I tend to have all of my code using very meaningful variables and function names, and any time there are large amounts of code in a single function (i.e. several hundred lines), I will break it up into helper functions as well, especially if more than one function can use them. Then all I need to do is put a small block comment at the top of every logical block of code that will explain what it will do, and then I don't need to have lines of comments all over my code. I find it works better that way, because I hate when 20 lines of code take up 3 pages and you loose track of what you are doing because of all of the comments.
Oh I see, and the absolutely enormous military budgets, most of which is used to push ahead with technology that can destroy is perfectly acceptable, while planetary exporation is not.
Glad I understand.
Most people don't know where their tax dollars go, and I'm certain that if they knew exactly where it was going, and that the percentage of the tax dollars would be required to ressurect NASA and other research and science industries would be unnoticable, I doubt they'd object.
If you were to ask everyone if they wish NASA would get some more funding, I'd bet that you'd see many people saying yes... Far far more than is proportional to the amount of money that they are getting.
So how, exactly, is this democracy? The leaders are deciding, and marketing it to the public, where the money is spent, and they have given the public too much else to worry about. Also with the way that the corporations are digging their hands into the government, I'm sorry to say that this is hardly the ideal capitalistic government that it is supposed to be.
You're being unneccessarily harsh on them. What the hell do you expect when the public has decided that space exploration is no longer important so it's not worth spending any money on anymore?
And then people have the GALL to criticise NASA when the consider advertising/commercial revenues. With that attitude they are doomed to failure.
And also notice that if there was a human at the helm, they'd have a lot better chance at controlling the craft... most of the failures have been simple logistical failures... with someone onboard you can fix those without a big deal.
No degree is going to automatically finish your career for you. A degree is a beginning, not an end.
So tell me then, if I haven't finished my degree, but am making > $70k/year on leave from university and have far more experience than most graduates, is there much point in me finishing my degree?
there is no way (at least with current limitations) to accurately predict a model with that many variables (for example, weather).
That's not true. Just because there are trillions of factors happening every nanosecond does NOT means that it is not predictable, it just means that we may not have the means to predict it. This however does NOT make it random. Is there any way for you, as a human without tools, to look inside a CPU and predict exactly what electron will be where and a what point in time? No, of course not, however the processor is working in a very predictable nature.
there is also free will, or choice
That is my paradox. According to the fundamental rule that I have laid out (there is no spoon, er shit I mean there is no randomness) that also means that there is no free will. Sorry, one cannot coexist with the other. Free will explicitly denies predictability, and thus implies randomness.
I will not, no, I cannot accept this. Thus there must be randomness in the universe. The only plausable explination that I can find is that there are forces acting outside of the universe / this dimension that have effects on the inside of this universe. With this there is still no randomness and there is still free will, however now I've implied that there is something supernatural about our existance (like perhaps our "souls" exist in a different dimension?), and that is a whole new ball of wax to get into.
Did one of the tiny dark matter particles spark up the wrong way and set it off?
You're neglecting to think of other dimensions. This universe could have simply been created by a "black hole" in another dimension, thus requiring nothing "in this universe" to have set it off.
I believe that there is no such thing as "random". You can have pseudo-random, but what we commonly call "random" is really "not having sufficient information to predict an outcome". Everything is a series of causes and reactions. Similarly, nothing can happen without a cause. The cup cannot fall off the table on it's own, and if the cup was on the table and is now shattered on the ground, then something happened to cause it to do that. (Before you ask, I don't particularily think that it will ever jump back up onto the table and reassemble itself,... ever!)
So, having established that, it means that everything that I do, everything that I will ever do has been laid out already by a complicated series of causes. If nothing happens without a cause, then everything that I do (which are all actions) will have had a cause, and thus I have no free will. I have no choice in anything that I do, it has all been decided ahead of time, just as everyone else's actions. We are all automatons.
Obviously I can't accept that. Thus I have a paradox.
