What scares me is that universities are dropping the maths requirement.
The uni I'm at, Manchester, is still just about holding out with its requirement. The trouble is, however, that they can't find the students with good enough grades. Especially what with the switch to AS (I'm not too sure why - perhaps people decide they don't like maths or something). Also they got fined last year for accepting too many foreign students - they were the ones mainly getting the good grades. I'm just quoting from the staff and student council..
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Check out distcc, which does distributed c compiling.
At my uni you have an NFS drive. So I can ssh into any machine in the uni and my files appear to be on it. One quick and dirty way to do this would be simply to compile each directory on a seperate machine. Most large programs have lots of sub componants so you can compile each part seperately. Use distcc for more complex cases - plus it is probably easier to use. From distcc.samba.org:
"distcc is nearly linearly scalable for small numbers of machines: Building Linux 2.4.19 on a single 1700MHz Pentium IV machine with distcc 0.15 takes 6 minutes, 45 seconds. Using distcc across three such machines on a 100Mbps switch takes only 2 minutes, 30 seconds: 2.6x faster. "
I took a quick look at the instructions. It really is dead easy to setup. I think I'll do it:)
Hmm, they don't "recommend" changing nationality just to join NASA. That was what I was planning to do..:)
They do, however, let ONE person out of the WHOLE of Europe become an astronaut! Woohoo.:)
I worked in aerospace at BAe... Wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped. I think for now I'll stick with my degree, and try again in 5 or 10 years time:) The average age for an astronaught is 35, so i have plenty of time.
missing a lie is a false negative, and hence would not incur any messed up flights. (If by messed up flight you mean delay, as opposed to blown up by terrorists)
From the (few) tests reported in the article, they have a false positive rate of ZERO.
Likewise for the european space agency. How do I get a space-related job there?
I'd love to fly to the stars, but know that I do not have the physic nor mental capability. But I want to at least be a stepping stone for someone else to get there.
Living in the UK, I have a duty to hate america:) However from a very young age the one thing I've consistently liked is NASA. Yeah I know they have problems, but they represent a lot of dreams:)
About half a year ago I posted a comment saying I couldn't work out how to apply to NASA. A few people posted links, but they were all for things like biochemists and managers and stuff.
How do I get to do mad-scientist kinda stuff? Work on rockets and spaceships?:) I worked at BAe Systems for a while hoping to get in via that route, but only one person had done it before me, and that was through creating better missiles to kill people with - not a route I wanted to go.
I read in a one of those women magazines ( I was getting my hair cut, okay?! What else was I to do?) various ways to tell if people are lying. It was the usual bag of tricks - see which direction their eyes go. (Something like if they look left, then they are accessing the left hand side of the brain which is the 'artistic' side - so they are making something up. If they look right then they are trying to do memory recall.)
Anyway, they said that experts had looked at videos of clinton telling everyone that he hadn't had sexual relations, and that the experts had all said he was a very bad liar, and it was really obvious.. Dunno how true this is...
It's like in "Liar Liar" where he cannot tell a lie. Personally the first thing that I would have done is to read out lots of physics theorys and see which are correct. If they are wrong, then I'm lying, so the machine should beep me. I'll become famous!:)
Why didn't he just buy a keyboard, and wire the left,right,up,down keys to the parallel port? Whole thing would have cost, ooh, about $10 including the keyboard.
Btw, I did this with some remote control cars and a remote control panther;)
All my GUIs seem to collapse on themselves, so I'm in no position to talk...
However:), what I _do_ like are programs where you seperate the code and gui as much as possible. Even to the point of making them seperate programs or at least a library.
Pros:
You can have many different gui's - personally this is how I like cross platform gui's done - one tailored for each platform.
If it is a seperate program, then you can script it, right from the start too.
You can test the code easier, since there's the gui is seperate.
Cons:
For some reason having them seperate seems to make them less robust in the examples I've seen.
So er yeah anyway. One solution is, as above, seperate your gui and code. Another solution, perhaps, is to plan all your dcop calls (or whatever your favourite scripting thing is). This ties in nicely in nicely with your use case diagrams since you can have calls for your "stories".
How about changing it so if you don't enforce it at the beginning, you lose it? Like trademarks is it? I always get mixed up.
