Looking up, I noticed that where the metal ribs of the umbrella connected to the plastic hub in the center, that the tips of the ribs were arcing between them!
Mmmm... rib tips.
(C'mon, it's more on-topic than all the dupe complaints today;)
Re:ABC cuts gore from injured child's Iraq war pho
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Damn. Thanks for the link. A horrifying photo that the media here in America refuses to air (or even acknowledge).
Has anybody said yet why they've gone ahead with the plan today? They said themselves the Iraqi gov't is in chaos and disarray and it doesn't look to me like they're fighting back much at this time. CNN's talking heads are mostly discussing fluff such as "what does the A in A-day stand for"....
If you saw an LCD monitor for $2000, it was probably Apple's 23" Cinema Display. Keep in mind that this is a comparatively high-end product and most LCDs are much less expensive (even $200 for real low-end stuff), as mentioned by another poster. Also note that until recently, the Apple monitor was around $3300 or so, so prices are definitely going down.
Basically, you can't judge the whole spectrum of something by the most pricey one, monitors included.
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Perl is also compiled to bytecode, as is Python. Neither is interpreted, in the strict sense.
Think how much the industry is making on Plasma screens. Do they have any real incentive to start selling a cheaper alternative?
They're not necessarily making a lot of money. What they make is a factor of their profit margin and the number of units sold. Selling a cheaper product at high volume could easily lead to higher profits. After all, how many people do you know that own plasma screens? The first company to commercialize OLED in TV displays, at a reasonable price, would be rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
I believe the thickness of desktop displays is due to markedly superior backlighting. This may not always be the case, but my desktop LCD monitor (Samsung 170T) is far brighter and contrast-ier than my iBook. OLEDs don't need backlighting; hence their svelteness.
An easy way to create an empty file with a hole is to use dd: dd if=/dev/zero of=office.zip seek=600M bs=1 obs=1 count=1
This writes a single zero byte at 600 megs from the start of the file. On Linux (ext2) the resulting 600 meg file uses only a few K (check the output of df). On OS X, though, it does appear to take up the full 600 megs, so be warned.
When I program in Python or Perl I sometimes wish for stronger typing. You can pretty much add any attribute to any object you want, which can be very dangerous, and also basically circumvents Perl's "use strict" directive. But I've also seen this used in a powerful way: some of ESR's "metaclass hacking" in Python would probably take forever to implement in a more static language, and the complexity would probably outweigh the benefit of the stronger typing. Perhaps this is not always the case, though.
I think we raised some good points here--although they're unlikely to be seen now, since my original post got moderated into oblivion. Oh, well.
A large part of programming is knowing how to get the computer to do your work for you, and a strong typing system can be made to do a lot of work.
I agree fully. I simply wanted to point out that a strong typing system does not guarantee maintainability or robustness, just as a dynamically typed system is not certain death. It's all in how you leverage their strengths. I still believe that each approach has its time and place, and that flexibility may trump compile-time checking in certain problems, or vice versa. I think the continued popularity of languages from both camps is a testament to this.
But last time I checked (which was a while, granted) Perl didn't have strong type checking to make sure you didn't pass the wrong kind of thing to a function. You have a handful of data types that do everything; it doesn't allow you to make assumptions about what other bits of code are/aren't doing, as you can with a properly-organized strongly-typed language.
On the other hand, I've seen C and C++ programmers come up with the most amazingly fucked up atrocities to get around the strongly-typed nature of those languages, to solve a problem that could have been clearly and elegantly solved with a dynamically-typed language. So you are correct to a certain extent, but compile-tile checking can sometimes cause more problems than it solves.
By the way, modern scripting languages now have unit testing frameworks, which addresses your excellent point of partitioning the work up and testing each bit.
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According to the article, cathedrals and churches have used infrasound (presumably organ) to enhance emotions for a few hundred years. I'd personally think that high-church style music would therefore actually be more likely to cause 'kicking at the subconscious' than rock music, which is not likely to hit such low lows. At least with the rock music, you're aware of the effects, whereas you can't hear the infrasound.