Anyone care to contribute? I don't claim to be up to date with the latest in anything, but I came up with this problem a few months ago while talking to a friend about some of my other theories and it has been bugging me since.
If the chip hits 370 degrees in a few seconds, and the thermal diode in the CPU itself can only handle 1C/sec then it doesn't matter what mobo you use.
However the fact that the chips were completely different, and the second video appears to be done by AMD means that the comparison is moot. However, if this test is indeed true, then it just means that AMD fixed the problem in their latest chips, not invalidated Tom's tests.
I remember once, in high school, I was trying to hack around into our Novell 3.11 network that was connected to a WAN that had 22 high schools and about 180 elementary schools hooked up to it. (It was pretty sweet back then!). I had done all of the hacking from the library in open sight (I mean, a hacker wouldn't possibly do that, right? So mustn't have been one...;P) and I made friends with the librarians as well. One day (after I learned of the 'server debug mode') I realized that if I could just get physical access to the server (which was in one of the rear librarian's only rooms) I'd be all good. So I just got up courage, and walked straight in! Walked up to the server, did the deed, walked back to my machine, logged in, returned to the server, removed the deed, stopped to say hi to one of the librarians on the way out and back to the computer, now logged in as Supervisor. Of course, because of really really stupid network admins at the board office, it was rediculously easy to get access to the master network at the board office as well. I ended up using a brute force password hacker and got 320 of 540 passwords, including 5 supervisor-equiv accounts. I ended up phoning up the head of the network admin at the board (who was rumoured to be a cool guy), got his voicemail and said "Hey, I think we need to talk. I'm such and such from such and such high school and I wanted to talk to you about network security. Please call me back here, and by the way, I hear that Greece is wonderful this time of year" (His password, of course, was "Greece"). Needless to say I got a phone call back pretty quickly saying "Hi. Let's talk."
I have easily spent several hundred hours playing MOO and MOO2, and I absolutely can't wait for MOO3 to come out. If they do manage to pull off what they've said that they are going to do, by god it is going to easily cream every other strategy game out there.
This is apparently an optical multiple read/write format, not just a SDVD-R type of thing... And there's several companies who have developed almost the same thing, which means that a standard might be decided much quicker than before...
Not to mention that this should also cause DVD-R drives to finally come down within reach!
That'd be a pretty horrible idea, since the liquid in your car's coolant system can hover around 80C, which is far in excess of the temperature your CPU puts out.
The better idea would be to put a bigass heatsink and route airflow from the outside over the heatsink... Pushing air at 60MPH over your heatsink will be sure to cool it down in a hurry!! =)
Well I think one thing to do would be to mount the drive vertically , since most of the force will be perpendicular to the ground, if you mount the drive connectors-down the biggest problem you'd be likely to have would be to move the heads, but they'd be much less likely to hit the disk.
Or you could mount it on a rubber shock absorption system, like 1 box inside a frame connected at all corners by rubber straps to the frame. Might help, dunno, but other people have done this and it doesn't seem to be much of a problem?
I know that one thing that you can do would be to mount it on a support system with rubber mounts/straps to absorb any huge jars to the car, that might be an idea worth exploring.
I am ALL ABOUT trying to set up one of these in my car but I really don't know where to start. Anyone have any links/ideas to help?
That's because it was proprietary, expensive, and unnecessary at the time.
Your first two points are valid, however the last one is not. That attitude is what gets us into trouble more often than not. Better to have something that's amazing and not needed (yet) rather than make a standard of what is needed only now and then 2 years later get into trouble because it doesn't hold up.
Actually IBM's MCA bus was amazing!! It was fast, it had true plug and play, and a bunch of other features to make it a really strong bus. Too bad it didn't take off.
How much longer do you think that will work? Once they realize that people are getting around it by just changing the user agent, they'll make it so that _only_ MSIE can get in, instead of blocking out specific browsers.
Gack. Although I try to defend MS against many of the unwarranted and sometimes ignorant attacks (I like a good debate), there's not much that I can do to defend them in this case. Microsoft, you're on your own on this one.