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cool - I suspect it wouldn't be anything more than recognising the filename and adding a menu option to pass it to kaddressbook (or whatever it is called).
I found out about the war zone status last year when I searched the mailing lists looking for clues about if anyone was developing pgp mime support:)
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vcards are where you put all your information (name, address, phone number, etc) into an xml or rdf file. I think you might zip it as well. You then call it something like 'vcard' and mime attach it to every email you send. Then the receiving email client can add the persons details to its addressbook.
It's true that nobody can take away what we have already (patents not withstanding) but there are a couple of tactics that could be used:
First, MS donates time and money into producing some new classes and extensions (ooh, I dunno, perhaps wrappers around the windows widgets to qt or something).
But MS puts them under a license that is kinda free, but dodgy. But free enough that those who complain are labelled 'rms lovers' and ignored. (Perhaps something like "free to use and run, but MS may claim back rights at any time).
MS waits until everyone uses their extensions, and everybody builds on top of their extensions, leaving the old version to go to waste.
Then MS pulls the rug out, and decides they no longer allow anyone to use their code.
Am I being ridiculous? Sure. Is it likely? probably not. But you asked how it could happen..
Because we are very cautious, and too used to anything associated with MS being ruined?
Doesn't matter what the benefits are if we aren't sure if it will survive.
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er, appologies - I was talking about pgp mime support in kmail.
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Don't get tooo excited by the mime support. It isn't supported by default - you need to use Aegypton(wrong spelling - close enough). It doesn't integrate particulary well, and for me was a pita:) Also, for me and few others, the kde interface doesn't work, so you end up having to use the gtk message box to enter the password.. Plus the cancel button doesn't work, the error handling is bad, and sometimes both kde and aegypton want your password. Oh, and I keep getting bad signatures on mailing lists. Other people do as well - I'm not sure why - I think it is to do with the =20 being done incorrectly, or the language encoding or something.
But otherwise it is really cool - I can't wait till it is polished. I grumble a lot, but I love it really:)
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Do you know if kmail will have support for the vcard things? The release note said that the addressbook prog did, but it wasn't clear if kmail would call it automatically..
Well.. the trouble is that OS tends to believe in release early, release often.
Now say that RH maintained an particular release. Over time they fix reported bugs, they update software when there are security problems, they update software for extra features and functionality, and so on.. Well isn't that just an upgrade?
However, a year is too short a time I agree. But 10 years for a server? That would require them to take every bug fix and back port it to probably 20-30 distro version. It would become totally unmanagable.
I feel for redhat and see the problem they are in. They have a very very large code base to maintain.
I did say partial order, so yes there could be people you can't compare. But assuming it is at least chain complete, then for any person there will be zero or more people that "in the chain" - i.e. can be compared and one said to be better than another.
hmm I'd go on, but I think the moderators are going to lose patience with me soon.
A quick last point. Surely the sig implies that there is someone better than god? (You implied that god counts as "someone")
mpeg's, like most compression schemes, have the key frames (whole image) fairly frequently. Take a random mpeg file, and cut it in half, and play the second half. You probably won't notice any more than a second of corruption. (Do "la -la" on the file, note the size, in bytes. Then do "tail -b byte_size_divided_by_two filename.mpg")
Hmm. Assuming "better" is a chain complete partial ordered set, then if we take a person and do a transitive closure, then you will find someone who is "the best", such that there is no one who is better than them. If you are suggesting that the relation "better" is not strongly normalising, then that would require an infinite number of people. If you are suggesting that the relation "better" is not even weakly normalising, then you would require some kind of loop. This would require that it is not confluent.. This would mean that you have, say, a is better than b AND b is better than c AND c is better than a
Which requires a to be better than a, which no longer makes it chain complete.
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Why would you want to stream and seek etc in an lossless music file?
If you want to send the music to someone, ftp or whatever.
If you want to stream music radio-style, then compressed is 'good enough' - surely?
What scares me is that universities are dropping the maths requirement.
The uni I'm at, Manchester, is still just about holding out with its requirement. The trouble is, however, that they can't find the students with good enough grades. Especially what with the switch to AS (I'm not too sure why - perhaps people decide they don't like maths or something).
