At the moment it's at 700GB, and they are all archived on 1100 cd-r's:(
I can only assume this is a troll. You do understand that at 128kb/s that many mp3's would take you approximately 486 days to hear in their entirety. Hell, it would take 55 hours to burn that many CD's assuming you have a fast drive and are quick with the switches.
You are either a very sick individual or you're pulling my leg. Get help.
Just because some folks seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to all things Microsoft doesn't mean Slashdot should be expected to ignore relevant and widespread programming practices.
Looks like their marketing works just fine.
It's true I have only anecdotal evidence to back up my assertion that C# and.NET are gaining widespread adoption. The division of the company I work for is heavily involved in.NET development, and we are in an industry that is traditionally behind the curve in software practices. I think only common sense will tell you of the general interest in.NET. I attended the kick-off in Denver and the place was packed.
I don't know why I'm responding to you, it is easy to close your eyes and say "show me the statistics or I believe nothing." Not to mention you're posting as an AC.
Why should it seem strange to mention C#?
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It might seem strange to review a C# book on Slashdot
There is absolutely nothing strange with not keeping your head buried in the sand. Just because some folks seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to all things Microsoft doesn't mean Slashdot should be expected to ignore relevant and widespread programming practices.
Unfortunately, GRACE does not have a flexible torso, and will therefore be unable to perform a requisite skill in the academic/conference field: kissing ass.
When I saw the headline to this article yesterday, I was shocked and outraged too. We all know Mugabe is a pretty bad guy, but he does have a point. Zimbabwe wishes to export corn to Europe, and if they cannot guarantee that it is GM-free, they have lost a major chunk of their exports for some time to come. Is it better to (possibly) prevent some starving now and make future despair and poverty more likely? Stalin chose to starve his people and took a medieval society and created a country capable of defeating WWII Germany (with a little help.)
So blame Europe, fate, and a cynical, Machievellian leader, not insanity for this one.
The fiber will only go to the GigE switches, which will provide several GigE drops per room. It would not be cost effective to provide 1Gbit fiber (Ethernet or otherwise) to every workstation when copper
As a Case grad I can inform you that there really is Fibre to every dorm room, class room, etc at Case. It was just running 10mb/s Ethernet when I graduated in '98. This included a fibre optic cable going right up into the computer on a fibre card. My first card in '93 was an AT&T ISA behemoth, going almost the entire length of my case, packed with chips. Now, this doesn't guarantee that they will follow the strategy for gigabit, but if they wasted all that money for fibre for 10mb/s Ethernet, I'd be surprised if they flinched now.
Walking a few miles a day wont make you lose weight, it only burns maybe 100 calories, you need to burn 3000 to lose a pound.
News for you: you burn more calories per mile walking than running. Running is a more efficient means of transportation calorie-wise because you bounce as opposed to start and stop your legs as in walking. If you walk four miles, it may take you 70-80 minutes, but it burns more calories than running that far in 30-35 minutes (probably ~600 calories for a 200 lb man.) I personally run because I like the time-savings and one's blood pressure and general cardiovascular fitness are helped more by vigorous exercise.
I'm six-two and I started college in the high 220's. By the time I graduated I weighed ~285. I gradually lost weight over a couple of years and I have kept it off for over a year. I am now ~200, and I just did it through exercise and cutting out sugar soda and replacing much of my junk food intake with fruits, vegetables, rice, pasta, and olive oil.
I think the atkins diet works for a lot of people because they can follow it and it removes sugar soda and other simple carbohydrates from their diet. I believe that if you want the benefits of the Atkins diet without the severely restricted food choices and high fat intake, you should consider reducing or eliminating simple carbohydrates.
But I do know a whole bunch, myself included, that have had a lot of medical problems simply disappear on low-carb. It has really been quite astounding for me, personally.
You might be experiencing a reaction to wheat gluten. A low- or no-carb diet would fix this, but if your only reason for being on such a restricted diet is for digestive problems, you may be able to add oats, barley, rice, corn, and other non-wheat grains and grain products back into your diet.
He noted (this is my description, not his words) that free societies will rise to the occasion of need much better than command and control economies. In fact, and this is even more important, they are so powerful they will adapt to any shortages, so much so that the things that are "short" will never appear to be in shortage because people will look harder for new sources, find substitutions, and build in efficiencies.
A fundamental flaw in your reasoning: people only work to change problems that they perceive. If the earth is slowly warming up, the changes are not dramatic enough to cause the majority of people to change their behaviors.