You forget that the majority of people are using IE (like 92% or something crazy like that) so they won't even notice. Anyone savvy enough to use Mozilla (or at least the vast majority of them, perhaps save your mom and pop who you convinced should use mozilla because microsoft is evil incarnate) can probably figure out how to change the string.
I had a problem with HP and their crappy burners. I bought a 2x a few months after they came out, and within about 6 months it was unusable. After about a dozen coasters I complained and got a refurbbed drive that lasted about 2 months before it failed. I complained again and got another one that was DOA, and was getting "hardware failure" messages. I tried to reply and they told me "well, normally if you got those messages we'd get you to send it in, but since you just got it from us it must be your problem". After about a week of convincing them I finally wrote a 2 page letter to the head of the customer service department and CC'ed it to a few other high ranking people in HP. I diplomatically asked for a new drive and 20 disks to replace the ones that I lost, and basically got a call the next day saying "ok, where'd you like us to send it?".
Seeing how these are just conjectures, and there's no proof of exactly what happened, how do we know that these optimizations don't indeed effect other games as well?
Why (indeed how) would you put in optimizations that only work when a quake3 reference is found? Have they tested other games as well to see? Perhaps the only thing is that the drivers disable certain safeguards or throw certain performance slowing features out the window if you run a high profile game?
Did they grep the ATI drivers to see if infact there was a reference anywhere to quake?
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I tend to have all of my code using very meaningful variables and function names, and any time there are large amounts of code in a single function (i.e. several hundred lines), I will break it up into helper functions as well, especially if more than one function can use them. Then all I need to do is put a small block comment at the top of every logical block of code that will explain what it will do, and then I don't need to have lines of comments all over my code. I find it works better that way, because I hate when 20 lines of code take up 3 pages and you loose track of what you are doing because of all of the comments.
Oh I see, and the absolutely enormous military budgets, most of which is used to push ahead with technology that can destroy is perfectly acceptable, while planetary exporation is not.
Glad I understand.
Most people don't know where their tax dollars go, and I'm certain that if they knew exactly where it was going, and that the percentage of the tax dollars would be required to ressurect NASA and other research and science industries would be unnoticable, I doubt they'd object.
If you were to ask everyone if they wish NASA would get some more funding, I'd bet that you'd see many people saying yes... Far far more than is proportional to the amount of money that they are getting.
So how, exactly, is this democracy? The leaders are deciding, and marketing it to the public, where the money is spent, and they have given the public too much else to worry about. Also with the way that the corporations are digging their hands into the government, I'm sorry to say that this is hardly the ideal capitalistic government that it is supposed to be.
You're being unneccessarily harsh on them. What the hell do you expect when the public has decided that space exploration is no longer important so it's not worth spending any money on anymore?
And then people have the GALL to criticise NASA when the consider advertising/commercial revenues. With that attitude they are doomed to failure.
And also notice that if there was a human at the helm, they'd have a lot better chance at controlling the craft... most of the failures have been simple logistical failures... with someone onboard you can fix those without a big deal.
Apparently it's to vacuum the dust of Mars off your suit.
That's what showers are for. And by the very nature of the dust being so fine, what will it track up?
It does seem awefully strange to require an hour in the airlock... very very strange indeed.
And so they got it all for $50,000 off Radioshack parts?
Damn, so for $20,000 they could have a satellite working if they went to an electronics shop with reasonable prices!! =)
No degree is going to automatically finish your career for you. A degree is a beginning, not an end.
So tell me then, if I haven't finished my degree, but am making > $70k/year on leave from university and have far more experience than most graduates, is there much point in me finishing my degree?
Running Word 6.0 on Windows 3.11 a Pentium 4 significantly outperforms Office Xp on the same machine!!!
Who'da thunkit?
So what you're really saying is:
ignorance is bliss
Since we don't know that we don't have free will, we can pretend that we do.