Also they got fined last year for accepting too many foreign students - they were the ones mainly getting the good grades.
I'm just quoting from the staff and student council..
Check out distcc, which does distributed c compiling.
:)
At my uni you have an NFS drive. So I can ssh into any machine in the uni and my files appear to be on it.
One quick and dirty way to do this would be simply to compile each directory on a seperate machine. Most large programs have lots of sub componants so you can compile each part seperately.
Use distcc for more complex cases - plus it is probably easier to use.
From distcc.samba.org:
"distcc is nearly linearly scalable for small numbers of machines: Building Linux 2.4.19 on a single 1700MHz Pentium IV machine with distcc 0.15 takes 6 minutes, 45 seconds. Using distcc across three such machines on a 100Mbps switch takes only 2 minutes, 30 seconds: 2.6x faster. "
I took a quick look at the instructions. It really is dead easy to setup. I think I'll do it
Hmm, they don't "recommend" changing nationality just to join NASA. That was what I was planning to do.. :)
:)
:) The average age for an astronaught is 35, so i have plenty of time.
They do, however, let ONE person out of the WHOLE of Europe become an astronaut! Woohoo.
I worked in aerospace at BAe... Wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped. I think for now I'll stick with my degree, and try again in 5 or 10 years time
er..
Try to be consistent in your own post!
"it missed 2/7 lies"
"..false positives"
missing a lie is a false negative, and hence would not incur any messed up flights. (If by messed up flight you mean delay, as opposed to blown up by terrorists)
From the (few) tests reported in the article, they have a false positive rate of ZERO.
Dammit!
Likewise for the european space agency. How do I get a space-related job there?
I'd love to fly to the stars, but know that I do not have the physic nor mental capability. But I want to at least be a stepping stone for someone else to get there.
Living in the UK, I have a duty to hate america :) :)
:)
However from a very young age the one thing I've consistently liked is NASA. Yeah I know they have problems, but they represent a lot of dreams
About half a year ago I posted a comment saying I couldn't work out how to apply to NASA. A few people posted links, but they were all for things like biochemists and managers and stuff.
How do I get to do mad-scientist kinda stuff? Work on rockets and spaceships?
I worked at BAe Systems for a while hoping to get in via that route, but only one person had done it before me, and that was through creating better missiles to kill people with - not a route I wanted to go.
I read in a one of those women magazines ( I was getting my hair cut, okay?! What else was I to do?) various ways to tell if people are lying. It was the usual bag of tricks - see which direction their eyes go. (Something like if they look left, then they are accessing the left hand side of the brain which is the 'artistic' side - so they are making something up. If they look right then they are trying to do memory recall.)
Anyway, they said that experts had looked at videos of clinton telling everyone that he hadn't had sexual relations, and that the experts had all said he was a very bad liar, and it was really obvious..
Dunno how true this is...
Imagine if they were 100% perfect!
:)
It's like in "Liar Liar" where he cannot tell a lie. Personally the first thing that I would have done is to read out lots of physics theorys and see which are correct.
If they are wrong, then I'm lying, so the machine should beep me. I'll become famous!
Hi!
I hate to be the one to ask.. but.. what is openldap?
I had a look at their site, and read the both FAQ's (Jeez, what a nightmare that is - is there anything worse than that faq-o-matic?).
As far as I understand so far:
* Users authenticate against it.
* It stores user information (So it can be used like a phone book).
Is there anything else it does?
Except he paid waaaay too much.
;)
Why didn't he just buy a keyboard, and wire the left,right,up,down keys to the parallel port?
Whole thing would have cost, ooh, about $10 including the keyboard.
Btw, I did this with some remote control cars and a remote control panther
All my GUIs seem to collapse on themselves, so I'm in no position to talk...
:), what I _do_ like are programs where you seperate the code and gui as much as possible. Even to the point of making them seperate programs or at least a library.
However
Pros:
You can have many different gui's - personally this is how I like cross platform gui's done - one tailored for each platform.
If it is a seperate program, then you can script it, right from the start too.
You can test the code easier, since there's the gui is seperate.
Cons:
For some reason having them seperate seems to make them less robust in the examples I've seen.
