The only times (3x) when I have had my luggage broken was in US. I have flewn a lot in Europe, and the Europeans have broken nothing. I have come to the conclusion that there is a significantly overweight person on every US airport, with a mission to jump up and down repeatedly on every suitcase.
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Dissonance and consonance are not as much cultural. It is more of a elastoviscosic property of the basilar membrane (in human inner ear). This was found out already by Plomp and Levelt in 1960's, but is only now making its way to music theory.
Finns are gullible morons that will passively take anything.
No, a moron has an IQ of 50-70. Finns are normal people, with a tendency to passively take anything.
Oh and they're inbred too.
Yep. We are the second-most inbread people in the world, right after Islandese.
The reason why we know so many languages is that our nation has been robbed so many times. We still have the old legisture of teaching Swedish to every Finn, because that used to be law when Swedes captured our best lands, forced their religion on us to be able to better tax us, and imperialized us in many other ways - for example, by burning our oldest archives at Kaarina castle. No one really needs Swedish, except to serve the descendant of the old imperial lords, who still own most of the land (the Swedes divided the best land amongst themselves, Swedish families still owing much of the costal areas).
So, we learn Finnish from our mothers, but it is impossible to communicate with foreigners in Finnish, so we learn 1-2 languages to communicate with foreigners, and Swedish to be able to serve the people who robbed our lands in the 17th century. In practice, 95 % of people never use Swedish after school.
The average IQ of Finns is about 98.5, about the same as in US. However, Finns are great at PISA. This is mostly because of two reasons:
1) Finns are good for schooling. They are bit passive and believe (too) easily in authority.
2) The Finns have a narrow gene pool. This means that a Finn is somewhat similar to another Finn. A homogeneous class is easier to teach.
The Finnish school system is not that optimal. Children are still though in 25 to 32 pupil groups, depending on age. However, the teachers are pretty good, and Finns are good for school.
The Koreans, Japanese and Hollandese people are highly intelligent, but Finns are just a tad below the average. Three out of the four very highly intelligent (IQ above 160) Finns that I know are from the northern parts of Finland. As far as I know, they are not Lapps, though.
The only reason to do temporally reverse processing is, of course, error back propagation. The rat's logic and sensory data does not match 100%, and the difference is stored into special locations for later processing. When resting, rat uses this data, back propagates it through its network and adjusts the synaptic weights (weighted by the gradient of the neural responce) to obtain maximal behavioral change with minimal synaptic changes, ensuring locality of the behavior change. This is so obvious that I wonder that it ever hit the news.;-)
This is great news for national security and counterterrorism activities. From now on the, we do not need to rely on mere fingerprints of foreigners, but we can ask for a tooth, grind it up, and check the real nationality.
DirectX was built for two purposes in the first place: vendor-lock-in and to avoid paying to SGI. Microsoft stopped OpenGL development by interfering with the OpenGL ARB, in order to catch up with their own solution, DirectX.
Yes. Vendor-lock-in is what Microsoft generally does well.
In Finland, boys and girls are somewhat similar in math and science performance until the age of 14 or so, at which the brightest of the boys start to excel over the brightest of the girls. Testing at the age 10 should be much more gender-independent than testing at a later age, say 18. Some of the genes seem to activate in teens, giving a clear nerd-advantage for guys.
Also, it is less important to test for the average. Much more can be achieved at higher intelligence levels. Finding out about the highest 10% IQ could be the economically important thing.
I have written a function with 17 gotos. During my 15 year C++ career, I have written another function with a single goto, too. Both were well-justified and most performance-oriented.
IMHO, a well-positioned goto is more clear than a structural variable. For example, jumping out of a loop inside a loop is quite nice with a goto. There is no such thing as a double break.
I have implemented a chess engine for mobile phones in Java, and a similar engine in C++ and Python.
My Java engine is the fastest on the market and licensed by two companies, selling in ten thousands
of copies. If I run it in a normal computer, the java engine is about 1/4 of the speed of the c++
engine. However, mobile phones do not afford JIT, because it would eat batteries and resources.
Thus, JIT is off, leading to about 3 % of the speed that could have been achieved by C++.
Java is not an enabling technology for mobile phones. A good portable C or C++ library would
have been an enabling technology.
Also, they should try to agree on certaing pixel size standards, like VGA, SVGA, XGA etc. were
for computers. For small screens this is even more important.
If we had screen size standards and a reasonably good C-library for mobile phones, we would be
years ahead in development and consumer level application adoptation. Symbian does not have
a proper posix-like API. The developers are really waiting for that.