Root can do anything; the permissions are advisory only, and can be ignored. Otherwise, that mode 000 file would become a permanently inaccessible paperweight.
Do they forbid copied audio CD-Rs as well? How can they tell? What happens if your media player caches data on disk? In memory? Better disable access to the CD-ROM drive completely, remove the USB ports, and cut off the network, so that illegal material can't possibly get anywhere near a company computer. Anything else risks massive litigation.
This may be getting offtopic a bit, but I've found that memory usage and, consequently, swapping decreased substantially when I disabled the unlimited scrollback buffer in Terminal. I do most of my work in Terminal and I found it was taking up over 100M once, and I'm guessing substantially more at other times. Setting Window Settings->Buffer->Buffer Size to 1000 lines sped my system up a lot.
But you can flip those numbers around and say we've achieved a 90% decrease in unharvested energy, and only a 0.9% increase in unreflected light for the optical instruments. It's the exact same thing, but seems to be the opposite of what you said. Numbers can be made to lie very easily.
You say you didn't have a clue what the cryptographic algorithm you copied did. How can you expect to find a bug, then, or an error in implementation? It is especially true in cryptographic software that you need to completely understand what you're doing.
Now, if you had unleashed your code to the world, then someone might have spotted the error. And that's why it's called the many eyeballs theory--because what your team of 10 non-cryptographers fails to catch, another thousand eyeballs might.
By the way, the virtues of the "many eyeballs" theory have been noted in the cryptographic field since 1870, as Diffie says, and those esoteric algorithms are only better for it.
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gold (the backing of our current economic system)
In fact, the world's economic systems have not been based on the gold standard for over thirty years.
Yes, there is. Use Command-{ and Command-}. Works great.
Looking up, I noticed that where the metal ribs of the umbrella connected to the plastic hub in the center, that the tips of the ribs were arcing between them!
;)
Mmmm... rib tips.
(C'mon, it's more on-topic than all the dupe complaints today
Damn. Thanks for the link. A horrifying photo that the media here in America refuses to air (or even acknowledge).
Has anybody said yet why they've gone ahead with the plan today? They said themselves the Iraqi gov't is in chaos and disarray and it doesn't look to me like they're fighting back much at this time. CNN's talking heads are mostly discussing fluff such as "what does the A in A-day stand for"....
If you saw an LCD monitor for $2000, it was probably Apple's 23" Cinema Display. Keep in mind that this is a comparatively high-end product and most LCDs are much less expensive (even $200 for real low-end stuff), as mentioned by another poster. Also note that until recently, the Apple monitor was around $3300 or so, so prices are definitely going down.
Basically, you can't judge the whole spectrum of something by the most pricey one, monitors included.
Perl is also compiled to bytecode, as is Python. Neither is interpreted, in the strict sense.
Here ya go...
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THE screenshot
Think how much the industry is making on Plasma screens. Do they have any real incentive to start selling a cheaper alternative?
They're not necessarily making a lot of money. What they make is a factor of their profit margin and the number of units sold. Selling a cheaper product at high volume could easily lead to higher profits. After all, how many people do you know that own plasma screens? The first company to commercialize OLED in TV displays, at a reasonable price, would be rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
I believe the thickness of desktop displays is due to markedly superior backlighting. This may not always be the case, but my desktop LCD monitor (Samsung 170T) is far brighter and contrast-ier than my iBook. OLEDs don't need backlighting; hence their svelteness.
An easy way to create an empty file with a hole is to use dd:
dd if=/dev/zero of=office.zip seek=600M bs=1 obs=1 count=1
This writes a single zero byte at 600 megs from the start of the file. On Linux (ext2) the resulting 600 meg file uses only a few K (check the output of df). On OS X, though, it does appear to take up the full 600 megs, so be warned.