Another factor is that up until now the earth has behaved like a negative feedback system: a change in the output caused a control signal that motivated an opposing effect on the output. There are some who think that greenhouse warming may lead to a positive feedback scenario, like when a microphone is placed next to a speaker: things get out of control too quickly to fix. The problems include stored methane (strong greenhouse) gas in the ocean floors that may be liberated if ocean temperatures rise too much and a decrease in albedo (reflectiveness) of the earth as vegetation is swept away in fires, etc, causing the Earth to trap even more heat.
A final flaw in your argument is that no one fully understands the ocean transport system, where changes in the temperature of the downcurrent in the North Atlantic take hundreds of years to propagate to the upcurrents in the South Pacific. These currents have global effects and no one can claim to fully understand the consequences of a change in their behavior. People can't fix what they don't understand, meaning the most risk-free behavior is to mandate a reduction in the factors that motivate biospheric change rather than develop countering mechanisms with incomplete information after the fact.
The Gaia (an emergent behavior of life to generate a negative feedback system for ecologic/atmospheric equilibrium) theory has seemed to explain Earth's progress so far, but we need only look to Venus and Mars to see that it is not the only outcome!
The thing that always chokes me up about these sorts of conversations is that the people who have strong ideas about how much it "should" cost don't actually know what they're talking about.
If only those who knew all the facts posted to slashdot the site would be cleared out.  Talking out of one's ass is a invaluable content-generation strategy on the internet.
You're right...ever notice that ever since Blade
Runner came out, every filmmaker has decided that
in the "near future" it's dark and rains alot?
It rains in every movie because every cinematgrapher has a hard-on for how wet streets look at night. Dry streets at night are way too boring.
As for all the night shots, it is partly due to the abundance of noir sci-fi movies. Many genres just don't make sense for sci-fi, such as the romantic comedy, the sci-fi elements just get in the way of the viewers' understanding of the story. When you tell a future story, you can either do a parody, an action movie, or a thriller, so about a third of sci-fi movies will tend to be dark.
"And as the rage raged through Anakin's rage, he raged through his raging rage to rage the rage rage." - Well I thought the book made from the Super Mario Brothers was very poorly written until I read that!
While that sounds really bad you can't judge a book by a line like that taken out of context.  Just try to read James Joyce without running across some verbiage more mangled than that, and most critics either hate him or think he's the second coming.
Those are much better than mine, congrats. I think iIscrewed up my letters anyway. The real point of my post was I was getting too close to 50 karma and I needed to kill some.
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Go ahead, mod me down when we can't even look at the site.
I've got karma to spare, monkey boy.
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Or,
Bix bled blue, "Mop!"
well, since we can't get to the site...
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howabout we play with the name "Bubble-plexi mod"?
This way your programs don't freeze when heavy disk access occurs.
That's only true if the program is doing disk I/O asychronously. If your program is doing I/O inline with its execution, it will be paused just as long reguardless of where the disk I/O computation is being done.
String in itself has more functionality than most people need. Most of the STL containers do for that matter. Part of the advantage to the STL is that as templates, only the parts you actually use are compiled into the program. If your derivation is in turn a template class as well, you retain this advantage. And even if your derived class is a specific type instance, the linker will remove uneeded code. If you argument applies not to code generation, but just the amount of functionality in the class, your complaint could just as easily be leveled against the whole of STL.
My word choices in my argument weren't perfect, what I meant to say is that you shouldn't add more functionality than everyone using the class will need. Since everyone using STL is huge, the only consideration the STL designers need to make is if enough people will use it and the operations are integral enough to the class that the added confusion the extra methods add to those who do not need them is offset. I admit that vector vs. list is contrived, but I think my argument stands regarding polymorphism vs mental models.
I understand the convenience of the decorator design pattern over aggregation and extension, but the decorator is there for when you need to plug new functionality in situ polymorphically, which is generally not the case for a utility class like basic_string (the class operates only on memory data and copying and conversion are reasonable alternatives.) Your examples seem to indicate your class doesn't need to have a is-a relationship to basic_string, it only needs the functionality of basic_string, so is-a becomes a source of confusion (and possibly defects if users of your class take advantage of that relationship by casting and therefore possibly failing to call your non-virtual destructor) to other users and only saves you a couple of hours of pounding on the keyboard to write wrapper methods for your new class that delegate to a contained basic_string instance.
That's a pretty broad statement, and again I disagree. Suposing you want to create a string class with a subset of the functionality in std::string? Do you re-implement it? Supposing you want to create a structure that is best expressed as a list, but has just a little more functionality? Granted, you have to keep a pointer to the derived class, because of the virtual dtor issue, but its not completely unheard of.