Another blocking thing has been that the bugs in APIs (JAVA or C) have not been published.
The mobile phone manufacturers work in complete secrecy and do not publish their bugs nor
the fixes to the bugs. Each ISV has to find out all the bugs on their own. This is really
bad.
Microsoft has three legs:.doc, win32 api and wabi.
They are cutting win32 api to lead the customers to the next honey pit,.NET. They need to move the customers around, because otherwise the competition would catch up with an increase of win32 api complience (WINE, nt2unix, wind/u, MainWin, Willows Twin API) and wabi complience (WINE, Cedega). If Microsoft stays put, they will lose the win32-leg. This is whyt they will cut it away. They will be standing on two legs, and are trying to grow an additional leg (at customers expense) called.NET.
Adding good support for.pdf is like self-amputating the (quickly rotting).doc leg. After this amputation, Microsoft will be standing for a while (before and if.NET is adopted ***) on one leg, binary compatibility. This is where they really excel. The windows software out there is so buggy, that it is a huge task to make an binary layer that matches the bugs in the early Windows, changes modes around to match the various Windows versions, etc. Typically, I can easily run about 5 % of old Windows code using WINE, whereas about 50 % runs on a modern version of Windows (I am talking about software that Microsoft has not tested within their labs, like computer games made in Finland for Finnish kids, but to some extend this ranges to other multimedia software and games, up to Tiger Woods Golf 2000, which does not run on latest Windows). However, if people would see Microsoft balancing with one leg, there would be much more money pushing it over by an improved binary compatibility.
In my opinion it is very dangerous for Microsoft to simultaneously cut two legs, win32 and.doc.
***) In the company where I work at, the initial enthusiasm for.NET is dying in the upper management. The initial projects implemented with.NET have been near catastrophes in engineering productivity and quality, whereas our C++ work has been okeyish. Also, the middle management is seeing the interoperability difficulties with C++/.NET -- C++ is still needed at the algorithm level to gain competitive speed, and the interoperability issues with.NET are huge.
"gimme, gimme, gimme, my turn to play with the toys!"
At first though, the idea that UN would control Internet is fine. But if you think about the origin of the Internet technologies, it is easy to understand the other position.
I am personally very grateful for the US for web, Linux, IRC, MySQL, Python, etc. This is the stuff that internet is made of. Because of these, we should let the US to govern the "Interwebby-thing."
My interpretation on what you are trying to say: Let the layout algorithm be the same.
People do use stupid tricks like empty lines etc. to get the layout they want. However, there is no guarantee, that these stupid tricks in the layout work similarly in another (not-a-bit-perfect-copy) layout algorithm. Thus, the documents will look different in different applications, or even the different versions of the same application (whenever bugs are fixed from the layout algorithm), sometimes revealing the stupid tricks in the document rather clearly.
> This isn't the New World Order we paid for.
The US gave us Linux, Web, IRC, Python, MySQL, etc. and now we can freely use them. I say, we should give the US something back instead of stealing their jobs.
If the company does not value diverse skills in their workforce, they know nothing about technology risk management. Companies with a blind eye for technology changes will fade away eventually, and you do not want to be part of it anyway. Just remain 'multi-skilled' and find a company that values it highly.
What really bothers me in European politics is that right wing is also pro-church, pro-military, pro-SW-patents, anti-open-source, and narrow-minded.
Even if I hate this I cannot vote for left wing, because I believe that people should make their own decision and goverment should be in the background. We have much too much govermental interference in our lives already.
I have been running an Itanium 2 box with various 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows (sigh). My machine was affected at one time by the RPC virus, and at that time there was no patch for the particular evaluation version. The virus was a 32-bit virus, but still was capable in affecting the 64-bit Windows. I believe that Microsoft did not rewrite all the OS parts, but they run some parts in emulation. This is a shame for an OS.
We in Europe have had our own special units for most things: weight, distance, volume, etc.
We paid the price of conversion in favor of more efficient international co-operation. Today, we are still paying the price for you not being able to do your part. Many people operating with you need to know about these completely unnecessary imperial units. Every now and then an airplane drops from the sky because they thought they filled in gallons, a patient is killed due to an inch/cm translation error, or a mars probe goes wild.
US will need to pay the price for getting more compatible with the rest of the world. The cost of not being compatible is huge to the American industry, and getting metric is fundamental to the American economy.
