That website was commentary, not news. This is the issue I have with the mainstream media too. Tell what happend, not your analysis of what happened
It seems easy, but it's not. I've lived in different countries and noticed that the US news are a lot more factual than in Europe. But it's too factual. There's no context, no analysis, no opinion. If you don't already know the subject, you have no clue. And when they give opinion, there'll be 2 pundits screaming meaninglessly over bullshit and tossing feces at each other.
In Europe they always add a quick analysis with the news. It doesn't add as much bias as you'd think (US news is biased by withholding info or presenting just plain false info), and I often can tell when a journalist smirks at bullshit. There are a bunch of interviewers who will LOL at the bullshit they receive during interviews. In the US they always carry on as if the drunk UFO sigher they are interviewing was as important as the guy who just discovered the cure for cancer. That's just not right.
My opinion is that you should not require software to be parallelized from the start. You parallelize it during runtime or at compile time.
It certainly is the easiest for the lazy programmer, but certainly not the best way. Using a language that's inherently parallel like Erlang is certainly (one of) the best ways: you don't need to fight with mutexes, semaphores, p-loops as the semantics of the language takes care of it for you. Neat but you need to rethink many processes.
There is a very small chance it will land balanced perfectly on it's side
Has anyone ever seen that happen?
Yes, I've had that happen once with a 10Fr coin (very similar in shape to the current 1 euro coin). The ground was irregular which probably helped a lot.
If I recall correctly, Socrates taught by answering questions and encouraging new ones, not just spouting knowledge according to a set curricula, like we do today.
Yes, but that worked on a one to one basis. If you apply that to a roomfull of students you'll facepalm yourself with the stupidity of most questions and just waste your time.
In other languages, xxx means crossed over or censored.
Which is exactly as it's going to turn out once the censors figure out how simple it will be to simply ban *.xxx. Maybe prettypictures.com can make it through Saudi Arabia, but do you really think anything ending in.xxx will ? This domain suffix is an abysmal idea.
My previous mobo had ECC, but on the current one I decided that it was too expensive as I wanted 8Gb. But when I run at the nominal RAM speed, I get random system freeze. I've had to downclock the CPU and RAM a notch. Yeah, the more bits you have, the more likely ECC will be useful, that was a bad move on my part.
My my recent move, I received a new ADSL router... which is configured entirely online. I don't by that on 192.169.1.1, but I need to log onto the provider's page, go to a configuration page (few options, but the important stuff is there), confirm, and manually reboot the modem for the settings to take hold. It works well so far but if I screw up something and lose my connection, how am I supposed to access the page to correct it ? Also it drives home the point that not only the modem doesn't belong to me, but neither does its configuration !
I wonder how a standard router (commercial or OpenWRT) would work on their network.
It is all about transferring risk. I take care of the high risk, low cost stuff, they assume the low risk, high cost stuff.
The probability that you will at some point require high cost medical help is about 100%, unless you simply get killed in an accident. So you might as well start paying for it early.
While I generally agree with your formula and reasoning behind it, I can see some places it doesn't seem to apply well. Example: the mountain road I take between home and work. People who commute on it (me included) drive way too fast after a while. If there's a deer or a slab of ice behind the curve: bang. Your percentile method would be raised too high by the many commuters (while being kept too low by the fat campers' trailers on the WEs, OK, I get your point). My point is that some of those commuters are better kept on their toes by the regular presence of speed traps. I just hope I won't have to regret my words soon !
To add to ADSL customer service horror stories, when I moved last year there was some confusion as the previous owner hadn't sent his own 'moving' orders when I sent mine. In short: 2 months without internet for both of us. After plenty of phone calls I got to a knowledgeable guy in 'dept XYZ'. He identified the problem, told me to wait 2 days and then to call again, asking to be put in line straight with their dept and they would fix the final activation. So I call and ask for the dept. The reply: "Oh, we can't let you have them like that, we need to ascertain the problem first". I let the phone drone clearly know that he's wasting my time before he passes me another service. I think it's the right one and start explaining in details what needs to be done before I hear: "wait, this is the billing dept, we don't do this stuff". So they pass me another service. And another. And another. 6 fucking times before I'm back to the level 0 drone. When I finally got the proper dept, it took 30 seconds to fix the problem.
Now what's stopping Suckerberg from fighting back ? With all his money, he should sue the shit out of this lawyer in the US and Pakistan for harassing and threatening him, and pay a few mercs to get him discreetly out of pakistan and into a 'better' jurisdiction. I'm not saying it'd be a good thing to do, but it's certainly fair when you have to fear the 1st crazy extemist with a knife crossing the street like happened a bunch of times already (to a movie director in Danemark IIRC), and that's what I'd do with all that money.
