it is impossible to make an accurate progress bar because it is impossible to predict the future
This.
My method for implementing a progress bar is the following: have a function that does a very rough estimate (the more accurate the better, but it's often impossible and in all cases it should be quick). Take this as a starting estimate. Start counting (and showing) the seconds down. When you do a new estimate, if it's lower than the previous one, use the new one. If it's longer, start _increasing_ the seconds to your ETA. This way the only big jumps are optimistic (30s, 29s, 15s, 14s...) and when things get hung you normally see (30s, 31s, 32s...).
Well, I don't know if the GP is talking about the PTT (push to talk) protocol which is a part of the GSM protocol. It's a line of sight communication between two phones over GSM protocol, similar in effect to walkie-talkie. Except that in the only phone I saw that had this capability (an old Nokia), it had been disabled by the carrier.
Saying that we should circumcise babies to protect them from HIV makes as much sense as saying we should give mastectomies to all young women to protect them from breast cancer.
This is EXACTLY what I say to people who support sexual mutilations of babies. They usually mumble something about not being the same and quickly change the subject. I don't have mod points but this needs a '+5 insightful'.
What do you mean "A new breakfast soda" ? No need for that. When I worked in the US my colleague whom I shared the office with came every morning with a gallon-sized mug of Coke(tm). Yes, a bucket with a handle, filled with ice cube and Coke, which she would take an hour or two to get choke down. I was horrified. But of course she did look like a sphere.
The other option is to make an artificial ring to block out about 1% of The Sun's energy.
I wonder how easy it would be to build a thin film of material directly in space. Any material, and a film extending in 2D as far as possible, without holes. Some proteins auto-assemble in 2D layers but would that work in space ? Bonus if it's highly reflective (then bend it with a grid of actuators to make a gigantic telescope), rigid enough to work as a solar sail, planet-sized to offset global warming or has several layers that can work as a solar cell... Plenty of applications.
Yeah, perl got popular for several reason, such as its ease of string manipulation. But it soon turned into 'use regex for everything'. At the time no other languages (except for sed, but calling it a language stretches it a bit) had easy regex, but that's no longer true. And its extreme compactness is also a hindrance as it turns any reasonably optimized code into symbol soup.
I also find this TMTOWTDI (There's more than one way to do it) philosophy frustrating. I did Perl for a year, wrote clear but slow progs, went to usenet for advice, got a first prog half as long and twice as fast, then a second... and at the end of the line a great one-liner that was plain impossible to understand.
Unless it's all backed-up to 'the cloud'. Not that I'm encouraging that, I have a GII _and_ a 15 year old server on which every part has been updated at least thrice.
I was mostly trolling, but the very next slashdot story presents a spoon that measures what you eat... Now all you need it a remote for a dog collar and you are all set.
While Kamen is at it, he should invent a collar that measures how much food goes though your throat and chokes you after a certain amount. We already have electric collars to keep dogs from wandering off a property, so why not an electric collar to keep the obese from ruining social security ?
Add a little H2O2 to your Evian and that should be about it. The water in Lake Vostok is highly saturated in O2, which seems to imply that no life will be found. The O2 comes from the surface snow trapping air, accumulating down, melting inside the lake and never being released (the extra water flows down in small rivers at the very bottom between ice and rock).
I've had Champagne with ice from the last core from Epica, 3280m deep, and it was quite an experience: it was tingling in the glass like a glass xylophone. The 300 bars of pressure still held by bubbles of air in the ice being released by the melting. That and the sweet taste of drilling fluid.
Which brands/models have the quietest cases ? Something with vibration absorbent materials at the base and all the attachement points, internal sound-proofing foam, fans with angled outtakes... I've had the same high-end case for 13 years and it would be the only reason to make me change.
How do you know when something gets reverted ? Do you get an email or do you have to go back and check ?
