I have recently written a sorting algorithm that can be close to four times as fast as quicksort and never much slower
Is there some reason why you cannot publish it here for a review? A basic C reference cannot be very many lines? This way people could give real input for you. I don't believe you have much to lose. If you do, attach your favorite license to it:)
> Doesn't anybody realise what a *huge* step this is?
I think many do. And even more would realize it if they just had the chance to realize it: I believe that 90% of people do not know what this really means because they are not capable of opening the content put behind the technological "black box". If people were told that from now on you have to inform officials about who you communicated with, when and how - they could actually panic. If you had to inform the police every time when you chat with your neighbour, send a letter to your grand mother, or call their husband. What is happening with these data retention laws is exact analogy.
There are more, and if you look at the recently released phones - J2ME seems to be there in most devices (excluding the cheapest model-range). Get the J2ME toolkit (this one for windows), the page will tell what else (java related) you also need.
Some operators might have for some odd reason disabled downloading some J2ME content although I don't know any such operators. Anyway, the operator choice should not affect your ability to start developing your own J2ME applications.
Since this statewatch report on a proposed EU data retention framework things have evolved a bit but still the concept of such data retention seems to be catching air:
Summary:
Statewatch's analysis shows that there are "grave gaps in civil liberties protection":
- there are no grounds for refusing to execute a request on human rights grounds
- there are no limits as to what data can be exchanged where member states allow for the retention of data on all crimes, not just the 32 listed
- there is no reference to supervisory authorities on data protection
- there is no reference to the individual's right to correct, delete, block data nor compensation for misuse or for related judicial review
- no reference to controls on the copying of data
- no rules for checking on the admissibility of data searches
> Find me a US company that didn't lose money last quarter. And anybody who uses Arthur Anderson doesn't count.
Here's one. I don't know whether they use AA or not:) SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 15, 2002 - Intel Corporation today announced third-quarter revenue of $6.5 billion, up 3 percent sequentially and flat year-over-year.
Third-quarter net income was $686 million, up 54 percent sequentially and up 547 percent year-over-year. Earnings per share were $0.10, up 43 percent sequentially and up 400 percent from $0.02 in the third quarter of 2001.
Indeed, things do not look very good for AMD. Is there any AMD believers to explain how they will survive through next year? A $254 million loss in a quarter is not very convincing. Apparently, the have had to take a huge risk with putting the money in the design of this "new generation". Is it good enough?
>Total bollocks. Kilimanjaro is one of the most well protected national parks in Africa
Well, it's good if that's true. But unfortunately atleast according to 2 of my friends and one documentary the situations has changed very dramatically to worse direction within last 4 years. 4 more into same direction, and it's too late.
it is feared that the loss of the ice cap will also cause a drop off in tourism
"The other bad thing about tourists on Kilimanjaro is all the trash they leave behind. People are simply not capable of cleaning up after themselves. People should not be allowed to climb such a wonderful mountain if they are not going to use it responsibly. Read the rest here."
It is really disgusting to see these "3xtr3m3" travellers go to exiting Kilimanjaro trips - in colonnial spirit, latest hightech equipment, a few slaves carrying everything and enjoying gourmet dinners while on the way to top. I mean there is nothing wrong if you respect the environment and don't throw trash around. But the latest megatrend that every IT manager has to climb Kilimanjaro to be something is rather amusing in it's sickness.
Does anyone have experience on what refresh rate / colors can you have achieve with the ATI Mobility Radeon-M 8MB in X? At quick glance this seems as the only possible big weak point of the device - atleast for me who is used to having too many terminals open and don't utililize the virtual desktops a lot:)
This is probably another very uneducated opinion, but IMHO the patent system is traditional On/Off system. When on, it should enforce equal rights and limitations to everyone - otherwise people will just find ways to exploit it. When off, it should be off for everyone.
> Speaking requires something like 80% brain activity.
> Reading, Pointing, Clicking and single key hitting alltogether only round abouts 20%.
yes, I agree. I did not intend to say that "speaking" would be the interface to the system - or atleast not the only interface. Speech can be translated in so many ways. Fortunately, as the idea is in no way concrete, we can leave this open:)) ofcourse, as it is sci-fi, the interface in our imagination could be considered to be the de-facto Spinal Tap [tm].
> You are talking about Germany or France or all these other European countries that
> enacted laws prohibiting citizens from claiming that holocaust never existed
In some sense yes. It is very easy fo first react by denying the real problem and trying to hide the real problem. Well, maybe when we look back at this moment after 50 years, we see that this was similar learning/turning point as the holocaust was for Europe.
as a foreigner it is rather alarming to follow a powerful country whip up these "Acts" that seem to be based on only a need originating from a specific incident or seem to be tailored for the needs of some specific interest group. It seems like the country is being run like an IT company - with wrong timeframe. Is it because your history - in it's current form is so short. Or is it because you have extremely strong media. I am really sorry but the Patriot act reminds me of phases of (semi) totalitiarism of some countries of eastern europe: when insane acts and Bills were based upon patriotism and people were made to spy each other for the government. Finally learn, that the other countries do not envy you so much - you do not have to be so scared.