That's funny. I have a colleague whose parents couldn't agree on a name when he was born. The father wrote down his choice on his birth certificate and the mother was pissed after she discovered it. They each always called him by the name they chose. And even now in his 50s, his colleagues call him by his 'official' name while his friends call him by his 'mother's' name.
But all that pales in comparison to a student I knew who came from old nobility: he had over 50 words in his name...
I was really surprised to discover this US tradition of naming offsprings with the same first name, and adding 'Junior' or 'III'. How arrogant is that to want your kids to be just like you even in name, feel like starting a dynasty ?!?
Oh, and please notice that only males do that, I've never seen a Jane Junior Doe.
3: SSDs using a different port than SATA. Perhaps have it interface as a direct PCI-E device with a custom bus to add more SSD capacity in a similar form factor to RAM DIMMs.
Yes, I want SSDs that can replace CD readers in my older laptops (just slide out the whole thing), and/or SSDs that I can plug into the usually unused miniPCI port of my older laptop. None existed last time I looked.
A standardized full disk encryption format. This way, I insert a flash disk into my camera or phone
Yes, with an easy way to enter the password on keyboard-less devices, so I won't be afraid to pass through customs with an mp3 player.
Although I prefer my tech reading to be in english, I recently started reading "GNU Linux Magazine / France" and it is highly technical and excellent. I learned plenty of things, even in my own area of expertise. Of course it is in French, but I don't know how much of it is translated from a foreign 'original'. Most of the authors are french.
To give you an idea of what's in it this month: a detailed review of the new kernel additions (2.6.34, 11 pages), intro to/proc kernel programming, a step-by-step of what happens during the boot, a review of open-source project management progs, detailed QoS (some 20 pages), GHDL (the GNU VHDL), a review and code for the open-hardware Ben NanoNote which I had heard about on/. only 2 days before, some perl for PDFs, a long criticism of XML, the Wt server library, a PHP book review, the PIR language...
If all you want is transfer + batch renaming (it wasn't the original question), then there are plenty of solutions. Here's my own script for whatever OS (I first wrote it on Windows+Cygwin).
It includes a USB port that you need to pay Apple an extra $30 for...
Some things so surprising that I had to go verify it for myself. This needs to be repeated loudly: the iPad has no USB or SD card slot ! Amazing how anybody can use it for anything...
I'll eagerly wait for this Ubuntu tablet version on whatever tablet it can run. I've already tested the Netbook version and found it quite nice (unfortunately the hardware was flaky).
Personally I have always believed device drivers should be Installed in firmware in the device itself
It is happening, but not in the may you wish. You may think of some standard driver being queried by the computer on connection, installed in the OS and then used automagically. Instead we are beginning to see devices that show as multiple devices when connected, including a small external drive that contains a Windows and a Mac installer containing the drivers and apps to use them. Some examples are my HTC phone, or Sony eBook reader.
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That website was commentary, not news. This is the issue I have with the mainstream media too. Tell what happend, not your analysis of what happened
It seems easy, but it's not. I've lived in different countries and noticed that the US news are a lot more factual than in Europe. But it's too factual. There's no context, no analysis, no opinion. If you don't already know the subject, you have no clue. And when they give opinion, there'll be 2 pundits screaming meaninglessly over bullshit and tossing feces at each other.
In Europe they always add a quick analysis with the news. It doesn't add as much bias as you'd think (US news is biased by withholding info or presenting just plain false info), and I often can tell when a journalist smirks at bullshit. There are a bunch of interviewers who will LOL at the bullshit they receive during interviews. In the US they always carry on as if the drunk UFO sigher they are interviewing was as important as the guy who just discovered the cure for cancer. That's just not right.
One possible solution to this issue would be to have Troll and Flamebait mods be named
Another one would be to add a [StronglyDisagreeAndWishToSuppress] mod...
My opinion is that you should not require software to be parallelized from the start. You parallelize it during runtime or at compile time.
It certainly is the easiest for the lazy programmer, but certainly not the best way. Using a language that's inherently parallel like Erlang is certainly (one of) the best ways: you don't need to fight with mutexes, semaphores, p-loops as the semantics of the language takes care of it for you. Neat but you need to rethink many processes.
The things we use computers for are different from the things we use humans for.
Yeah, zombies can't eat computers...
? Apparently when other people do it, it doesn't look too hot...
Well... no. But that would make for some fuzzy logic stats: well it landed at 43deg and stayed like that, so I win!
There is a very small chance it will land balanced perfectly on it's side
Has anyone ever seen that happen?