We did our part. Now it is time for you to do yours. It is really rude to pull of a "it is so expensive" trick when everyone else has already paid their part.
The right way to design software is to use all units in metric inside the system, all ratios as 100% = 1.0, not 100.0, etc. Simple principles like these remove a lot of unnecessary bugs. Unfortunately, there are many text books, even recognized books like Large Scale C++, that use imperial units in examples. Using imperial units or even scaled metric units (like cm) is asking for trouble. Stick to m, kg, s, etc. and do the conversions only when needed: in user interface and system interfacing.
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Please mod the parent down, the claim is not correct and not supported by http://code.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_alpha_study.html
1e12 != 10e12
The only times (3x) when I have had my luggage broken was in US. I have flewn a lot in Europe, and the Europeans have broken nothing. I have come to the conclusion that there is a significantly overweight person on every US airport, with a mission to jump up and down repeatedly on every suitcase.
Dissonance and consonance are not as much cultural. It is more of a elastoviscosic property of the basilar membrane (in human inner ear). This was found out already by Plomp and Levelt in 1960's, but is only now making its way to music theory.
No, a moron has an IQ of 50-70. Finns are normal people, with a tendency to passively take anything.
Oh and they're inbred too.
Yep. We are the second-most inbread people in the world, right after Islandese.
The reason why we know so many languages is that our nation has been robbed so many times. We still have the old legisture of teaching Swedish to every Finn, because that used to be law when Swedes captured our best lands, forced their religion on us to be able to better tax us, and imperialized us in many other ways - for example, by burning our oldest archives at Kaarina castle. No one really needs Swedish, except to serve the descendant of the old imperial lords, who still own most of the land (the Swedes divided the best land amongst themselves, Swedish families still owing much of the costal areas).
So, we learn Finnish from our mothers, but it is impossible to communicate with foreigners in Finnish, so we learn 1-2 languages to communicate with foreigners, and Swedish to be able to serve the people who robbed our lands in the 17th century. In practice, 95 % of people never use Swedish after school.
1) Finns are good for schooling. They are bit passive and believe (too) easily in authority.
2) The Finns have a narrow gene pool. This means that a Finn is somewhat similar to another Finn. A homogeneous class is easier to teach.
The Finnish school system is not that optimal. Children are still though in 25 to 32 pupil groups, depending on age. However, the teachers are pretty good, and Finns are good for school.
The Koreans, Japanese and Hollandese people are highly intelligent, but Finns are just a tad below the average. Three out of the four very highly intelligent (IQ above 160) Finns that I know are from the northern parts of Finland. As far as I know, they are not Lapps, though.
They must be upgrading Vista from .NET 2.0 to .NET 2.1 ;-)
The only reason to do temporally reverse processing is, of course, error back propagation. The rat's logic and sensory data does not match 100%, and the difference is stored into special locations for later processing. When resting, rat uses this data, back propagates it through its network and adjusts the synaptic weights (weighted by the gradient of the neural responce) to obtain maximal behavioral change with minimal synaptic changes, ensuring locality of the behavior change. This is so obvious that I wonder that it ever hit the news. ;-)
This is great news for national security and counterterrorism activities. From now on the, we do not need to rely on mere fingerprints of foreigners, but we can ask for a tooth, grind it up, and check the real nationality.
Yes. Vendor-lock-in is what Microsoft generally does well.
Also, it is less important to test for the average. Much more can be achieved at higher intelligence levels. Finding out about the highest 10% IQ could be the economically important thing.
IMHO, a well-positioned goto is more clear than a structural variable. For example, jumping out of a loop inside a loop is quite nice with a goto. There is no such thing as a double break.
Perhaps it is about the time to invent columns for browsing, too? (No, frames are not the solution)
I want columns with intelligent layout, not overlapping windows.
Java is not an enabling technology for mobile phones. A good portable C or C++ library would have been an enabling technology.
Also, they should try to agree on certaing pixel size standards, like VGA, SVGA, XGA etc. were for computers. For small screens this is even more important.
If we had screen size standards and a reasonably good C-library for mobile phones, we would be years ahead in development and consumer level application adoptation. Symbian does not have a proper posix-like API. The developers are really waiting for that.
Another blocking thing has been that the bugs in APIs (JAVA or C) have not been published. The mobile phone manufacturers work in complete secrecy and do not publish their bugs nor the fixes to the bugs. Each ISV has to find out all the bugs on their own. This is really bad.
