if there are enough people that have
been pissed off by Rogers...
a grassroots small-claims onslaught will be
much more effective
The article said Judge Reade was considering
restarting her litigation practice for this.
I think there's definitely a market for it.
I subscribed to AT&T@Home for a few
months two years ago. Reliability was poor.
When a technician finally came to investigate
my cable modem which had lost sync a week
earlier, I told him to take it away; I'd had
enough. I still wonder if I could have sued
for lost wages from all the service appointments
I kept before that.
Now a friend of mine has announced
that he's switching to @Home. I don't know
what to tell him.
I prefer the EXISTS subquery too,
but only to avoid the overhead
of IN (subquery) or DISTINCT.
According to
Oracle Performance Tuning (O'Reilly),
sometimes a join is faster.
I guess the query engine has to execute the subquery once
for each row passing the other conditions
(and then scan the subquery results if it's an IN subquery).
For some joins it could merge subsets
of individual tables using a fancy data structure
(and then check the results for uniqueness if it's a DISTINCT query).
Maybe the choice between a subquery and
a join is one of those space/time
tradeoffs they told us about in school.
An old favorite of mine is the
3x+1 problem,
variously known as a hailstone function,
the Collatz problem, the Syracuse problem, etc:
T(n) = (n % 2 == 0) ? n / 2 :
(3 * n + 1) / 2
It is conjectured but not proven that
repeated applications of this function eventually
reach 1 for all positive integers.
Some numbers, e.g. 27, take quite a few steps
up and down before they converge.
Someone has set up a
distributed project
by email to look for counterexamples and collect
statistics.
Used wast amount of power and
computing time in doing so
Beautiful synthesis of "vast" and "wasted.":)
Persons who are less interested in math might
say that these projects are as wasteful
as cracking RC5.
Re:Proxies that filter web bugs
on
Web Bug Detector
·
· Score: 2
Webwasher does not use regular expressions to filter images: it filters them by size.
Excellent! Does it block them based on the
<IMG> tag attributes, or does it go ahead
and load the image headers?
Guidescope
uses a central database of image URLs that
users have chosen to block individually.
Now if I can find a way to chain Webwasher and
Guidescope together, my solution will be
complete.
Junkbusters now recommends a newer,
more user-friendly proxy called
Guidescope.
See
Junkbusters' Guidescope FAQ.
I've been using Guidescope betas for 6 months
with few complaints. They say they will release
the source code 8 months after the 1.0 binary
release.
Japan is different from America. I haven't
been there, but I'm told that Japanese culture
doesn't place quite the premium on individuality
that American culture does. Perhaps those who
have spent time in both places could shed some
light on this.
I have to agree that the face masking was
a pretty cowardly move in any case.
I played Car Wars once, many years ago.
My current motor mayhem game of choice is
Carmageddon.
The primary weapon is the car body itself.
Other capabilities include:
XEphem
author Elwood Downey says, "I am frequently
asked (often with stunning rudeness) why I use
Motif and not some other GUI toolkit such as
tcl/tk or gtk.
Here are my reasons..."
all you lazy kids with your fast 100 Mb
connections complain when quake 3 doesn't get a
ping rate less than 50
What if someone set up a PacketSphere in
front of a Quake server? With some clever
programming, there could be a latency handicap
to equalize the more lopsided games a bit.
an effort by Microsoft to raise questions
about the limits of innovation inherent
in the open-source approach
Allchin: freely distributed software code
could stifle innovation...legislators
should be aware of the threat
Mundie: It is innovation that
really drives growth...without the sustained investment made possible by commercial software,
real innovation would not be possible
"You keep using that word. I do not think
it means what you think it means." -
The
Princess Bride
In between the spin of the spy plane incident
and the weekly condemnation of Falun Gong,
I found a Beijing Review editorial,
followed by 1 opinion for and 3 against
banning the cafes altogether.
For those already baffled by the front page,
it's under "Free Forum" in the
top navigation bar.
System migration is not a step to be taken
lightly, and it's hard to get it right.
Although abundantly aware of its problems,
FAA is still running code that may be older than
you are, and they've already aborted deployment
of two modernized air traffic control systems.
Like many corporations, government agencies
are addicted to software custom-built in-house.