Yes, I've had that happen once with a 10Fr coin (very similar in shape to the current 1 euro coin). The ground was irregular which probably helped a lot.
If I recall correctly, Socrates taught by answering questions and encouraging new ones, not just spouting knowledge according to a set curricula, like we do today.
Yes, but that worked on a one to one basis. If you apply that to a roomfull of students you'll facepalm yourself with the stupidity of most questions and just waste your time.
In other languages, xxx means crossed over or censored. Which is exactly as it's going to turn out once the censors figure out how simple it will be to simply ban *.xxx. Maybe prettypictures.com can make it through Saudi Arabia, but do you really think anything ending in .xxx will ? This domain suffix is an abysmal idea.
My previous mobo had ECC, but on the current one I decided that it was too expensive as I wanted 8Gb. But when I run at the nominal RAM speed, I get random system freeze. I've had to downclock the CPU and RAM a notch. Yeah, the more bits you have, the more likely ECC will be useful, that was a bad move on my part.
I wonder how a standard router (commercial or OpenWRT) would work on their network.
It is all about transferring risk. I take care of the high risk, low cost stuff, they assume the low risk, high cost stuff.
The probability that you will at some point require high cost medical help is about 100%, unless you simply get killed in an accident. So you might as well start paying for it early.
While I generally agree with your formula and reasoning behind it, I can see some places it doesn't seem to apply well. Example: the mountain road I take between home and work. People who commute on it (me included) drive way too fast after a while. If there's a deer or a slab of ice behind the curve: bang. Your percentile method would be raised too high by the many commuters (while being kept too low by the fat campers' trailers on the WEs, OK, I get your point). My point is that some of those commuters are better kept on their toes by the regular presence of speed traps. I just hope I won't have to regret my words soon !
Not to be confused with CRS, the special cops who beat protesters to a pulp in France.
Are customer services organized by sadists ?
Now what's stopping Suckerberg from fighting back ? With all his money, he should sue the shit out of this lawyer in the US and Pakistan for harassing and threatening him, and pay a few mercs to get him discreetly out of pakistan and into a 'better' jurisdiction. I'm not saying it'd be a good thing to do, but it's certainly fair when you have to fear the 1st crazy extemist with a knife crossing the street like happened a bunch of times already (to a movie director in Danemark IIRC), and that's what I'd do with all that money.
But all that pales in comparison to a student I knew who came from old nobility: he had over 50 words in his name...
Oh, and please notice that only males do that, I've never seen a Jane Junior Doe.
3: SSDs using a different port than SATA. Perhaps have it interface as a direct PCI-E device with a custom bus to add more SSD capacity in a similar form factor to RAM DIMMs.
Yes, I want SSDs that can replace CD readers in my older laptops (just slide out the whole thing), and/or SSDs that I can plug into the usually unused miniPCI port of my older laptop. None existed last time I looked.
A standardized full disk encryption format. This way, I insert a flash disk into my camera or phone
Yes, with an easy way to enter the password on keyboard-less devices, so I won't be afraid to pass through customs with an mp3 player.
With a name like Haardon, I really wondered what kind of faces this algorithm would detect...
To give you an idea of what's in it this month: a detailed review of the new kernel additions (2.6.34, 11 pages), intro to /proc kernel programming, a step-by-step of what happens during the boot, a review of open-source project management progs, detailed QoS (some 20 pages), GHDL (the GNU VHDL), a review and code for the open-hardware Ben NanoNote which I had heard about on /. only 2 days before, some perl for PDFs, a long criticism of XML, the Wt server library, a PHP book review, the PIR language...
That's why I get queasy stares when I wear this in my lab...
If all you want is transfer + batch renaming (it wasn't the original question), then there are plenty of solutions. Here's my own script for whatever OS (I first wrote it on Windows+Cygwin).
It includes a USB port that you need to pay Apple an extra $30 for...
Some things so surprising that I had to go verify it for myself. This needs to be repeated loudly: the iPad has no USB or SD card slot ! Amazing how anybody can use it for anything...
I'll eagerly wait for this Ubuntu tablet version on whatever tablet it can run. I've already tested the Netbook version and found it quite nice (unfortunately the hardware was flaky).
Personally I have always believed device drivers should be Installed in firmware in the device itself
It is happening, but not in the may you wish. You may think of some standard driver being queried by the computer on connection, installed in the OS and then used automagically. Instead we are beginning to see devices that show as multiple devices when connected, including a small external drive that contains a Windows and a Mac installer containing the drivers and apps to use them. Some examples are my HTC phone, or Sony eBook reader.