They are cutting win32 api to lead the customers to the next honey pit, .NET. They need to move the customers around, because otherwise the competition would catch up with an increase of win32 api complience (WINE, nt2unix, wind/u, MainWin, Willows Twin API) and wabi complience (WINE, Cedega). If Microsoft stays put, they will lose the win32-leg. This is whyt they will cut it away. They will be standing on two legs, and are trying to grow an additional leg (at customers expense) called .NET.
Adding good support for .pdf is like self-amputating the (quickly rotting) .doc leg. After this amputation, Microsoft will be standing for a while (before and if .NET is adopted ***) on one leg, binary compatibility. This is where they really excel. The windows software out there is so buggy, that it is a huge task to make an binary layer that matches the bugs in the early Windows, changes modes around to match the various Windows versions, etc. Typically, I can easily run about 5 % of old Windows code using WINE, whereas about 50 % runs on a modern version of Windows (I am talking about software that Microsoft has not tested within their labs, like computer games made in Finland for Finnish kids, but to some extend this ranges to other multimedia software and games, up to Tiger Woods Golf 2000, which does not run on latest Windows). However, if people would see Microsoft balancing with one leg, there would be much more money pushing it over by an improved binary compatibility.
In my opinion it is very dangerous for Microsoft to simultaneously cut two legs, win32 and .doc.
***) In the company where I work at, the initial enthusiasm for .NET is dying in the upper management. The initial projects implemented with .NET have been near catastrophes in engineering productivity and quality, whereas our C++ work has been okeyish. Also, the middle management is seeing the interoperability difficulties with C++/.NET -- C++ is still needed at the algorithm level to gain competitive speed, and the interoperability issues with .NET are huge.
At first though, the idea that UN would control Internet is fine. But if you think about the origin of the Internet technologies, it is easy to understand the other position. I am personally very grateful for the US for web, Linux, IRC, MySQL, Python, etc. This is the stuff that internet is made of. Because of these, we should let the US to govern the "Interwebby-thing."
People do use stupid tricks like empty lines etc. to get the layout they want. However, there is no guarantee, that these stupid tricks in the layout work similarly in another (not-a-bit-perfect-copy) layout algorithm. Thus, the documents will look different in different applications, or even the different versions of the same application (whenever bugs are fixed from the layout algorithm), sometimes revealing the stupid tricks in the document rather clearly.
> This isn't the New World Order we paid for. The US gave us Linux, Web, IRC, Python, MySQL, etc. and now we can freely use them. I say, we should give the US something back instead of stealing their jobs.
If the company does not value diverse skills in their workforce, they know nothing about technology risk management. Companies with a blind eye for technology changes will fade away eventually, and you do not want to be part of it anyway. Just remain 'multi-skilled' and find a company that values it highly.
In 2029 we learn that the world will end 2038-01-19.
What really bothers me in European politics is that right wing is also pro-church, pro-military, pro-SW-patents, anti-open-source, and narrow-minded. Even if I hate this I cannot vote for left wing, because I believe that people should make their own decision and goverment should be in the background. We have much too much govermental interference in our lives already.
I have been running an Itanium 2 box with various 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows (sigh). My machine was affected at one time by the RPC virus, and at that time there was no patch for the particular evaluation version. The virus was a 32-bit virus, but still was capable in affecting the 64-bit Windows. I believe that Microsoft did not rewrite all the OS parts, but they run some parts in emulation. This is a shame for an OS.
We paid the price of conversion in favor of more efficient international co-operation. Today, we are still paying the price for you not being able to do your part. Many people operating with you need to know about these completely unnecessary imperial units. Every now and then an airplane drops from the sky because they thought they filled in gallons, a patient is killed due to an inch/cm translation error, or a mars probe goes wild.
US will need to pay the price for getting more compatible with the rest of the world. The cost of not being compatible is huge to the American industry, and getting metric is fundamental to the American economy.
We did our part. Now it is time for you to do yours. It is really rude to pull of a "it is so expensive" trick when everyone else has already paid their part.
The centimeter is not a recommended unit. Wait until he says 20 millimeters.
The right way to design software is to use all units in metric inside the system, all ratios as 100% = 1.0, not 100.0, etc. Simple principles like these remove a lot of unnecessary bugs. Unfortunately, there are many text books, even recognized books like Large Scale C++, that use imperial units in examples. Using imperial units or even scaled metric units (like cm) is asking for trouble. Stick to m, kg, s, etc. and do the conversions only when needed: in user interface and system interfacing.