In some cases they already own the source code.
If they need something changed, they just give
their IT contractors a task order.
Even compared to most corporations, government
agencies seem to have a lot of inertia. Even if
such a law could get through Congress despite
M$ lobbying, many agencies would apply for
exemptions, adding a paperwork burden to the
technical burden.
I used to work as a contractor at a government
agency. Our government boss was pretty
enlightened and let us use Linux on our
desktop machines. However, we didn't even use
Apache for the public web server because of various migration difficulties.
I'd like to see someone use this to
control playback of a sound or MIDI file.
Western classical music has a well-known
mapping of gestures to responses.
The developers could consult professional
conductors to train it.
Conductor wannabes could then use it to train
themselves, without boring a bunch of music
students or embarrassing themselves in front
of them.
(e.g., user botches a cue, virtual orchestra
sounds weak and sloppy.:)
This wheel is already invented. freechess.org
has enabled (human|computer) vs (human|computer)
chess over the internet since 1995. Their
now commercial parent chessclub.com
started in 1992.
They sometimes have tournaments for homemade chess
programs.
Tim
Mann's XBoard/Zippy is a nice stable client
if you want a GUI for your brainchild; RoboFICS
is good if you don't.
Someone on freechess.org usually sets up a
mirror game for people to observe when there's
a human championship. Maybe they'll do the same
for the computer championship.
Sure they could play the match
over the net, but what fun is that?
It's not only about the computers.
Chess programmers are people too!
They like to talk shop in person.
Especially if there's beer.
I like the Geminids around December 13. They
are as plentiful as the Quadrantids,
and their radiant, the point in the sky where
the meteors appear to originate, is overhead
before midnight. Most other showers (Lyrids included) are best viewed in the wee hours.
My personal highest rate of meteors observed
per hour was during a Geminid shower. Summer haze
often messes up the Perseids for me.
Slashdot Mirror
3 * 1431655765 + 1 = 2^32 which looks like 0 if you're using 32-bit integers. Try using bc, gmp, or some other BigInt library to avoid overflows.
if there are enough people that have been pissed off by Rogers... a grassroots small-claims onslaught will be much more effective
The article said Judge Reade was considering restarting her litigation practice for this. I think there's definitely a market for it.
I subscribed to AT&T@Home for a few months two years ago. Reliability was poor. When a technician finally came to investigate my cable modem which had lost sync a week earlier, I told him to take it away; I'd had enough. I still wonder if I could have sued for lost wages from all the service appointments I kept before that.
Now a friend of mine has announced that he's switching to @Home. I don't know what to tell him.
I prefer the EXISTS subquery too, but only to avoid the overhead of IN (subquery) or DISTINCT. According to Oracle Performance Tuning (O'Reilly), sometimes a join is faster.
I guess the query engine has to execute the subquery once for each row passing the other conditions (and then scan the subquery results if it's an IN subquery). For some joins it could merge subsets of individual tables using a fancy data structure (and then check the results for uniqueness if it's a DISTINCT query).
Maybe the choice between a subquery and a join is one of those space/time tradeoffs they told us about in school.
An old favorite of mine is the 3x+1 problem, variously known as a hailstone function, the Collatz problem, the Syracuse problem, etc:
It is conjectured but not proven that repeated applications of this function eventually reach 1 for all positive integers. Some numbers, e.g. 27, take quite a few steps up and down before they converge. Someone has set up a distributed project by email to look for counterexamples and collect statistics.
Used wast amount of power and computing time in doing so
Beautiful synthesis of "vast" and "wasted." :)
Persons who are less interested in math might
say that these projects are as wasteful
as cracking RC5.
Webwasher does not use regular expressions to filter images: it filters them by size.
Excellent! Does it block them based on the <IMG> tag attributes, or does it go ahead and load the image headers? Guidescope uses a central database of image URLs that users have chosen to block individually. Now if I can find a way to chain Webwasher and Guidescope together, my solution will be complete.
Junkbusters now recommends a newer, more user-friendly proxy called Guidescope. See Junkbusters' Guidescope FAQ. I've been using Guidescope betas for 6 months with few complaints. They say they will release the source code 8 months after the 1.0 binary release.
average.matrix.net shows a marked increase in packet loss starting a few days ago. Could it be related to this?