:)
No, I still don't like that answer, but food fo thought! =)
there is no way (at least with current limitations) to accurately predict a model with that many variables (for example, weather).
:-(
That's not true. Just because there are trillions of factors happening every nanosecond does NOT means that it is not predictable, it just means that we may not have the means to predict it. This however does NOT make it random. Is there any way for you, as a human without tools, to look inside a CPU and predict exactly what electron will be where and a what point in time? No, of course not, however the processor is working in a very predictable nature.
there is also free will, or choice
That is my paradox. According to the fundamental rule that I have laid out (there is no spoon, er shit I mean there is no randomness) that also means that there is no free will. Sorry, one cannot coexist with the other. Free will explicitly denies predictability, and thus implies randomness.
I will not, no, I cannot accept this. Thus there must be randomness in the universe. The only plausable explination that I can find is that there are forces acting outside of the universe / this dimension that have effects on the inside of this universe. With this there is still no randomness and there is still free will, however now I've implied that there is something supernatural about our existance (like perhaps our "souls" exist in a different dimension?), and that is a whole new ball of wax to get into.
So I'm still in a quandary
look at my other post
here
Did one of the tiny dark matter particles spark up the wrong way and set it off?
You're neglecting to think of other dimensions. This universe could have simply been created by a "black hole" in another dimension, thus requiring nothing "in this universe" to have set it off.
I have a very perplexing question!
... ever!)
I believe that there is no such thing as "random". You can have pseudo-random, but what we commonly call "random" is really "not having sufficient information to predict an outcome". Everything is a series of causes and reactions. Similarly, nothing can happen without a cause. The cup cannot fall off the table on it's own, and if the cup was on the table and is now shattered on the ground, then something happened to cause it to do that. (Before you ask, I don't particularily think that it will ever jump back up onto the table and reassemble itself,
So, having established that, it means that everything that I do, everything that I will ever do has been laid out already by a complicated series of causes. If nothing happens without a cause, then everything that I do (which are all actions) will have had a cause, and thus I have no free will. I have no choice in anything that I do, it has all been decided ahead of time, just as everyone else's actions. We are all automatons.
Obviously I can't accept that. Thus I have a paradox.
Anyone care to contribute? I don't claim to be up to date with the latest in anything, but I came up with this problem a few months ago while talking to a friend about some of my other theories and it has been bugging me since.
do you not understand?
If the chip hits 370 degrees in a few seconds, and the thermal diode in the CPU itself can only handle 1C/sec then it doesn't matter what mobo you use.
However the fact that the chips were completely different, and the second video appears to be done by AMD means that the comparison is moot. However, if this test is indeed true, then it just means that AMD fixed the problem in their latest chips, not invalidated Tom's tests.
I remember once, in high school, I was trying to hack around into our Novell 3.11 network that was connected to a WAN that had 22 high schools and about 180 elementary schools hooked up to it. (It was pretty sweet back then!). I had done all of the hacking from the library in open sight (I mean, a hacker wouldn't possibly do that, right? So mustn't have been one... ;P) and I made friends with the librarians as well. One day (after I learned of the 'server debug mode') I realized that if I could just get physical access to the server (which was in one of the rear librarian's only rooms) I'd be all good. So I just got up courage, and walked straight in! Walked up to the server, did the deed, walked back to my machine, logged in, returned to the server, removed the deed, stopped to say hi to one of the librarians on the way out and back to the computer, now logged in as Supervisor. Of course, because of really really stupid network admins at the board office, it was rediculously easy to get access to the master network at the board office as well. I ended up using a brute force password hacker and got 320 of 540 passwords, including 5 supervisor-equiv accounts. I ended up phoning up the head of the network admin at the board (who was rumoured to be a cool guy), got his voicemail and said "Hey, I think we need to talk. I'm such and such from such and such high school and I wanted to talk to you about network security. Please call me back here, and by the way, I hear that Greece is wonderful this time of year" (His password, of course, was "Greece"). Needless to say I got a phone call back pretty quickly saying "Hi. Let's talk."
