING RENTED IT, SO STOP NAGGING ME NOT TO FUCKING NICK IT.
Sorry. Personal bugbear.
Justin.
It's not a complete circle. There are a few over on bottom right of the picture, but they are only 'almost touching' around the top left. It's the ends of the closely packed stones that form a chord which is aligned with the midsummer sun. Seems unlikely to be chance.
Users of Bing? How many people is that again?
I'm just disappointed that Google didn't use their new found powers for good. Well, my idea of good, anyway.
Perhaps by pushing the goatse link up Bing search results for Sarah Palin, or the Wikipedia entry for Monopoly on Bing searches for Microsoft.
Next thing to do is for someone, maybe someone 'anonymous' to use the same trick to spam the rankings. Simply set up a proxy so that when you hit google for xxx, it returns a page containing yyy then click on it. Automate. Repeat.
Challenge: get Goatse on the first page for George W or T Blair, perhaps, or at least the dictionary page for 'idiot'.
Justin.
There should be regulation of any payment processor, but not necessarily the same as the banks.
Further, there should be oversight and an ombudsman for the (almost) inevitable "He took my cash by walking past me!" exploit.
I would suggest they have actually found that a small group are responsible for a lot of seeding, not the initial upload (initial seed). Thus they have either (a) no fucking idea how this works and I'm right or (b) some really, really smart tracing software and I'm wrong.
There's a superb sketch by Not The Nine O''Clock News showing a boy and a girl sitting in a steamed up car. A cop knock on the window. It's would down, revealing the boy, still dressed, and the girl, still dressed and knitting. Cop says "Excuse me sir, is this young lady 16*?". Boy looks at his watch and replies "Not for another 15 minutes".
Just.
*Age of consent, UK.
Yeah, nobody has ever heard of the Apple 2. Right.
Apple II
Get it right. There a pedants lurking about.
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Get it right. There a pedants lurking about.
There are pedants lurking about.
Get it right. There a pedants lurking about.
There are pedants about. (They're clearly not lurking.)
Get it right. There a pedants lurking about.
Probably still a great Professor, sadly a shit student ;-)
(1) Fire a rocket from a railgun
(2) Ignite in the high atmosphere
(3) ?????
(4) Orbit!
I try to make this clear to non-maths people by pointing out that every derivative is greater than zero. Obviously I don't phrase it like that ;-)
To be fair, that astounding statistic is based on one type of study only - air bubbles in ice cores. We could be wrong about the way gases move in ice.
One of the first predictions of Climate Change is that both the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream should move north slightly, leading to hot wet summers and cold dry winters for the UK.
Tick.
I will steal and use that when mentoring. Thanks.
Justin.
This argument is old, and failing.
In ten years, I will buy an automatic, self-drive-on-motorways car. It will come with insurance for that task, which is dependent on my having had the car suitably maintained (service stamps) and which runs for five years.
I will need insurance for the human driver.
After five years, I will need to buy insurance for the automatic self drive too.
Sorted.
It isn't about liability, it's about insurance.
I concur exactly with your null/NPE observations. The next addition I want to the Java spec is the ability to mark a method as never returning null. (Also I want to be allowed to hunt with a shotgun anyone else who tells me that every calling routine should check for null return.)
Out of interest, did you do the analysis separating out the actual gc cost, or just lumping it with creation/destruction?
malloc/init/free isn't cost-free in any language, so any language will get a benefit from re-use if it can be designed in, whether it is a gc or manual memory management language. I'd be surprised if the majority of the cost was gc, but am happy to be proven wrong. Every day's a school day ;)
Agreed. I have one of the original beige ones, and work bought me a new black one last year.
Mine is nice and clacky, positive to use and you can rest your finger-weight on the keys. The new one was soft and spongy and I had to lift my fingers - a major cause of RSI.
When my Dad was visiting a Tokyo University, the Professor he was visiting told him what time to get off the train, instead of what station, as he thought it would be easier for a westerner than reading station names.
Now that's confidence. And it worked.
This is, unless I misunderstand, 1.1 mill to establish if there is a feasible way to get the costs down.
Not to actually build it, or ACTUALLY make the tech cheaper - just to see if it is feasible.
As I said, WHEN W3C fix the standard in stone, -webkit-xxx and -moz-xxx will become xxx. So, no, neither Mozilla or Apple is advising to use xxx yet.
So you can have lots of lovely features to use in a way that will gracefully degrade (transitions simple don't occur, so fade-out becomes snap-out), and there's no problem worth speaking of. When the standards become standard, a very small change to the content of the css file will bring them in line.
And you're still going to need those graceful degradations because not everyone will upgrade on the same day anyway, so IE6 will still need support for a while.
In other words, we already support heterogeneous clients, so this is just business as usual.
Um, no it isn't. You may be thinking of graphite. Even that's not that common.
Graphene doesn't occur in nature except as part of graphite, and can't be separated unless in tiny, tiny pieces. To be of useful size it has to be manufactured.
Justin.
Who invents something? The person who comes up with an idea, or the person who comes up with the first working implementation?
Diffie et al said, given a trapdoor function, we could make an encryption system. Rivest and Shamir made an effective trapdoor function.
'-webkit-xxx' is already practically identical to '-moz-xxx' and as soon as W3C stop admiring their bellies, will simply become synonyms to... 'xxx'.
There is potential for a slight problem, sure. So the cost/benefit analysis is:
"Potential for a slight maintenance issue for the next two/three years" ...against...
"Lots of excellent features"
No brainer.
Justin.