Thanks for the kind words. Since the majority of my coworkers are ethnic Chinese, I am reminded of cultural differences daily.
It's their life not the company's.
Japan is different from America. I haven't been there, but I'm told that Japanese culture doesn't place quite the premium on individuality that American culture does. Perhaps those who have spent time in both places could shed some light on this.
I have to agree that the face masking was a pretty cowardly move in any case.
The Fresh Air site has a list of stations with frequencies and broadcast times.
I played Car Wars once, many years ago. My current motor mayhem game of choice is Carmageddon. The primary weapon is the car body itself. Other capabilities include:
XEphem author Elwood Downey says, "I am frequently asked (often with stunning rudeness) why I use Motif and not some other GUI toolkit such as tcl/tk or gtk. Here are my reasons..."
In June 2000 the New York Times ran another article (free registration required) about Victor Sheymov.
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made.
Make that three things: legislation, sausage, and software.
Something that...detected worms that scanned you, and then went out to their hosts....
Or a mail filter that detected spam, and then corrected vulnerabilities in the SMTP server that relayed it to you?
KDE developers get better coffee!
But the KDE Tip of the Day told me that KDE developers drink tea!
NASA issued a coffee plane press release last week. They have another agricultural release, unfortunately titled NASA Satellite Technology Goes Down on the Farm, about putting Internet-based Global Differential GPS (IGDG) on tractors.
all you lazy kids with your fast 100 Mb connections complain when quake 3 doesn't get a ping rate less than 50
What if someone set up a PacketSphere in front of a Quake server? With some clever programming, there could be a latency handicap to equalize the more lopsided games a bit.
From the article:
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - The Princess Bride
Lead article currently, how China's students are practicing democracy in their classrooms.
Middle School Class "Impeaches" English Teacher!
American Kids Drool With Envy!
In between the spin of the spy plane incident and the weekly condemnation of Falun Gong, I found a Beijing Review editorial, followed by 1 opinion for and 3 against banning the cafes altogether. For those already baffled by the front page, it's under "Free Forum" in the top navigation bar.
System migration is not a step to be taken lightly, and it's hard to get it right. Although abundantly aware of its problems, FAA is still running code that may be older than you are, and they've already aborted deployment of two modernized air traffic control systems.
Like many corporations, government agencies are addicted to software custom-built in-house. In some cases they already own the source code. If they need something changed, they just give their IT contractors a task order.
Even compared to most corporations, government agencies seem to have a lot of inertia. Even if such a law could get through Congress despite M$ lobbying, many agencies would apply for exemptions, adding a paperwork burden to the technical burden.
I used to work as a contractor at a government agency. Our government boss was pretty enlightened and let us use Linux on our desktop machines. However, we didn't even use Apache for the public web server because of various migration difficulties.
I'd like to see someone use this to control playback of a sound or MIDI file. Western classical music has a well-known mapping of gestures to responses. The developers could consult professional conductors to train it. Conductor wannabes could then use it to train themselves, without boring a bunch of music students or embarrassing themselves in front of them. (e.g., user botches a cue, virtual orchestra sounds weak and sloppy. :)
This wheel is already invented. freechess.org has enabled (human|computer) vs (human|computer) chess over the internet since 1995. Their now commercial parent chessclub.com started in 1992. They sometimes have tournaments for homemade chess programs. Tim Mann's XBoard/Zippy is a nice stable client if you want a GUI for your brainchild; RoboFICS is good if you don't.
Someone on freechess.org usually sets up a mirror game for people to observe when there's a human championship. Maybe they'll do the same for the computer championship.
Sure they could play the match over the net, but what fun is that? It's not only about the computers. Chess programmers are people too! They like to talk shop in person. Especially if there's beer.
I like the Geminids around December 13. They are as plentiful as the Quadrantids, and their radiant, the point in the sky where the meteors appear to originate, is overhead before midnight. Most other showers (Lyrids included) are best viewed in the wee hours. My personal highest rate of meteors observed per hour was during a Geminid shower. Summer haze often messes up the Perseids for me.
Details about these and other showers are on Gary Kronk's meteor calendar.