Ahhh, back to the good old days.
I have easily spent several hundred hours playing MOO and MOO2, and I absolutely can't wait for MOO3 to come out. If they do manage to pull off what they've said that they are going to do, by god it is going to easily cream every other strategy game out there.
For those who don't know, check it out!!!
This is apparently an optical multiple read/write format, not just a SDVD-R type of thing... And there's several companies who have developed almost the same thing, which means that a standard might be decided much quicker than before...
Not to mention that this should also cause DVD-R drives to finally come down within reach!
That'd be a pretty horrible idea, since the liquid in your car's coolant system can hover around 80C, which is far in excess of the temperature your CPU puts out.
The better idea would be to put a bigass heatsink and route airflow from the outside over the heatsink... Pushing air at 60MPH over your heatsink will be sure to cool it down in a hurry!! =)
Well I think one thing to do would be to mount the drive vertically , since most of the force will be perpendicular to the ground, if you mount the drive connectors-down the biggest problem you'd be likely to have would be to move the heads, but they'd be much less likely to hit the disk.
Or you could mount it on a rubber shock absorption system, like 1 box inside a frame connected at all corners by rubber straps to the frame. Might help, dunno, but other people have done this and it doesn't seem to be much of a problem?
I know that one thing that you can do would be to mount it on a support system with rubber mounts/straps to absorb any huge jars to the car, that might be an idea worth exploring.
I am ALL ABOUT trying to set up one of these in my car but I really don't know where to start. Anyone have any links/ideas to help?
That's because it was proprietary, expensive, and unnecessary at the time.
Your first two points are valid, however the last one is not. That attitude is what gets us into trouble more often than not. Better to have something that's amazing and not needed (yet) rather than make a standard of what is needed only now and then 2 years later get into trouble because it doesn't hold up.
(think IBM's MCA bus)
Actually IBM's MCA bus was amazing!! It was fast, it had true plug and play, and a bunch of other features to make it a really strong bus. Too bad it didn't take off.
Thus I really don't think your analogy holds.
How much longer do you think that will work? Once they realize that people are getting around it by just changing the user agent, they'll make it so that _only_ MSIE can get in, instead of blocking out specific browsers.
Gack. Although I try to defend MS against many of the unwarranted and sometimes ignorant attacks (I like a good debate), there's not much that I can do to defend them in this case. Microsoft, you're on your own on this one.
You forget that the majority of people are using IE (like 92% or something crazy like that) so they won't even notice. Anyone savvy enough to use Mozilla (or at least the vast majority of them, perhaps save your mom and pop who you convinced should use mozilla because microsoft is evil incarnate) can probably figure out how to change the string.
Cairo, IIRC, the codename MS used for the first 32bit Windows
Cute, but I'm almost certain that it was CHICAGO, not Cairo.
I had a problem with HP and their crappy burners. I bought a 2x a few months after they came out, and within about 6 months it was unusable. After about a dozen coasters I complained and got a refurbbed drive that lasted about 2 months before it failed. I complained again and got another one that was DOA, and was getting "hardware failure" messages. I tried to reply and they told me "well, normally if you got those messages we'd get you to send it in, but since you just got it from us it must be your problem". After about a week of convincing them I finally wrote a 2 page letter to the head of the customer service department and CC'ed it to a few other high ranking people in HP. I diplomatically asked for a new drive and 20 disks to replace the ones that I lost, and basically got a call the next day saying "ok, where'd you like us to send it?".
Seeing how these are just conjectures, and there's no proof of exactly what happened, how do we know that these optimizations don't indeed effect other games as well?
Why (indeed how) would you put in optimizations that only work when a quake3 reference is found? Have they tested other games as well to see? Perhaps the only thing is that the drivers disable certain safeguards or throw certain performance slowing features out the window if you run a high profile game?
Did they grep the ATI drivers to see if infact there was a reference anywhere to quake?