I've known OSM since its very beginning and my first thought was 'right, this project SO needs critical mass that it'll never happen'. Then, since I do a lot of mountain biking and one of my favorite website shows all the existing GPS tracks of various websites related to mountain biking on various map background (Google, IGN, OSM, etc), I started to notice that for some areas OSM was actually more accurate than the others. So, since I had a stash of GPS tracks on my own, I started contributing, particularly in areas that were deficient.
If you do a small area you know well, you can improve OSM very quickly. That's a great project which deserves to be more known from the larger public.
Woah... Are there actual physicians and surgeons in this 'association', or is it just a nutjob made-up front like so many others ? And if there are, can I please get a list so I can avoid going to see any of them ?
I've heard it said in the context of the 'first' computer, but it applies to almost any record: the definition of a world record is whatever makes sure it happened in the US...
Why is that ? I use Linux but I need to run a few CPU intensive image processing progs in VirtualBox. I have a 3-year old AMD mobo and it's like waddling in mollasses. What systems run VirtualBox the fastest ?!? I tried to google that a few days ago without success.
I've been building my own systems for a decade but I know surprisingly little about chipsets. A few days ago for my next rig I tried to find out what the best AMD and Intel chipsets currently are... and after 2 hours of googling I gave up. There's no way to tell a 2010 review from a current one, a shill from an amateur. Even wikipedia is mostly useless as to their capabilities. So, please, enlighten me.
Well, i go halfway: I filter heavily the full message but I leave most of the abbreviated ones. It's often the case that you can tell the quality of a post by its first line. At least cull the spam and trolls.
"In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they aren't". And it applies to the best thought out moderating schemes on the internet as well: they get routed around by abusers, spammers, trolls, etc... while the/. system may seem dysfunctional to you, it does filter out the garbage pretty well. Sure a lot of interesting but late-coming comments fall through.
You are mistaken as to the purpose on those limits on when you can moderate. It turns the ability to moderate into a prized capability, to be used with care. Otherwise you'd have people (and bots) moderating every single message in a thread. Here I guess the goal is to have an average of ONE moderation per post. Some highly noticeable posts will get more but anything above 5 is normally useless (unless they are contradictory). Makes sense to me and indeed the result is a lot cleaner than all the forums who allow unlimited moderation.
Now if only/. would fix their metamoderation which's been broken for the last few years...
Yup, the button [Was the above review useful to you] on amazon/imdb provides this in a nutshell. And there are several times where I clicked [No] on long reviewed movies only to come back a day later and see that the top review has changed. So it _is_ useful.
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it is impossible to make an accurate progress bar because it is impossible to predict the future
This.
My method for implementing a progress bar is the following: have a function that does a very rough estimate (the more accurate the better, but it's often impossible and in all cases it should be quick). Take this as a starting estimate. Start counting (and showing) the seconds down. When you do a new estimate, if it's lower than the previous one, use the new one. If it's longer, start _increasing_ the seconds to your ETA. This way the only big jumps are optimistic (30s, 29s, 15s, 14s...) and when things get hung you normally see (30s, 31s, 32s...).
Well, I don't know if the GP is talking about the PTT (push to talk) protocol which is a part of the GSM protocol. It's a line of sight communication between two phones over GSM protocol, similar in effect to walkie-talkie. Except that in the only phone I saw that had this capability (an old Nokia), it had been disabled by the carrier.
Saying that we should circumcise babies to protect them from HIV makes as much sense as saying we should give mastectomies to all young women to protect them from breast cancer.
This is EXACTLY what I say to people who support sexual mutilations of babies. They usually mumble something about not being the same and quickly change the subject. I don't have mod points but this needs a '+5 insightful'.
What do you mean "A new breakfast soda" ? No need for that. When I worked in the US my colleague whom I shared the office with came every morning with a gallon-sized mug of Coke(tm). Yes, a bucket with a handle, filled with ice cube and Coke, which she would take an hour or two to get choke down. I was horrified. But of course she did look like a sphere.
The other option is to make an artificial ring to block out about 1% of The Sun's energy.