I disagree with your disagreement. Ask yourself this: why do I want to derive from the string class? Is it because you have a new function you will be adding and every other string method is still necessary for your derived class? Since string has methods for several diffent uses, it is unlikely you actually need everything that it implements, and creating a new class with that broad set of functionality (via inheritence) is bad programming practice because you have given your class more functionality than it needs. This is even more true for a list class. I'm sorry, but I can't imagine a situation where every single list method is required.
Just create a new class with the same methods that you needed from the old class and add the new ones to it. You can also put in copy constructors and conversion operators that allow interoperation between your new string class and the old one easily enough.
After all, did the designers of STL say, "boy, we like this vector class, let's derive a list class off of it to save some work"? Nope, they reimplemented using many of the same method names and styles since they didn't need polymorphism between the two classes, just mental model-sharing.
vector itself is very useful as a container, as well as for using C interfaces; since the storage is guaranteed to be contiguous (at least in the technical corrigendum), you can do things like:
In fact, it is the only legal way in the C++ Standard Library (and the STL) to pass a non-const STL-controlled memory data segment to legacy functions (such as library API's like Win32.) IIRC they do not make the same promise about basic_string. Also, auto_ptr does a "delete _ptr", not a "delete[] _ptr" so you can't use it for C arrays. This means that the only valid way to get a non-const pointer to STL-managed raw memory that is safe is to dereference a reference like that one above or "begin()", etc. The funny thing is that the contiguity guarantee in the specification only came about recently, it wasn't in the original spec, but I think that it was an assumption from the beginnning.
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I can only assume this is a troll. You do understand that at 128kb/s that many mp3's would take you approximately 486 days to hear in their entirety. Hell, it would take 55 hours to burn that many CD's assuming you have a fast drive and are quick with the switches.
You are either a very sick individual or you're pulling my leg. Get help.
It's true I have only anecdotal evidence to back up my assertion that C# and .NET are gaining widespread adoption. The division of the company I work for is heavily involved in .NET development, and we are in an industry that is traditionally behind the curve in software practices. I think only common sense will tell you of the general interest in .NET. I attended the kick-off in Denver and the place was packed.
I don't know why I'm responding to you, it is easy to close your eyes and say "show me the statistics or I believe nothing." Not to mention you're posting as an AC.
There is absolutely nothing strange with not keeping your head buried in the sand. Just because some folks seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to all things Microsoft doesn't mean Slashdot should be expected to ignore relevant and widespread programming practices.
uhhhhhh, if they solved that problem there would be no reason to freeze you...
So blame Europe, fate, and a cynical, Machievellian leader, not insanity for this one.
As a Case grad I can inform you that there really is Fibre to every dorm room, class room, etc at Case. It was just running 10mb/s Ethernet when I graduated in '98. This included a fibre optic cable going right up into the computer on a fibre card. My first card in '93 was an AT&T ISA behemoth, going almost the entire length of my case, packed with chips. Now, this doesn't guarantee that they will follow the strategy for gigabit, but if they wasted all that money for fibre for 10mb/s Ethernet, I'd be surprised if they flinched now.
News for you: you burn more calories per mile walking than running. Running is a more efficient means of transportation calorie-wise because you bounce as opposed to start and stop your legs as in walking. If you walk four miles, it may take you 70-80 minutes, but it burns more calories than running that far in 30-35 minutes (probably ~600 calories for a 200 lb man.) I personally run because I like the time-savings and one's blood pressure and general cardiovascular fitness are helped more by vigorous exercise.
I think the atkins diet works for a lot of people because they can follow it and it removes sugar soda and other simple carbohydrates from their diet. I believe that if you want the benefits of the Atkins diet without the severely restricted food choices and high fat intake, you should consider reducing or eliminating simple carbohydrates.
You might be experiencing a reaction to wheat gluten. A low- or no-carb diet would fix this, but if your only reason for being on such a restricted diet is for digestive problems, you may be able to add oats, barley, rice, corn, and other non-wheat grains and grain products back into your diet.
A fundamental flaw in your reasoning: people only work to change problems that they perceive. If the earth is slowly warming up, the changes are not dramatic enough to cause the majority of people to change their behaviors.
Another factor is that up until now the earth has behaved like a negative feedback system: a change in the output caused a control signal that motivated an opposing effect on the output. There are some who think that greenhouse warming may lead to a positive feedback scenario, like when a microphone is placed next to a speaker: things get out of control too quickly to fix. The problems include stored methane (strong greenhouse) gas in the ocean floors that may be liberated if ocean temperatures rise too much and a decrease in albedo (reflectiveness) of the earth as vegetation is swept away in fires, etc, causing the Earth to trap even more heat.