Maybe saying this halves my fan list, but really - you should be alarmed in there in the US!
> Looks to me like you were getting to a global database of macros ranked by frequency of use...
Exactly not. An alias does not make the computer understand how to use it generically - or how to combine the information with other learnings. Here's an example: you go out - it is raining - you take the umbrella and see it protects you from getting wet. Your learn something new about umbrella and your environment - giving you new understanding and therefore new possibilities. With a macro, you only limit your possibilities.
With the mention of modbus and all:), I guess this thread might be a good time to ask for links on cases where Linux has been put to industrial use. Is there something significant, I mean for example cases where Linux is crucial part of keeping a $100 million industrial machine running and producing somethoids. Anyone?
> GUIs try to present the subset of options that are meaningful to the computer in a consistant manner
Yes, exactly. That's why I think the sci-fi story I presented should be called CUI (chaotic user interface:) it would use subsets of options to describe supersets of the options. Yes, very hard to implement but I consider this SETI@home:) in both cases we try to search for something that we know should be there but have no idea what and where to search for:)
a couple of days ago we ended up thinking something like this with my work mate. This might be sci-fi, sorry:) but:
What if, in the beginning, there would be no GUI at all. In the beginning, all of the users would only work with shell - they would whip in commands like "useradd -u 120 -g dls -d/apps/dls -s/bin/ksh -c "comment" -m dls " and after doing this they would tell the computer: I did this to achieve this. There would be some kind of fuzzy logic to make the computer understand how to utilize this in future - to make it generic. Then suddenly, you would only need to tell the system: do this. Well, the discussion did not end here, it included a kind of evolution model in which the operating systems would be connected in kind of P2P network - the new things that each of the computer users had taught would be distributed, evaluated and ranked. Some ideas would be killed, some would stay alive and evolve... the discussion did not end here either: how about, if in the beginning there would be no operating system at all - just the very raw beginnings of a kernel, and then the users would for example teach the system to boot....
Psssst! I thought the digital divide mostly concerns those (and the majority) of people who live in these developing countries. Unfortunately the article seems slashdotted - but from that clip it seems like analogy to saying : "Here we have bridged the hunger problem, by taking 42 quality JUST for us". The fact that a few techno geeks can do this really means nothing - even if you describe the surroundings with words " the warm green interior of Guinea". Or do you mean this solution can be easily accessed by those who really are on the other side of the digital divide. (well, have to wait until that article gets back online, but really that clip sounds like example of black humor).
and would you accept it:
- funding from big contributors (without commercial obligations), not likely to continue (forever)
- funding from users. If 500 000 paypalled $5, it could be enough. Would you?
- advertising, 4 million users. Could work, would you accept it.
- become a subproject of another (commercial project), search ETs only with certain percentage of available CPU power.
- be eaten by an OS vendor (at some stage, a distributed client will become a fixed part of many operating systems, I believe) this might provide a kickstart for doing it for some vendor.
- run it by volunteers, reduce staff costs.
To participate as volunteer redhead for the research.:
We are looking for women aged between 19-40 to take part in our research aiming to help us understand fundamental questions such as which systems in the brain produce unconsciousness and which modulate pain perception. The research is conducted using empirical studies. Basicly, we will stick you with nails and see how you react. Please send your applications to...
I would believe the test group contains a bit more than average of masochist individuals.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Is there some reason why you cannot publish it here for a review? A basic C reference cannot be very many lines? This way people could give real input for you. I don't believe you have much to lose. If you do, attach your favorite license to it :)
I think many do. And even more would realize it if they just had the chance to realize it: I believe that 90% of people do not know what this really means because they are not capable of opening the content put behind the technological "black box". If people were told that from now on you have to inform officials about who you communicated with, when and how - they could actually panic. If you had to inform the police every time when you chat with your neighbour, send a letter to your grand mother, or call their husband. What is happening with these data retention laws is exact analogy.
There are more, and if you look at the recently released phones - J2ME seems to be there in most devices (excluding the cheapest model-range). Get the J2ME toolkit (this one for windows), the page will tell what else (java related) you also need.
Some operators might have for some odd reason disabled downloading some J2ME content although I don't know any such operators. Anyway, the operator choice should not affect your ability to start developing your own J2ME applications.
Summary:
Statewatch's analysis shows that there are "grave gaps in civil liberties protection":
- there are no grounds for refusing to execute a request on human rights grounds
- there are no limits as to what data can be exchanged where member states allow for the retention of data on all crimes, not just the 32 listed
- there is no reference to supervisory authorities on data protection
- there is no reference to the individual's right to correct, delete, block data nor compensation for misuse or for related judicial review
- no reference to controls on the copying of data
- no rules for checking on the admissibility of data searches
Here's one. I don't know whether they use AA or not :)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 15, 2002 - Intel Corporation today announced third-quarter revenue of $6.5 billion, up 3 percent sequentially and flat year-over-year. Third-quarter net income was $686 million, up 54 percent sequentially and up 547 percent year-over-year. Earnings per share were $0.10, up 43 percent sequentially and up 400 percent from $0.02 in the third quarter of 2001.
