> It doesn't go nearly far enough. Instead of figuring out the best SQL statement, the programmer should send a list of *all* logically equivalent queries and just let the database execute the one it finds least troublesome.
If they are logically equivalent, then the database program should be able to generate them itself. Pretty much every database program does rewrite the query to maximise performance.
This report finds somewhat of a gender difference. Females are more likely to believe in creationism etc. Although region also has more of an impact that sex.
True, (although I wouldn't quite go as far as calling the Romans christian - iirc they were still a minority group at the start of the dark ages) but it was religion that kept and fuelled the dark ages going. The eventual shrugging off of religious ideas marked the end of the dark ages.
> The slashdot Atheists seem to share a common belief that the world would be much more advanced with out Christianity, which is arguably wrong.
Possibly, but the dark ages set back advancement a long way. (Although I wouldn't specifically blame Christianity. People would have just believed anything else if it wasn't there.)
> Last summer researchers in Palo Alto, Calif., uncovered secret elitism at Wikipedia when they found that 1 percent of the reference site's users make more than 50 percent of its edits
Wtf. Why is this 'secret elitism' ? IIRC, the story was something along the lines that what happened typicall was that a large 'plain text' commit tended to be submitted by an actual expert, and then hundreds of small commits were made by this 1% that was to wikify the text, format it nicely, add references etc.
To me, that sounds more like a 'secret janitorial staff' than a secret elitism.
What if they in return told you to 5-6 years with monks, and pray etc everyday, without thought to science, and make an attempt to get close to God, etc.
The author of the Lord of the rings was clearly thinking of Arabian nights when he wrote his book. He wrote much of it during World War 2 when death and destruction was all around him. It was no surprise that he would have found comfort in a series of books whose common underlying theme was the sparing of the wife who had sinned against the ruler. The interwinning of the Indian, Persian, Egyptian, and Arab cultures that make up the Arabian Nights stories has clearly struck Tolkein and influenced him into creating his own stories of intertwining cultures of Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs.
Where the Arabian nights has powerful magical items such as the magical lamp, Tolkien has changed this into a powerful magical ring. But the quests, goals, strong ethical undertones, etc. have all remained.
bah I'm bored now. I don't know much about the Arabian nights. I don't think i've read many of them.
Just to get his opinion correct (I was recalling from memory before), I found his talk online. He did mention specialist books, and gave exceptions etc. Pasting the relevant part from http://gnuisance.net/blog/t/2007/rms-report-2007.html
What would a democratic government do about these problems? Stallman asked that question out loud. He thinks a democratic government would reduce the dimensions of copyright law. They could start by reducing the amount of time a work remains copyrighted. Stallman said most books are remaindered after 2 years and out of print in 3, and so he thinks a 10 year copyright term won't affect most authors.
When Stallman pitched the idea of a 10 year copyright term to a panel of science fiction and fantasy authors, he expected disagreement. Loud disagreement. And he got it: one of the authors--an award winning fantasy author--said, ``10 years is outrageous! 5 years should be the max.'' It turned out this author had a dispute with his publisher: the publication rights to the book were to revert to the author after the book went out of print, but the publisher refused to admit they weren't printing the book anymore.
``10 years is a start,'' Stallman said, ``we can adjust it a little bit either way later.''
Um, if you write the code then you'll always have complete freedom over what to do with it. You can write some code, put in a GPL project, then put it in a BSD project. It's your code - you can relicense it.
You are of course trolling to hell and back, but I would like to make one point..
I saw RMS about 10 years ago, and found him to be a real 'hippie'. It was really quite embarrassing.
But I saw him again just 2 years ago and found that he'd changed a lot. He gave a very good speech and talked about the copyright on books. He proposed a two year copyright length on books, extended if it sells well to five years etc. He put forward his reasoning (Most books go out of print after two years), and the reaction from book writers during his research (positive), etc. It was a very reasonable argument. He brought up the philisophy of being free, but it was more of an undertone, than a dominant statement.
I think RMS has matured a lot during the years. Maybe listen to one of his recent talks and give him a fair ear. If you still don't like him, then fair enough.
This is a huge logic flaw. There's degrees of certainty.
Any decent scientific experiment will attempt to remove human bias etc. Just because you can't prove anything 100%, doesn't mean everything is equally valid.
If one group said "we don't believe in ghosts" and another group said "we could not find any evidence for ghosts, despite extensive testing" then which opinion would you trust more?
I've always hated this line of reasoning. If developers used slower machines, then the programs that they produce would be slower. You just can't profile (e.g. valgrind) a program on a slow computer.
Slashdot Mirror
Hi. It's 600km/sec relative to our galaxy. It's 400km/sec relative to the background microwave radiation.
Heh. I have a Master's in physics and a PhD in engineering, and I have exactly the same problem. The math articles are just unreadable.
> It doesn't go nearly far enough. Instead of figuring out the best SQL statement, the programmer should send a list of *all* logically equivalent queries and just let the database execute the one it finds least troublesome.
If they are logically equivalent, then the database program should be able to generate them itself. Pretty much every database program does rewrite the query to maximise performance.
We can have some idea, by looking the gender differences in the degree of religousness and acceptance of evolution etc.