When I program in Python or Perl I sometimes wish for stronger typing. You can pretty much add any attribute to any object you want, which can be very dangerous, and also basically circumvents Perl's "use strict" directive. But I've also seen this used in a powerful way: some of ESR's "metaclass hacking" in Python would probably take forever to implement in a more static language, and the complexity would probably outweigh the benefit of the stronger typing. Perhaps this is not always the case, though.
I think we raised some good points here--although they're unlikely to be seen now, since my original post got moderated into oblivion. Oh, well.
A large part of programming is knowing how to get the computer to do your work for you, and a strong typing system can be made to do a lot of work.
I agree fully. I simply wanted to point out that a strong typing system does not guarantee maintainability or robustness, just as a dynamically typed system is not certain death. It's all in how you leverage their strengths. I still believe that each approach has its time and place, and that flexibility may trump compile-time checking in certain problems, or vice versa. I think the continued popularity of languages from both camps is a testament to this.
But last time I checked (which was a while, granted) Perl didn't have strong type checking to make sure you didn't pass the wrong kind of thing to a function. You have a handful of data types that do everything; it doesn't allow you to make assumptions about what other bits of code are/aren't doing, as you can with a properly-organized strongly-typed language.
On the other hand, I've seen C and C++ programmers come up with the most amazingly fucked up atrocities to get around the strongly-typed nature of those languages, to solve a problem that could have been clearly and elegantly solved with a dynamically-typed language. So you are correct to a certain extent, but compile-tile checking can sometimes cause more problems than it solves.
By the way, modern scripting languages now have unit testing frameworks, which addresses your excellent point of partitioning the work up and testing each bit.
According to the article, cathedrals and churches have used infrasound (presumably organ) to enhance emotions for a few hundred years. I'd personally think that high-church style music would therefore actually be more likely to cause 'kicking at the subconscious' than rock music, which is not likely to hit such low lows. At least with the rock music, you're aware of the effects, whereas you can't hear the infrasound.
Root can do anything; the permissions are advisory only, and can be ignored. Otherwise, that mode 000 file would become a permanently inaccessible paperweight.
Do they forbid copied audio CD-Rs as well? How can they tell? What happens if your media player caches data on disk? In memory? Better disable access to the CD-ROM drive completely, remove the USB ports, and cut off the network, so that illegal material can't possibly get anywhere near a company computer. Anything else risks massive litigation.
This may be getting offtopic a bit, but I've found that memory usage and, consequently, swapping decreased substantially when I disabled the unlimited scrollback buffer in Terminal. I do most of my work in Terminal and I found it was taking up over 100M once, and I'm guessing substantially more at other times. Setting Window Settings->Buffer->Buffer Size to 1000 lines sped my system up a lot.
America: Evidence Favors Infinitely Expanding Waistlines
But you can flip those numbers around and say we've achieved a 90% decrease in unharvested energy, and only a 0.9% increase in unreflected light for the optical instruments. It's the exact same thing, but seems to be the opposite of what you said. Numbers can be made to lie very easily.
No analysis of a list of phone numbers can give you the slightest clue where they go, without dialing them up
976-LOVE
Commodore One successfully executes LOAD FROGGER,8,1!
Indeed, it does say 1280x1024, but then a bit further down it also says:
Video: MPEG-4 SP, QVGA (320x240) 18f/s. AVI file format
I don't know how to reconcile these, but there you go.
This is the most well-founded series of rebuttals I've ever seen here; my congratulations.
Oh, and the other poster is a wanker of the nth order.
You say you didn't have a clue what the cryptographic algorithm you copied did. How can you expect to find a bug, then, or an error in implementation? It is especially true in cryptographic software that you need to completely understand what you're doing.
Now, if you had unleashed your code to the world, then someone might have spotted the error. And that's why it's called the many eyeballs theory--because what your team of 10 non-cryptographers fails to catch, another thousand eyeballs might.
By the way, the virtues of the "many eyeballs" theory have been noted in the cryptographic field since 1870, as Diffie says, and those esoteric algorithms are only better for it.