I wonder how easy it would be to build a thin film of material directly in space. Any material, and a film extending in 2D as far as possible, without holes. Some proteins auto-assemble in 2D layers but would that work in space ? Bonus if it's highly reflective (then bend it with a grid of actuators to make a gigantic telescope), rigid enough to work as a solar sail, planet-sized to offset global warming or has several layers that can work as a solar cell... Plenty of applications.
I also find this TMTOWTDI (There's more than one way to do it) philosophy frustrating. I did Perl for a year, wrote clear but slow progs, went to usenet for advice, got a first prog half as long and twice as fast, then a second... and at the end of the line a great one-liner that was plain impossible to understand.
Unless it's all backed-up to 'the cloud'. Not that I'm encouraging that, I have a GII _and_ a 15 year old server on which every part has been updated at least thrice.
I was mostly trolling, but the very next slashdot story presents a spoon that measures what you eat... Now all you need it a remote for a dog collar and you are all set.
While Kamen is at it, he should invent a collar that measures how much food goes though your throat and chokes you after a certain amount. We already have electric collars to keep dogs from wandering off a property, so why not an electric collar to keep the obese from ruining social security ?
I've had Champagne with ice from the last core from Epica, 3280m deep, and it was quite an experience: it was tingling in the glass like a glass xylophone. The 300 bars of pressure still held by bubbles of air in the ice being released by the melting. That and the sweet taste of drilling fluid.
Which brands/models have the quietest cases ? Something with vibration absorbent materials at the base and all the attachement points, internal sound-proofing foam, fans with angled outtakes... I've had the same high-end case for 13 years and it would be the only reason to make me change.
There are plenty of comments below about the racistness of 'sambo', but I have no idea as to what it's about.
I've known OSM since its very beginning and my first thought was 'right, this project SO needs critical mass that it'll never happen'. Then, since I do a lot of mountain biking and one of my favorite website shows all the existing GPS tracks of various websites related to mountain biking on various map background (Google, IGN, OSM, etc), I started to notice that for some areas OSM was actually more accurate than the others. So, since I had a stash of GPS tracks on my own, I started contributing, particularly in areas that were deficient.
If you do a small area you know well, you can improve OSM very quickly. That's a great project which deserves to be more known from the larger public.
Woah... Are there actual physicians and surgeons in this 'association', or is it just a nutjob made-up front like so many others ? And if there are, can I please get a list so I can avoid going to see any of them ?
Same here and it didn't even feel particularly hot.
I've heard it said in the context of the 'first' computer, but it applies to almost any record: the definition of a world record is whatever makes sure it happened in the US...
Why is that ? I use Linux but I need to run a few CPU intensive image processing progs in VirtualBox. I have a 3-year old AMD mobo and it's like waddling in mollasses. What systems run VirtualBox the fastest ?!? I tried to google that a few days ago without success.
It's all about chipsets.
I've been building my own systems for a decade but I know surprisingly little about chipsets. A few days ago for my next rig I tried to find out what the best AMD and Intel chipsets currently are... and after 2 hours of googling I gave up. There's no way to tell a 2010 review from a current one, a shill from an amateur. Even wikipedia is mostly useless as to their capabilities. So, please, enlighten me.
The linux nVidia driver does this out of the box, even on different models that use different busses (PCI and PciEx for instance).
Works pretty well on nVidia cards, even different models on different types of bus (PCI + PciEx) simultaneously.
Well, i go halfway: I filter heavily the full message but I leave most of the abbreviated ones. It's often the case that you can tell the quality of a post by its first line. At least cull the spam and trolls.
"In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they aren't". And it applies to the best thought out moderating schemes on the internet as well: they get routed around by abusers, spammers, trolls, etc... while the /. system may seem dysfunctional to you, it does filter out the garbage pretty well. Sure a lot of interesting but late-coming comments fall through.
Now if only /. would fix their metamoderation which's been broken for the last few years...
Yup, the button [Was the above review useful to you] on amazon/imdb provides this in a nutshell. And there are several times where I clicked [No] on long reviewed movies only to come back a day later and see that the top review has changed. So it _is_ useful.
Grrr, I need some sleep: :(){ :&:&};: