Simple enough. There are those who want to drive fast, tailgate to get people away from them and so on. The reasons are not important, but typically they just figure that their time and choices are more important than anyone else's. And they'd like to be able to justify their decision to do so by making the fault lie squarely on the other guy. I have also noticed (as a passenger) that many aggressive drivers are frequently stressed and angry as they drive - so I wonder if this isn't some kind of positive feedback loop where the anger at others doing perfectly reasonable things gets turned back into self-justification so they have a right to get more angry and so on.
Me, I try to drive with traffic as much as possible, which in the US often means over the speed limit, but I try to be polite and not allow other drivers to get to me - even if they are aggressive tailgating bullies.
Otherland is set in the near future and the characters in the novel enter a set of virtual worlds in order to combat the bad guys. So you have not only possible play in a virtual "real world" but also play in any of a number of (related) virtual "virtual worlds".
Disclaimer: I read the first book in the series and decided not to go any further and in the first book the main characters are just getting going in the virtual worlds.
Isn't the average height in the US declining? And in Europe increasing? To the point where Europeans (and I think, especially, from the Netherlands) are now, on average, taller than Americans. I seem to remember it being linked to nutrition.
I suspect that Adobe feels that any and all use of Flash is proper use, as do many designers who don't want to cope with HTML and javascript, marketers (who can enforce your watching their videos/animations/...), and lots of others who paid someone to build flash and want their money's worth.
But then I'm a Cranky Old Fart - so get off my browser/lawn.
And "suiforms"?? I find (though not in a dictionary) "entelodonts and oreodonts" (pigs?). So, when "pigs fly". Have to say though that the fragment:
the discovery of winged suiformes would appear to be immanent
has a certain intriguing cryptic elusiveness that - with a bit of checking - resolves to "finding pigs flying only in your mind", or to "finding piggy things flying that are an essential part of the universe" (perhaps the LHC will be tuned to finding them next).
But processors are cheap these days, so you can up the price and get more profit with a cheap processor, network connection and display than by doing the (perhaps harder, more expensive) work to improve efficiency. Efficiency just isn't as visible (or, for some people show-off-able).
On the other hand, I'm not sure I want my refrigerator ordering beer for me - is it really going to scan the local stores, find the best value in the range of beers I like? Will it account for my decision to choose different breweries to vary the taste?
Clearly FAP will provide access to multiple refrigerators either by using NAT (FAP-NAT) or by using the Multi-Access-Refrigerator-Protocol (FAP-MAP).
All standardized by the ISO and bought and paid for by (hmmm, lets see now, which manufacturer's name to use...) Kenmore. If you use another manufacturer, either you're out of luck or you have to use the Vendor-Appliance-Adapter-Access Protocol (so FAP-MAP-VAAAP).
I do the same - PDFs only - except that I don't accept open office files or any other binary format. I do accept TeX, HTML and Docbook though (not that any of these are popular among my students).
Way too much syntax. Just use unlambda. At it's core it is only three characters : s,k,' with rules (I think I have these right) :
` forces evaluation (when possible)
``kXY -> X
```sXYZ -> ``XZ`YZ
Unlambda programs tend toward the unreadable.
In the unlambda distribution there are some (unnecessary, but convenient) added operators.
The book "Real World Haskell" coming out next month should help with that quite a bit. Even better the text of the book is available online .
This has also been an interesting experiment of sorts: as each chapter was written it was put online so that people could read it and help find errors and problems. I don't know how the authors feel, but it looked like it worked pretty well indeed.
There seem to me to be rational and completely reasonable reasons to commit suicide. The prospect of a life that is only painful to oneself and others, complete hopelessness, serious illness... But at the same time, suicide seems so far from our base animal behavior that it must also incorporate some kind of thinking that goes far, far against the norm.
Whichever is the case, I can only add my regrets that Wallace is gone.
And since a forked process that is essentially just another instance of a "display web page" process may be able to share much of the static code and shared libraries and even some read-only data structures, it should be even better than in the general case. Toss in a few OS optimizations for this case (that currently don't buy much as most unix style processes end up doing "exec" and loading in new code) and it would be better yet.
So, it seems that the thing to do is buy the windows version, get the windows refund (sigh) and install linux. (Hopefully the specs are the same so that the windows version doesn't use any windows only hardware.)
I'm currently working on a project where users will be able to apply different types of transformation and collection to timestamped data and map/filter/reduce style algorithms are perfect ways to give them that capability.
The kind of capability might look something like : give me the average temperature at hourly intervals for each day in the year for a dataset that spans multiple years. In this case there's no map, and the reduce does the work, in other cases this may be turned around.
The data involved is sitting on one processor and not overly large, but a map/reduce view is probably the easiest one for people to understand.
MapReduce is just an idiom (pattern if you will) for processing collections (arrays, lists, trees, database tables...) of data. There is often another piece:filter that cuts out bits you don't want to do but that can easily be done in the reduce step, though sometimes it is done somewhere else.
For example, suppose you want to compute exp(x) using the usual Taylor series expansion and 20 terms. Start with the list [0,1,2,3,4,5,.. 19]. Then map the function:
f(i) = x^i / i!
to each entry in the list. Then reduce the list by adding all the pieces. (This is, admittedly, a trivial example and one that would be better done in other ways -- skip the map step and just do a reduce that computes the polynomial using Horner's rule.)
Doing this in code in general can make things easier to read (but not always - sometimes the reduce step can get messy). But suppose you wanted to do something like that on ten million numbers. With a hundred processors, then you could split the numbers up so each processor would have about the same number, the do the maps
on each processor, and reduce (on that same processor) all of the mapped values, then collect the values and reduce again. Less data movement and often a much (sometimes much much) less complicated program.
What if you had perfect.NET replacement on Ubuntu which performed up to 30% faster and more secure than Windows version? Wouldn't you recommend your clients to use Linux/Mono instead of Windows?
Not unless I had some serious confidence that there would be no licensing/IP/other hidden issues that would not come out and bite me. Run Mono/.NET on linux for five years, get all the code running nicely and suddenly hear that you're now expected to pay out the nose for a hidden patent? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
The last time I looked at laptops/pcs at Best Buy/Circuit City/... (not to buy, just to price and see what the current default set of options was), the vast majority of them were selling with 4GB of memory - and Vista. Not that I'd complain - linux/freebsd/... will run quite nicely with that much memory and will even manage some of my odd code experiments (that often use memory quite aggressively).
Isn't it possible to build a consistent mathematical theory where the earth would be flat, perhaps with an unreachable singularity somewhere, and still end up with consistent physics? Granted, the math would be, um, messy. But you could indeed end up with a "flat" earth - though, by the time the math and physics are all sufficiently tweaked it would behave just like a round one.
I'd prefer that gmail accept the mail from the server and mark it as spam/phishing/whatever. I'd also like to be able to set a preference that allows me to decide that "yes, I would like to download that" and have gmail give it to me in a packed up format that I'd have to unpack somehow - just to make it hard for someone to inadvertently run the thing.
I've received nine of these (in just a few hours) on my usual (university) email address. But google mail keeps telling me about them, instead of marking them as spam or phishing and just moving them out of the way. Worse yet it leaves them on my (university) mail server which has an absurdly low quota - so I'll have to remove them manually. This means I need to deal with this crap twice - once when google mail tells me it won't give it to me and once when I need to login to the server and manually delete them. It would be so much nicer if google mail would flag these as spam or phishing, take them off the server and just make them invisible.
Of course (and yes, I'm contradicting myself) I'd also like (since I'm interested in viruses and the like) to be able to set a flag where I could say, "Let me download this. Yes, I do know what I'm doing" and give it to me in some nice packed format.
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Simple enough. There are those who want to drive fast, tailgate to get people away from them and so on. The reasons are not important, but typically they just figure that their time and choices are more important than anyone else's. And they'd like to be able to justify their decision to do so by making the fault lie squarely on the other guy. I have also noticed (as a passenger) that many aggressive drivers are frequently stressed and angry as they drive - so I wonder if this isn't some kind of positive feedback loop where the anger at others doing perfectly reasonable things gets turned back into self-justification so they have a right to get more angry and so on.
Me, I try to drive with traffic as much as possible, which in the US often means over the speed limit, but I try to be polite and not allow other drivers to get to me - even if they are aggressive tailgating bullies.
Disclaimer: I read the first book in the series and decided not to go any further and in the first book the main characters are just getting going in the virtual worlds.
Isn't the average height in the US declining? And in Europe increasing? To the point where Europeans (and I think, especially, from the Netherlands) are now, on average, taller than Americans. I seem to remember it being linked to nutrition.
So can we tell them to PES off?
proper use of Flash
I suspect that Adobe feels that any and all use of Flash is proper use, as do many designers who don't want to cope with HTML and javascript, marketers (who can enforce your watching their videos/animations/...), and lots of others who paid someone to build flash and want their money's worth.
But then I'm a Cranky Old Fart - so get off my browser/lawn.
And "suiforms"?? I find (though not in a dictionary) "entelodonts and oreodonts" (pigs?). So, when "pigs fly". Have to say though that the fragment :
the discovery of winged suiformes would appear to be immanent
has a certain intriguing cryptic elusiveness that - with a bit of checking - resolves to "finding pigs flying only in your mind", or to "finding piggy things flying that are an essential part of the universe" (perhaps the LHC will be tuned to finding them next).
But a TECO expert could do wonderous things.
But processors are cheap these days, so you can up the price and get more profit with a cheap processor, network connection and display than by doing the (perhaps harder, more expensive) work to improve efficiency. Efficiency just isn't as visible (or, for some people show-off-able).
On the other hand, I'm not sure I want my refrigerator ordering beer for me - is it really going to scan the local stores, find the best value in the range of beers I like? Will it account for my decision to choose different breweries to vary the taste?
All standardized by the ISO and bought and paid for by (hmmm, lets see now, which manufacturer's name to use...) Kenmore. If you use another manufacturer, either you're out of luck or you have to use the Vendor-Appliance-Adapter-Access Protocol (so FAP-MAP-VAAAP).
I do the same - PDFs only - except that I don't accept open office files or any other binary format. I do accept TeX, HTML and Docbook though (not that any of these are popular among my students).
` forces evaluation (when possible)
``kXY -> X
```sXYZ -> ``XZ`YZ
Unlambda programs tend toward the unreadable.
In the unlambda distribution there are some (unnecessary, but convenient) added operators.
The book "Real World Haskell" coming out next month should help with that quite a bit. Even better the text of the book is available online .
This has also been an interesting experiment of sorts: as each chapter was written it was put online so that people could read it and help find errors and problems. I don't know how the authors feel, but it looked like it worked pretty well indeed.
There seem to me to be rational and completely reasonable reasons to commit suicide. The prospect of a life that is only painful to oneself and others, complete hopelessness, serious illness... But at the same time, suicide seems so far from our base animal behavior that it must also incorporate some kind of thinking that goes far, far against the norm.
Whichever is the case, I can only add my regrets that Wallace is gone.
How do I get a refund if I refuse the Vista EULA on the computer and want to install something else?
And since a forked process that is essentially just another instance of a "display web page" process may be able to share much of the static code and shared libraries and even some read-only data structures, it should be even better than in the general case. Toss in a few OS optimizations for this case (that currently don't buy much as most unix style processes end up doing "exec" and loading in new code) and it would be better yet.
So, it seems that the thing to do is buy the windows version, get the windows refund (sigh) and install linux. (Hopefully the specs are the same so that the windows version doesn't use any windows only hardware.)
I'm currently working on a project where users will be able to apply different types of transformation and collection to timestamped data and map/filter/reduce style algorithms are perfect ways to give them that capability.
The kind of capability might look something like : give me the average temperature at hourly intervals for each day in the year for a dataset that spans multiple years. In this case there's no map, and the reduce does the work, in other cases this may be turned around.
The data involved is sitting on one processor and not overly large, but a map/reduce view is probably the easiest one for people to understand.
MapReduce is just an idiom (pattern if you will) for processing collections (arrays, lists, trees, database tables...) of data. There is often another piece :filter that cuts out bits you don't want to do but that can easily be done in the reduce step, though sometimes it is done somewhere else.
For example, suppose you want to compute exp(x) using the usual Taylor series expansion and 20 terms. Start with the list [0,1,2,3,4,5, .. 19]. Then map the function :
f(i) = x^i / i!
to each entry in the list. Then reduce the list by adding all the pieces. (This is, admittedly, a trivial example and one that would be better done in other ways -- skip the map step and just do a reduce that computes the polynomial using Horner's rule.)
Doing this in code in general can make things easier to read (but not always - sometimes the reduce step can get messy). But suppose you wanted to do something like that on ten million numbers. With a hundred processors, then you could split the numbers up so each processor would have about the same number, the do the maps on each processor, and reduce (on that same processor) all of the mapped values, then collect the values and reduce again. Less data movement and often a much (sometimes much much) less complicated program.
What if you had perfect .NET replacement on Ubuntu which performed up to 30% faster and more secure than Windows version? Wouldn't you recommend your clients to use Linux/Mono instead of Windows?
Not unless I had some serious confidence that there would be no licensing/IP/other hidden issues that would not come out and bite me. Run Mono/.NET on linux for five years, get all the code running nicely and suddenly hear that you're now expected to pay out the nose for a hidden patent? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
The last time I looked at laptops/pcs at Best Buy/Circuit City/... (not to buy, just to price and see what the current default set of options was), the vast majority of them were selling with 4GB of memory - and Vista. Not that I'd complain - linux/freebsd/... will run quite nicely with that much memory and will even manage some of my odd code experiments (that often use memory quite aggressively).
Isn't it possible to build a consistent mathematical theory where the earth would be flat, perhaps with an unreachable singularity somewhere, and still end up with consistent physics? Granted, the math would be, um, messy. But you could indeed end up with a "flat" earth - though, by the time the math and physics are all sufficiently tweaked it would behave just like a round one.
conspicuous consumption
I'd prefer that gmail accept the mail from the server and mark it as spam/phishing/whatever. I'd also like to be able to set a preference that allows me to decide that "yes, I would like to download that" and have gmail give it to me in a packed up format that I'd have to unpack somehow - just to make it hard for someone to inadvertently run the thing.
Nope. Can't. Google says there is a virus and so it was left on the server. Is there a way to change that?
I've received nine of these (in just a few hours) on my usual (university) email address. But google mail keeps telling me about them, instead of marking them as spam or phishing and just moving them out of the way. Worse yet it leaves them on my (university) mail server which has an absurdly low quota - so I'll have to remove them manually. This means I need to deal with this crap twice - once when google mail tells me it won't give it to me and once when I need to login to the server and manually delete them. It would be so much nicer if google mail would flag these as spam or phishing, take them off the server and just make them invisible.
Of course (and yes, I'm contradicting myself) I'd also like (since I'm interested in viruses and the like) to be able to set a flag where I could say, "Let me download this. Yes, I do know what I'm doing" and give it to me in some nice packed format.