A final flaw in your argument is that no one fully understands the ocean transport system, where changes in the temperature of the downcurrent in the North Atlantic take hundreds of years to propagate to the upcurrents in the South Pacific. These currents have global effects and no one can claim to fully understand the consequences of a change in their behavior. People can't fix what they don't understand, meaning the most risk-free behavior is to mandate a reduction in the factors that motivate biospheric change rather than develop countering mechanisms with incomplete information after the fact.
The Gaia (an emergent behavior of life to generate a negative feedback system for ecologic/atmospheric equilibrium) theory has seemed to explain Earth's progress so far, but we need only look to Venus and Mars to see that it is not the only outcome!
If only those who knew all the facts posted to slashdot the site would be cleared out.  Talking out of one's ass is a invaluable content-generation strategy on the internet.
It rains in every movie because every cinematgrapher has a hard-on for how wet streets look at night. Dry streets at night are way too boring.
As for all the night shots, it is partly due to the abundance of noir sci-fi movies. Many genres just don't make sense for sci-fi, such as the romantic comedy, the sci-fi elements just get in the way of the viewers' understanding of the story. When you tell a future story, you can either do a parody, an action movie, or a thriller, so about a third of sci-fi movies will tend to be dark.
Oh, so THAT's what's in your other hand! :)
While that sounds really bad you can't judge a book by a line like that taken out of context.  Just try to read James Joyce without running across some verbiage more mangled than that, and most critics either hate him or think he's the second coming.
Twisted and Evil, too.
I am a different Tattva, but since Tattva means reality, I can't really describe the deeper philosophical implications of that statement.
I've got karma to spare, monkey boy.
Bix bled blue, "Mop!"
I'll take first pass, I scramble it up and I get:
I pled, "Lux me, Bobbi!"
That's only true if the program is doing disk I/O asychronously. If your program is doing I/O inline with its execution, it will be paused just as long reguardless of where the disk I/O computation is being done.
My word choices in my argument weren't perfect, what I meant to say is that you shouldn't add more functionality than everyone using the class will need. Since everyone using STL is huge, the only consideration the STL designers need to make is if enough people will use it and the operations are integral enough to the class that the added confusion the extra methods add to those who do not need them is offset. I admit that vector vs. list is contrived, but I think my argument stands regarding polymorphism vs mental models.
I understand the convenience of the decorator design pattern over aggregation and extension, but the decorator is there for when you need to plug new functionality in situ polymorphically, which is generally not the case for a utility class like basic_string (the class operates only on memory data and copying and conversion are reasonable alternatives.) Your examples seem to indicate your class doesn't need to have a is-a relationship to basic_string, it only needs the functionality of basic_string, so is-a becomes a source of confusion (and possibly defects if users of your class take advantage of that relationship by casting and therefore possibly failing to call your non-virtual destructor) to other users and only saves you a couple of hours of pounding on the keyboard to write wrapper methods for your new class that delegate to a contained basic_string instance.
I disagree with your disagreement. Ask yourself this: why do I want to derive from the string class? Is it because you have a new function you will be adding and every other string method is still necessary for your derived class? Since string has methods for several diffent uses, it is unlikely you actually need everything that it implements, and creating a new class with that broad set of functionality (via inheritence) is bad programming practice because you have given your class more functionality than it needs. This is even more true for a list class. I'm sorry, but I can't imagine a situation where every single list method is required.
Just create a new class with the same methods that you needed from the old class and add the new ones to it. You can also put in copy constructors and conversion operators that allow interoperation between your new string class and the old one easily enough.
After all, did the designers of STL say, "boy, we like this vector class, let's derive a list class off of it to save some work"? Nope, they reimplemented using many of the same method names and styles since they didn't need polymorphism between the two classes, just mental model-sharing.
In fact, it is the only legal way in the C++ Standard Library (and the STL) to pass a non-const STL-controlled memory data segment to legacy functions (such as library API's like Win32.) IIRC they do not make the same promise about basic_string. Also, auto_ptr does a "delete _ptr", not a "delete[] _ptr" so you can't use it for C arrays. This means that the only valid way to get a non-const pointer to STL-managed raw memory that is safe is to dereference a reference like that one above or "begin()", etc. The funny thing is that the contiguity guarantee in the specification only came about recently, it wasn't in the original spec, but I think that it was an assumption from the beginnning.