So er yeah anyway. One solution is, as above, seperate your gui and code. Another solution, perhaps, is to plan all your dcop calls (or whatever your favourite scripting thing is).
This ties in nicely in nicely with your use case diagrams since you can have calls for your "stories".
I'll shut up now.
Any ideas why it failed? :) Don't leave us in suspense.
You've only told half the story
How about changing it so if you don't enforce it at the beginning, you lose it? Like trademarks is it? I always get mixed up.
cool - I suspect it wouldn't be anything more than recognising the filename and adding a menu option to pass it to kaddressbook (or whatever it is called).
:)
I found out about the war zone status last year when I searched the mailing lists looking for clues about if anyone was developing pgp mime support
vcards are where you put all your information (name, address, phone number, etc) into an xml or rdf file. I think you might zip it as well. You then call it something like 'vcard' and mime attach it to every email you send. Then the receiving email client can add the persons details to its addressbook.
It's true that nobody can take away what we have already (patents not withstanding) but there are a couple of tactics that could be used:
First, MS donates time and money into producing some new classes and extensions (ooh, I dunno, perhaps wrappers around the windows widgets to qt or something).
But MS puts them under a license that is kinda free, but dodgy. But free enough that those who complain are labelled 'rms lovers' and ignored. (Perhaps something like "free to use and run, but MS may claim back rights at any time).
MS waits until everyone uses their extensions, and everybody builds on top of their extensions, leaving the old version to go to waste.
Then MS pulls the rug out, and decides they no longer allow anyone to use their code.
Am I being ridiculous? Sure. Is it likely? probably not. But you asked how it could happen..
Because we are very cautious, and too used to anything associated with MS being ruined?
Doesn't matter what the benefits are if we aren't sure if it will survive.
er, appologies - I was talking about pgp mime support in kmail.
Don't get tooo excited by the mime support. :) Also, for me and few others, the kde interface doesn't work, so you end up having to use the gtk message box to enter the password.. Plus the cancel button doesn't work, the error handling is bad, and sometimes both kde and aegypton want your password.
:)
It isn't supported by default - you need to use Aegypton(wrong spelling - close enough).
It doesn't integrate particulary well, and for me was a pita
Oh, and I keep getting bad signatures on mailing lists. Other people do as well - I'm not sure why - I think it is to do with the =20 being done incorrectly, or the language encoding or something.
But otherwise it is really cool - I can't wait till it is polished. I grumble a lot, but I love it really
Do you know if kmail will have support for the vcard things?
The release note said that the addressbook prog did, but it wasn't clear if kmail would call it automatically..
Well.. the trouble is that OS tends to believe in release early, release often.
Now say that RH maintained an particular release. Over time they fix reported bugs, they update software when there are security problems, they update software for extra features and functionality, and so on..
Well isn't that just an upgrade?
However, a year is too short a time I agree. But 10 years for a server? That would require them to take every bug fix and back port it to probably 20-30 distro version. It would become totally unmanagable.
I feel for redhat and see the problem they are in. They have a very very large code base to maintain.
I did say partial order, so yes there could be people you can't compare.
But assuming it is at least chain complete, then for any person there will be zero or more people that "in the chain" - i.e. can be compared and one said to be better than another.
hmm I'd go on, but I think the moderators are going to lose patience with me soon.
A quick last point. Surely the sig implies that there is someone better than god? (You implied that god counts as "someone")
mpeg's, like most compression schemes, have the key frames (whole image) fairly frequently. Take a random mpeg file, and cut it in half, and play the second half. You probably won't notice any more than a second of corruption. (Do "la -la" on the file, note the size, in bytes. Then do "tail -b byte_size_divided_by_two filename.mpg")
> However good you are, someone is better.
Hmm. Assuming "better" is a chain complete partial ordered set, then if we take a person and do a transitive closure, then you will find someone who is "the best", such that there is no one who is better than them.
If you are suggesting that the relation "better" is not strongly normalising, then that would require an infinite number of people.
If you are suggesting that the relation "better" is not even weakly normalising, then you would require some kind of loop.
This would require that it is not confluent..
This would mean that you have, say,
a is better than b AND
b is better than c AND
c is better than a
Which requires a to be better than a, which no longer makes it chain complete.
So in total, I don't agree with your sig.