For example:
http://www.jstor.org/view/00113204/dm991472/99p0199h/1?frame=noframe&userID=8bb81e86@sussex.ac.uk/01c0a8487200509d190&dpi=3&config=jstor
This report finds somewhat of a gender difference. Females are more likely to believe in creationism etc. Although region also has more of an impact that sex.
True, (although I wouldn't quite go as far as calling the Romans christian - iirc they were still a minority group at the start of the dark ages) but it was religion that kept and fuelled the dark ages going. The eventual shrugging off of religious ideas marked the end of the dark ages.
> The slashdot Atheists seem to share a common belief that the world would be much more advanced with out Christianity, which is arguably wrong.
Possibly, but the dark ages set back advancement a long way. (Although I wouldn't specifically blame Christianity. People would have just believed anything else if it wasn't there.)
Searching on google scholar I found this:
http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/31/1/109.pdf
> Also, it makes the false assumption that more scientists are men than women.
/are/ men.
Uh, most scientists
How does it decode two streams at once?
> Last summer researchers in Palo Alto, Calif., uncovered secret elitism at Wikipedia when they found that 1 percent of the reference site's users make more than 50 percent of its edits
Wtf. Why is this 'secret elitism' ? IIRC, the story was something along the lines that what happened typicall was that a large 'plain text' commit tended to be submitted by an actual expert, and then hundreds of small commits were made by this 1% that was to wikify the text, format it nicely, add references etc.
To me, that sounds more like a 'secret janitorial staff' than a secret elitism.
Just set the thermostat on the central heating system to 20 degrees..
> Or calibrate a thermometer?
Set the room temperature to 20 degrees, wait, mark off that level on the thermometer. Set the room temperature to 21 degrees....
What if they in return told you to 5-6 years with monks, and pray etc everyday, without thought to science, and make an attempt to get close to God, etc.
The author of the Lord of the rings was clearly thinking of Arabian nights when he wrote his book. He wrote much of it during World War 2 when death and destruction was all around him. It was no surprise that he would have found comfort in a series of books whose common underlying theme was the sparing of the wife who had sinned against the ruler.
The interwinning of the Indian, Persian, Egyptian, and Arab cultures that make up the Arabian Nights stories has clearly struck Tolkein and influenced him into creating his own stories of intertwining cultures of Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs.
Where the Arabian nights has powerful magical items such as the magical lamp, Tolkien has changed this into a powerful magical ring. But the quests, goals, strong ethical undertones, etc. have all remained.
bah I'm bored now. I don't know much about the Arabian nights. I don't think i've read many of them.
I think the previous idea was that the earth would be pushed away from the sun by the gases faster than the sun expands
You can draw parallels between any two stories at all. People are great at seeing patterns that aren't there.
Pick any two stories, and I'll show parallels between them.
Maybe you could make your post a bit more emotional if you added something about babies in it. Oh, and 'think of the children'.
Good grief.
Hi,
Just to get his opinion correct (I was recalling from memory before), I found his talk online. He did mention specialist books, and gave exceptions etc. Pasting the relevant part from http://gnuisance.net/blog/t/2007/rms-report-2007.html
What would a democratic government do about these problems? Stallman asked that question out loud. He thinks a democratic government would reduce the dimensions of copyright law. They could start by reducing the amount of time a work remains copyrighted. Stallman said most books are remaindered after 2 years and out of print in 3, and so he thinks a 10 year copyright term won't affect most authors.
When Stallman pitched the idea of a 10 year copyright term to a panel of science fiction and fantasy authors, he expected disagreement. Loud disagreement. And he got it: one of the authors--an award winning fantasy author--said, ``10 years is outrageous! 5 years should be the max.'' It turned out this author had a dispute with his publisher: the publication rights to the book were to revert to the author after the book went out of print, but the publisher refused to admit they weren't printing the book anymore.
``10 years is a start,'' Stallman said, ``we can adjust it a little bit either way later.''
Um, if you write the code then you'll always have complete freedom over what to do with it. You can write some code, put in a GPL project, then put it in a BSD project. It's your code - you can relicense it.
You are of course trolling to hell and back, but I would like to make one point..
I saw RMS about 10 years ago, and found him to be a real 'hippie'. It was really quite embarrassing.
But I saw him again just 2 years ago and found that he'd changed a lot. He gave a very good speech and talked about the copyright on books. He proposed a two year copyright length on books, extended if it sells well to five years etc. He put forward his reasoning (Most books go out of print after two years), and the reaction from book writers during his research (positive), etc. It was a very reasonable argument. He brought up the philisophy of being free, but it was more of an undertone, than a dominant statement.
I think RMS has matured a lot during the years. Maybe listen to one of his recent talks and give him a fair ear. If you still don't like him, then fair enough.
This is a huge logic flaw. There's degrees of certainty.
Any decent scientific experiment will attempt to remove human bias etc. Just because you can't prove anything 100%, doesn't mean everything is equally valid.
If one group said "we don't believe in ghosts" and another group said "we could not find any evidence for ghosts, despite extensive testing" then which opinion would you trust more?
lots of people knew lots of things. The question is, did they prove it using the scientific principle?
Just knowing it is slow is useless. A profiler tells you _where_ it is slow.
I've always hated this line of reasoning. If developers used slower machines, then the programs that they produce would be slower. You just can't profile (e.g. valgrind) a program on a slow computer.
If it did let you seek to an arbitrary point, then wouldn't it be a block cipher rather than a stream cipher, by definition?