Indeed, things do not look very good for AMD. Is there any AMD believers to explain how they will survive through next year? A $254 million loss in a quarter is not very convincing. Apparently, the have had to take a huge risk with putting the money in the design of this "new generation". Is it good enough?
Well, it's good if that's true. But unfortunately atleast according to 2 of my friends and one documentary the situations has changed very dramatically to worse direction within last 4 years. 4 more into same direction, and it's too late.
"The other bad thing about tourists on Kilimanjaro is all the trash they leave behind. People are simply not capable of cleaning up after themselves. People should not be allowed to climb such a wonderful mountain if they are not going to use it responsibly. Read the rest here."
It is really disgusting to see these "3xtr3m3" travellers go to exiting Kilimanjaro trips - in colonnial spirit, latest hightech equipment, a few slaves carrying everything and enjoying gourmet dinners while on the way to top. I mean there is nothing wrong if you respect the environment and don't throw trash around. But the latest megatrend that every IT manager has to climb Kilimanjaro to be something is rather amusing in it's sickness.
So, the article was a bit misleading as the microwaves are not enough to go through.
Ohh, and I ofcourse mean the external 1600x1200 resolution :)
Does anyone have experience on what refresh rate / colors can you have achieve with the ATI Mobility Radeon-M 8MB in X? At quick glance this seems as the only possible big weak point of the device - atleast for me who is used to having too many terminals open and don't utililize the virtual desktops a lot :)
This is probably another very uneducated opinion, but IMHO the patent system is traditional On/Off system. When on, it should enforce equal rights and limitations to everyone - otherwise people will just find ways to exploit it. When off, it should be off for everyone.
> Reading, Pointing, Clicking and single key hitting alltogether only round abouts 20%.
yes, I agree. I did not intend to say that "speaking" would be the interface to the system - or atleast not the only interface. Speech can be translated in so many ways. Fortunately, as the idea is in no way concrete, we can leave this open :)) ofcourse, as it is sci-fi, the interface in our imagination could be considered to be the de-facto Spinal Tap [tm].
> enacted laws prohibiting citizens from claiming that holocaust never existed
In some sense yes. It is very easy fo first react by denying the real problem and trying to hide the real problem. Well, maybe when we look back at this moment after 50 years, we see that this was similar learning/turning point as the holocaust was for Europe.
Maybe saying this halves my fan list, but really - you should be alarmed in there in the US!
Bill, Use your Power to Reduce Linux.
Exactly not. An alias does not make the computer understand how to use it generically - or how to combine the information with other learnings. Here's an example: you go out - it is raining - you take the umbrella and see it protects you from getting wet. Your learn something new about umbrella and your environment - giving you new understanding and therefore new possibilities. With a macro, you only limit your possibilities.
With the mention of modbus and all :), I guess this thread might be a good time to ask for links on cases where Linux has been put to industrial use. Is there something significant, I mean for example cases where Linux is crucial part of keeping a $100 million industrial machine running and producing somethoids. Anyone?
Yes, exactly. That's why I think the sci-fi story I presented should be called CUI (chaotic user interface :) it would use subsets of options to describe supersets of the options. Yes, very hard to implement but I consider this SETI@home :) in both cases we try to search for something that we know should be there but have no idea what and where to search for :)
it must be something that we ate.
oh, another missing word contest: steaks.
Psssst! I thought the digital divide mostly concerns those (and the majority) of people who live in these developing countries. Unfortunately the article seems slashdotted - but from that clip it seems like analogy to saying : "Here we have bridged the hunger problem, by taking 42 quality JUST for us". The fact that a few techno geeks can do this really means nothing - even if you describe the surroundings with words " the warm green interior of Guinea". Or do you mean this solution can be easily accessed by those who really are on the other side of the digital divide. (well, have to wait until that article gets back online, but really that clip sounds like example of black humor).
Every time I see the term "productivity suite" associated with Microsoft Office, I almost loose control of my bladder.
- funding from big contributors (without commercial obligations), not likely to continue (forever)
- funding from users. If 500 000 paypalled $5, it could be enough. Would you?
- advertising, 4 million users. Could work, would you accept it.
- become a subproject of another (commercial project), search ETs only with certain percentage of available CPU power.
- be eaten by an OS vendor (at some stage, a distributed client will become a fixed part of many operating systems, I believe) this might provide a kickstart for doing it for some vendor.
- run it by volunteers, reduce staff costs.
Can you come up with something else?
We are looking for women aged between 19-40 to take part in our research aiming to help us understand fundamental questions such as which systems in the brain produce unconsciousness and which modulate pain perception. The research is conducted using empirical studies. Basicly, we will stick you with nails and see how you react. Please send your applications to...
I would believe the test group contains a bit more than average of masochist individuals. :)